In a Draperish move Ed Balls has signed up to some dodgy site that supposedly generates you lots of Twitter followers so you seem more popular than you are. What a twat:
It actually just annoys everyone. Which is par for the course for Blinky…
UPDATE : Note the grammar from the Schools minister.
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“I warned Alastair Campbell, and I’m warning Andy Coulson too – but will they listen?”
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Sad
He thought he’d joined “twatter”
Ha ha ha ha – TWAT BALLS, BALLS TWAT!
Andy Coulson can run but he can’t hide.
But he can dodge Balls.
But not the courts
Ah, I had forgotten you are a legal eagle as well as a top economist.
Remind me, Master Baiter, who is Andy Coulson?
The next prime minister’s press secretary.
Dog to Mick, you forgot to change your name.
“Dog to Mick” ! I hope you’re not writing your own material and can attribute that one to one of your advisers.
He’s a lovely boy.
Ding Dong the stories dead!
Which old story?
The Andy story!
……………Andy who?…………..
he gets his mad blinking eyes from me,his mother,
and his cronic overspending from his father.
I just BECOME a member. This is Labours’ schools minister proving conclusively that literacy targets haven’t worked.
Gordon, has only got one Ball
Darling has two, but very small.
Harman, has got a wide one
But poor old Ed Balls, has no balls, at all.
Poet Laureate you might not be
But voice the mood of the nation….definately!
(innit)
Yeah, vats wot I fort anall. Innit.
Guido, grammar, mote, beam, eye … you fill in the rest.
It’s Labour’s, not Labours’. Oh, deary me.
No it ain’t; “Labour’s” means “Labour is”, whilst “Labours’” means “belonging to Labour”
Oh deary me Robert. I suppose you might also say “this is Roberts’ mistake” perhaps?
Shithead is correct. It should be “Labour’s” meaning belonging to Labour as it is singular. There is only one Labour party, Scargill notwithstanding.
One too many, I must add.
New labour’s.
just hope hes up all night twittering to weirdos
The other NuLiebore MPs?
I wonder what he asks for at the hairdressers to get that unique haircut.
What an absolute fucking cock
What a dipstick
Another five soldiers are set to return to the UK today. They died, not so much for this country but for this Government – a Government within which Ed Balls is a senior minister. And he’s looking for ways to increase his popularity on “Twitter”. I could kick that man to death and then go home for tea.
No more dying for rich men lying.
Troops home now.
RIP
I absolutely agree, GET OUT OF AFGHANISTAN NOW BRITAIN. No more deaths of British soldiers, no more devastated families.
Have a thought for the Afghanis too. They have been an occupied country for hundreds of years. Their deaths are also important! They are not our invaders, we shouldn’t have been there in the first place.
They are not Afghani, that is the name of the currency, they are Afghan, plural Afghans.
Similarly people from Argentina are not Argentinian, they are Argentine, plural Argentines.
May they all rest in peace, the ones industrially slaughtered that is.
You may go.
Merci.
Surely we’re not fighting in the Argentine as well?
He’s just trying to ram the point home!
I agree with you as well barefootcontessa, we should not be there and ordinary people of whatever, creed, colour etc, etc, deserve to be left in peace in their own lands. There have been many totally unnecessary deaths amongst the Afghan peoples as well. Time for it all to stop.
It would be very interesting to find out what the result of a referendum would be. I listened to a giirl on the radio today who had just lost her boy-friend in afganistan and she was asked why we were there. She had no idea.
I have no fucking idea and I suspect Gordon Brown has no fucking idea.
They talk of drugs, of security risks to the UK, oil pipelines but nobody has any sensible fucking idea of why we are there.
So the slightly uninformed sounding girl is not alone. No fucker has any idea and frankly if there were an idea it would not explain adequately why we are willing to lose so many young lives there; brothers sons fathers sweethearts.
The politicians of this country suck
Blame it on the poppies.
We are there quite simpoly because Bush & Co had to be seen to do something, anything !!!
I guess what we are in Afghanistan for is to stop their habits of hanging or stoning to death girls that have been raped, stopping wifely immolation as the only way out of an abusive marriage, preventing men being flogged for the wrong length hair, stopping women having their finger nails pulled out for the crime of wearing nail varnish and on and on.
Have we the right to stop them? I don’t know. But what I do know is the bien-pensants would be screaming that the “government (or the UN) must dooowooo something”, if we weren’t. The fact is that some people will not restrain their antisocial habits just because of a finger wagging from the likes of Jimmy Carter, or BObama. Now of course the bien-pensants are whinging about us being there.
Budgie, there are unsavoury regimes in many parts of the world (Burkina Faso, China, Khazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Zimbabwe and many others), so what is your point? Should we really try to turn them all into the Home Counties? You’re a bleeding heart idiot. Back in yer cage.
I don’t think we would be very pleased if a foreign country invaded our country, even to get rid of Brown!
#277 are u sure about that ?
To the angry aberdonian. Please don’t kick Blinky to death. Cover him in napalm and burn him instead. That way the Hoon really suffers for what he and his fellow nazi shit bags have done to our country.
