June 22nd, 2009

Guido Laid Widdecombe

That is not something many can say. Laid her at the bookies on Betfair of course. Selling her price down….

UPDATE : Sir George Young has gone favourite in late betting.


285 Comments

  1. 1
    Scallywag says:

    I don’t understand bookie talk…

    • 11
      Steve Expat says:

      Innuendo headline of the day there Guido!

      Scallywag, if you ‘lay’ a candidate, it means you bet against them, so Guido gets paid if Widdy is NOT elected speaker, laying is like betting in reverse really!

    • 18
      Anonymous says:

      “lay a bet” is the opposite of “place a bet”. So normally you place the bet and the bookie lays it.

    • 30
      Anonymous says:

      Still a very small betting pool so the bookies can easily take a hit on this speculative stuff. The bookies aren’t always right and with this kind of bet they are usually wrong.

    • 229
      MI6 says:

      Gambling. Thats bookie talk. The people of this country took a gamble when they voted for these politicians, and we LOST!!! Hitler or Stalin would have been proud of the misinformation the whitewash enquiries and the way the Police have been organised to wage War on the People. Well done Thatcher and your Bastard Son Blair. Thanks for stamping on the memories of the freedom fighters of the second world war. The Nazi’s got their way in the end

  2. 2

    For an instant, a hideous image flashed before my eyes.

  3. 3

    Did you use one bag or two?

    The Penguin

  4. 4
    Disco Biscuit says:

    “That is not something many can say”

    Or, to be fair, would want to…

  5. 4
    Bomb the Meek! says:

    Widdy, The only sensible choice for speaker … which mean she stands no chance. The majority of MP’s are just too stupid and self centred to get it.

  6. 6
    caesars wife says:

    certainly so far has seemed the one who could do an honest job , although i had wondered how patrick cormack might have done .

    as good as any bet guido , see what the hoons have been lobbying

    dont upset dale hes got £100 on hazelhurst

  7. 7
    Doctor Mick says:

    Nor would admit to.

  8. 8
    Corrupt liebour says:

    so you would rather the dog control the pigs in their sty rather than the horse?

  9. 9
    will says:

    I think given the fact that margaret beckett was booed on question time and also ann widdecombe is going at the next election thye should vote her in the chair to make the required reforms as she is retiring she will have no axe to grind and will be prepared to make the required decisions. come on widdecome shouting order order that would shut the “honorable” members up.

    • 20
      Corrupt liebour says:

      but dont forget, you are not voting, only the little piggies are and what they want is more food, not less. i still say the horse will end up in charge of the pigs cos that’s what gordon pig wants and none of them want to lose their livelihoods do they? These pigs are a breed apart from normal pigs don’t forget. This particular sty has taken over 5 years to achieve and all the little pigs don’t want to get carted off to the abbatoir now do they? All ready to save their bacon.

      • 38
        Wavy Davy slurps Bullingdon Arsegravy says:

        Old etonian dinosaur and world class trougher Sir George Young is a HUGE piggy.

        So if he somehow gets by the Labour backbenches then the piggies can rest VERY easy indeed. A triumph of the porkbuster.

        • 52
          Confused, but concentrating hard says:

          Eh?

        • 57
          Corrupt liebour says:

          they are all huge piggies, all in their corrupt cesspit sty, every single one of them. I wouldnt go near any one of them, well you coulndt the stench would be too great

      • 154
        bergen says:

        Why should turkeys vote for Christmas?Beckett is an incompetent and arrogant chiseller.In other words,she is an ideal candidate for them.

        • 276
          barefootcontessa says:

          It’s a stitch up, like everything else in the HoC. They’re trying to persuade us that in some way there will be a choice – the usual political claptrap, deceit, obfuscation, etc etc etc ( and all of it bad).

  10. 10
    Anonymous says:

    The only non-crook in the deck!It’s Widders by a mile!

    • 19

      Wrong – Richard Shepherd is also honest and a long-standing Parliamentarian with integrity and an unfailing interest in how the House should represent, and be the voice of ‘ we, the people’. He’ll be out in the 1st round, of course.

  11. 13
    Fucking delicious! says:

    Championing the cause of a rabid right-wing nutter such as widdicombe illustrates the depths of despair to which the english parliament has sunk.

    The woman is as mentally stable as, well, Guido…

    Fucking delicious!

    • 33
      Corrupt liebour says:

      mentally stable as all those other little piggies in the sty, just one big cesspit, absolutely full of self seeking glutoness pigs, all on the make, with other peoples money. Would be better if that guy fawkes blew it all up.

