April 21st, 2009

Copy-Taking Culprit

From : guido.fawkes@order-order.com
To : foiteam@cabinet-office.xxxxxxx

Dear Sirs,Smokescreen

Further to my Freedom of Information Request and Subject Access Request made under the provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) on March 27, 2009, please can you assure me that you will be including all emails to and from Damian McBride and The Daily Telegraph in the days before he resigned.

Particularly but not exclusively the emails referring to myself (pseudonymously or not) or my blog which were sent to Andrew Porter.

Regards,


530 Comments

  1. 1
    Dirty Rat says:

    Oh fuck, now getting down to fine tuning. Go for it Mr Fawkes, I am loving this.

    • 74
      DT Editor says:

      In a masochistic way, so am I.

      • 171
        Apathist Voter says:

        Good luck with that Guido – If they can ‘lose’ MI5 files which should have been given to the High Court your emails will be no problem

      • 200
        wayne trumpet says:

        guido
        Sorry not to get back to you sooner
        I very been on a massive bender recently

        Re your image on tv etc

        Yes – correct, you like a retired pot black player

        I suggest you get a bird to stand in for you on a striped basis. Big jugs might be good….
        What about mrs draper?

      • 461
        Anonymous says:

        HOONGRAPH

    • 95
      lexander says:

      Oh Joy upon joy. How their hearts will have sunk at the sight of that E. Not often you see somebody thumped when they are already on the canvas – except in no-holds barred stuff. Yipee!

      • 161
        Pilly says:

        If in doubt, obfuscate………………………

      • 184
        john miller says:

        If you can remember 1970’s Kent Walton ITV wrestling – which tragically I can – being thumped on the canvas was relatively tame.

        Jackie Pallo lying in Row 4 being thumped by old ladies with their handbags while Mick McManus was jumping up and down on his head is a more accurate analogy, with due respect.

    • 186
      wayne trumpet says:

      in the words of ac/dc the best rock blues band,

      There’s gonna be some rockin’

      I love this shit. Bring it on….

      Ps uk is fucked.

      • 382
        Rebecca says:

        Unless you are a member of the govt or a troughing mp. Tuck Gordon Brown and tuck his corrupt govt and party for having brought this nation to this. “An endto boom and bust”, he can stick his slogan up his kilt.

    • 187

      Would you like a holiday in the Channel Islands? Swimming with the fucking fish?

  2. 2
    julian gardner says:

    hope your foi goes better than mine, not even a reply saying they received it.

    joolz

  3. 3
    Jimmy says:

    p.s. please expedite this request as I have run out of material.

    • 72

      Shame you haven’t run out of oxygen, you tedious tribal defender of the indefensible.

      • 77
        sloberdown menob says:

        You mean these twats use oxygen?
        I thought they just recirculated methane.

      • 82

        Jimmy. Have you no conscience at all?
        The Penguin is right to call you a tribal defender of the indefensible.

        look back to Guido’s Derek Conway posts. The comments were full of outraged posters demanding his hanging.
        Compare to your refusal to countenance the truth about your masters.

        Even a Man Utd fan knows that if the team are being beaten 16 – 0 its probably not all the ref’s fault.

        Try and get some balance. you are leaning so far too the left you are in danger of toppling over completely.
        {much like the budget will be i should think}
        http://cityunslicker.blogspot.com/2009/04/vinces-budget-breakfast.html

      • 117
        Jimmy says:

        Ok I’ll bite. What is this indefensible thing I’m defending, unless it’s the dead horse Guido insists on flogging?

      • 152
        Optional says:

        @sloberdown menob

        recirculate methane. via hosepipe. arse to mouth.

      • 191
        sloberdown menob says:

        Nah! As in head up arse.

    • 94

      You can never run out of material on this Government. They just keep making more. A scandal a day.

    • 174
      Anonymous says:

      Jimmy
      How dare you criticise Guido!!
      You are an arch-proponent of Child-Prawn and Harold Shipman.
      Are you a marxist or a moslem or something? You’re being paid by NuLabour. Admit it.
      We readers of this blog do not tolerate dissent against our glorious leader. It’s because we are such libertarian free-thinkers don’t you know.

      I will never get tired of this story I hope that Guido posts about it every day for the rest of his eternity.

    • 175
      Malcom Tucker says:

      So Guido exposes a story which leads to the resignation of one of Brown’s senior aides, an apology from Brown himself, the sacking of Labour’s internet blog ‘guru’, huge and continuing pressure on other senior members of Brown’s team, and yet you now think it’s boring because Guido is pushing it?

      Mmm i’d go back to Labour List Jimmy – much more your thing.

      Twat.

      • 190
        Jimmy says:

        Guido got hold of a tasteless e-mail, something I suspect could be obtained from pretty much anyone’s machine if they were being snooped on. McBride was a dick for passing it around, and I’m no fan of the man anyway. He’s paid a heavy price for it. Draper was a dick for even considering publishing it for five seconds. No doubt Guido has won his handbag fight hands down. Chapeau. In a rational universe that would be the end of it but for two things. the first is that Guido wants to extend his fifteen minutes of fame and wants everyone to pretend this tawdry little episode is Watergate II. The second is that he is a spiteful little shit who is not content with his opponent’s humiliation but is now seeking to harm him in matters entirely unrelated to politics and has got up his posse of retarded adolescents to pick on the proverbial fat kid in the playground. I don’t like bullying. One of the many reasons why I’m not a tory.

      • 194
        Peter Grimes says:

        And twat Jimmy doesn’t think that ZaNuLieBor are bullys?

        Fucking hoon!

      • 226

        Jimmy.
        A very credible response. Fair play.
        But if the fools had simply admitted with hands up that there was an idea of countering Guido/Dale/DK with a gossipy/unmoderated attack blog and said D.Mac had just gone too far, then maybe it would have blown over.

        What is surprising is a two day tops news story, where Brown DID act decisively and correctly for once, that the MSM didn’t really want to bother with, ran for 10+ days. Propelled on by the genuine disgust and outrage from the public on phone-ins, letters and the message boards and the desire for those politicians and lobby journalists previously punished by McBride and the smear cabal at 10/11 Downing street, to exact revenge.

        I welcome more revelations if only to push that weirdly acted MP expenses Youtube video out of the limelight. A more desperate attempt to regain the news agenda I can’t think of.
        The Thick of it doesn’t begin to tell the story of the truly mendacious exercise of power throughout the whole of New Labour’s reign.

      • 293
        Jimmy says:

        Bill,

        Ah yes. Oh to be in that age of innocence before spin was invented in 1997.

      • 343
        Steve says:

        “Oh to be in that age of innocence before spin was invented in 1997.”

        Yawn and yawn again. The integrity of this Labour government does not need to be compared to previous governments for validation; it stands or falls on its own merits.

        If you think it does, then I’d advise you to roll over and let them stamp on the other side of your face. Maybe both your ears will go numb and it will drown out the sound of them laughing at the ease with which they rule you.

      • 414
        Yachydda says:

        Jimmy, You are the most idiotic self centred twat on the whole blog… is your pension guaranteed?…i suspect that as a HOON it is now do us a favour and piss off.

      • 526
        Sunday Morning says:

        Spin existed before 1997. Who can forget that unbelieveable decision by the BBC to lead their main news bulletin with a speech made by a Leader of the Oppositon (as Blair was then) to his party when just about every other news organisation in the world was leading on the acquittal of OJ Simpson?

    • 257
      Peter Piper says:

      I don’t like bullying either, Jimmy [aka YoungLaborList]. That’s part of the reason why I’ll never vote for your crooked and vindictive champagne-socialist comrades again. Guido has exposed and will continue to shine a big fuck-off searchlight all over your masters’ corruption and contempt for the truth.

      Draper, with his undoubted talent for bullshitting his way through crises of his own making, has already shown himself to be the turd that just won’t flush. As a socialist comrade, you should be pleased now that the little people will be protected from seeking the services of such a charlatan.

    • 261
      Derek Draper MA says:

      jimmy, are u calling me a fat kid?

      • 375
        Balls is a C_nt says:

        derek you c-unt you didnt finish your course and you got expelled so dont put MA after your name you fucking charlatan.

      • 482
        Eat your porridge says:

        Mandy’s Arsebandit?

      • 505
        Hugh Janus says:

        What Jimmy doesn’t seem to understand is that an increasing number of people are very, very angry and regard this as pay-back time for 12 years of lying and cheating. It’s very simple.

  4. 4
    StrongholdBarricades says:

    Is publishing it here a measure that they can then say they never received it?

    Much the same as an open letter?

    Any gossip on why Brown announced via You Tube? Is he like some soviet leader “in communicado”?

    • 37
      Anonymous says:

      Is that somewhere in Cuba ?

    • 66
      Anonymous says:

      Well his nickname is Stalin, but that means man of steel,hummmmmm

      • 111

        More like diamond cutter when his thoughts turn idly to Mandy.

      • 132
        Sir Dando Tweakshafte says:

        Well, I received some deeply disappointing news on the pension front this morning. Looking at my annual statement, I would have thought “man of steal” is a bit nearer the mark.

      • 433
        Anonymous says:

        35 years I have paid in to 3 different pensions and the payout when I retire in 10 years time..from any of them
        Put it this way I won’t even bother with the phone call.

        Thanks McStalin thanks Labour you dirty rotten scumbag hoons!
        Rot and burn in hell for what you did to me the working class.

  5. 5
    Carlos says:

    A bit OT, but how much money has had to be wasted on the spurious (ie not like this one) FOI requests since it was brought in?

  6. 6
    insider says:

    My FOI seems also to have been lost……..funny that.

    Hope Mr G has better luck……

  7. 7
    Anonymous says:

    While you’re about it, see if you can also put in a foi request to the BBC to ask them how many people have complained to the BBC about their pro-labour bias (numbers and proportions of complaints) over the last 10 years – they refuse to answer that one, even their brand new figures say that absolutely nobody has ever complained about their pro-labour bias.

    • 10
      R.D.Laing says:

      They always say they get complaints of bias from both right and left, but not what the ratio is. Duplicitous bastards.

      • 32
        grobdj says:

        They would decline to further the request, on the grounds it may affect their reputation for impartiality

      • 36
        Sandy says:

        “……on the grounds it may affect their reputation for impartiality.”

        Too fucking right it would.

