+++ Steady Eddie Deadie
The former Bank of England governor Eddie George died at the age of 70 today following a long battle with cancer. Wonder what he would have made of quantitative easing?
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Sir Michael White warns…
“I warned Alastair Campbell, and I’m warning Andy Coulson too – but will they listen?”
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As of 23 Feb 2010 +30.81%
R.I.P… at least he gets to miss the rest of the recession
Shocka:
“Brown in Poll humilition”
http://www.labourhome.org/poll/1239977328_nrsyRBAM
Labourhome report on leaked emails, it just goes on and on
“Private communications are private. If the Tories would like to release details of all of their press officers private emails to see if they contain slurs, we can compare like for like. It is legitimate to point out hypocrisy if George Osborne is indeed lecturing people on low incomes about living within their means and threatening to freeze the spending of the lowest paid nurses, teachers and police, while allegedly living the high life using cocaine and prostitutes. The real scandal of politics today is the lies of the Tories about the extent of Britain’s debt and their backwards and unprincipled policies. Anything else is a distraction.”
Michael Foote slightly behind Tony Blair.
Must be Labour MPs who are voting.
I think it was Michael Foote, not wanting to give MPs a pay rise let them claim on expenses.
Did the Tories manage to get an advanced look at next weeks budget then?
Who’s the twat that voted for McHoon anyway!
A bit like Barrymore then, tosser.
CON 43 (-1) LAB 26 (-5) LD 21 (+3)
conservative home latest poll now out !!!!!!!
I see that the most ‘principled’ leader was the criteria for this poll. I had no idea that the definition of principled meant to possess an ability to screw the economy and everyone dependent upon it.
quantitative easing….. “is a form of devaluation in all but name”. (On top of the devaluation already taking place). And.. don’t forget that “quantitative easing” has been taking place for well over a year in secret.
http://itsfaircomment.blogspot.com/2009/01/quantitative-easing-is-well-underway.html
Quantitative easing is a scheme designed to destroy peoples hard earnt savings to prop up the feckless borrowers, the buy-to-let scammers, people who think a house is an investment rather than a place to live in, and most of all, the government who went on a 12 year spending binge, overspent, and still has NOTHING to show for it.
The borrowers have 300 year record low interest rates and are still bleating they can’t afford anything, so under New Labour’s politics of envy, the savers must be made to pay for the feckless to buy things. Carry on the idiotic policy of house prices dictating what happens to an economy.
Eddie George did not get his nickname of “Steady Eddie” for nothing, unlike feckless New Labour Gordon Brown, his incompetent darling, as well as the current New Labour c0ck sucking governor of the BoE and the panel of New Labour stooges in the interest rate setting committee.
New Labour are bastards just as Old Labour were / are.
Well said sir. Now can we have a pointless non rebuttal from Hardon_Pride?
…and dont forget our private pensions were fucked to help pay theirs…bastards!!!
And to think we are still short of houses after the biggest housing boon ever!! Beggers belief!!!
Well we still got the gold…err
And ALL this started in America?
Correct me if I’m wrong but there are six savers for ever borrower. I would say all of these people are not the revolution kind, or blog viewers.
They will wait patiently, then blast NuLabour of the map in May 210
Once again Lefties confuse spending your own money on whatever the hell you want, with spending other peoples’.
Help Toenails to grasp the biggest story he’s missed in the last couple of decades.
Plato has posted his last blog and turned off comments on Digg.
Do feel free to help him hit the ground running on his return from Mars
NOTW is reporting Ray Collins may be slightly fucked after a meeting in December with Whelan, McBride and Draper:
http://is.gd/tbC2
Eddie George was a decent bloke.
I’ve been a staunch supporter of let’s put the boot in on Labour, over the last week. But I’m not up for turning on him, you have lost my support if this turns in to give EG a kicking.
EG did his job well, my condolences to his wife and family.
I hired his daughter Elizabeth, at O&M PR, in 1988, as an assistant in my “research and analysis” dept. She was so competent that she was “re-assigned” to one of the Account Directors, to be a “PR account exec” rather than a marketing research person!
please pass on my condolences
..got any naked fotos of her then?….
Horrible man, piss off, she was a good worker.
How was the coffee?
David, you must be one of a very few in the HOC that have actually held down a proper Job
SAS wasn’t it, please tell me Mr Davies they are not all on active service out of the country and our Generals are just biding their time.
Please inform sterling Lines We will all look the other way.
Yeh I did try, but I got moved to The Place Of Skulls a year later – I involuntarily “became a consultant”…(not because of Lizzie George though – wish I’d been able to keep her in my department.) Blame one Suzannah Hammond, the MD, who discovered I was older than she was and yet not her boss….a newLab Blair Babe in the making if ever there was one before they were invented. Hope she reads Guido…hi Suzannah! (Perhaps Miles Young knows what became of her?)
Did she get a proper job later then ?
