First!

As he is ridden out of town on a rail, he will argue that the Brownian medicine was the correct prescription, but the dosage was inadequate.

It's fun to watch the rats eating themselves.

If you're not close to the British political scene, you're not necessarily aware of what a massive Parliamentary meltdown this is. And it is completely non-partisan: MPs of all parties have been caught with their grubby little noses in the public trough.

However, Gordon Brown is almost certainly doomed though and his backbenchers won't save their sorry hides by attempting to oust him themselves.

We've gone from New Labour to Same Old Labour to Dead Labour.

Edmund Burke might make this observation:

"Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, can never willingly abandon it."

It has been observed that the RUMP Parliament is expelling the MANURE Parliament.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6297363.ece

Manure Parliament fears that the voters will revolt.

The Thursday exodus from Westminster was usually a jolly affair: perhaps a lunch with colleagues, a drink on the Commons Terrace and then the train home for a long weekend in “the patch”.

No longer. After a week that changed politics in Britain for ever, most MPs travelled home to their electors fearful, if not downright miserable, this weekend.

Even the most blameless were arriving from an institution dubbed “the Manure Parliament”, a reference to one of the most egregious claims revealed in the exposé of Westminster’s expenses culture.

"You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"

Oliver Cromwell during the time of the Rump Parliament.

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group "True North"

I'm not so sure the "Layber Pahtee" has the stomach to oust Brown. The screwed up last year when they made him Prime Mentalist and he had the option to call an election. To use the vernacular he "bottled it" he didn't have the cojones to put himself up to an election. What you over look is that Brown has been number two for a decade to the snake oil salesman pars excellence Tony Bliar. He was desperate to become the man at the top and now he has the prize.

Brown is old Labour and has the majority of the party behind him. These are the ex marxist/communists. Hazel Blears who tried to knife him between the shoulder blades yesterday is "new Labour" they came in with Bliar in 1997 on a wave of support that was born out of frustration with the perceived Tory sleaze. Bliar made Labour palatable to the electorate by giving it a veneer of respectabilty. Kind of like a gold plated turd. Now that gold plating has worn off and you have a majority party who cannot be removed by a vote of no confidence.

There are a few "Blairites" who will try and get support to remove him but they need 70 of them to force the issue and most of them are spineless shits. The General Election can be postponed till June 2010 at the latest and when it inevitably comes Labour will be wiped out. If they replace Brown they could theoretically carry on without an election, but I don't think this would go down at all well. So given the choice between removing Brown and forcing an election now or sticking with him and hanging it out till next year I suspect they will stick with him. Either way they are toast but by sticking till next year it means another years salary for many of them before they join the dole queues. You have to remember many of these half-wits are unemployable in the real world.

The results of the EU elections won't be revealed until Sunday. If Labour finish third behind the Tories and the UK Independance Party then Brown will probably survive. If they finish fourth behind the Liberals then I really think he will be finished. Oh and if they do coume fourth I think it will sound a death knell for the socialists and I for one will be celebrating.

Premier?

Well, at least the leftards will pull their Caesar move while the schmuck is still in town.

That's more than I can say about the creeps in the Tory party who couldn’t even put the blade into Thatcher until she left town.

I bet Blair is feeling every bit as smug at Lady Thatcher did at seeing their Brutus' fail. Not that I'd compare Blair to Thatcher, just their ends.

And election to rid the UK of the Labour leftards is long overdue. Too bad there isn't an appealing alternative...

i've said here before and i'll say again what a wise old bird told me many years ago...

"it's a funny thing about socialists...they all live in the biggest houses they can afford".

I wonder how far is the USA in following this 'quiet revolution'?
I would bet not very far...And this British movement could be just enough boost that's needed into cleaning their own house too.
Sweeeeeeeeet!

Canada? Nah! We just shrug our shoulders here.

The Left in Britain screwed itself just as badly as they screwed the Kingdom. So no wonder they're now suffering as they made the Kingdom suffer.

It will happen with the Left in America, no doubt. Just wait and see. What goes around comes around and bites one on the hiney.

""it's a funny thing about socialists...they all live in the biggest houses our tax dollars can't afford"."

Fixed it for you John.

One commie down, one Obama to go.

