Rennard’s Last Campaign
Lord Rennard resigned from his job as LibDem CEO last month, he claimed it was for “health reasons”, and that is a fiction that Clegg and the LibDem establishment are happy to maintain. He was scheduled to leave Cowley Street in September, however Chris Fox has already been appointed as his successor and is now in place in Cowley Street. Rennard is therefore somewhat superfluous in Westminster.
Nick Clegg confirmed last week that Chris Rennard would be running the North Norwich campaign, it is likely to be the last campaign Rennard runs. It is a little awkward given that the reason for this by-election on July 23 is that Ian Gibson, the sitting Labour MP, stood down over his expense claims. Rennard himself is mired in his own expense claim difficulties over his “second home” two miles from Cowley Street. He has now been reported to the House of Lords Privileges committee and asked to explain how and why he has claimed over £40,000 in expenses for what is in reality his main residence which he owned before even becoming peer.
He has now taken the step of calling in lawyers, Goodman Derrick, to advise him…
He’s toast….. cnut
Superfulous…??
Yesuous.
Trying to prove a point that the law can be bought – get an expensive enough lawyer and you can do what you like!
As long as it comes out of his own pocket, let him. They’ll take a sizeable slice of that ill-gotten forty grand I can tell you.
I tried that. It didn’t work the second time.
It worked for the dead paedo popster
Has Gary Glitter died as well?
The though that Uddini is having to pay a large chunk of her expenses to Carter Ruck will help me to get to sleep tonight!!
O/T GDP in first quarter of 2009 shrank by 2.4% Darlings forecast was 1.9%
So the economy contracted 2.4% in the period Jan to end March 2009. And Darling gave his (delayed) budget on April 22. By which time you’d think with all those number wonks at the ONS they’d have a good idea already of what had happened to GDP.
But Darling stands up and tells us it will shrink by 1.9%.
Liars. Lying, lying liars.
only 25%+ out..
The Labour economic “miracle” was a mirage of credit, and we’re MUCH poorer now we have to pay it back with interest as it was completely mal-invested.
No investment at all old boy. The annual overspend was all payroll.
Darling has some explaining to do today,
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article6608270.ece
No loss there at all lmfao
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.
That is a fair account of time gone by but we have the Internets now and blogging so the little people are waking up as you example yourself by your writings on here. Time to take back our nation to be run by the people for the people.
IS THIS PROOF THAT LABOUR INTENDS TO STAY IN POWER FOR EVER?
UK ROYAL MINT ISSUES COINS WITH NO DATE
http://www.watoday.com.au/breaking-news-world/uk-royal-mint-issues-coins-with-no-date-20090630-d2q9.html
‘Mint leafs’ the lot of ‘em.
Not enough little people give a shit, I think you’ll find.
Vote Independent – that way the Party’s can’t!!
To be fair He does throw a good BBQ
On the downside his garden looks like a fucking pikey camp site
Come on that statement is anti-pc and dangerous. Nobody should ever throw a BBQ because it could cause burns and other serious injuries.
Yes, you could burn yourself your neighbours and could even burn down a pikey tented encampment so be careful.
Surely that’s the whole point of a BBQ.
“The nearby fence
Was looking tense.”
(Copyright John Hegley)
All very interesting I’m sure, but Guido, grab a wav of that Balls interview on Today this morning, and just stick it up so we can simply hurl abuse?
It’s hot, the punters are raging and irritable, give us something to tear apart.
Balls being a nob on Today show.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8125000/8125840.stm
Christ what a twat; give yourselves a treat folks, have a listen.
And it’s semi-colon day, here at Guido’s lounge and grill.
Yes, Mandy only has a semi-colon now.
Seems the BBC has deftly turned Toady into a comedy prog.
I loved Balls’ gag about Labour being defter than the Tories. Not dafter. Defter.
The mental image of that gang of Quasimodos deftly prancing circles around Call Me Dave’s blancmanges, all in tutus and propeller beanies beats even last night’s discussion on here about the Queen’s domestic ballot boxes.
Balls interview on Today
ED ITS CALLED ‘CHURNING’ ……………
‘Nob’ suggests rich, landed gentry type. I believe you meant to say ‘knob’ as in cock, bell-end, right fucking tool.
I always thought thats the way it was written. I take my source for this from toilet walls rather than dictionaries, the former seeming authoratative in this case.
Try a quick trip to Amazon for a copy of “Roger’s Profanisaurus”. The fourth edition, the “Magna Farta” is current, I believe. Don’t tell the wife, though, unless she’s broad-minded.
