The tears of a Brown
Here we go. Yet another generous dollop of ‘masochism strategy‘:
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to reassure the Labour Party he can lead them to victory despite disastrous results at local elections.
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Mr Brown is giving media interviews on Sunday as newspapers speculate about various plans to oust him.
I don’t know about you but watching this defeated and defeated-looking, hang-dog, humiliated and hunched, inspiration-free ivory tower-dwelling fool beg for his job is not the way to spend a fresh Sunday morning.
The Prime Minister will once again be insisting that denial is a river in Africa. You get the feeling that he will be closing his interviews with ‘They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist…’ (It’s certainly something they should consider carving on New Labour’s tombstone.)
It’ll be a miserable, miserable, miserable spectacle, demeaning to all. Platitudes are not a breakfast cereal. Go and find something far more wholesome and nourishing. We’re off car-booting to bring home more crap we don’t need to fill space we don’t have. A bit like New Labour law makers.
Posted on May 4th, 2008 at 8:37 am
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Sat through it over breakfast as my youngest lad (whose 18 today) had it on.
Apart from the managerialist platitudes, buzzwords and bollockspeak, what did stand out was a couple of occasions where he was banging on about housing - how he wanted to build 3 million homes for people to get their foot on the ladder.
Now’t there about those who can’t afford to get their foot on the private housing ladder; nothing about council or social house building; absolutely sod all about meeting future environmental standards of house building or getting an existing percentage of housing stock up to energy efficiency scratch to deal with future energy realities.
In short, just a restatement of abdication of any responsibility on the part of government or the State to control the market. Merely a reiteration of the management mantra that the only role of government and the state is to manage (definition: to cope) the dog eat dog market not control it.
The lack of ideas; the absence of imagination; the total inability to consider any other mode of life then the distorted social Darwinism that lies at the heart of the right wing and capitalist mindset.
And they wonder why the majority don’t bother to vote. I mean its not rocket science. It does not need gimmicks like internet or text voting. All most people want is someone to represent their interests not two and half gangs scrapping over who gets to manage a dying and imploding system with no future.
Look like the Brown Matrix is heading down the pan then!
Curly’s latest blog post… Wouldhave Memorial
That whole building-3-million-new-homes mantra is just so much PR flannel. It was never Brown`s intention to get the government`s hands soiled by actually being intimately involved in building real things. No, apparently funds were/are to be made available (or extra credit extended) to housing associations and the like to persuade them to build these extra homes. As Curly said, the same old mindnumbing market-mechanism snake oil; god forbid that the nation`s own government or even local councils should start building the damn things! Hell, no!
As for watching Brown`s ashen-faced performance (as if someone had dug him up, shot a few thousand volts across his temples and wheeled him into the studio), his (and jolly Jack Straw`s) insistence that Layburr can win a 4th sound like transmissions from Baron Munchhausen`s Planet. Whatever next? - that Labour will be the first British political party to send a minister to the moon? That Davey Miliband will lead an expedition to find the Antarctic entrance to the hollow earth? That HM Gov will sign a PFI contract with Halliburton to have the UK towed across the Atlantic so that Gordie doesn`t have far to go to get his next batch of orders?
I match their delusions, and raise them an absurdity!
Didn’t think Brown had it in 1992 when he bottled out of standing against John Smith. Suspicions of his lack of cojones were confirmed when he wimped out in 1994. Both instances were based on his belief that power was his God-given right so why should he fight for it. 10 years of Brown as Chancellor merely added weight to my conviction that he was fundamentally unsuited to a leadership role on a national scale.
So I’ve been right for the last decade and a half. Do I derive any satisfaction from such rightness? Do I bollocks! Ditching Brown would be a first step to recovery, but for two almost insurmountable obstacles; where do you find 70 Labour MPs with the balls to act and who the hell do you replace Brown with? After all, it isn’t as if Labour is awash with talent.
Every time I see Brown speak now, I am reminded of a quote by Adam Savage from Mythbusters; “I reject your reality, and substitue my own”. That’s Brown for you, and that’s why 2010 is just another depressing prospect (in addition to being a weak novel by Arthur C. Clarke and also the year we make contact).
And just to pile on the agony, I can derive no pleasure from the thought of being able to attack the Tories once they are in power. It is about as appealing a prospect as taking a cheese grater to my scrotum.