Constantly Furious was this evening pleased and flattered to receive an email from '10 Downing Street'

Really? Yes, really.

They were writing to say that they'd seen CF's signature on a petition. A petition that was started some time ago, with a very simple, straightforward, aim:

“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to resign.”

Can't be much clearer than that, really, can we?


As well as CF's signature, 72,233 other individuals also asked to be rid of the unelected McBroon. Far more than ever voted for him in any General Election, and a pretty clear message from the nation, eh?

So, how did Gordon respond? We - 72 thousand of us - said, 'Gordon, you really should resign' and he answered:

"The Prime Minister is completely focussed on restoring the economy, getting people back to work and improving standards in public services. As the Prime Minister has consistently said, he is determined to build a stronger, fairer, better Britain for all."

So, reading between the lines, do you think he's taken the criticism on board and is about to step aside?

Is he fuck. We're stuck with the bastard.


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Guido Fawkes has got hold of an email to Labour activists, arranging a "spontaneous" show of approval of our great Leader this afternoon.

In it, Kirsty McNeill pleads:

"..He’s right and he knows that there’s a whole generation of Labour people who will do whatever it takes to keep it that way. Would you be free to join him at West Ham Town Hall, between four and six on Sunday?

He’d like to thank you in person and he wants to talk to you about what the role for this generation of Labour is going to be, because it’s time.

You can of course invite others you know, indeed please do. But I will need names for security, so if you could email me back with whether you can make it and who you’d like to bring, I’d appreciate it. I hope it’s going to be the start of something big."

Bollocks to that.

CF doesn't think the few remaining Brown supporters - if there are any - should have things all their way. Far better for Gordon to have a more representative cross-section of society.

So, reschedule your Sunday lunch, scoff it down, quaff a bit of Dutch Courage and then get down to West Ham Town Hall for 4 o'clock sharp.

Time to give Brown a taster of real, unspun, undiluted public opinion.


UPDATE: as the world now knows, he fucking bottled it. The 'spontaneous' get-together was shifted to an hour earlier, and only the inner circle (which includes the BBC and Sky) were told. Not so much walking away as running away and hiding, eh Gordon?

UPDATE: And he's gone. The Speaker resigns. As CF's new resident comments troll points out, that makes the story below "a non-story squared". CF's not hugely bothered by that, as there be one less trougher in the House tonight. Mind you, we don't know when yet. Don't believe the bastard 'til the corpse has stopped twitching.
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Traditionally, a newly elected speaker (or, in recent years, the latest Labour stooge) pretends to show reluctance to take on the role, and has to play at being 'dragged' to the chair.

This dates back to the time when the speaker had good reason to be reluctant: he was responsible for reporting back to the Monarch and a speaker delivering bad news could find themselves just as headless as the current government.

Oh, if only that still held true; CF would pay a lot of money for a front row seat on the Mall, to watch the venal fuckwit Martin being beheaded. Ideally with a very blunt axe.

CF suspects that, along with his piss-poor understanding of Parliamentary protocols (after only 10 years in the role - what the fuck were all those "fact finding" trips for?), Gorbals Mick has little understanding of the traditions of the house.

He's completely misunderstood - he obviously thinks he's supposed to show reluctance to leave the role. And, shit, isn't he doing that well?

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CF is watching the shambolic proceedings in the House with mounting anger.

Having stumbled through his prepared statement, the Speaker is now under attack.

But no-one can land a punch on the slippery bastard: he's twisting the rules, abusing his position and refusing to allow criticism or even debate.

Every question is dodged, deflected or ignored, in a style Brown would be proud of.

Even though he's clung onto the post for fucking years, the idiot still had to lean over and whisper with one of his little helpers, to check he'd answered a question on procedure correctly. Dear god.

Sir Stuart Bell has just hauled himself onto his hind legs to support the idiot, pompously chuffing:

"There has never been, in the history of this House, such an attack on the Speaker"

Perhaps that's because there has never been, in the history of this House, such a venal, partisan, incompetent fuckwit as this Speaker.


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