Brown: The Labour party and the government should put on a show of unity

kinglear

It definitely would pass the laugh test. Jacqui Smith burbled on a bit this afternoon and elicited a stunned silence from the interviewer

TGF UKIP

Could it be that next week he intends to play the part of Gordon the victim, confessing his sins but claiming he desrves better from the party he has loved and served so well and so long.

Incidentally, I think it was on here that I read a post indicating rumours were around that Gordon was taking lessons from an acting quote. Any validity to these rumours?

And could there be a competition there James - which actor playing which film or TV part would be best placed to coach Gordon?

Pete, Scotland

Time after time I see that female politicians exibit the presence of having more balls than most male politicians.

I wonder if a test could be put in place to determine if the placement of my democratic vote had enough balls to make me proud?

Somehow I doubt it. Definately work in progress.

John Page

Yes I do think you're over-analysing it. BTW Ben Brogan has two cracking posts.

BlairSupporter

Yes, few have sounded exactly enthusiastic in their support, but why should they? When Brown's littlies went for Blair in 2006, no-one said much then either! And when Brown finally said anything at all, it was only AFTER Blair had made his announcement at that school in north London. Weasel words like "Mr Blair will make his own decision as to his plans..." etc were not exactly supporting Blair. He'd already HAD his evil way!

It's hard if you don't think Mr Blair was treated well, since HE was the proven success and Brown is the proven failure, to feel sorry for Mr Brown. Come-uppance time.

Austin Barry

"I’m puzzled as to why no one has come forward, or been called on, to deliver a passionate and full-throated defence of Gordon."

I suspect that little Hazel Blears is currently learning her Team Brown scripted lines and practising sincerity and conviction (don't blink) in front of her suspended mirror (tap, tap, peck, peck).

DM

I think he now knows he will not ride this storm. I think he thought he could 'relaunch' his way out of it time and time again, bluster and bluff and do all the dirty tricks. I think it is now dawning on him that the discontent within Labour (and within the country - but it is only the discontent within Labour which will shove him out before a General election) is something he won't be able to fight for ever. The hearts and minds of his cabinet are no longer in it. I think Brown will now go himself sooner than we think. The party conference will be hell for him.

molesworth 1

I* didn't think Brown would make it this far, but, there you go, he has. Well done Gordon. I am trying to imagine
how his conference speech will actually be received. Slow handclap? Indifference? Standing ovation? I can't work oput which one of these wouldn't finish him off... the first would be terminal, the second devastating & the third entirely unbelievable.

mitch

Its what he deserves after all, he spent 10yrs undermining his boss(poorly) why should they be loyal to him?.No one will shout to loud because they know he wont be around for long.

cuffleyburgers

If it weren't for the damage he has done and continues to do to my country, I would be enjoying this spectacle of a fundamentally stupid,hubristic self-centred man who for ten years frustrated the few decent policies advanced by his predecessor to the detriment of his country, and is now being spectacularly hoist by his own petard.

I hope his agony lasts for months, and given the uselessness of his cabinet colleagues (a further bequest of his to an ungrateful nation) it looks as if it will.

Mmm, more popcorn please. Sit down at the front!

Ian

...but believe that both function best when we show unity."

So says Gordon Brown, who spent 10 years in No 11 actively plotting against his next door neighbour. His continuous display of brooding disunity was a disgrace, but now the boot is on the other foot this fundamentally dysfunctional apology for a man, never mind the Leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister, has the front to plead for unity.

The man doesn't know the meaning of the word unity.

Nicholas

A ghost-written book on courage from a man who shows none and who talks about 'Britishness' as the leader of a party which has just about destroyed it.

Ironic that a recent Labour 'cunning plan' was intended to draw attention to and exploit the supposed split within the Tories. Now the split between New Labour and Old Labour is all the news (except on the BBC who are cravenly trying to bury it).

Keep on polishing the turd Labourites old and new. You are making history as the most villainous and dissembling government in British history. You will be remembered in the same way as Prince/King John.

Austin Barry

It will be interesting to see the next move by the thuggish Team Brown. What are they plotting in the McBadda Bing room at No.10? Will consiglieri Nick "Fats" Brown be putting the hard word on wavering Cabinet members? Will Ed "Blinky" Balls be surveying the faces of his wise-guy colleagues for indications of rodent qualities? Will stacked moll Caroline Flint with her dead, seen-it-all eyes be hitting the grappa and unwisely advising Gordon to hit the Hershey Highway? Will Capo di Tutti McBroon be muttering that he will have George Howarth's carcass feeding the shrimps off Bournemouth pier before the week is out? Is this the UK or New Jersey without the sun?

Chuck Unsworth

@ James

"The Labour party and the 'governement' should put on a show of unity" No, I think not. It is a 'government' of sorts - but then we are told that spelling is irrelevant these days.

Anyway, this is just an acknowledgement that things are in dreadful shape but Ministers will sing from the same hymn-sheet.

Why? Cui Bono? Certainly not the nation. What possible beneficial effect will it have on the completely stuffed economy for Ministers to stand up and spout the same garbage? It is simply a confirmation that they are solely interested in electoral survival - at a time of real economic threat to Britain.

David Parker

Did it not occur to the NuLab "conscience" to outlaw Brown Baiting when they abolished hunting?