June 17th, 2009

Drug Pushing Lobbyists of the World Unite!

The news that sleazy lobbyist Steve Morgan, formerly of the now defunct Morgan Allen Moore, who was retained by Peter Hain in his disastrously dodgy bid for Labour deputy leader has taken his team of spin merchants to the huge American spin shop Burson-Marsteller is a little worrying. Morgan Allen Moore was described by PR Week last year as a “scandal-hit outfit”, becoming the first firm ever to be kicked out of the industry’s self regulatory group.  PR Week reports that

Morgan’s new ‘market access’ practice at Burson-Marsteller will advise healthcare clients on issues related to product marketing and access to the NHS.

Back in the not so distant past Morgan was hired to push a drug responsible for widespread deaths and crippling illness. Ortho Biotech, a division of Johnson & Johnson, retained Morgan Allen Moore in 2001 to push its anaemia drug, Eprex.  Eprex is currently being investigated by the FDA because of the high number of patients who have suffered strokes and died as a consequence of taking the drug. Eprex was withdrawn in September 2001 (“Eprex vials to be withdrawn”, Chemist and Druggist, 22 September 2001, page 28 – not online) because of fears over its safety. On 14 July 2002, the Financial Times reported that

“Eprex has been linked to a rare but devastating condition known as antibody-mediated pure red blood cell aplasia or PRCA. The condition is triggered when the body produces antibodies against its own EPO, shutting down red blood cell production. The only treatment for PRCA is regular, life-long blood transfusions”.

Burson-Marstellar – a company which was itself also investigated by the APPC for having a secret client in 2007 – represents, amongst others, Digene Corp, a company principally specialising in the production of a test for HPV, the virus that causes genital warts in women.  A marriage made in hell, some might say…


162 Comments

  1. 1
    Steve Expat says:

    Can the Tories please pledge to ban this scum lobbying of the government by the heathcare industry – it must cost the NHS billions in unneccesary costs.

    Do we really want to move ever further towards the US system of heathcare?

    • 9
      Dan Hannan says:

      Yes!

      • 71

        One of the key problems for Britain has been a general disruption and selfishness. Mostly, this has been caused by a minority who tried to game the system in their own interests but it’s dragged everyone else down. By developing more clarity and balance sound leadership becomes effortless.

        The Tao warns that chaos gives rise to criminals. Where clearer rules and more common understanding is present there is less scope for individuals to profit from this. Competition for huge earnings will decline and generosity will expand as surely as night follows day. Income gaps will narrow to historical norms and general happiness will increase.

        As Labour’s vision is framed by a gloomy mountain the glint of a new sun is emerging from the shadow, switching attention from the violent and intense Tory legacy of fear and greed, and giving more room for self-understanding and compassion. Buoyed by the sunshine and rainbows of government policy birds will sing and a thousand flowers will bloom accordingly.

        All hail Blessed Leader!

        • 83
          Talwin says:

          “…a general disruption…” Of what FFS?

        • 156

          Here is what Charles said translated in to Chinese

          其中一个关键问题为英国是一般中断和自私。 主要,这是由在他们自己的兴趣尝试对比赛系统的少数造成的,但它拖所有的人下。 通过开发更多清晰和平衡酣然的领导变得不出力。
          陶警告混乱提升罪犯。 那里更加清楚的规则和更加共同的理解是存在有较少范围为了个体能赢利从此。 竞争为巨大的收入将下降,并且宽厚一样肯定将扩展,象夜跟随天。 收入差距将变窄到历史准则,并且一般幸福将增加。
          当辛苦视觉由一座阴沉的山构筑新的太阳的闪闪发光从阴影涌现,交换注意从恐惧和贪婪的猛烈和强烈的保守分子遗产,并且给更多室为自已了解和同情。 由政府政策鸟阳光和彩虹漂浮将唱歌,并且一千朵花将相应地开花。
          所有冰雹保佑的领导!

          And then translated back into English. It make better reading, that way.

