Scorching the earth

Dirty Euro

Civil servants are always against the labour party they are hypocritical bigots who take a the wages of government while claiming to be hate socialism. They are generally bullying snobs. I do not care what awful civil servants lie and make up. We should use this opportunity to break up the civil service to ensure it i no longer the sneaky creature of the establishment it has been. Sack permanent secretaries.

Noa Zrk

"...Brown has a singular genius for destruction, intentioned or not..".

Quite so.

Though I do not comprehend how his deliberate intent to complete the political, social and economic destruction of the UK in the remaining term of his office as PM can in any way be doubted.

Short the UK

New Traitors >:)

Michael Booth

If it really is a scorched earth policy, then Cameron should let it be known know that Brown and crew will be held personally accountable for the state of the nation during their watch.

Rainer Unsinn

Sadly, 25% of the population will still vote Labour. Not because they fail to understand Labour's treachery, but because "we've always voted Labour".
These people should be disenfranchised and made to pay double taxation on everything.

Liz Brown

Gormless' genius for destruction is intentional He must be stopped now and the time has come for a Vote of No Confidence
He is dragging the country deep into the mire, his fellow troughers are hell bent on maxing their expenses
The country is drifting with no sense of leadership or direction
Immigration continues unabated
Gormless sold our country out re Europe
He's emptied the kids' piggy banks
And our soldiers are dying in Afghanistan in an attempt to protect a Government that is as corrupt as ours

Dennis Churchill

As the revelations about KGB infiltration and Neather show we have a version of “Self Hating Jews” that few, if any other European country has.
The Conservatives will need to tear the rule book up, just as Labour did and remove the “Agents of Influence” that will have been appointed. Primary legislation will be necessary to curb the power of the judiciary.
Our historic respect for our legal system has become a weakness that is being used to deprive us of liberty and is the EU’s method of control.

JohnOfEnfield

This is absolutely deliberate.

They are stitching us all up. I can only hope that Labour (New & Old) are destroyed as a party in the General Election.

oldtimer

You conclude:
"Our salvation is that the expenses scandal, Afghanistan, Brown’s comatose leadership and Labour’s barely concealed tensions limit the amount of damage that Brown can inflict."

What makes you think these "limit the amount of damage that Brown can inflict"?

The damage is still growing in the form of ever escalating national debt and yet more patronage for Labour stooges. And it seems that the Chairman of the new Idependent Standards Authority to oversee MPs expenses might well be another one of them.

Paul Hughes

Why, oh why can't anyone do anything about it? He is effectively fiddling whilst Rome burns. He set the fire and is blowing upon the flames. This is disgusting. Why can't somebody invoke the Crowns perogative in order to dissolve this cess pit of a parliament, of a government, of a political class. What's the point of a monarch if she just sits about and does nothing when the country's prosperity is being trashed so evidently, so openly, so deliberately? I was always a republican and this confirms my prejudice. I bet Vaklav Klas (sp?) would have done something by now.

I wish Brown would come and visit my town. I'd happily be arrested for throwing an egg at him.

jon dee

Along with Oborne you are so right - the poison that Brown has injected into our way of life and many of our once-proud institutions is almost terminal.

His bigotry and small-minded wickedness permeates everything he addresses or comes in contact with and the " moral compass" he brags about is a delusion.

His strutting overbearing misrule heads towards it's final act of betrayal. Already morally bankrupt as a person he will accelerate his fiscal assault on the economy with a vengeance and deception that is almost psychotic in it's severity.

A cowardly bully who should never have been prime minister.

strapworld

I do hope Cameron has got or will get top counsel's advice as to whether Brown could be charged with a criminal offence for all this madness.

Such a trial would place the blame fair and square on the shoulders of this disgraceful man. Honour? he has none! Courage? Yes, as much as cold custard. The manis a disgrace and the incompetents who sit alongside him in cabinet have shown us all they are small people who should all stand trial alongside Brown!

Blair for war crimes! Brown for criminal incompetence. the cabinet for cowardice.

What have we done to deserve such fifth rate politicians?

Moraymint

I should like to see the Conservative Party spend the time between now and the General Election compiling dossiers on the handful of Labour ministers whose behaviour is now becoming little short of criminal in terms of the damage they are wreaking on the economy and, in the fullness of time, our society.

It seems to me that democracy is only as good as the honour of the people that lead that democracy.

