May 1st, 2009

Recycled Cartoon

This cartoon was last used in April 2008.  Hopefully Clarke will do more than spin his wheels pointlessly this time.


285 Comments

  1. 1
    Jimmy says:

    I’m just curious as to whether anyone has ever found one of these cartoons funny.

  2. 3
    Anonymous says:

    Well known Labour MP rumoured to be defecting to Lib Dems this weekend.

    • 7
      Doctor Mick says:

      Brown?

      • 9
        Anonymous says:

        Field.

      • 10
        TAG Henderson says:

        £10 a bag down Brixton mate. Want me to score for you?

      • 15
        Doctor Mick says:

        Aye TAG. Do you take Luncheon Vouchers?

      • 24
        TAG Henderson says:

        Luncheon Vouchers?! Not these days Dr.Mick. The dealers like to paid in Gold or Norwegian Krone. Some of the old school will take Swiss Francs. Smallest weights are 0.2g of Taliban Special. What do you want?

      • 35
        thick as thieves says:

        dr dick,
        you seem to be under the misapprehension that this is some sort of gay dating site or perhaps a virtual cottaging venue.
        please take your crap posts and send them to conservativefoam and stop wasting our time you boring c’unt.
        don’t abuse Guido’s hospitality, use your own email for your chatter with your boyfriends.
        no-one is interested in your inane drivel you fucking arse.

      • 36
        Doctor Mick says:

        I need fucking aspirin after reading your list.

      • 186
        Doctor Mick says:

        thick as shit… are you homophobic darling???

      • 279
        thick as thieves says:

        oh dear.
        dick, do you know what you sound like?
        you sound just like one of those fucking new labour politically correct nonces.
        - you are harriet harpy the man-hater and I claim my £5.
        but the offence you have taken from reading my post is slightly puzzling me.
        you are, I believe, the same dr dick who was posting the most vile and racist posts regarding Palestinians on a recent thread, are you not?
        I collect pseudonyms dr. and I have decided to collect yours.
        c’unts like you are not welcome here.
        a revokation order will have to be prepared should you refuse to behave yourself and act like a civilised human being instead of a nazi.
        oh and when I was bashing the midgets you weren’t so quick to jump in to defend them, were you? you seem to have a very selective sense of discrimination. how very discriminational of you.
        that will be all.

    • 11
      unemployed tory says:

      probably frank field, he’s been waivering for ages

      • 16
        Spangle de Gangle says:

        Leave his sexuality out of this, please!

      • 19
        Doctor Mick says:

        I hope so. Frank is a decent chap and without him the Labour party are increasingly Hooncentric.

      • 43
        nell says:

        I don’t think it’s Frank. He is genuinely wedded to the labour party. They had better hope he’s not about to leave them because he’s one of the last remaining genuine labour people they have left. Gordon treated him atrociously because he knew he couldn’t be bought and he couldn’t be coerced. Gordo never understood anything that was decent , honest or straightt forward. I don’t want Labour to win next time around but I also don’t want people like Frank Field to be buried in Gordon’s entirely self inflicted tsumani. (Please Guido do not not moderate me this time!)

      • 48
        Doctor Mick says:

        It’s Frank alright.

        Please, Guido, could you moderate the above silly post for me once again.

      • 146
        Droopy Drawers says:

        I hope not. If its any of the ‘usual suspects’ it’ll have bugger all effect. It needs to be someone who’s been out of the headlines for a while. Like Beckett, or Dobson.

        Or Blair… :o )

      • 247
        Dame Celia Molestrangler says:

        I would echo what Nell says. Saw somewhere yesterday that it was the “quiet, decent guys” who normally never say anything who have reached the end of their rope.

    • 49
      Gordon Dämmerung says:

      It’s the right thing to do.

    • 177
      Pedantic Pete says:

      Sorry Pal, you’ve left out an ‘a’. It should be ‘defecating’.

    • 211
      anonymous says:

      Is it Quentin Davies ?
      “Believing that as I do, I clearly cannot honestly remain in the Party. I do not intend to leave public life. On the contrary I am looking forward to joining another party with which I have found increasingly I am naturally in agreement and which has just acquired a leader I have always greatly admired, who I believe is entirely straightforward, and who has a towering record, and a clear vision for the future of our country which I fully share.”

      • 219
        Alien8n says:

        And thus proving that he was too stupid to remain a Tory. He did the Tories a favour defecting in the way he did.

        As they said, when he crossed the floor he raised the IQs on both sides of the house.

      • 229
        Dick the Prick says:

        The Senator dude who just defected gave virtually the same reason. I won’t get elected as a Republican so obviously i’ll defect to the Democrats because i’m a troughing twat who thinks principles is a clothes shop.

      • 248
        Talwin says:

        Churchill went Con-Lib-Con. Not entirely sure that Quentin Davies is on a par with Churchill but the precedent’s there.

  3. 8

    Poor old Monkey Lugs. His life’s work collapses before his very eyes.

  4. 12
    Anonymous says:

    Simon Heffer is dropping hints that Ed Balls and Yvette Coopers expenses are going to be scandalous. Resignations?

