May 20th, 2009

PMQs : Gorbals Going, Not Gone


386 Comments

  1. 1
    Bill d'Sarse says:

    Should be an interesting one today!

    • 5
      honk for an election says:

      Will he insist that McSnot’s propsoed quango control over MPs expenses is a huge error?
      DanHan makes the point very firmly so should we all.
      The tartan slobbo can only think in terms of more public sector controls.
      Go now creepo.
      http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2009/05/19/gordon_browns_proposals_would_make_matters_far_worse

      • 132
        Peter says:

        What depresses, but does not surprise, is the collection of ‘moving on’ attempts I am now seeing.

        Slightly more surprising is the motley collection of individuals who see themselves, and whose party evidently sees as being the best embodiment of this culture.

        Er, no.

        It minds me of a comedy skit (I wish I could remember which), where a confused punter is confronted by an ever-rotating collection of service representatives at the counter, who are in fact always clearly the same person. And saying the same, nonsensical thing over and over, if in different ways, as if that will satisfy.

        What is worst in all this, are how many in the MSM now seem to feel this is fine, as the circus simply moves on.

        I watched on SKY as the genuineness of the PM’s smirk was shuttled too and fro in the edit suite several times to assess, and his ‘performance’, and that of others, rated by a self-satisfied collection of WUVI’s, as if what they saw and now think has any bearing on what the rest of us can see and still think.

        High on my list is that actions count, and a lot more from the past will need even more from the future, and changing the drapes in a house of ill repute doesn’t make the professional practices within any different.

        Try again guys. It ain’t washing in Worcester yet.

      • 378
        Anonymous says:

        yes, I see that creep Ben Bradshaw thinks he can return to the screens again. We havent forgotten you are a troughing pig

    • 27
      Wholly, Necessarily and Exclusively says:

      Why are there two posts listed as number 1?

      Is someone double claiming this …..

      • 190
        Blog administrator says:

        Thank you for your enquiry.

        We are working on a new, socialist numbering system, not yet fully implemented due to budget restraints, which will result in everyone being first

      • 210
        I.T. Department says:

        One post appears on this blog and the other is stored on the Central Home Office Database. Nothing for you to worry about.

      • 268
        Plato says:

        Love it – we are all equal.

      • 328
        Gordon F Brown says:

        But some are more equal than others.

    • 316
      Anonymous says:

      In 2006/07 the Balls(ups) claimed nearly £32000 between them for their second home allowance despite the fact that the allowance for a second home was around £23000. Why is no one in the media interested in this but hound MPs who claimed less money?

  2. 1
    who dunit says:

    Did you think it would be otherwise?
    Do you think they get it?
    If you do you must be a wishfull thinker.

  3. 3
    • 7
      M.T.BUCKET says:

      Unfortunatly her gesture will mean very little to the honerable members.

    • 9
      michel de montaigne says:

      Please read and use whenever possible the whole of this. Really cuts to the quick

      “……..As I sit here aged 87 in pain from a decaying spine and filling nine pages of a means test, which will get me a home alarm bracelet costing £2.22 per week should I collapse and be undiscovered, I listen to the petty thieving rampant in the British Government and I am saddened, depressed and disgusted.”

      • 104
        Rt Hoon Gordon Broon MP says:

        Listen. Don’t distract from the real issue. The system is to blame. Hard working families like Hazel Blears have made her apology, offered to pay back the money. I support her completely. I will get on with the job. Wibble.

    • 24
      Bad Magic says:

      As long as there are people who will always resist the rot that is eating our country, I believe there is always hope. It is a shame it will seem such an insignificant gesture – but with enough of them perhaps we can reverse the moral bankruptcy of our representatives; a shift in sentiment on a wide scale is what is really needed.

      If we can be free from all of the terrible weight of deficit spending, never-ending government intrusion and the greediness of parliament we can return to our core values as a nation. Only from that mindset can we pull ourselves from recession or crisis, this patchwork politics will never solve the problem but further the big government agenda that makes us all less free.

      You’re all addressing the problem correctly on here, these corrupt MPs are a symptom of a wider problem – any practical solution must be taken back further than sacking a few or introducing more government. Everything should be considered. Preferentially, a return to real freedom would be nice.

      • 187
        Churchills Tears says:

        Have a little look at a rather giant but quite secretive org called”common purpose”,try Google. If what the paraniod say is correct it would appear all of these parlimentarians are just getting the cash whilst they can. The long-term future for the troughers appears to point towards the EU

  4. 4
    Master Baiter says:

    A double first?

    Caroline Spelman?
    Nadine Dorries?
    Julie Kirkbride?

  5. 8
    Onearmedbandit says:

    How many MP’s would vote for Sharia law at the moment.
    Not on a show of hands though.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8057179.stm

    • 275
      Martin in Essex says:

      Certainly not our muslim minister because if he did he would be holding his knife and fork with his feet.

      • 322
        Sky News says:

        I have just seen Shahid Malik creeping out the back of parliament with his arm in a sling – has he had an accident?

      • 342
        Benjamin Netanyhu says:

        He fell over trying to eat with his feet you mean ?

  6. 10
    whoknwos says:

    What time does PMQ’s actually start?

    • 15
      Steve says:

      Midday UK – 40 minutes from now

    • 16
      Anonymous says:

      P.M.Q’s 12:00hrs. BBC2

    • 18
      Anonymous says:

      When we get a new PM, Brown never actually answers anything.

      • 23
        Master Baiter says:

        Cameron’s lame ‘Gotcha’ questions are pathetic, the worst example being his Baby P attempt.

        He spits and splutters, gulping down air scrambling for an evening news sound bite, fair enough, but he still comes across as a completely thick lightweight.

        Now he’s worried about his rabid right ‘core’ constituency drifting to the nincumpoops and nazis he’s trying to look “rough an’ tough”.
        It’s not working and it’s alienating the very normal voters he needs to capture.

        tee hee

      • 25
        stanley unwin says:

        WTF are you on about?

      • 26
        Master Baiter - He's Lovely says:

        Nice one, MB. I think you’re a genius and I love you so much. Can I have your babies?

      • 67
        Babar was a very poorly baby Elephant. says:

        A new low from MB.
        Looks like he just chose the wrong text to cut ‘n’ paste on here.
        FOOL. And for all to see.
        Classic !
        tee hee indeed – you just made my day.

      • 72
        Andy Carpark says:

        Stanley Unwin sez:

        Always have to be very careful coming down the steppers tripling over the ingrowing toe-neighbours.

  7. 11
    Spedo Shorts says:

    Good headline that.

    Spedo likes Guido

    ___________________________
    all hope remains in Spedo Shorts

  8. 12
    Richard Rimney says:

    This is my fantasy list:-

    Away fixtures.

    Margaret Moran
    Hazel Blears

    Home fixtures.

    Pay per view.
    Jacqui Smith.

  9. 13
    Steve says:

    Guido – is the chat you’ve put up not last week’s session?
    Or am I a Hoon?

  10. 14
    J Mitchell - Notts says:

    This little piggie went to Parliament,
    This little piggie took the chair,
    This little piggie claimed expenses,
    Requiring others to pay the fare,
    And this little piggie went,
    “I was only taking what was due to me all the way back to Glasgow!”

  11. 19
    RavingMad says:

    The major concern for me in all of this is that, once again, the public are being kept out of all debate and decisions. It’s fine to assess ‘public opinion’ via the media and sound bites etc but this is not the full picture. Decisions about a new allowance structure maybe fine for MPs but let’s not forget that it’s these self same people who have brought about the mess. Why should they expect to restructure a badly orgaised set up and replace it with another? Just like Gordon Brown’s choice to get us out of the economic mess of his making??

    These people are not fit for purpose as will be evidenced again at PMQs. So when are the public going to have their say??? When is Brown going to call an election? His argument that he needs to put things right first doesn’t hold water. Who the fcuk do these people think they are???

    • 31
      Master Baiter says:

      To be fair, which I am sure you’re not, calling an election now plays in to the status quo. There is a year until the election must be called. That gives enough time for two funadmanetal things to take place.
      1. A change to the rules and procedures, backed by statute so that allowances and expenses due to MPs cannot be abused.
      2. An investigation of wrong doers and where necessary their replacement with alternative candidates. For example replacing or deselecting rule breakers and rule abusers.

      • 35
        a well wisher, wishing you were down a well says:

        OK, we give in. You get a prize for sheer fucking tedium. Well done.

      • 66
        Anonymous says:

        This parliament has shown itself to be utterly corrupt. Why should we let them pretend they are going to fix things? When a thief is caught they do not leave them in the local bank vault to put things right – they are removed from society and placed somewhere they can no longer do damage. The same needs to be done for the members of this parliament. They no longer have the right to govern.

