Posts Tagged ‘Gordon Brown’
The Sharon Shoosmith Affair
No one emerges with any credit from this sad tale of the way that we all failed Baby Peter.
The Buck Stops Here
Why can’t Ms Shoosmith accept that as Director of Childrens Services for Haringey she MUST take responsibility for her department’s appalling failure to protect the child? No one is saying that she is personally culpable for his death. Management is all about achieving results through other people and in this case she manifestly failed.
Ed Balls is one of the seedier and more slippery of Gordon’s cronies. You can see him looking sideways in everything he does, watching his back, ducking and diving to avoid any come backs, looking for any opportunity to take credit or blame someone else. Anything that he or his wife, Yvette, are involved in becomes a horrible curdled mess. It comes from mixing too much oil, slime, and vinegar . I can sympathise with Ms Shoosmith about having a boss who is so cowardly, two faced and disloyal.
Creeps
It’s time to move on. Both of these individuals are history. Somehow, we must find a way to protect vulnerable children effectively.
Dermot’s X Factor Interviews
He's Got It!
Dermot O’Leary’s interviews with David Cameron and Nick Clegg, tonight on BBC3, were incisive and inspiring in a way that none of the other debates or interviews have been.
Perhaps precisely because they were aimed at a 16-24 year old audience, these were forward looking, exciting programmes. Look to your laurels, Paxman, Dimbleby, et al.
I think Dermot will tear Gordon Brown to pieces next week.
The Dunkirk Spirit
Gotta Get Home To Vote!
I can see it now. Gordon as beachmaster in his tin hat. Long lines of stranded tourists and businessmen queuing out into the surf to be rescued by our plucky boys and ferried home to Blighty. Look, there’s Alistair falling over in the waves again and I can see Peter is serving tea and bully beef sarnies to anyone who’ll listen to him for a couple of minutes.
Our Fearless Leader
Ed Balls is smiling broadly as he builds sandcastles with some of the kids and his missus, Yvette, is trying out her French with some of the locals. Alan Johnson is refusing to listen to any of his advisors as he loads more and more Labour voters into overcrowded rowing boats.
Don't Panic! Me And The Missus Are Here
The two Milliband brothers are checking who can get a place and who can’t, “Labour voters this way. Women, children and Tories wait your turn!”
Another glorious defeat plucked from the jaws of victory.
“We’ll fight them on the beaches, on the landing grounds, at airports up and down the country. I knew we could rely on Iceland to come to our rescue. If the volcano won’t come to Gordon, then Gordon will go to the volcano. No more boom and bust. Vote Labour or die!
Don’t panic! Don’t panic”
Labour Voters This Way!
There Are Lies, Damned Lies And Then There’s Gordon Brown
How he has the bare faced cheek to claim that he’s been saying “for months” that the banks should have been more tightly regulated!! The man has been incredible for some time but even for him this latest, astonishing volte face is truly astounding.
The Big Fibber
Our Prime Minister is nothing short of a liar. When he appears tonight on the first ever great TV debate let us hope that his true colours are revealed. Messrs Cameron and Clegg have the opportunity to drive home the coffin nails into Gordon Brown’s premiership. Let them strike hard and true. The country needs relief from this shabby little man, his putrid ideas and his shameful politics.
Gordon And The Daily Mail Stand No Chance Against Joanna
Our Avenger
The appalling story of the way that this debased, corrupt and immoral government has treated the Gurkhas continues.
Another Snide, Underhand Labour Minister
A press conference was called today to refute the smears and misinformation promoted by the Home Office and the MOD. With extraordinary timing, just minutes before the conference was due to start, three things happen:
- Kevan Jones, Defence Minister, issues an apology
- The Legal Services Commission publishes its report clearing the Gurkhas’ solicitors of misconduct
- Gordon Brown frantically tries to contact Ms Lumley
Some worthless journalist at The Daily Mail is also responsible for fuelling this slander against the Gurkha heroes and their heroine, Joanna. Anyone who has ever read any of the lies and and sensationalist nonsense published in this “newspaper” knows just how much credence to give it.
There is no further investigation needed because the stench, the foul odour, the stink coming from these events is all too familiar. It is Gordon and his cronies at it again with their unmistakeable, unbelievable and despicable perversion of the truth. Just how low down in the dirt can you get?
Overpaid, Overperked And Overcome With Vanity
You Used To Be Sexy!
The BA cabin crew staff need to wake up to reality and get back to work.
The conduct of Unite, of Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson is just completely unbelievable. I cannot believe that two evidently intelligent men can seriously espouse the policies they are presenting.
Mad Or Bad?
I think the truth must be that this is an old fashioned, ultra left wing plot to “overthrow the capitalist system”, to in some way promote the left’s agenda as Gordon Brown leads Labour to inevitable, humiliating defeat.
I can understand the BA cabin crew staff being taken in by Unite’s idiotic stance because self-interest can blind us all to common sense.
The very idea that such ludicrous policies could prosper is ridiculous. The truth is in the BA share price. The cabin crew staff are overpaid, overperked and overcome with vanity if they see any future in their strike.
Get back to work now.
Fraud, Deceit And Death
For the second week running a member of the “Question Time” audience, the parent of a serving soldier, has complained that they have had to pay for equipment for their son or daughter to take to Afghanistan.
Our Brave Boys
There can be no greater condemnation of the funding of our troops than this. In the face of doublespeak and accounting tricks from the government, this is a true insight into reality.
The deception that Gordon Brown is running about defence spending would not pass the most provincial test for petty fraud. He must be recalled by Chilcot to explain himself. He must be cross examined, as a hostile witness, as if he had stolen a credit card.
We learn this grubby and sordid truth about our prime minister while our boys bleed to death into the soil of a foreign land.
