Think Tanks on the Taxpayer
The Taxpayers’ Alliance has discovered that last year £1.6 million found its way from the taxpayer to four left-of-centre think tanks; Demos, the New Economics Foundation; the Institute for Public Policy Research and the New Local Government Network.
Think tanks often have a role in thinking the unthinkable in present policy terms. The New Economics Foundation is one of the most bananas of think tanks going. The New Economics Foundation, which was paid £601,518 in 2007-08, is responsible for the Happy Planet Index, which places Saudi Arabia and Burma above the United Kingdom and Sweden in terms of “achieving, long, happy lives without over-stretching the planet’s resources”. This type of left-wing lunacy would not bother anyone much if it wasn’t for the fact that it us who are paying for this drivel.
Demos is the new base for James Purnell (shades of Ed Balls at the Smith Institute) it is a vaguely Blairite / New Labour.
The IPPR was set up in the mid-eighies specifically to give Labour some intellectual firepower.
The New Local Government Network was set-up (though they will vociferously deny this) to organise local government operators along more New Labour lines.
This is just not right, it is bad for the think tank’s independence at the very least. How can they risk rocking the boat if the government is funding them? No right-of-centre think tank as far as Guido knows gets any significant state funding. This should be for the chop by Hammond on the first day of the new government.
Be still grasshopper
Only birds in tlees know tlue meaning of tlousers, glasshoppa.
guido, u must have such a small willy….
go shag ur wife and stop working.
Good spot though Guido. Exactly the sort of thing you should be flagging up. Evil bastards. Looting us to provide ‘independent’ reports that sanction their idiot policies.
Here’s some ‘left wing’ thought they should be promoting. ‘If you don’t work, you don’t eat’. How’s that you idle fuckers?
Old Chinese Proverb……..
NO WORKEEEEE NO EATEEEEEE
Socialist proverb: “no obedience means no food”
Don’t work, you don’t earn,
don’t earn, you don’t eat,
don’t eat, you don’t shite,
don’t shite, you die…
Fucking delicious!
THE WORK GOES ON… Sorry Guido but you turn your back for a hols and the troughing bastards are back…
Lord Taylor of Warwick claims £70k for home that does not exist
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6736141.ece
John Bercow spent £20,000 on refurbishments… £7,000 sofa…
Tax Avoiders Alliance
Jizya Avoiders Alliance.
Stupid arse LM. If we didn’t pay tax, like Steve Expat for instance, we wouldn’t be so angry about pissing all this money away. I assume on the other hand that you approve of money being diverted away from schools, hospitals and properly equipping our forces in Afghanistan towards bollocks like this.
I’m still angry at all the government waste. Top of the list of reasons to leave in the first place was that I fed up of being being taxed to death to pay for all the prolifigacy – and that someone offered me a job where there’s very little tax to pay
I’ll be back when there’s a smaller government and a little more personal responsibility, rather than the politically correct nanny state we have now.
Steve you left the country because your a shamed crack addict on the run don’t give us a bollox sob story.
Ah, the tat’s back, and there was me hoping you’d gone away!
Anyway, I’m the first to admit I bailed out rather than pay my ‘fair’ share of tax, when the government decided that ‘fair’ meant the majority of my income!
And no, no matter what you might think I don’t do drugs – out here they lock you up for a LONG time in proper prison (no playsyations and satellite TV) for that!
er, that wasn’t me steve the tramp, but I must say it’s a fucking good imitation innit.
but I don’t use capitals unless a word is important.
steve the homeless person is a crackhead alcoholic tramp who smells of piss.
therefore steve is not important. no capital.
close but no banana 2.06pm imitator.
oh, and don’t steal motherfucker, stealing is wrong.
you thief.
So The Lack Of Capitals Obviously Means That You Write Only Unimportant Drivel.
Well Done.
So The Lack Of Capitals Obviously Means That You Write Only Unimportant Bollox.
Well Done.
I am a humble hero steve.
you are just a tramp.
no contest innit.
but I must congratulate you tramp, that is by far the wittiest comment you have made since you have been here.
well done hobo!
Accountability and crowd behaviour changes things. If this blog is how people want it then explain the mass exodus of the people who made more serious comment and didn’t get into rolling arguments. Whatever people believe or say the world works in a certain way, and that can’t be ducked.
People who don’t know this stuff tend to scream and high-five the loudest, until the place empties, and no new DNA comes into or is allowed into the mix. It can carry on for a long, long time. Then, a few cheerleaders leave and the thing finally empties. Like the economic crisis, it’s happened before and will probably happen again. Raise the bar, people.
Be still, grasshopper.
Holiday season? DOH!!!
Well observed.
I took a sabbatical until Guido decided to ditch Speedo and his other hilarious name made out of symbols.
No big loss you may say but many who used to post in the past and either something useful to say, or thought they had, have now left; the balance switched from tryers with a few twerps to twerps with a few tryers.
SRT. Endorsed. I rarely open the “comments” any more.
Couldn’t agree more Sir Reg. I waited until they were off in their caravans with their mums.
The clever, clever construction of speedo’s moniker suggests he has the mentality of a schoolboy who realised you could type 58008 on one of those early digital calculators, turn it over and get ‘BOOBS’.
Speedo probably still thinks this and his name are cool.
53778008
We only managed
710.77345 & 710.0553
Anon, do you mean 55378008?
0.7734
OK, it is seriously wrong for the government to pay external bodies (with other people’s money) to produce reports that support policies the government wants to introduce anyway. If the left’s arguments don’t stack up then all the paid propaganda in the world won’t make them useful or right or make them part of the national DNA.
Or perhaps the strategies employed by libertarians, against those who cheerfully and quite openly-frankly state what they intend about the death of liberty, are not sufficiently Gramscian.
Like the rejected proposal for regional assemblies, but only in Labour voting areas, and the huge growth in the number of special advisors, it is all part of the constant use of public money to fund a career structure for party apparatchiks. Let’s make no bones about it, this is the most corrupt government in living memory.
Whilst we are on the subject, knowing that they are on the way out, look at how this government is seeking to perpetuate itself beyond the grave, with legacy legislation; and not just the government, but the more politicised arms of the civil service, who fear a less friendly Conservative regime. Look in particular at some of the pronouncements of HMRC pushed out just as everyone is going on holiday.
Let’s not forget the half million to Alcohol Concern, 200 grand to ASH and 130 grand to some ‘Family planning Association’. All so they could obtain ‘Expert’ and ‘Independant’ advice on rationing how much we drink (ID cards would be ideal for this one) smoking and how often some of us shag.
Deceitful, Fabian, authoritarian, wastrels, the lot of them!
CEH. It’s ‘Accountability and crowd behaviour change things’. If you’re going to clever-arse it around here try and get something right.
Be still, wank-brain.
Are you tryiong to tell me that the report into Heathrow that found that there would be no extra pollution, or noise, or traffic, but that there would be more jobs, more infrastructure, more eco areas was a load of bollocks?
Didn’t those 50,000 homeowners really want more 767′s swooping in and lifting the satellite dishe off the roof.
I’m amazed.
Reds under the taxpayer’s beds!!!
I’m free!
Charles, Charles, Charles (sigh)
You blind old fool
The idea is that you read the bit at the top, then make comments and observations, not witter endlessly on about Buddhist, Labour party dogma.
You are about as relevant as bible classes in Aiya Napa
The stationery grasshopper gets eaten by a snake
No, McGroom. The stationery grasshopper is clearly origami and therefore unlikely to attract the attentions of a snake.
At the risk of plagiarising the Bard, fuck off, Chas.
You group the UK with Sweden????
You fuckwit England is gonna be more like Somlia in ten years.
God willing.
I couldn’t agree more. As a dyed-in-the-wool misogynist, beating women has always been a bit of a passion of mine, and I’d like to not only see it legally sanctioned, but taken to the next level. Whip them a bit, chuck acid in their faces and force them to wear a cloth sack over their heads for ever.
Gents, form an orderly queue at Harriet Harman’s house.
It’s not only within the Palace of Westminster that troughers can be found
Barstards!!!
Have you read this about the payrise for Parliamentary officials who administer the expenses, getting a huge pay rise?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6737922.ece
Its outrageous.
I didn’t phrase that very well.
It must be the rage getting to me.
Grrr.
It’s just rewarding failure in true NuLiebour fashion. The bigger the cock-up the greater the reward. No one on the public payroll can ever be allowed to fail while the taxpayer is picking up the bill.
Fortunately the long overdue day of reckoning is fast approaching.
I don’t think it will ever stop raining until Brown loses the election – if he ever calls one, then, if not well we’ll all be flooded away to kingdom come!!!
Yes, the only thing that keeps me going is the thought that the most monumentally incompetent Chancellor and PM ever in the UK will be out on his ear in 10 months time. CMD cannot be as bad, but that, of course, does not make him good. However the relief will be enormous.
Have A look At The Relater Article RE MP’S Claimed £300,000 Without Recieps Might Have Known Jack Straw Lord ChieF Trougher Of Blackburn Would Be In The Que If Theres Yet More Free Money Going! These People Are Filth !
Outrageous, yes. But entirely predictable. These people know where the bodies are. They have to be kept happy and, above all, silent.
Now, what’s going to happen to them when they leave?
Brown will not stand for re election. He is a coward and will claim he is spent after saving the world. Liar !
Here’s an extract on economic collapse from Alan Watts’ essay From Time to Eternity:
Do you remember the Great Depression? One day everything was going on all right. Everybody was pretty wealthy and had plenty to eat. The next day everybody was in poverty. What had happened? Had the fields disappeared, had the dairy vanished into thin air, had the fish of the sea ceased to exist, had human beings lost their energy, their skills and their brains? No. But on the morning after the Depression a man came to work building a house, and the foreman said to him “Sorry chum you can’t work today,. there ain’t no inches.” He said “What do you mean there ain’t no inches?” “Yeah” he said, “Yeah, we got lumber, we got metal, we even got tape measures.” The foreman said “The trouble with you is you don’t understand business. There are no inches. We have been using too many of them and not enough to go around.” Because what happened in the Great Depression was that money, there was a slump in money. And human beings are so unbelievably stupid, that they confused money with wealth. And they don’t realize that money is a measure of wealth, in exactly the same way that meters are a measure of length. They think it is something that is valuable in and of itself.
Are you awake yet?
Money (or lack of it) is a measure of ‘lack of wealth’ too.
As we’re discovering. Although printing 150bn quid is deferring the true picture of how utterly fucked we are until after the next election.
It is the financial equivalent of keeping quiet knowing full well you’d given somebody HIV but that they’re not due a test until next year by which time you’ll just blame their latest squeeze. It wasnae me. I didn’t fuck you.
Charles – stick to the topic – don’t go off subject – you complain – and your the worst culprit !!!
Concentrate man !!
PS Incidentally – Alan Watts votes Conservative
‘you are’ that is
you are
that is
I am
Charles was
Wow! And he died in 1973. Are the psychedelic substances keeping him ticking over?
Maybe those pesky Labour grasshoppers still sneak in proxy postal votes for him.
Didn’t Spuddo direct us to a website he’d created in honour of the corpse?
Sir Alan Walters?
Dr. Alan Watts.
What! What!
In the future we will, no doubt, be able to quote from an essay which says “Do you remember the second great depression? One day everything was going on all right. Everybody was pretty wealthy and had plenty to eat. The next day everybody was in poverty. What had happened? Had the fields disappeared, etc., etc? No. But Gordon Brown became Chancellor of the Exchequer and then Prime Minister”.
You are writing the history already. Don’t forget to include the bit where Brown loses an election by the biggest margin in British history and becomes a teacher at a Highland secondary school where he is accused of…
well, it was all hushed up. No charges were made.
‘meters’ wot gas meters? or do you actually mean metres, the SI unit of length as used on the continent?
haven’t read the rest..started to fall asleep..but METERS caught my eye as I dozed off..
Charles, Charles, Charles
…and you point is………
Your New labour paymasters got us into this mess and you reckon they are best placed to get us out. Ha
Henry Morganthau Jr. (who was FDR US Treasury Secretary during the Great Depression) said that “never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can’t make it worse.”
The stationary grasshopper gets eaten by the snake
I think you mean Alan Watt not Watts.
I do not believe the wise man would ever have had the stupidity to vote for any established political Party. But if he did, if would undoubtedly be for some form of conservative or more accurately republican libertarian.
CEH
TRY actually reading Alan Watt. The very last possible thing he could possibly be is a socialist. Unlike yourself he KNOWS what socialism actually is, and more importantly where it comes from, and it sure as hell is not the common PEOPLE.
Where only ultimately pointless hard work and real human compassion comes. ONLY parasitical self interested upper and middle-class self deluded scum like yourself, are true socialists. The rest just think they are socialists, because they do not understand what socialism really is. You clearly do know, which is why you are one of the largest pieces of utter shit ever to have posted on this site.
However, if you have for some strange self serving reason forgotten what socialism actually is all ultimately about, may I remind you?
Socialism is ultimately establishment propagated GENOCIDE, of the truly massive variety.
Have ZaNu got any destination other than statist control of everybody? They have started, apparently, with a scheme for CCTV cameras actually within ‘problem’ families homes (Daily Express 4th Aug 2009). Soon they will want one in every home. I can just see Balls salivating at the idea.
Salivating Balls. Mr Timneys favourite film.
People make too much of a thing about dictatorship and democracy. What’s important is good governance and, I think, I carried that one if the explosion of “high attention earners” who bought into that is any measure of succcess.
Gordon Brown is executing things rather well in spite of opposition and circumstance. One thing some people are overlooking is how he talks up individual peoples success and how he is keen to take part in meetings to build agreement.
Really, your own egotistical desire for control and self-satisfaction is what’s doing the talking here. You perceive Gordon Brown through the lens of your own anger and selfishness, but THE GREAT LEADER acknowledges all and praises all. As per the Tao, they succeed by letting go.
Be still, grasshopper.
Charles, there’s little doubt that really ARE Gordon Brown and I claim my £5.
As for the “think tanks” – those other ‘think tanks’, the RIIA and CFR are allegedly the real ‘governments’ behind the pretend “government” fronts. Perhaps the exposure of the funding of same by the taxpayer is merely ‘disclosure’ of our future ‘reality’? Over my d.b.
What was that??….conspiracy??? I’ll get my coat.
Charles,
you talk of Zen yet you are obsessed by Gordon Brown.
Let go Charles: let go of Brown.
Zen simplicity is the answer to your mental health problems.
Relax.
Well seeing as we make too much of dictatorship and democracy, why bother distinguishing between them Charles?
Gordon Brown seems to get these muddled quite often after all.
Half of what you say always makes no grammatical sense.
(Just like a Labour politician.)
Never forget that the GREAT LEADER loves us little grasshoppers.
Tax And Oppression (TAO)
They have been feeding money to the Trade Union movement in exactly the same way who then feeds it back to ZaNULabour as contributions.
State funding of political parties? We already have it.
Statefunding political parties aka nationalising political parties. How very Labour?
This simply allows the same old tired arguments to carry on…
Have reasons to exist and continue that are voter attractive or disappear. Simple really!
there should be NO state funding of political parties
Agreed # 223 there should be NO state funding of political parties NOR backdoor funding via think tanks. Odious Labour parasites.
Raving Mad:
You did not say it loudly enough.
THERE SHOULD BE NO STATE (TAXPAYER) FUNDING OF POLITICAL PARTIES.
Louder…
_”THERE SHOULD BE NO STATE (TAXPAYER) FUNDING OF POLITICAL PARTIES”_
Agreed Sungei – no taxpayer (state) funding of political parties AND no MP should be a ‘member’ of a ‘think tank’; secret society OR SOCIETY WITH SECRETS.
Budgie-you don’t believe that bollocks do you? Ha,ha,ha,ha. I thought one of the contract qualifiers for cctv tendering was that it musn’t work at any cost.
Goddam son of bitch.
Of course he wants us to be calm. There’s a shitload of important information out there that he doesn’t want anyone to know about, so he covers his tracks, says nothing and does even less.
If we had a government who could be honest with us, I really believe things would be better. However, they are now so deep in the mire now, that it will be virtually impossible for them to come clean.
You don’t listen to the comments on here. You make sweeping and generalised statements without any hard evidence to back them up. You are quick to make comments but do not comment on our replies.
This is the Nu Labour way. We can all see it. Wny can’t you?
After many attempts to write a comment last night all of which vanished I wrote No5 in frustration which suprise suprise did go up.
The BBC often as a headline loves to quote these Think Tanks and their wonky ideas.
This country needs a complete muckout of pesky left leaning good for nothings.
Nothing to disagree with here. Sock it to them some more Guido!
Don’t let the bastardos rest in peace for one minute.
Nothing This Shower Of Shite Do Suprises Me! No Ideas, No Policys, No Morals And Now No Fucking money !
Fuck Me You Sad’o Do You Sit up Allnight Writing This Shite 3.25 Am How sad is That ?
More likely a subscriber to the Richard Timney school of entertainment. Stays up half the night bashing his bishop then, when sated, bashes off a quick posting before retiring. Next day, same again, ad infinitum.
If only Mastur Bator was as frugal!
He’s at it ALL the time!!
And posting!!!
No wonder he writes such bollox!
Dave, there’s a few million more for the “Efficiency Savings” list
What’s the betting that there’s BILLIONS of pounds worth of this shit all over the place, and we’re paying the fucking bill for it!!
Fingers crossed there’s enough of these scams discovered by the incoming government that takes won’t have to rise as we pay off Gordoom’s 12 years of prolifigacy…
We’ll see how folks have to be held back when we have to go cap in hand to the IMF.
It won’t be because they’re happy, though, it will be because their homicidal tendancies have risen to the surface!
Expect the IMF to have to break down the door, as minister after minister continues to deny there is any problem.
Will we be seeing riots on the streets this winter for the first time in 31 years? Purely co-incidence that 1978-9 was the last winter of the last Labour government of course!
after the ashes lad i am off with peadlo and beer to the west indies
The IMF won’t get involved.
They simply don’t have enough money to sort us out.
Trevor, quite possibly.
The IMF spent somewhere around $7bn in Iceland and around $16bn in Ukraine last year – they would need several hundred billion dollars to make any inroads at all here, our GDP is around $2,500bn and we have already printed another $200bn with almost no effect. UK Government borrowing this year will be $280bn…
Civil war has developed an undeservedly negative reputation over the years. I mean, how do you know you won’t like it, if you haven’t even tried it?
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time. But, you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Eat that spunk, you spineless cocksucking loser. I have chunks of better men than you in my stool.
Sir, I tried it and found it not at all to my liking.
I like civil war more than Borat likes sex!
Borat likes sex = Axe lesbo skirt
The only good Socialist is a dead Socialist.
We had a civil war in Finland in 1918, supported on the other side by the Russians. Nasty business and I wouldn’t recommend it. My ancestors used to say that the only good Russian was a dead one.
The only good roundhead is a dead roundhead!
I’m not mad on Lancastrians myself.
The only good Stephen is is a dead Stephen.
The Only Good Lamb Chop Is A Dead One !
Left of centre, right of centre, soft centre,shopping centre-who cares about the semantics?
They’re all a lame excuse to bleed the taxpayer. People bleat about abuse of our benefits system,but IMO this is where the real abuse lies.
Jobs for the boys,jobs for the girls jobs for just about any twat with connections who would struggle in the big bad world called LIFE…
Very well put.
these little insights into spiv spin propoganda outfits dressed up as think tanks are almost amusing , were it not for the fact that they make idiots out of us at our expense .
Govt pays think tank
Think tank comes up with somthing (alledgedly independent)
Think tank uses money to group interest groups and lobbiests (waving ticket to possible goverment cash)
Interest groups and lobbiests then say its a good idea and spin for govt
goverment then answers fake question or need posed by lobbiests and creates quango to buy there support and sends joe public to them if they have any questions .
circle of confidence built , public cannot ask goverment or enquire . govt look as clean as a whistle , cash gets routed to Labour proganda : simples
its like stalin only smiley faces , expensive lunches and no rifles .
The ruin is still on holiday back in fife readying for next round of “international politician” media has to cope with pointless political stories , is harman bonkers , dromey blames the banks , mandelson wants to be president , bob ainsworth put out to dry , but who did instruct the leagl department, Alan johnson doesnt want gary mckinnon case to stick to him .Hain suddenly remebers he represents uk people
nothing going on , move along move along , no bad people here , no debt worries , it was nae me it all started in America.
Still nice to see john mcfall explaining away bankers bounuses as equivalent to Ronaldos pay at Real Madrid , mmm so Ronaldo has overleveraged to UK to debts of nearly 100%GDP , interesting analysis mind you it does have one similarity i never got to vote for ronaldo either
I see your ego is still as swollen as your pride?
What is the true nature of a parasite?
Who does a liar really lie to when there is nobody listening?
Does the wolf have sympathy for the elk?
How long is a piece of string?
Is socialism a mental illness?
Fuck off and die a painfull death grasshopper.
Britain’s financial regulator, which has called on banks it supervises to reduce debt on their balance sheets, has a deficit of 23 million pounds ($39 million), its annual report shows.
The Financial Services Authority had to arrange a 100 million-pound revolving loan with HSBC Holdings Plc, the London- based agency said in its report. The FSA said it drew down on a 100 million-pound loan from Lloyds Banking Group Plc “to fund a short-term deficit in our liquid resources towards the end of the year.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=a2lDajnCf_pM
Bonus payments, don’t you know?
Yep. Bonus payments at the FSA for the thoroughly good job they did regulating the banks. In accordance with industry comparatives. They’d have to pay the FSA chaps bonuses or they’d leave and get a job elsewhere?
Oh yeah? Sweeping the platform at Euston? Along with Gordon Brown. Which is all the CLINT is fit for.
Did n’t I say no rewards for failure ??
£100m loan to cover a £23m deficit? That’s what I call leverage!
Surely this could result in a conflict of interest.
It wasnae me.
I thought the Adam Smith Institute got loads from DfID over an extended period of time to advise on privatisation in the developing world and so forth? There’s an obvious case for Governments buying specific research and advice work from think tanks, so I hope the TPA focus on the value for money question and the nature of the work actually done, rather than the cheap headline.
Dunno about the NLGN – their genesis is clearly from the left, but they’ve done interesting (not of necessity the same thing as worthwhile, though I think largely it has been) stuff across the political spectrum. I wouldn’t be surprised to see some sort of coming together between them and their right-ish equivalent, Localis, in the next few years – watch the Kent connection to see if that’s on the cards, would be my instinct.
Dear Charles. Would you care to instruct us in how your philosophy justifies Labour spend and boom and bust and bust? I am really interested in how completely trashing an economy from party political motives can enhance the common good of the working (if he’s lucky) man.
I would also be fascinated to know how an avowedly centralist Govt has increased the character of independence and community by taxing the poor to give more to the rich, that transports it’s citizens round the world so that they can be tortured in secret, launching an attack on individual rights previously unknown since the Stuarts and so managing the Countries’ legislative Chambers that it has become impossible to effectively scrutinise the Govt legislative program.
Your lunatic “Tao” maundering are built round an immature attempt to mystify basic loony left ideals. The “grasshopper” nonsense, taken from the New Testament, enjoins us to “toil and spin not” presumably because Gordon will provide all our daily requirements. “Sit on your Ass, light up a Camel, for this is the Promised Land.”
Charlie m’boy, you are an ass. We all know you are an ass, and we treat your comments as asinine. You seem to get the same satisfaction out of posting here as a paint-can wielding child scrawling obscene graffiti on a wall – and you serve approximately the same social purpose. You are a corrupt and hypocritical emissary of a corrupt and hypocritical. political party, and I look forward to the annihilation of all you support in the New Year.
Do not feed the troll.
jmg2. You’re sooooo right, normally I treat Charles as white noise but occasionally I lose control. I’ll try harder in future.
