March 27th, 2009

Dear Damian McBride,

To DMcBride@xxxxxxxxxx.gov.uk
CC foiteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.gsi.gov.uk

Dear Damian,

This is a Subject Access Request made under the provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998).

Please provide me with copies of all emails referring to either myself or my publication, “the Guido Fawkes Blog”.  In particular, but not exclusively, the analysis provided by you to Derek Draper on the afternoon of Friday 13, February 2009.

I have copied this to the Cabinet Office Freedom of Information Unit.  If you require payment of a fee please advise by return.

I do not need to remind you that it would would be a criminal offence to destroy the information requested.

Yours etc.


126 Comments

  1. 1
    Ambrose Silk says:

    More Derek Draper tosh, what’s becoming of you Guidorc?

    Tra laa!

    • 17
      Dirty Rat says:

      Ambrose.
      Have taken up wanking as I suggested? Don’t bother about what your mother says, it is quite a natural thing to do and you will probably find that it clears up your spotty teenage complexion.

    • 19
      Slave Labour says:

      Guido vs Draper

      Is this the funniest clip you have ever seen?

      • 21
        Slave Labour says:

        I should ad it is an hilarious spoof and not the daily polictics show.

        Many Guido co conspiritors get a namecheck.

        If you don’t piss yourself laughing you are either new to this blog or have no sense of humour.

      • 31
        Papiere, zeigen Sie mir Ihre Papiere - schnell!!! says:

        Are you sure that isn’t really Dolly?…

      • 34
        ambrose welk says:

        lol Guido you have to post this clip,
        you owe it to your readers!

      • 66
        Anonymous says:

        wet myself!!!!

      • 84
        J Tiberius K says:

        PASSWORD – TIMOTEI

        Absolutely priceless……you have made my weekend!

      • 87
        Anon says:

        Excellent, I nearly suffered a spontaneous micturation.

      • 100
        Wossat? says:

        Bloody inspired! Thanks for the larf.

      • 111

        That was very funny!

        Quite realistic, too. Though I could imagine hearing Mrs Draper saying: “Oh, well, if you WILL keep exaggerating, what can you expect?!”

    • 62
      Anonymous says:

      You are a tired old muppet and a boring troll.

      Tra laa!

    • 88
      Anonymous says:

      Interesting Rosecoloured Puke
      You manage to post twice as first.

      In other words you are monitoring the site and blog the instant a new topic arrives. In which case as we all know you are a troll and A SPY!!! so therefore any argument however lunatic or god forbid even sensible? is null and void from you.

      Once an accident twice you are screwed.
      FUCK OFF

  2. 2
    Hannibal says:

    One of Draper’s minions, Ambrose Silk?

    I saw this photo of Draper taking telephone instructions on the subject:

    http://chubarama.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/johnny_vegas_1.jpg

    • 6
      Anonymous says:

      Jonny Vegas at least bathes

    • 13
      Ambrose Silk says:

      After his humiliation in tellyland Guidorc said he was going to leave this Draper thing alone.
      Even his loyal old superannuated harem of old commenters are sick of it.
      An hour or two in the pub on a Friday and he’s off again.
      What is he a Goldfish?

      Tra laa!

      • 40
        Peter Grimes says:

        Why is Silky Arsehole so worried about Guido’s continuing spat with Lardarse Dolly if none of it, according to Silky Arsehole (a favourite of Lady Mandlebum), is worth the effort?

        I think we have a right to know!

        Tra laa!

      • 61

        Ambrose, don’t give up the weekend job at McDonalds, you’ll need something decent on your CV when you leave school.

      • 108
        H says:

        I love hearing about Guido and his problems with Dolly cos Dolly is such a loud mouthed, arrogant, opinionated wanker. I for one don’t want this to be a ‘Dolly Free Zone’!

    • 29
      Plato says:

      ROTFL

      That is really a very good likeness.

      Will post link on my blog too – it like Dan Dare needs the widest possible fan club.

    • 37

      nah!Thats not dolly, mobiles hadn’t been invented the last time he had a bath.

      • 68
        AJS says:

        I’ll have you know the last time I took a bath was in 1992, and the time before that was about 1979.

        Plenty of showers in the meantime, mind.

