We Told You So...
John Hutton didn't mince his words when he gave Nick Robinson his prediction. He was right.
He made this forecast (video here) to a Question Time audience. He got it wrong, it took five months.
They are going to miss three times election winning Blair when he is gone. Wait and see...
26 June 2007
Labour have acted like lemmings, dispensing with their most successful leader of all time for a less popular, less likeable replacement. The more the voters see of Gordon, the worse it will get.
May 13, 2007You have to wonder if the Labour party is having a collective moment of Lemming-like lunacy... The Brown bounce will be a dead-Lemming bounce.
April 27, 2007
Remind Guido why they are getting rid of three-times-winner Blair early?
April 25, 2007
The Tories are on polling levels last seen at the height of Thatcher's popularity during the national euphoria following the Falklands victory. Gordon Brown has been a f***ing disaster for the Labour party...
108 comments:
If his colleagues can't stand him, why should we?
But they are a gutless bunch. Hutton, Jowell, et al hate the guy, I suspect - but they won't give up their jobs because they are as greedy as they are unemployable.
How does this compare with that Micheal foot bloke ? that would realy kick him in the schools ministers.
I know - isn't it great>
How predictable? This is just a Tory swipe at Tom Watson.
As Gordon's empire collapses around him, methinks it couldn't happen to a more appropriate individual - if only for the arrogance of his "blowing the opposition to smithereens" nonsense, or whatever he said. Know your audience, Brown. The Brits don't like that. I might not have agreed with Blair, but he never humiliated me or the country as Brown did with the Lisbon disgrace. The Election fiasco showed him for what he really is - gutless. And as for his Cabinet, has this country ever been governed by such a collection of nonentities. I'm utterly embarrassed by them. Please, dear Tories, don't blow it. If ever this country has needed you it's now. Brown? A humourless clown. Go, in the name of Britain, go!
The ZanuLabour party has got itself lumbered with the most deeply repellant human being ever to occupy No 10. We can go on and on about comepetence or sleaze or economics or whatever. It counts for precisely diddly squat.
Just take a good long look at any photo of Brown. Yup - your gut feeling is going to be the same as pretty much everyone else's. Brown is a creepy, disgusting, smelly looking, shifty, arrogant , slimey, ...oh I give up - you get the point.
Those craven Labour party members were so desperate for power that they let their greed rule their feelings. How can they possibly have wanted Brown? They didn't. They feared him. Now they can reap the whirlwind. Good. Fuckers.
Brown will never be elected as PM because he looks like he eats human livers with alfalfa sprouts and a nice Chinati. Modern political leaders need at least a modicum of basic human appeal. Brown has none whatsoever. He's psychotic in a most awful and damaging way. Cherie Blair had him well sussed!
His team is useless too.
Our robotic Foreign Sectretary was interviewed in The Indy this morning. He says he gets a thrill when people praise his Philosopher dad. Well I read Ralph Miliband's work at Uni because socialism was still alive, and I am here to say it was utter garbage - tired prose and cod philosophy. If Gordon is son of the manse, then Ed and Dave are sons of the nuthouse.
Balls is a sycophant who backed the school bully, only to find there is someone else on the block who is harder.
(But credit where credit is due - Ed seems to have married a young lad in a civic partnership, which is only legal thanks to Labour's liberalism.)
Not only are the Tories polling at levels last seen after the Falklands victory, but also this is almost entirely due to the Labour party. Talk about wheels coming off wagons. Next will come the internal civil war as they scrabble like weasels in a sack to stay in power; all the time reducing their electorability as the once disciplined Labour party disintegrates into squabbling factions.
Then again you’ve got to laugh.
Policy Exchange is in the shite !!!
Charles Moore is an untrustworthy wanker !!
If my Dad was Ralph Miliband I would pretend to be a bastard.
Interestingly, Brown's magnus opus - the creation of an entire economy, indeed society, that is indentured to debt, be it private loans mortgages or public debt and PFI - has yet to hit home. In three months time, the Tories will be on >60%.
The sooner the furtive and disastrous Brown is dragged out of office the better.
One poster mentioned Michael Foot.Even he had two priceless qualities that Brown lacks-he was a great parliamentarian and personally a very kind and decent man.
Whatever we say about the awful Blair and his repellent wife Cherie, they were good judges of character re Brown. They both thought he was a cnut.