    • 18
      genghiz the kahn says:

      Published and be damned.

      Or damn them by publishing it, would they try and sue Heffalump if it wasn’t true, or would they just resort to the Morgan Phillips and Crossman v Spectator Magazine tactic and just lie through their teeth.

      • 87
        Yam Orroight? says:

        As a teacher and a Tory, I’d love to get Ed Balls and kick his teeth down his throat. Running a department of a school with that cnut changing the goalposts every five minutes is next to fucking impossible. I hope he, and his smarmy little wife, get lynched after their expenses are publicised.

      • 191
        Anonymous says:

        Hear. Hear

      • 231
        Dick the Prick says:

        I know it’s wrong to judge people on their appearance but Ed Balls has a sort of default face of a smarmy grin which seemed completely inappropriate when talking about Baby P yesterday. Obviously, he wasn’t smiling but FFS there are times when politicians should look like they’ve been mugged or something. Very odd.

    • 23
      Hamish Macbeth says:

      Hopefully…. I cannot warm to a man who has fucked up the education of millions of children in this country.

      The usually Labour loving teachers must be torn between tradition and voting for another party which would give the children a chance of a decent education.

    • 38
      Grytpype-thynne says:

      There is ZERO chance these 2 tossers will resign.The voters will have to boot them out

    • 46
      nell says:

      I am sorry but I do hope so. What a dreadful couple. I do hope that they get everything that they deserve. Balls the natural successor to Gordon? Maybe not now?

      • 272
        Anonymous says:

        Why would anyone have thought that Balls was a natural successor to anyone? What attributes does he possess? What does he bring to the party? Even trying to look at the situation from Labours POV I can’t see why at anytime he would have been considered leadership material. Same for Millibrand needless to say.

    • 47
      NewGirl says:

      where the Heffer hints? DT?

    • 53
      eek says:

      So they both claimed mortgage relief on the same house.

      What is wrong in doing that?

      • 56
        Doctor Mick says:

        What is wrong with claiming the same bill twice?

      • 63
        Nu lab 20- seats or less says:

        Ed claims to be human when he is clearly a hoon

        Cooper-Balls is clearly a tranny

      • 142
        Massey Vardon says:

        Surely this came up right here many months ago. Basically fiddling their expenses by lying about where they live – well, being perverse in their designation of primary residence. Meaning lying about where they live.

      • 237
        Anonymous says:

        Massey Vardon: Perfectly right and proper. Entirely reasonable. After all the Home Secretary does it, so it must be above board.

    • 72
      Doctor Mick says:

      Perhaps this is more smearing of a political opponent?

      Brown is quite Stalinist in his methods.

    • 149
      Droopy Drawers says:

      Ed Balls is a woman. Yvette is a man. Think on that.

      • 168
        Trough Mixture says:

        Looks like one of those “flappers” from the ’20′s. Sounds like one of those flappers from the Jurassic.

    • 220
      justoneglass says:

      NuLabour don’t do resignations. Do keep up.

    • 249
      Talwin says:

      GOING to be scandalous. FFS!. Not already scandalous, then?

  5. 14

    Who says ZaNuLabia are utter Huhnes? I love the Labour party. They’re the comedy show that never ends. This week’s episode has been a classic.

    • 22
      Spangle de Gangle says:

      I must agree, squire. Gordo is the gift that keeps on giving. If you took the whole population of the UK and separated out those with an IQ of 120 or more (i.e. potential candidates for prime ministerial office), then sifted through those people and found the one most unsuited to the job, the most inept, the most obtuse, and the least gifted at interpersonal relations, I reckon you’d end up with Brown.

      Tells you quite a bit about the Labour Party and the way it operates.

      As for Clarke, he’s a busted flush, a student politician at heart who’s mired in his own self regard. Fat, smug bastard was a total disaster at the Home Office – but hey, that’s water under the bridge, right?

      I love the way these fucked-out Blairites, like Clarke and Byers, are acting like elder statesmen and telling the PLP what’s what. I wouldn’t trust Byers to fetch me some fish & chips – he’d come back with a meat pie and a bottle of Tizer instead.

      • 67
        S byers 20- seats or less says:

        I thought u liked tizer

      • 199
        Fausty says:

        They’re career politicians who’ll need jobs -soon. I doubt whether integrity is their compass.

        Be wary of the LibDems if they take on circa 6 Labour MP defectors – the result will be more muddied LibDem waters. This will mean hazardous grounds for the Tories.

      • 232
        Dick the Prick says:

        Clarke used to read his own speeches on an evening to crack one off the palm

      • 251
        Talwin says:

        Clarke; not fit for purpose. Didn’t Reid say so?

    • 50
      NewGirl says:

      they have been of extremely good value of late…the headlines have been tremendous, the articles swingeing….its like a dream come true. Will almost be sad when its over….but I’ll get through it. Can’t see Gordon making his millions a la Tone when he’s through though….what will he DO??

      • 64
        Doctor Mick says:

        What will he do?

