Gordon 2.0
Fraser Nelson in the Speccie has a 2,400 word piece on the new team around Gordon, some of whom have private-sector experience of successfully running more than a whelk stall, which is not something that can be said for the Alexanders, Milibands and Balls'.
Stephen Carter from Brunswick and Jeremy Heywood from Morgan Stanley are the new dynamic duo in downing Street according to Fraser. Jennifer Moses, an ex-Goldman Sachs managing director has come in to the big tent via the LibDem friendly think-tank CentreForum.
The Jonah effect was immediately felt. Ms Moses' husband's hedge fund (Peleton) won an industry award in January, she announced she was going to work for Gordon in February. Her husband loses a billion or so that month and his hedge fund is now being wound up. Hope he wasn't listening to pillow talk giving an inside track on Gordon's musings on mortgage backed securities...
UPDATE : As pointed out in the comments, according to yesterday's Daily Mail
Stephen Carter from Brunswick and Jeremy Heywood from Morgan Stanley are the new dynamic duo in downing Street according to Fraser. Jennifer Moses, an ex-Goldman Sachs managing director has come in to the big tent via the LibDem friendly think-tank CentreForum.
The Jonah effect was immediately felt. Ms Moses' husband's hedge fund (Peleton) won an industry award in January, she announced she was going to work for Gordon in February. Her husband loses a billion or so that month and his hedge fund is now being wound up. Hope he wasn't listening to pillow talk giving an inside track on Gordon's musings on mortgage backed securities...UPDATE : As pointed out in the comments, according to yesterday's Daily Mail
Jennifer Moses had been due begin work in her new Downing Street office in the next few days to "spice up" policies ahead of the next election. But she has pulled out over what No. 10 was today describing as a "domestic situation".
58 comments:
You know, the snot gobbler IS a financial genius, whatever the markets think.
He must be to have such luminaries from such august financial institutions working for him.
Cunt.
So... why were they let go, then? Has Gordon the Great been given a set of losers?
"Oh, please don't go. Bye!" kind of thing, perhaps?
its all so hidden , nu labour couldnt walk down a narrow alley straight.
whats happening on mendleshon front ? has abrahams had his money back yet.
Gordon 2.0 is not stable and will crash to blue screen and force people to phone the £13 a min national debt line and be put on hold with lobby music benign platitudes.or refer to EUSSR .
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on max strength medication
I smell bitterness?
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley?
Not much of a recomendation is it?
Now, Lloyds TSB , that would have been a different matter.
Why would anyone of any commercial value want to join the great gay greasy snot-gobbling freak?
Can only be that they have no prospects anywhere else.
Come out Gorgon, and fuck off.
just as side note , darling was grilled on the rock and cooper on granite.
as useual the non asnwer the expected report not yet ready .looks like another debate on mon.
still some doubt on wether it goes on the books , which will afect budget figs, personal debt sats were scary.
darling all in strong position to weather the ecnomic storms . my arse
still claiming rocks mortgage book good is good because gov body says so .
there was report in the papers that the rock bought newcastle eagles rugby club two weeks before ques started paid £14 million now i wonder if that mortgage went to granite!!!
they are really shitting it on transactions that took place , somthing very dodgey about it all .
To the tune of "gold finger"
Hes the man
the man with the fecal touch.
he sells all the gold
he sells all the gold
nothing will help gordon is just shit.
Impeach Brown for giving away all our Gold!
Agree completely.
Why would anyone any good want to work for Gordo with his track record.
Word on the street has it that Senor Parker who owns Brunswick wasn't exactly phased when young Carter got the brown call and made no efforts to stop it
Gordon does appear to be an "anti-Midas", not only having a proven aversion to gold, but turning everything he touches to shite. However, I see a glittering new career for him in PR in a new line of work called "negative endorsement". Company A will hire Gordo to make a public statement endorsing the products of rival Company B - result, Company B collapses into administration, its MD dies in a freak accident involving a piano, and many of its customers are permanently afflicted with facial warts and socialist tendencies.
Hasn't Jennifer Moses said she is no longer taking the job, due to the fact that her hubby has lost much of his fortune?
