A cry for help

Richard

James, you beast, you're making me weep also.

John Adlington

Is Mr Blair now thinking, "Why, oh Why did I not rein this autistic swine in?" His Faustian deal with Brown is the reason that we now look over the precipice. Such vanity. Blair must go down as the worst PM we have ever had. Brown as fall guy is all to attractive a concept but it is the New labour contradiction/con-trick that leaves my children looking at lowered expectation. As for the new world order, that is pure brown stuff; we need unfettered entreneurship building on well educated people working hard and not being punished by a greedy slothful state feeding off their efforts.

oldrightie

Do not start a "woe is me" narrative. This man will always be comfortable and rich. Unlike people such as myself, worried, after a lifetime of "prudence", seeing this ghastly man destroy our pensions and our Country. Let he and his coterie of corrupt and despicable hypoctrites go in the ignominy they have so richly earnt!

J H Holloway

I've said this before on CH.

Brown has lived by the metrics of the 1980 'Tory recession' and too an extent of those of the 1991 recession.

3 million unemployed, repossessed houses etc etc. It's the 'proof' the Tories are inherently bad people.

Now these figures are going to be attached to Labour, only worse. And on Gordon's watch. He's going to lead his beloved Labour party into the valley of death and there's nothing he can do about it.

And because the nemesis is the economy, he takes the whole 12 years of blame.

Gordo realises he might have singled handedly destroyed Labour for the last time.

With 30 years of debt to clear, the only future for the mainstream Labour party is to merge with the Libs.

Hanging on 15 years and re-naming Labour isn't going to work in the wake of this mess.

Kevyn Bodman

Thank Heavens for some MPs who vote rationally rather than succumbing to this emotional nonsense.

If Brown is crying over a 3rd runway he is in no fit state to make decisions on anything at all.

We don't need a 3rd runway at Heathrow.
We need 21st century rail links in the UK so that the market for domestic flights withers.

If a new airport is needed why go with Boris' idea to put it in the Thames estuary?
Put it in the middle of England and judge its location quality by TIME not distance from London, Birmingham, Bristol etc.

Austin Barry

I suspect that Brown's colleagues are poring over Sections 4 and 5 of the Mental Health Act, 1983. The poor man seems to be losing it. Where is the cheerful, carefree Gordon "Chubby" Brown of yesteryear? The gaiety has gone, he is now gloom and despair personified. A wounded beast buckling at the knees. Time perhaps for a Cabinet member to administer the coup de grāce. And to wield the puntilla? Step forward cadaverous Jack Straw.

mac

@ John Adlington:

Blair surely inhabits the same conscience-free zone as Brown and Mandelson. I imagine Blair's daily thought to be no more or less than a venal 'how much money am I "earning" today', and discussing his bank account with his ghastly wife.

Ian C

John Adlington's "we need unfettered entrepreneurship" sums up exactly what we need. But the education thing will take a generation to get back. So massive incentives to all to go out and work is what will get us out of this mess.

As for Brown saying a defeat for the gov't would de-stabilise the markets, the opposite of course is true as the oen thing that would help markest is to be confident of the demise of this Gov't.

Wily Trout

Evan Davis on his programme yesterday described the wealthy part of the last few years as 'a bubble'.
The Brown Bubble. Eeeugh.

RW

Notice Brown's linguistic priorities: "destabilise the Government" (code language for "undermine my job security") comes before any alleged consideration of destabilising the markets. That's what brought the tears to his eyes. So important that MPs should prop up the Supreme Leader in his desperate attempt to cling on to the trappings of office, the only thing which has ever mattered to him.

And what utter bloody rubbish anyway. The Heathrow thing, as is becoming increasingly evident, was pure playground politics; one in the eye for the hated Tories, and to hell with the consequences for millions of people in London and the SE. Who cares about them? What matters to Gordon is Gordon.

