Nadine Ambushed Gordon at PMQs
Yesterday, prior to PMQs, Nadine Dorries asked the Speaker to call her in order to ask the Prime Mentalist for a personal apology over Smeargate. The Speaker declined her request claiming that he could not use PMQs for personal special requests. Which is untrue because he can and does.
If you watch yesterdays PMQs you will witness a successful ambush. When Nadine stood up to ask the question her backbench colleagues mysteriously sat down. The Speaker had to call someone from the Conservative benches, he was left with no choice but to call Nadine. Gordon was thus forced humiliatingly to make a direct apology. Never, ever underestimate Nadine Dorries, she is a Tory Tigress…
Good for her! Yes never underestimate us blondes with attitude!
I like the way she does her eyes. Oh, and that she’s a take-no-prisoners woman with attitude.
OT but…
Willem Buiter
has a devastating fisk of the budget and current economic outlook (deepest gloom, thanks Mcsnot) here:
http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/2009/04/darling-is-doing-his-best-to-clean-up-browns-mess/
Calls for government of national unity and urges The Ruiner to step down.
Strong stuff worth a read.
OT but…
Willem Buiter
has a devastating fisk of the budget and current economic outlook (deepest gloom, thanks Mcsnot) here:
http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/2009/04/darling-is-doing-his-best-to-clean-up-browns-mess/
Calls for government of national unity and urges The Ruiner to step down.
Strong stuff worth a read.
In fact he did not apologise to her. He repeated the form of words he used before – saying sorry ‘that’ it happened, not sorry ‘for’ it happening.
He graphically illustrated how small minded he is.
Small minded? That’s letting Brown off too lightly.
Brown is graceless, slope-shouldered, mannerless, curmudgeonly, cowardly and dishonourable.
agree.
it was no more an personal apology than a disgraceful, shallow meanspirited, cowardly shy for the exit.
what a disgraceful, shallow, meanspirited,cowardly hoon this bastard of a pm is!
If He has said the following
I apologise Nadine to you personally for what was done, the slur apon yourself was absolutely outrageous and without any foundation. We are truly a bunch of hoons this side of the house and because of that I am calling a GE
Zzzzzzzzzzz
Then I woke up
He didn’t even say that… he said that he had already said that he was sorry that it had happened as if quoting himself from last week, just to be that little bit extra impersonal and rude.
Not good enough, brown – GET OUT. DO IT NOW.
I never do. I had the good fortune to marry one, my own personal rotweiler.
I chewed a hat once, y no me gusta.
Her blog is crap, very sad, (just like ours, only a bit better) but her heart is in the right place. Better watch out she’s not planning to be the next Magi…
For another take on this…
http://www.tomharris.org.uk/2009/04/22/when-tory-tactics-rebound/
Yep, £400B in the swamp and he likes to make up pretend victories on utterly inconsequential matters. Really meaningful blog there Mr Harris
So Guido’s take is a meaningful victory, Tom Harris’ is pretend?
Or is it all just bollocks?
Nadine’s post says she & her party knew exactly what they were doing.
http://blog.dorries.org/Blog.aspx
If they did then they show themselves to be idiots – AGAIN
It was pretty obvious that PMQ’s was a sideshow
The opposition already knew the damage that was already contained with the Red Book
The fact that Nadine still got to ask her question, even though the speaker initially said he wouldn’t call her, should be seen as a triumph of parliamentary tactics against a supposed “independently minded” member of the house
Tom let himself down. Very badly.
Tom Harris MP – partisan party politics masquerading as a parliamentarian. The way his blog described Speaker Martin tells you everything you need to know. Martin is seen as part of the ruling junta and Tom Harris sees him that way too.
Shameful.
Mr West we are in an end game. Don’t look for reason or logic where there is hatred. You and your lefty friends are going to get a taste of your own nasty medicine. Don’t write about balance or fairness or objectivity. The Left never had any.
I hadn’t noticed that there is moderation on there so I assume my comment won’t be allowed.
For what it’s worth I called him a Hoon of the highest order and asked how he could write such tosh.
Fucking Hoon.
Left this (although moderation may well result in it disappearing…)
Tom,
Why are you only responding to comments regarding House procedure. Why aren’t you answering comments on the PM’s ‘apology’?
Do you feel his apology was sufficient. Would you have gone further? Would you have liked a leader of your party, with a moral compass, go further in his apology or is a full and frank apology not required by an elected representative?
There speaks the voice of experience, Mr Fawkes !!
Mmm… dingedy dong..
DK isn’t impressed with Dorries from what I’ve read over at his gaff. On the other hand it is always nice to see the Prime Mentalist discomfited and Michael, ‘I’m well balanced, I have a chip on both shoulders’ Martin made to look like the arse he is.
Woman on a Raft, Mandy’s Diary Onsdag 22 Aprile
Yup, Gorbals well and truly outflanked – not too difficult to achieve of course. What a nauseating pair – McBust and McGorbals. Bloody hell, what have we done to deserve this sub-species in the Mother of Parliaments?
The act of Union 1707
Voting in the Labour highjackers. teh country got what it deserved.
Not ensuring that the voting system is fair – that must be remedied first of all
Gorbals Mick and those who conspired to ‘elect’ him to the once-noble office of Speaker are a disgracve to Parliament and will never be forgiven
Dorries is a maverick and is as potentially embarassing as she is entertaining. Much as she adds to the gaiety of the nation, the Tories would be wrong to put her in a position of authority. Dorries was just lucky that McBride bothered to tell a lie about her – there are plenty of true criticisms which could be, and very often are made by her own side, let alone the opposition. She polarizes and splits the Tory vote. Mid-Beds may be hard to hold because she has the capacity to make Conservative voters stay home, and she isn’t much good at engaging swing voters. A blond Palin.
Ah, the Tony Banks dilemma – at least he had the good grace to die.
Except that Palin galvanised the conservative vote and was all that prevented a humiliating drubbing for McCain. You really ought to take the BBC tinted specs off occasionally.
I would vote for ANYONE who shared my priciples and is prepared to buck the party line
We need many more like her (and Kate Hoey) in Parliament – robust individuals
Slavishness to the Whips at the expense of the electorate is what got us into this mess!
