June 5th, 2009

Barrels Being Scraped

Hain is we are told heading back to the Welsh Office.  Is it because of his brilliance?  When Gordon sacked him last time it was for incompetence.  

Is it because he is clean when it comes to his expenses and will demonstrate the sincerity of Brown’s plans to clean up politics  This is the man who failed to declare £100,000 laundered through a think tank / slush fund for his deputy leadership campaign.  Hain, do not forget, was the cabinet minister who argued for the change in the system that allowed ministers to designate their London home as their second home, he “employs” his 80 year-old mother at the taxpayer’s expense to look after his interests, such a shame she never actually visits his office…

Hain has played his hand well, Guido heard a rumour that it was to be him who was going to berate Brown at Monday’s PLP meeting.  Perhaps Brown’s henchmen heard it too, bringing him back buys Hain off.  The barrel is really being scraped in the effort to prop up Gordon…


124 Comments

  1. 1
    Nearly... says:

    Hoon is a Hain

    • 2
      Nearly Twice says:

      Second too??

      • 36
        Road_Hog says:

        Being Welsh, can I just say, that’s handed a shedload of votes to Plaid Cymru in the next election.

        • 66
          Charles E Hardwidge says:

          I liked Peter Hain. We met once in a tanning salon. He had the full 5 minutes. As usual, I only lasted 30 seconds. Nice man, but he completely disappeared when he stood against the pine sauna. Poof… and he was gone!

        • 94
          Aristotle says:

          that’s handed a shedload of votes to Plaid Cymru in the next election.

          but Labour is in bed with Plaid in Cardiff so no change

        • 104
          Judge John Deed. says:

          He has been the victim of mustaken identity before back in the 60’s even.

          Makes no difference who leaves in disgrace, Hain, Mandelson or who ever.
          No shame no gain. Bring the cheats and liars back Gordon and slap the whole electorate in the face.

          Bring your thiecves back into the Cabine. Oh, sorry you already have, Sorry.

    • 76

      He’s my Hoon Of The Day.

      The Penguin

    • 97
      Anonymous says:

      Future’s bridge for someone Orange then I see.

    • 113
      Victor M says:

      Surely that should read Hain is a Hoon……

  2. 3
    Hugh Jardon says:

    Hoons GONE

  3. 4
    Peter Grimes says:

    Game on again, Guido!

    Tally ho for the Tango C.unt!

  4. 5
    Dungeekin says:

    Clean on expenses?

    £6 grand in fuel oil?

    Paying his mother as a ’secretary’?

    An attempt to claim mortgage interest on two ’second homes’ simultaneously?

    He’s the most crooked of the lot.

    Unbelievable.

    D

    • 67
      The other other real Charles E Hardwidge says:

      What’s your problem? Get in that Zen Zone and put a brake on those synapses.

  5. 6
    Anonymous says:

    dreadful news!!! Margaret Beckett is leaving, no doubt to spend more time with her caravan blocking the bloody roads

  6. 7

    Beckett is gone too now. 6 down. Basically anyone who thinks they could get a career with a new leader, or anyone who has had a career and doesn’t care anymore is leaving.

    • 19
      MrPeregrination says:

      Bloody hell. At this rate he’s never going to be able to fill his Cabinet. By this evening the ones who were appointed this morning will be walking out the door. Nice in a way I suppose – give everyone a go at every post. Very egalitarian.

      What an utter failure of a PM.

  7. 8
    RavingMad says:

    Brown to speak to a grateful nation at 4.0pm – can’t wait….

    Isn’t there someone at the tv studio who can plug in the ‘wrong’ plug…please….there’ll be a government post in it…..?????

    • 31
      Anonymous says:

      According to SKY news now 16.30

    • 33
      The Wasp says:

      Will patriotic songs be heard in the background along with black-and-white footage of workers toiling on the earth?

      I guess Alan Johnson will be getting double choco-rations tonight for losing his backbone.

