The Times reports that Lord Carter is to leave the government after his big Digital Britain report is published. The Times speculates that he is set to return to a lucrative private sector role. Don’t count on the technocrat definitely leaving politics for good. Some weeks ago Guido had it from a usually reliable Tory source that Stephen Carter was contemplating crossing the floor. You never know…
Digested Read : Maya by Alastair Campbell – John Crace
What Happened To 19 Secretive Tories? – LibDemVoice
Charged MPs Still Take Labour Whip – Paul Waugh
Labour Distances Itself from Official Law Firm – Iain Dale
Labour Party’s Solicitor Defends Theft Charged MPs’ – Telegraph
Doing Emotional – Jon Craig
Gordon Brown’s Policy Inventions - Fink
Conservatives Need Clear, Discernable Principles – Fraser Nelson
Union’s £75 Million Lever on Labour – News of the Screws
Cameron Has to Come Up With Something Better – Fraser Nelson
Republican Twitter Kings – Time
Prosecute Racketeering MPs – Times
Yeo’s Pre-Blogged Ambush – Indy
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Sarah Palin said…
“A year later, I gotta ask the supporters of all that, ‘How’s that hopey, changey thing working out for ya?’ “
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Maybe he thinks he can earn more in the private sector – might encourage some of the serious troughers to try the same. Hopefully they’ll try, then find out how hard life can be in the real world.
Do you really think so? isn’t it just another case of rats deserting sinking ships. I hope he does cross to the tories as it will be another well deserved kick in the nuts for Brown.
The Brown resurgance is falling apart already, per GF’s previous post Malik will probably have to stand down again and now Carter. This cabinet is more shakey than a £10 MFI job.
PS Coming Soon – Shahid Malik in The Bill
I love a good conspiracy theory but might it simply be that he is seeking all-party support for his Digital Britain Strategy so that it continues under the next Government?
Preserving what is left of the UK telecoms industry by using its skills to build proper, secure, resilient broadband networks, so that we can still access Guido after a power cut, should be part of the public works programme to get us through the slump – so sorry- I should have said “economic recovery”.
How many other Ministers will be having similar private talks? We can probably discount any policy statements/initiiatives from those who are not. They will be history insdie a year.
It may look like German Generals seeking to negotiate a way forward after D-Day, before the Russians raped their way to Berlin, but we now know the consequences of not listening then.
Samee this guy was on half a million pa when he was in the private sector, he’s on about 180,000 now so I hardly think he is a trougher in it for the money. Working for Brown has cost him over half a million quid.
The real story is how Brown ignored this fellas advice and listened to McBride what a terrible mistake that was! This guy going shows he was ignored and sidelined for talking sense, Brown knows best you see the most successful man in the private sector is no match for his mighty intellect…
I was less than shocked when I read this. The idea that Brown is now losing his best professional media generals is, surely, profoundly predictable. We’ve seen it all before. We’ve all seen the ground-breaking, uber-cathartic, German biopic masterpiece, ‘Downfall’. Surely someone has seen the comparisons!
Next to go will be Joseph Straw. Or Herwoman Harman.
All we have to to do is make the comedy comparisons (endlessly), laughing unt smiling through the relentless economic bomshells while we wait for Mandelson to sell us out to the bloody Russians.
Brown, you see: well, he’s: he’s muh – he’s muh – he’s MUH – he’s mad, sir.
We’ve got lumps of it in the back.
Pathetic gossip Guido. The Labour team is firmly united behind Brown. Wake up and smell the coffee!
We’ve got another 12 months of this now as the Brown Government limps on towards the next General Election. Just like “Downfall” soon it will be everyman for himself leaving the sad master alone in his bunker to reminisce over the previous good times. Everyone else will stick around till the Champaign runs out then head for the hills with what’s left of the Downing Street petty cash.
