Paramount Wake for New Labour
Propeller-Head Wonk Watch: Guido was at the “21st Birthday Party” for IPPR held in London’s Paramount at the top of Centre Point. IPPR was partly responsible for dragging the Labour Party from the electorally chilling loony left towards the centre. You knew this was a valedictory affair the moment Nicholas Boles came on the video tribute. When the former head of Policy Exchange, Cameron’s favourite think tank, was paying tribute you knew the moment for this once so New Labour think-tank was over.
According to one of the speakers 1500 people had worked for them over the years, they included some famous names now in high office who had done the photo-copying as interns. The whole night had a “our best days are behind us feel”. When a drunken IPPR PR started screeching “how did you get in?” it felt embarrassing to tell her that Guido was invited to the wake – and, even more embarrassingly – had been there at the birth long before her. Farewell New Labour, we won’t forget you easily…
Surely you could say Guido, in the best NuLiebour way:
“But don’t you know who I am!?!??!?!”
Dear All
Ha! Not denying that there have been acts of unfairness done by Nu Labour politicians in the past 12 years ill-using the prestige or authority of their office, but generally they have worked together to protect the public.
Hooray!
Now I know this is a touchy topic on this blog (which is polarised by extremism) however if ‘our Guido’s’ mob are elected then any voter who supported them will be a party to getting a lot of innocent people killed. The Tories are morally corrupt and present the greatest single danger to these islands.
The safest choice is the SNP who are a 100% public service party.
Ha!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Come off it george , this isnt goverment by any stretch of the word , calling the tories corrupt when labour wont even answer basic ecnomic questiosn is , pushing human rights a bit .
Go get yourself laird.
laird is old loony left,quite amusing really,nothing to worry about.
New Labour has been one big lie from start to this, its apparent finish. Liar-in-chief? Anthony Bliar. Chief Lying Secretary to the Liar-In-Chief, incumbent Liar-In-Chief, Gordon “Shifty” Brown.
This pair of dysfunctional pseudologues between them have destroyed the country. Out of the two, it’s hard to know which case is the more serious. I think Brown. But hey, don’t take my word for it.
MAKE UP YOUR OWN MINDS.
I love that word pseudologue!
“This pair of dysfunctional pseudologues between them have destroyed the country. Out of the two, it’s hard to know which case is the more serious.”
I think your analysis is correct. It would probably be fair to string them both up.
You would’nt be so keen if the Mad Manseman was ruling just the highlands.
Sadly they have yet to field a candidate in my constituency,which somewhat scuppers the idea.
I must agree with you, George. The push for 90 days’ detention because a copper didn’t like the look you gave him, the attempted introduction of ID cards, the use of the Met. in party-political manoevres, authorising the use of “kettling” for crowd control, launching an illegal war and killing several hundred of our best young people fighting a war on two fronts with peace-time budgets, has allowed me to sleep at nights confident that our Great Leaders are completely in control. As you are Human Rights activist, I am gratified that such a learned authority as yourself has confirmed my feelings as to the worth of New Labour.
Now sod off to a health farm, spend a few months drying out, and return to the real world before you take up the pen once more.
Any pretence that NuLiebore is a socialist party has long since been dispelled. Fascists with slimy smiles.
Fascism is socialism with factory owners that “own” the plant until they do something the state doesn’t like.
Glasgow ? University? That’s sure a contradiction in terms in itself – what are you doing ? Are you out on day release or something?
for a man in another non job funded by the english, you’re up late. Will you tell us who funds your non job? No doubt being up this late,you’ll need time off in lieu.
I urge you – get back to your studies. When Alex Salmond explodes the SNP
will be left with a rabble of incoherent extreme left caber tossers.
HEY SHITHEAD ! why dont you take up the UMAN RITES case of the british people being forced into an EU super state by the party who’s arse you kiss ?
Dear More Scum
I will campaign for what I want to campaign for!
Here is a case I am interested in at present.
http://glasgowunihumanrights.blogspot.com/2009/06/snp-fight-home-office-over-act-of.html
Have a read then email the Home Office to lit a fire under their arse.
