Will Brown now apologise?...
- 2 December 2009 15:1234226for lying in PMQ's....
After all David Cameron did this week when he inadvertently got some facts wrong (slapped wrist to Michael Gove)
But is Brown man enough to do so?
Brown must know who is or is not a member after all, or perhaps it was yet another of his famous slips of the tongue. The truth though has always been an elusive concept for Brown.
He claimed that Spain was in the G20. It is not in the G20, there are 19 countries in the G20 (including the UK, France, Germany) plus the EU via the rotating Presidency (pre-Lisbon).
Here is the link to the G20 website with the members listed http://www.g20.org/about_what_is_g20.aspx
DC was making the point that the UK is the only member of the G20 still in recession having been among the first in. Spain, (which is one of the few countries in the world still in recession with the UK), Brown claimed as a G20 member in a rather weak defence. All G20 countries are out of recession except the UK. - 2 December 2009 16:1534228Ah jeez BarryW you are straining credibility there re saying the Prime Minister was lying. It was nothing more than a slip. I did indeed myself see PMQ's and saw the previous time with David Cameron and the schools finance issue.
David Cameron went on the attack using figures that were wrong and as a consequence his whole attack was askew and irrelevent. He has since apologised for getting it wrong. Fair enough.
The PM today said Spain was part of the G20 but it was a slip, an error, it wouldnt be termed in anyones book as 'lying to the house'. He makes the odd slip like that doesnt he, as is well known, but dont we all. His fallibility is probably part of the reason Labour are experiencing a hint of revival, albeit a small one.
Spain actually attend G20 summits...but for some reason are not paid up members. Hence the slip.
I thought Gordon Brown did rather well today..he brought lots of guffaws and rallying cheers from his backbenchers which wasnt always the case previously.email: dover7@msn.com - 2 December 2009 17:0434229Brown has a strange habit of 'slips of the tongue' far too often and it simply shows what can be described most charitably as a cavalier attitude to the truth.
He 'saved the world'
'0% growth'
no more boom and bust
no-one will be worse off from getting rid of the 10p tax rate
Britain is best prepared for the recession
Britain is leading the way out of recession
Just a few off the top of my head, all shown and known to be utter rubbish and if Brown thought what he was saying was true when he said it then he is mentally deficient. - 2 December 2009 17:2734230I hope it wasn't me who set you off BarryW - straight on the PC and dissing Brown after coffee!!!
But, sadly, I am having to veer more towards your less charitable view of Mr Brown. I hate myself for it!!!
Thanks Barry.
- 2 December 2009 17:4034232You are welcome Bern....
- 2 December 2009 18:1434235Oi! what going on here..are you bribing the lefties with your coffee mornings BarryW. Gordon Brown has no chance if Bern was swayed that easily.email: dover7@msn.com
- 2 December 2009 18:3334237barry could never be an MP, the use of the word "liar" is unparliamentary and would result in him being frogmarched out.
quite right too, once name calling enters the commons it will be even more like a playground than it is now. - 2 December 2009 19:5934239too late!!!