Flash Gordon II

Guido has the lowdown on the latest sighting of the Brown Pimpernel. Apparently, like Flash Harry from the St Trinians films, he's taken to wearing a trilby hat low over his eyes and a long coat that makes him look like he's gliding along without any sign of leg movement, slithering from Important Rich Luminary to Important Rich Luminary, touting for a bit of trade. "Inconspicuous" is the watchword.

After some excitement this morning that Gordon Brown might actually be in town to represent his constituents the truth unravels. While he may have put a fleeting five minutes in the chamber, (making the number of days he as been in two out of a possible forty-nine,) King of the Lobby Gary Gibbon has; what he was really down here for. A meeting with a Kennedy, a chat with Sir Tim Berners-Lee about his future employability and a natter with his old cabinet allies.

So it seems the great Brownian contempt for his own constituents, the public purse that provides his unearned salary and his abject lack of contrition for - or even interest in - his role in the debt disaster now confronting Britain thanks to him will just go on and on and on. Until someone in government has the guts to put a stop to it, preferably with legislation on the conduct of sitting MPs.

People should be a lot more angry about this than the painful budget Brown has brought down on our heads thanks to that sponging loser's economic incompetence and political desperation.

As much as it was a Coalition budget, this was Brown's budget. The Tories were right: let no one forget that. Oh, and if we are expected to make sacrifices for the sake of the future security of the nation's finances, then might I suggest that everyone should be forced to pull his or her weight. We're all in this together, after all.

Flash Gordon, that ex-wrecker and now dodgy shirker, would be a top target for me for the chop. Why should I be paying for him not to do his job? Cameron can lead by example, but he can also make them - preferably of the predecessor who is so frightened of facing the music to the extent that he is effectively now on the run.

It's time Brown's past caught up with him.

Bigotgate: The Musical

Many things have been said. Many things have yet to be said, but will be said.

But only Guido captures the summary with a beautiful number from another fallen King:



Farewell, Gordon. Peace be with you.

The end.

Gaffe Of The Century

Courtesy of Guy News:

One million Labour supporters have just realised that Gordon Brown is a total asshole, and that they, Brown's 'bigots', mean precisely nothing to him beyond their role as irrelevant voting fodder.

It's the gaffe of this young century. And you know what? I reckon it was a set-up by anti-Brown insiders. That might not do Brown's legendary paranoia much good, but it's wrecked his campaign.

==Update==

And here's Mrs Duffy's reaction. As far as I'm concerned, she comes across as an extremely nice lady. But not to Brown, oh no.

And now he's in her front room pleading for his political career. I'm sure she'll forgive him - she seems to be the forgiving, gentle type, (besides, Brown's goons and minders will no-doubt have checked beforehand).

But I'm absolutely certain the rest of the country will not be quite so receptive to his fake contrition act. We've seen it all before.

Sharpening The Message

Guido has highlighted a new, public-sourced, 'anti-politics' (whatever that actually means - politics is politics isn't it?) anti-some other stuff attack page designed to reveal just how major and sustained a disaster the Brown years have been for Britain.

LabourVision.TV launches tomorrow – a crowd sourced effort to produce an online anti-party, anti-political election broadcast. Details revealed tomorrow of how your video can be part of Gordon – the Disaster Movie premiering on May Day. The bar is high. Come back tomorrow…

The page can be found at the link in the quote and will be well worth a visit, not least because we have the tantalising prospect of the May Day movie, coming soon to a blog near you.

If this outstanding first effort is anything to go on, the results of this project could be pretty damaging for an already severely wounded Brown-Labour campaign.



I think this is what you call 'sharpening the message' and hats off to Guido for doing it. Tory campaign HQ should take note.

The Liberal Mystery Tour

Cleggmania grips Britain!



Far out man! Scrap the Bomb! LSD rules! "Liberal Sychedelic (sic) Democrats". Clegg's bigger than Jesus, man! Gotta grow a beard, dude. And get some sandals. Free love!

(Good effort from one of Guido's imaginative minions.)

Fawkes On Whelan

Enjoyed the McBride fact or fiction thing. Not sure what that 'Eric Tickles' thing was all about, though.

But Whelan. Sheesh, what a real piece of work that scumbag is. In terms of being a total stranger to the truth, and being as corrupt as a gambling copper with a serious drinking habit, he's second only to Brown himself. Well, the Labour wheels have come flying right off this time. There's one thing people never, ever forgive and that's being taken for mugs.

