April 9th, 2009

+++ Yates Replaces Quick as Terror Chief +++

Mayor Boris confirms the replacement.

UPDATE : Quick has not resigned from the police service, he remains on full pay and keeps all his entitlements and pensions despite what is technically a breach of the Official Secrets Act.

UPDATE II 09.30 : Sky News reporting he has resigned from the Metropolitan Police. How un-New Labour, to do the honourable thing.   Did Boris push him?

Boris Thumbs UpUPDATE III 10.20 : Boris Johnson said “I have this morning with great reluctance and sadness…… accepted Bob Quick’s resignation as head of counter terrorism”.  Guido was unable to reach Damian Green for comment.


723 Comments

  1. 1
    vervet says:

    I think the Met can see which way the political wind is blowing !

    • 2
      jammy dogger says:

      Blowing out of Boris’s arse.

    • 213
      Peter Grimes says:

      O/T, but I thought that the CPS (and our ‘government’) said they expected to reach a decision as to whether or not to prosecute Damian Green by February.

      What are they waiting for – a bad news day?

    • 325

      Labour must be furious. He was a NuLabTopCop and he blew it again.

      Even worse, Boris – who Labour simply cannot stand – has accepted his resignation. Two NuLabTopCops gone under Bozza.

      Mind you, the string pullers need to understand the resolving power of a top-end Nikon or Canon system. Dickheads. This sort of thing has happened at least four times before. Remember the housing market predictions waved around by Flint?

      • 388
        Taxfodder says:

        UK politics reminds me of a popular TV show:

        “FLOP IDOL”

        The masses voted and they voted for crooks, idiots and chancers

        Good old “BLUNDER BRITAIN”

        Westminster, getting on with the job!

      • 406

        Good old Flint. How we miss her howlers, not safely covered up in Europe where no one cares.

        That file she was carrying even had her own notes red inked above the text.
        REMEMBER
        HOUSE PRICES UP = GOOD
        HOUSE PRICES DOWN = BAD

    • 533
      Peter Grimes says:

      Please let Boris’ platitudes about ‘accepting his resignation with regret’ be just that, and Bozo really told him to fall on his sword (or Heckler & Koch)!

  2. 3
    Julian says:

    Any chance he can investigate Levy, Blair and co on the grounds of terrorism now?

    • 234
      Hypocrisy says:

      Levy is above the law, and Blair don’t live here no more.

      • 538
        Anonymous says:

        This vile creep got dozens of anti-terror police to raid a Tory’s office – wouldn’t want to waste their time chasing terrorists would he. I’m sure he’ll end up on a Quango.

  3. 4
    Shepherd's Bush says:

    Good

    • 32
      councilhousetory says:

      Double good.

      • 82
        Vaz-Pride says:

        Have any Labour politicians ever actually resigned once they’ve been discredited? Errr i can’t think of one. Robin Cook and Frank Field both resigned on principle and they were unusually good men in a field of scum bags.

        So Hoon, Hain, Smith, Vaz, Darling, McNulty, Jowell, et all keep their well paid jobs but not their integrity. Wankers.

      • 89
        Vas Deferens says:

        And look what happened to Robin Cook.

      • 280
        Gordon says:

        Estelle Morris also resigned for not being good enough

      • 366
        Julian says:

        Estelle Morris resigned just to spend more time with her money.

      • 665
        Anonymous says:

        Im sure Robin Cooks first wife would have something to say about his so called “integrity”.

        The little wanker only resigned as he was positioning himself to get Bliars Job as he expected it to go tits up. Oddious little creep.

    • 306
      just down the road from Shepherd's Bush says:

      also good!

  4. 5
    What me? Impartial? Nick Robinson says:

    Another ZanuLabour police sympathiser sent to the Gulag, fookin beauty

  5. 6
    getthemout says:

    Another useless politically correct labour placeman gone -good riddance.

    • 101
      Anonymous says:

      hear hear!!!

      • 157
        Anonymous says:

        Good riddance to a nasty, dishonest, Nu Labour politican who abused his positioin, used terror legislation to go after a Tory and then made silly lies about it.
        We are blessed to live in a democracy where scum like this (who prospered under Labour) are chucked out….. well done Boris.. if it was you.

  6. 7
    Pete-s says:

    On Newsnight, the Beeb had ex mayor Ken on with Paxman, I expect no ZaNULab was going to put head above the trenches . This pompus, stupid man said, it’s only a single mistake. Why should he go? Same reason as you Ken, your both arrogant and incompetent.

    • 20
      Ruth Kelly's plaything says:

      Ken did a dreadful job of defending Quick. I almost thought he had been put up by the Opposition to torpedo Quick’s chances of recovery, but he was so incompetent that I had to dismiss the idea. (A certain logical flaw in that, I accept!)

      • 268
        njleaton says:

        Ken performed much better than the imbecile he was up against. The Tory couldn’t decide what, if anything, should be done about it.

    • 25
      Henry Crun says:

      Why should he go!!?? What sort of fuckwit goes around with documents marked TOP SECRET on display to all and sundry?

      Just puffed up, self-important, attention-seeking Labour sycophants. That’s who.

    • 115
      Max says:

      A mistake which categorises a completely self centred, lightweight regime. Caroline Flint did exactly the same; “me, me, me, I’m too busy and important to buy a 50p folder and briefcases are so, so, nasty old fashioned tory; me, me, me, important aren’t I? I get to carry these … oh, bugger must have left it on the train”. It is the institutionalised ZNL mindset; next go to the press and afterwards sign up for celebrity jungle reality show.

    • 129
      Bertie Ahern says:

      Only mistake I seem to recall a few months back he was advertising his car hire business on the internet complete with home address.

    • 198
      Labour is rotten from head to foot says:

      Could not happen to a nicer chap.
      Still he should have plenty of time to get on with the chauffering business.
      I cannot believe that anyone with a grain of “intelligence” ever let this gormless prat anywhere near security services.

    • 242
      Geordie Girl says:

      Livingstone’s patronising, condescending attitude towards Chris Grayling, along with the sneering Jeremy Paxman, was utterly disgraceful.

      • 482
        Pete-s says:

        Agree, but Grayling was not forthright and did not come over too well. Ken said losing Quick was a big loss to anti terrorism. A typical Ken lie, Quick has only been in the job 1 year. He was previously chief constable of an area of which Grayling is the MP. Therefore Grayling knows Quick’s CV very well. I later came to the conclusion that Grayling saw not point in a having a needless fight with a has-been politician lying politician like Ken. Save your efforts for a fight worth winning.

    • 639
      Blank Xavier says:

      I have to say, I concur with Ken in this matter.

      I think it excessive for him to resign over this. An accident – a damaging accident – but a true accident all the same.

  7. 8
    Wossat? says:

    At last! A glimmer of common sense! Not before frigging time…

    • 516
      Mothers_Pride says:

      Brown says the terror plot is very big.
      These people hate our wonderful government.

      Yeah right – I can narrow it down for you pal, shouldn’t be more than 60 million or so British who hate Nu Liebours guts.

      Labour = corrupt feckwits and their window licking supporters.

      Corrupt? Like stealing money? Wouldn’t know right from wrong if it bit you in the ar5e? why not consider becoming a Labour MP. All the 88p bath plugs you can claim for.
      Corrupt b’tards!

      • 708
        Rembrandt says:

        They’re all fuckwits. Greedy hoons the lot of them. I do feel a bit for this idiot – the media plays nearly as big a role as politicians do now but this is what makes what happens in our country accessible – he’s paid for his loose tongue and ill judgement in storming the Commons to bang up a Tory and then trying to pick a public fight about it afterwards.

        Standards have dropped in the last 12 years under Labour. It’s alright to fuck about and keep your job – at least he did the right thing and fucked off. I stil think Mandelson has something on Tory Bliar….give it time.

  8. 9
    BrianSJ says:

    “Taxi for Quick”

  9. 11
    Ninnymous says:

    Good riddance to Bad rubbish. Let’s hope there is no recycling scheme in place

  10. 12
    Anonymous says:

    When is Jacqui going to to the decent thing and fuck off?

    • 17
      Dick the Prick says:

      Bloody good point. Bob did the decent – what’s that?

    • 18
      Minekiller says:

      Hopefully, bathplugs herself may be next. Exactly how many scandals can she brazen her way through. At least not the murder of a private citizen on his way home from work as a result of a cowardly attack from behind by a uniformed Police officer?

      • 298
        Hairspray says:

        She’s whinging in the Mail that people only have a go at her because she’s female, innit, and they wouldn’t mind at all if it was a bloke wandering off with our money. Given the amount they’ve trousered, she almost looks like she has a point. But not for long.

      • 337
        Free Bath Plugs: bath plugs are innocent says:

        Sign the petition: bath plugs for the many, not the few:

        http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Bathplugs/

    • 24
      Ruth Kelly's plaything says:

      You might well ask, Anon 8:40.

      It does now look as if Jacqui-two-Homes-Secs-films has made her calculation:-

      ‘If I fire Quick, will it act as:-

      ‘1. A sacrifice that will divert attention from my own appalling behaviour and enable me to keep on troughing; or…

      ‘2. A breach in the ever-weakening dam through which the next blood to flow will have to be mine.’

      One thing to be counted on: principle will have played no part in the decision. It is all down to political expediency.

      With luck, ZanuLab’s other friends in the organs of state will note how Quick was treated and recognise that they might be next to be dumped when things get tough. (BBC, anyone?)

      • 103
        Anonymous says:

        Good points but as I understand it Ms Five belly bathplug cant sack him only the Mayor can.

    • 29
      The Widemouthed Duchess of Wotton Underwood says:

      Bit of deep thought and “guidance” over the weekend? Who knows what wisdom might be gleaned from a glistening spare rib, butting the plug and rustling around in the shrubbery….?

      • 62
        The Quick and the Dead says:

        Mrs Boots gave the Quick plodder her full support, FFS how is she hanging on. If her ladyship was from the Land of the Rising Sun, she would fall on her sword. Literally!

        She looks like she’s just licked piss from a nettle leaf. That is a personal perspective on the ugly hoon and probably has no place here…sorry.

    • 709
      Rembrandt says:

      She’s a complete fucking hoon. How on earth someone in her position can stay is beyond belief. They’re just all sticking around now because they know what’s going to happen when the people get asked what they want….that’s right – Fuck Off Labour. You were only selected before because people thought ‘…we could do with a change…’ – and look where the fuck that got us.

  11. 14
    Anonymous says:

    Wow! A resignation! By a NuLab fellow traveller. And for incompetence! Let’s hope that he sets a trend.

    • 160
      Anonymous says:

      Its wonderful
      No Ken, No Police Chief Blair, No Quick.

      London can breathe a sigh of relief.

      Soon the whole lot of Laour crooks will be gone.

  12. 15
    English Liberation Front says:

    Another New Labour Stasi Chief bites the dust. Good riddance!

  13. 16
    Grytpype-thynne says:

    This was an extremely serious and brainless breach of security which may have grave consequences.Quick’s judgement was already suspect;it is right that swift action has been taken.What a refreshing change this makes!

  14. 19
    Monty says:

    I’d never heard of this guy Quick before this. Does he have form ?

    • 34
      BordeauxBinger says:

      Lots of it. Mainly of a self serving nature. A bit like the Home Sec’s attitude to moral behaviour. “If it pleases me it must be moral”

      • 97
        Taxpayer says:

        He’s the one who runs a limo business from his house and sent terror police to arrest the shadow immigration spokesman

        Not very inspiring – good riddance?

        Can we get Jackie smith to pay us back for the stone sink, patio heaters, sofa bed, Samsung 32inch flat screen tv, scatter cusions, footstool upvc windows, plants, monaco patio set…………..

      • 106
        Anonymous says:

        ….and bath plug

      • 209
        Screwed by the system says:

        Don’t forget the mortgage payments

      • 503
        Hoon!!! says:

        and the toothbrush holder…

  15. 21
    Galloping Gurner says:

    He is still a ‘Top Cop’. He is still at the top in the MET and has influence in what happens. He still has his pay and pensions. He has not gone away.

    • 30
      Chuck Unsworth says:

      Yep, you have to wonder what the payoff was. I expect he’ll resurface shortly. I also expect Cressida Dick to put her name forward for the post – assuming Yates’ appointment to be temporary. But as always you have to ask who appointed this prat and whether we should be trusting their judgement again.

      • 50
        Galloping Gurner says:

        Wow, I stand corrected. He’s gone. Good riddance.

      • 51
        jammy dogger says:

        I just have to laugh when I hear the name “Cressida Dick” – preposterous lesbian scenes flood into my puerile mind, I’m sorry to say.

      • 121
        anon and broke but still paying for smiths sink plug says:

        her met nickname is Cressida Dickless

      • 666
        Anonymous says:

        Dick=Stockwell. Nuf said !

    • 112
      Air Nokia One says:

      Sadly Galloping, He hasen’t gone he keeps his salary, pensions and uniform. Even if I had done nothing wrong I’d frigging resign if I could do that.

      He’s on ‘gardening leave’ which in other words is sitting on his fat labour arse and soaking the taxpayer for the next few months while doing bugger all until such time as he can be promoted to the next higher level of total incompetence.

      • 237
        Hypocrisy says:

        Perhaps he can discover a foreign ancestor and make a claim for racial discrimination as opposed to incompetence and unsuitability for the job.

  16. 22
    Dungeekin says:

    Don’t be fooled. The resignation is just a cover-up.

    Quick’s actually been arrested in a dawn raid by SO19 officers. Turns out he’s actually an Al-Qaeda mole.

    D

    • 206
      fjw says:

      Oh, Ho! Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, eh. Nah, don’t think AQ have got the brains for that and certainly not the subtlety. Shame.

  17. 23
    Anonymous says:

    At least it shows some integrity which is more than can be said about the Home Secretary, shamed in her expense claims scandals.

  18. 26
    Rakes progress says:

    Dur! Thicko lefty boy, if you have to read documents in the taxi on the way to the meeting, you’re not properly prepared in the first place….

  19. 28
    simon r says:

    Anyone else notice how just after Jacqui had toured the tv studios to defend herself and take a kicking we had this counter terrorism operation yesterday ?

    Did she know all about it beforehand so she got all the expenses questions out of the way so that when she goes on tv today she can say ‘ I covered all this yesterday, let us move on and draw a line under this, I am now concentrating on my job to keep the country safe…’

    • 43
      MisterE says:

      That just about sums it up perfectly, I’d imagine…

    • 114
      jammy dogger says:

      So, Snotty, looking for a media distraction from his own incompetence, chats with Dacre, giving him the right signals for the “Liar and thief” assasination job on Jacquboots.

      Jacquboots, urgently needing a distraction from her own increasingly precarious position, calls up the Yard (immediately after she bombs on TV) and says “It’s a ‘go’ on that terrorist raid we’ve got pending for emergencies. Do it, like, NOW”. But Quick screws up and his resignation takes over as the necessary distraction.

      When all the powers struggles and media charades have melted away, there will just be Nu Labour, exposed as never before in true light; deluded, power-crazed, hateful of the very people who elect it, fearful of those who don’t, obscene in it’s hypocrisy; and a fiscal dirty bomb to boot.

    • 158
      Desperate Dan says:

      She needs to be grilled about that bath plug. Nobody uses bath plugs these days unless they live in Vladivostok.

    • 670
      Anonymous says:

      We all notice, continually. She and her crowd are so transparent.

  20. 31
    Ex cop says:

    Yates will go far – he’s decent.

  21. 35
    The Widemouthed Duchess of Wotton Underwood says:

    The Met and NuLab….

    The Quick and the Dead.

  22. 36
    Anonymous says:

    Quick in Downing Street : “Look at me everyone! Look how important I am now. Not directing traffic anymore. I am now going to brief the Government about some very secret stuff concerning Islamic terror in this country. Everyone can see that I now carry secret files into No.10. Am I not the cat’s whiskers? They can see the word “Secret” but can’t read anything else so there’s no problem. Aren’t I clever?”
    Happy Easter, you porcine, slobbish, Zanu Lab buffoon.

    • 98
      Anonymous says:

      he should have used his own homebased taxi service Quick Cabs Inc, then none of this would’ve ‘appened.

    • 131
      Anonymous says:

      Yes, this is why he did it.

      I suggest we all send the Met headquarters a brief case. If they get hundreds of brief cases, they might realise that we, the great unwashed, notice their stupid behaviour.

      • 494
        Ranter says:

        Apparantly the Met’s Catering Branch are holding crisis talks because of Fat Bob’s resignation.

        Without the big headed fat fucker their profits at the NSY ‘canteen’ are set to drop some 50%!!!

  23. 37
    Anonymous says:

    SPQR

    Silly Policeman Quick Retires

  24. 38
    bergen says:

    I’m only surprised that he got appointed there in the first place.No grievous loss.Has he resigned from his post only or from the force.?

  25. 39
    DaveL says:

    Perhaps the terror chief’s hands were tied – he couldn’t go ahead with operation pathway until he had received a thumbs up from Downing street. Therefore he displayed a top secret document which forced their hand and they had to go now, regardeless of the threat of 10,000 followers of Lord Ahmed marching on Scotland Yard.

    • 111
      Cato says:

      Thumbs up? Good God I hope not!

    • 240
      Hypocrisy says:

      Ahmed should be in court for conspiracy after his veiled threat to march an army on Parliament

      • 300
        Anonymous says:

        Right and he should have gone down for manslaughter not been let out after 2.3 days in an open prison.

        The PC coppers are scared shitless of the “Muslim Army” (evil dishrags), but if the British Army were allowed to come home from McBusted’s illegal campaigns in Afghanistan, they’d take care of the Lord Ahmed Brigade in double Quick time.

  26. 40
    pro patrea says:

    The exam standard for joining the Police is lower than a GCSE C grade pass equivalent. Police incompetence is systemic and will continue until the standard of entry is raised so that the level of intelligence reaches a basic minimum, at least into the top 20 percentiles of the British population.
    Until then we are all at risk – your and my liberty are being threatened by unneccessary and inept Police behaviour, on the one hand, through to bungled anti-terrorism activities, which we have witnessed yet again. The implicaitions are very grave.

    • 58
      Cassandra King says:

      In the modern police ’service’ political reliability is more important than old fashioned educayshun innit?
      If you are the right colour,able to remember the correct political slogans,creep to the right people, go on the right common purpose weekends, lick the correct arses the Met will you promote you well above your your ‘peter principle’ level.
      As Toni Bliar kept saying ‘he may be a moron BUT at least he is MY moron’!
      These fucking people are a cancer on society, Quick/Dick/Blair and all the rest of those imcompetent arsehole hoons, at every level in society we have smug thick twats in charge whose only qualification is who they know.
      These fuckers richly deserve a Serb style dig your own trench party ending in being riddled with a handfull of .50 cal holes, they wouldnt be so fucking smug lying in a trench bleeding out would they?

      • 91
        Shaz says:

        Exactly right, I applied for the Police when I was younger and blitzed their academic tests but failed on the cultural sensitivity / diversity stuff by a single point. The diversity sensitivity tests are held as by far the most important and are the only section where if you get below the benchmark, you automatically fail the whole thing.

