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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

Siôn Simon Labour MP for Birmingham, Erdington has managed to add another bit of NuLabour NuSpeak into Hansard.

Speaking during the Home Office Questions, just before the Pre-Budget Statement, he managed to make several references to ASBOid or ASBOids

This new expression, presumably for "hooligan", "feckless youth", "yobs" etc. seems to refer to those people who have been served with the increasingly controversial Anti-Social Behavior Orders.

Since there does not appear to be any evidence that any of the youths who were riding the controversial mini-motorbikes, were subject to an ASBO specifically proohibiting them from doing so, or even to any sort of ASBO whatsoever, the use of the expression shows a certain contempt by NuLabour politicians for their constituents, especially since Anti-Social Behiiour Orders have been applied so arbitrarily up and down the country, as documented by the AsboConcern website.

UPDATE: Another NuLabour MP, the political blog pioneer (until he became a junior Government Whip) Tom Watson now seems to have belatedly latched on to the expression.

How do NuLabour Ministers get brainwashed into making NuSpeak declarations, which even to supporters of ID cards must sound hollow and false ?

Spy Blog notes that:

"The NuLabour Home Secretary Charles Clarke seems to expect us to believe his statement during the Second Reading debate that

"I argue that the ID card system is in fact a bulwark against the surveillance or Big Brother society, and not a further contribution to it."

Is it terrorists, serious organised criminal, illegal immigrants, benefit fraudsters or "identity thieves" (the presumed statutory targets of the Identity Cards Bill) who are setting up multi-billion pound technological mass surveillance infrastructures to spy on everyone in the UK, or is it the NuLabour Government which is planning to do so ?"