Vaizey Loves Blogs
Speaking in the chamber yesterday during a debate on the future of local papers and “Digital Britain”, Ed Vaizey, the Shadow Minister, Culture, Media & Sport, said
Blogs, such as ConservativeHome, Iain Dale’s Diary or Guido Fawkes’ blog, are effectively taking over some of the role of national newspapers and are capable of breaking important stories with very few resources. That shows that technology will help to fill the vacuum…. For example, a website such as ConservativeHome provides a community base for those of us interested in Conservative politics. Although it might break news, it also keeps us in touch with what that wider community is doing.
Strange that he didn’t mention the Tory Bear blog, since Guido knows he is a reader. After it listed Vaizey as the Sexiest Male MP, he was so chuffed he ran down the corridor outside his office excitedly shouting “Have you seen? Have you seen? I’m the sexiest MP in parliament.” His researchers had to put up with him regaling visitors and telephone callers with the news for days…
Doubt he will be running down the corridor excitedly about this story…
Was it a British Helicopter and Not a Nato one that crashed in Afghanistan?
Read that it was Bulgarian surplus.
Is running down the corridor a euphemism for taking a long walk off a short pier?
Sexy to whom you big gay bear?
Well spotted sir! Does TB have a hardon for Mr V?
And an occaisional semi for William Hague (number 10).
sadly not, sirs. Read the TB article properly and it clearly states that the list is a guest post, courtesy of the lovely Gabi Jones. However I do like to think that TB himself holds a candle for Vaizey.
Gabi Jones is his alter ego.
I am definitely not his alter ego… but thank you anonymous for saying I am lovely
Vaizey is hot, no arguement.
By creating calm and trimming tiny mistakes before they turn into big mistakes, the government will continue to develop success. Being rich is easy. Creating poverty is hard. Thus, Jedi Master Brown and the government follow the way of the force.
Kids – stay off the crack!
No, there’s nothing else to do
Behold:
By looking the other way and failing to rectify tiny mistakes before they turn into big mistakes, the government is no longer able to clamber all over others’ success. Being poor is easy. Creating wealth is hard. Thus, retarded, young Master Brown and the government crash about like a bull in china-shop.
Cut, invert the sense, paste. Is that what dialectical materialism has come to?
The great thing about blogs is that they allow people with little to lose to broadcast their opions to the whole world whilst people with everything to lose can say nothing.
Did you mean onions?
Is ‘broadcasting opions’ anything like broadcasting your seed?
Is an opion a cross between an onion and a poppy?
Sub-atomic particle (a whole crate full at CERN ready to be broadcast)
There is no way I am going to broadcast my opions as I have too much to lose.
Can I have my brain back?
You bastard
that is why if you vote brown the blogs will become regulated.
make no mistake about it. He might like them but brown and balls don’t.
Don’t bet on Cameron being all liberal about it either laddy
Well he already wants to tax us for using the internet.
Anything to stop people expressing thoughts against party mantra excites Brown. If he can tax it at the same time as well even better.
Do you think if someone removed Brown from power he would class them as “courageous” like his hero, Mandela.
What is it with Mandela anyway? I just don’t see why people revere him.
Agree. De Klerk was just as heroic as Mandela, in fact both played vital roles; neither of them could have managed the astonishingly peaceful transition without the other. It was the bien-pensant liberal media who airbrushed de Klerk out of the picture. And it was our very own idiot politicos who went along with the convenient falsehood.
Public Opinion, innit.
Not difficult to be the sexiest MP in parliament when you look at some of the competition. Gordon Brown. Tom Watson. Margaret Beckett. Jacqui Smith. Bob Ainsworth ………but I won’t go on.
I will….
Alan Johnson, Lembit Opik, John Prescott, Charles Clarke, Ken Clarke, Ken Livingstone….
….Harman, Moran, Pickles….
Perhaps the author of Betedejour should become an MP. He’d be in good company.
er, Mark Oaten perhaps?
For those who like having pooh on their face he could be quite the pin up boy.
Waspy, I think you mean poo. Pooh is a boy’s teddy bear. Would you like that on your face?
There again, sorry I asked!!
How about we agree on poop? oo eer
I didn’t realise just how much of a sermonising, sanctimonious prick Opik was until I watched him on QT last night. He ought to be in New Labour. He could do a double act with Hilary Benn: “We suck lemons, gaze sternly and disapprovingly with our eight eyes of mean wisdom and vaguely effeminate air and we know what is good for you”. Urgh.