      • 93
        Anonymous says:

        Get your friends out of Gaza

    • 181
      Anonymous says:

      Heaven forfend – intelligent, educated police officers might be bright enough to tell right from wrong, and also develop the ability to insist upon being allowed to refuse instructions/policies that are morally wrong, and we can’t have that sort of thing developing, it flies against all the NuLab stands for!

      • 274
        Ali says:

        The police listened too hard when Tony said his government would be “whiter than white”.

      • 295
        talwin says:

        Most of your university educated Cabinet aren’t bright enough to tell right from wrong, so why the cops?

    • 502
      Ranter says:

      There is no longer any requirement for formal educational qualifications, except having a degree. Non degree holders have to complete a national competency framework based application form which can actually have been filled in by someone else, as long as they applicant signs it. They’ve had to do this so they can fill their racial quotas. I watched one of those ‘Night Cops’ progs for about 5 mins the other day. There was an african chap with a poor grasp of English in full uniform, somewhere in Gloucestershire I think! Amazing!

      • 539
        Master Baiter says:

        If you’ve ever been to Gloucestershire you’d know that noone local in that county has much of a command of the English language, except for foreigners.

      • 574
        Call me Infidel says:

        Reminds me of when I sat a civil service entrance test. An African lady sat next to me who clearly could not read English. Fortunately she excused herself shortly afterwards. As far as the police go I worked with a couple of lads who joined the police. One of them could barely read the other was psychologically flawed. Ideal candidates I suppose.

  27. 41
    MisterE says:

    Someone’s resigned for incompetence?!

    How utterly incompetent of him… doesn’t he know the rules? No-one resigns, EVER!!

    • 126
      pp says:

      It is just another ‘catch 22′.

      To resign for incompetence you have to have integrity. But if you had any integrity, you couldn’t be part of nulabour. Hence nulabour bods resign.

  28. 42
    Mr X Cherie's strapon fuck boy says:

    Never mind, he can still wear a uniform and a peaked cap when he chauffeurs for his wife’s limo company. Another bloody red down, now get the Dick Bitch.

  29. 44
    Professor Sir Cefric Crêper - Britain's most senior Mind. says:

    Quick everybodeh….all round to Johnneh’s for a pahteh!

    • 445
      She Was The People's Princess... says:

      “pahteh”?

      You are Tony Blair and I claim my £5!

  30. 46
    6000 says:

    That was Yates.
    I mean, Quick.

  31. 47
    Jonny Mac says:

    Don’t know why you say it’s ‘technically’ a breach of the OSA, Guido, as though the grown-ups agree that it isn’t really. This is arguably precisely the sort of major balls-up that section 8(1) was designed to deal with; after all, this breach may not be without consequence, as it’s wholly possible that having to go early with the arrests has caused damage to national security.

    The man’s a blethering twat.

    • 49

      You are right.

      • 277
        Anonymous says:

        Indeed – consider the case of Mr Jackson, the MOD civil servant who left the Top Secret documents on a train last year in a rather similar lapse. Even though he had been dealt with quite severely by internal disciplinary procedures (not a career-enhancing move…), a parallel investigation by Quick’s SO boys saw him up before the beak charged under the OSA and fined thousands of pounds.

        I wonder whether a similar criminal investigation is being pursued vs Mr Quick… Oh, no, he’s not a faceless middle-ranking civil servant is he?

      • 450

        One rule for the party, one for the plebs.

    • 99
      Taxpayer says:

      secret document= put in a briefcase.

      it’s not rocket science, is it?

      I’ll get my coat

    • 251
      JMB says:

      I would have thought there must have been a whole series of breaches on the rules for handling Secret documents which then presumably means there has been a breach of the OSA.

      By the way, the candidates opposing Jacqui Smith at the General Election should adopt a bathplug as their campaign badge!

    • 310
      Andy Carpark says:

      You do not need to be a fancy lawyer or even a humble carpark attendant to see what a French farce the legal system has become.

      In the case of Damian Green, no breach of the OSA was necessary to justify the arrest since there was a conspiracy to commit the completely nebulous victim-free crime of misconduct in public office.

      In the case of Plod Quack potato-face man, a breach of the OSA appears (so far) insufficient for arrest or further sanction.

      One is left with the impression that the OSA is maybe a tad pointless and the stronger impression that the entire State apparatus has morphed into one big ugly incoherent hydra-headed tyranny.

      • 528
        Ivor Phartparp says:

        You mean ‘Hydro-headed tyranny. In other words, A complete Shower.

  32. 48
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    “”Quick has not resigned from the police service, he remains on full pay and keeps all his entitlements and pensions despite what is technically a breach of the Official Secrets Act.”"

    Well there is a surprise.

    Even breaching the OSA is no barrier to an upwardly mobile career as long as you are completely & unquestioningly loyal to Neo Labour.

    He should be taken out & shot. Idiot.

    • 54
      councilhousetory says:

      Sky are now saying the Met have clarified and Quick IS NO LONGER A POLICE OFFICER.

      Good.

      • 69
        Dennis says:

        Does that mean his ex-colleagues can now beat the shit out of him with impunity?

        Sounds good to me.

      • 119
        Air Nokia One says:

        Was he ever a police officer? I thought he was a Nulab politico
        At least he can fall back on driving a taxi I suppose.

      • 218
        Right Bastard says:

        A quick (excuse the pun) blow to the back of the legs with a truncheon followed by a shoulder charge to the ground should take care of things.

  33. 52
    Cynosarges says:

    The important question is whether the leaker of secret anti-terror documents will have his house invaded by nine anti-terrorism police? After all, this was deemed necessary for unclassified documents that were merely embarrassing to the government, so surely it is necessary for secret documents whose revealing could endanger the British public!

    And in case the police force cannot find the address to raid, I can even give them a hint. The leaker published his home address on the web to publicise the chauffeur-car company his wife operates. (And if he has belatedly deleted it, the waybackmachine allows them to retrieve it)

    • 255
      JMB says:

      That’s a point, if he is so lax in handling Secret documents then his house should be searched to check that there are none there.

  34. 53
    Anonymous says:

    Brunt on Sky says he’s resigned from Metropolitan Police as couldn’t remain as commisioner

  35. 56
    Jacqui be nimble, Jacqui be Quick says:

    On Toady Zanu James Naughtie interviewing Zanu David Winnick & Zanu Beeboid Frank Gardner re: Quick..

    DW: …No this is not a resigning matter…

    FG: …Quick’s mind was concentrating on the al-quaeda job and about to brief the PM hence his abberation with the file..

    JN: We have Mayor Boris on the line…

    BJ: Regretably we have accepted Quick’s resignation.

    DW: Well I am not surprised !

    WTF !!!!

    • 104
      Anonymous says:

      Yep I heard it too, it was projectile vomiting stuff, lots of shalling around the issue and careful not to tread on Met toes, — that conservative twat should just go Quick…

    • 141
      anonymouse says:

      Yes a lovely example of Winnick polishing his own turd.

  36. 57
    CC says:

    Yates is not fit. Comments he has made publicly and without proof against retired members of the Met should disbar him from holding any decent office or indeed a warrent card.

  37. 59

    Of course he keeps all his perks, because he’s a ZaNuLabia toady

  38. 60
    yellowbelly says:

    Karma!!

  39. 61
    PC PLOD says:

    Jack be nimble, Jacqui be Quick

    These are only opportunities to bury bad news.
    Pay attention sargeant!

    • 143
      anonymouse says:

      Jack and Quick
      Are in the shit.

      • 247
        Right Bastard says:

        Jacq and Quick
        Are in the shit
        They behaved not like they oughta,
        Jacq asked Brown
        Who broke her crown
        And Quick was shafted afta.

  40. 63
    Graham says:

    Yates needs a briefcase

    • 77
      Professor Sir Cefric Crêper - Britain's most senior Mind. says:

      Perhaps a welcome present, given at a barbecue:

      http://www.johnlewis.com/230503384/Product.aspx

    • 105
      Grytpype-thynne says:

      Interestingly, it has long been standard practise to put classified documents in a lockable, approved briefcase when carrying classified documents.That the head of counter terrorism of all people should ignore this rule is beyond parody!

      • 127
        Agent 99 says:

        A family memeber was involved in security for the MOD.
        Any breach such as this would not be a resignation matter. The culprit would have been dimissed effective immeadiately. No if’s no buts you were gone.

        Except now of course if you are a labourtoady. One presumes like the guy who left the document on the train we will now see quick in the dock as well but I doubt it.

        IF NOT WHY NOT!!! or does the official secrets act only apply to the “little people”

        CNUTS

      • 270
        Ted Bundy says:

        Its incompetence beyond belief to carry the documents on full display in that manner. Isn’t this why cabinet ministers have red boxes? Documents like that should have been transported in a locked brief case. Aside from the photographers what if the papers had been blown out of his hand?

        He should not have been allowed to resigned he should simply have been sacked. He has also with his negligence committed an offence under the Official Secrets Act and what damage he caused to yesterdays operation we will probably never be allowed to know.

      • 590

        I suspect it is the ego stroking “I’m too senior to carry a briefcase” mentality.

    • 145
      anonymouse says:

      Quick needs a suitcse

  41. 64
    Mothers_Pride says:

    Bob Quick – as his colleagues say ‘named for irony’.
    Gentle readers may recall he was the ’super brain’ behind the show arrests and public humiliation of shadow defence spokesperson MP Damian Green and in the process manged to violate 500 years of Parliamentary freedoms. Not since Cromwell dissolved a rotten Parliament by force had the heavy mob been into Parliament. Jacqui ‘Jackboot’s Smiths favourite copper he will now be best remembered for (and Sir Ian Bliar) having sold his soul to Nu Liebour and politicisng the Police.
    IMO Good Riddence to both of them and take hand shandy Timneys wife with you!

    • 86
      Vaz-Pride says:

      What’s happening on the David Green case by the way? Does anyone know?

    • 261
      JMB says:

      Of course it might leave him open to write his version of the Damian Green case now, I am sure there will be various newspapers waving cheque books at him.

      • 352
        johnfromcamberley says:

        In short, Jack-boots is not going to survive the closure of the investigation into Green, so the point when she has to resign is being delayed artificially by the Government.

  42. 65
    DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

    Now I don’t generally believe in conspiracy theories. Cockups are just so much more plausible. But there’s something not right about all this, and I suspect that there’s something we haven’t been told.

    This government and their cronies have set new standards for incompetence, it’s true. But I find it hard to believe that this could have been just an honest mistake on Quick’s part. He was an experienced anti-terrorist officer. He would have been perfectly well aware of the importance of keeping secret documents secret. It just doesn’t seem plausible that he would have had the document on display as he stepped out of the car, almost deliberately showing it to the waiting photographers. He was carrying the folder, and could easily have put the document back inside it. It’s also a suprise that he was simply carrying the folder: shouldn’t secret folders be kept in a locked attache case if they’re going outside a secure location? We all know that the document was secret, not merely restricted of confidential, because we could all clearly see the pink folder (colour code for secret) in the photos. It’s as if that was deliberate as well.

    I don’t know what the conspiracy might have been. But the whole thing seems so far outside the bounds of normal incompetence and actually quite well stage managed, that I feel sure something is going on beneath the surface.

    • 70
      PC PLOD says:

      Agree Disgusted.

      Stage-managed! Nah, CORREOGRAPHED.
      Why?
      Opportunity to bury bad news.

      • 81
        Dick the Prick says:

        To bounce No 10 into the raid as Kebab butt plug was prevaracating?? Nah, that’s not very good is it – hmm.

      • 85
        DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

        Well if it was an attempt to bury bad news, it certainly worked. There were some significant developments in the Ian Tomlinson case yesterday, and I was rather hoping to learn all about them when I got home yesterday and switched on the BBC News channel at 8 pm. I watched it until 9, and apart from a brief flash of some headlines and the weather at 8.30, they spent the whole hour covering this one story about Quick and the arrests up north.

        But I still suspect there was more to it than that. If it was an attempt to take the heat of the Ian Tomlinson case so that a senior officer wouldn’t have to resign, then I can see a flaw in that plan.

    • 78
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      You could be right here, but just as likely is the familiarity breeds contempt theory. How far did he have to go Range Rover [well, it had to be , didn't it] to No 10 front door? I bet he thought I’ll be there in a flash, no worries.

      On the other hand, the authorities do have form on this type of manoeuvre. Every time we go to war some mid ranking Officer is found to have left a laptop/CD with all the plans in a conveniently unlocked car whilst he nips into Starbucks, and it doesn’t seem to do their long term promotional prospects much harm, in at least one case I can recall.

      If this was part of a conspiracy he will be needing a goodly pay off for agreeing to become dunce of the month since long term promotion is obviously a non starter. Keep your eyes peeled.

    • 279
      Ted Bundy says:

      There’s no conspiracy here just good old fashioned incompetence mixed with a dash of hubris, laziness and arrogance.

      Still I suppose we should be grateful and relieved he didn’t make the paper sift for becoming Commissioner.

    • 316
      His Majesty the Twelve Foot Draco Illuminatus says:

      You miserable wretch! You have given away Our Plans for World Domination. I am afraid we are going to have to exterminate you forthwith…

    • 707
      tisfedup says:

      disgusted you know..i thought exactly the same thing, but cant fathom why yet. it does seem really staged and far to incompetent for a normal easily done mistake, consider all the breached protocols, something is so amiss..

  43. 67
    Frank says:

    You have to wonder if this was not all engineered quite deliberately.

    It is quite out of character to have a resignation and certainly not as a result of one mis-deed.

    Can anyone remember it happening before, particularly under Mc Broon?

    • 243
      Hypocrisy says:

      Maybe he thinks if he resigns, he won’t have to take any flak over Ian Tomlinson.

      He’s wrong…

  44. 68
    anonybot says:

    Perhaps in future “The Met” can issue manilla folders to all senior officers and Cabinet Ministers(who have also committed the same faux-pas as Quick in the past) for them to place any “Top Secret” or “Confidential” or “Sensitive” documentation in as they stride importantly along Downing Street before the World’s Press and their telephoto lenses or here’s an even better idea I know it’s a bit “cutting edge” – what about investing in a briefcase I’m sure you can claim for one on expenses ?

    • 75
      Tough on leaking, tough on the causes of leaking says:

      In keeping with this technolgical electronic age, surely it would be more appropriate that Quack would drop his flash memory dongle thingy on the pavement outside No 10! Please alert the Met to this!

      • 90
        anonybot says:

        The government and other agencies don’t have a very good record on material kept on disks or flash-drives or lap-tops- HMRC – to name but one government agency of the many is still looking for those disks they “mislaid” a while back .

        Better to keep it simple and stick to pen and paper and at least it’s easier to shred

      • 135
        Anonymous says:

        You cannot legally copy a secret document without registering it and if it is on a properly registered memory stick then it is encoded with strong encryption.

      • 140
        Agent 99 says:

        Nah flash memorey dongle thingys are reserved for Benefit claimant records going missing so huge amounts of ‘compensayshun’ have to be paid.

    • 84
      Screwed by the system says:

      no, no, expenses are for things that enable an MP to carry out his or her, job properly – things like televisions, porn films. kitchen sinks, etc.

      • 113
        Anonymous says:

        and 88p bath plugs

      • 144
        Redditch Raven Master says:

        “Oor Jacq” will be in the constituency this weekend – “looking her constiteunts in the eye no doubt ?” . There’s 15% off B & Q ranges for Easter – better get along to the Jinnah Road store asap – remember to get a receipt – Richard !!!!

      • 437
        Anonymous says:

        CORRECTION:
        … things like televisions, GAY porn films, kitchen sinks, etc.

      • 660
        Anonymous says:

        “Jacqui Smith – the Imelda Marcos of the Argos catalogue”

  45. 71
    Sharon Shoesmith says:

    Can’t blame the lad for getting agreement on his finances before cementing his departure. Fuck me – how bad has it become when all criticism evaporates when someone takes responsibility for their actions?

  46. 72
    genghiz the kahn says:

    Flint coloured folders for Top Secret Memos.

  47. 73
    Anonymous says:

    Those documents that the Met Terror Chief was carrying contained the names of those intent on destroying the UK:

    Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling, Jacqui Smith, Derek Draper….

    • 83
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      And did you notice there were no drawings or pictures. But then he was a University man.

      • 284
        Ted Bundy says:

        Did the document have an extra large type font so Gordon Brown could read it?

  48. 74
    Wrestlemania says:

    Big Jaq boonced him down the stairs WWF style

    • 120
      jammy dogger says:

      She’s a hefty girl. Could have a career on US TV after she loses her seat at the GE.

  49. 76
    Arthur Haynes (Comedian) says:

    Who cares who pushed him, he was the very essence of the Peter Principle. More than one blunder too many!

    One blunder too many for Jackboots too. In the arrests of the MP affair, she described Quick as having many roles and was not acting as the head of counter-terrorism unit, ‘they have other officers for that’, but here he was plainly the head of the counter-terrorism unit at Govt. level. No sign of ‘other officers’ there then Jackboots? It’s all on video Smith, in the media digital stores. Maybe you would like to take control of those too!

    Jackboots spin to dodge the issue of an arrest that should never have taken place AND was clearly authorised under the counter-terrorism regime of the Met Police and not as Jackboots suggested at the time.

    Resign too Smith for the sake of Peter!

    AH (C)

  50. 79
    Reddicht Wankfest says:

    Radio 4 reported that 5 bellies was really angry about PC Slow but she was really pissed off because she wanted to spend a bit of time to go through the Argos catalogue to choose a new patio heater and not listening to Plod’s dreary report. Broon was there too but was too busy watching taxpayer funded Monster Truck Racing on Sky Sports 3 to get involved.

  51. 80
    Emigrant says:

    Thats it. I’m out of this F***ing country. Enjoy the all the islamic terrorism and disasterous financial crashing that is the rotten fruit of this dispicable government’s “Labours” or jump ship with me you poor saps!! There are greener pastures!

  52. 87
    Plato says:

    OT – hilarious R5 phone-in about prisoners getting the vote – Nicky Campbell was well put out when a former prisoner took over hosting the show and almost every caller and texter said it was a stupid idea.

    Poor old leftie. Ha ha.

    Good that Quick has gone – he’s had to apologise 3x in 4 months FFS.

  53. 92
    Thats News says:

    What an idiot. Has no one thought to buy him a briefcase?

    • 290
      Ted Bundy says:

      He had a briefcase but forgot it in Starbucks that morning. It contained the plans for next weeks terrorist show arrests.

  54. 94
    Anonymous says:

    Quick always reminded me of that bent copper in an episode of Fools and Horses.

    • 179
      Hypocrisy says:

      Haha Inspector Slater….yeah, it’s a good comparison.

      • 245
        Aethelred says:

        Not fair to Slater, he was merely on the take, Quick was a nulabour stooge who wanted to make 42 days detention without charge possible and to further the cause of nulabour and a police state.

  55. 96
    Master Baiter says:

    Guidiot,
    Have you sobered up yet?
    When are you going to offer some gossip?
    This is no different to Sky News.
    How’s the belly?

  56. 100
    Carter Street Nick says:

    Quick was a token sacrifice for the copper who pushed the bloke over in the City. Internal politics is a weird thing but this piece of symbolism will probably work. Quick will be looked after with a nice pension and a job with a security firm. Then there’s also the car hire business to fall back on.

