Printer rage

GJTory

Is there no way we can trigger an election?

If enough of us wrote a letter to the Queen asking her to dissolve her government, could she do it?

THX1138

The Crossest Man In Scotland

http://tinyurl.com/d5lyqh

Except it's hole punches instead of Nokias"

Mark

Vote of no confidence now. This is serious.

Less seriously, I wonder whether Mr and Mrs Blair will be paying the 50% tax on all their earnings?

Austin Barry

It would be amusing if all the Cabinet members were to turn up at the next meeting wearing cricket helmets emblazoned with the Nokia logo. I'm sure that the ineffable Brown with his self-deprecatory sense of humour would see the funny side. 'Welcome to the Ashes' he might joke.

TrevorsDen

This is seriously scary. I am beginning to have my doubts. Can we really believe that the British Prime Minister can behave like this.

Its a good joke but - gulp - if these stories are true, can you imagine the state that Britain might get to under such a person?

Oooh er...

Bruce, UK

I trust the mendacious manseman will be picking up the bill for any wilful damage. Or will ths be another case of theft of my money by this odious individual.

Susan Hill

He`ll have a heart attack.

Michael

http://www.express.co.uk/ourcomments/view/96815/Frederick-Forsyth

The Watcher

This man is a bullying case waiting to happen.

Steve.W

Try to see In the Loop by Armando Iannucci, a wonderful film showing Nulabour at its best. As far as I know no animal is harmed making this film but a photocopier is smashed by a Scotsman.

Jask

Brown is a total loon

Hanglemez Pallaccini

That's criminal damage of government property. Can we put in a FOI request and see if this has been paid back out of his own money? Might reduce the deficit a wee bit...

R

Joking aside, if I behaved like this at work I'd get fired - quite rightly - and so would most people. This is particularly true in the PC, HR-smothered public sector.

What would happen if someone in Brown's office wanted to make a formal complaint about his appalling behaviour? There is presumably no mechanism to discipline him, other than shaming him in the media. Unfortunately, I don't think he has any sense of shame - if he did he'd be hiding under his bed at this point.

David Ossitt

Fraser; thank you but do keep it up, it is all grist to the mill in the battle to bring this man down.

richardj

The country gets what it deserves. No one will stand up to the unelected one therefore the whole country suffers.

The Rampant Pansy

The News Sandwich: How it works.

Staffer: Good morning, Prime Minister. Great video on Number 10 TV - went down a storm, and you looked so natural.

GB: Murmur.

Staffer: The country's run out of money, no one's got a clue what to do, the pound's tanking, no one wants UK gilts, your smear operation's been uncovered, so everyone thinks you're a liar as well as a coward, and you're going to be remembered as the man who destroyed Britain for a generation and as the worst prime minister in history. I hear the weather's going to be nice tomorrow.

GB: Oh good. What was the middle bit again?

Tom Pride

Groucho Marx “The one thing you need in life is a reputation for honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made”.

But, the opposite holds too. Everyone now knows Brown’s technique of subterfuge, distortion and Brownies yet he still does it. So now each budget there is a race, a competition by commentators, economists and tax experts to find the hidden nasties and reveal the truth. The winner gets the prize and the glory. It’s like an Easter egg hunt. Yet he goes on doing it. It is as childlike as throwing your toys in a tantrum. As we learnt the other day, “To Albert Einstein, an insane person was someone who repeated the same course of action over and over again while expecting a different result each time.”

The other night I posted a comment with a link to a little light relief for Fraser and which might give some cheer to Coffee Housers after the diabolical budget. It never made it. I acknowledge your right to select and reject but my friends are finding it amusing so I will try again. Brown’s youtube moves set to music at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS37nnFYzZ0 My last try for this one.