      • 71
        youdontknowme says:

        Famously he claimed to be on the phone from the whirlpool bath in amsterdam with a prostitute in the late 90s. (got him sacked from talk radio)

        Of course, he said afterwards that it was just a joke.

    • 67
      Plato says:

      Posted – thanks Hannibal – it’s uncanny.

    • 113
      Jim the Jock says:

      I like Guido, he’s a cheeky chappie, but anti-chubby comments against Dolly might also apply closer to home?

  3. 3
    Anonymous says:

    At least you’re standing by your word (sort of). I’m still waiting for Draper’s ‘line-by-line’ analysis of Hannan’s speech.

    • 4
      Ambrose Silk says:

      Have a look at Hannan’s views on the NHS posted on his youtube account this morning.
      Hannan is going to be the clown that keeps on giving to the Labour Party cause.

      Tra laa!

    • 5
      Anonymous says:

      he’s lost his pointer

    • 14
      Muppet says:

      I had the misfortune to see Draper last night on Channel 4 News, wearing glasses to try to make himself look intellectual (and less like a bin man), where he was his usual mouthy and insulting self as he shouted down Dan Hannon.
      Rather than come up with any constructive criticism, he defended McDooms policies as “at least he’s doing something!”.
      The same defence can presumably be applied to:
      i) Swapping deckchairs on the Titanic
      ii) Pissing in the wind
      iii) Shipping coals to Newcastle

      Well you get my drift.

      • 38
        The Duchess of Wotton Underwood says:

        Told to “shut up” by Neil and Snow in less than 8 hours. As Mrs Duchess remarked last night – ” I bet he’s not wearing clean grollies!”

      • 105
        Anonymous says:

        “less like a bin man” – brilliant! You’ve got his look spot on (plus his pretensions – a) how does that clown get on TV b) what bit of circuitry is missing in his non-achieveing brain that he says “Who is Dan Hannan? No one’s heard of him!”

      • 121
        maggil says:

        I thought he resembled an Albanian sex-trafficker when arguing with Guido on the Politics show and like an Albanian sex-trafficker in disguise on Jon S’s ‘show’. Most of the bin men I’ve seen look quite respectable cf to Mr D

  4. 7
    Iknewdamo says:

    I happen to know Damian McBride was very careful about FOI requests – perhaps you should make requests for Gu!do Fawkes or Guido 4kes as well……

    • 10
      • 18
        Ambrose Silk says:

        Don’t you mean….

        Eggshactly.

        Tra laa!

      • 32
        Papiere, zeigen Sie mir Ihre Papiere - schnell!!! says:

        He won’t be reading (or even know about) this yet – he’s in Chile with Gordo.

      • 63
        The BBC are vermin says:

        Ambrose shite appears on other blogs under the buffoonish title of baron laurence de quietzapple.
        Just how many of you paid labour burks are there infesting the blogs.
        I think no more than 4.
        As for that poofter pride, he’s most likely DES.

      • 96
        Anonymous says:

        64 TBaV

        Quietzapple?

        IIrc that was one of the pseudos of A Campbell

    • 36
      Plato says:

      What a lovely Blackberry surprise for him in that case.

      • 44
        The Duchess of Wotton Underwood says:

        “he’s in Chile with Gordo.”

        Should have taken Dolly too. He’s a bit of a Junta.

  5. 8
    Plato says:

    Smart move Mr Fawkes.

    They do say that one should only ask questions one already knows the answer to.

    BTW, Mr Ireland is off on one again at Mr Dale’s.

    • 16
      .... and the mice do play.... says:

      Meanwhile – children’s book publisher to release updated “Where’s Wally ?” series entitled “Where’s Gordon ?” – it appears only the BBC knows the exact answer as other countries’ broadcasters seem to have totally ignored Brown’s Mission to Save the World or are downplaying its significance ahead of the G20 Summit lovefest next week

    • 42
      Anonymous says:

      Ireland has a point though, surely. Guido said he had this material already, now he’s making a request for it.

      • 45
        vlad the pimp says:

        Maybe he does have it. As always the big story is the cover up. That’s what fucked Nixon.

    • 99
      Anonymous says:

      1st military maxim, do not start a war unless you know you can win it.

  6. 9
    LOL from Planet Mad says:

    Bit puzzled about this; why ask him for it? You stated on that Laugh a minute hit with D/D that you had seen and or had a copy of this document? Is this a cunning trap?

