Has McBride Got a Job?
The Telegraph’s Mandrake reckons Damian McBride has got the £22,000 a year job as “Business and Community Manager” at Finchley Catholic High School. Guido has been keeping an eye on this and as far as he knows it is still not official. Guido is also keeping an eye on Draper’s status with the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy – they have yet to arrive at a decision on his professional standing.
Unbelievably Draper has been heard speculating on a possible return to politics. Absolutely brilliant!
I wouldn’t employ McBride or Draper to scrape shit off a cow’s arse.
I was going to say, neither would a cow….But then remembered who Mrs Dolly is.
Hey Guido, what are you going on about?
mcbride does have a full time job.
he is fully occupied being an alcoholic tramp.
these people don’t want to get it do they?
these war criminals like mcbride and mandelson keep coming back for another bite of the cherry.
c’unts like mcbride and gordon brown should be strung up.
and after their necks have been snapped their corpses should be thrown to the crowds to be ripped apart by the baying mob.
alternatively, instead of receiving lynch mob justice, they could be tried at the Hague for breaking interantional law and committing a long list of war crimes including aggressive pre-emptive acts of war, occupation and torture.
MCBRIDE IS SCUM FUCK YOU MCBRIDE YOU COCKUCKER SUCK GORDON’S COCK REAL GOOD RIM GORDON’S ARSEHOLE MCBRIDE IT IS ALL YOU ARE GOOD FOR YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF COCKSUCKING SHIT
Christ do you wake up angry?
TOP BOY IS ON A MOTHERFUCKING MISSION!
HE WILL NOT REST UNTIL JUSTICE HAS BEEN METED OUT TO THESE DOGS!
end of statement.
Okay. You must be worn out.
not at all dack blog, not all all!
I am as strong as ten elephants.
and my skin is made from the same dna as rhinocerous hide.
on top of that I am a most pithy contributor and am of independent mind.
a blogging version of hunter s thompson really, but more intellectual.
quite a dangerous c’unt to tangle with when you think about it.
innit.
The medication is not administered until after breakfast (typically some blue pills, a big green one and a rubber coshing from a bloke in a white coat) . Then he has his pre-luncheon nap.
You’ve ruined the Steve McQueen image with that rhinocerous thing.
ah, doctor dick, yes, during your electric shock treatment you will experience these delusions of grandeur you are currently presenting.
it is perfectly normal.
now, back to reality, I believe the treatment room is booked for twelve o’clock for your nexts series of zaps.
you know where it is doctor, go there now please.
nurse, could you tell me if doctor dick attempts to indecently assault you again or if he tries to bite and scratch you again?
we will put him in the basement if he does that one more time.
and we will leave the c’unt there.
I am beginning to fear that doctor dick is beyond help.
but we will keep zapping anyway.
we will keep trying to make him better, even if it kills him.
They were an inspiration to me. The Red Rag may not be exactly as they pictured it but New Labour deserve the turning of the tables for planning a scurrilous attack blog.
For once, Tat, you make a good point.
I long to see those who launched these illegal wars and who have broken international law in the dock at the Hague. Tried, found guilty, sentenced, dispatched to jail for the rest of their miserable lives as branded war criminals. That would be justice.
Exactly who cares about this little Irish creep!? There are far more serious things going on in the world. Afghanistan for a start off. The guy talking on Any Answers re Afghanistan at the moment is talking a lot of sense. Most of what we hear on the BBC is spin from the government, and propaganda.
He’s still strapped to Jimmy’s arse as ever. Anyone who thinks he’s not is a fool. I also wager he’s probably getting paid via the tax payer in some way or other.
Maybe we should?
Dear Stop
I spent two years out at the University of Glasgow penal colony, the Vet School.
The place stank of shit, too much for some as delicate as myself.
As far as I am aware, shit justs falls off onto the grass from a cow.
I did see many times the old arm up the arse (cow) but it was to do with vet med and not sexual.
Hope this helps.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Interesting guido , i keep wondering if mcbrides out or not I suspect not . As for draper missus will shortly be needing an income , but returning to politics ?? must mean hes wafting some new third way stuff around , being as hes been doing God , you would have thought any return to the black arts ops, he was in would have far reaching consequences .
Have a heart man – good on him – £22k seems a bit much but good lad. Hopefully he’ll shut the fuck up now.
