Blundell Ousted from the IEA
Propeller-Head Wonk Watch: Dale is first with the news that John Blundell has been ousted from the directorship of the venerable Institute of Economic Affairs, the grand-daddy of think tanks. To be honest whatever spin is put in the official announcement this has been in the offing for some time. Guido made his view clear to all in wonkland last year: “Young Blood Needed at the Daddy of Think Tanks“.
The problem was that John Blundell was not only low profile, he was very expensive and was beginning to concern the trustees. The complete lack of influence on the Conservative Party agenda on the eve of a change of government was a big disappointment. The IEA trustees very pointedly introduced a rule in April that no IEA employee could drink during business hours or at IEA events. The IEA has also, like most think-tanks, suffered from a fall in donations post credit crunch. Staff were recently put on a four day week.
Possible successors to Blundell who are likely to throw in their hat are said to include; Tim Evans, formerly with the Stockholm Network and now kicking his heels at the Libertarian Alliance, the IEA’s own Roger Bates and Julian Morris from the International Policy Network. Bates and Morris have baggage which will probably rule them out of the running, both have acted too often as think-tankers-for-hire to directly push policies on behalf big agri-businesses and Big Pharma. The IEA has always kept itself above that sort of thing, it campaigns for capitalism not big corporations.
Matthew Elliott is too happy where he is and will want to keep the pressure on the incoming government from the Taxpayers’ Alliance. His brother-in-law, City A.M.’s editor Allister Heath, is in with a strong chance. If the IEA wants to become a policy player again he would be a good choice, with his contacts in the media and politics he understands what will get attention. The only thing is that if (as is rumoured) Matthew d’Ancona is thinking of moving on from the Speccie, Allister might also fancy his chances there. Other potential candidates from wonkland could include Progressive Vision’s Mark Littlewood or Shane Frith, both of whom have done work for the IEA in the past. A lot of people would like to run the biggest think-tank budget in Westminster…
Is McBride still looking?
mcbride still works for gordon
Why shouldn’t McBride work for Gordon?
It’s a free country.
Because 1) as a civil servant he should be working for the government not promoting the Labour Party 2) because he’s a lying twot and 3) because Gordon said he is NOT working for him.
Gordy better not be lying either.
Yeah but why can’t he work for Gordon?
It’s a free country.
It’s not a free country. Liebore fascists have knocked that one on the head.
By that logic it’s ok in your opinion for McBride to work for Gordon.
“Gordy better not be lying either.”
Gordon never lies.
Every word which passes from his lips is nothing but honey-sweet truth covered in milky incorruptible Socialist syrup and stamped with Presbyterian conscience, son-of-the-manse sincerity.
Peace out.
No I just gave you three reasons why NOT. Are you David Blunkett?
If he wants to work for No.10 that is fine, as long as he works to the ends of the Government of the day.
If he wants to work for the Labour Party that is also fine, as long as he works to the ends of the Labour Party.
Please note that the two are mutually exclusive, he can not work for No.10 and work to the ends of the Labour Party, which is what Guido caught him doing in a very nasty way, only a couple of months ago.
You’ll regret saying those words cause we’ll remember them next time you cry about the baby eating tories.
In regards to MB saying: Why shouldn’t McBride work for Gordon?
It’s a free country
I am of a mind to crack some troll skulls.
so let us begin:
miss! miss! gordon brown tells lies miss!
and damian mcbride tells lies too, and ed balls miss!
grow up you fucking sp@stics.
course they fucking do – they are politicians that is what they do.
DOH!
oh, and david’THC’cameron is a housing benefit cheat.
we are closing in on benefit cheats like david cameron and gideon snortalot.
anyone who thinks those two wankers are the future must be fucking stoned.
VOTE INDEPENDENT – FUCK THEM!
thick as, please stop talking sense… I’m being lulled into agreement with you. Stop it, sirrah!
“Its a free country” Christ I havent heard that argument since I was at Primary School. How old are you ?
I think we’d have to have McBride “positively vetted”.
You’re Ed Balls – and I claim my £5!
Has Dolly had his kid yet? Or is it Kate, hard to tell…
Will his kid end up like this?
I thought it was Antons’ ?
Rather have him neutered.
doctor michelle please don’t manifest your lesbian penis envy here.
very inappropriate behaviour doctor.
surely only your psychiatrist should be privy to your psycopathic zionist outbursts?
and why the penis envy? aren’t you satisfied with your wide collection of strap-ons?
but I should advise you that if you persist in acting in a sociopathic manner in public you will soon find yourself on a section.
it would be safer for others if you were put straight on a section 3 and as you are such a raving lunatic the order should invoke mandatory ECT treatment.
repeated hourly.
it’s the only way.
I’ve just invested in a V8 turbocharged diesel strap-on Mk III ..Wiv a rotating head.
Care to come for a spin, thickie???!!
no.
PM me with your normal answer
Anyone seen my wig?
Don’t be silly – McBride’s just applied for a £22k pa position in teaching – what more could he want?
Don’t know about what more he wants – I know what he needs – Length of rope and nearest lightpost!
Goes for all the PLP.
Tim Evans, kicking his heels here? (At the Libertarian Alliance…) Old Tim works jolly hard for us, I can tell you.
I’d have got here earlier on “rebuttal mode”, but the broadband was down in 01704 – probably something to do with the de-privatisation of the Post Office….
BTs 21st Century net”work” seems to be worse than the old one.
BloodyTerrible surely is one of Britains worst companies.
Anyone’s better than Matt D’ancona – he’s lost the competitive edge recently.
Matt d’Ancona is an enemy-class stooge. He doesn’t care a fig more for liberalism and liberty than your average todger or “willy”. The Spectator, glorious under the Johnsons, Frank and Boris, and ont inconsiderable under Dominic Lawson or his old dad, has gone to seed under M’dA. I am considering unsubscribing, for the first time in 25 years.
Hope you’re reading this, Matt? You won’t get to hear of me otherwise.
M’dA just wants to be near those whom he thinks he’ll need to write about. Not really a proper blogger then.
There is a role for Matthew D’Ancona in the next episode of the Star Wars series.
What, as Zargon?
BT is run by idiots. If you need to complain about anything then you get diverted to an Indian call centre where some idiot reads from a script and essentially has “tough shit” as their only answer.
It’s only when you complain to the very top that you actually get the result you need – something that should have been handled by a competent Supervisor.
British Jobs for Indian Workers – was that what Gordon said?
The Dutch call centre people I’ve always found good though. Even if they do say “Niiiiiccceeeee” a lot
BT has the worst customer service in the UK. Something which probably doesn’t come as a surprise to many of us.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/telecoms/5684477/BT-named-worst-customer-service-provider.html
Fasthosts (Farcehosts as I call them) are much worse than BT even.
BT is a thieving shit of an organisation which is incompetent to boot !
[...] Guido has a thing up about possible new directors of the IEA. I favour our own home-grown, hand-knitted Dr Tim. Best man [...]
… and YOUR point was? ….
Tim Evans, best guy for the job. And yours was…?
8) – why didn’t you just sign yourself off as yourself?
Using a monika to take an extract to make a point – what was the point?
Why not just state – Tim Evans is best guy for the job – from the start.
Hate to say it – but whoever gets the rope is going to be dangling with a £2tn debt around his ankles making the noose impossibly tight. It’s a poisoned chalice this time around.
I am myself.
Tim Evans is grossly over-rated and over-paid. When he ran the Centre for a New Europe, its influence on the Commission and European Parliament was virtually zero. It too was a whore for Big Pharma and Microsoft.
Safer to keep him on at the Libertarian Alliance then?
Guido, the post was too long and boring.
‘Institute of Economic Affairs’? Who the hell cares?
Anyway, we don’t have an ‘economy’ because Gordon tore it down.
Guido is a libertarian, Igonikon-Jack.
He cares about these places, as do I. Allow him a little leeway please, now and then.
Also, I will not count posts by myself on here, in the 100+ mentioned in my bet above: it is only fair. (See my comment no-10.)
Are you truly David Davis?
I ask because you have constituted your name as a link to a libertarian website, and I am conscious that Mr Davis is a classical liberal/modern libertarian Tory (my political proclivities lie there also).
Many of Guido’s observers and readers write comments with a nom de plume assumed from a social celebrity or great statesmen, obviously as ironic or satirical.
Regardless, must fly – Cranmer, Tillotson and Gordo (Not One-eyed) Lang have invited me over to play cards later. Bless you my child and God’s grace.
I REALLY AM CALLED DAVID DAVIS.
(Er, that’s my name, sorry.)
I am _NOT_ the eponymous shadow-home-sec. I am the blogmeister of the Libertarian Alliance, and we think of old Guido as an embattled friend whom we need to come to the aid of from time to time..
http://libertarianalliance.wordpress.com
I am a retired and partly disabled old fella in Lancs.
Lancashire? Praise God! With a name like ‘David Davis’ I feared you had the misfortune of birth to be Welsh.
Hail from Nottinghamshire originally myself.
Website is well-presented and instructive. May Heaven give prosperity to your noble cause.
Vote Tory and support Anglo-Christian liberty.
“I am a retired and partly disabled old fella in Lancs.”
Just like the Beast of this parish.
Speaking as another retired Davis, from Lancashire, I can assure you that Davis is English, while Davies is from some semi-detached country over in the west.
Or Cornish?
As a loyal member of the southern liberation party I resent the sugestion that Lancashire is part of England rather than just having colonial status. You can tell its different from the pitiful cries of children when holiday jets land in Spain from Manchester – “Mommy, whats that yellow thing in the sky?”.
Lancashire is the most glorious place I have ever had the good fortune to live in – and of course I’m a Sarff-Lunnoner originally too, so that’s saying something.
I wouldn’t swap where we now live, even for Willapool.
I don’t know who the guy is or what the IEA is but fucking hell string him up!
String him up!
Take a full refund then and p***-off you Hoon!
Ivor Biggun is it?
Of what provenance and affiliation?
Perchance the ‘Standing At the Back Dressed Stupidly and Looking Stupid Party’?
Better than that fat-faced toff Cameron no doubt.
So you’ve got a hang up about toffs, have you? Perhaps you should join up with gorgeous george, and become a voter with respect.
Yawn…..
Single-handedly. A most remarkable achievement! But is it by accident or design?
Bit of an IN post this one isn’t guido? or am I just a thicko?
I’ve never paid much attention to the IEA. I think their challenge is to involve themselves in the reform and reduction of the State Sector and other which affect every citizen.
If their work is too highbrow it becomes similar to a roomful of archbishops arguing about theology; incomprehensible to outsiders, and irrelevant to the needs of the average citizen.
So IEA, give us some thoughts on the reform of the NHS.
Their best was “Denationalisation of Money” by F A Hayek – they went down from there.