Dunno
http://blog.dorries.org/blog.aspx ……..
” Wonder what he would have made of quantitative easing?”
a very public resignation, with his position fully explained in a very public letter.
Agreed. But not with the bastards we have now.
Eddie would have gone well before then – he understood the ‘moral jeopardy’ that accompanied saving busted banks very well, and would have had no part in the Northern Rock fiasco.
My condolences to his family.
To die for? Quantitaive easing that is.
Pause for thought: Thatcher got rid of Labour along with the Trade Unions that fucked up the country last time. David will get rid of Labour this time but will he slay all the dragons that helped Labour fuck up this time? No. Interesting times.
Dave is no Maggie
Dave(hug a hoodie) is no Maggie.
What was his death-bed confession?
“The money is in the mattress”
money is in the wheelbarrow
Remember the gold that Gordon sold cheap? It’s in the shed….
“There is no money it was just a ponzi”
Forgive me Father for I have sinned; I kept my mouth shut.
Either this wallpaper goes, or I need some expenses for new wallpaper.
(corruption of Oscar Wilde’s deathbed thingy)
“I told Gordon the FSA would screw up the banking system”
In case anyone thinks that Fly on the Bedroom Wall’s comment is a joke, it’s not – Eddie was famously sceptical of the FSA, as were most of the senior BOE staff at the time.
Shame they didn’t say anything.
What is a $ trillionare?
If I have $1000bill=$1000
If Iam a millionare = $1000 stack 4inches high
If Iam a billionare = $1000 stack 365ft high
If Iam a trillionare= $1000 stack 68 miles high
you’ll never make it as a headline writer.
He would probably have said mortgaging future generations as yet unborn to bail out an incompetent ex chancellor who has consistently grossly overspent for little if any real gain is both fiscally dishonest and immoral. “I quit”.
Mervyn King would do his own reputation and the rest of us a big favour by doing the same.
RIP Eddie George.
Re more sordid matters, it sounds increasingly like Tom Watson is going to be hung, drawn, and quartered in on one or two of tomorrow’s papers. Downing St. is desperately trying to pull strings right now.
come on, what do you know…
Watson is finished. He’ll be gone before the end of the month.
That long? It’s only the 18th ;)
Spill the beans man.
Watson was, is and always will be; a first class Hoon.
I think most people would agree he was a decent governor. Steady Eddie, rest in peace.
What an offensive headline – partcularly for someone so worked up about standards in the blogosphere.
How is it offensive.
Your a c*nt is offensive, this Labour government is offensive, but not the headline.
Fuck off, thats offensive.
‘off’ is offensive? since when?
Piss off and get your own blog then.
Feel free to be offended. It’s your right.
Cumnugget jizzsmear
More than a right, it is a free choice too. Offence is purely a matter of personal opinion.
Yes please!
What pointlessly offensive drivel.
A gentleman would have stuck to the standard form:
JaquismithisaHoon
actually I dont think guido really gives a shit about the blogosphere he cares more, like we do, about standards in the MSM and mainly the standards in No 10 with the galloping snotgoblin.
who are you people that are offended by almost everything?
cant say this,cant say that…….
just grow up……..
if you don’t want to be offended i wouldn’t lurk on here as someone may give you a coronary……every minute!
ps don’t ask what a hoon is…..you may be offended!
People just love to assume the moral authority of a victim. it’s an industry these days.
May I offer you my ‘Be Offended On Your Behalf’ services?
Great rates and results guaranteed.
I think it should be within the remit of the Court of Public Opinion to decide.
People regularly shit their dogs outside my office, I must admit it offends me
Each morning I shovel the shit into the road, to be taken away on the wheels of passing cars
Recently an offended passer-by said: “You shouldn’t do that”
I wondered if he owned a dog
Had a sense of humour by-pass recently?
If our current prime minister had not split the Bank of England into two and set up the Financial Services Authority back in 1997, banking regulation and supervision would have remained with the Bank and under the watchful eye of Eddie George, a true professional central banker and wise old soul.
If Eddie had remained in charge of it all, as with previous Governors, I suspect the story of the last few years might have been rather different.
He didn’t need to be in charge of it all to have influence. Under him the Bank carried on talking to the City and keeping a proper eye on systemic financial stability. This work was massively cut back by King, who (this from a friend who worked for the Bank) once told the Financial Stability wing of the Bank that he had never rated any of their output.
I don’t know if the last few years would have been different as I think the City would have pressed on regardless – but we’d have heard a lot more about the Governor’s eyebrows.
You seem to be forgetting that the original rationale behind the split was that it was thought the BoE was too close to the city – and that they would be too willing to prop up banks that weren’t systemically important. Ironic, huh?
What, like Northern Rock ?
Brown: “what’s he trying to say?”.
Its not so much of what Eddie George thought of printing money(QE) its what he thougt of removing control of banks to FSA.
