Will Coulson Survive the Select Committee Grilling?
Tory MP John Whittingdale is the chairman of the Labour dominated DCMS Select Committee. He is expected to call Andy Coulson to give evidence at a hearing next Tuesday. Coulson has to get through what will inevitably be a tough grilling relatively unscathed if he wants to keep his job. For Labour Alastair Campbell is trying to frame the terms of the media narrative in such a way that if it is shown Coulson did “anything improper or illegal, or condoned, used or benefited from anything improper or illegal, in his time as editor of the News of the World“ he has to go. In Guido’s experience almost every newspaper editor at some point condones something improper or illegal to get a story. Stolen documents appear in the Guardian and on the BBC all the time. News is what people don’t want you to know, everything else is advertising. Campbell knows this, and is deliberately setting up a false threshold.
Dave’s defence of Coulson basically tries to prevent double jeopardy;
“It’s wrong for newspapers to breach people’s privacy with no justification. That is why Andy Coulson resigned as editor of the News of the World two and a half years ago. Of course I knew about that resignation before offering him the job. But I believe in giving people a second chance”
Essentially the Tory position is that Coulson has taken his punishment already, so it doesn’t matter. Not exactly occupying the moral high ground.
If it all goes wrong on Tuesday, the editor’s job at the Sun is becoming vacant shortly…
He’ll survive.
Meanwhile I’m loving the BBC, the Guardian and the Liebour Party getting steamed up for another Damien McBride scandal on the Tories and then Scotland Yard putting the mockers on it. Deeeelicious.
it was so funny to watch the bbc news afterwards.
What have we learned today:
Tabloid journos will go to any lengths to get a story.
New Lab will go to any lengths to smear the Tories.
Plod will go to any lengths to stay out of trouble with parliament.
BBC will go to any lengths to shit on Murdoch.
Engineer will go to any lengths to try to pull New Girl.
:)
What is the difference between Coulson and Brown?
Coulson has already owned up to his responsibility and taken his punishment.
That is unkind.
He quit the News of the World to avoid even the fairly toothless PCC investigation in case it put him in the frame Legally like his royal reporter now in Prison.
All the DPP or the Commons Investigation needs to do is raise any doubt about Coulson’s absolutlely unequivocal statement that he knew nothing whatsoever about the phonehacking.
Yates simply said the original investigation stands and he didn’t have “sufficient” evidence to launch a new inquiry but we know News International aren’t even trying to deny the £1,000,000 story from the Guardian. That money wasn’t paid out for shits and giggles.
Coulson has managed to strap himself to David Cameron like a bomb so if Coulson dodges this he is still the kind of baggage to always be mentioned with the same contempt as McBride and Campbell.
If he blows up Dave takes a huge hit now after backing him so firmly and publicly. As Guido says Cameron’s “moral” position is dodgy rubbish.
Those Partisan Tory spinnners sticking up for him right now had best remember what happened to Campbell who Guido unflatteringly compares him to.
Campbell became the story and had to quit. He didn’t quit because of his of his manifest but unproven lying/illegality in regards to Iraq and Doctor David Kelly.
Coulson is now the story.
You hire a bottomfeeding News of the World sleazebag, this is the result.
Loved that!!
Has Engineer GOT enough length to pull Newgirl? I think we should be told.
Not good – if you are spying from the bushes?
Well said Watcher in the Rye
Well said Scorched Earth
I think that Coulson will have to resign from Dave’s team ASAP.
Today would be a good day for resigning!
I commend you for being such an honest fellow Guido Fawkes Esq.
re: andy coulson; tittle tattle, rumour and gossip.
order-order.com – it does what it says on the tin!
propaganda-wise, andy coulson is just a fucking shoe polisher.
or, in this case, turd polisher.
let us face the facts: andy coulson is head of communications for the tories.
he is trying to sell the idea that david cameron(benefit cheat stoner) and gideon ‘let’s get some whores in’ snortalot are serious candidates to hold the two highest offices of state.
dave and gideon are housing benfit claimants and deserve to be treated accordingly ie with no respect whatsoever.
dave and gideon are both millionaires so why the greedy wankers were claiming housing benefit in the first place is a complete fucking mystery to any decent hardworking person who does not claim benefits but pays their own way.
but david cameron and gideon osborne are both quite relaxed about being exposed as housing benefit cheats and fraudsters.
DAVE, GIDEON YOU ARE TORY SCUM YOU PAIR OF C’UNTS!
I AM TOP BOY AND I AM AN HONEST CHAP BUT YOU DOGS YOU ARE FUCKING SCUM – YOU FUCKED THE TAXPAYER QUICKER THAN A $5CRACKWHORE
YOU PISS TAKING MILLIONAIRE MOTHERFUCKING SCROUNGING SCUM
FUCK OFF YOU RIMMERS
they are a pair of arseholes. end of story.
andy must be smoking some of gideon’s shit. that’s some strong motherfucking weed. the c’unt must be superstoned for fucks sake.
stoned out of his mind.
and the other insurmountable problem for andy ’shoe-polisher’ coulson is that although dave is a smooth talking pretty boy tony blair clone the c’unt STILL can’t hit 50% in the polls.
dave’s a useless c’unt.
FUCK DAVE FUCK GIDEON FUCK GORDON
FUCK ‘EM REAL GOOD
VOTE INDEPENDENT
PARTIES MUST BE SACRIFICED FOR DEMOCRACY TO LIVE
SLIT THEIR THROATS
YOU MUST DO IT BECAUSE THE MOTHERFUCKERS ARE SLITTING YOURS
KILL OR BE KILLED
VOTE INDEPENDENT
FOR THE GREATER GOOD
Succinct
‘Succinct’ – moronic in the extreme. Needs to take his pills more often and certainly to up the dosage.
if that is the best you SCUM TORY TROLLS can come up with against my geniusly pithy and scathing comments then all is lost for you.
a hung parliament it is then.
excellent!
Why don’t you try to submit a post that has a logical argument that is capable of persuading the reader to your point of view?
The use of juvenile bad language and silly abuse only shows you up to be someone of very limited intelligence who is not capable of rational thought.
piss off sungei you cripple.
you are merely too dim you SCUM TORY TROLL to understand the exquisitely intellectual nature of my posts.
and my use of profane language is a method I use to get up the noses of SCUM TORY TROLLS LIKE YOU.
your pathetic response proves my strategy works.
innit.
DOH!
Agreed, yes a hung parliament would be the best of a bad job. Keep them all on their toes, and stop them continuously bringing in new laws and dictats.
TAT:
Bad language does not get up my nose I just think it sounds pathetic. I feel rather sorry for you that you are unable to communicate in a civilised fashion.
If you had anything worth saying why not say it in a courteous manner? It costs nothing and has much greater impact than – as you put it – using profanities.
piss of wanker.
you cripple.
conservativefoam is a mere click away.
go bore them arsehole.
Well..that’s highly intellectual,isn’t it?
I don’t waste my genius on basket case retards like you.
piss off wanker.
thankyou.
Tat:
You have my pity you poor little chap.
Get a sense of humour, and don’t be horrible to tat! It’s a free country, (well it was), let’s try to keep it that way. There are worse things in the world than a word battering from tat!
Contessa:
I agree, it is a free country and we have to a limited extent free speech. Where I can’t agree with you is that TAT gives people a word battering. His comments are silly, juvenile and inconsequential and hence have no force to persuade.
He/she may try to be humorous but because of his hyperbole and bad language he/she is unable to deploy any cogent argument.
Like Anonymous I rather take pity on her/him.
“He/she may try to be humorous but because of his hyperbole and bad language he/she is unable to deploy any cogent argument.”
That quote actually sums up most of the politicians we have at the mo, poor tat probably picked up his bad language from watching the Parliament channel and reading Hansard.
This thread probably pretty thread bare now. Tat will thoroughly enjoy being the focus of attention like this, but there is a broader issue here! Amongst the ridiculous drivel he writes there is very often a grain of truth, in any case it’s all a put up job. I wish our politicians, and the establishment would use a more forthright language. I find they’re dishonest use of language, there ‘alternative word’ syndrome quite nausiating. Call a spade a spade for god’s sake. Of course there constant rearrangement of words is is done to hide unpalatable truths.
Sorry, nauseating!
…..and their, …. and 2 ises! Should have re-read, was up too early.
Here’s a list of the MSM who used the same private investigator as the NOTW – seems like pretty all of them
I genuinely couldm’t give a fuck – sack the twat and move on to ending the BBC – next.
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I’m a big gay hypocrite :)
Bye bye :)
Iain
You just havent met the right girl
Or your’e lazy
Beast, havent you realised yet that “gay” is a lifestyle choice these days rather than a genetic thing ( I was gonna say disorder but that’s not quite PC)
That is an interesting thought mr beast
Methinks the lad doth protest too much. You’re just a straight boy pretending to be gay cos it’s cooooool to be in a minority. Come out of your closet, lad, and tell the truth: you love the girls.
And this is relevant because….?
Grow up.
Go fuck yourself you inbred northern baboon.
too much sauce at lunch
Time for your medication!
I believe your comment sums this, I.M.H.O., political gamesmanship up!
Four against One.
eh up lads done good today and pointing if you reading you are going to get you hoon , on topic aint we innocent till proven gulity ?
Is there something sporty happening?
Come on freddie! Pontings a class act!
hes a aussie lad
An Aussie with 38 tons.
hey ned ricky loves me
Andy Coulson may have had absolutely no control whatsoever over the people under him at the News Of The World and perhaps he does deserve that “second chance”. In the whole affair it is David Cameron’s cavalier attitude I find the most amazing and concerning. In this great new world of political cleansing, his criteria for survival of his minions is their level of good works for the Conservative party. There will be a few MPs seething this morning at how he cast them adrift during the expenses row.
Old bill say not widespread tapping only hundreds then not thousands. So it’s all O.K? Move along sonny nothing to see here!!
Sorry, Can’t investigate this one, it will mean we will have to give all our copies back.
If Labour believe that you cannot come back after resignations, maybe they should have a word with Herr Mandleson. And all the other resurrectees in cabinet.
Unfortunately it`s not the Socialist way, “do as we say not as we do” is the mantra of the Ideology.
Rather like the Tories – but I believe they call it droite de seigneur.
Or even droit de cuissage perhaps?
dont forget peter hain, he came back even after digging up a cricxket pitch!
he should be shot for that lad
Dear All
Given Coulson’s past, it would be interesting to see what measures if any Cameron has done to ensure no repeat.
I also believe that Cameron is right to give Coulson a second chance but it should be clearly understood, it is a second and last chance.
People should play by the rules.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Mandleson was given a third chance. Coulson could always cross the floor if it doesn’t work out with the Conservatives.
Dear Doc
The guy’s a free agent.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Get back to Grinder
First! (a no-brainer)
Five hundred and thirty seventh.
Were hoping to do a reunion gig
As long as there is nothing new about the story (which seems to be the case at the moment) then Coulson will be okay.
If it turns out that he did know more than he said he did at the time to the point where the Police might be interested, DC would be best to get rid of him now.
Agreed with the double jeopardy comment Guido – he has already resigned from a private sector job over this story, it’s not really fair for him to do so again.
Mandlebum should of course know about resigning twice, but that was for different offences, both whilst employed in public office.
If this is to be Coulson’s ‘Swan Song’, then it will open up a big can of worms. All is fair in love and war, it’s gonna get dirty.
They can get away with all manner of misconduct in public office; if they really can’t brazen it out they reluctantly and belatedly resign, and then, like you said Steve, squirm back into position as soon as they think they can get away with it. Bloody hypocrites. Make me sick. And Campbell? Bullying, arrogant, unprincipled shitbag who is in no position to be moralising to others.
Yes – stick it to sleazebag Campbell who started with Maxwell and ended with the Dodgy Dossier and David Kelly!
I’m in a foul mood, I’d love to just be able to give them all a huge piece of my mind…I may try and crash QT. Where is it? Whose on? And will I get in with a large bag of rotten eggs and a catapult? Dimbleby can sodding well be first for that Harman stunt.
I mean “WHO’S” on? GRRR
Carm down dear, it’s only politics. You’ll start off your PMT again!!
:-)
NG, how close are you to Salford? There’s a right bunch of shitbags on there tonight!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/default.stm
David Dimbleby will be joined in Salford on Thursday, 9 July, by Andy Burnham MP, Jeremy Hunt MP, Sarah Teather MP, Shami Chakrabarti and student and people’s panellist Suzanne Burlton.
If only Suzanne Burlton was TaT in drag!
Whilst not condoning the activities of either party in this,we should not forget one important distinction. Campbell was a civil servant whilst performing his particular ’skills’ Coulson is not funded by the taxpayer,although probably performing the same ’skills’ for the Tories.
Labour conveniently passed a raft of anti-terror legislation which allows them to phone tap at will.
It is therefore apparently ok to publically fund both these activities if you are the government but really nasty and illegal if you are not. Both positions cannot coexist.
Yes folks, hold on tight to the contents of your stomach. Believe it or not, here we have Alastair Campbell, acting as the arbiter and high priest of purity and decency. This is the man whose antics went so far off that particular scale in relation to the dodgy Iraq dossier he had to resign his post as chief spin-merchant for Labour.
