Welsh windbag Kinnock on Gordon Brown's performance (06Jun09)

Welsh windbag talks about the great performance by Gordon Brown of managing to lose every single council that New Labour was in control of in elections the day before, the bad results to be announced of the European elections, and Kinnock's windbag wife getting a peerage, and being a government minister - without ever having been elected by anyone.

The entire interview was not recorded as I was not watching the channel, just happened to turn it on and recorded it to see what cr@p Kinnock was talking about.

recorded from Sky News, 06 June 2009.

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• june
• 2009

[croemar]

This politician must be on drugs

[everclear21]

What a knobend! He's got bullshit coming out of his mouth

[BazzerObama]

A true welsh windbag who failed miserably in his bid to become PM. I remember the fear about him acheiving power, the Sun headline said "Will the last person to leave Britain please turn the lights off". Never had a 'proper' job, him and his Mrs riding the euro gravy train, have even given jobs to their kids. Ginger Whinger!

[slimes23]

It's customary to approach individuals like former Prime Ministers informally over the issue; so in practical terms he was offered one. This is done to avoid the new-years hon ours list becoming a farce.

Kinnock declined his Knighthood in a similar way. Either way, it's not true to say that this is an example of cronnieism.

[Ohyewildthong]

@slimes23 Read the story properly. It says Major said if he was offered one. However he wasn't even offered one.

[slimes23]

Not true. You're thinking of the 1983 manifesto and in any case it was the EEC then not the EU. It was Kinnock who shifted the Labour party towards a pro-european stance.

[slimes23]

Major didn't want a peerage. (BBC News 08/09/00). End of discussion.

[bittenof]

you welsh cunt

[monorail1990]

You're right about Lords coming before Knights of the Garter, I apologise. However, your view about hereditary peers is misplaced. "They have always been of a very high standard." - a statement that is almost as generalised as it is innaccurate. Hereditary peers were, and still are, there for one reason -that reason being the fact that they were born. A ridiculous qualification on which to be a member of a second chamber. You might as well select Lords by postcode lottery.

[Ohyewildthong]

No members of the peerage come before Knights of any order in the order of precedent. Also it aloughs him to talk and vote within the legislature.

Secondly, hereditary peers have always been of a very high standard and did the job for one reason only: Because they wanted to serve the people.

Plus the hereditary peers are the best atendees in the lords.

[monorail1990]

To be a Knight of the Garter is a higher order than to be a life peer, actually. And on what basis do we need hereditary peers back? That you don't like the current composition of the Lords? If anything, we need to remove the remaining 92 hereditary peers once and for all, and then abolish the antediluvian relic that is the House of Lords.

[Ohyewildthong]

It's so stupid that this man never was PM yet got a peerage yet Major who was PM and won elections only ever recieved a Knighthood of the Garter, says a lot about Labour putting their cronies in the House of Lord, that is why we need hereditary peers back.