CH
For those of us who take the trouble to read around this site rather than just pitch up to repeat the same unintelligent, unimaginative tribal Labour.org shite, no matter what the subject, Guido provides us with a strapline that includes the word ‘gossip’.
So your use of the word ‘pathetic’ is, demonstrably, well, pathetic.
smallwidge: wake up and smell your bullshit !
like making NTL bankrupt
Stumped. Er good luck Lord Carter. Best wishes do what you have to do.
who ? no really, who ?
chap makes Major, Iain Duncan Smith and John Birt look charismatic.
What the fuck has charisma got to do with the price of chips? You can’t run a country on charisma, as Bliar found out. You need knowledge, judgment and organisational skills, none of which this benighted bunch has.
A man is looking out across his estate when a hot-air balloon drifts overhead. A voice shouts out “Oi you! I’m lost. Where am I? How do I get to where I’m going”
“You’re in a hot-air balloon, 50 feet over the SW corner of my garden, and your destination is somewhere else” he replies.
The voice bellows out “You must work in IT. You’ve given me a very concise answer, but haven’t helped me get to my destination.”
The man replies “You must be the Prime Minister. Before you met me, you didn’t know where you were and didn’t know how to get to where you were going, but now you don’t know where you are or where you’re going, but it’s my fault!”
Was his moral compass not working then? In a digital britain all he needed to do was observe which way the satellite dishes were pointing (usually south-ish) and then could have got some bearing what with the wind direction and all.
Richard Branson is in a balloon over Ireland and he shouts down to an Irish fellow “Where am i?” and the Irish man shouts back “You can’t fool me, your in that fcuking basket”
surely we could have expected a comment on the bold Gideon flipping homes/mansions AND avoiding CGT on the subsequent sale of one. I’msure it was all above board,but even The Mail considers it worthy of a detailed report. Surely Guido doesn’t have something to hide other than his true colours?
I’m sure you can raise it as an O/T subject in this discussion. I’m also sure this is GF’s blog, and is probably waiting for the detailed report or a bit more than speculative reporting. (words of note: ‘considers it worthy …’).
I’m also sure that Brown losing a decent member of his cabinet at a time when he’s got 7 Lords in the cabinet, 2 of whome aren’t available for questioning in the House of Lords, especially the European Affairs Minister at a time when European Affairs is on everyone’s agenda – and is a reported known trougher – at a time when troughing is on everyone’s agenda…. it doesn’t look good.
This is not even politics – we’re all suffering from the fallout of Brown’s despicable behaviour and incompetence, and refusal to obtain a public mandate for his lack of policies… oh, yes, he has policies – mostly as soon as the Conservatives announce them! (Hence his desperate need for Cameron to announce another one!), and still he can’t implement the policies properly…
Speculation vs Public Misery – which do you think is important?
Dr Nuts
Sometimes you have to avoid being partisan and look for good the old-fashioned British sense of fair play,sadly lacking in your reply,as across the majority of this site(words of note,indeed;I’ M WILLING TO BET YOU HAVE PRETENSIONS TO JOIN THE LEGAL PROFESSION IF YOU’RE USING SEMANTICS TO BERATE MY POST!)
FYI,Carter IS NOT a Cabinet member,and it IS politics. The attacks on politicians of all sides,and the spin put on everyday events by posters on this site,though entertaining,are WAY too one-sided. I just thought that this would be an ideal opportunity,since it involved one of Dave’s chosen,to prove me wrong and redress the BALANCE(that’s a word which should have you all scrambling for the dictionaries). Instead,I find myself alone,disappointed,and not a bit surprised.
BTW,I do not vote Labour,but I do have a long memory when it comes to the tories;some of you lot need to get on the Omega-3 and regenerate some brain cells-you’ll be starting about the tory economic miracle soon,which most people I know realise was a media myth. Bloody lemmings!
Don’t know many people do you?- must be a rapid Rebuttal Rat.
Golly gosh I’m certainly in the soup now. Dave can’t sack me, can he ?
