GB and Tony Blair made a pact that TB would be PM as he was more media friendly and then GB would take over. TB secretly thought GB was a bit hopeless and went back on the deal fearing that Labour would lose the second election. This pissed of GB and he started scheming and plotting to get rid of TB.
He needn't have bothered as TB forming a military alliance with GWB was more than we hardcore lefties could take and we weren't happy to be vindicated that it was a bad move after the slaughter in Iraq. That was really the end of TB and he stepped down after winning a third term but with a much reduced majority. And what did GB have to offer after 10 years of planning on the sideline? Nothing, nothing at all. It was the biggest disappointment imaginable, he had no far reaching plan, no great projects, he was so far out of his depth it was actually painful to watch. Anyway, he called an early election and was booted out, and is generally considered the worst prime minister ever. And we of the left thought he was an heir to John Smith the excellent politician and Labour leader who died too young, letting Blair take over. And now we've got a bunch of vicious, multi-millionaire Eton educated toffs who don't give a shit about anything except making their rich friends even richer. They blame GB totally for our ruined economy but that was the only thing that wasn't really his fault! In fact he did quite a good job repairing the damage and the toffs know that if they were in power they would have given the banks more freedom to rip us off making the crash even worse! That's the way the world is all over I guess.... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote: I think those of us in America are not really in the loop about what the GOrdon Brown administration has brought to Merry Old England -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 2/26/14, salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: A Red Letter Day for England To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 6:22 PM Thanks for finding that MJ, it does one good to be reminded of just how deluded old Ozymandias - I mean Marshy was. Will the world ever see his like again? "Maharishi saw the words and actions of the new Government as an expression of the changed quality of national consciousness in Great Britain, which had quietly resulted from the activities of his organisation to raise coherence in world consciousness in recent years." So it was all that meditating that actually got Gordon Brown into power, not the fact he was always going to take over from Blair. True those early few days of the Brown regime were indeed refreshing but the reality of his incompetence means this would be possibly the least convincing demonstration of global coherence that I've heard yet. Smart of the reesh to jump on the bandwagon and claim it's all down to him though. "On hearing this and other positive developments since the change of leadership in Westminster, Maharishi proclaimed that he was completely releasing his hold on the activities of his organisation in Great Britain. Maharishi said that he was lifting all his reservations to make the country invincible." Thanks Marshy, a few years of Gordon Brown and then a coalition between the two worst parties imaginable has really taught me the value of invincibility as brought around by your megalomania - I mean movement.
