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Monday, November 10, 2008
Brown is Just Lovin' This Recession
This is a video made by ConservativeHome designed to show how much Gordon Brown appears to be loving the recession. It's exactly the sort of thing ConHome should be doing - taking the battle to Brown. Let's have a bit more of it.
Patrick Kielty was given hard times for making jokes about the recession. It is Kielty's job to make jokes about the recession.
Cameron and Osborne said nothing when Brown joked about another bank going belly up. It is Cameron's and Osborne's job to drag Brown's name through the mud when he makes such callous jokes and they both failed.
By the way, have the Tories forgotten that forever and a day they have been arguing that the Laffer Curve allows tax cuts to be "self funding"? Or is a Tory tax cut somehow healthier than one undertaken by a Labour chancellor?
Is the Tory party seriously going to go into the snap election calling for the tax cuts being announced by Brown to be reversed? Is this Cameron's 1983 moment?
I am not sure it works. It's a bit like a selfish child stomping around because it's not got what it wants... the economy has gone belly up but Labour has a spring in its step. Now is the time for a Tory plan of action, not this drivel.
It'll make Tory voters smirk but do absolutely nothing to convince Lib/Lab voters or undecideds that they should support Cameron - and isn't that what 'taking the battle to Brown' really means?
The core argument (and not a difficult one to make) is that our economic position is partly Brown's fault - the core theme in this video is that he's enjoying it which is a different (and far less effective) thing.
I'm sure an arsonist would look pretty pleased and happy with himself if he'd suddenly realised he was about to burn himself, picked up somebody else's fire extinguisher, dampened the flames just enough to survive and a lot of people had dubbed him a hero.
On second thoughts keep em coming you are a laugh a minute.
Huge borrowing got us into this mess can you explain Dolly how even more borrowing will get us out of it?
Browns smirking because he thinks he can hide his own ineptitude and complicity in this crisis by blaming everyone else and use it to bribe the electorate with our own money in time for the next election.
Never mind it will store trouble up the next crisis - that will be after the election he hopes. And he thinks we are all so thick we will not notice.
Who was it who said "When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's nice to have a real crisis on your hands"?
Politicians do often enjoy taking important decisions at important times but I don't think that means they engineered them.
He certainly thinks we are thick. And he has every confidence that the BBC will not eviscerate him for his lies. The BBC are desperate to keep the socialist flag flying.
There is still some way to go yet in this crisis. I would not be surprised I am afraid to see another stock market shock.
Real poverty is being stowed up for the future. No one is really pointing out the problem we have with our pensions. Despite all the talk from brown about growth - our real wealth is very shallow, built on a housing bubble. Incomes are everywhere assailed by tax and charges. Real industrial growth which we need to enrich us is negligible.
From the snippet that I read Brown seems to want everyone to spend their way out of this recession, thereby hoping that the pound will only be dragged down along with everyone else. If not then his borrowing splurge must have a bad effect on the pound.
Yeah, but the smile will be wiped off his face on election day. Latest intelligence suggests that this crisis has had little impact on Brown's overall unpopularity.
I have said it before and will say it again. We have the most despicable government in history and Cameron has failed to paint it black.
Bottler Brown loving the bottle! So he is the leader in these difficult times! Reading the times he is warning Obama and there is a hint that Obama is novice there. With his record of pension raids, stealth taxes, busting British economy, he is going to give us the tax cus after his heaps of stealh taxes. He is grinning after holding the second safe seat in Scotland!!
What is this then? The Tories trivialising the financial crisis that is causing hardship to so many? It seems to me that the Tories have got some growing up to do. This sort of tactic may make Tory boy students laugh, but it will hardly inspire confidence amongst the general public. It reminds me of the silly "fists first" approach that wee Willy Hague adopted. He used to go wading into any old debate with a pack of jokes, peddling any old line he thought would generate a good headline. In the end it was this approach that utterly undermined his credibility. If the current Tory leadership are going down this road again, Gordon Brown certainly will have a grin on his face.
