No severance pay-off. Quite right. James Purnell’s announcement that unemployed alcoholics will be refused benefits must be a double blow. However the government says unemployed alcoholics who seek treatment will be able to claim benefits. McBride should seek help from Draper, he is a sort of psycho-therapist…
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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”
deafening silence about whether he gets to keep pension rights though… I think we should be told!
Is the ‘Campaign to Re-Elect the Tartan INcumbent’ dead?
I’ll only believe it when I see 15 million pencil ‘X’s in its maggotty corpse.
That is Tart an In Cum Bent, isn’t it?
Do we really have to suffer a further year of this most morally bankrupt, deceitful, sleazy, dishonest, etc., etc., and incompetent government in living memory? By Labour’s cesspit standards the Major government were saintly bunch.
How about an Impeachment Petition to get rid of Brown??
When do they shove the disabled into the gas chambers?
The way this evil goverment is going it must simply be a matter of time, slice by slice!
Indeed. And Labour are also planning to sentence young people to 50 hours community service for the crime of being a teenager. Brown says it will be compulsory, so no doubt there’s a team of professional sadists beavering away in the Justice Department as I write, dreaming up suitable punishments for transgressors.
I wonder if any fellow conspirators can help them?
…And Labour are also planning to sentence young people to 50 hours community service for the crime of being a teenager. Brown says it will be compulsory, so no doubt there’s a team of professional sadists beavering away in the Justice Department as I write, dreaming up suitable punishments for transgressors…
But at least they will all get a little red book containing the words and wisdom of John Prescott.
It’s a NWO directive that they also have planned for the USA.
They are orchestraiting their one world fascist state and civilian army of spies and boot boys, starting with the Hitler youth yet extending it later to everyone, an army of goverment community enforcers led by fear – as mentioned in the States.
`Dave` will also follow this route, he is bought and paid for.
Hands up who thinks `Dave` will repeal any of the oppresive acts of the govermet/EUSSR?
None of these little soundbites ever come to anything. They just give the impression that someone’s doing something, instead of doing nothing. This time next week a new lot will come out and this week’s announcements will go in the bin.
I call the behaviour “Gross Misconduct”, as it brought his employer into the sunlight, no, I mean into disrepute.
This should mean no severance pay. No special pensions deal.
‘Should’ and ‘will’ can sadly be poles apart.
David T Breaker
http://www.newsjunction.co.uk
Apparently gross misconduct in a public office can carry life imprisonment.
Why has he only been sacked and not charged with gross misconduct in a public office?
If any other public employee sent malicious, lewd and sexually explicit e-mails or even leaked something from the home office that was embarrassing to the government you could be sure they would have their house raided by the police and threatened with all sorts of retalitary action.
Quite right. When I was a boy it was called ‘Summary dismissal for gross misconduct’ and it meant a dead stop there and then to salary and all that went with it as part of the contract of employment. Money accrued in one’s pension fund up to that point was not touched.
MPs and bankers don’t observe the rules that apply to everyone else. Perhaps they should. One rule for the rich etc., etc…
Yet the fascists in goverment still advertise alcohol on TV!
Just what a recovering alcohilic needs, something to tempt him of the wagon thanks to the goverment pushing drugs on the nation and then kicking them in the teeth when they become hooked!
Scum!
Labour helps to get them addicted by sanctioning TV ads, then taxes them into poverty!
Just when they thought their life couldn’t get any worse they have Labours communist social worker army forced on them at great cost and little effect!
= More alchoholic beggers on the streets with dogs on a string, coming to a town near you!
Have a read – very funny….
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/brown-urged-to-distance-himself-from-himself-200904131695/
One of the difficulties that prevents the sacking of other members of Brown’s inner cabal is the fact that each knows far too much about what the others know and/or have been doing in this area and if provoked might spill the beans and bring the whole lot down! One must wonder what sort of deal was struck with McBride in order to secure his agreement to go, and go quietly. As mentioned elsewhere has he been given a gold plated early retirement pension, or some other commitment to allow him to return to the fold after a decent interval?
Of course if, heaven forfend, Guido or some such pursuer of the truth were to obtain the necessary information then of course the whole stinking heap of turds would come down upon the heads of those responsible, so, GO TO IT MY SON!!!
You get your pension when you retire.
You get a pay-off when you leave government (It’s compulsory, dont’cha know)
It might be that McBride has simply been moved.
Look at the letter to Nadine Dorries:
Marked private; it told Dorries that McBride had resigned; it said what McDoom had done; it offered no apology or emotional connection.
Basically it said nothing except “I’m in charge and you can fuck off”.
McDoom sees this as an attempt by the Tories to embarrass him – he is the victim of ‘Smeargate’.
If he sees himself as the victim he is going to thwart the Conservatives by any way he can.
If that means merely shunting McBride to another siding, fine by McMental.
Brown’s letters indicate to me that he has no conception of the depth of feeling about what has happened and no way of realistically dealing with it., hence his reliance on old trusted methods. But he is not communicating in today’s world.
We have all encountered institutionalised, beaurocratic idiots, who speak another language and do not understand what it’s like to be human – you know, local authority types who had years to enhance their inane abilities, councillors, politicians etc. They talk out of the same collective arse. They do not understand. Imagine working in a climate like this, and many have, were their views always dominate – health service, local government, housing departments, police – they all know what is best for us. They also start from the position that they have to defend themselves first. Brown is no different.
What is needed is a complete overhaul of politics, local government, housing, the police, academia, journalism – the lot – get rid of them all and start again.
I looked at this blog after all the press. Seems to me you lot are no better if not worse!
Collect your refund on the way out and don’t come back. We won’t miss you.
You’d better wipe your feet as you leave then.
Anon. 10.54 nice to see the Rabid Rebuttal Squid is still trying to squirt ink into our eyes.
Ask yourself why ‘we lot’ are no better? Could it be that we’ve been treated like children, fools and vassals for the last 11 years and we’re just a weeny, teeny bit fed up?
And what do the press do? Regurgitate the spewings of some non-entity, unproductive prick that’s charging their toilet paper to the tax-payer and telling us we’re getting good value for money? Ignoring transgressions and flagrant breaches of the law so they can ‘get a story’ from the lying toad that’ll be fish-paper in 24 hours?
What did you expect? When people are seeing their lives ruined and ancient institutions demolished because some minister needs a ‘diversion’ because they’ve been caught with their fingers in (a) the till, (b) knickers, (c) someone’s arse (d) their nose, what do you honestly expect? Reasoned argument? A nudge-nudge-wink-wink “we’re all lads/lasses together, so let’s not worry about it” mentality?
Grow up!
Much as I delight in the demise of McPoison I get rather cress when people lose their pension ‘rights’. Whether or not a pension is subscibed to via contributary or non contributary methods it would seem fair that it should be owned by the employee. I find it very unfair and illogical when disgraced policemen, for instance, lose their pension rights and would feel the same were McPoison to lose his. For instance a policeman coming up to retirement might lose his pension (pot worth several hundred thousand pounds) for commiting an offence where the maximum fine might be, say, £10,000. Very unfair.