Good point. Incidentally, does anyone remember Gordon Brown saying this?
“Money is not the issue here; if our soldiers require properly armoured vehicles – they will get them. The fact of the matter is that the commanders on the ground have not yet asked for them”.
It was a TV interview – some time in 2007 I think.
Perhaps he would care to repeat those lines to the families of the men who died today.
What about that little squirt Reid, who said, “not a shot will be fired”! Our great foreign secretary doesn’t know his arse from his elbow. On radio 4 interview this am with John Humphreys, he found it difficult to distinguish between terrorists and ‘Al Kaeda’. He was in a total muddle about the reasons we are fighting in Afghanistan. Without pursuing the issue of ‘hiding to nothing’, our unfortunate history of failed war in Afghanistan, ‘our Vietnam’ etc etc, Remember Russia lost c10.000 men in Afghanistan, and eventually left with their tail between their legs. We shouldn’t be there!
I had to stop & think who the Foreign Secretary actually is! Obviously an important person who is well-known & leaps to mind immediately (not). It’s Millipede isn’t it? Banana Boy himself.
could it be a fake balls?
You mean a fake of a Fake?
Why would anyone want to be known as edballsmp if they were not the sad fucker himself?
The fame – the status – the adulation… I HAVE IT ALL!!!
This name opens doors, you know.
Name recognition is the key.
Probably more likely to open buttocks, for the brown nosing thereof!
I’m more popular than Guido
Pity it doesn’t bring the roof crashing down on you.
quite!
I bet you can walk through them without opening them hey??
In the daze (hey) before M$ Windoze (yawn) I operated a computer by typing quasi-gibberish at a command-line interface. It was quasi-gibberish because it was abbreviated. Users were expected to know what to do and how to do it, so they only needed mnemonics. It was usual to eliminate vowels from commands. Now when I see something that is not in the dictionary, my reflex is to put the vowels back in. Hence I read edballsmp as Ed ball sump. I was left wondering why anyone would want to call themselves that.
Maybe Mrs Balls wants new Balls!!!!!!!
Nice of Ed to give people the chance to hate him across different media.
Yes, every day you can hate these bastards a little bit more.
I hate them a LOT more.
Thats your would be Labour PM for you……
God don’t give me wet dreams.
It would round this shitty administration off nicely to have Ed Balls PM for a few months before election.
First
Yes, first up against the wall when Justice Day dawns!
First hanging from a lamp post on Westminster Bridge is more appropriate!
Can I sugguest a new theme on this.
As the “firsters” rarely come “first” why not try to come last? Try and post “last” on every thread you can and see if you can manage to come “last”.
Can I sugguest you start with threads from 2004 and move on from there?
Last!!!!!!!!
not anymore !
Ed Balls, putting the twit back into twitter.
Even a bargain basement Goebbels like me, who hangs about my local Games Workshop store in a Gordon Brown t-shirt most days, thinks Balls is loathsome invertebrate!
Financial Misconduct = Charles E Tinywidget etc etc blah blah drone drone splutter red face psssssssssssssssssss. Tiddled in my brown slacks again.
Brown slacks?
Says it all, really.
‘Ere stop messin’ abahht?
Didja see me on da telly, brill wasn’t it….sigh
‘Ere stop messin’ abahht!
My wife’s still boiling about the Kenyan business.
She thinks Coulson is involved.
If that is the real MB, it’s the most coherent post you’ve yet made. Quick, take the pills before living in reality becomes a habit.
Andy Coulson is swinging in the wind.
Dream on. If there was any serious evidence against Coulson, he would have been in the dock with Goodman and Mulcaire.
Master Baiter is blowing in the wind
Isolated cliff top car parks can get a bit parky. brrrrr.
The Sun machine is going down.
Down where exactly?
Can you hear me Major Tom?
You what?
what will all the briefed volunteers be doing today? Carefully engineered media story, with all the senior players appearing on MSM for the first time in days, and then …
Cannot wait for Rupert to kick off the silly season, Ed Balls’ student skatting days would be a good start.
Meanwhile pre-election PhyOps starts, ‘Gordon’s Women’ R4 Sunday, a blatant attempt at humanising our dear leader.
can you pass me the bog paper this space suit is to small
I guess he has fewer friends in the Labour party these days, so he has to get them somewhere.
Miaow!
What is the point of twitter, and doesn’t the name say everything that anyone needs to know about the site?
Does it appeal to the sad people who count the number of Christmas cards they get each year, so that they can boast about it?
You realise you are including our hero, Mr. Fawkes in that fatuous statement?
So what IS the point of twitter?
My sentiments exactly. If Ed Balls probably thinks this will give him some “street cred” with the young voters, he’s an even bigger tw*t than I first thought.
A messaging tool for people who don’t like paragraphs. Ideal for the under-educated 21C public.
Is ed balls an OE?
It’s a good site for those who have the attention span of a black gnat.
Sorry lost u there, can you repeat.
‘awesome’??????
what is he, is a fucking ninja turtle?
anyone that uses the word awesome needs fucking good shoeing.
twat.
