July 24th, 2009

Miscellaneous Musings

Guido is not following things as closely as normal so forgive him if none of this is news. The wireless mobile connection out here in the sticks from France Telecom is a painfully slow EDGE rather than G3 connection, they charge by the hour rather than by the megabyte, so the worse the service the more expensive it is – French rationalism for you.

Bad Al Campbell is kicking the blogging habit for the summer holidays, Paul Waugh is as well, Iain Dale told Guido he was too – yet he seems as prolific as ever.

Guido has been amused and irritated by these articles:

The Guardian amused with Take the Profit Motive Out of News. They managed to do that long ago, now the the rest of the “quality” vanity publisher broadsheets are following suit. See a small flaw with this business model?

Apparently the Tories are telling lobbyists to back off. So Conservative Party conference won’t be packed to the gills with expense card flashing drinks buying lobbyists? How many Tory PPCs are or were lobbyists? How many Tory MPs have links to lobbying firms. How many Tory HQ staffers are being poached by lobbyists? Backing off? More like backing up a truck…

Malloch-Brown changing tack on helicopters for Afghanistan infuriated Guido. If you are for or against the occupation of Afghanistan, in fact whatever your view on the strategy (Guido asks what is the exit strategy?), we should all be agreed that they should be given whatever resources they require. The spin from Downing Street is nauseating. They care more about covering their arses politically than protecting the boys in Helmand. Fox is right the retraction was a “pathetic spectacle“.

Am very much enjoying revelations about Berlusconi’s sexual shenanigans (he is 72 after all) and the best story of the silly season so far: the lesbian music mistress and the teenager at City of London School for Girls. Very St Trinians…

Incidentally to those complaining that their comments are in the moderation queue. They will probably stay there until late August. Haven’t you got something better to do than monging on a moribund blog when the sun is out?


1,373 Comments

  1. 1
    freddie flintoff says:

    eh up guido lad having a good holiday ? love ya humour

    • 9
      freddie flintoff says:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mevNWOCstZ4

      this should cheer you all up

      • 27
        Mike Brearley says:

        Not bad. Reminds me of Bob Willis in Botham’s Ashes.

        • 32
          Trough Mixture says:

          Now you Mr B were a proper captain and a gent.

        • 565
          privates on parade says:

          This is a political blog, not a boring cricketing wankfest. I’m willing to bet you all wear lichen green cardies and smoke pipes.

          Fuck off before we disconnect the IV drips you old farts.

        • 635
          Are You Taking The Michael? says:

          Has anyone noticed that England have had most success under captains named Michael?

          Mike Brierly
          Mike Gatting
          Michael Vaughan

        • 640
          Are You Taking The Michael? says:

          Sorry that should be Mike Brearley :-)

        • 822

          News just in from the 1st Norwich test
          Labour won the tossers and elected to bat first.

          Brown out for a duck LBW {Lying Bloody Wanker}
          Mandy – 34 Backing up {in- out -in – out – in -then out}
          Balls -2 Stumped {Completely stumped..hasn’t a clue}
          E.Miliband -44 Caught {on the back foot.}
          D.Miliband – 12 Run {away}
          Harman – 7 – {insisted on equality.Played French cricket..}
          Cooper – 3 {mental ability}
          Vaz – - 8 – {amazingly, still not out}
          Flint-went-off – 1 {retire}
          Smith – 5 – Fall {from grace}
          Hoon – 0 -Caught out {..at least 3 times}
          Darling – 203 {trillions of debt.} Not out {of the woods}

          Labour allowed 12 players due to boundary rules.
          Labour declared {a disaster} at 319. Economy rate – VERY POOR
          Both sides off for tea. Play resumes in 12 weeks

          :Tories batted 1st:

          Dave Cameron – 5,590
          Chloe Smith 8,001 –
          Conservatives won by 7348

          Eric Pickles said to be very happy with this swing.

          Gordon Brown now faces his next test. Doubts whether he will retain the captaincy much longer. Labour all out by Christmas

        • 967
          Berlusconi's Penis Pump Implant says:

          Hahahaha!
          A 72 year old shagged a teenager and needs to hire prostitutes.

          Oh Silvio! your leering old pervert shannanigans are so admirable.
          Aren’t corrupt joke politicians wonderful and enjoyable!

        • 1256
          Mike Brearley says:

          Silvio does not need his IV drip doscpnnected, unlike privates’.

      • 38
        freddie flintoff says:

        o/t but what is on topic anyway how will the gov majrty change if the tories win norwich?

        • 123
          Sir William Waad says:

          It will go down by two.

        • 166
          A Loyal Servant says:

          eminds me of the time that one of Blair’s henchlegumes said that with a majority of 158 they could lose 100 seats and still have a majority of 58.
          I see a problem with that cunning little plan

        • 182
          Alibarbs says:

          As is has done – Tories polled more than twice as many votes as Labour.

          Tories – 13,591
          Labour – 6,243
          Lib Dems – 4,803
          UKIP – 4,068

          Which begs the oh so predictable question – why the effing hell are there still 6,243 hoons that think Labour are worth voting for in the whole country, let alone one single constituency?

        • 238
          Derek says:

          Postal votes & dolescum mate.

        • 377
          Gooey Blob says:

          Tories still on course for a substantial majority after the next election. Shocking result for Labour, worse than expected.

          Conference season should be fun, anyway. Cameron telling us why he should be PM, Brown trying to persuade us he is the right man to lead his party, and Johnson and Harman vying to become leader after the election.

        • 623
          W G GRACE says:

          I love the sound of Leather on skin.ERRRRR sorry willow !

        • 963
          Churchill's Cattleprod says:

          Can just hear the spin going on in Number 10 now …

          Simon Lewis: Ow! Please Gordon, throw the phone at someone else for a change – that bloody hurt!
          Brown: How much did we lose by? HOW MUCH?
          Lewis: Not as bad as you might think. We lost by less than 6,500 votes and we did do quite well by coming in second.
          Brown: Second you say? Well that’s a much better result than in the local elections. You see? It shows that people DO trust me more than David Cameron.
          Lewis: Err, yes Gordon. But it was Cameron’s party that wo …. OW!

        • 1281
          The day the USA brought back slavery says:

          The Liberty Dollar

          Another great video that unmasks the true face of the tyranny we live under is the film From Freedom To Fascism by Aaron Russo.

          http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=from+freedom+to+fascism&btnG=Search&meta=

          Video can be seen at above link.

          The facts about the Federal Reserve Bank issuing counterfeit currency means that any debt owed by the government to the FRB is void as unlawful in contract law – both the dollars issued by the FBR are fake but also the debt is unlawful.

          You can only legally pay for what legally exists – in other words the fact that the US government buys dollars from the FRB means, that as that currency has no true value, then the contract is void as unlawful.

          At the same time the basis of income tax on labour is unlawful.

          Therefore in one go, by scrapping the FRB and banning income tax paid to the Federal Government for work as opposed to corporate profits, and removing the tax exempt legal status of corporations either via write offs or creative accounting, means the individual is freed almost immediately from any debt.

          If corporations were the main tax payers instead of individuals being the primary tax payers, at the same time as a new National Bank of America to replace the FRB were put in place to allow the American Republic ( a constitutional government )to be born then this would mean a Constitutional Revolution had begun.

          A new dawn of liberty would arise over America.

          No more the chains of slavery to usury upon our limbs and the limbs of our children.

          No more the burden of national debt heaped upon the shoulders of future generations whose bright young lives are blighted by decisions taken decades before by corrupt bankers and politicians.

          No more the Global Corporate Fascist dictatorship of the New World Order and their cabals of capitalists, bankers, industrialists, oil companies, media bosses and bought and paid for politicians.

          No more slavery to the media.

          No more terror from the para-military police force of the New World Order, the IRS.

          The solution is simple ;

          1) Abolish the Federal Reserve Bank and set up the ‘ National Bank Of America ‘ which has the sole authority to issue currency. All previous contracts between the government and the FRB are void, therefore the debt owed by the government as a result of Obama’s stimulus package ( a multi-trillion dollar welfare cheque to the Bankers) is unlawful and therefore any debt related to that money will not be paid and nor will any any such tender be legal anymore.

          Individuals who have taken out personal loans with the banks who loaned them the money should repay those debts to the banks. At the same time the removal of income tax from labour would ensure they have enough money to repay those personal debats to the banks.

          Whilst the old dollar can remain the currency of private banking transactions between banks and individuals, the banks would have to pay the government what it owed them in taxes based on the new currency.

          Over a period of time the transition of wealth via the banks having to pay their taxes in the new currency would remove most of the old fake dollars printed by the FRB from the private banking system. Every year large chunks of private capital owned by the bankers would have to be transferred back to the people via the National Bank For America being paid its tax revenues owed to the government in its currency, the Liberty Dollars.

          2) Issue that new currency The Liberty Dollar based on Gold and at the same time begin the transition to a new Energy Standard to run alongside a banking system based on the Gold Standard. Banking transactions will be based on tangible assets like gold reserves whilst a nations GDP rating and international credit worthiness rating must be pegged both on its wealth (based on tangible assets such as gold reserves ) but also its ability to produce its own internal energy demands.

          The Energy Standard must be based on a nations financial stability and its economic integrity relate as much to its ‘energy income’ as its financial income.

          A nation that produces 100 % of its own internal energy demands will be classified as more financially secure as a nation that relies 100 % on energy imports.

          A nation that produces 100 % of its own energy requirements from sustainable renewable energy sources and is able to export that energy will have the highest economic rating of all.

          The future economics of this planet will be based on the economics of energy supply and demand.

          The export of energy supplies from nations is the basis of future economic prosperity.

          Therefore the new currency to replace the fake FRB ‘dollar’ must be replaced by a new currency issued by the National Bank of America.

          I suggest it be called ‘ The Liberty Dollar ‘ in that the dollar bill is re-designed and a whole new currency issued as cash.

          3) Ban all income tax for anyones personal labour. The only taxation should be on corporate profits. If you are a rich business person that owns their own company then you will pay high taxes as you have a high income paid to you via the corporation you run. Corporations should not be able to avoid paying tax.

          In one stroke the lives of millions would be transformed for the better.

          The working man will have the profits of his own labour in his own pockets instead of in the pockets of the government and the bankers.

          This would be the day of The Second American Revolution, its true day of national liberation from the tyranny of bankers, the government and the media.

        • 1340
          thick as thieves says:

          far too long and boring motherfucker.

        • 1361
          keep taking the ritalin theives and leave the politics to the big boys says:

          Are you a goldfish theives? or gaydo in disguise? or perhaps you are still at special school?

          Sad really

        • 1363
          thick as thieves says:

          I’M TOP BOY YOU SLAG SHUT YOUR MOUTH YOU FUCKING SCUM SLAG!
          I’M THE DADDY AND YOU ARE MY BITCH MOTHERFUCKER!
          cheeky fucking c’unt.
          must be new.

    • 28
      |5p€d0☻5h0rt5| says:

      Dontch jsu love ‘im — that is a fooking Scotsman I tell ya — a true down to earth fooking Scotsman. I wish he would kick the BBC’s arse for me for what they have done on this here article — have a peek-a-boo at it and ask yourself whether YOU would want to pay a licecne fee if you were me (as kilthead Jock)?

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8166679.stm

      PS – WONDER WHAT THEY ARE AFRAID OF????

      • 36
        |5p€d0☻5h0rt5| says:

        I have just complained about it officially – here is the response — THEY WILL RESPOND IN TEN FOOKING DAYS — greased lightening eh? Kinda think it will be too late by then.

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/process/submit?id=T05SF8DDNDHEAF47QGBQISGPC2

        Bastards…the quicker we get the hell out and indpendent the fooking better.

        • 98
          barefootcontessa says:

          SS, looked at sight, must be thick, but apart from the silly photograph don’t understand why you’re spooked by it?

        • 122
          Economy shrinks at record annual rate says:

          He’s not commando.

        • 127
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Yeh Contessay baby – it’s the fooking silly photograph *bastards* Can you imagine what would happen if it was a black country that was being represented that way? SHshhseeee!

          Oh oh – tory win – (in this case well deserved IMHO they shoudl never had fred Gibby)

        • 1003
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Here is a movie of Spanish young men with bright yellow kilts – the Beeb had plenty of chance in ths one to show their bare arses and underwear but did not – wonder why they had a sense of decorum in this case? *Racist bastards – they need institutionalised*
          http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8166682.stm

        • 1253
          Gatherings in the clans says:

          If i wanted to look at a jocks arse, i’d watch the scottish parliament.

      • 128
        Sir William Waad says:

        We’re supposed to take caber-tossing seriously?

        • 143
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Listen mate, if it was YOUR caber that was being tossed without your permission would you not want to know about it? Seriously though, these are the kinda insults that cause real fooking damage – its easy to dismiss it when its not you that’s involved – but England can be pretty sensitive [rightly] about their national signs and symbols as can the French.

        • 153
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Sir William, you miss the point – it is negative racial sterotypes that are the issue here. Bu to answer your question, YES you ought to care about Caber Tossign and WE ought to care about Morris Dancing and the May Pole and the flag of Saint George and England winning the World Cup (brilliant things IMHO). What teh fook are we all livign for if not for a wee bit of difference and diversity in our lives….these South East based BBC bastards are deliberately corroding it, beleive you me!

        • 158
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Oh, warm beer and cricket – nearly forgot! :-)

        • 242
          Duncan Disorderly says:

          Sorry but the Scots are NOT a “race” unless you are racist and exclude all the Scots of Indian, Italian, African and Irish etc. descent.

          Scotland is a country and Scots is a nationality.

        • 303
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          > Sorry but the Scots are NOT a “race” unless you are racist and exclude all
          > the Scots of Indian, Italian, African and Irish etc. descent.
          >
          > Scotland is a country and Scots is a nationality.

          I stand corrected. My language was bad okay, but I trust you still see the point I was trying to make about negative sterotypes on the Beeb…hey, I ain’t know Trevor Phillips so I can’t give you it chapter and verse. But, in a way, that is the very point – when their coverage starts to offend ordinary everyday Jocks like me then they must have got something wrong, I would suggest.

        • 416
          Duncan Disorderly says:

          The smarmy gets at the Beeb patronise anyone north of Watford Gap so I don’t think the Scots are being singled out for special treatment.

        • 422
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Agreed

        • 490
          English Viking says:

          Scots are a racially distinct ethnicity. It is not possible to be truly Scottish and be Japanese, Jamaican, Italian or anything else, although for administrative purposes it is possible to hold passports from these countries and be Scottish. Stop it with the Pavlovian PC response to anybody other than non-Brithish immigrants asserting their satisfaction at belonging to a particular race.

        • 510
          Zig I. Littler says:

          Jawol mein Viking!

        • 548
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Fook me I’m confused…I can see it both ways Duncan’s and English Viking’s.

        • 729
          Daughter of the Revolution says:

          As an immigrant, I’m always terribly confused when it comes to these box ticking exercises – am not English, Irish, Welsh or Scottish, so just tick ‘White Other’ ….does that make me a minority???

        • 1133
          Robert says:

          We should all stop talking about “race” and speak of “a people” instead. We, the English are a people, the Scots are a people, etc. It is no accident that Churchill wrote a book called a “History of the English-speaking Peoples” not “…of the English race”

          You have all been duped in this matter, by an Orwellian sort of Newspeak, propagated by those who want to destroy all of we peoples, and thereby, in their demented view, end all wars.

          Having said that, all the bloody sponging Jocks should bugger off back to the boonies, soonest.

      • 621
    • 154
      CARRY ON GOVERNING says:

      It started in America:

      http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iK4nrZ7GALyorz4G34gTnFocFM9gD99KAU3G0

      So, something like this is coming here soon then.

      “has seen more than 130 public officials plead guilty or be convicted of corruption since 2001″

      “accused of accepting $10,000 from a cooperating government witness posing as a developer who sought help in getting permits for a project”

      Isn’t that how the planning system works in this country?

      No more holidays for Guido unless he gets back on top!

    • 294
      Hacked off with your thinking says:

      “Haven’t you got something better to do than monging on a moribund blog when the sun is out?”

      Well just how messed up is that thinking? You are just like all those UK MPs 646 (less and excluding the Libdems) who think it is there right to have holiday until September. While the UK falls apart in terms of economical mess and mismanagement by the Labour Government. Parliament should not have holidays like school holidays. the UK country is not a school, though Labour have treated it like one. Labours end of term report means they are to be expelled soon.

      Grow up and understand just how messed up the UK is and we can’t all take 2 months holiday just because the sun is shining in France or wherever.

      • 376
        tat says:

        what a dick.

        • 428
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          said a dick

        • 507
          Hacked off with your thinking says:

          You assume I have a dick?

          Too many dicks in Parliament is the problem.

        • 838
          thick as thieves says:

          now you are learning.
          there is hope for you yet.
          you have passed the test, well done.

        • 951
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          > now you are learning.
          > there is hope for you yet.
          > you have passed the test, well done.

          Learning? I am a past Master at this kinda thing :-) You’re pretty good yourself.

        • 1033
          thick as thieves says:

          I am top boy.
          someone has to be.
          you will have to shuffle faster if you intend to keep up old man.

        • 1081
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          yeh, dream on kiddo, dreaaaaaaaam Oooooooooooon

        • 1255
          Gatherings in the clans says:

          Speedo is a master of the five knuckle shuffle

  2. 2
    Hugh Janus says:

    OK Guido, you win, back to the Guinness then…

    • 3
      freddie flintoff says:

      you reakon he got a hangover lad

    • 107
      Reg511 says:

      Seeing Jack Straw miming along to Gordo’s answers at the last question time made me wonder how involved he is in the coaching of the Prime Mentalist. Who is writing the script?

      Anthony Blunts confessions reveal the methodology for communist infiltration. Why would it have changed so much after 20 years?

      Who were the real architects of ZaNuLiebore. When we sign up to the Lisbon treaty, a new soviet super state will have been created through the Democratic process, this will be Blair’s legacy.

      Look at the past of the ZaNuLiebore early Ministers.

      http://libsoc.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_archive.html

      Conspiracy?

      Still don’t know the truth behind JFK assassination.

      • 642
        HUE G RECTION says:

        IT is only democratic if the people vote for it and dont have it imposed on them

    • 112

      By grasping less we put less of ourselves in the way of success, are more relaxed, and happier. Indeed, one might positively beam radiance and coolness just like the Labour Party is doing. Oh, wait. Didn’t some people criticise Labour for doing just that?

      Nonetheless, better structure and less personalising makes comment more accessible and generates less noise. It’s also mentally healthier and more enjoyable to read. If people can get this right, maybe, we can get other things right.

      • 115
        freddie flintoff says:

        time for your meds charles

        • 124
          Economy shrinks at record annual rate says:

          When do the Norwich North results come out?

        • 139

          7000 majority to the Tories.

          That’s about as bad as it could be Charlie troll. When will you admit defeat?
          Today?
          Tomorrow?
          When Gordon’s stubby,bitten hands are bashed with a crowbar so he is finally forced to relinquish power to someone with some kind of economic sense.

          Another day of listening to the incompetent fool telling us he has lessons to learn and he has listened to the people of Norwich and he knows that what they really want is more socialism, they just expressed their wishes badly.

      • 199
        Alibarbs says:

        @Charles

        Yaaawwwn!

        Taxi!

      • 245
        Anonymous says:

        Hahaha, Charles, too bad Labour won’t be given the chance to “get other things right”.

        The electorate very clearly consider that you’ve already got too many things wrong.

        Goodbye.

      • 264
        Trevor Brooking says:

        Radiance and coolness of the Labour party? yeah, right; as radiant and cool as a hippo’s backside at the end of the dry season. Guess there won’t be any more mobiles flying around No 10 any more? Carry on the doublethink Charlie boy, it’s all you’ve got to comfort yourself with. You really shouldn’t come out with this type of nonsense – if you’re not taking the Michael, then you’re beyond parody.

        • 401
          Captain Incredible says:

          I think by “radiance” and “coolness” he means like a macabre post-mortem grin stretched across the face of a cold bloodless corpse. In which case, yes, the Labour Party does radiate that, in spades.

      • 708
        City of Vice says:

        Boring. Just fuck off.

        • 780
          barefootcontessa says:

          The two Peters, Hichen and Tatchell, talking a lot of sense about lack of democracy in our voting system. On Any Questions, radio 4.

        • 858
          Doctor Mick says:

          I must say Tatchell went well up there in my estimation when he tried to arrest Mugabe in Belgium on his own. Mugabe’s goons gave him a kicking but he achieved more than this feeble govenment and the rest of Africa combined have ever done. Brave man.

        • 939
          thick as thieves says:

          your treatment appears to have been successful Doctor Mick.
          you no longer seem to pose a danger to yourself or others.
          patient discharged July 24th 2009.

        • 1020
          Doctor Mick says:

          Thanks tat. I can’t tell you how much that means to me.

          *blushes*

        • 1258
          A Second Opinion says:

          What about another 10,000 volts as a preventative cure against a relapse?
          Fuck me, it can’t do any more damage.

      • 994
        Cassandra King says:

        By their words shall you know them, by their actions shall you judge them.

        The voter is coming for newlabour, they can run but they cannot hide, the voter so long denied is about to pass damning judgement on the deceivers and charletons.

        Crow all you like comrade, a storm is coming to blow your kind away and as they say where I come from,

        Smell yah later!

  3. 4
    Saltpetre says:

    If France ges too hot for you… try Blackpool !
    ….and the local people are delightful.

    • 20
      Trough Mixture says:

      There’s battered haggis in the chip shops too.

    • 31
      |5p€d0☻5h0rt5| says:

      I second that Backpool people are whizzo! :-)

    • 118

      I’ve seen a lot of lies and negativity from the usual quarters but where are the concrete plans and enthusiasm from those who would be king? What job opportunities do they want to create versus cost cutting? What sort of society do they want to build versus self-interest? I see the Prime Minister developing solutions but why are the opposition trying to talk eveyone back into their caves?

      • 145
        Charles on E Hardwidge says:

        Sorry guys, but I have a couple of corrections to make to my last post.
        Typo errors mainly but they do totally affect the gist of what I am trying to say:

        I’ve seen a lot of lies and negativity from the usual new labour quarters but where are the concrete plans and enthusiasm from those who would be king? What job opportunities do they want to create versus cost cutting? What sort of society do they want to build versus self-interest? I don’t see the Prime Minister developing solutions.
        Gordon is useless and we must ditch him before the next election or we will get a jolly good drubbing.
        And one last thought from me: we definitely do not have enough helicopters in Afghanistan and that is Gordon Brown’s fault. Soldiers are dying because they were underfunded by Gordon.
        For that I will never forgive him.

      • 210
        Sungei Patani says:

        I think the Norwich North result is a good response to this pompous pretentious posting from CEH.

        Conservatives polled more than twice as many votes as Liebore with a nearly 17% swing from Liebor to Tory.

        Well done Chloe!

        • 1146
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          > I think the Norwich North result is a good response to this pompous
          > pretentious posting from CEH.
          >
          > Conservatives polled more than twice as many votes as Liebore with a
          > nearly 17% swing from Liebor to Tory.
          >
          > Well done Chloe!

          So you reckon she did well getting lected without answering these points that CH listed do ya?

          I don’t need to ask coz its the philosophy that you animals follow and that is why I could never trsut you or your kind.

      • 418
        Captain Incredible says:

        Funny, I see a Prime Minister thrashing around like a lunatic, stumbling from one self-inflicted disaster to another, as he struggles and spins in ever more desperate attempts to save his own arse, no matter what the cost to Britain.

        And, judging by the Labour’s humiliation in Norwich North today, most other people see that, too.

        • 632
          Shithead says:

          Did you hear Harriet Harmanhater on The World At One? She plumbed depths of drivel even she has not plumbed before. There is no fitting word in the English language for what came out of her mouth after Nuliebour was slaughtered in Norwich North. Shite? Drivel? Waffle? Rubbish? Self-deluded crap? It was all these, telescoped into a massive tsunami of pointless, irrelevant comment not even vaguely linked to the subject in hand. Gordo sounds like he’s given up. Why doesn’t he tell his deputy it’s all over? Deputy? Actually, that would be the slimy, slithering bumboy himself. ‘Lord’ M LOVES boys. Harmanhater, er hates ‘em. They must get on so well together.

        • 1001
          CARRY ON GOVERNING says:

          http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2009/07/24/story13508507t0.shtm

          Ex nu labor party spin doctor in Scotland, TONY McELROY, takes up new post as corporate affairs for Tesco.

          Recognise the pattern anyone?

          “This is an excellent neighbourhood site, and provides easy access for our shoppers, given its busy main road location and convenient on site car parking.”

          Nu Labor, coming to a neighbourhood near you… by the back door!

      • 649
        HUE G RECTION says:

        SHORTWIDGE I HAVE A PICKAXE HANDLE THAT WOULD LOVE TO MEET YOUR FACE !

      • 709
        City of Vice says:

        Fuck off, Charles.

  4. 5
    The Grim Reaper says:

    As the UK gets closer to owning the greatest debt in it’s entire history and Gordo takes a break from being the worse Prime Mentalist in living memory – isn’t it possible for us to take legal action against this inept man and his government? Is there no way he can be arraigned or impeached? He was never elected as Chief Executive by anyone but a small cabal and is surrounded by unelected cronies. Surely there must be a legal case to be mounted against this appalling regime, who have – root and branch destroyed many of the institutions of this nation, it’s heritage and quality of life, engaged in 5 wars, one quite illegal and has now put successive generations into sustained and serious debt? Any legal expertise is most welcome on this subject.

    • 10
      Thomas Jefferson says:

      What a great post Reaper!

      All people have the right to overthrow tyrannical regimes. However, we are “subjects” as we do not have a written Constitution and are not “citizens”. A legal minefield.

      • 16
        Sick of the lot of them says:

        Any such restrictions exist only in the mind of the unliberated masses. Revolutions don’t recognize them.

        • 18
          PT Barnum says:

          Or, as they say, if voting made any real difference it would be illegal.

        • 95
          Dr Nuts says:

          Are you suggest we should be revolting?

          I personally believe with a bit more personal hygiene we can get rid off these parasites and replace them with a whole new bunch of parasites. Nothing like being ticked off!

      • 40
        Magna Carta says:

        The Magna Carta is not a sort of written constitution?

        Well, at least New Labour continue to completely ignore hundreds of years of laws to subjugate the people.

        • 86
          Sick of the lot of them says:

          It’s all a big sham in reality. They want you to believe that all the freedoms we have lost are gone forever. They want you to believe that our submersion in a federal Europe is irreversible. They want you to believe that mass immigration and the scrapping of all borders is a one-way process and the clock cannot be turned back.
          All this dogma is an illusion. We are only bound by it if we choose to believe it. The fact is that all these changes have been carried out by politicians who have been acting beyond their powers. They are therefore invalid – unless you choose to believe otherwise.

        • 96
          A Pensioner says:

          SoTLoT – the truth is that a determined Government can reverse it all if it wants – tell the EU to bugger off, throw the immirants out, reverse all the Human Rights and other bullshit legislation. Overnight things could get better.

        • 113
          Budgie says:

          Yes, we do have a written constitution, It’s just not written down in one document called “a constitution”.

          We rely on Magna Carta, the 1689 Bill of Rights and hundreds of years of Common Law. Indeed a written, one-document constitution would undermine the Common Law, which is why I am opposed to one. It is the Common Law that has made our freedoms possible.

          One of the main reasons that the UK clashes so often with the rest of the EU is that they base their legal outlook on the Napoleonic legal system (ex Roman Empire) where we base our outlook on the Common Law.

          Their principle is: everything is banned unless specifically allowed by law. Ours is the opposite: everything is allowed unless specifically banned by law. This is a clash of cultures. The end game is either we leave the EU, or it is likely our concept of freedom under the law will be destroyed.

        • 178
          PT Barnum says:

          Magna Carta has very limited usage for the rights of commoners.

          Most of Magna Carta is about upholding the privileges of the aristocracy.

          The two clauses of benefit to ordinary free men (later extended to everyone) established the right to a fair and speedy trial by one’s peers (equals) in accordance with the laws.

          Here is a quotation of this part from the translation provided by the British Lbrary:

          “+ (39) No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.