        Flippin’ fried Mars Bars in Fifeshire, I believe.

        He’s spent forty odd years yearning for a job he is plainly not competent to do. He is in a quandary as to what to do next. Even McDonalds have their standards.

      • 84
        Geordiecurmudgeon says:

        He might do the right thing

      • 88
        NewGirl says:

        nah…I can’t see that happening….I don’t suppose he’s got any hobbies besides shafting the nation and his colleagues and gurning though. I worry for him.

      • 126
        Bearly concious says:

        I’d put rather a lot of money on him appearing as a highly paid twat in Brussels, thus giving us many more years of his gravitas, statesmanship and completely myopic socialist bullshit.

        One gold-plated pension is never enough……

      • 144
        NewGirl says:

        Don’t suppose you’ve got rather a lot of money though…he’s probably seen to that already

      • 210
        Hugh Janus says:

        “Will almost be sad when its over…..”

        Do you mean the tragi-comedy show that is NuLiebour, or any semblance of prosperity in this country? If the latter then the show was over some time ago, and every day that passes leaves us drowning in the brown (Brown) stuff. I’ve had all the ‘entertainment’ from this lot that I can stomach. It’s time for some proper, sound government before the damage they have done becomes irreparable. Financially it is already too late for some years to come.

      • 233
        The size of your petition can go down as well as up says:

        Wasn’t there a rumour that he’s going to open a chain of rest-rooms called Little Shits ?

      • 242
        Truman Antrum says:

        Ah ! So He still gets to tax us every time we have a go at him.

  6. 17
    HandsomeDavid says:

    Just noticed that the epetition for GB to “do the right thing” has jumped from 41,489 to 42,158 from 2100 hrs to 2130 hrs.

    • 21

      It got mentioned on HIGNFY.

      • 27
        Mrs Kindleysides, Penrith says:

        Missed it tonight – will watch tomorrow.

        Was it any good? Did Street Porter make an absolute fool of herself? Talk about mutton dressed as mutton!

      • 29
        HandsomeDavid says:

        Ok – thanks. I do not have a telly – Would rather die than pay the licence fee!

      • 32
        Spangle de Gangle says:

        Mrs Kindleysides, the expression I believe is “carrion dressed as lamb”. :-)

      • 40
        Mrs Kindleysides, Penrith says:

        Spangle I left a reply for you but it seems to have found its way to the bottom of the list. Please refer:

      • 68
        Anonymous says:

        #28

        Then get a TV and no licence fee! Or just watch it online

      • 71
        Boudicca says:

        Insisted on telling us more than once that she is over 60. Surely, not ……..

        Whatever she’s slapping on, I guess she must think she’s worth it.

      • 221
        Alien8n says:

        I prefer the Saturday edition, will watch after I get back from the pub assuming I’m sober enough to work the remote

    • 30
      Hamish Macbeth says:

      Are the other 59 967 842 residents of this country ( not counting the 10 000 000 illegals no one knows about) to lazy or naive to vote on this?

      • 45
        Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

        No, they are still waiting for the free broadband Gordon promised them.

      • 58
        HandsomeDavid says:

        They are in prison.

      • 257
        Talwin says:

        Hamish, I know there’s some way to go with the petition but there’s not really a potential for 60 million is there? Lots and lots of oldsters, kiddies, illegals, apathetics, thickoes, people sans computers, people who haven’t picked up the issue, don’t understand, or couldn’t care less, people who are shit-scared of giving Jacqui Smith their address, et cetera who wouldn’t be expected to cast a vote. Oh, and there’s the rump of likely Labour supporters; what is it 352 Labour MPs, Polly Toynbee, Maguire and, say, a couple of thousand who still think Gordon’s doing a good job?

        So, when you look at it that way, 41,500 (and rising) ain’t that bad.

    • 73
      Jimmy says:

      Only 957,842 to go.

  7. 20
    Colonel Madd says:

    Whats happening arournd here?????

    Hundreds of new posters making witty,well informed and elegant contributions….that’s what! It simply makes my blood boil

    I remember an earlier and more innocent time when we were satisfied with badly drawn and unfunny cartoons of people we couldn’t recognise.

    Of coming back from the pub and posting “Gordon Brown is a Knob” and being congratulated for the depth of our political analysis

    Of posting six times before one post actually registered

    Of the middle european tradesmen who would occasionally grace us with their uncanny erudition

    When a pint of mild and bitter cost1/9d

    When half employed Labour hoonettes weren’t trolling round with their ludicrous vapourings

    It’s simply no good saying this all started in the U.S.A…. I don’t believe it

    I BLAME THE GOVERNMENT

  8. 25
    Anonymous says:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/30/euan-blair-sunday-express

    - obviously not going the Philipa Gould route then.

    • 44
      councilhousetory says:

      There are two routes for champagne socialists. Lord it over the plebs, or go into finance.

      • 262
        Talwin says:

        Nice to see that, like his father, Euan Blair has entered an honourable profession. I read he’s a trainee banker.

