Potty Mouthed Populism is an Antidote to Political Spin
Just noticed (via the ASI Blog) that David Aaronovitch fears the populist influence of “potty-mouthed right-wing bloggers on some political journalism”. His Times colleague Daniel Finkelstein credits Guido with helping to focus mainstream media attention on the sleaze and petty corruption of politicians. The raison d’etre of this blog is to foster an anti-political atmosphere by encouraging popular scepticism about politicians and their client media. This is because Guido wants to de-politicise more areas of human action, increasing the non-political space in our society and culture, for which a necessary pre-condition is the discrediting of politicians by exposing their venal, self-interested behaviour. Aaronovitch is right to fear.
He is wrong on one thing, and Polly Toynbee makes this mistake as well, Guido is not the “potty mouthed” author of profanity on the blog. The readers comments however are a different story, there the anger is allowed to let rip. If it tells our political masters anything, it tells them they are hated. It may not be polished prose, but it is genuine anger. They read it, they know it is real and it stings them. David Miliband, Peter Hain and Ed Balls will, if you ask them, tell you how much they despise this blog. Yet they still read it, just as Caesar listened to the baying mob at the circus. You can’t spin the booing of a crowd. Politicians should consider the blog’s potty mouthed comments a free and unfiltered focus group.
Fuck ‘em.
Good.
Shows them up for the frauds they are.
Had they really tried to improve society, they wouldn’t have this type of criticism.
As it is, they’re just another accretion to the bottom layers of the establishment.
Ordinary people are there to be ordered around and fleeced.
Meanwhile, they enrich themselves mercilessly – Prescott, Milliband and Mandelson are all alleged to have several homes.
They collude with the banks, even joined in with their stupid PFI schemes.
Political pollsters are fun aren’t they. There is still a 10% hold back on Tory voting intentions. That was present and evident at the last election, when ZanuLab still had a huge lead before polling day, and the Pollsters got it wrong. No wonder ZanuLab fear a wipeout, their Brown stain will be all thats left!
The venom and spite from the lefties is the same the world over; they freeze out people with differing opinions then victimize them. The recent History Man repeat is as new today. Rumour spite and vicious innuendo: it hasnt changed.
There are now 5 million plus economically inactives dependent on hand outs, any tax payer in work is paying for that!
Pete and Dud had it right…What sort of hoon is that? A f***ing hoon!
but Caesar paid for the fucking circus!!
Not like these thieving Huhnes who just want to fill their boots with our lucre.
And that is an expression of genuine anger quite unaffected by the rather nice Merlot I’ve just opened.
FEED ME
I despise Hain for letting a sectarian mass murderer, Sean Kelly, return to the streets of NI and treating those who were outraged with complete contempt…so Peter, If you are reading this, you are indeed a total Huhne.
Aaah, now I realise why everyone is a ‘Hoon’ on this site! lol!
try leaving a comment with c nut and you will see how it changes…
Huhne
If I type c**t c**t c**t it comes out as hoon hoon hoon. But if I type hoon hoon hoon, will it come out as c**t c**t c**t.
Either way, nice touch.
h**n, please; there’s some sensitive people who visit.
The Labour Party’s theme tune (a twist on the Snow White Seven Dwarfs song):
We Huhne Huhne Huhne Huhne Huhne Huhne Huhne Huhne,
We Huhne the whole night through,
We Huhne Huhne Huhne Huhne Huhne Huhne Huhne Huhne,
All day, and just for you.
Yes it’s far more adult and rewarding to focus on the ramblings of pseudo intellectual leftist, you must listen to me!!!, gobshytes every day of the week.
Have those coacaine addled Marxist shits at the BBC canned his ‘talking heads talk shyte’, discussion programme with ‘I used to be a lefty, now I slag Cameron off for not being right wing enough, somebody get me a hairbrush!’ Daley yet?
One half hours exposure to those two utter gobshytes is enough to confirm the pointlessness of traditional political journalism.
Tis so true our gunpowder wielding friend.
‘They’ would be perfectly happy with blogs if no comments were allowed – cos then they could lie about ‘what the people really care about…’.
The fact we comment authors are reduced to being ‘potty mouthed’ is entirely their fault…
Instead of ineffectively shouting at the TV while those Huhnes lie to us, we write on the internet – and they cannot deny us.
If they don’t like being called sh*tty f*cking c*nts, then they should stop being sh*tty f*cking c*nts.
Many people disagree with (and even hate) the lib-dems and the tories – but not many *really* want them strung up — but should a labour minister be seen strung from a lamp post, few could resist the temptation to jump aboard and rejoice with a tarzan cry.
“David Aaronovitch fears the populist influence of “potty-mouthed right-wing bloggers on some political journalism”. ”
Presumably he does not fear the populist influence of some “potty-mouthed left-wing bloggers on some political journalism?”
Or hasn’t he thought that far?
You have to appreciate these wretches, both in the PLP and their media cheerleaders cannot yet grasp people have had enough of their lies.
They have had 13/14 years of hegemony, if they say something it must be true, and for the best.
The antics of Drooper does not compute in his authoritarian mind
Or even potty-mouthed left wingers with claw hammers? Obviously he hasn’t heard the old one ‘sticks & stones may break my bones but names’ll never hurt me’. Or perhaps the pen (and keyboard) is indeed mightier than the sword?
ot: Thats funny – obama isn’t copying brown when it comes to apologies and bonuses… Obama said it is crap and he is sorry to have been responsible for it. Has brown lied to us about anything else?
ha ahahahhahha haahahh – sorry couldn’t type that with a straight face.
I have always loved and admired Dave since he founded Euro-communism and saved the world…
Guido says that Milliband, Hain and Balls read this, ah, in that case your are all the biggest and slipperiest bunch of Huhnes ever to have held political sway over this once proud nation!
Mandleson, you can call yourself a Lord until the cows come home but you will always be just what you are and what we all know you to be.
Ahmed, another Lordly joke!
Vaz, well, self explanatory really.
A government so bent that it is totally beyond redemption and God willing soon to be gone. But they of course will not suffer, having feathered their nest beyond the wildest dreams of ordinary folk!
… and entirely at the cost of ordinary folk.
When you have a Home Secretary that claims £116k for very very dubiouse lodging expenses Labour has a problem!
Up and down the Country people are thoroughly pissed off with this one act.
And her Home Office have the cheek to dictate to Police Officers the Neighbourhood Policing Charter stating the Police will be responsive to the publics request and also they will return contact with the constituents within 24hrs….
I take it my MP will get back to me within 24hrs…
I take it the Government are responsive to the Publics requests and we will have that EU referendum we were promised years ago…
I take it the Home Office have tackled the publics number 1 concern – and dealt with the immigration problem….
No – thought not….
Hypocrisy is rife..
Is a Vaz the same thing as a Hoon?
In medical terminology a Vas (deferens) is a spunk tube.
Hey my comments are still modded – while others get right through… I could go off you mr fawkes…
My word. If those muppets really read the blog, I hope they read the comments. Seriously, boys; it’s not just us potty-mouthed right-wingers who think you’re a bunch of sleazy, lying crooks… the whole country is waking up to it. You’re turning people against the entire political process, and I hope there’s some tiny part inside of you that realises that and feels ashamed.
I take great exception at being lumped in with the other “muppets”!
Right-wing? Moi?
I take great exception at being lumped in with other “right-wingers”!
Ah but you can spin a booing audience…
We hail Prince George, we hail Prince George!
All right, move along, nothing to see, I hope you have all forgotten by now that I am supposed to be looking into the dodgy dealings of my friends and paymasters.
Someone has been playing with the markets again.
Look at the price of metals.
We’re looking in your direction Gordon.
And Barack we’re surprised at you. If Gordon jumped off a cliff would you do the same?
Oh..I see. You would.
They still delude themselves that can control events. It will not be fun when it blows up in their faces, but I’m looking forward to them trying to explain it.
You might not be foul mouthed but at Stanislav’s blues they like to call a Horrible Fucking Bastard, a Horrible Fucking Bastard.
IT’S A MAN’S LIFE, Stanislav’s Blues
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Are you sure Hain can read, I have asked a thousand times and nobody seems to have a clue how did the utter Hoon ever get permission to stay in this country, were his parents English/Boer dual nationality or something or useful connections at a high level with the government of the day. One thing is for sure, he would do us all a huge favour if he just went home! Please!
I believe he has some connection with banks.
What, like being tried for bank robbery back in the 70s?
Huhne HuhneETY Huhne Huhnes!
See, a little bit more profanity for them to pretend to deplore.
Aaronovitch just fears anyone who is not a brainwashed socialist, that’s all. He wouldn’t be complaining if Left-wing blogs were popular.
Aaronovitch is a schmuck but Brown, Blair, Milliband, Prescott, Draper, Fondleson ad nauseum are fucking Hoons. It isn’t just the right wing potty mouths who hate them. They have debased Britain and finally the vast majority of the public have seen through these snake oil peddlers.
spot on Guido. hang the Huhnes.
Aaronovitch is a member of a particularly nasty species – the interventionist left. None have given more meaning to Stirner’s observation “because they believe in Man they cut off the heads of men”. One wonders at the cosmic hubris these hoons must possess to be able to cheerlead in the amen corner for collateral damage in the pursuit of, often vague, “humanitarian” ideals. ‘To save you we must kill you first’.