She’s high profile for an opposition back-bencher (and an active blogger) and always has plenty to say for herself. She can be controversial and, therefore, is always going to polarise opinion.
What you mean she has an opinion and mind of her own and often opposes her own party line? WOW how terrible. Stephen Pound is a much better MP isn’t he? A total arse licking Hoon who sniffs shit and acts as simple lobby fodder.
Give me Nadine any day.
and I bet we paid for those chips too
and his wife’s.
Lunch on the Taxpayer ? Where ?
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1108146_mp_defends_expenses
The problem with Palin was that she put off almost everyone who wasn’t going to vote Republican already – she was a first rate nutter
I’m getting on with a jobbie….could I get back to you on this.
Take your time.
Take plenty of time.
Guido should be proud. The Economist has dubbed him a caustic anti-government blogger. Praise indeed! http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13496113
I would compare a ‘vicious attack’ from The Economist to that of being savaged by a toothless chihuahua. The best that The Economist can muster is a warm dribble of pee from a very short height.
Talking of that Scottish Speaker, Cameron had McBust on the ropes and clearly losing it mentally. So Speaker Martin contrives a stoppage, which is a que to McBust to regain some level of sanity. (I realise sanity is a relative term)
He does this all the time – it’s a disgrace.
But we should all have some sympathy – after all – Brown’s henchmen have all the facts regarding Mr ad Mrs Martin’s expenses
off topic but…
last night i switched onto ITV4 to watch Auf Wiedersein Pet so that I could get an idea of how britain will be again after 12 years of left wing destruction.
as the screen came on it was the end of Minder and the first and only words out of arthur daley’s mouth were “it’s just communism”.
I don’t think there was a better or more succinct appraisal (however unintentional) of the budget and brown’s attitude.
I think another Daley quote would better describe the politics of today:
“Everybody’s bent Terry”.
Interestingly though, last night’s episode featured a hapless Scotsman who screwed up a job.
Or even Daley’s:
“You’re a right bunch of McRobbers and no mistake!”
Who was also described, variously, as the Invisible Man and Invincible Man, once he’d been blown up. Invisible man, MacCavity Broon?
And how we wish he’d be blown up.
With all that talk about giving people two grand to scrap cars, I actually thought that Arfur Daley WAS the ‘AD’ presenting the Budget Speech, not Alastair Darling.
Anyone suggest a Labour thug with a Scottish surname to play Terry McCann ?
“things will only get better”
and now “I could be so good for you”?
Two songs, two lies.
Put it in the slate, Darling.
“On the slate” mate
I don’t give a rat’s arse fuck if she’s as daft as a box of frogs, anyone who makes that gurning Scottish Hoon do something he hates to do – apologise in public – deserves a medal.
The Penguin
Is there really a need for such foul-mouthed language?
are you grey or red?
secret squirrel,
if you do not like it here, and if you have kept your receipt, you can claim a full refund.
what a wanker!
Well if a blogger thinks that swearing adds a certain poetry and openly expresses his emotions then I think it is fine. We go into the fine example of the word hoon and we suddenly realise what a complicated and very useful expression it is, for example:-
Gordon Brown is a fucking hoon – Clearly showing dissatisfaction and contempt
That hoon Ed Balls – Short but to the point.
Boris Johnson is a lovely Hoon – Shows us that he is a likeable character
Gordon “hooning” Brown – by placing the word in the middle of the name and making it double barrel we show cleverness and creativity with words and also emphasize the hardness of the word. Say it out loud, it sounds nice. It is used very aptly when someone is angry
There are many more examples of this fantastic and may I say very British word of which I am very proud. I have spent many evening discussing the subtle art of the hoon. In fact a good game if you are new to this is to get the lyrics to a song and substitute words with hoon. It beats the Telegraph crossword or listening to this goverment. :-)
One rule for us and one rule for Chef Ramsey?
Havent you got some students to deport? stop blogging and start rounding up some shifty looking darkies, Gordon needs a distraction.
You are quite right Squirrel; I agree whole heartedly with the sentiments on this blog about the despicable, third rate, clapped out, useless, class ridden government we are saddled with. Surely we could express ourselves about their incompetence without using foul language.
Secret Squirrel, I see you are offended by foul-mouthed language. Might I suggest a visit to the Devil’s Kitchen blog where you may find that if you stick with it for a while you will be desensitised to bad language and enjoy life more.
Watched it Live. Superb ambush although I was unaware that it was so contrived as to give that excuse of a Speaker no choice.
That smarmy McSnot just makes me incadescent wit rage as I watch his insane schoolboy smirking and his drama-kid attempts to look disinterested and ignore DC when he is responding.
To see that smirk wiped immediately off his bloated one-eyed coupon was a joy to behold.
Well done, Nadine
But Gorbals Mick got his own back by not allowing another Tory question.
A typical abuse of power. Labour is what Labour does, FA!
Strange but I thought it had all the impact of of marshmallow wrapped in a very thick down quilt – totally lightweight and a wasted opportunity
Did he make a direct apology Guido?
To me it sounded more like a repeat of the “Sorry we’ve been caught” apologette made some days before.
I say again, a politician’s apology is worth less than nothing. Contrition should be demonstrated in a way which shows some sort of demonstrable loss to the offender.
Yes, mere words are cheap, especially for this lot. It’s actions that count.
pleeeease,no more action.
However, it’s still nice to know that McTwat was humiliated on the Commons floor – I hear he’s had his gofers order another dozen Nokias this morning. Maverick or not – Go Girl!
Actually the Speaker said she could not use PMTs as a reason for an apology. She must have misheard.
Blondes!
racist and sexist, oh dear!
you really are a fucking dick, aren’t you doctor.
I bet you are a right ugly c’unt aswell, with bad breath.
no wonder you post such ugly nonsense!
tat – you need to see a doctor – you’ve got irony deficiency.
Oy Thick as Shit – how come you’ve started posting here again? Out on parole? Where’s your bumchum Gary Elsby – noshing off McBride’s needle dick?
ah, sarah, thankyou for noticing me.
now fuck off.
kev,
you can fuck off aswell.
thankyou.
