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#1 Jun 04 2009 at 2:26 PM Rating: Good
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Purnell resigns

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Gordon Brown was dealt a devastating blow tonight as James Purnell quit the Cabinet and told him to stand down to save the Labour Party.

The Work and Pensions Secretary’s sensational decision, given to the Prime Minister shortly before polling ended in the European and local elections, left an already damaged Mr Brown in grave peril. He told Mr Brown to stand aside and give Labour a “fighting chance of winning”.


Todays local and European election results are not in, but unless Labour pulled a rabbit out of the hat it looks like Brown is finished. What an leader he has been.

Nobby, Red - who do you think will be the replacement leader for the labour party?
#2 Jun 04 2009 at 2:30 PM Rating: Good
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FUck off
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#3 Jun 04 2009 at 2:34 PM Rating: Good
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The One and Only Nobby wrote:
FUck off


I was asking for a name of a cabinet member who will stand as Labour leader, not the action they are all doing right now Smiley: tongue
#4 Jun 04 2009 at 2:43 PM Rating: Excellent
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Most people had never heard of Purnell until tonight.

A combination of opportunist Tories with no policies, and poo-flinging Blairites vreaking their rewengey is what this is about.

Oh, and Brown being totally crap.

Even with a more popular candidate like Alan Johnson or Hilary Benn at the helm, the New LaboUr dream is over until Cameron has a chance to prove he's even more clueless than Brown.
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#5 Jun 04 2009 at 11:57 PM Rating: Good
Make Alan Johnson the next PM.




















The Tories will have even more reason to complain, I mean really, two unelected Labour PMs in a row? Smiley: rolleyes

That is your favourite argument against Gordon Brown, isn't it?
#6 Jun 05 2009 at 12:58 AM Rating: Good
What Nobby said. Apart the "fuck off" bit.

We're watching a government slowly unravel, and it's all good fun. Until the Tories come in. Then it'll be a bit **** for a while. But Labour need time in the shadow to rebuild themselves.

I wish the Lib-Dems had more of a chance, but until we switch to PR, so roughly 2084, they won't stand a chance.

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#7 Jun 08 2009 at 2:42 PM Rating: Decent
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I was asking for a name of a cabinet member who will stand as Labour leader


Brown isn't going anywhere, child. The political reality is that he's still the best option for Labour. Regardless of what the backbenchers want, finding someone willing to jump in front of the train at this point in time is a fool's errand. No one with a political future will do it, those who will likely worsen the defeat in '10.
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#8 Jun 08 2009 at 2:52 PM Rating: Excellent
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What Smash said.

If (big if) Gorgon can hold on beyond Autumn (I'd say 50:50), and another big 'if' - if the current economic cycle is a 'V' and not a 'W' - he might just cling onto a Spring election based on bringing us out of recession.
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#9 Jun 08 2009 at 3:12 PM Rating: Good
I think you're being too optimistic, Nobby. I mean, I see Brown hanging on as highly likely, but even with a degree of economic recovery I doubt it'll be enough to overcome the damage to Brown's image as boring but highly competent minister. While he's always been uncharismatic, I think that's the whole of his image at present, and I don't see the damage being reversed in a short time span. Labour has no one else who could conceivable lead a successful election, either. Plus, the party is hardly a united front at the moment - infighting and division serves to weaken the esteem the party is held in further.

I was watching the commons a while ago and it's amusing that, although Brown gets booed every time he speaks, by the end he's getting cheers almost as strong.
#10 Jun 09 2009 at 2:48 AM Rating: Decent
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Looks like he is hanging on for the moment.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8090557.stm
#11 Jun 09 2009 at 3:21 AM Rating: Good
Yeah, it's only a matter of time before the Tories are in. I don't think replacing Brown will make any difference what so ever. Labour is screwed, and they need a few years in opposition to re-think what they stand for. Apart from re-election, of course.

My main gripe with the Tories is that eventhough the new faces (Cameron, Osborne, Duncan, Letwin, etc...) all seem pretty moderate, the core and backbone of the party are still the same aristocratic toffs we had during the Thatcher years. And if the new Tories are anything like the old Tories once in power, I'll seriously consider moving to socialist-heaven Norway.
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#12 Jun 09 2009 at 3:59 AM Rating: Good
Norway looks good on paper, but do you really want to live somewhere where it's dark at 2 pm half the year?
#13 Jun 09 2009 at 4:13 AM Rating: Good
Kavekk wrote:
Norway looks good on paper, but do you really want to live somewhere where it's dark at 2 pm half the year?


The weather sucks in Norway, no doubt about it. And I love sunshine, and spring, and summer, so it will be hard. But it's not like English winter is that much better. Between late October and late April, I get into work when it's dark, and I leave when it's dark.