I distrust Aaranovitch & the use of ‘potty-mouthed’. If successfully challenged he can pretend it meant something else, say, woolly-minded. If he means foul-mouthed let him say it plainly.
Why should strong language not be used about such enormous theft and incompetence by his political friends and paymasters?
He ignores foul language in left wing blogs. Is that hypocrisy or incompetence? ‘Unity’, of the blog Ministry of Truth feels so pleased at being foul of mouth in his writing, not in the comments alone. (And he doesn’t like being told about it, tee hee).
Aaranovitch’s assessment is unbalanced and only fit to be kicked into touch.
Welcome to the result of Nulab and the liberal establishment’s success in making the country more feminist. Jobs for the girls….(of the 1m public sector jobs invented by Gordon, women took 95 percent).
From the Guardian’s ‘Soulmates’ internet dating page
‘I am a 26 yr old doctor living in greater London. Im sarcastic, highly strung and demanding. But at least im pretty good looking. I am fiercely independent and Id like to think intelligent. I love the arts, especially music. I go the gym and find it highly boring. I like horse riding and tennis when I get around to it. I love going out and partying. Id like to meet anyone who is good looking, slightly arrogant and very funny.’
Fancy this bird making a call on whether to send you for an MRI?
Not much fun if you were looking for a doctor with a hymen.
have you got her number ?
Not really, but I still fancy the bird…
Burn the looters and their beeboid / newscorp masters – they think they know best but wont get to live for what you’ve done to our democracy.
Don’t vote, dont pay the licence fee, dont buy sky. The looters are scared now, cos they know what is coming.
Guido says that Milliband, Hain and Balls read this,He he he.
Well take this message back to your leader,you know that nutter with a stutter.
You and your band of freaks are the most despised.least trusted bunch of Huhnes ever to get their hands on the levers of power in this land.
The thought of ed bollox running anything reduces me to tears of laughter…mate look at your choice in women……freaky…
Milliband you look and will always look 12 yrs old now fuck off and leave the grown ups in peace,every time you speak the UK cringes.
Peter Hain…. a man truly out of his depth in a damp patch.you are a crook and a liar so go take a flying fuck at the moon.
That just leaves mangled rectum and there is nothing I can say that nature hasn’t already done to this rectal prolapse on legs.
Here’s potty mouthing old chap:
Helen Clark – what a delightful piece of work. After too many glasses of white wine, it is clearly impossible to hide the true ZNL character – namely that so many of them are mentally unbalanced bullies.
Nasty bit of work, a whiff of racism too! Surprise surprise – scratch a socialist and they turn nasty.
I think Aaranovitch is a nice guy, and you lot are being unfair to him.
Aaranovitch is is a first class Huhne and smug self regarding lying socialist arsehole, his arselicking of newlabour is sickening and his dishonesty is staggering!
Aaronovitch is just typical of the new breed of ‘party hacks’ covering his own partisan political bigotry under a thin layer of journalism, two faced, smug and arrogant, he is a fucking newlabour mouthpiece churning out lies and deceptions by the bucket load, why is he surprised that ordinary people hate him and his kind like poison?
This new breed of party arselickers have huge egos matched only by their arrogance and grossly bloated sense of entitlement, self regarding and poisonous lying Huhnes like him have thrived under newlabour, now they starting to realise that their time is coming to an end, the cold wind of reality is reaching them, they are hated and despised with a passion and for good reason.
Heres what I really think about the Huhne Aaranovitch, I hope the Huhne dies a painfull slow death in a filthy NHS death camp(hospital) I hope he goes into one of his treasured NHS death factories and contracts a nasty superbug or three and lingers long enough to be bitten by bedbugs, abused by nasty staff and forced to drink water from a dirty vase, and lay in his own urine for hours and begging staff to change filthy bandages while being laughed at and ignored by nurses who cannot even speak English while trying to eat putrid cold food thats been laying around for hours and cost a few pence to throw together crawling with all kinds of viruses and germs.
I hope Aaranovitch gets to experience the full flavour of the new third world health system his friends and allies have set up in the UK.
I take it you don’t care for him then.
He is a shit stain and can fuck off to whatever part of the world his gene pool originated. The same applies to that twat Johann Hari, who asked yesterday how we could trust the British Army. Apparently enough to go fight and die in Afghanistan, abused and ill-equipped as they are (deliberately) by the Anti-British NuLabour elite of which he is so much a part – so the little turd Hari can also fuck off back to Finland or whichever Baltic shithole he emerged from and ask the same question of the army of his own country.
What a gin sniffing old boot Helen Clark is, and while I’m at it fuck the Pope.
Aaronovitch is just another Government stooge left over from Marxism Today. I wonder just how many Marxists and Trots we currently have in Cabinet, they have certainly lived up to their heritage of disastrous administrators and incompetent buffoons. Usually at this stage a Marxist regime has to stage a coup to avoid being roasted by the voters – having screwed up economy, social infrastructure and exhausted social capital, Socialist Parties usually turn Fascist at this point – no doubt Aaronovitch will be getting his script from Jack Straw – after all, once the Government changes he will be out of The Times just as Sieghart was once Blair departed
They probably like to pretend that the contempt most people now have for politicians is the result of “potty mouthed blogs” rather than their mendacious, venal, self serving behaviour. Incremental web censorship has already started and will continue unless confronted.
Posts 34 and 35….TomTom and Anon,
So we are all potty mouthed bloggers? Umm. Perhaps, but I don’t claim for a second home that isn’t, fly my family around the country at taxpayer’s expense, start illegal wars, collude in torture, commit demographic terrorism against my fellow citizens by encouraging unrestricted immigration to buy votes in marginal and safe seats, betray the armed forces, announce defence cuts in the face of Russian re-armament, engage in ludicrous social engineering projects (that inevitably fail), politicised the police against the public, restrict civil liberties to the point of shredding Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights in the name of a “War on Terror” which is a false construct since they are the party that rely on the radicalised Muslim vote in key seats….etc etc.
…so “Potty mouthed maybe”….but not a thief, incompetent, mendacious, war criminal, traitorous scum…like new labour, its Cabinet members, MPs, Councillers, the party infrsastucture…the rotten, corrupt edifice.
As if to exemplify the whole rancid mess, I note at this point in my comment that even the ‘Beast of Bolsover’ was beaten to a slient pulp at PMQs yesterday by a superbly timed and delivered quip by Cameron, the old leftie with his failed ideas sat looking deflated and wasted, symbolic of the whole shambles that is Labour.
They will of course try and further restrict free speech in their totalitarian way since it is all they know, having grown up under the wings of loony Marxist professors at university – I saw these types myself and what never failed to amuse me was that the clever people spotted the subversion straight away, but I suppose most of us never expected the nutters from the Labour Students/SWP/CND to be actually ‘running’ the country. Try as they may it is too late, I am amazed at how important the blogosphere has become to politics. Thanks to this, new networks have been built, views and ideas exchanged, much of supposed objective role of the MSM (especially the BBC) in holding government to account has been exposed as a lie, since it is loaded with their cronies and acolytes.
I hadn’t realised the extent that our political ‘leaders’ (filth all), took this blog seriously and I am delighted that it strikes nerves. It should do. These lousy people have been troughing at taxpayers expense in return for nothing but failure after failure for too long, living behind the sycophancy of the Westminster village, SPADs, MSM journos and the whole false construct of their Matrix like existence.
The game is up and they should be thankful that we are only at the blogging stage, if things get any worse in this country, these horrible, traitorous people may get something that makes them yearn for the days when being a bit pissed off at bloggers was all they had to get riled about.
Amen brother!
Amen from me as well!
For years there have been complaints at the amount of light from street lamps leaking pointlessly into the night sky.
Aha, but there was a plan.
The number of lamp posts is now just about equal to the number of leeches from NuLab and all its acolytes, functionaries and placemen in the many layers of government, quango and media..
So there will be just enough lamp posts to go round.
New version of democracy : One politician, one lamp post.
Alan Douglas
here, here
Formidable, Minekiller, just formidable. I have swiped your fantastic comment and made it into a post on my blogette, if that’s OK by you.
What loathsome, disreputable, shifty, sneaking, lying, filthy little Huhnes they all are.
Beautifully expressed. Did you work in whitehall in the days of the proper civil service?
Excellent post. Says it all, or a good deal of it.
63 weeks to the election…
Beautifully put, Minekiller. Written with clarity, passion and logic. A quality contribution.
Ecellent Minekiller. I personally witness these scum being hatched by Marxists and Fabians at Strathclyde Yooni in the seveneties. They never did a hands turn but all ended up with firsts in history, sociology and so forth. Then it was onward and upward thorugh the ranks of researcher to an MP, trade union official, councillor and finally to the Great Trough itself. Money for nuthing, chicks for free and of course the added bonus of socially engineering the lives of us poor suckers who followed honest careers.
In Scotland what distinguished them was their scorn for their native land and culture. Hatred of one’s own country makes for perfect Fabian NWO material. As does extreme leftist views correlate highly with the psychopathic personality. Naturally they could’nt give a monkeys about England either when they rolled up in power behing Bliar’s winning smirk. Do you think Brown honestly gave a shit when Tewkesbury was under water or when banks nosedived or thousands end up on the dole. Not a chance. In short they are out to destroy us and when they do walk away to live at our expense.
