Archive for the 'Gordon Brown' Category
Gordon’s real problem is his cowardice
Yazan: Sara | 28 April 2010 | 2 Comments
Categories: Gordon Brown
At the end of last week, Labour Party strategists said that they wanted Gordon Brown to get out and meet more ordinary people. To be honest, most of us wondered why he had been so sheltered – after all when most of us are fighting elections,we tr to meet as many of the voters as possible. [...]
And it’s too late baby, now it’s too late
Yazan: Sara | 06 January 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Gordon Brown, Labour
Watching the Labour Party slowly commit political suicide today has been far less pleasant than I would have expected. Switching onto the Daily Politics just before Prime Minister’s Questions, we were treated to Andrew Neil and Nick Robinson joking together about the ridiculous possibility of an imminent coup against Brown. Over in the Commons, Brown managed [...]
Does Gordon Brown really care about our elderly?
Yazan: Sara | 18 November 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Gordon Brown, Labour
Today’s Queen’s Speech is widely expected to bring forward a Personal Care at Home Bill, designed to pay for personal care for many pensioners. Reports on its contents suggest that there will be many who fall through this ’safety net’, not least those whose needs are so great that they have to move into residential [...]
Even Tessa's had enough now
Yazan: sarabedford | 04 July 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: Gordon Brown, Labour, MPs
It was only a month ago that Gordon Brown was forced to recall Tessa Jowell to the Cabinet, after it looked like he was not only short on gender balance, but also MPs with an iota of credibility willing to serve. Now it appears that the ultimate ‘professional politician’ has had enough. I know she’s [...]
Gordon's glass is half-full
Yazan: sarabedford | 01 July 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Gordon Brown
This afternoon at PMQs, the Prime Minister announced that there would be a ‘zero per cent rise’ in spending in 2013-14. How strange to find that the son of the manse sees the glass as always being half full!
R4's new 'I'm the Chancellor' slot
Yazan: sarabedford | 30 June 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Alistair Darling, economy, Gordon Brown
Yesterday’s Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme saw Thought for the Day followed by a new slot – ‘I’m the Chancellor’. Yesterday the slot was filled by Peter Mandelson, who announced that the Comprehensive Spending Review would be postponed until after the next General Election. Mandelson said that he “believed that the Chancellor has made that judgement”, [...]
I blame Vince Cable
Yazan: sarabedford | 06 May 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Gordon Brown
So Gordon Brown is already planning for the aftermath of electoral bloodbath on 4th June with a ‘ruthless Cabinet reshuffle‘? After the events of the past few months, a June reshuffle seemed to be the least we could expect, with a June General Election still a possibility until things just got too bad for a [...]
McBride, Draper and the Ian Oakley link
Yazan: sarabedford | 14 April 2009 | 11 Comments
Categories: Conservatives, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Ian Oakley, Watford
I know exactly the day on which Gordon Brown should comment on the shameful antics of Damian McBride and Derek Draper – 8th Spetember 2009. That’s exactly 150 days from the date of McBride’s resignation from the Prime Minister’s office. Why 150 days? Well that’s how long it took for David Cameron to mumble a half-hearted apology of sorts [...]
Student politics at PMQ? Kindergarten kids behave better!
Yazan: sarabedford | 30 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Parliament
Now that I am supposedly a lady of leisure (Ha, ha!), I often get the chance to watch Prime Minister’s Question Time. I really don’t know why I bother – I might as well watch a poor slapstick comedy film on one of the various channels that Sky throw in to my package for free. Twenty [...]
Don't be ghoulish, don't be foolish
Yazan: sarabedford | 14 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: by-elections, Gordon Brown, Scotland, SNP
There’s nothing like a by-election to get us political types excited – anything from a Parish Council to a Parliamentary seat will do. Most of us of all parties are sent scrambling for the statistics and background to see what the chances are. It’s important to remember that behind many by-elections is a tragedy – [...]