Yes, I too, get rather cress when I see injustices in the values place upon people and what happens when misfortune befalls them
‘So you went out got yourself raped then did you love? Were you drinking?.’ The sound of air being sucked over teeth.
The mindset of blame and punish the victim starts with the police and proceeds all the way through the CPS, the courts and the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.
The standard £11,000 award seem paltry when compared to the levels of compensation paid out to victims of miscarriages of justice or police officers involved with a ‘harrowing and dangerous assignment’.
‘It’s been a huge strain on family relationships and the fact the whole way through the police and the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority have insinuated that I was to blame or I wasn’t telling the truth, has allowed people to make judgements about me. ‘
Exactly!
The effects of these type of crime last throughout the victims lives.
They can end up falling foul of the law due to the amount of distress, they can lose their friends, their families and partners, their careers.
And £11,000 (if you haven’t contributed in getting yourself raped by what you were, a: drinking b: wearing, c: talking about, d: being out without a chaperon) is going to help put that right?
http://thetaoofblog-pablothehat.blogspot.com/2008/08/so-you-went-out-got-yourself-raped-then.html
So you smear McBride by accusing him of being an alcoholic. What exactly did the judge say about your drinking at your trial? So much for your lectures on hypocrisy!
You really don’t get it, do you. Sad … very sad.
Odd isn’t it – A government scientist expresses doubts about Labour’s reasons for bombing the crap out of a bunch of brown skinned foreigners and gots hounded to death – including the threat that he could lose his pension, yet some bloke uses Civil Service computers and Civil Service internet access in order to make claims which are alleged to be slanderous and he keeps his pension.
All those Civil Servants must be so proud.
The hyphen was well placed Guido
I know where I’d like to put the hyphen and Derek would not like it. Then again, he well might.
So long as you don’t enjoy it the wrong way, that’s OK.
Will he find gainful employment at the Smith Institute?
Yep – Gordo Mcruin ahs offered me a post as a special economics advisor on how to get him and Baldrick Darling to get out of the ‘brown stuff’ they are all in.
I told McRuin taht if I can sit in his office in Numero Dix, drinking cans of ‘Speschul Bru’, I will be overcome with ‘Big Ideas’ just like Antonius Blarius, one time King of the Britons……
My first ‘Big idea’ will be a crackdown on Alcoholic Lightbulbs as part of McRuin’s new energy poicy. If everyone screws an Alcoholic Lightbulb, then we will have free energy for good…… but then, like McRuin, I am very good at speaking a quaint version of English called Bollick-ese….
I think I had better go back to bed. All these stories of sleaze around Pa Bruin is doing me head in…..
Too obvious, but there WILL be something I expect. He wouldn’t go without some sort of severance pay unless there was an alternative offer.
David T Breaker
http://www.newsjunction.co.uk
I didn’t hear it but Frank Field apparently said that McBride was now employed elsewhere in Downing St. Do you know for certain he is no longer employed by the civil service?
He’s reported as saying so – heard it too.
That needs to be looked into, pronto speedy.
Likewise, Ive seen a few comments on blogs saying Frank Field said this. Also Joey Jones alludes to it in his Sky News blog
Perhaps No10 can issue a clarification as to whether McBride is still employed by the Civil Service / on ‘gardening leave’ or still in the pay of the Labour Party/government as a ‘consultant’?
Yes I keep asking this question. If someone is still a civil service, then of course it can be said he will not receive severance pay! You can also say he will not receive unemployment benefit too!
It needs an official announcement that he has left the service if that is fact. If one is not forthcoming I will remain sceptical about this situation and believe it is wool over the eyes….
AH (C)
Yes, just a loss of title, but probably still at the side of Brown
So what did he resign from?
Nobody resigns…!!! Profumo resigned, yet then he DID lie to the House…. innocent days.
The BBC has always reported that he “resigned his job as Special Adviser”. Someone needs to ask the real question, is he employed as a Civil Servant, if so great he can be called in interviewed for being in breach of his contract as a Civil Servant and then sacked without a pension.
There is NO gainful employment at the Sith Institute, only proselytising at our expense.
I thought that was the purpose of the commuist youth camps, I mean schools!
Who is funding “Two Dinners” Watson’s legal bills?
Assuming the BACP don’t strike him off
Let all the McPoisons that lurk in the mud hatch out…
Hmm… I see I have a funny letter published in The Telegraph today, the gist of which I stole off a contributor to this site yesterday. Is it wrong of me to be amused by the thought of seeing something appear in The Telegraph that had already appeared here?
Oh well. If the person who actually came up with the joke will identify him or herself, I promise to send a clumsily-scrawled letter expressing my regret at this plagiarism, while accepting no responsibility for it whatsoever, even though it was me that did it…
Just so long as it gets published. I’m frankly surprised they did – someone at the Labourgraph must have a remnant of a sense of humour.
I do hope that you do not subscribe to this now raas claat of a former newspaper.
A link is always appreciated.
Bloody hell Sir Reginald you’re a lazy sod. It’s on the Letters page signed with my name… But as I’m an obliging soul:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/5153949/Unlike-Macavity-Brown-was-there-when-McBrides-dirty-tricks-were-hatched.html
And no. I only ever read stuff online nowadays
Most kind. I foolishly missed ‘letter’ and was looking for it amongst the posts in the comments section, of which there are many.
I hope it will be written in black marker pen.
Alcoholic? Is that some sort of smearing, or is it in the public domain?
I think that Purnell’s announcement yesterday was aimed specifically at McPoison because he has upset Our Great Leader for Life’s routine (of lies and dissembling).
Not sure if it was so McPoison would not get JSA, or whether it was to try to divert attention though!
BTW, was Purnell not the odious creep who appeared on tv the weekend after the Abrahams scandal broke to say that the money HAD been repaid?
Just so you don’t forget!
Steady on Peter. Odious creeps throughout the land will be horrified that they are rated as low as Purnell.
Purnell was looking a bit porky on the tv yesterday – obviously that £400 a month he gets from us for groceries is not going on salads.
Three simple questions then;
1) Is McBride still employed by the taxpayer?
2) Has David Abrahams been refunded?
3) Brown proclaimed the donations were illegal. Under the rules the money should have been forfeit to the Electoral Commission. Was it?
For too long the media have declined to ask simple and obvious questions of our politicians. Their output isn’t even fit for fish and chip wrappers.
Look at his Red Mask. From today he will be drowning his Zorros in the subsidised Commons’ bar.
I’m not saying his looks are all that healthy, but…
Keep up the pressure, Guido. “All that is needed for evil to succeed is that decent human beings do nothing”.
Pressure, keep it up Guido- Schoolboy Balls was being rather fifth-formish about Guido this morning on rounds of the media. Trying to change the subject. It is all Guido’s fault and Mc Poison was only guilty of being found out. C’mon you with knowledge people, let’s have the full sorry story.
How long before smokers are refused benefits? And those who don’t eat five veg a day. And everyone who doesn’t vote Labour?
Don’t forget, the policy is ‘Do as we say, not as we do.’ And don’t you forget it.
