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cleaning out the Augean Stables

Perhaps he should divert the Thames through the House Of Commons?

can you imagine the amount of Claret and Brandy that would put into the sea? We'd have to have ABV% on fish and chips.

JulianA - Member

cleaning out the Augean Stables

Perhaps he should divert the Thames through the House Of Commons?

On an outgoing tide, please, would rather not have the stench over my part of the world.

That would make going for a swim a rather hazardous activity!

On another note, RB can be an incredibly boring tool sometimes, can't he...

RB can be an incredibly boring tool sometimes

quite the understatement.

[url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8078508.stm ]Former Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt is to stand down as an MP at the next election but has said the move has nothing to do with the expenses furore.

The Labour MP for Leicester West was health secretary during Tony Blair's latter years as PM. She said she wanted to spend more time with her family. [/url]

[i]The Daily Telegraph, which has obtained the details of all MPs' expenses for the past four years, has not published any details of Ms Hewitt's claims. [/i]
Yet......

This really is car crash politics.

Ive seen written somewhere that The Telegraph havent released anything on Patsy yet...could be fun tomorrow! 🙂

Do you think she registered her House as her primary residence and her caravan as her second home so she could get the tax payer to pay for pimpy net curtains, a gold plated porta-potty and a lifetime membership of the Caravan Club on expenses? 🙂

I have just murdered someone and will be leaving the country, but only because I want to, not to escape justice. I was going anyway...

The Fun only starts when they start on the Vicars/Tarts in the Other Place.

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JulianA - Member
I have just murdered someone and will be leaving the country, but only because I want to, not to escape justice. I was going anyway...

To "spend more time with your family", I assume?

Naturally, my dear chap, why else would I go?

I have just murdered someone and will be leaving the country, but only because I want to, not to escape justice. I was going anyway...

...and of course these murders were within the rules anyway

Cheesyfeet - Member

I have just murdered someone and will be leaving the country, but only because I want to, not to escape justice. I was going anyway...

...and of course these murders were within the rules anyway

and, because you'd have done nothing wrong, you would donate blood to the victims, just for the avoidance of doubt.

There was a time when I cared about this sort of stuff. But all that happens now is that one mediocre sound-bite politician is replaced by another. Come this time next year, those in charge will have posher accents but I'm not convinced we'll notice much other difference.

If it all goes wrong too quickly there is a danger the next incumbents will do nothing. El Gordo needs to get this right to ensure the necessary reforms are in place before the next election.

Come this time next year, those in charge will have posher accents but I'm not convinced we'll notice much other difference.

Should be quite good fun here though.

There seem to be big rumours that Balls is going to get one of either of the big two positions...it'll be like shooting fish in a barrel for the tories. I would assume they're licking their lips at the thought.

I am not even an avid listener to PMQ's any more - if it was a boxing match the ref would have stopped it after the first few rounds. I'm not sure, were I a true blue, I'd even find it entertaining...far too easy for Cameron. No doubt Brown and his cabinet are in a tailspin with only one outcome now...a big old crash.

In the meantime, the bankers must be laughing...everybody's forgotten about them!

It for sure is getting interesting. If all who have been immoral if not illegal have to stand down then there will be hundreds of new mps - most of the house probably. gonna be hard to find clean hands especially for the tories. There are a fair few clean hands amongst labour and I guess a few among the tories but the front benches of both are going to be badly depleted.

Only firm action will restore public confidence - mass sackings and by elections, criminal prosecutions and so on.

With Darling and Smith going, isn't this the start of Brown's re-arrangement of the Cabinet to replace all the swelf interesting money-grabbing incompetents with a new generation of simply honest hard working individuals who regard public service as a privilege, not just a money grabbing opportunity?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - sometimes I crack me up, I really do

Bloody hell, they cant get out the door quick enough!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk_politics/8080777.stm

and even Rusbridger has run out of patience:

[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/02/editorial-gordon-brown-labour ]The truth is that there is no vision from him, no plan, no argument for the future and no support. The public see it. His party sees it. The cabinet must see it too, although they are not yet bold enough to say so[/url]

Bo...