To be fair Dave – that’s a pretty high watermark in anyone’s err.. money
Yup – and Hayek even wrote it in (English-translated) sentences that even ordinary people could follow!
Are current currency regulation system is the worst of both worlds, and led directly to the credit bubble and its inevitable popping.
Our current currency regulation system is the worst of both worlds, and led directly to the credit bubble and its inevitable popping.
Are, Jim lad!
Our gym lad!
gym, what a good idea now the sun’s gone in.
There’s a crack there somewhere.
Er Guido….
This has been up 15 minutes already: there are only 6 comments, and four of those have been from me, directly or indirectly.
Either you are slacking (improbable, even at this time of the year) or else people have no interest in this topic, much (sad.)
If there are less than 100 comments by 08.00 am BST 30th June 2009, I will donate 7p to your favourite charity.
Correction: I will give it instead to
http://www.vulcantothesky.com
Correction 14.48 BST: I will make it __200__ comments, not 100.
Mr. Fucking Reliable, eh?
The Penguin
what exactly can one do with 7p to help get a vulcan to the skies?
Good charitable choice David, although the 7p won’t make much of a dent in the million quid it will cost them to keep the Vulcan flying just for this year!
You’ve lost you bet as there are now over 200 (although not sure how many of those are on topic) – but I’ll give them a tenner if you will?
if it’s the Vulcan boys, I’ll give them a tenner, yeh.
Good on you Sir. My tenner’s in the post tomorrow!
Half a million people read this blog last month, if 20% of them join us in giving a tenner, that’s their million for this year sorted already!
It always slackens off around lunchtime, especially on a hot day. Wait till they call come back from the pub with things to get off their minds.
Or better yet, donate a pound to http://buyacredit.com/
IEA appears to have been incompetent, failed to recognise the banking problems adequately, and failed to produce an adequate response.
They are not alone as policy failings in both government and most of the quango’s advising seem to have missed the need to break up banks which take deposits and trade on the floor with them. Regulation is not a possibility as the poor performance of regulators has shown.
Glass Steagall (US) was the correct bill. Repealing it during Clinton’s admiistration was at the behest of his banker friends. They came over here following the big bang and still want to be able to play around with high street deposit money, lose it, then go to the government and get bail out.
Only Osborne has put this break up idea in the public domain, and got hiss-boo for his trouble. No wonder the IEA is off the pace, and no drinking allowed. How on earth can you oil the brain without a drop?
No responses. Sadly only myself and my auntie are old enough to understand the truth of what she says. Keep at ‘em, Auntie.
So – another good reason to vote Conservative – or local Independent.
Just so all and sundry know – I’m standing as Luton South Independent – and against Esther Rantzen.
Factual correction: the IEA does not have the biggest think-tank budget in Westminster. Policy Exchange has a far larger budget. Then there are the Labour think tanks that take taxpayers’ money.
3,500
I’m ahead,
How very unfunny you are. Time to ignore this troll, I think.
I think it’s been generally agreed by most of the population that you are, in fact, a complete prick.
I wonder what university his ip address tracks back to.
Or Dick Sniffin’s place up in Welshpool.
Major Road, you’ve totally spoilt it.
Either
Major Road-Works
or
A Road
Would have been mildly funny, as it is well you just bring it dOwN.
Thanks Paedo Shits – your comments have been duly noted and ignored. Happy cruising – ipods these days eh? Sweeties and puppies sooo old hat.
You rude boy, now go wash your mouth out with carbolic.
Especially after what you got up to last night at Dick Sniffins.
Why don’t you take your own advice. You’re not contributing to this discussion in a positive way.
I have a PhD, so I know when I’m unable to contribute – and this area is beyond my ken. However, doesn’t stop me browsing to see what others think.
Should be interesting to see who takes over the IEA. I’d like to see more daring stuff put forward by British think tanks, so maybe this personnel change could help that.
You are Thick as Thieves and you can keep your giro
could someone please tell Osborne and his bullingdon mates to stop spunking through my letterbox? thanks
The only thing we’re learning is that care in the community now pays patients to access the internet.
Agreed, and that Care in the Community obviously doesn’t regulate the medications of its charges.
Up the meds TAT – you’ll do us all a favour. You’ve missed your Haloperidol, and Diazepam meds.
oh dear: you really let yourself down there dr nuts.
further up this thread you were boasting about having a phd.
and yet now you are questioning my mental health and speculating on the type of medication someone with mental health problems might take.
what an unethical piece of fucking shit you are dr nuts.
what a fucking c’unt!
and so I have decided to collect your name.
better come up with a new one motherfucker.
I prefer tanks over thinking at any time. They require less brains but can be equally or more damaging. Also tend to win a lot of arguments.
Perhaps we could replace Bercow with one and see who tries to be clever then.
You left half your tanks behind in Georgia. Mainly in the form of rust.
don’t you worry your ugly head about tanks dr dildo.
the americans will still fund israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine and buy loads more tanks and phosphorus rockets for israel to commit even more war crimes next spring.
won’t they?
GULP!
GO OBAMA – JFK AINT GOT NUFFINK ON THIS GEEZER!
HE’S THE MAN
PEACE IN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL 09
nice to have some good news for a change, innit.
Not sure what this has to do with a resurgent Russia. Perhaps you’re only allowed one sensible comment per night? Or maybe you still haven’t recovered from the rogering what was given to you by Troll Basher?
you are a liar doctor mick and so your words are worthless.
never mind the beating I administered to bashed troll, you, you dopey c’unt, bashed your own brains out with your own keyboard by putting your lies on the record.
you fell into my trap doctor mick.
what a titbox.
thick as thieves wins again.
fucked you real good piggy. no grease!
oink oink.
why would anyone want to work for an organisation that stopped you from drinking during business hours or at company events. some of my best thinking and business has been done whilst not being able to stand up properly after a good lunch or similar!
Is your companies stock available for shorting?
Yup – he’s John Reid or Frank Dobson – short away
Does anyone really care who leads a failed organisation (and for once I am not talking about either Labour or the Tories).
Not really: that was my point. But I’m not saying it would fail under Tim.
You’ll be a train crash if you’re not careful, and keep your bloody eye on this guvmint’s shennannigans…(as Michael Caine would have said here.)
I have all the time in the world.
If all these quangos and think-tanks vanish then who will exist to release our Supreme Leader’s esteemed semen production figures to the workers?
The availability of Victory Gin will dry up!
You watch too much CBeebies.
Silly, ‘Toenails Robinson’ will simply cut out the middleman and read out gordo’s crap direct from the bunker, without the pretence that it came via a third party ! (Unfortunately for toenails, the peasants seem to have cottoned on to the fact and in the coments on his latest paean of praise for the Dear Leader, are kiving him the mother of all kickings!)
I don’t buy into all this anti nick robinson stuff.
yeah nick’s a propagandist new labour motherfucker who must love the taste of gordon brown’ arsehole because he is alway rimming the c’unt but let us not forget that nick is down’s syndrome.
and it is because nick is down’s syndrome that gordon brown thinks he can bully the cripple around.
by overpromoting nick new labour held nick’s down’s syndrome over his head, a form of blackmail really.
and nick knew he was doing very well for a mongrel person and didn’t want to lose all the good stuff like the free alcohol and pussy that normal mongrels don’t get.
but in short nick has risen far far above his station for a mongrel because he does what he is told so it is true that down’s syndrome or no down’s syndrome, nick is guilty of producing propaganda for war criminals.
I think it would produce very bad pr for the citizens revolution if we ended up hanging the c’unt.
as a matter of principle I will not be associated with the hanging of cripples like nick.
a quick double tap to the bag of the weasel’s head would probably play better with the media.
I can’t see anything – it’s too small.
The Pope and David Cameron are on the same stage in front of a huge crowd.
The Old Etonian Leader of the Oppostion and His Holiness, however, have seen it all before, so to make it a little more interesting, David says to the Pope, “did you know that, with just one little wave of my hand, I can make every Conservative in the crowd go wild?”
He doubts it, so she shows him. Sure enough, the wave elicits rapture and cheering from every Conservative in the crowd. Gradually, the cheering subsides.
The Pope, not wanting to be out done by such a level of arrogance, considers what he could do. “That was impressive, but did you know that, with just one little wave of my hand, I can make every person in the crowd go crazy with joy? This joy will not be a momentary display, like that of your subjects, but will go deep into their hearts and they will forever speak of this day and rejoice.”
Dave seriously doubts this and says so. “One little wave of your hand and all people will rejoice forever? Show me.”
So the Pope punched him.
Thanks Damian but I’ve read that one before but with a different protaganist.
I’m so sorry,how about this topical one
Andy Murray came into my tennis club the other day. I said to him, “Alright Andy, how do you fancy doubling up?”
He said, “Yeah, go on then.”
So I kicked the miserable, curly-haired Scottish wanker right in the bollocks.
“Protaganist”???
All arty farty clever, falls on his arse.
These state school Huhnes get everywhere.
Up yours Dago!
I presume Carlos Marcos is George Osborne’s supplier?
No it’s a close friend of the deputy Prime Minister.
Probably both.
doctor dildo, your zionist racism is highly offensive.
why don’t you just fuck off?
everyone can see you for what you are.
which means that not only are you are pissing in the wind but you are actually damaging your country’s cause.
you cretin.
better stop burning bridges and start building them.
here endeth the lesson.
Allo darlin:)!!!!!!!! Still spoutin the cripple hate speech I see. You have a disease my son………….
And I ave the cure.
oh fookl here come the crackheads!
you must be on MDMA you fucking Huhne….hmmm…hold on just one second….. you are dave ‘the fucking rave, be like me I’m on an e cameron’ and I demand my five more millionaires innit.
oh and for fucks sake dave pay back all that dodgy housing benefit money you stole.
they are closing in dave, cough up you thieving c’unt. 100k will cover it.
good lad.
note to gideon: same goes for you shitfuck. if you stopped spending all your money on fucking crack then you wouldn’t have to make housing benefits claims.
shameless pair of self serving c’unts.
true.
“Protaganist”???
Fuck off, illiterate Huhne!!
Yeah, yeah I understood – a spelling mistake! Fuck me what an embarressment eh? But thanks to you I stand corrected. No doubt you are trolling the blogosphere looking for these grave errors.
Fuck off yerself.
no you fuck off you retard.
Give me the job
Actually the Oaf Guidorcs is a Labour plant
What a heap of boring old shite. Nobody gives a fuck about economics.
This is becoming like one of those earnest Labour sites.
Where’s all the booze and babes, and slagging off Broon?
It’s being rebutted too well.
By you? First funny thing you’ve said in yonks. You must be a tory plant.
It wasn’t a joke, and it’s not funny.
Nor are you, ever.
You must be an illiterate fuckwit trying to pretend that all Guido’s readers are morons.
