Ex-Lobby Hack “Guido is Right”
This morning one senior political editor called Guido about his Times article. “Get off your white horse. Some of those criticisms are petty.” To which Guido replied
“It wasn’t f***ing petty on Friday night when Downing Street was referring to “security breaches” in the Telegraph and I was wondering if the police were going to kick down my door.”
So far no new mea culpas from the lobby pack. Iain Macwhirter, a decade long Lobby veteran and persistent Guido critic, did blog this:
My bete noir, Guido Fawkes, makes a number of very good points in his article in the Times today. The Westminster lobby is a cabal. Print journalists should have exposed Damian McBride and his wrecking crew long since. The parliamentary system has been corrupted by the explicit and implicit deals done between governments and journalists over access to important stories.
I suffered from this myself in the ten years or so I spent in the Lobby from 1989 -1999. It was a very unpleasant place in many respects. Hacks are extremely insecure and require a reliable stream of stories to please their editors. No stories, no jobs. This allowed people like Peter Mandelson and Alistair Campbell to have undue power over a sometimes supine and biddable press corps.
Have not noticed any major admissions from the guilty.
Always wondered what it would be like living behind the Iron Curtain…New Labour has shown us.
Not seen anyone standing in bread queues yet, but I guess there’s still time before the economic crisis plays itself out.
Yup! That’s exactly what this country now feels like – the DDR and the worst excesses of the New Labour Stassi.
Message to all Labour supporters – “GO FUCK YOURSELVES, YOU CORRUPT BASTARDS”
Have you seen the ‘surveillance signs’ my local council has put up outside my front gate?
I live in the middle of nowhere. FFS.
It’s the HD TV queues that I’m worried about.
The Mirror plot thickens, seems they did a hatchet job trying to pull their story.
All very strange Mr Bear – I assumed it was a plonky PR stunt for Derek – the rest of the story doesn’t seem to make much sense unless atttempting to foster a conspiracy theory??
If you think the scumbags look ugly now wait ’till the HD cameras are on their mugs.
Can I make a comment which pertains to this country: Ian Tomlinson’s second post mortem, (Hemerage) when the first was heart attack. What is going on here and why was the internal bleeding not diagnosed the first time round, eh? Somethink again stinks. I’m sorry for interjecting but please bear this in mind as you read on about everything else. Thank you.
Mr Patel was told to say ‘it’s a heart attack’. Cheque in the post.
Mr Patel was employed by the police, capisce?
At least now Mr Tomlinson has had an independent autopsy – something I called for on this blog when the story originally broke.
If you hit someone and he dies as the result of the assault there are only two possible verdicts : murder, if you meant to kill him: manslaughter if you didn’t. Another open verdict coming up?
Government Pathologists are employed by the Home Office – not the Police. That is the Home Office headed by……????????
Dr Patel was picked in a strange way, a circuit of pathologists are normally used, he wasnt on the list for this. He has a history of finding natural causes on subsequently proved murder victims.
Looks like a cover up, Livingstone has asked for an inquiry on what contact Patel had with the Police.
Who’s Livingstone? and why is he involved in this?
Yes, just caught that a short time ago myself, on C4 news I think it was. Another ‘legal murder’? More attempted whitewash from our corrupt & incompetent ZaNuLab (mis)government. There’s been all those jokes about Brown getting tips on governing the country from Mugabe – suddenly, it seems they’re no longer jokes.
I don’t trust Livingstone generally, but on C4 News tonight he said that the first pathologist, Patel ‘has form’ in terms of dodgy findings and needed looking at.
I wonder what he means?
“A source with detailed knowledge of the IPCC investigation expressed surprise that the initial post mortem was referred to Dr Patel rather than the Forensic Pathology Services, a body of nine independent forensic pathologists, including Dr Cary, which usually deals with suspicious deaths in London and the home counties.
The selection of Dr Patel could have been a jurisdictional issue relating to City of London authorities, the source said.”
(from the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/11/g20-pathologist-ian-tomlinson )
Sounds to me like he was selected by the police a.k.a City of London authorities
Patel’s previous on the Camden murders:
http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/archive/n271103_2.htm
Having being present at one or two post mortems I fail to see how a fatal haemorrhage can be mistaken for a heart attack. That sort of volume of blood doesn’t just vanish without something getting significantly bigger or seriously messy.
Ken Livingstone was on the news saying Patel, the first coroner has form in giving the police the postmortem verdicts they require.
Post 140: Who’s Livingstone? and why is he involved in this?
A Doctor I presume ?
Boom boom
I am a Pathologist on the Home Office list, and I have successfully aided the IPCC and many forces throughout the country over a period of years.
Only last week I helped bring in a verdict of ‘Natural Causes’ for the Leicestershire Constabulary on the controversial ‘body parts’ case.
New Labour is suffocating our society with their sesspit politics and spoon fed lobby.
Smash the lobby!!!
Thanks again Guido, the tide is turning.
Keep at it.
Plato – try living in London mate. Camera’s bloody everywhere, if i stop for 2 seconds i get a ticket, but still my car gets broken into and plod haven’t got a clue….
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Just call Jacqui Smith a Huhne
I like free advertising, and I like calling the snuffle pig a Huhne!
that’s disrespectful to Huhnes
Huhnes are usefull
I grew up in Zimbabwe. These tactics are not new. They’ve been practiced by despots across centuries.
It couldn’t happen to us? In Britain?
erm, I meant despotism.
I’m not over-caloried … honest!
I know Guido doesn’t like conspiracy nutters, but isn’t this the typical modus operandi..?
Henri Paul springs to mind. The MSM failed to report what the inquest said about the autopsy on his body, but it was totally conspiracy theory territory. Delivered by scientists in a court of law.
Before rushing to comment, people should read what the inquest transcripts show was said in court – not what the newspapers made most people in the country believe was said.
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,i>”This allowed people like Peter Mandelson and Alistair Campbell to have undue power over a sometimes supine and biddable press corps.”
They love it supine.
I think you mean they love it prone.
Well I was told by a gentlema- sorry, PR flak, who used to frequent booze ups at Millbank in the first Coming of Mandelslut that on descending the stairs to pick up his coat he was startled to see some rather urgent sexual behaviour going on between a male researcher and someone who looked eerily like Mandelslut.
Allegedly the person who looked extraordinarily like Mandelslut had quite a bit of chickenhawking experience among the researchers.
Luckily it couldn’t possibly have been Mandelslut and he’s now vermin in ermine and the British establishment would as we all know never elevate such a person.
So that’s a relief. I wouldn’t believe a word of it myself but I did ponder that scurrilous piece of gossip all the way to the chip shop.
Have a close look at the Legal Services Commission, no sooner Had Hazel Parker-Brown placed her well polished bottom on the seat behind her new desk, she calls up old croney Vivienne Carlton the former nude film actress ( Curse of the Crimson Altar) who was chained naked then ritually slaughtered ( more on Amazon Oh Boy see the extended scenes on the DVD)
Well having abruptly resigned her NHS Governors job in East Grinstead, then been released and sent packing by the ‘Elf and Safety Commission, Vivienne long time cohort of McBride, Dolly Draper et al, is now in charge of the ‘legal aid’ Brand!
Fostering relations with the media says the LSA. But don’t try to speak to the saintly Vivienne, far too posh, you’ll be fobbed of with a minion..in some departments things never change, this is one of them and LSA should check her expenses, she can put Number 10 and third World debt in the shade….. this is what the LSA says about the new apointee, Viviennes Boss:
Hazel Parker-Brown has been appointed as Executive Director for Corporate Services. Hazel has been Corporate Services Business Director at the Commission for Social Care Inspection since 2004. Before that she was at the Department for Transport.
During her career Hazel has held national roles in multi-site organisations with responsibility for a wide range of corporate services including human resources, information technology, finance, estates, legal services, secretariat services and governance.
“This allowed people like Peter Mandelson and Alistair Campbell to have undue power over a sometimes supine and biddable press corps.”
They love it supine.
Didn’t the indy try to work without the lobby for a while? What did they say when they had to join it?
are we ever going to get real news stories from politicians or are we just to take it for granted they are all lying.
When politicians aren’t called politicians and instead are called patriots I s’pose. At least a patriot who goes against our values can be called a traitor easily enough.
Half eye is off to Scotland next week.
I’ll see if I can persuade them to take McMoron back
Aye, as long as he’s banned from Politics or any position of influence we’ll take him back, I doubt he’d live past Xmas the hoon! Some Ned (Non Educated Delinquent – our version of CHAV) would do him over for a couple of bottles of White Lightening – mind you Lard Foulkes – would probably do it for the same payment – another hoon.
You can keep Jax Schmidt porn hoon and Lord Meddlesome, bent hoon and all those other non entities of the Labour party who have been promoted beyond their ability.
Please be reasonable don’t we suffer enough with Mr. Murphy and Lord George Foulkes telling us what a great and glorious world saving leader we have??
True, but we’ll shoot them for treason, we’ll let Broon live as a testament to those who would be Emperor – perhaps we can let him have St.Kilda but he’d end up eating Puffins unlike Meddlesome who’d blow Puffins!
We don’t want devolution max, we want Independence as do the English, you want to see the back of us and we you, although there’s a good mix of DNA between our countries, we will go and make our own decisions and live with the consequences…….I’m sorry you had both Broon and Bliar as PMs – but some of your countrymen and women did vote for these arses – they had no choice after the Tory party imploded after binning Thatcher….QED?
Living in England under the heel of that cnut Brown (sorry Guido but ‘hoon’ just doesn’t do it for me) I’m strongly considering moving North to Scotland. Great people who don’t seem willing to put up with as much shit as people are willing to in England.
Hopefully the McCurse will do a deal on devolution with Salmond
“Aye, Salmond ye can hae yar devolution, I`ll see to it, but the deal is I become Procurator Fiscal of Scotland after I lose ma present job doon sooth”
Salmond is was a successful economist before politics and hit the ground running when he won the Scottish election despite Nulabs best efforts.
Brown’s only experience outside politics was as a stroppy snotty citizen smith type student.
When Brown got the job he schemed and plotted for after all these years he fell splat on his mincing arse!!!!!!!
WTF would anyone want Brown, Browne, Darling or any of the rest of these war criminals for when we have Salmond?
Why use StKilda when Rockall is totally vacant?
Please be reasonable and use some restraint as there are sometimes other people on St Kilda.
Salmond will do no deal. SNP will actually help rid us of this filth.
Never voted for them but they are the opposition of choice in Scotland and we have no need to fear any deal between SNP and NuLabour.
I agree with Urinalpeeps. Salmond is smart and has cut it in the real world as Chief Economist at RBS (Yes, long before their downfall).
Salmond is not cut from the same cloth as the odious Murphy/Brown/Blair .. and I know for a fact he has little regard for Darling (well… who does ?)
Correction Urinalpeeps .. I believe McSnot was always an “Intellectual Heavyweight” since birth.. but he DID indeed have life outwith the public sector (ONEyear as a journalist)
Couldn’t cut it. TOSSER that he is.
Thanks Dolly I stand corrected.
But he is still an odious shit.
Why do we get politicians with, as said by the media of wee wee wendy, with intellects “As big as Dumbarton Rock” who in reality could not run a bath let alone a country?
Isn’t there something that McMental has done that would be a crime in another country (e.g., Iraq) that would allow that country to try him, in absentia?
Wouldn’t that be a nice May day prezzie?
Despotism how about these …. I’m sure we can get him on a few of them
Wreckless endangerment of a country ?
Governing without due care and attention ?
Impersonation of a Prime Minister ?
Failing to stop after an accident ?
Using a political party with defective steering ?
Anyone for anymore ?
Incontinence.
Myopia.
Rhinotillexis.
Onychophagia.
Surely this has to be next for the Crosshairs Guido….Watson’s a gonner anyway
http://thethunderdragon.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/jacqui-smith-headcases.jpg
Look like sitting ducks
They would rather watch their newspapers die a slow death due to lack of support from the prole buyers of the newspapers than go head to head with the bullies of this goverment,I suppose so long as they get their monthly paycheck they don’t care,short termism at it’s best.
Cheers G. I heard Yvette kicked her wife’s back door in – nasty business.
The government, police, courts, Whitehall and BBC are all corrupt.
They would not know the truth if it came up and gave them a kick up the ass.
Until the eejets understand that the internet is the people’s forum where the Truth will Be Out. They will never learn!
Second that comment and the law is an arse, particularly for single/divorced fathers – FFJ Rules OK!
You left out GMTV. There are still plebty of plebs, who will vote Labour, watching Burglar Brown and his comrades being “interviewed” by and cosying up to Mrs. Draper. Dismiss the leftie-driven (by Dolly look-a-like producer Frizzell), puerile rubbish at your peril.
If you want to fall asleep at the keyboard, read any BBC Message Boards more censored than my wheeley bin and about as much rubbish in them.
“Gordon darling, the garbage man is at the front door,……………..tell him we don’t want any Sarah”
Hey Guido,
What’s your next line: “that’s enough about me, let’s talk about you: what do you think of me?”
Let’s talk about you, John.
John is going for the full refund. Bless his little heart.
Go away John, we don’t want your sort here.
Now, now children, let’s not bully posters. If you don’t like it, ignore it.
John means “God is gracious”. Well, I’m not so piss off.
John means “God is Gracious”. I’m not, so bugger off.
john means “god is gracious”. I’m not, so get your head back in the colon of your choice.
OK, OK. I got distracted – I’m trying to watch Eggheads.
Dear John
It’s a pity you didn’t show a great deal of loyalty to your readers here but scuttled off to push the juicy bits of your tale through the mainstream press. A lot of life in those dead trees, clearly.
And when are we going to read the actual emails between McBride and Draper. Oh I gettit. Your libertarian schtick is forgotten when other interests come into play.
Wheres Nick(to be fair to Gordon)Robinson? he always seemed to come up with stories like magic,scoops or spoon fed newlabour morsals?
Without his insider trading in stories and special access Nick(toenails)Robinson would have the clout of a tea boy at a regional free ads weekly.
Funny how he goes missing at this time isnt it?
Whats that Nick, got nothing to say, got nothing to report? isnt Damian Mcpoison feeding you your special exclusive scoops/smears anymore?
Perhaps he could do a follow up to his last blog entry ‘chancellor to the world’ or would that tire him out too much?
Not really. Robinson always goes away during school holidays. He’s probably just being a good dad.
He’s on holiday. But his take will be interesting when he gets back.
