Rawnsley revelations put Brown's temper on the agenda

Silent Hunter

And yet, 30% of the population want this man for PM; apparently.

Kinda makes you wonder about the honesty and integrity of 30% of the population, doesn't it.

2trueblue

You said it "the interests of the Labour party'. What else do they care about? Certainly not the electorate. There has been so little that the press have done to help expose Brown/Blair/Balls to this point, what makes you think that they are about to acquire their objectivity, integrity, or balls at this juncture? We all know that those in the media, especially the BBC, and MPs have done little to serve us. Westminster village has been occupied by people who got there to serve us and so far have not done so.
What we have learned is that they have created laws that only us have to abide by. Think of recent events of those lawmakers who have traded to avoid the letter of the law. So the man has a foul temper. They have had more than 20 years to do something about it and only now when power is slipping form them might they stand up and admit....... what a foul bunch of self serving people.

Reg511

Fantastic MOS article, the implosion may be closer than I thought

Major Plonquer

I also understand that the outcome of Cabinet meetings has been decided by two falls, two submissions or a knockout.

Ross

Pulling a secretary out of a chair is going to be devastating if true.

Physically man handling a female member of staff is about as low as you can get.

Nicholas

Devastating revelations that the BBC will be at great pains not to report or comment on. Anybody else notice the subliminal bolstering of New Labour in a raft of recent BBC programmes - even Empire of the Seas had lefty innuendo I noticed.

teledu

Let's see if it gets any mention on The Andrew Marshmallow show at 9 a.m.

chris

Gee, it takes a lot of "courage" to throw a secretary out of a chair and abuse staff! Pathetic. How did the Labour Party let itself be headed by such a flawed individual. Stories have been going around about this type of behavior for years.

Beer Moth

To be fair to the bloke, we don't know what her typing speed was do we?

strapworld

The stories of bullying by Brown are far too many for decent people to ignore. The cabinet, if they had any scruples, should now call on Brown to resign for the sake of the Country, not the party!

But we are aware that the cabinet is full of incompetents, liars and all have no backbone whatsoever. So the country is lumbered with a cowardly bully, with absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever, as our Prime Minister.

He is our Nero!

BrianSJ

... and if the MSM wants to survive (which is not clear) then we have to wonder why these things are not reported more promptly and widely.
Well, of course we know what happens to editors who speak truth to power.
The bloggers will have you all for breakfast if the 'village' is more important than the sheeple.

TrevorsDen

These latest allegations are indeed hearsay, but only the latest in a long list.
IF true - and the headlines are not quite up to the story itself - then they will be difficult if not impossible to deny. Thus very embarrassing. But if just one is baseless then it will allow Brown to play the martyr.

Your last paragraph is important - by insisting he will stay on, then Brown is inviting his enemies and doubters to shaft him (if they have the bottle).

The important line from the Mail article is the allegation that he lied about the F! scandal. I had forgotten that episode. The F1 affair really should have finished Brown off.

TrevorsDen

Lets remember the antics of the last deputy labour leader and what he got up to in his office.

These stories are hearsay - but they must diminish Brown within his own tribe.

Billericay Dave

Somethings up as the MoS front page has been pulled from both politicshome and Skynews websites and not discussed on the Skynews paper review !!! this along with the non reporting of the angus reid poll yesterday sums up the lack of non biased reporting by Sky and the BBC.

Victor Southern

These allegations are very damaging. If they are true they show Brown is unfit for office. If they are untrue then Brown must immediately run to Mr. Justice Eady's court to stop the publication. Then see that Rawnsley is sued.

Let us see what happens.

toco

The erratic and dysfunctional Gordon Brown is a menace to all those with whom he comes into contact.These stories were never fiction and have become so frequent it proves the point that ultimately truth will prevail.Brown must GO NOW.

SUSAN HILL

Two points. If the allegations were hearsay and untrue, they would be libellous and Brown would have an excellent case for taking Rawnsley and everyone else who spread the lies to court. Why would people risk that ?
Secondly, as I have said here before, if Brown goes on exploding in that way he'll have a heart attack.

Vulture

@Susan Hill.
The fact that Downing St has not issued a categorical denial speaks volumes.

