A Lib Dem Writes…
This email from a seat losing LibDem councillor is a cracker
Dear Cowley St and Campaigns Dept.,
Please do not employ apparatchiks to telephone me at home to tell me how well the Party did in the local elections only days after I and many of my colleagues lost our seats.
I do not appreciate being told how the public decided to teach Gordon brown a lesson nor that a General Election is around the corner and we have never been in a better position.
I no longer subscribe to that particular variety of bull****.
I was particularly taken aback to be asked if I would make a substantial donation and increase my standing order. Is that not the equivalent of frisking a mugging victim for any more pickings?
Sally Morgan is not impressed – she cancelled her subscription and membership.
Via Lobbydog (go there for the full letter).
How come Andrew Neil gets all the nice slices of fanny and totty in the beeb like that Jo Coburn and Anita.
SLY OLD DOG ANDREW SLY OLD DOG.
Ooops wrong thead lol
Nah, neither of them is up to much – certainly not compared with dear old Jenny Scott!
Back on topic:
Ex Lib Dum: “Is that not the equivalent of frisking a mugging victim for any more pickings?”
And here was me thinking that local councillors do what they do as public service, not as a way to get the wherewithall that makes a mugging worthwhile!
In my area councillors now get £10K a year or so each, with much more for cabinet members and the leader and his lickspittles.
New Labour, New Britain. Such a shame.
What’s Andy Coulson’s line on this?
Oh he’s busy, yes of course.
She now helps Mervyn with his “Quantative Easing”
Jenny (bloody) Scott !!!
We let her go the Bank of England and look what happens to the bloody economy !!
Bring back Jenny
Master Baiter. Andy is relaxed.
Good looking! Good looking! – have you seen this overflowing fat pig?
hmm well thats what visiting the trough too frequently does for you
Don’t worry, all has been sort thanks to IBM:
MPs replaced by supercomputers
Sorry, came over all Stanislav there…. eeek, digging a bigger hole…eeek! etc etc
The only thing the Lib Dems in Richmond care about is property development. They want to fill up all the sky and cover all the grass with concrete.
Yeah. I live there too.
It’s full of fuckin vagrants with status weapon dogs. I know they’re attracted by all the dosser schemes around the area and I wish that would stop for a start.
But how the fuck does that Hoon with two rottweilers and a husky outside Tescos get away with it. They’re never on a lead either. I think the police are afraid of them.
Catching dangerous dogs is not a government target. If the dogs happened to exceed the speed limit, they’re NICKED !!
Don’t worry yourselves. The Dog Warden will be rounding them up for use as companions at Care Homes.
lol Nick mate i saw you on central news the other night talking about that bollox
I suppose losing her seat was nothing to do with her own efforts as a councillor.
My local ” losing ” LD councillor wouldn’t even shake the winners hand at the election announcement meeting as he said the Tories were ” liars ” . . this from a fuckwit who gave away money every week to local organisations to get his face in the press . . failing to mention, that it was their own money he was giving back to them…. very generous…. Self satisfied tosspots the lot of ‘em.
I’m standing next time – that’ll bring the average age of my councillors down to about 110 – and I’m 25
Oh, sorry almost forgot – Graphics Fidelity
I’ve commented before that we have too much law, too much clutter and too much clinging to the past in Britain. And yes, I single-handedly pioneered the development of graphics fidelity because I’m focused on skills, attitude, development and the long-term. Jeez, the world would be so much better if people just stopped mocking and complaining and made the best of things!
Fuck off сunt.
lol he is funny in small doses i’ll give him that
I’m glad you mentioned this Charles – even including mentions here, Google shows only 1,100 results for “graphics fidelity”.
How does this pitiful result match your claim that this is a vital technology that you pioneered? Please can you provide academic or industry press citations that support your claim?
You try making the best of things on the pittance I get from Jobseekers!
Idiot.
The Lib Dems would do much better if they were concerned about quality and improving services. There’s plenty of books and websites on leadership and communication. It’s all out there if people want to invest some time and money. Nobody’s forcing it on anyone, and it can make a real difference in how you approach things. That’s gotta be better than being some drone that just regurgitates propaganda.