When Nick Robinson first started I thought he was brilliant. He was spiky and quite aggressive, pretty independent and was often criticised by Labour for being a former young Conservative member. Then, wham – he became a labour fawner and groveller. What happened and exactly when ?
It’s been a fairly long holiday though….. not that I miss his Pravda emissions.
Yeah Pip, I used to think Nick Robinson was great too. Possibly needed the ‘Danegeld’ to fund his lifestyle.
According to his blog, he’s on his Easter Hols: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2009/04/au_revoir.html
Nick said, ‘Back shortly, am having an extension to my toenails’.
To be fair, Robbos bit on the BBC Politics page, whilst not having been updated for a while is not too far wide of the mark concerning attack dogs, smears and the like……:
“It’s like Brown is chancellor again – with all that entails ”
As the great man says.
Surely that should be ‘entrails’.
As Talwin notes, he has been on holiday. As a result, Gordon had a truly crappy week and the coverage was not noticably worse for the absence of Toenails’ analysis.
Laura Kuensberg was excellent. Why do we need a political editor on the BBC? Their job is to report, not interpret. We can make our own minds up.
Yep.
And where is Dame Michael White?
“Have not noticed any major admissions from the guilty.” Some may cop a plea after the Easter break which I believe a few of them are taking. I believe “Toenails” Robinson is on his hols too. Sales of laxatives may be on a downward track in direct proportion to their end product colliding with a rotating fan. Even some Grauniad contributors have peered out into the light and the truth has given them sight after years of total blindness.
We are in the process of de-stigmatising e-mails.
This is why we stopped reading your dead trees and switched to Guido et al .You lobby hacks went native and swallowed all the rubbish they spouted.
You are now redundant we don’t read your crap,we wont buy your rags! so goodbye and thanks for letting mandelson and Mcbride ruin our country.
You fucking hoons.
They, like the delusional madman Brown, thought the ZanuLabour Reich would last forever and opted for the quiet, cosy life of spoonfed “scoops”, insightful comment about what would happen next, after of course being briefed beforehand and sycophantic gloss regarding ZanuLabours total fuck up, until it became obvious to everyone.
Now of course driven by guilt and fear they are frantically distancing themselves from the oncoming economic crash, that ZanuLabour have lied would never happen again, while doing everything imaginable to create it for the last 12 years.
A quite despicable bunch, all in all.
Thank You Guido.
You have done the Nation a fine service…..
Cheers….
It’s alright getting all those MSM people to admit “mea culpa” but how are you going to convince them and their editors to publish their own little stories?
Once we get the actual broad picture from all the parties’ SPAD’s then they can set about clearing it away
Competition, always works in free market economies.
Of course first we need to drop a cement-encased McHoon and his tribe into a disued North Sea oil well.
But that’s acoming.
The wonder of it is that both the politicians and the journalists believe the system works.
It hasn’t dawned on them that journalists are held in utter contempt because its patently obvious to most readers, viewers and listeners that they’re doing the politicians’ bidding and rather than engaging in honest reporting.
The BBC is one of the worst culprits in this inter-dependency game. The @Andrew Marr@ show is an exemplar. Even Naughtie and the new gay guy are too cosied up to get in hard on the Today prog. I OFTEN WONDER AT THE IGNORANCE OF THE QUESTIONERS WHO APPEAR TO BE SO ARROGANT THAT THEY HAVEN’T BOTHERED TO DO PROPER RESEARCH AND JUST HOPE TO GET BY WINGING IT. (Sorry about caps lock.) They don’t seem to realise how compromised they are by the insider invites, parties, plane trips etc. The two way street is firmly one way now and it sucks. Thankfully we now have the web.
Steve Richards of the Indy – your link today – even appears to be complaining in advance of his anticiapted lack of inside contacts when Brown goes..
For some reason I’ve always loathed Steve Richards, even more than the rest of them.
Perhaps it’s because he’s a fat NuLab shill who tries ever so hard to justify his cheerleading with pseudo-intellectual bullshit.
Ignore the hoon.
his name ain’t Dick by coincidence.
I knew someone who worked for a company that handled the phone calls for a tv phone in that was meant to be about the public phoning in to ask questions of a panel of selected labour mps. Turns out every single caller was employed by the phone company and all the questions were written by by the labour party. Most of these shows are by invite only and the people invited are selected for their political views (ie, are labour suckards)
I am looking forward to the return of that Hoon Nick Robinson from his holidays. Assuming he has a job to come back to. His inspired commentary has hardly been missed, and I suspect a penny is beginning to drop at the BBC.
Laura Kuenssberg has risen to the occasion wonderfully in Nick Robinson’s absence.
Aye, right.
Her daddy (SEPA director) donated £995 (the magic number) to Wendy ‘Gobshite’ Alexander’s erm, Scottish Labour leadership campaign.
The rotten fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree.
And she has more hair.
Laura Kuenssberg did well.
Rita Chakrabati is a hoon.
Yup Laura Kuenssberg has been one of the few to stand up and be counted.
Good on her.
Laura is much better than that awful Anita Anand woman on The Daily Politics. In fact, since the previous co-presenter Jenny Scott left for a cushy job in the BoE, the show has been going downhill. See how easy it is to get an anti-New Labour comment read out by Anand.
Jo Coborn is better than Anita (and doesn’t have an earing in her nose). Jo also is more balanced in the comments if there’s any time to read them out. Only problem is Jo only does Thursday’s show with Brillo, so we’re stuck with Anand and her bias.
Good timing Guido to break this when the Brown Support team were on holiday.
Sly old Faulkes!
Pesto’s in for a thintime when Brown gets his P45 isn’t he ??? Ho ho ho
AK: I hadn’t read down to here when I made the same points upthread. Apols.
What the hell are we sleepwalking into? We have “journalists” like Steve Richards colluding with corrupt politicians to put a gloss on their stinking behaviour. Twelve years ago, people like him and other fully paid up members of the Left were baying for the blood of the Conservatives. The pack was more relentless then than it is now. They went along with it because it suited their desire to get Labour in. Fucking hypocrites. As for Thatcher enjoying a good press, Richards is in cloud-fucking-cuckoo-land. The BBC tried to bring her down but she was too strong for them.
Look at how the bastards destroyed David Kelly. Look how Labour used the police to silence Damian Green. Look how people are monitored for putting their bin out on the wrong day. We are being gradually being sucked into a totalitarian hell hole where people who speak out or disobey the elite are beaten into submission. These shits need to be brought down along with the craven journalistic establishment.
Know something. I’m more pissed off with the MSM than I am politicians. And that says something! At least you know politicians are bent before they start.
These press fckers parade their ‘in-depth’ analysis of the political swamp. Really? They’re ponces, feeding off of ZaNu Labour’s teat. They’re not worth a wank.
MSM is crap in all respects. I no longer buy a newspaper now as I dont want to waste my money.
As far as Damian Green is concerned I hope he got the names of the tossers who arrested and threatened him and terrorised his family on the basis of a tissue of lies and the even bigger tossers masquerading as senior civil servants who wrote the fictitious script and pushed the button.
It would be nice if they were given the same treatment and see how they like it.
Quite right – will Sir David Normington and Sir Gus O’ Donnell be held to account over their behaviour? I predict hell will freeze over before that happens.
Hey, the Eagles got back together, there is a precedent, hell has frozen over once before – have hope!
The last time the press got something right was when they told us that Jade Goddy had died ( I think )
At least they got her name right!
Oh, I dunno. Jade Goddy seems about right given the ridiculous hype surrounding the bint.
I thought it was Jade Gobby ? Have I been wrong all these years /
*ashamed*
Bloody hell. These enthusiastic amateurs are doing a better job than we are.
You grubby little man, do you know who I am?
Are you that white haired, arrogant, pompous bloke there’s no gainsaying on TV? Or is that Michael Winner?
bitch
Eyes and ears of the people, holding the executive to account? You’re having a laugh aren’t you? This is the gravy train, mate. Stories come to us, no risk or effort required.
Fancy a two week jolly to Canada to give us the low-down on alcoholism amongst eskimos?
Someone’s got to do the advertorial you know.
just read guido’s times peice. it’s fortunate he’s so good at what he does cause he’s a pretty awful writer.
seriously, he’s as bad as draper. why the endless self-reference and self-justification? is guido such an egomanic he can’t separate himself from the story. perhaps he’s closer to draper than he cares to admit, both seem to share the same brand of political narcissim.
Mr Fawkes to you, young lady
At least he knows where the shift button is
true … it hAs always puzzled me eVerY TiME i try TO USE it i FUCk it up
Well, doh, that’s because he WAS part of the story.
not really, he broke a story about others. he, in a lovely peice of politics, had drawn draper out to the front of the crowd, and then dropped the bombshell. like i said he’s very good at what he does (and thank god he does it, no one else seems to be). but the times article reads like a sixth former’s justification for telling on someone. all about me, me, me…
Penfold, if you’re going to describe a sequence of events about you then you’re going to talk a lot about, well, you. Don’t be a berk.
Peice? it’s i before e except after c, not before c.
Also it’s narcissism.
While we are on the subject of psychology, have you been reading Dolly’s book? You seem to be projecting your own fault on others.
spelling never was my strong point. but despite that i not worried, when i look at my refelction and see the beauty i know that nothing else really matters. i note there’s an echo of your comment below, maybe i should pursue it…
He’s a better writer than you.
Peice? It’s i before e except after c, not before c, and it’s narcissism.
Which State school did you go to?
If s/he went to a school post-1997 one could argue that ‘peice’ & ‘narcissim’ are not bad efforts. And Balls would probably see them as close enough and a bit of a result.
For fuck’s sake turn on your spell checker.
Then fuck off.
Aye, there’s the rub. Bastards all. Bastards. Let them eat shit. Keep after them, Guido. This is good stuff – and huge fun.
Never, as the Pranksters themselves said, trust a prankster.
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Guido,
Unfortunately I assume in the future, before the next UK general election, that the police will kick down your door and drag you away for . Most likely for “national security” reasons.
I’m not at all clear how the Guido Brand (as per your Guido – The Movie – Newsnight interview) would continue.
Do you have continuity plan for the Guido Brand ? If not, get one soon.
It’s OK . They let you blog from prison . Keeps me happy .
I can only assume that the way that journo’s look at it is:
1 – they’ll write the story for me so I don’t have to
2 – If I’m a good boy, I’ll get a scoop when it is my turn – everybody happy
3 – OK, I’ll bite down hard and forget that I’m a journalist for the above reasons
I can see why they have done it but that doesn’t mean that I agree with it.
I hope that the entire lobbying/briefing system is disbanded and everybody is put out to grass.
The phrase ‘investigative journalist’ seems to have been given a bad name by those that rummage through bins at midnight, well hopefully, being one that sucks on the teat of spinners will now carry even more stigma.
Let’s hope so.
hear hear
Mildly off-topic, but wasn’t Polly Twaddle looking relaxed and suntanned when she appeared on Newsnight alongside Fraser Nelson. Presumably a Tuscan suntan, and a nice holiday (for us). Oh well, back to scribble, scribble, scribble.
The sun got to her head though, she was talking MORE ‘ollocks than usual.
I’m looking forward to her next CIF offering and the opprobrium it will generate.
How do we petition the UN for electoral oversight?
Oh yes, didn’t they compare a particular election here to that “like a banana republic”?
Proud of this Mr. Brown?
Sorry, silly question….
UN over sight should be seriously considered.
Just remember the strange result in the last by election in Scotland and the curious loss of documentation that followed it .
The failed vote rigging in the election for the Scottish Parliamnet should also be a warning.
Nulab Slogan;
Vote early and most important vote often preferably by post!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?in_article_id=193252&in_page_id=64
Mr Mugabe went further, saying he had no quarrel with the British people, but with those in “number 10, Downing Street” – the official address of UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
“The demons in number 10, Downing Street, must be exorcised by someone,” he said.
It is seriously worrisome that according to the international monitors, the Palestinian Authority election in which Hamas came to power was MORE democratic than the last Scottish election.
Then the British Government supported the Fatah overthrow of the democratically elected leadership.
Our Government does not give a shit about democracy.
Where HAVE you been Neddy?
What about the Bias BBC, why should we put up with one side of the story.
I only watch them to see what, news of the day, they have left out
The only way to do that would be to change the funding model.
At present, the BBC wait to be told how much they’ll get by a body set up by the Government.
So if they do as they are told (perhaps) then they’ll get enough funding to do what they want to do.
Quite gross and very flagrant when you break it down isn’t it?
they done a good job editing brown’s self resignation on last nights news
I use to watch BBC News because I was in love with Sophie……now even she’s got spots.
I can’t see what all the fuss is about, moaning about loss of democracy, load of shites and bastards etc.
All you have to do is go to the No 10 website and submit a video question via utube, see below, and the lovely charming Gordon will answer it for you!!
“Ask the PM”
“Ask the PM is your chance to put a video question to Gordon Brown.
We want your questions about any area of life, be it the economy, health, foreign affairs or education.
Read more about Ask the PM and submit your video question on YouTube.”
http://www.number10.gov.uk/
No tricky questions though please.
Things like his favourite food, favourite colour or underpants or boxers will get answers.
Anything on the economy, why we are spied on, why he has confidence in Jacqui Smith, comments on police brutality will be deleted and ignored.
Democracy in action!
‘Adding comments has been disabled for this video.’
The party that listens LMAO!
Yes Indeed. Just like the Cabinet meeting in Glasgow yesterday, followed by a Q&A session (attended by students, business people and NuLabour supporters) where all questions were reviewed and selected in advance by that mega-orator Mr Jim Murphy.
Democracy in motion.
Is that the same Murphy of the one time vote rigging scandal?
I’ll ask him next time I meet him and his likes flying the Tricolour at Celtic Park, OK ?
We haven’t strayed so far from the days of Blair when the main story on every Radio Five Live news bulletin in the morning seemed to start off “The government will today announce……”
You see, that’s what really gets my blood boiling.
We no longer have news – we have a damn news forecast.
Grrrrrrrrrrrr.
That’s been annoying the hell out of me for years, and no-one else seemed to have noticed till now.
Note to BBC: Reading out a government note that they are about to reannounce x billion for something or other for the fifth time is NOT news.
Showing Brown’s head on a spike would be.
Future news – just a form of political advertising and our broadcasters just lap it up because there’s no effort or intelligence required to read this dreadful guff off a ‘news release’.
Only it isn’t news!
