Drunk Trading
Guido had lunch a couple of weeks ago with a reader who had promised to buy him a decent bottle for slotting Damian McBride.
This co-conspirator happens to be one of the most successful traders in the City and a wine buff, so when he says a “decent bottle of wine” we are talking a bottle that you can get a mortgage on.
Over lunch he said that his big break in the early days was trading drunk, a few drinks gave him the confidence to take risk. Guido explained that his drunk trading merely got him carried out the back door of the dealing room by worried co-workers back in his investment banking days.
Anyway, this Friday after a few bottles of rosé* Guido finally steeled himself to short the stockmarket rally via U.S. stock futures. They subsequently rallied into the close taking about 20% of this year’s trading profits with them. Damn the Bloomberg for Blackberry app, damn being able to enter trades from your Blackberry when tipsy.
Anyway the holiday has not been completely blighted, stock markets are going south today. Who knows, Guido might even make a profit…
*People knock rosé wine, including the farmer who is our neighbour here. There are some cracking underestimated varieties which suit Guido’s palate – they go very well with salads. Honestly. Not too bad on their own, in a deck chair, in the shade.
Yeah, whatever.
The government isn’t perfect but, I think, too many people are letting testosterone fuelled fears and worries take them over. This is obscuring the very real gains that have been made during the Labour years and in grave danger of talking us into a needless recession. I remain generally relaxed and somewhat positive that Gordon Brown remains the better option.
If you were any further up McMental’s flabby backside you’d be flossing his teath from the inside.
“Guido finally stealed himself”
??? Is this your Oirish patois kicking in, or was yer nickin from yerself, to be sure?
Shurely you mean feeled yourself or steeled yourself.
The Cotes de Provence rose tasted last week was certainly up to the mark.
Mrs Q drinks nothing else.
Below is an FOI request to Birmingham Council made in December of last year.
Our Ref: FOI 2565
4th December 2008
Email response to Ms J Havern
Dear Ms Havern
Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request for Information
I am writing in respect of your recent enquiry for information held by the Authority under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please find herewith the following:
Request
1. Please inform me of the amount Birmingham City Council has paid to Common Purpose by way of subscription or affiliation fees or other payments for each calendar year since 1 January 2000 (excluding for courses, see next question).
2. Please inform me of all Common Purpose courses, seminars, conferences etc. which council staff or Councillors have attended since 1 January 2000, in each case giving:
a) the title of the course
b) the cost – including staff travelling, overnight and other expense allowances
c) the names and/or job titles of the staff who attended.
Response
Payments made:
Financial Year 2008 – 9: £6139.38
Financial Year 2007-8: £4964.38
Financial Year 2006-7: £13101.25
Financial Year 2005-6: £3348.75
Financial Year 2004-5: £12901.50
Financial Year 2003-4: No Record of payments made.
Financial Year 2002-3: No Record of payments made.
We are unable to provide information relating to payments prior 2002. In relation to providing information relating to names and other expenses we would need to carry out a manual search through all the invoices, as this information is not recorded against our financial system records. We have estimated that it will cost more than the appropriate limit to consider your request fully. The appropriate limit specified in the regulations is £450.00. This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18 hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information. Consequently, the Council is not obliged by the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to respond to your request.
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“Common Purpose” has been the backdoor by which the communists in sheeps clothing have insinuated the virus of Marx and Lenin.
The idealogical connection to The Frankfurt School is obvious; everything promulgated by this insidious organisation stinks of Lukacs, Marcuse and Co.
http://www.stopcp.com/
A very good site for your attention.
This is a long and in depth precis of The School, and you will see in it the seeds of Common Purpose.
http://tinyurl.com/lkbrg6
The very real gains that Charles mentions are dwarfed by their unsustainable costs.
It is this abyss of debt, plunging deeper every day, that is fueling peoples’ fears, not some hormonal influence.
The abyss grows at £30k every minute Gordon sits with his fingers in his ears singing “Labour invests Tories cut lalalala” interspaced with tractor statistics and “started in America”.
11 months to the next election at £30k per minute equals…rather a lot.
Pity our ability to repay does not grow at the sam rate.
Well said Sir!
My the time the election actually happens, “Mr 10%” will have to be Mr 20% just to balance the books.
But what does Broon care, he’ll be happy with his 95 grand a year pension and police protection for the rest of his life (and boy will he need it!)
What gains? Anyone can feel rich spending on a credit card, especially when they can stoof someone else for the bill.
New Labour, New Debtors.
New labour have come up with something really imaginative.
Bringing forward future profits to the present.
What genius. As no one can be sure when, or even if, or what scale these profits may take, Gordon and Alistair can pick any number they like.
http://cityunslicker.blogspot.com/2009/07/privatise-profits-lloyds-banking-group.html
Gordon Brown has always spent first on the basis that he was expecting a cheque from Australia. I dont think during his time as Chancellor that he ever got his forcasts right on future growth/profits etc. No wonder we are in a mess
Jim Murphy MP, Secretary of State for Scotland.
The new Scotland should be a melting pot, embracing long-established immigrant communities from Ireland and Italy, as well as more recent arrivals from the Indian subcontinent and young eastern Europeans. They’ve changed us for the better and widened our horizons. It is great that these new Scots are contributing here just as Scots contributed abroad. Yet there is also a darker side. In the recent European elections the BNP got a higher share of the vote than the proportion of ethnic minorities in Scotland. Sometimes Scotland appears complacent about the BNP. There is no reason to be.
The expansion of the European Union, which was wholeheartedly backed by the British Government, immediately gave us a broader workforce to draw from. But the former First Minister Jack McConnell knew that even more needed to be done for Scotland to draw on an even wider pool of talent. That’s why he initiated the Fresh Talent scheme, the British Government’s visionary visa deal, to encourage overseas students to stay, work and prosper in Scotland after graduation.
Hey Charles, go buy yourself the cheapest bottle of Shiraz Rose you can find, sit in the damp UK outdoors, pour yourself the whole bottle into the biggest glass you can find and drink it fast and unchilled. You will then feel exactly as you deserve to.
Look, you’re not going to believe this but I have made another couple of mistakes which need to be corrected in order for my post to make the sense I intended.
Right, I’ve just injected some heroin so I better hurry up and get this done before I mong out:
The government is fucked but, I think, too many people are letting testosterone fuelled bullshit and low quality propaganda like mine take them over. This is obscuring the very real losses that have been made during the Labour years and we are in grave danger of allowing the labour party of leading us into a needless recession. I extremely uptight I am positive that Gordon Brown remains the worst possible option.
Yep, it’s kicking in nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkllddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
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sounds like guido isn’t the only one who’s been having a few bottles this afternoon – gordon brown the better option? Feck! only when wearing beer-goggles me thinks!
And fucking strong beer goggles at that! One drink away from total oblivion.
Gordon Brown remains the better option than what – fresh cat vomit?
Gorgon is a better option than what? Total nuclear annihilation? A long lingering death from AIDS? Being buggered by Peter Poppet? Don’t think so Charles.
MPS IGNORE PUBLIC ANGER AND GIVE THEMSELVES £9,000 EXPENSES DEAL BY STEALTH
Under the new system, how they spend the money will not be subject to public scrutiny. The new rules, sent to MPs, state: “Members… may claim a flat-rate sum of £25 for subsistence. No receipts are necessary for this claim to be made. How members spend the subsistence allowance is for them to decide.
An MP who stayed away from their designated main home for an entire year could claim £9,125 a year on top of mortgage interest payments under the new system.
The maximum that MPs can claim for second home costs this year is £24,222, compared to £24,006 they were able to claim under the second homes allowance last year.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5920660/MPs-ignore-public-anger-and-give-themselves-9000-expenses-deal-by-stealth.html
I am a teetotaller so talk of booze leaves me fooking cold.
Jim Murphy MP, Secretary of State for Scotland
The new Scotland should be a melting pot, embracing long-established immigrant communities from Ireland and Italy, as well as more recent arrivals from the Indian subcontinent and young eastern Europeans. They’ve changed us for the better and widened our horizons. It is great that these new Scots are contributing here.
The expansion of the European Union, which was wholeheartedly backed by the British Government, immediately gave us a broader workforce to draw from. But the former First Minister Jack McConnell knew that even more needed to be done for Scotland to draw on an even wider pool of talent. That’s why he initiated the Fresh Talent scheme, the British Government’s visionary visa deal, to encourage overseas students to stay, work and prosper in Scotland after graduation.
It takes me a lot of effort to overlook this govertnemnt’s sins — there will come a stage when even the prospect of a tory government will fail to make me thole them any longer..
Priority 1) Labour UK Victory – SNP Scottish Victory – vote for Independence
Priority 2) Hung Parliament – SNP Scottish Victory – vote for Independence
Priority 3) Conservative Victory – SNP Scottish Victory- vote for Independence
That list could change if the dont get their act together QUICK.
It takes me a lot of effort to overlook this govertnemnt’s sins — there will come a stage when even the prospect of a tory government will fail to make me thole them any longer..
Priority 1) Labour UK Victory – SNP Scottish Victory – vote for Independence
Priority 2) Hung Parliament – SNP Scottish Victory – vote for Independence
Priority 3) Conservative Victory – SNP Scottish Victory- vote for Independence
That list could change if the dont get their act together QUICK.
All you Jocks had better vote for independance PDQ, otherwise you’ll end up like the English – strangers in their own country.
As a resident of Scotland, it is my opinion that Murphy is talking nonsense. I deal with the Scots everyday and I am pleased to report that they remain as they always were, a collection of parochial spongers.
I’m a blanquet de limoux monsieur myself..
Ooooohhh. It’s Pimms o’clock!
hic
Reminds me of a holiday in Corfu… we quickly tired of the crowded beaches and hired a motorbike to explore the (deserted) interior.
We went up to a monastery at 1500ft, cming back down the mountain we stopped at several tiny and primitive tavernas and were served a wicked rose which got progressively worse the closer to sea level we got. They keep their best to themselves.
Alcohol is Haram
moderation in all things – you’re in a democracy Abdul
moderation in all things – you’re in a democracy Abdul
Rose should be haram.
not in a democracy, surely?
Have a nice little French rose fruite, an Esprit Labastide, Gaillac.
Not in this country, it isn’t. If you don’t like it – leave.
guido, you didn’t ‘Slot’ him. I wish you had. In the vernacular,Slot, is to kill. All you did was to help him find another job.
Hunt is an overused word on your website Guido. But this chap sounds like the real deal. Where’s the risk if us average joes have to bail this chap out when his drunken gamble failed? You were outraged by a fucking duckhouse? I hope you choked on this bottle of expensive grape juice.
I always drink Vintage Beaujolais…
This morning, I put on my trainers (made in Indonesia), got in my car (made in Germany), drove to my local supermarket (owned by Americans), bought a pack of my favourite beer (brewed in Belgium) and some chocolate for the missus (made in Switzerland), was served by a male cashier (Czech), went back to my car where I was asked if I wanted it washed (by a man from Ghana), got back home (built by some Polish guys), kissed my wife (Thai) and sat down to watch the news on my TV (made in Japan). I saw an interview with Nick Griffin, which made me realise something.
I forgot to buy some fucking eggs.
The Prime Minister has had peaks and troughs but, today, has accepted reality as it is. This is a notable moment. People may disagree but I’ve already commented the turning point has passed. It’s will take 6 months to get back on track but it’s doable and inevitable as a marching clock.
…remember folks – you heard it here first…..:-)
Charles_E_Hardwidge says:
July 27, 2009 at 4:39 pm
The Prime Minister has had peaks and troughs but, today, has accepted reality as it is. This is a notable moment. People may disagree but I’ve already commented the turning point has passed. It’s will take 6 months to get back on track but it’s doable and inevitable as a marching clock.
A “marching clock”. Is that like a “ticking army”?
Charles_E_Hardwidge says:
July 27, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Prime Minister has had peaks and troughs but, today, has accepted reality as it is. This is a notable moment. People may disagree but I’ve already commented the turning point has passed. It’s will take 6 months to get back on track but it’s doable and inevitable as a marching clock.
Charles, your turning point passed a good while ago.
To make another Charles E. Hardwidge, you need:
2 lb mixed fruit
1 lb butter
1 lb plain flour
3 eggs
Pinch baking soda
Method: oh fuck it, you know the rest. Bake at 170C for 45 minutes until thoroughly cooked. Ice if required, otherwise just stuff it down your neck.
No no no you must leave it half-baked.
You forgot the large pinch – no, handful – of salt.
Funny you say that the PM has had his troughs………………………
Isn’t that where he wallows? And keeps his snout in?
Charles_E_Hardwidge says:
July 27, 2009 at 4:39 pm
The Prime Minister has had peaks and troughs but, today, has accepted reality as it is. This is a notable moment. People may disagree but I’ve already commented the turning point has passed. It’s will take 6 months to get back on track but it’s doable and inevitable as a marching clock.
The asset stripping and consumerist years are over. They’re gone and what we’re left with is a headache of rich people with no loyalty pricing everyone out of the market, and entire communities on the scrapheap. But fixing this is doable.
Closing tax loopholes and bringing in law to bolster the power of ordinary people to influence governance is a good start. Perhaps, as this initiative is brought more closely into focus people will appreciate what Gordon Brown has done and can do.
How about a landvaluetax.org and use the proceeds to raise income tax alliances for everyone?
Oh I think we all appreciate what GB has not so much done for the country but what he’s done to this country, and If by shear fluke he should win the next election what he plans to do: Taxes on patios, conservetorys, sea views, views over the countryside. He’ll tax the air that we breathe next.
He may find this rather difficult to accomplish if some brave patriot applies a garrotte beforehand.
Gordon Brown continues to rewrite history. Everytime anything happens he has to put his stamp on things. This time it is the death of the last soldier from WW1. Gordon Brown continues to amaze in his arrogance, patronisation and utter lies, no matter what the incident. he’s the sort of shit that would remark about his own death that his ascension will be a ‘global affair’. He’s SHIT.
Charles, you have a database of set phrases and an algorithm to chose several per post – a human being isn’t involved at all, isn’t that right?
Go on, admit it.
Charles_E_Hardwidge says:
July 27, 2009 at 4:39 pm
A Prime Minister has had peaks and troughs but, today, has accepted reality as it is. This is a notable moment. People may disagree but I’ve already commented the turning point has passed. It’s will take 6 months to get back on track but it’s doable and inevitable as a marching clock.
The Prime Mentalist has had pigs and troughs….
Yes & the RSPCA have been round to interview him under caution for having the pigs. Bestiality is bad.
Past its sell by date
How much did your Thai wife cost, Hardwidge? And are you sure that you can legally marry a noodle?
So Hardwidge can only get a woman who comes from a male dominated culture? What wrong Charles? European women have told you to piss off?
