OMG Brown and Thatcher

[laptop]

for MT to have agreed to do this so publicly, and on a day when Mr Cameron wanted to drive home a policy issue, is amazing. She must really despise Cameron.

I have it on good authority that she has very little idea who Cameron is. She had to be briefed before and during the visit to No. 10 - "This nice young man wants to show you round the house you used to live in". "But who is he and why's he living in my house?"

Which leaves the interesting question: who's managing her diary and these little outings designed (a) to remind her who she used to be and (b) to get up Cameron's nose?

 

[Kaka Tim]

Sychophantic drivel cos nu-labour can do no wrong

Vomit. Puke. Etc.

Maybe he should invite Tebbit? Or maybe Kissinger? Their all 'conviction politicians'. Its a shame Pinochet, PW Botha and Idi Amin have carked it cos they'd be idle fodder for tea with Gordon.

The whole episode is designed to send a 'fuck off' message to any socialists still lingering around the bloated, power crazed monstrosity that is the modern labour party.

 

[London_Calling]

Michael White's view:

When Mr Blair left in June Lady T sent a routine "good luck" note. The novelist Anthony Powell once said that people who write fiction have more in common with other people who write fiction than with anyone else: the same is true of the prime ministers' club.

So Gordon the strategist invited her in and last week pre-primed the occasion - "one lump or six, Lady Thatcher?" - by praising her "conviction politics". One Thatcher intimate later said she was thrilled. "We had to restrain her from writing a thank you note."

So yesterday no raised voices or broken tea cups could be heard from the street. There was a 50-minute private tête-à-tête, just Lady Thatcher and Mark Worthington, lobbyist turned loyal minder. Then came a tour of her old haunts to meet the staff, including a dozen friends from the old days; finally tea in the old flat above the shop with Sarah Brown, the kids and Alistair Darling's wife - another Maggie - who actually lives there now.

 

[TAE]

I have it on good authority that she has very little idea who Cameron is. She had to be briefed before and during the visit to No. 10 - "This nice young man wants to show you round the house you used to live in". "But who is he and why's he living in my house?"

You make it sound as if Cameron is living in #10. Have you been playing with your time machine again?

 

[poster342002]

Blair was and now Brown is on a mission to wipe the Tories out politically.

To what end? So that Britain can finally have a leftwing government, or so that NuLabour can have a monopoly of neverending rightwing government?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I have it on good authority that she has very little idea who Cameron is. She had to be briefed before and during the visit to No. 10 - "This nice young man wants to show you round the house you used to live in". "But who is he and why's he living in my house?"

Which leaves the interesting question: who's managing her diary and these little outings designed (a) to remind her who she used to be and (b) to get up Cameron's nose?

Yep, interesting that alot of Tories I spoke to seem to think, like me, that this was Brown fucking with them but upon reflection you could argue that this is part of the Tory rights attempt to retake the party...

 

[laptop]

You make it sound as if Cameron is living in #10. Have you been playing with your time machine again?

I tend to assume that my readers pass the standard compos mentis test: "Who is the Prime Minister?"

I know the assumption is not true in all cases, but life's too short to worry about the exceptions.

 

[laptop]

you could argue that this is part of the Tory rights attempt to retake the party...

For sure it is.

And Brown has no reason to hinder that attempt

 

[Donna Ferentes]

I tend to assume that my readers pass the standard compos mentis test: "Who is the Prime Minister?"

Isn't there a story about that test that it actually ceased to use that question when Thatch had been PM for a bit because even the terminally senile knew who the PM was?

 

[laptop]

Isn't there a story about that test that it actually ceased to use that question when Thatch had been PM for a bit because even the terminally senile PM knew the answer?

Probably

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Isn't there a story about that test that it actually ceased to use that question when Thatch had been PM for a bit because even the terminally senile knew who the PM was?

I have a vague recollection of this too...

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Ho ho

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Ho ho

Haha that was actually an accidental pun too!

 

[Gmart]

Gordon Brown having fun at the expense of his own party. Maybe even courting the city, trying to calm them. The labour left won't complain mostly because the left has already splintered off, so where would they go? They are in government, and so GB will have to bear them in mind.

It is those without power who will be really pissed off.

I am hoping that the Tories will split due to Europe, and then they will be much more fun. Until they work out that everyone knows that they stand for screwing the underclass as much as it can, then they might learn the lesson they got so wrong in the 80's.

 

[nino_savatte]

Brown invites Thatch for tea at No. 10 as did his predecessor. Thatcher also invited Pinochet around to No. 10 for tea. Both of them are "conviction politicians" but conviction isn't always accompanied by principles.

 

[TAE]

I tend to assume that my readers pass the standard compos mentis test: "Who is the Prime Minister?"

That does not change the content of your posts.