Not a lot of money for working in education, but maybe it’s pro rata. Could be that he’s getting the 13 weeks school holidays, which would make the £22K look better.
What is the Business and Community Manager at a school?
Fancy name for the janitor perhaps?
Loads of jobs like that in schools now. Learning is way down on the agenda.
Worked in a school office for 21 years. When I started, there was the equivalent of 1 full-time secretary on the lowest grade. When I finished in 2008 there were 2 full-timers and 1 part-timer, plus casual extra hours. 1 of these full-timers was called a Business Manager on 27K. Some increase in lower paid staff was necessary to comply with Government data bank requirements.
Loads of meaningless jobs like that in very council too, our country is a fucking joke.
Labour’s education policy (notable in the way they don’t have an actual Education Department by name) has seen schools become forms of out-reach community centres rather than places of education. That this man is some kind of Community Officer speaks volumes (although volumes of what exactly is up to the rest of the forum….;) )
The word ‘education’ has been abolished – too elitist, and too much of a reminder of 1997. It has been replaced by the phrase ‘teaching and learning’ which is intrinsically more egalitarian being a two way process between staff and students.
And look where that b*ll*cks policy has left our education system – 20% of adults functionally illiterate.
And since when did schoolchildren become ’students’? You never hear the word ‘pupil’ anymore, do you?
My head calls them ‘our young people’. And the parents are ‘our’ parents. He send us emails beginning ‘Dear colleagues’. We have bets on how many times he’s going to use the word ‘fantastic’ in a meeting (negativity is banned). The school is having a community fete thing today – no I’m not going – that has taken most of a senior member of staff’s time (he must be on upwards of fifty grand) since March.
Sorry… by ‘negativity’ I meant ‘honesty’.
The phrase that really gets me down is “celebrating success” – schools are always doing it nowadays regardless of whether there are any achievements that anyone with the faintest vestiges of standards would recognise. All must have prizes.
“Celebrating Success” – had to keep typing that and all the other jargon. Don’t have to anymore, I’ve retired – hurray.
The money that was wasted on paperwork and photocopying was amazing – what’s more I had to file it! Social Services are even more productive – why do 2 pages when 12 can be produced?
P.S I’m kind of warming to this theme. After 21 years in a school office, I feel I’ve got a lot to contribute.
I long to know what actually goes on in schools these days which passes for ‘education’. 25 years teaching in universities, watching the standards of literacy, behaviour and quality decline and erode has left me wondering where and how the rot set in. And we were getting the cream of the crop!
There are still some teachers clinging on by their fingernails to the hope that we’re allowed to have expectations of students. I do, and I don’t bullshit them when they’ve produced something substandard (to what I think they’re capable of). I can only speak from my experience, but they seem to like it – and behave better as a consequence. Their self-esteem comes from ‘improving’, not being told that something that they know is crap is good.
Thank goodness there are still people like you in teaching though DB. I imagine many of your ilk (ie intelligent and possessed of common sense) have given up in sheer frustration at the nonsense you are made to endure. Like the police though, I hope that there’s many in the rank and file, aswell as higher up, just (Inspector Gadget for eg – fantastic blog), who see through the crap and rail against it. Others (like PC David Copperfield – another good blogger) have pissed off to Canada where they are still allowed to police…
However, AFAIK, murdering pupils is not yet on the national curriculum.
I wonder what went on inside that guy’s head. For months, years, he’d been bottling it up, all the shite, all the indiscipline. Skull like a pressure cooker. Finally, one of the little horrors went too far and the red mist came up.
I’ll be very interested to find out more on that one.
I answered NG but it’s ‘awaiting mod’!
We’re losing 15 staff at the end of this year. Several of them some of the best teachers in the school, and all but three of them quitting teaching altogether. Some have been ‘encouraged’ to take early r*tirement so that – as schools are being priv*tised by the back door and gaining more and more control over their b*dgets – cheaper, newly/recently qualified staff can be employed. There are some good ones but they are few and far between and standards have gone t*ts up in teacher training just like everywhere else. If anything drives me out it’ll be management and p*licy – not the kids.
I just c&ped it and doctored a few words – still modded though. No idea why.