Unite's funding of Labour with public money, and 100+ Labour MPs, again with public money, and its subsequent war on BA (which does not serve the interests of its members) makes Brown's - and Labour's - position untenable. Unless Brown gives the £11 million back - not to Unite, but to the taxpayer - people will rightly feel robbed. But he can't do that because first it would be an admission of guilt, and second, it would bankrupt an insolvent party.

Checkmate.

Bullying Is A Serious Matter

Guy News is starting to get almost as good as The Day Today was. Well, almost. ("Yes, it's war!")

PS: Who thinks Emily Nomates is fitter than Cheryl Cole?

Update:
By popular demand (sort of)...

False Alarm?

Guido has just posted one of his all-headline-and-no-meat teasers with a story that I suppose might be true, but which, sadly, after the last one (which was about two weeks ago or so, if memory serves), surely isn't.

"BBC Source: BBC News Team on "Red Alert" for election call," trumpets Guido.

All I can say is, I hope he's bloody well right this time. But past experience of ditherer McDoom should tell us that this is just another false alarm sounded by The Party to keep its propaganda arm, the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation, on its collectivised pinkies.

I suppose we'll just have to wait and see. But if we have to wait, say, three months to see, then Guido should know that he certainly won't be able to count this one as an "exclusive".

But, you know, more power to him for sticking his neck out - I guess.

==Update 21.38==
This could be a little sliver of evidence in support of Guido's assertion. Bishop Hill has blogged about the general election's possible imminence, though in the context of the climate change scam, naturally. In his own update, however, he says:

Richard Drake in the comments notes that yesterday, after taking evidence from Sir John Beddington, Select Committee chairman Phil Willis bid the scientist "farewell" in the following terms:

"This is likely, Professor Beddington, to be the last time we have the pleasure of you before our Committee. Could we thank you very strongly indeed for all the work you have done with our Committee and indeed your predecessors."

Given that Sir John is due to appear in front of the committee on Monday to give evidence on the CRU affair, it does rather look as if our suspicions may be correct.

Curiouser and curiouser. Maybe Guido's right after all.

"Mark Harper Is An Expert Tosser"

This is just one of the really good Guy News' gags in this week's gripping instalment.


"Taxbreaks for dead people," indeed. Lol.

By the way, Emily "Nomates" contributed something to the latest Private Eye. Thought you might like to know...er, never mind.

I Agree With Guido

I agree with Guido insofar as, if I understand him right, parliamentarians should be forced to make a choice upon their election: you're either an MP (and therefore a public servent) or a corporate type on a promise (and therefore something else) - and never the twain shall meet. You must not, in other words, be connected to any private company in any way whatsoever for the duration of your office. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

As for secret slush funds and Brown denials, while I feel sorry for Tim Yeo - I think he really believes he did nothing wrong, at least in the sense of breaking any parliamentary interest declaration rules (and we all know how wonderfully immune to MPs' fiddling parliamentary rules are, especially after the expenses scandal) - I certainly don't for Brown, who, as always, with this secret and illegal slush fund, was only ever serving his own interests, which always take absolute precidence over those of his political comrades, parliament's and everyone else in the entire country's. And always have. Yeo might be reprimanded, though that should be up to the electorate. But Brown should be jailed!

Anyway, for those of you who might not know how to use YouTube yet, and will therefore have to wait until Monday for this feast of televisual Guidoese political gunpowder, I've performed the complex and onerous task of cutting and pasting the embed code to my blog, just for your viewing pleasure:


Seriously, though, I think this Guy News thing gets better every week.

Guy News Classic

This from Guido Fawkes earlier on bears repeating. Over and over and over again.

Some Labour-loving, myopic hoon calling himself "Fraser1701" commented on Guido's YouTube channel underneath this upload "I prefer optimism". Well, Fraser, old boy, unless you really are a myopic Labourist hoon, then I imagine you must mean "as opposed to wildly dishonest, outrageously massaged and risibly inaccurate economic predictions that consistently bear no resemblance to reality whatsoever". In which case, I have done you a disservice because you're going to express your preference for optimism by voting out the worst government in this nation's history. And, as we know, the only way to do that is to vote Tory, like it or not.

I suspect, though, that "Fraser1701" did not mean this and that he's really just another pathetic Labour stooge paid to trawl through the sensible and effective anti-government blogs, like Guido's, leaving little rat dropping comments like that one to further some desperate plan to reverse his party's massive - and unstoppable - decline in credibility and popularity.

Earth to Fraser: with Brown in charge, mate, it'll never happen! So keep him right where he is.