Hateful bastard, just about equal to Goebels with much in common.
…and a self-confessed nut job to boot!
W
The man hounded Dr. Kelly to death. He can go fuck himself, the pompous whore.
Spot on !! just watched him on Ch 4 news.!! Lying hypocrit.
Poor man, remember he’s mentally ill!
No he isn’t mentally ill – he’s a complete fucking cnut who cares about no-one but himself and his employer. And he has the nerve to go for Coulson for something years old…
Blair espoused god for self protection, Campbell espoused depression for self protection. Bingo! Wonder what the gorgon will espouse?!
Carrier bag, empty beer cans, two bricks.
As I said before Campbell should take a slow train to Patagonia.
He should take a short walk to the Gallows if you ask me.
Does he not realise what a cnut he is in attacking Coulson for allegedly doing exactly what he did for 10 years in Bliar’s press office?
Trev, you were a God!
And a gentleman!
nearly as good as me!
Please please get real, Josef Geobels was a saint compared with Campbell – a genuine and certified lunatic (note his medical records)
I bet the Guardian thought they had a “Telegraph Expenses” scoop that was going to last for weeks and bring them additional new readers every day.
Could you call the Guardian a “newspaper”, come on folks get a life!
Guardian Newspaper = rGNpidau naepswera
My ole. dad now long gone used to call the Grauniad a disgusting anti-Semitic left wing rag. I am delighted to say that neither he no I ever ever bought the rag nor have I ever searched it on line – for free. Ugh…the very word makes me shiver.
here is a prediction. They have got one which will run and the Met are going to be forced to defend their position which will make it all the bigger. Lets face it – either the Met are covering up which simply inflates the story or the story was spun and planted by Labour in the first place – in which case there is no chance they will back off. Ask yourself; what happens when one alleged victim comes forward each day and makes a fresh complaint to Plod. This could be real fun.
This is not malfeasance in public office, it is business practice in a private corporation.
If criminal, it is a matter for the Police. They have investigated, prosecuted and closed the book.
The story will hardly run to midnight.
And it kicks off again this morning – lots of victims planning legal action. Guess my prediction was right.
When will you learn to take the BBC with a bucket of salt?
Absent prima facie evidence, there will be no legal actions. If the evidence if no better than hearsay, judges will dismiss applications as simply frivolous – the Law is not a gravy train. (Which is why zanu liebore have had to create a system of shadow law, such as ASBOs, etc, in order to promote a compensation culture that they can throw money at – their gerrymandering exceeds even their propaganda).
The evidence is not hearsay. Large parts of the evidence are in the hands of the Information Commissioner.
You may not want it to be but this is a big story and if the Conservitudes choose to roll in the gutter they will get covered in ordure! ordure!
For your sake I hope you don’t bet on the gee-gees as well, Anonymous. Here’s a prediction!
No I don’t bet on gee-gees – but I do bet where good odds are available. Best bets were on the Olympic heptathlon of 1996 and on WBA to stay up on the last day of the great escape. Just looking at the facts and the odds available.
We have a phone smear campaign emanating from Labour’s favourite lav paper the Guardian backed up by a more than willing BBC and a posse of pontificating senior labour politicians and advisors who have an aura of respectability bordering on sainthood festooning their very presence(I am taking the piss) Prezza,Mandelson,Campbell to name but a few.
Up steps Yeats of the Yard who understandably was bitten once over the Durrell affair, twice by the CPS and unless he is completely barmy is not going to give new Labour the chance to shite on him for a third time – just to give Brown a pyrhhic victim – explains that they have thoroughly investigated phone tapping before and found no new evidence.
What really disgusts me is that this appears to be blatant politicking by Labour who are now organising their own enquiry.What for? The last time they had a whitewash job a victim committed suicide, two others were sacked and the perpetrators got off scot free.Labour really should not go down that road again they could really make the biggest mistake in their history or should I say they probably will be history when the voters get their say.
I think this one might really turn round and bite newlabour. Yates is not a plod to be messed around with. Got my fingers crossed!
Is there any chance, hopwever remote, that Brown and New Labour might stop pissing about obsessing about the Tories and just get on and try to run the fucking country.
The biggest laff of all is there is no evidence that Prezza’s mobile was ever hacked. Probably doesn’t even have one. Imagine those porky fingers trying to dial a number.
Dear Coulson
Are you saying that Prezza is fat?
I suppose hanging round Tories you see a load of meat on the hoof!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
He is a fat, thick, greedy, bully. Someone to laugh at rather than with.
Prescott might be laughing on the other side of his face when Murdoch duffs him up.
I have my uses. I operate Pickles’s voicemail boxes.
Go back to Grinder
I’m fooking gutted that my phone wasn’t tapped after all!
Bang goes 700K from Rupert!
The bloody government has been tapping my phone for years, so now I hope the politicians crying foul, feel as I do. They don’t like it up em’ do they?
Newlabour are in love with the surveillance society, but don’t ‘like it up’em’ when the boot’s on the other foot!
Let me get this right. The government can track me throughout life using a myriad of techniques ranging from mobile phone triangulation to health records. They want me to carry a card so I can prove who I am yet the plod will already make bloody sure who I am if they suspect I’m up to no good. They do want to put a GPS in my car so they can track me in real time too. And that fat barsteward is kicking off because his phone got bugged?
These fuckers are bugging every sentence I write, while they compile the minute details of my life and plan ever more intrusive ways to fuck me off. What gives?
Burn the fuckers I say. Large fire made of English oak.
Prescott is enjoying this return to “the news”, not much else happens in his life now. He’s loving it!
Is ‘dial a number’ some strange practice involving Tracey?
The Crap Piper at the Gates of Doom is clearly not a believer in karma.
Yawn…
Labour, the BBC and the MSM are getting all in a tizzy over this but the public couldn’t really give a shit.
The people who were hacked are all overprivileged and stupid not to change their pass-code from 1-2-3-4 Durrr!
I agree, go get a life!
How on earth did you know my password?
If Yates says there is no new evidence, why will Coulson or anyone else have to be grilled by the select committee? It’s a waste of their time, our time, MPs’ time and media space. Can’t the committee just go on holiday, for goodness sake…
Sky’s strap says CPS is demanding the matter be fully investigated. They normally drop everything in their hands like a hot stone.
Maybe nobody’s told them?
‘Cos newlabour are the spiteful party.
Labour will do fucking anything they can to keep a grasp on power because they are like all socialists fucking deluded. Their hatred of the Tory idea formented in their heads is enough to slash and burn Britain just out of spite. Better fuck Britain in the short term than let a Tory rule.
Evil fuckers the lot of them. Ex communist to champagne socialists.
I wonder if all this is merely a case of Labour going kamikaze on Murdoch because they’ve finally realised they’re not going to get his backing at the general election? ie – if you can’t join them, beat them hard with a stick.
Calm down dears. It is just a spin doctor’s bitch fest
Ex spin doctor please!
Now that Scotland has decided there will no further investigation maybe murdoch will go kamikaze on them.
Not the most sensible General Election strategy, to upset murdoch in such a major fashion, just when you need all the media backing you can get, is it?
Thinking back to tony’s day, don’t I remember an incident where brown got upset because tony was entertaining murdoch to tea and no.10 and gordon was excluded. And in order to keep the peace murdoch then had to attend a tea at no.11 hosted by gordon. Gordon thought murdoch was important to him way back then…………………
McDebt thought the bankers Goodwin and Hornby were important back then as well – they were in and out of no 11 all the time.
Yes – and don’t forget Goodwin got a knighthood for “services to banking” from McDoom.
This is just Labour desperation to get anything they can use against the baby eating Tories. Ask not for whom the bell tolls Gordon.
This is pathetic – the best Campbell and Mandy can do but pathetic nonetheless.
This will all go pear shaped as everything nu labour touch these days turns to shit, cant wait when those stupid bastards led by Campbell open the pandoras box with this story and all the smelly stuff backfires on them .
Labour are pathetic! A failing government trying to upset the Conservative “apple cart”. I listened to the old spin doctor Campbell on Sky. He really is pathetic, he should go and get a life somewhere else like Patagonia perhaps. Labour is dead, over and completely finished, roll on the general election.
I think the best place for this foul mouthed man would be the centre of Helmand Province without a flak jacket and right about now whilst there is a battle raging.
Agreed!
With a bacon sandwich!
mmm, bacon sandwich.
Yes. What is really rich is that if the Guardian story had been true in every detail and if they could back it up, it would implicate the then Labour Home Secretary (early 2007) in a very nasty cover up. Looks like Labour were pointing the gun at their own foot when they fired this gun. At best they (and their in house journal the Grauniad) look very, very silly and at worst, the Labour Government of 2007 looks very, very corrupt!
Wearing Hi Viz clothing!
Typical Labour tactic, throw enough shit and some will stick.
Liebour may be dead, but they can still be dangerous. Over here when you whack a snake with a spade (can I still say that?) you better be sure you get it first go, or you have one mad snake after you.
PS well done Ponting & Katich. Heading for a draw, can’t have 5 good day’s weather in Wales. Pitch is a disgrace for day 2.
So if Coulson should go shouldn’t the Queen of poison Mandy also go? It seems to me that telling porkies to your bank about your finances is a criminal offence.
Talking of Mandy and rather O/T – it was said today that mandy has his sights set on that plush flat in Admiralty Arch just vacated by the resignation of Malloch-Brown. The very same one that prezza occupied as deputy pm.
Mandy was said to be rather pleased that malloch-brown had gone and was hoping gordon would now confer the flat on him.
I wouldn’t get too settled there mandy – you’ll not be there very long. Hardly worth the hassle of moving really!
It would still be an opportunity to waste another few £100k’s of our money on re-decoration, though!
You could of course save time and money by just getting Osborne’s firm in to do it in the first place.
Toenails looked a right prick on the 6PM news. Going on and on about Coulson having been up to no good.
At least the BBC have stopped running the interview with that fucking fat twat Prescott. After all John had nothing to hide and there would be no reason that any newspaper would need to find out his dirty little secrets… oh apart from the fact he was chasing fat slag around his office in work time trying to fuck them.
Did I say in work time as well? So that’s OK John, we the public don’t need to know about you cheating on your wife during working hours.
She were no slag
A fine woman with a twat as tight as a mouses ear
Unlike our Paulines which is as loose as a clowns pocket
Not fat – just big boned
Not fat at all – he had anorexia – he’s thin as a rake. Isn’t he?
He is fat because he is even crap at bulimia.
When I go out on the raz of a Friday night, have fifteen pints of Stella and then go for a stinking curry I usually throw up in an alley afterwards. I blame it on the old bulimia.
STUPID HOONS
Just imagine what Andy has in his personal safe.
Campbellend even coughed the job to being a pissed up nutjob porn writer
Imagine what the Hoon hasnt told us.
And John Smallcock cumming over all righteous on TV was hilarious.
Next it will be Wacko Jocko gurning over his Moral Compass (yet again) and telling us all how it started in whopping(lies)
” For Labour Alastair Campbell is trying to frame the terms of the media narrative in such a way that if it is shown Coulson did “anything improper or illegal, or condoned, used or benefited from anything improper or illegal, in his time as editor of the News of the World“ he has to go.”
Who does Campbell think he is?
The man responsible for sexing up the 45 minutes dossier, lecturing other people/committees about what is acceptable or not.
Stinking hypocrite of a man. He wouldn’t know the truth if it jumped up and slapped him in the face!
I hope tat has him firmly in sights?
Apologies Trevor @ 7# You had already made much the same point in your post.
I was so incensed at reading what Campbell had to say, that I didn’t check the thread first. Sorry!
politeness is the new black
politeness is wasted on you, dalek-features
Cancel that comment – sorry, I thought you were master-baiter
TaT signed up to pacificism and gone to meet NewGirl at the OxoTower.
I stood him up.
but you do have pmt as you said earlier…
yes, he’s probably lucky I stood him up…
don’t tell porkies mrs new girl!
I called it off when I found out you were a married woman.
quick! hubbie’s home better log off before he starts thinking you are having an affair!
if you have to lie mrs new girl then you must have a guilty conscience.
innit.
Oh sod off Twat I can’t be bothered .
good to hear mrs new girl.
thick as thieves bashes another tory troll’s head in.
excellent.
if you can’t take the heat new girl then bugger off to conservativefoam.
and take that c’unt engineer with you please. the fucker must have alzheimers the way he staggers around this place.
are you two related?
conservativefoam is more your thing, go there now.
thankyou.
thank God we’ve got rid of that silly cow.
Thought the golden ticket you offered lasted for 7 days before the skull bashing started??
Knew you weren’t up to it TWaT, twated by a GIRL, ha ha ha.
you tell the trolls anything you dopey fuck and then when they are up close
YOU BASH THEIR FUCKING BRAINS OUT!
I have decided to bash your brains out now AM.
let the game begin.
hold on a minute…..am sticks up for new girl, why would he do that? that’s it!
anonymous mysoginist you dirty c’unt you are having an affair with new girl!
you dirty fucking rotter, new girl is a married woman you c’unt.
sums you up dunnit.
you’d fuck anything you scum tory troll.
you’d probably fuck your own mother.
and she would probably charge you.
the slut.