Even the BBC weather is shite.
You watch the UK news, it says one thing, you watch the local BBC news it says another and then the day comes and it bears no relation to either.
Plus, there’s about 50 of the bandits, most of whom would appear to be very light on the loafers.
I look out the window for my weather forecast.
SIR- Yes, sir. It’s another form of control, old chap. Very rum indeed. If I need an accurate forecast I check to see if Mrs. K is lying down in the paddock.
I did a contract at the Met Office once. They told me that their massive computer systems, expertise etc, enabled them to be 72% accurate about tomorrow’s weather. Looking out the window and guessing it’ll be about the same is 68% accurate.
I gave up on telly forecasts a long time ago – like the ads, they go off. Weather is either via the window or the met office website – both are generally more accurate and a whole lot quicker to digest – and much less irritating than the current bunch of performers (sorry, presenters).
In our Region of the Soviet Republic of Great Britain we get a weather forcast on the National news broadcast followed swiftly thereafter by another of the fuckers giving a regional forcast telling us the same fucking stuff ( presumably as I am usually comatosed by the innane boredom of it all by this time. I mean for fucks sake !
Who exactly watches this shite ?
“Who exactly watches this shite ?” well by your own admission, you, obviously…
I’m new to the site and I might be repeating someone elses suggestion but there is a petition on the Downing street site asking for an immediate election. Can you suggest people sign it?
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/GoToCountryNow/ . It could be a waste of time but if there were record signatures……
theres already one Anonymous here find another monika
Oh you are so demanding!
Just signed up to get MadEye Broon out on the No10 Petition website. Currently about 1400 signatures. Let’s swamp the bastards!
NuLab could probably arrange for a few thousand Postal Voters to sign that petition if you could catch one of their apparatchiks around closing time
Nice one. They ask for your name, address and postal address to be allowed to sign the petition.
If they aren’t going to sell me anything then why ask ?
Won’t be used against me … and I also believe that McSnot knew nothing of the McPoison emails ?
Go figure.
“They ask for your name, address and postal address to be allowed to sign the petition.
If they aren’t going to sell me anything then why ask ?”
It’s a lame attempt to prevent one fucker pretending to be 10,000 fuckers.
In which case I’ll change the name and address 10,000 times. If I can do that then they’ll hire me for the next vote-rig, yes ?
Well done Guido for exposing this corrupt system and this mendacious government. More power to your elbow as this country sure the hell needs you and others like you.
Iain Macwhirter needs to go back to Record Breakers, fucking hoon
Oh fuck off ‘penfold’ attention troll.
Mr Fawkes has brought down the Voldemort of HMG and you whine about his writing style??
Danger Mouse would be ashamed at you.
The dirty tricks campaign against Cameron has been conducted by Brown’s poisonous gang since the leadership campaign in 2005. Here is a fascinating Telegraph article from 2005 that reveals the incredible machinations against Cameron set in train then. Many of the vile smears elaborated for RedRag emanate from this period. In that sense Whelan is right to claim the stories have been washing around for awhile – because McBride’s gang injected their poison about Cameron back in 2005 when they were desperately trying to stop his election.
Labour’s ‘dirty tricks’ over secret Cameron dossier
Yes, Oscar, you are right.
If the hacks are that worried about being put out of the loop then they are not very imaginative. Do they not think to contact the departments of state direct, research things and look through information direct. It is just a group of Lazy fuckwits have no imagination!
If you want imagination just look at me taking the piss ou of Invisible man Nick Clegg!
http://nickcleggneilkinnock.blogspot.com/
New Dawn.
The hacks will now jump on the bandwaggon and try to outdo each other on who can challenge McSnot’s spin.
They know that this week was the turning point – the king is dead, long live the king.
Guido’s masterstroke was the beginning of the end of NuZanuLabour – and they know it.
REJOICE.
Kate Burley finally had a bit of a go, at that Shaun bloke, must say i actually cheered and clapped my hands, how sad is that, but in my defence, it is because it’s just so out of character for any reporters to challenge the governemnt spin it took me by complete suprise.
Another thing (sorry, bad day at work), why are there so many whining left wing ‘comedians’ on the bloody BBC?
Them and their paid by the bloody laugh audience of drunk students and right-on sixth formers.
Reactionary? My bottom, they’re boring and most are still cracking Thatcher gags – please move on – over the bloody cliff.
I’ll take a tablet now …..
Something more than mere pragmatism and self-interest in obtaining story access is needed to explain the fauning, uncritical subservience of the lobby journalists to whom New Labour ministers give dictation.
I will suggest that it is a variety of Stockholm Syndrome, in which a hostage becomes loyal to a hostage-taker, regardless of any moral hazard or ideological difference that might have previously divided them.
The Syndrome is thought to be be a type of defence mechanism against the fear of punishment by the Captor, a very reasonable fear when considering the damage done to the careers of the few journalists who dared to stand up to McBride and his accomplices.
In order to avoid punishment, the victim of Stockholm Syndrome begins to take an obsessive interest in the likes and dislikes of the Captor, internalizing these until the beliefs and methods of the Hostage-take become their own.
Just a study for a leading Psychotherapist. Know of any ?
The beeb are reporting on a woman who suffers from Agoraphobia, she hasn’t been outside for 18 years http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/8003982.stm
She’ll be back indoors for another 18 if this bunch of hoons dont quit now
how odd i cant use BBC i player to reply the “lost world of communism” perhaps it was too close to the mark ???
liked your article in telegraph guido , a bit new but you have nailed one aspect of the labour con very well
Big brother is a busted flush
Fuck me. Did we let him loose in The Storygraph? I must have been on an extended lunch break.
With luck we will get a rerun of the famous balcony scene from Nicolae and Elena. Preferably with Gordo being “rescued” by a Eurocopter Super Puma
Flown by blue face-painted, skirt-wearing M. Gibson. Gordo played by Shir Shorn. Elena played by a passing beard. Film premiere in the Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy. Tickets at £100K each (all proceeds to G. Brown Cape Cod retirement fund).
What “lost world” of communism we live in it
Surely even lobby correspondents must realise that the government & all MPs in general need the oxygen of publicity more desperately than the lobby correspondents need to please their own bosses. Unite, all of you, & refuse to film, print or blog any political news for at least 24 hours. Show them the limits of their power then insist on decent standards of truth which you & they must uphold. Can’t you all see that the general public is perilously close to the “Why vote – it only encourages them” school of thought. A period of reflective silence from all of you would be a blessing.
Wouldn’t work I’m afraid. All they need to do is make noises about the licence fee or all the state advertising in the Guardian and they would quickly fall back into line. They only need one or two mouthpieces.
Anon: If the media pack stuck together then they could make the politicians come to heel. Problem is they won’t. The lobby pack are just fodder. Guido answers to no one (well except it appears she who must be obeyed) but the dead wood hacks in particular have to be able to write pages of shite every day. If they have no tit bits, they are just no use.
You are probably right. But I really don’t want to live in the kind of country where hardboiled cynicism is the only possible intellectual, emotional & moral response to politics. It’s bad for my blood pressure.
Honest appraisal from Frank Field on Darling’s big day out on his own next week and what’s needed linkage below. Be interesting to see if Gordon is grinning like a deranged monkey as its delivered.
Posted Wednesday and I missed it somehow until today.
Last paragraph in particular:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/the-week/3540376/politics.thtml
As ever one of the few MPs with genuine integrity gets it right. It would be a tragedy if he lost his seat in the inevitable landslide at the next general election. When is Cameron going to entice him across the floor of the house? He has nothing in common with his current party’s leadership. I would like to see Kate Hoey, who is equally semi-detached make the same journey.
Left a comment on his blog today – urging him to consider switching. Anyone but NuLabour. Depends on his inertia and ambition I suspect, but he must be frustrated that the party he once loved is now a basket case. Fighting his position from within is no longer an option – and he would probably incite a few other respectable Labour MPs to consider joining him.
Offer that olive branch, Mr Cameron
hot off the press from the bbc
Warning of ‘death of journalism’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8005090.stm
“The UK will witness the “death of journalism as we know it” unless the rules on media mergers are changed, a senior industry leader has warned
Trinity Mirror Chief Executive Sly Bailey said news aggregators like Google took advertising sales that would otherwise go to newspaper sites.
Leaving merger rules intact would result in “out-of-date regulations but nothing left to regulate,” she added.
Newspapers must consolidate to survive, she told the Digital Britain summit. “
Oh well . No news is good news , honey .
© E x .
How can something that is already dead die again?
Mandelson and Blunkett know the secret . . .
Easy peasy lemon squeezy ducky
good honest reporting would help.
Last desperate attempt to keep Murdoch onside – give him carte blanche over UK broadcasting
Buy any newspaper and the content is the same,the jurno`s deserve, everything that`s thrown at them, lazy pigs
Problem, reaction, solution.
They are looking for a way to consolidate the provision of news. Then there will be only ONE official version of events. I know, I know it is very close to that now, but then it would be hard-wired into the news system.
Stick to the blogosphere!
MET POLICE AUTHORITY MEETING -KETTLE SIR PAUL STEPHENSON -APRIL 30TH
Sir Paul Stephenson is due to attend a public Metropolitan Police Authority meeting at City Hall on April 30th. This meeting is open to the public so lets turn up comrades! We could even surround the building – which is round – and kettle him in – KETTLE SIR PAUL STEPHENSON APRIL 30TH
Isn’t it a bit strange that some itinerant calls his da Ian? Cheers G.
” a sometimes supine and biddable press corps.”
Whaddya mean ‘sometimes’, Macwhirter? Since when in the past decade has anyone from the Lobby stood up and told it like it really is? Sycophancy is the order of the day. These ‘journalists’ have no self-respect at all – and damn all ability, either.
There was a time when a decent journalist could make or break a politician. Now it’s completely the opposite. There was a time when people would buy newspapers for informed comment, accurate reporting and real insight. Now these self-same newspapers are just Pravda. Everything that has happened to the mainstream media has been a direct result of its own weaknesses of character. Hardly surprising that people have turned away and are now getting their information on the Internet.
There’s only one way that the MSM will survive and that is to be better than the mediocre pap which it now is. It’s not about speed, it’s about quality.
Yes, the idea that ‘The Times’ was once called “The Thunderer” seems almost whimsical if we didn’t know how it’s once famous journalism has been utterly suborned and traduced by the Father of Lies in his Downing Street lair.
Fuck off New Labour supporting bastards.
MSM or dead tree press, which is the more apt??
O/T
why manslaughter and not murder? Ian Tomlinson died from haemorrhaging not heart attack. Pull in Patel. Charge copper.
Next
Brown, Smith and co – fucking useless
Dead tree press is insulting to dead trees everywhere.
they dont know that though.
And how many other examples of video evidence would there be if our “people’s bobbys” weren’t allowed to rip the cameras from the witness’s hands under the threat of arrest for terrorism ?
My thoughts are that, ultimately, the video evidence will only show that the murdered was assaulted by Police Officer #2 but that his injuries were not consistent with THAT assault.
The CCTV video evidence of prior assault by Police Officer #1 -which would be consistent – will have mysteriously gone missing.
Result: Not Guilty (Even without the assistance of Sir Ian Blair or Bob Quick)
If typing with the caps lock on is SHOUTING, what is it using all likkle letters?
1. Stupid.
2. Mumbling
3. Childish.
4. Lazy.
5. Inconsiderate.
6. Ignorance.
7. Something sticky on the keyboard.
8. All seven of the above.
Guido, thought your article in The Times was excellent and to the point.
Imodium sales must be going up and up in the bunkers of power and dead tree thunder boxes.
9. You’re unfortunate enough to have had Vista foisted upon you and your computer hates you.
Agree about The Times article.
ackshully…
typing with all small letters began on the bulletin boards of coders decades ago and then spread when the internets went past the early adoption stage.
if u ever check the major US blogs (e.g. LGF / Kos) u’ll c a mix of both standard grammar and all lower case – with no fogey hoons complaining about which is used. using all lower caps is perfectly fine in netiquette terms – jerry yang uses it for example, and i think he knows a bit more about the internets than u do.
i’m new to this site (another drawn by the draper / mcbride scandal) and realise it’s rough in here, but when peeps start to complain about spelling, grammar, punctuation and all lower caps letters… sorry, but that’s just a load of derek draper.
toodle pip!
Thanks for the lecture.
Pass the imodium.
Bollox you cock, don’t try and pull that “I’ve been on the interweb longer than you” with me. Anyone who doesn’t capitalise their sentences was always a lazy cock. Jerry Yang is a cock and so are you, so fuck off.
Excuse me ‘jez’ but when you attempt to enter a debate about grammar, spelling and presentation it is fatal to say something like ‘check the major US blogs’.
The US is full of people who cannot spell and have heard of a system called grammar but don’t know who to ask to look it up for them.
The difference between American use of the English language and the correct use of the English language is ‘laziness’.
The US is full of people striving to explain away laziness as a kind of efficient system, a bit like self-diagnosed dyslexics.
Its much more respectable to have a condition which prevents little Chuckie learning to spell rather than just admitting the little twat is either stupid or mentally lazy.
thx fowler, but i have been on the internets longer than you, so has jerry yang, and so therefore it is thee that should ‘fuck off’.
i know this cos you use ‘interweb’ rather than ‘internets’ – u’re just a beginner with a potty mouth. are u sure ure not related to derek draper?
ARF (look it up)
Jez
Buggered SHIFT key?
eeeeee !
my keeybord cant spel
You have to watch this
Laugh – I nearly bought a round
Brilliant, though a bit hard on poor old Frank Field.
Frank Field is good – a decent person . there are a few left in the labour camp and he is one of them.
Thanks for the heads-up on this one, Mr.smeeth. Nice lyrics, catchy tune. Next round on me.
OMFG !!!!
Made my ears burn a bit , honey , but I always did enjoy those UKIP PPBs.
Amazin wot you can do wiv Windows Movie Maker .
Later © E x .
It’s been pulled by yewchewb.
Looks like they just removed the content:
“This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.”
Buy the round anyway!
It made me feel good, like lancing a boil; I agree that it was a bit hard on poor old Frank Field but then he should have crossed the floor years ago.
Sorry, but I really cannot accept that Mr Field is a decent chap. He has had plenty of opportunity to leave labour and stand as an independent. He is sticking with those vile labour criminals so he IS inexorably tainted by them. That makes him as much of a hoon as they are. End OF!
It’s always easier to run away.