This “transparency” public relations lark is all well and good for the great unwashed and the gullible but we aren’t actually going to stick it to anyone who matters are we ?
Well if I’m going I’m taking the little Gove boy with me Dave.
I get it now, is he likely to start working on tory plans for road charging, internet censorship or blog licences for over 18 content?
I thought those were all Nu-Liebore policies.
Conservatives are very much into small government – Liebore into bribing their voters.
Yes, you’re nuts for sure. There is no difference in inclination between the Government parties on policy relating to surveillance of the public. Moreover, there don’t seem to be any differences on much else. It seems to have been forgotten that, just before the credit crunch bit, the Cons were stating that they would match Labour’s spending plans – the very same squandering of taxpayers money that got the country into this mess. That is why somebody in Labour can cross the floor, get ready for a Conservative government, and be comfortable in the knowledge that things will be the same as before.
Ditto ! In any case 99.9% of the Lisbon Treaty will have been in place at the Conservatives election policy unit at the next election. Blog licencing will come into force a week later if they win. Probably.
And postal votes in Leicester.
I can remember signing a petition a couple of years ago against road charging, when Darling, I think, was secretary of State for Transport. when it got over 1m hits Labour panicked & said it had never been in in their plans at all
Our late unlamented Second Home Secretary & Minister for Pornography, Jacky Spliff has already set up internet surveillence, ditto emails & phone calls – both mobile & landline and the Ginger Midget, Hazel Blears was very busy on the subject of website content. So it looks as though Labour already have these initiatives in place.
Quote from LDV employee on Question time speaking to Hain:
“You may have forgotten about us, but come the General Election, we will not forget you!”
I would have said “We’ve got a scrapage plan for you at the next election – deposit free”
You have read the above, now when you go out just look at the vans being used by, local Gov, police, fire, etc. and wonder at the backhanders paid for these vans to be ordered. If the orders had gone to LDV or to Ford for vans made in UK how many jobs would be saved?
Surely, if the gov’t agencies didn’t buy mercedes vans instead of our homemade ones then the germins wouldn’t buy our cheddar?
I feel sorry for the LDV employees, but the facts are that not enough people want to buy their vehicles and propping up the company will simply waste more tax-payers’ money. Building up a stockpile of new vehicles to sit and rust in a field is not sensible and not sustainable.
LDV have been working on a next generation British electric van, one that actually works, for £40 million quid we could have owned that design and gave it a shot worst case we lose £40 million (we are losing £500 million a day at the moment anyway) best case a new industry with tax revenue of ???? million pa for ???? years to come.
Not even trying costs us over £13 million in benefits for the staff not to mention lost tax revenue in the future, it was a shockingly bad decision and one Britian makes time and time again. We develop new tech only for the funding to be pulled just as we succeed. Did it with aero and train tech countless times now we are doing it with green tech.
Does no-one in government read history books?
More important, it’s the human wastage as people with multiple skiills are put on the wastepile,
Yes an awful lot of R&D will go down the pan. Well done Archbishop Mandlefrock, too busy saving your boss’s worthless neck to do your real job.
LDV will be bought up by the Chinese or Indians. They’ll dismantle the lot and reassemble it in their country where it will become a very successful business. There will always be a market for vans.
LDV was a going concern and suffered, not due to market forces, but because of an artificial credit crunch (it started in America you know) which came at a very bad time for them.
The bit I can’t figure out is why Trade Unions in the manufacturing sector continue to finance NuLab which has simply wiped out huge swathes of british industry. They’re happy to moan about Thatcher but Blair and Brown between them have presided over a steeper decline in maufacturing jobs.
Only the ones they rewrote themselves.
Only to re-write them. It’s a socialist core-value.
*Shake’s head sadly*
Nothing to see here – great innovation sold out by Liebore. Britain loses yet again!
Did the government own LDV ?
Newlabour single handedly destroyed LDV!