The Home Office conduct has been disgraceful regarding this woman and her kids.
Finally; I don’t go around kissing arse; I leave it to careerists like you.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Dear George Laird imposter
Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and impersonate me on here.
A bit less of the “Ha” crap.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
There’s a rumour circling that you were discussing your plans to join the Lib Dems to support the Mark Littlewood/Charlotte Gore faction – something about you having previously been on the Exec of the SDP?
http://www.nextleft.org/2009/06/guido-to-join-libdems.html
Is Guido a secret sandal-wearer?
I think we should be told…
Guido was wearing sandals at the IPPR. Free market sandals.
LOL!
Yeh – free market – full of holes, you should have worn free trade sandals and helped your soul at the same time
They were exactly that, free trade, free market sandals.
Well done, there is hope for you yet!
But were they green and organic and diversity-outreach sandals?
What sandals, though?
Birkenstock – LibDem
Dr Scholl – Green
Gucci – Tories
Birkenstock – LibDem
Purple Crocs – ZanEU Labiah
What sort of weirdo wears socks with sandals?
A Libetarian with cold feet?
“What sort of weirdo wears socks with sandals?”
A German.
What sort of wierdo wears sandals at all?
did you wear white socks with the free trade sandals?
Socks with sandals = beard.
Beard = Sarah Brown
alas,farewell,I sadly believe this labour government is going the way of all flesh,and just like lost loves,we will not remember the good bits;only the pain as it became clear it wasn’t working
But this dying government is hellbent on taking everybody with it, hence the scorched earth economic and fiscal policies. Now Guido was apparently at one time ’something in the City’: could he not do us all a favour and try to arrange a Gilts strike? I don’t want my children paying taxes for the rest of their lives in order to fund the pension funds of retired armies of Outreach Workers and Race Quota Advisors (or whatever….). So, Mr Fawkes, can it be done? It would be a great act of patriotism to deny this shower of shit the means of increasing our indebtedness.
What would put an instant stop to this govt trying to sell any more new public debt would be a well-broadcast announcement by the following:
David Cameron, Nick Clegg (or whoever), Nigel Farage, Nick Griffin, and any other “leaders” you can think of to round up for a photocall, that, if asked to form a government, they will each and all denounce and repudiate all UK govt debt incurred after the date of said photocall, and publicly dishonour it, if it was issued by Brown.
The good bits, remind me.
There were good bits?
I can think of the minimum wage (‘cos I was a student when it came in and got a 70% rise!), but apart from that I’m struggline to see any positive achiements of the past 12 years. Maybe someone would care to enlighten us further?
tax your car on the net…..surely worth 12 yrs.
I tried to tax my car on the net, but couldn’t because the insurance is due at the same time as the tax, so I wasn’t allowed to tax it. I don’t know if this has been fixed.
Tough luck if you buy a car that needs taxing and insuring at the same time, like if you change cars, then change insurance companies and tax the car for twelve months.
Good point though. Even though this doesn’t really work, I can’t think of anything else positive that they’ve done.
Hope this doesn’t turn into a Monty Python What Did The Romans Do For Us sketch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaE3EaQte78
“er…the aqueduct.”
but even that is why there are no new jobs, stifled by things like the minimum wage.
True enough. Ol’ Steve was feeling very pleased with his payrise but 70% of his co-workers lost their jobs.
My word you’re young.
Some of the extra money that went to public services did improve them.
I do actually know of a school that had a leaking roof that was pretty much instantly fixed after the 1998 election.
Labour have helped tens of thousands of Indians (from India) find employment. It’s just a shame that they are replacing British workers.
So far, one roof repaired and using the computer to tax your car sometimes.
Jobs destroyed by the minimum wage.
Any more?
Much of the money hosed into NHS and Schools has produced no real improvements.
Barry
Simpler Government + Less Government = Better Government
IPPR tries one last time to ruin Britain.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8125466.stm
How’s about we look at all the quangoes and non-jobs in the public sector before important departments like defence?