Awsome post lad, awsome.
So, Blinky has become a TWATTER, with lots of nice new friends.
Ye gods and he could yet become a replacement for Gordo, if he has the courage of his convictions and the balls (sic) to stage a putsch against the Supreme Leader.
What a prat, dipstick, etc., et. al.
What Penfold said.
Agreed, expect that Penfold forgot to say that edballsmp has just redefined the term “dipstick”.
Tosser.
Tend to disagree – I’d say he’s more of an Arse Clown.
Only people who believe that a Tory Government would be a good thing could believe this was real.
You think ZaNu is a good thing?
You definitely Tweet.
Same old tactic MB. Trying to go off subject. Ignore him. Slagging EB off is much more interesting and there is such a wide range of material to choose from.
Of course,MB seems unwilling to engage in that discussion,which might suggests he thinks EB is good. Draw your own conclusions.
Not knowing if this Twitter account is genuine or not is the best part.
I doubt it is real but it makes Balls look an even bigger twat than he is, and so it has to be a good thing.
An obvious marketing attempt from the site morefollowers.net even a politician couldn’t in all seriousness write AWESOME and TONS in all caps. What’s next a Gordon twit account telling us how he found a FANTASTIC CHEAP site to buy viagra that keeps him up longer that kept him and Mandy up all night talking about it.
Don’t put it past him. Remember his Youtube freak-show?
What next? ‘PM announces constitutional reform plans on Youporn’?
Gordo’s missus is a twitterer, or is it Gordo’s psuedonym?
Youporn ? Prey tell !
Anon 11:47 I’m touched by your faith in Ed Balls. Unfortunately, he could.
If the Twitter account is fake, the fraudster has managed to get it onto Ed Balls website frontpage. Impressive. Maybe the DCMS select committee should hold an enquiry immediately.
seems obvious that this is computer generated spam – if it’s Balls’ own twitter account I think only an idiot would believe he had written this.
Or that only an idiot had written it? I give you…..Ed Balls.
The Guardian thinks it is genuine:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2009/jul/02/ed-balls-twitter
see comment 133 above
“make Balls an even bigger twat than he is” – a contradiction in terms, perhaps?
He acts like Rick form the Young Ones. He even sounds and looks like him come to think of it.
I still like those pictures of him in a Nazi uniform, supposedly from his Uni days. I think I’ve still got them somewhere on my hard drive.
What a f**king loser…
Nah a loser is someone who has lost a competition, he is a parachuted shit like all the front bench,absolute weirdo`s in their youth who were deemed suitable in high office by a party that hates us,yes I mean US,if it doesnt hate us why does it want to socially engineer us all (change us) just because its supporters are racist,lazy,un-cooperative (unionised) Tribal tossers. discuss?
You summed the wankers up nicely !
Have yet to work out what twitter is. But what a sad loser…Pathetic.
Am sure Engineer will explain all!
Dunno that I’m very interested…apart from my strange addiction to Guido I’m normal …
Ergo an addiction to Guido is a clear sign of abnormality? We’re all dooooooooomed.
Abnormality is illegal.
Equality is compulsory.
Since 1997 almost all my favourite things have been made either unlawful or harder to do.
Even the Tories never managed that.
Can’t see the appeal of Twitter myself. If I wish to update people as to my status I’ll use Facebook. No idea why I’d want a load of people I don’t know following me.
exactly. or even just tell people…..
Ha ha I dunno re addiction to Guido….are we normal and all the others mad? New Liebore have ruined everyone’s fun though.
Bored : (
Birds do it better.
Why would anyone want to follow Balls, unless his farts smell of humbugs?
His arse smells of Werther’s Originals if that helps.
Euuurrrggghh. Is somebody going to tell him they’re not suppositries?
I will!
Maybe if it keeps him away from his departmental brief for long enough we could all celebrate
…and it’d help if he could string a couple of words together (“I just become”)
Tough on verbs, tough on the causes of verbs
Balls ‘Aims for 2009′
1. Become PM
2. Learn English grammar & how to speak English correctly – innit.
Can’t see him achieving either.
Glad he’s got his mind on the job at the G8.
Regards,
Tom
To right I have and Gordon is gonna announce sum AWESOME news on twatter tonight !
I’m doing just the jobbie for hard working families.
You can see Sarkozy’s high heels really well in that photo.
“I just become”
Please tell me its a spoof
This Hoon is responsible for the education of this countrys children.
country’s children….. :-)
Bullseye New girl
Glass houses and all that
Countrees chiledren.
I just become educated.
You’re failing to take into account the new improved English language being taught in schools where all shall win prizes. When you see undergraduates who are incapable of learning not to write ‘he should of done this’, deploy a comma correctly or use verbs in sentences, you know they have been inculcated with the idea that free expression is all and accuracy is for f*scists.
Perhaps the end of the sentence is missing and it should say “I just become a member…” and finishes “…and all the kids think I’m HIP”
Isn’t ‘member’ another word for ‘tool’?
