Browndemonium

This reshuffle is all about survival, Gordon Brown’s survival. He is trying to buy off his enemies, placate cabinet colleagues who could destroy him and stabilise his government. It looks like he is too weak to be able to put Ed Balls into the Chancellorship, so all last week’s public dithering about Darling’s position was pain for no gain.

Yvette Balls looks set for promotion so the bunker team is not without advance. can’t help but wonder what Mandelson is thinking. The serpent could, if he wanted, strike a fatal blow at any moment…

I think Mandelson should strike the fatal blow. Karma is a bitch isn't it Gordon? Remember what you did to Tony Blair? Put him under incredible pressure to leave office so you could get your over-sized mitts on his job? Remember when you and your team briefed the press against him and oh how you laughed when the pressure mounted on him. Not very nice to get a taste of your own medicine is it?

NuLabour has made more use of the upper chamber to place ministers than any other government since the 1950s.

Bizzare: ennoblement hasn’t really meant anything since Tudor times. Georgian at the very outside.

Oh, and that they're pledged to its abolition.

I well remember our last Labour Party function. It was a huge Christmas quiz/raffle fund raiser at the local WMC.
We called ourselves the Santa Claus Four. Not only did we wipe the floor with the rest of the quiz teams, but we also took a share of raffle prizes. We had to get a taxi home! I had a huge stand up row with one of the officials, after he called me a "Commie."
Needless to say we four all resigned soon after. After thirty years of the market economy, who knows? Maybe one day Heritage Labour will reform. I can't see it happening in my lifetime though.

What fabulous prizes did you win, on your night of glory before the Militant Tendency was lanced?

With a nod to Samuel Beckett, I like to call the current void 'Waiting for Gordo'.

Amused to see that the beacon of democratic accountability that is Glynis Kinnock is in fact still an MEP, and is to remain so until 13th July – and therefore cannot be a Minister of the Crown.

Thus on Euro election night – Browngabe and his henchmen have in fact no UK Minister for Europe.

I nearly wet meself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZSFl-RPwzA

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Originally posted by Bigdaddyostrich:
What fabulous prizes did you win, on your night of glory before the Militant Tendency was lanced?

With a nod to Samuel Beckett, I like to call the current void 'Waiting for Gordo'.

Appropriate prizes of champagne, luxury foods, and stuffed toys, rather like a ten minute trolley dash around Lewis and Coopers.

For my younger readers I can confirm that this was many years after militant tendency, a group which never caught on in the top right.

Sounds delightful!

Now that NuLabour are one big happy family again, let's have a bit of Red Flag nostalgia.

How's about, oh, I dunno.... A TUBE STRIKE!!!

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Originally posted by Bigdaddyostrich:
Sounds delightful!

Now that NuLabour are one big happy family again, let's have a bit of Red Flag nostalgia.

How's about, oh, I dunno.... A TUBE STRIKE!!!

I think that we can allow the good people of London to sort out their own domestic sexual matters. We shall dismiss this headline as too much information.

I'll leave today's update to Mr Fawkes

Democratic renewal