Far be it from Guido to advise the blogosphere’s esteemed lister-in-chief on how to make a list, nevertheless it has to be said his list of political Twitterers seems deficient: Boris Johnson is #1 by far with over forty thousand followers.
He has also forgotten Derek Draper with some four thousand followers. Derek might not have achieved much, but this now silent Twitter feed was very important to him. Let us not deny him his mega-twittery…
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John Higginson of the Metro explains Quantitative Easing:
“There is £100 and 100 loaves of bread costing £1 each. QE creates another £100. Each loaf now costs £2.”
Maybe if they really wanted to “decontaminate the Labour brand” with business people, they shouldn’t have totally buggered up the economy?
Just a thought.
Mega-twattery more like.
Ah twattery – The NHS in Sheffield has just given their residents an orgasm target – yes really. WTF?
Maybe if you’re single and pushed for time you could combine the 5-a-day and masturbation advice.
Ever increasing numbers of UNEMPLOYED will be grateful for this advice.
It is not the unemployed who are necessarily wankers.
Another nail in the coffin of bloggers freedom of speech……..HERE.
The established media barons will be protected and allowed to protect those who work for them, but bloggers are to be picked off one by one, and being a journalist ‘as well’ as a blogger will be no protection.
I’m sure Charles is already ahead of the game on that one!
Should be kilo-twittery/twattery
Nope. Mega is from the Greek ‘megas’ meaning ‘large’; kilo is from the Greek ‘khillioi’ meaning ‘thousand’.
Depending on whether one prefers the classics or science.
SI units you see.
By removing himself from the front line the Master Strategist Brown casts a less psychologically intimidating image for people, and steps outside of the reach of Tory personality bashing. That enables Labour to take ten steps forward and get close to the electorate. The rest depends on Labour MP’s getting off their duff and proving their worth.
It’s so perfect I’m gonna have a cry.
You missed out the bit about Gordon upping his rectal probe voltage, Charles.
If you want to know what’s happening today, read Guido. If you want to know what’s happening yesterday, read a newspaper. If you want to know what’s happening tomorrow, read my comments.
Forgive the ego, but I’ve been quoted by the international media and won two awards for commenting on the internet. You guys are just small timers. That’s okay by me because your dreg just makes me look good.
“quoted by the international media”
David Icke is not International media. Sorry.
I’ve been on BBC TV, BBC Radio 4, Sky, C4, and syndicated on many other stations worldwide. Does that mean my opinion is all the more worthwhile? If so, perhaps we should have listened harder to Michael Jackson’s pearls of political insight.
Brown’s in the media loads. I rest my case.
Links for proof please, you deluded fantasist.
C_E_H said: “If you want to know what’s happening tomorrow, read my comments.”
Not only deluded enough to think he can know the future but unable to use the future tense.
If you want to know what’s happening today, read Guido. If you want to know what’s happening yesterday, read a newspaper. If you want to know what’s happening tomorrow, read my comments.
But by the time “tomorrow” comes around it will be “today”, in which case I will ignore you and read Guido, as I normally do.
Unless of course you meant to use the future tense there Charles…??
Tuscan Tony says:
“I’ve been on BBC TV, BBC Radio 4, Sky, C4, and syndicated on many other stations worldwide. Does that mean my opinion is all the more worthwhile? ”
Bully for you. You have just demonstrated that you are a saddd.
I’ve been on Crimewatch. Does that mean I’m baddddd?
No one is interested in your dreary lefty propaganda, if you must post it, post it on your Labour site. All you achieve is pissing people off and making your downfall the harder.
Your constant attention seeking, embarrassing narcissism, manifest delusions, the childlike urge to deflect and seek solace in magical thinking and the mood swings you display here would be acted on immediately in a clinical setting with heavy doses of anti-psychotics.
It’s only a matter of time before you finally crack completely & self-harm.
The Samaritans are only a phone-call away Charles. Do yourself a favour and seek out the help you so desperately need instead of being a toecurling embarrassing public spectacle of derangement writ large on this blog.
I think we’ve got enough on him to get him sectioned.
But which one? There’s got to be a least half a dozen Hardwidges posting on here.
Oh just fuck off you twat “Hardwidge or we’ll out you. You’re making us look even worse. 38 has it about right; you represent what it teh people hate about us.
Translated into realityspeak. the Primementalist hides himself in the Bunker hoping that the Electorate will forget what a complete shambles he and his Cabinet are. Labour MP’s are expected to face the Public and field all the shit. It’s so awful I’m going to slit my wrists
Nice of Brown to remove himself from the front line. Pity about the squaddies.