You should add ‘twatwatch’ to the tags
Zen Buddhism studies systems and components in the sense that it looks at the world and people, and its spontaneous creativity and mechancial predictability. All this has happened before and will happen again. Such is the way of things until it is not, but that’s another story.
Vote Labour.
Repent Charles and save your Soul !
Charles, you know absolutely nothing about Zen.
If you did, you would be conversant with the saying: “Those who speak do not know; those who know do not speak.”
New Labour is the antithesis of Zen.
Walk on, matey.
or Taoist teachings.
Its OK Charles, I have called the doctor.
New Labour has sweet foxtrot alpha to do with Zen Buddhism – it only connects in your spin – and much more with the religion of Mammon. Historically, as well as currently – it was always the way that the careers of Tories in power fell victim to sex scandals and Labour careers to financial scandals. Except that you shameless bastards never resign.
yeah, jog on charlie you fucking c’unt.
Surely it’s like phoning the ex bird when pissed – a foolish, foolish mistake. Rose does get a bad press but it’s highly neckable.
At the risk of sounding like Yoda, “There is no try only do”. One is what one does. So, a loudmouth and a braggart do what they do, and a cheat and swindler do what they do, until they don’t. Then you have something else. Life is choice. Choose wisely, etcetera.
Gordon Brown understands.
Gordon Brown fucks things up. Does that count?
No do there is, only try.
There is no try. There is only penalty from halfway line.
Bath Rugby Club, you’re not a Saffer by any chance are you??
“Loudmouth, braggart, cheat and swindler”
Gordon Brown is all four of these epithets.
And they’re his good points.
Charles_E_Hardwidge says:
July 27, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Thee Prime Minister has had peaks and troughs but, today, has accepted reality as it is. This is a notable moment. People may disagree but I’ve already commented the turning point has passed. It’s will take 6 months to get back on track but it’s doable and inevitable as a marching clock.
Shit and fuck. That heroin I just took was skank man, no smack in it at all. My dealer is such a wanker, he treats me like his bitch.
Anyway, I noticed a couple of errors I made in the above post. I am such a fucking idiot, aren’t I? I’m a complete fucking arse!
Here are the latest corrections:
At the risk of sounding like a complete fucking dick, which I am, “There is no try only do”. One is what one does. So, a loudmouth and a braggart like me will do what they do, and cheat and swindle, until they don’t. Then I will be something else instead of being a lowlife propagandist piece of shit. Life is choice. Choose wisely, I didn’t, learn from the mistake I have mad of choosing to be a new labour war criminal. etcetera.
Gordon Brown is a war criminal too.
Rose wine is like the bums of black girls.
Either awesome or horrid.
I have seen some bums which destroy all standard deviation calculations – truly mind boggling.
Form an orderly skew….
Guido,
I have never really accepted the idea of men drinking Rose in public.
It just looks all wrong, a bit like when our Prime Mentalist dresses himself.
Regards
Well, it comes down to MPs and commentators to stand up and call this government what they are a thieving, lying load of Twats.
If I had a gun and bullets and the inclinaction I would shoot the lot of them.
The asset stripping and consumerist years are over. They’re gone and what we’re left with is a headache of rich people with no loyalty pricing everyone out of the market, and entire communities on the scrapheap. But fixing this is doable.
Closing tax loopholes and bringing in law to bolster the power of ordinary people to influence governance is a good start. Perhaps, as this initiative is brought more closely into focus people will appreciate what Gordon Brown has done and can do.
All hail Blessed Leader!
We appreciate all too well what Gordoom Brown has done. That’s why we want an election, Charles.
Charles you have the writing style straight out of the Orwellian office of Newspeak. Your every utterance is aimed at making despotim accetable. You, yes you are the person whose boot is stamping on the face of humanity, to paraphrase Orwell’s 1984, because of your unquestiong support of this regime.
Give him a break, he’s paid to talk shit after all
He certainly deserves a break. Just say the word.
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
Only because there are no assets left for Gordo to steal or sell off at the worst possible moment.
Oh I’m sure he’ll find something left to sell – at a knockdown price. He hasn’t finished fucking up yet – it’s what he does best – actually it’s the only thing he does – that & picking his nose.
‘Right Seaman Darling, can you just move those deckchairs back a bit from the rail. I want to ensure that we’re in the best possible position when that iceberg sinks the ship’.
Sorry, but New Labour have NOT finished asset stripping, and they are THE greatest asset strippers of all time.
New Labour have stolen from middle England’s pensions and forced them to pay more in just to stand still, whilst the public sector is protected from Brown’s 12 year and counting pension raid.
New Labour have made middle England pay for their university tuition AND the “poor”. Taxpayer funded bursaries for poor students to go to top private schools if they are bright enough have been removed. Now you have to take a “loan”.
The “education education education” party have removed student grants to go to university, replaced by loans, depleting more middle England’s resources.
Thanks to Lefty teaching, more than ever parents are forced to get their children to go for private education, paying two school fees (in taxes the public sector school they don’t go to, and the private they do).
New Labour have doubled and in some areas trebled council tax to pay for the feckless.
New Labour removed the VERY SMALL incentive to get married and now the UK has the highest amount of broken homes on record, highest crime rate on record, highest drugs use on record, and highest alcohol consumption on record.
New Labour sold half the TAXPAYERS gold reserves at a huge loss, to buy worthless bits of paper. Now when most needed, the UK has no assets to speak of.
New Labour changed the rules in parliament which allowed the MP’s to run up criminal expenses claims.
There seems to be a lot of repetition today and what CEH has written is patronising pompous rubbish.
Too true.
I am left with the ghastly impression that Charles Hardwidge was Tony Blair’s speechwriter.
His posts have all the qualities of a Blair speech; superficially appealing but without any meaning, professed intentions with no method of delivery, promises to be broken, and never honoured.
Comes off the tractor production line, when Stalin was in power. Totally brain washed, poor Charles, one can’t help feeling sorry for him.
Chateaux de Beauliu being one. Somewhere in the Dordogne I think I remember – anyway fresh strawberries, hint of sherbet, vibrant colour. Chilled bottle, shade of walnut tree, crickets yapping, kids napping, hammock within just-can’t-be-fucked distance.
Paradise.
Shame Gordon’s shat on my holiday this year.
I note that the anti-Gordon mob damn him if he spends money on services and damn him if he cuts money to services. This contrarian smear has been core to the Conservative campaign.
He’s had 12 years and we’re all fed up to the back teeth with him. Let’s give someone else a chance.
We can damn him for everything, and let’s face it, most of our woes ARE down to him. Don’t know what you’re complaining about. You get to have your say too.
You’re getting stressed Charles – just let it go.
That’s because he cuts money on say the armed forces, which is a legitimate state spending area, and spunks money that other people earned onto likely labour voters via his failure reward schemes.
Man Alive! I have just found a couple of rocks of crack down the back of the sofa, fucking skill!
Okay, I am now ready to rock and roll!
Right, I did the above post when I was on a smack come down so I want to make the following alterations to that depressing piece of crap. I can’t believe I wrote that piece of shit. It’s complete bollocks! Anyway, here’s the real version:
I note that the pro-Gordon mob damn anyone who disagress with GayGordon. This contrarian smear has been core to the new labour war project.
Now THAT is what I meant to say first time round.
Thanks for letting me set the record straight Guido.
And I want to say that I think you are the best blogger in the world! Ever!
Charlie boy, I almost admire your fortitude in supporting a failed cause with an escalating commitment. I almost enjoy the way that your comments have become more and more ethereal and philisophical in nature.
Unfortunately you are part of an extremely unpleasant lie machine. Sooner or later Labour will run out of money, or lose an election, and you’ll be sacked. Suggest you transfer your talents away from the Titanic deckchairs.
He shat on mine too.
I’m still scraping the shit of last year’s. Roll on the election.
The secret of a contented life is to take all good things in moderation. Including temperance.
Cheers!
There’s a lot of noise and bullishness from the mob but anyone who pays attention to that contrariness and negativity is being a fool to themselves. Things change and people adapt so I expect these issues will be dealt with. It’s nothing to worry about.
Let it go. Vote Labour.
One thing that could do with a great deal more moderation is Charles E Hardwidget…..
I just want to vote.
Excellent. I can feel your anger. Let it flow.
Shooting fish in the barrel springs to mind but here goes anyway……
I just want to change a couple of bits from my last post, it didn’t scan too well and large parts of it did not make any sense whatsoever so I need to fix that as well, so here is the corrected version of my last post:
There’s a lot of noise and bullishness from me but anyone who pays attention to that contrariness and negativity is being a fool to themselves. Things change and people adapt so I expect people will just tell me to fuck off because I am a c’unt. It’s nothing to worry about, people tell me that all the time.
(I am now going to visit a nasty porn site and then I will)
Let it go.
Only c’unts like Charlie boy Vote Labour.
Don’t be a c’unt – Don’t vote Labour whatever you fucking do.
Anyway, everyone knows that all Labour Party members have shocking cases of lice – it must be true, as I saw it in a short film made by Harry Enfield, and I trust him far more than I could ever trust Gordo or Tone when it comes to honesty.
Personally Charlie E, I’d rather stick pins in my eyeballs & push bamboo slivers under my toe & finger nails than vote Labour again.
Have you noticed numbnuts just pebble dashes the place with his arse detritus – frankly, I think he’s spoiling it for the rest of us like a typical gimpppp.
In beach. Guido.
Impeach. Gordo.
Business confidence, economic shocks from abroad, and other emerging issues are things governments have to deal with. They don’t always handle things perfectly or quick enough but things aren’t too bad. Worrying about it just makes you unhappy and risks losing the plot.
So chill out, relax and have a little faith in Gordon.
Britain’s already put 12 years of faith into Gordon. I think that’s more than enough, don’t you?
Gordon who?
I already have little faith in Gordon.
OMG !!
Ur betrayin ur lack of real class , darlin x .
BTW – gamblin’s for fools .
E x .
Lifes a gamble baby. My mum says “if you don’t risk you can’t rake”. She is eighty five and as well as suffering a mock execution by the SS during the war emegrated to GB in the early 50s. Her view is that this country has been going to the dogs for a while and that the last person to try and stop the rot was Mrs T. My mam is wise.
Jeezus , hun !!!
U must be about 60 then ????
Best wishes to ur mummy xx .
I woz just thinkin of a line by Lemmy , that great poet for our time , wot said :-
‘You know I’s born to lose ,
An gamblin’s for fools ,
But that’s the way I like it baby ,
I don’t wanna live forever .
Later E x .
Ewanme, do us a favour and drop the text-speak – or is that all you can manage?
Ha ha, mate. You’re hard, ain’t you Anonymous, son? Try posting under your real name if you want to have a dig at someone. Tosser.
Botha’s a legend in her own mind and although she types drivel, the underlying message is sometimes sound, mate. I ain’t see you write anything of interest, geezer. The number of blockheads drawn to this site never ceases to amaze me.
Must dash, son. My pension is wrapped in 5 kilo bundles and, apparently, is capsizing just off Bray Head.
Was at their first ever gig at the Roundhouse…it’s meaning that counts…erudition is all very well…use txt speech if you like as long as it gets it said…others peeps don’t like it…call the Karma Police
I see Mr. Figgley didn’t get through the fascist moderator. Free speech was hard fought for in this country and it is being eroded from the most unlikely of sources.
Oh , hiya Al , honey x .
Long time no see !!! Did Figgley get spiked ????
Shame – I like Dave . Speaks his brains unlike some of the pussies round here .
All I can see here is middle-aged , lower middle-class poseurs wot is hidin behind their bloated portfolios whilst spoutin off bout ZanyLabour when it don’t really matter who TF gets in , coz they’ve already made money off the back of a corrupt system which conned normal people (not you or me , Al x) into pissin their hard-earned up the wall x .
If my noddle woz in gear , I’d say these fakes have dun very well outta Labour an all they’s lookin for is some idiot party to continue the orgy .
These ain’t the sorta people u’d trust ya life wiv , Al .
Hypocrites .
See ya around , hun x .
E x .
So was I… (at the Roundhouse) used to get speed of the same dealer.
Your mum sounds like a real sensible lady.
Rose wine, wasn’t that the Mcanns favourite tipple?
Oh bollocks I’ve said it now.
Our Prime Minister who art in Downing St,
Thy name be Gordon,
Thy policy come,
Thy delivery done, as it is in parliament.
Give us this day our daily capital,
And forgive us our tax efficiency, as we forgive those who benefit scrounge against us.
And lead us not into tax havens,
But deliver us from asset stripping,
For thine is the civil service, the inland revenue and foreign policy,
For ever and ever,
Amen.
Cut out and keep. You might need it!
Yeah – as bog roll!
Mr Hardwidge should be treated with pity, rather than contempt.
His CV demonstates much bad luck so far in his career. The rumours which caused his premature departure from his time as a boy scout leader have dogged him throughout his subsequent life, so that his job as a toilet executive in Downing Street is as high as he can aspire to.
A staunch Newcastle supporter he had the good fortune of a substantial legacy in 2007, which he invested in Northern Rock.
His hobby of joining into blogging exchanges is therapeutic as he finds it difficult to relate to others, his other hobby being his collection of parasites and lice.
You know if the clown had aped a muslim prayer there’d be bearded ones marching to his door right now to make halal out of his arse. But as it’s a Christian prayer he mocks, it seems open season on that and we simply have to shut up and take the blasphemy. Just to save Brown’s worthless neck. Makes me wanna spit.
Those fucking MPs are at it again. I see now they’re trying to replace the speaker in the house of commons. Haven’t the Hunts spent enough on electrical goods recently ?
Clearly, you should get out a bit more…
They need 2 Speakers to get the stereo effect.
You think that’s bad? Wait till they discover Surround Sound.
Troughs echo too badly.
Cloning Beurre Kuh wouldn’t give you 2 speakers. Might make a pair of Argos replacement ear buds though.
Fully agree with your comments on Rose. I live in France and drink little else. I also notice that displays of Rose wine in the the shops have been steadily increasing over the past 5 years, unlike the prices.
This info should be kept quiet…
I have never really accepted the idea of men drinking Rose in public.
It just looks all wrong, a bit like when our Prime Mentalist dresses himself.
Regards
Fuck me there are no flys on that Charles.Straight In with his waffle.
Please dont respond to the knob till Guido gets back and kicks his ass off.
It is a little bit disconcerting to be modded when that Hoon CEH clusterfucks the blog at will ad infinitum yet again.
Someone shoot that man.
Haven’t been modded Mrs, but totally agree that Ceh & paedo shorts are indeed clusterfucks of the first order. Would be grateful if our host could delete them in absentia.
I asked a question about what sort of tipple gordon might drink , and that got modded!
agree
agree
Disagree.
We agree!
I wonder what gordon drinks?