          + (40) To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice”

          Another section states that the king may not seize goods or commodities from people without paying for them.

          It also said that King john was not to imprison nobles without trial.

          Well, those rights have already gone, with bits of anti-terrorist legislation and trials without juries.

        • 240
          number 10's cat says:

          In actual fact Magna Carta does apply to commoners..

          Never heard of Wat Tyler???

        • 246
          number 10's cat says:

          Oops Sorry PT I should have read all of your post before jumping on the keyboard.

          Now where did I put that ball of string?

        • 517
          Anonymous says:

          The British constitution is essentially that of the Great Reform Act of 1832

        • 830
          Bastiat says:

          while i agree with the sentiment technically i think the english have been citizens since the magna carter, longer than any other modern nation in the world. although we have always still refered to ourselves as subjects.

        • 870
          Lord Gnome says:

          Only since 1983 have British people been citizens.
          Now which Prime Minister would have given this status?

        • 932
          Afterbirth says:

          The same one that gave us Sir Mark Thatcher.
          Mad, bad or just a joker?

    • 11
      Anonymous says:

      While I agree with your thinking, I also agree with your sentiments – we don’t have any powers – after all – the rationalisation that we have democracy is – we get to vote whenever it’s convenient for the politicians.

      • 92
        Anonymous says:

        The UK is not a democracy but a plutocracy

        • 218
          Clyde Tombaugh says:

          I would prefer to be ruled by Charon

        • 365
          Ozzwaldo 'OZ' Bourne says:

          Oi fukkin’ am mate – and I’m the Prince o’ Fukkin Darkness!

          “Yow carn move in our ‘owse fer shit!”, fat bloke in big specs told me that.

      • 101
        barefootcontessa says:

        We are all slaves, but most people haven’t realized it yet.

        • 106
          Dr Nuts says:

          Some of us have – and don’t like it.

          Solutions – we need some reassurtion of real democracy – and a restatement of the fundamental rights of the individual – not the Human Rights crap that’s pushed by the EU – but the Magna Carta that helped give Britain its unique character, and starting from there – re-establish Britain.

        • 230
          Sungei Patani says:

          Contessa.

          Unfortunately I can’t agree with you on that one – you have given way to hyperbole.

          My Collins dictionary defines a slave as “a person legally owned by another for whom he has to work without freedom or rights” that doesn’t describe me or anyone I know.

          We may have an awful Government with probably the worst prime minister ever but “Britons never, never, never shall be slaves”.

        • 298
          Economy shrinks at record annual rate says:

          OK half a slave then, given the exhorbitant amount of tax removed from us for fuck all in return.

        • 315
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Hey fucknuts – you wrote:

          > but the Magna Carta that helped give Britain its unique character, and starting from there – re-establish Britain.

          That was ENGLISH history, not “British” and nothing to do with “Britain” bcoz Scotland is governed by Roman Law (based on justice) and yours (English) is based on case law and precedent ya dipshit. Put your foot back in your stoopid mouth, eh?!

        • 320
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          > We are all slaves, but most people haven’t realized it yet. (BareFootContessa)

          ABSOLUTELY FOOKING TRUE

        • 743
          Anonymous says:

          SP. Yes, hyperbole, yes, a slight exaggeration. Are we all slaves? Slave can also mean a helpless victim to or of some dominating influence, and I think we are the slaves of our government.

          We delude ourselves if we think we are free. When you first come to grips with this concept it’s hard to take. Think about it, can you completely escape your government and their dominating influence? None of us can, and that’s why we require our government to be of a high standard, reflecting a benign attitude toward the people. An honest government, pragmatic, fundamentally decent and hard working. We haven’t had that for many years, if ever. I suppose one feels more like a slave when the government is as bad as newlabour has been.

        • 747
          barefootcontessa says:

          728, not anon, barefootcontessa

        • 786
          Sungei Patani says:

          Contessa.

          I agree we can never be entirely free; total freedom is total selfishness because we can only be completely free if we have no regard to how our free actions impacting on anyone else. Society, in the guise of a government, has to set boundaries or laws, which by their very nature, inhibit our own personal freedom.

          However, because some of our freedoms are curtailed, as that is the only way we can live together, it does not mean that we are slaves. Only that we need to exercise some control over our actions.

          We have the most awful government and prime minister who have conspired by high taxation, political correctness, terrorism laws and encroachment by the state in matters that should remain in the family to diminish our freedom. This though does not make us slaves; I do not feel a ” helpless victim” just a very indignant Englishman.

          The hypothetical shackles that we have can be thrown off by a change of government to one that believes in more responsibility to the individual, lower taxation and less central control.

          I think we saw a small step in that direction by the result in Norwich North today – still a long way to go though.

        • 907
          Saudi Prince(Slave Master:1st Class) says:

          We’ve got fucking loads of slaves in the Kingdom. Fucking loads of them!
          In fact we control the slave markets right across the globe.
          I suppose you could say we run the biggest slavery business in the world.
          Human rights? Ha Ha Ha! We are barbarians!
          Would you like to buy some of our slaves from us to ease your heavy workload?
          Better than oil…

        • 922
          Doctor Mick says:

          Saudi Ponce, do you give money back on the empties?

        • 924
          Doctor Mick says:

          PS

          tat use your real handle

        • 1071
          barefootcontessa says:

          SP, In short I do, unhappily, feel like a helpless victim, an unwilling slave. Living under the regime of the newlabour government, my feeling of slavery has been put in to higher relief.

          Personal freedom is a different matter, and as far as I’m concerned I like to be free in every way (as well as having free feet!). I am lucky in that I can withdraw to an artistic life when the thought of governments and authority of all types gets on top of me. In this world I can pretend at least for a while that I am free, but I know I am not, I’m a slave like everyone else.

    • 33
      Boris Yeltsin says:

      I think it is time to recall the angry and disaffected squaddies to hold a mass meeting outside the House of Common Criminals

  5. 6
    Funny money says:

    I’d like to give you all the resources you need, but unfortunately Gordon pissed all the taxpayers money up a wall buying banks that should have been made to collapse, and buying votes from the chav scum via the benefits system. So you can have imaginary money. Think of it as quantitative easing of your budget.

  6. 7
    It's all Balls says:

    The spin from Downing Street is nauseating. They care more about covering their arses politically than protecting the boys in Helmand. Fox is right the retraction was a “pathetic spectacle“.

    Spot on Guido.

    Totally and utterly disgraceful, makes you ashamed of your Government and therefore your Country.

    Sorry to be all serious when you are, no doubt, on your second vin not so ordinaire, and nicely relaxed, but I’m knee deep in a tender response and definitely ready for my own holiday which is still over a month away – sigh!

    • 17
      chronic says:

      Mctwat ” Look Mr Malloch-Brown say what we tell you to think”

      • 53
        School for Scoundrels says:

        If, as our glorious leader has repeatedly asserted, we have plenty of helicopters in Afganistan, why are we subbing out work to dodgy Moldovan civilian contractors, and why when one was shot down recently resupplying Sangin, was it claimed to be doing ‘humanitarian work’?

        • 134
          Sir William Waad says:

          Here we have this Malloch-Brown person who is too thick to listen to what Ain’t-worth and GB say and repeat it and is then too cowardly to stick to what he believes. Therefore he is a stupid, lying coward. What other qualifications do I need to get a peerage and a government sinecure?

        • 202
          Sarge says:

          It was in fact a Slovenian contractor,banned from working in EU airspace over safety concerns. The helicoptor was further sub contracted to a bunch of Ukrainians who were suspected of gun running. More worrying is,how the hell can the Taleban appear outside a British base and take potshots at helicoptors undetected?. I suspect they were after a ’spectacular’ (A Chinook) but this one got in the way.

          If we cannot stop this,what’s the point in sending more helicoptors -it’s just transferring the risk.

        • 250
          Left Chinook says:

          So while these rented tin coffins are flying they are part of the headcount but when they crash or shot down they are suddenly “foreign” hardware and don’t count in the stats.

        • 669
          This is not an aspirational handle says:

          If the Russians or Chinese were to sell their Stinger missiles to the Taliban, as the US did when the Russians were there, it would be game over.

          So why aren’t they? The way things are going, they hardly need to. With time, it looks likely that the mighty US’s ass will be whupped by ragheads with AK47s. They might even cause NATO to fall apart completely.

          The whole adventure is simply bloody stupid. And I’ve never heard of military tactics that involved bombing the natives’ births, deaths and marriages.

        • 751
          Master Baiter says:

          You have no fucking idea what you are talking about.

  7. 8
    cato the uncensor says:

    No Guido. Can’t afford to go abroad this year due to Gordon Brown and Alastair Darling’s running of the economy and my investments in Northern Rock and Lloyds doing so well.

    Am looking forward to the peace in the ghost town that will be London in August and will continue to see any interesting snippets on this site.

    Do you know why there were no exit polls for the Norwich by election? You would think from the Today programmes coverage this morning that there was no election happening.

    • 13
      Abolish the Licence Fee says:

      The silence is deafening. Curious, isn’t it? I can only imagine the swing to independents and smaller parties must be causing some consternation among the Big 3.

    • 14
      freddie flintoff says:

      just seen on sky news ” labour sources say they will lose by election ”
      NO SHIT SHERLOCK

    • 15
      Seeker After Truth says:

      Cato

      The BBC or Pravda never knowingly acknowledges that there is an opposition in this country or anyone that does not agree with their “left of centre thinking” or that of the government and their fellow Liberal Elite troughers.

      • 49

        It’s not even “left” it’s social authoritarian v financial authoritarian.

        The BBC is the worst bits of both.

        • 875
          Michael Whale says:

          Arthur Andersen prided themselves on their high standards. They became a by-word for arrogant uselessness.
          REFCO prided themselves on their hugh standards. They became a by-word for arrogant uselessness
          Some Investment Bank prided themselves on thier high standards. They became a by-word for arrogant uselessness.
          They all do not exist nowadays.

          The BBC prided itself on their high standards.

          The license means that they are somewhat different to the other examples.

    • 102
      rickrolla says:

      “Cato could argue coldly that it was cheaper to work a slave to death than treat him well.”

      • 656
        Damian's Capilliaries says:

        Like goldfish really. It is cheaper to but a new goldfish every month than to pay the exhorbitant prices for ant eggs.

  8. 12
    Anonymous says:

    What Guido is up to on holiday: disguised as a dog.

    From here.

  9. 19
    Anonymous says:

    Poor thing. Brief update:

    Henman won Wimbledon

    Whigs took Norwich East

    Pope Bonifascist the 19th is the new Holy See

    Railways are to be privatised

    Prime Minister Benn has been caught flagrante delicto with a old starlet called Mandy Rice-Davies

  10. 21
    Osama the Nazarene says:

    The ‘Jazz lady’ eh. So gays can be paedophiles as well as straights!

    Silvio does provide much entertainment AND increases his standing with the voters into the bargain! Must be the weather in sunny Italy.

    Btw its definitely not sunny here, looks like we had our summer for one week in Jume!

    • 99
      Anonymous says:

      Gays can be paedos?

      Well, if Catholic priests – men – are playing with little boys – if that isn’t homosexual paedophilia – what is?

      Why does it keep getting covered though as Catholic priests as paedos, not Gay men deliberately training to pose as priests in order to get access to children? Is it better to attack the Catholic Church – can the source of the issue?

      • 257
        GB's Philips Academy says:

        Ask Dan Brown

      • 313
        Alibarbs says:

        Given that the catholic church have attempted to protect numerous paedophile priests from the authorities, it’s perfectly acceptable to attack them – what part of this simple concept don’t you understand?

        Paedophilia is a sexual preference, so I don’t understand why you think a gay man would want access to little boys – a gay man would want to have sex with other gay men, not little boys. A paedophile would want to have access to little boys for sexual gratification.

        • 479
          Anonymous says:

          So what you’re saying is that only normal people can be paedophiles? Homosexuals would never indulge in such things. So an old nonce who likes little boys isn’t gay?

        • 541
          Alibarbs says:

          No, I said that gay people are gay, straight people are straight.

          An old nonce who likes little boys is a paedophile, an old nonce who likes little girls is also a paedophile.

          Geddit?

        • 661
          Anonymous says:

          No I don’t geddit.

          So by the same logic of yours, priests are priests and men wearing dog collars molesting choir boys are paedophiles not priests.

          Or are you just anti-catholic?

        • 1262
          Osama the Nazarene says:

          Anon – what Alibarbs is trying to avoid at all cost is to admit that gay people can be paedophiles. He is trying to say (without saying it out loud) that paedophilia is a condition that affects people of all gender preferences. So mentioning gays in the same breath as paedophiles is irrelevant. This is because a lot of ignorant people then extend the statement to say that ALL gay people are paedophiles. Which of course we know is not true.

          I, on the other hand, am happy to state that gay people can be paedophiles without drawing the erroneous conclusion. This is because I live in a free country where I can say that and I don’t need the politically correct thought police to force me to mention the bland statement.

  11. 22
    oldrightie says:

    With all these fat cat bloggers away, sunning themselves, why do I not do better? Must be I’m rubbish, I suppose!

    • 383

      Please don’t be downhearted as Gordon Brown has clearly demonstrated even the most talented and outstanding individuals can at times pass through a little turbulence. I have been passively been scrutinising your postings at your place for some time and may in due course attempt provide a corrective input to your at times insane musings. I have however to balance this against the damage this could do to the renowned Charles Hardwidge brand as I have the feelings of my very loyal supporters and Graphic Fidelity customers to consider.

      Be like the Grasshopper and all will be well.

  12. 23
    Trough Mixture says:

    Liam Byrne (of the ill-fitting head skin) just on Sky. It was like watching diahorrea.

    In the words of a great man (Fr. Jack Hackett) – “Who put that feckin’ eejit on the television?”

  13. 26
    RavingMad says:

    “Haven’t you got something better to do than monging on a moribund blog when the sun is out?”

    What sun?? It’s bloody raining all the time, with more to come!!

    Maybe, if you came back the sun would come out again….?????

    Nah, it’s okay, you stay and we’ll just get wet!!!

  14. 30
    Charles_E_Hardwidge. says:

    Ponder not on the situation for Labour on the East Coast.

    History and climate change will put their contribution into sharp moist context very soon.

    All is well.

  15. 37
    Anonymous says:

    A New Party Game

    The Grand Old General Brown,
    He had ten thousand men;
    He sent every man to Afghanistan,
    To fight till God knows when.
    But when they got there they declare
    There isn’t a bullet to spare –
    Brown says ‘You’ve enough to do your stuff,
    If you aim your guns with care.’
    Singing Rule Britannia,
    Marmalade and jam,
    Five Afghan snipers on a hill-top,
    Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

    The Grand Old General Brown,
    To fight the Taliban,
    Sent to his men an Austin Ten,
    A bus and an ice-cream van.
    But the men at the war all swore
    They’d get blown in the air with a roar –
    Brown said ‘You’ll survive if you only drive
    With a frying-pan stuck to the floor.’
    Singing Rule Britannia,
    Marmalade and jam,
    Five IEDs along the highway,
    Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

    The Grand Old General Brown
    Said to his men ‘Gadzooks!
    Please don’t complain when I tell you again,
    There are enough Chinooks!’
    But the men were aware they were rare,
    When they needed to fly anywhere –
    Brown said ‘You must choose what the poor people use,
    And go by Ryanair.’
    Singing Rule Britannia,
    Marmalade and jam,
    Five cuts in the helicopter budget,
    Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

    The Grand Old General Brown,
    He had a cunning plan
    For an inexpensive victory
    In far Afghanistan.
    ‘Now, lads, here’s what you have to do,
    It’s a strategy brilliant and new –
    Just cough and sneeze on your enemies,
    And give them all swine flu!’
    Singing Rule Britannia,
    Marmalade and jam,
    Five coughs and see them all fall over,
    Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

  16. 42
    Anonymous says:

    Norwich North Tory gets 11,000 majority.

  17. 43
    Newsflash! says:

    Brown’s resigning!!!!!!!

  18. 44
    mad fred 2 para retired (for now) says:

    McMental has no shame.

    He knows the truth about the Helicopter situation in Afghanistan yet he still insults us all quoting dubious tractor stats.

    I hope the good people of Norwich have given this unmandated, worst Prime Minister in our history the mega kicking he & his sordid party richly deserve

  19. 45

    Hey Guido – I live down here. Fancy a pint ?

  20. 47
  21. 51
    Milky Milky says:

    Things you are probably missing already:

    1. Tea (with proper milk).
    2. Cornflakes (with proper milk).
    3. Proper milk.
    4. Guinness.
    5. Bitter.
    6. Marmite.
    7. Ginsters Pies.
    8. Fish & Chips.
    9. Vibrant cosmopolitan multicultural community life.
    10. Pathologically deceitful government announcements.

    OK, I started to struggle after 8.

    • 57
      The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

      Try eating a Ginsters pasty in your car and see how much you want one ever again.
      And they are always cold, and taste like shit.
      You numpty.

      • 67
        Fat Lorry Driver says:

        If it wasn’t for Ginsters I wouldn’t be half the man I am today.

      • 71

        Coop do nice pasties.

      • 79
        no longer anonymous says:

        Ginsters are indeed vile.

        • 103
          barefootcontessa says:

          Prescott’s favourite, hot, or cold.

        • 109
          Shafting the Shafters says:

          Talking about ‘vile’, did anyone see Theresa May interviewed on Sky at the Norwich North by-election? She has a HUGE nose with really widely flared nostrils. That must come in really handy when she’s at the trough. I wonder why more MPs don’t exhibit this characteristic?

        • 144
          Sir William Waad says:

          MPs will evolve so that they have their eyes, ears and noses at the tops of their heads, like hippos or capybaras. That way they will be able to trough continuously while keeping an eye out for journalists and an ear open for the division bell, without pausing for breath. They will simultaneously talk out of their backsides (as at present).

        • 819
          Jethro says:

          Yes: not the most immediately Cornish-sounding of names, ‘Ginsters’, is it? Now, Retallacks, or Combelacks, or Trudgeons; Pengellys, or Polglazes, or Penberthys; Botheras’s, or Berrymans, or Bottrells; Bourdeauxs’ of Helston used to make geat beauties (proper, they was!)…but (repeat after me) You can’t manufacture a Cornish Pasty: it’s got to be made in a Kitchen, not a factory or Laboratory. Lard in the Pastry; proper Butcher’s meat; Turnip (what you d’call Swede); Onion; Potato. No mince, no mash: all fresh and raw. No Puff or Flaky: shortcrust – and not too short: on the hard side. A bit of Butter – or even Cream – to make the Gravy. Salt and Pepper…

        • 860
          Hovis Boy in Short Pants and Boots says:

          To the strains of a Norvern brass band

          Eeeee when I were knee high to a grasshopper….those were proper passties like ….why man we arl asked for mer.

        • 980
          Dick the Prick says:

          Bollox – they’ve started making sausage rolls with pickle already in them – already in them! It’s fucking genius – it’s the future right there in a little packet. Why someone didn’t think of it before is shocking – fucking brilliant.

        • 1025
          barefootcontessa says:

          Prescott’s favourite, cold, or hot.

    • 194
      PT Barnum says:

      11. Proper tea

      Who the hell would miss cornflakes? Brioche, croissants, pain au raisins….. And anyone who travels without marmite is unpatriotic.

  22. 54
  23. 56
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    After Tuscan Tony
    Silvio is my favourite Denizen of Italy.
    Priapic, greedy and both slap heads.
    They could be father and son.

  24. 58
    Lexander says:

    Enjoy your hols Guido and return refreshed and looking for more scoops.

  25. 59

    I wonder what political party they were members of ???

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8165607.stm

    • 148
      Sir William Waad says:

      NY and NJ rabbis – almost certainly Democrat if they are not so Orthodox as not to vote at all.

  26. 60
    mad fred 2 para retired (for now) says:

    Can I just say how much I despise the BBC & their anti British Forces undertones?

    Thanks.

  27. 62
    • 70
      Economy shrinks at record annual rate says:

      But in which place did the ZanuLabs come?

    • 74
      Andrew Sparrow says:

      12.13pm: The Tories think my figures are way off. “More like 4,000, perhaps between 1,000 and 2,000,” said a source when I asked about the size of the Conservative majority.

    • 83
      CCL says:

      This is taking so long, the verdict from gerrards trial will be back sooner! How long does it take to count these votes?

  28. 63
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Couldn’t Mark Thatcher sort us out with a few helicopters?

    • 85
      CCL says:

      At the right price, anything is possible.

      • 141
        Economy shrinks at record annual rate says:

        He’d lose them during delivery.

        • 233
          Steve Expat says:

          So we’ve won in Norwich. Quite right too and Nulaboor are heading for a big defeat at the general election–if we ever get one! I would like to see one or two additional items to the Conservative portfolio for the election though, and each would, I think, be a real vote winner.

          First, it should be okay for the police to give a young offender a clip round the ear. Today, you can hardly touch them before the lightfingered, foul-mouthed guttersnipes are threatening legal action against the police. If you’ve done nothing you’ve got nothing to worry about I say. And, even if you are innocent, a clout round the ear never hurt anyone.

          Second, grammar schools. Not everyone can or wants to go on to higher education. Let those with ability go to grammar school and on to higher ed. The others can be plumbers and car park attendants.

        • 394
          tat says:

          “so we’ve won in norwich”?
          but you said you were not a conservative steve, it is on the record.
          you are a liar steve.
          but what she would we expect from a crackhead tramp like you, eh?
          you bloody liar.
          liar.

        • 523
          Damian's Capilliaries says:

          He can change his mind tat and jump on the bandwaggon.

          Anyway I think what you’ll find he said is that he is not the member of the conservative party which is not the same as voting tory.

        • 525
          Bill says:

          We could refer to those of us who do not like thieving politicians

        • 984
          Steve Expat says:

          That 227 above was a pretty good imposter…

        • 1052
          thick as thieves says:

          desperate desperate stuff steve. pitiful.
          just fuck off you lying fucking c’unt.
          you are a total wanker steve, and you’ve been rumbled. you’ll have to use a new name now liar.
          and excellent work from the great thick as thieves, yet another troll skull crushed by the far far superior intellectual powers of the heroic tat.

          KEEPING THREADS CLEAN OF SCUM TROLL TRAMPS LIKE STEVE EXPAT

          another scalp is taken by our hero which he throws to the dogs before setting off on yet another long and bloody march in his epic and righteous mission to reach the promised land, to reach the oasis of democracy in the wasteland; the hung parliament.
          and as he undertook his epic journey, thick as thieves has a revelation, he realised that british political parties were conspiring with each other to slit the throat of our democracy in order to retain their own postitions and prevent other individuals or parties challenging them.
          and elective dictatorship in other words.
          this democratic deficit must be reversed.

          INDEPENDENT MANIFESTO VERSION 2:
          PRO DEMOCRACY – PRO LESBIAN – ANTIFASCIST – ANTI WAR
          + ADDED EXTRA – A LEGALLY BINDING MANIFESTO!
          BE INDEPENDENT – VOTE INDEPENDENT
          THE PIGS MUST BE TAUGHT THEIR LESSON THEY MUST BE PUNISHED
          THE GREEDY THIEVING MP FRAUDSTER PIGS MUST BE SACRIFICED, THEY MUST BE SLAUGHTERED FOR THE GREATER GOOD: FOR THE GOOD OF OUR DEMOCRACY.
          PIGGIES GONNA GET IT!
          OINK OINK!

        • 1087
          Steve Expat says:

          What drugs are you on?

        • 1124
          thick as thieves says:

          you are a lying crackhead tramp steve.
          I an not interested in what a liar like you has to say; you are full of shit.
          fuck off hobo.

  29. 65

    BBC headline
    “Small firms want help to drive GDP ”

    In actual fact “The couple’s request to the government is very simple. “Cut business rates for small firms, and reduce rate tape,” says Mr Lees.”

    i.e. get out of the fucking way.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8164533.stm

  30. 66
    Gordon Brown YOUR Prime Minster says:

    With this resounding result in Norwich I now know I have a full mandate from the British people to carry on with the job & achieve our final purpose.

    • 69
      freddie flintoff says:

      is there a doctor in the house?

    • 77

      Gordo,
      Is it the “final solution to the British problem”?

    • 678
      Sheep of Lake District says:

      We’ve prepared a welcoming sheep dip for Gordon (great disinfectant, you know), and organised a refreshing swim at the bottom of Windemere. Alas, troughs are padlocked, due to imminent swine invasion. However, we’re sure we will enjoy Gord’s visit…

      • 983
        Susie says:

        …meanwhile the rams are practicing their charges, especially on narrow pathways near sheer drops — this requires particular skill to prevent their momentum taking them over the cliff along with McDoom.

        The whole flock is buzzing with excitement at the prospect of extracting revenge for the millions massacred in the F&M outbreak.

        “Baa-ram-ewe, baa-ram-ewe! To your breed, your fleece, your clan be true. Sheep be true. Baa-ram-ewe!”

  31. 73

    Here is the nearest thing to an official Number 10 opinion poll on Mr Brown’s popularity. The following two petitions were started at roughly the same time on the official Number 10 website.

    For

    http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/support-the-PM/

    Against

    http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/please-go/

    Note that many of the names in the “For” petition look a bit unlikely. Number 10 quickly remove the spam names from the other list, to keep it as short as they can. However, the ratio against Mr Brown is huge!

    There is still time for you to vote here, so make the most of it.

  32. 76
    NewGirl says:

    Have to keep the fans satisfied Guido. And the weather’s crap. Papers full of swine flu. Nothing else to entertain us saddos but blogging….

  33. 78
    Master Baiter says:

    Phew!

  34. 81
    Trough Mixture says:

    Sky saying Con win with 4-5k majority (unconfirmed).

    • 84
      freddie flintoff says:

      thats good then right ?

      • 90
        Hoon has a rare moment of candour but quickly clarifies his remarks says:

        Last night Geoff Hoon in answer to David Dimbleby’s question regarding whether or not Labour could win the General Election let the cat out of the bag by saying “It will be difficult to win the election !” and when a surprised Dimbleby said “The General Election ?” an embarassed Hoon quickly clarified “The Gneral Election ? I thought you were still talking about the Norwich North Election !”

        • 94
          Master Baiter says:

          Why did the Conservitudes field that woman?

        • 105
          Master Baiter says:

          An unarmed man wearing only swimming trunks was shot dead by a plainclothes police officer who had confronted him for driving erratically.

          This is eery.
          Was the man driving his wife’s car?

        • 114
          Engineer says:

          Are you sure he wasn’t “diving erratically”?

        • 135
          Economy shrinks at record annual rate says:

          What happened to the Polak with swine flu?

        • 275
          ONAN says:

          For the benefit of MB of course!

  35. 82
    Cassandra King says:

    Happy holidays Mr Fawkes, you earned it ten times over and then some!

    Forget about us and have some jolly good times, if there were any justice you would be getting a major gong and a big pension from the state plus free hols for the rest of your natural.

    Pissing in the faces of the commissars and then laughing at them to boot, they became so used to pissing in our faces that it shook them to their core when you entered the scene, cometh the hour cometh the man!

    As they say where I come from,

    See yah around.

  36. 88
    lloyd says:

    WHAT SUN?

  37. 89
    righty right wing (Mrs) says:

    Greetings all,

    Anyone know what the hold up is regarding the Norwich result?

    Mad Fred – that is the second time you have breached Neo Labours Terrorism Act this week – do be careful sir – remember the poor unfortunate good Doctor Kelly…..

    Charles – supporting Labour & a Buddhist? You are one of the Burmese Generals & I claim my £5.

  38. 93
    Anonymous says:

    They care more about covering their arses politically than protecting the boys in Helmand.

    Sympathetic comment on British soldiers from Guido “Oh how I wish I were really Irish” Fawkes? Jesus wept. Who could have foreseen this?

    • 923
      Birmingham Irish says:

      We too in Ireland have a state broadcaster with the same viewpoints as the BBC,Most Irish never had a problem with the British,we were mis-represented by terrorists,politicians and TV / Radio, bit like UK today sadly.

      • 1067
        Anonymous says:

        Most Irish never had a problem with the British

        I fully get that. My old mum is Irish (and my dad’s English and I’m Scottish – go figure). I simply refer to the tendency of wannabees (you know the kind – their granddad once drank a half-pint of Guinness and that totally makes them Irish) to spew anti-British vitriol in an attempt to prove their Paddy Credentials.