He has support within his party and perhaps he chose to fight from within. He’s getting on now and in some of those Labour strongholds there is no point in standing against Labour (I know, I reside in one) as Independent. I still believe he’d be a major asset to Cameron and broaden the appeal significantly. Cameron may win this by quite a margin (I certainly hope so) but he needs to carry the electorate through very difficult years thereafter. Five years is not enough. Frank Field’s assistance would help preserve that mandate and appeal to those who may never, otherwise, lend their vote. Embrace his likes.
Been removed……..
As a former lobby corr. I can tell you it all began to get nasty with Joe Haines and Wilson. Nowadays it would be impossible to remain sane as a Lobby Co. The big rot set in with Campbell. Utterly disgraceful how he called the shots. Not helped with the men who OWNED THE PRESS. I am so glad I got out of it when I did. And I actually had worked with Haines.
I’m glad someone finally mentioned the press owners.
And see how easy is it for a diligent blogger to gobsmack a Fleet Street hack merely by describing something we doctors call ‘work’.
Absoluetly. The owners have a lot to answer for. That is where the editorial line is handed down from. They all meet at their cosy clubs, think-tanks and secret societies and that is where policy is decided. The media’s owners have admitted it. There are many quotes from these bastards how they have kept quiet to allow the new world order to establish itself.
As Carlin said, “It’s all one big club and you are not in it! They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you, they OWN you!”
And in law, they actually fucking do! If you have a birth certificate you ARE owned. You are a “thing” that has been registered. You are a possession in legal terms.
60,000,000 of us
646 of them
Start a blog. Guido did.
THEY HATE IT
OMG !!!
I’m far too lazy for that , hun . Can’t I just squat on this one occasionally ???
© E x .
Squat where you want honey!
60,000,000 minus 646 – 20 million kids – 5 million ‘on the sick’ – 14,999,342 state employees – 10 million immigrants – 5 million Scotch – 5 million geriatrics.
I reckon that leaves 12 of us. I’m still up for it!
5 million Scottish, if you don’t mind. And it should be remembered that we tend to lead the way – eradicating the Tory hoons completely by the end of the Major era, and starting on the current bunch of w*nkers in 2007. Wee Dougie should remember what happened to his sister not that long ago.
Samee,
Have a heart , poor wee wee wendy done her bit behind a wheelie bin for Nulab an at an took the brown envelopes just as she was old to ,WTF more wiz she meant tae dae ah ask ye an that by the way?
Samwee: No Scotch, it winds them up better. Revenge on what the McMonster tribe has been doing since Ruiner hijacked No 11 (and now 10, 12,13 and the sewers)
Well put.
Count me in . That makes 4,999,999 Scots and 13 of us.
Let’s roll.
Scots, Scotch, Scottish .. who the hell cares.
This ZaNuLabour filth are an embarassment to our Nation.
Cut out their cancer.
I apologise unreservedly for their likes.
Can’t believe this! investigative journalism from the bbc’s Mark Easton, it really is well worth a visit.
It’s about the government releasing crime figures when they wern’t supposed to. He tries to find out out who knew what and when and who authorised the release inside number 10.
Guess what? yep you guessed it, he couldn’t but a really good try.
Perhaps you can succeed Guido, where he failed?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2009/04/where_is_the_accountability_in.html
I’ve posted on this here before. Easton is a classic example of a beeboid. He spouts Government propaganda as facts. When the Tories use FOI’s to disprove the Government figures Easton is usually claiming the Tories are just trying to make political capital.
Easton has NEVER challenged any of the figures presented to him by the Government. We all know crime is going UP in particular knife crime (the recent Tory FOI about hospital admissions for stabbing being a classic where Easton tried ot spin the government line)
The BBC should be sceptical about ANY Government claim. You can bet once the Tories are in next year Easton won’t be so willing to believe Government spin.
u may well have done but from my point of view, it’s the very first time i’ve seen or heard a bbc “newsman” challenge number 10 using foi requests. The replies after, are all what you would expect to see on here too.
May be, just may be, the walls are coming tumbling on down after 12 years.
by the way this is absolutely brilliant
Laugh – I nearly bought a round
This is total bollocks. Mark Easton is the one of the very few BBC journalists who DOESN’T take the Government line as gospel. The Home Ofrfice hate him.
He attacked them pretty hard on lying about the knife crime statistics and trying to spin them to suit the government’s paopaganda. He does look at the numbers rather than just asserting saloon-bar prejudice – “we all know crime is going up in particular knife crime” (where do you get that from?) Despite the tabloid hype the UK is still one of the safest countries in the UK, it’s just that everything is reported over and over again. Same with “stranger danger” – total myth, kids are much more at at risk from their parents and mums’ boyfriends (Baby P etc). But that doesn’t sell newspapers…
He won’t last long.
Funny that. I always did wonder as a kid why Spitting Image used to carracature the press pack as a bunch of pigs.
Funnily enough, I wrote another little something about this subject today
http://www.frankfisher.org
What about that post mortem eh… the first, when he was just a bystander dying of natural causes – no video so far as the police knew, and the PM could be fudged – and because they thought they *could* fudge it, they did.
The truth of this is that MSM journalists work to a schedule while bloggers and the facts don’t.
MSM have to fill their useless space on time – if there is no news they will happily fill it with whatever sh*t they can get away with. Over time they have become dependent on the sh*tters and find it easier to print the sh*t full time with no thought to real news.
Bloggers need only publish when their is something worth publishing – so can ignore the sh*t unless it is really good sh*t.
The key to your continued success (if I may be so bold as to suggest) is not your detachment from the lobby etc, but the fact that you have an entirely free reign on your own quality control – if their aint nothing worth saying you can keep quiet.
The dead tree press and lobby is going to die.
No it’s not. It’s going to re-invent itself on the blog . But it’s going to have to be more accountable – we’re here to make sure of it. Have faith.
I hope you are right.
I trust Cameron will make the changes rather than use the abuses that NuLabour have already implemented.
We’ll be supporting but watching closely nonetheless.
Strange we can invade countries in the name of democracy but stamp it out at home – and the press simply stand aside.
1984 was a Warning – Not a NuLabour instruction manual.
Guido:
Have you any comment about Gordon Rayner’s bio piece on you in the Telegraph tonight?
Link here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/5173475/Guido-Fawkes-the-colourful-life-of-the-man-who-brought-down-Damian-McBride.html
The lengths the Daily Telegraph are going to kill off their readership by supporting Labour I’ll be suprised if the paper exists in a few years time.
Guido’s seriously pissed them off, it seems – mind you, they’ll now have to get off their fat backsides and FIND stories, instead of being spoonfed by McPoison.
A few years, sir? Aha ha ha ha. The Barclay sisters have got great plans for this rag. As with all Scottish meddling in English institutions it involves running it into the ground. I’ve told them we can’t be all things to all people and that we are alienating our core readership. They just shrugged and said, ‘Who gives a fuck about the readership, it’s the advertisers we care about.’
‘So’, I said, ‘what about me?’ ‘Just keep the fucking plankton happy until we sell-out to The Mail’.
**Scoop alert** Fuck it, I’m off to down another bottle of, oh fuck, Scotch.
They go one bit wrong,Guido asked the mob on this blog if he should go hiding behind a screen or as himself on his Newsnight visit,the majority said go behind the screen just for a laugh,his archives can be seen on this blog anytime,we all have things we like to hide but the left have been after Guido for awhile including the bloggers when they tried to trash this site on a Saturday night when he had an interview with Pravda r4 they forgot he didn’t do the weekend and just left the site in a mess,lights out and all that.
All that infomation makes me like him more.
Dear DT Hoons.
I would suggest that when you are in a hole stop digging. Have you no shame. Disclosing sources? Breaking Non disclosure agreements? Colluding with Brown’s discredited henchmen?
This is a fight you DT wankers cannot win. This week’s events have changed the game thanks to Guido and not thanks to you lickspittles.
Your paymasters, the Barclay Bros, are arrogant hoons and we know how they react when the democratic process doesn’t get their way. Just ask the good people of Sark.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sark-feels-wrath-of-the-barclay-brothers-1062877.html
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article5349114.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/guernsey/7782198.stm
They may be able to buy the whores who work for the DT but they cant buy us all.
Dear Humpty Dumpty – because if Mr Mcbride is not still in hiding in his office maintaining contacts for Gordon’s benefit we can be sure that someone else is and Mr Watson – Gordons right hand minister in charge of the Civil service is making sure of it.
I just posted a comment there but their mods must all be down the pub:
Who cares? I am no more interested in [Fawkes's] private life than I am in yours. What counts is his journalism (for that’s what it is) and believe me, it counts.
Or WTTE.
Have left a comment, but guess what, they are active moderating and zero published from anyone so far. Pathetic.
I notice my comment hasn’t appeared either.
Strange, that…
Nasty little envy article – I will never buy it again after 25 yrs of picking it first from the news stand.
Guido’s NDA experience was very revealing at both the Smeargraph and NOTW/ST.
And jounralists attempt to claim the moral high-ground *pfft*
Dear Gordon Rayner,
The British will forgive a man most things, unless he is a toad, a creep and a slime ball.
just read it …so what? none of it matters anyway, just proves he’s an interesting varied human being….
To all the Labour Luvvies
You seem to have dificulty understanding the phrase “Fuck Off” so here I hope this helps
Sorry o/t but these bastards get my goat.
Yep, Police collusion in cover up. I don’t just want the guy who did the first autopsy strung up, I want all the bastards involved strung up.
IPCC Head Nick Hardwick is a spineless wretch. This guy is meant to be on our side. His performance on C4 News recently showed him to be the government stooge he is.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1184614595?bctid=19088092001
Dear god. I bestow upon this man a hoonage of the first order.
I seem to have made a mistake is the Telegraph site now redirecting to the Daily Mirror or was the hatchet job on Guido really a Telegraph piece, nope its correct its the Telegraph…what a snivelling idiotic Brown nosing Labour Lackey article it is…cot, teddy perhaps!
We aim to please, sir.
Thank you, now I hate to impose but would you be so kind as to help my niece (whose father was the former president of Senegal) to get over here so I can get my 20% of the $45,000,000 Daddy left her in a secret bank account, I would be eternally grateful…I’ll throw in a Peerage and a knock off Ipod Touch
its fine didn’t make me think less of him at all, rather the opposite
Put put on a Millwall FC t-shirt and go among a group of anti-protest coppers. Result – a severe wack! Enough said?
Protesting while white.
This is an article by one Gordon Brown MP, published in the News of the World on Feb 9th, 1997. In view of the present situation, some of the lines are particularly ironic. Swap a few words around (e.g. ‘Labour’ for ‘Tory’, ‘Brown’ for ‘Major’) and they fit current circumstances amusingly well:
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“There is only one thing to admire in this Government—their bare-faced cheek. After bringing in the biggest tax rises in peacetime history, they try to paint labour as the tax-raising party.
Listening to the Tories nowadays, you could be fooled into thinking that someone else has been in power. Hearing John Major, Kenneth Clarke, and Brian Mawhinney, you could be excused for believing that it was someone else who put up your taxes TWENTY-TWO times, adding Pounds 2,120 to the tax burden of the typical family.
That, of course, is exactly their game. They want to airbrush out the past, forget their broken promises, ignore the damning facts. And that is why they are again peddling the Great Tory Lies about Labour’s tax plans.
I believe that you have suffered enough from the Tory tax betrayal. Hard-working families like you have been hit hard by the 22 Tory tax rises. That is why I have pledged that a New Labour Government will not raise either the basic rate or the top rate of income tax. They will remain unchanged under the next Labour Government. I am determined to ensure hard work is rewarded, not penalised.
Cutting bills for families
And because of this, my tax-cutting goal is to bring in—when the country can afford it—a new 10p starting rate. That will enable everyone to keep more of their hard-earned money. And it will encourage the unemployed off welfare and into work, saving us all cash.
I also intend that our taxation policies will be fair. Which is why we will cut VAT on heating to 5 per cent, the lowest level possible. That will cut family bills and help pensioners more than most. And don’t forget that, but for Labour, VAT on heating would already be at 17.5 per cent. It was only our campaign and votes which stopped the Tories doubling the Cold Tax as they intended.
I have also promised that VAT will not be extended to food, children’s clothes, public transport fares, books and newspapers. They will be the Tory targets if they retain power. These are my cast-iron guarantees on tax-based on our principles of encouraging work and promoting fairness.
The Tory tactic now is to make sure the facts don’t get in the way of their smears.
So, without hesitating, they dream up a whole raft of new scare stories. And yet again, they won’t let their record stand in the way.
Since 1979, it is the Tories who have raised national insurance no less than FIVE times. National insurance on working people stood at 6.5 per cent when the Tories came to power. It now stands at 10 per cent. By the Government’s own admission, that change cost you Pounds 5.3 billion in extra tax last year. The equivalent of an extra 3p on income tax. That’s a massive back-door tax rise. BUT you won’t catch the Tories mentioning that fact. And they are trying the same trick on mortgage tax relief.
They ended higher rate relief, and then cut it in successive years from 25 per cent to 15 per cent-an extra tax bill for homeowners of over Pounds 500.
These cuts came despite a manifesto pledge to “maintain mortgage tax relief.”
But just as with extending VAT and their tax cut promises, their pledges were worthless. It is a record of tax betrayal which would have most people squirming in embarrassment. But not the Tories. They know no shame.
Labour will only make promises that we can keep and not make promises that we cannot guarantee to deliver. We have published our spending commitments and we have also said how we will pay for them. And they do not require any tax increases except for the windfall levy on the excess profits of the privatised utilities.
The truth on finance
That is to pay for our programme of getting 250,000 jobless youngsters into work. When we are in Government we will have a chance to see whether the Tories have been telling the truth about the nation’s finances.
We have every reason to be suspicious. At the last General Election, they hid from voters how bad the economy was. They underestimated by billions of pounds—either deliberately or through incompetence—just how much money was to be borrowed. Money that would have to be repaid by taxpayers.
Only weeks before the last General Election, Chancellor Norman Lamont forecast in his Budget that Government borrowing for the next year would be Pounds 32 billion. It wasn’t. It was Pounds 45 billion. He was out by Pounds 13 billion. And he got every borrowing forecast wrong for all following years.
It has come to a staggering Pounds 66 billion more than he said. You can understand why I need to be cautious.
John Major knew he was being wildly optimistic. He just didn’t care—provided the Tories won.
