Saturday, Aug 23, 2008
The increasing madness of Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Daily Telegraph: Gordon Brown's optimism startles experts
Gordon Brown's optimism startles experts
Gordon Brown's private belief that the British economy is almost out of the woods has surprised the Treasury and the Bank of England who are growing increasingly pessimistic about the country's prospects.
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1. japanese uncle said...
May I repost the following: He knew almost nothing about economics first of all.
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Crash G seems stupid enough not to have ousted Silky Teflon in time, before his (or his real master's) 'mother of all boom-and-busts' economic non-policy reveals its full effect. He will be remembered only as Crash Gordon (may I humbly claim my credit as godfather?), who unknowingly (yes, he knows nothing, sadly. Had he known any little about economics, he could not possibly have been complacent without rushing to oust the Silky at much earlier date, with the deadline of his bogus policy quickly approaching) unleashed arguably the biggest economic bubble since the dawn of UK history. Bad timing indeed.
2. str 2007 said...
JU
Please see my comment on your 66.7% fall calculation on previous thread.
Check out the smile in the photo.
Have you ever seen such effort against gravity.
If there ever was a face designed not to smile this is it.
I'm inclined to agree JU about GB's lack of economic knowledge.
What is surprising though is how one of his early speeches specifically identified 'not letting house prices get out of control' only to go ahead and do just that.
Did he not realise how far out of control they were ?
Or did he know that they were getting sold off into the pensions market and think they would be at least until his re-election, at which point he'd have reigned things back in and got finances in order by the time of the Olympics to prepare for a potential down turn after the excitement of the Olympics ?
Who knows what was really being thought behind the headlines and announcements.
I still feel that he must realise the only real chance of election victory is to try and find the bottom of the housing market by the end of next year, at which point release the rescue package which may have the effect of temporarily showing the market as stable, only to then fall again after the election.
3. Fingerbob69 said...
Personnally, I think History will record, that following the the short lived Brown administration, the people of this country swore never again to be held hostage to the political vanity of one man and that consequently the Labour party experienced a decline simular to that suffered by the old Liberal party during the 1920's.
However, the answer to our woes is not the Tory party, they are too content to just sit and watch Labour implode while guarding the empty space where own policies should be. This country needs to grasp for a more radical solution... Vote Liberal Deocrate!
4. japanese uncle said...
'not letting house prices get out of control' according to this man means 'restricting the HP increase within 4 x range' obviously.
After all the quality of our representatives literally represent the quality of the voters at large. Where voters neglect to scrutinize the integrity of politicians' speech, this sort of lies of the grandest scale can go unchecked. Things are the same or even worse in Japan.
Unless we can develop genuine opposition in the parliament, meaning not on the payroll of those controlling the mainstream parties, democracy will be all but extinct before long.
5. japanese uncle said...
Incidentally his smile in the photo looks more like a drug-induced euphoria.
6. beartil2010 said...
And this guy was the chancellor for years. Moron.
That is a fake smile - humans can identify them subconsciously even if they can't consciously.
7. mark wadsworth said...
"the quality of our representatives literally represent the quality of the voters at large"
Correct. Which is why school children should be taught basic economics from an early age.
8. renting2 said...
He's in a little bunker of his own making deluding himself whilst marshalling vast empty and unworkable economic plans around a map of the scorched earth of Britain. With those 'advising' and his cabinet colleagues around him being gutless and unable to tell him the truth.
9. beartil2010 said...
Wonder what Greenspan had to say:
'Gordo mate. We've got the PPT central bankers together, and manufactured a dollar recovery, as well as colluded with the big investment banks to produce fake-paper gold supply and squash the gold price. So you've made your cash on long positions this month, just like we said. That won't last long, move over into shorts now, as people know FM and MF are in the sh*t. All you need to do is keep telling everyone things are okay, and give us enough time to get all our positions moved.
Keep lying for another couple of month and we'll see you right mate. Backhanders all round. Job at JP Morgan suit you?'
10. Jungli said...
Always look on the bright side of life de do de do de do de do....
11. plato said...
It is easy to be optimistic when personal gain is guaranteed. The smile however becomes somewhat sardonic. Hence the false impression.
These types are generally educated in a way that is foreign to most. They are evasive,devisive and devious, while at the same time appearing as the opposite to these traits.
It takes a certain psychological make-up to behave in this manner and from very young their social conscience is really non-existant,but their social standing exhbits all the virtues.
What better way to practice your want,than from the cover of that which you despise.
12. shipbuilder said...
Gordon Brown is no fool, he is simply the same as Tony Blair, the rest of New Labour and indeed all of the most recent generation of politicians in all parties - remote, arrogant and with an utter contempt of the British public. This arrogance leads to increasingly bizarre pronouncements, as he clearly believes that anything he says will simply be accepted as fact.
13. it_is_going_with_a_bang said...
To be fair to the look on his face, there's no going back, no hope, no chance of redeeming himself. So he may aswell wear a stupid grin if nothing else.
14. Ulfar said...
Gordon Brown is insane, not optimistic. For a control freak like him to be put in a position where there is no hope of control is a recipe for madness.
Gotta say Tony Blair is an absolute genius, he waited till things were irreversible and then dropped the whole thing in the lap of Gordon Brown.
He must go to bed at night with the biggest smile of his face of anyone ever, even the fact that the wicked witch of the west is next to him won't remove the smile.
I have to applaud him and state that I have no sympathy for Gordon as if there hadn't been all the back room dealing and back stabbing maybe Labour could have done some good.
15. Stevie Dee said...
#11.. love the piece you wrote.. great words.. "We the people of the United Kingdom, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United Kingdom". I think the noblemen who originally wrote this, for which I modified, had the right idea. An 18th Century ideal which is as pertinent then to their ideals as it is now to our goals in the 21st Century.
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17. Ex-labour Voter said...
Gordon Brown shows most of the traits of a psychopath/sociopath. It's frightening to think of the damage this deranged and desperate creature can do in the two years before the next general election.
18. malct said...
uh oh !
much to say but no time
good post on a quiet day
is has all been said before but plato is inching close to reality with psychopaths, sociopaths
and political ponerology
BBC Century of Self
Canada The Corporation
SOTT
19. malct said...
for once every poster on each post has a valid point (imho)
all we need now is for james to turn up and agree with everybody and we might get an entry in the Guiness Book of Records
no perhaps not !
seriously I wish I had time here and now to expand on all comments but family calls
best wishes
20. titaniccaptain said...
As shipbuilder said..........reminds me of one of one of Saddam's quotes "the law is whatever I write on a piece of paper"
21. alan said...
"...remote, arrogant and with an utter contempt of the British public", says Shipbuilder. Couldn't agree more.
How long before more people see through the act he is putting on?
22. Urban Bear said...
Fingerbob69:
It seems like you could have been harmed by Weed, if you honestly think that the "Liberal Deocrate" knaves can and will fix this mess, I've seen their kind locally, and the resulting scandals! It will take much stronger medicine to fix this problem; you know who!