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By: j rider

j rider — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:21:30 +0000

Nicola Burdett, Brown’s “gaffe manager”/media spAd)” is doing such an excellent job for the Tories (see, for example, the infamous YouTube video) that they should start paying her!!! And it would save about 70 grand of taxpayers money……………………

By: Javelin

Javelin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:15:49 +0000

There is this huge assumption in New Labour’s “Big Government” is that Government leaders are uber-humans, capable of doing things better than us giving them the right to invade any and every aspect of our lives. This is of couse the real “bullshit”. Spin has not been about being on message, it’s about creating this uber-race of leaders who we are supposed listen to unquestioningly and thank them for their deity.

Back to reality, we have Gordon the maniac, Blair the insecure salesman, Madelson the man who makes our skin collectively creep and Campbell who bullies the press. We are suppose to worship them like Gods who will improve and better our lives. The reality is that they are a handful of ego-manicas who will lie, bullshit and spin and that any Minister could be replaced by the average man in the street, who would do exactly the same job.

Big Government is bullshit and the idea that leaders are uber-humans is bullshit too. The New Labour Uber-human politicians concept is just about as right wing as you can get. I can think of other facist regimes where the people were seen as uber humans – but not one where the Ministers were.

Ironically it’s the Tories who admit the reality/weakness/strengths of individuals who accept that no leader is perfect, no system perfect, no policy perfect who understand that Big Government is imperfect too and we must be protected from those ego-maniacs who would take over a weakened party (i.e. Labour) and run the country in their own sick images.

By: roadrunner

roadrunner — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:14:28 +0000

This reminds me of the Bill Murray film “Groundhog Day” round and round it goes and where it will end everyone knows, Gordon will lead them into the next election.Not that it would make much difference who leads them or even who wins the next election,if Lisbon is ratified Britains stuffed.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:03:26 +0000

“Breakdown in Parliamentary discipline”

Should have happened years ago. The schoolboys and girls on both benches should never have deferred to the higher ranking ones as a matter of course – they were each put their by their constituents as much as they were by their parties.

The last decade or so has been utterly abnormal – masses of cheap lending, vast consumption of stuff, taxpayers being fleeced, Government wasting all that money and more, automaton MPs troughing at the direction of their leaders, MPs not doing their parliamentary duty in preference of rubber stamping quango and EU directives. They would like us to believe that is normal. It is not. On so many levels this cancer of mediocraty has undermined us.

By: Mike Harris

Mike Harris — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:49:21 +0000

Let me look into my mystic ball – did you have that conversation with, say, Charles Clarke?

Yawn.

By: Dave B

Dave B — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:24:37 +0000

For those who missed it first time round, link to ‘that video’.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3553301/smile-smile-smile.thtml

By: Phil Mill

Phil Mill — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:56:14 +0000

It is all depressingly predictable. Mandelson’s appearance on a white steed was never for the benefit of Gordon Brown. He had to protect the PM in order to avoid a general election (a second unelected PM being politically unsustainable).

With the Irish referendum out the way and the Czech’s soon to cave in on Lisbon, Gordon Brown is no longer necessary. Mandelson will drop him like a stone as soon as that treaty is in place (which it very nearly is – hence the loosening of his grip in the past week).

By: objet petit a

objet petit a — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:25:05 +0000

Johnson, Brown, Milibland, whoever

Labour’s toast

By: IH

IH — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:04:20 +0000

Do they really think that if they get rid of Brown it will solve their problems – as for Johnson, don’t make me laugh, he hasn’t got it in him I’m afraid