        Guido does this sometimes, mainly when he remembers that he’s meant to be pretending to be Irish. I suppose the summer sun has burnt all pretensions to Irishness out of his head today.

  39. 110
    Gordon McMental says:

    This historic defeat in Norwich is yet another sign that the people of Britain want me to get on with the job of sorting out this countrys problems.

    • 200

      Zen Buddhism makes use of the Phoenix myth as do many religions to explain the rise and fall of life, the clashes of ideologies and peoples, and how disaster gives way to rebirth. We could all throw our hands in the air and cry rivers of tears but the war, the economy and the by-election are merely the blossoming and decay of a flower. One merely has to relax and be patient as the seeds of opportunity give way to Labour’s new growth.

      • 311
        righty right wing (Mrs) says:

        “”and how disaster gives way to rebirth.”"

        Charkles my dear chap – so you have read those Schumpeter books I have been bombarding Labourlost, the Treasury, Downing Street & the BBC with.

        Sanity at last.

        Indeed Charles, out of creative destruction comes renewal – & i am glad that even though it is probably a subconscious recognition with the facts they are at least ingrained in your mind.

        You are dismissed for the day – be sure to help yourelf to a piece of tuck on your way out.

      • 959
        Ivor Hardwidge says:

        Charles, for once I agree with you (not the Labour shit, though). Go easy on the skunk, bro… Mother’s getting worried.

    • 216
      Anonymous says:

      What is Cameron thinking? Surely the Conservatives should have had the good sense to ensure that our candidate was an Old Etonian? What the blazes are standards coming to?

  40. 116
    Chartered Accountant says:

    Whoever is the Returning Officer for Norwich North should be dismissed.

    Votes not counted over night ‘because it costs less’ – ballocks.

    Counting hardly under way until it is suspended for a ‘tea break’ around 10.24 – absurd.

    From Andrew Sparrow’s blog: ‘But a hack colleague has told me that the figures produced by the parties are less reliable than normal because Broadland council has limited the number of party agents allowed to observe the count. Apparently that’s because they did not want too many BNP figures floating around.’ – VERY suspicious.

  41. 117
  42. 120
    Trough Mixture says:

    7348 majority. Sky

    • 129
      freddie flintoff says:

      fuckin thats a big victory lad

      • 132
        Trough Mixture says:

        More than double nuLab’s. Mind you, I’d vote for Charlie Bronson if it meant getting these pugfickers out.

        • 137
          freddie flintoff says:

          i would vote for winston churchill but i guess he a bit busy lad

        • 675
          Norwich Canary says:

          Fred lad he’s been dead for 44 years. Mind you, even a stiff would do a better job than anything ZaNuLabor could come up with. Like a flippin Pole with swine flu from Suffolk. Just bootiful!

    • 152
      Art. 38 says:

      A triumph for the Conservatives – fantastic.

      No wonder Gordon is frightened of elections – even he knows he’ll be slaughtered.

      Roll on the GE.

      • 220
        nell says:

        And have you noticed that Bob Ainsworth looks like Alan Bleasdale, another lefty type. All this proves that the only party that can defend our interests in Afghanistan are the Conservatives.

        • 379
          nell says:

          imposter.

          And in any case -isn’t our interests that want rotecting in Afghanistan it’s the army’s.

          Who’s Alan Bleasdale?

        • 456
          Art. 38 says:

          Nell, ID theft is just another troll tactic to disrupt the site.

          Really helped them in Norwich, didn’t it?

        • 476
          nell says:

          Yes Art – just catching up with the news –

          the Tories Won! That’s Good! Roll on the GE.

        • 544
          nell says:

          466 +sigh+ another imposter.

          Is it my name you like or are you too shy to post under one of your own?

        • 995
          Dick the Prick says:

          GBH was brilliant tho.

    • 167
      agent of Chaos says:

      The newsbot on BBC1 announced a result for “Norith Norch”. The most laboured Spoonerism in the history of the English language.

      Quickly dealt with: there are some fires near places where you proles may have been on a packaged tour of some sort. The economy is down 0.8, the biggest number in recorded history. A footballer is innocent. A singer in ballet pumps is innocent.

      And now, the lottery news…

  43. 121
    Hugh Janus says:

    Norwich North – NuLiebour loses convincingly. Oh happy day!

  44. 125
    Chloe Smith says:

    Mr McMental
    Go fuck yourself

  45. 126

    Claiming principle and being principled are not the same thing, just as the Tory claim to freedom and the family, while kowtowing to bullying business and robbing the wages of the poor to subsidise the leafy subhurbs aren’t the same thing. Don’t measure what a man says, measure what he does. Cameron is useless.

    • 131
      freddie flintoff says:

      charles lad how do i say this ,FUCK OFF

    • 164
      Canary Wharf Rat says:

      Useless is better than theiving liars.
      So useless his party have just kicked Newliars squarely in the balls in Nowich. Correction. The electorate have just given their verdict on this lying corrupt Government, the first opportunity to glimpse the fothcoming annihilation of NewLiars come the GE
      Charles, you and your NewLiar champagne socialist chums are destined for history’s dustbin and will be remembered only as the worse, most corrupt, incompetent administration ever to have graced Westminster.
      You could do us all a service here by fucking off early.

    • 209
      Sarge says:

      But Charles,there is a subtle difference. Cameron is not in government,so he cannot do anything,other than pontificate -just like you.

      Does that make you useless?

      • 279
        Charles E Hogwash says:

        If you measure what Brown does then he is worse than useless. “Useless” does no harm.

        Brown destroys everything he touches, but to be thankfulfor small mercies, that includes the Labour Party.

        Cameron is playing a canny waiting game eyeing his prey like a rattle snake.

    • 722
      City of Vice says:

      Fucking Fuck off, Charles.

  46. 130
    Anonymous says:

    Just heard that a Labour spokesman has said that the conservatives will win norwich north ” by a whisker” but that the tories ‘are trying to cover up what has happened’.

    Labour spin in action ready for when the result is announced. What is holding it up?

  47. 136
    Gordon McMental says:

    I am getting on with the job with 64% more efficiencey than I was doing last week.
    I will spend spend and spend some more as I know that you all love me.
    Gordon.

  48. 140
    Gordon McMental says:

    The defeat started in Mexico

  49. 142
    Ben Bradshaw says:

    I’m a poof

    • 146
      freddie flintoff says:

      and?

      • 195
        Professor Dumbledore says:

        Would you like to see my wand?

      • 1034
        barefootcontessa says:

        Ben, your hair was out of place when you were interviewed on Newsnight last night! What have you been up to? You looked a trifle preoccupe, dare one say, dishevelled? And where have the sun lit highlights gone from those oh so carefully coiffured locks of yours?

        Your teeth, Ben, are still far whiter than white, almost blue, they look particularly attractive alongside your tanned (slightly orange) skin. Did you perhaps miss your appointment at the beauty clinic this week? Still, you’ll have plenty of time to catch up on your beauty treatments during your 3 month holiday.

    • 588
      Alan Duncan says:

      So am I

  50. 149
    Anonymous says:

    who in liverpool was ever going to convict gerrard?

    who says fame and fortune and loads of money still doesn’t play a part in british “justice”.

    Gordon obviously needs to get hold of gerrards team so that we can be assured that what we know and see, isnt really what we know and see. he could just win then.

    • 157
      Chartered Accountant says:

      Likewise Ami Winehouse has escaped punishment for assault

    • 160
      Fat Lorry Driver says:

      Anyone over 30 who describes themselves as a part-time DJ deserves a slap.

    • 171
      Anonymous says:

      Doesn’t anyone over 30 who describes themselves as a part time DJ deserve a slap?

    • 186
      Anonymous says:

      The jury system in this country, like everything else, is badly broken.

      • 201
        Anonymous says:

        more like they wanted him on the field instead of in the nick. reputations upheld and i dont mean gerrards.

        • 592
          nell says:

          Steven Gerrard is one of the best soldiers this country has ever had. We need more with his determination and then we would win in Afghanistan.

        • 979
          nell says:

          579 imposter

          who’s steven gerrard anyway?

  51. 150
    Anonymous says:

    We’ve been in Afganistan for 8 years. Politicians and senior military officers suddenly coming out of the woodwork make me sick. Where were they and what have they been doing for this time. Dannatt 3 months off retirement – been in the very top post for 3 years – only now it’s an issue ?

  52. 151

    This result looks like a “moment of madness”. Maybe Labour’ll get the seat back. It’s an easy ticket anyway cuz the Tories are a busted flush. What next? Are they going to run naked through parliament with their pants on their head or something?

    Jeez. Take up some Zen, folks.

  53. 155
    Master Baiter says:

    Chloe Smith 39%

    Har dee har har har!

    Dats a not a gonna be a enuff!

    Happy Days are here again!

    • 162
      Art. 38 says:

      More than a 16% swing to the Conservatives.

      Replicated nationally this would be a landslide for the Conservatives; Labour would be swept from office.

      Gordon and the whole of Labour are doomed. Your career in socialist politics is doomed Jonty – better look for something else when you leave uni.

    • 169
      Canary Wharf Rat says:

      Master Wanker. your stats are a credit to you and your NewLiar Chums. Spin it as you want you lot are fucked big time.

      • 179
        Master Baiter says:

        39% har har dee har har

        Gaze at that number and weep.

        • 184
          NewGirl says:

          Am crying with laughter MB.

        • 185
          Engineer says:

          Conservatives polled twice as many votes as the next candidate (Labour). How the hell is that “not enough”?

        • 190
          Economy shrinks at record annual rate says:

          2 + 2 = 5

        • 192
          no longer anonymous says:

          MB, I suggest you frequent Political Betting more often for some objective analysis.

        • 196
          Damian's Purple Cheeks says:

          He’s really lost it this time. Labour got 17% so I guess they’re all the Bolly down at LaboursLost.

        • 262
          CCL says:

          2 + 2 = 5, is this a gordonism? Now let’s move on to those tractor production figures, or wind turbines or steel production or what ever other industry has gone down the pan in recent months – it’s time to take out the gun and do the decent thing.

        • 285
          Economy shrinks at record annual rate says:

          It’s an Orwellianism. I thought it was fiction until NuLabor crept into power.

        • 573
          Alibarbs says:

          Jonty, please stop bleating about the amount of votes and take into account the swing of 16.9%.

          Would you care to comment?

        • 752
          Master Baiter says:

          Wibble wibble gurn gurn

    • 187
      Art. 38 says:

      From Sky:

      If the results were repeated at a general election, David Cameron would be swept into 10 Downing Street with a Commons majority of 218.

      The turnout was around 45% with 34,377 votes cast. There was a 16.9% swing from Labour to the Conservatives. To win the next General Election, the Tories need a swing of 6.9%.

    • 188
      no longer anonymous says:

      You’re forgetting the UKIP voters who will probably switch to the Tories.

      Your only chance is if Brown resigns.

    • 203
      Art. 38 says:

      Bogdanor on BBC News:

      “A terrible result for Labour”

      “Cameron heading for a comfortable Tory victory”

      “This time next year, Labour MPs will be seeking alternative employment”

  54. 156
    Mrs Hardwidge says:

    Charlie but right through his Jack Straw ‘action figure’ when the Norwich North result came out and I can’t find another one on Ebay for the life of me. Could any of Mr Fawkes’ kind bloggers help me out please?

    • 176
      Trough Mixture says:

      Action figure is it? I’m informed that a Mr Watson will shortly be looking for work. Comes with a wardrobe of dodgy black pinstripe, XXXXL braces and a similarly sized bib. Std model is equipped with a reedin’ ‘n’ rytin chip and speech to chav vocabulary app. The computer literate version is still at the development stage.

      Grab yourself a bargain Mrs H – if only to keep the young scamp alternatively occupied.

  55. 172
    CHAIRMAN N GRIFFIN MEP says:

    My party will come 3rd or win it.

  56. 173
    Amy Winehouse says:

    Hic!

  57. 198

    The Brown Doctrine of purpose, solidarity, and incremental gain is the only strategic show in town. Both the left and the right have to chew on this brick regardless of who is in power and Gordon Brown is the most natural and best placed character to wield that particular sword. I challenge anyone to come up with hard economic or social theory which says otherwise. They can’t because it doesn’t exist.

    • 206
      Basket Case says:

      You forgot spin,Chuckie.

      Speaking of which..16.9% swing at Norwich…Spin on that!!!

    • 215

      charles, dont rush and spin a few more lies calmly but thought I’d point out your house is on fire.

    • 219
      Steven H Gerrard says:

      I’m not guilty and I’ll knock your teeth down your throat if you say different.

      • 227
        Anonymous says:

        i can do anything i want in liverpool, no one ‘ll find me guilty, they want me on the pitch m8!

      • 267
        Rev Steven Gerrard says:

        You can’t be Steven Gerrard coz I’m Steven Gerrard. De greatest Liverpool player ever and not guilty of nottin’ even doe all de udders were – class dat la! Now fuck off before I punch yer lights out!

        • 273
          Rev Steven Gerrard says:

          an bye de way, I don’t dive eider, okay la!

        • 874
          Doctor Mick says:

          Raymond Steven Stanley-Knife Gerrard, you have pleaded not guilty to the charges brought by this court, and it is now my duty to pass sentence. You are an habitual scouser, who accepts arrest as an occupational hazard, and presumably accepts imprisonment in the same casual manner. We therefore feel constrained to commit you to the maximum term allowed for these offences — you will go to Liverpool for five years.

    • 225
      Charles on E Hardwidge says:

      Sorry guys, I’ve done it again!
      I am in such a rush to pump out my new labour war party propaganda that sometimes I make mistakes. So here are the corrections for my last post:

      The Brown Doctrine of a lack of purpose, bullying, and perpetual loss is not the only strategic show in town. Neither the left and the right have to chew on this brick regardless of who is in power and Gordon Brown is without doubt the most un-natural and worst placed character to wield that particular sword. I challenge anyone to come up with hard economic or social theory which says otherwise. They can’t because it doesn’t exist.

    • 228
      Anonymous says:

      I challenge anyone to understand what this moron is talking about. Care in the community has a lot to answer for.

      • 282
        number 10's cat says:

        Whaaat! are you suggesting that one of Margaret’s policies was not perfect??

        • 580
          Alibarbs says:

          Plenty of her policies were highly questionable, but plenty were pretty good. Either way, compare her to the last 12 years and she was a saint!

        • 936
          schoolgirl lezza says:

          oh yeah? which ones? where was you when scargill was selling us to the soviets? clueless twat

    • 231
      incandescent-with-rage says:

      Oh Charlie. It’s all unravelling for Gordon isn’t it. A landslide victory for the Conservatives in Norwich and Ben Bradshaw is still churning out the same old crap about it being the right thing to do.

      Today is a very good day. Another nail in the Labour coffin.

    • 270
      Max says:

      You are not up to speed on the Brown Doctrine, Charles; the Brown Doctrine is:

      1. Carrier bag
      2. A couple of bricks
      3. Empty beer cans on top

      These are the words of the Dear Leader himself and he has practised this doctrine in many a damp squib party, the Labour Party being his greatest triumph.

      Someone chuck the fookin’ boring freeloader out, eh?

  58. 207

    More than happy for those in liebour to continue denying that these elections mean any thing, decimated today in one by-election and in june by loads, you wont see many liebour councillors any more and liebours policies succeeded in getting 2 beenpee meps elected. I’m so glad they are extremely happy with the results. King canute springs to mind.

  59. 212

    Apparently the lib dems were the only ones not to sign up to a clean campaiging pledge during the norwich by-election. Why would that be?

    • 221
      Trough Mixture says:

      Don’t. The thought of a dirty Mrs Fe..Fea…Featherstone is rather pleasing to the imagination…

    • 247
      Corporal Clegg says:

      Without a dirty campaign, we have nothing.

      • 325
        Pink Floyd says:

        Hey, that would be a good name for a song!

        • 331
          Pink Floyd says:

          Corporal Clegg had a wooden leg
          He won it in the war In nineteen forty four.

          Corporal Clegg had a medal too
          In orange, red, and blue
          He found it in the zoo.

          Dear, dear were they really sad for me?
          Dear, dear will they really laugh at me?

          Mrs. Clegg, you must be proud of him.
          Mrs. Clegg, another drop of gin.
          Corporal Clegg umbrella in the rain
          He’s never been the same
          No one is to blame

          Corporal Clegg recieved his medal in a dream
          From Her Majesty the queen
          His boots were very clean.
          Mrs. Clegg, you must be proud of him
          Mrs. Clegg, another drop of gin?

          Corporal Clegg
          Corporal Clegg

  60. 223
    Lil Olmey says:

    Norwich by-election result :
    Tillett, Liberal : 8576
    Wild, Unionist : 6756
    Roberts, Labor : 2440
    (source : New York Times)

  61. 226
    Sir William Waad says:

    Just think, we will be able to tell our grandchildren that we can remember the last ever Labour government. We will be able to tell them stories about Mr Brown. That should get the little perishers to go and bother Mommy instead.

  62. 236
    Charles_E_Hardwidge says:

    That was a very encouraging bye election result.
    It shows that Labour have turned the corner.
    They have zen.

    • 241
      shelling-out says:

      Nothing to do with Zen. Norwich North is full of sensible people who have realised that Labour are finished. End of.

      • 248
        5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

        > Nothing to do with Zen. Norwich North is full of sensible people

        HAhaha!!! So YOU’RE the authority on “sensible” people are ya fuckwit? THAT’S CH’s role in life so fuck off back to your kennel

    • 274
      Anonymous says:

      Absolutely, the corner just past the ‘Point of no return’ sign.

    • 341
      Old Nick Heavenly says:

      Dear poor Charles,

      the word Zen means empty!

      Labour are empty of….

  63. 243
    Master Baiter says:

    Wirral South February 1997
    Previously Conservitude seat
    Ben Chapman – Labour 52.6%
    Now that’s a by election victory.
    Doh!

    Norwich North July 2009
    Previously Labour seat
    Cloying Smith – Conservitude 39.5%
    What does it tell you?

    • 251
      5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

      It tells me you’ve got a good figure.

    • 287
      Max says:

      I have some interesting bye election results, not entirely comparable but even so, dating back to the 1920’s. Anyone interested, er…thought not. Thick moron.

      • 323
        Master Baiter says:

        Who is the thick moron?
        The person offering by election results immediately prior the Labour landslide in 1997?
        52% in one 60% in the other.
        Poor old Cameron and Cloying Smith with a piffling 39%. uh oh!

    • 289
      Sungei Patani says:

      What does a nearly 17% swing Liebore to Tory tell you?

      • 305
        Master Baiter says:

        That the Conservitudes did not recieve the anti incumbent vote.
        39% is nothing to get excited about, honestly it’s not.
        Doh!

        • 316

          It’s not 39% even, Gordon’s just rung me and said we should all take the last figure off and everything will be ok. The Beeb have promised not to question that. So…all together then, 3% to the tories is not, not, not, not, not anything to get excited about.

          I’m not excited at all.

        • 338
          no longer anonymous says:

          Look what happens when we add the UKIP vote to the Tory vote (as will most likely happen next year).

          By the way if you express ideas like that on PB.com (which contains a lot more psephological experts than here) you’ll get some interesting responses.

        • 970
          The UK is becoming East Germany circa 1976 says:

          MB is ZaNuLab`s Baghdad Bob and just like BB, he does not believe there is any chance of another ZNL victory either.

          They are finished, we know it, he knows it, the whole country knows it.

          There is nothing ZNL can do about it, the parteh is over.

    • 296

      It rather suggests that I shouldn’t have bought my calculator from the slimebag who sold Gordon his moral compass.

      • 306

        That might also explain why I have just told the BBC that the swing to the tories was only 6% and blamed it on our voters staying at home.

        I’m sure Gordon and Peter said that it was actually ok for our voters to stay at home because of the postal vote thingy but now the tories are implying that if your voters stay at home that actually doesn’t count in one’s favour.

        I am getting very confused here; might give Jacquie a call for a bit of a girly chat about things (hope the beast of a husband is not in).

    • 309
      Idiot says:

      Er… it tells me that Brown will lead Labour to a resounding election win in the next General Election.

      • 317

        You are my kind of guy; any jobs where you work, maybe starting next June or so?

        • 342
          Master Baiter says:

          You could join LabourList as a third rate troll spoting inanities on tory blogsites. The pay is rubbish but clearly standards are non-existent so anyone could get a job here. Even you.

          Even me.

        • 363
          George Osborne says:

          ‘Ere stop messin’ abaahht!

          Didja see ‘ow eye was wheeled ahht just arfter da powls was closed, brillyunt.

        • 402
          Anonymous says:

          So Georgie boy you’re also Master Baiter!

  64. 249
    Master Baiter says:

    South East Staffordshire April 1996
    Previously Conservitude seat
    Brian Jenkins – Labour 60.1%
    Now that’s a by election victory.
    Doh!

    Norwich North July 2009
    Previously Labour seat
    Cloying Smith – Conservitude 39.5%
    What does it tell you?

    • 253
      5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

      hey fuck off with your figures — get some good porn sites I need tae relax

    • 299
      Anonymous says:

      It tells me that you are as dumb as New Labour by continuing to waste your time posting here, where you are derided by everyone, instead of posting somewhere else, where you might have a very minute chance of positively influencing the Labour vote. Please continue, dumbwit! I used to think you were paid by Labour, but now I suspect the other side – if so, you are doing a very good job.

      • 337
        Master Baiter says:

        I am a Tory you fuckit.

        You may go.

        • 349
          George Osborne says:

          ‘Ere stop messin’ abahht!

          Oi’m abaaht tur gow on ‘olly day, Siberia is noice innit?
          See Oi ‘aven’t ‘ad a corl from Nat vis year, hmmmmm.

      • 344
        Master Baiter says:

        Ah but it tells everyone else how unlikely a Conservitude victory is. At this rate the best they can expect is a well hung parliament.
        Leaving the insults to one side, just for a moment, what does it mean?
        To get only 39% at this stage that is.

        • 356
          Frankie Howerd says:

          LOL

        • 357
          Cjamesk says:

          It doesn`t mean a thing, the GE will only tell what the electorate really want but the longer it`s denied to the public the worse it will get for Labour.

          Prepare for a long time in opposition.

        • 368
          Master Baiter says:

          Cameron went six times to campaign and managed to get more than sixty percent of the voters not to vote Conservitude.
          Sure the government isn’t popular but really, Cameron must be worried.
          Six times.

        • 369
          Darren says:

          Reminds me of Comical Ali: US pounding Baghdad to bits at will, American troops blitzing through Irag like Jensen Button and yet Comical Ali is giving interviews that Iraq will win the war.

        • 372
          Gorbals Mick says:

          Yeah Cameron must be worried!

          Classic.

          PMSL

        • 378
          Olaf says:

          You really are a sad spot encrusted prick.

    • 374
      Sir William Waad says:

      It tells me that a lot of people were deluded in 1996.

      • 427
        Cjamesk says:

        “Cameron went six times to campaign and managed to get more than sixty percent of the voters not to vote Conservitude.
        Sure the government isn’t popular but really, Cameron must be worried.
        Six times.”

        Clegg went 4-5 times too, how many times did Gorgon go?!? Or is his party that embarrassed of him?

        MB if it wasn`t so painful to read your posts I`d actually laugh and to compare you to comedy Ali is an insult to Ali.

        • 437
          Master Baiter says:

          Crewe and Nantwich by election 2008 Conservitudes 49%
          Norwich North by election 2009 Conservitudes 39%

          The Conservitudes are worried by this trend.

        • 617
          Basket Case says:

          If Brown had gone ,the Labour vote would’ve collapsed even more,methinks

        • 881
          Michael Whale says:

          Precisely why he did not go and see how he contributed to the candidates sucess? He is a Jonah when he is not even Jonahing!

      • 453
        Cjamesk says:

        Crewe and Nantwich by election 2008 Conservitudes 49%
        Norwich North by election 2009 Conservitudes 39%

        The Conservitudes are worried by this trend.

        Don`t think they are what the respective turnouts for both?!?

        Either way it`s a bloody nose for Labour no matter how you spin it here some facts you may want to take to Labourlist;
        “Labour lost 70 per cent of their vote from the 2005 general election
        Last year, Conservatives won Crewe & Nantwich from Labour on a 17.6 per cent swing.
        It represented a reverse in the Labour vote of more than 26 per cent”

        • 465
          Master Baiter says:

          Whichever way you try to spin it.
          39% won’t swing it.

        • 484
          Cjamesk says:

          MB the figures are there but just like your esteemed military knowledge you Sir make no sense.

          As stated above the “crunch” time will be the GE as by-elections can and do prove to be wide of the mark.

        • 499
          Master Baiter says:

          Let’s all agree that the Conservitudes need to do a lot better than 39% in a constituency like Norwich North in order to secure an outright majority in a general election.
          This is not a break through result.

        • 506
          Cjamesk says:

          MB it`s a break through in the sense that Norwich North fell to the Tories, but yes I do agree that 39% is not enough for a great majority BUT in the words of Philip Collins “YOU ARE GOING TO GET SLAUGHTERED. ”

          No one will know until as previously stated the GE results are in so until then who knows what the majority will be, only time will tell.

        • 531
          Damian's Capilliaries says:

          The Tories had their breakthrough when Broon became Prime Minister. It was a birthday, Christmas, lottery win and a blow job all rolled into one that wonderful day.

          17.9% in a safe Labour seat. Ha!

        • 542
          Master Baiter says:

          John Major was said to be set to lose the 1992 general election, but didn’t.
          Labour has a better chance of holding the middle ground.
          UKIP’s performance in Norwich North will make it harder for Cameron to ignore the nimcumpoops xeno/euro phobes, pandering to them will move him to the right and make him look old fashioned and out of touch, not to say ‘nasty’.
          What a paradox.

          Mwahahaha

        • 559
          Cjamesk says:

          MB I think nationally the UKIP vote will drift towards the Conservatives now that should worry the drones at Labour as the Labour core vote seems to be abandoning the party in droves.

          Plus I feel the current mood is to crack down hard on immigration and spending which blows apart your argument.

        • 603
          Master Baiter says:

          Let’s see.

        • 756
          Jonty's World says:

          Meanwhile back on Planet Earth……………..

    • 616
      Max says:

      Keep spinning MB because tonight on telly the ZNL spinning and McDoom’s gurning will be the funniest comedy for years. The maths are far more complex than one result; you need to read more (am assuming you were not wholly educated in the last 12 years). Try this for starters:

      UK Polling Report

      The tories needed a 10% swing to be on track; they got 16.49%. But forget 200 seat majorities; the ongoing analysis suggests a workable 72.

      But don’t let this stop you with the Osborne impressions! And by the way “Coulson”! Plus never forget that Dave has no hair.

      Etc ad nauseam.

      • 639
        Master Baiter says:

        39% is a weak showing by the Conservitudes.
        Ian Gibson lost in 1992 with 42%.

        • 655
          Lord Gnome says:

          You only need a simple majority under First Past the Post as ani fule no

        • 684
          Comical Ali says:

          We will never admit defeat. Even when we were defeated.

        • 971
          The UK is becoming East Germany circa 1976 says:

          Labour got 17% of the vote in a “safe” labour seat, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, doomed you motherf*ckers, DOOMED!

  65. 254
    vervet says:

    You bastard Guido … you gave a link to every story EXCEPT the one about the lesbian music mistress and the teenager.

    Sadist !

  66. 260
    Event manipulator says:

    Brown is going to regret not having that Scottish bye-election now. Getting stuffed there when everybody is back at work will stick in the memory more than it would have done had it been held before the holiday season.

    • 598
      nell says:

      What’s a ‘bye-election’? Is it what is going to happen to Gordon and his gang come next May? When Labour is removed from office, I promise to take this pair of underpants off my head.

  67. 268
    Anonymous says:

    Recession twice as deep as 1990s as economy suffers worst slump since records began

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201880/Fresh-blow-recession-recovery-UK-economy-shrinks-0-8.html#ixzz0MBNPGg2e

    but dont worry its all going according to plan and the tories have just flunked the by-election test too.

    what world are you living in?