No, sorry.

I'll be a good boy today...

T'is abit like watching a car crash isn't it.

Bet they're all sat there now wondering who'll be next.

Blears gone - and I really hope we've seen the last of that smug, self-satisfied, loathsome little creature.

Scratching my head a tad over Dr Ian Gibson, by all accounts a very good constituency MP and with considerable support from his local party. The buzz is that he crticised the leadership once too often for his own good.

Mind you he represents Norwich, and who knows what people think up there....

I am not even an avid listener to PMQ's any more - if it was a boxing match the ref would have stopped it after the first few rounds.

Part of me is slightly sorry for Brown now, as he so desperately wanted this job, only to find out that he's utterly rubbish at it. I agree, however, PMQs has become an unpleasant spectacle. There's no joy in seeing his suffering.

I see that Blears has now gone as well. Would the last one out of the cabinet, please turn out the lights?

[quote[i]]Slightly sorry for Brown[/i] No no no!!

Incapable, untrustworthy, non accountable rubbish PM we've ever had - and he's Scottish, just like the Speaker, Darling etc. etc. I just wish they'd crawl back into whatever hole they came out of.

tyger, I mean as a person, not as a politician.

and he's Scottish, just like the Speaker, Darling etc. etc. I just wish they'd crawl back into whatever hole they came out of.

Steady on.

Apart from the [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Lothian_question ]West Lothian question[/url] there's nothing wrong with having a Scottish PM or Chancellor of the UK government.

Having incompetent shites running the country, that's a different matter...

I don't think anyone will shed tears over Blears' departure. Poison dwarf personified.

I agree with CFH, I actually feel quite sorry form Brown. he's sat there for 10 years waiting for the job, it lands in his lap and suddenly - BANG! Everything starts going wrong and he's utterly useless.

Doesn't help that he's surrounded by similar utterly useless scum either.

General Election!!

so how long will Labour try to hang on? how long till Gordon is gone?

If the results tomorrow are as bad as predicted can he stay?

Who are these 'Right Honorable Friends' ?? Honorable - I don't think so!!

The coup will be announced on Monday IMO.

If we're lucky we'll have a General Election in september with a new labour leader begging for a mandate.

Stoner - Member
The coup will be announced on Monday IMO.

If Flint goes as well, it may be even sooner.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall at Chateau Brown this weekend....!

General Election NOW. Let's see Lord Snooty and his pals make a right balls up of it instead.

If there is a general Election this autumn, it'll be like when the two least popular boys in the playground are left over when the football teams are chosen...

"Oh, I suppose we'll have Cameron...you'll have to be in goal though"

tyger, I mean as a person, not as a politician.

Sub Prime Minister indeed.

then there's the gurkhas - ok it's ben a scandal for a while that gurkhas weren't given setlement rights in Britain, but the government were bullied into doing something by Joanna Lumley then tried to claim as an example of how great they were,

Part of me is slightly sorry for Brown now, as he so desperately wanted this job, only to find out that he's utterly rubbish at it. I agree, however, PMQs has become an unpleasant spectacle. There's no joy in seeing his suffering.

How can you feel sorry for a man who did untold damage to the country when he was chancellor starting from 1997?

IMHO, PMQ is one of the finest entertainment shows going! Perhaps they should rename it "The Westminster Charade"!

Seems to me like the female cabinet members who have walked can't take the pressure and at a time when their leader most needs them. Just shows how weak they really are and that we'll be better off without them!

Would the last person to leave the cabinet please switch the light out? 😆

Now, how about a general election?

The next one leaving the cabinet will be a nice 12yr old Macallan - and the whole bottle swiftly polished off by Mr Brown...

BigButSlimmerBloke - Member

tyger, I mean as a person, not as a politician.