      • 75
        What Gordon did next says:

        MB You can bet your life on the fact that as soon as an election is called the press will waste no time in reminding us of who the troughers are and all parties who fail to deselect at their peril.

        Its absolutely the quickest way to get the troughers out. However, the reason for your protestations are clear for all to see.

      • 96
        Tattooed_Arry says:

        So when your house gets burgled – you think its okay if the burglers say;
        “Okay, we know that we’ve done wrong – but if you will let us back into your house again and go away ’til next year, we’ll put every thing right for you.”

        The shredders will be running until Browns fingers are pried from the doorjambs.

      • 122
        Rt Hoon Gordon Broon MP says:

        Och the wee man is right. Would you be interested in being my communities secretary MB? Vacancy coming up soon!

      • 231

        Corrupt Inept Government * Time = Corrupt country + Ruined economy.

        The country Needs a new government.

      • 329
        Mr Ned says:

        Too true@ 75.

        Labour are going to hang on to the last breath, and whilst they do so they will be shoving as much of our constitutional powers and constitutional decision making apparatus out into the unelected, uncountable third sector “quangos and other private corporations. They will be desperate to remove as much power from Westminster (For Westminster, read: WE THE SOVEREIGN PEOPLE) as possible before the Tories get into power (as seems most likely).

        the First thing the Tories should do in power is have a constitutional review and place BACK in power everything that labour has stolen from the overview of the people. ONLY where powers have been given directly to the people by way of a vote, should those powers stay with the people. All the rest should be taken back!

      • 332
        Twizzle says:

        ‘There is a year until the election must be called.’

        He’ll never call an election. He’s frit.

  12. 21
    RavingMad says:

    More evidence that not only are MPs NOT listening, they are NOT interested in the wishes of the population.

    • 47
      LIP WREEDER IN SLOMO says:

      *
      SUM PEOPLE THINQK THAT THE APATHETIC VOTER IN THE ASCENDANTCSEA IS KNOT LISSENING DGJUST LYKE PARLIAMENT

      Tha Hard Party WILL WIN INDyEND

      THEY IN PARLIAMENT ARE TRADING LOTS AT THE MOMENT

      BLAQK LISTING

      TORKING ABOWT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DNA IN THEIR DGJEANS

      FLESH AND BLUD HAS DGJUST BEEN TORKED

      CORPUS BRAOUWN SAYS HE HAS BEEN SELLING INSURANCE BONDS TO THE BANQUES

      • 53
        LIP WREEDER IN SLOMO says:

        YU ARE IN FOR REGNUED GNU LAYBORE SUKKERS

      • 54
        zeno says:

        Thank you for those sage words, Speaker Martin.

      • 78
        What Gordon did next says:

        I declare you are John Prescot and claim my five pounds

      • 79
        Bifferidge Bacon says:

        Howay, ya mackem bastard. Y’call me dad a queer an’ me mam a friggin’ lezza?

        NAE bastard calls me dad a queer. NAH me mam a friggin’ lezza.

      • 155
        Ed Ball-Scooper says:

        See, what a NooLabour education does for schoolchildren ??

  13. 28
    Sunonmars says:

    er look at this

    Nick Brown seems to have let it out.

    The new speaker will only have a few weeks to settle in before an election is called.

    http://www.iaindale.blogspot.com/

    • 30
      Anonymous says:

      Yeah mate, we saw it in Guido’s previous thread. It was bollocks then, and it’s bollocks now. He just means it’ll be under a year.

      • 136
        How many weeks in a year? really difficult says:

        Absolutely right Anonymous. Again. A few weeks is a year isn’t it? Why can’t we all be clever

    • 34
      Ho Chi-Viagra says:

      I used to have big ploblem with my election. Now happy.

      • 38
        Anonymous says:

        Are yo the Hoon who emails me 250 times a day about increasing my election?

    • 130
      Subordinate Clause says:

      Who won the marathon?

  14. 29
    Parliament crapped turd Martin says:

    Parliament crapped, crept out, crept back in again to sniff at turd Martin.

    Parliament has a lot more crapping to do.

  15. 33
    Yoda says:

    Good start for Gormless…the Royal Mail loses 5 million letters per year

  16. 36
    Anonymous says:

    Cameron tied McBroon to the Despatch Box and butt-fucked him in front of the entire house.

    • 40
      Sunonmars says:

      Yup he just made Broon look like he will give the people what they want, an election, wtf was that, we cant have an election as it would cause Chaos….seriously, wtf.

      • 84
        Anonymous says:

        Can’t Dave push him and ask if he will call an election EVER…or is he going to rely on the Civil Contingencies Act to prevent ‘chaos’ ?

      • 101
        Susie says:

        But Mc Snotty, life would be so much simpler for you, post election, just you Sarah and the kids on some remote Scottish beach… if they’re not disposable now you don’t need the beard.

        Or is it that you haven’t sorted out your nationalised bank CEO or Euro non-job arrangements yet? No-one wants you for after-dinner speeches — they’ve all heard your dismally dull recitations for ‘free’ for 3 fucking years and you’ve failed every audition.

        The usual dog turd excuse “Yes I admit I’ve laid turds in the living room, they are there for all to see… but it is now my job to clear up my turds, or actually could you do it? I haven’t got oposable thumbs”

      • 377
        Cath says:

        Anon 84

        Just what I was thinking. Gordo has just hinted what he will use as justification for not calling an election next year.

        Dictatorship here we come.

  17. 37
    Dick Cheese says:

    In his opening inanities, the snot burglar said ‘…to sort out the system we’ve got to sort out the system”.

    It really is sub-cringeworthy stuff.

    • 42
      Dick Cheese says:

      Eh?

      • 59
        Anonymous says:

        What is Harperson on about?

        Married couple only allowed to claim one allowance? How does that fit with your equality bill?

      • 296
        Harriet Harman says:

        Only one claim per couple who live in the outside of parliament world.
        Two claims for parliamentary couples as each is a separate individual and you cannot discriminate against women mps.

        Simple isn’t it?

  18. 39
    Sunonmars says:

    Headlines out of this PMQ’s :

    Brown scared of Election Again.

  19. 41
    Dick Cheese says:

    After his fulsome tribute to the Speaker, I’m worried that Cameron will give him a standing ovation when the discredited bloater finally slimes off.

    Dave’s got form in paying homage to odious, lying, thieving, charlatans in positions of trust.

    • 45
      Sunonmars says:

      whether he likes Martin or not, Cameron has to show respect for the office of speaker. Rememeber what goes around comes around.

      • 65
        nell says:

        Nick Clegg’s response was the best – he commended the Speaker on his dignified resignation !

  20. 43
    It's all Balls says:

    It’s now official having just heard Brown’s responses to Cameron.

    We live in a dictatorship

    • 106
      XXXX says:

      Yep

      Gordon has decided that, if the voters were allowed to choose, they would make the wrong choice- and , let’s face it, the electorate does have form on making the wrong choice. He is only thinking of our good when he refuses to call an election.

      But hang on, later in PMQs he managed to remember that he isn’t calling an election because he is getting on with the job rather than protecting voters from themselves.

      • 158
        LabourSpeaker says:

        Drawing a line under this, learning the lessons,moving on and getting on with the job because there’s more to do and it’s the right thing to do….zzzzz

  21. 46
    Anatole says:

    Has he said British jobs for British workers yet? I love that one.

    • 55
      Babar was a very poorly baby Elephant. says:

      Socialist Labour Party have now taken over that particular baton.

      Maybe they should now be known as the National Socialist Labour Party ?

      • 101
        Tattooed_Arry says:

        If there’s “Socialist” in any political party’s name I always look for the “killing fields”.

        No pun on Frank Field intended

  22. 48
    Yoda says:

    Well..Brown’s certainly scared shitless…acknowledging that Cameron’s likely to win an election,whilst refusing the Country the chance to decide…

    For Gods sake,Fool..give the people their right to show their contempt for your Government.

    ..and ,is it me,or is he even more hesitant and unsure of himself than ever before?

    • 56
      Carlos says:

      Look at him behind Harman now, a hollow, beaten man.

    • 63
      Sunonmars says:

      He looked like he was stuttering more than usual, he really did not want to be there. Cameron really has put him in a band, Cameron asking for what the public want and the longer Brown doesnt accede to an election, the worse it will be.

      • 89
        who dunit says:

        Election would cause chaos…
        Election would cause chaos……
        nah, I dont understand that at all

      • 103
        Postal Vote says:

        So, the collective wisdom of the nation equals chaos. That’s quite impressive thinking for a politician who claims to support democratic values

      • 121
        Susie says:

        Every week he delays calling an election is another decade out of power for Labour…

        You think the financial crisis is bad now? Wait until autumn after the gilt strikes — doctors, nurses, teachers unpaid with rampant inflation.

