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Gordon Brown is at Buckingham Palace resigning as Prime Minister - good riddance !

It is unlikely that the the Conservative coalition with the Liberal Democrats will be free from errors and cockups, but they are unlikely to be as Orwellian as the Labour government turned out to be.

This blog will continue to keep a watch on the post-election defeated Labour politicians to see what mischief they get up to, especially since some of them could return to power or influence in the future.

How many former Ministers and Special Advisor apparatchiki will be selling their "contacts" and influence within the Civil Service to commercial lobbyists and foreign governments ?

Why is the Gordon Brown still clinging on to power in Downing Street ?

Remember he has never won an election for this position of power and has no democratic mandate whatsoever.

Will the Liberal Democrats betray the electorate by doing some dodgy political deal Labour ?

When will the next election be ? Within a year ?

Tony Blair, as expected, seems to have come through his day of questioning by the Chilcot Inquiry virtually unscathed, and just as sanctimoniously arrogant and unapologetic as ever.

No doubt Gordon Brown will also try to evade any responsibility for his involvement in the ill prepared planning for the invasion of Iraq, and the utter incompetence of the Labour Government (and George Bush junior's US Government) when it came to the aftermath of the removal of the evil dictator Saddam Hussein.

This online petition on the 10 Downing Street website, calling for the resignation of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, has now had an arrogant Orwellian newspeak "response" from the untrustworthy Downing Street propagandists.

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to resign.

Submitted by Kalvis Jansons - Deadline to sign up by: 22 October 2009 - Signatures: 72,234

The Government's Response to this petition betrays a Nicolae Ceauşescu like disconnect from the British public.

The Prime Minister is completely focussed on restoring the economy, getting people back to work and improving standards in public services. As the Prime Minister has consistently said, he is determined to build a stronger, fairer, better Britain for all.

These are all problems which Gordon Brown is personally responsible for helping to create in the first place !

There is no hint of any apology for his appallingly inept yet authoritarian policies, which he appears to have deluded himself into believing in, akin to Orwellian doublethink:

The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them....To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies

Petitions are usually ignored by this Labour Government (and by other previous Governments in the UK)

This non-partisan Please Go ! petition on the Number 10 Downing Street website, might be worth a few moments of your time, to express your dissatisfaction with this mendacious, incompetent, yet still smug and patronising NuLabour regime:

Please Go !

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to resign

Remember to take suitable precautions to protect your Communications Traffic Data from being captured "for national security" and then abused for political smear purposes by Labour party appartachiki e.g. use Tor to hide your real IP address and the use of a temporary or "throwaway" email address, based outside of the UK. e.g. from https://hushmail.com

The Independent on Sunday has another report about the sneaky lobbying , which has been going on for over a year, to appoint the disgraceful, untrustworthy former Prime Minister Tony Blair, to the unelected (by the people) position of "President of the European Union".

Blair steps up fight to be crowned first 'President of EU'

Brown gives grudging blessing to his old rival's return to new job at centre of the global stage

By Jane Merrick, Political Editor

Sunday, 5 April 2009

Tony Blair has emerged as the leading candidate to become the first permanent president of the European Union after Gordon Brown gave his grudging blessing to the plan. The former prime minister has stepped up his campaign for the job, which he wants to use to build a bridge between Europe and the new Obama administration.

Tony Blair has emerged as the leading candidate to become the first permanent president of the European Union after Gordon Brown gave his grudging blessing to the plan. The former prime minister has stepped up his campaign for the job, which he wants to use to build a bridge between Europe and the new Obama administration.
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His return to the global stage would be a shock to his critics over the Iraq war and dismay many in Europe.

But The Independent on Sunday has learnt that Mr Brown has accepted that his old rival should be in pole position for the appointment, on the basis that Britain needs to have a key figure in the architecture of the "new world order".

A senior British official said: "He [Brown] will have to swallow hard to sit down in meetings once again with Blair. But he accepts that there needs to be someone from the UK in the new global architecture. There is no opposition to the plan. Things have moved on, people have moved on."

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There certainly is opposition to this plan from the people of the United Kingdom and the rest of the European Union.

There is a European Union wide petition website opposed to such an insulting nomination

Stop Blair!

currently with over 27,000 signatures.

The fictional character of Sir Humphrey Appleby, played by the late Sir Nigel Hawthorne, in the popular satires "Yes, Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister" has stood the test of time since the first broadcast back in 1980.

The Sunday Times has published an extract "Brown v Whitehall: the coming battle" from the book "Gordon Brown Prime Minister" by Tom Bower.