Mandy willl drink bollinger on our taxes, harriet will drink very dry sherry (ugh! just like herself) , balls will drink very cheap lager, but gordon…?
I always pick up a bit of a waft when CEH is around!
Ireland loves Europe. They allow all us little bollox, including half breed shitehawks, to run all over their beautiful countries and alls we have to do is vote yes on something to do with the capitol of Portugal. Fecking marvellous.
Are you talking the same language as us “common” people?
Meanwhile back on British shores, a discount bottle of Thunderbird goes well with Benson and Hedges and another scratch card ends up in the grey bin or is it the blue bin or it could be the brown bin.
Step back from the Blackberry. Ask Mrs Fawkes to look after it for you. I fear this crazy, squid-powered rally still has a way to go. Come back on St Leger day.
When you are back, you need to post on the Zero Hedge/CNBC fight on blogging vs MSM in US finance. Asked Mrs Dale in your absence and fear it wasn’t understood.
People knock rose wine … they go very well with salads
To drink with, or to sprinkle on?
It doesn’t look from Guido’s comments about, wine, deck chairs sunshine and shade that he has yet had to face the realities of kids, squabbles, summerhols swimming pools and mcdonalds like the rest of us.
All the same enjoy!
Happy days! Fortunately my kids decided that a Big Mac and chips weren’t very filling and preferred the chippie.
MacDonalds? Never darkened their door.
*****BREAKING NEWS*******
GORDON BROWN IS DEAD from the neck up and the trousers down a doctor confirmed.
‘If it wasn’t for the spineless bit in the middle the cu*t would be in a box’
half-cut, half-wit, half-breed, have a half.
I’d never tried rose wine until a few weeks ago…….it’s actually really nice. Zinfandel I think it was ?
Yeh school hols are great – did yer Dad let ya?
In-the-money equity options.
80% of equity options expire worthless.
So sell them.
Naked Puts – use your cash to underwrite.
How many times do I have to say this?
Regards,
Tom (+180% YTD)
For the timid investor seeking only 50-70% pa, my recommendations such as this one will allow you to sleep at nights.
My earlier recommendations like Naked Puts on SVNT (+56% in one month) are for those with big cajones.
Regards,
Tom
Labour for FOUR MORE YEARS, FOUR MORE YEARS, FOUR MORE YEARS, FOUR MORE YEARS,
FOUR MORE YEARS!
311 days, max. Then, goodbye for ever.
Can’t come around too soon. Surely after the Norwich performance last week it’s time for the “Men in Coats” to have a quiet word in the Hoon’s ear??
in effect, it doesnt matter what liebour say, the tories are very much now calling the shots, especially with regard to the economy. every one is wondering what liebour have up their sleeve? the answer ofcourse is they want you to believe this but in reality they are truly left with nothing, apart from even more lies and bullying.
bye bye r i p
This stock trading racket is just gambling isn’t it? It’s true, isn’t it, that stock price movements are chaotic over all periods?
John Maynard Keynes said “the markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”.
Never carry a losing position, stick with discipline and always set stop loss limits and walk away without emotion.
A credo of “it’ll be alright in a few days” is the basis of a long term underwater position
A credo of “it’ll be alright in a few days” is the basis of a long term underwater position
Cripes – I wish you’d posted this a year ago
Had lots of Rose’ whilst living in Langeudoc. Very popular and can be expensive. Best is ‘Gris de Gris’, ie very dry. Must be served chilled.
Yep, much underestimated. I’m not afraid to admit that I like many of them – extremely refreshing when served very cold after a hard day on the beach. Sets you up nicely for the evening’s entertainment.
Guido, Guido… I thought you said the Blackberry was going off while you were on holiday?
If you’d followed your own advise you’d have some more money in the bank for a few bottles more of the rose!
Enjoy the holiday in France, the weather’s shit in England as usual (so why did I come here for some rest?)
Any asset stripping and consumerist years are over. They’re gone and what we’re left with is a headache of rich people with no loyalty pricing everyone out of the market, and entire communities on the scrapheap. But fixing this is doable.
Closing tax loopholes and bringing in law to bolster the power of ordinary people to influence governance is a good start. Perhaps, as this initiative is brought more closely into focus people will appreciate what Gordon Brown has done and can do.
5/6 years ago we were told by the climate change theorists that the area I live in was going to become very dry with very little rainfall.
So why are we still waiting? So far this summer holiday it’s rained nearly every day.
La belle France calls.
Nell,
It’s because computer models of climate are total rubbish. Analogous to inflation eroding your purchasing power, recursive computer models suffer from what’s know as “exponential error”. It means that the further into the future the less signal to noise there is. If there wasn’t such large negative damping effects then the climate would have been far more variable.
CO2 is a lagging indicator of temperature, it’s released when seas warm up, and absorbed when seas cool. In the past we’ve had lower CO2 and higher temperatures , and higher CO2 and lower temperatures.
AGW/Climate-change is purely an sc4m to tax us more. You can tell it is because tax money will not be hypothecated into CO2 absorbing areas, instead it will just be given out by the state which will have much the same effect, i.e. both the money and the CO2 will be transferred by the state.
It’s a scam.
AC1 agreed. It’s all smokescreen to raise taxes. If every penny in green tax went to help environmental or sustainable energy projects then every field in the country would have a wind turbine in it by now, every car would be running on hydrogen and public transport would have reduced dramatically in price.
Guess what, it’s not happened, it’s yet another NuLiebour money making stealth tax.
‘Futures’ ………………. Cameron as PM
‘Puts’ ……………………. Brown into Stocks
‘Commodities’ ……….. Ripe fruit
Asset stripping and consumerist years are over. They’re gone and what we’re left with is a headache of rich people with no loyalty pricing everyone out of the market, and entire communities on the scrapheap. But fixing this is doable.
Closing tax loopholes and bringing in law to bolster the power of ordinary people to influence governance is a good start. Perhaps, as this initiative is brought more closely into focus people will appreciate what Gordon Brown has done and can do.
Job Interview
A chap goes to Gordon Brown’s Office for a job.
The interviewer asks him – “Have you been in the armed services?”
Yes” he says “I was in the Falklands for three years.”
The interviewer says “That will give you extra points toward employment” and then asks “Are you disabled in any way?”
The guy says “Yes 100%… a land mine blew my testicles off.”
The interviewer tells the guy “OK.I can hire you right now. The hours are from 8:00 AM . to 4:00 PM . You can start tomorrow. Come in at 10:00AM .”
The guy is puzzled and says “If the hours are from 8:00AM to 4:00 PM why do you want me to come in at 10:00 AM? ”
“This is a Parliamentary job” the interviewer replies. “For the first two hours we sit around scratching our balls…no point in you coming in for that………”
The asset stripping and consumerist years are over. They’re gone and what we’re left with is a headache of rich people with no loyalty pricing everyone out of the market, and entire communities on the scrapheap. But fixing this is doable.
Closing tax loopholes and bringing in law to bolster the power of ordinary people to influence governance is a good start. Perhaps, as this initiative is brought more closely into focus people will appreciate what Gordon Brown has done and can do.
Two more soldiers dead in Afghanistan. On the day Gordon announces the successful conclusion of Operation Panther’s Claw and a safe environment in Helmand for the upcoming Afghani election.
A The asset stripping and consumerist years are over. They’re gone and what we’re left with is a headache of rich people with no loyalty pricing everyone out of the market, and entire communities on the scrapheap. But fixing this is doable.
Closing tax loopholes and bringing in law to bolster the power of ordinary people to influence governance is a good start. Perhaps, as this initiative is brought more closely into focus people will appreciate what Gordon Brown has done and can do.
No matter how many times you say it, I don’t believe you.
Hello Granny – ya ol’ raver!
If is some twisted experiment in Neuro Linguistic Programming ‘Charles’, it sounds as if you’re trying to convince yourself rather than anyone else…
That’s 22 brave men this month alone (and still a few days left, unfortunately).
By what measure is this anything like success?
Gordon Brown hang your head in shame, you are not fit to clean the boots of these men.
Yea and Tony Blair holiday on a luxury yacht in the med should hang his bloody head as well.
Indeed, Bliar is at least as guilty for what went on in the past, but Broon’s recent statements that all is okay just take the piss out of those who continue to lay down their lives for their country.
I would certainly prefer them both to have their heads hanging from lamp posts on Westminster Bridge, it’s no less than they deserve..
Sadly, Martin Rowson’s cartoon on the CIF page sums this up well.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree
Indeed, as does Gerald Scarfe’s poignant drawing from last weekend
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article6719291.ece
And Gordons liberal use of the royal ‘We’ when it came to making the annoucement kinda make’s you want to puke.
This, of course, the same week as the Labour Government is trying to reclaim compensation money from maimed soldiers and limit payments to others crippled in their duty.
If nothing else this proves their vicious malice towards the armed services. They simply don’t give a rat’s fuck about the injured. Chuck money at the good-for-nothing Quangos, let it dribble out of the coffers to engorge Public Service executive pay and expenses – yeah that’s OK, but get your legs blown off and lose your sight on behalf of these sad fucks and they’ll reclaim your compensation.
Let these bastard Labour wankers rot in hell. They deserve nothing less.
157 injured this month alone — blinded, brain damaged, multiple limbs lost — some of them, a Navy surgeon at Camp Bastion says that only a few years ago, many of the cases she operates upon on a daily basis would have died.
We want a complete list of the injured soldiers. Eric Joyce is a cnut, Eric Joyce is a cnut, Eric Joyce is a Cnut. He’ll never have need of money, he got plenty on his expenses etc etc etc, but can’t defend wounded soldiers for fear of falling out with the MOD.
And gordon’s alternative plan – Let’s bribe the taliban to join our side!
So why are we sending our lads out there to die fighting them then?
Brown is obviously clueless about Afghanistan and is trying to hide the futility of this PR offensive designed to make the Election of a corrupt turd like Kharzai seem less than the farce everyone else knows it is.
But what is Dave offering ?
Paying the Afghan “War Lords” was what Britain did back in 1842.
Nothing changes – Britain lost a whole army plus followers, around 10,000 people during the retreat from Kabul.
The British armed forces are loyal and honourable subjects – “theirs but to do and die”.
+++THE PEOPLE OF HELMAND HAVE WAITED LONG TO BE FREED FROM THE GRIP OF THE TALIBAN; OPERATION ‘PANCHAI PALANG’ (PANTHER’S CLAW) DELIVERED.+++ 7:00AM BST 28 Jul 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/5919031/Colonel-Tim-Collins-on-freeing-Afghanistan-from-the-Taliban.html
“……………….it was the British who did the lion’s share of the fighting and took the majority of the casualties.”
Their’s not to reason why……………..
Brown is obviously clueless about Afghanistan and is trying to hide the futility of this PR offensive designed to make the Election of a corrupt turd like Kharzai seem less than the farce everyone else knows it is.
But what is Dave offering ?
Until I hear Cameron come up with some kind of Policy for Afghanistan or he bites the bullet and admits this crapstrom is a quagmire without end so withdrawal must begin, he’s no better than Brown.
A cabbage with vocal chords could easily and justifiably criticise Brown.
You need to have a plan for how you would do things differently before anyone takes you seriously or regards criticism as anything more than flabby empty words and P.R.
bodycount = success
Only to gordon’s twisted logic.
The gorgon continues to pontificate on the war in Afghanistan. Why doesn’t he put on a tin hat and join the forces himself to fight the Taliban. I suggest he take Ainsworth, Milliband, etc with him.
Somebody has to say it, so here goes.
BRING THESE YOUNG MEN HOME.
18 year olds sent to die weeks after basic training and for what?
Keeping the streets of Britain safe from terrorists,don’t make me laugh.
Most of the bombers in London were home grown “British”
The sight of Gordon Brown saying “Panthers Claw” mission has been successfully completed on the day two more young men were blown apart makes me want to puke.
“Operation Panther’s Claw”? Not many panthers in Afghanistan are there?
Mind you, I suppose it does sound better than “Operation Asses Arse”.
Panther’s Claw? Who the hell dreamt that one up? Must have been Jock the Stirrup.
the americans thought it up.
it was an american operation.
Afghanistan is another one of america’s dirty wars.
this country should not lower itself to such ill founded military expeditions.
we shouldn’t touch dirty wars like this with a fucking barge pole.
we didn’t get involved in Vietnam and we should not have involved ourselves in Afghanistan.
Our occupation of Afhghanistan now ranks as the worst foreign policy decision made by any British government in the last fifty years.
Oh come now. Surely Iraq is a far worse decision.
We are picking up America’s fag end… it was part of the dirty deal Blair did with the Bush in order to have an ‘easier’ time in ‘friendly’ Basra.
Brown hasn’t funded Afghanistan, he’s left our boys to rot there, he’s either got to pay up and equip them properly, or bring them home. No weasley negotiations with the Taliban trying to make it look ok and not like a defeat.
Our lads will never be defeated by an enemy only by the traitors at home and Brown and Milliband are the principle ones.
Absolutely. Iraq was never justifiable and we were lied to so that Tony could suck up to Bush.
Afghanistan is quite different. The invasion was in response to 9/11 which was the worst terrorist atrocity committed on BRITISH citizens ever. More Brits dies in the Twin Towers than anything even the IRA could manage.
Afghanistan had been taken over by the Taliban and Al Quaeda and they had set up terrorist training camps by the dozen. Unfortunately Iraq diverted resources and attention. It allowed the Taliban to regroup and remobilise. Now nobody knows what the objectives are in Afghanistan let alone what is achievable (with Landrovers and catapults).
Quite right Doctor Mick. In the aftermath of 9/11, Bin Laden and his merry gang of snuff-muppets were fingered as the errr ‘brains’ behiond the operation and the righteous ire of the entire world, most of whom had lost the odd citizen or so in the mass murder was directed at Afghanistan. Specifically the eeejits who’d let the Saudi money buy an entire country for theior black-ops training.
No complaints from me on that score.
The error was not Afghanistan which desperately needed a firm lesson in (not) allowing yourself to be taken over by foreign bigots.
The error was Iraq.
Iraq allowed the same clowns who are kicking off in Nigeria as we speak but have also spent the past decade kicking off in Sudan, Bali, London, NY, China and any fuckling other place you care to metion to conflate the righteous ire of the global community re. Afghanistan to be conflated and diluted with the needless, willful idiocy of getting involved in Iraq.
A war instigated purely to boost the popularity ratings of Bush and Blair. neither of who needed it. But particularly not Blair.
But why are we in Afghanistan (and Iraq) when 80% of the terrorists on that fateful September morning were from Saudi Arabia?
Because the training camps were in Afghanistan. Didn’t you read the posts? I cannot explain why we should be in Iraq. Never understood that except that as Jgm2 points out it was to bolster Blair’s popularity. Quite possibly, the Falklands War certainly worked for Maggie. I’m not saying that’s why she pursued it but Blair certainly saw the effects on approvals ratings.
