June 14th, 2009

Journalist Attribute Thyself

The Times’ Sam Coates blogs that David Miliband has a good idea in hisI thought about bravely resigning toopiece in the Guardian:

In an oblique reference to the Damian McBride briefings, he also calls on the media to abandon unattributable briefings, saying all politicians’ spokesmen should be named, or not quoted by media outlets. “The gotcha culture of politics is not in anyone’s interests,” he said.

Sam writes that “at the moment heads of press and special advisers request permanent anonymity in the media, shielded by the catchall, blame-all “spokesman” tag. Naming happens in America. Why can’t it happen here?” Sam, could it be because you go along with it?


625 Comments

  1. 1
    Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

    We need a British communications and Broadcasting service I ’spose

    • 13
    • 21

      Guido this is just froth. What matters is that Labour are concentrating on helping hard-working families through this difficult time.

      • 43
        no longer anonymous says:

        …by lowering everyone down to the same level.

        • 69
          Glasgow University Human Rights Campaigner George Laird says:

          Dear All,

          Gloomy, brisk day here in Glasgow (as is common! Wink!)

          Read Charles’ comment with my usual mind-numbing idiocy and resolved to write a reply with my usual pointless, why-doesn’t-this-git-go-pay-a-cheap-strumpet-to-end-all-our-misery loquacity.

          He begins (Ha! Funny word that, ‘beg’-ins’ Ha! I’m so clever!) by stating that Guido, which to my ears savours of a Portuguese or Italian etymology, speaking of which I was eating my dinner last night after crying for thirty minutes because Mummy forgot my birthday and when I rang her at Milngavie she swore and slammed down the phone (Ha! Funny word that, ‘pho’-'ne’), oops, must dash my computron is notifying me that the download is complete, must give me right-hand wrist a long repose before it starts ‘work’.

          Yours, living in profoundest futility,

          George Laird
          Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

        • 74
          J. Thomas Snapperknacker says:

          I see someone intoxicated with the exhuberance of their verbosity. Funny word that, in-’toxic’-'ate’-d.

        • 77
          nell says:

          43 no longer anonymous -

          well not everyone – mandy, m*alik,h**n,k*nnocks, to name just a few are getting spectacularly rich in this debacle that they call a labour government.

          Oh and let’s not forget the Lords selling favours like whores on a street corner and the illustrious baroness building italian marble palaces in bangladesh.

        • 89
          Glasgow University Human Rights Campaigner George Laird says:

          Dear All,

          Ha! You misspelt ‘exuberance’, in which you inserted a letter ‘h’ following the letter ‘x’ and preceding the letter ‘u’. Ha!

          Yours, living in profoundest futility,

          George Laird
          Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

        • 122
          Glasgow is a shithole says:

          George, you may be a wanker but at least you are a literate wanker. These days such a creature is a rare bird, or rara avis, as you would undoubtedly say if you were me, which to my everlasting relief and gratitude you are not.

        • 178
          J. Thomas Schnapperknacker says:

          Alleluia for George! Where would we peons be without our heroic yuman rights camp-pain-ers? Having to drink the bromptons without the benedictine.

        • 186
          mr wood says:

          Yeah well, they weren’t originally called The Levellers for nothing were they?

        • 224
          Fed up to the back teeth says:

          Get up in the morning have cup of tea and a ciggie TAXED
          Drive to work TAXED
          Call in petrol station TAXED
          Clock on TAXED
          Call in local for pint TAXED
          Pleased to get back to bed

        • 542
          Tax doesn't have to be taxing says:

          I think you have just given Gordon an idea for a few new taxes:

          Bed tax
          Sleep tax
          Snoring tax
          Sex tax
          Snooze tax
          Nap tax

          Lots of taxing opportunities there, not to mention the inspectors needed to police it all.

          Tax doesn’t have to be taxing though. Why not have your wages paid straight to HMRC and let them send you a credit for what’s left?

      • 58
        Half eyed Scottish idiot says:

        What about hard working individuals who don’t have families?

        Please don’t keep regurgitating Labour spin that means nothing.

      • 67
        Horace says:

        Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.

      • 79
        Socialism has murdered 150 million human beings pride says:

        Hardwank,

        I think its time scum like you need a CRB check (as beloved of your ZaNu trash owners) before you can post your shite on this board.

        • 92
          Warmongering capitalists and arms dealers have murdered 150 million human beings pride says:

          78,
          I think its time scum like you need a CRB check before you can post your shite on this board.

          RESULTS FOR NO 78’s CRB CHECK:
          ALERT! ALERT! NONCE ALERT NONCE ALERT! NO 78 – DEFINITELY A BN P NONCE, HOLD ON….YOU ARE NICK GRIFFIN AND YOU CAN KEEP YOUR £5 YOU NONCE!

        • 368
          Goat says:

          91 is a prick. How do I know this? It defends Socialism. Anybody who defends Socialism is by default a prick.

        • 395
          GOAT IS EITHER A) A CAPITALIST STOOGE PROPAGANDIST(RARE CREATURE THESE DAYS) OR b) AN IMBECILE says:

          Would you care to share with the class your evidence that I am a socialist?

        • 517
          working class and proud. says:

          even if you aint one your still a prick like goat said.

        • 527
          thick as shit says:

          a small smelly prick

      • 105
        Cicero says:

        Do tell – how does your omniscient Socialism differentiate those families that are hard-working from those which are not?

        • 124
        • 182
          Cyco Billy says:

          DNA and/or databases and profiling. All very complicated and pseudo-scientific. Best tell the proles it’s for their safety.

        • 238
          Jan says:

          If the curtains are closed at 9 am.Lazy b………..s.
          If woman has fingernails longer than half an inch.Lazy b………s
          If lights are on past 2 am.Lazy b……….s
          Lots of KFC buckets/McD boxes strewn about the place..Lazy b…….s
          Untidy front gardens with junkheap cars.Lazy b…….s
          Using minicabs to go shoppings.Lazy b……..s
          Their children skinny,smelly and pale.Lazy b………s
          OR fat,smelly and pale.Lazy b………s
          Strolling up and down the local high street like they owned it all times of the day and night.Lazy b…….s
          In the pub at opening time and still there at closing time.Lazy b……..s
          Their children still playing in the street at 10pm.Lazy b……….s
          In good weather sitting in their front garden for hours on end watching the world go by. Lazy b………..s
          Nu-Liebor’s ‘clients’.

        • 251
          Telly Addict says:

          That’s the last time I invite you round Jan

        • 304
          Magog says:

          Blimey Jan.

          God forbid you should make any transgressions.

          I like to sit in my garden on a sunny day and watch the world go by. I suppose that makes me a ‘lazy bastard’ does it?

          Perhaps I should be digging my own coal mine or something instead.

          You judgmental tosser!

        • 473
          Jan says:

          Magog 304. I said FRONT garden. Most people like a bit of peace, quiet and seclusion and usually sit in their BACK garden after a hard day at work. Lazy b…….s like to sit in the front.

        • 553
          Philosophical Gnome says:

          Lazy bastards like Anthony Steen MP you mean Jan?

          He’s the MP with a house the size of Balmoral we are all jealous of, and a front garden the size of the Peak District. I bet he’s never done a days work in his life that didn’t involve milking the taxpayer.

        • 608
          Jel says:

          Simple, socialist hard-workers are on the social security fiddle and anybody who has a job are capitalists. How stupid can you be.

      • 165
        pissed off pensioner says:

        More like helping bone idle tossers who have swarms of kids that us poor bastards have to keep. fuck the labour party

        • 306
          Magog says:

          Why are we still paying people to produce sprogs?

          I mean, it’s not as though we have a population shortage. We have an entire underclass whose entire reason d’etre seems to be to breed.

          Why do we reward this?

        • 433

          > Why do we reward this?

          We don’t Labour do!

          Only authoritarian idiots like socialism, and they need a group of dependent proles to jerrymander elections.

        • 616
          Gary Bushell says:

          UGH! If you saw the absolute mingers in the Labour Party you would know why I prefer not to.

      • 201
        Backbencher says:

        Helping “hardworking families” would start by reducing the current and future tax liabilities of those families and their growingchildren. The bloated state and the dependency created by Brown, his economic illiteracy as he refuses to do what every mother knows is right, that is, manage the finances, will kill Labour for a generation. Froth, the business of unattributable briefings may be, but it is killing the Labour party. The public have seen through it. Watch as Mandelson quietly destroys Brown by attributable and unattributable briefings.

      • 264
        Anonymous says:

        Read this, you wanker

        McBride ‘back working for government’

        LABOUR sources have claimed that disgraced spin doctor Damian McBride has begun operating once again behind the scenes for Labour government.
        Just weeks after McBride was forced to resign after writing an e-mail suggesting that Conservative leaders be smeared, insiders say the former special adviser is actively working for ministers again.

        Downing Street last night insisted McBride had not returned. But one respected party figure said that while the former adviser was not working at Number 10, he was engaged in informal briefings once again.

        * Last Updated: 13 June 2009 7:11 PM
        * Source: Scotland On Sunday

        • 282
          The Admiral says:

          Never doubted it for a moment………

        • 299
          labourwipeout says:

          He never left in the first place, this corrupt bunch of despotic goons have no scrupples what so ever. I see the Kinnochios have troughed to the tune of £8 million squid over the years and have multiple pensions ( sunday Times). New Labour for the many and not the few kinda sounds a bit weak now does it not !

      • 294
        Anonymous says:

        By doing what exactly ?

      • 397
        Anonymous says:

        Dear Charles

        “What matters is that Labour are concentrating on helping hard-working families through this difficult time”.

        Do you mean hard working expenses claiming Labour MPs?

        When did Brown ever help anyone poor?

        Grow up you halfwit!

        Yours sincerely

        George Laird
        The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

        ps if you were at Glasgow we would say ‘what a fanny’!

      • 402
        going down the pan says:

        as liebours core vote comes from the” out for nout” class the “spogers of the under class” and “cuckoos of this country” your misguided idea that lie bore is remotely intrested in “working people ” just makes me think you are a windup merchant or a twat!

    • 24
      Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

      I meant to double check facts and the detail, whilst being neutral, before broadcasting the information and leaving political rumourizing and scandal to Guido Fawkes to get on with…

  2. 2
    backwoodsman says:

    Morning Fawkes, late night at the maison secondair ? Pretty please, find something really really squalid to finish off those thieving fucks, the kinnocks.

    • 5
      Lefty Revisionist Historian says:

      Neil Kinnock, the Roman Abramovich of troughers. What the fuck do they do with £10m anyway? Bathe in cash?

      Fucking socialist troughers of the highest order. Not only do the Labour Party apparatchiks think this is acceptable, they even bring them back into Government to show their approval. Maybe McSkidmark is hoping to borrow some cash from the Kinnock’s for the next election.

      Can someone please tell me what Socialism stands for these days, apart from filling your boots with our cash?

      • 15
        Solopsist says:

        I cannot believe I voted for Blair in 97. I even stuffed envelopes for the lying smeg. Needless to say I won’t make the same mistake by voting for Labour again, or for anyone else for that matter.

        My mind is now my own, no matter what Harriet Harman would have me believe.

        Socialism means suck my dick whilst I relieve you of your wallet. Nothing more, nothing less.

        • 45
          Anonymous says:

          Sorry, but I can’t help but blame you and your blinkered ilk for ruining my country. Why didn’t you know better? Were you too busy contemplating the plot to Eastenders?

        • 54
          Ian E says:

          Well, stupidity has its just desserts sometimes!

        • 62
          Pope Tony I says:

          Took you 12 years to work it out though!!

          LOL!!

        • 83
          Anonymous says:

          You should vote even if you admit to a mistake in the past. There are plenty of candidates to choose from.

        • 130

          Solopsist – is that you, Cherie?

        • 152
          Solopsist says:

          Leave my cherry out of it.

        • 166
          Unsworth says:

          @ 15

          Is this something you really wish to share with us?

        • 177
          Solopsist says:

          I am having a Hazel Blears moment today. I’ll probably do a Milliband tomorrow and decide to vote Labour again, the party for plebs and barrow boys.

          I just wish I knew what to think. I wish the government would tell me one more time. Where’s Harriet Harman when you need her?

        • 526
          RobC says:

          Do not understand your logic mate.If you voted Labour in 97 and made a mistake but will not vote for anyone else on the premise that your original choice failed you – you could wind up sucking a socialist’s dick again by default of not having voted for someone else.

        • 562
          Solopsist says:

          That’s a very good point RobC.

          Having seen most of our 650 MP’s engaged in serial troughing over the last month I cannot vote for any of the major parties. Voting for any of the smaller ones is probably a wasted vote. There is UKIP, but they look to me like they can’t wait to get their fingers in the till.

          I seem to be stuck between a cock and a hard place then.

      • 16
        chronic says:

        “The fair redistribution of wealth” I get all the wealth that seems fair to the Kinnock dynasty.

        • 265
          Builders Crack says:

          An undisclosed source has revealed that Brown performed an act of cunnilingus on the Kinnock woman who reciprocated by performing an act of fellatio on his wee prick. Mandelson it is revealed,filmed these sex acts to blackmail Brown at a later date. The undisclosed source also revealed that while filming Mandy had his knob jammed in a bottle(small) of a cheap brand of brown sauce.

      • 20

        Socialism is a system for economic wealth destruction.

        Socialism is a mental illness with three main symptoms
        Narcissism, Envy and Projection.

        • 76
          Revolutionary comin' right back atcha says:

          Capitalism is a system for economic wealth destruction.

          Capitalism is a mental illness with three main symptoms
          Narcissism, Envy and Projection.

          My statement is truer than yours.

        • 101
          Vicky Pollard says:

          Wotever

        • 103
          ANTICITIZENONE YOU MY BITCH NOW MOTHERFUCKER GONNA FUCK YOU REAL GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! says:

          FUCK OFF YOU FAT C’UNT.

        • 118
          Vicky Pollard says:

          yeah but, no but, yeah but, you fuck off you fattist cuntist socialist piggest knobhole

        • 123
          Sir William Waad says:

          We don’t have a capitalist system, at least in the sense Marx would have understood. Out system is essentially corporatist, with an element of free-market. A true free-market system would be strongly anti-capitilast because Governments would have to fight monopoly power in order to enforce such a free market.

        • 129

          Your statement is rubbish.

          Capitalism is a way of storing your time, unfortunately governments have decided to extort vast sums of this time for their own ends (which are not those of the general public).

          Wealth = Unforced Reciprocal Exchange of Time.

          Barter = Non-Temporal exchange of time.

          Capitalism is an upgrade to Barter that allows people to exchange their future time for goods now.

          Temporal Barter is much more efficient and allows much more time to be exchanged, hence Capitalist countries are much cleaner and wealthier places than places which unfortunately followed Marxist idiocy.

          Marxism is a system which asserts that all people are owned by the state there is very little unforced exchange of time and the economy slowly collapses as more force is used to try and keep it going.

        • 143
          Sniper says:

          Except for the projection.

