Saturday, September 08, 2007

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 .

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

It all smacks of desperation to me - B ruin's and his 'converts'. B ruin will suffer a backlash for these cynical appointments - and despite the claims that no money is changing hands, few believe it.
So, in one fell swoop, the fool has tarred himself the brush of Blairite cynicism and has again raised the spectre of cash for honours against himself.

What a plonker.

Auntie Flo'

Anonymous said...

Our Gord, who art in heaven
Shallowed is thy name.
Thy fiefdom's come,
We have been done,
By you in numbers 10 & 11
Tax not this day our daily bread
We'll forgive not your tax excess
Nor forgive you who taxeth against us.
Lead us not into emigration,
but deliver us from your evil.
For thine is the thingdom
Your power is gorey
for ever and ever. Amen

Auntie Flo'

Newmania said...

Praise the Lord Flo...although I doubt you will like my next post much. I hadn`t thougth of the money angle which is of course a real problem . He has to sell something but what ? Peerages might be a leetle tricky

Newmania said...

PS I would love to say hallo some time ...hope the occassion crops up

Anonymous said...

Newmania said...

He has to sell something but what ? Peerages might be a leetle tricky


Think dialectically - that's how nulab thinks: 'how many labrynthe corridors will we need to interconnect by stealth so no one can connect us to the Gringots size vault of gold they all lead to?'

Auntie Flo'

Anonymous said...

"The assignation took place in a yacht off the Italian coast. One of Britain's richest men had invited a senior government minister, who was holidaying nearby, to join him for lunch.

Johan Eliasch had a proposal to make to Jack Straw. He wanted to offer his advice to the government on climate change. His interest in the subject came as no surprise. After all, he had bought 400,000 acres of the Amazon rainforest to protect it from destruction and to combat climate change. He was also the founder of Cool Earth - a charity which encourages others to do the same, half an acre at a time (yours for just £35). The surprise came because Mr Eliasch had also lent over two and a half of his many millions to the Conservative Party and was their deputy treasurer.

It's clear, though, that for some time he'd wondered whether he was in with the right crowd. Mr Eliasch had got to know Labour ministers since launching his initiative to save the rainforest. He'd met Mr Straw at various functions and, after the two bumped into each other at a conference"

(Nick Robinson's blog)

Auntie Flo'

Anonymous said...

Brilliant idea, Cool Earth “my little bit towards saving the world”, Eliasch calls it. Its co-founder's is Frank Field, I think.

What a great bloke Eliasch must be to give money to save the planet from global warming. That's what you call ethical business, eh? The conservatives have been going on about that sort of biz a lot in the past year, hm?

Though of course it makes absolute financial sense for him to do this, as his company, Head, sells alpine sports gear to cool people. And it maybe offsets stuff like ethical questions surrounding the use of titanium in sports gear and the accusation that Cool Earth is “green colonialism” after allegedly consigning 1,000 people to poverty in his attempts to preserve the Amazon jungle. As a result of the deal, a lumber mill that employed as many as 1,000 people is said to have closed in the town of Itacoatiara in northwest Brazil, increasing hardship in an already economically depressed region.

"What he is doing is valid in terms of preservation but you cannot let people go hungry,” said Lelio Moreira, who works at the local radio station, Panorama Itacoatiara...“Now, with the lack of jobs, violence is increasing and because fathers cannot afford to look after their families we also have a growing problem with child prostitution.”

Eliasch said all the workers he laid off were fully compensated and he planned to re-hire many of them as guards to protect his new wilderness sanctuary. But he admitted that for him, preserving the jungle was “the only option” and took priority over those living there.

“The rainforest is more important to me at the moment,” said Eliasch.

Obviously.

He rejected arguments that first world countries, which chopped down their own forests in the drive for industrialisation, had no right to try to prevent Brazilians doing the same. “I’d like to say a move like my purchase is more learning from our mistakes,” he said. “People have made mistakes in the western world and [I am] trying to prevent it happening elsewhere.”

Last year Eliasch came up with the idea of buying the whole rainforest to preserve it. The result was a diplomatic incident between Brazil and Britain when the idea was taken up by David Miliband, the environment secretary, who suggested setting up an international trust as the best way to preserve the Amazon. Eliasch seems to have bags of influence - he's a friend of the Duke Of York too, isn't he?

The problem with wealthy Greens is that there are often paradoxes.

Mr Eliasch, says Robinson, gave Jack Straw a lift home in his private jet.

And the popularity of alpine sports depends not just on stopping the global snow meltdown but on availabity of

cheap flights...

which Cameron wants to tax...

whereas Brown wants massive expansion of cheap flights.

Nick Robinson also says:

"Friends and foes alike say that Mr Eliasch had hoped for a peerage although no-one suggests that he actually asked for one. Indeed David Cameron told me in an interview last week that no approach had been made to him about a peerage...It's clear too that a man who was used to mixing with the rich and powerful came to the realisation that oppositions can only talk whilst governments can do. Hence, his proposal to Jack Straw on that yacht in the Med that he should advise the government on climate change."

Auntie Flo'

Newmania said...

You seem to know everything there is to know Flo..

Anonymous said...

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 (newmania)



Excellent piece, n, it so clearly exposes the extent to which B ruin has sold his soul to the highest bidder and the self serving plasticity and cynicism underlying these convictions he claims to have.

Brown's moral compass is fixed to drive him relentlessly in one direction only, towards whatever piece of political expediency suits his lust for personal power and personal wealth.

Auntie FLo'

Newmania said...

Welk, we agreed on that but I am not suprised to see you are not agreed on my sexist tract.

The problem with your comments in a way Flo is that you don`t leave a lot to add

Anonymous said...

Have you, or anyone else, ever produced a good summary of the salient critical points against B ruin and nulab? I find the problem with them is that there's so much to hold against them that I lose track of half of the stuff.

Auntie Flo'

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