      • 43
        Peter Grimes says:

        And you can bet your boots that ZaNuLieBor have their tame copywriters, probably paid for by us, stereotyping letter after letter (using names & addresses from all of those databases they’ve lost) complaining about pro-Tory bias.

        So if Al-JaBeeba ever produced the figures, they wouldn’t, like most of the lies produced by the ONS, be worth a flying fuck!

      • 58
        brown has 2 eyes says:

        I learnt in years back 2001- 2002 that the license fee was to be abolished by the year 2010, it seems now that the current administration will keep it as a propoganda and has clipped the wings off the BBc corporation, which belongs to the people who pay the license fee, and they follow browns policies, so they retain their TV tax.

        Stick your license fee up your brown hole BBC im done with paying for a biased pro labour spin machine and reward sound bites.

        good bye labour and good bye BBC

      • 91
        NuLabia / Bum Brown Corporation joint statement says:

        Ta da. It’s all in the database but YOU are going on the ’special’ list.

    • 35
      The BBC - it's what we do says:

      Sorry the shredder accidentally shredded the files and our hard drive was accidentaly wiped without us remembering to take a back-up – we of course take full responsibility for this action and have sacked the “work experience” lad

      Now on BBC 3 – “My Life as an Animal”

  8. 8
    FOI says:

    “Sorry, they’ve been lost somewhere up near Glenrothe’s with an electoral register”

  9. 9
    Gordon McMental MP says:

    Dear Mr Fawkes

    Further to your Freedom of Information Request and Subject Access Request made under the provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) on March 27, 2009, re: all emails to and from Damian McBride and The Daily Telegraph in the days before he resigned,and any emails referring to yourself (pseudonymously or not) or your blog which were sent to Andrew Porter.

    I could send them ,however I am not going to
    You fucking Hoon!
    Do you think I got where I am today by being open and honest?
    I am far too busy saving the universe to spare the time to have a look down the back of the sofa or on that strange TV like thing that just shows words for these “email” thingies
    Gordon

  10. 11
    Agent Grapefruit says:

    I actually got a reply back from the Cabinet office about my FOI request.
    I asked to see emails and correspondence relating to the awarding of Fred Goodwin his knighthood.
    I got a reply back saying it was personal info !!!
    This means we cannot find out who nominated him and who approved it!!!

    • 45
      David Bouvier says:

      My recollection is that information relating to the honours system is subject to a specific exemption – perhaps understandably even if you don’t agree.

      • 71
        Anonymous says:

        No-don’t understand-pls explain

      • 368
        Anonymous says:

        Anecdotally the word is Brown nominated the shred – How much did it cost? your guess is as good as mine.
        I’ve started so I’ll finish “A million seems to be a good starter for ten probably laundered through one of fred’s offshore mister fixits”.

      • 519
        Rarter Cuck says:

        PASC hearing about honours system on Thursday, maybe they can find out.

    • 183
      Apathist Voter says:

      he probably paid for it – what else do you need to know

    • 507
      Anonymous says:

      Lord Hymen should be broken.

  11. 12
    Moley says:

    I miss the Telegraph, it’s been part of my life for so long, but what they did was so repellent that I can no longer stand it.
    I have looked at it a couple of times since I left and all the writers seem to have lost heart as well.
    Does anybody know who Mary Riddell is and how and why she has been catapaulted in as a leader writer? I was not in the least impressed.
    Having links to Downing St will not help them when their is a change of Government, they will be cast adrift by the new administration.
    What sticks in my throat is that the odious proprietors seem to think that the readers and their votes can be bought like cattle.
    They make me sick.

  12. 13
    urinalpeeps says:

    Aye, along with a moral compass belonging to a son of the manse from there abouts.
    Anyone spotted a moral compass on Ebay “as new and little used”.

    • 54
      dark says:

      Brown’s Moral Compass, like Blair’s, was de-magnetised by passing through too many security metal detectors at airports while trying to play the International Statesman.

    • 87
      M.T.BUCKET says:

      Prudance dissapeared with it.

    • 99
      Scallywag says:

      There never was a moral compass. They wouldn’t sell him one because he’s systemically immoral, not to mention dysfunctional, mad as a hatter, chews his fingers, has a very weird smile, amazing teeth for a cretin and is unelected.

  13. 14

    This is good. First of all finish a spin doctor. Can Guido carry enough clout to finish a paper?

  14. 15
    Half the Story Told says:

    Wonder what the cost is for breaching an NDA, and whether damages for a breach were inserted.

  15. 16
    Insert-coin-here says:

    And what are the odds on the request being turned down due to ’security concerns’?

    Or perhaps more likely,simply being ignored…..it would seem that the ‘head in the sand’ approach is becoming more popular around the bunker as the room to manoeuvre diminishes.

    More chance of getting a blowjob off of the pope than our senior ‘representatives’ being held accountable for their actions.

    • 29
      Anonymous says:

      ooooh like it, pope might not though!

    • 33
      Dr Feelgood says:

      After watching Stewart Lee last night, I think the chances of Papal fellatio are pretty good – and with luck he’ll take his teeth out.

      • 41
        Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

        He doesn’t do it personally, he sends you a voucher and you go to the local church to redeem it. Wear a choristers uniform and speak in a high pitched voice for prompt service.

      • 125
        DT Editor says:

        Dr Feelgood or, should I say, Damian Thompson; get the fuck back to your desk. We need all hands on deck.

      • 282
        Dr Feelgood says:

        @118

        Yes, boss. Do you still want me to print those e-mails and shred them?

    • 73
      Dirty Rat says:

      But then you don’t get a BJ but a length up the shitter!! Not at all what I ordered.

  16. 17
    Charlie boy says:

    You have to remember that to the Government, the Civil Service and the BBC labour bias is centrist, rational and natural. They genuinely can’t see it.

  17. 18
    Anonymous says:

    if you go down to the woods today – be afraid, very afraid.

  18. 20
    Anonymous says:

    But will Brown/Balls come clean?

    • 103
      sloberdown menob says:

      Could try bleach and a scrubbing brush!
      But a word to the wise, have a bath filled with cold water in the immediate vicinity and be prepared to cry a lot.

    • 106
      Sir Dusty Shakenvac-Dyson says:

      Sulphuric acid is good on heavy oxidation.

  19. 21
    cato says:

    OT but don´t you think Alistair Darling is John Major to Gordon Br., umm no that doesn´t work cos Gordon Brown was John Major to Tony Blair´s Marjory Thatcher. That means if Darling becomes prime minister after Gordon Brown in the space of a mere 20 years the UK will have had three John Majors, one Margaret and one Marjory Thatcher: quite remarkable.

  20. 22
    It all started in America you bastards! says:

    Guido. I hope you have a lot of patience and sellotape!! Here are your emails.

    http://www.galil.com/images/image2.jpg

  21. 24
    Sam Coates says:

    Guido – NB Following a FOI request they have 20 days to reply. If they don’t then you can take further legal action. See:

    http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/library/freedom_of_information/detailed_specialist_guides/awareness_guidance_11_-_time_for_compliance.pdf

  22. 25
    It all started in America you bastards! says:

    Talking of shitbags. Anyone hear the vile Stephen Pound arse sniffing McSporan and his new deal on expenses on Radio 5? Does this vile little creep not see what a pathetic piece of braindead lobby fodder he is?

  23. 26
    Wm T Sherman says:

    Could e-mail correspondence between a civil servant and a *newspaper* ever be considered subject to security concerns or considered personal information?

  24. 27
    thick as thieves says:

    sweet deal mr. G.
    ‘follow the emails’ will become brown’s nemesis phrase.
    ‘follow the money’ was nixons’s.
    the only outstanding question is – who the fuck is deepthroat?
    it’s probably that slut mandelson. she suck real good. so I’m told of course.

    • 34
      Bazza O'bama says:

      And she’s the one who tells you, you dirty little fuck.

      • 59
        thick as thieves says:

        er, no, that was just a joke.
        your post is just creepy.
        you creepy c’unt, leave me alone, I’m a juvenile.

      • 90
        Bazza O'bama says:

        “…your post is just creepy….”

        Thanks.

    • 79
      The little piranha that could says:

      DeepDeepThroat is that Dahling! – just you wait until he wraps those ol’ eyebrows around your whatever

  25. 28

    FOI. Biggest pain in the arse since the Edwina Curry salmonella thing.

    • 47
      Augusto Pinochet says:

      Edwina Currie Jones whose outrageous crime was to warn the population that some eggs might contain salmonella. The fact that this upset farmers and businessmen alike sealed her fate. Another Tory we are better off without.

      • 61
        Dirty Rat says:

        She was a great fuck though, went like a train.

      • 81
        Sunray says:

        What sealed Edwina Curry’s fate was her statement about `the majority of egg production in this country being affected by salmonella’. She got her facts wrong, a bit like you, really.

      • 129
        Hot Dog says:

        Her daughter goes like bitch in heat.

      • 136
        Legover Ligger says:

        She had a great motor.

        Miles ahead of Harriet!

        Pity about the breakfast and all those bloody eggs drowning the scotch.

      • 425
        Yachydda says:

        My egg sales where down 50,000 a month…and curried eggs just dont hit the mark.

    • 113
      Augusto Pinochet says:

      That is correct. But some deed contain salmonella, and we didn’t want people to stop buying eggs did we Profits! dear boy, nice to see you are “onboard” Sunray.

      • 150
        cato says:

        anyone remember how similar Edwina looked to John Major´s wife Norma. Like peas in a pod – remarkable. Not so much a case of grass is greener as grass is exactly the same.

      • 172
        John Major says:

        Same is good, sir. I used to rather enjoy watching Spitting Image, through Edwina’s lower beard, to see how much more flamboyant they could make me seem, week on week. Aha, how we laughed. Keep up the wonderful work, Mr. Fawkes.

      • 213
        Anonymous says:

        Cato: the grass is brown (no pun) on both sides

  26. 30
    James says:

    You should open up the request. Make sure that the other idiots in Number 10 weren’t corresponding with the Telegraph on McBrides behalf. Then you would really have them all!

    • 83
      ClownBrown says:

      Won’t work they set a ceiling — 600 quid if memory serves — on the time it takes to dig it all out and then say it will cost too much to provide a response.
      Lie (bour) its what we do

      • 114
        down like the bismarck says:

        If they play that little game, we simply set up a fund to meet the costs of the search, and request donations from the masses.