Nay, it’s a Vetinary this lad needs. There’s nowt that I can do for him (except perhaps a squirt of the Shipman hypo).
tat – you’re welcome!
As someone who would like to see the back of this corrupt government a.s.a.p. so that we just might have proper governance based upon sound and ethical principles, I am seriously disappointed over this episode.
Are they all so immune to our anger and frustration that they think it’s a good idea to play silly parlour games.
Hint to the Tories – we’re in a bit of a mess and need some grown ups to sort it out.
Are they all so immune to our anger and frustration that they think it’s a good idea to play silly parlour games.
Yes.
Hint to the Tories – we’re in a bit of a mess and need some grown ups to sort it out.
Good luck with that. I’m just hoping they’ll thieve slightly less than the current lot and if we’re extremely lucky someone like David Davis might even remove a few CCTV cameras from the country. Forget about getting any of your civil rights back though…
Event though the Tories are completely crap they’re still fantastic in comparison to the complete retards who are currently in charge. So sad.
anyone got the link please ? ta
He picks a question from every other party in the house first, before practically spitting out her name for a question.
Guido,
I know she reads this blog. She’ll like your comment!
Mike, is there anyone in Westminster who doesn’t read this blog? (Except for the Prime Mentalist of course – typeface isn’t big enough.)
Umm, David Blunkett maybe?
Actually, Churchill, Blunkett reads the web using a voice synthesiser. Imagine the foregoing comments read out loud by Stephen Hawking and you’ll get a flavour of his internet experience.
Oh, I thought he just couldn’t read – like so many Labour Comprehensive school leavers.
Bugger, I thought the dog read them out for him.
In that case:…. Fuck off Blunkett you fascist wankstain.
I have always found her to be charming, witty & erudite.
Well done Nadine. Keep on at him. About time the PM was compelled to answer for his incompetence and dishonesty. Also time for the Speaker, corrupt to his very core, to resign. Under this government, democracy has entered a downward spiral of sleaze, get rich quick at taxpayers’ expense, half truths and distortions of the truth. Today, I heard on BBC Radio 4 Today programme that the Government is NOT giving £2,000 to scrap old cars. It is only “giving” £1,000 with the other £1K coming from the manufacturers by way of a price cut. True to their dishonest ways, they never tell the whole unembellished truth. By the way, they are not “giving” £1,000, but taking it from one set of taxpayers and giving it to others. Robin Hood. They have sat there too long. In the name of god, go!
BUT Kevin Maguire thinks the 50% Tax on the “Rich” Budget has won Brown the election!!!!!!!!!!!
if everyone who is subject to the 50% tax leaves britain for a few years it will collapse and then we can move back and buy it up cheap. lovely.
Oh, that’s it then. Game over! Tories clearly face another 3 terms in the wilderness what with Mcguire’s incisive analysis.
I see Labour & the Tories are pimping themselves around the media and the core voters this morning. Labour have gone to some youth centre or similar, seemingly not an under-25 in site, funny that!
If anything, its mad the roies madder and even more likely to get out voting and electioneering, Gordo did the opposite, delivered the election to the Tories on a plate.
I earn far less than 150k. We’re all going to have to pay more to get us out of the mess we are in and I suspect the extra 2p on fuel is going to affect me far more than someone on 150K getting taxed at 5% more.
I mention this to show you my mindset – I’m the guy they targeted the 50% tax rate at (politically, not economically). I couldn’t give a rats arse if the rich pay 50% or 70%. Doesn’t affect me – I’m still screwed either way by this thieving bunch of bastards. The working class in this country have been squeezed to the point they can’t breathe anymore. We’re far too busy trying to survive to care about some ‘tax the rich’ gimmick.
If Labour think the 50% rate gimmick is going to win them more than a handful of votes then they are even more deluded than I imagined possible.
Can anyone explain the bit about people earning 100K losing their personal allowance? Does this mean that it will be better to earn 99.99K than 102.5K in future?
Yes, but you know Mr Maguire’s intellectual level….
It’s not the direct taxation that’s goona hurt besides that’s too honest an approach for broown – no it’s the indirect taxation that’s gonna be the bugger & which will hit the low paid most
The way things are going with devalueation of the £ /+ hyperinflation we all will be paying 50% tax. Now that is clever!
My car is just on ten years old but this scrappage scheme wont persuade me to give up the old banger.
The average new car price for the smallest model is about 7K so where am I going to find the remaining balance?
The scheme may have worked in other countrys because their citizens had savings.
I blew mine years ago aaaaargh. Cheap Chinese tat and porn,WHY.
Same with McMental’s promise about £5.000 for electric cars. I learned many moons ago that when Brown comes out with some sweeping statement about how he is encouraging fiscal responsibility, environmental responsibility, education responsibility etc. he is, as usual, simply talking out of his own bottom, or Charlie Whelan’s as may be. This man is without doubt a deeply flawed individual with no sense of responsibility himself and a belief, reinforced by his Beria-style approach to government and his Weimar Republic-style approach to economic affairs.
I would say that the sooner this odious and vile creature is allowed to slink furtively out of the back door of 10 Downing Street the better, but unfortunately we all know that the next disturbed monkey in line is the even more Golgothian-like Ed Balls.
I would rather see him carried out of the front door in a strait jacket!
Perhaps ‘In the name of Satan’ would be more appropriate for this lot?
Nah, Satan’s already banned this lot from Hell as he’s scared they’ll try and take over fuck up Hell as well…
Without going to check that I’ve got the number right I seem to recall it was point fifteen on her dead from the neck up twenty reasons for twenty weeks.
Evidence, please. Without it, your comment is worthless. Judging from what you must have worked for Damien McBride. Please confirm.
Mc_Twat out meeting kids again
The only audience who won’t give him a hard time
My daughter can see right through him.
IF he ever comes to our neck o the woods in Scotland, she says she will give him some words to remember.