        • 187
          Free (as in speech, not as in beer) Thinker says:

          Every ism is a system for economic wealth destruction.

          Every ism is a mental illness with three main symptoms
          Narcissism, Envy and Projection.

          Free your mind, and your donkey will follow.

        • 188
          Half eyed Scottish idiot says:

          OK all you stupid lefties that don’t believe in capitalism.

          Give me all your money that you think is wrong to have and fcuk off to your socialist paradise.

        • 245

          Free Thinker,

          Your moniker should be worthless thoughts.

          You only have to understand the process of comparative advantage and that money = time to understand why capitalism creates wealth and socialism destroys it.

        • 269
          Allan@Aberdeen says:

          Capitalism works. Capitalism is about people earning their own money through their own efforts and taking responsibility for it. If they do well, it’s to their credit and if they do badly, it’s their fault. This holds true for plumbers and tradesmen, engineers and professionals, and entrepreneurs right the way up to Branson, Berlusconi and Murdoch: IT’S THEIR MONEY. What we have now is corporatism (public and private sectors – look at how easily they move from say, the EU Commission to BP, agreed Peter Sutrherland?) where those at the upper levels are enriching themselves, without merit, on OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. The troughers aren’t just the likes of the Kinnocks: the same thieving scumbag mentality is found in Shell, RBS etc. Corporate theft across all sectors, and the bastards are getting away with it.

        • 319
          Austrian Economist says:

          Ach so. As I was saying to von Mises just the night: Zahlen sind Symbole des Vergänglichen.

        • 437
          going down the pan says:

          i think min yourson has had plenty of “HP” brown sauce in his timei i would imagine he jumps at every chance to cover his sausage in browns sauce !

        • 619
          Karl Marx says:

          What creates the wealth is the first place?

      • 25
        Boyo From The Valleys says:

        Leave Neil and Glenys alone. If it wasn’t for all their work on behalf of the poor, the deprived, ethnic minorities and those of unusual sexuality in Labour heartlands, these areas would be blighted with poverty, industrial decline, crime, drug addiction, racial tension and misery.

        You only need to look at constituencies held by the greedy Tory capitalists to see the awful standard of living inflicted on their constituents by these parasites.

        Top socialists thoroughly deserve their fancy town houses and their farms, their property portfolios and their multi-million fortunes for the sterling work they do.

        • 29
          chronic says:

          Anyone who has got the bollocks to fuck a sheep gets my vote.

        • 33
          Sodomite says:

          Sheep shagging sheep. Sounds OK to me.

        • 36
          Stronghold Barricades says:

          Its all within the rules

        • 46
          The LGBT police squad says:

          “unusual sexuality in Labour”

          That comment is offensive, you will be hearing from us shortly.

        • 153
          Anonymous says:

          Pity that wave didnt haul him into the sea

        • 228
          Little princess on board says:

          The thieving Kinnocks are proof positive that intelligence and talent are handicaps in politics. To get to the top you simply need brass-necked hypocrisy. The blathering boyo vowed to abolish the house of lords (the next minute he was in it). He vowed to leave the EU (the next minute he was commissioner). Now he and his missus have enough cash to carpet Snowdonia. It’s appropriate that he comes from Wales where living on state handouts is the lifestyle of choice. Meet the Kinnocks – world class parasites.

        • 263
          Two faced cocksucker says:

          The House of Lords must go — not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

          Neil Kinnock
          Tribune, 19 November, 1976.

      • 42
        A Logician says:

        Same as it ever did – Dictatorship of the Proleteriat (Copyright 1867 Karl Marx) – marx’s concept of socialist leadership.

        If you cook that 19th century narrative up with 20th c. semiotics, the “temporary” appropriation of the workers’ surplus value by the revolutionary clique is exactly analogous to the “temporary” appropriation of workers’ cash by the bankster clique. Thus the champagne socialists must, as a historical necessity, fill their boots upon becoming the Dictators of the Proles. Kooky logic, but as they say – when a bear’s gotta go in the woods, the bear’s gotta go in the woods.

        By similar reasoning, of course, what should be the fate of banksters goes, pari passus, for the little dictators.

        • 91
          Karl Marx says:

          Lend me a tenner…..

        • 131

          The credit bubble (i.e. using credit for consumption) was regulated into existence.

          It was done because
          a) It masked the falling living standards caused by excessive government,
          b) Governments tax consumption (idiotically) and the credit boom allowed them to extort far more than normal.

        • 193
          A Logician says:

          Karl, certainly I will help a fellow human in need. A tenner for your porn you say? Adjusted to 1867 values, and without compound usury (my money, so take it or leave it), what would you say that amounts to? I know there’s not a lot of arithmetic in your books, but Net Present Value is surely not beyond anyone who calls themselves an economist. Two crumbs and half a sugar mouse it is then.

        • 239
          Karl Marx says:

          A Logician,
          Thanks comrade – Factor in LGD etc.; your capital requirements to cover such a risk should be a couple of sucks of a gobstopper.

          Karl

          Opps; spoke with Gordon, your capital requirements are fuck all.

        • 291
          Dai din the wool says:

          Chronic at 29 says you need bollocks to shag a sheep.

          No boyo wellies are better.

      • 300
        labourwipeout says:

        it stands for what it has always stood for ” hypocricy and envy laden politics”

      • 360
        go14 campeign to keep labour out of power for a generation says:

        socialism has always been for the few not the many.always,never worked,never will.

    • 34
      Judge Dread says:

      Perhaps the Europe Union was keen to get rid of Glenys Kinnock and send her back to the UK.

      See was recently assessed as 71 out of 78 on UK MEPS – one of the bottom 10%.

      Glenys was told of her poor assessment before she agreed to come back to help Gordon but the report was published after her move was publicly announced.

      http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/06/03/kinnock-one-of-the-bottom-10-meps-says-report-91466-23775089/

      In my company we fire the bottom 10% every year.

      It’s a pity we can’t do the same for the lunatic Gordon.

      • 179
        Herr + Frau Kinnochio, Welsh-Windbags-'n-Troughers-R-Us, - whispering a loud aside, says:

        They’re onto us!

        Hide the pension books and pretend we know nothing.

        - ‘cos like Gorgon, – nuthin’s our fault!

      • 309
        Vote Labour says:

        To be fair she cant have much time to devote to her “work” what with all that fucking money to spend. Vote Labour !

      • 331
        Shithead says:

        Glenys is a useless bloody ex-teacher.

      • 620
        Jeff Skilling says:

        I did not get where I am today by keeping the worst performing 10% of my company.

    • 40
      A NON says:

      Kinnock’s £10 million is for pay, allowances and pensions and EXCLUDES directorships, patrons, and board memberships.

      Kinnock was paid £33,000 in 2008 as director of DRS Data Services, the company blamed for the delays and errors in the Scottish elections in Hollyrood.

      Kinnock is a director of a company involved in national elections – WAKE UP BRITAIN, WAKE UP TO THE KINNOCKS…FFS!!!!!

    • 50
      The Most Hon., The Lord Kinnock says:

      I’d rather see all of Denbighshire up in flames and the rugby team at St. David’s buggering squirrels before I let you tamper with me pretty little earner.
      As I said to Thatcher on the hustings, “F$%* off Sasenach c*#^!

      • 71
        Ginger Chipmunk says:

        Me first. Me first. I wanna come back and play with the boys. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

        • 236
          Matt C says:

          Karl Marx was a scrounging twat who never saw or did a days honest work.

          He sat bumming about living off his rich friends money all day doing nothing but sipping coffee and dreaming up ideas that would disguise the fact that he was a worthless and inferior twat an ideology that would excuse and even glorify that he was a useless twat as if it was something to be proud off

          He was an oxygen theif of the highest order and hoped that other useless middle class workshy twats like him would be able to flourish thanks to his sad ideology.

          The greatest irony about those two clowns Marx and Engels… where they were the very bourgeois twats they wrote at length about with jealousy and wanted to destroy.

          They projected themselves as working class when they where anything they where wolves in sheeps clothing as social mobility is in the true working class mans benefit and dreams. The working class end up nothing but worthless slaves and chattel under marxism with no hope of ever advancing themselves beyond the status quo.

          The Labour party of today also mirrors this supereme comedy when you have a party full of Lords and Lawyers, preaching about the evil middle and upper class that they themselves are and claiming to stand for the workers yet restricts and cripples and enslaves them at anytime.

        • 241
          Karl Marx says:

          Matt C

          I take exception to your remarks!! I demand compensation – I think about a tenner would do.

        • 246
          Matt C says:

          The long and short of it is Karl Marx was a hypocritical trougher like the scum in parliament.

          People need to start questioning every Marxist that tries to influence your opinion. Find out what job they have if any? How much they earn, how many times they go on holiday etc. etc.

          I say this because through this you will find out their hypocritical nature of these people such as Polly Toynbee who supposedly earns 100k+ a year from the Guardian and has a holiday villa in Tuscany she supposedly splits her year up visiting amongst her nice pad in blighty.

          What does a parasite like Ms Toynbee know about the working class and their day to day struggle.

          Living off other peoples money yet enforcing how everyone else lives their lives. Never contributing a days honest wage or work to the benefit of society. Just take, take, taking everything they can and yet we’re forced to listen to them as if they are our betters??

          These people are no better than train robbers morally, financially and ideological, which in a way is an insult to Ronnie Biggs who has more class in his little finger than these scum who should be jailed or hung.

        • 255
          Karl Marx says:

          Bugger, I think I’ve got the Trots…

        • 257
          working class and proud. says:

          It’s in the interests of the ”Working” class, ”Middle” Class and ”Rich” to put aside their differences for once and rid themselves from these marxist piranhas who live off all our money and then play us against each other and try and destory us so they can continue creating more of themselves.

        • 353
          thick as thieves says:

          why are you wankers so obsessed with karl marx?
          stop promoting marxism you tits. what are you reactionaries trying to do, start a revolution? motherfuckers.
          oh and this country is half capitalist and half communist to be precise.
          ’tis a mixed economy, the best kind.
          I mean take the NHS, you couldn’t get more communist if you fucking tried, innit.
          now all we have to do is get far better value for taxpayers money and we also need to get the rich skinflints like david cameron and gideon and aschcroft(tax evader) to pay their share instead of scrounging off the public purse and evading paying their fair share of tax.
          oh and ofcourse we also need a major housebuilding project to begin like, er yesterday.
          WAKE UP BROWN AND MANDESLON YOU FUCKING DOPEY C’UNTS!
          SHOVE YOUR CONSTIUTIONAL REFORM UP YOUR ARSEHOLES YOU CRETINS, NEVER MIND THE BULLSHIT, START BUILDING HOUSES YOU SP@ASTICS!
          YOU WILL NEED TO BUILD ATLEAST 100,000 PER YEAR EVERY YEAR FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS TO NEUTRALISE THE FASCIST THREAT IN THIS COUNTRY.
          STOP RIMMING AND START BUILDING YOU FUCKING USELESS WANKERS.

        • 365
          Marxist appreciation unit says:

          If ever you’re caught short in Highgate Karl Marx is buried in Highgate Cemetree

        • 530
          thick as shit says:

          we have enough houses. too many people is the problem. too many marxists

        • 621
          A Lecturer says:

          Polly has a regularly column writing on social issues and in 2003 she published the book ‘Hard Work: Life in Low-paid Britain’ based on her own experiences of living on the minimum wage.

      • 278
        Tattooed_Arry says:

        “……………Saeson (singular: Sais), meaning originally Saxon; and: Eingl, denoting:-Angles, meaning Englishmen in modern Welsh.”

        Sorry to quote from wiki. The word sassennach (sp?) is scottish. The welsh are said , by wiki, to have two words for the English, shown above.
        I disagree with wiki, when I lived in Wales, I was referred to by a welsh word meaning “maggot/leech”, and a number of equally “nice” terms.
        I, and number of friends, were also beaten up for using English in a Welsh shop, they waited until we had paid for our shopping before doing so though.

        • 451
          going down the pan says:

          i liked all the marx bro’s that one with the cigar and glasses was a hoot !

      • 295
        Onan the Rotarian says:

        Scottish term Sassenach, Welsh term Sais.

      • 507
        Jan says:

        Matt C… 246 It appears that Ms Toynbee is a relative of old jug-ears Andrew Marr.She failed her Eleven Plus exam and ended up at Holland Park Comprehensive…(I cannot see how it could possibly be a proper Comprehensive when Grammar schools were still operating in that area). She got one A level but still managed to get into Oxford.How strange that was when many of my peers had far better A level and S level qualifications and they didn’t manage to get into Oxbridge.

        • 614
          Tattooed_Arry says:

          I thought you had to have classics for Oxbridge, Latin or Greek?
          I wasn’t aware they did classics at Holland Park.

      • 583
        Saint David says:

        Lord Kinnock,

        I’m surprised you still know where Denbighshire is, tbh.

        After being in Brussels for so long I thought you’d ‘gone native’ on us.

        Now really impress me and find Anglesey on a map.

        You slap-headed sucker of Satan’s cock

  3. 3
    Katabasis says:

    What about whistleblowers?

    • 10
      chronic says:

      “I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman” Dee, Lenny was the best whistleblower.

    • 86
      Eric "The Python" Idle says:

      “Always Look On the Bright Side of Life” was the most ironic tho (a la nine inch nails).

      • 586
        Michael Palin says:

        Eric,

        Your music is excellent, of course.

        But I am Top Python Member, even surpassing that arrogant Cleese bloke, cos everyone loves my travel progs and thinks I am a really, really nice guy.

        So there!! Nerrrrrrrrrrr!!!

  4. 4
    Anonymous says:

    What about a story of that Kinnock bitch giving Gordon a blow job while stuffing a greased milk bottle up Mandys arse.

    • 28
      Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

      This thread is about unatributed facts; it was a bottle of shateau westminster weiss

      • 44
        • 98
          ANTICITIZENONE YOU MY BITCH NOW MOTHERFUCKER GONNA FUCK YOU REAL GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! says:

          NO, WE GONNA GREEEEASSE YOU UP MOTHERFUCKER!
          FOR SURE.

        • 132

          Your caps-lock needs greasing.

        • 356
          STOP MOANING BITCH AND TAKE IT OH YEAH! ANITICITZENONE MY BITCH NOW MOTHERFUCKERS THAT'S RIGHT! says:

          GREASE YOU UP LIKE A PIG.
          SQUEAL PIGGY!
          PIGGY GONNA GET IT GOOD.
          OH YEAH!

        • 386
          thick as shit says:

          I suppose you think that this retarded strategy advances the cause of socialism in the great quest for utopia. Useful Idiot? Fucking Useless Cretin more like.

          Stalin would have had you beaten to death with leather strops.