  57. 107
    bob thick says:

    Poor old bob…….doesnt he realize that he has let the side down?only last night jacqui five kebabs was giving him full support.

    now not content with displaying secret documents he has broken the unwritten labour law and resigned( albeit with full troughing benefits intact).

    what on earth is it coming too?

    someone has shown a little INTEGRITY……

    now if only gordon,badger,jacqui and all the other Hoons would jump in the Thames.

  58. 108
    Ted says:

    UK factory prices for March 2009:

    factory input prices rose a full one per cent in March, up 7.4% in the year to March

    factory output prices(wholesale prices) rose 3.3% in the year to March

    UK undergoing major inflation in all prices

    http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=248

  59. 117
    oldrightie says:

    Smith next, folowed by…………………..

    • 122
      The Widemouthed Duchess of Wotton Underwood says:

      Wait for this afterhoon’s news-dump…..

    • 123
      Anonymous says:

      I wish but only a Pickfords van will get her out.

    • 125
      jammy dogger says:

      McNulty, hopefully. Spare Snotty while he’s doing such a good job of ruining Nu Labour’s chances so completely.

      • 677
        Anonymous says:

        Agreed calliong on Brown to resign is not a good idea in the same way that the allies abandoned plans to take out Hitler as they believed they would be counterproductive. Keep the mad meglomaniac in power to the election to ensure total downfall of tbios corrupt project!

  60. 124
    Gladys Pew says:

    Why don’t we all post bathplugs to Jacqui Spliff. Won’t cost much but it would be fun and it may shame even her.

    • 134
      jammy dogger says:

      You can get used ones from a car boot sale for 1p for 2, don’t waste money on something posh from Wickes.

      Just checked, and the domain “bathplugs4jacqui” appears to be available, somewhat unsurprisingly.

    • 139
      DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

      Yes, but which home should we post them to?

      • 153
        jammy dogger says:

        Forget posting, we should be hurling armfuls of bathplugs at the windows of all her homes, and those of her close relatives. “You want a bathplug, Jacqui? Why didn’t you just ASK?”

    • 182
      Ivor Phartparp says:

      Yellow plastic ducks would be more funny

  61. 130
    Jacqui five bellies says:

    The BBC have been spinning the story that the evil Tories were behind Quick in particular Boris Johnson (the BBC hate him for daring to be more popular than terrorist lover Livingdead).

    Now it appears 5 bellies smiff ordered him to resign YESTERDAY. The BBC really are wankers.

  62. 133
    Anonymous says:

    When is his case coming to court? He made secret documents public. Breaking the official secrets act is a serious offence. I suppose students of the NuLabia School of Politics are given special dispensation. Makes sense I guess as they are mostly ’special needs’.

  63. 136
    Jacqui five bellies says:

    Here’s a thought. Why not carry TOP SECRET documents in a….. a locked briefcase?

    • 146
      Reddicht Wankfest says:

      Could you imagine a porno starring Quick and 5 bellies. Oh yes!

    • 149
      DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

      To be fair, the documents were only secret, not top secret.

      Mind you, a locked briefcase might still have been a smart move, and I believe would be essential to avoid prosecution under the OSA if you’re just one of the little people who actually have to obey the law.

      • 172
        Anonymous says:

        What’s with the fairness? If word had got out the rag heads could have panicked and set off whatever they may or may not have had ASAP

    • 150
      Anonymous says:

      You have to under the official secrets act and accompanying procedures.

    • 332
      Caroline Flint says:

      Why did he resign?
      I flaunted my portfolio in public and got promoted to Europe!
      (It was a promotion, wasn’t it..?)

  64. 142
    bob thick says:

    i got a folder in my local supermarket. 48p.

    of course i put it on expenses.

    • 184
      a says:

      Wasting tax-payers money again ? You could have got one for 24p from “Partners”!

    • 651
      A policeman's lot is not an 'appy one ('appy one) says:

      Could have just put it inside one of those vital HIPS folders. No-one would ever look for anything in there (except, of course, that ugly mare with the fucked-up teeth who lives in a caravan).

  65. 148
    Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

    This from the boys in blue. I hope its not an April fools thingy.

    Arrested for handing in a found mobile</A.

    • 161
      I Hate Labour (very much) says:

      What the F@@k is theft by finding? If you find it it is an involuntary act. If you steal it it is a voluntary act.

      What the hell is going on in this country.

      By the way just advised both my kids not too hand anything into a policeman or station something I was always taught to do. SAD SO VERY SAD.
      SEE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO THIS COUNTRY YOU BASTARD EVIL FUCKING NU LABOUR SCUMBAGS!!!! FUCK OFF AND DIE!!

      • 167
        DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

        Theft by finding is when you find something and then don’t hand it in to the police. But I guess no-one told the police about the second bit of that.

    • 174
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      Note the bit about having his DNA taken.

    • 200
      Tin Cunliffe says:

      eeeh. When i w-r a lad it w-r lefties that slagged off the police.

      I can’t imagine how the police could have a reasonable story to excuse this.

      On the other hand, I wonder how any self-respecting 18 year old, celebrating their birthday, would be able to utter a coherent sentence. Its been a rule of mine for a long time: don’t start conversations with a policeman if you’re pissed. They get suspicious.

      • 263
        Tim O'Tay says:

        I lost faith in the police when a good mate of mine was filled in by a British Transport Police thug over a ticket dispute. I mean punched to the ground, handcuffed and literally thrown into the back of a police van.

      • 272
        Fat Controller says:

        Yet there’s still people smoking crack on the trains.

        As with usual Labour policing policy, let’s arrest those who commit petty misdemeanours and let the felons run free.

        Then the decent people will leave the country, and Labour’s core vote percentage increases.

      • 326
        Charcoal says:

        They’re not real police – ticket dodging is probably the most serious thing they’ll ever have to deal with.

        And now they even have railway police CSO’s to help them out.

    • 260
      Aethelred says:

      It sounds like plod will use any excuse to get hold of someone’s DNA.

      Their action in this case is not only unreasonable, pointless and vindictive, it will actually make anyone reading about it not bother to hand something in.

      The police, in this case, seem intent on making society a worse place to live.

  66. 152

    [...] to illegally photograph a policeman in the execution of his resignation. Guido is reporting that John Yates is the replacement, he is the man who came ever so close to banging up Tony Blair in the cash for peerages [...]

  67. 156
    Teshoo Lama says:

    Caroline Flint was caught out in the same way recently. As undoubtedly stupid as PC Slow is, I don’t believe they would repeat the error. This looks like a ruse to bring forward the raid in an attempt to re-take ‘control of the news cycle’ over the G20 Tomlinson death.

    Quick, having taken one for the ZaNu establishment, will retire to a life of quangos, committees and index-linked pensions.

    • 170
      Blair's Grassy Knoll says:

      In her defence, Flint (being of travelling stock) struggles with ‘dat readin’, recently admitting in her capacity as Europe Minister that rather than having read the European Totem, she had in fact been “briefed on bits of it”.

      • 185
        Hypocrisy says:

        “Along with several other Labour women MPs, she (Flint) is a member of a tap dancing troupe known as the Division Belles. Other members include Hazel Blears, Laura Moffatt, Meg Munn, Joan Ryan and Dari Taylor.”

        Oh my god, save us.

      • 214
        Blair's Grassy Knoll says:

        Trollops of Terpsichore!

    • 318
      defender says:

      I would not discount that, I would not put it past those bastards to manage the news.

  68. 159
    Curly says:

    How do these journalists get away with photographing policemen in the execution of their duties?

    • 167
      Indefensible says:

      Yes – isn’t that illegal for us proles?

      • 173
        Anonymous says:

        I’m still waiting for dawn raids all over the country after the mass law-breaking that occurred at the G20 at the BoE.

        FFS why introduce a law that is not in any way enforceable. Oh yeah, they are thick as two short planks.

    • 177
      Max says:

      Best photo of Quick is on the Daily Mash.

  69. 164
    neither confirm nor deny says:

    I can give you all a classic example of what a bunch of wankers the Met are, many years ago (over 20) I applied to join, The application form asked about operations I may have had ” have a heart murmur and a leaky valve” they then wrote back saying that I was medically unfit, I then called and informed them that I was a serving trooper in 23 SAS ,how fucking fit do you want me to be?
    That did it for me, Idecided that they were a bunch of Hoons and I wanted no part of them
    25 years on Im still alive and probably fitter than some of the uniform carrying useless fucks I see racing around London in a BMW I help pay for.

    • 175
      David 'dickie' Davis says:

      Me too, pork chops…
      So, what colour *was* the boat house in Hereford??

    • 189
      Ivor Phartparp says:

      If you ever hear word that your lot are to retake our country could you give the scoop to Guido first please as I get my news here first. Ta.

    • 257
      Sarah says:

      Jeez, medically unfit! Have they looked at the lardy midgets who seem to comprise 80% of the Met right now?

      • 305
        ncnd says:

        Mr Davis
        If you are indeed Ex Regt
        Tell me about that little piece of paper you are given should you get lost and feeling a bit wet and chilly needing some help
        Just the two first words that you say to the operator followed by 3 digits , in fact just give the two first Two letters of the two words

      • 329
        Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

        Can’t see Quick doing the 100m in less than a minute. Plus 50m to stop, and 40m to change direction. He should actually be fitted with an arrester hook. On the other hand he can barge through a solid oak door and is handy to hide behind.

      • 554
        Dick the Prick says:

        NCND – t’was a piss take – Lord Dave of Davis (geez, 1 stump speech and he fucked it leaving us with Camerhooooon) has SAS background – am thinking some kinda territorial shite but me being a nerdy git am not too sure.

  70. 165
    pp says:

    I wonder if quick will be taking his stupid posters with him?…

    http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/24/london-cops-reach-ne.html

  71. 169
    Nipper says:

    Three cheers for Boris…. he managed to completely piss off Jacqboot this morning as I understand she is annoyed about him making the announcement about Knacker of the Yard – quite legitimately as London Mayor – and so taking the credit from under her nose…… YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She is really, really pissed off… and I am so, so pleased. More please Boris. She doesn’t like it up ‘er!

  72. 180
    English Liberation Front says:

    The game is up Brown. You and your useless New Labour cronies are hated and have no credibility. Never mind the trite shite about electric cars. Why delay the inevitable? Call a General Election now!

    • 224
      Hypocrisy says:

      There won’t be an election until it is no longer certain that Labour will win.

      For Gordon is a man of courage, and does not want to call an election he knows he will win.

      • 582
        Dick the Prick says:

        It’s bloody good that the Met has worked out that the Tories are in the ascendant and to organize themselves accordingly.

        Whilst it’s theoretically possible to argue that Labour home secs have invested more in crime & shit and triangulated a muted Tory party – it has perhaps become apparent that the police have been doing the jobs that politicians should have been doing.

        I used to work with a really good Chief Inspeccy and he often did 80 hours a week and, other than paperwork, it appeared that his role was to wear a uniform to meetings so people & jobsworths could bitch at him.

        I think BoJo has been a breath of fresh air. I’m sorry for Bob Quick but it was a fuck up and a half and he’ll earn more in the private sector so he should view it as relief. 15 months of Jaquii Butt Plug is enough to break anyone. He has gained dignity in my view.

        Is it convenient that we now have bargaining with Pakistan just as Obama has expressed that negotians on certain military devices are off the table? I dunno.

        Anywho – here’s to Bob & the boys in blue – restored my faith that when people fuck up, they fuck off. That should never have been lost and perhaps, just perhaps – it’s only been away for a bit. Cameron may be a wet but he’s well trained, incredibly polite and fucking ruthless. I worry about Osborne and the sooner he fucking buries the hatchett with Dave Davis – the better – let’s not be fancy about stuff – it’s game time, bring the lad back through back room consent – he was brilliant on some Toenails rd4 thing on communtiy policing stuff.

  73. 183
    William says:

    The comments on stories are ridiculous guido. Filled with revolting innuendo, cumbersome nick-names and political fantasy, they surely do little to improve the image of the centre-right. It seems that little more than 10% of comments are interesting, let alone politically pertinent. Introduce moderation, please, before your readership gets too large and those who comment are taken to be representative of the centre-right rather than anachronistic window-lickers.

    • 186
      mitch says:

      Advertisers worry about quantity, not quality.

      • 195
        Ivor Phartparp says:

        John Lewis are the epitome of good business practices. Happy staff mean happy customers.

    • 188
      anonymous says:

      If you want sensible comments – **** off to Iain Dale.

      P.S.

      We don’t understand long words like “anachronistic” can you please speak in english ?

      P.P.S.

      Happy Easter, Derek

    • 191
      Timney-Pride says:

      William,
      Worry not. Dr Draper is developing an EU scheme for window-licker certification in conjunction with the Rt Hon Home Secretary. As part of the new fairness agenda, only certified window-lickers approved by Dr Draper of Berkeley will be allowed to comment.

    • 201
      English Liberation Front says:

      Under the New Labour hegemony English Liberation is certainly a political fantasy.

      The “image” of the centre-right conveyed by a few dozen comment posters is as nothing compared to the image of the Left, rooted in 12 years of the most appalling government. Maybe if the centre-right found a bit more backbone and articulated some of the disgust and hatred felt for the Breakers of Britain by the posters here its image would not require improvement.

      Your use of the anachronistic term “centre-right” (to describe a new coalition of the anti-left and anti-politician) and “anachronistic” reveals you to be one of the “progressive improvers” responsible for the current state of awesome shambolicism in Britain. You pompous, patronising person.

    • 202
      Master Baiter says:

      Dulliam,
      These commenters are not of the centre right.
      They are not interested in the centre right or its image.
      Many of them are Librarians and so nothing to do with the Conservative Party as Guidiot proudly proclaims himself.
      However most are from the Incontinent Right.
      Enjoy your stay.

      • 387
        Polly Cottonsox (Ms) says:

        G’day Bruce.
        I am a Librarian and I have EXCEPTIONALLY high standards. Just ask the residents of Scotton Pinkney.

    • 215
      David 'dickie' Davis says:

      I agree with wot he said, but can I also add that I think Derek Draper is a complete and utter cockend who would benefit from having a harpoon fired right up into his gaping arsehole…

    • 264
      king chillout says:

      William,

      I could give a fuck what you think about anything, especially the “centre-right”. I’m on the far right of Enoch Powell myself.

    • 303
      Wynne Doelicher says:

      innuendo! Geddit?!? Phnarr!

    • 424
      88p bath plug says:

      get a bathplug fffs

  74. 190
    Master Baiter says:

    Guidiot,
    How’s that famous telly belly?
    Please introduce moderation (in moderation of course).
    Have you sobered up yet?
    How’s the head?
    Have you stopped chewing your cheeks?

    • 248
      Anton du Beke says:

      Chortle, very amusing. Not as amusing as some other things though.

    • 704

      Truth is Guido is waiting for you to start a blog so he can spend 6 hours a day making repitive comments in the margins. Just, kidding that would be too sad.

      Another Baileys please Ms Nolan….

  75. 192
    Faster Master Baiter says:

    Is this it Guidiot?
    You must be so far from the political pulse.
    Don’t you know anything?
    Haven’t you got any gossip or rumour that hasn’t already been on Sky or in the Daily Mail.
    What’s the point of you?

    • 193
      IRB says:

      Better than being out in the rain, innit?

    • 199
      Desperate Dan says:

      Sky and the Daily Mail may well supply the news, and sometimes they get it first, but they don’t offers any opportunities for unbridled comments and lavish opinions.

      • 207
        Faster Master Baiter says:

        Desperately Dull,
        What is the point of making a comment like that you twerp?
        Are you defending Guidiot?
        This guy doesn’t know anything about anything, doesn’t seem to know anyone and hears nothing.
        All he’s done is appear on telly opposite his nemesis for five minutes and have his track suit trousers taken down in front of the whole country.
        As for the belly pushing out of a grey sweat shirt, I mean, what a mess.
        Plus he’s got the sense of humour of a mussel.

      • 221
        Hypocrisy says:

        Draper is hardly one to comment on others’ appearances…

      • 228
        Faster Master Baiter says:

        Oh! come on!
        Next to Guidiot, Draper looks like Brad Pitt, be real!

      • 250
        Anton du Beke says:

        Erm no, trust me compared with me I win each time.

    • 225
      Kronos says:

      FMB

      dolly troll spouting more useless drivel – the point of the site is hold people to account, where the new come from is irrelevant. I don’t see liebour lost holding an open debate on the short comings of the snot muncher. Anyway answer this question: Do you work for labour or have any connection to labourlost?

      • 283
        Desperate Dan says:

        Greg Palast said Draper was “nothing more than a messenger boy, a factotum, a purveyor, a self-loving, over-scented clerk.” How right he was.

    • 241

      Is that you in disguise “Cuse”? You cowardly little tosser!

    • 281
      Master Baiter says:

      Oh look Dollys here.

      Everyone say hello dolly.

      Now everyone be polite and bid him farewell.

      Alternatively Hello Dolly
      Fuck Off Dolly

      • 285
        This is Louis says:

        So….. take her wrap, fellas…….find her an empty lap, fellas
        Dolly’ll never go away again

    • 293
      regent street ranger says:

      why are you here then? go and read labourlost or attempt to write something funny. Or listen to the BBC – that’s where i get my impartial news….

  76. 194
    Dan Hannan the Sailor with a Plan says:

    Up stethoscope.
    Right sink the HMS NHS.
    I don’t care what the party thinks.
    As for Prescott he’s my version of Max Clifford.

  77. 196
    Anonymous says:

    Nick Ravenscroft on BBC saying that potential threat was “very, very big” which is just what 5 bellies wants BBC to say as then she can be looking after those of us who have nothing to hide and nothing to fear.

    Unfortunately it seems there was no specific threat but the BBC are sure it was a nightclub or shopping centre under threat.
    I’m going back to Sky – never wrong for long.

    So carry on being scared everyone.

    • 208
      IRB says:

      No, it was really, really big. Honest.

      Anyone taking bets on how quickly all are going to be released without charge?

    • 226
      Blair's Grassy Knoll says:

      There was a rumour about football grounds last night. I do hope the Blind Handshaker and the Piper at the Gates of Porn are inconvenienced.

  78. 203
    So17 says:

    Once upon a time Stripes and pips were earned by long serving experienced blokes who knew the score.
    Now Clueless women and Men earn promotion by sucking political cock.
    The higher they climb the tree the more arse they show.
    Self promotion comes before doing the ‘Job’ so we will see more Blairs&Quicks putting their foot in it for a while yet unfortunatly.

    • 223
      Master Baiter says:

      Stripes and Pips, sounds like an outre male couple.

    • 229
      Hypocrisy says:

      The balaclava’d Stasi guy who beat the guy who died didn’t even wear his stripes and pips.

      • 381
        Anonymous says:

        It’s called Code One Kit – you wear it when you are told to by your superiors.

        Leave the bloke alone he must be under a shed load of pressure.

        Wait for the facts.

      • 393
        Anonymous says:

        fact he twatted someone for no reason

        have I missed anything?

      • 401
        Anonymous says:

        It is illegal to not wear your identification.