          Key question for England is the general interrupt and selfish. Main, this is by minority creates in theirs interest attempt to the competition system, but it tows under all people. Are more through the development clear and the balanced sound leadership becomes does not strive.
          The ceramic warned promotes the criminal chaotic. There clearer rule and a more common understanding is the existence has the few scopes for the individual to be able the profit henceforth. The competition will drop for the huge income, and generous will equally definitely expand, likely night of followed day. The income differential will strict to the historical criterion, and general happy will increase.
          When the laborious vision constructs the new sun by a cloudy mountain sparklingly from the shadow emergence, exchange attention from fear and greedy violent and intense conservative molecular inheritance, and for from has understood and the sympathy for more rooms. Will sing by the government policy bird sunlight and the rainbow float, and 1000 spendthrifts blossom correspondingly.
          All hail bless leadership!

      • 142
        going down the pan says:

        KETTLE,POT BLACK ! sky news Martin MC Guinness DISGUSTING ! that a gang of racist thugs have driven 100 romanian immigants from their homes .

    • 33
      Mr Justice Eady Says says:

      I am a Hoon

      • 75
        Bordeaux Binger says:

        But not when it comes to the privacy of multi-millionaires, pop stars. MPs and celebrities, and judges of course. Then I am a total self serving wanchor man.

    • 41
      Sammy says:

      The Tories should introduce statutory regulation of lobbyists (paid for by lobbyists themselves) as has been introduced in Europe and the States.

      The people want to see politics cleaned up.

      You know it makes sense Dave!

    • 87
      Fells Point barfly says:

      As a US citizen, born in England, I can say that US healthcare is way ahead of what is called “healthcare” in the UK My life was saved by a medical system in the US, with my local medical clinic and hospital both involved at all times. I was even visited by the GP during my stay in hospital, to make sure I was getting the care I needed.

      As an aside, it is NOT true that you have no healthcare if you have no insurance in the US. Just to name one place known by many Brits, if you go to Johns Hopkins with a medical problem, you are seen and treated free of charge. It is the law that all hospitals have to provide this service.

      Hope I have put that untruth to bed at last.

      • 93
        Doctor Mick says:

        Not really… one swallow doesn’t make a summer.

      • 100
        Master Baiter says:

        If you have a chronic illness you cannot pay your insurance premium, your insurance expires, the US system then leaves you out to dry.
        That is why all civilised countries have universal healthcare that is worthy of the name.
        One of the reasons Obama was elected was becasue he promised to provide a universal health care system in the US.
        If the rapacious health industry in the US is so good why not cancel your health insurance and use the money instead to save starving children in a developing country?

        • 122
          Mother Theresa says:

          Instead of spending all day on this website defending a corrupt administration why don’t you spend some time doing volunteer work helping poor people or starving people?

          Fucking hypocrite.

        • 131
          I am Sick says:

          “If you have a chronic illness you cannot pay your insurance premium, your insurance expires, the US system then leaves you out to dry.”

          Utter horseshit MB, based entirely on ignorance and propaganda, then you are an unquestioning oaf and ZaNuLab bore, so it is entirely predictable.

          Of course, as a socialist / fascist, you believe in a state provided death care service, like the NHS.

          Tell us all again how many thousands die each year in NHS hospitals from diseases and infections caught while being “cared for” by the state ( oh wait, the state has NO MONEY ) funded death care service.

          You may go.

        • 133
          thick as shit says:

          He’s gone. Fortunately the twat only spouts shite at work, up to 5 pm, then its off to the pub with his crony mates to have a giggle about what a jolly good hoot this tory trolling is.

          And we council tax payers foot the bill for his inane drivel!

        • 143

          IAS it’s beurocrat rationed treatment,

          In the NHS you are a cost, not a customer.

          http://nationaldeathservice.blogspot.com/

        • 146
          going down the pan says:

          nice to see we have so many americans on this blog witha vast knowlege of their own healthcare system .

      • 132
        Diana Queen of Hearts says:

        Yes you can get ER care from hospitals on a “pro bono” basis. But that’s where it begins and ends, unless you have insurance. No GP, no prescription drugs, very patchy ante-natal care, nothing for chronic illness, for 50 million people, yet they spend over 15% of their GDP on healthcare. For most people it’s great, for a big minority it’s third world, and overall it’s hugely expensive – really crap value for money. For once in his life, MB is right.
        Also MT how do you know he doesn’t do charitable work? I thought you were dead, anyway, although maybe you forgot in all the fuss about my death.

