Gordon Brown

“Carry on up the Government”……..

June 5, 2009
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How can you re-shuffle a Cabinet that’s already shuffled off? Move over Darling wouldn’t, so he had nowhere to put his Balls. Six gone to spend more time with their family and because they hadn’t done anything wrong, so he replaces them with Mandy, who has already done something wrong, and doesn’t have a family…..and [...]

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Nokia Testing Station No 10……….

June 5, 2009
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Le corps politique est une ‘corpse’ qui est ventilé artificiellement.

June 3, 2009

Labour MPs watched in silence as Gordon Brown was returned to 10 Downing Street after PMQ’s today. William Hague said yesterday that the government are ‘a row of political corpses now’. If that is so, then someone somewhere is artificially ventilating the Brown cadaver, for by all the laws of putrification he should be decently [...]

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Deconstructing an Erratic Compass

June 1, 2009

Listening to Gordon Brown going three rounds with the incomparable Evan Davis this morning was like settling down to one last Yuletide showing of  ‘Escape to Victory’. You know exactly how it will end, how improbably white the t-shirts will be, but there is something reassuring in listening once again to the familiar phrases, the [...]

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The money go-round.

May 11, 2009
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Throw money at the problem, it’s Labour’s answer to everything. This morning Sir Stuart Bell has come up with a spiffing wheeze to control the profligate spending of MPs. He’s going to set up a new unit which will ‘reassure the public that we do take fully into account their concerns’. This audit body will [...]

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Who’s a Pretty Philly then?

May 11, 2009
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Phil Woolas, the Immigration Minister, has denied a report in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph that he had claimed for the cost of women’s clothing He called the allegation “disgusting”, however the Telegraph are not backing down (as yet) The Tesco bill, dated Aug 12, included a pair of women’s shoes for £23, two packets of disposable [...]

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Accountability is for the little people…….

May 10, 2009
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Police Reform Conference – Jan 15th 2005 Speech by Hazel Blears – Police Minister. “Accountability…. is vital for public confidence. And for our desire to increase community engagement. We want to clarify and strengthen the present arrangements. On a very basic level – people pay taxes and want to know that their money is making [...]

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