Put that fag out.
Yeah – put him out of Number 10.
String @em up to the nearest lampost
Like something out of Brazil: You don’t vote labour so you don’t get your benefits. Why not? Because if you don’t get your benefits you can’t eat. Should have voted labour. It’s good for you
Damascene conversion of the day:
Ed Balls, Radio 4:
Mr Balls described Damian McBride’s smear emails as “vile, horrible, despicable”, and said such politics needs to be stamped out. He described the smear emails as, “vile, horrible, despicable. There’s no place in politics for that kind of stuff. I can’t explain or excuse this. We all need to work to raise standards and stamp this out.”
Could this be the same Ed Balls who has developed his career around negative briefings and off the record character assassinations?
I can’t believe it is.
Perhaps there are two Ed Balls.
I have to say it’s all rather testicular.
He’s trying to lay the ground for the introduction of controls of blogs.
They’ve started that already – this just reinforces their intent!
‘testicular’ – bravo Sir
I hear tha Al-Beeba have dropped the smearsgate story from any radio news headlines today, runs its course no doubt.
Hoons!!
This was the Gordon Brown legacy, all new Ed “Shinny” Balls 2.0 on his mission to clean up politics
Nah. That’s a load of Yvette Coopers.
These “vile, horrible, despicable” comments were just as likely to have been made by Labour Party activists who were trying to discredit Guido’s site. It’s the oldest trick in the book.
Do I have proof? Nope. Can Balls disprove me? Nope.
In other words, trying to discredit Guido through his commenters is a no-go. It is not as if people who comment here are employed by Guido or work in the same office as him, is it?
Or do they?
Well if I did work in the same office, I’ve never seen the Fenian bastard and he has never bought me a drink!
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Chief Medical Officer
Broadmoor
I would rather be addicted to alcohol than power.
**Hic** It was those hoons **burrrp** that drove me to drink.
I’d rather be addicted to power whilst under the influence of alcohol. innit.
I can’t afford either. I’m English and an old age pensioner.
I thought he ‘resigned’. Why would someone get severance pay for resigning. If you decide to leave a job then you are supposed to work out your notice. He’s lucky they let him go when he ‘wanted’.
It was said that he wasn’t getting any severance pay – if he hasn’t resigned from the CS then of course he hasn’t got any pay-off as he’s still on the normal payroll!!
Could be a not-so-clever attempt to save his skin.
Now that would do Gordon’s credibility – lol. what credibility, I hear you shout – no good whatsoever.
He is alleged to have spent most of his time down the pub. He either has a thing for lemonade, or he is not keeping to his daily recommended dose of alcohol.
Guido. You did a good job on McPoison, but surely it’s time to move on ? We can surmise that there were bigger turds in the Cabinet Office who are still waiting to be flushed away, and with the fear of reprisal removed, dead tree journo’s are getting more forthcoming. Lots of “of course I knew it” articles are appearing. An investigative journo is only as good as his last expose’.
Did you get Ed Balls this morning? Now THERE is a well-polished turd worth flushing!
Balls, on this morning’s today programme, was moaning and whining on the Today programme that he and Yvette too was the subject of slur on Guido Fawkes.
Diddums, another to make himself a millionair out of the public purse, but they haven’t broken any rules. Wait until the election to see what the public think about your fiscal activities Mr Balls.
Whoops two today programmes in one post, LOL
I think most would agree, the Balls & Cooper comedy duo deserve rather a lot of slur, they seem to get of fairly lightly on here pefect examples of a hoon and hoonette.
Yes, I heard that too. Trying to shift the blame. They (Labour) are scum. Is there any MP in that party who will resign on principle and call for Brown to go? They are all cowards – all part of the problem. You watch, Balls & co. will bring in some sort of law that will close down these blogs. They will say they are racist or homophobic. We are walking into a kind of dictatorship where people are threatened or destroyed if they dare to cross Labour. remember Dr Kelly. They will also find a way to rig or postpone the election. Good job I have applied to live in Canada.
Balls – if you are reading this, just fuck off you useless expense fraudster. These Labour MPs are not fit to wipe Guido’s arse.
Really? How would they be able to rig or defer the election?
Anonymouse – ‘cancel elections’
All amply provided for under the Civil Contingencies Act and other lawless drafting by evil spinmeisters in the NewLiebourNaziparty.
Quote ‘Good job I have applied to live in Canada?’
Anyone else sick of watching so many rats leaving the sinking ship and moaning.
I survived German bombs. Sure as hell I intend to survive the corruption of our political system and the imposition of the current fourth reich.
Roll on the next European elections. My vote is going to the party they all hate – making a bloody statement.
I am not cutting and running!
77:
Defer would be hard, but rigging…
Even the BBC reported about the Postal vote rigging in birmingham at the last election (does the phrase Banana Republic not ring any bells?), and what about the shenanigans in the Glenrothes election, where the record mysteriously disappeared in a massive turn about in the predicted result, for a ZaNu Liebore win…
“Good job I have applied to live in Canada.”
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Where the Prime Minister suspended parliament for two months to avoid a vote of no confidence?
Balls, if you are reading this, be warned. Memo’s regarding Baby P are still out there.
Ask Lynne Featherstone
Such total scum. Testicular, McBridalvirgin. Drip Drooop, McThomtwat, find yourselves an executioner for gawds sake.
Harman’s Court of Public Opinion will exonerate them both…
Come on it’s 9.52 and only 6 comments….I’m getting withdrawal symptoms
Are you happier now?
Damian McBride took Brown to one side
And said we’ll smear Campbell & Co.
But when Guido found out
McBride’s job’s down the spout
And Draper is just about to go.
Sorry, should be Cameron.
There’s been a lot of talk about the Brownies engaging in vote-rigging in Scotland. As well as his Scottish mafia, Gordon seems to have a loyal little clique based in the West Midlands (Tom Watson, Ian Austin, Sion Simon etc). I wonder whether that is the explanation for Birmingham becoming the epi-centre of dodgy voting practices in England?
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Is DAMIAN McBRIDE a HOON?
What does HOON mean anyhow?
Please do help us!
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Interesting article in the Guardian about attempts to parachute Philip Gould’s 22 year old daughter into a safe London seat.The nomenkatura look after their own.We have a hereditary political clique in New Labour which seems to think the Reform Acts were never passsed.It must be heartbreaking to be a local activist with the ambition to serve the community.
She will up the NuLab totty ratings. Cor.
Yes, but turn away the old Labour voters in droves. The Standard and other papers have covered this previously, there seems to be some very serious grass-roots oppostion to the hereditary principle in politics. It’s particularly funny when you consider how often they pull out and play the “toff’ card for anyone who didn’t got to Bogend Comprehensive and can speak properly.
Harrietharmanhatemenharpric is behind it along with yvetteballssowhat .
a harpies lovefest
She’s an intellectual giant, a political big-beast, and a gold-mine of experience compared with Emily f8cking Benn, (CV: “Went to skool and did my sumz”) the candidate for East Worthing:
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article2785553.ece
For example: “My parents were in France when I had to go before the selection committee… I had to drive to Shoreham on my own — the first time I’d driven on the motorway.”