Tat, remember the gorgon is in thrall to the USA!
I was always taught that jaw jaw is better than war war. Blair and Brown like a large number of ‘men’ are power addicts, and by aligning themselves to the USA think/thought their power base was strengthened. What weak toadys they are!
and the reason any training camps were in Afghanistan in the first place was because the saudi arabian terrorists could not operate in the kingdom. a bit like ETA being based in france and operating in spain.
and so we are dealing with the problems caused by the fascist saudi royal regime.
and america meanwhile is appeased by the fascist saudi arabian’s oil.
america appeases terrorists.
let’s top mucking about and invade the source of all our terrorist troubles, let’s invade saudi arabia, kick out its fascist royal regime and steal their oil.
simple innit.
so simple.
problem solved by the great thick as thieves.
I find myself agreeing with tat in his analysis. The root of Islamic evil is in Saudi. Which is why I wouldn’t have invaded Iraq the first time around let alone compound the error the second time.
Saddam was ‘our’ man. Armed to teach the Iranians a lesson after their humiliation of the US hostages after their Islamic coup – itself funded by the religion of peace in Saudi. And Saddam gave the Iranians a good going over. And the Kuwaitis too. And there he was, nicely poised to liberate Saudi and form a greater Iraq with the man-management skills that had kept a lid on dissent in Iraq. We in the west would have only had to deal with one man (Saddam) instead of the forked-tongued fuckers of Saudi.
Our old friend and ally, Saddam Hussein.
And who do we side with? We didn’t even need to side with anybody. Could have just shrugged our shoulders and said ‘none of our business’. If Saddam wants to unite the Middle East what business is it of ours?
No Iraq wars I or II (at least not with us involved). Suadi sponsored Islamic unrest worldwide starved of funds and Saddam selling us oil.
It was so simple to get this right.
But they had to fuck it up.
Arseholes.
Rose wine is highly underrated. Mix a half bottle with a pint of scrumpy, a pint of decent lager, a can of Red Bull and a jigger of lime juice for a half-decent cocktail.
**Burrrrp**
On a hot day you can’t beat a bottle of chilled red served with lots of ice cubes.
I prefer it with a shot of Cillit Bang which is why I write such bollocks on this blog
BANG! And the brain is gone.
Grime ‘n’ Lime?
Sacrilege Nell! Rose all the way for me!
A chilled Pinot Blush, a table laden with Brie, French bread, olives, salad and strawberries…surrounded by countryside and basking in the sun.
Heaven!
You must be abroad then! This “gerbil worming” is taking its time, or Al Gore was lying!
AC1 I’m here! I was dreaming….. A girl has to have dreams.
The Real NewGirl?! – Look at the bottom of the blog – the trolls have taken over. ++sad++
My fave rose is Carraguiles… fantastic with chargrilled lamb
Darling Guido
So good to hear that you got paid for doing McBride in. You beat me to it.
Much Love (to all who love me)
Mandy
So they shafted Britain and the entire economy with their incompetent greed ?
And yes, a chimp could have done a better job than most of them, not just plastered but full of all that Columbian marching powder City types are so fond of ? So what ?
The little people should be gratefull to pay hundreds of Billions to keep these paragons of competent virtue and morality in the jobs and lifestyle they are so accostumed to.
Trebles all round in the square mile chaps.
by jehovah, I think he’s got it!
“Third way” is a synonym of corporatism. Another synonym for corporatism is fascism. It’s as “successful” as socialism.
Guido that quote you have on the side of the blog attributed to EdBalls sounds uncannily like those being made on here by tiresome charles!
Sorry.
from Helmand to High Wycombe
from
Laskar Gah to Loudwater
Yep, in the 18th century High Wycombe was home to the Hellfire Club. Now it’s home to another hellfire cult: “the disbelievers will be as firewood to the fires of Hell!”
At least Francis Dashwood, Lord Bute, ‘jamas’ Franklin and co were only having a (dirty) laugh.
From Bali Hi to Ballyduff.
from Helmand to High Wycombe?
nope.
from Scotland to London (by way of Marxism)
yep.
Charles_E_Hardwidge says:
July 27, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Moi The Prime Minister has had peaks and troughs but, today, has accepted reality as it is. This is a notable moment. People may disagree but I’ve already commented the turning point has passed. It’s will take 6 months to get back on track but it’s doable and inevitable as a marching clock.
I try to cultivate tolerance and patience for strategic reasons: 1. It helps with focusing on quality and sociability. 2. My enemies end up destroying themselves with no effort. That’s a win-win.
Morgan Tsvangirai seems to be playing a similar game against Mugabe, and Brown seems to be playing a similar game against Cameron. It’s the tougher and slower option but quite, quite effective.
End of lesson.
Charles_E_Hardwidge says:
July 27, 2009 at 6:49 pm
I try to cultivate tolerance and patience for strategic reasons: 1. It helps with focusing on quality and sociability. 2. My enemies end up destroying themselves with no effort. That’s a win-win.
Morgan Tsvangirai seems to be playing a similar game against Mugabe, and Brown seems to be playing a similar game against Cameron. It’s the tougher and slower option but quite, quite effective.
End of lesson.
Enemies Charles? You? Never!
Charles_E_Hardwidge says:
July 27, 2009 at 4:39 pm
U The Prime Minister has had peaks and troughs but, today, has accepted reality as it is. This is a notable moment. People may disagree but I’ve already commented the turning point has passed. It’s will take 6 months to get back on track but it’s doable and inevitable as a marching clock.
Only a thick stupid labour voting Hunt like you would think there is any difference between Morgan and Mugabe. And then to crown it all, try to draw a parallel with the thieving twats in power in this so called “democracy”. Can somebody shoot this arsehole.
right chaps, we storm the capitol and depose the scotch tyrant.
Charles_E_Hardwidge says:
July 27, 2009 at 4:39 pm
I The Prime Minister has had peaks and troughs but, today, has accepted reality as it is. This is a notable moment. People may disagree but I’ve already commented the turning point has passed. It’s will take 6 months to get back on track but it’s doable and inevitable as a marching clock.
what’s all this about scotch nutters operating on panthers’ claws?
bozos by the name of Clown and Stirrup?
Charles_E_Hardwidge says:
July 27, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Yea The Prime Minister has had peaks and troughs but, today, has accepted reality as it is. This is a notable moment. People may disagree but I’ve already commented the turning point has passed. It’s will take 6 months to get back on track but it’s doable and inevitable as a marching clock.
This is the last gag from me for today I promise.
Four nuns are killed and arrive at the Gates of Heaven. They line up in front of St Peter.
The first nun says “St Peter, I once saw a man’s penis. May I still enter?”
St Peter replies “Wash your eyes in this font of holy water and proceed.”
The second nun says “St Peter, I once touched a man’s penis. May I still enter?”
St Peter replies “Wash your hands in this font of holy water and proceed.”
St Peter suddenly notices a scuffle between the last two nuns. The fourth nun is trying to cut in front of the third nun. “What is going on?” he asks the fourth nun.
“I’m trying to go first so I can wash my mouth out before she sticks her arse in the font”.
Charles_E_Hardwidge says:
July 27, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Naw The Prime Minister has had peaks and troughs but, today, has accepted reality as it is. This is a notable moment. People may disagree but I’ve already commented the turning point has passed. It’s will take 6 months to get back on track but it’s doable and inevitable as a marching clock.
A marching clock that’s been eating radishes.
Q. What fun does a monk have?
A. Nun.
Q. What’s brown and lies in an alley covered in blood?
A. A brunette that told one too many blonde jokes.
Imposter.
Q. What do the Taliban have for breakfast?
A. Fundamentalist muesli
Harriett – Labour’s answer to MrsT, spent her first day ‘in charge’ of the country, in Hull, inconspicuously discussing the Building Britain’s Future document with like minded people.
Meanwhile gordon on holiday reappears grimly holding onto the reins of power , dressed in suit and tie (holiday togs for gordon) to deal with the major issue of the day, Afghanistan.
Oh dear harriett, MrsT would never have allowed herself to be so sidelined.
there is a chain of terror from Hull to Keswick. Airstrikes have been called in.
I’ll see you a chain of terror and raise you an operation gnat’s tadger
Is Harriet being overseen by Mandy? I’ll bet she is.
184 shelling – I read somewhere that last week he was living it up in a top flight hotel near Athens at our expense ( £500 a night or some such and that’s just the room) – attending the Bilderberg Conference – whatever that is.
Whatever it is it doesn’t sound as though it’s much use to we taxpayers.
Anyway I bet he’s back now, as you say, challenging harriett for those reins of power.
As I said last night they remind me of kids playing house in the garden squabbling over who is going to be the pretend dad.
” Is Harriet being overseen by Mandy? ”
I doubt she’s being overcome.
The thought of her handagging mandy if he gets in her way is quite amusing.
Don’t think Harriet’s got much of a look in. Mandelson’s been in evidence, particularly now he’s got a new job in education. He manages to slither his way in to every orifice of government, making sure the ‘message’ from newlabour is loud and clear.
Excuse me, I meant ‘office’. Freudian slip.
Another slip barefoot… you said “newlabour” when I’m sure you meant to type, “odious fucking backstabbing incompetent troughing scumbag shits”.
Dr. Mick I congratulate you on justifiably pointing out my error.
“……inevitable as a marching clock.”
Go ask Alice (Mahon)
When she’s ten feet tall….
Good old Guido! Now I know you will drink Rose, I like you all the more.
Have a go at a good Pinot Blush – can’t beat it on a hot summer’s day.
Jeez, you folks think people like Guido are standing up for you? They’re part of the problem, not the solution.
Buddhist “correct action” has a lot going for it.
Be still, grasshopper.
If you think it’s that bad, why are you still commenting on here then, grasshopper?
182 shelling – do you think it’s a personality disorder of the sick labour party that, like gordon, they all insist on staying where they are so patently disliked and unwanted?
Saw a wonderful grasshopper in my garden today, from the family acrididae, the mottled grasshopper, Myrmeleotettix Maculatus. Their song is a series of 30 short chirps delivered over a period of 10 – 15 seconds. Sounds like the winding of a clock. Thought this info might take your mind off the machinations of No 10. There is a wonderful world out there!
It’s not actually a chirp. The grasshopper rubs its knees together to produce that sound. I tried it myself recently but couldn’t manage even a pip even though I did so with great vigour. Unfortunately I was on a bus at the time and they called the police. Had to come up with some pretty good fast talking to get out of that one I can tell you!
Dr.M, obviously not your genuine acrididae!
Q. How do you get a Scotsman onto the roof?
A. Tell him the drinks are on the house.
Q. How do you get a Scotsman onto the roof?
A. Tell him the whisky is on the house.
To no-one in particular , since apart from trolls there doesn’t seem to be many of us about tonight –
This is not Engineer. His grammar and powers of expression are far better and more thoughtful than this.
keep up the good work Nell – I am sure you must drink red wine.
It`s one of the tests!
Matt Damon!
Q. How many Scotsmen does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. Och, it’s no’ aa’ that dark…
This is not Engineer.
Gordon tonight is north of the border in his holiday home . The holiday home that he designated as his main home despite living in Drowning St. so that he could claim all those tax funded £1000,s to renovate the house and summer house.
Pity we can’t blockade the border to stop him getting back in.
Advertisement seen in Scottish newspaper, “Lost, £5 note. Sentimental value”.
No.Not Engineer
He may not be Engineer, but he’s a vast improvement by gad.
So ….What’s happened to Media (Swine) Flu then ….. eh ….. where is it?????
the BBC have found a cure and everythings okay until the next epidemic of pandemically panic proportions….
Loads of people around here are just being told they’ve got it over the phone. Anyone with a cold/ tonsilitis/normal flu/man flu/ hayfever…..they’re all being given Tamiflu. And they aren’t swabbing at all. So the “statistics” are going to be very accurate. As ever. No doubt they will be used to Gordon’s advantage.
The tamiflu was going to get dumped (it was bought for the bird flu non-event), “swine flu” is just an excuse to use it up, rather than the negative media coverage of dumping loads of it.
I doubt this is NewGirl – it lacks her bubbly personality – if it is please excuse me
The blog is under a sustained attack tonight – Guido is off somewhere entertaining guests to dinner in France or somesuchthing – hope they’re not eating snails (ugh!)
And we need the castle guard to attack the labour trolls and where are they? – in the barracks playing cards and gambling!
Nell it IS me! Sorry to sound dour. And YOU should be watching BBC 1!
Hi NewGirl, see you had a bit of fun with ferki last night?
Ahh he retired to lick his wounds fairly quickly Misog.
Didn’t heed the warning did he? Thought it was MB though.
I’m not sure who it was. But he didn’t last long. MB hasn’t troubled me in weeks actually. Steers well clear. Wonder why? I’m pretty much a troll free zone these days… Perhaps I should be offended?
My PC playing up, driving me mad (praps the trolls got me after all!)
So will curl up with a book stead of Guido.
Night all
be cool newgirl laters
Offended? I don’t think so. You are our legit ‘troll basher’, with intelligence.
we are fookin doomed lads
A Scotsman wanted to impress his girlfriend so he took her for a ride in a taxi. The trouble was, she was so beautiful he could hardly keep his eyes on the meter.
The MacTavish brothers decided that one of their number would go to America and make his fortune, coming back to share with the rest of them. The youngest, Ian, was chosen for this task. Off he went, and he worked hard in America, and earned himself a fortune over a few years, and wired his brothers that he’d be returning with it. When he came back to Scotland he got off the boat, and looked around for his brothers, but could not see anyone who looked familiar. Finally, a group of bearded strangers approached. “Ho, Ian, are ye not knowing yer own brothers?” asked the first one. Then Ian realized his brothers had grown beards.
“Fer heaven’s sake, laddies, what would ye be growin’ them beards for, now?” he asked.
“We had to, lad, ye took the razor wi’ ye!”
I think Scotland should be given it’s oil revenues and told that it will no longer receive public funding from the Treasury under the Barnett Formula. In a nutshell – Scotland you are on your own.
Silly salmond says this will make Scotland independent.
An independent financial report shows that this move will leave Scotland massively in debt and save the Treasury large sums of money.
Dave I hope you are listening. We must do this!
Will we also move all the public sector jobs in Glasgow and Edinburgh which administer English income tax and benefits back south of the border?
Too late, most of the oil has been used up, mainly by England.
Not according to silly Salmond.
Let’s give him the oil revenues that he wants and cancel the Barnett Formula.
He’s a scotsman like gordon – so he obviously knows what he’s talking about.
Alex Salmond has his faults, but he’s not a silly man, and in my opinion (for what that’s worth ) Scotland would benefit from being independent. The gorgon is not representative of the Scottish people any more than Margaret Thatcher was representative of the English people.