    • 35
      Peter Grimes says:

      Fuckwit!

      • 55
        The Watcher says:

        5:00 in.

        Guido claims to have the briefing on DALE not himself.

        FOI claim above implies Guido knows a similar document exists about him.

      • 92
        Anonymous says:

        OK. If Guido’s got the briefing on Dale, why doesn’t he pass it on to him? Dale says he’s putting in an FOI request for it but surely he could just email or phone is pal Guido? This stinks of Fawkes bullshit. You are as big a spinner as Draper, Guido.

    • 97
      Anonymous says:

      No, it’s not a cunning trap. Guido’s just a lying Hunt. What was all that crap about ‘authenticity’ v spin?

  7. 11
    bergen says:

    Good man.That’ll concentrate the mind.

  8. 12
    Charles Bayonet-Smythe says:

    they don’t like it up ‘em

  9. 15

    Why are you asking for evidence you already claimed to have on national television?

    • 24
      Kronos says:

      along the lines of If they claim it doesn’t exist – old Guido produces it, and hey presto the look like a bunch of hoons. They do produce it at they hang themselves. Win win for Guido and other bloggers like you. If Guido is flying a kite them the mud sticks to him. This should be fun, in a long winded sort of way

    • 28
      Anonymous says:

      Well, here’s thought. Maybe GF does have such evidence. Maybe Macbride suspects he does. That kind of puts Macbride in a bit of a tricky spot does it not? If he reveals nothing, or the wrong thing, he is in the poo. So he may end up having to reveal far more than if GF just reveals what he has now. Clever, no?

    • 39
      Plato says:

      Rather like another charming man called Nigel Griffiths – who denied that it-was-he until shown the pictures of the mystery brunette next to his pedal bin.

  10. 20

    To quote Wellington Ah! That will do !

  11. 22
    Romeo says:

    Somebody told me that Draper was doing an honours degree in masturbation but gave up after he fell out with himself.

  12. 23
    Cassius says:

    I had a first cousin called Arthur MacBride.

    Come to think of it, so did Guido.

  13. 25
    Fucking Delicious! says:

    Ya bunch of soft sassenach sissies! Y’all never beat gordon and mcbride!

    damein#s a great lad

    he’s fucking delicious!

  14. 26
    McFlurry says:

    Anyone see Dolly Draper on Sky News this morning telling what a lovely guy Gordon is?

    Draper also dropped in a ‘quote’ from Obama, who apparently said (to Draper?) “Thank God we’ve got Gordon Brown around. He knows how all this (economic stuff) works”

    • 47
      Anonymous says:

      ‘…apparently said to Draper…’!
      As if the secret service would allow Draper within 100 yards of the Obamessiah.
      If Draper did actually get within earshot of The One, his next stop would be in a freight container on an airfield in Affyland with a wash in a water butt to look forward to.

    • 49
      Proud Dundonian says:

      It all helps the cause; as Donal Blaney says: “Help me get Derek Draper on TV as much as possible”

    • 90
      anonymous says:

      I think you’ll find Obama actually said

      “Naw that’s ok -Joe – if Blockbuster doesn’t stock Region 2 Disks in the “States” get the set anyway. I mean it’s not like we need to impress the guy, is it ?”

  15. 30
    Doug says:

    Go get ‘em Guido. You’ll be doing the country a service getting after these duplicitous, politicised, Labour civil servants.

  16. 33
    Crackers says:

    McBride will have used his personal Blackberry to relay the info.

    He will confirm that no emails were exchanged between his office and Draper.

    McBride did not get where he is today by being caught out telling the truth.

    • 41
      Plato says:

      Nope – the corporate Blackberry service operates through the Cab Office servers – it makes no difference what gadget it was sent from.

  17. 43
    Martin says:

    The shredding machines at Downing Street have been at work for months. I hope they remembered to delete the backups though. Tut tut tut

  18. 46
    Labour Pride says:

    As Ambrose and I mull over our afternoon cones of water and anti depressant pills down in the old bunker, I have to admit that we in Browns smelly HQ and out there in the wider Labour Stasi really are a sorry mendacious shower of shite.

    Apologies to the whole nation, but once the pills kick in we’ll be spouting our third rate propaganda once again alas.

    Tra laardy da!