    • 43

      Blimey, have you been having one of Her Majesty’s holidays, Fucking Delirious?

      The Penguin

      • 284
        Fucking delicious! says:

        Sorry to disappoint Pernguin old chap, but Im a crime-free zone, and have been busy rather than incarcerated.

        Besides, as a nat I do not recognise the british courts; and it seems that your courts don’t recognise the troughing bastards in westminister…

        Fucking delicious!

  12. 15

    When young, at LMH, she was indeed quite pretty.

  13. 17
    Plato says:

    For anyone thinking of backing Widdy on BetFair – don’t. There is an exclusion on temporary or interim Speaker.

    Widdy has said she will just be there until the GE so this applies to her.

    You will be throwing your money away.

  14. 23
    Olive says:

    Guido Fawkes, Guido Fawkes, lend me thy grey mare,
    For I am a-going to Widdecombe fair,
    (add names of those we don’t like)
    …. and Uncle Gordon Brown and all, and uncle Gordon Brown and all

    • 92
      Extremely Smug Country Dweller says:

      As I pointed out here so eruditely yesterday, the fair is actually held at Widecombe in Devon – Widdecombe is the old name for the village.

    • 272
      Dan'l Whiddon says:

      With Tony McNulty, Alastair Darling, Peter Hain, Ed Balls. David Miliband, Harriet Harman
      Old One-eyed Gord Brown and all….

      No doubt the old mare would lay down and die at the thought of that lot.

  15. 25
    edwestonline says:

    Papist plot

  16. 26
    Corrupt liebour says:

    the horse is naying now live neigh neigh neigh, such an honest horse, cant watch it any more, going for a swim down to obama beach…..

  17. 27
    subrosa says:

    Oh Guido, I know you get fed up but surely not that hard up. Mind you, she could well surprise you ;-)

  18. 28
    chevallier(not) says:

    Oh Christ!!!
    Beckett on SKY as I write, pleading her case.
    First time I’ve heard that voice not telling everyone else what she wants done.
    All the sincerity of a double glazing salesman.

    • 39
      R.McGeddon says:

      Not so STRIDENT, Mrs. Buckett !! You’ll make yourself hoarse….

    • 46
      Corrupt liebour says:

      prostituting herself in front of all those little piggies in the cesspit sty, christ what a stench, the thing is though they really believe what they are saying

    • 281
      Anonymous says:

      All about herself and what a fine candidate she think she is (Gordon promised me the job).

      Nothing about what sort of HoC she wants to develop, because she wants it to stay as it is, a corrupt rubber stamp for the executive.

  19. 29
    Canary Wharf Rat says:

    The truth will out!. LOL.
    You only did it so you could write it.

  20. 31
    R.McGeddon says:

    With apologies to Widdecombe Fair………..

    Mr. Beckett, Mr. Beckett, lend me thy gray mare
    Ri fol lol the dol diddle i doe
    That I may ride roughshod o’er Ms. Widdecombe fair
    With Ed Balls,Jack Straw, Harridan Harman, Hilary Benn,
    Philly Woolarse, Nick Brown, Tom Watson and
    all,
    Here is Uncle Tom Watson and all

    Oh when shall I see my gray mare home again?
    Ri fol lol the dol diddle i doe
    By Monday night or Tuesday morn
    With Ed Balls,Jack Straw, Harridan Harman, Hilary Benn,
    Philly Woolarse, Nick Brown, Tom Watson and
    all,
    Here is Uncle Tom Watson and all

  21. 32
    Neighborehoon watch says:

    Buckett: “I pledge myself to facilitate DESIRED change”.

    Whose desires?

    • 65
      backwoodsman says:

      While Widdy is a conceited old bat who loves the sound of her own voice and is an anathema to the rural rump of the Tory party, beckett is a right up there with the most evil , wicked , and despicable of the nulab crims.
      This is a woman without a shred of ability, conscience or moral scruple. A labour tribalist to the very core, she did untold damage during her spell at Min Ag and managed to embarass the whole country during her FO tenure, letting the rag heads walk off with half the navy.

      • 108
        Reflet says:

        Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?

        **** CRACK ****

        • 199
          Rebekah Wade says:

          Mirror, Mirror who is the fairest of them all?

          Margaret Becket

          Mirror, Mirror who is the fairest of them all?

          Margaret Becket

          F**K that for an answer The Sun has got Danni, 22, from Coventry (Where Beckett should be sent!)

    • 112
      incandescent_with_rage says:

      Yes. I heard that too. If they don’t desire change it won’t happen.

    • 138
      Come the glourious day says:

      That will be a LieBaaaaa pledge then.