You're talking to the converted. I am Mr Armageddon, believe me!
Nothing you say about the UK's future could possibly be worse then mine.
But, let's be fair, most of the guys who post comments on blogs know the score. Most of the morons out there don't have a clue how they've been duped. And they never will - they're simply too dumb even when you try to explain.
Come on people! Do you have a few pennies left in your house? Drag them out & spend them, leave yourself in negative equity! It's to help save Brown dont you know! Is your credit rating good, Borrow, borrow & spend it, GO ON! It's for Britain & Brown!
I bet you can think of loads of ways you can get yourself into debt to help save Brown & the Labour party, GO ON dont be shy! Borrow, borrow & borrow some more & then spend it, dont worry if you end up in trouble or lose your house there's always benefit's!!!!!
Labours Britain is SICK! The cure is to get in to debt, do it now!
If Brown is in any real sense enjoying himself Iain this is because nationally and internationally he is rightly judged to show towering competence, imagination and judgment in acting on the crisis.
Makes Cameron, Osborne and even the gurning Ken Clarke (also enjoying this moment we feel) all look bewildered. Particularly GOO.
As non-positive growth chapters in economic history go this one is so far rather puny. Definitely small r recession at worst.
Cassilis is right. As so very often. the degree of blame for GB or indeed many incumbents Conservative or Social Democrat internationally is moot. there is certainly no pattern of Conservatives coming out smelling of roses internationally. And essentially Republicans are sister party, Bush is brother leader, and economic liberalism is the Tory creed. In many ways this is an adjustment from people wanting small government and hands off - even heeded in the socialist spectrum - to people wanting more nurturing, less sink or swim, now the swimming's a bit tough. With the tide, currents and undertow; not to mention the chop.
It's an adjustment AWAY from the Bush/Cameron way. This is to my eyes why there should be no joy for Cambama in the Obama result. It was his progressive policy positions that won it, and exit polls suggest the landslide would have been still greater with the same platform and even a little more experience. E.g. Hilary. And they would all have lapped up Bill. With apologies to Monica, Hilary and Jennifer.
Risking danger of a three in a row I'll also answer Wrinkled Weasel. Poll just in. Lead halved since Sunday. Fieldwork actually carried out after Obama/Glenrothes results.
Poll just in. Lead halved since Sunday. Fieldwork actually carried out after Obama/Glenrothes results.
Excellent. In that case Brown will want to a call an election. He will want to do it soon too, as the economy he's destroyed looks set to implode after Christmas. Brown already has his ministers out canvassing votes...just like the last time, when he bottled it.
"We have the most despicable government in history and Cameron has failed to paint it black."
Perhaps it's because all three major parties are in the centre, sitting on a fence. All frightened to make a move in case they overstep the mark and fall off.
Chris Paul - " he is rightly judged to show towering competence, imagination and judgment in acting on the crisis"
When I first started reading your comments on Iain's blog, I thought you were serious but slightly mis-guided - although you did make the occasional good point. Now you seem to get ever shriller, desperate and surreal in your fanatical defence of a political party that has caused this country nothing but harm
Do you honestly believe this kind of rubbish? Or are you actually sitting at your computer, bent double with laughter as you type?
If its the second, I congratulate you on a brilliant parody
If its the first, I am rather concerned as to your sanity
32 comments:
Does every blog have to show it?
And all TV channels.
We need an opposition that actually opposes Ian.
Patrick Kielty was given hard times for making jokes about the recession. It is Kielty's job to make jokes about the recession.
Cameron and Osborne said nothing when Brown joked about another bank going belly up. It is Cameron's and Osborne's job to drag Brown's name through the mud when he makes such callous jokes and they both failed.