Suits me. Let them have their independence. There’s something we should all have a referendum on.
“Any more than Margaret Thatcher was representative of the English people.”
Which is a pity IMHO.
wait a bit longer, it’s almost run out…
Good idea nell – Separate balance sheets!
Shares may go up or down, but debt is debt is debt, and will be repaid
Give England the vote to cast the Scottich Scoungers and Westminster meddlers adrift and Salmond will get a landslide.
Government spending makes up 85% of local GDP in some Scottish regions.
Wee Hughie was dying. Tenderly, his wife Maggie knelt by his bedside and asked: ‘Anything I can get you, Hughie?’
No reply.
‘Have you got a last wish, Hughie?’
Faintly, came the answer. . . ‘a wee bit of of that boiled ham over yonder.’
‘Wheesht, man,’ said Maggie, ‘you know fine that’s for the your funeral.’
Q. Why do Scotsmen wear the kilt?
A. So that the sheep don’t hear a zipper.
No way is this Engineer.
Teh be ‘onest, I’d fuck ‘em, nae prawblem.
Apparently it’s best to get them at the top of a cliff. They push back, then.
Imposter
Scotchmen or sheep?
Try a bottle of Minuty, fom Provence.
…or FROM Provence.
is that with a peadlo lads ?
Enjoy your time in the sun wanky boy. Guido is gonna fuck you over good when he gets back from holiday.
manners lad please
Q. What do you call a Scotsman with a sense of humour?
A. Anglicised.
eh up lad
No.No.Not Engineer. This is an imposter. Again!
Q. What do you call a Scotsman with a sense of humour?
A. Probably dead.
fook care in the comunity going well lads
I take the long view freddie.
take the cretins above; it is far better that they are here where we can keep an eye on them than them being elsewhere unobserved where they would probably be making a reet fucking nuisance of themselves.
we should think of it as charity work fred, as a contribution to mental people in the community. without informal support structures like this I expect they would all have to be locked up in loony bins because they are such dopey fucking imbeciles.
so keep up the good work freddie.
and well done lad.
Very true. Must cure myself of the habit.
yeah I am bored with charles.
he’s just a wanker.
oops, sorry nell.
Nope tat I agree.
Thoroughly fed up with this infestation of troll(s).
Wish Guido would just take one little hour out of his French holiday to lay down some troll/mouse traps and spray a liberal amount of flea powder about.
Problem is nell there is no registration so Guido can’t actually ban anybody. He has already blocked Harwidge’s IP address but it’s a BT IP address which is dynamic (ie changes every time you log on) so that lasted all of 10 minutes.
The answer is – don’t feed the Troll – but that’s easier said that done. Someone will always respond usually with abuse and actually Harwidge never says anything tangible so I suppose that’s understandable. That I think is the intention though – to avoid discussion and encourage hostile abuse.
As I’ce commented before, the asset stripping and consumerist years are over. They’re gone and what we’re left with is a headache of rich people with no loyalty pricing everyone out of the market, and entire communities on the scrapheap. But fixing this is doable.
Closing tax loopholes and bringing in law to bolster the power of ordinary people to influence governance is a good start. Perhaps, as this initiative is brought more closely into focus people will appreciate what Gordon Brown has done and can do.
are you on overtime ?
they must be paying this c’unt triple time freddie.
and giving him free drugs on top. he must unlimited fucking access to gordon’s bag of speed for fuck’s sake.
and gordon gets the good stuff. his dealer, er I mean his doctor makes sure of it.
gordon could not function without amphetamine injections.
eh up tat lad , i hate what he says but i will defend his riht to type shit lad
and that is exactly what he types freddie: shit.
don’t talk daft lad.
you want to defend his right to type shit?
what the fook are you going on about soft lad?
he will get short shrift from me freddie but if you want to defend that c’unt just so he can chew your ear off with his bullshit soft lad then you carry on.
there’s something not right about flintoff. can’t put my finger on it but there’s something a bit stinky going on.
I’ll figure it out.
More like overkill – ‘it’s doable’.
You stupid fuck you are doing more harm than good – fuck off, eh?
so labour not worth waiting for lad ?
Its Charles E Hardwidge – almost certainly.
If the law wasTo “bolster the power of ordinary people To influence Governance” ALL your Party Would be in the fucking Slammer ! Twat !
check this out lads
soz for the double post
Hey flintoff, you’re that moron S/pedo Shits, and I claim my £5.00.
FFS, you’ve been talking to yourself all this time you mad fucker.
hey lad just come on , i aint pedo shorts lad
Am I your double Frederick?
no you just need a girlfriend lad
Colin is Peado Shorts/Master Wanker and Thick as Shit !
but still a twat lad – line and length, eehhh
Hahha!! Very good – nice sound effects that really added to the story – lol
I knew it, you’re a schizophrenic.
you’re a poof
speedo lad nowt wrong with being gay lad
check
Marigolds and Daisies Folks!!!!
Why are we letting this Labour idiot (and it is only one despite his many personnae) dominate this right wing blog? If Engineer , Steve Expat or NewGirl are really posting they will make themselves heard. I don’t think they are posting at the moment.
What we need to do is IGNORE this labour troll and post LOTS OF COMMENTS AROUND HIM.
hey nell lass i hate what the hoons do but , i will defend they right to say it
Right wing blog? Never been right wing in my whole life. I have a fear of tribalism.
i was a labour voter lad , but the spin and smears make me sick rip john smith the last leader of the labour party
Ghost of Fred Truman: ‘Labour? Eee, I joost dorn’t know, it were line and length in mah day… what d’yer think, Johnners?’
Ghost of Brian Johnson: ‘Bunch of hoons now, Fred, old bean – fancy a bit of cake?’
Ghost of Bill Frindell: ‘Statistically, always a bunch of hoons, Johnners – Fred, please use a fork – ‘
Ghost of Fred Truman: ‘Ooorhhh, mumble mumble, ee by gum etc – fook off beardie – aye an that Hardwiger coooont as well – chomp chomp – ‘
Henry Blofeld (still breathing): ‘One hopes that ghastly Brown character won’t turn up at Edgbaston – pass the cake, Frederick, my dear old thing – ‘
The trouble is the trolls can’t even spell or spellcheck before they post!
i aint a troll lass ( just shit at spelling )
Hi- and welcome – I was feeling rather lonely !!
Evenin’ Nell – another one of those nights I see TwAT, Charlie-boy and Speedy all taking advantage of the fact that the mod is on holiday.
Guido, you really need to employ a mod, regular posters here are getting pissed off at being called liars and cnuts, in between having it rammed down out throats that Gordoom Broon is the best thing ever to happen to the country…
steve lad tat is a bit aggreisive but he aint a puppet lad
I hope that’s the real you steve???
freddie,
The puppets (Charles and friends) can be put up and argued with (or against!), after all that is freedom of speech and debate and should be welcomed.
Mr TwAT and a couple of others are just rude & obnoxious, adding nothing to the debate by playing the man not the ball. This place would be infinitely better if they just fucked off somewhere else.
steve lad tat is ok , he just to be taken the right way he has points and makes his case but he aint in the hardwige league lad
freddie,
No, TwAT is NOT OKAY. look down the last thread if you want evidence of that – He makes Damian McBride seem like your granny with his rudeness towards a lot of the commenters. Guido really needs to sort him out.
fuck off steve you wanker.
you lying c’unt go soil someone else’s blog you fucking liar.
fucking crackhead tramp.
Ah – right on cue as always – see what I mean now freddie?
TwAT-face, why not go and ruin someone else’s blog, or go and get your own and ruin that with all your imbacilic diatribe…
Boys, boys….play nicely.
piss off tramp.
you are a liar steve.
not interested liar.
bugger off to conservativefoam, you have been rumbled.
you cretin.
Oi, TwAT-face. I’m not a Tory and have somewhere nice to live so I’m not a tramp either. I probably drink more than the government suggest I should but that doesn’t make me alcoholic. I may be occasionally mistaken (it’s called being human, not sure how much you know about that) but I am certainly not a liar.
You on the other hand, are adding nothing to the debate, are constantly attacking commenters here and seem to think that Damian McBride is a role model.
Fuck off back to LabourLost!
Oi, TwAT, you cnut.
I’m not a Tory and have somewhere nice to live so I’m not a tramp either.
I probably drink more than the government suggest I should but that doesn’t make me alcoholic. I may be occasionally mistaken (it’s called being human, not sure how much you know about that) but I am certainly not a liar.
You on the other hand, are adding nothing to the debate, are constantly attacking other commenters here and seem to think that McBride is a role model for social behaviour!
Fuck off back to Labour Lost, all of you!
Oi, TwAT, you cnut.
I’m not a Tory and have somewhere nice to live so I’m not a tramp either.
I probably drink more than the government suggest I should but that doesn’t make me alco.holic. I may be occasionally mistaken (it’s called being human, not sure how much you know about that) but I am certainly not a liar.
You lot, on the other hand, are adding nothing to the debate, are constantly attacking other commenters here and seem to think that McBride is a role model for social behaviour!
Fuck off back to Labour Lost, all of you!
Dear nell you always go on about other peoples spelling then as the wine takes over your gets just as bad !
hey lad this aint no 10 lad
Why does everybody on this blog want to be CHARLES E SMALLWIDGE ? He is the most sad boreing twat on gods earth and you c*unt all want to pretend to be him How fucking sad is that you gang of fucking loosers !
lad its the comedy value
Freddie theres no comedy value in that C*nt he’s the real Billy nah mates !
lad in all the doom and gloom we have charles to make us laugh lad
Charlie Is Fucking Doom And Gloom ! He never comments on any thing he just goes off on his own robotic rant every one the same shite just Rejigged !
he reminds us why we shouldnt vote labour lad
Are you a FULL colon or just a semi COLON – get to FUCK
Q. What do you call six weeks of rain in Scotland?
A. Summer.
Lycra boy ! Wondered when you would stick your fucking Beak in !
cluck cluck fuck off
(clikclikclik) SQWAARK-K! ARSEHOLE!
Articulate little hoon, isn’t he?
My basic premise is that the Tories approach is to asset strip and consume, and Labour spend their time building and pulling folks back together.
The “success” of the Tories is, mostly, a bunch of PR and blind luck, which is why I believe that Labour will win the next election. Words are cheap: nothing beats a demonstration.
Labour continually deliver the best policies, offering real help to real families now. It’s simple really.
POOFTER
so you know the manifesto for the next election charles ?
I’m no big fan of Mother Teresa or her mawkish following but she said two interesting things: she wouldn’t join a protest rally but would join a rally that stood in favour of something, and she looked after the dying poor because she believed they should be treated like kings in their last moments as they hadn’t been treated in life.
There’s something in that, I reckon.
Vote Labour.
And She is no fan of yours you Dickhead !
charles lad you missed out a word , it was ” vote labour out “
Charles, did you mean “Vote Anyone But Labour…?
sort of snap lad
Or If you want to end up Broke ! VOTE LABOUR !
vote labour in with heart , vote them out with empty wallet
looks like we crossed in the post there freddie lad
eh up steve lad , that is a true statment
I know of many who are a bit snobby about rosé wines. I find a bottle of Tavel with a Caesar or chicken salad most agreeable.
OK nobody on here is real. Guido has to take control –
This blog has become rat infested and it’s impossible to know whether monikers we know and trust are genuine.
Guido you need to apply some rat poison.
Until you do. I’m out of here.
Good night . God Bless!
dont you see thats how labour act , bully bully bully its there makeup from the top
Im real Nell! If you are unsure look up the thread – I’m having chat with Misog. He wouldn’t put up with a fake NewGirl! Don’t let them beat you hon x
thats new labour lass bullys , it aint cricket
They are going to have to raise their game considerably to get rid of me. In fact their presence makes me more stubborn. (I was going half an hour ago, so there’s the proof!)
Like typical bullies though, they pick on the peolple they perceive as easy targets. Not that that’s Nell, its just she’s too polite to give them a taste of their own medicine)
new girl lass they are weak behind the keybord lass
And that’s what these troll bastards are trying to achieve! Don’t succumb to them, Nell.
Nell, just post as you normally do, just mentally block off their replies. Don’t engage with them unless you feel like it – (sometimes its quite cathartic!). They are irrelevant, after all. The last gasps of a dying breed.
i aint a troll lass just liking the blog
I know you’re not a troll Freddie! Wasn’t referring to you, you dope! I’m a Freddie fan!
for you all
Fantastic Freddie!
He’s S/pedo Shits you retarded bitch.
you shame the name of the great RD Laing, ill one.
No he’s not. And don’t call me a retarded bitch.
but you are retarded new girl!
quite badly.
So which of you actually believes that Fawkes is no longer a salad-dodging porker? Speaking for myself, I find it rather implausible.
i just think he is a fat lad and good on him
After watching an episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, I started wondering if something akin to America’s Liberty Bonds might have some traction. We’re, effectively, on a war footing and it’s one way of raising finance and giving people an equity stake.
Indeed, some companies could broker similar deals with employees which might help create more of a “start up” mentality and develop focus and boost morale.
Hmmm. This recession could be “fun”. No, I’m not making light of it, just putting a different spin on things to counteract some of the long faces around here.
Vote Labour!
Jesus, if that’s how shallow the Troon gene pool is, no wonder SPADo’s the way he is!
that was below the belt
What did you expect? I’m a geneticist.
Does that mean you’re married to a lady named Jeanette? Troon people are very nuce by the way, very “evolved”, if you see what I mean.
charles lad you said the ” global downturn ” was fun , well tell that to my mates thats lost jobs and homes and got fucked by the taxman , now FUCK OFF
No Charles, we are in a recession of Labour’s making, you vacuous people
Companies have every excuse now to sack all their shirkers, and become lean and mean
Strange how the banks haven’t taken the lead, being as they are only writing half the mortgages they did this time last year – with massive arrangement fees and excessive interest rate margins, it’s the only way to pay for staff who are doing only half the work they did a year ago
Like Gordon Brown, the bank bosses think “Oh, not enough income, I’ll keep all my staff and put my prices up”
You just don’t get it do you?
The banks have shed about 10,000 jobs!
It’s not just companies who need to get lean, the public sector machine can be stripped of a massive amount of crap – look at all the diversity directors and ethnic monitoring consultants costing us billions every year, the NHS employs more management consultants than clinical consultants. Teachers, nurses and policemen are not allowed to do their jobs without filling in millions of PC statitcics-gathering forms etc etc etc
A massive revolution in the public sector is needed, every pound spent and every job done needs to be justified in the current climate – the country is bank.rupt, only a revolution can keep the IMF from the door.
Here here!
When people let go, they take a step back and what was previously a big mountain becomes a small pebble, and what was once tightly siezed upon just becomes another thing to throw away. Our certainty and emotions can get in the way, hence the Zen phrase: “Zen mind, beginner’s mind.”
