Friday, Sep 18, 2009
Right on cue
The Telegraph: Gordon Brown to call for international agreement to cut public spending
Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, will use next week’s G20 meeting in America to propose an international timetable for governments around the world to start cutting public spending together.
Posted by devo @ 06:38 AM (1049 views) Add Comment
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1. devo said...
"I am proposing a new Global Compact to entrench economic recovery and secure stability, growth and jobs."
This is a great phrase to use when working on your Gordon Brown impression.
For added realism get your mates to jeer at you, as you steadily raise your voice.
2. alan said...
First he saved the world by increasing investment.
Now he's leading the world in cutting costs (just the unimportant, wasteful bits, you understand).
What a guy!!
3. down wave said...
Brown will say and do anything, twist truth into lies, rank perversion even, in order to keep his face in the media. He is the classic political game player: Create a catastrophy, then procede to 'fix' it so that he can call himself the 'Hero'. This is how he evades and stores his guilt feeling deep in his subconscious so that he can sleep at night. Since the average man suffers partial dementia due to media brainwashing, and invariably forgets what happened yesterday, Brown will get away with it.
By the way, my missives posted here are not intended for regular members, rather they are for the casual visiting reader and my own entertainment.
4. a saver said...
The nerve of the guy! Racking up the biggest national debt ever with his profligacy, then preaching to the rest of the world about the need for prudence. It would be like light touch financial regulation allowing banks to become dangerously overleveraged and several almost collapsing, then talking about the need for better regulation of the banks...oh hang on..
5. drewster said...
Why does Gordon need international agreement to undertake spending cuts? He's like a kid in primary school who doesn't want to go to the loo on his own. "Please sir, can Barack come to the loo with me too?"
6. smugdog said...
As Downwave puts it, he will get away with it because of the intellect and laziness of the Mr average, and he will be voted back in to Number 10, I have no doubt about this. It is too late in the campaign to change riders, especially as Ed Balls is not an option. Is Brown fit to manage? I think the tsunami that follows will break him and ruin him.
7. Mr Cobblepot said...
This balloon head makes more u-turns than Armitage Shanks!!!
8. fubar said...
@3 "rank perversion...?" Beg your pardon?
Are you refering to the sapping and impurity of your precious bodily fluids by chance?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KvgtEnABY
9. mystie010 said...
I like the quote at the bottom
"We’ve already had one of the longest recessions of any major economy, and now Labour’s policies risk soaring interest rates, further job losses and choking off the recovery.”
I've aways said that this story about interest rates remaining low well into next year is a lie (it's just a feeling I have no hard facts to back it up) I'm going to put a bet on at the bookies because I think that early next year we will see rises starting to happen. Why do I think this? because we were told interst rates were going to remain hight and look what happened. So I think wait and see - it's going to be fun watching! Expect the unexpected and realise that they are taking us for mugs!
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11. timmy t said...
Drewster - that was my thought exactly. We were always headed for trouble, the financial crisis was convenient because Gordo got to blame external factors. But we now have to cut spending pretty dramatically and he wants everyone else to join in so he can say its a global thing.
12. alan_540 said...
... and also , more importantly, try to ensure that the bailouts don't dry up before the election thereby maximising his chances of re-election. When the extra money is removed from the equation things will all go a bit Pete Tong.
13. Mikthe20 said...
"He also wants the International Monetary Fund to advise countries on their “national plans.”"
Is this the same IMF that told Gordon, pretty much every year, that Britain's asset price bubble was a danger to stability? Is this the same IMF that Gordon completely ignored every time? Is this the same IMF that he told to butt out of it and that Britain's economy was fine? The sheer hipocrisy of this man!