The MoD is completely screwed, having had to spend manically on a patchwork solution to keep the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan running for the past few years.
A proper Independent Strategic Defence Review is well overdue, let’s look at what we want the MoD to look like in the future before we start nitpicking today’s projects.
too busy giving money to asylum seekers instead of being able to defend ourselves.
the stench of labour
It is *warm* tonite – didn’t Andy Murray do well tho’
You can never relax completely until he gets knocked out.
“tonight” sweetheart.
Otherwise long, hot and a bit bothering. I’d hoped he’d wipe it floor with him.
And I still don’t agree with indoor grass. It’s against nature.
b*gger! Dyslexics shouldn’t be pedants! “the” not “it”
grrrrrrr
Do you only smoke outdoors then ? – Bit draughty in the winter.
I have never smoked.
It has not stopped me developing chronic bronchitis though, damnit.
…and dyslexia and pedantry. Not doing too well old chap.
Unless you grow it in your attic !
New Labour, assisted by the IPPR, have had their 12 years in power after several more in careful preparation.
The result – we’re now so completely fucked as a country that it’s only a matter of time before the IMF come in (the first time they have since the last Labour government collapsed in the late seventies).
I’m not surprised that this was a valedictory affair, “New” Labour is dead and buried.
This is the point I was trying to make earlier today – do you torys REALLY want this election? You have no real leader and an economy in difficulty – this is one you could afford to lose so dont let DC make you ALL look like a horse’s arse :(
C0sm0, I would say I was naturally conservative, but I’m certainly not a card-carrying Tory. Given the (very limited) choices we will have at the next election, the Tories seem to be the obvious one from the available evidence. History suggests it is governments who lose elections rather than oppositions who win them.
Labour are screwed, Brown is so completely bonkers that even his Chancellor thinks he’s talking bolleaux about future spending.
Dave has yet to really show his hand – but neither did Blair in 1997 – but has come up with some good ideas, his speech today was well received and he is starting to look like a PM-in-waiting.
Steve, not wishing to sound like a nerd or a geek (although I am both of these things) forget all about the media. We have things like the study of history and philsophy to guide us that are far more dependable. Forget the personalities for once and ask yourself what the opposing philosophies are and what is their history.
C0SM0, I am both of those things too.
History tells us that the two main parties are now quite close together in ideology. The current Conservatives are certainly to the left of Thatcher’s party, and the current Labour party are to the right of where they were under Callaghan, Foot or Kinnock, but to the left of where they were under Blair.
I say “Left” to mean a more socialist style of goverment, characterised by high taxes and a large state spending, and “Right” to mean a more free-market approach, with lower taxes and less state intervention in the markets.
That is only to go back 30 years (I’m afraid my memory deserts me at that point, I was too young to remember Thatcher’s election in ‘79) It’s too late at night now to start reading political history books!
Thanks for that Steve. Maybe you (or somebody else) could help me here. Over at my own site I have a section where I would like to have a video explaining the political philosophies of the main parties. As yet, I only have been able to find ONE on Marxism. Please gimme the nod if you know where I can get some videos on what makes all these hoons different.,,,,,,Cosmo
Fron 30 seconds’ research, start here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_system#Basic_forms_of_political_systems and see where you end up.
WARNING! There is a lot of academic language in some of the articles linked from this one, so best not go there after a few beverages!
All three main parties are in some sort of pragmatic middle ground – and a very small % difference in taxation seems neither here or there.
Where I could understand both Blair (veer to the middle ground, keep a lot of conservative policy) and even Brown (cling onto the leaky boat), I can’t quite figure out what Cameron is up to. ie is the softer conservative party just an electoral ploy? Or is he genuinely a bit sort of libdem/new labour – if its the latter I can’t see why he’d want to run the conservative party – perhaps he wasnt paying attention to what it was when he was a teenager.
PS: no real need to go back more than 30 years ago. Back then some conservatives might have kept steel public, and labour would never ever consider private railways or post service.
