Fitaloon at MicroShaft

It had been a great sigh, a long, heartfelt sigh that asked the most important question of Prime Minister?s Questions: "Why don?t people understand what I?ve done for them?"

Simon Carr has a sketch in the Independent today asking if Party Support is draining away from Gordon Brown. In it he has this to say

It’s not so much a premiership as a medical condition. The poor fellow is sick. Look at him, he’s ill. It’s a self-inflicted illness but nonetheless deserving of sympathy.

Can’t agree with the sympathy but the rest of it is correct.  Simon then has this to say about PMQ’s

His young, dancing opponent said things that must have hurt. They were hurtful because they were true. The post strike. Why had the PM abandoned plans for privatising the post office? It had been a much-trumpeted commitment to save the thing. Failing to bring the Bill to the House was “an appalling display of weakness”.

A fairly straight-forward question but met with the normal bluster and tractor statistics  that is our PM. He can’t attack the actual question which is Brown’s weakness and dithering stance on important subjects.

Carr then gets to the heart of his subject with this paragraph.

And there was the claim that the Bill hadn’t been brought to the House because there was no commercial buyer for the service. This was “nonsense”. The PM hadn’t stopped the Bill because he couldn’t sell the post office to the private sector. No, Cameron said. It was because he couldn’t sell it to his backbenchers. Oo, that went home. If the PM isn’t depressed he is certainly the cause of depression in others. The mood among his party slumped. The Tory leader had said something everyone agreed with.

This is Brown’s illness, the Flu for which there is no vaccine, not even the “jag” of Peter Mandelson, not even his backbenchers now believe in him.

There is no magic sponge, and certainly no super-sub waiting in the wings of Labour, instead it is just time for a change. Time for us to again to be a healthy nation with the Conservatives.

Simon Carr: Is Party support draining from a deflated PM? – Simon Carr, Commentators – The Independent.

Gordon Smiles

The Independent calls it another dark day for Gordon Brown, for me, these days this seems to be the norm. Whilst its rather warm outside and the sun is shining, back at No 10 it will be another dark day.

What’s gone wrong today. According to the Independent

Gordon Brown suffered a wounding double blow to his authority as he abandoned moves to sell a stake in Royal Mail and was defeated by Labour rebels over plans to clean up the Commons after the expenses scandal.

The fresh setbacks came after he endured bruising clashes with David Cameron over spending plans and faced ridicule from Tory MPs after he spoke of a “zero per cent rise” in budgets.

The retreat over part-privatisation of the Royal Mail was blamed by Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, on the struggle to attract buyers in the recession. But the opposition parties claimed the climbdown had been forced by the growing opposition to the sale among Labour MPs and trade unions.

It came a day after Alan Johnson, the new Home Secretary, watered down the Government’s plans for identity cards and a fortnight after Mr Brown performed a U-turn over holding the Iraq war inquiry in public.

So what would have been a disastrous day for any other Prime Minister has, for our worst ever Prime Minister, just become yet another dark day on the ever darkening path he is leading our country on towards utter bankruptcy.

As a matter of interest former Cabinet ministers John Reid and Margaret Beckett were among 25 Labour backbenchers to rebel against the Government tonight.

Another dark day for Gordon Brown – UK Politics, UK – The Independent.

It had to happen, Gordon Brown having been caught out with his Brownies or lies all over the place is now starting to alter the facts to meet his version of the truth. Fraser Nelson calls it back-pedalling, I just call it the typical dishonesty of Gordon Brown. Fraser has this to say in his article

Keep your eyes on this, because we could have a new distinction. Soon we’ll be told that Brown misspoke in the Commons when he listed those spending totals, and in fact they’re not spending totals at all. In fact, those Labour cuts – he’ll say – were all imaginary. The problem for Brown is that he can’t change anything until the Pre-Budget Report. And, by then, everyone will have stopped listening.

As I said earlier today,

the Brownie is then used for long enough, often enough and against all the facts until the lie appears to become the truth

Now it has started  to come true as the truth is altered and facts are changed to attempt cover-up the fact that we have a lying toad for a Prime  Minister.

When the Government attempts to alter the facts and attempts to rewrite history you know that your country is really up shit creek without a paddle, and in our case we have a dangerous and dishonest helmsman who is ignoring all calls to change direction to get us pack onto the right course.

The back-pedalling begins in earnest | Coffee House.

Jonah Brown has just had his first UK wide elections as supposed Leader of the Labour party. It notched up a number of notable firsts.

• First Loss in Wales since, well for about forever.
• First Loss in Scotland since, well for about forever.
• First BNP person elected in a National Election since, well forever.
• First time Labour have come third in a National Election since, well for about forever.
• First time as third party of local government in England, well for about forever.
• First time under 20 per cent vote share, well for about forever.

I’m sure there are more but I haven’t time just now so this will have to do.

Let us hope that the Labour PLP has the sense today to see that it should, for the first time, depose one of it’s Leaders before he has been through a General Election, you know it makes sense.

FFS Gordon just Go Now

An article from the Asian Times looking at the UK economy and Gordon Brown. Nicely describes us at the end as

To paraphrase Churchill, the UK economy is now a disaster, wrapped in a catastrophe inside a calamity. And someone just flushed the key down the proverbial.

Meanwhile Poland tells Gordon Brown how he should have been running our Economy. The Polish Premier Donald Tusk said

“The Polish government at a time of financial crisis has behaved with full responsibility in terms of its public finances and the budget deficit.

“After a few months, our government made the assumption that the method to deal with the financial crisis was not to increase expenditure but (to ensure) the availability of public finances.”

He added that Poland’s success was down to “efficient supervision of banks and sticking to the rules.”

With Mr Brown beside him, the premier went on to say that his administration’s approach was based on “not exaggerating with living on credit. These are the most certain ways of avoiding … financial crisis.”

OK yet another embarrassment for Gordon and the UK. How many more do we need.

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