Watch for rats desering the sinking ship. Stelzer has jumped overboard to join Murdoch jnr in the anti-Brown camp. Martin Bright over at the New Statesman is sticking pins into Browns wax effigy. Mandy has aimed a stiletto at Brown's back but didn't connect, you'll have time for a 2nd try Mandy! Now waiting for the dismal crew of Clarke (unless he has alredy been bought off as has been suggested), Milburn and Byers to aim some blows. At a -13% spread in the polls it can't be long before warfare breaks out in the Labour ranks.
Will Brown make it to Easter?
Milipede to be Labour leader by the end of next summer methinks.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/money/property_and_mortgages/article3059977.ece
"House prices in London have fallen by an average of £28,000 in the past month, as the capital sets the pace of an accelerating property downturn, a leading survey reports today.
Rightmove, the property website that tracks asking prices for homes across the market, says that prices tumbled by £20,000 a week in affluent Kensington and Chelsea – and by more than £10,000 a week in inner-city Hackney.
The company’s data shows that house prices fell by 3.2 per cent across the country, and by 6.8 per cent in London, over the month to the middle of December. The figures are the gloomiest that homeowners have had to face since the market began to turn this autumn."
I want to join in the fun. Back in March this year I blogged the following.
What this budget has been designed to do, apart from 'harmonizing our taxes' - nothing wrong in that - was to try and make Brown look good. Even down to the way he delivered it was all about how it reflected on him. What Broon needs to remember is that being a leader is not just about having people like you. It's got an awful lot more to do with people respecting you. I think that Broon's only real saving grace has been that many people had a grudging respect for him, which is now slipping away.
O how I love an internal civil war.
Ken wants Gilligan sacked for behaving like a real journo.
King will spill the beans on Bean if he is sacked.
Wendy couldn't go if she wanted to - Bean says Tough it, to save Harpy and Hain.
Benn is up his own ass with climate-change bollocks. Strange how the Beeb will run and run on this yet overlook unlawful donations!
On climate-change bollocks-thingy, some fuckwit spouted that sea levels will rise 10 feet in as many years. Surely if the climate was warming the sea would evapourate!
Patrick said "Brown will never be elected as PM because he looks like he eats human livers with alfalfa sprouts and a nice Chianti."
Fava beans, surely. Spot on, otherwise!
Just what the Tories did to Mrs T, and look what happened to them.
I am feeling very happy reading all these headlines....then it hits me, we have another 2 years of this bunch of arse government.
Ruth Kelly to make a statement later today.
Another major league fuck up comming our way.
I was thinking only this morning, not had a government fuck up in a couple of days, there must be one due.
I thought they may be taking Christmas off, but no, they intend to keep fucking up, all the way through the festive season.
You do have to admire their diligence.
W.W.
Millitwat said
"The country is afairer and richer place than it was 10 years ago"
Really?
This will come as good new to the close to 1 million people who are struggling to pay their mortgages.
Over at Boredom Corner (aka Labour Home), uneducated people with no knowledge of history are taking it upon themselves to insult John Major.
Well, perhaps fair enough - I am not a great fan myself. But when you consider that, under Labour, "I was bothering badgers" is not an MP's confession, but is in fact an alibi, you have to wonder if these NuLab types realise how far they have fallen and how unqualified they are to comment on other people's performance.
Meanwhile...is Guido going to call the Lib Dem leadership contest? We're on tenterhooks...
Batman style news.
Britain will next year face a pernicious credit crunch (SPERLATT!) with a regulatory banking structure unfit for purpose (BIFF!) with the governor of the Bank of England and the Prime Minister briefing against each other (KERBAMM!) and Brown's puppet Chancellor struggling to be taken seriously by anyone (SQUEEK!).
Policy Exchange is in the shite !!!
11:17 AM, December 17, 2007
Dream on.
The "moderate" Mosques calling for your head are the ones in trouble.
Word of the day for you is:
Dhimmitude.
Please Google it & learn something.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning....The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole Parliament. Smelled like... victory. Someday these cnuts will be gone...
Re: commenters on Labour Home who say that John Major achieved nothing:
So a General Election victory is "nothing", or are they just bitter?
Meanwhile...is Guido going to call the Lib Dem leadership contest? We're on tenterhooks...
Does Guido do a call? "It's the sun wot won it" style.
Why are they bothering?
Compo or Clegg or Foggy? YAWN!
achieved nothing?
