Gordon brown getting a roasting from an MEP

[passionatehibby]

Funny how the BBC never covered this story,its been on the news all round the world .

If you haven't seen it you can view it here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs&eur


Don't think I've ever seen a politician speaking from the heart as this guy is doing here.

Well done that man. :thumbsup:

[Dashing Bob S]

Funny how the BBC never covered this story,its been on the news all round the world .

If you haven't seen it you can view it here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs&eur


Don't think I've ever seen a politician speaking from the heart as this guy is doing here.

Well done that man. :thumbsup:


Brown totally deserves to be taken to task. The problem is, the Tories don't have a clue what do to. This guy is advocating we cut everything back to get out of the reccession, but Cameron wants to spend (though maybe not as much as Brown) to get out of it.

[Betty Boop]

The Summer of Discontent is just around the corner.

[hibsbollah]

He's very eloquent, but whats the alternative policy for Brown? Cutting Govt spending would worsen the recession.

[steakbake]

Funny how the BBC never covered this story,its been on the news all round the world .

If you haven't seen it you can view it here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs&eur


Don't think I've ever seen a politician speaking from the heart as this guy is doing here.

Well done that man. :thumbsup:

Brilliant.

All Brown can do is slump in his chair and grin like an idiot.

We are goosed. IMF loan, anyone?

[JimBHibees]

Funny how the BBC never covered this story,its been on the news all round the world .

If you haven't seen it you can view it here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs&eur


Don't think I've ever seen a politician speaking from the heart as this guy is doing here.

Well done that man. :thumbsup:

Did any UK media outlet report this?

[McSwanky]

Here's (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2009/03/25/my_speech_to_gordon_brown_goes_viral) what he's got to say for himself on his Torygraph blog.

[Arch Stanton]

Nah - for me he is nothing more than a very articulate heckler - he wants to gamble on red where everyone else in the world is gambling on black - which is fair enough I suppose, but it doesn't make him right. And I would take a guess that his background is such he would never need to join the queues round the block to get his money out of failing banks.

I also get the feeling that if it was a question of funding for tanks, nuclear missiles and cruise ships to the Falklands then he wouldn't be so averse to big bucks being spent - and oh yes, lets not forget tax incentives for the hight earners - the ones that get the big salaries for taking the big risks.

[hibiedude]

Brilliant.

All Brown can do is slump in his chair and grin like an idiot.

We are goosed. IMF loan, anyone?

That must be the reason why the Tories are 11% clear in most opion polls :greengrin

[hibsdaft]

good seeing Brown getting it tight

he's got a point complaining that Labour pumped money into public services during the good times instead of clearing the debt but wouldn't the Tories would just have put that money straight into tax cuts ?

[hibsdaft]

doesn't sound like this guy would have done anything to control the banks who went off the leash over the last decade:


But let me enter a plea of mitigation. I never presume to tell businesses what to do. Over nine years in the European Parliament, I have never once proposed a new law or a new regulation. I have voted consistently against measures that would burden companies. If only all my colleagues could say the same..

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2008/04/15/meps_should_leave_business_alone?com_num=20&com_pg=2


good seeing him make Brown squirm but thinking the Tories would have avoided this recession is dreamland.

[Dashing Bob S]

doesn't sound like this guy would have done anything to control the banks who went off the leash over the last decade:



http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2008/04/15/meps_should_leave_business_alone?com_num=20&com_pg=2


good seeing him make Brown squirm but thinking the Tories would have avoided this recession is dreamland.

Agreed. If we'd followed this guy's instincts, we'd be in an even bigger mess than we already are.

[Woody1985]

Here's a quote from someone on youtube. Apparently the boy speaking is a bit of a tit.

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Dig deeper to his background & you will find he likes to talk negatives with the benefit of HINDSIGHT. He suggested Iceland was the best run economy 1 year ago & Iceland is now the worst hit in this GLOBAL crisis.
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Not sure if this is true as I haven't checked.

However, what I do know is that we are royally ****ed for a good while to come and are going to be paying for this for a long time yet. Especially when the VAT goes back up and I bet it doesn't return to 17.5%.

Also, the government said they'd not change petrol tax for the full year in June but it's going up by something like 1.8p a litre in April. Technically speaking GB said THE full year and not A full year, meaning the financial year, another use of wording to **** us over.

Then when the VAT goes back up it will be added to the 1.8P. :grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr:

[hibsdaft]

its true Woody1875, just had a google - some of this stuff if genius:


In the ten years that I have been travelling to Iceland, I have watched an economic miracle unfold there ... Today, Icelanders are absolutely rolling in it. A people two generations away from subsistence farming have become international tycoons.

...

Look at the City of London, for heaven’s sake, which Brussels is doing its best to asphyxiate with its financial regulations.

...

Icelanders understand that there is a connection between living in an independent state and living independently from the state. They have no more desire to submit to international than to national regulation. That attitude has made them the happiest, freest and wealthiest people on earth.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/print/the-magazine/cartoons/12658/blueeyed-sheikhs.thtml


apparently he was so enamoured with Icelands economic stance that he insisted on going there for his stag do!

what a conman.

[Woody1985]

its true Woody1875, just had a google - some of this stuff if genius:



http://www.spectator.co.uk/print/the-magazine/cartoons/12658/blueeyed-sheikhs.thtml


apparently he was so enamoured with Icelands economic stance that he insisted on going there for his stag do!

what a conman.

:faf:

Sums up all politicians in one go really. Bunch of slavering ***** who will spout any old pish for their own political gain rather than to acheive what's best for the people.

I hate politicians. They really are the **** of the earth.

Imagine if there was a dictator in the world who was really level headed, did what was best for their people and made common sense decisions! Maybe it's not just politicians but human nature that is *****.

[LiverpoolHibs]

I find it a bit rich for anyone who, fundamentally, believes in the soundness of the market and the preferability of the capitalist system to have a pop at Brown, Darling et. al.'s handling of the economy. It's the ideology that has failed.

[Dashing Bob S]

its true Woody1875, just had a google - some of this stuff if genius:



http://www.spectator.co.uk/print/the-magazine/cartoons/12658/blueeyed-sheikhs.thtml


apparently he was so enamoured with Icelands economic stance that he insisted on going there for his stag do!

what a conman.

Brilliant, another politician falls on the Iceland sword. I can't blame him for that, nobody expected it to go t*ts up in that way. But it's this love of deregulation that got us in this mess, and this clown wants more of the same.