“I take full responsibility for what happened. That’s why the person who was responsible went immediately.”
This ridiculous Prime Minister of ours can’t now string two sentences together without talking drivel. If sentence one is true, then he is resigning, as Guido’s commenters are already queueing up to point out. But sentence two says he isn’t. Not yet, anyway.
The BBC gets a lot of flak from right-wing bloggers, but the BBC is now objectively anti-Brown. Just by solemnly reporting everything that this ghastly and now absurd man says, with or without any further comment, they are destroying him.
Brown’s problem, to spell it out, is that he created the atmosphere within which The Emails were exchanged, and we all know it. He has been a dirty trickster all his adult life. Yet, again and again, he is now taking every opportunity he gets to deny this universally known truth. Not only he is a liar, which in politics is very forgiveable. He is an obvious liar.
The BBC’s caption under the video of Brown’s latest bout of self-strangulation says this:
Mr Brown said he was working to clean up British politics
LOL. In fact that is my LOL of the month so far.
You probably read all this first everywhere else, the exact same quotes and the exact same complaints, but I don’t care. This is a chorus now. Maybe Instapundit, who does read Samizdata and link to it from time to time, will finally work out what’s happening over here (a libertarian blogger is destroying a Prime Minister) and copy out a chunk of something relevant and comprehensible. Here would be an excellent place to look.
See also: this.
Count yourself lucky. Here in America, politicians ‘take responsibility’ for things they then claim were done correctly. Janet Reno in the aftermath of Waco is the classic example.
He’s only condensing the sort of double-speak he’s done for years. When he first came to power he said there was no need for an election, as Labour already had a very clear manifest that the people had approved. Later that year, when there was speculation about a possible general election, he said that he wanted to give the people a chance to see the exciting things he had planned before calling an election. Either one of those is (potentially) reasonable; both cannot be true.
thought you might enjoy this twitter
http://twitter.com/ourenemy
it’s from the point of view of the state
thanks man!
Just by solemnly reporting everything that he says, they are doing their job, and he is the one destroying himself, you mean. From what I’ve seen and read of the BBC, a good bit of the flak they get is well-deserved. and I’m not really comfortable giving them props for doing the minimum that is expected of a news agency when a national leader is embroiled in scandal.
“He has been a dirty trickster all his adult life.”
Do we know this for a fact or just for a suspicion?
Disingenuous mumble-swerve has been New Labour stock-in-trade from day 1.
The way Liebour endlessly spin things is amazing. Along the lines of: “Okay, shoppers, yes we the shopkeepers have been caught with our hand in the till. The responsible member of staff has been immediately escorted from the store. However we must be quite clear; the till is an example of all that is wrong with consumerism today. While many shoppers feel that the pressure from other bargain-hunters causes their trusted shop assistants to continually check the amount of notes in the till and seek to count in the peace and quiet of their own home, we cannot condone such practices. Therefore we are working tirelessly to make sure all tills cannot be tampered with. A better till is our stated aim and will be a central platform in our exciting new manifesto. We urge the British people to vote us back into power so they can rest assured there will be never be any unauthorised till receipt adjustments.”
“Mr Brown said he was working to clean up British politics”
Great! When is he leaving?