March 20th, 2009

Jonah Brown Closed Birmingham Motor Show

motor-showLast July Gordon visited the Motor Show, the showcase for British engineering which has run for over 100 years. The next show has been cancelled.  Only the Kaiser, the Führer and now the Jonah have ever stopped the show from going ahead. The Treasury has a 2p hike in petrol taxes scheduled for next month, this curse on the British Motor Industry is not the result of Jonah Brown’s jinxit is government policy.


80 Comments

  1. 1
    councilhousetory says:

    He looks camp as christmas in that photo.

    • 23
      simon r says:

      yeah he’s thinking – ‘Nice, I wonder if it comes in pink’

    • 42
      EU summit watcher says:

      I like the way Irish radio reports the EU summit with no mention of Gordo’s fantasies of borrowing even more to get out a problem that was caused by too much borrowing in the first place. Gordo is on his own.

    • 43
      Ethan says:

      Think you mean ‘Camp as a row of tents’.

      I agree

  2. 2
    hugh jeffery says:

    Please remind me, how much has the cost of government risen since 1997?

  3. 3
    oldrightie says:

    Mincing for Britain and saving the world. It needs saving from this gobshite.

    • 14
      disgusted says:

      He even out-minces Mandelbrot of Hautboy and Queens.
      Dear God, the Mandelsnake is butch-er than McGayday

  4. 4
    True Capitalist says:

    Oh I give up. The very nice gentlemen posing in the photo doesn’t even drive. You couldn’t make it up.

  5. 5
    wight tory says:

    The first two weren’t on our side, oh I forgot neither is Brown

  6. 6
    Anonymous says:

    ………….well thanks Jim, yes, welcome everybody on a gloriously sunny morning as we prepare for this week’s running of the caption competition. No doubt it will be one to watch as the contenders gather near the strating line. Obviously the great clunking dork Premier Brown is a big contender and is seen here next to a now defunct Toyota, I think it is, super model. What grace and speed this car, didn’t think I meant Brown did ya?, had once, a while ago. Another terminal nightmare. Then there’s the Merkel effect, another contender in the frame you might say. Fabregas’s spitting incident won’t make the grade this week but, suddenly on the back post comes Guido v. Dolly – what chance of a winner here???? There you have it Jim, can’t wait for the finale……back to the studio……

  7. 7

    On a minor point, it is the 2010 show that has been cancelled

  8. 8
    thick as thieves says:

    “you are posting comments too quickly”?
    Guido, you are a nazi.

    • 13

      Take your medication (and the hint).

      • 31
        thick as thieves says:

        weak, very weak.
        you are running out of steam Guido, ’tis you who should be increasing you dosage for your current prescription is clearly not enough.
        your displacement activity may whip up the torydaleks but it is nothing more than a form of obsessive compulsive baiting of the afflicted.
        not very christian, is it?

      • 66
        Anonymous says:

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        I still get it!

        you have a bug

  9. 9
    Anonymous says:

    Car production down 60% last month from a year earlier. Broon is presiding over a wreck.

    • 17
      Pete Stonebridge says:

      car production down 59% in February; vans, trucks and buses production down 72%. Sales of commercial vehicles were down by over half in Feb. compared to 22% fall for cars. The real economy – white van man and haulage – has collapsed.

      Mandelson’s pay-to-scrap scheme due next month will only help the big dealer chains and foreign car plants and waste more taxpayers’ money. Scrap the 2p fuel duty rise and the Scrap Scheme!

    • 25
      vlad the pimp says:

      Why only 60%? Who are these 40% of fucking idiots who think that now would be a good time to go and blow 15,000 quid on a completely discretionary purchase? What’s wrong with your old car? Have you really got nothing better to do with 15,000 quid? Pay off your mortgage? Buy some gold or 1 carat IF Diamonds?

      Probably Labour voters with cast iron public service ‘jobs’. 15,000 quid? Pah, peanuts. I’ll be marching up the grade scale again this year. Plus a guaranteed pay rise?

