Brown's Canute moment

Simon Orr

Because obviously all gas and electricty comes from crude oil anyway...

William Norton

Falling oil passed directly on to people at petrol pumps? Bit of a fire hazard?

Dalesman

Strange that he should choose now to get the oil price down.

It's dropping as fast as the FTSE anyway!!

Chuck Unsworth

Has Brown failed science GCSEs?

TrevorsDen

The oil price is coming down because we are heading for a world recession. Other commodity prices should fall as well.

Brown seems to be saying that he hopes that producers will keep production high to force prices lower. I cannot see why producers should dom this in a recessionary situation.

Why should they flood the market and sell their valuable product at a lower price than they could get in a few years time?

We will get low oil and it will not be due to Browns (deliberate) efforts - it will be due to his incompetent efforts in engineering a recession.

Bocephus

The easiest way to get oil prices down is to destroy the economy so I suppose on that basis he is doing a good job. Only problem is with the pound falling like a stone we are not getting the full benefit from the oil price fall.

NB. Good to see the Daily Politics now trying to pin this mess on Mrs T.

Peter Buss

Browns hubris is even worse than that - he actually said in response to a question at Swindon that because of his efforts the price of oil was now coming down !! Truly unbelievable - and even more staggering is that Sky did not even pick him up on it !!

Gordon Musgo-soon

I think Canute is more accurately spelled Cnut. Which is nearly right.

cuffleyburgers

Cut in fuel duty no, then??

Tosser.

Nicholas

Yes, incredible to watch the DP blaming the whole thing on a Conservative government almost 30 years ago. Typical socialist dissembling. They and their kind are rotten to the core. Cheating, lying, conniving bastards wrapped in the cloak of hand-wringing, holier than thou, rainbow gardeners.

Tiberius

Someone needs to invent a very sibilant swear word for "delusional" because it sure isn't strong enough on its own to convey the planet-at-the-edge-of-the-universe ideas that nuke around in Brown's head.

Mirror reader

Just collecting the sweat off Mandelson should solve the UK oil shortage.

Oor Willie

chuck unsworth

Why would Brown sit GCSEs at Kirkcaldy High School?

But I agree he's science-lite, modesty-lite and judgement-lite.

Mike, Brighton

“I’m trying to get the oil price down, and get the fall passed on directly to people at the petrol pumps"

- wouldn't it be easier to cut the tax (duty) charged on petrol and diesel which stands at around 70% of the pump price?

oldtimer

What we are seeing and hearing on the BBC and other media well disposed to Brown and the Labour party is an attempt to write a new narrative. The financial crisis is their cover. Everyone else is to blame - Thatcher to Osborne - and Brown is here to save us all from the evils of capitalism and create the "new world order".

Please note that this propaganda offensive (for propaganda it is) coincides with the return of the arch propagandist, Peter Mandelson, to the government.

BBC TV programmes are a reliable guide - see last night`s Newsnight and today`s Daily Politics for the evidence. I haven`t seen video of the current Brown tour but it would not surprise me to see and hear more of the same sort of guff.

Brownie watch needs to be on full alert as does BBC watch and Mandelspeak watch.

No doubt Coffee House participants will be equal to the task.

David C

Oldtimer:
Mandelson or Campbell?
Control the News environment and you control people's minds.

Hilario

erm...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7467151.stm

Marian C

Chuck Unsworth:- "Has Brown failed science GCSEs?"

I don't think he bright enough to undertake GCSE Science in the first place!. Lets face it, if brains were dynamite, he wouldn't have enough to blow out a candle.

oldtimer

David C:
re Mandelson or Campbell?
...or both?

There is no doubt that Labour has upped its game. The Tories need to respond, and be better prepared to respond to this new offensive than they have done so far.

Lord Elvis of Paisley

Can someone just explain this to me. If the problem stems back to 1986 as some sections are trying to assert, why has it taken 22 years to manifest itself?

Keith

Go to Guido's and have a look at another clip from DP in which a psychiatrist reckons that Gordon is.............well, draw your own conclusions

Evan

There's much concern at the moment about the possible resurgence of Labour guided by the dark arts of Mandelson and Campbell.The unpopularity of the Blair government during its last 1/2 years has been forgotten as well as the reasons for that unpopularity-spin,lies and sleaze.Is bringing back the architects of
spin, the liar in chief and one of the beneficiaries of sleaze going to benefit Labour. Correctly handled it gives the Conservatives more ammunition.