Gordon Brown: Falling Or Being Pushed?
Conspiracy theories are sometimes fun, but they always seem to depend upon the intellectual capabilities and competence of people who do not normally demonstrate that they possess either, like politicians and businesspeople.
So, is Gordon Brown (aka Mr Bean, the Grand Bottler, Brown Envelope and Brown Knows) simply inept, incapable, clumsy and incompetent or are there dark forces lurking behind the scenes who are pulling the political strings and making this clunking puppet stagger out of the political arena?
The Guardian leader today retails the accumulating tales of woe for Gordon Brown under the heading “Sinking further into the mire” and it is followed by a comment from writeon:
I just wonder, is there a giant right-wing conspiracy at work here to bring down Gordon Brown? What gives advantage to real conspirators is the bias in the media towards the cock-up theory. I’ve already heard several journalists use the term to decribe the current situation. They seem to almost automatically disregard conspiracy, prefering the comforting concept of cock-up. This attitude is, of course, gives a tactical advantage to any conspiracy.
My paranoid theory is that Brown is in trouble because he is perceived as being slightly less pro-American than Tony Blair. Less willing to “serve” and certainly of far less value in domestic and international politics. Brown, compared to Blair and Sarkozy, just doesn’t seem as gushingly, sickeningly, loyal. He has difficulty expressing undying love like the other two. He gives the impression of scepticism in relation to the American imperial project. This alone would mark his card, but there’s more.
Brown appears unwilling or unable to commit Britain to America’s wars with sufficient vigour and enthusiasm. Maybe he’s genuinely unethusiastic about war as a panacea for international conflicts? Brown also seems not to want to increase the defence budget by the ammounts required to fight America’s wars properly. Britain needs to employ wartime levels of expenditure in wartime, yet Brown is trying to do it all on peacetime budget. But diverting substantially increased resources to the military will require sacrifices at home which will be unpopular. The Tories look like they are willing to follow orders, where Brown is dragging his feet. So Brown has to go. Is it really that simple? Perhaps not, but I can’t help but wonder.
It is always better to look at our leaders as somewhat trivial and non-autonomous creatures, but it does not necessarily have to be an ‘either or’ situation.
It is perfectly possible that Gordon Brown is being manipulated by shadowy forces at the same time as being an imbecile.
The Last Days of Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown is seeing power slipping through his fingers faster than a wriggling eel.
Is it because his “great big clunking fist” is not dextrous enough to manage anything but a book of sums or is it because he cannot stop fiddling with his broken “moral compass”? Or is it simply that, as David Cameron said yesterday, he is not actually cut out for the job?
Certainly, he does not have the luxury of time, which was squandered on his predecessor even after everyone knew that what was said and what was done tended never to match. Gordon Brown promised to clean up politics and this echoed uncomfortably Tony Blair’s promise to be “purer than pure”. What it means for Gordon Brown is that if he cannot make the words and deeds match and if he is seen to be just spouting any old lies to stay in office, the opposite will happen.
Tony Blair was allowed to stay on because he had a record of winning at election time. Gordon Brown has no such record and the rank and file MPs will be getting very jittery about being unemployed in the foreseeable future.
Most MPs have never had proper jobs and the life at Westminster is a wonderful gravy train which they never want to get off.
They will certainly throw Mr Bean from the train without compunction if they think he is jeopardising their own beanfeast.
Gordon Brown Knows
Flies are not bothered how they pepetuate themselves; how they keep the good times rolling for their species. They lay their eggs in any rotting cadavar or pile of shit and then buzz off.
True, they tend to favour somewhere shady, secluded perhaps; also a moist place which usually stinks. Once the eggs become maggots, there is a feeding frenzy and the area boils with the wriggling creatures, bloated but never sated, squirming in the muck for their share.
It is not the co-operative confusion of ants or bees, where there is a majestic order behind the frantic confusion. It is simply every maggot for itself: eat or be eaten. The lowest common denominator for every low-life on earth.
Westminster must be a funny place. The mother of parliaments and all that. The place where our apparent moral overlords pass legislation which affects the lives of us all. It should be a place of detached and considered judgment, above the hurlyburly of corruptible everyday life. A sanctum of unhindered and uncontaminated thought for the good of the people.
Well, that is how people who think that politics should be above the mire of trade might think of it.
So, how much is government offering itself to business and being sold down the river by commerce?
There is a lot of talk that the planned compulsory ID cards are being pushed along by the profit motive of Raytheon, the American armaments manufacturer. Has the UK government sold itself and the people of Britain for a handful of silver?
Gordon Brown is in trouble because there seems to be another financial scandal with regard to who gives money to his party’s coffers and how this should have been made public or not accepted at all. Grubby money again.
Gordon Brown is in trouble because he sold off Qinetiq too cheaply, but still managed to make some civil servants involved into multi-millionaires in the process. Filthy lucre again.
Gordon Brown is in trouble because the grand plans of PFI are proving to be nothing but massive financial millstones around the necks of the British people for generations to come. The ringing of overloaded tills.
Gordon Brown is in trouble because a bank which relied on a wincingly tight financial speculation to make its money has had to be underpinned by the taxpayer. Legions of moneychangers.
Should the government of UK Plc be privatised? Is it now so steeped in the sticky-fingered process of a business solution for every imagined problem that it cannot act without the say-so of its paymasters?
It must be that Gordon Brown knows the business interests which want to get their fingers in the pie of state.
Maybe he should tell us so we know who we are really working for: who is really governing us.
If we are all to be sold into slavery, it would be nice to know who our new masters are, once the politicians flog us off and then fly away.
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