  9. 26
    genghiz the kahn says:

    Bank Holiday, are the MSM and the lobby fodder off on a weekend break, and will Guido spoil it for them by offering another little blast of dynamite. If only the email trail moves a bit closer to Watson and then Brown.

    Perhaps Guido has bought shares in Nokias.

  10. 31
    Anonymous says:

    Flash is being slautered on ITV news again tonight.

  11. 37
    Mrs Kindleysides, Penrith says:

    Oh very good Spangle!

    Can’t stand the woman.

    • 42
      Mrs Kindleysides, Penrith says:

      No idea how my message ended up at the bottom of the list…..must have pressed the wrong button.

      • 57
        Spangle de Gangle says:

        No worries, madam, and thanks for the kind words!

        She’s called “Janet Street-Walker” at Private Eye, I suppose you know that already!

  12. 51
    Anonymous says:

    Flash wouldn’t give a s… about his mp’s or about what we think or say.

    Months ago he said “Do not judge me now, judge me on my future performance”

    If he had any pride or decency he would have resigned. He is an incompetent fool who has led us onto this financial situation as Blair’s second in command and now as unelected prime minister.

    Blair and brown where both incapable of fixing any thing and now we have Alastair Darling who cannot even add up or make his budget sums tally.

    • 79
      w.w. says:

      If he had any pride or decency he would as Kelvin Mckenzie suggested retire to the library with a bottle of Scotch and a revolver.

      Except the usless fucker would spill the Scotch and miss.

      W.W.

  13. 54
    Anonymous says:

    Stalking horse, stalking hamster….who gives a shit?

    The truth is that there is no-one in the PLP with the balls to stand against the Prime Hoon.

    It is entertaining to see the in-house smearing though.

    • 61
      Anonymous says:

      Wait until June. Brown is going to be ditched after the elections.

      • 74
        Doctor Mick says:

        Yes. There is no chance of Labour suffering this shite for another year. They are absolutely going to get shafted at the next elections so the problem is, who is going to commit political Hari-Kari by taking Brown’s job?

        Of course no-one.

        They’ve all got eyes 5 years hence.

      • 85
        NewGirl says:

        i’m sure there’s someone arrogant enough and stupid enough to think they can pull it off….Harman, for eg?

      • 92
        jamie says:

        Harman can pull it off for me any day.

      • 110
        NewGirl says:

        yeuch. really??

      • 116
        jamie says:

        You don’t really understand fellas that well do you?

      • 121
        NewGirl says:

        I’m beginning to think not…..

      • 218
        Alien8n says:

        hmmm, I must be the odd one out. I wouldn’t want Harman pulling anything near me.

        NewGirl on the other hand ;)

  14. 60
    So17 says:

    Imagine Clarke as PM on the world stage. looks like he was born backwards with those features.
    An unsubstantial scruffy c*nt like the Archbishop of Cantebury except Clarke probably did a lot more wanking in his youth.

    • 62
      Anonymous says:

      That’s right Ed. You’d make a far better PM.

    • 86
      Robert says:

      I think it’s a bit of a toss up actually.

    • 241
      Dick the Prick says:

      Bit harsh on Rowan Williams. I know he’s having issues with benders in the church and shit but he’s an incredibly erudite chap who genuinely cares about people and theology. I’d be more than happy to wander along to a do where he was headlining. Whereas Clarke is a turd.

  15. 66
    Hamming it up says:

    Round
    Like a circle in a spiral
    Like a wheel within a wheel
    Never ending or beginning
    On an ever-spinning reel
    Like a snowball down a mountain
    Or a carnival balloon
    Like a carousel thats turning
    Running rings around the moon
    Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
    Past the minutes of its face
    And the world is like an apple
    Whirling silently in space
    Like the circles that you find
    In the windmills of your mind

    Hopefully Clarke will do more than spin his wheels pointlessly this time.

    Such as?

  16. 69
    denverthen says:

    Ahhh hahahahahahah. Love it.

    And absolutely right. Clarke’s a total non-entity. With HUGE ears.
    Brown’s dead regardless. All he needs now is burying.

  17. 70
    oldrightie says:

    The truth is that there is no-one in the PLP with the balls to stand against the Prime Hoon. There is the hoon that’s called Balls in lieu of having any. Have you seen how fat the piece of shit has got? Meat balls all round plus all the pied he can eat. Chasing Presserbulimia I suspect.

    • 78
      Anonymous says:

      It is true to say that Balls the Hoon has padded out somewhat, is a compulsive liar, walks around with a smug grin, smears for fun and looks like a f***ing clown.

      If only he would gobble some bogeys and have wonky eyesight he would have all the qualities as Leader of Liebour.

    • 250
      Dame Celia Molestrangler says:

      Now that Prezza’s not around, I suspect he’s been eating all the pies….