I have a copy of the Profanisaurous. The original slim volume they gave free with the magazine is kicking around somewhere too. My favourite word is ‘zuffle’.
I thought it was only me that did that.
I bet you snurf too.
My favourite is “Eccles snake”. I discovered this while I was forced to work there, briefly, so it was topical. In both senses. Glad it’s an affliction I’ve avoided.
The key point about Labour manifesto promises and anything else they say, is that nobody actually believes anything that Labour says anymore.
We know that having given themselves permission to lie to everybody that they can and will say anything they like, without bothering the slightest bit about the practicality of delivering their promises.
Their promises are worthless; that is the message the voters need to be given.
79% of us have got that message. Pencils ready.
HOW VERY COMMENDABLE!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/8583108
Financial Secretary at the Treasury Stephen Timms said he expected bank directors to take a lead and commit personally to the new tax code.
“I think what has changed is the banks of course recognise they have been the recipients of very substantial public support,” he said.
“I think they recognise now that they need to be seen to be doing the right thing on tax, having benefited from all that public support, rather than the wrong thing which frankly is what’s happened too often in the past.
“So I think the time is right for a serious change of behaviour.”
The Hoon also has a speech imprediment
Probably a numb tongue from all that rimming that he does for McMental
Yup, “it’s wadical”. Like Jonafun Woss only without the gags and a whole lot more expensive.
Welease Woderick! Welease Woger!
Thanks for that Guido. Jesus, that creature makes my piss boil! I want to best the lying shit so much it hurts……him not me!
But who should be allowed to polish that nob?
More fictitious tractor stats among the lies and bullshit.
Dear Adrian Prole
Left a comment for you on another thread!
Yours sincerely
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The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
After an interview like that, does Balls go “Oh no, another car crash” or does he say to himself “Well, I showed her, didn’t I?”
Balls promised 100,000 (!!!!) new one-to-one tutors for pupils falling behind in their studies and in the next breath that Labour’s policy was to reduce national debt.
So this is the GE strategy then – promise all kinds of extra public spending which you can renege on if you are re-elected or don’t have to implement if not elected and bang on that the Tories would cut public spending and feather the beds of the “rich”.
If the British people don’t vote these people out we’ll have to rely on the world financial markets instead.
A collapse in the pound and high inflation look just around the corner if Labour go on like this. And house prices are rising again according to the Nationwide – this can’t be right, as surely they should fall further yet?
If the media accurately reported rising house prices as “House price inflation is making a worrying return”, instead of “House market is recovering”, it would be a big improvement.
Given the state of the housing market and the decimation of mortgage availability, rising house prices is not good news.
I do private math tutoring and I’m often left thinking there just should not be such a high demand for people like me – during March – June I turn people away.
Traditionally it’s been the ambitious, pushy types that want their kids to have an edge that call me. But nowadays its from all backgrounds, including MANY wrestling with employer numeracy tests
I am frequently astounded by the number of adults and young people who struggle with things like fractions. But I can see where they’re coming from, being victims of socialist-inspired teachers and other lazy, ignorant, overpaid sons-of-bitches.
But Christ, 100,000 tutors??? Why not try running education like a business and boot out lousy teachers?
Ed Balls mentioned the 100,000 new one-to-one tutors plan on Sky News. Eamonn Holmes asked Balls where the money would come from and he replied by saying the money would be re-allocated from somewhere else.
Maybe these are the 100,000 new jobs Gordon promised to create a month or so ago?
How did they come up with 100,000 tutors?
Balls wanted 150,000, but Brown told him to cut it by 1/2.
“Why not try running education like a business and boot out lousy teachers?”
It would actually be more expensive to do that. Think about it.
I have come to the conclusion that state “education” is merely a crèche so both parents pay income tax and NI.
I’m more interested in where the 100,000 teachers are going to come from.
The advert stating that ‘you can earn upto £30,000′, this means in reality you’re going to be in debt for the next 10 years paying off the teacher training costs, and the pay is £18,000.
100,000 one to one teachers – take a look there’s not enough teachers, where’s this 100,000 coming from? These the 16year old 3GCSE Teaching Assistants that the government already announced?
Not a joke – the TA has 3GCSE’s and expected to help turn out students with 5GCSEs!! I think the whole situation completely missed the cabinets attention which gives the complete picture of exactly how far in fantasy land the government is.
Why the need for 1 on 1 tutoring.