No, this is a desperate attempt, from a hopelessly out of touch twat, to talk in “street lingo” and “get down with da kids”. If he ever became leader, everything the one-eyed Jock has ever done would appear heroic by comparison.
He could be on here next.
He may start grooming Master Baiter or T.A.T.
My advice boys,don’t meet up with him!
I think it would be great if Tat Oxo-towered Balls actually….win win situation for us all…
You’d do a subtler yet more comprehensive job, New Girl.
The way you pull Thick As Two Short Planks around by the, erm, nose is an unfailing source of amusement to our cat.
Cats ARE very discerning….
Cats catch birds.
I hate cats.
I amuse cats by shooting them through the head with a .22 rifle. It’s funny how it stops them killing the bluetits, blackirds, toads and frogs. Stops them dead – right there.
I use a pistol too,….. a water pistol.
Do you think Master Baiter was introduced to Balls by Draper.
No really. thats not a joke.
Tin pot, under the bed.
Strewth.
Master Baiter was introduced to Balls by Draper under the bed?
Strewth!
Chamber pot, Bruce of the tin variety, strewth ask Dr Feelgood of the anti-hate speech league, it’ll know.
Was Lord Fondleboy of Bum around at the time?
“My advice boys,don’t meet up with him!”
Too late, both have been fudgepacked to hell.
FFS these polititions will do any thing to obtain some sort of publicity. What a total fuckwit. He is one of the most disliked, misstrusted, MP’s.
Incompetnent to the extreme and after the top job!.. God help us.
I would rather vote for cat shit on a pole than him! How these people get into the HOC beggers belief. Big gob, along with lots of bullshit maybe the answer.
Maybe most labour voters have their heads up their arse… or on drugs bought on benifits.
He always looks like a shifty used car salesman to me.
To add, many Labour MP’s and some Tory have an overload of gob and bullshit. They think that Joe public are fooled by the crap they deliver out of their arse.
Bunch of extreme twats!, they seem to live in another universe… wish some of them did!
Looks like morefollowers.net exposure campaign is off to a good start!
“0ff to a good start” More like off to a damp fart!!
Dumbing down.
What an utter retard.
Oh dear, that would piss him off.
Actually it’s the morefollowers.net website itself that inserts that comment, not the Twitter user. You have to give them your account details to allow them to do that as part of the service.
Q: How can I stop the site from auto-updating my status?
A: By opting out, This will take you out of our system, And you will no longer recieve followers.
Dizzy caught Balls tweeting the other day that his 9am start wasn’t family friendly. Out of touch much?
Lazy git. welcome to the real world. Nothing about Labour that IS family friendly anyway.
It beats looking after Education. Surprised he found the time.
He isn’t sending it out.
He enters his twitter login at morefollowers.net and they run a little script that logs into the user’s twitter and they all agree to be followers. It’s a bit like a circle-jerk, but they send out advertising to your followers.
Reports that Gordon Brown was gored to death during the running of the bulls in Pamplona was British were being urgently investigated by the Foreign Office today.
The man was gored in the neck and lung during a run in which nine other people were injured after a bull separated from the pack.
Soon after the goring, Gordon Brown was pictured lying on a stretcher, his face and neck stained with blood and his eyes only half-open.
An emergency medical worker was leaning over him applying what appeared to be gauze to a wound on his neck.
Spanish media reported that Gordon Brown had emergency surgery in hospital but died of his injuries.
Preferable to being bored to death by you.
Transference….
I know where you live. I’m going to have you exterminated
I do hope the bull is ok.
Oh, how I wish it were true .. but I know that McTosser doesn’t do “dangerous” .. he runs & hides until it blows over .. or sends the wife in his place ..
Complete knob-jockey …
It simply cannot be the Prime Mentalist.
Running would take “courage” & we know he is a coward of the first order.
he was running backwards apparently
Well what else was I supposed to do!!!
nearly put my english flag out, oh how i wish it were very true!
Just as an aside, if Gordie were to snuff it while in office, would he get a state funeral? Now that would be fun!!!
Interesting idea. How much piss and spit could one grave take?
Is Andy Coulson a member of the Twitterati?
Apologies to anyone who may have said this before, but, surely, it should be twatterati? This Hitleresque lump of bollox is the only politician in Britain who actually makes Brown look like a contender.
Edballsmp? more like Edballsup.
Sorry if i’m seeming a bit slow this morning people, but have I got this right:
you sign up to this so that followers can be your ‘friends’ and if you want to be really popular you can buy ‘friends’, – sorry donate so that you can have more friends?
just like politics you mean, well Ed Cooper-Hoon must be really at home then.
I hope that he’s not charging it to expenses?
Don’t worry Sir Terry, he is yesterday’s news.
This is actually Twitter spam, that hacks into your account and posts this message automatically…
Are we sure School Bully is really a twatter? Loads of nerds regularly pinch names. That being said, it seems like the sort of thing that the sad sack would do.
Truth is you could fit all Balls-Ups mates into a phone box!.
More like a matchbox.
Especially if you cut them up into small pieces.