      • 369
        Right Bastard says:

        And that’s just for starters.

    • 157
      Moley says:

      Brown is following the European agenda.

      If you know that the electorate is not going to give you the answer you want, don’t ask them.

      Not sure that Cameron is on a strong point either, given his ambiguity on a referendum for the Lisbon treaty.

      • 177
        It's all Balls says:

        No ambiguity – if Cameron is elected prior to the Constitution (sorry) Treaty being ratified he will put the question to a referendum.

        Technically, it is difficult if not impossible to hold a referendum on a Treaty which is already ratified by all EU member states and therefore enshrined. Otherwise, there would be anarchy.

        It is, in fact, another good reason to have an early election.

      • 284
        Caligula says:

        Abolish the Electorate I say…

    • 182
      Brown - a case for medical treatment says:

      He looks how I would look;

      if I was sleeping for an average of 1.5 hrs per night,

      if I was working alongside a group of thieving bastards,

      if I could physically see beyond 1 metre (his “good” eye is going on the blink,no pun intended),

      if I was taking a great country down to the gutter along with the whole 60m+ population,

      if I knew how the economy REALLY looked with the feedback he gets on the real mess we are in,

      and if I knew that in the next 12 months I shall never have another job and will be seen by the world as the criminal who killed a country.

      In a FTSE 100 business,if he was the Chief Executive,the board would have called in the nurses,the screens and put him down, with a brief mention in the next Annual Report.

      But because this is politics BROWN style,we all have to be fucked by him before he is taken out on a stretcher.

      • 370
        Brown's GP says:

        He’s taking the right medication because that’s the right thing to do.

  23. 50
    Minekiller says:

    What an odious bunch of shits. Who are the two whore-bags who keep sitting directly behind MacMental every Wednesday at PMQs? I noticed the one in the red top, smirking and gassing with her neighbour in the white top.

    They make me so very angry, I just feel I want to kill one of these fucks.

    • 185
      That's our job! says:

      We are the Special Patrol Group – we have noticed your comments and wish to make clear; we do the beatings and killings around here – kindly leave us to do it.
      Now where are those Tamils?

      • 196
        Papasmurf says:

        That’s our job…….. you really are showing your age if you think they are still called teh Special Patrol Group. That term went out sometime in the mid 80’s!!!!

        I bet you were on the Southall protests when Blair Peach became very very ill from the tap on his head. Were you that missing witness they were searching for?

        still time to come forward if your memory is still good.

      • 381
        Private Sponge says:

        196 I think you are ex job ?

  24. 51

    * Reader Comments Sent: 1669
    * Reader Comments Published: 1644

    • 60
      Master Baiter says:

      There’s life in the old blog yet.
      Any more comments on your hatred of the Telegraph, GuidOaf Orcs?

    • 188
      Freedom of Information says:

      which ones don’t get published – clear death threats?

    • 280
      Plato says:

      Blimey – only 25 death threats – things are looking up.

      • 315
        Bob Quick says:

        Unless they are all from the same poster, Right ?
        Then that would be called Stalker or McBride.

  25. 52
    Dr Feelgood says:

    Clearly Brown does not believe in democracy. Despicable.

  26. 57
    Sunonmars says:

    Oh God, someone shoot Harman, she is just wittering on about nothing. Labours had it, they are booting this whole thing and hopelessly trying to lock up everything in review until a GE.

  27. 58
    LIP WREEDER IN SLOMO says:

    SUMWUN IN PARLIAMENT DGJUST SED

    IT IS Hard TO GET A HEERING NAO

    • 61
      LIP WREEDER IN SLOMO says:

      *
      *
      *
      IS HARRY ET HARMAN A DGJEWISH NAME WUN WUNDURS

      • 69
        Chimp Spotter says:

        Ah, now we’re getting to it. It’s all the fault of the Jewish conspiracy isn’t it. I can tell by the quality of your writing that you’re a BNPer. Might I suggest you stop using your tongue to type, and use it for licking windows instead?

      • 386
        HAI SPEED WREEDER says:

        *
        *
        *
        LIP WREEDER WAS ONLY WUNDERING

  28. 62
    Dream On says:

    Anybody hear what Pickles just said on Daily Politics,he wants to see the end of a part time Parliament they disappear on Wednesdays at 7:0pm,part time MP’s ripping us off.

  29. 70
    Babar was a very poorly baby Elephant. says:

    CLASSIC :-)

    23Master Baiter says:
    May 20, 2009 at 11:38 am
    Cameron’s lame ‘Gotcha’ questions are pathetic, the worst example being his Baby P attempt.

    He spits and splutters, gulping down air scrambling for an evening news sound bite, fair enough, but he still comes across as a completely thick lightweight.

    Now he’s worried about his rabid right ‘core’ constituency drifting to the nincumpoops and nazis he’s trying to look “rough an’ tough”.
    It’s not working and it’s alienating the very normal voters he needs to capture.

    tee hee

    • 74
      Babar was a very poorly baby Elephant. says:

      Apologies that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
      Some may wonder why anyone would choose to humiliate himself on here and in such an obscure way.
      But there you go !
      CLASSIC.

      • 222
        Babar was a very poorly baby Elephant. says:

        For example by copying and pasting a comment and putting a smiley at the beginning of it, totally humiliating.

      • 274
        Mr Michael Martin (MP for North East Glasgow)'s Local Labour Party Election Agent says:

        Yo ! Quick !
        Over here.
        We got a biter.

  30. 71
    Dr Feelgood says:

    That UKIP twat Bloom huffing and puffing why he won’t publish his expenses. They’re just as bent as Labour.

    • 149
      Make a big difference says:

      Fuck UKIP expenses the fact is you don’t know. What we do know is the scams perpetrated by the three main parties.

      They dont understand the word honourable and just think the fucking rules need changing.

      Well, my advice to everyone is to vote UKIP and fuck the EEC.

      Now is the chance for the electorate to makke a difference and voting tory, libdem or labour aint the way to do it

      • 178
        Nigel Garage says:

        Park your car in my big gob.

      • 193
        Anonymous says:

        Well your advice is arse.

        UKIP is a one-policy party, made up of failed politicians who couldn’t cut it in other parties.

        It is just as guilty, if not more so, than the 3 mainstream parties when it comes to milking the system.

        But your blind hatred of Europe means you’d vote for a chimp if it wore a UKIP badge.

        Why don’t you and all your sort go take a leap off a cliff…

      • 237
        resurgemus says:

        still stuck inside at your desk MB ?

        still avoiding voters ?

        you’ve got the makings of a prime minister

      • 241

        If it helped get the UK out of the EUSSR I’d vote for a small lump of green putty I found in my armpit*.

        * Sadly we’d get better government out of the green putty than current MPs manage.

      • 249
        Dr Feelgood says:

        UKIP have got a very clear record of fraud and other weird behaviour; here’s just one example:
        http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1434608.ece

        Just Google ‘ukip fraud’ and plenty comes up. They’re a right bunch of troughers.

        Plus, I don’t mean to question your handle on European affairs but the EEC was absorbed into the EU in 1993 and is now a defunct term.

      • 349
        Moley says:

        Post 247 is referring to a report in the Times of February 2007 regarding someone who has been expelled from the party.

        He keeps trying this one on, and he is helping me to make my mind up to vote UKIP.

      • 380
        Dr Feelgood says:

        @ Moley

        Sorry if I’ve been getting a bit repetitive about this lately. They’ve just been pissing me off with this ‘clean alternative’ schtick.

    • 172
      Master Baiter says:

      helipad

  31. 73
    Anonymous says:

    cameron: “can we have an election ?”

    brown: “no, because if the electorate are allowed to vote for who they want to lead the country then you’d get into power, and I don’t like you.”

    marvellous stuff.

    It’s political suicide; the longer brown waits the worse it’ll be for labour/him.

    By hanging on he knows he’s destroying the country as well as his own party’s chances of ever getting elected again.

    I’m assuming that the only reason he’s hanging on, therefore, is for personal gain so he can continue to trough and pretend to be a big man for as long as he can before he gets crucified (politically speaking) by the electorate (he definitely does have “little man syndrome”, amongst many other psychological disorders).

    When the only response the PM can give to “can we have an election?” is “no, because I’d lose” then you know this country is truly fucked.

    It wasn’t “no, because we still have another year to run”, or “no, because we don’t need to”, or “no, because I don’t think it’s the right time”, it was just “no, because I’d lose.” and that’s pretty scary stuff.

    It’s almost reaching riot point.

    I’d join in with such a riot if one took place, but sadly as per the people posting above, riots against corrupt uk governments are all too rare.

