Blair's Final Bit of Advice to Gordon
With Labour now 18% behind in the polls on levels last seen at the height of Thatcherism, it is perhaps worth taking a moment to reflect. In his valedictory speech to the Labour Party's 2006 conference, Tony told Gordon what to do if he was having trouble defeating Dave's Tories. Gordon should heed the advice...
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Something along these lines perhaps ?
"My commitment to the Labour Party and the policies for achieving what I believe is an opportunity to continue to build on the last 11 years is one of persuasion--persuading colleagues and the nation that we are still the party of the people and the party who can steer the nation through these turbulent times. I tried to do that as Prime Minister , but I realised that the task had become futile : trying to pretend that there was a common policy when every step forward risked being subverted by some in powerful positions within my Cabinet and whose supporters were not above briefing or spreading malicious rumours as to my ability to remain as leader
That conflict of loyalty, of the loyalty of my right hon. Friend the ex-Chancellor--and, after all, in two decades together that instinct of loyalty is still very real--and of loyalty to what I perceive to be the true interests of the nation, has become all too great. I no longer believe it is possible for him to resolve that conflict within the Labour Party and country - that is why he should resign his leadership. In doing so, he will have done what I believe to be right for my party and my country. The time has come for others to consider their own response to the tragic conflict of loyalties with which I have myself wrestled for perhaps too long and which to my eternal regret I did not do more to resolve whilst I was in office,"
Some questions for Labour MPs to consider;
Is it worth replacing Gordon?
If so, who should replace Gordon?
How should Gordon be replaced?
When should Gordon be replaced?
Surely if it’s going to happen it has to happen sooner rather than later.
Ta ta - and thanks for all the fish.
Tony Blair was, and is, a natural born leader, regardless of whether you think of him as being in the mould of Margaret Thatcher or Lavrentiy Beria. Gordon Brown is a natural born stoker, or possibly chief engineer if one was being charitable, a sort of charmless Scotty-Trekky type.
Never let the mechanic near the bridge, lads.
Yes Blair knew alright. But then Blair was privy to Brown's personality failings (cowardice, vacillation, insularity, charmless clumsy personality, bullying etc), whereas those clamouring for Brown's elevation to PM were still wrapped up in that 'political colossus' nonsense that held sway at the time. Had Blair given Brown just three months in the Home Office, instead of the remote safe-haven in the Treasury, Brown's weaknesses would have been cruelly exposed.
For more on how Brown's personality failings underpin his political failure, see:
Brown-out
Oh, come on Guido. Can you please keep that grinning cunt Bliar off the site. The very sight of him makes me want to puke, a la Prescunt.
O/T Didja see Boris, Slime and the gay bloke, whatsisname on the box last eve? None of 'em any good. The Beeb should have a debate with the candidates for the BNP, English Democrats and the Greens.
Now, THAT would be good.
How about replacing him with this:-
http://www.soimmature.com/images/super_long_turd.gif
Might be more effective.
No one outside London gives a monkeys. Quite amusing that they're all a bunch of feckless n'er do wells.
There are rumours around Westminster that Frank Field was strong-armed, possibly even blackmailed, by Brown's thugs, into withdrawing his opposition to the abolition of the 10p rate.
More to come......
I'm watching Labour's death-spiral and loving every minute of it. One of the week's highlights was the appearance of Yvette Bollocks on Newsnight, having her airline punctured bit by bit with three spikes - Paxman, Osborne & Cable - wielded from three different angles. She looked dishevelled. She couldn't answer a simple question. She was not just out of her depth, but 200 fathoms down: unreachably far above her lay the silvery surface!
Best of all is the disintegration of Brown's reputation and the consequent, and growing, terror seizing the loathsome rabble of proles and ignoramuses that is Labour's PLP. They deserve everything they get. In 1997 they inherited an economy in good shape. It had taken 18 years to put right all the damage inflicted by Wilson and Callaghan. Blair and Brown have just thrown that prosperity away.
Today we hear that Brown is contemplating a reshuffle. What new duds and deadbeats will appear, wriggling, at the bottom of his pond-net and be brought before the public gaze? Or will he just rearrange the existing duds and deadbeats and give them different jobs that they can't do?
The Wall Street journal agrees with Blair:
This was another bad week for Gordon Brown. Not even a year in office, the Prime Minister has already been in the soup for mishandling a banking crisis and for chickening out on early elections and an EU Constitution referendum. Now the Tories are taunting the Labour leader – who had made fighting poverty his No. 1 issue – as a tax oppressor of the poor. The charge has stuck and stung.
Labour don't really have any option but to dump Brown, he simply is Not up to the job. If they do it now at least they know the public will sympathise with their reasons.
tuscan tony is right - Blair is a natural leader. Gordon is a coward and a bad leader. Is Dave a natural leader though - or is he a cross between a wet blanket and a schoolyard bully?
