One of the most successful and popular political blogs is by Guido Fawkes aka Paul Staines who operates http://www.order-order.com/. For the past year or so Guido has been convinced that Gordon Brown has been suffering from a Psychological Personality Disorder and has dubbed him the Prime Mentalist.
Having just returned from a nice week with the family in Turkey I have been trying to catch up with all the news. Whilst I have been away rumors have been awash over the internet that Gordon is suffering from depression.
It is rumoured in Westminster that the Prime Minister is said to be taking powerful mood altering anti-depressants, specifically Mono Amine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOIs) which are very rarely prescribed since the arrival of Prozac derivatives, used only sparingly when dealing with severely depressed patients.
We all know the stories of rages, flying Nokias, smashed laser printers, tables kicked over and crying Downing Street secretaries subjected to foul-mouthed tirades. We have seen the deranged YouTube performances, the bizarre facial contortions, the incongruent emotional responses – smiling when offering condolences, frowning when giving best wishes but Fraser Nelson in his News of the World column last Sunday tells us quite bluntly how it is:
Rumours are swirling around Westminster. Our PM is cracking under the strain, it is said, and may quit on health grounds. …
First, the rumours are true. Brown is shouting, screaming, hurling objects around the room, behaving like a maniac. In other words, business as usual. This is how he operates — and has done since he cocooned himself in the Treasury 12 years ago.
It may seem bonkers to promise free healthcare to the Nepalese when so many British kids can’t read and write. But he’ll do so this month. It seems crazy apologising for the way gay computer pioneer Alan Turing was treated in 1954 — when Gordo was three years old. Our PM was 49 when he sold the nation’s gold reserves for $275 an ounce. It passed $1,000 last week. Where’s our apology for that?
It’s amazing that he dares to speak about the economy at all. Because for him to keep on spending like this IS a form of madness. … The national debt was £340 billion when Labour came to power. Next year, £970 billion. In four years’ time, £1,370 billion. We will NEVER be able to reduce this burden on our families to pre-Brown levels. A trillion-pound debt may be with us forever.
The impact of this debt on ordinary households — higher tax bills, worse schools, worse healthcare — will just be incalculable. It’s an act of vandalism — on the prospects for future generations.
All because a PM could not bring himself to cut spending now. This is the real insanity. Throwing mobile phones around the room is the least of it… But it will do nothing to change his place in history . . . as a man whose economic madness brought a country to its knees.
As Guido puts it, I wonder when Parliament resits shortly who will be the first MP to ask Gordon at PMQ's "Prime Minister, have you been taking medication that may have affected your judgement?"
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