Brown delivers his G20 sermon

Publius

The ghastly man has no shame, no honour, no decency at all. His cynicism and opportunism is monumental.

I have come to the point where I can scarcely read his crass spin without nausea.

Hawkeye

I see - he's tried Marxism, Keynesism (sp?), nationalism and globalism so now he's trying God? What a scoundrel!

"Brown had some words for the 'children who are the next generation'"

Did he say something along the lines of "The starting rate of tax will be 30% until you pay off my scorched earth spending"? Poor little sods...

Wilhelm

What is the point of these overblown summits ?
Have they not heard of the telephone ? Its just a God damn photo opportunity.

Barak Obimbo is coming with 500 staff, I think there was less people on the D Day landings.

Wilhelm

Last week Gordon Broon went on a tour of South America, the Brazilian president said ''the credit crunch was the fault of whites with blues eyes.''

Did I hear the multicultural, human rights, victimhood industry racket, shit stirrers like Trevor Philips and the odiouis Shami Chakrabatty squeeeling ? dId I hell.

bill

Good point Wilhelm. What about their carbon footpint?

Carrie

Brown doesn't do domestic issues, he can only do 'globalisation'. That's why he is as remote as ever and just cannot make that connection with the people a leader needs. He should do us all a favour and naff off to the IMF or somewhere and leave Alan Johnson to 'take on the burden of leadership', as Paxman put it.

seb

Publius

It's taken this long to reach the point that you can't bear to read Kirkcaldy's Leading Autist's pronouncements? God probably gave up listening several decades ago.

Non Magister Mundi

Yawn.

Nicholas

" . . . to put a fresh, more human, spin on the rhetoric of the Crunch."

Non-sequitur aside (can it be fresh and humane?) 'spin' being the operative word.

He also talked odiously about helping people and doing this every day. He could help us most by calling a General Election so that we can see the back of him and his money-grubbing cronies.

Tiberius

Can't someone call a knacker to remove Brown's poor cheval mort?

That 72% who want Brown to focus on domestic issues: don't they realize he's been doing that for 12 years? Do they really want more?

Verity

O'Bimbo's bringing 500 people with him?

The disgusting Trevor Phillips would have felt a little thrill of Schadenfreude (although the thought of the malodourous Phillips having a thrill of any kind is a bit daunting so early in the day).

Josh

I hope when my letter arrives at 10 Downing Street he dosen't send a reply out filled with this vacuous, immoral bullshit

The Bellman

What Publius said.

This was a truly stomach-churning display of hypocrisy, humbug and meaningless vapidity. Breath-takingly inappropriate and tawdry to stage such a bid for self-preservation in a church.

Liz Brown

What idiot thought that this would be a good idea. the whole stunt made me want to throw up

TrevorsDen

What does she see in him?

Come on own up - your all thinking it.

John Page

He mentioned the qualities bankers should show ... honesty, integrity etc etc.

When you read it, substitute "MPs" for "bankers", and chortle.

Ivy Eileen

Yuk.

He has had an Audience with the Pope (still not sure why ... unless he's scrambling for the Catholic vote) and then he associates himself with the Good Samaritan. It's puke inducing.

Jock

Planet Brown is an is an irony free zone.

Here is our Prome Sinister calling for family values in business life as he presides over a Cabinet with senior members whose example to the nation is to explain that it is not wrong to declare their family homes to be second homes in order to gain financial benefits.The cost of this principled behaviour is borne by the public whose interests they serve and whose average pay is less than average amount gained. Of course, we have to bear in mind that an MP's pay has been restricted to only 2.5 times the average of their constituents, though ministers do a little bit better.

Family homes that lack families; second home ministers who lack values.

Benefit cheats watching this must feel they are small-time amateurs who waste time trying to make their scams seem plausible, at least at at first glance.

Chuck Unsworth

Gut wrenching hypocrite. Who on earth is the amoral unprincipled Brown to talk about 'Virtue'? Is this the same man who wrote of 'Courage'? I think it is.

No moral compass, nothing but stupidity, blind arrogance and naked greed. Let him set his own house in order before daring to lecture us.

Tom Pride

The brief report on this speech on Radio 4 World at One had a classic example of the outcome of institutional BBC bias. This is unintentional bias which comes about because of the narrow range of people they employ in the news departments and the closed circles of like-minded people they mix with. Arty types with a metropolitan left leaning with no or practically no business experience or representation from conservative / libertarian views.

Thus the BBC reported that Brown said “Banks should embrace the values that parents teach their children. . . no rewards for taking risks”. My ears pricked up as it seem clear evidence that Brown failed to understand the basics of capitalism and business.

A quick check with Sky and I find he actually said “We don't reward them for taking risks that would put them or others in danger”. Big difference which should be clear to anyone with an inkling of business awareness. I would say basic general knowledge.

Guido today relates a similar problem with the “right wing” label attached to those of a right persuasion but which more often than not the BBC omit when introducing those with a left persuasion.

It is not deliberate but this type of bias goes on all the time. They do not have the experience or breadth of personnel to be aware of what they are doing. If they really are serious about being impartial they need to change their recruitment practice of hiring like minded persons and put as much effort into this as they do with ethnic balance.

Now I have to pay my licence fee before it goes up to £142.50 tomorrow.

TGF UKIP

He probably felt right at home among the UK Anglican hierarchy. The Labour Party at prayer, except , it would seem, most of the relativist buggers don't believe in the Christian God.

Moraymint

Look, Brown is Machiavelli reincarnated. This hideous antithesis of a statesmen lives in a dark cocoon of his own making. My money's on some, as yet, totally unexpected and unpredictable "Black Swan" political event that will unseat Gordon Brown overnight.

It is inconceivable that there is not now an inner-circle of traitors (to Brown; loyalists to you and me) which is circling for the kill.

Brown comes over as more bizarre, deluded and detached from ordinary people with each passing day; with each new embarassing public occasion. The man is toast. The G20, closely followed by The Budget, will send Brown into a tailspin of exposed incompetence and disastrous unpopularity. His cabinet colleagues and/or his PLP will round on him and destroy him.

I'm off to the bookies to wager that Brown will be out of office before the end of 2009.

See you on the streets tomorrow for spot of middle-class rage.

Boudicca

Gordon is getting beyond delusional. He must now think he's God's messenger on Earth. His moralising quasi-sermon was even more excrutiating than the grovelling speech to Congress.

Send for the men in white coats.......

Hysteria

Tom Pride - alternatively it is deliberate.......

Joan

These are desparate times and Brown even more desparate - shown by the speech delivered which includes his comment that Kevin Rudd is, `a Prime Minister of high courage, a leader of great conscience and a visionary for reform.` This alone shows just how low the bar has been lowered. Rudd the man of spin, stunt,master of goobledegook, self-confessed goose, earwax chomper, a visionary???? Please!!! Brown speech sounds like Rudds mishmash of ideas in his 7700 word essay in `the Monthly` with God, replacing greed. If wafflers Brown and Rudd are the best we have to solve the world problems, the world is in deep trouble.

Cassandrina

Morals and ethics inherent in Gordon Broon? - I think not - more stealth taxes tomorrow with 2p on petrol - did the bbc discuss or tell us of this - no way.
Broken Britain led by a delusional fool supported by a loony left bbc.

hadrian

One also has to laugh at the delusion of government/state assuming it is in any position to 'reward' business and banks. Those who 'reward' banks are those who entrust it with their capital. The State taxes, it absolutely does not 'reward'!