Gordon Meme
DK has tagged* me with the Gordon Meme. He deals with the Meme with his trademark profane vitriol and in fairness I agree with his comments. But since I was tagged, I should probably mention a couple of thoughts of my own on this one.
Two things Gordon Brown should be proud of:
1. Making the Bank of England independent. He did this in the first week of Nu Labour. Over ten years ago. Quite worrying when the first achievement people associate you with happened over a decade ago!
2. Erm, two is really stretching it. I struggled with one. But, since two is the required number, how about Brown clinging to one of the highest offices in the land despite having all the social skills, charisma and economic capability of a rancid pig carcass.
Two things he should apologise for:
Taxes seems too obvious an answer so -
1. That air of intolerable, undeserved and all pervasive smugness that descends over him and exudes from him whenever something goes right for him in spite of his total lack of ability. I prefer his grim, sulking, drab demeanour to that "please punch me in the face" smugness.
2. Not standing up to Blair as his teflon boss lurched from fuck up to fuck up. Brown could have been a political giant if he had stood up to Blair over something that was wrong like, say, the Iraq War. But no. For reasons of political expediency whenever there was a chance to stand up to Blair, Brown was either stood, glowering behind his boss. Or was nowhere to be seen.
Two things he should do immediately when he becomes PM:
1.Call a snap General Election
2. Lose a snap General Election
Two things he should do while he is PM:
Oh, Christ! Look, I am trying to focus on the positive! Blair is leaving office! Fucking brilliant! I just don’t want to think about what happens next! Alright? I will face the terrible ascension of the dour drip on the day after Good Riddance Day, no doubt with a crippling hangover. But in the meantime, I just can’t bear thinking about Gordon fucking Brown becoming Prime fucking Minister.
*I don’t tag people generally speaking. However would be intrigued to hear the thoughts of The Moai and Trixy on this one. Oh, and Neil Harding…
Labels: Gordon Brown, Nu Labour, Worthless Cunts
posted by The Nameless Libertarian @ 8:55 am
2 Comments
2 Comments:
"making the Bank of England independent"
Depends what you mean by "independent". The decisions by the MPC are those of the MPC. However, the constituent members of the MPC are chosen by . . er . . the Chancellor. Does this make the BoE really independent? I don't think so. It just removes decisions one step away from 11 Downing Street and makes the Chancellor's role indirect rather than direct. It's only slightly more independent than all those "independent" NHS trusts stuffed to the gills with Labour Party apparatchiks.
The only way to make the BoE genuinely independent is to return to the pre-WW2 position where the BoE was a private institution albeit privileged by law in many respects (eg issue of paper money in England). This is and was a step too far for Brown: it's certainly a step too far for the "opposition" to even consider.
BTW the choice of a rigged index to decide on inflation is another aspect of faux independence.
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