  22. 34
    chevallier(not) says:

    “I’ve never been afraid to speak truth to power..”
    “Her own woman.”
    Is she reading Widdies speach?
    Certainly isn’t relevant to her.

  23. 35
    varsteiner says:

    Was it each way?

    • 50
      Corrupt liebour says:

      he could have laid her many ways, proably straight over the counter was the easiest and quickest i guess

  24. 36
    It's all Balls says:

    All close your eyes and concentrate really hard and repeat several times

    “Becket for Speaker, Becket for Speaker …….”

    If she was elected Speaker the Country would rid themselves of Labour for ever. No more bankrupting of Britain and ‘Big Government’ every 20 years or so.

  25. 41
    Sesachili says:

    After these reports of Becket’s activities, Henry is said to have raised his head from his sickbed and roared a lament of frustration. “What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and brought up in my household, who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt – off with her head!”

  26. 42
    "When all this nonsense over MP's expenses is over" says:

    as long as that haselhurst prick doesn’t get it i don’t mind. Insufferable jumped up oik

  27. 44
    Lord Monkington-Smythe says:

    Sir George Young is probably the one they would all be happy with anyway, the Tories because he isn’t John Bercow, Labour because he won’t do anything silly like sort out the expenses once and for all (and can be denounced as a Tory Toff if anything further goes wrong), and both parties will like the fact that the public haven’t a clue who he is, and that he hasn’t been booed on Question Time.

  28. 47
    The Master says:

    Widders speaking without notes and impressive

    • 60
      Neighborehoon watch says:

      Good sound bites for MSM news bulletins. That is probably more important than her winning the vote.

      • 93
        Anonymous says:

        Think you may be right about Shepherd as Speaker. Widders was good but Shepherd more so.

        • 100
          St George Spits says:

          Don’t worry, Martin Bormann has organised the “correct” choice to be proclaimed.

        • 109
          The public says:

          I tend to agree.

        • 147
          Summer_Breeze says:

          I was very impressed with Shepherd. Even more so knowing that he is a eurosceptic.
          Becket gave the worst speech of the lot I thought.
          Bercow was mildly amusing but wouldn’t like to see him get the job.

          Shepherd or Widders for me.

  29. 51
    Hugh Jardon says:

    There was a new lord named Mandy
    With men he is quite randy
    Along came Brown
    & pulled his pants down
    & gave him a lovely hand shandy!

    I thank you…..

  30. 53
    The public says:

    Whacko for Widdy.
    She is the best.

  31. 56
    Doris Karloff says:

    Don’t be afraid, relax!

  32. 59
    Honey Slap says:

    I bet Widdecome takes the colour out of the mattress when she has had a curry

  33. 61
    Iranians have got it E Z says:

    So they think things are tough in Iran, rigged elections, filming police frowned on and protestors sent packing.

    In Brown’s Britain you don’t get an election to rig, you are locked up for days without charge for filming the plod and protestors are beaten to death by anonymous coppers.

    • 67
      Robert Mugabe says:

      Keep up the good work, Gordon…

    • 69
      The public says:

      I’ve yet to see the evidence of ‘rigged’ elections in Iran.
      Last election a judge described the electoral practice in Britain as ‘worthy of a banana republic’.
      The last three US elections have been a travesty.
      Makes you think!!

      • 145
        Moley says:

        Fifty or more electoral areas in Iran had more votes cast than there were eligible voters.

        This did not of course affect the outcome of the election.

        Unless you take into account all the other areas where the vote was rigged and the riggers were more arithmetically capable.

      • 202
        Sir William Waad says:

        They managed to count a hojillion votes in about half an hour. This is only possible if you know the result in advance.

  34. 63
    Popeye says:

    They haven’t learned a thing.
    Bring on the tumbrils.

  35. 64
    The Master says:

    Beith terrible speech. Bercow just starting and trying to be funny.

  36. 66
    Steve Expat says:

    Bercow speaking now – he really is a prize cnut isn’t he?

    • 71
      Neighborehoon watch says:

      What an oily little creep! Has anyone noticed he exhibits similar jaw movements to Lord Fondlebum of Boy?

    • 72
      R.McGeddon says:

      The clue is actually in in his name..Berk…oh…

    • 79
      The Master says:

      Widders shaking her head behind Bercow

      • 187
        Ladies and Gentlemen - please choose your weapons..... says:

        Rightly so – when are we going to see the first LIVE ON AIR murder in the Commons?

        They have so many weapons to choose from to kill each other;

        a Duck Island has got to hurt if thrown from the back benches
        A chain saw for logs will be a really effective one
        Tampons rammed down the throat?
        £8500 B&O TV could hurt if thrown by Kaufman from where he sits
        60 metres of shelving collapsing on you has got to kill

        The list is endless…..

