Gordon Brown
Fox calls for Brown to be recalled by Chilcot
The Shadow Defence Secretary has written to Sir John Chilcot calling for him to recall Gordon Brown. His comments come after two former Chiefs of the Defence Staff and a former Chief of the General Staff called into question Brown’s evidence to the inquiry.
In his letter Liam Fox says following their comments at the weekend, “there is a strong case for you to recall Gordon Brown for further testimony in front of your inquiry after the upcoming General Election.”
Speaking to The Times on Saturday Admiral Lord Boyce, the Chief of the Defence Staff up to the start of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, said about Brown:
Fox: Brown’s Chilcot evidence “does not add up”
Shadow defence secretary Liam Fox was just released the following statement after following Gordon Brown’s appearence at the Chilcot inquiry, suggesting that there are significant contradictions between his evidence and that of others who have appeared before the Inquiry:
“Gordon Brown was a member of the inner circle, but true to form he didn’t want to take any responsibility for decisions which had negative consequences. He admitted that planning for the war was deficient, but with typical weasel words he tried to pin the blame on everyone else, above all the Americans. The Prime Minister put on a typically evasive performance, answering the questions he wanted to hear, rather than the questions which were put to him.
Top Brown Aide Confirms Bullying Allegations in Secret Recording
The Mail on Sunday has a tape of Stewart Wood, who was one of Gordon Brown’s senior foreign policy adviser, outlining just how abusive the Prime Minister can be.
The conversation was recorded by journalist pro-Labour journalist Suzie Mackenzie who was interviewing Mr Wood for an authorised biography of the PM
Here is the key extracts from the article:
Has Brown walked down that hill again?
Ditherer Brown strikes again. It appears that the Prime Minister is attempting to dampened speculation that he may call the election this weekend. According to his official spokesman the PM “doesn’t have any audiences with the queen planned for the weekend. I can assure you of that.”
Is it just me or is there a lot of wiggle room in that sentence? There may not be an audience with the Queen in the diary for this weekend, but what about Monday?
Brown needs to shutdown the speculation
If you’ve been living under a rock for the last 36 hour’s, you may have missed the intense speculation that the general election may be about to be called.
Yesterday two more polls, by Ipsos/MORI and the YouGov/Sun daily tracker, both reinforced the tightening poll position that other companies have been reporting. Add to this today’s news from the ONS that they’ve revised up the latest GDP figures – confirming that Britain it out of recession and you would think things look good for Brown.
A Snap Election Timeline
Yesterday evening Gary Gibbon posted a rather interesting piece on the Channel 4 News Snowblog, which outlined a potential timeline for the General Election. While interesting it didn’t take into account the prospect of Gordon Brown calling a snap election.
So how could things shape up if the Prime Minister goes to the country on March 25 instead of May 6? Well this is how things could pan out.
Under the timeline which sees the election being held on the 6th, it’s widely believed that Alistair Darling would deliver the Budget on 24th March.
Phil Woolas – what a prat
How Phil Woolas became immigration minister I have no idea, time and time again he ether speaks out of turn or simply embarrasses the government, and yes he at it again.
No doubt he felt that describing Christine Pratt, the head of the National Bullying Helpline, as a “prat of a woman” on LBC Radio would help Gordon Brown, but it wont.
A minister of the crown should not speak of anyone in this way, no matter what they say about the Prime Minister.