Old “Testes” must be getting fed up with talking to his only pal (his wanking hand) .. so he’s decided to enlarge the circle of his friends ..
Mary Palm and her five sisters – School Bully’s ever willing companions. Though I hate to think of what his vinegar-stroke face looks like…
Liebour prefer spin and trolling to actually caring about very low paid workers.
They make them pay 20p in the pound now instead of 10p, all 1.3 million of them. Liebour MPS can live off their criminal expenses alone without touching their salaries, but they make low paid workers pay double the tax they used to pay. Liebour had many opportunities to prevent this but CHOSE not to. Even Dianne Abbott said last night on the daily politic, after seeking advice from the parliamentary clerks who know about the rules of the house, that the liebour governemnt lied again by telling liebour MPS that the whole bill would fail if the amemdment went through. You can’t have it said clearer than that. The advice from the hofc clerks was that this was simply not true.
LIEBOUR JUST KEEP ON LYING AND BULLYING. Liebour used to be for the lowpaid and working class but no longer. Remember this when you come to vote next time. You never even heard any voices from the trade union movement to support the very low paid.Why?
They know the low paid have no choice but to cough up. The amount of tax the 50% rate on salaries over 150K will bring in fuck all – there’s plenty of legitimate ways to avoid it; some won’t even bothering to work for any more than 150K or some may even move overseas. Low paid persons can’t do any of this so they are an easy target. Their only other option is to go on benefits.
Labour Inaction.
Labour Isn’t Working.
Bring on the Election.
So,
Minimum wage opposed by the Conservitudes
Family tax credits opposed by the Conservitudes
Would the Conservitudes scrap Family Tax Credits if they gained power?
YES or NO?
YES – if they have any common sense and actually want to begin to give people their freedom back.
MB – give us one good reason why Family Tax Credits should even exist (apart from as a method of making more people subject to the whims of bureaucrats and an overweening State). If McStalin had not doubled the rate of income tax on the lowest paid, there would be no need to be making a song and dance about giving some money back.
FFS – Family Tax Credits are simply paid for out of money that has been stolen from the very people it is being paid to. The only thing this achieves is to enslave more people to McStalin’s bureaucracy and to create more non-jobs in his client State. Give us one coherent reason as to why this is a good thing.
How do you know the Conservitudes’ answer is YES?
Australian is spot on. Once you start paying people to be poor, that is what they will always be. Scrap the over-complicated tax credit system and raise tax allowances. That way they have at least a fighting chance of improving their lot.
Tax credits were an unmitigated disaster u arsehole, but keep posting ur doing a grand job.
Will the Tory toffs stop beating your wife?
YES or NO?
Minimum wage opposed by the Conservitudes
Family tax credits opposed by the Conservitudes
Would the Conservitudes scrap Family Tax Credits if they gained power?
YES or NO?
how many jobs have been lost because of the minimum wage? and all the other social costs that liebour have imposed on businesses.Woolies is a classic example. Liebour happy to GIVE HANDOUTS TO PEOPLE, rather than let them earn money. But there are no jobs for them any way. This Wanker seems to think that it is ok to give with one hand and take with the other. Typical liebour.
Over 1 million people permanently on unemplyment benefits since 1997
1.7 million on unemploymnet benefits for over 7 years.
keep on lying liebour and trolling wanker but you wont defeat the truth unless you kill us.
So that’s a YES then.
The Conservitudes, in the opinion of rambling Sam, above would scrap Family Tax Credits if they gained power.
How’s Andy Coulson, hacked any more private correspondence today? Blagged any personal medical records today?
Good – that’s great.
Why the heck should there even be “Family Tax Credits”, MB? They are just another form of NuFascist control over people.
Why can’t you get it through your thick skull that the Government should not be taking the money from people in the first place?
Tell that to the head of RBS on his 9 million, what would he live on.
Tell that to the squaddie with trench crutch in Afghanistan, what would he live on?
Tell that to the impoverished widow, that’s spent her life caring for others, what’s she going to live on?
Fly back to the 18th century, you belong back then, you could even belong to someone back then. You’d love it, tug tug tug your forelock, tug tug tug your forelock.
You haven’t answered the question, MB. Try again!
Don’t forget our pantaloons.
As to Hester’s 9 million. That’s down to your mate McStalin, MB. He’s the majority shareholder now.
As for the squaddie in Afghanistan. He would be properly equipped and cared for if McStalin had not spent the past 12 years destroying the economy and spending unbelievable sums of money on propping up and expanding his own servile client State.
As for the impoverished widow. She would not be impoverished if McStalin hadn’t just doubled her rate of income tax.
MB – just face it. You are an apologist for a fascist dictator who is also an economic ignoramus and a compulsive liar. If you still cannot see that, you are a very sad specimen and I feel sorry for you, wallowing as you are, in your astounding ignorance.
BOO!
They have already said that it absurd when higher-rate taxpayers are claiming benefits.
I believe if you have 3 or 4 kids your household income can be 70 grand yet the Liebour government considers this to be poor enough to warrant the State to help you out.