Minekiller, I suspect you speak for far more of us than you might imagine.
Minekiller, that, sir, is possibly one of the finest posts I have read on any political blog.
A note to Draper et al; Perhaps that helps you understand why you are so despised by us mere plebs.
Wow, what a post, sums my feelings up in more ways than I could have imagined. Had I written this I would have had to celebrate in some way. Perhaps throwing some vintage socialist champagne in Mandy’s face would be a start.
Top quality. I would like to join your troop on the barricade when the revolution comes.
92 Dennis
Boyz. Please. Please. Please. Go ahead and bash the lefties all you wish. They deserve it abundantly. But please, don’t make it a sexist poddy mouth diatribe by including “flity Huhne” in you remark. Really. Your response is disgusting and demeaning.
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my thanks minekiller ,for a fantastic article
Well put Minekiller, my sentiments exactly but you express them much lucidly. A gold star to you sir.
They can all fuck off. Your time is coming you Hoons.
The posters here may be an “unfiltered focus group”, but I am not sure that the powers that be understand that. If you are used to selecting the focus group by the results that you want to get from them, the comments here will seem illogical. The result is that the trolls are used to rebut or subvert comments (reply at their level) and the tasers ordered just in case. When the realisation dawns, that these are the real emotions of a sizeable part of the population, …..
Oh, and that Helen Clark sub-human is a perfect example of the situation many in the New (sic) Labour party will be in once their pig feed machine runs out.
Just fuck off and die.
Good post Guido.
This blog is the mirror on the wall.
Westminster lives its own lie. Most politicians need to believe they have a purpose, have a morality, have a part to play, have a (ad infinitum). The village people live the myth which is reinforced by the BBC and its fearless reporters(Robinson and co). Their closed world allows them to behave in strange ways; normal to them but immoral to us.
But the curious amongst them cannot resist a peep in the mirror of this blog. They can call it potty mouthed. But it hurts. Truth does.
What Labour Ministers need to know(they probably already do – not everyone of them is as deluded as Brown surely ?) is that in great swathes of the country – Brown is utterly detested and that it’s because of the decisions and actions that he has taken since 1997 when he was Chancellor and now as Prime Minister that this country will have a deeper and longer recession than any other in the western world
No wonder Blears got her knickers in a twist. The only “truth” allowed is ZanuLabia spin. FUCKING Huhnes.
Message for Hoons
The beast is stirring, the disaffected and the once comfortable are aqcuiring a newhate figure. Will YOU be able to Reap the whirlwind?
I think we need some robust legislation and a fucking quango to police this shit!
We must enforce world class blogging standards before we have a election
I am really, really sorry now for saying bad things about my lords and masters in the Labour party as reading this blog has made them upset. I take it all back. I never meant to call them lying, thieving, corrupt, talentless EU arselicking fucking Huhnes at all – ever. I do hope that has made them feel a little better, so they can now get back on with the important task of taxing us to death, removing what is left of our civil liberties and generally driving the country into the fucking dirt.
Another example of the Labour supporting media failing to totally grasp the real situation can best be illustrated by Nick Robinson’s view expressed yesterday on the BBC “Politics Show” after PMQs when he said that Cameron had “bombed” and that he visibly shrunk when rebuked by the Speaker for calling Brown a “phoney”. In mitigation Andrew Neill and Charles Clarke who were in Brussels expressed a totally different view than Robinson’s that the Cameron rebuke was nothing of the sort and a very minor thing
They echoed the view outside of the “bubble”- people actually do think Brown is a phoney
I saw the BBC fuckers discuss this in London yesterday.
Without any prompting the crazy leftie slaphead immediately said Cameron ‘withdrew’ into himself after getting a rebuke. I saw what he saw and judged that Cameron appeared merely exasperated at the partisanship of mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr speaker.
Do the westminster village ever take their heads out of their arse holes?
Cameron LAUGHED as he withdrew the statement.
He knows very well that having said it, and withdrawn it, the “said” will stick.
Robinson is a good reason for NOT paying the impartial BBC license fee.
ALan Douglas
As for the alleged term ‘hoon’, I have not been an early adopter, nor will I become a late adopter. Not sure who is behind the ‘hoon’ campaign, whether it is someone’s idea of a viral web-game for testing out online strategies of suasion, whether it is intended to (justly) associate an egregious politician permanently as being something of a pudendum, whether it is an attempt to pre-empt an anticipated clean-up of blogging or whether it erupts from a poe-faced misunderstanding of the nature of language.
If you are going to depoliticise anything, Guido, start with ‘Huhne’.
And I see from my last post that automatic word-substitution isnowa feature of this site. See you next Tuesday! Perhaps.
Huhne
Quim.
Huhne seems to get through unmolested.
As a woman I do object to a very nice part of my body being named after a Labour politician. Why not just call them all pricks instead?
How do I know it’s nice?
Do you like champagne?
How utterly stupid and prattish of us all not to ever have thought of that.
Hear hear!
The whole country wants rid of them, yet they do think they can win the next election.
That alone tells you just how removed from reality they are as they continue their scortched earth policy
And since we are on the subject of Potty Mouths….a snippet concerning the articulate Ms Helen Clark….
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/ExMP-in-legal-action-threat.4245829.jp
Ha ha, she doesn’t like being filmed eh? Doesn’t like it up her?
Welcome to 21st century Britain you fucktard.
It is OK for the rest of the population to be filmed 24/7 however – hypocritical bitch.
Her party ‘encourages’ blanket cctv in pubs – hypocritical bitch.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Now fuck off.
Good point.
http://libertarianalliance.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/that-sheep-may-safely-graze-old-article/
http://libertarianalliance.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/surveillance-cameras-what-is-to-be-done-about-this-imposition/
Since the video is still there, presumably she either decided to take no action or tried & failed – anyone know which?
Comment No 4 – Minekiller. Brilliant!
I don’t think that ZNL actually understand just how much they are reviled.
Miliband and co should think back a few years to when they spat the word “Thatcher”. Well people nowadays say “Labour” with equal venom.
The key difference being that Thatcher was successful and changed the country for the better, whereas as Labour have led us into an illegal war, wrecked the economy and achieved nothing (apart from the big wheel outside parliament – well done ZNL).
ZNL think that we the people believe their ‘spun’ view of the world as truth. We don’t. We know you are all inept phoneys with your noses in the trough.
Here here! Fuck the lot of the lying, cheating, spying, kleptocratic bastards.
[...] It says over at Guido’s place that “David Aaronovitch fears the populist influence of “potty-mouthed right-wing bloggers on some political journalism”. ” Guido says the original ref is at the Adam Smith Institute, so here it is for informational following. [...]
This Labour Government has got to be the worst one of all time.
Thatcher’s was bad but this bunch of liars, thieves and incompetents take the gold medal.
During PMQ’s yesterday there was a camera shot which took in the whole politburo! It was whilst Cameron was doing a really good dismantling job on Brown.
What a lot of yes men and women! Not one of them inspires, not one of them is a leader (including our blessed Mad Major Brown), all of them are cowards, unable to tell Brown to resign, to take gardening leave, to see a doctor, to take the low road home.
Not one of this fourth rate politburo are fit to run a small office employing two people!
Let’s face it, when we have a former postman, thicko union official, in charge of the NHS, is it any wonder we have problems such as Staffordshire?
Bloody pamphleteers. Mistake teaching ‘em to read, let alone write. Peasants, that’s what you want. They can go to church on Sunday and admire the tableux of the heroic struggle of the people led by the glorious prophet Moses Brownstain, heaven’s appointed, as he leads them dryshod between mighty walls of debt threatening to crash down on them and safely
- over a cliff -
Gendarms, arrest that blasphemer at the back.
The only potty-mouthed blogger I know is Charlie Brooker, at the Guardian. He really ripped into Jack Straw earlier, with lashings of bile. Very funny to read indeed.
Aaronovitch is a weapons-grade Huhne and lickspittle. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on
Aaronovitch is a fine example of the “radical” who despite his modest talents has said all the right things and written all the right words to wheedle his way in to the leftist establishment. Remember, the world is run by the people who turn up to the meetings.
A classic case of using voter apathy to push for power of a sort. Aaronovitch likes to rant about the threat of the “right” but he fails to understand that people can actually make their own minds up and just because the majority don’t want a Labour government, doesn’t actually mean that they want to annexe the Sudetenland.
Near where I live two local councillors got fed up with the party system and stood as independents. They swept the board with an increased majority. They were immediately frozen out of committees and many other aspects of civic activity because they weren’t “in the party”. A neat example of “the party before the people” mentality that infests local government.
For the record Mr. Aaronovitch, I have never used any form of bad language in my many postings, so the quaint phrase “potty” mouth doesn’t apply to me. I just like to hold the politicians to account, which seems to be impossible outside of blogs such as this one.
I am not a highly paid “journalist” just an ordinary working man from a working class background who can think for himself and doesn’t think much of the way the left is running this country.
the quaint phrase “potty” mouth
…started in America. Seriously.
Better potty-mouthed than potty-bellied, Mr Aaronovitch!
“As it is he is the embattled head of a country in deep economic trouble, desperately waving the flag of internationalism to disguise the part he has played in its downfall.”
Yes Gordon – we all know that you have to shoulder some of the blame for the recession and the fact that we are worst placed here in the UK.
