April 16th, 2009

Whelan : I Have Been Victim of Tory Dirty Tricks

whelanYou have to laugh at Charlie Whelan – the poisonous mudslinger bleating that he is the victim of Tory dirty tricks. It wasn’t Tories who were planning dirty tricks was it?  It was Charlie and his mudslinging pals.

You have been caught doing what you have always done.

Hat-tip: Strathspey and Badenoch Herald


851 Comments

  1. 1
    Ratsniffer says:

    You can’t live in the sewer and not get splashed in shit.

    Whelan should stop whining.

    • 50
      The Cat says:

      whelan’s a Hoon

    • 62
      The Cat says:

      Whelan’s a knob

      • 64
        The Cat says:

        Sorry about the two above…just testing the system.

        Whelan’s turd…seems to be working

    • 89
      Proud Dundonian says:

      Is it a coincidence that all the culprits in this ghastly story are ugly as sin?

      • 95
        Steak and Chips says:

        unlike the dashing Guido

      • 177
        Charlie boy says:

        I’ve heard people talk about someone ‘having a face like a smacked arse’, but until I saw this picture, I’d never actually seen one, It is such a joy to find these evil bar stewards finally getting their come-uppance!

        Which will actually see them out of office – the election in 2010 or Guido?

      • 203
        Frank Fartwell says:

        McBride is the one with a smacked arse face. Really awful for a man of 34. It would take a fair quantity of booze to get a face like that. I think the correct medical term for it is Rosacea.

      • 277
        Fragmeister says:

        We have a competition in my house. We look at the newspapers and try to find the wasp – that is the person who has, through no fault of their own, accidently got a wasp in their mouth.

        Just look for the expression akin to eating a lemon.

      • 298
        Greychatter says:

        Just what I was thinking, just like the Bullies used to be at school in the 1940’s – times don’t change, but they are now employed by the Prime Minister and get a Government pension.

      • 312
        Withnail says:

        You know what they say. Politics is just showbiz for ugly people. And I may add, ugly, talentless people.

      • 332

        Like a bulldog licking piss from a stinging nettle just about sums it up for me!

      • 336
        Dr Rock says:

        They’re ugly chippie haters that psychotically rage at Tories for their own inadequacies.

      • 384
        Anonymous says:

        He looks like a Hot Cross Bun with lemon kurd on it

      • 386
        Anonymous says:

        Fragmeister

        Well I guess The ginger chipmunk wins everytime then bcause she constantly looks like she is sucking a lemon when lecturing to us about whatever.

      • 399
        Wedgewood says:

        34 – I cannot believe that McSnide is that age, he’s got a face like a blind cobblers thumb and more concerning is the fact that Crash Gordon is taking advice from a relative child – what happened to wise counsel with sage advice……

      • 453
        Margy says:

        Ugly, thick, stupid, insecure, uneducated and CHIPPY…the whole bleedin lot of them. They hate anything good or anyone successful ‘cos it actually reminds them how crass and stupid they themselves are. Their answer is to destroy these people. In the world of shrinks they are called ‘the people of the lie’ as they put down anyone who threatens their feelings of self esteem; this is what we see at the moment. These unstable people really should not be governing a country but in group therapy. I really hope, for the sake of my country, that this is the beginning of the end for these evil bastards.

      • 473

        They are what Sean Gabb has frequently dubbed “The Enemy Class”. He wrote a pamphlet about them in, oh, 1998 or so, and it was largely ignored. Probably somewhere in his web page at http://www.seangabb.co.uk

        Sean could have been describing Draper, McBride, Whelan, Brown, Smith, the rest – if they had by then been invented, which I doubt.

        They probably get like that because of being consumed with hatred (where from, I could not begin to divine) for all that is noble, old, institutionalised in history, culture and civilised interaction and discourse.

    • 170
      Anonymous says:

      Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword…

    • 189
      Catherine Wheel says:

      Whelan, you’ve burnt yourself playing with fireworks. Go home you silly boy.

    • 207
      Bhoddhisatva says:

      Notice how the rat turns and twists trying to deflect attention to the supposed email hacking … Charlie: we’re not that stupid and even if your email box WAS hacked, the emails were still written, the poisonous intent was there!

      • 449
        jimmy Riddle says:

        …the fact that Crash Gordon is taking advice from a relative child – what happened to wise counsel with sage advice……

        This is no time for novices.

    • 244
      Cardinal del Monte says:

      Whelan’s line of defence is that “The Tories are just as dirty as Labour”. Unfortunately, this would not play well as an election slogan.

      • 274
        Curse of Jonah says:

        As I said, there will be no return to boobs & busts

        Well, apart from Derek’s, I prefer the hairier man…

    • 272
    • 314
      Labour royalty love Postal votes says:

      CHERIE’S STEPMOTHER AT CENTRE OF LABOUR VOTE-RIGGING CLAIMS

      Thursday April 16,2009
      By Paul Jeeves Have your say(1)
      CHERIE Blair’s stepmother has become embroiled in accusations of voting irregularities days after being ­chosen as a Labour candidate.

      Steph Booth swept to ­victory in the vote to select Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Calder Valley in West Yorkshire after party chiefs controversially decided that postal votes would be allowed.

      Mrs Booth lost the main vote 35 to 22, but after postal votes were added scored a 95-52 majority.

      It has now been claimed her supporters approached Lab­our Party members and helped them fill in their postal voting forms, which is against the rules.

      http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/95364/Cherie-s-stepmother-at-centre-of-Labour-vote-rigging-claims

      • 380
        It all started in Scotland says:

        I wonder if that is what happened in Glenrothes.

      • 390
        Ivor Phartparp says:

        Anyway, I think that vote tampering shouldn’t be allowed any more.

      • 559
        G Mcrhoon says:

        Change the rules then we can draw a line under this vote rigging scandal. I am sorry that it happened and I regret the damage it has done to my poll ratings, I mean our politics.

        (Will this do? Love Gordon)

      • 830
        Anonymous says:

        This is typical!!!

        fishface

    • 338

      What would Guido do if he came across a situation where published documents in an investigation into political corruption in a foreign dependency revealed that a bank owned by a senior Labour Party official and Peer had made loans in excess of the US$5m to the Prime Minister of said dependency, and then for good measure the said Peer had sought to close down a news website in that dependency, hosted from the UK, on the grounds of defamation. That is apart from having a celebratory drink and thinking that Christmas had come early.

      Of course Guido is not a Tory blogger so he might be interested in the following – http://tcfreepress.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=171:day-ii-the-20-million-dollar-question&catid=21:commission-of-inquiry&Itemid=68

      And
      http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/breaknews-15371–37-37—breaknews.html

      • 392
        Max says:

        And the point is? Turgid stuff and I can’t see where it is going or indeed if it’s been and gone. So Ashcroft supports the tories and he has a bank and the bank loans people/organisations/politicians money. Is Belize Plod involved or any of the miriad of Regulators? And we cannot now forget that HM Govt effectively owns a number of UK banks and who on earth are they lending to? Some of it on a bit of a nudge and a wink (any African renegade states/politicians?) or closer to home a fairly hefty chunk of lending must be to MP’s, very often on a nudge/wink (or otherwise certain Lordships may not have been able to get a grip on the housing ladder not that many years ago). The whole issue of dodgy banks is hugely even more dodgy recently. Shall we go there? Ok, got any more Tory Boy?

      • 394
        Ivor Phartparp says:

        What they need over there is a blogger like Guido to look into the allegations, tbngu, wouldn’t you say? Trouble is they might want to close such a blog down but you would like that in this country I suppose?

      • 496
        Peter Grimes says:

        I guess that if you ZaNuLieBor hoons had any nous whatsover, you would set up your own blog where you could publish your tur(gi)d crap. I understand that there is a prize hoon called Dolly who is stupid enough to be a fellow-supporter, and who has known expertise in blogging. He is also in need of a job, as having lied himself out of one position, he appears to be close to being suspended from his professional body, for the understandable reason that he lacks the necessary professional qualifications.

        If you could find which stone he is currently sliming under, you might give him a ring!

        In the meantime, please fuck off, toryboy! I did say ‘please’!

      • 524
        Anonymous says:

        338, 392 & 294 = one astroturfer obviously

      • 569
        Margy says:

        And….what is your point? I don’t personally like Ashcroft but he’s not advising the prime minister OR trying to ruin his opponents’ lives and reputations. So do tell me what in your twisted and corrupted mind makes any correlation between an overweight, incompetent, nasty, sick oaf trying to destroy fellow human beings – and a very rich man who is perhaps a little dodgy with his millions?

        I just don’t see what you hope to achieve by bringing up ‘old’ news like this. I would respect you and hold you in high esteem if you had the backbone and the courage to say….”Sorry, we’ve been caught out” instead of trying to divert attention all the time. You’re quite pathetic.

      • 773

        Yes, TBNGU.

        This defence is right up there with: “We was only following orders” “I didn’t know it was wrong” and: “Other people were stealing from petty cash, so I thought I would, too.”

      • 822

        That’s News

        I didn’t know I was defending anything – I have made my views on Draper and d Mcbride perfectly clear already

    • 363
      Anonymous says:

      what is freedom

    • 493
      parteh says:

      The hat tip is worth a very close read, it unveils whelan’s get of jail free card.

      http://www.strathspey-herald.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/4104/Hacked_off_by_hypocrisy.html

    • 521
      Peter Grimes says:

      I see that hoon Whelan, just like his co-conspirator Toilets McGuire is being torn a new arsehole in The Strathspey & Badenoch Herald.

      No sympathy at all to date, but I guess that lacking Dolly’s Rebuttal Unit, the necessary support has not yet been mobilised.

      The DRU reminds me of Idi Amin’s quote that ‘De suicide squad am in training’!

    • 625

      Whelan is a slimy ZanuLabia cocksucker. The guillotine is too good for him

    • 670
      sloberdown menob says:

      Swivel on this Whelan ya Wanker!

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      • 777
        Ewanme says:

        Nice one slobbernob , hun x .

        I’m gettin into artwork now that my punter’s assets have been squeezed dry .

        Some bloke woz moanin about global meltdown an I said yeah , they do look a bit shrivelled .

        I do agree wiv quantitative squeezin tho , even if it is a shit idea .

        Tired © E x .

      • 784
        Farmer says:

        LOL

      • 850
        Anonymous says:

        pride comes before a fall

  2. 2
    Peter Grimes says:

    Have they found the squealer Whelan in Jockland with the ‘Cabinet’ or somesuch?

  3. 3
    The Ghost of Christmas Past... says:

    Somebody drop the lid and flush this turd please.

  4. 4
    Praguetory says:

    Isn’t it more likely that these emails were forwarded than hacked?

    • 42
      Anonymous says:

      Absolutely. Draper is only trying to point us away from his own incompetence by dubiously claiming hacking. Whelan has seen the chance to make the lie more credible by repeating it. We shouldn’t believe a thing they write or say.

      • 66
        Praguetory says:

        Gus O’Donnell may not allow a public inquiry into this episode, but I bet the Labour Party is having an internal inquiry identify how this leaked.

        Draper/Whelan/McBride’s efforts to muddy the waters with this hacking line is laughable.

    • 183
      Taxfodder says:

      Its the same old line the police trot out when they have been found wanting…

      The perpetrators of the crime were obviously professional criminals who cleverly planned the crime over many months.

      i.e.: “they were ordinary villains that took us for a ride”

      Big them up to make the incompetents look competent!

    • 197
      Cassandra King says:

      Draper caught taking home a computer,was it from No10? how many other computers will dissapear from Downing st in the next few days?
      Do they think that stealing their work computers will remove the evidence? Will we see a number of nulab swine with computers tucked under their arms in the next few days?

      • 223
        Anonymous says:

        Does he actually own the computer

        Can’t we have him on a theft charge ?

        The last days of the McBroon Empire happy days.

      • 514
        Sam says:

        Draper was not even an employee of the Labour Party let alone of the government. He was a ‘freelance’. So the computer probably belongs to him. Nevertheless if a criminal conspiracy has bene committed, its contents would be evidence, and should have been siezed by the Plod before it could be wiped and sold on. Although I do understand why the Tories have bene reluctant to involve the police or bring charges, so far.

      • 567
        Anonymous says:

        Was he taking it to his local PC repair shop to have the hard drive erased by a professional before plod comes calling?

  5. 5
    Cato says:

    Stop digging Whelan, you’ve reached the bottom of the hole.

  6. 6

    [...] But Guido deserves the country’s nay, the world’s, thanks this week. We wonder who will be next? Too much to hope for it to be the sub-prime-minister. [...]

  7. 7

    What a hoon

    By the way, Frank Fisher has a guest spot on Old Holborn

    Much better than the fucking Spectator. Coffee table drivel.

  8. 8
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    “I, however, am still considering if I should bring the police into the hacking of my own computer”

    Go on then – we double dare you.

    Somehow I doubt you want the plods lurking around your computer Mr Whelan.

    Now, how about apologising to your Union members for using their hard earned monrey to usurp the democratic process in Great Britain?

    • 41
      oldrightie says:

      Note the phrase “the content of the smears were well known to every Westminster hack…..”. The continuation of the innuendo. Dear God they do the nastiness as a matter of course. An essential part of their DNA.

    • 55
      Doctor Mick says:

      He said they hacked into his Hotmail account, which isn’t maintained on his computer but in “the cloud” (in the latest jargon) i.e somewhere on Microsoft’s servers. If anyone did hack into his Hotmail it would only be because he had a pisspoor password, e.g. something like “Charlie”.

      If that were the case then it would be quite easy to verify. First check the “send” box. Otherwise, every email contains the unique IP address of the sender. If hasn’t the expertise himself (and I’m sure he hasn’t) then he could complain to Microsoft who could check it out for him. That’s a more appropriate avenue of complaint than calling in Special Branch, Scotland Yard, the CIA and the FBI just because someone’s hacked a bleedin’ Hotmail account FFS.

      More likely someone’s faked his Hotmail ID like this maybe Charl1e_Wh5lan@hotmail.com . Again, dead easy to check. An idiot could do it.

      • 101
        mikepko says:

        Doctor Mick.

        By extrapolation, are you saying that you are an idiot?

      • 132
        Sid Dayshus says:

        Is his password “wanker”?

      • 167
        Sid Dayshus says:

        It’s never “password”

      • 175
        Julian says:

        Actually there is a quite well-known trojan being used to access hotmail accounts but is can not directly hack in to the hotmail account. Apparently it logs on to the user’s account if they do not have a password protecting their PC (mostly on XP and XP Pro) and uploads the hotmail password from Outlook/OE etc which the cracker then uses to change the login password. I’ve seen this now on at least 2 computers and most commonly after someone has done this the target’s email then starts sending out weird emails saying “help, I am stuck in Kenya and I’ve been robbed, please send me money”.

      • 224
        Doctor Mick says:

        I’m saying I’m at least an idiot.

        And I’ve never extrapolated in my life, honest.

    • 68
      StrongholdBarricades says:

      Put up or shut up

    • 124
      fjw says:

      “Now, how about apologising to your Union members for using their hard earned money to usurp the democratic process”

      Oh no! not again! Blair told us that was finished with. Can’t be true.

    • 786
      Farmer says:

      It’s hardly ‘hacking’ when the password is “I am a wanker”

  9. 9
    Piers F-D says:

    He’s got a point though when he says that the media have turned on someone who gave them stories for years with savage glee – the other side of the point Guido made about the Lobby being stuffed full of cowards.

    However, interesting that he – like other lefties incl. prize Hoon Kevin Maguire – are still suggesting that although the emails were ‘disgraceful’ etc etc, the gossip has been around for years therefore perpetuating the idea that these weren’t simple smears (ie made up) but were based on fact.

    • 24
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      This is what he twerped….’Apart from the utter hypocrisy of the Tories, what was just as sickening about the e-mail scandal was the way the Westminster media attacked Damian McBride, despite the fact that they had spent the previous ten years relying on him for their stories.’….

      Only a fool would look at it this way. For ten years he’d made them tow the line in return for snippets of information; ten years of resentment suddenly released. They were probably less hid friends than business associates. Except Toilets Maguire, of course. Made for each other.

      Deep joy

    • 38
      Cinna says:

      Maguire was on ITV’s “This Morning” show today. Fern Britton said to him, “You being a journalist with integrity…” Tis a pity she didn’t mention his recent blog when he perpetuated the smear against Cameron and was roundly taken to task by his readers.

      The whole tenor of the discussion, which incidentally included the Hamiltons, appeared to be aimed at slagging off bloggers as being beyond the pale of “proper journalists.” What, like Maguire did they mean?

      • 181
        Julian says:

        And this being the same Christine Hamilton who changed her name to British Battleaxe in February?

      • 306
        Monty says:

        Phwooaarrr. I fancy her.

      • 368
        Old Nick Heavenly says:

        Put your glasses on Monty!

      • 522
        Sam says:

        Neil Hamilton was stitched up by Fayed, using the Gruaniad – with the complicity of the lobby. It’s all online: Google for Hunt + Sullivan + Hamilton. Christine H is a treasure – no, I don’t know her personally! Wish I did – anyne who can keep laughing a life in such circumstances is to be admired

      • 646
        grobdj says:

        Absolutely correct Sam

        And the Inland Revenue accepted Al Fayed’s explanation that the cash (several thousand pounds per week if my memory serves me correctly) ‘regularly stuffed in brown envelopes’ by his staff was foreign capital i.e. money from abroad, and therefore not subject to income tax

        I think the Chancellor at the time chose to turn a blind eye

  10. 10
    JS says:

    Well, he didn’t actually say he was the direct victim of Tory tricks. He merely tried to suggest that their appointment of Andy Coulson proves they are doing the same sort of thing.

    • 47
      Peter Grimes says:

      That does seem to be the ZaNuLieBor line. Coulson has been so ineffective I wonder that Cameron hasn’t sacked him already!

  11. 11
    Dick the Prick says:

    What a turd

  12. 12
    So17 says:

    Headlines at the BBC.

    charlie whelan claims he is the victim of TORY DIRTY TRICKS an though this story of TORY DIRTY TRICKS has no substance other than whelans claim of TORY DIRTY TRICKS this item will appear all week about TORY DIRTY TRICKS on news 24 and ceefax.

    • 17
      Anonymous says:

      Next to the item about old socialists remembering the time when TORY MINISTERS ATE BABIES

      • 96
        Right Bastard says:

        “Freddy Starr Ate My Hamster.” Does that mean that he’s a Tory?

      • 139
        Peter Grimes says:

        Was it a baby hamster?

      • 150
        Frank says:

        Oh yes, fancy that and I thought it was a joke. Silly me.

        Anonymouse you really are a fucking twat. Charlie Wheelan eats babies AND kicks dogs, but that doesn’t make him a nice chap

  13. 13
    IRB says:

    I am still considering?

    Oh do fuck off. I’m no expert in matters legal but one thing I have learned is that if you are going to go after someone by whatever means you just do it. You don’t sit there bleating and threatening that you might. Oh I’m thinking about it just you wait and see. The first time your quarry is aware of the action is when the feds arrive or the writ turns up. Wailing that you are thinking about it just makes you look a spineless hoon when you fail to take the action you had no intention of taking in the first place.

    That useless scumbag Dorries could learn something similar. Somehow the threat of legal action is diminished when you blab them out on lightweight daytime television programmes.

  14. 14
    M & Q says:

    Whelan: … someone who had hacked into my private Hotmail account.”

    The security services MUST have had a hand in this. There is just too much activity for it to be down to one or two individuals.

    Has Brown pissed M off recently?

    Perhaps, like normal men and women throughout Britain, spooks are sick and tired of the direction this Government has taken us in and just can’t wait for the next election.

    • 18
      James Blonde says:

      Hats off to you Ma’am!

    • 30
      Cherie Blair says:

      Spooks wouldn’t get involved in undermining a democratically elected government would they?

    • 37
      Maguire-hater says:

      There’s no such thing as a private hotmail account

    • 54
      Anonymous says:

      I had my hotmail account hacked, I know a lot of people who have had their hotmail accounts hacked – I don’t know that much about IT and computers but even I know that anything web-based is hardly secure. Or I thought I did – I must be wrong, it is all part of something bigger and nastier

  15. 15

    This article by Whelan is a ‘case study’ as to why Labour now need to publicly disown Whelan. And fast.

    • 52
      Anonymous says:

      It’s also a case study for why labour should never be elected again, ever, because Whelan’s article shows exactly the same sick and twisted view of reality as the rest of labour. A perfect case of shooting the messenger and denying all responsibility.

      Whelan’s reply is like saying:

      “I was going to set off a nuclear bomb in london, but some bastard found out about it and told the rozzers. Now I’m off to prison. It’s all the fault of the bastard who phoned the police, I mean, everyone has nuclear bombs these days, why can’t I set one off ?”

  16. 16
    ironfilings says:

    Charlie, please be a darling and bring the police in.

    McBride, Draper, Whelan and others were allegedly issued with Cabinet Office self-destruct buttons.

  17. 19
    Agent Grapefruit says:

    “I, however, am still considering if I should bring the police into the hacking of my own computer”……. I’m sure they’d do something …NOT….

