Hoorah for Mr Gordon Brown, comedian and current British Prime Minister. Not content with taking the credit for the current lack of credit and for showing a surreal level of optimism in the face of disaster (Brown: Britain is well placed to handle the current economic crisis, IMF: Dude, you're totally SCREWED), he now has to face a growing wave of resentment from striking workers who feel they've been betrayed by his policies.
After promising British Jobs for British Workers two years ago, he now seems to be telling refinery workers that what he actually meant was .... well ... I'm not actually sure what he meant, or how he meant to say it. In an interview with teh BBC, Brown said (read this carefully boys and girls..)
"What we've got to do over time, as I've always said, is that where there are jobs in this country, we need people with the skills, developed in this country".See, it makes perfect nonsense, and throws a few desperate untruths into the mix for good measure - actrue politician! a true statesman! a true lost cause.
Tackled about his 2007 Labour conference pledge to create "British jobs for British workers" - a slogan used by the striking refinery workers - Mr Brown said: "Well, we are part of a single European market but I have always understood the worries that people have.
They look round and say, well, why can't we do these jobs, jobs ourselves, these are jobs that we can do."When, when I talked about British jobs, I was taking about giving people in Britain the skills, so that they have the ability to get jobs which were at present going to people from abroad."
Mr Brown added: "You'll find that no government in history is doing more to try and find ways that we can help people who are unemployed back in to work as quickly as possible."
At a time when Barack Obama is promising the US change, hope and a brighter future, Brown promises nothing, offers platitudes and seems utterly out of control.
There's never been a better time to be British...