I didn’t say it was a joke but that it was funny.
What makes you write that?
The voices ……
Can’t we just pretend Jackboot Jacquis husband Limpknee or whatever
his name was has watched porn again on SKY and submitted a new expenses
claim via his old woman.
Oh go on please,I loved it.More repeats too about her primary residence in a broom,cupboard,must be big fucking brooms,in her sister’s Peckham house.
This economics think tank bollox is bollox.
Guido
Whither the Sith ?. A bit quiet lately.
Whiffler
They’re all off doing an economics course, having just realised they know fiuck all but bullshit and bollocks.
you should do stand up wiv material like dat. give Michael McIntyre a ring coz yos ilarioos m8
Fuck me!
A heckler already.
a fan numbnutz. keep da funnies going. Guidos lot wont think ur sfunny as u do but theyll catch on m8. dont give up
Pleasant to see these ‘tanks’ exposed as the astro-turfers they are.
Don’t understand pal. Can you explain please?
Think tanks, in the main are astroturfers.
Wots an astroturfer?
He’s claiming they fake grassroots support.
Fake grass = astroturf GEDDIT.
Close but no banana
MB – the mention of Banana’s may be relevant to a monkey like you – but some people aspire to higher forms of reward.
“If you pay bananas, you get wankers.”
There’s a hole in the argument.
Dear All
How can you effect change in Tory policy when they don’t have any policies other than complaining?
Maybe George Oswank, Shadow Chancer can enter the race to head the think tank?
David Cameron can give Oswank time off from being his portable moblie stool!
Get the bastard off his knees for a change!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
How do you know they haven’t got any policies?
yet another non job funded by the English. No wonder we are in so much debt.
Shut up Laird, you are almost as pointless on here as you are in real life
i just love telling people what to do and god help you if you disagree with me.
straight out of the mcbrooon school of telling every one what to do. I am a great leader, I am , I am
democracy only for lying bullying socialists.
how long before they resort to killing and murder having fixed the postal and proxy votes already. Learning it all from Mugabe
Dear Master Baiter
“Shut up Laird, you are almost as pointless on here as you are in real life”.
Less of the tough talk we all know that you are an absolute fanny on this board.
Shouldn’t you be serving tea to your tory masters you grovelling sycophant?
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
I suppose Laird you’re trying to aspire to the giddy hights of being insipid.
Conservatives are being canny about their policies because Brown hasn’t got any, and any the Conservatives announce Brown immediately pounces on and adopts. The problem being Brown then makes a total hash of it… but that comes with not understanding the basic principles behind the policy.
Can you try to keep up… this is only a Brown policy agenda for the past 2 years!
Dear Dr. Nuts
Why give yourself the title Dr, do you aspire?
Also its Mr. Laird, you tory prick!
Conservatives being canny?
Don’t talk out your arse on this board.
Post your real name if you have got a pair of balls and stop hiding behind your mum’s dress!
I really am a socialist wanker, I’d be like Gordon but he’s scottish and they’re all wankers up there.
ere ere m8
no kiddin’, eh?
So you would get rid of Brown’s Scottish mafia and vote in the Tories
comprising Cameron, Osbourne, McLoughlin, Duncan, Greive, Paterson and Strathclyde.
plus ca change……..
‘A socialist wanker’ – so why don’t just go toss your boyfriend off then than annoy everyone here!
dr up to his guts in nuts,
is it because you are sucking his boyfriends’s cock like a bitch and he can’t get anywhere near it?
Possible at last to put a face – well, ARSE – to pompous Spartist trollbore Dan Filson who induces catatonia at LabourList and other high tolerance blogs…
You obviously haven’t read an IEA report.
No birds, booze or fuck all interesting at all.
C’mon Guido.
Back to the drugs and totty and slagging off Broon. That’s what your readers want!!
Dancin’ Dan
Master Baiter is a Tory plant masquerading as a Labour plant.
He’s certainly not doing the Labour Party any favours. Is this the best they can come up with to troll this site? No bloody wonder Red Rag was doomed before it started with this sort of “talent”.
Kanga
Roo
Obviously a Tory plant. Nobody would come here to post such banal pro-Labour shite if it were not for the sole purpose of energising us to get out there, spread the word and do our bit to ensure Labour is annihilated.
As a minimum one of you is thick.
Some say it’s Guido trying to add a bit of “edge” to the site to bump up the number of visitors. Don’t buy that myself as this guy is as lame as they come.
Whatever you say Guido.
He’s a conservative ‘plant’ … ‘plant’. …
Well he certainly does an extremely good vegetable patch impression!
Mc Twat is an utter flounder. His proposals are no more than elastoplast where excision is required.
He is a damp skid mark in the tramp’s undergarments he and his predecessor have made of politics in the UK and further afield.
Would he like a scrap?
mcbrron just went mad in the commons, time to really bring in teh straight jackets, he really is mental
Yeah, ee’s right mad bonkers, ee is.
Well, anything to get away from post neo-classical endogenous growth theory.
Bring on the babes!!
He must go down now as the worst serving prime minister ever, completely unelected any way. The scots are welcome to the c u n t.
I think you’ll find that the Queen elected him.
That’s the way the system works.
Anyway, sorry to disturb you. Back to your cretinning.
The Queen “elected” him. Constitutional Lawyer alert!!!!! I thought the Queen invited Brown to form a government.
Big mistake HM
That’s what elect means. She chose him to form a government.
The public don’t elect Prime Ministers, which the cretins on here don’t seem to understand.
very intelligent comment, “the queen elected him”, expect you have a first class degree under labour, every one has.
get alife
When it says “Queen”………….
That’s the system fuckwit!!
If you’re still having difficulty understanding it, the point is that all the morons on here going on about Brown being unelected means fuck all.
The public NEVER elects a Prime Minister not any other minister.
That’s why I’m saying bring back the babes, cos cretins like you lot on here know fuck all about politics.
You’re no more than the internet version of Sun readers, sad saps who are lead by the nose all the time.
True enough!
you can see the queen now getting the ballot boxes ready at buckingham palace. she goes round and puts a cross on the only name on the ballott paper and pops it into the ballott box. At the end of the day goes round and checks them to see who has one. I bet she was vey surprised it was brown. I assume she alone has the vote in the palace, and not phil and their kids too? Do we know how much this election cost the taxpayer.
just humor im m8. hes a geenius so must be rite. weve all erd of da queens ballet box innit?
You mean the Queen asked if he could form a government – ie she selected him as the most likely leader to establish a stable government.
The phrase is ‘she asked him…’
Or in Brazilian pidgeon Inglish – ‘selected’ …
Dear imposter
If you are going to pretend to be me then at least link to my website not someone else.
The comment;
“The scots are welcome to the c u n t”.
I am Scottish so wouldn’t write that?
You are English but not smart English!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
who pays for your non job?
who pays for your non job?
Laird you are a pointless waste of valuable oxygen.
Where IS Glasgow?
55:51’52N, 4:15’35W
Can anyone tell me why the word THINK is included in the title. It is a bit like Draper….an oxy moron.
We must keep power at all costs.
Can’t wait till cameron is elected. The haggises will vote for indepence then we won’t have to keep paying for the drunken idiotic f u c k e r s any more and that twat mcbrrooooon will be living in another country, then he can f u c k you as well.
have we ever had a prime minister declared mental before?
Yup. Thatcher.
abslutely brill!! better than ben elton dat is PMSL
That’s not a joke. It’s just a fact.
It’s the reason she was forced out. She was losing touch with reality.
unlike broon hehehe
We are a grandmother.
German reunification will not be allowed.
thats why he invited her to downing street, 2 mentals together, discussing their mental states.
In 1612 Sir Benjamin Snapcase was taken in irons to the Bethlehem Hospital when he insisted that he was the Empress of Persia and that he be served sherbet in a golden bowl by naked slaves.
mmmm sounds kinky
Isn’t that one of the perks of being First Secretary of State?
Surely the unelected, unmandated Prime Mentalist’s grand scheme should be called as it is:
“The National Plan”
That has a much better Stalinist ring to it.
BTW: It is now official:
Mcmental is the most hated PM in our history ever, & Neo Labour are more hated than the Tories were at the same stage just before their electoral demise.
Happy days. I was dreading this shower of shite actually dragging it out until next year for a GE – now I am enjoying their destruction immensely.
Add to the mix that Lord Mandelson of Everything is actually prepared to kill Neo Labour forever to prop up the dying & terminally corrupt European Union & we are in for a great year ahead.
The complete & utter destruction of the Labour movement in the UK.
By Mandys fair hand. Excellent.
He is elected, you moron.
yeah man u tell im calos. … er, how?
If you recall, there were no challengers but the process was allowed to run to a natural conclusion. Stop talknig crap about this subject coz I remember John Major’s coronation.
The Queen chooses the PM.
The public NEVER elect a PM, so Brown is in fact elected in the normal way.
If you want to say that he didn’t win an election as leader of his party, then say that.
But the simple fact is that he was elected inthe same way as all other PMs.
yeah man calros she votes in her privet ballet box. bet da countin is supakwik innit?!!! lol
No, – the British people would never elect a psychologically flawed Stalinist monster like Brown to be PM.
He was crowned PM by Labour Party after they were smeared and bullied into giving in by Browns thugs like McBride.
Anyway, isn’t this a “British Blog for British Bloggers”?
Go and find a South American Guido to troll.
He was elected by the Queen in the same way as all other PMs.
Now, back to the tits on page 3
he wuz elected by mandy??
Fuckin cretins don’t even know what a troll is ffs!!
A troll is someone who presents views contrary to what he or she really thinks to wind people up.
It’s not someone who knows more than you and just winds you up because you yourself are a clueless dickhead who doesn’t know what he’s talking about and just repeats the last clueless comment from the Sun.
No tits here pal. Well at least not until you turned up with your “election” by the Queen bollox.
A British blog for British bloggers!!
Just how stupid are you Huhnes?
This is a Sun blog to convince you cretins to vote in the party of the wealthy who will then fuck you more than you’ve ever been fucked before.
ang on…party of da wealthy is NULABOR innit. av us seen der fuckin expenses? claros dis aint funny man.
Unmandated to be PM. Unelected as the Prime Minister.
Unelected to the office he spent 12 long years plotting & scheming to get when he should have been paying attention to the folly of the FSA & the deregulation debacle.
Deregulate the Mortgage Markets!
12 years plotting to get a job he has always wanted. And finds out just how fucking useless he is at it
Didn’t one Tony Blair say he’d serve a full term if elected?
Gordon Browns’ PM career even started with a lie., and nothing but lies ever since.
if u lies wiv dogs u get fleeced. ol sayin
I thought that was ‘fleas’.
yeah but no but mine’s funnier i think. ive ad lessons frm claros
Oh.