      • 116
        down like the bismarck says:

        Presumably, though – on the grounds that one only asks questions that one already has the answers to – Guido already has the mails, and has only put in the FOI request to compare and contrast the results. i.e. give them another rope to hang themselves with.

      • 134
        Text Us Hold Em says:

        Yeah, Guido keeps his hand close to his chest but a nugget blind says he’s got a full-house.

  27. 31
    Anonymous says:

    So what date is your e-mail Mr Fawkes? Are you hinting that you’ve already got them and ready to rock? I do hope so.

  28. 38
    Cato says:

    Pardon me for being dull but who the fuck is Andrew Porter?

  29. 39
    Master Baiter says:

    Guidiot/PeeStains,
    Why don’t you ask the Telegraph for any such emails?

    • 50
      Alien8n says:

      Because as a newspaper they’re not obliged to disclose them? You really are a thick piece of shite aren’t you?

    • 51
      W Mitty says:

      I am guessing that Guido felt that as there is no legal compulsion for The Telegraph to disclose such emails, a route where there is such a legal compulsion to produce them will be more successful.

    • 55
      Plato says:

      FOI requests only apply to publicly funded bodies so HMG has to respond.

      • 69
        Roberto says:

        Please don’t encourage this self abuser, he’s not L’Oreal.

      • 97
        Alien8n says:

        I’ve seen inanimate objects that can score higher on an IQ test

      • 133
        Data Protection says:

        BUT the Data Protection Act requires ANY organisation to show you what information is stores about you. It can also be required to provide copies of that information. This applies to information however it is stored electronically or on paper or any other other type of media.
        AND the Data Protection Commissioner will help you get it if the organisation doesn’t play ball.
        So FOI is not the only weapon Guido has.

    • 75

      Christ on a Bike, there was I thinking that excessive masturbation was bad for your eyesight, and here’s the proof that it rots your brains as well.

    • 256
      Nasty Baiter says:

      Fuck off you useless sack of shite!

    • 452
      Anonymous says:

      you really are a true dumbass

  30. 40
    I am not a gynaecologist, but I will take a look says:

    Foieee

  31. 46
    Peter Grimes says:

    Softly softly seems to be catching great big fat sweaty gorillas, not monkeys, and not a few even uglier red-arsed baboons!

    Keep it up, Guido! You fenian get!

  32. 52
    David Bouvier says:

    History says that i they don’t want to give them, the cabinet office will ignore the law, then if forced to reply, will cite many spurious exemptions, and then drag out any appeal. This will take longer than the government has left in office.

    • 67
      dark says:

      If they refuse, publish their refusal letter here without delay!

      And don’t forget a complaint to the Information Commissioner if that happens.

  33. 57
    Teknik says:

    Mr Fawkes, slow down a bit, please. I’m skint and that’s another stout I owe you now.

  34. 63
    dark says:

    Gordon: “Darling…”
    Darling: “Yes, Prime Master…. um, Prime Minister?”
    Gordon: “Stop rehearsing the budget speech I wrote for you and come help me with this shredder.”
    Darling: “Yes darling…, um, Prime Minister”
    Gordon: “You’re my bitch now.”
    Darling: “Shit. Pwned!”

    • 166
      Dr Nuts says:

      Tomorrow would be the perfect time for Darling to announce firstly his budget speech, and then a resignation speech.

      If Darling resigned publicly tomorrow in the HoC, it would be the final torpedo in Broon. But the timings would prove perfect for Darling.

      He’d be despised by the Hoons for rolling their gassiously bloated maggot infested stinking rotting corpse Dead Horse of a Prime Minister over and into the bushes. Before a scrabble for last play prime minister selection process, Ed Balls for the Hoon who gets PM for a year.

      But for Darling – the country would be forgiving, and new parliamentary labour party could rally behind him to make a bid for power in 3 parliamentary sessions, when the country would be prepared (that stupid huh?) to forgive, or at least with a short term memory forget!!

      • 193
        Ewanme says:

        Yeah , wotever Nuts .

        I reckon he should re-invent himself by cuttin off his eyebrows an Sellotapin them to his upper lip .

        Yaaawn . Who gives a fuck ????

        © E x .

      • 292
        Flowerpot Man #3 says:

        Ewanme, you are Trevor Kavanagh and I claim my hobolobdelob.

  35. 64
    Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

    Has anything more come out of fatty Watson getting Farter-Ruck involved to save his ample bacon? [on Guido, page 4]

    • 105
      caesars wife says:

      i dont think he can , as defence could request all communications , and then he would toast all of them

    • 128
      Tom Watsom Am Snot Two says:

      You are obviously a man of substance Reggie.

      Can you bung me a couple of million to get Farter Fuck started, as they are apprehensive about my short term career prospects.

      Like their fees, it’s all beyond me.

      PS. I will stand you a House of Commons lunch out of your 2 mill.

      I am the leader of the gang ( I am )

  36. 68
    Curly says:

    If you have a screw, you may as well turn it.

  37. 70

    Guido’s worried about the Budget. You Toryboys are getting desperate now! The Budget will herald a reversal in Labour’s fortunes.

  38. 76

    There will be someone out there who can prove Brown knew of the emails or more importantly their content.

    It should be noted, just as in the Nixon debacle, that person will be nailed if they do not.

    Therefore LA suggests immunity for the person that produces the evidence.

    You know who you are.

    LA

  39. 78

    The gift that keeps on giving!

  40. 92
    Lord Mandy of Boy says:

    I want to see the emails between Reinaldo and Draper. I know he’s been cheating on me!!!!

  41. 100
    Qui Custodiet says:

    Guido adding this request to a previous FOI request may help no 10 by taking the cost over the limit. Perhaps a fresh request, entirely separately made, would be in order … surely someone else is interested …

  42. 101

    You don’t need FOI to show up this government when ministers leave ‘restricted’ documents on a train

    • 162
      brownbaita says:

      …..or show them through a clear plastic folder again!

      Can’t find any scenes of an embarrassed Ginger dwarf apologising anywhere though. Anyone got any pointers?

    • 185
      Qui Custodiet says:

      Surely, like the civil servant who did exactly that, this minister will find himself considered for proescution … no special treatment, surely …?

  43. 102
    Brooned off with the current administration says:

    Ah yes, the Telegraph, I’ll warrant that with all the money that the Barclay’s have, Baron Mandlebum of Boy would probably be quite a good mate, what with him being Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform an’ all, couple this with his love of Private Yachts, Private Planes, Exotic places, dodgy mortgages and nine bob notes! A dream team.

    • 145
      Alien8n says:

      My understanding is the Barclays are fairly apolitical, but with Tory leanings. It’s just the twat Porter who seems to have his own agenda. Surprised he hasn’t been sacked for bringing the paper into disrepute tbh

      More worrying is the position of the Guardian, which is owned by a group whose aim is to maintain the impartiality and freedom from political interference of the Guardian newspaper, while being run by Paul Myners, the Financial Services Secretary for HM Treasury!

    • 221
      Anonymous says:

      The Tories would be wise to put the Barclay sisters on notice.

      • 306
        thick as thieves says:

        and the tax evading ashcroft.
        he’s a total fucking liability.
        aswell as a pompous old c’unt.

    • 310
      Hoonopolis says:

      Ah, the nine bob note, have not heard of those for a while! On a par with a clockwork orange or a plaid rabbit.

  44. 104
    caesars wife says:

    interesting guido , another little piece !!

    i dont think browns you tube , jump start has pleased everyone , not telling parliment first is a big no no , let alone not discussing it with other party leaders first .

    evening standard openly discussing brown will be pushed , he really should be thinking about that general election , dont know about these budget leaks lets see what the fat ladies monkey sings first !! could still be EUSSR eutopia prison camp in it yet.

    all i want is true figure of the liabilities , everything else is just meaningless until some true figures are posted

    • 122
      Roberto says:

      all i want is true figure of the liabilities , everything else is just meaningless until some true figures are posted.

      All I want is 150K per week, no tax a Ferrari boat, an Aston Martin, tea with the Queen.

      Come back Caesar your wife is getting dillusional.

  45. 107
    88mm - A neat piece of kit says:

    Now, where’s that harman_pride twat.

    • 115
      Alien8n says:

      Too busy posting as master baiter I reckon

    • 123
      grobdj says:

      busy with the fine detail of the budget?

    • 138
      HaHaHaPerson_Prude says:

      Cooo-eeee!

      Here I is! – jus’ finishin me essay an that init! Coz oim gonna be a po . . poler . poltcn . . . Mp in I?

      • 159
        M.T.BUCKET says:

        yeh but!

      • 163
        eye-eye says:

        At least he spelt ‘I’ correctly ( twice)

      • 179
        June 2010 - Brown 'n out says:

        eye-eye said:

        At least he spelt ‘I’ correctly ( twice)

        That means at least a first class honours degree under the ZaNuLab “you can all go to university to keep you off the dole stats but there will not be any work for you and you will owe us a shit load off money when you get the degree” system.

      • 199
        45 rpm says:

        Some strange ‘free-speech’ going on here. I’ll work it out.

    • 181
      45 rpm says:

      It’s busy doing the faux socialist thing on the comment page at the Storygraph. Well, there are a shit-load of blogs to troll. How do they afford it and who the fuck do they think is going to read all that drivel? Apart from harman pride or David Dee, that is?

  46. 120
    Alex, Balls's overpaid SpAd says:

    Are you off your trolly, mate, wasting taxpayers money in your futile efforts to involve my Guvnor in some childish horseplay of which he could not possibly have known anything about.

    Hattie Harman and Alan Johnny were at heart of any alleged wrongdoing. They are crypto tories anyway.

    As the Guvnor has already said he has only ever had a remote passing knowledge of D aka Mr Whateverhisname is and does not know any draper or poop scooper . That these unknown peole would copy their ravings to The Right Hoon Ed Balls was inexplicable and unwanted by him now that the shit has hit the fan and the Prime Mentalist is hiding in a bunker in darkest Jockland.

    Anyway number cruncher Ali Darling is raising the fee for a FOI request to a modest £ 1 Trillion, RETROSPECTIVE to April 1, 1998. This is a budget secret, so keep it under the Guido hat.

    So, no worries for The Right Hoon Ed Balls, and you are sorted good and proper, Guido.