Mine too, she calls him stupid all the time. Mind she’s a whizz at maths so could probably do a better job of running the Treasury than Brown, Darling or Balls. (Or should that be said in the order Darling Brown Balls?)
He does seem to have a fixation with children doesnt he?
rather rich coming from nonce like you, eh beast?
That’s about the only sensible thing you’ve ever said TaT – though you’ve misspelt Breast.
Any man in G Browns position would have sent a spray of flowers and a short note, that’s all that was needed, but then, G Brown is no man.
Ooh, he is – he’s all man.
If he did it would be signed by Balls and the flowers would have been gnawed by Yvette “Daisy” Cooper.
To IRB. Number 8 – Your language better describes you rather than Nadine. Next time, be more temperate and explain why you believe her to be as you describe, giving evidence to substantiate your views. If you don’t, your comments are worthless and can be ignored.
Twenty reasons for twenty weeks.
She is loathsome.
Happy? No swearing.
If you are going to bitch and whine about language at least learn to stop using a comma as an indication that you’ve taken a breath.
Anon,
In other words….”IRB, just fuck off now!”
Good work Nadine, call these bastards to account.
IRB – you are obviously Damian McBride and I claim my £4.99
Wrong-footed Brown as well as he had just made a sarcastic comment about no opposition wanting to ask a question, hadn’t spotted the ambush.
He’s on Sky live now, I’m about to bring up my breakfast.
Ah, Celia Molestrangler. I remember her well!
I don’t rate her at all. She’s good at media stunts but lightweight in policy. More a liability than an asset.
IRB..
Thank you for your considered judgement!
Now, with respect, fuck right off!
No there fucking isn’t. A good point fucking well made.
Guido if you can’t call this third rate polititian out about her obsession with abortion and her limited intellectual capacity then what’s the point?
Clever trick, well done Ms Dorries. But the thought of all this elevating your profile to the point where you might actually have some power in the inevitable next Tory Government is depressing and frankly scary.
Go and lie down for a while, Dave.
Dave, you’ve got it wrong. You aren’t allowed to point out that there are some really nasty fools on the opposition benches. We must praise their petty victories as if they are the work of politcal masterminds.
..and there are no nasty fools on the government benches? The problem
is they are directing the country and doing serious damage-and therefore
more likely to be commented on? You are ‘allowed’ to put your view here but other posters do not have to agree with t . You are also not under any obligation to
praise anybody or anything.
If what you suggest is true,then your comment would have failed moderation,which it did not.
IRB, you’ve got it wrong. Nadine’s got her priorities right. Compared to abortion (oh, “her obsession”) McBride & Draper’s smears is like playing hopscotch.
What, scarier than Freeloader Martin & his Freeloader Mrs having access to MPs expenses? That’s really, really scary.
She cannot be any worse than any of Brown’s Old Boilers!
my role is not to let the bloody tories speak at PMQ’s That’s what they told me to do when they jerrymandered my appointment and haven’t I done well at it?
I have also gained lots of unearned untaxable moolah while about it and my family have done pretty well also. Ah well, my gold-plated pension beckons. It’s a good life, especially when you are dishonest
Hopefully, the overweight bastard will keel over with a fatal heart attack or stroke the day after he leaves his job (rephrease: after his job leaves him).
I thought the job of “Speaker” was a role that someone with a speech impediment c-c-c-c-ould’t take. Thick jock twat.
I’ll have you know stammering starts because kids are thinking faster than they can speak. Almost all stammerers are within the top 90% of the IQ range.
I get sick of the constant ignorant response to stammering. People don’t grow out of it purely because of the appalling reactions to it – it’s not funny being treated as an imbecile by people like o-o-order when you could read a paper at 3 and your brain works 10 times faster than the average.
Gorbals Mick is no stammerer, he’s inarticulate because he’s thick and he’s frightened.
He should be!
Send for the Beefeaters, hang him from the Traitor’s Gate
“Almost all stammerers are within the top 90% of the IQ range. ” Don’t you mean top 10%? Or then again maybe not!
i would have added a few more words to make a javelin to chuck at gordon , but it got the mark , pretty good pay back , i mean we were all blogging on it , nadine had to put up with nasty smear .
ime still trying to think of suitable name for the mandelson ed milliband ventriloquists double act.
“euro and hot air ”
” valdtimore and cash ”
“lies and custard ”
childrens entertainers available for hire for parties and barvmitvshas
slop bucket and mop?
A sexy tigress too. Grrrrrrrr.
Ahem. Back on track. I thought her question, although to the point, was a touch lightweight …” what happened to me” was the last part as I recall. She should have gone ino more, much more detail and made Brown squirm.
Grrrrr
Agree that she didn’t make anything like enough of her opportunity.
Disagree with your first observation.
I agree she could have at least name checked Guido – that REALLY would have got on Broowns tits
Purnell has just squeezed one out on the quiet like.
Hopefully there is a slight L-R breeze.
Who’s the Pelosi clone?
O/T
An Australian view of Britain under Labour.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25361297-7583,00.html
Mate, I’m an Aussie (emigrated from UK 15 years ago, thank God). I can tell you that we think you are a load of wankers. How you voted for these vermin is beyond me. The country has gone to pieces and will never recover. No pleasure beating you at cricket/rugby/league – or any bloody game you like to mention.
PS Nadine if you are in Sydney in the near future and want squiring around, post a hint on your blog.
G’day
Same goes cobba, fair dincum
I’ve never liked Aussies. Over opinionated and over here.
Hastings – we know where you are.
to the Aussie..who knows where I am..
I am staggered how the hell did you know I live at 2134D Kangaroo Mews, Hastings Banda NSW
A man went to Australia House to enquire about emigrating – he was asked if he had a criminal record. He apologised and left after explaining that he didn’t realise it was still necessary!
Well worth reading.
Another disgrace which needs addressing by a new Government.
Good article.
I recently visited Aus with my (British) mother-in-law, who said that one of the attractive features of Australia was that it felt “less foreign than the UK”. Sadly, I knew exactly what she meant.
All aussies do is moan about the ‘old country’ and pomms (sic) ..whilst being over here (dentists usually). well fuck off back to Australia then!