  37. 68
    'kinell says:

    um

    have you told your wife about this secret preoccupation with Widdi’s body?

    if not, better destroy the photos quick and pretend it never happened

    no-one here will tell for sure.

  38. 70
    Anonymous says:

    Its a shoe in for Beckett, or to be more accurate a whip in.

    McStalin doesn’t like elections unless they got more rigging then a 19th century tea clipper.

    • 106
      Engineer says:

      “I hereby announce the results of the secret ballot of MP’s for a new speaker. Of the 863 votes cast, 435 were for…..”

  39. 72
    Ann Widdecombes bloomers says:

    I never go down.

    “They shall not pass” double elastic and double thickness.

    Treble interwoven leg elastic (no sneaky through the knickerleg incursions).

    I am blast proof, bomb proof and fart proof.

    And never claimed for on expenses!

  40. 74
    A firm pair of breasts says:

    You never see a poor bookie. Or an MP for that matter.

  41. 76
    Corrupt liebour says:

    and to think that your votes actually put all those little piggies in that sty, after all they wouldnt be there if not would they?

  42. 77
    Slowcoach says:

    I fucking hate being left behind posting on an empty board. It ain’t right, you hear?

  43. 83
    The Dark Lord says:

    Ah, Shepherd, the man on the rails

  44. 84
    Corrupt liebour says:

    they are all special little piggies, a class above all of us , fukcin hell god help us, listen to them all, burn the fuckin place down and start all over again, they are even talking about democracy, you couldnt make it up.

  45. 85
    Lester Pigofmyself says:

    I was hoping that Widdecombe would squeeze by on the inside rail. Not much chance of that with the weight she is carrying.

    • 111
      Damien McBride says:

      Sir Lester, it’s going to be the Buckett woman wearing the pigskin noseband coming the inside with a late spurt. She’s handicapped with all the extra flower baskets but she’s used carrying all the extra Taxpayers’ pounds.

  46. 86
    Another mad Fife git says:

    The more they cock it up with their ‘politically motivated’ ditherings the longer it will take for the stink of the expenses scandal to go. They just don’t get it.

    Choose the best speaker not the ‘right’ speaker

    THE PUBLIC ARE SICK OF ALL THIS NONSENSE AND WILL SEE IT OUT THIS TIME.

  47. 95
    A NON says:

    Ann Widdecombe – born to be Speaker of the House.

  48. 103
    Dirty Rat says:

    Guido. Was she on top?

  49. 105

    Ann Widdecombe: “A body like a badly packed sandbag”
    From Russia With Love.

    Ian Fleming – a quote for every occasion. And MP.

  50. 115
    bandersnatch says:

    Well, Guido, Widders has given the best speech so far IMNSHO and we’re nearly all through… Cormack is Blathering on now.

  51. 116
    Widdecombe Fair: The Park Singers With Dr Creamer says:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOMbArvjvR4

    Creamer? I bet he does!

  52. 118
    Anonymous says:

    Sir Patrick Cormack … what a pompous self-important twat! This is the Hoon who claimed expenses for household bills at both his main and second home. Oink, Oink!!

  53. 120
    • 131
      Chris says:

      They are pushing for an increase in salaries!
      “If we can’t have our perks, we want more money!” is the cry.

      • 237

        Isn’t that an admission that they were breaking the law by using expenses to supplement income?

      • 246
        Sacha Lottovem says:

        If that’s the case why have all of these obscure and pointless “ministers”, on significantly more salary than an ordinary MP, been troughing as well?

        Bastards.

  54. 122
    Mr Justice Eady says:

    Quiet in court!

  55. 123
    bandersnatch says:

    haselhurst is better than I expected…

  56. 123
    Bob Jones says:

    Sir George Young is now favourite, the biggest claimer of Additional Costs Allowance for the past two years. Granted, he’s not a big claimer overall, but still. I’m not sure he’s the best to tackle the expenses issue.

    He’s voted both for & against a transparent Parliament. What a shame, they’re going for the same old, same old.

    • 127
      bandersnatch says:

      I do hope not. I looked up the betting too, and he’s still running first. Let’s have Widders, for now at least. She could get a lot honourably done in a short time…

      I missed Bercow’s effort… a neighbour came in and I couldn’t very well shoo her out the door. She brought me a cabbage!

      • 133
        Charles Flaccidwidger says:

        If she bought you a cabbage, surely it was about the same as watching Bercow?