        • 414
          thick as thieves says:

          “please Lord, give me strength. I have been on the battlefield doing your good work for many, many moons now. I have bashed out the brains of hundreds and hundreds of trolls and I have been true and I have held the line.
          but now I am tired Lord and I beg your divine help.
          tell me Lord, what am I doing wrong? I try to heal these lepers and I try to show the thieves what they must do to save their souls but they spit in my face and mock me.
          they taunt me and call me a socialist simply because I believe in the decent treatment of each and every citizen. they call me a fool because I believe we should not occupy other peoples lands and rather than perpetually fighting we should enjoy the dividends of peace: instead of suffering the exponential deficits of war.
          what am I doing wrong Lord?”
          the Lord liked thick as thieves because he was a good laugh so he answered the brave hero’s plea for guidance.
          “You are not doing anything wrong thick as thieves.
          I had the same problem when I sent them Jesus and Ghandi.
          I tried the peace shit but now I’ve had enough of these c’unts.
          You must bash as many of these motherfuckers brains out as you can while you have breath in your body.
          That’s an order. Oh, and start with those two black magic satanists Brown and Mandelson.”
          tat replied “I’m on the motherfucking case.”
          Amen.

        • 532
          thick as shit says:

          what are you doing wrong?

          you keep breathing me ol’ son.

        • 617
          er, could you write that again but this time in English? thankyou retard says:

          what are you doing wrong?

          you keep breathing me ol’ son.

    • 37
      The Beast Of Clerkenwell says:

      I think you will find that McMental would prefer both the milk bottle and blow job from Lord Fondlesthebums of boys

    • 95
      Lubricating a story says:

      Go easy on the grease!

    • 280
      Tattooed_Arry says:

      Grease, you poofs!
      I’d lubricate it with chilli sauce and sharp sand.
      And knock it in with a wooden mallet.

    • 452
      going down the pan says:

      does that make him a dairy fairy ?

  5. 6
    Catosays says:

    Just posted this on my blog.

    Read it here

  6. 6
    mitch says:

    Pah! milliband Mr “I was almost courageous” but the reality is this is his last chance to be in government before senility consigns him to the lords and he couldn’t pull his face out of the trough …..pitiful really.
    If he has actually had a good idea he must have stolen it or been given it.

  7. 8
    Plato says:

    Mr Fawkes – any plans to still publish the Hoon Guide to Developing Your Property Portfolio?

    • 22
      nell says:

      If he has I think it needs expanding to take in the troughing k*nnocks and their empire – have you seen that palace in Wales!!!! (not to mention a house in London and another in Brussels sold for a good profit, and perhaps also some investigation into how mandy funded a £2.5 million home in London.

      Such financial wizards these labour folk!!!!

    • 602
      Sylvia's Mother says:

      Guido was going to do the Hoon Property thing but then got sidetracked by the Kinnocks which is so much bgger and covers the whole of Europe!

  8. 9

    So now, any journalists who have ever had any off the record briefing from Mr Miliband should come forward and attribute the source to him.

    • 55
      A Logician says:

      Contrariwise, any journalist who has ever had any off the record briefing against Foreign Agent Milliband should come forward and attribute the source. Private jet for foreign holidays, for example.

  9. 11
    Anonymous says:

    Seems like one of our elderly residents has been making judgements on one of our cabinet members.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1192898/Hes-crafty-b—-says-elderly-council-tenant-lived-flat-Shahid-Malik-snapped-nothing.html

    • 53
      nell says:

      He obviously has a fine eye for a quick profit – he’ll make a good property shark when his time in government comes to end as it will shortly.

      • 493
        Jan says:

        Even if this property was falling down (which he said it was)it was worth a darn sight more than he paid for it. Southwark Council b………….s.

        • 535
          nell says:

          Was it councillors or officers who gave him the nod??

          Needs investigating because someone got a backhander here !!!! Who were they????

    • 603
      Sylvia's Mother says:

      How this guy got elected is beyond me. A serial TROUGHER of the worst kind and the word SPIV comes to mind. Shane Ritchie was lucky to get the Arthur Daley part when he did as Malik was the clear front runner!

  10. 12
    Pat says:

    How’s about a letter/blog post/article as appropriate to the effect that “I believe you’re making this up”, embellished to suit the piece, wherever an unattributed report is encountered?

  11. 14
    president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says:

    Don’t you fcuking lecture me about democracy, you twats Brown and Miliband. At least I gave the people of Iran an election and they were given the chance to elect me as President.

    I’m thinking of fcuking invading the UK to restore democracy and get rid of the unelected dictator. Sadam Brown shock and awe, here we come

    • 18
      Ken Dodds Dads Dogs Dead says:

      The president has a point. Not only is Brown unelected, but so is half the cabinet. How can we talk about change in Iran?!

    • 19
      Catosays says:

      Somebody get another lamp post please!

    • 63
      A Logician says:

      Sorry to be a nuisance, but for the sake of exactitude, can I read that as “Sad Dame Brown shock and awe, here we come”?

    • 233
      Voting floater says:

      I won’t vote for any candidate who can’t spell “fuck”.

    • 467
      going down the pan says:

      invade by all means but please dont make us wear those fucking suits you made our sailors wear !

  12. 23
    president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says:

    Miliband the cowardly twat is hedging his bets, playing both sides against the middle, sitting on the fence, having a foot in both camps, having the best of both worlds, swinging both ways.

    “Cowards die many times in their lives, the Valiant taste of death but once”.

    Miliband must be sick of dieing, the obnoxious little twat.

    • 274
      Sailor says:

      For a Persian Chappie you have a wonderful command of the English language. Were you perchance educated at Eton?

    • 335
      thick as shit says:

      Milibandero is a slimy little twot who is just watching to see which way the crow flies.

    • 337
      Shithead says:

      Dying

    • 604
      Sylvia's Mother says:

      Miliband UK Foreign Minister fresh out of diapers. Christ he dos not look much older 12 real gravitas – I don’t think. What is even worse he acts like 12 and with an IQ about the same. Christ I want to screeeeeaaaaammmmm.

  13. 26
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    I wonder which spokesman he got that story from?

  14. 27

    For Labour, democratic renewal is intended to forge a new relationship between government and citizen, so that Britain is better equipped to respond to the challenges that lie ahead. We want to create a society where power is held accountable and where individuals are able to maximise control over their own lives. That core objective is what has guided the substantial programme of constitutional change which we have undertaken since 1997.

    • 49
    • 52
      no longer anonymous says:

      You have failed.

    • 56
      chronic says:

      democratic-unelected cabinet and PM.
      new relationship between government and citizen-do as I say not what do.
      respond to the challenges that lie ahead-debt debt debt debt and yet more debt
      power is held accountable-bills rushed through parliament with no scrutiny.
      substantial programme of constitutional-Suddenly a priority when Liebour vote crashes
      You make some good points if you are a propagandist.

    • 59
      Adrian Prole says:

      Dear Charles,

      Could you please decorate my lounge? You are obviously a good cut & paste merchant. Cash in hand, no receipt.

    • 60
      Graphics Fidelity says:

      Nothing about socialism there then. It’s obviously a dirty word in your circle.

    • 82

      For Conservatives, democratic renewal is intended to forge a new relationship between government and citizen, so that Britain is better equipped to respond to the challenges that lie ahead. We want to create a society where power is held accountable and where individuals are able to maximise control over their own lives. That core objective is what hasn’t guided Labour’s insubstantial programme of constitutional change which they have undertaken since 1997.

      • 243
        Jethro says:

        81 Dear “Charles E Hardwidge”: your last sentence intrigues me:
        “That core objective is what hasn’t guided Labour’s insubstantial programme…”
        A couple of unnoticed negatives there? -or merely a couple of ‘typos’?.
        Obviously, NL has not been trying to “create a society where power is held accountable…”
        I think the time has now come for me to shout, ‘You are Daniel Hannan, and I claim my 1p!’

    • 85
      City of Vice says:

      Hardwidge,you increasingly sound like a commie speak your weight machine.

      The best way you and your incompetent, thieving band of Nulab hoons could do ‘hardworking families’ ‘REAL’ benefit would be to shut up and fuck off.

    • 111
      Jack Black from Viz (getting political!) says:

      For Labour, democratic renewal is doublespeak for the relationship between pervasive government and client citizen, so that Britain’s government is better equipped to avoid accountability to the latter in its responses to the challenges that lie ahead. We want to create a society where power only appears to be held accountable and where individuals only appear to be able to maximise control over their own lives. That core objective is what has guided the substantial programme of constitutional change which we have undertaken since 1997. Otherwise known as the LONG MARCH.

    • 112
      Alibarbs says:

      So that would be why all your so called socialist buddies have been lining their pockets as much as they can since getting into power.

      Socialism? Caring about working families? Don’t make me laugh – the only people you thieving scum care about is yourselves.

      • 128
        Marjorie Proops says:

        Your another ex-Labour supporter aren’t you deary?

      • 136

        An “elite” politburo class troughing while the country goes down the tubes IS socialism.

        Well, it’s what happens every single time without fail, that it’s tried.

    • 234
      Voting floater says:

      Here’s a picture of Charles on his moped, giving a lift to his only friend.

      http://failblog.org/2009/05/06/helmet-fail-2/

    • 605
      Sylvia's Mother says:

      Nothing more to say then BOLLOCKS. Any worthwhile debate would be wasted on YOU.

  15. 31
    Gogglebox says:

    I don’t know why I bother with Google. Whatever the question is, the answer is always Wikipedia. I’ll just go straight to Wikipedia in future.

    OK, off topic, but there was nowhere else to complain.

  16. 32
    Robert Mugabe says:

    “Robert Mugabe once was hailed as a symbol of the new Africa, but under his rule the health and well-being of his people have dropped dramatically, which is as much an abuse of human rights as arbitrary arrest and torture.”

    This is the crap they write about me!!! At least I allow elections.

    Your Brown fellow gives us Marxists a bad name

  17. 35
    Charles Hardwidge says:

    Brown apparently ousted, Mandelson installed as executor of public power in all but name, then the dowdy spinster Boyle, what now Miliband? Alright, very well, LabourList’s cheque better arrive early this week…

    David Miliband, as the best man for the occasion, is carrying on with the job of steering the national economy through the worst financial catastrophe since the Great Depression, which began in America, to generate employment for millions of hard-working British families who rely on essential services funded by government which the nasty, kitten-eating Tories would cut to satisfy the recreational cruelty of their aristocratic toff patrons all in the alleged design of reducing a debt which Nu Labour are certain to pay off before the next election and which it was necessary to contract so that things didn’t grow worse and we can all see dividends of Nu Labour investment sprouting now as we’re best placed in the world to weather the storm and the situation is far more dire overseas in non-Nu Labour countries.

  18. 38
    president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says:

    With Blears, Flint, Smith et al, I hear that the UK is full of illegal WMD’s (Women of Mass Destruction).

    30% turn-out x 15% of the vote = 5% of the total eligible voters voted for Sadam Brown’s Ba’ath Party. Now that I have been freely elected as President of Iran in a free democratic election I’m going to restore democracy in the UK by nuking into oblivion.

    Shukran and Long live democracy

    • 502
      Big Nig says:

      Tell me, Mahmoud, did you do it the hard way?

      (Damon Runyon reference will be lost if you haven’t read him.)

  19. 39
    Sick of Politicians says:

    It gives Brown a way of briefing against his colleagues, to keep them down. That is likely to continue all the way to the election now. It also gives those who would depose him a way of keeping dissatisfaction with Brown’s appalling leadership in the headlines, and ensures that talk of leadership challenges will not go away.

    There’s a civil war going on in Labour, and this is one way in which they choose to fight it.

    • 64
      nell says:

      I wonder who was briefing against Hazel a couple of days ago. Some of the original plotters complained publicly that Yvette was doing gordon’s dirty work by trying to persuade the plotters constituency parties to deselect them. Seems she might have succeeded in Hazel’s case.

      What a fine, upstanding, honest, moral lot they are.

  20. 51
    Robert Mugabe says:

    Hello der!
    Why do you put up with homosexual brown?
    Here we would beat him and his boyfriend Fondlebum
    Our economy is stronger than yours,we have banned Peter Hain,the Kinnocks are not welcome and the sun shines.
    Come to Zimbabwe its better than that shit hole you whiteys live in.

    • 110
      Anonymous says:

      Listen pal. Britain is not a shithole. There is more than enough of this green and pleasant land to die for. Granted, there are certain enclaves that mirror palestine but green shoots pop up in concrete car parks

    • 212
      Matt C says:

      10 quid gets me 6,000 new Zimbab Dollars. Which where worth 10billion old Zimbab Dollars since Feb 1st 2009.

      I MIGHT JUST TAKE YOU UP ON YOUR OFFER MR MUGABE.

  21. 57
    president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says:

    95% of eligible voters in the UK did not vote for Brown’s Labour Ba’ath party and they dare to lecture me about democracy when I received 65% of the Iranian votes.

    Do not worry people of the UK, we the people of the Islamic Republic of Iran will set you free. We already have a fleet of Dhow ships with nuclear weapons heading your way.

  22. 61
    Trough Mixture says:

    From where you are, you can hear them trough…..

    (apologies to DT)

  23. 65
    James Purnell mp says:

    Milliblink shafted me.

    • 72
      Milibonk says:

      Never mind James, you’ll soon be back in Gordon’s cabinet of all the celebrities.

      • 508
        An anally retentive film buff who thinks Quentin Tarantino's shitty new film is a masterpiece says:

        Don’t you mean “Dr Caligari’s Cabinet”?

    • 572
      I'll have some of that says:

      No – just your picture…..

  24. 68
    Gordon Bum says:

    “He’s behind you!”

    Gordon (Widow Twankey) says, “Shut your f***ing face you little c***ts, or I’ll tax yer sweets.”

  25. 70
    president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says:

    Even in Iran we allow democratically run riots to run riot when people don’t agree with election results.

    In the UK all dissention against Brown’s ruling ba’ath party is obliterated and quelled and all sorts of unelected twats are elevated to positions of absolute power over the oppressed people of the UK.

    And you Sadm Brown dare to lecture me on Human Rights when you don’t even give your own people the basic human right to elect their leader and who now rules with 5% backing of the electorate.

    Shukran and long live democracy

    • 102
      A Logician says:

      Presi, you are a bit slippery with your words. Can I read that as short for “Sad man Brown”?

  26. 73

    Labour believes everyone is of equal worth and entitled to respect. Our vision is of an equal, inclusive society where there is opportunity for every citizen regardless of gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, race, religion or belief. Labour is the party of equality. From challenging disability discrimination, to tackling the pay gap and racism and introducing the Human Rights Act, Labour has been at the forefront of change. We have done more than any government in history to support opportunity for all. We should be proud of our record, but we recognise that there is more to do to attack prejudice and ensure that every one of our citizens is treated equally.

    • 81
      president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says:

      Well why the fcuk did only 5% of the UK electorate vote for this Sadam Brown Ba’ash party eutopia?

    • 87
      Anonymous says:

      You and your Socialist buddies are of no value whatsever Hardwank

    • 97
      nell says:

      That will be why then, my grand child has ended up disabled through the errors of a not fit for purpose paediatric unit. A unit persistently underfunded under this Labour Government.