Just read it . Odd modding on here sometimes. How depressing though – must be soul destroying to lose so many decent teachers. I really really hope the Tories turn things around. Out of interest, where do you stand on Grammar schools DB?
One way of keeping costs down is to rely on “teaching assistants”. In the past these were people with commonsense and an ability to get on with kids but few academic qualifications. Now, “teaching assistant” is being touted as a graduate career with agencies offering the fantastic rate of £60 per day i.e. £11,400 per annum for the 38 weeks of the state school year.
In principle I’d like there to be the same opportunities for everyone. I guess if anything I’m more left than right – but open-minded enough to judge ideas whichever ’side’ they’re from. My personal experience is that my (older) sister got her chance to go to one and I didn’t. At the time I was gutted, as I saw it as a way out of the shithole I grew up in. As it was I did get out, but feel limited by a limited education. Anyway, ‘grammar’ schools still exist in a sense if you can afford to move to the right catchment area. ‘Inclusion’ is a myth too – by ‘including’ a minority (I’m talking challenging kids specifically) you’re often ‘excluding’ the majority who suffer from disrupted lessons and disproportionate time/resources. Many schools are now spending a massive chunk of their budget to deal with ‘behaviour’ – sometimes on inclusion ‘units’; so those kids remain exluded from the mainstream, anyway – just within the same school.
Business & Community managers attend meetings with other Business and Community managers about business and community management issues. Their only other role is to vote Labour once every 5 years, or whenever the coward running the government can stomach an election, whichever is the sooner. Labour have put three quarters of a million people into these posts since 1997. It used to be called “the dole”.
To cut it short 20 year’s ago the school secretary did it, 10 year’s ago it was the school bursar. Basically it’s book-keeping and doing the jobs the head doesn’t want to do. There are supposed to be qualifications to hold this post, but there’s always a way round this requirement.
Gordon Brown will be announcing to the media before the summer recess, 82 days holiday for the little cherubs, an increase in education spending to cater for another 10,000 Business & Community Managers for schools across the country. They will have to undergo a training course held by Lord Mandelson, the First Lord of Just About Everything and enter the world of education with the ‘correct’ attitude.
AAA, you’ll have noticed these comments are not sorted alphabetically. Forget the aarvaark crap, get yourself an aspirational handle, like everyone else here.
Quite so
It’s a typical pretentious non-job.
I am surprised a school would give any role to a sleazy asshole like McBride – don’t they value their reputation?
It they’d have a job like that on offer in the first place, they’d be equally likely to offer it to McBride.
He’ll have to have a CRB check.
School Bully’s Coach?
Head of propaganda and dark arts !
Yeah, I keep checking the BACP site too. How long does it take? No doubt there’s been some arm twisting. Drooper back in politics – for which party?
If my kid was a pupil at Finchley Catholic High School I think I’d have something to say about McBride getting that job.
They probably never will either – thin end of the wedge…
I read a BACP case. It seemed like a particularly clueless individual who couldn’t justifty themselves in front of a panel.
Does anyone think he isn’t an expert spinner who’d do a reasonable job of bullshitting his way out of things?
Come back, Derek, we all love you so!
Mind you, he’s such an up-himself twat there’s not much fun in goading him. It’s like kicking a person differently abled who has lost substantial elements of his nether regions and whose chief means of locomotion these days is a small trolley.
I should say that Derek has single-handedly inflicted more damage on the Labour Parteh than anyone else in history, except the Gorgon of course.
And Campbell. And Mandelslime.
I’ve also faxed them my C.V.
Better safe than sorry.
E-EERRRKK! HALLO!
… a geezer likes to get one on the go –
We love to hear him swear;
We love to heard him squeak;
We like to see him biting fingers in his horny beak …
Catholic School eh? Well at least he should be OK when he comes back the worse for wear after a dinner time session then.
Nah… You heard it wrong Guido. McBride has a McJob flipping burgers at the
Big M directly OPPOSITE Finchley Catholic High School, and much patronised by its pupils in their lunch hour.
Great. Another bully in the playground.
What are you implying?
Gissa job mister.
Is he now dry and taken the pledge then?
Thank you Guido for gving me a platform to air my views. Long may you continue to do so. I don’t claim to be right or to say any one is higher or lower than me as many seem to do on here. I’m just happy and content to give my view and opinion that others can read. Just a very very small cogg in a ginormous wheel.