Trouble is, when I watched him I also couldn’t help envisaging him bouncing up and down with a Cheeky Girl shrieking in Romanian. Pub(l)ic figures like him need to retire quietly into obscurity.
Just had a look at the comments on that article.
Hague has a large fan base. Although some want to put a paper bag over his head during.
But, disturbingly, there are votes for Shahid Malik and David Milliband, and one person confessing to a crush on Mandelson.
If IP addresses can be tracked, why are these people not being protected from themselves?
Let’s just say that the Malik ‘supporters’ have shown themselves to be highly organised on internet polls…
Highly organised in postal votes and actual council polls too.
I bet there will be a Taleban MP in parliament before there is a B&P one.
jgm, I sadly fear there will be a number of both after the next election.
I bet too that when a B&P MP is elected in response to a Taleban MP that the Taleban Party will be crediting their electoral success as a backlash to the ‘racist’ B&P.
Aye. You forced us to vote Taleban because we knew that in five years time you’d elect a B&P MP. So we thought we’d get our racist, devisive candidate in first. But you made us do it. It’s all your fault.
Just watch.
It’s for men. If there was one for not men I wouldn’t win. I’m not at all sexy. I’m like Maureen Lipman on Gin ‘n’ Downers.
Phwoooaaaarrrrrr!!!!
Surely John Prescott is the sexiest male mp? What woman wouldn’t want to lick his stinky bridge?
off topic, but has anyone sseen this!, whatch obamas face!!!!!
Dunno – seemed a bit like at a rugby match where the cap’n takes Wills down saying ‘this is the dude you got hammered with 2 weeks ago’
Very clever, but fortunately we are not as stupid as you. Obama is introducing Medvedev to the people in the line.
Obama is not being snubbed.
Master baiter, “Very clever, but fortunately we are not as stupid as you”
Why?
tell me I am wrong, no problem, but do I really deserve that comment?
Perhaps you don’t but let’s face it there are a lot of rabid right wing, hate da foreigner speshully when vay have dark skin dim wits that visit this site. Quite often they need some help to recognise reality.
In those terms the comment is useful.
If you’re not actually thick brush it off.
It is funny though, the clip that is.
He’s a troll, it is what he does.
Ok, howabout this one!
Aaw, bless – Jonty steps up to the plate to defend his hero.
How cute!
“Quite often they need some help to recognise reality.”
Sums up New Labour nicely. Anyone who disagrees with them needs “some help to recognise reality”. Their reality. Which of course is very different to most peoples reality. It is also known as “Cloud Cuckoo Land”, a happy, clappy, crappy place where everone is equal (if they belong to certain client/victim groups that is). “Rabid” right wing dimwits (it’s one word MB) are definitely not equal.
“Some help” usually means coercion, intimidation and/or legislation although more extreme abuses of the human spirit and body have occurred and still occur in some socialist states. The ad hominem in wedge-headed socialist Marcus Brigstocke’s post gives away the prejudice, bigotry and arrogance generally inherent in the socialist world view and particularly inherent in MB’s case.
Just for you Aunty Zit,
http://alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/124771636428.htm
And returning the favour.
http://regimeofterror.com/archives/2009/07/former_civilian_senior_intelli_1/
oh and http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1100410.html
War criminals
I agree. The palestains are war-criminals.
According to the Israeli troops involved, the Israeli Defence Force are war criminals which testimony got plenty of air play coupled with the best example of an incompetent spokesman Mark Regev to rebut. They should give him a shovel.
Your posting Hezbollah fires is hysterically funny.
How many tanks did the Israelis lose?
Answer: A hell of a lot more than they’d expected.
How shambolic was the Israeli offensive?
Answer: Very
Evil evil evil
Nic nice nice
Evil evil evil
Nice nice nice
The Palestinian airforce are always out carpet bombing.
Abdulla, congratulations.
You have won a free holiday
The Israeli Defence Force is one of the most unethical armies in the world and acts in accordance with the lowest moral code.
Abdulla, – well, – they’ve never hit my persian yet.
Don’t bother packing your nail clippers
Is he still alive?
What a rip off – I’m the sexiest Tory by yards
Onanism is forbidden by all monotheistic religions. Which is really cruel. Where else are Pickles, Timney and Mandy going to release their tensions.
Which yards? Abbatoir yards?
I’m too sexy for your blog.