      A letter of complaint to the Minister for Health elicited a garbled response from the ‘worthy’ shopaholic Phil H*ope about the Labour policy document ‘Every Child Matters’ and how it was bringing equality to every child.

      Every child, that is, that was not failed by it and by Labour – but he missed that point – or avoided it more like.

      • 262
        Jethro says:

        … from the other end of the scale, nell, I know something of this: my wife worked for forty years as a Nurse in the NHS: when she fell and broked her arm and shoulder-joint, the local NHS sent us home with NO TREATMENT, a ‘collar and cuff’ of the wrong size, and loads of lies about ‘the only shoulder-surgeon.. on holiday…’. But for a retired G.P. I had just got to know, that would have been it. We asked for a second referral, to another NHS Hospital, where, by the time she was admitted, the bone had re-joined, so had to be cut and re-aligned, and a huge metal spike put in, the pain from which she feels every hour of every day.
        While in this hospital, she was i. almost killed by ‘nurses’ who would have allowed her drip to run out, allowing air to enter her veins and cause death, ii. told off for turning her drip off, before it got to this state iii. shouted at by ‘nurses’ when, post operation, she had got herself to the lavatory, and they yelled, ‘you didn’t get out of the bed that side, you’re not to get to get in it that side: go round!’. Of course, it was a mixed ward. The night nurses spent all the night at their ’station’, talking and laughing loudly. Of course, she contracted ‘D&V’, which persisted for days after we got her home. ‘Wash our hands? That’s for visitors!’ ‘Hygiene? Can’t be bothered with that…’ ‘Care and sensitivity?… I’m a Nurse – paid the minimum wage, for heaven’s sake! Anyway, gotta go now: my shift’s over, thank God!’

      • 272
        jonesy says:

        Would that be the same Hope who is the Hon Member for Corby and who claimed for two barbecues and garden furniture, despite living in a first-floor flat?

        Knut. Double knut.

    • 121
      Napoleon the pig. says:

      4 legs good, but 2 legs best!

    • 137

      > Labour believes everyone is of equal worth and entitled to respect.

      You see that’s where Labour is totally wrong, and false assumptions create disastrous systems.

      Everyone should be treated equally by the state, by everyone is of different worth.
      Respect is earned and is not an entitlement.

    • 191
      13eastie says:

      Hardon writes:

      “We should be proud of our record, but we recognise that there is more to do to attack prejudice and ensure that every one of our citizens is treated equally.”

      Get this into your thick head, you prick:

      I AM FUCKING WELL NOT ONE OF LABOUR’S CITIZENS

    • 574
      I'll have some of that says:

      Opportunity for all MP’s….meaningless exams and degrees…..equality of ignorance……recruitment of BNP MEP’s……a Human Rights Act that has us banging up people indefinitely instead of sending them back to face charges where they came from……forefront of change? Liberal Fascism……Grammar schools did more than any government in history to support opportunity for all, you fucking moron. I would pray you’d die of starvation trying to sell the Big Issue if I didn’t see it’s blatantly obvious that you’re some fucking trust fund trendy trying to assuage your middle class guilt.

  27. 75
    lolol says:

    Sopal on the politics show say have the onservatives let the cat out of the bag and have will no referendum vote,hellooo UKIP here I come.

    • 104
      Rexel 56 says:

      Your literary skills suggest you would have joined UKIP many years ago were you genuine, leading me to suspect that you are the great Tao guru Hardwidge in disguise.

  28. 78
    Adanoids - lord help us! says:

    Saw that piece of crap aramis or adonoids getting well and truly pillaged by boulton on sky tv – if these shits actually ran a business it would be bankrupt within weeks.
    But of course they don’t – they just run a bankrupt country.

    You could not make it up!

    • 606
      Sylvia's Mother says:

      He ain’t no Adonis! He was bitch slapped by Boulton well and truly. He was out of his depth and the Nu Labour mantra of cuts cuts cuts is just a sign of how desperate they really are and how much they view the electorate with contempt.

  29. 80
    president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Taster says:

    Boss says british gone nuclear with brown in bunker and wish to eradiate him am trying to make contact with brother taximan in londiniston am very worried about election results I do not think people voted for him

  30. 84
    Tax me when I am gone says:

    Nice story in one of the papers this morning. It’s Sunday so I can’t be arsed to find it.

    Labour are planning a one off £12k tax for pensioners to allow them free care whilst they are still alive, to be taken from their estate when they die.

    No mention in the article about what has happened to all the tax or NI they paid whilst they slaved away at work for 50 years. That’s all been blown on bank bailouts apparently.

    Sounds like a vote stealer doesn’t it?

    • 90
      Itsminenotyours says:

      Definition of modern slavery if ever there was one

    • 119
      Cyco Billy says:

      Once zanuliebore have their “assisted suicide” law in place, £12k is going to look like an almighty expensive injection. But then, accountancy is not their strong point. Neither is jurisprudence, with the NHS now demonstrating every day that zanuliebore’s concept of Trust just means “fiefdom” (c.f. BBC).

    • 169
      Gangbang says:

      And what about the ones who don’t have 12k in their estate when they die?

      What a fucking useless government. The only thing they are good at is fucking us and each other simultaneously.

    • 231
      Tax me when I am gone says:

      Here is a link to the story.

    • 518
      going down the pan says:

      12K for another benefit thats free in jockland !

  31. 94
    Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

    Labour are skint and UKIP + banpy will use eu money and massive private donations to fight the beeches at any future election too. UKIP especially, up your’s Dave inall

    • 142
      SmogMonster says:

      It seems the hard-working Kinnock family have a few spare millions, courtesy of Europe’s taxpayers. Surely the Party can count on their generosity in these difficult times?

      • 267
        Jethro says:

        Look, boyo, Glenys and me now we’ve earned all this cash, see it’s ours do you think weve enjoyed sweating our guts out in Brussels, Rome, Strasbourg, Rome, Brussels, Strasbourg. No lad weve been doin it all for the boys the party the principle this is what Socialism means, innit:’By the sweat of the brow shalt thou labour…’ I tell you, boyo, my brow has sweated and sweated… ’shalt thou Labour’ you see, there the Bible affirms the primacy and supremacy of Labour… its all for the good of the workers you see and Glenys and I, were workers we work for the workers…
        And so on, and so ad nauseam on.

        • 285
          Tattooed_Arry says:

          White collar worker maybe, the only job you had outside politics was a job as a tutor for the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) between 1966 and 1970.

    • 520
      going down the pan says:

      liebore will bring in public funded elections by the next GE and will syphoe off the £20,000,000 their party is in the red . scum of the highest order!

  32. 99
    president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says:

    Emigrate to a free and democcratic Islamic Repbulic of Iran, your sailors loved it when they trespassed into Iranian waters and we sent them home in ill-fitting fake Amani suits.

    Under UN guidelines UK citizens will be given preferential treatment fleeing an oppressed non-democratic country with an unelected leader. Only 100 dinar and a complimentary hejab to every woman.

    Shukran and long live democracy.

  33. 100

    Did any one watch Charles Clarke being interviewed by Andrew Neil? What a breath of fresh air. A Labour politician being honest for once and actually answering the questions put to him. No wonder Liar, Bully,Brown doesn’t like him, a Labour politician being honest, what ever next.

    All credit to him a fascinating insight into recent events, thank you Charles for being so honest and I really mean that, well done!

    • 106
      2 + 2 = 5 says:

      Clarke was simply lying by telling the truth.

      There really is no difference in the mind of psychpaths you know.

    • 114
      Seasick Dave says:

      FFS.

    • 175
      Anonymous says:

      I suppose, toughshit, that I prefer honest, incompetent people to dishonest incompetent people. But, at the end of the day, he has proven (like all other laba thieving gangsters) to be incompetent.

      Unfortunately, competence isn’t an option with zanulabia is it?

      You have FUCKED EVERYTHING UP you epic bunch of c’unts

  34. 108
    A NON says:

    Kinnocks network, influence and control:

    Visits & events in Downing Street -
    daughter Rachel Kinnock

    Minister for Europe –
    Glenys Kinnock

    Parliamentarians for Global Action -
    Patron Glenys Kinnock

    Director of DRS Services (national elections) -
    Neil Kinnock

    Director World Economic Forum, Head Europe and Asia –
    son Stephen Kinnock

    Baroness (2000) Andrews,
    Parliamentary Under-Secretary Communities & Local Government,
    was Kinnocks policy adviser +/- 1985 -1992;

    Baroness (2004) Royall,
    Leader of the House of Lords,
    was Kinnock’s special adviser in the 1980’s.

    etc

    • 127
      Napoleon the upstanding pig says:

      Helping hard working families!

    • 141
      The Baronessleaze says:

      While the press have monitored Peter Mandelson’s rise to power, have the Kinnocks’ staged a coup d’etat?

      They hold the key to: number 10’s visits – Europe – House of Lords – Communities and even the private company which runs national elections?

      Does their influence balance Peter Mandelson’s power, or beat it>?

      More likely, that at present, it is a Mandelson and Kinnock power grip, I fear…..

    • 515
      Jan says:

      Baroness Royall was his TEA LADY. She advised him only on matters concerning the biscuit barrel..Ginger nuts were his favourite

  35. 113
    The other is in the Albert Hall. says:

    I notice that, in common with our Great Leader, Nick Griffin also only has one eye.

    What is it with Dictators and eyeball accidents?

    • 139
      Cyclopic says:

      You might be onto something there.

      Jean Marie Le Pen was also one eyed.

    • 145
      Anonymous says:

      Pathetic.

    • 151
      Anonymous says:

      Hitler has only got one ball.

    • 361
      nell says:

      Ab*u Hamz*a . ‘course he was also missing an arm – not to mention anything to do with the brain.

      • 513
        Looky looky looky, here comes Hooky! says:

        Abu Hamza is banged up in America, I bleeve.

        His loathsome offspring are banged up here; just got sent down for stealing cars.

        Nice people.

        Thanks, New Labour!

        • 519
          Jan says:

          We are paying for his offspring and wife to live in west London.His wife lied and said she’d separated from Hamza so ended up being re-housed by the council.Hamza meanwhile moved in with her and ended up renting out the original marital home (which he’d originally bought from Hammersmith council). Thereby getting another huge council house. You couldn’t make it up could you?

  36. 115

    TORIES TRIUMPH IN LOCAL ELECTIONS

    David Cameron says people are yearning for an alternative
    Conservative leader David Cameron has said his party’s performance in the local elections shows it can win in “every part of the country”.

    The Tories took councils from Labour and the Lib Dems including Derbyshire, run by Labour SINCE 1981.

    The Lib Dems won control in Bristol while Labour lost control of all of its four councils.

    Labour deputy Harriet Harman admitted the results were “disappointing” but said the party would learn from them.

    The Conservatives took Staffordshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire ALL FROM LABOUR – WHICH HAD RUN THEM ALL FOR MORE THAN 25 YEARS.- as well as Devon and Somerset from the Lib Dems.

    Projected vote share

    They also took Warwickshire from no overall control and took power in the new Central Bedfordshire and Shropshire unitary authorities.

    With all the results in from the 34 councils which held elections, the TORIES GAINED 233 councillors while LABOUR LOST 273 seats and the Lib Dems four – although Sussex’s results are provisional pending a recount in one ward.

    According to the BBC’s projections, the Conservatives garnered 38% of the national vote with LABOUR FALLING TO AN HISTORIC LOW OF JUST 23%.

    The Lib Dems polled an estimated 28% of the vote, with other parties on 11%.

    THESE ARE FACTS NOT LIES OR OPINION.

  37. 116
    zobbit says:

    Kinnock’s are like a plauge of Locust Gobbling up everything in there path

    • 150
      roger says:

      £10 million a?

      Not bad for a couple of socialists who believe in equality for all I’d say.

      • 183
        Mick says:

        Oh Yeah, Oh Yeah, We’re alright, Oh Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, We’re doing alright……..

        He knew all those years ago that the cash would be flowing.

  38. 120
    Sir William Waad says:

    The idea, then, is to compensate for a lack of honesty and honour amongst politicians by relying on the scrupulousness of journalists. So, what’s Plan B?

  39. 134

    It is quite amazing how efficient at troughing the Kinnocks are when you think how fucking useless they are at everything else.

    The Penguin

    • 157
      The Baronessleaze says:

      We may well find out that, the Kinnocks have an enormous influence in the running of the country at present….

      Failed Labour Leader makes £10million Plus…..becomes Lord in January 2005. Wife becomes Baroness Kinnock in June 2009.

      Kinnock’s failed Labour Policies are rewarded – his two advisers – Royall and Andrews receive peerages – Baroness Andrews in 2000 and Baroness Royall in 2004 both by Tony Blair. While Smith, Blair, Brown and Mandelson, reworked Kinnock’s Labour policy into New Labour – but what the hell…..

      • 168
        mutton is good says:

        Oh yeeeah!

      • 174
        Speculate to accumulate says:

        Let them eat cake. Ram 12 million tons of humble pie down their greedy gullets with a fucking telegraph pole.

      • 215
        NewGirl says:

        How does one get to be a failed Labour leader? Its a lucrative position, and I think should be added to the curriculum at all good schools.

        • 237
          Anonymous Misogynist says:

          Hi New Girl.

          You could start by making a study of Gordon the Mentalist, this should tell you all you need to know.

          You been let out for good behaviour?

        • 292
          A NON says:

          That’s the easy part, NewGirl, you tutor for Worker’s educational Association, and the rest they say is history. However, the tricky bit, is how to pass on your inheritance onto your son – like Michael Martin in Glasgow….

          First, you become European Commissioner and your wife MEP, so that your son Stephen Kinnock can work as a ‘researcher for a MEP’ which one, we hope to find out…..

          then you become Chair of the British Council and your son Stephen becomes Head of British Council in St Petersburg. Your son, while in Russia gets drunk, is detained for an hour for alleged drink-driving and driving the wrong way .. calls for diplomatic immunity etc …11 months after diplomatic storm in Russia, son is moved to Geneva ….

          and hey presto ….

          January 2009 Stephen is appointed as Director of the World Economic Forum, heading up its Europe and Asia division.

          Mother, is still MEP, and in June 2009 mother is Minister for Europe , so son is safe….

          The Russian incident, well, it is as if it did not happen… right….

        • 324
          NewGirl says:

          Something like that! You ok on? We got sunshine here again!

        • 325
          NewGirl says:

          that was are you ok Hon, not on…!

        • 380
          Anonymous Misogynist says:

          Good yeah! Glad your back on form.
          Still a bit pissed from yesterday. We got sunshine too, oh for some rain, still the pool is refreshing and the Rioja is smooth.

        • 398
          NewGirl says:

          That sounds very civilised….!

        • 400
          NewGirl says:

          Was thinking that if I was resident abroad, and enjoying sun, sea and ….sangria, I don’t think I’d even notice what was going on in Westminster……
          Probably because I’m shallow….! You are clearly selfless, misog!

