“There are 17 people that count, and to say that I am intimate with every one of them is the understatement of the century” Derek Draper, 23 June 1998. There is little I can add to the well-published facts surrounding the odious activities of the head of Downing St. Strategy and Planning Unit, Damian McBride, [...]
Tag Archives: Gordon Brown
Devalued Prime Minister of a devalued country – that Daniel Hannon speech
March 30, 2009 – 4:15 pm
Conservative MEP Daniel Hannon thrashed UK Prime Minister and saviour of the world’s banks (but not the Dunfermline Building Society) Gordon Brown in a speech on 26 March in the European Parliament, which over 1,700,000 people have viewed so far. Brown can be seen smirking and taking notes as the tidy Tory details a list [...]
What Michael Portillo saw in Basra
March 27, 2009 – 12:25 pm
. . . highlights the tragedy of a wasteful adventure which cost the lives of soldiers, civilians and insurgents, and ended in unnecessary and undeserved ignominy for the British Army “Our departure from Iraq ends a dismal period in our military history” writes Michael Portillo, former (Conservative) UK Defence Secretary, in this week’s excellent edition [...]
An open letter to Gordon Brown, saviour of the world's banks, apart from Iceland, the UK and . . .
March 17, 2009 – 12:52 am
As Gordon and Alastair puff out their chests and iron their M+S Let’s Pretend We’re Businessmen suits (made in Indonesia) to host the G20 Global Summit on the global economy, a letter from Steven Katirai, whose Google search reveals him as a capital markets consultant based in the North East of England, has been doing the rounds [...]
Recession or depression? Don't ask Gordon Brown, he's in denial.
February 12, 2009 – 9:46 pm
A recession is defined as two successive quarters of negative GDP; a depression is defined as a slide in peak-to-trough of real GDP of 10% or a decline lasting more than three years. According to Mervyn King, Head of the Bank of England, the UK ‘recession’ is much deeper than anticipated. GDP might drop by [...]
Shriti Vadera. Crazy name, crazy gal. Gordon's most trusted advisor..
January 15, 2009 – 5:03 pm
. . . and that’s the problem. By John J Kelly. The shortcomings of ‘Baroness’ Shriti Vadera, junior Business Minister and one of the principal architects of the Private Finance Initiative, a tsunami-in-waiting for the UK economy have been hidden, largely because the Guardian and others are too scared to have a go at Gordon’s well-connected special [...]
Spice-up Girls reunion promised with Campbell and Mandy proving social mobility is a fact in Brown's Britain
January 12, 2009 – 6:15 pm
Several weeks ago, Thus Magazine speculated that dark forces were abroad in the Mordor of Gordon Brown’s never-had-it-so-good Britain in the form of Mandy and Campbell. Now, according to The Independent on Sunday, Alistair Campbell, disgraced Blair witch doctor, alleged dodgy dossier editor, hammer of the BBC and the deceased Dr David Kelly, looks set to join [...]
Bob be Nimble, Bob be Quick. Resign from the enquiry now.
December 22, 2008 – 1:27 pm
Although THUS promised to stop wittering about the Damian Green arrest and various attempts to paint the Tories in the unlikely role of supporters of terrorism, yesterday’s ‘revelation’ that Bob Quick, Head of the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Unit, who is coincidentally leading the investigation into the Home Office leaks which resulted in the arrest of [...]
Would you waste a shoe on Gordon Brown?
December 17, 2008 – 11:18 am
. . .clearly the answer is no. In the second surprise visit to Iraq in three days British Prime Minister Gordon Brown held a press conference with his opposite number, Iraqi US stooge Nouri-Al-Maliki to announce what we already knew (THUS Passim), namely that the last 4100 British troops would finally be withdrawn from Iraq [...]
It's Sunday, so it must be Islamabad
December 14, 2008 – 4:37 pm
UPDATE: They seek him here, they seek him there. Gordon Brown has moved on to Pakistan, wearing the same suit and tie, where he has applied pressure to allow the Metropolitan Police to ‘interview’ one or more of the Mumbai bombing suspects. The strategy is simple. Render them to London, buy them an Oyster Card and invite [...]