“[Straw] claimed the English “propensity for violence” was used to subjugate Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and that the English as a race were “potentially very aggressive”.”
Zanu liebore is said to be obsessed by power to the point of monomania, but here it is is exposed as motived by sheer naked fear. But we can all smell that already.
How telling that the ads Google had stitched in when I read this piece were “Child Protection software – manage protection of children and vulnerable adults for UK police”, “Stop Violence to Women – Quick Safe Assertive Boost Open anonymous course/with friends” (for whom I wonder – prospective victims or prospective assailants? or perhaps for Plod again) and “Ask a Lawyer Online”.
“The Government is pushing ahead with legislation that will criminalise politically incorrect jokes, with a maximum punishment of up to seven years’ prison. The House of Lords tried to insert a free-speech amendment, but Justice Secretary Jack Straw knocked it out. It was Straw who previously called for a redefinition of Englishness and suggested the “global baggage of empire” was linked to soccer violence by “racist and xenophobic white males”. He claimed the English “propensity for violence” was used to subjugate Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and that the English as a race were “potentially very aggressive”.”
Maybe I’m not getting this, but isn’t what Jack Straw said racist or at least xenophobic towards white males? If you swop Englishness in his statements for any other race/country it really is quite unacceptable language. Don’t these hoons (especially hoons like the odious Straw) realise how their own PC language is divisive and hate-filled?
A complaint about Straw’s hate-speech should be made to the Plod.
Oh dear. Is Tom Harris gloating because the Speaker pointedly refused to call any Tories this morning?
Does anyone know which Mr Speaker was on duty this morning?
I’m a mere foreigner so excuse my ignorance. Here on mainland Europe we generally expect MPs from all sides to have a say in a Parliament. Is it different on your Island out there?
@anon 10:19. In theory, no, it’s not different. In practice, since we have, unfortunately, the most corrupt govt ever seen in the country in power – the ones who have bankrupted the country through their incompetence – that is the way it is here, at the moment. You may have heard of the term ‘Banana Republic’ applied to corrupt, usually South American countries ruled by a dictatorship? Currently, Britain is a Banana Republic – Brown’s Banana Republic.
Pretty much, the standard response is when Labour speaks the Speaker will condemn the opposition if they try to interrupt or shout over them. When the Conservatives speak he positively encourages Labour to shout down the Tories. Another tactic is that when the opposition wants to debate something they’ll bring up some bullshit story to debate before hand and then drag it out as long as possible so the opposition debate ends up being cancelled due to lack of time.
A partisan Speaker was gerrymandered into position in 1997 by the incoming Labour MPs against all precedent – it’s hitherto always been the convention that the Opposition party provides the Speaker to ensure a fair hearing for all sides.
The Speaker is a disgrace to Parliament and will go down in it’s annals of infamy
He’s responsible for a great deal of the collapse in Parliament’s standing – he sets the ‘tone’
Allowing the police to raid an opposition MP’s office was merely the worst in a long catalogue of iniquities
Re the budget. Part of a budget report from a city institution doing the rounds to clients:
“More implausible is the government’s assumption that growth accelerates to 3.5% and stays there through the forecast period. This forecast of medium-term growth potential is actually higher than the government assumed in the November pre-budget report. One can be optimistic about the medium-term outlook, of course, but has anything rally changed in the past six months to make one MORE optimistic?”
I.e It’s all crap and Brown / Darling have no idea.
The only way those numbers could remotely come true would be if the USA were to hand UK plc to China on a Ming platter to distract them from Taiwan.
Do you think that’s daft? Consider the number of Japanese car manufacturers here… and since WWII the City has only operated as a staging post for capital flows between the USA and Europe, and you know what happens to middlemen in times of recession.
Actually, they are feasible because of the way GDP is calculated. GDP is the total of wealth creation AND government spending. So if the government spends more the GDP looks bigger. Its like me saying I’m worth £150,000 per year because I earned £50,000 and spent £100,000!
…hand over UK plc. to China… The country has already slid from the FSE100 to AIM and now is on thePlus mkt.
Check out the transcript of the lobby briefing on this – the spectator published it.
The logic goes “the trend rate of growth is 2.75%, the current rate is way lower than that therefore to get back to an average of 2.75% growth will be soon be much higher and stay higher for a while – it has to, because 2.75% is the trend rate.”
They don’t realise that the trend is a calculated average of the *real* data – they think the trend is absolute and that the *real* world will magically adapt to make it so.
From this it is easy to see why they are so f*cking sh*t at their jobs.
I think they are really crying to be put out of their misery.
[...] Guido remarks on Nadine’s fiesty nature [...]
I judge her,as I do all politicians, by one simple yard stick.
She voted strongly for the smoking ban.
That tells me all I need to know – she sees nothing wrong with the Big State artificially distorting market forces to the point where private enterprise, denied a choice by legislation that was in no manifesto, to close down.
Typical Government-knows-best interferer.
Still, always nice to see the social retard squirm. And she’s quite hot.
BFOD.
I could forgive her that if she voted against fox-hunting.
It wasn’t so much an apology, more a grovelling. He didn’t actually apologise, he is pathologically incapable of doing that. In terms of the Budget, he should hold his head in shame. He should do the decent thing and go. But as usual our corrupt parliamentary system means these clowns get to keep their jobs and rewarded for failure.
Read my post Wake Up and smell the Kenco Gordon…http://www.plenty2say.com
Good for Nadine!
A Conservative with balls. Thought they’d all been banished.
Me too. I thought “A Conservative with balls” was what you get when David Cameron is photoed beside Yvette Cooper.
Please, no more mention of the Testicular Family – it was bad enough watching the male bollock smirking during PMQs and the Budget, and then having to listen to the whining female bollock on the telly yesterday, trying to defend the utterly indefensible – and making a really good hash of it.
Brilliant !
I have to say yesterday was a very bad day for Labour with the budget but Nadine Dorries was the icing on the cake. Brown looked flustered and knocked on the back foot.
Brown’s style at PMQs is now so rigidly set in obfuscation and evasion mode that he would have looked flustered and knocked on the back foot if Dorries had asked him what was his name.