  19. 50
    Guidorc O'Belly Pot says:

    Back to Basics

    Guido has enjoyed baiting Draper over the last few months. However all good things must come to an end and it is time to get back to the real business of the blog. Exposing the mis-deeds of politicians of all colours.

  20. 52
    Charley Pride says:

  21. 53

    The only way Draper can get on TV is because of the ‘blog wars’. Do not expect for Draper to talk the truth, that’s not what he is there for – think about it.

  22. 54
    Trumpeter Lanfried says:

    Does it count as a criminal offence if he deleted the e-mails before he received your request? And who gets to look at his hard disk to discover when the e-mails were deleted and whether the clock has been tampered with?

  23. 56
    That's News says:

    Dear Damian,

    This is a Subject Access Request made under the provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998).

    Oh! Does this explain why the hoonistas have been attacking Iain Dale’s blog? And now this blog, too?

  24. 57
    • 69
      Plato says:

      Oh don’t – total car crash.

      “I have to leave at 0530 to get to work by 0930 – it’s 37 miles away”

      O’Reilly?

      “But I only claimed 55% of the total possible” Oh, that’s all right then?

      “Parliament works like clockwork – so I have to get there by 0930 – unlike a Lib Dem” ??

      Everytime he opened his mouth he dug down another 3ft.

      • 98
        King Gordon the Brown says:

        not unreasonable for an MP to have a second home in London to attend HoC. Commuting such a distance takes 10-15 hrs per week.

        If the system provides for a second home, MPs should take advantage of it. It means they are better able to serve the commons.

        What is unacceptable is MPs lying. Claiming 1000s in rent for places they dont stay at – or even pay rent for.

        Question Time seemed to have Labour thugs bussed in for the purpose of noise making.

        The BBC will be investigated and its house will be cleaned up – and reduced in size.

      • 109
        H says:

        Sorry – I don;t see why someone who lives 37 miles from work should get paid for a second home.
        When I worked in IT in the city, I lived in South Bucks – 30 something miles from work. If I had to work late, I may have been provided with a taxi (although I usually got the last tube home if I finished before about 23.30), but I still got to work on time the next day. Of course, overnight I could’ve been called up to sort out problems, so didn;t get much sleep, but unless I had a 6am start I still had to travel on the London Underground to get to work.
        MPs are not the only people who work unsociable hours, but they are the only ones who think they deserve more than the average wage in this country in expenses!

        But hey – I worked in the real world – not the one of MPs!

  25. 58
    Anonymous says:

    Yes, you’re very quiet on the Eric Pickles slow-mo train-wreck on QT last night Guido. How come?

  26. 59
    Cassius says:

    Has it not occured to the doubters both here and over at Dale’s that Guido indeed has the evidence which he referred to yesterday, but wants to obtain more (and drag out the story) while protecting the source from which he has the original evidence?

    simple enough, I would have thought.

  27. 60
    Martin 'Give us the Facts' Newry says:

    Guido said he’d deliver the evidence – I think he’ll stick to his word – after all he’s an Irish man – a man of honour. He won’t let down 1000s of loyal readers. I think he has got the evidence and a lot more. Play the waiting game.

    Meanwhile what has Guido got on Derek Draper’s being ‘thrown out’ of the Wright Institute after only three years? MOST INTRIGUING!

    Guido when you went over to California last week did you get an alumni or schoolbook list?

    Are there any alumni prepared to talk?

    Is anyone in the faculty prepared to give details ?

    DOES ANYONE OUT THERE KNOW ANYONE WHO WAS AT THE WRIGHT INSTITUTE WITH DEREK DRAPER AND IS PREPARED TO DISCUSS HIS TIME THERE??????????????

    nb Previous bloggers have made clear that a qualification from the Wright Institute only allows you to practice within the state of California. Therefore tracking down those qualified psychotherapists who were at this school with Derek should be easy?

    Like Jeffrey Archer the truth will out….

  28. 65
    PRL says:

    I’m assuming your attempted play on words relates to the expression ‘dork’, no? At least spell it right, idiot

  29. 72
    Derek Draper Gordon Brown dream team says:

    These problem started in America

    Specifically, Berkeley…

  30. 74

    There’s more to come out, I think.

    It will be like Watergate and Nixon.

  31. 75
    Half the Story Told says:

    Surely the point of the request it to get the same item of information that Guido already has.