The pusillanimous surrender of supposedly top Civil Service mandarins, when faced by the authoritarian control frekery of Gordon Brown and his cabal, does makes one pine for a competent and devious Sir Humphrey Appleby, who might be able to protect us from the worst excesses of the new Unelected Prime Minister in Waiting Gordon Brown and his NuLabour cronies and apparatchiki.

It does not appear from this extract that Sir Gus O'Donnel, the present Cabinet Secretary. is up to the task:

Do the electoral defeats for the Labour Party in the elections last Thursday mean that the "New Labour project" is now over ?

Incredibly,Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott and now Home Secretary John Reid are still in their positions of power, as lame duck Ministers, awaiting the actual announcement of the date of the date when Tony Blair steps down as Prime Ministers, when they too gave said they will also resign.

Everyone now assumes that Gordon Brown will become Prime Minister, without any actual electoral mandate from the general public, and, apparently, without even a serious challenge from within the Labour party.

Does anyone know exactly what he stands for, and how he will be any different from Tony Blair ?

No doubt he will attempt to cling on to power right until the last moment in May 2010, the latest possible date for a General Election, at which point we fervently hope he will be kicked out of office.

It is hard to see what Gordon Brown's new Cabinet might look like, since there is such a dearth of actual talent amongst Labour MPs, that any re-shuffling of deckchairs on the Titanic, will be greeted with contempt by the public.

The labels "Brownite" and "Blairite" amongst the ranks of Ministers and their Special Advisers and spin doctors, seem so meaningless - they are all Labour politicians and, for the most part, all seem to exhibit Orwellian doublethink i.e. "the act of holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously, fervently believing both.".

Who will replace Gordon Brown as Chancellor ? The candidates he appears to have been grooming over the years seem to be Alastair Darling and Ed Balls.

Almost anyone (with the obvious exceptions of David Blunkett and Charles Clarke) must be better than John Reid as Home Secretary, in charge of the rump of the Home Office the new "Ministry of Injustice".

Will former Home Office Minister and current chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, John Denham be brought in to this role ? He at least is familiar with the ongoing problems of the Home Office.

Or will former Home Secretary Jack Straw come back from the wilderness of Leader of the Commons, to this role, due to his loyal sycophancy in running Brown's "coronation" campaign ?

As to other Cabinet positions, who knows ? Will Brown purge all the alleged "Blairites" and bring in some fresh faces from the dubious ranks of the Labour backbenches ?

Presumably blogging MP Tom Watson will get some sort of Junior Ministerial reward for his efforts in helping to call for Blair's resignation.

No doubt the alleged rising star, David Miliband will be kept in the Cabinet, but given some poisoned chalice position, to weaken any possible post 2010 election challenge to Gordon Brown.

Until the new Cabinet is announced, the next 2 or 3 months will mean the complete paralysis of the UK Government regarding public policy decisions, which might affect Ministers' and top Civil Servants' old or new empires and power bases.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown rarely makes public speeches or writes newspaper articles or gives interviews where his non-financial policies are actually revealed.

Most of the UK political blogosphere has been distracted by the plethora of surrogate Brown / Blair commentry by proxy, and seems to have missed Friday's page 2 article in The Sun

This article is accompanied by an article "I'll be tough on terror" by George Pascoe-Watson the Political Editor of the Sun, whose front pahge story about the alleged Tony Blair 31st May / July 26th resignation dates, kicked off the current round of speculation.

Gordon Brown's spin doctors appear to be harking back to his dubious speech on terrorism, terrorist finanace, identity cards etc. given to the Royal United Services Institute back on February 13th 2006. This was billed at the time as the first of a series of major speeches, outside of the normal brief of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and presumably intended to give, at public expense, the impression that he is Prime Minister material.

Chancellor writes for The Sun September 08, 2006

The Sun is claiming that Tony Blair plans to resign as leader of the Labour party on 31st May 2007,

There is then meant to be an 8 week leadership contest.

Tony Blair is supposed to resign as Prime Minister on 26th July 2007.

This will mean that he will have "achieved" over 10 years in office as Prime Minister.

Is this the end of NuLabour ?

Why should Gordon Brown become Prime Minister by default ?

We see Gordon Brown as even more of a control freak and micromanager than Tony Blair. He shares the blame for the "New Labour" regime.

We will of course be following the NuLabour leadership campaigning with interest.

Even though Gordon Brown is thought of as the leading candidate, there are even worse possibilities e.g. John Reid

We will also be watching the Special Advisors and the other NuLabour apparatchiki to see what they try to sneak through whilst their patronage lasts. Some of them, of course will try to ooze theiir way into positions of influence in the new , hoepfully temporary, NuLabour regime.