Whats the betting that in a few months time, when there is some new massive upset rattling round number 10 and more heads roll, it turns out Hardwidge was in fact a mole and his posts here are actually cut n pastes from some internal spin doctors emails?
C’mon Draper, we need blog fodder now!
It’s easy to beat down or get sucked in by the gesture politicians and those who just want to grab their turn at the wheel, but that strikes me as being useless and a waste of time. The Roman Empire never laid siege to a city but passed them by. Instead, they allowed the benefits of their governance to make themselves clear and reward people who signed up to their programme. This looks like the model of success Labour is beginning to develop – hopefully without Derek Draper.
“beat down or get sucked in”
Life in Rue des Matelots, Belgium when Peter Mandelson was in residence.
yes charles defeat them with your superior intellect , ohhh i am rubbing my self down in oil in your honour
“The Roman Empire never laid siege to a city”
You are as ignorant as you are stupid.
I didn’t find you that enlightened.
“The Roman Empire never laid siege to a city”
Jerusalem?
Siege of Alesia 52 BC, Mr. Halfwitted ??
“the model of success Labour is beginning to develop”
After 12 years of abject failure, cheating, fraud and lies?!?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Their drills were bloody battles and their battles bloody drills –Josephus.
Carthago delenda est
They leave a wasteland and call it peace
Charles, do you write letters to the Duke of Wellington?
Not a tweet from him since April. Not much point in following nothing.
Surely the Draper Twitter can’t have just been a muppet-like stunt – I thought he really believed in the thing?
Very droll and chuckleworthy Guido.
Twitterers!!!
BorisJ has 40,000
DerekD has 4000
EdB – how many did he crow that he had got by signing on to some dodgy site?
Let’s have a useful debating blog and leave twittering for bird brains!
Unlike Knee Jerk Cameron, Gordon is methodical. Gordon gets the big decisions right. On entering Number 10, in June 2007, Brown asked for time to lay out his vision. True to his methodical nature, Gordon is still laying that out. But Gordon’s methodical nature should not be mistaken for indecisiveness. When Gordon saw that gold was at the bottom of the market, he quickly sold tonnes of it. If an asset is worth little, there is no point keeping it. The topsy-turvy Tories, if they had sold it at all, would have dithered and waited for it to treble in value. Gordon got value immediately.
Gordon is not a ditherer.
Everything gordon touches turns to dross.
Everything gordon does comes to grief.
Everything gordon praises – fails.
Detachment is not indifference. It is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachment to our opinions: we want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others? needs and understand how to serve them. — Mahatma Gandhi
This is why you should vote Labour.
Charles wooo whhooooo my numbers on the toilet door cubicle 3 , meet me tiger , i will cure you of your nilhism , you bad bad boy
You’re detached from reality you moronic fucking lefty.
So your logic is that we should vote ZaNu so they can ruin the economy; then we shall have nothing; and then we shall be able to see how to serve others?
Right.
does it work in reverse if labour touch dross does it return to being gordon
alchamey schmalcamey ,
Gordon Brown stands for purpose, society, and building for the long term. I challenge anyone to say this is not in tune with the aspirations of the common man, business, and politics.
Fiddling in the dirt and arguing amongst ourselves is what drives people like Frank Whittle, the inventor of the jet engine, away from Britain, and creates ghetto communities with no hope. The City and Tories hate Gordon Brown just as they hated Stephenson, one of the founders of the industrial revolution.
You believe in Britain? Brown is Britain.
Gordon Brown stands for purpose, society, and building for the long term. I challenge anyone to say this is not in tune with the aspirations of the common man, business, and politics.
You believe in Britain? Brown is Britain.
Oh yes charles he is so masterfull , i pant in anticpation of your next post
As ever, you’ve got it backwards. Britain is most definitely Browned-off.
Gordon Brown is a liar, a bully and a deluded lefty fucking moron and is not in tune with the aspirations of the common man, business, and politics.
or the military – he is especially out of touch with the needs of our brave lads in Afghanistan.
The Tao comments that people who talk up morality take their attention off being moral, and people who are moral are so busy being moral they don’t have time to talk about it.
Maybe you’d like to think about that.
Pretentious waffle.
Does that include people who claim to have a ‘moral compass’?
I haven’t laughed so much in ages – keep it up Charles.
I nominate Charles for the award of “Worlds Worst Taoist”.
A journey of a thousand miles starts beneath your feet so fuck off.