Here we have justice, British socialist style:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5445045/French-student-murders-Dano-Sonnex-and-Nigel-Farmer-jailed-for-life.html

One-eyed Scottish idiot...!

The fact that they can go another year in political limbo is incredible. The UK needs new leadership, Brown can't even point to his own mandate, he is living out Tony Blair's.

The worst solution for the UK is no solution, meaning Brown hangs on without full support.

Cameron needs to find a way to vote of confidence on the table. If you were a labour MP, who might have local pull and appeal, would you agree to support Brown? Do you take short term solace to avoid the electoral disaster that is coming.

There is a core Labour vote, including Browns own riding, that will elect anything from them.

The question ultimately is, does Cameron have the stones to do what is necessary to fix the UK sovereign finances? I wonder.

I'm reminded of Oliver Cromwell's dismissal of the Long Parliament: "You have stayed too long here for all the good you've been doing. Depart I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"

The only change to that I'd make is to say, "...for what little good and what great damage you have done..." Given that the Labour Party reverted to it's Socialist-collectivist propensity, undoing many of the great reforms of the Thatcher Era; raised every tax one can think of; submitted Britain to an army of petty tyrant bureaucrats; lost much British sovereignty to the EU.

WAY past time to boot the scoundrels out!

It's not over for Gordon Brown until the Minister of Silly Walks says it is over.

An often overlooked aspect is that Britain received 52% of all the MARSHALL PLAN financing in Europe....because Britain was deemed to be the most likely to turn communist postwar.....
The more things change........

LT wrote
"if Labour come third"
They should be so lucky!
Please dear G-d lets hope this is going to be the start I hope of reclaiming our country. Every indication I have today is that everyone I've come into contact with has voted either UKIP(the vast majority) or a few that have voted BNP. Now if that isn't the clearest sign that we need out of the EU and its plethera of socialist/communist/atheistic/institutions then hopefully the general masses disgust at the mother of parliaments ineptitude and the fall of its occupants into disrepute will last as long as next year (at the latest) for the general election when we can vote the same way again.
I hold out little chance of a change from Cameron he is a career politician who has modeled himself on the snake oil salesman himself, he has no basic principles and like almost all our present politicians reacts to events and issues instead of acting from first principles.
The principled Tories left in the (UK) population are now all UKIP anyway.
Cameron is and would be another disaster for the UK. It would be best for the Conservative Party to ditch him now if they want to do anything to save this country then they need to re-align themselves with UKIP and their (UKIPs) allies within Europe. But I suspect that the Conservatives will need a rout to be pushed to that, I hope for them thats what happens with Sundays results otherwise they and we are buggered.
Anyone in the UK that wants any type of future that bears any resemblance to our glorious dignified and truly magnificent past then its a cliche but we really are down to the last mouthful of the last drink in the last chance saloon.

sasquatch....i disagree with both your assertions.

..in the fifties if memory serves german housewives had washers and dryers while british housewives were still keeping house under rationing and Britain was still paying off it's war debt...

sasquatch....i disagree with both your assertions.

..in the fifties if memory serves german housewives had washers and dryers while british housewives were still keeping house under rationing and Britain was still paying off it's war debt...

....and of course the post-war communist party in Britain certainly did exist but it was a spent force and still very much in disarray after the molotov/ribbentrop business...

anyway...poor old silly misguided ideologically hidebound Brown....

helped blair create the shitehole britain is today...prolly never noticed how fecked it all had become...but still of course lusted after power...but power to do what one asks oneself...

i think these pols just assume they can keep throwing the lolly off the back of a truck because they are financially bolstered by the E.U........even if they make a total cock up of it they can always get a leg up from Brussels...

i know that's what the Irish felt....but as they now know as adam smith said there is 'plenty of ruin in a country' and therefore myriad ways of being ruined...

Would that somewhere in the US we had a newspaper like the Telegraph that even though they are moderate/liberal politically prints the truth about the activities of the government.

I'd just like to say: YAY!!!

I can't understand why you're all so skeptical about a policy of changing leaders on a sinking ship. Look at how well it worked for the Libs when they changed from Trudeau to Turner, or for the Tories when they changed from Mulroney to Campbell, or the Ontario Tories when they changed from Harris to Eaves, or the Liberals again when they changed from Cretin (sic) to Dion...

er.. ah.. never mind.