The contract for British Army trucks was given to MAN and secured Austrian and German jobs for years, the LDV consortium offering was cheaper and superior.
LDV would be thriving right now and the jobs of the workers would be secure if the newlabour bastards had not sold out our workers and forces to the eurotrash.
The Tories should be hammering home the details of the newlabour betrayal yet they are silent, would they have done the same, did they raise a protest when LDV lost the forces contract?
So British jobs for British workers is a slogan co-opted by the BNP and is ‘nazi’ yet British jobs for Austrian workers is something of which Hitler would have approved (he was Austrian, you know!) and he really was nazi.
Agree – I ahve mentioned this several times but no-one in the meia is following it up.
Blair tried to buy the EU presidency with UK taxpayers’ money and LDv jobs.
Brown let him – was this a buy-off to get Blair out and Brown in?
No they didn’t. LDV destroyed LDV by making poor quality vehicles at a price that no one wanted to pay.
I have bought dozens of vans over the last few years, both British and foreign made, but never an LDV, because they are complete shite.
Typical old Leyland type British industry, make a rubbish product and then expect a public sector contract to bail you out.
I feel sorry for the people who lost their jobs, but they must have known they were making a shite product.
damn good reply, I can only hope it is true. But tribal loyalty is deep. If you need change vote for it and make yourself vocal
Great weren’t it? And Hain turned from a nasty shade of burnt orange to nasty shade of white in about 3 nano seconds.
And he stopped smiling!
Speaking as a woman in her prime, I’m a little worried for the health and well-being of Old Mother Hain. She’s over 80, you know, and has to do all his constituency work as well as iron his shirts. OK, so the £40 grand a year she gets does help supplement the old age pension, but I think it’s time young Peter gave the poor old girl a break.
LDV was well and truly shafted by Blair back in 1998, when Blair promised Chirac that future MOD expenditure would shift from US suppliers to European all because the UK was not in the Euro.
LDV in close conssultation with the MOD and a US consortium had developed a new general purpose truck for the Army ideal for harsh terrain such as Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2004 the MOD announced that the winner to build the new truck was an Austrian firm as it clinched a £ 1.4 billion order much to everyone’s surprise. LDV downsized very quickly after that.
However, the Austrian made truck does not meet the spec – well its crap really. The MOD has refused to say how much extra it has cost or anything else to do with deal. Recently the MOD has announced that it is going back US consortium suppliers. Another fine mess Blair got us into – it is nothing short of economic vandalism.
OMG! Yes, where is Cameron on all these UK issues? His credibility is shot too, in fact it’s far worse because his job is to question and alert the public to government damage. What’s the bloody point of him otherwise?
There’s a bit more background here: British Jobs For Austrian Workers
And here: Taking us for mugs
Defence procurement has been skewed towards European suppliers and the dream of a European Rapid Reaction Force for political reasons, and British forces are dying because of it.
And I have to agree with Sir Mufbourne-Harbor. Where has the opposition been? What has the Defence Select Committee been doing? We have ended up with an EU Parliament in miniature – there effectively is no opposition in Westminster on a great number of issues as both main parties vie to be more statist and more welfarist than each other to please their EU master. We have a National Government in all but name and that nation is Europe.
Labour MPs that want a career should consider defecting – otherwise they are unemployable.
FT had a good piece on this – may need subscription, so some extracts:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9df3aed2-5544-11de-b5d4-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=beb2c81c-43cc-11de-a9be-00144feabdc0.html
“City headhunters warned that the scores of [Labour] backbenchers likely to lose their seats will be largely unemployable”
“They are more discredited than some [bank non-execs] – and that’s saying something”
“people will not want to touch them with a barge pole”
PS. Mandelson hints that former Defence Secretary Hutton resigned because has a nice job lined up – BAe I’d guess…
‘backbenchers likely to lose their seats will be largely unemployable’ … so we can expect them to ‘work’ for the BBC?
