Marking a year of Kevin Rudd our sister party in Australia have launched an online RuddShop and it has won some positive coverage. The memorabilia that the shop promotes pokes fun at the Australian Labour PM's various faults and weaknesses.
If we had an online 'Brown Shop' what would it sell?
Uppers, for you need them to make life tolerable when you have misery Gordon Brown around.
Posted by: Iain | November 27, 2008 at 12:53
Chocolate teapots.
Posted by: Praguetory | November 27, 2008 at 12:55
Brown stuff?
Posted by: Norm Brainer | November 27, 2008 at 12:57
I.O.U.'s
Posted by: Stuart M. | November 27, 2008 at 12:59
Lies? From Brown £1 each, Blair 50p a dozen and get 100 from Mandelson free.
Posted by: Malcolm Dunn | November 27, 2008 at 13:01
nappies
Posted by: GB£.com | November 27, 2008 at 13:11
Mugs
Posted by: Paul Morris | November 27, 2008 at 13:11
British Traditions.
Civil Liberties.
Sensible Economic Policies.
He might struggle to find stock, but if he does stumble on some he can make a quick buck selling them on to somebody who'll use them.
Posted by: Steve Tierney | November 27, 2008 at 13:13
Gold at 10 pence a kilogram.
Posted by: Cicero | November 27, 2008 at 13:14
As long as it offers a store card with a massive credit limit, and huge rate of interest - anything that people might buy!
Posted by: pp | November 27, 2008 at 13:16
This is a waste of time.
Posted by: Edward Huxley | November 27, 2008 at 13:16
The final portion of England's Gold Reserves that he hasnt sold already?.
At a huge loss of course.
Posted by: Steve | November 27, 2008 at 13:27
With apologies to the originator of this one, but:
Labour Party Condoms:
allows inflation
halts production
discourages development
protects a bunch of pricks
provides the head with a sense of security while screwing others
Posted by: Cleethorpes Rock | November 27, 2008 at 13:28
A mooning "Caganer" of Gordon Brown (and Merkel, Sarkozy and Obama)
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ca&u=http://www.caganer.com/product_info.php%3Fproducts_id%3D281&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=3&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DCaganer%2BGordon%2BBrown%2BCaganer%2BGordon%2BBrown%26hl%3Den
Posted by: Ken Stevens | November 27, 2008 at 13:39
Childrens futures
Gold 80% off
Posted by: Tim | November 27, 2008 at 13:45
How about some nostalgia?
An archive video of our local hunt trotting past the village post office and pub. Because he has closed down every last sodding one of them.
Posted by: Dorian Pick'n'Mix Flatpack | November 27, 2008 at 13:55
Humbug & fudge.
Posted by: David Cooper | November 27, 2008 at 13:59
A CD with the Laughing Policemen on it, any ideas for other tracks?
Posted by: Patsy Sergeant | November 27, 2008 at 14:00
Nice one Cicero @ 13.14.
Cleethorpes Rock @ 13.28 - I LOVE that, I shall forward that, soonest. It doesn't matter who the originators were, it is perfect for this thread!
Posted by: Patsy Sergeant | November 27, 2008 at 14:07
"A BOOK ON PRUDENCE"
Then added: "Discontinued."
Posted by: Sammy Finn | November 27, 2008 at 14:20
Escape kits!
Posted by: Curly | November 27, 2008 at 14:28
Along with the humbug and fudge, he could sell a stick of Northern Rock, a bargain at £200m.
For a more healthy note, porridge, which like Brown, is boring, Scottish and thick.
Posted by: Cleethorpes Rock | November 27, 2008 at 14:31
Or how about a nice montage of fireman being bricked by feral sociopaths as a police car burns in the grey concrete, no hope, squalor of rusting needles and shards of alcopop whilst the tenements glower in the orange Molotovian glow of incinerated aspiration.
