Entries Tagged as ‘Gordon Brown’

March 15, 2010

Whither Adonis?

I suspect that Lord Adonis’s political career is unlikely to advance significantly further.

March 11, 2010

The Gordon and Mandy Show

Perhaps the way forward would be for the First Secretary and the Prime Minister to combine their talents and deliver a joint televised homily.

March 11, 2010

Infallible Gordon

No prospect of an admission of fallibility from Gordon.

March 10, 2010

Insulting our armed forces

It is difficult to think of any greater insult that Gordon Brown could pay our armed forces than to contend that defence spending has increased when it has in fact declined.

February 24, 2010

Madness in the Commons

Would there, we wondered, be a certain froideur evident between the PM and his next-door neighbour?

February 21, 2010

Take a second look at Brown’s behaviour

I fully believe the Prime Minister’s assurances about his conduct.

February 3, 2010

PMQs

Gordon Brown on the ropes over his Damascene conversion to the AV voting system.

January 27, 2010

Gordon’s luck

Gordon Brown’s notoriously bad luck manifested itself again today.

January 20, 2010

The ghost of Gordon Brown

Nothing could underline more vividly the political irrelevance of Gordon Brown than this morning’s economic news.

January 13, 2010

Brown deserted

Brown looked startled and completely baffled; that one had come well out of left field.

January 12, 2010

Falling to bits

I offered to leave but the senior Labour Member said, “No, don’t worry; everyone knows how we feel, anyway.”

January 10, 2010

Something else to worry about

Peter Watt is bound to have an axe to grind against Gordon Brown, given his treatment at the time of the Donorgate scandal.

January 9, 2010

Gordon in la-la land

Labour’s continuing problem, however, is that Brown is still there and it’s too late to get rid of him.

January 8, 2010

Miliband keeps his head down

This close to a general election, however, Miliband is probably right to keep his head, so far as possible, below the parapet.

January 7, 2010

Et tu, Dougie?

Most interesting was the inclusion in Robinson’s list of potential ship-jumpers of the International Development Secretary, Douglas Alexander.