There was a report that most MP’s after HoC boot-out, take up to 6months to get their next job. It’s interesting how they explain their worth – equivilent to a head-teacher, but I keep seeing head teachers being prosecuted for less!
Labour MPs may well consider defecting but having seen them lying their heads off on one side of the house why would voters want them lying for another Party?
Hmmmmm….
BAE local CEO Murray Easton has recently resigned / retired. They currently have a temporary replacement. Hutton going to get a real job? Surely not, the man (and I speak as someone who has had dealings with him) is a fuckwit
Gudio
It is past your bedtime
But I thought you would like the bons mots of your Libertas, protectionist, wild aristocrat friend Philippe de Villers who just said on French TV (about Barroso being reappointed President of the European Commission)
YOU DON’T CHANGE A TEAM THAT LOSES
Could be applied to Dirty Tricks Brown as well don’t you think ?
Philippe de Villiers also calls the tall Mr Barnier the French Agriculture Minister (and about to be appointed European Agriculture Commissioner – to fuck up European agriculture for another 5 years) NOT THE GRAND BARNIER
BUT
THE GRAND MARNIER…
Barrosso reappointed president of the EU.
Tks MI5
One thought…I did not realise his position was even available?
tells you all you need to know about the EU.
Isn’t this the job Tony Blair was after? Barroso’s a hoon but Blair’s an even bigger one so the news is not all bad.
Thank you God.
Anyone but Blair.
Barroso is president of the European Commission. The European Commission is the bunch of dodgy, oily unelected gits who come up with dodgy legislation which they pass to the European Parliament (a bunch of dodgy, oily elected gits) so they can rubber-stamp “passed” on it in 28 different languages.
The post of President of the European Council, to which Bliar aspires, doesn’t exist. It will do so if the citizens or Ireland reverse their “no” vote on the Lisbon Absolutely Not A Constitution It’s A Treaty. As will several other unelected, unwanted and pointlessly expensive seats on the European gravy train.
Perhaps he’s realised ID cards are bollox.
Took long enough. No more like he’s taken one look at the cabinet – had a moment to listen to the ‘peasants’ and thought – sod this, I’m off!
It leaves me wondering – why IS Alan Sugar accepting the job? Does he actually think he can achieve anything? I’m more interested in the AS angle of this new cabinet, it’s incomprehensible, after all Brown is a moron! Seriously, he’s the man who couldn’t organise a p*ss-up in brewery!
Only way for Sugar to become a Lord after all the money he has given Nu-liebour
I’d actually had quite a bit of respect for Alan Sugar – that’s now gone down the pan.
Harsh! He’d bring his famous plastic-bag-with-two-half-bricks-in-it:it’s called ‘Prudence’, and is ‘the right thing to do’.
£10 quid says you have stuffed the defection up by posting this Guido.
If Carter now moves, he can only been seen to be either venal or a Shaun Woodward turncoat-in-it-for-them-selves figure.
Do you think Woodward is negotiating with the Tories again now ?!
Hah! Would the Tories take him back?
I thought they’ve already organised a candidate to replace him.
Would that Woodward would wend his weary way to working for a living for wonce.
What wonderful written words
The Tories would be mad to take on an ex-Chapter 11 executive like Carter
Only in the Uk would anyone employ a failed businessman like him…
Then “elevated’ to all sorts of quangos including the House of Lords which has become just a cheap quango…!!
Digital Britain eh?
McTwat’s leading by example there. It would terrify Rio Tinto to see the Broon digits mining at full throttle. Perhaps it’s a rule of the Manse that if ye dinnae mine – ye dinnae eat.
Digital – as in a one-finger salute.
Up yours Gordon.
I’m going to bed. My querty is limp and my auto refresh has gone into stand-by mode. G’night all.
These Labour troughers are simply shameless…
Whores…
Fire the lot of them and leave them out in the cold…
I have decided to take the financial sectors advice and to consolidate all the troughing MPs into one easy, single, more manageable, but more ultimately more massive,easier to identify, troughing MP.