Interesting quote in the first para of the article you link to…
[Brown] entered politics to do something about “poverty and unemployment”
Of course he did – he wanted a job that would make him rich !! – no unemployment or financial probems for the man who wrote “how to scrounge off the state”.
You have to credit him with consistency – his character was clearly formed by the time he was 22, and has not changed.
Talking of spin…
What is the governments position on ‘morality and prinicpal’ vs ‘the rules’ ?
Regarding Freds pension, they are up in arms demending that he ‘do the right thing’ and talking about ‘the court of public opinion’ etc…
But when it comes to Jaqueboots taken our money for a ‘second home’ (complete with family) all that they care about it ‘the rules’.
But at least they have assured us that they are even handed, and don’t interpret things purely to give themselves the best outcome…
How about a ‘freds pension clawback’ bill combined with an ‘mp’s imoral expenses clawback bill’.
No thought not… thieving c*nts…
> What is the governments position on ‘morality and prinicpal’ vs ‘the rules’ ?
Entirely empiricist, mostly deterministic, and totally hypocritical:
Morality is ‘the rules’ (= conventions) – some for the hoons, others for the rest of the people. Of course, hoons get to make lots of rules! Mostly in their favour.
Principle is the primacy of hoon ‘morality’ – that is, the view that hoon rules trump your rules. ‘Upholding principle’ is making sure the status quo favouring hoons stays put.
Needless to say there are hoons everywhere.
David Miliband, Peter Hain and Ed Balls will, if you ask them, tell you how much they despise this blog.
What a good start to the day reading that, truth hurts eh
Does Labours Shahid Malik know something we don’t?
Here he is telling us the 2009 general election results -
Is Shahid seriously suggesting that he will be PM in the near future?
Slightly OT, but since Fuckturd Brown thinks that the Germans aren’t playing ball with the ‘rest of Europe’ let’s just check in here with the French (as reported in the NYT…)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/world/europe/19briefs-PROTESTSAGAI_BRF.html?ref=world
Looking at the pic am I the first to speculate whether David is related in any way to Jeremy Beadle?
I wonder which hand snotty prefers up his arse. Full size or the more ‘compact’ version.
I have heard from a number of sources that the Brown PMQs clawing action is his idea of a secret homage to the late Jezza.
Please tell me what he’s done to the country is just a make-believe stunt for TV.
Westminster would have you believe they make a difference; mostly they do not.
Many would like to make a difference but this means conflict, hard work and possible isolation.
They try to convince themselves they are doing a good job but they know they are not.
They are happy to let events take their course and apply damage limitation in the form of reactive inquiries and committees that apportion blame and retro corrective measures.
They are rarely proactive unless of course it directly affects them or their position.
To be proactive vision courage and tangible results are required!
For the politician tomorrow only arrives on election night, but in the meantime it is easier to sit back keep your head down and suck, as much out of the ungrateful taxpayer as possible, this is pretty much your average politician.
They are in the main a disgrace and, deep inside they know it but more importantly so do those fools that vote for them.
Totally and when they read this they know it all too well.
Populism.
We can’t be having that in a democracy now can we !
What democracy?
An excellent graphic analysis from the NRC Handelsblad newspaper in the Netherlands. Click on each country for tables. Note that 6% unemployment gets a red exclamation mark, but other countries do not massage figures by offloading ‘sick’ ….
http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2160480.ece
Aaronovitch should read the comments beneath his article in Times OnLine. Not exactly praise.
Just another penny a line hack, I suppose it keeps him off the streets
Oh and it looks like you can have the rest of Europe’s migrant workers too Mr Woolas….
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,614065,00.html
While on holiday recently, I usually keep my strong views quiet as it usually upsets the inhabitants. So when conversation moved political, I would just add the slightest comment. At which point a normal mild mannered British citizen would launch into a string of invectives about Blair, Brown and the SHIT state of the country.
If the politicians think that the likes of me and other commentators are a minority of big mouth twats, then they are in for a big surprise at the next election. The level of unrest amongst the normally quiet citizen is immense. All politicians including Tories should get ready for a big shock.
Whereas communism is the fast train to tyranny, it should not be forgotten that the social democratic train (whether in old or new Labour livery) has been travelling on exactly the same metals and in the very same direction for a century. It should not then really be a surprise that the slow train has now come frighteningly close to its destination.
A good account of stations recently passed through is given in “The Rotten State of Britain” by Eamonn Butler.
Aaronovitch represents the opinions and beliefs of a tiny obnoxious minority who’s dogmatic views are always damaging to the interests of everyone else. He has a habit of getting even more rude and oikish than usual if everyone doesn’t just say “Yes David” “That’s right David” “How true David”.
As a recent reader of your blog, thank you Guido for letting me know where you stand – I was curious.
And if any politician could be bothered to ask – let alone listen and act on the reply – I would tell them where I stand too.
After Thatcher’s record interest rates, 3 million unemployed (TWICE) and total indifference to the less well off I vowed never to vote Tory. Cameroon’s opportunism on tax perks for the better off, civil liberties and the environment has done nothing to change that.
Labour has matched and exceeded Ingham’s spin. No more ‘boom & bust’, ‘rewards for failure’… A truly appalling civil liberties record. Historic sums spent on the NHS and education with little discernable benefit. Ditched commitments on PR and EU referendum. Immigration never bothered me but 1 in 9 is taking the piss. Widening income inequality from a (new) LABOUR government! – They too are not going to get my vote for a good decade: I have a LONG memory.
Both parties don’t mind if we vote for the other (what’s the difference?), nor are they greatly fussed if we don’t vote at all. What REALLY worries them? Yup, a kick in the bollocks via the BNP. ANGRY? I’M FUCKING MAD WITH THE STUPID GREEDY Huhnes!
CAMERON needs to be FRANK with the English Peoples.
Look what ‘The English Question’ blog says:-
Cameron wants to play Happy Families with the UK
Last night David Cameron came to Watford to speak to members of the local community in an unscripted question and answer session as part of a series of meetings under the banner of ‘Cameron Direct’ which are being broadcast live over the internet on the Conservative Party website. Incidentally, I think this is a healthy development, a return to ‘hustings’ type politics and away from the stage-managed, spin-ridden performances we have come to expect from the current regime.
I am not a resident of Watford, but I work there and one of my colleagues is a Tory councillor so she managed to smuggle me in. I was determined to ask Cameron a question in connection with his recent decision to adopt Ken Clarke’s proposal for an English Grand Committee to make unchallenged amendments to laws affecting only England (a treacherous sell out, in my opinion, of the English people) and after half an hour or so I managed to catch Mr. Cameron’s eye and was allowed to ask my question.
The question I put to him was, “If you win the general election, will you be fair to the people of England and bring in ‘English Votes on English Laws’, or will it just be ‘English Votes on English amendments’ that Kenneth Clarke is proposing?”
Now, I realise that the idea of ‘English Votes on English Laws’ (EVoEL) is not entirely fair to the people of England – the only thing that would be truly fair would be a referendum on how we should be governed, just as the Scots and Welsh were given. However, I wanted my question to be brief and concise, and to highlight the fact that what Clarke has recommended falls short of straightforward EVoEL (because I think the Conservatives are trying to palm it off to the public as being the same thing as EVoEL) and that as such, even compared to the former Tory policy of EVoEL, the new policy is grossly unfair to England.
Here is the full text of Cameron’s response to my question, interspersed with my thoughts in italics:
“Well, I think the Kenneth Clarke plan is the right one, I mean let me first say what I won’t do. I don’t want to have an English Parliament. We’ve got, frankly, enough politicians, paid enough, with enough big salaries and all the rest – we do not want a whole new English Parliament alongside the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Parliament (sic) and the existing Westminster Parliament.
- Thanks for telling us what we do or don’t want, Dave. No need for a referendum, then -
So, how do we deal with this issue that you rightly raise of when, um, English – given that Scottish MPs (sic) in the Scottish Parliament deal with health, education and housing
- erm, don’t forget policing, justice, the environment, arts, agriculture etc -
- how do we deal with the issue that when the Westminster Parliament is looking specifically at English health, education and housing, that English MPs have the decisive say. How do we that? Well, I think the Ken Clarke plan is a very good one. We don’t want to create a situation where there are two classes of Member of Parliament, and make it too divisive.
- I’m so fed up of hearing this pathetic argument. There are already two classes of MP. Those who can vote on domestic matters affecting their own constituents, ie. English MPs, and those who can’t, ie. MPs for Scottish or Welsh constituencies -
We want to keep the United Kingdom together, I think that’s important. But what Ken has said in his proposal to me is, look, when the Westminster Parliament’s talking about education you just make it sit as a Grand Committee with just English MPs that discuss that bill, and have a convention that when it comes to the whole House of Commons at the end of the process that they don’t overturn what the English MPs have done,
- He’s trying to make it sound like Scottish / Welsh / Northern Irish MPs won’t be able to vote on English legislation, but that’s not true, it’s only the amendments made by English MPs that will be protected -
and I think this idea of conventions and processes working in our flexible constitution has worked very well over centuries and I think we can make this work as well. What I don’t want to do is kind of have a big row between England and Scotland.