Cheeky cheeky
What? They should take lessons from your very own Halfblood Prince of the Dark Arts. Good job we can tell you are a Tory who is just being sarcastic otherwise we might think you are an idiot.
Well said sir.
I cannot abide people that simply cut and paste the same old crap from political sites.
You can be proud of bringing this to our attention
Free the English ™
nihil sub sole novum nec valet quisquam dicere ecce hoc recens est iam enim praecessit in saeculis quae fuerunt ante nos
Quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur
Taurus excretum ad infinitum.
DWY DDIM YN GWYBOD BETH YR YDYCH YN SIARAD AM
“That’s gotta be better than being some drone that just regurgitates propaganda.”
Oh sweet irony or self awareness. Where is thy sting ?
Cheers Softwidge. Far funnier than the email.
Guido,
Dump it …..
Least she’s got plenty of free time on the dole now like me to watch the afternoon nude painting on Channel 4 at 12.30 each day this week.
I’d just like to say this wasn’t a advert and Ch4 didn’t pay me to endorse their nude painting show
Why couldn’t you have told us this at 12:30? It’s a bit late now!
You didn,t miss much it was a fat old man!!
Oooh, really!
Less of the fat – cheeky boy
The righteous are already complaining about it.
Excellent and uproarious discovery Guido.
How astounding! Infighting amongst the feckless and the obscure.
When our Religion of Peace countrymen swell into the new majority, I would gladly pay the tribute if these laughable oddities are the first pressed into the harem (as eunuchs of course, their natural state).
What a card, she sounds rather tetchy. Didn’t know the Limp Dums went in for that kind of language, thought they were all soft in the head.
Fuck off bitch and taste the same medicine we have been spoon fed for years.
Wish she’d have gone on to say what kind of bullshit she now subscribed to in the alternative…
Why not actually quote what she told the Western Morning News?
She dismissed the leaked e-mail as a “storm in a teacup”.
“It was me blowing off steam to somebody in the party. I am still a parliamentary candidate. I have no argument with the party. It was probably a foolish thing to do to put it in an e-mail,” she said.
But that would spoil your story
Yeah, yeah yeah but she didn’t deny writing it did she? So what if she dismissed it?
I am surprised, I thought that type of unthinking loyalty was ZanuLiebore territory
And why would Guido want to spoil the story? We like good stories.
More grist to the dump Clegg for Cable rumour-mill in LibDem circles one would suppose.
Though a single sore loser councillor badmouthing dickhead Party apparatchiks isn’t much of a story TBH, amusing though the phrasing was.
Funny how Cable said he was predicting the credit bollocks all along, after the shit had hit the fan.
He loves the TV studios the media whore, reckons himself as a bit of a comedian too if yesterday’s PMQs was anything to go by.
Cable, you’re a cúnt, now fuck off.
Funny that! The leader of Gosport Lib Dems has just sent us all a letter, complaining that he has lost HIS seat!
HE claims it was undemocratic!
Actually he was suspended from Public Service for 2 years by a Standards Tribunal……….. for perverting the democracy of our Borough Council!
Is this the Lib Dem disease?
completey off topic:
Am sitting here in internet cafe suffering the local radio station and have just heard an extraordinary advert, goes something like this:
Uptight middle class busybody: There’s something not quite right about my sister’s new boyfriend but she’s too loved up to see it. I don’t like the way he always volunteers to take the kids out on his own at weekends etc…
Big Brother: 9 out of 10 cases of child sex abuse are committed by a person the child knows etc…
For Fuck’s Sake.
There is no none essential government spending!!!!
Nothing to hide nothing to fear http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/the_p_word/newsid_8142000/8142148.stm
There’s something not quite right about my sister’s boyfriend but she’s too loved up to notice, I don’t like the way he espouses values of self reliance and rewards based on merit. I’m sure it’s nothing but what if my sister’s seeing a Tory?
9 out of 10 tories are not known to the authorities, help your community today and report them to the police.