Christ on a bike. People want this thing sitting in parliament voting on laws that grown-ups then have to obey.
Quite so, bergen.
It would probably be better if MP’s were required to have some local connection and the party machine were thus not able to impose candidates from afar.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see the Prince of Darkness relinquish his Peerage, provided he can sort out a suitable pension arrangement, and be foisted on some unsuspecting stooges come the next election.
As I have previously pointed out Benn’s still at uni. granddaughter is PPC for East Worthing. Deep joy.
Leopards cannot change their spots. This kind of stich-up is so ingrained in what is left of the Labour Party that it barely excites a ripple. They have a long and inglorious record of parachuting insiders into safe seats against the wishes of the local party members, few as they now are.
While I look forward greatly to McCavity’s ejection from 10 Downing Street I can’t help but wonder at who will become Lords in the resignation honours list, assuming there is one…
Are you talking about me again?
I need a shuffer to carry me out of the restaurants and pubs and drive me around to my two solicitors ( may you tax paying fools bless them with loads of your dosh).
I am the leader of the gang, (I am)
McBride has been utterly loyal to Brown for years and then gets ruthlessly dropped in a very ignominious manner.
Given that McBride must know where all the bodies are buried, it’s a rather brave act by Brown.
You must be joking ‘ a brave act by Brown’ FFS
Brown has done a deal with the alcohol lover. He will arrange a ‘job’/bribe under the counter. McBride will say nothing.
Whatever the future holds for McBride I can see brighter better prospects for Draper – as long as Derek learns to take himself less seriously. He and Kate could be the next Neil and Christine Hamilton. I see guest appearances on HIGNFY. Longer term, with the cloud hanging over Raj Persaud there must be an opening for a therapist dispensing cod phychology on day-time TV, especially someone with good media contacts and a distinctive appearance.
Chin up, Derek. Your future beckons. Forget this political nonsense. You’re not cut out for it.
+ panto at the end of the pier.
He can’t lift his chin up because of the fleshy, unshaven jowls which engulf it!
Imagine Derek on I’m a Celebrity ?!
A “Bushtucker Trial” involving snakes, spiders or Derek Draper talking about the Labor Parteh would be a severe test for any has been.
This drollery is excellent. Keep it up.
By the way Guido, can I just add my congratulations for your wearing a ‘Berkeley’ T-shirt when talking to Dolly the other week. Priceless. I also studied ‘in’ Berkeley, rather than ‘at’ it. I was at Stanford, which is much superior don’t you know. The Wright Institute is actually a kosher place though (proper affiliations etc.) – dunno why Dolly didn’t just ‘fess up instead of ‘doing an Archer’ and puffing himself up a bit. I mean, Berkeley is good but it ain’t Oxford, right?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/573803.stm
Derek,
Thanks for the 10 year old link (muck raking are we?)
And what’s Hamilton got to do with the price of bread?
He didn’t try to destroy peoples’ lives by spreading untrue gossip…did he? His resignation was over cash for questions which is a completely different kettle of fish. Serious yes, but very different from being a nasty spreader of malicious gossip.
Let’s stick to the facts and the issue in question shall we Derek?
Perhaps the point of bringing the story up again is that it shows when a party are in power too long they think they can do what they like.
agreed. This link is a bit closer to Hamilton – and a lot more recent. As I recall, all appointees of Blair/Brown.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5581547.ece
The real story about the Hamiltons shows there’s nothing changed in the Labour party. See here.
http://www.guardianlies.com/Contents.html
Joey Jones Sky News Blog yesterday
Reaction in the party is the immediate problem for Gordon Brown. He has been diminished by the events of recent days – diminished by his refusal to dispense entirely with Damian McBride despite his unpopularity… diminished by the ugliness he allowed to prosper.Reaction in the party is the immediate problem for Gordon Brown. He has been diminished by the events of recent days – diminished by his refusal to dispense entirely with Damian McBride despite his unpopularity… diminished by the ugliness he allowed to prosper.
Has McBride left Downing Street or has he been ‘deployed’ elsewhere in government till this all blows over???
I think he’s referring to the criticism by some in the Cabinet last year over the Ruth Kelly resignation. The Cabinet wanted rid of McBride which Brown agreed to but never carried out, I think that’s what he means there
No, there needs to be clarification on this. Is McPoison no longe employed in ANY capacity by the Civil Service?
WE NEED TO KNOW
The entire cabinet has left Downing Street.
They are all dining at LooonyBroony’s Highland Haem preparing expensively to hold Cabinet’s first ever joint meeting with the SNP government, in Edinburgh.
All the plotter scum are there too.
We of course are paying for the hoons
Fraid not, Gordo went running scared of Big Alec who has more Gravitas than the whole of Labour in his pinkie!
Don’t worry about Edwin getting hold of porn. I had him seen to long ago. Since then, in the absence of his own, he’s spoken nothing but bollocks. Remember the Neo-Endogenous drivel?
Anyway, he’s a safe pair of hands and does the washing-up beautifully.
Speaking of bollocks reminds me . . . I guess that why he fits in so well at the ed-yer-kay-shun place.
You should have had them grafted onto your flat ribs, Yvette, you look as though you need them!
I don’t doubt he will have been ‘deployed’ – but as what I can’t imagine.
There has long been a “dirty tricks” cabal around Mr Brown that any Westminster journalist or minister could name – Ian Austin, Tom Watson, Ed Balls, Mr McBride and, formerly, Charlie Whelan, who is now political officer of the Unite super-union (and working hard to place favoured candidates in winnable seats for the next election). Times Alice Miles
Don’t forget Mr Maguire too – he’s been fingered in this too *eugh*
They are all at it – the Telegraph had a nice map yesterday of the hub inc spare places for hot desking.
Guess they all had a good idea about what red rag was – clue: it is not an eco-friendly kiwi tampoon.
So the expanded cabal:
Susan Nye ?
Simon Walters, Mail on Sinday?
Lady Varela?
oooh its all so transparent.
I’m loving all those TV News videos of McBride franticly attempting to distance himself from Gordon Brown’s company every time the pair are caught together on camera….now you see us and now you don’t.
“James Purnell’s announcement that unemployed alcoholics will be refused benefits must be a double blow. However the government says unemployed alcoholics who seek treatment will be able to claim benefits.”
In one Guido. Quite why an alcoholic was allowed a free rein in number 10 beggars belief.
That must bring to an end Lord Foulkes’ expense allowances then
Did you get an invite to his leaving do ?
I’m a compassionate person, and I’m glad to hear that McBride will now get the help he so badly needs. Do the same rules apply to people with narcissistic personality disorder too? (Brown, Blair, Draper etc. etc.)
Labour has more rigging than the Spanish Armada. Quote from another part of the blogsphere.
Its the postal votes that must be watched.
Birmingham was just the proverbial,
The rigging is hard mast
Are you certain he’s lost his position as a civil servant?
Is it not the case that he’s still employed, still entitled to his pension but lost his position as a Special Adviser?