"Those who are too smart to go into politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber" Plato
A Cabinet Minister close to Mr Brown is understood to have complained about his leader’s round-the-clock badgering and interference.
A ministerial source said: “The trouble is that Gordon is basically mental. Perhaps he always was, but he is getting worse.”
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/42395/-Brown-is-cracking-up-under-pressure-
Periodic moods of sadness are normal and usually pass quickly. Brown's condition is more serious.
McTwat (ditherer, loser, bottler, coward, maccavity etc)has developed a severe depression accompanied by despair, lethargy, bouts of uncontrolled anger, loss of sex drive and a poor appetite. Coulson (inventor of 'ditherer/loser tagline) and recalcitrat backbenchers should be ashamed of themselves. And that Polish Plumber Stanislav. They bear responsibilty for McTwt's mental breakdown. Bastards.
Could I ask for a show of support for our ailing PM. A few kind words cost nothing.
In the meantime I have upped McTwat's dose of amitriptyline to 100mgsx4 daily.
Whats the latest on the reshuffle.
Mirror this am has Hoon to DBERR and Johnson to be the new Chief Whip.
This fits with your story of Hutton taking over from Des Browne?
Seems to be a lot of leaking. Why?
Fuck me!
More of this cunts jonah effect
www.englishmanscastle.blogspot
fucking caused that 777 to drop out of the air.
More evidence of his doom inducing persona
His first kid died, then another is born with cystic fibrosis, I just hope this cunt decides to become a bookie when he retires, I will be in his shop 24/7.
The bit where Labour are removed kicking and screaming from government will be fun, but for my part the interesting bit is going to be the dismantling of the public sector behemoth they are leaving behind. God only knows where the Conservatives would even begin with that.
Oh dear me!
It just keeps getting better.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/24/nogc124.xml
Worse than Kinnock! perhaps someone should lock him in his office with a loaded revolver seems the only decent thing to do.
I agree with Tuscan Tony. As a chilling Irony, it was James Doohan who was the first of the original Star Trek cast to snuf it...
Labour's battle against the Lib Dems is about to begin. Just nine points separate the two parties. If the Lib Dems get much closer the anti-Tory vote could drift away from Labour.
Is there just a chance the Lib Dems could overtake Labour in the opinion polls before the general election? Probably not, although they will certainly do better than Labour on May 1 and you never know in politics. The Lib Dems are, after all, now the party of the left. In fact, I don't know where Labour fit into the political spectrum any more, they seem to be all over the place. Could anyone enlighten me?
There is just a small chance Labour could panic, and replace Brown with someone even worse who fails to unite the party. If some of those voters who are still left subsequently defect go to the Lib Dems, things could get very interesting indeed.
Will a petrol shortage in Brown's "Bonnie Scotland" put him under even greater pressure, given his hankering after the Scottish votes (PLP as well as plebian voter)?
Perhaps Blair has designed it for Hash Gordon.
Has Broon been photographed -photoshopped - with this new OGC logo?
It will probaly appear on Utube, set to the music of Ivor Biggun's winker's song.
Even Blair's popularity didn't crash as fast as Hash Brown's.
Re Express story - that Labour apparatchik CV: -
2007 - present: senior adviser to Labour Party on long-term policy (position now redundant).
1997 - 2007: general secretary to the Association of Turd Polishers and Allied Trades - organised a series of local and regional turd polishing workshops, bringing the art of turd polishing to socially disadvantaged, bi-curious, mono-pedal ethnic minorities.
1990 - 1997: assistant vice-president, Whelk Stool Enterprises Inc. (in administration) - did not sell any whelks but successfully implemented new business vision, mission statement and corporate re-branding programme.
1987 - 1990: graduated from Karl Marx Stadt University in the former GDR, gaining a third in applied javelin throwing.
Looking for: advisory/consultancy work in public/voluntary sector with flexible hours (10.00 - 15.00)with non-contributory defined benefits pension scheme.
geordie "Whelk Stool Enterprises"
Now that is a narrowly targetted business. Run by people who failed to run the whole whelk stall itself, one presumes.
Is "Guido Fawkes" undergoing a denial of service attack?
The address www.order-order.com leads to a "404" message.
I could access a cached version of the site through google.
And the blogger comments window is obviously opening (we shall see if this message is saved)
"I don't know where Labour fit into the political spectrum any more, they seem to be all over the place. Could anyone enlighten me?"
Old Labour were Statist.
ZanuLiebour just cut to the chase and decided Mao was the time for Stalin.
We've gone from a habitual Bliar to a spasmodically clenched Brown looser.
Truly he is the revenge for Culloden, in a Pyrrhical kind of way.
Word verification agrees: uvlvim
Julian said " the interesting bit is going to be the dismantling of the public sector behemoth they are leaving behind. God only knows where the Conservatives would even begin with that "
But they won't, even if they win the next General Election, because Daves Conservatives are too cowardly which is why there is no point voting for them.
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