tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post887431642737356367..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: The President Brown Forgot to NameIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-4881890345435503552007-08-01T21:33:00.000+01:002007-08-01T21:33:00.000+01:00tut tut Iain - no blog post on the EU Treaty, whic...tut tut Iain - no blog post on the EU Treaty, which was released in English today?<BR/><BR/>or are you digesting the contents. i'll give you the benefit of the doubt so.<BR/><BR/>it would be interesting to here your opinion n this.<BR/><BR/>check out the EU Referendum blog for some top notch analysis of it.John Trenchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18212068575561254839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-24478028881272898582007-08-01T20:10:00.000+01:002007-08-01T20:10:00.000+01:00Anyone remember the last election and the hooha ov...Anyone remember the last election and the hooha over the Conservatives' use of "Dog Whistle" policy statements. It was, apparently, a strategy borrowed from the US Republicans .<BR/><BR/>OK, so where is the similar indignation over the Brown's similar policies?<BR/><BR/>Let's face it - Blair's New Labour project appealed mainly to an urban, university-educated, middle-class elite. There's no surprise then that large parts of the old Labour party felt they were disenfranchised. For them, the government was skewed in favour of immigrants and foreign cultures, and away from indigenous British values. No wonder the largest recruiting ground for the BNP was traditional Labour, amongst whom 35% list the BNP as their second choice.<BR/><BR/>But what happens when Brown becomes PM? We have British jobs for British people, British homes for British people, British flags flying over government buildings and, now, stronger border police. <BR/><BR/>What is this but "dog whistle" politics aimed at reclaiming the roots Labour voters? Why is our media coming down on this in the same way they did on the Conservatives' "dog whistle" policies?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-67282198351365649122007-08-01T15:50:00.000+01:002007-08-01T15:50:00.000+01:00Tapestry @11.12 and later, I hope you won't mind t...Tapestry @11.12 and later, I hope you won't mind the underlining of the obvious, that the UK is supposed to have an independent Bank of England - that vaunted 'achievement' of Labour's appointed, Scottish representative, Leader, that takes these decisions.<BR/><BR/>Where is the Bank of England's independence in the face of $112 billion of dodgy, wholly politicised purchase?hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-30849724733705009882007-08-01T14:47:00.000+01:002007-08-01T14:47:00.000+01:00And Horace - who had this line as carpe diem at ar...<I>And Horace - who had this line as carpe diem at around the same bout of millennial meming - didn't have a zionist bone in his body</I><BR/><BR/>Eh ?<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Lost me there are you saying that Horace (died 8BC)the Roman lyric Poet had millennial fears ? Yes it must have been terrifying seeing the rapid approach of the year zero. <BR/>" What does BC stand for ?"<BR/>" Whats going to happen"<BR/>" oooer I `ve got a nasty feeling that we might have been worshipping in the wrong way and someone is going to be ever so peeved we we get to zero"<BR/><BR/>I like importing the notion of carpe diem into Browns gaseous dirges as well. <BR/><BR/>GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,<BR/> Old time is still a-flying<BR/> Lets mouth sound bites laden with meritricous worthiness<BR/>While we still have the chance . <BR/><BR/>Funnily enough I think I preferred it the way it was...Newmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-5469438557525786682007-08-01T14:25:00.000+01:002007-08-01T14:25:00.000+01:00chris paul both Reagan and pee wee Herman were(are...chris paul <BR/>both Reagan and pee wee Herman were(are) jewish so they could indeed be fathers of Zionism.<BR/>Although ,to the best of my knowledge Reagan was never caught belting one out in a porno theatre , unlike pee wee herman.The Hitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17007793676288933155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-73439225251374453562007-08-01T14:16:00.000+01:002007-08-01T14:16:00.000+01:00Sackerson's website.US Treasury annual statistics ...Sackerson's website.<BR/><BR/>US Treasury annual statistics is his source.