  47. 121

    Won’t be long now before you can proudly announce “All Your Base Are Belong To Us”, I reckon.

  48. 126
    CuttingEdge says:

    OT – Our Great Leader’s YouTube smash hit is available over at Iain Dale’s site, and if you read the comments before watching the vid (lasted about 20 seconds for me) it is all the more enjoyable…err…frightening. Actually – give the video a miss and just read the comments. We mustn’t have him trying to compete with someone like Dan H (who can orate) on the YouTube charts:

    https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6214838&postID=6616817157867412036

  49. 130
    cynic says:

    Why aren’t you asking for copies of all the texts sent and received on his Government issue phone? People think these are anonymous and short lived. They arent

  50. 131
    cynic says:

    ….or “You’re my wife now, Damien”

  51. 135
    Gordon Brown says:

    The Freedom of Dis-Information department is just putting them together for you right now. I’ve asked them to especially include the lines ‘freedom fighter for truth’ and ‘Guido is the best’ just for you.

    You best mate,
    Gordon.

  52. 140
    Orwellian Pride says:

    Go Guido mate – GO!!!

  53. 141
    Mrs Gordon Brown says:

    Andrew Potter

    Anal Retentive

    Reminds one of who??

  54. 142
    Pilly says:

    Does anybody really think that people are going to be in a forgiving mood towards this generation of politicians when the details of expenses are published, irrespective of whether they get their act in order for the future?

    I don’t. Their protestations that they are in it for the public good are hollow. EGO AND A SQUALID LOVE OF MONEY.

    • 456
      Anonymous says:

      word on the street is that some will top themselves when the information is made public.

      Inconsiderate bastards the piano wire is not ’sale or return’ you know

  55. 143
    Mr Christopher says:

    I wonder what Exemption clause they’ll try to pull out of the hat to stop the solid matter floating to the surface of The Cesspit.

  56. 144
    Brown is a c*nt says:

    Brown is a c*nt. Moderate that.

  57. 155
    Blind Melon McBroon says:

    I am a man of constant borrow
    I’ve seen trouble all my day.
    I bid farewell to old Govan-Glasgow
    The place where I was born and raised.
    (The place where he was born and raised)

    For twelve long years I’ve been in trouble
    No pleasures here on earth I found
    For with your fate I’m bound to gamble
    I have no friends to help me now.

    [chorus] He has no friends to help him now

    It’s fare thee well my old fat lover
    I never expect to see you again
    For I’m bound to ride that redrag railroad
    And spill no Stout upon this train.

    [chorus] And spill no Stout upon this train.

    You can bury me in some deep shitpit
    For many years where I may lay
    Then you may learn to hate another
    While I’m still raving in my grave.

    [chorus] While he’s still raving in his grave.

    Maybe your friends think I couldn’t be stranger
    My face you’ll never see no more.
    But there is one promise that is given
    I’ll rob you on God’s global shore.

    [chorus] He’ll rob you on God’s global shore.

  58. 165
    Any Old Iron says:

    Guido

    Unfortunately in your case FOI means Fuck Off Irish

  59. 167
    Anonymous says:

    The economy in crisis, borrowing out of control and nothing in the kitty to pay the bills.

    It’s not Gordon’s fault, Darlings fault or the Labour party’s fault…

    It’s the fault of the Labour voters who put their own short term financial self interest before that of their country.

    • 178
      GRStrauss says:

      Oh, I get it. In 2001 and 2005 the Tories were saying, ‘Vote for us and we’ll make you poorer’?

    • 192
      ALL MP's are thieving bastards says:

      It’s not the fault of ALL the labour voters – but it’s the fault of the ENTIRE liebour MP bastards. Just wait till all their fucking spending frenzies get published…

  60. 168
    Anonymous says:

    Imagine if we all put together a small FOI request… to get just some of the PMs emails … lets say 1 days worth.. (should cost less than the limit )

    and we all choose a different day…. pretty soon we would be able to get all of the PMs email… and then at least we would know what the little bastard was planning

  61. 173
    Talwin says:

    If there are emails No. 10 can’t risk saying they don’t or didn’t exist; if they don’t play ball on producing the emails, for pretty much whatever reason, they continue to look sleazy and the story runs.

  62. 180
    Anonymous says:

    N

  63. 195
    Rudy says:

    OT. Anyone else seen the latest post on labourlist? I suggested the photo might make a good caption comp, my sad suggestion being “labour’s answer to housing crisis” and “the general public give their answer to the great 2nd home allowance con”

    Strangely, my cooment hasn’t been posted, like 90% of my previous posts. Odd that. Perhaps it’ll appear soon.

    • 214
      Nell says:

      Gordon’s ‘decent’ proposal to pay MP’s a daily flat rat of ‘£170-200′ per day to attend parlilment ON TOP OF their generous annual salary to replace the discredited 2nd homes allowance. Does anyone here know of any other professional who has to travel to London on a regular basis for their job who can claim such a generous allowance? I Don’t! In my time I travelled to London on a pittance compared to that. My son, a quantity surveyor, does it 2/3 times a week now for less than half of that.

      Today we took our little one to London to hospital because the NHS at home has failed her (Labour’s ‘Every Child Matters’ is a joke’ and our little one is facing serious problems because the local NHS has done nothing.). Anyway London is 70 miles away. Today we travelled by train – 2 adults / 1 child – cost £48 Return plus lunch 2 adults -1 child £25 = total cost £73. Why is 1 MP’s expenses for 1 day in London, according to Gordon Brown, going to cost so much more? Presumably they want first class travel and bottles of wine for lunch. They have completely lost touch with reality. Time for the gravy train to come to end. Shame on you Gordon, this proposal is rubbish. And in respect of Freedom of Information – well Labour brought it in, and we are going to use it, and now it’s time for it to come back and bite you on the bum.

      • 230
        Roberto says:

        £200 per day. 122 days = £24,400 = no change. Another scam by McDoom.

      • 237
        The Entire Population of the Extended Universe, which includes any Parallel Dimensions says:

        A parliamentary term is 150 days – even worse

      • 243
        Rudy says:

        Indeed. An allowance, on top of salary, for any day you feel like doing ones job? A spiffing wheeze by the one eyed one. Sad thing is it’ll be swallowed whole by the MSM and therefore, the great unwashed.

      • 245
        Nell says:

        Yes exactly!. They just rearrange their figures and think they can pull wool over our eyes. As the Spectator says they think we’re sheep. Well we aren’t. The Spectator says we are goats – well personally I think we are wolves, learning to hunt in a pack , I think its time we learnt how to make our intellectual attack show then up for the self-serving uncaring idiots that they are. Let’s do less of the bad language of more how we need to make things better for we ordinary folks.

      • 246
        Hang the Bastards says:

        If Inner London MPs are still to be entitled to London allowance (even if they don’t live in an inner London constituency) will this mean all pensioner’s in inner London will also get extra?

        MPs can’t grasp the simple fact they they need to live like their subjects, sorry, I mean constituents. Public transport, NHS, state schools, flakey pension funds, no subsidised canteens and bars, everything receipted, everything taxed.

      • 265
        Alien8n says:

        Worse even than that

        It’s only the homes part. They’d also still be able to claim for the first class train travel to get to London, as well as office running costs. As a result of this many will be able to claim tax breaks and expenses for “working from home”, meaning an MP will still be able to claim internet, electricity and certain other expenses on their constituency home (as would any employee of any private company who has an office at home)

      • 272
        Waterboard the assholes says:

        *Hang The Bastards*

        the content is in the name….’nuff said

      • 303
        Nell says:

        Alien8 etc – -well maybe it is=but what should happen- MP’s should get a) a wage agreed by the electorate and b) an agreed travelling allowance =-2nd class the same as the rest of us) to London when they need to attend Parliament and that the travelling allowance should be limited to a modest bed and breakfast allowance, which will boost the b@b businesses in London. Other meals , evening meals, and any alcohol should be on their own accounts.

      • 307
        Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

        Now that Nulab are so hot on the internet the latest proposal is to run Parliament like a blog so they can all stay at home.

        Apparently they’ve found some fellow Draper is, who unexpectedly available and is shit hot at this kind of thing, to set it up.

        The useless Metalbasher’s is to be pensioned off, using the convenient excuse that his fat fingers are not keyboard friendly,and said Draper will be parachuted in to become the Virtual Speaker; it is thought his sensitivity, compassion and sense of fair play will repair the damage done to the office in recent years.

        Should work a treat. Claimable expenses will be minimal, things like a high chair for Hazel Blairs or an extra strength one for Fatty Watson will be allowed, but little else.

        The House will be retained and used by Tony Blair when he is becomes King of Europe in 2011, despite assertions by the future Queen that it’s both too small and too near to a noisy clock.

      • 345
        Nell says:

        Ironically – Titbrain – one of the symptoms of my baby that I took to London today is that she had swollen fingers and toes – they have much to answer for.

      • 392

        Instead of being paid extra to turn up for work, they should be fined if they don’t appear – and stay for the whole day.

      • 397
        Nell says:

        Odin I think that is an excellent idea!!

  64. 197
    Rudy says:

    ’scuse the typos. iPhone, drunk fingers. Blah.

  65. 202
    Controller of ITV says:

    the bbc are shite.

  66. 203
    Controller of BBC says:

    so are ITV

  67. 205
    Controller of SKY says:

    you are both shite.

  68. 208
    Anonymous says:

    Fatties cause global warming.

    Watson, Brown and Draper are all fatties.

    • 216
      'Wick effect' investigator says:

      Great! They’ll burn for longer then.

    • 398
      Rebecca says:

      You can see and smell the green house gas coming out of the Home Sec’s trousers. Warming the planet up is the first useful things she’s done.

  69. 212
    Controller of Outer Hebrides Broadcasting Corporation says:

    Where’s the fuckin’ bottle opener?

  70. 217
    Hitler says:

    and they thought I was an arsehole.

    • 267
      Frank Bough says:

      You did OK in The Producers.

    • 320
      Zionist white supremacist racist cunt says:

      Hitler taught us Israelis everything we need to know about how to keep the occupation boot brutally stuck in the face of the Palestinians in Gaza.
      Y’know, like the Warsaw Ghetto except with a far wider range of war crimes being committed.
      Apart from the Holocaust, Hitler did good. He was a real mensch!
      I don’t even know why I use the word mensch, I’m a fascist white supremacist from Russia who was parachuted into Israel to cause trouble and try to delay the peace process with my outrageously racist and warmongering comments.
      Vey, what a carry on!
      As long as the Americans keep supplying us with free bombs to murder innocent Palestinians we’ll be okay.