Charlie Boy is taking the piss. A classic student wind up merchant.
Ooh, I dunno… ‘wei wu wei’ would sum up Bunker Brown. And Cameron, for that matter.
Satire of the finest order.
Twitter – who gives a shit? Discuss.
Can’t — Don’t do it – don’t understand it.
Rather discuss things on here – wouldn’t you?
Indeed. So it’s not just me then!
I think twittering is for twitterers – I suspect SarahB fits the bill nicely.
Ditto. I don’t do Facebook either. Still can’t quite work out how I ended up blogging…
Having a shit-updates to follow.
Engineer – The way I see both sites is as follows (disclaimer: I’m an IT manager):
Why would you want to write everything there is to know about yourself and your friends on a website belonging to someone else – who can do whatever they see fit to do with that data, such as sell it to spammers or identity thieves if they feel like it.
Remember who is the customer – Facebook’s customers (those who pay them) are advertisers and database marketeers, not the users. The users are Facebook’s product, their source of revenue.
Twitter has no source of revenue whatsoever, their business model seems to be to build up a large customer base then sell the company to someone gullible – who’s job it will be to try and work out how to make money from it!
Commenting on a blog (as opposed to being a blogger) is completely different, it’s anonymous and relatively untraceable (unless Guido or the pol.ice goes through his server logs and gets a cou.rt order to find you from your IP address!)
‘Loyalty Cards’ fall in the same category as Facebook and Twitter. I don’t bother with them either.
As for comments on anonymous blog – trying to remember if I’ve written anything to be ashamed of – except for calling politicians rude names – and that’s pretty well compulsory – I think I’m unlikely to get a 6am raid from Knacker of the Yard.
You’re even safer. The Plods can’t swing the expenses to get to you!
Funnily enough, I don’t have loyalty cards either. Their “Product” is also your data, they hope that the small incentive they give you is enough to make you not care!
Guido is also offshore, so the chances of being traced from here are reasonably close to zero…
Completely agree – I do have a fascination with orange stickered reduced stuff though – bargain.
Discussion of “Twitter has no source of revenue whatsoever”
I wonder how much sending the SMS messages costs.
Presumably its the cheapest, least reliable service possible, but even so I’d have guessed at 0.5p perhaps.
waste of leccy , more so in eds case
twitter
Draper’s a Huhne. May his ARSE rot in Hell forever!
A bit harsh. He’s a mediocre student who Mandy trusted. In the line-up for hoons to rot in hell, he really shouldn’t be on the list; just dock his snakebite rations for a year and that’ll fuck him right up.
Oddest part of all this is that he was in the political wilderness for about 10 years.
Who re-activated him, Brown? MacBride?
PS: mediocre student. He did take three years to get his A-levels.
Twitter , it says, is a service.
It communicates through the exchange of quick answers to simple questions.
No wonder EdB*lls thinks it will win him votes.
Think on Ed!!!!
I don’t understand twitter either but is it possible to twit, or rather twat him one back with messages calling him a liar directly? That would be worth the cost of a text.
Buy a prius and masturbate in contemplation of your green righteousness daily
May I say that my car uses far less fuel than a prius.
Some people may think I’m an apologist for Labour and framing the Tories but other minds might think I’m framing Gordon Brown and giving the Tories a clue. This is all a matter of perspective.
All hail Blessed Leader!
Charles perhaps you are too deep if indeed you are trying to help the tories.
Maybe you should post a clearer message.
Looks like too much weed and Tennants, Charles.
Fuck off ya geordie twat.
Charles. Some people might think you are just one sad cnut.
May have been funny the first time but this carpet bombing shite is just dull.
Ok let’s be a bit more incisive here.
Does anyone know if Dav*d Craus*by MP – the little person who has just said we should ‘commit our troops to death without reinforcements and resources and discuss afterwards ‘ is on Twitter.
Because if he is we should all get on his site and give him some views.
Is Bob Ainswor*rth on Twitter he’d be another good one to have a go at !!
Yes I think I am beginning to like this idea of idiotic twittering – it could be turned to useful purpose!!!!
Discuss “lessons learnt” when the body bags are flown in.
The things people will do and say for a career move.
Donkey.
Maybe conscripting British MPs to ride around in snatch landrovers would help?
At least those who are having the temerity to tell the soldiers just to “get on with it”.
Can we conscript MPs to ride around Kandahar in the “Snatch” Landies please. PLEASE!