John Major porked Curry. mmmmmmmmm
John Hutton's going round boasting "I told you Gordon would be fucking disastrous".
The funny thing is, Ed Miliband told John he now agrees with him.
It's a richer fairer society for the well orf, the kind of people who might invite us to dinner parties to discuss global warming, or own newspapers or make donations
It's a richer fairer society...
...except that pensions are fucked, house prices are heading south and the stock market is still 10% down on eight years ago.
The only thing that's up is gold, but Brown exchanged our gold reserves for peanuts a few years ago. At least peanuts are edible.
Ian Stannard, a senior currency strategist at BNP Paribas SA in London comments that the housing market looks as if it is falling off a cliff and that Sterling is now going to fall quite sharply.
...The Fiddler, real name Jonah Mc Bean, dresses in gray, special power sucks life out of everything he touches, other features pouting lips, likes to pout at the big boys like Sidney Blumenthal, can mentally undress a man in 1.5 seconds, he'll be after your Batwang for sure Batman
No commissioner, I think Robin's will be more to his taste, I think I have a plan to trap this fiend...
Massive fall in London house prices?
Please, God, let the Blair Lair be re-possessed.
Come to think of it, that might be the real reason why Gordon's manufacturing a slump. In his twisted mind, it's worth ruining the country just to see that bastard wringing his hands in the gutter.
Got no sense of proportion, some people.
Ren said...
"Milipede to be Labour leader by the end of next summer methinks."
If Zanulab replace Snotgobbler McBean with the Mad Millipede...
this is just too much...
to exchange such foulness for such weirdness would be a perversion greater than I wish to imagine.
Please do not put these images in my head again or else I shall have to find out who you are and sue you for distress.
If McBogey was the only problem it wouldn't be quite so bad. Trouble is, he is surrounded by the most incompetent bunch of arse-reamers and gullible wimmin I can recall in any Cabinet. They have all been wildly over-promoted from their natural stations in a village primary school.
Just look at them - the stupid, whining Jacqui Smith (might just make PTA chairman), David Milipede (school sneak and goody goody), A. Darling (swot, once got 70%in maths), Hilary Benn (girl or boy?), E. Balls (cleverclogs, ripe for a beating-up), P. Hain (immigrant), the Kellys, Harpersons and Blears (toilet gossips, all vying for head girl)... not to mention the various bums, creeps and bullies who crawl to the mad headmaster Bean.
Yes, we are sunk.
Nearly a year ago today on Guido's blog
Anonymous said...
Bad times are just round the corner.
It looks increasingly like our beloved Chancellor is going to preside over a sterling crisis. Inflation up, bankruptcies up, home reposssessions up, unemployment up..... Gordon out (of the running for Blair's job):
"US banks predict sterling set to crash"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/12/12/cnster12.xml
1:03 PM, December 12, 2006
Since then....
The number of people seeking jobless benefits in the UK has fallen to a 32-year low, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.
The number claiming jobseeker's allowance fell by 11,100 in November to 813,000, the lowest since June 1975.
The CBI predicts 2% growth for 2008
As ever the economy rumbles on....
You sad fucker bow and rectal probe me
bhownaggree really is Gorgon McFuckwit's very own blogging identity, isn't it.
You are Stalin McBean and I claim my £25bn.
Brown isn't likely to go willingly - and which of his Cabinet would have the "guts" to tell him to his face a la Thatcher ?
His resultant sulk and petulance would destroy the party. This guy doesn't do forgiveness and he holds grudges for decades so until he's beaten at the next election Labour are stuck with him for worse and worser and if the polls keep climbing in the Tories favour quite a lot of the useless Cabinet are going down with him too. The "project" has failed and it's over I'm afraid time to consider future career options
So what's Ruth Kelly lost this time? Can't be her virginity. Is it the entire DVLC database on a couple of DVDs?
bhownaggree reckons we've all been crying wolf.
Don't forget - in the story the wolf does come.
Bhownagree
Yes - why live on jobseekers benefit if you can get long term incapacity benefit paid to you while you are actually living/working in another country.
Anonymous said:
(But credit where credit is due - Ed seems to have married a young lad in a civic partnership, which is only legal thanks to Labour's liberalism.)
Look, admittedly that Yvette Cooper isn't much of a looker, but to call her a young lad is somewhat ungallant. Anyway, she's less of an androgyne than Ruth Kelly.