Did you see Maguire interviewed by Adam Boulton? Mmug arsehole talking utter shit as usual. Unfortunately, the “Tory” apologist appearing alongside him (a fellow Ulsterman whose name I forget) was totally useless and AB gave Maguire far too much rope.
Pity he didn’t hang himself.
Actually, Nadine is a gobby cow, which some women mistake for being confident and assertive.
Well done Nadine.
Can we have Betty Boothroyd back please? Or how about a Tory speaker for the next ten years? David Davies?
Has anyone got a youtube link to the PM’s apology to Nadine?
Sorry, no good at posting links – try BBC Parliament, PMQs, 20 mins in.
Try Number10gov.uk
Try this:
http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/VideoPlayer.aspx?meetingId=3887&st=12:21:41
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00k00fl/Prime_Ministers_Questions_22_04_2009/
At about 20:50
Happy St George’s Day Guido, perhaps you’d care to comment here on some thoughts on the State of the English under these Scottish tyrants? http://thegraymonksscriptorium.blogspot.com/
Oh IRB you are so making me laugh , the curse of damien mcbride
Does it not upset you that even when the current administration falls it will be replaced by an equally vacuous group of benchwarmers who see micromanagement as a viable alternative to leadership?
” … micromanagement …” Stop insulting Hazel Blears.
Nope.
I’m guessing that Browns barely contained giggles and smirks as the worst ever budget it’s were announced, are down to him thinging these awful numbers present an election loosing trap for the Tories
Brown still taking challenging questions from teenagers live on Sky. Has brown been CRB checked?
Leave those kids alone!
You should be more worried about those kids being tooled up.
Well done Nadine. Everyone with a brain in this country is envious of you and your opportunity to demand an apology off Crash Gordon.
(Totty watch tag surely?)
Anyone else think that Nadine has scrubbed up well and is looking a bit yummy mummy :-)
Where does she live? I want to take her out for a beer.
If I still had my Spitfie I might take her for a RIDE in that too
She’s more likely to be impressed by your large Lotus, Huge.
Sorry Aussie she does not drink buckets of tastless lager
She’s been in the HoC long enough to know what crap tastes like.
Labours new anthem-A Gordon for me
http://subrosa-blonde.blogspot.com/
She can slap me more on the wrist anytime. With whips and thongs too, if I’ve been a really bad boy. and not necessarily with a slap on the wrist.
You’re a bit cocky today. Is Cock-a-Leakie on the menu for lunch?
Only if Nadine is coming.
Another matadors feint, and another huge OLE!!
Not long before the blade is raised and pointed between the shoulders of this sad mentalist.
Here’s the Hansard record of the exchange:
Nadine Dorries (Mid-Bedfordshire) (Con): Would the Prime Minister like to take this opportunity to apologise to me for what happened?
The Prime Minister: Yes, and I have said sorry that this has happened. I have also written to the hon. Lady personally. We should all say that what happened has no part to play in the politics of this country. It is wholly inappropriate and unacceptable, and that is why there will be new rules and procedures to govern the behaviour of political advisers.
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As well as Nadine Dorries asking her question, I thought Cameron was absolutely electric yesterday. His assessment of Labour being a government of the living dead was both funny and actually spot on, but he also made a clever response to SmearGate:
The Prime Minister: I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman has asked that question. In the early 1990s, interest rates went up to 15 per cent. In the early 1990s, inflation went up to 10 per cent. In the early 1990s, the Conservatives did nothing when people were worried about their mortgages. In the 1990s, they did nothing when people became unemployed. And who was the chief economic adviser to the Chancellor at the time? None other than the Leader of the Opposition.
Mr. Cameron: Perhaps on another occasion we can talk about some of your chief advisers and what they have been up to. It is about time this Prime Minister realised that as well as bringing the country to the brink of financial bankruptcy, he has brought his party to moral bankruptcy.
The average British family will pay off £2000 of their mortgage capital this year. In the same time frame the Labour government will run up £9000 of new debt in their name.
She’s a bit mental but I can’t help but admire her.
Regarding Under 25’s on long term unemployed – the option of a job or training:
That’ll be training then !
Please note that immediately the Jobcentre arranges the job or training then the claimant is immediately wiped off the “long term unemployed” stats.
Then, even if it is a 4 week minimum wage job, the claimant isn’t registered as long term unemployed again (or at least for another 6 month period).
Where I live, a ZaNu Labour heartland I’m afraid, there appears to be no shortage of specialist training organisations that simply train these claimants continuously just to keep them off the stats.
Ever wonder how it is possible for the unemployment benefit costs to spiral, more people on the dole, yet the boasting about containing the numbers long term unemployment gets louder and louder ?
Answer = Corrupt Liars
Not to mention all the millionaires created by Labour who provide ‘training’ to the NEETs.
It’s a containment system for the young unemployed, and possibly unemployable – many of whom are semi-literate.
If you look hard enough, you will find hundreds, maybe thousands of little ‘privately’ run micro-gulags (disguised as ‘training centres) where unemployed, both long-term and first timers, are held hostage for months at a time, taught nothing, achieve nothing, and are kept – conveniantly enough – off the dole figures. And in the current economic crisis, there’ll be plenty of empty, semi-condemned building space to start up more of these travesties. As anybody who has ever had to endure ‘government re-education’ in one of these places will agree, very few people find proper work through these places: but that’s not their point is it, Mr Brown?
By the way, does anybody know how much these organizations are paid per person, per day, to ‘hide the elephant’? I’ve tried to find out, but for some reason the answer is treated like a State secret… This could explain a lot.
Agreed. Bless your insight.
Not sure if you have to look hard though, Certainly lots around here.
As a friend of mine advises “Get into Unemployment – it’s the only growth market around these parts”
As shops and businesses put up the “For Sale or Let” signs, these little enterprises appear to go from strength to strength.
All just part of the ZaNuLabour smoke”n”mirrors economy.
More details can be found in a depressing little read ..
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rotten-State-Britain-Eamonn-Butler/dp/1906142378/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240483764&sr=8-2
A good move and it doesn’t quite make up for 12 years of crap Opposition.