My suspicions that the Tories are not telling the whole truth again have only been increased by their decision to phase in the public pay awards. If the economy is going so well why can’t the money for nurses be paid in full now? I fear the Tories are covering up the true state of this country’s finances.
I am not going to behave like the Tories. I will not tell fairytales, or make promises I cannot keep. But I will act on the priorities .
That is why I have said that the pay of top people—such as Government ministers and judges—should be frozen this year. And it is why I have said I cannot promise we will find Pounds 60 million of public money to build a new Royal yacht.
That is why we are phasing out the private schools’ assisted places scheme to cut class sizes for five, six and seven-year-olds. That is why we will cut red tape in the NHS to release more cash for patient care. And that is why we will tackle the waste of youth unemployment.
I will only promise what I can deliver. And unlike the Tories, I will deliver my promises on tax.”
Bastard Huhne.
I especially like to last two lines – they should be used for his political headstone which is coming fast. I suspect he probably didn’t write all of this himself, I don’t believe he’s capable of using this variety of language – I’ve only ever heard him use a couple of dozen words ie ‘I’m getting on with the job.’ Whatever that means. Maybe that should be his political epitaph?
Now that is really amusing.
Absolutely brilliant.
OMFG !!!
Did he really say that ????
Slightly prudent wiv the truth , honey ??
Did he say anything about The Tories pickin their bogies an eating them ??
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P.S. I do
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Is this verbatim? If so – hhhahaahha, if not then hilarious spoof.
Nope, not a spoof. You can quite easily look it up for yourself. He probably wrote other similar articles/speeches around that time as well.
Really?
Maybe it’s another Gordon Brown?
Nah – it’s the same arse that sticks his tongue inside his bottom lip every time he takes a breath between his filthy lies.
Watch the tosser.
F*ck I detest the maggot SOOOOOOOOO much.
The Telegraph piece on Guido just makes me love him more. That bit of “criminality” adds the spice. I just hope the Tories remember him when they get in. But will he be prepared to join them? I did not realise just how well off he is. I always thought I should be sending him a bob or two to get by…
I’ve added my two-penn’eth in response to the Labourgraph piece but somehow I doubt if it will appear. They don’t like it up ‘em – I can tell.
I used to read a lot in that rag before it destroyed its credibility sucking up to Brown.
Now I rarely bother.
I’ve replied too – I can’t imagine what makes me think they won’t publish it!
I expect my post might fail to appear as well
To New Labour and the Journalists , YES and YES we know what Guido is and has been in real life. It’s called being a decent human being with experience, at least it is is when you get to my age. More importantly Philip Webster(Times), Patrick Wintour(Guardian),Andrew Porter(Telegraph), Is it right that the three of you had an especially good relationship with Gordon’s dark side and his illegal rabid dog ,
McBride? .
Join them?
Of course not.
They will get the same bollocksing when they step out of line as the filth now in office are getting, any good journo/blogger would do the same.
Their job is to hold the power to account.
Do you really expect people to stop taking advantage of each other? All human realtionships are corrupt. You are right to expose it though.
You’re a cheerful little fucker aren’t you?
fuck off
Not that long ago, I complained to an acquaintance that his partner, a reasonably well-known journalist, had written an article (apparently factual) that was in fact full of total nonsense. He was incredulous at the idea she’d done anything wrong by, in effect, making stuff up. His response was this: “she writes to entertain people, no one believes that they read in the papers anyway”. And that’s what’s going to kill the MSM in the end, because between the way the MSM is scared shitless of libel lawyers and up its own backside in a world of self-referential “entertainment”, it’s not providing what readers want any more. But trust me, the last people to wake up to this will be MSM journalists and those who’ve bought the line about how being an MSM journalist is more prestigious and worthwhile than blogging.
The Telegraph has also come out spinning:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/5173475/Guido-Fawkes-the-colourful-life-of-the-man-who-brought-down-Damian-McBride.html?state=error#postacomment
I’m sure it’s all water off a duck’s back however. Got to love the ad-hominem.
Wonderful!!
Is all that true?
My opinion of Guido has gone right up
yup – essentially the bloggers (especially the Sainted Guido) are doing what the 4th estate is supposed to do. The purpose of this opposition is not to offer an alternative but to hold the government to account – and that’s it.
Hell. If this is all true then I’m more in awe than I though possible.
In that picture, with the beard and hands held high, doesn’t he look like The Messiah ?
My Lord.. of course.. he IS the Messiah !!
No, he’s not. He’s a very naughty boy.
O/T sort of.
Pete Waterman was on Ch4 news moaning about ‘Pirate Bay’ and such stealing money from artists by letting people download stuff for free.
I for a long time have felt that all celebs, Footballers,musicians,actors,writers and artists are too well rewarded for what they do.
Particularly as all of the above persuits normal folk do as a hobby.
The internet is changing the game and that now applies to political reporting and debate.
Remember a professional is only an amateur who’s had a lucky break.
I saw the Waterman interview too, what a puffed up cock.
Where ??
Me tooo , hun .
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Most of the money from music and film only goes to useless, faceless leeches anyway. Piracy is a response to their ripoffs.
Musicians who muse for the love of music don’t need any of them, they can put their stuff on the net for free and get paid for their LIVE appearances.
Couple of things:
1. For every superstar footballer, rock star, actor, writer, artist there are a thousand struggling journeymen
2. Earning opportunity of the above is five years average
3. Their rewards are related to their popularity
4. Hobbyists do not normally experience many years of unpaid slog honing their artistic skills.
The winner of the US Masters earned $1.3 million for playing four rounds of golf. Do you think he was too well rewarded?
“The winner of the US Masters earned $1.3 million for playing four rounds of golf. Do you think he was too well rewarded?”
How could he be too well rewarded if he earned it?
In the good old days not having to earn a crust down a mine was reward enough for Artists but now they think the world owes them a fabulous living.
Do you really think by taking the money out of all these persuits people would stop doing them?
I played in many bands at my own expense for fun and I have seen many sunday league footy matches that were better than quite a few premiership games.
The internet may herald a new age of home grown entertainment where the public choose what they like rather than what the ‘Industry’ decide is going to be the next big thing.
Hmm… Pete Waterman…
Any idea who wrote Rick Astley’s Rickrolling YouTube hit? Now that person would get a tidy wedge in royalties…
I remember when I was young and happily married, watching Top of the Pops one Thursday night (I’m sure it was Thursday in those far off days!) and Ray Ghastly, sorry, Rick Astley came on.
It was such a shock. We’d been hearing the song for weeks and at last we got to see the guy behind the song. And then – I shouted to my then loved one – Oh my God , hes white! He sounded like such a cool black dude and then here was this skinny white guy.
He has a great voice and maybe if he hadn’t got caught up in the whole S,A &W gig, he could’ve been great.
So, mate. If I lend my copy of Abba’s Arrival to my mate Nosher, does that infringe any poncy copyright law? Sharing is good for the soul. WTF is the world coming to?
Downloading 3 games from PirateBay as we speak for the granddaughters DS.
30 bloody quid each in the shops. When prices are realistic and people know they are not being ripped off then they will pay.
Nintendo are tearing their hair out with all the R4 Adaptors being sold.
China is getting rich on knock offs
I started using uTorrent/PirateBay the day I read Elton John payed about £400,000 a year for flowers FFS
Writing games is very hard.
Not many people can do it, yet the salaries for coders and artists aren’t that high (due to the number of people who want to do it).
If you like the game after you download it, you should buy it, otherwise there won’t be more games.
Caroline Flint’s making a tit of herself on Any Questions. Appallingly thick bint.
And to think, a few years back I’d have given her one given half a chance.
Looks like Alex Hilton is going to get into trouble again…
POLL: Greatest Labour Leader
http://www.labourhome.org/story/2009/4/17/101614/262
Poor old Gordo getting trounced by Blair…and …erm… beaten by Michael Foot.
LOL, what kind of saddos voted for Bogeybrains?
Just voted for Foot, just loved (is he still alive?) his style.
Yea, loved the donkey jacket look.
It was the donkey jacket at the Remembrance Service that did it. Wonderful people.
To paraphrase what Kissinger (I think) said about the Iran-Iraq war – can’t they ALL lose?
I must apologise that this comment is totally at a tangent to the thread, but I need to say it. I was never interested/aware per se in politics until Mr Blair arrived. The only reason I became involved was because I noticed things around me were changing for the worse. It took me a while to get to source. I have since become an avid follower of what these bastard Labour people are doing to our country. I’m not exactly sure why they re doing it, but I suspect it is purely selfishness. I do not think they have the collective intelligence to orchestrate a demise of the fabric of our country, but by pure self-indulgence and greed they are effectively playing into the hands of those with sights on an “E”USSR by demeaning our defenses, our borders, laws and fiscal rules. I am not a historian, but I believe from what I have read about communist goverment that we are living under a dictatorship where our every moves are being monitored – ID cards, CCTV, emails, phone calls, council spying etc. Unfortunately, the number of people on the government payroll is growing by the day, which equates to an increasing voter base for the incumbents. The sooner the people can express their democratic rights the better. If this shower of incompetents are given another term in office, then I’m afraid UK plc will be declared bankrupt.
“Peter Mandelson and Alistair Campbell [had] undue power over a sometimes supine and biddable press corps.”
Yes, but why more so than under, say Mag the Thatch?
I don’t get it.
And why should the Telegraph take a sudden lurch in favour of Uncle Joe McBroon, at the point where it is obvious that he is a dead man walking?
Genuine questions from a keen watcher of the political scene – answers please.
Because snotty is useless so needs more baby sitting?
Perhaps they’re bidding for the contract to carry all the
client statejob ads?Good question. Maybe the answer is simply that they think they can get away with going left to gain few more readers and advertising revenues, figuring that their traditional readership will put up with it since there is nowhere else to go.
Prodicus gives a good insight to “The Lobby” from his link in posting #186. Have a read, explains all.
http://prodicus.blogspot.com/2009/04/you-scratch-my-back-lord-copper.html
**Giggle**
Coz they’ve analysed it all an they know New NuLabor are gonna get in .
Sucks , don’t it .
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hmmmmm – could be a scary truth here
They are just trying to balance things so that labour and the tories are not more than 15% points apart in the polls.
Why? Because the powers that be (that own the media) are there to keep the two-party status quo in place, because the sheeple will keep quiet and not make a fuss so long as they still believe that they are actually given any choice in an election about the future of their country. It’s bollocks, we are not!
If the all the papers treat Brown as he deserves to be treat, the Tories could win a 300+ seat majority by default. That would eradicate the Labour party and when the tories get in and continue many of the labour policies (because BOTH parties are wedded to implementing the same new world order that Brown keeps banging on about) Then the public might just get pissed off enough to all go out, select a decent, honest person of integrity who is independently minded and NOT owned by the global elite plutocracy and vote for them next time.
Polling organisations do NOT publish the non-voters in their results. WHY? Because then they would let the public know that actually, labour only has 17% support at the moment and the tories about 20%. Do the maths, it will not take much for the 40% of non voters to reach over 50%, then the margins for the mainstream to maintain power begin to disappear very quickly. The way things are going, ALL mainstream support combined will be less than 50%
What will happen when the pissed off and those who feel left out or let down by the “mainstream” politicians realise that they ARE the majority and when Each individual mainstream political party can no longer secure more than 18% support? What will happen when the pissed off majority REALISES that THEY are the BIGGEST POWER BLOCK?
There already IS enough of US to kill off all the major political parties at one election. IF we got off our asses and voted for an agreed local independent, then ALL the mainstream parties would be fucked! It is not hyperbole, nor wishful thinking. It is pure maths!
Labour won a 60+ seat majority with only 22% of the population voting for them. There are far more of us already that hate them. We have the numbers NOW!
Let’s take action for our nations sake!
Excellent analysis, Mr. Ned. Democracy – the God that failed. It’s a rigged game. Wake the fuck up people!
yup – nailed it – as I have said in other forums – the first person who catpures this mood nationally wins by a landslide
What we need is for someone to start a real ‘None Of The Above’ party.
A tribute to our home secretary
Is that Mrs Chimney on the fiddle in that clip ?
For historical perspective and ‘cos its’s better try the original.
Guido
a simple thank you
The journo’s wet dream a corrupt governments worst nightmare.
The best edge of seat blockbusting phantasmagorical roller coaster ride in years.
Have a peaceful weekend.
Spot on Guido.
If more of these political editors had the attitude of “Well, you seem to know what you’re doing, get on with it”, it would yield great things and we’d all be better off.
At the moment there seems to be a ring of middle management steel ensuring that the the press never descend into such an state of interestingness.
Guido Fawkes: the colourful life of the man who brought down Damian McBride
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/5173475/Guido-Fawkes-the-colourful-life-of-the-man-who-brought-down-Damian-McBride.html
It’s obvious in the haste to subscribe to this commentry you couldn’t be arsed to read the rest of it before putting down your font of knowledge on this blog
Way to go, Guido!!
Evil article.
Guido, you need a rebuttal. You can’t allow those b*stards to get away with it
Guido can do what the hell he likes. He ain’t fiddling the taxpayer with phoney expense claims. Anyhow a bit of hedonistic notoriety goes a long way in my book.
Why? Fuck ‘em. Ive know a few journalist with “colourfull” pasts dosent seem to afect them if they publish crap. G, dont rise to the bait.
Ignore the protozoa. Guido retains the higher ground.
Liebourtelegraph can go to hell……Charlie Whelan will not be smiling when we the voter’s kick them out off office
ONLY ONE YEAR GO TO
a YEAR ? FFS ! surely we can get this lot out before then?
Makes me adore you more, mate.
This simply gives you more cred. This is 21st century – Victorian values don’t apply.
Go for them Guido, I’m in the Crosshair dependency unit waiting my next fix.
- to add to the above its a bit ridiculous, going off the telegraph these days..
The following is a comment from Mike Rivero from whatreallyhappened.com, for my money one of the best international news blogs on the net.
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The corporate media will whine and point fingers at the blogs, but the truth is that most political and news blogs would not exist if the media had done their job and reported the truth about what was going on with the government.
WRH would not exist if the corporate media had reported on the evidence I handed them proving that the FBI fraudulently manufactured Lisa Foster’s recognition of the gun found with her husband’s body. The evidence consisted of the FBI’s own records and I handed this story, a story about a possible murder committed inside the White House itself, free of charge to NBC’s Los Angeles News department, and was told (off the record) that anyone touching that story would be fired.
