The Lying Scotsman- Part 94

What a cheek! If we had listened to Gordon Brown no one would have been
able to buy their own council house, unions would run the country and we'd
probably be speaking Russian. He is a conviction politician - convicted of
robbing people's pensions, stealth taxed and failing to reform the NHS.

David Cameron



Brown has gone too far . Emboldened perhaps , by the population wide bout of amnesia concerning his complicity in everything Tony Blair and he did he has taken ‘ein fur die Strasse’ been rumbled . The idea that without reference to David Cameron his attempt to nab minor useful idiots is motivated by a wish for a unity government is patently absurd This nauseating sanctimonious posture called , like Blair`s a “ New Type of politics “ has finally succeeded in undermining his ill gotten reputation for honesty , a reputation he inherited for no better reason than not being Tony Blair.

Better still he has given David Cameron a chance to go on the offensive without endangering his carefully cultivated swing voter constituency , cultivated I should point out by genuine and sometimes difficult change not meaningless gestures. He has given David Cameron a chance to defend Lady Thatcher without appearing “right wing “and let no one be in any doubt David Cameron like any mainstream Conservative is a great admirer of Lady Thatcher . It has been difficult for him to say so much and I expect he relished giving Malcolm Rifkind licence to tell few home truths
“Sir Malcolm Rifkind has accused Mr Brown of 'dishonesty' and coming close to 'abusing' his position by his 'deeply cynical' party political point-scoring.
It followed another difficult day for Mr Cameron in which major Tory donor Johan Eliasch announced he was quitting the party to advise the Prime Minister on the Amazonian rainforests“
Brown’s claim to be a conviction politician and an admirer of Thatcher is savaged by Peter Osborne today. For these reasons .
1 He opposed her when she defeated the Unions
2 He ridiculed her privatisation programme
3 He wrote “ Where There is Greed” which trashes her reputation and misrepresented her motives

His claim to be a conviction politician requires a Dali-esque sense of perspective
1 He opposed Britain’s entry into the Common Market. In 1983
2 He supported extensive Union Power
3 He was in favour of the European single currency
4 He was in favour of nuclear disarmament
5 He supported punitive taxation
6 He voted for the invasion of Iraq


Gordon Brown`s Claim to wish to build a consensus in the middle is a tactic tried by many before him and it is to counterbalance his extreme left wing constituency in the Party. He looks to ugly to be a showman to dull to be a salesman but if you look at what he is doing ans has done he is only a different presentation of Blairism.

Brown has never been in the open before and this was the reason for his unexpected bounciness. He seemed much fresher to the public than the political class allowed to .There has been a lot of silly fawning of late but now we see the King has no clothes and the crowd begin to titter He is in the open and this is the first evidence that he does not have a sure hand in manipulating image despite his remorseless devotion to that end .