Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. If No Mandate Brown wasn’t such a fucking contemptible shit I’d feel sorry for him.

A year ago he thought he was going to take over the reins from Traitor Bliar, see out the last couple of years until the next election and then either lead a Lib-Lab coalition if they could scrape together enough support between them or, most likely, retire with his Prime Minister’s pension and wait for his peerage (which had best be the pretendy peerage for a pretendy Prime Minister).

Instead he finds himself performing roughly the equivalent role of the captain on the Titanic, rearranging the cabinet as HMS Liebour slowly slips under the water, its twisted bulk fatally gashed by the iceberg of insolvency.

Not only is Liebour £27m in debt, not only does it have £13m of debts due this year, not only does it have to repay £7.45m of debt this month, not only has its membership dropped by 50% since 1997, not only is Liebour getting less in donations than the Lib Dumbs but … the GMB union is cutting the number of Liebour MPs it sponsors from 108 to about 36. This quote from Paul Kenny, the GMB’s General Secretary, is brilliant:

The government is very keen on testing for everybody, performance-related pay, and we’ve applied in the GMB over the last 12 months exactly the same principle.

We’ve examined the records of MPs both at local level and national level and many are doing a fantastic job, but there are a number who seem at times to be embarrassed by their relationship with the union.

We don’t want to embarrass them by giving them union money.

Fantastic. Several unions are also planning to hold a vote at their AGM on disaffiliating from Liebour.

Oh how laughed …

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