June 24th, 2009

PMQs Live-Chat : Squeaker in the Chair Edition


406 Comments

  1. 1
    freddie flintoff says:

    is it working right ?

    • 2
      .243 Win says:

      Dunno, the hoon in the Speaker’s chair looks really, really, small.

      • 26
        I dream of a future with dual-purpose lamp posts says:

        The Kunt’s not dressed up properly, either.

        • 116
          Master Baiter says:

          It’s really a mystery why David Cameron gets himself tied up in knots over simple and straight forward issues.
          What would he be like if he had actual responsibilities?
          Maybe he’s just plain thick.

        • 126
          Tin Cunliffe-Arsely says:

          Do you think he’s got short term memory problemses

        • 301
          Plato says:

          Tory’s just launched new attack ad – Gordon and lies

        • 322
          PT Barnham's shit shoveller says:

          The photos of Brown used in the ad are just horrible. Especially the Les Dawson old woman gurn.

      • 102
        barefootcontessa says:

        Surely they could afford to buy him a cushion?

      • 111
        Master Baiter says:

        It’s a mystery why David Cameron gets himself tied up in knots over simple and straight forward issues.
        What would he be like if he had actual responsibilities?
        Maybe he’s just plain thick.

    • 142
      caesars wife says:

      Why wont gordon answer the question , he said he had listend and changed , wheres the evidence , the naswer for damien mcbride question had me stunned , will he leave a written answer ???
      thought cameron was going to blow a fuse , how much more straight question asked 5 times can you have , surprised at clegg going on economy spending ,1st question clearly surprised pm , loved that slip “its us the conservat… er labour party” cleggs second question got full battering .

      felt a bit odd having back questions again on water charges etc as we have been so used to the planted ones .

      is redcar steelworks in trouble then ???

      lets see if bercow sticks to his house announcements policy , he played a bit for labour today and helped the pm out of a spot , but first time out not too bad

      • 175
        Summer_Breeze says:

        Redcar steel works is hanging on by it’s finger nails at the mo. The consortium that had guaranteed work and was contractually obliged to do just thatfor several years yet, suddenly waltzed off a few weeks ago, putting at risk not only the 2000 jobs at Corus but thousands more in the service industries. The knock on effects will be disastrous for this area.

        • 263
          fedupwithbrown says:

          Is that why the MP was shaking in his shoes?

        • 379
          Doctor Mick says:

          And the Boro just got relegated! It’s fucking grim up there at the moment. But not to worry, Stuart Bell is the MP and he’ll sort it with the Business Secretary’s help.

  2. 3
    Bomb the Meek! says:

    ah but does the squeaker see eye to eye with Squirrel Blears?

  3. 4
    The School Matron says:

    Gordo – lying to the house, you bad boy

  4. 5
    Anonymous says:

    Bercow intervenes on behalf of McFuckwit – quelle surprise!

    • 9
      Spin Doctor says:

      Bercoward does nothing to stop planted questions!

      • 273
        fedupwithbrown says:

        Cameron to squeeker ‘ He didn’t just get the gist he had the answer ready.’ about PM’s answer to planted question.

        • 346
          bandersnatch says:

          I hope Bercow can get to stop these formulaic planted questions…

          Some woman stands up and says the equivalent of: ‘Will the Prime Minister please let us all know when he plans to visit my constituency of Boggarthwaite North, where we have been able to create a demi-paradise because of Nulabour’s policies on… blah blah blah’

          To which Broon replies: ‘Woof, woof, rah, rah, ruff ruff, hear, hear, … etc’

          A total waste of hooning time…

      • 397
        Whippersnapper says:

        ABSO-BLOODY-LUTELY.
        Apart from not wearing tights ever again yesterday he should have said 2 things.

        (a). I don’t want to hear another planted question from the ar*e lickers.
        (b) I want to hear the Prime Minister answer the questions asked coz. that’s what this half hour of theatre is called.
        He will NEVER stop the jeering etc. from the benches it’s part of the game.

  5. 6

    will the pipsqueek make brown actually answer a question?

  6. 7
    Anonymous says:

    He didn’t answer the fucking question and he got away with it.

    It’s no fucking better.

  7. 8
    Spin Doctor says:

    That was nothing less than Fucking Brilliant! More next week Dave!

    • 135
      Anonymous says:

      Sarcasm should usually be more subtle. It is becoming clearer by the day that Dodgy Dave and Boy George are inadequate opposition as they are unable to compete with Golem head to head. Time to admit the Tories are a shot bolt and look for a decent opposition.

      • 198
        Steve Tierney says:

        Not sure what world you are living in, but nothing you just said has any bearing on what I see going on around me. The Conservatives are (quite rightly) kicking GBs ass on a regular basis. You might want to pay more attention.

        • 204

          Those rose-tinted NuLiebore issue spectacles, marvellous how they can afford to hand them out to so many wankers and trolls.

          The Penguin

        • 248
          Little Black Sambo says:

          Arse

        • 284
          fedupwithbrown says:

          Nick Robinson says the public don’t like it. Who’s he kidding. We just love it.
          Keep kicking Dave. We can’t do it yet so somebody has to.

        • 295
          Bill D'Sarse says:

          Any REAL leader, the kind of leader we need would be having the Golem begging for mercy by now.

          I’ve no doubt that Dave and George are nice guys, no doubt more honest and less megalomaniacal than the Golem.

          But we dont need NICE. We need kick arse blood and fucking thunder EFFECTIVE. And sorry, these guys aint it. They need to grow some, feel the anger of the people and channel it against the Golem.

          Dave should be doing now what Blair did to Major. He’s let him off so many fucking times, missed so many open goals… For gods sake DC, FIND YOUR BLOODY BACKBONE, SONNY AND DO IT QUICK!

      • 399
        Anonymous says:

        Guys – one thing I ain’t is Labour but I can recognise total incompetence in an opposition leader when I see it. At least the fetus remains a capable performer.

  8. 10
    Massive breasts whore says:

    Gordon Brown needs to resign just because……….

  9. 11
    Amstrad Sucky, Birma says:

    free the oppressed English from the tyrant Brown!

  10. 12
    Big Titties Fan says:

    Have you got a web site?

    • 18
      Charles_E_Hardwidge says:

      We are all fans of big titties, small titties and average sized titties, providing they are shapely. What we cannot stand are Brown’s Boobs!

      • 36
        Minister for the Britishness of Big Titties says:

        Hear, Hear!

        • 115
          Need a lie down says:

          Hard working titties. Sustainable titties.

          Titties for the long term, no more boom and titty, titties that began in America.

          British titties for British workers.

          Tough on titties, tough on the causes of titties.

          Global Titties. New titties. New Global titties. Lifting titties out of poverty.

          Classical neo-endogenous titties.

        • 197
          Anonymous says:

          This is not the time for soundbites, but I feel the hand of history on my titty.

        • 215
          my left titty says:

          its just the right height to poke that new speaker chappy in the eye with

      • 216
        Big Bazongas says:

        Glad you’re seeing sense at last, Charlie Boy!

  11. 13
    Trough Mixture says:

    Has somebody come by some recent correspondence I wonder?

    Fuckinwell hope so!

    • 98
      Happy Go Lucky says:

      What is the penalty for lying to the house, apart from another slapped wrist and a good seeing to Lord Penis?

      • 144
        Trough Mixture says:

        White-hot irons up the fundament after This Week on a Thursday evening would be most acceptable.

  12. 14
    pienomics says:

    GB looks severely rattled. Time to go.