Plus, the guy's already unstable enough to be committed to a Care Home for Chronic Neurasthenics. I tell you, flapping white coat time is getting nearer and nearer...

luke

He probably like the IMF report in truth. It said:

"Our central forecast is that the UK will avoid deep and prolonged recession thanks to the enormous monetary and substantial fiscal stimulus already agreed"

That is Brown's central argument, and this report is important support for that view, which has been in question in recent weeks.

Im slightly worried about the objectivity of sites such as this one when they ignore the mixed messages in the IMF report and just go for the negative.

bernard from horsham

IMF report..., I suspect there had to be yet another order placed with Nokia

TrevorsDen

You again miss the point - what this shows is that the 3rd runway is not a policy in itself - it is a 'positioning' something to make the govt look good and macho.

'Policies' are not being pursued with any clear benefit or purpose in mind - EXCEPT to make the govt look good electorally.

Although in this case I doubt if anyone sensible wants a 3rd runway - not at Heathrow anyway.

Bob

Ahh hah hah hah hah, no please stop it, ah hah hah hah hah, no, no honestly.

After watching him nearly lose it during PMQ's it's no surprise.

I'm also wetting myself that there was a rumour he wet himself during a press conference but his suit was too dark to be sure, ah hah hah hah hah.

Snotty has just made my day, which makes a change.

Hawkeye

John Adlington said: "Is Mr Blair now thinking, "Why, oh Why did I not rein this autistic swine in?""

No, Blair must be thinking "Thank God I kept him in the background and out of sight". As for Blair being the worst PM we ever had you have forgotten about his successor - Culpability Brown.

@Oldrightie - I agree with you about the damage Labour has inflicted on the country. They deserve nothing less than political annihilation.

Tiberius

Can't remember whether it was you or one of your colleagues, James, who blogged that Brown supported this just because Cameron didn't.

This shows yet again that he really is, to steal Guido's term, a Prime Mentalist.

I know some have scoffed at the notion that we didn't go into the euro merely because Brown wanted to rob Blair of his place in history, but I wouldn't bet against it.

The Bellman

It is impossible to feel any sympathy for this deluded, incompetent fraud.

@Bob. Let's hope at the next PMQ Cameron asks a question about Brown's "incontinence [pause for effect] with the public finances." That could finally trigger the collossal strop McSnotty has been suppressing for so long.

Mrs Campbell

We should expand Birmingham International if we want to expand any airport - excellent rail links to everywhere in the country (or could be)

Wily Trout

Luke...er...where does it say that then?

Trafalgar

Brown's confidence is shot. He's exhausted, mentally spent and is now entering the end-game.

How the SNP fare in next year's election will determine whether Labour is either well-beaten or decimated - and Brown will spend his retirement a bitter and lonely man.

Ho-hum.

Trumpeter Lanfried

Interesting. John Major was widely believed to have lost control of his cabinet and large sections of his party. But nobody ever suggested that he was losing his marbles. This is a new and worrying development.

Do journalists in the Westminster loop know more than they are telling us?

Paul B

Brown crying? Ah, diddums.

strapworld

Trafalgar, The SNP may well call an election this very year! That will put the fear of God through the Labour Party.

What a crass political error they made by not suppporting - or abstaining- on the vote for the Finance Bill.

Playing right into Alex's hands. He must be laughing his socks off

Wilhelm

Awww, I think he's needs a wee cuddle from his chum, Tony Bliar.

David

It's hard to argue that Britain is hardest hit when Italy and Japan both shrank already last year and will see lower total growth over 2008-2010. The 'Asian Tigers' will also shrink more than the UK this year.

And why wouldn't we be hit hard by a global recession? We are unusually dependent on financial services - the cause of the crisis and the worst hit sector - are proud of our globalised economy and do not have a reserve currency.

David

luke,

I think it is the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the IFS (not the IMF), that has just said "We remain cautiously optimistic that the UK can avoid a deep and prolonged recession."

It cites monetary and fiscal stimuli, UK authorities' efforts to get credit markets functioning again, depreciation in sterling and a period of low price inflation, in forecasting a drop of 1.3%.

Diswiss

Brown should donate his brain
to medical research.
What a field day they'd have
searching for all the missing links.