<BR/><BR/>There is a longterm market intervention in progress across the eurozone to stop the dollar falling too fast. It may be working up to a point, but it will lose billions.<BR/><BR/>It seems that Brown has got heavily involved and the odd thing is no media have mentioned it. So much for the idea that we are told the truth in Britain.<BR/><BR/>Sorry if this reads like nah anha nah ana to you. chris paul. Would you prefer do be do be do?Tapestryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267094484651413428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-32699222228519073482007-08-01T14:06:00.000+01:002007-08-01T14:06:00.000+01:00This is to cheer Iain up if he has post-op bluesht...This is to cheer Iain up if he has post-op blues<BR/><BR/>http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2m9u6_enjoy-rugby-in-the-capital-of-love_adsWrinkled Weaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05291551539649118631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-70322815197488708112007-08-01T14:02:00.000+01:002007-08-01T14:02:00.000+01:00Iain, looking forward to seeing Lembit Opik challe...Iain, looking forward to seeing Lembit Opik challenging to become London Mayor???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-77955788999478328192007-08-01T13:06:00.000+01:002007-08-01T13:06:00.000+01:00PS Mr Eugenides: Hillel the Elder would surely id...PS Mr Eugenides: Hillel the Elder would surely identify with the non-Zionista orthodoxy? He probably wrote the book on that. And Horace - who had this line as <I>carpe diem</I> at around the same bout of millennial meming - didn't have a zionist bone in his body. Not much time for nation states all told. Kinda proto catholic internationalist (ref to Conservative Home (Whig home?) comedy socialist history of yesterday).<BR/><BR/>Or are you claiming Reagan or Pee Wee Herman as fathers of zionism?Chris Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-22691787850053733842007-08-01T13:01:00.000+01:002007-08-01T13:01:00.000+01:00PS Tapestry: would you kindly provide the numerica...PS Tapestry: would you kindly provide the numerical information to support your assertions about those famous Treasury Bonds?<BR/><BR/>Without the numbers and the rationale it's just "nahh, nahh, na, nahh, na" which ain't good.Chris Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-47115189875324566122007-08-01T12:56:00.001+01:002007-08-01T12:56:00.001+01:00Thanks Louise and allYes, I know the Hillel refere...Thanks Louise and all<BR/><BR/>Yes, I know the Hillel reference (c 10BC) , and Maimonides (c 1100AD), and (kind of) also attributed to Alice Paul (US suffragette, c 1913), and yes Primo Levi (in Italian, 1982), all before Reagan's 2nd inauguration (1985) ... when he actually used it in the most prosaic way of all to boost a balanced budget ... I've even seen it attributed to Pee Wee Herman! (Also 1985!)<BR/><BR/>It has been used a lot of late AGAINST Bush and his coterie of corrupt sidekicks and puppeteers.<BR/><BR/>I wonder if Brown was aware of that? Time to make something of a break with the US while looking cosy on the outside? Something Blair claimed to be doing without convincing most people.<BR/><BR/>Anyway this is emphatically NOT Reagan's original thinking, no way no how. He was an actor delivering lines assembled by magpies and quite likely maggots too.<BR/><BR/>Best w<BR/><BR/>Chris P<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://chrispaul-labouroflove.blogspot.com/2007/08/meme-if-not-now-when.html" REL="nofollow">blogged here</A>.Chris Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-4933085114541524742007-08-01T12:56:00.000+01:002007-08-01T12:56:00.000+01:00I know this country is crap and we would al like t...I know this country is crap and we would al like to leave , but you would think that at least the people who made it this bad would stay here.<BR/>browns only been in a job a fortnigh and already he's doing a blair and flying all over the world.The Hitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17007793676288933155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-42831234464706954162007-08-01T11:44:00.000+01:002007-08-01T11:44:00.000+01:00There are countless ways in which the Brown years ...There are countless ways in which the Brown years (1997- ) have squandered the benefits of a benign world economic climate, but to crow about the brilliance of, say, the management of the NHS is just nauseating.