Public Service Broadcasting
So in search of the truth and information as to what is really going on the British public turns to the state broadcaster, the venerable BBC, the broadcaster the people are involuntarily forced to fund. Who, we want to know, is behind the attempt to oust the Prime Minister by email?
John Humphrys : …who’s behind it? Our political editor Nick Robinson, do we know Nick?
Nick Robinson : We do know, I am not entirely sure I am going to tell you on the Today programme…
(Listen online here.) You pay taxes so Nick Robinson can report on politics. Sky News says Charles Clarke is behind it, no taxpayers were harmed in bringing you that information. Incidentally, Clarke was seen chatting to Hazel Blears at Andrew Neil’s sixtieth birthday party on Sunday…
Vote UKIP
It is only Public Service Broadcasting if you agree with them.
W.W.
WEKIP
You’d have to be Dozey to vote UKIP.
Exactly – there’s an election on today. The BBC used to think it was responsible and took a break from tittle tattle (which is all Robinson could manage) while the polls are open. Humphries and Robinson can’t even manage that anymore.
What dfference does it make to the election to know who wrote this email?
It matters.
Some guy is stealing my posts and impersonating me on Labour List when I’ve never posted there.
Going forwards is just going backwards in reverse. There’s no traction in that.
© Zenboy Buttockclencher 2009™
Who knows if it would have made a difference. Who knows why the BBC seem to have had a voluntary emabargo on speculation and “comment” when the polls are open (although it was increasingly attractive since we got a break from the drivel that the BBC increasingly fob us off with). Was there a policy change or (as is more likely) are Robinson and Humphries in a fact and policy free bubble, content in their own rectitude and doing whatever occurs to them at any moment? So the point is “if it was policy for decades, why has it changed for this election?”
not just a “voluntary embargo on speculation and “comment” when the polls are open”… bbc rolling news channel aren’t even mentioning that there is an election today.
“fucked up the arse with a cordless nail gun” – new feature starring bbc news staff as the “contestants” coming soon, hopefully.
Some might think it goes to credibility but as sites like the Magistrate’s Blog and DoverWatch show, it’s not necessary.
Take a look at the last couple of posts here:
http://doverwatch.blogspot.com/
http://thelawwestofealingbroadway.blogspot.com/
Already did.
Crick did exactly the same on Newsnight last night. Smuggly telling Emily that he knew who was behind the email – but that he wasn’t telling those who pay his wages (the licence-payer).
The sooner the colossal waste of time and money called the BBC is ended the better. In reality, it is nothing other than a messenger service for the public… but it now distorts, corrupts, dumbs-down or simply withholds its messages in order to influence and control what the public think.
The Tories must end the BBC.
Don’t be silly.
They have to balance between telling the truth and not upsetting those who decide on their budgets.
They’re still the best there is – try any of Rupert’s services forcomparison, they are unfettered only when it suits the big R.
And No, I’m not a troll, just a pro BBC civilian.
Labour aren’t going to be setting any BBC budgets for a very long time, now…
I PAY their budgets and they are upsetting me.
If they refuse to report to me each message they receive – in an unbiased and objective way wherever possible – or giving equal weight to an opposing message as fairness demands, then the BBC is a bias organisation intent on manipulating what I think.
The smugness of these sinecured, gibbering heads goes beyond insulting.
Scrap the licence fee and let the corporate dinosaur fight for survival in the real world.
The Tories will end the BBC – it will be not as we know it now
Anon. But you are not forced ot pay for Sky. You are for the Bum Bandit Corporation. You really don’t get it do you? Why should I pay for a left wing pro Muslim terrorist funding organisation?
I just did
Public Broadcasting – in the same was that Pravda provided excellent, impartial and un-bias news coverage for 60 glorious years of Socialism.
UKIP if you want to. The Lady’s not for kipping.
Camaroonypoodles has indicated he’s going to give the BBC a right good kicking when he gets in.
I hope so …. BBC news should be read by Lord He Haw – - It’s fabricated from threads of shite in the pattern of mendacious plaid.
Well rather than talk about giving the BBC “a good kicking”, do what I and a growing number of people are doing: cancel your direct debit and switch off the telly.
That really WILL hit them where it hurts. Like quangos, corporations and any business that you dislike: take away the money and they start to listen again.
You are in control. You just don’t know it yet.
Fcuk off. Vote for anyone that will hasten Brown’s. And voting for that twat Nigel Garage or whatever his name is, is a total waste of time (and taxpayers’ money).
I wonder if Clarke pulled Blears at that party.
http://denverthen.blogspot.com/2009/06/owned.html
*exit
Well what do you expect from Robinson…
It’s the gobshite thing to do.
You can’t make it up!
Though to add another piece to the pot, has anyone seen the bit from Peston about the Government welching on B&B Bond debt?
That has been happening for months and has been covered by both the telegraph and FT, and Peston blames…the banks and the bondholders for not controlling…even in the face of the Treasury report which blames Brown’s triumvirate
and they are shit at test match speical
Come on, there’s nothing to see here. Journalists have always been kept certain things to themselves in order to not to upset sources, so that they will give them more information in the future.
Some people are just too keen to smell a conspiracy theory around every corner.
I have investigated, and I can confirm what Nickko Robinson said was correct.
John Humphrys, not James, Guido.
Even Homer nods!
Oops.
Ego te absolvo.
Robinson is a biased little end of the bell.
They don’t call him “Toenails” for nothing!
The Penguin
Just why do ‘they’ call him ‘Toenails’?
I mean, calling The White Queen The White Queen is perfectly transparent, but why ‘Toenails’?
Only asking!