    • 20
      nell says:

      He did didn’t he? Stabbing his fingers at his papers and then almost shouting. I think he needs some counselling in anger management.

      I thought Dave and Clegg did well this week.

      • 122
        barefootcontessa says:

        And me. Did you see that traitor creep shaun w. ( mr. 10%) sitting as close to the gorgon as possible? Did you notice how tanned all the newlabour mps looked, even before they’ve been on holiday? And, it’s not a ‘working in the garden ‘ sort of a tan! Jack the straw still has his tongue out moistening his lips, and a little supercilious smile flickers there from time to time.

        • 221
          Shithead says:

          Straw can’t stop licking his lips. All amphibians do that.

        • 288
          fedupwithbrown says:

          I thought it was wind Jack Straw suffered from Smiles like a baby. There always was foul air around him

    • 24
      ccl says:

      Get him rattled at every opportunity, his reaction will play badly and as in football, it may result in a red card!

      • 99
        Steve Expat says:

        ccl, do you think he might actually lose it in the House?

        If DC carries on getting as close as you can to calling someone a liar in Parliament, as he did today, it’s not impossible that it might happen. I’m sure someone takes his Nokia from him before he enters the House, just in case…

      • 132
        barefootcontessa says:

        He nearly lost his rag. I was watching for the mobile to go winging it’s way across
        the floor. Harriet’s trousers were too small and exposing fat where it shouldn’t have been. She was putting on a brave face and puckering up with a schoolmarmish pursed smile.

        • 207

          And nodding away like a Churchill Fucking Dog.

          The Penguin

        • 212
          Sylvia's Mother: says:

          A few times Hoon thump his papers down and looked pretty flustered. It might just be that DC is getting to him. Those other labour front benchers looked pretty deflated especially Darling and Cooper. Not all is well in No. 10 me thinks.

        • 213
          Sukyspook says:

          Harperson – and the other planks (a polite description) on zanulab front bench have been told to maintain non-reactive facial expressions.
          They do it awfully well don’t they.

    • 209
      Michael Winner says:

      Calm down dear. It’s only another failing Labour government.

  13. 15
    Charles_E_Hardwidge says:

    No – PMQs still don’t work because Brown is an evasive, lying, won’t answer a question fruitcake.

    Interesting that Brown is being quizzed about Mcbride for a second week running though.

    • 28
      Anonymous says:

      The thing is though, when is one of the spineless fuckers going to have the guts to say you’re lying, you one eyed Scottish hoon, we KNOW he’s still in the inner circle?!!

      • 139
        barefootcontessa says:

        They’re not allowed to say an ‘honourable member’ is lying, even although he is!
        Stranger than fiction isn’t it?

        • 164
          Steve Expat says:

          Short of telling Broon his pants were on fire, Cameron could not have made it much clearer today that he thought the PM was a lieing little cnut. I think he said
          “Will the PM apologise and admit he was mistaken?”

      • 217
        Sylvia's Mother: says:

        Yes, he does not like the McBride issue keep popping up. More stuff to come out over the coming weeks and Brown looks visibly uncomfortable.

        • 247
          Steve Expat says:

          Can next week’s question ask Broon if the DT will be sued for Alex Singleton’s obviously libellous story?

        • 293
          fedupwithbrown says:

          Reminded me of the mad professor. The hair or is it the hair piece was bouncing off his head.

      • 223
        Doing it just like Gordon says:

        No more fucking repayments, I will be growing my way out of my Barclaycard debt. Investing for the future.

        • 382
          Doctor Mick says:

          That’s Gordon’s answer for the UK recession – give the missus an additional Gold card.

    • 33
      Steve Expat says:

      Alex Singleton at the DT reckons’s he a lying cnut too…

      http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/alexsingleton/10098397/downing_street_official_leaks_the_closeness_of_gordon_brown_and_damian_mcbride/

      Go Guido, you’ve had McPoison once, see if you can get Broon with him this time!

      • 123
        Cardinal Richelieu's mole says:

        McBride and Brown are still consorting, so it appears from Brown’s refusal to answer the comprehensively framed cover-all question put at PMQs about any contact of any sort since McBride was sacked.

        Is Scottish Presbyterianism really such a squalid little creed that it embraces evasion, distortion, cheating, lying and smearing or is Brown misrepresenting that as well perhaps?

        • 155
          jgm2 says:

          Cameron should just give a little aside to whoever records all this stuff…

          ‘Let Hansard show that the Prime Minister refused to answer the question….’

          Do it every single time.

        • 229
          One eye says:

          Yes

      • 336
        Headscarf says:

        Brown hasn’t realised that he is now totally in McBrides pocket.

  14. 16
  15. 17
    13eastie says:

    Cyclops Jinx Alert!

    Brown on a question re. the ailing steelworks in Redcar:

    “…I have spoken to the company..”

    Oh dear…

    • 19
      Charles_E_Hardwidge says:

      Well, that’s Redcar doomed then. They are doomed I tell ye! (Hat tip to Corporal Fraser).

      • 27
        Nitpicker says:

        Private Fraser. Corporal Jones. Get it right.

        Redcar probably is doomed though, I agree.

      • 52

        Doesn’t matter, it’s some ghastly shit hole up North where they have “Labour Voter” engrained throughout their DNA, so they get what they fucking well deserve.

        The Penguin

        • 64
          Anonymous says:

          Redcar makes Tower Hamlets look like Beverley Hills.

        • 66
          Simple Northerner says:

          Yeah, it is odd. Does socialism cause poverty, or vice versa?

        • 73

          Stupidity and laziness cause both poverty and an inclination towards socialism

        • 75
          PT Barnham's shit shoveller says:

          Hey hey, Redcar is many things, but a ghastly shithole it is not. It’s a very scenic place in a made-up county manufactured for the purposes of urbanising a truculent population.

        • 78
          Jimmy Redcrap says:

          Actually that is very true even though quite sad.

          Definetly a place where nothing has changed the landscape is miserable and boarded up and you only go there is you fell asleep on a train. Good Nu Labour territory. ‘voted labour all me life and so did me dad’

          Enjoy the dole then in your Nu Labour Eutopia because of you dumb fuckwits we all may in the same position soon. I gurantee thay will vote Labour again though and then just blame the Tories for being down on their luck (the world having stopped in 1997 and morphed forward to the present day). Brain dead is the term so turn off the life support now and call an election!

        • 87
          Anonymous says:

          Redcar – Vera Baird territory with her lovely new distressed oak furniture, doors and a front porchatory – paid for by us.

        • 318
          Throbber says:

          Yeah fuck em all – you voted for these Hoons over and over again – you get what you fucking deserve.

        • 384
          Doctor Mick says:

          Did you know that Redcar beach is where they filmed the Dunkirk evacuation scenes from the movie Atonement?

          The film production company had to clean the place up BEFORE filming the war time scenes, not after.

      • 226
        Sylvia's Mother: says:

        No not just Redcar the whole country. It all makes perfect sense “British jobs for British workers” yeah!

        • 303
          Bill D'Sarse says:

          “It’s a very scenic place in a made-up county manufactured for the purposes of urbanising a truculent population.”

          in other words its a shithole.

          Perhaps not a ghastly one, its just the locals that make it that way.

          bit like saying France would be wonderful except its full of frenchies…

  16. 21
    Massive breasts whore says:

    Balls looks his usual smug self. Twat.

    • 35
      Sir Mickey Laud MP says:

      I am looking forward to his face come the General Election

    • 46
      Paul Calf MP says:

      Mrs Testicles looked like a bag o’ shite. I bet she’s a fookin’ student.