Opposition, what opposition? Oh you mean the people we taxpayers fund to turn up from their second homes to listen to the Commie bastards sitting opposite them.
Time the Conservatives got their act together.
Nadine well done, but frankly the tricks of the trade ought to be mastered by now.
Yesterday’s non-apology is further cause to scrap PMQs in their entirety.
The should be replaced by a 1 hour long session of PMA&As: PM’s Answers and Apologies.
During PMA&As the PM would not be allowed to ask any questions nor make any comment on what the opposition parties would or would not do.
One must have one’s dreams.
How can Speaker Martin cling on to his perks. I would say the man should recognize that he has damaged the reputation of his office but then again it remins to be proven that he or any of the labour are men.
The man will go down in history as the worst Speaker since Bradshaw who was the first signatory of our former King’s Death Warrant.
The has no morals, is a lightweight and is about as ill educated as they come.
Why do you think they picked him? They don’t want anyone with a brain who might be principled.
He is one of the very worst. Piano wire awaits him and Mrs Gorbals
Just because Speaker Bradshaw signed the Death Warrant doesn’t make him a bad Speaker. Charles I received the punishment he deserved. He over-taxed. He tried to over-rule parliament. He subverted the nation. Just like Brown in fact, and I think he should be executed as well.
Well done Nadine. Sometimes women can be that little bit smarter …
At least ND asked an embarassing question, unlike that cretin from Luton who was just simply embarassing and living proof that ZaNuLabour wimmen are not selected on merit or intelligence.
Yes I was embarassed for her.
Did she wear that orangs scarf in an attempt to deflect the attention from her skin ?
As one candidate in the Apprentice once remarked “She was just far too Orange to be taken seriously” !
As an aside, did you notice the numbers of our “we understand your pain” MPs that were sporting some fine suntans.
No cutback on holidays in their household(s), huh ?
Note that the Telegraph or should it be called the govgraph does not even mention this.
I couldn’t understand yesterday why such an obviously partisan Speaker would have risked calling Nadine, knowing what she’d ask. Well done her.
He wasn’t given a choice, it was call her or have no questions from the Tories at all
Is that why McSmirk later commented that there were few questions from across the floor ??
It’s great to see him squirm, is it not ?
The tories did pay for the privilege of not competing to stand with Nadine thus forcing gorbals Mick to call her. He did not allow another tory question out of spite.
Is there a clip of this event?
hahahah – I watched PMQs but never spotted that – good for her and the MPs that helped her. I think my hearing is playing up though – I never heard snot gobbler say “So sorry Nadine” ;0)
IRB,
How long have you had a problem with strong, intellectually robust women?
Was an aunt nasty to you when you were a little boy?
Intellectually robust? That would be the person who felt “because Dave thinks it’s a good idea” was a valid justification for yet more intrusion. Christ on a bike.
Do I have a problem with strong, intellectually robust people? No. Do I have a problem with ghastly career politicians obsessed with micromanaging people’s lives? Yes.
Happy St Georges Day to everyone:
At least this lady has done a real job
Wiping arses on hospital wards.
I get the feeling that she was just the kind of nurse that you would have trusted to look after your grandparents.
Somebody from the Tories should just walk up to McMental and kick him right in the bollocks for besmirching this ladys reputation.
Mr Davis ?
IRB?
That stands for
Irritating Retarded bumbandit?
Nadine Dorries (Mid-Bedfordshire) (Con): Would the Prime Minister like to take this opportunity to apologise to me for what happened?
The Prime Minister: Yes, and I have said sorry that this has happened. I have also written to the hon. Lady personally. We should all say that what happened has no part to play in the politics of this country. It is wholly inappropriate and unacceptable, and that is why there will be new rules and procedures to govern the behaviour of political advisers.
Saying you have said sorry, especially when you haven’t in the first place, isn’t actually making an apology. It’s just another lie, Gordon.
(GB) We should all say that what happened has no part to play in the politics of this country. It is wholly inappropriate and unacceptable, and that is why there will be new rules and procedures to govern the behaviour of political advisers……
Too Fucking True, but it was you, you control freak that set their agenda in the first place.
Well done to Nadine Dorrises.Men have been killed for much lesser insults.But some people die a thousand deaths as is the case with Brown.
wtf is up with the order of comments? They’re all over the place
Seems all fixed now. Move along, nothing to see here…
I take it back, still fecked
Wikipedia – Under the provisions of the Septennial Act 1715 as amended by the Parliament Act 1911, the next general election must be held on or before Thursday 3 June 2010, barring exceptional circumstances. In recent times, and certainly since the enactment of the Septennial Act 1715, Parliament has not been allowed to expire. The present parliament which first met on 11 May 2005 will expire at midnight on 10 May 2010. If this is allowed to happen the first day on which the royal proclamation announcing a new election could be made is 11 May 2010, which would make the date of the general election 3 June 2010.[6]
I guess Brown will not go quietly
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8013570.stm
Tax rise ‘not end of New Labour’
Mr Brown said Labour was still a party of aspiration
The income tax increase for the highest earners does not mark the end of New Labour, Gordon Brown has insisted.
He also urged people “to judge us in year’s time”, saying he thought people would look back at the Budget and decide that the decisions taken had been “tough… responsible and fair”.
“to judge us in year’s time” – we surely will, by Thursday 3rd June
The people of Scotland have already judged Maggie Broon and her Elmer Fudd look a like puppet in Holyrood, that’s why Wee Eck is riding high in the polls and those for independence 38% (up from 23% a year ago) to 41% against (down from 52% a year ago) with 21% undecided. Every month ‘Call me Dave’ fails to go for a vote of no confidence in Broon, the Union becomes weaker and weaker.
We Scot’s don’t need a year, Broon; please take Labour and get the hell out of Dodge. Even the Scotsman can’t support your Darling’s more cuts to the Scottish Pocket Money play at Middle England and if you cut that paper in two you would see New Labour for the Union right through it – its normally just a Labour press release. The rest of Scotland’s papers are giving Darling a right doin’.