  71. 218
    Ahmadinnerjacket says:

    Racist? Me?

    • 524
      Avigdor Lieberwoman says:

      Racist? Me?
      Sexist pig? Me?
      Warmonger? Me?
      Yes on all three counts. You got me!

  72. 219
    • 225
      Bertha Rochester says:

      It’s funnier if you watch him without sound.
      Has he got St. Vitus’?

      • 238
        Apathist Voter says:

        Wot Bertha you mean like Tone he’s found a religion?

      • 249
        Where will it ever end says:

        No. It looks as though he just has an itchy arse. He looked as though he was thinking which one of his fuckwit cabinet members he would get to ream him out after he finished his speech.

      • 312
        Margy says:

        It’s absolutely hysterical and I love Quentin Lett’s comparison of Brown to the equally twitchy inspector Dreyfuss (H Lom).

        Brown’s smiles seem to come on cue as if someone is indicating to him when to react (probably Dame Mandy); and then he suddenley lurches to the left, then to the right – then he is on his toes etc etc. ……..and so it goes on….pulling funny faces!

        It’s bizarre and evidence that the loon’s either got tourettes syndrome or is going stark raving mad. After all, the camera NEVER lies!

      • 328
        Ivor Phartparp says:

        Do you think anyone clever will put different words to it like that Hitler bunker stuff? I watched it with the sound off because I didn’t want to scare Grandma. If it could have a jackanory type delivery in a Fagan voice style it would be better even if the truth be told.

    • 229
      pheasant plucker says:

      I saw this first over on Dales site, and it is sure to become a classic. Some suggested it is well worth watching with the sound turned off for full comic effect.

    • 233
      Apathist Voter says:

      Gawd logdon Draper must still be ‘helping’ ……….. somehow

    • 236
      Sunonmars says:

      I mean, was i just watching the opening moments of the weekly Muppet Show, all we needed was a harriet harman (Miss Piggy) chop on Brown and a chicken on a rope flying behind with the swedish chef chasing it.

      • 248
        eye-eye says:

        As I said earlier, he’s been “seen” by Blairs tutor, the head nod, the pause, another nod and the phoney smile. But he came on after just one lesson ( and obviosly he’s a slow learner….very slow). Unfortunately by the time he gets it right it will be just to say Bye Bye.

    • 247
      Gallowsway Ride says:

      “This is funny.”

      Yeah, I find it hysterical that up to 30% of the British public will still cast a vote for this moron.

    • 250
      Heads on poles says:

      I’ve posted messages on here previously and find that there’s no real need to swear to get your point across if you can construct a sentance properly and intelligently – but.
      He’s fucking mental.
      Thank you.

      • 258
        Perplexed says:

        Succinctly put.

      • 279
        Doctor Mick says:

        apart from “sentance” wiv an “a”.

      • 288
        Heads on poles says:

        Yes – apologies.
        1 – went to a comprehensive school and my English teacher was a Russian – true!
        2 – I’m still in disbelief that somebody that ‘runs’ our country can be so er.. special

      • 290
        Perplexed says:

        poetic licence, Dr Mick. Check the content at the end….

    • 285
      Ewanme says:

      OMG !!!

      That is almost unwatchable , honey .

      I woz takin notes an I’m sure wotsisname fucked up on his line ‘We need future generatons of committed young people to come into politics’ .

      Surely he meant ‘We need this generation of politicians committed to give young people a future’ ?????

      *** Yaaawn*** Wotever x .

      © E x .

    • 314
      derek snorter says:

      why is their a russian spy acting as our pm?

    • 323
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      What a dismal Kermit like performance.
      Did you notice that MP’s keep to the rules, but the rules are crap. Just like Damien McBride kept to the rules on SpAds, which are also, apparently, crap.
      Ronnie Biggs had a similar crap rulebook, which didn’t make it sufficiently clear that you can only withdraw money from a bank over the counter.

    • 350
      Dr Feelgood says:

      There has been some speculation that some lackey was holding up ‘idiot boards’ to remind Great Helmsman to smile. Personally, I doubt this as it is not a fool-proof solution.

      It’s more likely that off-camera they were drowning kittens – Brown’s face only relapsing into the normal scowl while they were reaching into the bag for a fresh one.

    • 351
      Mandy says:

      I’m actually starting to feel sorry for the fellow now. He seems to completely lack presentational skills. Blair had those in abundance, whatever you say about him. I don’t doubt Brown’s clout on an intellectual level and he’s certainly a very clever man, but for his own sake he should quit, because he’s just making himself look silly.

  73. 222
    Oscar Wilde says:

    Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

    *his deathbed statement*

  74. 231
    The Entire Population of the Extended Universe, which includes any Parallel Dimensions says:

    Gordon Fuckhead and his bunch of thieving C U N T S have shown the rest of the world that the citizens of the UK are nothing but a bunch of twats.

    For that, they should be jailed.

    For Life.

    And made to eat their own faeces.

    • 266
      Nell says:

      We are more than that – because we survive despite him- whether we are parents/ carers making sure whatever the odds that we get help for our poorly children ( despite the failure of ‘Every Child Matters’) whether we are children fighting to get help for our ageing parents in the current failing geriatric care systems or whether one of the many cancer patients fighting NICe to get help to keep us alive – because Labour thinks it’s just best to kill off people rather tan to research ways to keep them alive.

      • 277
        Sycophantic drug ridden alcoholic bastard says:

        You should be an MP. Pure rhetoric.

      • 339
        Alien8n says:

        I’d vote for him

      • 355
        Labour Spokesperson says:

        The weak shall inherit The Earth.

      • 389
        Nell says:

        IT is not rhetoric and we the public with our dependencies, our elderly and our disabled children are not weak, ad we are not sheep or goats (spectator) We do what we do because we must., politicians only do it for money, bloggers do it , sometimes because they believe we are right, sometimes for the sheer hell of it. Whatever! we should make it count count against this rubbish government.

    • 344
      Alienateshit says:

      Still just rhetoric. All bullshit, we hear crap like this several times a day, but none of it ever happens. REGARDLESS of party.

  75. 232
    Mr Christopher says:

    Has even ONE Labour MP moved to impeach Brown and his accomplices? Then they are all as guilty as each other.

    • 241
      Sunonmars says:

      Nope, as usual riding the gravy train until they get booted out, they know its their time, however those in marginals should be the one to do it, until they move no one else will, it all depends on how much of a loss they know they are in for. I don’t understand why they don’t go for the lesser loss now because public anger is building sufficiently that people next year will vote for anything but labour to get them out.

      • 400

        An extra year’s troughing could be enough to keep them cosy after they lose their seats. Remember they also get very generous pensions for the rest of their lives. F the Party, its all about ME!

  76. 239
    Genghiz the Kahn says:

    Only 289 views on You Tube for McBroon’s latest performance. He isn’t in the same league as Dan Hannan by a long way.

    • 244
      Sunonmars says:

      lol 289 views, that 289 more than he got from the public to be PM.

    • 281
      Ant or is it Dec ? says:

      I bet he can’t beat this one ? 37 million views plus although no doubt Mc Twat will be trying to get in on the act by sending his congratulations in due course !!!!

    • 316
      DT Editor says:

      Our man Daniel is the best advert we have ever had for this stunted organ. We do not condone what he said to Gordon who was, after all, a sitting duck but we are enjoying the extra exposure.
      Come and join us in la-la land, please. http://www.telegraph.co.uk

    • 325
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      He should put on a dress and sing a song. Then shoot himself.

    • 383
      Anonymous says:

      Every child should be made to watch this – then they may not repeat the mistake of the current generation of voters

  77. 242
    16 Year Old Pirate says:

    I reach AMERICA!!

  78. 251
    Alien8n says:

    C’mon Guido old chap, I’m still waiting for 2 comments to get past moderation from hours ago. Not been at the red wine again have we?

    Now where were we? Oh yes, keep up the good work spit roasting McBride :)

    • 263
      eye-eye says:

      try again and misspell keywords or seperate them with spaces

      • 270
        Alien8n says:

        lol, helps if I know which keywords, there’s no swearing (well one swear word in one post) so I’m guessing it’s something else. I could always repost after changing my spellchecker to dyslexic

      • 362
        Doctor Mick says:

        Don’t metion the fucking *******s or it will never get through.

  79. 252
    • 268
      Sunonmars says:

      Oh another dig at Ed, looks like someone really wants to stick the boot in. I get what they are doing here. Take Brown’s aides down, taken McBride out, taken, the others down a peg, take Ed Balls down, isolate Gordon Brown and then its only a matter of time before the lions have seperated of the prey from the rest of the herd and then move in for the kill. Game Over Gordo.

      • 283
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        That, Gentlefolk, is Zugswang. Guido, whether by accident or design, brilliant

      • 286
        Mr Christopher says:

        A very practical approach

      • 296
        Anonymous says:

        Lets hope its not too late before everything is down the shitter. Its a re-play of Stalin retreating before the Germans – scortched earth.

      • 307
        Sunonmars says:

        its the only way to take Brown down, you have to get rid of his protection barriers, classic chess. Take the knight and rooks out, leaving the board exposed or as i like to think it, kill the evil nannys in the Omen to get the antichrist and stick the knifes in him.

      • 338
        Ivor Phartparp says:

        I think the Number 10 Tv crew are working for us by the look of it.

  80. 254
    It doesn't add up... says:

    A further 9 of the “terrorists” arrested at the behest of Bob Quick as a diversion exercise for Smeargate are now to be deported, as presumably there is no evidence to prosecute them for terrorist offences:

    http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8011341.stm

    • 269
      anonymous says:

      With our lax border security they’ll probably be back in the country by next week

      • 405

        Surely they’ll sue for wrongful arrest, infringement of human rights etc. etc. and be paid millions in compensation – some of which may go to the real terrorists.

  81. 271
    Rasputin says:

    Guildo,why are you out to brimg down NuLabour?.

  82. 273
    Grumpy Old Man says:

    Guido. seen this?http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3554911/balls-in-trouble.thtml.
    also check out Sunny on pickled politics. I think he’s changed track slightly. Could it be he’s had lunch at UNITE and accepted an “ask”?