Start with the Cabinet and work back from there, until the policies change and the Forces get the kit they so desparately need
The yanks are OK though
http://quqnoos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3313&Itemid=48
http://www.armyrecognition.com/us_army_wheeled_and_armoured_vehicle_uk/m-atv_oshkosh_mrap_all_terrain_wheeled_armoured_vehicle_us_army_united_states_pictures_technical_uk.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshkosh_M-ATV
Worth remembering that in the UK (no roadside bombs) Gordon Brown rides around in a top-of-the-range armoured vehicle. There was plenty of money for that, and all the paranoid, ugly barricades and fences around Parliament.
If you are going to fight a war it’s got to be the right war at the right time. If you find yourself in one you make bloody sure you win it by making it the No1 priority for resources. Do the idiots not understand that!
Do you know what the American’s called our troops in Iraq? The scroungers. QMs showed enormous skill and ingenuity to ‘divert’ Yank kit to get their lads properly equipped…Boots, body-armour, spare parts and even gasoline. Don’t believe much has changed according my informants.
Do the idiots not understand that?
Doesn’t seem that way so far. 184 body bags from Afghanistan and 176 from Iraq
RIP +
“The Borrowers’ I think.
Your “lessons learnt ” comment raised goose bumps.
I really care about the lads we’ve sent to war. It really grieves me when we see them coming home through Wootten Bassett.
Gordon and his henchman are trying to pretend that these men don’t matter.
We have to make sure that Gordon understands that each death in Afghanistan is a nail in his political coffin
If Twittering is trivia for idiots, it just might resonate wit the current cabinet – or at any rate, the bit of the cabinet that makes the decisions.
Sorry Engineer nothing would resonate with the current Cabinet other than a free course entitled ” How to claim the most parliamentary expenses”
They don’t give a toss about our lads in Afghanistan- other than that they think fighting a war makes them look like toughies that will win them votes!!!!
They don’t care about young men dying for their country –
To gordon and the labour mp’s it’s all about their own personal ego’s.
Or possibly they’ve spun and dug themselves into a hole, and they can’t quite work out how to get out of it.
One very good reason for not spinning too much – you don’t have to keep track of your previous lies – oops, sorry, public statements. If you just tell it as it is, people don’t think so badly of you if you change your strategy in line with changed circumstances. You can’t do that if you’ve spun yourself into a hole without looking a bit silly – and this government are desperate not to look silly.
Shame for them they’ve failed miserably. Much more a shame for the families of dead servicemen.
New guardian and BBC poll seems to indicate more people are for than against the war in Afghanistan.
Sounds strange, nobody seems to know why we are fighting there, least of all the government. Never met anyone yet who has been asked their opinion in these polls.
There’s a bit of the cabinet that makes decisions? Is that Mandy?
Somebody must. Maybe it’s Gus O’Donnell.
I reiterate, birds do it better.
It’s “Top 20 Blogger Twitterers”. Not “Top 20 UK Politics twitterers”. Boris doesn’t blog any more (it’s questionable if he ever really did), nor does Dolly (thank you for getting rid of him, Guido) hence they’re not on that particular list.
Seems Mrs Dale is getting a bit of flack on his site.
I’m gay, I’m gay, in a very important way…
Can I also remind Guido the “Four Girls and a hot Donkey” has the most followers on the web !
People like to see the boxes ticked and be left with a feel-good factor. They’re carry it around for a few days as all their prejudices and affiliations are confirmed but what’s changed? The time served political habitual can’t change unless they get off their lazy duffs and try to overcome their issues by action and meeting people.
Another Tennants if you please, barkeep.
Time for bed – my prayer – please keep our lads in Afghanistan safe.
I look forward to joining our PM, our Minister of Defence and our outspoken labour MP who thinks the military should :-
‘just get on with dying and not make a fuss about it’,
in Wootten Bassett, in the next day or two to pay respects to our EIGHT MEN who have just died in Afghanistan .
Now don’t worry, everyone. I’ve allowed Charles to stay up late but only because he’s been a good lad and forgone his early evening wank.
That does mean, however, that tonight’s pounding will be more ferocious than ever, so I’ve got in extra supplies of ice because his red, blistered, screaming member will be glowing white hot by the time he’s finished thrashing it with the five knuckle shuffle while staring adoringly at a picture of his political hero.
I’ve tried bromide in his tea but nothing stops a determined wanker.
Well, it seems that sometimes expenditure of taxpayers’ money isn’t always the fault of politicians…. O/T but I need some relief from raging about Afghanistan.
