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Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Brown to Surface on Friday?

Guido understands that after the meeting of the PLP on Thursday ballot papers will be made available and that Gordon will launch his "campaign" on Friday. Presumably Blair will be in Sedgefield Thursday morning to tell his constitutency the shock news. That certainly seems to be the consensus of the Lobby.

Brown will spin that his media black-out has been necessary to give Blair a clear run to the exit, not to avoid association with the Scottish election results...

37 comments:

Anonymous said...

And so it begins... [sigh]

sniper said...

With aplogies to Eliot.

So this is how the world ends;
Not with a blagger, but with a whiner.

Andy D said...

Will this be the day for Order 44?

Anonymous said...

Paisley/McGuiness in Ireland, SNP in Scotland, Brown as PM. At least no one can say British politics wont be interesting for the next few years!

priced out said...

Macavity Brown is due to give a speech on "Courage" (LOL) in Brighton this Sunday. Come and join the protest against him and his policies:

Protest details:

The date: Sunday 13th May
The time: 2.30pm
The place: Outside the Brighton Dome Concert Hall, Church Street, Brighton

First time buyers to protest at Gordon Brown’s Brighton Festival appearance

‘I will not allow house prices to get out of control and put at risk the sustainability of the recovery.’ - Gordon Brown in 1997 Budget Speech

Frustrated first time buyers are organising a protest in order to highlight the housing affordability crisis that is gripping the nation. Organised by Priced Out (www.pricedout.org.uk), a web-based campaign group for affordable house prices, the protest aims to highlight the negative impacts of high house prices in 'property hotspots' such as Brighton......

http://www.pricedout.org.uk/Campaign/ProtestEventBrowninBrighton/tabid/175/Default.aspx

Anonymous said...

Great Clunking Fist indeed. Miserable useless lying scheming yellowbellied coward who ducks and runs for cover at the slightest hint of controversy or unfavourable comment - would be more like it. As his "campaign" is bound to involve lots of that perhaps he will surface on Friday, announce the start and then immediately go back into hiding for the next seven weeks.

As for giving a speech on "Courage" on Sunday, will he have the courage to stand up and make it?

green nappy enforcement officer said...

Will cowardly Brown attend PMQ's today or are that bunch of skivers in the Commons having yet another weeks holiday?

Richard Havers said...

Brighton this Sunday, the Gorgon speaks - they are charging a tenner!

http://www.brightonfestival.org/Event_Details.aspx?eid=2395

"My passion is that our county, Britain, be the great global success story of this century." Gordon Brown

A few hundred, billion short and a century late I'd say

more vulgar than a vulcans vulva said...

This guy is SUCH a cunt.

Who's betting on how long he'll last as PM?

Worst case, I suppose, we'll only have 2 years 10 months of the twat.

Why can't he fuck off back to Scotland?

Anonymous said...

Gay Brighton the UK's Gay capital. Perfect for Gay Gordon to show some courage and finally come out.

idle said...

Not a fucking peep out of him since Scotland gave him the bum's rush, and this morning's Today prog, seeking answers to the fiasco of £6bn overpayment on tax credits (£1.5bn won't be seen again), had to make do with an underling; no answers from GayGordo.

If the media had any balls at all it would treat him to some character-building crossfire, on the Scottish political scene (supposedly his power-base), and on his record of losing eye-watering sums of our money, be it through gold sales or tax credit fraud and incompetence. Instead, expect simpering and brown-nosing.

Jesus! I think I'm missing Tone already, and the fucker hasn't quit yet.

Anonymous said...

www.gaygordon.co.uk - bloody cybersquatters!!

Anonymous said...

Anyone know where we can find film of him sculking away in his blacked out limo?

chatterbox said...

It is a running joke that Brown needs about a week to formulate/consult his many advisers and focus groups before issuing a statement on any subject effecting the country in case it might damage his personal ambitions.
This week might be more complicated because of the little matter of his impending coronation, but hiding in his bunker since last Thursday's results does not bode well for the rest of us.
He has displayed anything but the statesmanlike and leadership skills required by his own party never mind the country.