Could it be because Labour’s ‘Educayshun Educayshun Educayshun’ has been a complete and utter failure
HOW MUCH DOES OUR GOVERNMENT COST US?
Buckingham Palace says public funding for the Queen and the royal family cost British taxpayers the equivalent of 69 pence each last year.
http://www.watoday.com.au/breaking-news-world/queen-costs-uk-taxpayers-141-each-20090630-d2qd.html
Better we let the Queen run the country……….!
Cost of Royal Family, 69p each.
Cost of TV Licence Fee, £142-50 each.
I know which I prefer to pay. It aint the licence fee….
You’re missing a point.
Queenie 69p per person
BBC £142-50 per household
Nu Labour £33,000-00 per person!
Doesn’t that just put the Queen’s cost into stark relief compared to Gurney Broon?
I think I’ll sent HM (bless) a couple of grand.
Qu? How DO you donate to the Monarchy…..
Spending our way out of recession (as McBust constantly tells us is necessary) should be on the private, productive side of the economy, not another load of expensive jobs in the public sector. Sheer stupidity, and another pile of meaningless claptrap from this odious little creep.
All part of the headless chicken act that likes to call itself a governemt I suppose.
You can’t get the message through to the moron – he thinks he’s a genius.
No one disagrees that increased government spending on the productive part of the economy at a time of recession is helpful to the economy.
However this spending should come from the surplus accumulated during good economic times, not from further borrowing when already in huge debt.
The Labour government have got us into a cul-de-sac with no way out at either end. Increased spending at this time under a prudent government would be a reasonable fiscal stimulus, but under Labour it’s a fisting stimulus.
Balls should have a pitch off the high street plying his “Chase the Lady” economics.
He’s a natural.
yes all well and good but what about the Krauts stuffing Psycho and his mob of overpaid, untalented wankers?
well if it wasnt for the acadamy it might have been 12-0
How far did the U-21 Jocks get?
Not too far past the offie, I’ll bet.
Buckie all round then lads..?
suck it up sassenachs!
If thats all you have to try and make yourself feel suprior to the hated English then I for one pity you and your petty ideology.
Maybe some entrepreneurial type could make a fortune selling Germany tops in Scotland to replace the Argentina ones they dig out on England match-days.
A mate of mine bought himself a Faroe Islands top to return the favour.
Ha ha ha ha.
ah come on, you’re only saying that because the truth hurts. you’ve a bunch of shite masquerading as professionals led by a psychotic loon and as for the football team and their coach…
I thought the serious reason that the England teams lose is they’re being paid too much in the Premiership League.
What happens if they get injured? They lose a large amount of money… hence they play like poofs, cos they’re too scared to play properly.
The advantage of uncapped football fees etc, England will rarely win a game.
U-21s were runners up in the FINAL. Ten years ago we’d be like Scotland now – unable to qualify.
The gap between English and Scottish football has never been this wide. Just as well the annual England-Scotland fixture was stopped by Maggie. Scotland should be grateful to her for that at least.
Gordon Brown is Scottish
Who was that bloke….Ali someone and the Tartan Army? Oh yes, it all comes flooding back. Mwhahahahahaha
Ah yes, victory parade before they left for Argentina.
Ahahahahahaha ha ha.
They did have some decent players in those days. Now? I couldn’t even name one.
Did them sod all good against Iran and Peru though.
Tricky side those Peruvians. Eleven men. Playing football. Couldn’t really prepare for that kind of a surprise.
Ahahahahahahaha ha ha.
A great moment of 1978 was Jimmy saville presenting the charts on a sunday evening, and introducing the scotland world cup song, After they were out.
I can’t remember if we adding “NOT!” (in appropriate places, not at the end of the sentence you understand. it was the 70s).
Guido
Coffee House has a national debt counter which it appears you can insert on your own site.
Please can we have it?
Oh yes, that would be good, and worthwhile.
What is needed is for that counter to spread…
The trouble is, how many of us have screens wide enough…
Thats why the gov conned us into digital and these funny little 9:16 boxes, when our eyes “see” in 4:3….. bar stewards…….
This could boost sales of 40 inch plasmas
Ed Balls ranting and raving this morning on the today show like some kind of care in the comunity nutter, spew out enough lies quickly enough and hope that nobdy notices its all fucking shite’N'lies!
If anyone was unsure about what complete wankers the Balls brothers are they are now truly enlightened, so many lies, so many ‘tory cuts’ so much bullshit delivered so fast, speed reading aint got nuthin on the younger Balls!
