The chances of a Brown comeback

Water

Apologies are all very well and personally I couldn’t care less for them it sounds pathetic. The article from the Economist (which largely concentrates on Field) states that Brown needs to swallow his pride, not at all Brown needs to make his pride well justified for at the moment it is not.

TrevorH

Correct, Water.

Brown has nothing to crow about - the economy is in poor straits and looks like staying there.

If apologising for cock ups was all that was required then John Major would still be Prime Minister.

Perry

Mz. Prudence of Noo-Lie-Bore : the femme-fatale of fatuous finance.

Water

"Noo-Lie-Bore" hahaha

Perry

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What can this mean on this day of all days?

The Noo Statesperson solicits my money with an eerily cheap offer.

Water

Let us hope he's not picking up habits from Olmert.

Tanuki

Perry: whatever cheap offers they make for New Statesman, I will continue to use Andrex.

Blue Moon

As chancellor he wallowed in the strong economy that he inherited from Kenneth Clarke and it never seemed to dawn on him that as he began to pile up the mountain of debt in 2001, one day he and his government would be buried in the avalanche that would follow when the mountain collapsed. It is frightening to hear him still asserting that his policies were somehow responsible for the benign world economic conditions of the last decade, When will he come to realise that it was those very policies that have reduced our first quarter annualised growth rate to a meagre 1.6% compared to a healthy 6% in Germany and given us a 3% Government deficit, compared to a 0.6% surplus in Germany. I don't hear him lecturing anymore to the Europeans about how to manage their economies!!

Mr Mhena

Water & Perry.

The hell are you two on about?

Frank Pulley

I'm disappointed that none of the insider journos have come up with the real reason Frank Field performed that nauseating grovel last week, accompanied by the knowing evil leer from the Govern Gargoyle. What skeleton did Jock Broon rattle in which cupboard, I wonder? Or what promises as to the future were made? I think we should we told, but it's unlikely that we will be.

Nicholas

I also noticed the truly repulsive smirk on Brown's face referred to by Frank above when Frank Field apologised. I have noticed too that Ms Abbott on 'This Week' is getting cocky again.

It is a measure of how vacuous and superficial this government is that such small concessions make them believe their troubles are over. Their troubles are only just beginning because the socialist cat of old Labour has been well and truly let out of the bag.

It is a truism that the party in government can hold the centre ground merely by stealing and implementing opposition ideas and no doubt Brown's teenage oik spinners have put him on this path but two factors queer their pitch. One, they are hopelessly incompetent and two they have a socialist skeleton pushing its way out of the closet.

I still believe this government is conducting a party political campaign instead of governing and that course of action is at the expense (literally) of the people of Britain, who deserve more, especially at this time.

It is ironic that Labour have accused DC of being a chameleon and having no substance. Nothing has been more chameleon-like than Brown's twists and turns in response to polls and popularity, perceived and presumed rather than proven. And there is very little substance in budgets and policies that can be changed on an unfunded whim when the New Labour machine fears for its electoral survival.

Stepping back and taking a historical view, this is the most dangerous government in British political history. Entirely without scruples, integrity or honesty, self-serving and cynical to an unbelievable degree, incompetent where it is not cunning and cunning where it is not incompetent, with secret policies of the most extraordinarily subversive social engineering and totalitarianism.

John Page

As Jon Snow said to Frank Field on Channel 4 News, "But you were right, weren't you".

And he was.

Water

Mr Mhena check out the newstatesman today you'll get an idea.

Fergus Pickering

There is one important difference between Broon and Field. Field doesn't tell lies. Broon tells lies all the time.

Abraham Mehti Anthony

I can't say I'm too fond of Brown. For a while, he seemed like a really good economist, but as time goes by, more and more of his mistakes are revealed. His short term policies have finally backfired but let's make one thing clear, it is not entirely the fault of lying incompetent corrupt politicians. The economic problems that everyone has been complaining has been linked to housing problems in America, mortgage problems in this country, overspending as a result of bad budgeting from ordinary citizens, oil prices skyrocketing as a result of foreign intervention in the Middle East, money being spent on war… The list goes on. It’s so easy to blame the government, because they cheat, lie, make bad decisions etc, but we often forget that we ourselves are partially to blame for the economic problems and before you go about trying to refute this, look at the amount of debt that people have accumulated which could have easily been avoided had people spent less on clothes, expensive cars, the latest technology and other luxuries. With inflation as bad as it is, it is a struggle to purchases the food we need. We all have to cut down. Further more, we need to save more energy. You don’t have to be a hardcore environmentalist to belt that one out. If we don’t do something, we’ll be screwed long before global warming tears us apart (that is assuming that it is directly linked to our actions).