I can’t understand why the Labour would want to pick a fight with News International and Murdoch, its like cutting your own throat before an election.
Yeah, but they ain’t gonna win and thus they weren’t gonna have Rupert’s support anyway, so they might as well turn on News International now and undermine their influence on the forthcoming routelection.
All those stupid dolts not changing the PIN on their voicemail. What do they expect?
with Murdoch owning sky and most of the uk media, Labour have to be completely run by thicko’s. Payback is gonna be a bitch from Murdoch.
Just think of all those stories that were pulled at the last minute because the only source was a hacked voicemail box.
It only needs one incriminating story to be perceived by the public to be clearly in their interest for the whole hacking malarkey to become a courageous instrument of investigative journalism.
Are Gordon, Alistair and Mandy braying in public for the blood of The Telegraph? Of course not. Time to open up those filing cabinets and disk drives at Wapping.
o/t – psychologically flawed bastard Alastair Campbell getting in on the act re. Coulson crap.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/09/cameron-statement-andy-coulson
lol Campbell, thats pot calling the kettle black.
O/T but talking of AC,saw his partner Fiona Millar on Daily Politics discussing education with Michael Gove.She was absolutely USELESS. Nu-Liebor mantra of wonderful schools etc…As for Andrew Neil saw him on Newsnight last night, he was animated to say the least about this Andy Coulson matter.Shame he is not so animated on his own programmes.If he mentions Blue Nun once more in his stupid jocular way I think I’ll kick the TV. He used to be a really good journalist but he is just an idiotic,pathetic, Nu-Liebor, BBC luvvie, Scottish twat now.
Prezza attacking cameron’s employment of andy coulson said “allowing the man who allowed that to happen (meaning coulson when he was editor) into no.10 would be deplorable. cameron must sack him”
Prezza didn’t seem to understand that he had just admitted that he expected the tories to win the next election!
An own goal methinks.
that’s not the first time someone has done that….GB keeps doing it at PMQs!
Anyone else hear Andrew Neil call someone a Hoon today and then try and backtrack and say that he mixed them up with Geoff Hoon.
YEAH RIGHT ANDY BOY WE ALL KNOW YOU READ GUIDO’S BLOG INIT.
Ha ha did he? Fab!
Wonder what his screen-name is? (It’s NOT Engineer.)
Grumpy Old Man?
Hmmm….Someone who posts in a Scottish accent… Not Ol’ S p e d o…!!
Another Scots Twat ?
The Hoon to whom dear old Brillo referred was Chris Huhne – seems that some caption monkey at the Beeb had confused Huhne with Geoff Hoon in the captions on a clip of Huhne being a Hoon. Easily done!
Brillo is about the only redeeming feature of BBC political coverage these days.
I’m sure Brillo et al do read GF, but on this occasion I don’t think he was using Hoon in its latest sense, though I’m sure he’s well aware of it!
Anon are you the Anon who was rude to me yesterday?
Anon (76): “Another Scots twat”
And another bigoted Anon twat!
The Scots are not your enemy, even if Brown and his ilk (including plenty of English) are. You do know that Labour has a big majority of MPs in England alone don’t you? It’s not the Scots fault that we have this dreadful government.
Apart from Brown et al the real threats to this country are the EU and open borders for anyone who can get here.
Quite right Ivor!
Well, if you are, I’d like to take this opportunity to say Fuck You.
If you aren’t, sorry about that.
LOL – never heard you say that before NewGirl, you’re usually one of the polite ones here ;-)
I’ve got PMT
Voting LibDem is a totally wasted vote. Hopefully voters will not do so at the next UK general election.
correct.
I am all for running down the lib dem EU stooges and nick ’spunkalot’ clegover.
more votes in the bag for independent candidates.
anything that smashes apart party politics has got to be good for our democracy.
innit.
tat talking sense for once? Fuck me.
He agreed with nell yesterday too. Twice.
thick as thieves would never sign himself as tat you mugs.
You’ve been had.
I think you’ll find he has been doing just that.