Charles is just the personification of that old labour ploy – if in danger of losing the argument, use whatever tactics necessary to prevent an alternative view being heard. Thus far he is successful. This blog is filled with either him, or comments about him. Go with jgm2. Ignore the shit.
SpotonoMundo GoM !!
Total agreement !!
It was Adam Smith International Ltd – a independent, private international development consultancy – that was been awarded contracts by the Department for International Development, not the Adam Smith Institute. Though Adam Smith International was founded by some former Institute staff in the early 1990s, the two organizations are completely separate.
Fortunately that will not happen in the future when the DfID is axed. Totally. Saving: 9 billion smackers.
I think the Forum Jester went to bed and left his auto-post machine on.
FOOL.
Naw the shift changes at 4am and the next one doesn’t clock on until 8am.
And which of these ‘influential’ think tanks’ various offerings are offered up usually with no hint as to provenance by a certain objective media organisation also funded from the public purse?
NewZanuLab is like the multi-headed Hydra – chop off one head and two grow back.
The only answer is to chop off all the heads and cauterise the stumps. Cameron is our new chosen Hercules so roll on the next General Election.
Cameron’s a tit
I think he’s more of a dick.
Gordon Brown is an asshole.
And Nick Clegg is a pussy.
Fuck Yeah!
Their members are worse
He’s a huge Member!
The Ministry of Truth, Winston’s place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below.
The Ministry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further.
The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels – with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child’s spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary – and now Blogs like this.
Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston’s job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one.
This process of continuous alteration was, and is now and will be applied not only to newspapers and the BBC, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs, blogs – to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance.
Big Brother Brown is watching you: he has your own best interests at heart.
1984 is the blue print for everything NuLabour has done, including creating its own version of newspeak, and re-writing history. But even Orwell could not have imagined the present levels of surveilance, interference and state control we now endure. NuLabour, NuStasi.
Communism = Criminal Cυntism
we’re a pair of wankers and we know we are
Aye. Where are the ‘alternative comedians’ and ‘Spitting Image’ now?
Can you imagine what ‘Spitting Image’ would do to Brown’s inflated image of himself. A big fucking dunce’s cap on him as he blunders about Terry Fuckwit-like with a massive trail of destruction and misery in his ponderous wake?
Nothing to say – the useless CLINTS. But they’ll be out of the woodwork in 24 hours as soon as Labour is out of power. Bedwetting for BBC bucks.
The economy completely in the shitter, our government printing 150bn quid. So far. This year.
But no. We hear nothing except arseholes going on about ‘started in America’ or ‘be still fucking grasshopper’.
Jackasses.
Right wingers = Homophobia and False Flag Terror attacks
Ask Fidel Castro about homophobia.
Ask Comrade Robert Gabriel Mugabe about homophobia.
Ask Kim Jong-Il about homophibia.
Opps!! I meant to say Homophobia, homophibia is not telling the truth about hating gays.
Well said.
Do they mean ME?
Quite so. ‘No more boom and bust’ became ‘no more Tory boom and bust’. Manifesto promises on referenda for PR and Lisbon treaties are simply airbrushed from history.
Blair has been airbrushed from history. Iraq war? Nothing to do with me. Insanely low interest rates leading to housing boom/bust? Nothing to do with me. Started in America.
Lauding the City of London and his own miraculous ‘miracle economy’ conceived by his own gigantic brain at every opportunity?
Turns out it was everybody elses ‘era of irresponsibility’.
Brown has personalised ‘success’ and socialised failure.
The fucking lunatic.
I think that is a very apt comment:
“Brown has personalised ’success’ and socialised failure.”
Excellent.
Me too.
Oh dear! You’ve inadvertently given Brown another scapegoat. ‘It’s the Moon’s fault’.
Yebbut what will they do about Toenails? How will the BBC ever make us forget his slimy, partisan crawlings of his editorship?
Marketing folks relabel tired and worn out old brands as New as a con trick to make them look as if they have been improved:
New Brighton
New Economics
New Labour.
You’d think we’d have learnt by now…
Although the New Tai On was a really fab little takeaway in Chessington. Not sure if its still there though.
A websearch doesn’t find it.
There’s a Thai restaurant in Henley called “Mae Nam” which is Welsh for “There’s a defect”.
Dai, sad news:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=“new+tai+on”+takeaway&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=
Went to a Chinese in Mill Hill once that translated to “I came third in the Civil Service Exams”
My little brother’s prep school had a chinese symbol on the cap… we had to wait a few years for a translation but got there in the end, it was for ‘school’.
Bless. Mind you, the chef in Mill Hill probably did come third (certain similarities with expected performance of Labour in spring) as he couldn’t cook.
New Conservatives = Tesco
Labour = Woolworths
Come now dears, you can do better than that!
Labour = Northern Rock
Labour = Dunfermline Building Society
Labour = HBOS
Labour = RBS
Labour = Over-leveraged borrowing
Labour = Reduced to printing money. 150bn quid. Printed. There goes the currency. It is only a question of time now.
New Downturn
New Recession
New Scandals
New Home Repossessions
New Unemployment
New Debt
New labour – No Surprise
I’m afraid its not just a few Think Tanks. The whole of the academic world is tainted. Universities must meet targets. Academics must get grants to advance, the Govt appoints the members of the grant giving bodies, so if you dont toe the party line then no grant and no advancement, and no attending nice seminars overseas.
If there weren’t a 1000 universities, with a million administrators and lecturers and 2 million “students”, what would the true unemployment figure be?
Suadi Arabia “achieving, long, happy lives without over-stretching the planet’s resources”.
By leftist standards they probably do have ‘long, happy lives’ because with all that oil money sloshing about the goverment just gives ‘em all free cash.
With the result that they just all get bored, fat, indolent and arrogant. Like the Labour government’s core vote. They also cleave brainlessly to whatever shit their ‘thought’ leaders pour into their uncritical skulls. Just like the Labour governmnet core vote.
I can’t see how the largest oil exporter on the planet can be cheered for ‘not over-stretching the planet’s resources’.
And Burma. A country that allows its citzens to drown in their tens of thousands in case rescue workers from overseas made the locals realise how utterly incompetent their own rulers were.
I bet North Korea rates highly too for simlar reasons.
Yes and those muslim countries like Sauda have a simply fantastic record on wimmins and gays rights. I get such a thrill marching against the war with bearded muslims who I know share my commitment to equality for all and freedom of expression and thought all of which is being stifled by the evil empire led by George Bush and his evil henchmen on Wall Street.
kill the white men, kill the gays, kill manmade laws and manmade freedom of speech.
After which your useless infantile (anti)society will wither into oblivion because you’ll have killed off the people that support your pointless existence.
We do this with our oil revenue and our stupid liberal obsession with saving you from others of your backward kind. To top it all we so love to give you our nice shiny country to live in after you’ve ruined yet another of your own.
Where exactly will you have to run to when you’ve turned the UK and other western countries into another Muslim paradise?
You’ll just end up shooting each other in a field whilst you argue over who’s the more barbaric devil worshipper (again).
Despite all this money and effort getting the Labour message across, England is still giving Brown the very clear message “FUCK OFF”
also if you are some paid Labour blog troll you can fuck off aswell
be still grasshopper
This is fast becoming the personal blog of Charles E Fuckwidge. Tedious.
If Desmond Llewelyn (PBUH) was still on the planet here he’d have given us a Q Branch machine which would be able to construct a full character profile and as a bonus also generate an accurate mugshot from CEH’s ranting’s The Tuscan guess is that he’s the spitting image of Charles Hawtrey.
Not sure where the loose ‘ in rantings came from . Probably Sid Jame’s
Correction,HAS become.
Dear Ratsniffer
I agree with you.
There is no place on this blog for the Labour clowns.
They get in the way of kicking into the Tories.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Oi George tell us: how many members has your campaign got?
Dear Augeas
Give out private information?
What I will tell you is this;
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IP Address 193.164.162.# (Scottish Parliament)
ISP Cable and Wireless Telecommunication Services GmbH
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Country : United Kingdom (Facts)
State/Region : Edinburgh, City of
City : Edinburgh
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Does the Scottish Parliament visit your site?
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
George.
Why don’t you have a summary of what your beef with the uni is on your site instead of pages and pages of accusations but no sense of why you feel you have been aggrieved or why a tribunal seemed not to agree with your decision.
I can’t follow a word.
A few paragraphs at the start might help.
George, I tried to read you blog, but the spelling and grammatical mistakes made my eyes bleed
More snouts in the trough. It is going to be so very easy for Dave’s lot to make cuts in spending since these tax-eaters swarm in their hundreds of thousands, all snuggled up under New Labour’s tail. The problem is: what we do you with them all once they have been made redundant? They have no useful skills. Can we send them all to Iran?
hahahahaha! They will all be given massive pay-offs and gold plated pensions. These parasites look after themselves, they will have ensured that their terms and conditions of employment include some very generous bungs come the day of judgment.
Yes 56, didn’t the nice Ken Livngstone arrange a similar pay out for some of his cronies when he was kicked out of office?
Yes and the newt fucker trousered some £97,000 himself – not bad for being told to piss off by the voters. They will never lose until they are hanging from a fucking tree.
DAILY MAIL : GP’S Earning £ 380,000 Per year ! Fucking Outrageous ! No Wonder MP,S Want To Be Payed In Line With Doctors !
They do less work – no night duties – they leave that to call centres who spend hours questioning you about your ethnic origins and whether you are still breathing or not.
One Of The Questions On The Swine Flu Help Line Was: Are You Unconsious ? That say’s It All About The Health Service Under Lie-Bore !
In my case, the answer would be yes.
Unconscious and conscienceless
does GP stand for Gippo?
As in Gippocratic Oath? They sure go the front of the queue.
My beef is not so much with GPs or nurses but the legion of ‘trained’ counsellors which come with the diagnosis party… their main job seems to be to tell you that no, you can’t have this life-saving treatment or drug on the NHS and furthermore you must stop using the internet to find out about them, never thinking that if the NHS didn’t have to pay for their useless arses, it might actually be able to afford the aforesaid treatments and drugs.
fuck off! Quackery is an honourable profession, right up there with journalism, politics and whoring.
Leave whores off the list. They deliver what they promise.
On time and on budget.
VSfH
Do I know you????
I’m surprised the government hasn ‘t found some underhand way to give money to the Guardian to keep The Observer afloat. Instead of making The Observer more readable the Guardian Media Group have decided to junk it rather than face the fact that they are personally responsible for its declining sales. Like the Observer, 95% of today’s Guardian is written by and for immigrants and minorities and could never be of any interest to the majority of the newspaper buying public of the UK.
Add to that its Pravda-like reproduction of NuLabour press releases, and the fact that it employs rich, imperious leftie finger-waggers like Polly T, and you can see why it is of little use except for the wiping of arses.
Polly Toynbee apparently has ‘A’ levels that spell ‘EE’ but scored a place at Oxford (A bit like Milibrain). Which she attended for a year before getting bored/thrown out. Thus depriving some working class kid with 4 x ‘A’ s the opportunity to better their lives as opposed to just clogging up the fucking system before getting a job through daddy’s contacts.
No wonder she exhibits such self-loathing.
Her grandfather, Arnold who held a high post in the Foreign Office, held anti-sovereignty views and was mentioned in SS General Walter Schellenberg’s Gestapo Handbook for the Invasion of Britain 1940 as “an obliging and skilful man”.
Some pedigree.
Polly once said that if Bill Gates moved to Albania that country’s GDP would rise immensely. Economists were dismayed that she didn’t understand the difference between a stock and a flow. How can someone so ignorant get a job on a national newspaper? jgm2 gives the answer – ‘daddy’s contacts’?
The word you’re looking for is nepotism.
have a look at Polly’s grandfather on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_J._Toynbee
The bit I like is “In general, the critique has been levelled at his use of myths and metaphors as being of comparable value to factual data, and at the soundness of his general argument ” and “an abdication of responsibility of the retreating British Empire, in failing democratic values”
This treasonous trait is obviously hereditory.
Fascinating Mr McG. I have always thought her articles were devoid of logic, with analogy and sentiment being used as substitutes. Now we know where she gets it from. Plenty of other examples of nepotism amongst the marxist self-styled intellectuals at Oxford.
G-GURRRKK-K! SQUWAAAAAR! PRETTYPOLLY! OO-ZEANUGLYBIRDZEN?
This is a gross caricature of an intelligent newspaper. You can actually guess what really happened from the Grauniad, which you can’t from, say, the Mail. Unlike the BBC, it does acknowledge that contrary views exist and can be held by intelligent and honest people. We need intelligent writers in a country mired in the cult of stupidity. My objections to the Garudian are that (a) we subsidise it (b) the same old commentators such as Toynbee, White and Monbiot are allowed to bore on year after year and (c) there is too much priggishness.
I agree Sir William, gizza job…..? (couldn’t resist)
…. yes, and me too please….
And humourlessness. It’s probably OK for lining a cat tray, though.
or convincing a cat to use the garden
no, the print comes off on everything
It’s a useless self serving rag not even worth mopping up shite on a dysentery ward with.
Surely HMG advertising has paid well
GMG is massively subsidised by the taxpayer and the license feepayer – look at all the job advertisements they have for national and local government, quangos, the BBC and other not-for-profit organisations. Plus, bet they are paying ratecard as it’s “nobody’s money really”.
And still, the business is a dog’s dinner – just shows how crap the ‘Labour-minded’ are at running a commercial organisation.
The New Economic Foundation appears to have produced reports entitled -THe Happy Planet – Green Well Fair – The New Wealth of Time–
and National Accounts of Wellbeing which notably purports to survey 22 european countries to measure personal and social wellbeing ie supportive relations and experiences of trust and belonging.
What utter Twaddlle!!! And we are paying taxpayers money for this – Why??!!
Morning Folks
The Tories are not in power but you omitted some key labour achievements;
One Trillion pounds of debt.
Iran war
Afghan war
More CCTV than everyother country in the world.
You forgot :
Higher unemployment than when they took over. Despite hiding three million extra in universities, incapacity benefit and non-jobs.
Biggest deficit in UK history.
More money printed than all previous government combined.
More money borrowed than all previous governments combined.
Gap between richest and poorest greater than under Thatcher.
Education dumbed down by record amount.
Record immigration.
First run on UK bank in 150 years.
Most regulation of any government ever.
Political trials and raiding opposition MPs offices.
And many more…
Unprecidented engorgement of the publically-funded part of the economy at a time when the wealth-creating part of the economy is shrinking drastically.
Yep this government taxed consumption, then to hide the economic fall caused by tax and extort a tidy bit of money, they got rid of bank reserves and dropped interest rates by changing the inflation target.
It also managed to convince people that unaffordable* housing was a good thing!
*ratio of house price to Average wage.
Oh, deepest recession for eighty years. Worse than either of the Tory recessions.
You’d never guess it was the deepest recession for 80 years though?
BBC continually reporting “green shoots” which always turn out to be favourable statistical blips…
I remember the MSM coverage of the last conservative recession, it made it seem like the world was ending!
How about handing over UK citizens to foreign powers for trial and torture?
Only dumb whites, as we muslims get to stay thanks to the UK taxpayer and our friends on the left are days in gitmo are over.
Also..
Soldiers being guarded by private security companies – epic fail
Keystone Border Cops
&
Plastic Bobbies
They reversed a 20-year trend of warmer weather.
This new labour mob of violent, anti democratic plunderers are trashing the country big-time (like they trashed Iraq) now to basically make life difficult for the tories – what these shits have forgotten is the population, the people of this country who are going to suffer for a generation or two because of these talentless, money gabbing crones – they are the criminals, they are the real terrorists.
Just as an afterthought does anyone know roughly how many of these left wing ‘think’ tanks there are in the UK?
yes.
None.
None of them can think.
They are all droids.
Who cares? They are all practicing a brand of Stalinism:
‘The term implies an inherently oppressive system of extensive government and “purging”of political opponents.It involves a state making extensive use of propaganda to establish a personality cult around an absolute dictator to maintain control over the nation’s people and to maintain political control for the party’
Sound vaguely familiar?
“Think Tank”, there’s an oxymoron if ever there was one.
What their purpose is, they are a way to launder money through them whilst claiming to do research into something the government is interested in. Why do you think New Labour has so many “think tanks”, and why so much money gets thrown at them from donors and unions. It’s an excellent way of cleaning dirty money or getting money from donors who would normally have to report the donations if given straight to a political party.
“Think Tank”, there’s an oxymoron if ever there was one.
Doesn’t really meet the definition I’m afraid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron
social wellbeing ie supportive relations and experiences of trust and belonging.
Well if one government has totally undermined trust and belonging it is the 12 year occupation of Blair and Brown. A government charactarised by lies, misinformation, mendaciousness and incompetence.
If Thatcher is to be derided for her ‘no such thing as society’ half-quote then this government will be characterised by ‘no such thing as truth’.
Yes. I’ve never known a government to be as blatantly and persistently dishonest as this one has been.
Agree
Is it better in here today or am I imagining it? I’ve not felt like reading anything here and certainly not inspired to comment for days????
Yes, it’s better!
Well done to the Taxpayers Alliance for uncovering this, and well done to Guido for highlighting it.
Why do these “think tanks” – of any political persuasion – need so much funding? Thinking costs nothing, and discussing it amongst a committee costs little more; maybe the hire fees for a room, and a bit in a kitty for tea and biscuits. Printing brochures and pamphlets might cost a few bob, but not £600,000 per annum – that’s an awful lot of pamphlets. Ideas can now be published on the internet for very little.
Is the truth perhaps that these “think tanks” have staff, and permanent offices, and all the trappings of a branch of the Civil Service? Why should the taxpayer fund this? Why would payed staff produce “independent thought” – if they were hired took in the first place, was it because their ideas accorded with the aims of the think tank? If they are paid to think in a certain way, won’t this influence their thinking?
How much public funding goes to right-of-centre political think tanks?
In a recession, this is a luxury the public purse can’t afford – that their funding has not already been stopped speaks volumes about government decision makers.
In order to get the best brains Think Tanks are forced to pay high costs – only think of how much the Smith Institute needed to shell out to get the benefit of Ed Balls’ wisdom during the window between his civil service job and his election as an MP. They were incredibly lucky to be able to secure the services of an economic genius.
Tax payers shouldn’t fund ThinkTanks – the parties should
Only people who can vote should fund political parties.
At the rate things are going, there will be no one remaining here who will be paying the tax to fund all the parasites.
Correct. What do you suppose they’ll do then ?
They’ll have top jobs lined up for themselves somewhere. The rest of us can just go hang.
At the moment, they are printing the money that isn’t being earnt. Buy Gold and the Yuan.
Paying bog standard GPs billions means GPs’ corporation tax revenue is going through the roof! I’ a fooking financial whiz.
I got the idea from giving bankers £1.5 trillion and then getting £0.34 extra in PAYE.
Yes. Taxpayers are leaving this country at a rate of around 1000 a month.
Some immigrants do have jobs to go to. Others just arrive and expect help from the state immediately – and they get it!
The elastic band is being strectched to breaking point.
See you in Switzerland.
Brother in law goes this weekend.
Cannot wait actually.
Oh, if you are British you are entitled to 90 days back in UK p.a. For ALL other Euro citizens the allowance is 180 days in your “home” country.
You couldn’t make it up.
What an insult, although reading this, I’m not really that surprised. We’ve become the lowest of the low in our own country – but boy, do we pay for the priviledge.
Is your brother-in-law going to live in Switzerland permanently?
Why on earth would anybody choose to spend 90 days in Britain?
cricket lad
The quality of life in Europe is far better, regardless of what income level you are on!
Of course, you have to stand on your own two feet and speaking the lingo is essential if you wish tounderstand the culture that you live in!
United Condom is beyond redemption!
I told my buddy from Bejing that when he comes next year that I will buy all the Yuan that he can carry!
Switzerland is the best place to buy gold. no paper trail!
Yes, has 3 year contract.
His employer, once a UK registered company, moving all operations and registered now as Suisse. Most employees are UK citizens.
Personal tax varies in each Canton. For corporates the tax saved is huge. For the employee there is a marginal saving but come next April it will make it more than worthwhile.
Our current Govt don’t get it. The Tory Boyz shortly to be elected don’t get it either.
And do you really believe there will be a “recovery” in the short term? I’m sorry to say I don’t. Too much debt outstanding. Unemployment increasing. Too many tax increases in the pipeline.
If the Dave had any inkling of business, he would be addressing publicly each of these issues if not with Policy but at least ideas. The future does not bode well here in the UK.
And what does the shadow minister for small business say ?…..yup, you heard it from me first, absolutely nothing.
Cry, for tears are free.
Cry, for tears are free (for now).
Is it a company is the SE of England that manufactures smells?
me thinks you were too hasty Guido when you said you was going to wind down your porkbusting campaign. Clearly this shows those fucking bastards have well and truly spread their grovelling little tentacles everywhere to grab OUR MONEY and fucking deceive us at every fuckin turn. THEY CAN ONLY CARRY ON DOING THIS IF WE LET THEM!
I’m sure there are millions more examples of them spending our money for their fuckin benefit alone.
Well done to the taxpayers alliance again for some great detective work. THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE NOW TO COMPLETE TRANSPARENCY IN GOVERNMENT AND COUNCIL SPENDING. IT MUST BE AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY AND ON-LINE FOR ALL TO SEE. NO POLITICIAN CAN EVER EVER BE TRUSTED.
Correct.
There is a Shadow IRP “panel”, a group of volunteers, who will be monitoring East Herts District Councillors.
The group (I am not one of them) are retired senior people who a wide experience base, some having worked in local politics.
Heaven help the thieving councillors who have been troughing as they will be exposed. Certainly they will need to lower their financial expectations for the future.
If I were East Herts District Council I would be afraid, very afraid
Hope they get the councillors and housing maintenance team (incest abounds) at Welwyn garden City too – troughers the lot of ‘em
Gordon Brown is merely the latest and last manifestation of NewLabour. We should remember how we got here and how such a man could manipulate his way into power.
So, let’s hear some of Tony Blair’s greatest hits, like this one….
“What is the alternative? What does the Right Honourable Gentleman offer? Why was it that he made a policy-free speech, apart from a load of nonsense from the Shadow Home Secretary, most of which we are doing in any event?”
– Tony Blair to William Hague and Anne Widdicombe, HoC, 6 Dec 2000
From a man who’s only two policies in their 1997 manifesto were ‘We know we are financially incompetent so we’ll follow Tory spending plans for two years’ and @We promise a referendum on PR’.
Only one of which they kept.
how big is the state lads , too fucking big from where i am standing
Right now we can’t see the state we’re in for the State we’re in.
aye lad at least we are 1-0 up in the ashes
You would have won the last test if you had more women in the team.
aye lass they won the world 20/20 , the one day world cup and hold the ashes
Good effort at Edgbaston, Fred. nice to see you in the runs again.
cheers lad more to come
Think Tanks = Wank Tanks
Think Tanks + Wank Tanks = Skank Banks
I’m seeing a Shitewidge purge. Good-ho. Although it probably takes longer to delete that shite than it does Shitewidge’s random-post-generator to create and post it.
Charlies comments have been removed. Someone’s on the ball.
There is no moral duty to pay tax, only a legal one
“socilaists” have no idea of the risk and hard work it takes to make money from manufacturing. It is painfull to pay more tax than I earn only for the state to jizz it up the wall
Anybody earning more than 150K will soon be paying 51% tax. And that’s before the 15% VAT on practically everything they consume. Their 75% fuel tax. Their 200GBP per trip Gulag Tax. 2000 quid a year council tax. Road Tax.
My missus is seriously considering retiring a year early next year. Let somebody who is prepared to work half the year to pay Brown’s army of box-tickers, bedwetters and bastards step up and pick up the slack.
This family is on strike.
In the U.S. they have a phrase called “Going John Galt” for people doing what you’re doing.
Half the year ? I think your numbers chow it’s a fuck of a sight more than that. On strick ? Snap.