Ooops, silly me, I'm getting my Eds in a muddle. Perhaps I'd better not post this. There again ...
Fatty Falconer is being helpful and now doesn't think we need more than 28 days detention. That's Jacqui screwed isn't it. Is it because he isn't getting his pension? Or is his former flatmate giving him his orders?
McSnot is so desperate he's now buying people to love him. The bill: £3bn.
"Workers and unions today welcomed a climbdown by Gordon Brown ... the Prime Minister has agreed to increase the compensation paid to almost 140,000 workers who invested in company schemes on Government advice but lost out when they collapsed."
How odd that he should changed his mind now. Ah, we find out why...
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: "It will be the best Christmas present imaginable for the thousands of workers who lost out."
He certainly knows how to win friends. Next... a card plus a crisp twenty for every immigrant.
Oh dear. House prices are crashing, spending is drying up, and the credit tap has been turned off. Pretty soon unemployment, even with the fiddled stats, is going to rise rapidly as a retail recession takes hold.
2008 is going to be a terrible year for the millions up to their eyes in debt aswell as many of those working in shops, restaurants, estate agents, mortgage brokers, banks etc.
I hope they don't all blame poor Gordon for their predicament.
You know, if one steps back and takes a slightly longer view, it's actually terribly reassuring that things are back to normal.
Labour can't run the economy. We always knew it. They may have hoodwinked us with smoke and mirrors for a few years (and a tip of the hat to the many here and elsewhere who saw it all for what it was), but eventually it all comes home to roost.
I always thought Brown was going to be Callaghan to Blair's Wilson. Just a shame that he didn't give us a rendition of 'There was I waiting at the church' at the last conference - that would have sealed it.
Only trouble is that Cameron's no Maggie...
bogeyman said...
"He certainly knows how to win friends. Next... a card plus a crisp twenty for every immigrant."
Just shut up... you'll give him ideas!
Hareperson for PM.
One only had to read Tom Bowers book on Brown to know it would come to this. Brown's vices were confirmed by Anthony Selsdon in his recent book on Blair. How can any individual who spends most of his emotional physical and mental energy plotting the downfall of his PM be himself a fit and proper person to lead his Party and country?
Bhownaggree your political hero is a nasty, small minded, myopic control freak. The economy. Lets discuss twelve months hence when Brown will be shown to be the worst Chancellor in living memory.
Seems that Britain has not in modern times ever accepted a Scottish Prime Minister. Old Douglas-Home did not last five minutes for example.
Which will fall the fastest? House prices or Brown's poll ratings?
Look at this list of whats happening in the Commons today, Brownies Clownies really have a fun day ahead of them...
1530: Brown on EU summit
1630: Darling on lost discs
1730: Kelly on DFT data
1730: MPs grill HMRC bosses
It gets worse.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7147715.stm
On climate-change bollocks-thingy, some fuckwit spouted that sea levels will rise 10 feet in as many years. Surely if the climate was warming the sea would evapourate!
Evaporate? I think you will find that will happen when the sea starts to boil. Even the climate change evangelists are not predicting that yet. Mind you, I blame Brown regardless
Brown's in The House spouting forth 'tractor' statistics on Europe, and attempting to justify his acts of treason.
The man is a shambling wreck.
Good.
Is Bhounaggree Fuckwit McBean?
I do hope so! The thought of Gay Gordo bogey-picker, thief, liar and cowardly bully reading Guido fills me with ecstasy.
I understand Ruth Kelly has lost Swansea. Police have mounted a search of Glamorgan - but are baffled by this latest security lapse. A junior official denied sending the city in an unencrypted format by regular post.
'I understand Ruth Kelly has lost Swansea.'
Please tell me McBroon was visiting an educational establishment in Swansea at the time.
bhownaggree is more likely to be the fragrant Konrad, Gordons special friend from the Sith. Though quite how he finds the time to post here, when he must so busy 'noshing off' his scotch master is a mystery.
Merry Christmas, Guido.
I Spy Strangers - take a running f*** :-)))
bhownaggree said...The number of people seeking jobless benefits in the UK has fallen to a 32-year low, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.
Jobseekers numbers always fall in November .. its called recruiting for christmas.
You need to seem them in January + February when all those fantastic part time jobs go away for another 10 months.
