Depressed

According to YouGov the Labour Party is more unpopular than it's ever been since polling began in 1943.

The closest any Labour leader has come to Brown's current rating is Michael Foot, who led the party in opposition against Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government in the early 1980s.



However, the best comparison for Gordon Brown may be Jim Callaghan, the Labour prime minister who inherited office from Harold Wilson and went on to govern through three years of economic turmoil.
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When the lights go out

After addressing the leaders of the oil industry near Aberdeen yesterday, The sub-Prime Minister said Britain needed to do more to diversify our supply of energy.

"We will be more ambitious for our plans for nuclear energy in the future" he said.



Of course all this has nothing to do with the oil crisis, but it has everything to do with lack of investment into the power industry over the past 11 years.

Why the lights went out!
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The Navigator

With the by-election defeat at Crewe and Nantwitch, will the Labour Party turn back to the 'old labour' ways?



Guido thinks so
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The Crew of the Nantwitch

Gordon Brown's future as prime minister now hangs on two things - the response of Labour MPs to the party's historic and overwhelming defeat in Crewe and Nantwich and his own analysis of why thousands of former Labour voters in this Cheshire constituency gave their support to the Conservatives.

Some Labour MPs will panic, perhaps even going so far as to call for Brown's head in public.



As for Gordon? He is clearly not going to go voluntarily, a putsch will be required. My money is on Charles Clark being the man that will draw the first sword.
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EU Citizen Bombs Exeter

Exclusive............ CCTV captures the event.

Bomber identified by photo on driving licence

BIG FUCKING DEAL
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Elephant Hunt

Read all about it at The TAXPayers Aliance
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Uniform Discrimination

New laws will make it a criminal offence to discriminate against Britain's wearing uniform in public, under Government proposals outlined yesterday.

A study into National Recognition was carried out by former Conservative MP Quentin Davies at Gordon Brown's request, amid growing concern over the lack of public understanding or support for men in uniform.



The report calls for legislation making it an offence for public services or private companies to discriminate against anyone in uniform - putting such treatment on a legal par with racial or sexual discrimination.
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Gordon, you tube!

Internet users can pose their questions directly to Gordon Brown by posting a video message on the Ask The PM site, just like MP's can ask questions in Parliament during Prime Minister's Questions each Wednesday.



Brown has promised to answer the most popular queries regularly with his own video messages - the first of which appears today at www.youtube.com/downingst.

Describing the move as an 'exciting new initiative,' Brown said: 'I am here to answer your questions. Politicians get the chance in Prime Minister's Questions. I think it is time the public had a chance.'
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Stem Cells on Sunday

Gordon Brown says he will vote in favour of stem cell research using part human, part animal hybrid embryos when the issue is debated in the House of Commons tomorrow.



Writing in today's Observerhe challenges critics in the churches and elsewhere who condemn what they regard as 'Frankenstein science', arguing that MPs 'owe it to ourselves and future generations to introduce these measures' when they vote on controversial embryology legislation this week.
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Governmentium (Gv)

Research has led to the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.

A minute amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second to take from four days to four years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2-6 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.

This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.

When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.



More Euro-peon Union anyone

Hat tip a man from Castleford

Doom and Gloom

The Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said today he expects inflation to breach the government's 3 percent limit for ``several quarters''

``The Monetary Policy Committee is facing its most difficult challenge yet,'' King told reporters in London today. ``We are traveling along a bumpy road as the economy rebalances. Monetary policy shouldn't try to prevent that adjustment.'' It ``must focus on bringing inflation back to the target in the medium term.''


Meanwhile the clunking fist Labour Party prime minister set out plans to implement Conservative Party policy which include closer monitoring of banks,

``There are lots and lots of things in this statement that we welcome, not least because we proposed them,'' said David Cameron leader of the opposition.
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Small Change at Crewe

The Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling is to borrow £2.7 billion pounds to reverse a slide in the Labour government's popularity.

The Treasury will lift the threshold at which it begins taxing income by £600 to £6035 pounds to compensate 80 percent of the 5.3 million households hurt by a decision to scrap the lowest income tax bracket. Darling said he will raise government borrowing to finance the decision.

The tax changes will be back-dated to the start of the fiscal year and come into force in September. That means basic rate taxpayers will get an extra £60 pounds in September and 10 pounds a month until April 2009. Voters are deserting the Labour party as rising inflation and falling house prices eat into their wages.

Darling's changes were timed to defuse a revolt over finance legislation in Parliament and to head off the prospect of a defeat in the Crewe by-election, formerly safe Labour seat on 22nd May.

All this is happening as the Bank of England announces that the official annual inflation rate soared to 3% in April. Increases in food and fuel costs led the cost of living rate to surge from the 2.5% recorded in March, to well above the 2.6% forecast for last month.

So how do you pay your bills between now and September and what happens after April next year.
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The Westmunsters

Gordon Brown has argued that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill is needed to enable vital medical research into treatment for conditions such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cancer and heart disease.

I note in his list, he doesn't include psychological flaws

Nevertheless, the Prime Minister has already been forced to grant Labour MPs a free vote on key elements of the legislation after a threatened revolt by Roman Catholic ministers, including three members of the Cabinet.



Some of the provisions in the Bill - most notably the creation of hybrid or "admix" embryos through the combination of animal eggs and human nuclei - have proved highly controversial.

Gordon Speak, ADMIX = Frankinstine
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I have a dream

Today Gordon Brown is blaming the results of the local elections on global economic turbulence rather than his leadership.

He says he can lead the Labour Party to victory despite the disastrous results.

"It's not been the best weekend,'' Brown said today in an interview on the BBC Andrew Marr show. "Of course we can recover, first of all by sorting out the immediate problems in the economy, second by showing we have the vision for the future.''



He also said he would set out his draft legislative plan in the next few weeks.
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The candles flicker and dim

Do you really want more of the same?

IF SO, then vote Labour

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