I just watched Gordon Brown talking about international development in Milton Keynes, broadcast live across all the breaking news channels.
If you switched off your critical faculties, it was a heartfelt plea for internationalism. I was jogged harshly out of semi-attention when he talked of the need to “Do something about torture”.
Well, New Labour did something about torture. They promoted it, they institutionalised a policy of employing torture to get confessions for their “War on Terror”, they co-operated with the extraordinary rendition system. Oh, and while they were at it they sacked me and tried to frame me for opposing torture.
Brown’s heartrending photos of third world destitution strangely did not include any of the many tens of thousands of children’s bodies mangled in Iraq, or victims of bombings in Afghanistan. Nor did he talk about his nice ally President Karimov.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2010/04/britain_boosts.html#comments
Today was a play for the bleeding heart vote. The problem is the hearts New Labour made bleed quite literally.
My Song, “Gordon Brown be my Angel”, is often interpreted as satire, although it is not exactly that…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCEWhEuhRoo (lyrics annotated)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znUtocdwnYw (BETTER SOUND QUALITY)
Brahms Lullaby
Gordon Brown! Gordon Brown!
Will you be my angel?
Guardian angel is what I meant
Will you rescue my soul?
For you are in charge
Of these people I wrote to
Stephen Timms, Jack Straw
Let me place my trust in you
Gordon Brown! MP’s!
Let me sing out loud
For what you do, for my country
For my reproductive system
You right wrongs! My right’s been wronged
I am desperate for you
Not just you! There’s Jon Herring
I’m a violated woman
Gordon Brown, help me sleep!
Help me sleep like a baby
Will my babies ever come out?
Maternal desires!
I lost my womanhood
In a sinister curse
Gordon Brown! Bring it back!
You are perfect for that!
Not only that, but the Labour machine is getting jittery feet over losing Dismore’s seat in Hendon…so much so they had to bus in brown to help out on the campaign trail.
talk about desperation…
The Pro Israeli/ Pro war death and torture mob will be voted out.
http://hotterthanapileofcurry.wordpress.com
Is it too late to run against Dismore with the Put An Honest Man into Parliament party?
Gordon Brown is a clown
He always wears a frown
Craig don’t let him get you down
His frown will be a smile if you turn his head around
The smile will be on your face if his burred upside down
We’ll all sing and dance upon that mound
Oh dear. Poor Iain Dale is whining on about an article on BBC Online concerning voting intentions in Richmond Park, one of the key Tory target seats:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8626338.stm
It seems even the usually dimwitted Dale knows the game is up.
The Tories are falling apart. Wouldn’t be at all surprised to see them attacking eachother before election day.
New Labour have, to say the least, a very ambivalent attitude to torture. In their dark illiberal hearts they probably agree with it. Whilst sometimes condemning it verbally they do not seem to mind it being used so long as it is some other(s) doing it. Several examples of this New Labour attitude could be given – e.g. the Binyam Mohamed case and Miliband’s fight in the courts to keep certain paragraphs out of the court’s judgment.
New Labour are, in so many ways, the most appalling government I have ever known but they still have a chance of getting back into power and they have already set in place the mechanism to manipulate the system if they do not win an outright majority. Parliament will not meet until 2 weeks after the election during which time they will try to stitch things up so that Brown can remain as P.M. The sad fact is that some other party leaders might just go along with this and support him.
Nick Clegg Does Hypocrisy…
http://tinyurl.com/yjolv6j
“Leader of Lib Dem Party Mr. Nick Clegg”…
“The party’s action is a serious threat to the principles for which our country is known — democracy and free speech. Even more specifically, it makes a mockery of your party’s claim to “give power back to people.” Instead of encouraging openness and the search for truth no matter how uncomfortable the accusation or who is accused, you are demonstrating to your constituents that the powerful and the “status quo” will be protected.”…
http://tinyurl.com/y2kjql6
“Clegg called for abandoning plans to replace the Trident nuclear weapons system, only to state that the money saved would be better spent on frontline troops.”…
http://tinyurl.com/yyjhfuc
George
They don’t mean spend the whole 100 billion on conventional forces
Apologies for accidental double post. Some post-posting editing controls would be useful.
E.J Frogster: What I think would be more appropriate in the run up to the election would be for someone to bring out a cover version of D-Ream’s “Things can only get better”, sung slowly in a minor key, as a dirge, with very sparse acccompaniment on a single acoustic guitar – somewhat in the manner of the Michael Andrews/Gary Jules cover of “Mad World”. The video would have thirteen years of New Labour’s “improvements” to illustrate, from Ecclestone and Iraq, to Byers-for-hire and Afghanistan.
One thing I have noticed during the 13 years of the NuLabour dictatorship has been the lack of pertinent and biting political satire on broadcast media. There has really only been Rory Bremner and Company to offer any anti-opinion to the fawning clap-trap spun out by the main-stream media. It seemed that Spiting Image was moth-balled at about the time of Blair coming to ascendency. Also Radio 4 used to offer comedy shows which relied against the governing party, when that party as Conservative. Now they all tow the line and dance to the tune of Labour.
Sadly many people who really should know better, will continue to vote Labour in the mis-held belief that they would be better for them than the nasty Conservatives, who rightly or wrongly are believed to be the party favouring the rich and privileged. When I have suggested the Liberals as an alternative I am met with the mantra that that would be a wasted vote as they will never win. Sometimes I despair in thinking that these people deserve their personal mis-fortune for being so wilfully dumb and blissfully ignorant.
It would seem political satire on television has been replaced whether by accident or design by so-called reality television. The plebs are now more concerned about voting for contestants in big-brother, x-factor and Britain’s got talent than for a political party who might improve their lives. For many the un-reality of reality television has replaced any critical thinking or deeper reflection. It really is the case that beer and circuses have been used to satisfy the masses while Rome burns.
Yeah i saw Brown riffing on the torture theme…nauseating hypocrisy.
New Labour and Torture?
Guilty as sin.
Craig why did you delete my trident post?