| Topic: | Re:Reasons why Gordon Brown must go | |
| Posted by: | Thomas Barry | |
| Date/Time: | 03/12/09 23:01:00 |
| What a load of pathetic rubbish - I got as far as 'Soviet Russia' before dissolving into laughter. 'Illegal attack on Iraq and Afghanistan'? Eh? I think only the Taliban think the latter was illegal and David Cameron and most of his party voted for the former. Great example, mate. "Brown is about as prudent as Imelda Marcos in a shoe shop" Only online record of this quip is in a document issued by an outfit called PERSONAL ASSETS TRUST PLC from May 2007, when the economy was still going up and Brown wasn't Prime Minister. Appears to be a long whinge from some finance spoilt brat at the idea of spending money on making people's lives better. Diddums. However, I'm intrigued by one thing - where did you get the quote from, David, and why did you feel unable to name the commenter? I only wonder because his long flatulent right wing whinge takes aim at David Cameron as well, who is compared (unfavourably) to Churchill's view of Ramsey MacDonald as 'The Boneless Wonder'. Is that your view of your party leader, Mr. Giles? Cluestick time - if you want Brown out, give us good reasons to vote for your lot, instead of posting anonymous letters from your 'friends' that consist suspiciously of widely circulated hard right talking points and over-familiar conspiraloon red bashing and amazingly appear in what has been, all told, a pretty poor week for the blue crew. To be honest, the reasons *not* to let the Conservatives anywhere near the reins of power keep adding up. Here are a few: * David Davis' recent bout of anti-science climate change fundamentalism for a start. Lots of Tories seem to revel in this childishly damaging position *even while their own elected members have to actually deal with the reality*. Make your bloody minds up - are you going with the mainstream Zac 'Non-Dom' Goldsmith/Theresa Villiers/Boris Johnson who accept man-made climate change as a key issue of our times or the bonkers Davis/Tim Montgomerie/Lawson/numerous other turds with oil industry connections who pretend it isn't? * Then we could add the highly bizarre tale of Boris Johnson trying to wangle his media crony Veronica Wadley into a quango role by manipulating the process after she was eliminated from the open contest. Also throw in Boris deciding to dispense with that tiresome open tendering business for a £920,000 hotel hire contract for the Sport Accord 2011 jamboree in favour of just picking a hotel and bunging them the cash. * How about George Osborne's continuing inability to convince anyone that he understands fiscal and monetary policy? What's *he* done to show us a future Chancellor in waiting? What's his plan for growth? * Your new friends at the Sun managing in one morning the amazing feat (that has hitherto defeated the entire Labour Party spin machine) of making Gordon Brown look like a a human being with feelings by revealing that he takes the time to write hand-written letters to the relatives of soldiers killed in action in a war the Sun supports. * David Cameron using widely known long debunked elfnsafety myths to declare war on overzealous elfnsafety. Declaring war on things that don't exist doesn't make you a strong leader, it makes you a prat. * Finally we have Michael Gove dropping his leader in it with another in a long line of made up eevil-Mooslims-are-coming myths from the Policy Exchange boys * Oh, I nearly forgot Nadine Dorries MP. Why's she in the party when the perfectly sensible Edward MacMillan-Scott has been thrown out? Good way to demonstrate that you're not going to let the loonies near the levers of power, I don't think. Every time her or Dan Hannan get near the papers your lead drops 1%, I reckon. They should be on a retainer from Number 10. So, I ask again, do the Conservatives have any grown ups we can trust (apart from Ken Clarke, who's persona non grata owing to his sensible, moderate views on Europe). More than that, why do they keep confusing us with contradictory messages on important matters? What happened to the 'heir to Blair' nice modernising Mr. Cameron who wouldn't scare the middle classes? Where did the drooling swivel eyed maniacs pop up from all of a sudden and why weren't they dealt with as ruthlessly as Tony Blair dealt with his? Are they, perhaps, too powerful, in which case how can we be sure they won't suddenly take over and seriously screw things up? I await your urgent and in-depth analysis. |