He was anti. He faced the sack if he did not go along with it.
Oh to hear his side of the story. Gentlemen don’t tell though. Old fashioned person mocked and despised by Campbell Brown and Mandelson.
r RIP I seem to remember him threatening to resign over Bottler Browns plans
for the triparite system of banking supervision
I don’t know anything about Eddie George. other than what has been printed in newspapers. On that basis, I quite liked him.
On the basis of one human being speaking about another, I am truly sorry for his demise.
Dolly’s had another change of career
Rest in peace.
Didn’t know him but from what I understand, he was a solid, dependable chap that did his job perfectly well – no good for Zanulab obviously.
Bit uncomfortable with the headline though, he was a good guy from what I remember so fair do’s to him.
Very sad, I worked with and for him. genius and a gentleman. he would have understood quantitative easing, we did it years ago, called it overfunding, but not on today’s scale.
I think he would a) have spoken out years ago about fiscal policy b) have dealt with northern Crock much better than the current Gov.
Eddie was a central banker, Mervyn is a good monetary economist. The gap is huge.
I must also add that he foresaw and forewarned Brown on the consewquences of transferring control of banks to FSA. It is on record. He was told to resign if he did not accept the change and being a good servant he soldiered on but kept a close eye on things. Mervyn King did not because as you say he was not a Central Banker but rather a monetary economist.
I believe that Mr George may well have called time on bank misbehaviour by alerting FSA in no uncertain terms of what was brewing.
Either way Britain has suffred the consequences of both Brown not accepting his advice and his subsequent retirement when he may well have called time on the banks.
What is the betting that snotty will do himself in sometime soon?
We live in hope.
Hope he chooses a method that is very slow and painful. Hara-kiri sounds good to me – ‘Suicide by disembowelment was favoured because it was slow and painful and therefore demonstrated courage, self-control, and strong resolve.’
Doesn’t quite fit the man does it.
‘Suicide by disembowelment was favoured because it was slow and painful and therefore demonstrated courage, self-control, and strong resolve.’
Hopefully undertaken with a blunt spoon
A blunt spoon is what some surgeons have been using to carry out hip replacements- truly!
I’m not a betting type, are there actual ‘official odds on this one out there?
Let’s hope he falls on his s-word.
Will he need a hand? I’ll help.
Eddie George refused to be a Brownite stooge, unlike poor, weak, Mervyn.
You have it the Wrong way round, Merv is the Boss, Brown is the Bankster Stooge.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the (NOT) Bank of england
BREAKING NEWS
A third incident at the G20 protests has been referred to the police watchdog, Scotland Yard has said.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is already investigating events leading up the death of newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson on April 1 and an allegation of an assault on Nicola Fisher on April 2.
A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said: “We can confirm that a third complaint has been referred to the IPCC”. She said the third complaint related to an incident on April 1.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090418/tuk-third-g20-victim-comes-forward-dba1618.html
According to nicola fisher she “thought she was going to die” Turn it up love and enjoy your 15 min of fame !
Get me Max on the blower. £50000 for a smack on the leg – who will be paying to support her habits, lifestyle?
Was it just me thinking that her trouble with talking at any speed was due to a significant smack and trampagne habit? Worse than being beaten by the Taliban? Hokely dokely – if you say so sweetie.
According to Nicola Fisher, SHE has admitted assulting the police officer.
Oh well DONE, Max. Proceed of crime order coming up soon?
Could an obliging cop come round and give me a little slap I’ll split the £50,000 with him !
Didn’t know the man, but since he obviously preferred to be called Eddie I don’t think he would be offended by the headline
Hope his family have the same spirit, we’re sad for your loss
Harriet Harman was just on PM sounding rather ill-tempered. Carolyn Quinn was not terribly respectful, suggesting that going round being a fluffer for the local Labour Party was flogging a dead horse.
Wonder if the BBC worm is turning, based on the certainty that it’s Tory Time from 11 May 2010.
Well, I hope he took his money with him; I plan to.
Let this be a warning to bliar, brown, bush, obama and whoever else have sold their soul – when your contract with satan is up, there’s no defaulting on it…..and you really can’t take it with you…..
You all knew what you were signing up for….it’s very, VERY real.
They know it too. They are really fucked. Nobody likes them any more.
Just why are we paying Princess Eugenie’s £100,000 gap-year security bill?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1171625/Just-paying-Princess-Eugenies-100-000-gap-year-security-bill.html
Because she’s worth it.
Are we paying her pie bill? She’s a biggun!
LOL! I believe she’s known as Lady Melton of Mowbray.
Lardy Fray of Bentos.
Has she met Prezza?
She’s quite cute, I think – tits of a 40yr old, though ;o)
Why do we have to give any of them money? It’s not as if they’re short of a few pennies.
mate. go to wiki and look up ‘the crown estates’. Swapped by the monarch for the civil list 200 plus years ago, it publishes its accounts yearly. we make about £120m plus each year on the deal.