    Brown, Whelan, McBride, Watson and all your cronies … you’re all a joke …

    • 61
      Anonymous says:

      And if it was his web-based email that was hacked what does his computer have to do with the alleged hacking?

      • 88
        Alan says:

        Nothing, he’s just a complete Luddite tool who doesn’t know the difference.

      • 538
        Sam says:

        Alan is correct and they are all like that. A memer o my family has been working on the huge new database for the NHS. He tells me that what the people in charge (ie civil servants appointed to do their masters’ bidding) and any junior ministers he has encountered know about IT could be written on a postage stamp. Nevertheless they insist on telling the team what to do and how to do it – they won’t listen to the IT guys. Which is why nothing works, and costs run out of control trying to fix glitches caused by insane demands. No woinder the banking system collapsed and the NHS etc are not fit for purpose (nor secure).

      • 546
        Anonymous says:

        Stupid cnut probably has a piece of paper taped to his desk ‘My Hotmail account – username charliew password charliew’

    • 406
      Plastic Scouser says:

      Who are running the country into the dirt, which is not a joke.

      • 516
        honk says:

        Right on the button PS.

        Great pity hanging has been abolished, could we lobby for a “French exception”.

  18. 20
    backwoodsman says:

    Hope the Tories make ending the criminal ‘union modernisation’ grants a top priority – as a method of funneling tax payers money to unions, which they then donate to labour, one of the biggest scams perpetrated on the tax payer.
    Anything fresh on porky watson today ?

    • 29
      Ratsniffer says:

      The “beer and sandwiches” money of the 1970s has been replaced with lobster and champagne. There’s nothing the union bosses love more than living the high life on our tax cash.

  19. 21
    • 120
      Hand crafted entertainment says:

      That’s a VHS recorder. He’s just off to Richard’s place for some light entertainment.

      • 160
        Peter Grimes says:

        In Dick Jacqui-Five-Bellies Timney’s case, that is ‘light-fingered’ entertainment, a gentle stroking of the frenulum!

    • 133
      fruitcake says:

      That’s what he calls a portable, wonder if its his or the labour party’s?

    • 204
      Sid Dayshus says:

      Does he not know that on Ebay the buyer usually collects the item, anyway don’t we own that computer?

    • 236
      pigs in space says:

      That his own personal pootah, or does it belong to LabourList? If the second, looks like a case of theft.

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  21. 23
    no longer anonymous says:

    His sister was a teacher at my sixth form college. Very civilised lady. Hard to believe they’re related.

  22. 25
    rene says:

    They can piss and moan about hacking all they like but I bet none of these emails were even encrypted. This bunch like to think they are all these bigshot machiavellian statemen but their just a bunch of morons who don’t understand the technology that controls their fucking lives.

  23. 26
    Mike says:

    Whelan’s clearly not particularly IT literate.

    His email’s haven’t been hacked. Someone’s spoofed his email address. There’s a huge difference. It’s really not difficult to make it look as though an email comes from somebody other than the originator.

    It’s a bit like me writing a letter, and putting Charley Whelan’s home address on the top to make it look as though it came from him. While that’s not a particularly nice thing to do, it doesn’t mean that I’ve broken into his house.

    (for clarity, and in case Whelan’s reading this, I’ve never spoofed an email address, nor written a letter with somebody else’s address at the top)

    • 31
      H says:

      Grow up mike

    • 46
      Anonymous says:

      “Whelan’s clearly not particularly IT literate. ” Agree with that, but as all the people on his contact list received the same email, most likely his Hotmail account has been compromised. Not at all the same as “the hacking of my own computer”.

      • 53
        Anonymous says:

        Far more likely that he’s picked up a virus and that has fiddled with his email account if it’s gone to people in his address book

      • 100
        Plato says:

        Anonymous – indeed.

        I regularly get emails from myself despite oodles of anti-doo-daa software.

        The midget sex ones always make me wonder what site I visited to end up on that mailing list!

        Toy poodles is perhaps as racy as we get down here.

      • 520
        honk says:

        53- What it pity its just a computer virus.

    • 143
      Peter Grimes says:

      Does someone think you are a midget then, Plato?

      Can I introduce you to a ginger pygmy hippo called Hazel who you might hit it off with?

    • 292
      Anonymous says:

      If the email has gone to all the people in his address book, there’s a good chance someone guessed the recovery questions to his email account and gained access in that manner, before changing the password,recovery questions and the recovery email to prevent him accessing it.

      A bit like this: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/palin-e-mail-ha.html

      • 301
        Anonymous says:

        Actually, inhindsight, #80 is a far more credible explanation, especially if it sent an email to all his contacts attempting to sell computer equipment.

  24. 27

    Whilst we’re on the subject of smears (snarf snarf) you haven’t yet responded to the 35 texts, 346 voicemail messages, 9 blogposts, 45 blog comments, 6 carrier pigeons and 5 pizza deliveries I have left for you in the last 24 hours. *Wating patitentwly*

    • 299
      Anonymous says:

      Do you realise how insane you sound?

      • 640
        Anonymous says:

        No, please. No TI blogger/flame war on here.

        Just leave him in his corner to count the hundreds and thousands he just bought, and make sure none are missing in the Dr Oeker bottle.

    • 542
      kaiser says:

      Guido, is there no way you can show Tim’s comments in green ink? It’s no more than they deserve.

  25. 28
    Whistleblower says:

    I followed the link and read the article by Mr Whelan in which he mentions “murky” politics. Perhaps he should have a look at the UK Media, in particular the “Scottish” variety who are so afraid to go against the “Holyrood Policy” in case their newspaper is ” blacklisted ” . A clear example is the following petition which has been totally ignored yet petitions about dustbins,buses,pear trees etc have all been mentioned in the media.

    CENSORSHIP BY SILENCE seems to be the media approach.

    The e-petition raised by Freedom To Choose (Scotland) is shown below ( with the link to the Scottish Parliament website ).
    The Consultation it refers to is factually incorrect and the last paragraph of the petition is particularly worrying as the design of the consultation has been done to achieve statistics in support of ” Smoke free mental health services in Scotland. Link to Consultation Documents:-
    http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/255862/0075839.pdf
    The following Press Releases on this subject are shown below:-
    Press Release 1.
    http://www.freedom2choose.info/press_viewer.php?id=39
    Press Release 2
    http://www.freedom2choose.info/press_viewer.php?id=43
    Press Release 2 ( 10 April 2009 ) was put out on the following sites:-
    http://www.pr-inside.com/freedom-to-choose-scotland-petition-gains-r1175900.htm
    http://www.prlog.org/10214918-freedom-to-choose-scotland-petition-gains-international-support.html
    IT HAS NOT HAD MENTIONED AT ALL IN THE UK PRESS OR MEDIA, EITHER NATIONAL OR LOCAL.

    • 116
      Whistleblower says:

      I was overcome by my hatred of censorship and manipulation of the MSM that I forgot to add the link to the petition which has a closing date for signing of 17 April 2009.

      THE PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW.

      http://epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=310

      • 144
        Helen says:

        Unfortunately hatred, censorship and manipulation are the order of the day in today’s politics and the media.

        Whatever happened to the reporting of truth and official figures instead of spin-spin-spin to prove something that doesn’t exist?

  26. 34
    fitaloon says:

    Letters to the Strathy already asking for him to be removed

    Sir, – As your Labour correspondent Charlie Whelan is implicated in the production of the scurrilous emails by Damien McBride at 10 Downing Street, I trust (not a word the special advisor or political officer group would recognise) that you will ensure his rapid exit from your team. Perhaps across the railing of the Moet roof garden on the 10th floor of Strathy Towers!

    • 706
      Neil says:

      Seems the Strathy closed it’s comments service at 4-45pm or it has been overloaded by the comments

  27. 35
    pissed off voter says:

    You got em by the short and curlies, Guido. Just keep squeezing. You are awesome.

  28. 39
    I Squiggle says:

    “Email purporting to come from me”

    “..someone who had hacked into my private Hotmail account”

    Erm.. the same thing happened to two friends of mine. And it was also just a couple of weeks back. I’m no techie, but sounds more like a virus to me. But, I suppose, that doesn’t sound anything quite like so *glamorous* or conspiratorial

  29. 40
    Martin Day says:

    Whelan makes himself a target – remeber the Euro entry decision from the Red Lion pub! :roll:

    Labour = :lol:

    in office and abusing power! :(

    http://delivernothinglabourparty.blogspot.com/

    • 56
      Peter Grimes says:

      Whilst their partners are back home (perm any one from 1-11) abusing themselves at our expense!

  30. 44
    CuttingEdge says:

    “That will probably be the end of this latest Westminster scandal. It shouldn’t be, though.
    What about the illegal hacking into computers that started it all off? Somehow I think the media who just love ‘leaked’ e-mails won’t be calling for a Scotland Yard investigation.
    I, however, am still considering if I should bring the police into the hacking of my own computer.”

    Hacking?!!

    First Dolly, now Whelan bitching about hackers. Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think putting your feet up at someone else’s workstation if they are incompetent and stupid enough to leave it running constitutes “hacking” (only plausible speculation, here).

    Don’t loathesome twats like Draper and Whelan understand that if you are a disgusting turd those close to you in the work place who have had enough of your stench will turn on the muck-sprayer sooner or later, if you allow them the glimmer of an opportunity? Live by the smear…

    The good news for Charlie is that if it was one of his own that betrayed him, Whelan wont have to put up with the offender for much longer. Dear Charlie’s future at UNITE can be measured in hours or days, given he is one of the spunk stains at the heart of this cataclysmic PR disaster. There a sweepstake going anywhere on when he gets the bullet?

  31. 49
    • 65
      bergen says:

      Fair comment and vigilance will be needed but I don’t think they have the manpower to pull off a similar blag at a General Election successfully.

      I’ve always thought that that missing register is the “smoking gun”which would destroy Brown if it was ever found.

      • 103
        Anonymous says:

        Agreed-but if they are desperate enough, then I am sure the manpower could be found!

      • 249
        Anonymous says:

        On 22 January 2008, the report of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Monitoring Committee’s 2007 fact finding visit was published.

        The committe found that:

        “it is clear the electoral system in Great Britain is open to electoral fraud.
        This vulnerability is mainly the result of the, rather arcane, system of voter
        registration without personal identifiers. It was exacerbated by the introduction
        of postal voting on demand.”

        http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/briefings/snpc-03667.pdf

        These hoons need watching

  32. 51

    Ed Balls Put Up A Notice
    “Lost, Or Stolen, Or Strayed!
    Gordon’s Moral Compass
    Seems To Have Been Mislaid!
    Sending Out Emails To Dolly Quite Of His Own Accord
    McBride tried to get round to the rear end of Brown
    Forty Shillings Reward!”

    The Penguin

  33. 57
    Weygand says:

    It is well worth reading the Whelan article closely as an exercise of the spinner’s art.
    Juxtaposition, unstated but implied accusations, use of ‘may’ as in ‘one day I may become Pope etc etc leaves the reader casually glancing at the paper with a completely false impression of what Whelan is able to say.
    Even the headline Tory smear – since he has no idea who hacked his email how could he know it was Tory.
    If ever proof were needed of what a wretched, vile waste of space Whelan is – then here it is in a nutshell.

    • 352
      Talwin says:

      We see through it. Most don’t care. So he just ends up looking a complete knob.

  34. 57
    Anonymous says:

    Are the holidays over yet?

    • 67
      Anonymous says:

      No, Nick Robinson isn’t back blogging yet

      • 105
        Plato says:

        Speaking of school holidays….where are Harman_Pride and Co?

        Surely they weren’t ALL Derek?

        I see Tom Miller 2.0 has been over to Mr Dale recently but very feeble.

  35. 63
    rugfish says:

    Damian Green has said one of the 5,000 illegal immigrants which he exposed and was arrested, questioned, and eventually not charged, was guarding the PRIME MINISTERS CAR!

    What a fucking farce.

    The Prime Minister had an illegal immigrant as his driver!

    Key Stone Cops or what?

    The police surrounded the wrong house when they went to search Damian Green’s address, and then when he went and opened the door of his house and shouted them up the street, they asked him “Do you really live here”?

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  36. 69
    JD says:

    Anyone read Armando Ianucci’s comments in the Sun yesterday? He says all this McPoison stuff makes him depressed. Maybe he and Steve Coogan shouldn’t have kissed NuLab’s arse 12 years ago by turning up at a pre-election Labour event. We all knew back then what Hoons Campbell and Mandy were. Some people like Ianucci just chose to ignore it. Bit late to get “depressed” now.

    • 558
      Sam says:

      Iannuci wrote a great satire column in the (Sunday?) Torygraph in the first couple of years of NuLab’s reign. He gave it up after a while on the grounds that these hoons were ‘beyond satire’ and nothing he could invent was as ludicorus nor as shocking as their real life antics

  37. 70
    Doctor Spin says:

    When apologising today Gordon Brown claimed that he knew nothing about what McBride was up to because whenever he looked towards McBride’s computer all he could see was hard core gay porn wallpaper supplied by Richard Timney.

    • 79
      Twizzlestick says:

      What will Timney do after the election?

      I hear he is quite good with his hands.

    • 163
      Jackboot watcha says:

      He needs to get a grip on himself.

      • 218
        R.McGeddon says:

        Was nt there a song about him in Bedknobs & Broomsticks ??

        Tim,Timney,Tim, Timney Tim,Tim do you ?
        Bash several out until half past two ????

      • 413
        supercallifragalisticexpeallidocious says:

        I think that was The sound of Music and you made me have to make up that name

      • 531
        R.McGeddon says:

        I think you may possibly be confusing that with ‘The Tills are alive with the Sound of Taxpayers’ Cash filling my Bank Account’.

      • 548
        Jacquie Smith says:

        I’ll straighten him out.

  38. 72
    Pilly says:

    Clean up politics eh? So, why is it…. that since January that LAbour have been misrepresenting Tory MPs on their official website?

    Who is Greg Jackson then, and what does he know about Redrag, and why are Labour officially “spoofing” the Tories as part of their new media strategy…?

    http://www.tangentplc.com/tangent_one_creates_spoof_shadow_web_cabinet

    http://www.tangentplc.com/tangent_one_delivers_pain_free_labour_blog_site

  39. 73
  40. 74
    Don says:

    I note the CPS decision about Greene is based on the facts of that case only, and does not rule out other MP’s being prosecuted for receiving leaked info.

    Any news about the complaint to the Met Police about Gordon Brown having received leaks from 1985?

    Are the Met planning to do the decent thing and truncheon SnotEater Brown and push him to the ground, or is the complaint being swept under the carpet?

    I think we should be told.

  41. 76
    simon r says:

    Hi Guido – off topic, can you give us a good picture to play with for tomorrow’s caption competition as it has been a while since we had one.

    A picture of McBride so that we can comment on his rugged youthful good looks and flawless complexion would be nice.

    • 426
      Plastic Scouser says:

      We can vote on who is the ugliest piece of shit, Watson, Mc Bride, Draper, Whelan or Brown. That’s the only vote on them we might get.

  42. 77
    Lady Amelia says:

    Nice to see Charlie Whelan’s still at the fiery centre of british political media.

    The Badenoch and Sathspey Herald begad! Next, CNN!

    • 775
      Hysteria says:

      amazing piece – real scoop for the B&S Herald.

      I believe the Mongolian Basket Weaving Monthly will also be covering this in their next issue.

  43. 78
    Geordie Girl says:

    Just watched “Guido The Movie” – great stuff Guido. Refreshingly honest, eloquent and interesting – keep the good work up lad, you have made politics exciting again.

  44. 80
    Alien8n says:

    Thought I’d take a look at what he’d written, now I think he’s an absolute jerk.

    “Tories hacked my email” – bollocks, he got a virus on his pc that stripped his hotmail contact list, simple as. Why the hell would the Tories want to send an email to all his contacts offering to sell IT equipment? Twat.

    And the idea that McBride’s email was hacked by Guido is crap as well. Apart from the fact the emails could just as easily be made public by the use of a FOI request there’s also the old favourite of someone “forwarding” the email on as well.

    The old Guy Fawkes was right, blow the bloody lot up and start again. (waits for the pounding of boots on the front door)

  45. 81
    Anonymous says:

    They’re all so fucking ugly these Labour scum. Grotesque even.

    Whelan, Brown, McBride, Balls, Byrne, Campbell etc.

    They’re barely human.

    • 94
      Primate alert says:

      Labeling them barely human is overegging it I think.

      Wikipedia: “Humans have a highly developed brain”

    • 134
      The Wasp says:

      I heard a rumour that “The Hills Have Eyes 3″ is going to be based in Westminster.

    • 164
      Gordon says:

      Well I disagree, I think Ed Milliband is rather cute…

    • 177
      Right Bastard says:

      It’s like watching Planet of The Apes.

      • 387
        For every gutless BBC hack, there are 20 Stazi hoons working in Downing Street... says:

        I wonder if Charlie has actually watching “Animal farm”….

      • 564
        Anonymous says:

        Watch it – the apes will be making a formal complaint about an unfair comparison. Looking at the NuLabour photos, I think they have a very valid point.

      • 592
        Anonymous says:

        Charlie Whelan looks like one of those Toby Jugs that were popular many years ago.

        BTW Is James Purnell really gay as Ed Balls claims he is?

  46. 82
    anticant says:

    A thoroughly improper Charlie!

  47. 83
    Plato says:

    Fab reader’s comment:

    ” If I were you I’d take the same precautions as your mate Derek. I see he’s so concerned about computer security he carries his with him all the time. It is a bit cumbersome but better safe than sorry, eh?
    Jim Hutchinson | 16.04.09 – 1:37 pm | # ”

    Brilliant :)

  48. 85
    Fat, Smelly and a Cynic says:

    Does anyone have any examples of a piece which is deeper in the gutter than Whelan’s?

    Confiscate the gun someone before he runs out of toes

  49. 86
    Verity says:

    Why hasn’t GORDON BROWN RESIGNED? Find out here!! Great blogging and well worth a read:

    http://ddtaylor88.wordpress.com/

  50. 87
    ragged trousered philhoontherapist says:

    He has been the victim of the Ugly Stick.

    • 147
      Groucho says:

      He fell out of the Ugly Tree, hit every branch on the way down, then landed on his face.

      • 213
        Dr_Proctor says:

        I think his face is still a bit swollen as a result of being brain-fucked by Gordon.
        We see it all the time in the A&E units around Westminster…

  51. 90
    weybridgeman says:

    Charlie W couldn’t even be bothered to spell Guido’s name correctly….

    Now back to business…

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8001747.stm

    insufficient evidence my arse……how about NO evidence from an out-of-touch, authoritarian, failing government that has been in power much too long………..

    • 99
      Anonymous says:

      Not spelling the name right was, of course, deliberate, he certainly knows exactly how to write this shit.

  52. 97
    Confused.com says:

    I am confused.

    Does Smeargate refer to the email scandal, or the Richard Timney scandal?

  53. 98
    Shit-Bag says:

    What an extraordinarily self-serving article. He is playing the same game as Ed Balls did on Today yesterday.

    In it, he manages to conflate the events surrounding ‘Smeargate’ with an alleged ‘hacking’ incident, Andy Coulson,the Tories and Guido. The intention is quite clear: to give the impression that the Tories, Guido or Coulson (or all of them) had something to do with this ‘hacking’ incident without accusing them directly. To compound matters, he then strongly indicates that the details of the emails are true because they were “well known to every hack in Westminster”.

    All well and good but Coulson does not sit in Downing Street and Guido is not a minister of the Crown. Most importantly of all, Coulson, the Tories and Guido have not abused public office to disseminate malicious gossip about political opponents and their wives.

    What a slippery, dishonest man.

  54. 102
    What me? Impartial? Nick Robinson says:

    Only natural a union with Derek Simpson at the helm would give a berth to this piece of shyte

  55. 104
    John Wilkes says:

    I got a little way into the linked comment piece in the Herald and saw the reference to Hazel Blears and her attack on the blogosphere which everyone took at the time as an attack on the likes of Guido. I’m not so sure now. Is it a coincidence that she made the speech on the 5th November i.e. the day after Labour decided to set up it’s own attack website in the form of Red Rag. If she knew and it prompted her speech, what does it suggest about what others knew? I think we should be told.

  56. 106
    Fred says:

    You’ve got to watch these bastards carefully haven’t you?

    First the twat makes a claim that someone has hacked into his hotmail account. Then he goes on to claim how people in politics have been undone by such things. Note that at no point does he specifically claim that McPoison’s emails were hacked into, nor does he claim that McPoisons emails were held on a hotmail server, but everything that is said in the paragraphs earlier points you in the direction of thinking that way. Go on, read it carefully again.

    OK, he has now planted the seeds in our mind that the emails were illegally obtained. He hasn’t actually said that – he has misdirected us towards that thinking. What does he do next? He mentions Guido Fawkes. Bingo! Now he has led us into believing that Paul staines received this information illegally. He then claims that Guido has something to hide or PC Plod “may come knocking at his door”. He has attempted to direct us towards thinking that Guido did something illegal without actually stating specifically what it was. Perilously close to libel, I would say.

