Behind the Terrace curtain

The cunning of the Blairite Axis of Evil?

falconer 141007.jpgMuch comment - in the absence of anything else going on before 2.30pm - on the recent Blairite "challenge" to the Gord, which seems to have been led by Lord Falconer, ably brought up in the rear by Stephen Byers, Charles Clarke, and repeat political Lazarus Alan Milburn. Milburn, for those of you old enough to remember, returned from the dead (or from "spending more time with his family," as it is sometimes known) to the Blair fold in 2004.

Ben Brogan reckons it's all stuff and nonsense, but dons the tinfoil hat to put forward the theory that it may have been a ruse on the part of the Brown bunker to draw attention away from its "current difficulties." Quite how that one works is a mystery to us here at Westmonster.

Apart from anything else, this time last week the Tories were crowing that the Brownites couldn't orgainse a piss-up in a brewery, but now they've seemingly managed to pull off this supposed coup of Machiavellian cunning? Riiiiiight.

The truth might be slightly less glamorous, as this article in today's Times infers. The Prime Minister put the brakes on m'lud's pension bonus last month, much to Falconer's chagrin. Could this anti-Brown briefing be nothing more than a personal hissy-fit that got political?

Written by Lloyd Shepherd on 15 Oct 2007 12:22 PM.  There are 5 comments so far. 
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Chris Johnson said:

What is a "tinfoil hat"? Some new form of tin helmet?

15 Oct 2007 1:07 PM
Westmonster said:

Well, the version I heard is the stuff of Parliamentary legend (and is therefore, probably not true).

There is a certain MP - who will remain nameless - who was constantly plagued by a constituent who was claiming that God was talking to him, but MI5 kept listening in on the transmissions.

After many years of this guy coming to surgeries, demanding he take it up with the PM, and writing outraged letters, our MP had had enough.

He constructed a hat made out of tinfoil which, he informed his constituent, would protect the Lord's words from interference by the security services.

And they all lived happily ever after, The End.

(As I say, it's probably bollocks).

Now, who wants to hear about the Legend of the Commons Snake Pit?

15 Oct 2007 1:23 PM
Matt W said:

You don't know your Eclectech, do you.

See the article above.

Tinfoil hats explained on the link on my name.

15 Oct 2007 3:57 PM
Matt W said:

You don't know your Eclectech, do you.

See the article above.

Tinfoil hats explained on the link on my name.

(First one was broken)

15 Oct 2007 4:01 PM
Westmonster said:

Hmm, neither seem to work?

15 Oct 2007 4:07 PM