{"id":362,"date":"2007-05-17T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=362"},"modified":"2007-05-17T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T21:56:00","slug":"a-paranoid-bully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/a-paranoid-bully\/","title":{"rendered":"A paranoid bully"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/minifig\/237764625\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/82\/237764625_51d97ae79d_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/minifig\/237764625\/\">Mr. Brown, in the library, with the knife<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/minifig\/\">minifig<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>And thus it&#8217;s been decided: Gordon Brown will be the next leader of the Labour party, and as a consequence prime minister of the UK.  Unopposed &ndash; no challengers.<\/p>\n<p>He received no less than 313 nominations from the 356 members of Parliament for Labour.<\/p>\n<p>To me, that proves two things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>He is a bully.  There&#8217;s no way anybody can get so many nominations without bullying people a lot, and indeed I read today in The Herald that lots of otherwise insignificant members suddenly received personal calls from Mr. Brown himself.\n<li>He&#8217;s paranoid.  It&#8217;s a no-brainer that it would look better to the outside world if he won the leadership in a contest, even if against a weak candidate.  To make sure the contenders don&#8217;t even get a chance to run shows he&#8217;s too paranoid to take even a microscopic risk.<\/ol>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t bode well.  An anonymous blairite MP recently said the plan at the moment was to give Brown enough rope to hang himself.  I&#8217;m just worried how long the country will suffer during that exercise&#8230;<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Brown, in the library, with the knife Originally uploaded by minifig. And thus it&#8217;s been decided: Gordon Brown will be the next leader of the Labour party, and as a consequence prime minister of the UK. Unopposed &ndash; no challengers. He received no less than 313 nominations from the 356 members of Parliament for Labour. To me, that proves two things: He is a bully. There&#8217;s no way anybody can get so many nominations without bullying people a lot, and indeed I read today in The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}