Listen TWat, It’s C’unts like me that make Pricks like YOU, stand to ATTENTION !!
My Mother died recently, but thanks for your concern. xx
I DON’T FUCKING BELIEVE IT!
this is fucking great, absofuckinglutely fantastic!
anonymous mysoginist is a fucking bird!
you are a woman!
for fucks sake you could not make this shit up.
note to tory hq: what, haven’t you got any men trolls, what is it with sending all these birds here?
you fucking weird bastards.
grow a spine you fucking cowards and send some men to the frontline.
AM, let me see if I can double my money: are you a lesbian as well?
I am pro lesbian, I am merely making the observation that women who post in such a butch fashion as you do have higher levels of testostorene than straight women.
therefore you are probably a lesbian.
and I fully support your right to be a lesbianist I say thumbs up to it.
and top boy’s top dream is to engage with lesbians all night long.
but this is not quite what I had in mind.
oh and sorry to hear about your mother.
if it’s true.
trolls lie.
that is what they do.
you sick c’unt.
Go TaT!
and that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you bash a trolls brains out.
first lesson free.
ah tat you flatter yourself. Only bashing you have ever done has involved grannies with zimmers like most toytown nazis.
reader please note: the troll is now so confused and brain damaged that it can only just push the anonymous button and type gibberish into the keyboard.
at this stage the damage done to the skull of the troll is terminal, no surgery will be able to reverse the crushing blow I have caused which has permanently crippled the troll.
soon it will die and no-one will care.
because it is just a SCUM TORY TROLL.
oh and sometimes they twitch for a bit, it is just the death throes so don’t worry if that happens.
Hows Dr Micks treatment coming along?
Thanks TWat and of course I accept your apology, have you gone soft again??
Your not always right TWat but your wrong again and remember, self praise is no recommendation.
TWat’ Report. Must Try Harder.
Oh Misog ignore him he’s wrong in the head..Utterly bonkers. Yesterday he wanted to be my mate. Day before that he said I was old. Day before that he said I was male. Day before that he said I was a prostitute. Now I’m married and having a lesbian affair…I can’t keep up…Twat go away, there’s a dear, go and kerb crawl or something..
TWaT is just being TWaT, sad really.
Don’t jump the shark, tat.
you are no friend of mine new girl.
you are just a tory troll.
better put your tin hat on love.
tat – I see no denial that you are a toytown nazi. Mind you, you can write so that may be circumstantial evidence against my theory.
I am an anti-fascist independent minded fellow.
you are just a SCUM TORY TROLL.
please stop insulting the intelligence of the reader you retard.
thankyou.
He’s a vile lying self serving skunk. Would you buy a second hand car from that man?
No, but he does a nice line in sisters doing it for themselves films!
So the allegation fell apart within 14 hours, even after MPs in the commons had used parliamentary privileged to slander Coulson. What a bunch of nobends Liebour are.
Give them enough rope!
John Yates of Scotland Yard has said there is no reasons for any further investigation and to boot there is no evidence that prezza’s mobile was hacked. Prezza will be disappointed.
AlastairC is still spinning to try and bring coulson down not because he thinks he’s guilty but because he believes he can can score some cheap political points on the opposition.
Alastair should reflect that there are many of us out here who remember his spinning of lies over the case of Dr David Kelly. Alastair brought himself to grief that time with his vicious behaviour – hopefully he’ll do himself the same service this time as he tries to manipulate events. Hateful,odious, grubby man.
Campbell resigned in the wake of Dr David Kelly’s death on his or Blair’s recommendation?
Nell, I think you have the measure of Campbell.
Most of our fellow bloggers will agree with all your points. The general public, who does not share a fascination with the cut and thrust of political life, will just see further reasons for hating politicians and the political process. Cameron will be less tainted than the Labour drones as his message was straight forward, positive and authoritative. The effect may be subliminal but each incident adds a fraction of a percent to the Tory vote and shaves a slice off Labour’s. What a long slow car crash.
But I am a member of the general public?
You are a member of the general public with a specific knowledge of politics. Most people can’t name their own MPs let alone Shadow or Government Ministers. The expenses crisis has politicised a wider public, but only to the extent that voting (or not) is seen as a protest or a choice of the least evil. I am not saying that we should love and respect our political leaders – informed cynicism is my natural preference – but it is depressing that HM Loyal Opposition is only attracting a third of the voting electorate when polled. And this at a time when we are being subjected to the worst government in living history.
When you spend time on sites like this you start to assume that lots of people feel as you do. It’s a closeted virtual world. If you asked the average (wo)man on the street what he thought of politicians at the moment, yes… he’d probably say they were corrupt scum. That doesn’t mean he’d detach the TV drip on a drizzly evening to go and vote.
dave can’t break the 50% barrier.
therefore he has not got sufficient support or propaganda ammo to win an outright majority.
even if the tax evader aschroft is funding the marginals with his tax free cash
the marginals will have points shaved off because of the disgusting expenses and allowance claims including the incorrect claims made by the leader of the tories.
so it will be a hung parliament.
you know nuffink.
put some money on it wanker.
good cripple.
TaT you are making a similar point to mine, albeit in your inimitable way. I am not sure I yet agree on the next parliament being hung. The trend, although sticky, is towards the Tories and polarisation is likely to accelerate as the GE approaches. You are licensed to abuse.
As to the 50% barrier this was last broken by Eden in 1955. It was mainly a result of the Liberals only fielding around 100-150 candidates and the election being broadly a two horse race. All elections since have seen three main parties contesting most seats and credible nationalist candidates in Scotland, Wales and NI. Even minor party candidates (Greens, UKIP and B’N'P) have become forces in a large number of seats. So Cameron will never get 50%, but he should be polling more than 33-38%.
A final point is that it is not an overall majority of votes that will deliver a parliamentary majority, more the winning distance between the first and second past the post. A 15% gap should deliver more than a reasonable majority. Defection from Labour to the smaller parties and independents will have the effect of increasing Cameron’s majority in the HoC.
Dear tat
I think this time you are going to be wrong – the expenses scandal is huge – and plays many ways with the public – on many levels – shallow and deep.
With apathy in the ascendancy, as Silvio would say, its more a question of who can keep their vote up, rather than winning over the floaters.
Public apathy and anger (which I think is nell’s point) will have a major impact on the vote. Avoiding voter attrition is essential and so far Cameron has succeeded better than the others in this respect. However, the public anger element adds volatility to the vote: a single slip by Cameron could cost him dear. He has seen off the Coulson threat but it won’t be the last time he is tested.
The volatility aspect also affects Labour: if they replaced Brown in October with a leader who had Cameron’s ability to connect with the electorate, we may all be surprised at how big the bounce would be. TaT’s prediction of a hung parliament may yet come true.
There’s no antidote to apathy at the moment. That worries me more than anything.
The only antidote unfortunately will be shock. Either a total fiscal meltdown,or a catastrophic terrorist attack. We’ve had corruption of all establishment icons,which has made no difference. Who said all decadent societies go through a period of absurdity shortly before collapse?
He’s also vindictive. He wants to get Coulson. He is not a nice human being.
mr coulson is in deep trouble, and if cameron hangs onto his mate for too long it will do enormous damage to the new conservative brand.
Read the blog before you post and you might understand your folly.
You are Gordoom McDebt and I claim my 5 pounds.
“Essentially the Tory position is that Coulson has taken his punishment already, so it doesn’t matter. Not exactly occupying the moral high ground.”
Sorry guido coulson resigned over what happened……it didnt happen when he was working for Mr Cameron…and as far as i/we/you know Coulson didnt actually do the “hacking/bugging”
And what did happen was no “McBride” affair either…..so in my view there is no “moral highground” to take
Its just a case of Labour trying to make to conservatives look bad in the publics eye, why should Cameron pander to Labour…when Coulson has not done anything wrong ?
oh and alistair campbell is a grade A c’unt
It’s sickening. Who are the three labour voices against coulson?
prezza that pillar of society and moral rectitude (he who had multiple affairs whilst in office – literally), mandy – who had to resign twice for hardly minor offences and who appears to have manipulated immigration rules in order to bring in his boyfriend and campbell – the political assassin supreme and tormentor of Dr David Kelly.
Not exactly the chevaliers of honour are they? Why would we the public want to listen to these tainted, diminutive ‘human’ beings.
Yes Nell, as in “America” it is time for regime change.
It all started in America.
It all started in Scotland.
Just seen WoolAss on Sky saying that as it happened on Coulson’s watch he should not be employed by a Political Party.
Brought back those immortal words to me.
“I take full resposibility this affair and the person resonsible has been dismissed”
The BBC news story was funny. Announcing it as the major evening story on air then admitting Scotland Yard aren’t investigating anymore, due to a hasty announcement before the show went live. Hah.
All that was needed was a fried egg dropping on the presenters face. It’s a living, eh? Onwards to Liebour’s next vilification scheme of ‘either with us or we will smear you into the ground.’
Labour have already fallen off the cliff, in 2010 it will become official.
I don’t think anybody’s told the Newsnight office:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/fromthewebteam/2009/07/thursday_9_july.html
They’ll catch on soon enough. It’s that nice Mr Esler tonight, so sure to be exciting, though not as exciting as last night, when the great draughtsman brought out Ms Maitlis’ hidden detail admirably.
Its so sad to see such a poor effort from the labour spin machine and the leftie media up to there usual tricks, they were so much better at it when John major was in.
What with the by- election due shortly as well its such a shame.
I dont think that ditching a few unpopular policies last week ( sorry putting them on hold )will help much either.
Are those people who call themselves MPs still corrupt little bastards or have I missed something?
No you haven’t missed anything.
Spot on.
From Poulson to Coulson. Nothing changes!
The guardian this afternon, in discussing the coulson affair, called AlastairC “a scholar and a gent” !!!!
Presumably the scholar bit refers to his pornographic scribblings. But ‘gent’ ? I can’t think of anything in his public life that would support that tag.
Who wrote this eulogy to the mythical alastair? Ah! michael white!
Enough said!
Agent of the government
Half a toilet perhaps?
Shove in Maguire and its Gents.
He wrote a rubbish book.
He.s got form has Alistair, and he’s funny in the head.
The police have said they see nothing new to investigate so they are not going too. So its down to the Labour dominated committee to spread the shit even though there appears nothing to answer for.
The Met have just released this statement:
MPS Statement – Alleged unlawful tapping of mobile phones.
Wish I could see the egg on Prezza’s face.
Glad I can’t!!
who’s the fat perv in the photo? has fawkes had a haircut and lost weight?
most likely prezza.
Chris Huhne is a Hoon and Anne Clwyd has a more than a few skeletons in her cupboard. Lamentable performance in the commons this afternoon.
Ed Balls is still a liar
A. Clywd the Member for Kurdistan South. Charity begins at home, look you.
Clywd was very helpful to B’liar in the run-up to the 2nd Iraq invasion by propagating the nonsense that Iraqi dissidents were being put into meat mincing machines. Good old Ann – always there when there’s no-one else daft enough.
Ann Clwyd supported t blair and his war on Iraq right to the wire, the bitch, bleating all the way.
Yes it’s off topic but it is topical and sums up the reputation of The Gorgon
Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband made his first appearance at the despatch box today since he returned from paternity leave.
But his Tory shadow Greg Clark couldn’t resist the open goal.
“I must say that he’s looking fantastically well – despite being woken every two hours by screaming and bawling…Or perhaps he’s not answering the phone to the Prime Minister any more.”
hat tip to Paul Waugh…….
Nice one. Shame socialists don’t do humour as well.
Oooo nice one
Ha ha ha :-)
Alistair Campbell meets the people on CiF (they’re not favourable !)
While we moan about Guidos moderation , I think this blog must hold the record for the most comments pulled. I’d love to know what they said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/09/cameron-statement-andy-coulson?commentpage=2
They were mostly about Campbell’s cheek in criticising another hack for lax standards – the phrase “pot calling the kettle black” was bandied about. Remarkably little plain abuse.
Didn’t matter, dozens got deleted anyway…
He’s got several faces has alistair campbell.
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If anybody is wondering why the story fell apart so quickly besides it being total and utter bullshit this also occurred;
The Guardian
PM: Phone-hacking ‘very serious’
Gordon Brown says revelations of News of the World’s journalistic tactics raise ’serious questions’
JONAH strikes again!!!
Guardian are desparate. If the govt stopped advertising all the over paid public sector jobs in Guardian in the “society” & “education” supplements then the Guardian is B O O M, no more, bust, gone, finished
If Guido offered good rates to advertise govt jobs here – the guardian would be finished!!!!
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eh up did i miss anything was playing some cricket
freddie darling …. we are rooting for ENGLAND!!!!!!!
eh the crowd was brilliant , the lads know the country behind us
that was me winding ned kelly up on 1st thread am not to good at this
There’s nothing like sport to deflect the electorate from what really matters.
This story is only being hyped up because the Labour Party think they can make political hay out of it. What about Lord Mandelson and his return to gov twice? Shoould he had deserved a third chance?
http://www.plenty2say.com
I am at a loss, if the respected Yates of the Yard says there is nothing in the Guardian story or the concerted smears from Labour politicians, the BBC, ex-Labour spin doctors and ex-Rupert Murdoch employees just what is the Common’s Selectect Committee going to investigate?