And if the retail figures aren't too rosy a whole extra tier of full and part time workers will be looking Mr Darling to help them out.
Personally I think Its going to need heavy discounting to make for a happy Christmas for many retailers
Things can only get better.
Lord Falconer, who backed Tony Blair's attempt to extend the limit to 90 days, says he has changed his mind because it will cause Mr Brown deep embarrassment and most likely lead to apoplexy and that that was OK by him and his former flat-mate.
So it is now 28, with Bean's blood pressure going through the roof.
Nice one Charlie!
No, evaporation occurs well below boiling point....what no-one tells you is that water vapour is by far the dominant 'green-house gas'....CO2 only accounts for about 5% of the effect. Of course, mankind has almost no influence on water vapour so that doesn't fit the enviromentalists campaign strategy and is strangely ignored....
Meantime, just like the heatwave of the mid-70s marked the end of the 30 years of global cooling, and the scare of the next ice age, this winter will no doubt be the coldest since records began or somesuch and mark the end of 30 years of warming back to where we started 60 years ago, and the end of the global warming nonsense.
G.
Lay off Gordon - he's our first autistic Prime Minister.
Moody's Warnings on FGIC, MBIA Cast Doubt on $1.2 Trillion Debt
Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Moody's Investors Service's warning that the top credit ratings of FGIC Corp. and three other bond insurers may be cut casts doubt on $1.2 trillion of municipal, corporate and asset-backed securities.
Moody's late on Dec. 14 placed the top Aaa insurance ratings of Stamford, Connecticut-based FGIC and XL Capital Assurance Inc. in New York under review for possible downgrade. It affirmed the Aaa insurance ratings of Armonk, New York-based MBIA Inc. and CIFG Guaranty in Hamilton, Bermuda, though it said the outlooks were ``negative.''
Talking of global warming bollox,
"A noted expert in sea level change has accused UN's IPCC panel of falsifying and destroying data to support the panel's official conclusion of a rising sea level trend. The accusations include surreptitious substitution of datasets, selective use of data, presenting computer model simulations as physical data, and even the destruction of physical markers which fail to demonstrate sea level rise."
http://www.dailytech.com/Noted+Sea+Level+Expert+Accuses+IPCC+of+Falsifying+Data/article9978c.htm
Stuff that up your warm rectum, Al Bore.
Le Pigeon, 3:15 said "1730: MPs grill HMRC bosses".
With onions, I hope.
I feel like Józef T. K. Korzeniowski come to here your great country to make wonderful life and find that everyone he is making shit where he is eating.
What is wrong with people here. Ten years previously I was coming out of jail in Hrádek for selling pig milk to help my family. I had no car, as it was too much to pay, I live with my sister who make fuck to Dodek Dudek for money that help with money to feed mother, and grandmother. I have no wife as she die from selling blood.
Now here I live in Wales England and I have BMW, and I earn £170.00 in one week packing flesh for Danepak company. I have woman to make sex with and I smoke cigarettes that are made not from cardboard and Chinese pubic hair. I is loving this country and Mr. Brown. You is all mad or what?
Gordon should stick to badger spotting, These guys can't be trusted to run a sweet shop let alone the country.
Hospital gossip has it that GB's personal physician is dyslexic. For security reasons there is no secretarial intermediary in their correspondence; following a consultation along the lines of "ah...I have this friend who thinks he may be somewhere on the autistic spectrum, what would you advise?", the good, if lexically challenged doctor suggested that his patient's "friend" try improving his level of facial anaylsis. (Autism/asperger's often characterised by difficulty "reading" the meaning of people's faces.) Unfortunately the memo in which this advice was couched directed the recipient to faecal analysis instead. It all got very messy, apparently. Not least because the copramancer in question discovered something very nasty in the offing.
One way to stop someone picking their nose, though, I suppose.
To grant Legal Aid for the inquest to the families of the Armed Forces killed in the Hercules crash in Iraq.
The Australian Government are paying for a Lawyer for their side, our Government...well what would you expect?
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/herculesiraq/
Ruth Kelly to give Parliamentary statement shortly - Details of 3 Million UK learner drivers lost in IOWA(what the **** are they doing sending it to IOWA in the first place you may ask ?)
Is this farce for real?
metody jankanowiak
Welcome to The Heart of Darkness.