Its Shahid Malik
O/T
Guido
Daily Telegraph report today..
Mr Brown (!) Prime Minister of Bermuda has accepted 4 Guantanamo detainees without telling the UK Government
“Bermuda relies on the UK for Defence and Foreign Policy” the article says
A fucking colony doing its own thing without even telling London..
PRICELESS
ANARCHY UNDER NEW LABOUR AGAIN…
A CAR CRASH A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY…
And do you know that Mr Brown, the Prime Minister of Bermuda, is Black…
Sounds unlikely. It’s probably Gordon thinking he is being clever by setting up a ‘plausible deniability’ scenario, so that when these released terrorists go on to commit some other atrocity, he can blame it on Bermuda.
Not according to London’s reply in the article…
Very embarrassed..
Yeah, but let’s be civil about this – the only way to tell Brown anything is in large type with lots of pictures!
Mr Brown (Bermuda) has probably realised the PM and this most venal cabinet are 4 wheels, engine, chasis and passengers short of a full bus! Why bother telling them anything – they’d only understand it when it’s been explained hundreds of times.
Let’s play fair:
Mr Brown does listen to people – it’s just that he’s too self-occupied with his fantasy that he’s a genius to understand what people are saying!
Good grief!
Please don’t let him come to VirginMedia.
We ex-ntl staff have only just got over him sending us into chapter 11.
Thanks – I knew I knew him for some reason – as an NTL customer, before VM took over.
Personally, VM taking over was the worst thing that happened – all the TV services provided are low budget.
Got PHORM has he?
brown playing the presbiterian card. Son of the manse, hair shirted thomas Beckett warts and all cromwell history will judge . like a death row prisoner running out of appeals lord peter will decide his fate just as it was planned in 1994
You have ruined the bugger’s career Guido
No more coat turning from him
The kiss of death
Well done Sir
IF it’s true – well done!
He had to work for Brown with McBride and then for Mandelson
Now wonder he is leaving after 10 months…
He must have been mad to take the job on at all…
Sorry O/T
Iran having a General presidential election……Just thought I would mention it …..in passing
Will Iran cross the floor?
Good to hear that at least one of them has got some common sense…
“Lucrative private sector”: certain sectors closely related and in the gift of Drowning Strasse and the Quangocracy have been raking it in.Nepotism is alive and well. Know of someone who is a serial quangocrat,with 7 “positions” and looking for more as they see it as a lovely earner.Pass the sick bag. Good morning to both Dr Nuts & MI5.
Yvette Copper……GMTV……child poverty…..jobs for mums & dads……minimum wage…….20 years always our plan……..I prefer Penny Smith
Am shocked, Yvette just told to tell the truth by Nicky Campbell on R5
Utterly off topic, and utterly revolting
In which Brown proves how fucking revolting he is
Does that mean he is going to break both legs in his first game for Real?
He’s just getting on with the job, whilst Mandy runs the country
He’s on auto pilot though…’doing the right thing’
So that’s Ronaldo fucked then;
Will crash on the plane back from LA
or
Will get kidnapped
or
Will break a leg
or
Will never score another goal and will be sold to Farnborough Town FC for 200 euro’s
and as for “Sir” Alex – Man Utd will be in the Ryman’s League within 5 years.
The curse of the ruinator strikes again!
Malik is in even more trouble, and as Guido points out, another minister resigns. Input text. Hell. It’s not yet 7.30am! And Brown has doomed Man. U! It’s going to be a long Friday, I think…
Guido, Isn’t this like naming your secret agents behind the Berlin Wall. The Labour Stasi are going to get them and convince them that Gordon Brown is the right man for the job ( probably requires a frontal lobotomy ).
Oh hold on … I get it…
Lord Carter. So selfless, thinking about crossing the floor. (Signal for Dave to offer him a position in Government).
Now that NuLabour has hit the buffers so spectacularly, he wants to leave the losers and join the winners. My advice is dump the bum.