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So is that 50,000 a jug then?
Is the Sun still printing ‘revealing’ pics of her or is she legal now and not worth it? Typical Sun, a paedo pic pornographer with a massive hypocrisy init.
Hey Commies, leave our royals alone, they cost you around 20p per year, MP’s on the other hand.
Cost us a lot more
A strict 20mph speed limit is to be enforced on roads across the country in a government bid to reduce the number of road accidents, it emerged today.
The new speed limit will affect residential areas and roads near schools. The plan, which is to be revealed on Tuesday by the Department for Transport, is also expected to propose new limits and speed cameras for accident black spots.
While it is the local authority that determines speed limits, ministers expect that this latest guidance will be heeded by councils. Parts of Newcastle, Portsmouth, Oxford and Leicester have already imposed a 20mph speed limit in residential areas.
Fucking wankers, it’s not speed that kills.
Yes it is.
At 20 mph 80% survive
At 40 mph 80% die.
It’s only on roads in residential areas and near schools anyway.
Who is in such a hurry that one minute later is going to make a difference? Campaign instead against fixed cameras which cause dangerous braking and acceleration.
if you build a world where everything is down to deadlines,taxes and being selfish then you get people driving like lunatics…….all thinking about themselves……
sound like any place we know?
ps i have a car ,motorbike and push bike-been knocked off twice…….
HMP – Don’t know the figures, but I suspect that at 10mph close to 100% survive. So what’s your point – we keep reducing till no one dies?
In any case, you can bet that the police and Gov. Ministers will not be subject to the 20mph limit. Just another revenue scam.
Bent copper is right.
only 5% deaths on the roads was speed considered a contributory factor.
25% of young drivers make up death stats but only 4% of them get speeding tickets.
There are more deaths in the home than on the road.
More kids are killed by cars going in reverse than forward.
0mph 100% survive but how many die from knock on economic effect.
3000 + deaths a year sound appalling but the faster humanity has become the larger and longer lived the population are.
So ’speed kills’ as a soundbite is actualy bollocks.
Well of course you can reduce it to an absurdam but 20 mph in residential streeets and 100 yards or so either side of school gates doesn’t sound unreasonable to me.
For once, this has nothing to do with New Labour political correctness but is based on professional and scientific advice. We criticise the bastards when they ignore the professionals, but why do so when for once they do the right thing?
As I said, it doesn’t affect normal roads, and who wants to kill schoolkids? (apart from people who think Top Gear is cool)
I withdraw my earlier comment. I was pissed off with the shitty government as I read the news. I had to lash out!
it isn’t speed that kills.
I’ve done the official police figures and breaking the speed limit is the cause of about 5 percent of accidents and about 12 percent of fatalities (though many of those are out on country lanes at night).
The vast, vast majority of accidents are caused by not looking properly and misjudging speed. Incidentally, about the same number of people die in ‘institutions’ of cdiff and mrsa in the UK as die on the roads each year – 3500
HMP Brixton – “For once, this has nothing to do with New Labour political correctness but is based on professional and scientific advice”.
It may have nothing to do with New Labour political correctness but it has everything to do with the fact that they are completely bust and need cash fast, every last penny of it.. What easier way to get it then to reduce the speed limit to an absurd level and plant grey and yellow automatic revenue collection cameras at the roadside. Then dress it up as a load of road safety bullshit. This is exactly what they are doing with all these environmental taxes.
As if New Labour really gives a shit about road accidents. One of the worst offenders for speeding with multiple offences is our very own Harriet Harman – last one 99mph on the M4 – well done Wiltshire constabulary.
and in next week’s news, the goverment announces that all vehicles must be preceded by someone waving a red flag.
“We’ll keep the red flag flying there” (since it won’t be flying anywhere else)
The week after , they may realise that the speed limit actually causes more deaths than it saves due to delays to emergency services, not to mention increased pollution and fuel consumption caused by using a low gear to keep within the limit.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1168212/HARRY-PHIBBS-Potholes-menace-road-humps-polluting-killers.html
The whole story sounds like an attempt to draw ire away from other matters.
Spot on the money.
It’s all about putting something else on the news agenda.
It’s all ZaNu Labour do. If you haven’t learned that by now, God help you!
If govt cared about saving lives they would do something about the 100,000 who die as a result of medical errors in the UK.
This is just another way they can provoke the masses, I’m sure there is a calculation being done somewhere that if you decrease the speed limit by X amount you can generate Y amount from congestion charges, increase particulate pollution from engines, then say how much we need to penalise road users for polluting inner cities.
It is after all our fault that our roads are congested, I mean, we all voted for mass mass mass mass mass mass mass mass mass mass mass mass immigration didn’t we,
Wake the fuck up sheep, they are farming you and having a fucking good laugh while they do it.
do you think anyone in westminster cares about saving lives FFS !!!!!
