Dysfunctional? Paralysed by low morale?
Certainly not! I listened to a discussion on R4 last night with the fragrant Emily Thornberry (Lab., Islington, majority 12), Ben Brogan of the Daily Mucus, and a third luminary whose identity escapes me for the moment. Said discussion chaired by the equally fragrant Carolyn Quim (?) -- anyhoo, all were agreed that Mr Brown was here to stay! There was talk of his priorities (though by definition only ONE priority is possible -- Latin, you know), but no mention whatever of a blatant disregard for the rule of law. Nor do I remember much about the imminent collapse of the Ponzi scheme which has hitherto kept the nostrils of a drowning economy just above the surface. Suggestions that Mr J. Straw or others were plotting to disthronize their leader were dismissed as groundless.
So there you have it, from the BBC, so it must be true.
My own take on matters, that his priority is simply to cling to office for as long as he can, is revealed as ignorant and cynical.
P.S. I am gloomy today. Hazel has dumped me.
stanislav said...
ex-pat
it doesn't matter about the lecture circuit. The bankers will see he gets a drink. Never, thanks to Brown's economic miracle have so many been in so much debt to the banks. Never have so many bankers paid themselves so much in bonuses stolen from their customers. Haliburton will see him right, too. They have made incalculable sums from the US taxpayer, and the Iraqi people's oil, and off, thus, Tommy's spilled guts. Gordon and the rest made it possible, of course he'll get a bung.
I wish you were right but Brown won't be, unlike so many of his victims, from wounded Tommy Atkins to small business people to sick impoverished pensioners - begging on the street.
This cartoon at the top, it ain't really funny, though you have to laugh. Brown is a cruelly damaged, immature, sixty year old nervous wreck, a gay man living an Emperor's New Clothes lie. If he had any friends they would have had him sectioned long ago; instead a rotten and corrupt Labour party has indulged his fantasy, thinking there might be something in it for them, and, for the most mediocre, the most incompetent and the vilest -the cabinet - there has been.
There are other soothsayers, metaphysicians, astrologers, necromancers, oracles and tealeaf & giblet readers round here but this humble plumber believes we have not seen a fraction of the damage to our country that these people have wrought. Brown, far worse than the caricature at the top, needs hospitalisation and most of the rest of them belong in jail. In the interests of national security.
ps Dennis, certainly judge said you, Mr Krusty, is dishonourable; disgusting, lying, thieving spinning NewLabour cunt was left in the air. But you can take stanislav word. Wark-Clements was a real smooth public sector gravy train operation. And they are both a pair of NewLabour Power Cunts.
Dennis. I warned you, don't say not get warning off plumber. Mixed marriage never work. Dwarf and hunchback. Is fucking doomed mate. Come up in Scotland, home of freak misalliance, King Alex of Scotland married to his old mother, live in attic and only come out for election time to prove is married. Bit like Mr & Mrs Brown; is Bonny Scotland, up here, sickest place in world, can maybe do better with fucking hobgoblin or something, is plenty here.
Talk of which Mr Alan Clements, husband of grunting, transsexual hunchback Krusty Wark, off Newswank, has judge say last week, you is fucking disgusting and dishonourable. Not because of married to monster surgical creation, is ok in Scotland, but because of business dealings.
Big Al give interview in paper. Everything OK really. Act in good faith. No intention to do wrong. Is all fault of au pair, bitch. Pay minimum wage and look at all this shit she got me into. Only learn of my own disgusting behaviour five minute ago and already au pair is resign. Is fucking toast. See, is prompt action. Dealing with matter. Make enquiry and draw line in snot, sorry, mean sand. Absolutely no intention to be thieving two-faced cunt. Man of great integrity And, Oy, leave my Mrs, Krusty, out of this, he's a personal friend,you know, of Donald Trump.
11:09 AM, December 17, 2007
Stanislav, you were right all along.
I never learn.
I must take down that pinup from my blog.
Did the judge really say that? "You is fucking disgusting and dishonourable"?
I once got trapped by jury service. The judge was great. He would listen to conflicting evidence and sum it up. "Mr X says the defendant was in the pub at nine o'clock. And Mr Y says the defendant was not in the pub at nine o'clock. So there it is. Let's move on." [To the barrister] "Your next witness, please!"
11:28 AM, December 17, 2007