    • 232
      Sylvia's Mother: says:

      He need a good size 12 in the kisser. Sorry Yvette but this would no doubt do you a favour too.

      • 307
        Anonymous says:

        Several DOZEN good size 12’s in the kisser, the jumped up poncy SpAd Hoon. Never done a fucking days work in his fucking life.

        If that fucker gets to be PM or chancellor some fucker will rub him out.

    • 233
      In the back of the net says:

      Does he play with them too?

  17. 23
    Sunny Jim says:

    Bercow reminds me of Ronnie Corbett in ‘The Two Bonnies’ as his little legs are swinging in the air whilst he’s sitting in that chair…

  18. 25
    Steve Expat says:

    Cameron 9
    Clegg 8
    Broon 2
    Squeaker 6, maybe going up to 7 as he now makes the point about announcements being made in the House first!

    • 63
      Stronghold Barricades says:

      now makes the point about announcements being made in the House first!

      Whilst looking at the front bench, if not in Gordon’s general direction

      • 81
        Steve Expat says:

        Indeed. It will be interesting to see how the Squeaker gets on – short of telling Broon to answer Cameron’s question he could not have done much more today.

        Maybe Guido was right the other day when he suggested we give him a chance. Berkow has covered this role for a number of years, he way well turn out to be okay. He couldn’t be any worse than the last one…

  19. 30
    .243 Win says:

    Total avoidance by Pravda of Mcsnotty getting a mauling today.

  20. 31
    freddie flintoff says:

    dave 8
    brown 0
    clegg 5
    speaker not sure 50/50

  21. 32
    bandersnatch says:

    Speaker Bercow scores! Got through lots more questions. He shut the rioters up confidently. Not a bad start at all. Overall rating: B++

    • 134
      Opera Singer says:

      One noticeable difference is that Martin always ended his sentences on a down note:

      Ord
      er

      Whereas bercow ends his statements on an even note or higher note:

      Order or

          der
      Or

      It’s a lot easier to listen to

  22. 37
    Steve Expat says:

    William Hague tearing Broon a new one now in the House over the Iraq non-inquiry!!

    The PM who spoke about openness and a few days later announces a private enquiry, even the Chairman disagrees with him [GB]!!

    • 41

      Without the covering fire of Speaker Martin Brown’s inability to debate is really exposed.
      He won’t be able to keep this up every week. His black ops team are going to have to find a new way of shielding him.
      Expect to see an awful lot of foreign trips, state visits and important EU conferences taking place on a Wednesday in the future.

      • 50
        Trough Mixture says:

        That’s bad Bill. I don’t always remember my earplugs when the statutory noise nuisance deputises.

    • 148
      barefootcontessa says:

      And Chilcot was especially chosen by the gorgon.

  23. 38
    Anonymous says:

    Thought Brown was rattled today.

    Everyone knows his “investment” is all bollocks.

    Bercow should have called Brown out on answering the question. Does 44 to 38 represent a rise or a fall. Simple math, answer the question.
    Bercow is obviously running scared of the PM.

    It worries me that the genreal public can’t see this.

    Would like to see the MSM run a piece on this tomorrow.

    Cameron 7 Brown 2 Clegg 4

    • 85
      PT Barnham's shit shoveller says:

      If Bercow had called GB on not answering, DC would have been cut short in his mauling. I suspect he allowed it to go on and on to make mischief for GB. And DC actually sounded like an Opposition Leader today.

  24. 39
    Rt Hoon Gordon Broon MP PM 'eLLO Magazine says:

    Gordon 10+
    Came 0-
    Cle 00-

  25. 40
    VotR says:

    Bit boring this week. And the speaker looked like he wanted to sell you a set of encyclopedias.

    • 43
      Rt Hoon Gordon Broon MP PM 'eLLO Magazine says:

      He offered used condoms he bought off Harriet Harperson to me.

      I said “No way, I have got surplus off Mandy and other thingies”

    • 240
      Woofering and Tweetering says:

      Feel the width not the quality. You’ve got to pick a pocket or two.

      I’m a bit shirt this week could I borrow your stepladder?

  26. 44
    Rt Hoon Gordon Broon MP PM 'eLLO Magazine says:

    W

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  28. 51
    Anonymous says:

    Half-way through his second day in the job and the poison dwarf is the subject of derision.
    Enough, already?
    All we can hope for is that a tory majority will vote him out next time.

    • 152
      barefootcontessa says:

      The sweaty m salter leapt to his feet to congratulate the burk. What do you expect? It’s all so predictable.

  29. 53
    Agent 99 says:

    McTWat states constantly robotically the mantra
    “best placed to weather the economic climate etc etc”
    BROWN YOU ARE A LYING SCUMBAG ALONG WITH ALL YOUR TOADIES!!!!!

    …and still on latest Mori 23% vote for these idiots. Ijust utterly give up in total despair.

    The UK is predicted to sink further into the red than any other major developed country next year, experts warned today. The fiscal deficit is expected to rise to 14 per cent of economic output in 2010, compared to an average of 8.75 per cent in the 30 most developed markets, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

    Thats before we even go near the destruction of the pensions.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1195142/UK-economy-sink-red-major-country-warns-OECD.html

    • 58
      Jack Black from Viz says:

      Plus 100+ small companies to go out of business everyday this year, rising to 110+ next year.

    • 65
      Sunny Jim says:

      Don’t forget the other Brown mantra

      “10% cuts, Mr 10%, Tory 10% cuts”

      He’s not worked out that no-one (other than the usual sycophants) believes him.

      Useless prat.

      • 72
        Steve Expat says:

        He’s actually right on 10% cuts.

        Public spending will be the major theme of the election campaign with the Tories believing that public spending has to come down to avoid having the IMF called in, and Labour who believe that you can borrow your way out of debt and increase spending by printing money and creating more public non-jobs…

        • 118
          Tin Cunliffe-Arsely says:

          And interestingly Labour themselves would probably be trying to make cuts … errr… after the election.

          Sentence sort of stopped working half way through there.

        • 127
          Point says:

          Brown is just playing to his core supporters: nurses, teachers and civil servants.

        • 159
          Steve Expat says:

          I’d love to see Cameron turn up with the Grauniad jobs section and question Broon about all the non-jobs in the public sector.

          Public spending could drop masively by getting rid of the “Ethnic Diversity and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Director” jobs paying huge salaries, and all the form-fillers producing meaningless governemnt tractor stats.

          Spending on the NHS may have doubled in real terms since 1997, but all we have seen is a massive increase in management consultants at the expense of clinical consultants. There are more of these managers than doctors in our hospitals, all vying to protect their own empires.

          The Tories need to be really honest and say they will cut spending, but that the reductions will be in statistics-producers and layers of management rather than customer-facing, productive workers such as doctors, policemen and teachers

    • 94
      PT Barnham's shit shoveller says:

      That 23% tells you far more about perceptions of alternatives than liking for the present incumbents. Better the devil etc

      The other parties are really going to have to do more and different to shift that fear. The LDs are not to be taken seriously and the Tories continue to look detached, remote and insufficiently different from the mob in power. Much as I loathed and detested Thatcher, she could touch the nerves of the masses. Where the Tories who can do that now?

      • 252
        Matt C says:

        200,000 immigrants will be granted a british passport by the end of the year so of course Labours voting base is going to go up.

        • 385
          Sukyspook says:

          Statement from the miserable Brown one on the 200,000 immigrants being given passports:

          “Look, it’s global, it started in America, we’re getting on with the job and it’s the right thing to do.

          What else do you need to know you indigenous pissants, just piss off if you don’t like it.”

