Monday September 17th: As I write to you tonight, my friends, I am wondering why media outlets have been so slow to pick up on the obvious. According to the BBC website, Vince Cable - the Treasury spokesman for the LibDems has today said that Gordon Brown's actions in the past week have been "a threat to democracy."
The creation of Gordon's 'Big Tent', an all encompassing, all comprehending, all knowing clique of Britain's finest political minds, has this afternoon been denounced as nothing more than an attempt to engineer "a permanent dominance" for the Labour Party. A bit like The Borg. The Liberal Democrats won't be joining the party then.
That's too bad - Gordon had such high hopes for his one nation under a groove.
Have I or have I not been saying for over a month now that Gordon is looking to established a never ending dynasty, as unyielding as the granite cliffs of John O' Groats? He'll also jettison the name 'United Kingdom' for something more catchy and reflective of the glory of his reign. Gordonia, perhaps?
Shame on you all for putting my premonition down to extreme paranoia and good ol' weirdness.
Soon there will be no more Labour Red, Tory Blue, LibDem Yellow or, erm, Green Green. There will be only one colour from now on.
Brown.
And on top of that all, The Daily Record reports that Gordon has requested a painting of Thatcher for Downing Street. The sick fuck.
Also in todays news - The banks are shafted. Following on from the nosedive Northern Rock took last week, Alliance and Leicester have today declared themselves 'screwed' after share prices dropped by a third. They have said that they didn't think the decline was serious enough to appeal to The Bank Of England to help, which seems a bit like saying that you'd watch your house burn down in the middle of the night, because you didn't want to bother the nice men at the Fire Brigade. I guess Gordon was really making the whole money thing work, because less than 3 months after leaving the job, the economy already appears to have started crumbling
As for Prince today, well - several websites chose to run with the Elton John collaboration story and his Youtube strop. Sooooo last week...
Last night, however, was another show. Money Don't Matter 2nite popped up - the first time it's been played on this tour - and in honour of the O2's future guests he also banged out Led Zeppelin's A Whole Lotta Love.
Mr. Nelson seems to be having real fun and cutting loose at the aftershow jams if the good folks of 3121.com are to be believed. A whole bunch of cover versions and alternate versions of his own joints (3121 remixed with DMSR's lyrics, anyone?) Is there like a switch that he flicks that takes him from 'Stadium' to 'Club' mode?
I think this city will miss him come Saturday morning...