    If that item is not forthcoming, then Guido can go to the Information Commissioner with evidence that the either (a) the cabinet office (b) mcbride, or (c) those acting on either a or c’s requests had deleted/destroyed items that relate to the request for information.

    Simply this is a win/win for Guido, he gets the evidence which is then in the public domain or he gets them butt f@cked by the Information Commissioner for seriously breaching the rules.

  32. 76
    Eric Pickles says:

    Pickles admitted he claimed a second home allowance as he lived 37 miles from his home constituency and therefore needed to leave his constituency house at 5.30am in order to get to Westminster for 9.30am. However, subsequent investigation into rail timetables show that, even allowing for half an hour to get from his house to the nearest railway station, he could leave at 7.20am and still be at Westminster comfortably by 9am.

  33. 77
    Chris says:

    Interesting that you said on television that you would publish this evidence yet you clearly do not have it. We draw our own conclusions.

    • 95
      Anonymous says:

      I agree. Until you prove otherwise, I can only assume that you are a bullshitting liar, Gyuido.

  34. 81
    Plato says:

    FOI applies to publicly funded bodies – not sure if UNITE falls into this category – try googling it.

    • 85
      Why am I still paying my UNITE Union subs.... says:

      Subject Access Request relates to Data Protection Act and applies to data held about an individual. Anyone can send a cheque for a tenner, maybe twenty and they have to give you the info in so many days otherwise you can complain to the Information Commissioner.

  35. 82
    Derek Draper's chin says:

    I’m the brains behind this operation.

  36. 89
  37. 103
    Anonymous says:

    It occurred to me you are.

  38. 104
    Anonymous says:

    You forgot the Tra Laas

  39. 115
    Anonymous says:

    First you will, then you won’t, now you will. What happened? Cheque bounced?

  40. 116
    Anonymous says:

    The numbering on this site is fucked.

    Scrap the nesting. Keep the numbering but get them right. Please.

  41. 117
    Hugh Jardon says:

    Whilst I’ve not had chance to view said clip, would it be acceptable for me to mention that I may have jizzed all over Mrs D’s shakers when i was 17??

  42. 118
    A convert to the cause says:

    After watching Guido make this Draper chap look like an idiot on the Politics Show, i decided to look into the world of political blogging. It appears you have done a fanastic job, and i am now a convert to the cause! I plan to read frequently in the coming months.

  43. 120
    Anonymous says:

    Do the news presenters and anchors dislike him too ?

  44. 122
    Anonymous says:

    Draper’s got up to some fairly dodgy stuff – made it difficult for me to vote in elections once I realised that there were people like him involved. What I want to know is, is everybody else like me too feeble to come forward and speak.

  45. 123

    I wonder, since these emails were from one person to another and presumably intended to be private wheteher the data protection act or some similar legislation has been breached?

  46. 124
    Serious Conservative says:

    The smear operation was silly, but not as silly as the MSM think, since the truth about Cameron may be far more damaging, and may relate to more recent events. Better-informed members of the government and intelligence services are said to be aware and holding back.

    A retired intelligence officer is alleged to have briefed in Eric Pickles, and rumours are flying around the patriotic, God-fearing, Empire-loving Right wing of the Party that DC may be forced to resign by the Chairman.

    The problem for DC is that intelligence files on him are not just held in the UK but in South Africa, Russia, France, Germany, China, Taiwan and the US. Obviously the French, the Germans and the Chinese will not be going public on a man committed to serving the EU (in effect Franco-German) interest, and the CIA are staying quiet for the time being, but the Russians, South Africans and Taiwanese are a different matter.

    Rand Daily Mail and other SA papers with intel connections are said to be in the loop.

    Key right-wingers with intelligence connections are said to have opened up a channel of communication with Taipei. Certainly there is a stream of damaging intelligence about the ChiComs headed to Taipei, inlcuding details of Mao Tse Tung’s recruitment by the German Secret Service (pre-Abwehr) in Paris and Chinese Intelligence’s (CSIS) role in the sabotage of two Boeing 777-200 aircraft flying out from Chinese airports.

    Watch this space.

  47. 125
    Gordoncu9tbrown says:

    Anyone who likes or works for Gordon Huntbrown is a shitebag by association.

  48. 126
    Gordoncu9tbrown says:

    Gordon Brown is a shitebag full stop



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