  30. 56
    lexander says:

    All my Jewish friends appear to take Friday away from work. I wonder…

  31. 60
    Last Post says:

    I am sure I heard Brown say something like

    “The Liberals will CUT public expenditure, unlike the Conservatives, er, Labour.”

  32. 61
    Smeghead says:

    Aaronavitch, your still a hoon

  33. 70
    Mr Speaker right or wrong? Doh! Wrong, wrong, wrong says:

    Speaker Bercow, during this PMQs – when trying to cut short a toadying Labour question to the PM – made the rubbish and untrue comment that

    “The PM does not have to concern himself with opposition policies”

    Just WTF?

    Any PM does have to concern himself with opposition policies if they are not mental, because, in all honesty, some opposition policies may be sensible and worth stealing.

    So Speaker Bercow is a total FuckWit in my view.

    Thanks for reading.

    • 95
      James says:

      Actually, I think what Bercow meant by that is PMQs is meant to be about questions to the Prime Minister about the GOVERNMENT’s policies, and should not be about the Prime Minister commenting on Opposition policies.

      In fact, it was a pretty fair-minded and strong intervention from the Speaker.

    • 100
      PT Barnham's shit shoveller says:

      Wrong, wrong, wrong. He was chastising GB for NOT discussing Labour actions and FOR discussing Opposition policies. Subtle, he was. I think the ElfSpeaker could do some good. Not an opinion I expected to hold at all.

      • 128
        Mr Speaker right or wrong? Doh! Wrong, wrong, wrong says:

        Actually even if they are toadying questions, questions to the PM about opposition policies are allowed.

        When you think about it, are there any rules as to what the PM can or cannot be asked during PMQs?

        Example:
        Q: Can the PM tell me what time it is?

        Would be allowed. Not that McMental would actually answer it correctly.

        So just why is Mr Speaker Bercow trying to impose non-rules on what questions the PM can be asked during PMQs.

        I’ll state again, Mr Speaker Bercow fucked up on day 3, big time.

        • 163
          no longer anonymous says:

          If the Speaker puts a stop to toadying questions that’s a good thing in my book. Plants are a waste of time.

        • 331
          Margaret a'Beckett says:

          Unless neatly arranged in 600 flower baskets of course.

  34. 71
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    So Brown has to admit that the Red Book actually does contain those cuts

    Misleading parliament? Does the new code of conduct cover it that he announced on the WaO the other day before Hattie got up in the HoC?

    Call an election

    • 76
      BBC Dave says:

      Call an election now? Or just watch the fine ladies playing now at Wimbledon

      Sharapova and Dulko in the scorching sun on Centre Court.

      BBC2 now boys.

      • 90
        Stronghold Barricades says:

        If he announced today, the election would be 6 weeks away minimum, and Wimbledon might just block out some of the noise

      • 121
        screaming russians says:

        Are they screeching like they have their rabbits working?

        • 181
          I dream of a future with dual-purpose lamp posts says:

          That awful screeching/grunting/screaming should be banned. Fuck you, Sharapova. (and given the chance I might).

    • 91
      Anonymous says:

      No McDelusional does not have to apologise to the house as he has said nothing but authentic, Kirkcaldy gibberish

  35. 77
    Silvio Summa says:

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    SUM SAY SHAFTED MALIK IS A SUNNY SIDE UP STRATE MUSLIM GHEEZER

    UTHERS SAY SHAFTED MALIK IS A SHE*ITE

    WUN OF THEM

    *

    THE TRUTH WILL AOUT INDyEND

    • 83
      Virtual Prisoner says:

      Translation?

      • 92
        Egghead says:

        Think Silvio is showing he or she (i.e. Silvio) is a nutter who doesn’t know about caps lock

    • 93
      Doctor Kilidare says:

      up the meds Silvio…up the meds

    • 105
      PT Barnham's shit shoveller says:

      Eccentric but rather amusing, I thought, although not something Mr Malik would enjoy.

      • 254
        Silvio's NHS mental outreach carer says:

        Due to rising costs of lithium we’ve not been able to give Silvio his full medications because of the need to stick to budget.

  36. 80
    Smeghead says:

    The entire labour front bench looked as comfortable as passengers on a plane being flown by a captain who keeps shouting “Allāhu Akbar”.

    • 84
      Egghead says:

      Nice one!

      I agree

    • 129
      Labour cabinet on the way to the local dump says:

      I agree too – with the benefit of Sky+,replaying the tape shows;

      Darling look like he is on sedatives (almost lifeless,like he has sold his soul (and the country) to the devil),

      Harman had a face of total passivity as if she knows a nuke will shortly land on her head and she might as well take the result)

      The Postman – what’s his name? Looked especially dour and lacking any energy.

      Boy Wonder Cooper – when the accusation that she was furious at Brown during a recent Cabinet meeting – looked like she had been found with an instrument of pleasure by her parents….exceeding bashful with that funny frown across her forehead

      Ball’s – “every day in every way,I am becoming more like Adolf Hitler”…

      Something is going on here – Brown was exceptionally scary – shouting and smashing the lectern,getting whole words wrong and mentioning Conservatives when he meant Labour.

      This man is clearly now entering a nervous breakdown – I propose that his cabinet have agreed with themselves to let him hang himself. Unbalanced and out of control.

      • 153
        Deadmeat says:

        Like being chained to a riverbed at low tide. You know you are finished, it’s just a matter of how long you can hold on for.

      • 166
        Charles_E_Hardwidge says:

        What we need is a plot whereby a trusted general enters Brown’s bunker with a bomb in a briefcase. I have seen the film and it starred Tom Cruise – in the remake, he could play McBride.

        • 200
          ccl says:

          They were brave individuals, not this lot, there is no one with courage in the cabinent to pull the plug, we will all suffer as a result.

        • 275
          Blackhander says:

          We will do when there is a block of blackshirts sitting next to the Lib Dems.

      • 167
        Meet My Handle Son says:

        They all looked like they had been up all night plotting.

      • 185
        Riff Raff says:

        I think it was more a case of Mandy getting Gordon’s strings tied up

  37. 88
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    How is that Milibland is the lead debater for the Government on the Conservative motion about the Iraq enquiry?

    I thought he was Foreign Secretary, whereas the campaign was carried out by the MoD

    • 96
      Be gone Gordon! says:

      Millipede making a utter boll*cks of trying to stutter his way through replying to Hague on the Iran Investigation.

      Bananaman looks like a total lightweight – time to put his short pants on and go back to school!

      • 106
        Steve Expat says:

        Hague was bloody good, both he and Hannan have a very eloquent way of tearing Broon a new one!

        Millipede is being interrupted by his own side every few seconds, even the Liebour backbenchers are disagreeing with him!!

      • 108
        Plato says:

        Milipede is truly terrible on debate – why doesn’t he give way ??

    • 97
      incandescent_with_rage says:

      Perhaps they draw straws.

      • 104
        resurgemus says:

        Nah, they’ll just make all ministers peers and then no-one will have to answer questions

      • 245
        Thunderbirds R Go says:

        Draw Straw’s what? Strings, doodles, pension …

    • 138
      Foreign Alien says:

      Lightweight cabinet – every one of them.

      Imagine any past Home Secretary’s;

      Douglas Hurd
      Lord Carrington
      et al

      having their partner claiming for porn films

      And that’s just one example of which the others would fill the Albert Hall,so I won’t go on.

      Milliband -for all the money he earns – cannot even get himself a decent suit to wear – he looks dreadful in that shitty cheap cloth hanging off his gormless frame.