We have been a busy little blogger, haven’t we?
Hi misog! wondered if you were around. Check Tat out, he’s gone soft! You ok?
Mentioned something about that the other night (soft).
Sorry wrong place!
If it’s the same guy he’s suffering from svere schizophrenia, meds or no meds.
I know. I worry for him.
It wouldn’t surprise me if it MB having a laugh, he’s got so many diguises.
Also Miss O Gynist wasn’t me yesterday.
anonymous misogynist,
you are a nobody you c’unt.
you come to this place and immediatley start knocking peoples mental health.
my health is not in question but yours will be.
you sound like a right fucking nasty piece of work you nonce, you sound like wifebeater.
final warning wanker.
definite revokation order for you wife beater.
Not really. A bunch of independents won’t be able to form a government that would last more than a week. They won’t have a manifesto so how do you know what policies you are voting for? There would be turmoil.
Same tat, same shite.
How do you know what policies you are voting for with the current system?
Do you remember how truthful the Labour manifesto was found in a court?
A group of independents who signed up to guarantee their voting intentions for a limited number of proposals, and then conscience voting on all other matters, would have a significant advantage. It does what it says on the tin.
ah doctor dildo, how are you?
how is the ECT treatment working for you, is it helping to dampen your violent zionist thoughts of killing civilians especially children?
unfortunately the nurses tell me it it has not completely worked yet as you still bite and spitting at them when they adminsiter your electric shocks.
you remain insane.
you must be mad to raise the subject of a manifesto?
where is the tory scum manifesto?
where is the labour scum manifesto?
the bn p scum may have one but I wouldn’t wipe my arse with their nazi filth.
but never mind all that you retard you have missed the point, again!
you dopey fucking wanker! what use is a piece of paper if it is not legally binding moron.
but that does give me a good idea: if the independent candidates wrote a modest, local issue based manifesto and agreed to make it legally binding then that would be far superior state of affairs than the main parties non legal documents.
then the independents would be legally accountable to do their best to achieve the manifesto aims.
the candidate would have to have a blog outlinging their progress and their voting and attendance records and any other pertinant information regarding their performance.
that would improve our democracy.
honestly doctor dildo you know nuffink you are such a dopey ignorant c’unt.
TOP BOY SAYS FUCK OFF!
Tat? Maybe he’s just upped his meds..
not a nice thing to say mrs new girl.
a woman scorned eh?
you’re bit old and a bit married for all that caper love.
Right on. What is the bloody point of the Lib Dems except to split the national vote.
The Bastards are more left wing than New Labour for gods sake.
We need a strong right of centre Conservative party which has not existed for many years now otherwise people will have no choice but to vote UKIP or BNP to have any hope of representation In politics.
I have now asked Nick Clegg what’s the point of voting for a Libdem candidate ?
You can ask him questions to. See:
Ask Nick Clegg
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate-uk/2009/07/08/ask-nick-clegg/
If you’ve got a question for Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg then now’s your chance: on Monday July 13th (1200 GMT). he’ll be joining the Reuters UK team to take your questions live. And no subject is off limits. You’ll be able to see the live videostream here and you can ask questions ahead of the event or respond during it by using Twitter (#askclegg) the 12 Seconds video service (nickclegg) or use this post’s comment form below. (We’ll also feature the highlights on the reuters uk news twitterstream.) Nick introduces the event below and, to kick off the discussion, asks a couple of questions of his own.
“no subject is off limits”
Why does Vince Cable stay in the Libdem party? If he truly believes he is a financial god, wouldn’t be be better off joining the Tories, so that his ideas stand some chance of actually being government policy when and if the Tories are voted in at the next general election, rather languishing in Libdem La-La Land.
You think the Tories are any better than the shits we have at the moment?
Deluded or WHAT!
No questions. Worth asking about the stolen 2.5 million donation they have yet to repay?
Because he is a Liberal Democrat not a Tory.
Next question?
Its a great position.
Currently the conservatives and labour can say “we wouldn’t have made the same mistakes”, but from time to time they actually get in power and cock things up.