    • 98
      Twizzle says:

      Littlejohn was right yesterday. Cameron has to FORCE a GE, not simply ask for one.

      Call oot the entire opposition and go for bye-elections. Take the chance – having a country left would make it worthwhile.

      • 118
        Anonymous says:

        That wouldn’t do the job because labour would still end up with the same number of MPs (or, possibly, even more if it’s only opposition constituencies that you’re proposing to do this for).
        Even if the entire opposition walked out labour would just carry on, saying “great, now we’re guaranteed to win all parliamentary votes”

        There’s no way to force an election other than getting a large number of labour MPs to back one (which’ll never happen) or a physical ejection of the government from parliament by a public mob.

        Labour (and especially Brown) will never ever put the good of the country ahead of their own twisted viewpoints, so we’re stuck with this sick government until:
        a) the last possible minute when brown’s allowed to call an election
        or:
        b) brown is physically thrown out of the number 10 window by a baying mob with 10 million people behind them.

        I’m all for option b

      • 169
        Wat Tyler says:

        I’m with you on option b

      • 246

        What happens if a load of Labour MPs were to suddenly get a terminal case of high speed lead poisoning?

    • 99
      Groucho says:

      McFruitLoop could not give a toss about the country, his party, or indeed anyone else but himself.

      Its all about his colossal, twisted ego. He will not listen to advice from any corner. What do they know, compared to his enormous intellect?

      • 167
        Mc*Moron says:

        He and the crooked demented former Speaker are from the same gene pool and of the same ilk, the country is held to ransom by thick, sick, liebour Mclouts.

    • 124
    • 163
      King Karlos says:

      Brown will not go quietly. In that respect he is much like the (soon to be) ex-Speaker

    • 164
      Moley says:

      If Brown is determined to stay in office until the last possible minute, it is his responsibility to tell the world how he is going to balance the budget without spending cuts.

      In the absence of any credible plans, the UK’s debt has junk status.

      • 242
        Susie says:

        “It’s the economy stupid” is scarcely adequate here… more like “It’s the Norman invasion 1060fucking6 stupid!”

        For similar examples see post Soviet Russia, but subtract vast gas/oil resources, and add a population totally dependent on imported food and other essentials. We’re fucked.

  32. 76
    Doctor of Body Language says:

    Geoff Hoon spent the whole of PMQs sticking his fingers into his mouth, his nostrils and his ears. Speaking as a body language expert I can can say that this means he’s guilty of submitting false expenses claims in order to satisfy his pathological greed for other people’s money.

    • 165
      Moley says:

      It means he didn’t like what he was hearing, he didn’t like what he was smelling, and he was trying to stop himself from making pointed and accurate comments whilst the Great Leader was speaking.

    • 191
      You flip if you want to says:

      He just didn’t have Blears to stick one in.

    • 286
      Plato says:

      Yep – saw that too – if I were on Gordon’s side, I’d be like Lot’s wife. He looked a complete berk.

      Harperson barely moved a muscle – ditto Straw.

  33. 77
    Premier Gordon Brown says:

    Listen, I’m far too busy to call a General Election and anyway there’d be chaos on the streets if I did.

  34. 81

    Pickles is Mr Creosote,

    • 195
      EU Commission says:

      Dear Voter

      You will find that creosote, a derivative of coal tar and highly carcinogenic, not to mention cheap, reliable and effective, has been banned for domestic purposes throughout the EU.

      Creosote substitute, marketed as “creocole”, is available at your nearest DIY store. However, while creosote costs approximately 40p a gallon, creocole costs £8.99 for 25 ml.

      Thus you should have described Mr Pickles as “Mr Creocole”. You have been forgiven this time, but in future we WILL NOT BE SO LENIENT.

      Yours etc.,

      The EU Commission

  35. 82
    Floating Voter says:

    PMQs was good today. Gordon Brown was a guiding light, beating Cameron into the ground at every question. He will lead us into a great future and a great election in June followed by a fantastic win at the 2010 general election.

    Long live Gordon Brown.
    Long live Labour.

    They deserve much more money than they get. I would double there pay. So what if they claim a few extra pounds here and there. They are doing a fantastic job for this great country.

    Calling a general election now would be chaos. In fact I think Gordon should try and ban elections completely. We all know that Labour are behind in the polls, but to me this just indicates that the people are incapable of making sound, logical decisions.

    The only thing your average Brit understands is larger, slags, fags, football and job seekers allowance?. You cannot expect a Brit to understand anything as complex as running our country.

    Seriously, Gordon should try and pass laws, maybe with the help of the EU to clamp down on all this election talk. Democracy is so 1800. Its time for Brits to get with the global program.

    • 97
      Private Sponge says:

      Browns response to virtually every question Cameron asks him, no matter what the subject is “the party opposite would cut public spending”.

      • 117

        I happen to believe that they wouldnt. But they do promisse that.

        I must admit there is something I don’t like about Cameron. It might be just that he wants to be prime minister. I’ve only ever met one person who openly wanted to be prime minister, and he was a twahoon. Still is.

      • 119
        Steve says:

        Damn right they will!! The problem is that the govt think that public spending can only be cut on frontline services “skoolz ‘n’ hozpitalz” rather than the millions of faceless and wasteful burocrats troughing behind the scenes.

        By their own figures the current lot are 175 BILLION out this year and 173 BILLION next year, we need to dractically cut public spending or else we’ll soon be bankrupt!

      • 138
        Desperate Dan says:

        Gordon Brown tells lies.

    • 116
      Give me 650 Lamp Posts and a roll of Piano Wire and I can fix Democracy says:

      Actually you just summed up Scotland. Except the men wear tartan mini skirts without undies. Makes anal easier

    • 146
      Floating Voter's fellow Institution Inmate says:

      I agree.
      Oh, Can you give me a hand loosening these straps behind my back, it’s just that I can’t get my hands free to untie them myself, there’s a good man.

    • 204
      EU Commission says:

      Dear Mr Floater

      You sound like a sound chap. Welcome aboard!

      Yours etc.,

      The EU Commission

      P.S. One way to get rid of a floater is to layer some paper on top of it, then try flushing again.

  36. 83
    Yoda says:

    God..Eric Pickles is a gross embarassment (no pun intended)…

    ..seen him on DP?

    Cameron ought to put him out to grass.

  37. 86
    Mark Mywords says:

    Eric Pickles – BBC2 – says that they bugger off at 7pm on Wednesday. Only a short while ago he was moaning on Question Time that he had to be in for 9.30 am. What a big fat lazy contemptible Hoon.

  38. 88
    Private Sponge says:

    Anyone notice Robinson, on the BBC Daily Politics after PMQ’S ‘talking up’ Nick Clegg.
    It’s obvious to me, and has been for a while, that the BBC, and Robinson in particular, are deliberately talking up and giving prominence to the Lib Dims, in order to split the anti labour vote, hoping for a Lib/Lab coalition after the election.

    • 110
      Postal Vote says:

      Good thinking Private Sponge!

    • 179
      Moley says:

      The BBC, The Lib Dems, and the Guardian are one and the same.

      I wrote to Clegg re Jonathan Ross and the BBC and got a long letter back, (not from him) defending the BBC.

      No suggestion that Broadcasting obscene phone calls might be both criminal and a breach of its charter.

      Fortunately, very fortunately, the BBC does not have a monopoly on broadcasting any longer, and no-one reads the Guardian.

    • 254
      Dr Feelgood says:

      They are also talking up UKIP as the ‘protest’ vote to split the conservative vote – anything to save the Labour Project.

  39. 90
    Anonymous says:

    Derek Draper has been complaining to Amazon about negative reviews for his book so they deleted over 20 of them. More reviews needed here:

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Support-Derek-Draper/dp/1848500440/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242820407&sr=8-1

  40. 92
    Anonymous says:

    If the Bank of England can just create £150bn at the flick of a printing press then why is McDoom so worried about the Tories allowing families of dead people keep an extra £200k. Come to think of it why bother raising the top rate of tax when it will only raise about £2bn. Why not just print it?

    • 259
      Dr Feelgood says:

      Class war. The sole remaining raison d’etre of Labour.

      • 358
        Moley says:

        But did you see the glares from behind him?

        All his Cabinet members and MPs are well into inheritance tax levels and they don’t like it.

  41. 94
    in a nutshell says:

    fucking scum

  42. 95
    Sunonmars says:

    One question, if having an election is chaos right now, whats that thing in 2 weeks on the 4th of June then, oh yeah its elections….sorry they must be just notes being passed around as to whos the best.

