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May 11
2010

Posted by richard

Just imagine wanting to move into a new house, but in this case the Queen is the one that decides it. Yes, welcome home David, the last occupants have been kicked out and your servants await.

On a less joking note though, nice to see that our election of a party with 2 million more votes than the next highest party, actually gets to be Prime Minister. We have been dancing around on broken glass these past few days and I’m not sure that Clegg really had it in mind to go with Labour, but rather use that as leverage for dealing with Cameron.

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Jan 6
2010

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After having endured two years of his “rule”, Labour insiders are finally starting to gather to bury Mr. Brown. He is an unelected leader, a tyrant in sheep’s clothing, it’s about time someone stood up to this woeful primacy.

To those that may not know us Brits, we apparently have an enlightened system where we vote a party into office, not a person. So collectively, the politically correct idiots of Labour have had nearly thirteen years of rule. It has not been pretty.

It seems un-British to have a system where we can’t vote for our leader. Moreover, when Blair was forced out, only Labour MPs got to vote on his replacement. Frankly, I think we should vote for a leader and a deputy. If the first goes, the second takes over and if the second goes, we have a general election, that seems fair.

Mr. Brown is not elected, except as an MP. This needs to stop now, even this close to an election (one has to be called before June). As the NY Times writes so succinctly:

In a radio interview, Ms. Hewitt, a former health secretary, declared: “This is not an attempted coup. It’s exactly what we say in the letter — it’s an attempt to get this matter sorted out once and for all.”

Precisely, it needs sorting out, as do our election and leadership laws.

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Sep 29
2009

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Our unelected leader, Gordon Brown, tyrant in all but name, has been giving his speech to his cronies.

He has used the speech to bandstand new policies that wants to get going. One of them is appealing, curtailing the anti-social behaviour of some families, especially poignant given the suicide of that lady (Fiona Pilkington) and her kid that’s been in the news lately. Interesting idea but really, getting rid of police paperwork and getting police on the street might be better.

Also, he’s really pushing the national ID card system and while I don’t have an issue with it, -WE- have to pay upfront for it and if it’s compulsory that simply isn’t fair to force people to pay £100. Not to mention that examples have been ridiculously easy to hack.

He admitted that he’s going to have a hard time getting re-elected though, and for once I think he’s actually seen the light. Yes Gordon, you probably won’t be sitting on the same side of Parliament in a few months time. Thank God. No wonder President Obama gave you the cold shoulder, he knows your probable future!

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Sep 1
2009

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Pride in democracy seems to be something we can trumpet about our state. But this is not the case these days. We had elected a leader, Mr Blair (although not me, I wasn’t in the UK at the time), then his second-in-command Gordon Brown, stabbed him in the back and took the position of Prime Minster for himself.

So this tyrant of ours, this two-faced snake, has proven consistently that he can neither lead us efficiently (as Chancellor he sold gold at one of the lowest prices ever) nor represent us properly. He puts his own opinions forward in parliament, despite the fact that public opinion is the opposite (the debate on assisted suicide is an example of that).

Now we have this Megrahi affair. Publicly, standing next to the leader of Israel, he said he was repulsed and angry about Mr Megrahi‘s welcome in Libya upon his released, and now we have private letters being made public that say something quite different:

Documents released today on the Megrahi affair state that the Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell had told the Libyans early this year that neither Brown nor foreign secretary David Miliband “would want Mr Megrahi to pass away in prison”.

When are we going to face the fact that our political system needs to be overhauled?

We need to vote a leader and a deputy into place. If they resign, then a national election should be triggered. We need to have the ability to hold referendum’s easily, so -OUR- opinion is what is carried out as law. We need to hold our representatives to book for misrepresenting us. If they put their own opinions forward in Parliament then they need to be punished, especially if they are contrary to the general opinion of their electorate.

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Jun 29
2009

Posted by richard

So our unelected leader, PM Brown, said in Parliament today that they won’t walk away from Britons in difficult times.

Forgive me for being so blunt Mr Brown, but weren’t you the one that brought the hard times to us? As Chancellor you let the financial community do as they will, regardless of whether they flaunted good sense and displayed little fiduciary acumen. You sold gold at an historic low, losing us many billions.

