Vote Obama. Vote Black. Vote White. Vote Brown.
KEVIN Maguire is claiming in the Mirror that – get this – a vote for Barack Obama is really a vote for Gordon Brown.
The Tory spin machine will claim white is black if, fingers crossed, Obama is elected US President next Tuesday.
What’s black and white and red all over? Gordon’s Brown economy…
Posted: 29th, October 2008 | In: Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Politicians, Race For The White House | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Britain Funds Icelandic Terrorism
ICELANDERS are not terrorists.
Are they freedom fighters? Is so, Gordon Brown might see fit to give them some money.
Says the enemy:
Gordon Brown unjustifiably used the anti-terrorism act against the people of Iceland, for his own short-term political gain. This has turned a grave situation into a national disaster, affecting families in both Iceland and the United Kingdom. Help us avert greater damage by signing this petition now.
Posted: 24th, October 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Money | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Gordon Brown Hired Mandelson To Sack Him
SO this is why Brown hired Mandelson:
Posted: 24th, October 2008 | In: Anorak TV, Gordon Brown, Politicians | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Gordon Brown Is Not A Celebrity, But He Knows Winehouse Is
GORDON Brown is not a celebrity. No, really. But Gordon Brown knows all about celebrity. He knows Nelson Mandela, who doesn’t know Amy Winehouse.
Winehouse is the only celebrity who Mandela has not already met or is not waiting outside his office in a queue of celebs that stretches for some miles.
Says Gordon in the Sun of Nelson’s 90th birthday concert:
Posted: 23rd, October 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Politicians | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
HOW many shares opened up on the FTSE this morning?
Posted: 16th, October 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Money, Twitterings | Comments (7) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Gordon Brown Finds The Family Pop Shaft
GORDON Brown is not into the cult of celebrity. He is on GMTV because GMTV needs him.
Gordon Brown will not parade his children before the media, especially when Ben 10 is on the telly and Gordon is called upon to hum the theme tune. His children are not props. His wife is more an autocue than a prop.
Gordon Brown is with Allison Pearson, of the Daily Mail, because he needs to be. He wants to be tough on Pearson and the causes on Pearsons:
The PM has been meeting people all day. But when we walk into the living room of the flat ‘above the shop’, there is someone else waiting patiently for his help – a small boy wearing a pair of cartoon pyjamas. ‘The wheel’s come off,’ says John Brown, five next week, handing over a Transformers car. ‘Fix it, Dad.’
Posted: 16th, October 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Politicians, Tabloids | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Why Gordon Brown’s Rescue Package Is Not Going To Work
GORDON Brown has got it wrong and the banking system remains inherently f*cked:
Despite all the gushing in the media, the drooling about “saviour” Brown (or not, depending on what you read), this “rescue” package is not going to work. It is addressing the symptoms of the problem, not the disease itself.
What to do?
This is very much like old-fashioned doctoring, before the days of antibiotics, when you tried to cool the fevered patient, in the hope that it would break, and the natural healing process would take over. Sometimes it did work, but most often the patient died.
We’re doomed!
Posted: 14th, October 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Money, Twitterings | Comments (11) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Bon Jovi Bails Out British Economy: Gordon Brown’s Prayer
WHY oh why oh why oh why didn’t Gordon Brown just wait a few more days to annonce his bank rescue plan?
Had only Gordon realised that US pop group Bon Jovi had ripped off his seminal 1970s hit Slippery When Wet – Best Wear Boots And Braces & Take Out Private Medical Insurance, he could have sued them for the £400billion needed.
Now we learn that Samuel Bartley Steele, a US musician is suing Bon Jovi for $400 billion in a plagiarism suit.
Posted: 14th, October 2008 | In: Celebrities, Gordon Brown | Comments (22) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Gordon Brown Is Enjoying Our Pain
GORDON Brown is at pains to say how the banking crisis is a US import. Do you believe him? Nick Robinson is in the locale of the great leader:
When someone’s mobile phone interrupts his speech he joked “I don’t know if another bank has fallen…”, to guffaws of laughter before adding “you’ll be pleased I’ll not be giving financial information this evening”.
Posted: 9th, October 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Politicians | Comments (15) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
“WE have led the world today with a proposal to restructure our banking system. We are taking the steps that I believe other countries will take in the future.”
Thus Spake Zarathustra, sorry, Gordon Brown, announcing the Elderly Grandparent of All Bailouts
“This is not the American plan.”
And yet another nail slides into the coffin of the US as the world’s only financial super power…
- Chenier
Posted: 8th, October 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Money, Twitterings | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Gordon Brown’s Solid Gold Joke
MORE news on serious Gordon Brown.
Gordon’ at Lancaster House. It’s a drinks reception, with nibbles, to congratulate and paw over Britain’s Olympic gold medal winners. Says Gordon:
“There is more gold in this room than in the Bank of England.”
