Devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government

[keithd]

interesting clip....can't find much fault with what he says, and good to see Brown laugh it off towards the end....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs

[Dappa D]

great speach, Brown looks like a child being told off at school at the end!

[Milky Bar Kid]

Excellent!

[Biker Biggles]

Populist nonsense.How easy to critisize from the safe position of a Tory MEP.Fact is if the Tories had been in power there would be very little difference.They would have mismanaged the public finances just as much,albeit they would have blown the money in different directions(More tax cuts for the rich/less money for health),and they would have bailed out the big banks with vast commitments of public money(hence the £20000 debt for every new born).
What none of them can face is that none of them have the intellect or vision to get us beyond the crisis we are in,just an ongoing ability to fight amongst themselves,fiddling while Rome burns.

[Milky Bar Kid]

I think, maybe instead of blaming Gordon Brown, we should be lynching Tony Blair. It was him the caused the mess, Brown is just trying, in vain it seems, to clean it up! Dont envy his job....but do think he is useless!

[keith_d]

Brown hasn't been the same since Prudence left him.

[SoulKiss]

Also of interest is that Saturday was the 30th anniversary of the then Labour Government getting a kicking.


28 th March 1979

The Labour government under Callaghan is defeated in a Motion of No Confidence. For the Labour government: Labour 303, Plaid Cymru 3, Ulster Unionists 2, Total 310. Against the government: Conservatives 279, Liberals 13, SNP 11, Ulster Unionists 5, Independent Ulster Unionists 3, Total 311. Labour MP Sir Alfred Broughton was too ill to vote while Gerry Fitt and Frank Maguire abstained. The Speaker and three deputies do not vote.
29 th March 1979

Callaghan visits the Queen to ask for a dissolution of parliament which is granted.


They only lost by one, and 3 didn't vote on it that could have, due to illness or abstention

[Biker Biggles]

Yup.That was thirty years ago and the economy was already in the carp then.Whats happening today has its roots even further back,and represents longstanding failure of our ruling classes to get anything right.Its not about Gordon or Tony or even Maggie,they all screwed up.

[Milky Bar Kid]

No matter who was there, they would all have left us in the same position!

[keithd]

I think, maybe instead of blaming Gordon Brown, we should be lynching Tony Blair. It was him the caused the mess, Brown is just trying, in vain it seems, to clean it up! Dont envy his job....but do think he is useless!

who was chancellor under tony b liar?

or is it not that simple...?

[punyXpress]

Is that the Sub - Prime Minister ?
Incapability Brown !

[Milky Bar Kid]

good point, well made..............like i have said before....me are blonde.....I forgot he was chancellor.......I'll get my coat...

[Dappa D]

bah...politics....more about whos the least worse option than whos the best option

[Biker Biggles]

And before that?Ken (****ed again)Clark
John (No one will notice while the grey man helps himself)Major
Norman (lamentable)Lamont.
Lawson and Britten(lets deregulate the City)
Dennis (mortgage me eyebrows?)Healy

They are all as bad as each other,and hardly a good idea between them.

[Milky Bar Kid]

or a brain cell...

[stewie]

or a brain cell...
Doenst say much for us then, we voted em in, well I didnt but someone must have ;)

[Milky Bar Kid]

We didnt really have much of a choice.......although, I do not vote labour!

[stewie]

We didnt really have much of a choice.......although, I do not vote labour!
True, I voted lib dem meself, couldnt see any difference between the tories and the labour lot

[Ed]

Isn't it refreshing that we have people in government who watch porn:D

I wish I could claim it on expenses:rolleyes:

[keithd]

Isn't it refreshing that we have people in government who watch porn:D

I wish I could claim it on expenses:rolleyes:

talk about your gigantic who cares!!

anybody who's in a position to claim expenses will always try to scam a couple of extra bob here and there....:thumright:

[stewie]

Isn't it refreshing that we have people in government who watch porn:D

I wish I could claim it on expenses:rolleyes:
I could put you in touch with a bloke at work if you,re into that sort of thing Ed

[SoulKiss]

I could put you in touch with a bloke at work if you,re into that sort of thing Ed

People pay for porn - what a strange world we live in..................

[Ed]

talk about your gigantic who cares!!



Oi - it ain't that big;)