1.2 Fucking Million dead Iraqi’s says Oil is worth more than lives.
YOU ARE BEING FARMED.
OT
I always knew Patrick Cormack MP was a sycophantic creep. The sooner this two-faced slimebag leaves Parliament the better:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-479478/PETER-OBORNE-The-rise-sleaze-ocrats-Britains-ruling-class.html
A woman filmed being struck across the face by a policeman during the G20 protests says she was the victim of a violent and unnecessary attack.
Nicola Fisher, 35, from Brighton spoke out this morning about controversial video footage, which shows her being slapped and then hit on the legs with a baton by a police sergeant.
See the ‘plod slap’ here
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6120050.ece
Lets see some footage of Clifford doing the £50000 deal. I am afraid if the bitch had spat in my face I would have smacked her on both legs. So there!
Yeah, but you’re not a copper paid to keep his cool and enforce law and order, are you, you fuckwit!
ps She didn’t spit in his face you lying turd.
Is it me or does that Nicola Fisher sound like she is one shilling short of a pound.
I mean dont get me wrong i’m not saying she deserved it, just these bunny boilers can be a pain in the arse.
Soon to be one shilling short of 50000 pounds!
She says she thought she was going to die. Fuck me talk about overegging it. She has just lost a lot of sympathy the stupid cow.
She is a real pain in the ass as we say here in the good ol’ U S of A.
“I’m not saying she deserved it”
Oh yes she did – she’s admitted physically pushing the police officer after he told her to move back.
If you look at the video on the Times site, it seems that the slap happens at about 0:46 seconds in.
And frankly, it does not really look like a slap – it’s more like brushing away a wasp.
When she drivels about him using his full force – she’s talking rubbish.
If my daughter came home and said she had been hit by a copper in town I would go mad. If she said she had been to a demo which was expected to be violent and got hit by a copper I would say “and how exactly does this surprise you?”
The cop should also by investigated for the aggrivated charge of assaulting a female idiot !
And why was she there in the first place? Because, in her own words, she had gone to attend a ‘vigil’ for Ian Tomlinson.
Now just remember, at that stage Ian Tomlinson was thought to have had a heart attack and died from ‘natural causes’.
So she goes to a potentially violent demo in order to pay homage to someone she doesn’t know, who wasn’t even a demonstrator and who just happened to have collapsed and died in the street.
Yeah, right. Does she make a habit of going to ‘vigils’ for strangers who die suddenly? Or did Max tell her to say that?
This is a very interesting poll
The Times pollster Populus has been conducting a survey into the political views of a representative sample of 1023 Unite members.
See the results here
http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2009/04/while-the-unite-leadership-ponders-whether-charlie-whelans-behaviour-is-appropriate-for-a-senior-member-of-their-staff-they.html
Rumour of an amazing Poll in the Independent on Sunday.
Labour in third place!!! :grin:
Tories 48%
Labour 20%
LD’s 21%
This prat used to do this in the Autumn in advance of ComRes polls that proved to be disappointing for the Tories. Will be interesting to see whether this fits the pattern.
yawn…..more bollox!! lab on 30 limps 17 and camerons lot on 41 .
OT.
Picture of Tracey Temple getting her leg over with Lard Arse Prescott. Here.
That’s John being John.
A little interesting story you may find funny:
Years ago I used to have to go to Salisbury Plains when the sceptics rolled out the nukes on exercise. The usual tree huggin crew were there and gave us loads of grief.. One night we hatched a plan to go out into a field by the woods were the yanks were and waited. We used night vision goggles and sure enough along comes some unwashed tramp to cut the wire. We waited until they crept past and then crept in behind them. So picture the scene it is deadly quiet, they are really tensed up and they didn’t know we were there. We would creep up behind them and with a megaphone shout “BOO”. It was hilarious they jumped straight into the wire. If we felt generous we would pull tem off in the morning.
I thought they were going to do that at the G20 demo. They wired up shed loads of speakers on stalks a few years ago.
Another interesting little tale.
Jack is on leave and picks up a prostitute without legs. She describes to him the method to employ and he hags her on the park railings and gives her one. When finished he lifts her off and returns her to her wheelchair.
” Your based at Plymouth aren’t you?”
“How did you know that?”
“The bastards from Devonport usually fuck off and leave me hanging there”
My word, you’ve cleaned that one up a bit!!!!!!!
One slight problem with that joke is that Devonport is in Plymouth. Suggest the next time you tell the joke you give the punchline as
‘the bastards from Pompey (Portsmouth)normally leave me there” though having done time in both places they probably both would leave her there but just turn her updside down to avoid any spillage.
Well after another exciting Saturday which saw the fixture between The Daily Telegaff and Guido Fawkes absorb the nation Ican repoprt that despite some extremely dity play by said labourgaff the match ended
Guido 55 Telegaff 0
This most surely spell the end not only for chief striker Gordon Rayner but also for the editor of the dying club.