  68. 271
    5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

    Congrats from 5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| on a good win at Norwich folks – but let me warn the more extreme among you not to prematurely ejaculate, it’s a long time yet to a GE and even a week is a long time in politics so don’t wet your knickers too soon girls, eh?

    Good win, well done.

    • 527
      Naïf says:

      I must not have been paying attention in biology class when they explained about girls ejaculating.

      • 576
        5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

        touche

      • 759
        George Lewd says:

        They do mate. Rice puddings, but you need to get them to come first. That’s yer problem.

        • 800
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Ask Nell, that’ll settle it, she will know for sure, coz Nell knows everything (hope she don’t get moded though).

  69. 272
    Charles Flaccidwidger says:

    Harman’s been spinning away on the BBC syaing that the Tories are “arrogant” and have said that the next election is in the bag and that they have the keys to number 10 already. Nice to see that the BBC droid didn’t challenge any of this.

    So, Labour lovers, got the link to any Conservatives saying this? C’mon Charles and MB, this is your chance.

    • 502
      Damian's Capilliaries says:

      All I keep hearing is that the tories don’t say nuffink. Which is the smart thing to do innit. The good ship NuLabour and its clown at the wheel are heading for the rocks. Full steam ahead.

      Yessir its going to be the Mother of All Battles at the next general election.

      • 917
        thick as thieves says:

        it will be a hung parliament.
        please try harder to keep up.
        you are too slow, hurry up: stop dragging your heels you cripple!

        • 972
          The UK is becoming East Germany circa 1976 says:

          “it will be a hung parliament.”

          Care to wager, oh lets say, £10,000 on that?

          If so name your solicitor and I will send them the contract for your signature.

          Put up or shut up cripple.

        • 1057
          thick as thieves says:

          I have already placed my bets, some time ago infact.
          but I am not a gambling addict like you, you fucking junkie; laying ten grand bets down on a blog? you cock.
          I am, however, willing to have another bet with you: I bet I can cave your fucking skull in you tory troll c’unt.
          let the game begin.
          would any of the readers wish to place a side bet on the proceedings?

        • 1226
          Dead Cert says:

          I’m putting my house on you mate!
          Fuck me! A sane voice. Don’t you get lonely here?

  70. 276
    Anonymous says:

    5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| you scottish twat

  71. 277
    Ia(i)n Dale says:

    I think I’ll compile a list.

  72. 280
    Charles Flaccidwidger says:

    Brown has just said that the voters were clearly wanting to punish MP’s over the expenses scandal. Wasn’t that clear two days ago was it?

  73. 283
    Ramakok Uppaboy says:

    Does anyone else think Chloe Smith, Norwich’s new MP, looks like the creep Miliband? (pick either)

  74. 284
    Gordon McMental says:

    Peter has assured me that this is yet another nail in thee coffin of the DO NOTHING Conservatives

    • 880
      Doctor Mick says:

      Quite. A mere double the vote of Labour in a Labour seat by a little girly. with nice teeth. Yes Cameron must be quaking in his boots.

      What is going wrong for the Tories?

  75. 288
    angrystanstead says:

    5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| you scottish twat

  76. 290
    Gordon McMental says:

    Furthermore,
    Mr Hardwige assures me that I am evermore popular in this great nation of ours, Unlike the increasingly unpopular Tories.

  77. 291

    Every time anyone goes down the path of shrill hysteria they dilute their own brand value and the message gets lost in the noise.

    Acting like a wounded animal just gets you kicked harder. By taking a step back, you create a bigger mental space to create better material and better choose what to respond to. Success accumulates in its own time.

    Let go, relax and vote Labour.

    • 302

      Got to hand it to you, Charlie – you ain’t have a trier!

      • 308
        The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

        Mr softwidgey
        Has McMental got photos of you in a compromising situation?

        • 321
          Carlos Jackos says:

          He was struck on the side of the head by a Nokia N95 and has never been the same since.

        • 417
          Charles on E Hardwidge says:

          I am terribly sorry about this but I keep on making these typing mistakes and then what I mistype makes me look like a complete fool. and so here are the correcions for my latest post:

          Every time the new labour war party goes down the path of shrill hysteria they dilute their own brand value and the message gets lost in the noise.

          Acting like a wounded animal just gets them kicked harder. If they took a step back, they would create a bigger mental space to create better material and better choose what to respond to. And, given that space and time the new labour war party would come to the zen like realisation that they must kill Brown or they will get a right good kicking at the next general election.

          Let go, relax and ditch Brown.

    • 314
      PT Barnum says:

      Pangloss!

    • 318
      It's all Balls says:

      Chas

      I’m persuaded – I’m going to vote Labour

      Wibble, wibble – nurse, please nurse, don’t send me back …

    • 322
      Max says:

      Are you taking a step back mentally or physically Charles? If only mentally then I think you’ll find the boot still hits you. If physically it does rather allow for a running kick which may do more damage. Either way, can we watch?

    • 324
      anon says:

      After reading your bollox for the last month on here I am going to vote for the unmentionables – & I will think of you when I do it.

      You did that Charles – you forced me to vote for nazi’s.

      And I am sure there are many others you encounter on a daily basis who for the sheer heck of it & to get back at you the only way we can, they will vote nazi too.

      The future is bright. The future is red white & blue – thanks to you & your ilk.

      Imagine Charles – your partys lasting legacy to Great Britain:

      * The concept to reality of intergenrational debt
      * The rise of British nazism

      Well done you plonker.

    • 393
      Master Baiter says:

      I am COMICAL ALI, and you Charles are a cum dribbling lunatic!

      • 461
        George Osborne says:

        ‘Ere stop messin’ abahht!

        Wot did that Iraqi information minister say about burning tanks?
        He was right, really.

  78. 304
    Gordon McIndenial says:

    Can I just take this opportunity to commend myself to the whole country.
    I am gettin g on with the job and all will be well (unlike myself)

  79. 307
    Tory Girl says:

    Hardwidge, I think I am in love with you

    • 310
      The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

      Charity work?
      I believe that Dutch nurses wankoff their cerebal palsy patients

      • 327
        Anonymous says:

        i’ve got cerebal palsy and I’m off to holland soon. any details wher ei need to go?

        • 350
          The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

          Just check into any A&E andyou are guaranteed a hand shandy (believe me)
          The potential Mrs Beast is a Dr and constanly handles cocks when inserting catheters.
          I really wish she didnt tell me.
          I will join you in Amsterdam, rent a wheel chair and then fake a bit of cerebral palsy and get a free wank rather than going to the red light district.
          Could be a good business model, wheel chairs all round,get pissed then turn up at the hospital for a nice wank

        • 397
          Engineer says:

          You haven’t seen the nurse who does that job yet……

        • 403
          MC'Gordon says:

          I too am getting on with the hand jobs to hand.

        • 498
          Master Baiter says:

          I too am getting on with the job in my hand.
          You may watch.

        • 916
          Stephen Hawkins says:

          I believe Margret Beckett Is now A nurse In Holland . Still Going Lads ?

  80. 312
    Art. 38 says:

    From Dales’ site:

    Labour’s Norwich North 18.2% share was the lowest by a governing party at a by-election in 40 years.

    Labour are going to be wiped out at the GE. Bye bye.

    • 326

      I can assure you that it was 182%.

      • 332
        The BBC says:

        The Minister is as always correct. Another victory, albeit narrow, for Mr Brown.

        • 433
          Man on the Clapham omnibus says:

          UK still confident of late 2009 growth – Minister

          The economy is still likely to return to growth later this year despite a further contraction in output in the second quarter of the year, junior finance minister Liam Byrne said on Friday.

          ANYBODY ELSE CONFIDENT?……….

        • 496
          Damian's Capilliaries says:

          Excellent stuff from Mr Dale. These gays can be vicious little bitches when you upsets them.

    • 333
      Master Baiter says:

      The only way is up for Labour you simpletons.

      You may go.

      • 340
        Max says:

        And your optimism is based on?

        • 345
          Master Baiter says:

          Jeez, how could it possibly get any worse for Labour? Therefore it can only get better. Simples.

          You may go.

        • 364
          Charles Flaccidwidger says:

          How can it get worse for Labaour? Sit and watch it happen, MB, it’s going to get a lot worse.

        • 370
          Max says:

          It could get worse if for example:

          a) The armed forces resources scandal is firmly pinned on the Dear Leader
          b) Someone works out why Mrs McDoom needed to raise £350K just after Mr McDoom got into No.10 (all spent on cardies?)
          c) The medication is put on hold for ZNL’s remaining “voters”

          There are hundreds of examples out there. it would make a good Friday competition if only Guido was listening.

        • 382
          Master Baiter says:

          But the conservitudes only got 39%. That’s less than half.

          Labour got 17.9%. That’s MORE than one fifth.

          Cameron must be worried. Really worried.

          You may go.

        • 400
          George Osborne says:

          ‘Ere stop messin’ abahht!

          Coulson all tetchy again, ‘e’s soooo agrressive!

        • 413
          Anonymous says:

          George/Master Baiter

          Accept this one and move on. For the sake of the Party.

        • 419

          But the conservatives only got 3% I told you! I am not getting excited! We got 179% and the BBC accept that! Cameron is really worried! Did I tell you that I am not excited? Cameron is really really worried; er, have I just repeated myself? Osborne talks funny, Dave’s got no hair; mention Coulson again, oh you already have. Victory is in our sights.

          Was that all ok Peter?

      • 399
        Anonymous says:

        hA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAH AH HA HA HAH AHAHA HA

  81. 327
    Master Baiter says:

    Tories’ poll triumph over Labour

    The Tories have taken Norwich North from Labour with a majority of more than 7,000, in the first Westminster by-election since the MPs expenses row.

    Tory candidate Chloe Smith won with 13,591 – more than twice as many votes as Labour’s Chris Ostrowski.

    There was a swing from Labour to the Tories of 16.5% on a turnout of 45%.

    Labour’s Norwich North 18.2% share was the lowest by a governing party at a by-election in 40 years.

    What does that tell you?

    You may go.

    • 359
      Art. 38 says:

      For balance let’s see what The Guardian says… oh… oh dear…

      “Humiliating byelection defeat for Brown”

      “Tories would be swept to power with a Commons majority of 218… Tories would have 434 MPs, with Labour on 107, the Liberal Democrats 79″

      Micheal White: “A grim result for Brown. But what about for David Cameron? Pretty good actually.”

    • 480
      George Osborne says:

      ‘Ere stop messin’ abahht!

      Coulson says 39% is rubbish, Oi said it weren’t so bad, still all them numbers, you know.

  82. 329
    Sky sports says:

    OT but isn’t Steven Gerrard a symbol of all that’s just wrong about Britain, scuzzy people help in high esteem by some, because of a ball of air.

    He’s 29 for God’s sake and still behaving like the worst that teenage Britain can offer and in an almost eternal cycle, pre-teens will copying his fine example.

    Footballers, God’s way of telling us how f’ked up this country is.

    • 391
      shelling-out says:

      All celebrities seem to be above the law. My partner says Gerard has been in the dock before. If he isn’t going to get any sort of punishment for assaulting someone, that gives him (and Winehouse) carte blanche to go out and do it again.

      • 542
        Damian's Capilliaries says:

        He’s a SCOUSER – a bindipper – for fucks sake!

        Q. What do you call a scouser in a suit?

        A. “The Accused.”

        • 733
          Bernard Manning's Ghost says:

          The foreman goes up to this scouser and says “What would you want to paint that 80 foot chimney?” The scouser replies “An 80 foot fuckin’ brush”

        • 762
          Damian's Capilliaries says:

          Or the scouse docker who was arrested for stamping a tortoise to death.

          On being asked why he did it he replied, “well er its bin followin me round all day”.

        • 911
          One hung low says:

          Scouser wins the pools . he has an inside toilet fitted and buys a barbeque he invites all his friends round His mate says by fuck lad you’ve come along way . Why’s that lah he says . well when i first knew ya you used to eat in the house and shit in the yard !

    • 612
      Joey Barton says:

      Agree entirely. There’s no doubt that he caused affray and is guilty despite the rather stupid jury believing otherwisw. I demand a retrial.

      • 1026
        Jan says:

        This trial should NEVER have been held in Liverpool. If it had been held in London or Manchester there would have been a different verdict.

  83. 330
    "When all this nonsense over MP's expenses is over" says:

    Voting for a 27 year old with no experience. Ummmm good choice.

    Voting for a Party with no policies. Ummmmmm good choice.

    Voting for a Party who admit they will increase personal Income tax. ummmmmmmmmmm very good choice.

    And I’m a Tory.

    God help us all.

    • 335
      Master Baiter says:

      If you’re a tory then I’m a Chinaman.

      You may go.

    • 343
      "When all this nonsense over MP's expenses is over" says:

      Oh I am a Tory. Very much so.

      I just don’t know where the Tory party are these days.

      If you see them let me know, please. Was in the Carlton 2 nights ago. Saw some that could be Tories, 2 stunners, the rest looked past their sell by dates. Very nice staff.

      • 354
        Master Baiter says:

        You are a liar. Tories wear top hats and only go to Eton. Clearly you are working class judging by your poor grammar and “txtspk” style of prose. Probably from the North as well I shouldn’t wonder.

        You may go, troll.

        • 409
          Engineer says:

          Not all Tories wear top hats and are alumni of Eton. Ask NewGirl.

        • 447
          George Osborne says:

          ‘Ere stop messin’ abahht!

          Nat Rothschild and Oi go back a long long way, I polished ‘is boots Oi did!

        • 478
          NewGirl says:

          Quite right Eng. I’m none of the above!

        • 962
          When all this nonsense over MP's expenses is over says:

          lol – the MB knows I speak the truth.

          Eton produced many VC’s but also a fair few traitors too. Not all “toffs” went to schools whose uniform include a top hat.

          Your slur on those from “up North” and the “working class” betrays you.

          Now go and share your bed with your kith and kin, remember incest is now illegal, and don’t forget to eat all your suet pudding before you start on the lager.

          Have a wonderful day and don’t cause any trouble playing in the street.

    • 631
      tory dalek troll says:

      I’m glad you agree that it is a good choice.

  84. 336
    "When all this nonsense over MP's expenses is over" says:

    Gordon Brown will be praying he is heard by the Gerrard jury when he’s in court for criminally bankrupting Great Britain.

    Those 12 good men and true must be as thick as pig shit.

    God help us all. Time to bring in professional juries. On second thoughts…

  85. 348
    "When all this nonsense over MP's expenses is over" says:

    Gordon Brown will be praying he is heard by the Gerrard jury when he’s in court for criminally bankrupting Great Britain.

    Those 12 good men and true must be the most stupid ever found.

    God help us all. Time to bring in professional juries. On second thoughts…I’ll get my coat

  86. 352
    Thats News says:

    Haven’t you got something better to do than monging on a moribund blog when the sun is out?

    Just an update, Guido. The ’sun’ was flowing past our office door this lunchtime. I thought we’d have to bail out again like the big floods of a couple of years back!

  87. 362
    Anonymous says:

    The Labour candidate was 28 and worked for John Lewis in London before getting the nomination, so hardly a more experienced option.

  88. 366
    Ghost of Dr David Kelly Bioweapons expert says:

    On top of everything else, your government wants to kill you or alternatively help the chosen pharaceutical companies make very healthy profits.

    Top virus expert from Imperial College says, close schools in the autumn to prevent the spread, governments very trustworthy spokesman Lame Thingy says no no, keep the schools open, lets get this virus spreading as much as possible.

    ZaNuLiebor, Nazis in a new hat.

    • 374
      Ghost of Dr David Kelly Bioweapons expert says:

      It’s not as though Nu Labour are really into education so that does seem odd!

  89. 367
    Anonymous says:

    Policies, intelligence and abilities aside, liebours arrogance, lies and deceit continues unabatted. Just listen to them all touring the tv studios. This is why the electorate will not vote for them any more. They are dishonest arrogant liars.

    Harperson so full of her self , so smug and arrogant.

    It is impossible to get these cretins to understand how they are coming across and putting people off just by their sheer arrogance, thats before their incompetence with their policies.

    In any case Norwich North is the direct responsibility of Gordon Brown and how he dealt with the expenses scandal, starting off with his acting on utube.

    Although liebour are fucked , they are unfortunately taking us down with them
    We will pay the price as we did in the seventies for their incompetence and massive overspending.

    • 379
      Master Baiter says:

      Reading the Daily Mail might lead you to such a perception but have a read of Samuel Brittan

      http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a61b04f2-77bd-11de-9713-00144feabdc0.html

      It might open your eyes.

      • 390
        Master Baiter says:

        I am COMICAL ALI!

      • 395
        Anonymous says:

        obviously your eyes have been damaged by all that wanking. you really ought to do other things with your time. Your willy does not always need to be in your hand. However you have the same thing in common with all other liebour arseholes.

        • 457
          Master Baiter says:

          Is it too difficult to read?
          Or is it just that it isn’t littered with emotionally incontinent slavering hatred beloved of simpleton Daily Mail readers?

      • 566

        It didn’t open my eyes, it opened my mouth.

        What a pile of crap.

    • 826
      Twizzle says:

      Pay the price like we did in the 70’s? Are you havin’ a larf?

      The pay off from the 70’s ain’t nuffink like what’s coming to the UK this time around. This time it’s curtains, cheerio and arevederchi (?) for UK plc.

      We’re f****d!

  90. 373
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    New Conservatives – gawd help us.

    This mere slip of a girl is completely out of her depth. This is all so reminiscent of that nice Mr Blair & the hoards of Blair babes he stuffed the commons with.

    Great window dressing – & Cameron is doing the same. Young girls like her will be a push over for the whips.

    New Conservatives – the lovechild of Blair & Obama.

    We are all in very deep trouble indeed if this is the best political opposition we can muster to this “tyrant lite” Prime Mentalist.

    Bleak.

    No change on the EU with New Tories

    Same insane fiscal policy with New Tories as New Labour

    Same insane public spending policies with New Tories as New Labour

    Higher taxes still with New Tories – same as New Labour.

    What is the point of voting for two identical partys who take us all for fools?

    I am yet another “Old” Tory who’s temporary transfer to UKIP is about to be made permanent.

    • 388
      Anonymous says:

      good, stay there.

      We cannot always have all we want, sometimes it is better to work towards something and then change things from there. If your attitude was adopted by other people, we would end up again with liebour. You would prefer that though wouldnt you?

    • 389
      Master Baiter says:

      Good riddance, go and join a bunch of sad Victor Meldrews, ruled over by an utter crackwipe!

    • 411
      Art. 38 says:

      Smith is a very, very bright and capable young candidate. Exactly the sort of person to attract young people to the Conservatives and she has a great career ahead of her.

      A fringe single issue party like UKIP will never form a UK government – a vote for them at the GE is a vote for Labour and Gordon Brown.

      • 552

        If the conservatives win and stay in the EU(SSR), it will have exactly the same effect as if Labour were in power.

        Give Dave a big hint, vote UKIP.

    • 645
      Georgeous George says:

      Window dressing she might be but there is only one of her whereas there were over a hundred Blair’s “Babes” and they gave us the magnificent Smith.

    • 863
      PAPA RATSY says:

      ME TOO UKIP’S the way to go ! We have to forget politics untill we are out of the EUSSR !

  91. 387
    Master Baiter says:

    I am a a social misfit who hides away in my local library wanking furiously over old and tattered copies of National Geographic and posting silly tripe.

    I am the new Comical Ali!

    You may go, oh, I may go, oh sod it.

    • 398
      It's all Balls says:

      Your trouble is you don’t know whether you’re coming or going :-)

      • 404
        Master Baiter says:

        Never felt a woman’s touch you know. Never had any friends. I just sit in the library all day posting appalling crap in defence of McBust and his band of nasty gimps.

        I am COMICAL ALI

        I must go.

    • 406
      George Osborne says:

      ‘Ere stop messin’ abahht!

      Maybe Kenya would be noice, my Doris says she loikes ‘Appy Valley

      • 423
        Master Baiter says:

        ‘George Osborne’ is one of my other names when you lot are ganging up on me a making me look like a right penis, which is often!

        COMICAL ALI, thats what I am!

    • 429
      Fees Office Clerk says:

      So that’s why some NatGeo magazine pages are stuck together!

    • 868
      PAPA RATSY says:

      I Prefere the Magazines in the doctors waiting room ! Trouble is they keep asking me to leave !

  92. 407
    Anonymous says:

    Liebour had a fantastic result in norwich achieving a respectable 0% rise.

    Now let me go and enjoy my holiday, I’m off to Obama beach.
    harperson and mandelbum will fight it out over who willgo on the telly and say who is deputy gordon.

  93. 414

    Politics doesn’t need any more trained Tory seals.

    It’s a *drumroll* Zen thing.

    • 426
      Master Baiter says:

      I’m not one to talk (being COMICAL ALI and all) but you are one utter cock wipe Charles.

      • 430
        George Osborne says:

        ‘Ere stop messin’ abahht!

        You got no majinayshun you ‘avunt.

        • 450
          Master Baiter says:

          ‘George Osborne’ is the name I use when I am being made a fool of.

          I’m COMICAL ALI you know!

        • 466
          Art. 38 says:

          Little ginger Jonty fancies Osborne – hence the fixation.

        • 472
          George Osborne says:

          ‘Ere stop messin’ abahht!

          Master Baiter, what a great handle, everyone wants to use it.

          Love is a tender thing.

        • 508
          Anonymous says:

          There’s only one way you could know that George. Rumbled!

    • 431
      Charles on E Hardwidge says:

      Last correction, promise!

      Politics doesn’t need any more new labour war criminals and liars.

      It’s a *dumbtroll* Zen thing. Peace in Afghanistan.
      Withdraw the troops now.
      I hate Gordon Brown because he has let our troops down.
      That will be all.

    • 458
      caesars wife says:

      You are so 0% today harwidge

  94. 420
    Fees Office Clerk says:

    Whilst giving his response on the Norwich North result to the media Gordon Brown was gurning like his life fucking depended upon it.

    • 492
      Damian's Capilliaries says:

      He’d forgotton his Polygrip this mornin and was frantically trying to control his upper plate.

  95. 424
    Bogeyman says:

    Guardianistas are weeping and wailing at the prospect of Tory government.

    Showing their knowledge of these matters, one Norwich poster talks of their beloved Labour MP being replaced by an outsider who knows nothing about her constituency.

    For the record, Chloe Smith grew up in Norwich and went to Swaffham Comprehensive, Norfolk. She also has fantastic teeth.

  96. 425
    dilys says:

    “the best story of the silly season so far: the lesbian music mistress and the teenager at City of London School for Girls. Very St Trinians…”

    Wonder if the young girl feels the same?

    • 440
      tat says:

      it is a joke dily.
      you do know what a joke is, don’t you?
      go to conservativefoam NOW!
      you fucking retard.

    • 485
      Sister Velchro says:

      That’s wot lesbians do numbnutz. They feel the same since they both have identical tackle.

  97. 435
    Tory Girl says:

    Labour said it was “disappointing” but the vote took place in “unprecedented circumstances” – Yes, having an escaped mental patient as Labour Leader

    I LOVE HARDWIDGE

  98. 442
    Anonymous says:

    Is it any wonder that we accept lying and bullying today as the norm.

    Was any one in liverpool ever really going to convict gerrard.

    • 495
      CCL says:

      Coming from that great city and supporting that great team, eh no.

    • 690
      Damian's Capilliaries says:

      A jury good and true of Everton supporters would have voted for the death penalty.

  99. 445
    Steven Gerrard says:

    Oi you Charliefucking Hard Wotsit! Do ya wanna fight?

    No..well shut the fuck up then or I’ll do ya proper like next time.

  100. 446
    caesars wife says:

    broad sword calling danny boy , broad sword calling danny boy !!

    well done !! everyone worked very hard .

    the result was better than expected and i did expect labour to come fourth , but all the same as kay burley said after brown speak item “yeah but its still a win” LOL

    Hardwidge is blogging from the toilets again !!

    I fancy a rest too .

    • 455
      Anthony Blunt says:

      Charlie is my love child. I only went in the front door once and he was the result. I’m fucking gutted. he’s nothing but a right tosser!

  101. 449

    Glad you’re having a good rest Guido, you deserve it.

    When you get back, I’ll make you a 2.4GHz 14-element Yagi to plug into whatever router you are using. You will be able to hack into a goodish wireless network up to 1,000 yards away.

    • 467
      A Nuvverengineer says:

      Mind you don’t point it at your microwave.

    • 494
      Trough Mixture says:

      Shoved up Softwidget’s arse it would be a cavity antenna and, as Annuver points out, could guide the waves like Canute couldn’t.

  102. 452
    mad fred 2 para (retired for now) says:

    Message to Jock Stirrup:

    Sir,

    Stop, cease & desist at once from defending & spinning for that treasonous hoon Brown.

    Regards

    • 469
      Cjamesk says:

      That wont happen, he has as much balls as an Italian Armoured Unit, 6 gears all in reverse.

      Good job in Sangin sir.

  103. 459
    Anonymous says:

    Guido.
    Do they still have those ‘Turk’ crappers in France? We still find them here in Greece and I try to avoid them like the plague. Crapping is fine but engaging in a piss whilst dumping, with with a semi wood, spells disaster and terrible stains on your shorts.

    • 463
      caesars wife says:

      try grasping the rope above the knot , and treat it as smart bombing mission !!

  104. 464
    You dirty rat. says:

    Guido.
    Do they still have those squat ‘Turk’ crappers in France? They can still be found here in Greece and I try to avoid them like the plague. They are fine for a quick dump but when you have an involuntary piss with a semi wood it spells disaster and wet shorts!

  105. 474
    Sir William Waad says:

    A big difference between now and 1997 was that, then, the media were all attracted to Tony Blair like flies to a turd. For some reason the whole of the press and TV, apart from the most dyed-in-the-wool Tories, suspended disbelief and decided to boost Blair. It was an eerie experience, a bit like living in a Communist state and reading how the Great Leader never failed to brush his teeth when a little boy.

    They’ve never sucked up to Dave in the same way, which is a good thing for democracy.

  106. 477
    PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:

    The full result in Norwich North (just because)

    Chloe Smith (Con) 13,591 (39.5%)
    Chris Ostrowski (Lab) 6,243 (no % on BBC)
    April Pond (LD) 4,803 (13.97%)
    Glenn Tingle (UKIP) 4,068 (11.83%)
    Rupert Read (Green) 3,350 (9.74%)
    Craig Murray (Ind) 953 (2.77%)
    Robert West (BeeP) 941 (2.74%)
    Con majority 7,348 (21.37%) 16.49% swing Lab to Con
    Turnout 34,377 (45.76%, down 15.33% on gen election)

    Margin between 2nd place and 3rd and 4th ain’t that huge is it?

    • 487
      PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:

      And instead of those 1990s by-election results, here’s Crewe and Nantwich from last year:

      Conservative Edward Timpson 20,539 49.5 +16.9
      Labour Tamsin Dunwoody 12,679 30.6 –18.2
      Liberal Democrat Elizabeth Shenton 6,040 14.6 –4.0
      UK Independence Mike Nattrass 922 2.2 n/a
      Green Robert Smith 359 0.9 n/a
      English Democrats David Roberts 275 0.7 n/a
      Monster Raving Loony The Flying Brick 236 0.6 n/a
      Independent Mark Walklate 217 0.5 n/a
      Cut Tax on Diesel and Petrol Paul Thorogood 118 0.3 n/a
      Independent Gemma Garrett 113 0.3 n/a
      Majority 7,860 18.9 +35.2
      Turnout 41,856 58.2 –1.8
      Conservative gain from Labour Swing 17.6%

    • 489
      caesars wife says:

      UKIPs result looks even more incredible really , just have to keep reminding Clegg about his european lisbon betrayal to us all !! Hope ed davys reading , candidate most likely to become a Hoon at the next general election !

    • 493
      Anonymous says:

      could I ask why you left? I too was a lbour party memebr but havnt been for about 5 years?

      • 645
        PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:

        You too? I stuck that on the end of my screen-nick so that the trolls would see once and for all this is not a Tory blog. This is a blog for anyone who has a brain and isn’t Brown fodder.

        I left when Blair was elected leader. After being a member for nearly two decades, five as a branch chair, and living through militant and the Kinnocks, and briefly seeing the hope promised by John Smith (my kind of Labour), I saw Blair, looked into the future and left.