It's so sad to think that the dishonourable and, frankly, quite disgusting behaviour of Gordon Brown here in this country is really little different to the corrupt behaviour of Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan. Is our "democracy" functioning any better than Afghanistan's "democracy" right now? Of course not. Both men unelected. Both men in it for all they can get. Both men with a single mission: to destroy their political enemies, and the devil take the hindmost.

How on earth Gordon Brown can look at himself in the mirror in the mornings, I simply do not know. Is he actually British?

Both Afghanistan and the UK are now headed by corrupt and purely self-serving regimes who have lost all sense of the morality of governing a society. It really has come to this.

It's the sense of impotence that I find so utterly frustrating. We ordinary people lack effective representation in Parliament; the Executive is running amok. Traditionally, the British people don't do revolution, so we lay here supine as Brown and his coterie of political gangsters press their boots on to our necks, grinning at the Tory Party. And there's nothing, but nothing we can do about it.

I want to see the Tories hold individual Labour Party politicians to account for preparing the ground for a socio-economic disaster in this country over the coming decade, and probably longer. I want to see Labour politicans in court and imprisoned for what they're doing now.

Absolute shame on Gordon Brown and the Labour Party for doing this to us; they have no right.

David Ossitt

“Oborne remarks about the magnanimity of Callaghan and Major and notes that Brown has not followed their example”

Both gentlemen, both in their own ways looking out for the common good, both men of honour, both had a sense of humour and a ready smile, both were competent, both had a deep love of our country, both were admired by the public.

Brown has non of these, he is not a good man, he has no honour, he can never give a genuine happy smile, he is and always has been an incompetent bully, he loathes England and the English, he is loathed by a multitude and he knows it but cares not.

Brown is incapable showing the magnanimity of Callaghan and Major.

Roger Daley

He just needs to be stopped. End of.

Austin Barry

Shouldn't dark, unmarked helicopters now be taking off from Hereford, landing on Horse Guards Parade and burly men hauling this loathsome creature and his cabinet off to prison?

Occasional Ostrich

Spot on!
Macchiavelli is preparing for the 2015 election.

MGR

Am I right in thinking that a prime minister swears an oath on appointment and that such behaviour would be in conflict with his oath? I wonder if it is actionable?

logdon

After the disconnect on Neather, I think you're on safe ground on this one, David.

He is universally loathed. Does he read the online news, and reader response, I wonder?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225665/Gordon-Brown-admits-Afghan-war-end-failure.html

Not one supporting comment!

Casting my mind back to 1996, even the inept Major had that strange kind of public sympathy for the loser we keep at the back of our minds. His timing and handling of events did for him.

Back to Basics anyone? At it's heart the precursor of IDS's broken Britain which is, at last gaining traction.

Not so this odious creep who never fails to seek political advantage, yet because of his strange obsessive character always misses the larger picture and negative ramifications which follow.

A hollow man with an even hollower coterie of sycophants surrounding him.

He is actually broken, yet so full of hubris cannot see it.

The worst PM in post war history without a doubt.

Barbara

We are seeing, and hearing, but we won't forget. Yes, he lingers, where else can he go? Who would want him? For us though is the misery they have caused, the suffering we will endure for many a year, but we will never forget. Just has we did not forget the injuries inflicted upon us by Thatcher. Now though we have a five party fight; yes, the two new parties look evermore attractive with their patriotic shout. Brown lingers, to do more damage, but his party which has betrayed us, and many years before had betrayed us even worse, if it be true. The KGB, they were complicit with up to recent times, deceived again and again, but we won't forget. It will soon be our time, an election, where we the public make the choice, then we too can strike back, without fear and hard and severe. I hope we send this party into the wilderness and history with our voters boot. Lets face it betrayal of ones own is the lowest form of betrayal, we will have our revenge.

Al Gore sci-fi

What else can we expect from him? Look at his picture and vomit.

Alan Douglas

Scotched earth !

Alan Douglas

Republican Tory

"Brown’s comatose leadership and Labour’s barely concealed tensions limit the amount of damage that Brown can inflict."

Where are you living at the moment? How much worse can the situation be?

Tiberius

‘The truth is that Gordon Brown is now governing Britain purely for partisan or even personal advantage rather than in the national interest.'

What does he mean, "now"?

I like Peter Oborne, but surely he hasn't only just reached these conclusions?

The Oncoming Storm

At least Major had won an election and was still PM by right in 1996, also Callaghan had won an open contest among Labour MP's and had some legitimacy. In contrast Brown bullied and plotted his way to the top going out of his way to ruin the chances of any potential rival by way of smears so he could have his coronation. He has no legitimacy or honour whatsoever.