If it wasn't for the weather, and the language, I think I would already be up there. The economic crisis and the advent of the Tories might just be enough to make up this, though.

All of which reminds of the joke about the policeman investigating a murder in the Innuit community. He finds the main suspect and asks him: "What were you doing on the night between the 6th October and 24th March?"

And yeah, I'll miss British humour too.
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#14 Jun 15 2009 at 4:33 AM Rating: Decent
This country is in the mess it is in because of Brown. During his time as chancellor whilst Blair was at the helm he started to slowly ***** the economy from within. He raised taxes, yet increased borrowing. He cut public spending but still created new expensive councils. He introduced new tax benefits but the money came from the very people that these were supposed to help.

Blair saw this and knew it but was not strong enough to stop Brown and his support. Blair would have been gone a lot sooner if he stood against Brown's policies, but wanted to finish god knows what jobs he started.

Look up a picture of Tony Blairs wife. Found one? good, now look at that woman and realise that the man the British Public voted into office all that time ago is the same man that looked across the bar and thought "Phwooaaarr she is gorgeous!" Tells you alot about his judgement doesnt it. Then he made Brown, a long time friend apparently, the chancellor, and Brown promptly began to stab him in the back and undermine him.

Now we are left with that fat scottish one eyed gimp running this country into the ground. Yes I can call him that, he is just a Mister nobody important to me because indeed the British Public did not vote for him. I would rather **** up a lamp post than on him if he was on fire becuase thanks to that giant warbbleing asshat my family is now nearly £900 worst of a year courtesy of tax increases and idiot decisions.

England and its politics is in decline. Only the avid British idiot who support drinking equal measures of Stella Actatwat whilst beating your wife and denying humanity to anyone of a ethnic or coloured minority in this country will want to stay in this stinking pit of FAIL.

England is a bag of sh*te and needs to collapse so we can see just how bad it is and so for once the rich suffer as well and start to do something instead of sitting on their piles of money lording it over us and pandying to these idiots in power. The rich can help our country but they choose not to, and who can blame them, sat in their mansions with all their trinkets and toys, never having to struggle, never knowing hardship and never feeling the idiotic decisions of our government hit them in the pocket. (Edit: I know some rich people have worked their way from the bottom of the pile, but they are just as bad as they once knew how a majority of the rest of us are suffering).

Thank you Gordon Brown for continuing the destruction of this country you f*cking ars*hole.

Edited, Jun 15th 2009 12:35pm by Morganne
#15 Jun 15 2009 at 6:06 AM Rating: Excellent
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Look up a picture of Tony Blairs wife. Found one? good, now look at that woman and realise that the man the British Public voted into office all that time ago is the same man that looked across the bar and thought "Phwooaaarr she is gorgeous!" Tells you alot about his judgement doesnt it.


Huh, aside from being stupid and negative, you're a ****.



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#16 Jun 15 2009 at 9:04 AM Rating: Excellent
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Morganne, Star Breaker wrote:

England is a bag of sh*te and needs to collapse so we can see just how bad it is and so for once the rich suffer as well and start to do something instead of sitting on their piles of money lording it over us and pandying to these idiots in power. The rich can help our country but they choose not to, and who can blame them, sat in their mansions with all their trinkets and toys, never having to struggle, never knowing hardship and never feeling the idiotic decisions of our government hit them in the pocket. (Edit: I know some rich people have worked their way from the bottom of the pile, but they are just as bad as they once knew how a majority of the rest of us are suffering).
So fUck off out of the country you facile cUnt.

You've made it clear that your grasp of politics is matched only by your assinine use of cliches and respouted tabloidese.

This country has given me a quality of life and achievement that just isn't readily available in so many other 'developed' country. We have a wealth of social, educational and healthcare services available through general taxation. Despite what the Daily Mail might try to tell us, I don't know anyone who has been stabbed, shot or (in recent years) raped. We have crime figures lower than any comparable nation (most of whom don't record it as thoroughly as we).

So fUck off somewhere else you ungrateful, ambitionless little *****.
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#17 Jun 15 2009 at 11:14 AM Rating: Good
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Morganne, Star Breaker wrote:
Look up a picture of Tony Blairs wife. Found one? good, now look at that woman and realise that the man the British Public voted into office all that time ago is the same man that looked across the bar and thought "Phwooaaarr she is gorgeous!" Tells you alot about his judgement doesnt it.


If you look as bad as you type, then you sure are throwing stones in a glass house.
#18 Jun 15 2009 at 11:52 AM Rating: Good
Morganne, that's the most stupid post I've seen this side of Varrus. Punctuation and his good ol' buddy syntax are just collateral damage in your brutal attack on sense.
#19 Jun 15 2009 at 12:58 PM Rating: Good
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#20 Jun 15 2009 at 1:00 PM Rating: Good
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Yeah!
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