PM cheered at conference arrival

[paddyhasneeds]

Worthy of BBC front page coverage apparently.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8276049.stm

Not at all stage managed, just normal ordinary members of the public who happened to be out for a stroll on the Brighton promenade....

[Marcellus]

everyone likes a scape goat!!

[Dunk76]

+++++

Our must beloved supreme Father of the Nation, saviour of the known world, greatest statesman of all time, and architect of the great financial twelve year miracle today was greeted with spontaneous rapture by the loyal workers of Brightongrad.


In other news, a large poster not a mile away from where our most benign Father was visiting displayed more imperialist capitalist lies and rhetoric. It said that at the last vote for the representatives in the Stavka of the European United Socialist Workers Paradise, the Chav's Revolutionary Party (also known as The Labour Party) only gained 12% of the vote in Brightongrad, behind the Tories on 22%, and the Green Party on 33%.

Edited by Dunk76 on Saturday 26th September 18:07

[M3333]

The cheers will hopefully be much louder next may when he gets evicted. Saying that I was quite concerned at the amount of applause Harman was getting on question time last week.

Is this nation really stupid enough to elect him again? Hate to say it and worries me that the answer could be yes.

[Dunk76]

I wouldn't necessarily take the Renta-Mob normally deployed on QT as representative of the electorate.

[FourWheelDrift]

Cheering, "Yay.....only 6 more months to go" or "Yayyyy, lets make lots of noise so the hidden assassin knows he's over here"

[anonymous-user]

beeb said:

Gordon Brown was greeted by cheering Labour activists as he arrived in Brighton for the party's last conference before the general election.

I think they did well to get Labour activists to support him. I expect it's getting too late to replace him now and they might as well get behind him in a laughable attempt to show some solidarity.

[Westy Pre-Lit]

I'm guessing the wooowwing and cheering as loudly as possible was done to drown out the people in the background shouting abuse.

[Yertis]

A bit OT but I was listening to him address the UN this week. It was a shambolic, pathetic performance. Stumbling over his words, getting things wrong and needing to correct himself. Embarrassing.

[FM]

[T89 Callan]

Just shows that you can fill a room entirely with idiots.

[Darth Paul]

Dunk76 said:

+++++

Our must beloved supreme Father of the Nation, saviour of the known world, greatest statesman of all time, and architect of the great financial twelve year miracle today was greeted with spontaneous rapture by the loyal workers of Brightongrad.


In other news, a large poster not a mile away from where our most benign Father was visiting displayed more imperialist capitalist lies and rhetoric. It said that at the last vote for the representatives in the Stavka of the European United Socialist Workers Paradise, the Chav's Revolutionary Party (also known as The Labour Party) only gained 12% of the vote in Brightongrad, behind the Tories on 22%, and the Green Party on 33%.

Edited by Dunk76 on Saturday 26th September 18:07

You are Marty McFly back from 2010 AICMFP

[schmalex]

T89 Callan said:

Just shows that you can fill a room entirely with idiots.

To be fair, the conference is being held in Brighton, so they are spoiled for choice.

[marvelharvey]

Myra Hindley had a fan club too.

[SkinnyBoy]

schmalex said:

T89 Callan said:

Just shows that you can fill a room entirely with idiots.

To be fair, the conference is being held in Brighton, so they are spoiled for choice.

My spidey sense tells me that Broon & Co. will miraculously win the next election, because based on their track record they have no qualms stooping as low as a deviant fking a Jack Russell. The population as a whole are too stupid to vote them out. Its sad but you deserve another 4 years of this shower of ste to turn the UK into a virtual Gehenna of unimaginable chaos, only then will you grow the balls to evict all these self serving scum by sheer will and pointed sticks if you have to.

[Don]

Telegraph

Telegraph said:

Gordon Brown's plan to win back the middle classes
Gordon Brown is to launch a legally binding move to reduce Britain’s debt mountain as he battles to win back support from middle-class voters who have deserted Labour under his premiership.

So. He knows he's going to be voted out. So he's going to try and influence fiscal policy from beyond the grave, as it were.

What an utter ass.

And does he think that the "middle-classes" (what are they anyway) are going to be mollified by a few words droned out in front of the smiling and clapping and oh so sycophantic party faithful?

WE WANT BLOOD!

Come next June, we're going to take it.

And yet...this is no time for complacency. Never underestimate the collective stupidity of the British electorate.

When they announce the free bananas for every schoolchild policy we'll know it for what it is but will the average? Not so sure, sadly.

[chris watton]

Also in the DT;
"Gordon Brown: I choose X Factor over Strictly Come Dancing
Gordon Brown has weighed into Britain’s Saturday night television debate by announcing he prefers to watch X Factor rather than Strictly Come Dancing."