  18. 75
    Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

    Clarke may not be up to much but this is his big chance, not of winning the GE but of fame.
    Go on Chas, you know that’s what you want. Forget all the bullshit about a fairer society; nobody believes that crap. Throw your hat into the ring and oust Snottie the Scottie [good that, init?]
    You could be PM for a month or two. You would be on lists, in Encyclopedias, and get to meet the Queen, nice house, the odd weekend in Chequers. And think of the pension. You might even get to shake the Messiah’s hand.
    FFS man, it’s a no brainer. Go for for it now before Milliband works out how to open the banana and thinks maybe he’s not so stupid after all.

    • 173
      Former Labour Voter says:

      Same old suspects, though. Replacing Brown would be even worse than going into an election with him as leader, so what is the point?

      Wait until he loses, then rebuild. History remembers you better that way.

    • 192
      Anonymous says:

      I like Charles Clarke. He would get my vote, if there was a restriction at the General Election of having to choose a Labour candidate. Which there may well be ….

  19. 76
    Perry Neeham says:

    …meanwhile our Dear Leader’s ‘resign’ petition is up to 42,500 and got a mentch on HIGNFY tonight. Keep that pot bubbling boys…

    • 81
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      If Cameron wins and has got anything keeping his ears apart the first thing he’ll do is ditch that website.

      • 99
        dark says:

        Interesting. But I understand that the petition website is not run by No10, merely funded by it. It is operated by a seperate organisation, that might decide to keep it running with funding from somewhere else.

        Cameron might be unwise to shut it down, and be unable to.

      • 193
        Anonymous says:

        Surely if 40 odd thousand anti-Brown people will sign the petition, it would be just as easy to find 40,000 anti Cameron people to sign a similar petition. Once the figure gets nearer the mark of a million it might have a better chance.

      • 216
        Alien8n says:

        I seriously doubt they’d be able to get 40,000 people to sign up to have a go at Cameron anywhere near as quickly as people will sign up against Brown.

        One of the problems is that the majority simply don’t care about Brown, they know that he’s in charge of Labour and if he resigns Labour will still be in charge till next year.

        Now the road tax petition, that’s a different matter. It was something that every person who drives a car could understand and pretty much every car driver was against. It had the added bonus of striking just the right chord to go viral with massive email circulation.

        All said and done 40,000 calling for Brown to quit is a massive amount for an online petition. But if they want more than 40,000 signatures they’d be better off getting them on paper.

  20. 83
    caesars wife says:

    re cartoon : at first you think if fawkes 2 ever arrived it would have to go , but like friday caption comp its all part of the rich tapestry of guido fawkes , congrats on blogg stats to everyone .

    re charles clark :interesting choice experienced pair of hands , best of luck to him , might even be democratic i dont know if he can overthrow the looney fifedom , crap monstrosity has spread into to many puesdo goverment operations still has “was nae me ” “och wheres all the cash gone” and “lisbon promise” to appologise for.

    also being as this huge debt is so special , so humongously large and unprecidented , i would appreciate being given a choice on how to deal with it , either tory medicine or labour ecnomic cruelty , just think its unfair not to give public a choice being as this debt will dominate the budget for at least 5 years possibly ten , but quite prepared to take it all the way to next year by which time disaster will be arriving , so would appreciate the choice sooner , its the very least labour could do .

    almost impressed with cleggs discovery of british politics , presume libs have made up there mind then , i can only hold my tongue and cross my fingers

  21. 89
    Anonymous says:

    “i can only hold my tongue and cross my fingers”

    You fucking perv.

  22. 91
    Anonymous says:

    Just Seen Bonkers Brown on the News wishing Ricky Hatton all the best in his fight tomorrow night in Las Vegas.
    Oh Dear…

  23. 93
    R.McGeddon says:

    There is a ‘Gordon Brown Appreciation Soc’ canvassing on ePetitions…

    http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Stay-GordonBrown/

    The next AGM for all members is to be held in a public telephone box

  24. 95
    Tankus says:

    wasn’t funny first time round …knobby

  25. 96
    Anonymous says:

    I have nothing to do with any part of the music industry so have nothing to gain from this at all, but… Given the number of people who have signed the PM to resign petition in a week, is there any chance we could mobilise a lot of people to download a given song in the same time?

    I’m thinking of having a push to get Jilted John by Jilted John to number 1 (bands do it regularly, so why not people like us?). The thought of having the Aljabeeba Top 40 show play out on a Sunday night to the strains of “Gordon is a Moron” would be worth 99p from each of us I’m sure. It’s also available on more than one download site.

    Just a thought and anyway, it ought to get more airplay to make sure the last few of his supporters hear the message!

  26. 97
    Dr Feelgood says:

    Charles Moore: “I recently met a man who entered a room containing the Prime Minister and found himself ducking to avoid a mug Mr Brown had hurled not at him, but at an official who was just leaving.”

    http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/the-week/3573316/part_2/the-spectators-notes.thtml

    If anyone did that to me, I’d deck the twat…

  27. 101
    Anonymous says:

    Here’s a tip: put some money on Jack Straw taking over from Brown who is going to be dumped after the Euro elections. It’s the easiest money you’ll ever make.

    • 109
      Anonymous says:

      They will have to call an election, no one will accept two unelected leaders.

    • 111
      denverthen says:

      I haven’t got any money.