The Smeargraph have just clicked from 53 to 55 comments passed moderation.
Hilarious – that’s two in 5 hrs.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/5173475/Guido-Fawkes-the-colourful-life-of-the-man-who-brought-down-Damian-McBride.html
Cheers, I’m going to have to register.
I posted at 10 this morning, guess the great free British press doesn’t like dissent.
her is what I posted
Guido Understands It Does Often Require Us Lesser Examiners Should look at the Captial.
enjoy
Then they’ve removed some… when I looked, they claimed to have 59 posted.
Everyone is engaged in massive government spinning here and I’m the only one modding and I don’t have a fucking clue.
good govner i always thought was eddie george , be crying in heaven over having to what labour have done again , and in the other place if hes gone there
Cracking scoop on Tory Bear’s site
http://www.torybear.com/2009/04/more-smoke-and-mirrors.html
f’ckin superb story…didn’t realist the fearless mirror had pulled the pictures.
Great story WTF does it mean though?
Cracking scoop on Tory Bear
http://www.torybear.com/2009/04/more-smoke-and-mirrors.html
Cracking story on Tory Bear
http://www.torybear.com/2009/04/more-smoke-and-mirrors.html
Oops, post-football -Stella-induced ‘coma’ meant I submitted my comment 3 times. Apologies
I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised that the Mirror is still in Gordo’s pocket. Very depressing.
Since Toenails is still holidaying on Mars and has nothing to say on his blog, perhaps we can help him via Digg instead?
Plenty of opportunity to comment there on a great week for political journalism.
http://digg.com/politics/Au_revoir
Plato says:
The Smeargraph have just clicked from 53 to 55 comments passed moderation.
Hilarious – that’s two in 5 hrs.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/5173475/Guido-Fawkes-the-colourful-life-of-the-man-who-brought-down-Damian-McBride.html
Oooh!
Mine still isn’t there yet, either, Plato and mister smeeth, but mine was later still.
Hey, the ‘Graph’s getting a bit like tHe gUardian’s “Comment Is Strictly Controlled” and the Baghdad Broadcasting Corporations’s “comments are now closed” uninteractive feature.
Gut-crumpets, the lot of them.
A short while ago the last a comment registered at 5.35pm. It’s no longer showing.
I posted there over an hour ago and that’s not showing either.
Scared little pussies.
Not being rude but what’s a Gut Crumpet – never heard the saying.. As Kryten would say they are all Smeg Heads”.
Maybe we should drop hoon and call them all “Rimmer”
THe opinion poll figures above are a load of bollocks, There is no poll in the IOS, its in the Sunday Telegrah, released at 8.30pm
Condolences to Mr George’s family.
Steady Eddie-Governor of the Bank of England 1993 -2003. You are remembered for your wisdom and your steady pair of hands.
You had to deal with Blair, Brown and Alastair Campbell – especially Brown who was the Chancellor, that they told us was, the most brilliant intelligent Chancellor ever!!!?
For Mr George it must have been like trying to cope with the victorian institution of Bedlam.You handled this rabid group of politicians with great aplomb. Quantitative easing (overfunding- hints of Zimbabwean logic)? You would have hated it and seen it for the tawdry solution that it is.
Gordon? I have no doubt that Mr George knew him for the brainless slug that he is.
A good man has died. There are too few of them left and none in the Labour Party. And please, I know as a woman I should have paraphrased that differently but please, do not talk to me of the women in Labour- because most of them are beyond the pale.
Hear hear.
Hope you enjoyed your swim yesterday.
Thank you. Yes I did enjoy my swim . Tomorrow I’m going to London to take my baby (grand-daughter) to a private consultant , because the nhs has failed us again. We believe she has a tumour, but our local nhs paediatricians ,whose motto is, we are only interested in our status , expenses and pensions, in line with the present government culture, is doing nothing. We are therefore, as caring grandparents, despairing of this government, using our pension monies to get her diagnosed and treated. So much for another failed Labour policy ‘ Every Child Matters.’
Labour can inspire their people on the eve of the next election with the rallying call
“Go home and prepare the ballot boxes “
Ladies and Gentlemen I would just like to thank all who have taken the effort to post. I have no connection with Guido apart from a healthy respect for his attitude.
I like many here rage at the system but have no power and I feel that Guido has shown us the way. I like the un-moderated posts and the strength and passion of feeling on this site.
Guido may pass by the wayside of political history but what he has started will live on. We have a voice and we will no be silenced.
So I raise a glass to Guido. You may not get rich from this but you should weigh the good you have done, you cannot buy that.
Very well said – Guido has given us, the ex Telegraph Readers, the frustrated, disgusted public who are fed up with these inadequate, incompetent, inept, ministers of the Crown, claiming every penny of their expenses that they can ( including for their porn films and bathplugs) A VOICE . I am now going to pour myself a glass of red wine and I give a
Toast . Enjoy!
