Gavin’s Gaily Gigest

As seen in last Wednesday’s Hansard (Parliament’s official record):
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Prime Minister if he will make it his policy to conduct exit interviews with Ministers leaving Government; and if he will conduct an exit interview with Lord Jones of Birmingham to discuss the noble Lord’s experiences as a Minister. [249500]
The Prime [...]

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Once again, Charles Clarke MP, former Home Secretary and Blairite attack lion has taken time away from his watering hole to take a dig at Gordon Brown in an article for the New Statesman. And, as with his Prospect article back in May, the media have hungrily devoured his words (helped along of course by [...]

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Gordon Brown has responded to questions put to him on Downing Street’s Youtube channel (a bit late, as Guido has noted). My pick is this Q&A on 42 days and civil liberties:

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Food-deprived lardarse Gordon Brown has a bit of a problem when it comes to the 42 days detention vote in the House of Lords: he can’t offer them a peerage and the overwhelming majority of lords aren’t too keen on the idea. So look out for the following constitutional reforms from our dynamic, overladen Prime [...]

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Ask the Prime Minister:

Still, at least he’s making an effort, even if he is pulling out his Tony Blair impression in the first five seconds to do so. You can submit your no doubt hilarious and thoroughly unhelpful questions to the PM here.
PS. Telling phrase of the video comes in the final few frames: "And [...]

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The results of Madame Tussauds’ Gordon Brown in or out poll have been released:

With a face like this:
 
Who can blame them?

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Madame Tussauds is asking its visitors whether they should create a figure of Gordon Brown*:
"When Gordon Brown took over from Tony Blair last year, for the first time in a 150 year history, Madame Tussauds took the decision not to immediately create a figure of the current Prime Minister.
"Instead we chose to wait for a [...]

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The new edition of Politalks, your weekly satirical news roundup, is here. This week we discuss Labour’s obsession with controlling every aspect of our lives, alongside a less-than-healthy obsession with Jacqui Smith:

Feel free to share and share alike, and for those who are interested, here’s the transcript:
Jacqui Smith and her knee-covering breasts were out in [...]

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During yesterday’s Prime Minister’s Questions, Tory Party leader, and mascot for chinless people the world over, David Cameron said this:
"The Labour peer, Lord Desai, said that the Prime Minister’s leadership style is like porridge. Another week like this and it will be Cheerios."

Am I the only one who can’t get this joke? Now, I quite [...]

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Gordon Brown’s powers of persuasion strike again. At the end of last year, he convinced Lord West to change his mind on extended detention without charge in the space of ninety minutes. Whether he used hypnosis or a Black & Decker knee-cap remover remains a mystery.
Now he turns his talents to Angela Smith, Labour MP [...]

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