<BR/><BR/>A tripling in funding has achieved a small improvement. Well done.Old BEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06974090439936326476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-51808927839671414862007-08-01T11:12:00.001+01:002007-08-01T11:12:00.001+01:00$112 BILLION$112 BILLIONTapestryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267094484651413428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-75918962170284329322007-08-01T11:12:00.000+01:002007-08-01T11:12:00.000+01:00What about the $112 Brown has placed into US Treas...What about the $112 Brown has placed into US Treasuroes last year, losing 10% on the falling dollar and falling bonds?<BR/><BR/>When will this Brown's biggest financial fiasco of all time be granted space by British media? We are all waiting.<BR/><BR/>The Brown Flop narrative could not cope with the surfacing of any real stories about Gordon Brown. We are forced to live in this manufactured world of false realities. <BR/><BR/>Quote after me - Gordon Brown is Prudent. Gordon Brown is a genius. Gordon Brown's economy is a success. etc etc. Hear it repeated often enough and even you will start to believe it.<BR/><BR/>It used to be called propaganda. The modern word seems to be spin. How about the original term that veryone understood perfectly - lies?<BR/><BR/>Where iare the financial editors of The Times, The Guardian or The Telegraph - the so-called high-brow Press?<BR/><BR/>What about Martin Wolf of the Financial Times? Will someone please tell us the truth about what is really going on?Tapestryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267094484651413428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-4275139730385556162007-08-01T11:11:00.000+01:002007-08-01T11:11:00.000+01:00dont tell us the names of the 6 MPs looking for a ...dont tell us the names of the 6 MPs looking for a no-confidence vote. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Or the 40 Labour MP`s who agree with the rest of the country that Brown is lying over Europe. As far as anyone earning a living is concerned better not mention that last ten years of tax rises either or the ethnic war on the South by means of mass immigration or the £2.5 billion wasted in benefits fraud or the delivery of tax credits ,or the NHS computer contracts or the funds siphoned into Browns campaign vuia the Smith Institute or his friendship with Ronald Coen one of Labour’s biggest donors and private equity sleaze bag.<BR/>Looking for some sense on private equity? Don’t hold your breath while bent Brown is tickling his chum’s tummy especially with |Labour out of cash as the Electoral commission reported and Brown desperate to get a mandate before he is found out <BR/>Don’t mention the 40% of Whitehall jobs and their huge rewards which are dominated by ex employees of Accenture previously known as Anderson consulting and the interesting links between these sinecures and support for the Labour Party Liam Byrne especially all of which Brown is responsible for as much as he was for cash for honours .<BR/><BR/><BR/>A more bent hateful obsessive incompetent it is hard to imagine ..oh sorry that was Old brown ...New brown is magically quite different.<BR/><BR/><BR/>And on top of all that the bastards have succeeded in ruining the pub about the one place where you used to be able to go and stick two fingers up at the lot of them . Rural pubs going under all ready as five hundred years of innocent tobacco and beer consumption is burnt on the new Labour altar to the great god " Nanny State knows Best".<BR/><BR/>There are plenty of things not mentioned dim JimNewmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-59504953580864972092007-08-01T10:30:00.000+01:002007-08-01T10:30:00.000+01:00Wasting money Ed ? What about the tax Payer findin...Wasting money Ed ? What about the tax Payer finding 95% of the £2 billion reputedly owed by Metro net under the PPP arrangement Brown foisted on us . making Ken Livingstone look responsible isn`t easy but Gollum Brown has managed it.Newmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-9956326848961847182007-08-01T10:20:00.000+01:002007-08-01T10:20:00.000+01:00dont mention 30000 new doctors starting in the NHS...<I>dont mention 30000 new doctors starting in the NHS today.</I><BR/><BR/>How many were there looking for jobs though? How many have had to take locum or non-training jobs so they don't default on the mortgage? How many have effectively been sent abroad because of Brown/Hewitt's incompetence?<BR/><BR/>At £250,000 of taxpayers' money being spent on each doctor's training we can ill afford to waste a single one. Whoops.