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Monday, April 7, 2008

Gordon's Choice As General-Secretary Doesn't Want the Job

David Pitt-Watson was Gordon Brown's favoured candidate to replace the disgraced Peter Watt, who quit in the row over Labour's donations by proxy and is under investigation by the police. Gordon sat in at the NEC meeting to personally push through the City fund manager's appointment. LabourHome reported this morning that he "has changed his mind about wanting the job before he has even started".

Downing Street's spin machine went into over-drive to conceal what will look like a bad error of judgement by Gordon. The official line is, implausibly, that David Pitt-Watson has contractual duties which preclude him starting before the Labour Party's annual conference in September. Guido has confirmed that this is far from true.

No. 10 has been desperately searching for a face-saving way out of the embarrassing situation for the last week. The person selected and championed by Gordon in the face of opposition by traditionalists has decided he doesn't want the job. The Brownies plan is to maintain the pretence that David Pitt-Watson is to be Labour's new General Secretary until after the party conference. At which time an excuse will be found and the acting General Secretary, Chris Lennie, will slip into the post. As preparations for civil war post Mayor Boris advance they couldn't even keep that from leaking to bloggers....

42 comments:

Casual Observer said...

He is a twat... McTwat!

Anonymous said...

Brown continues to be a disaster.

At this rate he will kill off his beloved party.

Come out Gordon and fuck off and die. You're an arrogant, closeted, psychotic, cowardly twat.

In the name of God, go- and take that parasite Gorbals Prick with you whilst you're at it.

Anonymous said...

A decade ago, Labour had campaigning zeal and energy, it would have been an exciting job. Now they look like a bunch of losers.

Today they double the tax rate on the poor and worse, resort to denials from Ed Milliband that people will be worse off. They're stuck in a bunker, oblivious to real life.

I thought Blair was bad but Brown is scum.

We need a general election now. Brown has no mandate.

dr twat said...

The Twatometer has just registered an 8.8 which indicates extensive damage to ego, bruising to feelings and a red cheeked shame. But not fatal. Having taken six hits of 8 on the Twatometer in a week, the patient is in a weakened condition. A couple more 8's will lead to hospitalisation and a 10(say a Boris election victory)will cause death.

Prepare for the worst. Sorry to bring you this bad news.

jonnybgoode said...

McBean will be lashing out with all sorts of desperate measures over the next 25 months. We are in for a nasty time but we can finally look forward to getting rid of this shower once and for all.

bill quango mp said...

He thought getting rid of Blair would make him happy, but as the Pet Shop boys already knew..{erm , no i don't like them , don't know them , erm i have not got any of their records, honestly. I am erm much more of an Attic Monkeys fan . Oh yes. I don't even know who Neil Tennant is."


Since you went away Ive been hanging around
Ive been wondering why I'm feeling down
You went away, it should make me feel better
But I don't know, oh
How I'm gonna get through? (baby)
What have i, what have i, what have I done to deserve this?
How I'm gonna get through? (baby)
What have i, what have i, what have I done to deserve this?

The answer to "what have I done to deserve this?" will no doubt be texted to him tonight.

mitch said...

Every day brings more tales of stupidity and hopeless management from no10.
I would guess this bloke doesn't want his name anywhere near such a twat as brown and a tainted brand like nulab.

If this was France I would be laughing my face off but this is my country he is making a laughing stock and I would gladly strangle the primping great nancy.

Anonymous said...

They said the Labour Party Manifesto of 1983 was "The Longest Suicide Note in History" but surely this is like "the Death of a Thousand Cock-Ups"

For Gods Sake call an election Gordon and put yourself and the Party out of yours and their misery ! It'd be a kindness really. You can retire to some cushy sinecure and a few well-paid non exec directorships and the Party can elect someone who has a chance of actually winning

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If you pressed 1 - I didn't touch the torch.

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If you pressed 6 - Cameron is a fiscal pygmy.

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If you pressed 9 - Mr Speaker has done nothing wrong, even unintentionally.

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peter carter-fuck said...

I hear that Pitt-Watson was keen to start his new job until Grim Gordon the Gay Gobbler showed him the new uniform he would have to wear. He decided the St Trinians look was just not for him, and was having all sorts of trouble with the butt plug, so decided to go back to merchant banking and other sorts of legalised thievery. Grim Gordon was, needless to say, furious, smashed another mobile phone against the wall, kicked one of the garden girls in the tits, and gave poor Davina Milepede another sound rogering. No lube either, you could hear her screams on Horseguards Parade I'm told.

Fucking delicious! said...

Broon may not have a mandate, that much is true, but he does have a mission; to fuck you tory twats. In this mission, he's proving to be astonishingly brilliant. He is, of course, a closet Nat. Come in agent Broon, mission sccomplished. No more UK for you little englanders to rule. Fucking delicious!

bog said...

