For your entertainment. The Twitterverse is going nuts on #bigotgate!
This should really set the scene for Thursday’s PM debates. It is difficult to see how Gordon Brown can recover his composure after this. However, no doubt he will as he appears to have the skin of a rhinosaurus. Will be watching with fascination.
BLAME THE Scots for the fact that the Barnett formula has not changed, despite it being so out-of-date and its failure to ensure that Westminster tax money fails to be sent to the areas which deserve it most of all, writes Clive Betts from the Assembly press gallery.
That was the line from Nick Bourne, leader of the Welsh Tories.
Wales would get about an extra £1bn per year. But it would be at the expense of the Scots.
You can spy behind the comments the name of the Scot who is causing the trouble. Surely no less than the Prime Minister Mr Brown, a person with whom Mr Bourne, you can be sure, is seldom in agreement.
And of course there is a second person who would complain, Mr Bourne reminds us. That is the First Minister in Edinburgh. And – being SNP – he’d no doubt make a hell of a rumpus.
But it’s good to note that the Tories have thought quite deeply about the issue. And that they’ve come to the sort of conclusion which has been around for some time. Even if those comments about the SNP will not often be voiced aloud by Plaid in Wales.
The BBC’s Andrew Marr asked Gordon Brown in an interview on Sunday whether he has been prescribed medication to help him cope with the pressures of his job (see Guardian article). Most people would not be surprised or concerned that indeed he was taking medication, after all he is in a very hard and pressurised job and there are very good medical solutions around to help one in five of us through the day. I think you’d need more than the odd single malt or paracetamol to get through the sort of day that GB normally has. We would have some sympathy.
However, what is more difficult to swallow is evasion or denial of such treatment. Nevertheless the Labour spin machine is in full denial mode on this. If it ever transpired that Brown is taking medication after all then the damage to his political health would be life endangering and irreversable.
In the film the Matrix, Morpheus offers Neo the choice of the blue pill or the red pill. If this was UK politics, the red pill would be another dosage of NuLiebour whilst the blue pill represents a purgatory dose of Toryism. What fantasy does the brown pill offer?
Note. Neo chooses the red pill and subsequently finds himself naked in a liquid-filled pod, his body connected by wires and tubes to a vast mechanical tower covered with identical pods.
It will be interesting to see if this official Downing Street petition asking Gordon Brown to resign gets many signatures. Methinks all those addresses and signatories will end up somewhere on MI5′ s list or a Labour List spamming/smearing campaign. Mind you some online petitions take off like wildfire so you never know your luck.
Image Hat tip: Guido Fawkes
UPDATE: Carry on up the Prime Minister petition
Everyone else has got this so I suppose we should have it too. Daniel Hannan MEP rips a new arsehole in G.Brown. He makes the same point that Wyn Price (see below) has made about all the money being diverted into the public sector at the expense of business and the taxpayer.
Gordon Brown finds Daniel Hannan's speech amusing.
Gordon Brown’s message to the people of Wales on St David’s Day was sent to the organisers of the National St David’s day Parade in Cardiff rather than to Welsh Labour Party Leader and First Minister Rhodri Morgan to deliver, it has emerged.
The message, from the Prime Minister’s office in No 10 Downing Street was sent by email to the Parade’s President Henry Jones-Davies, publisher of the national magazine Cambria. It was read publicly, in English and Welsh, by David Petersen, a leading member of the National St David’s Day Parade Committee, to a gathering of more than a thousand people outside Cardiff City Hall at the start of the Parade last Sunday on March 1st , attended by representatives of all the political parties in the Senedd – except Labour.
Despite cross party support since the Parade’s inception in 2004, the Labour party has consistently boycotted the event, with not a single Labour MP, AM or councillor attending.
“On the occasion of St David’s Day I would like to send my warmest greetings to the people of Wales and Welsh people all across the world.” The Prime Minister’s message ran. “The National Day of Wales is a time of proud celebration right across the four corners of Wales and beyond. From the birthplace of St David in the West of Wales, to the parades in Cardiff, Swansea and in North Wales, the St David’s Day festivities will play out.
In the cultural sphere we continue to pay tribute to your musical stars, especially this year’s Brit Award winner Duffy, national film and television personalities and those in the Arts.
Political life in Wales is always inspiring and in difficult economic times such as these we continue to find inspiration in working together with you to do whatever it takes to support Welsh businesses and jobs.
St David said in his famous final words that we should ‘do the little things in life’, and today we mark a great number of Welsh achievements, small and large, individual and collective, that contribute to a strong, proud and passionate nation.
I wish you all a wonderful St David’s Day.”
This year’s Parade, attended by a record 10,000 people ended with speeches and a flourish on the steps of the Senedd, with Conservative AM William Graham and Plaid Cymru AM Chris Franks addressing a capacity crowd of several thousands. Again, there were no Labour representatives present, although former Plaid Cymru luminary and now Labour AM Alun Davies was spotted standing on the periphery of the Oriel.
Bloggers can be so cruel! Not for those of a nervous or Labour disposition.
The last days of Gordon Brown skit
Hat tip: Guido Fawkes
All out attack on GB by Richard Littlejohn of the Daily Mail… HERE . This is contempt taken to the next level. If anyone wrote this about me I’d go after them with a gun! What’s the matter with GB? Has he no cojones?
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Meeting with Welsh Ambulance Trust officials and local residents re problems around Cwmbwrla Ambulance depot
@daily_politics @afneil So those who can afford servants can now have a tax break...are we really heading towards Victorian times now !
(Death of a thousand cuts!) Phone hacking: News International faces more than 50 new damages claims http://t.co/P95BvfSZ #p2 #topprog #tlot