Any news on the CC's "investigation" into The Smith Institute? Has Abrahams money been given back? Has "Sir" Ian Blair acted on the fact that Brown said there was wrongdoing re Abrahams?
Thought not...
45 govt, the people who join him are by and large chancers, the types who have benefited from 'pfi initiatives' or structured debt financing, aka the sub prime mortgage fiasco !
Why would anyone, however clever, want to be a senior turd polisher?
Just picked up on your wine cellar story. What's the big problem? If the establishment hadn't been a bit extravagant through the ages, we would have no historic buildings. They would all be fucking modular office blocks - except they'd have fallen down centuries ago.
And you're not telling me the country was better off when they built the Houses of Parliament or London's other grand palaces?
I see there's still no admission from Guido that he got it wrong (again) on Wendy Alexander.
OT - I see that the FTSE100 is down to approx 5.6k. Wasn't it around 6.6k earlier this year?
As stock prices are leading rather than lagging indicators, it seems that our pension and insurance fund experts think Brown and Darling have screwed the economy.
Gordon 2.0 is that a bit like web 2.0. Its meant to look a bit better but no one is sure what the benefit is....
Speaking of the ALexanders, Wendy's off the hook AGAIN. Be quick to catch the story in the Scottish press and BBC though, it's sinking down their online pages faster than this goervnment's credit rating...
Actually, I think the Daily Mail reported yesterday that Moses has pulled out of the job.
Thought you might be leading on the Tories taxing certain types of booze Guido. Nanny State takes over Tory Party?
oh great snot gobbler has just issued statement that "people who abuse the armed forces should be dealt with"
yeah well straight to gordon , its an abuse when they dont get the right kit for start !!
con home going on prescots 3k worth of cleaning , sure must have left some big jobbie before leaving for armenia.
redwood has done an interesting piece on prison and wants accountancy crime to not be a prison issue (as too many prisoners) .
i disagree mr redwood given the level of accountancy crime/fraud that gordon brown has committed i am in favour of the death penalty , preferably involving the slow removal of cohonies .
What's wrong with Wendy's jaw? Why does she always look like she's a contestant in the Scottish Gurning Championship?
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs et al caused the current crisis deliberately to create a one world bank. Wake the fuck up dipshits!!!
WTF!! Two bankers a hedge fund tart and a PR person!
He really has no idea has he?
The banks have buggered up big time - as they alwasy do. Speculative hedge funds will follow as cheapo credit dries up. And as for PR, well really.....?
The governemnt is stuffed with this type of bod that's only done 'consultancy' since birth.
What about someone that's actualkly grown and run a business or even just run one? I mean they'd be no good at the politics but thye might just get something done.
Say what you like about Drayson, but he did at least have some decent managerial experience. But he jacked it in. I wonder why?
this fucker is CIA.
the americans are worried because they are losing control here.
a correct assessment.
hat tip on the Moses story should be Evening Standard. Good old journalism from an evening paper.
Toooooo damn right the pair of 'em are NON DOMS.
As for the rest, PR is one step above running a whelk stall and didn't Morgan Stanley lose vast sums of money AS WELL as give St Tone a job at an inflated worth. Morgan's also own credit card companies that have allowed people to inde(b)nture themselves.
Plenty of room to villify these so-called advisors.
Brown really is one bad news Jonah. Can't he be persuaded to grab a cannon ball and jump off Tower Bridge, a la Midshipman Hollom in Master & Commander? I'm sure there would be no shortage of volunteers to help him, should he have any last minute reservations.
PS, why no consultants from Northern Rock?
O/T but, according to the Daily Telegraph, after Prescott vacated the grace-and-favour flat at Admiralty House, it cost £3,320 to clean it in order to make it habitable for the next occupant.
Gordon and spin - like an alcoholic and a bottle of whisky.
Anon 9:05 AM
You are wrong. Guido was right about Bendy Bendy.
Also, note that her every FMQ comprises her asking a question and then asking supplementary questions as if the answer to the first question had not happened!
I was shocked to hear her speaking voice at FMQ:
"Would the first minister please clack-clack-clackity-clack screech clack-clack-clackity-clack {who'll buy my fish?} clack-clack-clackity-clack screech clack-clack-clackity-clack SQUAWK! clack-clack-clackity-clack screech clack-clack-clackity-CLACK!"
wasn't mrs moses the person who didnt spot that her assistant at GS stole over a million quid from her bank account?
is that what mc snot calls financial prudence?