Draughtsman

Any employee causing damage to company property in an uncontrollable rage or otherwise would be in line for disciplinary procedures if not outright dismissal. Also if any of these objects allegedly hurled by Brown had actually struck anyone then surely he would be guilty of assault and battery.
I agree with Susan Hill, if there is any truth in the reports of these carpet chewing rages then surely Brown must be undermining his own health and he has a young family to consider. Well he so desperately wanted the job didn't he? Where has it got him?

Liz Brown

and the taxpayer picks up the bill - God save us for we are truly in the hands of the demented

Aless Bieri

Yes, I remember the time he chucked a printer right through the public finances

Andy Carpark

Projected borrowing for 2009 as announced in recent PBRs (£B).

04 - 22
05 - 24
06 - 25
07 - 30
08 - 118

And as announced on Wednesday:

175.

Res ipsa flaming loquitur as our legal brethren would say.

RMH

Health scare............. into stepping down for health reasons............ 12 months off...... back on the global stage in some capacity......

Tiberius

Despite all this, the fact that he is not a Tory gets him 31% of the polling.

I can only think that it is the history of class in Britain that has bred enough other Mentalists to have brought us to the current state of affairs.

FredrikI

This scotsman needs a long rest
at a quiet and easy vacation home. He needs to get from Number
10 as quickly as possible !

Polly Gamma

Mmmm THX1138 funny clip. The timing of this film though for me is in bad taste.

One could view 'The Loop' as a film which suggests that the Labour Party is not comprised of bumbling numpties. Maybe No. 10 is full of ascerbic wit and laddish savvy? Yeah right.

It's carefully crafted to address the modern dumbed-down audience steeped in highly intelligent nihilist and subversive alternative comedy and satire. Therefore it'll help this society brought to its knees by anomie, wallow happily its apathy.

Frank P

Yet another symptom to tick on his Asperger file - that makes ten, so far.

barnacle_bill

Obviously Dolly's treatment is not working!

Mic

It would not surprise me if one day I read the headline "Prime Minister Sectioned."
But they get nothing right, at all. The latest disgrace is the disgusting decision about the Gurkhas.
For twelve years I was a Navy flier. I lost many, many friends and this in peacetime. Is Britain worth fighting for nowadays? I would not recommend any child of mine to do so.
I dread to think how the Queen must feel but she can say nothing. Or can she?

strapworld

Joking aside, This would be public property we are talking about.

Therefore has Brown been asked to pay for repair/replacement of the Laser printer. (I doubt that it would be like my excellent Samsung cheapie!)

Similarly the Nokia Mobile Phones. Presumably they are 'official' phones. Surely a written question asking for the cost of repairs to all these machines could cause the mad man some embarrasment.

Pin Pricks, yes, but I have found that pin pricks create a reaction far greater than that intended!

"Many an arrow at random sent -finds mark the archer seldom meant!!"

THX1138

Polly Gamma

"It's carefully crafted to address the modern dumbed-down audience steeped in highly intelligent nihilist and subversive alternative comedy and satire"

If only... It's only people like us that will see In The Loop.

Your average "dumbed-down" modern movie goer doesn't get beyond Mall Cop and The Fast & The Furious.

But go see it, it's very funny and remember it's only a film it's not trying to bring society down to it's knees.

Cottage Pie

At this rate the inside of Number 10 will be a complete wreck by the time Davis Cameron comes to occupy it.I can just see Gordon Brown trashing the place in the weeks leading up to the election. The men in white coats will end up dragging him out, kicking and screaming.

Peter

The person who's written the ultimate manual on how to understand Brown is Richard Littlejohn. This is all Brown's staff need to be told before entering his office:

"Brown is a toxic confection of narcissism, naked ambition, cowardice, bullying, bombast and bubbling resentment, with a volcanic, self-pitying temper and vindictive streak the width of the Firth of Forth."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1172181/LITTLEJOHN-We-need-election--Budget.html

HJ

Wasn't incapacity benefit introduced for people like this?

Brown is clearly totally incapable of doing his (or indeed, any) job, so I think he should be put on IB for the rest of his days.