        • 135
          Mother Theresa says:

          He’s a cynical mingebag who supports NuLiebor – that’s how I knows he doesn’t do charity work.

          I may be dead but I ain’t stupid my child.

        • 149
          Steve Expat says:

          The USA spends more public money per capita on heathcare (Medicare and Medicaid) than we do, yet it only covers a fraction of the population.

          The major problems are lawers, phama companies and insurance companies, in that order.

          [rant]

          A doctor pays up to $500,000 a year for professional indemnity insurance, a massive amount of unnecessary treatment is provided so that doctors can cover their arses against being sued.

          Phama companies have massive marketing (TV adverts for prescription drugs, aimed at consumers, salesmen going around doctors’ surgeries) and lobbying (political donations, ‘buying’ both parties to introduce legislation in their favour) budgets

          Insurance companies can arbitarily decide what is covered or not, and guess which is in their best interest? Insuance is almost always linked to employment so if, for example, your child is sick, you cannot change jobs without having to fund the child’s treatment yourself. If you are sick and lose your job as a result, you lose your insurance and have to pay your own treatment.

          I cannot recall the exact figure, but somewhere around 75% of bankruptcies in the US involve unpaid medical bills. The US system is indeed the best in the world for those who can afford it, for millions who can’t, it is from the third world

          [/rant]

    • 151
      MARTIN Mc GUINNESS HYPOCRITE says:

      funny that when you swap a combat jacket for a suit that a violent attack on the romanian immigrants was “outrageous disgracefull attack on inocent people” yet shooting your fellow countrymen just because they went to a different church was ok !

  2. 2
    The Master says:

    Morgan is a nasty piece of work. As is that Piers chap who keeps appearing on your comments section Guido.

    • 7
      righty right wing (mrs) says:

      Indeed, ghastly individual.

      I know one or two of Her Majestys armed forces who would like an open, robust & frank exchange of views with the Hoon.

      I doubt we shall ever see Piers out & about in any squaddie town in the UK for the rest of his life, such is the low esteem in which they hold him & are likely to forever.

      Steve Morgan is just another macho Neo Labour dead head who has been shunned from the homo erotic gang bang that passes for the Labour leadership these days.

      McBride will be back next, it is just a matter of time before he calls in his favours with Mcmental.

      McMental is so weak politically now that I am surprised that no-one in Labours ranks has the gumption to topple him.

      Still, snouts in the trough for another 358 days may have something to do with it.

    • 12
      Lestweforget says:

      I must say, Piers Morgan looks quite calm for one who is being slowly roasted over an open fire. How could he be that orange otherwise? Is he Peter Hain’s long lost brother?

      I am sure there are many who would gladly help both of them top up their tans over some hot coals.

    • 55
      NonnyMouse says:

      I hope Burson-Marsteller have a quality Employment Tribunal Lawyer with a good record of settling sexual harassment claims on retention cos they will be kept busy. Oh and issue all of their female staff with personal attack alarms

  3. 3
    Disco Biscuit says:

    Anyone who can get “Steve Morgan” and “causes genital warts in women” into the same article deserves a public service medal.

  4. 4
    Ewanme says:

    Someone look into Aldara FFS . Nasty fuckin stuff .

    Love E x .

    • 161
      Goldi Lox says:

      Funny you should say that, Ewanme – I was prescribed a 6 week course of Aldara (Imiquimod) by my Consultant Dermatologist last Autumn. It did what it said on the tin, and there’s no sign of the rodent ulcer now, but I began to feel my energy gradually drain away over the weeks and months that followed, and washed up at my GP’s surgery with a blood count of 7 in January this year.
      The walking dead.
      I’ve read some pretty horrifying testaments about the drug on Forums on the web…however my brother used it for a similar condition and suffered no side effects whatever.
      Despite my body’s so far unexplained extreme reluctance to respond to the iron medication (ferrous sulphate) advised by my GP, the Consultant Dermatologist assures me that he can totally reassure me that there are no long term detrimental side effects from Aldara.
      I dunno…

  5. 5
    • 14
      Master Baiter says:

      Wow that’s just over half a thousand, how big is that?
      1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, ……………………………………..