As for mr moses he went long of so called AAA mortgage debt while shorting lower grade.........
as a former bond trader i would say that this policy was rather stupid because in a downturn NO one sector is immune from losses.The money market is linked all the way through the system so bad news for one is usually bad news for all..once sentiment is damaged then the prices for ALL issuers are marked down........
Brown knows nothing about trading,economics,history(anything)? so to appoint these people is just more stupidity.
bofl
Thick as Thieves,
If Gordo's CIA, then he's the Colonel Kurtz type of CIA operative.
Keep a look out for Martin Sheen chugging up the Thames in a Swift Boat with Robert Duvall and his chums overhead in their Hueys.
Altogether now:
Dah dada Dah Dah
Dah dada Dah Dah
Dah dada Dah Dah
Dah dada Dah
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning! You know what it smells of? Freedom! That's what."
btw: Isn't that Moses woman the one who didn't notice her PA half inching a million quid from her bank account? That sounds like just the sort of highly conditioned financial superhero the government needs. Not.
Gordon's now gone and Jinxed Vietnam.
He met Nguyen Tan Dung, the Prime Minister of Vietnam in London yesterday.
Since then:
Vietnam tanker sinks, 14 missing.
Vietnam bird flu outbreak spreads to Hanoi.
Vietnam has postponed a major business conference scheduled for next week citing "pressing macro and micro-economic concerns,".
Vietnam has launched a crackdown on hamsters, a wildly popular pet here in the current lunar Year of the Rat, fearing an influx of the foreign-bred rodent furballs could spread disease and destroy crops.
Brown 28/01/08
'as financial markets become increasingly interlinked, countries must ensure they have robust and effective cross-border crisis management arrangements. Central banks have already taken co-ordinated action to deal with these short-term problems. We now need not only strengthened national regulatory frameworks, but also strengthened international co-operation...
.....The world has no effective early warning system....... Many of the problems were identified in advance but were not acted upon. We need a clearer, more authoritative watchdog...
...To be effective for a new era, the IMF should act with the same independence as a central bank – responsible for the surveillance of the world economy, for informing and educating markets, and for enforcing transparency through the system. It should work with the other global supervisors, such as the Financial Stability Forum and the Bank for International Settlements, to create the early warning system we need against the threats from financial sector developments. We should also consider how the IMF’s responsibilities for financial stability could be made clearer.'
here if u want it:
http://www.britischebotschaft.de/en/news/items/080124b.htm
It fucks me right off that capitalism has to be global now.. how long until we see blocs not nations? ITS JUST TOO BORING!
gordon isnt colonel kurtz......
he's colonel bogey!!
the remittance man,
gordon brown and tony blair can, by their own actions, be defined as agents of american interests.
yes or no?
a friend of mine still works in trading for a japanese bank in the city.....since last september he has been banned from buying corporate bonds because his bank have done their conkers in cdo etc...he had to go to tokyo and explain to them that the bonds they had bought at head office were in fact only worth 7% of their face value.......!!!!!!!
they are crapping themselves as are most other banks,insurance companies and pension funds...
such clever people........the last thing we need is more investment bankers workin with mc snot........
bofl
Brunswick and Morgan Stanley? Hardly suggests they'll have the ability to communicate with the average voter like, for instance ex hacks from the Mirror (Alistair Campbell) or the NOW (Andy Coulson).
They sound like corporate stuffed shirts to me.
Nice one Gordon.
Brown is more like Private Pike, and Private McAuslan combined.
As a newcomer, I realise that I may irritate some of the more seasoned bloggers with this question, but why is GB refered to as snot gobbler?
Speaking of spin , just come from the usual Friday Flint Flyers meeting
NOTES
More spin to get us out of next weeks holes.
1]. When you renew your TV licence, you will be issued
with a new biometric licence that will contain a digital photograph,
cardholder's fingerprints signature and Personal information on a plastic laminated card. The cards will contain data
that can be read electronically and matched against a
computerized National Identity of Television Owners
Register.