  43. 112
    Jan says:

    The Daily Politics has that moron William G Stewart on at the moment.He is arguing for the Brown Broadcasting Corporation to get more money.He argues that if you have a high earning couple plus children then they should pay more towards the marvelous BBC..Err…isn’t this exactly what the Conservative party tried to do for local taxation?Remember the Poll Tax?So it’s alright for the BBC to collect as much as they want from large families so people can watch biased ,rubbish. But it’s not right for the same families to pay for the myriad services they use in their areas.He used the argument of the little old lady who has to pay the same as a very large family and he was incensed that said family could well have more than one TV.Well,a lot of little old ladies are paying a fortune in council taxes.Nobody worries about this. What a scumbag. Ben Bradshaw agreed with him.As for Andrew Neil,the man is soft in the head.He isn’t the same man he was when he had hair.Still I see he still surrounds himself with Asian babes.Whilst we are on this subject,are there any WHITE working class people presenting programmes on any of the TV channels?

    • 123
      JMT says:

      Of course the other fact that our mult-cultural BBC is studiously avoiding is that it is charging UK residents for BBC output, while giving it away free across the Internet for everyone else.

      Racism surely?

      • 152
        Cynical moi? says:

        They’re trying to bring in the EU’s internet tax idea over here through the BBC. The BBC hasn’t been giving anything for free without a long term ulterior motive.

    • 126
      Tattooed_Arry says:

      Ask students in halls of residence how fair the BBC is at present? There were eight people in my flat but because each room had a lock on it we had to have eight TV licences. There were some 300 flats on our part of the campus, thats 2400 licences and there were at least another 4 campuses of halls thats approximately 12,000 licences at one university. And the staff would allow access by BBC staff to ensure that the licence fee was paid.

      • 227
        Technomist says:

        Go down the bar by all means, or even read a book, but don’t waste the best years your life watching the Beeb.

      • 302
        James Whale says:

        Detune the television so that it cannot receive signals and then use it as a monitor with a DVD and/or video recorder. The video recorder would also ahve to be detuned. Therefore you would not need to pay the television tax.

      • 306
        eeez a landaner. says:

        Faaackin’ students…
        ‘ave a wosh n get a fackin’ job, ya cuunt.

    • 159
      Up the BBC with the rough end... says:

      How unreasonable. The BBC do a very good job in spending vast amounts of money producing purile television that no one wants to watch.

      That’s clever.

      The government will not ask the electorate for their opinion because the electorate always gets it wrong. Right?

    • 161
      Susie says:

      And then they slag off the Poll Tax! The Poll Tax was actually a very fair tax — especially for the poor, single and old — it was only the tax dodgers who didn’t like it and, I should add, those tax dodgers who didn’t want to contribute towards public services, but still wanted a say in how they were run and a vote.

      • 199
        markedman says:

        I wonder what Mr. Stewart’s fee was for his little piece of BBC bias?
        I think we should know, afterall he is quite a wealthy man, and surely he wouldn’t want the little old lady’s licence fee to be spent filling his pockets, would he?

      • 298
        Plato says:

        Susie – spot on – I never understood why there was so much hoo-haa about it.

        To say it was a tax on voting was nonsense, I live on my own – what has the value of my house got to do with the price extracted from my income got to do with it?

        And I get a whopping 25% discount compared to a house with 2 or 10 people living in it. It is no different to the blind who get a whole £5 off their TV licence – WFT???

      • 303
        Bender B Rodriguez says:

        199

        On Blackjack?

        And _______?

        A forget the blackjack!

      • 350
        Big Mac says:

        I agree. It seems only fair that all users of local amenities should shoulder the burden. Perhaps your anti-Scottish posters should remember that the Poll Tax started a year earlier north of the border and was generally accepted except by the the usual Labour voters who want everything free. It was the English who rioted when it was introduced.

    • 175
      Susie says:

      Or any straight ones? Every single person I know who’s worked or work at the BBC say it’s a gay mafia.

      Explains the high camp awfulness of their programmes, game shows, quizzes, soaps, obsession with showbiz. Gays represent about 10% of the population so we’re told, why then are 60-70% percent of presenters gay?

      • 292
        MI5 says:

        Yup

        And if anyone denounces the gay mafia

        Remember he is homophobic

        In fact the gay mafia is HETEROPHOBIC !!

        The problem is they would all become Labour MPs if we flushed out the BBC !!

      • 305
        John Barrowman says:

        It is just that we happen to be way more talented and creative than you straight sorts.

      • 351
        dr hoo says:

        Show us your knob……oh I forgot, you’ve already done that on numerous occasions.

    • 189
      Moley says:

      Allowing the BBC to air its own propaganda over the licence fee is no better than allowing MPs to set their own pay and expenses.

      The BBC charter requires its output to be fair and balanced, and air time needs to be given to those who want the licence fee abolished.

      If the BBC does not do this, it is clearly abusing its position as a public service broadcaster, and has no right to public funding extracted by force.

      • 194
        Cynical moi? says:

        Cameron should scrap the licence fee no one with working brain functions would complain about the savings and the BBC can use subscriptions or not seeing most of the lefties are skint hypocrites or dole scroungers or misled students or use other peoples taxes and public money to pay for things.

      • 289
        MI5 says:

        Of course

        Sell of the profitable bits of the BBC to other media companies

        Close down the rest

        save us £ billions..

        and Less aggravation also…

      • 301
        Adrian Prole says:

        By definition, the BBC stopped being a “Public Service Broadcaster” years ago. Even Jug-ears Marr has said it has a “Left-Liberal bias”. How can it be any other when all its job adverts only go in the Guardian? And that is why it has no business being force-funded by the public.

  44. 115
    Poor bloody tax payer says:

    watched PMQ pass the sick bag

  45. 125
    • 183
      Steve says:

      past 4,000 now.

      All the bloggers on here, please link to this petition and get it to the top of the list (or second behind the resign one)

  46. 127
    caesars wife says:

    although it had a feel of a sceptic boil being lanced , and Broon the reformer was his new soap opera charcture , my impression was its matter of time . gordon doesnt call an election public arnt daft , they know hes holding up the change , so labour continues to dissappear .

    bit rough baracking clegg , but they want an election as gordon is spoiling there chances , as parliment is not addressing the real world .

    1 year on and money only just being released to SMEs , they should be voted out on ecnomic mis mangement alone , the figures on manufacturing loss were very alarming , in that we dont we either cannot make our own goods or cannot have much to export .

    need any further help ??

    • 143
      Smug McMental says:

      And he had the cheek to point the finger at a following Conservative administration who intend to actually cut public expenditure.

      His idea of Chaos ?

      I’ve got news for you, intellectual economic heavyweight that you are, real Chaos is caused when you DON’T cut the public sector debt.

      Plonker.

  47. 131
    papasmurf says:

    Did anyone notice one of the later questions when in answer to the Rape / DNA question his answer was

    that the increase in the arrest rate was because DNA identified VICTIMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Oh well, we can only hope that when he says there is not to be an election he is getting tongue tied in the same manner. Another reason for not believing anything he says… he actually means the complete opposite to what he actually says (I think).

    • 139
      Smug McMental says:

      Nope, he is right.

      All INNOCENT members of the public who can be arrested under insidious AntiTerrorist legislation (99.83% minimum arrested are innocent on Govt figures) will have their DNA taken whether they agree or not.

      We are all VICTIMS of a totalitarian government. No slip of the tongue this tiime I am afraid to say.

    • 312
      [identity removed] says:

      Only the other day I was arrested, my cock swabbed for dna, and a rape victim found… I didn’t even know I’d done it, but faced with the overwhelming evidence I felt compelled to confess.

  48. 133
    Smug McMental says:

    I’m a floating voter – or ought to be.
    Preferably face down.

  49. 134
    Gordon Brown pops out his false eye so Fondlebum can skull-fuck him says:

    I’d be interested to know if anything is happening about the married Labour Party MPs that were supposedly on suicide watch for fear of their claims for hotel rooms being published, and leading to the press, not to mention their partners, finding out they had been having illicit nookie with other MPs who had also claimed for the same room. Oh, and Baroness Udders milking of the expenses cow, too.

    • 201
      Groucho says:

      Sir, that is the finest nom de plume I have seen on here in a long while

      • 209
        What an image! says:

        Absolutely brilliant!

        You have cheered me up!

      • 383
        Gordon Brown pops out his false eye so Fondlebum can skull-fuck him says:

        Thanks muchly. I’d suggest it’s an accurate observation, too.

        It’ll be interesting to see if the Labour Party do a ‘Glenrothes’ if there is a by-election held in that fat slobbery pig’s seat.

        I suggest someone keeps a close eye on the postal votes.

    • 262
      Anonymous says:

      Fondlebum is, in every respect, a taker.

    • 334
      Skull Fucks says:

      Can you get these on the NHS? They sound like really grooovy.