      • 15
        resurgemus says:

        About the number of labour voters in Cornwall

      • 20
        Tin Cunliffe-Arsely says:

        Its twice as many as the number of idiots prepared to vote for a new labour Kiddy as a councillor in Chorley.

        • 36
          Master Baiter says:

          Fascinating

        • 45
          resurgemus says:

          B&P to sponsor Shahid Malik ? He raises their vote wherever he goes.

          Burnley….Kirklees…..where next ?

        • 48
          Master Baiter says:

          Jerusalem artichoke

        • 49
          Tin Cunliffe-Arsely says:

          Really? Ok then.

          But the real question would be … what sort of tosser takes on a valued, hard working and extremely well known figure, who did used to be part of the local Labour party.

          Obviously no-one else in the local labour party would sink low enough to do it so they needed to find some pointless mug to stand against her.

        • 63
          Talwin says:

          A reference to young Jonty Pryor’s failed attempt to give the good people of Chorley the benefit of his representation. Of course, just as doomed to failure now will be any aspiration to further his political career as, say, a PPC.

          For those who may be wondering why the name Chorley is somehow familiar to them: it’s the place from which Draper hails.

          One small town – two Labour losers. How refreshing is that?

        • 77
          Lawless says:

          Chorley’s a hole. Labour’s welcome to ruin it. Atop the bus station it says ‘Chorley, a place where people matter’. I can only think it means in the decomposing flesh sense of the word.

        • 78
          Tin Cunliffe-Arsely says:

          I’m all for balance you know.
          They do a good line in disgraceful conservatives too.

        • 90
          Talwin says:

          Lawless. Didn’t know about the Chorley bus station sign which says “…where people matter”. Perhaps it was reading this caring-and-sharing fortune-cookie bollocks that inspired Draper to seek enlightenment in/at Berkeley.

        • 129
          PT Barnham's shit shoveller says:

          Aw, show a little compassion. Growing up in Chorley with a name like Jonty must have scarred the poor little blighter for life. He needs to feel loved and respected, and cannot be blamed for looking in so wildly wrong a place for it. He’s probably traumatised and suffering from short term memory loss.

          And if he’d been in my class in at school, he’d have legged it (or been hurled) all the way to somewhere more suitable. Islington, for instance.

    • 16
      TOO FAR says:

      Bloody hell, they have problems with a Brown as well FFS ….. are they all arseholes?
      I bet thet have a equivalent to Mandlebum as well. Poor sods, at least the weather is better there.

      • 26

        Congratulations on reading the article! The others obviously didn’t! haha.

        • 59
          Moley says:

          But Hamilton is near Glasgow and the article says,

          “But Mr Brown was defiant. “As some of you might know, I grew up in the protest era,” he shouted at the booing crowd.

          “This is nothing new to me. I have seen them larger and longer,” he said.”

          That looks like our man!

    • 29
      Steve Expat says:

      lol – for a few seconds there you had me fooled (or was it hopeful)

    • 139
      Anonymous says:

      Could he be related to the Snot-Gobbler ?

  6. 6
    Barbie Tourette says:

    ZZZzzzzzzzz………….

  7. 8
    bhoddhisatva says:

    Burston-Marstellar were also retained by Equitable Life under Vanni Treves to “promote” nay ram the “Compromise” through that effectively shafted members there that did not hold the later “Guaranteed Annuity Rates” options in favour of the older members who did.

    This was to save the FSA and Gordon Broon’s embarrassment as the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s investigation clearly showed that there had been knowing collusion between ELAS management and the FSA in 1999/2000 to allow ELAS to continue trading, sucking in new clients and funds, to try and trade its way out of trouble … yet it was INSOLVENT technically then already!!!!

  8. 13
    Brown's new voice is DT editor's brother says:

    Anyone noticed a small bit in the D Telegraph today;

    Brown has hired the brother of DT Editor Will Lewis as his new Head of Communications – Simon Lewis joins No10 next month.

    mmm – of course no spinning or doctoring will be allowed….much.

    • 23
      DT Editor says:

      Si’s a total Hunt too. He used to pull the tails off tadpoles just to see what would happen.