That was the reason I started my political web page which eventually became WRH, and frankly, it has been a huge cost and a pain in the ass most of the last 16 years.
But now time has caught up with the corporate media. As the general public comes to understand the extent of the US Government lies and the degree to which the corporate media aided and abetted those lies, people are turning to the blogs to get that which they cannot find at ABCNNBBCBS; the TRUTH!
So the liars are finally getting fired, and who will really mourn their fall?
Not me. I wish they had done their @#%ing job in the first place.”
AMEN TO THAT!!!
The mainstream media is not only a failure at informing the public honestly, but is highly complicit in the dissemination of blatant lies and they are accessories to war crimes.
The blogosphere and Guido in particular are now labled right wing.
If a belief in fairness is right wing then so be it.
Fairness is in the DNA of the British that is why we were famed for our orderly queue’s.
As a result of an over bearing bias to the left in the mainstream media the DNA has kicked in and the response via the web has been what the left wing luvvies call ‘Right wing reactionarys’.
This is a false accusation on their part, we are fair minded people with common sense who have no representation anywhere but the Internet.
Its what always happens: action—>reaction.
Totalitarian regimes right and left generate similar distortions.
It will return to equilibrium once this filth is swept from office and reasonableness rejoins the political debate.
If we are termed “Right Wing” ?
Then we are Decent and we believe in Truth.
If that is Right Wing then I am honoured to be labelled so and believe I am far more Socialist than those who abuse that term.
And I await OUR people’s release from these odious charlatans.
“If a belief in fairness is right wing then so be it.
Fairness is in the DNA of the British that is why we were famed for our orderly queue’s.”
Typical Daily Mail reader’s comment.
You wouldn’t think the British people deserve their reputation for fairness if you read some of the homophobic and misogynistic rubbish spouted on these boards.
You certainly wouldn’t believe in Britain’s reputation for fairness if you read of Damian McBride’s tactics as a SpAd.
Hmmmmm. So now the Times article (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6108549.ece) is neither accepting comment nor allowing access to comments already submitted.
So much for free speech in the mainstream media.
Dunno, mate. 1 in 5 of mine stick in the DT. I do write some bollocks though.
Must motor- me and Mrs. F are settling back to watch The Railway Children again. My fave.
There were at least 20 replies when I last looked – they’re no longer there. How d’you explain that?
Given the article in the telegraph, might there be an almighty campaign to “get Guido”?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/5173475/Guido-Fawkes-the-colourful-life-of-the-man-who-brought-down-Damian-McBride.html?state=error#postacomment
OK, they’re there now. Possibly a glitch, my end!
Did you know Sally Tomlison was actually 21 when she starred in this …..yes you do oh alright then.
Yo Guido,
big up your chest!
Just read your biog by one Gordon Rainer, in the Teletubbygraph!
You’re one of the posse!
SAFE!
Respect!
You are ‘The One and only Dominator’
Dom, dom, dom, dom, Dominator!
Look out Guido, here comes your Mum!
Not only that, but you have restored my faith (a little) in the Brits!
I am not coming back though, not at any price!
Your name is blasphemous, son. Sort it.
Dear Dave;
get stuffed!
PS Dave,
He’s not coming back, not ever, never and no way!
Chill out Old Nick , honey x .
Let me massage your bald pate , petal
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Dave was tryin to be clever beyond his allotted IQ .
Tickle me , do I have to spell it out ?????
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Ewanme, still some on top and the rest almost goes down to my bum!
I thought that I was being savaged by mad Charles Crosby, again!
Thank the fuck that he’s not here!
Squatters Delight chez Guido!
Nat, hope you got out of the squat!
SIR- It’s refreshing to see some familiars amongst your unruly mob of merry pranksters, sir.
I have little to say at this point, as do most journalists, that I’m willing to bet my last guinea that something is going to pop it’s kernel above the parapet and soon, sir.
Mrs. K and I tune into your webbitybloggitty thingy religiously sir, but without the religion, and we think you are somewhat pukka.
Please give the criminals the respect that they deserve, sir.
Yours, remember Christine Keeler’s perfume as though it was yesterday, Col. M.T. Kernel (retd.)
Who the fuck is Gordon Rainer? Do I employ him? Give me a job, Guido.
Heavy maaaan !
This powder I got sold tastes like Sennacot. Ohhh dude, before I run to the lats; Zappa for PM, David Sutch for Home Sec, David Icke for Minister Of Truth. They’re, mostly, dead but could be an improvement on the present incumbents.
**Phwaaarrrt** Oh dear, man. Chiiiilll.
I posted on the DT article over 3 hours ago and so, I suspect, did lots of others. Still no comments visible……….damned if they don’t put them up and damned, by the comments, if they do!
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Profile of Gordon Rayner:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/jun/15/thedailytelegraph.pressandpublishing
LOL Humpty.
Our ‘rolling comment’ is just a bit of false advertising. We really want to attract the serious punters to the backwaters of our online pages. Moderation is extremely expensive, especially when you take the bar bills into account.
We employ a moderator, Igonnakum Jerk, who has to approve every comment that reaches us in addition to turning out near on a million words a month.
We have some ‘safe’ commenters, in-house I should say, that churn out the same old shit day after endless day. That’s what they are paid for and it keeps things cozy and manageable.
There are a few loose cannons that occasionally creep through IJ’s eagle-eye. No names but The Man On Waterloo Bridge is cutting edge whereas the professional troll, Meanu Botha is just a pain in the arse.
I hope you can wait a few days to see your comment published. Our man is over-loaded but at least he’s still in work.
We value your contributions.
***DT Editor has his fingers crossed***
Did you buy it from Dave Figleaf?
Nat, hope you’ve got enough rizlas to clean up with.
I like Ewanme.
Where is Brenda Laclustre?
Wonderful woman!
Brenda is a clever hoon. Not one of mine. You Old Nick?
Not me Nat!
A tribute to then Wednesday next chapter of the Great Ruiner’s “investments” (from Political Betting site) http://politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2009/04/17/pr-week-on-the-impact-of-smeargate-on-no10/#comments
..What’s that you say – we have no money? Not in Gordon’s World, where next weeks Budget will have provision to make horse-chestnut leaves legal tender. No deposit for a house? Don’t worry – the Banks which Gordon owns will accept a bunch of tulips instead. Need a new car? Here, take one.
The 2009 Budget will have been drafted in Arken Asylum for the Criminally Insane
Jeez. Fiddling whilst Rome burns, eh ?
Don’t they understand the game’s up and oblivion is the only option.
Maybe not…
I see that Whelan is trying to fluff up the ‘poor old me, somebody hacked into my computer’ story.
tit.
Charlie: Remember all those people you shat on over the years..? Well, it’s all about to blow back in your direction.
Aye it’s like Beria whimpering for mercy in irons, just before Kruschev’s thugs stuffed a towel into his mouth.
Charlie Whelan full time “ex” spin Doctor to Gordon Brown. “ex” my arse he is and always has been at the core of the cesspit inhabited by the great leader.!
Mr Clarke, is that you? Welcome to the mad-house.
Reminds me of an old Ozzy Osbourne quote from years ago: “On your way up you meet loads of people. Don’t fuck ‘em cos you meet ‘em all on the way down!”
Fuck these wankers I spent the best pat of my life in the Army.
You have to watch this
Laugh – I nearly bought a round
You do not shut me out
Fuck you you Nazi Bastards, I for one will fight
Know anything about further e-mails about to be published by the Weekend papers. Apparently some are from a Cabinet minister. Couldn’t be Master Watson could it Guido?
Great stuff watching Newsnight. They’ve got to Jacqui Kebab Queen Smith’s constituency. Doing a vox pop, almost nobody said they would vote for her, apart from one guy; an unshaven guy in a T-shirt
“we wrote to Jacqui Smith and within a couple of weeks we got a 2 bedroom place”
More the “Labour will take care of me & my baby” core vote
Best one was an OAP who said she “could be trained” to work in Tesco
Noone from the local Labour party would come out and support her on the record, but she got support from a local Lib Dem candidate.
Oh, and Guido, that Scottish presenter just called you “Gee-do Fox”
Can we try not to publicise the Rayner man please? Publicity seeking creep.
How many more Scottish presenters do we need?
The Scots know they are fucked too. They better start fortifying the wall. More on that story later.
I’m Scots and I know I’m fucked.
Sorry guys but I detest this NuLabour filth as much as you do.
(Ashamed and cowering)
Yes, it’s shocking isn’t it. You can hardly turn on the tele or radio without enduring some grating burr. Of course there are no English born people working in the small-minded, bigoted, and parochial Scottish (sic) media. It just isn’t cricket. Same with Westminster. Just because Labour won the majority of English seats at the last election shouldn’t imply that they have some sort of democratic mandate as a party. We all know it’s part of some sinister celtic fringe conspiracy. I think it’s profoundly unjust the way that the Scots have enslaved the English minority on the island of Great Britain. I think that there should be positive discrimination for the English in order that they can overcome the historical and institutional prejudice that they have to contend with on a daily basis. I don’t think that they face the same level of racism as blacks but they are definitely disadvantaged more than gays. I moved to the Isle of Skye from Yorkshire last year and I had to stay in a B&B for two and a half weeks before I got a council house because they gave the first one that was vacant to a poof in a wheelchair. Equal rights now!
They’re already practicing ballot box stuffing for the general election.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6115915.ece
Practice makes perfect.
Tra laa!
I see that our Dear Leader is fisting himself
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/cartoon/
Very good, he knows he’s going down as the worst PM ever but he still doesn’t fuck off. Tosser.
He was never elected so he ought to never be referred to as PM.
2008-2010 ought to be blank in respect to this Nation-waster.
And they let him walk straight in without challenge ?
“What were you doing in the early 30′s when the Nazis took control” we ask another nation ?
What do we tell our children and grandchildren ?
Never Again.
Well they say a picture tells a thousand words and what the mainstream hacks fail to say in words is nicely summed there. BTW Guido hope you’re not too worried about being usurped by the new “heavyweight” of the blogging world, Old Two Jags himself…..
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6116500.ece
Given a choice between a man who’ll punch you on the nose and one who will stab you in the back…
heavyweight in body and lightweight in brain – Guido need not fear
Having just watched newsnight review, I’m cancelling my subscription to Private Eye after Hislop’s hideous bluster re Guido. Hislop needs to get off his arse and do his job rather than lambasting those that do it for him.
What a hoon
I don’t watch that Godawful double-act Portillo does with Diane Abbott very often and so am curious to know if he normally gets as irritable, defensive and effing snooty as the prematurely-ageing bastard was tonight on ‘Newsnight Review’. He really seems to think we oiks should remember our place and be grateful to the likes of him for not ordering our slaughter in one of several European languages by phone during an interval at Bayreuth.
“Damian McBride is not a politician…he’s from the street, a thug”.
Thank God for the cultivated civilised elite like Michael “SAS” Portillo. Did he have a reputation for helping his constituents when he was in Westminster?
R
Let’s put it this way, anyone is better than DMcBride/Drippy and sundry sewer rats
Nigel Dempster had Hislop summed up neatly in respect of arses: his head was so far up Richard Ingrams’ that there was no other brown-noser who could touch him in the race to succeed Ingrams as editor. And he’s about as funny as woodworm in a cripple’s crutch.
He can be a bit of a twat.
Agree but also a bit prophetic
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/covers.php?showme=1209
The smirking little oik is weak. When Ingrams and Cook were about half of Private Eye’s revenue was set aside for defending Court cases. I doubt he’s even been to court. Too busy being a smarmy get on late night BBC2 “satirical” quix nights.
Quite a coup all the coverage the media have given you. Most are as bent as a five bob note. They don’t like it up ‘em!
What a shame that the DT saw fit to retaliate to Guido via a hatchet job, today:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/5173475/Guido-Fawkes-the-colourful-life-of-the-man-who-brought-down-Damian-McBride.html?state=error#postacomment
Guido has obviously hit bone – via his various coups and via his articles in the Times, Spectator and his blog on MyT.
The DT must be smarting.
Might I suggest that Guido pursues the relevant NDA, for redress?
Good luck Guido. You are among friends.
Guido is like a puff of fresh air from the bottom of hope , honey x .
© E x .
Ooh err.
Who cares what the DT say, mate? They don’t know what the fuck they stand for and are a mirror image of the government they worship: piss money up the wall on useless projects.
Must dash- I think I’ve won £1.50 on Eurobillions.
Hello dear, you can have me for a quid, kidney stones permitting.
Hiya, gal. You are the funniest woman I’ve never met. Got that off my rippling chest – now get on with it.
That’s a “so what?” article! The usual character assassination that comes out when the fettling iron has been put in. Glad that you are self sufficient, but the story of 20k for emails and criminal conviction? We know about the first which is untrue, whats the second?
You are among friends indeed with scurrilous stuff printed about you like that. Dont let him get away with what is quite likey a briefing note from McBride. The DT is becoming the Daily Bellylaff!
I”ve submitted the following comment to that article, I doubt it will be published so I’ll stick it on here as well:
Oh dear, the Telegraph does a hatchet job, lifting stuff from the latest Spectator article by Guido himself, which gives the real reasons behind this metaphorical kicking.
The fact is Guido has a point, if the Telegraph did it’s job properly, didn’t betray it’s readers and wasn’t in the pocket of NuLabour, there would be no need for Guido to exist.
Thank you, Bar Steward, for putting up website of Telegraph article. I’ve now read it without a penny going to the Barclays. Wouldn’t want to be seen carrying a Telegraph, anyway. Isn’t it marvellous how character reveals itself in the writing. Dickens couldn’t do a better hatchet job on the writer than he did on himself.
Well done Guido- keep it up! At least you have the balls to keep challenging the new labour hoons. Be careful though- they are unforgiving bastards..
I’d juts like tis asay thet IVE BEEN TI THE OUT=R ABND i REALLYT HINKRK GUIDO SO FREAT. ALL TE OTHER BLOKES TAKLK CRAP AND GUODPOE AOS BRILLIAJT. FUCO OFF LEFTIES YOU RA HuhneES. VOTE TORYTCOX ANYTHEING ELSE ID SHIR
A Ruskin College education is second to none, isn’t it dear?
Brenda, how’s trade!
Wonderful to hear your dulcet tones.
Gosh. It’s a DT love-in but without Simon Coulter or the DT. Fabulous.
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Cllr. Ken’s cocoa has been ‘moderated’?