Maybe if he lost about 3 stone…
My god when will this torture be over? Will no one rid us of this ‘government’?
What will we grizzle about when they are out of power?
The next government?
How can anybody be Shadow Minister for both Culture and Sport? His brief might as will be germ warfare and flower arranging. This is another daft NuLab idea, lumping together things that should be kept apart or left out of Government entirely, like Blinky’s Department of Kids ‘n’ Stuff.
I believe it is called the payroll vote. You create a whole bundle of pretendy ministries and portfolios and committees and such for Labour MPs to sit on and chair. Naturally, with this extra ‘responsibility’ comes more cash, chauffeur driven cars, foreign ‘fact-finding’ trips etc etc.
Then, when Gordon needs your vote for say, doubling the tax on the lowest paid members of society or extending detention without charge to 42 days then along come his enforcers and remind you of the lifestyle you now stand to lose. Naturally, as a highly principled and independently-minded Labour MP you tell ‘em to go fuck themselves. Or something.
And that’s how you end up with tax doubled on the poor and 42 day detention witout charge.
What a truly depressing way to run a country.
Good point. It’s because “culture” is now defined as overpaid, cloth-brained oiks who kick a ball around a field before changing back into vastly overpriced designer tat chosen by a “partna” with huge tits and the IQ of a gnat while mincing about in front of a Hello snapper who’s been told they are important.
As for Gonads’ Department of Single Parent Families and Girls Toilets, I cannot help noticing that every other European country with better schools than ours has a thing called a Ministry of EDUCATION.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8153646.stm
couldn’t happen to a nicer person x
God bless all pigs.
Thanks
Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery, Cherie. No, really.
Hmmm Cherie with D&V Now there’s an image thats gonna stay with me for today.
Well done Guido, you got your name in Hansard
Enjoy your drinks this evening!
Climate Update:
The Sahara is shrinking.
Warming to bring more rainfall to currently barren fringes.
Evidenced by satellite image measurements.
Source BBC Website.
Well, well!
And the ice caps on Mars are in retreat too. Must be made-made global warming up there too.
I feel so guilty. Maybe I should just pay more green taxes and then everything will be alright.
All hail Gore. All hail Gore. All Hail Gore.
Cloudy but mild again today. Light showers of sulphuric acid later.
What about the rest of the week?
According to Google a Venetian Day is 116 Earth Days so I’d say you’ll be struggling to get a seven day Venetian forecast.
Although I’m sure Al Gore would give it a go.
Venusian, young man, Venusian.
Ta for the Earthly lesson. I was, literally, miles away.
7 – 9 Day Weather Summary: Mostly dry, Warm (max 29°C on Thu afternoon, min 22°C on Wed night), Wind will be generally light
“Blogs, such as ConservativeHome, Iain Dale’s Diary or Guido Fawkes’ blog, are effectively taking over some of the role of national newspapers and are capable of breaking important stories with very few resources….”
Hmmm.
Few resources, like squillions from Ashcroft’s Carribean hideaway.
Talk about outsourcing, eh.
Fuck off Archie.
An example of what this Technolgy is below – where as Guido does it on a national scale, it can also be effective on a local scale:
Gordon Brown demolishes Banks and jobs out whilst local MP sells voters out!
http://tinyurl.com/nobsa9
Charlie’s just got up and switched on his computer so you can expect some more ‘pearls of wisdom’ soon. He likes to talk to his ‘Master Yoda’ puppet and pretend that Yoda’s answering, you know, “flaming to the dark side leads”, I don’t really understand it. Please don’t tease him about it, though. I wish he’d show as much interest in the nice salad I got for his lunch but all he really likes is Pot Noodle!
When I suggest that he invites some of his friends round he just says “Friendship is one with the Dead Tree Press.” Do they teach them some strange new language at school?
Britain’s broken economic fundamentals are the root of problems, which is why ignoring the external problem and focusing on internal solutions is key to success. If folks want arguing and negativity, that’s what they’ll get as effort follows focus. So, if you want a better outcome switch to a better focus.
Too many folks are wrong headed and want to impress their friends, so the blog comments and national economy skitter along the bottom. This is madness but in spite of reality delivering a clear signal nobody will let go and capital continues to shrink: the more people cling the more the sand runs between their fingers.
To succeed, you must unlearn failure.
Britain’s broken economic fundamentals are the root of problems, which is why ignoring the external problem and focusing on internal solutions is key to success.
I believe that is what alcoholics call ‘a moment of clarity’.
