Gordon Brown Under Attack: The Sun’s Call To Arms
NO small polemic in the Sun where the lead cartoon illustrates the nations Armed Forces rising up and killing Gordon Brown.
An RAF fighter pilot spots Brown’s plane and screams: “Gordon Brown at 6 o’clock… On his way to sell Britain out…ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK.”
On the positive side, such direct action negates the need for Brown to call a General Election. Indeed, after the eulogies and the state funeral there would be a period of jostling as the next leader is selected by the military junta.
“Betrayal will haunt Gordon,” says the Sun’s editorial, the paper looking on as Brown dodges the RAF and arrives in Lisbon to approve the EU Constitution.
“They are taking us for fools,” says the Sun’s political editor. Readers are invited to go online and sign the Sun’s petition calling for an EU Referendum.
The paper columnist Fergus Shanahan is sequestered to note: “Some time between the port and the cheese at a Lisbon banquet last night, Gordon Brown looked likely to hand over Britain to Brussels.”
Why, this Gordon is the “LISBON LION”. He’s the Mirror’s hero who has the “historic deal” within his “grasp”. Sure, Europe will decide on Britain’s transport (Anorak nominates the Germans), environment (the Swedes) and business regulations (the Italians), but as Brown tells us: “Britain decides over justice and home affairs issues. Britain decides over foreign and security policy. Britain decides on national security issues.” It is what a patriotic Briton calls the acquis communautaire.
Look not at what he has given away but what he has not given away. Brown is “standing firm” says the Mirror, even if the ground beneath his mighty feet is made of Sun quicksand.
The Sun still wants a referendum. It want one now. But the Times says Brown has set aside three moths to ratify the new treaty.
Do we vote now? Or do we vote later? We have no constitution that dictates what we should do…
Pic: Beau Bo D’Or
Posted: 19th, October 2007 | In: Gordon Brown, Politicians, Tabloids Comments (10) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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October 24th, 2007 at 2:26 am
damn, just read 7… (crawling away to hide)
October 24th, 2007 at 2:26 am
the people are revolting….
October 19th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Er…???
Bit cryptic, there A…
Is that about William Tell, or the Swiss Guard or Helvetica or smelly cheese, or Axel Springer’s disdain for Valora, or Einstein or Dada or what?
Or… tabloid heaven… could it be a RIDDLE???
October 19th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
They saw the Swiss Germans are revolting
October 19th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Whoops:
“transparent AND accountable”
“periodIC”
October 19th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Karen: the main ‘outside ruling power’ in the UK is NewsCorp.
But one thing I’ve never understood is why unaccountable rightwing press ‘barons’ wield such astonishing political power, totally out of proportion to their relatively measely financial clout. Even NewsCorp’s global turnover in the last financial year was only around £12bn - which barely registers on the global corporate scale, and Murdoch’s UK operations wouldn’t even make into into the FTSE 100.
I understand the limited power of EU institutions - which are much more transparent accountable - far better than the power of the great non-catholic Papal Knight who’s so worried about what he thinks is a competitor.
I mean, why does Rupert Murdoch think he can nominate the British Prime Minister, for example, and why do our supposedly elected leaders have to make period jorneys of homage or fealty to their Australian boss in the US?
Somebody, please try to begin to explain.
October 19th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
I like Europe, apart from their attitude to law and order, which swings from lax to draconian, with not much sensible in between (not that we’re brilliant), so I don’t mind Gordy signing up.
Except that, if most terrorist organisations are formed to free a country from an outside ruling power, isn’t Europe risking a vicious break-up if governments don’t get permission from their residents?
October 19th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
I’m all for parties, Anorak - but I thought this site was a 24-hour party already?
Perhaps you could be made leader of the unofficial opposition to the governing alliance in Fleet Street or Grub Alley or whatever that den of iniquity is called nowadays.
As I think Shaftesbury said (not the guy who helped throw out the unaccountable Stuart tryrant, but his philosopher-grandson): satire is the most powerful form of criticism.
Keep up the wonderful work…
[But PLEASE reconsider the use of this serif font for the body of texts in posts. Backlit serifs on computer screens distract from the text and make it much more difficult to read and understand - even if your webdesigner thinks they look nice or classy or something].
October 19th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Shall we form a party?
October 19th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Who ever voted for Rupert Murdoch - not British, not even European, but an Australian living in America weilding much more power in the UK than anyone from Brussels?
I guess he’s worried his kept woman in London is flirting with another supranational power.
As the current scandals in the broadcast media illustrate, it’s the unelected Fourth Estate in Britain that is out of control and unaccountable.
Except here on Anorak, of course…