      Recession? What the fuck are the newspapers on about?

      • 39
        Red Robbo says:

        at least half of all new car sales are fleet. As Brown’s govt. is splurging cash over the public sector fleet orders from police, local authorities, central govt, the NHS, Education etc. is unscathed. Copper’s hardest job is choosing between a BMW 5 series fast response car made in Germany or a Merc E class made in, er, Germany. And people wonder why the UK is broke. In Germany, who makes the sodding things, cops have been ordered to cut back on fuel usage, extend vehicles’ service lives and use pushbikes instead of cars on patrol. It can’t last and it won’t last not least because soon the British pound will be untradeable and then the fun for the public sector and its unlimited car buying stops.

      • 54
        Minekiller says:

        Actually Vlad, I just bought a new car – and because of the extreme crisis in the car industry got a 14,000 reduction….otherwise I’d have just done with the one I had for the past 10 years………(I am still buying gold of course….)

        …no I do not have a public sector McJob

  10. 10
    Pete Stonebridge says:

    Guido, it was the 2008 London motor show, in the ExCel arena, Docklands. SMMT announced yesterday that due to lack of interest from the car companies the 2010 show would not go ahead and indeed may be permanently called off. The last British motor show held at the NEC, Birmingham/Solihull was 2004 I think.

    Britain has no owned car industry and so has become a backwater for the international motor industry. This loss of a major motor show is more proof of that fact.

  11. 11
    Jeremy Clarkson says:

    I fink I’m going to kweye.

    Boo hoo, boo hoo!

    Mummy can I have a cuddle

  12. 16
    Minekiller says:

    How does 2p extra fuel duty help stimulate the economy? Sorry, I must be thick not to see this latest piece of NuLab economic genius.

    • 19
      Anonymous says:

      on a side issue, has anyone seen Draper’s twitter feed today? he’s replied to some wag calling themselves Orin Berkley

    • 21
      Ambrose Silk says:

      According to the Conservatives, it won’t make any difference, just like the VAT cut, so it should be all right.

      Tra laa!

      • 27
        Minekiller says:

        so why do it? Tra fuckin’ la….

      • 64
        Budgie says:

        Where do the Conservatives say that the ZaNu Labour 2p petrol tax rise won’t make any difference?

        The point is that it is inconsistent of McDebt to lower VAT but then raise petrol tax, when his stated aim was to lower taxes to stimulate the economy.

    • 22
      Minekiller says:

      Sorry, replying to myself, but I now get it. The 2p extra is blown on hiring staff for JobCentre ‘Plus’ (LOL) in McJobs to fill in forms for unemplyed people who are trying to get jobs that no longer exist, while NuLab tax the shit out of anyone to the last mile, driving out of the country for the last time….

  13. 18

    “I’m an excellent driver”. Truly the Raymond “Rain Man” Babbit des nos jours

  14. 20
    Clapham Commoner says:

    Not only has the jinxed wastrel announced tax increases on petrol in adavnce, he has also flagged up increases on:

    Income Tax

    Employers’ NI

    Employees’ NI

    Alcohol excise duty escalator

    Supplementary Business rates

    Rates revaluation

    Fees for ID cards

    I don’t suppose he could find any waste to cut instead, could he?

    • 29
      Minekiller says:

      Of course not! This is Nulab….

      What planet do these lunatics inhabit?

      • 52
        thick as thieves says:

        they inhabit the planet that the tory ‘opposition’ helped create you cretin.

      • 57
        Minekiller says:

        @53….the opposition that has been the er…opposition since 1997, that left the country with healthy finances and BoE regulate which you rabble then blew and destroyed?

        …and I’m the cretin?…..umm, thicko methinks you are also up there with your useless NuLabia breathing rarefied air, starving your brains of oxygen, impairing your ability to think.