The biggest dangers here are that 2 years give them;
1) More than enough time to fruther fine tune their election rigging, with postal vote fraud an absolute certainty
2) time to sell us down the river on this latest Spanish socialist MEP wheeze for even further integration into the evil empire, leaving nothing for any UK government to control.
The removal of the scumbag Brown is far from a done deal, the whole NULab project was aimed at destroying democracy, and this has been one of their few successes
anonymous @ 4:53 - I wonder if the details are being used to create fake primary voters?
Most people seem not to have woken up to the latest (?) HMRC fiasco:
"Contraband seized by customs officers has gone missing from a secure depot close to Coventry airport.
"Police have been called in to search for the goods which disappeared from the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) store before last weekend.
"A HMRC spokesman refused to comment on claims drugs, firearms and passports may have gone missing.
"He said officials were cooperating with Warwickshire police. "We are taking this matter very seriously," he added.
"HMRC said security had been stepped up and investigations were continuing, but did not reveal when or how the items disappeared."
Full story here.
dennis - oh good grief, can they keep anything secure at all?!?!?
Having spent a decade living on the state in Downing Street - and off the London property ladder - what do you expect Gordon to do to property prices? He has a couple more years yet to get them to really crash - to a point where he can afford a nice Chelsea pad from his final pay-off from the state.
Brown's loss of support among women seems a paradox. He's at 29%, versus Cameron's 49% (YouGov, sample from 13th/14th Dec). This is despite Cameron's promise to pull out of the social chapter of the EU on worker's rights, which guarantees such things as protection for pregnant women and part-time workers.
dennis - Let's face everyone is corrupt and 'on the take' - MP's, Police, Customs and Immigration, Planning Officers, Councillors and everyone else suckling at the taxpayers teat.
Honesty doesn't pay .
Welcome to the 'New' Britain of 'New' Labour.
see:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7147715.stm
And this lot really think that they can run an ID database?
I am going from fury to hysteria.
mr redding - you display a patronising attitude towards women. To assume as you do that they only care about so-called womens issues is utterly contemptible.
Pregnant women don't need to be protected from Gordon. He's got other fish to fry.
Just a thought about that plan to move old people out to the sticks so young couples can have their houses.How long before some spad/fuckwit suggests it would be a great way of altering voting patterns to protect labour MPs like they did with the hospital closure list.
But then mr redding can only be a socialist and patronising socialist would be a tautology.
Mr Reddings plan is to make sure that no woman of childbearing age is ever employed by a rational employer.
This means that life on benefits or a career in a state non-job awaits. Both options are much more likely to produce a ZanuLabour voter.
Looks like 2008 will be the year of Brown's 10% smash and grab raid on savings accounts to try to save Britain's army of over-indebted wasters, including the government.
Ask the IPPR.
Ha Ha Ha The great clunking fist has turned out to be a limp wristed lettuce leaf.
The Iowa fuck up was spun on PM as a problem that could happen under any government, obviously it helps if you have a government obsessed with outsourcing and no understanding of the security problems inherent in all IT especially the off the shelf crap they seem to use
bogeyman said...
"He certainly knows how to win friends. Next... a card plus a crisp twenty for every immigrant."
Twenty? Twenty? You couldn't get a Ryanair to Rhyl for that. There's been inflation you know, and that's all the Tories' fault for their disastrous running of Black Wednesday. The price of encouraging unlawful non-domiciles home has risen to £4,000 a head. Cheaper than a court-case, so there.
Prudence. Accountability. [Beams] Transparency.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/16/nasylum116.xml
Will nulab start block booking time in the house for apologies?
@bhownaggree
The number of people seeking jobless benefits in the UK has fallen to a 32-year low, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.
The number claiming jobseeker's allowance fell by 11,100 in November to 813,000, the lowest since June 1975.
Führerbunker, May 1945.
@robbierotton
I understand Ruth Kelly has lost Swansea. Police have mounted a search of Glamorgan - but are baffled by this latest security lapse. A junior official denied sending the city in an unencrypted format by regular post.
That's next week.
@dr dent
Copramancer? As I said: GRT. It'll be IRT if you're not careful.
I don't quite agree with the premise. The wheels were coming off anyway, Bliar's ability to lie had been fully discredited. Bliar got out at the last possible moment ie before the economy's downturn was evident by the sub-prime collapse. Brown inherited a gold-plated turn more brown than shiny.
Speak for yourself Guido about wanting the BLiar back. I certainly don't.