The other major and significant benefit of this blog and other blogs too, is the information that it disseminates, info coming in from all and sundry, and that enhances my knowledge, through which I get greater understanding. This is never available in the bulk standard media.
I love it, thanks again.
Creep.
OT but impossible to pass up:
Darling, quoted verbatim in the Telegraph, ‘I’m very clear that we do have to tell people the lie of the land …’
Poor man, there is something honest about him however hard he is obliged to repress it.
Draper a return to politics? Is Westminister after a new bog cleaner then?
There’s plenty of shits for him to deal with.
Don’t make him responsible for stock-taking.
Don’t put him in charge of stock-taking.
Did you say Draper is a Blog Cleaner? Shome mishtake….still when Gordon gets back from the G-8 and sees what Sarah has been tweeting and blogging about, running up column inches whereas Gordon has sunk without trace. They’ll need Draper to make up a few stories and write a few gags for PMQ’s. Isn’t his wife Kate seriously pregnant? He’ll need loads of money for that kind of caper..
In my capacity as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, I do have overall responsibility for the country’s education system. However, I would like to point out that I have no idea who this Mr McBride individual is. Nonetheless, I wish him all the best in his new role at Finchley Catholic High School – a school I have never heard of and has nothing whatsoever to do with me.
I did wish Mr McBrain a happy birthday when I saw him slumped in a drunken stupor under my dining-room table last week, but I still have no idea who he is. Is he an association footballer?
Fottballer did you say ? I remember watching Jackie Millburn on the Terraces at St James’ Park back in the day !
Was he the one who lost an eye?
No..that was the pants wetting one eyed mincing pants wetting fuckpig scotch wanker ..AKA Cyclops Brown.
Dontcah just love balls!
Ed, when-a we say you gotta cook-a the books, we don’t-a mean you gotta make a cook book. You-a been seeing too many kiddies maybe. Tell you what. Next-a time I see Gordon I’ll ave-a some words wid him about a new department for-a you. I ‘ear you like-a cooking? We-a gotta loads. ‘Ow-a you like to be ambassador to Italy? Sure, we ‘ave-a room for Mrs Balls too – 2 weeks ‘ere and she’ll-a love it the italian way. She say-a to you – ‘ow-a come we not tried this before? You feel a new man then.
perhaps we could send the fat kunt to Helmand as a human shield for our brave boys.
send gruppenfuher Smith.
Shes wider and will provide more cover
Arthur will provide the most convincing of references to young Mr McBribe.
I trust he secures the position and flourishes in his new post in the Catholic school and they leave him in charge of the science lab and a box of weights!
AH (C)
Dermott says: Catholic children can be so unruly sometimes!
Guido why is there nothing on your website about the unwinnable war in Afghanistan? Surely this merits some blogging space?
we don’t do tittle-tattle and gossip just serious politics shit. here’s your refund, now fuck off.
Ah yes, “bent fork” you’re quite the internet hardman. I enjoy all Guido’s posts and just thought he could perhaps add his own view to the shitstorm in Afghanistan.
Gordon’s glass eye – have a read of last night’s thread, particularly the second half of it.
Will do. Has “bent fork” got form for abusing people on this forum?
Not met him before, at least, not under that alias. You do get some who let the anonymity conceal the excuse to let go with their nasty streak, but most people just ignore them.
hetero fork is the hard man; bent fork is his just his likkle fwiend
Wait till you meet Tat…or Thick As Thieves….
Meet him.
And then ignore him!
Hopefully not, NewGirl! Someone’s done a good spoof of him at the top of this page though!
Rory Bremner has more or less given up and now only does “Specials”, ever since Tublairculosis started copying his most deranged parodies and making them official Government policy.
As for commentary on the circular firing squad in Afghanistan: less John Pilger, more Dr. Strangelove.
TWEEET! A-AAARK!
“This site is being redeveloped.
To contact Derek Draper email:
mailATderekdraperDOT net”
The message at http://www.derekdraper.net/.
Perhaps he is going to stop being a quack and start being vicar, or some shit?
Why not ?, He has been a member of everything from the Clachnacuddin
Ploughing Club to the Chicago Chanty Wrasslers Association.