Title: New English Landscapes by Incapability Brown
Posted by: Dorian Hoodie | November 27, 2008 at 14:32
It wouldn't sell anything, it would just take people's money in return for a vague unspecified commitment to possibly deliver a product several years in the future.
Posted by: Ross | November 27, 2008 at 14:35
He should sell pensions. Always remember to check the small print: "The value of your pension is guaranteed to go down. We will invest your pension in blue chip stock (Woolworth, MFI &c). Every month you'll save more but be worth less! Hurry hurry hurry this offer must end way after you're dead. Terms and conditions apply, all prices quoted do not incorporate VAT at the post-election rate of 20% you schmuck". A bargain!
Posted by: Graeme Archer | November 27, 2008 at 14:36
Actually he really should sell pensions. He could diversify and offer public sector ones too. The small print again: "Isn't it reassuring to know that whatever the economic uncertainty, you'll be protected in retirement by an army of those curiously toiling private sector little people". A happy customer, a Mr J Prescott, writes: "I did absolutely nothing of use for decades and impoverished the life of millions. Thanks to GordonBrownPensions, I could concentrate on my sordid adultery, safe in the knowledge that when the time came to lay down my heavy burden, the army of little people would continue to fund my lavish lifestyle." (This letter was transcribed from the original gibberish. Names have been altered to protect the dignity of Mrs Prescott).
Posted by: Graeme Archer | November 27, 2008 at 14:47
Cleethorpes Rock, in future I shall forgive any comments of yours that I don't happen to agree with, and just remember the comments that you have put on this thread - thats another one @ 14.31 that has just given me a welcome laugh!
Posted by: Patsy Sergeant | November 27, 2008 at 15:07
I'd hope I don't say too much that you don't agree with, Patsy Sergeant, but then again, ConHome says the coalition's strongest when it's broad and deep!
How about Labour's cabinet?
Assorted Mixed Nuts
Posted by: Cleethorpes Rock | November 27, 2008 at 15:20
One-way air tickets to ... well ... actually anywhere !
Posted by: Alan Douglas | November 27, 2008 at 15:31
A Double CD or DVD set - My achievements as Chancellor including the abolition of 'Boom and Bust' and the second one - My achievements as Prime Minister - Wrecking the UK economy.
Posted by: Brian W | November 27, 2008 at 15:36
Piggy banks -- factory 2nds with no stoppers.
Bundles of monopoly money.
The missing handkerchief.
Trojan condoms.
Posted by: Saltmaker | November 27, 2008 at 17:02
Bottles (for Brown the Bottler)
Posted by: Ulster Tory | November 27, 2008 at 17:25
Well he's already Sold Out!
...everything .
..principles... granny... country
Posted by: Eveleigh Moore-Dutton | November 27, 2008 at 17:49
Broken Promises.
Or a small, impressive though empty box - labelled "Credibility - the new fragrance by Gordon Brown"
Posted by: Tanuki | November 27, 2008 at 18:46
Scammers supply’s like blank credit cards.
Other people’s property.
Broken pens.
Some of the childrens playground items that were removed because of Labour policies.
Honors.
Poor quality forgeries of evangelical tracts, made in china.
M.People’s back catalogue.
Entire Database's of private information.
100 Asprins in a tub (not a chance labour banned them)
The unemployed who have been sold out.
Posted by: The Bishop Swine | November 27, 2008 at 18:50
Hot air baloons...powered best near BBC reporters and/or Zanulab representatives.
Posted by: eugene | November 27, 2008 at 19:35
To build on Ross @ 14.35’s comment – that’s not forgetting the tax just to look at the shop. But it won’t be called a tax – instead they will inflict one of their euphemisms – levy, fee, toll, tariff or charge – because it’s a ‘service’ [Comrade Livingstone’s excuse for his car tax].
And – of course – there will be Stasi spy cameras to check who’s looking – and a whole expensive bureaucracy to fine people who don’t pay. Just part of their ideology to continue criminalising the law-abiding.
Posted by: Jill, London | November 28, 2008 at 00:02