Gordon got his sums wrong again today.
Responding to the SNP MP winding him up about Kosovan independence he said that 2/3's of Scots didn't support independece.
This the day after a poll showed support for independence at 40% and opposition at 44%.
Whoops!
He's even out of touch with Scotland never mind reality.
Oh and the Scottish LibDem leader has just gone and screwed his chances of being re-elected by pissing off the Aberdeen business community by accusing Salmond of sleaze over a constituency meeting he had with Donald Trump.
The funny thing is, we all KNEW he'd be a terrible Prime Minister and yet it happened anyway.
What I find the most amusing is how the Brown Spinners make out that the current string of predicaments is "bad luck". Actually, if we're talking about "luck", that was the initial Brown Bounce which defied all expectations. That was a spate of "good luck". What we have now is the grim truth. It's not luck, it's just plain, gritty reality.
Go, Gordon. Just go.
Nice editorial in The Herald today, listing Brown's tractor failures.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/news/display.var.1911230.0.After_six_months_of_disaster_still_time_to_fit_in_another_couple.php
Can we look forward to some developements in
Scottish Donorgate prop Wee Wendy Alexander;
Durhamgate and Duggie Alexander, Phaingate prop Peter Hain, Harpersongate prop Harriet Harpic; Northern Rockgate prop Darling Gordon,
Discgate prop Darling
Floodgate prop Benn
Discgate the sequel - prop Roof Kelly.
FU All - or EUgate - no referendum.
New(t)gate - Lee and Ken.
So if the NuLab trolls think that this shower of shite has got away with it so far, they are sadly mistaken. But then again some of them are probably consuming the white powder lost by HMRC in Coventry...
Piss up in brewery can Gordon organise one?
Woman in White Coat,
You say I can live and work in another country and manage to claim incapacity benefit? This sounds interesting.
International Unobtainium Conglomerated pay me a decent wodge to rape Mother Earth and grind the faces of the Gromboolian proletariat into the (asbestos laced) dust, but I'm always open to new sources of income. Especially unearned ones.
Can you provide details of how one goes about this?
Mr The Berserk,
I suspect you one of the kids who sslept through Stinker Snodgrass's science lessons. Water does not have to boil for evaporation to take place.
If it did, how do you explain clouds? Surely it can't be from all those kettles being boiled to make nice cups of tea.
It speaks volumes for the level of confidence in this government's promises and undertakings that the flight of money from Northern Rock simply continued and continues virtually unabated notwithstanding the socalled guarantees put in place by the Treasury. And why on earth SHOULD depositors trust this government or the pronouncements of the FSA, both of which have been so manifestly incompetent in regulatory matters concerning the banks or the world of pensions and insurance.
Perhaps if Gordon Brown had made even the slightest effort to be truthful, fair and open in his treatment of those who lost their pensions in the failed corporate schemes, or those who were so dreadfully let down by regulation of Equitable Life, consumers of financial products may be a little more willing to accept that 'guarantee' or 'protection of depositors' meant what it stated, instead of yet another empty promise from this morally bankrupt government.
Northern Rock's very real problems may indeed have been caused by the adoption of a reckless financial model, which hit the buffers when the wholesale money markets closed down, for reasons outsode the Rock's control, but what on earth is financial regulation all about if it is not to police and control such reckless behaviour? The chickens are coming home to roost, and we had better all hope that sanity will start to prevail in the financial markets soon, because I personally have very little confidence that Brown or Darling have a clue how to repair confidence that has been so irretrievably shattered in both the Rock, and this government.
Very very smelly!!!!
The government will also endorse covered bonds as well as repurchases of mortgages by the bank from its Granite securitization trust.
Who IS protecting who - and from what?
£25 Billion? £100 Billion?
Anyone need a few bob to keep warm this Winter?
Any children living in poverty and hungry?
Any soldier needing up-to-date equipement?
Farepak?
Pension?
Insurance?
Your money is in the Rock.
If people started queuing up outside their own banks tomorrow and asking to withdraw their money, the terrible truth would come out that NR is not the only bank in trouble, and that our savings do not exist in any real form.
All of this procrastinating with NR is just about keeping joe depositer docile, and stopping yet more runs on other banks which would cause a systematic collapse.
Militwat was only half right. I've heard lots of people say how dismal Broon is, but remarkably few talk about how they want that nice Mr Bliar back.
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