Is this really important?
A Blairite minister leaving yesterday's cabinet meeting
It seems that stories are pouring out now about Our Dear Leader. Allegation after allegation sneaks its way into the media, each more apparently scurrilous than the last. Claims and counter-claims are issued, “impartial” witnesses appear, the Leader of the Opposition weighs in, poll results change …
But is this really a matter of national import?
Is it really a significant matter that the Prime Minister of the country is reputed to be a bully? After his calamitous handling of the economy, his profligate spending, his cack-handed treatment of the military, his repeated thefts from us disguised as munificence, does a little bit of throwing things at secretaries really matter?
I suspect that it does.
Because at the end of it all, you can justify the big things as “policy” or “realpolitik” or ideology. There will be voters out there who genuinely believe that Gordon’s wealth redistribution has not gone far enough. There will be the gullible or the “vote for a moose with a red rosette” brigade who will quite happily endorse Gordon’s policies and activities. But nobody likes a bully, not even other bullies.
And that is why this scandal will do nothing to harm the Labour Party, but will do a lot to damage Gordon Brown.
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February 23, 2010 at 08:53 -
But nobody likes a bully, not even other bullies.
Oh, I don’t know. There seems to be a few out there who admire that sort of thing.
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February 23, 2010 at 09:13 -
It is extremely sad that for 48/73 hours bullying seems to be the only topic on the political agenda.
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February 23, 2010 at 09:14 -
I doubt Brown will suffer much damage from this. The general public seem to fall for Mandelson’s spin and deceit with alarming ease.
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February 23, 2010 at 09:18 -
Disagree, o Tory one….
I think Thadders is on the money here. But I also think it will do the Party harm in the election: who are the more bullied of the species….? Women.
Who are the main undecideds right now…..? Women.
The truly disgusting thing is Mandelsmear twisting arms and throwing mud as usual. The man gives gays everywhere a bad name.
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February 23, 2010 at 10:15 -
Only to people who judge all members of an identity group by the behaviour of one member of that group…
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February 23, 2010 at 10:55 -
According to Sarah Brown, Gordon is a pussycat.
Even the BBC love him because they went in to bat for him yesterday in such an over-the-top, vindictive and balanced kinda way….
Brown deserves all he gets after years of purile behviour. New Labour, whose culture has increasingly begun to look like a Stalinist regime (poor copy) are part and parcel of this whole thing. They’ve been bullying the population for years. They will both go down and, me thinks, they should be sent down, for a very long time – fullsentence, no remission
It is relevant precisely because Bliar set up the moral crusade and Brown has tried to continue it. The shit always rises to the top.
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February 23, 2010 at 11:45 -
Is this really important?
No.
The media sucked in to another manufactured news story, by people out to make a quick buck.
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February 23, 2010 at 12:56 -
@Blink February 23, 2010 at 10:55
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New Labour, whose culture has increasingly begun to look like a Stalinist regime (poor copy)
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Hmmm. I think Joe would have died for the means of population repression that New Labour have at their hands and like to use. I see security arches are starting to pop up in our cities, for random searches of of citizens (Manchester, last week, for two days, HARDLY reported by the lily-livered MSM, Hammersmiff & Chidzee next apparently. And drones all over London in time for the Olympics.Time to leave if these bastards get in again. I’m looking to claim my Irish citizenship. Yes it’s a Third World country, yes it’s corrupt – but it doesn’t have a government of bastards looking to monitor your every move.
Enough is enough. It seems to me we are ruled by the type of people my father and many others risked their lives to fight against all those years ago.
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