The `mouth of the south' should think twice

EVEN if the sky should fall in on Labour in England, surely our Scottish hero Gordon Brown should be able to rely on massive support north of the border. Wrong. Labour's crumbling fortunes in England are reflected in Scotland. But because of the cavalier...

Gordon's deepening hole

I have some sympathy with Gordon Brown and Alastair Darling - but not much. They're in a pickle in that their spending plans are based on tax revenue. Firstly, they've had to borrow £2.7bn to bail themselves out of the 10p tax rate fiasco. Public anger,...

Nasal exploits may prove the final straw in downtown Crewe

UNABLE to get to the Commons in time to witness Prime Minister's Questions live, I listened with half an ear to the BBC2 broadcast and indulged myself in the fun of watching the on-line comments instantaeously posted on Guido Fawkes' web site. His...

Hattie's aunt the Countess would not approve of Labour drivel

WHAT'S Labour's game up in Crewe & Nantwich? Their campaign is so devoid of ideas that the party has been reduced to launching childish, personal attacks on the Conservative candidate. Rattled or what? Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman has attacked the...

Cameron should go for the jugular

AT every opportunity, Gordon Brown slates the 1979-97 Tory government for having created record interest rates, high unemployment, and vast numbers of house repossessions. And each week at Prime Minister's Questions, David Cameron lets him get away...

An expensive way to bail out Bottler

The personal allowances change to make millions of people better off in an attempt to undo Gordon Brown's damage in scrapping the 10p starting rate of tax is, on the face of it, a generous move. But, it is to be paid for by the Government borrowing £2.7billion,...

Enter the assassin

FRANK Field has launched himself with gusto into the role of The Quiet Assassin. Field is Birkenhead's Labour MP and architect of the revolt over the abolition of the 10p starting rate of tax and this weekend, in an interview for the BBC World Service,...

BoJo and Wee Dougie's sister hit Bottler where it hurts the most - his funny bone

BORIS Johnston may be Mayor of London but he remains for the time being the Honourable Member for Henley and, as such, he walked into the House of Commons to sit behind Tory leader David Cameron just as Gordon Brown was to start the 30 minutes...

Charles batters Gordon's chips

THERE'S nothing like helpful advice from a friend, not that Charles Clarke would really liked to be described as a buddy of Gordon Brown. Mr Clarke is a bruiser, a sometimes abrasive politician who is fully signed up to New Labour. And he fears...