    Then he goes on to say the emails were being sold to the highest bidder amongst the papers. We can assume, therefore, that obtaining the emails, if done so illegally, was done with the aim of raising cash, rather than trashing the Labour Party to the benefit of the Tory party. But no matter, it is time for Whelan to smear the Tory party next. Whelan directs us to look at the background of Andy Coulson, a man previously known for “dirty tricks”. Except they cost him his job, are well known to the public and took place years ago. Nevertheless we are expected to take on board the belief that Coulson has been employed by the Tories to start a dirty tricks campaign. Where is Whelan’s evidence for this? None given. Could it not be possible that a dirt tricks insider like Andy Coulson may have learnt his lesson and is now advising the Tories on how to counter the dirty tricks of people like… well, like Charlie Whelan?

    A master class in smearing the opposition with not one shred of evidence given.

    • 127
      Cynical manipulator says:

      You’re right. This is a get out clause for when the Whelan emails hit the fan.

    • 158
      Twizzle says:

      Then let them inform the police of Guido’s wrong doing.

      Oh, hang on a minute, are you sure we should do that?

    • 194
      Katabasis says:

      Sometimes the rage is difficult to contain.

      One day, someday soon – one of these hoons is going to be chased down the street and beaten to death.

      • 214
        H says:

        Thats a bit harsh and a bit easy!
        I have a much better idea – take all the money that have taken from the tax-payer over the last 12 years and make them live on the minimum wage! See how they cope with rising prices in the shops, rents, petrol stations, power companies etc! Maybe then they will be able to realise and understand the hostility of the people

      • 571
        Anonymous says:

        Hopefuly, while I’m walking along the opposite pavement.

  57. 107
    Right Bastard says:

    And he puts his back into it.

  58. 108
    Plato says:

    Did you notice their poll – should kids wear ski-helmets in the Cairn Gorms?

    A real hot-bed of political intrigue there.

  59. 111
    Grytpype-thynne says:

    Whelan’s article in the (formerly) obscure Scottish newspaper has been thoroughly and effectively trashed by an avalanche of hostile remarks.Job done!

  60. 112
    Anonymous says:

    I’ve known Charlie Whelan, off and on, for over 10 years and in all that time I’ve never known him to have a girlfriend, or, indeed, any close friendship with a woman. Funny that.

    • 121
      Anonymous says:

      so many at the heart of nulabour are gay or bi and exceedingly unbecoming. I can’t believe draper managed to pull garawy.

    • 137
      McSociopath says:

      I’ve known Gordon Brown, off and on, for over 10 years and in all that time I’ve never known him to have a friendship, or, indeed, any close relationship with any of the electorate. Funny that too.

      • 145
        Gordon says:

        I need time to develop my vision.

      • 155
        Blears for PM! says:

        So the Herald has plumped for Hazel Blears as the only Labour politician capable of cleansing the Labour parteh.

        That’s it, they might as well not bother showing up on election night.

    • 212
      Minekiller says:

      That is because New Labour also has an interesting internal dividing line on the one side the “Cockocracy” of the Blair days, when close monitoring of who was fucking who was kept in case pressure was needed later and now under Brown the ‘Bumocracy’ of bi-sexuals, fags and deviants. They have multiple fuck-buddy relationships, apparently and no close friends because they are completely unlikeable even hating and scheming against each other. When in desperation hire a whore, fuck her in the office and photograph her why don’t you…oh and forget all about it afterward.

      Labour councillors I knew years back in Yorkshire were fucking around, whilst bitching and scheming within their own cabal, at pretty much the same time. Smiles to the face, knickers down and daggers to the back.

      When the murky history of New Labour is written after 2010 I suspect it will be a runaway best seller. I for one, cannot wait.

    • 241
      I am ugly but look like Troy Donahue compared to Fat Charlie says:

      If you had a face like a smacked arse and the gait that poor bisexual in Sopranos, the one who had to run and then found love at the diner, would you be able to pull a chick?

    • 279
      Cato says:

      Great Smear that. Respect!!

  61. 113
    Alan says:

    FINALLY

    The BBC gets down to some real political stories

    • 157

      Typical BBC

      “grotesquely efficient”

      I see the standard BBC sneer now socialism has failed.

    • 171
      Laughing at Gordon says:

      The reporter was told to ‘go out and find some evidence of snouts in the trough’. When he came back with this story, the BBC realised that they’d sent a reporter from ‘Countryfile’. They had meant to send someone from the staff of their new show investigating Labour sleaze – ‘C**t files’!

    • 330
      Trough Mixture says:

      Is that man kissing a pig?

      Must be a Blairite.

  62. 115
    Quasimodo says:

    The Strathspey Herald article is a great read. The author is either a 14 year-old, a hoon who has something on the editor, completely bladdered or his real name is Adrian Mole. Or all 4.

    Whelan, McBride, Draper. Such fitting comrades for the felt pen wielder himself.

    Keep it coming, Guido!

    • 156
      BrianSJ says:

      yes, blogs provide no competition for the Strathspey Herald. This interweb stuff just isn’t going to catch on.

      • 196
        Peter Grimes says:

        The Daily Labourgraph could certainly show them all about fucking over their once-loyal readers, and how they subsequently fell from grace.

  63. 118
    Anonymous says:

    what a moron. he clearly opened a virus which emailed his contacts. he doesn’t know about the oldest spamming trick in the book and thinks he’s technically literate.

    FAIL

  64. 123
    Blake's7 says:

    The BBC which stands for integrity and honesty on a day when more shit has hit the fan than I can remember lead with the top story of the day

    “Plan to boost electric car sales”

    Beyond belief. I certainly wont be paying for my subscription again, but then again I didn’t last year.

    BBC Brown Broadcasting Corporation.

    • 154
      JonoTheGreat says:

      How does one get away with not subscibing to the BBC, without our stout police officers feeling your collar etc. The Beeb has always been staffed with politically left individuals and has always been very biased against the Tories. They claim to be intellectually above us plebs, and have been trotting out NuLabs spin and crap for years. I agree with Blake’s7, this attack on Broon is a tipping point, his own party are turning on him, he has been exposed, again!!, for being weird, unpleasant, and incompetent – note the way he stared at Barry O’Bama at the G20 when Barry was telling the World what a good guy McBust was, just soooo weird, and yet the Beeb is trying to turn attention away from the collapse and spin a total bollocks story about a car that may or may not be built some time after the election. This is a nonsense. This is not NEWS this is SPIN, and the BBC are trying to help Brown get out of a hole. Lies lies and lies, how do we stop paying the TV licence tax.

      • 209
        Blake's7 says:

        Ah well without giving to much away, the BBC is also full of the same incompetent idiots that the government hire. Whilst they threaten huge fines for not paying, the normal fine is about £100 + the License. They don’t have special vans or “High tech tracing gear”. What they do have is a load of goons that once in a blue moon go around and knock on doors in a few random streets. You don’t actually have to let them in, they have no legal right to enter your property. They basically rely on us confessing. So if you follow the moral standard of this government then just lie through your bloody teeth, and tell them that its a global problem. I didn’t see any of the G20 after the first 5 vile minutes made want to through up. One of the reasons the TV license is outdated is because I don’t have a TV, For all news I use the internet and I have an XBOX hooked up to a projector for films and series that are all downloaded from the internet as Jackie Smiths Husband found out. At the end of the day, I got sick of being forced to sit through mindless adverts fuelling consumerism and the BBC well what a waste of time apart from Doctor Who and Question Time, which I can watch on-line. It’s small fries really but a small way of rebelling that makes me a feel a little better. Mind you Guido’s site is making me ecstatic with pleasure at the moment.

      • 259
        Elby The Beserk says:

        http://www.tvlicensing.biz

        Just say no. There’s fuck all they can do about it.

      • 575
        Anonymous says:

        Just ignore their renewal notices & their threatening letters & don’t open the ftont door to strangers, see also bbcresistance.com

      • 579
        Anonymous says:

        DOH! Front door I meant.

    • 628
      Don says:

      On BBC news website today is a story about former councillor Joseph Shaw, jailed for possessing hardcore child porn and firearms.

      The BBC studiously avoids stating that he was a LABOUR councillor at the time of the offences. Why do they omit that, I wonder?

  65. 126
    fifi says:

    Broon must HATE all bloggers. Thats all.

    • 130
      Hoon fighter says:

      Broon’s a hoon.

      • 200
        jgm2 says:

        Wasn’t that the title of David Niven’s autobiography?

        ‘The Broon’s a Hoon’.

        Or was it ‘Bring on the Empty Promises’?

        I forget.

      • 402
        ragged trousered philhoontherapist says:

        Broon doesn’t know fuck nothing, he knows fuck all!

  66. 129
    Kev says:

    What a twat this whelan bloke is!

    Oh shit – have i inadvertantly let the rat out of the bag?

    Reap what you sow Charlie!

  67. 131
    pp says:

    Nice para in that Herald article:-

    Apart from the utter hypocrisy of the Tories, what was just as sickening about the e-mail scandal was the way the Westminster media attacked Damian McBride, despite the fact that they had spent the previous ten years relying on him for their stories.

    They think that if you receive stories from someone then it is quite right that you should cover up stories about them.

    What wonderful journalism…. not…

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  69. 141
    ionescu says:

    In Strathspey and Badenoch they talk of little else.

  70. 151
    lexander says:

    At last the outside shithouse called Whelan has emerged. Somebody bash him up please and keep him out of my sight – especially when he is touted as a PR expert. Like Clifford, Campbell and the rest of the spinners there is an awful lot of difference.

  71. 153
    David Sutcliffe says:

    Questions to be asked and answered before this story gets cold:
    1 watson whelan Mcbride and draper are invoved in dirty tricks who else.
    2 What over things can be laid at their door or was it just smears. Are they operating as the British version of the dirty tricks team known as the plumbers under Richard Nixon.

  72. 159
    BrianSJ says:

    O/T
    How do we get ‘hoon’ into the Oxford and Chambers dictionaries? I think we have to submit examples of it in use?
    Has the correct use of ‘hoon’ appeared in the Times yet? Perhaps it needs something in the letters column?
    It would be nice to think that this term of opprobrium lives on in the English language so that future Mrs Fawkes tell off future Guidos for saying ‘hoon’ in front of the children.

    • 176
      HMP Brixton says:

      “Hoon” is not in the Guardian Style Guide yet – but give it time…

      It does have its own Wikipedia page as a mainly Australian term (“a person who engages in loutish, anti-social behaviour”), also as a name for the following people

      Ah Hoon (died 1909), Chinese American comedian
      Geoff Hoon (born 1953), British politician
      Hoon Sook Pak, ballerina
      Joo Ji Hoon (born 1982), popular model and actor
      Ju Ji Hoon (born 1982), South Korean model
      Kang Sung Hoon (born 1980), vocalist
      Kim Jeong Hoon (born 1980), South Korean singer and actor
      Na Hoon A, Korean disco singer
      Shannon Hoon (1967-1995), lead singer of the band Blind Melon
      Shin Myung Hoon (born 1981), amateur boxer

      Maybe Geoff “Buff” Hoon owns the UK trademark rights?

      • 186
        Minekiller says:

        So Geoff Hoon is in fact a Korean spy?

      • 192
        Right Bastard says:

        Shannon Hoon also excelled at pole-vaulting before he joined Blind Melon.

      • 255
        Julian says:

        You left out Hoon Suks Broon the famous Scottish vacuum cleaner impressionist. He used to have a position in Downing Street until he was forced to change his name to Hoon McBride.

    • 185
      Eve N Moore-Pistoff says:

      As in ‘Alan Johnson is the original Little Red Riding Hoon’ ?

    • 225
      Courtney Fish says:

      This is from the Oxford Dictionary. Quite apt really!

      hoon /hun/ n.1 & v. Austral. slang. M20. [Origin unkn.] (Behave like) a lout or idiot.

    • 261
      • 300
        Courtney Fish says:

        Urbandictionary.com looks like a DIY dictionary. Entries 7 and 8 relate to the British scene and were only entered in the last few days – obviously by Guido’s followers. Excellent stuff!

      • 596
        Anonymous says:

        Very good, but would have liked an extra bit about ‘originating from the name of the failed British politician Geoff Hoon, ex-MEP, Secretary of State for Defence 1999 – 2005, Leader of the House of Commons 2005 – 2006, Minister of State for Europe 2005 – 2007, Chief Whip 2007 – 2008, Secretary of State for Transport 2008 – 2009. Hoon was a complete failure in every position he held & was cordially hated by both his fellow politicians & the majority of the British electorate.’

  73. 161
    bergen says:

    There is a whiff of a Ceausescu moment now.Their power to frighten has gone and now they are a pack of fearful bullies not quite understanding the change that has happened and the hatred felt towards them.

    Already they “are in office but not in power.”

    • 169
      Anonymous says:

      Guido Fawkes brings down his government.

      History in the making – and a chapter to himself.
      No mere footnotes for PS.

      • 190
        Dirty Rat says:

        I have a good friend, a Romanian, who was there when they stormed C’s palace. The feeling of the people at the time was not a lot different to the general feeling in the UK today – Government out of touch, people being shit on by the haves (Government an state employees) and the have nots – every other fucker.

    • 180
      Icebergen says:

      Too true.

      The ship has hit the iceberg, now it’s just hours before the ship goes down taking all hands with it.

      • 206
        jgm2 says:

        Not at all. Mad Brown will just back the fucker off the iceberg for a mile or two and then give it ‘full ahead’ and see if he can’t split that fucking iceberg in half.

        That’s his economic policy. Runs into an iceberg of debt and instead of taking it as a warning goes out looking for an even bigger iceberg to run into.

        The fucking idiot.

        Vote Labour.

  74. 166
    philmil says:

    According to Charlie Whelan what we all have to bear in mind is that the Tories are just as bad as New Labour. What matters in this sordid affair is not the state of British politics or the Machiavellian lies of New Labour.

    No, what’s important about his cronies getting caught red handed orchestrating a disgusting smear campaign is that in Westminster “we’re all at it, especially the Tories”.

    Charlie Whelan and his colleagues have been trading in lies and smears for so long they honestly cannot see what all the fuss is about.

    • 599
      Anonymous says:

      Why don’t the members of Unite do something about this guy? Like, get rid of him.

      • 627
        Julian says:

        Its not UNITE that we need to do something about this tosser. In Britain’s true ‘bell tower’ moment we really need a good RMC-trained sniper carefully placed in Big Ben with a .50 rifle. No more McSnotty and hallo General Election

    • 820
      Hokey Cokey says:

      Whelan is right, but that doesn’t mean Labour should still be in power.

      Let’s get Labour out, vote the Tories in, then get the Tories out, then get some honest fucker to take the job.

      If such a person exists.

  75. 168
    Groucho says:

    What a complete and utter tool Whelan is.

    This ‘hacking’ smokescreen won’t wash, matey. Your government chums get to see our emails, so we get to see yours. Only fair.

    Your attempt to divert attention from the criminal act committed by your ‘good friend’ McBride to the trifling matter of how this information found its way into the public domain is absolutely shameless.

    Keep it up though. You are fooling nobody and for the first time many ordinary voters are seeing the true nature of the scum that comprises this government.

  76. 173
    Bogeyman says:

    Whelan is talking cock. Let’s look more closely at that story in the Strathspey & Badenoch Herald (there’s a name).

    A FEW weeks ago I received a strange e-mail from our editor, Gavin Musgrove. He wanted to know why on earth I was selling computer equipment on the web?

    I wasn’t, of course, but he thought I was, having received an e-mail purporting to come from me, from someone who had hacked into my private Hotmail account.

    This was hugely annoying, because everyone on my contact list had received the same e-mail as the editor. I found the whole episode extremely embarrassing.

    From this description he hadn’t been “hacked” at all. He was a recipient of a virus-generated email, one that trawls through your address list and sends out a mail from a random but real name.

    These viruses are usually contracted from porn sites.

    • 227
      Bottom Liner says:

      Spot on; they are IT illiterate, that shows clearly, and the last sentence here is the answer. The only problem: were we paying for his internet access, and if so did the receipts end up woith the union or the Treasury?

      Whelan has been porn broker in chief to this bunch, crowing from the top of the midden about access and denial of stories to the hack MSM, sacked , and then recruited and paid for by union memebers who didnt know anything about him, on the recommendations of people who did!

      About time union memebers got to see the pedigree of people they hire including their own chiefs!

  77. 179
    Seth the pig farmer says:

    Now that PC Plod has wrapped up the Damien Green investigations, that nice Jacqui Smith could send a couple of coppers round to help the Hoon Whelan in his enquiries – or would it be the other way round?

  78. 182
    Eileen Critchley says:

    Guido, I just watched your movie – I became quite emotional.

    Also, I had no idea Liz was running poppy out of Kandahar in a lamp shade!

    I am soooo out of the loop.

    Byee

  79. 184
    Minekiller says:

    I enjoyed Guido’s appearance on TV….indeed having been in that pub on more then one occasion, on visits to the old smoke – I now realise I may have bumped into him. perhaps he should declare this location as his constituency office, or set up an alternative government.

    He should have been wearing an Irish Rugby shirt though. Which reminds me on a plod story…a few years ago I was staying in a guest house in Yorkshire the night before a get together of some old university friends. I met up with a friend – a great rugby fan – English. Tradition had it that he wore his red rose England Shirt, I my Irish one….Arriving back to said guest house after a few pints, I was ushered to the front room by the landlord to be met by two plods who wanted to question me about suspected IRA activity in Wakefield. Apparently they had been tipped off by the landlord who heard my accent and saw the green rugby shirt…so the cops sent two plods around to check this out.

    Because as we know, all IRA terrorists walk around in green rugby shirts and have N Irish accents. Having quoted my British Army Officers personal number, the cops had the decency to apologise and look a mite sheepish. I then packed my kit and bade farewell to the landlord, with holding payment owing to the breach in trust and found a nice hotel instead….with a late bar.

    So GF, get your green shirt on – and some Labour fascist smearite can report you for terrorism.

    • 210
      Wrestlemania says:

      A very interesting and amusing anecdote

      An anecdote is a short tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident. It may be as brief as the setting and provocation of a bon mot. An anecdote is always based on real life, an incident involving actual persons, whether famous or not, in real places.

      Note that in the context of Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Bulgarian and Russian humor anecdote refers to any short humorous story without the need of factual or biographical origins.

      • 344
        Courtney Act says:

        I was thinking just the same thing. You must be psychic…

      • 463
        Minekiller says:

        Er..it is a true story…I was just hinting at Guido to wear his Irish Rugby shirt next time…….thanks.

  80. 188
    • 331
      thespecialone says:

      And the Daily Telegraph getting slaughtered too! Unbelievable. The supposed ‘Torygraph’ supporting Brown. Mary Riddell’s article could have been written by Maguire.

  81. 191
    Wrestlemania says:

    G-SWIZ ELECTRIC CARS

    Brown really is a fuckwitt

    By 2011 a small electric car should only cost about £5000.00, does everybody get one for free? or is it anothe pile of labour shit squeezed under pressure from a bull’s sphincter

    A G-WIZ on cost £8K now

    http://www.goingreen.co.uk/store/content/gwiz_finance

    Amount Financed Cash price £7995
    Less Deposit – £1437.50
    Balance Financed (A) £6557.50
    3 years / 4 years
    Instalments Monthly 36 x £217.80 / £172.68
    Weekly £50.26 / £39.85

    • 444
      Anonymous says:

      Why isn’t the Duracell Bunny driving one? I had him in the back of my Cab once.

    • 511
      Minekiller says:

      It is his ‘People’s Car’, his Volkswagon….just following in Adolf Hitler’s foosteps as we have come to expect.

      • 619
        F. Skintshe says:

        Yes. We could have unlimited speed up to 50mph on our own version of the autobahn where the National Express take the adventurous at speeds even greater.

  82. 193
    Talwin says:

    Diddums. What a whingeing plonker. Someone needs to remind Whelan that half of the PLP (including, eventually, Brown) have at least gone through the motions of a faux-swoon at the murky Downing Street affair. Charlie needs to keep up.

  83. 198
    Seth the pig farmer says:

    So the nurse who filmed the neglet of patients in hospital is struck off in order to protect public confidence in medical staff, while this bunch of hoons still have their snouts deep in the trough.

    You couldn’t make it up.

    • 211
      Plato says:

      I’m stunned – just heard it – hope Panorama give her a job to make up for it.

    • 232
      Geordie Girl says:

      This, I’m afraid, is the fate of many brave whistleblowers. Does anyone in power have a modicum of integrity or decency these days?

      • 280
        Whistle while you work says:

        Pathetic isn’t it. Whistleblowers either being directly struck off or having their name plastered all over the media so they are unable to continue in the field.

        ZNL clearly keen to stifle dissent any way it can

      • 691
        Sam says:

        Remember Martin Sixsmith

      • 693
        Sam says:

        Remember Martin Sixsmith?