I ‘hear’ Jonathan Ross has volunteered to do a concert party for the troops in Afghanistan. Apparently only wants £18m and a video link from Television Centre.
Analysis: The money is a side show. He needs to look good for after next May to avoid the inevitable culling. He’d go down like a lead balloon with the troops.
Recommendation: The tw*t should do it.
Please settle an argument.
My mate says that Wossy was funny once.
I say he wasn’t.
There’s a tin of butcher’s tripe for the loser.
I’d like to say I can’t believe this. But, sadly, it is almost certainly 100% true.
Draper back in politics? McBride working with children?
Mrs Smith arguing with her hubby over his porn viewing?
Guardian phone tap story falling to pieces? Oops!
Guardian sold a pup? More expenses allegations! Smith argued with husband over porn
How long will it be before hate filled celt Kunt McBride, begins his vicious smear stories against Miss Turnbull the Geography head, as she continues to frustrate the school board by opposing the installation of three Coke vending machines?
Have the vile smears already begun appearing in the school magazine about Jenny Scott the head prefect, who has questioned the expenditure of £22000 on a ‘Business and Communities Manager’, when the school, badly needs a new transit van?
These two must be taught they are playing with the big boys now
Smash them Damian.
And have pity on a parent with the effrontery to complain about child abuse (a time-worn tradition in Catholic schools, don’t you know).
Or the dinner lady who was foolish enough to tell the full story of the bullying and violence meted out to a girl…to the girl’s parents. She has been suspended.
22k a year?
Fuck me he’s swum the channel
What do we all think his first purchase will be
A Ferrari?
A Gold Rolex with diamond bezel?
Maybe a mink coat?
What a fucking wankstain.
Its 22k a year more than either he or his mincing poofter ex boss is worth.
I was going to suggest Brown should be be employed as a school janitor
But would you want him hanging around your childs school lavatories?
Who is responsible for hiring? Not one of his pals? Surely,being sacked for spreading lies and sexual innuendo would render one disqualified from being involved in any way with children.
Not in a Cafflick skool innit
His ex boss Wacko Jocko cant seem to keep away from school playgrounds or stop fetishising about “child poverty”
Maybe their moral compasses point in the same direction?
I do hope the Dolly Tramp returns to politics – he’s such great blog fodder.
Even ZanuLiebour must be cringing at the thought of that.
If this is true I am sure he will fit right in. From their prospectus:
” we have at our core a set of values and beliefs that grow out of our love
of God and commitment to gospel values”
“a safe and secure environment, where everybody matters, where the
uniqueness of the individual is cherished”
“we also seek to build in our students a spiritual awareness, self-confidence,
strength of character and an enterprising spirit”
“To develop the important personal qualities of dignity, self-respect and selfconfidence so that relationships between staff and pupils can flourish in an
atmosphere of openness and trust”
“To help all students to grow into independent, self-disciplined and responsible adults, able to participate fully in a democratic society and be at ease with those they meet irrespective of race, colour or creed.”
Just like working in No 10 then innit!!!!
Any reference to an education?
During my career as an engineer, I visited all sorts of establishments – private and public sector. On one visit to a primary school, there was a bank of 4 or 5 desk-top PCs, all displaying coins of the realm. Now I don’t know what this software did, but I would imagine that part of its function was to teach the children to add/subtract various coins.
If so, would it not have been better to use fake money tokens, to allow the children to get used to handling coins?
Agree entirely, Adrian. You’ll be aware of the old engineering dictum of “Keep It Simple, Stupid” which has certainly served me well. I believe the military use the same dictum.
Just a personal regret – it would be good if schools could go back to the good old days when Woodwork and Metalwork were on the curriculum. It gave variety from the more academic subjects, and even those who found they didn’t get on with the practicalities learned a little about tools and the skills in using them, and thus some respect for those who earn their living with their hands. I really feel that they could be a much better contribution to a rounded and balanced education than the rather contrived modern ideas, such as the curiously-named subject “Resistant Materials”, which I gather has taken over from “Craft, Design and Technology”.
How about the kids using their brains to add and subtract instead of a machine.
They’ve just brought it some BTEC course in ‘RM’, ‘CDT’ – or whatever it’ll be called by Monday – in my school. There’s so much paper/PC-based stuff in relation to practical skills now that kids who may have gained something from it are totally switched off. Behaviour in that subject has rapidly deteriorated. ‘Skills’ subjects have become so bogged down in admin that the point has been completely lost.