      • 316
        ccl says:

        Ainsworth was on five earlier, he was poor. We will have to make tough decisions he said, how hard is it to say, our time is up, for the sake of the country, stop trying and go.

      • 387
        Sukyspook says:

        “Lord” Carrington, now there’s a name to conjour with – give him a scroogle, go on, you know you want to…..and Hurd, no wonder they ended the magnificent ‘Spitting Image’ series’ as it ‘did’ for Hurd on many an occasion.
        Those who are fortunate enough to be too young were unfortunate to have missed it!!

    • 282
      Bercow & Squeak says:

      he’s thinks its the same as Iran

  38. 103
    Silvio Sum says:

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    THE FURST THING THE NEW SPEEKHUR HURD WAS

    THEY DIED FOR THE GHOOD OF THE PEEPLE OF AGHANISHOUND

    • 113
      Impatient says:

      Moderating out someone who starts every post with three asterisks shouldn’t be that difficult?

      • 119
        Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

        Don’t be harsh. They are the only bit that is comprehensible.

    • 117
      blondini says:

      Hurd is the new speaker??? Shit, its worse than I thought.

      • 170
        Silvio Tanner says:

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        THE PAOUND IN YORE POKKIT,

        YOUR POQUETTE POQKET OR PURSE,

        THE VALUE OF YOUR PAOUND,

        IT KEEPS ON GOING DAOUWN,

        IT KEEPS ON GETTING CHAPTER AND VURSE:

        IT KEEPS ON GETTING WURSE AND AURSE

        • 173
          Typo Tally says:

          *
          IT KEEPS ON GETTING WURSE AND WURSE

        • 214
          simon r says:

          WHYE DUNT YEW FAARRRKK ORFF U STOOPID TWAT

        • 258
          Silvio's NHS mental outreach carer says:

          Don’t encourage him he get’s excited easily.

        • 406
          Trever TonyPandy says:

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          SIMPLE SIGHMAN
          MET A PYEMAN,
          ON HIS WAY TU THE BANQK

          Pi r QKYEWBD
          SIMPLE SAIMON SED,
          AND HE PAYED FOUR HIS Pi
          WITH HIS DAILi BREAD

  39. 109
    Happy Go Lucky says:

    If Bercow can stop planted questions he will be doing the entire nation a service. They take up half the allotted time and Brown just wheels out Tractor statistics in response.

    • 110
      Sally in leather says:

      All they show is that Brown can’t deal with 30 minutes of questions a week. Pathetic.

    • 143
      Planted questions for the Brown fraudster says:

      Today’s planted questions were the most blatant example of why Brown is a pathological liar – claiming to clean up Parliament and then engineers this shit – does he think we are all totally senile?

      I will personally pay Bercow – not that he needs it – a cheque for £1,000 if he outlaws “non-questions”.

      Overall,Bercow did very well – not to have to see that piece of shit from Gorbals in the seat is such a heartening thing – and Bercow was a good example of how it should be.

      • 147
        Feckless Divi says:

        Bercow is being flattered by Martin’s complete incompetence in the job.

        He is just pointing at people and getting their names right. I could do that for £140,000 a year.

        • 176
          Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

          Well said

        • 195
          Unsworth says:

          I could do it for £70k pa. Where do I sign?

        • 268
          Figures boy. It's all in the figures. says:

          I think we are on to something here. A dutch auction for civil service jobs. That’s cut down the bills a bit.

          I’ll do it for £35k plus expenses.

    • 188
      I dream of a future with dual-purpose lamp posts says:

      Recent figures for pig-iron and vodka grain production are down, though.

  40. 131
    A Silent Emission of Bowel Gas says:

    No one hates that load of thieving, scumbag MPs more than I do. I wish them nothing but misfortune.

    But…

    Bercow an idiot because he’s short?

    Brown an idiot because he’s lost an eye?

    Cameron an idiot because his son was mentally impaired?

    All the things that people absolutely cannot help held against them.

    That’s real fucking idiocy.

    • 145
      Short of the truth says:

      Brown is 100% short of THE TRUTH

    • 194
      I dream of a future with dual-purpose lamp posts says:

      Bercow is detested by many because he has no principles. He adopts his stances to further his own interests as the opportunities arise.
      Brown is a mentally ill control-freak and Cameron is a spineless whimp who hasn’t the guts to eschew loony-lefty dogma.

    • 305
      Half eyed Scottish idiot says:

      Brown’s an idiot because he is an idiot.

      • 388
        Dr Nuts says:

        Not true – Brown’s an idiot because he’s too stupid to realise just how much of an idiot he comes across. He assumes that he can think for other people, and that everyone thinks like him. When he lies, he assumes we all accept that he’s telling the truth because he mumbled something about a ‘moral compass’.

        He is totally completely and utterly delusional. His grip on reality is merely the fact that he lives in the real world with us, not that he comprehends or otherwise interacts in the real world with us. He’s simply substituted reality with his personal delusion of I’m Mr Wonderful and All Things La-La-La!

        I’m wagering a bet that at sometime in the next year – he’s going to mention Peter Pan and/or Tinkerbell and/or The Lost Boys!!

  41. 133
    Anonymous says:

    What is the point to PMqs when the country has to suffer a Prime Minister who just LIES?

  42. 136
    RavingMad says:

    PMQs a load of shite

    Watching, rather, trying to watch Millipede debating the Iraq War Inquiry cock-up of a plan by Gordon Brown our fearless and intrepid leader – it’ s so painful. How can Millipede, who’s 8 next birthday, be allowed to represent my country all over the world when he is a complete and utter retard???? he can’t debate, when he does you don’t know what the fuck he’s talking about, he can’t read from notes, he’s stupid, he doesn’t answer questions (where have we heard that before?), when he does nobody knows what he’s talking about, he dithers, he can’t read his notes, he’s arrogant beyond his years and on and on …. makes me raving bloody mad.

  43. 146
    Fells Point barfly says:

    I understand that the (original) Guy Fawkes is no longer with us at this time. In his place, could we not ask Gary Glitter to handle the small matter of gunpowder and fuses on our behalf. After all, his life is already pretty much over anyway, and it would be an honourable way to go out. May even become a hero to some.

  44. 151
    Brown - swop him for a hostage says:

    Please remember – this debate that is happening as we write,is purely the result of Brown doing his evil work last week in denying any openness in an Iraq War Enquiry.

    If he had been open from the start,the clutch of MP’s debating now would be doing other things of value, than having to drag the fraudster Brown’s dead body back to Parliament to get the remit agreed.

    Another example of how Brown is destroying this country.

    • 171
      macaroon says:

      Are we really to believe that Brown is so imprudent as not to create the wherewithall to start paying back the bank debt

    • 179
      jgm2 says:

      And you can be certain that the reason he’s denying any openness is because the truth will not reflect well on him. Because if it did he’d be all for openness.

      He’ll be in the lies and cover-up and false ‘intelligence’ to his fucking eye-balls. Blair wanted a ‘winnable’ war to increase hispopularity like the Flaklands did for Maggie. With the yanks behind himhe thought nothing could go wrong. And Brown supported him.

      It really is/was that simple.

      • 242

        I recall with some pleasure how frightened and ill that Hoon Bliar looked when they told him about Dr David Kelly’s little stroll in the woods.

        I hope he is skewered in public at this Enquiry.

        I fear it will be sycophantic brown wash though.

        The Penguin

        • 249
          Engineer says:

          The one I’d really like to see nailed to a chair is Campbell. He’s done more damage to the public perception of poitics by his twisting and ignoring of truth than anybody else I can think of.