    • 354
      Finnpog says:

      Wowsers – well that explains the “Liar Liar, bum’s on fire” comments about Balls yesterday

  83. 274
    Alien8n says:

    Anyone else think we should get South Africa to build second homes for our MPs?

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8007727.stm

  84. 278
    Bank Haulson says:

    “Blears almost blows PM’s surprise”

    http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8010596.stm

    You can guarantee that she will be doing something to that effect from now on.

  85. 295
    Lord Mandy Says says:

    “Gordon Brown Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Labourpartyium (La), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
    Since La has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of La can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete. La has a normal half-life of 2- 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, La’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of morons promotion leads some scientists to believe that La is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass
    When catalysed with money, La becomes Administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy as La since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.”

    • 302
      eye-eye says:

      The LHC should be open again soon. I wonder what new particle might appear if the lot of them collide

      • 327
        Stephen Hawking says:

        That’s easy. Destructonium.

        When Administratiums moron particles exceed plebiums (us) threshold, a critical exchange takes place wherein plebium will encompass morons, leading to degredation of Administerium.

        Destructium is the result of this sub-nucleonic reaction, and once in place, no more Administerium can form.

        Seen through an electron microscope, the individual Destructium atome sometimes spell “bollox”

    • 346
      Dr Bunsen Honeydew says:

      My assistant Beeker has had to place our sample of La in the fume cupboard as it is corrupting fast.

    • 372
      mikel says:

      No Charms then?

    • 399
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      I don’t know where you lifted this from, but the originator deserves a hat tip.

    • 406
      An expert says:

      But this new element is unpredictible in its behavoiur as it is known to “Dither” and can be suceptable to “knee jerk” reactions when under pressure.

      Many scientists believe this element is in fact on the verge of extinction though there is some debate as to whether it will simply fade away or implode in a catastrophic fashion.

      Only time will tell.

    • 407
      An expert says:

      In all this some morons are known to change in a chemical reaction known as crossing the floor whilst others turn against neurons and destroy them.

  86. 298
    Captain James T Kirk says:

    If you’ve got the time, and I have the space, maybe we should get together.

    We could create a time-space continuum, and consign these fuckers to it.

  87. 313
    Good God! says:

    HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

    Britain’s £200billion bank bailout will cost 13% of our entire economic output – IMF delivers Budget eve bombshell

    Hat tip –Daily Mail Reporter

    The UK faces a bill of almost £200 billion for propping up its ailing banking system, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said today.
    Its latest Global Financial Stability Report estimated the cost of support measures would run to 13.4 per cent of the UK’s entire economic output of £1.46 trillion in 2008.
    Only struggling Ireland would pay more as a percentage of its output to rescue its banks, the IMF added.

    We are truly FUC@@ED!!!

    • 324
      Alien8n says:

      You’ve only just learnt this? The IMF has been saying that for months.

      The laugh is I was telling my father in law (an ex bank manager) that the economy was heading for a crash. At least he had the grace to apologise for not believing me. You cannot run an economy on debt and you cannot prop up a housing bubble when the bottom rung has been removed because the threshold for buying is so high. I was taught a very good lesson when I was younger, it doesn’t matter what the interest rate is now, borrow as if it’s in double figures. May be as good as zero now, but it WILL go over 10% again, and it could be sooner than people think.

    • 326
      Doctor Mick says:

      Not really. We were in a similar situation in the Seventies (banana republic status, cap in hand to the IMF etc) but God sent us his only daughter, The Blessed Margaret Thatcher.

      Otherwise we’d be in bread queues now, moaning in Russian.

      • 337
        Alien8n says:

        tbh that’s nonsense.

        The Russian bit.

        I remember the bread queues though. And the strikes. And the power cuts. And Kevin Keegan’s hair.

      • 341
        Goldfingerer says:

        We had gold then.

      • 370
        Doctor Mick says:

        I was forced to learn Russian in school during the Wilson years.

        I also studied for my O Levels by candlelight… ta King Arthur :(

      • 373
        Anonymous says:

        Don’t knock a visit to the IMF. Its the only time in UK history that a Govnt has ever (repeat ever) reduced public expenditure in real terms. Albeit Healey’s arm was twisted by the IMF. Personally, I would prefer that medicine to a Tory budget.

        PS agree with Dr Micks point re Gods blessed daughter, but unless they clone her soon we will be stuffed

      • 374
        Anonymous says:

        Alien – remember the shit in the street and when they couldn’t bury the dead – or are you too yound?

      • 378
        Twizzle says:

        You reckon.

        The ’70’s will be a cakewalk. At least then, if prices rose 25%, you got a 25% wage rise. When inflation hits double figures this time, your wage rise (in the private sector that is) will be ZILCH, NADDA, RIEN, DIDDLY.

        Our standard of living is going to take one hell of a beating. And some muppets think ‘it’ll be all back to normal’ soon.

        Yes, course mate, if you say so.

      • 497
        Alien8n says:

        tbh I don’t remember that bit, but I’m very aware of it. 1978 I was living in a backwater village so it was pretty cut off from everywhere else. A summer of scrumping and playing in hay bales :)

        Nowadays of course you’d be arrested and DNA fingerprinted faster than the farmer could shout “Oi, get out of my fields”. Sure we all have xbox and PS3 now, but I really do have good memories of actually playing outdoors as a kid.

    • 335
      Gordon McBrown says:

      This has all happened before. It resulted in the Tories taking over for years. Bollocks.

    • 352
      Anonymous says:

      Not if we don’t consent/

  88. 315
    Anonymous says:

    Who is this Andrew Porter anyway? Was he McBride’s lapdog?

  89. 317
    BOFL http://ageofkali.blogspot.com/ says:

    the percentage will increase as gdp decreases.oddly millions of people on the dole cuts productivity……..7.8 million people are already financially inactive……

    poor house coming this way soon!

  90. 319
    Doctor Mick says:

    Come and get them!

  91. 322
    Anonymous says:

    Dreaded deflation is back for the first time in 50 years – on the eve of Darling’s do-or-die Budget

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1172284/Dreaded-deflation-time-50-years–eve-Darlings-die-Budget.html

  92. 330
    Hedgehog says:

    Why can’t MPs pay be directly linked to the their constituency turnout and their share of the vote. So if they get 50% of the vote but only 40% of voters bother to vote then they get 0.2 x £63k.
    Now that would encourage them to engage with the public.

  93. 348
    Kiss my bum Brown says:

    guido fawkes you are a star! I love what you stand for – Go For It!

  94. 357
    Laney says:

    You’ll be found dead one day my lad , stuffed in a skip! Onwards to glory Mr F.

  95. 358
    • 417
      pissed off voter says:

      Does this lend credence to those ‘crazy conspiracy theorists’ who suggested it was orchestrated to manage the headlines? Or is our government above that kind of thing?

    • 449
      Canary Wharf Rat says:

      Bloody peroxide blondes, there all the same.

  96. 359
    Spewey Fartpipe says:

    I think the bastards in the House of Commons & House of Lords should all be naked when they are there. It would be a national fucking pukefest.

  97. 367
    Onan the Rotarian says:

    I hesitate to interrupt the show but have any of you any views on the following?

    http://plato-says.blogspot.com/2009/04/fuck-me-paddington-disaster-smearer.html

    Is this young Damien’s successor?

  98. 376
    Mrs Trellis says:

    Judging from the comments left under this clip on YouTube, I’d say Guido could soon have some serious competition on his hands…..

  99. 377
    Mrs Trellis says:

  100. 379
    Trellis (Mrs) says:

    Here’s the link:

    • 386
      Dave Figgley (Mr.) says:

      Ha fucking ha. Cheers for the heads up Trellis, mate (Mrs.)
      I’m going to digest them in full over a Horlicks and mescal, son.

    • 390
      eye-eye says:

      You Tube if you want to Gordon….You could do with a thorough enema

      • 396
        The Illinois Enema Bandit says:

        I’m free.

      • 415
        Trellis (Mrs) says:

        Yes, ‘camp’ at the beginning, isn’t he?

        “Doctors or nurses or teachers or firemen” he says, mincing away merrily. Makes Charlie Hawtrey look butch!

      • 419
        Dave Figgley says:

        Dear Charles Hawtrey. What I would give to have had you as our Prime Mincer instead of this humourless, disabled, thick as a shit (IQ 180? LMFAO), Scottish, unelected, treachorous, lying, vain, ugly-as-fuck, personality by-passed, hoon of a hoon, fundamentally flawed, wouldn’t let him buy me a pint if I was dying of thirst, mandy of a hoon with tourettes. Scrub the last bit- that’s me.
        Must dash. The dictionary is beckoning.

      • 431
        Mrs Trellis says:

        Crikey – just realised you can get locked up for saying things like ‘camp’ and ‘mincing’ now!

        Best leave the door open when I go to bed tonight – it’ll save them smashing it in at 6 am when they come for me……

  101. 387
    Former Labour Voter says:

    Many years ago I delivered leaflets for Labour. Never again though. These days the party almost makes Michael Howard look like an angel. Well, perhaps not Howard. But it isn’t a good and honest party any longer.

    I won’t vote for them now. Brown embraced borrowing too readily and encouraged too many families to do the same. For Thatcher greed was good, For Brown debt was good. Greed and debt are both evils, though in different ways.

    • 426

      Taxation is the greediest thing you can do.

    • 436
      caesars wife says:

      i voted for tony in 97 , imean what sort of delusion does 40ks worth of debt for evry man woman and child , hes legged us all in for vanity , and it just shows to me what labour say and what they do are very different things .

      they are all ging to go somewhere on tax payer funded retirements and we will be left with 10 yrs worth of grubbing in the dirt .

      selling our futures yet again (if you remenber 1983) , unforgivable , to screw us all this way , again !!

      • 454
        Canary Wharf Rat says:

        as the ‘orrrible WHO said….. won’t get fooled again….

      • 487
        English Liberation Front says:

        I didn’t.

        They are going to raid the pensions again. Still, all the stupid fuckers who voted them in will have plenty of time to think about it as they crawl around the country at 50 mph dreaming of electric cars.

    • 460
      Anonymous says:

      FLV

      You are as bad as McDoom, delivering papers FFS????

      No way back now my friend the responsibility for this mess now lies with YOU and other dickheads just like you

      Fuck off

  102. 388

    Also ask him to include government emails to and from private email accountants, not just The elegraph.