- Who said anything about a row? Dave, do you really think the Scots are going to get that stroppy if they’re not allowed to participate in governing England’s domestic affairs, even though they have their own Parliament and Government to run their country? -
This is the United Kingdom, it’s like a family, and I want to keep the family together. Families fall out over lots of things like money and arrangements like this and I don’t want to inflame the situation so actually we end up seeing the United Kingdom become the disunited Kingdom. I want to try and keep the family together
- Surely the best way to keep a family together is to treat all the members fairly. Not to disadvantage one at the expense of the others -
because I think we are more together – England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland – than we are if we start to break up.”
I sat politely through all this, waiting for Mr. Cameron to invite me to respond to his answer, as he did with all the other questioners, both before and after me. I wish now that I’d just butted in and interrupted him, because when he’d finished his response he just moved straight on and took another question. To me, this is a sign that he is aware of the weakness of his position and doesn’t really want to discuss it.
I genuinely believe that the Tories are trying to pretend that the policy they have decided to adopt is not really any different from straightforward ‘English Votes on English Laws’, in order to give the impression that if they come to power then the West Lothian Question will have been satisfactorily answered. This fraud must be shown up for what it is.
Well I think such a seriously minded post such as this deserves a response, even if belated. Very worth bringing this issue to the surface as the Tories are clearly preparing a major cop out. We are being asked to accept that Scotland and Wales can have their own governments, but England is to be fobbed off with an insulting compromise, even though we pay for everything. Now, if Labour were awake ‘English Parliament’ would be on their manifesto for the GE. Surely, that would truly set the cat amongst the pigeons?
We’re in an ideal position to apply pressure on the Conservatives to change leadership to one which favours England. The Tories won’t get into government without English votes, and there are plenty of other places for English votes to go. A Conservative government will either:
Cause a rush for complete independence by the scots, which will kill off the UK for good.
Keep scotland in the Union, but only by promising the scots even greater subsidies, at an even greater cost to English taxpayers. This would be the ultimate betrayal of the English voters, but I think this is the most likely outcome since Cameron has professed a wish to lead the UK as a whole. We need a change of leadership in the Conservatives.
Fuck shit piss arse bollocks tits
Twenty years ago I worked with a German Country manager (then in his ’60′s) in Tanzania. One of our field engineers was a bit over-fond of drink and prone to showing up late to work still hung over. He was trying to protest what an otherwise brilliant engineer he was.
‘Fuck you’, says Helmut, ‘I have gassed better engineers than you’.
Same with this fucking government. And their apologist journalists. Better governments than this have been slaughtered out of hand. And they deserved it too.
quick anecdote….my uncle took me to the opening of a new hospital in Libya many years ago and we got the tour, a moment of hastily stifled hilarity ensued when it was announced that a German company had built the incinerators….
Brown Directs Imaginary Armies from His Bunker – Telegraph
link doesn’t work (goes to times article)
Fixed – thanks.
What? You shot Brown? captured the Bunker?
OT
Err..Umm..Errr
Did anyone else hear that apologist for a w*nker Sion Simon on Toady interviewed by John Humphries regarding Further Education new buildings funding. He couldn’t answer a question like Gordo and stumbled with his brain trying to paint a positive spin on things.!!
Key word: W+stop a ship drifting away
I heard him. Stammering and umming and erring, trying to buy time with waffle. Totally incapable of accepting responsibility for his cock up.
Sion Simon, MINISTER of the CROWN? Fuck me, we have scraped the barrel so hard we went through the rotten bottom of it and scooped up the shit below.
Aaranovitch is a wanker
The people want their country back
The people are constantly and consistently denied their voice
Politicians and Media Luvvies are lucky they are still in the positions they hold – coz that maybe about to end!!! Politicians should only be involved in the structural process to enable us to grow and develop – they should keep the fuck out of my personal life
Did you errr hear me erm….. on the radio? The erm….Today Programme……..ermmm. I err…. was………. fucking…………… great.
The only reason Hain and the other New Labour Hoons read this blog is to find out which of their money making scams has yet to be discovered.
They don’t give a fuck about what people think.
There’s the solid, reassuring ‘Thunk!’ of truth in that.
There needs to be a ‘no stone unturned’ analysis of money in, money out.
F**K ‘em
To the various posters above – blogs like this aren’t a mirror. They are the Picture of Dorian Gray. They manifest the ugliness inside our political class which they won’t admit to themselves.
who gives a fuck about Aaronovitch, I cannot recall ever reading anything he has written, same as Toynbee, she is just part of the unacceptable authoritarian right wing middle class who masquerade as being left wing
just so not to disappoint Aaronovitch I will put in some profanity
monkey’s cocks
David Aaronovitch should keep his big fat fucking mouth shut or someone may spill the beans on the fat fucker. Doesn’t he know that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones?
fuck, that made me laugh. Total and complete hatred. Brilliant.
Guido, please don’t use the phrase “…our political masters…” because they are not – they are our servants and we should never miss the opportunity to remind them of this fact.
Absolutely.
I am in entire agreement with this sentiment too – you maybe surprised by my comments but when I was a small boy I used to sit at home watching DVDs and the BBC and always enjoyed the way people were treated so well. I have had a lot of pain in my life and feel others’ pain as well as a result. this is what makes me so very sensitive to the troubles of my people, erm, I mean the people of my country, erm, I mean the British people who feel pain at the sudden and terrible economic downturn that started in America. I will not make light of their difficulties even though I am raking it in and will be alright whatever the outcome of the next election that I am thinking of postponing due to the result of the forthcoming Ashes Test series which I hope I will be able to see from my bunker.
Aaronobitch is probably shitting himself knowing that his type are goiong to be out of a job very soon.
People dont read lefty drivel online , ooo and The Guardian isnt exactly profitable is it?
Ed Ballbag your wife looks like a boy, what does that say about you?
Millipede you shagged Ruth Kelly who looks like a boy and talks like Brian Blessed
what does that say about you?
You effing Jaffa
Mrs Balls like a boy – agreed. But to be fair not Ruth, she’s got an impressive rack on her
Perhaps Ruth has an impressive rack. I am told she has nipples like Chapel hat pegs….however, she has a face like a bag of spanners
“It may not be polished prose, but it is genuine anger.”
What makes these shit-gargling cock-warts think they have earned the right to polished prose? I’ll consider giving them the full benefit of my grandiloquent and refined vocabulary when they see fit to stop lying to my fucking face like I’m some kind of Huhne.
Here’s polished prose
Huge glistening purple polished helmet!!
Oh goody Ed Balls reads this blog…
Hello Blinky you fucking corrupt useless sleazeball Huhne, I hope that skinny post op transexual shithead of a wife of yours leaves you soon and goes back to Ruth Kelly.
WANKER
I’d like to associate myself with the above remarks.
“The witch-hunt against Fred Goodwin him is letting Brown off the hook”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1163028/STEPHEN-GLOVER-Yes-I-feel-like-killing-Sir-Fred-Goodwin-But-witch-hunt-letting-Labour-hook.html
I remember Aaronovitch as national president of the National Union of Students about 30 years ago.I think he succeeded Charles “the pies” Clarke.Both far left by any standards other than the NUS of the time.Never left the political bubble and wonder why the public resent being lectured by people with no comprehension of normal life .
I dare say that if you mention Margaret Thatcher to a group of Aaronovitch’s political colleagues and you will see similar retorts to the ones at order-order.
Is he too stupid to understand that loathing for Brown and New Labour is probably more widespread and deeper than it was for Thatcher?
Probably.
Take sleaze. The Major government sleaze involved the taking of envelopes from private interests. Zanulabour sleaze involves taking from the public – taxpayers. In the former case, the cash was freely given; in the case of zanulabour, the cash is simply taken without consent.
Corruption is corruption – but it is not necessarily daylight robbery.
How absolutely excellent that Peter Vain, Blinky Balls the the rest of the NuLiebore shower dislike this blog. The truth always hurts.
Thank you for making my day Guido. There’s not much good news around so this has lifted my spirits no end.
Pamphleteering brought on the French Revolution
bad news it took three hundred years, can blogging do better ?
It already has, we know the truth about our political ‘servants’, their greed, dishonestly, incompetence and treachery. The date of the next election, provided McSnot doesn’t find a reason not to hold one (civil contingencies and all that) – will show a divided country, divided between those who produce, are hardworking, decent, honest and loyal – and those who vote labour, for it’s criminality, war, killing, torture, rendition, stealing, cheating, idleness, fecklessness, immorality, lying, control freakery, incompetence and treachery.
I started knitting is that significant?
They are right in a way, these blogs have allowed us a voice, be it potty mouthed or otherwise. What we are saying is that we hate all of you political tossers with a burning, visceral hatred. A hatred that will never diminish. We wish all the Browns, Balls, Blairs, Millipedes, Harmans, Hains, Mandelsons and all the rest of the filthy scum, nothing but pain, and hurt. We want you all to suffer terribly for the rest of your miserable stinking lives.
Second that. But would change ‘miserable stinking lives’ to ‘violently cut short miserable stinking lives.
Violently terminated but kept in much pain for a long time.
And that’s too good for them…
Seriously – who’s David Aaronovitch?
A self-important pseudo-intellectual of the most vacuous nature. Typical of what Labour-IQ-lite prefers to substitute in lieu of any common sense/life experience.
The kind of fucked-up, third rate mentality that gives you the fucked up third-rate philosophy and fucked-up third rate economy we are currently experiencing.
That about sums him up.