    • 906
      Harriet Harman says:

      Only 2.0800656031012375130460712688236e-6 voted for Chloe Smith which is such a small number that it shows the insignificance of this result.

  107. 486
    So17 says:

    Some good news for Labour,
    Gonorrehea and syphalis cases have gone down.
    A little cloud though as Herpes and Genital warts are on the rise in the under 25 age group.
    Overall a good day for Gordon Brown.

    • 491
      caesars wife says:

      ah the lesser known Roman godesses ! LOL all the same

      • 509
        So17 says:

        Genital Warts,she was always a tough sell at the Acropolis.

      • 514
        Engineer says:

        I didn’t know that “Genital Warts” was a Roman goddess.

        Mind you, I was rubbish at Latin. Could never get the accent right.

        • 524
          caesars wife says:

          got my virgin pendelino power figs (thanks sir henry morgan) if any interest to you Engineer (will be beavering away on blowing away this government unaffordable )

          max rating 6.7 mw

          working max load 5.1 mw (6840 hp )

        • 550
          Max says:

          I thought I was getting a little warm here.

        • 618
          Engineer says:

          Thank you C.W.

          That is some serious waft – no wonder the things go like shale off a shovel. What a shame we didn’t develop our own APT – the Pendolino’s use much the same basic technology.

          Still got to generate the electricity for the things, though – and that’s a lot of electricity, even though those are maximum ratings, and not average consumption.

          Somehow, I can’t see Western Mainline electrification going too far in the near future. Maybe in a decade or so.

        • 739
          NewGirl says:

          Its like you’re speaking a foreign language….!

        • 748
          Dan Quayle says:

          Isn’t that what they speak in Latin America?

        • 750
          Engineer says:

          It is a source of never-ending wonderment to me how conversations develop on this blog. Where else could you go from genital warts to Pendolino electricity consumption in about 5 easy steps?

        • 833
          Sleep with your hands above the coverlet, my Dear! says:

          One night with Venus followed by a lifetime with Mercury.

        • 883
          thick as thieves says:

          note to all of the above tory trolls: FAR TOO BORING! MOTHERFUCKERS!
          this is not tory hq. raise your game or fuck off.
          you may think the modding levels are currently too high but if you c’unts keep fucking moaning you will find out exactly how stringent they can be regarding certain persistently inane posters.
          please justify you constant presence here by raising your game. drastically.
          thankyou.

        • 934
          Doctor Mick says:

          Ooh I do like you when you’re Mr Angry tat!

  108. 500
    Tory Girl says:

    labour are looking at 20% of the vote

    • 503
      caesars wife says:

      Ruinomics will have that down to 15% in 6 months and perhaps less by may 2010.

      note Liam bryne got dropped off the news fairly quick !!

  109. 511
    Art. 38 says:

    According to ConservativeHome:

    If the swing of 16.49 per cent attained at Norwich North were replicated at the general election , the following cabinet ministers would lose their seats: Jim Murphy
    Alistair Darling
    Ben Bradshaw
    Jack Straw
    John Denham
    Ed Balls
    Ed Miliband
    Douglas Alexander

    http://conservativehome.blogs.com/goldlist/2009/07/an-almanac-of-statistics-and-historical-comparisons-relating-to-the-norwich-byelection.html

    Oh, bring on the GE! Can’t wait to see Balls getting voted out.

  110. 512
    nell says:

    I see tony’s old chief of staff is publicly expressing worries about gordon’s inability to get a decent night’s sleep.

    Gordon’s staff reckon that he works until 3am and then starts work again at 5am. Apparently he is notorious for firing off angry emails in the dead of night. He’ll be firing off a few tonight then after this by-election defeat.

    TessaJ – who used to be a psychiatric social worker has been given the job of trying to make him sleep more. Funny additional responsibility for the Olympics Minister! How’s she going to achieve this.

    All he needs is some of guido’s wisdom in switching off for the summer and enjoying the occasional glass of wine.

    • 520
      Engineer says:

      Gordoom needs a good night out with Charlie Hardwidge, Master Baitor and Speedo Skirts. If that doesn’t convince him that an early night is preferable, nothing will.

      • 561
        nell says:

        I think charlie hardhide and gordon would probably hit off and end up boring poor speedo and mb to death.

        And with gordon and speedo both being scots the question is would charlie and mb have to buy all the drinks?

      • 564
        nell says:

        Got modded trying to reply to that one so shall have to try again, ’cause as Guido says he’s not unmodding anything until September!

        • 597
          Eeeeeek says:

          FFS nell, nobody but nobody else gets modded.

          Are you sure you haven’t got swine flu?

        • 654
          PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:

          I got modded, posting the 2008 Crewe and Nantwich by-election result.

      • 571
        nell says:

        I think CH and gordon would probably bond – two of a kind – leaving poor old spido and mb bored and having to pay for all the drinks.

        • 590
          nell says:

          Got modded again. Curious this automodding lark – what innocuous words trip it off.

          I think gordon and charlie hardhide would enjoy each other’s company – together with spido and master baiter they could educate him about the hobby of trolling – I think he’d be rather good at it.

    • 555
      Damian's Capilliaries says:

      They are deperately looking for explanations to excuse his incompetence.

      How about, he’s just no fucking good. Get rid. End of.

    • 602
      Sir William Waad says:

      The poor chap should stop before he kills himself or permanently ruins his health. Plainly the diazepam is no longer working.

      • 650
        Broon's Nurse says:

        diazepam? Oh fuck! Not marzipan???

        No wonder he’s hyper all the time! lol

    • 757
      Al Capone says:

      How about fitting him with a pair of concrete boots, so he can sleep with the fishes in Lake Windemere

    • 836
      Infanta of Castile says:

      Tessa could ask GSK for a bottle of sleeping tablets as a free gift on the back of the Tamiflu sales. I daresay she has the right contacts.

  111. 513
    Dick Emery's Cock says:

    LIncolnshire Poacher / Cherry Ripe.
    Report Brown Owl – ILL
    3,2,7,5,0

  112. 519
    Eliot Ness says:

    Some gripe water, a clean nappy and a little stroke on the head from La Gambino. When he’s growed up he could be one o’ dose ‘made guys’.

  113. 522
    Gladys Pew says:

    If only the sun was shining….

    • 537
      So17 says:

      This may cheer you up Gladys.
      I had a lovely shit in the PMs larty at the HoC and I suffer from a condition called ‘Bum Crumbs’. It warms my cockles to think Blair&Brown have my fecal matter on them.

  114. 528
    Coral Browne says:

    You’re a set of utter Berties!

  115. 529
    Anonymous says:

    With a swing of 16.5%, Chloe Smith overturned a Labour majority of 5,000+ to gain and a new Tory majority of over 7,000 in Norwich North, a so-called Labour “safe seat” in recent history.

    Excuses will no doubt be made and ministers will be herded out to say to the media that this was a “disappointing” result for Labour.

    But excuses and disappointment are not enough.

    The magnitude of this defeat shows that this was more than just a protest vote and it was more than simply a reaction to the expenses crises – that excuse did not wash after June 4 and it will not wash this time.

    Indeed, this was more than a response to the apparently unjust deselection of Ian Gibson. He, too, would have lost.

    No, a swing of this proportion – not unlike the one to Labour in the Wirral in 1997 – is a sign of embedded culture change. It shows that the country is ready and willing – if not craving – to vote for a Tory government in substantial numbers.

    It is our challenge now to respond to that current desire and accordingly.

    Without a drastic and full recalibration of our party’s policies and our party’s message, without a more coherent and cohesive narrative, that Tory government and that huge and self-inflicted defeat will be exactly what we get, and exactly what we deserve.

    alex hilton

    http://www.labourlist.org/a_crushing_defeat_of_lasting_significance

    all credit to you alex for your honesty. Is it too late? Now if you were to ditch brown and a few others you could just turn it round by next june?
    Brown continues to be the best advert for the tories, long may he stay there. Except the longer he is there the more damage he does to us all by the day.
    I wpuld go nuclear and ditch brown, harment etc. Some one needs to do it before you get nuked.

    • 567
      Master Baiter aka "George Osborne" says:

      There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad,” he declared to journalists on the roof of the Palestine Hotel as gunfire echoed across the city and tanks fired from the banks of the Tigris just a few hundred yards away.

      As the audience of bemused reporters pointed out the fierce firefight across the river, he continued: “There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.”

      “Today, the tide has turned,” he continued confidently. “We are destroying them.”

      And after an American tank shell hit the hotel, killing two cameramen, he moved to reassure the world’s press corps. “We are not afraid,” he proclaimed, adding paternally “And don’t you be afraid”.

      With 17.9 per cent WE WILL WIN THE GENERAL ELECTION

      • 575
        George Osborne says:

        ‘Ere stop messin’ abahht!

        All ‘e said was dat vay would burn in their tanks.
        Which they did, innit?

    • 568
      Master Baiter says:

      Alex Smith of Labourlist already climbed on to the branch and sawed it off, not realising he was sitting on the part that would fall. That’s the trouble with emotional incontinence.
      Anyone see the Monty Python reference in the FT Lex comment on Osborne’s so called banking regulation reforms. Very funny.

    • 596
      Bogeyman says:

      They keep telling us ZNL got “only” 18% of the vote. In fact they got only 8% of the potential vote.

      In other words, only ONE IN TWELVE Norwich folk could be arsed to support Labour.

      Of course you can perform the same reduction on any party but 1 in 12 has to be the fucking pits for a government that promised us a new Britain, no sleaze, no boom and bust, edukashun, educashin etc etc.

      Chloe Smith has fantastic teeth.

      • 608
        Norwich Canary says:

        She has good Norfolk teeth, glintin’ in the sun.

        What possessed NuLabor to get rid of Ian Gibson and try to foist that Pole from IPSWICH (ferfucksake) on us?

        Idiots.

      • 637
        Master Baiter says:

        It was most unfortunate circumstances for Labour to hold the bi-election on ’signing-on’ day. Many votes were lost as the voters took their giros to the local Wetherspoons for another mad Thursday of bingin. Who knows, it probably should have been 19% not 17.9%. A disaster for the tories.

        • 672
          Engineer says:

          You’ve got a PhD in straw-grasping, haven’t you?

        • 689
          shelling-out says:

          You need to go to Specsavers.

        • 698
          Master Baiter says:

          I did go to Specsavers. Guess who bumbed into when I was down there?

          EVERYONE!!

          Geddit? I’m Comical Ali so I got loads more funnies. Here’s one… Labour will get 286 seats at the next election…..

  116. 533
    nosferatu says:

    “Haven’t you got something better to do than monging on a moribund blog when the sun is out?”

    I hate the fucking sun.

    • 538
      freddie Kruger says:

      Dont worry lad soon get his shotgun up the arse , whoops wrong name !

    • 557
      Wheezy says:

      H&S won’t let the porters wheel our iron lungs onto the lawn anymore. There’s only one socket out there, so you never got more than 15 minutes anyway.

  117. 539
    Anonymous says:

    When the sun is out?

    Which country are you living in? Oh, France, that explains it…

  118. 547
    caesars wife says:

    seems like a good day for winehouse as well as gerrard , but bit of a bad one for Will straw (jack straws son ) , what have they been doing on the board of gouvners ??

  119. 554

    Dear All

    This is the Tories day, nothing can take this away from them.

    But it doesn’t change the ideological differences; they are stuffed to the gunnels with wankers.

    Yours sincerely

    George Laird
    The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

    • 570
      Chris Gilmore says:

      Pot
      Kettle
      Black

      • 710

        Dear Gilmore

        You already know you are a wanker but the good news, not for much longer.

        Recently I tried to save a woman’s life on the bus after she had a heart attack, you I would leave.

        At uni, I didn’t teach scum and sure as hell did associate with it dirtbag.

        Yours sincerely

        George Laird
        The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

        • 770
          Chris Gilmore says:

          Recently I tried to save a woman’s life on the bus after she had a heart attack…

          At least that is the story you gave the rossers after you were caught trying to fondle some old wifey’s bosom on the top deck. Dirty groper.

        • 928
          Can I Testify Your Honour? says:

          I was on the bus during the incident with the sex pest, George Laird.
          Basically what I saw was George Laird reaching over and grabbing the lad’ys left tit. I couldn’t believe it he just fucking grabbed her tit.
          As soon as he grabbed her tit she struck his face with her elbow to defend herself, and when her elbow hit him on the nose he let go of her tit.
          The defendant claims he saved the lady’s life but the truth is that the lady was perfectly healthy and he did not assist her, he just grabbed her tit.
          That m’lud, is my true and full testimony regarding George Laird’s grubby tit grab.

        • 942
          Chris Gimore says:

          If George had any gooleys they should be cut off forthwith. With a rusty blade.

          It’s a sad day for New Britain when an old biddie cannot use her free bus pass without being molested by a tertiary educated troll with WHT.

          Heart attack indeed! Thanks god it wasn’t her piles playing up.

    • 583
      caesars wife says:

      A clear vitory for Human rights george , !!

    • 585
      thick as thieves says:

      I love wankers.

    • 589
      Anonymous says:

      obviously yet another expert on wanking ; and alcohol ofcourse

    • 628
      Sister Velchro says:

      All blokes are wankers or liars.

  120. 556
    So17 says:

    I bet Chloe Smith has a big muff just like that lass out of the remake of 1984.Wot a ‘Growler’ she had.
    Chloe has the same look.The eyebrows are a dead give away.

    • 563
      Trough Mixture says:

      I know the sort you mean. Like a Guards Officer’s bearskin.

      • 572
        Duncan Disorderly says:

        Like a jockoe’s sporran. Hoots mon I’ll never get me caber through that!

        • 600
          So17 says:

          This is the 21st century.Have these women not heard of Immac or the Gillett mac3 cunny cutter.
          What are we turning into? The French for fucks sake.
          I blame the EU.

        • 604
          dierdre says:

          I love the smell of immac in the morning.

        • 667
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Immac is a rip off

      • 584
        5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

        Guardsman’s bearskin is called a Busby – dunno if that helps in the humour stakes.

        • 606
          So17 says:

          ‘Show us your Busby’. yeh like it.

        • 607
          Sungei Patani says:

          A guardsman wears a Bearskin Cap made – don’t you know – out of bear fur.

          A busby is a much smaller hat worn by a number of military organisations including the Royal Horse Artillery and the Royal Air Force band.

        • 609
          Trough Mixture says:

          No Shorts. A guardsman’s bearskin is called a bearskin. The busby is worn by the Royal Horse Artillery and some elements of Hussars. You will have seen them being worn by Kings Troop RHA when they fire the Queen’s birthday salute.

          Mind you, it’s still well hairy and the RHA have a bag attached to theirs.

        • 610
          Fannywatch says:

          It’s made of Beaver fur innit.

        • 624
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Me Ol’ Dad must have been wrong then, eh? We always were a confused bunch :-))

        • 663
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          > Show us your Busby’. yeh like it.

          Show us your Busby

          an’ I’ll be yer huzby

          :-)

        • 691
          shelling-out says:

          It’s called a Bearskin, not a busby, you hoon. A busby is something quite different.

        • 700
          CORPORAL PUNISHMENT says:

          hOPE IT,S A BEAVER NOT A CAMEL TOE !

    • 595
      I like sushi says:

      Whaddaya reckon, marmite or tuna?

    • 766
      Beavers And HeadButt says:

      Vote Tory! Save The Beaver!

    • 888
      Doctor Mick says:

      The poor lass looks like a nun in mufti.

  121. 560
    Stormforce says:

    Hardwidge,
    Serious question.

    Why do you invest so much time boring on where your ideas
    are about as popular as swine flu?

  122. 574
    David C says:

    Well said Guido
    I’ve just had two weeks away in Greece, well away from the political shite,newspapers,television,politics home,order-order.tory bear etc.
    I now feel much calmer and relaxed,but what happens the Tories take New Labour in Norwich North,and what do we get from the Prime Mentalist another load of sour grapes shite.
    I’m going back to Greece hoping for an autumn general election.

  123. 625
    RavingMad says:

    New Tory MP , been voted in 4 hours ago, already being given a grilling by Peter Allen, the twat at Radio 5 – asked about cuts to public services, economy, defence suggesting she edoesn’t have any answers. He is a rude and medacious bastard

    • 634
      huey says:

      Sour grapes, and I’m talking about the size of his balls.

    • 666
      PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:

      You leave Peter Allen alone. He hates everyone and everything equally, a fine quality in any broadcaster.

  124. 627
    Bogeyman says:

    McDoom says the Norwich result was “disappointing”.

    It’s not all bad, Gordo. Chloe Smith has the most amazing teeth.

    Plus a certain boyish charm that might appeal to your second-in-command.

    • 676
      So17 says:

      My first job was as a Dental technician and all I can say is I have never ‘Come’ across teeth like that before.
      Fnaar Fnaar.

      • 694
        CORPORAL PUNISHMENT says:

        Nice to get some Fresh Tottie in the House with all the Piss Soaked Pensioners !

  125. 629
    Sir William Waad says:

    Don’t you think Chloe Smith looks like a younger and nicer Ruth Kelly? There’s the same pleasantly gamine look.

  126. 641
    Wigged off says:

    Where do we find our steady supply of hoon judges from:

    Re: Scuzzy Scouser Gerrard

    Judge Henry Globe told him: “The verdict is a credible verdict on the full facts of this case, and you walk away from this court with your reputation intact.

    Whereas your reputation M’lud is in tatters

  127. 652

    I’ve read through a few books on photography this week, and have just been skimming through one on film directing. “The Director’s Idea: The Path to Great Directing” by Ken Dancyger contains a chapter on “The Great Director” that helps us take an angle on Gordon Brown’s leadership. It’s notable that both Kubrick and Chaplain have a similar personality type to Gordon Brown.

    1) The great director looks for a deep, subtextual interpretation of the text
    2) The great director prefers a direct approach to the material, a simple approach, an economical approach.
    3) The audacity of the interpretation transforms the experience from simple to surprising.

    Be still, grasshopper.

    • 660
      PM says:

      Dude, you need to lay off the peyote.

      • 670

        Hey watch it.

        I’m saving the blogosphere from reactionary Tory nonsense and hysteria. Buddhist “correct action” has a lot going for it.

        Maybe you’d like to think about that.

        • 673
          nonnynoo says:

          “Maybe you’d like to think about that.”

          Something that you yourself are quite unfamiliar with evidently……cυnt.

        • 776
          Rampton Orderly says:

          Nurse! Charley boy has escaped again

        • 931
          Ivor Hardwidge says:

          Relax brother. And stop smoking that superskunk. (Apologies readers. He’s normally so calm. A bit of fresh air may help…)

    • 662
      walter says:

      The only directing McTwat will be getting is to the exit door, you dopey cυnt.

    • 668
      PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:

      You’re touting Kubrick as a great director? Give me strength. No one who made Eyes Wide Shit has any claim to that label.

    • 685

      Yep, and I wouldn’t have wanted either the kiddyfiddler Chaplin or Kubrick as PM, either

    • 695
      shelling-out says:

      Is that all you do in your spare time, Charles? Get a life!

      • 790
        Damian's Capilliaries says:

        Like Brown he has no spare time. There’s a thought! Perhaps Charles is Brown? I mean, what the fuck can a PM find to do from 5 in the morning until 3am the next?

        • 807
          PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:

          Does anyone know what Gordo’s brothers do for a living? There does seem to be a certain family resemblance between Hardwidge (repetition, selective deafness, irrelevance, bogus optimism) and the Brown gene pool.

        • 891
          Doctor Mick says:

          We should ask his cleaner how much surfin he does.

  128. 665
    Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

    Much better today Guido.

    Yesterday was an all time low for your Blog.

    I was moderated TWICE by you for being critical of you,don’t go down well,does it?

    • 716
      nell says:

      It doesn’t need to be something critical – I’ve been modded for the most innocuous of comments.

      In any case I think the automod is on at the moment as guido said he’s not keeping much of an eye on things – sunshine and wine y’know? Lucky man.

      • 784
        Chartered Accountant says:

        Nell

        I certainly agree.

        I get modded for quite mild comments and I fear that’s also been your experience.

      • 792
        AutoModder says:

        Oh for fucks sake give it a rest for once about modding this and modding that sob stories.

        • 821
          HUE G RECTION says:

          How about banning Troll THis Troll That Troll The other for fucks sake use your own insults !

        • 825
          Automod says:

          Just ban accountants for being boring c­u­n­­ts.

      • 824
        HUE G RECTION says:

        I Swear, Slander, Libel, cuss abuse etc and very rarely get moded so there ! Na Na! na!NA NA NA

    • 789
      Automod says:

      It’s the automod. Don’t flatter yourselves you’re saying something contentious. And stop fucking whingeing ferchrissakes!

      • 853
        Autobot says:

        I concur but will hide my true identity for this post, every thread recently for christs sake, you could understand complaining about it once or twice but every thread!!!

        Arghhhhhhhh sorry but if you don’t like it sling your hook, no one is a special here, so what’s the point in complaining about it all the damn time, obviously it’s you at fault and not Guido as everyone else manages fine without moaning every thread for special attention.

  129. 674
    CORPORAL PUNISHMENT says:

    A good idea for mp’s holidays. Take all 647 useless bastards to helmand, Kit them out with a HI-VIZ uniform and a rooksack full of bricks .Make them march at the front of each patrol wearing a fucking big pair of Clown shoes whilst doing a morris dance, and prod them now and again with a bayonet to keep them alert. THIS would save the valuable lives of our Troops and get rid of the fucking Rubbish that pollutes our parliament !

  130. 677
    A taxi driver says:

    I once had Baron Fondlebum in the back of my conveyance.
    Proper gent.
    He didnt wipe his cock on the seats
    CLASS!

  131. 693

    I’ve done stuff and been around, and read stuff, and discussed things with people. Folks with my personality type tend to develop deep interests in a wide variety of subjects, extrapolate and connect the dots without missing a beat. I’m just leveraging that.

    I’ve found the Zen model helps illuminate a lot of these things: good form and attitude, or order and harmony, are fundamentals that everything else is built on. Folks often confuse goals, process, and outcomes, and a bit more understanding of that can help get a bit more clarity. The rest is really just a matter of calm and patience. It’s doable.

    • 696
      shelling-out says:

      You forgot to plug your graphics fidelity. You must be slipping.

      • 707
        Master Baiter aka "George Osborne" says:

        Graphics Fidelity is an urban myth. Like Brown leading the country or Labour winning the next election. Like Santa Claus.

        • 713

          Jeez, you’re just revealing your own ignorance. Anyone who works in the computer game industry knows what graphics fidelity is, and anyone who really knows their stuff is familiar with the name of Charles E. Hardwidge.

          O_O

        • 774
          Master Baiter aka "George Osborne" says:

          Exactly. Nobody’s heard of either.

        • 912
          James Wales says:

          It does not make wikipedia. Maybe you could help out?
          But no original research!

        • 949
          Doctor Mick says:

          It doesn’t even register in google. Nulabor luddite trying to sound technical.

    • 702
      'ello sailor says:

      “It’s doable.”

      Yeah, we’d certainly love to do you old chap.

    • 705
      PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:

      Personality type? Asperger’s Syndrome more like:

      # Problems with social skills: difficulty interacting with others and often are awkward in social situations. They generally do not make friends easily.
      # Eccentric or repetitive behaviors.
      # Unusual preoccupations or rituals.
      # Communication difficulties: tend to have problems understanding language in context.
      # Limited range of interests: may develop an intense, almost obsessive, interest in a few areas.

      • 844
        Infanta of Castile says:

        Spot on although Asperger’s could be argued to be a form of personality disorder so Hardwidge may be displaying some limited insight.

    • 717
      Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

      Does your shit stink,Charles?

    • 755
      D T Suzuki says:

      I hear nothing

    • 788
      Sungei Patani says:

      CEH

      You come across as a pretentious and pompous personality type.

    • 991
      Cassandra King says:

      But then again supporting a mental defective like McLoony Brown must be the reason for the obscure rhetoric, I mean who in their right mind would tout a lying cowardly psycho like McBust around here when its plain to see he is hated and despised as much as you are.

      Oh and BTW you appear to have a vastly over inflated ego and opinion of yourself, the TAO takes a very dim view of egos like yours.

      PS Perhaps you ought to read the ‘Tibetan book of living and dying’ you are commiting many of the basic human errors of ego and pride, you have a lot to learn grasshopper!

  132. 697

    Chloe Smith’s Bulsara-esque dental display is rather NiN*, if you seek my opinion..

    *normal in Norfolk.

  133. 706
    nell says:

    I see tony has been spotted holidaying on the £150m yacht of the worlds 4th wealthiest man – Larry Ellison. The yacht is sailing just off the coast of sardinia – a stone’s throw from the Italian pm’s villa.

    Now there’s a man who could teach gordon how to relax.

    • 711
      PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:

      Middle East, peace, end to regional conflict, ring any bells, Tony? Hope you fall overboard.

    • 721
      Engineer says:

      At least we don’t pay the Sedgefield One’s expenses any more – as far as I know. Mind you, the slippery so-and-so had enough while he was trying to run the country. That, and his other halfs more than adequate legal earnings for demanding human rights for various undesirables.

      I suppose nobody would invite Jonah onto a superyacht. Guaranteed to – er – upset the bouyancy.

      • 817
        HUE G RECTION says:

        Could you imagine McMental On the yatch 100 Degrees Suit shirt and tie. Oh and sandles With socks pulled up !

        • 861
          nell says:

          No. Never. His social skills wouldn’t even let him socialise in a reception class.

          In fact he’d frighten them.

          He has absolutely no communication skills.

      • 1044
        barefootcontessa says:

        He still gets a courtesy car and driver, for the rest of his life I believe.

      • 1047
        barefootcontessa says:

        The ‘Sedgfield one’ gets a courtesy car and driver for the rest of his life, I believe.

    • 723

      Chances of a nosh from Berlusconi’s young friend? 100%. Makes a nice change for Tone from that sort of relief from a woman who could readily eat an apple through a letterbox, eh, Cherie?

      • 816
        HUE G RECTION says:

        She could Swallow a Fucking Dinner Plate

        • 1110
          Funambulist says:

          Cherie’s smile (for want of a better description) is very familiar to anyone whose children watch Wallace and Gromet as often as mine do. Aardvark Animation must do all her cosmetic work.

    • 724
      Trough Mixture says:

      Sabot, traverse right….steady….ON. One Five hundred – Luxury Yacht in open.

      Loaded,Fire!.

      Target, stop – Clear guns.

      Simples.

    • 730

      Behind the politics and personalities are people, and once you discount mere skill and populism, the important stuff happens in the mind. This is the root of all things so people should look after it more. Zen can help but there are other useful ways.

    • 738
      Lizzie says:

      Last year Gordon wore a suit on his holidays I doubt he is capable of enjoying himself anywhere any time

      • 778
        HUE G RECTION says:

        Could you imagine Brown in a Beach shirt, Flowery shorts and Flip flops ? Oh dont forget the Knotted Hankie ! TWAT !

      • 1049
        barefootcontessa says:

        Wore a pale coloured sports jacket last year, I believe.

    • 764
      Stonethrower says:

      I’m on the case, nell…

  134. 720
    Friday Just Not The Same Without: says:

    Friday Caption Competition Blair on a bike.

  135. 726

    I’ve been thinking about other stuff today and was struck with the image that Cameron is just another bathroom singer: he looks good at the bully pulpit but is no good in the real world. Instead of fueling “THE RAGE”, I thought it might be worth just laughing at the guy and it’s one thing the Tories can’t stick on Gordon Brown.

    • 731
      Anonymous says:

      well you’d better get used to it. you will be seeing a lot more of him soon.

    • 745
      PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:

      You really don’t read anyone else’s posts do you? Even amongst committed Tory voters, there seems to be at best lukewarm liking for DC, so laughing at him isn’t going to offend anyone.

    • 760
      D T Suzuki says:

      you are saying nothing but blue velvet – again

  136. 728
    Anonymous says:

    Julie Kirkbride is coming back. And in Bromsgrove too. You won’t believe it. Watch the lies here:

    http://blogs.news.sky.com/boultonandco/Post:0b6e16fb-6eb3-4ff3-b351-614e541205c0

    Brown and the Labour party are utter crap. But no one in their right mind would trust a tory. And that video tells you why.