Regards,
Tom
My what a coincidence that today HMG decides to launch a 30 day consultation on the location of nuclear power stations.
Meaningless but desperate attempt to take viewers eye off the ball IMHO.
Oh yes and the Met suspend another officer – do read Rod Liddle’s latest bit here – very cutting.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/rod_liddle/article6078095.ece
I have been wondering when they will conjure up a smoke screen story. Perhaps something about Prince Harry?
See Dizzy’s place for who the movers and shakers in the consultation are.
James Gormless Bruines brother for one.
We will all look forward to Lord McBride,Lord Whelan to join our Peter no doubt.What,s the odds?
Perhaps Lord Myners would like to resign to make room?
Oh dear ‘Eye’ Balls (you know, him who has never leaked or smeared anyone in his life) is not happy with you Guido:
The Children’s Secretary also claimed that he and his wife, Yvette Cooper, the chief secretary to the Treasury, had received comparable attacks on the Guido Fawkes blog, which was the inspiration for the Labour gossip site. He accused the Tories of lifting the attacks from the site and using them politically.
“If you look at the kind of comments left by people on those websites, it’s homophobic, its misogynist, it’s deeply sexual and awful, and I would never want my children to see the sort of things that were written about us,” Mr Balls said. “So this has been going on for a few years across parties. It’s not good.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/5157288/Tories-should-stop-talking-about-Damian-McBride-smear-email-Ed-Balls-says.html
Send them to the Home Secretary’s second home then Balls – that might open their eyes a bit and toughen them up.
I humbly suggest that if they don’t already have any children, they knock that idea on the head. Poor Hunts.
Fuck off Balls you pair of shits.
If Balls and his odious wife didn’t ransack the public purse to the extent they do, then there wouldn’t be much for Guido or anyone else to comment upon, would there?
Simples!
Balls – respect has to be earned. When will you lot learn this lesson?
Also, your close association to Jonah Brown has jinxed your political career for ever more, so you might as well pack it all in now. When the going was good and Brown was bullying his way to the top, hanging on to his coat tails probably seemed like a good idea. That ride has come to an end now though.
Lets face it, you and your missus have done pretty well for yourselves financially, far better than you could ever have done in the real world.
Quit while you’re ahead. Enjoy your taxpayer funded property portfolio and gold plated pension. Supplement your income by writing a book dishing the dirt on Gordon. You know it makes sense.
Why do the Hoons say that Guido’s site is homophobic? I’m a trouser pilot and I have never noticed homophobia here and even if I had, so what? Most ‘gentlemen who are good with colours’ I know have a hugely better sense of humour than you straight chaps (and obviously a much, much, better sense of humour than politicos).
Hear hear!
and I would never want my children to see the sort of things that were written about us,”
Great isn’t it how he plays the ‘think of the children’ card? This may come as a surprise to you Mr Balls but this site isn’t meant for children – it’s not fucking teletubbies dot com.
It’s up to you Balls, to monitor your children’s online activities and if you don’t know how to do this then I suggest you pop along to your nearest Waterstones and buy yourself a copy of ‘Safe surfing for fucking idiots’.
But it’s no surprise, this was the idiot who suggested trying to force Sony to put a big red button on PlayStations so parents could limit their childrens’ game time, until someone helpfully pointed out to him it already had one – the off button.
See the madness in his eyes? What a nasty duplicitous person he is…..trying to divert attention and ‘spin’ away from the smear debacle. He thinks we should stop talking about this episode. Why? Who the hell does this man think he is? One of your own has been caught out and NO we won’t stop talking about it just because you want us to. Numpty!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/5157288/Tories-should-stop-talking-about-Damian-McBride-smear-email-Ed-Balls-says.html
Is it true that one can set up an email system so that it can send “hidden” copies to specified recipients?
If so have the Downing Street computer systems been checked to see if any of McBrides output was secretly copied and to whom?
Your children will see what history writes about you Mr and Mrs Balls. I doubt they’ll be proud of their parents.
I am sure Balls does want the Tories to stop talking about the McBride emails. He wishes that none of this had ever come to light.
The emails are after all an excruciatingly embarassing insight into the way his government works, exposing Brown for the spiteful, ignorant bastard that he is.
Oi, Ed,
‘it’s homophobic, its misogynist, it’s deeply sexual and awful,and I would never want my children to see the sort of things that were written about us,’
Awww yes, it’s always about the ickle childwun. What are your ickle childwun going to think when your government goes down in history as the one that slaughtered umpty thousand people in Iraq on the pretext of delibrately falsified information for no discernable reason, drawing the easily excitable religion of peace into exploding bombs on our tubes and buses and the concomitent erosion of our civil liberties?
What are your ickle childwun going to make of your epic financial incompetence that has beggered the entire UK for more than a generation? What are your ickle childwun going to make of living in a post-socialist hell-hole where everybody has a degree but nobody can fix a motor car?
You fucking arsehole.
Baby P was a little child too, once, hey Ballsy?
If Ball’s kids go to state schools it won’t matter cause they won’t be able to read.
Balls, minister of schools, creches, girls’ toilets, families and gay partnerships, has betrayed a whole generation of children with his dogma-driven “management” of education. He is therefore the most evil minister in this evil government, other than McSnot.
No words are too harsh to describe this deranged little fool.
So What!
Rarely has a politican been so well named!
Except for Hoon.
So he & his Mrs best stop being greedy thieving troughing b******* hadn’t they? The cure is in your own hands, Eddy me boy.
“the government says unemployed alcoholics who seek treatment will be able to claim benefits”. – How exactly will this work?
(1) People do not overcome addiction until they personally are ready to face up and overcome it (rock bottom) until then they are unlikely to admit that they are alcoholic so:
(2) Who is ‘empowered’ to decree that they need treatment? and
(3) What sort of treatment? If it’s things like Alcoholics Anonymous then the train wreck is right there in the second word.
Glad to see you have appear to have lost the ‘pride(s)’ of Labour, should have been Hubris anyway.
All this vindictive nonsense will lead to is a lot of alkys getting their booze money by thieving thus causing even more trouble for the ordinary people of this country.
New Labour=Soundbite Scum and morons to boot
piece from the Suzy jagger in the Times “At a cocktail party at No 11 Downing street, which I attended, around seven years ago, the then Chancellor squirmed at having to host an event for a roomful of biting, financial hacks. It was also clear that Brown, then scruffy and lank-haired, did not do small talk. When he did speak, it was to the carpet . He had to be bailed out by the fresh-faced Ed Balls, standing to his left, who chatted effortlessly to the assembled journalists
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article6094059.ece
a loon then. a loon now.
Once a loon, always a loon.
Once a hoon, always a hoon…
I wouldn’t write him off yet. Look how many times Mandy has been taken back into the fold!!
Labour has done many bad things, but is yet to develop a Gulag – Simon Heffer
Give them suffcient time, and yes of course they would set up gulags if they could get away with it.
Haven’t you noticed that you need id to visit
Parkhurstthe Isle of Wight?No need to set them up, they could just nationalise Butlins.