Of course… and the chauffeur-driven limo to pick him up for work every day. I doubt it though if he was responsible for approving the ‘Just Gordon’ Saatchi posters last year.
And the BBC is still trying to spin the election results on their political page: ‘UKIP beats Labour to second place’. I know it kind of makes sense, UKIP were second, but why not say Labour were third? This headline attempts to airbrush the Tories and their victory — in first place — out of the election. I suppose the shock hasn’t sunk in yet.
speculates that he is set to return to a lucrative private sector role
and after returning the keys to the office, his pass etc he will still keep the Peerage !!
O/T but have just heard the odious Mrs Balls-Cooper undergoing the softest of interviews Mr Smug-McNaughtie on Toady. More like a party political broadcast than a serious attempt to explore their sham pronouncements on child poverty. Yet again Toady, hang your heads in shame. Being mauled by a dead lamb doesn’t even go near it.
Heard this one (and the interview on R5), get the party line out, we spend the tories will cut; spend, spend, spend without worthy challenge. This constant flow of propoganda must come to an end. It can be only hoped the majority of the public will be seeing through this and taking the pragmatic view, it’s all Balls!
Why not print up a few million ‘Brown is a liar’ car stickers to counter Labour’s line ?
I would put one in my LDV van but some bastard fucked over the company
As someone wrote in a letter to the DT yesterday,we just need some old fashioned patience and then we can look forward to watching the boy wonder Cooper on the Opposition Benches post the General Election (of course Swine Flu will enable Brown to keep any non-Labour voters inside their homes to ensure a win!).
Just to watch boy wonder Cooper and Adolf sitting on the “wrong” side in the Commons is what is keeping me a sliver on the right side of sanity…..
Sounds like someone who was being shuffled outwards anyway
What does it say of him if he can’t even find a place in the cabinet of all the talents?
I just love the way these prats blithely check in, pick up a peerage, and then check out. Fatso Digby-Jones is another tosser who lasted about 5 minutes. When the revolution comes, I suggest that they (along with Sralan, sorry Lord) Sugar, Gabby Glenys (“the voice of the Valleys”) and her hubbie should all be strung up from lamposts in The Mall!
Reservations are needed for lamposts in the Mall, due to severe cut backs.
We shall be taking more bookings once the Viglen IT system is sorted (as supplied by a certain Lady Sugar…).
We’ve got an interesting and ethnic way of cleansing… ritual disembowllment here on Anglesey.
Labour list reporting another Labour MP leaving at next election
Greg Pope, the Labour MP for Hyndburn, former party whip and member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, is standing down in the next general election, he’s just announced
perhaps after 16 june and Carter’s digital britain report, he will get the top job at ITV.
Maybe Brown should pay his “Brother” to get things cleaned up?
Looking forward to McMental, The Inside Story
is every kunt in England a lord or sir?
No. Some where knighted after worthy support from the Court of Public opinion.
e.g. me.
I am applying for a new credit card with Lord at the beginning of my name.
How does Mandelsun fit his title on his credit cards – they must be about 2 feet long!
‘…oh, of course, we never use anything so vulgar as credit cards!’
Apparently,Libertarian Justice Theory requires miscreants to play Russian Roulette in proportion to the degree to which they frightened their victim.(Greater fright,more chambers loaded).Brown frightens me to death.
I don’t know about a British Electric Van but I do know that we should be concentrating on super-capacitors rather than the battery.
Do these supercapacitor thingies produce more Labour votes?
they do when you connect them up to the gonads, quack. waterboarding is profligate in water usage and condemned under evironmental guidelines.
Only if they can store 90% bullshit. Lord Steven Carter speaking about shareholders said ‘ What I tell them is 9 tenths bullshit and 1/10th selected facts’
How do you “know” that?