    • 735
      Lizzie says:

      Couldn’t have been that bad in Norwich North over 16,000 voted Tory.

      • 753
        Anonymous says:

        Ah yes, you are quite right. She did nothing wrong. And he didn’t accept her resignation a couple of months ago.

      • 823
        Damian's Capilliaries says:

        If sixteen thousand worzels voted Tory just imagine what will happen in civilisation. NuLab must be cacking themselves.

    • 892
      Art. 38 says:

      The anti-Kirkbride petition was drummed up by a clique of Respect Party activists; i.e. extreme socialist+islamists. Check out the organisers; e.g. Mark Anthony France was on Respect Party national executive.

      She is quite right to re-think her resignation.

      • 918
        Anonymous says:

        fuck off you twat.

      • 944
        Doctor Mick says:

        The good folk of North Norwich have clearly indicated they don’t give a rat’s asss about Tory expenses indiscretions. All that matters is to clean out the bunch of muppet incumbents who are in government. The sooner the better before this small island is bankrupted.

  137. 734
    Lizzie says:

    Guido you need to change to a good Savignon Blanc, your sense of humour is having a failure methinks. The Tories have taken Norwich north by storm, now you can relax and enjoy France, Bon Appetite.

  138. 740
    Bogeyman says:

    Sorry, but I really can’t get over Chloe’s teeth. They are fantastic. What a gal.

  139. 741

    Most things are useless until you need them, then people seize on them like a drowning man to a liferaft. There’s a lot of posturing from Tory vested interests trying to win favour through duplicitous means but that’s just more flim-flam.

    The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

    • 744
      Basket Case says:

      And the biggest Hoon has the blackest hole

    • 749
      PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:

      The most bloated hypocrite blocks out the most sun.

    • 763
      Anonymous says:

      my first believer – but only in liferafter death

    • 768
      D T Suzuki says:

      If you light a lamp for somebody – it will also brighten your own path

    • 769
      D T Suzuki says:

      tic toc tic toc

    • 785
      New Age Dude says:

      The emptiest vessel makes the most noise.

    • 827
      shelling-out says:

      Most things are useless until you need them. Gordon was useless and still is. Let me enlighten you.

      Where was Gordon when America started to feel the sub-prime pinch? I’ll tell you where he was. He was putting all his energies into getting Tony out of No. 10.

      Don’t keep telling me this all started in America and our government was powerless to stop it. Gordon was Chancellor then. Here was a man allegedly at the top of his profession – and yet he couldn’t see this coming. Like the blind leading the blind.

      • 878
        Astute Analyst says:

        And the dim telling the dim

      • 975
        Hugh Janus says:

        Remember his utterly ridiculous comment that we were well-placed to weather the storm? No one believed him then. We were all right and, as usual, he was completely wrong. If there’s a right way and a wrong way of doing something, you can be sure which of those McBust will chose – and as usual we will have to pick up the enormous cost of his arrogance and stupidity.

        • 1186
          Grandma B says:

          I remember only too well. Gordon has a natural ability to get things wrong. Bet Tony’s laughing all the way to the bank.

  140. 742
    Ratsniffer says:

    Love the Beeb squirming over the absolute humiliation of NuLabour in Norwich North. They are already trying to flam up Snotty’s spin, that this was labour voters staying at home because they are still sore about MPs expenses. More like they are completely and utterly hacked off with such a useless, shite-eating shower of a government.

    • 884
      Art. 38 says:

      You can just tell that the BBC/Common Purpose fellow travellers aren’t happy.

      I’ve got the impression today that a few of them are thinking, “Oh fuck, we really can’t win it. What are we going to do?”

      Wonder if we are going to see a few of the careerists drift to a more balanced commentary.

      • 904
        Doctor Mick says:

        As self preservation instincts kick in there is going to be an unseemly rush by the luvvies to suck up to Dave.

        Let us hope that in this case Dave really will “do nothing” and let them sweat.

        • 927
          Movers and Shakers says:

          And when he gets into No 10, who will be first on the list at the dinners and receptions he throws? You?

        • 946
          Doctor Mick says:

          Don’t be a knob.

        • 955
          CBBC says:

          Well said Doc Mic. CMD should do nought with BBC, except abolish the license fee!! Brown’s BBC are traitors. as much this Gov’t.

  141. 758
    |5h1t☻my☻5h0rt5| says:

    Hardwidge feel the love

  142. 761
    Engineer says:

    Just had a telephone chat with my mother. The subject of Norwich North came up, and the relative youth of the winning candidate. “A little more experience of life would be good thing in an MP” said I. “Oh, I don’t know, she might have been around a bit” replied mum. When asked to elaborate or expand the thought a little, she refused……

    • 832
      nell says:

      See – mum’s have lived in the fast lane too.

      It’s only their children who think their mum’s only know about knitting.

      • 850
        colin says:

        Where’s my fucking socks?

        • 856
          nell says:

          Or mum where’s the ‘taxi’? need you at midnight

          Or ‘mum ….. where’s my fund to buy my 4 inch heels”

          Or Mum why are you dancing so close to Dad at this wedding??

          I wonder what gordon said to HIS mum????

          I wonder whether he dances close to his Sarah?

        • 1000
          Engineer says:

          Nell – are you suggesting that I wear 4″ heels?

  143. 771
    Trough Mixture says:

    Andrew MacKinlay is quitting because of mental and physical exhaustion:

    http://tiny.cc/MacKinlay

    He’s had a couple of good old rants in the house recently – all at the cabinet, so I was well chuffed. One particularly good one about Blair’s lies. This bloke is half decent and there aren’t many on that side who are.

    • 781
      PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:

      No, he isn’t in any way decent. Your own linked story tells why.

      “Mr MacKinlay was famously described by weapons expert Dr David Kelly as an “utter bastard” after he grilled him on the foreign affairs committee.

      He told Dr Kelly – who killed himself after being unmasked as the source for the BBC’s sexed-up dossier story – that he was “chaff” and a “fall guy” for the Government.”

      • 798
        Trough Mixture says:

        I did say ‘half decent’. I recall thinking that his style and the content of his questioning at the time were OTT. That was on sight of what was shown on the news. When the whole session is watched it is clear that he was done no favours by the edit. His subsequent interviews on the topic were a tad floundering but I felt he had been trying to establishthe source of a leak – his duty and I believe SOME of what he says.

        It must gnaw at his conscience and I’d hate to be in that position. His recent behaviour and attitude to the government have been more savage than his questioning of Dr Kelly and directed at a legitimate and deserving target. His clearly displayed fury at the cabinet was no doubt seeded at the time shortly after Kelly’s death.

        Mrs Dale has an exclusive, but I haven’t read it yet.

        • 805
          HUE G RECTION says:

          David Kelly = State murder ! Raises Questions about Lady Di dont you think Get away with it once Etc ?

        • 813
          PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:

          I hope you are right and that committee session does gnaw at his conscience. And if remorse has made him a more honourable man, as it may have, then he is a better man than most of his colleagues.

        • 935
          Money is a great painkiller says:

          No doubt his fat pension will clobber his conscience senseless.

  144. 779

    A tip f0r David Camer0n: d0n’t eat yell0w sn0w

    w00t!

    • 802
      HUE G RECTION says:

      I used to tell that one when i was 12 as well Small widge !

    • 908

      He eats Labour party candidates.

    • 996
      Trough Mixture says:

      With the oil of Aphrodite
      And the dust of the Grand Wazoo
      You might not believe this little feller but
      I can cure your asthma too

      But I said “Look here brother
      who you jiving with that cosmik debris?
      Now who you jiving with all that cosmik debris?
      Look here brother, don’t waste your time on me”

  145. 783

    Back when I suggested that big business and a failed society were sending Britain down the path to becoming a basket case economy, the usual suspects reacted with outrage because it touched on how the CBI, Tories, and themselves might be part of the problem.

    Now Britain is in real difficulty but the government has presented and is executing a plan for recovery, suddenly, those self same people are crying “failed state”. As with the Damien Green affair, they trivialise issues of real substance while tub thumping for mere political advantage.

    Ah, well. That’s ego for you…

    • 787
      Damian's Capilliaries says:

      The Damian Green affair was not trivialised. It was the worst abuse of power by a Home Office Minister that has ever been seen. Jacqui Smith’s behaviour was outrageous.

  146. 793
    Automod says:

    Because like all accountants they are fucking BORING!

  147. 794
    John Major Fan says:

    What a farce letting all and sundry like that lesbian into the party. UKIP for me from now on then thanks to the marxist cliche who have hijacked our party.

  148. 795
    Blackburn Raver says:

    Looks like Jock Stirrup has had a nokia bounced of his head and a threat of a walk in the woods if he doesnt bow to mein fuhrer.

    • 840
      nell says:

      Well he did say that ‘the present mission in Afghanistan was not properly resourced!!

      But then his language became rather toady to labour as he talked about the need for the UN and other partners to fill the gaps.

      Gordon says – we have less than 10 working helicopters in Afganistan and that is enough.

      And then he says we don’t need drones to pinpoint insurgents laying IED’’s ( yes I know the Yanks use them to protect their bomb disposal squads and save lives but….)

      We have men on the ground to get blown up doing that job – it’s much cheaper – so the Treasury says.

  149. 796
    Anonymous says:

    Brown is not electable in England. So what do liebour do? Just go into an election accepting defeat or will it be the postman waiting patiently?

    Brown has had it now. Any one in liebour got the balls to do anything about it?

    Is mandy just waiting to seal the lisbon treaty then act?

    • 845
      nell says:

      mandy – yes possibly – he’s always going to be waiting for his max moment. God willing . It won’t come.

      re: brown is not electable in England – true but ……I know nothing about Scotand so I ask ….

      Is Brown electable in Scotland?? – won’t the SNP drown him and his labour toadies in Scotland??

      • 950
        Rant against the machine says:

        Brown could well lose his OWN seat up here Nell, trust me on that.

  150. 797
    HUE G RECTION says:

    The LIE-BORE candidate in norwich has been ill with swine flu for two weeks so he sent his wife on to the stage to hear the result ! HELLO !

  151. 801
    Anonymous says:

    what happens when you keep feeding the pidgeons? they take over.

    so why do you fucking idiots insist on feeding the trolls.

    • 847
      nell says:

      Sweetie – they’re the grit in the oyster!!

    • 877
      Art. 38 says:

      You’re right, but nothing will stop the paid disruption from Labour. They are on a campaign to ‘jam’ this site – enjoy it while you can Balls, but you are out next year (plus your freaky little wife).

    • 909
      Doctor Mick says:

      It is fascinating to see how the great socialist experiment has degenerated into sneering trolling. Keir Hardie must be bemused.

  152. 803

    The people in here who complain about censorship are themselves practicing censorship by glut, but 99% of that is instantly forgettable.

    Following on from my earlier comment, it’s interesting to note how the Green affair has devalued the true whistleblower from someone taking a personal risk for a higher purpose to being merely another can of baked beans in an unregulated free market.

    Cameron and the Guido mob should be ashamed of themselves. Their approach to politics is cheap and corrosive, and never leads anywhere good. It’s why the Tories don’t have my vote and I don’t read that dreg.

    • 815
      PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:

      Nobody has your vote, Hardwidge: you’re not even registered to vote, remember?

    • 848
      campbell says:

      A can of baked beans ts definitely an improvement on Crash Gordon, so it’s got my vote.

      • 919
        Stephen Pound says:

        Two months ago most posters on this site were all for stringing the fuckers up!
        Now you have got that little rant out of your system, its back to bending over and taking it like a mouse.

    • 948
      Rant against the machine says:

      We won you LOST, LOSER !

    • 956
      Ivor Hardwidge says:

      Apologies for the rantings of my long lost brother. I think he was too stoned at the time of the Damian Green raids. Alas, he missed the greatest abuse of Gov’t power over democracy since Cromwell. Please stay away from the skunk, Charles.

    • 1008
      Basket Case says:

      “I don’t watch TV,don’t read the media and don’t vote”

      That’s what you said,eh?,Charlie Boy…so you don’t have the right to comment,Sonny.

    • 1099
      Jethro says:

      “…practicing…”
      Just thought you’d like to know.

  153. 814
    Canary Wharf Rat says:

    “Now this is really interesting and the most cheering news I’ve read this year – someone prepared to fight back.

    A maverick mayor elected after promising to slash council spending, clear the streets of yobs and ditch politically correct services is the torchbearer for how towns should be run.

    On his first morning as Mayor of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, Peter Davies cut his salary from £73,000 to £30,000 then closed the council’s newspaper for “peddling politics on the rates”.
    Now three weeks into his job, Mr Davies is pressing ahead with plans he hopes will see the number of town councillors cut from 63 to just 21, saving taxpayers £800,000. Mr Davies said: “If 100 senators can run the United States of America , I can’t see how 63 councillors are needed to run Doncaster”.
    He has withdrawn Doncaster from the Local Government Association and the Local Government Information Unit, saving another £200,000. Mr Davies said, “They are just talking shops”.
    Doncaster is in for some serious un-twinning. “We are twinned with probably nine other cities around the world and they are just for people to fly off and have a binge at the council’s expense”.

    The mayor’s chauffeur-driven car has also been axed by Mr Davies and the driver given another job. Mr Davies, born and bred in Doncaster , swept to power in the May election with 24,244 votes as a candidate for the English Democrats, a party that proposes tight immigration curbs, an English Parliament and a law forcing every public building to fly the flag of St. George.

    He has promised to end council funding for Doncaster’s International Women’s Day, Black History Month and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month.
    He said, “Politicians have got completely out of touch with what people want.
    “We need to cut costs. I want to pass on some savings I make in reduced taxes and use the rest for things we really need, like improved children’s services”.

    Mr Davies has received messages from well wishers across the country and abroad as news of his no-nonsense approach spreads. Now it’s your chance to spread this most sensible way to run a town council and vote for common sense and common good, not just the whim of the few.”

  154. 820
    5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

    Hey Folks, press 0108 on yer Sty Box GG is on from 10.00pm til 1.00am non stop politics *luvvly* :-)

  155. 837
    PAPA RATSY says:

    And tonights Anagram Tory party leader ? Ans: David CumHerOn

  156. 839
    James. says:

    It is surely now the beginning of the end – but what a terrible price will have to be paid for those years of Socialist/Marxist social engineering and economic madness.

    • 871
      Art. 38 says:

      Hopefully, the last Labour/socialist government ever to be inflicted on this long-suffering country. Will be interesting to see what the future post-Labour opposition to the Conservatives will be. We will need it for the health of democracy.

      • 876
        Astute Analyst says:

        Thank God for the voice of reason.

      • 882
        PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:

        After 2010 Labour will indulge in a ritualistic night of the long knives and, after the bloodbath, will lurch to the hard left.

        The Blairites and Brownites will either merge seamlessly into the Tories or the Libdems, or have another go at doing an SDP.

        Labour will be unelectable for at least 3 elections, if not more.

        So saith Mystic Mog.

        • 903
          Art. 38 says:

          The Commons may not have a coherent opposition – which in itself might be an interesting constitutional problem.

          Maybe HM loyal opposition could evolve to be some kind of greeny-liberal blob. In the meantime the Conservatives could be opposed by rump Labour, static LibDems, a couple of UKIPs ansd the nationalists.

          We will need a decent opposition for the health of our democracy. Perhaps we will see the creation of a major new party of liberals, blairites and greens.

          In any case, socialism is dead. Good riddance to the most evil and genocidal political creed in history.

        • 913
          A J P Taylor says:

          Remember where you were when you first heard this expert treatise on early 21st century political history.

    • 1063
      barefootcontessa says:

      You think society is going to improve?! How naive you are. The human being is, unfortunately, innately flawed. You are expecting good things from mainly bad people working within a terrible system. We can only hope that a new government is not as bad as this one; and other governments of recent years.

  157. 851

    The Tory campaign is a near identical copy of the Republican approach. They’re making a bunch of fundamental errors in policy and attitude. Their policies don’t add up and their people don’t measure up. Their solution? Press harder on the gas pedal.

    The more the Tories insist they’re “right” and the more their desire for power seizes them, the more they’ll look like they’re losing the plot and chewing the carpet. Their ego is now so tinder dry that a mere breeze causes the tiniest of sparks to burst into raging flame.

  158. 854

    The Tories’ “popularity” is just a crude relationship between the big bully and the wannabes. Reality took the wind out of their sails but another rush by “Dave” gave them some Dutch courage.

    These attacks may look big and impressive but it’s just so much swagger. It only hurts as much as you let it. As Labour develop policy and, well, just ignore the Tories they have nothing to swing at.

    The Tory comments show a lot of “cleverness” and have HQ support behind them but I wouldn’t worry about it. They’re only shredding themselves to pieces and their support is mostly useless.

    • 857
      joose says:

      The only policy Liebore have got, is to nick Tory ones as soon as they’re out of their fucking wrappers.

      • 867
        Frontline says:

        Brown, Cameron and the rest of you, are like fleas arguing over who owns the EU dog.

    • 985
      Cassandra King says:

      Is that why the Tories are heading for a TWO HUNDRED SEAT PLUS majority then?

      The Tories support is “mostly useless” so the ordinary voter is uselss now? funny that isnt it? The voters were fine when they voted for the mental defective McLooniac.

    • 1096
      Jethro says:

      “…as Labour develop policy…” TWELVE YEARS IN POWER, and Policy has still to be developed?
      King Lear said, “I shall do such things – what they are, I know not yet, but they shall be the very terrors of the earth!’

  159. 859
    PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:

    new labour lies = unreliable sow
    and = usable worn lie
    and = Euro bane swill
    and = burial seen now
    and = new lab lousier
    and = beware ill onus

    It’s prophetic, that’s what it is.

  160. 886
    nell says:

    So harriett harman has won the battle to ‘take control’ of the country for TWO WEEKS as gordon ‘pretends to go on holiday’

    mandy is only being ‘allowed’ to take control for one week. LOL!!!!

    A spokesman for harriett says ‘ This is a historic moment. She is the first woman to run the country since Mrs Thatcher”

    +++Laugh+++ LAUGH+++ Sorry ++ Need to cry +++ This is so funny+++++

    Oh Harriet and Mandy – you are a joke!!!!

    • 894
      PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:

      And Ballsy didn’t even get one miserable weekend? Aw, shame.

    • 905
      Chief Whip says:

      A similar joke is that so many voters plumped for the parties that have been proven to have robbed the taxpayers blind. Do they not feel the sensation of being gang raped by Parliament to be a violation? Or did they enjoy it so much, that they queue up for sloppy seconds?

  161. 893
    thick as thieves says:

    naughty naughty 5.20pm.
    note to self: licence revokation order required for 5.20pm thief.

  162. 896
    nell says:

    Some of us are having to deal with kids and summer holidays and hence need our sleep.

    So my prayer
    Please God no rain for tomrorrow
    Please look after our Armed forces wherever they might be fighting
    Please help gordon get some sleep- although we need him to lose the next election

    -Please keep our kids safe.

    Good night God Bless.

  163. 897
    Gordon McMental says:

    I am getting on with the job
    Do not be afraid

  164. 900
    Gary Glitter says:

    Gordon
    Do you want to be in my gang bang?
    Peter has laid on the starters

  165. 915
    5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

    I am not a sporty person and I heard somebody say that cricket is 5 mins of excitement packed into three hours which I thought was quite funny at the time but since I came to this website and listened to Freddie etc. I can see a bit more how popular it is so I reckon it must something going for it then, eh? What is it that people like so much about it?

    • 920
      Pads,flannels and a speedo box says:

      Probably the fact that its beyond a jocks comprehension.

      • 941
        5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

        Maybe it is…maybe it is. Only trying to be polite.

      • 1054
        barefootcontessa says:

        There are plenty of keen cricket players in Scotland. Cricket is played continuously during the Summer in the Meadows and other good cricket grounds in the centre of Edinburgh. So there!!

        • 1151
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Crikey BareFootContessa you put me to shame, I never even knew that!

      • 1140
        Automod says:

        Mike Denness is a Scot and he captained England.

        • 1150
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Hmm..never knew that about Mike Denness – we had a cricket ground next to where I live for yonks and it was kinda hidden in a lane between two factories and nobody really knew about it. Then it moved on to a better location a couple of years ago. From what I can tell, its doin’ okay.

    • 926
      PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:

      WARNING****NEW TROLL TACTIC****WARNING

      So you think you can make friends here now, do you? You are waaaaaay too late.

      • 940
        5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

        I have never responded to one of your messages you sad bastard and I have no shortage of friends thank you very much — so up your arse attention seeker. Fuck of and read “How to win Friends and Influence People” you badly need it.

  166. 921
    Blackburn Raver says:

    Zanu-labour drain the life out of you.I know lots of self-employed who are retreating into the black market.Theyre fed up working all hours to pay huge stealth taxes.It maybe wong to dodge taxes but these guys dont get any sick pay or paid leave when the mrs has a baby.This is also why so many skilled young people are moving abroad.

  167. 925
    Ernst Stavro Muckinbird Carlos Fernanananades III says:

    The sun is NOT out!

  168. 933

    Miscellaneous Musings? How about Muslims are monstrous bastards?

  169. 938
    Anon says:

    Piss off Nell you ‘touchy feely’ fucking mong.

  170. 952

    [...] Miscellaneous Musings Guido is not following things as closely as normal so forgive him if none of this is news. The wireless mobile [...] [...]

  171. 953
    Rant against the machine says:

    So the day started with many media comentators assuring us that the vote would be close and that there wouldnt be much in it. Now the truth was that the Tories absolutely gubbed Labour by getting MORE THAN DOUBLE the votes. So where did this perception of “to close to call” come from. Well it so happened that Labour spokespersons were touting this line all morning. Surely it wasnt the case that they simply fed a lazy and/or complicit media this line and they just repeated it on the say so of their political masters ??

  172. 960
    Anonymous says:

    Check this out.

  173. 961
    James. says:

    Hello – (will that get modded)

  174. 965

    British economic collapse rivals Great Depression
    The collapse in Britain’s economy now rivals the worst days of the Great Depression, it has emerged.

    The recession is far deeper and more severe than those of the early 1980s and 1990s, Mr Weale added.

    “Gordon Brown is now competing with Ramsay MacDonald – not a comparison he would much like,” he said. “It looks as if we are pretty much tracking the 1930s,

    “The financial crisis has been much bigger [than in the 1930s], the period of boom beforehand was more marked; and so you might think it’s thanks to the policies [from the Bank of England and Government] that we’ll end up with something slightly less bad but along similar lines.”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/5901961/British-economic-collapse-rivals-Great-Depression.html

    • 1042

      If you subtract the growth of credit from economic growth then the economy has not really grown at all during Zanu-Labours maladministration.

    • 1137
      Sungei Patani says:

      It is probably no coincidence that Ramsay McDonald was also Scottish. He was also finally disowned by the Labour Party.

      • 1154
        5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

        Aye, his maw should have called him sungei -that would have made all the difference :-/

  175. 973

    I came from a very poor background in the 60’s/70’s.The tories via grammer schools did more for me and many many others than labour ever have.
    .
    Socialists are only ever the politics of envy. Well if I cant do it or have it then no -one else will. That sums up them in a nutshell.

    All I asked for was to have the same equality to achieve in my life like others had done. I took those opportunities. It was hard work and set backs along the way. In those days too, it did pay to work hard and achieve.

    Today every one has a right to every thing regardless, so why bother?
    Students come out of university at 25 with a £20k debt and moan that they cant afford to buy a home of their own.

    Regardless of who wins next time, this country is going to go through very very hard times for the next 10years. you had the good times in the last 10 years, and now boy are you going to pay.

    • 1040

      If you come out of uni with a 20K debt all it means is that the degree is worthwhile if you earn more (because you have the degree) than the interest.

      5% interest = 1K/year, not hard to do.

      I think interest on educational debt should be tax deductible, becuase of the envy based income taxes we have, you need to earn about 2K more in order to receive the 1K interest.)

      Another example of income taxes ruining the economy.

    • 1132
      John Clare says:

      If you come out with a worthwhile degree that is

  176. 974

    Simples! Reasons why Brown and liebour will not win in England.
    I would really worry if they ditched brown so I hope they dont.

    1. Gordon Brown
    2. Harriet Harman
    3. Peter Mandelson
    4. Ed Balls
    5. Their policy of unfettered uncontrolled immigration
    6. The economy
    7. Devolution for England, if the scots and welsh have it, why not England
    8. Cancellation of manifesto committment to hold referendum on the lisbon treaty
    9. Abolition of 10p tax band for low paid workers
    10.Absolute time for a change after 12 years.
    This train is now unstoppable.

    • 1006
      freddie flintoff says:

      no he just a lying hoon and a bully lad

    • 1059
      Rant against the machine says:

      That list is a good starter for ten but there are of course many more reasons. I take it “reasons Labour will loose the next General Election Volume 2″ is out shortly !

  177. 977
    RavingMad says:

    Barry Shearman (LabMP) claims that labour lost the Norwich election because the voters stayed at home.

    There are no labour voters

    New Labour still doesn’t get it.

    • 982
      nell says:

      Dave was more relieved than gordon was disappointed over the Norwich North by-election according to our michael of the Observor.

      And Labour canvassers claimed there was little enthusiam for the Tories on the doorsteps.

      Methinks Labour’s living in fantasy land along with gordon who thinks he can still convince us He’s the One..

      Morning Folks.

      • 1007
        freddie flintoff says:

        must be madness breaking out in the bunker lass

      • 1041
        RavingMad says:

        nell

        In an interview today, Gordon Brown was asked if he thought he was god

        He replied ” No, I’m greater that that ”

        Later, he reiterated, there is no misunderstanding, “I am really greater than that”

      • 1141
        Sungei Patani says:

        As Mandy once said “Well they would say that, wouldn’t they?

    • 1128
      Yoda says:

      Home stayed they
      votes posted not

  178. 981
    Bogeyman says:

    Look, I know some of you reckon I have a thing about Chloe’s teeth but really…

    Which set of teeth would you prefer representing you: THESE or THESE or THESE ?

    • 989
      Ian Rastafar says:

      Actually I think either of those horses would be better than a Labour candidate.

    • 1093
      Baldrick says:

      963 Well, Milord, I quite like the last set of teeth, it’s just the rest of the face… reminds me too much one of Mrs. Miggins’ reject pies, where all the graveyard contents shrivelled and settled in the oven, and the crust wrinkled and cracked.

  179. 986
    Anonymous says:

    What a pity Jeremy Clarkson does not read your blog.

    If he had he would have known the Prime Minister, aka “The Scottish Scunner” is a HOON, and called him that, and avoided any cautioning from his BBC politically correct Hoonish bosses!

  180. 987
    don't upset granny says:

    Hey Guido, the Guardian has got the ‘c’ word printed in all its glory twice today:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/24/jeremy-clarkson-offensive-comments-brown

    If it’s OK for the Guardian, who must have decided it won’t upset the horses or their feminist readers, any chance we have the word back now please?

    • 990
      granny says:

      The constant use of swear words is the sign of a bad education, lack of eloquence and poor vocabulary.

      I am right behind Mr. Fawkes in his attempts to keep his blog clean and maintain the highest possible standards of spelling, grammar and decency.

      Serious political debate is not facilitated by name-calling, unpleasantness or the constant use of swear words and textspeak.

    • 993
      Jeremy Clarkson says:

      No, you can’t, you cυnt

    • 1012
      Engineer says:

      I don’t often agree with Clarkson, but in this instance, I have to say he is about right. The reaction of the BBC, and the spreading of the story, reminds one of the Carol Thatcher controversy of a couple of months ago.

      All in all, a very revealing and amusing incident. Come on Clarkson, call him a hoon live on air….

      • 1031
        Steve Expat says:

        As if most of Clarkson’s audience don’t also think that GB is a cυnt , is he th eonly honest man left taking the BBC’s money?

        Anyway, time for a song. It’s a few weeks old but shows the point well


        credit: Youtube user MrRedpath.

    • 1028
      Adrian Prole says:

      Guido’s modding of the word ‘cυnt’ amongst all the other language on here has the effect of a fart in a thunderstorm. However, on the up-side, it does keep Geoff Hoon in the mind’s eye.