Good on yer, mate. This family is going to do the same thing.
By the way, tax is 5% in Lanzarote and the climate is fabulous.
manufacturing? in Britain? Don’t be soft lad.
Industrial enterprise takes time, skills, real capital.
Looting the simple people, getting kickbacks from arms makers for illegal wars, developing knowledge based enterprises, like the BBC, where one can place one’s offspring, is what Britain is about today chum.
Dead right, when I joined my company in 1998 we had 10 factories in the UK, now down to 2.
Oh to be in the insecticide business…
…be still grasshopper.
re “No right-of-centre think tank as far as Guido knows gets any significant state funding”.
Am not sure about the current position, I suspect the largest amount of government funding to any think-tank post-1997 would have been the DFID contracts to the Adam Smith Institute, on development consultancy issues.
I am not up to date on the amounts and whether this is ongoing. It was several million pounds a few years back, and widely reported around 2003-05.
It might be worth Guido making inquiries about that too.
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TC August 4, 2009 at 3:07 pm said:
“It was Adam Smith International Ltd – a independent, private international development consultancy – that was been awarded contracts by the Department for International Development, not the Adam Smith Institute. Though Adam Smith International was founded by some former Institute staff in the early 1990s, the two organizations are completely separate.”
So, Eric Blair, you are wrong. Also when the DfID is axed there will be none of this anyway, and a saving of 9 billion quid.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1204116/Bonkers-Cabinet-colleagues-view-acting-PM-Harman-swipes-male-bankers.html
oh dear lads
D’ya know, I almost feel sorry for Jack.
wasnt he the bloke who was in charge of the labour party finaces?
Jack Dromey. Yes I think he was. Not sure if he still is – looked on Wikipedia but I can’t be sure if info is correct.
His life must be purgatory if Harriet is like that at home.
so many people above there pay grade in this goverment
I do hope she doesn’t think she’s representative of today’s hard working women. Most of us who have worked full time and looked after a home and family, despise her .
I think her comment that if Jack wasn’t able to feed himself he would starve says it all. Meaning I suppose that she regards anything to do with the home as beneath her very shrill and mediocre personality.
i reackon she is a bloke dressed as a man like balls “wife”
She always gives Dromedary a shrilling when he gets home. Worth a bloody fortune he is.
Harman said: “Gordon Brown is Radio 4. I am Radio 2. Together we make up 360 degrees.”
Intellectual inadequacy in grand style. Really able and competent women must be beating their heads against walls when they hear that.
She couldn’t have got get a maths degree then. Wonder how she reached that conclusion?
The 360 Degrees were quite big in the 80s but split up over irreconcilable hairstyles.
I was hoping that the silly bint would offer herself in place of the Somali woman who is facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers. Harperson to the rescue!!!
Good enough reason to get rid of the BBC
Radio fucking GA GA more like
No – the men in white coats will have to hold the Fife fiddler down. He will go down
in history as the man who brought this country to it’s knees.
The hand of History must weigh a ton in Gordon’s case.
I hope it’s clenched into a fist and is aimed squarely at his knackers.
Wrong technique for punching in the balls!
O/T, is Fondlebum really going to take up parachuting ?
Ooooohhhhh. Let’s hope so. Plenty of room for maneovre there.
aye lad into a safe seat with postal votes and the next leader of the labour party
Are there any safe Labour seats after Glasgow East?
Plus if the opposition candidates stand aside for a Martin Bell figure we could get an interesting result.
I don’t think Labour will risk it. Constitutionally there may be no objection to a Lord being PM anyway. Not that this government gives a shit for constitutional precedence anyway.
i did add the ” postal votes ” in there lad ,labour are good with printing press
Excellent, a good chance for us to make sure he does not get elected. Postal application form anyone?
The west midlands will always vote for Labour i can guarauntee that.
I think therefore I wank
Cogito ergo smeg
I sometimes think it is a good rule of thumb to ask of a country: are people trying to get into it or out of it? It’s not a bad guide to what sort of country it is.
– Tony Blair, January 7th 2006 in a speech at the Foreign Office conference
Referring to my previous post when I said I was under the impression that people were leaving Britain at a rate of 1000 a month, things must be pretty bad when people decide to leave the country of their birth to live somewhere else.
Migrants from countries at war is one thing, but just to leave because things are so awful is quite another.
Gordon should take note. The high earners tax could push people out, and Britain will eventually be left with people on benefits and not much else.
I am one of those people. Living in Britain is very expensive – and we’re not high earners, just average really. If we can just up sticks, plenty of others can too.
New Labour does not believe it is the job of government to interfere in the running of private business.
Tony Blair, Jan 19 1996, speech
George Osborne is on the Demos advisory council. It’s swinging New Tory. The tills will keep ringing….
Blinky Balls strikes again !
As if the recent “1984″ 24 hour in-house CCTV wasn’t enough now it appears that once again SATS results for 11 year olds in English have slipped down and are still under the 85% target………..
Blinky’s resolution to the problem ……..
Simples …..lets reduce the 2011 target to 78%
Utter utter rubbish, yet again Blinky shows himself to be unfit for purpose
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8182391.stm
More dumbing down.
is he the worst minster ?
Can and can’t be Fred. Collective responsibility see. They’re like the feckin’ Borg.
collective responsibility untill something goes wrong then its the quangos fault ( the one they set up) and then set up another quango
It takes poo to quango…..
According to the Mail this morning 35000 children will be going to senior school in September unable to read and write. Balls/Labour. fails again.
Why can’t we have think tanks looking at problems like this instead of the rubbish they do research – although the solution is fairly simple – re-introduce the three R’s back into the mainstream and spend less classroom time on those cultural study thingies.
Erm I think you will find that dumbing down the population is a ZaNuStasi policy success, not failure.
I wonder how many of those 35,000 are the children of diverse and vibrant newcomers to these shores?
I wonder how many of those 35,000 are the children of people who’s majority of income comes from extorting taxpayers?
Call me a stereotyping b’stard but I’d say a large majority of them come from the two above groups. The worst thing is that we financially incentivise both groups by punishing those who work or employ.
In the interest of diversity, Haringey Council will be enabling council tenants free access to hundreds of foreign language digital TV stations (home owners on the same estates will be forced to fork out up to £800 each whether they like it or not). If this goes ahead, it will promote even more marginalisation of immigrant groups who don’t have to make any effort to learn English to get by in life and even fewer children will turn up at school with the ability to speak English, let alone read or write it.
My step-daughter has learning difficulties – She was not allowed to take the SAT’s – the school didn’t want her to have the embarrassment of failing.
Or was in something to do with statistics ?
My partner is Head of Maths at a large comprehensive – we watched a couple of progs on “Teachers TV” yesterday – dreadful rubbish – one was about “teenage relationships” and was supposed to be shown to kids in school – it consisted of various scenes – one of a group of vapid 14 year olds dressed like hookers explaining that they were going out on the pull and competing to see who could “get off” with the most guys, and one with a 14 year old boy explaining that big breasts and an hour-glass figure were more important to him than personality when choosing his latest squeeze. Now I remember being a teenager (just), but FFS – why push this drivel from on high when you could be teaching the 3Rs???
Any sound Winston made, above the level of a whisper, would be picked up by the telescreen; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.
Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth watching (that’s with your IP address, car registration number, voting record, new loft extension, wheelie bin), could be kept twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police and in the sound of official propaganda, with all other channels of communication closed. The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion of all subjects now existed.
Never show dismay! Never show resentment! A single flicker of the eyes could give you away. It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself – anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime it was called. Your worst enemy was your own nervous system. Any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
Remember: Lies are true. The truth is a lie
Big Brother Brown is watching you for YOUR good.
43 weeks to the election.
Are you ginger?
Impossible to tell since the wax.
Left wing think tanks funded by you and me thru taxation. Right wing think tanks funded by you and me thru retained profits (ha). I don’t recall consenting to either (and wasn’t academia supposed to be the repository of thinking the unthinkable anyway?) But is the difference merely that in one case the thief is distant, and in the other is all over our TV sets every day? Of course not.
Transparency to the money is a minimal requirement for all such “think tanks”. What stupid people do with the information – or not – is up to them.
These “think tanks, quangos” will allways be there in large numbers as long as we have incompetent ministers/PM’s They are required to do government “thinking”
The present bunch of incompetents in the HOC, as is often said on this blog, couldn’t run a welk stall.
Just listen to the likes of Harriot Harman’s ranting. Dear old John Prescot (Bless!) and many more. Many got their job by being a Professional Bullshiter. The labour party has many of these idiots and hangers on. These are the “do nothing people” that infest the HOC.
THE REAL DANGER TO THE UK IS WHEN THEY TRY AND DO SOMETHING
For example HIP’S also there obsession with global warming, spending billions on bullshiting, patronising leafets that end up in land fill!!
I get a totaly useless leaflet from my local council explaining how they are spending my money. It’s even too shiney and thick to wipe my arse on it.
BOY DO THEY PISS ME OFF!!
appluse
A New Britain where the extraordinary talent of the British people is liberated from the forces of conservatism that so long have held them back, to create a model 21st century nation, based not on privilege, class or background, but on the equal worth of all.
– Tony Blair, Speech to Labour Party Conference September 28 1999.
Laughable isn’t it. ‘Held back by the forces of conservatism…’ Pure 1984. This from the party of the Luddites. The party of the ‘Dock Labour Scheme’. The party of the miners. The party of British Leyland.
No ‘job’ must ever become obsolete. No progress must ever occur.
The Labour party. Keeping your grandfathers job open for you. Whether it’s needed or not.
Labour. The true party of nepotism.
A few Lords handing down their titles to their kids is bad enough but millions of miners, dockers, steel workers etc doing the same thing even though history has passed ‘em by and Labour didn’t bat an eyelid. Quite the opposite.
Keep paying the fuckers full whack. All of them. Just like their grandfathers. And don’t forget, vote Labour.
I sure wish my pensions and investments were equal to all those tony leached from us the Taxpayer.
Seems to me that what he meant by that speech is that some of them were going to be more equal that the rest of us, not based on privelege class or background but by apropriating our money in large quantities.
Utter garbage.
‘A New Britain where the extraordinary talent of the British people is liberated from the forces of conservatism that so long have held them back’
Where did that Empire come from then?
‘to create a model 21st century nation, based not on privilege, class or background, but on the equal worth of all’
So,we do not want anyone to be better than anyone else.Mediocrity rules
A New England where the extraordinary talent of the English people is liberated from the forces of socialism that so long have oppressed them, to create a model 21st century nation, based not on political correctness, mass immigration and propaganda, but on the inherent worth of the indigenous people, their history, culture and traditions.
ELF, Post to Guido Fawkes Blog August 4 2009
I am not surprised that Left Wing parties syphon money into influence peddling propagandists that support their view.
I am more concerned at the rumoured £100 million of taxpayers money that has been given to the scary “subjugate Britain” charity known as Common Purpose.
That is a true scandal that Cameron needs to expose.
Have a look at this video
http://www.scribd.com/doc/12832492/YouTube-Common-Purpose-Official-Propaganda-Video
Your link does not appear to take us direct to movie-footage Mr. McGroin
“IN THE POST DEMOCRATIC ERA… WE ARE READY TO LEAD”
http://myreader.co.uk/msg/1212650327.aspx
Common Purpose – coming soon, a charity event near you.
Look at the eyes – demonic.
It’s just theft.
Trouble is, it’s legalised theft. I know it’s a hoary old chestnut, but I think we need en election….
Think Tank says no.
To what – the theft question, or the election question? Or both?
Answer came there none…..
I tries to just repeat the “think tank says no” but the ‘you have already said that’ moderator wouldn’t let me. However, for your persistence..
Gordon Brown is like the unhelpful, socially awkward clerk from Little Britain
We need an election..Gordon says no.
Ah! Sorry Bill – with you now.
10 months….and counting….
Theft is illegal and the government make the law, so it’s not quite theft. It’s certainly extortion!
The law is an ass.
I had some experience with the IPPR a few years ago on an issue which was supposed to be high on the Governments agenda.
They wanted to hear what Industry’s view of this issue was,hence the invitation to talk to them.
Frankly,they listened politely,but with marginal conviction,and then quickly moved into a fund raising pitch.
Needless to say,nothing came of it.
nothing ever comes of anything you are involved in sleeper.
no change there then.
How’s the postman doing in his job as P.M. Thick As?
That “prediction” of yours is (as usual) 100% wrong.
I fail to understand why you anticitizen as an american citizen should care who is the PM of Great Britain.
hold on a minute…. oh yeah, now I see it: Gordon Brown is an agent of american interests and you want him to stay in power so he can keep fighting america’s dirty wars because ameria would have got its arse kicked in by now without British help.
but in answer to your question:
Gary and Alan’s fates are inextricably linked.
if Gary goes down so does johnson.
try not to be so impatient eh? far more sensible to wait and see, innit.
The Sleeper also thinks nothing changes…as demonstrated by your continuing presence here.
now you are talking to yourself you cretin.
I really must stop doing that
very funny.
labour are just common criminals………
forget all the bluster.
everything they do is to evade the law whilst destroying the country.
the uk is now one big festering pit with mps,police,judiciary,lords and big biz all focused on using us as fodder………
if you have any sense leave before it is too late.
lads i am starting to feel sorry for the tories they will have one hell of a mess to clear up
after enron acounting by brown for 10 years , imagine george and daves face when they see the real figues,and to make it worse we will have labour mps ( if they have any ) shouting nasty tories at every moment , its just not cricket
Yes. That is my plan. Evil Tories. Nasty Party.
I think it’s “OMGWTFBBQ!!! Call the IMF!” on day 1 of Dave’s PMship.
What a contrast it will be to the strong and vibrant economy bestowed by John Major.
The Conservatives should come in hard and fast to fix the mess, rather than drag it out. Bit like when a new CEO takes over a company, he can sweep out all the dross and bad news and blame it on the previous management.
The British economy and society needs chemotherapy – we won’t enjoy it, but needed to kill off the cancer of socialism once and for all.
That’s true. But the most universal cancer of Western civilisation is that we spend more than we earn. This applies to the USA, the UK, and the Eurozone alike.
If we will not live within our means (both private and government) then at best we will simply be owned by the Chinese, the Indians etc. When that happens we will be the low wage slaves and any surplus will be fed back to the owners.
Correct.
£1.6 million isn’t a huge amount if it helps Labour come up with some sort of coherent policy. God knows they need it…
Labour – coherent policy – lol
12 years and no sign of that happneing yet
They can’t even manage poor people paying less tax
It is not the Taxpayers job to fund Gordon Briwns lack of ideas, all these expenses should be charges to the Labour Party account.
What else will they try to get away with – which media is reporting this political corruption. the BBC. the Guardian?
‘cept it doesnt and never will !
In their earlier years, the Labour government had quite a few “coherent policies”. The problem is, most of them turned out to be less than good – education policy is an excellent example. Now the economy has exploded, the government is committed to spend, spend, spend, and it would seem that they have no fallback policies or Plan B, apart from insulting their opponents.
The public money spent on think-tanks has been wasted, full stop.
Weren’t the “coherent policies” of the early years put together by Andersen Consulting, funded by Geoffrey Robinson?
Long ago, although not so far away, the civil service did the basic spade work on formulating policy options for ministers to choose from. They pointed out the pros and cons of each option in order to spare the minister having to do too much analytical thinking but, obviously, the policies had to fit in with manifesto commitments and the general thrust of Government thinking. The policy papers put to ministers were often informed by advice from expert committees whose members gave their services freely as they regarded it as a privilege to serve the country. Very occasionally, a committee chairman got a CBE or knighthood after years of such service. Otherwise, they got their train fares reimbursed and Civil Service Catering Organisation sandwiches. Professional civil servants synthesised the advice from technical and scientific committees into a form which was intelligible to ministers and addressed the major policy issues. The civil servants guarded against any one expert swaying the argument too far in one direction and watched out for bias and conflicts of interest in the advice given.
Fast forward to 1997 – all policy would now be determined directly from Numbers 10 and 11, mostly informed by a bunch of recent PPE graduates and PR men. Party members would be recruited in directly to senior civil service posts and other work would be contracted out to friends working as independent consultants. Subsequently, chosen individual specialists would be appointed as Czars or given peerages to enable them to become ministers.
Oh Brave New World.
And the results are there for all to suffer…..
Come back “Yes, Minister”, all is forgiven.
IoC: good analysis of how the system has been traduced. 100% agree. All caused by BLiar/Brown’s total contempt for things British/English.
O/T.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8182361.stm
Shame……..
Galloway was given a Palestinian passport by Hamas, so he’s got somewhere to go after the next election. He won’t suffer the same fate as Lord Haw-Haw did after World War II.
but where will you go david?
who would want you?
nobody.
This comes as no surprise, where do you think Brown gets all those tractor stats from, its not from the real world thats for sure !
9 Months and counting !
Right. I’m waiting to conduct interviews for a job. The first three applicants have not bothered to turn up, no phone calls, no nothing. Obviously there’s more jobs around than we are being told….
any use for a knackered out all rounder ?
I see a commentary double act with Tuffers in your future Fred.
i do a good elvis lad
we’re not interested in how many cheeseburgers and fries you can eat freddie, we are only interested in how fast you can sling a ball 22 yards.
good lad.
innit
thief 2.26pm, fuck off wanker.
I must have really upset you warmongering labour party c’unts eh?
sad is not the word. you labour troll motherfuckers are plain weak, so very weak. take your beating at the hands of the great thick as thieves like a man charles you spineless warmongering piece of shit.
new labour are weak, they are not powerful enough to hold power, that’s for sure.
and it won’t be long now until imbeciles like you are kicked out of the game. and on the day you and your corrupt mob of newlabour war criminals have been disposed of the crowds will gather on the streets and laugh and dance and cheer in celebration of the death of the
NEW LABOUR WAR AND TORTURE AND OCCUPATION PROJECT
and then, Godwilling, the country can move forward again.
you labour party whores had your chance and you blew it.
blew it up with bombs. you dropped your bombs on people holding weddings, you bombed entire families of Afghans. and you knowingly and actively facilitated torture and are still to this day the scum labour party is trying desperately to cover up that fact. you are going to hell you fucking new labour statanists. satan is your master you devil fucking worshippers.
and so we must address the issue head on: war crimes have been committed by the new labour war machine.
time must be served. jail time. nothing less will do.
I would hang the c’unts if I were in charge, and with minimal court proceedings.
I think it important to note at this stage that people are in no mood for an establishment wing of protection being wrapped around fascist war criminals like tony blair and gordon brown and jack straw and ed balls and peter mandelson etc etc etc.
we are not in the mood. heads and spikes spring to mind.
no joke.
Just someone turning up when they say they are going to might be enough! This sodding country….!!
There’s 5 million unemployed and yet people can’t be arsed to turn up for interviews? Says it all really…
Chances are that they’re ticking boxes. You can imagine the conversation down at the JobCentre next week, can’t you :
“I got an interview but I haven’t heard anything since…haven’t got the job…keep the benefit/tax credit/handouts coming please…”
Yeah. Heaven forfend anyone should actually EARN a living
What would you like me to do?
Or, as Mr. Humphries (almost) put it: ‘I’m (almost) free!’
I thought that was just us!
We tried to recruit a graduate software developer recently. Of the THREE applications we received (and this is for a good job, no maintenance/support rubbish), two were clearly not even bright enough to read the job spec, and the third simply didn’t bother to turn up.
No wonder this country is on it’s bloody knees. I’m livid. Not least because I DO have work to do – lots actually, and I’m wasting my time sitting here waiting for nothing. I’m actually phoning up the people who haven’t turned up (one wrong number, one answer machine so far) to slate them. Wasn’t going to bother, but I’m soooo cross….
heres me cv
I’d say yes Freddie, but it’s another job I’ve in mind for you!
cheers lass i can also ride a peadlo and am very socalable, what job you got in mind ?
Ok the 12 o’clock is no show too. That’s 4 out of 6.
to the pub for lunch you should go lass
We had a temp in recently to do some data entry work. A young lad of about 25. He spent the first morning telling me how keen he was to get on, what a hard worker he was and so on.
By day three he was spending half of his time on Facebook and the other half downloading hardcore porn, so I kicked him out.
Ok I know it wasn’t the most interesting job in the world, but to not even try to behave professionally? I guess he just assumed that he could walk into another job.
NewGirl, I hear your pain but frankly why should they be arsed to turn up when they can skive off and get benefits? The work ethic has been bred out of people by more than a decade of NuLabour hand outs, a get out of jail free card to buy votes come the next election.
And of course, if they create a population which is work-shy ….it means they can import yet more potential voters by claiming that they are here to “do the jobs british people don’t want to do..”
NuLabour, using your taxes to buy votes. It’s what we do.
If any of them were sent by JobCentrePlus make sure you tell them about the no shows – they could suffer a loss of benefit. Might as well take some positives from the day.
Ever thought of oldies,these days your old at 40,B&Q take oldies on and so do a couple of other companies,most of the oldies still have the work ethics but nodbody wants them,but most companies want immigrants as they are cheap,will live in hovels and pay very little taxes,and don’t have families in this country,you pays what you get,England is a bloody expensive place to live even home grown workers have to live and pay for housing and all the rip off taxes.
maybe you are just a shit manager new girl.
you are lucky you have a job considering what a crap mangager you are, stop moaning.
you spend loads of time here and then complain about your staff overusing the internet.
you silly hypocrite: if you weren’t spunking so much of your company’s time on posting garbage you would be able to keep an eye on your staff – problem solved.
and you would no longer be stealing from your employer either you thief.
what an idiot.
Im self ermployed you tosser, so I can spend as much of (my own) time as I want on here. Fuck off and mind your own business.
NewGirl
I once had a candidate who seemed never to have sat on a swivel chair and kept spinning side to side, until she did a spin rouund and a little wheeeee!
Then the rolling about on the hard floor. in the end I asked if she’d like to take it for a test drive.
Another, when asked why would you be suitable, said // I have hands like magic wands! // She was wearing black top with white gloves.
And I have never complained about anyone using the internet you idiot – can’t even get your insults correct.
so you are stealing from yourself.
DOH! this country will never get off its knees while cripples like you are running businesses into the ground.
still think you are a shit manager.
and it must be a fucking nightmare for clients who have complaints having to deal with a fucking useless c’unt like you new girl.
oh, and why don’t you take on full time staff instead of raping workers by using agency staff. business a bit dodgy eh new girl?
sounds like it. what business are you in anyway you sap?
heroin dealing?
Where do you dream these things up? What agency? How can I steal from myself? You are a moron so piss off.
cheer up you miserable bitch, I’m only having a bit of fun.
and judging by your mood business must be very bad indeed.
why don’t you stop fucking about and just go PAYE; you clearly do not have the right stuff to run your own business.
When I compare Gordon Browns fairly modest claims and attempts to calm the current difficulties, and how the Tories are so routinely shrill and patronising, it’s pretty clear to me what folks have issues they need dealing with. If they put less of their ego between themselves and the world they might have an easier time and be less nasty than they are.
Get real. Wake up. Be happy.
Be still, grasshopper.
When I compare David Cameron’s fairly modest claims and attempts to calm the current difficulties, and how Labour are so routinely shrill and patronising, it’s pretty clear to me what folks have issues they need dealing with. If they put less of their ego between themselves and the world they might have an easier time and be less nasty than they are.
Get real. Wake up. Be happy.
Be fried, grasshopper.
I advertised for a developer in Gumtree and got 140 replies (only 4 were good) but I was surprised at how many replies, and pleased with the quality.
The candidate we employed has been excellent. Maybe you’re just unlucky, advertising in the wrong place or made the job sound crap?
Well the lady who did turn up was very promising so I’ve cheered up a bit. AC1 its a good job offer, and I advertised locally…had loads of interest…just people are unreliable and have no manners. One phoned up just (3 hours late) and said she couldn’t find the place, and it was her Satnav’s fault…!)