I know that the Commons has virtually nothing to do as they twiddle their thumbs until dissolution next May but, is this the best they can occupy their tiny little minds with; investigations into unsubstantiated twitterings in the Labour loving Gruinard.
Wharever next, investigations into Gordon Brown, Ed Balls, Harriet Harman, Lord Mandelson, Alistair Darling telling lies about the economy and ever rising levels of National debt every time they speak or will it be why the many food outlets at Westminster do not offer scottish mince pies for all the Neandrathol Labour MPs as they work up the strength to vote on another English only matter!!!
Like all Labour committees the victim has already been sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered the Law and fact have very little if anything to do with it.Its call a Kangaroo court.The victim will be ushered in and subjected to one sided inuendo,smeared unmercifully and sent packing.
If you want a classic example take the Hutton whitewash ask the survivors Dyke, Gilligan and anyone with a set of balls in the BBC before they were taken over by Labour just what they were guilty of apart from telling the truth.
What about that fat pompus twat Prescott demanding a police investigation.
This is the bloke who charged the taxpayer for his mock tudor beams and his shithouse seats. Cheeky BASTARD
Yes the thieving lying BASTARD! Bloody WHY doesn’t anyone cross examine them on a few of their own misdeeds? WHY do they just pop up on telly and on radio bold as bloody brass, and NO ONE says a thing to them? They should be laughed off air….HOW DARE CAMPBELL TAKE THE MORAL HIGHGROUND?
campbell is a sludge toad who hasn’t seen the high ground since birth.
Life is quiet on here tonight – share a bottle of tesco’s cabernet sauvignon?
Love to Nell I need a drink!
Nell I just tried to say yes please, but I’m being moderated….!
No wonder your being moderated, your langauge is deteriorating by every post!
I think I’m in a bad mood….Sorry!
Ignore them – I hear – Cheers!!!!
never mind him being a toad, nell.
alistair campbell is a war criminal who should be hanged from his neck until he is dead.
like saddam hussein was.
alistair campbell is sub human scum who helped create war out of thin air.
actually never mind the expense of setting up the gallows and hiring a hangman, a quick double tap in the back of his head would do the job just as well.
actually fuck it, let’s hang him, it would be more of a spectacle and we could sell tickets and do a pay per view deal on sky.
sweet deal!
Did Campbell ever go to Iraq to have al ook for those alleged WMD’s that he managed to sex-up into real ones pointed at Britain? A little tour doing spin in Sadr City, or over in Afghan on patrol in a paper-sided truck might teach him to be a bit more circumspect in future – tha man’s a disgrace and should not be lauded on TV or anywhere else – please just ignore him.
is it a case of The Guardian trying to do a Telegraph…….and failing badly
It’s a case of the guardian doing a labour and fouling up again ….and again….and….
Good, Murdoch will be after him!
Hooray!
The Tories have someone as disgusting and immoral as that odious scum Alastair Campbell AND he might survive for Labour to take potshots at for months.
No wonder we are celebrating!!!! Oh happy day for Tory idiots!
The view from the high ground up here is breathtaking,
Just stand a little bit closer to the edge and I’ll happily give you a push.
Sorry I need to explain it for you nell but the high ground statement was irony and directed at those Tories celebrating that their man is as bad as Campbell but he seems to have survived for today.
I’m not actually ON the high ground the point was they CERTAINLY aren’t now.
Feel free to ask next time you don’t “get” something.
patronising git.
No-one could be as bad as campbell- foul – evil – unworthy human being that he is !!
I am sorry you aren’t actually on that high ground – ie – edge of a cliff!!!!
“No-one could be as bad as campbell”
Then why is Guido and others so keen to compare Coulson to him ?
Oh that’s right! because they don’t want him compared to McBride who is even worse. It’s like a beauty contest between a puddle of sick and a turd
foul – evil – unworthy human being that he is !!.
Why that’s almost exactly what “odious scum” means. What a coincidence.
Poor little nell. Thinking violence is always the answer.
Just like Campbell and Blair in Iraq in fact.
Too true!
eh up lad so there are as bad as labour ? so who should i vote for?
“No-one could be as bad as campbell”
Then why is Guido and others so keen to compare Coulson to him ?
Oh that’s right! because they don’t want him compared to McBride who is even worse. It’s like a beauty contest between a puddle of sick and a turrd
foul – evil – unworthy human being that he is !!.
Why that’s almost exactly what “odious scum” means. What a coincidence.
Poor little nell. Thinking violence is always the answer.
Just like Campbell and Blair in Iraq in fact.
155 Baron Gideon
I think your name is somewhat incorrect. It should be ‘Baron Alistar’ after the beloved chancellor who after all he flipped his home 4 times not just once.
No comparison to McBridegate. In fact the Gaurdian has shed light on the custom and practice of all the dead tree press which will not go down well with other journos. And all for what, a cheap shot at a guy nobody knows and who Cameron could cut loose anytime.
what a mistaka to maka.
Too true this story has deflated faster than one of me flans! but more fun to watch .
Inspector Yates sez – Scotland Yard not interested.
Telegraph – Just in
The Sun wasn’t interested in the Expenses disk ?
How did that all turn out ?
Yates is a bit of a smasher, though he disappointed on his last outing v bad behaviour in the house of lords.
O/T sorry – The Press Association reported tonight that knife crime in the UK has risen by 60% this last year. 60%!!!!
Alan j*hnson in an attempt to deflect criticism of these latest statistics, toured Moss Side Manchester today and claimed knife crime was falling.
What liars these people are??!!
That photo of John Wittingdale would make a good replacement for the old BBC test card (remember the girl with the toy clown?) .
Is john’s job outside parliament being a Vic Reeves lookalike?
This Andy Coulson thing ‘let it lie John,I said let it lie.’
It’s blatantly obvious this is a Labour/BBC/Guardian smear operation on the Tories.
The attacks on Brown’s (lack of) honesty have started to hit home in recent weeks so they are trying to tar Cameron with the same brush to weaken his onslaught on Brown.
As usual though, it has already started to fall apart and most voters will realise that this is just more dirty tricks from a dying and corrupt government and their media shills.
Labour’s dirty tricks try to throw a story that will stick every week. There was the Osbourne finances one before this. Also remember Camerons German accent?
They are pretty desperate, and what pisses is me off is this is what they are spending their time doing – mendaciously hanging on to power – rather than running a country.
mendaciously hanging on to power – rather than running a country.
PRECISELY sums it up in one simple statement
If they hacked in to Prezza’s mobile They would have found call backs from Pizza Hut, the Tandoori Chicken House, the Chinese takeaway and Pies 2 Go.
That was just Wednesday.
Not to mention his mistresses —- why do they they do it???
Power is an aphrodisiac, they say. So, no, I don’t know why they did it either!
Power is an aphrodisiac – in respect of prescott!!!
Not even possible!!!!!!
Will we be reading more gruesome details about Shagger Prescott and his porky girlfriend Rosie “Gobbler” Winterton in the News of the World this Sunday?
How long before Murdoch orders the publication of the photo of Gordon Brown dressed in a nappy riding a rocking horse?
Has he got a dummy in his mouth too, you know, like Ed Balls?
Gordo was sucking a toffee apple in the photo that I saw.
Well I know I commented on here earlier about the low paid and the 10p tax debacle. All joking aside, I really do care about low income workers and workers who cannot find employment in the current recession. I have never professed to be a politician but some one must start to care?
I have just come across these really astonishing figures published today in the daily mail. They have received no coverage other than the daily mail. Why would that be? Not even the public service broadcaster the BBC, to their great shame.
The ONE MILLION people who haven’t worked since 1997
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1198480/The-1m-havent-worked-1997.html
I repeat some of the article here but you are best reading the whole article yourself.
this is absolutely astonishing. Do we just not care any more about people who are less well off than we are? Are benefits now the only answer? I can’t believe that myself. Why aren’t the tories demanding answers now?
For fuck sake is this what this country really has come to?
More than one million jobless Britons have been living off state handouts for more than 12 years, it has emerged.A hardcore army of unemployed have failed to find any sort of work since Labour came to power in 1997.The true scale of the crisis has been laid bare by figures which break down for the first time the length of time people have been out of work.A further 1.9million have been on benefits for seven years or more, according to the Department of Work and Pensions.The 1.1million unemployed since 1997 amounts to more than a fifth of the 5.2million currently claiming out-of-work benefits.
The figures also reveal that youth employment has soared under Labour from 665,000 in 1997 to 888,000 today – a staggering 34 per cent.Opposition MPs said the cost to the public purse could be as much as £4billion. They added that an entire generation has permanently dropped out of society, leading to increased family breakdown and crime. Official statistics show that the gap between rich and poor has widened under Labour, with the poorest 10 per cent forced to survive on an income of just £87-aweek compared to £96 in 1997.Health inequalities have also increased, growing 4 per cent for men and 11 per cent for women. The revelations will fuel anger on Labour’s backbenches that the party has betrayed the most vulnerable in society.
Frustration boiled over earlier this week when Labour MPs launched a fresh assault on Gordon Brown’s controversial decision to abolish the 10p tax band.
Many fear a backlash from voters on low incomes. The figures also make a mockery of Peter Mandelson’s claim in 1997 that ‘one of the fruits of Labour’s success will be that Britain has become a more equal society.’
Shadow Chancellor George Osborne condemned the statistics, saying: ‘The bills of social failure have never been higher than under this Prime Minister.’
Liberal Democrat work and pensions spokesman Steve Webb said: ‘These people have lost all self esteem and the ability to find work and have been written off by this Labour Government.’ Mark Wallace, from the Taxpayers’ Alliance, added: ‘The way the Government have structured benefits means there is precious little incentive to start work and people are penalised for doing so.’It is time we raised the bottom income tax thresholds to help poor people back into work.’The statistics also show that the number of immigrants working in the private sector has doubled since Labour was elected, from-1.4millon to nearly 3million. This rise is the same as the number of jobs created in the sector over the same period.In contrast, the number of British-born private workers has dropped slightly, from 17.9million to 17.8million.Tory MP Michael Fallon, who sits on the Treasury select committee, said: ‘The interesting thing is that in Labour’s heartlands where people claim they cannot find jobs or are off work with stress, there are plenty of Poles and Lithuanians finding work.’A Department of Work and Pensions spokesman said: ‘As a result of Government reforms the number of people on incapacity benefit has fallen after it trebled in the ’80s and ’90s.’Of course some people suffer from serious long-term health problems which prevent them from working but our welfare reforms mean most people are expected to do something in return for support. And the extra help is working to get more people into jobs.’
Good info !
Join the debate, saith the BBC Question Time Site.
Question highlighted in speech bubble:
Should Andy Coulson be employed by the Conservatives…..is the amazing salary paid for out of taxation?
End of quotation.
They just can’t let it go.
Comes of being on amazing expenses I shouldn’t wonder.
Hypocrites!
Cameron can proudly proclaim I AM now undoubtedly the heir to Blair.
He has his own Campbell complete with lack of morals and scandal.
Coulson is just like him if you take away the swearing and ability to force the press to do your every bidding.
And the driving an honest man to his death, and the hijacking of the security services for party political purposes, and the intimidation of senior Government ministers. He has got a very long way to go to get anywhere near the misogynistic loudmouthed wanker’s league.
Tell it to Guido and all those drawing the comparisons including not a few Toryboys on here. There’s a good chap.
Yes, oh yes!
Whilst Two Shits Prescott has merely milked the Phone Tapping Story for all it’s fucking worth, LibDem’s Chris Huhne has been totally hysterical when hurling unsubstantiated allegations against Cameron and Coulson.
SO fucking what?
We all mess up at times in our lives
This chap hasnt told lies and killed/wounded countless innocents.
Cameron also looks a bigger man by the day, he sticks by people rather than knifeing them in the back.
Wacko Jocko on the other hand is a putrid steaming heap of shit that would bugger his dead mother in return for one more day in office.
Come on Wacko Jocko ,
if you are so popular and the right man to get on with the job
CALL AN ERECTION (you can find them in most chinese phone boxes)
I like mine with a hint of Samba
It was all WITHIN THE RULES I tell you. We all mess up within our lives, eh ?
If only they had used that for the Expenses scandal all would have been well.
So do we look the other way for all the Piggy MPs ? SO fucking what ?
Wow! Brown is shit. That the best defence you’ve got ?
Must have taken you ages to come up with the bleeding obvious like that.
Cameron looks like a moral midget as even Mr Fawkes so rightly says.
Wow! Brown is shit. That the best defence you’ve got ?
yep sums it up for me oh and at least he is a ‘moral midget’ not a ‘amoral tW*T’
Are we talking about Cameron or Coulson now ?
Amoral tw@t is now forever Coulsons job description.
Your nuances of “they is all big shitty boys but my fav shitty boy is not as quite as shitty” has lost me with it’s complexity and forceful reasoning.
Who’s Andy Coulson?
Andy Coulsons the guy all over the news and likely to remain there as speculation grows about his fate in front of the select committee.
The chap just like Campbell.