    • 34
      Anonymous says:

      Now 4.30

  8. 10
    Moley says:

    I t is fortunate that the Downing St cat came to a sticky end, otherwise it would by now have been promoted to Home Secretary.

  9. 11
    Bori says:

    We know this is the Labour Cabinet of liars, thieves and thugs before it is even announced !

    Go fourth New labour…

    • 117
      Victor M says:

      Bori, it’s go FORTH nulabour but it has already come fourth, or forth or maybe fifth.

  10. 12
    Lexicon says:

    What is the word when you from mad, to crazy, to lunatic, to insane, and then beyond?

  11. 13
    Anonymous says:

    Well you know what they say better to be in the tent pissing out rather than outside pissing in

  12. 14
    Master Baiter says:

    You can expect an election in the spring of 2010, so stop whining, it’s very negative and puts people off.

    The Conservitudes will move to the right because of party Anti Europe factional fighting and the threat of UKIP.

    As a consequence they will lose many swing voters and so not gain power. The Labour Party will win or share power with the Limp Dumbs, who will be trussed up within seconds.

    Bee you tea full!

    • 20
      Charles Flaccidwidger says:

      No matter how many resignations there are or changes that Brown is forced to make, there will always be one constant on this blog. MB will always be a complete and utter twat.

      • 32
        Master Baiter says:

        Whine, whine, whine, your Mum must have been glad when you finally left home at about 43.
        Still at least there’s one thing your good at.

        • 39
          Gordon Brownski says:

          Good mature response there, fellow comrade masterbaiterski

        • 42
          Charles Flaccidwidger says:

          No doubt your mum will be bloody glad when you do leave home, if only so she doesn’t have to wipe your arse for you any more. Now, off back to LabourList with you.

        • 60
          Parliament of Pigfuckers says:

          What happened to the Dear Leader’s address to the nation? Still trying to get the Prime Mincer calm enough to be presented to the public? Or trying to lure him out from under his desk?

        • 91
          Mr Bummer says:

          Why’s everyone being so political, surely there’s no one here delusioned enough to believe they will be represented well by any of the major parties.

          come on now, they’re all just varying degrees of shit

    • 121
      Carnot says:

      Ed, we all know you can’t count and like the prime mentalist cannot see the wood for the trees. Get a life.

  13. 16
    Dungeekin says:

    Pravda tried to slide this in as a one-liner in their coverage, I don’t think any other mention was made of it.

    Screenshots are wonderful things.

    D

  14. 17
    David Chappell says:

    What pisses me off is the Met/CPS statement that no one is likely to be charged over the expenses swindle. How the fuck can they say that there won’t be enough evidence when they haven’t even hauled anyone in for the 3rd degree treatment but just sat around “in conference”? Cover up, what cover up?

  15. 18
    LongList says:

    Can we make requests as to who we would like to go next please?

    My vote goes to Caroline Flint, for services to arse-licking career savers everywhere.

  16. 23
    Sky News says:

    +++ IAN GIBSON GOING IMMEDIATELY +++

  17. 25
    The Wasp says:

    Nelson Mandela will be pleased – at least.

    Perhaps we could send the BBC to South Africa on another jolly to do his gardening.

  18. 28
    Fantastic says:

    Adam Boulton: “I can confirm that the Prime Minister is still Gordon Brown”…

  19. 29
    Eric says:

    Why the fuck do we have to accommodate this oily Hoon again?

    Eric.

  20. 30
    joe bonanno says:

    his 80 year-old mother at the taxpayer’s expense to look after his interests, such a shame she never actually visits his office…
    —————————————————-

    she’s 82 now.

    way to go, grammy.

  21. 38
    Desperate Dan says:

    Its not a Cabinet its a Den of Thieves.

  22. 40
    peter carter-fuck says:

    I see that “Siralan” is going to be a Tsar. How apt, it was a Tsar who kicked his grandad out of Poland. That’ll learn them Romanov cants.