He can always have 20:20 hindsight, and suggest things that we can later look back on and say “they might have worked”.
Maybe not completely true. I think they have a role in places like, umm, Salford where they have the best chance of unseating an unpopular incumbent…
The propaganda would do much better if they were concerned about books and websites on money and things. There’s plenty of leadership. It’s all out there if people want quality and improving drones. Nobody’s forcing anyone to invest some communication and it can make a real difference in how you approach time and services. That’s gotta be better than being some Lib Dem that just regurgitates on it.
Busy on the shreadder are you fuck face.
Tooooo Late Pauly
When will councilors learn that a party is judged from the top down not the other way around……….
Have now!
Wasn’t Andy Coulson in the Lib Dems once?
No, that was Shaun Woodward
Labour councillors who lost their seats in the last County elections seem to be following morgan’s lead in eyeing up all these mp’s seats – soon to be vacated by the present batch of scandal hit mp’s – especially in the north.
Former CC labour leader Hazel Harding has her sights set on the Hyndburn constituency.
And deposed Labour councillor Tony Martin wants to represent Burnley – Kitty Ussher’s seat.
Obviously they think their electorate will take a different look at them second time around re-inveted as MP’s in the GE.
The really sad thing is, many will because they’ve ‘always voted liebour’ as did their fathers; of course, they’ll take into account the spew hurled by various media and still vote liebour, twats
my family have always voted labour, but will never do so again, I am sure there are a lot more families like mine as well, you know what they say “once bitten, twice shy”
The class war still rages oop North. Wringing our Keir Hardie flat caps in ours ‘ands we shuffle along in the soup queue for some pigeon gruel and a little bread for us whippets.
True enough. How else can you explain a fat, useless fuckpig like Prescott getting elected as an MP?
What this story does is just confirm to me that most politicians, and at every level it would seem, view politics as a career and not a job.
How refreshing it would have been to have found out that this individual fundamentally believed in the policies of the Libdums and that she was committed to work hard and provide the support necessary to improve the party’s fortunes.
Instead of which ….
They even lie to their own Members! But we knew that last year after the by-election in Henley when they tried to “decieve” the members into thinking it was really close etc! Mike even posted a thread on it! I remember i was the first to post decent on it saying that if i was an LD i would be really hacked off with a party that lied to its own members! LD = Liars! They are a national treasure though, like the TV program “it aint half hot mam”! LD are the Boys to entertain you! With MP jokes, Politicians making gaffes on the news – Lots of Laughs and clearly divaging views!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zpMKqKFHmEg/SlPLFlMdW4I/AAAAAAAAAtI/zeUTzu1vcjM/s1600-h/LiNick+Clegg+Perve.jpg
Guido can use the above picture if he wants! LoL
What did Ian Duncan Smith say about the libby loopy dems…..?
Was it they should come with a health warning…. MAY CONTAIN NUTS!!!
Bless ‘em. Harmless idiots mostly though, aren’t they? Irrelevant. Feel largely indulgent towards them most of the time. (Not Opik. Hate Opik)
yeah, opik’s creepy.
he only became an MP to get sex.
hmmm….hold on a minute… er, new girl, if I was an MP would you let me pull down your etc etc….
Here we go again…..
Try being nice to people, TaT. You nearly managed it yesterday with Nell, so you can if you try.
I don’t find MPs sexy Tat. So that would be a no.
“only became an MP to get sex”.
Nothing new there for the limp dumbs then. What was that famous chat-up line from a few years back employed by one of their associates ?
“Bend over, or I’ll shoot your dog”
Just thinking about what Tat said…Why would ANYONE think that being an MP would get you sex?? Do MPs have groupies? If so, do they have learning difficulties? I know they say power is an aphrodisiac, but really, I can’t think of a single PM in living memory who would turn me on…. (I know all you men got Maggie).
Being an MP got me so much sex I had to beat them off with a Chelsea strip.
well it is just as well I am not one. maybe one day.
but that rather begs the question of what type of man you do find sexy.