        • 276
          Charles Flaccidwidger says:

          Along with Mandelson of course.

      • 312
        Half eyed Scottish idiot says:

        I suspect McMoron could not make a decision one way or the other.

        Would not have been the first time

      • 313
        WobblyJim says:

        Plus, they needed to rob the contents of the central bank and steal the Iraqi oil – this repays their backers and sponsors.

      • 386
        Doctor Mick says:

        Because if it did he’d be all for openness

        Perhaps this is Brown’s ruse to get Blair to call off his dogs? Any more leadership challenges and the inquiry WILL become open.

  45. 156
    Trough Mixture says:

    Let song burst forth from all the angels and archangels – they’ve found Goldsmith’s fag packet and David Heath has secured a promise from Miliband of the lower sixth that it will be laid before the ‘inquiry’.

  46. 165
    Deadmeat says:

    If you are a civil servant and are looking at this website from work, can I just say Helloooooo!

    Now get back to work you lazy non-job fuckers.

    • 172
      jgm2 says:

      Surely not. If they got ‘back to work’they’d just be fucking up somebodies life. Far better they do nothing than spend their time fucking up innocent people’s lives surely.

      • 178
        Engineer says:

        Be fair – there are public servants and public servants. There are plenty out there doing necessary work. Yes, I’d accept that the ranks have been swelled over the last decade with non-jobs, and some pruning would be beneficial, but don’t tar them all with the same brush.

        • 184
          Steve Expat says:

          “some pruning would be beneficial” – there’s Cameron’s 10%, he just needs to be more upfront about it!

        • 191
          jgm2 says:

          The decision has been made that enough ’swing-voters’ cannot be trusted with the truth or that if they (Cameron) reveals the truth then it will, in the words of Kipling, be twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools.

          There are still 21% of people who will vote Labour if men with red rosettes were machine-gunning them in the street. The evil liars only need another 6 or 8% and we’re looking at another five years of idiocy.

          Cameron will do what Balir did pre-1997. He will continue to make vaccuous statements and avoid saying anything concrete because then the focus changes from attacking Brown to defending your own position. Wh defend your own position? Brown is the one fucking it up.

          ATTACK!!!!

        • 192
          Engineer says:

          It rather surprises me that he isn’t. In general conversation with people when politics comes up – which it does a lot more than it used to – almost everyone I know thinks that spending cuts are essential. Maybe I just move in those sorts of circles, but when barbers and taxi-drivers are saying it unprompted, there’s almost certainly fairly strong public support for it.

        • 227
          Sir William Waad says:

          One problem for Labour is that their voters are typically older and poorer, therefore not likely to live very long.

        • 236
          Engineer says:

          That’s an interesting one Sir William – for the first time in a couple of decades, it’s cool for the young to be Tory.

      • 199
        Civil Servant with a nice pen says:

        Hang on. I’ve written 3 emails, had a cup of tea and organised a meeting. I’m exhausted and need to go home as I’m feeling over-worked. This has been a busy day.You private sector people know not of the stresses of public service.

        • 329
          Stress Test says:

          More days lost to stress these days than in the strikes of the ’70s.

          Poor lambs.

    • 180
      Steve Expat says:

      Contrversial plan, but why not incentivise the senior managers on budget cuts?

      If an NHS Trust chief exec was on a bonus of 1% of the spending reduction from one year to the next, I’m sure the profligate wasting of money would be quickly pulled into line.

      There would have to be caveats, such as not being allowed to lose staff in customer-facing areas (doctors, nurses etc) but there is massive waste going on that would never be tolerated in the private sector -whole layers of management beaurocrats could be lost with no impact on the services provided.

      • 201
        Engineer says:

        I think that has a lot of merit, especially if it combined with a simplified task specification. If government removes the need to collect and collate a gret deal of relatively useless data, the moves the emphasis to “it’s your job, get on with it” there could be scope for quite large savings.

      • 256
        Sceptical Steve says:

        I think you’ll find a reference to this in an episode of “Yes Minister”.

        As I remember it, Sir Humphry was abolutely horrified of the thought that the Civil Service could be incentivised to reduce its own costs, and found an effective way to bribe Hacker to forget it.

        Naively, during the early years of Tony Blair’s administration, I often used to wonder why the BBC didn’t take the opportunity to repeat “Yes Minister” and “Yes Prime Minister” – our public administration seemed so full of Hackers and Applebys.

        • 262
          Engineer says:

          We have had “The Thick Of It”. Frightening. Think I prefer “Yes, Minister” type government. (And “Yes Minister” was much funnier.)

        • 290
          Steve Expat says:

          Well spotted Sceptical Steve, indeed it was in Yes, Minister:
          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Question_of_Loyalty

          There has to be a way to cut out this waste. The books plainly don’t balance and haven’t done for years but no-one seems to know what to do about it.

          It will be politically unpopular especially if there are large numbers of redundancies (especially if people get bonuses for doing so), but I think the public now understand that either spending gets cut or taxes get raised. Thatcher showed when she stood up to the Unions in the early ’80s that driving difficult changes through can be achieved.

          Daniel Hannan said it much more eloquently than I ever could in his now-famous speech:
          Prime Minister you cannot go on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit

          I could talk all day about the non-jobs, it REALLY winds me up that so many people are doing nothing productive whatsoever, and the taxpayer gets the bill.

          Journalists and commentators in the US use the term “Tax Dollars” to describe any form of public spending, it keeps in the public’s mind the link between the money that is spent and where it comes from.

        • 347
          Tumescent says:

          GBP = Gordon Brown’s Pounds.

    • 315
      Lazy Overpaid Jobsworth says:

      VOTE LABOUR

    • 338
      PT Barnham's shit shoveller says:

      Just out of curiosity, thought I’d see what jobs there were in the public sector. Blimey! Too many to detail here. Anyone fancy finding an especially vaccuuous and outrageous waste of our money?

      http://www.publicappts-vacs.gov.uk/(ebyitv45jwr3fw4541vcp245)/Default.aspx

      • 343
        PT Barnham's shit shoveller says:

        Appointment title : Non-Executive Director
        Organisation : NHS Berkshire East
        Location : Various

        Start date of appointment : Autumn 2009
        Closing date for applications : 14/08/2009
        Length of appointment : up to 4 years
        Time commitment : minimum of 2.5 days per month
        Remuneration : £7,882 per annum
        Expenses : Travel and subsistence
        Role specification : If you’ve gained senior level expertise in the private, public or voluntary sectors, we can offer an exceptional opportunity to put your talents to use by making a positive difference to the lives of people in your community. NHS Berkshire East has a Non-executive director vacancy on their board.

        Q1 What is the equivalent annual salary?
        Q2 What the hell would the appointed person do???

    • 389
      Sukyspook says:

      A “career” in politics: It beats working for a living.

  47. 183
    incandescent_with_rage says:

    PMQ’s used to be an hour long.

    Bliar put paid to that.

    • 187
      jgm2 says:

      Did it? In that case it was an hour long every fortnight and he split it into two half-hour sessions.

      By happy coincidence this means that Brown now has to organise twice as many foreign trips to avoid being exposed for the mendacious lying bastard he is. Something he is unable to do.

      • 193
        ccl says:

        PMQ was two 15 minute sessions, Tues and Thurs I think you will find, certainly from the time I took an intertest in politics, TB moved to the 30 minute Wednesday format in 1997. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

        • 190
          jgm2 says:

          Ahhhh. That’s more like it. I seem to remember it had been combined but when somebody said it had been halved I assumed it must have been from once a fortnight.

          So it was designed by Blair and Brown to give them more opportunity to duck out.

