ZaNuLab - The Evidence

Is Gordon Brown basing his Premiership on Robert Mugabe and the Zanu PF 'governing' party in Zimbabwe?

Let's take a tongue in cheek look at the evidence...

1) PRINTING MONEY - On the 8 January the Times ran a story entitled 'Chancellor set to print more cash as interest rates hit record low'. Alistair Darling denied it as true but last Friday the Guardian said the Bank of England was preparing to turn on the cash tap in an article entitled 'Bank of England to use £50bn of taxpayers' money to ease credit crunch' in what it said was "the clearest signal yet that Britain is moving towards the desperate recession-busting tactics of 'quantitative easing'. This is Mugabeconomics!

2) POLITICAL INTIMIDATION - The government is upset that a civil servant is leaking embarrassing information from the Home Office to the Conservative Party. The police are brought in to investigate, the civil servant is arrested and the Conservative shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green has his offices and home raided by counter-terrorism police and he is detained at a police station for over 9 hours. Police raid his Commons office without a warrant. Cue cries of "police state" as Zanu PF-style intimidation tactics are used.

3) ELECTORAL FRAUD - Mike Smithson from PoliticalBetting.com reports that the marked register - the list of those who actually voted in the Glenrothes by-election has "gone missing" which is supposed to be open to inspection. Given that many expected a SNP win or a much narrower margin of victory for Labour, Labour's decisive victory raised eyebrows. As Mike notes: "The startling thing about Glenrothes was the massive increase in postal votes compared with the general election - up four-fold if I recall correctly. It all sounds fishy." Mugabe and Zanu PF-style electoral rigging of elections from Labour.

Brown is following the Mugabe rule book word-for-word it would seem. He has taken the economy down the toilet, has intimidated opponents via the police and is now rigging elections! What's next?