      • 134
        Neighborehoon watch says:

        Don’t worry. The cabbage will win.

        • 159
          bandersnatch says:

          The cabbage is reeeelly useful, which is more than I could say for the Berk.

          James Landale says George Young’s speech was best. Me, I still say Widders… though Young was honest-sounding and self deprecating… as befits a toff… They have to defer… without actually grovelling.

          Beckett was chilly, and mechanical, and uninspiring… She CAN’T win… She MUSTN’T!

      • 211
        Double or Drop says:

        “Crackerjack”!!

    • 129
      Neighborehoon watch says:

      The best compromise.

  57. 126
    Anonymous says:

    Haselhurst just included ACA “expenses” as part of renumeration!!

    • 130
      bandersnatch says:

      Oooops…..

    • 160
      Haselhurst - so out of touch with reality,it's unreal.... says:

      This arsehole said in a TV interview this am,when the interviewer mentioned that he had been caught in the expenses scandal;

      “Well,we all have haven’t we?”…..

      No they fucking haven’t – you out of touch moron.

  58. 128
    The "Angry Aberdonian" says:

    Anne was actually quite a stunner when she was young (and no, I don’t mean she carried a tazer!). In fact, she looked like a raunchy version of Snow White!

  59. 136
    Anonymous says:

    This current Labour candidate sounds like a right twat! What’s he arguing for debates in Sainsburys and Yoof Clubs?

  60. 137

    Parmjit Dhanda ’s doing a fine job.

    • 141
      The Master says:

      he was totally different from all the others, good

    • 149
      Fat Boy Slime says:

      Very good speech. He’s obviously been reading this blog.

    • 152
      Steve Expat says:

      Certainly the surprise package of all the candidates. He says that the Hoonourable Members really don’t “Get It” and he’s right.

      He spoke fluently with no notes as well, very honest and candid.

      • 181
        Bur Cough says:

        As for Berkoff – he had to keep looking at some notes that seemed to be held by Julian what’s his name from New Forest (tried to keep all expenses secret).

        Berkoff comes from the same school as Adolf Ball’s,with less poison.

    • 234
  61. 139
    bandersnatch says:

    Don’t mind Dhanda standing, but he is warbling on a bit, and he’s not going to win… Get on with the voting, I say… Now he’s going on about ‘what my father always said to me’… etc… Am damned annoyed I missed the Berk’s effort…

    • 162
      Summer_Breeze says:

      Dhanda had interesting things to say but I just didn’t like the sound of his voice. Fickle I know considering I’d like Widders to get the job but there ya go.

  62. 140
    The Master says:

    Dhanda was really quite good. Oh god, Balls is hovering around the Father of the House and he is looking very very sinister

  63. 142

    did you know there so many different types of british pigs?

    Rare Breed Pigs like the Tamworth, British Saddleback, Berkshire, Middle White, Gloucestershire Old Spots, British Lop, Oxford Sandy and Black and Large Black

    There is a website called pig par know that they are being impersonated.adise, I wonder if the little piggies in styminster

    • 158
      Steve Expat says:

      You forget the Backbenchers, Junior Ministers, Shadow Cabinet, Committee Chairs and the Cabinet… ;-)

  64. 143
    Dick Scratcher says:

    Margaret Beckett is like an infestation of ground elder. You think you have destroyed it & will never see it again, but it keeps reappearing. Please can someone just dowse her in Round Up – that’s supposed to do the trick.

    • 190
      Extract from the parable of the weeds by Alan Titchmarsh says:

      If you just spray it will appear to die but then new shoots will grow from the existing roots. So the plant will survive and be just the same as the one you thought you had killed.

      The only way to get rid of it permanently is to dig deep and take all the roots out and then the healthy plants will prosper.

    • 207
      Percy Thow Her as far as you can says:

      A good spray dose of ‘Old Fortnight’ ie. the contents of Madge & Leo’s Kemical Khazi from their summer hols diluted down at 2:1 ratio with water always does the trick !!

  65. 144
    Dan says:

    Just read the headline and threw up a little.

  66. 146
    RobC says:

    I’ve just listened to Williams who says certain letters of alphabet go to one lobby and others to another. What a bloody stupid thing to do – any one watching will know that for e.g. anyone entering h to w Lobby will not be voting for Beckett!!!!! secret ballot my arse.

    • 172
      Summer_Breeze says:

      Didn’t he mean the voters surnames? Not the surnames of the candidates?

  67. 150
    The Nuremburg Trials Part 2 says:

    Watching Adolf Balls behind the chair – baseball bat hidden down his trousers.