Heres the jist of it….tory cuts….blah blah….investment….blahaha…waffle…tory cuts…newlabour investment…savings…blah blah…tory cuts…the best(worst)bit was Balls saying how newlabour had expertly handled the economy enabling them to spend much more on the NHS etc and how Darlings forecasts about economic growth is going to allow newlabour to spend much more while paying off the national debt while juggling five dwarfs and dancing on the head of a pin while singing the internationale while the tories would steal all the cash and give it to rich people only!
Pretty much normal service, then?
You can see why they have to bus around lobotomised coaches of Labour drones to ‘spontaneously’ cheer them. Any random coachload of voters would disembowel him the second he opened his vacuous gob.
The tories and nulabour are destroying each other; good! Let’s have a vote on europe and everything else will fall into place thereafter.
I’m afraid Darling will have to get out with the old fag packets to do some quick recalcs on the back, as the British economy shrinks at its fastest rate for 50 years.
No wonder the spending review has been delayed until after the election.
Breaking News in the Times
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article6608270.ece
From the article…
The data also showed GDP fell in the second quarter of 2008, meaning the recession started earlier than was initially thought.
Ah ha!! I always was suspicious of how much work had gone into engineering a figure of 0.0% for that Q2 2008 thus delaying the official onset of the recession by a full three months. Not quite enough engineering as it turns out.
So there we are. Four quarters of recession nailed on already and we’ve only just had the worst quarter to date. Can’t see this one turning around any day soon. So the Labour apologists have had their last day of banging on about Toryrecessions lasting for ***shock, horror*** five quarters. Because from tomorrow Labour will be into their sixth quarter of recession. And who would bet against us still being in recession in June of next year too.
The BBC will of course highlight this to keep their well known reputation for impartiality totally spotless.
Apparently all bbc announcers are being trained to parrot ‘Tory cuts’ in three part harmony, as background during future gubmint interviews.
Well, I was thinking that it’s coming up to time when the BBC changes its news opener, I was expecting photo’s of Conservative Black Masses and Conservative Cuts as a choral chant over the opening ‘pictures’.
Not that I wish to express dismay that the BBC is biased!
So good of them to find all that extra cash for the NHS, and then waste 80% of it. Nothing to do with the fact that taxation in this pitiful, shambolic country is at its highest in recent times then?
No, I thought not.
There’s only one balls in the newlabour government isn’t there?
do you mind wok with a lot of “care in the commuity nutters”
and i know whom i would rather cross the road to avoid
“Nick Clegg confirmed last week that Chris Rennard would be running the North Norwich campaign, it is likely to be the last campaign Rennard runs.” This contains a naughty ‘comma splice’. It needs a full stop, dash or semi-colon.
Shall we treat ourselves to a semi-colon?
Mmm that’s nice – terrific insertion of the semi-colon there. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet.
hey, you know who else has something of the colon about him? That fucking arsehole Ed Balls.
He has something of the shite about him.
You rang?
And keep us away from children
Aren’t you tabling a motion this mornng Mark?
Do what you like – it’s your blog.
You could even use a full stop, but I’d go for the semi-colon. But hey it ain’t my gaff and while I’ll happily have a go at other punters, it’s best not to play smartarse with Guido. Ask Damian, if you can find him.
No – gut him and have an entire colon!
As long as it is “within the rules”
Yuk, I wouldnt want to go to a BBQ like that.
I prefer not to know what goes in the sausages.
A semi colon is definitely wrong. A colon would be correct…
For my own part, I should suggest, rather than a semi-colon (traditionally used to separate two balanced Clauses: two Main Clauses, or two Subordinate Clauses.) a colon, often used when what follows is a list of things already adumbrated, or when what follows is an exemplification, or expansions, of what went before.
‘He is useless: he blinks his eyes, cannot pronounce his ‘r’s', and is responsible for many, of not most, of Gordoom’s economic idiocies.’ Compare:
‘His name is Balls; his interview was Balls; his Economics is Balls.’
Interestingly, in each of these, there is also an example of Tri-colon!
… IF not most…
Just illustrates the supremacy of Sod’s Law, I suppose: ramp up the pomposity to positively Stephen Fry levels, and you’ll mis-type something!
Interesting, I think, to speculate how Tacitus – or Suetonius! – would have delineated these monsters – or the suave, implacable, cynic Gibbon.
“He has now taken the step of calling in lawyers, Goodman Derrick, to advise him…”
Who’s paying for this?