The new card will be issued completely free of charge.
However The TV licence fee will rise from £131.50 to
£252.89.
2] Ipod and mp3’s to have a tax similar to the fuel escalator
tax.
A music tax is to be levied at 3% above
inflation per annum.
{ the reasoning is to keep prices high as import
prices fall, and to keep Comet profitable}
3] This referendum thing is playing very badly.. try
and get a more friendly Euro feel going in the media.
David Miliband to wear a PSV Eindhoven top
Ed Miliband to wear a stripey t-shirt and a beret.
Ruth Kelly to wear hair in German maiden braids style
Margaret Hodge to go to Belgium [ no reason, just gets
her out the way]
4] Binge drinking by children aged 3 - 5 years has
fallen significantly due to government intervention. A
new harder to open stiffer pop-top bottle cap with a
narrower aperture has prevented these kids from
consuming apple juice, or ‘baby cider’ as its known,
at the previous copious rate. A child is now 22% more likely
to drink much more slowly.
{ bury the bit about a 13% rise in Bottling incidents
among the same group}
Notes for GB
Churchill Insurance says he can replace that dog in
their adverts when he is finished in politics, They
love his jowly face , but he must learn to say “ OHHH
YESSS “ and not “OHHHH NHOOO, this is a completely
different document to the constitution..” as he
repeatedly did at the screen tests.
Cadburys say the WANKA Eggs will be ready for Easter.
Rihanna said no, not prepared to do that.
Peter Hain left a message, please call back. Says it’s
getting urgent.
Photo shoots or guests for Gordon Brown this week
Photo shoot at the local GP’s surgery has been
cancelled.
Pink haired girl from Lazy Town said no
Ken Clarke said no
Gavin and Stacey said no
Ian Paisley said NEVER NEVER NEVER
Lee Jasper said yes.
Sinister?:
"It is a great shame that some individuals in this community don't respect our forces who are daily doing a great deal for this nation.
"This is NOT a situation we should tolerate.
"We learned about this today and are investigating it as a matter of urgency.
"I hope that by working closely with Peterborough City Council and the local police, service personnel at RAF Wittering will soon be able to wear their uniforms freely about the town WITH the support of the local people." Des Browne
(all my emphasis)
ps. cheers4the blog guido
Anonymous
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Click on the YouTube frame to the right. I warn you it is a sickening film clip but does sum up "Our Great Leader" and his character quite perfectly.
A trip round Google with "Operation Ore" and Dunblane adds some further clues to "that strange man in Number 10" and his true nature.
anon 11.44, he earned the soubriquet being shown to countless millions on live TV excavating his nostrils, chewing the dividend, and wiping his fingers on his tie.
A charmer our great grey greasy snot-gobbling pervert of a PM.
I assume you are in possession of the details of nappies and rockinhorse@ If not, say the word, and Guido's elves will enlighten you PDQ.
I do believe Gordon is sneaky, or learning to be, otherwise why would he allow Hodge to appear on Newsnight last night to get crucified.
Hodge crucified???
That's too good for that mendacious harigan. The last bloke we read about being crucified seemed to have somewhat better morals than her.
Hodge is of course a perfect advert for NuLab.
During her time as leader of Islington the schools failed miserably and were taken away from local authority control.
Isn't she married to some rich yankee type.
Just like ole Wedgie was.
Of course Gordon 2.0 will be the same wonderful success as all the rest of HM governments IT projects, too late or never anywhere near what was planned, vastly overblown, vastly over budget, totally insecure but providing great incomes for the those who live with their snouts in the trough of our money. But don't worry they will soon arise again as Gordon 2.00001 which will of course solve everything
@Penfold said...
// Hodge is of course a perfect advert for NuLab.
During her time as leader of Islington the schools failed miserably and were taken away from local authority control. //
Indeed, and at the same time, her council were shipping children in care for holidays, to a certain children's home in Jersey, despite warnings that abuse was taking place there.
Google 'margaret hodge children jersey' (no quotes) and take your time.
Exactly the sort of minister we should cherish. Shame she wasn't actually crucified on QT last night.
Crucifixion would be far too good for this evil bitch, she needs burning at the stake in the Tower for all the cunts like her to see what happens when you swop your "career" for childrens' lives.