Who the public also didn’t really know but soon did after HE TOO appeared in front of Parliament to answer questions and not too long thereafter lost his job.
Can’t help seeing a remarkable similarity with this post Guido and my own response to Campbell on CiF – you been bugging my browser?
Yes, of course. Whatever. Do you have a day job?
Well they pay me…
I’d like to wish The Guardian every success with their Phone Tapping Story.
Id like to wish Rupert Murdoch every success in supporting the Tories at the next election.
I’d like to see the Sun headline next year. Tory Landslide, it was the Sun what did it, Phone Tapping? Nous?
hI GooRdoon, I sAw You at The G8
STaNdinG aT ThE BaCk.
YoUr SoCiaL SkillS claSSes aRe WORkiNg a TrReaT
HoNk honK !!!!
And that is why Harman prompted Dimbleby to shut up Ian Duncan Smith on Questiontime last week. Browns Broadcasting Company (BBC) CANNOT ALLOW THE TRUTH TO BE TOLD TO THE MASSES.
That’s simply not true! Dimbleby was attempting to have finger sex with me under the table.
Well we didnt see you squirting
Be fair, Dumblefuck always looks a bit wet.
Dimblebore’s not a patch on his father — nor his sister come to that — I went to school with her.
What ws the meandering point Dunkin Smith was trying to make?
Something about breeding on council estates?
John fuckin prescott on QT tonight so I wont be watching that! Guess he will be the one telling dimbleby to shut the other panellists up, like harperson did last week. Perhaps he can advise how to go about fuckin your secretary and how to beat up people who throw eggs at you.
You can guess why the beeb want him on there tonight and why he actually agreed can’t you; when the other week not a single, from 22 of them who were asked, labour establishment figure would appear. had to have a lord on there instead.
Will any one ask him about labours abandonment of the low paid workers and the very recent employment figures showing 1 million people have been permanently on benefits since labour came to power. Or will he want to talk about coulson? What do you think?
The audience tonight is schoolkids only so these cowardly Labour turds aren’t scared of them.
The Guardian will publish tomorrow redacted records of all phone taps highlighting instances of flipping between landlines and mobile phones.
I have come to the conclusion (way off message) that the welfare system in the UK is the root of our problems. It encourages sloth and once you have completed the jumps through the hurdles it’s a system that rewards failure rather than encourages success. It also seems to be a mganet for overseas losers who have never contributed a penny here to freeload there way to their “better” life. We do not owe these people a living.
I also believe that the NHS is not the sacred cow we think it is and if we had our employment linked to our healthcare as per the USA our work ethic would be a little different (especially in the public sector) when it comes to throwing a sickie.
The benefit system is like the green book.
It works on the theory that everybody is honest!
Thoroughly sound comment CWR and I wholeheartedly agree with you.
The linking of emplyment to heathcare as in the US in completely fucked.
How would you like it if you couldn’t change jobs because one of your children was ill and in the middle of treatment…?
stop talking daft steve.
you haven’t got a job, you’re a hobo ffs.
you should be the last person to knock universal healthcare in america.
you stupid bloody tramp!
shut up steve you smelly old tramp.
you are scum steve.
innit.
Simple question
You are stuck as far in the shit as you could be
Two choices as to who is by your side
Corporal McMental with his pants around his ankles shouting “dont panic” before tripping up and pissing himself in public or
“steady, we are all in trouble but grab your bollocks lets have a go “
Col Cameron
simple choice
Labour Lost Then Again!!!!
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I’d give this story another couple of hours, so I’d make the most of it if I were you.
Go on, fill yer boots.
Fill yer boots and then fuck off. This is a New Liars non story that will come back to haunt them.
Didn’t Alistair Campbell and Tony Blair have something to do with a cover-up on the invasion of Iran?
Didn’t a fellow died after telling them there were NO weapons of mass destruction?
Some people admit when they have made mistakes – Does this ever happen with any of New Labour – Old Labour politicians?
Sorry it was IRAQ
Come the revolution…….
Dr David Kelly said there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq –
Campbell tried to trash Dr David Kelly.
Unfortunately when the troops moved in they found Dr David Kelly had TOLD THE TRUTH
But by then Kelly had been assassinated.
Yes. But the question is who murdered him?!!!!
Most likely the Iraqi exiles who convinced bliar that Iraq had weapons of wmd!!!!!!!!
They already KNEW there were no WMDs.
One of the very first BBC front line films shot the day after the invasion showed our troops breaking into an Iraqi warehouse supposedly containing chemical weapons not wearing protective suits, masks or even anti-contaminent overalls — just normal kit.
What a con!
I will watch QT tonight after all, but the recorded one I kept of that babe magnet beckett. What afuckin pumellin she took. Thats why no one from labour would go on the show the next week.
Wont be too long now and they will all be gone. Fuckin lying bullying liebour, whose arrogance and deceit knows no bounds. Truly horrid people.
I can’t watch it. I heard Prescott was on, and I simply can’t watch it. I can’t afford the new telly.
This is crapest smear ever. Smeargate in the public sector for weeks and weeks. NOTW scandal broke last night Scotland Yard, there is nothing new here, end of. McMental will be front page again by Monday Guaranteed. In fact all this just to cover up that everybody at the G8 thought Brown was a nob. If a story from 2 and a half years ago that has been done and dusted is all Labour have against the Tories I say they are in pretty good shape. Anyway we all know that Tories know how to deal with being caught, it’s resignation time. Brown on the other hand leaves things to burn on for months.
New Labour have resignations too, only with them it’s an outstanding career move.
Funny how this came out, now, isn’t it? When Knife crime is up by 60 bloody Percent and when more of Brown’s goats are vanishing.
Gordn Brown slaughters his goats, knife crimes up SIXTY PERCENT under Brown’s watch, and he dooms Welsh workers.
For example:
Six gang members have been given life terms for stabbing a 14-year-old boy to death in an east London park.
Shaquille Smith was with two friends near London Fields in Hackney when the gang attacked them last August.
The killers were given minimum terms of 15 to 18 years by the Old Bailey judge, who labelled them “arrogant cowards”.
George Amponsah, 19, Godiowe Dufeal, 20, Amisi Khama, 18, Freddie Amponsah, 17, Kadean Dias, 18, and Leon Atwell, 17, were found guilty last month.
The killers, including two brothers, were sentenced individually to avoid possible violence in the dock.
Did it used to be like this? Am I suffering from amnesiac dementia and I just don’t remember these crimes from past decades? But such events are obviously a mirage because government statistics never lie do they? 0% increase, eh?
I can recall when a knife attack was a rare event. Now? 60% increase in convictions? That’s not, of course, the percentage increase in knife crimes. God alone knows how much THAT figure has gone up by. Twelve years of New Labour? Great.
We have gone backwards, not forwards. In Birmingham over 100 years ago there were the ‘peaky blinders’ street gangs who, it was claimed, had razor blades sewn into the peaks of their caps. They would whip these from their heads and slash the eyes of other gangs, trying to use the peaks to blind them. Hence, it is said, the name peaky blinders.
John Major hankered after Victorian value. But it took Gordon Brown to re-introduce Victorian levels of street violence.
Violent crime in Britain has rocketed in the last ten years. Don’t believe Labour’s attempted re-writing of history. Crime and anti-social behaviour are massively worse now than at any time in the past hundred years.
What I want to understand is when this increase in ‘respect’ violence started and why. Yes, you can and should bang these people for the rest of their useless lives, but the next generation is already in training for the fight. If they were merely killing each other you could declare it to be devolution (in the Darwinian sense) and eventually they would become extinct. But they foist themselves on the blameless and the passersby. Why? (And that’s not a rhetorical question – I really want to know.)
Perhaps they know that the innocemt passerby is already cowed – not just out of fear, but for another twisted sign of the times reason. The potential victim knows that the back to front justice system that Labour has created could see them up in front of the beak if they lift a finger to harm a scummy little charver
The reason for this is because these gang members who commit knife crimes do not have fathers living at home.Most of their mother’s have multiple relationships and have children by different partners.Also most of them are from the immigrant communties.There is one particular ethnic minority group who for the last 40 years have been living off the state. We know who they are but are not allowed to mention it. A lot of their men are feckless and do not support their children.
Diane Abbott tried to be sensible about this tonight but Andrew Neil and some stupid American woman who was on This Week were just joking about the need for men.This is the first time that Abbott has acknowledged this huge problem in her community and the advers effect it is having on the children – especially the boys.
Get caught carrying a knife = 5 years
scratch someone with knife = 20 years
kill someone with knife = never see the light of day again. ( Or after the revolution, hanging! )
Knife or other violent crime doesn’t matter to liebour. They and their families are not likely to suffer the consequences of any such crime, in the same way that an illegal war, in which our young boys and girls are losing their lives, will never affect them personally.
To them, victims of crime ( and our soldiers ) are just numbers, they mean nothing to them, other than in Cheries case, extra revenue for Matrix in defending the perpetrators.
Tough on crime? Yeah sure!
I’ve made a right tit of myself, haven’t I.
That twat Clegg will be laughing his arse off at me.
That’s why Clegg got elected leader and you didn’t.
Oh fuck, Question Time is a schools edition.
Coulson (of course), politicians mustn’t be nasty and shout at each other, we’ll all be dead from global warming by next year, save the whale.
Night folks.
They (may, depending on your circumstances) be paying your pension. Don’t be so patronising. So far I’m more impressed than I’d expected to be, cynic that I am.
Likewise. They’re very unimpressed by the politicos. Nice to see scepticism in those who are so young.
As a (secondary) teacher I spend a lot of my time trying to ‘educate’ kids to question authority/be aware of what’s happening around them. I have to say this QT is heartening me somewhat. My first instinct was not to bother watching but I’m glad I did.
I’m sure you’re doing excellent work Dack Blog , but wouldn’t it be a good idea to get them to question authority only after they know what the question is ?
In my experience many of the problems in schools and society at large are due to mindless “questioning of authority” , which seems to be merely code for Marxist Critical Theory .
Authority isn’t always bad , and constant disrespect for it leads to the low state of affairs we find ourselves in .
After all , wasn’t Gordon Brown once the darling of those who thought authority must be questioned/attacked at all costs ?
I agree. I don’t mean ‘mindless’ questioning though. I guess I mean authority with a capital ‘A’. To think for themselves, and not believe the bullshit/settle for the tripe they’re fed by the media. Even though I work in a tough school the vast majority (that we rarely hear about) of the kids are basically decent – despite the world that ‘we’ have created for them.
Dack Blog -
You’re right , the vast majority are decent .
They are the ones we should be fighting for , not the criminal or semi-criminal who get all the attention and resources directed towards them .
Even worse is the application of “Progressive” ideas about society and education foisted upon those least able to deal with them .
I used to call it “the morality of Kelvinside imposed upon Rigside” and thought myself very clever .
Keep up the good work .
A good QT, which is a relief after last weeks dire show.
Sarah Teather, who must be the oddest looking MP in the house, is worth her shilling. After winning Red Ken’s seat with a 29% swing in a by-election then increasing her majority by nearly 9% at the next GE she must have been doing something right. She also has one of the cleanest expense sheets in Parliament. A great constituency MP, I’ve often wondered if she is leadership potential. She impressed but …
The schoolgirl, Suzanne Burlton, held her own very well. Reminded me of Hague’s youthful appearance at the Tory conference, but without the self-confident swagger. We’ll hear more of her for sure.
First time I had seen Jeremy Hunt too. He has identical eyes to Ricky Ponting and somewhat of the Australian’s nervous energy. A reasonable knock but not a century.
Burnham not a disaster and certainly an improvement on his recent predecessors, even if the open necked blue shirt was a little obvious.
Chakrabarti was, well, Chakrabarti. Almost as permanent a fixture as Dumblebore on QT.
All in all good but not outstanding. Audience in particular was better than average.
See you all next term.
But Dimbleby was his usual hectoring self. Andy burnham appeared over awed by the occasion, definitely nervous, and looking a bit shame faced. Kept his mouth shut as much as he could, definitely 3rd rate, but thankfully not aggressive, looked as if he knew the game was up. The audience looked rather cowed and had been too well rehearsed, there was absolutely no voice of dissension.
Nobody, audience or panel mentioned the catastrophe for the Afghan people whose country has been fought over for several hundred years.
Was, dare I say it impressed with shadow culture minister, Hunt, who looked genuinely relaxed in an open necked shirt, unlike burnham who looked as if his tie had been wrenched off him! Dimbleby trying to look trendy with a large pink spider on a shiny black tie looked ridiculous. Get the tie off man, that would be a start!
LOL at one of the students from Liverpool though who is studying politics.She boasted that she was from the inner city and she wanted to go into politics.I think she felt she was the ONLY person from an inner city area who has ever gone onto higher education.Nu-Liebor has brainwashed their client state into thinking that it was only ever greedy middle-class types who EVER went on to thirde level study.What a joke. When I was at college some 40 years ago I would say that at least 60 percent of the very well educated students ( mainly from Lancashire and Yorkshire) were from working class families. Expect to see this particular young woman in some 10 years time on QT as a politician.
Even 30 years ago we working classers could afford to go to university.
Brown has just been on BBC Radio 5 trying to make political capital over the so-called phone tapping scandal.