Apparently (this is no joke) there is a school in Leicester which is offering a qualification in BMX riding….I heard it on the radio yesterday. (PMT worn off folks, everyone except Tat can engage with NewGirl again without fear…!)
Engineer. I entirely agree with you re the woodwork and metalwork.
Unfortunately, schools these days are ruled by Health and Safety. Someone might get hurt so any form of tools are out of the question. I think learning to make something useful would be a huge bonus in schools. When I was at school in the 60’s/70’s we were taught woodwork, metalwork, and domestic science.
Ah, Engineer – “Keep It Simple, Stupid”. This used to serve me well when fault-finding. I once had a colleague who travelled 30 miles (and got a speeding fine in the process), only to find the company hadn’t checked whether the computer printer was plugged into the power outlet. One usually had to ask potentially insulting questions initially, before ‘powering up brain’.
The dictum could also save hours of head scratching.
I made a tea trolley in woodwork 45yrs ago and amazingly, it is still rock-solid at the joints! No-one is more amazed than me!
I did metal work and woodwork at school and I loved it, especially woodwork.
I have a glass topped coffee table I made when I was 15, still going strong.
I’ve also designed and made my own woodworking workshop single handed.
Mr Saunders? Thank you, Sir.
I can confirm that the KISS Principle is also alive and well in IT.
There really is no point in an elaborate solution where are simple one wold work just as well – and we all know which one we’d rather have to troubleshoot when it inevitably goes tits-up!
Brown ‘knackered’ says Labour MP
Mr Brown has just concluded the G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy
Gordon Brown is a “knackered” prime minister and should take a month’s holiday, a Labour backbencher has said.Austin Mitchell, MP for Great Grimsby, wrote in the Parliamentary House Magazine: “He should go away for a month and come back reinvigorated.” Mr Mitchell, who said he also made the comments directly to Mr Brown, added: “A knackered PM makes bad decisions.” In the same magazine, former deputy prime minister John Prescott said Mr Brown was “the best man for the job”.In the article, Mr Mitchell said the prime minister needed a gifted press secretary to turn around his image.
Some of those others seeking to be Prime Minister? Excuse me if I laugh
John Prescott He wrote: “Gordon needs a press secretary of genius.
“Bernard Ingham created Margaret Thatcher and Alastair Campbell made Tony Blair.
“They did it by joining the dots, filling in the blanks, building the image and turning fragile humans into decisive Supermen.”
He added: “Gordon has no one like that. So his frailties are not concealed and his indecisiveness gets out.”
But in his article, Mr Prescott attacked Labour MPs accused of hoping to replace Mr Brown.
He wrote: “Some of those others seeking to be prime minister? Excuse me if I laugh. “Stop complaining, start campaigning.”In a comment directed at the former Europe minister Caroline Flint, who resigned criticising Mr Brown’s attitude to women, Mr Prescott added: “People resigning and saying, ‘I’m only window dressing’. “Is that what politics has got to? It is unforgivable.”
HOW ABOUT WE GIVE HIM THE REST OF HIS LIFE OFF? FUCK OFF NOW BROWN YOU C U N T. and prescott? is that all liebour have left as their elder statesman? this is really scraping the barrel if liebour have to take heed of prescotts rantings!
Finally got round to watching Prescott on Newsnight. Would love to know who did his make-up that night and did they intend to make a deliberate mistake? They appear to have pancaked his face and missed out his side extensions i.e. jowls.
Wonder if it’s the same person who troweled on Selina Scott’s make-up for The Politics Show. Does this make-up person have an axe to grind or have they been taken on as a NuLabour Apprentice – if so it’s not working?
Jimmy’s not as knackered as The Country.
Austin Mitchell was an arrogant, over self-inflated windbag when he presented local TV News .. the only difference now is that he’s become older, richer & if it’s possible even more over self-inflated ..
The man is a complete waste of rations & an oxygen thief to boot ..
“He should go away for a month and come back reinvigorated.”
No, he should go away and not come back.
Brown, Prescott – elder STATESMEN ?
Cool just heard radio 4 are running a special on ‘GORDONS WOMEN’ a glimpse into Godos power over women with his towering personality and body great!.