Well if you are a party of venal careerists you might think that abandoning the country to its fate was tactically astute. There is always the possibility that the Conservatives believe it is their duty to serve, to once again sort out the historic mess Labour have made, knowing they will suffer decades of whining from tossers who are part of the problem as their only thanks. Just a possibility y’know.
“New” Labour is dead and buried. Trouble is now so is Britain, who needs Me-109s, Junkers 88’s, V1’s and V2’s ? the enemy within, not only have they bombed my chippy they have bombed the local, the post office, transport, power generation, manufacturing, civil liberties etc, etc. Ghengis Khan and his Mongol hoards after burning, pillaging and putting the locals to the sword had a trick of returning some days later to finish off the few survivors that by this time had crept out of the ruins I.E by the time an election is held the scorched earth solution will be complete.
Sorry to hear that my friend. Don’t get bitter though it gets you nowhere, take it from me.
Can’t get sodding Bitter, Pubs boarded up.
I just fooking NEW somebody was gonna say that!! :-)) lol
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Double check that link…
Guido you cad, Labour is unstoppable. You can change my link but Labour will win a 5th term and then they’ll grind you, your blog and the Tory party into the dust!
THEY WONT WIN A 5th TERM ON THIS PLANET YOU TIT !
Well done Guido! Nothing like a good practical joke after midnight!!
Ahhhh. So Guido is now soliciting donations to the Tory party.
The mask of mischievous libertarian scamp is lowered and the true Ashcroft poodling finally revealed.
Are you so thin on revelations that you’ve now been forced to out yourself?
You could at least be true to Toeragism and sell your grannie first.
Why doesn’t that fucker Ashcroft ever send any money? What does one have to do for a cheque?
Lord Ashcroft’s cheques take a necessarily circuitous route, to protect the innocent of course.
James Joyce puts it rather well:
past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs, where your cheque will be hidden under the cushions in the house with the passage to the sea….
We can all make irrelevant quotations from Finnegan’s Wake but let me put this to you:
Indeed what I have here written makes no claim to novelty in points of detail; and therefore I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.
By changing the link are you saying, Guido, that the conservatives are the new new labour?
Ha ha ha ha ha,Charles 1 ,Charley 1 me boy,don’t you think your mates have taken enough from us in taxes and then pi**ed it all up the wall.
Labour are corrupt
“donate” more and you get to join the Lords.
According to the site it cost £1200 to join the liebour party thousand club – how does that work then ?? Oh yes Education, education, education
Quantitive easing, or rather the quantity they ease up your ass every time you vote for them.
What are GBP traders looking out for?That’s the question.AND when Daniel Hannan is invited by their right to speak on American TV,why won’t he give the outside perspective they obviously crave? ”It’s not for me,an outsider to comment on your political process” won’t cut it.We’re in a war with these mendacious Collectivists (even Mussolini stated Fascism was a collectivist position).If you can’t stake out the pitch,you can’t play the game.
One would have thought that the air would have been electric with the sizzle and spark of policy ideas to take us into the future of a thousand years of Labour rule.
A few drinks and a couple of breadsticks sums it up perfectly.
I don’t know what the Lib Dems are like now but the SDP were the biggest bunch of bores I ever met. After losing in a local election as an SDP candidate the local Labour party invited me to join them for a drink.
We reluctantly agreed that I was duty bound to join the SDP wake. I wish I’d gone with the Labour lot, I didn’t agree with their politics but the local party were decent people.
And the beer was much better. (John Smith’s).
The plural of “Tory” is “Tories”.
Meant for 10.
thank you
The plural of Tory is Affluence
Guido, well done for putting DC’s ‘Quote of the Day’ up – he might as well have said that Broons pants were on fire, how long now before he actually uses the “L” word about him?
I will never understand you English folks’ desire for somebody to lord it over them! Your brains are still medaeval – join the modern world, why dontchya? Pick a leader from your own kind and stop tuggiing the forlock to monied/landed folk like Cameron…get up off your knees and get some dignity about you.
The rich and powerful always win. That’s why they’re rich and powerful.
It’s only in the margins the issues lie.
