Wednesday, 29 April 2009



Jarvis Cocker says…

“I think Gordon Brown’s behaviour just makes a mockery of the whole system… A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative. You can sense an era passing.”


Carla Bruni Sex Tapes - Tory Bear
Priority for Labour MPs - Jon Craig
Pickles’ Favourite Websites - CentreRight
Was Cameron ‘Dave the Raver’? - Guardian
Internet Could Finish Brown Off - Bagehot
Polish PM Lectures Brown on Debt - Times
Tories Fail to Kick Balls Over Lies - Simon Hoggart
Laugh at Gordon’s Web 2.0 Failures - Times
Westminster Isn’t Listening to Labour - PolitcsHome
Byers : Labour Will Regret 50p Tax - Ben Brogan
Has Peter Mandelson Given Up? - Comment Central
Samantha Cameron Grounds Dave - Times
Maguire Crossed from Journalist to Propagandist - Matthew Norman
Telegraph Too Close to McBride for Comfort - Stephen Glover
Bra Boss Removes Support over 50% Tax - BBC
Don’t Judge Us All By Draper’s Practises - Observer
McBride Faces Commons Grilling - PR Week

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2009

McBride Changes His Number

Damian McPoisonAnother sighting of Damian McBride, apparently he has been circulating his new mobile number to his Lobby drinking buddies. Guess that means Guido won’t be able to send him any more text messages.

Maybe he can get a job on the Telegraph, after all he has plenty of experience writing copy for them.  He could always write a book.  If he got one out in time for Labour Party conference he could trouser a quick six-figure advance for a smear and tell book.  Obviously it won’t be worth so much after the general election…

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+++ Government Loses Gurkha Vote +++

What will put fear into the Labour Party is that it was defeated by a LibDem - Conservative alliance. Cameron and Clegg seemed very at ease with each other in front of the press. Dave even paid tribute to Clegg’s leadership on the issue. Liberal love bombing which has strategic political implications…

Lib Con Alliance

“Just Go” Petition" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 68, 119); ">Blogging Tory MP Signs Downing Street “Just Go” Petition

ResignAny minute now the “Just Go”petition on the Downing Street website will be the number one issue on Gordon’s home page, helped on the way by the support of Douglas Carswell MP*, the blogging MP who added his name to the list this lunchtime. When the digital engagement team in Downing Street came up with this wheeze they didn’t really think it through did they?  The coverage has been widespread and uniformly bad for Gordon:

20,000 sign petition calling for resignation of Gordon Brown -Telegraph

Gordon Brown silences YouTube critics by disabling viewer comments Times
Gordon Brown’s YouTube message on MPs’ expenses has been watched only 4000 times. By contrast, the video of him picking his nose has been watched 630000 

Gordon Brown is running on empty - Telegraph

Snubbed Abroad, Humiliated At Home Sky News

Yakkety yak, don’t talk back Times

Has the government’s e-petitioning system backfired? - VNUNet.com
The government’s e-petitioning system may have backfired. Over 15000 people have signed a petition posted on the Downing Street web site last week calling 

Resignation appeal Scotsman
Gordon Brown was yesterday facing calls for his resignation – from a public petition posted on his own official website. The petition, which has already 

EMBARRASSED BROWN URGED TO QUIT NOW Daily Star
UNDER-fire PM Gordon Brown was left red-faced yesterday after a double whammy of attacks on his competence. Firstly, a petition on his own 

QUIT DOWNING STREET’ PETITION IS A BIG HIT - Express

More than 20000 sign petition on Downing Street website demanding resignation Daily Mail
A petition on 10 Downing Street’s own website calling for Gordon Brown to resign as Prime Minister has reached the 20,000-signature 

Wonder if Tom Watson, the Minister for Mudslinging and Digital Engagement, has had to duck a Nokia today?

*Charles Clarke MP probably is not a genuine signatory. Or is he?

I’m the Prime Minister, Get Me Out of Here

The chamber fell about laughing after Gordon made a twat of himself forgetting he had a statement to ke:



Jarvis Cocker says…

“I think Gordon Brown’s behaviour just makes a mockery of the whole system… A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative. You can sense an era passing.”

UPDATE : In reply to the statement Dave said: “Can I thank the Prime Minister for making his statement…it was a close run thing”.

Clegg Hit His Mark

Nick Clegg doesn’t always shine at PMQs.  He sometimes misjudges the chamber and suffers for it.  He got the tone right for once.  Dale usually scores PMQs, think Clegg deserves a winning score.

UPDATE : Dale did score Clegg the winner.

Osborne : PM is Mad Hatter

Like Guido, George Osborne basically thinks Brown is bonkers.  He has in the past described the Prime Mentalist as “autistic”.  In Shadow Chancellor’s speech during the debate on the budget he returned to the theme once again, calling Brown a “mad hatter”:

I hear sneers and dismissal from Government Members about the IMF’s figures, but I thought that the IMF was going to be the new early-warning system for the Prime Minister. In a stroke, the IMF destroyed the credibility of the premise on which the Budget and its borrowing figures had been built. The claim is that within just two years, the British economy is supposed to bounce from the deepest recession that it has known since the second world war to levels of economic growth and household consumption seen only at the height of the boom; we now know that, frankly, in the view of almost every independent forecaster, that is a complete fantasy. No wonder that one paper this morning described the whole thing as “Alistair in Wonderland”. I guess that that leaves the Prime Minister as our mad hatter—and given the expression on the face of the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, he is the white rabbit.

According to Matthew d’Ancona “the subtext “at least Dave is sane” will underpin most of what the Tories say until polling day.” Good. No amount of talk as to the merits of quantitative easing, credit flows or the broken society will ignite passion, or hope to “seal the deal”. Talk instead of the Prime Mentalist in Downing Street, who has now almost run out of people to blame, yet won’t himself say sorry. Inflaming that popular anger with Gordon will “seal his repeal”

Osborne is right to to tap into the popular contempt people feel for Gordon Brown.