The Brown Stuff

The Brown Stuff

>> MONDAY, MAY 10, 2010

Immediately following Gordon Brown's announcement that Labour and the Lib Dems have decided to screw the Tories and fuck the country up the arse with red hot pokers wrapped in barbed wire, BBC News had a panel ready and waiting - two Labour guys (Lord Adonis, Alastair Campbell) and one Lib Dem (David Steel) all spinning the message that a LibLab coalition was the best way forward. Hilariously, at one point Huw Edwards - lacking an opposing viewpoint - even turned to Adonis and asked if he agreed with what Alastair Campbell had just said. Like he was going to say no!

Next up was another Labour rep (Douglas Alexander) - parroting the same message. Then, two more supporters of an anti-Tory coalition - Labour MP John Mann and someone from the SNP, rubbing his hands at the prospect of screwing the English for more and more taxes. And finally - 45 minutes after Brown had spoken - BBC News gave us the first opposing view in the person of Tory MP Nigel Evans.

And I see Nick Robinson is already speaking as if it's all now a done deal - "historic realignment of politics".

Update. I don't think the voters in my constituency of Thirsk and Malton (we haven't had our say yet - May 27) will take too kindly to the prospect of a progressive coalition of the losers and yet another unelected Labour leader. I predict a massive majority for Tory candidate Ann McIntosh. (Update 2 Unless of course the Cameroons turn up and start canvassing with a message about the Big Society and similar toss like that.)

Green Zone

Further to Robin Horbury's comments about the BBC's joy over Caroline Lucas winning her seat - here's a wishful exchange from Friday morning's post-election Today programme:

Evan Davis: I love the idea that the first Green MP is possibly going to hold the balance of power in the House of Commons…

John Humphrys: Wonderful thought. Wonderful thought.

Evan Davis: … control the entire operation.

CALEDONIAN LEARNING

I enjoyed this headline from the BBC this morning...a Caledonian learning?

Can Conservatives learn how to negotiate a deal with Lib Dems from the Scottish experience? Liberal Democrats and Labour governed in Scottish coalition for two terms until 1997. Jack McConnell, former Labour First Minister, explains how it could work.

BIODIVERSITY AT THE BEEB..

Had a laugh at the BBC report this morning on the Today programme 7.18am mourning the failure of "the world" to meet a UN target on declining biodiversity. It seems that this decline is every bit as deadly as global warming, according to the strictly unbiased Tom Fielden, and as a consequence, we should instantly ignore such drivel.

FARCICAL...

The EU's "rescue" of the Greek economy has become a naked attempt by the Brussels machine to extend the powers of our EU government so that it will regulate all 27 economies on an unprecedented scale. The UK - still represented by the Brownite squatters - is powerless to prevent this happening, and is saddled with a bill that is estimated will cost the UK taxpayer £43bn. Meanwhile, the BBC report on the fiasco as if it were about events in a different country. Following on from my post yesterday, Dave's policy towards Europe is shown up to be the obscene shambles that it is; he shunned a pre-election deal with UKIP - calling them "fuitcakes and loonies" - and lost at least 20 seats as a result; and now he's cobbling together a coalition with the mosty Europhile party of them all, the Cleggmaniacs. To the BBC, this is an issue that does not even register; they long since took the Brussels shilling.

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