Another said she had an emergency and had to take animal to vet.
Don’t these people have PHONES??
This will make you laugh though. Yesterday a rather strange applicant came in. On discovering I liked dogs, she told me hers was in the car. 10 mins after the interview, there was a knock on the door. She appeared holding the dog (I hadn’t asked to meet her pets) and put it on the floor, where it promptly crapped. Apparently it had never done that before.
NG, you’ve made my day!
lol NG, very good. Have people lost every sense of how to behave in polite company, especially at a job interview?
You’ll be saying next that someone thought that they didn’t need to wear a tie to the interview becuase “no-one wears ties any more”…?
I did that with the post office a while back lol i forgot i had the job interview while i was sitting in the pub till my mate reminded me and didn’t have enough time to get to the place in time so just sat in the park reading.
The best part of it is there so thick i re applied and got another interview but they can go shaft themselves for the shit pay they are offering. I’d rather work in Mcdonalds or Tesco’s that’s how dire the Royal Mail is these days.
I use gumtree to pick up women it’s pretty good.
Maybe that is a partial explaination of why my post never turns up until lunchtime or later…..
You do know that Royal Mail moved the start times of post people from 5am to 7am. about a year ago. The service starts 2 hours later now.
There was no discussion with the public of course.
That’s why your post comes late.
That and Posties sitting in the park eating buns.
Bill – I’m sure you remember, as I do, when your post was on the doormat when you came down for breakfast. Now it varies between lunchtime and 4:30, never earlier than 10:30, and sometimes holds over until the next day. Posties used to have a smart uniform; some of the examples we get now look like escapees from the lowest class of holiday camp.
Stamps cost no less, though.
I think you’ll find they have Firsts and that standards are not slipping.
GUIDO YOU ARE STILL SHORT THE DOW? OUCH…
The Revenge of Gordon Brown.
Strip the Commons of people with outside experience and stuff Parliament with yes men – watch Britain slide further down the tubes.
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parliament/2009/08/paul-goodman-explains-his-decision-to-quit-the-house-of-commons-before-it-becomes-entirely-populated.html
Long live the memory of Maggie Thatcher whose father was a shopkeeper. not a Stalinist lecturer.
I knew I’d cracked it!
Britain is leading the world out of this global downturn:
UK producer prices rose a full one per cent in June compared to 0.2% in the EU and -0.2% in Europe’s largest economy Germany. Couple that to a manipulated UK CPI rate of nearly 2%(real 5-10%) and an EU CPI average of -0.6% and it’s clear that UK plc or Tesco(UK branch) is set for Zimbabwe-level hyperinflation, to wipe away all those nasty trillions of debts.
Fucking genius or what.
We’ve got a Zimbabwe-level Government. Why shouldn’t the rest follow ?
42 weeks
Brown and his cabinet of human waste will be shouting from the sidelines
the countdown to sanity
excellent.
They have money to hand to think tanks to spout international marxism on the taxpayer but they cannot find money to armour plate helicopters in a combat zone?
New Labour are traitors & deserve everything that is coming to them.
One of New Labour’s most starry-eyed acolytes, Luke Akehurst, came up with a truly sickening and repulsive response to David Davis’s decision to force a by-election in his own constituency:
“Maybe instead of Labour fielding a candidate in Haltemprice & Howden we should find a Martin Bell type candidate – preferably a recently retired senior police officer, or a survivor or relative of a victim of a terrorist attack, to run under the following 5 word candidate description: “Independent – for detaining terrorism suspects”.”
No low too low for NewLabour….
whatever’s wrong with international marxism?
We owe it everything we’ve got – a dumbed-down, compliant host country, open to being looted; political-correctness to hide our ‘otherness’ and laws to trash free speech and legitimate dissent;…
We could go on but what’s the point? You know all of the above but the best part is you can’t do a single thing about it. You willingly became your own jailors and paid for it all to boot! Ain’t life grand!
Intellectually, the Miliband brothers would never have cut it without a celebrity parent.
Intellectually, D Miliband is still in very short trousers.
Oh, & f__k off you treasonous tax avoiding hoon.
With each passing day my trigger finger gets that little bit more itchy…..I suppose I have just breached one of several anti Government Terror Laws……well, come & get me…..but….
Bring guns.
Lots of guns.
More likely they’ll send in a stealth squadron of remotely-piloted vehicles and drench your whole neighbourhood with bio-weapons.
Had the ‘flu yet?
The issue with the helicoptors was never armour plate –
The RAF pulled a blinder. Having pitched for the additional Merlins as the solution to the capacity problem in Afghanistan – it “decided” unilaterally that it was too difficult to set up a logistics and support chain in that theatre to support a new type. It therefore intended to limit the type to Iraq, where there was in fact no great need for additional machines as the campaign there was in the throes of winding down.
It is interesting to view google image searches
new labour
http://images.google.co.uk/images?gbv=2&hl=en&sa=1&q=new+labour&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&start=0
Demos (anag) 3 & 2.
Buggered if I can work it out
Got it. SOD EM!—meaning the poor taxpayers of this Country.
erm
this is supposed to be easy…
oh, no, wait, i’ll get it in a minute
ooohhh…
Well done David—mummy will be pleased. Have you bumped into your friend Mandy’s samba friend whilst out in the forest?
Shouldn”t CRIMESTOPPERS be called CRIMESPOTTERS?
On the subject of seditious marxist organisations getting state money:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/5881244/Labour-boosted-by-4.6m-tax-rebate.html
If Brown knew about the New Econimics Foundation he’d never sanction them getting a penny! They have dangeous GREEN ideas! And we know what high regard Brown has for the environment! (I.E. none at all)
More sexism from Harriet Harman, Brown has his chips p**sed on and he is keeping very bad company indeed. Gordon Brown. Friend of dictators
I thought Brown had a loving of things green Especially if he has just removed it from his nostril.
LOL, the idea that Greens are dangerous to anything other than freedom, health and personal wealth is laughable.
The Political elites love the greens, even though they seldom get more than 2% of the vote, because they allow the very same elites to raise billions in “green taxes” while “saving the planet” from of all things CO2, an act of utter incoherence would be harder to imagine.
Windmill loving McSnot adores the thought of all that really unreliable, expensive, enviroment destroying windpower. The idiot ( who is a technological retard, can barely operate a computer, cant drive and imagines mobile phones are some form of ringing ball you throw around the office for stress relief ) actually has no idea at all.
“Put thousands of them in the sea” McMental commands, without wondering for a moment how much it will cost to maintain or run and finally after 20 years, replace these monuments to collective stupidity.
When all 10,000 of them combined are installed and if it is a windy day, and if they are all working and if the wind could be regulated and if they were close enough to peoples homes, they might just produce enough electricity to equal 3 coal fired power stations that would cost less than £1 billion to build, the cost just to install these testaments to profound ignorance windmills, is £100 billion.
Double that figure with repairs and replacements and you get a feel for the gross incompetence of this government of fools, thieves and lackeys.
Of course they will never pick up the bill for their wasteful stupidity themselves, that is for the “little people” the “people who do not matter” to do.
Dont tell the poor, pensioners or people on fixed incomes that green taxes are going to make them even poorer and in some cases become ill and die, because green taxes hurt the poorest most and least able to pay them worst of all, either.
Green taxes are “good” taxes and anyway, people must die to save Gaia.
Oops. Misplaced i. Sorry!
With the diminished influence of gamblers and spivs, proper jobs that demand rational reasoning and a sense of reality will become more prominent. Their industry and cultural influence should help make us happier and richer.
As I’ve commented before, Ieyasu Tokugawa reined in the Daimyo and this began a period of trade and low crime that ushered in the Japanese renaissance. This moment seems equally auspicious.
Thus, we write ourselves into history…
Be still, grasshopper.
With the increased influence of gamblers and spivs, proper jobs that demand rational reasoning and a sense of reality are becoming harder to find. Their industry and cultural influence could help make us happier and richer.
As I’ve commented before, Mickey Mouse reined in the Tom cat and this began a period of trade and low crime that ushered in the Disney renaissance. This moment seems equally auspicious.
Thus, we write ourselves into trivia…
Be free, grasshopper.
Soon we will be on the road to peace and free labor, the reconstruction of our homeland and a deep social happiness that rests in the community of us all. Truly that is a goal that is worth all the labor, sorrow and exertion of this war. Who would not want to accept them, no matter how difficult it might seem! They are the prerequisites for our coming freedom from all the chains, for the salvation of all of civilized humanity. If I am asked what the primary virtue that will lead us to victory is, I can give but one answer: loyalty to Gordon, loyalty to our vision of the world and to our political affirmation of faith.
Julia Middleton is nominally the Commissar-in-Chief of Common Purpose but other people further up the food chain control her.
Middleton is often classified as a Marxist but she is really a Communitarian.
She was described as “A communitarian before the word was invented” by the Independent newspaper in 1995. This was at a time when the word ‘communitarian’ was virtually unknown in Britain and shows that she was most definitely in the inner loop.
Her new resume has no mention of her Marxist background or Communitarian leanings but now includes an admission of her membership of Demos which she describes as ‘an independent think tank’. (Demos is a rather curious beast. Originally it was a Marxist think tank but has transformed itself into something more Communitarian.) Curiously enough, her resume on 2008-04-19 looked like this and contained no mention of Demos.
The most telling omission from her resume is the fact that she was once Head of Personnel Selection in the ODPM office of John ‘Useful Idiot’ Prescott.
Although Julia Middleton claims to be the founder of Common Purpose, it was not her idea. The ideas behind Common Purpose are too sophisticated and subtle for one person to think up. The idea for Common Purpose originally came from the Tavistock Institute. Like Common Purpose, the Tavistock Institute is another organisation which is not what it appears to be on the surface
http://www.stopcp.com/cpjuliamiddleton.php
They are watching you
from The Observer, March 25, 2007:
‘David Blunkett has taken a job advising a company interested in bidding to run Britain’s controversial identity cards programme, a policy he was the architect of and championed in government. The former Home Secretary took up the post for the Texas-based security firm Entrust, which specialises in securing digital information and combating identity theft, earlier this month. … Blunkett is bound by a two-year ban on lobbying British ministers and officials from the date he resigned as Work and Pensions Secretary in November 2005. That does not expire until this November. His spokeswoman insisted yesterday that he would not be working in Britain for the company and would only advise on overseas work’.
Welcome to the Sod’em and Gommora Show!
Julia Middleton looks an ugly piece of work – reminds me of Meatloaf (not the comestible version). Definitely a two-bagger.
About 99% of this blog is dreg but if you check there’s some very nasty comments thrown at me that I’ve ignored, so it’s highly unlikely I’m up to anything. Can’t say I noticed, actually.
Arguing and negativity, and fights and partisan attitudes tend to generate hurt, hear, anger, and bitterness. They also generate paranoia: see my comments about failed states and letting go.
Relax. Calm down. Be happy.
Be still, grasshopper.
Well 100% of what you post is dreg Coco so never mind eh..?
I’ll bet you drive a car with a giant Daisy in the boot and the doors all fall off when you toot your horn.
“Arguing and negativity, and fights and partisan attitudes tend to generate hurt, hear, anger, and bitterness. They also generate paranoia.”
Remember:-
Never show dismay! Never show resentment! A single flicker of the eyes could give you away. It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself – anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide.
In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime it was called. Your worst enemy was your own nervous system. Any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
Don’t watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QU9NQ0cxUA
About 99% of this blog is my dreg but if you check there’s some very nasty comments thrown at me that I’ve ignored, so it’s highly likely I’m up to something. Can’t say I noticed, actually.
Arguing and negativity, and fights and partisan attitudes tend to generate hurt, hear, anger, and bitterness. They also generate paranoia: see my comments about failed states and letting go.
Relax. Calm down. Be happy. Ignore Hardwodge.
Be free, grasshopper.
A nation must fight courageously and intelligently for its existence. But that is not enough. When events intensify and march with giant steps to their culmination, racing toward the crisis, the main thing is that the leadership and people keep their nerve, stubbornly and persistently overcoming dangers and difficulties, letting nothing distract them from the continuation of the course that they once saw as correct, keeping their eye only on the good star of their fate. Suddenly one day the clouds that hid the sun will clear, Gordon’s great wisdom will be revealed and the sky will again be bright.
Arrgghhhh! The phrase: “the leadership and people” says it all about statists. The horrible implication that “the people” have no existence unless thay are “led” by “the leadership” is the problem not the solution. Such statist claptrap is a ghastly echo of the socialist Pol Pot and his robot like field workers – a classic example of those who do not obey, do not eat.
Tony Blair, April 6th, 2005, speech announcing the General Election:
“From now until May 5, me and my colleagues will be out every day in every part of Britain, talking to the British people about our driving mission for a third term.
To build on the progress made, to accelerate the changes, to widen still further the opportunities available to the British people and, above all else, to take that hard-won economic stability, the investment in our public services, and entrench it, make it last for the future and never return to the economic risks and the failing public services of the past. “
Well, you’ve got to admit that Tony Blair is a man of his word. He certainly hasn’t let us down.
My key points on power and ego are sound enough. One only has to give some people a smidgen of power and they abuse it to the hilt. It’s almost like the effect the feintest whisper of a girl’s skirt has on some men, or a box of chocolates on some women. Grasping, grasping, grasping. Always grasping. Like the evil eye of the media it’s never satisfied, always hungry, always wanting more.
One wonders if when faced with a situation some politicians might pass no policy, media print blank pages, and fingers stop pounding keyboards. All this business, around and around, boom into bust, bust into boom, left then right, hot then cold.
I note, the Alistair Darling sagely commented that whatever is done it’s going to hurt a bit. The controlling rich demanded more of the same, so bail-outs were offered. Panicky customers demanded safe money, so guarantees were offered. None of this worked. Letting go of control and safety nets, and settling on mere ordinary and everyday calm is the end game, and the journey between here and there is grinding some folks into dust.
But it’s just an illusion.
Be still, grasshopper.
You are obsessed with and unnaturally attached to Guido’s blog Charles.
Let go of your attachment, email and delete it.
You will only find peace from the madness raging in your brain when you relax and let go of your obsessions.
Jeez, just let it go.
Relax.
This is the way of Zen.
For Fxxk sake ignore the cxxt
My lack of power and over-inflated ego are obvious enough. One only has to give some people a smidgen of power and they abuse it to the hilt. It’s almost like the effect the feintest whisper of a girl’s skirt has on some men, or a box of chocolates on some women. Grasping, grasping, grasping. Always grasping. Like the evil eye of the media it’s never satisfied, always hungry, always wanting more. See the current Cabinet for details.
One wonders if when faced with a situation some politicians might pass no policy, media print blank pages, and fingers stop pounding keyboards. All this business, around and around, boom into bust, bust into boom, left then right, hot then cold.
I note, Guido’s army sagely commented that whatever is done it’s going to hurt a bit. The government demanded more of the same, so bail-outs were offered. Panicky customers demanded safe money, so guarantees were offered. None of this worked. Letting go of control and safety nets, and settling on mere ordinary and everyday calm is the end game, and the journey between here and there is grinding some folks into dust.
But it’s a shitstorm.
Be free, grasshopper.
One can speak here only of perverse political and military cooperation. Despite that, it is an enormous danger for us and for Europe, and we must gather all forces to meet it. There is no point in hoping for the aid of other threatened peoples and states. They indeed see the danger, but no power in the world can make them do anything about it. They resemble the rabbit that looks hypnotized at the snake until it is devoured. We are mostly dependent on ourselves to successfully carry out this battle for our existence and the existence of our continent. And we can do it.
Most of CEH’s comments have little or no structure or logic. They are the meanderings of a socialist made melancholic by the abject failures of ZaNu Liebore. His vaguely pantheistic philosophies are those of a badly taught and not very bright GCSE pupil. He presumably did not look so equably on the Thatcher and Major governments, assuming he is old enough to have lived through those years. So his advice to calmly accept Brown’s monumental blunders are unbalanced as well as puerile.
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Hardwigit is a tedious bore, his ramblings, are meaningless crap, repeats of the same old theme. A total waste of blog space
Wiggie boy, please get lost, and take your pet bloody grasshopper and stick it up your arse.
Pathetic excuse of a boy (or girl)
Charles_E_Hardwiðge is the voice and educator in New Labour Doublethink:-
Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing them and to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – all this is indispensably necessary.
Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth. Ultimately it is by means of doublethink that the Party has been able – and may, for all we know, continue to be able for thousands of years – to arrest the course of history…
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Stop the bloody bore.
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Cannot quite understand the outrage re this story. In 2003 (six years into bent – sorry, brave – new world) the Adam Smith Institute (which any sane man will recognise as a front for Dick Sniffin) received £7.6 million of public money. The troughers are all around us – labour and Tory. Try not to massage the truth Guido.
August 4, 2009 at 1:28 pm: an example of Doublethink: an untruth which Anonymous believes, or will do.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.
NuLabour have refined double-think down to a simple concept: When in doubt, lie.
Notice you didn’t deny the Adam Smith funding. You are guilty of the doublethink oh denizen of pseuds corner – whats wrong for one set of think tanks is also wrong for their competition. Suggest you will fail next years GCSE in philosophy with that level of thinking.
The quotation is 1984. Learn from history. Or don’t.
New Labour, 2005 General Election Manifesto
Tax policy should continue to be governed by the health of public finances, the requirement for investment and the needs of families, business and the environment.
We will not raise the basic or top rates of income tax in the next parliament.
We will end child poverty, starting by halving it – both in terms of relative low-income and in terms of material deprivation – by 2010-11.
Work is the best anti-poverty strategy.
We will secure Britain’s place in the EU. We will always uphold the rule of international law.
We will put [the constitution] to the British people in a referendum and campaign whole-heartedly for a yes vote to keep Britain a leading nation in Europe.
HAHHAHAHA
I see some folks in here are tub thumping as usual but the thing is, guys, everyone knows it’s just a bag of wind. Most of you are just siding with Cameron just because he’s the “alpha dog”. He doesn’t have anything more than bluff and that’s becoming clearer every day.
I tend to think that as folks see better solutions emerge from Labour they’ll grock that quick enough. Osborne is already a laughing stock and the Tories are beginning to tear each other apart. When the trickle turns into a rush that election might arrive sooner than people think.
I’m bored stiff hearing from the usual suspects who bang on about unions and the military. When both have modernised and been re-equipped the malcontents have been left behind fighting battles of yesterday. Some call this self-harm and the Tories are happy to sell you razors.
Be still, grasshopper.
You must be on the jam roll, or working for the public sector and therefore have lots of time on your hands to spew out all this shit. Either way you’re a tedious tosser.
The idiot is getting worse….. medication nurse!
If this the level of logic that labour voters have, it explains all!!!
Poxy Grasshopper…… sad twat
Didn’t Glasslopper’s acolyte top himself with a noose and an orange recently whilst wearing stockings & suspenders?
There’s your model, Charlie boy!
“I tend to think that as folks see better solutions emerge from Labour they’ll grock that quick enough”.
Seems you’re on your own on that one Coco as the Labour vote continues to disappear up Jonah’s backside.
Do you wear yellow and red striped shoes far longer than your feet?
Check Charlies name it’s another braindead spammer,school holidays ,the things the little one’s get up to,personally I would rather be out playing or swimming at the beach than sat at a computer all day pretending I am the greatest spammer.
It’s “grok” you mug.
either way its offensive that the prat should use a word coined by Heinlein, one of the great libertarians of the last century.
I see some folks in here are tub thumping as usual but the thing is, guys, everyone knows I’m just a bag of wind. Most of you are just siding with Cameron just because he’s the “alpha dog”. He has lots more than bluff and that’s becoming clearer every day.
I tend to think that as folks see better solutions emerge from the Tories they’ll clock that quick enough. Osborne is already laughing at Darling and the Tories are beginning to gel. When the trickle turns into a rush that election might arrive sooner than people think.
I’m interested in hearing from the usual suspects who bang on about unions and the military. Although neither have modernised and been re-equipped the malcontents are in front fighting battles of tomorrow. Some call this self-harm and Labour are happy to sell you razors.
Be free, grasshopper.
WHY VOTE LABOUR?
COME ON, DEEP DOWN EVERYONE LIKES A BIT OF TORTURE INNIT?
VOTE LABOUR WE LOVE A NICE BIT OF TORTURE TOO, LOVELY!
IF YOU VOTE FOR US WE WILL DO MORE TORTURING ON YOUR BEHALF
THAT’S A PROMISE!
I do apologise really he will go on but I had to fetch Charlie from the Think Tank myself at least I think that’s what it was called Charlie called it the Drink Tank but he may have got that wrong he wasn’t very well. Charlie’s pet gecko Gordon also isn’t very well really it is tired and old and can only move slowly so Charlie has to make its grasshoppers from the pet shop keep still so that Gordon can catch them.
Labour is big on creating opportunity and Mandelson has his business focus, and with the failure of business and finance, I expect, this model will become more fashionable.
The Tories are all about control and wealth concentration. The corrections needed in the economy run totally against the Tory ethos, and they have no plan for this.
Be still, grasshopper.
Bring on a Tory government to stop my tax money being spent on left wing crap tanks.
and see it spent on right wing think tanks instead (see comments above re the Adam Smith Institute). When will you all get it that they are all as bad as each other.
Mr Trade Commissioner Mandleson created massive opportunites for Chinese textiles with 254 Million knitted jumpers and trashed European Textile Manufacturing in the bargain.
Wonderful opportunites? For whom? Not the British Taxpayer.
Labour is big on stifling opportunity and Mandelslime has his business focus, and with the failure of business and finance, I expect, this model will become more widespread.
The Tories are all about reducing control and wealth creation. The corrections needed in the economy run totally in line with the Tory ethos, and they have big plans for this.
Be free, grasshopper.
Our prospects for victory are more than favorable. It is in general a thankless task to play the prophet in such a critical time. However, Gordon’s leadership has never faced coming events with such sovereign calm as it does now. Of course our side must present its chances as absolutely certain. The example of Norwich North proves, however, that we suffers from the fateful disease of overestimating our own strength and underestimating that of our opponent.
Where’s my Nokia?
LET’S STOP FUCKING ABOUT, EVERYONE LIKES A FEW BOMBS DROPPED ON AFGHAN WEDDING DON’T THEY? WELL DON’T THEY?
LABOUR LIKES DROPPING BOMBS ON AFGAN WEDDINGS TOO!
VOTE LABOUR AND WE PROMISE TO KEEP BOMBING THE SHIT OUT OF AFGHAN WEDDINGS AND TO REALLY STIR UP SOME SHIT WITH THOSE FUCKING ARABS.
FANCY A BIT MORE WAR AND OCCUPATION OF OTHER PEOPLE’S COUNTRIES?
THEN VOTE LABOUR, WE ARE A FUCKING WAR MACHINE!
WE LOVE IT!
September 2004, Peter Mandelson addressing the Progress group:
“The battle against international terrorism in Iraq has become a metaphor for this government’s strength and will and its staying power.”
“This government can and must and will hold up under this pressure” because that was what “Britain expected us to do”.
I don’t do “debate”. If you wanted to avoid propping up the point scoring you complain about you wouldn’t do “debate” either, or prejudge, or demand, or posture, or wring your hands. You would “discuss”.
I’m not here to pump out essays on demand or carry other folks sack for them. I’m just a Zen Buddhist with a point of view. That’s it. Read some lectures and essays by Alan Watts. It may fill in some of the blanks.
Be still, grasshopper.
I don’t do “debate”.
Neither does your bunch of Labour MP arseholes currently turning the UK into a festering slagheap Coco which is exactly the problem.
Face make up?
He sounds like a protege of Toenails who claims never to read the comments on his blog.
He’s another clown, Toenails.
You don’t do debate because you’re incapable of reasoned discussion. You’re just a robot with a fairly limited bag of stock phrases which you cut and paste in a random but nonetheless predictable manner.