    • 80
      Lawless says:

      yeah saw this today too. More conflict of interest at the DT after they’ve just over-hauled their politics dept.? Surely the powers that be will notice how out of touch they’re getting with their readership….

    • 97
      backwoodsman says:

      Probably explains why its gone down hill so far, so fast. Classic case of alienating the natural client base, without being able to attract a fresh audience. Still, if they hired a good PR firm , with great contacts in the labour government , I’m sure the Barclays will get some of their investment back. Well, a little bit.

      • 147
        Jan says:

        Why the DT employs Nu-Liebor hacks like Mary Riddell is beyond me.To say that she spouts utter rubbish is an understatement.She, like so many has come from that rubbish leftie non-profit-making (and not making any profit)paper which calls itself a NEWSpaper. Yet we all know it is the just the mouthpiece of the deluded party which just happens to have ruined our country.

  9. 18
  10. 22
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    So will he get the cross hairs treatment?

  11. 24
    made up Corry Norry name says:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/bermuda/5554927/Bermuda-protestors-call-for-dictator-PM-to-step-down-after-secret-US-Guantanamo-deal.html

    Janice Battersbee, who described herself as a lifelong supporter of Mr Brown’s Progressive Labour Party, stepped up to the microphone when Brown invited the protesters to send a representative to speak

  12. 24
    Anonymous says:

    And I thought the pharmaceutical industry could do no wrong. Nice to see you’ve caught up.

    • 28

      They are as bad as the oil industry.

      The Penguin

      • 52
        Stronghold Barricades says:

        with bells on

      • 101
        Doctor Mick says:

        The marketing of pharmaceuticals is far worse than anything in the oil & gas industry. It really is a cut throat business.

        Except when your throat is cut you know what’s killing you.

    • 150
      Jan says:

      My complaint about the pharmaceutical industry is that even drugs for very minor ailments seem to have a long list of possible side effects.You open the box and out pop the pills along with a three foot long piece of paper.Oh you’ve got a headache,well take this pill……but mind yourself you could get dizzy spells,nausea,vomitting,palpitations, suffer hallucinations,don’t drink,don’t drive,in fact don’t do anything.

  13. 35
    Let's smash the Brown Broadcasting Corporation, it lies for a liar says:

    Be fair though, any client or product is more edifying and morally correct than ‘think tank which doesn’t do any thinking’, Hain.
    Even ‘Ricin Enterprises Ltd’, ‘Mustard Gas PLC’, and ‘People traffickers are us.com’ are a step up from representing that lying Hunt

  14. 37
    Harry Cole-Bean says:

    Prrp!

  15. 38
    Rt Hoon Peter Hain Secretary of State for VIP says:

    I wish Steve CONTINUED success.

  16. 42
    Martin McGuinness says:

    Tiocfaidh ar la

  17. 43
  18. 46
    Master Baiter says:

    Beidh an lá linn

  19. 50
    Reg511 says:

    I have just had to explain to a stunned office why someone saw piers on my screen, thanx

  20. 53
    W.T. says:

    Content in this blog about EPREX is medical nonsense and Guido is likely to get sued by Johnson & Johnson.
    Poor quality research; lack of understanding.
    Not good as patients were involved.

    • 154
      jd says:

      As a dialysis patient who is currently taking Eprex, I have to agree that there’s a degree of scaremongering here. For starters, it’s a bit misleading to suggest it’s been withdrawn when actually it’s still in widespread use!

      Yes, the drug carries risks (which NHS doctors are somewhat inconsistent in telling you about), but they are known, there are guidelines to reduce the risk of cardiovascular complications, and like most drugs it’s a case of weighing the risks against the benefits.

  21. 54
    nell says:

    Well let’s face it – you can’t ban lobbyists – it’s where Labour members of the House of Lords get their large hand-outs!!!!

  22. 56
    Beckett looks like a horse says:

    Morgan and New Labour are dangerous hypocrites

  23. 58

    With that under his belt Steve Morgan should be allowed to reformulate the PM’s chemical of choice, Largactyl.

  24. 61
    Master Baiter says:

    Brian Binley

    • 66
      Master Baiter says:

      Ps: I know, I know, must seem pretty low and sad to be sitting at a laptop posting this cats cock drivel on this site.