      Brown’s got all of it. And Guido.

    • 112
      anonymong says:

      Anybody who is tempted, please note that this person has posted as anonymous.

    • 214
      Anonymous says:

      Yes, Straw is keeping a very low profile currently, waiting for the moment when someone finally has the courage to dump McBust. It won’t be Straw’s dirty work of course, but he will definitely make the most of it when it happens.

    • 256
      bergen says:

      I don’t think so.Not at all.

  28. 118
    Sian Lloyd says:

    Why has no-one picked up Lembit Opik on his stubborn refusal to support any change to the expenses system – although he might be going down the “Let’s wait for Christopher Kelley” route, he’s pretty contrarian for the Lib Dems.

    Removal of second homes allowance for outer london (20 miles from Westminster)
    Lib Dems voting aye: 52. Lembit Opik: nay (Sole rebel)

    No lower limit for expenses.
    Lib Dems voting aye: 52. Lembit Opik: nay (Sole rebel)

    Registration of financial interests
    Lib Dems voting aye: 49. Lembit Opik: nay (4, including Mark Oaten)

    Think he may be leaving the party soon, perchance?

    • 122
      Alien8n says:

      Closet Tory you think?

    • 160
      Brenda Lacluster says:

      I was on a C10 bus a few weeks ago with Lembit dear. He overshot his stop. Looking at his former girlfriends that must have been quite a novel experience.

      • 245
        Dick the Prick says:

        He gets really bitchy if you shout at him – typical bloody Lib Dump – can’t debate just issues woolly proclamations. Seriously tho – Labour are busted – it’s the Lib Dems who are the opposition now.

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    Jack Straw would be a good choice for Labour, though
    it wouldn’t save them.

    • 136
      NewGirl says:

      Promise? I have no faith anymore. And he’s the only one with any cred I would have thought. I’m bloody emigrating if they get another chance though

      • 182
        Right Smooth Bar Steward says:

        Oh, don’t leave yet.

        Just as we’re all getting to know you….

      • 188
        Anonymous says:

        Straw , cred?

        The man has no convictions except to serve the Labour parteh.

        We need fewer of this sort in the House.

      • 223
        Alien8n says:

        Jack Straw should be convicted imo. Lying weasel.

        Mind he shows how much he supports democracy, he supported a coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea where British oil companies tried to overthrow the government in order to gain access to the country’s oil and gas reserves. What’s ironic is the plot involved a who’s who of Thatcher’s government (including her son). So he’s willing to support the opposition when it comes to oil money then….

      • 227
        Alien8n says:

        Mind to be fair, Equatorial Guinea isn’t exactly a model Democracy. But at least the current dictator is just greedy, and not given to wild bloodlust

  30. 145
    City of Vice says:

    O/T but does anyone have the link to the version of Gordon Brown’s expenses Youtube video, the one which has canned laughter added to it? Hilarious stuff – nearly pissed myself laughing when I first saw it. But I cant seem to find it now- has it been removed?

  31. 150
    Gordon Brown says:

    I wondered who left the packet of raisins for me on my desk this morning. I almost forgot something… oh yes, Bloody Hamsters.

  32. 152
    Anonymous says:

    The Heffalump won’t do a facking thing… mark my words..

    He’s just disappointed that he is not the man his favver was..

    The man to watch is Ed Miliband – Don’t believe me ??

    Keep your eyes on Allegra Stratton, and keep your shell-like close to the grahnd..

  33. 155
    Anonymous says:

    City Of Vice..

    Do you mean this.. ?

    • 174
      Anonymous says:

      Notice how all the jobs that ‘young people’ mention to him are all in the public sector.

      He really doesn’t know any different than to blag our taxes does he?

  34. 158
    Alien8n says:

    Thinking about the news today…

    Anyone else notice both the Labourgraph and the Grauniad having a bash at Brown today? I was quite surprised, almost seemed their reporters had finally found a set of balls to share between them…

    • 161
      Anonymous says:

      They probably realize that even Nicholas Parsons would have better chance of winning the election than Gordo, so are precipitating a leadership challenge in the not too distant.

      • 255
        Dick the Prick says:

        Nicholas Parsons is cooler than he makes out. Coren, Humph & Freud – ah, it’s been an upsetting year for Radio listeners. Only Just a Minute guarantees the belly laugh. Mark Steel whilst typical lefty rd4 comedian has actually made the transition to being genuinely funny unlike Hardy, Toksvig, Brigstock, Perkins, Hamilton who really should attempt to, you know, have any talent.

    • 175
      Sunonmars says:

      same old same old, when the horse you back, slips and breaks it legs, you better back the winning horse fast.

    • 197
      Sarah says:

      Yers, and Polly’s impassioned article on CIF has comments disabled…..I wonder why?

  35. 163
    • 171
      Sunonmars says:

      Bloody hell, this would just about topple Brown and put New Labour in its grave.

      Its all falling apart.

  36. 166
    Anonymous says:

    Mandy – But one of the contributors was Jasper Gerard, so it could really just have been a couple of pissed up MPs talking on the terrace. Who knows ?