When it comes down to it — who is going to keep you in a job – a high spending Labour government or a passive , reactionary, skinflint party like the Hoonservatives. S’up to you…wait until the election after next and I’ll vote tory with you but for NOW -we cannott take the same risks that rich Hoonervatives can afford to take.
I thought it was up to YOU, to keep yourself in a job. Yet another dependent on the state hoon.
Government spending stimulates economies…..you make undue and unjustified assumptions from what I have said. Go and practice your double handed wank you have become boring for me.
“you have become boring to me”, how awfully spiffing, is this new labour speak too?
ah democracy tis only for me, only my comments relevant.
Are you a learning difficulty? What part of fuck off don’t you understand.
No it fucking doesn’t. It extracts money from economies, and in the case of the current shower it is pissed down the bog of consultants, Quangos etc. If people here bore you, go to Labour List where the discussion will be more to your liking.
I think it was the ‘off’ bit.
Labourlist doesn’t do “discussions”. One is given a pre-prepared script which all the robots then post and congratulate each other for having cut out the right bits.
It is boring, boring, BORING.
“Government spending stimulates economies”
Question – where does Government get the money from to spend? Can’t tax the public sector, and borrowing has to be repaid eventually. That just leaves taxation of the private sector, which is presently shrinking.
Might be quite a good idea to encourage the private sector, or at least, stop kicking it in the teeth.
All government spending is a transfer from what the people who earned it wanted to spend it on to what beurocrats would like to spend it on (normally them).
Cosmo Politan aka S-p-e-d-o says: which part of fuck off dont you understand. This says it all about socialists, very much inkeeping with mcbroons philosophy and hitlers come to that. They are the chosen ones, their comments are the only valid ones. And as for a sense of humour well, look no further for insight into the mind of a socialist, no communist.
Go for it, Guido! You know you want the job. You could do away with that silly no-drinking rule.
From the grauniad:
“Had he discussed policy with McBride? “Of course not.” Although McBride is applying for a job as a school outreach worker, Balls said it was “very unlikely” that they would meet through work.
Tory MPs, however, plan to challenge Balls this week over the nature of communications with the former Downing Street adviser.
Senior Tories are convinced that McBride has not been completely cut off from his old circle”.
Mr Balls had better be very careful
There is talk of certain “emails” and a paper trail between the Balls and McBride camps now being in Tory hands.
Ho. Ho. Ho
I would hasten the day that McBride returns to the fold…….MY COMPLAINT is why is it taking so long??
You are McBride & I claim my English £5 note, now worth about £2.98 in Neo Labour money.
McBride returning – that is funny.
Guido killed him stone dead forever. Not even the cabal of crooks masquerading as a cabinet would dare to back that monumental stupidity & arrogance.
What is best in life?
Madam, you do me an undue honour. No, I am not Mr McBride. In fact, I would feel honoured to meet him but that is an unlikely eventuality to say the least because he spends most of his time in London and I am a noble Scot who is a bit of a homebird.
I hope this is not too disappointign for you Madam and thank you again for the [implicit] compliment.
You’ve just underestimated the sheer stupidity that is Gurney Broon!
He is incapable of understanding another person’s point of view. This makes him a psychopath. What’s worse, is that as a psychopath, he also has narcissistic tendencies about his intelligence, actually believing that his economic policies are somehow genius level. This is being pandered and enabled by the Dark Lord Mandelson First Lord of Everywhere and Everything.
I’m worried that next year the financial situation will be so bad we’re in a position that the only solution is to call in the IMF, no matter who’s in power. (I suspect that’s another part of the burnt earth policy being ruthlessly pursued in the belief of pure self-genius).
Ah democracy, tis for me and me alone. Only my comments are relevant
You are Gordon Mcmental Brown & I claim my Scottish £5 note – now utterly worthless.
Would you like to toss my caber?
Yes folks, trolls ahoy, this is the latest pitiful incarnation.
Pity me, I troll for Gordon, now that is sad.
pion
carlos m8 dat aint funny. cmon man do the sophgis..soffisti er clever stuff agin innit.
I received news this afternoon that I have been ordained into the Church of Bob…..my ring is available to be kissed by adherants for the rest of today and, by appointment, into the future. Bless you all,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Cosmo
Does any one know when the queen will be electing the next prime minister?
Are the ballott boxes in the palace amde of gold, does any one know?
Everybody’s looking at the floor because of the weight of their lead noses.
Elect just means choose. When 25 million people are choosing you need ballot boxes. When one person is choosing you don’t need ballot boxes.
I know you’re all a bit slow, but that’s how she elects a PM.
Now back to your tits, and dicks and whatever else you’re playing with this afternoon.
I elect that you are the fucking worst troll to come on board this month. Patronising amateur, you’ve done fuck all except appear smug.
Even the kiddies have wound you up.
Well yes, I am a bit smug, but that’s because I know more than you.
It’s really annoying, innit
I’m just a silly ginger poof – how hard is that to beat?
Just read AlBeeb coverage of relaunch # 32, it includes this little gem:
Among pledges he told MPs there was an “urgent need” for new social housing and affordable homes in all parts of the country and pledged, in the next two years, investment in housing would be trebled to £2.1bn.
The money would pay for an extra 110,000 affordable homes to rent or buy over the next two years
So by my reckoning, if they are going to spend £2.1bn on 165,000 homes that’ll be £ 12,700 each – are we talking rabbit hutches here?
We are talking ZanuLiebore arithmetic mate. Think of the answer you want and fiddle the numbers to suit. Simples. Put Prescott in charge and hey presto, problem solved.
Bring back the pre-fab is what I say- although minus the abestos this time around
Last time around the pre-fabs ended up costing as much as conventional semi’s.
This time they’ll make them out of all that recyclable junk we’ve been forced to separate from our other garbage – nobody wants to buy it any more.
They probably meant £2.1 trillion, not billion. Sums never were Gordon’s forte. Still, he’ll magic it out of nowhere, as always.
Duck-houses, surely ?
Jeez… away for a few days. Get home. Put the news on to catch up with the real world and… it’s Gordon relating the heartwarming tale told in a letter he’d had from a woman thanking him for improving the lot of four generations of her family. Mandy sent you the ‘letter’ you bellend!
When are you going away again? Not too long I hope.
Friday.
Must be from Dianne Abbot and her public school educated brats.
I went to a Public School headed by an Abbot. Are you thinking what I’m thinking Jonty?
I’m think an Ambleforth Kneetrembler behind the confessionals
)
Why is there a picture of Peter Hain dressed in a nun’s hat at the bottom?
Maybe the Queen can elect a new Iranian president? That should sort the embassy crisis before Jonah steps in and fucks everything up.
For Damian and the other dodos, if they can drag themselves away from page 3 for 5 minutes.
You can look up the big words in a dickshunnery
The power to appoint the Prime Minister
Legally, the Queen has the power to appoint whomever she wishes to be the Prime Minister. Equally, if she so decided, she could appoint nobody to the office and could keep it vacant. There is no legal requirement even that the person appointed as Prime Minister be a Member of Parliament. Conventionally, however, the Prime Minister is the leader of the party with an overall majority of seats in the House of Commons. As long as there is such a majority, and as long as the party concerned has a clear leader, the Queen will have no real choice. But these things are not always so clear.
In 1957, when the Conservative party was in office, it was not clear who should succeed Eden as leader of the party and Prime Minister. The Queen effectively chose Macmillan over Butler. In 1963, when Macmillan was too ill to continue, the Queen, in the words of her biographer, allowed herself to be ‘duped by’ Macmillan into once again ensuring that Butler did not become Prime Minister, inviting Sir Alec Douglas Home to form a Government. The Queen’s biographer describes this as ‘the biggest political misjudgement of her reign’. Finally, in 1974 when there was a Hung Parliament no one party commanded a majority of seats in the Commons. This time the party leaders acted wisely, effectively keeping the Queen out of it until it had become clear that Harold Wilson should be invited to form a minority administration. Shockingly, there is no guarantee that this would necessarily happen again.
but when will she get her ballott boxes out and elect the next prime minister?
you see this is the response you get from a mcbrooon type of person, never answers the question, when will the queen get her ballot boxes out next?
If only one person is doing the choosing, why would she need ballot boxes?
Oh right, sorry, you’re just thick as shit. OK
A typical tactic on this site, just like a precocious eight year old,
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?
in the hope of draining the resources of the person they are arguing with.
There are effective counter measures, it is not necessary to be drawn in to making lengthy explanations.
Congratulations on bursting their ‘unelected’ baloon.
Fortunate tactic that – if you don’t understand something your masters have given you – just say, I don’t have to explain it. Nice one troll.
Why don’t you two clowns bugger off?
Your anger is amusing.
you are so articulate
Back in my day, the Queen did not elect a prime minister. She merely invited an MP (the obvious one), to form, a government. Unless the system has changed, which I doubt, she would have invited Bliar to oblige. What happened, I wonder when Bliar resigned? Did the soon to be certified Broon get the call, or did he simply assume power without benefit of age old ceremony?
where’s the word elect carrls? cant see it help!!!
Elect just means choose. She elects. She chooses.
Don’t worry your little head about it. You’re not supposed to understand.
Next lesson will explain that Britain is not a democracy. Bet the Sun never told you that one, eh?
Now run along petal…
no it wasnt the sun what told us it was people like you and the lying labour party. democracy is only for people like you and no one else. Just like many stalinist states around the world.
why don u just say choose then numnutz???? if i go down da boozer an say.. i elect a pint of guiness …deyl fookin thro me out. is dfrent innit?
It’s all fairly straightforward. The real problem is that you lot just aren’t very well educated. You’ve never been taught to think for yourselves.
It’s not your fault. We live in a very degraded society in terms of debate and public discourse. That began with Thatcher, and Labour despite some sterling efforts have been unable to remedy that. It will get even worse under Cameron.
But anyway.
Elect and election are just the words we use in politics, but all they mean is choose.
In earlier times it would have been more common to say elect when you mean choose, but they mean the same thing.
The point anyway is that there’s no such thing as an unelected Prime Minister. There can’t be because the public have no part in the choosing of a PM.
It’s the Queen who chooses, who elects.
If she doesn’t choose or elect then there is no PM. End of.
Brown is just as elected as any of the rest of them, because the Queen chose him.
So what would have happened if the Labour Party chose Brown as Leader and the Queen elected Frank Field as was her right? (according to you).
It was stolen by Broon and Fondlebum.
the Queen will have no real choice
I’ve done some dictionary work and I cannot reconcile this statement with an “election”. Surely it’s just an appointment.
Carlos, you need a pint or two, you’re losin it.
I think that Charlie is saying that Her Majesty ELECTS to APPOINT a Prime Minister. Charlie is wasting his allotted Time to Failure on such activities and should express what he actually means to say, rather than permitting his primary objective to become the use of the derogatory term ‘fuckwit’.