    Brown looks more crumpled and battered than ever – fraudster and conman

    It’s really like watching the Pathe news reels of the Nuremburg Trials – unfortunately none of these crooks have a cyanide pull to bite on – SHAME!

    Watched my MP – claimed £238 for a Chainsaw for logs and £25 for vases and thousands for gardening – the bastard had bought a £2m house without getting even a mortgage,such is his wealth. SCUM.

    The whole lot sicken me – out of date,out of ideas,out of ordure,out of bounds and out of their fucking heads with power – a curse on all their 2nd and 3rd and 4th houses the lot of them.

  68. 151
    Corrupt liebour says:

    beckett wasnt in browns government because she was being lined up as speaker by liebour. well thought out plan….. as long as she wins.

  69. 156
    incandescent_with_rage says:

    Interesting point made on Sky. Members were getting restless towards the end of the pitches and the ones who got to pitch first had the advantage. Beckett was first. If their names were picked out of a hat, she certainly got first prize as favourite to win. By the time they got to No 7, I noticed some MP’s had started to leave.

    That’s how interested they are in change.

    • 164
      bandersnatch says:

      Becketts very cold speech may have been listened to, but it was listened to in silence… as if the head teacher was about to give out the names of those to be put in detention.

    • 168
      3.30pm is drinks time so shut up with these speeches.... says:

      They were getting restless cos they are used to being in the Common’s bars at this time – I worked there and know there are a large number of alcoholics amongst that lot of crooks.

    • 175
      Anonymous says:

      If the horse/woman wins then it really is time to emigrate.

    • 209
      Rebekah Wade says:

      Under the rules of Parliament they were meant to draw lots to decide speaking order. Did they?

  70. 163
    Anonymous says:

    John Mann spoilt his ballot paper as all dreadful, he says.

    • 165
      Steve Expat says:

      He’s on Sky now, says that they’re all a bunch of Hoons and none of them actually get it!!

      • 171
        bandersnatch says:

        It would be cute if Williams announced that Dennis Skinner had the job by means of spoiled ballot papers and write-ins… No… forget it…

        I guess it will be Young…

  71. 166
    Summer_Breeze says:

    Hmmm @ John Mann, seems like he’s making a bit of a stand. Good for him if he’s being altruistic in his intentions.

    • 173
      You expect me to READ the names too? says:

      It’s only because he can’t read the names.

      • 176
        John Mann MP says:

        John Mann claimed £700 rent a month for second home in London in 2004-05. Regular claims for newspapers and unspecified “household requisites”. A year later, claimed room in Premier Inn while repairs done at flat

  72. 170
    Old Sandbag says:

    I just went to the front page, this thread doesn’t exist any more??

    • 174
      Old Sandbag says:

      In, out, in out.

      Back again.

    • 179
      Steve Expat says:

      It does that from time to time, I noticed it when the expenses stories were all there last week – probably to do with visitor numbers which are probably quite high now…

  73. 177
    bandersnatch says:

    Perhaps that means the head intends to rap everyone’s Knuckles.

  74. 178
    Disco Biscuit says:

    My money’s on Hazelhurst

  75. 180
    Bob Jones says:

    John Mann “spoils his ballot”, Sky News say. Good, that’s one Labour stooge we don’t have to worry about. The candidates were ‘dysmal’, he claims.

    • 188
      incandescent_with_rage says:

      If he thought the candidates were so poor, why didn’t he stand, then? If he spoiled his ballot paper over something as important as this, he can’t complain, can he.

      • 192
        incandescent_with_rage says:

        I wonder how many other ballot papers were spoiled.

        • 216
          Charles Flaccidwidger says:

          Al of those with a cross against Beckett or Bercow were, in my opinion.

  76. 184
    streamfisher says:

    No chance for Mr Ed Guido?

  77. 186

    Dear Guido

    When I read the line ‘Guido laid Widdecombe’, I thought, very frightening then it transpired that you put money on her in a bet.

    Britain is in trouble finanical but there maybe a bit of cash to see that xxx tape if you are looking for a few bucks.

    The sick stuff always attracts a healthy market!

    Yours sincerely

    George Laird
    The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

  78. 193
    Dick Scratcher says:

    Didn’t Richard Shepherd play Mr Slugworth in the original Willy Wonka film? We don’t want to scare the children do we?

    • 198
      incandescent_with_rage says:

      I thought Shepherd’s pitch was the one delivered with the most conviction. Doubt he’ll get it, though.

      • 222
        The Speaker is Thy Shepherd , for he shall not win says:

        I agree – passionate and with conviction (most of those 648 need to be conVICTED) – but Richard is too old and will appear like the old school – a shame.