As I commented at the beginning of this crisis, calm was a top priority. Now, I believe, the worst of the shock is over people might be in a better position to “let go”, so focus can swivel to being creative and sociable which will help generate solutions and consensus. Success will naturally flow in its own time, and in its own way.
“There are no problems, only undiscovered opportunities”.
You’ve got the touch of a fucking elephant….make your point GENTLY ya fucking son of an arab fuckpigs bastard,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Sp€do
You’ve said in one sentence, what everyone else has been trying to say for months. Eloquence, in its own way, and I like it.
Thank you Prole – this is for you – enjoy!
Ta, Shortsy. Enjoyed that. I like music that goes back to its basics of genre, like deep south blues in its rawness. A bit of Bessy Smith an’ that. Used to play in a Dixieland jazz band years ago. Can’t beat a good bit of banjo playing.
Glad you liked it mate – I lst my hearing on one side years ago but I used to play in bands as well – keyboards and accordion playing Scottish jigs and stuff at weddings and some rock as well – it was fun!
Do you know a jazz number called “Worksong”?
who ya kiddin? the deafness is caused by all the wanking.
http://deaf.headplug.com
if you’re interested in the support group I set up….long have you been doing it?
pardon? can you post that a bit LOUDER,, and WTF is “The Tao of Deafness”. sounds very Charle E does that.
congrats – you have now caught Sp€do’s deluxe patent PC virus – enjoy and tell all your friends, eh?
do not steal my name. think up your own name retard.
final warning.
thankyou.
The last line should read.
“There is no sense in what I post, only unadulterated twaddle’
Buffy Sainte Marie ! THE True American Patriot ! GOD Bless HER !
Her song Soldier Blue ! JUST listen to the words !
ever heard the B side of soldier blue where she sings “FUCK the war and bring our brothers home”?
Bit rich those lyrics coming from a “Waggonburner”.
Vote for Gordon and he’ll bring our boys home (the dead ones anyway).
fair point
you think a racist remark is a “fair point”??
> you think a racist remark is a “fair point”??
The guy was giving a balancing perspective – you’re too touchy
“wagonburner” is a demeaning insult against Native Americans. You know Cowboyz & Injuns stuff?
your a nazi if you think thats balanced. fuckin nazi I knew it!
I stand coorected then. I was not aware of the term you allude to.
I’m sure Buffy Saint Marie will be grateful as she is a Native American.
Yip – so was Slim Whitman – but you’re probably too young to remember his records
Slim WHITEman hardly sounds like a waggonburner…. you must be taking the piss.
NAw, you’re thinkin of Fatboy Slim Whiteman – he’s a Yid (related to Billy the Yid, I hear)
right lads be cool even tat and charles may a election come soon
OK Freddie, but I’m not dipping my nuts in ice chilled water – even for you
good story lad eh
bloody brilliant – nearly fell off the chair laffin’
Fred, if you ever manage to tell that one live on Test Match Special, I’ll buy you a pint somehow!
TIME GENTLEMAN PLEASE.
freddie! you having a pint, or are you on cocktails tonight?
I think he’s on Bols.
I always thought Harman was a Rose drinker, she certainly is an exponent of the pink whine.
I form my own opinions and have a sociopathic level of disregard for “authority” and “personalities”, so wading in here and being negative for the sake of it cuts no ice with me. That’s not a winnable battle so don’t bother.
If you wind your ego back we might start getting somewhere. If you can’t do that your so called arguments are as meaningless as the displays in parliament.
(Note: I’ve done some work for a national mediation organisation, so am familiar with conflict resolution, and have played a small but significant role in advancing human rights and neighbour relations policy, among other things such as my graphics fidelity research).
More than four lines of your tripe doesn’t get read my me. And I think that goes for most people on here. You’re just wasting your bloody time, you pillock.
You manage 4 lines?!
GEH – You suffer from verbal flatulence
He’s not wasting his time if you respond to him.
GEH You would not know what Zen was if it jumped up and slapped you in the teeth.
You sound just like a burned-out 60′s acid casualty I used to know – funny, he used to be a computer programmer, as well. His vocabulary still worked, but the brain behind it was completely shot. You didn’t live in West Wales in the 80′s, did you ‘Charles’?
Magic Mushroom Charlie! Would explain a lot, including the absurd notion that Grafix Fiddletie is some kind of technology.
West Wales? Crazy Creek? Late 70′s? The pieces are falling into place now.
See my comment above about your objection – thanks
eeeh, line and length…
Well we seem to have lost quite a lot of Speedo Skirts or whatever his name is – thanks Guido. That will make blogging a bit pleasanter.
Shame I upset Nell with the Scotsmen jokes; I’ll have to apologise to her when next our paths cross. However, Speedo was starting to irritate me a little, I don’t like the way he abuses people, so I felt he deserved a taste of his own medicine for a change.
Ah, well, enough for tonight. G’night, all.
Ya big fooking baby – away with you to your cot
Go check your previous posts tonight Speedo Skirts. Enjoy the last of your liberty, looks like the blogmeister is on your case…..
Give him credit! He’s been on amphetamines for five days solid.
He must be feeling like freddie, the morning after the last ashes victory.
you fucking idiot – I was taming George E Hardwidge for you (successfully I might add) If you had half a brain you would be thanking me – but you don’t – and you aren’t – well fuck off I don’t respect you any longer you are a total twat.
A comedown from sulphate often brings about a feeling of paranoia, coupled with bursts of aggression. I recommend sedation for 48 hours, followed by colonic irrigation to purge the system of toxins.
No charge.
Strapadicktomi
Back or front?
In or out?
Wearing those speeedos, most of what he’s trying to keep in is out already.
No it does’nt!
It’s dripping out the back.
wishful thinking BUM B0Y
It may just be a coincidence but just after I noted the connection between parliamentary and online trolling, there was a definite change in Labour’s approach. Meanwhile, the Tories keep trying to take me down and succeed less and less.
I’ve been following and involved with politics and games for two decades and, I think, I’ve learned something in that time. Sure, I’ve made mistakes but I’ve reached a stage in life where I’m happy being happy, and nobody can take that off me. I suspect, Dear Leader isn’t so different.
Folks have to want happiness and economic recovery, and that doesn’t happen by beating things down or winding other people up. Sure, it gets folks a buzz and some attention, which is why the Tories pulled that stunt, but it’s a false happiness and never lasts. This will only change when they change.
Fuck off Chaz.
Yeah, well done spuddo, or whatever you stupid ASCII name is tonight, your oh so macho taming obviously worked, didn’t it? Ever heard of the Turing test? CEH doesn’t apply! Neither does he respond. Now piss off, you passive-aggressive little buckfast gnome. Freddie? Over to you, lad!
Happy days.
310 days max until your sad hero get dragged kicking & screaming to the polls.
Only a few days until our genial host flushes floaters like you out.
We don’t want to take you down, old boy – just enjoy your amusing – if somewhat prolix – banter… free speech, my dear old thing…
Guido
Why have you allowed the labour trolls to take over?
I am so disappointed.
Maybe I’m too thin-skinned these days, but the level of personal abuse from the trolls can be hurtful, but I suppose that’s the point of them being here. It can’t be to persuade anyone to vote NewLabour. They merely want to smash something which challenges their authoritarian stance and to silence inconvenient voices and minds who want to think for themselves.
Characterising everyone on here as a Tory troll, and the blog itself as Tory, satisfies their lazy, binary thinking, and reveals a complete failure to understand (a) what a troll is and (b) the level of genuine anger and despair, from whatever political viewpoint, expressed here.
Whether they are in the pay of NewLabour or do it out of misguided loyalty to something utterly corrupt and incompetent, that which they stand for is sickening, a stain on the great tradition of a party they claim to espouse, and a warning to anyone tempted to give NewLabour another chance.
Let me supply the word that is so obviously missing from your vocabulary – PRINCIPLE – ever heard of it?
Are you a poof ?
Why – are you a collector?
What “principle” are you defending? What I see in NewLabour is in no way akin to any kind of socialism I would recognise. Instead, I see a mashed-up proto-Thatcherism filtered through the ugliest kind of Trotskyism at the point where it tips over in fascism: everyone a potential enemy requiring perpetual surveillance to maintain order coupled with a fetishistic adoration of the CEO of AnyCorps.
The Party had that New added to its name as Blair and his ilk rushed to distance themselves from the movement shaped by Keir Hardy. But they should have replaced the ‘labour’ part as well to be completely honest. They may mouth platitudes about equality and fairness, but the kiss of death was given to any claims they may make to represent the values of the Labour Party I joined and fought for when they revoked Clause 4 and climbed into bed with the city spivs and the Murdoch empire.
yes – that is not a bad analysis — but one cannot have everything in life – we merely contribute to a process…that is what libertarians like you have a huge problem with – you want it all – all or nothing – and that is not the real world! (but you’re naturally greedy people)
If you can claim that my analysis is “not bad” and then “deduce” I am a libertarian, you are simply not worth arguing with, since you obviously cannot deal with the fact that there are some former Labour members who look at the current party and want to weep for the memory of democratic socialism.
PTB a pretty good analysis of Newlabour.
PTB., But why didn’t the ‘original’ Labour party fight against the forces of newlabour?
It’s interesting that with the country in freefall and gawd knows how many issues there are to deal with, that NuLabor deems it necessary to attack this blog. It must be costing money.
Well, until we all go and have a laugh on Dolly Drapers blogsite, this is our meeting point.
Have a slice of cake and enjoy them, my dear old thing – doesn’t that rather odd Hedwidge chappie call it Zen, or something?
In game design, novelty and pacing are key to keeping people engaged. Any success Cameron is feeling at the moment is temporary and folks will get bored of it and start asking what’s in it for them.
My gut feeling is the worst of the shock has passed and developing the green shoots of business and a kind society from the ground up is where it’s at.
Jeez, just be happy no matter how bad things are. It really is that simple.
Sort out your spellchecker, its malfunctioning;
“In game design, novelty and pacing are key to keeping people engaged. Any success Brown is feeling at the moment is temporary and folks will get bored of it and start asking what’s in it for them.
My gut feeling is the worst of the shock has yet to pass and developing the green shoots of business and a kind society from the ground up is beyond Labour.
Jeez, just be happy that no matter how bad things are, voting Labour out is really that simple.”
Rose wine? Any wine that has to be drunk cold is telling you something. White wine. Rose wine. Red wine. If you have to drink the fucker from the fridge it is only because it tastes like piss at room temperature.
I ‘learned’ to drink red wine 25 years ago in Portugal because it was literally cheaper than bottled water. And, as long as you kept it in the fridge it was no trouble at all to drink. But one night I poured the fag-end of my glass out the window onto the sand.
The next day the (white) sand was black. Beautiful, white, carbonate sand oxidised black by red wine. Don’t drink anything you have to freeze practically solid before it’s fit to drink.
Seriously.
Did anyone see Jonah on the news this evening, telling us that our lads in Afghanistan were stopping terrorists getting on our streets? The pillock wouldn’t recognise reality if it smacked him in the nose. Afghanistan is populated by tribes, who, when not fighting foreign armies, just fight amongst themselves.
Just how does he reconcile his statement against our home-grown terrorists?
Meanwhile the Telegraph reports on the new, parliament washes whiter, put the past behind us, clean up politics, transparency, trust, change you can believe in, allowances system.
Ever get the feeling you’ve been had?
Do you mean this
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5920660/MPs-ignore-public-anger-and-give-themselves-9000-expenses-deal-by-stealth.html
The Daily Telegraph can disclose that MPs have devised a new scheme allowing them to claim a £25-a-night “subsistence” allowance when staying away from their designated main home.
The controversial payments for MPs have been approved despite widespread outrage at unjustified expense claims following the disclosures made by this newspaper.
The allowance, which is almost double the previous £4,800-a-year limit for unreceipted claims, is paid on top of expenses for mortgage interest, rent, council tax and utility bills.
It has been approved without any public announcement or debate in Parliament as MPs leave for their summer holidays. Instead it has been agreed by a small committee of MPs chaired by John Bercow, the new Speaker, and including Harriet Harman, the Labour Leader of the House and Alan Duncan, the Tory frontbencher.
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Seriously, do they think they will get away with this?
Alan Duncan, if you agreed to a deal here you have a lot of explaining to do, not only to your party who promised to clean up this mess, but also to the people of Rutland and Melton who you wish to re-elect you. Harperson and Berk-cow I can understand, but you want to be in the NEXT government…
They’ve mostly got away with it so far. Still believe the tories are a welcome change?
The Tories are certainly ahead at the moment, and rightly so.
BUT stupidity such as that above will threaten that lead if they are seen to be putting themselves above the country (as seems to be the case from the DT headline today)
DC, get rid of Duncan, he is a liability if he behaves like this. An honest man would have resigned from the committee in disgust at the way MPs are treating the public with such disdain.
An honest man? Parliament? With our reputation?
A pox on all their houses!
Guido, I’ve compiled a short list of the most obvious trolls. I’m sure you will be able to take care of them upon your return.
Charles E Hardwidge, |5p€d0|5h0rt5|, freddie flintoff, nell, NewGirl, Steve Expat, Engineer, COLON THE LIBRARIAN, Adrian Prole, Anonymous Misogynist.
There are a few more that I need to confirm, and I’ll get back to you.
PS. I haven’t included thick as thieves as I know you regard him as some sort of blog pet.
All the best. hope you enjoy the remainder of your holiday.
said brown lips
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innit
So we have Stasi snitches online?
Oh and BTW, most of them don’t have a life as THEY POST ON HERE 24 FUCKING 7!
Charles and spuddo could well be one arse
New girl and Engineer enjoy gentle flirtation
freddie is a one off
Dr Mick is the geezer looking for a punch up after last orders
Nell is a traditional tory lass
anonymous msogynist has’nt been the same since goatse
Master Bates. Your guess is as good as mine
Steve Expat is thicks favourite
Ewanme. Floats like a butterfly, sings like a bee
Thick as thieves is a fucking hero!
‘Ere tat did you spill my pint?
and you are a non consequential piece of drift shit
No. Not me. It was that geeky looking fucker in the tighty whiteys. I’d would’nt stand for that if i were you! Why don’t you go over and give him a slap?
GRUU-KURRK! (akakakak) OOZAPRETTYBOYZEN?
And strangle his fucking parrot for afters.
suck my steampants
Has the parrot been biting fingers in his horny beak?
Ime sure fawkes will offer his useual cast iron guarentee of service !!
Rosie book should be a nice earner suggested title “A fortnight in spare room”
the story of labour ecnomic policy since 1997
you never had it so good
you never had it so
you never had it
you never had
you never
you
wee dougie been to aghanistan , Darling producing synthetic anger
new BBC soap planned “bell enders”
Have you ben up all night making that shite up?