    Call me a conspiracy theorist, but in The Apprentice a couple of weeks back, the teams had to sell stuff at the baby fair. I’m sure a shrewd geezer like Siralan has kept all that lovely gear in his lockup, including some £2000 wooden rocking horses, which, as we saw on the show, will take the weight of an adult. It all begins to make sense.

    The only good thing about this is that if McPampers ever throws a Nokia at Siralan, he’ll probably break his legs. Nick will hold him down, whilst Margaret puts the boot in. Then it’s back to Viglen HQ for Siralan, where five of his closest associates are going to give Caroline Flint the “interview from hell”. In every hole.

    • 86

      Funny old world – back in 1992 Alan Suger was writing to the FT demanding to know just who the fuck Gordon Fucking Brown thought he was to criticise business leaders.

      The Penguin

  23. 41
    Anonymous says:

    Meanwhile in Staffordshire, only the immigrant vote saves a few nulab councillors; almost all the rest are tory.

  24. 46
    John Bellingham says:

    Bringing back Pitch Ripper Hain is the last gasp of the drowning Captain Jonah. Its beyond deckchairs on the Titanic – the ship has already sunk.

  25. 47

    Dear All

    If Peter Hain (the turncoat) employs his 82 year old mum to look after his interests then that is fine by me.

    Have you clowns no respect for an old dear?

    Get it right up you.

    Yours sincerely

    George Laird
    The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

    • 59
      Moley says:

      The Human rights of the electorate come before the human rights of an individual.

      There is some doubt I understand as to whether Hain’s mother may be restricted in the performance of her duties by her age, which raises the possibility that the money she is receiving may not entirely be in relation to Hain’s Parliamentary duties.

      It is of course open to Mr Hain to prove otherwise.

    • 63
      Hoonbusters says:

      Get a grip, man.

      It’s honourable if he does it with his own money. Stealing the taxpayer’s cash is what we object to.

  26. 48
    Moley says:

    It is reported that Sugar is to get a peerage and that Labour were unable to run an election campaign because they had no money.

    2+2=4

    • 54
      Lord Ashcroft of Bell Ease Conservative Party Treasurer says:

      When I pay taxes it’s 2+2=0 ok

  27. 50
    The Wasp says:

    To be fair to Lady Beckett, I remember her being thrown to the wolves on Question Time once, just before an election, because all the men were too cowardly to show up. I’m no fan, but she got points for bravery!

    I guess the rumour is true though – that the women in Labour really do have bigger balls.

    Still, it makes way for Katie Price to enter the cabinet – or should it be vice versa?

    • 90
      James C says:

      Beckett is vermin.
      “People who don’t agree with me about AGW should be treated like terrorists” :- Margaret Beckett.

  28. 52
    Moriarty says:

    Peter Hain is an expert in strong and effrctive government pretty much in the same way that David Carradine was an expert in autoerotic asphyxiation.

  29. 57
    Disco Biscuit says:

    Is there any news on Hain’s acolyte, the sleazy shyster Steve Morgan?

    • 75
      Anonymous says:

      I very much doubt Hain has spoken to that little turd since he single-handedly ruined his career – last I heard Morgan the Organ was trying to set up an environmental lobbying business – what a despicable little shit of a human being…

  30. 61
    Anonymous says:

    Flint – NO PROMOTION.
    That’s her f*cked then.
    No career
    No friends
    Yeeee-Haaaaa

    • 77
      peter carter-fuck says:

      She can suck a golf ball through a hose pipe, she never lacks friends.

  31. 64
    HandsomeDavid says:

    Give everyone a ministerial post = ministerial pension.

    Goes back to the days of Harold Wilson!

  32. 65
    McGroom says:

    Never mind Horrible Hain – what about Tessa Jowell returning as minister for london. That’s sewer scraping, not barrel scraping.