I think we can take it as red that you do not find boring old crusty duffers like engineer attractive and please do not reply with a duff answer like ‘my husband’.
that would ruin your whole online persona.
this’ll be good.
I love Engineer Tat so there! Also Steve McQueen, and Oliver Reed before fat and bloated.
I’ve got looks and devastating seductive patter.
Easy really.
funny you should say that new girl.
I am the spitting image of steve mcqeen.
I shit you not.
looks like this could be your lucky day.
maybe we should hook up. you could turn up and have a look and see for yourself.
and although I quite rightly boast about my vast intellect I am very humble about my looks.
you lucky lucky bastard, you’ve hit the jackpot!
7pm Oxo tower good for you?
Less of the ‘old’ please, TaT.
Thank you, NG. You are clearly a lady of taste and discernment. (He says, creeping outrageously).
Watching TaT give someone a slapping is most stimulating!
I would be there Tat, naturally, but you might bash my brains out so I can’t risk it…
you are right ofcourse new girl, it would never have worked.
anyway, I don’t date married women.
morally wrong innit.
Is bashing their brains out ok though?
if they visit this place when hubby isn’t looking then course it is.
now you are being silly mrs new girl.
Ha ha welcome back to form tat!
I win.
bless.
I am the spitting image of steve mcqeen.
He’s been dead for several years so I can believe that, you cadaverous old lecher you.
NewGirl, some women said that Alan Clarke was a family man and appealed to all generations. Others however believed he was on good for boring the boers.
4 shots to get out of a bunker
I bet I could do it with only one – same as Hitler needed!
Does anyone really give a fig about the treasonous, appeasing Limp Dums?
They are only marginally less despised than Labour in the military.
They really aren’t worth despising though….
Disagree, at every election they always pull at least one really underhand stroke, whilst managing to grate on everyones nerves with their sanctioniousness – their only saving grace is that sex god of the political classes, Limpit, who had the decency to push the Middle Way option during nulabs failed attempt to ban hunting.
Not a party you would trust with the defence of the realm, or keeping the Queen’s peace.
Probably good on libraries, organic muesli production and beard trimmers (and that’s just the women).
And sandals. With socks. (the men). Not that I’m stereotyping you understand…
Grandad B wears sandals with socks. His legs wouldn’t stop a pig in an entry, but he’s a true blue.
Interesting, New Girl.
I wouldn’t cross the road to piss on a LibDem if it spontaneously combusted, but the sandals and socks deal curls my toes.
Sartorial standards for the plebs are a big no-no in the new world order. Chaos rules.
Yet the ridiculing of the socks-and-sandals-clad innocent shows how easily people are conditioned into automatic responses by the constant repetition of claptrap.
just a throw away comment Albacore…I wouldn’t bother getting too het up if I was you
o/t sorry … Great to see school teachers taking discipline seriously.
Teacher arrested for attempted murder of pupil
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5683UI20090709
Bet he was a dead shot with a blackboard rubber….
Ha ha yes, more power to the teachers I say… poor buggers need flak jackets these days…
Mansfield. I can only think of one other place in the UK I’d least like to be.
Look for the ofstead-speak. The school is “lively”.
“Lively”?! I’ll bet. Flak jackets and stab proof vests.
And that’s just for the dinner ladies.
Why isn’t Guido blogging about blagging and hacking?
Because its fucking boring…Ha!
Better to blog about arsewipe MP’s who still have our misappropriated cash in their pockets and not a one in jail.
Now that’s worth blogging about!
And flogging about.
FT hacks Andy Coulson’s phone
http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/
Frankly who cares?
I hope your lot go for him big time, get his scalp and then he digs up all the NuLab skeletons he’s buried over the years 4 weeks before election day; makes himself a humungus fortune from selling the dirt and retires to to a huge yacht in the Bahamas.
At least it would be more interesting than spindoctor bitch fight.
The Great British public care, you fool.
I don’t.
Andy who?
Damian who?
Nah
you’re only trying to spin it that they do, and half the media aren’t even playing ball.