Ask ‘Further’, he knows as he co-habits the same alimentary canal with ‘Toenails’ !! Further must act like a pull-through for a gun with those lugs though !!
Because that’s all you can see of him, protruding out of Gordon Brown’s fat scottish arse, allegedly.
Toenails is a BBC nickname for Robinson. Even the BBC think he’s up Brown’s arse.
Thank you all!
Can someone now tell me why Mastur Bator is called Little Wanker?
Talking of public service broadcasting, what real coverage did the beeb give us of EU issues in the run-up to the pseudo-election?
EU issues?
You mean Europe an that?
Never knew anything was happening – mind you, I watch the BBC exclusively.
where is it again?
Course it was Clarke.
Jeeesus! Nick making a complete c’unt of himself over the bleeding obvious.
He always makes a complete cnut of himself… over any issue.
I suspect its coz he is in fact …. a complete cnut.
Sack him. Now!
Should have added..
The real question is that if the spin about the lack of numbers for the Email was true, why was Mandy drafted in last night to make a cringeworthy, somewhat desperate looking, “appeal” to “grumpy” (nicely done Mandy! As if they don’t hate you enough already, you twat) Labour MP’s not to sign it ?
I think it’s getting more traction than anyone suspected it would with a great many “tell you after the results” undecideds who could swing it if the results are as bad as everyone thinks.
It was ‘grumbly’, not ‘grumpy’. Even stranger choice of word.
Yep, quite right and even more likely to annoy Labour MP’s than grumpy.
Brown, trembling in the bunker,sweat drips from his brow. He sits at the wooden table. All his most loyal servants are gathered around. Ed,Peter, Shaun..
John McFall steps up with a piece of paper. “This is the name of the chief plotter Gordon.”
Gordon is almost to afraid to ask. He grips the edge of the table and steels himself. He asks “Well.who’s behind it? Is it Hazel? Jacqui?” Is it Tony? Harriett?
Not Jack?.
“No sir, its Charles Clarke”
And then everyone in the room , including McDoom falls around laughing
“Ohhh Haaa, haaa, haaa.. Is that all! FFs! You guys..You guys..you set me up good. Haahaaa,,..And ypu knew Peter..how did you keep a straight face in front of that dwarf Robinson? You really had me thinking there was a serious plot.Charles Clarke ..ohh..that was a good one.. you really had me going.. ..ok ok.. back to work..Phew!”
I have to protest at this gross slander of Charles Clarke, who any fule kno is too busy stuffing pies to do any plotting.
The Penguin
Doesn’t matter who’s behind it if it clears the hurdle of 70 with some ease.
Because most of the Cabinet don’t have the balls to stand up to Brown but if the amount of Labour backbenchers is more than the magic 70 then he’s gone.
Utterly disgraceful, I have been in denial about the wretched state of elements of the BBC, but over the last year, when I have been paying proper attention, the truth has become all too apparent.
Fat cat bastards and biased political tools.
Agree Olaf,
I was broadly supportive of them until last year’s Tory conference, where they really seemed to switch from covert to overt bias.
The BBC is a beatiful idea that has gone horribly wrong. Terribly biased, weak news reporting and constant drivel for entertainment. I pay a broadcasting fee for that?!
You don’t have to pay for the BBC licence, it’s voluntary, isn’t it? If it is crap, why watch it? Or listen to it?
Beautiful idea? What?
You fools believing the BBC has ‘gone bad’ over the last year or since the Hutton Report need to go back and look at its 9/11 coverage on the fall of the Salomon Bros. building or WTC7 building for just one example of how mainstream broadcasters have always been used to brainwash, lie and distort for the persons that run so-called western democracies. Blimey, the delusion abroad in the British people is staggering.
I don’t believe the BBC has ‘gone bad over the last’. It’s been rubbish for some time and is becoming worse by the day. I still remember when the BBC reported the 2 million people marching through London against the Iraq war as “A number of muslim groups and others” with video of some bearded loons. Disgraceful. For all I know it has always been heavily biased. I suspect there was always an element of bias but I doubt it has always been as bad as it is now.
I still think it is a beautiful idea though. That idea being that the general population support an INDEPENDENT media who are not beholden to government or buisiness. I also love some of the documentary work they do. I don’t think there would be many people on this blog who would disagree with the statement “Some of the nature documentaries created by the BBC are absolutely amazing” for instance.
Unfortunately even the vague pretence of independence have gone, with idiots like Robinson discussing the expenses scandal as “small beer” etc.
I’m in love with Nick Robinson.
We share the same zentist.
No 85. The march of deuded lefties, mooslims and church gooers on the day was reported as 200,000. 40% of those matching for the right to kill foxes. This spurious number has grown over the years to 500,000, then 1 million and now you are stating 2 million. The anti war match couldn’t fill a corner of Hyde Park, so most likely 200,000. Us true Brits couldn’t give a fuck about a war overseas, but stop us killing fluffy foxes and we will take to the streets.
I can’t believe they are such Cameron boot-lickers. It makes me sick. The party was behind Davis, but the BBC found Cameron more photogenic. Still, at least they are putting the boot in Labour now and supporting the Tories, even if they are wet as hell.
That’s bollocks Proper Tory.
There was one Newsnight focus group which showed Cameron was the preferred option with the voters.
Then he gave a cracking speech at conference.
The BBC had little to nothing to do with Cameron’s victory.
The Tory grassroots are not easily swayed by public opnion.
Me too. Now and again, you get something that seems balanced and objective, but it seems to be the exception rather than the rule.
Is it true that the BBC recruiting ads only appear in the Guardian? Can’t ever remember seeing one in the DT, though I can’t say I’ve ever specifically looked for one.