The whole tax credits system is taking with one hand and giving with the other. There has to be reform such that people moving from benefits to minimum-wage employment do not face marginal rates of tax of 60-70% as happens now – we need to be encouraging people into work, even if that work is low paid
Re: Super Tax, where do you apply?
MB, for every pound you earn, you lose around 50p of benefits.
So if you go from the Dole to a job earning 10k a year, you only take home around 5k more than you did before. And you have to pay tax and NI on that 10k, which reduces it still further.
This is known as the “Benefits Trap” and is why so many people can’t be arsed to get jobs, and live off the State for years instead
Nobody knows what the Conservitudes are in favour of, or do you?
MB, the Tories are in favour of reforming the system so that the bill comes down – Labour call this ‘cuts’ but when they do the same they call it “investments”.
The Tories are not going to outline all their policies now, because history shows that a couple of months later the liar Broon decides it’s his own great policy invention!
Tax credits – wierd and over-complicated.
Can’t labour think of something easier. errr…. a per child extra tax allowance perhaps, if one really wants to support people who breed.
I hope we oppose them.
Scrap working families tax credit, scrap the child allowance, get rid of all these leg up programmes for the employed.
Then reintroduce the 10p rate
Or better yet scrap income tax altogether on the first £14000 for everyone. That way you don’t put anyone off increasing there income above the tax thresholds.
That would remove the poverty and dependency traps that the socialist solutions encourage. Of course Labour will never do this it suites them to have people plodding the road to serfdom. Natural constituency don’t you know?
It would cost a shag load but given the amount the current system is costing it can’t be much worse can it?
Let’s hope they will. Just another example of McStalin exerting his control over the low paid by taking money away from them and doling it back to them at his whim.
Why don’t you ask them?
YES or NO?
See #141. You still haven’t given any reason as to why Family Tax Credits should even exist.
What do the Conservitudes stand for?
Would they scrap Family Tax Credits?
Not, your own less than fascinating opinions, thank you.
If you are so desperate to know, why don’t YOU ask them?
You really are a prat.
The minimum wage was a con by Labour. The idea was that by raising the minimum wage it increases tax revenue and decreases benefits.
The truth is that all it has done is decreased tax revenue as the tax on wages is less than the tax on company profits and had no effect on benefits as most people on the minimum wage don’t qualify anyway as they’re too young, students or second income earners.
The tax credit system is a waste of space. They overpay you over the course of the year and then the following year they suddenly demand back all the money they gave you. It’s also based on Gross income, which isn’t a true reflection of what you earn.
Still, it’s better than the system that was in place back in 1996. As a result of the way that was created (yes, tax credits were originally a Conservative invention, brought in by no less than Thatcher) I had to turn down pay rises so that I didn’t lose extra benefits. But at least the system worked and was easy to use. After Labour got hold of the system I refused to claim tax credits for several years because they kept screwing up the payments. It’s still borked now, and they’ve had 12 years to try and get the bastard right.
Why all the waffle?
You don’t know whether or not the Conservitudes would scrap Family Tax Credits, just admit it.
What about Europe, what’s Ken Clarke doing there?
Don’t know, don’t care
Personally I doubt they’d scrap tax credits, they were originally a Conservative invention. However I do think they’ll reform them. Personally I can’t see why they can’t link the Income Tax code to the Child Benefits and do it that way instead of forcing people to jump through hoops to claim something.
As for Europe, couldn’t give a toss.
The basic premise is this: there are alternative means to producing any product, and employers will seek the least-cost method of doing so, therefore raising the minimum wage will cause employers to seek substitutes such as automation or relocation overseas, thereby reducing the number of workers they will hire.
By opposing an increase in the minimum wage (or opposing a minimum wage per se), it is in the interests of low-skilled workers, because it increase their opportunities.
For one so thirsty for knowledge,I suggest asking someone who may know. Try ConservativeHome. But I see little point as you as usual have a predetermined answer in mind.
Which raises the question: Why bother to ask?
Really you’ll have to put in more effort, just say you don’t know if you don’t. There’s no shame, noone else does either.
MB it strikes me that you STILL haven’t answered the question I put to you many moons ago about Baroness Uddin….and you take on her being on the take…. Why don’t YOU answer a question for once?
NG you don’t know whether or not the Conservitudes would scrap Family Tax Credits, well done, your ignorance is comprehensive.
What a very strange answer MB…Don’t follow it at ALL. Try again.
Don’t hold your breath Newgirl. Why try to argue? A Conservative victory is assured in the next GE despite the inane pratings of the armchair socialists.
I hope they will abolish Tax Credits altogether, abolish National Insurance as a separate tax and combine them all into a single Income Tax. There would be an income threshold below which the State would give you some money (providing you really weren’t just loafing) and above that level you would have to pay the State, at progressive rates. You would no longer pay a higher rate of tax if you earn your income than if you live off investment income, as you do at present. People would be free of a triple tax system that doesn’t fit together – the three tax systems are based on different measures of income, and tax credits are based on the family’s income whereas income tax and NI are based on the individual.