Is it my imagination or is Gordo’s letter to Damien McBride’s victims signed “Yours smearily”?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/5154766/Email-smears-Sorry-is-too-hard-a-word-for-Brown.html
I read it as ‘Cudly’!
I thought he’d written in german.
“When he did speak, it was to the carpet . ”
I’m sure that he wasn’t really talking to the Wilton. He was, more likely directing something unpleasant down his leg and out of the lower trouser.
Mad Dog McPoison will be looked after by his old mate Snottie McTwat because he knows exactly where all the bodies are buried. He’s such a naturally nasty piece of work that he would be totally capable of a bit of whistle blowing and Snottie won’t want that. It might scupper his chances of winning the next election with a handsome majority and pigs might take to the air.
He should also be very careful about taking walks on his own or he might become one of the bodies. Perhaps a fitting end to an illustrious career…
I thought politics was about making Britain better, It’s all bullshit, it’s about getting one’s man into power…FULL STOP….You all make me sick.
I also quite fancy Tessa’s Jowell’s
thank fuck its still possible to blog and be an alcoholic Guido
Hey Guido, the fire seems to be burning a bit lower today. Lob another grenade in would you? There’s a good chap…
Yes. I find myself looking for another legend free sight graphic before looking at the headline. I say again, the original one needs to be on T Shirts. It’ll be the essential item this summer…” Guido Says…….On yer Bike!”
Well, Draper is at least a psycho, if not a therapist…
Hahahahahahaha – fighting fire with fire (or libel with libel). I like it, Guido!
You have to blame the dead tree press for not publishing who gave off the record briefings.
Erm..how will the people who pay expenses, I mean benefits, know if the ‘customer’ is an alcjolic?
Brown isn’t as innocent as he looks! I bet he was right in the middle of it. He just wants to cling on to power, anyway.
http://thestupidtimes.blogspot.com/2009/04/brown-caught-spraying-obscenities-on.html
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23571940-details/Brown+sets+up+'war+room'+at+12+Downing+Street/article.do
according to this – right in the middle
sorry link doesn’t work – oh well just google war room at downing street
O/T, it’s the economy stupid:
wholesale prices in Europe’s largest economy fell by 8% in the year to March. Prices in March were 1% lower than in February 2009.
http://www.destatis.de/jetspeed/portal/cms/Sites/destatis/Internet/EN/press/pr/2009/04/PE09__145__61281,templateId=renderPrint.psml
Germany and most of Euroland have deflation, falling prices. German wholesale prices are now back to 2006 levels. Europeans in work are experiencing increasing purchasing power – the motor to true recovery.
UK is on its own, with inflation in raw materials, wholesale and consumer prices; food prices rising 2% per month. The printing of money and deliberate propping up of failed enterprises has destroyed UK’s chance of recovery.
As an ARTIST and prude wot hav never drawed a nude, I wish to say that I followed closely all the developments on Herr Drippy’s Drawing Board, and that of Comrade WhataFuckOvich.
And I can reliably inform you that any alcohol consumed was for the sake of liberating the muse. Poetic licence in fact. All we artists need the liberating effect of alcohol – or other substances.
But for anyone else, alcohol, like fags, – is bad – that why we tax them so much and will add very many further controls in the upcoming Dudget.
Old-Noo (neé Noo-Old) BoringLiars – TAXING YOU WITLESS ‘n WASTING YOUR MONEY on something pointless NEAR YOU!
That creature, Ed Balls, on the Today programme saying that Guy Fawkes peddles disgusting smears and that we must do something to clean up the blogosphere; rats in a sack.
Oooh Guido, nowt like twisting the knife….
Moral of the story: Don’t tell porkie pies on the telly, it will bring you down and your poisonous mates down with you.
As Mc Poison is, at this point in time, unemployable (would YOU employ him?), he may give a paid interview……….or a book deal maybe? Would be lovely!
How will they know if a benefit claimant is an alcoholic?
From what I could extract from Purnall’s spin yeasterday, I believe the claimant is responsible for announcing to the JC+ people that they have a problem with alcohol. Purnell also suggested that it was to their advantage to do so, as they would be found out by something known a “data sharing”. Is he saying that they have a database of actual and potential alcoholics? If so, how and where was such data obtained?
He’s an unpleasant little shoe-toffee who has been chomping at the taxpayer’s expense with all the other gutworms. One for the midden I think…
From the ‘terrorist only purposes’ set up we now have it would go along something like this.
Dear Mr Alcoholic beverage user,
You purchased a 3ltr bottle of Strongbow from the local off license at 9.37pm as from your card receipt records. You were observed by CCTV crossing the road and going to your home of which you switched onto Television X and watched for 37 seconds, confirmed by Sky.
The dustbin weight confirmed you placed the empty bottle into it at 10.22pm and the electricity company confirmed you switched off the lights and went asleep at 11.04pm.
chuckle
They built the database up by watching all those CCTV cameras pointed at pub doorways.
@153 Trough Mixture
Yes, that’s correct – that’s the well-known NuLabour Big Brother Database that will stop all terrorism – and identify potential alkys – based on their neighbours’ or their kids comments & opinions. It will also have all your health records, provided to NuLabour by your friendly doctor – as it is a fact proven by NuLabour the rapist Dolly Drooper that people with ill health who don’t eat 5 a day veg or fruit are more likely to become terrorists – therefore the database will keep records of all your purchases at Sainsburys to ensure you are getting your 5 a day. Caring, sharing NuLabour – taking their policies from Hitler, Stalin, the East German Stasi & Pot Pol.
Announcing this initiative without supporting alcohol misuse services is typically duplicitous. There is no statutory requirement to inform Home Office that someone is an alcoholic unlike an illicit drug user but expensive computer system to record health records (MPs & VIPs excluded of course) could be misused to identify alcoholics.
….in other words another well-thought through liebour initiative.
‘Could be’ and ‘will be’.
Ed says “so what”
Ouch!
I would like to take this opportunity to thank taxpayers for my bath plug
It fits beautifully.
bogoff today dearie, 2for1?
dear ed balls……….a few names will not hurt you..remember the nursery rhyme?
If we are looking at offensiveness i wonder if you could clear up the small matter of where you live as you cannot seem to remember?
I also find it offensive that your party took us into a war based on stealing a student dossier from the internet.Further to that some may find it offensive that Gordon Brown then withheld military spending -to get at Tony Blair (how mature) which resulted in the deaths of many service personnel. (please note i did not say men or women as this might cause offence to someone).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1029410/Ed-Balls-Yvette-Cooper-face-sleaze-watchdog-probe-using-expenses-pay-mortgage.html
Nice photo!
McBride’s florid complexion is that of the habitual drinker, the mass of veins that will ultimately break forth and deform his nose already edging up towards the surface, rupturing one by one as they lose their elasticity.
Alone, discredited, and frustrated, alcohol will soon hurry him away from this world.
Slightly off topic but whilst we rightly carp about the smeg that rules us now, this is in the wings and waiting – doubters should do what I have done and read the Koran ………………… and shiver in fear!
Subject: Frightening Thought
But what can WE do about it?