UK Ministers Surrender Mckinnon To US Kidnap
It’s said that when Gordon Brown offered Alan Johnson the Home Office he rejected it as a poisoned chalice. He’s probably right. It seems to be destroying his reputation just as it has so many others.
Abandoned
Nevertheless, the shameful and deeply treacherous conduct of this disgraced government towards Gary McKinnon cannot be excused. There is no greater duty on any government than to protect its citizens, particularly those who are vulnerable. There can be no basis in any system of justice for allowing a foreign power to abduct an accused person away from the scene of their alleged crime. This is not extradition. It is illegal rendition, as extraordinary as any. It is kidnapping.
Alan Johnson, Gordon Brown and the rest are kowtowing to big bully USA. British justice is in tatters as they offer up another sacrifice to America. Believe me, they’d do the same to any of us: you, me, your grandmother, your starving babies and our injured soldiers if it suited them. If they wanted to take Gary Mckinnon to Guantanamo Bay I don’t believe our government would have the courage to stop them.
Spineless Cowards
I call for the entire cabinet to be indicted on charges of dereliction of duty. Will not even one of these excuses for men or women have the courage and decency to resign over this issue?
These people who call themselves our leaders are a disgrace to each and every one of us. They are cowardly and spineless charlatans who are dragging our great country through the mire of ignominy and shame. Gary Mckinnon is a victim of their cowardice. Nothing can excuse what they have already put him through, let alone what is to come.
Drug Crazed Politicians Promote Crime And Misery
Sir David Nutt
"I'm so stoned...I don't know what I'm doing..."
Nothing more clearly demonstrates the complete absence of integrity in this inane, corrupt government than the sacking of Sir David Nutt. I had always admired Alan Johnson. Now he shows himself to be just as stupid and dumb as any of Gordon’s cronies.
Cannabis is a benign, natural herb that has been used as a medicine and recreational relaxant for over 4,000 years until politicians took a dislike to it just over 100 years ago. Since then, despite dozens of “studies” across the world, each one of which has been specifically tasked to condemn it as dangerous, no harm has been proven. Nevertheless, from Richard Nixon to Gordon Brown, myopic, paranoid, self-serving, tabloid-worshipping politicians have imposed more and more severe penalties for its use.
In the 50s the argument was that it made white women promiscuous with black men. The standard of discussion has barely improved since. The recent government sponsored hysteria over psychosis in adolescents is now revealed as utter nonsense in the face of the facts.
So why do politicians continue to persecute those who use cannabis? What’s in it for them? After all there is overwhelming evidence to show that a properly regulated cannabis supply could be a huge source of new taxation revenue for government and that regulation would drastically reduce all the harm that is caused by prohibition.
Off His Head
It’s more difficult to accept this argument in respect of heroin and cocaine because these are harmful substances but look at the evidence from Holland, Switzerland, Portugal and many other places. There can be little doubt that if the supply and distribution of drugs was regulated rather than prohibited then the harm caused would be reduced enormously. Furthermore, decriminalisation would drastically – and I mean DRASTICALLY – reduce crime at all levels. Street crime is all about theft and robbery in order to fund the purchase of drugs. International organised crime and terrorism is all about the drugs trade. End prohibition, start regulation and you pull the rug from under criminals at all levels. It would transform our society and save thousands of lives.
So I ask again – why? What do politicians gain from such a fundamentally stupid policy? At a stroke they could cut out the majority of both street and serious crime and massively reduce the funding of terrorism.
Cannabis was first demonised because hemp was an early rival to the oil industry. Before diesel came biodiesel. Rudolph Diesel designed his engine to run on peanut or hemp oil. Henry Ford designed his Model T to run on bioethanol produced from hemp and planted hundreds of acres on his own farms for that purpose – then along came oil. More importantly along came the early investors in the oil industry, specifically Randolph Hearst, owner and controller of the biggest propaganda and disinformation machine ever known to man. He started the the “Reefer Madness” campaign and promoted the lie against cannabis. Hemp was outlawed in favour of oil and we have since spent 100 years burning oil, becoming more and more reliant on its byproducts, destroying our planet and persecuting those who use cannabis.
Politicans are cowards. They were bribed and cajoled by big money to turn against cannabis in the first place. They do not have the vision or the common sense to see past the mess they have got themselves in over drugs policy. In a very real way they are more responsible than anyone else for the misery, death and chaos casued by the drugs trade which they actually support through their stupidity.
This government might as well have a committee of tabloid newspaper editors advising it on drugs rather than scientists. All over the world politicans have let us all down over drugs policy. Why? Because they are cowardly, self-serving and only interested in short term political expediency.
Hoodwinked By The Banker Robbers
That’s you and me. We’re the one’s who’ve been conned and cheated. Gordon, Alistair, the FSA – they’re all either criminally negligent incompetents or co-conspirators.
Absolutely nothing has changed in the world of banking. Is any more proof needed that the people running banks are liars, cheats and thieves? Aside from the systematic extortion of the taxpayer, none of the promises about lending to the real ecomony or reining in their depraved “culture” have been kept.
Spineless assurances will not do anymore. The government must radically overhaul the terms of the licences under which banks operate. Real leadership and responsibility is needed now to ensure that this happens before the end of the year – not after months or years of consultation and behind the scenes corruption.
Businesses that want to enjoy the huge privilege of serving UK consumers as bankers must be held to a strict and rigidly enforced rulebook. No participation in casino banking, minimum levels of lending, maximum levels of interest rates and charges, a “right to borrow” for those businesses and consumers who meet straightforward criteria.
These steps are essential to re-establish the operation of an effective market economy. In a world which has become entirely monetised we can no longer be subject to the rapacious and avaricious behaviour of those who run the money business.
Peter Reynolds 