The re-education will continue until the very end ah blessed b bbc.
Can’t wait. When is it?
Which Gordon would that be ? Banks, perhaps ?
Can’t think who else it might be.
Gorden Kaye perhaps ? .. Oh but hang on .. he’s dead .. Still in with a chance though, compared with McTwat ..
Gordon the Blue Engine?
Gordon Ramsay, who puts his make-up on with a chisel but forgets the make-up?
Draper back again?? Unbelievable, but maybe not, when you consider the career of his political mentor, Meddlebum… All he’s really been doing is adding to his political CV. He’s probably still a few scandals and resignations behind the top job yet, but as long as he keeps to usual form, I’m sure Draper has a fantastic political career ahead of him.
I’ve only ever seen Draper once or twice on political programmes on the telly, but I wasn’t really particularly impressed by him. He seemed the sort of person who likes to shout down anybody who does not agree with his point of view, and seemed to be incapable of listening. Just a loudmouthed bully, really, no real empathy or intelligence. Ideal Nulab material, I suppose.
I knew him years ago. He’s an arrogant, unpleasant careerist, or certainly was then, and arguably fouls up everything he touches. He was Communications Officer for Manchester Student Union, and I think got kicked out for trashing some student newspapers which criticised him. Then he went to start his apprenticeship with Nick Brown…followed by Mandlebum (need I say more?) He was in trouble again at the start of New Labour for “cash for questions”, disappeared and apparently found both God and a new career as a “therapist”. Claimed to have got qualifications from Berkeley, USA (turned out was in Berkely, not at Berkeley…). I read on here that he got kicked off his course there. The rest you probably know. He is undoubtedly intelligent, but seems to have an unfailing knack of self destructing, largely because of that arrogance I suspect. He’s bound to go far…..
Engineer, if you haven’t seen it before
Dolly vs Guido on the Daily Politics – make a note of Guido’s shirt…
Thanks, Steve.
They just can’t fail at anything to do with politics, can they.
http://tiny.cc/oh-yes-you-know
“Gordon Brown is a “knackered” prime minister and should take a month’s holiday, a Labour backbencher has said.
Austin Mitchell, MP for Great Grimsby, wrote in the Parliamentary House Magazine: “He should go away for a month and come back reinvigorated.”
Mr Mitchell, who said he also made the comments directly to Mr Brown, added: “A knackered PM makes bad decisions.”
So says the BBC website.
I’d agree with Austin Mitchell except in one respect – the holiday should be much longer. About 12 months would suffice.
How about 20 years?
the great thing is he wont be handed a quango and £600,000 salary for doing nothing,like all nu libours failed pals.
cameron wont have it.
there is some justice.
in hard labour?
I was thinking long enough to get past the GE, but on second thoughts you may be right, Hoof; 20 years takes the brooding, nail-chewing, pestilential malevolence out of British politics altogether, which can only be good for the rest of us.
Gordon Brown was making bad decisions long before he was “knackered”.
John Prescott says gordon needs a new pr man – someone like alastair or Bernard Ingham in order to cover up his flaws +++++smile+++++
Prescott has such a way with words.
But since Draper wants to get back in politics perhaps he could be gordon’s pr.
entirely agree
To deal with McBride working in a Catholic School, bring back the Inquisition straight away and promote this wonderful woman to the rank of Cardinal! And after she’s dealt with McBride – hang draw and quarter the bitch!
It’s funny seeing all the Tory boys roll up with their predictable lists of lies and negativity. Flanked by arrogant banks and a rise in bullying by bad management in the workplace, their ever weakening putsch continues.
I look forward to Labour economic recovery sooner rather than later, and the Labour blogs that have something genuine and meaningful to offer. It’s just so much better than what the Tories have on show, and both Cameron and his pal “Guido” know it.
Afternoon, Charles. You’ve been at the Pimm’s early, today.
Alert! – Number 10’s bullshit server scheduler has just kicked in.
I look forward to the Labour economic recovery. I also look forward to world peace, jet packs for everyone, free beer on the NHS and winning the lottery, but I’m a certified nutter.
What’s your excuse?
I’ve finally obtained copies of The Shogun and Memoirs of a Secret Empire, and the parallels between Tokugawa Japan and modern Britain just leap off the screen.