A Joke for you:
DEREK DRAPER’S book, Life Support: A Survival Guide For The Modern Soul, is out now (Hay House, £8.99).
Derek who?
“A self-important pseudo-intellectual of the most vacuous nature. Typical of what Labour-IQ-lite prefers to substitute in lieu of any common sense/life experience.
The kind of fucked-up, third rate mentality that gives you the fucked up third-rate philosophy and fucked-up third rate economy we are currently experiencing.” Maybe.
Well Labourlist is certainly on life support…ha ha!!
Guido, your comments section now looks like the labour one, with the comments sliding to the right. absolutely shit Guido.
and what are the big childlike numbers all about?
don’t tell me you are actually paying money to have the layout of your blog completely ruined?
have you started taking acid again Guido?
you’ve cocked it up my old china, this is definitely worse than your previous comments section and I confidently predict will lead to a decrease in readership.
you cretin!
As so often is the case, you are wrong. Apparently you are too stupid to understand the reply -> conversation format as well. Does this mean you will not be back? We live in hope.
Thick as thieves,
Take a full refund and piss off to a blog that suits your limited brain eh? Why on earth would you think that this great and very popular blog owner gives two shits what you think of his blog, that is the mark of a socialist living in total reality denial, indeed I can assure you that nobody here would blink if you were to take a walk off a tall cliff.
I was just thinking what a good layout this is – obviously needs bandwidth on behalf of the user.
The readers comments however are a different story, there the anger is allowed to let rip. If it tells our political masters anything, it tells them they are hated.
If your commenters tell blacks, the poor, the sick, immigrants, palestinians, liberals, Europeans muslims, women, gays or anyone left of hardline fascist anything, it tells them they are hated.
You forgot Labour apologists. I fucking hate them. Educated to the point where they can see the destruction their idiot government has caused but blinded by hatred to any alternatives. Complete GFBs.
Bollocks. Almost all the vitriol is directed against politicians. Noticeably you offer no evidence.
Guido,
Recently, since they have been taken to task, your sad old harem of commenters have been less frequently racist and sexist than in the past. Their other great love is to stigmatise all people on low or no incomes, they really are a nasty bunch.
Unlike me.
Tra laa!
off the top of my I recall a photo caption competition where a lot of the ‘humorous’ captions were obsessing over the skin color of some kids in a picture with Brown.
your were also admirable in expressing their rightful rage at the citizens of Gaza.
Pizza!
As somebody who had a front and centre seat on 9/11 only to be told that the citizens of Gaza thought it appropriate to take to the streets in a spontaneous show of jubilation I would just like to say that my lack of concern for the folk of Gaza knows no limits.
I’m sure they won’t be offended. But I don’t give a knob of goat shit if they are. GFB’s.
Pizzas for the boys? Too right. Fuck ‘em.
Labour jackass.
Eeeee Awwww.
I reserve some of my hate for the idiots that have voted for this shower of shit over the last decade or so. Anybody that has voted for them is part of the problem.
Those that still support them even now deserve their own circle of hell.
hating about the uk population is a bad life-tactic , i suggest you get a better hobby
vlad the e-mailer shows that the people on this blog are mostly filled with impotent fury at anyone different to themselves, guido’s nice article at the top is just rationalizing the aimless spite — its like saying the dog that bit the postman did it because he was angry at the bad service and nationalisation
England is a sinking ship, when you far right zealots take power from the far left zealots it will hasten the decline. Guido’s beloved ireland is beginning to look quite a well run place.
“Pizzas for the boys? Too right. Fuck ‘em.”
is that anger at politicians.
Having considered the matter for a full 15 seconds I have concluded that Ambrose Silk is a female in the 38-44 age bracket, probably the head of department in a bog standard comprehensive. Looks? Like a lovechild of Ruth Kelly and Michel Gove. More of the Gove than the Kelly, though.
Ambrose is a male name.
Tony is male and female, that must be difficult and convenient.
Looks like you’ll be getting a lot less.
While I’ll be getting plenty!
Thank you Guido. Can I just add that I consider all politicians – left, right and centre – as charlatans, chancers and power-fixated oddballs. I don’t think I’ve ever met a person who does not feel exactly the same.
Pee, Po, Belly, Bum, Drawers (Flanders and Swann)
Does that count, Mr Fawkes?
Keep it up, people need to see the true mean, narrow minded character of Conservative supporters.
It’s more truthful than the Enid Blyton Conservative front bench fiction.
Financial misconduct = Conservatives
Dollybots are up early.
Morning
financial misconduct = Conservatives
There’s a lot to deflect today:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/psf0309.pdf
I wouldn’t characterise myself as a Conservative supporter. More a Labour hater. And their craven Labour apologists. Yeah, the countries fucked. We fucked it. But at least we’re not the Tories.
Whatever helps you sleep at night jackasses.
Is it so wicked to hire nurses and doctors, pay teachers a living wage and rebuild crumbling schools, colleges and hospitals?
Answer: No
Financial misconduct = Conservatives
I must have missed the bit where we all agreed that paying the teachers meant fucking the entire UK economy. I seem to remember that the teachers got paid under previous governments without the imperative to completely fuck the economy, trash the currency and drive millions onto the dole and incapacity benefits Mark I, Mark II, Mark III etc..
Economy fucked. By Labour. Again.
Jackasses.
Eeeeee Awwwww.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/19/alan-johnson-nhs-stafford-nhs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/maryriddell/5012757/What-the-horrors-of-Stafford-Hospital-tell-us-about-the-ills-of-the-NHS.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7951457.stm
http://www.politicshome.com/Landing.aspx?Blog=6735&perma=link
The crumbling schools and colleges:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/2173480.stm
http://www.politicshome.com/Landing.aspx?Blog=6735&perma=link
Is it so wicked to hire Nurses and Doctors…?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/19/alan-johnson-nhs-stafford-nhs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/maryriddell/5012757/What-the-horrors-of-Stafford-Hospital-tell-us-about-the-ills-of-the-NHS.html
Non-feasance+misfeasance+malfeasance=Labour
I think the idea was that teachers got paid and hospitals were run without destroying the entire economy. Those louche useless Europeans do it very nicely…why can’t we?
Er, earth calling fuckwitt central…… This blog is not a Tory blog, many on here dislike the Tories nearly as much as zanulabour led by the mental defective McHoon and his gang of midgets and boot fillers.
This blog consists mainly of free thinkers and the occasional nulibore sockpuppet, free thinking individuals with minds of our own, is that so hard to get thru your retarded brain?
Go ahead then demonstrate an anti Conservative stance.
Financial misconduct = Conservatives
Inquisition, if you want to criticize the Tories then go right ahead. If you want a big circle-jerk with your Labour apologist friends then there are websites for that. I’ll content myself with criticizing the fucking incompetents, looters and pirates of the present Labour government just now.
Inqy, see my #245.
The people have moved on. Even the Blaggers’ Blagueurs Claque tires of the voodoo mantra.
Look at the Conservative Party Treasurers
People are very angry with the bankers and hedge funds.
Financial misconduct = Conservatives
Would that be the same hedgefunds that helped finance the newlabour bootfillers?
Would these bankers be the same bankers that have thrived under newlabour and have bought off the corrupt bastards who lounge around piling stolen csah into tax havens and blind trusts while ordinary people suffer?
Blind stupidity = nulibore sockpuppets!
Just to reinforce Mr Fawkes message, 90% of New Labour and 75% of the rest of parliament are a bunch of freeloading fuckwits with not an ‘honourable’ principle among them. They are supported by similarly self serving wankers like Aaronovitch and silly women like PT. The queucker they all fuck off the happier the world will be. Oh, and they are all liars.
I agree Lola, will Cameron reverse the NuLab disaster? No, for NuLabour we will only get BluLabour
LONDON (Dow Jones)–The U.K. public sector again borrowed more than expected as central government tax revenue fell sharply on the year and spending continued to rise, the Office for National Statistics said Thursday.
The U.K. public sector borrowed GBP9.0 billion in February, up sharply from GBP1.1 billion a year earlier. That compares with expectations for net borrowing of GBP7.7 billion and was the highest February borrowing since records began in 1993.
In the fiscal year to date, net public sector borrowing stood at GBP75.2 billion – the highest figure since records began. That compares with GBP25.2 billion in the year-earlier period and with a full-year government target of GBP78 billion.
With the recession biting, central government receipts fell by around 10% to GBP40.7 billion, while expenditure rose 6.5% to GBP43.0 billion from GBP40.4 billion.
The loss of revenue from Value Added Tax was especially sharp, in part due to the cut in the VAT rate and partly because of broader economic weakness, the ONS said.
yees are fucked
It wasnae me. It wasnae me. It was the yanks. It was the banks. I’m making the tough decisions to print enough money to pay the extra 30,000 box-tickers, bed-wetters and parking-space-atariate that I plucked out of fresh air and hired during this, the most fiscally incontinent year in British history. And next year I’m going to do even worse.
If I’d set out to fuck up the country I couldn’t have done a more thorough job. And I’ve another 14 months more of rampant idiocy in store. Photo-ops with the G20. Probably a couple of Euro-junkets/emergency IMF initiatives to get involved with. My photo album is going to look fucking amazing before this is over.
You, on the other hand, won’t be able to afford to get your pictures developed nor the album to stick them in. And do you know why? Because I’m fucking clever. A fucking savant me. And you are all too fucking stupid to appreciate it and so you must be punished. You will love me. Even if I have to beat it into you.