      When your genitals are attached (by fishing wire) to Ed Balls chubby fingers, to be tugged painfully at his whim, then you’d be vomiting forth my sixth form level arse juice, I can tell you!

  25. 62
    Sir William Waad says:

    The NHS should be smarter at adopting new techniques, new drugs etc., taking the initiative rather than passively waiting for some PR outfit to sell it the latest molecule. Isn’t that what NICE is for?

    • 103
      nell says:

      No NICE is to stop you the patient getting the drugs that you need to keep you alive. Their view on dying patients seems to be that it is pointless to fund medication for them.

      • 113
        Tin Cunliffe-Arsely says:

        That sounds like you’ve swallowed some of the drug companies PR.

        NICE approves funding of expensive cancer drugs, if they work

      • 124
        nell says:

        Point of view depends onwhether you are a patient or not. NICE tend to take the view with terminal cancer that drugs are a waste of money because they can’t cure the patient.

        They don’t take into account that some drugs can extend life and others the quality of life. They don’t believe these two outcomes are worth investing in.

      • 144
        David Bouvier says:

        Second what nell said. They systematically ignore pain, quality of life etc, and fail to recommend products that become widely used in the other big 4 EU health care systems (France, Germany, Spain, Italy), and in other developed economies around the world.

        Of course it is possible that everyone else is wrong…

  26. 67
    bacon, egg, sausage and tomato on 3 says:

    what sort of treatment would the NHS recommend if you sat on a red hot pound coin and your chocolate starfish melted

    • 91
      Hugh Despenser says:

      Ask Edward II.

      • 108
        Doctor Mick says:

        It was a red hot poker delivered up his bum through a tube. Leaves no visible wounds (except perhaps an everlasting grimace on the face) and as no autopsies were performed in those days nobody knew how he died. Apart from the entire nation.

    • 158
      going down the pan says:

      I WOULD RECOMEND A PARLIAMENTRY MASSAGE FOLLOWED BY DOCTOR PETER’S MEAT INJECTION THAT SHOULDEASE YOU ANALMENT !

  27. 69
    Anonymous says:

    Still no light shed on the source of the funds used by Mandleson to buy his London house .Did any of it come from Deripaska ? We need to know.

    • 72
      Engineer says:

      Mostly from EU handouts one suspects – he was troughing away there for several years. One suspects that Commissioners get even more pay and perks than lowly MEPs.

  28. 70
    The Beast Of Clerkenwell says:

    Mr McGuinness and Mad dog Adair
    Thanks for kicking out those “Romanians”( Read Gypos)
    HAHAHAHAH
    They picked the picked the wrong people to fuck with
    Maybe you could organise a spot of cleansing over here?

    • 111
      Doctor Mick says:

      They are gypsies. The Romanians are only too glad to be exporting these people who have never been assimilated into Romanian society. The Irish obviously don’t want waht they perceive to be an English problem foisted on them.

  29. 73
    Ever Vigilant says:

    Stil nolight shed on the source of the funds used by Mandleson to buy his London house . Does the source include Deripaska ? We need to know.

  30. 74
    The Beast Of Clerkenwell says:

    Christ on a bike Guido, just how much are you getting paid to show that Piers Morgan video?
    I know that you inhabit the gutter but surely even you can see that is just a step too far.

    • 126
      Moley says:

      It is deliberately designed to appeal to gay males.

      That is the target audience.

      The rest of us have been put off the brand for life.

  31. 76
    Peter Mandelson says:

    I am now, and have always been, a great lover of children.
    So I intend to become minister for schools
    Cant have that bitch Gordon lapping up all those photo ops in play grounds can I?

  32. 81
    Peter Mandelson says:

    PS
    Ive just had a nice wank over that Piers video and it was all within the rules

  33. 82
    Buster Gonad's Left Testicle says:

    First!

  34. 84
    Stephen Fry Twitters A Lot says:

    Countryside: The Killing of Piers Morgan.

    • 98
      The Wasp says:

      Wouldn’t that just be a repeat of the Dr David Kelly episode?

      Copyright (c) Whitewash Productions in Association with the Labour Party.