I agree but I think we’re over-reacting to Robinson’s comment. It’s the nature of lobby journalism that people need to be able to tell you things without an associated name.
It could be Robinson’s source didn’t want to be attributed whereas Sky’s didn’t mind.
Also, Sky might be wrong.
If they betray these trusts they don’t get the gossip and at the moment 90% of this story is gossip.
Also, wasn’t Nick Robinson President of the Oxford Conservatives? Personally, I don’t think he’s biased.
The non-entity news readers are another story.
If its his private tip off, and such sources will dry up if he blabs, it could well be in our interest that he doesnt.
The actual question is not really whether we know precisely who did it, but whether he’s giving a good general picture of what is happening.
It is wrong.
A journalist must give the info (if not the sources).
What other secrets is he keeping from up? Who is he to decide what to do with info that we have paid him to collect?
If he self-censors then his is usesless (as if another reason to think him useless were requried)…
We had the same nonsense from crick last night on newsnight.
I don’t believe it!
Andrew Neil must be at least seventy.
Agreed, he makes me feel young and I’m over 60.
I was hoping so too. How many more years are we going to have to put up with?
Up with this I will not put. – Winston Churchill (in grammar sarcasm mode)
I tend to agree with Sky News. The style and wording of the email is what I would expect from Charles Clarke. Nick Robinson likes to make himself sound more important & ‘ in the know’ than he really is!
I’m not familiar with Clarke’s writing style, but the email is dreadfully written.
It is about as well crafted as the “my late uncle was a Liberian general” emails one tends to receive, such that I’m still not convinced it is genuine.
It’s hardly surprising no-one has owned up to writing it.
Were there some gravy smears on it? No? Can’t have been Charles Clarke then!
The Penguin
nick robinson, bbc megastar, purveyor to the rich and famous, truly believes his own shit, just like his mate gordon
To be fair – if the information was given to him off the record he has a duty to protect his sources. IF he found out from his own efforts he should tell us,
Telling us the author doesn’t reveal his source…!!
Unless it was the author wot told him
Typical of a mainstream media who has for the last decade been content to repeat what they’re told by the central propaganda machine.
Substituting comment for news, not getting their hands dirty.
If you opened a box labelled “Political Journalism 1997-2009″ you’d find it totally empty.
Except for a piece of paper with McBride’s ‘phone number on it.
I no longer watch anything on the BBC without arming myself with the thought that it is nothing but Labour/PC propaganda before I even pick up the remote.
It’s got to the stage where I watch a program and time it to see how long it is before they start trying to brainwash me or change historical facts to suit their lefty political agenda.
I was watching a recorded episode of Ashes to Ashes last night and in it they showed someone being sympathetic to the sinking of the Belgrano during the Falklands War.
meanwhile, in reality……
“Gotcha”
I do so agree. Even the Afternoon Play is either about forced Asian marriages or some flatcap having a crisis because his whippet’s run off with his racing pigeon.
Some suit from the Beeb was on R4 this morning defending not disclosing what we pay presenters et al. I don’t see how they’ll continue to justify this in the current climate. I’m in two minds about having only commercial television though, having suffered it in a variety of places about the globe – for all the BBC’s faults.
…and BBC employee John Humphreys attacking that policy as part of the interview! Nowhere else in the world would you get one part of a broadcasting company attacking another part – surely they take some credit for that?
Well, the present Cabinet springs to mind.
Exactly.
John Humphreys was asked directly what his salary was by the select committee MP and wouldn’t answer. If he had, I’d start to trust his line of attack more than I do.
He’s got an organic farm in Wales, a London house and young family — must be up in the mid-to-high 6 figures at least.
True – but would you have done in his position? I’ve left jobs/put in my own glass ceiling on points of principle, but then I’m a cutting off nose to spite my own face arsehole.
I know there’s overall bias, but people hear/interpret bias based on their own views and generally ‘miss’ anything that may contradict them. I think it’s exaggerated in some specific cases. Whatever – all commercial generally means mainly shit as everyone can collude in lowering the bar.
Blears out! Blears out! Blears out! ad infinitum
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/03/hazel-blears-salford-anger
Top !
Sorted!
Nice one!
Your’e the Man!
She will help the people of Salfrod to connect with Labour by appearing in public so that they can punch her repeatedly in the eye.
That’s a bit below the belt.
yes, a very low blow.
I wouldn’t stoop to that.
It’s a knee-jerk reaction.
I can take ‘er ‘arry, know what I mean.
Up the shitter, an’ all. No Lube.
The Penguin
Our local Labour MP is confidently telling members of his constituency party that by Monday around 100 MPs (including him) will have signed the email telling Brown to go.
Robinson is a jumped-up, pompous little Labour shill. That’s why he’s known as Toenails at the BBC.
The BBC is paid by us, by force of law. Have any equipment which can obtain BBC channels – must pay, even if you don’t watch BBC. …
The other half of the contract is that they provide unbiased reporting – ooops!
Well said.
I bet Andrew Neil tried to fuck Hazel Blears
Old Viagra knob cant help himself, and dont tell me that he hasnt ever had a swift one off the wrist whilst thinking about Diane Abbots huge ripe tits
she hasn’t got huge ripe tits you blind person, she’s just obese.
Hey
I wouldnt mind a soapy tit wank off the fat bitch
Nor would Mr Beast
Never mind, he can concentrate on Charles Clarke’s moobs.
The Penguin
You truly are a beast
I’m a Hoon.
Beast, when I saw the picture of the ginger minger on the front page of ‘The Times’ this morning, and thought of your prediliction to enjoy Ugandan discussions with the same, I realised how truly depraived you were !