        • 450
          Anonymous Misogynist says:

          The state of politics here is in it’s infancy as they’ve only had democracy for 35 years. Having said that they are learning fast, watching PMQ’s no doubt, but it’s not the cut and thrust of Westminster.
          The expenses scandal has made national news and of course the Mentalist’s fight for his politcal life.
          I couldn’t believe Liebour retained power for a third time under BLiar and now we have Richard Murphy in charge under Mandlescum, you could make it up but you wouldn’t believe it!!!

        • 460
          NewGirl says:

          are you there for good?

        • 464
          Anonymous Misogynist says:

          Don’t know. I’ve only been here for 3 years. Sun, sea and ….sangria tends to get a bit same old after a couple of years. I do miss the UK as I think all expats do, I’d never return under socialist/fascist scum though.

        • 466
          NewGirl says:

          Ahh you’ll be able to come home in a few months then!

        • 483
          Anonymous Misogynist says:

          I was back in the UK the week before last for a couple of days, lots of rain and cold, hoping for the demise of Bruin. I knew he’d bottle getting rid of Darling, that was the key. If the election was in a couple of months and the Tories regained power, yeah I’d visit.

        • 484
          NewGirl says:

          yes you’d have to. Imagine the parties!

        • 488
          Anonymous Misogynist says:

          Cariño, the brits could learn about parties from the Spanish! I’ve been to two in less than a week and it makes going to work very difficult.

        • 494
          NewGirl says:

          Oh I dunno…We did ok here this weekend…! :-)

        • 501
          Anonymous Misogynist says:

          So did we, the Brown Broadcasting Corporation couldn’t hold a candle to it.

        • 505
          NewGirl says:

          you should read the book I was just telling Nell about below too Misog…Old Theo got a bit to say about the BBc Think you’d approve :-)

        • 521
          Anonymous Misogynist says:

          I’ll pick a copy up when I’m next over in the UK.:-) x

        • 523
          NewGirl says:

          night x

        • 525
          Anonymous Misogynist says:

          Night to you x

    • 166
      Andy Carpark says:

      Memories, from the corners of my mind …

      Kinnock, dead drunk in the gutter after his finals (Industrial Relations, second attempt);

      Kinnock, at Conference, beating someone up in a public convenience (“Whoa, I beat the shit out of him!”);

      Kinnock, getting into an argument in a low rent curry house;

      Kinnock, in 1983 walking down the aisle with Hattersley, the other half of the “dream ticket”, a procession described at the time as like a gay wedding;

      Kinnock, with “Ambassador” Denis Healey, being entertained for 22 minutes by Ronald Reagan;

      Kinnock, trying to dodge the incoming tide and falling into the sea;

      Kinnock, congratulating Blair in 1997 (“Whoa, bloody lovely, kid! Bloody lovely bloody fucking lovely, whoa, there’s lovely! There’s fucking lovely bloody lovely welcome in hillside lovely! Whoa, lovely jubbly bloody fucking lovely …”)

      Kinnock, at the Sheffield Rally.

      Kinnock.

    • 208
      Neil 'LoadsaMoney' Kinnock says:

      How dare you criticise my dear wife’s appointment. It’s obvious that the current 350-odd Labour MPs are not fit for advancement of any sort. The Great Gordo had scraped the bottom of the barrel for ‘talent’ so many times that he’d gone through the bottom and was bringing up handfuls of slime. Glenys will now show you how to make money and save the economy.

      • 588
        The Ghost of Keir Hardie says:

        Fuck off you troughing twat.

        You have betrayed the people of our once-great nation.

        Especially the working class to which you once belonged and tried to defend.

        You truly are a slap-headed sucker of Satan’s cock.

  40. 135

    Labour believes everyone is of equal worth and entitled to respect,except our Government and officials who are more equal than that little man in the street for heavens sake. Our vision is of an equal, inclusive society where there is opportunity for every subject regardless of gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, race, religion,belief,criminality,laziness,bullying,lying. Labour is the party of equality for the little man in the street but for God’s sake not for Governmet officials nor Labour MP’s. From challenging disability discrimination, to tackling the pay gap between that little man and Labour MP’s salaries and expenses, and racism(even though our policies have led to 2 Bandp MEP’s going to Europe) and introducing the Human any thing goes Rights Act so that travellers no longer have to abide by planning laws. Labour has never been at the forefront of change especially not change in Parliament nor for Government officials and definitely not for Prime Ministers. We have not done more than any government in history to support opportunity for all but mostly we have for Labour MP’s and government officials. We should be proud of our record, but we recognise that there is more to do for our Party to attack prejudice(those that disagree with with Nu Liebour) and ensure that every one of our citizens is treated equally, except Labour MP’s and Government officials who are obviously more equal than that little man in the street.

    • 144
      garry says:

      I see the medication is finally working Mr Fuckwidge.

    • 173
      Margy says:

      But how can there ever be total equality?

      Some people are born with better brains than others; some are born better runners etc etc. Some people want to go out and better themselves; others don’t. So your theory is, in practice, unworkable. We can never all be truly equal. Unless, that is you believe in controlling how people behave and think (which I sadly think you do).

      Whereas in the past we have admired the better brain, and aspired to it via self education etc, nulabour manage to somehow see such a wonderful gift as discriminatory, unfair and wrong.

      Forced equality, such as the Harman ‘discriminate against the white male’ bill is evil and wrong and cannot possibly work. It is fascism. It also violates the UN 1994 Indigenous peoples Act viz Article 7 (a) Any action which has the aim or effect of depriving them of their integrity as distinct peoples, or of their cultural values or ethnic identities.

      All this equality crap is nonsense Charles Hardfuckwit and unless you believe in suppressing all human nature, your lunatic theories and child-like philospophies can never work. This is why society is imploding and falling apart.

      • 189
        i've got wood. says:

        Margy, if you read this carefully darling, this comment is a spoof of the original made at No 73.

        Thank you.

      • 192
        Anonymous says:

        Well said Margy. It’s also why the USSR failed and why all Socialism and Communism eventually fails. It goes against human nature.

        • 197
          kiki dee says:

          Anonytwat, can’t you read? This is a fucking spoof of the original comment made at no .73!

          FFS.

        • 221
          Anonymous says:

          Obviously educated X 3 under Zanulab.

        • 259
          Anonymous says:

          Thank you kikcnt. Yes I can read but I don’t waste my time reading anything that looks like it may have been written by Hardwidge. Now fuck off.

        • 328
          kiki dee says:

          I’d stick to the fucking Beano if I were you.

          Daft cυnt.

        • 357
          jimbo says:

          kikcnt, you work for the council don’t you? Fat prick.

        • 510
          kiki dee says:

          I’ll get back to you when I work out whether this is a compliment or an insult………tosser.

      • 321
        Anonymous says:

        Margy you are mistakenly giving Charles to much credit as he is just plain stupid and just parrots whatever his political idols tell him to. You dont actually believe he thinks about this stuff do you ?

        • 446

          THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

          Some things about living still weren’t quite right, though. April, for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron’s fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, away.

          It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.

          http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html

      • 623
        Dedicated Hembraist says:

        ALSO some people have better genes that make them more suitable to be MPs like Jacqui Smith Harriet Harman Tessa Jowell and Emily Benn and georgia Gould.

  41. 146
    A Silent Emission of Bowel Gas says:

    Guido’s Exemplar

    Fuck the poor
    And fuck the rich
    Being fair
    Is such a bitch
    Fuck old Mandy
    Fuck old Dave
    Why the hell
    Should I behave?
    Fuck the Euro
    Fuck the French
    Drink the arse
    Off every wench
    When you’ve finished
    You will see
    How much fun
    You have as me.

  42. 148
    nantoo says:

    CLASH OF THE TITANS

    Lord Adonis (Lordship given for cock sucking beyond the call of duty) V Gove ( The real Mr Bean)

  43. 149
    Johnson considers scrapping ID cards says:

    “ALAN JOHNSON, the home secretary, has launched an urgent review of the £6 billion identity card (ID) scheme, paving the way for a possible U-turn on one of Labour’s flagship policies.”

    Johnson, your a postman. All I ever get from your Government is fucking bills. How about delivering me some good news for a change:

    SCRAP ID CARDS NOW.

    • 159
      the mutha of all parliaments says:

      He’s still a cυnt.

      • 162
        Fly on wall in HO says:

        The Home Office plan of requiring an ID card to log into the internet is still very much on the agenda.

      • 216
        Twido Wanky says:

        Correction. He’s a second-class Hoon. Not in Hoon’s league (yet).

    • 161

      I wonder if the idea is:
      to get the kickbacks for the juicy evaluation expenses
      Get a boost for cancelling something unpopular
      Not have to worry about another failed delivery!

      • 163
        Fly on wall in HO says:

        Johnson will be moved long before any cancellation is announced.

        There are too many politicians who stand to lose big backhanders if the project is cancelled now.

    • 253
      Moley says:

      Gaining popularity for NOT doing things is the equivalent of getting grants for not growing potatoes during a glut.

      “I think this year I will increase my productivity and not grow 10,000 tons, a tenfold increase on last year”.

      Suggestions please for things the Conservatives can pointedly NOT do in order to gain popularity.

      (Hint. Too late to not join the Common Market.)

    • 301
      Anonymous says:

      This the same Alan Johnson who was 100% behind the ID scheme last week?

    • 595
      "For the restless, not the true believers, this one's for you.." says:

      Biometrics is unreliable anyway…

      IBM RESEARCHER REJECTS UK IDENTITY CARD SCHEME

      http://www.identityblog.com/?p=453

      ‘Osborne added that biometric technology is still immature. “It’s not an exact science”, he said. In real world trials, some 10 per cent of people identified using iris recognition failed to enrol – which means the system didn’t recognise them. Even fingerprinting is no panacea, as four per cent failed to enrol. Scale that up to a whole population – the UK contains nearly 60 million people – and the problem of biometric identification becomes huge, he said.’

  44. 170
    Moley says:

    It is in the readers hands. Smear spotting is dead easy.

    No source quoted means smear.

    Context also gives clues. An unattributable and damaging statement about a leadership contender is so obviously a smear that it is not even worthy of comment.

    Any media outlet that insists on publishing unattributed smears is going to trash its reputation.

    The news item the journalists should be publishing is WHO tried to smear whom and in what way, not the smear itself.

    Telegraph take note please.

  45. 176
    Mick says:

    If MPs want comments to without the ’spokesman’ tag, fine. Can I demand that MPs stop making claims about ‘The Public’ want this and ‘The Public’ want that. Name who ‘The Public’ are; stop fucking claiming ‘The Public’ as justification for your shit plans.

    To play the MP game ‘The Public’ want a General Election now.

  46. 180
    Ratsniffer says:

    It’s interesting, isn’t it, how the dots start to join together.

    Take this little diary titbit in today’s Mail on Sunday. I won’t link to it; it’s short and sweet enough:

    “BBC political editor Nick Robinson is known for being candid, so there’s no reason to doubt what one MP told me about him this week. Robinson was chewing over the Westminster expenses revelations with a politician recently when he admitted ‘We are all terrified we’ll be next’ ”

    And then, further on in the paper, a longer article about BBC journalists being paid “thousands of pounds” to speak at conferences paid for by the NHS. This would be the same NHS which they are expected to write impartially about and investigate, not infulenced – of course – by the fact that this same taxpayer funded organisation is a nice little earner for them.

    Personally, I think it stinks. But judge for yourself.

    http://tinyurl.com/lus7xs

    • 181
      Ratsniffer says:

      Oh, in fairness to Nick, I should say that the article I link to makes no suggestion that he himself has benefitted from the NHS’s generousity.

      • 184
        Time Gentlemen says:

        There’s your headline: Trougher not yet exposed.

      • 190
        chronic says:

        Fuck fairness hes a wanker, did you see him caught on camera asking someone if they fancied a drink, he should ask my permission first because no doubt Im paying for it.

    • 219
      grobdj says:

      There’s a piece in the Sunday Times today in similar vein regarding BBC celebrities (Jonathan Ross, Graham Norton, and others) who are raking dividends from the production companies contracted by the BBC to produce their shows, which produce side-profits when the shows are sold abroad.

      Explains why the Beeboids are beginning to dread their day of reckoning too

      • 247
        Top to Toe Corruption says:

        It is quite clear that almost everyone in public life from MP’s downwards have taken advantage of this blind, lazy and dogmatic government to fill their pockets to the brim: civil servants, police officers, bankers, businessmen, broadcasters and now even vicar’s.

        The system is corrupt from top to toe.

        • 425
          Nearly Headless Nick. says:

          “vicar’s” sic.
          To what, presumably belonging to vicars, are you referring?
          @239

      • 254
        Funambulist says:

        On Radio 4’s Broadcasting House magazine prog this morning, host Paddy O’Connell and one of his Labourite guests were making a jokey pre-emptive attack on the Conservatives… The argument goes that the Cons say they want to whittle down presenters’ big salaries but in reality their plans will mostly affect the ‘little people’ who work for the BBC for modest wages…and the ‘Conservatives don’t care!’

        Actually I don’t think I’ve ever heard a Tory politician voice plans to rein in BBC expenses. I wish it was party policy!

      • 266
        Ratsniffer says:

        Yes, they make a bit of “double bubble” – fat pay cheque from BBC (in otherwords, us, the licencepayers) and then share dividends, etc from their “production company” which, of course, makes their programme. The Beeb is one long gravy-train, and its executives believed that by sucking up to their lefty masters the gravy would just keep flowing. Come the next election, it’s going to dry up. Oh dear, how sad….never mind.

      • 307
        Anonymous says:

        Fuck me have we got enuf piano wire ?

  47. 185
    Someone close to Downing Street (within 6 miles) says:

    You just can’t make this up.

    Unless it’s off the record and then of course you can just make it up.

  48. 195
    Jesse says:

    This week I ‘ave been mostly wearin’…..ermine overalls.

  49. 199
    Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

    La Caravanette BECKETT did indeed comes first in our village Donkey Derby and presented herself,the winner,with a hanging basket.Actually she came first and second ‘cos her face is soooo long.
    Will a resident of Midsommer please invite her to their Horseface Derby and
    with some luck olde Nettles himself can investigate her murder.

  50. 202
    Lord Kinelpus says:

    Here’s a little snippet from the Sunday Express-

    “GORDON BROWN’s plan to relaunch the economy this week ­has been ­abandoned after ministers ­admitted: We have no new ideas.

    The Prime Minister had hoped to seize the political initiative by launching a range of new policies to carry Labour through to the next election.

    The package, dubbed “Building ­Britain’s Future”, (Buggering Britain’s Future), was to be coupled with the publication of a “national recovery plan”, (national disaster plan), for the economy.

    But both have now been shelved. ”

    Thank phug for that!

    • 218
      Tractor Statistics Ahoy! says:

      Ah, that’ll be the “National Plan” we have all been waiting so eagerly for.

      It was referred to as a “National Plan” in the press before it was renamed the “National Socialist Plan” on this website, after which the Government renamed it “The National Recovery Plan”.

      Stupid Lame Brained Fuckers.