The above being the case, I propose that HM be allowed a statutory cooling-off period of say 4 years and 9 months.
Stuart Bell is talking in the house. Charlie should take careful note, for there is full weight fuckwittery made flesh.
I commend this statement to the blog.
“Elects to appoint”
That’s just tautological tosh.
She quite simply chooses a PM. She quite simply elects a PM.
The Chosen People. The Elect.
Don’t forget that PMs and ministers are all her gimps, or if you like Ministers of the Crown in the jargon.
I want overtime AND extra pints!!
so she doesn’t have any ballott boxes then?
Carlito. If you can’t see the angles no more, you’re in trouble.
You won’t know this Damian, but what you’re engaging in is called semantics.
It’s not a good thing to be doing, although you won’t know why.
All you need to know is that there is no such thing as an unelected Prime minister.
The Queen simply elects him or her. The act of electing is simply the act of choosing.
The fact that you only know the term election as a thing that happens every 4 or 5 years is no more than a display of your own ignorance.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blair-i-will-serve-another-full-term-as-prime-minister-547568.html
So Blair was lying?
im electing to have salad tonight for tea
The Blair comment is 5 years old.
Fuck off Carlos I’ve never engaged in semantics as you put it. I was walking the poodle on the Heath. My not guilty plea was upheld.
can you give me the source of this article from where you cut and pasted it? it’s very well articulated. It’s nice to have intelligent people posting on here
scotmcbroon,testicles,lordupyurbum, truly evil people, remond me of the politbureau in the soviet union. I must have control, i must have power
Yea, that’s a fair assessment.
i thank you for your comment
These silly anagrams should stop, too.
Interesting article Guido , does it need reviving is my question ?? I know its hard to find independent think tanks these days , but ecnomic ones should be pretty straight forward ie where money comes from and where it goes to .
best ecnomic think tank we have at the moment is Mervyn Kings head , even the LSE seems to be staring at the flashing lights more these days .
now that quantive easing is in the system everyone is wondering how it will work post it , ed balls thinks it will all be ok , I dont , but when a spinner refers you to another branded spinning organisastion , how do you know whose telling the truth ?? The guards that guard the the guards seem to have a 300k box at wimbledon . The pm is not telling the country about its problems , the IEA is not sure what to say ?
We should elect Mervyn as PM. The Queen obviously likes the guy.
I don’t want this board to suffer__________so PLEASE stop the imposter stuff_____it does NOT help this board and if it don’t cease then folks will stop coming (and who could blame them). STOP NOW
I agree
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?
can’t believe how many people mcbroon has put on here today must be getting fuckin desparate. some of them have first class labour degrees too, you can tell that by their arguements and mass debates, fuckin wankers the lot of them, aren’t they just precotious and they know a lot about 8 year olds behaviour too.
We’ve nothing to lose and no time to lose. New Labour inaction.
Dear Master Baiter
Learn to spell you backward hoon or use a spellcheck!
“arguements”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument
This should help you backward fuck!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
another scottish non job funded by the taxpayer. did you get a first class liebour degree just like any one can? comments straight out of the mcbroon don’t mess with me school.
don’t you just love c u n t s like this?
I am a great leader, I am I am…..
ah democracy only for twats like laird and newliebour and no one else. We must only pay attention to their comments, their comments are the most important, we are truly grateful they write them for us and we will pay great attention to them
they are such wonderful intelligent people
Dear imposter
Thank you for taking the time off from battering your head against a wall to get the shit out and reply.
There is still a huge blockage between the ears!
Of shit!
Link to my website, the Camapign for Human Rights at Glasgow University not the Tory Rectum Central.
What a fanny, no wonder everyone hates tories!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Does any one have a preview of mcbroon’s lies yet for tomorrow? Has the parrott style e-mail gone out yet to the party apparatchicks
Miss miss mistrrr speaker the tories will do nuthing,Labour will invest billions in outreach and empowerment authorities and hundred of quangos but the conservatives will cut services, they will eat your babies,throw old ladies into the street and force pensioners to work till they either drop or reach 120.We are the party of investment, in jobs for migrants,mass immigration,taxing the english till the pips squeak and raising standards in schools so low that everyone who can spell their name correctly and use joined up writing will qualify for a university place whereas the tories will do nuthing.I may have been the crappiest chancellor in our history but do not accept any blame cos everyone let me down but am also now that I am p.m. uniquely suited for pulling us out of the shit I dropped you in (cue – men in white coats dragging Mcmental out of the commons)
my dog’s got rabies
well you had better be careful because
ken dodd’s dad’s dog died, did you know that?
Dear Olaf
If your dad had done a five finger knucle shuffle we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
I think there is a case to see if science permits you being reverse engineered backwards to sperm.
I will say what I like you absolute fanny, go kiss Tory arse!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Trained any athletes recently, George?
Dear Adrian Prole
No but I have been helping your girlfriend design an escape tunnel to get away from you.
She made a heart felt plea on her plight to me recently.
Here is a copy of her letter
Dear George
I need your help, my boyfriend is a total prick and his breath smells like it has a permanent attachment to his arse.
When he breaths on me I feel my guts turn inside out!
I need to get away, last night he came home I noticed more than the usual bad smell, when I woke in the morning, the clear white bedclothes were covered in shit.
He thinks this is acceptable and everyone does it.
Our sex life thankfully is wonderful as he shoots his load before he comes near me so I don’t have to handle his wee tiny dick. I am not sure if it is a dick, it could be a wart.
I need an escape tunnel built that has explosives all along the entire length can you help.
I want to leave and help humanity by burying him for all time.
Best Regards
Adrian Prole’s burd
Pretty damning plea don’t you think Adrian? How long has your bird been going with you for the cash anyway?
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
who funds your non job? another scot living off the state. just like liebour politicians, never had a real job in theit lives, would never get employed in a real job. In any case the english fund the scots.
Dear Sycophant Tory
What colour is your mouth after spending all day licking tory arse.
Be a man not someone’s bitch!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
I had an economic affair once.
She cost me a fucking fortune.
Know the feeling.
Women are so biased aren’t they? Bias this, bias that, bias the other until you’re skint.
If it flies, floats or fu*ks, it’s cheaper to rent it!
malist, – again.
But still funny.
It’s about time that streak of Scottish Piss Murray had a proper opponent, so far he’s been given a very easy ride, the center court and prime time match times. In other words, FIXED. Let’s hope this evening’s game is a tad tougher.
Well Murray is down 0 – 3 against Wawrinka at the moment!
I can’t stand Murray but have to say he looks actually ill or something out there.
absolutely great, mint any one?
Mint in trouble. Issued a batch of 20p’s with no date stamped on the head side. They’re worth about £50 each on the collector’s market, and rising.
Shouldn’t have told you really, should I….
4-0
i wonder which lie -bore jock sleeze bag is pulling the strings to get murray an easy ride ?
Yawn..
O/T
Madoff get 150 years in prison for $65 billion fraud
In the UK fraudulent MPs are allowed to stand down at the next election; and/or make repayment of our money stolen; carry on as usual
Spot the difference
so what will brown get for our £1.3 trillion fraud?
A peerage and an index-linked pension
Not to mention a multi-million pound book deal and a lucrative job in the EU with an even better gold plated ension.
A peerage!
Psst.. Bernie,want to know a trick!
Nell, do you really think anyone would have an interest in paying money for Broon’s book?
333.Steve – I tried to respond to that and got modded.
I’ll think about that and try again in a minute.
Oh dear, what have you done to offend the mod this time?
Probably mentioned G*rd*n Br*wn in a positive way!
Or didn’t make it sufficiently clear that GB is a moron!
343 – 344 – Steve – Dr Nuts
Not even after a glass of wine could I write a positive comment about gb!
Steve said who’d pay gb for his book?
I said someone already had for the one he wrote about c**rage.
why put him away just SHOT the c*nt ! one bullet costs about 30p there are about 8,000 of our troop’s in afghanistan who would like to cap the bastard !
333.Steve – well they published his drivel on Courage didn’t they?
I’m on the ropes
One two, one two, change foot, uppercut take that.
Oh look!!
I layed Murray this morning on Betfair at 1.08 and now he’s looking a tad dodgy and the odds are going against him.
Up to 1.31 to close my position. Lubbly jubbly.
A lovely evening’s profitable trading for me, eh.
It’s really brill being so clever.
is it just me or does Murray look ill, he doesnt look right tonight, he came on court looking flushed and tired.
who cares as long as he loses
yeah i know, can’t stand the man, he does my head in, he could be playing Gordon Brown and I’d hope Brown won.
Sunonmars, I hate the Murray guy too, but not quite that much!
I reckon McDoom must have wished him luck – the kiss of death for anyone!
He did, but the Queen sent a good luck message to try and counteract it.
She must be getting brassed off having to follow McBroon around and sweep up the mess after him.
I know we all cant stand Harman but at least she’s an elected person. Its ridiculous.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196191/Who-hold-reigns-power-Mandy-v-Harriet-summer-stand-war.html
Who will hold the reins of power? Mandy v Harriet in the summer stand-in war
A turf war is brewing over which of Gordon Brown’s senior lieutenants should be in charge of the country when he goes on holiday this summer.
In one corner is business secretary Lord Mandelson, deputy prime minister in all but name; while in the other is Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman.
Downing Street is believed to view Lord Mandelson as a safe pair of hands to take on the role.
How long is he going on holiday for? 2 weeks? And this during August and recess when the world goes to sleep.
And mandy and harriett – ‘grown up professional people’ are arguing over who should be in charge?
When Prescott took over from Blair for two weeks one August didn’t Prezza go to Chequers and play croquet on the lawn?
They’ll be wacking each other with their handbags next, to cries of “Ooooh you bitch!”
If only they’d do that in the HoP during PMQ’s. It’d be the best PMQ’s that Nu Liebour have had for 2 years, at least no matter how it goes NL won!
Guess the 2 will get to play happy slappers!
Yep. He really looked after the country well.
Feather dusters at forty paces anyone?
What a spectacle!!!
No wonder the International Community regards us a laughing stock at the moment.!
fucking hell, you wankers are obsessed with gordon brown innit.
lest you forget cripples there will be a general election soon and whilst you are chattering on about a loser who will soon be gone I am vigorously campaigning through the most popular medias for a hung parliament.
such a parliament would be made up of a significant number of reasonable minded, local, independent candidates.
y’know, normal people instead of the thieving labour new labour lib dem and conservative party and not fascist like the hitlerite british nazi party.
not much to ask for is it?
you silly old tory and zanulab trolls are making right fools of yourselves with your chatter.
you just don’t get it.
you will soon though.
retards.
troll detected!!
Do Not Feed.
get a fucking life you moron.
‘sp@stic of the year award’ goes to anticitizenone etc…..
