Brown Makes His Move
Posted May 6th, 2006 by quarsan
We've had a day of people coming out of the shadows and an ominous letter being drafted. There is talk of 50 MP's ready and willing to sign it, and that's just the centrist ones, not the Campaign group or the hard core rebels. We published the draft document that is the basis of the letter yesterday. The writing is on the wall.
All they need is a secret, behind the scenes meeting to sort it all out.
And here it is. No doubt Gordon will be very careful as every time he's agreed a deal with Tony, Blair has simply ripped it up and said 'what deal?'.
Does GordEnron have the
Does GordEnron have the balls to defenestrate TB? He has had multiple chances before (2004 locals, etc.) but has never acted. I think he is emotionally traumatised by all the years of being lied to and psychologically tortured by TB.
Stringer is spot on. Straw
Stringer is spot on. Straw got moved when he took a line on Iran that contradicted Blair's posturing. Blair cannot be trusted on foreign policy issues which the reshuffle suggests he intends to do. There's also this bit of wisdom from Blair when he addressed the Australian Parliament that he was concerned the US was not involved enough in world affairs. I don't think he was thinking of global warming because the world had already settled that issue to go forward beyond Kyoto without US. Besides, history suggests that US has been anything but - at least since 1914.
BTW this whole thing about Ahmadinejad's statement re 'wiping Israel off the map' is not accurate. According to Prof Juan Cole a more accurate translation from Farsi would read: "the Imam [Khomeini] said that this regime occupying Jerusalem (een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods) must [vanish from] from the page of time (bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad)" and was a direct quote from a speech by Khomeini. This is supported by the translation of Ahmadinejad's speech by MEMRI.
A full translation of this speech by Prof Cole is available at his blog: http://www.juancole.com/
The MEMRI translation is available at http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12790.htm
Brownwatch doesn't sound as
Brownwatch doesn't sound as good. Brownstudy? Brownedoff? It is going to be hard.
If Gordon Brown becomes
If Gordon Brown becomes Prime Minister, be affraid..................very affraid
PFFI?
PFFI?