    • 254
      Anonymous says:

      Excuse me, but how the flying fuck do you protect public confidence in the medical services when you bloody sack a professional of concisence who reports wrong doing in order to get it fixed and er, protect the public and confidence in the system. What kind of fuckturd cretins are running the NHS? If it wasn’t literally, life and death it would be hystreically funny.

      • 607
        Anonymous says:

        NuLabour PC fuckturds cretins I think you’ll find. Who’s actually sacked her, the NHS or the Royal College of Nurses? I was unclear as I only half watched the news item. A bit of letter writing might be in order I think….

    • 308
      Blake's7 says:

      As I have been saying for ages the stink and corruption from downing street has polluted everything, Police, Press, NHS, Prisons, Councils and not forgetting politicians. “Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud all hatch out”

  84. 199
    Paul McKenna says:

    It seems the British people have FINALLY woken.

  85. 201
    Anonymous says:

    I’m still hoping that Draper, the psychologically fragile psychologist, will find the pressure too much and become An Hero in a suitably comical way – perhaps by suffocating himself on his wife’s lover’s used condoms.

  86. 202
    Gus O'Donnell and John Lyon CB - Peas In A Pod says:

    Interesting to see just how far this country has sunk to see people like this in public office!

  87. 205
    The Beast Of Clerkenwell says:

    I have a funny feeling that Dolly will regret handing his hard drive over to plod.
    Dolly, it is harder than you think to delete files.

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  89. 215
    Dolly Draper says:

    Ooh look over there. Nice chips, mmmmmm.

  90. 216
    Little Old Me says:

    Bergen. You not only spelled his name correctly but you are much closer to the truth than you know.

    From WIkipedia:
    “On December 21, 1989 the mass meeting, held in what is now Revolution Square degenerated into chaos. The image of Ceauşescu’s uncomprehending expression as the crowd began to boo him remains one of the defining moments of the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.”

    That’s all it takes BOO HIM. And it’s started: Culture Secretary Andy Burnham was heckled by angry fans at an emotional memorial service at Anfield on the 20th anniversary of the tragedy. He started OK his speech without a problem but the stadium erupted when he said the words “Prime Minister” he waited for the crown to go quiet then stated again with the same words, “Prime Minister” and the crowd started again. And this was a memorial service. People are angry and booing works. If the downtrodden Rumanians could do it so can we.

    Everywhere he goes BOO BROON. Come on get out from behind these computer screens. Follow him every where and BOO HIM. BOO HIM outside Downing Street, BOO HIM in Parliament and BOO outside as well, BOO HIM outside Buckingham Palace and let Her Maj. know how we feel. And as this is the internet age BOO HIM with emails as well, in fact BOO THE LOT OF THEM EVERY WHICH WAY YOU CAN, every self serving, grasping, pontificating, and bullying one of them.

    Don’t wait until next year, he still doing damage to this wonderful country. Do it now, do it for Dr Kelly, do it for your children, do it for our slain solders and do it for YOURSELF

    WE WANT AN ELECTION AND WE WANT IT NOW.

    Now look Guido, what have you started?

    • 221
      HMP Brixton says:

      And it worked on Glenn Close in Dangerous Liaisons…when is Broon next going to the opera or something similar?

    • 235
      Doctor Mick says:

      Not sure that that’ll work. Sepp Blather, Presidente for Life of FIFA rarely steps onto the footie pitch these days as he is invariably booed by the fans.

      Unfortunately he’s still President and still raking it in and ruining the game in the process.

      • 263
        Elby The Beserk says:

        Never mind that Hoon Platini as well.

      • 275
        Little Old Me says:

        Doctor Mick
        Any wonder the country’s in a mess. All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Good people spoke yesterday at Anfield and they were heard. Guido is doing something and gets a pasting for it but keeps going and he allows you to express an opinion to the world. And what’s your word? We can’t control football so GIVE UP!
        I’m sure Guido is proud of you and Guy Falkes is turning in his grave.

        I’m glad your’e not my doctor.

      • 285
        Doctor Mick says:

        I’m glad you’re not my patient you whining get.

      • 382
        Little Old Me says:

        Your spelling says it all. Can I have some Asthpin pleeth docteer I’ve gut a pane in mi arss. Yew. replise using fore lettr wurds onlee pleess.

      • 623
        Lincolnshire Squire says:

        Get = bastard

        Git = an annoying tit

  91. 217
    Anonymous says:

    “Mr Brown said: ‘I take full responsibility for what happened. That’s why the person who was responsible went immediately.”

    This statement MUST be THE statement of the century!!

    And you tossers have him for a PM??

    What does this say about the rest of you??

    • 252
      fruitcake says:

      Yerrs, but we didn’t get to vote!

      Quotes like that remind me of those Bush-isms the yanks collected, what should we call them Broonisms, Brownjobs, Shite?

    • 519
      Air Nokia One says:

      Thats right up there with Drapers

      “I did not lie on purpose’

      No actually its better and akin to someone looking very sheepish saying
      “Ok I cannot tell a lie” and pointing as someone else as they say ‘it was him’

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    Heads on poles says:

    Sky reporting that Draper has released a personal apology to those affected by the email slur campaign.

    This all sounds a bit co-ordinated to me.

    • 234
      Charlie(I am not for turning)Whelan says:

      Trying to save his job.

      They are all at it now. Including PM McTwat our glorious leader.

  94. 228
    Shit-Bag says:

    Some advice for Charlie Whelan.

    You are quite correct to point out that the Tories might be responsible for your email problems. Look at the facts, Charlie:

    David Cameron went to Eton and enjoyed a very high-quality education. Indeed, so good is the teaching there that he may well have developed the skills to create dangerous computer viruses when he was a student.

    When you get those emails that promise to increase the size of your penis, don’t sign up. You will not end up with an extra inch or two but could in fact be giving money to the Tories.

    Andy Coulson is so skilled in the dark arts that he could have been responsible for at least 98 per cent of these penis and Viagra. Internet scams have Coulson’s fingerprints smeared all over them.

    And I know for a fact that Lord Ashcroft is so clever at making money that the Nigerian bank account craze might well have been devised by him, had he thought of it.

    Just think how many millions would have been raised for Tory Party coffers had this been the case?

    Where there is evil, there might be a Tory.

    Be vigilant, Charlie. Lock your doors and don’t leave your house. Ever. Please.

    • 238
      Blake's7 says:

      They are everywhere Charlie, they can see through your computer screen, they have all the PC’s in the UK bugged and are at this very moment about to launch information that the Labour party has had to be called out of the global big brother house because after a smear test on they’re entire collective cnut they have been found out to be terminally ridden with cancer. Sources close to me tell me that they only have a few weeks to live. David Cameroon has said people should “applaud it’s determination to it’s family”, by selling the media rights to it’s death.

  95. 229
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      Anonymous says:

      Christ, this country is starting to get seriously scary :(

      I assume plod will be having a word with google streets, then?

      • 702
        Sam says:

        The police are totally out of control. Just heard Martin Green on Newsnight. The Plod told both him and the CS who leake dto him that theymight be ‘facing a lifetime in jail’. FFS! Guido you will have plenty to discuss tomorrow…

    • 286
      Election Please says:

      I quote from one of the comments…
      Lucky not to get a good slapping as well, honestly bloody foreigners, comin’ over ‘ere and takin’ photographs of our buses.

      Made me laugh.

    • 349
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      I’ve seen other reports like this. Typically plod behave illegally and cause embarrassment and irritation to law abiding citizens, who, when they complain are fobbed of with a ‘we’re looking into it’ and if they persevere with the complaint with a dismal admission of error on behalf of the police. I thought the police were supposed to be trained.

    • 395
      Alien8n says:

      They’ve been doing that for years, and yes, the police have absolutely NO right to demand you delete any photos. Especially not photos of harmless police officers beating up dangerous unarmed women, no sir.

      • 705
        Sam says:

        Sadly this right was accorded them under some very recent ‘anti-terrorist’ legislation which came into effect c4/5 weeks ago

    • 527
      Agent 99 says:

      This in one simple sentence sums up this Nu Labour country to an absolute tee.

      “In a telephone interview from his home in Vienna, Matka said: “I’ve never had these experiences anywhere, never in the world, not even in Communist countries.”

      H’s correct as well. Are you happy now you evil Labour scumbags?

    • 692
      madhouse says:

      New Labour-The Worst Disaster To Engulf This Country Since The Black Death.
      says one commenter
      quite so

  96. 231
    Rymin Simon says:

    Fat Charlie you are no archangel.

    And then theres all that weight to be lost

    PS

    You have a face like a smacked arse, I hear. Do you mind if I incorporporate this line into a revised version of ‘Crazy Love’

  97. 233
    Javelin says:

    So this article basically says

    Somebody hacked his email (ebay?) account and as joke said he was selling computer equipment.

    Guido got an email and says he he got it illegally. That getting the email was the “reason” that his old pal lost his job

    The Andy Coulson once paid 100K for mobile phone taps of the royal family he now works for the Tories and therefore the Tories are doing dirty tricks.

    This guy is a totalyl illogical, disjointed bag of hate. He is a bullshitter of the first degree, publicising loose and illogical rubbish. Is this was spin then it would be brown, lack internal consistency and be splatted all over the walls.

    The measure of a man is if he can allow comments to be posted after the article. This hoon is so ashamed of his own words that he can’t bear people to comment on it.

  98. 237
    Thomas says:

    Think Gordon Brown should RESIGN? Heard of DONAL BLANEY and the serial blogger’s call for the death of US SENATOR TED KENNEDY? Well worth a read!!

    http://ddtaylor88.wordpress.com

    • 243
      Blake's7 says:

      Fuck off already, do think that posting the same crap dozens of times and changing your name will lead us to think it’s from somebody else for fucks sake your intelligence is worse than your masters now go and commit suicide or something constructive. Jesus Christ you fucks are so thick, do you not understand this is not the BBC we have brains here and can recall events that happened 10 minutes ago.

    • 296
      Plato says:

      Oh not you again.

      *yawn*

      • 701

        guido could you make your c-u-n-t => h-o-o-n software turn ddtaylor88.wordpress.com into mayebe Donal Blaneys blog.

      • 778
        Hysteria says:

        huh – didn’t know it was word changing software that made everything into hoon.

        So this is actually a labour support site that has been hacked by Guido!

  99. 239
    obangobang says:

    There is an article on The Red Box dissecting the CPS judgement on Green/Galley, which has an interesting passage regarding the burden of proof required to bring a prosecution for misconduct in public office. I quote:

    “There are four essential elements of the offence, namely:
    the suspect must be a public official acting as such;
    s/he must have wilfully breached his/her public duties;
    the breach must have been such a serious departure from acceptable standards as to constitute a criminal offence; and to such a degree as to amount to an abuse of the public’s trust in the public official;
    there must have been no reasonable excuse or justification.”

    The CPS decided these did not apply in the Green/Galley case. I wonder how they would view the same criteria set against Mr McBride?

  100. 240
    Heads on poles says:

    Shaun Woodward currently squirming on Sky News – he’s now shouting over KB, what bad manners.
    He found it sickening and degrading apparently.
    PM is extremely sorry and takes responsibility for what happens in 10 Downing Street.
    When asked why he didn’t resign, response is that you must concentrate on the big issues of …zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
    KB is pushing hard on the responsibility – saying that McBride and Brown have been joined at the hip for the last 10 years.

    It’s all about realistic, real choices – see, everybody on here has got the wrong end of the stick.

    Ha ha, she is really sticking it up him!

    • 242
      Beautiful Day says:

      The look of contempt on her face while he was squirming was wonderful!

      • 245
        Anonymous says:

        Good wasn’t it? It was the deeply patronising way he kept saying “Oh, Kay, Oh Kay” with a ghastly dying fall of exasperation in his voice as if she was just a bit of an irritant in his busy and important day. She did well.

      • 342
        thespecialone says:

        Woodward deserves a good kicking. Bloody champagne socialist who jumped ship.

    • 247
      Courtney Fish says:

      Perhaps I misheard, I thought she said they were “joined at the lip”. I took it as another way of saying McDog was Snotty’s mouthpiece.

    • 266
      Anonymous says:

      Couldn’t find this on the sky news site. Is there a link?

    • 328
      Ratsniffer says:

      Interesting. What with The Sun also sticking it to NuLies one wonders if Mr Murdoch has finaly realised he has been backing the wrong horse.

      Ever the pragmatist, Rupe will want to support whoever he will be “doing business with” after the next election.

      And that sure aint gonna be labour.

  101. 246
    Anon says:

    Forgive me for saying that they are just fucking stupid twats. How long can people continue to lie, smear themselves around, get their children into schools that they decried the Cons Party for – and still hope they won’t get caught out?
    The Labour Party is latrine and it’s time we turned our lives around.

  102. 248
    It all started in America you bastards! says:

    Woodward is a shitbag.

  103. 250
    It all started in America you bastards! says:

    Just watched Woodward get an easy ride off some camp beeboid on News 24.

    • 397
      Deeply Regret says:

      Kay Burley was a lot tougher with him on Sky – he wasn’t too pleased. Hope he doesn’t go home and take it out on his butler.

  104. 251
    jo public says:

    sky reporting dolly draper has sent personal apologies to those smeared

    • 260
      cutofyourjib says:

      Really, these people should hang their heads in shame and bugger off somewhere. Their apologies are just empty and smack of face saving desperation. Apologies that don’t come from the heart are hollow and given these people don’t have a heart, you see where I’m coming from…

      • 303
        jo public says:

        heartless selfserving theives morrally bankrupted by money forgetting the honour of true office………………….

    • 456
      NewGirl says:

      oh I see. Its taken him getting on for a week to realise he’s actually sorry too, has it? Obviously heartfelt, genuine contrition then. Nothing at all to do with the continuing bad press…

  105. 256

    It wizz no Me it wizz the two-ries!

    Guilty as charged Methinks!

  106. 257
    doctor grot says:

    “You have been caught doing what you have always done.”

    Make him wear boxing gloves.

  107. 265
    Anonymous says:

    Labour can’t live with smear but can’t live without it.

    • 267
      Dirty Rat says:

      Bit like that dead Goody bint.

      • 360
        Alien8n says:

        She may have been as thick as 2 short planks, but she showed more balls in the last few weeks of her life than the entire houses of parliament have got all together.

  108. 268
    Anonymous says:

    From influential magazine PRWEEK:

    Well-placed sources told PRWeek there was mounting fear in the heart of Downing Street that fresh revelations about senior MPs could emerge over the next few weeks and months leading up to the general election.

    Brown’s close lieutenants such as Ed Balls, Tom Watson and Ian Austin are all believed to be vulnerable. It is feared fresh stories could be rev­ealed by the handful of journalists who were fed negative stories by the Brown camp – or as a result of further emails that were sent to Labour blogger Derek Draper being made public.

    One Downing Street insider said there had been ‘endless conference calls and crisis meetings’ since the story of McBride’s plans to smear senior Tories broke on Saturday.

    The source added: ‘This is a full on disaster for Gordon – Downing Street is in meltdown. But it is more of a problem for Brown’s inner circle than it is for the Government more broadly.

    ‘The great fear of Brownites is that all of their activities over many years are suddenly now at risk of spilling out. It is an open secret that Gordon’s operation has been carrying out character assassinations, leaking documents and briefing against ministers and so on, but nobody has ever caught them red handed – until now. Now they have been caught out, it becomes legitimate to talk about all the other occasions.

    ‘It is a bit like getting Al Capone on his tax returns; it is actually one relatively minor misdemeanour – by no means are those emails the worst thing that Brown’s operation has ever done.’

    Another source with close links to Downing Street said the PM’s defence was looking increasingly fragile: ‘Brown has had to stake his defence on this being a rogue operation, a single aberration that nobody else knew anything about.

    ‘The worry is that someone will produce evidence that it went much wider than this handful of emails and it went much wider than McBride.’

    • 714
      Sam says:

      Meanwhile who is running the country, since the top Civil Servants are now all the Party’s creatures? God help us all

    • 837

      Would this be the same Charles Whelan who once had a regular column in the trade rag PR WEEK? I once had to send the bailiffs into PR Week when they refused to pay my Clerkenwell Court time and travel expenses when so ordered by the District Judge. Judge was furious…Haymarket not so happy either…

  109. 270
    mr smogographer says:

    Dale has got his moderation on, even though he’s using registration.

    You’ve gotta laugh.

  110. 271
    • 276
      Anonymous says:

      Downing Street in ‘meltdown’

      PRWeek
      David Singleton 15-Apr-09

      Downing Street was this week in ‘meltdown’ as Gordon Brown’s inner circle attemp­ted to limit the fallout from the Damian McBride scandal.

      Well-placed sources told PRWeek there was mounting fear in the heart of Downing Street that fresh revelations about senior MPs could emerge over the next few weeks and months leading up to the general election.

      Brown’s close lieutenants such as Ed Balls, Tom Watson and Ian Austin are all believed to be vulnerable. It is feared fresh stories could be rev­ealed by the handful of journalists who were fed negative stories by the Brown camp – or as a result of further emails that were sent to Labour blogger Derek Draper being made public.

      One Downing Street insider said there had been ‘endless conference calls and crisis meetings’ since the story of McBride’s plans to smear senior Tories broke on Saturday.

      The source added: ‘This is a full on disaster for Gordon – Downing Street is in meltdown. But it is more of a problem for Brown’s inner circle than it is for the Government more broadly.

      ‘The great fear of Brownites is that all of their activities over many years are suddenly now at risk of spilling out. It is an open secret that Gordon’s operation has been carrying out character assassinations, leaking documents and briefing against ministers and so on, but nobody has ever caught them red handed – until now. Now they have been caught out, it becomes legitimate to talk about all the other occasions.

      ‘It is a bit like getting Al Capone on his tax returns; it is actually one relatively minor misdemeanour – by no means are those emails the worst thing that Brown’s operation has ever done.’

      Another source with close links to Downing Street said the PM’s defence was looking increasingly fragile: ‘Brown has had to stake his defence on this being a rogue operation, a single aberration that nobody else knew anything about.

      ‘The worry is that someone will produce evidence that it went much wider than this handful of emails and it went much wider than McBride.’

    • 283
      Whistle while you work says:

      So much for FOI allowing us access to public interest information. The bunker seems to be firewalled from that

  111. 273
    Tom Watson Am Snot Two says:

    Guido, I don’t know why you are so het up about my mate Charlie W .

    His Unite Amicus outfit throws me a few pounds every so often, which I find more than useful to fund tips to the bar totties.

    C’mon man get a life!!!!

    I am the leader of the gang, ( I am )

  112. 281
    Scottyboy says:

    Tis interesting how the good citizens of Badenoch & Strathspey feel! If CW thought he had some friends up north it seems he was (as usual) sadly mistaken!

    Och aye the noo Charlie!

  113. 284
    Anonymous says:

    I just saw Martin Salter MP getting jeered and catcalled in Tescos in Reading. A couple of shoppers confronted him over all the lies coming out of Downing St. Then several other women and an old chap joined in and started getting quite belligerent towards him.

    Salter looked frightened and upset, left his shopping trolley and left the store in a hurry with a couple of dozen people booing and shouting abuse at him.

    • 290
      mr smogographer says:

      good.

    • 302
      The Beast Of Clerkenwell says:

      If only Tesco sold portable gallows and piano wire

    • 316
      Tom Watson Am Snot Two says:

      What a useless Dolly Draper wimp that Salter is . No Brownie points for him.

      He would have slapped that fascist Tory pensioner and them rich wimmin if he was a proper man like Charlie or Damian.

      I am the leader of the gang (I am)

      PS Cant wait to see the dumb twit on You Tube

      • 465
        NewGirl says:

        Well Two Jags certainly wouldn’t have stood for it. He’d have smacked them and then nicked their groceries

    • 317
      reg says:

      Shame he didn’t have an argument in the queue with some slag, who has an easily upset nutter for a boyfriend.

    • 353
      thespecialone says:

      This must be sent all over the internet so that MSM pick it up. All Labour MPs should be heckled wherever they go. They know their time is up. They know that they have dumped on us for 12 yrs. They have politicised the police, civil service, the armed forces, charities etc. They have totally ruined this country. I wish I was younger so I could emigrate. If anyone in their 20s reads this blog……..emigrate. Go anywhere. Dont bring your children up in this country, it will take years to sort the mess out and I am not convinced the the Tories will do it quickly. Cameron is no Maggie.

      • 404
        johnjohn says:

        I’m off out tomorrow to hunt down a few Liebour MPs, the old 12 guage is loaded with heckle shot, anyone got some good tips on what lures to use?

      • 429
        Election Please says:

        I believe a good lure would be a parlimentary expense form.

      • 448
        Anonymous says:

        These Labour turds should be booed and hissed every time they show their slimy faces in public. Show the hoons what we think of them.

        They’ve had it too bloody easy and have been getting away with it for far too long.

      • 532

        Boos and catcalls are nice but… how about throwing shoes at the fuckers?

        The plod could hardly do you for attempted murder, and it’s a little more classy than simply throwing a punch. I can imagine that treasonous bastard Brown getting a faceful of stinky trainers…

        Actually, he’d probably like that.