    • 222
      grandma B says:

      Thought the big plan was to label David Cameron as Mr 10%. Problem with that is that it might remind the voters of the Labour Government’s 10% tax debacle?

      Also most sensible people know that there will have to be cuts in order to pay of the trillions we now owe.

      • 486
        Gordon Mr 10% Brown says:

        No, I am Mr 10%, large numbers of low paid workers can’t all be wrong.

  51. 210
    Green Shoots My Arse says:

    Nationwide has measured how many years’ average earnings were needed to buy the average home since 1975. That ratio hit an all-time peak of 6.4 last July and stands at 5.1 today. Sadly, the long-term average is just 4.

    So, even today’s depressed prices remain more than 25pc higher than the long-term average – and further falls look likely.

    The Telegraph

  52. 211
    Anonymous says:

    Hmmmmm. This one is worth a look:http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/14/economy-gordon-brown

  53. 214
    Someone close to Downing Street (within 6 miles) says:

    Electoral reform a Brown priority, Government to implement Iranian model.

  54. 217
    Sir William Waad says:

    A lame-duck Government such as the present one is a good thing, I suggest. So long as the bosses have no energy nor policies and are fighting among themselves, the country and the economy can gradually heal themselves. Countries with ‘weak coalition governments’ (Germany, Italy, Israel) tend to outperform countries with bipolar government disorder such as the UK. So a knackered Government is better than a lively one. Witness the success of the final Major years, with strong economic growth, low inflation and unemployment, a budget surplus and the breakthrough towards peace in Northern Ireand.

    • 276
      Dee Selleck-Brown says:

      That would be fine if this government was benign – but it’s not.
      The present bunch of crooks are pure evil.
      Don’t think that just because you can’t see anything happening that nothing is actually happening. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  55. 225
    Aberdeen Incubus McDayie says:

    What a price the Gorgon has paid for finding out the cupboard is bare. Clearly mad and desperate. Perhaps Dolly has been whispering in his ear that his salvation depends on him embracing his demons, enemies and nemeses. Of course the hoon took it literally, and now they are swilling around him, getting ready to feed…

    Even zanuliebore’s PC choice for poet laureate expresses the need to versify the sentiments of the people. Not being of the same persuasions, I can only hope Sir Tom Stoppard (“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.”
    ‘Jumpers’ (1972) act 1) is working on a suitable update of King Lear.

    • 242
      bonny greer says:

      Is it too much too hope that David ‘Im a socialist cυnt’ Hare will ever write anything that resembles reality one time in his, devoid of talent, miserable, fucktard of a life?

  56. 230
    • 240
      Projectile Lying says:

      “We know that power without principles is ruthless, sour, empty, vicious,” Neil Kinnock said. “We also know that principle without power is idle sterility.”

      And what about power without principle Neil?

      • 305
        Labour for the many( cronies & family members) and not the few says:

        its all about the money

  57. 248
    Marian says:

    Guido,
    Have you seen this story in today’s Scotland on Sunday http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/politics/McBride-39back-working-for-government39.5364066.jp

    “LABOUR sources have claimed that disgraced spin doctor Damian McBride has begun operating once again behind the scenes for Labour government.

    Just weeks after McBride was forced to resign after writing an e-mail suggesting that Conservative leaders be smeared, insiders say the former special adviser is actively working for ministers again.

    Downing Street last night insisted McBride had not returned. But one respected party figure said that while the former adviser was not working at Number 10, he was engaged in informal briefings once again.”

  58. 249
    The Beast Of Clerkenwell says:

    We all know that Lord Volderkiddiefiddler has had his fist up Gordon McMental in the past but that was just lust
    Now the scumbag seems to be running the country as McMental breaks down.

  59. 250
    Gordon Im your puppet says:

    Peter what should I do ?

  60. 252
    Mitch(using linux) says:

    As darling was gordons sock puppet is gordon mandgeled rectums new sock puppet?.
    gordon claims to have entered politics to help his fellow man, bet he didn’tM think the fellow would be that hoon.

  61. 260
    grobdj says:

    Reading about the Kinnocks today I was just thinking there is a simple solution to the excess of pensions being claimed from the public purse:

    It’s a rule often applied to the most needy in society, but applies equally well to those better off

    And it has often been applied when the country faces straitened finances

    It’s call means-testing

  62. 268
    A Silent Emission of Bowel Gas says:

    Mc Bride himself is spreading the rumour that he’s back.

    The pathetic, boozed-up tunt can’t face the fact that he’s finished.

    • 290
      Anonymous says:

      I saw McBride in a Westminster boozer last week deep in conversation with Kev Maguire, Draper and someone else I didn’t recognise.

  63. 273
    if you have got no ideas just fuck off says:

    Brown delays ‘next steps’ document

    http://www.ft.com By George Parker, Political Editor

    Published: June 12 2009 22:52 | Last updated: June 12 2009 22:52

    Gordon Brown has postponed plans to publish on Monday a “next steps” plan for Labour’s last months in office before the election, as ministers try to rustle up new ideas to revive his administration.

    • 318
      The Admiral says:

      Just about says it all.

      Need a quick link ‘cos its worth a read……

  64. 275
    Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

    If McMentalBreakdown was to be indisposed who would deputise?

    Would it be Harrioteer The Charioteer or Peter Menstrualperson to cover the period of abscence.

    PMQ’s would be more like PMT’s.

    • 326
      Anonymous says:

      I believe a recent confluenec of PMT saw a number of cabinet ministers storm out in hissy fits.

  65. 277
    caesars wife says:

    My favourite quote was “you dont do nearlys , when talking about resigning , its rather like someday ”

    unamed source is always always used where points need undermining , and person doesnt want any party flak.

    take hazel blears forth comming chutney competetion , constituancey backed her two weeks ago , last week “some constituancey members are going to call for her deselection ” , unamed sources , sudden appearence of snipers from within constituancy , blears feels the cold clammy clunking fist and makes weepy appology . “I will change and i will listen ” yeah right

  66. 279
    Ever Vigilant says:

    Today on the politics show Adonis (his venus must have been partially sighted ) went into overdrive with new labour speak .

    He argued that the red book figures could not be intepreted as expenditure cuts because there are too many variables . If that is the case how can labour claim that the figures represent expenditure increases ?

    When will labour spokesmen realise that the game is up and that the electorate are reading the small print and examining the punctuation iof any assertion made by this lying,deceitful bunch of snakeoil salesmen?

  67. 283
    Anonymous says:

    Brown rushing to Iran to see how real elections should be held. Could it happen here?

    • 303
      Anonymous says:

      What do you think Labour introduced postal voting for originally ? Anyway half the Cabinet incl the Prime Minister are unelected so we’re already at the same point near enough. However the Iranian public appear to have more “balls” than their British counterparts who would just accept the situation and as nearly 60% of the UK electorate can’t be arsed to vote in most elections anyway or vote for lunatic fringe parties which achieves absolutely “fuck all” it’s hardly surprising if you think about it that we should even be considering the possibility

  68. 284
    • 288
      Anonymous says:

      Tipton Taliban innit.

    • 317
      Tattooed_Arry says:

      Do we still have Capital Punishment for traitors?
      Or did we sign that away with the rest of our liberties to Brussels’R'Us?
      No wonder he was found dead, my friends in the Paras dealt with his kind very quickly and efficiently, “in the heat of battle” of course.
      Do his family in the Midlands get a payout from Bin Laden?

      • 568
        Anonymous says:

        Capital punishment was struck off but will come back under lisbon for traitors to eu

  69. 287
    Anonymous says:

    Is it true that Brown and Mandelson used to be gay lovers?

    • 297
      The Beast Of Clerkenwell says:

      Gordon just used to help out when Nick Browns Rent boy lover was busy
      I say “Rent Boy” but Nick was just “lending money to a friend”
      Ive just had to lend some cash to a friend of mine
      I didnt ask to stick anything up his back passage in return
      I suppose that make me a better friend than Nick Brownhatter

    • 311
      Magog says:

      No.

      I’m sick of hearing about it. There is no evidence at all that Brown is an uphill gardener, or is an adult baby fetishist, or sits on a rocking horse while masturbating. It’s all the fevered imaginings of some of the less sane characters who frequent this and other blogs.

      If such evidence existed, it would be common knowledge by now, given the loyalty, trustworthiness and integrity of most of Browns associates over the years.

      I honestly wish there were some kinky sex scandal that would topple Brown, but the fact is, he’s far too dull and unimaginative for anything like that.

      Browns idea of kinky sex would be doing Sarah with the lights on.

      • 315
        Anonymous says:

        or doing his “cleaner”

      • 327
        Mirror image says:

        I agree that there is no evidence at all that Brown is an uphill gardener, or is an adult baby fetishist, or sits on a rocking horse while masturbating.

        Some people here seem think that the more often you say something the more likely it is to be believed.

        It’s utter nonsense, and I repeat that there is no evidence at all that Brown is an uphill gardener, or is an adult baby fetishist, or sits on a rocking horse while masturbating.

        Furthermore I don’t believe that Brown is an uphill gardener, or is an adult baby fetishist, or sits on a rocking horse while masturbating.

        Just to make it absolutely clear then, there is no evidence at all that Brown is an uphill gardener, or is an adult baby fetishist, or sits on a rocking horse while masturbating.

        • 349
          Magog says:

          I assume my royalties cheque is in the post.

        • 417
          We all want to be McBride, isn't this fun! says:

          It’s also 100% factually true that there is no evidence at all that Cameron is an uphill gardener, has a penile pump implant, or sits on a George Osborne’s face while masturbating.

          Some people here do seem think that the more often you say something the more likely it is to be believed.

          It’s utter nonsense, and I repeat that there is no evidence at all that Cameron is an uphill gardener, or has a penile pump implant, or sits on a George Osborne’s face while masturbating.

          Furthermore I don’t believe that Cameron is an uphill gardener, or has a penile pump implant, or sits on a George Osborne’s face while masturbating.

          Just to make it absolutely clear then, there is no evidence at all that Cameron is an uphill gardener, or has a penile pump implant, or sits on a George Osborne’s face while masturbating.

        • 424
          Anonymous says:

          Bollox. Gordon Brown is a well known bender and a sham marriage doesn’t change that. Ask anyone in Cape Cod.

        • 456
          Anonymous says:

          Bollox. David Cameron is a well known bender and a sham marriage doesn’t change that. Ask anyone in the Bullingdon Club.

        • 585
          Funambulist says:

          Who was the MP who famously caught Brown & Handlesons in flagrante delicto in a HoC office? His initials were MM as I recall.

        • 590
          Anonymous says:

          Who was the MP who famously caught Cameron & Osborne in flagrante delicto in a HoC office? His initials were MG as I recall.

        • 624
          Polly says:

          Tory Cuts
          Tory Cuts
          SQWUAK
          Tory Cuts

    • 323
      Keith Vaz says:

      If anybody wonders why I’m still a Labour MP, I’ve got the pictures.

  70. 289
    Jessa Towell says:

    Time for beddy-byes, Gordon ! Your special friend Peter will come and read you some nice fairy stories soon.

  71. 298
    nell says:

    So ‘McBride is back’ !!!! according to some unattributable source talking to a scottish newspaper.

    Well that fits right in with Guido’s posting doesn’t it?

    And who benefits from this rumour?

  72. 302
    Labour for the many( cronies & family members) and not the few says:

    I see that usless cow wendy alexander was on the telly today. Christ I thought she had gone away such is her utter utter irrelevance.

    • 308
      Anonymous says:

      No doubt you are correct but she could just as easily be made a peer and become a Minister in Brown’s Government and the the thing is – you can’t actually take that as a joke either any more – it could very well happen – that’s the scary thing !

    • 387
      scottish voter says:

      She is but an irritation

  73. 310
    iain says:

    This dithering over the Lisbon Treaty and now the nonsense Gove is spouting about schools……ho many more times is the Tory party going to hand the initiative back to Labour?

    Dont they want to win on their own merits?

  74. 312
    Reasons not to Vote Labour says:

    Good evening ladies and gents and welcome to the first of a series of short but to the point Party Political Broadcasts which cuts out the bullshit and tells it as it is.

    We begin with

    Reasons to not vote Labour # 1

    Peter Mandleson

    Thank you and till next time

    • 336
      The Admiral says:

      Nice idea – but:~

      1. Too many reasons. At one every hour till next G.E. you will only have listed 10% by May 2010, so…..

      2. Not enough time……

      Good idea though. DO do your best. It will help pass the time and will beat watching paint dry…..

      I AM serious and NOT being sarky.

      Best of luck………

    • 347
      NewGirl says:

      Ooh I’ve thought of another! Gordon Brown.

    • 348
      Chitty Chitty Bang Bang says:

      How did the Childcatcher end up running the country? It will end in tears, I tell you.

    • 355
      Gooey Blob says:

      Reasons to not vote Labour # 2

      They have left the country’s finances in such a state that we are faced with massive cuts or national bankruptcy (and thus even bigger cuts). That’s on their own figures, too.

      Well done, Gordon – you have wrecked our economy, in the process turning a party with a large majority into an unelectable rabble which won’t see power again for a decade.

    • 366
      nell says:

      What about the Ki*nnocks?

    • 384
      nell says:

      Ge*off H*oon.

      Oh no forgot – Gordon’s exiling him to Europe as a Commissioner. ‘Course he won’t be able to trough there will he.

  75. 313
    Speechless says:

    OT, but interesting, how low can they go?
    In Mr Liddell-Grainger’s case he has to reply to himself LMFAO!

    http://www.writetothem.com/about-ilg

  76. 314

    What about when the politician is the journalist. The Sunday Mirror publishes pieces allegedly straight from Gordon Brown himself.

    Broon has a piece in there today: He obviously thinks we’re all completely stupid.

    “..in order to fund a £200,000 tax cut for the 3,000 richest families …. 44,000 fewer teachers, 15,000 fewer police, 10,000 fewer soldiers and, each year, 32,000 fewer university places”.

    Yeah, that’s right Gordon…

    • 322
      von says:

      I thought Ahmadinnerjacket had been elected.

    • 334
      malice in blunderland says:

      Gordon is right, ‘cos technically speaking you have to be 100% stupid to read The Sunday Times.

      • 342
        malice in blunderland says:

        Sunday Mirror that is, but count The Sunday Times in just for the hell of it.

        • 370
          Marxist Appreciation Unit says:

          Sunday Times is too left wing for me too pro europe and too left bend Dave

    • 378
      Anonymous says:

      The Mirror used to be owned by Robert Maxwell as you will remember. Gordon learned a lot ffrom that old fraudster.

  77. 316
    Anonymous says:

    Is it true that Jim Devine has entered into a sponsorship deal with B & Q ?

    • 369
      nell says:

      I thought it was the Canadian Forestry Commission?

      • 372
        Anonymous says:

        lol single handedly destroyed the rain forrests

      • 374
        Kinnochio says:

        I think I bought Glennys Canada as a birthday gift not that long ago. Paid cash in a brown paper bag to avaid the tax and still managed to claim it all bck thanks to those nice officials in Brussells.

