Anyone catch Lord Rio on the Marr show lying through his teeth and being allowed to get away with it? Anyone notice that the BBC main news portal leading with the news that “influential left-wing backbencher John Cruddas has joined those backing the PM, saying ousting him would be “madness.” It’s Save Gordon day ahead of the results to come.
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I'm glad they're (cronies, BBC) actually trying to save him. What would make me nervous is if they got rid of him and between now and the alleged (I'll believe it when I see it) general election, the public, with their apparent short memories and aided by the BBC's propaganda, decide to re-elect Labour.
I take it as a bonus that there are still clueless morons like the BBC and John Cruddas who just don't seem to be able to understand how much Brown and Labour are despised.
Keep propagandising BBC. Brown's death is now guaranteed, and yours isn't far behind.
Marr usual toady form, four left wing on his show & 1 tory, no mention of tory council rout & so frightend of Mandelson that he even ditched the late news!
I had to turn it off. It was an utter joke. Jon Snow would NEVER have taken that crap off Mandelson.
Marr is weak.
they had Alan Sugar on Adam Boultons show just after 10:00. He was asked if he would vote with the whip and answered that he did not understand what that was so no he would not.
He then went on to be thoroughly on message, throwing out the usual crap about Browns intellectual prowess and getting on with the job.
PRICELESS!
Former EU commissioner Mandelson needs Broon as a figurehead if he's to get through his parliamentary reforms. Look at these very carefully when they're put forward. It will advance the EU cause – this is indeed a beneficial crisis.
If there is an election and the Conservatives/whoever get in, his chance will have gone.
For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not expecting great things from Cameron either.
But Mandy did manage to say that that the cabinet were united against Gordon Brown. A mistake Marr was very anxious to explain was just a slip of the tongue. Now if that had been George W ….
The Politics Show today did seem a bit unbalanced.
Yes I know the disasterous leadership of Brown is the big story but if the main story was Tory problems would they not have a line of socialists on to put the boot in.
The people giving comment were
Mandelson unelected labour minister
Hazel Harding labour councilor
Martin Salter Labour MP
Paul Sinclair ex no 10 (labour) advisor
'Lord' Falconer ex unelected labour lord Chencellor
'Baroness' Prosser former labour treasurer
6 ex Wollies workers only one indentified with a political party was labour.
In my area more balanced.
Kerry McCarthy labour MP
Ken Maddock Tory councilor
James Gray Tory MP
Jeremy Brown Lib Dem
'Lord' Dartmouth UKIP
Dawn Primocola Labour MP (the main interview)
Pol Potts Lib Dem
Then back to London
with Alan Johnson Labour cabinet minister.
Does political balance just mean balancing out the various factions of the labour Party.
Ron,
Radio 4's 'The World this Weekend' was just the same.
As well as clips from earlier programmes, there was a bizarre package from Staffordshire which purported to be about grassroots Labour support for Brown, but which interviewed only the remaining Labour county councillor, two sitting Labour MPs who want Brown to stay & an ex-councillor who is going to be a Labour candidate at the general election.
The big interview was with Labour minister Tessa Jowell.
In fact, this programme didn't even manage to be balanced between the various factions of the Labour party! It was a "save Gordon!" edition.
P.S. Our (North-West) coverage was far better too – balanced and fair.
There seems to be some weird notion this guy is a smooth operator and wizard with words.
C'mon. He actually said, in one sentence, that 'what the people want… is for 'them' to get on with the job'.
That is about as discredited a bit of bad spin as has been trotted out to general distain (if, possibly, by 'people', as opposed to bubble inhabitants) for the last few months as I have ever heard.
Oddly, Mr. Marr seemed unable to even deal with that.
The Gaby Logan Show on Radio5 (10.00 – 12.00) had Tessa Jowell as guest balanced up nicely with sidekicks Kevin Maguire and Des Clarke (pro-Labour comedian).
"COMING UP: Gordon Brown to give speech to Labour activists in East London"
I can't remember, but isn't 'activist' synonymous with 'terrorist'?
Never can remember, the Beeb has so many different words that mean the same…
I'm still waiting for an astute BBC employee to point out that, had Gordon Brown and his cronies not pushed Tony Blair out the door back when they did, this would have been a far better time for Mr. Brown to take over.
Everything would be pretty much the exact same if Blair was still around. The expenses scandal would be the same, the economic situation would be the same, and you can bet there would have been a few Blair Cabinet ministers who had to resign over troughing.
Remember, the mantra from Downing Street to White City is that the economic problems "started in America" and is a "global problem which requires global", etc. So even though the same youngsters at the Spectator would be blaming Mr. Brown's Chancellorship for the current state of the UK economy, the BBC and the rest of them wouldn't let it get very far.
Then there's the huge bonus: Brown didn't have the albatross of being Bush's Poodle over Iraq. In The Obamessianic Age, he could have come in promising to withdraw all British troops from the rest of the world.
In other words, if Mr. Brown's lust for power and hatred of Blair hadn't gotten the better of him, this would be his weekend of triumph, rather than his lowest days yet.
It's all pretty straight forward, and I'm surprised that at least one BBC genius hasn't at least put it out there as a hypothetical. Okay, I'm lying. There's no way in hell this would occur to any of them, and Nick Robinson is too close to his Lobby buddies to care at this point.