      • 403
        Anonymous says:

        “Leave the bloke alone he must be under a shed load of pressure”

        Yeah, that’s what happens when people die.

  79. 204

    This just proves the man wasn’t up to it. He resigned. What a lightweight.
    He could have brazened it out.He should have if he was real NuLabour.

    Jacqui would have carried on. Even if she was found in bed with Abu Hamaza, who was opening tins of taxpayer charged caviar with his hook, in her sisters bedroom, while reading top secret counter terrorist reports, while Mr Timney was down Tesco car park, selling cannabis to hoodies and buying children alcohol.
    Our Jacqui wouldn’t have quit.
    Quick..Quit more like. The loser.

    • 211
      IRB says:

      You’ve clearly got the inside line here. One question if I may, have you ever looked at her cock while you’re standing next to her in the bogs?

    • 395
      Anonymous says:

      Tesco?? how common… she should resign immeadiately!

  80. 205
    English Liberation Front says:

    I see the Labour trolls have woken up and in the aftermath of yet another Labour howler have been sent scuttling by the Dark Lord to perform their damage limitation at all the usual blogs.

    • 350
      Dark Lord says:

      “Sent scuttling”!
      Nothing to do with me.
      I told Campbell to close it down. The whole operation costs too much for what it achieves. It is nothing more than a vanity project for Draper and wastes resources that could be better used elsewhere.

  81. 210
    keith dovkunts says:

    Wonder if this will effect his position in the local Masonic lodge?

    Anyway, nice to see the over promoted thick Hoon, go . . .

  82. 212
    Faster Master Baiter says:

    Anglers Librarian Front,
    Where’s your sense of fun you wet blanket. “I see Labour…..blah blah” wassamattawifyu huh?

  83. 216
    Anonymous says:

    Dunno what everyone else thinks, but the timing and execution of this whole caper seems a bit slick, fast and over-engineered to me. This seems more like a skillful deflection from our current problems rather than anyone doing anything honorable.

    • 235
      IRB says:

      Yeah, that would work. They could arrange a hugely successful counter-terrorism operation. A dozen suspects would be collared red handed about to plant AIDS bombs in local orphanages, primary schools and donkey rescue barns. They’d confess immediately and mutter something in Arabic which would translate roughly as , “we would have got away with it were it not for your quick-witted and brave Prime Minister”. The grateful public would forget all about their misdeeds. We’d forget foot and mouth, Gordon’s wonky eye and Hazel’s accent. We’d vote them in for a fourth, no hang it all, fifth time and erect staues of Jacqui in our towns as a mark of respect.

      Because that’s what would happen. They would not arrest a load of shelf stackers and victims of our policies on treating the mentally ill and have to release them five days latter. That wouldn’t happen. Oh no.

      I’ve given up believing that they are doing anything in order to manipulate the news agenda. This bunch of joeys couldn’t find their arsehole with both hands.

      • 265
        Anonymous says:

        On the other hand a false flag event would take the heat off them nicely

      • 297
        Timney, Dick says:

        I don’t believe the bit about Jacqui’s erection. I think you are pulling my plonker and I can manage that myself with a little help from the taxpayer.

    • 375
      DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

      Yes, I agree. See my earlier post at #65.

  84. 227
    Bob says:

    jacqui was nimble
    jacqui was QUICK
    jackie fucked off the stupid DICK

    • 238
      Ewer Nick Edmyson says:

      Jacqui’s a sod
      And Gordo is God
      But just like Ken Dodd
      Quick is still Plod.

      • 566
        Plastic Scouser says:

        Must defend Ken Dodd, great comic. Try

        Jacqui’s a sod,
        Gordo’s not God,
        Is’t it odd
        Quick’s still a plod.

  85. 231
    Julian Gardner says:

    1st on with some integrity, yeah right

    should have been the 7th to resign but as we all know with liebour, they will keep their snouts in the trough as long as they can

  86. 233
    Ben Bow says:

    Put this man Quick under observation for the next 10 yrs. All his personal contacts to be monitored. Likewise his emails and ‘phone conversations. We all know from experience, don’t we, that Traitors are those who feel hard done by and seek revenge. He already knows with whom to make contact . . . this man should be under house-arrest for the rest of his natural. He is a venal cad of the first order and bears no loyalty to Queen and Country. He is not so stupid as to know exactly what he was doing . . . and thought he could get away with it. Some people from the sub-Continent must be standing by their ‘phones awaiting to hear what he has to divulge. His wife is another risk! She also seems to have been infected by Mr Quick’s philosophy towards total self-aggrandisement. How did he get to that elevated position? Surely he has friends in murky places.

  87. 239
    'venin' all says:

    Nothing to see here. Move on.

  88. 252
    Ben Bow says:

    Just watching Channel 4 News. Why are so many policemen fat, with bull necks, treble chins, and bald heads, no sartorial flair, and speak in mono-syllables? I am perplexed. Is this why they used to be called ” the heavies “

    • 282
      Robert Peel - spinning in my grave says:

      Well, it’s because there are two definitions of a police force:

      1) A fit, efficient, intelligent police force with an emphasis on detection, proof and prioritisation.

      2) A fat, unfit group of “heavies” supplemented by a backup team of no-hopers with no qualifications to issue anti-government fines and take your DNA.

      Now which would you prefer?
      Which do we have?
      Who is responsible?
      Why are you still voting for them?

      • 299

        This is a disgraceful slur on our police force who work night and day to maintain public order.

        Still, I’d expect that from a Daily Mail reader.

      • 358
        Anonymous says:

        I’d rather justice than “public order” you stalinist hoon.

      • 360
        Anonymous says:

        Well, there you have it.

        Our Stalinist Labour party appreciates the work the police are doing batoning innocent people walking away from them, because they have the temerity to be in an area where people are protesting about the banks and government’s ineptitude in handling them, and was dressed inappropriately.

        Public order – the Nu Labour way.

        Fully supported by Dolly.

        ANYONE BUT LABOUR

      • 370
        Anonymous says:

        This is “our police force who work night and day to maintain public order”

        Beating the shit out of innocent middle-aged citizens for no reason whatsoever.

        Welcome to the Stalinist regime Labour have working towards ever since our PM in the 1960s was a KGB spy.

        G20 Tragedy: Damining New Film Shows Riot Officers Beat Man

      • 373
        Anonymous says:

        Former MI5 officer Peter Wright claimed in his memoirs Spycatcher that he had been told that Wilson was a Soviet agent. Wright states that after Wilson was elected Prime Minister in 1964 the CIA’s head of the Counterintelligence Division, James Angleton, had told him that he had heard from a source (whom he did not name, but who was probably Golitsyn) that Wilson was a Soviet agent. Angleton said he would give further information if MI5 would guarantee to keep the allegations from ‘political circles’.[2] The management of MI5, according to Wright, refused to accept Angleton’s restrictions on the use of his information and so Angleton did not tell them anything more.

        According to Wright by the end of the 1960s MI5 had received information that the Labour Party had ‘almost certainly’ been penetrated by the Soviets. Two Czechoslovakian defectors, ‘Frolik’ and ‘August’, had fled to the West and named a list of Labour MPs and trade unionists as Soviet agents.[2]

  89. 253

    I wonder if he’ll find the time now to sort out getting the right licences and insurance for his hire car fleet?

    • 262
      Master Baiter says:

      Da Ponging,
      Wondered when you would spit your drivel, give it up you useless bore.

      • 286
        Dolly is a Master Baiter says:

        Fuck off Dolly we know its you.Youre just a dosser tosser with the greasy hair and squeaky fake northern voice.
        Why dont you allow unmoderated comments on your pile of shit Labourwank and be amazed at what people really think about you.

      • 289
        Anonymous says:

        Give it up yourself nulaber stooge.

      • 294
        Anonymous says:

        Master bater are you a poor ex cuse of a troll?

      • 301
        Dr Dollys enemas special offer today. says:

        Pot calling the kettle black Master Baiter(wanker for short).

        You spout drivel all the time and are yet to post anything that isnt utter shite.

    • 408
      Abdul says:

      I’ve just hired his Jenson Interceptor to take me and my wives for our citizenship ceremonies at Brent Town hall.

  90. 256
    Sister Nobili says:

    Ian Tomlinson was subject to unprovoked violence by the Metropolitan Police who have proceeded to cover up the illegal actions of the officers involved. Unless you want to yourself or your family to be subjected to the same violence contact your Member of Parliament and demand that the officers and their commanders are disciplined and if necessary charged for criminal violence and obstruction of justice.
    Or are you all hat and no cattle?

    • 273
      king chillout says:

      I’m not crying about coppers acting like coppers. The bloke got pushed because he was acting the prick.

      I once got bitten by a police dog because I was acting like a pissed up young twat. And I deserved it. I woke up in the cells the day after and apologised.
      I learned my lesson and now I stay away from the police unless I can help it.

      The police should not be some cuddly social services offshoot. They are here to enforce the law and keep order.

      I know my opinion will be unpopular with a few on this blog, but that’s my honest opinion.

      • 368
        Police State Britain says:

        Yes, unfortunately it seems that the only tribe in Great Britain our “best in the world” boys in blue can now attack & murder with impunity is anglo saxons.

        Look at the differences between how the Countryside Alliance protestors were treated as opposed to those Islamofascist muppets in Luton.

        New Labour did this to us. They have politicised the Police, turned the indigenous communities into second class citizens & worse of all they have prepared the ground for the BNP to gain substantially at future elections.

        I work in a factory – mostly white working class – if you lot knew the anger down here at the shit end of the stick in Britain amongst the white demographic you would be as worried as I am.

        Well done you Labour muppets.

    • 275
      Aethelred says:

      Politicians should not intervene in police matters, or vice versa.

      • 278
        Gorballs Mick says:

        Erm, Police shouldn’t intervene in politics?

        Not sure about that one. They’d be eliminating 2000 of the dodgiest people in the country from any investigation…

    • 312
      simon r says:

      Well I would contact my MP but I’m stuck with that fucking shit Derek Conway until the next election so there is not much bloody point is there ?

      • 416
        Ted Bundy says:

        Bump – me to sadly.

        I don’t think he even bothers to have any kind of surgeries anymore since the Conservatives kicked him out of their local Sidcup office. Now that he’s going he just draws his salary and claims everything going and to hell with his constituents.

  91. 269
    Aethelred says:

    “Many of them are Librarians and so nothing to do with the Conservative Party”.

    I hope you get the book thrown at you for that remark. I’d do it myself but I’ve had to shelve those plans as I’m turning over a new leaf, although I’m not spineless, just bound by a different convention.

  92. 271
    Lochduart says:

    Yates better keep looking over his shoulder for Bliars Marksist Stormtroopers. our Ton will never forgive Plod for questioning him over cash for so called honours.

  93. 291
    lexander says:

    The past few days have emphatically proven the value of taking photographs and videos of the police in action at every opportunity. Thank goodness for those long range lenses and easy to use video cams.

    • 362
      A. Copper says:

      That’ll do for a confession. It is now against the law to photograph a police officer.
      Come quietly or we’ll have to send in the boys with batons…

  94. 296

    Why has Guido predictably ignored Gordon Brown’s G20 triumph for w hole week now?

    —————————–
    World leaders agreed on a one trillion dollar injection of financial aid into the global economy, with Gordon Brown claiming that the grand bargain he had brokered represented “a coming together of the world” which would speed recovery from the worst recession since 1945.

    The Prime Minister announced the creation of a “new world order” after the conclusion of the G20 summit of world leaders in London.

    “This is the day that the world came together to fight back against the global recession,” he said. “Not with words but with a plan for global recovery and reform.”

    Barack Obama, the US President, hailed the deal as a “turning point” for the global economy which would put it on the path to recovery.

    He insisted the deal would save jobs in Britain. He admitted there were “no quick fixes”, but believed that as a result of the deal “the recovery, which is much needed in every part of the world, will advance faster”. He had managed to achieve more in 10 weeks than he had previously accomplished over 10 years, he asserted.

    • 302
      Gordon Brown says:

      lmao

    • 304
      Dr Dollys is incapable of rational thought says:

      Hello Dolly -fed up with posting under master baiter are you?

    • 313
      Mad Hattie says:

      How much of that $1tn had already been announced?

      “He had managed to achieve more in 10 weeks than he had previously accomplished over 10 years, he asserted.”

      This says it all really. He actually achieved a monumental amount in 10 years – he sold our gold at rock bottom prices, he decimated our pensions, he swamped our country with terrorists from the subcontinent, he wrongly claimed to have eliminated boom and bust, and he brought this country to its knees in a more stunning fashion than anyone before him.

      And personally I prefer my politicians to not make the horrendous huge fucking mistakes in the first place, not crow over how well they are trying to recover from them.

      The man is an incompetent, arrogant, fuckwit who cannot even admit his own mistakes. This is not Prime Ministerial material.

      It is time for a change – it is time for anyone but Labour.

      Vote out your Labour MP if you have one by voting Tory, LibDem or SNP , whoever is closest.

      • 328

        Really? Mikhail Gorbachev, “Time”’s Man of the Decade for the 1980s, doesn’t think so.

        Mr Gorbachev also backed Mr Brown’s idea of international reform and greater co-operation. He added: “I think he has made several really wise decisions that have been taken up by his partners in other countries.”

        But he felt Tory leader Mr Cameron was too wedded to the policies of the Eighties. “To me, the Conservative Party is not ready to give up the policies of the Reaganomics era. Maybe they would like to take the initiative but they are not ready for that yet.”

        Source: http://www.labour.org.uk/central/content?Mode=Content&ContentId=1028

      • 351
        It's the economy stupid says:

        Interesting you cannot answer any questions.

        The country is not stupid. They will not vote for a man who not only chooses the bottom of a market to sell our gold reserves, he also announces to the market in advance what he’s going to do.

        Not even a banker would be that stupid.

      • 486
        Frank says:

        Fabian_Pride

        Well, thats allright then, if he’s got Gorbys vote then I guess we had all better change our minds and vote Brown come the next election

    • 374
      Dementicon Prime says:

      As this is a Global Problem, it needs the power of Dementicon Prime, Glorious (and Courageous) Leader of the mighty Dementibots to bring about a resolution which will fulfill the requirements of the NuLab Command.
      Nothing less than Total Victory will suffice!
      Dementicon Prime will rule for a thousand years!

      Dementibots – fascists in disguise

      • 703
        Adrian P says:

        Gorby has always thought of wester europe as our soviet ancestral homeland

        A Warning From History

        Now youve read the book, see to movie.

        This guy deserves a Medal and a Few pounds in his bank account if we get out of this mess, he has spent his entire life fighting for Freedom and now he is fighting for ours, I salute you vladimir, its not much but it’s all Ive got.

        Bukovsky

    • 378
      king chillout says:

      I only read your first line, HP………no point wasting my time reading the rest of the fucking bullshit.

      • 405
        Anonymous says:

        I couldn’t read on from the first line as I could not see through my tears of laughter

    • 471
      Anonymous says:

      HP said:
      ‘Why has Guido predictably ignored Gordon Brown’s G20 triumph for w hole week now?’

      The G20 is not worthy of comment, it just culminated in a load of hot air. So many politicians intent on pissing our money up a collective wall. Gordon Brown should be tried for treason.

  95. 307

    Before attacking our hard-working police force, let’s remember their many achievements under Labour:

    * Police numbers up by more than 14,000 since 1997, alongside more than 15,000 Community Support Officers
    * The risk of becoming a victim of crime is at historically low levels, down from its peak in 1995
    * During the past decade more than 20,000 prison places have been provided due to more offenders being brought to justice, including 60 per cent more violent and dangerous offenders, and being sentenced for longer

    • 309

      Also, Labour has reduced overall crime 39% since 1997 and violent crime is down 40%.

      • 314
        Mad Hattie says:

        Violent crime is up.

        Give us your sources if you disagree.

      • 320
        simon r says:

        yawn…more tractor statistics, you’re not fooling us anymore comrades.

      • 322
      • 324
        Mad Hattie says:

        Give us your sources if you disagree.

        Labour Party sources are not sufficient I’m afraid.

      • 327
        Mad Hattie says:

        Any fuckwit can write a web page with statistics on it. I said sources.

      • 338

        Anyone can reduce violent crime. It’s easy. I know, I know I’m being very generous, but I’ll even tell you how:

        “An extra two million violent crimes a year are committed in Britain than previously thought because of a bizarre distortion in the Government’s flagship crime figures, it was claimed yesterday.

        A former Home Office research expert said that across all types of crime, three million offences a year are excluded from the British Crime Survey (BCS).

        The poll caps the number of times a victim can be targeted by an offender at five incidents a year.

        If anyone interviewed for the survey says they have been targeted more than five times a year, the sixth incident and beyond are not included in the BCS.”

        The Independent

      • 367

        The Independent is a notorious discredited “viewspaper” known for its anti-Government bias.

        I quote facts and figures. You can’t argue with facts.

    • 317
      Mad Hattie says:

      ANYONE BUT LABOUR

    • 331
      Andy Carpark says:

      Oh, you don’t say. Whatever next – ten years of uninterrupted growth?

      Frankly I couldn’t care if Labour have found a cure for cancer and are on course to abolish death by 2015. They are still a bunch of lying, snooping, larcenous, boot-faced mediocrities who will shortly be driven into the sea.

      And Plod = institutionalised cowardice.

    • 407
      Anonymous says:

      What a load of old shit.

      PCSO’s – waste of time and money.
      More police officers – where – you cut the numbers to start with.

      Paperwork, CPS – the whole criminal justice system is in melt down through your interference.

      The prisons are full – police cells have had to be used a a cost of £75 Million.

      Crime figures fugded and manipulated – anyone in policing will tell you this and it can be proved very easily.

      Decent members of the public have no confidence in the service provided.

      ZANULiebour have caused the biggest explosion of disorder, violence and anti social behaviour with the the change in licensing laws. Speak to a police officer, paramedic, nurse or doctor that has to deal with the great unwashed and they will tell you so.

      You have politicised policing to the extent that most people have no confidence in the service.

      Your a bunch of fucking Hoon’s and you are hated.

      PS
      you can shove your policing pledge up your arse – another £3.5 million being wasted on Nuliebour spin.

  96. 315

    Just found this hilarious video about George Osborne.

    Labour aren’t perfect, but the alternative is far worse.

    Do you really think working people will vote for the Bullingdon Tories, even if they desert Labour?

    This is no time for a novice.

    • 319
      Mad Hattie says:

      ANYONE BUT LABOUR!

    • 323
      Mad Hattie says:

      “Do you really think working people will vote for the Bullingdon Tories, even if they desert Labour?”

      Don’t care, I’m not a Tory.

      I want this government out of power and in court for treason.

      • 335

        Treason? Now you’re being ridiculous! How exactly has this Government committed treason?

        Any Daily Mail articles will not be accepted as sources.

      • 339

        By allowing terrorists into the country with no immigration controls.

      • 365
        johnfromcamberley says:

        I reckon trying to hand Gibraltar over to the Spaniards was treason. Or are you now going to try to deny that that happened?

      • 372

        I suppose you think “britain for the British” do you?

        I suppose you think we have too many “Johnny Foreigners” and “darkies” here?
        You’re not a racist though are you?