  50. 135
    it started in Scotland says:

    Can you imagine if Cameron had stated that the the commons was not a “working mans club”

    Brown is a pustule of class prejudice

    • 318
      MisterE says:

      That’s one thing it can never be confused with…

      • 364
        Moley says:

        Sociology Exam.

        Write an essay explaining why the working class don’t and the idle rich aren’t.

  51. 140
    Odds Bodkins says:

    I wish he’d do the decent thing and bugger off, but then he is anything but decent. Same as those half-witted weegies sticking up for him.

    He seems determined to use his remaining time in office to bring about reforms to Parliament that suit Labour’s statist agenda. This was the reason for Brown’s press conference.

    This will serve only to further empower government and weaken the democratic process and accountability. Not the reverse which is what we are all after.

    This whole ‘reform’ business that Brown keeps going on about is nothing more than a front.

    The ever-excellent Dan Hannan has hit this nail on the head:

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2009/05/19/gordon_browns_proposals_would_make_matters_far_worse

    • 196
      Moley says:

      Brown’s plan is to do everything in his power to make life difficult, if not impossible for an incoming Government.

      David Cameron has to understand that he is in the same place as the rest of us.

      He may need to challenge the established authority, break with procedure and even be willing to ask the public to take to the streets.

      I am not young, but I would go without hesitation and face whatever was put in front of me, rather than see this country ruined for the sake of Brown’s ego.

  52. 141

    Is there anyone here who *wouldn’t* just love to punch Brown in the face?

    Could that smug arrogant dictatorial face be any more punchable?

    Utterly detestable.

    • 170
      Babar was a very poorly baby Elephant says:

      I thought it was only me.
      I was getting worried and decided to attend an anger management course.
      The psychologist sent me home telling me I was normal.
      “Normal” being a technical term when you share the same feelings as 93.7% of the wider comparison group.
      Phew – thank goodness for that.

    • 186
      Bertha Rochester says:

      Yes we would all love to punch cabbage head

      • 211
        My 10 minutes with Brown the criminal says:

        Punching is just the start of my 10 minute session;

        I would then pick out his…….better not go any further….

    • 240
      Frank Bruno says:

      I can take ‘im, know what I mean ‘arry.

      • 295
        Tattooed_Arry says:

        Yeah I know Frank, got a lovely panto’ lined up for you mate………..

  53. 144
    • 180
      oi says:

      they don’t want any more Mctartan competition on the money for laws scam

    • 184
      Susie says:

      Can’t the Queen refuse to enoble him? Or is that another sovereign power taken from her?

      • 232
        Technomist says:

        Every now and then we come across a really powerful argument for an Independent Scotland. They can have their own House of Lords.

      • 288
        Dr Feelgood says:

        @Technomist

        Scottish lords would only sell Scotland to England again like they did after the Darien scheme.

  54. 145
    Moley says:

    Brown is criticising Cameron for not having any policies.
    Cameron is not in Government, Brown is.

    What plans does the PM have for balancing the budget and is he going to provide an undertaking that his party will produce a workable plan which does not involve any spending cuts.?

    If he has any such fantastic plans, he should share them.

    • 162
      Babar was a very poorly baby Elephant says:

      Simples, really.

      Even Frank Field’s blog (good guy in my view) was lamenting why neither Govt or opposition had plans to deal with this economic crisis.

      I wrote to him pointing out that it’s his party’s responsibility as the opposition have no responsibility or power to correct it. Don’t try that share the blame stuff.

      Anyway, I’m with Dave on this. Why post out exactly what you are going to do to public sector expense if you don’t have to.

      NuLabour would love to be informed of that Plan .. well if they what to see it then they know what to do.
      Hint: Have a look at The Plan by Carswell/Hannan for a few tips.

      Call the Election and all will be revealed.

      Be warned, Gordo, you won’t like it, but you are the reason for it.

    • 171
      G Brown Esq says:

      Oh fuck, thank shit Cameron didn’t think of that one this morning

  55. 147
    tory boys never grow up says:

    Cat got your tongue Guido – nothing to say about Tom Watson, Dale or libel?

  56. 148
    adge says:

    I hope D Cameron asks him again next week to call an election, and when G Brown comes up with all his feeble excuses, D Cameron should just pass across the table a white flag, sure would make good viewing because we get nothing else from this labour government.

  57. 150
    The Procrastinator says:

    Gorbals Mick should resign.
    Get him out !

  58. 200
    White Feather says:

    Can’t someone please start a white feather for Gordon campaign – we could wear white feathers as a sign of Gordon Brown is a coward

    We could have Brown dressed up in Native Indian gear known a “White Feather”

    • 214
      Master Baiter says:

      What is the state of play with the Conservative scrutiny committee on MPs expenses and allowances?
      Word was that it was to investigate Andrews Muck Eye.
      Is that so and who else is under suspicion?
      Has it been constituted yet?
      If so what are it’s terms of reference and who are the members?

      • 259
        Anonymous says:

        F*** me MB – Do you need a ToR for making a cup of tea?

      • 281
        Garrodene says:

        I asked the same thing on Labour List recently about disciplining Labour MPs. Still waiting for a reply.

        I am in it for the long term and helping real families.

    • 256
      Susie says:

      Do a Fathers for Justice with pillowcase from the public gallery.

  59. 202
    Damian McBride says:

    Tell Nadine Dorries to put up or shut up.

  60. 203
    Another of life's mysteries says:

    Why do MPs benefit from subsidised bar prices for booze?

  61. 206
    Another of life's mysteries says:

    Why does John Lyon CB appear to have had his mouth surgically stitched?

    • 223
      Another of life's mysteries says:

      Forgot to add, but has not resigned or stopped claiming a fat salary for doing nowt!

  62. 207
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    Mr Martin is to receive a rather large pension now that he has quit as speaker

    I had thought that Mr Brown’s Mantra was “no reward for failure”

    How can we get that money back?

    • 217
      Labour marxist scum says:

      Next government should pay all public sector and MP golden pensions and attach a 95% pension tax bill.
      That would help claw back some of liebours squandered squillions from those responsible.

  63. 208
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    Dissolve Parliament.

  64. 212
    Get the ba*stard Mr F says:

    “Disgraced former Downing Street aide Damian McBride will not be kicked out of the Labour Party, the Standard can reveal. “

    • 267
      Susie says:

      They’ll regret that when they find out he was behind Telegraph diskgate. The more I think about it the more it makes perfect sense.

      • 337
        Honest Citizen says:

        Blow Britain’s Democracy into little pieces, you mean ?

        Better than the IRA could ever do…

        Do you think he is hanging out with the Real IRA now ??

  65. 213
    Angry Lady says:

    So I see the investigation of the leaker of MPs expenses has been dropped.

    Can Douglas Carswell ask the Prime Minister how much this cost ?

    And charge it to the fraud Brobals Martin ?

    And how much were the legal fees incurred by the Speaker and paid for by the British People to cover up this outrage ?

    And were heather Brooke’s lega

    • 219
      Angry Lady says:

      and were Heather Brooke’s legal fees paid by the British people ?

      All these costs and fees should now be charged to the criminal Gorbals who incurred them “on behalf of the British People”

      Or has this country just become a New Labour Banana Oligarchy ?

  66. 218
    Another of life's mysteries says:

    Why does Master Baiter wear only a smile? (post 166 answering 52)

    Because unencumbered by clothing, he can get on with the matter in hand.

  67. 220
    Barbra Streisand says:

    I’m Barbra Streisand!

    • 225
      Happy Voter says:

      Hello Barbra

      Are you going to stand for the Communist Party in Britain’s forthcoming elections dear ?

      Mr Mandelson would not approve you know…

    • 226
      Caligula says:

      Are you still alive ?

      Thought you had been buried years ago…

    • 230
      White Feather says:

      are you a man?

    • 239
      Tonay Blair says:

      Haalo Barbra

      Tont Blair here

      Thanks for raising that $3 million for me…

      It’s coming in useful now…the peasants in Britain are trying to stop my “milking” if you know what I mean…Cherie is very upset…But quite busy defending my freinds who lost hundreds of billions in the RBS REmember ??

      I have a lovely spread in Connaught Square now…only costs £6 million…peanuts really…

      By The way, are you going to joing the Labour Party’s mulit-millionaire Club ?

      We are quite a crowd now…rather fun while the country is broken for a couple of generations..We did a good job globally dont’ you think?

      And that ass Brown is just making a fool of himself and the country as well

      Must be off to my next Lecture now…Only being paid $1 million…My going rate is falling sats..damn..