This is going to be the biggest Stockholm Syndrome manifestation ever.
I’m a Goddddddd!!! Bwahahahahahaha!
Vote Labour.
Excellent post. *Applause*
More applause
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Are you taking the piss Jimmie?
I and I alone am the great saviour of the world – now piss off back to America, where you came from…
I just read something about infightin in the LibDems in Glasgow. Not really sure what that is about
but expect more as Labour rats leave the sinking ship and look for a new home to infest.
o/t Not bo/t,not being a techie,I’m having problems posting on your new format.One was refused as being submitted too quickly(?)and now part of the comment section is off-screen to the left and not retrievable.I’m afraid I need an idiot-proof system.
http://podblanc.com/helen-clark-ex-labour-now-tories-mp-goes-crazy
should we all follow the example of this honourable lady ?
Class act – just like the rest of ZNL.
Filth every single one of them.
Fucking outstanding. I’m a little uncomfortable watching it to be honest because she seems like she ought to be getting care for alzheimers the way she’s acting.
No wonder she’s trying to get it banned from the web. Fuck her. The delicious irony of the very surveillance society and inform-on-your-neighbours mentality that her evil government of occupation fucking well advocated being used to unmask her as the piss-soaked hysterical arsehole she is.
Ahahahahahahahaha.
Stupid cow. Don’t shit on your own doorstep.
Still, she managed to get YouTube to take it down – threat of legal action etc.
I’m sure her constituents and constituency party will be extremely proud of her. She’s obviously The Right Stuff.
“Why am I treated like a c***?” Probably cos you act like one you daft cow.
Even now she can’t see she’s done anything wrong. Don’t appeal, just give it up. Face it, who in their right mind would ever vote for her again after this little tirade.
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/Video-Former-MP-Clark-trial.5092005.jp
Effing hoon!
It is interesting to know that many senior Labour MP’s read this blog, hopefully they will find this link useful in the very near future
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Aaronovitch is a highly paid poseur, a third-rate intellect and a political pawn. He has simply failed to understand the nature of blogs and, for that matter, the mainstream press. Nobody makes people read your posts and these comments or read newspapers. People come here under their own free will.
Perhaps idiots like Aaronovitch have no free will at all, being tools of Downing Street. Nothing would surprise me less. Maybe he’s just a professional victim – but he’s certainly a cretin.
another one putting people first-himself!
another lampost needed.
Testing testing Huhne Huhne hoon hoon
When at Manchester University Davis Aaronovitch was the campus organiser for the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) he was as I recall an unrepentant Stalinist.
During a one to one discussion explained that the difference between fascism and communism was simply the absence of racism under communism!
The man is an utter wanker, a hoon of the greatest magnitude!
More proof of Labour profligacy. They spew more money in ridiculous “virtual world” with their own currency, “Linden dollars”. Is there no end to this?
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Second-Life-Governments-Department-Of-Work-And-Pensions-Spends-Thousands-On-The-Virtual-World/Article/200903315242999?lpos=Politics_News_Your_Way_Region_3&lid=NewsYourWay_ARTICLE_15242999_Second_Life%3A_Governments_Department_Of_Work_And_Pensions_Spends_Thousands_On_The_Virtual_World
Mere abuse is mild compared to what these fuckpigs deserve.
Personally, I would very much like to crucify Ed Balls. I would thoroughly enjoy banging the nails in. They go into the heel of the hand angled back at about 15 degrees so they come out at the back of the wrist. Nails through this part of the hand are capable of supporting the weight of the body, even a body as obscenely bloated on other people’s money as Blinky’s. It also hurts the most.
Brilliant!
In a few years (not very many left to wait) the liblabcons will be arrested. Obviously they will eventually be killed in the most painful ways possible but before that they must be punished, especially the nulab ones. I had been wondering what type of punishment would be most suitable for inflicting excruciating pain over a prolonged period but had overlooked the merits of crucifixion. Perhaps that empty space in Trafalgar Square might be the ideal spot. Thanks.
Law of defamation applies online
Material posted on the Internet is subject to exactly the same legal rules as material printed in a newspaper or magazine, or broadcast on television or radio.
That means online statements or footage which have the potential to cause damage to a person’s reputation are covered by the laws of defamation, as they are anywhere else.
To protect themselves against legal action for libel, website hosts have a responsibility to ensure their sites do not contain any defamatory material.
Any defamatory material which does find its way online could result in whoever posted it, as well as the host of the website, being prosecuted.
footage which have the potential to cause damage to a person’s reputation are covered by the laws of defamation
In this case it looks to be self-defamation. A veritable self-proclamation of personal idiocy.
If she doesn’t like it then I suggest that she doesn’t go out in public acting like a piss-soaked hysterical bag lady. And if she does insist on doing so then she can hardly complain if her antics are recorded to be used in evidence against her if necessary. Foul language for starters.
Let’s see her deny that.
What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for a member of the evil, vindictive government that has made us the most spied-upon population in global history.
Reputation? Hahahahahahahaha. Ha.
Some kind of Lawyer are we? I can hear the Clerk’s calculator from here.
Sillitoe, kindly stick your head up a dead bear’s bum.
Law of defamation applies online
Material posted on the Internet is subject to exactly the same legal rules as material printed in a newspaper or magazine, or broadcast on television or radio.
That means online statements or footage which have the potential to cause damage to a person’s reputation are covered by the laws of defamation, as they are anywhere else.
To protect themselves against legal action for libel, website hosts have a responsibility to ensure their sites do not contain any defamatory material.
Any defamatory material which does find its way online could result in whoever posted it, as well as the host of the website, being prosecuted.
I believe that in relation to this government, their apologists and their P45′ed bag-lady looky-likees what this website constitutes is ‘fair comment’.
Oh shit! I WAS going to say that McBroon, Millipede, Ed Bollox and his vile boy-wife, Harperson the thief, Mandlesuck, Hoon “the hoon” hoon and all the rest of the lying, cheating fuckwits should be hanged.
I’m glad that I didn’t.
“David Miliband, Peter Hain and Ed Balls will, if you ask them, tell you how much they despise this blog. ”
Oh goody. David, Peter and Ed you are Huhnes of the first order, Gordon is a Huhne, Harriet and Hazel are Huhnes, Tony McNulty is a Huhne, Ed Milliband is a Huhne, Alastair is a Huhne. Geoff, however, is a Hoon.
I once shagged Sir Percy Sillitoes daughter
She was a complete screamer and nearly swooned at the sight of my 9″beef bayonet
I think this is a pretty vital contribution tot this fascinating debate and trust Polly T will take note that we are not all potty mouthed reactionaries
Polished prose is wasted on Brown & coterie of cabinet cnuts; they only seem to understand monosyllabic words and even then they have trouble with ‘Go’.
Labour Party Manifesto 2009
He is wrong on one thing, and Polly Toynbee makes this mistake as well, Guido is not the “potty mouthed” author of profanity on the blog.
Does it matter if you were, would it make your point of view less worthy? It’s this snobbery that does my head in.
Stephen Fry (National Treasure) is potty mouthed, he loves swearing, does that mean he’s thick? Does that lessen his opinions? Of course not.
Enjoy
Does walking around with my cock hanging hanging out make me less stylish or dignified? Of course not – according to my own judgement.
It’s this snobbery that does my head in.
It’s this snobbery that does my head in.
Yes. Of course it is.
It’s inverted snobbery coupled with mendacious Labour fuckwittery that’s fucked the entire country.
Jackass.
Eeeeee Awwwww.
Judging by the normal standard of your, Ambrose’s and the Inquisition’s posts here, I think walking around with your collective cocks hanging out might be a distinct improvement.
Last time I tried it, though, I got barred from the pub.
Fucking snobbery!
David Miliband, Peter Hain and Ed Balls, are you reading this? If so, you are all Huhnes and I hope you die, soon, of something incredibly painful. You scum fucks. I despise you and what you have done to _my_ country.
Remember this you Huhnes. We WILL have an election at some point. You WILL get what you deserve.
How can we be accused of hating the poor? That’s everyone except MPs and Bankers….
“Potty mouthed”? “Right wing bloggers”? Fucking potty mouthed right wing bloggers? Not just right wing bloggers, Aaronovitch, you sanctimonious prick. As someone with time on his hands I read a lot of political autobiogs. and biogs. and such like. And if memory serves the word ‘fuck’ is common currency among our leaders, not least in Cabinet; and an epithet employed many times by Brown to express his frequent annoyances and disappointments when Chancellor.
For sheer, unadulterated, gratuitous, potty mouthedness (although I have no problem with him) the icon is surely Mr. Gordon Ramsey: the same Gordon Ramsey elevated to OBE under this Labour Government. But don’t let potty mouthedness get in the way of a naked populist gesture.
You wonder why we swear? Consider this typical example of Labour lies and also how they continue to rob the taxpayer blind:
In just 2 weeks fuel duty will rise again, bringing the total tax paid at the pumps to 71 pence in every pound – despite Prime Minister Gordon Brown promising not to raise fuel duty.