For a semblance of democracy, you need to make it look like the punter’s got a chance.
Otherwise, who would bet; who would vote.
You might have people on the streets…
Yes, and THAT is why I am trying to encourage people to look at the margins through the study of philosophy (or “critical thinking” as the Americans call it). What angers me most is the certainty I have in my knowledge that Cameron himself (and his coven) know these things full well themselves – but deny the same knowledge to their minions – instead they foster a mushroom culture for their supporters meaning that all they can do is cuss and hiss out bile without realising who is REALLY the cause of their pain.
I’ll be glad when you lot fuck off on your gap years and spare the rest of us your A Level erudition. Don’t come back until you have a real job and have paid your first income tax instalment.
I doubt he’ll ever use the “L” word, as you so coyly put it.
He’ll be coy too.
Those in glass houses, etc
That’s certainly not a word to be used in the House, maybe eventually in less formal surroundings – especially if he comes up with many more of the last few weeks’ pork pies.
Daniel Hannan didn’t use the L word when he laid into Brown in his “devalued Prime Minister” speech, but it was a fair conclusion to be drawn.
Apart from protocol some things don’t need to be said. It is obvious, we all know the sub-prime minister is A FUCKING LIAR.
You’re not allowed to call another MP a liar in the House. Probably because there would be nothing else to say, if you were allowed.
However, I think you could get away with asking a clerk to bring you the fire extinguisher because “the Honourable Prime Mininster’s breeks are in a state of combustion”
Finally, after a tedious two month wait, Labour’s National Plan, has been published, albeit renamed “Building Britain’s Future”. The original name for the plan was changed, according to the BBC, because of it’s “Stalinist overtones”.
Here are the key details:
* Cleaning up politics by delivering a radical programme of democratic and constitutional reform, including further reform of the House of Lords.
Yawn….
* Economic growth through an active industrial policy, including a £150 million Innovation Fund.
Double yawn….
* More affordable housing by targeting investment worth £1.5 billion over two years to deliver 20,000 new affordable homes and create 45,000 jobs in construction and related sectors.
Triple yawn….
* Getting young people out of work for a year will have to take on a job, training or work experience.
Triple yawn with a shrug….
* More power for patients through enforceable health care entitlements such as hospital treatment within 18 weeks, access to cancer specialists within two weeks and free health-checks for those aged 40-74.
Triple yawn with a double shrug….
* More power for parents by guaranteeing individually tailored education for all children.
Triple yawn with a triple shrug and a wheeze of indignation….
* Local people to have more say on local policing and crime prevention, CCTV and on how offenders pay back the community.
More CCTV! How useful! Quadruple yawn with double backflip and extra topping
* A low carbon future through energy efficiency and renewable energy plus incentives for low carbon transport.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
That’s it?
FFS. Why did they bother?
And to think it was delayed for two months because they were “short of ideas”!
It was deleyed for two months so Mandlebum could rewrite it. It was originally in Brown-Speak, therefore even more boring than what we got today!!
What you just quoted was supposed to be the interesting, “sexed-up” version!!
you missed contact jackos doctor
Passenger SEAT vibrators, whatever next?
Au revoir mes enfants terrible.
Hoonservatives are being VERY careful what they say because they don’t want to work the public into such a hysteria of expectation that they themselves shall be found wanting IF (and its a big “if”) elected. They would prefer to spend a year or two decamating the country while blaming their horrid inheritance from Labour[sic]
Would a really LOYAL opposition destroy theor own country for the short term benefit of gettign into power? Of course they would, short termism is their thing coz they can hide behind it.
Brown was very good today – even came out with a funny but, surprise surprise the media did not even bother to mention it because they want a tory government to cut tax on their 92,000 per annum salaries paid for out of my licence fee.
Decamating – orgy for ten?
HAhaha!! actually, I am a closet hexadecimalist but don’t tell anybody! lol
PAGE OVERFLOW ERROR 0×7FFFFFFF
Hey, thats more like a css color code than an error! Watch this space Steve – I am gonna post a vide on the old Microsoft DEBUG program — ever used it?
