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BANGED TO RIGHTS

When Darling espouses the term: ‘sort out’ (as in ‘sock draw’) to avoid using ‘put right’ (reference: ‘cock up’) and Tories take to addressing Brown as ‘THIS prime minister’ to insidiously emphasise that there is an alternative OTHER one, we know that Westminster is in the grip of Machiavellian weasel-wording and in very real need of gunpowder. Brown is not the problem; he is just the steam arising from the New Labour party dung heap. Another party; another dung heap. SPOIL PARTY GAMES.

Re your proposed piece by Paul Mason I do hope it's going to move on a little bit in its analysis from pointing out the BoE is in a bit of a bind juggling interest rates.

Given that the days of our NICE free lunch lending money it turns out we don't really have appear to be over, I for one would like to know how we propose to earn an honest crust or two in the future - a question that Stuffo might well have posed the chancellor incidentally given that the prime minister whose weaknesses he lambasts would appear to have some convictions on the matter.

I enjoyed the question put to Darling this morning by ´óÏó´«Ã½ Good Morning Scotland's
Ken McDonald. On being told that the up
side of all this was that Labour was now
focussing on poverty which is/was their home ground, McDonald came straight
back at the Chancellor asking: 'So are
you saying, like the old Stalinists used
to say, that 'mistakes have been made'
but 'they were the right mistakes'?! The
Chancellor was stopped in his tracks ....

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CHANCELLOR STOPPED IN TRACKS

All day (in the South) I heard Darling being stopped in his tracks, but it never seems to register with him. Might as well talk to the steely Flint, or the Good Ship Lollyypop Blears, or the Straw Man, or Stepford Wife Cooper, or 'words sans frontiere' Miliband, or any of them . . .

Fine on the night ... I take it all back what I said my post number 3 today worrying that the interest rate debate had got stuck in a rut.

And Jeremy did indeed ask the right question about the grand design (also enjoyed his digs at the conservative rep whoever he was about them lot being Labour's keenest supporters).

I look forward to further Newsnight debates about the PM's planned Great Leap Forward but do let's try and concentrate on the issues and not the personalities.

Enjoyed the White City piece too.

Bit of a shoddy disaster at the end really, wasn't it.

> No indication that the final report was about to end;

> Never saw any front pages other than the Daily Mail;

> Mr Paxman said "there's more goodies tomorrow" instead of "there're more goodies...";

> The full credits failed to roll, so we might as well have had more on the papers.

I suppose it was late at night.

(Interview with Mr Darling MP was very good).

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Was Mervyn signalling his endorsement of the fact that 'Wunderkind Brown' had performed his ten years of economic miracles DURING THE NICE YEARS, when world economics were being nice to him?
Might it be that 'Clunk Brown' is no more brainy, than he turned out to be fisty?