      Your old friend ..Cherie sends her love to Bill Clinton also..Rogues of a feather flock together as we used to say…Bye Bye

    • 253
      Esther Rantzen says:

      Oh Barbra
      never thought I would find you here

      Among the people…

      I’m Esther Rantzen..We have not met but I am an international start of TV stage, husband-stealing, groping and face lifts…

      I want you to “do” a concert for me…

      Luvvies of the world must stick together you know…

      And I’m standing for Parliamant because I’m soo important you know…Like some of your late husbands you understand the Thing , Must be opportunist when opportunity beckons…

      Thats my Motto

      Will you help me between luvvies please..,

  68. 224
    Mafia Boss says:

    I have just told my contact in the Labour Party to drop any legislation against Organised Crime because, if not, the Labour Party will be the first Organised Criminal Organisation charged. That made him shit. (Cant’ disclose his name – don’t want to blow his cover – or should I say cover up)

    • 255
      Chief Whipper of Labour says:

      Afternoon Boss

      I’m in trouble now

      Can you find me job in one or your nightclubs or casinos ?

      You know we gave you all those licenses..

      Faithful Labour Casino License Vendor

      • 265

        Yep, Thatchers government sold taxpayer owned businesses and the government kept the money (Every citizen of voting age should have got 100 shares).

        However the Labour Government sell taxpayer owned stuff, and the Labour apparatchiks get the money (pure treason).

  69. 235
    VotR says:

    I noticed Harm Men Harman managed to get yet another stab in her statement against blokes with her ‘Gentleman’ remark after PMQ.

    And found another chance to brag about herself in a torrent of feminist waffle being Leader of the House of Commons. Get over yourself Harm Men, your delusional battle cry to become PM isn’t even being hidden behind ‘I love Gordon’ statements anymore, so it’s pretty obvious your manhate dogma is about to be used as a platform for a leadership contest. Too late, love. The far left Labourite days have had their time, and will end soon as hopefully the Euro elections will indicate, and the reforms in the expenses do not go anywhere near far enough to regain public trust.

    Brown and Harm Men are still living in a self made positively discriminating world where they can rub greedy fingers together again so they can get their hands on parliamentary expenses once more, knife and fork rubbing together in anticipation. Shameless benefit cheats.

    • 244
      BOFL http://ageofkali.blogspot.com/ says:

      poor old harriet………why doesnt she go and live somewhere like saudi or iran?

      she doesnt seem to be able to get over the fact that we have men and women and each sex has a role in nature.

      cupid stunt!

      • 252
        VotR says:

        Equality should mean just that. Not men or women but men AND women.

        Shame Harm Men would erase half of that equation given the chance with her positive discrimination bill.

    • 273
      Dr Feelgood says:

      Isn’t it interesting how Labourites have to set up enemies to contrast themselves with. Anything will do: gender, class (whatever that means these days), school, university, accent, etc. They are the antithesis of a plural and tolerant society.

      A whole movement designed to foment hate, resentment, envy and fear of the ‘other’ and thus appeal to groups that feel they have been disadvantaged. It’s no coincidence that Labour heartlands are still poor after 12 years and the client state has been enlarged.

      • 283
        Anonymous says:

        The Party of Perpetual Envy…

      • 299
        Historian says:

        Let’s have a real “class fight” in this Election

        Let the Labour “class warriors” really go to it

        With their broken spin doctors

        You know one thing ?

        Briatin is overwhelingly middle class now…about 70%

        “Working class” Labour is a small minority now…

        Labour will get shot to pieces playing the Class card…

        Tony Blair understood that and banned it

        If Brown tries the Class Card he may not even get one seat in the H of C..

        Except in places like the Welsh Valleys where they can neither read not write… !!

      • 365
        p1 says:

        It’s a Scottish thing. They learn how to antagonise as wee bairns, just so they’ve got someone to rail against in later life.

    • 297
      righty right wing (mrs) says:

      Labour Fems like Harpy Harman have never got over the fact that the Conservatives had a woman leader & Prime Minister first.

      And 30 years on the homo erotic gangbang that is Neo Labour has not got a single woman near any lever of power – no pun intended.

      Dissolve Parliament.

      • 339
        Erith Reject Georgia Gould says:

        She got there on merit unlike Harman’s jobs for the girls scheme that she is promoting.

    • 324
      Gordon F Brown says:

      She would benefit from a good fucking. BTW I’m not volunteering…

  70. 236
    Another of life's mysteries says:

    Does Blair go around humming to himself ‘Things Can Only Get Better’?

    • 258
      Anonymous says:

      He goes around humming, that’s for sure.

    • 279
      Nick Brown says:

      Well, Mandy goes round bumming ‘Things can only get bigger’!

      • 353
        LABOUR BROKEN says:

        ANYONE HEARD FROM MANDY RECENTLY ?

        OR IS HE TRYING TO “FIX” WHO WILL BE THE NEW SPEAKER BEHIND THE SCENES ??

        ANY NEWS OF JOHN BERCOW ? HAS HIS CANDIDATURE COLLASPED ALSO ?

  71. 238
    BOFL http://ageofkali.blogspot.com/ says:

    poor old gordon….’he isnt very good at thinking on his feet’!!!!!!!!nick robinson…

    possibly on his kness when cottaging?

    all he can do is go on about tory cuts…….
    his chancellor(remember him)? Badger,(yes the nice one who has stolen OUR £££££££££££) said yesterday that the country must live within its means!!!!!!!!

    any fool knows this but poor old gordon just keeps repeating the mantra!!!!!

    the man has never had an original thought in his l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l—-life…..

    and we put up with this hoon as unelected pm?

    there is f/a help for the unemployed……

    i get 4 yes 4 minutes with my ‘advisor’ every fortnight……
    there is no training and no money………

    there is of course a fucking load of crap spoken by Brown……..

    along with infinite criminality……

  72. 243
    FrogDog says:

    Not bad for a fall guy……a patsy….to take the heat off the rest of the swine, oinking and troughing their way to finacial obesity.

    £77,000 pension…..
    A seat in the house of Lords, arise lord gorbals….

    and a resignation speech that must be a record, 34 seconds…..

  73. 245
    GCHQ - Cheltenham Branch says:

    Your names vill also go in the book!

    • 330
      Honest Citizen says:

      When the Peolpe take power your records will be published like the Stasi’s

      Just a friendly warning…

    • 361
      George Mainwaring(Capt Retd) says:

      “Vot ist your name ?”

      “Don’t tell him – Pike !”

    • 372
      Moley says:

      The Book of Fame.

      The people who tried to save their Country.

  74. 250

    Nick Robinson: Having a pop at Cameron and the Sun. Ahhh. D’you think he’s a bit jealous? Doesn’t he get any titbits from the nasty Tories?

    • 285
      Constantly ficked of by this boring cunt says:

      Given your continual troffing and scamming of this blog, it looks very much like you’re certainly not getting any titbits from anywhere.

  75. 264
    Yves Saint Laurent says:

    To the Deputy Leader of the House of Commons

    Can you plese give me permission to hold a fashion show on nthe Floor of the House of Commons

    For Gays, Lesbians and Labour Millionaires only ?

    I am told by the British Embassy in Paris that the demand will be enormous.

    Can we use the Speaker’s House as a changing room ?

    And the Fees Office for peeing ?

  76. 266
    David Cameron MP says:

    Oh fuck! I only asked 5 questions today. Doh!

    • 293
      MK says:

      Brown always has a scripted response to end with and delivers it on Cameron’s 6th question – regardless of what the question is.

      Cameron dropping the last question while he was up will cause Brown intense anger as he couldn’t deliver his main line.

      • 304
        Plato says:

        That’s smart.

      • 321
        Gordon F Brown says:

        Actually all my answers are scripted because I can’t think on my feet. You see I am really a moron, but I have a lot of scriptwriters who type out the answers, one to a page, in a very large font and numbered 1 to 6 so I don’t get lost.

        They all start M, M, M, M, M, Mr, Mr, Mr Speaker… I can do that bit without reading the script. See, I’m not so daft as you think.

  77. 270
    Labour Party Financier says:

    LAST CHANCE

    As you know the Laour Party is bust

    And we are going to get buggered at the next Election

    So I am holding the last sale of this Legislature of

    WAIT FOR IT

    Places in the Houses of Lords

    Going rate about £ 300,000 (gone down since the last sale because some nasty people have blown our cover)

    The House of Lords may be abolisged because of us…

    But we will make sure you get super golden parachutes on the way

    Your only current Labour financier (love that word – its sounds so French and sexy………..covers a multitude of sins as well BTW)

    • 311
      Gordon Dirty Tricks Brown says:

      Hello

      Is that you Ronnie ?

      Thought you were in Monte Carlo

      Tell me the damage sometime will you ?

