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Flints Gone!

Horrible Women.

Tried to push the idea of limited tennancies for council tenants becasue by staying in their homes and not chaining themsleves to crippling mortages it showed they lacked 'aspiration'.

Now shes flouncing out because she didn't get sufficinetly rewarded for her 'loyalty' in Browns reshuffle.

And also she's another one whos had her snout in the trough.

Theres nothing like a resigniation on a point of deeply held principle is there?

And that was nothing like it.
 
Big Brother ten must be suffering considering the amount of entertainment that has come out of Westminster in the past few days.

They should have a separate channel for resinging ministers at this rate.
Madness (but enjoyable)
 
treelover said:
Flint has just used the feminist card, saying Brown "uses women as window dressing"
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From what I've seen of Flint she's a bit of a fuckwit, but easy on the eyes. If I was her I'd realise that being window dressing in the government is better than having the position I'd get on merit alone, that of town councillor for the unfashionable end of Dorchester, and keep my mouth shut.

I'm going to get in trouble for that remark aren't I?
 
agricola said:
Photographic evidence of Flint being treated as window-dressing has been released:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2009/may/10/fashion-caroline-flint?picture=346969477
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Hellooooo


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It really pisses me off when some women start playing the sexism card as soon as things don't go their way. I assume she wasn't moaning about it when she was given the job of Minister of Europe.
 
Geri said:
It really pisses me off when some women start playing the sexism card as soon as things don't go their way. I assume she wasn't moaning about it when she was given the job of Minister of Europe.
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Yeah - why now suddenly mention it?

God it's almost enough to make you feel sorry for Gordon Brown.
 
Still cannot make my mind up if her resignation letter or the sight of Brown being treated with such utter contempt by the hacks at the Press conference when he denied wanting to get rid of Darling is my favourite moment of yesterday.

Both make me feel all warm and happy so its a great dilema to have.
 
Stoat Boy said:
the sight of Brown being treated with such utter contempt by the hacks at the Press conference when he denied wanting to get rid of Darling is my favourite moment of yesterday.
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Notice though Nick Robinson sitting next to the (I think ITN) guy who was asking the difficult questions; Robinson literally kept his head down pretending to scribble.

Did any BBC reporter have anything to say on the matter?
 
Robinson, the ITN hack and Snow all asked the same question - with increasing degrees of contempt and incredulity :D
 
Cheers for that.



Matthew Parris is good today:

This is pathetic. This is toe-curlingly awful. This is so abjectly, senselessly broken-backed that it almost isn't interesting to watch. I've seen poisoned rats die slowly, too, and after a while the spectacle loses the appeal even of the macabre.

It is also an act of supreme selfishness on Mr Brown's part. Wrapping himself like some wingless albatross around his administration's throat, starving his own colleagues of oxygen in his mindless determination that other careers should not live in order that his should not die, he has brought his Government and his party to the ground, broken their legs - and yet still will not release his grip. They must crawl on, shackled together, past the humiliation of Thursday's elections and onward for another year: plans jettisoned, policies stalled, Bills postponed, shelving everything bold, all in the name of mere survival. Mr Brown's survival. Never mind Labour's, never mind the future of progressive politics, never mind the ideas and spirits of capable men and women in and around his Cabinet.

From the corner of my eye I see that the Prime Minister has joined his press conference. He is standing at the podium, waving his arms and saying repeatedly “look”. Deathly pale and grinning waxily - that disembodied smile robbed, it almost seems, from another discarded dummy - he is moving and talking with sort of desperate swagger. Across the bottom of my television screen a moving strap conveys breaking news. “Alan Sugar to join Lords.” “Look,” says Mr Brown, “when the fight is on you don't quit...” “Conservatives gain Staffordshire”. “...I've an excellent team...” “Caroline Flint resigns.” “...She's done a very good job... ” “Geoff Hoon resigns.” “...And there's work to be done...” “Margaret Beckett to leave the Government.”

“I don't think anyone can say that Glenys Kinnock hasn't done important work as an MEP,” he says, as if anyone was saying that. “Conservatives gain Derbyshire.” “Ever since I was a boy,” he begins his spiel on Values. “Conservatives gain Nottinghamshire.” Mr Brown attempts feeble joshing with a Talk Sport reporter. “I suppose you're asking about the Lions tour?” “Labour's Dr Ian Gibson to resign his seat and fight a by-election.”If only for those of us who watch and comment on British politics to hold on to our own sanity, surely it is necessary to believe that this cannot continue? And yet I fear it can. Surely the Labour Party - parliamentary, nationwide and in the trade unions - can see that what is at stake extends beyond an unavoidable defeat at the next election and into the first few critical years in opposition? Can they really believe that this is the man to take them across the threshold and into that renewal? Are they looking at the polls? Are they noting that they are rapidly joining the ranks of the fringe parties? Can they not picture those future election counts in which the Labour Party candidate stands among candidates from the BNP, the “Let's Have A Party” Party, and the tall transgender lady with the flashing nipples?

Within less than a decade Labour could become a regional party... “Conservatives gain Lancashire”... a regional party without a region.

Look, as Mr Brown would say, I know that you know that I'm a Tory. And you must know that I rate David Cameron, and believe he can and will be a successful prime minister. And so you may wonder (and I know some Labour MPs who may read me do wonder) if my railing against Gordon Brown is some kind of a Tory bluff. If getting rid of him would strengthen, maybe save, the Labour Party, they reason, why would Parris argue to get rid of him?

It's a reasonable question. I've asked it of myself. There was a moment in the small hours of yesterday morning when I said to myself: “Crikey, it really is going to happen. He's sinking. And Alan Johnson really is going to take over. And for a few months Mr Johnson might dance a pretty dance, and Labour's fortunes might recover. ‘Plucky, modest, fair-minded English working-class waif-made-good takes on smoothie-chops Etonian' - here's a media narrative that for a season at least could fly...”

And I worried that by recommending Mr Johnson I might prove complicit in a Tory downfall.

So be it, because it's what I think. Gordon Brown will take Labour into oblivion. If Alan Sugar is the answer, then the Prime Minister is asking the wrong question.
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Balbi said:
Robinson, the ITN hack and Snow all asked the same question - with increasing degrees of contempt and incredulity :D
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That Press conference will go down in history.

Also been reading Iain Dales blog http://iaindale.blogspot.com/ and I found it interesting to read his comments on Browns state of mind.

Not sure if I can have any sympathy for Brown but it does make you wonder about what is going on and if he has lost the plot this means we have the unelected Mandleson really running the country. Not a good situation.
 
Balbi said:
Robinson, the ITN hack and Snow all asked the same question - with increasing degrees of contempt and incredulity :D
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It was almost exciting to see journalists breaking the pact they have with politicians, mentioning that one of Brown's creatures had briefed them over Darling's intended demotion. When he denied that (the "no, no..." thing before praising Darling) they were effectively calling him a liar. Of course they've accused various leaders and ministers of lying before, but with stock phrases and evasive language. Seeing it live, to his face and fairly direct was nice. :)

Brown set it up of course, with his reference to his father and 'honesty'. Bet he regreted deploying that. :D

This little incident makes Brown look more and more desperatee and venal. Mind it also reminds us how much the journalists are normally fully part of the dance.
 
treelover said:
@Balbi,

No, it isn't sexism, Flint was one of Blairs Babes' who shafted female single parents with the welfare reforms, she is a hypocrite
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she is a horrible fascist who said that if people on the dole were caught fiddling they should be made homeless.....
 
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