This may be all hearsay, but the point is that it feels true. We all know that Bruin has the personality of an aggressive, sociopathic, thug.

Therefore these latest allegations may be shocking but are not in the least surprising.

As to your second point: there you go again getting all our hopes up.

Chuck Unsworth

@ Susan Hill

We can but live in hope....

Marcher Baron

@Beer Moth "To be fair to the bloke, we don't know what her typing speed was do we?"

Blimey, Beer Moth! Even if it was 2wpm that's no excuse for manhandling her! If she was slow, she probably got the job on Labour's equality quota to tick the right diversity boxes - maybe she was deaf, only had one hand and was partially sighted as well.

jon dee

Nicholas @ 7.49 am

Yes indeed, the BBC election campaign has been launched and is at full throttle.

Hard to avoid Labour luvvies on screen or airwaves while producers and editors have clearly been given permission to push the anti-Tory line, as part of the overall BBC campaign to retain it's public sector profligacy.

Brown's temper,just as Blair's mendacity, is unlikely to get much coverage,is it?

Anne Wotana Kaye 1

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first drive mad. By the look of the latest polling reports, sadly 30% of the voting population are possibly going bonkers.

Anne Wotana Kaye 1

Regarding Brown's treatment of his secreatry: at least he didn't do a Prescott on the desk. Did he?

TGF UKIP

James, is there a publication date fixed for the Rawnsley work. Recalling how almost exclusively Labour supporting the book publishing business is, I would not be surprised if it didn't get buried until September.

Paddy

What do Brown and his henchmen do or say to the media to make them so frightened.

He doesn't frighten me. I would love to have a go at him and I'm just a little old lady.

mitch

Poor girl probably typed what he actually said and not what he thought he said.

Anne Wotana Kaye 1

Paddy: Hi,
I'm in my seventies and haven't given anybody a bloody nose for ages, but I'd damn well knock the cad down if he laid a finger on me. Where the heck are Harriet Hardman and all the so-called feminists whilst this fat slob is bullying and harassing the staff? Where is Elf and Safety? What about 'uman Rights?

Watt Tyler

Get real. Brown won't suffer from this. Our whole system is corrupt. We won't shake it until we abandon the Lib/Lab/Con connivance against us.

Nadge

No surprises here. He used to make a point of closing doors sharply behind himself. Most of us would call this "slammming the door in someone's face". However, it didn't seem to bother him even if it was a diasbled member of staff back at the Treasury; why expect any improvement now?

Tim Carpenter LPUK

@Silent Hunter: "And yet, 30% of the population want this man for PM; apparently."

Maybe that 30% don't want Cameron or Clegg even less than they don't want Brown?

Muzungu

IMHO, I think it is a form of Domestic (work/political) Violence that he is suffering from.
He suffers from a sort of emotional or psychological abuse, he lashes out with aggressive, belittling, or violent behaviour and it is power play designed to show "who is boss, who is in charge."
I personally think he is an egoistic Bully –
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Bullying is a compulsive need to displace aggression and is achieved by the expression of inadequacy (social, personal, interpersonal, behavioural, and professional) by projection of that inadequacy onto others through control and subjugation (criticism, exclusion, isolation etc). Bullying is sustained by abdication of responsibility (denial, counter-accusation, pretence of victimhood) and perpetuated by a climate of fear, ignorance, indifference, silence, denial, disbelief, deception, evasion of accountability, tolerance and reward (e.g. promotion) for the bully."
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Actually, I think Teflon tone was also a bully, just he went about it in another way.

C Cole

@Silent Hunter

Spot on. It's called the client state. Those employed in the raft of cushy, ideologically driven, public sector non-jobs created over the past 13 years are hardly going to be in a rush to put the country and its finances first. To say nothing of the millions languishing on benefits of various kinds (some of which are legitimate, of course).

C Cole

Loved that story the other week about Broon taking acting lessons from The Thick Of It's Peter Capaldi ahead of the forthcoming leaders' TV election debates.

Maybe Broon will try and pass off his bad behaviour as a Malcolm Tucker-style role play. But it seems he's not so much in the thick of it as in the sh*t. Couldn't happen to a nicer bloke.