I seem to recall your Toenails BBC blog posts used to finish with a North Korean style “All hail the Dear Leader”. Any reason why you no longer include that particular phrase in your automated communications? Been told to stop by Labour Central Office perhaps? Even they’ve clocked you’re an embarrassment. Do us a favour Charlie, get stuffed.
It’s no good, he doesn’t read any of the posts here. He is a robot at Conservative Central Office who wants to keep us all angry with the pompous and condescending stupidity of the Left.
I don’t do “thinking”. If you wanted to avoid propping up the garbage you complain about you wouldn’t do “thinking” either, or prejudge, or demand, or posture, or wring your hands. You would “post your thoughts”.
I’m not here to pump out essays on demand or carry other folks sack for them. I’m just a paid dickhead with a trolling contract. That’s it. Read some lectures and essays by Mickey Mouse. It may fill in some of the blanks.
Be free, grasshopper.
I need not waste words about what the coming general election means to us. Our enemies have left no doubt of that. We are defending our existence. It is good for us to know that. It does not make us weak, but hard. A defeat would destroy us all. UKIP and the Conservatives would take our commerce, our ships, mines, factories and machines, the B en Pee our men and children. What remained would no longer be a nation, only a heap of millions of starving and ragged slaves, defenseless and stupidly vegetating and, as the enemy wishes, posing no danger for its torturers and suppressors. Over against that is the victory that Gordon can and will achieve. It will open the door for us to the final freedom and independence of our people
Oh, woe, woe and thrice woe! Flaccidtadger is confusing the effect that an electoral defeat would have on the Labour party, with its effect on the country. Bearing in mind that they’ve subordinated the needs of the country to that of the Labour party for most of their twelve-year tenure (even in education) his confusion isn’t surprising.
Having said that, in saying that what will remain will “no longer be a nation, only a heap of millions of starving and ragged slaves”, he has gone beyond parody. He is either utterly deranged or is showing hitherto unplumbed depths of contempt for the public, lower than even New Labour have sunk to date, in thinking they’ll believe this Stalinist drivel.
Actually,CEH, you’re quite despicable.
Charles
Alan Watts – Edward Conze – Christmas Humphreys – DTS – whoever !!
In truth – and you will know what I(T) mean(s) – these (good) guys are merely defracting the light and colour through their own perceptions – although they (of course) aren’t wrong (who is?) in today’s context.
Please believe me and revisit and re-think your views of New Labour – I genuinely believe you are falsely (mis) representing both New Labour & its relationship to (with) Zen
I shall no longer tease you as D T Suzuki – I apologise to both you and he
I thought I told you to shut the fuck up grass smoker?
You are giving Zen a bad name motherfucker.
Relax asshole insert dildo.
If you persist I will send bad Zen juju to fuck you up.
Dig it baby?
KILL OR BE KILLED WE MUST KILL ALL THE ARABS AND MUSLIMY PEOPLE
WE MUST KILL ALL OF THEM OR WE WILL NEVER BE SAFE ON OUR STREETS
GORDON BROWN IS GETTING ON WITH THE JOB OF KILLING AFGHANS
IF YOU LIKE WAR VOTE LABOUR
WAR?
WE FUCKING LOVE IT!
I’ve had to lay off some of the non-workers on the Home Farm regrettably, because Not Growing Crops isn’t as profitable as it was. I’m thinking of switching to Not Keeping Pigs for which the subsidies are more generous but I’m not sure of what kind of pigs not to keep. I asked a non-person in a non-job at the Department for the Eradication of Farming (DEFRA) but they were non-committal, so I think I might not Not Keep Pigs and change to Not Keeping Beef Cattle instead (as it is less non-work than Not Keeping a Dairy Herd). Or not.
Do any other commenters have no idea on this?
Definitely go with Not Keeping Beef Cattle. There’s less of them not to keep compared with (say) Not Keeping Lambs or Not Keeping Pigs. So there’s much less paperwork for every animal you’re Not Keeping.
I thought I’d start with Not Keeping 50 head and then work up to Not Keeping 150 though I may not have enough Not-Land Not To Keep a herd of that size.
don’t forget you still have to feed all these non-beasts and keep up your medical non-licence.
Don’t forget that you get extra Brownie points on account of all the methane that the herd you’re not keeping isn’t producing.
There are NO subsidies for PIGS although I’m told that prices are relatively high at the moment
Have you thought of breeding cattle for slaughter following infection by local tuberculous badgers – buy them cheap – move them in – contract the disease – test the cattle – slaughter them – it’s a wheeze !!! That’s NOT breeding cattle isn’t it? Nearly 5,000 cattle breeders currently use this business muddle
Turnover goes up by pushing cattle through DEFRA’s vegetarian (Ministers Benn + Fitzpatrick) black hole – its bottomless – and the worse the situation gets the better the throughput and the greater the profit
What more would you want?
Don’t forget the Not eartags for your herd of Not beef cattle.
OT
Tory open ballot elects photogenic non-politician as candidate in Totnes. Of course she’ll have to declare her ‘second job’ being a GP and all. Poor Labour, the ‘wrong’ sort of second job for them to be getting excited about.
Don’t they know all Tories are supposed to be evil hedge-fund parasites living off the graft of the ‘workers’? How can Labour continue their hate-based politics if Tory candidates are going to be GPs and such-like ‘key-workers’?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8182833.stm
In other news note….
But John Strafford, who chairs the Campaign for Conservative Democracy group said it was another “nail in the coffin for party membership and party democracy”
In other words…. what is the point of me working for the Tory party if I don’t decide who gets to be MP? I shouldn’t worry pal. That’s just one constituency. Imagine what it’s like at the Labour party where every candidate for every constituency is fixed from central office.
No wonder Labour’s door-knockers and leafleteers were missing for the Euro-elections. They’ve finally realised they’re the victim of a coup. Like the rst of us.
The comments on this site are typical of the macho back-slapping culture that got us into this mess. You guys are so addicted to pork scratchings and drowning 10 pints of lager at last orders you couldn’t taste a decent meal and bottle of wine if you were force fed. Man, I hate to think how you’d perform if you took off your tinfoil hats and dated a real girl.
Huge and chaotic issues can benefit from a more nuanced and calm approach, and plenty in the media are abandoning the old shrill and hysterical model for talking up maturity and wisdom. It can take a while to get this and find the language but as folks become more familiar with it then the message will take on its own life, and you folks stop panicking like a buncha virgins.
Be still, grasshopper.
Ass.
hole.
Soon we will be on the road to peace and free labor, the reconstruction of our homeland and a deep social happiness that rests in the community of us all. Truly that is a goal that is worth all the labor, sorrow and exertion of this war. Who would not want to accept them, no matter how difficult it might seem! They are the prerequisites for our coming freedom from all the chains, for the salvation of all of civilized humanity. If I am asked what the primary virtue that will lead us to victory is, I can give but one answer: loyalty toGordon, loyalty to our vision of the world and to our political affirmation of faith.
You need help, give yourself up to the nice men in white coats.
CEH, you model yourself on one of the henchmen to Pol Pot, presumably?
Charles_E_Hardwiðge “Huge and chaotic issues can benefit from a more nuanced and calm approach, and plenty in the media are abandoning the old shrill and hysterical model for talking up maturity and wisdom.”
Reality benefits from lies. Lies are truth. It’s doublethink, the Common Purpose agenda. Watch and listen to the media in their ‘maturity and wisdom’ – the BBC – re-run the Miners Strike, the Poll Tax, Alan B’Stard.
1984: The official ideology abounds with contradictions even when there is no reason for them. Simultaneously, true to the principles of doublethink, the Party rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and it does this in the name of socialism. It systematically undermines the solidarity of the family all the while appealing to the sentiment of family. Even the names of the four Ministries by which Oceania is governed are a deliberate reversal of facts.
Listen to Charles_E_Hardwiðge and you will know what you are supposed to think. Doublethink.
WE OFFER YOU TEN MORE YEARS OF WAR!
VOTE LABOUR
MORE WAR MORE TORTURE – GUARANTEED
VOTE LABOUR SO WE CAN GO ON ANOTHER KILLING SPREE
Gordon’s family holiday in Scotland.
He must be getting desparate recruting Tony to help bully their fellow Scots.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Labours-big-guns-lay-into.3273578.jp?CommentPage=1&CommentPageLength=1000#1543138
PANIC STATIONS.
When Brown is using his ‘holiday’ to appeal to their previously ‘safe’ voters you will know the game is up. As for having that smarmy, wax-faced buffoon McConnell in the picture … he will serve only to remind all Scots why they voted SNP in the first place.
The man was their equivilent of Brown. An arrogant imbecile with a squander-lust. Rewarded for losing the whole of Scotland to the SNP by being made ambassador to Malawi or something. Not that Labour wanted to instil some Imperial Pride into Scotland by emphasising the errr ‘historical ties’ with Blantyre you understand. ‘Historical Ties’. Tee hee. We came over there, kicked your ass and stole your land. It was the English that made us do it.
Laughable. So they’re caught trying to tread a line between revelling in Scotlands colonial past to get the Scots to vote for unionist Labour, raa raa, but then wearing sackcloth for the UK’s Imperial past to curry favour with the immigrants and their own self-loathing.
Smashing.
Labour are doomed in Scotland. That’s how dire the situation is. They are looking to be wiped out in England and have given up in favour of trying to re-establish their old Al Qlabour base in Scotland.
The Tories should launch the electoral equivilent of ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ and wipe the fuckers out. Electorally speaking.
This really is our chance for revenge. Labour are wiped out in councils. They are wiped out in Scotland. They are wiped out in Europe and, come the election they will be wiped out in the UK.
We’ve got the fuckers. There will be nowhere for them to loot funds from. They will wither and die and too good for the fuckers after their idiotic destruction of the economy. I hope this time there will be no magnanimous sops to Brown or Blair like making them EU commisioners. Blair or Brown wouldn’t be so magnanimous in victory.
Cameron should chase all those tax-payer sponsored Labour funding conduits and turn them off.
It will be done
D’oh. Look at the date. McConnell was still ‘First Minister’. Blair was still PM.
This is the moment Labour realised the contempt in which they were held. And it pre-dates the ‘credit crunch’. That started in America. And has fuck-all to do with me, Gordon Brown.
will someone take charles on with a rational reply instead of all this school playground abuse.
No Point. He ignores them – just like his boss.
Why? Like most Nulab drones he is impervious to reason. He trots out his verbal dysentery like some half baked party hack, dressing it up in purple prose and NuSpeak which does nothing to hide the sheer, utter tedium of it all. He should fuck off back under whatever rock he crawled from, and quietly decompose.
Waste of time – It’s probably Gordon – only listening to his own voice.
Go ahead. Post a rational reply to one of his threads and we’ll all sit back and watch him totally ignore you and then start a new thread on a totally different topic, and on, and on, and on.
It’s been tried. It doesn’t work and it’s got to the point where people are so exasperated that they use his threads to work off some steam.
I find it funny how the Tories will steal anything that isn’t nailed down and fling it back in peoples faces. Problem is, they don’t understand the material and it’s blatant mud-slinging. But, it doesn’t work.
When you refuse to fight folks like Osborne and Cameron, they have nothing. If folks get full bellys and don’t get their houses burned down they’ll tend to drift in Labour’s direction on their own.
The long road is the short-cut.
Be still, grasshopper.
Go away you tedious train spotting teat-sucking pant-filling pile of cack.
Funny how the Government is stealing Taxpayers money to fund lobbying the Government.
http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/waste/2009/08/new-research-over-38-million-a-year-spent-by-government-lobbying-the-government.html
What should I say at the end of this almost concluded stormy year to thank our beloved leader Gordon for his devotion, hard work, loyalty and sacrifice, for his bravery, his contribution of wealth and blood? I do not know where to begin or where to stop. The front and the homeland have outdone themselves. The party as the political leader of the people has accomplished great things. In the countless sorrows and difficulties of everyday life during the war, particularly in the areas affected by the air war after the worst terror attacks, it is an example of how to deal with every difficulty.
We are well aware that you do not know where to stop…………Take a hint – about 2 years ago would have been appropriate.
Just got back on this blog and wiggie is still spouting utter nonsense, Just imagine being stuck in a lift with him(or her) …. you would loose the will to live!
FFS where does all the dribble come from.
I’m an engineer by trade, most engineers are normally logical people, and find illogical people tedious. Hardwiggie is now bringing a new dimension to to illogical thought
And that stupid GRASSHOPPER thing That just comes from movies. Such a waste of a human being. Thats of course if he (or she) qualifies.
You speak about burning houses down. Isn’t that arson?
The government has stooped to mudslinging in it’s time. Look at the Gwyneth Dunwoody election, where labour thugs dressed up as toffs. The public saw through that. What makes you think they haven’t already seen through this sham of a government.
Double standards, Charles.
TORTURE IS GOOD WE COVER UP TORTURE
LAWS MEAN NOTHING, NEW LABOUR WAR CRIMINALS ARE ABOVE THE LAW
VOTE FOR TORTURE
VOTE FOR LABOUR
The Sleeper pleads with all the sensible bloggers here to ignore Chuckie and all ‘his’ alter egos.
This site is under seige from ‘him’ and his ilk..their strategy is to post ridiculous and provocative comments repeatedly, in order to get mass reaction..thus paralysing the blog.
You will never get a response,so please don’t feed their insanity.
He’ll carry on polluting the site with his rubbish no matter what. Calling him a Cee You En Tee is cathartic.
Too right. Guido mods the worthless fucker out in between hangovers so your replies just ‘hang’ there anyway. Let Guido mod him out.
Do not feed the troll.
You’re probably right re modding out. But he’s an annoying little turd, who is trying to ruin a good site and some interesting discusion among like minded people. I still maintain he is a C* U* N *T but I will try to restrain myself. Appologies if I have annoyed anyone (apart from the aformentioned pillock)
Well said!! If we choose to ignore their posts and rantings, not reply and treat them with the contempt they deserve, then surey they will get the message and clear off.
Posters seem to have divided into three schools – ignore and carry on as normal, give up until Guido does his edit, and assume a similar name and take the piss.
I have some sympathy with all three; however, the interchange of ideas and the humour outbursts work much better without the trolls cluttering it up. I suspect the trolls are deliberately trying to disrupt, and in Guido’s absence, they have a freer run. It’s up to us to foil them, so carry on posting, wether it’s sensible comment or troll-bashing.
That’s fine but what are we supposed to do when they start posting using your name, as they did with mine last night.
I gave up and went to bed but I know that’s defeatist and that that’s what they want us to do. I’m absolutely convinced that they are labour and that their primary purpose is to spoil the blog to get back at Guido for his successful attacks on redrag, on troughing and the like.
Absolutely that is their plan. It has worked on other forums and it may work here too. That’s up to Guido but at least we now know for sure that we were not imagining the great suffucation of free speech that has characterised the 12 year Labour terror.
We have minute-by-minute demonstrations of the high voltage shite that Labour has used to drown out any debate.
We have suffered a coup. As has the Labour party.
And the 400 Labour MPs just stand there and let it happen. That final 50K in salary to them is worth plunging us a further 200bn quid in debt. And that is why they must be electorally wiped out.
Spread the word.
That’s a point nell – I’ve had my identity stolen on occasions, and it’s irritating. All I can say is that I never have any difficulty telling the real nell from the copies, though I do see why you’re less than impressed.
The fight may be a bit bruising at times, but fight we must. The right to free speech demands it.
Yes I do agree
Less than impressed – yes I sure was, but in very much the same way that I am less than impressed with this current government!
nell, engineer, I too have experienced the name theft thing.
my response is to get hold of them and bash their fucking brains out.
you two guys are more gentle than me and so I can understand how it must really piss you off.
just ignore it.
I am closely monitoring the troll situation.
tat pleads with the sleeper to fuck off wanker.
I do apololgise for my earlier outbursts on here. You must all think that I am some sort of brain dead moron, resorting to childish personal abuse in the way that I did.
I promise to mend my ways and treat people in a civil manner in future.
Can you forgive me?
I am forgiven, but only just this once
4.49 and 2.36 thieves,
didn’t your mothers teach you stealing is wrong?
they must have been a real pair of sluts, innit?
get your own names dullards.
thankyou.
You’re probably right re modding out. But he’s an annoying little oik, who is trying to ruin a good site and some interesting discusion among like minded people. I still maintain he is a C U EN TEE but I will try to restrain myself. Appologies if I have annoyed anyone (apart from the aformentioned idiot)
When you can’t tell the difference between a friend and an enemy, it’s probably time to quit the game. But, have it your way. If you guys want to be egoists and tear your own house down be my guest.
Sheesh. All I can say is THANK GOD Brown is in charge and Mandelson’s doing his best. They’ll bury Cameron alongside Thatcher.
Be still, grasshopper.
When you can’t tell the difference between a friend and an enemy, it’s probably time to quit the game. But, have it your way. If you guys want to maintain your own house be my guest.
Sheesh. All I can say is OH SHIT Brown is in charge and Mandelson’s doing his worst. They’ll bury Cameron alongside Thatcher – as heroes, but not for a long time yet.
Be free, grasshopper.
This NuLiebore party grew out of struggle and stands today in the midst of it as well. It greets its Führer Gorodn. It greets him in the name of his people, whose honor and pride it is to lead. Countless millions of British peasants bearing UB 40′s on every front join in this greeting, as do countless millions of British workers and farmers who forge the postal votes and give the nation its daily propaganda. It is also the greeting of millions of British women and mothers who speak in the name of their children, both those who have been born and those who will be born, for whom they wish a good future.
Charles, I have done my best to show friendship towards you. I have offered help in your quest for suicide. I have suggested Rope & Poison,Shotgun & Razor Blades,Beachy Head, use of all utilities gas,leccy etc.50 paracetemol washed
down with Jack Daniels ,walking zigzag on a Mortorway and each and everyone has failed.
Maybe you should try them all at the same time.
Obediently yours.
And take the fucking grasshopper with you too.
Charles – why are you thanking God? I thought Zen was you bag!
You’re losing it – and sounding like a delinquent Beatnik !!
Really Charles
charles i don’t think you are entering into the spirit of a blog; you are supposed to reply as well as post, it can be seen to be very rude.
It’s very like gordon isn’t it ?, where you learn a set number of phrases and then keep repeating them ad nauseum – and also like gordon who never answers a question.
Obviously that’s this failed Labour government’s way.
I have never ever disliked a government as much as I do this one.
I’m afraid ‘dislike’ just doesn’t begin to describe this lot – ‘loathesome’ and ‘despicable’ are two words (of many) that spring to mind. Never has a government of modern times, even of the spiteful and vindictive left, ever been as hated as this one.
Charley-boy is a c’unt of the lowest order but we do know that he is quite neurotic about others (ab)using his identity. For that reason – and for that reason alone – I will continue to dog his heels, pointing out just how closely his material matches the cadences and content of the German National Socialists of the last century.
Raus, schweinhund.
Games and politics forums are much alike. Folks who know nothing tend to shout the loudest, and without reputations to uphold or sensible moderation in place they always tend to turn into a ghetto.
The Tories and the British media suffer from the same broken fundamentals that business and finance does. They’re smarmy pitbulls that think they’re seperate to events while up to their neck in stirring them.
Be still, grasshopper.
The year 2010 will find us ready. Trained in the great lessons of history, educated in the spirit of NuLiebore, with the example of our fathers before our eyes, we accept the struggle for our existence. In the end it will open the way for us to the future. With such a Führer as Gordon and such a people as we are and always want to be, who can doubt our victory! What we won in the first half of this war by bravery we must defend with stubbornness in its second half. That we will do with all the strength of our heart. There is none among us who does not know why.
1984:
After the revolutionary in 1997, society regrouped itself, as always, into High, Middle, and Low. But the new High group, unlike all its foreunners, did not act upon instinct but knew what was needed to safeguard its position. It had long been realized that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism.
By comparison with that existing to-day, all the tyrannies of the past were half-hearted and inefficient …and were content to leave loose ends everywhere, to regard only the overt act and to be uninterested in what their subjects were thinking… Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance.
“shout the loudest” – Charles please – just SHUT UP
Gordon is going to spend the rest of his holiday doing community service in his own constituency presumably with an eye to votes and the next GE.
Though what community service he can do in a suit and tie and with his lack of communication skills I can’t imagine.
What happened to his assertion that he needed this time to spend with his children?
Maybe the dickhead regards parenting as community service. Poor kids.
You can be sure that no matter what the fucking idiot turns his idiot hand to it will take twice as long for a grown-up to sort it out.
Can we have him do his ‘service’ in a bright orange jump suit with “Community Punishment” in large letters accross the back – please?
Much too soft SP – I would much prefer something that involves real pain and financial hardship – in fact something along the lines being suffered by the people of this country that he has set about destroying. At least he was remarkably sucessful at something during his pitiful spell as our pathetic PM….
Real pain eh? Can we bring piano wire and make use of a nearby lamp post?
Ain’t no sunshine when he’s gone
It’s not warm when Gord’s away
Ain’t no sunshine when he’s gone
And he’s always gone too long
Anytime he goes away
Wonder this time where he’s gone
Wonder if he’s gone to stay
Ain’t no sunshine when he’s gone
And the House just ain’t at home
Anytime he goes away
If he’s doing community service, does that mean he’s a convicted politician ?
he’s on secondment to the boy scouts hut.
He’s quite unemployable – as I hope he’s about to find out in about 42 weeks’ time.
He “.. plans to ….”. Always with Brown it is the headline he wants remembered, not what actually happens. He may do a few minutes, then get called away on official business. Just more spin to make him look human…..
What if he’s given to job of a traffic light, at a v busy intersection, blinking his good eye? Or a traffic cone?
Lord Ashcroft holds dual citizenship and an active role in the governance of a foreign power (Belize). Plus, the Tories use British shell companies to funnel foreign money into their coffers from who knows where.
Kinda puts the whacky Osborne and Iffy Cameron act into some sort of perspective. The Tories and their finances are as opaque as it gets, and these guys want us to trust them? Shady is as shady does.
Be still, grasshopper.
Victory at the next General Election will open the door for us to the final freedom and independence of our people. Then we will be on the road to peace and free labor, the reconstruction of our homeland and a deep social happiness that rests in the community of us all. Truly that is a goal that is worth all the labor, sorrow and exertion of this war. Who would not want to accept them, no matter how difficult it might seem! They are the prerequisites for our coming freedom from all the chains, for the salvation of all of civilized humanity. If I am asked what the primary virtue that will lead us to victory is, I can give but one answer: loyalty to ourselves, loyalty to our vision of the world and to our political affirmation of faith.
Charles,
Can’t you swap your Grasshopper for a Scorpion?
I’ve copied the Tories – and it works – but not as well as the Ashcroft model – Steel never mind!
So you don’t have duel citizenship, then Charles? Is there a law against that? Or is it only nasty if a Conservative happens to hold dual citizenship?
Double standards. It’s the Nu Liebore way.
The Sleeper finds it interesting that the various persona’s who would see this site paralysed fall into two basic categories.
They are either pseudo intellectuals who unconsiously contradict themselves,or downright foul mouthed hooligans.
Either way,they react when they do not get the attention they crave.
They will soon bore of this inattention…keep it up.
A blog as popular as this needs a full-time moderator. Perhaps Guido could get a government grant to pay for one?
I am in a third category sleepy. I am a real intellectual (1st Class) who is also a foul mouthed juvenile delinquent and hooligan.
you can’t pigeon-hole me motherfucker!
FUCK YOU!
Sorry! Sorry! Damn this Tourettes.
I will try to get it under control so you can see me for the normal person that I am, as opposed to the mindless abusive fuckwit that I usually come across as.
THIEF.
DO NOT STEAL TOP BOY’S NAME.
FINAL WARNING CRIPPLE.
Damn, now I’m talking to myself!
Still at least if I keep myself occupied like this, it lets the grown-ups get on with their sensible discussions.
