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Bullet-riddled Brown lives to fight another day... (Drudge means FIGURATIVELY!)
Daily Mail via Drudge ^ | 09th June 2009 | James Chapman and Tim Shipman

Posted on 06/08/2009 10:17:40 PM PDT by Parody

The Prime Minister last night saw off a concerted attempt to make him quit by promising to change his leadership style.

In an unprecedented humiliation for a serving Premier, several former ministers demanded his head at a make-or-break meeting of Labour MPs.

They said Gordon Brown was leading the party to disaster after it suffered its worst poll results since 1910, gaining just 15 per cent of the vote in the European elections.

But former Labour leader Lord Kinnock rode to the Prime Minister's rescue, telling MPs that disunity would cost the party the next General Election.

The majority of MPs gave Mr Brown their support after he made an emotional pledge to change the way he governs.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brown; globalmarshallplan; gordon; primeminister; uk
For a moment there, I was wondering why this title wasn't in red and flashing up on the top of the Drudge Report with a picture of an ambulance or something.
1 posted on 06/08/2009 10:17:40 PM PDT by Parody
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To: Parody

Neil Kinnock? How did that marxist slime become a Lord? Well when he comes to your rescue then the Labour Party is going down like the Titanic.


2 posted on 06/08/2009 10:21:53 PM PDT by Frantzie
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To: Parody

Obama got next!


3 posted on 06/08/2009 10:24:29 PM PDT by NorCoGOP (Recession: friend loses his job. Depression: You lose your job. Recovery: Obama loses his job.)
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To: Parody
Brown has to go. Global Marshall Plan
4 posted on 06/08/2009 10:58:19 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade, There are only two sides. Pick one.)
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