Give Brown another kicking

Richard

Looking at him on the Andrew Marr show, I thought he was turning into his own waxwork.

Faceless Bureaucrat

A 'Man of Wax' - how appropriate...

Fergus Pickering

Of course Gordo should have his own waxwork. When I was last there, a very long time ago, there would have been room for him next to Doctor Crippen and Charle Peace.

Patrick

The nasty party is back! Feels like the good old days of the Federation of Conservative Students.

Perry

Of course there should be a waxwork.

Using ghastly Noo-Lie-Bore nomenclature, the Supreme Leader should be ‘celebrated’ – though I suggest in the Chamber of Horrors, – or the Chamber of Vanities if there be one, - with other ‘Celebs’.

Austin Barry

Have you noticed how Brown is beginning to resemble Rodin's statue of Balzac? It's uncanny.

mart

I read the Spectator and Coffee House with enjoyment largely because it is intelligent and does not lower the tone. Please, these ad hominem attacks are not what intelligent debate is about.

Tiberius

mart: only a bit of light relief while we wax lyrical.

EyeSee

Mart, it is a little difficult to lay off a man and his personality when he chooses to foist them on us. So much of the destruction of the United Kingdom under New Labour is due to the incompetence and personal carelessness of Gordon Brown. Personally I don't believe there is any point having a waxworks of him, any more than he has any right to sit in Westminster, let alone be the PM of a country he has chosen to make foreign. Funny how being stupid comes back to bite him.

Terence

Fagging was still around at Eton when Boris and Dave were there. Interesting to see the traditions of the old school have infested the Spectator. Belligerent ghouls from public schools and all that. Cameron goes to the media with "If he (Brwon)has been clambering into the premiership on the backs of 5 million poor people then they [Brown and his allies] deserve a good kicking". A party that celebrates with oysters and champagne while riding on the back of this should tread more carefully.

John Backhouse

The nasty party is back is it, Patrick? Have you no memory of the vicious bile put about by Labour over the past 15 years? None at all? Or is your memory selective?
I well remember the play on Howard's Jewishness and Easter4n European ancestry in the election he lost, for instance. Oh yes, me old mate, anti-semitism and racism from the Labour party. Bah!

Tom

They'd never get the smile right

Nicholas

Aha! So now the ghastly Lefties are on the ropes they appeal for "intelligent debate"? This, having mastered the art of political character assassination, personal abuse, subversion and all the other dark Leninist arts. You guys sowed the seed, now reap the whirlwind and take it on the chin like men (and wimmin).

The man is a caricature. His vile influence in British politics goes beyond "intelligent debate".

John

What nonsense, Patrick and mart. This monster has been shafting us for 11 years. He chose to be a politician. He chose to shaft us. Everything he gets is well-earned.

Dr Blue

Brown should be preserved in the natural history museum...somewhere between a dodo and a dinosaur.

Ben

I agree with Mart. This is a bit childish is it not?

Patrick

John Backhouse: Actually I'm a member of the Conservative's Team 2000 club. Had an enjoyable night with them at the Cabinet War Rooms a couple of months ago. Maybe being a Tory makes me a ghastly leftie to you. I remember how Major was treated by Labour and have no desire to see the party I support go the same way. I'm not sure Louise Ellman, Ivan Lewis and Gerald Kaufman would agree with your last point though.

mart

I'm not a lefty. But I still don't like ad hominem attacks against the Prime Minister.

Ted Tedford

Mart, Patrick, etc: It's decent of you to defend Mr Brown against this playground abuse. I'm not sure he really *needs* your support, but I'm sure he appreciates it.

But let's not forget that the man has spent the bulk of his career in office briefing against his colleagues as enthusiastically as he attacks his opponents, and encouraging his entourage to do the same.

And, like his predecessor, he chose to make his personality an issue. It's a bit late to cry foul just because his character flaws have been so cruelly exposed by actually acceding to the office he has spent so long plotting to attain.

Besides, most of these comments are hardly evidence of nastiness: *schadenfreude*, perhaps, but that's hardly unjustifiable in the circumstances.

So let the (Tory blogging) baby have his (Brown-bashing) bottle...

Max Kaye

Yes, let's stop these personal attacks on Brown.

(And please remove the photo of that sullen waxwork dummy from beneath the caption. What? It's not a dummy? Oh.....)