Oct 03 2007
The Four Modern Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Gordon Brown’s biggest problem is that he is turning out to be an unlucky Prime Minister. We’ve had fire, flood, pestilence and a bank run, and that’s just in the first three months. The British people need cheering up and they need to feel the sun is shining again.
Gordon Brown also has the problem that he is not surrounded by powerful senior politicians, capable of challenging him intellectually. Blair had Brown. Brown has Brown. There is no one else of equal stature, warning, advising, and getting the Prime Minister to think things through carefully.
John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
I agree with the Revalations observation. I thought I was the only person thinking this. Then again God must be a Conservative. Creating rather than destroying, a belief in justice and punishment rather than reward for wrong doing. Promoting marriage and children within marriage. Belief in the family. Marriage being between one man and one woman. A fair tax system namely one tithe (Ten percent) of your income. Land ownership. High moral standards. The only juxtaposition is that God does not think he is Gordon Brown but Gordon thinks he is God.
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JR: “There is no one else of equal stature, warning, advising, and getting the Prime Minister..”
Nothing I have heard or know about Gordon Brown, suggests that he is inclined to heed warnings or take advice.
I can’t decide if you wish us to feel sorry for Brown, if so give up now, you won’t succeed.
Reply: No I have no wish to make you feel sorry for him! I feel sorry for us, the nation! He needs better and stronger advice - that’s why I’m sending him a memo today on the blog!
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Quite right John. It’s not been an overly promising start for the not-so-young pretender. It seems the only catastrophe Gordon has avoided so far is famine.
Interest rates will rise further still, but perhaps a little later on. The mountain facing first time buyers is emmense and with sound policies being propsed on the economy by George Osborne, it’s only a matter of time before the public wake up and realise that a better quality of life is on offer. Is it really such a hard decision to make? We are being offered a lifeline from 10 years of near drowning in New Labour marshlands.
Things are not about to improve for Gordon either. Labour’s theme song of 1997, ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ has never rung true for the nation and it certainly wont for Gordon now. We now have a soulless Prime Minister who is aimless and wandering without direction. Things can only get worse.
What a team we have in the shape of Cameron, Osborne, Haig and Redwood. It’s quite probably the strongest we’ve ever had, ready to fight an ailing Prime Minister.
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Behind their arrogance Commissar Brown and his intellectual midgets have nothing to offer this country. The Conservatives have shown this week that they have a far superior team - not that difficult really!
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Blair/Brown - stinks od divide and conquer to me.
I like he DC idea of new leadership. Tories respect democracy for a start.
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Quentin Marchmont-Davies: “It seems the only catastrophe Gordon has avoided so far is famine.”
Don’t hold your breath. With the European Union and Greenoid inspired move to divert agricultural grain production into biofuel production, the price of grain is soaring and the amount avaliable for food production is dropping.
Classic Socialist command economics, it always leads to shortages and in the worst cases famine.
In the short term you can make a sure bet on significantly higher basic food prices.
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