Broon and Darling just do not get we are no longer up for ‘jam tomorrow’ we want bread today!
Ms Dorries has character and guts, qualities seen usually only in those who, like her, did real work before venturing into the snakepit of politics.
She makes a refreshing change from the pale creatures that slither out from beneath stones at one party HQ or another to become parliamentary candidates and, God save us, ministers.
I live in a neighbouring constituency and so hear something of her local work. She is so much better than the vacant-minded, open-mouthed ex-council officer that NuLab inflicted on us. Her article in the local Sunday freesheet made it clear that she is convinced that the rot did not stop at McBride/Draper.
She is one of those few MPs I would vote for regardless of the party they belong to. The fact that she is not NuLab nor LibDem is a bonus.
I only hope that her integrity remains immune to the slime that pervades parliament.
Shes a mouthy cow, but I still would….
Real question;
Bearing in mind the speaker is clearly corrupt and one sided, is there a mechanism in parliamentary law that can be invoked to bring him to account?
Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.
The bloke is a shamed cretin. His power base comes from a place where they eat their young and they’d vote for a monkey if that party put one forward.
“Because ma Da would vote for that monkey”
Indeed, there are far too many suchlike cretins. Surely something ought to be done about `relieving´ folks of this ilk of their right to vote until they acquire a modicum of independance of thought, or, they can prove that there are reasonable grounds for believing such a capability is extant (even if deactivated!). The simple possession of grey matter between the ears is most definitely not automatic proof that the said grey matter is in any way capable of rational decision-making.
Sort of reminds me of an encounter I had with a Labour voter about 400 moons ago when driving buses in South Yorkshire. I overheard a yob behind me brag to his mate, “I`m voting Labour! If it`s good enough for mi Dad, it`s good enough for me.”
Trouble was, I knew the yob, and his Dad. And about the alcohol-fuelled and bloody scraps between them that served as family entertainment.
But, it does kinda give you a nice warm fuzzy feeling inside knowing that there is at least one thing they could both agree on.
As an absolute start – why can’t we teach basic economics in secondary school. Would allow some level of understanding at least. Then more people would realise when utter rubbish was being spouted by those politicians who ought to know better.
Let’s face it, Nadine is a dreaful old slapper with some repulsive views on social policy. It was nice to see her discomfit McTurd, but something of a hollow victory in my view given the odious nature of many of her views.
Your hobby is killing babies then?
brilliant….
I’m starting to like her. she gets a lot of stick from some bloggers though and I think it’s unfair stick too. Just my opinion. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Does anyone know James Purnell’s email address? I need to send him a ranting email about his grocery claims. What a piss taker!
Ha ha ha!
The best ‘Gordon is a Moron’ parody I have seen.
Everyone sing along with the chorus now!
You’ve seen the film … now read the book: Gordon is a Moron
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gordon-Moron-Definitive-Objective-Chancellor/dp/189972608X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240524169&sr=8-1
This is by far the worst speaker we’ve ever had. It should have been an ex-tory speaker, he got rid of wigs, he feels he’s above the job, he is corrupt, he is plainly biased (party political bias is supposed to be left at the door when you become speaker) and he has generally pissed the traditions of the house up the wall and buggered up what is a very noble (and frankly easy) job. Shame on him.
Priceless. Sod this budget malarkey, let’s talk about ME.
How is this woman not on the front bench?
Probably because of her very controversial views on topics such as abortion. Call Me Dave doesn’t want anyone in his shadow cabinet to have a mind of their own.
I’m not sure she has a mind of any description.
As puerile and pathetic a move as I would expect from Nadine. I would have thought that the rest of her Tory colleagues would have quashed this pointless and unimpressive idea, instead of going along with it. As a fellow Conservative blonde (female), I try to like her, I really do. But oh, Nadine, you make it so hard, with your views on abortion and the hectoring whine in which you write and speak and your media-whoring over the whole McBride affair.
Nadine is gorgeous; a butt-kicking no shit taking NuLabour destroyer. She could be the next Maggie.
Maggie had brains and knew when to shut up.
Ok, I’ll try again..
Real question;
Bearing in mind the speaker is clearly corrupt and one sided, is there a mechanism in parliamentary law that can be invoked to bring him to account?
Please?
If not, why not? Cannot a speaker be deposed if their interests are not those of the country?
The Speaker is normally elected on a one of ours one of yours rota. The problem is with the large Labour majority of recent years it is now a one sided pick by Labour.If Cameron calls for his dismissal on the grounds of his obvious incompetence before the next election Brown,being the vindictive slug that he is, will probably engineer another stooge to replace him and once a new speaker arrives it is very difficult to sack him or her.
Cameron’s best chance is to persuade Martin to retire himself after the next election with a threat of the order of the boot if he does not comply.Having said that Martin has been a catastrophic failure as Speaker and has broken just about every rule in the book including allowing the arrest of Damian Green and the pillage of of his Parliamentary Offices.
you’re being rather cruel to slugs, sir!
Thanks for the replies, but is there not a mechanism in place to oust a speaker who behaves like this?
We have a zillion laws and Parliamentary procedures, surely somewhere there must be something?
For the sake of my poor country.
Nadine messed her question up and that let Brown go for the Sorry for what happened non-apology. Nicely done to get in front of the open goal, but just pushed it past the post this time.
Still – Brown took the easy route, as ever, and the public will judge him accordingly (except the ones with postal votes of course).
She’s quite a fox.
Perhaps Nadine could do this as well….
http://bastardoldholborn.blogspot.com/2009/04/send-gordon-your-shirt-campaign.html
Trying to imagine comments 161 and 162 read out with the ‘voice’ of Stephen Hawkings…
And the comments about the pair of Balls. Is there a picture of them standing on either side of Brown?
But as for ND, yes she is a bit of a MILF, but apparently fairly dodgy in her views. She may have struck very lucky, as someone said, in being smeared by McBride (perhaps he thinks she’s a MILF too?).
This looked like a bit of a stunt. Giving Brown plenty of opportunities to *not* do the decent thing (no ‘direct apology’, this) might not seem like a bad publicity move, but it starts to look like flogging a dead horse.