The contemptible One-Eyed Son of the Manse, Bottler Broon, the Snot-Gobbler, the Prime Mentalist…take your pick from any of the standard alternative names on the political side of the web…has just been attacked by Winston Churchill’s grandson in no uncertain terms.

Except in his own mind, nothing can compare Brown to the great man (pictured). His advisers are specifically attempting to spin Brown as capturing the wartime spirit of Winston Churchill yesterday when he made an unannounced (except to all of the Press) pre-Christmas trip to the Afghanistan front line only hours after bombs killed four British troops in the area – some by a child with a bomb in a wheelbarrow.

The only thing to reduce the horror of this cynical visit was that he was flown to the top of Roshan Tower post in the Helmand fighting zone which was more to his credit than Tony Blair who, having a yellow streak wider than the Pacific Ocean, never left the safety of a fortified British base.

It was spun in the media that no British Prime Minister had been as close to a major front line since Winston Churchill in the Second World War. It was less noted that the base was defended by Gurkhas – who this government seem to have a complete contempt for. A full rant on the plight of Gurkhas is long overdue on this site and will be written soon.

But the comparison to Winston Churchill prompted a ferocious response from Tory MP Nicholas Soames – William Churchill’s grandson.

‘He is not fit to lick my grandfather’s boots,’ said Soames ‘One is a party hack and the other is our greatest-ever national leader.’

‘My grandfather led a charge at the Battle of Omdurman; Brown didn’t even have the courage to call a General Election.’

The Prime Mentalist invited more comparisons when he addressed/wasted valuable time of the troops at Bastion, paying tribute to their ‘service beyond the call of duty’…‘As Churchill said, courage is the greatest quality of all, because it is on courage that all else depends.

Operations in Afghanistan began in October 2001.

Since then, 132 British servicemen have lost their lives.

The four Marines were killed in two separate explosions near the town of Sangin.

Lance Corporal Fellows died in the first blast after a patrol triggered a booby-trap bomb; one hour later, a second patrol, which had been called to help, was hit by a bomb hidden in the wheelbarrow pushed by that 13-year-old boy.

The bomb was hidden under newspapers and detonated remotely, killing the three other Marines.

Apparently the boy had approached the patrol with a ‘broad smile on his face’.

‘We do not know if he even knew he was a suicide bomber – whether it was a smile of innocence or malice,’ an unnamed senior officer is reported to have said.

You won’t know the four soldiers on the right of this screen.
They are:
Corporal Marc Birch
Sergeant John Manuel
Lance Corporal Steven Fellows
Marine Damian Davies
and each of them had more courage, bravery, integrity and downright grit in their little finger than Broon can even begin to have explained to him. He is a disgrace, and roll on the next election when we can be shot of him.

Remember these four men…and the 128 others who have fallen in our service in Afghanistan.