You’d think Labour had mastered the art of voter fraud by now, but no, somebody forgot to realise that ballet stuffing works better when you don’t break the security seals
Labour calls off hustings amid ‘irregularities’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/17/georgia-gould-erith-thamesmead
Would it be cynical of me to suggest that the Brown camp are hitting back at the Blairites after a week when they’ve all been parading on TV denouncing what happened to McSlime?
We are either going to see the utter destruction of Labour or a totalatarian Britain. I hope it is the former.
To everyone predicting Labour will lose the next election:
I wouldn’t laugh too soon. Have you been on LabourList recently?
There is a whole raft of new articles from Young Labour members which give the Party – and the country – hope for the future.
It is only on the left that a synergy of passion and values come together to campaign for progress, justice and modernity. This has never been more important.
What today’s leadership of Young Labour and the diverse set of contributions show is that Young Labour is a wealth of ideas and activism, that behind our words are hundreds of young people campaigning and engaged in their community as volunteers, school governors and local councillors. Today there is a spirit and idealism that will transcend the pessimism of some, reject the defeatism of others and build Labour a path to its future.
The average Tory voter is white, middle-class, 75 years old and getting older. The youth, ethnic minority, disadvantaged, and LGBT communities will not fill their gap. In 20 years time your core vote will die out and the New Left will be the permanent majority.
“Have you been on LabourList recently?”
Fuck no
Who the f**k allowed Hymen Pierced back in to post her gibberish?
Are you in a drunken state again under the table, Guido or is this the twilight zone for moderation?
Do we have to put up with HP’s bollox?
poor deluded soul…………………
Is this a wind-up. Yawn.
Of course it is!
Yet everytime HP posts he gets them all hooting and barking like a zoofull of chimps at feeding time.
Can they not see the toungue-in-cheek nature of statements such as: -
“The average Tory voter is white, middle-class, 75 years old and getting older. The youth, ethnic minority, disadvantaged, and LGBT communities will not fill their gap. In 20 years time your core vote will die out and the New Left will be the permanent majority.”
I find it fairly amusing, but it’s a getting a bit old now.
well you know what given a 1000 years and a 1000 monkeys , you could write a labour party manifesto .
no still not bovvered harman pride , you dont quite understand the size of the appology that must be paid at the ballot box .
but while your on the rocking horse , would like to explain why the government has suddenly annouced that BIo mass burn electricty generation (after lavishing huge ammounts of cash on it) is now more dirty than coal ????
wonder if that one was student idea , harman pride ???
now we also here that someone was encouraging the FSA to promote a wreckless economics model , so you and tubby prescot can dine on the misery for millions that your goverment has done .
All NaztyLiebour government policy is student politics , marxist student politics.
They are the lost tribe of anally-fixated Scotch (sic) marxists with noses stuck in the debating society politics of the 60s, at 4th rate colleges of learning in the Highland badland-and-madlands.
They write their “policies” on the back of envelopes in taxis or lounging on sofas watching celebrity get-me-out-here programmes.
They pay tribute to the lowest common denominator because “it is the right thing to do”.
Their concerns are entirely the me me me of greedy, grubbing, ghastly, stunted, post-war class warriors.
Their morals are grounded in equivalence.
They stuff ballot boxes with all the skill of Stazi stormtroopers in the (ex) German Democratic Republic.
They flounder in the sewers of the basest politics because even rats have the right to vote.
They are the government of Great Britain – what a sad comment that is.
The little island is shrinking into insignificance totally oblivious to its former glory, its extra-ordinary history, and its once global reach.
When they do wake up, let us hope the REAL British voters will ensure that those masquerading as today’s Labour Parteh are never, ever, never, ever, never, ever able to govern anything again.
Que martial music, pictures of tanks, missiles and fat politburo members, along side the Glorious Leader who has actually been dead for 6 months but is kept upright by electrodes stimulating the nerves in his spine, waving from balcony as doves fly free, circling and shitting on the kettled supporters below.
Ah! yes! On with the next 5 Year Plan…….
H.P. – let’s test your IQ.
Arrange the following words in the right order:-
Cuckoo, Land, Cloud.
Yes its a vibrant motivating force which will really help on the doorsteps, the same 3 or 4 people writing articles and then commenting amongst themselves.
It’s a shame that none of the MP’s or Cabinet Ministers will now touch it like a bargepole anymore but most of them have small majorities to protect.
‘The average Tory voter is white, middle-class, 75 years old and getting older. ‘
May I direct you to the facts of a recent poll.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23676276-details/Young+London+wants+Cameron+as+PM+and+Clarkson+as+Mayor/article.do
It says…
‘In a finding which will delight the Tories, Mr Cameron was chosen by 35 per cent of young voters as their choice for premier. Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg garnered 16 and 13 per cent of votes respectively. A quarter prefer none of the current party leaders.
HP is a TROLL for fuck’s sake!
Quite a funny one actually. He’s probably one of the more familiar characters that frequent this blog. Far to literate and considered in his lunacy to be a real Dollybot.
He’s pulling your chain mate! Big time. And there you are falling for it – and even providing rebuttals to his ‘statistics’.
Don’t be a sucker all the time.
The Cons are conspicuous by their absence in all the current shitstorms that are going on. They’re all it the bastards.
New Labour = Criminal Bastards
Conservatives = Arseholes
Liberal Democrats = Fucking pointless
Off topic, but something odd is happening. Just after the G20 riots, I searched and found online a ministerial answer confirming that there is NO LEGAL REQUIREMENT for police to wear identification numbers. I’ve searched again, and it seems to have been deleted from the web….on google search there is the cryptic note “In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read more about the request at ChillingEffects.org”
If you go to ChillingEffects.org it refers to a UK court order
“UK Court Order
The cease-and-desist or legal threat you requested is not yet available.
Chilling Effects will post the notice after we process it. ”
Does anyone know whats going on? Original google search was
“police Force identification number legal requirement”
John Prescott makes some excellent points in this article aimed at Old Etonian Dave. He shows why millions of people who remember the Poll Tax, 3 million unemployed, pensioners freezing to death and communities destroyed under Thatcher will never vote Tory again.
And when young people learn the truth about the last Conservative government, they too will do their best to keep Dave out of Number 10.
I remember Black Wednesday when Lamont and his advisor Cameron put up interest rates by 2 percent IN A DAY to 12%.
They said they’d raise them again to 15% but the dealers didn’t believe them and they kept selling sterling, forcing Lamont to pull the pound out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism after spending £27 billion trying to prop it up.
What a way to run a Government!
Their desire to combat inflation led to them hiking up interest rates so high that they brought the economy to a standstill – mortgage payments went through the roof, causing the housing market to collapse and plunging tens of thousands into negative equity.
They could have cut interest rates but they didn’t – to them the exchange rate target for the ERM was far more important than economic growth.
So thousands of businesses, especially in the manufacturing sector, collapsed and unemployment rose to three million.
But the Tories didn’t give a damn. Do you remember what Lamont said in that recession?
“Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.”
It took this Labour Government to produce the lowest levels of inflation and interest rates, record level of employment and the longest period of sustainable economic growth in Britain for 200 years.
We created the perfect economic conditions for the banks and they abused it for their own greed.
So compare the early 1990s recession to this one. We have low inflation, low interest rates and a Government that won’t just stand by and see people suffer. Gordon is doing all he can to tackle a global financial disaster that was not of our making.
So if you really want to say sorry Dave, say sorry for 1992.
Say sorry to three million people you forced onto the dole.
Say sorry to the tens of thousands of people who had their homes repossessed thanks to negative equity.
Or could it be, like your old boss:
“Je ne regrette rien.”
Hey. And I remember getting into the cinema for the price of a jam jar….
So you can cut’n paste… well done, state school education improving, huh ?
My father was Labour die-hard and his family were miners.
They were right then, you are wrong now.
Wake up you tosser – staring into oblivion nd you know it. (and we KNOW you know it)
Oh, forgot to mention. I AM on the dole after 30 years – and your lot are the cause.
Nothing – but NOTHING is worse than this administration has served on the British people.
Did I forget to say you are a Tosser, Sir ? No ? … then, Tosser (squared) !
“Say sorry to the tens of thousands of people who had their homes repossessed thanks to negative equity.”
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/95640/One-million-homeowners-in-negative-equity
Now do please just go away HP
The Three_Pride Stooges are taxpayer funded idiots posting scripted rubbish to provoke foul-mouthed abuse to discredit this blog and to divert attention from the genuinely foul stench of the Neo-Nazis who oppress us.
It is a measure of how morally and ideologically bankrupt this government is that its paid trolls can only repeat Labour mythology about previous Tory governments after 12 years of sustained New Labour ruin. We could all play that game. I could post a long article about Wilson the KGB agent and the Labour destruction of Britain in the 1960s and 70s. But the last 12 years is much more interesting and much more damning. Trying to airbrush it out with tales of “far off unhappy things and battles long ago” won’t work. The problems we face courtesy of one Gordon Brown are HERE, NOW and REAL.
Was there ever a more corrupt regime that connived a pact with communist authoritarians, corporate fat cats and media moghuls, suborning the police and legal system to oppress, exploit and deceive ordinary people? Nothing to be proud of Three_Pride Stooges – abandoning the best of Old Labour and embracing the worst of Old Tory to create the mother of all that is Most Rotten. All the constituent members of this disgusting regime destroying truth, integrity and liberty to gain power, keep power and make themselves rich at our expense.
Reason for voting New Labour – to keep the Tories out so a vile Neo-Nazi regime can continue to plunder us
Reason for voting Tory – to rid this country of a vile Neo-Nazi regime
Simples.
John Prescott makes some excellent points in this article aimed at Old Etonian Dave. He shows why millions of people who remember the Poll Tax, 3 million unemployed, pensioners freezing to death will never vote Tory again.
And when young people learn the truth about the last Conservative government, they too will do their best to keep Dave out of Number 10.
I remember Black Wednesday when Lamont and his advisor Cameron put up interest rates by 2 percent IN A DAY to 12%.
They said they’d raise them again to 15% but the dealers didn’t believe them and they kept selling sterling, forcing Lamont to pull the pound out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism after spending £27 billion trying to prop it up.
What a way to run a Government!
Their desire to combat inflation led to them hiking up interest rates so high that they brought the economy to a standstill – mortgage payments went through the roof, causing the housing market to collapse and plunging tens of thousands into negative equity.
They could have cut interest rates but they didn’t – to them the exchange rate target for the ERM was far more important than economic growth.
So thousands of businesses, especially in the manufacturing sector, collapsed and unemployment rose to three million.
But the Tories didn’t give a damn. Do you remember what Lamont said in that recession?
“Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.”
It took this Labour Government to produce the lowest levels of inflation and interest rates, record level of employment and the longest period of sustainable economic growth in Britain for 200 years.
We created the perfect economic conditions for the banks and they abused it for their own greed.
So compare the early 1990s recession to this one. We have low inflation, low interest rates and a Government that won’t just stand by and see people suffer. Gordon is doing all he can to tackle a global financial disaster that was not of our making.
So if you really want to say sorry Dave, say sorry for 1992.
Say sorry to three million people you forced onto the dole.
Say sorry to the tens of thousands of people who had their homes repossessed thanks to negative equity.
Or could it be, like your old boss:
“Je ne regrette rien.”
Your respect disappeared at the first line “John Prescott makes some excellent points”.
He NEVER has. Period.
What you are describing is the newlabour tragedy that is happening right now, economic disaster brought on by staggering ignorance.
A government that is happy to sit back with inflated salaries and watch the nation suffer, OAPs starve and freeze to death or die in filthy hospitals.
Will your hero McMental say sorry for the millions of people his policies put out of work, how about his bailout of the bankers, they live it up while ordinary people suffer, how about them?
Wrapping our institutions in a veil of Stalinist secrecy, punishing the whistle blowers instead of the abusers.
How about all those newlabour crooks and thieves stealing as much as they can while ordinary people suffer?
If all you can do is go back decades for a bit of muck to rake you must be very desperate!
Having lived through the post war years I still think the poll tax was one of the fairest tax methods in principal but poorly implemented at the time. I see Zanulab’s proposals for the future of council tax will bring it more into line with the historic hearth tax and window tax systems. Back to the future?
‘It’s all the fault of the last government ‘ has become as meaningless as ‘I’m getting on with the job’. Morning everyone , No crosshairs this morning?
You should be looking forward not back. If you think the people of England care more about what happened in the 1990′s than they do about New Labour’s record in the last 12 years then you are as sadly deluded as your posts suggest.
Spinning New Labour propaganda, whether you are paid to do it or not (I suspect the former – that you are a paid troll) is futile. You lot have been well and truly rumbled.
The sins of the Tories pale into nothingness in comparison with the truly staggering scale of incompetence, corruption, greed, lying and bullying of New Labour since 1997.
And Prescott is a buffoon, an oaf, still fighting an imaginary class war and viewing the world through the piggy eyes of the bigot.
Black wednesday cost approx 4 billion
Nu Labour cost cost 2 Trillion (and still counting)
….and no where near finished counting, could be a quadrillion before liebour die.
You’re fucked and you know you are. Your nulab Stalino-nazis are orders of magnitude worse than any other British political force since the fucking Roman invasion.
Your first defence of mentioning that useless fat fucker Prescott is laughable.
If you count all the un-official unemployed we’re all ready above previous levels.
Why not tell us some shit about the strange death of Dr David Kelly, or the lies that took us to war against Iraq, or the imprisonment and torture of “British” subjects in Guantanamo, or the torture of victims of extraordinary rendition, or the politicising of the Met Police Farce which allows them to assault peaceful protestors while at the same time ignoring those foreign anarchists smashing up our buildings.
You are a fucking deluded lefty moron.
Bollox – this was meant to be a reply to that deluded lefty moron Harman_Pride.
Just ignore HP dont feed the troll
“the strange death of Dr David Kelly, or the lies that took us to war against Iraq”
Ever heard of the Hutton Report, that cleared the Government of any wrongdoing in the David Kelly affair? Dr. Kelly committed suicide, which is obviously very unfortunate, but it could have been due to any number of factors – he was known to be rather eccentric and a bit of a “Walter Mitty” character.
The evidence about Saddam having actual WMDs, as opposed to the capability to develop them, turned out to be wrong. We have acknowledged that and accepted it. However, such evidence was agreed by the whole international community, not least because Saddam had used such weapons against his own people and neighbouring countries.
Tony Blair apologised for the information that turned out to be wrong, but not for removing Saddam.