Someone should tell the creep that it’s all backfiring on him.
piers morgan, former NoW editor, details in his first ‘book’ precisely how this phone hacking works and what a boon it is to journalism
Have the QT panel dressed down for a younger audience? They’re looking a bit casual.
Cee Beebies.
I think the youthful audience are doing pretty well.
I only watched it for 5 minutes.
I wonder if Master Baiter was there.
What’s killing this for Labour is having the fat moronic oaf Prescott gobbing off on any programme that will have him. They’re dreaming if they think this is payback for McBride.
Everyone just thinks, ‘well the papers did a good job in exposing the flatulent adulterating, troughing slob’.
Hilarious.
As Liebore and their thick as shit trolls whinge about a non-story, our troops are on the verge of being wiped out in Afghanistan. Still, Labours’ survival is worth so much. Without Labour we might all be happy and live nice lives. Now that won’t do at all. Pass the asprin and a swiss army thingy, Alistair.
gordon today has indulged in a 3 course breakfast – a 6 course lunch and an 8 course dinner-
And this after he has given a speech saying the world must act to combat hunger in the third world.
Bless!!!!!
Every time Prescott or Campbell appear on the telly Labour lose a few hundred thousand more votes.
And him with his manse credentials so firmly in place…. He must have felt positively depraved.
berlusconni has given everyone at g8 immensely expensive presents including itemised bathrobes! bathrobes!!!!
Othwy f course he has done nothing for the victims of the l’aquila eathquake and neither have the g8 vistors to the abbruzzo region.
The people of abbruzzo tried to protest about this highbro uncaring invasion of their region which has been devastated by earthquake but they were suppressed by the italian police. What a surprise!!!!
gordon and Sarah you should be ashamed!!!!
What ? No prostitutes ?
That’s bad form from the leering old corrupt pervert.
Strait jackets would have been more the thing.
Did you see the gorgon peeping out from the back row at yesterday’s gathering? Not in the first row with the top dogs! Totally eclipsed by obama, and next to a guy wearing a blue turban. Looked a bit disgruntled, – good. Sarkozy managed to get himself amongst the top team, perhaps because he is vertically challenged, and would have disappeared altogether otherwise. A gathering of suits mouthing inane platitudes, what a shower! C’est la vie!
….and this is the man who supposedly save the world…….
Aliar Campbell has stated that he wont run to become burnleys next MP.He probably make another statement soon saying hes been begged by the public of burnley to stand.
The lying continues.
R.I.P Dr Kelly.
I see Toenails Robinson has spent the whole day trying to smear the Tories.
Cameron’s first act as PM should be to come down on the biased BBC like a ton of bricks.
See Robinson in make up room at my place!
Cameron should have sacked him and passed the parcel to Murdoch.
O/T
Guido,
Would you care to consider promoting this prime example of NewLabour control of the BBC in action ?.
This video footage from last week is awesome in the true meaning of the word. It’s direct manipulation of the media and an example of censorship live on TV, on Question Time.
Truly appalling.
http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2009/07/brown-broadcasting-corporation.html
I think we’ve covered this already.
Maybe but I had missed that before
That is utterly unbelievable an utter disgrace. Anyone who has not seen this should watch and see it is direct and absolute abuse by Labour and the BBC to shut doiwn a reasoned debate on something they want to hide.
David Cameron take note please and do something when in power.
Dimble also then gets in an argument with him and resists allowing him to finsishe while Hardbint just sits there looking very smug.
I really just cannot believe what I just saw!!!!
i cant use the web well , now wheres that peadlo
Fuck me the old hag Selina ’soft focus’ is pretending she’s a celeb.
I’m watching in Wales, don’t spoil it. (time lag)
Diane, you’re just jealous. And please stop doing your cumface every time you open your mouth.
She was being filmed in the hairdressers in Knightsbridge one minute then on the This Week sofa the next.I don’t know what she was doing in between these two events but something big must have happened.Her hair in the studio made her look like a scarecrow. She must have travelled to the studio by tractor and cart. She looked messy and old. Lighting didn’t help……… Or her hairdresser must be Stevie Wonder.
Selina that is……
Jan, in the time between filming the first part and when she appeared in the studio she had had her otherwise dark hair completely dyed blond. It actually looked worse than before! No doubt the cheque for her appearance paid for that! She had had it done, apparently, in Knightsbridge. Certainly didn’t look like a Knightsbridge hairdresser in the earlier shots! What an insincere, fake,
vain sort of a person she is.
A real overindulgent wankfest on Newsnight about the Phonetap scandal.
A balanced lot of commentators too, we had Nick Davies from the Guardian,Brian Paddick ex Labour top cop,Max Clifford alleged victim and fat boy Prescott professional asshole.
What is clear is that Labour have declared war on News International.
The whole issue could cost Murdoch millions and it was all possibly jacked up just to take out Camerons press officer. Fuck me I hope Coulson was worth gunning for, because Murdoch is gonna tear Labour a new arsehole.
“because Murdoch is gonna tear Labour a new arsehole.”
Lets hope so :D
I think you’ll find the Telegraph has done more damage than Murdoch ever could.
Murdoch was already gunning for Brown so the difference will be negligable.
And he’s not God or all powerful.
He’s an amoral greedy old Ozzy press baron with some trashy channels and a some News rags in an ever diminishing market as Guido constantly tells us.
They also thought fat crook Maxwell would be untouchable and there forever.
How did that turn out ?
Bob, bob, bob, gently in the waves.
Its the truth that does the most damage.
I’m no fan of Murdoch but Blair knew which arse to lick and it wasn’t Polly Toynbees.
If it’s the truth that does most damage then that’s Murdoch well and truly fucked then.
Well you know that Brown is a bit of a fat-head? Could it be that they didn’t think this one through (I have no doubt that he is in the thick of it).
Why would they declare war on News International? It will tear them a new arse hole, and it doesn’t matter how much squeal.
This is like the attack on the Lusitania.
If the NOTW had been tapping all these political and celeb phones you’d think they would have published some of what they heard by now.
They did.
Or are you so naive to believe they would print their stories under the byline – obtained through illegal means.
I wonder if what was discovered about Brown will get published? If they intercepted Fatty Prescott’s voicemail, they’ll have definitely had a go at Brown’s.
“Hi, it’s Brett here, Gordon. Remember me from the beach party at Cape Cod?”
I hope alastair has finally climbed into his crumblings hermit’s cave. Damaged man!!!
Tat – bring on your Independents!!
Not ’cause they will win – but coupled with the tories they might make a great difference.
Night- God Bless
Mandy now has his Party Election Slogan for Brown courtesy of Coulson.
“I believe in giving people a second chance.” – David Cameron
Whooops!!!
You know when you pick your nose then try to flick the bogey and it just sticks to each and every finger then you try to rub it off and then it sticks to that hand as well and you start to panic because you think you will never be rid of the bastard.
Well that is how the country feels about Mandelson.
It’s also how most of the Labour backbenchers feel about Mandy.
But he’s joined to Brown’s drowning desperate hip until his inevitable implosion much like Coulson is now joined to Camerons hip until he does the same.
The next election is such a dead cert I am suprised Cameron needs Coulson at all. It wouldn’t do Dave any harm if he did dump him in the most public manner and lead the way in a new age of Spin free politics.
By the way I think Cameron is a twat lets be clear about that but I hate Broon and his wonky Government more.
One point that hasn’t been made about Coulson. He was the guy in charge of singling out the Expense Scandal Tories to be flung onto the bonfire so he is not universally admired in the Tory Party now. But they will put up with him. Again, much like Labour and Mandy.
A Cameron win is the obvious result at the moment and unlikely to change BUT nothing in Politics is a “dead cert”. Few knew the Expenses juggernaught would wreak such carnage and events can never be taken for granted.
I’ll be delighted to see the back of Brown too I make no bones about that.
The BBC are shit stirring again.
How long has Selina Scott been dead?
I noticed this morning that the female Pravda presenter looked straight at the camera when introducing a piece on Afghanistan and said with utter conviction “we are making a difference in Afghanistan’. That was it just a statement with no one else involved.
Anything for your paymasters eh luv?
Selina Scott, affair with somebody, anybody? She should be so lucky!
Umm. lets say Coulson was a convicted criminal who had served his time, but Dave refused to give him a job because of his past record.
Whatever would Polly say?
The Guardian web site has gone belly up. Have NotW journalists hacked into that too?
Unfortunately not, back up.
He won’t become editor of the Sun of course, because the Murdoch company won’t want to take back a man found to have been involved in wrongdoing. To suggest he might become editor of the Sun, if forced to resign from Conservative Party, is absurd.
I may have missed the point but all these witnesses from News International and elsewhere being called before the Select Committee – what if they say that they have nothing to add to what they told the committee in 2007 and as far as they know personally there is still nothing additional they can add – seems to me then that the whole shebang will be a total waste of public money other than an opportunity for various MPs to indulge in some ineffectual grandstanding(er what’s new there !)
These MP’s of course will be from the very party that tried to legislate to record phones calls and store every single email sent for 10 years minimum.
If it was not so sad the pious hypocrisy coming out of the Labour party and particularly McDickhead Lardarse Prescott etc would be totally laughable.
Prescott won’t sue of course he can’t as there is to much stuff in the cupboard.
Proof dear Watson, proof?
As labour contemplate wether to tell the public, state control will solve the crisis and invent a new quango to oversee a tripartate failure CW cant help but notice the parody that sHoonhorpe must feel as 320 jobs go at the steel works . as mr anon 9:04 points out the bills of labours social failiures are mounting , not just in terms of poverty , but in degrading of society into nutters and bank execs .
theres a pattern govt annouces new expensive regulatory body , jobs go in manufacturing , its a sort of ecnomic policy , over here we are doing somthing whilst over there somthing we dont want to talk about is happening . CW notes it is rather disappointing that politics has reached such a stage in the evolution of spin . As gordon gives a bizzarre set of media interviews at the G8 only bloke worth listening to Ban Ki Moon gets less than a minute .
Rest of G8 stare at shoes , declare 2oC is ok for earth to hot up to and still make money and inform us all that 2050 will be better day to sort it all out .
G8 should be renamed international shrug of shoulders and fine dining competition , all got gold medal . 2oC is a bit like , slightly longer in the oven , do you like your terra zone medium or rare .
my favourite bit was in Martin Shcukers look at a company who was planting new trees to off set carbon (payment made by polluter) , oh yes new little sapling will repalce , massive 200 yr patio furniture profit that we have chopped down . CW notes that at least half of all CO2 is aborbed by the oceans , no fancy carbon salvation project for the seas , just keep making them more acidic .
The we had combined lib lab attack in commons on coulson , should have been the NOTW but hey political revenge was in the air , as if revenging dirty browns press office ops was anything other than an own goal . Lib dems have been rolling out fake bar charts in norwich , labour have been rolling out fake financial stats .
mps are to take 12 weeks recess but hey its only a quarter of a year , hoping things will be better by October , nation to run on quango auto pilot , whilst pilot goes round country saying , “enjoying your flight with us !” please fly again with ruin airlines , additional sick bags to be charged at 15k per person but only after we change crews . nervous passengers is it ok if an engine falls off , Air chief viceroy great leader brown says , you must be mistaken this plane has two engines on one wing and one on the other it says so in the red book . Pilot then wispers to stewardess , show that person the special toilet .
Then toilets arronovitch gets wheeled out to review the week on late night this week , it rained this week but for once not on the great leader !! , almost managing a smile like that of derranged bear , hoping labour was not a lie all along . CW wife thinks labour are sinking into there own created national instability , still putting a swipe of the cudgell , but having to tell bigger lies to cover for the daily dose of small ones .
If david arrononvitch and any of the other semi automaous mouth peices for labour are distressed , because the required ammount of national power has slipped through there clunking fists and the fantasy glory of conducting everyones life to the tunes of blurr or scripts by Russel T Davies . CW is assured it was always was a wonk ideaology , dumbing nation down to the level of zombies for state control is corrupt .
our time will come , the lies wont be forgtten
I have a particular dislike of Aronavitch, and I don’t really know why! Could it be that he’s an opinionated, aggressive, egotistical, and not clever lard arse?!
He was one of the biggest lickspittle Bliarites there ever was and a cheerleader for Iraq who was forever spouting off complete nonsense about WMDs while making ludicrous toadying overblown claims about the “Genius” of Blair whom he regarded as some kind of Churchill.
(The nodding dog in the advert as he did Bush’s every whim perhaps)
He’s also a colossal twat.
Oh yes, and that too!
MP’s second jobs pubished a day earlier than planned…Hmmmm
You infidels
Allah will fuck you rpicket fence
Speak English and some sense or fuck off.
How do you find the time to post in between abusing any women you come into contact with,plotting bombings,attacking British Jews,praying to a child molester and sending all your welfare benefits over to your taliban friends so they can blow up yet more tommies?
I dont know how you find the time I really dont.
Piss off and get back to living in the dark ages. Surprised the word of Allah doesn’t prevent you from using a PC.
The New of the World (news of the screws) does exactly what it says on the ‘tin’ – its a horrible little rag that trades in/on other peoples misery/mistakes – to come to light these ‘incidents’ have to be found out and the dirt has to be dug – Coulson’s ‘team’ of muck diggers were not Nuns they worked for the News of the World for god’s sake!!!