      • 136
        Stephen Fry Twitters A Lot says:

        Think more along the lines of homicide and you’ll appreciate the play on words.

  35. 85
    Noel Edmunds who hates Simon Cowell says:

    The Banker would like to offer the scumbag Morgan a lucrative 7 year contract mugging the general public. Deal or No Deal?

  36. 88
    Ian Phlegming says:

    Thwoop!

  37. 92
    The Wasp says:

    I think the army needs to send in a few talented hopefuls on the next “Britain’s got Talent.”

    Piers: “So what’s your talent then?”
    Contestant: “Beating up Iraqis.”

    I’d pay to see the look on his smug untalented mush.

  38. 96
    Mitchy Crutch says:

    look ‘ere Ducks, I didn’t get these ‘ere warts on me genial thingies from no guy named Morgan gaining market access; my clients are very select old china.

  39. 99
    Ever Vigilant says:

    #71 — not the explanation — If he had saved every penny of his eurocash he would have been nowhere capable of funding his London home.

    This man is a senior minister owning an expensive London house that at face value he could not have paid for from his own resources so we are entitled to ask him the source of the cash.

  40. 102
    Brian Binley says:

    Master Baiter.

    Sez it all really.

  41. 104
    Branston Pants says:

    how do you wash Branston out your pants gusset?

  42. 105
    Anonymous says:

    My doc gave me some “water tablets” to help reduce BP.
    What a fuckin hell of a time I had, swollen ankles, rashes, the fuckin lot.
    In the end got myself some “nettle tea” and problem resolved.
    Fuckers!

  43. 105
    The Wasp says:

    With work steadily progressing on the removal of female genital warts, Supreme Leader and Saviour of the World Prime Minister Gordon Brown can confidently announce an increase in semen production for 2009.

    • 127
      backwoodsman says:

      Nah, Jacqui’s going to be spending more time at home ( sell gay porn production futures short), Richard’s likely to be cutting back on sperm production and spending more time writing anon letters to local papers.

  44. 114
    Anonymous says:

    Doubtless he’ll be Lord Morgan, Minister of Health, before you can say “Another Labour reshuffle”.

  45. 115
    chronic says:

    OT. How come MPs are allowed to use mobile phones when on the benches in the House of commons, if I was making a speech at the despatch box and saw someone thumbing and fingering a blackberry, texting a mistress, looking at gay porn or even playing space invaders, I would stop until I got their full attention. LEAVE YOUR PHONES IN YOUR POCKETS AND LISTEN TO WHAT’S BEING SAID YOU INCONSIDERATE BASTARDS!!!!!!!!

  46. 125
    zobbit says:

    God Allmighty that twat(pouting)twat Morgan is still on here.I need a long rest in a dark room to recover.

    • 128
      nell says:

      He has no shame does he pouting away like that?

      For an elderly lady like myself it’s quite disconcerting. Having seen him on my screen my husband is beginning to worry what sort of site I’m accessing.

      But I bet Piers is having the last laugh knowing he’s stuck in the middle of everybody’s screens doing what he does best!!!!

  47. 130

    Just came across this website :D

    http://www.labour.org.uk/younglabour/

    Check it out!

    • 148
      Moley says:

      It’s all in pink for young labour supporters.

      Comment on free swimming povided by the Labour party;

      Yeah but there are better things we could be spending taxpayers money on. Bailing business out of bankruptcy for example. I don’t know what i’d rather see. me swimming at a pool (which is weird when i live near a beach) or people happy because they have a job and a livelihood.

    • 160
      going down the pan says:

      maybe they should rename NEWGAYBORE !

  48. 137
    jack-in-a-box says:

    Is Burson-marsteller a smokescreen spin to divert? Seems incredible.

    What has happend to Morgans London office, 1 Castle Lane SW1E 6DR
    social club and
    Tunbridge Wells office 14B Chapel Place, TN1 1YQ?

    Al reportedly doing fine?

  49. 138
    Anonymous says:

    Just another virus infecting society – thank goodness we have Guido to alert us to these scumbags

  50. 145
    euro_trash says:

    Some acknowledgement of finding the link/info for you would have been nice…
    *is needy*

  51. 162

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