By the way, have the Tories forgotten that forever and a day they have been arguing that the Laffer Curve allows tax cuts to be "self funding"? Or is a Tory tax cut somehow healthier than one undertaken by a Labour chancellor?
Is the Tory party seriously going to go into the snap election calling for the tax cuts being announced by Brown to be reversed? Is this Cameron's 1983 moment?
Sorry iain so we have a PM who has responded well, and with zest to an economic crisis and thats a bad thing.
What would you have, Brown goin around with the whipped dog look that Major had after '92
Brown is enjoying it, a crisis stimulates him, shame the Tories didn't have a few like him.
these attack ads are facile childish and more suited to anti-intellectual and philistine americans - please do not import them here..
I am not sure it works. It's a bit like a selfish child stomping around because it's not got what it wants... the economy has gone belly up but Labour has a spring in its step. Now is the time for a Tory plan of action, not this drivel.
It'll make Tory voters smirk but do absolutely nothing to convince Lib/Lab voters or undecideds that they should support Cameron - and isn't that what 'taking the battle to Brown' really means?
The core argument (and not a difficult one to make) is that our economic position is partly Brown's fault - the core theme in this video is that he's enjoying it which is a different (and far less effective) thing.
That crook Brown should be trying to save our money instead of spend it.
Anon 10:43
I'm sure an arsonist would look pretty pleased and happy with himself if he'd suddenly realised he was about to burn himself, picked up somebody else's fire extinguisher, dampened the flames just enough to survive and a lot of people had dubbed him a hero.
So do you reckon we need more arsonists then?
Looks like the trolls are back..
Keep them coming Dave!
Brown bailing out the feckless. Isn't democracy wonderful!
"well, and with zest " ... bugger off Dolly.
On second thoughts keep em coming you are a laugh a minute.
Huge borrowing got us into this mess can you explain Dolly how even more borrowing will get us out of it?
Browns smirking because he thinks he can hide his own ineptitude and complicity in this crisis by blaming everyone else and use it to bribe the electorate with our own money in time for the next election.
Never mind it will store trouble up the next crisis - that will be after the election he hopes. And he thinks we are all so thick we will not notice.
And he thinks we are all so thick we will not notice.
Errrr..he's right on that one!
Who was it who said "When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's nice to have a real crisis on your hands"?
Politicians do often enjoy taking important decisions at important times but I don't think that means they engineered them.
Annon 1.27
He certainly thinks we are thick.
And he has every confidence that the BBC will not eviscerate him for his lies. The BBC are desperate to keep the socialist flag flying.
There is still some way to go yet in this crisis. I would not be surprised I am afraid to see another stock market shock.
Real poverty is being stowed up for the future. No one is really pointing out the problem we have with our pensions. Despite all the talk from brown about growth - our real wealth is very shallow, built on a housing bubble. Incomes are everywhere assailed by tax and charges. Real industrial growth which we need to enrich us is negligible.
From the snippet that I read Brown seems to want everyone to spend their way out of this recession, thereby hoping that the pound will only be dragged down along with everyone else.
If not then his borrowing splurge must have a bad effect on the pound.
Yeah, but the smile will be wiped off his face on election day. Latest intelligence suggests that this crisis has had little impact on Brown's overall unpopularity.
I have said it before and will say it again. We have the most despicable government in history and Cameron has failed to paint it black.
Bottler Brown loving the bottle!
So he is the leader in these difficult times! Reading the times
he is warning Obama and there is a hint that Obama is novice there.
With his record of pension raids, stealth taxes, busting British economy, he is going to give us the tax cus after his heaps of stealh taxes.
He is grinning after holding the second safe seat in Scotland!!
We should get rid of this unelected emabrassment.
This is amusing but hardly grown-up attacking from the Tories.
The question arises yet again: where in the blazes is George Osborne?