      Thanks

  78. 271
    Mr Michael Martin (MP for North East Glasgow)'s Local Labour Party Election Agent says:

    Getifuyabassas

  79. 276
    Anonymous says:

    WTF’s with Bob Spink defending the speaker? If he’s a measure of the calibre of UKIP candidate then they’re a wasted vote!

  80. 277
    Tick Boxer : THREE OUT OF FOUR GONE! SOUVENIR ISSUE for Guido's readers! says:




    Your very own DIY cut-out-’n-keep Tick Box

    Something to treasure! In honour of the day when yet another high-profile member of the TickBoxControlFreakeryQuangoBullshittery fucked off :

    1. Bliar – politico + jerk – [ ]

    2. Bliar – policio + jerk – [ ]

    3. Gorbals Gabbler – jerk + jerk – [ ]

    4. Sav. Of World (3x) + Bankrupter of Britain – not long to wait now boys ‘n girls b4 that box is ready to be ticked

    Now for the rest!!!!

  81. 278
    Witch says:

    Does anyone with a bit of knowledge of parliamentary procedure know if it’s possible Broon could rush through legislation on PR before May next year? His talk today made it sound like a possibility, one way of them keeping hold of a few extra seats perhaps.

    • 366
      Desperate Dan says:

      Have you seen the nutters , weirdos and unacceptables who sit in the London Assembly thanks to PR? PR would mean voting for the Party and having no say in which candidate gets to sit in parliament.

    • 373
      Moley says:

      This is what I had in mind in my post of 196.

      (Use Edit–Find-196)

      I am expecting acts of wanton political vandalism.

  82. 282
    Bugsy Siegal says:

    Barbra

    Remember me

    I wasn’t really shot by the Mob… I escaped…

    If you need any help now, I bought a few casino in Britain…it’s a bent as Vegas now…

    Come and do a show soon please…

    xxxBugsie

  83. 287
    Caligula says:

    Guido

    We want some very sexy and very political TOTTY please

    To improve our day (apologies ladies)

    (or you can ask Guido for some beautiful boys – starting with Little Piggie Bryant in a gee string)

  84. 309
    Scallywag says:

    Right off topic, but does anyone know whe we will be able to buy the Souvenir Edition of the Daily Telegraph featuring Mr & Mrs Blinkybollocks’ expenses expose???

    • 326
      Toby says:

      you won’t they’re closely linked to the editor so the DT released their troughing stats on the sly

  85. 320
    Historian says:

    The stench of the cessppol of Scottish Labour has been hanging over the Lowlands for years

    It is now overwhelming in Westminster

    What really happens on the grounds in Glasgow ?

    Is Scottish Labour a real Mafia ?

    With enforcers, threats etc…

    Do they work with organised crime ?

    Have they replaced the famous Gorbals gangs ?

    Pleas educate me (us) someone…

    How to they operate ?

    • 371
      Big Mac says:

      I’m afraid everything you’ve heard is true, but things are looking up. Douglas Alexander overestimated the IQ of even Labour voters when he designed last year’s Holyrood elections and allowed the Nats in. How’s that for irony? Total extermination however is at hand.

  86. 323
  87. 333
    It doesn't add up... says:

    I wonder why Carswell’s motion isn’t listed here:

    http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMList.aspx

    Don’t tell me the Speaker’s Office has indulged in a little censorship???

  88. 336
    Anonymous says:

    As Grandad in Bread would say to Gordon Brown if he knocked at the door “Piss off i want my dinner!” :lol:

    Gordon could well be going to the country to avoided a leadership challange in the post Euro carnage.

    • 346
      LABOUR BROKEN says:

      Quick analysis of Labour’s General Election prospects

      Tories and LibDem win 90% of seats in England

      Scots and Welsh Nats win 75% of Celtic fringes

      Northern Ireland – no change – tribal voting

      RESULT = NEW LABOUR LIKELY TO HAVE ONLY 70-80 seats in the New Parliament

      AND WILL BE THE THIRD PARTY…

      Any one disagree ?

      • 368
        Cream Puff says:

        I think your analysis is about right
        As far as the situation north of the border.According to a poll of marginals conducted by Politics Home,which polled 35,000 in the UK. The result from Scotland showed a 14% swing to the SNP from Labour, which would result in a return of 30 to 35 MP’s.This was conducted well before the latest sleaze to hit Labour.In another poll the Holyrood Leader of Labour managed to scrape together 7% popularity rating, which is bellow what his predecessor, the Windy Wendy got. Down south I think Labour will be very lucky to get 100 seats

      • 384
        Labour Token says:

        *
        THURD PARTY INIT M8*

  89. 338
    King Prawn Ring says:

    I am upset that jackboot wearing MP Yvette “Mini” Cooper Or Mrs Balls didn’t get caught with her snout far enough into the trough.

  90. 341
  91. 344
    Anonymous says:

    Re: Ad

    Ugia Breathing? More like Uglia Breathing. That’s Margaret Beckett with a blond wig innit?

  92. 348
    Anonymous says:

    Very quiet today Guido – finishing touches on the “Make a million” guide?

  93. 352
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    Who is that useless tool that replaced that other useless tool at the Met?

    Is the new Sir Cop in the pocket of Neo Labour too?

    Is that why we have not seen any Police action?

    Dissolve Parliament.

  94. 355
    It doesn't add up... says:

    Mopre from Early Day MOtions:

    Galloway, George

    That this House notes that following the de facto nationalisation of the construction of the Olympic village, public investment in the project is now standing at £650 million; further notes the enormous levels of overcrowding and long council housing waiting lists in the host boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets; and believes that all 2,800 flats that will result from this public investment in the Olympic village, once the Olympics has finished, should be entirely reserved for letting as council housing.

    I guess he really feared being told that was going to be his second home.

    • 363
      Lizzie says:

      If Brown has his way it will be “George Galloways”, Brown would like him to disappear. The Olympic village should become housing for the parliamentarians, no more allowances then. Also it could be adjusted to be a new prison, that could also be useful.

  95. 356
    Lizzie says:

    Missed PMQ’s today, don’t suppose I missed much! Cameron probably demanding a General Election, and the PM “I am getting on with the job of running the country” blah, blah, blah Brown sheep. It is all so tiresome, everyone knows except Brown that it is over for Labour, the men in white coats are needed more than ever.

  96. 362
    Sunonmars says:

    Can someone please ask Brown, if holding an election now is chaos, why is there still an election for councils and europe on june 4th and watch his head explode.

  97. 376
    Brown's GP says:

    By saying “chaos” when intimating a Tory GE win, he sent a signal to the Trots, Marxists and Anarchists to take to the streets in the event.

    He’ll stop at nothing.

  98. 382
    tisfedup says:

    bloody done it again, toenails closes all his blogs, whats the bloody point of him running the BBC public funded political blog if he cant take the heat, toenails was just on 6o/c news, spinning, brown made mistake re he wont call election because tories will win and what he meant to say was he will be doing what the people want getting on with the job, the economy, expenses, reform blah blah, and cameron calling for election is to take the heat off the tories regarding expenses and he will be doing this at every opportunity. BASTARD. fucking get rid of the BBC license tax,
    if you think about it, it is only the BBC and it’s troughing cronies that say that the public treasure the BBC, i aint never been asked, and i absolutley resent having to pay a compulsory tax and getting a substandard service, which you can get free abroad. the whole lot of it is shit.

  99. Desperate Dan says:

    Tessa Jowell who didn’t know she’d paid off her mortgage? I wonder if she went on claiming for it.

  100. Anonymous says:

    Drive past her house at Shipston-on-Stour and you’ll see for yourself !

    Pardon me for pissing myself with laughter !

  101. Winifred Atwell says:

    “Mrs Mills you mean, is she still playing the piano ? My friend has a good stock of piano wire!”

  102. Barratt Holmes says:

    Is that correct ? The chancellor flipped his second home four times in four years ??

  103. Ed Ball-Scooper says:

    No, the Chancellor IS a Hoon

  104. John Holmes (as featured in Mr Timney's DVD) says:

    You picked it up wrong, that was Sarah Brown, flipped only 4 times in 4 years whilst he was chancellor

  105. Russ Conway says:

    You should have seen ME on the “Billy Cotton Band Show” – 83 weeks in the charts. I might have lost the top of my index finger to a bread slicer but I could still play better than that Mills woman any day.

  106. Lizzie says:

    Thought Russ Conway was dead, otherwise he must be over a hundred years old!

  107. anonybot says:

    Dead since 2000 – but NOT forgotten !!!! He also played piano on the a BBC show that MUST not be mentioned anymore but it was bigger than X Factor in the the 1950’s. Simon Cowell eat your heart out !!!!!

  108. Silvio Talli says:

    *
    BY THE WAY

    THEY DIED FOUR THE GOOD OF THE AFGHAN PEOPLE







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