    So we have Brown, Darling, Straw, Johnson, Milibands, Mandelson, Sugar, CooperBalls, Adonis, Byrne, Harman, Burnham, Bradshaw, Denham, Murphy, Hain and Jowell.

    Without doubt a “Government of all the talents”

  33. 68
    backwoodsman says:

    Orange is just a paler shade of ginger. Time to dust off the old donation repayment file Mr. Fawkes ! nulab , the gift that just keeps on giving…

  34. 69
    Anonymous says:

    I think that having to have TWO (count ‘em) Lords in the Cabinet speaks volumes for how much talent is left in the party…

    Whatever happened to democracy?

  35. 69
    Snotty says:

    Brown cracking up at his press conference. Still repeating the same old mantra, referring to his “moral compass”.

    Take a hint. Your party hates you, the public certainly hate you and you are an incompetent buffoon in charge of a talentless cabinet. Just fuck off!

  36. 71
    Sir NOAH says:

    And so Hain gets his reward for voting against the Gukhas.

  37. 74
    The public-can says:

    If i come round your gaff and tell you clear off on a long all in paid for holiday while i clear up your filthy mess, why would you stand there and tell me you gotta clear it up yourself? Now, why are these cnuts hanging around in their own shite? Theres no fcking roses growing thats for sure. The MO of these tossers is all arse about face. Dump on anyone but themselves all the time, now they wanna wallow in it. Dave Rooney is giving em a get out of Jail free card and the cnuts havent got the sense to fuck off outa it. Love that Flint woman to cross the floor though, eh?

  38. 80
    peter carter-fuck says:

    Caroline Flint has resigned, even as the great leader speaks. These are the end days, not long now.

  39. 82
    Caroline Flintoff says:

    I quit!

  40. 85
    Anonymous says:

    I am watching brown press conference – I absolutely believe that the man is insane – and that there is no way we will ever be rid of him.

    • 88
      lord of the dance says:

      just delusional and gone sooner than you think

    • 103
      Anonymous says:

      I agree. He came across as completely barmy. That maniacal creepy ’smile’ made me positively ill.

  41. 87
    Caroline Flintoff says:

    Off to watch the cricket now but will get time to have my teeth fixed at the interval. Anyone got Daves number?

    • 92
      Adentistwrites says:

      i’ll see you in the long room. A gyneacological friend asks about your labia, im sure we can come to an arrangement, wanna look nice for punters, surely?

  42. 93
    Hugh Janus says:

    As usual, these cretins (and none bigger than Peter Vain) are hired only to keep them quiet, not for their skills.

  43. 95
    Eric Blair says:

    Labour is that boot stamping on a human face for ever.

  44. 96
    Adentistwrites says:

    “Female window dressing” Fair enough. My gyneacological friend does box dressing. Very reasonable, lovely tucks, never know he’d been there! Cant see the Fees office having a problem. Call me.

  45. 98
    Lord Sugar of Shite says:

    Backed the wrong horse here! Hoping for a better day at Epsom tomorrow. I’m fired otherwise

  46. 100
    Anonymous says:

    Instant peerage for Glenys Kinnock who becomes Minister for Europe.

    That makes 7 peers in Cabinet. 7 non-elected, failed or crooked or otherwise discredited ex MPs.

    Are we a democracy or a dictatorship? It’s looking more and more like the latter.

    • 102
      Anonymous says:

      Don’t you know this is the mentalist’s way of restoring faith in democracy.

      Utterly insane.

  47. 105
    Henry Crun says:

    Hain has been appointed simply because Brownfinger has run out of barrel to scrape.