Brown baffles me.
In one breath he castigates Cameron for having no policy then, immediately recites objections to what he thinks the policy is (that is ,the policy that does not exist– keep up at the back.)
He is the living proof that allegedly clever men are often incredibly stupid,exemplified in this instance by his obvious conviction that his audience mainly comprises slack mouthed,pea brained,socialist neanderthals,all of whom aspire to a lifetime on benefits hanging around pubs,betting shops
and queues at the chippy.
It really would be no surprise if someone shot him—- Stone Dead .
No kamikaze pilots when you need them, are there.
Seeing as Broon loves the Muslims so much – can’t we convince the muslims to stone him? (For homosexual practices), see how he likes his policies when he’s on the receiving end.
fuck off you crackerjack motherfucker.
damn honkies!
Please take your own advice thick ass troll
fuck off you honky crackerjack jive ass motherfucker.
fuck you man.
white trash.
innit.
Aaahh….the benefits of a Classical education!
TORY TROLL ALERT TORY TROLL ALERT.
fuck off you wanker.
you lying c’unt.
not interested.
Education, educatoin, edewkayshun – guess which one thick as two short planks got?
steve,
never mind education, you can’t even afford to live in your own home.
you bloody tramp.
not that clever are you steve?
I blame it on your ppor education and on you not paying attention during your lessons.
as a result of your laziness you are now a tramp.
natural justice innit.
The trolls seem to have clocked off and gone home. Reading this thread, and the previous one, they’ve been busy today. Wonder if we’ll see a night shift.
Still, nice of them to turn up and boost Guido’s stats for him.
Public school boys gone off to do their prep.
I suspect they’re Labourites working under direction from Balls.
This is the best that Labour can do.
And reading the above, the best isn’t very good, either. Heavy duty barrel-scraping going on.
I assume these are Labour MP candidates, or something similiar.
I guess the Labour party are gearing up for an election. Best way to do that is to drive the message home. I remember from degree days that when a ‘phrase’ is heard 27 times it is finally remembered. Hence Broons persistance in repeating the Conservative Cuts thing in PMQs, along with No Conservative Policies etc.
It’s just spin and double spin. We’re going to be on the front line of Labour marketing I guess, as we’re ‘middle England’.
BTW – anyone seen a ‘Middle Englander’? Is there a descript – Blonde hair, brown eyes, 5′ 6″ plain (middlish looks) etc. I’m curious – who or what is Middle England, there’s BBC reports on it, and Panorubbish did a twiddling thumbs thing on it, but still got no clue!
BTW – anyone know why the above is moderated?
Should I have signed off with
Fuck Off Brown?
Nobody seems to have fathomed the system, apart from a few obvious ones like thw initials of the toytown nazis.
I’ve been tangled in the mod filter a few times, but not for any great sin that I can detect.
Do men always do their thinking via their private parts, you have to wonder?
I’ve heard it said that there are two sorts of men; the sort that think about sex 99% of the time, and the sort that think about it 90% of the time, thus leaving 10% free for doing something constructive. I’ll let you decide which category I fall under; I haven’t the faintest idea. Victim of nature’s drives, you see….
Basically, barefootcontessa, yes.
(P.S. That’s the sexiest screen-name on the blog….)
Public Schoolboys tend to be hardline Conservative.
I know I used to be one. Mind you – that was in Thatcher’s days and come the 1997 election – when we ran our mock one, the NF was getting 97% of the vote, before the Head told the NF boys to withdraw (embarrassing the school etc). I thought that was incredibly funny …
Labour got about 0 votes, with the votes split mostly conservative the remainder Liberals.
Our school elections became a tad anarchic. The candidates formed new parties, the one that eventually won being FOAM. The fact that the headmaster’s initials where AM may or may not have had anything to do with that.
Dear Dr. Nuts
“Public Schoolboys tend to be hardline Conservative”.
Don’t you mean fat bastards?
“I know I used to be one”.
Money was paid to educate you, your parents asked for a refund?
You were the dorm bitch?
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Hope you’re not prejudiced against public school boys/girls Nell!
no contessa – I raised one – so I know what they can be like!!
probably all using their non-job work related computers and time, paid for by taxpayers as usual. dreadful conceited people with no respect for other peoples comments or opinions
engineer.
now listen here you c’unt. you have been here five minutes and now you are talking like a pro about how trolls do nine to five and all that caper.
you are full of shit engineer, you are a fucking liar.
don’t go wittering on about trolls again you moron, YOU FUCKING ARE ONE YOU TIT!
two questions;
where the fuck do they get c’unts like you?
how much are you being paid by tory HQ to post your garbage?
fuck off liar.
not interested in your bullshit ‘fraid.
Never been a member of any political party, TaT, nor ever made a donation to a political party, nor ever been paid by one for anything. I’m just a British subject who cares about his country, and hates what this lying, twisted, pathetic, jealous, short-sighted, ignorant, unpatriotic, uneducated, slimy, sleazy Liebore government is doing to it, and I quite enjoy lending Guido a hand in his quest to improve politics. I quite enjoy the banter, chat and jokes with the other decent, straightforward people I’ve found here.
Now, I see that Troll Basher is in the building and looking for a quiet word with you. May I suggest that you present yourself to him and await his pleasure?
WELL SAID!
you’re full of shit engineer.
you have been rumbled you c’unt.
and now you will have to come up with a new name because I have collected engineer. it is in the bag.
you dim and silly tory troll.
now fuck off wanker.
engineer,
ah, barefootcontessa has come to your rescue!
note to barefootcontessa: please go easy on the superskunk, you are talking gibberish woman. if you keep shouting land ranting like that in public you will have to be sectioned.
it’s for the best love.
Would you like a little chat with NewGirl, TaT? Made to lick her boots and feel a taste of her whip? You’d like that, wouldn’t you?
There really is no need to abuse barefootcontessa like that, TaT. Accusing people of drug abuse is not gentlemanly. Shame on you, TaT.
Great post Engineer, couldn’t agree more!
I think from thick as two short planks’ posts, it’s blindingly obvious who’s the one here that needs to be sectioned!
Maybe the troll should fuck off back to his cave and leave the rest of us alone?
steve the tramp and enginer the tory troll: what a pair of fucking idiots.
Accusing us of homosexuality now, TaT? Given that Steve’s an Expat, and I’m not, that’s a bit of a stretch! And wrong.
In the light of a new day, the above conversation proves how quickly men can turn to violence. In this situation we are using words, which is a step in the right direction. Without wanting to fuel the discussion, it is perfectly obvious who is the protagonist. With him it is pointless pouring oil on troubled waters. The best policy is to ignore him, he won’t like that. More importantly Ed Balls has just been speaking on radio 4, he’s talking ‘Blather, Blood, and Balderdash’! GB Shaw.
barefootcontessa,
didn’t have you down as a manhater.
you’re just like harriet harpy.
now bugger off you silly woman.
The ban on drinking did not extend to the Morpeth Arms then.
So Harriett has told Sir Christopher Kelly, who is supposed to be investigating and making recommendations on MPs expenses, that she has decided to set up a Parliamentary Standards Committee.
Kelly asked her how she will respond to the public who will say “we don’t need another quango here.”
Harriet waffled ” It’s job essentially is fixing MPs allowances.” !!!
Nice choice of words harriett!
….more money wasted…nice one Harriet.
Will the cost of this “Committee” exceed the amount repaid by dishonest MPs?
If so then the public purse has gained nothing from all that has happened over the past however many months
hey, I wouldn’t worry about it if I were you steve.
I mean you’re a homeless tramp, so you should be more worried about where you will sleep tonight and not get your head kicked in than all these high minded issues.
now fuck off you fucking hobo.
Steve do ya wanna I bash his daft brains in????!!!
Say da word man.
Hey, twatface, your friend Troll Basher’s here – could be a fun evening.
Time for a beer me thinks?
TB, I’m not sure there’s too many brains left for you to bash.
Thick as thieves? Think as two short planks is probably more apt…
I’ll rattle the dried up walnut in his empty skull. Shake his stupid head like maracas until we get a beat we can all dance to. Oooh he’s so thick I could bottle it and sell it to Sainsburys.
WHERE ARE YA THICK???????????????
***LOOKS LEFT***
***LOOKS RIGHT***
No, I think we scared the troll away for the night
go easy on the scrumpy fellas, it is rotting your brains.
oh no steve you fucking tramp, please don’t tell me you are drinking moonshine again.
you know that stuff makes you go loopy.
but I suppose you drink because you don’t want to face up to the fact that you cannot afford to live in your own home and so you are forced to live like a nomad tramp.
you sad fucking bastard steve. you fucking failure.
best not to take the advice of a tramp like you steve. you’re homeless for fucks sake!
now fuck off you sad c’unt.
and take your cripple friends with you.
what do you c’unts think this place is, the fucking samaritans?
Accurate use of words.
The current situation was created by Broon. This would be fixing under Broons direction – so more of the same!
I think that after today’s performane by the pm, they have decided to go for the nuclear option. Every one knows they are lying so all they can do is to try to appeal to their former voters in the north.
Their promise for housing is the most blatant. Read the text very carefully and you will see it talks about local UK citizens. Well as soon as a migrant obtains a valid passport, then legally he/she is a UK citizen, so no change there.
As vacuous as Brown’s ‘British jobs for British workers’ promise
If they think the North is going to save them, they may have to think again. My bit of the North turned almost completely blue in the local elections. Nobody I speak to has a good word for them; even the diehards have gone quiet.
People are getting wise to Brown’s spin and lies.
gordon is, in any case, in another hole over his spending plans.
The Treasury (darling?) is leaking that it is uneasy about gordon’s ‘labour investment versus tory cuts’ propaganda.
It worries, as well it might, that the markets will take gordon literally and assume that a re-elected Labour government will spend it’s way into financial oblivion. The electors might think that too. I certainly do.
Why wouldn’t the markets and electors take gordon literally? He is an honest son of the manse, with a famous moral compass (admittedly on the blink), whose presbyterian conscience would not let him lie and on and on…
Spending review delayed until after the General Election because of “the uncertain economic situation”.
But they know exactly where the economy is going – 3.5% growth next year. They said so in the Budget.
They wouldn’t tell porkies.
Would they?
Nell, maybe it’s because the Treasury know that Broon’s figures are total bolleaux.
The number-crunchers also know that the MP made himself look like a right tit last week when Cameron read Darling’s figures back to Broon – who promptly described the falling CapEx numbers as “Increasing record investment in our infrastructure”
Engineer, it’s obvious that a spending review now would show up Broon’s “Investment” for what it is – complete and utter lies.
Someone commenting on the Spectator just suggested that DC should call the PM a liar in the House – for which he would be rebuked for unparliamentary language – as it would be front page news everywhere and the MSM would have to explain to their audiences why it was so…
OH GOD!
