Gordon Brown may be the most unpopular Labour Prime Minister of all time. Indeed, he may be the most unpopular Prime Minister of any party of all time.
In the recent EU Elections, in which each Member State elects politicians to represent it in the EU Parliament, the Labour Government in Britain got just 15.3% of the votes, and finished third overall behind the Tories and UKIP, the anti-EU party which wants Britain out of the EU (it was good to see them finishing second). Overall, Britain will have 25 Tories representing it in the EU parliament, 13 from UKIP and 13 from Labour (the other seats going to the Liberal Democrats, the BNP and some other smaller parties).
For voting purposes, England is split into several regions, such as North west, South east, etc.
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are counted as a region each.
The Tories received most votes in every UK region except the North East of England, socialist Scotland and Northern Ireland (which has its own separate political parties).
That 15.3% of votes is Labour's worst performance in a national election since 1910.
But, of course, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, an arch-enemy of former PM Tony Blair, isn't going to wait for 10 years to be PM only to be ousted from his position after only two years in power.
The only way he could be ousted is if the men in white coats come along, put him in a straitjacket, and take him away.
Here's Top Gear presented Jeremy Clarkson giving his views on Prime Minister Brown.
Brown won’t surrender... he’s a rhino
By Top Gear presented Jeremy Clarkson
Published: 13 Jun 2009
The Sun
OVER the years, I've had some fairly unkind things to say about Cash Gordon.
In fact, if we look back over his time as Chancellor and his subsequent move next door, it's hard to think of a single thing he's done right.
I look at my life now compared to how it was before he and Blair marched into power in 1997 and in every way it's worse.
Every decision he's taken, from the economy to hunting, from immigration to speed cameras, from his choice of ministers to the war in Iraq - all of them have been bonkers, stupid or just plain incorrect.
However, I must confess this week I've had a grudging respect for the way he's put his head down, sucked in the pain and stuck at it.
Every day, another useless minister walked out. The newspapers were clamouring for his head.
And then the public voted for the lentil and green alliance rather than him in both the local and European elections.
Someone with a thin skin and testicles like chick peas would have thrown in the towel and left the squabbling ranks of Labour no-hopers to pick a new leader.
Exactly what you don't want when the country is in a complete mess.
I know I would have walked.
This week, the Daily Telegraph said I was a racist sexist whose time is over. The Daily Mail said my salary was to be "slashed" from whatever figure they made up the week before. I failed to win Heat magazine's sexist man competition. Again.
And last night, even one of my hens tried to bite my legs off.
Flayed
Compared to the bucket of effluent being poured over Brown's head, these are small things - especially the hen incident - but even so, I entertained thoughts of moving to a cottage in Devon and spending my days growing beans.
Brown, on the other hand, was like a human rhino, refusing to step down, refusing to be beaten, refusing to be flayed by the pipsqueaks who were leaving his ship to save their own weedy, hopeless skins. I like that in a man.
This is the Blitz spirit. He fought them in the restaurants. He fought them in the tea rooms.
He fought them in their homes and, yes, even their second homes as well. He never surrendered.
He reminded me of John Harrison, the 18th Century clock maker who devoted his whole life to the problem of keeping accurate time while at sea.
Time and time again, his peers dismissed his successes as luck but he stuck at it.
And finally, as an old man, won through.
Then you have Brunel. They said his metal ships wouldn't float. They said his bridges would fall down.
They said his wide gauge railways wouldn't work. But by being dogmatic, he proved them wrong.
Then you have Yasmina from The Apprentice who... actually, I'm not sure she's really in the same league. But you know what I mean.
The only trouble is, of course, that by not giving in, we get Brown for another year.
That's another year or reckless spending. Another year of jaw-dropping madness. And a lifetime of stratospheric taxes.
God help us.
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AS I lit a fire last night and ramped the heating up a notch, I recalled that back in the spring the Met Office announced that we were in for a long, hot summer.
Egg? Face? Or a plot?
