Rumours are going round Westminster tonight that a middle ranking Minister is on the verge of resignation. Your suggestions please...
UPDATE: Read THIS incisive post from Paul Linford on his Top Ten Ways Blair Could Quit. Personally I think Paul could have spent his time more profitably. There is only one way Blair can quit. By tendering his resignation to Her Majesty The Queen.
UPDATE: Channel 4 News is reporting that Blair is accusing Brown of stirring up the rebellion by PPSs and that they have had the mother of all rows. Sky News is reporting that Blair will cave in tomorrow and announce a timetable for his departure. Wouldn't it be great to hear him say this...
I am today tendering my resignation as Prime Minister to Her Majesty The Queen. I should like to wish my successor the very best of luck and would like to make clear that I do not consider the Chancellor a fit and proper person to lead this country.
One can but dream...
Oh, God, this is too funny! I'll bet no one's done any work today.
ReplyDeleteNo ideas because something's up. Tried calling a couple of members who normally sing like canaries and both phones are off.
ReplyDeleteSo let's fuel that comparison with Hitler and the Bunker. Who in New Labour was the brave Canaris, who is the foul Goebbels, making sure the executions are carried out even though all is lost, who is Doenitz...
And what has DC got to say about a paralysed government machine?
I my money is on Jack Straw
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Prescott
ReplyDeleteGordon Brown?
ReplyDeleteNot quite sure what "rank" he is, but I'd like Jim Murphy to go. Of course it won't be him, but anything to get that arrogant and snivelling wretch away from power would be a good thing.
ReplyDeleteCould it possibly be the Environment Minister?
ReplyDeleteSekf-serving little creep.
Harriet Harman? It was her husband, Jack Drohmey who blew the whistle on the cash for peerages business.
ReplyDeleteI am puzzled to know but can,t offer any suggestions.
ReplyDeleteDoes Prezza come into the middle rank these days, it's hard to know whether he is high ranking, middle ranking, low ranking or just a nonentity? unfortunately we don,t see a lot of him these days, we could all do with a bit of mirth, now that politics has got serious again. I miss him, he was always good for laugh. Maybe they can find a role for him on Tony's lap of honour, it would be nice to see the old git again.
TB?
ReplyDeleteYour banner seems to be changing every time I click. My eyes are probably decieving me!
ReplyDeletetony blair?
ReplyDeletemuddled -anking it can only be Presscock.
ReplyDeleteThey'll regret it in the morning.
ReplyDeleteGordon won't be offering prizes for random acts of indiscipline.
Not sure what his name is but he's just been spotted flying over Scotland, heading for the Duke of Hamilton's estate....
ReplyDeleteMalcolm Wicks?
ReplyDeleteIt's got to be a Brwonite, hasn't it? Since Brown doesn't have the killer instinct to plunge the knife he's going to get a lackey to trigger TB's resignation for him. That's how Brown works, through little pawns...
ReplyDeleteIt's all quite grotesquely exciting ins't it?
Sorry - I can't think of any middle ranking ministers in the current administration! Non-entities the lot. They're not even household names in their own households. He/she will be famous for resigning. Which about sums this incompetent shower up. What have they done for the country? Apart from ruin it.
ReplyDeleteI heard some disgruntled Labour MPs searching for backing might be clutching at Straws soon...
ReplyDeleteIt has to be a serious Brownite for this saga to increase it's momentum. My theory is that it will not happen. Brown has never twisted the knife before. He does not have that ruthless streak.
ReplyDeleteIt will be some boring upleasant nonentity as opposed to all the boring unpleasant well-known types like Stephen Byers and his ilk, who have fortunately for the country already been booted out. As predicted by this writer some considerable time ago on this blog, the men in grey suits will visit Blair shortly. I predict he will be out of office within weeks. There is then the very real prospect of a return to the 1970s when very small union cabals appointed the next Prime Minister. At that time it was the TGWU and Callaghan. Today it will be Unison and Peter Hain or Alan Johnson. (they loathe Brown). Unison will decide it because they are the biggest and unlike some of the others have maintained payments to the Labour Party. So these people, who most of us have never heard about and know little or nothing of are to determine who will be Britain's next leader during the next few weeks:
ReplyDelete(Unison HQ people)
Dave Prentis, general secretary
Keith Sonnet, deputy general secretary
Malcolm Cantello, president
Carole Maleham, vice-president
Norma Stephenson, vice-president
A return to the good old days of smoke-filled rooms but presumably without the smoke!
The smart money is on Hain and I hear on the rumour mill that he is already packing for London...
Any one of them with any sense...
ReplyDeleteCould this be the Straw that breaks the camel's back?
ReplyDeleteIt will be Jack Straw.
ReplyDeleteThe Druid beat me to it!
ReplyDeleteAll tossers now - they've all had countless jobs and buggered them all up one by one.
Think of Prescott. Minister of Transport? Then some idea comes into his stupid head (fuelled by enormous tax-payer funded reports from "Great...Super freaks), when he decides he has to fill Essex and Kent with houses.
Confucious he say, "when you need a way out of the swamp; build a road".
Prescott didn't.
Working temporarily at a slightly rubbish 'third sector organisation', we had a meeting with Ed Miliband scheduled for this afternoon that was cancelled at an hour's notice.
ReplyDeleteNot unusual, but he's middle ranking and Brownite...
Sky says that Hartlepool MP Iain Wright has quit - he was a PPS.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Hill have cut the odds on TB leaving this year from 5/1 to 9/4.
ReplyDeleteLadbrokes have cut the odds on John Prescott becoming the next prime minister from 100/1 to 25/1 following a rush of bets.
And your banner has gone bananas with all the excitement.
Surely Brown must promise a Big Job to Straw as a reward for his matyrdom.
ReplyDeleteYou can get odds of 14-1 on Straw for next Chancellor. Take them.
What would be even better is to see the Queen on the telly saying:
ReplyDelete"I have today informed the Prime Minister that he is relieved of his duties with immediate effect. I have dissolved parliament and a date will be announced for a general election shortly."
To the anonymous blogger who said the next Labour leader would be appointed by a union cabal, wasn't that how Michael Foot became leader? And what a great success that was!
ReplyDeleteSorry to change the topic for a while - but has anyone seen what is happening on teh seven million member network site - Facebook
ReplyDeleteThey changed it a bit yesterday - and it has completely disingegrated with over fifty people a second joining the largest group dedicated to changing it back.
I don't konw why this is so interesting - but anyone with a facebook account should get online and see teh mayhem.
To compare - those who saw the silliness that occured on millibands eco wikicontract - this is a million times more fun.
I think "Bad head Beckett" or Jack Straw.
ReplyDeleteI haven't done a tap today.lol This is great.
Ben Bradshaw, please, if there is a God in heaven, let it be Ben Bradshaw! He is more Blairite than Blair - and mor toady than Mr Toad, and also the most snivveling little git I have ever had the misfortune to meet.
ReplyDeleteAnd his eyes are way too close together for comfort!
Maybe TB didn't like Tom Watsons attitude, but he should heed the words of Mr Churchill.
ReplyDeleteCriticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill
I heard from a secretary that two middle ranking Ministers [who have managed to talk to Gordon] have offered to resign "to keep the momentum up" and to try to raise their standing in the next cabinet.
ReplyDeleteConfusion reigns because "Gutless" Gordon still refuses to be drawn on whether he will endorse their resignations.