Watch Brown pledge to freeze fuel duty. (1.40m – 2.02m):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7509245.stm
Original source:
http://www.petrolprices.com/blog/duty-rise-set-to-bring-fuel-tax-to-in-weeks-110.html
Bastards. Ungrateful bastards. I pluck a million of you thick fuckers off the dole in 2001. Fresh out of university with your fucking comedy piece of paper from Spunkbridge University (formerly Spunkbridge Adult Literacy Initiative). See? Education, education and education. You wouldn’t have been able to get a job with that fucking piece of BA bogroll under the Tories. But thanks to my fucking economic and educational miracle thick fuckers like you with media studies degrees and sociology degrees can be rehabilitated in the public service.
I give you fucking 30K a year. Plus fucking 18% pension ‘contribution’. I give you a 35 hour week. Six fucking weeks paid holiday. Plus bank holidays. I give you a fucking heated office. I give you a fucking clip-board. I give you a fucking parking space in a new glass and steel PFI-funded hospital or school in some marginal fucking constituency.
I run up 30bn a year in overspend just to keep you fuckers on the payroll since 2001. I00bn this year. 150bn next year.
And then you bastards bleat when I stick 10p on a gallon of petrol. You don’t deserve me. I’m fucking wasted on you bastards.
You ungrateful fucking fuckers.
Vote Labour.
Yes you’re right, how stupid of me I have been inconsiderate. Where do I put my “x” ?
Wibble!
Maybe not the done thing to comment on school life, but I’ve finally snapped. Balls (Eddie) was not in the real world 25 years ago. If he reads this I’d like him to know I thought he was a twat then but he’s an even bigger fucking twat now. Is that in the spirit?
My parents made sacrifices to give me a private education and then Balls would spout on about how bad it was that everyone didn’t get high quality schooling as a defence for his left wing presence at Nottingham High School. He couldn’t answer then how everyone could have the best (or even needed it) and he’s never had a proper job to teach him how to allocate resources. Prizes for everyone, tractor production is up. Actually immigrants are building our tractors while anyone under 25 does a media degree and most everyone else is an outreach co-ordinator for the state.
I’m a chartered engineer, good at what I do, and I’m turning work away because I can no longer stand paying tax to these idiots. I used to put everything over 40% tax into a private pension but that’s fucked too. Never mind the bankers, Labour should have their pensions and free houses stripped. No more boom and bust? Have they seen the graphs?
I apologise to everyone that 25 years ago I didn’t appreciate the threat that Balls posed to the nation and go into politics myself. I honestly did not know.
You must be very proud.
Oh dearie me!
This is the mistake many of us make. By the time you realise that the evil bastards aren’t in it out of some altruistic urge to better the lot of their fellow man but rather in it entirely for themselves and their monstrous ego then the ship has sailed.
And this is where we find ourself adrift with a crew of idiots whose sole ‘qualification’ is their ability to suck up the shit that drizzles down from bigger idiots further up the greasy pole. Their ideas and opinions entirely formed from Victorian-era text-books and toga-party political discussions from the sixth form. Maaaaan!
Utter fucking arseholes. Unprincipled arseholes. Incompetent arseholes. Ladies and gentlemen. Your Labour government.
Jackasses.
Eeeeeee Awwww.
You shouldn’t have gone into politics. You should have given the fucker a more telling kick in the skull than whoever tried to save us from Brown. I bet he’s wishing he’d worked harder on his ‘swing’. I know I am.
So in summary, did I ever tell you that I I I I I I I I I I I was at school with Ed Balls?
You miss the point, Me me me. My my my story was not wasted on vlad.
I I I went to school with a number of intelligent people who have chosen to milk the system – politicians, bankers, private equity bollocks and a few lazy GPs thrown in for good measure. You may well be one of those, but I I I ain’t paying for it any more and I I I wasn’t proud to say I I I’d been to school with the twat.
I I I won’t bore you again. The foreign house was paid for years ago through hard work and I I I can fuck off when I I I want, renting out the also paid for London pad.
Not an MP’s life of luxury, but an honest one. Cheers vlad.
The Inquisition says is it so bad to rebuild crumbling schools and hospitals. Well Dolly Bot I suggest you go google PFI before you start on that subject. Although being a labour bot you will probably need 3 consultants a health and safety assesment and a pilot study before you dare. Cock.
Well said that man. Let them know what it is like to be abhorred and reviled. Huhnes all
Fuck ‘em all, fuck ‘em all,
Fuck the long and the short and the tall,
We hate politicians and all their machinations
Fuck ‘em all, fuck’ em all, fuck ‘em all
@Katabasis says: March 19, 2009 at 2:15 am
Aaronovitch is a member of a particularly nasty species – the interventionist left.
You mean, like this Huhne?
Empirical proof that Balls is Stalin’s lovechild
That’s really worrying – mind you I think they mean ‘eye-boggling’. They’ve revised the curriculum countless times to bring it more into line with their way of thinking. They’ve already revised History; English Grammar isn’t taught any more; Maths GCSE is almost a pictograph and Science is a tick-the-box exercise. As for English Literature? Well, as Stinky Blinky so famously said, “So what?” It’s a pleasureto see he’s getting slapped down in the comments.
And, following a link to celebrity Mastermind contestant David Lammy, we find that the current cabinet are every bit as fucking thick as they appear despite having somehow, and I’m guessing positive discrimination, blagged themselves a law degree and a degree from Harvard.
Further evidence that Brown’s alleged genius is measured against a very low local baseline.
Jackasses.
Eeeeee Awwwww.
They don’t like it up ‘em, the cold steel.
Nice to see the mother ship has fitted a new battery in to the transmitter. All we need now is Red Riding Hood to join in with Inky and Ambrose and we can all have fun.
Labour Party, now let me see……..Ah, yes, they didn’t have paymasters like the Tory non-doms, they had 1.1 million quid from animal rights groups prior to 1997. They then (surprise, surprise) kept their side of the bargain and spent 700 hours in Parliament debating the Anti-Hunt bill. No doubt a truly vital piece of legislation for an incoming party with only 24 hours to save the NHS and determined that things can only get better.
Labour didn’t have any donations from the “Let’s bomb Iraq” campaigners so there wasn’t nearly the same amount of debate. I can’t remember how long exactly…Erm… No don’t tell me… Erm….was it 45 minutes?
They make me sad and angry at the same time. Have they no shame? actually stupid question.
There are a few (very few) decent ones as far as I can tell, but being a politician demands an overinflated ego on the whole, which is a bad combination with the way they get turned into minor celebs by the media.
On a positive note I like the idea of juryteam.org.
Don’t start me on fucking PFI. I know someone who works for an NHS hospital, brand spanking new build that cost £20 million. Rent cost paid by the NHS? £1 million a month, it’s a fucking joke.
And while I’m on the subject the one that makes me want to kick in the tv is Tony McNulty. Arrogant sanctimonious fuck. I want to see his balls fed to Jackboot Smith in a kebab. Extra chilli needed to swallow the shit he comes out with. Then she could claim it back on expenses.
Labour MP Predicts, on current Trends, a Muslim MP within 30 yrs.
Honestly, we are being flooded, Aborted, sterilised, Murdered and Gangraped out of existance, if people do not have the Balls to vote for a perfectly legal political party because they might be called a few names, then I suggest they do not deserves their own country.
Wake the fuck up people, grow some balls
Video, Labour MP Predicts Muslim PM within 30 yrs
Guido,
you live in hope that thick as thieves(who exclusively appears in this place) does not return? you must definitley be back on the acid Guido!
do you not notice how many people appear on the same thread as their hero, thick as thieves. and do you not notice how many hits your blog has when I make my heroic appearances.
I expect your churlishness is due to your old age and the fact that you are smoking too much skunk to help you with the acid come down.
cheer up you miserable old bugger!
I should be invoicing you for the contributions I make to this place, so think yourself lucky I choose to comment here and not elsewhere.
that will be all.
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Cassandra King,
if you think I am a socialist then you must be a total spastic.
why don’t you return to conservativefoam and bore the arse off
off the morons who hang out there. you will fit in perfectly.
there’s a good girl.
Guido the censor – ah we will have to look forward to this kind of anti – democracy from useless dave and his chums. welcome to the tory dalek future.
what a load of shit. If this is the future you can keep it Guido, I think this may well spur me on to create my own blog where frank exchanges are not muted.
I see a gap in the market that has been left by you. you sold out, end of story.
The critics are correct re the “potty mouthed” content of this blog. One need only to peruse this thread and you find such odious terms such as “Vaz” “Mandleson”,”Balls” ” Smith” and worst of all “Brown” and “Harman”. Disgusting indeed !
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Oderint dum metuant. Caligula
David Aaronovitch has never got over being kicked out of Oxford in his first year there; he wasn’t up to it.
There is a kind of hard left socialist who, if they get in, while they are there and after they’ve left, spend their time saying what a terrible, elitist, place it is, full of toffs and and over privileged Hooray Henrys, never wondering how they themselves got there. But they wouldn’t have given up their place for the world, and live on the cache for the rest of their lives. What a disaster then, to be kicked out and not be able to spend the rest of your life flaunting your privilege while affecting to despise the place.
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My, my! Without hint of irony, these posters confirm what us Socialists have known for more than a decade. The New Labour Party are indistinguishable from the Tories! They are the New Lovers of Money Party – snouts in trough, will waffle. There isn’t a single New Labourite who isn’t on the take. My comrades who earn £12k and have never so much as taken a paperclip laugh long and loud…