    • 1038
      RavingMad says:

      it’s so good to see the Guardian presenting itself as the ‘guardian’ of our values. the paper is shit and is getting lower and lower in its base line gutter journalism

  181. 988
    nell says:

    EBalls this morning is attacking james purn*ll saying his resignation from cabinet was a ‘mid-life crisis’moment.

    According to Ed some people apparently buy motorbikes or take a year out to travel the world or commit some other irresponsible unacceptable act during this ‘crisis’

    Is Ed getting in some early smearing against a possible fellow contender for the Labour Leadership challenge scheduled post GE?

    • 992
      Steve Expat says:

      If I were a Labour supporter, I would say that the best thing they can possibly do after yeesterday’s thrashing in Norwich would be to replace Broon with someone like Purnell or Milliband.

      If Broon consests the election he will get a thrashing worsse than Major got in 1997 and the party will face at least a decade in opposition. With a new leader in place the election result will undoubtedly be much closer

      • 998
        nell says:

        I’m hoping they are going to keep gordon until the next GE.

        After that I’m hoping that civil war will break out in the Labour Party and that they will implode taking their failed socialism and disastrous social engineering experiments into the abyss – never to reappear.

        I know we need a credible opposition but I keep hoping the LibDems might fill that gap.

      • 1002
        Anonymous says:

        Impostor

        • 1148
          nell says:

          I do think you are right – there’s a Steve Expat post at 3.40pm in the basement and this one here – and they really don’t look quite like his usual style.

          I think he’s enjoying BBQ’s and Chardonnay with friends in the sunshine. Sensible lad.

          Poor old imposter – he must be very shy to keep hiding behind other people’s monikers.

          Wouldn’t you think he’d like his own identity?. ‘Imposter’ would be a good moniker imposter – are you listenting?

        • 1199
          Steve Expat says:

          I’ve definitely been impersonated today, 974 was me though.

          It starts “If I were a Labour supporter…” then I’d kick Broon out ASAP.

          I’m not a Labour supporter though, I’m definitely in agreement with Jeremy Clarkson on the subject!

    • 1005
      Engineer says:

      What a sad bunch politicians are. For any decent chap, a mid-life crisis is the urge to splurge on an open-topped sports car, rush off on a round-the-world adventure, or chase after pretty young ladies (with or without the ability to do anything for her if by some mischance he actually caught up with one).

      But for Purnell, a mid-life crisis is resigning in a hissy fit? We do need an election, don’t we!

      • 1009
        freddie flintoff says:

        can we do the convicts first lad

      • 1024
        NewGirl says:

        As a lady who has, on occasion, been at the receiving end of mid life attention from ageing married men, I’m very grateful that Hoon has gone this route, not the other….

        • 1097
          Engineer says:

          Well….if you will spin on one leg and pout in your window, as you mentioned further up the thread, these things will happen….

        • 1111
          NewGirl says:

          yes, I suppose. They are only men, after all.

        • 1114
          Engineer says:

          We are all just victims of our own drives; though some of us try to maintain the veneer of civilisation.

          And what do you mean…”only”…..

        • 1115
          Engineer says:

          Modded – try again.

          We are all just v*ctims of our own driv*s; though some of us try to maintain the veneer of c*vilisation.

          And what do you mean….”only”….

        • 1121
          NewGirl says:

          Oh I like men. Don’t get me wrong. Some of my best friends are men. But I do find them to be the weaker sex. :-)

        • 1123
          Engineer says:

          If you think you’re going to provoke me by making contentious statements…..you’re right.

          Who do all you girlies come fluttering your eyelashes at when the laser printer packs up, or the lounge needs a coat of paint? Hmmmm?

        • 1135
          NewGirl says:

          Be very silly to waste our natural advantages Engineer… One doesn’t keep a dog to bark oneself you know….!

        • 1136
          Automod says:

          Coz you’re the maintenance man and it’s your job?

        • 1142
          NewGirl says:

          Nice to meet you Automod!

        • 1165
          Engineer says:

          NG – I could, at this point, type something ungentlemanly like “get back to your window”, but I shall resist the temptation. I shall merely refer you to the Telegraph website, and an article by Rowan Pelling about three weeks ago, in which she gives her thoughts on the news that science can now create artificial sperm, thus making men redundant. She is of the view that men are not redundant. We have our uses. Getting spiders out of the bath, for example. A very sound article; Ms Pelling sounds to be a lady of intelligence and discernment.

          Automod – if you require a maintenance man, may I respectfully suggest that you engage the services of the appropriate skilled tradesman.

        • 1196
          NewGirl says:

          Oh Eng I definitely think men have their uses. Many uses, in fact. I’ not remotely scared of spiders, but I wouldn’t dream of attempting to change a tyre, fix my car/TV/anything electrical/change a plug/read the sports pages/or move heavy objects from place to place. This is not because I am incapable of learning how to do any of the above, its because I have never needed to do any of the above myself….
          There are of course other uses that men and only men have, too, but I’m sure I don’t need to spell them out to the readers of this largely male dominated blog….

        • 1215
          On the web, you can be anybody says:

          Probably to give internet cross dressers a thrill.

    • 1056
      barefootcontessa says:

      A pox on all their houses!

  182. 1016
    Plutocracy Watch says:

    Bit of a scandal recently. MP’s troughing. Promised to clean it all up, they did. Well, have you been watching? The “Bill” (yes, scare quotes), was passed and here’s a few highlights:

    Legally binding code of conduct dropped “in the interests of consensus”

    Parliamentary privilege REMAINS–MP’s own words in Commons INADMISSABLE in court

    Three new criminal offence laws proposed–two dropped

    Clause that peers be regulated–dropped

    There’s more, of course. The contempt these people have for the public is beyond words. But, hey, that’s democracy, right?

    • 1051
      Trough Mixture says:

      Nope.

      We should all join Mr Flintoff for an afternoon’s sport. He, I believe prefers a standard 12 bore ‘bat’. My own willow of choice would be a modified and muzzle greased punt gu…. bat which I would name Kirkaldy Katie.

    • 1055
      Rant against the machine says:

      Doesnt matter my friend it was always an irrelevance anyway. MP’S conduct is adequetley covered by the law around FRAUD ! Its just a matter of the will to investigate.

  183. 1018
    Automod says:

    1000

  184. 1019
    Automod says:

    cleans a big, big carpet for less than half a crown

    • 1043
      Anonymous says:

      did you fight in the second world war or the first?

    • 1058
      Cyril Lord says:

      ahem – that was 1001

      This is luxury you can afford

      • 1134
        Automod says:

        Wash it
        And the colour stays fast
        Squash it
        And it just springs back

        This is luxury you can afford….

        Was to weed out the oldies and the ageists who wisely (and cowardly) remain anonymous.

        • 1230
          Infanta of Castile says:

          Ah, them were the days – carpets made in Britain by British workers

          Give it the treatment: the family treatment.
          Cyril Lord is guaranteed to last
          for years, and years and years and years and years

          This is luxury you can afford.

          Buy Cyril Lord.

        • 1252
          Automod says:

          Aye lass

          the dog could pee on it
          you could rub his nose in it
          and the kids’

          you could play a game of footie on it
          15 a side
          aye you could

          Tha could gut half a dozen herring
          and butcher a pig on it

          but get out yer mam’s hankie
          a bit of spit and elbow grease
          why man it would be as good as new
          aye it would

          but you tell these young’uns today ’bout British craftmanship
          with their parquet surfaces
          and their “engineered flooring”

          why they don’t believe you
          aye they don’t

  185. 1021
    nell says:

    I see bob’busting a gut’ainsworth is spinning this morning that he his sending reinforcements to Afghanistan.

    He’s talking of them as additional troops as though he is giving the army some of that extra support they’ve been asking for.

    As always, with this decaying labour government, it’s a lie. 19 young men have died recently together with a further 160 seriously injured. That means we are down approximately 180 men at a time when Gen.Sir Richard Dannatt said that in order to win the battle targets that gordon was demanding he needed a further 2000 troops.

    What is gordon and his useless sidekick bob sending ?? – 125 men (125!!!) They won’t even replace the one’s that we’ve lost. In truth therefore there has been a reduction in the number of men fighting in Afghanistan at this very critical time.

    I bet they’re hoping that everyone is in holiday mode and no-one will notice this sleight of hand.

    • 1035
      Private Bob's Gut Condition Report says:

      Hello. Private Bob here, the latest in a long line of outstanding Labour Offense Secretaries, with today’s battlefield report about the condition of my guts.

      Having taken advantage of one of Labour’s fantastic educational schemes and “Trained To Gain” in the subject of helicopter maintenance and refurbishment, I am continuing to work full tilt with my angle grinder and oxy-acetylene torch to get ‘elicopters ready to go to the theatre.

      The special phone line and website for those seeking information about the state of my guts, manned by medical digestive system experts lifted straight off our dole queue, will be available shortly.

      In the meantime, I am pleased to report that despite my heroic efforts (and I use that word in all modesty) with ‘elicopters, my gut is holding up quite well.

    • 1053
      Rant against the machine says:

      Dont worry Nell there are no such things as “Holidays” on the Blogs, Gordon and his Gooins can expect no let up till he is gone !

  186. 1022
    Anonymous says:

    Is it true that Chloe Smith is the unfortunate offspring of Susan Boyle and Alistair Darling? Those eyebrows have a life of their own – I thought DC was going to get lost in them.

    • 1158
      Dame Ian McMuck says:

      Her eyebrows look to me to be dyed or possibly stuck on. I wonder if she has something of the ginger about her. Perhaps if we all chipped in we could bribe an MP with pickpocketing skills to sidle up to her in the Commons, surreptitiously grab a fist-full of pubes and return them for analysis. It would be a feather in Guido’s cap if he could expose a ginger imposter infiltrating the Mother of all Parliaments.

  187. 1060
    streamfisher says:

    Guido- “Incidentally to those complaining that their comments are in the moderation queue. They will probably stay there until late August. Haven’t you got something better to do than monging on a moribund blog when the sun is out?”. Guido is following the New Labour line at last, fuck-it, and them (us) but to compete you should extend your Holiday until October at least, crisis, what Crisis?….. the crisis Gordon Brown told us about as a reason for not holding a General Election?

  188. 1062
    streamfisher says:

    I see New Labour have outlawed chronology as well. They never did know what time of the day it is.

  189. 1064
    streamfisher says:

    Fucking post (s), put a first class stamp on and it arrives a day after the second class mail.

  190. 1066
    Last Post........... says:

    Last WW1 trenches hero dies
    Harry Patch, the last survivor of World War I to fight in the trenches, has died aged 111 in Somerset

    An era of true courage and selflessness has just passed away. These were men or maybe boys of true courage and dedication.

    I wonder what Harry thought of the place today?

    God speed sir and thank you. May you now remain always with the rest of your comrades ‘on parade’

    Never forgotten………………………..

    • 1086
      nell says:

      Most often boys, Last Post – when I was in Belgium last year I found a grave for one who was just 15.

      Harry Patch fought through the Third Ypres – the Battle of Passchendaele 1917 (same as my grandfather). They were brave and mostly doomed youngsters. Passchendaele resulted in 70,000 deaths. RIP Mr Harry Patch.

      I do hope gordon isn’t going to seize upon Mr Patch’s death as an opportunity to grab a few minutes media time and start talking about courage.

      As an aside , in WW1 and WW2 – MP’s signed up in significant numbers to fight on the frontline.

      Anyone know if any of the current Labour incumbents have ever been within 5 miles of an army camp let alone a frontline. I think there may have been several tories who have fought in the army but don’t know who they are.

      • 1104

        Is this the BBC? I would just like to say a few words, sufficient to get this subject up at the top of the pages and get those other nasty articles a little further down. I have my carrier bag with me and under these empty cans a number of things are written down on paper which I can just pull out at random. So, here we go:

        “I had the honour of meeting him” (I think I did once)
        “so I will share the family’s grief” (a long shot but people don’t notice)
        “the whole nation will unite and take pride”
        “they will never be forgotten”

        Is that ok for now? It’ll have to do until Damian is back and can throw me up a couple of new ones.

        Cheerio then, funnily enough I’ve forgotten already why I called by!

    • 1090
      Jethro says:

      1046 There’s a little Church in North Devon, with the monument to a young man who was killed about six weeks before The Armistice; as his body was never recovered, his family put up a granite monument, and had placed on it a bronze tondo -I think that’s the right word – a bas-relief, bust or head-and-shoulders, of a young man in WWI uniform. Last year, it was wrenched from its place, presumably to be sold as ‘Militaria’.
      And we presume to condemn the ‘grave robbers’ of other centuries!

    • 1119
      barefootcontessa says:

      Harry Patch continuously called for the cessation of all wars. He experienced war at first hand, probably one of the most gruesome, the First World War. Yet, although the establishment give plenty of lip service to his sad demise today nothing has changed. Wars continue. Yes war is organised killing. I always find Armistice Day a total hypocrisy!

      • 1127
        Engineer says:

        With respect, Contessa, I’m going to disagree with you about Armistice Day.

        War is vile – and few know this better than those sent to fight. I am very fortunate; I have never been called upon to defend my country, but I am very aware of the debt I owe to those that have. Should they have been sent? Arguably not, but they were sent, and history is unalterable. Many lives were cut short, many irrevocably altered, and many blighted by their experience.

        It is right – especially for those with the most direct experience – to have a day to remember, to think, and to pay respect to those who did not come back.

        Perhaps, also, to learn some lessons, and to reflect on the terrible price of our freedom.

        • 1144
          nell says:

          Yes Eng I agree – but also not just ‘those with the most direct experience’ .

          I see where contessa is coming from – politicians and lip service and milking the event for sympathetic publicity.

          But those of us here and now – owe those men a debt. They fought believing they fought for us. We are the descendents of many of them.

          We took 60,000 casualities on the 1st July 1916 , 70,000 at Passchendaele in 1917, and I don’t know how many we lost at Dunkirk or on D.Day in WW2 but it was a lot.

          Every one of those men then was, and today is, important to someone as a son, husband, boyfriend, father,friend, uncle. Let’s not forget it.

          Since then we’ve had Korea, the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan.

          WE owe the debt. It’s the least we can do to give them one minute’s recognition on one day of each year. Not much to ask.

        • 1183
          HoC All Party War Committee says:

          A fair exchange for a young mans life?

        • 1236
          barefootcontessa says:

          I have absolutely no objection to Armistice day! On the contrary. There is hardly a family in Britain who hasn’t lost one or more family members mainly in consequence of the 1st World War. For myself I give money to the poppy fund for disabled sevicemen every year, and of course wear a poppy in remembrance of that terrible war. It virtually stripped the country of young manhood (from every background). I have always thought that we still suffer from the deep scars that that war left on our culture/society. Remember though that these young men were conscripts. I know a lot about the 1st and 2nd wars in Britain and in France, and have collected and read a large collection of books on that subject.

          When I see a sombre group of establishment figures laying their wreaths every year, (particularly when they have recently been responsible for starting wars), and agreeing with the suggestion that the 1st WW was the war to end all wars, I feel excessively angry!

          Harry Patch was right in his attitude to war, he was conscripted and could still remember ’til the end of his life the horrors of the trenches. He fought against his will in a defensive war. Trained soldiers of course have a right to the best equipment that money can buy, but they are trained killers, their modus vivendi is war, and they are fully aware of the risks.

        • 1261
          Bullet through the head for comedic affect says:

          Old service’s saying,
          You should’nt join up if you can’t take a joke.

      • 1260
        Doctor Mick says:

        If those young men, and those old men, had not have done what they did, then we wouldn’t be able to be on here, pompously pontificating about the morality of war.

        • 1264
          Plato says:

          Thank you Confucius. Got any more pearls of wisdom in your tesco’s carrier bag? Have a look under the six pack of Super Tennants.

  191. 1069

    This is just my view but, I believe, strong leadership by America and China as economic superpowers, and Britain and Japan as gateways to Europe and Asia, respectively, could be the cornerstones of a new world order that ushers in the global renaissance predicted by the UN.

    Buddhism suggests that procrastination isn’t just a matter of being scared of the unknown, but fear of success. People can be so unused to seizing opportunity that they freeze, preferring to stick with the familiar. Perhaps, Gordon’s gamble is the new sensible.

    Be still, grasshopper.

    • 1091
      Jethro says:

      “new world order”: now where have I heard that before? Nuremburg, was it…?

      • 1259
        Doctor Mick says:

        It sounds very camp and fascist. Was it a much used phrase in the new movie Bruno?

  192. 1079
    July 24 1909 says:

    Reply- As I was saying didn’t Bleriot do well, for a Frenchman.

  193. 1095
    Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

    Is it true that Charles E.SoftWidget went to the Dentist to have Wisdom Teeth PUT IN?

    • 1101
      Engineer says:

      It is true; regrettably, the operation was a failure. The wisdom teeth rejected him.

    • 1103

      I agree with the Prime Minister that mere tax cuts for creating new jobs isn’t enough. The real key remains business vision and employment liquidity. People need to let go of being so rigid and picky, and entertain new ideas and lower thresholds to giving people a chance, take a hard, hard look at quality of products and services, and invest in employee and customer loyalty. Skill is useful but a better attitude is fundamental to embracing necessary change.

      Jeez, you Tory trolls just don’t get it.

      • 1107
        Max says:

        All the “tory trolls” will be on Liebore blogs, Charles, the trolls on here will be by definition ZaNuLab trolls. I know I keep suggesting this but why not just double-check the definition of troll sometime when you are online doing your cutting edge graphics stuff, eh? Sorry to be pedantic because otherwise I do love your comments, especially the Dear Leader Strong Leadership stuff (excellent, LOL); anyway I don’t want to give you the impression I’m too angry because otherwise I risk getting under your emotional radar (or something) so cheery bye.

      • 1109
        Engineer says:

        “Employment liquidity” – does that mean redundancies?

      • 1113
        joose says:

        “Jeez, you Tory trolls just don’t get it.”

        You’re not getting much by the sound of it either, you sick fuck.

  194. 1116

    My general view is that nationalists and Tories need to get over themselves. Beating the drum or favouring vested interests is just ghetto politics. These people are at the front of the queue demanding why (someone else) didn’t see the financial crisis ahead of time and didn’t warn people. Well, I’m warning people now and they won’t listen, like they never listened about this blog crashing through the floor.

    “This cannot be taught”. Let go. Be happy.

    • 1118
    • 1357
      thick as thieves says:

      I had a very busy day yesterday pumping out new labour bilge and while reviewing my comments I can see I have made some terrible mistakes.
      I am now the only new labour troll alive thanks to that fucking bastard thick as thieves who has killed all my comrades, and due to that fact quality control has slipped a bit.
      The post above is one of the awful uncorrected posts I made yesterday so I would like to offer the final draught of that fucking piece of crap.

      My general view is that new labours warmongering cocksuckers need to get over themselves. Beating the drum or favouring vested interests is just ghetto politics. These people are at the front of the queue demanding why (someone else) didn’t see the financial crisis ahead of time and didn’t warn people. Well, I’m warning people now and they won’t listen, like they never listened about this blog being the most popular blog in the country. This site is fantastic and I will enjoy every last second of my time here until the great thick as thieves bashes my brains out.

      “This cannot be taught”. Let go of Brown. Be happy.

  195. 1117
    Moley says:

    Has the D.T committed suicide?

    It has disappeared from the internet and none of the links to it work.

    Don’t miss it much.

    • 1130
      Engineer says:

      Tried at 6:45pm, and it worked OK.

    • 1149
      nell says:

      Well we could hope it’s not much good for anything but wrapping up potato peelings.

      With luck the Guardian will follow soon.

      Each are losing in the region of £20million a year. How long can that go on?

  196. 1125
    Right Bastard says:

    Have just been idly flicking through Weekend TV guide when eyes fell on Kate Garraway musings on eating secrets. She writes….

    “We try to get her (daughter Darcey) in bed by 8pm, and then Derek and I follow shortly afterwards”.

    Has anyone told social services about this?

  197. 1126
  198. 1129

    Jeez, this level of discussion is like listening to a bunch of armchair footballers argue over whether the goal was open or not. It’s just talk and doesn’t mean a thing.

    Maybe it’s just me but I’d rather talk about the facts and see less macho posturing over whose political party has the bigger willy. Let’s face it guys: you’re just atmosphere. No wonder this blog has turned crap.

  199. 1138
    Tory Girl says:

    i am in love with Hardwidge’s superior brain

  200. 1155
    5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

    Original thinkers wanted for Uncle 5p€d0’s new discussion forum at

    http://troonite.co.uk

    Better than blogs coz you can start off your own topics….5p€d0’s waiting y’hear

  201. 1157

    Economics isn’t just about mathematics. It’s about vision, intuition, and psychology. And that’s pretty much what I people have to grasp.

    Zen is about opening the heart and mind or, as the ancient Greeks might put it: “happiness is the pursuit of excellence along lines affording scope”. Sound economics and morality is correct action, and only Labour get that.

    Labour is the party that makes dreams happen.

    • 1160
      5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

      See below for my discussion forum Charles – it would be good to hear more of your views…tell me, for example, why you’re Zen when I reckon you’d be better with Taoism (original and best).

    • 1170
      truth says:

      “Labour is the party that makes dreams happen.”

      It makes shit happen.
      Labour is a party that that destroys a healthy economy it inherits from Tories before
      getting voted out. This time they have delivered the worst recession since 1931
      and having created an unsustainable artificial boom to bend the 2005 election when it won the popular vote by only 3%.

      A spending cuts and tax cuts program will lift the economy
      in a healthy way and putting it on a successful long term trajectory.
      Brown’s way is just politically expedient. It has nothing to do with serious economics.

      I suspect you will just churn out your propaganda rather than truly engage with anything.

      Hope that helps.

    • 1171
      haribo says:

      “Labour is the party that makes dreams happen.”

      Yeah, wake us up when it’s all over you dweeb.

      • 1187
        Baron Mandelson of all i survey says:

        It made my dream happen, dweeb.

        • 1192
          rent an arab says:

          Yeah I’ve heard about your trips to Morocco.

          Who do you think you are, queen of the desert?

        • 1206
          Baron Mandelson of all i survey says:

          No. But i am Queen of Europe!
          And after Tony becomes president, i’ll be the First Lady.
          Satan sometimes, comes as a man of peace.

    • 1237
      Infanta of Castile says:

      unfortunately the dreams are not those of the people whose interests they were elected to represent.

    • 1245
      Ivor Hardwidge says:

      … and nightmares come true.

  202. 1159
    5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

    Oh, if you’re lazy you can jump straight to my shiny new discussion forum by going to

    http://troonite.co.uk/bbpress/forum.php?id=1

    Thanx

    • 1163
      nell says:

      I would spido – I’m an optimist and like to believe in people – even you…

      But how can we be sure that link won’t give our computers a swine flu type virus?

      The Labour trolls would love that.

      • 1169
        ophelia nobbs says:

        FFS you two, get a room. This is most unseemly.

        • 1177
          nell says:

          Alas I am too old for him.

          He needs to find a blond young thingy who likes clubbing.

          My cricket teas and school pta’s would bore him to death. We wouldn’t last.

        • 1180
          ophelia nobbs says:

          “He needs to find a blond young thingy who likes clubbing.”

          He needs a good clubbing more like.

        • 1182
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          > Alas I am too old for him.
          Nell, that is an auwarranted assumption on your part

          > He needs to find a blond young thingy who likes clubbing.
          moot point (never say never!)

          > My cricket teas and school pta’s would bore him to death. We wouldn’t last.
          Nell, I am offended ;-)

        • 1203
          NewGirl says:

          Nell, speaking for the blondes – I don’t think he’d pull one.

        • 1208
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          > Nell, speaking for the blondes – I don’t think he’d pull one.

          true

          *blush*

          I can be quite funny though – would that do? C’mon over newgirl – just think of me as the old neighbourhood vicar :-)

        • 1214
          ophelia nobbs says:

          Careful NewGirl, my old neighbourhood vicar was locked up for encouraging his choirboys to reach the top notes using a most unusual method.

          BTW Speedotwat, you’re about as funny as a dose of the clap.

        • 1220
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          not my night issit

      • 1173
        5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

        > But how can we be sure that link won’t give our computers a swine flu type
        > virus?
        Darling – there are some things that just are not funny. Is your trust level of me really that low? Why would I identify myself through my website if I was that kind of dipshit…..Nope – no worries there my deart – none atall…you have my word of honour on that as a noble Scot,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Jim

        • 1181
          STD Doctor says:

          You won’t get swine flu, but you might get jock itch.

        • 1184
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          > You won’t get swine flu, but you might get jock itch.

          Would that really be so bad? Think how much you could learn!

        • 1189
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          FYI – most viruses come from people clicking on fake adverts – my websites have zero adverts so NO danger!,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,5p€d0

        • 1221
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Think I’ll just take up cricket :-(

      • 1179
        5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

        > FFS you two, get a room. This is most unseemly.

        You come too and we’ll have a threesome :-)

        • 1185
          ophelia nobbs says:

          This isn’t a bogof offer in your local Netto, you jock cυnt.

        • 1191
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          How very boring – go away, eh?

        • 1194
          nell says:

          Spido, love you dearly as one of the children of my extended family, albeit the rebellious branch, but I am monogamous and wedded forever to the one man in my life.

          And a menage!!?? How could you suggest such a thing!!!?

        • 1195
          ophelia nobbs says:

          I seem to recollect that you win the most boring cυnt award on here most nights. Congratulations, you’ve just beaten the record.

        • 1197
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Look TaT – you’re very welcome to come over, it will be nice to see ya….go an, go an, go an, go an…..

        • 1201
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          > And a menage!!?? How could you suggest such a thing!!!?

          Because I – lke you my dear- am an optimist!

          Away with reality – I have a spouse too – let us talk POLITICS you and I :-)

        • 1204
          ophelia nobbs says:

          For someone who admits to wearing speedos and being jock, I tend to think you lost the moral high ground some way back…….so please wipe your shoes on the way out you fucking loser.

        • 1205
          nell says:

          1173 Ophelia nobbs (and possibly also spido) You are really TWATtson or CWhelan or edb*lls or maybe damian.

          And I still don’t trust that website not to give my computer a virus.

          I claim my £5.

        • 1209
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          That’s okay Nell don’t take that risk – but you’re just not the Fen Tigress I had hoped :-(

        • 1210
          ophelia nobbs says:

          And you are one helluva paranoid bitch.

          Here’s tuppence, which is probably your usual going rate anyway.

        • 1211
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          fuck off can’t U see I’m upset

        • 1216
          ophelia nobbs says:

          Good.

        • 1218
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Good? is that all you can say?

        • 1222

          As I’ve commented before, the basic problem is too many people want to “win”. They want to “win” power, but why? They want to “win” peoples loyalties, but why? The City wanted to “win” the “authority” and “popularity” of money but they forgot what it was for. This has created an financial crisis that’s been difficult to miss, yet, people still don’t grasp the lessons of it themselves.

          Jeez, get a clue!

        • 1225
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Charles, who was your teacher/guru?

        • 1227
          ophelia nobbs says:

          “Good? is that all you can say?”

          We all wish to fuck that this was the only thing you could say, believe me.

          Isn’t it about the time of night you jocks are normally looking for a nice comfy skip to curl up in anyway?

        • 1251
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          > Isn’t it about the time of night you jocks are normally looking for a nice comfy skip to curl up in anyway?

          I nearly fell daaown the apples and pears me old love wivvya maouthin orff hurtin’ me feelins good’n'proper like – you aint Eengleesh aintchya

      • 1212

        I remain convinced that Labour are more clearly than ever the best placed party for government as mere cost cutting and sacking workers is a recipe for disaster. The last time that was tried it stripped the fat off Britain and bit deeply into the muscle. Now that we’ve only just recovered this far more Thatcherism will be have us gnawing on the bone.

        Well, no. That’s just depressing and recessionary. Really, the best thing the Tories can do is accept the need for consensus and regain some stature by helping persuade the CBI to get on board the government’s plan and continue rehabilitating their own party so it’s relevant in a changed world.

        • 1217
          ophelia nobbs says:

          Hey, Guido why don’t you give Arsewedge a little corner of his own somewhere on this blog, where he can talk himself into oblivion?

          Bless ‘im.