  79. 196
    Sir William Waad says:

    Guido isn’t the first to find Widdecombe fair. There were Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Harry Hawk and Uncle Tom Cobbleigh.

  80. 197
    Anonymous says:

    Guido may have laid Widdecombe but at what price?

    I’ve got her at 33:1 to be the next Speaker. Bet placed on the day Martin resigned.

    • 203
      bandersnatch says:

      May you be a lucky winner at those great odds.

    • 225
      Anne's toy boy says:

      Would be a great story if you had bet ,say £100,000 – set for life thanks to Ann Widdecombe!

      • 235
        Steve Expat says:

        If you had a hundred grand that you were prepared to bet at those odds, chances are you were set up for life well before now!!

      • 239
        Anonymous says:

        Unfortunately it was just £25 that I had hanging around in a Ladbrokes account after a win on the Grand National.

        However, as a very occasional better – just the National and when the mood takes me, I was a bit peed off that when I went to bet my whole Ladbrokes balance of £56.25 on Widders at 33:1 they would only allow a bet of £25. When I returned an hour later I had to take odds of 20:1 for the remaining £31.25 balance in my account.

        So I’ve got £25 on Widders at 33:1 and £31.25 at 20:1. If Ladbrokes hadn’t disallowed, I’d have £56.25 on Widders at 33:1

        The best thing is that if I lose the bet, I’m not that bothered – it was a lucky win on the Grand National anyway.

        If I win….heh – you can call me, Guido!

  81. 201
    bandersnatch says:

    Just seen an exerpt from Bercow’s speech… ‘I’m only a little chap and its a tall order’… Not a chance… Air of creepiness somehow… Jabbing finger not nice…

    Landale saying Young or Haselhurst v Bercow or Beckett… last two awesomely bad, I reckon… Haselhurst better than expected… at least by me…

  82. 208
    Matt C says:

    I got carried away and acidentally ended up bidding on something i don’t want on ebay while trying to click into this thread.

    • 228
      Dry Rot on e Bay says:

      you mean you bid for some dry rot for sale in Southampton by an ex-MP trying to pay back money in instalments?………

      • 238
        Matt C says:

        Sorry mate, I ended up bidding on a incomplete Marble Palace in ”Bangaledesh” I think the place was called.

  83. 210
    Scallywag says:

    If I were a betting man, and thank the Lord I’m not Sir, I would put my money on Beckettt on the basis that she’s the one that Brown wants, for Brown read Mandleson, and that Harperson is flatly denying that the Whips are up to no good at all again on behalf of the lying bunker dwelling thug brigade.

  84. 212
    Ugly Fucker says:

    If Hitler’s ‘My Little Pony’ gets it, people should form militias, hunt MPs down and club them to death.

    • 230
      Demo says:

      We are already planning that for Thursday – meet at Horseguards Parade for 6pm.

  85. 215
    Anonymous says:

    Rory Bremner couldn’t have parodied Bercow better than he parodied himself.

    What a dick!

  86. 219
    oliver cromwell says:

    the only speaker they need is a kalashnikov!!!!!!!!

  87. 232
    Anonymous says:

    Bercow came across a twat and Beckett as condescending cow.

  88. 233
    Sunonmars says:

    Don’t you just wanna smack Beckett up side the head, she really came across as a total autoritative old has been.

  89. 240
    Harry Cole-Bean says:

    Prrp!

  90. 241
    Geordie Girl says:

    God – that slug Tom Watson on BBC 24 praising Bercow (who he voted for) – if ever a man deserved a smack in the kisser it’s him.

    • 274
      Beautiful Day says:

      Saw him and I had a flashback to watching Billy Bunter on a black and white TV in the 60s

  91. 243
    Warwick Hunt says:

    Afternoon

    As the 1.01 King of the Betfair Forum I have 2 points to make. First sum1 will have a mole in the counting house and hoover up all the bets before the result is announced.

    2nd. If its true that the Whips are going around trying to fix the outcome and it is being publicly denied why dosen’t 1 of our esteemed members of the Press expose this lie. Otherwise we aint a lot better than Mugabe and Sarko’s Persian cousin!

    Warwick Hunt

  92. 245
    The Beast Of Clerkenwell says:

    Having seen “Celebrity fat club” Im not very confident that Anne could fit on the wool sack
    Maybe a constitutional change and she could sit on Ivan Bercow ?
    He gets to be the speakers chair and spares us all more sanctimony and vice.

  93. 247
    Ms Port Talbot says:

    Just seen someone UGLIER than Beckett in Parliament – on the Parliament channel now. Didn’t catch the name thank god.

