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The Downing Street Letters… that Gordon Brown doesn’t want you to read
April 20, 2009 – 11:32 am | No Comment
The Downing Street Letters… that Gordon Brown doesn’t want you to read

In 1997 Fred Harrison wrote to Tony Blair and his Ministers: “I am your worst nightmare.  I know exactly why New Labour will fail”.   For ten years Harrison identified for Gordon Brown the policies that …

Counting the Cost of Phoney Brown
March 24, 2009 – 2:18 pm | No Comment
Counting the Cost of Phoney Brown

Britain’s macho Prime Minister is angry. He just hates the fact that some people conceal their money in tax havens, and on April 2 he will go ginning for them with all the fire power …

Browns Black Art of Propaganda
March 4, 2009 – 4:15 pm | One Comment
Browns Black Art of Propaganda

Gordon Brown wants to infect the leaders of the G20 countries with his Walter Mitty fantasies.* If he succeeds in luring them into his make-believe world the collective denial about the roots of the global …

Touting the Snake Oil Remedies
February 23, 2009 – 11:29 am | 2 Comments
Touting the Snake Oil Remedies

Gordon Brown now reveals that he wants banks to cap mortgages at 100% of a property’s value. Another “tough” initiative from the macho premier of Britain. It’s a meaningless gesture, yet another of those postures …

Gordon Brown: The Cover Up Exposed
October 29, 2008 – 8:21 am | 5 Comments
Gordon Brown: The Cover Up Exposed

Gordon Brown is orchestrating a Big Lie. He wants to hoodwink people into thinking that he is not responsible for what the Governor of the Bank of England now admits will be a “prolonged” crisis. …