Gordon Brown is as bad as Bush - The British Govt. Disgrases Itself

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The Labour Party is an embarassment and Gordon Brown is a veiled, lightly albiet, sadist for getting
their detention (read detention & torture) policy passed.

What's is their major malfunction, Labour's? We expect support for this crap from the Conservatives
there and Republicans here, but the Labour leader, the "brilliant" Mr. Brown.

What planet does he live on?

THE GUARDIAN UK

Brown wins dramatic victory on 42-day detention

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jun/11/terrorism.uksecurity

Gordon Brown secured a slender Commons victory tonight when MPs voted to approve highly controversial plans allowing terrorist suspects to be detained without charge for up to 42 days.

After a day of suspense and intrigue, the government won by a majority of nine. But, in a blow to Brown's authority, he won only because the Democratic Unionist party's nine MPs decided at the last minute to back Labour.

On the crucial division, the government won by 315 votes to 306, with 36 Labour MPs voting with the opposition. That made it Brown's biggest revolt since he became prime minister just under a year ago.

Snip

After the vote Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, said that the result was "a sad day" for British liberties. "What we have seen is the sacrifice of principle in order to save the skin of a sinking prime minister. It has nothing to do with the substance of the matter," he told Sky News tonight.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jun/11/terrorism.uksecurity

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1. New Labour has gone pretty much the same way as the New Dems

Chickenhawk neoliberals.

I was there when Tony bLiar and New Labour took over in, what, 1997? So much hope and optimism. It fell a little flat after a few years, things weren't really getting done as planned but nothing horrendous. Then Bush** came to power and snuggled up to bLiar, and things took a distinctly pro-corporate/pro-war turn. It followed the same unrecognizable agenda I saw the Dems assume after 2000.

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2. If GB is Labour, I'd hate to know the policies of the Tories.