    • 178
      Mandy says:

      It almost certainly was, but isn’t that how things get decided in this country?

      …..or perhaps McBride is now working for Cameron?

  37. 169
    Former Labour Voter says:

    It’s a bit like John Redwood in the dying years of the Major regime, it was pointless replacing him because the alternative was worse. The same is true with Brown’s government.

    I fear for whoever succeeds him.

  38. 185
    caesars wife says:

    tentative talks !! by some blairites to defect to lib dems ??? i wonder if ed has put out a tentacle . all hail the new JCP party (Jock Communist Party)

    perhaps not heiffer has nailed him as a “saponaceous toadie” , should go down well , it was like the sound of wolverine doing calligraphy on a blackboard listening to him comment on repeat peado offence on news .

    strange times indeed

  39. 194
    Call me Infidel says:

    Bearing in mind the misery these bastards have caused for millions it is deeply satisfying to watch the Labour party self destruct. It is as if the years from 1979 to 1983 have been condensed into a year. Already there are rumours of defection to the Liberals. Maybe some of these clowns think they can safeguard their cushy jobs by defecting and shedding the taint of Labour.

    I seriously doubt Labour can limp on like this much longer. The local elections in June will be a disaster and there will be no comfort for them in the EUrinal elections. Unfortunately for them they are hoist by a petard of their own making. They voted for Brown because they were too spineless to oust him. Now it’s too late to do anything. Big ears makes a bit of a fuss but no one takes him seriously. It is a slow motion train wreck which will culminate in a wipeout for Labour. They will be the new Liberal party consigned to the wilderness hopefully indefinitely.

    • 284
      Anonymous says:

      Maybe some of these clowns think they can safeguard their cushy jobs by defecting and shedding the taint of Labour.

      Speaking for myself, if a bunch of Labour MPs defect to the Lib Dems they will just taint the LibDems – not remove the Labour taint from themselves. I’m currently wavering between voting Lib Dem and Tory. Having the LDs packed with ex Labour would make my decision considerably easier.

  40. 198
    arthur says:

    Guido why is it that these politicians can have a pint & smoke in their bars and we can’t; is it that they don’t want to get together and discuss anything.

  41. 201
    Disaffected says:

    Here’s a little tip for you, Mr Big Shot. After this bank holiday, 14 of us will be redying ourselves and crossing the floor diagonally.

  42. 208
    Cassandra King says:

    Charles Clarke is the non answer to the non question nobody has asked yet, pathetic spinning and watered down musings from a fucking non entity, who gives a shit what he has to say?
    If a newlabour droid actually grows the bollocks to stand upto the mental defective clinging on at No10 I will take notice but not before!

  43. 212

    Nice one. As the engineers say: it takes a crank to start a revolution!

    I think this month will be even more interesting than last week. I love the internet!

  44. 224
    Anonymous says:

    And the conviction of a CONservative councillor for vote rigging?

    Comments please!

    Lets lean up politics! Ha HA Ha

    Guido your nothing but a pathetic right wing hypocrite, not even a mention of it on your front page

  45. 225
    Anonymous says:

    Clarke is just a maggot crawling out of the putrid rotting corpse of Labour.

    More will follow.

  46. 226
    Jackanory says:

    Does anyone know where we can see the 246 names of the tossers who voted against the Gurkhas?

  47. 230
    Centre Parting says:

    Isn’t the Labour Party financially bust? (Morally, obviously!)

    Who is propping it up? Coop Bank? No commercial organisation would stump up.

    I think all of those ‘financial’ journos at the BBC should be looking at this……….

  48. 243

    The usual quality from Matthew Parris

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article6207111.ece?Submitted=true

    He’s picked up on the question I’ve been asking for some time now: The more interesting question is about the nature of the Labour ranks through which a talentless bully appears to have risen with so little resistance, to the very top; and stayed there without challenge.

    Something very rotten happened inside labour – there is no other explanation. This man has no talents, but soared – and only appears lost once his dirty tricks department falls apart. Are we expected to believe he only adopted the dirty tricks once he became PM? Nope, I think this bastard gained power through a lifetime of deceit, crookery, bullying and blackmail – and what a condemnation of our political parties if this can come about. Brown must go, that’s undoubted, but we cannot permit this party system to stay. We dont’ have democracy. What we have is nowhere fucking near democracy. We have a corrupt coalition of corrupt parties packed with corrupt individuals, cosily divvying up power, their chief goal being to ensure they keep it, as a class, and we don’t get a sniff.

    A change of government won’t fix this.

    • 252
      Anonymous says:

      A great article…it appears “YouTube” ranks higher in the Prime Mentalists mind than Parliament – what would Oliver Cromwell have thought of this odious man.

      Jeremy Vine is a noble figure and Radio 2 a lofty institution, but I had not until this week understood their position in our unwritten constitution. You have the Queen at the top; beneath her the Prime Minister; then YouTube; then Radio2; then the Cabinet; and finally (lowest of the low) Parliament.