      • 721
        Sam says:

        In the first term of the Labour govt Philip Gould – responsible for so many ills of the body politic – and his mega-rich wife Gail Reebuck bought a grand house in picturesque medieval True-Blue Lavenham, in rural Suffolk (no working class proles in miles, oh no!). If they went out for dinner they had to hide in a corner or alcove somewhere LOL such was the hatred beamed in their direction by the (then-) affluent locals! Rural England has always know what’s what – the sentiments on this blog could be heard any day or night in rural pubs all over S & Central Albion these last 12 years

    • 541
      Agent 99 says:

      I wonder if he puts the groceries on his expenses as well

    • 590
      Anonymous says:

      If thats true I hope Reading pip The Blades to promotion to the Premiership.

      A small price to pay……sigh

    • 779
      Hysteria says:

      that is very interesting and slightly scary. The Brits are a tolerant bunch and slow to get angry – but once wound up…………..

  114. 289
    Stepney says:

    A batsqueak from Charlie – how lovely! How the mighty are fallen.

    Let’s face it as a political media watcher you’ve got to search pretty fucking hard to find an article in the Strathspey Observer or whatever it’s called. For the great Charlie this is the equivalent of hiding in the bogs at school and whispering “it wasn’t me”.

    Fuck me – what next? Whelan’s World in the Chipping Sodbury Parish Newsletter?

  115. 291
    Mince & Tatties says:

    Mr Brown said: “I take full responsibility for what happened. That’s why the person who was responsible went immediately.”

    Stanley Unwin would be proud of this one – has Brown resigned or AGAIN not really taken responsibility

  116. 293
    Katabasis says:

    The article containing pictures of Draper doing a runner with his PC has now disappeared from the Mirror site.

    FFS.

  117. 294
    The Beast Of Clerkenwell says:

    I bet Whelans hard (oooo er missus) Drive contains lots of footage of healthy young men running about in short pants,
    An interest that he shares with Gordon Mcmental.
    Well the Hoons have definately scored an own goal this time.

    “COME ON YOU HOOOONS”

  118. 297
    Katabasis says:

    The article with the pictures of Draper doing a runner with his PC has now disappeared from the Mirror website.

    FFS.

  119. 304
    Dirty Rat says:

    Where the fuck is Mandelson? He has his head well below the parapet now that the shit has hit the fan – we need one well aimed shot.

    • 334
      Freddie G says:

      Possibly he’s off busy re-mortgaging again? or maybe working hard for British business on some Russian’s yacht or in some mates’ ski-chalet or on a Brazilian beach. Who cares – we’re only paying for it after all.

      • 470
        NewGirl says:

        He’s swigging champagne on beach of course – what any self respecting NuLab “socialist” should be doing when the shit hits the fan

  120. 307
    Flora Dora says:

    I was told by a well shagged new Lab person that Whelan is incredibly well hung.

  121. 310
    Cap'n Charlie says:

    I look like Robert Newton don’t ye know?

  122. 312
    GeoffH says:

    Well, he will be if we get the chance. As well hung as a 14 day old dead pheasant.

  123. 325
  124. 326
    Fat, Smelly and a Cynic says:

    Smeargate – Gordon’s victims – and there are an awful lot http://tinyurl.com/ckyj4t 26 minutes ago

  125. 335
    BOFL http://ageofkali.blogspot.com/ says:

    remember-we have the power!!!!!!

    who would have thought 25 years ago that russia,east germany,romania etc would fall?

    stand up to the bullies!!!!!!

    60 million of us!!!!!!

  126. 337
    BOFL http://ageofkali.blogspot.com/ says:

    ps-so was harman pride derek diaper all along?

    or are the various pride twats now worried about being found out?

    • 348
      McSnide Pride says:

      Harman Pride was witless garbage…….so it might well have been Draper.

    • 358
      Cicero says:

      Dunno, but did you notice that alongside Kevin McGuire’s piece, there was a picture of one…Bob Roberts?
      Couldn’t be, could it? Does he live in Worcester?

  127. 339
    ODIUM FROM THE PODIUM says:

    He schemed, plotted,and bullied to become unelected prime minister,
    Hired ‘spads’, sycophants and lickspittles; all of them very sinister
    We’re using my moral compass now, Labour politics will be changed.
    I think that’s what Gordon Brown suggested or am I just deranged ?
    Now Fawkes has blown the cover off this nasty nest of vipers,
    Revealing several nasty people and somebody called Diapers.
    Suddenly, the ‘S’ word’s heard! Gordon’s actually said sorry !
    Dya think it could be genuine or is he running scared of MORI ?

  128. 345
    brownbaita says:

    Just read the comments on Whelan’s article – not much support there then was there Charlie?

    As I a fly fisherman I am so ashamed of you Whelan.

  129. 347
    Anonymous says:

    Sorry to leave an OT comment – but I do not know how else to start this thread. If Guido wants to do us a real favour I suggest he has a look at the case of the nurse (M Haywood) just struck off for exposing Labour failure in the health service. Is it a coincidence that the Chair of the Nursing and Midwifery Council is a Labourite (Tony Hazell) and the chair of the panel which made the decision (Linda Read) seems to have made a career out of belonging to public bodies (for nurses, architects, surgeons and probably dustmen) – a typical hack. Go for the jugular Guido.

    • 407
      Pugwash says:

      It seems they punish those exposing such nulab exploits in healthcare

    • 557
      Agent 99 says:

      A disgrace

      Funny she wasn’t allowed to resign and move elsewhere in the same hospital or is that only allowed in No 10 and not in Emergency Ward 10.

  130. 350
    Anonymous says:

    Whelan should go to the old bill… and then lets see.

  131. 351
    Seth the pig farmer says:

    Code of Conduct for Special Advisers taken from the Cabinet Office Website:

    “..all appointments of special advisers require the prior written approval of the Prime Minister, and no commitments to make such appointments should be entered into in the absence of such approval.

    The responsibility for the management and conduct of special advisers, including discipline, rests with the Minister who made the appointment.

    Special advisers should conduct themselves with integrity and honesty. They should not deceive or knowingly mislead Parliament or the public.

    They should act in a way which upholds the political impartiality of civil servants and does not conflict with the Civil Service Code. They should avoid anything which might reasonably lead to the criticism that people paid from public funds are being used for party political purposes.”

    Brown today:

    “I take full responsibility for what happened. That’s why the person who was responsible went immediately.”

    Therefore we can safely say:

    1. What McBride did was in clear breach of the Cabinet Office Code of Conduct.
    2. Brown was personally liable for the actions of McBride as he appointed McBride.
    3. Brown agrees that he is directly responsible for what happened.

    Therefore, is it reasonalbe to deduce from the statement “That’s why the person who was responsible went immediately“ that Brown has resigned?

  132. 359
    Anonymous says:

    Is this guy Mandy’s love child?

  133. 364
    Thomas says:

    Have a look why GORDON BROWN had to RESIGN and see what trouble blogger DONAL BLANEY has been getting himself into with an undergrad! It’s well worth the read.

    http://ddtaylor88.wordpress.com

    • 385
      mister smeeth says:

      Shit Derek, someone has just described you as a “bit of a Walter Mitty Character”. Shit don’t you know thats the code word. Quick get out now.

    • 415
      I Squiggle says:

      Thomas, it’s just a guess – might you actually be the author of that bizarre drivel on the link you posted? Sentiment might be roughly correct, but my, oh my, how it is phrased. And sort the font selection out, eh?

      I also notice that you indulge in the occasional use of words in capitals. My rule of thumb is that such use tends to indicate a lack of MEDICATION. After reading the stuff on the link, I’m fairly convinced.. That’s it, have a lie down.. there, isn’t that better…

  134. 365
    timmy says:

    Way OT.

    Does anyone remember a comedy called Sunnyside Farm with Phil Daniels? Please let me know if you video’d it ‘cos it’s well funny, and you can’t get it on DVD.

    It was made in 1997, the year the darkness fell if I recall.

    • 367
      timmy says:

      BTW, I liked the episode when he started a B&B, and two lesbians came to stay as his first guests. A classic.

  135. 366
    thespecialone says:

    The Labour stooge who continually sticks up for Gordy on the Daily Mail website? God that Bob Roberts talks a lot of shite.

  136. 369
    Sarah says:

    Some kind of horrible cloning experiment gone wrong?

  137. 370
    Trough Mixture says:

    Thinks he’s GO’D – the Hoon.

  138. 371
    Annette Curtin says:

    Can’t wait for the next set of polls to come out…

  139. 372
    lexander says:

    Thought it worth pointing out the co-incidence of a conference taking place tomorrow.
    Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (National) (that’s Meddlesome’s load of wankers):

    Digital britain summit – equipping britain for a digital future
    Technology and communications experts will debate how best to equip Britain for a digital future, at a Digital Britain summit in the British Library tomorrow.

    Speakers including telecoms CEOs Ian Livingstone, Neil Berkett and Ronan Dunne, technophile Stephen Fry, Universal Music’s Lucian Grainge, Johannes B. Larcher from Hulu, Hirouki Hishinuma from the Japanese Government and Will Hutton, Chief Executive of the Work Foundation, will join 250 industry leaders to address how to secure Britain’s place at the forefront of the global digital economy.
    Culture Secretary Andy Burnham, Business Secretary Peter Mandelson, Sly Bailey (Chief Executive, Trinity Mirror) and John Fingleton (Chief Executive, Office of Fair Trading) will deliver keynote speeches.

  140. 381
    Trough Mixture says:

    Toilets just been on Sky….”diversion from the important stuff” etc…..

    Sounds like he’s about to blub. They’re fucked.

    • 393
      chronic says:

      i thought his head was going to blow up like in” scanners”

    • 417
      Shit-Bag says:

      ‘Toilets just been on Sky….”diversion from the important stuff” etc…..

      Sounds like he’s about to blub. They’re fucked.’

      Huh? Maguire never writes about the “important stuff” anyway. He is an obsequious New Labour cheer-leader who writes superficial articles that appear to be aimed at twelve-year-olds. Detail is something you do to a prawn as far as he is concerned.

      People are fascinated by the car crash that is Number Ten and if Maguire were a halfway decent journalist he would be finding new angles or digging deeper into Smeargate, rather than wishing the story away. Only when ministers are under real pressure do they resort to the “let’s talk about the important issues rather than tittle tattle’ line.

      Tit.

  141. 388
    cutofyourjib says:

    From today’s popbitch mailout:

    Labour’s smear scandal and the President

    The News of the World landed the McBride-
    Draper Tory smear email story so it was weird to
    see on Sunday they didn’t run with it on the
    front page. Instead the tabloid had a
    bizarre headline, “Obama’s brother in sex quiz”,
    which sounds like something Jacqui Smith’s
    husband would watch on TV, but was in reality
    a random story about Obama’s half-brother being
    refused a visa to enter Britain.

    Even more weirdly, the story was not written
    by a NOTW journalist but bylined Gloria De Piero,
    GMTV’s Political Editor. De Piero is a close
    friend of Derek Draper, a colleague of his
    wife Kate Garraway, and an ex-flatmate of Damien
    McBride’s then-boss Tom Watson.

    So, surely a coincidence that this was the front page
    story? Otherwise I guess we’d have to assume that
    the uncalled for and unnecessary smearing of the
    family and reputation of the world’s most popular
    politician is acceptable to the Labour Party now?

    • 447
      Anonymous says:

      I saw that. so the way to sink a story about smearing someone is to…smear someone else.

      classic NuLab. I hope Obama objects, that would be so funny.

      BTW was Garraway the idiot who suggested to the wife of the Suffolk prostitute killer that if their sex life had better then he might not have killed? If so do you think she learned the psychological insight from Draper?

  142. 389
    cutofyourjib says:

    From the latest popbitch mailout:

    Labour’s smear scandal and the President

    The News of the World landed the McBride-
    Draper Tory smear email story so it was weird to
    see on Sunday they didn’t run with it on the
    front page. Instead the tabloid had a
    bizarre headline, “Obama’s brother in sex quiz”,
    which sounds like something Jacqui Smith’s
    husband would watch on TV, but was in reality
    a random story about Obama’s half-brother being
    refused a visa to enter Britain.

    Even more weirdly, the story was not written
    by a NOTW journalist but bylined Gloria De Piero,
    GMTV’s Political Editor. De Piero is a close
    friend of Derek Draper, a colleague of his
    wife Kate Garraway, and an ex-flatmate of Damien
    McBride’s then-boss Tom Watson.

    So, surely a coincidence that this was the front page
    story? Otherwise I guess we’d have to assume that
    the uncalled for and unnecessary smearing of the
    family and reputation of the world’s most popular
    politician is acceptable to the Labour Party now?

  143. 396
    Anonymous says:

    Could somebody explain to me what a hoon is? is it a hooter

    • 401
      mister smeeth says:

      Google slang “hoon”

      also Slang “window licker”

    • 423
      lexander says:

      When I use HOON I do it instead of saying Hoon. As they say: a Hoon is useful.

    • 503
      bergen says:

      Our final triumph will be putting dear Geoffrey’s name into the Oxford English Dictionary as a euphemism for a cnut.

      It will be the immortality he so richly deserves.

      • 737
        Sam says:

        I saw him a few times on Belize Park tube station after RailGate, whern he was geting used to the loss of his limo. He wouldn’t look anyone in the eye, the shifty git. I Used to go and stand near him and glower, look contemptuous, and sometimes mock spit on the ground. The hoon.

  144. 398
    Sandy Jamieson says:

    Charlie Whelan- the new “Wolf of Badenoch”

  145. 400
    Anonymous says:

    >>A FEW weeks ago I received a strange e-mail from our editor, Gavin Musgrove. He wanted to know why on earth I was selling computer equipment on the web?<<

    Hmmm… I wonder if Mr Whelan knows this has been an endemic problem with hotmail accounts in recent weeks. I’ve had to switch a few people away from hotmail accounts because of it. It’s a hotmail server problem which M$ are conveniently ignoring, not wicked Tories hacking into his account.

  146. 403
    Anonymous says:

    Another bastard who lokks fat as a pig…

  147. 408
    pissed off voter says:

    While Whelan is cowering in the bunker, a little diversion until he surfaces.

    Expense jezebel Jacqui Smith is scaling new heights. First came the humble 88p plug, soon to be topped by a couple of £5 porn videos. Small potatoes compared to the £116,000+ and counting she screwed us for on ‘housing benefit’.

    Her latest cost to the taxpayer, is the investigation into Damien Green for reasons of national security. The home affairs committee rubished it and the CPS stated there were no national security issues in this case. That 5 month investigation has cost about £5 million according to ITV.

    So, when it comes to wasting public money, Jacqui Smith is now a serious rival to the free-spending Michael Martin.

    • 416
      reg511 says:

      what has been the cost of cabinet meeting in Glasgow?

      • 440
        Election Please says:

        £1,000,000 to hold one fucking meeting, have they not heard of meet.me, or video conferencing.

    • 461
      cutofyourjib says:

      Our very own Imelda Marcos. Sans shoes, of course. She prefers Jackboots…

    • 467
      Heads on poles says:

      I’ll have you know that Michael Martin is probably one of the best speakers the House has ever had the pleasure of having.
      I’m also currently lying – I think that he is a disgrace and understand why there was so much resistance to him being re-elected.
      I do hope that there is an enquiry as to how the Police were able to search a member’s office so easily and that it wasn’t political.
      I’m not lying any more.

      • 648
        Anonymous says:

        …with a film crew in tow?

      • 741
        Sam says:

        He should never have been elected in the first place – it’s a centuries old convention that the Speaker comes from the Opposition, and the previous TWO Speakers had been Labour (good and impartial for the most part).

        The intended man, Tory Edward Leigh, would have been a good sort for the job – unambitious, steeped in parliamentary tradition and mindful of its rights and privileges (and obligations). The up-yours putch by the incoming Labourites – knowingly putting up someone totally unsuitable for the job – was encouraged by the Blair/Brown axis and was a taste of things to come, ie their total contempt for parliament

  148. 412
    reg511 says:

    Boo the hoon

    My 6 year old can write better, with a pen. Are we that dumbed-down?

  149. 427

    You right-whingers make me laugh.

    Every day this site is littered with offensive comments about politicians and other public servants. I myself have compiled a dossier of nearly 200 homophobic and misogynistic posts, mainly directed at the Prime Minister, Harriet Harman, and Peter Mandelson.

    And you have the nerve to complain about a bit of light-hearted banter between mates, that was completely private and never meant to see the light of day?

    How would you like it if your private e-mails were published for all to see?

    You people need to get a life.

    • 428
      Bamber Cote de Gascogne says:

      Wrong. 5 points to Westminster Arms

    • 430
      H says:

      Been missing you!

    • 431
      Anonymous says:

      it’s called democracy fella, I know lefties have problems with that, they want to control everything.

      take life with a pinch of salt

      • 446

        “it’s called democracy”

        Freedom of speech has its limits. For example, you don’t have the right to shout “fire” in a crowded theatre. Hate speech is illegal, including homophobic hate speech.

      • 536
        timmy says:

        Yawn.

      • 539
        jgm2 says:

        I’ll tell you what’s illegal. Gaining a pecunary advantage by deceit. That’s illegal. And since the entire 12 year reign of Labour terror has been based upon lie upon lie upon lie then th entire government should be locked up.

        The lying bastards.

      • 652
        Anonymous says:

        ‘fire in a crowded theatre’ what about all the radio commercials – yes commercials cos there’s money in it somewhere- warning my children about non existent terrorist threats, eh? Facists sods.

    • 435

      And very soon now you’ll need to get a job. Sadly, the way McBroon has done away with Boom and Bust, there’s not much out there for someone with your qualifications and experience. Never mind, you’ll eventually not even notice the smell of the burger-grease on your clothes, in your hair, in all your pores…however, you can rest assured anyone not working at McDonalds will, leaving you a very select group of potential friends and partners.

    • 437
      Harman Pride says:

      Prick..
      You’d better add your name to the list…
      You lezza.

    • 442
      CuttingEdge says:

      “I myself have compiled a dossier of nearly 200 homophobic and misogynistic posts, mainly directed at the Prime Minister, Harriet Harman, and Peter Mandelson.”

      Reminds me of that Dad’s Army episode…”Don’t tell him your name Pike!!!”

      Fuck off you insidious Stasi wannabe.

      • 460
        Anonymous says:

        “you don’t have the right to shout “fire” in a crowded theatre.”

        ok then so i just let everybody burn to death.

        Sorry dude as i say you lefties act like little kids with all this name calling stuff, beacuse like little kids you cant win in full and frank debate.

        By the way cristpher hitchens shouted fire in a crowded theatre in one of his debates, nobody did fuck all disproving that simple headed over used cliche. He’s a good leftie I suggest you listen to him.

    • 455
      Kev says:

      You said – “And you have the nerve to complain about a bit of light-hearted banter between mates, that was completely private and never meant to see the light of day?”

      Well – it HAS seen the light of day – and I wouldn’t exactly call it light hearted banter. You fucking Hoon. Get back in the fucking gutter where you belong you Hoon.

      Furthermore, Brown, Harman, Mandelson and Smith are the 4 most UGLY, CORRUPT, ANTI DEMOCRATIC Hoons that we’ve ever had in government. Put that in your fucking dossier, you bastard!

    • 459
      Half eyed Scottish idiot says:

      I did not think Harriet was PM just yet

    • 469
      Pilly says:

      Dossier eh?

      Well, there will be alot of Labour MP’s with a bit more time to doss next year… so whilst I might think of them as a bunch of dossers at the moment, by next year they will be even……dossier.

      • 485
        Anonymous says:

        didnt mcbride say that ossbourne blacked up his face, trying to throw in a racist angle to stir up serious bad shit?

        And you come on here banging on about hate speech?

        Your party is a disgrace!

    • 479
      Minekiller says:

      Mine is excellent thanks – you fag, ares-bandit, lefite nazi control freak, islamo-fascist, rug munching, fuckturd, arsewipe Nu Labour war criminal incompetent, thieving, lying shyster. No sorry your self made PC totalitarian language laws can’t protect you in the real world.

    • 483

      We have nothing to hide so we have nothing to fear

    • 490
      NewGirl says:

      ha ha he’s back!! i’m chuckling at the idea of someone sad enough to compile a dossier of our musings….he needs to get out more..

    • 537

      You people need to get a life.

      And you need to get a hacksaw and cut down every lamp-post in westminster if you’d like to keep yours…

    • 584
      Anonymous says:

      This is a blog switch off if you dont like it. They the party you defend did it in No10 Downing st in company time on taxpayers money.

      You honestly don’t see the difference here?

    • 722

      Those emails were paid for by the tax-payer.

      They are therefore not private.

    • 789
      "For the restless, not the true believers, this one's for you... says:

      LOL! Now your getting funny, still haven’t sorted out the personality application yet though I see.

      The reason I haven’t got a life is because it has been stolen from me over the past 25 years or so. Not all at once you must understand, but piece by piece, hardly noticeable in all the pressures of living, until you and your ilk come for the final pound of flesh for a debt I do not owe you.

      Unlike you, I just couldn’t swallow the ideals of Common Purpose, or put up with the ego’s of self-serving none-entities, groomed to become a shadow establishment, insipidly usurping what is laughable known as ‘the democratic process.’