Well, I can't say I blame him. Who'd want to be employed by some bungling cunt who one moment is quivering behind a mob of strutting, commie Chinese boot boys and another is walking around with an orange piss stain on his forehead? I hang my face in despair!

Anonymous said...

Gordon is so upset he has set fire to himself

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23475240-details/Gordon+Brown+hires+a+spin+doctor+to+stop+his+visual+gaffes...+shame+the+Olympic+torch+set+fire+to+his+hair%21/article.do

Anonymous said...

Brown has no clue. Look at the latest PPB, he's grinning like a demented clown. He's so dosed up on happy pills he doesn't even know he's PM.

Wanted! said...

Wanted: Gordon Brown's fingerprints, £1,000 reward

Privacy International and the UK's NO2ID have launched a campaign to show the dangers of the collection of fingerprints into central government databases. They are offering a reward for the first person to collect and submit the UK Prime Minister's and Home Secretary's fingerprints.

limp truss said...

Contractual, Guido

thick as thieves said...

excellent decision david. after all, who in their right mind would want to work for a spastic like gordon brown.
note to mr. cameron:guarantee a return of the 10% tax rate for low earners and your party will win the next election. it is called moral taxation and it is the correct policy.
don't steal from the tables of the poor like the flesh eating zombies darling and brown and the rest of the new labour retards. they have torpedoed their own claim of social justice, go for the jugular dave, if you've got the guts.
oh one more thing dave, millionaires who claim expenses from the taxpayer to pay for their mortgages? very tacky dave, I thought you had more class than that. if you want to be PM start acting like one, instead of acting like a money grubber.

Anonymous said...

is anyone over at labour.org asking the shit stabber questions?

Anonymous said...

watching brown live now........
http://www.labour.org.uk/

Anonymous said...

is the sound fucked or is it my pc?

red despot spotter said...

most transport accidents in the end are due to driver or pilot error . i can only assume david pitt watson must have surveyed the position as more of kamkaziee job.

ed balls "so what" Banziiiii!

Gooey Blob said...

Whenever I see Gordon Brown on the television, I am reminded of Les Dawson playing the piano.

Anonymous said...

Could Mr Pitt-Watson's decision have anything to do with Hermes' poor investment performance in running the British Telecom and Royal Mail pension schemes ?

Ratsniffer said...

Another humiliation for Team Snotgobbler followed by more spewing out of tractor production figures to cover up one simple fact: No one wants to be associated with a loser.

Anonymous said...

A couple of decades back there was a Scarfe cartoon in Private Eye re: Maxwell and the Pergamon disaster.

The caption was "Rats leaving a sinking shit".

Happy days are here again.

mitch said...

Times poll sees Gordon Brown’s rating fall to its lowest ever level as a third of voters regard him as worse than Tony Blair

hahahahahaha oh hahahahah he is so shit!!

Anonymous said...

"Gordon, is that you? Sorry, but I have had second thoughts about taking the job -"

SMASH!!!!

If the good news carries on like this, Gordon will soon hit 10 trashed phones a week....

Anonymous said...

Not surprised a city fund manager refused the job; the astonishing thing is that he was in the frame in the first place.

The UK is clearly moving into Brown's debt induced recession. I wouldn't want some muppet who has only just realised this managing any fund I was invested in.

Was David Pratt-Hyphen buying housebuilder & financial shares at the same time he initially accepted the job?

impartial observer said...

Do I detect a faint whiff of disapproval here of our beloved Prime Minister?

You are being most unfair! He is more popular than ever.

Anonymous said...

Think you'll find Mike Griffiths from AEEU will have something to say about that.

After all, he actually won the NEC ballot for General Secretary!

Don't believe in nu labour voting procedures - makes Mugabe look democratic!!

Anonymous said...

Mr Anon 6.48

Broon also claims he's going to answer our questions at 7.00PN, PN? PN?
Listen again 2min 18secs approx

starcourse said...

Note the careful wording of the Labour Party statement: "David Pitt-Watson has been voted for as the General Secretary of the Labour Party, he is making arrangements to move from his existing employment and this is taking some time to resolve."

This is a classic non-denial denial. They do not say "move from his existing employment to Labour"

But of course by trying to hush it up they will only make the story worse. Clowns!

Darien said...

"No more UK for you little englanders to rule. Fucking delicious!"

On that I am in total agreement.

If only the Scotch would fuck off, Brown in particular.

We won't rescue you from your own ineptitude this time, you'll have to go begging to Brussels.

Good luck with that.

Anonymous said...

Sod a 10% lower tax rate. How about a 5% or no fucking tax rate at all?

Give Cameron a term. Then if you don't like what you get, vote Libertarian while Fascist Labour are still eating shit.