Andy

Perhaps we should campaign for El Gordo to become El Presidente de Europa? After all, he's wrecked everything else he's touched.

JohnBUK

Rainer - "disenfranchising the 25% Liebor voters and doubling their tax" !! Sadly twice nothing is nothing.

Peter From Maidstone

The Oath of Office, which many political office holders have to swear says,

I, NAME, do swear that I will well and truly serve Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in the office of .... So help me God.

I am sure it could be easily shown that Brown et al have not well and truly served Her Majesty, but have rather badly and dishonestly served themselves and their own agenda. I do not know what the penalties for breach of such an oath are. Hopefully Labour have forgotten to create new legislation for this detail and are liable to a severe penalty.

David Ossitt

I suspect that he who posted first; is or was a hatter, or else a March hare.

Snowman

Commendable observations, the lot, only one point’s missing. Brown’s current governorship furnishes but the last straw in our journey to a disaster. The democratic deficit has been growing for years, and there seems to be no mechanism in place that may have corrected it. In the last election, over three quarters of the electorate didn’t cast their votes for NuLabour, yet the party won a comfortable majority in the House. What sort of democracy is this? If anything, more power has been transferred by the Lisbon Treaty to an even less democratic Brussels. What I cannot fathom is the blindness of our governing elites of whatever colour and orientation to this blatant dismantling of democracy. There are no signs that anyone in the top echelons of any party has grasped the seriousness of it. I refuse to accept that Brown, knowing a defeat for Labour next year can hardly be avoided, would deliberately pursue policies that deepen the predicament. Can he?

Michael Booth

Isn't there some impreachment mechanism?

General Zod

strapworld, I agree with you: I think it likely that there is evidence for a charge of malfeasance in public office. It won't happen of course.

terence patrick hewett

The man should be sectioned.

mac

I note that Brown visited Glasgow North East today to puff Bain.
So, history repeats itself a la Glenrothes. Brown visits only after he's assured that Labour's has sufficient postal votes in the bag to secure victory. That's Gordon Brown, man of self-professed strong moral compass and berater of Afghan corruption, remember, poncing about in the socialist utopia of Springburn, and, laughably, criticising the SNP for not doing enough for Glesca.

And the client vote surely will be enough to return a true heir to the egregious Martin. Pitiable.

Scottish Cheeselog

There is one tiny little ray of hope in all this. Last year, when we spiralled down into the inevitable recession, it was painfully obvious that it was going to be a very long hard struggle to get out of it, particularly when this appalling government hurled us still deeper into their bottomless abyss of debt. I thought it quite possible that Brown, outwith other options to cling onto power with his foully bitten fingernails, would use the length, depth and breadth of the recession to declare a state of emergency. Then he would use the resulting contingency powers to 'postpone' (ie cancel) the general election. But now this traitorous villain is pursuing his deliberate scorched earth policy because he knows (finally admitted to himself) that he won't be here to clear up the mess. So it looks certain that we will at least get the chance to vote them out in a few months’ time.

Sadly, Blair, Brown, Balls, Mandelson and the rest of this evil cabal will never have to pay the price for what they’ve done to this once proud and free land. They'll walk off into the sunset with property empires, large payoffs, and gigantic pensions, all courtesy of us taxpayers. And probably cushy wee jobs with the European so-called Union very shortly.

“God, give us men! A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office can not buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor; men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before a demagogue
And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking!
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty, and in private thinking;
For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds,
Their large professions and their little deeds,
Mingle in selfish strife, lo! Freedom weeps,
Wrong rules the land and waiting Justice sleeps.”
(Josiah Gilbert Holland)

Fragmeister

You're all wrong. Last week I had an email in response to signing the petition on the No 10 website asking Brown to resign. Brown's reply said he was doing such a good job that he should carry on.

Obviously I believed every word.

Nurse, are my pills here yet? I'm coming over all funny.

mac

" . . . a spending package that will tie this country’s hands for decades." Yep, that's exactly what this despicable, dishonourable wrecker has done.

Read on: " . . . limit the amount of damage that Brown can inflict." Eh? What he has done since 1997 has torn great rents in the fabric of the English nation, David. I think you need to smell stronger coffee if this really is your considered view.

Alexandrovich

We must all be seers or bloody prophets on these blogs. 'Brown will implement a scorched earth policy' was seen in so many comments over the past eighteen months. But of course, Mr. Blackburn, we were just exaggerating.
Any news on the Neather blog?