Anonymous said...

If that guy Al Kayda bombs the Commons no doubt El Presidente McBroon will immediately go into hiding and we'll hear from him a week later, after the appropriate focus groups have been consulted and a policy response formulated.

dr spyn said...

Sightings of Broon at PMQs are as rare as rocking horse shit. Has he been 'checked' into a secrure psychiatric ward? Perhaps Tony will announce tomorrow that Broon has been detained for his own safety.

Mr Oaten said...

Mmmm, rocking horse shit ...

Anonymous said...

Slightly off subject but same old corrupt/immoral labour ministers. Apparently they failed to impliment EU law that would have protected the 1 million plus Equitable Life policyholders who lost out in 2000. Further, several ministers & regulators refused to give evidence, including Des Browne & Ed Balls. Surprised? Tragically no.

Anonymous said...

Writing off £2Billion must be rather time consuming though. He's got to get the books balanced before he leaves for the "Campaign" trail on Friday.

Anonymous said...

Gordon has not been at the Treasury all week.

javelin said...

Tax credit errors 'waste £1.4bn'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6634843.stm

"Another £1.4bn is likely to be written off in overpaid tax credits, according to a report from a committee of MPs.

The Public Accounts Committee said this would bring losses from overpayments to £1.9bn. A revamp to the system meant it would pay £500m more a year, it added."


Gordon, any comment?

dunfyboy said...

"Why doesn't Gordon f**k off back to Scotland?"

What makes you think we want him?

You can keep him. He's more English than Scottish - he does support your team, after all.

sniper said...

Tax credits. Another example of Gobshites "stewardship" of the economy. When will this cunt be exposed for what he is.

Topie said...

meanwhile today the Home Office gets a radical reshape, in a move announced and executed in 6 weeks with no consultation in parliament...

BOF2BS said...

Anonymous said...

Anyone know where we can find film of him sculking away in his blacked out limo?

9:08 AM

It was on BBC news in the evening of 4th May. Huge great black 4X4 with blurred # plates driving by/from his N Queensferry residence I think.

You know - the one with the solar panels.

My technology/ability not good enough to retrieve.

Penfold said...

So the nose picking git rises from the shit pit, dripping slime over the new carpet and produces his policy document. Will he apologise for "losing" £6bn in tax credits?, will he aplogise for the raid on pensions?, will he apologise for being a cnut? like shit.
It's time for a counter-revolution, no more compliant tax-payer, take to the streets, (ask RedKen first of course to make it legal), and death to the politicoes. VIVA Anarchy.

P.S.
Is it legal to advocate the violent overthrow of an unpopular and rubbish government?

more vulgar than a vulcans vulva said...

Dunfyboy 10:28

"What makes you think we want him?"

Because, like it or lump it, he's one of your own.

Although, granted, there is some merit in altering my closing comment.

I'll change it to:

Why doesn't he just fuck off?

dr spyn said...

An average of 1,174 votes were disqualified for each constituency for the Holyrood elections. How many majorities fell below that figure?

Is Gordon not sleeping because the European Parliament criticised him for not sorting out the Equitable Life mess?

Is he hiding because MPs have found that there are even more tax credit (c. £1.4bn) overpayments? Is he afraid of answering them?

Perhaps it is time to get a tame MP to ask at PMQs, where's Gordon?

Dunferino said...

Vulva - he's "one of our own" only in place of birth, and even then I wouldn't take his word for it. I wouldn't be surprised if he was born of a nappy-wearing jackal...

Why doesn't he just f**k off, indeed?

Mark my words - Stalin will be a tame comparison to this man. And if he does have mental health issues, as Bliar so obviously does, it's going to be very interesting over the next 2 years...

sniper said...

Stuff me! The Beeb has just asked "Where's Gobshite"

chatterbox said...

