NO doubt, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's political cookie is crumbling. Resignations of Cabinet members are coming on the eve of a major election test for the British PM. He has been stabbed in the front at a moment of maximum vulnerability.
Hazel Blears and Jacqui Smith have resigned from Mr Brown's Labour cabinet over an "expenses scandal".
Europe Minister Caroline Flint is said to be following these two "Blair babes".
This is a blow to Mr Brown whose shamed former spin doctor Damian McBride, also resigned after spreading smears about senior Tories.
We now know that it takes a lot to get rid of Mr Brown who only a few months ago was singing high notes about corruption in Zimbabwe and lobbying the United Nations to impose more illegal santions on the tiny landlocked country.
Many of us are very naive. We view these senior Labour party resignations as something other than corruption.
Corruption is only viewed as a characteristic of African politicians and African governments.
In Whitehall, corruption is masked as "misappropriation", "misuse of public funds", "unapproved expenses", "row over MPs' expenses", etc.
The political comedy in Whitehall is dealing a huge blow to one of the institutions widely viewed as the centre of democracy and accountability.
No-one is spared: from the Speaker of the House of Commons to the Mayor of London.
The million dollar question is: Who is not corrupt in this seemingly infallible system?
Mr Brown is still locked away in Downing Street. He won't resign even though his Cabinet is shwoing signs of disapproval. He is simply refusing to budge.
Although he has, time and again, asked for the resignation, to put it mildly, of President Robert Mugabe, he has no intentions of walking away himself.
His Cabinet is crumbling, unless he reshuffles it and place loyalists in strategic posts.
Hazel Blears resignation is the first crucial step in that crumble.
In her resignation statement, there was no single word of praise for Mr Brown or his government.
She barely concealed her contempt for the unelected British Prime Minister.
Soon, many Cabinet members in the Labour government will be trading blows with Mr Brown. The signs are there.
The Labour government has completely lost the plot, its direction, and moral purpose, and almost certainly the next general election.
For a man who so wilfully plotted the downfall of other leaders; including President Mugabe and his own 'political friend', Tony Blair, Mr Brown is finding out what political karma is all about.
The chickens are now finally coming home to roost.
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Philip Murombedzi
Editor of the Zimbabwe Guardian
philipmurombedzi@yahoo.com
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Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:06:45 • This guy had the cheek to mention Zimbabwe in his D-Day speech- to divert attention from the expense claim scandal or corruption that is now entwining his government and himself.
To say Zimbabwe needs to be liberated is an insult to all Zimbabweans including Morgan Tsvangirai. All Zimbabweans should fight this statement least Brown re- writes our history. We Zimbabweans were liberated in 1980 by Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo. Brown cannot purport to be plotting to liberate us now when we have taken our land which his labour government sought to scuttle but failed by all standards.
The fact is he has to lift the sanctions that he persuaded everybody in the West to impose on Zimbabwe. He cant be our liberator he is attempting to be our re-colonizer.He has enmeshed us with sanctions, unfortunately Obama- who I consider to be a bright and rising 21 st century leader, has missed an opportunity to play a key role in Zimbabwe. He has extended ZIDERA which has killed a lot of our relatives including our Prime Minister's wife at the advise of Mr Brown and some of his puppets in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe was not an issue on D-Day Mr Brown. It is the injustice against small countries by big powers like yourself that should have been castigated on D- Day. The freedom from bombs of the ordinary Palestinian and the ordinary Isrealis- both are suffering cause of the machinations of you big powers.
In closing, I now ask the British public who are a good people by the way, to consign this failed politician to the dust bin of politics.
May his political career rest in peace.
Ndiye Andi Denha.
Omugabe • Dziva@sanandresano.com
Subject: Look Inward & Look East for Self-development, Zim Patriots!
Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:31:27 • Behold, Zim Patriots!
The evil Europeans leaders of the wicked West reap the economic and political destruction they have devilishly sown in Zimbabwe and elsewhere!
How the sayings go that teaches the lessons in karma, in 'cause and effect'?
'What you sow, you shall surely reap'?
'What goes around, comes around'?
'When you dig a hole for others, be sure to dig two, one for yourself'!
For years, these european devils impose criminal sanctions in order to dominate/destroy Africans.
Now the devils are being destroyed, and by THEIR OWN doings at that, which gives rise to another important lesson in the cycle of karma, of 'cause and effect':
The lesson is that Africans do not even have to be the ones to return the cruel comeuppance to the british and the rest of the racist european gangsters!
Many Zimbabweans have suffered and died as a result of european criminal sanctions.
In return, we deeply desire that the enemies of Africans will be met with at least the same fate.
It is the deepest wish of Zim Patriots that the enemies of Africans are weakened and destroyed, even at their own vile hands!
bush, blair, brown are all beastly beings. The world is better off with them and their criminal countries out of the way!
So let them go away!
Long live Zim Patriots and Magnanimous Mugabe, African hero, the Virtuous, the Courageous, to outlast all their wicked Western and racist enemies!
Toots • toots@chinyikachinotonhora.com
Subject: Only God can rescue Brown
Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:29:31 • Firstly,no amount of resignations by illegitimate ministers appointed by an illegitimate Prime Minister will abort the impending regime change.
Secondly,it would take the dumbest Britons to vote for a party that stood by and watched while the thieving bankers at Canary Wharf brought the economy to its knees and wrecked havoc to the livelihoods of ordinary people the world over.
Thirdly,no sane Briton will forgive the Brown regime for raiding the taxpayer's coffers to 'rescue' the very same bankers that had caused the economic meltdown in the first place.
KR.COM • na.
Subject: SHAMEFUL!
Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:34:39 • The reason GB will NOT resign is because he wants to outrule RGM who he has been trying to unseat ever since he got into power.
Good luck to him - he is going to need it!
hehehehehe!
zimbabwemassive • zimbabwelive@aol.com
Subject: Like President Robert G Mugabe saiid!
Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:01:02 • I remember when everybody thought that Sir Robert Mugabe, who by the way was Knighted by the Queen in 1994, said, Gordon Brown is nothing but a little dot! and everybody laughed, well, are they laughing now?
Ameno kuBritain maboyi muchadzingwa nema proBritish parties aneta nekutonga nyaya dzenyu dzeFraud, Drink Drive, Domestic Violence, anyway dzokaiyi kumusha, things are really not that bad mufunge!
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