      • 383
        Quasimodo says:

        Nah, he shelved it . . .

  78. 332
    NewGirl says:

    Think may stroll along to PMQs on Wed….. Who shall I heckle…?

    • 351
      Heckler & Cock says:

      Feel free to heckle them with one of these dear.

    • 371
      nell says:

      Hi NewGirl –

      Wait for the first Labour stooge to stand up with the planted question –

      ‘ Does the Prime Minister agree with me that Lord Mandlescum of Foy , the High Lord Privy Councillor, Master of the Bedchamber is doing a fine job in selling Vauxhall to his Russian contacts so that most UK jobs will be transferred to the Russian continent by the autumn …….” or something similar

      • 390
        Anonymous says:

        Banks as good as nationalised
        Industry being bought by Russia at an alarming rate
        Energy supplied by Russia
        Londons main Newspaper owned by a Russian
        Even Scargill could not have dreamt of this.

        I think we should wake up to what this Government are about dont you think

        • 392
          nell says:

          Do you really want to spoil mandlescum’s and his russian oligarch friends plans for his future?

          He’ll be building a russian equivalent of the illustrious baroness’s italianate bangladeshi palace on the Russian Steppes within days of the next GE. It will make the last Russian Tsar look like a peasant.

          Long Live Champagne Socialism!!!!

  79. 333
    Anonymous says:

    Do you have a very large credit card debt? Well, if you want to get rid of that debt, simply carry on spending. Because in 2 or 3 years time, your increased debt plus interest can be paid off by your children and their children. Why worry now? You know it makes sense.

    • 373
      Marxist Appreciation Unit says:

      If you have bought tangible assets with this credit money be careful because other folks grandchildren will be nicking what’s theirs back I should imagine in 20 years

  80. 339
    A Mr Devine says:

    my debit is offset against the points I have accrued on my store card, that 5 KM of shelving certainly helped

  81. 341
    Anonymous says:

    Bookies already taking bets on how many promises in Labour’s next manifesto will be ditched and how long it will take to ditch them just after the next election.

    • 345
      NewGirl says:

      well I don’t know that you can call them promises as such…..they’re more like optimistic imaginings……so its not ditching exactly, its more like slightly bending them so they do something different..

      Anyway, the Tories will be in and they can ditch ‘em immediately!

  82. 343
    A Mr Devine says:

    Oh by the way The reason there is no evidence of any of this shelving in my office as claimed is because I sold it of to an Australian Sheep Farmer who usedthe wood to fence off huge swathes of his sheep farm and was still left with some to spare.

    • 375
      nell says:

      I hear the Russians are bidding on it ( no doubt using mandy as a go-between) – they think it will be useful to enclose the Steppes.

      • 385
        Jim Devines handy local publican says:

        Bloody hell how Am I meant to finish that job what with my arthritis !

        • 391
          nell says:

          I hear they are proposing a £12K tax on your estate after you are dead which will be used to look after you when your arthritis has got the better of you. So don’t worry!!!!

  83. 350

    Have you forgotton about the MP’s and their expenses scandals?

    Have you forgotton how much Labour were truly routed in the recent elections?

    Have you forgotton how Labour have ditched 2 manifesto committments, especially the promised referendum on the Lisbon treaty?

    Have you forgotton how Labour promised to end mass immigration?

    Have you forgotton how Gordon Brown promised an end to “boom and bust”

    Have you forgotton how Brown and his aides briefed all the journalists that Darling was for the chop and then denied that they had?

    I havn’t
    Many more tomorrow.

  84. 358
    Ever Vigilant says:

    CF @303

    Of course Brown thinks that we are all imbeciles but he is too stupid to realise that some his thiko supporters have seen through him.

    In the pub today some labour since birth types were moaning about him ,using more colourful language than you could think of,so let the moron
    cintinue with his partisan stupidities it will rebound in no uncertain way.

  85. 363
    labour for the few says:

    guido,
    you have the press on the run.they dont give a flying toss about the truth or smearing people.

    they are like bankers,just after themselves.
    it is because of blogs that are finding their new morality with plummeting circulation.

    well done.

  86. 367

    A strong economy is vital for hard-working families who have benefited from ten years of growing employment, low inflation and low interest rates. Despite rapid social and economic change we must continue to ensure that all families with children are treated with fairness so that they get the support they need both at home and in the workplace. We have given new parents new rights, with longer and better paid maternity leave and paternity leave for dads. And as children get older, we are providing more financial support than ever before to help parents balance their family finances and save for their children’s future.

    • 382
      nell says:

      Charles dear – we already know all about labour mp’s, mep’s and lords featherbedding their families out of our taxes.

      Roll on the next election. We’re going to vote on it.

      Don’t expect Labour to win!!!!

    • 389
      Charles Halfwitted says:

      By repeating this bilge frequently every day, New Liebour aim to brainwash gullible people very easily.
      None of this rubbish stands up to scrutiny but that will never deter us.

      • 404

        Britain is safer with Labour. Today, the chance of being a victim of crime is at its lowest level since 1981. Due to Labour’s policies crime is down, and thanks to our investment police officer numbers are at a historic high. Only Labour has the policies to address the challenges of the future. We recognise that new challenges need new and different approaches. We are giving police and communities new powers to tackle anti-social behaviour; investing in neighbourhood policing; modernising our criminal justice system; and taking measures to combat terrorism.

        • 406

          An excellent comment Harman_Pride. I couldn’t have put it better myself! Labour are definitely the party of investment who support hard working families through these difficult economic times!

        • 407
          NewGirl says:

          That’s literally lifted from some labour pamphlet isn’t it? Do you know I think HP is actually a computer programmed to comment here every so often at measured intervals. he can’t be real

        • 410

          Well said. I read your comment and thought, ‘truly, here is a person who understands the Way.’

        • 413
          NewGirl says:

          Oooh there’s two of them!! CH you are much funnier though

        • 427
          Ratsniffer says:

          I think they may be two cheeks of the same arsehole.

        • 443
          nell says:

          That’s why knife crime is on the rise then ? That’s why Police are spending more time and resources on speeding offences. and that’s Why the Human Rights Bill ensures that Ab*u Hamz*a’s many sons, who make a fortune out of luxury car scams, are given cushy accommodation at government expense.

          Modernising the criminal justice system indeed.

          Which PM’s wife/lawyer is it that is making a profitable living from the Human Rights Bill that her husband introduced?

        • 445
          City of Vice says:

          “Today, the chance of being a victim of crime is at its lowest level since 1981.”

          Total bollocks, based on the discredited ramblings of politicised top cops following meaninglessNuLab tractor stats. So what do you call all that troughing and phantom mortgage stuff going on at the House of Commons then? Or do you excuse theft and corruption by politicians.

        • 468
          MI5 says:

          The first thing to do is to stop new Labour MPs Ministers and Peers behaving like CRIMINALS…before daring to speak about “crime” or “terrotism”..

        • 471
          grandma B says:

          I’m off to the cash machine tonight. Just wondered if Harman Pride could arrange for a police officer to accompany me home. A promise is a promise afterall!

        • 475
          Tattooed_Arry says:

          Crime figures are only lower because New Labour make the Police that we have left write essays everytime someone gets arrested. Due to New Labour cuts we are also faced with the loss of front-line police.
          Fewer Police + Less time on the Beat for the remainder = Fewer arrests = Lower Crime Rates = New Labour cuts Crime.
          I phoned the Police because I saw someone carrying a Gun, Police took six hours to respond. Gunman had gone. Does this crime appear in the New Labour Crime Statistics? Does it Fuck!
          Drug Dealers operate opposite my house day in day out, for the last ten years. A number of people have reported the fact to the police. They have never been raided, police have refused pointblank to send a patrol to see what is going on. Does this Crime appear in New Labour’s Crime Statistics? Does it Fuck!

        • 476
          Self-Harming Pride says:

          I am a programmed clone of Charles Halfwitted.

        • 573
          If it isn't recorded it never happened says:

          Anyone who has vainly tried to report a crime recently will tell you why crime figures are apparently dropping. Another sick Labour con trick.

    • 472
      MI5 says:

      That’s why New Labour has bankrupted the country…

      Come on Charles

      Try and little harder !

      • 541
        Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

        I realise there is no one out there who is going to read this fossilised blogthread but the reason why they have made local crime stats available by postcode is so that you wouldn’t want to report crime thus saving your prestige and house resale/rentable value. Hence reported crime goes magically down. Very clever, I’ll give ‘em that.

  87. 379
    resurgemus says:

    Charles

    Which tax haven are you writing from ?

    Can you see the Kinnocks ?

    • 388
      Magog says:

      Charles pauses and puts down his pen.

      He lifts the waistband of his exquisitely tailored Bermuda shorts, observes the two rotund, hariy loaves, nestling under his stiffening manhood and exclaims:

      “oh, yes! there they are!”.

  88. 393
    Anonymous says:

    Lisbon-You can’t really trust Dave and Billy. Party members must now feel a bit like Chamberlain with that piece of paper.

  89. 401

    You have been warned. I have informed the police that there are several people on this site who have stolen my identity. Expect the police to come calling.

    • 412
      NewGirl says:

      Ha ha …perhaps they could stop the odd knife crime first though hey? Not that they should not prioritise what is clearly a grave crime against you CH….

    • 423
      On the interenet no-one knows if you're a dog says:

      Is it possible to steal an identity on a blog?

      • 482
        Anonymous says:

        No: all crime has been completely eliminated by the Labour government following a MASSIVE investment in creative accounting.

      • 533
        Body Snatcher says:

        It’s an old habit i’m afraid.

    • 426
      Ratsniffer says:

      Off you go to bed Charlie, dear. Nursey is waiting with her medication, and those nice soft cotton gloves, so you don’t give yourself friction burns on account of pounding that poor purple pecker all night long.

    • 436
      City of Vice says:

      Chas, I thought about saying something witty but in essence it all boils down to much the same thing.

      Fuck off.

    • 438
      Anonymous says:

      I told you. Hardwidge is only allowed out of his cell between 8-9pm. At other times he shouts across the hall to get them to type it is as he’s wearing his jacket. The padded cell sometimes muffles his screams.

    • 439
      Magog says:

      I dunno about you, but I always get the mental impression of dear old Charles Hawtrey whenever I see one of C E H’s posts.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hawtrey_(film_actor)

      However, Charlie Hawtrey was a kind and gentle soul, unlike this tool.

    • 453
      knacker says:

      Fuck off we’re to busy having fun waterboarding

    • 459
      Charles E Hardwidge says:

      Sorry I meant identities. Didn’t you know that under New Labour it is a criminal offence to pretend to be somebody else, living or dead, when posting joke comments on a blog.

      • 462
        Kenneth E Williams says:

        Oh come off it Charlie luv!

        Lets go down the boozer. You can have some more gin, and we can wave at the sailors.

    • 554

      What bastards been doing that?

  90. 405

    Why is google getting such a hard time??

  91. 408
    Ever Vigilant says:

    Charles E Hardwidge

    Low inflation and low interest rates were essential to drive Browns plan to grow the economy by accelerating the housing boom and promote consumer spending using easy credit

    This was a copy of what Clinton did in the states. Brown now realises that the yanks got it wrong and that is what he means when he bleats that it all started in America .He took all the credit when the flawed theory produced
    growth but moans like a stuck pig now that the inevitable consequences
    have caught him unawares. Far from being an economic genius , the man is a cretin

  92. 409
  93. 411
    Anonymous says:

    go along with it? I would like some clarification. I don’t get it.

  94. 415
    Gordon Brown says:

    I am proud to unveil my National Plan:

    From henceforth David Cameron shall be known as Mr 10%.

    Brilliant! That should win me the next election!!

    • 505
      Gordon Mr 10% Brown says:

      No, I am Mr 10%, large numbers of low paid workers can’t all be wrong.

  95. 416
    Liam Byrne says:

    Cameron is Mr 10% LOL Mr 10% hah hah hah Mr10% ROTFLMAO!!

  96. 420
    Joey Jones says:

    David Cameron is Mr 10%

    • 435
      Ratsniffer says:

      Buried in the NooLabour traktor production figures is the admission that after an election labour would be forced to make, er, about 10% in cuts….which is precisely why Broon and Darling are at loggerheads. Broon wants to pretend that labour will go on spending, while those wicked tories will make cuts.

      Darling realises there is simply no money left, and UK PLC’s credit card is all maxed out. If Broon gets his way…the IMF will be storming in and then there will be some real cuts to be made…and once again labour will be humiliated…roll on…

    • 474
      Gordon Mr 10% Brown says:

      No, I am Mr 10% you tosser.

    • 534
      Dr Feelgood says:

      You’ll find he’s Mr 16% – the poll lead over Labour

  97. 429
    coral reef says:

    Listening to the political commentary this week you would be excused for thinking Britain was a country full of sick, weak, persecuted, disadvantaged and discriminated people.

    All the dialogue is about cuts or not to cuts

    When private sector companies hit the issue of expenditure commitments exceeding saving and income, they make generally strategic cuts and plan new schemes to generate income

    All organisational structures will be able to make cuts without any real damage, putting the Kinnock family on income support and taking Beckett’s security detail off her are easy examples but wealth creation is by far the best option

    Making cuts and leaving the private sector alone is the only option available

    • 432
      Anonymous says:

      There’ll be no choice in 3 or 4 months time when the gilt markets go on strike and Brown can’t finance his spending spree with government debt. The IMF will come in and demand massive spending cuts.

      • 549
        Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

        …and joining the eurp as per builderberger instructions. eurp, eurp

  98. 434
    Charles E Hardwidge says:

    I am the Fonze

  99. 440
    Charles E Hardwidge says:

    heeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy want to come into my office?

  100. 448
    pissed off voter says:

    Look let’s ignore Hardwidge and the Harman_Prides and the rest of the ZanNuLabia spambots and maybe they’ll go away.

  101. 449
    fuck off labour says:

    There is no Hardwidge just look how ridiculous the name is. It’s a sockpuppet username worn to death by the Labour party black ops division.

  102. 455
    nell says:

    Deripaska-mandlescum’s very best friend, who wants to buy Vauxhall, has been called a cockroach by Putin because of his catastrophic handling of his paper mills business on the shores of Lake Baikal.

    His 2200 employees have gone on hungerstrike over unpaid wages (that’ll be whilst he was entertaining Mandy on that luxury yacht then!!!)

    Wow!!!! True socialism at work. Vauxhall look what you have to look forward to. Mandy – what friends you keep!!!!

    • 537
      Matt C says:

      Good old Putin sure knows how to deal with russian socialists and lefty reporters that why most of did a runner to the UK

  103. 458

    Guido,
    You’re right this is a big problem. But I think it happens on blogs too. I mean it even happens here, right ? The problems you would have with identifying co-conspirators may be greater, but should a different standard be applied?

    Its true theres nothing more annoying than ’sources close to X have revealed Y’.

    • 496
      David Shipley says:

      Interesting post, but I think yes, different standards should be applied.