I’m expecting and hoping that a Labour win at the next general election will nuke the nationalists and corrosive Tories. Purpose and unity strike me as being more useful than indulging those egoists and vested interests.
It’s notable that the Tokugawa regime lasted for 250 years. I’m sure the nationalists and Tories won’t like that but I tend to think they’re going to have to get used to the idea.
The bullshit server scheduler seems to be running at 35min intervals.
And look where Tokugawa..who btw was a murderous Dictator…finally got Japan.
It was the Meiji Restoration in 1868(?) that released Japan from being an inward looking and isolated Nation,able to enter the modern World.
And which Country did Japan look to for help?
Anyway,Chuckie..we’ve seen this crap from you many times before,and had to point out reality.
I think it’s time you tried to have some original thought.
K-K-SKREEEEEET! PEEEP!
That’s an awfully good impression of R2D2.
Yes, let’s hope for an economic recovery soon so that we can start to pay off the £774.8bn national debt that Labour’s racked up.
Oops, should have been a reply to 102.
your having a laugh,browns debt is £1.3 trillion,
that is £50,000 per working person in the uk.
what for?, to employ 1m people into the client state and bump up all their salaries and pensions.
this is one of the biggest financial scandals of all time.labour could pay for this by becoming like the liberals in the 1920’s.a minor political force.
why would anybody stay in britain if these head cases were ever in power again?
Alastair Darling doesn’t have many good qualities, but occasionally he does come out with something good.
In his latest interview he basically implied that Brown was a lying fuckwit who’s trying to lie to the electorate about the economic situation, and that Mandy’s public statements are bollocks as he’s just ignoring whatever mandy’s said and doing what he think makes logical sense instead.
If Darling hadn’t flipped houses 4 times in 4 years, he might be a man to whom it is worth listening. As it is, Brown tried to get rid of him as Chancellor, so that may have something to do with his statement.
Is FX telly (press play below) an allegorical tale?
If McBride gets the job, a least it’s one school that won’t have to put up with a photo-op visit from either Balls or the Snotgobbler.
When you’ve had all the excitement of:
a dubious political career as a non-political civil servant,
£60,000 a year plus perks
the opportunity of bullying, left right and centre,
seeing at first hand cheating pigs and flying mobiles,
the chance to compose disgusting, untrue e mails during working hours,
won’t Business Manager in a school seem rather dull.
If McBride gets the job, how long will be stay?
Now the guy has been punished and ‘out of the game’ why not leave him alone?
BECAUSE HE’S HOON AND UNTIL WE HAVE VISIBLE PROOF OF A WOODEN STAKE THROUGH THE HEART ITS GAME ON
He can’t be trusted to live with himself.
Ten brown bottles
Hanging on the wall
Ten brown bottles
Hanging on the wall
And if one brown bottle
Should accidentally fall
There’ll be nine brown bottles
Hanging on the wall
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Any view on Coulson? – the Sunday Times is reporting that a number of tories are out to get him, and Rawnsley in the Obs seems to be on the money about Coulson becoming the story and spin in the tory party. I have been looking on this blog and Dale’s and there seems to be harldy anything on Coulson. should we know if he was running a newspaper that was illegally bugging Government ministers.? putting aside party politics – this is too important to ignore.
Remember playing with Slime in the 70s? If Mattel decide to bring it back, McBride could be in the advert, (no makeup required!)
I’m entirely unsurprised that the good old boys at FCHS appear to be rallying round a former pupil in trouble – that sort of attitude was par for the course the whole seven years I was there (and with far worse behaviour than anything McBride has ever done, I promise you).
But I’m being too cynical – there is also a fairly moral mindset at the school, and a shark like McBride will have (convincingly no doubt) sold them some good lines about his needing to atone for what he did wrong “in a Christian community” (pass the sickbag).
So although I’ve got mixed feelings about this, I think the school is basically just being quite naive – understandable as they are not of the Westminster world. But the result whatever their intentions will be the same – the good name of the school will get dirtied by association.
You would think FCHS would still do the appropriate checking, vetting, character assessment etc before making a decision.
These are children this rascal will be amongst!
Saintliness is not dumbness!
Call His Holiness the Pope.
Their options would seem decidedly limited – I certainly would not employ either of these sods.
It’s definite – he’s got the job at FCHS