The Beast is not alone in his depravity. I would!
The BBC are bastard bastard and then some word beginning with C. I am trying to think what the word can be. I have paid my last British dollar to the robbing bastards. Failure to pay the TV TAX, the government propaganda tax is a criminal offence. Their euphemistically named ‘programmes’ are all lies and ballox. Fuckem! They can stick their PC, NWO, and EU bribed crap where Eva Braun of the Westminster bunker keeps his moral compass, up his moral arsehole.
Surely, if rumours are to be believed, McSnotty has an immoral arsehole.
Toenails doesn’t want to be seen to align himself with anyone yet. He’s got a safe post as HMG’s loyal amanuensis and he doesn’t want to put that in jeopardy either by damaging Gordon further or speaking in his defence if his cause is hopeless.
Went to cast my vote about an hour ago. Deliberately went mid morning because I thought it might be quiet. Not so. Shortish queue to register, and people coming out and going in. Totally selective and unscientific, but suggests higher than expected turnout.
Exactly the same at my local polling station. I’e never seen so many people at this station. The chaps working there were light heartedly complaining about the number of ballots in the boxes and had to shove them in with a stick.
I think I hear the sound of a Gordo kicking being administered.
Those who can’t voice their opinions publically quietly doing so
I voted about an hour ago, same thing, ballot box was so full had to force papers in
Guido
BBC have just now closed all their blogs for the following reason:
NO NEW COMMENTS CAN BE ADDED TO THIS BLOG WHILE POLLS ARE OPEN (to comply with election broadcast rules)
should this apply to you as well?
Of course it shouldn’t apply to Guido – he isn’t a public service broadcaster, he is the gadfly in the political ointment. All power to his elbow – it is great to see an independent blogger taking on the establishment.
what it means is dat all us ordinary folk who don’t know how to blog can cum on ‘ere and right fings about de apprentis and corrie cos derz nowher els to go. good ‘ere innit?
So, you know why he didn’t say who was behind the email? Maybe he had off the record info. Like you name all your ‘informants’.
As I keep saying, if we want to stop the rot in this country, we need to utterly destroy the BBC. They are the enemy of anything that isn’t soggy soft as shite socialism. I despise them. Abolish the licence fee as the first step. Public executions as the second.
But you make the mistake, Guido, of thinking that Nobinson is some kind of journalist and has journalists’ ethics and duties. Y’know, to tell the story they don’t want told? Nope. He is first and foremost a PR man for the Labour “government”. Here in Macclesfield we’re all very disapointed in him.
“public executions as the second”.
Oh… oh you’re from macclesfield..
I was about to call you a fuckwit or something similar, but I guess being from macclesfield you deserve the right to perpetual unmitigated fury at your very existence.
bring down the BBC
attack attack attack
The Beeb is full to the brim with the funny pinny and hat brigade their main aim is to protect the establishment, what ever that may be.
The sooner this odious masonic club is broken up the better.
Voting Conservative myself. Thought long and hard about it, since I was tempted by UKIP, but voting Conservative is more likely to destabilise Brown – he would benefit if the Tories were hit as hard as Labour over the expenses scandal and I don’t want that.
But what I would like to know is why the media has not made more of the fact that the Labour Government reneged on its manifesto commitment at the last election to hold a referendum on the Lisbon EU Constitution. Now that is a real and shameful scandal!!!
Agree with every word. I flirted with a UKIP vote for a few days but am back in the fold.
Broken election promise is a scandal.
Unfortunately, The Conservative party have no intention of giving us a referendum if the treaty is already ratified.
Cameron and Hague have repeatedly refused to say they will, even when asked directly umpteen times.
That means “No”.
The only way to get the Conservatives to change is to vote UKIP in the Euros.
Better off out.
UKIP has had 10 years doing naff all but claim expenses beyond the dreams of avarice.
If you want to give Brown a kicking and teach Cameron what conservative means, vote B*N*P.
My other half just did! I’m not talking to her, and her family are furious!
Voted UKIP in the end. Would’ve voted Conservative – but I want out of the EU Political arena. Voting Conservatives would send message – OK to Cameron – by voting UKIP – it’s a conservative break-away party, and sends clear message to DC that the Lisbon Treaty Referendum is important.
That is just not true!
Read through some of the stuff on Conservative Home. I looked up my Tory MEP and he says we should have a Referendum on Lisbon…
The whole point is timing: the Irish didn’t give the EU the answer they wanted and so they have to vote again in the October. If they vote yes (with the threat of no EU grants to sort out their economy if they don’t, no doubt) then Lisbon will be considered ratified. If however our GE comes before — we’ll be ok, we’ll have a Referendum. That’s why it was so important to demolish Labour with today’s votes. Of course everyone’s probably wasted their votes on UKIP who will never be in a position to force an election in the way a massive Tory vote would.
Tricky, it is indeed a tricky call – balancing the need to destroy Brown and Labour but making sure that the Tories can’t conveniently ignore the EU constitution question. On balance I think a big UKIP turnout will help do both.
I actually quite like Nick Robinson.
Why?
Dunno he’s quirky, must be the glasses.
nah, it’s his cheeky grin, cheeky cheeky cheeky
Hmm, 3 choices
1 Retard!
2 Blind!
3 Labour Supporter (ie Pervert)!
His political commentary is poor, and heavily biased for Labour. If he was a decent politico – he’d state at the start of PMQ’s – doesn’t matter what Cameron goes for for questions – Brown wont answer them, but state statistics and Mr Speaker is too incompetent to force Brown to answer the questions – as is his duty.