Because let's not forget that the Met Office is a Government organisation and that the Government needs us to have tangible evidence of global warming so it can keep screwing everyone with green taxes.
thesun.co.uk
In the recent EU Elections, in which each Member State elects politicians to represent it in the EU Parliament, the Labour Government in Britain got just 15.3% of the votes, and finished third overall behind the Tories and UKIP, the anti-EU party which wants Britain out of the EU (it was good to see them finishing second). Overall, Britain will have 25 Tories representing it in the EU parliament, 13 from UKIP and 13 from Labour (the other seats going to the Liberal Democrats, the BNP and some other smaller parties).
For voting purposes, England is split into several regions, such as North west, South east, etc.
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are counted as a region each.
The Tories received most votes in every UK region except the North East of England, socialist Scotland and Northern Ireland (which has its own separate political parties).
That 15.3% of votes is Labour's worst performance in a national election since 1910.
But, of course, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, an arch-enemy of former PM Tony Blair, isn't going to wait for 10 years to be PM only to be ousted from his position after only two years in power.
The only way he could be ousted is if the men in white coats come along, put him in a straitjacket, and take him away.
Here's Top Gear presented Jeremy Clarkson giving his views on Prime Minister Brown.
Brown won’t surrender... he’s a rhino
By Top Gear presented Jeremy Clarkson
Published: 13 Jun 2009
The Sun
OVER the years, I've had some fairly unkind things to say about Cash Gordon.
In fact, if we look back over his time as Chancellor and his subsequent move next door, it's hard to think of a single thing he's done right.
I look at my life now compared to how it was before he and Blair marched into power in 1997 and in every way it's worse.
Every decision he's taken, from the economy to hunting, from immigration to speed cameras, from his choice of ministers to the war in Iraq - all of them have been bonkers, stupid or just plain incorrect.
However, I must confess this week I've had a grudging respect for the way he's put his head down, sucked in the pain and stuck at it.
Every day, another useless minister walked out. The newspapers were clamouring for his head.
And then the public voted for the lentil and green alliance rather than him in both the local and European elections.
Someone with a thin skin and testicles like chick peas would have thrown in the towel and left the squabbling ranks of Labour no-hopers to pick a new leader.
Exactly what you don't want when the country is in a complete mess.
I know I would have walked.
This week, the Daily Telegraph said I was a racist sexist whose time is over. The Daily Mail said my salary was to be "slashed" from whatever figure they made up the week before. I failed to win Heat magazine's sexist man competition. Again.
And last night, even one of my hens tried to bite my legs off.
Flayed
Compared to the bucket of effluent being poured over Brown's head, these are small things - especially the hen incident - but even so, I entertained thoughts of moving to a cottage in Devon and spending my days growing beans.
Brown, on the other hand, was like a human rhino, refusing to step down, refusing to be beaten, refusing to be flayed by the pipsqueaks who were leaving his ship to save their own weedy, hopeless skins. I like that in a man.
This is the Blitz spirit. He fought them in the restaurants. He fought them in the tea rooms.
He fought them in their homes and, yes, even their second homes as well. He never surrendered.
He reminded me of John Harrison, the 18th Century clock maker who devoted his whole life to the problem of keeping accurate time while at sea.
Time and time again, his peers dismissed his successes as luck but he stuck at it.
And finally, as an old man, won through.
Then you have Brunel. They said his metal ships wouldn't float. They said his bridges would fall down.
They said his wide gauge railways wouldn't work. But by being dogmatic, he proved them wrong.
Then you have Yasmina from The Apprentice who... actually, I'm not sure she's really in the same league. But you know what I mean.
The only trouble is, of course, that by not giving in, we get Brown for another year.
That's another year or reckless spending. Another year of jaw-dropping madness. And a lifetime of stratospheric taxes.
God help us.
***********************************************
AS I lit a fire last night and ramped the heating up a notch, I recalled that back in the spring the Met Office announced that we were in for a long, hot summer.
Egg? Face? Or a plot?
Because let's not forget that the Met Office is a Government organisation and that the Government needs us to have tangible evidence of global warming so it can keep screwing everyone with green taxes.
thesun.co.uk
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