Every day of her continued comfortable existence points to there being no God. One of ZaNuLab's greatest products.
With reference to anon @ 9:41am,
Ceefax tells me that "A spokeswoman for the chancellor said there was no provision in European law for a separate tax on alcopops."
Is this a slip by the treasury and the BBC in admitting that our powers in raising taxes are restricted by a bunch of gravy train riding despots?
goldman, goldman, now why does that ring a bell?
no its all gone in alcoholic haze - I only rememeber they do a lot of work for the us government and they hired someone famous recently,
ohh who cares anyway...
Video analysis 1
A look at the video shows a man who seeks to control the world by spells and rituals. GB does not, and never has, understood what he says, which shows when his script breaks down and he has to cope spontaneously with events. What he knows is that his savant ability to repeat blocks of numbers tends to make questions go away. This has worked since he was a teenager because most people don't understand the numbers either, but assume that anybody quoting them does. They are mistaken; GB understands economics the way a parrot understands Latin.
GB has learned to work tolerably effectively in the highly-ritualized PMQs; so long as he stays upright the form will carry him, like an exoskeleton.
GB does not understand what anybody else says either. It isn't that he is rude or ignores people; it is the autism. "...the basic problem for autistic people is their inadequate or lacking imaginative ability. The lack of ability to perceive and understand emotional expression in other people seems to be related to a depleted or limited ability to imagine anything at all..... The result is often impulsive behaviour or a rigid and foreseeable - even ritualized - way of organising their actions. The Danish Report
This may be putting David Cameron off; he can sense the underlying disability and it prevents him going in because, well, it's not nice, is it? He finds himself cast as Tom Cruise to Dustin Hoffman's Rainman. Besides, it is utterly unsayable: this man's disability makes him unsuitable for this office. Cameron wrote of his own severely disabled son, Ivan: "he definitely interacts with us in the way he looks at you and the way he moves his head..." Interaction is precisely what you don't get with Gordon.
Video analysis II
Compare the characters in the video. Maguire is a sleaze, but he's normal. Makes eye contact with the audience, a little anxiety, nothing more than a touch of nerves, he organizes the dialogue between the respondents and Gordon to keep it flowing. The audience is tame and in on it; they follow his stage directions.
The questioner starts talking and GB keeps his head up only for as long as he can bear – less than four seconds, usually. Then he gets his head down and starts to ritualize on the pad, gouging in to it, asserting control over the process. He even thinks he is composing an answer, but he can’t be, because he hasn’t listened to the questioner and is instead shoving the furniture around in his head, based on some triggers from key words. GB sees this as a specialized exam, where you have limited time to respond correctly to a question drawn from a standard library.
Maguire is worried; GB has failed to understand that this is an ‘emotional literacy and response’ exercise where the minimum reaction was pioneered by the late Princess D. Head slightly on one side, big eyes, relaxed eye contact, slight nod as if to say ‘I hear where you are coming from’. If you can do this, it doesn’t matter a toss if you actually have any answer, in fact, it is better if you don’t – that way you will not create hostages to fortune.
At the end of his pre-cooked answer, Gordon fails to let the audience respond; he’s supposed to leave a little gap for some polite hand-clapping but after all these years he still hasn’t mastered that, even on a mechanical level. He doesn’t give eye-contact back to Maguire, who has to assert himself, picking up the thread. Pitifully, one woman says very loudly that she just wants to thank Gordon, but he doesn’t keep his head up; he ignores her because he doesn’t understand that when you are handed a bouquet, the correct response is ‘dahling, how lovely, mwah mwah’. Just doesn’t get it. You can hear the woman’s voice faltering as she doesn’t get the response she expected.
By the end of the act, Maguire probably needs anti-depressants; his slumped body suggests he may be realizing the depth of the problem. Compared to Gordon, Thatcher was roiling pool of squishy empathy and economic insight. The Labour Party has lumbered itself with a complete no-hoper.
11:10 AM
he's not colonel bogey...
he's colonel wimp
11:44 AM
I am afraid to say that he possesses the most unforgivable habit of failing to chew his bogies for a socially acceptable interval before swallowing.
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