ARE YOU BORING C’UNTS STILL BANGING ON ABOUT GORDON THE MORON?
change the fucking record motherfuckers.
brown’s political death is old news.
what we are now witnessing is rigor mortis setting in.
please try to keep up. why are you so slow and dim?
you sound like a bunch of deluded hysterical mental patients on a day out.
and I, the great thick as thieves, would obviously be jack nicholson.
I guess that’s an apt metaphor for you…
Get the meds now – they’re necessary for a good reason!
TwAT face – Gordon’s political death will be old news only once his sorry ass has been kicked through the Downing St gates for the last time – until then, we’ll keep on at him, and you’ll keep on at us no doubt…
If Mr. TaT doesn’t want to take his medication orally, I’m sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way. But I don’t think that he would like it.
A BEEP A BOP A BISH BASH SMASH AND ALI’S DOWN ON THE FLOOR.
I’M THE TRUE CHAMP COME ON GORDON CLOWN OR WHATEVER YOUR NAME IS GET IN THE RING.
CLOSE YOUR MOUTH GEORGE BEFORE I CLOSE FOR YOU AGAIN I’M THE TRUE CHAMP.
….punch drunk.
oh er!! I`m sure he will
WHO WANT’S SOME OF ENRY’S ‘AMMER
NO HERNY NOT THE HAMMER LAST TIME I GOT IT MY ANCESTORS IN AFRICA FELT IT, I’LL ROPE A DOPE YOU SUCKA.
Anybody need a Lean Machine?
I am Harriet Harman’s love child..thought youought to know,,,,,,,,,,,Cosmo aka Sped0
HEY ALI YOU STILL YAPPING BOY YOU ALL TALK AND NO ACTION REMEMBER THAT SUPERFIGHT.
Take deine hand from my Lederbuchsen mein Lord!
Madoff – 150 big ‘uns.
McSnot – take note.
I bet he doesn’t do the full term.
Coil-shuffling’s a bitch ain’t it?
Andy Murray is shit the only reason he has got so far is because Nadal ducked out due to injury. Andy Murray will always be a journeyman and never a champ.
I hear ya.
and the fact he has not met one single seed until now and if he wins this faces another non-seed in the 1/4 final. Nice easy draw, i wonder how they fixed that.
We are performing a national service by keeping the trolls occupied.
If the only loyalists Labour have, spend all their time pissing about on blogs, they will convince nobody, annoy everybody, and neglect to do anything remotely useful for the Labour party.
I have a sneaking suspicion that most potential and actual Labour voters don’t read blogs.
AY YO A FIGHT AINT OVER TILL IT’S OVER AND I AINT HEARD NO BELL YET BUT THIS NU LABOUR HAVE NO HEART THEY’LL NEVER BE THE TRUE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPS.
I suspect it is because they no longer dare go canvassing door to door for fear of abuse – so they are resorting to being offensive on blogs.
Doesn’t say much for their intelligence does it? – if they think that they can win votes for labour this way?!
but not only that, no one from H of C labour will appear on question time either. they are sending the lords to do it for fear of them getting abused by the audience.
The trolls are in the pub with their laptops; those provoking an angry response are given a pint of lager and a packet of crisps by the troll-minder.
Shoot back with a reasoned argument and they get nothing – hence the sudden silence as the free beer dries up
Some struggle to read or write at all. One of my favourite comments recently was “some Labour voters literacy is so por, I’m surprised they can spell ‘x’”.
(Hat tip to whoever came up with that one – sadly, I can’t remember.)
There again, my literacy clearly isn’t that good. That should, of course, be “so poor”.
My mission if i choose to accept it will be to get arrested and escape with Bernie Madoff from prison with a complex plan i have invented thanks to my civil engineer knowledge.
Sounds more like Eric Schofield (University of Aston 1975-1978) after celebrating the feast of St. Newt and getting into a similar state, to me.
Saw this today written in felt tip on the inside of a toilet door (in a suspiciously familiar handwriting): “Gordon is a wanker. They’ll not get me!”
You cannot stop the truth getting out.
Was it in a ladies toilet?
Murray’s Mum looks your typical gobby Jock
Why does Murray have an alien sized skull and forehead.
M urray’s mum loks your typical gobby J ock
Most jocks are Gobby!!
Go Deutschland!!!
Dear Mr. Brown,
Please find below my suggestion for fixing Britain’s economy. Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:
There are about 20 million people over 50 in the work force. – Pay them £1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:
1) They MUST retire. Twenty million job openings – Unemployment fixed.
2) They MUST buy a new British CAR. Twenty million cars ordered – Auto Industry fixed.
3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage – Housing Crisis fixed.
4) They must send there kids to school / college /university – Crime rate fixed
5) Buy £50 of alcohol / tobacco a week there’s your money back in duty / tax etc
It can’t get any easier than that!
P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay back there falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances
see mr bollox any fool can be chancellor…..well except you it would seem.
20 Trillion pounds is a lot of money*.
*As these comments will be indexed and maybe looked at in future this figure is at 2009 money before Gordo followed Zimbabwe’s path and ruined the economy.
You posted this before – it was discussed before – the £20tn point was made before.
Hello – you there?
Indeed, this facile solution has been pulled apart before.
Why not give everyone in the country £333,333.33? We can then all retire and do fuck all for the rest of our lives.
Hayek inspired Maggie that’s good enough for me – Perhaps we could get a copy sent around to Cameron – get back to basics – oops
Maggie required that her cabinet read only one book – Hayek’s Road to Serfdom.
Broon requires that his cabinet can read. – at least to Big Green Book standard.
Animal Farm and 1984 are Zanu-Labours guidebooks.
I had thought, from the standards that my local MP displays that the standard was roughly equivalent to the US “Look See” books.
“Look at the wall.
See Jack jump the wall.
Jack has defected.”
Just a small question – all these labour trolls – who is paying them?
are they, as I suspect, firmly attached to the tax payers teat?
Well, there are 6 million employed by the State directly, and Labour’s support seems unwilling to go below 20% – a reasonable correlation?
And out of the 6 million the best they can find is Master Baiter and Carlos Burritos. Labourlist’s Stoßtruppen. PMSL.
Come the General Election ….nay the General Choosing… if this is the best they can muster them ZanuLiebore is history, my dears. History.
You missed out the appropriately named ‘thick as thieves’ – think as two short planks more like.
The problem is that there are lot of these scum out there who only exist because the government pays them not to bother working.
One might reasonably assume that those who not only have computers but would pay any attention to this site would be in the top intelligence bracket of that large group.
Makes you wonder what the rest are like, doesn’t it?
Are you saying thick as shit is a chav scum? I doubt he is because I suspect he’s incapable of giving some fat bird her third kid.
Thick-as has only turned up looking for NewGirl. He’s lovesick, the poor lamb….
Engineer, NG was here this morning, laughing out loud at how the trolls kicked off over the weekend! Not seen her tonight though…
I’m still here init.
Probably catching up with work. She’ll be along in due course if there’s a bit of TaT-bashing on the cards. The boots and whip will need an outing….
Did someone call?!
lol, right on time NewGirl.
Looks like the troll has dragged himself back to his cave for the night though…
Tonight’s question – 500 posts, how many on topic??
Ah! Good evening! Boots well polished and whip swishing? There’s a TaT about!
nah stevie, I’M TOP BOY NOW YOU C’UNT.
whereas you steve, are just a fucking homeless tramp.
so that means you are scum, doesn’t it?
Hello thick as two short planks, I see you’ve dragged yourself out of the cave again, please allow me to club you over the head and send you back from whence you came…
How’d you work that one out you thick Huhne when he can afford to live out the country and fly back whenever he feels like. Top Boy of what your council house??
You ever been out the country? then again the way you defend scum sucking benefit leeching no good immigrants assures me you’ve at least at a holiday under the back of whatever truck you sneaked in here from Calais.
SHUT UP YOU FUCKING TORY SCUM – I’M TOP BOY NOW!
I OWN YOU MY BITCHES NOW MOTHERFUCKERS.
START DANCING BITCHES!
Reduced to shouting abuse, TaT? We have got you going, haven’t we…
Yes. An election is just a choosing. That wasn’t too difficult now, was it.
Good boy.
Nice to see that the message is getting through to at least one of you.
Perhaps you might take class tomorrow, Wipeout?
I’m off to spend my winnings, in the manner of a gentleman of the shires.
Toodlepip.
And remember; I won’t always be here to hold your hand. And anyway, if you’re very very bold little cherubs you may be getting that curious looking Mr Gove next year.
And, he really can be a pain in the arse.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you…
I fought you were a big badass troll lol is that all you got old man.
Did someone shout something there?
You can spot when the cnuts know they are beaten because all they can do is shout insults and hope we actually give a shit.
At least with people like Hardwidge, he may be a Labour apologist and GB fan, but you can rationally argue against their point…
I MAKE YOU BITCHES DANCE TO MY TUNE WHENEVER I WANT.
BECAUSE I AM TOP BOY!
INNIT!
“Blundell Ousted from the IEA”
Well Guido, I’ve had a cursory glance at all the comments, and I cannot see any reference to the original posting, which I gather is all about think tanks etc.
You might as well as posted about thick wanks by the look of the comments.
What’s yer point?
If cap fits lad, wear it.
They don’t need to think in that particular think tank – just dust of Hayek and brush up on Regan and Maggie’s solutions (blessed be her name).
Regan and Maggie saved the US AND UK economies, sorted out the cold war, and provided an economic model copied all over the world.
This ain’t rocket science
Gordon Brown, with the help of Parliament has created a society where the legal & moral responsibility to pay taxes has been re-placed by a legal only requirement.
I used to be happy paying relatively high taxes because I believe it was my moral duty, I try and reduce my tax bill to as low as is legally possible.
As the name suggests, I no longer live in the UK, but in a city dominated by British expatriates.
The common thing about them? They are (were!) almost all higher-rate taxpayers who got out – mainly because they felt they were being taxed to death in a country where crime was rising, housing unaffordable, transport both rubbish and expensive, and a whole class of people showed no interest in contributing but living off the state in perpituity at the expemse of those who do pay their share…
It won’t take many of these expats to come back to the UK and get good jobs to increase the income tax take substantially, but before we will do that the government needs to address the reasons above….
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Absolutely right. I understand that there are at least 5 million people living on benefits given to them by labour. It has created a culture, and it’s not necessarily their fault, of a very easy society. There is further evidence of this with all the additional social costs and benefits that employers have to pay to employees. The number of non wealth creating jobs is now around 35% of the total. It’s a fashion now for ordinary folk to go to university, get massive debts and come away with just a 2,1, then they wonder why they cant get a job because they have done media studies! There is no work culture any more. Truly nobody cares any more. No company, apart from john lewis, even bothers to provide a service to their customers any more.
