Advice To The Incoming Prime Minister

 

Never waste a good crisis!

Advice To Prime Ministers

When making an "Address To The Nation", don't squander the opportunity by blaming the failure of your deal on those in Westminster who you want to vote for your deal!

Lord Mandelson of Foie Gras

Congratulations to Lord Mandelson of Foie Gras on his elevation, in all but name, to Prime Minister and Lord Protector of England!

Advice To The Prime Minister

No one is listening to you anymore.

Advice To Prime Ministers

Beware an actress scorned.

Advice To Actresses

Don't trust Prime Minsiters.

Advice To Prime Ministers

The poison that you spread about others will eventually infect you.

Advice to Prime Ministers

Don't waste too much energy trying to cosy up to the USA, and claiming to the media that we have a special relationship.

We don't!

The USA will always act in its own best interests first (quite rightly so).

Advice to Prime Ministers

Don't keep blaming "global" issues for failures that are of your own creation.

Tony Blair - Middle East Peace Envoy

A contradiction in terms, and a definition of failure.

Advice To Prime Ministers

Keynesian "spend your way out of recession" policies only work when you have the money to spend.

Advice To Prime Ministers

Don't take credit for financial bailout plans that have been thought up, and put together, by your chancellor.

Advice To Gordon Brown

Don't allow the meltdown in your party and infighting between the Treasury and Number 10 to cause a meltdown in the economy.

Advice To The Prime Minister

People want to be in control of their own lives, they do not want a control freak trying to impose centralised control.

Unless you get that point, and stop trying to micro manage people's daily lives, you and your party are finished.

Advice To Prime Ministers

Playing the "class war" card in by-elections is unwise given that many ministers own more than one home, and the ex Prime Minister has just spent £4M on a property.

Advice To Prime Ministers

Bribing the voters with their own money might, in the short term, dig you out of a political hole. However, in the long term, the voters will take their revenge on you in the polls.

Advice To Ex Prime Minister's Wives

When publishing lurid accounts of your husband's time in office, try to refrain from using words such as "unmentionables" and "contraceptive equipment" when detailing your sex life.

Advice To Prime Ministers

People cannot pay their bills using economic/growth statistics from the past.

Advice To Former Prime Ministers

Don't bring religion into politics.

Advice To Prime Ministers

Making do on only a few hours sleep every night, and forcing others to do the same, does not necessarily lead to an increase in high quality productive output.