          Figures. Much more like their M.O.

        • 251
          RavingMad says:

          you are correct sir, well done, fine memory. Funnily it was done this way to allow greater debate ‘of the issues’ – what a lark eh? Brown can’t debate – even with himself he’d lose!

        • 292
          Anonymous says:

          That is correct. Although in Gordon Brown’s mind who knows what the truth is.

      • 239
        hoof-hearted says:

        I think it was an hour long, but Blair changed it to half an hour because he wanted to get out of there fast. Questions were easier to veto in a half-hour session owing to time constraints.

        • 337
          ccl says:

          no, please see above.

        • 374
          Anonymous says:

          It was definitely 2 15 minute sessions on a Tuesday and Thursday and Blair changed it to half an hour on Wednesdays.

        • 390
          Sukyspook says:

          …and I have to say that even though he’s ALLEGEDLY the most polished liar politics ever had, bliar was magnificent at PMQ’s…and at being PM – even though he began what brown is fumbling to conclude – the total demise of Britain.

  48. 186
    Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says:

    I’m quite liking Brown. He has a future.

  49. 189
    Silvio Tally says:

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  50. 196
    Gavin Strang - gibbering nonentity says:

    Anyone watching the Iraq debate – Gavin Strang is giving an amazing impression of a Scots drunk gibbering on and on to himself in a Glasgow alleyway on a Saturday night as he throws up gallons of Tennants…..

  51. 203
    Radiqk Al~Mullah In Parliament Sqware says:

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    SARAH PALIN IS A DGJHUISH PLOT

  52. 208
    Cynical,me, no says:

    I see we have the usual sea of green in the HOC in the Iraq Inquiry Debate.I presume getting paid 60 grand a year + expenses for working a 2 and a half day week,is rather hard on our MP’s.

    • 222
      Time & Motion says:

      It’s extraordinary that all 650 extremely busy MP’s managed to fill in their expenses sheets on time and without fail. How many company employees manage that I wonder?

      In my company it’s always the managers who get their claims in first because they have fuck all else to do.

    • 225
      Engineer says:

      Be fair – filling in all those expense forms must take ages.

    • 271
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      They should be made to log in and if they haven’t then they can’t vote, then we can check their records and boot the lazy ones out.

      BTW what’s the difference between having a second job and being a minister? The Brown argument is that they can’t represent their constituents adequately if they are doing other things. Well if that’s so they also can’t do it if they are ministers.

      • 289
        Master Baiter says:

        There is nothing wrong with a second job, the point is the electorate are entitled to know how much time it takes for how much money from whom.

        Why do Conservitudes have such a problem with this?

        • 321
          Half eyed Scottish idiot says:

          What are all the Labour ministers going to do next year when they lose the election?

          Get well paid jobs like they have always done before?

        • 335
          Engineer says:

          And what are all the Nulab ‘political advisers’ going to do for employment? Maybe Dolly could start an agency….

        • 364

          labour mps will soon find out next year when they are all turfed out and they have to really start working for a living instead of living off wealth and job creators. socialists just happy to sponge of hard working people. socialist c u n t s always ready to tell otehr peole how to live their lives while sponging off others themselves. go to hell

  53. 224
    Silvio Polobearer says:

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    HAI HOK

    THE HAOUSE OF QKLAOUWNS

    HOK HOI

  54. 255
    David Aaronovitch says:

    I’m a Hoon.

  55. 259
    nigella says:

    can somebody please elaborate on the meeting DC referred to in which Cooper and Darling upset that sweaty McTwat. Thank you.

  56. 260

    What brown and labour won’t tell you

    Britain to sink deeper into red than any other major economy

    Britain is set to sink further into the red than any other major developed country next year, an economic body warned today.

    The fiscal deficit is expected to rise to 14 per cent of economic output in 2010, compared to an average of 8.75 per cent in the 30 most developed markets, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

    The OECD warned that ‘public finances have deteriorated sharply’ since the beginning of the recession and called on the UK to continue to develop ‘a strong and credible’ framework for reducing the ratio of debt to output.
    Enlarge

    Chancellor Alistair Darling predicted that Britain would recover by 2010

    ‘To improve stability, the government should continue to develop a concrete and comprehensive plan to ensure that debt is on a declining path once recovery takes hold,’ the OECD added.

    The grim state of the UK’s balance sheet meant the possibility of extra stimulus to the economy was curtailed.

    Bankrupted again by socialist policies.

  57. 269
    Alan Johnson says:

    What was Harman on before PMQ’s today? She laughed and winked a lot at colleagues, usually at inappropriatley serious moments, all the way through. Maybe she had just “lunched”?

  58. 270

    David Cameron skewers Gordon Brown over spending pledge at question time

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6569097.ece

  59. 280
    Jack Shit says:

    OT, but maybe something to think about on a hot day, Mail’s top 2 stories on the web:

    “Why are children as young as four being expelled from school for sexual misbehaviour?”

    next to -

    “Teen star Miley Cyrus in another sexy photo storm”.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

    Needless to say, Miley is looking well ready for it.

    • 296
      Steve Expat says:

      Typical of the cynical media in the UK.

      I remember reading a story in The Sun as a teenager, asking if children were being forced to grow up too early and being sexualised at younger and younger ages – when on the next page was “Tracey, 16, from Romford” with her nipples proudly on show! The models have to be 18 now but the arguement still stands.

    • 306
      Anon says:

      Hypocritical bastards.

  60. 281
    Anon says:

    o/t but good to see Miliband quietly waging war against Iran. That guy is a genius, a mirror of Blair.

  61. 285
    The Inquisition says:

    Financial misconduct = Conservatives

    • 302
      Charles Flaccidwidger says:

      Always good to read your pithy comments about political matters, Inquisition old bean.

    • 317
      More Tories Please says:

      Financial ineptitude = Nu Liebour

    • 324
      Monkey Chops says:

      Kicked out of Wetherspoons again Inqi?

      • 369
        bofl says:

        2 trillion pounds of debt……

        hbos/lloyds
        rbs all firing staff

        gordon brown lying every time he opens his gob!

        labour=complete C u nts!!!!!

  62. 287
    Godemiché says:

    It’s “Speedo” ya daft lummox – or are you trying to avoid copyright infringement? Reckon you’ll need a bit more content before Google Adsense gets it’s nose open.

    Anyway, who am I to throw rocks, my blog is all in my imagination. Well done young sir. I take it you are young and a sir?

  63. 298
    streamfisher says:

    Four legs good, two legs bad, Baa!, ever heard of the OECD? daft question, get Benjamin the Donkey to enlighten you (that’s the one that can read).

  64. 304
    Anonymous says:

    The Keens are in the shite !!!!

    • 339
      Steve Expat says:

      ha ha ha – couldn’t happen to nicer people :-) Mr & Mrs expenses. If they lose their first home as reported, can they continue to claim for a second?

  65. 310
    Steve Expat says:

    Slightly offtopic, but Mervyn King is having a real go at the govt about the “Extraordinary” public deficit, says that Darling needs to come up with a plan and set much tougher goals for debt repayment…

    • 320
      streamfisher says:

      Debt is a no, no topic for this Government, indeed Gordon sees it as a badge of honour, he berates Cameron and accuses him of not being prepared to get his wallet out, trouble is whoever takes over won’t have anything in the wallet, even the moths have left.