Hey, C0sm0, why dont you and Hardwidge 1.0 ‘get together’ offsite and let things go from there, you’re obviously made for each other! You’re pretty new to this forum, so I’d better warn you he’s a more of a virtual pseudocoder than an obvious hands-on coder like yourself, so you’d probably have to be the ‘guru’ in the relationship – wouldn’t that be nice for you! In fact it would give you something useful to do with you life, since your obviously economically unactive right now, or soon will be. Hey, we could be witnessing, right here, the very first ‘Guido’ enabled nerdmate!
Shalom, bubeluh!
i hope you didnt polish off the bar , very strange group of people , shame Blair wasnt there 21 years of social progess only to see it all go up in flames with brown at the helm . Rumours of fawkes lib dem tie up being put out by Chalres Hardwidge , just remeber its all loverly at champagne tet a tet , then the real tests come , kissing nick cleggs photograph publically and dancing the lambada with lempeck or oaten for 30 mins .
More interesting was Paxmans revelation that darling is being made a complete ass , but who is crushing his fingers as he hangs on the ledge ??
Liam wasnt very supportive , mandelson now realises non annoucement of public spending review has backfired , Ed balls just getting on with job .
Still on Alistair is being spun against , note eds marr interview when he told us to wait until 2013 , so was he talking out of his backside then , all gone stumm , where are the ed balls projection figures , why the rush to hide them . You can only conclude that they are so worthless in defining the truth as to hide them .
Liams cock up tonight has now switched the spotlight to labour , i mean can you not publish forcast figures , is it illegal to be chancellor and to tell the whole nation it can bollocks , we dont know what we are doing borrowing is getting out of control .How do the markets know where to invest , business people know how to plan for inflation .
I can see we are going to have see this lot out of goverment , this country is becoming an international joke , cant even give guide figures for economy .
you can count me back in , not what i want at the moment , but this government are decieving people and ruining perfectly good and important businesses , there isnt really any choice , till the work is done !
I detect a nuance of self interest there! Hahaa!!
no a nuance of wanting a break from this rolling 24hr disaster movie , lower taxes , decent education for children , and ending the state rule of our lives
and earning a crust ahhh ahh . By the way has someone superglued your hand to your cock is it a chronic sympton of Labour trolling
You are one angry Fraulein…..peace be upon you my child.
Roll on the next General Choosation and Labour consigned to the dungheap of history.
Angry Frauliens? That’s Max Mosley’s department, isn’t it?
“Lord Mandelson, business secretary, said the review would not take place until after the election but was later forced to admit he had “mis-spoken”. The Treasury said no decision had been taken.”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/685f57fa-64e2-11de-a13f-00144feabdc0.html
mis-spoken? lying snake
An excuse he has purloined from HilRod Clinton. She was lying about landing under sniper fire in Bosnia:
“You know, I think that, a minor blip, you know, if I said something that, you know, I say a lot of things – millions of words a day – so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement…..”
Pete is no Hillary Clinton, though allegedly has a novel method of nipping the end off a gentleman’s cigar after dinner to rival anything popular in Li’l Rock or DC.
I mean no offence, Trough, but the mental image that conjures up is rather more than I can stomach at this early hour. Put me right off my cornflakes….
Apologies. I wrote it on an empty stomach.
Mis speking is the euphemism the Americans use to sanitise and dilute the slander of being called a lying bastard – it allows one to continue in public life more easily donchaknow.
What a difference a day made, Twenty-four little hours, Brought the sun and the flowers Where there used to be rain.
http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/4a32d532f8610fed/4a45e41ef2953dc1/4a33a279df04667d/95d96f67
Deliver us from this evil, Amen. Farewell New Labour, we won’t forget you easily…
Hallelujah, I can’t wait for more of the same with a different flavour.