And to the Conservatives a thought, even though this idiot Labour crew have handed you the next election ( and you need to remember the saying ‘you don’t win an election, the incumbent government loses it’ – nothing truer at the moment), We, the newly expanding blogger community that Guido is empowering (helped by the DT’s attempted character assassination today of Guido which has resulted in their Hot Air being turned into oxygen for Guido’s site ) will be here to hold you to account too. So sharpen up your act.
ps I Like George Osborne but he would be better in Education and Skills especially after Ed Balls. Someone needs to heal rifts and think of Children instead of Ed whose only concern is how much money he can leach from the taxpayers for his expenses.
Ken Clark would be good as Chancellor – he’s good for us oldies – a return to the days of whisky and cigars at the dispatch box. To harriett – we oldies are not dead yet, and actually carry quite a slice of the vote! Discount us at your peril.
Thanks Nell, you I think like me seem to have found a voice lately.
I like most people welcome open debate. I like Hannan and Davis and I think they would make a great team but as I said that us my opinion and I am glad to stand by the vote of the majority; Where that majority is real and not rigged by some fancy electoral boundary.
You newbies here 5 mins and taking over,you don’t don’t tell Guido he’s a lovely guy and you all love him,we need him in a temper, he works better that way.
Dear Dream On what you seem to have missed is that we Oldies are also in a temper – Guido is giving us a voice. T
This Labour Government has trashed our hard work, our frugal saving habits and our hard-earned pensions whilst making sure that they have access to ‘over the top’ generous expenses paid for by our taxes and of ‘ridiculously high’ end-of-salary pensions- for which they have done nothing. To boot they have trashed a great country.
So we, the ‘Oldies, (discounted by Harriet, the next Great Labour Leader, who seems to think only youth is of value’) are also in a temper.
We are also a significant percentage of the electorate- so watch out labour – because we have lost trust and patience in these people who are supposed to be public servants – well isn’t that a laugh?
Amen to that!
Dream On says:
April 18, 2009 at 7:40 pm
You newbies here 5 mins and taking over,you don’t don’t tell Guido he’s a lovely guy and you all love him,we need him in a temper, he works better that way.
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That’s genius – I just deposited my Scotch all over my laptop! :)
“Guido may pass by the wayside of political history”
Hopefully later rather than sooner, Mr Smeeth.
Many of us, (especially Tom Watson MP,) will pass by the wayside of history. Guido will not be one of those. He has forced the river to change its course.We have yet to see where that river is going. But this is an historic moment and it will direct us away from poisonous New Labour, the sycophantic Daily Telegraph and the spineless BBC. Ironically (what a mindless idiot I was,) these 3 icons were how I used to mark my day. Like many more like me, I suspect, we are about to experience a sea change in national opinon………. I think , as an East A
Will the Sunday Telegraph survey give Cameron a boost
The last survey from the pollster had CON 44: LAB 31: LD 18 so it will be interesting to see how much the battering that Labour has had over the past week has impacted on opinion.
According to CONhome the details will be out by 8.30pm
From PB:
“There’s been no word of the expected ComRes poll for the Indy on Sunday. Usually you get a taster from John Rentoul on his Indy blog. That’s not happened yet which suggests that it won’t be this week.
The worst ever ICM figures for Labour were in the Guardian survey in June 2008 when it was CON 45: LAB 25: LD 20.
This thread will be updated as soon as tonight’s figures are known. ”
Due about 20:30
http://politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2009/04/18/new-icm-poll-out-tonight/
CON 43 (-1) LAB 26 (-5) LD 21 (+3)
conservative home!
who got +3?
Two words – David Kelly!
The day will come when the role of those killed by this crowd is read out and it will include thousands. Old soldiers have long memories.
Dr David Kelly is an icon for truth and decency. He was hounded to his death by the actions of Blair, Scarlett ,Alastair Campbell and Hoon. Hutton has blood on his hands for allowing them to get away with it. Dr David Kelly will not be forgotten . And in present day terms when the history of this rotten government is written I believe that Gordon Brown will be regarded, historically, as more notorious than Richard III .
Guidio should join the RAC…….they will keep him passing by….
just breaking on pb.com
con 43, labour 26 – 17 point lead
Clearly a margin of error +/- %…. After all, mad Mikey 30% …. Never desert etc.
Then again, the hoon could be wrong.
conservative home have it at on website
CON 43 (-1) LAB 26 (-5) LD 21 (+3)
Just stuck a post on the Telegraph story about Guido. If you take a look they have not put anything on there for over two hours. Are they running scared?
This will test the waters and see whether some censorship going on.
Sorry , but of course there is . Censorship is how ‘they’ have controlled all information. A week ago I would not have believed what was being said on this site, Why have the press, especially the DT, presented this shambles of a Labour Government in such a good light , when the opposite is true.