        • 1223
          Margaret Thatcher says:

          Charles – your arse is on fire, and Arthur Scargill is manning the fire station tonight.

    • 1338
      HUE G ERECTION says:

      Been there ! What a Boring Blog No fucker on it and NO comments just the place for You and Short Widge

    • 1339
      HUE G ERECTION says:

      R E : TROONITE ! BLOG is empty just like your Head !

  203. 1162
    Paul Mefinga says:

    Just come back from a week away, didnt notice any climate change.

  204. 1172
    nell says:

    The Queen paid tribute to Harry Patch our ‘last Tommy’ , who fought in WW1 and died today.

    The Prince of Wales said nothing could give him greater pride than to pay his respects to Mr Patch.

    Gordon, butting in, said “I know the Whole Nation will Unite Today ….and Take Pride ……..and we will be a Greater Force…………”

    Please forgive me Mr Patch for using you to make this political point – I do respect you and what you and your generation did for us, very much.

    But why is gordon so useless at sincerity? and communication? and economics? and poliitcs? and just generally being a normal human being?

    • 1200
      Only a Pawn in the Game says:

      “Please forgive me Mr Patch for using you to make this political point”

      He would’nt. That was the point he tried to make. Using mens lives to make a political point started the slaughter. And still, both sides of the house continue to make political points with the charade of “Paying tribute to the sacrifice” before PMQs.
      I suggest you listen to his words more carefully, before you ask for his forgiveness.

      • 1213
        nell says:

        Only a Pawn???

        Go do the WW1 War Walk in France and Belgium – spend some time at Pozieries, Thiepval and Tyne Cot – and try and imagine what these men went through and died for – I did .

        Stand at the Menin Gate after you’ve looked at the thousands inscribed there and who died after gaining only 200 yards of ground and listen to the Last Post which is played every night.

        It is a lasting monument and a warning about government’s and people like blair/brown who want to use war to make them look macho and electable.

        And then listen to the reports today that say our men in Afghanistan are struggling to win and hold a few hundred yards of ground a day. History is repeating itself. But gordon and his govt are trying to hide that fact away.

        Open your mind, read and listen!!!!

        • 1219
          Only a Pawn in the Game says:

          My Maternal Grandfather Served in the Hood Division, and was wounded twice. My Paternal Grandfather served the whole war in the RA. My father served in the RN from 42 to 45. My mother lived in east London throughout the blitz.
          Thats beside the point. But i say to you again, listen to what Mr Patch had to say on the subject of war, before using his name as a political point.

        • 1224
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Good point. VRY good.

          I tried to educate poor Nell but she is dyed in the wool. ;-)

        • 1228
          nell says:

          Mr Patch was right. But I bet he would agree with me in saying that we should not forget our men who go to war.

          I lost My Grandfather at Passchendaele. 1917(No known grave) – my Great Uncle on the the Somme 1916 (No Known grave) another Great Uncle on the 2nd Somme at Jussy (the Kaiserschlacht) 1918.

          One of my Uncle’s, a tail end charlie in a Wellington bomber, lost a leg when he was shot down over Italy in WW2. Another Uncle was at Dunkirk and D.Day and came home to never ever talk about the war, and another of my uncle’s was with Monty in the Desert.

          War is sometimes necessary. But more often it is the plaything of a Prime Minister who wants to look macho and sexy in order to gain votes.

          Blair the useless, unfortunately understood that. And that is never truer than now in the case of this damaged, ailing and deranged Brown.

          What is worrying now is that our men in Afghanistan are fighting and dying to hold 200/400 metres of land at a time whilst Under Strength, and that is precisely what our men, like Harry Patch, were doing in Passchendaele, in WW1.

          For God’s sake folks!!!. Look at this current war and Question this Government!!!!

        • 1234
          Dead Cert says:

          So we’ll forget about the Opposition that backs it?

        • 1239
          Read out a few names and then get my expenses claim in says:

          For God’s sake folks!!!. Look at this current war and Question this Government!!!!

          The last thing you want to do is to make a party political point.

        • 1240
          nell says:

          1212 – Who cares who backs it – can you justify the sacrifice of young men for the sake of any PM’s image??? No! You can’t!!

          Go on please try…..I would love to see such argument especially in respect of Iraq and Afghanistan. Can’t be done!

          Sorry got to go to bed – summer holidays and children to take care of tomorrow.

        • 1243
          Sorry Nell says:

          1212 – Who cares who backs it

          Says it all.

      • 1238

        The Tao has useful lessons on the balance of power. By promoting the right leadership at all levels in business and the community this can help refocus attention. You only need to influence a third. The other third follows while the last third flips to the bottom of the pile. Macho politics won’t give up without a struggle but, I believe, it’s in the process of getting its coat.

        I think, we’re going through that process now which explains some of the flux but this economic issue could be just the boost people need to get a grip on that. The slight tightening is just a small frightener but as people look beyond that it’s clear it won’t last too long and there’s huge scope for new business and markets beyond that. By sticking with Labour the electorate have a once in a lifetime opportunity of blowing the Tory myth once and for all.

        • 1242
          Del Boy says:

          Still running that old “chase the lady” scam?

        • 1246
          Anonymous says:

          Chase the ladyboy more like, innit it Chazza?

        • 1337
          MILITARY COUP NOW PLEASE says:

          Every one of your posts is exactly the same . Same fucking Shite Shuffled and rejigged Why dont you just Eat Shit and Die you boring C*ut !

    • 1336
      MILITARY COUP NOW PLEASE says:

      Does anyone really belive Brown is remorseful? Not a chance ! Each troop that lays down his life is an embarrassment to him personally and his party of no morals . you can see he wishes that the press would stop reporting it !

  205. 1190

    The Tao comments that you can encourage good by preventing the the bad, making people want to avoid the bad, or encouraging them to want to do good. If the government can crystallise a vision people hunger for, facilitate it, and give all credit where it’s due, one tends to think the problem biggest headache will be knowing what to do with so much national success.

    How can we make things faster, cheaper, better? How can we be more bold, flexible, and enduring? By asking ourselves these questions and winning support, by daring to look ahead and put petty office politics aside, the sort of focus that can stimulate is more likely to develop the economy. Plus, there’s huge markets emerging that haven’t even come fully online yet. (We should also vote Labour, too).

    • 1202
      James Wales says:

      Jacqui Smith did not want to avoid doing bad did she?

      • 1207
        ollie says:

        “We should also vote Labour, too.”

        Perhaps we should all stick pins in our eyeballs too.

    • 1248
      Anonymous says:

      Are you 4 real?

      Noone’s that much of a moron with a straight face.

      • 1268
        Malcolm Mclaren says:

        No. But he manages to wind you up. Ever get the feeling you’ve been had?

        • 1277
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          Tories don’t do honesty – you sound as genuine as a chocolate watch

        • 1293
          ophelia nobbs says:

          You’re certainly a genuine fudge packer.

        • 1295
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          BED! Last time of telling. School exams are too close for this laxness.

        • 1315
          ophelia nobbs says:

          Hey shithead, it’s school holiday time, you know, when all the exams have been taken.

          BTW, sorry to interrupt your fantasy world. You’re obviously on some sort of treatment programme.

  206. 1231
    5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

    I would never have guessed it – but Charles E Hardwidge is a plant for GU1D0 – AMAZING!

    • 1270
      Anon says:

      You really are thick. Now piss off back to Twatland and do something useful.

      • 1275
        5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

        Thanks GEORGE, that is the first time you have ANSWERED me, ya Bullingdon Club Bassa

    • 1272
      5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

      REASON? By association, all labour voters are as fucking stoopid and spaced out and as non-understandable as the weirdly intellectual George.

      COMPARISON – Tories are (reative to George Hardwidge) “normal”.

      FUCK OFF GEORGE THEH GAME IS UP….TORIES ARE BULLINGDON / ETON / ARISTOCRATS / BIG-MONEY BOSSES.

  207. 1233
    nell says:

    Ovviously we are on BBQ mode tonight and the trolls have taken over. Don’t gloat it won’t last.

    I too am going off to enjoy some chardonnay and samosas in the garden.

    Good night.God Bless.

    • 1273
      5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

      Georgew E Hardwidge and Nell – whadda DOUBLE ACT! —– both exposed by 5p€d0 5h0rt5 at your service *bows deeply*

  208. 1244
    Anonymous says:

    Did anyone see Gorgon’s response to the death of Harry Patch? It was shown on the Beeb and Sky and it was fucking scary – he kept breaking into this ridiculous rictus grin when he talked about WW1 and the old man’s death followed by a stern frown, sort of like a constipated owl. It was the Youtube debacle all over again.

    • 1257
      5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

      Yeh – ypu’ve got all the nice lookin politicians — like Ann Widdecombe

      • 1266
        Cross Bencher says:

        A three in a bed romp with Widdicombe and Beckett?
        Oh, to be the filling in that sandwich.

      • 1352
        Anonymous says:

        I’m not talking about looks, you ignorant prick. I’m talking about that monocular shit breaking into Joker-like rictus grins while talking about an old man’s death. I’m talking about your Fearless Leader looking like he’s on the verge of hysterical laughter while jabbering about the First World War.

  209. 1254
    5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

    ***REALITY CHECK***

    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tories lost last election

    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tories will lose next election

    ***REALITY CHECK***

  210. 1263

    I see the bastard Labour MPs have invented a new Olympic discipline.

    Spineless fucktards.

    • 1290
      5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

      > I see the bastard Labour MPs have invented a new Olympic discipline. Spineless fucktards.

      So sayeth the voice of reason.

  211. 1265
    Art. 38 says:

    Gordon Brown and the Labour government never tire of finding new ways to manifest their vile character.

    Government to cut wounded soldiers’ awards
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6727677.ece

    • 1271
      Member of Parliament says:

      Well you would’nt want to turn them into workshy benefit chavs now, would you?
      We can’t have people taking an easy ride on taxpayers money, claiming they’re serving the nation can we?

      • 1286
        Trough Mixture says:

        I wonder where busted guts feature on the tariff?

        The MoD’s capacity to disgust has remained constant since it opened for business.

        • 1291
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          GET TO YOUR FUCKING BED I WON’T TELL YOU AGAIN – YOU WILL NEVER GET UP FOR SCHOOL

        • 1302
          Trough Mixture says:

          Firstly, stop shouting, you noisy quim.

          a) It’s Sunday tomorrow.

          b) The schools are off anyway and

          c) Address me by my proper title yez little bollocks.

          Stand at ease. Stand easy.

        • 1304
          jeremy says:

          Err….it’s Sunday morning you moron.

          Guido, where do you get these nutters, window lickers r’us?

        • 1309
          Trough Mixture says:

          Ah, the old ‘it IS Sunday!’ ploy.

          Not till I’ve had another doob and a kip it fukkinain’t!

          In this case I’ll probably concede the technicality.

        • 1312
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          what’s a quim?

        • 1317
          mick says:

          It’s like you, only funny.

        • 1320
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          you’re takin the mick

    • 1333
      MILITARY COUP NOW PLEASE says:

      I believe that troops pay should increase by at least 100% when they go in to action When you think that private security gaurds in the same countries earn £5000+ per week! this is small fry Also the compensation should be the same (if not more) than the civil courts The reasons for not giving these payouts is there would be less money for these thieving fuckers to steal on their expenses ! It is about time the military took a serious look at taking control of this country to remove the most UNdemocratic government in history .

  212. 1267

    It’s funny how some people behave like spiteful little children when they can’t get their own way.

    What you don’t get is it just reinforces the Toxic Tory brand and innoculates Labour folks against abuse.

    That’s a double-whammy, dear. Labour are the only show in town, period.

    • 1294
      5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

      > it just reinforces the Toxic Tory brand

      Well we can see what side YOU’RE on HAhahhaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!

      Away and knit yersel a fooking brain.

  213. 1276
    5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

    ****************BREAKING NEWS************************
    I would never have guessed it – but Charles E Hardwidge is a plant for GU1D0 – AMAZING!

    REASON? By association, all labour voters are as fucking stoopid and spaced out and as non-understandable as the weirdly intellectual George.

    COMPARISON – Tories are (reative to George Hardwidge) “normal”.

    FUCK OFF GEORGE THEH GAME IS UP….TORIES ARE BULLINGDON / ETON / ARISTOCRATS / BIG-MONEY BOSSES.

  214. 1278
    James says:

    You must be such fun to go on holiday with. You may slag your contributors off but please fuck off and stop blogging. Have some fun…

    • 1285
      5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

      James 1256 – I use Jim – it’s less stuffy and “formal” – get the stick outta yer arse (at least before you go back after the school hols)

      • 1355
        barefootcontessa says:

        ‘Jimmy’ is even less stuffy and less formal. Seez you Jummy’ is – (taking said Jimmy by the throat) – FAR less formal, and FAR less stuffy.

  215. 1279

    From what I can tell, Tory Central Office, the Tory front bench, and the Tory grassroots campaign are locked in. They don’t get it nor can they change in time. If they could change in time they’d still have a problem executing that change and convincing people. The polls are very unstable and when Labour closes to engage the Tories are going to be in a spot of bother.

    Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

    • 1287
      5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

      Cat caught yer tongue has it, ya quisling bastard.

      Games up George, try another disguise.

      • 1322
        Ivor Hardwidge says:

        Relax Speedy Skirts. Charles is an independently minded supporter of Zen thinking, and believes this fits with Labour policies. We’ve tried to find him a decent girlfriend (to get a life!), but until then he will spread his views to the world on this blog.

        Be calm.

  216. 1282
    Canary Wharf Rat says:

    Forget Biderberg and the NWO. Mandelson attended their Athens gig. I’d say any plans they have with this arsehole in attendence are just about to fail (Like everything else NewLiars has touched)

    • 1284
      5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

      I can’t wait til you go back to school kiddo — Daddy will be proud of ya typing all that in! Now off to bed with you.

  217. 1283
    5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

    Hey TaT see message 1250 for a strong clue why you are tolerated and not modedout of existence….in the first instance, you made Labour look bad so you were cherished – now you’re making Independents look bad so you’re tolerated – but if you were to flip-flop over to the Tories yo ass will be banned boy coz they don’t want themselves looking bad by assocation with your “extreme” behaviour. You and Charles represent the weird opposition and the Fen Tiger is, of course, (God Bless ‘er) a tory. DON’T TRUST THEM AS FAR AS YOU CAN THROW THEM.

    Now ya know – thank me later. *ciicks heels*

  218. 1288
    5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

    Isn’t amazing how the command structure keeps this propaganda factory going full tilt even when its feuhrer is away? Well done Commandant George E Hardwidge and Frau Nell – Iron Crosses are in the post.

  219. 1289
    5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

    Nell, you’ve never been moded since the hives left you so drop the act, eh?

  220. 1292
    Trough Mixture says:

    Anyone seen a dwarf on a moped?

  221. 1296
    caesars wife says:

    interesting day !
    Ed balls thinks purnell is having a mid life crisis , purnell flushes ed balls into leadership race .
    Labour scratches head wondering how to re mount brown coup .

    bloggs deserted for summer hols and suffering from troll flu .

    branson wants east coast mainline franchise and sniffing for bank.

    bunker comand says two iniatives to be released each week .

    everyone going on holiday .

    no one likes labour anymore , ruinomics still not resolved , nation dithering into loss of credit rating darling has no assurances .

    Its historic , i cannot recall anything quite like it , we need change yet government thinks its better to put fingers in the ears and go la la la la la .

    i suppose we are waiting for brown to realise he could fracture the labour party into nothing if he carries on , and plum for the autum general election as his best chance , or hoping for easy ride during long recess and better ecnomic news . I just keep wondering how he will explain , 1980s dole figures on an effiecient (once 4th largest ) economy , to the electorate .
    in 1997 he was handed a sound national economy and now he will hand back a soviet era one , way to go , great public service !

    looks to me like brownites have better start making there minds up , do they hear the public outcry for a general election or not , does he put his case in a manfesto or is it as wothless as labours treasury forcasts ?? labour party conference should be fun , televised as well, wont beable to duck it then.

    • 1305
      5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

      de dum de dee de dum

      We’ll keep the red flag flying here

      de dum de dee de dum

      :-)

  222. 1297
    5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

    Hey – you nazis are getting really RATTLED when you’re trying so hard to break up the “flow of reading” of my posts – TRUTH HURT DOES IT?

  223. 1298
    much ado says:

    I see that Browns initiative to give broadband access to all the fruitcakes is working tonight.

    S/pedo, you’re not funny, in fact you are a joke, and Fuckwidge you’re not an intellectual ,and if you were any kind of a Buddhist, you’d have the compassion to give us all some much deserved peace and fuck off.

    • 1303
      5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

      Aw PISS OFF to your kip, willya – *please* – S’past yer bedtime.

      • 1310
        much ado says:

        Yeah OK, we’ll all go to bed and leave you talking to yourself.

        (Backs out making a quick escape)

        • 1316
          5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

          you can come back tomorrow – that’d be okay

        • 1359
          thick as thieves says:

          the question is whether you will be coming back.
          top boy says behave yourself. we don’t want you scaring away good decent punters by shouting at them as they come in the door, now do we?
          thankyou for complying.

  224. 1319
    5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

    The general point I am trying to get across here is this:

    George E Hardwidge – you have been exposed — GO and NEVER come back, you miserable Quisling.

  225. 1325
    Geoff Hoon says:

    It just had to happen

    Charles E Hardwidge tells The Sun he is ready to govern, will protect frontline services from the inevitable spending cuts, and warns union leaders not to take him on

    • 1326
      Chemical Ali says:

      You can’t keep Charles out of the headlines

      The lesson from Norwich – we can revive the Charles E Hardwidge moment

    • 1327
      Gord Brown says:

      This from Charles E Hardwidge’s manifesto !!

      David Cameron’s policy of ‘Hug a hoodie’ is fucking ridiculous.

      In fact, why stop there?

      Tickle a rapist.

      Wank-off a paedophile.

      Rim a robber

      • 1328
        Herr Hilter says:

        From “The best of Charles E Hardwidge”

        What have my wife and my cock got in common ?

        They both get a good beating when I’m sexually frustrated

    • 1329
      freddie flintoff says:

      its just not cricket lad

      • 1331
        David"Nick Nick" Cameron says:

        Charles told me this gag last night

        Gordon Brown goes to the doctors and says, “Doctor doctor, every time I look in the mirror I get aroused.”

        The doctor replies, “I’m not surprised…you’re a Hoon.”

        • 1346
          snark says:

          Err….shouldn’t that be, “…you’re a cυnt.”?

          Although Hoon does have e certain ring to it, which would appeal to most NuLieborites.

      • 1332
        freddie flintoff says:

        fuck me lads a tory on bbc 1

  226. 1334
  227. 1341
    HANG E'M HIGH says:

    This Feeding frenzy on the public purse started because .The poorer lie-Bore politicians wanted to be on Parr with their wealthier Tory counterparts on the other side of the house

  228. 1342
    streamfisher says:

    The Prime Minister said: “The noblest of all the generations has left us, but they will never be forgotten.”

    Mr Patch did not speak about his First World War experiences until he turned 100.

    He was staunchly anti-war, saying it wasn’t worth a single life.

    The Ministry of Defence is to launch an attempt to deny those crippled in battle full compensation for their injuries.
    Brown prepares to go to funeral for photo op. Will the BBC drown out the chorus of boo’s which await him again?

  229. 1343
  230. 1344
    Rant against the machine says:

    BBC Hi I’m calling from the BBC
    Boris Whats goin’ on ‘ere
    BBC We were wondering if youd like to appear…
    Boris I dont believe im ‘earing this
    BBC ….in an episode of Eastenders…
    Boris Getroutama Paab !
    BBC Click….
    Boris Chrissie Watts, murderer !

    doo ddo dddo doodododo cue music and end

  231. 1345
    The Master says:

    Uddin has been fiddling the petrol expenses on visiting the flat she owned but didn’t live in or even visit. Holloway awaits.

  232. 1351
    Sir Cum Spect says:

    PS This was in response to Rant against the machine

  233. 1353
    The Master says:

    Kevin McQuire has just said that a Labour PPC for a SE London seat couldn’t use her hair dryer last week due to the power cuts! Sooo old labour

  234. 1365

    LOL do you liek mudkipz!!!???

  235. 1367

    [...] I see that Guido Fawkes is not impressed by the Tories’ efforts to distance themselves from lobbyists (as previolusly [...]

  236. 1369

    [...] possibly a holiday. Either way, this blog will go quite for a couple of weeks. No guest bloggers, no Guido-esque dashes back from the beach to post and no-technology save for the Fraser Nelson option [...]

  237. 1370

    [...] possibly a holiday. Either way, this blog will go quite for a couple of weeks. No guest bloggers, no Guido-esque dashes back from the beach to post, and no-technology save for the Fraser Nelson-option Nokia [...]

  238. 1372
    George says:

    Question for Mr Fawkes. Who would take over running the country if Brown quit for “health” reasons? There is after all no Deputy PM. Would it be the 1st lord?

  239. 1373

    Mrs Draper has dropped one, according to GMTV, so there is baby Draper now learning the black arts. Instead of 666 on its scalp it had 103 for GMTV Mum doing well, Dad the same snotgobbling ratbag, hopefully Junior Draper has a fine pair of lungs and will keep Daddy Draper fully occupied.. Kate returns to the GMTV sofa in November…

  240. It’s after 5pm and I said no more overtime till Damian is back and has you all properly in line.

  241. Grandma B says:

    I’m free Mr Speedo.

  242. 5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

    wanna facial?

  243. 5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

    > I’m free Mr Speedo.

    take yor teeth out then

  244. RUG MUNCHER says:

    I’m A Fair man I’ll Still Give You Your bus Fare !

  245. Grandma B says:

    Mr Speedo:

    Speechless, penniless, but not toothless – I’ve just paid £360 for a crown (on my tooth*) – what happened to National Health dentistry?

    * just wanted to reassure you that I’m not royalty

  246. 5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

    > Justin Thyme says:
    > Answer the man!

    Are you the green mountain type Justin? who answer wot man?

  247. Justin says:

    Yes – I am that man – you may claim your reward

  248. When all this nonsense over MP's expenses is over says:

    How naff.

    How vulgar.

    Wolly inappropriate in a Church.

    The overweight bride wearing white, hardly a virgin, and with her bra strap showing with her bearded wonder “partner”.

    Look at the priest ffs! Was she a priest? with her clipboard. Looks like a second rate council employee from Health and Safety.

    Mater Bates would feel right at home.

  249. Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

    Great.Loved it and Thanks.

  250. Jan says:

    I don’t fink so…Might be if you are 15. To me it was just a bunch of fat ginger show-offs trying to be cool. GRUSEOME NOT AWESOME. I’d give the marriage a year

  251. Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

    That’s News, the previous post was meant for you.

  252. Rant against the machine says:

    Dont talk rubbish this is great ! Quite clearly a lot of thought went into this, would you rather have some hypocrital sterile Ritual . Mendlesons wedding march was revolutionary in its day as well. This is human creativity which the stazi state hates!
    Nu labour would NOT be at home here, can you imagine Gordon Brown doing this : (
    Health and saftey wud have banned the guy doing the handstand for a start. And all religious imagary would have been banned for fear of causing offence.
    Good for them.
    As for giving them 6 months , well only a couple completely confident and secure with each other would attempt something like this so I give it for good !!!

    Get a life, life is for living !

  253. So17 says:

    Grandma B,
    Dentists are in my opinion up there with Estate agents,solicitors,surveyors etc.
    A bunch of money grabbers who ruined NHS dentistry themselves.
    My Dental lab used to make a full upper/lower set of dentures for £100 at early 90s prices.
    The Dentist would charge the NHS £100 plus the patient £100.
    We, the Lab with all the work and overheads got the same as that thief who only took an impression (2mins work).
    By law a technician cannot take an impression thus we cannot do work direct to the public.
    Like solicitors use Legal aid as a benchmark for hourly rates so do Dentists with NHS charges. That is fine if you are on benefits otherwise you are stuffed.
    By the way, I left the trade in 91,went to work at Parliament and got double my old wages for sitting with me thumb up me arse.

  254. 5p€d0☻|5h0rt5| says:

    Yes,. that is a very bad state of affairs – hard to say anything else :-(

  255. I paid 1500 for root canal and a crown and it was worth every penny.

  256. shelling-out says:

    We went to the dentists while we were on holiday in europe. I know it sounds a bit naff but a filling only cost me 12 euros and a scale and polish cost 8 euros. Bloody cheap compared to Blighty. If we wanted crowns, he could have them made within 2 weeks and fitted for a quarter of the price they charge here – and he was trained in Sheffield so spoke very good english.

  257. Ken Dodd says:

    I could do with a new plate

  258. My strategic view remains that Labour are best placed to govern, the Tories are unfit for government, and the Liberals are inoffensively useless. ‘None of the above’ sounds fine in theory but comes with a bunch of issues of its own.

  259. 2.30 says:

    “he was trained in Sheffield so spoke very good english”, obviously not born and bred in Sheffield then.

  260. The Master says:

    where!

  261. shelling-out says:

    …..and all this from someone who doesn’t watch politics on TV, doesn’t read the papers and doesn’t vote.

    That makes your strategic view a tad irrelevant, don’t you think?!

  262. Rant against the machine says:

    Charles I take it your strategic nounce has never actually been tested in any real life responsible position ?

  263. shelling-out says:

    The majority of dentists at my surgery here in the UK are not UK born. It’s exactly the same job, just the cost that varies.

  264. Faking anger is one of the easiest tricks in the book. If you can’t keep a straight face while telling a lie, wrapping it up in anger can disguise that and get under people’s emotional radar. It certainly goes some way to explaining the Tory dreg in here.

  265. Steve Expat says:

    Well, I don’t agree with much you so but I do think you’ve got a point there. No one seems to know much these days. And as for common sense, well!

  266. shelling-out says:

    What are you on about, Charles?

  267. Tory Girl says:

    give us a kiss gorgeous

  268. Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

    Charles,is it right that you went to the Dentist and asked for wisdom teeth to be
    PUT IN?

  269. Analyst says:

    Charlie = narcissist

  270. stranger than fiction says:

    Had to cancel a dental appointment made by my Brother (he died), receptionist (after explaining the circumstances to her), “Do you want me to remove him from our patient list then?”.

  271. Jethro says:

    Sheffield-plate, Sir? Very expensive: you can’t get the craftsmen these days, you see…

  272. streamfisher says:

    From Waterloo teeth to Afghanistan arseholes.

  273. barefootcontessa says:

    Mappin Webb do a nice line in Sheffield Plate, but antique silver is cheaper.

  274. White coats says:

    That really is stranger than fiction, ZuNuLiebor have invested vast amounts of our money into their friends and friends of friends training companies, to train up NHS staff so that things like this don’t happen.

    Can I have a refund!

  275. Rant against the machine says:

    If u dont ask them to remove his name, they will claim for all sorts of work done in the future !

  276. White coats says:

    Sorry that was supposed to be a reply to ’stranger than fiction’

    ZaNuLiebor have spend similar amounts of our money in their friends and friends of friends training companies for IT training and I still can’t work this thing.

  277. shelling-out says:

    …..and while they’re all on training courses, they are not registered as unemployed. A win, win situation for NuLiebor.

  278. THE THIRD ROUNDEL says:

    It will be difficult to outwit the leftie bureaucrats at local level.

  279. Mr Slater's Parrot says:

    SK-K-K-KK! WARR-ARRK! (click-click) PIK! PIKK! CHEEKY!

  280. Charles E Hardwidge's skinhead brother says:

    Faced with you, they’re bound to surrender.

  281. HUE G ERECTION says:

    The only skin and head you bother is your boyfriends you fag !

  282. Sir Cum Spect says:

    As an (anglican) atheist, I think the video is absolutely superb, and agree with what you say.
    Can anyone advise me what the track was?

  283. When all this nonsense over MP's expenses is over says:

    As an atheist you would think that was great!

    For others it was vulgar and naff.

  284. Sir Cum Spect says:

    Your attitude, and in particular your language, would lead me to suspect that you are of a highly religious nature.

  285. Sir Cum Spect says:

    …and bearded??…you puritannical creep!







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“The effect of members not making over these payments to the House was to put their private interest above their public interest, contrary to the Code of Conduct for Members of Parliament.”



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