      • 394
        Gordon Brown says:

        “British Jobs for British Workers”

        You’re a fine one to talk.

      • 397
        Gordon Brown says:

        People who engage in dog whistle politics should not throw stones.

        Despicable.

        You’re not a racist though, are you….

      • 402
        king chillout says:

        I agree with Mad Hattie 100%

        anyone but New Labour

      • 410
        Agent 99 says:

        Signing the Lisbon treaty behind our backs

        One of the most treasonous acts in 300 years. Brown knew it too which is why he sneeked and slimed through the back door to do it.

      • 414
        Anonymous says:

        Signing the Lisbon treaty behind our backs

        One of the most treasonous acts in 300 years. Brown knew it too which is why he sneeked and slimed through the back door to do it.

        “Churchill said courage is the greatest quality of all because it’s upon courage that everything else depends. I think you can have all sorts of good feelings, and good sentiments, but if you don’t have the courage to see it through then your sentiments can often mean nothing. So that’s why we should celebrate courage. People find extraordinary reserves of strength in the most challenging of circumstances.

        “Sometimes people write about courage as if it is something that no other person could have, except that particularly brilliant person of great bravery that you are writing about. But I think when you look at the courage that people have had to show during terrorist incidents, or if you look at what’s been happening among some of the brave soldiers that we’ve got, then people can summon up these huge reservoirs of strength. Sometimes they surprise themselves by the magnificent bravery that they show.”

        Gordon Brown

      • 569
        Anon says:

        The KGB is not defunct; it has merely been rebranded as the FSB.
        Who do you think provided the Polonium to murder Alexander Litvinenko you stupid little Labour Troll

    • 333
      Mad Hattie says:

      This is no time for a novice.

      Shame Gordon didn’t have the “courage” to say that to Obama, who is actually more of a novice than Cameron and Osbourne.

      • 334
        Mad Hattie says:

        But then again, he didn’t even have the balls to call an election “he thought he would win”.

        The man is not Prime Ministerial material.

        The New Labour party is not fit for governance.

        ANYONE BUT LABOUR

      • 340

        Funny you brought up Obama, the first African-American President, as being inexperienced.

        I’m sure you’d respond “I’m not a racist, but…”

        And “Many of my best friends are black…”

      • 343

        Erm, what does him being black have to do with it?

      • 345

        Cameron and Osbourne have worked for a government before.

        Obama hasn’t.

        Couldn’t care whether any of them are black or not, it means nothing.

      • 348

        Cameron and Osbourne advised Norman Lamont during Black Wednesday.

        LOL!

      • 353
        ERM? Labour supported it says:

        “The repercussions extended to the Labour Party as well. The former Labour leader John Smith was an enthusiast for the ERM. precisely because he believed that it provided an alternative to the party’s previous painful attempts to obtain pay restraint from the unions directly. Gordon Brown was Labour’s economic spokesman at the time; and it was in the post-ERM period that Tony Blair moved ahead of him in party popularity”

    • 376
      johnfromcamberley says:

      What a silly crap little video. Jeez, that’s 90 seconds of my life I’m not going to get back.

      Draper, if that was your work, then video making is something you should leave to the skilled and the inspired.

      Now those “Downfall” ones, they really were good. Even old Prescott said so!

    • 379
      anonymous says:

      People are so fed up to the back teeth with Brown -they’d vote for the Devil himself to get rid of McTwat & Co – let alon “Call me Dave” and the “Bullingdon Boys !”

    • 423
      Anon says:

      What has a person’s privileged background got to do with anything?

      It is true that the core Labour voter cannot see past the fact that some people have more money than them. The response to this is always resentment, rather than making an effort to improve their own lives. There is no chance that these voters would ever vote based on logical argument and sound policies. Its all about ‘us’ and ‘them’.

      Its easier just to call someone a ‘toff’ and wallow in self pity, rather than actually getting off your arse and trying to improve your lot, isn’t it?

      Keep voting Labour, keep collecting the handouts. Some people have no pride.

  97. 321
    Tom FD says:

    Boris announced the news. This is his revenge against Brown’s pre-empting of his low-carbon initiative yesterday.

    • 359
      Anonymous says:

      Jackie was too busy going through all her expenses claims with a black pen.

    • 697
      Adrian P says:

      Low Carbon, Oh yes, Gordon is going to build a machine to suck all the CO2 out of the Atmosphere…..Sorted………we of course must pay for this in the form of more stealth taxes on fuel, it’s for the Environment, kittens and ducklings, fur seals and puppies will all die otherwise….Meanwhile all they do is parade some giant White Fridge on BBC and put some chmney soot in a plastic box and shout…..it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive…….The Beeb then show where our Billions in taxes have been put to good use, failing to do a proper investigative job and trace said taxes to the offshore Tax havens.
      If CO2 Really were a problem, does anyone really think you can solve it with mass mass immigration, come to think of it, can you solve landfill problems or road congestion like this, no you cant, but you can deposit a lot of taxpayers money into offshore accounts this way, in fact the more immigration, the more congestion, the more CO2, the more landfill problems, the Better, Fuck the Environment, wer’e on a winner here Boys.

      If GB wants to solve the CO2 problem he should shut the border, plant Billions of Trees instead to soak all the CO2 up ( which isnt really a problem any way ) then he could let British farmers grow Veg oil, Veg oil works great in Dielsel vehicles, I know because I regulalry drove to tesco’s to fill up with the stuff ( actually I had to dilute it 50:50 with regular diesel because it is slightly more viscous )
      My car loved it, ran smother and quieter and my emmisions went down, the beauty is All the CO2 is simply reabsorbed by next years crop, so Veg oil produces NO NET GAIN to the environment.

      come to think of it, remember those roaring log fires you used to sit in front of, well i have a use for those billions of trees i suggested earlier.
      Hell, how difficult would it be to have power stations running on Veg oil, or even wood…
      With a sensible population balance, we could be self sufficient in fuel, lot so trees, our farmers in full productivity producing food and fuel, remember we still have some Nth sea oil left.

      But of course, we cant have that, we have already been sold out to the Petrochemss and GB has decided we are to go nuclear, guess who owns 80% of the Worlds Uranium, Rothschilds the Bankers..

      What sort of country do we want to leave to our children, time to make some important decisions

  98. 330

    Damien Green described Bob Quick as “Clouseau”-like on Radio 2 about an hour ago, which was amusing but unfair on the good “shif inspecteur”.

    News from Somerset, as it happens.

  99. 336

    ‘Nasty Tories’ beat retreat on hunting and spending cuts

    DAVID Cameron was forced to fend off fresh accusations today that the Tories are the “nasty party” after rows erupted over hunting and public spending. The Tory leader swiftly distanced himself from a new push, being led by one of his own frontbenchers, to scrap the ban on hunting.

    http://www.labour.org.uk/central/content?Mode=Content&ContentId=1043

    • 341

      Are these lies like the violent crime stats?

      Government figures missing two million violent crimes

      ANYONE BUT LABOUR

      • 369

        The Independent is a discredited “viewspaper”, notorious for its anti-Government bias.

        I quote facts and figures. You can’t argue with facts.

      • 389
        Anonymous says:

        No you don’t, you quote a page from the Labour party where they are trying to boast of their achievements.

        That is not facts.

        The quote I gave is from a former Home Office research expert.

        I know which I trust more – the clue is: one is electioneering propaganda, the other isn’t. Which do you think, given the Labour party’s history of problems with the truth, is more accurate?

        ANYONE BUT LABOUR

      • 391
        Anonymous says:

        And “www.labour.org.uk” is a completely non-biased source of course.

        I was initially misled by the word Labour, which had suggested to me it might be party political propaganda.

    • 344

      Labour’s commitment giving real help now and real hope for the future stands in stark contrast to the Tories who would do nothing.

      By opposing Labour’s fiscal stimulus, the Conservatives have set themselves against providing real help now for families and businesses. They are committed not just to spending less in a time of need but also to spend less in the future. By doing nothing, they would deepen the downturn and delay the recovery, just as they did in the recessions of the 1980s and 1990s. They would make Britain weaker not stronger for the future.

      • 346

        Nobody is listening.

        A tired, jaded party that is going to get the mother of all thumpings next year.

        Can’t wait.

        ANYONE BUT LABOUR

      • 347
        It's the economy stupid says:

        It’s ok saying you’ll spend more.

        However, nobody is going to lend us the money, so that means raising taxes.

        Do you seriously think you’ll get re-elected if you raise taxes?

        The answer is simple: No.

      • 364
        Twizzle says:

        You’ll still be spouting this claptrap as the ship sinks into the deep, deep ocean.

        Just keep on bubbling.

      • 417
        Mad-as a- Hatter says:

        Are you one of these care in the community types that has not taken their medication?

        You really need to take your pills Dolly.

    • 386
      Tally Ho says:

      Couldn’t we start a new sport of troll hunting? We get dressed up in nice pink coats, get on horses and pursue unwashed Dolly Bots all over the countryside and then get to rip a few to pieces? Just a thought.

      • 404
        Dementicon Prime says:

        You will never defeat the Dementibots, puny organic.
        We will win our final Victory and the men in redcoats will vanish as if they had never existed.

        Dementibots – fascists in disguise

  100. 342
    His Eminence Lord Paper of Almeda and Berkeley says:

    When I were a lad these were popular up north:

    http://victorians.swgfl.org.uk/themes/personal_health/washdollyobj.htm

    Seems their use has now become localised to sections of the capital….

  101. 349
    Drapers _ lack _ of_Pride says:

    I am a total Hoon and love to pull at my tiny penis as my wife takes a huge cock up her ass from her dance instructor

  102. 354

    Mikhail Gorbachev, “Time”’s Man of the Decade for the 1980s, supports Gordon Brown.

    Mr Gorbachev backed Mr Brown’s idea of international reform and greater co-operation. He added: “I think he has made several really wise decisions that have been taken up by his partners in other countries.”

    But he felt Tory leader Mr Cameron was too wedded to the policies of the Eighties. “To me, the Conservative Party is not ready to give up the policies of the Reaganomics era. Maybe they would like to take the initiative but they are not ready for that yet.”

    Source: http://www.labour.org.uk/central/content?Mode=Content&ContentId=1028

    • 357
      Anonymous says:

      “I think he has made several really wise decisions that have been taken up by his partners in other countries.”

      This is like George W’s “other countries”.

      Do these other countries include any major economies in Europe? No.

      And look over at Ireland.

      They have decent politicians there – ones who award themselves pay cuts during a depression, not pay rises and fiddling expenses.

      They also cut spending and raised taxes.

      That’s how you deal with a depression and a huge debt cause you forgot to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

      Gordon, like any shopaholic, would rather just continue to tax, borrow and spend.

      He’s a loser. A loser with no courage.

      ANYONE BUT LABOUR

    • 400
      anonybot says:

      Doesn’t matter what Gorbachev or anyone else thinks about Brown – the British electorate have had enough and they want a “scapegoat” for their economic ills – Brown could “walk on water” or “feed the five thousand” it won’t make any difference. The majority are no longer listening to him and whilst they may not all like Cameron and the Conservative Party the latter will win because people will be voting against Brown not for the Tories .

      You still don’t get it do you ? There has been a “sea-change” in British politics like there was in the late 90’s. It may be totally unfair or it may not be – but it’s time for you and the rest of the “comrades to “face facts -Labour and Brown are finished in government as soon as he calls an election – there is small glimmer of hope that if you can ditch Brown after the rout at the Euro/Local Elections in June(some hope of course) and elect a more voter friendly face like Johnson you may mitigate the impending disaster but not stop it. Tough but there it is. – Opposition beckons for Labour and never did a Prime Minister nor political party deserve it more for the ruination of the country that they have presided over for the past 12 years

    • 418
      righty right wing (mrs) says:

      “”Mikhail Gorbachev, “Time”’s Man of the Decade”"

      I am sure Hitler won the same beauty contest. It does not automatically follow that either are qualified to talk about this epoc.

      So your point is what, exactly?

      HP – do you remember that Portillo moment from all those years ago?

      Now throw your mind forward to the next election – how many Portillo moments are Neo Labour going to suffer?

      The partying all over Great Britain as the results come in will be so loud the French will undoubtably complain.

      Regards

  103. 356
    • 361
      Anonymous says:

      Well, the entry requirements aren’t exactly fierce.

      You can get in with partially-completed Wright Institute diplomas.

    • 383
      His Eminence Lord Paper of Almeda and Berkeley says:

      Isn’t that John Henshaw – the fat-assed cop from The Cops and Ken in Early Doors?

  104. 363
    Doctor Botox says:

    Bob Quick’s face condition is of concern to me as a medical man.

    Blotchy a la Alex Fergusson(one of my patients)

    Diagnosis: a)Drink or b)adult ecema, rosecea.

    Prescription: a)Limit your drinking to six pints or a bottle of 13% wine a day
    b) Oxytetracycline

    Bob give me a call and I will have you looking smooth and suave in no time at all so that you can face the cameras with confidence and cool. I suppose your wife will be driving you around in the future. Remember keep your files in a briefcase.

  105. 371
  106. 377
    PC Hoon No G20 says:

    Mr Quick

    GOTCHA!!!

  107. 381
    DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

    The whole thing seems distinctly fishy to me (see my earlier post at #65), and I’ve now come up with a theory about what they are up to.

    Every so often, the government likes to announce that they’ve arrested dangerous terrorists and foiled a major plot to blow up millions of innocent people, so we all know what a good job they are doing of keeping us safe. They do this from time to time and go and send huge numbers of armed police to arrest a few poor sods with beards and dark skin so it looks good on telly. But it’s all bollocks, so almost none of these cases ever end up in court, and they’re starting to get a bit embarrassed about it.

    So they engineer it so that everyone knows that the raid is done earlier than they planned to do it. That way, when everyone they arrested yesterday is released without charge because there’s absolutely no evidence that they have done anything wrong, the police have the whizzo excuse that they didn’t have enough time to collect the evidence that otherwise would surely have proved they were about to destroy a major city with their giant orbiting laser cannon.

    • 384
      Call me Cynical but.... says:

      Thank you Mr Bin Laden.

    • 392
      Anonymous says:

      Ever thought about calling in the men in white coats, mate?

      • 422
        DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

        Oh, all the time!

        Seriously though, I find it really hard to take this story at face value. Maybe my theory is way off the mark, but I feel sure something fishy is going on.

      • 480
        righty right wing (mrs) says:

        RRW (mrs) sighs, rolls her eyes & reaches for the keyboard.

        Islamoleftists like you would side with the devil (or Shatan as I believe you Islamoleftists call him) if he wore an anti Western tee-shirt.

        I wonder if your tune would change if just one of those 80 had got through & blown your family to smithereens?

        Yes, actually, reviewing your posts here I have come to the conclusion that you are such a grade A plonker that I actually think you would end up blaming yourself, your country, your heritage & culture for the sins of those you appear to defend here over & over again.

        Is there an Islamic Socialist Republic we could have a whip round to send you to? At least you have retracted your “its all bollocks” Al Qaeda propaganda.

      • 606
        DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

        Call me an Islamoleftist if that makes you feel better, RRW. I don’t know why you think I approve of Islamic terrorists, but perhaps that’s just what they call a straw man technique.

        I just don’t believe all the New Labour propaganda, which you seem to believe so readily, that there is an Islamic terrorist around every street corner who is imminently about to blow us all up. New Labour are all about control freakery. If they can convince us we are all under threat from an evil enemy, they can get their way with ID cards, 42 day detention, and all that malarkey.

        And BTW, I haven’t by any means retracted my statement that “it’s all bollocks”. I actually find it one of the most useful statements I have in most situations, and particularly when talking about the government.

  108. 396
    Derek Doolally says:

    When I was studying for my doctorate at Berkeley I learnt through self-analysis that am a complete dickhead.

  109. 413
    Anonymous says:

    Gipsies move into easy street

    Yet more hard-earned taxpayers’ money thrown at the feckless and unemployed.

    Even during a great depression.

    You can’t make it up.

    Why bother working at all?

  110. 421
    Derek_Window licker says:

    I would just like to point out that I am a voyuer, allergic to soap, am patholigicaly (I learnt that word when IN not At Berkeley) dishonest
    I publish the least popular political blog and have a nickname that suggests that I am a Poof (I used to help them out when they were busy).
    Could anybody spare any loose change?

  111. 426

    “At [Prescott's] age, and having stepped down from his position as Deputy Prime Minister when Tony Blair resigned, I think most people would consider him entitled to take it a bit easier”

    No, he’s drawing a huge salary and expenses and is an MP – we expect him to do his job.

  112. 427
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    “”But it’s all bollocks, so almost none of these cases ever end up in court, and they’re starting to get a bit embarrassed about it.”"

    There are over 80 convicted Islamofascists (or “misunderstanders of Islam” as one New Labour plonker recently called them) currently serving sentences in Great Britain for plotting & preparing acts of terrorism in the name of Allah & his Prophet Mohammed in accordance with the Koran, the Sunnah & the Hadith.

    Add to that over 2,000 on permanent watch.

    The cost of Islamic terrorism to the British taxpayer every year can now be counted in the billions – & that is before we count the blood & gold poured into Iraq & Afghanistan.

    Yep, all this Caliphate nonsense is a smokescreen by the Government, isn’t it children?

  113. 428
    DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

    Well, you may say “you can’t make it up”, but this was published in the Sun, so that’s probably exactly what happened.

    • 440
      Anonymous says:

      Yes the photographs are pure fiction….it was a giveaway. Anyway here’s some Grauniad as proof.

      Guardian

    • 452
      DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

      Did you read both the Sun and Grauniad versions of the story? Not exactly the same, are they? Actually pretty much a textbook example of how each paper pushes its own agenda. No doubt the truth is somewhere in between the two.

    • 464
      Anonymous says:

      Yes let’s continue to dish out money to those who do not contribute.

      That’s the way out of Gordon’s Great Global Depression for sure.

      After all, if we run out, we can borrow some more.

      Or – if nobody wants to lend to us, unlikely I know – we can just print it!

      It’s win-win!

    • 469
      Pissed off voter says:

      The sun have printed one story which is highlly credible. See Guido’s links at top of page.

  114. 429
    Muppet says:

    I’d vote for the ELF!

  115. 429
    88p bath plug says:

    Oi
    leave librarians out of this you baitless twit

  116. 432
    Ted Bundy says:

    Gordon_Pride

    Since 1997 when you idiots came to power 65 prisoners convicted of murder have been released under licence and upon release have murdered once again.

    What would you as a Government spokesman say to the families of these 65 murder victims?

    Please take your time with the answer.

    • 474
      Anonymous says:

      The silence is telling…

    • 475
      Anonymous says:

      If you do get an answer, it will be patronising and demeaning, like the genuine article by a carer on Labourlist asking why he should vote for Labour.

      He just got shouted down by Draper and his student union sockpuppets.

      That’s how much Labour care about the plight of people under their regime

      ANYONE BUT LABOUR

  117. 433
    Labourlist says:

    “At his age, and having stepped down from his position as Deputy Prime Minister when Tony Blair resigned, I think most people would consider him entitled to take it a bit easier.”