      So go, take your files and wrap yourself in the false illusion of security they bring you, because, in the end, when your puppet masters have had their pleasure with you, they will drop you, alone and friendless, and you will realise that you are merely a tool, a small pawn in their grand, dark schemes.

  150. 433
    The Beast Of Clerkenwell says:

    Harman pride says
    “I myself have compiled a dossier of early 200 homophobic ad mysogynistic posts”
    You sad fucking fag hag, like anybody gives a fuck
    You then have the fucking cheek to say “Get a life”

    What pointless Hoon assembles a “dossier” about a blog?
    Somebody from the same mould as Himmler I’d bet
    Fuck off and die you sanctimonious heap of shite.

    • 439
      Harman Pride says:

      fuck off saggy tits!

      • 506
        For every Al Beeb hack there are 20 Stazi has beens working in Downing Street... says:

        The Beast Of Clerkenwell

        “Somebody from the same mould as Himmler I’d bet”

        Naaah- more in the same vain as Beria or Marcus Wolff or Yezhov

        Only a good socalist would be so obssesed and paranoid enough to be so anal about what is being said on a blog…

      • 507
        NewGirl says:

        how grown up

    • 445
      Anonymous says:

      I remember when guido did was on the daily politics. Draper was crying out with the usual “homophobic sexism rasicm” stuff.

      Do you honestly think that such a low life like draper gives a rats arse about those issues. Does he fuck

      He’s typical what this govermant have do when any reasonable argument cant be defended they play these cards.

      What a bunch of kunts!

      • 450
        Anonymous says:

        forgive my shitty grammer

        omg i’ve just realize i must be dislexiaphobic!

      • 518
        NewGirl says:

        Draper is a complete bastard to anyone and everyone who disagrees with him. Probably regardless of race, creed and colour, to be fair. However, when it comes to the fairer sex, his behaviour has certainly been less than chivalrous in the past – he’s screwed his way around westminster spinning lines for years…and treating women like dirt. So clearly a sexist shitbag. What baffles me is how he has ever talked anyone into the sack…I mean…he’s not even a ten-pinter on a dark night with a blindold on is he?

      • 525
        Anonymous says:

        even if he was good looking the minute he opens his mouth, he’s the most arrogant man i’ve seen on tv.

      • 723

        NewGirl,

        Draper loves boys too.

  151. 434
    Read all about it says:

    Tomorrow’s Headline: “Glasgow Shipyard Closes”

  152. 438
    Rusty Bullet Hole says:

    It must be time for the BBC to give Charlie a job. Political Editor perhaps.

  153. 441

    One more thing.

    I wouldn’t start celebrating too soon about the next General Election if I were you. Labour might be behind in the polls, but there is still a long way to go. If a week is a long time in politics, who knows what might happen in the next year?

    Even now, at our lowest ebb, we still have 30% support in the polls, because our core vote will never desert us. Because of the way the electoral system works, the Tories need a higher percentage of the popular vote to get as many seats as us. So the opinion polls aren’t as bad as you think.

    Even if our core vote does desert us, do you really think they’ll vote for Old Etonian Dave? They’ll either stay at home or vote for the Lib Dems, either way that doesn’t hurt us too badly.

    When it comes to the crunch, people will remember that Labour gave us the NHS, while the Tories gave us the Poll Tax and 3 million unemployed and 15% interest rates.

    Ordinary people don’t care about Damian Mcbride resigning or the latest tittle-tattle in the Westminster Village. They care about the economy, and they know that the PM is pouring money in to help them while the Tories would do nothing.

    They know that Britain is a fairer and more tolerant place than it was in 1997, especially if you’re female, from an ethnic minority, a disabled person or from the LGBT community.

    To the hard-core right-wingers: You’ll be laughing on the other side of your ugly, bitter faces when we win, and get another 5 years to complete our project of transforming Britain.

    To all reading this blog who haven’t made up your minds yet:

    Who do you trust to lead this country out of the global downturn? A man with 12 years’ executive experience, with a 180 IQ – or an Old Etonian who’s never run a thing in his life?

    This is no time for a novice.

    • 452
      Blake's7 says:

      180 IQ, fuck me I just wet myself.

      • 500
        Anonymous says:

        he left out the decimal point

      • 526
        timmy says:

        IQ? I trust that stands for Idiot Quotient.

      • 588
        Anonymous says:

        that would make him MENSA when we know he’s actually MENTAL

      • 641
        Blake's7 says:

        I’ll give him 180, three darts in his other fucking eye :-)

      • 753
        Sam says:

        ROFL! I’m crying laughing! What planet to these hoons live on!! In fact it’s not really funny

        harman-p***, the gap between rich and poor has never been so glaring since before WWII.
        The country’s pensioners, who served thought the war or lost their childhood to it, have been beggared. The younger generation is largely illiterate, feral, sociopathic. That’s just for starters.

        Too right, it’s no time for a novice, and they’ve been in charge for 12 years now: they learn nothing.

    • 457
      Anonymous says:

      A ComRes poll for the Independant on Sunday will show the Tories increasing their percentage and Labour slipping well below 30%. The Tories are on course for a 80+ seat majority.

      • 578
        Anonymous says:

        The Tories are on course for a 80+ seat majority.”

        Christ-the way Broon has been behaving, its surprising the tories are not heading for an 8000 seat majority!!

      • 593
        Anonymous says:

        Like Harman Pride says (the only thing I agree with) Labours core vote are mainly workshy giro spongers or Public sectors. Turkeys christmas and all that.

        HP vitually admitted the electoral process was rigged in Labours favour.
        Not for much longer though pal.

      • 739
        2 Days until the next Sunday papers says:

        Tories can get a majority of 1 for all it matters. They plan electoral reform in the first term which will wipe out the pro-Labour bias which currently exists in the system and doesn’t reflect the fact that people have been deserting the scummy Northern Labour areas and emigrating down to the more hospitable Tory south.

        How apt, just noticed I’m talking about Labour whilst listening to Maxwell – ’till The Cops Come Knocking’

    • 462
      CuttingEdge says:

      The reason your core vote won’t desert you is because they would vote for a steaming turd with a red rossette pinned to it – and have on numerous occasions if the current cabinet is any example. Sorry HP, Middle England (not your core vote) got Blair in, and Middle England are going to take extreme pleasure in roast the twat and his malignant cohorts who have fucked this country every which way in the past 12 years.

    • 466
      Half eyed Scottish idiot says:

      You’re right about one thing. The electoral system gives more seats to labour than their share of the vote merits.

      But you believe in democracy so that’s alright then.

      • 511
        I only removed my PC to check if it had been hacked says:

        And it gives more Labour seats to the Welsh and Scots than their population deserve even though their have their own Assembly and Parliament.

        Obviously they frees up some time for their MP’s to vote on English matters.

    • 468
      johnjohn says:

      You are forgetting the millions of pissed off motorists that are being pushed to the limit with taxes, you are forgetting the thousands of ordinary working people that are losing their houses and jobs on a daily basis.
      A general election you say?….if ol McMental and his gang of hoons keep pushing us it’ll be a bloody revolution.

      • 517
        He's Back says:

        Hell I thought we had lost HP our timbot,you got it wrong about the NHS, Labour allowed us to pay by taxing us for the NHS, NewLiebour gave us MRSA,I see you are playing the class act so no fairness there then,3million unemployed and 15% we got, but Labour did it’s usual thing pissed all our taxes against the wall so who paid it back us F*ckin the proles as usual,tolerant and fair you f*kin lot wouln’t know what those words meant,Brown hasn’t run the country for 12 years he screwed it up from the time he got in,experience what in money don’t make me laugh,his experience university reading Labour history,the Rector ?,a few years with tv,wheres his business experience he has none and it shows,as far as Iam concerned it a pox on all your political houses,be it Liebour,Libdum or Conservatives as you don’t give a F*ck about the people of this Island your only ideas is to screw it for more for yourselves,you should be ashamed for trolling as they will do what they did to Draper to you as soon as it suits them.

    • 478
      Anonymous says:

      “Who do you trust to lead this country out of the global downturn? A man with 12 years’ executive experience, with a 180 IQ – or an Old Etonian who’s never run a thing in his life?”

      hmmm all i can say is that I agree with Obama when he said “we’ve had enough of that sort of experience”.

      • 790
        "For the restless, not the true believers, this one's for you... says:

        HP may also what to take note of something else Obama said…

        “Those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history” – B Obama

    • 481
      Courtney Fish says:

      “..our core vote will never desert us..”…
      “Even if our core vote does desert us…”

      Doh! You’re not one of Twasnaeme’s speech writers are you?

      Anyway, WHEN your core vote sees the light they will tear you lot to pieces.

    • 482
      For every Al Beeb hack there are 20 Stazi has beens working in Downing Street... says:

      No time for for a socalist more like…..

      WHY SHOULD I TRUST AN APOLOGIST FOR AN IDEOLOGY WHICH KILLED 20 MILLION IN THE LAST CENTUARY AND CONTINUES KILLING PEOPLE TODAY-JUST POP DOWN YOUR LOCAL NHS HOSPITAL TO SEE THESE RESULTS!

    • 484
      Heads on poles says:

      Quite right.
      I want a PM that hasn’t just screwed electric car sales *until* the incentive comes in to play.
      Somebody that:
      forgets gold can be sold at a good price
      doesn’t steal pensions
      doesn’t enforce a 10p tax band only for it to do more damage then blame somebody else
      doesn’t screw the country over then blame somebody else
      doesn’t write in crayon
      doesn’t hide when the going gets tough
      doesn’t want the Lisbon treaty/agreement whatever will get it past investigation
      doesn’t all in plod to stitch up an opposition MP who asks awkward questions

      Oh what the hell, I could be here all night.

      He’s a berk, just accept it.

    • 488
      Minekiller says:

      You are a cretin.

      • 510
        NewGirl says:

        Ha ha Harman Prick just gets funnier and funnier…Bless him. Let him delude himself a little longer – probably better for the nurses when he does

      • 523
        cutofyourjib says:

        Oh, is Harman Pride a man? I thought they were a loaf.

      • 556
        ulysses says:

        Harman Pride – like Mothers Pride only crappier.

    • 501
      H says:

      Harriet_mate – I’ve really been missing you. I need you to point out how much better things are for me now, as a woman, than they were in 1997 when the Tories were in power.

      I know that it was a hollow happiness I experienced then back in those sad days, being in a well paid professional IT job in the absolutely horrible city (where as a woman I was not appreciated!) and being able to afford food and other non-essentials.

      Now, however after 12 brilliant years of labour rule, I am temping for 6 pounds an hour and can’t really afford any luxuries in my life (let alone the food – although I feel driven to drink!). But I feel so good now because our Glorious Leader cares about me (and has a 180 IQ – relevance please?) and there really isn’t 3million unemployed (its probably closer to 4million)!

      Yes Harriet – This is no time for a novice – because that is what Gordon Brown has proved himself to be. I don’t care who wins the next election so long as it isn’t the party that has brought this country to its knees over the last 12 years!

    • 515
      Sarah says:

      “Who do you trust to lead this country out of the global downturn? A man with 12 years’ executive experience, with a 180 IQ – or an Old Etonian who’s never run a thing in his life?”

      Old Etonian please. The man with twelve years of executive experience has fucked the country beyond recognition.

    • 530
      Anonymous says:

      I don’t know where to start with this pish you have written Harman, if Labour win (see rig) the next election you and your fellow muppets better leave on the first ferry if the Frogs will let you because you will all be hanging from the nearest lamp posts.

      Enjoy your last few months.

    • 540
      Dream On says:

      You missed out fairness,have a friend on before,an ex nurse retired 6months age on a pension she paid into it,all was going well until today when she go a £2.50 weekly payrise and a tax reminder of £24 a week tax bill, before that she paid no tax, this will be coming to all low paid taxpayers near you,as the 20% tax hike hits them,your core vote will go down the drain followed by your gang of shills and your postal voting system,

      • 554
        Anonymous says:

        “5 years to complete our project of transforming Britain.”

        Jesus what a fuckin nightmare, you control speech, you have cameras all over the fuckin place, you track everyones internet surfing, arrest opposition mps. political correcntness and health and safety gone fookin crackers

        I cant fuckin wait what another five years will be like, you totalitarian trumpet!

        I’d rather vote for darth vader!

      • 565
        Harman Pride says:

        Gordon Brown has promised there will be no losers as a result of the tax changes and these on a low income will be much better off. This has been independently proven as correct. The only taxpayers marginally disadvantaged will be wealthy bourgeoisie Tories living in luxury while the poor suffer the affects of the recession that started in America in the summer of 2007.

      • 643
        NewGirl says:

        Harman I’ve been wondering and wondering why you spend so long here instead of fucking off to some leftie totalitariat blog more suited to party line peddlars than you (i’m not complaining mind, you’re hilarious) and I’ve come to conclusion that
        a) you are one of those sadder than sad tossers who can’t even get on with those of his own persuasion, who also all hate you, or
        b) you are actually a guido fan having a laugh, probably weeping into your keyboard with mirth as you type.

        Which is it? I reckon b). No one’s that cretinous for real.

    • 560
      Greychatter says:

      Dear Harman Pride:

      In my working life this is the third time Labour/ etc has made a “Balls” of the economy, seeing decent companies go to the wall because of stupid union demands and this time Gordon’s destruction of the economy.

      Don’t forget that the first few years of the Labour government was on the back of Tory policies. Yes – Gordon has transformed the country – but look at the result.

      It didn’t start in America, Gordon has been running this country, as Chancellor for Ten Years, he is responsible for the mess he has created.

      Manufacturing has been devastated under his watch, that is where the wealth is generated for the grand schemes governments spend on. Borrowing is not the way to get out of any recession, anyone including Gordon who tries to tell you different, doesn’t generate wealth – they only spend it.

      Maggie Thatcher was right to oppose Arthur Scargill. You have probably never had to travel in Eastern Europe under Communism, seeing the oppression of frightened people who were great on their own but could never look at you in the street in case someone was watching.

      Under Gordon Brown, Britain is becoming a laughing stock round the world.

      How many people do you employ? Have you ever tried to run a business?

      You no doubt get your income and will expect a pension from the Great British Tax payer.

      Three million hasn’t been reached yet under Gordon, but it will come, maybe you will be one of them.

      15% interest rates, could be afforded by most businesses during that period, because there was business there. Gordon has wiped away the wealth of this country and given away the manufacturing capacity for short term gain to keep the cost of living artifically low, but the chickens have now come home to roost.

      Grow-up and think for yourself, don’t be brain washed by those whose only interest is spending other peoples money – although you may be one of them !!

      See you in the polling booth.

    • 563
      johnfromcamberley says:

      Harman_Pride 439

      It’s interesting (and unexpected) to see you back here.

      Something that caught my attention in your, ahem, “post”, was your claim that Gordon Brown has an IQ of 180. Now, I take something of an interest in IQ (just a little peculiarity of mine). I checked via google on GB’s IQ, and found nothing. So, can you give me a respectable reference to your claim, based on a post age 14 measurement. Measuring IQ in people who are younger is very hard and prone to massive error. By the way, no website with Labour in the title counts as respectable.

      I have to tell you, there is nothing in the public persona of GB that suggests to me a measurable IQ over about 125. So unless you can substantiate your claim, then it looks like rubbish and you had better withdraw it, fast.

      • 754
        In search of a brain cell says:

        It would actually be impossible for GB to score 180 in an IQ test on MENSA’s criteria since age is taken into account. I took a MENSA IQ test out of curiosity recently and got 100% of the answers right but scored well below 180 because I am now in my 40’s (age-wise) and therefore expected to find the test easier. However, it does not require much of an IQ to know that GB is a lying pillock.

      • 831
        want my country back says:

        didn’t know that IQ could be measured in millimetres

    • 566
      jgm2 says:

      Nope. Sorry. Too obvious a windup.

    • 662
      King Karlos says:

      Harman Ponce, stop all this nonsense talk about novices right now cos it will only come back to bite you in the arse. Do you think orchastrating politically motivated smear campaigns makes Britain a fairer and more tolerant place? You clearly are on the lunatic fringe of the left and believe you can do anything you want to stay in power. Feel free though to keep mouthing off to the party line it will only strengthen the opposition. Just be careful you don’t choke on your own bullshit.

    • 663
      Anonymous says:

      Many will be voting for a return to domestic democracy which is more important than any of your totalitarian facist intolerance. As for voting libdems – I don’t think so.

    • 676
      Seth the pig farmer says:

      Brown has pulled of the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.

    • 713
      Alien8n says:

      You’re right, it’s no time for a novice. We need someone with experience of making this country Great again after being royally fucked up by Labour policies.

      We need Maggie! (Never thought I’d ever say that)

      180 IQ? Don’t make me fucking laugh, my daughter has a higher IQ than Brown. Mind she is in Mensa, IQ of 155 at age 10.

      There you go, my daughter for Prime Minister! She has the intelligence and her political manifesto will include abolishing bedtimes for all children and making milkshakes compulsory in school!

    • 728
      The truth hurts - ouch says:

      “Even now, at our lowest ebb, we still have 30% support in the polls, because our core vote will never desert us”

      Very amusing H_P to think voters owe you a living and Labour’s support is solid. Let’s see, YouGov poll 5-7 May 2008 (after the 180 IQ idiot’s “10%” tax budget had been unpicked):

      Labour: 23%
      Conservative: 47%
      Lib Dem: 17%
      Other: 13%

      Methinks your lowest ebb is still to come.

      • 731
        Alien8n says:

        Unfortunately he may be right about how much more the Tories need to kick out Labour. Even with those figures we could end up with a hung parliament. The last election was won with Labour only having 20% of the population voting for them. In fact the last election should have been a hung parliament as the 3 main parties actually polled about a 3rd each, a coalition between the Tories and the Liberals should have been enough to kick Labour out but due to Labour’s boundary rigging they were able to gain a majority. Check the elections with the lowest vote for a majority government and it’s no surprise that the lowest vote was 2005, and the next lowest was the election before that. In fact parties have lost elections with higher votes than Labour got in 2005.

      • 774
        Sam says:

        The voting system is indeed wickedly skewed in Lbour’s faovur, but given thea tthey will lose Scottish and Welsh seats – if our Celtic cousins have any sense at all – and that they will find it very difficult to field the party workers required to run an election campaign, and also tha tthey are broke, it may no be so hard to get the massivbe swing required to get the hoons out.

        Most of my longterm friends, aged from 40s to 80s and employed in publishing, journalism, the arts, the law etc etc were card carrying Labour members in 1997. Not one is still in the party,m and they don’t all live in the South. They all continue to get Party literature though – I;v eno doubt they have never been taken off the list of members, which is a fiction.

        This Govt has never stopped to consider the fact that the National Trust has more members than all the political parties put together, Go figure

    • 751
      ragged trousered philhoontherapist says:

      An IQ of 180 occurs for only 1 out of 20 million people. That makes McMental the most intelligent male adult in UK. Aren’t we lucky to have a bumbling, black-hearted, piss-soaked megalomaniac who also happens to be a genius.

      HP admit you are a troll – NO ONE can be as fucking stupid as you.

    • 766
      Hoons the lot of them says:

      without the scots (and a few welsh) 2005 nulab would be nowt

      tax and disguised tax are what folk notice my friend and that is what lab are best at “we screw business and we employ our friends in the public sector”

      lets get some more jobs tax going on (0.5% increase) as the ave jo does not figure

      and then we can pay for some more friends to join our public sector gang! ching ching

      • 825
        me over there! says:

        ‘Gordon Brown has promised there will be no losers as a result of the tax changes and these on a low income will be much better off’.
        er how you tax me then i have to get it back by begging!
        ‘This has been independently proven as correct’ .
        really by whom ?.
        ‘The only taxpayers marginally disadvantaged will be wealthy bourgeoisie ‘
        er but you said gordons plan wouldn’t have ANY LOSERS!
        ‘Tories living in luxury while the poor suffer’
        so go on show us you’r poverty then ! i mean before you get the black marker to it!.
        ‘ the affects of the recession that started in America in the summer of 2007′ .sorry did it but you are the w* /tinkers in charge so really its you’r fault !

  154. 443
    Pte. Frank Pike says:

    “I myself have compiled a dossier of nearly 200 homophobic and misogynistic posts, mainly directed at the Prime Minister, Harriet Harman, and Peter Mandelson.”

    It’s nice to have a collection.

    So much easier than chasing after Butterflies too don’t you think?

    Dossier!

  155. 451
    Anonymous says:

    Is Whelan still into transvestisism?

  156. 458
    The Beast Of Clerkenwell says:

    Harman
    McMental has lots of experience of running things
    INTO THE GROUND
    Dave is also a total Hoon, most of them are, why defend them?
    You really think that they have your interests at heart?

    • 543
      Cpl Stavely says:

      FFS Beast I thought you were a bit more street smart to think that Harman
      is just a regular but misguided NuLab member.

      He writes this crap because he is paid to. He is of the party attached to either LList or somesuch. The silly fucker has a set of standard paras.

      Ignore the twat. He gets paid by the word.