Tiberius

But strapworld, Brown thinks all property (except his) is theft.

jon dee

Throwing mobile phones and biting one's nails can be cathartic for some, especially unelected Prime Ministers.

Moraymint

Barking

Polly Gamma

THX1138 My point is unfortunately most of us have been systematically dumbed-down or numbed-down.

However, tell me is it true, this has all been a ghastly nightmare and our country is not down on its knees and we are not soon to be up to our necks in 'Brown' stuff?

Rob C

With regards to the anger, I can honestly say that Brown's made me angrier than anything or anyone ever has before. I have always worked hard and kept out of trouble, I'm not rich nor a stereotypical 'Tory' but if I ever came face to face with this muppet, he'd be in intensive care and I'd be in jail! There's something utterly contemptuous about this sly, deceitful individual that simply stirs anger. Therefore I'm not at all surprised it works on him too! We owe it to our children to get this man out now.

logdon

Anyone in need of a bit of cooling cathartic comparison should watch the YouTube Downfall clip as Hitler/Brown is told of the Russian approach/ MSM's discovery of Red Rag. Strangely you are watching Brown rather than the more visually obvious Hitler as the news sinks in. Then as that weirdness sinks into your own mind it confirms the whole premise of the clip. Is Brown a Son of the Manse or a Boy from Brazil?

RobertD

And this demented git has his fat finger on a nuclear trigger. It can't be allowed to continue.

hadrian

One wonders if the Queen will be asking the Duke to stick around when having her weekly Audiance..just in case any of the valuables should look like getting hurled...
One'd love to see such a performance on You-Tube...it'd possibly, perversely, be as popular as his fellow Scot's, the dulcet Miss Susan Boyle who at least is one of life's enhancers.

Steve.W

Polly Gamma – I really liked 'The loop'. There was, according to my ears, few of the words you use (above), but a lot of swearing. But life is like that sometimes.

Fortunata

Actually Logdon, if you watch the beginning of 'Der Untergang', you'll see that Hitler was much better-behaved with his office staff than Brown is rumoured to be...

Major Plonquer

SCOOP - Apparently a half-printed policy document discovered in a laser printer sent in by Number 10 for repair indicates that Brown's plan for expanding the UK economy involves the UK being the first country to put a man on the Sun.

Labour will also introduce a bill to accelerate the rate at which the universe in expanding through quantum easing. An expanding universe will help ease Britain's traffic, claims Brown.

You couldn't make this up - largely because I already have.

Polly Gamma

Steve.W - Yes you are correct 'life is like that sometimes' but thanks for the heads-up just in case I didn't know it! Now we're getting somewhere. My point is beings from Planet Plonker are governing the country so perhaps a more relevant parody would be something along the lines of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. Most of the Plonkers have been hatched in the Labour machine and nurtured to have messianic pretensions with little or none of the messy complex life experience of Earthlings.

I'll say again, the timing of this film is bad. It smacks of a brilliant smartass writer producing a clever script giving cause for relief by way of behaviour we identify with (as you have) portraying normal modern-day hapless crazy cranky cursin' idiotic Earthlings running the country. My point is we are trapped in the obscene grip of a bunch of buffoons with an appalling lack of real smarts or proper empathy and we do not deserve to have anyone pedalling the idea that they really are normal Earthlings underneath it all. I'm afraid... "It's life Jim but not as we know it".

Maybe you have grasped now that I believe the film ironically portrays them in a favourable light and that is dangerous. Paranoia it may be but healthy paranoia as far as I'm concerned is the order of the day. Nothing less is relevant in order to avoid having a brood like this having any kind of influence on anyone's lives ever again.

JohnAnt

Is Armando Iannucci in hiding? He should be. Or somewhere safer, such as Baghdad.

JohnAnt

Mark - I'd bet Blair is deffo now a foreign resident for tax purposes. He saw this coming.