Some might say that by resigning as he did he showed a high degree of honor where none might be expected!
An honourable News of the Screws Editor.
I’ll let that solid gold nugget sink in shall I
Though if by “honourable” you mean he quit to avoid the PCC inquiry that could have seen him share a jail cell with his royal reporter if it got a bit inquisitive, then yes, that is indeed “honourable” stuff.
The royal reporter obviously took the flack. Is he out of jail yet? Wonder what his gain will be?
What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They’re not! They’re just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, hen-pecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong? (Carre 1965)
Could not the same be said for today’s scene, especially as regards political spin doctors and journalists?
Woolarse making a complete c*ck of himself on Sky this morning – still trotting out the liebour party line “Coulson must go”.
Sad demented little man – his expenses paid for tampax must have slipped out.
A poor attempt at displacing our attention away from the fucking fuckers in Parliament and on to something of no consequence to mere mortals.
I couldn’t give two hoots if ‘celebs’ phones are hacked. They do fuck all for mankind, just fill the coffers of newspapers and liberate the less intelligent of their money.
I see Coleen’s son may have swine flu. Hold the front page – not. Who gives a toss?
What about us mere mortals right to privacy; my e-mails, phone calls, web usage, cctv and the rest? Until they fuck off with all this I will just sit back and indulge in a lot of schadenfreude. Sauce for the goose.
Celebs make their living by pandering to newspapers, then they don’t like it when the newspapers take the law into their own hands.
Shades of Saint Diana of the Colonic Irrigation here.
Interesting that it is reported this morning that ’serious allegations warrant further investigation’ says the Labour dominiated committee that will undertake this witch hunt oops! sorry formal investigation. What a terrible shame that just about every serious allegation against their own party has been avoided, obscured and then totally whitewashed.
Meanwhile Pravda this morning gleefully (and I mean gleefully) reports 3 separate allegations one of which is the CPS and also plod being criticised for not carrying out a further investigation. Are there champagne bottles in the corridor again?
Just wondering but whats the point of the CPS investigating when they will not have Police co-operation? It would be better if they pooled resources and investigated why a report costing the tax payer 16 million had been kicked into touch leaving thousands who lost their jobs at Rover without compensation of any kind. Also why the SFO is having their time and money wasted all just to avoid shitty barking and McFuckwit being heavily embarrased along with Labour because of the dubious activities at the last election.
Labour always screwing someone near you….its in their DNA
Hear hear. Fuck ‘em.
Another hear hear.
And Another!!
Morning Folks.
cor, you tory trolls are getting really worked up about this arent’ you?
interesting.
BBC censorship.
Robinson blogged that for this story there is “genuine outrage”
I wrote this:-
Genuine outrage? I don’t think so. The outrage is from you Nick, the BBC and Guardian oh and ofcourse liebour.We haven’t seen prescott for a while, then he appears on QT.Wonder why he was invited and why he decided to appear? Now why would that be?The other night in parliament, liebour couldnt even bring themsleves to be bothered about the genuinely low paid workers and ensured that 1.3 million of them paid 20p tax so that every one else could enjoy that too. Previously they only paid 10p. Can you ask prescott where he was when this was being debated?You never even bothered, despite being our public service broadcaster, to report that over 1 million people since 1997 have been permanently on unemployment benefits and that 1.7 million have been for over 7 years.Outrage when it suits them and when they are involved. But can’t be bothered to fight for the genuine low paid workers and the unemployed.Genuine outrage nick, don’t make me laugh, you should all be thoroughly ashamed of your fabrications and hype of this non story. No doubt just like the 10p fiasco you thought you could get one over on the tories.Nothing has changed at westminster or with those reporters and media who seek to help get this awful exscuse of a government re-elected.
They removed it and sent me this e-mail. So how did I offend their house rules?
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The sooner this bloated bbc is brought under proper control the better. And make sure I don’t have to pay for the scum either.
Fucking bastards!
Conservitudes oppose minimum wage.
Conservitudes oppose family tax credits.
Labour brought in the minimum wage.
Labour brought in family tax credits.
If you are able, do the arithmetic.
Using government approved calculations I make this a rise of 0%
When will the government be getting back to running the country -they all seem to be involved in a single issue debate on TV/Radio?
Any ministers actually doing their day job? You do the arithmetic.
you didn’t, you were censored. The get free rein to spout their Newliar propaganda,we the licence payers have no right of reply if it happens to be “off message”. They are no better than Lord Haw Haw
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Presumably one can only apply for this if one understands what the **** this job pretends to be. And I don’t.
This is beyond a non-job. This has to be a masquerade for greater state interference in poor mugs’ lives.
Bet the bastard sits around all day putting people on Common Purpose courses. Hoons.
Fuck’s sake what is that all about?
School dinner lady to be sacked for whistleblowing over bullying, Tories to hold open primaries, Brown is Gordon Brown, again, on NOW ’story’
Off topic but the ever lovely K££ns (I used to be a nurse so you must love me) will attempt to get the squaters removed from thier main but not lived in for a year property today at a Brentford Court. Has nobody taken over any other 1st or 2nd homes yet..
Will be interesting to see whether they get ‘preferential’ treatment from the local pigs. Wouldn’t be surprised to see the anti-terror nut jobs with big guns turn up.
Hope the squatters take loads of pics, and good luck to them.
Hey It’s in the Rules, if you really used to be a nurse, you have probably been “loved” by more people than Harriet Harmans naughty bits! I am all-seeing and you can’t fool me!
Not me you fool Ms K££n, she reminds everyone every day on her printed tomes
I am very concerned about Brentford as I was a NHS Nurse there for many years.
I understand your suffering as I used to be a Nurse.
I care very deeply about the NHS as I used to be a Nurse.
Or the best
I care very deeply about money as I was a poorly paid Nurse for many years but can now write my own Pay cheques Kerching..
Nick Robinson, outside Cons HQ “Alex Ferguson will have questions for the Tories”
Questions like what? “Should I play Rooney on the right?”
FFS.
Ferguson is a lifelong supporter of the Labour Party, continuing to do so long after he became a millionaire.
Well I see the Labour hypocrites are not going to let this one drop yet. But the real issue is between alleged phone tapping by News International employees and those who are alleged to have been its victims. The Coulson issue is a distraction being run by the arch demon himself, dirty little spin doctor Campbell!
Is AC son of the devil? Or something worse?
Nah, that’s Mandy. AC is the bastard love child of Mandy and Gorgon.
that’s horrible….
You are assuming that Campbell is human, indeed organic.
That would be organic in the same sense as in David Kelly is dead?
AC is now Andy Coulson, idiot.
Why can AC not stand for Ann Clwyd or Ann Cryer or Alistair Carmichael, or Alan Campbell or even Anthony Crossland? All closer Westminster connections than the two people you infer.
Infer me, infer me, they’ve all got it infer me!
As Prescott seems to be the man who brought this into the spotlight, it’s odd that Yates hasn’t found any evidence that his phone was tapped.
….and while we’re all looking over here……….
Yates also didn’t find any evidence of cash for peerages. Funny that.
Though since the Grauniad are being unusually forthright and saying they are 100% certain Prescott and 2 other Cabinet members were hacked Yates might find himself in deep, deep shit before long.
The plot thickens…… sorry, I mean the plot sickens.
and Charlie Wheelan
MB: the clue is in the replies to a comment refering to Campbell. AC is Alistair Campbell in this context. Moron.
Why so nasty? Are you a Conservitude?
I believe nastiness transcends political leanings,as is being ably demonstrated on a daily basis.
Guido,
How abourt opening a new thread allowing contributors to discuss
M.P.s expenses issues that have fallen off the radar.
Please.
Yes. I agree with that. Only this morning Chris Huhne was spouting off about how Andy Coulson should be punished for the hacking which “happened on his watch”.
There was mention of the “dinosaurs” like Prescott and Clarke who are trying to divert attention away from their immoral expenses claims by finding another scapegoat.
How hypocritical is this!
BTW. Hacking Alex Ferguson’s phone would be a complete waste of time. I can never understand what he’s saying at the best of times.
I thought this story was supposed to be dead last night ?
Come, come. You are making the toryspinners very angry by not ingoring it.
It was like that beastly business with Osbourne and the houseflipping.
When will these Media luvvies understand that it’s only valid News if it attacks Labour or helps the Tories ? Anything else is just communism.
‘When will these Media luvvies understand that it’s only valid News if it attacks Labour or helps the Tories ? Anything else is just communism.’
hahaha ar you just made me day! god that’s funny do you do parties ? and can you bring some real communism as i hate the fake stuff it give me hiccups!.
Stop Press!………C Clarke delivers large envelope to Cameron. Semtex enclosed? What the hell is he up to? Going for the leadership of new labour ……again?
If all are to be held culpable for past misdemeanors, then where does that leave me? I have been the cause of more human suffering than anyone, as various superstitions masquerading as “religions” have pronounced that the evil things that they do and want others to do, are somehow required by me – and I’ve allowed it to happen! Coulson should survive – he certainly knew what was going on at the News of the World and he condoned it, but how many of his accusers can claim that they have never been involved in anything disreputable? Let’s face it – MPs are continually disreputable and don’t give a toss – I would call them “hypocrytical bastards” but I am too holy do do so. A bit of phone tapping never hurt anyone except the guilty and it is interesting that the ones who are loudest in their claims of outrage are those who I know have much to hide. I HAVE SPOKEN
Mua ha ha ha haaa!
Well said.
I mean who hasn’t illegaly tapped hundreds of phones and used them in salacious gossiping stories in a cheap tacky sleazepaper ?
I know I have.
And now Max Clifford whining about having been ‘tapped’! Can you believe it?!
I also caused the spate of troughing. I am responsible for everything, including all hypocrisies, as well as your contribution to Guido’s. This does not mean you and the rest of the hoi polloi (and Satan) can do as you like.
Compare the situation with the concept of tolerance. Tolerance implies a limit on what you tolerate. If you tolerate everything, there is no scope for applying the concept. My causing everything is true – but trivial. Just like the Laws of Logic are fundamental to Reasoning (including Mine), and one of them says A=A. Big deal. Get on with it. Clear up your toys, learn to stop throwing them out of your pram. And shut the fuck up – I am getting pissed off with listening to whining and grinding all the time.
SILENCE! I have listened to all your words and I say that the misdemeanors in question pale into insignificance compared with the troughing of the MPs. They are stealing your money, while the admittedly low-life newspaper which organised the phone tapping simply looked for more misdemeanors to expose among those, often guilty, public figures who vainly consider themselves to be above you mere ordinary mortals. If they have nothing to hide, they should not be concerned. Wake up to the fact that the MPs are pretending to be outraged in order to distract attention from the sound of their snorts at the trough.
NuLabour over the years has managed to change the way British works from Innocent until proved Guilty – to Guilty until proved Innocent.
The BBC is giving Gordon Brown another smoke screen to hide behind – Another day for Hiding Bad News.
What is going on in the background that we are not being allowed to know.
The Economy is still in melt down, Banks and not lending, Unemployment is still rising. MPs will still be drawing their Expenses.
What’s new Gordon.
And that hysterical exhibition by Chris Huhne should count as an other nail in the Lib Dem coffin.
Are there any nails left, then?
o/t… Police headcams burst into flames :)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/06/police_headcam_fireballs/
Serves them right!
If Labour think Murdoch doesn’t have any dirt or evidence of some criminal wrong doing on their part, I’d be bloody surprised. The next couple of weeks should be fun.
The next couple of weeks will be great.
It’ll be a fish fry.
He’ll have something on everyone, so if they dare to squeal they better watch out. I have no sympathy for R Wade, she deserves everything she gets! Seems the only one who hasn’t been tapped is Coulson!
Didn’t they tap into both Prince Charles’ and Saint Diana’s telephonic love murmerings? Elle MacPherson & Fatty Prescott (possibly) seem pretty small beer.
BBC indignant this morning and strongly plugging away that there should be a police investigation. They even dragged Brian Paddick into a studio..expressing “surprise” that the met said there was not enough evidence for a new investigation.
Word has gone out from the bunker: keep up the pressure. The BBC duly obliging….
Er,there was a police investigation and two people were jailed. Let’s revisit the Iraq war if we want a criminal investigation.
You’re ok with the Leader of the Opposition having a known criminal as his Director of Cummunications on a salary of 450,000 pounds a year?
‘known criminal’ ! my god when did this happen i missed that court date!!!.
please tell more we need to know these things out in the sticks!.
If he wasn’t a known criminal he would sue those who say he is. He can’t sue them because he is, a known criminal.
Are you ok with the Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Oppoaition paying a known criminal 450,000 pounds a year for the criminal ’skills’ he gained working at the News of the World?
Be very careful what you say. Libel laws still apply here. The matter has been investigated and the police do not propose to take it further.
Your assertion therefore rests on shaky ground,which is far from unusual for you.
I’m a known criminal
Obviously you have a bit of a problem then.
You’re incandescent about criminal (though never charged, tried or convicted)Coulson,yet comfortable with criminal Labour MPs’ and an illegal Labour War?
Eh?