Neither. Apart from the unbeleiveable arrogance of "having ended the boom and bust" of normal economic cycles, he's then tried to jump on every bandwagon conceivable - the fat ugly bird from big brother, the ugly bird from the singing programme, whilst all the time failing utterly to do anything about the mess he created due to his completely inept handing first of the economy, then of everything else. Totaally summed up by the fred Godwin affair - "this government doesn't reward failure " I believe are the words ringing in Sir Fred's ears as he struggles to cope with a £750k pension and gets to keep his knighthood.

Sub Prime Minister indeed.

Well said BigButSlimmerBloke!

And don't forget Gordon imposed taxes that very adversely affected private pension funds the moment he became chancellor. At a time when pension funds were performing badly in comparison to earlier years (due mainly to the trend in falling in interest rates). And today during PMQ he says he is doing everything to help pensioners. Fxxking hypocrite!!!

mastiiles - you'ren assuming he a) is capapble of opening the cabinet and b) can manage to get the top off the bottle.

he could of course try to get one of his erstwhile colleagues to help out, but they're more likely to swipe the good stuff and replace it with cold tea, then claim it was all a mistake before replacing it with a tin of warm, flat coke. supermarket own brand.

Not all the pension fund failures can be laid at the chancellors feet. Remember those nice long holidays the funds took in the 90's? The rot started there, Gordo just helped it along.

yep pensions were destroyed by the holidays dreamt up by nigel lawson, and norman lamont, to his shame gordon just continued their work

and the jade and that fit singing bird stuff were only in response to retarded questions asked by the media, its not like he released a statement

he was an idiot to say he'd ended boom and bust but he presided over some of the best financial times this country has ever seen

how can history be rewritten so quickly??

but he presided over some of the best financial times this country has ever seen

how can history be rewritten so quickly??

ehh, could it be because of the complete relaxation of financial relaxation that allowed the banks to so completely over capitalise that when one started to look shakey the country was facing a complete and utter shambles. the good work may have been started by lawson and lamont, but brown was chancellor long enough to have tightened the regulations. he didn't because the banks and building societiees were lending money they didn't have fuelling a house price inflation spiral that made anyone with a garden shed think they were a millionaire.
remind me what happened next? oh yeah, RBS collapse costing the taxpayer [b]£23BILLION[/b], and that's only one. the car industry would be bad shape if we had one, but we don't because our government would rather we had an "invisible money" industry rather than an economy based on actuakky making real things to sell. people losing jobs, factory closing and home owners finding out that their garden sheds were overvalued by £99,999,910. banks have closed up so tightly that it's now difficult to get a loan, damaging businesses who are trying to sort out cash flow problems, so administration is now a regular feature of peopl's lives. and now we have the expenses carry on. again, not brown's fault per se, it's been going on for a while, but has he done anything about it? nope, not till some fingers are caught in the till.

and none of this is the fault of the man who'se been running first the economy, now the country?

he was an idiot to say he'd ended boom and bust

[i]but we don't because our government would rather we had an "invisible money" industry rather than an economy based on actuakky making real things to sell.[/i]

What, say like Japan, or Germany? Cos they're really doing well right now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8088862.stm

Jumped or pushed?

[url] Ms Kennedy, Liverpool Wavertree MP, has quit the government before - as health minister in 2006 over NHS reforms. [/url]

Sounds like a serial quitter. In his current position GB is probably better off without her 'support'.

The thing is, if you were a Labour MP harbouring some aspiration to be Prime Minister would now be the time the time to throw your hat into the ring? You'd spend your year as PM deflecting (justified?) calls to have an election early, and then maybe be in charge when the Labour party disintegrates and possibly becomes a minority bit-player after the bad electin results and thus fell like you need to resign.

Better to wait another year, then at least get 4 years to play Labour leader, blaming the Tories and old Labour for the failings...

Better to wait another year, then at least get 4 years to play Labour leader, blaming the Tories and old Labour for the failings...