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I made mendacity an art form

Well Tony and Co have had a lovely expensive day, all lovely theatre all that would do Hollywood credit.
Whist people in S. Yorkshire are up to the necks in filth!
But never mind eh - this was Tony and Gordon's day and no minor problems experienced by the peasants was ever going to be allowed to interfere in the abdication and the following Coronation of Prudence!

How can Brown change anything?
He was one of the architects of the last 10 years, for him to change anything would be an admission of his and Labours abject failure.

He is going to find it tough to continue the democratic deficit with him being elected in Scotland, where many of his decisions will not effect his constituents, but will effect the English and the Welsh.

As for listening to the Electorate, we have heard that all before, ironically always around election time. So nothing will change, until a General Election takes place!
An Election that cannot come soon enough.

First I built on rock and then I built on sand

The eternal flair of Tony Blair has given way to Britain's crown, Gordon Brown!

Be careful what you wish for, Maurice, or you might find Tony turns up at Sheffield promising to part the waters of the Red Sea, sorry, I mean river Don and lead you to the promised land...

For Gordon Brown to try and stop Alistair Campbell and Mandelson (where are they now) shows how petulant a little person he is. Wake up Gordon, they went a while ago. Pathetic!

Loving the Paxman-Crick interchanges. Keep messing up the papers Michael. But did anyone else think Brown's old school moto quoting either completely fake or completely naive? I mean, the guy's in his 50s. Old school moto? Bet Alastair Campbell pissed himself when he heard that.

i thought the commons clapped because they recognised someone who got away with it?

I had a lump in my throat and my eyes were watering whilst watching Tony's departure.
I was choking on a wine gum.

It is a futile and pointless exercise to keep going over and over again the same spiteful remarks about the past 10 years. They add nothing to any debate.
One only has to loook for the name of the author and can practically tell what it going to be written before even reading it.
People get sick of listening to the same old monotonous grinding drivel and become desensitived to it.
The last decade has been and gone, yes mistakes were made by this government as with every other that I have ever known, and people have to learn from them.
We are entering a new political chapter in all of our lives. It is time to move on, give Gordon Brown a chance to see what he can do, if at the end of a year things do not shape up then grouse but not before.
As for the Motto, all we can ask of anybody is that they do their best. We will know soon enough if his best is not good enough.

Let me respond to joseph at 12, when you get passed being a cynical commentator of the Blair premiership such as myself and arguing of the dismal ineptitude shown in the performance of Blairs governance, humour appears to be the best outlet to vent your spleen, thats all i have left, sorry. but let me remind you if i may. the 45 minute claim, the iraq war, thousands killed, the collapse of the pension fund, spin, doctor kelly, cash for honours, prisons full, crime, little old dears living in fear of out-of- control youths, immigration, er the list is endless; one good thing the Blair govt introduced was the minimum wage, other than that, well i am still waiting to be converted to the virtues of this govt, mostly because all i see is hacks of poor quality running the show. As for
Gordon Brown, well if you don't see it, maybe ignorance is bliss after all..

#13.eee aarrrgh donkey wrote:
Very apt name if I may say so.

Do you think I am unaware of all that. It has gone, it is in the past, move on, we have heard it all before. Quite a lot true, the remainder pure exageration.
Leave it behind you. A new era is begining..I heard people like you spout on after the first Labour win, "we would have millions more unemployed due to the minimum wage" etc etc...where are they?
You perhaps want to remain in the last century I for one do not.
People will never covert a stubborn donkey, keep your head in the sand.
I will not even try to debate with you it is not possible to hold a rational discussion with a closed confrontational mind such as yours.

# 13. At 03:17 PM on 28 Jun 2007, eee aarrrgh "THE" donkey wrote:

What a first class job you made of proving my point for me.
Well done..I rest my case.

Joseph, you should not read to much in a post name, i will come back to that irrelevant titbit later.

my original post at 11:

"I had a lump in my throat and my eyes were watering whilst watching Tony's departure.
I was choking on a wine gum."

well i admit, its a bit trite that comment, but i certainly did not expect a somewhat irrational response to my original post; let me point out to you, just in case your still confused, it was a joke, a little satirical dig at recent events that we have all witnessed unfold on our tv screens, some call it humour,ha ha, belly laugh and all that, though you clearly didn't chuckle at it, you just jumped up in defence of our glorious leaders(Blair/Brown).

In your comments, in particular, you litter your post with assumptions about my political beliefs based mostly on my 'eee aarrrgh donkey' name; very strange, i could call myself Julius Caeser, would i then be a Roman emperor, obviously not, but you would no doubt accuse me of giving cleopatra a hard time, and i should leave her alone, oh and 'stop living in the past' would be your next line. Where do you go with this? and how does one respond to your wild assumptions. I could ridicule you, your deluded white wash view of the Blair years(iraq aint over yet buddy) or your optimistic view on Gordon premiership, but i wont, because i don't want to get red carded ... moderators lurk in the shadows on here.

my post name is a nod to a chap who had a catch phrase, a work horse of an entertainer( clue, vic and bob show= peter). So joseph, husband of mary, step father of jesus, knock us up a chair, mahogony please and can you get the young lad to carve his initiles on it for me.. chill Joseph, chill..

Thanks to post 16 for inspiration;

The Blair premiership - how unfathomable the superficiality of most politicians.