Ho-ho. No, he’s right. It’s not funny. Brown only does serious. There is more gold around an Olympian’s neck than in the BoE. Why? Because Gordon Brown sold the nation’s gold reserves.
Posted: 7th, October 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Money, Politicians | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Meet The Deputy Leader Of The House Of Commons
CHRIS Bryant is Deputy Leader of the Commons – this is his photo he sent into gay dating website.
Gordon Brown – Is she serious?
Posted: 6th, October 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Politicians | Comments (13) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Gordon Brown On Me, Myself And I, I, I And I
FRANK Luntz’s hears Gordon Brown talks about Me, Myself and I, I, I, I..:
He still doesn’t get it. In his open sentence he uses ‘I’ four times. Incredible. He still doesn’t realize that it’s not about him. It’s about the British people and what they want for the future. Blair understood that the people come first. Brown still thinks he comes first.”
He is Leader Number One.
At Home With Gordon Brown And His Props
Gordon Brown Should Have Married Jade Goody
Posted: 25th, September 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Politicians, Twitterings | Comments (10) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
At Home With Gordon Brown And His Props
OLD MRS Anorak The IV would like to tell all Anorak readers that her husband is a brilliant man and though not a celebrity, he is a good egg and blessed with the stamina of a Latvian fighting cock.
Like Gordon Brown, the non-celebrity who tells the Mail:
“The boys are our lives. They are just an amazing gift, and, when John was born, it was such an exciting occasion. To know he was healthy was incredibly important.”
Because as Gordon says: “My children aren’t props: they’re people.”
Posted: 24th, September 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Gordon Brown Should Have Married Jade Goody
ALONGSIDE news that Gordon Brown used his address to Labour Party conference to talk about himself and say that we was not a celebrity, and talk about “the real me” some more, is a picture of Jade Goody.
One cannot help but feel that had Brown employed Jayyde as his warm-up act rather than his functional wife Sarah, he might have received a fillip in the polls.
Might Jade Goody do for beige Brown what Sarah Palin has done for grey John McCain in the US: distract voters from looking at him?
Posted: 24th, September 2008 | In: Celebrities, Gordon Brown, Jade Goody, Politicians | Comments (10) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Gordon Brown Wants New Country People
HERE’S what Gordon Brown’s big speach as all about:
http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/205443/Gordon_Brown%27s_Big_Speech
Posted: 23rd, September 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Politicians, Twitterings | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
David Miliband Gordon Brown Caption Contest
HAVING told Vladimir Putin in no uncertain terms that if Russia continued to roll guns and tanks into Georgia he would be very, very displeased, Foreign Secretary David Miliband is keen to show that their is no Cold War between he and Gordon Brown.
As DM says to the PM:
“Until such a time when Gordon Brown, should he, possibly, sort of, feel old and tired and useless, I will continue to honour him as the terrific leader he is, unless, of course, the man no-one ellected to be Prime Minister should see fit to answer the prayers of millions of backbenchers and step down immediately, sort of…
“In the meantime, Mr Brown should not lower himself to sack me, because as a strong man and a man of untold strength and courage he knows better than to listen to idle rumour and unsubstantiated articles in the national press that I Miliband want his inherit his job, his home, his children and his rare fortitude…etc.
Your captions please…
Posted: 23rd, September 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Photojournalism, Politicians | Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Alan Sugar Urges Those With Big Balls To Get Behind Gordon Brown
IF only The Apprentice’s Alan Sugar could fire Gordon Brown. But Sir Alan only wants the best staff to fill that office job vacancy in Brentwood.
Can he make Gordon an offer he cannot ignore, perhaps pushing Sugar’s new range of Amstrad teeth whitening fluid?
Here’s Sir Alan championing his man at the start of the Labour Party conference. You may need to wash you teeth after reading this:
“My company got into big trouble at the end of the eighties. I was into the banks for £150million. That was a lot of money then. I had £300million pounds of inventory and I also had a bunch of executives that had enjoyed the rise to fame.
“I called them all in for a meeting and I said, ‘Those of you who are worried about tarnishing your CVs who might wanna leave what they perceive to be a sinking ship like rats, clear off now. And those of you that are with me we’re going to go into battle and sort this out.’
