Howarth cements the truce

Faceless Bureaucrat

I wonder what they offered Howarth?...

DSR

Please, please don't use that picture of Gordon again. It makes me physically ill.

Frank P

Matthew the global economy is collapsing and our government is floundering having ruined the nation with its Gramsci inspired subversion of everything we once held dear.

We appear to be witnessing a ludicrous lurch to the left in America as Capitalism finally implodes from the pressures both without and within.

You are just another deluded messenger whistling in the dark. I'm too old and frail now to do what is necessary and can only rail from my retreat, but I can't believe that our nation is now so docile that it won't take to the streets, throw our tormenters out of office and attempt to start again. There are some very dangerous times ahead and whether or not a bespectacled, bearded and clearly barmy bleeder from Knowsley North and Sefton East (what a conflation that is) is, or is not, vaccilating in his support for the Govan Gargoyle is really not worthy of your attention as editor of what is suppose to be the leading conservative organ of the Nation. Get a grip man. We need an election in this country and you of all people should be demanding it with every word you say and write. You should be spitting tacks, not nuancing on Labour strategy. These bastards have lost it; now is the time to oust them and replace them, before anarchy takes over, we can't wait for an unelected Prime Minister - a dangerous deluded and meglomaniac moron - and his piebald puppet to decide on our economic future. They have pissed most of it down the drain already, we need to salvage the vestiges that remain and start the long road to recovery. Wake up and rally HM Oppos! There is no time to bide, we need action now.

Frank P

... and I didn't even mention Islamic jihad, which looms over the rest of the shit like a thunder cloud and is infinitely more dangerous than anything described above.

Paul B

Brown in the photograph above, looks like a deranged DC Comics monster.A nightmarish mutated Nicholsons Joker, truly scarey. It should carry a parental advisory note

Paul B

Go Frank. As Dylan Thomas.. Rage,Rage, Rage. Simply marvellous Sir!!!

TrevorsDen

Browns sole purpose is to use this crisis as a shield. I am not sure it will work as the basic management still looks to be totally and typically disjointed. The real economy is heading for deep depression and as the deficit widens and more money is printed the pound is likely to slide.

Tiberius

Frank P: the people get the Government they vote for, and consequently deserve. In this case, three times over.

As for Howarth, he's only coming round to see what many of us know already - Brown will not shift at any price. Only a GE will get rid, and in these troubled times, the electorate may even vote this lot back in. (Assuming Brown holds one when he has to - a crisis may mean a postponement, and prolonged financial unrest may give a pretext equal to the one Blair had with foot and mouth, except the postponement would have to be longer, would it not. Then there might be an outbreak of SARS...)

Austin Barry

Somebody wrote of Custer's last stand, "the more I study the moves here [on the Little Big Horn], the more I have admiration for Custer."

Not so with Brown and the Labour Party: beleaguered, doomed to annihilation, they make their last desperate moves, without grace, without dignity, without consideration for the people they purport to govern. Just a squalid troop of self-serving onanists, faced with a situation they simply cannot comprehend. Tragic - for us.

Talia

I was about to write exactly the same as DSR. PLEASE REMOVE THE PHOTO - it's too much to stomach

TrevorsDen

I am just wondering what will be Browns Harold Wilson moment. When will he be forced to appear on television to admit the failure of his policies?

Or maybe the correct analogy is with Chamberlain - "You can imagine what a bitter blow it is to me ... etc"

Can Brown avoid it - or has todays meltdown in bank shares already brought us there?

TrevorsDen

PS - it looks like Iceland are selling themselves to Russia.

Personally I would have gone to Warren Buffet

Nicholas

But hard to see this view of our well dodgy government in the Daily Politics coverage today. Wall to wall Labour triumphalism. Brown's leadership crisis averted, the cabinet energised, Brown's latest vision of "fairness" extolled (q.v. elsewhere my thoughts on Labour's ideas about "fairness"), Labour now on course to win the next election, blah, blah, blah.

In addition to the odious Galloway, two Labour spokesmen, both equally odious and oily, for a truly unbalanced (perhaps unhinged) assessment of these deluded nation assassins that have subjected our once great country to cruel and unusual punishment for 11 long years.

The outrageously pro-Left Anita Anand began with an upbeat "it's not so bad" assessment of the economy, extolling the usual tripe through the unquestioning regurgitation of Brown's dodgy statistics and the usual comparison with the evil Tory past. The bias, subjectivity and distortion of this little piece of theatre were so blatant as to be embarassing.

Also of more than passing interest was the new DP strapline logo in the colours of Labour and the Lib Dems. A nice touch of subliminal advertising to round off what has become not so much current affairs as the BBC's current affair with Labour. In the last month the intensity of the BBC's overt bias has become. literally, incredible.

Come on BBC, you should begin this programme with the announcement "There now proceeds a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party". Andrew Neil, if you are reading this, you should hang your head in shame for caving in to the BBC's commissars of the Left and for letting them stitch you up with that gobby Trot enforcer Amand, the smiling assassin of conservatism.

Faceless Bureaucrat

Arise, Sir Frank P...

And Tiberius - "Brown will not shift at any price. Only a GE will get rid,..." - unless those Gentlemen who have 'spent some time in Hereford' know better...

Kevin the Gerbil

Frank P. Nail. Head.

I sometimes feel like a village idiot bleating in the wilderness when I say that there is no piece of Westminster tittle tattle so inconsequential that the Editor will not magnify into a cosmic cataclysm. In the current storm this is little short of risible.

"Huge political events," indeed.

Faceless Bureaucrat

TrevorsDen [12.37]

"PS - it looks like Iceland are selling themselves to Russia."

As has been alluded to elsewhere on the blogosphere, so Russia now has a deep-water Atlantic port for its ICBM carrying Submarines - I feel safer already...

Slim Jim

It won't matter that the traitorous scum have temporarily 'made their peace' with Brown. Once again, they are united in cowardice, rather than conviction (and they should be convicted). What really matters is the polls, and I wonder if the badly handled putsch will resurrect itself after the Glenrothes by-election. If the SNP win by a large margin, will the supine press still be talking of the Traitor's survival?

Alex

That is one god-awful photo.

Frank P

I just flipped back over to this thread from the newer one for a quick look before putting on my green wellies. Glad I did; another little gem from you. I can now whistle while I work, rather than biting the heads off the Dahlias, as I think of that other fly-blown blossom, Mandelsonia Arsolia being re-grafted at the hip (or was it haw?) to the poisonous Brown Fungus Cyclops Thistle. Must remember to put my thick rubber gloves on before I wrench that mutation from the darker corner of the shrubbery of my conciousness.

Frank P

My last post should have been addressed to Nicholas. Sri.