Well it won’t be on expenses, will it?
Do you want to bet?
And why not?
A fine figure of a man, he’s a fat twat surrounded by wine & champagne bottles, probably all funded on entertainiment expenses.
All his guests seemed to have left the boring twat, still he can drink all the dredges and then hoy all the empties over the fence….its called recycling.
Please everbody sign this petition in the interest of good, open science:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/CRUSourceCodes/
this type of shit has gone on forever, how the fuck do you get the cash to build Chatsworth house? lies, sleaze, violence
Political class, wankers thieves and cheats the lot of them
Gordon Brown, a God fearing socialist? more like a war mongering thieving nazi
You are correct in your analysis; many fine buildings and institutions were built with donations, such as arms houses and military hospitals.
Are you talking about the Arsenal or about alms houses?
Fergie is actually English
“a war mongering thieving nazi” would be an improvement, cheaper and easier on the eye
You rang milord?
Guido,
Care to comment on rumours that your joining the Lib Dems? Have you just been waiting for Rennard to go?
http://www.nextleft.org/2009/06/guido-to-join-libdems.html
hahahahha Well he did used to be an SDP’er didnt he?
“I’ve done worse” as the toothless man said when before doing his famous scene in “Deliverance”
Aw c’mon Fawkes, the bizare sexual practices and the personal freedome stuff is fine, what about the raving hypocricy ?
I’m more concerned by the fact that they appear inflitrated by ‘global warming’ cultists.
what. “scientists” ?
He’s called in Goodman Derrick, eh? How appropriate.
Pity he can’t ask the original Lord Goodman for advice on what to do when caught with snout in trough.
Mr Knutsford
Talking of Chatsworth
The late Duke of Devonshire was also a total fucking drug freak,
Grandpa Beast was a great fan of the turf and used to regularly bump into the fucker and note that he was whacked off his gourd and had a “man” to carry his drugs for him.
He was also a total sex fiend who would hire 5 women at a time.
Sounds like my ideal friend.
His son is a much more ‘grounded’ chap apparently.
He looks like Tommy Cooper doing a vanishing trick with tax payers money.
I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn’t
find any.
Just like that
Rennard is superfluous to the human race .. never mind bloody Westminster ..
Howdy do dere honey !!!
A troupe of morris dancers were prevented from performing at a school as they blacken their faces, they said today.
Members of Motley Morris group, who are based in Dartford, Kent, smear black make-up across their faces as part of their traditional costume.
They were meant to perform their routine at Chantry Primary School in Gravesend on Friday but were asked not to attend due to fears they could cause offence.
Spokesman Simon Ford said today: “Our style of morris dancing originates from the Welsh/Shropshire borders.
“Our blackened faces are a form of disguise. Traditionally they used burnt cork, which came out black, but if it had come out red then we would have had red faces, that’s all it is.
“It’s part of our English culture which goes back hundreds of years, it’s an age-old tradition.”
Speaking of the cancelled booking at the school, he said: “We weren’t too impressed by it.
“They said it was supposed to be a cultural evening but they hadn’t even bothered to find out why it is we have blackened faces.
“They’re obviously afraid of upsetting someone.”
That’s normal isn’t it? A cultural evening for all, so long as you aren’t English.
Yeah: did you know they’ve now abolished The Cornish Pisky. Apparently too many dyslexics were looking for The Cornish Pikey…
Hard up farm workers would often “dance the morriss” to raise a bit of beer money and blacking your face was a way of hiding your identity from the disapproving local Lord, constable or vicar. In Victoria’s reign, certain types of morris dancing, was considered akin to modern day football hooliganism.
I tried morris dancing once, I dented the bonnet.
I’ll get my coat.
…bet you’ve never seen any Austin Dancing!
Now that is absolutley typical……
Makes me grind my beeping sodding teeth…..
Not much chance of coal mining making a comeback then
…a bit more than of tin-mining, though.
Norwich North by-election should be as hot as the local Colman’s Mustard. While Mylord Rennard runs the LibDump campaign, a certain Chris Ostrovski is the Liebour candidate. Mr Ostrovski is not as may be thought a 19th century Russian dramatist. Rather he is decribed variously as a ‘Business Development Manager’ or ‘Product Manager’ for John Lewis PLC. In these troubled economic times, when it is hard to shift product even to a captive market, perhaps items on the John Lewis list can be offered in exchange for votes.
That Rennard bloke looks remarkably like that Balls bloke.
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