Los Angeles city council officials have called for a review on who should foot the $1.4m (£864,000) bill for Michael Jackson’s memorial gig.
Councilman Dennis Zine claims taxpayers, who have been asked to make donations, “are getting ripped off”.
He has asked for a report on policing and traffic control costs for last week’s service at the Staples Center, which was attended by 17,000 fans.
Councilman Zine says promoter AEG Live or the Jackson family should pay.
But AEG president Tim Leiweke said that AEG did pay for the memorial itself.
However, security around the event resulted in high costs to Los Angeles at a time when the city is in debt for half of a billion dollars.
Think how many events in the UK have being cancelled due to the costs imposed by the local “Authorities”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5741519/Red-tape-forces-cancellation-of-village-fetes.html gives a few examples – imagine if your event was allowed to go ahead and then they tried to clobber you for all this afterwards!!
Charles you brighten up my day
Guido is a real big twittery praise be on his profits
allah will fuck drapers picket fence
“allah will f*ck drapers picket fence”
How does he manage that without getting splinters?
I actually feel a little sorry for Brown!! – it can’t be much fun for him trying to keep this bunch of inept Labour cheerleaders happy.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1199249/Brown-Gordfather-Labour-women-tell-PM-change-mafia-ways-face-fresh-leadership-challenge.html
Army Launches Devestating Attack On Brown And The Defence Secretary. ‘Lack of leadership from Brown is killing our soldiers’ claims Army top brass as six dead are named. Brutal for Brown.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1199239/Lack-leadership-Brown-killing-soldiers-claims-Army-brass-dead-named.html
“Defence Secretary is just not up to the job”
Lord Guthrie, former Chief of the Defence Staff, told the Mail yesterday: ‘There is real anger at every level in the Army today that all the repeated warnings have been ignored and we are now suffering the consequences on the battlefield.’
In a highly personal attack on the Prime Minister, he added: ‘I and other former chiefs have been warning for years in the House of Lords about the chronic shortages, but Gordon Brown as Chancellor was wholly unsympathetic to the needs of defence.’
Senior British soldiers have launched a lacerating attack on Gordon Brown over Afghanistan.
They warned that a ‘lack of leadership’ at the top of government is causing unnecessary deaths.
On the day that six more soldiers killed in Helmand Province were named, one high-ranking Army officer said that soldiers are dying on the front line because the Prime Minister and Chancellor Alistair Darling have refused to pay for the reinforcements and equipment they need.
And he bluntly dismissed the Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth as ‘simply not up to it’ after he rejected a request by the Army chief, General Sir Richard Dannatt, for 2,000 extra troops.
And? Are you surprised? Have you never listened to the socialist manifesto, or, for that matter, Billy Bragg? “Theirs is a land of hope and glory / Mine is the green field and the factory floor”
They simply believe that defence spending is NOT NECESSARY because, well, why would anyone want to attack a peace-loving socialist nation filled with brothers and sisters living in harmony.
We really are fucked
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n10/lanc01_.html
An illuminating and bleakly funny read. Shows the extreme stupidity of the bankers, and our politicos too.
dale is bumboy are you bumboy
is guido bumboy
infidel – allah will fuck your bumboys
I let my boyfriend do that sometimes!
There will be none of that dirty talk!
In any case I am double stitched and treble thickness and, approved by the WD for active duty in any Middle Eastern war zone where rear penetration is a possibility.
I am never likely to find myself in a drop zone!
Frottage and felching, a speciality
Iain “only gay in the village people” Dale
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hmfmrS6sPaXTjP7Q2kdtf9AZ1kvw
If this man is infected with H1N1, given the circles he moves in, he could be the man with at least one solution in a single handshake.
I used to read Ian,s Blog but it became predictably boring.
He is the same as many who bask in the dubious limelight of Westminster, they throw up their hands in dispair, and then just as rapidly return them to their previous position, sitting on them.
You wouldn’t say that about a man, you phobist!
http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=674
Read about Harriet Harpic. She’s clean round the bend.
Oooo yes I have just seen her go past…Hellloooooo Hattie! *waves*
Dale is an Uber self publicist. Why doesn’t he get a PPC’ship?…In a way it would be a good thing.Less spouting forth and twittering,fewer media appearances and a lower profile. Perhaps he wouldn’t get elected if he did get a constituency to go after…
People became so annoyed with me that the better they got to know me the more my Labour opponent’s majority went up.
They wouldn’t do that to a man, the phobists!
Only twats and hardwidges twitter.
twitter is for saddos, much like Facebook