4th….sick bastard
toenails?
probably the ugliest man on the box…….
I think you’ll find that’s Gary O’Donoghue.
You’ve obviously never seen Gary O’Donoghue. The Hills Have Eyes as reality.
Only since Robin Cook was topped, er, I mean died peacefully on a hillside.
The Penguin
Robinson needs a wire noose around his scrotum until his ball turn black and drop off
Peston needs the word TWAT forcibly tattooing on his forhead
just VOTED
had probs getting huge ballot paper into small ballot box
told them they will need a bucket bag soon
voted first-time for a anti-euro party(its a gravy train my tax paying for it–fumimg)
Don’t worry they’ll ‘sort them out’ later
Thank you. Exactly. We will only keeo the ones that vote for us. What’s the point of the others.
Postal votes yet to be ‘re-organised’ to show what people intended to vote for, after mistakenly putting an ‘x’ in the wrong box!
Also – certain number of people need assistance with voting, after all, just because they’re dead… or don’t even know what their birthdate is – doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed to vote!
Do you live in Blackburn?
Why waste a vote on the fraudulent Farage?
Only a uHunt would vote Ukip
He should be in the shadow cabinet. B-list yes, but many of the shad-cab are C-list.
How is Farage fraudulent?
He has made no secret of his allowances. Allowances that I might add, are equal to those of every other MEP.
Cameron, Brown, Clegg.. now thers a bunch of fraudulent shit spreaders. They dont even have the bollocks to outright sack their slimy fingered MP’s. Farage on the other hand ditched two UKIP MEP’s the very second it was learned that they were dodgy, It wasnt a great thing for the party, but he kept his integrity, which is enough to earn my vote.
Absolutely. Agreed 100%. Vous avez raison, Sir Gobblebollock, and furthermore you are not only right, but correct. You could not be less wrong if you tried.
The only way we’ll get a referendum would be if there was a Tory government — they have clearly stated again and again over and over that they would call one. To get a Tory government, we need a GE (with me so far?).
The only way to get a GE before October when the Irish will be bribed into voting yes to Lisbon in their second referendum, would have been to vote for the Tories with such a massive swing in both the Euros and Locals that Labour doesn’t just lose, Labour is annihilated — their MPs will want to salvage something and might vote against their government for a GE on a no confidence vote.
Of course, the plonkers voted UKIP and split the Tory vote. Well done.
The thing is, I quite like Clarke, and I liked John Reid. They were fighters.
Why didn’t they try to be leader? Is it too late?
I really don’t like Brown.
You are (off the record) obviously a Hoon
Pie Stuffers too.
The Penguin
What’s a pie stuffer?
Someone who’d rather insert his penis into crusty slit, rather than eat a pie.
And bake it at 220C for 60 minutes until crisp & golden.
Oh Aye – John Reid was a fighter – “we’ll be out of Afghanistan without a shot being fired Reid” -
I’m no fan of Toenails, but we should be glad that:
a) He didn’t reveal a source
b) Honoured an ‘off the record’ briefing
That’s just basic journalism.
Brogan in the DT also said it Clarke.
Blears was also seen chatting with Blunkett a couple of days ago.
>Blears was also seen chatting with Blunkett a couple of days ago.
But not by Blunkett.
I think the dog might have had a bit of a glance before continuing fornicating with Blunkett’s leg…
post 37
do you have a good lawyer?
Yeah, Brillo fucked her too….
No I didn’t, I was too busy dyeing my ‘hair’ .
I can confirm that here outside of number 10
The mood is gloomy and That I am still a total hoon that looks like a penis wearing a wig and glasses
Nick Robinson ,
Downing street
well why don’t you jack off and give the job to a non-mongo
Is Toenails hanging on by Gordon’s fingernails?
I think Keith Vaz would make a fine Prime Minister.
Oh sweet Jesus. Every time someone mentions the name of a Labour MP I get reminded how bloody awful they are, Alan Johnson excepted. Can’t knock AJ.
I can. He’s as thick as Keith Vaz is greasy.
The Penguin
Dear-oh-dearie me… You are confusing lack of education opportunities with lack of cleverness: aka intelligence as nobody calls it these days. I know a fair few stupid Phds: merely higher education’s long-service drones… Sigh… I suspect Johnson is not short in the gumption department.
Apart from the fact that AJ would quite happily let people die rather than allow them to top up their medication. Just to satisfy his political principles.
I wonder if he’d live by the same principle if it was himself or a member of his family?
I thought not.
And that he would have us all drinking toxic waste flouride. Which tests have shown can cause brittle bones, bone cancer, and lower inteligence.
A commonly used substance in rat poison.
CHEERS ALAN OLD BEAN!
Sting away on that one, fellah. That is despicable. Just like Shirley Williams taking her daughter out of St Pauls school when she became education minister… (I don’t believe that is a myth,)
Have to admit I like AJ’s atheism, though… no sick-making religiosity there. He wouldn’t have a pray-pray with his lord before invading somewhere or other… Come to think of it, I doubt he’d invade anywhere at all.
I just can not believe that Andrew Neil is only 60, but his Wiki entry gives his birth date as 21-05-1949…
In the labour party there is only Gordon Brown, but in a party of best people to lead Britain Vince Cable is another (but only in the field of economics) and there is a few other good people ….
Should that be “ARE” a few other good people?
The Penguin
oNl,y If yu are pedant’ic
I think you and Keith Vaz believe that most sincerely folks!
I like brown. So does my friend, Peter. Now where’s my million pounds for that witty comment?
Labour are doing fine.
I agree Eddie. I’m so pleased I gave Labour a million pounds. Now where’s my peerage?