2trueblue

Alexandrovich. Bloggers are always way ahead of the curve. Cameron would do well to check and document details of the mess now and when he gets in.
When Brown took over at the treasury he was told that he was inheriting the best economy for years.... Poor old Cameron will be inheriting the worst mess, thanks to Browns lot.

kein

the queen is head of stete and if she doesn't sack brown-her prime minister under the constitution then in the fall out, since she was of so little use, we should become a republic.brown should go to jail.

Amadeus Plonquer

Sorry but I have to disagree with much of what is written here. I think Gordon Brown has been the best thing ever to happen to our economy. The man saved the world, after all.

But everywhere I look I see improvements. Today we have more British educated doctors, more experienced British nurses and, more importantly, thousands of British entrepreneurs starting businesses and creating jobs and wealth. Things couldn't look better.

Of course, I live in Australia.

Peter From Maidstone

kein, it is no good blaming someone else. I am not at all sure that the Queen has the powers we might wish she did. If we are really concerned then why are we not out on the streets? Why are we not organising ourselves and engaging in leaflet and pamphlet distribution to promote our views? Why have we not established a new party, or at least a new political grouping to agitate and be active in moving public opinion? If we cannot be bothered to do any of this then we should not put the blame on the Queen. If we were out on the streets every day in crowds of larger and larger numbers then perhaps there would be some support for the Queen to encourage Brown to go. But while we are pretty much silent and fuming it is not reasonable to expect her to take the risks we will not.

RMH

*** Newsflash ***

Bears poop in woods.

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179 DAYS....Tick....Tock....

egh

Peter of Maidstone: Hear, Hear! Even Cameron could scavenge some credibility from the electorate if he would call for Brown's resignation - impeachment if you like. He should have done it months and months ago: when the Lisbo thing was being forced through.

Because they all continue to fail us, we need to take things into our own hands. If we leave Faustus and Mephistopholes in power up until the midnight hour: we have only ourselves to blame for the consequences.

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Peter from maidstone...
Too busy blarping on here...AND it's raining.

Peter From Maidstone

.... .... ......, well we all are, aren't we. Why don't we start a new website? Why don't we organise ourselves? Why don't we think through the political and social philosophy that makes us so angry at the present circumstances? We don't have to be impotent ranters. We can do something. All that evil needs to flourish is that good men do nothing.

NickW

It is clear that Brown and his Cabinet are determined to do everything in their power to make life difficult for an incoming (probably Tory) Government, regardless of the national interest.

Europe must therefore realise beyond any possible doubt that neither Brown nor any member of his Cabinet make suitable candidates for any senior European post. There is far too much risk that their views, policies, actions and opinions would be predicated on antipathy to the Conservative government rather than the interests of Britain and Europe.

Europe is far stronger with Britain as a member and it would be significantly weakened by its leaving. Brussels (and Paris) would do well to remember it.

Wrinklybutnice

Peter from Maidstone - for evil to flourish, it only needs good men to do nothing.

And good women too. Why don't you call a meeting ? It doesn't need to be the founding of a new party. Just an energetic interest group, eg "Friends of British Democracy" or something.

I'd come, and I know a lot of other people who would. We just need your initiative to get it up and running, and start to engineer serious change.

Let us know soonest.

Moraymint

Peter from Maidstone

I think we should indeed aim to get organised. A good start would be a name (dare I say, a brand), a set of guiding principles (keep it brief), a website (to raise awareness, gauge interest and capture members) and, ideally, a reasonably wealthy patron willing to seed the whole thing with some dosh (to be repaid once the subs start to flow in).

For me, above all else, such an organisation would have to be decent, honest and transparent. Anyone who loves democracy and the traditional norms, values and beliefs of the British people, developed over centuries, is welcome to join.

However, on the specific issue of direct action, our political class has forfeited all rights (or at least its expectation) to see the citizens of this country remain docile and law-abiding whilst they screw us into the deck. So much of the legislation that now applies to the citizens of this country has no democratic mandate whatsoever; consequently, I'm experiencing a growing tendency to favour anarchy over order. Needs must.

Let's go!

Nick

Produce a Doomsday book listing government debt.

Send everyone a bill for their share.

Put a Labour tax on every payslip and receipt, with the money going to paying the debt off.

I suspect that you will see Labour MPs lynched as a result, and rightly

Tankus

Also some big bills deferred to the next government , which should have been sorted in this .
Nuclear power generation , nuclear waste disposal (£18bn plus), Aircraft carriers , Military attrition costs , Olympic cost overruns, let alone the PFI farce ,banking mess, and gilt servicing .

We are utterly stuffed.