The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.
Would you rather Saddam was still in power? Moron.
Well said Harman_Pride. Of course Blair wasn’t perfect and made mistakes – he’s only human after all! – but I think we can all agree the world is safer with Saddam gone.
“Moron” – Pot/Kettle.
Tosser
Fuck off you tosser.
We didn’t go to war to change regime, we went to war on the basis of the dodgy dossiers concocted by that lying Huhne Campbell.
If regime change was top of the agenda we’d have been in Zimbabwe ten years ago. Blair was a warmonering mendacious Huhne, and his successor is a Stalinist knobhead.
Fuck off back to your student Trotskiyist wank-tank.
Which lie would you go to war on next eh? how could we trust any future government dossier?
The USA went to war with iraq because the Saudis ordered their bought and paid for chimp Bush to go to war, we went along because the UK is uncle Sams bought and paid for bitch.
Kelly was topped because he knew that Saddam didnt have any WMDs, the whole basis for the war was a fucking lie.
The Saudi organ grinder and the US monkey, the US engineer and the UK oily rag!
Our place in the world to be the bitch of a bitch, guns for hire bought and paid for.
There was nothing strange about the death of Dr David Kelly – the responsibility for the death of this honest good and gentle man who only thought to speak the truth, is laid firmly at the door of Tony Blair and his henchman Alastair and their bullying tactics. The Hutton Inquiry was a comedy – no! a travesty of justice and fairness , and its tawdriness and dishonesty epitomises this Labour Government. Hutton too should be ashamed. The whitewash that that Inquiry became was what began to turn the hearts and minds of Middle England away from Labour. Gordon, is finishing the job and alienating Middle England even further. It is the floating of voters Middle England that will matter in the next election, not the core Labour Vote or the core Tory vote which you say is white middle classed and over 75. Apologies I do believe that’s the longest post I’ve written but Dr David Kelly’s death hits a raw spot.
Did you ever read the Hutton Report,H_P?
I did.Very interesting.It was based on two premises:
1)Anything said by or on behalf of HMG was true unless demonstrably proved to be false.
2)Anything said by anyone else had to be proved to be true beyond doubt.
As a result its conclusion was bound to favour HMG.They chose Hutton well.
‘The evidence about Saddam having actual WMDs, as opposed to the capability to develop them, turned out to be wrong. We have acknowledged that and acceted it.#
Another LIE. There was no fucking evidence of WMD. You know, we know it. STOP PEDDLING LIES.
And what about the hundreds of thousands dead and injured Iraqi men, women and children? No mention, eh. But then that’s the ZaNu Labour way. NOTHING stands in the way of their morals.
You really are shit on the bottom of my shoes, H_L. Shit on the bottom of my shoes.
Wasn’t Saddam hanged? Moron!!
Reasons USA/UK went to war with Saddam.
Not in any order, just what I remember without spending hours going through my notes.
Saddam was going to start trading Oil for Food in Euros and not in USD.
“The tried to kill my pa” GWB.
Lost control of their asset (Saddam did work for the CIA, as did OBL, who B. Bhutto, shortly before she was murdered, revealed on BBC World had been murdered by his Uncle,) in ME as a buffer from Iran, another country used and manipulated by Western governmental and oil business interests.
I could go one, but I have a questioning mind and you obviously don’t, I have other duties in life to perform, you obviously don’t.
Do yourselves a favour, start trying thinking for yourself, become more objective, question what you hold dear and true and test it.
You will become a more rounded personality, mature in knowing that the Truth is a three-edged sword.
Dr Kelly was an eminent international scientist. He was not a walter mitty character or eccentric but Labour was peddling that kind of filth even then so as to denigrate both his status and persona.
Having hounded an honourable man to death for telling the truth someone like you coming on this blog to repeat the same lies all over again makes me want to vomit.
If I ever have the good fortune to find out who you are and where I will have the greatest pleasure in calling round and punching your fxxking lights out.
at least the Romans built decent roads and had effective border controls
Hadrian had the right idea.
“assault peaceful protestors while at the same time ignoring those foreign anarchists smashing up our buildings.”
Any evidence of this? This is just unfounded rubbish. Our Police Force does a very difficult job and in a highly pressured situation, when someone isn’t cooperating with the Police, it’s understandable that tempers can be lost.
Yeah, mate. If in doubt, baton the hippies and if they have a ‘second coming’ then TAZER the useless layabouts, son.
There is a need to acknowledge good, decent coppers. Right now their “mates”, in the nod of superior officers’ winks , are running amok.
Come on, buddy, tempers are supposed to be controllable?
In that case I demand a refund of my taxes spent on training them.
You must be government stooges. But your comment displays exactly why you should not be allowed anywhere near the government of any country.
“when someone isn’t cooperating with the Police, it’s understandable that tempers can be lost.”
No, it is not. Police are supposed to be professional and to show restraint under provocation, not lose their tempers and assault people. They are there to prevent crime not to commit it.
You have to start worrying when the Loony Left start defending the Police. They hated them in the strike years when the Police saw off the likes of Scargill.
Cant you * Pride people see we don’t believe anything you say? You defend the indefensible. We are tired of this Junta ( for Gordo is not elected by us).
Put yourselves in imaginary opposition. You will be demonstrating against everything. Trying to lead the opposition. Divulging embarrassing leaks from Government departments. What will you say when the precedent you set is used against you? When the police kick down your door and trawl through your computer or your wifes loveletters? When you are spied upon?
I believe in freedom. I objected to police stopping pickets during miners strikes because of the workers fundamental right to free movement. I grew up in Thatchers Britain and thought you bastards believed the same stuff as me about rights and freedom.
And what did you deliver? You read my fucking email.
You should be ashamed of yourselves. Your grandparents faught to get rights to free assembly, to be allowed to go about their lives free from the interference of Lords, Masters and Germans. And what have you hoons delivered? You read my fucking email for christsake.
You want to examine your soul and join the opposition to this kleptocracy.
The (Labour supporting) Guardian has a nice composite of evidence here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/15/g20-protest-police-videos-catalogue
Nothing to be proud of that I can see…
Agent Provocateurs!
Why was RBS the only building in the area left unprotected?
Why, given the difficulty of finding video footage of Iain Tomlinson, there was ample MSM footage of the attack on the RBS building?
Stage managed.
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=lookalikes&
Chicken choker look alike
carefull guido , wheelan picking his hurting red nose , you appear to be being big upped , not to worry wheelan is no conan more snake head , did you really send mcbride those texts ???
not to worry , lets see if they are the real deal , or just flirting
d day minus 4 , already being described as a forward looking budget (suppose you have to gloss over the busting of britain) , i think i have darlings draft speech “in ten years time britain will prosper again and until then the prime minister has a new iniative on home made soups ”
i await the figures like a beast , starved by his cruel master but ready for a full four courses after hes finished speaking
I suggest Guido’s position is fairly secure now. Sadly more so than Doctor David Kelly’s was. Or even mine! Please try and note if oldrightie disappears. You know, like an elderly neighbour!
We should have a ‘last sightings’ database in case they start bumping us off.
No idea what your beef is with McWhirter, Guido but to to be be fair he and Paul Hutcheon of the Herald have been the only journos up here to question the Pravda line pursued by the rest of the scottish press.
Chief among these are the odious Alan Cochrane, Angus Mc Neill, Douglas Fraser ( now promoted to the BBC) and all of the compliant Nulab sycophants at the Hootsmon.
Like many naturally left-wing voters in Scotland I am appalled by the antics of Broon`s stooges in the press and find it necessary to seek the truth here.
PS
You may have some fun researching the antics of MSP Lord George Foulkes who assaulted a pensioner while pissed out of his mind on whisky.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article6115437.ece
nice demolition of the mucal muncher by Mathew Parris.
“And doing the media rounds this week comes a new comparison: the Brown-Nixon analogy. The reference to the disgraced former US President illustrates how leaders with bold and noble ideas may stoop to dirty tricks to implement them. But the analogy is an insult. To Nixon.”
I think that’s called ‘putting the knife in’.
nice
Daddy said i could be an MP when i left Oxford and i jolly well hope these ballot box tampering issues in ‘my’ safe seat will not change anything.
My first thoughts exactly.
I imagine some of the local party are a bit miffed at having Gould’s little know-nothing princess parachuted into this exceptionally safe seat and may be looking for ways to sabotage the plan.
Can’t say I blame them. Quite clever really. No need to actually tamper with the votes, just make it look like they may have been nobbled. Back to square one for selection vote.
I hate coming to the end of a toilet roll…..and the Radio Times is too expensive
FIRST!!!!!
FTW.
The vast majority of UK political correspondents and reporters are failing us because they don’t really report anymore, they just repeat. Whether its a smear here or there, or just a press release that has been taken at face value without a critical eye added. Deadlines, copy, and filling column inches take precedent over seeking out the truth. The parliamentary system has been corrupted by the explicit and implicit deals done between governments and journalists over access to important stories. It’s truly an appalling undemocratic state of affairs for the UK to be in.
For example New Labour recently compared the costs for a “Homecoming Celebration” advert that is designed to encourage tourists to visit and spend money in Scotland and is currently being shown all over the world, with their alleged costs for Slumdog Millionaire. They claimed the advert cost £233,450 for its 59 seconds, versus Slumdog which they alleged cost £28,000 per minute/£3 million. New Labour lackeys in BBC Scotland then claimed the Homecoming advert was an ‘SNP ad’ and then doubled the cost to a total of £559,287 to make and promote. However the facts were that the Homecoming advert actually cost £233,450 and includes the marketing, promotion and rather importantly the transmission costs in various foreign markets, whilst the producers of Slumdog claimed that in reality it cost £10 million pounds rather than the £3million New Labour bandied about. The latter figure is probably still too low for it is well known that films that you have seen in the cinema did not cost the pennies the producers tell you they did, for that is part of the marketing mince they want you to buy into. The most worrying thing about all this was that neither New Labour nor BBC Scotland retracted their earlier erroneous claims after the actual facts were pointed out to them, preferring to let the media smear remain against the SNP government instead.
I don’t care if the SNP spent £1 million on it, at least they’re doing something to promote Scottish tourism. Chances are the effect of that campaign will be to generate a lot more money for the Scottish economy than they’ve spent advertising Scotland. A perfectly reasonable thing for any government to do. I assume there’s no adverts going out about England then? “Come to England! Cameras not allowed. No backpacks or you may be shot as a terrorist!”
Just one comment posted so far in the Telecrap against their hatchet job. Funny how they’ve managed to lose all the comments that we know were posted earlier.
With reference to the Georgia Gould alleged ballot box rigging affair which is widely reported in the media this morning there has been much speculation about the postal votes swung the result in the Glenrothes by-election which took place last year. I’m not sure how many of you are aware that a Northern Ireland based company Opt2Vote was used for their expertise in postal voting. It’s the first time this system has been used in Scotland but it has been used in England.
It appears that Opt2vote is a partner company of Northgate, which hosts Labour sites such as http://www.davethechameleon.com and http://www.labour.org.uk
The Open Rights Group had this to say about Opt2vote:-
“ORG was unable to examine or verify the servers or systems they used in any meaningful sense. While ORG considers that the physical security for the ES&S and Tata locations was reasonable – and very good for the OPT2VOTE location observed – ORG is unable to comment further on the servers. Without more information on the specifications of the systems and clear rules on the access observers could request in pilot situations, ORG was restricted to what the suppliers were willing to offer or what their clients were willing to support. No matter what access was provided, fundamentally the servers are opaque to the human eye. No observer would be able to examine what the server was doing, what data it was sending and receiving or whether problems were occurring, without detailed technical access to the software and its operating system, yet it would be inappropriate and is clearly against guidelines for observers to handle anything to do with the running of the election. Hence ORG must conclude that the servers and their operations were – and will remain in future elections – unobservable.”
The same report says of the Electoral Commission:
“How does DCA or the Electoral Commission know about the extent of electoral fraud when neither of them have kept any statistics nor have undertaken any research on the issue? Is it that, in their obsession with increasing participation at all costs, they have turned a blind eye to the risks of electoral fraud and its consequences on the integrity of our democratic system?”
Good job you are doing on here.
I am what the Jersey Channel Islands Elitist Government Party call a vile blogger, why because they don’t like people reporting the truth on blogs and exposing their cover ups,
Corruption in rife everywhere you look.
quote for the day perhaps?
“The Government has absolutely no interest in spying on law-abiding people going about their everyday lives. I don’t want to see these powers being used to target people for putting their bins out on the wrong day or for dog fouling offences.”
Jackboots Spliff
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090417/tuk-nosey-councils-face-surveillance-ban-dba1618.html
Nick Palmer MP the case for Labour
http://politicalbetting.com/
Feel free to comment / abuse
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article6115437.ece
here’s one… an apology and an attack on brown all at once!
“I have been complicit in the propagation of an inaccuracy about Gordon Brown. I have spoken (like other media colleagues) of the “good Gordon, bad Gordon” syndrome. Other commentary has quoted the “when she was good she was very, very good/And when she was bad” comparison. It’s an elegant way in to any discussion of what’s wrong with the Prime Minister. Trouble is, it’s only half right. There isn’t a good Gordon. He’s useless. His behaviour is horrid.”
ouch!
The supine lobby press do not confine their “least investigative journalism in the World” to politics, Damian McBride was not the only one to breast feed them from the font of spin (lies). Take the Ian Tomlinson affair and the Charles de Menezes one before that, try and trace the misleading information put out; no contact with police, hail of bottles from protesters as police tried to help him….He was wearing bulky clothing, jumped over a ticket barrier and you willl find it all came from unnamed sources. From this you can only conclude that spin (lies) is a very practised culture in the London police force and that the same lobby journalists drink from its many teats.
Any journalist who publishes an article from an unnamed source ( if they won’t put there name to it, it is most likely untrue ) should more accurately be referred to as a “copy-writer” and paid accordingly. Remember these lobby journalists are every bit as much to blame for the war with Iraq as those directly invoved in putting together the dodgy dossier on WMDs and the continuance in office of the most incompetent Government this Country has ever had.
I didn’t think the Telegraph article was too bad and there are some noticeable points which Guido makes no attempt to rebutt. “Guido Doth Protest too Much”
As long as the past of their own journalists (copy-writers) remain like you “anonymous”, then they have no right to publish such drivel. Note my use of “copy-writer”, the implication is, these two writers got all their research material virtue of the “house of Labour spin and lies”.