You would have been better employed putting a bun in your oven
As opposed to you who finds uttering shite completely natural then !!
Sometimes it’s the appropriate response dear lady, and none should know that more than you, as the principal perpretrator thereof of the said verbal shite I am occasionally obliged to respond in kind to.
whats wrong with it? no racism in it for your distasteful tastes?
Your name Moggy Doggy etc., deeply offends me as an animal lover, please change it.
OK m8
don’t call me m8 its bad luck
OK m8 I won’t
that’s okay just dont do it again innit
ok m8
Another couple of grams son, to keep you going till breakfast?
Big Green Gathering shut down on orders from the government
What do these people think they were put on this earth for? To have fun and enjoy themselves? Honestly, it’s all me, me, me nowadays.
Labour have to develop more self-confidence and be more open with accepting mistakes, but the Tories seem to believe they’re right about everything and lack a sense of humanity.
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.
Let go. Vote Labour.
Get some sleep you stoopid fucker. There’s 310 days to go and you’re wasting your time anyway.
Labour are offering real help to real families now.
Thank you Gordon! You’re the best!
Do you have to repeat you and Gordons pillow talk on here?
Aye he is. May he recover from his mental illness. May his aim improve next time he launches a Nokia at a cabinet colleague. May he find some helicopters tucked away in some forgotten airfield. May his slack jaw regain some of its steeliness. May his glassy stare soften (on one side at least). May the beastly recession go away so that we should stop blaming those responsible. May the General Election come soon so that we may express our appreciation of the man. May the Dark Cloud (Mandy) be lifted from his soul. May he gain wisdom. Not least to understand that he would be far more gainfully employed flipping burgers. We each have our calling.
Now you’re getting scary.
Please continue – you are such an amusing chappie – slice of cake? Gordon – is he that rather strange Scottish man with all the facial ticks who pops up now and again? Prime Minister allegedly, but that can’t be right, surely? Thought he was a music hall turn – illegitimate son of Harry Lauder, or something equally odd. Aren’t PM’s supposed to be figures of stature whom the people look up to? Can’t be the same chap – fucking hoon in my opinion – Whoops – are the microphones on? Sorry, Aggers – and a starling is slowly flying over cover point in a rather graceful arc…
As opposed to fake help for fake families WTF? Where do you fucking people come from? cos it aint earth thats for sure.
come on charlie is gordon going or not ?? I hear they are worried about conference performance !!
Will he even attend? The guy is ga-ga. The pressure has got to him and he has been found wanting.
Misprint there Charlie, fixed now.
Should read:
“The Tories have to develop more self-confidence and be more open with accepting mistakes, but Labour seem to believe they’re right about everything and lack a sense of humanity.
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.
Let go. Vote Tory.
”
I do not understand you guys. Can you not see that you are being taken for a ride?
The subject of this blog is:
“Guido has lunch with a reader. Guido gets drunk. Guido messes about with ‘futures’ Guido loses money.”
So what? 400 plus people have posted on this matter. Why? It is of no importance whatsoever.
Chazwick and S/pedo limpdick – psychopaths.
Engineer – practically has his dick out on the keyboard.
NewGirl – swinger.
freddie – compulsively boring, and a cυnt.
Dr Mick – frigid housewife……obviously.
nell – traditional airhead.
Anonymous Misogynist – arselicker and sheep worrier.
Master Bates – criminally insane.
Steve Expat – the sort of bloke you wouldn’t want to leave alone with your pet Labrador.
Ewanme – a waste of oxygen, and any other gas you could think of.
thanks a bunch
tat – more IDs than you could shake a stick at.
thank you for your interest in identities.
u r tat
concure (and others)
life is a mystery innit
pack it in shorts or I will bash your brains out.
I am top boy. there can only be one.
here endeth the lesson.
While more stick is unfortunately needed at the top, I believe, more carrot is needed at the bottom. People need real jobs to go to and pleasant environments to aspire and develop. I hope the government accepts this and modifies their plans accordingly.
A lot of folks will be jittery about the short-term economic issues but a calmer political climate can help. By being less distracted by this, hopefully, businesses will invest in creating opportunity and neglected communities will be given equal status as stakeholders in UK PLC.
Stay on mission and we’ll get through this, folks.
Be still, grasshopper.
You obviously need a carrot up your fucking bottom nutjob.
Is gordon going charlie ??
is charlie going gordon?
Charles If I promise not to vote against your masters at the next GE would you fuck off from this site for good?
I feel it wouldbe a sacrifice worth making to spare us all any more of your pretentious claptrap.
PS I’ll be as faithful to my word as your masters are…..
Stick that up your Zen.
Charles being a man of words you must enjoy the odd conundrum and word game.
Here’s one you may be able to fathom.
Re-arrange this phrase:
Come Off Fuck Back Don’t
Got a car free?
Can you take him for a “ride”?
I see you have learned a few soundbites from the common purpose handbook then comrade!
Nothing like a few trendy mouthfulls of double speak mumbo jumbo to hide your real feelings is there? Bullshit baffles brains and you spew enough bullshit to fertilize a few fields.
DO NOT FEED the Labourshits troll
Thank you for your co-operation
steampants become you
they go with your hair
la de dah de dah
Silly boy
you need some new material
or perhaps Dignitas
youve got a nice as yourself
part insult part compliment ?? make your mind up
compliment
The old ones are the best – am I right missis?
yer right.
Far out, dude…
Okie Dokie!
4 grams speed
2 grams special K
3 wraps crack
2 ozs super skunk
4 enemas
1 butt plug
Same again tomorrow?
right on
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.
Ah, well. That’s ego for you…
Telegraph front page:
MPs ignore public anger and give themselves £9,000 expenses deal by stealth
£25 a day unreceipted.
I think the camels back is showing signs of severe strain
(Tip for Guido) Time to buy shares in piano wire producers.
The camels back might be straining, but the electors back is quite happy to bear the burdon it would seem. Like donkeys, they bray at the load, but with carrot and stick they plod on.
…and I’ve just seen on Sky that the government is going to Court today to try to reduce the amount of compensation paid out to two soldiers.
This is where the money is going. Out of the pockets of soldiers who have been disabled in an illegal war, and into the pockets of our MP’s.
Shysters! The lot of ‘em.
Newlabour are in charge and have been for nearly thirteen years and you blame everyone else for the “failed society”?
Your ego is inflated to bursting point, your smugness shines through and your complete blindness to reality marks you out as a newlabour commissar.
Blame someone else, its always someone elses fault, the inability to see ones own failings is a sin and you exhibit the sins of pride/arrogance/jelousy/dishonesty to name but four.
Instead of picking apart others for faults why not examine your own faults first eh?
Is that why Mandleson is tipped to become the next PM? He certainly looked very happy about it on the front page of one of our newspapers.
No ego there then.
Fucking BAA and their cohorts. Theiving Bastards.
Had to drop at Stansted tonight. Drop off zone closed of by twats in yellow jackets therefore everyone dropping off had to go to short term car park and pay the minimum £2.00p.
Greedy Greedy Fuckers.
Yeah! Been there. The fifteen minute pick up ticket. Probably make more money on parking than they make on flying cattletrucks.
Yep. By my reckoning BAA parking must be the most profitable real estate in the world! Total rip off that gets more expensive annually.
I’d like to get my hands on the twat of an architect that designed the new T3 terminal multi storey at Heathrow. It’s the worst designed car park ever.
When it opened the queues stretched back to the M4! When you do finally get parked it takes two fucking lift journeys to get back to the car unless parked on level 1. One Friday it took 55 minutes to get to the exit such was the chaos.
Rip off, Piss up and brewery comes to mind.
Until recently you could stop (illegally) on the edge of the road by the ramp heading up to the drop off at Stansted’s main entrance. Taxis would park there too! Now it is forbidden.
However at the lastt roundabout on the approach the first left 11 o’clock is for the terminal, second 12 o’clock for short term parking but the third 2 o’clock is for Mole Green. Head up there for 30 feet, park up, deposit or collect your passengers and save a fortune.
Some of these roads do not belong to BAA, they are part of the public highway so tell BAA to go stuff themselves.
O/T but still Stanstead.
Anyone who thinks that all the camera’s at airports are there to protect the public from terrorists can think again.
Every car entering and leaving is photographed and put through the computer. If your insurance, tax, MOT etc., isn’t up to date, they’ll nick you. We know of someone who simply forgot to have his 3 year old car MOT’d. It was only a week out, but he was still fined £120. Mr Plod also went over his car with a fine toothcomb to see if they could get him for anything else.
This Must Be What Lie-Bore Mean by Airport Tax’s
Yep. Agreed. My mate’s dad died that week, but Mr Plod were very unsympathetic and wouldn’t even give him time to get home and get his car done. Easy money for government. The police don’t even have to leave the airport. They can catch you and nick you before you even get out.
We have too many hungry mouths to feed. We have millions of people of the kind William Cobbett called “tax-eaters”. The tax-eaters are all over us like a swarm of locusts.
And no doubt the measures were introduced on the basis of being essential for anti-terrorism, but as usual turned on the normal people of this country as a money making and oppressive system.
…..which is exactly what we all thought.
Which is what they always do with such systems and rules – it’s like city centre CCTV designed for reducing violent crimes and theft now handing out fines for civil motoring ‘offences’ such as for parking for 2 minutes with no ticket, or stopping momentarily in box junctions.
Big Brother Is Watching YOU!
Anyone think Gary McKinnin deserves to be extradited to the US under terrorism la.ws?
This is the type of society newlabour have constructed. Surveillance, surveillance, surveillance. Serious criminality goes unpunished. Just what are the government so afraid of? Newlabour took us in to an illegal war, remember?
Fuck BAA. What about this fucking government and their relentless increase on flight taxes.
I remember when it was first introduced laughing out loud that we had become like those comedy countries overseas who insist that their ‘Departure Tax’ is paid in hard currency, usually US dollars, rather than their home-printed bog-paper.
Now it is becoming apparent it is just more of this governments evil plan to keep us all here in internal exile because that way we wont spend our money abroad. ID cards, biometric passports, insane ‘Departure Tax’ – it’s all just to keep you here lest you get any crazy ideas about leaving this socialist paradise constructed by the sheer willpower of this bunch of evil bastards.
Slightly more subtle than the old USSR or North Korea. But not much.
Can’t say I love Dtansted airport. Gypsy Air ans Sleezy Jet and now Asia Air all fly over us off vector, too low, illegally outside their allocated hours quite often.
BAA treat the neighbouring villages with contempt. Bunch of fibbers.
SSE are doing a fabulous job keeping Stansted at bay. Why not build an true international airport at Birmingham or Mnachester? No disrespect to the hoards of people from up North but they don’t want to come to our sleepy part of England and we don’t want them. No infrastructure, no hotels, terrible rail and road links.
Now the Govt (y’day) withdrew monies for Stansted and Harlow for infrastructure projects. Another nail in the coffin for urban sprawl in our beautiful part of England.
Stansted airport was a disaster for that wonderful party of rural Essex. Destroyed villages, ancient houses, country lanes, and even the lives of the elderly who spent the last years of their lives trying to defend the area. The noise for those who live in the vicinity is unbearable, and the jettisoned fuel is dangerous.
What the fuck do women find attractive about Lembit Opik’s lopsided ugly mug? I’d lay money on it that the midwife who brought him into this world was more than a mite clumsy with the old forceps!
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/07/28/article-0-05DD4830000005DC-881_468x573.jpg
Face like a Smacked Arse ! or A Bulldog Chewing a Wasp !
or just a ugly hoon
It must be the money. He hasn’t got anything else going for him.
For all we know he might be hung like a donkey!
He certainly Fucking looks like one !
Agree it must be the money doesn’t Opic control all the worlds oil production ?
I’M Cheeky Me !
When he was born the doctor slapped his ma’s face instead of his bottom.
Isn’t he a bit of a Biggles? That’s probably it. He does a crash weight loss programme for the girlies. Picks them up in his crate, twice round the clouds before breakfast – ” Chocs Away!” they cry, as they suffer several uncontrolled moments of weight loss before touchdown. “Think only of me!” he tells them.
It’s aversion therapy.
When McMental Spouts off about One million children lifted out of poverty ,Where the fuck are these one million ? Over the last 37 years ive worked on some of the roughest council estates in this country and have Never seen Children in poverty ! Poor YES poverty NO! All The money this lot have thrown at an imaginary problem has gone to the lowlife parents of these children to spend on drugs,booze and fag’s WELL DONE LIE-BORE another waste of our Hard Earned !
when they say povety i thought kids with no clothes eating out of bins , but what the goverment mean is a plasma tv , playstations for all and the newest trainers for all on benifits
HERE HERE FREDDIE LAD THE VOICE OF COMMON SENSE !
cheers lad i got called atroll up the thread in the same way as charles
plasma TVs and playstations that the middle classes can’t afford because of all the tax they have to pay to support the unproductive.
There is no real poverty in this country. Why not pay benefits in food vouchers like they used to do?
Poverty? These fuckers have no clue what poverty looks like. I could lift one million from ‘poverty’ in the UK with a stroke of the pen. Simply redefine ‘poverty’ to something more like the dictionary definition of ‘poverty’.
In fact I could practically abolish ‘poverty’ overnight in the UK just as quickly as Labour invented it.
I think Cameron should just redefine poverty when elected and go on TV swaggering about how the Tories had abolished poverty not like the ‘do nothing’ Brown.
How the Tories had lifted umpty million from ‘poverty’ overnight unlike Brown who only managed one million in 12 years.
Poverty? Fucking ha!
There are millions of people in the Third World who dream about British “poverty”. Aye there are.
Morning Campers
I rammed an ice lolly up my arse earlier.
It was Fab.
Who’s Zoomin’ Who?
you have a thing about anal lad , must be to much time wanking over mandy
SmallWidge You really must stop hanging around the primary school you will get people talking ! If you really must hang out with children to find your infantile jokes then become a cub leader !
MoD seeks to cut soldiers’ payout
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8171689.stm
Despicable. Disgusting. Vile. Contemptible. Appalling. Disgraceful. Loathsome.
Plus, really, really stupid. Where does this government think public sympathies lie? Haven’t they learned anything from the Gurkha fiasco?
Labour long ago gave up representing the interests of anyone except themselves, and certainly no longer represent the working class of this country who form the majority of the Armed Forces.
What would Major Clement Attlee say?
agree lad and they think 64 grand isint enough pay for themselves , talk about them and us lad , they are on another planet
They take the money out of the maimed soldier’s pockets and line their own pockets instead.
They’re all the same. Greedy and selfish.
Not only that, they send our lads out there under equipped to get killed and maimed. Then gordon calls that a success and militwit starts talking about trying to bribe the taliban to join our side.
If they can buy the taliban, why are they fighting them?
