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GORDON BROWN COULD GIVE US A WINDFALL - HE COULD RESIGN
http://www.caledonian-comment.com/ ?p=2058Beleaguered UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown (pictured above) faced a New Labour backlash last night after one of his closest allies urged him to make energy companies share their profits. Geoffrey Robinson, the former Treasury minister, fuelled party unrest by backing calls for a form of windfall tax to fund help for struggling families.
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The Prime Minister is a W***ker
http://isupporttheresistance.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 09/ prime-minister-is-wker.htmlDo not press play yet. I have to warn you that what you are going to watch is going to make you sick, angry and possibly violent. I urge you to, first remove anything throwable from within reach, get a bucket to be sick in and then ask a friend to stand behind your seat and restrain you approximately
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Parents of disabled children, stay home!
http://laviequotidienne.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 09/ 05/ parents-of-disabled-childre…In a post, contrarian to her self-confessed Brazen Careerism, Penelope writes to say that Sarah Palin, the running mate of John McCain and newly mother to a baby with Down Syndrome, should forgo the opportunity and stay home.
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McCain Party Speech Was So-So What Will Gordon Say?
http://www.order-order.com/ 2008/ 09/ mccain-party-speech-was-so-so-what-will.ht…McCain's speech last night to his party convention was a bit so-so, even with the helpful acclamation in the hall. The last minute or so was combative, sprinkled with some good lines. He is no Reagan.Brown has the same problem. This year he needs to up his game badly.
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Scotland is financially unaccountable
http://toque.co.uk/ blog/ ?p=1162Upon reading Gordon Brown’s views on the problem of the Scottish parliament’s financial accountability an email correspondent commented, “Funny how there wasn’t any ‘lack of accountability’ when Labour were in power, eh?” It does seem hypocritical of Brown to be raising these concerns now, but seen from his perspective there is a logic to his sudden concern.
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Gordon Brown: One problem with devolution
http://toque.co.uk/ blog/ ?p=1160Last night Gordon Brown told CBI Scotland that there was just the one problem with devolution: “First of all devolution has worked but I do see one problem. While there have been good reasons why this is so, the Scottish Parliament is wholly unaccountable for the budget it spends but not for the size of its budget.
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The Macavity Theory
http://thethunderdragon.co.uk/ 2008/ 09/ the-macavity-theory.htmlDanny Finkelstein has a theory: The Macavity theory is that fighting an election you are bound to lose takes a good deal of courage. It requires you to show up every day and take personal charge. Wouldn’t it be exactly in Mr Brown’s character, goes the theory, to disappear just as the election was about to start, when loss was inevitable? Well… no.
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Ramadan
http://curly15.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 09/ 05/ ramadan/Greetings for the Holy month This author wishes to extend his greetings to his Muslim readers in South Shields and other parts, hoping that the pursuit of abstinence will bring peace, patience, humility, inner strength and a profound understanding of the privations of those less fortunate.
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Brown retreats into Brownspeak, ignoring calls to stand down
http://news.politicsandthecity.com/ 2008/ 09/ 05/ brown-retreats-into-brownspeak…As a bitter war of words rages over his future, Prime Minister Gordon Brown was speaking to a CBI dinner in Scotland last night, where he ignored calls for him to stand down and retreated into what we at PATC call Brownspeak.
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The Glenrothes effect kicks in - Brown now open to more tax powers for Holyrood
http://forargyll.com/ 2008/ 09/ the-glenrothes-effect-kicks-in-brown-now-open-to…What a difference a by-election makes., particularly when it’s close to home. Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, speaking at last night’s Confederation of British Industry (CBI) dinner in Glasgow said that there was no ‘unthinking opposition to change’.
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