  15. 24
    Bell End PR says:

    like a chimp with a permanent lipstick dick, Brown is shagging anything that moves

  16. 26
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    Bugger me, now Broon has visited a polling centre and they’ve gone and cancelled the 2010 election.

    • 28
      Minekiller says:

      I just hope he is never invited to visit the Hadron Collider at CERN

      • 32
        who? says:

        Was he not?
        I thought that was the reason it stopped working…

      • 36
        Anonymous says:

        From The Times: “The British Prime Minister, however, has apparently decided to skip the opportunity to be publicly associated with black holes. Responding to a query about whether Gordon Brown would be there to celebrate the passing of the Apocalypse, Downing Street told The Times “to call back nearer the time”.”

        So we’re safe… for now!

      • 67
        aproposofwhat says:

        @36 :

        The Apocalypse?

        It started in Switzerland…

        It wasnae my fault!

  17. 30
    Number 6 says:

    Let’s see tax the car industry and the motorist to death to please the green wankers and save the planet, man. Then when it goes tits up and all those labour voters on the factory floor are gon te lose their jobs, man bail it out, then oh what the fuck this government is a jink on the country.
    on that note just read the unemployment figures for the seaside town I live in – 2,768 chasing a massive 268 jobs. To any Labour chimp reading this – well fucking done you useless bunch of Huhnes. Not that they give a fuck anyway.

    • 38
      who? says:

      We’ll all be gainfully employed thatching each other’s roofs and turning each other’s middens. As for the unemployment figures, the return of cholera, TB and sundry other third-world diseases will take care of them.

      • 45
        Number 6 says:

        Aye lad and don’t forget organic mung bean growing that is going to be one of Brown’s 10,000000 green jobs to be created along with jobs following horses to shovel uup the shit when all those nasty polluting cars are gone.

        Zac and the greenies will be so pleased as they fly over the greener landscape in tier private jets.

    • 48
      Cassandra King says:

      Aaaah the return to the ideal romantic peasant life so beloved of the lefist/ecomentalists, like a Constable painting come back to life eh? Not for the new elite though, they will continue with all the modern trappings of life, what a terrible burden for the new commissars, they would be far happier toiling in the meadows and living in wattle and daub huts!

      • 53
        Number 6 says:

        But we can wave like happy little peasents to them as they drive by in their eco conscious Toyota Penises, while we harvest our organic turnips and prepare to bury our 5th dead child (in an eco friendly wicker coffin of course) before rushing home to our candelit supper as the wind farms will not be producing any electricity today.

      • 56
        thick as thieves says:

        left, right, left, right…
        make your mind up you silly old tart.
        have you got alzheimers?

      • 75
        Cassandra King says:

        TAT, is it so hard for a one dimensional party droid like you to understand that there are people out there who actually have minds of their own and arent limited to left or right?
        Kneejerk party lickspittles are the reason we are in such a fucking mess, robots who toe the fucking line even though its wrong is one of the reasons the UK is up shit creek without a paddle.
        Open your mind and consider that the constructs of left and right are false and indeed dishonest pidgeon holing of people and it limits a persons free will.

  18. 33
    British Prime Minister says:

    bugger, the fucker’s electric, no exhaust pipe to stick me knob in

  19. 34
    crownblog says:

    Brilliant – I just love the Jonah Brown stories. Keep them coming.

    • 51
      thick as thieves says:

      and I suppose you would enjoy giving a good kicking to spastics as well.
      looks like the tories are still the nasty party despite dave’s protestations to the contrary.
      gordon brown is not a well man.
      the real disgrace, other than the cheap shots from Guido and his fellow tories, is that the labour party have allowed a mentally unstable person to remain in charge for so long.
      they should ofcourse have pulled the trigger last summer.