But what can this Select committee do?
Mr Coulson will, or should, stick rigidly and politely to his orginal story and not deviate from that one bit.
These MP’s may consider themselves interrogators, but they are not in the top class of that specialism, possibly infant standard!
So, Mr Coulsson will be insulted, jabbed and finger pointed. If he speaks slowly, politely and with a smile or two. He will not be touched at all.
END OF NO STORY!
Then I hope David Cameron demands the resignation of the dreadful Huume of the Lib Dems who yesterday made it OFFICIAL LibDem policy that A MAN IS GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT absolutely outrageous. The man has to resign or forever be branded a complete and utter HOON.
Chris Huhne is a Hoon.
huhne, hoon
Chris Hoon, Dave from the Royal Family, and just as lame.
Going off topic for a moment, what about that Bob Ainsworth who claims to be Defence Secretary? Have you ever seen a less impressive person? After ten years as a trade union wrecker at Jaguar, he joins the International Marxist Association as preparation for masterminding the defence of the country. He has always stuck to the line that our soldiers’ equipment is fine when it plainly isn’t and now he tries to soften us up by telling us to expect many more British deaths in Afghanistan. Is he still working for Moscow?
Another NuLabour lightweight, unsuitable for anything other than calling the brothers out on strike.
Hello. Private Bob here. I’d just like to say how wonderful Labour’s wars are, and how proud I am to be the latest in a long line of outstanding Labour Offense Secretaries. Indeed, so successful have we been at warmongering that I can confidently predict that our wars will outlast all others. Another fantastic Labour success. The Plantagenets, with their Hundred Years’ War would be green with envy if they saw our battles continuing into the 22nd Century. Never forget, War is Peace. Must pop off now – I’ve got some clapped out miltary hardware to get tarted up and sent to the front. Nothing’s too good for our brave boys.
Lovely hitler hairstyle and moustache though, don’t you think?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090710/twl-two-british-soldiers-killed-in-afgha-41f21e0.html
Coulson is not the story. The CPS and the Met may have buried a bigger skeleton in phone tapping by journos and their “contacts”. Note the police statement of “no new evidence”. Nothing about what has already been hidden.
There’s a slight difference between what might have been happening, and what can be presented to a court of law as evidence. The latter must be provable, the first can be no more than ‘everybody knows, but…’
This story was killed stone dead when Yates of the Yard firmly put his size 12 down and said yesterday (paraphrasing slightly), “No new evidence, nothing to investigate that hasn’t been investigated before, piss off and fight your own political battles and leave Plod out of it”.
Beyond a bit of armwaving and harrumphing, that’s it.
P.S. The country is still skint, soldiers are still dying in Afghanistan, Australia are on top in the Ashes, knife crime went up 60% last year, MPs are still troughing…..
Business as usual. Sod it, I’m off to get some work done.
Tell it to the DPP.
Yates whitewashed the Cash for Pererages so if you trust that Hoon then more fool you. There’s also the small matter of the Guardian Million Pound story not even being denied by News International which is an open invitation for private prosecutions to proceed for those who get confirmation of the names.
I believe Yates said the vast majority of cases hadn’t enough evidence ?
Fact is if there are 3000 phonehacks then 2500 could easily be said to be the vast majority and that leaves quite a few cases to explode in Murdoch and Coulsons face.
It could well be in a lot of serious peoples interest(not z list celebs)for a large court case against Murdoch not to take place. Who knows what facts could come to light? especially if Ruperts back was against the wall.
move along, nothing to see here, eh engineer?
that is a a very new labour thing to say innit.
you cretin.
“Mandelson unveils £2bn support package for struggling car industry”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/27/car-industry-bail-out
OK Mandleson, spin your way out of this:
Professor David Bailey (Coventry University Business School) stated that “the scheme was announced in January, the forms necessary were not available until March and that the Government is still considering applications”
Note paragraph 1 of the Guardian article where the Government announcement is described as the “long awaited package of support for the car industry”. This is a clear case of a do nothing Government dragging it’s feet!
Our son works for a leading car dealership. He says the car industry is all but dead on it’s feet.
Pumping money into it won’t save it if nobody buys the cars they sell. When will our politicians realise this.
There are disused runways / airfields up and down the country being used as car parks for new cars. Manufacturing over capacity in the industry itself coupled with nobody buying cars is a recipe for disaster.
Mandy knows all this yet puts out false hope. He’s a Hoon of the lowest order.
Quite right. The industry has a market across the world(when we have money to spend) of c 55 million cars per annum. It produces 86 million. Why are we subsidising over production and for the most part foreign companies? Why do their governments not underwrite this?
Of course, I forgot, Labour vote buying.
They might vote buying – the public vote differently.
Dai Bingguo, Chinese state councillor, raised the issue on Thursday when he joined the leaders of four other emerging economies for talks with the leaders of the Group of Eight industrialised nations – including US President Barack Obama – in the earthquake-damaged Italian town of L’Aquila.
The remarks, in front of Mr Obama, caused concern among western leaders, some of whom fear that even discussion of long-term currency issues could unsettle markets and undercut economic recovery.
Gordon Brown, Britain’s prime minister, said he did not remember Mr Dai making the remarks. But he said the focus should be on moving the world out of recession.
“We don’t want to give the impression that big change is around the corner and the present arrangements will be destabilised,” said Mr Brown
IS BROWN’S MEMORY WEAKENING?
Dementia. Get rid of him.
I suspect the Murdoch empire is planning a terrible revenge on New Labour who are clearly keeping this story going. I can hear the sound of safes in Wapping being opened and dusty, plus some not so dusty files, being brought out. In the cold light of day several leading Labour figures may want to consider what skeletons they might have in the cupboard.
One can only hope that Rupert’s attack subs are is now preparing another “will the last person to leave the country switch off the lights…” style headline to kebab Snotty in the same way as they did the welsh windbag….
Please say the rocking horse pic is real and being kept back and not a sick fantasy!
“Mandy in Rent Boy Shocker”, “Rhondda’s Chris Bryant Red Romper Suit Ridicule”; “Prescott Porks Pasty faced Porn Star Prostitute”; “Campbell’s Crooked Counsellor A Crack Addict” …
Open that safe!
Like an Expenses disk ?
I’m afraid Rupe and I turned that one down.
Cost a bit too much moolah we thought.
Oooops!
We’ve got some bona photos.
You’d be surprised what I got in my gander bag me deario!
Let’s hope its a Mandy, Brown, Blair love triangle!
You forgot A Campbell! A love quartet, or a love rectangle?
ot – does Brown go out of his way to piss people off? What’s the demented fuckwit doing shaking hands and being shown in a meeting with Gadaffi Duck FFS?
who’s the fat perv in the photo? is it eric pickles on a diet?
Blogger David Forward has gone, the master of the Brown photoshop is no more:
David Forward – Gone.
Tell the Dirty Digger I want some cash, NOW!
The Guardian really do think they can do a Telegraph. Guardian on the brink along with their paymasters, Labour.
Looking through the Spanish phrasebook supplement the Guardian has been running this week, there is this lovely ditty……
“would you prefer to go to hell? they say it’a a bit warmer there”
“no, but if they let me choose I’d prefer the gardens of the Muslim papradise”
Has Baroness Uddin been doing some freelancing before going to Holloway?
BBC now reduced to telling us that lots of people have gone to see their solicitor today. Fuck me, this story has REALLY got momentum now!
I hope we are going to get a blow by blow account from now on .
Day1 – sees solicitor
day 2 – retainer letter sent
Day 3 – CFA signed
Day 4 – Interim Bill prepared
Day 5 – billable time recording software crashes due to overuse
Day 6 – yawn
Day 7 – zzzzzzzzz
Day 8 – Andy Who ?
Day 9 – zzzzzzzzzzzzz
The lawyers will do well out of this one.
We are supposed to take the BBC’s word about the number of people who’ve gone to their solicitors cos they’ve named no names. I think they’re just drumming up business for some lawyers who can see a chance to line their pockets.
Selina Scott will be one, if only…… sorry, only wishful thinking on her part.
Ding Dong the Stories Dead,
Which old story?
The Andy story?
………………………………..
……………………………..
Andy who?
The thing to note about this storm in a Westminster teacup is the approach of the BBC and Nick Robinson. They have elevated this non-story about Coulson into something it patently isn’t. Who is pulling their strings? Campbell? Lord Fondlebum? They are trying to make the story about Cameron and Poulson, when it is not about that at all – it is about a Labour smear campaign and News International!
Keep taking the tablets Charles, they are working at last!
Blimey! Well said, Charles.
One million pounds, mwahahahaha!
That is no way to submit your invoice Cherie.
Robinson paying back one of his confidants?
where’s guido today?
tories announce an ‘open primary’ for totnes – will anyone care? http://fsn.typepad.com/blog/2009/07/uk-conservatives-to-stage-usstyle-open-primary-to-choose-election-candidate.html
Dreaming about lost days and nights in Pamplona. Days when he was young and fancy free?
load of bull
O/T Guido, but how is little Miss Fawkes? Recovering well, I hope.
You just wait till Murdoch decideds to run his super-DUPER secret stuff!!!!
There’s nothing Murdoch likes better than pissing money away by sitting on great stories that could up his circulation in a cut-throat marketplace made tougher by the Telegraph scooping him in the face.
And do you know why he didn’t print any of his good stuff when the Telegraph scoop reamed him up the arse ? Because these stories he keeps back are just too tittilating and brilliant of course.
He must know all kinds of ultra-secrety-secret type things he just couldn’t be bothered to print before.
Hopefully you are right but equally I hope you are vastly over estimating the organisation of tittle tattle tossers.
guido, have you seen this babes of the bnp thing?
http://www.viceland.com/wp/2009/07/babes-of-the-bnp/
Please share it with your readers. It is hilarious.
Message for Andy Coulson
Message for Andy Coulson
Run rabbit, run rabbit, run run run
Beware the wrath of Murdoch. Not a man you should cross. Or underestimate.
The BBC are amateurs when the rough stuff starts. and it will. Australians do not like to lose.
What’s the dirty digger done with his no hope sons?
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Newlabour have a learner licence attached to them too.
Just one last thing on this blog. The News of the World is a scurrilous rag I wouldn’t wipe my arse with, but the politicians going after it could have a bad side effect. The NoTW was using unlawful techniques to essential obtain embarrassing tittle tattle. However, in getting evidence about corrupt politicians, businessmen and others, it may be legitimate for journalists to use private dicks, blagging and hacking to obtain the evidence. Crack down too hard on journos over “invasion of privacy” and you might neuter them from doing their proper job.
After all, NuLiebour calling in Plod to arrest Damian Green was an example of the authorities trying to stop the Opposition from doing its job – this current “scandal” could stop journalists from having the tools to unmask corruption in high places. Just a thought.
Good thought Charles H
Still no enquiry into Iraq, no referendum on Eu, financial meltdown, unemployment rising, people losing their homes, Bankers still getting away with the biggest ponzi scheme in history this time against the taxpayer, M.P’s committing fraud left, right and centre ( across the house), Peers selling legislation for cash, British troops being killed in pointless Afghan war using crap equipment, Government still pursuing their relentless attack on basic freedoms…. Andy Coulson?, Bravo BBC ever tried any investigative journalism yourselves?. The pathetic sight of New Labour frothing at the mouth with indignation, they couldn’t get the Daily Telegraph for spilling the beans on them but you can bet your life they will come down on the Press in general now though the ‘Guardian’ (Ha,Ha,Ha) will still get its lucrative ads for Quango posts…….pay back time.
Reality strikes:
(Hat Tip – BBC Breaking News):
Mother wins Snatch vehicle ruling
Breaking News
The mother of a soldier killed in Iraq has won a judicial review of the government’s refusal to hold a public inquiry over Snatch Land Rovers.
The High Court heard that 37 soldiers had died in Iraq and Afghanistan while using the vehicles since 2005.
However a judge said the review would not cover present and future use of the Land Rovers.
The lightly armoured vehicles have been criticised for offering insufficient protection to troops from bomb blasts.
“However a judge said the review would not cover present and future use of the Land Rovers”. So Fucking pointless!…again
Operation Ore. Go, Rupert, go!!!! Make the expenses scandal look like a…..ummm….scandal.
So Guido, are we to see Coulson as like your ‘friend’ McBride.. what do you think, you are one who knows what that ‘garbage’ was like.
funny how we re getting this now is McBride on the way back now that McBruin is losing even his own party.. nothing like getting the bully boys back on the scent.
Just waiting for Campbell to start in ( if he hasnt already), I think even Mandy has had to admit Brown is dead in the water.. you have to be stupid (or McBride) to believe otherwise…and Mandy is a snake not stupid.
Coulson is a dead man walking, unless of course he can prove that he didn’t know what the considerable sums of money being paid out were for, in which case he will have to admit his incompetence.
Another ZaNuLab never mind the consequences damp squib; Murdoch knows where the bodies are and once the Grauniad’s unattributable sources start falling over and News International perform for the “Culture Committee” (are we in Communist China already?) it’ll all be over. Made Dave a bit sweaty so he’ll have to stiffen backbone for the next onslaught; I gather they actually do have some evidence regarding tories eating babies (or something).
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