I'm Sarah Brown, shoot to kill!

[InsaneApache]

Extraordinary shinnagins with the prime ministers wife.


Then came the most extraordinary piece of control freakery of the day. "I want you guys on the green," said the man from the Labour Party. "There will be six or seven guys with guns who will keep you away from her. You may be shot and then it won't be my problem."

http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/The-Prime-Minister39s-wife-the.4620661.jp

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. A complete shambles of a public relations exercise for the Labour party. Sums up Pa Broon in a nutshell though, he's a nutter.

He's obviously been taking notice of the presidential elections in the US. Could this be his Sarah Palin moment?

[Rhyfelwyr]

What does this prove exactly? That the PR crew mucked up, or maybe his wife is just shy?

What's it got to do with his ability to run the country?

Maybe we just haven't got a chance to get to know his family yet - he could get a film crew to invade their lives for us!

When the alternative is Cameron, Brown will do nicely.

[InsaneApache]

Being shy is one thing. Threatening to shoot members of the free press is altogether a different issue.

There's a pattern emerging from our Great Leader. Locking people up with no charges being brought. Compulsory ID cards. Spying on peoples hard drives and mobile phone calls. Using anti-terrorist legislation against 80 year old hecklers and NATO allies. Tracking all car journeys. The list goes on and on.

The police should be called in to investigate this. Threats to kill is a serious crime. Then they can lock up the miscreants for 28 days with no charges, freeze and seize their assets and finally extraordinary rendition them to a gulag.

Ooops, no they wont, because Labour are above the law, arn't they?

[Rhyfelwyr]

Well Labour are above the law and the Tories are above the masses, so they're even. How can their politicians sit sipping champagne on yachts at times like this?

Plus the Tories have no policy to deal with the credit crunch, they want to get into power to take away government power, we might have hoped laissez-faire ideology died out in the 19th Century but apparently the heirs to Thatcher are just the same as ever.

This is no time for small government. I don't agre with much of what New Labour do but please don't let the Tories in...

[Seamus Fermanagh]

IA:

It wasn't a threat to kill. Hoping somebody will enter a situation and end up harmed or killed is NOT nice behavior, but no active threat was made.

Don't know the politico in question or whether or not they should be tossed from office -- can't speak to it either way therefore -- but any defense attorney (barrister) would make mincemeat of such a charge.

However, in the court of public opinion, this kind of remark can get you in lots of hot water.

[Reverend Joe]

I'm sorry, but any "news" organization that features this
https://img204.imageshack.us/img204/1723/newbitmapimagecj6.png (https://imageshack.us)

on its website is not a news organization I trust to be impartial.

[Koga No Goshi]

Looks perfectly fair and balanced to me, Reverend Joe. :)

[Louis VI the Fat]

I'm sorry, but any "news" organization that features this
https://img204.imageshack.us/img204/1723/newbitmapimagecj6.png (https://imageshack.us)

on its website is not a news organization I trust to be impartial.It is an ad, Reverend. You get it because you linked from America. IA's got a British ad. And I have a different one again.

The Scotsman newspaper is a bit right leaning. But the ads you see, and their political tone, and hypersensitivity to bias, are all American.

[Pannonian]

IA:

It wasn't a threat to kill. Hoping somebody will enter a situation and end up harmed or killed is NOT nice behavior, but no active threat was made.

Don't know the politico in question or whether or not they should be tossed from office -- can't speak to it either way therefore -- but any defense attorney (barrister) would make mincemeat of such a charge.

However, in the court of public opinion, this kind of remark can get you in lots of hot water.
She's not a politico, she's the wife of the Prime Minister. The equivalent of Laura Bush.

[Reverend Joe]

It is an ad, Reverend. You get it because you linked from America. IA's got a British ad. And I have a different one again.

The Scotsman newspaper is a bit right leaning. But the ads you see, and their political tone, and hypersensitivity to bias, are all American.

They allowed the ad on their site. Now, I can understand penile enlargement ads and other crap like that, but any political ad indicates bias of one form or another because you took money from that political group and allowed them to voice their opinions on what should be an ostensibly opinion-free site.

Edit: I'm making a seperate thread out of this.