Not much of an anniversary present

David Parker

Here Lies Culpability Brown and Labour's Loves Lost. R.I.P.

mitch

RIP gordons career,
this is what happens when you don't have a choice take heed.

Nick

He has put an end to boom and bust though...

Max

James, if you want an example of why people think he should go, look no further than this morning's news. Brown is apparently flying to the Middle East at short notice for a three hour meeting to try and talk them into spending their money to build nuclear power stations and some renewables in Britain.

At the same time he wants more sanctions on Iran because they are building a nuclear power station to provide energy when their oil runs out. When Iraq and Syria tried to build nuclear power stations Israel bombed them. And lets not forget we invaded Iraq are fighting in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

So the middle east are not allowed to have nuclear power.
But this proposal of Brown's is going to be ok because the middle east will be paying for British nuclear power stations to provide energy for Britons when the oil runs out...which we will then buy off them.

The media are telling us that no other western leader thinks this is a good idea.

It's mind boggling.

Max
http://theerrorlog.blogspot.com/2008/06/out-of-frying-pan-and-into-fire.html

Silent Hunter

Amazing what you can achieve in just a year! LOL

So where are all the New Labour, Nasty Party proles leaping to the defence of their clunking great ditherer?

Labour deserve to be annihilated not just as a government, but as a political party for the HELL that they have put us through in 11 years of misrule.

Nicholas

The trouble is that with polling like this Brown has nowhere to go with his image except to emulate Mugabe. Stand by for more madness from the dying beast that is New Labour.

Progressive Perry, in Topsy-Turvy Land

As I’m sure you realise James, this is complete and utter tosh. Any progressive person knows it just ain’t, and can’t be, so.

Just listen and look at any Guvment source, inc. Al-ja-Beeba, and there you will find that the Beloved is not only storming ahead, but also putting OPEC on the right track, having just done same at this weeks’ EU blabbermouth-behemoth.

And as we noted but days ago, tractor production is up again, ‘n UK child poverty down by hundreds of millions. Also edyercashun is better than ever, including that in matters sexual – although there’s some way to go among pre-pubescent as yet infertile children. But give them time . . . just give them time.

Adam McNestrie

There’s a very dirty, slightly shameful truth lying underneath Brown’s unpopularity. It’s always coming up when commentators anatomise his public persona and sometimes even when opponents seek to criticize his character, but no one has given it the explanatory centrality it merits. Gordon Brown is boring. And he is boring at a time when it is a very unfashionable failing to have.

We can accept people who swindle us, coerce us, humiliate us; people who set out to best us and achieve it; people who neglect us, who outperform us, who forget our names. Rogues, hedonists, flaneurs, roués, egotists we can forgive: those who transgress or get the better of us, those who wrong us, but who do it with a little style or some forgivable ambition, even some understandable selfishness. But we will not forgive those who bore us. People who steal our time, numb our pleasure centres, turn our fast-coursing blood to gravy – all of this generally without understanding or feeling the warranted contrition – belong in the most ingeniously appointed circle of hell. We will never forgive them.

People in the media suffer most from boring politicians and are the least willing to suffer them. They are the ones who have to spend their time thinking about the offending politician and writing about them. After Blair they were desperate for something new and interesting – for a while they thought they had it (Brown was the non-partisan ‘father of the nation’) – but then he clumsily revealed that he was a partisan politician through the election-that-never-was. That destroyed the novel line the media was taking: it turned out that Brown was just like Blair, but more boring. Much of the strength of the media response to Brown’s government is conscious or unconscious media resentment.

To read more visit my blog, just who the hell are? on wordpress.com, at:
http://adammcnestrie.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=6

Ann

85 percent think Brown has performed WORST than expected since becoming Prime Minister and 53 percent wish Tony Blair WAS still PM - oh, dear ...

Ann

Oh, great. In Max, we have yet another ignorant Israel-basher who thinks it's OK for Arab countries to develop nuclear weapons so they can attack Israel - AS THEY HAVE SAID THEY'LL DO (sorry re caps, but some people seem to have great difficulty understanding planet earth reality).

Ann

People who steal our time -

incl. one Adam M?

Ann

He has put an end to boom and bust though... -

yep. Isn't bust and bust more exciting?