    It’s all about entitlement isn’t it?

    Entitlement to a fat pay cheque
    Entitlement to charge anything you like to your expenses account
    Entitlement to do nothing

    What about responsibility?

    Responsibility as a paid MP
    Responsibility as a constituency MP
    Responsibility to minimise government expenditure.

  118. 434
    Muppet says:

    By ‘lavish’ I take it you mean reminiscent of something chalked on the wall of a lav…

  119. 435

    keep reporting it Ted.
    No one cares now but they will when Gordon is forced to put interest rates AND taxes up after the budget.

  120. 436
    88p bath plug says:

    they’ll then be picked up again for stealing bath plugs – cheapskate terrorists .

  121. 438
    Dementicon Prime says:

    The Draper has a tiny penis in humanoid guise but in his true form as ‘Speaker’ of the Dementibots he has a powerful electronic voice with which he sings the praises of Dementicon Prime to the farthest reaches of the galaxy.
    The dance instructor will dance to the Dementibot tune when Final Victory is won.

    Dementibots – fascists in disguise

  122. 439
    88p bath plug says:

    They dont’ make Two Home Secretaries like they used to!

  123. 441
    Anonymous says:

    It’s actually called theft.

    They just change the laws so it’s legal.

    You can’t honestly expect better from people who think the workshy should be paid the same as the industrious.

  124. 442

    It is unhelpful to call us Labour types muppets.

    We don’t care what you people think.

  125. 444

    No Labour government since 1997 has been involved in treason.

    Tony and Gordon proved that we are New Labour by severing our links with the now-defunct KGB.

  126. 446
    Major Phil Mihardon (rtd) ( mrs ) says:

    Yes – all this revolting innuendo really leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.

  127. 447
    Anonymous says:

    Either way it would be a crime hotspot no doubt

  128. 448
    anachronistic window-licker says:

    wibble wibble!

  129. 449
    Derek_Lack _of _pride says:

    Hello
    I would like to announce that I ponce off my wife and wank my days away in my spare bedroom fantasising that one day my ex boyfriend Lord Fondlebum will help me get a safe Layber Parteh seat (He loved my “seat”) Untill then I ill carry on building a blog for 60 million people.
    Im already up to 54 readers so fook off Guido

  130. 451
    Anonymous says:

    More likely the boys with their Heckler & Koch Carbines for a replay of Jean Charles de Menezes, the tired and emotional City Lawyer or the innoncent man with the table leg, among others.

  131. 454
    Anon says:

    Its well known within the Met that he is indeed a very heavy drinker (he could drink the entire Anti Terrorist command under the table no problem) and this shows in his very degraded physical condition. Maybe this played a role in his most recent slip up. He is now a broken man.

    • 634
      Doctor Botox says:

      Thank you for confirming diagnosis a) above. Of course another clue to his ‘looking deep into the bottle’ is his waistline.

      Bob clearly you are in need of a major MOT. Give me a call and we can add ’svelte’ to your cv.

      Perhaps Mrs Quick will give you a job as a driver to supplement your meagre £100k+ pension. But then again if she is aware of your imbibing she may pass you over because of insurance problems in case of accident whilst under the influence. That Mr Yates is a tough customer. Beware.

  132. 455
    genghiz the kahn says:

    This is no time for an unelected or is it unelectable prime minister. Get rid of brown now, you know it makes sense.

  133. 456
    Anonymous says:

    Spycatcher was certainly a good read at the time and its apity Peter Wright never finished/published his next intended book. The labour party was certainly infiltrated and Tom Driberg was honey trapped into spying. The only problem I have with it all is that Angleton was a paranoid nutcase of the first order.

  134. 457

    11pm. Usual location.

    If the light’s on, the wife’s at home.
    If it’s off, she’s at dance class and the coast is clear.

  135. 458
    Master Baiter says:

    Now come on compared to Guidiot, Draper is a god.
    Didn’t you see the Guidiot on the telly with his belly and that sour face.
    Jeesh!

    • 465
      Anonymous says:

      At least he can enunciate correctly.

      • 477
        Master Baiter says:

        So you’re a glass half full person, great.
        Guidiot makes Draper look like a god.
        Guidiot has a joke belly on the telly and a sour face.
        But! he has been to elocution lessons in an unsuccessful effort to cover up his wesslundin tawk.
        Bully for belly boy Guidiot.

      • 483
        Anonymous says:

        I think he just went to school and a decent university (yes I rate all UK institutions over pay-per-degree places in the US) where he completed a course that was not a Mickey Mouse course.

    • 476
      Anonymous says:

      Guido is no cuckold that’s for sure.

  136. 459
    anon126 says:

    we can only hope that all these labour stooges in the police and the civil service are kicked out and replaced by competent,non-political, people….but I wont hold my breath. They look after their own.

    do you think there is an award for the most senior officers sacked my a single mayor? if so Boris’s got it!

  137. 460
    Pissed off voter says:

    Is that based on figures supplied by the honourable Jacqui Smith who has already been caught bang to rights for announcing bogus figures, as well as making false claims for housing, as well as making false claims for porn, etc.

  138. 461
    88p bathplug (10% off) says:

    that’s in rather than at Berkeley I understand

  139. 463
    Sarah says:

    Sorry mate, you’re talking shit. I have several close “associates” who work in the Met (some are analysts and collect lots of very boring information re: crime levels). Crime of all kinds is increasing, particularly violent crime.

  140. 466
    Guidiot Thoughts says:

    News International, owners of Faux News, Sky blah this and that, Times and the Sun lost six billion dollars, now that’s got to hurt!

    • 468
      Anonymous says:

      Yet again, Labour laughing at those losing money through Gordon’s incompetence.

      Labour laugh in the face of your redundancies, bankruptcies and business failures

      ANYONE BUT LABOUR!

    • 478
      Anonymous says:

      To anyone who loses their job as a result of this loss, you now know the level of empathy the Labour party has with your plight.

      Disgusting.

      • 485
        Guidiot Thoughts says:

        Why so angry?
        It’s just the market, weeding out the weak, like old family feuding Murdoch. Isn’t he some miserable old man in the Simpsons?
        Why did he start dying his hair?

      • 489
        Anonymous says:

        “Why so angry?”

        Labour ruin our economy, our culture and our society.

        “Why so angry?”

        They really do live in ivory towers (funded by the taxpayer of course).

      • 499
        Guidiot Thoughts says:

        Anybody would think you’re angry because you’re as thick as the input of a sewer.

      • 505
        Anonymous says:

        Yes I wouldn’t be angry that your party has fucked up our economy so that we are worse placed to deal with this depression. We are, according to the IMF, going to be the only developed nation still in recession next year.

        Says it all about Gordon’s credentials really.

        Tax the hardworking
        Borrow on the never-never
        Waste the money and claim it’s investment.

        And now – laugh at companies as they go bust as a result of McBroon’s staggering incompetence and arrogance and lust for power.

        ANYONE BUT LABOUR

  141. 470
    Anonymous says:

    Labour again laughing at the misfortune their economic incompetence has caused.

    ANYONE BUT LABOUR

  142. 472
    Frank says:

    Labour has spent billions “saving the banks” is giving guarantees against default of the car companies and spending billions on a Quantative Easing programme.

    Pray tell us of any money spent to provide families and businesses with support other than money stolen from savers and given to people who bought houses at inflated prices.

    The answer is the government have done fuck all, absolutely fuck nothing other than pranced about on the world stage showing how (un)clever they are.

    This fucking government are history and nobody cares how fucking incompetent the Conservatives might be, they just want to see this lot of masturbating troughers stuffed

  143. 473
    Sarah says:

    Oh well, if a failed leader of the Soviet Union think Brown’s a good thing….

    • 512
      Anonymous says:

      The ex-Soviet Union is the only court of public opinion that matters to these Stalinists in the Labour Party.

      They even had the affrontery to put Wilson up as their leader!

    • 525
      Cicero says:

      Yeah, Communist supports Marxist, quelle surprise!

  144. 487


    Remember Iain Duncan Smith? LOL!

    • 488

      This Spitting Image video shows the real face of the Nasty Party:

      • 493
        Anonymous says:

        We are discussing the failures of the Labour party in 2009.

        You are dredging up Spitting Image shows from the 1990s.

        Says it all really.

        ANYONE BUT LABOUR

      • 498

        For the 3 million who people lost their jobs under 18 years of Tory misrule, for the manufacturing industry which was disembowelled by Thatcher, for the mining communities which were destroyed, for the millions of lives ruined under the Tories,
        the 1980s and 90s are only too real.

        They will never vote for the Tories again.

      • 506
        Anonymous says:

        “They will never vote for the Tories again”.

        Perhaps some of them won’t, but they sure as hell won’t vote for you after you brought the economy to its knees.

      • 508
        Anonymous says:

        The manufacturing industry was destroyed by the unions who refused to implement the reform necessary to remain competitive in the global economy.

        The unions, who bankrolled the Labour party.

        If you want a prosperous nation, do not vote Labour. Even when it’s all going down the pan, they’re on here laughing about it and talking about the Tories from almost two decades ago.

        They are not sorting the problems out. They are not fit to govern.

      • 534
        ratsniffer says:

        The miners were not destroyed by Thatcher. Look closer to home. I came from a mining community and most miners appreciated that their industry needed to become more competitive, and that uneconomical pits needed to be closed. If it had not been for the intransigence and the political idiology of the miners union leadership, we’d still have a thriving mining community now.

        As for manufacturing hahahahaah….I remember visiting ford dagenham in the 70s, jesus christ you couldn’t even fart withough some shop steward’s permission. The place was full of strutting, “I’m all right jack” little hitler union officials constantly looking for some new argument to nit-pick with the managment. if that’s british industry – no wonder it went bust.

      • 630
        Labour is rotten from head to foot says:

        Tell someone who gives a toss moron

    • 490

      Do you really want this lot to get back in?


      (Not the Nine O Clock News)

      • 495
        Anonymous says:

        ANYONE BUT LABOUR

      • 496
        scared says:

        just goes to show , how nast and stuck in the past labour are

        just fuck the fuckety off

      • 710
        Rembrandt says:

        Fuck off Dolly – your a wanker and don’t have any cred. The Hooning fuckwits you support has locked us in for a generation of debt and worse still they’re siphoning off taxpayers money to fuel their own greed before they get shown the door by the People of this country.

        I challenge you to admonish Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper – how can, on principle, these two claim the same allowance for the same property whilst both living in it? Don’t tell me it’s ‘In the rules’ – it might be your right of way if someone stalls at a ‘T’ junction but you don’t keep heading for them if they’re in your path.

        Started well under Tory Blair, added impetus and injected some feeling into a stagnant politicla scene but it all died when he left. He knew the only way Labour could get into power was by taking on centre and right wing thinking to woo the disenchanted. Old Labour thinking just didn’t cut it with the majority of the people. I actually liked Kinnock because you knew where you stood with him – a man of principles, I didn’t support his policies but I rated the man. Take this lot though under McBust and they’re all snivelling, conniving concieted little fucks with no morality and sense of responsibility. The sooner they’re plugged and hung in public the better.

        Go rent your arse out – I hear you need the wonga….

        Bitch.

    • 497
      Anonymous says:

      Remember this?

      Labour Still Isn’t Working

      Twenty years later, same unemployment queues, same failed Labour party.

      This is no time for the person who ruined our economy, even a novice would be a better choice.

      ANYONE BUT LABOUR

      • 501
        Anonymous says:

        A novice might get it right.

        Gordon has proven – disastrously – that he cannot.

        Call an election.

      • 507

        Labour is listening and taking your concerns and problems seriously.

        You should vote for Labour – not because we’re perfect, but because I genuinely believe we are the only political party – the only organisation, full stop – capable of delivering the kind of change that people like you and your family need.

        Right now, we’re committed to helping those hit hardest by the economic downturn, getting help to those who need it most. No other party could or would do this.

      • 510
        Anonymous says:

        “delivering the kind of change that people like you and your family need”

        Economic meltdown.
        Sterling tanking.
        Jobs lost by the hour.
        Selling off gold reserves with advance warning, at bottom of market
        Decimating your pensions
        Wasting your hard-earned tax on a foreign slave-labour force.

        Judge for yourselves.

      • 550
        Anonymous says:

        “Labour is listening and taking your concerns and problems seriously.

        You should vote for Labour – not because we’re perfect, but because I genuinely believe we are the only political party – the only organisation, full stop – capable of delivering the kind of change that people like you and your family need.

        Right now, we’re committed to helping those hit hardest by the economic downturn, getting help to those who need it most. No other party could or would do this.”

        This was Liam Byrne’s cut-and-paste reply to the genuine concerns a carer expressed on Labourlist.

        It was only pasted in after everyone was complaining that Labour weren’t listening.

        Even the Labour trolls over there thought it was poor effort.

    • 504
      Chipmunk_Pride(Hattie watch and weep!) says:

      Iain Dale is getting himself excited over his favourite Labour Politician – “The Chipmunk” – who has told Dr Daud Abdullah of the Muslim Council of Britain where to insert his demand for a retraction of her letter to “the Guardian” regarding his signature to the “Istanbul Declaration”.

      http://iaindale.blogspot.com/

      • 568
        Anonymous says:

        I bet the ginger chipmunk would not be so quick off the mark if the costs were coming out of her pocket. No doubt the tax payer will fund it though.

        By the way thats a great target anyone seen her expenses? Just love to wipe that smirk off the face of the patronising little cow.

        Oh and while I’m here

        pride (s) go fuck yourselves.

      • 577
        Anonymous says:

        the Little Red One is setting out her stall for a position of power when Jacquiboots gets slung out on her ear

  145. 492
    Master Baiter says:

    Did Guidiot go to University?
    It must have been a Hull of an institution.
    Did he finish his course?
    What did he study?
    Breaking mirrors?

    • 500
      Anonymous says:

      At least he didn’t lie about it I guess.

      Still, what do you expect from the Labour party…

    • 546
      Dolly gerne einen Esel in seiner Freizeit fuck. says:

      To quote from another post by you under a different name.

      People always resort to personal insults when they’ve LOST the ARGUMENT!

  146. 509
    (Fabian, Labour & Harmon) Pride goes Before a Fall says:

    Are these new blogging tactics? The Three (Labour) Stooges, Curly, Larry and Mo, who are proud when they should be ashamed, trying to resurrect old and forgotten nonsense from another time?

    Hello! We have had 12 years of real New Labour shite since then and the recent and ongoing New Labour sleaze makes the Major years pale in comparison. In any case it is not so much who we want back in as who we want out.

    • 511
      Anonymous says:

      A large section of the electorate won’t even remember the Major years.

      I’d rather a politician who engaged in a bit of extra-marital sex than one who disgustingly embezzles the taxpayer.

      • 584
        Sarah says:

        I know what you mean, the bondage, leg-overs, adultery etc. seem like innocent peccadilloes compared to the cynical thieving kleptocracy of the Labour Party.

  147. 513
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    “”Are these new blogging tactics? The Three (Labour) Stooges, Curly, Larry and Mo, who are proud when they should be ashamed, trying to resurrect old and forgotten nonsense from another time?”"

    Study the text & the context of what “they” are saying . Its the same person.

    I think the underlying reason is to get Guido to hit the moderation filter, thus stopping us all having our say.

    Very Neo Labour.

    Regards

  148. 514
    caesars wife says:

    as trevor howard might say “it was all to brief an encounter”

    wonder if bojo phoned quick with westlifes “more than words can say” playing in the background .

    ey up clegg says mps should sell there second and return any profits mmmm nice try nick but what if they sell them to themselves ????

    i favour BOE mortagage at base plus 2% then if they bugger up the economy they have to pay the extra , BOE does sale through auction or retains it for next mp , or pay rent or hotel suiets , i prefer hotels as we wouldnt be paying when mps are on holiday and econmy gets the cash .

    anyhow whens gordon meeting that he promised ??

  149. 515
    Anonymous says:

    Dollys rants sounds so better in German

    Arbeit ist, hören und ihre Sorgen und Probleme ernst zu nehmen.
    Sie sollten für Arbeit – stimmen, nicht, weil wir perfekt sind, sondern weil ich wirklich glaube sind wir der einzige politische Partei – die einzige Organisation, schlechthin – Lage ist, liefern der Art der Änderung, die die Menschen wie Sie und ihre Familie erforderlich.
    Rechts sind nun, wir verpflichtet, hilft diese Hit härteste durch die konjunkturelle Abflachung, erhalten von Hilfe diejenigen, die Sie benötigen die meisten. Keine andere Partei könnten oder dies tun würde.

    Now imagine Dolly standing up in the back of a Merecedes staff car going to address the masses.Put a black mark above Drapers lip and cut his hair a bit and what do you have….Heil Dolly

  150. 519
    turkey turkey wing (mrs) says:

    Study the text gobble gobble gobble & the context of what “they” gobble gobble gobble are saying gobble gobble gobble . Its the same gobble gobble gobble person.

    I think the underlying gobble gobble gobble reason is to get gobble gobble gobble Guido to hit the moderation gobble gobble gobble filter, gobble gobble gobble thus stopping gobble gobble gobble us all gobble gobble gobble having gobble gobble gobble our gobble gobble gobble say.gobble gobble gobble

  151. 520

    Chris Grayling has shamefully used a tragic incident to make a party political point.

    He called for a clampdown on youth violence in the wake of the “grotesque” attack on two young boys in Doncaster. Grayling said in a speech that the incident should serve as a “wake-up call” for “Broken Britain”.

    But as Jacqui Smith said 18 months ago, “Tragic events affect us all, and rightly make us question whether we’re doing everything we can to tackle crime. But Britain isn’t broken.”

    She highlighted a 60 per cent fall in burglary since 1995, violent crime falling to its lowest level in a decade and the chances of being a victim of crime at their lowest odds for 25 years. “These are not the symptoms of a broken society,” she said.

    • 720
      A Cynical False Flag says:

      These Marxists want crime to get out of hand as an excuse for their POlice state. that s why they prohibited parents and teachers from disciplining children, promoted 24 hr drinking, relaxed the drug laws and importt millions of diverse multicultis into our once peacfull society, they want civil disorder, it is called divide and ConqEUr

  152. 521

    Chris Grayling has shamefully used a tragic incident to make a party political point.

    He called for a clampdown on youth violence in the wake of the “grotesque” attack on two young boys in Doncaster. Grayling said in a speech that the incident should serve as a “wake-up call” for “Broken Britain”.

    But as Jacqui Smith said 18 months ago, “Tragic events affect us all, and rightly make us question whether we’re doing everything we can to tackle crime. But Britain isn’t broken.”

    It’s become a depressingly familiar sight. Whenever something awful happens in our country, up pops former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith to proclaim it as just the latest example of our so called “broken society” – and that, somewhat bizarrely, David Cameron is the man to fix it.

    But these Tory “broken Britain” claims are not only highly offensive to the vast majority of parents who do a great job bringing up their kids; they are also totally unfair on the vast majority of law-abiding young people who work hard at school, play by the rules and, in my experience, deeply resent these attacks.

    Secondly, the Conservative Party consistently refuses to support our Children’s Plan policies to tackle the causes of under-achievement, poverty or crime.