Unfortunately Osborne has no idea about tax policy is is not up to speed on this at all.
Master wanker your inability to answer questions poses one Are you in fact Gordon Brown ?
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/5029313/browns-legacy-of-inequality-poverty-and-joblessness.thtml
Master Baitor.
Would you, kindly, fuck right off…you shit stained tramp’s cock sucking wanker!
Or, whilst I’m on a roll……Pride, where’s the lezzy photos; you dirty titfuck?
Well said, they live in their ivory towers, sod the man (or women) in the street.
They rely on traditional (idiot) labour voters to keep them in their luxury.
Boy, are they are in for a stuffing in the next GE? Many of the traditional (sensible) labour voters will vote for anything but fuckwit Labour.
o/t and in terribly poor taste but…
The good shopkeepers of Wootton Bassett must be doing a good trade. Quite a lot of repeat business too.
Some subjects are just not funny, this is one of them.
I have several friends out there hoping to God they are not the next to be driven through Wooton Bassett with Full Honours.
I’m not sure why you found it necessary to make that statement, but I am sure I know why you wish to remain anonymous.
Dan Dumb – you get irony? Obviously not. Too non-PC for you?
Fuck you.
Another reply has been in the “queue” all day, but to put it more succinctly. FUCK OFF YOU CNUT, some things are just not funny.
I didn’t post it because it was funny. It isn’t. Read the “terribly poor taste” bit did you? An observation. I would be more than happy to shoot Brown and his side kick Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth.
You think I find it funny?
Fuck you too.
Ahhh, the anonymous cnut reveals himself.
No, some subjects are not right for humour, this is one of them.
I’m sure I’m not the only person reading and commenting here who has friends in the sandpit hoping they are not in the next coffin driving through Wooton Bassett….
Please pay your respects, 170 in Iraq and now 170 more in Afghanistan. That’s 340 people who signed up to serve their country and have lost thier lives as a result.
Many of them earned barely the minimum wage but were prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for this country….
May they rest in peace…
I would be the last person to find any humour in what is going on there. It’s an abysmal situation, this week especially. Of course I meant no disrespect and no disrespect was intended in my post.
I have friends who were there recently and, thank god, have come home safely. I have friends who were in the Falklands too, on the carriers.
As I said earlier, no humour was intended nor should it be inferred. I am utterly fucked off with the way that there appears to be no mission objective, the men and women out there are under equipped, over stretched and nobody in government or parliament come to that seems to give two fucks either way.
There was no malicious intent in my original post. Just a rather poor way of conveying how fucked off I am perhaps.
May they rest in peace.
Man in the Street, thank you for your last post. No further comment needed.
Eight more today in Afghanistan, condolences to the families.
Requiéscant in pace. Amen.
Considerin’ da langwidge ov da yoof uf tuday, Blinky spelt it ok but he did faget “innit” after followers. Tipicle!
See me!
Miss
Oh for goodness sake. It’s bloody obvious what’s happened.
Ed Balls(up) has a Twitter account. Some spammer group has either hacked his account, or he’s been stupid enough to use his twitter account login on a spoof site. Either way it is NOT Ed making that post but some dodgy spammer trying to get people to go to a dodgy website that’s probably crawling with viruses and other nasty programs. If you want proof, turn off your anti virus, go to the site being advertised and see how long before the popup porn starts.
Hi Alien8n! Does that mean we’ll get free porn?
It means that you get free porn, but your (Windows) PC gets totally owned by the hackers and probably starts sending out spam or logging any passwords you type in.
Best avoided really ;-)
Hey NG, ltns
No, you’ll get Government Porn Credits which you’ll be able to reclaim for Porn from Government sanctioned warez sites. Of course all the porn has been censored by the same people who were redacting the expense claims so any hint of flesh has been blacked out with the exception of hands and feet (as we all know that the site of anything more titallating than an ankle is bad for our children’s well being. We must think of the children)
Ha Ha yeah where you been?
Alien8n – so now we know!
Richard Timney was indeed on official government business when watching all those naughty films. He was busy redacting (and not w…..g as we might have thought) so that the films were suitable for claiming with your official credits…
Now the govt has shown their approval of redacting, I thought I’d follow suit. I’ve redacted several numbers on my tax and VAT returns to show my support for government policy.
:-)
Our local MP comes into the village shop the missus works at on a Friday afternoon. She gave him his receipt last week with the names of the items blacked out with felt pen.
Can we also request that a number of standing MP’s have their names redacted from the general elction ballot paper ?
I don’t think you are right on this one Alien8n.
Blinky has clearly signed up for one of those sites which generates fake “friends” for him without realising that said site will automatically generate spam messages to his real “friends” (are there any of those???!!!!) telling him that he has done so. I seem to recall that Guido spotted some time ago that good old Dolly Draper was using a version of this trick as well.
Just makes him an even bigger prat than he was before!
Now you mention it, he does seem to be enough of a prat to sign up for some scam like that.
Wonder how long till they scam his bank account :)
:-) there should be plenty in there. It would be poetic justice really!