Now, even as an Oldie, who has been employed in Local Government and rigorously tutored to abide by rules ( don’t breathe unless you can find a regulation telling you to do it) , I have finally seen the light.?
The overpowering question is; Who owns the Telegraph? ( well most of us know the answer to that) but why are they allowing this once great paper to become a trash rag?
Just put a comment on the Telegraph website. They have posted nothing for the last two hours. Are they running scared having shot themselves in the foot with this one? Curious to know what strings the Barclay brothers are pulling.
Just caught this on Iain Dale.
There’s a new poll in the Sunday Telegraph tomorrow giving the Conservatives a whopping 17 point lead over Labour, who have dropped to 26%. The Tories are in 43% and the LibDems on 21%, up 3%. The Tories are down one.his on Iain Dale.
Roll on 3.6.10
I can’t wait to see the statement from PM Gordon Brown – they will all claim that the sun shone out of his arse, and what a wonderful man he was, despite the fact that they shat on him from a great height and treated him like fucking dirt.
Hypocrites one and all.
Now, troubles may come and troubles may go
But you’ll always find me ready
Upon the hill, playing still
Just like Eddie
So whenever you’re sad, whenever you’re blue
Whenever your troubles are heavy
Beneath the stars you play your guitars
Just like Eddie.
R.I.P. Eddie George
Clearly a bungled attempt by CREEP – Committee to Re-Elect the Primeminister.
Where’s Ehrlichman?
Regards,
Tom
CON 43 (-1) LAB 26 (-5) LD 21 (+3)
conservative home
This comment is for Guido…you can take this post down later as its not really on topic. But… have you seen this on the telegraph site ??? pure venom:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/5173475/Guido-Fawkes-the-colourful-life-of-the-man-who-brought-down-Damian-McBride.html
regards,
The real venom is in the comments underneath. DT is in big trouble – losing readers hand over fist now.
Agreed, the comments on the DT site under the so called article show that the public do not rate the DT at all. Guido did say on his blog entry on the Telegraph site “do your worst”. I guess this is it…..
‘ DT do your worst’? Well their worst has been feeble. Less than feeble. Not only are they losing readers ( many of us are Harriet Harman’s discounted oldies ). The DT is also losing their advertising revenue. They need to urgently realign themselves with their readers or they are going to sink into oblivion. Goodbye Labour- Goodbye DT – I’ll never buy another copy- I promise – and my promises are better than Gordon’s. I keep them.
You only have to read DT blogs by people like Iain Martin to understand the Telegraph’s problem: they are politically and philosophically all over the place. Martin doesn’t know what he is other than a self-publicist.
Ray Collins Labour General Secretary denying being involved in McBride and Dollygate.
Sky reporting – Charlie Whelean and Collins were all present at a meeting to discuss the e mails.
I think it’s going to be another fun weekend.
And Toilets was there.
Who is Toilets?
Can’t you bring the buggers down Guido? Come on, pull your finger out man, we need a NewLab skull a week, us.
Also we are scousers, we “want justice”.
The story is now getting VERY close to the big enchilada himself!!
http://blogs.notw.co.uk/politics/2009/04/emails-nail-labours-lies.html
RIP Eddie George. Interest Rates will be at 8% before this government departs
Guido, this is not exactly the New World Order we, the Elites of the World had in mind, can you stop it now.
I’m not happy with the title of this thread, or what it suggests about Eddie George.
Guido, you’ve made a fuck up here, respect the man and apologise for this thread or become part of the Zanu Libor type people.
Dear Road Hog- No! Guido has not fucked up (God forgive me the use of that language – first time I’ve ever used it anywhere and hopefully the last) Eddie George , his intellect, his grasp of economics and his enormous diplomatic skills in dealing with poisonous idiots like Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and their unspeakable henchman during the years he served the Bank of England is much appreciated and admired here by many of us, even those, like me, who did not know him. He was a man of many talents and a gentleman. That could not be said of any of the others mentioned in this post. It certainly could not be said said of Gordon Brown and his right hand men Tom Watson./Charlie Whelan/McBride/Draper et al
Anyhow, my elderly bones are creaking and I need to take a Horlicks and go to bed. So Goodnight, God Bless. Tomorrow’s another day and I am so looking forward to seeing the polls. I just know Gordon is going to score 80% Best Leader Ever!!!!!! Not.
With all due respect Guido, I think you’ve chosen a pretty bad headline, considering this post is about someone’s death. Your point about what he would have made of quantitative easing is perfectly vaid, though.
Not to steady Eddie, in fact down right profligate.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article6122361.ece
The Bank of England deliberately stoked the consumer boom that has led to record house prices and personal debt in order to avert a recession, the former Bank Governor Eddie George admitted yesterday.
RIP Eddie.
If you ever wondered what happened to your dartboard – it was on the wall in my house for many years.