    Some clever hoon could argue that as the email was sent to -for example- D. Jones who works at the Telegraph, and not to The Telegraph as a distinct entity in its own right, that there are no emails to let you access as there were no emails to The Telegraph.

  103. 403
    You Tube disaster. says:

    Browns you tube disaster today looks like it was cobbled together in a rush , delivered off the cuff at the last minute. Coulsd that be because it was. Could it be that the Hazel Blears incident where she was photographed leaving no 10 with documents exposed which clearly show these plans. Was this the reason Brown didnt announce this in the commons, because of Hazels Gaffe ?

    • 416
      Dave Figgley says:

      Ha ha, mate. First thing they did in a hurry, son. The destruction of the country was well planned. Decades, possibly. Or am I being naive?

      • 427
        Anonymous says:

        Agree. Brown is just the tip of the battering ram that is destroying Britain, reducing the population to debt slaves for generations on behalf of his Money Masters.

        That duplicitous snot-picking traitor’s work is done. Like Bush he doesn’t mind the personal attacks, in fact it suits them in order to deflect the media-led sheeple from understanding the grotesque pincer movement in which they have been calculatedly ensnared.

        Brown has never been anything other than an agent of the Debt Masters. What is worse, none of the major players, particulary in the media, dare mention this elephant in the room.

    • 442
      Dr Nuts says:

      Didn’t you spot the joke about Harriet Harmone providing the statement to end second house allowances?

      Well, Broon grinned like a Cheshire Cat over that one. If she provides the statement, she’ll deflect the issue away from her troughing… or so goes the thinking – I think.

  104. 409
    Onan the Rotarian says:

    Hang on: I’m beginning to think G B must be being set up by his own people. his a 4 attack lot Any of them who marketed this to him as a good idea, or at least told him it was a good idea, and then set it all up instanter must have really wanted him to appear a total pillock, all that so transparently scripted twitching and fake bonhomie (which they *absolutely know by now he just can’t hack, bit like some seasoned tart wearily faking an orgasm when asked to). *And announcing it all outside the HP, without consultation with the other parties, on youtube for chrissake. They must all be in the deep midst of preparing for the impending transition to Balls or Harperson or Beckett or Straw or …. run out of names. They are bricking it and the quicker he goes the better it will be for them.

    • 418
      Mrs Trellis says:

      Correct.

      This is what happens to control freaks. No-one has the balls to tell them it’s a total disaster, the biggest embarrassment in the world.

      So three possibilities:
      (i) He just did it and didn’t ask anyone’s opinion
      (ii) He asked people what they thought and no-one dared tell him the truth
      (iii) He was set up to look like a complete dick-head (as you rightly suggest, Onan).

    • 439
      Calling them Knuts is an insult to the real thing says:

      It certainly looks like a set up. The rats are leaving the ship in droves,and want to make sure that they are so far distanced from Brown that his shit won’t stick to them…i.e Balls (complete gormless moron);Harperson (just wait for the Court of public opinion, you snake );and Mandlebumboy..whose probably orchestrating the whole thing.As for Blears,I’m sure she’d still be grinning like a cheshire cat if WW III kicked off.

  105. 411
    pissed off voter says:

    It’s looking like Vince Cable’s observation of Brown’s metamorphosis from Stalin to Mr Bean was close but not quite on the money.

    I think he suffers from Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). Yesterday we had the Stalin personality running the pack dogs McBride, Draper et al and today we have the Mr Bean episode on youtube.

    MPD is also known as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) which of course makes him a DIDy so the theory seems to hold together pretty well.

    • 446
      Canary Wharf Rat says:

      Got to admit though it gave us all a real laff. Watch it without sound it really adds to the experience!

  106. 413

    Take a look at my blog, full of political business and what-not!

    http://www.richard-wilkins.blogspot.com

  107. 420
    Mrs Trellis says:

    Another ‘downfall’ mashup – I thought this was one of the funniest I’ve seen – and quite topical today!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsHzz0QnxUA

  108. 421
    IanW says:

    Ho, ho!

  109. 423
    mutley says:

    Does anyone know if the the free ‘Grufalo Activity Book’ is still available?

    • 504
      Dr Feelgood says:

      Perhaps it’s a not so subtle reminder of what happened to Dr Kelly.

      A blogger took a walk in the deep dark wood.
      A goon saw the blogger and the blogger looked good…

  110. 428
  111. 437
    A joke for Jimmy says:

    Jimmy goes to the doctor for his annual health check.

    The doctor looks at him, frowns, and says: “Jimmy, you will have to stop masturbating.”

    Jimmy replies: “Why, doctor? Why should I stop masturbating?”

    The doctor answered: “Because I am trying to take your blood pressure!”

  112. 438
    Anonymous says:

    Gordon was so “Gay” when he gave his U-tube address. He looks like he is admiring a fellow shower victim’s willie and bollocks the way he has a shy smile and flits his eye lids at the camara!

    Gordon is so gay! (Said in a very camp way!) :lol:

  113. 440
    Anonymous says:

    :drinker:

  114. 443
    Mrs Trellis says:

    Guido – is this your comment on YouTube?

    “I don’t have a job anymore thanks to this fucker. Someone should shot him or blow up parliament. Become a national hero. MI5 will be after me now for saying that lol. “

  115. 444
    caesars wife says:

    one headline you may be missing is mr boston goes before the select commitiee to give his version of events on qca marking fiasco , and it seems ED knew more and i quote “mislead mps” , people will miss this one with budget being on , but caesars wife wont same as so weak was edited on hansard

    as for mps expenses cant say as gordons some what vague media outburts has done much for me , he has presided over the biggest increase in government spending ever !! it just seems more bizarre the more i re vist it .

    not a problem with mps salary or running an office and secretary , 63 million citizens 656 mps bound to need a proper office .

    its the second home fiddles , mps do indeed have to work funny hours (you cant time events that well) they should live in there constituancy , have a national rail and tube pass . eat in commons canteen and either commute home or stay in 3 star hotel .

    end result only expenses will be taxi fares and meals when on visits , hotel accomodation will only be needed when they are in london .

    oh yeah and michael martin to stop going to the caribbean , and spreading crap democarcy by non answering of questions

  116. 445
    Anonymous says:

    More bad news for Jackboots

    You know I really could not be arsed even to write this but still.

    Apparently all those raids that took place up north with great drame front headlines on ALHJABEEBA found,…well um.. Illegals only

    FFS

    Well it managed to get plugface off the front page i suppose but how much did it cost the taxpayer to deflect attention from that cow?

    Plus point ‘quick’ is history

    minus point the fat cow is still there

    • 457
      Ted Bundy says:

      Actually strictly speaking most of them weren’t even that they had student visas and entered legally. They are now being deported as being incondusive to the public good.

    • 467
      Cassandra King says:

      The raids were for political reasons, they deflected some terrible news away from McMental for a short while, round up some ‘darkies’ and Bobs yer uncle’ McMugabe can look like he is protecting us from evil forces.

      If the police are now being used to snatch a few column inches in the MSM now, what does that say about the corruption and decay at No10?

      Every despotic regime has tried the same thing, its a clear sign of desperation.

      • 522
        It doesn't add up... says:

        Quick’s briefing note that he showed to Downing Street photographers had a prominent item about Media Strategy on page 1. This was indeed all about deflecting from bad news. You may recall that, despite the need to suddenly advance the arrests, TV cameras managed to be in attendance to provide footage to occupy the newsreels.

  117. 447
    caesars wife says:

    oh almost forgot darling will be rushing off to a g20 finance summit , not that barry obama situation is much better , hes just gone and borrowed more money that all the preidents combined .

    any news on bank of america yet ??

  118. 453

    Oh dear, as Labour goes bang…..

    Union leader Jack Jones dies

    TGWU chief once voted most powerful man in Britain passes away aged 96

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/apr/22/union-leader-jack-jones-dies

    Under his leadership, the TGWU reached a membership of 2.2 million, at the time the largest union outside the communist world.

    Fought in the Spanish civil war, too.

    One of those odd moments. Labour will really stop and think today. And the rest of us will be reminded of the lunatic ‘post war settlement’ and the era of beer and sandwiches.

  119. 459
    DocMartyn says:

    I would just like to wish you the best of luck.

  120. 462
    Gordon Sarseis-Brown says:

    I thought I had a real hatred of our “Dear Leader for Life”,(if he had his way),-devious,obnoxious,untrustworthy,creepy,horrible,communist,Stalinist,make- people-you-don’t-like-disappear,authoritarian,totalitarian-if-he-ever-gets-another-term,piece of lying shit,mini-brain,wouldn’t know a good idea even if it jumped up and bit his bollocks,(unless it’s one he’s nicked from the Tories), bombastic,unloved by everyone except his wife,(the jury’s out on that too), dollop of flotsam perfumed with the best MandyBalls manure,make-your-skin-crawl-when-you-set-eyes-on-him,ABSOLUTE FUCKPIG!……….., but you guys have such a wonderful turn of phrase that I just can’t stop reading all the posts!

    • 465
      bentkopper says:

      Just say what you mean, don’t feel shy about it.

      Now about your comment the he is “unloved by everyone except his wife,(the jury’s out on that too)”.

      On his arse-licking pre-G20 trip to the USA to mow the White House lawn and pick up the dog shite, in no picture and this includes South America did I see his wife actually smile, infact all the time she looked bloody miserable.

      Married to this fine honourable lieng twat I simply cannot understand why.

    • 478
      Hacked_off says:

      About sums it up I would say.

  121. 466
    Kelly's Heroes says:

    Looking at the terms and conditions on Brown’s latest video nasty it looks like it has been made by http://www.brightcove.com, the same company that makes Barack TV, the only difference whereas Barack is is good looking, articulate and charming and Brown is sitting there with like an escaped psychiatric patient, you just know Brown has huge skidders in his white fronts because is yet to master wiping his bottom correctly

    Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need | BarackTV |
    The Internet TV channel for Barack Obama. http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid416308493 http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=353512430
    http://www.barackobama.com/tv/speeches.php – 39k – Cached – Similar pages

  122. 469
    Mr Christopher says:

    Brown will be toppled by Mandelson

    • 471
      Right Bastard says:

      Mandelson will be shafted by Balls.

