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Gordon Brown accuses centrists of appeasing far-Right
The Overton window according to Gordon Brown. Credit: Getty
Happening today beneath the surface
The Overton window according to Gordon Brown. Credit: Getty
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SubscribeHere we go: a puffed up, spendthrift, hard left clown perks up to tell us that opposition to limitless immigration, which overwhelms whole districts, puts the future of European identity in doubt and imposes unbearable burdens on the native poor, is somehow “extremist”. It is just the latest iteration of the left’s brass necked trick of “projection”, for the only extremists around these days are the reds; and the only political force which uses doctrines of collective, inherited guilt to demonise an ethnic group is the dominant “radical-progressive” government class – its victim being the historic peoples of Europe. Only hard left extremists could possibly pretend that inviting indifferent, dependent and sometimes hostile multitudes to settle in the heart of the west is “normal”.
You do wonder how Brown could ever have been PM. Quite clearly there has been a shift to the right precisely because centrists did not listen to ordinary peoples concerns. Having left it too late, they now are faced with no other choice than “appeasement”.
So why didn’t Brown, Blair and the rest see it coming? Plenty of others did. A case of the man who mistakes what he sees in his mirror for external reality.
The rise the far right isn’t something that governments need to combat. All they have to do is listen to and learn from ordinary people instead of sneering at them. Gordo did the classic when he arrogantly dismissed an elderly lady as a bigot for the crime of saying something contrary to his privileged view of utopia.
Exactly! Those dratted microphones again!
“Who was that bigoted old woman?” and then . . .
“I hate prejudice, discrimination, and snobbishness of any kind – it always reflects on the person judging and not the person being judged.”
“I have abolished boom and bust”
“I’m going to sell the UK’s gold… in an auction”
“a one-eyed, Scottish, idiot” (J Clarkson on G Brown)
Gordon Brown; the worst, most arrogant and fiscally incontinent chancellor the UK ever had. And then an even worse PM. Starmer has a tough act to follow but I’m sure he’ll tool-up to do the best job he can (once he’s put on a new suit)…
Is there any point that supperannuated politicians like Gordon Brown will just f**k off?
Has Gordon Brown ever shown reliable judgement on anything at all ?
He seems like one of those people who think they understand everything (and usually don’t) and are desperate to hand out advice, but no one voluntarily asks.
Not once. His only use, in fact, is to be ‘the man who is always wrong’ a la C Northcote Parkinson character in “In Laws and Outlaws” – listen to him and then do precisely the opposite.
He joins Blair, and Major in this club. Ex PMs who’ve done untold damage.
Who should now just shut their traps and sod off to spend time with their ill gotten fortunes.
Gordon Brown . . . He’s number two on my list after Blair.
In 2004 Gordon Brown quite deliberately broke the link between housing costs and interest rates in order to engineer a house price boom in time for the 2005 election. Meanwhile his partner in many crimes introduced the open borders policy that has been pursued by his admirers ever since.
The consequence has been the fastest widening of the class divide in our history. It’s extraordinary that a man of such Himalayan dishonesty and incompetence should be rewarded with the status of elder statesman.
Is he mentally ill?