“Good day to you I am the seventh son of the Prime Minister of Libertania and I have gazillions of your english pounds I want to deposit into your bank account. Please do not tell anyone about this and give me all your bank details.”
Sorry, I’ve already done that for some lady from Nigeria.
Blears was hired at the Tickle Me Ed Doll
factory and she reported for her first day promptly at
8:00 am.
The next day at 8:45 am there is a knock at
the Personnel Manager’s door. The Foreman from the
assembly line throws open the door and begins to rant
about Blears. He complains that she is
incredibly slow and the whole line is backing up
putting the entire plant behind schedule. The Personnel
Manager decides that he should see this for himself so
the two men march down to the factory floor.
When they get there the line is so backed up that
there are Eds all over the floor and they’re really
beginning to pile up. At the end of the line stands Blears.
She has a roll of red plush fabric and a
big bag of marbles. The men watch in amazement as she
cuts a little piece of fabric, wraps it around two
marbles and begins to sew the little package between
Ed’s legs.
The Personnel Manager bursts into laughter. After
several minutes of hysterics he pulls himself together
and approaches the woman. “I’m sorry,” he says to her,
barely able to keep a straight face,” but I think you
misunderstood me yesterday. Your job is to give each
Ed two test tickles.
Mr Balls just sent me a pic of his puppy
the free porn pop ups have started…yeuch, they’re in very bad taste..
Is Balls on these too?
It’s me lang-wage innit.
Enewayz – vats ‘ow oi wuz broughtered up.
Yes it is true.
I do indeed run the country.
Got a problem with that?
Erm, several, actually. You are an unelected wanker would be first though.
Please tell me this isn`t real.
It isn’t real…
hopefully such spamming will get him kicked off twitter, well if enough complain about it, that being said, I assume that the actual post with all the lack of grammar and BIG text is an automatic post sent out by the service the odious creep has signed up to. This is how they will publicise themselves and get new ‘clients’/needy fools.
this leads to an interesting point, OK the rather pathetic need to show how popular this inherently unpopular fool is is interesting, but mainly it shows how little Balls, or more likely his minions, understand how new ‘hip’ technology works…the whole posts should really say ‘I’m an out of touch idiot who is unpopular, I’m desperately trying to seem popular’. This is true but not very flattering
This is an example that the Guardian gave of one of Blikny’s twitters:
“It is cool in the dark House of Commons committee rooms buried under the chamber itself … Just come out blinking into the sunlight …”
It’s a spoof.
Fuck knows who Blikny is. Blinky, I meant.
Wasn’t he the goofy geezer in “On the Buses” ?
The Guardian are writing a load of pish at the moment right enuf
Pity poor noble Tom Watson for he is:
“deeply disillusioned with the grubbier methods employed by some in the press ”
according to irony defficient Guardian journo Gaby Hinsliff.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2009/jul/10/mcbride-watson-coulson-phone-hacking
Tom may indeed be a fat sweaty kunt who indulges in smear campaigns, however, he and his like are the future, until Cameron grows a pair and runs across the floor and beats the shit out of them all with the mace or even better
” Officer may I borrow your Glock?”
ED BALLS IS AN ILLITERATE MUPPET
Labour leaders have strange eyes. Must be too much wanking
Balls truly is a kunt amongst kunts, a kunt for all seasons, a kunt’s kunt
The prince regent of kuntishness cannot even construct a sentence.
In NeoLabour’s looking glass world it is of course entirely appropriate he is the Minister for Schools.
Why has Guido got a clip of my arse at the end of this thread?
I thought that was Piers’ bony ass again.
To take the piss out of TWat!!
Careful NewGirl, you’ll set tat off once again!!!
:-) Bet he starts talking about spanking again…
Good evening everyone.
What a glorious day.
Peace and love to you all.
!
Evening,TaT.
Whatever meds your on tonight keep taking them, they seem to be working.
I think he can spell ‘thieves’. And the capitals are a giveaway.
Good spot DB, thanks.
Hope you invoiced him for modelling work, NG. Who was it said they wouldn’t get out of bed for less than £10k?
wasn’t that Sarah’s mate?!
Do you jog to keep that derrier in shape?
Ah, the humble and even-tempered Nokia Naomi. Maybe you should add a couple of k to the invoice for not throwing tantrums.
Not throwing tantrums? Where were you last night, Eng?
Working, sadly. I’ll have a read of last night’s threads, you’ve got me interested…
Her language got worse with every post!! Then calmed down late on, must have been the wine.
Strewth. Read through last night’s posts. Tin hat time.
Hope you’re feeling better tonight, NG, but just in case, I’ve taken cover under the table with the laptop.
Because he is to embarrassed to show his own.
With any luck Balls will lose his seat at the next election.
From now on Ministers will not be refered to as Honourable this or that in the house but will be known simply as DUDE IN DA HOUSE, how awesome is that !
Is it just me or is ed balls the most pointless person ever to exist? 100,000,000 sperm and he was the quickest WTF??. Evolution may well happen but he is proof that it doesn’t always go upwards.
I just want to see that headline – “Brown, Balls Dropped”
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