300 odd people have bankrupted an entire nation, purely to make themselves just a little bit richer
300 odd people have enslaved our grandchildren with debt, killed hundreds of thousands in the middle east, purely to make themselves just a little bit richer
300 odd people have raised millions of our children to be the most stupid, unemployable, arrogant fat bastards on the planet, purely to make themselves just a little bit richer
300 odd people have made this nation amongst the most hated on the planet, purely to make themselves just a little bit richer
300 odd people who really could have made things better for all of us, have made everything worse for all of us, purely to make themselves a little bit richer.
I give you New Labour.
Fair play OH, that was a pretty good post. Now that you’ve made me admire it, fuck-off you right-wing twat…
Fucking delicious!
So gordon has launched his newest idea – ‘Building Britain’s Future’ but cancelled the Comprehensive Spending Review in the hope that we can’t see how he’s robbing peter to pay paul.
This looks very like gordon’s ‘This Is It’ moment!!
And when they do the post mortem on labour’s body after the next GE they’ll find it emaciated and bald.
I have just heard the accursed Ed Balls being interviewed the on BBC Radio 4 Today programme. it is clear from the way he spoke that he is mad, completely mad. He responded to the few questions that the interviewer posed, I say “few questions” because once he started speaking, he would not stop. He spoke faster than anyone I have ever heard. No careful, measured response to the questions, but simply a torrent of words, seemingly without any pause for breath. I could see how he does it. He has had training in speaking without breathing in, thereby denying the interviewer the possibility of interrupting. The trick is to keep talking and inhale for breath only in the middle of what, in the case of the Education Minister, passes for sentences, and talk through full stops without a break and without drawing breath. He has been to the same media trainer as G Brown, who uses exactly the same technique.
Above all that, it is clear from his incredibly fast speed of speech delivery and his frantic tone, that he is not in touch with reality. He is obviously on some form of prescription drugs or “substances”.
He is unfit to hold any position of responsibility. In all candour, I tell you that Balls is not sane.
It goes a bit deeper than that, its a technique that is supposed to make it difficult to edit soundbites and corrupt them a la Bremner. If one speaks in a manner that is akin to a stream of conciousness, it is more difficult to clip pieces for out of context purposes.
yes, but don’t you agree that he is certifiably insane?
No. He’s wicked, and he is doing to us all what he does, on purpose, deliberately.
It was also pure general election rehearsal performance; it looks like they’ve all had additional (and very basic) media training in how to make sure you GET YOUR POINT ACROSS no matter what the question is … And the whole pitch and tone is not of government doing business but of party seeking reelection.
This is a dry run for election tactics and it reveals that they are in ‘full panic pr mode’.
The trouble with governments “doing business” is that these kinds (staffed by professional members of the Enemy Class) want to do too much.
We should have a government so small that it doesn’t matter….
(1) Where it is
(2) What it does
(3) Who they are
(4) How they got there.
Just heard Ed Balls on the Toady programme, talking about the government’s “good economic management”.
Is he mentally ill?
Haha. Y Frontz beat me to it.
You’re all playing the power game while fuckin up people’s lives, all for your own self gratification. You laugh,party and enjoy mass expenses while you piss on those below you. Thus has been the case for centuries in this country. Real people suffer so you can play the power game every five years and dictate how they should live. You lie and send people to fight in your own wars and discard them when they come back disabled. Skilled in the art of lying to deceive for your own ends, pissing on the public again. It’s a game heads you win, tails you piss on us again.
The clunking iron fist of Mugabe or should that be Brown. All from the same school any way. Robin Hood in reverse, taking from the poor and pissing on them at the same time. The cesspit of all Parliaments, thus it has always been.
Happy to give the little people the crumbs off their tables but making sure they stealth tax it back later.
Nothing will change, too thirsty for power, wealth, influence and control.
You’ll feel better when the second cup of coffee kicks in. I always do.
A friend of mine holds a senior position in the local council, she subscribes to the view that the local and national politicians with whom she deals treat the electorate with the view that the average national reading age is eleven years old, ie they can be relatively easily misled and soon get bored and move on to another subject, or just don’t understand or care.
Witness the expenses scandal disappearing into the gloom, and has the system been changed – no.
It’s time to move on.