A couple of unprincipled hiposhites. Lots of dosh and toady up to NuLab one because he is a pillow biter and the other because she is a sad usless writer of foolish crap – wizards and broom sticks, who would have thought such bollocks would make someone soooo rich, am I jealous? Not at all. Eddie isn’t even very funny, stunted little tosspot.
Joanne Rowling is really nice.
And very rich!
“We do know…”
But did he intent “We”, to the BBC, or “We”, as being the Labour Party? He should have clarified to the eager licence-paying listeners which hat he had on at the time.
Nice point.
What about The Great Northern Cities?
Like Liverpool – where they hold a minutes silence when a battery dies? Their ballot papers are already ticked Labour just to cut down on employing someone to do a count.
I think a new series of Bread is long overdue.
my ballot paper wasn’t ticked dickhead
Careful – or I’ll send Boris Johnson up.
Clearly you don’t know the place very well.
Come on Boris, post uder your own name for once.
I know Liverpool. Isn’t that the place where the fans moan about Hillsborough but keep quiet about Heysel?
Anyway – the name’s Kelvin. Get it right.
Why don’t you come on up & ask them directly “The Wasp”
*sigh* Anyone know how to retract appalingly mis-typed posts?
I meant:
“We do know…”
But did he intend “We” to mean the BBC, or “We”, being the Labour Party? He should have clarified to the eager licence-paying listeners which hat he had on at the time.
Get *sigh* back on the blog, TT!
Tony old fellow – THAT is exactly what your preview box is for. Try using it before rushing into print.
The BBC is digging itself ever deeper into a hole. I hope Cammo and his team are watching, and that one of their first acts – if they have the balls – is to go through the Labour Broadcasting Corporation like a dose of salts. They need purging, and slimming down. Drastically.
I agree. Freeze their license fee indefinitely, make them publish the Balen report, their presenter salaries and also funding from all sources (including the EU).
Let loose an independent review on their news output.
Bleed them one drop at a time.
Oh and make them give over some of their licence money to ITV to make sure there is properly funded rival local/national news service. We simply cannot risk the state broadcaster being the only organisation left to provide news.
ITN has been far more impartial in its coverage of the expenses scandal than the Beeb, which is forever trying to spin the “Tory = bad, labour = good” line.
Yes, then we’ll have a nice servile, no longer independent broadcaster.
But at least we’ll get reruns of “Benny Hill”.
And “It ain’t ‘alf hot Mum”
Sing lovely boys!
“Things can only get better…………………”
I think a modern remake of “Love Thy Neighbour” is long overdue where a family of asylum seekers are forced to live next door to a couple of pensioners who have recently moved in.
“The colour of your teacosy offends my human rights you old witch! I’m calling social services!”
The only reason the Al beeb is servile is that it is stuffed full of labour loving lefties.
So, we get to Polling Day and UKIP has performed its invaluable service as the safety valve through which the Eurosceptics can blow without damaging Cameron’s march to No 10.
Even better, the expenses scandal has kept Europe and the Referendum out of the news almsot completely during the election run-up.
So, off topic I know, but what % for UKIP will cause Dave to panic that the Tebbit tendancy will feel sufficiently emboldened to wreck the autumn conference?
Tories below 25% and UKIP above 20% is my guess.
Here’s hoping for LibDums 19%, Labour 18% or fewer.
UKIP have shot themselves in the foot. Does it not occur that if the party got its way, they’d be out of a job?
UKIP are Labour’s best friends.
he’ leaving Friday?
Useful post on Finkelstein’s blog:
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Re 9 a.m. starting gun, I just happen to have the following list of website headlines, 8:45-9:00, Polling Day, 4 June 2009. Can you spot the odd one out?
• Guardian: Brown hangs on, for now
• Telegraph: Gordon Brown fights for his political life
• Times: Plot to oust Brown as Labour fears poll disaster
• Independent: Campaign to oust PM gathers pace
• Mail: ‘Don’t sign Gordon’s death warrant’: Mandy begs MPs to snub anti-Brown email as Milburn and Byers are named as plotters
• Mirror: Gordon Brown fights for his political life as 75 rebel MPs urge him to stand down
• Sun: Labours cybermen are ready to delete PM
• Express: GO NOW: LABOUR MPS TELL BROWN TO QUIT FOR UK’S SAKE
• FT: Brown fights for survival — Rebel MPs prepare resignation call
• BBC: UK votes in MEP and council polls
Posted by: David Moss | 4 Jun 2009 12:08:18
http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2009/06/will-brown-go-a-rolling-guide-to-news-and-insider-gossip.html#comment-6a00d83451586c69e2011570be6698970b
I think we should not forget the shit the country is in and start asking McDoom for some explanations. Now is a good time.
By 2010 public spending will have risen by 119 billion(excluding bank bail outs) 38% is recession related and 6% due to capital programmes. The rest is ‘consumption’ expenditure. If it’s not recession related,why the fuck is he spending it?
The last budget conceded (in the smallish print) that cuts would have to happen after the election.
Why spend money you don’t need to, then cut back?
Answer -it’s all for political purposes. So my friends we are contributing £66 billion to Gordon’s campaign fund.
If the above does not demonstrate why he has to go,nothing does.
It is right to highlight these mind blowing figures, this government has a policy of ‘scorched earth’ between now and their preferred election date of June next year. Spend, spend, spend, and then blame, blame, blame who ever takes over for having to cut back. The election can be brought forward by voting against the government today.
Note that PFI will not be appearing on Govt. Books as was due to happen, Private Eye are reporting that two sets of books will now be kept at the Treasury. Also there’s been a “U” turn over the need for NHS organisations to list their PFI and local improvement finance trust assets on their balance sheets, in line with international reporting rules. They will be exempt.