The Uncomfortable Definition of an Infidel….
Allah or the Lord Jesus Christ? The Muslim religion is by far the fastest
growing religion in the UK .
Last month I attended my annual training session that’s required for
maintaining my prison security clearance. During the training session there
was a presentation by three speakers representing the Roman Catholic,
Protestant and Muslim faiths, who explained each of their beliefs.
I was particularly interested in what the Islamic Imam had to say. The Imam
gave a great presentation of the basics of Islam, complete with a video.
After the presentations, time was provided for questions and answers.
When it was my turn, I directed my question to the Imam and asked: ‘Please,
correct me if I’m wrong, but I understand that most Imams and clerics of
Islam have declared a holy jihad [Holy war] against the infidels of the
world and, that by killing an infidel, (which is a command to all Muslims)
they are assured of a place in heaven. If that’s the case, can you give me
the definition of an infidel?’
There was no disagreement with my statements and, without hesitation, he
replied, ‘Non-believers!’
I responded, ‘So, let me make sure I have this straight. All followers of
Allah have been commanded to kill everyone who is not of your faith so they
can have a place in heaven. Is that correct?’
The expression on his face changed from one of authority and command to
that of ‘a little boy who had just been caught with his hand in the cookie
jar.’
He sheepishly replied, ‘Yes.’
I then stated, ‘Well, I have a real problem trying to imagine Pope Benedict’s
commanding all Catholics to kill those of your faith or Dr. Stanley ordering
all Protestants to do the same in order to guarantee them a place in
heaven!’
The Imam was speechless!
I continued, ‘I also have a problem with being your ‘friend’ when you and
your brother clerics are telling your followers to kill me! Let me ask you a
question. Would you rather have your Allah, who tells you to kill me in
order for you to go to heaven, or my Jesus who tells me to love you because
I am going to heaven and He wants you to be there with me?’
You could have heard a pin drop as the Imam remained speechless.
Needless to say, the organizers and promoters of the ‘Diversification’
training seminar were not happy with this way of dealing with the Islamic
Imam and exposing the truth about the Muslims’ beliefs.
Within twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.K. to elect
a government of their choice, complete with sharia law
I think everyone in the U.K. should be required to read this, but with the
Liberal justice system, liberal media and political correctness madness,
there is no way this will be widely publicised.
Please pass this on to all your e-mail contacts.
John Harrison MBE. MIDSc
This incident happened in London
delusional morons all of them:whatever religeon
This story sounds unlikely – Muslim clerics are adept at obfuscating, mystifying and, if necessary, telling barefaced lies – the religion teaches them that deceiving the infidel, in order to remove obstacles to expanding the domain of Islam is perfectly ethical. Besides, a martyr (one who can go straight to paradise in stead of mouldering in the grave, avoiding the tortures possible therein and taking his chance on the day of judgment) has to die while killing or trying to kill infidels in the course of jihad. I have been told by a Muslim that the previous statement is untrue. Why? It turned out a martyr can also be someone who dies on Friday or of a stomach complaint! By the way, they will often say that a jihad has to be official but this obtains only for offensive jihad – anybody can carry out defensive jihad whenever they think it’s called for. The poster who blamed Labour for annoying an easily excitable religion over Iraq, was wrong to do so – they don’t hate us for anything we’ve done. They hate us for what we are.
My name is Damian and I’m – here, hang on, I thought you said was Alcoholics ANONYMOUS?? Fuck this, I’m off for a pint and a nice chat with Trevor Kavanagh!
Re 173 – sorry, I can’t condone your message. I’m not into racism.
what race would Islam be then dickhead ?
I can’t see any racist message there – merely the retelling of an event.
I daresay a numpty like Humpty 178 thinks chocolate eggs are racist.
M’mm on my computer 173 is about building the NuLabour DB from CCTV cameras outside pubs – have I missed something?
The captains of ships and the drivers of lorries must be sober at all times, but the Ship of State is steered by drunks. Can there really be no offence of “being drunk in charge of a nation?”
“Fifty men and a dead man’s chest,
Yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum,
Drink and the Devil had done for the rest…”
Guido calls McPoison an alcoholic. How is that different in essence from McPoison’s smears, playing the man not the ball? I’m as disgusted by what McBride did as Guido is, but the morality of calling anyone an alcoholic is in essence no different from mentioning a politician’s sexual health. This inability of Guido to adhere to a coherent moral standpoint is why “Sir” Michael White so comprehensively destroyed Guido intellectually in that infamous interview.
Fuck off back to Rotherhithe, Bob. Rhymes with Knob, and with Gob. Just stick to LabourLost and the Grauniad CiF, this place is probaly too grown up for you.
Ever try actually addressing a dissenting argument with a counter-argument, you fuckwit?
If McBride’s an alky, then great!
He can use his vodka to wash away the taste of browns shit stained knob!
“How is that different in essence from McPoison’s smears, playing the man not the ball?”
Guido wants to become Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
No smear. Just look at the man’s face. Just look at the man’s record. And really – Sir Michael White – if he is your touchstone of moral rectitude and intellectual fortitude then I would shut myself down were I you. Michael White for heavens sake.
Damian McBride could, of course, claim compensation for unfair dismissal. HMG could not possibly defend it as it would have to disclose Comrade Gordon’s emails concerning him, and written to and by him on the subject. Should they claim gross misconduct, well, he was only doing what he was employed to do after all and that can’t be breach of any contractual term, express or implied.
But he won’t and HMG won’t have to cos he’s got no Ed Balls.
By the way, Damian, I hope you’re not taking to the bottle over all this. You were looking a tad florid on T V yesterday, or had Comrade Gordon just given you a good bollocking? Surprised to read you’re still only 35. I hope I don’t look as old as you do when I turn 65. A few sessions in the gym might just help and I suppose the No.10 scotch won’t be flowing so freely in your direction from now on so that should help too.
By the way still no news on my complaint to New Scotland Yard about Jacqui Smith’s theft, false accounting and obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception ALLEGATIONS. Tell me why I’m not surprised!
Tell me why I’m not surprised
Will Purnell’s controversial welfare reforms work or fail?
Even Balls, Ed, gets a mention in this story. What’s he going to do? Have the children of alcoholics placed into care?
Guido attacks poor old Alice Miles for belatedly exposing the lobby system. Fair enough. But in her article Miles casually drops Ed Balls’s name in among the McPoison attack dogs, so she’s not averse to a little smearing herself.
Now I know that everyone on this self-selected blog is now going to abuse me viciously for coming to Balls’s aid, but I hold no brief for him. I think he’d be a disastrous party leader if he ever took over. But Balls strikes me as a good old-fashioned conviction politician, robust and aggressive. As far as I’m aware he hasn’t spread McPoison-type rumours about personal failings (such as alcoholism, Guido!). If you know of any, please give evidence. He briefs and spins, but it’s aways on political issues. You may not like Balls’s political convictions (in fact I KNOW you don’t), but to casually link him with McBride is … well, a smear.
188
Spreading poison is done in many ways 188, overtly, covertly, through utter incompetence and too often by malevolence.
