Springtime For Little Hitler

Springtime for bunkered Brown just got worse with Herr Flickr featured on the front page of powerful US website Drudge complete with grinning photograph. Scary smile, shame about the swastika.

It's turned out to be just another bad Herr day for Brown - again. 

Featuring on Drudge who's taken the lead from today's Times and splashed the PM in all his uber-glory, it's not what the spin doctor ordered. 

Back in Blighty, the deluded prime minister ducked and dived during PMQs with cries of infamy, infamy, the've all got it in for me as Tories pressed home the disarray eating away at the heart of a fag-end government and goaded the Supreme Leader over his temper tantrums. 

Cameron called on Brown to call an election now and a vote of no confidence can't be too far behind. But battered Brown tried to beat off the blows by hiding in the bunker.

Clegg too was on fine form for the LibDems with a bit of fire in his belly after his Gurkha triumph - though the commons camera angle always makes him look rather small fry. 

It's pay back time from Drudge after popular US talk radio host, Michael Savage, popped up on porno Smith's banned list of people she doesn't like: "UK banning people for what they think not do" as Drudge puts it. 

Savage is threatening to sue two homes secretary Smith for having the bare-faced cheek to lump him in with a bunch of violent nasties and is adamant he's not even planning a visit. As the plot thickens, Drudge has taken up the cause and the cudgel. 

Cross Drudge at your peril, as old man Clinton found to his cost as both Bill and the dirty washing of his dalliance with Monica L was hung out to dry.

The photograph of beleaguered Brown smiling away without a care in the world, blissfully unaware of the darkness behind him, does beg the question just who is in charge of the Downing Street press office, or even Downing Street for that matter?

How on earth Brown was allowed to be photographed in front of a wall full of children’s artwork of WWII, including several swastikas beggar's belief. There are only two Hs in school history these days - Henry and Hitler. 

The Orange Party has many liberal pals in the land of the free and free speech and is starting to feel a tad embarrassed. It really does make you feel ashamed of having to suffer a buffoon in Blighty. 

Springtime for little Hitlers and democracy? The only thing left is to sing a refrain from the Producers:

"Don't be foolish, be a smarty come and join Brown's Labour Party". Or maybe not.

Brown and his bunch of chancers living in La-La Land can't do right for doing wrong. Things can only get worse not better. But the Party is damned if they ditch Brown and damned if he stays. 

Faced with a no-win situation and the ignominy of relentless ridicule, a general election now is the only solution before it's too late and mistrust and betrayal turns to real anger and hatred from voters.

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Hattie's Flop In Carry On Up The Commons

Brown back-stabber Harman's blundering has blown any chance of her leadership out of the water after telling a barefaced lie to parliament and getting a pummelling from both Thatcher boy Hague and Cable the economic oracle. 

With the illustrious leaders out of sight of the commons cameras it was the battle of the deputies over the dispatch box. But deputy party leader, Harriet Harman, had the most to lose. 

The Labour leadership contest and general election campaign are well underway, all rolled into one big melting pot, with Hattie the favourite to usurp the throne from beleaguered Brown. 

But holding your own in the cut and thrust of the battle of commons sound-bites is one thing. Telling porkies is quite another. 

That came in a commons question about Sir Fred the Shred's knighthood which Harman told the commons was for his 'charity work'. 

Now any fool knows what most of Brown's banking buddies were given their Ks and Ps for. And Harman is no fool. This was a disgraceful attempt at New Labour spin which is forever tarring the government. 

Later Harman issued a statement saying she made a mistake. The BBC  tried to explain away the whole thing as a bit of a 'gaffe':

"It was, in fact, the case that he received his honour for services to banking". 

 

Just an honest mistake gov. Not a sordid way to worm her way  out of answering an awkward question. Even accepting the gaff line,  in one fell swoop, the so-called wonder woman turned into blunder woman. 

Elsewhere Hague showed his mettle as the accomplished afternoon dinner speaker and useless shadow foreign secretary he is, as he jibed about how he was now "a modest deputy leader, but a loyal one". 

How the Tories cheered at that one. And how young pretender Miliband looked on, barley able to disguise his relish.

Cable had a chance to speak without the hand of Clegg, up his back. He had a good line: "Will there be a Harriet’s Law about clawing back pensions?" Nice one Vince, if a tad old hat. Stick to the day job teaching us economics.