The great british public are more worried by coronation st moving to thursday as they’ll have to change their social calendar.
He did earlier before you got your orders for the day from HQ. Now the police (curiously very quickly) and the propagandists at the BBC have swung into action the topic is mainstream.
One million pound settlement for a union man, amazing.
Who else will collect from the dirty old digger?
If Prescott gets a payout will he keep the money or donate to a charity ?
Stand by your man
Gordo didn’t stand by Damian McBride. Stabbed him right in the back, even though he’d never met the man before.
D I V O R C E
you must read this, it’s so funny
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/prescott-phone-tap-reveals-obsession-with-chip-butties-and-viagra-200907091889/
jp, chip butties, viagra and secretaries. Don’t read it while you’re eating your tea!
Off Lib Dem topic but it’s a letter exchange from Jon Snow blog! So on topic.
The following correspondence has come my way…it shows the new foreign office minister charged with looking after Latin America, reaching out to Latin American interests in the UK.
I’m wondering how many other ministers, opposition front benchers and MPs are in receipt of such anger from voters?
Subject: Invitation to reception for new FCO Minister, 7 July 2009
Dear Andrew,
I am writing to introduce myself as the new Minister for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
I am delighted to have been appointed to this position. I have a strong interest in the region, having spent a year of my life living there.
I attach great importance to deepening the relationship between the UK and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
In a more globalised world, such ties will become ever more important – as barriers to trade, cultural
engagement and scientific co-operation become easier to overcome.
I also believe that the UK, together with our EU partners, must work closely with the region to tackle some of the most serious global problems facing us today – such as climate change, economic development, and reform of international institutions.
Chris Bryant
Chris Bryant M.P.
Minister for Latin America
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
London
The response was not quite so cordial…
Dear Sir,
Why would I want to accept the invitation to meet you?
In all, you split more than £92,000 of expenses between three properties in Wales and London in the past five years.
In 2004, you submitted a claim of £58,000 – three times the maximum allowance for the year – to overhaul your second home in Porth, Wales.
You wanted the money for renovations after buying the property for £97,500.
In April 2005, you flipped your designation to your flat in west London, which you bought
for £400,000 in April 2002.
You claimed £630 a month for mortgage interest, along with other bills.
After claiming more than £3,600 over three months, you sold the flat in July 2005 for £477,000.
You then used your profits to buy a more expensive flat in west London, which was valued at £670,000.
You immediately flipped your second home designation there. You even claimed nearly £6,400 in stamp duty, legal fees and mortgage fees (!).
You then began claiming mortgage interest of £1,000 a month.
You also claimed £6,000 a year for service charge and ground rent.
In response to the press revelations of your abuse of expenses, you said “I moved flat in London to
be closer to Parliament”(!).
It is a disgrace that you have been appointed to represent my country in Latin America.
Voy a informar a todos mis contactos de prensa en la región para que sepan.
Andrew Nickson
Reader in Latin American Studies
University of Birmingham
I am told that “Voy a informar a todos mis contactos de prensa en la región para que sepan” means that Prof Nickson intends to tell all his press contacts in the region on Mr Bryant’s expenses claims. News travels fast…
JUST BEAUTIFUL!
Classic.
He spends a year a year of his life living there so he’s an expert, yeah that figures.
Steve Expat; It translates to, I’m going to inform all my press contacts in the region so that they know.
Thank you Master for reminding us how these NuLiebor creeps want to enrich themselves at the expense of us hard working families. Next they’ll be wanting to send their daughters to Eton sbs.
Superb – I will buy that man a pint if ever we meet!!
The Spanish transaltion is just about right too, “Sepan” means “know” and “de prensa” are the press, so he is saying:
“I will make sure all my press contacts in the region know this” – F’in hillarious!
Sehr gut !!!
A self righteous Liberal Democrat on a bike !
Think about it.
i laughed.
can any one tell the old wanker, master baiter , the last newliebour gave a fuck about the great british public?
It still smarts doesn’t it.
Three spectacular election defeats in a row for the Conservitudes.