Echo….echo………echo……………….echo……………………………
said the new labour troll name thief.
Jeez, you can’t win an argument on the internet. Folks really don’t change their mind because too much ego is on the line, and correcting a negative just doesn’t happen. It’s why a lot of politicians just ignore the question and give a positive reply. It’s about what sticks.
So far, I tend to think the positive case for Labour is stronger than the Tories case, and what’s really lacking are narratives to describe that. Mandelson is great at stuff like that and, lets face it, the Osborne and Cameron narrative doesn’t exist in any meaningful way.
Gordon cares for all his little angels *swoon*
Be still, grasshopper.
The tasks before us are large and difficult, almost discouragingly so. Only our strong and fanatic faith will give us the strength to solve them. If the NuLibore party members people stay united and work together, we will master fate and build a new future. Peoples never lose because of inadequate weapons, only through a lack of self- confidence and will.
Let us then stand together and enter the new year with courage. The whole people should be confident of the Gordon’s thanks. Each of us is proud that we serve the people in a high position. We are all members of the people, we express its spirit and its will. The lowliest of our people is dearer to us than the king of another nation. And we would rather be the lowliest citizen of our nation than the king of another.
Charles – you are getting close to stating what you believe – keep it up
All you need now is to admit that Brown has blown it – this truly will be enlightenment for you – but it risks inducing self-hate – which may be why you haven’t been as honest with yourself as you should be
Best wishes
Charles’ ramblings and his attempts to toe the party line have had just the opposite effect. A big turn off. That’s what’s going on in the real world. Shame Charles can’t see it.
VOTE WAR – VOTE LABOUR
WE WILL THROW IN A BIT OF FREE TORTURE AS WELL: FUCKING LOVELY!
WANT WAR?
VOTE LABOUR
WE DO WAR AND TORTURE!
The best form of Jihad is infiltrate the infidels systems and processes and destroy them through error and by jamming them up.
The best form of Jihad is to become the law enforcers and refuse to enforce the law and blame it on the law makers.
The best form of Jihad is to become an immovable object in the infidels society provide a service they need and they will fight for you.
Never enter Jihad until you have enough sympathisers and an object and reason to blame your actions on.
Allah Ackbar
Can I have a word?
I want a word with both of you fucking c’unts.
TOP BOY SAYS PACK IT IN MOTHERFUCKERS!
WE WILL ALL HAVE A NICE TIME WHETHER YOU C’UNTS LIKE IT OR NOT!
Twerp.
We give our respectful greeting to the First Secretary of State and Lord President of the Privy Counci Mandelson, who in the past year was once more the loyal Ekkehard of his people. May fate preserve him for us for many years to come. We give our loyalty and eternal allegiance to the Führer Gordon, who, never wavering, bore the flag through storms and dangers. May he stay strong and healthy, and complete his work.
Now you are being silly – stop it!!
Dude, this might just be some internet wheeze for you but there’s plenty of folks who remember the businesses shutting down and incomes being screwed into the ground to pay off a few middle class shareholders. This isn’t just another round of Halo but real bricks and mortar, and real people.
The lesson is that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. The Tories will promise anything and can’t stoop low enough to get back into power. But, building real and enduring success doesn’t happen overnight. Only the spiv and the chancer will promise you that. This next election is a chance to break that repeating cycle of misery by telling the Tories to stick their lies.
Be still, grasshopper.
I’ll play you a game of Halo Charlie, You getting the ODST when it comes out??
Dude, the NuLiebore movement, the core of our present national community, developed in circumstances like these. The virtues of our movement, which overcame all barriers and obstacles during the hard years of the struggle for power, have become during this war the virtues of our fighting people, tested a million-fold by trial and danger: Our loyalty to ourselves finds its most visible but also its deepest expression in our loyalty to the Führer Gordon.
When has there ever been such a fruitful relationship between a people and its leader, and vice versa?
what the fuck is this dick going on about?
this c’unt’s as bad as the original FFS!
So he’s a dick and a cυnt? It’s a wonder you’re not asking him for the instruction manual, you dozy fuck.
This is one of the worst cases of Tourettes that I have ever seen. The poor boy, normal life must be almost impossible.
froot,
you silly cripple! now listen here you imbecile, let us take you as an example: you are simultaneously a cock aswell as a bitch .
isn’t the English a fantastic language in that it allows me to insult a dimwit like you in so many different and imaginative ways.
and the finest language in the world will certainly not be hemmed in by a retard like you.
thank God.
innit.
WANT GARY EXTRADITED TO THE BARBARIC AMERICAN PRISON SYSTEM?
SO DO WE- FUCK GARY, HE’S A GONER!
VOTE LABOUR
WE WILL KEEP FAILING TO PROTECT BRITISH CITIZENS RIGHTS
WE PROMISE
AND WE HAVE A LOVELY LITTLE SIDELINE IN TORTURE AND COVERING IT UP
GOOD OLD MILIBAND!
What of Gordon’s opponents, who were ready and willing to throw the two thousand year history and civilization of our nation into chaos? They will be of interest only as the dark background to the greatness and foresight of this shining figure. How often did cowardly journalists attempt to persuade us that they were not only Gordon’s equal, but his political superiors! Today even their names are forgotten. All that remains is the historical personality, one who stands above his times, oour beloved leader Gordon who despite all the challenges that sometimes seemed insurmountable found the solution to the British dilemma and saved the nation.
Ein Reich. Ein Volk. Ein Fuhrer.
Sieg Heil. Seig Heil. Seig Heil.
Danke.
Heil, baby
I love this place.
Hail Baby, I’m your telephone man..
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/unser44.htm
This is taken from Goebbels’ 1944 Speech on Hitler’s 55th Birthday
Explains a lot….
facking hell Charles have you gone bonkers??? how fast you writing these comments.
What you on dude, how do i get some???
Auto-shite programme. Cut’n'paste random shite from previous blogs into surreal 1984-style bollocks and autopost.
Probably doing the same on other blogs too.
That’s what I thought but the fecker broke cover two days ago, all paranoid about other people posting as him. Said it was shaming him, his partner and his party! We can only hope …
Not possible to shame them any more than his own auto-shite could do.
He copies and pastes them from other blogs. He also doesn’t seem to read any replies here. Best policy? Don’t feed the troll and let Guido have a periodic clear out of the nonsense.
Charles_E_Hardwiðge is paid and trained for this role. He knows no other. Observe him for insight into the mind of the Outer Party: The Guardian, BBC, Common Purpose.
1984:
The Outer Party was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians. These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class and the upper grades of the working class, had been shaped and brought together by the barren world of monopoly industry and centralized government.
I disagree. I reckon Charles is a true believer. One whose belief has had to be constantly redifined as each display of Labour idiocy causes another rational million voters not to vote Labour again.
Eventually reality becomes confused with how he’d like reality to be. Like Brown.
Hence the self-contradictory photo-negative of reality that gets presented. No impure thoughts can be permitted into the veil of lies for if even one dislocation between fantasy and reality is acknowledged then Charles (and Brown’s) whole world falls apart.
Brown will godown to electoral oblivion and be damned with historical contempt but will remain convinced that it is the entire country who is wrong and his imaginary world that is ‘right’. Just as he manifestly believes the same today even after the rest of us can see how he destroyed the economy.
If I could ‘believe’ anything I liked I wouldn’t waste time kidding on I was a brilliant Prime Minister, revered by all my subjetcs. I’d wish I was John Holmes and AIDS-proof.
Der Fuhrer never said ‘baby’!!!”
He never met me.
That’s not what he told me …
This man is a fraud!
Tud’s weh?
By playing the spin and fear card, Cameron’s made the mistake of sensitising folks to these things. When there’s the inevitable blow back its going to hammer the Tories hard. I’m not going to feel too triumphalistic about that but, I think, they deserve it and need the lesson. Wealth has protected them from really being tested and a little heat will do them good.
Britain seriously needs change but fundamentals are not the same thing as habit. The sound teachings of history are something the Prime Minister is familiar with while Cameron just drinks ideological firewater and shouts shrill slogans.
Be still, grasshopper.
Just revisting some stuff: Osborne dissed Labour’s policies but when he had a media platform to strut his stuff he just came up with a scrappy essay that would embarrass a schoolboy. Then, the Tories drop some leading announcements of some big economic plan. This is an old marketing trick to stimulate interest and take it away from competitors. Cameron had his chance to deliver delivered that but he just hijacked the icon of Thatcher and made some mood music. The man’s a bluffer. He’s just trying to do what Sony did to the Dreamcast.
Be still, grasshopper.
Just revisting some stuff: Darling dissed the Tories’ policies but when he had a media platform to strut his stuff he just came up with a scrappy essay that would embarrass a schoolboy. Then, Labour drop some leading announcements of some big economic plan. This is an old marketing trick to stimulate interest and take it away from competitors. Brown had his chance to deliver delivered that but he just hijacked the icon of Bliar and made some mood music. The man’s a bluffer. He’s just trying to do what the iceberg did to the Titanic.
Be free, grasshopper.
People of other countries see their leaders as the representatives of class interests, of parliamentary majorities more or less cleverly constructed. as necessary evils in the absence of a better alternative, or as the result of blind mass terror that stands upon millions of corpses.
For us, the Führer Gordon is the spokesman and the agent of the will of the whole nation. Despite all the prophecies of the enemy, there has not been a single case, from, the beginning of the war until today, in which a soldier broke his oath to the Führer or in which a worker in the home front renounced his loyalty to the Führer by ceasing his labors.
Goebbels again?
The Sleeper thinks that when faced with blog terrorists such as those we all know..a successful counter strategy is to never respond to their provocations and to encourage sensible contributors to do the same.
They know that they are being referred to,but essentially in the third person.
This infuriates and frustrates them,as they cannot engage with those that they wish to provoke.
This can be seen clearly in some posts above.
Do not succumb to the temptation of engagement.
as I say – be still Grasshopper
Let him wither on the vine.
A better standard of comments today with plenty of laughs and interesting facts.
I would like to thank my mum and dad and also myself for not taking up after school badmington lessons,oh and my wife for her support and understanding during the long hours of research I have to undertake on Pornhubabubba.
last but not least brother EK.
I will adopt this strategy henceforth Sir.
Fucking labour lot back again. Maybe time to pack this in.
In the meantime, the Ian Tomlinson case has finally, after what, about 4 months, has finally gone to the CPS – watch out for lost CCTV footage and a myriad of excuses why the police involved won’t be in court…. only doing their fucking job!
a) Insufficient evidence
b) Not in the public interest
c) Less than 50% chance of conviction
d) Any or all of the above
Be still, grasshoper. So I can clout you with my baton.
All the publics video footage will be barred as inadmissable due to being illegal photography of a policeman. They may even be prosecuted.
The cop reponsible will deny that it is him in the photos. No numbers. All look the same. It wasnae me. And even if it was me then Tomlinson deserved it – he was threatening me. And even if he wasn’t he was earlier. Oh, you don’t have that on camera do you? Tomlinson threatening me earlier. You don’t have that do you?
I’m innocent.
They’ll use the new case-law ‘Stevie G’ defence, i.e. ‘I retaliated, hitting the cυnt, twice, hard, hospitalising him, before he viciously assaulted me. Failing that London’s Finest will use the Stevie G fallback position: anyone of yous jurors think about convicting me and yous and your families will get battered.
Dear Guido
Whether it’s the silly season or not – I think I’ll re-visit your site after visiting the BBC.co.uk/news website
Currently I visit 0rd-ord first – then look at the news
I’ll visit ord-ord – say – once a week
Not good – rid the site of any reference to CEH – please
have a good break
O/T Is Mandy on his holidays yet? It’s just that there’s a big fuck off yacht outside the Agni Taverna on their webcam, around about the same time as last year’s webcam pictures were all removed…
Corfu (that is)
Mandy takes charge of the country next week when harriett steps down – so don’t think he can be going on holiday just yet.
It’s all a bit childish, this taking turns business, isn’t it?
When GB steps down – DC takes over !!!
Good innit!
As i said on a previous blog somewhere – they remind me of childrfen in the garden arguing over who’s going to be the pretend dad.
Non o’ this trooble when ah wor second in charge. Eh up, Trace lass, pass us yon pie!
Funny as fuck. All of them squabbling to be official ‘second’. Meanwhile Brown hasn’t even left the country.
Anything simple like the F&M outbreak that was successfully contained by a farmer and a vet and he’ll be front and centre telling us how he sorted it out.
Any real trouble and Harman will be ducking shit and giving it ‘If I could just finish patronizing you on an entirely unrelated matter…’ on Paxman.
Cancel my comment on the yacht, by the way. Now I can see it more clearly, it’s only bigger than my house, rather than bigger than my street.
What’s really childish is Harman using her tenure to spew out man-hating bile to try to gather a few votes from the sisterhood. Boring, boring, boring.
Don’t think it’ll work for her. From comments posted here, Harperson has earned as much contempt from the female of the species as from the male.
She’s a bit stuck really isn’t she? – because she certainly isn’t a woman’s woman – can you imagine her going out to lunch with friends for a gossip ? She’d really think that was beneath her.
And she sure isn’t much liked by men and that’s according to her own estimates! So I’m not sure where she would get votes from.
I think she’s getting to me. I am useless. I just accidentally tie-dyed two of my favourite shirts. Bollocks!
I’m laughing at adversity and giggling at the nasty Tories rending themselves into so many pieces they are blown away by the wind and fall like dust to the ground. Be happy! Dance! Enjoy life. It’s to short to get wrapped up with those scowlers. Run! Hide! Leap out from behind them and shout “Boo!” Cuz, life is art and death is life. Hurrah!
Um, banzai.
Be still, grasshopper.
I’m laughing at adversity and giggling at the nasty Labourites rending themselves into so many pieces they are blown away by the wind and fall like dust to the ground. Be happy! Dance! Enjoy life. It’s to short to get wrapped up with those scowlers. Run! Hide! Leap out from behind them and shout “Boo!” Cuz, life is art and death is life. Hurrah!
Um, wibble.
Be fried, grasshopper.
John Chilcott has said that the Iraq Inquiry hearings will be shown live on TV and online. There is also going to be a website with transcripts.
Mind the Hutton Inquiry also had these facilities and it didn’t stop that becoming a whitewash!
I’m looking forward to hearing Bliar and Alastair give evidence – of course, the value of that will depend upon the strength of the questions.
But nell..do you think that they will speak the truth even if they do appear before Chilcott?
I’m afraid that by given past records,I don’t have much faith.
I just want to hear them both answer the question – ‘which one of you made up the wmd and 45 minute lie?’ and then
‘ which one of you decided to publicly hound Dr David Kelly?’
Yes I know, pie in the sky – but these men are criminals of the worst order.
As you know,they would respond to the first question that intel was telling them this and they had no reason to dispel it.
As to David Kelly,I personally think that his case is the most compelling argument against this Governments’ integrity that there ever has been.
His was political erasure of the ultimate order.
I thought it was common knowledge that the intel told them no such thing. that it was returned repeatedly by Blair for ‘resubmission’ until it was suitably vague as to allow the ’45-minute’ interpretation.
Rather like Brown’s budget predictions are the result of several iterations of efforts from the treasury. Brown decides the outcome he wants and they reverse engineer wildly optomistic scenarios to generate his wildly optomistic predictions.
Nu Labour. The enemies of truth.
The 45 minute claim was to hit Cyprus. The Evening Standard headline just said 45 minutes to attack British interests. nobody thought to ask where.
The power of distraction allows them to say no one made up the 45 minute lie. It was not a lie, you just did not understand the question.
You forget, at your peril, that most of the players where trained lawyers.
Absolutely jgm2….but that ‘interpretation’ is what they will claim was legitimate.
Well, what I actually meant was 48 minutes but we, that is Ally and I decided to round things up … for the press …. and simplicity, you know … hehum
I’m insanely relaxed about Dear Leader. His mind is as smooth as glass, as hard as diamond, and as brilliant as the sun. One gasps, nay, gapes at such magnificence. One is giddy with delight and almost falling to the floor with humbleness. I’m sure, if I didn’t have a such a skin toughened by the misery of my own base existence I wouldn’t be able to contain myself.
Be still, grasshopper.
I’m insane about Dear Leader. His mind is as smooth as glasspaper, as hard as talc, and as brilliant as the sewers. One gasps, nay, gapes at such incontinence. One is giddy with delight and almost falling to the floor with disgust. I’m sure, if I didn’t have a such a skin toughened by the misery of my own base existence I wouldn’t be able to contain myself.
Oh shit, I haven’t….
Be fried, grasshopper.
They will just lie their way out of it, just like Bliar did when he was questioned by Scotland Yard over the Cash for Peerages scam.
C [Sir Richard Dearlove, then head of MI6] reported:
Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD.
But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy…
There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action.
I am particularly looking forward to Goldsmith’s explanation of events on the road to Damascus.
Simple really, my friend, there was a great flash … and there it was, the answer to it all …. simple … I’m not overawed a bit by it … could happen to anyone.
Nell the whitewash was ordered by the tankerload months ago,this lot wouldn’t know the truth even if fell off the back of a wagon and hit them in the face,expectations=zero.
Sadly I think you’re right – I just want to see justice especially for Dr Kelly and the men who died fighting in Iraq, not to mention the civilians who got caught up in it all.
Browns financial incompetence as Chancellor hinged largely on the fact that he would continually spend money he didnt have but attempted to fool us all by predicting future growth figures which NEVER came to pass. A bit like a gambler running up debts on a deluded promise of a cheque in the post. The man and his outdated Political dogma is a disaster for this country
I’ll think you find that the questions are mutually agreed beforehand.
I’m currently in the process of shipping some computer parts to an unemployed guy at my own personal expense. This gear doesn’t cost much to people in work but for someone on low incomes it’s a few multiples of their meagre disposable income.
A targetted investment to folks with little or nothing achieves much more than shaving a percentage point off tax. They can have something resembling a life than what might be, for some, just another instantly forgettable round of drinks among many.
Personally, I think, your ignorance and emotionalism is getting in the way of reality. Issues like this are very real and just because the Tories are kissing your ass doesn’t make them go away. You might wanna think about that before you get a hangover.
Be still, grasshopper.
I’m currently in the process of shipping some computer parts to an unemployed guy at my own personal expense. This gear doesn’t cost much to people in work but for someone on low incomes it’s a few multiples of their meagre disposable income.
A targetted investment to folks with little or nothing achieves much more than shaving a percentage point off tax. They can have something resembling a life than what might be, for some, just another instantly forgettable round of drinks among many.
Be still, grasshopper.
The gung-ho types and vested interests tend to ride over something as simple, cheap, and easy as mere calm. They look for “authoritative” solutions, such as more and more legislation, or they want people to vote for them, so appeal to “popularity”. Really, it’s just another ego problem. The problem is usually themselves but nobody wants to admit that.
Be still, grasshopper.
Permit me the freedom in this speech to say some things to the entire British people, at home and at the Front, about the Führer Gordon personally. I have had the good fortune to be at his side during the period of struggle for power and during this great war, to be present at many, indeed most of the particularly happy and critical hours. I never saw him doubt or waver. He always followed the call of his blood, and where it called he went, regardless of the difficulties. He stands above all other statesmen of our time in that he recognized danger at the proper time and took courageous action. The British people thanks him for that today, as will one day all of civilized humanity.
GB is a liar and a cheat
Arthur, I agree with you but my masters would never allow me to say it.
The Labour trolls and vested interests tend to ride over something as simple, cheap, and easy as free speech. They look for “authoritarian” solutions, such as more and more legislation, or they want people to vote for them, so appeal to “popularity”. Really, it’s just another ego problem. The problem is usually themselves but they don’t want to admit that.
Be fried, grasshopper.
The use of think tanks has grown as politicians discovered they could be used for a multitude of sins. Very like the growth of MP’s expenses.
If think tanks were initially used in the way they are to-day, there would have been uproar at the use of public money to support partisan operations.
Likewise with MP’s expenses, their range of uses and value have far exceeded the original remit, but this practice of “pushing the envelope” is used by everyone from children upwards.
With think tanks, the main purpose changed to giving money to your own supporting organizations. With expenses, the purpose changed from repaying legitimate expenses to avoiding public confrontation by suppressing MP’s salary increases.
In both cases the change is small and incremental. If no one notices, the next step can be tried.
This is very akin to the frog and hot water. Put the frog in hot water and it immediately jumps out. Put it in cold water and then heat gently, the frog continues to sit.
Everything this government does follows the same sequence. We are now at the stage where we are watching steam bubbles go past us and we still don’t jump.
Frog stew for dinner?
is that coz we’re all sheep?
And so..the ‘agent provocateur’ becomes the provoked.
Folks need to get that between goals and outcomes lies a thing called process. It can take time to understand and fix a problem. Rushing things just lays the ground for another nightmare.
It’s a truism of martial arts that the inexperienced tend to force or rush things. They only hurt themselves or land on their ass. Better just relax and take it as it comes.
Be still, grasshopper.
If there is a divine gift to leading peoples and nations which allows great historical leaders to perceive instinctively the necessary and right, and to combine this knowledge with an unerring sense of what needs to be done at the moment, Gordon is that blessed man. That the parliamentary mayflies on the other side fail to realize this is more a proof of his abilities than of their absence. Even the best leadership sometimes suffers defeats and reverses. They are in fact the test that it proves its merits.
A pity you were not active 30 years ago, you could have written the same eulogies about Margret Thatcher.
The difference between then and now is that 30 years ago, you would have been correct.
Pyrethrin.
No grasshopper.
“The IPPR was set up in the mid-eighies specifically to give Labour some intellectual firepower.”
Yet another nulab failure then. Bunch of cυnts.
I’m the most motherfucking powerful man in the world and i’ve undermined the very existence of the country i run by becoming it’s leader without being a a citizen because i’m just that damn sexy and cool.
All Hail The King.
I generally add value and cut folks slack, and enough of what I say is reflected in the media and ripped off by you guys. Maybe, instead of trying to put me down you tried making an effort yourself things would go better instead of this blog resembling a failed state. It’s not too hard to acknowledge someones contribution or be nice, unless yer chicken.
Be still, grasshopper.
Has NuLiebore and its leadership ever failed the test? Have we ever stood confused and desperate before an approaching fate, unsure of what to do? We have always stood ready. A man always stood at the head of our people who was a bright and shining example. Even under the hardest blows he stood firm and the confidence of his heart turned the greatest misfortunes to our advantage.
We don’t speak about it often, but we all know it. Never has the British people looked with such faith toward its Führer Gordon as in the days and hours when it knew the full gravity of the situation. It did not lose heart, but rather affirmed even more firmly and strongly its goals.
What part of fuck and off don’t you understand, retard?
I generally destroy value and cut folks out, and enough of what I say is ignored in the media and ripped to shreds by you guys. Maybe, instead of cluttering up this blog I tried making an effort things would go better and this blog wouldn’t resemble a failed state. It’s not too hard to acknowledge someones contribution or be nice, unless yer chicken.
Be fried, grasshopper.
At the moment it isdifficult to find many Labour supporters to praise the gigantic intellect ofGordon Brown ( theyused to queue up before it became obvious to anyone with a grain of intelligence that the criminal Brown has been operating a huge Ponzi scheme with the UK property market )
The only gigantic features I can see are his jowls , abdomen and beam .
It is a measure of his self-delusion that he recently stated that he did not like the way that cartoonists made him look fat and ugly– typical ,it is not me it is someone else .
He’s got a small willy too
Have you noticed that McDebt’s head seems to be disappearing into his shoulders? Deep in the recesses of what purports to be his brain, he must secretly actually feel ashamed of the blunders he has made. And his body language is showing it, even though he seems unaware that his own body is betraying his lies and shame.
The fuckers are addicted to our money like all socialists everywhere.
I’ve often compared Labour party members feelings towards the party as being like a battered wife, constantly making excuses for the abuse she takes, harking back to ‘good old days’ that never existed, and clinging to the unrealistic hope that she can change him for the better.