<BR/><BR/>MTAS and MMC are not Labour's strong points, Jimbo.Old BEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06974090439936326476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-39935546777567467782007-08-01T10:18:00.000+01:002007-08-01T10:18:00.000+01:00Brown quoting the evil Zionists? Expect Comment is...Brown quoting the evil Zionists? Expect Comment is Free to start foaming with loonies any time now.Mr Eugenideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00555302880124512593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-81677676854782192062007-08-01T10:05:00.000+01:002007-08-01T10:05:00.000+01:00It's even funnier when you discover Ronnie was tal...It's even funnier when you discover Ronnie was talking about freezing government spending.<BR/><BR/>Brown certianly knows how to take the p***!<BR/><BR/>10 out of 10.Stephen Newtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10050387848277789711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-49685667187429363722007-08-01T10:02:00.001+01:002007-08-01T10:02:00.001+01:00If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only ...<I>If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? (Pirkei Avot 1:14) </I><BR/><BR/>Chris Paul and Louise - as Ralph has explained (listen up there) Reagan was drawing on a very very famous Jewish saying by Rabbi Hillel who knocked around in the first century. And Primo Levi was quoting Hillel (not Reagan!)<BR/><BR/>On Broon and Bush - I liked the way Bush kept drawing attention to Broon's Scottishness (probably unintentional but amusing nevertheless). I don't know who looked more ill at ease Broon or Bush.Oscar Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09423019456579337438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-78888605218129214942007-08-01T10:02:00.000+01:002007-08-01T10:02:00.000+01:00I see Ralph beat me to the Rabbi Hillel reference,...I see Ralph beat me to the Rabbi Hillel reference, which was also paraphrased by Gorbachev as:<BR/><BR/>"If not me, who? If not now, when?"<BR/><BR/>Altogether a rather popular piece of rhetoric, it seems.Unityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17718085232700149823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-71363777038856171202007-08-01T09:37:00.000+01:002007-08-01T09:37:00.000+01:00Brown has made his first big mistake in establis...Brown has made his first big mistake in establishing his base camp in a position were he cannot march to a referendum on the EU Constitution. It becomes clearer by the day that his first act abroad was to lie outright and renege on a promise, in a fraud perpetrated on the British.. This will gnaw at the supposed New Honest Brown "Trompe l'oeil" the chutzpah of which leaves me breathless anyway.<BR/><BR/>I suspect that being ignorant of the world beyond our shores Brown’s natural inability to take any personal risks will be the danger to him , when a decision has to be made the much noted cowardice he has on numerous occasions shown will lead him to dithering folly . Obviously replacing the US with the EU and the UN can only damage our security and standing but then I `m not sure that really matters as much as the mortgage .<BR/>The best I think we can hope is that posturing about economic world engagement and multilateralism is a screen for inactivity and cutting back our forces. It is an unlovely way to go about it but not the worst idea I have heard. I imagine he looks at the money Germany saves by not lifting a finger to defend he free world they profit from and envies their budget.Newmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-21447524414219540172007-08-01T09:35:00.000+01:002007-08-01T09:35:00.000+01:00Let me get this right.The other day Gordon Brown s...Let me get this right.<BR/>The other day Gordon Brown said: "we should acknowledge the debt the world owes to the United States for its leadership in this fight against international terrorism."<BR/>He then quotes Reagan, who was President in the early 80s when the USA supported the Contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s and was convicted by the International Court of Justice for “unlawful use of force” for actions in Nicaragua i.e. for being invoplved in terrorist activities on some level.<BR/>Nice one Gord.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-84662898189970460362007-08-01T09:32:00.000+01:002007-08-01T09:32:00.000+01:00Oh come on Iain. Is this the best you can do. Ramb...Oh come on Iain. Is this the best you can do. Rambling on about the origin of a Brown speech……Oh dear !!!!Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08154883691100377834noreply@blogger.com