The HSJ are reporting that:
“Approximately £16bn of assets and their associated debts are expected to come on to the NHS’s books over the next few years. The change will mean some trusts will need to substantially increase their capital charge and depreciation payments, forcing them into a technical deficit. Spending on assets previously accounted for as revenue will need to be reclassified as capital.”
Further:
“The move was expected to mean that up to £30bn of PFI debts would be included in the UK’s public sector net debt figures – a measure used by the government to indicate the stability and credit-worthiness of the public finances.”
And the best comes last:
“The Treasury is expected to claim the U-turn is needed so that national accounts align with EU standards. But sources close to the Treasury told HSJ the real reason was the need to improve the appearance of the national accounts, which had worsened in the economic downturn.
NHS organisations are likely to be asked to provide the DH with two balance sheet statements for their PFI deals, which will mean there will be a mismatch between their own accounts and those of the DH.”
PFI the elephant in the room.
PS Apologies for “cut’n'paste” I wasn’t sure how to link here to the source.
“The Treasury is expected to claim the U-turn is needed so that national accounts align with EU standards”
ie fiddled
Exactly, like everything else under this Govt.
Source by the way is “Health Service Journal” Online 4 June 2009.
Two sest of accounts is standard practice for anyone running dodgy scams to keep the Revenue in the dark, so not surprised HMG now has to do the same.
Problem with PFI has always been the smoke and mirrors of “off-balance-sheet” accounting. The Government gives the appearance of off-loading liabilities, but the privatre sector happily boasts that they have off-loaded them too. Thus the liabities sit on no-one’s balance sheet and the whole merry go round charade carries on. This always ends in tears, if not jail (eg Enron). Quite staggering that HMTreasury is a prime-mover in the scam, and our PM has been behind it all along.
Elephant in the room indeed, when the next government gets access to the books we are all in for a shock!
I read that hospital trusts or the NHS will be paying back 50 times the value, the hospitals are worth.
If you are thinking of getting cancer treatments or life saving drugs, forget it. Join Exit instead.
Didn’t Brown on Tuesday say that not only parliament but also the BBC would also need ‘cleaning up’?
I took this as a simple threat that if they turned on him now they’d live to regret it.
So, let’s see… Nick Robinson knows stuff. Stuff that is newsworthy, yet stuff that he declines to share with his paymasters, the British public.
Exactly what is the purpose of Nick Robinson?
To show that you should have gone to Specsavers?
Strangely, I don’t think he is too bad on the TV/Radio but his blog should carry a credit for whichever Downing Street minion wrote it for him.
To remind us that heavily framed jam- jar bottomed glasses are not de rigeur this season
‘…his blog should carry a credit for whichever Downing Street minion wrote it for him.’
When it isn’t getting curtailed, pulled or moderated into oblivion.
All of which is very odd, as it just makes a massive, evidence-heavy case for the lack of objectivity on display. And all to reach, at best, 500 folk, most of whom clearly are not fans, and are not getting persuaded otherwise.
Remember when John Birt moved straight from Portland Place to Downing Street? Wonder whose ear he is whispering in now.
Doctor Who probably. Being a dalek and all.
“Nick Robinson : We do know, I am not entirely sure I am going to tell you on the Today programme…”
That must have been inspired by the Monty Python “Election Night Special” sketch…
From BBC Scotland Politics web page :-
MOST POPULAR STORIES From Scotland in the past week
WEDNESDAY : Schoolgirl gave birth after rape
TUESDAY : Campers warned about tick bites
MONDAY : Rangers fans ‘ill with swine flu’
SUNDAY : Susan Boyle is still ‘a winner’
SATURDAY : Steam giants on new £50 banknote
No political crisis up here you’ll be reassured to know – all is well
Fuck me. can someone tell me ANYTHING the BBC does which isn’t done better by independents? Not in this country, obviously – the market distortion of the licence fee sees to that – but look overseas. And don’t talk about nature documentaries – National Geographic and Discovery. Classical music, serious original drama? HBO. Political satire and comedy? Comedy Channel.
The Daily Show is a hundred times better than anything that’s been dribbled out of the festering anus of the BBC over the past twenty years.
End them now.
Too right fuck em up those whiging gentile bastards
I do enjoy “Have I got news for you”.
I do wonder how it is still on the air. I would have thought that Communist headquarters would have told Pravda to cancel the show after insulting the supreme leader.
Looks like voter turnout could hit fifty percent!
The local polling station was very busy with an almost happy aura, almost as if people were glad to be able to pass judgement on the parasite class.
My preferred party is going to do a lot better than the opinion polls predicted I think, the BBC are not going to be a happy bunch trying to explain the results.
Unusually there are quite a few people at my polling station – at last GE it was empty for 2-3hours at a time.
They will try and put a positive spin on it.
They keep moving our polling station – it’s bonkers.
In the last council ones I managed to get the polling station wrong and end up not voting for one of my best friends – I’m sure he knows I didn’t vote for him somehow.
And I’m not joking. Changing polling stations all the time is genuine hassle.
My local station has said that turnout so far has been 17%.
Given that Zanulabour run my local area, most votes will be postal so expect this to end up at 92% oh and the ballot boxes will probably be opened up tonight to ‘help with the counting…..’
The BBC is a joke.
One journalist interviewing another journalist is not journalism.
The BBC is not a joke. A joke is amusing and entertaining. The BBC is neither of those. The BBC is a shithole. Oh hang on a hole to shit in is useful as well. That BBC is whatever something totally fucking worthless is. The Labour party perhaps?