It is Brown's stubborn refusal to accept some, any responsibility for the global economic mess that should have been a gift to Hague and Cable, thanks to chancellor Darling, willing  to try on the hair-shirt over who is to blame for the economic disaster.

The Downing Street narrative on that one is changing as the battle for the Labour leadership and the next general election get well and truly underway. But Brown seems to be stubbornly digging in his heels and digging his own grave. That one will not go away, no matter how hard McCavity Brown tries to hide.

Writing in The Times, Alice Miles today described Brown as: "Humiliated, hopeless, paralysed. Time to go". 

With Harman now a dead-duck and the despised Mandelson pulling the strings behind Brown's back, most members of the parliamentary Labour Party and the cabinet just want to be put out of their misery.

The sooner Cameron gets back the better. Commons politics is really quite boring without him. 

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Flash Crash Gordon's Gaffe

Flash Gordon or Crash Gordon? Moses or Superman? Brown's grip on reality was laid bare during PMQs as he blew the gaffe and blurted out: "We not only saved the world..." to howls of laughter. In your dreams. But the sad thing is, Brown probably believes it.

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Political Cracker Explodes At Westminster

It's a case of here today, gong gone tomorrow for Labour MP, Keith Vaz. Minutes before PMQs, the Telegraph dropped a bombshell on its front page news website, which discloses a private letter from Labour chief whip Geoff Hoon to Vaz who he hopes will be “appropriately rewarded” for supporting the 42 days detention bill.

The contents of the letter were clearly held back from the morning newspaper to deliberately wrong foot Brown and give Cameron a chance to put him on the spot in the commons.

Once again the Speaker saved Brown's skin when he cut Cameron off and called on one of the New Labour plants to speak from the back-benches.

In the handwritten letter sent on June 12, 2008 – the day after the knife-edge vote on 42 day detention, the Telegraph reports at 11.51am that Hoon writes:

“Dear Keith…Just a quick note to thank you for all your help during the period leading up to last Wednesday’s vote. I wanted you to know how much I appreciated all your help.

“I trust that it will be appropriately rewarded!...With thanks and best wishes, Geoff.”

Vaz, the Labour chairman of the home affairs select committee, was previously opposed to the plans, but later offered his full backing which was only won when Northern Ireland's DUP voted with the government.

With rumours circulating in Westminster of a peerage or knighthood, Vaz was asked in Parliament, during the debate the day before the vote, whether he had been offered an honour for his support. He said: “No, it was certainly not offered- but I do not know; there is still time.” Not now there's isn't.

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PMQs: TV Highlight Of The Week

It's that time of the week again when Headcases meets Big Brother in 'da House. Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) are a great chance for MPs to say, 'Look mum, I'm on the telly'. 

But the TV schedulers should find a better slot for it. It's hard work finding it on normal TV. 

It should be broadcast on the mainstream TV channels. After all, it only lasts for 10 minutes or so but it would need a good commentary. Harry Hill would be perfect. 

And it would be a great chance to let off steam at lunchtime. A chance to shout at the telly. A great lunchtime stress-buster.

Today's TV highlights? 

Will David Davis be allowed to speak this time and what will he say? If he does, will it be from the front bench, back bench or the corridor?

How long before Brown's clunking claw comes crashing down on the table? How long before he starts st-st-st-stammering? 

How clean and well scrubbed-up is Cameron looking today? And how small is Clegg getting? It may be the position of the fixed overhead TV cameras but he could still do with a little box to stand on. 

And there's always the chance to play politics. Who's placed next to Brown on the front bench and who is perched perilously on the edge? And who the hell are they?

But if you are still bored, there's 'Spot The Deliberately Scripted Soundbite' and which will make it on the evening TV news.

And then there's the 'plants'. Those New Labour cronies deliberately placed to ask self-congratulatory questions about tractor production figures. Last week someone even asked a planted question about bone-marrow transplants. A plant about transplants. Priceless. 

Mr Speaker is in a working class of his own. The plants are also used by the Speaker to defuse a heated debate, with New Labour even resorting to using women, yes women, so there's no flak from the courteous opposition. 

And there's the government's other device, the cries of 'Order' from the Speaker. It even floored the accomplished TV star Michael Howard last week and hindered his delivery of what was probably the best speech of the day.

But to really take-off, it all needs a snappier title - 'Stars In Their Eyes'? And for a House of Lords version, 'The Price Is Right'.

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