    • 376
      Aberdeen Angus McDayie says:

      And pigs will fly. Mervyn is seeing something like this: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article11247.html

      “Whilst many economists were surprised by Alistair Darling’s April forecast that the UK Economy would grow by 1.25% in 2010 and 3.5% in 2011. However we need to consider the following in that 1.25% growth on the annual GDP of £1.2 trillion equates to growth of just £15 billion and for 2011; 3.5% growth equates to just £42 billion. Therefore the government is borrowing a net £175 billion for 2009 and £175 billion for 2010 to generate £15 billion of growth, and then a further £140 billion for 2011 for £42 billion of growth. Thus total net borrowing of £490 billion to grow the economy by just £67 billion, (£595 billion my forecast)…”

      • 380
        hoof-hearted says:

        Have they taken into account the vast amount of money which will be used to pay out public sector pensions?

  66. 314
    streamfisher says:

    Better still try Muffin the Mule.

  67. 330
    Boris Carloffe says:

    Why not change the name of PPQ’s to “Brown,s Weekly Lies” ?

  68. 334

    Carter v2 only does scripted placemen questions too.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/23/AR2009062303262.html

    He really is Brown with an Autocue!

  69. 340
    MaBeckett says:

    BBC’s Nick Robinson – Brown Lied:

    “This comes on the day when the prime minister repeatedly refused to explain or apologise for his inaccurate claim at last week’s PMQs that capital expenditure was going up between now and the Olympics.”

    Mervyn’s done it again
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2009/06/mervyns_done_it.html#comments

  70. 341
    Manpower says:

    If there are any Labour politicians passing through, please feel free to post your CV.

    • 401
      Wheredidmyjobgo? says:

      But you had better be non-white, female, under 50 and preferably gay or you have no chance of any future employment. In fact if you are claiming a disability (whether you have one or not) you automatically get an interview.

  71. 348

    Just a matter of time now, all those greedy little liebour piggies will be adding to the unemploymnet totals round about this time next year. Although unlike most of the unfortunates there now, these stinking pigs will have benefitted from £60k redundancy pay. Not only do they put every one out of work, when it happens to them, we are insuring them. Thick,evil lying bullying labour. Ruined our country, hope they all rot in hell forever.

  72. 349
    Charles Flaccidwidger says:

    O/T but the BBC has this story:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8117341.stm

    • 373
      jgm2 says:

      What the fuck!!!!

      It’s right there in the first sentence…

      Married Labour MPs Ann and Alan Keen ….. Whoooooaaa!!!

      WTF. Normally if it’s misbehaving Labour MPs you have to read right to the end of the story if it’s even mentioned at all whereas if it’s Tories then it’s right there in the first sentence.

      What’s happening?

    • 383
      Dr Feelgood says:

      In addition to stopping a needy family getting a house, Ann keen has also been using private health (and claiming it on parliamentary expenses):

      “In 2005 the former nurse claimed for two medical bills, amounting to £232 for treatment at the Blackheath Hospital.”

      Dontcha just love Labour MPs and their progressive values?

  73. 356
    Massive breasts whore says:

    I miss the old Labour with militant, Red Robbo, Derek Hatton and those sort of issues and people. Back then politics were fun even if you couldn’t get the dead buried and the uncollected rubbish was up to your neck on the pavement.

    • 366

      and you had to go begging to the IMF for a loan cos they had fucked the country, and now they have again

    • 375
      Trough Mixture says:

      Couldn’t drag a Kinnock anywhere near the HoL in those days. How ‘fortunes’ change in times of grotesque chaos.

  74. 361

    Modern browsers have a spell check function for words like censorship.

  75. 371
    hardwidge+inquisition=boring c unts! says:

    the scottish gay commies ( except they are rich) have truly fucked us all……….

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1195142/UK-economy-sink-red-major-country-warns-OECD.html

    • 377
      mandy, miranda, bessie brown1, bessie brown 2, chrissie 1, chrissie 2. says:

      We have no idea what you’re talking about

  76. 378
    Trough Mixture says:

    Greg Mulholland has just made a very good speech indeed.

  77. 392
    whatever... says:

    Does anyone in the media apart from Guido understand that we saw the perfect storm today?
    1. The OECD reports that the UK will have the biggest deficit in the developed world.
    2. The Governor of the Bank of England breaks with tradition, and point blank tells a Select Committee that the deficit is ‘extraordinary’, and a ‘credible’ exit route must be made public soon (he’s talking to the international bond markets there, and hoping against hope that the Westminister village idiots will respond to his softly spoken, stern advice, for the country’s sake, not theirs).
    3. David Cameron exposed Gordon Brown’s bare faced lies, and yet amidst all of this we see a UK government hunkering down in its bunker, refusing to fight fairly or surrender with dignity.

    If the tiny boats of finance rise and fall on the great ocean of economics, then the UK faces a mutiny. Mervyn King is raising the alarm, so is the OECD, and able midshipman Cameron.

    All hands on deck…the storm will overwhelm the UK if Parliament refuses to chart a different course. This is the single most important issue for this island, adrift in a world facing a ‘credit tsunami’ (Alan Greenspan’s term for this mess of bankrupt banks and derivatives, crushing all in its wake).

  78. 393
    Smiley in Your Stout says:

    John Bercow (Ban the Bercow says Sarkozy!) illustrated why anyone who knows him considers him a pompous self-satisfied twat – a man who has gorged on his ego and now wants more.

    Call the PM to account for misleading parliament?

    Er – no.

  79. 394
    Antonia de Sancha says:

    Gordon is good in bed.

  80. 396
    lest we forget says:

    According to the BBC News website today:

    QUOTE FROM THE BBC NEWS WEBSITE

    Council warns MP couple over home

    The Keens face fresh questions over their expenses.

    Married Labour MPs Ann and Alan Keen have been given a month to stop their local council repossessing their home 10 miles from the House of Commons.

    The pair’s expenses have been in the spotlight after they claimed £137,679 for a second home near Parliament.

    In a letter seen by the BBC, Hounslow Council tells the couple “urgent action” is needed to explain why their main home in Brentford is unoccupied.

    The Keens have not responded to BBC requests for a comment.

    In addition, the Keens are not thought to have responded to the council’s letter, sent last week.

    A source at the council – which is run by the Conservatives – told the BBC that the Brentford property had remained empty for seven months.

    Andrew Dakers, the Liberal Democrat councillor for the area, who is also its prospective Parliamentary candidate, has told the BBC that the windows at the back of the Keens’ main home were boarded up and that there was paint splashed on the inside of the upstairs windows.

    ‘Deeply ironic’

    If the council does not get a satisfactory response from the Keens, it then has the power to issue an Empty Dwelling Management Order which would allow the council to take possession of the property and bring it back into use.

    Such orders became law five years ago in order to give local councils the power to take possession of empty properties and bring them back into use.

    The Conservatives’ housing spokesman Grant Shapps said: “It is deeply ironic that the Labour government’s powers to allow the state confiscation of private property will be utilised against absentee Labour members of Parliament.”

    The couple’s designated second home is a flat in Waterloo, two stops on the Jubilee underground line from Westminster.

    Alan Keen is MP for Feltham and Heston while Ann Keen is MP for neighbouring Brentford and Isleworth.

    According to the Daily Telegraph, the couple bought the central London flat in 2002 and have, between them, claimed more than £30,000 towards it in each of the past four years.

    The couple told the newspaper that under the second home allowance rules, married MPs were entitled to separately claim for a property that they share and live in together.

    UNQUOTE

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  83. 403
    Silvio TallI says:

    Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Siyasat-e-Ruz newspaper

    Brown is one of the most inefficient politicians of England who has witnessed cases of financial corruption in his cabinet … and has moved his country towards collapse and destruction

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      Typo Tally says:

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