His department I believe?
http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2009/01/old-holborn-please-help.htm
If ‘a good old-fashioned conviction politician’ means one who races to the trough & slurps down swill like there’s no tomorrow then I guess Ed Balls with his 1 house supported by 2 lots of expenses fills the bill. If it also means one who makes the wrong choices & then blames his juniors then that’s still Eddy Boy (who engaged the American company to do the SATS exams & then blamed the people beneath him?). Finally, if you mean someone who chose to do nothing about the plight of Baby P, despite the two letters sent by the whistleblower social worker to his dept, but then erupted with great fury, blaming everyone else but himself when the s**t hit the fan & the poor kid was murdered, then Mr Balls is definitely your man. I’d describe him slightly differently myself but I’ve promised not to swear on Guido’s blog today. Though I do agree with your description of ‘robust – another 5 lbs & the porker’ll keel over from a heart attack.
Balls is a despicable New Labour stooge. His political “convictions” are arrogant tyrannical socialist bollocks and enriching himself from the public purse. After all Mr So-what is in favour of other people paying through the nose.
JC on a bicycle. It has been known for YEARS that Brown and his cabal operate using really nasty smears. Previously, it has not been of such concern, as it was always rivals within New Labour who were smeared, or people who pointed out to Brown he had a fucking huge bogie up his nose.
Wake up and smell the fucking coffee eh? This is a bunch of malevolent hoons we are talking about her, not your “conviction” politicians.
Where the fuck have you been the past 12 years?
More spin, With 2 million+, unemployed ,AND another 1.25 million unemployed, expected by December,and an average of 60 punter’s chaseing EVERY job. Who need’s a DRUNK?.
There is background here that you might be missing re Derek Draper’s counselling credentials. for example:
Phillip Hodson of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy recently claimed that ‘counselling needs a legal basis for client protection’; Independent: Letters, April 11th) Is this the same British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy whose name appears on the web page promoting Derek Draper’s counselling services?
Mr Hodson claims that ‘the public deserves legal force behind sanctions against bad therapy and rogue therapists’… which parts of the BACP’s competence to protect us from ‘rogue therapists’ would he think the BACP’s endorsement of Derek Draper demonstrates?
There’s a world of difference between a properly chartered and regulated professional body and a circle-wank of charlatans. Usually the first charges a higher annual subscription and has a fancier letter heading.
The multiplying villanys of nature do swarm upon him.
I used to be a gynaecologist but i gave up the job when Hazel Blears popped in one day and asked for a smear….
And what is this ‘New Labour’ that McBride made it his life’s work to create? It is an amalgam of former socialist functionaries, quasi-democrats, secret police officers, and City wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and represent a dirty hybrid unseen or undreamed of before – a new kind of police state, a police state only made possible by information technology, a type of oppression which has never before existed in all of human history.
I am not a gynaecologist, but I will take a look.
A video too far methinks, and another for the expense account of Home Secretaries and their hairy palmed husbands perhaps?
Vanquishing these venal and virulent vermin, vanguarding vice and vouchsaving the violently viscious and voracious violation of volition.
Have a read of what SENIOR TORY MP’s and the DEPUTY MAYOR OF LONDON think of DONAL BLANEY and his rants about Obama’s grandmother and calling for the death of TED KENNEDY!!!!!!!
http//www.ddtaylor88.wordpress.com
As the great Bernard Manning said” They didn’t need to impeach Nixon, they should have just let Teddy Kennedy drive him home”
OT but..why is Cyclops known as McCavity?
Is it a homophobic slur?
If not, then it bloody well should be..the mincing loon!
It’s after a poem by TS Eliot ‘Macavity the Mystery Cat’ & it’s not homophobic
Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
He’s broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
And when you reach the scene of crime – Macavity’s not there!
You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air -
But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!
And refers to the fact that whenever s**t hits the fan Gordon disappears until someone else has sorted out the mess (it wasnae me, I’m nae tae blame) e.g. where’s Gordon today with Smeargate still very much a hot topic? As I understand it, he’s up in Aberdeen at the funerals of those lads on the North Sea Oil helicopter that crashed. Without going out to the Islands it would be difficult to have a greater distance between him & Westminster than that. Like all bullyboys, he’s also a coward & cuts & runs at the first hint of trouble.
Thanks Anon.
I appreciate the efforts made.
Truth be told, I think that I preferred my theory.
He is a mincing loon & takes it up his McCavity.
If he really gets no severance and no special pension deal I guess he will start singing in a short while. Bet he is already talking to journalists
You are so right, the worst political journo is the NuLab puppy Nick Robinson on the BBC. The next time he takes a risk will be the first.
Just discovered you thanks to Bruin’s failed attack dog.
Great stuff, keep it up.
History will show that Robinson was blackmailed.
He might get no severance pay, but what about pensions? And what else has Brown offered him in return for going quietly?
David T Breaker
http://www.newsjunction.co.uk
I’m getting on wi’ ma next jobbie. Get oot ya basturd!
Prime Minister did not employ Damian McBride for his social skills. Evening Standard
“Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged to ensure every young person has done 50 hours of community work by the time they are 19 years old.”.
“compulsory community service”
or, in other words, slavery, just like he’s also forcing slavery for foreign nationals to get their visa even when they’ve got a paid-job lined up.
marvellous.
The crack’s in the dam are getting bigger, and I think she is ready to go. Like many befor him, Mcbride has taken a hit to cover teflon’s arse. Like many befor him, he has been publically booted out of No10 through the front door. But like many befor him, will sneak round the back and knock on the back door. But, who will open it?.
May I just take the opportunity to point out that I never shagged Ms Cooper on the bonnet of my spitfire, when I was 17?
She ugly as fuck then…nowt much has changed!
Thanks!
i agree with you David T. Breaker
Papers reporting Government sexed up importance of Damien Green documents. God I hope this turns into yet another shit storm for the fat one eyed bogey eater.
HHe definitely will receive severance pay, to which he is contractually due. Indeed, it’s clear from Sir Gus O’Donnell’s line in his letter to Francis Maude “[McBride] has not received severance pay” that he will receive it in due course…
Guido… any chance of a letter of reference?
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“But Balls strikes me as a good old-fashioned conviction politician, robust and aggressive. As far as I’m aware he hasn’t spread McPoison-type rumours about personal failings (such as alcoholism, Guido!). If you know of any, please give evidence.”
So schoolgirls being stalked to the point of suicide is what? He has the most deadly of the smear depts.
LIST 99 had a tribe of folks without a GCSE to their name dropped into it when the FBI took the trouble to find out if ‘they’ had made much of an impact. For the *first* time the cops were in British schools arresting teachers.
I just happened to be on my way back from Afghanistan, I dropped off a few chaps to be tortured in Egypt, and picked up, a top expert, who met Lord Laird, to ask for a few PQs.
The doubling of REAL TEACHER referrals is related to PQ HL2654 if I recall correctly. I have so much blood on my hands from spin-gunning Afghan wedding parties, I sometimes fail, to recall complex detail.
You can’t swing a cat in a Brit school without injuring several pedophiles.
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