    The Tories oppose education for all to 18, our new Diplomas and our National Challenge interventions where schools are under-performing – preferring a free market approach with new schools where parents can shout the loudest paid for by cuts to other schools. They also oppose CCTV even though in constituencies like mine in West Yorkshire, it’s essential to cutting crime and reducing the fear of crime.

    And their plan to give extra money to married couples – at the expense of the millions of children whose parents are separated, widowed or divorced – is about as unfair as it gets. It would effectively create two classes of children, hamper our efforts to tackle child poverty and do nothing to keep families together.

    As Tory leader, cutting public spending and stigmatising single parents were Iain Duncan-Smith’s twin obsessions. Scratch beneath the surface and not much has changed. David Cameron’s Conservatives are not progressive and they’re not social reformers. Britain is not broken – let’s not let the Tories break it.

    http://www.labourlist.org/britain_is_not_broken

    • 527
      Anonymous says:

      Oh do shut the fuck up you closet retard.

      • 530

        People always resort to personal insults when they’ve LOST the ARGUMENT!

      • 581
        Anonymous says:

        Pride

        Britain is broken look out of your windows instead of at PC windows. Speak to people anywhwere and everywhere, look at the fear Labour have caused.

        Britain is not just broken it is utterly destroyed and without direction. In 12 years Labour have dstroyed hundreds of years of history.

        The MP is right

        The question actually is from something so broken can it ever recover?

    • 532
      Reddicht Wankfest says:

      Oh do fuck off you tiring little man

    • 536
      Anton DuBeck's Fluffer says:

      What a load of utter shit. Britain is smashed into a thousand pieces and has been by you and your dirty ilk.

    • 541
      Anton DuBeck's Fluffer says:

      The link takes you to a load of utter wank written by the tosser of tossers, cock of cocks……..Ed Balls, a man whose very name is permenantly linked to the phrase ‘fuck up’ a man so fucking useless and utterly shit at anything he does that he actually makes the dozy Sow of Redditch look like a high achiever.

      Just look at the fuck up with education funding, the man is a fucking tool, though I understand that the tool in his pants is very, very small.

    • 543
      Eddy Balls's 1.5 inches says:

      “My first reaction was to check that everything was being done locally to make sure the young lad, the teenage mum and the baby are safe, properly protected and that they get all the support they need. These young people should be in school studying, not on the pages of the newspapers.” said well known liar and daydreamer Ed Balls

      Shame lots of kids eductaion is having to be curtailed because of that fucktard Balls.

    • 562
      Timney-Pride says:

      “Chris Grayling has shamefully used a tragic incident to make a party political point.”

      Given that St Anthony Bliar used the Bulger case massively, this is hypocrisy of the low order we have come to expect from Dr Draper’s little boys.

    • 578
      Sarah says:

      Actually Smith’s right – Britain isn’t broken – it’s totally fucked, with the handle broken off.

    • 643
      Ruth Kelly's plaything says:

      Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

      Fabian_Pride writes: “People always resort to personal insults when they’ve LOST the ARGUMENT.”

      That can sometimes be the case.

      HOWEVER, YOU ARE AN EXCEPTION!

      In the case of you and every other ****_Pride clone, people insult you because you are idiotic, stupid, dogmatic, lying deniers of the facts, destroyers of a once-great country, mockers of a suffering people, brown-snouted associates of the vainglorious incompetents who happen, temporarily, to have the chance to abuse the trust of the populace and misuse the powers of the great offices of state.

      Let me explain what is going on.

      Nobody here has the time or the lack of dignity to engage in debate with someone so clearly deficient between the ears. Moreover, we clearly won the argument some time ago.

      So we short-cut the process of demolishing your daft positions by pithy statements of the general viewpoint, that you are……..

      ***** UTTER FUCKWITS! *****

      (Now, do us all a favour, there’s a good chap/girl, stick to posting adulation on Dolly’s ‘blog’. It’s what you’re good at. At all costs, avoid getting involved in debate with the grown-ups over here.)

  153. 522
    Master Baiter says:

    Is Iain Dale a closet racist?

    It seems he is, and that’s illegal.

    Discuss

    • 544
      Anonymous says:

      “Discuss?” Dick-Ass surely?

    • 548
      Anonymous says:

      No, he isn’t.

      At least he doesn’t use the term “window-lickers” and then try and feign innocence.

      Fooled nobody I’m afraid.

    • 588
      Agent 99 says:

      There is something truly frightening in the way you make your statements on here and threaten using the law. I think I know now how it was in Germany in the 30’s and Russia in the 40’s.
      It was people JUST LIKE YOU MB…Just like you… and they couldn’t see it either.
      I don’t give a shit if its LibDem . Tory as long as its as another poster puts it “Anyone but Labour”

    • 589
      Anonymous says:

      It’s not illegal to be racist you twerp – unpleasant and unfortunate, yes – but not illegal.

  154. 523
    Master Baiter says:

    Better bait than never.

  155. 524
    The Mentally unstable Alastair Campbell says:

    Me and my amemnuensis Dr Derek Doolally get paid to do this.

  156. 526
    Tax Collector says:

    If anyone sees Derek Draper can you tell him that he owes a fair few quid in taxes.

    His assertion that “only little people pay tax” is quite correct. Derek(short man syndrome)come on pay up you know it makes sense.

    • 597
      IRB says:

      To pay tax you have to earn money. I’m guessing here but I suspect his tax return would be a bit like the former Mrs McCartney’s.

  157. 531
    Master Baiter says:

    Chris Grayling is like a plate of those wierd but tasty little grey garlic and butter drenched dishes you can get in France and some parts of Spain, an English man would call them snails.
    Yes he is like a plate of grey snails, and yet he is probably the brightest mollusc on the opposition front bench.
    How’s his unoccupied ex-council flat investment, (sssshhhh! Guidiot, don’t forget to lick Lord Ashcroft’s booties)?

    • 542
      Dolly gerne einen Esel in seiner Freizeit fuck. says:

      Have you been smoking something you shouldnt because you sure as hell are not making any sense.

    • 545
      Anonymous says:

      Are you a racist?

    • 559
      Master Baiter says:

      Seriously, he looks like a cooked little snail on the end of a fork, urgh!

  158. 535
    Tin Cunliffe says:

    If feels like a friday to me. Perhaps its time to do a guerilla caption competition.

    http://blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/politics/draperguido.jpg

    That grin means:
    “You heckle me now, but I’m safe in the knowledge that when I’m done here, I’ve got some nice special brew in my plakky bag” (with thanks to harry hill)

  159. 537
    Freiherr Puppe von Chorley und Kalifornia says:

    Reading over my shoulder, a family member has just pointed out that:

    “He looks like a dirty Bee Gee….”

    If he continues to cry, he’ll start the whole world laughing.

    • 552
      Anonymous says:

      He’s spent the whole afternoon laughing at companies massive losses, redundancies and bankruptcies.

      Labour – the only party, the only organisation to laugh at the mess you’re in that they created

  160. 540
    Dolly gerne einen Esel in seiner Freizeit fuck. says:

    The senior levels in the whole public sector has been politicised by Brown and his sidekicks.

    If you dont follow the Liebore line you get nowhere.

    I have had the misfortune to have had contacts with many public sector organisation and none of the senior staff seem to have nothing to offer other than than parrot out all the buzzwords.If I hear engagement, framework, inclusion once more I think I will explode.

    These placemen will have to be weeded out when it all finally goes tit up big time.

    • 637
      Ruth Kelly's plaything says:

      You are dead right.

      If they stay in place they could conduct ‘enemy within’ fifth-column sabotage.

      Alternatively, having already shown themselves (how shall I put it?) ‘pliable’, they will be kept on and reprogrammed by the new govt. Thus their treason will go unpunished.

      In tandem with a change of govt we desperately need a change of philosophy among the political classes. In the unlikely event of that occurring, we could be sure that the placemen/women would be rooted out. (Are you listening, BBC?)

      I worry that too many of us are committing the sin of 1997 – assuming that a change of govt represents a bright new dawn of competence.

      As someone once said, those who do not know their history are condemned to repeat it.

      Remember 1997, folks. Never forget NuLiebour’s betrayal. Ever.

    • 695
      City of Vice says:

      You’ve no idea how true what you say about the politicised public sector really is, particularly at the higher levels. I have seen this at first hand. The senior civil service and quangos are full of labour party placement and arse lickers. These spivs are either in overpaid sinecures that are suitable for unemployable arts grads – directors, or chief executives of the irrelevant to fucking nonsensical – or corrupt chancers getting government contracts on the nod. Some of the shit going down with taxpayers money wouldn’t be out of place in some third world kleptocracy. Believe me, the Tories are going to have to hit the ground running if they are to clean up the public sector, or rely on it, starting from day one- no mercy, mass sackings are in order. On taking up government the Tories should assume that every highly paid quango-ite appointed in the last 10 years is either a bent or incompetent Labour party tool and they wont go far wrong.

  161. 547
    yer man says:

    send pizzas, I’m fecking starving

  162. 549
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    3rd June 2010.

    That is the maximum this shower of shite can hang on to power with their unmandated mentally unfit leader.

    The Portillo election night moments for New Labour on or just before 3rd June 2010 will come thick & fast.

    I am actually beginning to believe that they will be wiped out – & the longer they hang on to power with their unmandated mentally unfit leader whilst grubbing away taxpayers cash , the worse it looks for Labours actual survival as a political entity.

    The countdown has begun. Rejoice.

    • 555
      Anonymous says:

      Portillo x 300

      • 571
        Anonymous says:

        I am not so sure. Ever heard of postal voting? There will be constituencies returning more votes than there are electors.
        have you forgotten which country this is?

      • 575
        Anonymous says:

        Zimbabwe?

      • 592
        Agent 99 says:

        No, they asked what country this is not which one we are precisely the same as.

    • 576
      Sarah says:

      I’m already choosing the champagne, while my money is still worth a bit more than the Zimbabwean pound.
      I still feel a bit gutted at how much I enjoyed election night in 1997. I could actually hear cheers from other houses in the street as the results came in. After the magic Portillo moment, my neighbours across the street came out with glasses and champers and we all had an impromptu get together, toasting what we thought and hoped would be an era of positive change………. Jesus H. Christ what fools we were.

      • 579
        Anonymous says:

        It’s ok Sarah.

        A lot of us had high hopes at the time – hopes that politics was changing for the better.

        In hindsight, we were very naive (I attribute it to youth in my case, perhaps a little conveniently).

        The fact that Draper still has any political influence whatsoever within the Labour party after this disgrace tells you all you need to know about the Labour party’s standards.

        They laugh while you suffer.

      • 593
        H says:

        I remember it well – and I also remember saying to my very happy lefty work colleagues (in the investment bank that I was working in) that if they thought they had seen sleaze with the tories they had seen nothing yet.

        I hate to be proved right!

      • 596
        I fucking hate labour says:

        I lived through the last Labour ballsup. Everyone seemed to look and want change and it seemed they were offered it.
        I just could not believe it would happen. I never imagined they would do this to the country though even in my worst nightmares.

        Labour never works , never has and never will. Perhaps this time people will realise that and come the GE wipe these Labour troughing cockroaches out for good because the last thing they are interested in is the worker.

        I was made redundant 4 times. 3 times under labour once under Tories but that once was directly after Labour left power and was a direct result of their actions. I got another jon and was never out of work for the next 15 years. My job has been under threat 3 times in the last 6 years and about to get the chop now .

        Fucking Labour Bastards

      • 605
        Anonymous says:

        Sorry to hear that, IFHL.

        Hope things work out for you and you find something else quickly.

      • 613
        Hugh Janus says:

        Whilst I can understand your sense of intense disappointment – even anger – at the antics of this utterly mandacious and loathesome so-called government, please don’t assume that everyone was overjoyed by the arrival of Phoney Tony and his bunch of hopeless incompetents.

        I wish to firmly disassociate myself from the royal ‘we’ because, like some others I suspect, I had no confidence in NuLiebour ever achieving even a fraction of what they promised, bearing in mind that they dumped every principle they ever held just to get their hands on the levers of power (and on taxpayers’ hard-earned, too). Admittedly they had booted out a tired and sleazy Conservative government in a pretty spectacular way. Unfortunately, however, I am old enough to recall previous Liebour administrations, all of which ended in profligacy and financial chaos. The only difference with this shower is that they practice it on a truly industrial scale. This once prosperous and successful country was respected the world over. Now, we are just a laughing-stock, a third-rate backwater with so much of the talent of our people wasted, their aspirations trashed in the process. We hover on the edge of bankruptcy, and may yet end up there.

        Very slowly, and too late I fear, the people are waking up at last to the shambles, the lies and the spin that has so characterised this appalling administration. Another year of this could have the most terrible consequences for us all – and yet the guilty will merely be removed from office, to walk away without any kind of sanction for their criminal and corrupt conduct – to draw generous pensions that no one else could afford, whilst picking up well-paid appoinments for which none of them have the slightest qualification or aptitude for. Personally I wouldn’t trust any of them to so much as walk my dog. It is truly sickening to watch us plunging down all of the worthwhile world rankings and watching our prosperity, for many years to come, go with them.

      • 644
        anon and broke but still paying for smiths sink plug says:

        You only have yourselves to blame then.Each generation has to re learn the leson that Labour always fuck things up.

        Fools and cretins.

    • 621
      Mad-as a- Hatter says:

      Guido – are you able to be a count down clock on the website – 3rd June 2010?

      • 638
        Ted Bundy says:

        That would be an excellent idea, countdown to liberation. There is of course a fair chance that they will implode before we actually get to that date.

        3rd June 2010 = Liberation Day :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

    • 700
      Adrian P says:

      Great Britain might have already had its last EVER election.

      New World Order.

  163. 551
    Master Baiter says:

    The Conservative creatives love their ‘B’ alliteration don’t they?
    They think up slogans dripping with hypocrisy

    ‘Back to Basics’ Which had the subtext “if only people would behave like us, that is like some crass repressed grey yfront wearing throwback from a crass and boring 1950’s film.” They think they’re normal and that actually there are lots of people out there with the same emotional landscape essentially that of knitted sweaters and over cooked Brussels sprouts laced with furtive, frequent and furious masturbation (note the alliteration). Even now they don’t realise what a gift it was to the Labour

    Fast forward to now, you know the now generation the progressive Conservatives, their ‘creatives’ are trying out

    ‘Broken Britain’ and that’s a gift to Labour too. The reason is they way they walk, the way they talk. We all know they don’t care and will just ‘do nothing’ and pretend it’s a philosophy. They’re going to get another good kicking.

    • 553
      Anonymous says:

      Britain is broken.
      Your party broke it.
      You’re laughing about it.

      I think that is enough to make most people’s minds up for June 2010 – ANYONE BUT LABOUR

    • 556
      righty right wing (mrs) says:

      3rd June 2010.

      Masterbate over that.

      • 564
        Anonymous says:

        Do you think they can limp on for another 14 months?

        We are in the shit as it is but by June next year we will be up to our neck in it.

        I think the Euro elections will be such a disater for New Stasi that they will not make 2010 let alone June.

        They are mortally wounded who is going to finish them off.

    • 557
      Anonymous says:

      Seek help now before its too late.

    • 558
      Anonymous says:

      Bastard Bolsheviks emBezzling Bankrupt Britain.

    • 560
      Anonymous says:

      B’stard Bolsheviks emBezzling Bankrupt Broken Britain.

    • 565
      Anonymous says:

      “Do nothing”.

      Even if it were the policy of the Conservatives, it would sure beat throwing cash we don’t have in every conceivable direction to give the illusion of doing something, whilst the Dolly bots come on here laughing at the effects of the Depression. The Depression in which Gordon helped us to become the last developed country to come out of recession (IMF).

      They laugh at you as they waste your hard-earned money.

    • 611
      Drapers Tools says:

      WTF are you talking about?

  164. 563
    Anonymous says:

    Brazen Bastard Bolsheviks emBezzling Bankrupt Broken Britain.

  165. 572
    Anonymous says:

    Spot the pattern….

    [b]Attlee[/b]
    1947 – power cuts, food shortages
    1951 – austerity budget

    [b]Wilson[/b]
    1963-6 – devaluation of sterling
    1963-9 – austerity budgets, leading to restoration of Balance of Payments
    1970 – one year later, back in deficit again, voted out

    [b]Wilson mk 2[/b]
    1973-5 – strikes, not fit to govern (at least he had decency to resign)

    [b]Callaghan[/b]
    1978-9 – winter of discontent, strikes, unemployment, “crisis? what crisis?”

    Labour – not fit to govern this country

  166. 580
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    3rd June 2010.

    ANYONE BUT LABOUR

    • 603
      Definitely anyone or anything but Labour !!! says:

      4th June 2010 – Cameron enters No10 as Prime Minister with majority of 76
      5th June 2010 – Brown slinks back to the “dank mists of Fife” muttering
      “It wasnae ma fault ! It started in America!”
      6th June 2010 – Labour Party leadership contest called for by remaiining
      Labour backbenchers.Brown refuses to resign muttering “Shan’t!”

      7th June 2010 Brown persuaded to resign and accept job as “Chief Global
      Regulator” after a personal telephone call from
      his hero – President Obama – asking him to take job as
      personal favour to him. Brown graciously acquiesces but
      only after Obama has issued statement saying “It started in
      America!”

      • 624
        Right Bastard says:

        8th June 2010 – Gallows erected in Parliament Square.

      • 626
        Max says:

        Nope, McBroon still won’t resign; he misreads the US statement as “ted in erica” and thinks he’s mistakenly picked up one of Jacqui Smith’s video receipts.

  167. 583
    English Liberation Front says:

    Fabian Pride: “Labour is listening and taking your concerns and problems seriously.

    You should vote for Labour – not because we’re perfect, but because I genuinely believe we are the only political party – the only organisation, full stop – capable of delivering the kind of change that people like you and your family need.

    Right now, we’re committed to helping those hit hardest by the economic downturn, getting help to those who need it most. No other party could or would do this.”

    Is this the same old “change” you’ve been delivering for 12 years and which, frankly, I’m not too impressed by (I suspect I’m not alone), or new “change” to rectify all the horrendous mistakes you’ve repeatedly made in the last 12 years?

    You see, old fella(s), you are not Obama who was fighting a campaign to get elected but instead you are people who have already been in power for 12 years and who have had plenty of opportunity (and money) to get it right. Jumping on the Obama “change we can believe in” bandwagon is a bit rich seeing as you have had 12 years when you could have been doing all the things you now say you want to do as “change”. You do see that looks a bit ingenuous and facile don’t you?

    Also, it flies in the face of some pretty stupid things you have already started (massive database, ID cards, eco-towns, etc.) and which you want to continue – which is really “more of the same” rather than “change”. You do see that don’t you?

    If you really want to help people like me and my family you could call a General Election, which would give me the opportunity to vote for “anyone but Labour” and that would be real “change”.

    • 585
      Anonymous says:

      Yes change does imply not the same old tired Labour really doesn’t it?

      I think they need a new spin team.

    • 597
      I fucking hate labour says:

      You should vote for Labour – not because we’re perfect, but because I genuinely believe we are the only political party – the only organisation, full stop – capable of delivering the kind of change that people like you and your family need.

