Gordon Brown - is this the ultimate irony?
Discussion
Winky said:
The conservatives cannot be trusted with the economy
Telegraph LinkyGood grief. The Conservatives cannot be trusted?! Yes gordon, because you've done a fantastic job haven't you, sterling performance. Oh.
It does appear to be their new strategy. Roy Hattersley was peddling the same line on Question Time yesterday .. you know that all this is a worldwide recession etc. .. ignoring the fact that our fiscal defecit is pretty dire compared to our peers, and that the current government has to take much of the responsibility for this.
FourWheelDrift said:
He's a deluded moron who clearly has no respect for the voting population.
Just because he's holding power with no electoral mandate, sold the countrys gold for $250 an ounce, and claimed in a speech to have "saved the world" ......you call him a deluded moron?I'd say that's generous.
hornetrider said:
Winky said:
The conservatives cannot be trusted with the economy
Telegraph LinkyGood grief. The Conservatives cannot be trusted?! Yes gordon, because you've done a fantastic job haven't you, sterling performance. Oh.
Haven't you been paying attention!?
Edited by dougc on Friday 19th February 13:18
Timmy35 said:
FourWheelDrift said:
He's a deluded moron who clearly has no respect for the voting population.
Just because he's holding power with no electoral mandate, sold the countrys gold for $250 an ounce, and claimed in a speech to have "saved the world" ......you call him a deluded moron?I'd say that's generous.
I was actually thinking about this earlier, the problem is that if you're not the slightest bit economically literate and don't bother reading more than the occasional headline, you could easily be led to believe that Brown knows what he's on about. The line is continually peddled about him being the best man for the job, a safe pair of hands, and he pushes it with such utter conviction that even I sometimes wonder if it's me that's living in a parallel universe and not Labour...
AndrewW-G said:
Chaps, you've forgotten Global Warming, according to winky AGW sceptics are only stupid flat earth believers................which is rather funny coming from somebody who isn’t smart enough to get into MENSA
....And don't forget the "We only have 50 days to save the planet.." bit, something the utter moron spouted sometime last year!chris_w said:
I was actually thinking about this earlier, the problem is that if you're not the slightest bit economically literate and don't bother reading more than the occasional headline, you could easily be led to believe that Brown knows what he's on about. The line is continually peddled about him being the best man for the job, a safe pair of hands, and he pushes it with such utter conviction that even I sometimes wonder if it's me that's living in a parallel universe and not Labour...
The BBC isn't exactly searing in it's assesment of him either lets face it. hornetrider said:
Winky said:
The conservatives cannot be trusted with the economy
Telegraph LinkyGood grief. The Conservatives cannot be trusted?! Yes gordon, because you've done a fantastic job haven't you, sterling performance. Oh.
Oh no. You were handed an economy in decent shape and proceeded to piss it away for more than a decade.
It's you who can't be trusted, f
knut.For the above and many other reasons I desperately hope that you get the kicking you deserve at the election.
Timmy35 said:
chris_w said:
I was actually thinking about this earlier, the problem is that if you're not the slightest bit economically literate and don't bother reading more than the occasional headline, you could easily be led to believe that Brown knows what he's on about. The line is continually peddled about him being the best man for the job, a safe pair of hands, and he pushes it with such utter conviction that even I sometimes wonder if it's me that's living in a parallel universe and not Labour...
The BBC isn't exactly searing in it's assesment of him either lets face it. Don said:
hornetrider said:
Winky said:
The conservatives cannot be trusted with the economy
Telegraph LinkyGood grief. The Conservatives cannot be trusted?! Yes gordon, because you've done a fantastic job haven't you, sterling performance. Oh.
Oh no. You were handed an economy in decent shape and proceeded to piss it away for more than a decade.
It's you who can't be trusted, f
knut.For the above and many other reasons I desperately hope that you get the kicking you deserve at the election.
1 ) single handedly deystroyed one of the best funded pension systems in the world.
2 ) Created massive off balance sheet PFI liabilites for future generations.
TBH....as we can all see, it is very Ironic for Winky to come up with all this...
However....
Here is the perfect amunition for the Conservatives to hit back.....and what do they do with it?
Nothing.
Where is the counterstatement.
Why not grill him in PMQ's......where are the Hague's detailing all of Labours faults on shows like QT, etc...
The conservatives have the perfect opportunity to take a landslide election....and they are doing their best to throw it all away.
However....
Here is the perfect amunition for the Conservatives to hit back.....and what do they do with it?
Nothing.
Where is the counterstatement.
Why not grill him in PMQ's......where are the Hague's detailing all of Labours faults on shows like QT, etc...
The conservatives have the perfect opportunity to take a landslide election....and they are doing their best to throw it all away.
Timmy35 said:
chris_w said:
I was actually thinking about this earlier, the problem is that if you're not the slightest bit economically literate and don't bother reading more than the occasional headline, you could easily be led to believe that Brown knows what he's on about. The line is continually peddled about him being the best man for the job, a safe pair of hands, and he pushes it with such utter conviction that even I sometimes wonder if it's me that's living in a parallel universe and not Labour...
The BBC isn't exactly searing in it's assesment of him either lets face it. Yes, I think the BBC might have been covered by my reference to the economically illiterate
Maybe he's referring to the master-plan, put in place by the Tories just before they lost to New Labour, to scupper the country's finances in every way imaginable in order to make Labour look bad and allow them to regain power.
Admittedly it took longer than they expected, but look at the successes - they caused Gordon Brown to sell off the gold reserves, made him rape the pensions system, forced him to think up PFI, made him hire thousands more pointless public sector workers etc etc, all without him realising he was doing it.
Clever Tories.
Admittedly it took longer than they expected, but look at the successes - they caused Gordon Brown to sell off the gold reserves, made him rape the pensions system, forced him to think up PFI, made him hire thousands more pointless public sector workers etc etc, all without him realising he was doing it.
Clever Tories.
Spiritual_Beggar said:
The conservatives have the perfect opportunity to take a landslide election....and they are doing their best to throw it all away.
Maybe they don't want to win the next election?After all, we are probably about 6 months away from calling in the IMF, whoever wins. Probably better to let Labour negotiate terms with the IMF - after all they do have the experience.
[/devil's advocate]
Don
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