This government isn’t fit for purpose
If the russians sent 250,000 troops in and couldn’t win, why does Gordon think he can win with a just fraction of that number? I haven’t heard anyone in the media ask that question yet. How about it, Guido?
To be fair to our troops, I think they’re slightly better trained than the Russians that went in there.
I wonder when GB is next going to visit any of our troops. If I were him I would be more than slightly worried about going near any men with guns – it only needs one with a good sence of public service to “Do The Rright Thing” after all, and the jury would probably reduce it to manslaugher for provovation
Further education colleges £2.7 billion in the red after the Learning and Skills Council allocated more money than it had to spend. And the government response?
Skills Minister Pat McFadden says:
“Ministers have acknowledged the mistakes that were made and have already made improvements to ensure rigorous management going forward, based on the recommendations of our own independent review.”
Inside his empty skull, no one can hear you scream.
more quongos and never any minster takes responabilty, has ever been this bad lad ?
Freddie Lad They need all these Quango’s After they get fucking Slaughtered at the G E they will all slip away from public view into said Quango’s and earn about 6 to 8 times what the thieving bastards are creaming off now !
its just not cricket lad , i saw ids on daily politics a while ago the former tory leader came over really well lad , could you imagine gordon brown in five years doing the same ?
Came over! i wish Brown would fucking Keel over !
freddie, do you mean Hague?
He is a fine politician and superb speaker, but was in the right place at the wrong time right after Blair’s landslide in ’97.
I remember when PMQs between those two was a proper debate on the issues of the day rather than the shit we have to put up with these days.
He will undoubtedly be a senior member of the Tory govt for years to come, possibly even PM if Dave was to go. And he didn’t go to Eton, rather the local comprehensive school, from which he managed to get to Oxford.
no i meant ids but hauge connects well loved him on the lisbon treaty debates
Sorry freddie, just saw the IDS reference. He is still good (if a little quiet!) – still prefer Hague though, he and Hannan are the best two speakers of the current crop of politicians
said the crackhead lying tramp.
no one here is interested in what you have to say steve. you have been caught out you liar.
now piss off you lying tramp.
you are stinking the place out with the smell of piss and deceit.
go now.
TAT, you obviously know that you can’t win the debate with sensible arguments so resort to trolling around looking for trouble – just fuck off back to LiebourLost. All of you!
you have been exposed as a lying piece of shit steve.
your contributions are therefore worthless.
what sort of an idiot would argue with a liar, eh steve?
you stupid tramp.
bugger off to conservativefoam, you are making a complete fool of yourself here.
can i just say that the labour party died in 1994 rip john smith
I’ve never voted Labour, but I do think John Smith was a sincere and honest man.
was same with maggie i disagreed with her but admired her leadership
and new labour do ?
About time you washed them shorts! The ammonia from your piss stains is stating to rot your brain and makes you think your Michael Jackson . Hee! Hee!
What a load of cack. He was a Scottish Commie. Boring as fcuk, tedious to listen to, overated and unproven.
Silly little Jock with an English name
And where do you think the Irish got the name Smith(e), peasant? Yes from the English.
Your precious John was a bog trotter planted like so many others in wee bonnieland along with names like Brown.
Mongrel? Not quite but I’d sooner be one than an inbred pedigree lol.
Keep dreaming of those Monroes, the lochs and heather, the bairns, the haggis, Burns and the Pipes. Load of old cack. The weather’s terrible, the food inedible, the hospitality shockingly poor, the architecture a mismatch of Euro trash and all the while memories of a pseudo illustrious past snuffed out on Culloden Moor. But I hear ye cry, the oil’s ours and remember Banockburn.
Piffle amigo. Move on, Grow up.
Poor dour John. Not.
Most of the oil is in Shetland waters. These southerners from Edinburgh have long claimed our resources as well as English tax.
The Scots. Great engineers.
Speeedo, do you think that Broon or Cameron is being more honest at the moment??
Broon is saying that investments will continue and there are no problems, Cameron is saying that spending will have to fall and he cannot rule out tax rises.
The truth, from the governmen’t own figures, is that investment is falling, and Darling’s 175bn budget defecit this year is looking like a wild underestimate!
Wonder what the tories will privatise this time? The air?
bc, Broon has already done this with Air Passenger Duty, which is set to rise yet again despite the fact that our airlines are all making a loss. This plays into airlines in Europe or the Middle East who can now undercut BA on most long haul from London.
This government has also massively increased the amount of airspace “motorways” for use by big jets only, reducing the amount left for small recreational, business and sporting aircraft that make up the majority of planes in the sky. (a personal pet hate as I am one of them!)
speedo lad are you saying the labour party have been in power ? new labour have but they are not the labour party i used to support
and i was one lad never again until the labour party goes back to its core values and then and only then will i listen to what they have to say lad
Totally agree When john died i became a tory/floating voter !
new labour where trying to be the tories , if i wanted the torys i would vote for the real thing not a scet like new labour i voted for them in 1997 and crossed my fingers , and left the the party in 2001 , they destroyed the labour party
I’d be a lot more sanguine if they’d contented themselves with just destroying the Labour Party. I’m far more pissed off that they’ve destroyed the entire UK economy, the legal system, the education system, the pension system, the banking system and everything else they’ve stuck their fucked up evil noses into.
jgm you forgot id cards and iraq
Can’t we think more laterally? Get away from tribal politics. It’s all so last century. So passe. Think about the issues and how to solve them to get the best result for everyone.
you referring to john smith? that dour Scot? Buried on Iona as if he were a king of scotland?
totally overrated and unproven.
john?…was he a personal friend? Must have been rip roaring parties lol
Proven?
He proved nothing other than he was invited to be a Miinister and did a job. Come up with anything fresh, concrete, successful? Not that difficult – just look at the current bunch of ministerial muppets.
Ignoramus? Dour Marxist Pict with an adopted English name
On Iona “Here lies a Scot who never quite made it “John Smith”, ummm very Scottish
Freddie, I agree with you completely. John Smith, the best PM this country never had.
He made a fine pint of ale an’ all.
Agreed. But an awful lot has happened in the last 12 years.
I need a poo
Too much information, Charles.
Harriett said in the HoC ,after the expenses scandal, that MP’s would have to produce receipts for every single thing that they claimed.
Now it emerges that MP’s can still claim that £25 overnight subsistence allowance when away from their main home , WITHOUT receipts.
Harriett knowingly lied.
Morning Folks
nowt new ,minister lies to parliment
Jack the Straw, he knowingly lied about rendition.
£25 is the dicount price for a hand job at the local Spanking Shop so they dont want to produce a reciept !
Well, her mouth was open, wasn’t it.
manners speedo lad
Don’t feed the Troll freddie lad.
Why do you always have to resort to insults? Some of your comments are measured and well thought out, and then you ruin it all with this rubbish.
Thought out to attract attention then rubbish to degenerate the blog.
Labourshits troll. It is a concerted effort.
Do not feed.
Thank you.
That’s right typical bolshie smearing with “racist” denunciations.
I larfed me sweatie socks off at Engineer’s funnies. I suggest you find another blog to infest if have you no sense of humour you deaf cunt.
The Scots are not a race. They are a geographical accident.
Make them take independence, they clearly are bottling the decision, knowing the English subsidies will dry up. They are like that twentysomething child who has never left home, always threatening to, but never seems able to quite take the plunge.
Gordon who?
I’m in charge.
What day is it?
MPs continue to treat the public with complete contempt.
Even the “honest” MPs, (we are constantly assured the breed does exist) are party to the latest, non announced, expenses increase. I used to think that some of the inhabitants of Westminster were aware of public reaction to their grasping ways. By their actions, none of them care.
I hope that the positions of the current batch of politicians and the public are not reversed. When they are all aflame, I will take no joy in pissing on the non burning bits only. Not happy, but justified.
I have so much contempt for MP’s wouldn’t even piss on them if they were on fire.
MOD attacks our OWN troops, plus: Gordon Brown. A stinking hypocrite? Or the only man capable of running Britain?
A stinking hypocrite.
shelling-out: Oh I would – but only down their mouths.
they think we are stupid lad
Do not feed the boring troll. Boring, boring, boring.
Let’s not forget that it was Harperson’s proposal (but not her idea I’ll bet) that troughers be exempted from FOI. That being the case, why is the crackly fannied Hoon still sitting on a committee which has anything to do with money of any kind. Conspiracy? I think so!
lad they are drunk on power
lad they are drunk on power they need time to learn in oppo what the labour party stands for
there are on mars and we pay the bills lad
Away with ye, Labourshits troll
I thought you just said don’t feed the trolls?
make your mind up you silly old tart.
Ah, namechange already.
so soon?
Heard that fawning fanny Dawn Primrola (sometimes known as Dawn Primeval) on radio this morning. Where does she get that excruciating voice from? It must rank as the most annoying nanny voice of any female MP. I think she needs a good ******* to clear her throat.
Guilotine?
Garotte?
Gargle of jism?
Yes, where did she learn to murder the English language like that? Has she got a permanent smell under her nose? She didn’t get that accent from attending a girls’ public (private) school I doubt. Nauseating.
You deserve everything you get you ill mannered numpty.
You may go.
Not with you, sir.
Anyone who can declare that a former old Labour member, who despises NewLabour, is a libertarian is really not worth debating with.
IF you start the sensible debate then I’m sure the rest of us will follow
Tweeting Tw*ts
New government guidance has been published urging civil servants to use the micro-blogging site Twitter.
Launched on the Cabinet Office website, the 20-page document is calling on departments to “tweet” on “issues of relevance or upcoming events”.
As long as it’s not critical of the government. In which case you will be fired for mis-use of public property, time, workplace, breach of contract etc etc.
More paid apparatchiks ‘spontaneously’ propagandising for the evil bastards that invented their non-jobs.
As if!
“Tweets should also be limited to issues of relevance or upcoming events rather than just campaign messages, and insights from ministers are encouraged.”
Two points:
Note the strange wording of “rather than just campaign messages”.
Insights from ministers?! Oooo, hold me back, I can hardly wait.
Any civil servants sending out anything that might resemble partisan campaign messages are as guilty as McBride – there are clear rules in place to stop those paid by the State supporting the Party in work time…
I smell another scandal coming up…
Has anybody seen sight of McBride’s P45 yet? Or was it just another lie from Brown to deliberately mislead us and give us the impression he’d been fired.
More than one million people follow Downing Street’s business via Twitter.
What??!?! FFS why?
Why? So that they know what to think. And say.
“PT Barnum (Ex-Labour Party Member) says:
July 28, 2009 at 10:33 am
More than one million people follow Downing Street’s business via Twitter.
What??!?! FFS why?”
Same reason folk watch F1 I reckon. The irresistable draw of the carnage. Plus most think McTwat’s a bit of a James Hunt.
no steve, what you are smelling is the stench of your own piss and shit encrusted trousers.
please leave you are stinking the place out with your pissy shit tramp smell.
bloody crackheads!
That’ll teach yer!
Here’s an odd thing.
The BBC has announced it will share video free of charge with newspaper websites, where before it blocked or attempted to block any usage of its material by other organisations.
And yet, and yet, LabourList often has BBC video footage (usually of Brown being Serious and Moral). How can this be so? The BBC and NewLabour are entirely distinct entities. Aren’t they?
Serious and moral? In his fucked up head no doubt. I cannot think of anything more amoral than borrowing 40bn quid a year since 2001 just to pay a made-up army of one million non-jobbers and then, when it all goes tits up, blaming it on the banks for lax lending. Oh, actually I can.
Sitting there in cabinet while Blair cooked up an insane scheme to invade Iraq on the flimsiest of pretexts and figuring ‘What the fuck – if I keep my head down he’ll let me PM – like we agreed’. Pointless war? So what?
I get to be PM. Me, me, me, me, me!!!
Serious? Serious? We are best-placed to weather the global storm….. indeedy. Instead of borrowing 40bn quid a year to pay my made-up army of bedwetters I shall instead print 150bn quid to pay them.
Yeah, you know, that strange facial expression he adopts when being SeriousnMoral – head inclined to one side, a smidge downcast towards the floor, the mouth arranged into the merest hint of a downward turn, the eyes half closed, eyeballs lifted heavenwards.
And the voice, carefully weighing each and ev er y syll a bull as if it were a marrow entered in a giant vegetable competition.
And throughout, he’s nodding along in agreement with every word he utters.
Her Grace, the Lady Rantzen has announced she will stand for Parliament, saying it will b “an adventure”. It might be for her. What an opportunist arrogant egocentric will do to try an revive a career.
In these Orwellian times, let’s hear with George Orwell had to say about the communist-leaning socialists. Remind you of anyone?
From The Road to Wigan Pier.
The first thing that must strike any outside observer is that Socialism, in its developed form is a theory confined entirely to the middle classes. The typical Socialist is not, as tremulous old ladies imagine, a ferocious-looking working man with greasy overalls and a raucous voice. He is either a youthful snob-Bolshevik who in five years time will quite probably have made a wealthy marriage and been converted to Roman Catholicism; or, still more typically, a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaller and often with vegetarian leanings, with a history of Nonconformity behind him, and, above all, with a social position which he has no intention of forfeiting. This last type is surprisingly common in Socialist parties of every shade; it has perhaps been taken over en bloc from the old Liberal Party. In addition to this there is the horrible—-the really disquieting—-prevalence of cranks wherever Socialists are gathered together. One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England..”
I see that your ‘mate’ McPoison has had the time to polish up a good story for the Grauniad, Guido! He must be smarter than everyone thought to have absented himself whilst concocting that!
I do hope that you will point out any inconsistencies in his story in due course. Did you ever get the FoI request satisfied?
I have never encountered a compulsive liar anywhere close to the standard set by Gordon Brown.
He obviously assumes that his status as Prime Minister entitles him to lie with impunity (most journalists let him get away with it ).
His recent claim that he always tells the truth was truly shameless which is no surprise given that this man has no shame,no honour,no diginity,no integrity and no conception of the meaning of valour or courage added to which he is a thoroughly nasty person.
Has there ever been a more odious,lying,cowardly bully in occupation of the highest Office in the land.
It beggars belief that Sarah Brown ,in private moments,has never tiold him that his blatant lies diminish him, disgrace his office and expose to the entire
world the imbecilic dimension of his flawed character.
She has not been seen in public sporting a black eye or fat lip or a Nokia shaped indentation in her forehead so it wuold seem that she has not mentioned his shortcomings in his presence .
Is she by chance planning another rescue stunt at the Labour Party conference ?
Surely even that audience of hand picked prejudiced prats will not be taken in again.
Will it?
What clowns are running the MOD?
It could only be this goverment selling them out. Now screwing injuried serviceman.
My rose/rosé comments hit a raw nerve, eh? You read it, corrected it, then deleted my comment. Nice.
Didn’t drive back again did you Guido? Or have you given up drink driving?