      People here assess each other’s posts on their merits, not on the status or title of the person posting, while those in government and political journalism seem to care more about who is saying it than whether it makes sense.

    • 497
      David Shipley says:

      Also, with unattributable press briefings, the briefers want to have their cake and eat it. If an ordinary member of the public were to say anonymously that Alistair Darling’s position was under threat, for example, the press would take no notice. But under the lobby system the briefer is described as a “senior Government source” or “sources close to the Prime Minister” or some such, retaining the sense of power while concealing their identity and allowing politicans arrange to leak information to the press and then deny it on the record afterwards.

      Guido is right, there is no way this corrupt system could work without the connivance of a weak and unprincipled press.

  104. 461
    NewGirl says:

    Am reading “Not with a Bang, but a Whimper” by Theodore Dalrymple at the mo..Have a feeling a few Guido readers may appreciate his prose…recommend it heartily! Nell, you’d enjoy it, I promise.

    • 477
      nell says:

      Have just ordered it on Amazon since you recommend it.

      But I don’t like to idea that we ‘ the great British Public’ are in decline.

      Actually I think since Easter – we’ve probably been in the ascendency – thanks to Guido!!!!

      • 479
        NewGirl says:

        Let me know what you think Nell :-)

      • 481
        NewGirl says:

        PS some of them are though aren’t they….?! the less “great” ones…

        • 498
          nell says:

          Less “great” ones – NewGirl ?

          At the moment , the one’s that come to mind are:

          David “I thought bravely about resigning” Militwit,

          Hazel ” I didn’t mean to hurt Gordon- so please don’t deselect me ” Tears

          Glynnis” Thank you so much Gordon for my eighth pension” K*nnock

          And last but not least

          Peter ” Thank you Gordon for putting me in charge – now clear off whilst I get on with the job” Mandlescum.

          Looking forward to the book.

  105. 463
    Ever Vigilant says:

    Mandleson must come clean about his funding of his London home.There is a long lingering doubt about his ability to have done it from his own resopurces .

    There is also the circumstantial evidence that he did Deripaska a big favour in Europe over an aluminium deal . Itis incumbent upon Mandleson to prove that he did not take a bribe from Deripaska so that he could buy his expensive house . We have a right to know .

    • 465
      MI5 says:

      Yes

      And don’t forget the “help” he got from a doubtful French operator called Alain Mink…

      Who I have already written about here…

    • 469
      Peter Mandelson says:

      Didn’t you know I paid for my home with my very own froth

  106. 470
    The Beast Of Clerkenwell says:

    Mandelson is bent in many ways
    He gives Gays and Fraudsters a bad name.

    • 495
      Magog says:

      Look. Peter Mandelson is openly gay.

      I have many issues with ‘Lord’ Mandelson, but his being homosexual, is not one of them.

      His being a traitorous scumbag and usurper of democracy is far, far more objectionable to me than his private sexual proclivities.

      So, Beast, can we just get over the fact that Mandelson is a queer, and concentrate on the real substance? Or are you unable to tune your radar to ignore that fact?

    • 543
      MI5 says:

      New Labour has always been the Government of Buggery and Thuggery

      The only thing that has changed in the last couple of weeks is that, with the resurrection of Mandelcash, the degree of Buggery has increased in relation to the Thuggery…

    • 612
      Sylvia's Mother says:

      OK bend over, remember Gordon I told you I do not use vaseline its to poofy!

  107. 480
    alfonso da gonzo says:

    May I suggest, Guido, that you open a mongboard forum and tempt all the twatters onto that and leave the comments free for some useful/interesting stuff. Just too many here – gets way too tedious. (And you will have more room for adverts).
    That is all.

  108. 485
    • 491
      Jessa Towell says:

      Labourlast.org ? A prediction of the outcome at the General Election ??

      When will Mandelson tell Brown to call the election ?

      • 512
        nell says:

        He won’t!!!!

        Mandlescum will want gordon to hold on as long as he can – because mandy finally has power concentrated in his own hands by gordon’s weakness –

        Finally!!!!

        He’ll want it for as long as it can last.

      • 556
        going down the pan says:

        as allways ” mindyourson ” want’s him to stay up there as long as possible

  109. 490
    Barack Ofcoursegordonisabummer says:

    Hey
    At least I got elected
    You have this “leader” That is soooooooooo obviously a tard with nobody wanting the sock in trouser leg cretin to “get on with the job”
    Do was we do when some fuck wit gets the levers of power over here
    SHOOT THE HOON

  110. 499
    Peter Sissons says:

    Ann Robinson has new tits !

    http://subrosa-blonde.blogspot.com/

  111. 503
    nell says:

    Dr Chris Kelly said today that he was shocked by the MP’s expenses revelations in the DT.

    He also told the BBC tonight that he had asked to carry out an inquiry into the expenses scandal BEFORE GORDON HAD REQUESTED IT.

    Dear Harriett is spinning tonight, trying to defuse his comments, by issuing a statement , clearly aimed at the Tories, saying that she will publish details of MP’s 2nd jobs on 1st July.

    Bless!!!! Harriett are their 2nd jobs paid for by the taxpayer like the Kinnocks 6/7/8 pensions???? Or do MP’s have to actually work for those jobs?

  112. 511
    R.McGeddon says:

    Labour: already morally bankrupt now are nearly financially bankrupt.

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/

  113. 516

    A friend of mine who is a broadcaster of many years experience, has a great way of dealing with press statements. Unattributable briefings do not happen as far as he is concerned. And if his programme ever gets a printed press statement, he holds it to the microphone, crinkles it and day: “Yes. That was he sound of a press release from such-and-such. Who knows? If they want to apepar on my show, maybe they’ll get someone who can speak to us…”

  114. 524
    Harman_Pride says:

    The NHS is the Labour Party’s greatest achievement. We created it, we saved it, we value it and we will always support it. Over Labour’s 11 years in government, substantial and sustained investment in the NHS backed by vital reforms have transformed the service. We have ensured the NHS has the staff it needs and backed them to deliver improvements in quality and capacity, driving up standards and driving down waits. Now we are bringing healthcare closer to communities and giving patients more power and control, making sure the NHS is there for you when and where you need it.

    • 529
      nell says:

      You have more Managers in the NHS than Russia has in its Politburo!!!!

      Pity that there are so few Doctors and Nurses in the NHS and that patients are regarded more as a nuisance than a necessity.

      Labour (the MRSA party of the masses) Isn’t Working!!!!

      • 538
        Ratsniffer says:

        Komrade Nell, you are speaking off message. Report to re-education Kamp gullag 2311/01 immediately.

      • 599
        RavingMad says:

        they also have more car park attendants than doctors and nurses – which would account for the dreadfully long waiting times at appointments – car park receipts up 500%

        • 601
          RavingMad says:

          addionally, they have Blue Badge parking bays in my local hospital. Which is fine until people want to leave the gated carparks – because at the point of payment BlueBadges aren’t recognised and so diasable people then have to go and pay for the service!! – European Blue Badges not recognised in UK hospital carpark storm!!!!!!

    • 531
      chronic says:

      Stafford Hospital, tell this to the relatives of the dead, are you proud of that Harman.

    • 536
      Ratsniffer says:

      Traktor production is up again! Hail to the great leader, Comrade Joe Brownin, leader of our great demokratik state of the mighty EUSSR! The statistics, released by the Ministry of Truth, show that the great leader’s re-education programmes have brought about year on year increases in national production. Camp leader, Comrade Hateperson said “our programme of re-education camps have been a true success, helping those who needed extra idiological training to aquire the neccessary skills they need in order to go forward. National output is at an all time high”

      • 545
        Matt C says:

        The UK NHS wages for nurses under labour have been a disgrace!!

        You’s deliberately kept them down so UK born and bred talent would be forced to go to other work in other countries health services for better wages and use of their talents and hope for a better standard of living.

        So you could employ the useless second raters and slackers that barely passed their medical qualifications and bring in subpar immigrant doctors and nurses with the promise of a visa to put up with your shit pay for joke hours without questions.

        And then when they started to cock things up cause they were useless and too inexperienced you’s thought up the idea of bringing in consultants and managers to sort out the mess up which sounds ok in theory, except once again the usual lefty problem happened that their ended up being more non working/productive senior staff being paid stupid amounts of money than actual working staff.

        The NHS is regarded as dodgier than a potion shop from the dark ages compared to most modern countries healthservices throughout the world.

        The fact that UK citizens are now travelling to countries like Bulgaria for dental work and operations says it all.

        • 550
          Ratsniffer says:

          The NHS is safe under labour? Dream on. It’s been turned into another socialist fiasco.

        • 611
          Jel says:

          Yes, but just think of all the votes for Labour from the new nursing staff!

    • 539
      Dr Feelgood says:

      Fact: Conservatives will ring-fence NHS spending from the Labour credit crunch, while bringing efficiency.

      “Our recent Freedom of Information request revealed that £350 million pounds a year is spent on management consultants, of which over £273 million was not related to direct patient care. This could account for more than 10% of the NHS savings expected by the Government. Every individual Trust needs to ask themselves if they need to take on a management consultant for certain tasks.”
      Source: Royal College of Nursing
      http://www.rcn.org.uk/newsevents/press_releases/uk/rcn_welcome_eu-wide_agreement_on_medical_sharps_injuries/rcn_responds_to_nhs_confederation_warning_on_the_downturn

    • 540
      fuck labour says:

      11 years in government?

      Harman Pride you are a piece of software that pastes excerpts from old outdated NuLab press releases

    • 560
      going down the pan says:

      the NHS is shite ! close this bottomless money pit or privatise it it’s just a waste of fucking money and a health risk to anyone that uses it !

    • 565
      City of Vice says:

      ‘The NHS is the Labour Party’s greatest achievement. We created it…’

      Actually, Harlot Pride, Beveridge, the father of the NHS, was a Liberal.

      Typical Labour – nick other people’s ideas then fuck up the implementation.

    • 570
      Gordon Braun says:

      Yeah, UK is bottom of the league in Europe for access to cancer care. Glad you are proud. I sincerely hope you don’t need it and have to face reality.

    • 594
      Cassandra King says:

      Ooooh really comrade?

      is that why more NHS patients(victims) die of infections due to filthy conditions than die in road accidents/work place accidents/drownings/stabbings/violent crimes
      and KIAs in Afghanistan COMBINED!!!!!

      The rate of deaths due to all combined hospital aquired infections is rising at a faster pace than ever and is much higher now than under your hated ideological enemies, people now fear the NHS and people now fear getting sick, that is the real legacy of the newlabour death camps.

    • 597
      Slut Nurse says:

      NHS was conceived and created by a Liberal. During the war the all party government decided to put its implementation on hold until after the war by whoever achieved power. If the Great British people had not stabbed Churchill in the back then the Conservatives would have introduced the NHS.

      All the great reforms and institutions of this country – like free schooling – were made by Liberals. The only thing that Labour did was introduce free tertiary education which has now been withdrawn by them (except in Scotland).

  115. 551
    The Brussels Octopus stalks us all says:

    “A future Tory government would accept the Lisbon treaty, Kenneth Clarke, said yesterday.

    The intervention by Clarke, a staunch pro-European who returned to the shadow cabinet on the understanding that he would not seek to alter Cameron’s Eurosceptic policies, upset hardliners. Bill Cash, the veteran Eurosceptic Tory MP, said: “It appears that Kenneth Clarke has reinvented unilaterally Conservative party policy on the whole of the Lisbon treaty and European policy.”

    All those Conservatives who thought just lending a vote to UKIP would do the trick on Lisbon must be feeling pretty foolish now.

    • 559
      Matt C says:

      I bet Nigel Farage is rubbing his hands together. A reduced amount of Tories vs UKIP and Lib Dems could end up being the only parties in parliament after a GE the rate this is going at.

    • 575
      Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

      Please, where is this quote relayed from. Do you have a source ? Really appreciate it. Ta.

      • 584
        Anonymous says:

        It’s in most of the papers and on the BBC News website but think that one might be from the Guardian

        • 587
          Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

          Thanks, got it now. Just read comments on Hannan DT. Things are going to get very interesting.

    • 581
      I'll have some of that says:

      Next week – We’d be mad not to join the Euro at this level says Ken Clarke…….

  116. 552
    MI5 says:

    O/T When id the Daily Telegraph going to publish the expenses of the remaining 200 odd MPs…(they have “done” about 250 if my claculations are correct…

    Or has the Telegraph been “nobbled” as well ?

    This is a real question and the Telegraph must answer for the fact that they have only given us the details of about 250 MPs…

    Why this discrimination ???!!!

    • 561
      nell says:

      There are 649 – If they have done 250 – that leaves about 400 to go.

      Interesting !! Looking forward to it!!!!

      Sorry I said I’ve gone to bed. Good night

    • 563
      going down the pan says:

      there are 647 MP’s the DT dont publish at weekends also i think they will let Mc mental one eyed twat ! PM to the power of one settle down think he is safe regain his cocky jock attitude then “fucking nail the useless twat “

    • 600
      Tin Cunliffe says:

      I’d have thought they’re nobbled by purely commercial reasons.
      Unless they can top the duck house, its not interesting enough to sell papers.

      I wonder if there’s anything left thats worth the ink.

  117. 558
    nell says:

    Peter Mandelson is going to have his own PMQ’s (Peter Mandelson Questions) in the Lords (seriously) , to reflect his ‘most powerful minister’ status.

    Truly you couldn’t make it up!!!!

    Happy Days…

    Good Night – God Bless –

    I can’t wait for tomorrow. Harriett promising revelations about working MP’s who don’t rely upon the taxpayer ;Militwit with revelations about how MP’s bravery would match our lads in Afghanistan if only they would act; and the Kinnochios about sweeping policies on how to make the EU accountable and transparent. It’s Alice down the rabbit hole isn’t it????

  118. 567
    I DO MANKYBUM'S LAUNDRY says:

    I QUIT !

  119. 579
    Harman Goering says:

    I HEARTILY COMMEND OUR GLORIOUS LEADER TO THE PEOPLE!

    Bread sales have increased by 13.2% since 1997. Butter sales have risen by 12.8% in that period. Jam sales have risen by 4.4%, and flour output has surpassed all records.

    There has been a 3.1% rise in the amount of tuna available to shoppers, and toilet rolls have never been longer or softer.

    For this we can all praise our Glorious Leader.

    ALL PRAISE OUR GLORIOUS LEADER! ALL PRAISE OUR GLORIOUS LEADER!

  120. 589

    [...] Journalist Attribute Thyself The Times’ Sam Coates blogs that David Miliband has a good idea in his “I thought about bravely resigning [...] [...]

  121. 592
    Blears in Tears says:

    Please sir can I have my ball back.

  122. 593
    mitch says:

    Ed testicles piece for CIF is getting some stick, he really is retarded.

  123. 615
    Yoda says:

    door stable horse bolted close

  124. 625
    John Keynes says:

    Labour has been in 12 years.
    There has been 10 yerars growth which means that there has NOT been continuos growth under the Labour government.







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