    • 486
      Man on Clapham omnibus (with a ticket) says:

      I agree – it certainly looks that way from radio and TV appearances. Peter looks to be playing a tactical game. Wonder who is leaking from No. 10 ……?

      • 489
        bentkopper says:

        Mandelson was planted by Tony and Cherie Blair, payback time big style and the thick one-eyed twat couldn’t even see it.

  123. 473
    Papasmurf says:

    On the Homes fiddle………. Why can’t the government own build and own a block of flats for the use of MP and wife? When they get allocated their office they also get allocated a flat. They could also have bigger and nicer flats for those that feel their importance is more than their fellows.

    Then there wouldn’t be any expenses at all, other than the running of the flats. In fact they could pay rent to the government. After all nurses say in hospital accomodation have to pay the hospital rent. They come from all over the country to work for differing employers / NHS hospitals. Why are we saying they should be paid ANYTHING extra for doing a job they want to do? They get paid and that’s it.

    • 475
      Anonymous says:

      I guess the argument would be that you wont get good people if you don’t pay the market rate. But we all know how false that line is. But when you vote on how much of other people’s money you want to be paid, then there’s only one answer.

      • 481
        Clartmonkey says:

        “I guess the argument would be that you wont get good people if you don’t pay the market rate….”

        The obvious truth, on the other hand, is that the more you pay the more you attract people whose principal motivation is greed. And when you’re dealing with insanely greedy people, the only limiting factor on their greed is “What can I get away with?” So you end up with people who will expend most of their effort in trying to get away with everything they possibly can. Which is where we are already.

        So let’s pay MPs less, not more, and try to attract ordinary people who are motivated by a desire to serve the public. There are plenty of them about, only not in politics.

      • 490
        Tuckered says:

        60K seems quite sufficient to entice a 22 year old to stand in Erith.

      • 491
        Walton says:

        Yeah, ‘cos by paying for the best people in the City, we have a well-run banking system. Hang on a second…

        ‘Market Rate’ is one of the biggest cons going. The BMA have shown that ‘Market Rate’ basically means conning people into paying more than they need to for a service. This is why GPs make a LOT more money than they did ten years ago. Clever marketing.

    • 476
      Ivor the Boneless says:

      Use the Olmpic village.

      • 483
        anonymous says:

        Which despite Brown’s promise is being built by mostly foreign workers !!!!! No British Jobs for British Workers there then !!!!

      • 492
        Papasmurf says:

        Yes, why not. There will already be a media centre there so you would have a ready made facility for the lobbyists!

        You could also have a bus service direct from parliament so doing away with their taxi expenses too.

        Point I was trying to make is that THEY want the job. At 143 days a year in LONDON they have no need for permanent homes in the capital.

        As for expenses to and from homes if they are in London or close to London, why? Do you or anyone else get paid for going to work? Perhaps a tax free LOAN for an annual train pass but why get paid back your expenses? Let them drive their cars to central London and get them to pay the congestion charge just like the rest of the population (including visitors). Perhaps car parking facilities can be offered, or a night bus from parliament for all those late sittings, that actually they don’t need if they changed to day working.

        I say pay a flat rate for the job and get the people who want to give something back after their REAL careers in business or whatever to becaome active and put themselves forward. It would get rid of this new elitist thinking and people.

        Notice how this argument has developed, ignores this view. They are all assuming that expenses should be paid. They shouldn’t.

    • 488
      grobdj says:

      Papsmurf: I like the idea of a block of flats, a reminder of the places earlier politicians caused council tenants to occupy

      The higher up the ladder you go, the higher up the block

      And maybe a one-way door to go in. When they are finished they can throw themselves off the top.

      • 493
        Papasmurf says:

        Perhaps they would have to justify themselves to get the flat..after all there are needy asylum seekers in need too!

        They may have to submit themselves to a points system to see if they are contributing more than the proposed asylum seeker.

      • 502
        Hugh Janus says:

        “When they are finished they can throw themselves off the top.” Substitute ‘we’ (are finished) for ‘they’ and you have the makings of a good plan. I should think the time has arrived to put it into effect, judging by the state of things.

      • 518
        Airey Belvoir says:

        I like it! Ho about a diving board on the edge of the roof – we can give the bastards points for ’style’ as they do the decent thing.

  124. 479
    Javelin says:

    Toe-nails was on Today, this morning doing his classic balancing act.

    “Gordon Brown is wonderful, Darling is fab and the economy is ont as bad as you think, that’s what they want you to believe.”

    “Cameron sucks and Osborne is a loser, we’ll have to see if Gordon is right about that.”

    And that is toenails idea of balance – a sentence at a time. A good line about New Labour followed by a quiet redress, then a bad line about the Conservatives followed bya quiet redress.

    • 484
      anonymous says:

      He’s got to cover all his options – Cameron COULD be Prime Minister this time next year and he won’t get to go on Prime Ministerial “junkets” anymore !!!!!

      • 510
        Harley Street says:

        Extraction from the alimentalist canal of McCavity could prove to be a procedure too far in the case of Toenails!

  125. 494
    Alastair Darlings Bum says:

    Today is the day when I will prove to the nation that I am not Gordon’s poodle or bushy eyebrows. Today is the day when I have my chance to perform miracles on the telly for all to see and hear. Today is the day when I will announce MY budget for the last time because next year I won’t be here. Neither will several hundred of my new labour colleagues, who will have been thrown into the dustbin of history by you lot. You scum. You venal swine. I hate you. I hate all of you…..so taxes are going up from today. Alcohol is banned. You can only go out with my permission. Don’t talk while I’m speaking. Shut up the lot of you. Oh, my, I can’t go on. Here, Gordon, you do it, I need a break…..

  126. 495
    It's a matter of National Security, innit says:

    So the act of arresting ‘muslim terrorists’ last Easter, in a blaze of government ministers trumpeting about how they were acting to protect Britain, was all bullshit. They’ve let the ‘terrorists’ go free today with no charges. The BBC was all too willing to go along with this ‘national security/ killer mossies at the door’ bullshit to change the news agenda at a time NuLab and Jackie Smith in particular were getting slaughtered for the expenses scam. Is there nothing NuLabour and their cheerleaders at the BBC won’t do to screw us over?

    • 496
      Anonymous says:

      Answer: NO.

    • 506
      shellingout says:

      Was this orchestrated by any chance to make us all frightened? I wouldn’t put anything past this government.

      As for MP’s expenses, they will now get an attendance allowance – if this is passed at the vote next week. I doubt it will even get out of the starting blocks. They can put this off for as long as they want.

      Prepare to be fleeced!

    • 514
      Groucho says:

      Quite. I was a little confused by a comment on BBC news this morning, that ‘9 of the men arrested have been released without charge but will be deported on grounds of national security’.

      This does not make sense. Either you can make terrorism charges stick, or you can’t. There isn’t really a middle ground.

      I suspect that these men are simply being kicked out before they can get a chance to talk to the media.

      • 516
        shellingout says:

        Another deflection eh?! Nothing this shower does surprises me any more.

        We only have their word that these people have been kicked out, unless they were hand-picked beforehand……….!!

      • 521
        It doesn't add up... says:

        I suspect that they were indulging in “activities incompatible with their status” – a well worn phrase in the case of alleged diplomatic spies, but in this case, it means being a shelf stacker (i.e. economic migrant) while on a student visa, and not attending a proper course of study. Of course, many of them probably shouldn’t have been granted visas in the first place if the government had its act together over bogus educational establishments.

  127. 499
    JMT says:

    Ah well, Budget today and we can see Labour’s (third way) fiscal policy in all its glory.

    Raise Taxes when times are good
    Raise Taxes when times are going bad
    Raise Taxes when things ARE bad
    Raise Taxes when things improve.
    Raise Taxes for when times are good again
    Use CO2 lemonade bubbles as an excuse

    As the old 1997 poster said:

    “You can trust us on Tax”

    or was it

    “You can trust us TO Tax”?

  128. 500
    Anon says:

    have a look at this, the ethics of ‘progressive blogging’……

    what, I hear you say….

    http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2009/04/20/statement-our-ethic-of-progressive-blogging/

  129. 501
    Hugh Janus says:

    Good to hear the honesty of the highly odious Testicular One being called into question again on Toady over the SATs fiasco and his denials last week over the McPoison affair. More strength to your arm Mr Gove, but I would prefer to hear this from your leader.

  130. 503
    blinbo says:

    My bollox are swelling with anticipation.

  131. 508
    Numpty Watch says:

    It is Gove’s brief!

    Numpty was trying to turn it the other way that Bolton was also partly responsible for the fiasco. Gove said that at least he has shouldered part of the blame unlike Knight & Bollox who were ‘mistaken’ (ZaNuNewspeak for ‘lied’) about meetings with Bolton!!

    Fecking Hoons the pair of them + Numpty!!

  132. 511
    Cheer up says:

    How to start each day with a positive outlook

    1. Open a new file in your computer.
    2. Name it “Gordon Brown”.
    3. Send it to the Recycle Bin.
    4. Empty the Recycle Bin.
    5. Your PC will ask you: ‘Do you really want to get rid of “Gordon Brown?”
    6. Firmly Click ‘Yes.’
    7. Feel better?

    GOOD! —– Tomorrow we’ll do “Alistair Darling”…..

  133. 517
    Whiffler says:

    Guido

    Don’t forget – you should also include their communications with the BBC in their attempt to prevent you apearing on the Daily Politics

  134. 520
    Nick Wilson says:

    This one isn’t from Guido; it’s genuine, it’s a question from an ex Telegraph reader to the editor of the Telegraph.

    “Can you give your readers an assurance that you have not in the past, are not now, and will not in the future; enter into any kind of contractual relationship with Damian McBride, whether written or verbal, casual or formal, permanent or temporary, for financial reward or any other conducement?

  135. 527
    anon126 says:

    Guido will never get his answer. They’ll tell him that it will cost too much (though how expensive to get an assistant to explore an email history on a server?). You see they think they are above the law, and to be fair to them, they get away with fiddling expenses so they might have a point.

    The only way Guido could get the info, in my opinion at least, is to sue for libel. This would allow all emails to be explored under threat of contempt of court….but that would never happen as because of expense….so labour get away with it again.

    shame though

  136. 529
    tom mauchline says:

    i just read this on pop bitch
    i know its a lil out of date but i thought it was illuminating

    Labour’s smear scandal and the President

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

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

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







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