All of our parties have to a greater or lesser extent been effectively taken over by Marxist Banksters and their beloved New World Order.

Only the details are now up for debate.

You either vote for small c conservative liberty or you vote for big STATE socialist authoritarianism.

You will get State Socialist authoritarianism to a greater or lesser extent anyway.

So the only thing left to do is to vote for less. You never know it might even make a difference.

Atlas shrugged

1984 1/2 said...

Wanted! said...

Wanted: Gordon Brown's fingerprints, £1,000 reward...

That's why he didn't touch The Torch.

Ratsniffer said...

"That's why he didn't touch The Torch"

That torch is wayyyy too phallic for dear Snotgobbler to be seen wrapping his hands around.

Can you imagine the fun the snappers would have capturing the exact moment those stubby paws gripped the ridgid shaft of the torch, his eyes widening with glee?

Bill Quango MP said...

I overheard a very strange phone converstion when I picked up my outside line.

" Yes, it is all going to plan. "

"I know. The orange head, the torch , the Invasion slip, Missing the Queen, two twats on a string, Nazi symbolism and now a hopeless media interview and a text service telling him he's shit.. I knew you were thought a media genius .. but I didn't know you could work so quickly."

"well I have some good material to work with.. its pretty easy really..Our deal still holds yes?..Cabinet post for me after the next..Shh someones coming.I must go. Bye Dave"
"Bye Stephen."

Geordie Scoot said...

The comments I saw on www.labour.org.uk were hilarious if they were the best the Nuliebour could publish - full of whingers complaining about paying more tax and not claiming enough benefits and saying they would not vote Labour again. Well done Broon, you've made the poor realise what it is to be middle class - having your pockets continually raided by the taxman. Just as well he has inflation under control...er. I liked the joke attributed to Berlusconi, who is otherwise a cunt, about the socialist party. He said they love the poor so much that every time they are in power they create more of them. How apposite.

Bill Quango MP said...

just watched him on the 10p on his video show.

Wait I think Ive got it..

You abolish the lowest rate of tax..Take that money from the lowest paid people..and share it out to .. the lowest paid people in a fairer more equal way.

And this will give some people a tiny bit more and some people a tiny bit less.

Ok, Ive got that bit.. Now part 2.
Why are you doing this again. doesn't it just piss off the people at the lowest rate..some 5 million mainly Labour voters?

Ahh, you are doing this to end world poverty.

Nope, lost me. let's start again.
I have 3 apples. You take 1. then you give me back 1/4 of an apple in tax credits and give someone else 1/4 and you keep 1/2 an apple to pay for the taking of the apple in the first place. I see. And this stops poverty?
But haven't I just become 3/4 of an apple poorer. Yes..
Ahh, so now I qualify for another 1/4 of an apple handout.. I see..
Wait a minute.. Isn't this just bollocks? I mean if you took say 5 apples from a non dom wouldn't that help stop poverty?
I see, No it wouldn't..hmmm

M person of no fixed political abode said...

It doesn't matter WHY Pitt-Watson isn't taking the job.

Because he isn't and Brown clearly chose the wrong person for the job.

Brown makes his own bad luck, doesn't he?

woman on a raft said...

O/T Stuck on the Eurostar at Calais, earlier, where they wisely held the train in case we had to reverse to the station and get off go find a ferry. It took almost over an hour for the train operators to get any contact at all with London control and the cabin staff were getting decidedly nervous and annoyed at not having any idea of what was going on.

A number of people with Blackberries who were able to assure them that London hadn't been blown up (yet) and the tunnel, whilst shut, didn't appear to be in serious trouble.

At St Pancras the operators were reduced to begging anyone who could do so to travel on another day and offering no-questions asked refunds to anyone who now felt too nervous or inconvenienced to travel by train at all. The police in the station looked like thunder - they may have preferred everyone to be out of there and wouldn't let people in to the normal departure lounges, so the concourse was filling up.

The public - presumably having seen the footage of the progress of the torch - were scowling at the police officers. It was perfectly obvious that London is just about the last place one should try to hold the 2012 Olympics, unless queing for the toilets and muttering through gritted teeth whilst hauling a trolley case is going to be an official event. If it is, many Brits are in with a chance of silver.

A cabdriver interviewed about it said 'I'm looking to go away for six weeks in 2012, perhaps to a Greek island. Should be able to get a good deal - I'm not interested in taking a bunch of people out to Stratford and then not being able to get a paying fare back. I'll vote for Boris, but only because he's the best of a bad bunch.'

backwoodsman said...

Expect nulab fact finding mission to visit old uncle bob shortly, to see what handy tips they can pick up for delaying inconvenient election results - arresting election officials for not registering enough votes for the government candidate , might be worth a try !


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