Gordon Brown

Keen to Support Squatters?

June 28, 2009

Loud cheers this morning from the tax paying classes as the ‘provisional wing of the Tax Payers Alliance’ (we”ll never improve on that description from Guido!) move into the apparently abandoned and derelict ‘main home’ of Labour MPs Alan and Ann Keen. Hounslow Council had earlier threatened to take possession of the house under the [...]

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In the land of the one-eyed King………..

June 19, 2009

Profligate is good. Gordon Brown has been sounding like a cracked record of late, stuttering his way through Prime Minister’s Question time, pausing only to expose his slack tongue in the floor of his open mouth in that curious manner reminiscent of the village idiot, to the obvious delight of his mimics. “We now know [...]

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Gloria back with us in fine form…….

June 11, 2009

NuGordon must have seen the light Quite early on last Thursday night When it was clear that Everyman Had had enough of Gordon’s clan And didn’t want NuLabour back, But wanted him to get the sack; The votes flew fast and flew fast in For anyone except for him. “Hurrah!” said all the Eton chums, [...]

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Inexorable Choices.

June 10, 2009

So, the wrong kind of voters (pace Hain) have elected the wrong kind of MPs (pace Howard) under our great democracy that we seek to export around the world; by force where necessary. After ninety minutes deliberation, a council of partially unelected members, presided over by an unelected Prime Minister, is going to rectify this. [...]

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Kind Hearts and Coronets

June 9, 2009

The British Honours system stinks. It must be about the best honours system that money can buy. Knighthoods and life peerages are doled out to time-serving chancers, place-seeking chanty wrasslers, party hacks being put out to grass, and deep-pocketed donors to party funds. New Labour’s Honours list keeps up this tradition. Substantial donors to New [...]

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The Fantasy Football Team Kicked into Touch.

June 8, 2009

When serfs knew their place, there was some logic in sending the Lord of the Manor to speak for them in parliament. The local land owner, the local employer, possibly was the person best suited to auditing the King’s power of taxation and warmongering. Parliament has been left behind in in the surge of education [...]

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