  157. 464
    Pilly says:

    http://www.labour.org.uk/webcabinet

    Labour’s OFFICIAL SITE… misrepresenting the shadow cabinet…Ceaned up politics they have……

    • 471
      Blake's7 says:

      wow they just don’t get it do they, on their official website. Keep digging guys, amazing.

    • 580
      Greychatter says:

      Don’t appear to want Comments.

      You can make a Donation though, £ 15 to £ 100

    • 781
      Hysteria says:

      truly pathetic – but will the great unwashed yoof think it cool and so attract their vote ??

  158. 472
    nell says:

    Charlie Whelan writing in the Strathspey and Badenoch Herald in December 2008 ( I wonder how much they pay him- what their circulation is and who their fairly odd readers must be?) advocated a General Election in June 2009 saying
    ” In May 2009 Gordon will host the G20 summit – there will be wall to wall coverage” (there was and Gordon came across as the unphotogenic person lacking in social skills that he is?). Charlie goes on “most people will think Gordon is the best man to lead the country in a crisis” ( does he really believe the rubbish he writes or is he being paid for the number of words he is churning out? ), and persists with his foolishness ” David Cameron will be lucky to get a look in.”
    Dear Charlie, Grandma is disappointed at how detached from reality you are. It really would be best if you partook a little less liberally of that loch water you are so fond of .

    • 544
      Anonymous says:

      I wonder how much they pay him- what their circulation is and who their fairly odd readers must be?)
      its a shit bag of a rag circulation area nore popularly known as cairngorm, spey valley or aviemore,where some people like to go fishing !!!!!
      it is an anti scottish, anti snp, labour loving crap heap, circulation is tiny, the kind of local rag that takes on old hacks who,s days are long gone and have sunk to that level
      it comes out midd week but you can here the whine-ing not long after it comes off the press, but it is probably a top of the range scottish newspaper

  159. 474
    For every Al Beeb hack there are 20 Stazi has beens working in Downing Street... says:

    Wing nut on Sunday

    Wing nut: Well Great Leader Brown, Lord of Lords, giver of light, the true inheritor of Marx and Lenin, what do you say to those toffs, with their top hats, in the Tory Party, and anti-social elements who are traitors of the people, like Guido Fawkes, may his name be dammed 10,000 times, who say you are responsible for those nasty, but true e-mails, about the mental health of those who support the evil capitalist foe of the Peoples Republic of England?

    One Eyed’ King Broon of Jockland: Well Andrew, I believe I have shown COURAGE over the last six days to take responsibility for saying that I REGRET that this incident has taken place. I believe that the people are really interested in me GETTING ON WITH THE JOB, fighting for BRITISH JOBS FOR BRITISH WORKERS, while I SAVE THE WORLD and PLACING BRITIAN IN THE BEST POSISTION to FIGHT THIS GLOBAL RESSESION which STARTED IN AMERICA. THERE CAN BE NO ROOM IN POLITICS for mistakes like this and I believe that my actions will show my MORAL COMPASS, unlike the Conservatives which will DO NOTHING. I am SHOCKED AND ANGRY that these issues come up rather than FOUCUSING ON THE ISSUES that matter to HARD WORKING FAMILIES and GLOBAL RESPONCIBILTY for LONG TERM GAINS.

    Wing nut: I am glad you made that clear great leader, the great Sheppard of socialism, eradicator of poverty, what you say to those who believe you are a Brezhnev era apparatchik?

    One Eyed’ King Broon of Jockland: Well Andrew, I believe I have shown COURAGE over the last six days to take responsibility for saying that I REGRET that this incident has taken place. I believe that the people are really interested in me GETTING ON WITH THE JOB, fighting for BRITISH JOBS FOR BRITISH WORKERS, while I SAVE THE WORLD and PLACING BRITIAN IN THE BEST POSISTION to FIGHT THIS GLOBAL RESSESION which STARTED IN AMERICA. THERE CAN BE NO ROOM IN POLITICS for mistakes like this and I believe that my actions will show my MORAL COMPASS, unlike the Conservatives which will DO NOTHING. I am SHOCKED AND ANGRY that these issues come up rather than FOUCUSING ON THE ISSUES that matter to HARD WORKING FAMILIES through more REGULATION and GLOBAL RESPONCIBILTY for LONG TERM GAINS.

    Wing nut: That is fantastic great leader, man of steel, defender of international socalism, how do you see the next 18 months before people will be re-educated into voting for the Party of the people?

    One Eyed’ King Broon of Jockland: Well Andrew, I believe I have shown COURAGE over the last six days to take responsibility for saying that I REGRET that this incident has taken place. I believe that the people are really interested in me GETTING ON WITH THE JOB, fighting for BRITISH JOBS FOR BRITISH WORKERS, while I SAVE THE WORLD and PLACING BRITIAN IN THE BEST POSISTION to FIGHT THIS GLOBAL RESSESION which STARTED IN AMERICA. THERE CAN BE NO ROOM IN POLITICS for mistakes like this and I believe that my actions will show my MORAL COMPASS, unlike the Conservatives which will DO NOTHING. I am SHOCKED AND ANGRY that these issues come up rather than FOUCUSING ON THE ISSUES that matter to HARD WORKING FAMILIES through more REGULATION and GLOBAL RESPONCIBILTY for LONG TERM GAINS.

    Wing nut: Fantastic, oh wonderful leader, defender of wimmin, warrior against fascism and supporter of the BBC- do you need a hand changing your spinal fluid?

    One Eyed’ King Broon of Jockland (quivering): err yes please…..

  160. 477
    Guido Outer says:

    “My wife is livid when I tell her about taunting McPoison. ‘These are powerful people, you have a family, why are you doing this?” – They won’t vivisect you this time around, it being 2009 not 1606 but…. be careful Guido, odds on that you end up in court before the next election…..(which would be a shame, obviously)

    • 550
      grobdj says:

      Powerful people will push you around, whether you speak out or not, that’s the politics of fear

      But the only thing to fear is fear itself

      When you have no fear, there is no danger

      I am sure that if Dr Kelly had discovered a blog he would still be alive

      • 598
        nell says:

        Doctor David Kelly is going to remain as the one blinding light on the dark heart of this evil labour crewand the hutton whitewash. Gus O’Donnell take note because you and your ‘we are not going to hold an investigation’ and todays statement that ‘no other advisors or ministers were involved in the mcbride affair ‘ are in the same hot and uncomfortable place as hutton and will be similarly derided by history. Doctor David Kelly you are not forgotten and whilst I am sorry that it is going to be too late for you and your lovely family justice is coming fast down the tunnell of time.

  161. 479
    Thomas says:

    See the latest in BLANEYGATE and the undergraduate that’s after him, as well as why Gordon Brown MUST resign. Well worth a read!!!

    http://ddtaylor88.wordpress.com

  162. 486
    Anonymous says:

    Then raise the scarlet standard high;
    Beneath its folds we’ll lie and spin,
    Though cowards flinch and traitors smear
    We’ll keep the red flag flying here

  163. 491
    Kafka says:

    Just watched your interview with Newsnight.

    Liked it.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8002304.stm

  164. 495
    Kafka says:

    Just watched your interview with the BBC.

    Liked it.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8002304.stm

  165. 498
    Kafka says:

    Just watched your interview with the BBC.

    Liked it.

    news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8002304.stm

  166. 499
    Kafka says:

    Just watched your interview with Newsnight.

    Liked it.

  167. 502
    Kettle says:

    Just watched your interview with the Newsnight.

    Liked it.

  168. 505
    Kettle/Kafka says:

    Whoops – sorry for the multi-post.

  169. 513
    Hedgy says:

    so did I……

  170. 528
    Omar Kader says:

    Do you know what ? I feel so sorry for Whelan, his party would never get involved in dirty tricks, lol the git got what he deserved

  171. 529
    NewGirl says:

    so did i but its completely blown my chances of commenting about the royal family in charge of a massive heroin supply operation using ufos…

    • 551
      Harman Pride says:

      Please dont insult and smear our wonderful Royal Family who I know are committed lifelong supporters of the Labour party.

      • 718
        Alien8n says:

        *cough*

        I know the Royal family has it’s history of mental illnesses, but that’s taking it a bit far…

  172. 534

    So Whelan is now playing the ‘victim’ card? Oh how the world turns (Evil snigger).

  173. 535
    Fishingboat says:

    I have only just started reading this blog since Guido’s latest successful shafting of that tosser Broon and his mates. Guido – you are doing a fantastic job – please keep it up. It is an excellent way of exposing what is really going on in this country that the thick scottish twat has ruined. Now my wife and dogs can be spared from my ranting and raving at the TV/radio/newspapers when I hear Nu Labores latest plan to continue the downfall of this once great country – I can rant on here!

    However, I do think that you have missed the root cause of all the problems this country faces – surely, it is all Margaret Thatcher’s fault… I am sure she has been to America, and we all know that it is in America where it all started?

    P.S. I think Harridan Harperson should be the next unelected PM.

    P.P.S. The Labourites complaining about racism, swearing, sexism, etc seem to be saying that it is all down to Guido. It is true that he seems to have a light touch on moderation, so what we/they are seeing is what people ACTUALLY think/say, and not some politicspeak weasely summary. So they can get stuffed as far as I am concerened.

    Must go, nurse just come in with my medication arrggghhhhhhhhhh

  174. 553
    NewGirl says:

    PS How long d you reckon I should call myself NewGirl? How long til I earn my Guido blogging stripes?

    • 561
      So17 says:

      You know you’ve made it when people stop calling you a Hoon.

      • 573
        So17 says:

        Or should I say you have to be called a Hoon at least once and your bum smacked a couple of times and then you are safe, I think.

      • 581
        NewGirl says:

        nobody has called me a hoon yet…..Why is this? Is it because you are all a bunch of sexist rigt wingers, and therefore you are discriminating against me because I am a woman with a butt shaped like a peach?

        I may well complain to the government if someone doesn’t call me a hoon immediately

    • 586
      johnjohn says:

      You Hoon, I hope that helps

      • 632
        NewGirl says:

        why thank you kindly sir. i was off to LabourdrivelzzzzList in a huff and you just saved the day. I’m back, ready to post pics of myself in basque and suspenders, washing the floor and cooking the dinner. For some reason some woman on Labourcrapshutup youbunchofrightonpillocksList said the photos were sexist. What on earths wrong with being sexy anyway?

      • 797
        Minekiller says:

        Newgirl, feel free to send me the pictures. I am not at all sexist…..

      • 807
        NewGirl says:

        ha ha ha

    • 589
      bofl http://ageofkali.blogspot.com/ says:

      stick with newgirl………

      most people here are not tories……just sick of the shitehole that the man of courage with an iq somewhat lower than a toffee apple has done to these islands.

      the hoons are mostly in westminster……….

      geoff must be so pleased..i can’t wait to see the inscription on his gravestone…….

      possibly the rudest word in the English language is now synonymous with him……..lmfao!!!!!!!!!!

    • 810
      Right Bastard says:

      Be careful what you blog – you may get a reputation for being a groupie, or perhaps you would like that.

  175. 555
    So17 says:

    Mandelson alert.
    On channel 4 news Peter Mandelson was seen in a non story about electric cars.
    ‘Lots of power and silent’ said Peter.
    yes and not available till 2011 you twat.
    So when the conservatives have to renage on this bullshit hair brained scheme the labour scroats can say ‘oooh nasty Torys hate the planet and kill our kids’.
    We wont have enough electricity to charge the bastards because Labour has neglected to invest in new power stations as well.
    Non of the spoon fed journos brought up this ‘Inconvenient Truth’.

    • 572
      Dream On says:

      It’s all about bringing in road pricing not about being green,they end up losing the fuel taxes if this went ahead so they would have to replace the billions with some otherway so Ecar=roadpricing

    • 576
      Ted Bundy says:

      So will Lord Mandy be giving up his 4 litre Jaguar for one of these crappy slow electric cars with a range of 40 miles? Somehow I doubt it. Unless there is some miracle breakthrough in battery technology these stupid expensive little cars are destined to follow the Sinclair C5 into history.
      They are not practical, don’t work and replacing all the batteries every 2-3 years will cost a fortune. Thanks for the offer Mandy but I think I’ll stick with by old 3.2 litre Vauxhall Omega.

      • 583
        johnjohn says:

        Imagine Prescott trying to get into a G wiz….and then watch him try to get out again.

      • 798
        Minekiller says:

        Imagine Two jags trying to get a blowjob from Tracey Temple in the G-Wiz. or maybe not.

    • 603
      Sarah says:

      If they’re that great – why isn’t he driving around in one himself?

    • 738
      Jacqui's Second Ohm Law says:

      V=I*R

  176. 574
    BOFL http://ageofkali.blogspot.com/ says:

    harman pride is a wind up……..possibly the same person that used to do ‘we need help’.

    still today was nice…gordon got his best lurchio impersonation out on the telly and it only cost £1million to play at being someone grown up in scotland…..

    it was rumoured that frankie howard wore nappies too!

    when will they stop pissing our money down the drain?

    • 817
      bergen says:

      “We deserve help” was the best wind-up merchant this site ever had.Harman Pride hasn’t the same imagination.

  177. 582
  178. 587
    Anonymous says:

    Jon Snow accused Damian Green of “grooming” on Ch4 news and then went on to attack him in a sneering and sarcastic way.

    It looks like the posturing leftie Labour luvvies in the media are getting angry.

    • 605
      Basil Brush says:

      …not sure Green came out of that smelling of roses – Snow pushed him on whether or not it was one sided i.e. only the civvy giving the info rather than being asked for it, and he didn’t put it to rest in any great fashion.

    • 612
      Minekiller says:

      Jon Snow has his own lamp post, already reserved. Journalist? No. Labour troll?. Yes

    • 617
      TomnotBower says:

      Snow interrogates Tories

      Snow questions Labour

      Snow was a disgrace

  179. 591
    So17 says:

    At the end of this thread can I take the oppurtunity to publicise my new book.

    ‘The Security Officers Guide to the toilets of the Palace of Westminster’

    As most wankers that walk through the gates feel the need to write their memoirs why not me eh.
    A small taster.
    ‘I unzipped my trousers and with the weight of radio,keys,torch and utility belt they hit the floor with a crash. Shhh I thought this is the PMs private larty. As my bare cheecks touched the cold wood of the seat I could feel the history pass through my buttocks’

    • 604
      chronic says:

      Title “the rise and fall of Mandelsons little prick”

      • 613
        BERR - More ZaNuLab Shite says:

        Surely, “the rise and fall of Mandleson, the little prick”

        And on that note has he taken large amounts of oestrogen to help or has it always been that small!

      • 621
        King Karlos says:

        God why on earth did you have to create that mental image??

    • 614
      Papasmurf says:

      Reminds me when I saw Harold Wilson, huge cigar in mouth (no pipe away from the cameras), pissed out of his skull, enter the bog and stagger out 5 minutes later with his shirt sticking out through his open flies…!!!! A frightening sight for an impressonable young snapper like me, never forgot it.

      • 638
        So17 says:

        I was posted in the Lords when Harold Wilson was escorted through peers lobby by some assistant.
        The man who I remember as a kid being on the telly gave me a weak but genuine smile almost like a baby.
        He died a few weeks later.

        I still think politicians are vermin mind.

  180. 595
    Washbrook says:

    BBC says”Motorists will be offered subsidies of up to £5,000 to encourage them to buy electric or plug-in hybrid cars under plans announced by the government.

    It is part of the government’s £250m plan to promote low carbon transport over the next five years.”
    ———————————
    100000 motorists times £5000= £500 million.
    PIE IN THE SKY

    • 602
      Basil Brush says:

      It’s a possible £5,000 (starting from £2,000)

    • 609
      BERR - More ZaNuLab Shite says:

      Best way to prevent carbon emissions, 100% guaranteed, is to stop Baron Mandleson’s mouth farts, ie, talking utter shit so as to tax people even more than the current extremes.

      Pay more attention to Professor James Lovelock and a lot lot less to Mandleson and the lying cheating scum that are the ZaNuLab tax bandwagon.

      • 629
        grobdj says:

        Electric car!

        Capable of up to 40 miles on a single charge

        Costs twice as much as a normal car but we’ll use taxpayer money to subsidise it (like the wind turny-roundy things)

        The future!

        http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C63552

      • 634
        grobdj says:

        Forgot to mention, this link is an electric car from 1950, 40 mile range

        http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C63552

        Mandy’s new electric car must have the same battery thingy

        PS requires coal or gas-fired power station for charging of the battery thingy

      • 826
        Not Ted Hankie On Me 'ead says:

        I have a solar-powered car. Still waiting for the sun to come out though. Alternative is a mains lead but that’s only 4-feet long.

        Wind-powered next.

        Woe is me.

    • 735
      Lord Rootes says:

      These will be F*cking large electric cars, not the lickle noddy marr cars, cost circa £40k, £5k will dent the cost to the household budget won’t it Manglebum!!!

      WTF!!

    • 744
      Jacqui Timney says:

      I have managed to get some cost effective 88p plug-ins for these new cars!

    • 747
      Anonymous says:

      Who cares about that.

      What about the corrupt, incompetent Labour thugs running our country?

      Did you know Jacquie Smith expensed blue movies for her husband? How can that be an legitamate expense?!?

    • 769
      Dolly Draper says:

      Did someone mention a wash. Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

  181. 600
    Basil Brush says:

    BOOM BOOM

  182. 610
    AlanE says:

    I am just pleased to see the current government for what it has always been, a bunch of thugs who operate under the protection of the PM, past and present.

  183. 611
    Washbrook says:

    MOODY’S DOWNGRADES
    ————————

    In a mass downgrade action on Tuesday Moody’s stamped all over the UK mortgage lenders, slashing nine companies’ ratings altogether — some by more than three notches — and putting another three banks and one building society on further review for downgrade.

    http://ftalphaville.ft.com/

  184. 618
    A conceited, snivelling, lying, cheating, thieving little shit, says:



    Aye, a’ gettin’ me ta’ say the S wud’ was’nae easy

    It felt like ma’ inside wuz riven, – but they said I’d nae more play wi’ ma’ toy money unless ar’ did.

    But I did’bae really – ar’ kept ma’ fingers crossed ye ken.

    An’ ma’ thugys ar’ still a’workin fae me.


    But nae’ worries fa’ mae, cos’ mind ye, nuthen’s’ ma fult ye understand! An ar’ niva said the word

    [Translation : a mendacious little shit like me can never be expected to apologise and actually mean it. it's a trick all good socialists develop naturally.

    So even though I said it, - I didn't.

    I only did it as a last resort because they said I wouldn't be allowed to play with my pretend money if I didn't.

    And all the old gang - or their stand-ins are still about - they try to pretend their the same, - but you can tell.

    And they have their little boxes to tick, and numbers to count. Anyone in my sad employ knows I like lots of counting. Gives me that feeling of control. As though I know what I'm doing.

    Nothing's my fault of course, - or directly attributable to me.]

  185. 620
    Anonymous says:

    Very good article in Times Guido – well done x

  186. 624

    This man is an idiot. Tory Dirty tricks my arse!

  187. 626
  188. 630
    jgm2 says:

    Fucking hell. The man voted most like his own ‘Spitting Image’ puppet.

  189. 631
    Basil Brush says:

    Our local Labour Councillor is a lazy feck. Jack Davenport, Preston. Turned up for less than half his meetings and he’s the gall to run for parliament in the next election.

    …just thought I’d do my bit and place this scummer out in cyberspace on the best blog on the net. Expose the dirt early on so the rot doesn’t set in.

    • 650
      nell says:

      Expose- it’s the best way to show what they are. We need to do more of it. Keep on.No place to hide .

      • 688
        Basil Brush says:

        The git has openly admitted it and defends it on the grounds of “Nothing seems to get done”. I saw this in my local rag and was amazed that it was on page …5. I haven’t heard this mentioned anywhere else and I’m pissed off that a guy who states he finds it “difficult to get motivated” is actually in his position in the first place. If he can’t be arsed, what the hell’s he doing?

    • 665
      Heads on poles says:

      That is *nothing*.
      There’s a Labour councillor for Greenwich that has spent the 6 months in…….
      AUSTRALIA!
      Flown back for a hastily arranged meeting with the tickets paid for by who knows, he avoided being kicked out by one day.

      Look at what some naughty bunnies have been up to:

      http://gdayfromdanny.blogspot.com/

      http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/2452793.councillors_six_month_holiday_sparks_outrage/

    • 780
      Sam says:

      There’ll be nothign for him to do in Westminster either except creative accounting with his expenses.
      All our laws are made in Brussels now. That’s not Jack Davenport the actor surely? (Miles from ‘This Life’)

  190. 636
    Anonymous says:

    Not a bad idea. What hasn’t my MP been up to…

    • 689
      Seth the pig farmer says:

      My MP has been shagging tottie in his office in the PoW. Respect.

      He also let her take photos of him which she flogged to the NOW. Idiot.