  48. 106
    The Master says:

    Breathtaking. What a farce. Monday will be DOOM BROON day

  49. 107
    Layman Pang says:

    *
    *
    *

    WHY
    WHY
    WHY

    WHY DOES CORPUS BRAOUWN KNOT PIQK JOANNA LUMLEY

    FOR A PLUM DGJHOB

    B*COS SHE WURQKS WELL

    THAT IS Y

    JOANNA LUMLEY WOULD MAKE A GOOD INDyPENDENT NONPOLLYTIQKLE MAYOR OF LUN DUN

  50. 108
    Silvio Tanner says:

    *
    *
    *
    *

    The Hard Party SUPPORTS JOANNA LUMLEY FOR INDyPENDENT NON~POLLYTIQKLE MAYOR OF LUN DUN

    JOANNA LUMLEY KNOWS HAO TO TORQKUE TO POLLYTITIANS

    SHE WURQKS WELL

  51. 110
    gildedtumbril says:

    When you reshuffle shit you inevitably wind up with shit. Eva Braun, in his Westminster bunker is a totally useless shit. His new band of old recycled shit will last a day or two, then shit! We are up shit creek without a paddle. The trouble is the liblabconukip while we steal shits are neither more nor less than a bunch of shits and traitorous shits at that. We need rid of all this shit. We need a middenman. Ray Mallon or some reincarnation of Ollie Cromwell. Someone who knows how to fumigate, disinfect and sanitise shit. If we do not find this savior very soon we will sink under all the shit. Shit, I’m really angry. Even in the darkest days of WW11 we were in less shit. Cameroon is shit also. I would not vote for that greasy old etonian used car salesman to save my life. He is just another shit. As for Cleggover, well, guess what? Just another shit!
    Another day, another 1000 shits arrive. Hells bells, are we in the shit.

  52. 111
    beorwulf says:

    I’ve just heard Hain talking to Kirsty Young on Newsnight, I wanted to vomit. Hain is a self-opinionated, arrogant, fake-tanned idiot who consistently refused to answer any of her questions, and harped on about Broon’s wonderful ability at the G8 summit. Hain is a hypocrite who, like our new First Secretary Mandleson, lined his pockets at our expense. Their promotion exposes Broon’s lack of morality. Pass the sick-bag, as John Junor was wont to write! The sooner this gang of crooks is thrown out of office, the better.

    • 122
      Spin Doctor says:

      He looked to me as if he was initially totally uncertain how to answer each question thrown at him. Wouldn’t surprise me if he wasn’t fed answers via a concealed earpiece.

  53. 112
    Posh Tory says:

    “Barrel is being scraped”

    You’re surprised?

  54. 114
    Victor M says:

    Scraping barrels. Wrong wrong wrong Guido. Bliar scraped all the barrels he could find and Broon was left with the scrapings- at the time. Goodness knows what we call the ‘new intake.’ Suggestions on a postcard please. (or a blog site)- no naughty words or anagrams of stunc.

  55. 118
    Anon says:

    In contrast to some of his Labour colleaugues, who for once in their wretched existences have done the honourable thing, by quitting this revolting non-government with no real leader at all, Peter Hain has REJOINED it. Words cannot describe this greedy self server who will sacrifice any shred of decency he has to regain the salary and trappings of cabinet office, even though any worthwhile person would be ashamed to be associated with such a disgusting non Prime Minister. If Peter Hain thinks Gordon Brown is worth being associated with, he is himself nauseating.

  56. 119
    exiled&angry says:

    Wales was glad to see the back of this odious twat. Hopefully his return will be the final kiss of death for the Liebour boyos network in south Wales and we may finally get political representation that reflects the whole of Wales and not just Cardiff and the Valleys!

  57. 123
    Sorry we gave u Kinnocks but we got Hain in exchange says:

    Orange U Tan Hain replaced honest, decent, dilligent, loyal, altruistic, true socialist Paul Murphy. Why replace Like for Like?

  58. 124
    Closing in on Westminster's Benefit Cheats says:

    Hain should fuck off back to South Africa and do the only thing he genuinely believes in. Does Barclays Bank still have a presence in the country? If so Hain, go. Go and go now! Fill your pockets at someone else’s expense(s).




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