McBride Wouldn't Put Up With This
As the dust settles on the last forty-eight hours that have been dominated by discussions of bullying, complaints, allegations, counter attacks and smears it is important to make sure things are kept in perspective. The reason Downing St would have been so angry with the Pratt angle to the story was the excuse it gave the Monday papers go, no holds barred, into an full on scattergun attack on the PM. Her actions unravelled pretty quickly and although she has now gone to Max Clifford saying she has evidence, it is safe to say when that leech is involved you have damaged yourself. But in reality that is a mere side-story.
Whether or not it was appropriate for Ms Pratt to wade in with her angle, her story was just too tempting for the press. It doesn't matter that it fell apart, the damage was done. On Sunday and Monday the papers were plastered with anti-Brown headlines giving a glimpse into the world of the "Prime Monster". The subsequent attacks and fall of Pratt were too late, a million front pages and breakfast bulletins and headlines had been read. Though a thug, it is clear that Damian McBride was Brown's best operator, you can bet a pretty penny that he would have shut down this story for his raging boss, but then again that was part of the problem. Either way, whoever is running the bunker had a bad day yesterday. It is also clear that Mandy is way, way past his peak at dealing with this sort of storm.
Despite their best efforts drag Ms Pratt down with them, Labour have taken a big hit on this one and they know it. Of course we need firm leadership, but not an unstable, out of control centre piece of a whole culture of aggression and attack. Brown is running out of time, just get in the car and go to the Palace.
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nice of you to join us. glad you can spare five minutes today. need i remind you, that you only have other avenues to explore because of this blog. until you quit, you should try hard to do a good job. that includes regular posts. maybe not coffeehouse regularity, but guido regularity at a minimum. especially during election time when your party is struggling to maintain. you have a real talent, you have chosen sides and built a following. take your responsibilities seriously young man.
No one can say Brown is a bully.
He is merely a much more honourable thing - the employer of bullies : Campbell, McBride, Watson, Fiddlebum of Boy, and probably loasds more when the stones get shifted.
Alan Douglas
No one can say Brown is a bully.
He is merely a much more honourable thing - the employer of bullies : Campbell, McBride, Watson, Fiddlebum of Boy, and probably loasds more when the stones get shifted.
Alan Douglas
Dear Bill,
You'll have your posting rights returned when you discover the world of the capital letter.
Until then, perhaps you could delve into the world of the paragraph, and perhaps the semi-colon?
There's a good chap.
The Prime Monster said two things on GMTV this morning which need further analysis.
1) "I would never engage in divisive or partisan politics."
2) "We work in an open plan office; we are a big happy family at No 10."
So, what do we make of number 1? The man is obviously barking mad. Every action he takes is justified in his mind ONLY by the degree to which it is divisive. What the fuck does he think we are? Gullible fools?
And what of No 2? Well if it is an open plan office then how come he didn't know about the "forces of hell"? or far that matter, Damian McBride's foul hate campaign?
In it up to his neck; now so mental he is lying and exposing his lies left, right and centre.
I worked all this out for myself and I'm an amatuer; when will a proper lobby journalist get stuck in?
@Stepney:
Well, it used to have walls between cubicles, but someone smashed them during a violent outburst...
Did irony reach the Tory who told me today that when he saw GB say "I would never engage in divisive or partisan politics" on GMTV this morning he threw something at his TV? That person's face did not shift when I enquired as to whether they threw their mobile phone - so I left it there.