The country has been massively swamped by low skilled immigrants and asylum seekers all sucked into benefits.
You are better off staying there for quite a long time so you dont have to pay the huge tax increases required to prop up this country.
This country is a much less than average country living very much on borrowed time and lazy people. Seriously only a revolution from our corrupt and inept politicians can save this country now.
With a bit of luck we’ll be joining the ranks of the ex-pats soon. We can’t wait to leave.
Each of us much make our own decisions, and live life as we see fit, so I respect your right to act as you have, Steve, but I’ve chosen to stick with it. That’s partly because all my family live here, partly because I’m so much in love with the beauties of the British countryside (and some of the smaller towns) and partly because I’m an incurable optimist and believe that things will improve in time.
Mind you, it may be a while before we see too many tax cuts; the holes in the budget and profligacy on public services rather see to that.
You’re right, it’s not for everyone. Yes the British countryside is rather missed but I’ll be back for a holiday next week!
I used to be an incurable optimist until I realised quite how much tax I was paying (add them all up) and what I was getting back in return (the bins collected once a fortnight and a policeman to help when my bike was stolen and car broken into)!!
The UK is undoubtedly facing societal breakdown on so many levels, it will most likely take another generation to sort out the mess casued by the last one. If you get the chance to go – I’d take it!!
No offence Steve but I’ve lived/worked abroad in a few places and I couldn’t stand being surrounded by expats. I’ve always chosen where possible to live outside the expat bubble. To discover that most Govs are shit, wherever.
Ah, but ignorance is certainly bliss. I’ll be learning to speak a new language so I won’t have time for politics – just enjoying a new life.
I wouldn’t bother learning the language if you want to remain blissfully ignorant.
Very true, you can get stuck in a very boring work-sleep-drink and nothing else life, you do have to make the effort to get away from the ‘expat bubble’ and explore wherever you are. As a young (ish) single guy it works for me, would be very different to uproot wife and kids though.
All govs have their plus and minus points, in every country you visit there are silly laws, taxes and bureaucrasies to deal with, and things that would get you a slap on the wrist at home get you serious jail time elsewhere. When in Rome…
Reply in the “Queue”, DB, but I don’t disagree with you.
You have to live where you are, not how you would do back ‘home’. It’s also easier being single rather than dragging family with you. All govs have their own idiosyncracies and silly rules, but when in Rome…
It always felt like I was still ‘home’ to me. Or in Benidorm (I imagine).
Oh yes. The expat Brits.
Lemme see.
Crims a runnin from the law down Costa del Sol way
Perves hidin out in Phuket
Tax dodgers in Monaco
Keep em, I say….
Yeah alright, there’s a fair idiot Brits on the costas, I’ll give you that…
But Try Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Australia, Canada, the USA and the whole Middle East region- literallly millions of working Brits, often young and hardworking graduates, completely fed up with the country they grew up in.
These are people that the UK should be working to retain, one of the reasons that the official immigration stats look so good for the government is that there is a huge but unseen emigration from the middle classes – and it really is millions, here in Dubai there are over 150,000 Brits (10% of the population!), most under 35 and almost all graduates earning good money.
I’ve worked in some of them (spent time in most), but money isn’t everything.
thick as thieves, are you here??? are you ready to rumble???????????!!!!!!!
see 432 above…
I cannae see tha runt for dust as he runs home to his mam!!! If i get my hands on his scrawny fuckin neck Colonel Sanders will be receiving another delivery.
The wee shite has got his long distance wellies on. I cannae catch him the minute but I’ll be watching. And waiting!!!!
I have bashed your brains out so badly that you are now talking to yourself.
you better get yourself up to accident and emergency very quickly indeed because you are pissing blood and you have a fucking nasty hole in your head: it looks like the head of the axe might still be lodged in your skull.
I don’t think you are going to make it bashed troll.
oh well.
thick as thieves cracks a hat-trick of skulls in one sitting.
thick as thieves is a bit like a blogging version of bruce lee really.
I reckon he gone to get his medication.
Painkillers and Anusol cream.
Who wants to go toe to toe with the Champ?? I’ll bash their brains in and bite their ear off.
FOUR Fucking NIL!
fucking tutu wearing ladyboys!!!!
Deutschland über alles!!!
1966? away and fuck-off tutu wearing bangcock boys.
mandy has written ‘ where there is no vision – the party perishes’
never a truer word mandy!! and you ask us to to believe that ‘Building Britain’s Future is brown’s vision?
It’s all going to end in tears.
Even Toenails was heard to say on the PM prog. “it reads as if it’s more about Labour’s future than the country’s future”.
Could barely believe my ears…
Labour has a future?
Only according to Labour. The rest of us….
New poll on www2.politicalbetting.com
ComRes for the “Indy” Cons 36(-3) Lab 25(+3)LibDem 19(+1) gives Cons overall Maj 10
Comres, I could get it more accurate by picking numbers from a hat.
But they were assured by Gordon that if it was good enough for the public sector spending and borrowing plans it should be OK for their poll.
Isn’t it ComRes who has had the polls all over the place recently? They seem to be geting either the questioning or the sampling not quite right…
Comres are consistently pro labour i have noticed. They had that notorious rogue poll a month ago that had Tories on 30% and labour on 22%, was total utter shiite.
Hmmm, not sure if I trust ComRes enough to rely on their numbers – they keep messing with their methodology and they are often out of line with other polls.
This is one of the worse rig up’s i’ve seen since that Jake La Motta fight. How much the other fool getting paid to take a dive like this.
i think the phrase is Murray barely got alive in that one. It was more a case of Warwrinka messing it up at the last minute, had so many chances to put Murray away and lost it.
Dear All
What we should all remember is that if Andy Murray does well he will become British.
If he fails he becomes Scottish.
I remember Tim Henman who was utter shite year in year out.
It would be funny if oiky Murray got further than Henman, the poor little English rich boy who had all the advantages!
We should all celebrate Henman, another English failure and total embarassment.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
nah sorry, just cannot stand him. Don’t care if he’s scottish, english or azerbaijani, i just dont like him.
He might be able to hold a tennis racquet, but can he hold a knife and fork?
Oi you great pillock! You are getting us Scots a bad name with your racist attitude. Either grow up of go back into the cave to watch incy wincy spider with Robert The Bruce and shut up.
This British winner/Scottish loser concept is a myth.
If you don’t agree, please cite some examples (where it was done seriously, and not Clarkson-style banter to wind up the thin skinned).
Too true. Do you think that tennis is corrupt? Like football, horse racing, motor racing, etc etc etc?
Ps to CRAGU above at 518.
Murray is a sulky dour sweaty-sock.
Whom no-one has voted for.
Did anyone else notice him gurning like Gordon during his post-match interview?
i note guido had spotted the deficiet in the IEA some time ago , and i conceded to his better understanding of the city . The arguments on free markets vs state control have been won , it is quite obvious that state control ruins democracy . So what could a revived IEA offer ?? . There will clearly be a number of budget problems for who ever forms the next goverment , what i think is needed is a move towards looking at how the state control can be switched back to effective markets . They should be good auditors and expaliners of the financial services sector , it is important that we can move from the basket case economy back to sound money .
The TPA is doing a good job on taxation and spending , so the IEA need not to focus on that for now . Nostalgists want it to espouse free markets as it did in 1979 , but the two eras are profoundly different , as vince cable pointed out on sunday , this recession is quite different as this stupid labour goverment , are running up debts in globalised world with rising commedity prices , and trying to decieve the public into believeing the socialist construct is the future via benefit client state to stragegise a political win over free markets . This deciet is of the most cynical kind , truly animal farm .
So do we need a politcal head at the IEA ?? i dont think we do as the conservative cabinet is pro free markets .What it needs is a free market person who can see what Globalisation is doing and perhaps more importantly see how its affecting the Uks financial services industry . The green debate didnt really exist in 1979 so someone who understands that .
It could become internationally revelant again , but we are in such a mess the uk needs as much sound think tank work as it can find to begin to put right what has been done , so home first i think .
I have always (well since the mid 1970′s) thought of the IEA as the powerhouse of free market thinking, but lately this mantle seems to have been taken up by the Adam Smith Institute. It was the source of the philosophy behind Mrs. Thatcher’s government, and especially was espoused by Keith Joseph in the years leading up to the great tide turning in 1979. Without the IEA the free marketeers would have found it much more difficult to put their arguments across, because then, as now, the BBC wanted to continue the Heath Wilson consensus which was basically to manage the running down of the country, and in Seldon and Harris we had articulate advocates for change.
Over the last 12 years its work has been needed and its voice has been conspicuous by its absence in the major debates. It needs rejuvenating. Let us hope that the person concerned is another Seldon or Harris, rather than a libertarian version of McBride, Whelan or Draper.
a libertarian version of Mcbride Whelan or draper ?? wow that is scary
I see OECD has just mentioned we could be in for double dip , if only it was as fun as the congo !!
News night was so enlightening , Liam bryne was class
paxman “are you having a spending review or not”
Liam “dunnow mate”
paxman ” is alistair having a spending review ”
Liam “dunnow mate”
teresa may ” he is the goverment representing the people”
Liam “dunnow mate”
paxman “are you a Hoon”
liam “catagorically “
Norwich North to be held on 23rd of July, Tories ahead of Labour in first polls. If Labour can’t hold this seat they’re in really serious trouble.
What now, Mr. Brown? Time to ditch the hated Mandelson methinks.
Hate to go off topic Guido old chap, but the date for the norwich north by-election has just been announced!
Will be on 23rd July, are Labour hoping that enough Tories will be on holiday by then??
i bloody won’t be! i’ll be heading there to help get Labour out!
The irony is that it’s only likely to be public sector middle and senior management who can afford, or feel secure enough, to holiday abroad these days. The front line staff know the truth about the lies of this Labour government so may go LibDem.
No doubt there will have to be some ‘creative’ postal voting to make sure of the correct result.
Fraser Nelson, Coffee House, has Brown’s lies exposed for all to see.
Well worth a read.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3723633/browns-big-lie.thtml
Good article, shows Broon’s lies for what they are. DC was funny at his press conference today, he might as well have said that GB’s pants were on fire!!
couldnt agree more , well done Fraser
Good evening everybody
It should be with shame that we have to admit that a UK Prime Minister is a Liar, that he has lied in the past is, of course, a matter of record.
BUT TO BASE AN ELECTION STRATEGY ON A LIE? TO SET OUT TO MISLEAD THE VERY PEOPLE YOU ARE ASKING TO PLACE THEIR TRUST IN YOU!
FOR FUCKS SAKE GORDON WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU THINKING?
HAVE YOU NO MORALS WHATSOEVER?
You have the nerve to seek the higher moral ground?
JUST FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes Gordon – go stick your head up a dead dogs bum