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The Independent (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
The Labour peer Lord Desai recently compared Gordon Brown's style to "porridge – maybe haggis". The question is whether the Prime Minister is now toast. With Frank Field still – a decade on – "thinking the unthinkable", albeit now with apologies, the mutterings are turning to the once unthinkable option of consigning Mr Brown to the dustbin of history without even giving him the opportunity of facing...
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rediff News (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Eminent economist Lord Meghnad Desai on Wednesday came out strongly against moves to stall the India-United States nuclear agreement and claimed that if the deal did not go through, it would be a severe blow to India's international standing.Terming the pressure tactics by the Left as disgraceful, Lord Desai said that it was tragic that the United Progressive Alliance government was losing its nerve...
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The Spectator Blog - Stephen Pollard (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
As Neil Kinnock once said of Mrs T: he's frit . What a pathetic man we have as PM. To adapt Lord Desai's words: he was put on the earth to make John Major look good.
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British Blogs (Free subscription) | 24/04/2008
Crackpot New Labour peer Lord Desai ¦(above) believes that "Gordon Brown was put on earth to remind people how good Tony Blair was".Now, there may be a few bloodthirsty neocon loons who regret the resignation of Tony Bliar, but does anyone else in this country? He was a man who took Britain into a succession of illegal and catastrophic wars, and left our country in a far worse state than it was when...
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Gavin's Gaily Gigest (Free subscription) | 24/04/2008
During yesterday's Prime Minister’s Questions, Tory Party leader, and mascot for chinless people the world over, David Cameron said this: "The Labour peer, Lord Desai, said that the Prime Minister’s leadership style is like porridge. Another week like this and it will be Cheerios." Am I the only one who can't get this joke? Now, I quite [...]
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news rage uk | 18/04/2008
Lord Desai came out today and said what we are all probably thinking about unelected PM Gordon Brown. That he is indecisive and weak. However he got the next bit wrong because he claimed that Gordon was put on earth to remind us how good Blair was and this is where I started to get angry. I want to make it perfectly clear from here that I think and have always thought that the whole New Labour exercise
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Curly's Corner Shop, the blog! (Free subscription) | 18/04/2008
Gordon is dithering again today, can you help him decide? Lord Desai says that Brown is like “porridge” (did he mean sitting in a cell with Ronnie Barker?) and Blair was like “champagne”. Mind you he doesn’t agree that he’s stabbing Brown in the back or anything like that, but he does go on to say that [...]
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Lightwater (Free subscription) | 17/04/2008
What with lots of quotes from Boris and Ken, I couldn’t find one that tops this opinion of Gordon Brown by Lord Desai, a Labour peer: “Gordon Brown was put on earth to remind people how good Tony Blair was.” More from Lord Desai HERE.
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Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 17/04/2008
My geriatric colleague Lord Desai (108), has taken the opportunity whilst Gordon Brown is interviewing the Pope and George Bush in the US to make some unfortunate remarks about both English and Scots cooking. In the cookery pages of the Eveming Standard he says mysteriously that the Prime Minister is like porridge or Haggis. Such tosh, this foreigner has probably never wielded a porringer nor
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Evening Standard (Free subscription) | 16/04/2008
As Gordon Brown struggles to get noticed in America, critics back home have become increasingly vocal as a leading Labour peer today issued a devastating attack on the Prime Minister's electoral chances. In a devastating indictment of the Prime Minister Lord Desai said: 'Gordon Brown was put on earth to remind people how good Tony Blair was'
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Indian Express (Free subscription) | 16/02/2008
Lord Desai has just been awarded the Padma Bhushan. He is Professor Emeritus at the London School of Economics, where he has taught for many years. Lord Desai finished school when was 14 and had completed a Ph.D by the age of 23. He was part of the anti-Vietnam war movement in the US and avoided the draft. He interacted with Express staff recently, and spoke on economics, cinema, his native Gujarat....
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news rage uk | 18/04/2008
Lord Desai came out today and said what we are all probably thinking about unelected PM Gordon Brown. That he is indecisive and weak. However he got the next bit wrong because he claimed that Gordon was put on earth to remind us how good Blair was and this is where I started to get angry. I want to make it perfectly clear from here that I think and have always thought that the whole New Labour exercise...