Why should we trust him? Please, let there be an election.

Or if a miracle could occur, her Majesty dismiss him.

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Jun 28
2009

Posted by richard

How can this man -still- be Prime Minister? He doesn’t seem to be living on the same planet as us, and wants to start spending even more:

Mr Brown’s determination to boost spending on frontline services will be underlined with the launch of his much vaunted national plan for public services on Monday.

His Building Britain’s Future document includes a number of proposals which will require significant Government spending.

Significant government spending? That doesn’t sound very smart considering today’s environment! Perhaps if rid ourselves of unemployed immigrants sponging off the state and stopped immigration, we would have a little money spare, but look what he wants:

This will include the announcements of new funding for social housing and the recruitment of 100,000 personal tutors as part of an education White Paper.
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He indicated increased spending on front line services such as schools and hospitals, and hinted for the first time that the police may also be protected from the cuts.

Idiot!

And to make matters worse he’s ignoring advice from the Bank of England, which has done all it can in this situation, and Labour are threatening to remove powers from the BoE:

Last week, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank, gave warning that the country was experiencing: “An extraordinary level of public debt, which would require some pretty extraordinary things to be done.”

We need a general election now to get Labour out of power, they are killing this country!

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Jun 3
2009

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Surely Hazel Blears’ resignation is beginning to show that the end is nigh for Gordon Brown?

Our unelected leader should know that with all these ministers quitting, it doesn’t do much for the public confidence in him. Paying tribute to Hazel in Parliament seems very nice, but does not hide the fact that ministers are quitting -his- government.

Come on Gordon – get with it, you’re just like the Iron Lady believing in yourself when no-one else does!

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Jan 23
2009

Posted by richard

Mr Brown, are you f***ing blind?

How could you not see the recession coming? It’s been in front of us for about a year now, and we’re now officially in recession with two quarters of negative growth, so you must have known for at least the past six months! Before that the housing market crashed, the banks crashed, and jobs have been shed month after month, what more do you need, a bloody roadmap?

Honest to God, who elects these idiots? And before you say I did, I did not. In fact, no-one did since he’s not an elected leader but foisted upon us because he stabbed Mr Blair in the back.

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Oct 1
2008

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We have had day after day, week after week, of political party conferences. The news programs seem to cover little else, and frankly it gets a bit nauseating. But of course given our current set of circumstances with finances, I do take note because it’s rather important when you know an election is around the corner.

Gordon Brown, our idiotic esteemed leader, tells us experience is what is needed right now. David Cameron suggests that people who say that don’t want to embrace change. I admit I favour the latter’s argument.

The reason? This:

The £4 billion of gold reserves – 415 tonnes – will be converted into euros, dollars and yen over the next few years. The sale will see the proportion of reserves held in gold falling from 17 per cent to 7 per cent. The Chancellor’s announcement triggered a fall in the price of gold and provoked Tories and Euro-sceptic businessmen to claim the decision was politically motivated to prepare Britain’s entry into the euro.

He sold gold at $340/ounce, in 1999. It now sells at $873/ounce (and that’s just dropped some) and is expected to increase in the coming year. People in similar positions around the world thought he was mad. Gold is one of the few things you should really keep hold of, and if you need to sell, sell high, and buy low.

Remember, at the time he was Chancellor. The mad man in charge of the money. Our money. This is the “experience” he so readily touts.

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Sep 14
2008

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The Labour party, currently in government (I say currently because I believe they won’t be at the next general election), is getting more and more desperate. Recently, several prominent, if not quiet and unassuming, members of the Labour party have spoken out in favour of a leadership election. To recap, our esteemed leader, Gordon Brown, took over from Tony Blair in what many would consider a coup. He was not elected, Tony Blair was. I doubt he will be, he just doesn’t have the charisma.

So what do the party in power do? They sack those who rebelled. It tells me that those in power don’t have enough faith in their own leadership skills, or believe others have faith in them, to weather questions or a leadership contest. More telling perhaps are those involved: a party whip (internal Labour police force), a party vice-Chairman … you get the idea.

One of those who is/was on the fence, David Milliband, is now supporting Gordon Brown. I wonder what he was promised …

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