    • 253
      Dame Celia Molestrangler says:

      Agreed, McPoison episode is what Brown has been about all along – it’s how he got there. His poison though has infected the whole Labour Party that’s why there is no credible replacement in the current cabinet nor should there be. They are all equally culpable and merely putting in a new caretaker like Straw, Johnson or Clarke will not solve the problem. Labour have driven a coach and horses through their contract with the public and the public know it. Labour are bust.

  49. 254
    nell says:

    I see Buckingham P has just helped to launch a new Diploma for Butlers -learn about fine wines, flower arranging and antiques – the aim, to bring Buck House standards to the masses – just in time for all those son to be redundant labour mp’s then. Morning folks.

  50. 260
    Little Miss Naive says:

    I’ve heard Gordon Brown described as a man’s man.
    Can anyone name the man in question ?

  51. 261
    johnny come lately says:

    Frank Fisher is correct. Our system is corrupt.

    I believe Brown kept a book on everyone and anybody to stab them on the way to the top job. What does he have on Blair? Something quite devastating or else, surely Blair would have spoken about the Blair Vision for NuLabour being ruined by Brown?

    But, lets face it until we can have a directly elected Prime Minister. In which they have to go out and get the support of the public by speaking to them and answering their questions directly, television debates etc etc. Just like the american system. Until we get such a system we will always get the Browns!

    Is Cameron any different? I have called him the Blair Tribute Act simply because he has modelled himself on Blair.But just what does he stand for?
    I want to know exactly what his position on the EU is. But I doubt that I or we will ever find that out. His actions with the Lib Dems, this week is a case in point. Just what Blair would have done!

    I believe Cameron is a bully. He has his selected few around him. It is another disaster about to happen to this country. He does not entertain opposite viewpoints, He does not entertain anyone who may take the limelight away from him. Like Blair he is controlled by his wife”!! BUT we do not elect wives, husbands, partners of the PM!! Why should they have any more say than you or me?

    Cameron has a very weak chin. He is no Hague, Davis Churchill or Cromwell. He is a little man, with no experience of life on the hard side of the street and I fear we and the Conservative Party will soon realise our mistake when he becomes Prime Minister!!

    Why are the British buying another pup?

  52. 263
    xsdogskin says:

    The gf says clarke looks more a ‘teddy bear’.
    He’s probably more like some demented, malignant ewok.

  53. 265
  54. 266
    Mitch says:

    When millions are dead from swine flu what will the effect be on house prices and tax revenues?

    we need to know.

  55. 267
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      Will no-one in the Labour Party speak for England ? says:

      Matthews Paris is correct- for a Cabinet to sit idly by whilst the Prime Minister ostensibly the “First amongst Equals” runs the country into the ground is simply not acceptable. Is there no one of honour who would put the interests of the country first. Well if not that then surely they must realise that only by getting rid of Brown can they at least hope to salvage something from the rubble that will be the Labour Party post General Election.
      Once after Chamberlain gave a speech to the House of Commons stating that he would not under any circumstances declare war on Germany -Leo Amery shouted from the Tory backbenches to Arthur Greenwood,the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and the Opposition who was to reply in the debate – “Speak for England – Arthur!” – surely never has that cry been more needed and for a member of the Cabinet to rise to the situation and do so. The country is screaming for leadership and the end to this Prime Minister at the top of its collective lungs.At the moment it falls on death ears to the eternal shame of every member of the Cabinet!!!

  57. 270
    • 278
      StrongholdBarricades says:

      yes, he’s the greatest Tory asset

      Meanwhile the cabinet all sit around without complaining because they know what McBride has on them

  58. 271
    Anonymous says:

    Toynbee is in despair this morning. Is this how the dream ends LOL?

    “In free fall without a parachute, unassisted suicide, accelerating the wrong way down a motorway – the death metaphors are flowing in a dark torrent of despair from Labour MPs. What made Gordon Brown hurl himself on that row of Gurkha kukri knives? Drowning at 19% behind in the latest polls, few think the party will come up for air a third time. That YouTube ­grinning death’s head is now a worldwide comic hit, while in the flesh the man looks more battered and hunted with each passing day. He suffers from tone ­deafness to everything…………..”

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/02/gordon-brown-labour-gloom

  59. 280
    Alien8n says:

    That really is old news. And the guy in question is no longer a conservative, he was kicked out the party for bringing it into disrepute. Had he been a Labour councillor no doubt he would have been hired by No 10 and put in charge of election strategy.

  60. 283
    Anonymous says:

    If Clarke thinks he can escape the fate awaiting the entire political class by now saying he is ashamed he has got another thought coming. The whole lot of them can expect to be arrested, punished to within an inch of their lives, and then painfully killed. The only hope for Charlie, the fat fuck, is to get back to the pie shop and try to have a quick heart attack.

  61. 200
    hdb123 says:

    Yes

  62. 204
    Porky Prescnut says:

    Minister.
    Please.
    Terday.
    Lookin’ at me pal?

    Why is there no dynamo on that wheel? Green energy for Norwich.

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