"How many majorities fell below that figure?" 17 constituencies had majorities smaller than the figure for spoilt ballot papers.
Dougie Alexander could not with the might of the government behind him manage to have the figures to hand, took the Beeb and some academics just a few days and the simple task of asking for the figures from all the constituencies.
A whopping 7% of those who voted had their ballot discarded.
If this was some tinpot dictatorship would would be complaining and demanding a rerun, and like a tinpot dictatorship Labour would refuse.

John Major's pants said...

Excellent, Ed 'blinking' Ball's wife is having to defend Macavity's cat on the Daily Politics.
Only her excuses sound pathetic & toadying.
Wonder what position Gordon has promised Ed he'll give her.

Finally the beebs on the leader in hiding's case.
He's just lost Scotland, presided over the loss of 100s of local councillors, but apparently it's quite understandable he's skulking about, these Labour toadies must groan at having to trot this drivel out.
Brown is so desperate for this job, so utterly consumed and wrapped up in it, the light natural touch of Cameron will be a breath of fresh air over this weirdo.
His contorted corpse like smile is enough to give small children nightmares.

Surely he'll be at PMQs?
Oh i forgot Tony's got the fake deal over NI to crow about...

boom and busted said...

It now transpires that Brown has overpaid tax credits by a staggering £5.8 billion pounds over three years.

Still, it's only taxpayer's money and there's plenty more where that came from eh Gordon?

Over tax the workers and savers and give it to the wasters and spenders, that's the way to run an economy!

"Of the £47bn paid out in tax credits in the first three years of the current system, £5.8bn was overpaid to claimants...."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6634843.stm

Marquee Mark said...

The reason Gordon has not been seen in public recently is that he wants to burst onto the world stage in his new persona - but there have been delays in the fittings for his Dr Evil outfit. (Although Ed Ball's apparantly looks quite fetching in his Mini-Me kit..)

the eternal brown green problem said...

8:05 AM

Paisley/McGuiness in Ireland, SNP in Scotland, Brown as PM. At least no one can say British politics wont be interesting for the next few years!

Not to mention Sarkozy, in France, of course.

But your mention of Ireland is highly pertinent, for just as Tony Blair has taken Northern Ireland to his bosom and immersed himself in the most honourable, valiant and tireless of struggles to secure a lasting peace in that too too troubled of provinces (albeit simultaneously achieving the unparalleled success of plunging the rest of the world into the mother of all cataclysmic wars between a man who can barely find his own navel, let alone carry out any meaningful examination of it, and a man whose precise location still remains a complete mystery to the world's most sophisticated intelligence operations and who is, in all probability, actually dead)...

so must Gordon Brown assume the gauntlet of some personal project, a quest, a cause, an endeavour which can become his very own holy grail and which can evolve in our minds as an eternal and everlasting epitaph to his political accomplishments...he must make his mark in history by taking a deep and almost devout interest in some pressing contemporary issue of which the resolution would emanate as an allegorical expression of human warmth wherein one could not but be overcome by the diffuse fulminating fragrance of one's admiration for him...indeed, this should be one of life's most earnestly debated questions...but a question which other politicians have carelessly and thoughtlessly passed by...just gone out of their way to avoid...or at which they have simply cynically turned up their noses...

My thoughts alight, for example, on an undeniably crucial, nay global, question, of both social, political and ecological significance:

How to promote into public consciousness the advantages of

re-usable nappies?

Gordaq falling said...

Good article on Tax Credits in today's Times:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1764084.ece

Brown’s ‘incompetence’ over tax credits has cost the public £2bn


For schardenfreue watch this pricelss you tube clip of the hapless mastermind behind Tax Credits, Dim Primarolo the Paymaster General, stitched up by the BBC and then running from a reporter as ifr her very life depended on it ( in characteristic Gordo style ) Hysterical stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyvsATYoZTM

Curly said...

Brown to surface on Friday?

Sounds like another rave from the grave!


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