There is a silence spreading round Gordon Brown. It's not just he cannot get an aircraft, cannot get an audience, is invited - the world's most unwelcome guest - when Benedict XVI is making a triumphal visit to the United States, is ignored by the South Africans as he bangs his silly little fist up and down about democracy in an African country (what about democracy in our own? Brown is unelected).
Not one politician of any party, least of all his own, speaks of him at all; the failure of economic and financial policy under Labour's tutelage, yes, but no longer about Brown and his idiot savant role in it all. He's hoiked onto the newspaper pages by his press team but who reads what he is supposed to have said?
The photos in yesterday's Mail say it all - striding and grinning across an empty airport in the dark - alone; sitting in an interview chair but no interviewer, just an empty chair opposite him; being gazed at aghast by other countries' representatives in the United Nations as he lies back in his chair eyes closed and obviously asleep or in a world of his own.
This cannot go on. Throwing phones at walls, pushing staff out of chairs, kicking over furniture, screaming abuse at colleagues and officials, utterly disconnected from reality, and the entire political establishment turning away in embarrassment.
It may be regarded as crucial to get the European Union constitution ratified, it may be understood that the Labour party can hardly foist another unelected prime minister onto the country, and would be faced with the election Brown balked at, at an even more inopportune time, it may be that there are no formal means to remove an unfit prime minister from office. None of this is good enough reason for first, the Labour party not to recognise what was done when they allowed this man to browbeat his way into the leadership of their party, and second, the Head of State and the Privy Council not to act so that Executive power is in at least sane caretaker's hands until a general election can be held.
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Frightening picture you paint.
This Brown situation is fine as far as I'm concerned. The damage is already done and I don't think there is anyone in politics who can fix it.
Let him stew.
The other one. The grinning jackanapes across the pond and his obscene self promotions. He's bound to get his comeuppance too, mark my words.
If Labour waits until after the local elections, dithers over dealing wih this nightmare which their democratic failures that began with the ousting of Blair brought on, the Labour Movement could end. They need to get rid of this entire group of party micro-manipulators and vicious bullies.
The party membership is collapsing, funding is so low the party is running now only on tax-payers' money recycled through the trade unions and its Third Sector front organisations.
Worse than the hollowing out of the party structures and internal responsibility to all of the party, is the concomitant destruction of the Movement from desertion by its supporters. The decent people who are committed to co-operating through all our country's institutions to keeping a fair and comfortable country going. The people who are horrified by the invasion of Iraq, the grotesque resource-shifting from the countryside to urban dependency-client bases The people who want democratic, local government, taxes at levels to provide for a decent social wage for all, not being farmed like cattle, and fair wages that are not confiscated from them.
The lies and bullying are inflicted on the whole population by manipulated news, surveillance, and forcing working people into benefit dependency. Within the party the lying and bullying is present at every constituency party meeting, and party support is required for any hope of tax-funded employment in Labour heartland parts of the country. Not just the qangoes and the NGOs but right as far as ordinary office staff in local authorities and state service providers.
This whole, violent, ethos is coming from the top. At the top is self satisfied and self justifying insanity.
I am one of the worse off, tax wise, with the abolition of the 10% rate. What Gordon Brown wants me to do is apply for Tax Credit (I could get £5 per week if I did), and I would be eligible for a free pair of specs/hairpiece/denture/hospital transport/prescriptions. However, like millions of others, I resent not being allowed to pay for my own specs/hairpiece/denture/hospital transport/prescriptions and I resent giving all sorts of personal information to the Revenue, that they are not normally entitled to know. I won't be claiming and I will be encouraging cash payments.
The sneering, aggressive bullying spread over the politics headlines in the Times today, by Balls, is exemplary of what the Labour Movement is being damaged, no, destroyed by.
I don't know what to say Lilith. You are being fined hundreds of pounds a year in earnings forcibly removed from you for refusing to give way to these psychopaths and narcissists.
"Mr Balls laughed off suggestions that he was a “class warrior”. He said he had spent ten years at the Treasury, where he was part of the drive to open up the markets and promote enterprise and entrepreneurship. He was City Minister, where he travelled the world promoting London’s role as a dynamic enterprising centre. “I do not think anybody who met me in New York or Frankfurt or Tokyo would have thought that this was a class warrior they were meeting.” "
He wants Frank Field to stop talking nonsense. Good old Ed.
HG, could you resolve a grammar dispute on my latest post between myself and the illustrious Grumpy Granny?
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