What is this then? The Tories trivialising the financial crisis that is causing hardship to so many? It seems to me that the Tories have got some growing up to do. This sort of tactic may make Tory boy students laugh, but it will hardly inspire confidence amongst the general public. It reminds me of the silly "fists first" approach that wee Willy Hague adopted. He used to go wading into any old debate with a pack of jokes, peddling any old line he thought would generate a good headline. In the end it was this approach that utterly undermined his credibility. If the current Tory leadership are going down this road again, Gordon Brown certainly will have a grin on his face.
Surely this video is actually far more effective at getting its point across?
Not to mention funnier...
trevorsden 1.48 p.m.
You're talking to the converted. I am Mr Armageddon, believe me!
Nothing you say about the UK's future could possibly be worse then mine.
But, let's be fair, most of the guys who post comments on blogs know the score. Most of the morons out there don't have a clue how they've been duped. And they never will - they're simply too dumb even when you try to explain.
Come on people!
Do you have a few pennies left in your house? Drag them out & spend them, leave yourself in negative equity! It's to help save Brown dont you know!
Is your credit rating good, Borrow, borrow & spend it, GO ON! It's for Britain & Brown!
I bet you can think of loads of ways you can get yourself into debt to help save Brown & the Labour party, GO ON dont be shy!
Borrow, borrow & borrow some more & then spend it, dont worry if you end up in trouble or lose your house there's always benefit's!!!!!
Labours Britain is SICK!
The cure is to get in to debt, do it now!
£15 billion, as reported at the weekend, in tax cuts will never be enough to sort out this mess.
About time too!
If Brown is in any real sense enjoying himself Iain this is because nationally and internationally he is rightly judged to show towering competence, imagination and judgment in acting on the crisis.
Makes Cameron, Osborne and even the gurning Ken Clarke (also enjoying this moment we feel) all look bewildered. Particularly GOO.
As non-positive growth chapters in economic history go this one is so far rather puny. Definitely small r recession at worst.
Cassilis is right. As so very often. the degree of blame for GB or indeed many incumbents Conservative or Social Democrat internationally is moot. there is certainly no pattern of Conservatives coming out smelling of roses internationally. And essentially Republicans are sister party, Bush is brother leader, and economic liberalism is the Tory creed. In many ways this is an adjustment from people wanting small government and hands off - even heeded in the socialist spectrum - to people wanting more nurturing, less sink or swim, now the swimming's a bit tough. With the tide, currents and undertow; not to mention the chop.
It's an adjustment AWAY from the Bush/Cameron way. This is to my eyes why there should be no joy for Cambama in the Obama result. It was his progressive policy positions that won it, and exit polls suggest the landslide would have been still greater with the same platform and even a little more experience. E.g. Hilary. And they would all have lapped up Bill. With apologies to Monica, Hilary and Jennifer.
Risking danger of a three in a row I'll also answer Wrinkled Weasel. Poll just in. Lead halved since Sunday. Fieldwork actually carried out after Obama/Glenrothes results.
Chris Paul said...
Poll just in. Lead halved since Sunday. Fieldwork actually carried out after Obama/Glenrothes results.
Excellent. In that case Brown will want to a call an election. He will want to do it soon too, as the economy he's destroyed looks set to implode after Christmas. Brown already has his ministers out canvassing votes...just like the last time, when he bottled it.
"We have the most despicable government in history and Cameron has failed to paint it black."
Perhaps it's because all three major parties are in the centre, sitting on a fence. All frightened to make a move in case they overstep the mark and fall off.
Chris Paul - " he is rightly judged to show towering competence, imagination and judgment in acting on the crisis"
When I first started reading your comments on Iain's blog, I thought you were serious but slightly mis-guided - although you did make the occasional good point. Now you seem to get ever shriller, desperate and surreal in your fanatical defence of a political party that has caused this country nothing but harm
Do you honestly believe this kind of rubbish? Or are you actually sitting at your computer, bent double with laughter as you type?
If its the second, I congratulate you on a brilliant parody
If its the first, I am rather concerned as to your sanity
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