      (he idiot, she smart girl)

  191. 639
    Anonymous says:

    More than a million homeowners are in negative equity – and another million ‘are on the edge’
    More than one million homeowners are currently in negative equity because of the house price crash. Almost a million more are days away from being plunged into the same situation if prices continue to drop.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

    Any comments on this one then Harman Pride?

  192. 644
    The Beast Of Clerkenwell says:

    Gerry Addams (he hasnt gone away you know) has the measure of these apologies for “Leaders”
    I cant help smirking when McMental is described as a leader
    I wouldnt follow McMental for a piss.

  193. 645
    Anonymous says:

    or even this one Harman Pride 5 million that cost us!!

    Jacqui Smith was under fresh pressure today after prosecutors announced a senior Tory MP arrested as part of the controversial Home Office leaks inquiry will not face charges. Following an investigation costing the taxpayer up to £5million, the Crown Prosecution Service ruled the case against shadow immigration minister Damian Green and Christopher Galley, the civil servant who passed on the information, was being dropped.
    The decision is a major embarrassment to Miss Smith, who defended the criminal probe which sparked a major political row and concerns of heavy-handed policing and is already fighting to keep her job after a string of expense scandals.

    Police raided Mr Green’s parliamentary office without a warrant to the horror of MPs on all sides and arrested the two men after they were told by the Cabinet Office that the leaks threatened national security.
    Mr Green was quizzed for nine-hours about the confidential papers which highlighted a string of humiliating failings in the Home Office.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1170340/Jacqui-Smith-rack-announced-Tory-NOT-charged-Home-Office-leaks.html

    • 746
      another example of corrupted civil servants says:

      The real story in this is that it would appear the official complaint made by some cabinet minister on behalf of the government is now accepted as being “exagerated”

      ie they lied. Caught out again. Does this mean someone is going to be prosecuted for wasting the time of the Police or malicious complaints ?

  194. 649
    degsy's midnight whiners says:

    Hey Tory Faggots,

    My name is Derek, and I hate every single one of you. All of you are fat, retarded, no-lifes who spend every second of their day looking at stupid ass pictures of wendy houses and trains and arguing about Jonathan Douglas – the worlds best midfielder after Messi. You are everything bad in the world. Honestly, have any of you ever gotten any pussy? I mean, I guess it’s fun making fun of people because of your own insecurities, but you all take to a whole new level. This is even worse than jerking off to pictures on facebook or doing drugs as a student whilst dressed like an extra from Brideshead.

    Don’t be a stranger. Just hit me with your best shot. I’m pretty much perfect. I was a top lobbyist and host at TalkRadio until i inexplicably rang in one day to tell the listeners i was at a Amsterdam brothel, and the are about 17 people that matter in the government- if you’ve got the means i can put you in touch with ALL of them. What sports do you play, other than online skullduggary and muck raking or do you just “jack off to naked drawn Japanese people who post on political blogs”? I also get straight A’s in Clinical Psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, and have a banging hot breakfast TV presenter girlfriend (She just blew me; Shit was SO cash). You are all faggots who should just kill yourselfs and vote UKIP. Thanks for listening.

    Derek

  195. 651

    Watch this bit of video where mr draper denies he is in anyway connected to damian mcbride

    for comment and analysis please visit my blog
    http://www.what-they-wont-tell-you.blogspot.com/
    just starting and wouldappreciate the support

  196. 653
  197. 655
    It all started in America you bastards! says:

    So why isn’t Newsnight running the Damien Green story at the main article? Why some crap about Zimbabwe? Who gives a fuck about that shithole?

    I’m betting if Green had been charged Newsnight would have been all over it just like they were when he was first arrested.

    The BBC trying to ‘move the story on’ to protect the demented one eyed bogey eating phone throwing retard perhaps?

    After all Caroline Spelman was the main story on Newsnight with the man who never washes 9Michael Prick) spouting on night after night.

    Is not this story more important than smeargate?

    • 664
      Silenced By The Lambs says:

      They’re sticking to their charter and serving the public interest by showing us where we will end up under ZaNuLab.

    • 696
      A painful Crick in the Neck says:

      Fucking Smirking CrickPrick is on NN now analysing McDoom ’sorry’ tale!!

      Paxo…”Is this the end of the affair”….Crick..”yes”. Don’t think so!!!

      Toynbee back from her hive in Tuscany spouting on about Brown and his dark thugs!!

      Arguing with Fraser Nelson, describing Ingham as a thug, she is a really despicable creep, describing Brown as an admired leader @ the G20.

      F*ck off you f*cking hoonette

    • 736
      Anonymous says:

      The BBC lefties will be shut down.

      They should forget about their war against the Conservatives, the Crown and the People. They should focus their minds on the trials that will follow the General Election.

  198. 657
    tisfedup says:

    what a crock, Damien Green gets completely exonerated, and Gillian Hargraves BBC political correspondent is still trying to smear him, how the hell do we stop this rot. do we really have to wait another year.

    • 661

      Let’s hope geezers like you have to wait until the ends of time…David Cameron, of course, would not regulate the banking system what is it he said it will police itself? Yeah right.

      • 668
        grobdj says:

        At 10:42pm 655 you said you were going to bed

        How can you be trusted in what you say?

      • 673
        B*llox to the BBC says:

        I believe tisfedup is complaining about the BBC and Gillian Hargreaves – and not the fact that Damian Green was cleared.

        Give up on the BBC – don’t get mad, get even.

      • 771

        Seeing as the government regulated the banking crisis into existence, and banks are the most regulated industry in the U.K. Then it looks like the Labour mongs failed miserably in their regulation. If David Cameron were to stop regulation the banking industry then he’d be being very sensible.

        Of Course, The government should be regulating reserves requirements in their currency monopoly (or abandon their currency monopoly) to stop inflation.

    • 667
      Heads on poles says:

      No matter how hard I try, I can not get used to the fetid stench of bias.

    • 740
      Anonymous says:

      Fumigate the BBC

  199. 660
    tisfedup says:

    i left a messaage for whelan to go to the police if he thinks a crime has been committed, if not he he has just proven that he is as scummy as the rest of them, a lying, stinking pile of shit.

  200. 669

    I like the smell of greed in the city, corruption in the commons and stinking privilege in the lords, it’s great to wake up on another sunny London morning…

  201. 674
    grobdj says:

    That was a short night for you only went to bed 11 minutes ago

  202. 675

    I live in a bedsit in Norman Tebbitland with 12 goats (all members of the opposition) and a cat called Mandy…oh yes…

  203. 677

    You are right Grobdj, I have to rise early for work and feed, Cameron, Osborne, Hague et al their oats before I go.

  204. 678
    Heads on poles says:

    Damien Green getting a hard time from Paxo.
    Couldn’t they get the Home Sec? Maybe she is at home watching a film.
    Shameful.

    • 743
      Anonymous says:

      Guido showed up Paxman to be a McBride dancing monkey.

      Paxman will go when the BBC gets shut down.

      • 794
        Dogger says:

        Clement Freud was sharper at 85 than Paxman is at whatever. And Kirsty Warkstain does her best to further blunt whatever investigative instincts still shuffle about amongst her perimenopausal neuotransmitters.

    • 814
      Pugwash says:

      What cracks me up is when Paxo reads out Government propaganda, esp when “no one was availble for comment”.

      Lets ‘em off every fuckin’ time.

  205. 679
    nell says:

    Looking for Labour people wanting to be good for gordon watch us – Charlie Whelan, Ed Balls,Tom Watson. Damian McBride, Derek Draper Ian Austin Phil Hope.

  206. 681
    Heads on poles says:

    OMG – Damien Green was told that he could get LIFE if found guilty.
    Guido – I hope you’re in the masons or something!

  207. 684

    Well goodnight, I’ll settle the goats down, Hague is a bit stroppy this evening, and be off to bed in my bedsit in Norman Tebbitland, happy in the knowledge that Newgirl has the hots for me…goodnight Grandad anonymous, sweet dreams Grobdj

    • 757
      ulysses says:

      Don’t forget to kiss your boyfriend goodnight.

      • 759
        Ewanme says:

        He won’t , honey x .

        There’s only one real blogbimbo rounds these parts .

        Later © E x .

        P.S. Anythin happen in the news today ??

      • 762
        Sandy says:

        Yeah, Brown shit himself again.

      • 770
        Ewanme says:

        OMG !!!

        Sarah must get fed up wiv her Zanussi churnin soiled nappies 24/7 ?

        Hmmm – I’m sure there’s a play on the the washin machine makers name but I can’t be arsed .

        © E x .

    • 811
      NewGirl says:

      yeah yeah, I’ve the hots for you, jacqui smith is a good home sec, draper is a pillar of the community, and labour aren’t fucked…

      ps i like my men sweet smelling and clean think that excludes derek and you

  208. 690
    Angel Cabrera says:

    OT

    I wonder if Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK to his friends) MD of the IMF plays golf?!!

    He could pass for my Dad!

  209. 694
    For every Al Beeb hack there are 20 Stazi has beens working in Downing Street... says:

    Have I just heard Mr Green on Newsnight correctly?

    That Smith’s goon’s threatened him with life imprisonment?!

    What the fuck is wrong with this country-to allow a fraudster like Smith to run the Home Office with the same self styled tactics that are used by ZANU PF, NKVD/KGB, Stazi or Gestapo?!

    No doubt Camp Comandant Harman Pride will be asked to run “political re-education camps” (re:Dachau) and be seeking to change the law a la Schutzhaft (protective custody) on “political and subvertive elements” (ie 90% of readers/writers on this blog and others)

  210. 697
    For every Al Beeb hack there are 20 Stazi has beens working in Downing Street... says:

    Fuck me- Toynbee is pontificating on Newsnight, she is such a odious fucking hag.

    Thats like asking Adolf Eichmann if Himmler was a bad bloke?!

  211. 699
    For every Al Beeb hack there are 20 Stazi has beens working in Downing Street... says:

    Sorry rpt post

  212. 707
    grobdj says:

    Quite predictable really

    After a week of soul-searching at the BBC they have decided, like McBroon to ‘Carry on Regardless’

    They know the cliff is there, but like the bankers, they’ll put the brakes on when they can see the drop clearly

    Lemmings

  213. 712
    StrongholdBarricades says:

    What’s it like to work for Murdoch?

  214. 716
    nell says:

    ian austin, tom watson, charlie whelan, phil hope, ed balls, martin salter. these are gordon’s troops to watch. where are mcbride, draper and mandelson? c’mon grandma knows best. good night god bless

  215. 719
    Mr Christopher says:

    Whelan and the whole New Labour propagandist ‘cadre’ are like villains in a medolodrama when brought to book by the hero, a mix of threat and special pleading.

    “No, please no, you don’t understand…. no police, please, no police….”

    Pity we don’t have the kind of police service that recognises Crimes In High Office when they see them, instead of squandering billions trying to give substance to the beliefs of New Labour terrorologists.

  216. 720
    Brown Nappy Man says:

    WHY HAS NO JOURNALIST ASKED THE OBVIOUS QUESTION

    Brown keeps repeating that he knew nothing about the email
    But Surely the question is
    ‘To what extent did you discuss with your head of strategy the strategy for the next election to de stabilise the tories?

  217. 724
    No Shit Sherlock says:

    According to the Mail, Labour scumbags in the Home Office are still trying to smear Damian Green and Chris Galley.
    Anybody know the names of these vermin?

    • 745
      Anonymous says:

      We shall need a full investigation – which will require investigating No10’s emails. If they have been deleted from the server and backups, arrest must follow.

    • 793
      Anonymous says:

      A full and open investigation is the only way now to clear the air.

      Either that or a GE but preferably both

  218. 727
    Alien8n says:

    In case anyone is in any doubt as to how authoritarian Labour is and always has been:

    Do you know anyone who was over the age of 20 after the second world war? Ask them about the Ministry of Food. And then ask yourself why the fuck anyone would vote for a party that deliberately cut a person’s food rations as a punishment for daring to vote for another party.

    • 734
      arthur says:

      what are you talking about. get medical help

      • 742
        Alien8n says:

        It was rather well documented actually, there was a piece on it on TV a few months ago (can’t remember the channel, think it may have been BBC2).

        The point is that Labour has always been authoritarian and willing to “punish” the voters for having the gall to consider voting against them. It was after the Conservatives very nearly beat them in the 1950 election that the Ministry of Food cut the food rations as a way of punishing the population. It backfired when another election was called in 1951 and the Conservatives beat them.

        So with Labour staring defeat in the next election expect them to start looking at ways to punish the population. Isn’t there a budget due soon….

    • 749
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      If they cut everyone’s food ration it was presumably because there was not enough grub to go round. What would be the point of pissing off their own supporters as well as their opponents?

      • 752
        arthur says:

        I think alien should have you surname.

      • 767
        Alien8n says:

        I assume you don’t like to know historical truths?

        Couldn’t find a link to the documentary but did find a bit more about what was cut. In 1951 Labour cut meat rations to levels that were lower than even during the war. As stated, at that time we had more than enough, we were actually exporting more meat abroad than we were consuming at home.

        My point (why I’m having to point this out again is beyond me) is that Labour have always tried to control everything and are willing to do anything to maintain control, even lying and bullying. They always have and they always will.

    • 750
      Alien8n says:

      Nope, the country was actually a net exporter of food. Documents at the time proved that the reason for the cut was purely as a punishment. I’ll try and find a link to the documentary

      • 800
        Minekiller says:

        Atlee’s government rationed meat to UK citizens, recovering from WW2, enduring Korea….exporting to Argentina (among others), known to be harbouring Nazis.

        But then they had to do what Moscow told them back then, as opposssed to Brussels.

      • 824
        Robr says:

        total rubbish..
        Most items were taken off the ration in 1950..including sweets.
        While a few things remained it was a big improvement on the war ration.
        Rationing would have conitinued had there been a tory or labour government as this was only of hte only ways to ensure there was enough to go around and prevent starving children.
        Also you have to remember Throusands of troops returned from service determined not to go back to the days of poverty of the 1930’s the labour government biggest fear (and tory) was of a communist uprising.

      • 832
        Minekiller says:

        @824…you are correct, but so….am I re: meat rationing and exports. (And the Moscow bit)

  219. 729
    Anonymous says:

    Guido showed up Paxman pretttty gooood…..

  220. 761
    arthur says:

    It looks like the Times have run scared on publishing have your say regarding Guido

  221. 782
    Mr Christopher says:

    I have been meditating on the photo of Whelan at the top of this column. The expression is one of bestial lust, a face molded by years of gloating and coarse enjoyments…

  222. 783
    Erase disks using Gutman 35 pass says:

    If memory serves, he also took issue with the description of himself as someone who would be familiar to “readers whose specialist subject is minor New Labour character actors, 1994-1998″. In light of developments, Lost in Showbiz is happy to update that designation. Dolly is hereby reclassified as the most instantly trustworthy mental health professional since Dr Hannibal Lecter.

    - Marina Hyde, Guardian

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2009/apr/17/marina-hyde-kate-garraway-derek-draper

    • 788
      Mr Christopher says:

      Isn’t it a commonplace for mental health service users to fantasize about becoming therapists themselves, and in some cases actually succeeding in later years?

  223. 785
    Mitch says:

    Dont they squeal when the light is shined at them?

  224. 787
    Dogger says:

    BBC: “Tory immigration spokesman Damian Green told BBC Two’s Newsnight that officers said: “Do you realise that this offence could lead to life imprisonment?”"

    How fucking outrageous. But it’s setting a precedent, Jacqui.

  225. 796

    Actually I quite like Jacqui Smith, I just think the media has it in for the Labour Party, but let’s not forget that media demographic and you lot of Tory sycophants have fallen for it!!!

  226. 801

    No, let’s have a serious discussion about this…that is who runs the media, newspapers, TV and so on and why do they only represent 7% of the population and why would you support a party that only wants to give the vote to 7% of the population Conservative democracy read Quentin Hogg…COMING MUM!

    • 803
      Minekiller says:

      Don’t forget your schoolbag!

      • 805

        I must rush Minesweeper sorry, unlike you Tory scroungers who are parasites on the taxpayer I have to work and report the news…hold the school bus!!!

      • 827
        Blake's7 says:

        Unbelievable, “Tory scroungers who are parasites”. Blinkers would be an understatement. I suspect that Stalin could not brainwash people better.

      • 833
        Minekiller says:

        Kris, you are another Labour Troll who don’t get the message that becuase one has come to detest the criminal mob that are New labour, doesn’t make one a Tory.

        Enjoy breaktime, I hope the other kids don’t beat you up. (I bet you got always got picked last during playground footie….)

      • 834
        Minekiller says:

        Oh BTW Kris, Minesweeper is the callsign of a pal of mine who is very dangerous.

  227. 802
    Minekiller says:

    Just watched Nick Leeson on Sky with his advice for Gordon Brown. Christ, things really are bad.

  228. 804

    Good looking chap, isn’t he? Does anyone know if he has a genetic connection with Andrew “Lloyd” Webber?

  229. 806
    Jug Ears says:

    I see Dolly Draper is booked in for the Guardian Hay Festival only fiver a ticket will Damian be sharing the podium ???

    • 809

      At least Derek Draper has talent, more than can be said for you lot of Tory scroungers, he’s actually very entertaining is our Mr Draper and let’s face it Damian McBride wasn’t that bad, the Tory and Lib Dems are no saints are they?

    • 828
      Titter Ye Not says:

      You mean the Will Hay Festival, surely? “Oh Mr Draper” and “Boys Will Be Buoys” should go down well.

  230. 812
    NewGirl says:

    oh we find derek entertaining too Kris….funnier than partridge actually

  231. 813
    Tin Cunliffe says:

    AHA I have the answer to draper’s “whos funding this” question.

    See : “Guido – The Movie – Newsnight” … product placement on the BBC or what.

  232. 815
    Jug Ears says:

    So are the Chuckle Brothers check them out some day !

  233. 818

    Exposes the tribalism and short-sightedness and plain fucking stupidity of ZaNu.

    1. Moral equivalence- no comparison between the hiring of a former tabloid hack and the deliberate frabrication of smears by a civil servant.

    2. The Manichean view that entails the whole world being divided into Tory and Labour, with Labour as the good guys, with the end justifying the means- the nasty hint that the contents of the smears were “known to very Westminster hack”. So what? doesn’t make them true, or justified.

    3. Guilt by association and paranoia- there’s no evidence whatsoever that the “hacking” (if that’s what it was) was carried out by Tories. There have been plenty of suggestions that the McBride emails were leaked by a pissed-off apparatchik inside “Unite” where Whelan is loathed.

    What a fucking horrible self-righteous slimy fucking reptile.

  234. 829
    Godron Broon's Thrice-Daily Log says:

    I’ve just smeared my own kecks as forgot to wipe my arse with the old emails from Damians wastebasket. Who cut them into squares and put them on the nail in there? Any idiot might find and read them…..

  235. 836
    Voter says:

    Waiting to see if Whelan’s piss poor site publishes my comment..

  236. 840
    Mikey says:

    “On 21 December 2008, a row erupted when Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick accused the Conservative Party of trying to undermine his investigation and of endangering the safety of his family by publishing details of his home in the Mail on Sunday: “The Tory machinery and their press friends are mobilised against this investigation. I think it is a very spiteful act, possibly to intimidate me away from investigating Mr Green, and I feel it has put my family at risk.” The Conservative Party stated that it had “played no part whatsoever in the publication of this story”, and that “As the officer leading the inquiry into the allegations involving Damian Green, Assistant Commissioner Quick should display objective professionalism and not make baseless, political attacks. He should retract all of his allegations immediately”

    Yep, I agree, this culture of mud slinging, leaks, sleaze, from the government party must end now. It’s vile.

    Guido? How come you don’t even live in the UK? And your e-mail was recent;y found to be on the Tory Party server?

    Oh yes. This is just red-rag, nobility style

  237. 841
    Mikey says:

    Guidos

    I’m sure you see yourself as a political giant. And not the tory, stooge, you actually are.

    But I should say. It’s not exactly noble to make accusations and “throw” stones, when you live off shore, and know you can’t be prosecuted for it.

    If your claims had any basis, you’d live in the UK, and face libel laws. Like most other decent, honest bloggers.

    There is nothing noble about whoring yourself to the Tory party. As they can’t get away with saying half the crap you spew out.

    Your like their stooge of a mouthpiece.

    “we don’t want to look like a right wing inbecile. Feed it to Guido. Give him a pat on the head, an apple, and tell him he may get a job with the party next year. That will keep him happy”

    • 845
      ragged trousered philhoontherapist says:

      oh fuck off, you brainwashed paid for tart. The ‘Tory’ angle just doesn’t wash – like DD in fact.

    • 848
      Alien8n says:

      I’m just wondering where the libel is in pointing out that Whelan is a scheming lying shit trying to infer that the Tories hacked his email when he quite clearly is too fucking stupid to be let near a computer in the first place. As an IT professional myself all I can say is if Whelan worked in my company I’d have his email account locked down tighter than a duck’s arse in water

  238. 842
    Daveyone says:

    Sin doctors or spin doctors that is the question?

  239. 844
    Aethelred says:

    Whelan, the git who put “I” in odious.

  240. 851
    jo says:

    whelan – you are a sycophantic Hoon







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