I see the Gorgon is pulling the troops back in July next year. That would be a nice positive message to reinforce how different he is from Bliar, wouldn't it?
Yep, the right man in a crisis, pulling the troops out, fiscal stimulus, yadda yadda.
It's all adding up.
And I'm horrified to think he's actually going to pull it off as well.
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I was just about to scrawl something along the same lines. My money is the first thursday in May 2010. By then the troops will be home (and he'll be making noises about Afghanistan well before then), the recession/depression should be turning and Mandelson will have been appointed deputy PM.
He's only pulling them out of Iraq because we don't have enough for Afghanistan.
Welcome home lads, don't bother unpacking, I have a nice little job for you. Shouldn't need to fire a single shot.
There's only one thing our Gordon pulls off nowadays and it's debatable if that is ever successful.
The same thought struck me too. Not just this either, there is a tangible softening of attitude recently from Labour (apart from Liam Donaldson, who is still using the cancer threat, though this time towards obesity). The vote-buying has begun.
I'm scared.
Sorry, a typo there, it should have read ", the cunt" after "Liam Donaldson".
Everything this wanker does is about him and his fukin ego,when we are finally rid of this piece of excrement in a suit I`m gonna go to his house stand outside and laugh at him through a loud hailer.
I wish I could say I thought you were wrong. And that there's no way on Earth he'd win an election.
But I have a bad feeling about this...
Me too. Having extensively researched this for ten minutes on wiki (for reasons which will be mentioned) the situation which looks similar is the Obote/Amin regime in Uganda.
Uganda was well-resourced, well-run and set for success in the post-colonial period. By some measures it stood a better chance than than Britain itself. Milton Obote appeared to have a democratic mandate. By 1966 he began the usual kleptocracy, liquidating the productive middle classes and saying it was in aid of the working orders.
In Uganda, that middle class was often Asian, which at the time looked like 'Indians'. A closer inspection would have shown a mix of people including Iranians of Indian origin, Indians, some ex-colonial whites, and Chinese origin workers and entrepreneurs.
Our neighbours could read the writing on the wall and packed up their remaining capital before Obote could take any more of it, and bought a small house in chilly Britain. They brought their skills and their middle-class values which, in the end, matter more than skin, no matter what some people think.
They jumped for the sake of their children and it is just as well they did for, although the 1971 coup by Amin was initially greeted with relief, we all know what happened next. I once asked an old Africa hand what possible benefit it can be to expell a country's doctors, engineers, accountants, designers and linguists. He looked at me like the idiotic tic I was for asking: it made Amin instantly popular. Some people received unearned wealth, the others were only too willing to believe that they had somehow been 'kept down' by the foreign worker middle classes.
McSnot will bribe the voters with money which will be worth nothing approximately five minutes after his election win, and he will continue to tell them it is all somebody else's fault. Worked before. If they believe him, they will deserve what is coming.
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