HAS GORDON SCREWED THE POOCH?

Hello?

OK, let's have a show of hands here.

How many of you know who Gordon Brown is?

How many of you know why i capitalized the word "Labour," and spelled it in that barbaric manner?

Oops . . . that should have been, start a pool . . .

is this the same gordon brown who runs the hot air factory over on downing street, #10 i think, his labour prices are too high in my opinion

That's the guy . . . the line from Downing Street is that he's hangin' tough . . . i'm skeptical . . . i'm also sleepy . . . i may take a nap here for a while . . .

I always thought Brown would fail, but I have not watched him closely enough to know how and why he finally set himslf up for it.

With the elections looming and the recent resignation of 4 PM's, 2 from cabinet level positions, it would appear as though Labour and Brown are indeed doomed. But who can tell in British politics?

Run over to Google News, EB, and do a search on his name. It's quite entertaining, in a "rats deserting a sinking ship" sort of way.

I would say that he is in fact screwed, if not for the fact that the public hardly seems to like the other team any better.

Cycloptichorn

an interesting aside, i listen to a podcast of The Scott Mills Show on Radio 1, they play a game in studio that involves people on the show guessing the answers to response to various questions or situations, they regularly go out onto "stupid street", a street near the Radio 1 offices, one day they posed this question, they showed 10 people a photo of the entrance to 10 Downing Street and asked them who lived there, they also asked them who lives in a pineapple under the sea, not 1 person said Gordon Brown (they would have accepted the Prime Minister) and everybody got Spongebob Squarepants

Uhm . . . don't you mean four MPs?

Yes, that would be what I meant.

That may be the only thing that can save him . . .

Daniel Hannan recently gave him a rather feisty and very publicized tongue lashing

We need our very own Daniel Hannan here in the states to dress down Obama and his supporters in the same manner.

you need a multi party system

Agreed.

The only way that would work is if we first cleaned out all existing politicians in the house, senate and white house.

i could see the conservative party splitting into a hardcore more fundamentalist group and a more moderate group, the moderates would probably be able to pull liberals who are put off by the fundamentalism the now see as core to the conservative party

The Libertarian party is in place and ready to move, but the Republicrats, Democans
and main stream media are working together to prevent them from participating.

Yeah, but -- to paraphrase the Bambino -- SpongeBob had a better year.