Nothing compared to maggie and major being unelected for his first year and sweeping to glory later on against all odds.
It always makes you think. Would Maggie have won a fourth term for the Tories? Would Blair now be poised to lead Labour to another GE victory?
Why oh why did we depose Blair as leader and ‘elect’ Brown. My family has voted Labour in every election since 1910. I will be the first for generations to break rank. And all because we shot ourself in the foot.
O/T I know but what has happened to England’s bowling ffs. Where is Freddie Flintoff when you need him!
Maybe the Prime Mentalist sent them a good luck message from his NuLiebor bunker?
Freddie’s the only one with a wicket so far!
Aus 218-1 63ovs
Hughes c Prior b Flintoff 36
Ponting 88*
Katich 86*
Eng 433
218-1 egzaktly!
Not too good is it?!?
Could be better!!
225-1 now, defintiely the Aussies’ afternoon after our good morning. We need a breakthrough this evening or else it’s going to be difficult to hold them under our score tomorrow…
Nothing to see here- move along now please
Dear All
Top marks to Sally Morgan for throwing a wobbly.
If only more people would be like her.
She could be a national treasure.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
George old boy have they let you out of Glasmito jail yet?? I still can’t find you on the alumni list.
Dear Matt C
The policy in Glasgow is not to jail people during the sunny weather so they can get a tan and eat plenty of ice cream.
I am sorry you couldn’t find anyone of my surname on the alumni list not even the George Laird who graduated from Engineering?
Possibly more incompetence on your part?
Surely not?
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Ooh Labour must be quaking in their boots now. Yates of the Yard has killed this stone dead. Coulson in the clear. A lesson in life Murdoch always wins in the end. He also plays the long game, Labour should be quaking in their boots……………………………
News Corporation lost six billion dollars last year.
How old is Murdoch?
Long game?
Har dee har har
Who else wants to be a millionaire?
Just go boo to the dirty digger.
Six billion dollars? I pull a Harman face at six billion dollars. I can spunk away six billion dollars in an afternoon. On wallpaper.
Disgraceful! Coulson should resign from the News of the World now!
Reveal all Insider, though I did think it was a storm in a tea cup with the Grauniad trying vainly to emulate the Torygraph.
What is Brillo playing at? Has he got a grudge against Maddog?
Master Baiter. So it was all a complete wank then?
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MP’s head on a spike anyone?
Oops – try again
Murdochs tentacles reach far and wide!
So that fat Northern Kunt’s phone wasn’t tapped after all….piss off Prescott!
We’re fucking tired of listening, all day, to your feeble attempts to smear Cameron!
What a pity labour MP’s didn’t care enough for the very low paid workers, about 1.3 million of them according to the IFS,yesterday. These very low paid workers are paying the price so that every one else can only pay 20p. Labour had a chance to care yesterday but chose to ignore them.
I don’t seem to have heard john prescott at all yesterday when this was being debated but he seems to care today because he may have had his phone tapped, and that was probably when they found out about him and tracy. Come to that neither did I hear Gordon Brown; too busy agreeing that by 2050 we won’t let the worlds temperatures go up by 2 degrees. You really couldn’t make this up could you?
It really does show where liebours interests lie,
just in titter tatter gossip but DEFINITELY NOT IN REAL HARD WORKING LOW PAID WORKERS. REMEMBER IT WHEN YOU VOTE NEXT TIME.
“tatter gossip”. Shirley not?
Don’t call me Shirley. I’m Mavis!
I wonder if Prescot will be throwing his phone now?what really got me was they read a newspaper article and before the ink as time to dry, all the Lib/Labs rush in to have somebody sacked, pity they cant move that quick to get GB to call an election, now there is somebody who should be sacked.
At last someone with the balls to stand up to Cowley Street.
Muffin the Mule he haws
Attenshun! Shoulder keyboards, quick march
Left,right Left,right Left,right Left,right Halt
Larry the Lamb bleats
Here we go Here we go Here we go
Skippy chips in
Down by the billabong
Popeye adds ” Whats a Liverpool adult film
The Lilac Pimpernel