      • 58
        Gordon is a spastic says:

        Gordon is a spastic
        Gordon is a spastic
        Gordon is a spastic
        Gordon is a spastic
        Gordon is a spastic
        Gordon is a spastic
        Gordon is a spastic
        Gordon is a spastic
        Gordon is a spastic

      • 59
        Gordon is a spastic says:

        Gordon is a spastic
        Gordon is a spastic
        Gordon is a spastic
        Gordon is a spastic

      • 62
        Henry Crun says:

        Why do you ask? Are you a spastic. Doesn’t matter whether you are or not, I’m sure I’d ebnjoy giving you a kicking just as much.

      • 63
      • 69
        Ethan says:

        If Gordons so sick then resign and be feckin quick about it.

        Otherwise..
        Gordon is a window licker.
        Gordon is a window licker.
        Gordon is a window licker.
        Gordon is a window licker.
        Gordon is a window licker.

  20. 35
    Anonymous says:

    “Only the Kaiser, the Führer and now the Jonah have ever stopped the show from going ahead”

    That’s one of the funniest things I’ve read

  21. 37
    Carlos says:

    Does anyone know why the monocular mongtard does that putting the tips of his fingers together thing all the time?

    Have his spinners told him to do it as a way of avoiding picking his nose or something? Looks totally unnatural, especially the version where he was on “holiday” with his beard in Suffolk last year.

  22. 40
    gordonshouldweartightertrousers says:

    More ‘real help for real people’. Prick.

    Don’t tell us, it was a Global Motor Show with Global influences and it was the Global motoring manufacturers that called it off. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off for a cup of Global tea.

    • 46
      Anonymous says:

      Hasn’t this world of ours, this round spherical thing, this base for all human life of many different nationalities, in a capitalist (failing) economic earth ALWAYS BEEN FUCKING GLOBAL?

      • 80
        Budgie says:

        Yes, and the UK recession created by McDebt has contributed to the global recession, rather than being the victim of it.

  23. 44
    Anonymous says:

    interesting, because I saw Ed Balls in a Peugeot 206 driving out of Homebase in Ledbury yesterday, looking around to see if anyone noticed his vastly superior frame. Now, howzabout something similar for MPs of all hues?

  24. 49
    6th Gear says:

    The useless idiot doesn’t even drive. This appears overlooked by all you luvvies.

  25. 50

    My comment showed up here despite having a header “awaiting moderation” and has now disappeared – accident or design?

  26. 61
    pp says:

    Cyclops makes me pay more tax to discourage car use and Cyclops makes me pay more tax to encourage car use. Make up your fucking mind you stupid, stupid retarded piece of sh*t. I am only human, I work hard, I look after my family, I pay my taxes, I want the government off my back and out of my face. So make up your fucking mind you stupid, stupid retarded piece of sh*t so I can stop wasting time working out what new scheme you and your brain dead government want to impose on me and can get on with my life – the rest of which I rather enjoy.

    I’m off to text lord ahmed with his next contract…

    • 65
      Lord Ahmed says:

      just got your text, thank you, I’m going around a roundabout at the mom………shit, written off another car, nevermind I’ll get one on expenses…..

      • 70
        The Pushbike song says:

        that was my car you fecking hoon. Oh well I’ll just get another with the McFuckwit rebate.
        Oh …Oh dear all the car makers are bust how did that happen

        Inquistion you are still a total utter Hoon

  27. 71
    Thatsnews says:

    They should never have moved it to the back end of Docklands.

  28. 72
    urinalpeeps says:

    “and this atween ma hauns “ill be the size o’ Dougie Alexander’s erse if ah dinnae win ra next election so get stufffin thae wee postal votin envelopes ya wee poofter”

  29. 73
    Adolf says:

    £50,000 reward for the man or woman who takes out McBroon at the G20 summit

  30. 78
    Anders says:

    Don’t worry Gordon will save us as long as he doesn’t do anything stupid like putting 2p on fuel duty…oops!

  31. 79
    RobW says:

    It seems that the mighty Dunfirmline Building Society is now Scotland’s largest remaining independent financial institution, but perhaps not for much longer as it is going broke. It seems that the Scots in general have been infected by Mc Bust’s lack of financial acumen.

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article5946546.ece



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