      12 years you have had no just fuck off

  168. 586
    Derek_Lack _of _pride says:

    I have to stop trolling now,
    Kate is calling me now Anton has left the house.
    She is a bit sore between the legs and wants me to change the kids nappy
    Have a happy Easter

  169. 587
  170. 594
    Anonymous says:

    £110,000 a year.

    That’s Bob Quick’s pension.

    Could’ve earned more as a destroyer of the economy, Bob….

  171. 595
    IRB says:

    While you lot are bickering with the dollybots there is a survey to which you may wish to contribute over on a certain other political blog.

    Can I suggest you go and help them out?

    • 600
      Anonymous says:

      go on …give us a clue is it a film a book or a play

    • 602
      Pugwash says:

      which is?

    • 607
      Anonymous says:

      I tried all the blogs, but couldn’t find it.

      Then I took a look at Dolly’s propaganda site, and lo and behold a survey!

      • 622
        Pyrrhic Prepper says:

        Good Heavens! I went over there just now. One old bag wanted “a price” and her even more ancient assistant wouldn’t allow my departure until I confimed whether I “wanted a bag dear..”

        Dreadful.

  172. 601
    Lord Mandy of the Rump says:

    Afternoon Boyz…

  173. 608
    Anonymous says:

    Result.

  174. 610
    The Loopy Leader of Londistan, capital of LaLaLand, says:


    As is my want – or not, – and as I honoured me old mucker Sir Shredder for bankrupting the bank, so I shall honour the crazy copper for trashing all the plans re the not-terrorists.

    Mzz. HaHaHaPerson_Prude, and her whining followers have organised emergency relief, including a corps of ooman roits loor-yas, and equality ‘n divvy jobsworths to be on hand to assist the oppressed freedom fighters. AlJaBeeba has imposed a noos blackout and broadcasts martial music interspersed with speeches by yours truly.

    Meanwhile, I send Comradely Greetings to me old mate Kim, and can only say that my satellite is doing better than his, which clearly was a figment of his imagination. Mine, together with the green shoots of recovery, flourishes. There again, how can there be recovery when there is no downturn? Answer me that!

    As for the economy stupid, well, I shall as ever, lie and fiddle my way out of the corner into which I have so adroitly painted myself.

    Mind you, – nothing’s my fault you understand!

  175. 615
    Half eyed Scottish idiot says:

    I see the queen is giving Mandy money. Whats he being bribed for this time?

  176. 616
    Labour=shitting in our faces! says:

    TO ALL YOU PRIDE POSTERS-F OFF!

    ps.the only reason labour want all kids to stay at school until they are 18 is to fiddle the dole numbers-

    you are naked empresses.

    (effing ugly ones too i would bet).

    • 698
      NuLab_Pride of Hoons says:

      Haven’t you been keeping up with the news? Ed Balls up has run out of money to pay for all the kids who want to go 6th form this year. Apparently he and the government got the numbers wrong. Not that the kids would all have somewhere to study at anyway, as the government has also run out of money for its grandiose multi billion pound FE college rebuilding schemes, leaving loads of colleges either half built or bankrupt.

      Labour=financial incompetence. Always will do, always will be.

  177. 617
    Anonymous says:

    According to David Blunkett, speaking on Radio 4 just now, the Bob Quick security blunder is all the fault of Boris Johnson, Chris Grayling, and the photographers outside 10, Downing St.

    The BBC interviewer did not challenge Blunkett on this incredible assertion.

    • 664
      grobdj says:

      The whole point of the exercise was to take the heat off Jacqui Smith and to ensure the Government’s ‘tough on terrorism’ story monopolises the Easter headlines

      The Quick blunder was an unexpected bonus for Jacqui, but I suggest that the reason for him attending Downing Street yesterday morning was that the operation was going ahead anyway just before the Easter break (which is why the offending document was on the top of his file)

      No doubt someone can put me straight on that one

      Brown says ‘it’s a very big plot’

      I guess he knows one when he sees one…

      • 686
        88p bathplug (10% off) says:

        spot on so lets all get back to reminding the world that she is an 88p bathplug not a penny more nor less, the dim dinner lady, the jacqing off homes secretary, the god awful epitome of so much that is wrong with this marxist socialist government

  178. 619
    Anonymous says:

    Bob Quick is retiring at the age of 49 on a full pension of £110,000 per annum.

    Who’s the loser here?

    • 657
      Anon says:

      He’s on a fixed annual sum until he reaches 55 before his pension is indexed linked so if Labours inflation lets rip over the next 6 years as a result of printing money he’ll be the loser.

  179. 620
    Max says:

    Apolgies if noted elsewhere; a good bashing of the Beeb, Guido?

    • 654
      Faux Cul says:

      I recognise the Klingon guy in the front but, who is the fat git in background?

  180. 623
    Anon says:

    Dear Guido – on my computer most of these comments are unintelligble due to large chunks of them them being of the left hand side of the screen. Please fix your software.

  181. 625
    Anon says:

    For ‘being of’ read ‘ being off’

  182. 627
    Lord Boateng of Brixton and Bong says:

    When my tenure is over in the Rape and murder capital of Africa I shall return to the Rape and murder Capital of Europe.
    400 years ,400 years.

    • 631
      Anonymous says:

      You are more than welcome, can’t be much worse than the cretins currently in charge.

    • 648
      Eton Boateng Song says:

      As it is in Africa, so it is in USA and ever ncreasingly here in the UK ( despite what ZaNuLab stats tell us ) and who may we enquire is doing the highest percentage of the rapes and murders? Oh sorry we are not supposed to ask.

  183. 628

    No. It is a test for idiots. You have failed (to upgrade from IE6).

    • 640
      Pugwash says:

      Im using Dos1.0 do I need an upgrade?
      Used to work well with Soviet-Mir link…

  184. 629
    Anonymous says:

    And, as everything with NewLabia, it is practically worthless.

  185. 633
    Tony Blair says:

    “You should vote for Labour – not because we’re perfect, but because I genuinely believe we are the only political party – the only organisation, full stop – capable of delivering the kind of change that people like you and your family need.”

    Suck my plums, cretin

  186. 635
    vervet says:

    The idiot David Blunkett is on PM suggesting that there should be restrictions on the press to prevent them photographing documents carried by ministers, etc.

    Any fucking excuse to blame the messenger and create another criminal offence.

    What a fucking hoon.

    • 641
      JMB says:

      Everyone knew that some idiot would try to use Section 76 of CTA 2008 to suppress photography, I thought it would be a Police Canteen Support Officer .

      Does he mean that press photographers should never photograph any senior police officer or senior politician, just in case they are stupid enough to be waving around a secret document.

    • 645
      Mad-as a- Hatter says:

      It would be much easier for ministers et al to comply with the Government Protective Marking Scheme – I believe this was introduced during World War One and is still used today.

      Top Secret does what it says on the tin, you keep it Top Secret .

      Bob Quick was a Hoon for failing to comply with it.

      Blunkett you are a dimwit of a Hoon.

      3rd June 2010 not long now.

    • 653
      neither confirm nor deny says:

      We should all be blinded out of fairness and to ensure that nobody gets to see anything top secret, have our ear drums ripped out, tongues cut out and for good measure have all our limbs cut off to avoid nasty sign language, although some of us can do semaphore with our cocks.
      Did Blunckett have a Blind Trust when he was HS?

      • 655
        Mad-as a- Hatter says:

        If he did it might have been the reason he fucked everything up.

        PCSO’s, Encounter Forms, Nanny Gate train tickets and fast tracking passports.

        Then again I think it was because he was a lying, cheating incompetent Hoon.

    • 656
      Faux Cul says:

      How the fuck would he know anything about photography?

    • 659
      Anonymous says:

      Blunkett will do anything to be interviewed. Same with a few Cons too: Rifkind. Edwina Curry’s another and the god-awful Esther Rantzen. Why don’t these past-its just go quietly?

  187. 636
    Dave Hill says:

    WHERE ARE YOUR BIG EXCLUSIVES GUIDO?
    OH YOU HAVEN’T GOT ANY
    THERE’S A SURPRISE

    • 647
      Anon says:

      Another Draper Rebuttal Unit shill spreading his poison.

      • 667
        denverthen says:

        For anyone that cares (and doesn’t know) Dave Hill, if it is he, is the pisspoor Grauniad blogger paid to follow in Boris’ slipstream digging-up dirt as best he can to prove the smug lefty theory of Bozzer’s incompetence. To that end, in the Draper and McBride mold of ultra smear, anything goes.

        Even so, thus far he’s failed miserably (hence the desperate SHOUTING here).

        You should have seen his live blog on election night. Utterly brilliant. All he could do was spit loser bile as Boris completely trashed the pisshead newt king and Dave’s bestest anti-semitic mate, RedKen. A moment to savour.

        Boris: well done on giving another nulab uber-apparatchik incompetent the order of the mayoral boot.

        You’re fading away, Dave Hill. Fading away…

      • 711
        Sarah says:

        I used to read his crude Boris-bashing love letters to his master, Ken. But soon got sick of it. He’s another has-been who couldn’t get employed if it wasn’t for the Grauniad. But his election night special was hilarious. Oh schadenfreude! thy name is Dave.

      • 713
        denverthen says:

        I love you Sarah.

        I really do.

      • 718
        Cicero says:

        Whoever he is, could someone ask him to stop shouting?

    • 688
      grobdj says:

      Exclusive!!!! Home Secretary orders anti-terrorist raids to deflect flak after unconvincing performances on Andrew Marr and GMTV!!!!

    • 712
      Stuff them all says:

      Still affecting that idiotic ‘hard man shaved head’ look Hill.

  188. 646
  189. 649
    Mad-as a- Hatter says:

    Sorry Scallywag – those Frenchies never get it right – this link just proves it.

  190. 650
    Harman_Pride is my hero says:

    Keep talking Harman_Pride. You must lose NuLabia votes everytime you leave the house.

  191. 658
  192. 661
    Mad-as a- Hatter says:

    He looks a picture of respectability.

    Them police officers should have let him attack them with knives and an axe we have the right to expect the police to be beaten and killed in this country but the crazed and great unwashed.

    Those police with their tasers and baton rounds are very naughty boys.

  193. 662
    Jacqui five bellies says:

    Boris is great. I want his babies.

  194. 668
    Anonymous says:

    David Blunkett is right. Any reasonable person can see that this security issue was not Bob Quick’s fault. It’s the fault of the press photographers who hang about Downing St photographing everyone who comes in and out. They should be banned from going anywhere near there and the one who took the photo of Quick and the security documents should be arrested under the terrorism act.

    • 673
      denverthen says:

      You can stop reading this guy’s post after “David Blukett is right…”

      • 679
        Anonymous says:

        David Blunket the man who after his resignation was described as leaving “with his integrity intact”by Tony Blair. This of course after Blunket was exposed for misconduct in public office and shagging another blokes wife.
        So what You and me understand by integrity and what Blair and his fuckwits understand are two different things.

      • 682
        denverthen says:

        Anonymous B: exactly.

        If you are also Anonymous A, I apologise for missing the sledgehammer irony of your first post (“David Blunkett is right…”). Stupid me. There was no way that that could have been serious.

        God, I’m confused by all this anonymity. What’s wrong with a silly nom de plume?!

    • 681
      Ted Bundy says:

      Mr Anonymous 668

      . You complete and utter Dickhead. Bob Quick was the head of the Anti Terrorist Branch responsible for the fight against terrorism. As part of his role he would routinely be privy to highly sensitive documents and information passed from other security agencies both at home and abroad including MI5. These agencies need to have trust that the information they provide will be handled very securely and to make sure they do the Government has very strict rules re the handling of these documents. When secret documents are transported it should be in a locked secure briefcase or ministerial red box. Bob Quick chose to completely and recklessly disregard these rules and in doing so put an ongoing terrorist operation at risk and very badly let down his colleagues. How stupid can you get carrying them around in full view in front of the press pack outside Downing Street and what would have happened if a gust of wind had caught them and simply blew them out his hand? No foreign security agency is going to pass sensitive information if it’s handled in such a cavalier and incompetent manner. Nobody from that moment on could have any confidence in him and as a result his demise was swift. His position was immediately untenable. I accept we have some very stupid Labour shills posting on this forum but your post is simply beyond belief. As for blaming the photographer he probably had no idea what he was photographing until the picture was blown up afterwards, after all who in their right mind would believe the head of the Anti Terrorist Command could be that incompetent and stupid.

      • 683
        denverthen says:

        If Anonymous 668[A] is not Anonymous 679[B], then he is indeed an utter dickhead. If, however, Anon668[A] is also Anon679[B], then he’s not.

        Either way, I agree with Ted Bundy (!) Quick was incompetent and stupid and a nulab stooge and he ought to be shot.

    • 684
      Anonymous says:

      YOU STUPID FUCKER!!! YOU MORON!!!

    • 685
      Anonymous says:

      OI!! WOTS HAPPENED HERE, – THE ‘STUPID FUCKER / CUM MORON’ WAS INTENDED FOR @668 – BUT ITS COME AFTER T’OTHERS. APOLS GUYS.

    • 691
      Chuck Unsworth says:

      So, this crass senior copper walks around with secret documents blatantly exposed to public view – and it’s the fault of the public for noticing it?

      Fucking moron. Are you related to the blind lying thieving shagger?

  195. 672
    anon says:

    Can you make that 60 million + 1 who hate just about every member of this corrupt, thieving, deceitful, troughing government? Sorry, let me make an exception – Frank Field – I may not agree with his politics but he’s got integrity.

    • 690
      grobdj says:

      And Gerald Kaufmann, the only Jew to my knowledge who stuck his head above the parapet and condemned the indiscriminate bombing of Gaza

      PS No I’m not a Hamas sympathiser either

    • 694
      Anonymous says:

      Frank Fucking Fields – the Albert Speer of the Labour party.

      If he really had any integrity, he wouldn’t even be a member of that bunch of anti-British traitors, let alone represent them in parliament.

  196. 674
    Anonymous says:

    Their manifesto should also include a “Readers wives” selection of photographs.

  197. 689
    Tools says:

    You can just imagine this greaseball ticking every politically correct box to get into Ian Blair’s pants.

    Yuk.

  198. 696
    Anonymous says:

    OK Quick’s a prick but the photographers were guilty of “collecting information likely to be of use to a terrorist” AND THEN PUBLISHING IT !!!

  199. 699
    Anonymous says:

    365
    johnfromcamberley says:
    April 9, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    I reckon trying to hand Gibraltar over to the Spaniards was treason. Or are you now going to try to deny that that happened?
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Have you ever been to Gibraltar? I have. I would think twice about giving it to my worst enemy!

  200. 701
    Sixtus Beckmesser says:

    That’s what I call quick fire humour – Quick you’re fired!

  201. 702
    Anonymous says:

    As soon as the BBC realised that people were classing Quick as a Labour fuckwit (as opposed to just a normal copper fuckwit), their spin totally changed; they suddenly started blaming the media for having the gall to take pictures of people.

    Up comes Blunkett to help reinforce the spin, and then all the labour ministers saying the same thing “not really his fault; just an accident; blame the media”, and hey presto, it’s now all the fault of a photographer rather than the negligent labour-loving smeg-head who showed top secret documents to the world’s press. And now according to the BBC we should ban cameras from anywhere near anyone who works for the government.

    With anything like this, when the person who’s been shown as being an incompetent fuckwit gets classed as a labour person, all things change on the BBC, it’s suddenly not their fault.

    Blame the Americans.
    Blame Thatcher.
    Blame the press.
    Blame the nasty tories.
    Blame “lord snooty” cameron (as Nick Robinson likes to refer to him).
    Blame “globalism” (apparently international trade is new; we’d never had it before last year; the chinese/egyptians/vikings/persians/romans/greeks were just some kind of historical fiction, nobody ever traded with other countries before 2008).

    Blame anyone else apart from the people who’ve spent the last 12 years driving our country into such humungous shit.

    Labour/BBC; no difference; both should be tried and hanged as traitors who ruined not just the UK but who also helped to spread that destruction throughout as much of the rest of the world as they could, and all by using our money.

    Bastards.

  202. 705
    denverthen says:

    Yup. They’ve got the press by the balls – for sure. This appeared in the Times not long after the new spin was launched on the beeb:

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6069444.ece

    Guest columnist Philip Collins is, as is well known, a New Statesman hack and long term apologist for pisspoor government fuckwits and its hired disciples.

    These people are beneath contempt.

  203. 706
    Anonymous says:

    “Former home secretary David Blunkett has questioned whether there should be tighter controls on photographers outside Number 10.
    The Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside told BBC Radio 4’s PM programme it was right to ask what restrictions may have to be introduced.”

    yep; let’s ban cameras so that nobody can see what unbelievably stupid things public servants do while being paid with our money and so that nobody can ever hold the government to account again.

    The arrest of Green was only the beginning.

    come to think of it, there’s a lot of heart disease around too; let’s ban lard.

    well, personally, I say that setting fire to several trillion pounds of our money is a bad thing too, so perhaps it makes more sense to ban labour.

  204. 716
    English Liberation Front says:

    “Former home secretary David Blunkett has questioned whether there should be tighter controls on photographers outside Number 10.
    The Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside told BBC Radio 4’s PM programme it was right to ask what restrictions may have to be introduced.”

    Analogy of New Labour thinking on this and so many other issues: I left some important documents on a chair in my garden. It rained and they were ruined. So I formed a victims support group and we are now lobbying our MPs to get rain banned.

    They truly are the most monumentally stupid and dangerous wazzocks in world history.

  205. 717
    johnny come lately. says:

    From IRONIES TOO

    A Cromwellian Easter Message more valid than ever today!

    Given to the House of Commons 20 April 1653

    It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.

    Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you?

    Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter’d your conscience for bribes?

    Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?

    Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil’d this sacred place, and turn’d the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress’d, are yourselves gone!

    So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!

  206. 719
    fu2 says:

    In a previous life I would often courier extremely sensitive intelligence information to certain destinations around the country. Secret documents are just that! But, Secret is not that highly classified when compared to other categories.

    This officer would have known exactly how to carry these documents. This was not an error. This was a deliberate act!

  207. 721
    wadey says:

    On a general note can we stop recruiting graduates for The Police Service? These over educated underemployed pen pushers are ruining the job and if they don’t become Chief Constable within a fortnight they are suing for discrimination

  208. 722

    [...] and Cassandra King says: April 9, 2009 at 9:28 am [...]

  209. 723
    Robert Bryant says:

    There were probably a dozen or more officers present when Mr Tomlinson was criminally assaulted by one of their colleagues. Not one of them made any attempt to stop or subsequently apprehend the assailant, nor have any of them reported the crime to the appropriate authorities as every citizen is required to do, an action even more especially incumbent upon police officers.

    To abstain is to acquiesce, to acquiesce is to condone, and to condone is to participate. Each of those police officers is complicit in this affair by their attempt to pass by on the other side. They have not passed by, and each one of them is guilty by association. So too is every police officer regarded as guilty, in the mind of the public, while the police present a united front against a wronged citizen.

    Officer Quick legged it with his £110k p.a. pension without a thought for Mr Tomlinson. A super-copper? Greatly missed? Hmm . . . . . . .







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