I would call it a moment of delirium tremens.
To succeed, you must unlearn failure.
Chas – today’s prize is one hour with a psychotherapist. All you have to do is fill in the gaps in this well know phrase or saying:
Practice **** *** preach.
I hope the prize is a session with that well-known psychotherapist we all love to hear about. It’s well known that a good laugh is therapeutic, so it’s good to think that Dolly’s antics can benefit us too!
The major parties are full of half-baked candidates who are something and nothing. Apart from the fact my local council unlawfully sold my personal data without my permision, the “least worst candidate” is one reason why I came off the electoral roll and refuse to go back on.
Charles Hardwidge @ 11:22 am, Sat 18th Apr 2009 on LabourList
[Ok, I changed my mind about stalking the troll.]
I post these because I have no imagination but I am happy, I have Prozac.
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Perhaps the ‘sexy MPs’ will feature in some equality wanking material –
http://tinyurl.com/lo5r8k
O/T
I admit up front that I’m no fan of Labour and definitely no fan of Brown’s.
But I’ve just seen Brown on the news – clip from defence questions – and I squirm with embarrassment at the fact this muppet is our PM.
What do other World leaders really think when he preaches his economic philosphy on “How to bankrupt a Country in 10 years and then apply for the job as saviour”?
However did it come to this?
And still 27% would vote for him. Cameron ought to play for England because he more often than not misses the net from 10 yards.
Rant over – back to work.
Can we not persuade Forsythe’s “The Jackal” to come out of retirement to do one last job?
I’m sure it would be a massive hit at the cinema!
He flippin’ failed! No, get someone who won’t get caught and won’t miss. In fact, get anyone under 23 in Peckham.
When I said ‘I should just pay more taxes..’ obviously I meant all you should pay more taxes. That way I’ll feel better.
All hail Gore. All hail Gore. All hail Gore.
Another day, another billion quid for foreign aid.
So that is where the helicopter budget went.
Can we name the individuals close to DFID who are in receipt of salaries in excess of £900,000 a year, or would that breach their human rights – if not their conscience?
It’s Gordon’s destiny to save Africa you selfish bastard :p
He missed his vocation. He really wanted to be a presbyterian missionary in Africa. He found another type of jungle, and fortunately he is still able to preach, and convert a rather different kind of a flock – his newlabour followers.
What ‘they’ don’t get is that spin doesn’t work on blogs.
I doubt it’s possible to make millions blogging (is it Guido?? lol) but you’ll be able to live with yourself here and in the hereafter……and you’ll have helped humanity and NOT merely helped yourself…..
It’s not about making money any more, it’s about telling the Truth (take note
Ed (in particular) and David Milliband to name but two shysters).
They don’t get it, but Hardwidge still tries – quite sad really.
Everything is green and fake.
The Sun has revealed that “Cherie Blair has caught swine flu”
Sow (oops) sorry to Cherie’s news…wonder what the chances are of her not recovering!
The tories are all over the place with their media policy. They favour creating a network of 80 city based “local news centres”, rather than “top slicing” the Licence fee and using some of that to make sure the Beeb doesn’t have a regional news monopoly.
They say that the public are now prepared to accept a more amateurish, youtube style service – probably available only on cable and the internet – in competition with BBC regional news.
What utter rubbish. This will only increase the power of the BBC, which will look slick and professional in comparison to ultra local parish pump style news, which no-one will watch, and, as the tories admit, will have to be largely staffed by “volunteers” to make it work. (all very worthy, having volunteers, but as anyone who has listened to “community” radio stations will know, they are largely dire)
It’s bad enough having labour idiots sucking up to the Beeb. I had hoped an incoming tory government would cut them down to size, not play straight into their hands with such a stupid, half-baked suggestion as this.
I am starting to wonder if having so many people educated at eton, and obviously totally out of touch with ordinary people, will be the tories leadership’s achiles heel. Or are they trying to appease the BBC in the hope of some favourable coverage in the run up to the election? If they are – dream on.
http://tinyurl.com/ldyomo
Mirror, Mirror, on the wall,
Who is the fairest of them all?
Is it Ed Vaizy?
Mirror: Vaizy? Are you crazy?
Then, mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who IS the fairest of them all?
Mirror: The fairest, sexiest Westminster MP
Is known by the name of Jeremy…………….Hunt!
Hunt definitely appears somewhere… can’t quite remember where I put him. No. 6 maybe??