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Toenails takes his orders from McTwat. He can only speak when his head (or cock) isn’t showed up McTwats arse. the BBC have been doing their best to protect Labour over the last few weeks.
BBC are not only Labour luvvies, they are incompetent at presenting the news generally. eg on BBC TV 6.00 news tonight, George Alagiah smiling informally and waving his hands about whilst summing up on the appalling murders of the two French students (another failure of our lovely Criminal Justice System) – compared with ITV news Mark Austin and Katie Derham discussing same item with due dignity and seriousness.
PS Probation service has been in meltdown for some time under nuLabour, totally incapable of protecting the public
The BBC never publish my emails.
Either they’re biased against libellous opinion, filthy language and one-handed typing, or they have difficulty reading through their fucking burkhas.
If I’d ever paid the licence fee I’d be asking for a refund.
I dont know why people expect any better from the BBC, and I dont know why people fall for the “balance” claim – “If only they were more balanced, I wouldn’t mind”
It’s an impossible claim! It’s like claiming you would accept the one Soviet Tractor manufacturer if they made the best tractors. There is no such thing as a single supplier satisfying a whole market, especially when it is artificially foisted upon us. People need a free choice.
Coming late to this, I know, but remembering the events at Tianemen Square, according to the BBC ’twas the “Consevatives wot dun it”. Similarly, when Gorby was overthrown in 1991 the Beeb kept referring to the extreme Bolsheviks as conservatives. Give a dog a bad name or what?
Voted as follows:-
Euro – UKIP
County – Tory
Sorry, Mrs Dale, but Dave has to get the message.
The media whores at the BBC will soon be where they ought to be, in the fucking dole queue. Lying treasonous bastards. Hitler tried to kill me thousands of times… I hated the bastard. I hate Eva Braun, of the Westminster bunker and the bastards at the BBC a thousand times more.
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I would just like to thank all the posters here.
Occasionally I am tempted to switch allegiance to Cameron’s Tories, so I turn to Guido for a glimpse of what Tory Britain will be like.
What a nightmare vision!
You have all pursuaded me to stick with Labour.
Dear Gordon,
There are those who say you will be leaving us soon. Well, I would like to say on behalf of the great British public that the last 12 years or so has really been fun. Thanks for the memories.
It was interesting to have a New Labour Government in 1997, after all those Conservative years, and so we didn’t really care when we discovered that you and your pals had double standards. We did notice however that in 2008 PC Gary Bayldon was jailed for 4 months for having sex while on duty, but your old mate John Prescott got clean away with having sex in the office!!
No ASBO – not even a fixed penalty notice!
How we laughed when your colleague Peter Mandelson forgot to tell the House of Commons (or his building society!) that his new London house was purchased with the aid of a little £373,000 loan from millionaire Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson (whose business affairs were being investigated by Peter’s department). We were surprised when Peter had to resign, but we cheered when he was forgiven and returned to the cabinet as Northern Ireland Secretary!
A little intervention on behalf of Srichard Hiduja – a major sponsor of the Millennium Dome who wanted a British passport – and Peter resigned again! But, bingo he was soon back as Lord Mandelson, your Business Secretary. Super!!
We chuckled even more when your good buddy David Blunkett resigned as Home Secretary after his affair with Spectator publisher Kimberly Quinn and when he tried to rush through a residence visa for her nanny. What a hoot!
We cheered as David returned as Work and Pensions Secretary, only to resign resign again when it emerged that he held shares in the DNA Bioscience company – which provided paternity tests to the CSA – a part of his own department. Laugh a minute stuff eh?
Your comrade Tony (remember that guy you elbowed out?) exempted Formula One racing from a blanket tobacco advertising ban which threatened the interests of million Pound Labour donor Bernie Ecclestone. What a shame you had to repay the money, and good old Bernie never even got a peerage, although Tony did create more peers than any other PM – and many of these donated £1 million to Labour!!
And what about you Gordon?? Peter Watt, Labour’s former general secretary says that you talk about values and your moral compass, but the way you conduct yourself behind the scenes is ‘brutal.’ Is this true?
Peter claims you telephoned him to commiserate when he resigned over Labour donations, and you promised to ‘look after’ him, but he then let slip that you betrayed him within 24 hours by falsely suggesting that he had broken the law, triggering a police enquiry!
And he informs us that you seized power by waging a highly personal campaign ‘designed to cause maximum damage to Tony Blair and force him out of No 10.’ I suppose that’s rather naughty, but let’s face it, we had a sneaking suspicion that you can be a bit pushy when you want something badly!!
Michael White of the Guardian explains that get other people to do dirty work for you. For example Ed Balls and Damien McBride. Of course, you knew nothing of McBride’s evil smear campaign (which came out of your office) and you did offer letters of ‘regret’ to the intended victims. Shame they couldn’t read your writing!!
You have been a rock as Chancellor. Pity you prudently sold half our gold at rock bottom prices, but who needs gold anyway? Some people say that you will leave us sinking in personal debt – over double the European average – but we don’t care. Can I ask if it is true that after your borrowing sprees the national debt is really well over £150,000 per family when one takes your figures and adds on things like ballooning public sector pension commitments, loan guarantees to Network Rail etc?
I read that taxes have risen 51% since 1997. Oh what the heck. They also say that in just one year (2006-7) half of the DNA samples collected under your regime came from children, one in 9 hospital patients picked up an infection on the ward, and the total cost of outstanding claims against the NHS is £9.2 billion.
Gordon, these are big impressive numbers, and you deserve credit, if not tax credit, for this legacy. The public will never forget what you and New Labour have done for us!!