"Mr Brown made the disclosure following the G20 meeting of world leaders in Pittsburgh.

Asked how he found time to relax during the current troubled times, he said: “By watching football, being with my children [John, five, and Fraser, three] and my family and I think by keeping fit."

He said he said he preferred X Factor in the Saturday night head-to-head, adding: "Peter Mandelson keeps me up to speed with Strictly."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/stri...

Really - WTF!

[Battenburg Bob]

I saw this mentioned on the BBC and forced myself to look! (Once I found the link through all the Jordan crap!)

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/523775/GORD-C...

Take a look at the home page of this rag. The Worlds going to hell and all it consists of is Jordan/Peter/ Dwight/Strictly/X Factor etc etc. I truly despair.

[Pesty]

marvelharvey said:

Myra Hindley had a fan club too.

[FM]

Battenburg Bob said:

I saw this mentioned on the BBC and forced myself to look! (Once I found the link through all the Jordan crap!)

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/523775/GORD-C...

Take a look at the home page of this rag. The Worlds going to hell and all it consists of is Jordan/Peter/ Dwight/Strictly/X Factor etc etc. I truly despair.

...regarding the media, the BBC in fact, there was a revealing article recently featuring an interview with Greg Dyke who, in my view, makes some astute observations regarding media & politics.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8265628.stm

The BBC is preventing the "radical changes" needed to UK democracy, the corporation's former director general has said.

Greg Dyke told a Lib Dem conference meeting he wanted a commission to look into the "whole political system".

But he said: "I fear it will never happen because I fear the political class will stop it."

The BBC said its political coverage was taken extremely seriously and was highly regarded by the public.

Mr Dyke said major changes he had wanted to make to the BBC's coverage of politics had been blocked.

He told the Liberal Vision fringe meeting about the expenses scandal and how it had changed voters' attitudes: "The evidence that our democracy is failing is overwhelming and yet those with the biggest interest in sustaining the current system - the Westminster village, the media and particularly the political parties, including this one - are the groups most in denial about what is really happening to our democracy."

'Westminster conspiracy'

Mr Dyke, who was forced to stand down as director general in 2004 after the Hutton report into the death of government scientist Dr David Kelly, said there had never been a greater separation between the "political class" and the public.


We want more influence over our lives and we are not just prepared to hand it over to this strange bunch of people who stand for Parliament

Greg Dyke
"I tried and failed to get the problem properly discussed when I was at the BBC and I was stopped, interestingly, by a combination of the politicos on the board of governors, one of whom was married to the man who claimed for cleaning his moat, the cabinet interestingly - the Labour cabinet - who decided to have a meeting, only about what we were trying to discuss, and the political journalists at the BBC.

"Why? Because, collectively, they are all part of the problem. They are part of one Westminster conspiracy. They don't want anything to change. It's not in their interests."

He said the expenses scandal had been "British democracy's Berlin Wall moment" but he feared the opportunity to change the system was fading away.

He called for an end to "pathetic jeering, shouting and childish behaviour" and the "pomp and ceremony" in Parliament.

'Scared'

An independent commission should look at ideas such as moving the seat of democracy out of Westminster, a fully elected upper chamber with no whipping system, proportional representation, cutting the number of MPs by half, and reforming their pay and expenses, he added.

"It's time to be radical. Our current model was designed for the 18th Century. It doesn't fit 21st Century Britain," he told the meeting.

And he added: "We want more influence over our lives and we are not just prepared to hand it over to this strange bunch of people who stand for Parliament because they have been knocking on people's doors for 10 years."

Speaking afterwards, he referred to an internal review of the BBC's political coverage carried out at the beginning of the decade, to which all political parties were asked to contribute.

He said "there was a lot of pressure from the government of the day not to change anything", adding: "If you are in power what you want is you want to be covered and you don't want anybody else to be covered and they were scared that we were going to stop covering them."

He denied the BBC had caved in to pressure from the government but added: "A lot of the governors were what I call semi-politicians and they liked the present system and.... maybe they were right - it's not the job of the BBC to change the political system and to start questioning the political system.

"I happen to not agree with that but, you know, we didn't get anywhere."

Asked what specific changes he would like to see in the BBC's coverage, he said: "Most of the politicians didn't want a different way of covering politics.

"They wanted their mugs on the telly basically and we might have moved away from that."

He denied his comments were meant as a criticism of BBC journalists in particular, but added: "In the end political journalists live in the same narrow world as politicians do and they don't see a need to change because they think it's the world. They just don't understand that out there it's very different."