Having done a 20 year stint as a Councillor, I find it is the senior officers whio think that way and nudge the Councillors in that direction. It is particularly true of senior officers in Education, but tjen they should know.
Less Government + Simpler Government = Better Government
Barry
Ed Balls can thank Michael Jackson for allowing Labour to bury bad news this weekend:
http://www.cnplus.co.uk/sectors/education/lsc-shortlist-construction-projects-in-tatters/5204248.article
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8120809.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/jun/26/colleges-building-collapse
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/4462738.__450m_funding_axed_leaving_Sussex_colleges_rebuilding_plans_in_tatters/
Education, education, education my arse. This is financial incompetence writ large on the part of Balls and his bought and paid for lackeys in the LSC quango. Many construction workers will lose their jobs too.
Nu Labour =financial incompetence.
Christ. How big a twat is Ed Balls?
Terrific stuff on Today – if you missed it, listen again. Even Sarah Wossname was pissed off with him. Words like “Dishonest” slipped into her lexicon – not something you associate with BBC NuLab interviews. The mad bastard just kept tractoring on, meaningless and worthless numbers, oh and bouncing back to Dave with warnings of “public unrest” if the Tories got in.
Ed, are you listening? “So what?”
So what Balls?
fucking arsehole
There’ll be public unrest before the Tories get in. It’s going to be a long twelve months. No amount of “vision” spending is going to stop the relentless job losses. And when inflation ramps up, the strikes will start. Three day weeks, power cuts, uncollected rubbish, rats in the streets… we’re doomed I tell you. Doomed. It’s the Seventies all over again. Another Winter of Discontent looms ominously.
Those who were conned into voting Labour have themselves to blame. History shows us that Labour have never run an economy successfully. So-called New Labour has fulfilled the promises of its predecessors; ruin the economy and give the Conservatives years of slog putting it right. However, with the present shambles, about which they are in total denial, promising more and more spending when there is no money to spend, perhaps those who voted for these idiots and liars, will realise that they themselves are to blame. In all honesty, who in their right mind could have voted for a party with Prescott as its deputy leader, or with dysfunctional Brown as its Chancellor, or Vicar Straw of Bray, etc?
They have ruined the country. The best they can do is to say sorry and go quitely and now, without applying a scorched earth policy of economic traps for the incoming Conservatives. That they are doing this shows their dishonesty, lack of honour, lust for power at all costs and their cynical disregard for the electorate.
“Economic traps” = sabotage and those who do this should be held accountable with a full public inquirey after the next election.
There must be a complete record so that there can be no Orwellian re-writing of history. Name and shame the scum who are deliberately sabotaging the future of this country for their own ends.
He’s on Sky the noo. I’d suggest Largactyl in the first instance.
I’d suggest a firing squad.
I’d suggest five minutes with me and a baseball bat with rusty nails hammered through it.
Balls has ’school bully’ written all over his fat smug face. He is the personification of nasty nu labour, full of the self righteous pomposity of the liberal elite, obfuscation, and the stalinist spouting of meaningless tractor production figures. If ever there was a reason for never voting for labour again – apart from Brown – he is it.
It is no longer twelve months, the psychological year barrier has been breached, the maximum countdown to the next Genaral Election now is in weeks and days:
http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/4a32d532f8610fed/4a45e41ef2953dc1/4a33a279df04667d/95d96f67
The fucking scum can not even book and pay for next years holidays or buy an annual first class rail season ticket on expenses.
Farewell New Labour, we won’t forget you easily or forgive
Hear, hear.
Guido, care to name the screeching piss case PR?
Help me expose the lies of Mandy and Brown, I’m compiling a list of NuLabour’s cuts.
Are they cutting in the marginals?
‘When a drunken IPPR PR started screeching “how did you get in?” it felt embarrassing to tell her that Guido was invited to the wake – and, even more embarrassingly – had been there at the birth long before her.’
Hi Guido, you know when you are getting old, all the PRs look young.
New Labour under Cameron will be a pale imitation of the original.
I’d rather have a Tory government.