Sadly, few have the courage to look truth in the face and walk away.
We’ve often asked Labour party members – who actually pay for the honour of being George Bush’s minions – to justify themselves on moral and ethical grounds for choosing to remain in a party that took us to war on the basis of lies, that practices torture, rendition and has created a surveillence state. Years ago, Labour party members would protest in the streets about issues like these. Today they make excuses.
They hum and haw, some have the grace to look embarrassed, but they mumble out some meaninless dribble.
LOLWUT Sweden is almost right up there with Norway and Finland for the happiest countries …
Saudi Arabia … who in Saudi Arabia? Tribal leaders with harems?
Surely N.Korea is in there somewhere and presumably Burma?
It started in Saudi Arabia.
and hopefully they will get their behavioural modification therapy soon
Bck in your box, Mr Skinner!
Folks like Gordon Brown are often star performers but find the traditional hiearchies and peer groups to be a royal pain in the ass. He’s a great leader and, I figure, the only reason the Tory trolls are taking advantage is cuz they’re jealous.
The issue of international financial policy is great but getting caught up in that is just going to take Labour’s eye off the ball. Miliband is a good frontman for advocating a better approach, but Labour MPs must focus, focus, focus on helping folks get stuff done and feeling like someone gives a shit. It sounds cliche but they will succeed if they help the people succeed.
Be still, grasshopper.
When we looked back on Norwich North, we could not rid ourselves of the bitter feeling that it was in part our own responsibility. But this time we have earned victory, and the goddess of history will not withhold it from us. The price of our coming victory is our loyalty. The war is not an occasion for loose talk and empty promises. It is a time to realize what we have so often said in the past. It depends on our oath to the flag and on the silent oath in our hearts. Gordon is our man!
do you mean on the A140?
I’ve got me map but can’t quite fix your position..
The fact that GHordon stands at the head of our nation is for us all the surest sign of coming victory. Never was he so near to us as in the moment of danger, never were we so bound to him as when we felt that he needed us as we needed him.
Through this we have dashed the great hopes of our enemy. They hoped that we would do what they could not. It was the only way we could be defeated. We have done what is necessary for victory.
Folks like Gordon Brown are often shit performers and find the traditional hiearchies and peer groups to be a royal pain in the ass. He’s a dire leader and, I figure, the only reason the funsters are taking advantage is cuz they’re jealous.
The issue of international financial policy is great but getting caught up in that is just going to take Labour’s eye off the ball (not that it was ever on it in the first place). Milipede is a juvenile frontman for advocating a better approach, but Labour MPs must focus, focus, focus on helping themselves to public funds. It sounds cliche but they will be voted out if they allow the people an election.
Be fried, grasshopper.
They don’t give a shit, and we know they don’t give a shit.
Three years ago, almost to the day, the IPPR published a strange report entitled “Warm Words” (http://www.ippr.org.uk/ecomm/files/warm_words.pdf) , which, as far as I can tell, is a manual for spinsters intent on preaching about “climate-friendly” actions whilst simultaneously having zero commitment to do anything about it. It’s completely devoid of any logical or radical thinking.
If I was a teacher and a student presented that paper to me, it would be an instant fail, its that bad. (Thank god I’m not).
If that report was typical of the IPPR’s output then I’m at a loss to understand why anyone would ever pay them even a penny for their thoughts.
Tony Blair, citation of 2009 Dan David Laureate for Present Leadership, awarded by Tel Aviv University (including $1,000,000 Laureate award):
Anthony Charles Lynton (Tony) Blair, former British Prime Minister, is one of the most outstanding statesmen of our era.
From the time he assumed leadership of the British Labor Party in 1994 until he stepped down as prime minister in 2007, he showed exceptional intelligence and foresight, and demonstrated moral courage and leadership.
Tony Blair has consistently asked the important questions and thought deeply about the interconnected world of the 21st century. Early in his prime ministership, he came to two beliefs that guide him to today: first, that it is a mistake for the world to wait for America to solve all of the tough questions, and second, that there are some things a state may do within its borders that justify intervention even if the actions do not directly threaten another nation’s interests.
Upon stepping down as Prime Minister, Blair was appointed as the Middle East Quartet Representative. As envoy for the united Nations, the European Union, Russia and the United States, his goal is to bring stability and peace to the Middle East.
Throughout his career, Tony Blair has acted on the basis of what he believes to be right, a hallmark of leadership.
Pure satire.
quite right sa
he’s the leading most wanted war criminal
he’s the leading most corrupt propety tycoon known to man
he’s the leading abuser of public money in our time
well done that man
Lets hope someone shoots the fucker
o/t – sorry if this has been posted before, but has anyone tried Gordon Brown’s Calculator?
http://www.tpadata.com/browncalculator/
Brilliant and true.
Harriett talking to This is London admits that gordon calls the office every day to give instructions. When asked if it was true that he called at 5am each morning she said that was slightly incorrect!!! I wonder what she meant?
5:01am. Precisely.
It’s 4:50 am – 10 minutes early – to catch ‘em out!
4am
Gordon has a morning poo at 5am, he then has to be jet washed down because he smears it all up his back
So when did he stop wearing the nappies then?
Just made myself some coffee. It’s raining.
Sorry thought I was on Twitter.
You forgot, “having a wank.”
I have staff to do things for me.
It’s not raining here – I’ve just got back from walking the dogs. Time for a V&T
That’s amazing, Sir William – tell us more!
I’ve just deaded a bluebottle.
just flicked a few crumbs off the desk
“Think Tanks on the Taxpayer.”
Thick Wanks on the Taxpayer more like.
Chas the Hardofhearing is obviously Public Sector ‘cos he stops posting at 5pm
I’m generally pleased with the proposed changes to international finance regulation and cooperation. Terrorism, criminality, and other shady behaviour has been given a free ride for decades. In some ways, governments have been complicit in this as it creates holes for black operations and arm twisting to take place, and transnational corporation to export poverty, and assorted gangsters cream off loot and retire to sunny climes on their ill gotten gains. If the potential global renaissance prophesied by the UN is to happen, measures like this look like a necessary step.
So, if the usual suspects are keeping up with this, one question you might like to ask yourselves is that instead of indulging competitive behaviour for a serotonin buzz, doesn’t a more subtle and laid back position look more profitable? I think it does and, I sure, the smart money will follow as well. It’s why it’s called smart money. You know, that stuff you lot don’t have.
Be still, grasshopper.
We all wish Gordon health and strength and a blessed hand. He must know that he can always rely on his people. When trial and danger is before him, we will stand more firmly behind him. We believe in him and in his historical mission, and believe that in the end he will be crowned with victory. He will be the man of the century, not his opponents. He gave this century its meaning, its content, its goal. Affirming the meaning and understanding the content, we will reach the goal. Gordon points the way. He commands, we follow. We, his old and tested comrades, march in the first row behind him. We are tested by danger, steeled by misfortune, hardened by storm and trial, but also crowned with the first victories and successes of the coming new world. We are at the head of a countless multitude who carry and defend the future of the Reich.
We defend the cause of the nation, which has found its visible form in the Führer .
In this battle between life and death, he is and will remain for us what he always was: Our Gordon!
Be shrill glassblower
Be brill grass bowler
Hey Chaz, that last ‘d’ in your name isn’t normal is it? Is this how you’re getting through the mod at the moment?
You sad fuck.
I’m generally pissed off with the proposed changes to international finance regulation and cooperation. Terrorism, criminality, and other shady behaviour has been given a free ride. In some ways, governments have been complicit in this as it creates holes for black operations and arm twisting to take place, and transnational corporation to export goods, and assorted gangsters cream off loot and retire to sunny climes on their yachts, where I hope I might get an invite as a deckhand. If the potential global renaissance prophesied by the UN is to happen, measures like this look like a necessary step.
So, if the usual suspects are keeping up with this, one question you might like to ask yourselves is that instead of indulging competitive behaviour for a laugh, doesn’t a more subtle and laid back position look more profitable? I think it does and, I feel sure, the funny money will follow as well. It’s why it’s called funny money. You know, that stuff you lot don’t have, because the government has taxed it all.
Be fried, grasshopper.
Sorry, despite all your earnest requests, I can’t stuff Mr. Halfwit.
He’s full of shit already.
Christ! Look what he’s doing to that grasshopper !! You filthy perv !
If the government has all these left-of-centre think tanks to call on, how come they have so little in the way of exciting new policies and radical ideas? How come they are so unpopular? And why do they have to steal Tory and Lib Dem ideas and pretend they thought of them first?
The left is lamentably short on ideas at the moment. Brown, while a serious politician, is in over his head, and his proposed successor Johnson shows little sign of improving things with fresh thinking, despite being more likeable. Mandelson knows only spin, Miliband is a figure of ridicule, and Harman is just plain bitter. The only bright spot on the horizon could be Purnell, but he probably won’t become leader for many years. By the time he does, Labour will have become serious contenders again.
“Brown, while a serious politician, is in over his head,”
He’s seriously fucking bonkers.
Brown is a ‘serious’ politician in the same sense that Fred West was a serious danger to hitch-hikers.
People may feel put down and ignored. This is a mixture of many external and internal things: big business with its management’s right to manage, the media with it’s spaghetti throwing without responsibility, and our own minds full of Eastenders and petty rivalries. It is said that hell is other people. This is true to some extent but by being deluded we bring a lot of it on ourselves. Labour get this. Let go.
Be still, grasshopper.
I am happy to speak to the British people at this hour. We have affirmed in the past year our support and our confidence in the Führer Gordon’s work. We want also to speak the words that come from the depths of our heart. We want to tell him what he is to us all, both in the trials of the moment and in the shining future.
People may feel put down and ignored. This is a mixture of many external and internal things: big government with its inability to manage, the media with it’s spaghetti throwing without tomato sauce, and our own minds full of trolls. It is said that hell is other people. This is true to some extent but by being deluded we bring a lot of it on ourselves. Labour get on people’s tits. Let them go.
Be fried, arsegroper.
I thought we were suposed to be angry, merely because we are angry. The fact that we also feel put down and ignored seems to be an occupational hazard with Labour.
Double standards again.
Vote for any other party but Labour.
BTW. I don’t watch Eastenders.
Yeah, that’s all I think about 24/7- Eastenders, especially Babs Windsors tits, not as they are now obviously, but as they used to be.
DON’T BE A SOFT TORY PONCE
BE A NEW LABOUR WARRIOR
KILL AND TORTURE – WAR AND OCCUPATION
WE KNOW HOW TO DO IT THE TORIES DON’T
DON’T VOTE FOR NOVICE TORTURERS AND WARMONGERS
VOTE FOR THE REAL THING
VOTE LABOUR
why is swine flu no longer in the news – nothing needed to divert ones attention from:
Afghanistan
Unemployment figures
Inquiries
general fuck ups
etc…
guess it will be back in time for the new term…….. and a few ‘cut’ announcements.
When the MP’s return from their mammoth break, it will be top of the bill again. After all, they have to divert our attention away from what’s really happening.
The reason is that Snotty and co are praying that the second – and usualy more serious – wave of flu will hold off (that’s why they are dolling out tamiflu like smarties now) until just before the general election, when labour can evoke an emergency powers act banning public meetings. Oh dear, only postal votes allowed! That’ll do nicely, thanks….
Instead of slagging the Prime Minister off, some folks might want to empty their cup and listen to what the guy says: “Getting on with it”, “Taking the rough with the smooth”, “Doing whatever it takes.” This isn’t rocket science and you can get books on it. Instead of tripping over our own funk we can let go. Hence, the title and book: Zen Mind, Beginners Mind.
Be still, grasshopper.
Has NuLiebore and its leadership ever failed the test? Have we ever stood confused and desperate before an approaching fate, unsure of what to do? We have always stood ready. The great Gordon always stood at the head of our people, a bright and shining example. Even under the hardest blows he stood firm and the confidence of his heart turned the greatest misfortunes to our advantage.
We don’t speak about it often, but we all know it. Never has the British people looked with such faith toward its Führer Gordon as in the days and hours when it knew the full gravity of the situation. It did not lose heart, but rather affirmed even more firmly and strongly its goals.
The last Fuhrer had the decency to take a cyanide capsule. This one’s far too gutless, although with two Scottish by-elections looming one can only hope.
Charles, Charles. We’ve listened to him droning on for the last 12 years.
We’ve had enough now.
I believe Gordon hasn’t read this book – has he?
You’re slipping Fuckwidge, you forgot, “It started in America,”
As well as slagging the Prime Minister off, some folks might want to empty their bowels and ignore what the guy says: “Getting on with it”, “Taking the rough with the smooth”, “Doing whatever it takes.” This isn’t rocket science and you can get books on it. Instead of tripping over our own feet we can let go. Hence, the title and book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Be afraid, arsegroper.
Losses at the rock £734 million in 6 months , with losses expected next 6 months to be similar , so is the economy getting worse then and as people lose there jobs houses are being reprossed and mortgages defaulted .
so tax payer pays the banks , who dont lend the money who inflate there own balance sheets , who also burn jobless home owners , who then need benfits , which then require govt borrowing , to give to the banks so that they can ward themselves bounuses for running casinos with our savings !
Nu Labour have done it again
We just wanna have fun!
Keeping still is for squares!
Let’s stridulate baby!
……………..and meet CEH at the ugly bug ball!
I noticed an article last week, I think it was in the Torygraph, in which Mandelbum was being interviewed. He was rather coy about his schooldays at Hendon Grammar. Unsurprisingly so, because I’d heard from a reliable source that as a sixth-former he led an (apparently) fairly effective strike for something resembling student union recognition, and just about destroyed a very well respected headmaster in the process. Is anyone else aware of this aspect of his past?
Trevor,was it fairly or fairy?
nothing to do with shagging…………but I’ll just check.
Folks can rant and rave, stamp their feet, and run around in circles but it just attacks funk with funk, the problem gets bigger and bigger, and they end up tearing themselves to pieces. The internal market of the mind is the same as the financial markets. So, by doing different ourselves we can effect change in ourselves, and what goes around. Instead of project chaos and fear, we project order and harmony. As we change our perception and the world around us changes.
Be still, grasshopper.
so much piss and wind
More piss than wind, methinks.
Give us a few Tyburn jigs and we’ll be as happy as Larry.
Well, maybe more than a few.
Folks can rant and rave, stamp their feet, and run around in circles but the problem gets bigger and bigger, and they end up tearing themselves to pieces. The internal market of the mind is not the same as the financial markets. So, by pissing off the trolls ourselves we can effect change in ourselves, and what goes around. Instead of projecting chaos and fear, we project order and harmony. As we change our perception the world around us changes.
Be afraid, arsegroper.
Come to think of it, how did the left in general just drift into the situation in which it now finds itself? I mean, Labour don’t look like being an electable party any time in the next five years right now, and it will take more than a few taxpayer-funded think tanks to get them out of it.
It isn’t just about Gordon Brown, either. So few of those who would replace him are credible alternatives. Certainly not Harman, Johnson or Miliband. I think the left is in a difficult place, and don’t see an easy way out.
Easy way out? Rope, light fitting, chair. Death with dignity without the trip to Switzerland.
Come on Labour MP’s. You know it’s the right thing to do. Although calling a vote of no confidence would be better.
No one who might vote Tory would vote ZaNu Liebore, especially now. And since ZaNu have forgotten their own traditional supporters’ interests, I cannot see who would vote for them. Except perhaps for a small band of troughers and the unpleasantly dim.
News reporting Scottish Labour MP has died after a long illness.
Another bye-election, then? Can’t wait!
All the fucking scots mp’s are piss heads and walking heart attacks.
Like their voters.
Ha Bill Clinton is saying hallow to KIm l Jong in North korea , apparrently he asked “how monica was” , nothing like diplomacy getting off to a good start , wonder if ruin was there
“Getting on with it”, “Taking the rough with the smooth”, “Doing whatever it takes.”
The man’s gayer than a John Inman lookalike convention, having a fancy dress ball where the theme is Mama Mia.
You obviously mean how John Inman looks now, 6′ under.
Extract from the 15 recommendations from The European Citizens Consultations where150 citizens from all European Member States who have been taking part in a unique pan-European debate on how to tackle the economic and social challenges facing Europe have met top policy-makers in Brussels to hand over their recommendations at the 2009 European Citizens’ Summit.
4. The EU should harmonise European educational and vocational systems by introducing common criteria and standards for the different educational levels which are recognised in all Member States. This should include a facilitation of pupil and student mobility within Europe, uniform admissions procedures, examinations and evaluations.
7 The European Commission must propose legislation that would combat social inequalities, and create conditions for a convergence of social insurance and welfare systems in all member states. This would cover salaries and pensions, and would establish “floors” and “ceilings” for social benefits. The EU should create a mechanism to monitor member states’ social policies and, if needed, should issue binding recommendations for member states to ensure that the EU moves closer to a common EU social system.
15 In order to deal more effectively with illegal immigration, the EU should take on overall strategic and financial responsibility for the strengthening of external border controls, including the faster processing of cases and standardisation of treatment of people in transit. The EU should take measures to avoid countries on its external borders becoming over-burdened by an influx of migrants. The EU member states must ensure that illegal immigrants are not offered jobs in the grey
economy.
Scary !
Reading some of the comment in here can be quite wearing and dispiriting, so it’s no wonder some MPs feel a bit rattled. But, that’s what people want you to think because they’re trying to get the gold trophy by trampling over other folks bodies. So much for change and the self-styled forces of change.
Be still, grasshopper.
If MP’s feel rattled then I’m very glad they do. It’ll do them all good to see that they’re not indepensible.
Reading some of the comment in here can be quite cheering, so it’s no wonder some voters feel a bit cheered. But, that’s what people want you to think because they’re trying to get the gold trophy by trampling over troughing MPs bodies. So much for change and the self-styled farces of change.
Be afraid, arsegroper.
HAD ENOUGH OF WAR AND OCCUPATION? THEN VOTE TORY YOU YELLOW BELLY
WANT MORE WAR AND DEATH AND DESTRUCTION? – THEN VOTE LABOUR
BE A MAN NOT A MOUSE
VOTE YES TO WAR
VOTE LABOUR
The Sleeper recognises that he gets a certain degree of satisfaction when those who attempt to provoke become the provoked themselves.
They cannot fight the urge to vacate more bile when their provocations fail to get the desired response.
Their ever more desperate and vacuous words fall on increasingly deaf ears..only to amplify their anger..to the point of exhaustion.
eh what was that ! i was avin a kip
Hmmmmm….
i thought of it first
no you didn’t
“Reading some of the comment in here can be quite wearing and dispiriting,”
Fuck off and get a life then.
How is it possible for one person to write so much and yet say so little? Truly he walks in the footsteps of Blair and Brown.
you are very wise glass hopper
Harmen you fucking bint, take a look at this, its a good there was a few blokes around to invent the important stuff
1843 Ada Augusta Lovelace, laid some of the early conceptual and technical groundwork for high technology by helping develop an early computer.
1903 Marie Curie was the first female recipient of a Nobel Prize, for the discovery of radioactive elements.
Mary Anderson was awarded a patent in 1903 for a window cleaning device, a foreruuner to the windshield wiper.
1904 Lizzie Magie invents a game called The Landlords Game a forerunner of the Monopoly game.
1946 Marion Donovan sold her disposable diaper invention for about $1 million “in order to devote more time to developing other inventions”.
1952 Grace Hopper was credited with devising the first compiler, a program that translates instructions for a computer from English to machine language.
1959 Ruth Handler invented an anatomically improbable molded plastic statuette named Barbie. Since its debut in 1959, the Barbie doll has become an American icon that functions as both a steady outlet for girls’ dreams and an ever changing reflection of American society.
1965 Stephanie Kwolek invented one of the modern world’s most readily recognized and widely used materials: Kevlar. Her name appears on 16 patents; she is sole patent holder on seven.
1991 Naomi Nakao, is a practicing gastroenterologist, founder of Granit Medical Innovations in 1989 and inventor of the Nakao Snare in 1991. She has 54 patents or patent pending in her name.
1993 One Saturday morning in 1993, when she was eight years old, Abigail M. Fleck and her father, Jonathan, were cooking bacon in their St. Paul, Minnesota home. Inspired by an offhand comment from her father,. Abbey Fleck invented a new, quicker and healthier way to cook bacon, then founded a company to sell her product, The Makin’ BaconŒ.
2002 Under Helen Greiner’s leadership, iRobot Corporation is delivering robots into the industrial, consumer, academic, and military markets. In 2002, the ROOMBA robot vacuum was introduced to the consumer products marketplace.
2006 Jennifer Tuttle submitted a short essay to the Live Your Dream contest. Tuttle created a game, Multiplication Madness. In February, 2006 she was selected as the winner and won over $250,000 in cash, products and training for her effort.
The thing some folks don’t get is the balance between goals and outcomes, and how managing the process takes an amount of skill, wisdom, and patience. Sometimes, you just have to wait until the the time is right. Now people have seen how these extremes lead to disaster, developing the sweet spot has become practicable.
It’s a bit of cliche but what is the sound of one hand clapping? We don’t exist in the past or the future. We exist in there here and now. As one flows into the other, how we act and react changes us and the world be live in. Once you grok that and develop some perspective things aren’t that big a deal anymore. Stuff happens. Deal with it. More importantly, deal with yourself.
Be still, grasshopper.
“once you grok that” : about the most sensible thing youve typed all week
The thing some folks don’t get is the balance between goals and defence, and how managing the process takes an amount of skill, wisdom, and patience. Sometimes, you just have to wait until the the time is right. Now people have seen how these extremes lead to disaster, bribing the referee has become practicable.
It’s a bit of cliche but what is the sound of one hand with clap? We don’t exist in the past or the future. We exist in there here and now. As one flows into the other, how we act and react changes us and the world be live in. Once you wank that and develop some perspective things aren’t that big a deal anymore. Stuff happens. Deal with it. More importantly, I should deal with myself.
Be afraid, arsegroper.
You’re repeating yourself re goals / outcomes
process management requires knowledge – Brown doesn’t have it
your sweet spot comment is twaddlespeak
we do exist in past and future – stoopid boy – how else would one flow into ‘the other’
Brown seems to be struggling with both small and big deals
You’re right – stuff happens – but Brown is in react mode – way behind the curve
Charles – deal with yourself
whats “grok”? If you wrote in plain english, we might start to understand what on earth it is you’re waffling on about.
‘Gro(c)k’ is straight out of A Clockwork Orange with its invented youthspeak, a work as prescient in its way as Orwell’s 1984.
Hansard the Amnesiac, it’s from Robert Heinlein’s ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’.
More evidence that CEH, the Alan Watts devotee, isn’t a Young Turk but an Old Hippy.
Charles,
What’s the other hand doing while the one is clapping.
I bet it’s having a wank.
Cutting’n'pasting shite I’d guess.
How in a democracy, if only just, can ministers and members of the security forces get away with not answering questions and giving evidence about alledged use of torture?
As big business got arrogant and folks with credit cards got greedy, the whole pile of nonsense built up and up until the bubble burst. Power, status, and wealth can get peoples attention, and when it has traction the market in dorks tends to grow in value. Most of the raving is just the same ego throwing a snit. Well, tough. Things have changed and it’s time for folks with better goals in mind to step up a gear.
While the social and economic wave continues to roll forward, the situation and people will change accordingly. Now the system is broken, this is the precise time to develop better policy and allegiances. The same principle is found in basic military training: do you break someone to ruin them, or break them to make them? With that in mind it’s a no-brainer for me to lean towards Labour.
Be still, grasshopper.
As government got arrogant and folks with credit cards got ripped off, the whole pile of nonsense built up and up until the bubble burst. Power, status, and wealth can get peoples attention, and when it has traction the market in shit tends to deminish in value. Most of the raving is just the same ego throwing a snit. Well, tough. Things have changed and it’s time for folks with better goals in mind to step up a gear.