Posted: 21st, September 2008 | In: Celebrities, Gordon Brown, Politicians | Comments (23) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Polly Tonybee Wants Gordon Brown To Be As Consistent As She Is
POLLY Toynbee is a Guardian columnist and president of the Social Policy Association. She is a solid and clear voice, an opinion former:
“A cabinet of minnows and spineless backbenchers include many – perhaps most – who want Brown gone, but lack the nerve to act. They wait for someone else, for Brown to walk away or for a proverbial bus to save them from the task” – Polly Tonybee, Sep 6, 2008
Not to be confused with this Polly Tonybee:
“…as they stepped into No 10 yesterday, here was as decent and clever a team of ministers as ever graced the cabinet table. Two Milibands, Ed Balls, Jackie Smith, Harriet Harman, Alan Johnson, Douglas Alexander, Peter Hain and Hilary Benn – with the likes of John Denham and Yvette Cooper in attendance – present a good front. It’s certainly the most genuinely united government in living memory” – Polly Tonybee, June 29 2007
Consistency is what we’re after…
Posted: 18th, September 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Media Bitch, Politicians | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Gordon Brown Salutes Lehman Brothers’ Rosy Future
BANKING Quote Of The Day: Gordon Brown On Lehman Brothers:
“Lehman Brothers is a great company today that can both look backwards with pride and look forwards with hope. And in wishing Lehman Brothers the success it deserves for its future, let me thank you for the privilege of being here and formally declare this building open” – Gordon Brown opening Lehman’s European HQ, Canary Wharf April 2004.
Let’s hope Gordon’s future is every bit as rosy as that of the Lehman Brothers…
Posted: 18th, September 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Money, Politicians | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Martin Bright Survives Gordon Brown’s Mafioso Tactics
MARTIN Bright, New Statesman political editor,
BUT the best piece of the weekend was by Nick Cohen in the Observer, who identified a canker eating at the heart of Gordon Brown’s 10 Downing Street. In a piece with the glorious headline Call Off Your Mafioso Aides, Mr Brown, Cohen condemns the briefing operation carried out against Brown’s critics such as Ivan Lewis. He concludes:
Many are now grasping that no law says Gordon Brown is the only Labour politician allowed to use the sneak attack; that nothing in the Labour party’s constitution prevents his targets responding in kind.As rebels challenge his leadership this weekend, Brown should make his case for continuing in power honourably and fight his critics in the open. If he does not, he will find that the tactics of his made men will destroy his premiership.
As someone who has experienced at first hand the inept mafioso tactics of Brown’s political gangsters, I could not agree more.
Harry has more.
Posted: 17th, September 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Politicians, Twitterings | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
POW: Putin And Sarkozy’s Political Fight Club
RUSSIAN tiger hunter and lover Vladimir Putin is to train France’s pocket-sized leader Nicholas Sarkozy in the art of unarmed combat, reports Le Figaro.
Says Putin: “He is interested in martial arts and we have decided to do some training together.”
Anorak wonders if the two men have decided to save money on their respective armies by forming the Politicians Organisation de Wrestlers (POW)?
If so, it’s a good idea, and one trailed by Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
Posted: 16th, September 2008 | In: David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Politicians | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Resigned Barry Gardiner Makes Way For Twigg At Forestry
BARRY Gardiner is the Member of Parliament for Brent North and Gordon Brown’s Special Envoy for Forestry.
Now Barry Gardiner is the former Special Envoy for Forestry, having resigned his position to go onto pastures new. Incidentally this is the same Barry Gardiner who told us:
“The public has stopped listening to Gordon Brown. He is not a popular prime minister, but he would continue to have my support if he showed sound judgment, international leadership and political vision. Instead we have vacillation, loss of international credibility and timorous political manoeuvres that the public cannot understand.”
The Telegraph says Gardiner was sacked. So does he:
Gardiner says he resigned:
Posted: 15th, September 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Gordon Brown, Politicians | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Lancashire Mafia Wants Gordon Brown Out
“LANCASHIRE MAFIA SPRING HIT ON BROWN,” says the Mail on Sunday’s front page.
No, no Gordon Brown’s not got his own death cult. He’s not that exciting. It’s just the tabloids love to talk of Mafia when MPs are revolting: Tafia (Welsh MPs), Rafia (Ex-forces MPs), Fifafia (Football mad MPs), Dafia (Duck-faced Mps), Jafia (MPs Biscuit and Snacks Select Committee) and so on…
So here’s the Lancashire mafia. “Ta-ra-luv,” say the Lancashire mafia as they dispatch their mark with a rogue Eccles cake.
And the Laffia the are getting rid of the capo, wher is Jack Straw, MP for Blackburn, Lancashire:
Posted: 14th, September 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (7) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Time To Whip Off Gordon Brown’s Head
DUST off your tired suit and secretary, it’s the party political conference season. Gordon Brown’s career is under consideration. Says Nick Robinson, the BBC’s ace politics reporter:
“Gordon Brown no longer appears to be under threat. The cool political climate of the Autumn has replaced the heated frenzy of the Summer… The PM, it seems, has been saved for now at least not by anything he’s done but by an atmosphere of weary resignation that has taken over much of his party.”
Reports the BBC:
A junior member of the government has broken ranks to call for a challenge to Gordon Brown as party leader.
Posted: 12th, September 2008 | In: Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Politicians | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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