I read something recently that concluded that Li-Polymer batteries aren’t very suitable in the medium term, and companies should concentrate on the more pedestrian NiMH ones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Supercapacitors_chart.svg
From that vague graph, it looks like they’ve got to be 10-100x better in their energy/mass
I know its’s off topic but, if you guys want to make money, have a bet on Man U being trophyless and in a relegation fight next season.
The Broon has just given them his best wishes and believes they will come back a better team next year after the sale of Ronaldo. >50% tax innocent victim<
What the F**k is going on, another Soldier killed in Afghanistan and, the Prime Mentalist is talking Footie. His big mate Fergy is king and will be made a Lord to ensure he is British Olympic team manager
Let's hope the Army turn their guns on the hoon at tomorrows Trooping of the colour
No word on Ivan Lewis’s appointment to the Foreign Office in charge of the Middle East – the tosser supposedly smacked down by Brown’s smear team? NuLab loves Muslims….repeat ad nauseum. The shills here are a joke.
BREAKING NEWS ——–BREAKING NEWS
BROWN TIGHTENS HIS GRIP
Gordon Brown is set to tighten his grip on Labour with a new steering committee called “Keep Gordon Brown” or KGB for short.
Ministers with woosy names like Darling or Woolyass are to be replaced with hardliners such as Ed “Balls of Iron” Cooper, Andy Burn’em and Felix Dzherzhinsky. Lord Mandelson will take control of the party Whips but this is entirely a private matter.
The need for stronger party discipline came after a succession of cabinet resignations. Said one former Minister “ I was doshed up to the eyeballs, had a mega pension, did bugger all and could blame all my mistakes on Civil Servants and still it wasn’t enough to put up with the endless self-righteous droning. I’d sooner have Bono as my conjoint twin than go through all of that again”
The KGB has begun by demanding each cabinet swear an oath of loyalty and ministers have had to leave a treasured item as hostage. “ They took Alan Johnson’s collection of red rubber bands, Douglas Alexander’s Boys Brigade bugle and Lord Adonis stick insect collection, thereby removing his chances of ever finding a mate. When they demanded Miliband’s spine it turned out he never had one “
Meanwhile the Prime Minister said “ I am just getting on with job of making sure I keep myself in a job”
We are planning to launch a range of liquorice based confectionary called “arseholes”
There’s a bloke called Lavrenty Beria being brought in too.
Nicely done, resurgemus. I particularly enjoyed the KGB acronym.
ROFL Brilliant!
KGB … that’ll stick, well done
these plebs are so tedious
Another good one:
http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/633-daniel-nocera-describes-new-process-for-storing-solar-energy
You can search ’super capacitors’ on the MIT site also.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Lord Carter crossed the floor. Everyone knows Labour is finished and if crossing the floor means that he gets to keep all the fringe benefits……….
‘Nuff said.
I let my pal Ballsy down by not getting him into Darling’s job and I’m accused of not favouring women. I know! I’ll promote Ballsy’s WIFE! Friggin’ brilliant!
Latest publication: Nutkin Says Sorry
Anyone else had this mysterious email ?
“Hi everyone,
This is my initial message, there will be more, please send me a reply if you would like to get involved or just support change for the better, your reply is important to us all.
If like me you are sick of the way that the people that run our country continually misuse and waste our hard earned money, fail to make our country better, fail to listen to us and sadly no other party at the moment looks like it’s going to change this, then I would like to ask you to join me to start and support a new party that WILL change this.
The name of the party is subject to the rules of registration so for the moment we’ll call it The Unified Party.
I can promise change because I’m not a politician and I WILL listen and ACT on what is said.
I believe a proper democracy can be achieved and we can make this country better for everyone, if you want change please reply to betterbritain@googlemail.com
Please forward this to as many people as possible and make this country better.
For the moment I will remain anonymous since we may not have freedom of speech and I want that to change also.
Thank You”
Yeah.
It’s the ‘Twats Who Send Us Their Bank Details Party’ of Nigeria, Middlesex, Russia.