    Probably a socialist. Lower gene pool.

  94. 248
    watcher says:

    Beckett now at 5/1 on betfair, Young 11/10

  95. 251
    Anonymous says:

    Back Beckett now if you fancy a bet on her, unfortunately you’ve missed the boat on Young. 3 horse race with Shepherd as the outsider.

  96. 254
    Charles_E_Hardwidge says:

    NH 17.07 Bercow 179, Young 112, Beckett 74, Haselhurst 66, Beith 55, Widdecombe 44, Danda 26, Shepherd 15, Cormack 13 and Lord 9. One ballot was spoilt.

    • 256
      Charles_E_Hardwidge says:

      Looks like Labour have been backing Bercow in force – will that happen in the second ballot too?
      Hat Tip to The Times for the result by the way.

  97. 255
    Magog says:

    Poor show from Becket on first vote – only 74 – Bercow 179

    • 257
      bandersnatch says:

      Anthony Howard just said he can’t see how anyone but Bercow can win… :-(

    • 263
      1381 says:

      So the Commons have learned NOTHING.
      Bercow as Speaker will put the House into even greater disrepute.
      He is not just a slimeball. He is an OBVIOUS slimeball to even the uninitiated.
      How can anyone support such grossness.
      He actually makes Michael Martin look not so bad and who would have thought parliament could sink yet lower.
      God when will it bottom out?

      • 266
        Sunonmars says:

        and if Bercow wins, one can expect a full expose of his expenses front and centre tonight in the papers.

      • 267
        Charles_E_Hardwidge says:

        When NuLiebour are booted out of office! Labour MPs have evidently backed Bercow in force just to annoy Cameron. Stupid, petty, childish little tosspots!

        • 269
          Sunonmars says:

          Doesnt matter anyway. After the next GE, its law that an election for speaker must be held so Bercow will be dumped if the Tories have a majority.

  98. 260
    Anonymous says:

    Lay Bercow, he’s not far off his ceiling so far as his total votes go.

    • 265
      Steve Expat says:

      Agreed – surely everyone who wants Bercow voted for him in the first round, not many of the 63 votes to be distributed will go to him.

      Note that even if every vote for one of the eliminated candidates did go to Bercow, he’d still be nearly 100 votes short of 50% – this could be a very long night…

    • 283
      Anonymous says:

      Nope. The Libs will switch from Beith to Bercow in force.

      The whips killed Beckett so it’s done.

  99. 261
    Sunonmars says:

    Beckett finished looks like, Bercow may just hit a ceiling and go nowhere from that. All depends, I can see all the Tories coelesce around Young.

    Only 594 votes so wheres the other 52. Maybe a lot of labour mps missing, one can hope to swing it.

    • 270
      Charles_E_Hardwidge says:

      Here is a take on it from The Times:

      “NH 17.14 Is it now a two-horse race, between Young and Bercow? Or were Labour whips telling Lab MPs to vote for Bercow to ensure that he got through before switching to Beckett, so that the Tories are given the choice they don’t want: Bercow vs Beckett.”

      God I hate NuLiebore so much, I want to shove all their faces in piles of excrement and vomit!

  100. 262
    bandersnatch says:

    If Haselhurst and Widders lots pile onto Young’s list… surely with a few odds and sods… Fruitless speculation… It is wait and see time.

    • 271
      1381 says:

      Doug Carswell was on earlier supporting Shepherd.
      I got the impression Shepherd’s votes may go to Widders for what its worth.

  101. 264
    Sunonmars says:

    Anyway whoever wins can expect a line by line expenses expose in the front pages, you just know the papers are sitting waiting to do it.

  102. 268
    Sunonmars says:

    Well one things for sure, if they whipped for Margaret Beckett, its clear Brown has no authority over his party if that was his choice and one can expect Beckett to whinge “Brown promised me that job, he lied”

  103. 273
    Steve Expat says:

    O/T, Chairman of Iraq enquiry says that he will hold as much as possible of his enquiry in public – Is that a big “Fuck You” to Broon the Hoon?

    • 275
      Sunonmars says:

      Wanna bet Blair is plotting Browns downfall right now. He’s gonna be pissed.

    • 279
      CCL says:

      WHY, WHY, WHY do we have to put up with this situation, everyday another issue, another problem, another failure. Plots and counter plots, the country is in need of leadership and a new direction, all we get is drift; drift to a place I certainly do not want to go, ruin.

  104. 278
    watcher says:

    Looks like Guido’s money is in the tin.

  105. 285
    Barry Walters says:

    At 2020hrs if I knew how, I would put money on Young. It is a secret ballot.

    Barry




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