While the social and economic wave continues to stumble, the situation and people will change accordingly. Now the system is broken, this is the precise time to develop better policy and allegiances. The same principle is found in basic military training: do you break someone to ruin them, or break them to make them? With that in mind it’s a no-brainer for me to lean towards the Tories.
Be afraid, arsegroper.
Behave ass shopper.
It takes a no-brainer of course to lean towards ZaNuLabour.
It’s a slogan: It Takes a No-Brainer to Vote Nu-Laiber. Hey, what do you expect? Saatchi and with no money in the till, eh Lord Levy?
Anyway it’s a good thing you guys don’t express these opinions that are negative towards our esteemed ZaNuLab government in a court of law otherwise you will find yourselves well and truly “investigated”.
As per Judge Trigger who seems to have “started something”.
Ho, ho, ho!
Charles,
Have you ever seen the film Apocalypse Now?
Well it’s all about some nutty U.S.Colonel KURTZ
who has become out of control and is leading a
tribe in Cambodia down the road of death & destruction.
It’s set in the Vietnam War and the nutty Colonel sounds
so like you in his ramblings.
The US sent in a covert operator,Willard,who kills KURTZ.
So,what I am saying Charles is watch out for Martin SHEEN.
I hope he kills the GlassHopper too.
Do you mean the nutty US Colonel who went “native” in some remote outpost of the country and completely lost the plot, a bit like this guy here?
Max, It looks like the same bloke. Both big fat bastards,neither wearing a tie.
As a footnote, Marlon Brando, who played Kurtz, had turned into such a bloater by the time filming started, that to hide his elephantine bulk they shot his scenes in heavy shadow, which as it happened looked very atmospheric but was purely designed to disguise the great actor’s whale-like gut.
Ratso,Don’t call me Ratso,my names Rizzo.
None of the uniforms that they had made available for Brando fitted
him so they filmed him naked from the middle up.
He does ramble on like Charles though,don’t he?
In a war there are many moments for compassion and tender action. There are many moments for ruthless action – what is often called ruthless – what may in many circumstances be only clarity, seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it, directly, quickly, awake, looking at it.
Sure sounds like the ‘widge
Guido, I know it would be a huge leap of faith to do this, but don’t you have some kind of Guido II who you can install as deputy executioner while you are away? That way he could chop out all the nutters and we wouldn’t have to put up with the regurgitated ramblings of Charles ‘effing Fuckwitter, the most irritating shit-eating teat-sucking mummy’s boy of a train-spotting, wolf-bagging, half-baked mentalist used condom-slurping troll that ever existed.
Ah, that’s better.
We’ve only got to put up with the cnut for another 42 weeks and then his funding will run out.
I wish the cucking funt’s oxygen would run out.
Gordon Brown’s character type is good at design, markets, spontaneity, and building teams. If you look at Apple, the RPSB, and renaissance Japan you’ll see that sort of management in action. It’s not for everyone but you can’t argue with the success. Folks can smack their head against a concrete wall or just accept it. I recommend accepting it.
Be still, grasshopper.
Gordon Brown’s character type is poor at design, markets, spontaneity, and building teams. If you look at Apple, the RPSB, and renaissance Japan you’ll see a better sort of management in action. It’s not for everyone but you can’t argue with the success. Folks can smack their head against a concrete wall or just accept it. I recommend accepting it.
Be afraid, arsegroper.
Gee and I thought his character type was stick some bricks in a carrier bag, cover with empty beer cans and then tell lies. Let’s look at the evidence for me to change my mind: design, yep he designed the tripartite banking regulatory system plus the current benefits system; markets, er he told everyone he was selling gold, then sold; mmm, spontaneity…I suppose announcing his expenses ideas on YouTube before consulting with anyone amounts to that (but with what outcome?) and finally building teams, er eg his a-hole treasury teams, er his inner circle, er the cabinet/s? I somehow think the empty carrier bag type character still fits, Charlie boy. And take that fooking grasshopper out of your trousers.
AFGHANISTAN IS GORDON BROWN’S VIETNAM
AND HE’S LOVING IT!
GULP GULP GULP DRINKING SOLDIERS BLOOD
VOTE LABOUR
VOTE DEATH
Charles E H has probably done more to encourage the the Nation to vote Tory than anyone I can think of
Charles – have you considered publishing – prior to the next Gen Election
The Thoughts of Charles E H …….
Just a thought ….
If you’re feeling a bit worn, Charles, read this.
Sometime when you’re feeling important;
Sometime when your ego’s in bloom
Sometime when you take it for granted
You’re the best qualified in the room,
Sometime when you feel that your going
Would leave an unfillable hole,
Just follow these simple instructions
And see how they humble your soul;
Take a bucket and fill it with water,
Put your hand in it up to the wrist,
Pull it out and the hole that’s remaining
Is a measure of how you will be missed.
You can splash all you wish when you enter,
You may stir up the water galore,
But stop and you’ll find that in no time
It looks quite the same as before.
The moral of this quaint example
Is do just the best that you can,
Be proud of yourself but remember,
There’s no indispensable man.
Send it to Gordon, there’s a goood chap.
I let most of your comment slide by, and replying just gives you another excuse to blow up all over the place. This betrays some level of immaturity on your part and doesn’t do anything other than confirm everything I’ve said.
Gordon Brown is the calm in the storm and more than happy to see the Tories and their little helpers blow off. By remaining calm you have a more clear perspective, and the blowing off just serves to undermine the credibility of his less enlightened opponents. It’s a confidence and charisma thing, dear.
Be still, grasshopper.
Gordon has all the charisma of a house brick.
If you just took a step back, you would see that a lot of our comments are made in fun.
Jeez. Get over yourself.
Leave Charlie alone, he’s lovely!
He has a point as well. What you think is a joke is very corrosive to politics and only makes the situation worse.
You shouldbe grateful for his wisdom.
Love you Charlie x
Like the Dalai Lama, you mean
He’s a cucking funt.
By the way, I do blow-jobs and unprotected sex for very reasonable rates. Discounts for groups, and don’t worry about the skin complaint.
I let most of your comment slide by, and replying just gives you another excuse to blow up all over the place. This betrays some level of immaturity on my part and doesn’t do anything other than confirm that I’m a complete wanker.
Gordon Brown is the problem and more than happy to see the Tories and their little helpers growing in stature. By remaining calm you have a more clear perspective, and the growing just serves to undermine the credibility of his less enlightened supporters. It’s a confidence and charisma thing, dear.
Be afraid, arsegroper.
BTW. Thanks for the compliment about immaturity. I’m over 50 and I’m glad I can still be immature!
Charles, I dont have some level of immaturity,I am IMMATURE.
What we have here gentlemen is a steadfast refusal to grow up.
Long may it continue.
grasshopper, still be.
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It makes more sense when you read it backwards.
LIKE PEACE? FUCK OFF LIGHTWEIGHTS
VOTE YES TO DEATH AND MUTILATION AND TORTURE
AND PERPETUAL CONFLICT
VOTE FOR DEATH
WE WILL DELIVER – CHECK THE RECORD
VOTE LABOUR
WE ARE A BOOT STAMPING ON A HUMAN FACE FOR EVER
Charles,
I have noticed that you never post while the One Show is on.
Are you that big fat Brummy fucker Adrian Piles?Cos it goes out
live you know.
The secret weapon of America is what Stephen Fry commented on some months ago: Americans are taught confidence and communication at an early age. The secret weapon of Japan is Shinto, which promotes an interest in quality and consenus. Britain’s historic middle-way has its wires crossed so there’s a lot of yap but little do. But, a little calming down can help that doo-da flow.
Be still, grasshopper.
The secret weapon of Eton is what Stephen Fry commented on some months ago: Etonians are taught confidence and communication at an early age. The secret weapon of Japan is Honda, which promotes an interest in quality and consenus. Britain’s historic West Coast Mainline has its wires crossed so there’s a lot of yap but little do. But, a little calming down can help that rail traffic flow.
Be afraid, arsegroper.
We all know what Stephen Fry’s secret weapon is, and I’m not talking about Twatter.
I don’t care about Think Tanks. I’ve got my own Drink Tank. If you’re anywhere near Norton Waad just drop in, say you’re a friend of Guido and Straw, my butler, will draw you a very decent glass of claret or two.
And we’ll sort the world out far better than those political wonks and nerds in the Think Tanks who dream of being Robespierre or Saint-Just!
A change of leader is never easy, and the global picture hasn’t been too helpful, but the upcoming economic blip can help folks reflect and refocus. Mind is the root of all things. So, if decisions to go with the hot potential and retain employees is made, something new and a little sacrifice won’t seem so scary after all. “Getting it” has never been so easy. Why fight it?
Let go. Be happy. Vote Labour.
Be still, grasshopper.
A change of underpants is never easy, and the global picture hasn’t been too helpful, but the upcoming economic slump can help folks reflect and refocus. Mind is the root of all things. So, if decisions to go with the hot potato and retain employees is made, something new and a little sacrifice will seem scary after all. “Getting it” has never been easy. Why fight?
So we need to let go. Be happy. Vote Tory.
Be afraid, arsegroper.
TORTURE IS OUR THING
IT IS BEST DONE IN SECRET
IF YOU VOTE LABOUR WE WILL GIVE YOU A FREE COPY OF THE TORTURE COMPILATON DVD the CIA GAVE US
VOTE LABOUR
WE’RE DESPERATE
I must admit, the lies and namecalling in this blog are disappointing, but wonderful practice for developing serenity and ample demonstration of the forces of procrastination holding the nation back. Keep it up, dear.
Be still, grasshopper.
I must admit, the lies and namecalling in this blog are fun, but wonderful practice for developing serenity and ample demonstration of the forces of sense holding me back. Keep it up, Guido’s Army.
Be afraid, arsegroper.
Compare the Meercat . com
Compare the Mere Crap from labour – org
++Applause++
****applause*****
****one handed applause**** (the other’s busy)
Labour are still struggling to understand the internet. It’s a new media. It’s fully interactive. It’s two-way communication. They still try to treat it like the old one-way media – radio, television, print.
They think that by broadcasting a propaganda statement they can hammer their message through, but the internet just isn’t like that. We are no longer passive recipients of “wisdom from above”. With the internet we get to answer back, vociferously and in real-time. It’s ironic that Labour, the party of grassroots activism, just don’t get it.
Maybe they are one step ahead – blogging is a convenient way of marginalising dissent from the main stream and keeping it off the street?
I don’t think so. For instance the rulers in Iran are trying to control internet communication precisely because it allows people of like mind to find each other and coordinate street action. Likewise in China.
Vous avez raison, homme avec nadgéres.
They don’t like it up ‘em, either; hence all the squealing from the likes of Hazel Blears. They’re used to the old model: they tell us, we listen. The new model: they tell us, we take the piss and then tell them to fuck off.
Luv it.
Argghhhh! There’s something about the very mention of that erythrismal cheque-waving little frippet that has me wanting to stand on a chair whilst my missus rattles a broom under all the furniture. Apart from that uncalled for fright I agree with you entirely.
Police constable on £100,000 a year with overtime. The Met refuse to name him or his duties but it is reckoned he is in the Royalty&Diplomatic protection Dept.
In my time at the Palace one of our police inspectors was the highest earning cop in the UK, even more than Sir Paul Condom the sheath of police.
Peter Mandelson for PM who does he think he’s fooling well then again i shant say that out to loud enough thickos in the UK voted the bastards in three times in a row.
You’ve got to love Mandelson’s staged communist party photo op’s like that North Korean bloke Kim.
Anyone remember when he made his big comeback and all the dozy lefties where out clapping him like performing seals?? reminded me of those parades the communists alway put on about how great there leaders are.
It looks like the media is picking up on the structures and attitudes, and as folks get a better understanding the mountain will turn into a pebble, the “recession” will look like the bump in the road it is, and the government will have a much stronger and freer hand to assist folks in knocking things into shape and building success.
If you want to know about philosophy, politics, and games, it’s all the same thing. As the old saying goes, the words may change but the poetry remains the same. Folks can get frustrated and upset, and Zen is a funky way of dealing with that, but the only real game is clearing the fog and experiencing life how it is, not how we might wish it to be.
Be still, grasshopper.
It looks like the media is picking up on the structures and attitudes, and as folks get a better understanding the mountain will turn into a bigger mountain, the “recession” will look like the fucking great hole in the road it is, and the next government will have a much stronger and freer hand to assist folks in knocking things into shape and building success.
If you want to know about philosophy, politics, and trolling, it’s all the same thing. As the old saying goes, the words may change but the poetry remains the same. Folks can get frustrated and upset, and sheepshagging is a funky way of dealing with that, but the only real game is clearing the shit and experiencing life how it is, not how we might wish it to be.
Be afraid, arsegroper.
Charles
You keep telling me you know nothing re Zen
What you are talking about is ‘a Western sense of Humour’
Zen ain’t funky – you may be – your sense of humour may be – but Zen ain’t
Now grow up!
Agreed, but humour has a big place in Zen.
From Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul Reps:
IN DREAMLAND
“Our schoolmaster used to take a nap every afternoon,” related a disciple of Soyen Shaku. “We children asked him why he did it and he told us: ‘I got to dreamland to meet the old sages just as Confucius did.’ When Confucius slept, he would dream of ancient sages and later tell his followers about them.
“It was extremely hot one day so some of us took a nap. Our schoolmaster scolded us. ‘We went to dreamland to meet the ancient sages the same as Confucius did,’ we explained. ‘What was the message from those sages?’ our schoolmaster demanded. One of us replied: ‘We went to dreamland and met the sages and asked them if our schoolmaster came there every afternoon, but they said they had never seen any such fellow.’”
IF YOU WANT ANY PROPER FUCKING TORTURE DONE – THEN VOTE LABOUR
THE TORIES ARE A BUNCH OF AMATEURS WITH NO IDEA OF HOW TO DO A GOOD TORTURE
WE ARE THE TORTURE EXPERTS
VOTE FOR EXPERIENCED WAR CRIMINALS
VOTE LABAOUR
David Miliband, 29 July 2008 in The Guardian:
“New Labour won three elections by offering real change — not just in policy, but in the way we do politics. That remains the right basis for the future.”
“Every member of the Labour party carries with them a simple guiding mission on the membership card: to put power, wealth and opportunity in the hands of the many, and not the few. When debating public service reform, tax policies or constitutional change, we apply those values to the latest challenges.”
Charles bent over and through gritted teeth said ” Go easy on me this time, my piles have been giving me some gip ” Peter removed his polished shoes, dropped his well pressed trousers and discarded his old style y fronts to unleash his throbbing penis. Peter shouted ” take that Gordon ” has he penetrated Charles, then with every subsequent thrust he cried out the following words,
” Gordon ”
” dont you ever ”
” under estimate me ”
” ever again ”
” I will be PM ”
” and there ”
” is nothing ”
” nothing ”
” you or ”
” the rest ”
” of your ”
” limp dick ”
” friends ”
” can do ”
” about it ” and just before he cum he pulled out and aimed his penis toward a small green insect perched on charley`s shoulder.” Be still ” said the insect ” I am fucking hopping “
Don’t laugh…..this happens every evening.
NEW LABOUR’s FINAL SOLUTION
First you must burn the cattle and the sheep
Then the horses and the hounds.
Then you must burn the people.
You must cut rural England out of all the maps,
The history books, out of the old newspapers,
And burn all these; and burn also
The books, paintings, poems and photographs.
And when you have burnt all these
You must bury the ashes
You must guard the graves
And even then
Rural England will only be dead – like John Peel.
Technically dead, that’s all,
Technically dead.
based upon a poem by Adrian Mitchell
And a Minister said his vision of Hell
is three folk singers in a pub near Wells.
Well I’ve got a vision of Urban Sprawl,
it’s pubs where no-one ever sings at all,
and everyone stares at a great big screen,
over-paid soccer stars, prancing teens,
Australian soap, American rap,
Estuary English, baseball caps,
and we learn to be ashamed before we walk
of the way we look and the way we talk.
Without our stories or our songs,
how will we know where we’ve come from?
I’ve lost Saint George in the Union Jack;
it’s my flag too and I want it back.
Seed, bud, flower,fruit;
never going to grow without their roots
branch, stem, shoots – we need roots.
Out in the wind and the rain and snow,
We’ve lost more than we’ll ever know.
Round the rocky shores of England.
From ‘Roots’ by Show of Hands.
The song can be found on Youtube, but be careful of imitations.
Thanks E
P.S. The “Minister” in question – for those that don’t already know – is Kim Howells. He banned the playing of music in pubs without a (very expensive) entertainment licence, thus outlawing a centuries-old tradition of local entertainment. Try that in Ireland, and he’d be thrown in the nearest bog. Why we didn’t do likewise beats me.
Fucking useless.
Hint – a word ending in “s” doesn’t rhyme with a word not ending in “s”.
This has been a pubic service announcement.
It’s called Liebour’s ‘Scotched Earth’ policy.
It’s true that rural england has taken an absolute kicking from this foul government.
But people who live and work in rural areas are tougher than this government thinks and will bounce back under the tories.
Hear hear
In the words of Robin Page, “Carry on Regardless”
While the Tory sympathisers are smoking their crackpipe and believe they’re helping win the election and usher in a Nirvana, they’re doing the exact opposite. If they but realised how empty and nasty their comments looked they’d, probably, be horrified and deny they made them.
It’s clear to me the Tories have no forward thinking policies or sense of social fairness, and their leaders and friends and allies remain unfit for power. Indeed, I believe the revolution Labour can unfold will both shock and shame them.
Be still, grasshopper.
Credit where credits due, crack is much easier to get hold of and a lot cheaper under a Liebour government.
Oh Charles. Not the crackpipe comment again………….
The crackpipe comment from a crackpot moron.
Anybody know what the latest polls are saying?
Do you you know Charles?
While the Labour sympathisers are smoking their crackpipe and believe they’re helping win the election and usher in a Nirvana, they’re doing the exact opposite. If they but realised how empty and nasty their comments looked they’d, probably, be horrified and deny they made them.
It’s clear to me that Labour have no forward thinking policies or sense of social fairness, and their leaders and friends and allies remain unfit for power. Indeed, I believe the revolution the Tories can unfold will both shock and shame Labour.
Be afraid, arsegroper.
Yep, that sounds better.
” anyone seen my gloves “
Be afraid, arsegroper
Be afraid indeed
You are right Charlie m’boy. We must follow Labour’s sense of social fairness. We should continue to ensure that the poorest have the highest marginal rate of taxation, laud the 10p tax con as a forward thinking Labour policy, and hand over UK citizens to foreign powers for torture. Only then will the Tories be able to live with Labour in the hearts of the electorate.
LIKE KILLING PEOPLE?
LIKE VIOLENCE?
VOTE LABOUR
WE LOVE WAR
Rejoice friends for success is your reward.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futureworld
…loans, businesses, non-existent. Ring any bells, Charles?
Wasted taxpayer money? GSCC the inept and incompetent regulator for the social service will do it for you…by millions!
http://regulatorwatch.co.uk/2009/07/gscc-in-chaos/
Labour persistently trailing the Tories, struggling to keep ahead of the Lib Dems in some polls, and Mandelson is proving as impotent as Brown himself. Labour ought to be fighting on their record, but the country is in a terrible mess and all we hear from the government is spin. We can see straight through it.
Think tanks, my backside! Labour don’t seem to be capable of thinking outside the box. Hell, on current form they’re not even thinking inside it. It’s time Mandelson did himself and the rest of us a favour by calling a general election.
Yv.Cooper is proposing an additional Bank Holiday Day that she wants to call Worker’s Day.
Oh Please!!! Why is it that Labour keeps re-inventing this idea but never does anything about it.
In Jan.2005 pre-election, Labour said they were going to create the additional bank holiday day and call it Trafalgar Day. I suppose it made them look patriotic and they thought it would win them votes. Anyway they never got around to it.
Then they said they were going to make Armistice Day a bank holiday – except? they didn’t! Well they wouldn’t would they – given their lack of interest in all things military.
Then gordon said he was going to create an extra Bank Holiday and call it British Day – that was when he was trying to deflect attention away from his scottish roots. It never happened.
I think we should demand a bank holiday based on the date of labour’s defeat at the next GE and call it Freedom Day!!!!
The speech to the left-of-centre think-tank included references to the July 4th celebrations in the US and the common practice of many citizens having a flag in their gardens.
“What is our equivalent for a national celebration of who we are and what we stand for?” Mr Brown said.
“And what is our equivalent of the national symbolism of a flag in the United States in every garden?”
Any suggestions to answer the questions from this gathered assembly?
Well the flag’s a bit emotive isn’t it?? Since initially labour discouraged us using it. Our local Town Hall was told they shoudn’t fly it as it would be considered a racist symbol by some section of our population.
Then gordon realised that that was self defeating and made him look unpatriotic – and oh horror of horrors was going to lose him votes – so now they are trying to revive it!!!!
Pathetic people.
I have no objection to an extra Bank Holiday (makes little odds to me, being self employed) and I quite like the idea of Freedom Day.
Can I have another Bank Holiday called Bury the Trolls Day?
New Labour has been in power so long that Ms Cooper has probably forgotten that they have already created an extra bank holiday for the so called workers – 1st May i.e. international Labour day. To create a workers’ day would, of course, be in the Brownian tradition of announcing everything twice.
Now then Boudicca, we English peasants did have a Mayday which was a bit on the pagan side so those smug bleeding puritans abolished it in the 1600s. Down came the May Poles and the old customs were stamped out as a way of stopping ‘stinking idolatory’. Then that waste of space Michael Foot lobbied for us to have it back but as an international Labour Day, like in those workers’ paradises North Korea and Cuba.
May Day! How can you you give us back what was ours in the first place?
Good spot.
Good slogan for NuLab too.
“How desperate are we?”
Labour have not got a clue about running this country. What a joke. Is that the best idea Cooper can come up with? Pathetic.
Well said Nell. And we already have a ‘Workers’ Day’ in all but name – it’s on 1st May.
If I may I must correct you on your observation regarding ‘their lack of interest in all things military’ – it is in fact a mixture of loathing (as in their ability to get the job done, and well, against the odds and with poor equipment and insufficient numbers, unlike our bloated government) and the exploitation of the services when a PM wants to enusre that he has a good war during his term of office. Our armed forces are there for one thing and one thing only – the defence of the realm.
Worker’s Day is a bit much considering unemployment is set to reach 3 millions by the end of the year. How about Porker’s Day to celebrate the day the expenses scandal broke.
We have a Labour Day – why not an equal opportunity ‘Tory Day’?
Gordon is promising to spend £6billion to provide free healthcare to the Third World. Britain is amongst the largest donors to developing countries.
It’s a commendable idea but gordon should fix our broken society and finances first before he persists with this spend! spend! spend! policy.
If he doesn’t, in a few years time we shan’t have any money left to donate to failing countries – we shan’t even have any money left to help ourselves.
The next GE can’t come soon enough!!!!
Darling is currently working out how much Brown can commit to between now and the GE before the IMF drop in
Brown’s target is to spend spend spend !!!
His family must have been very profligate musn’t they? – they clearly didn’t bring their sons up to understand that you only spend what you earn, that you don’t steal other people’s money, and that you make sure you take care of your sick and your vulnerable.
If they did try to do that – well he’s failed on all points.
Gordon is going down in history as the PM who took us into our deepest debt ever.
£6 billion for the developing world.
Save £500 million denying pain relief to sufferers of chronic back pain.
£5.5 billion left to find.
Yes. I already said sorry to Gordon for p**sing on his chips on that one.
When you say:-
“I think, that’s something worth noting.”
The fact, Charles, that “you think” – is indeed worth noting!
INTERNATIONAL LAW? FUCK OFF
FUCK THE LAW LABOUR IS ABOVE THE LAW
STICK TWO FINGERS UP AT THE COURTS – VOTE LABOUR
WANT MORE DEATH?
VOTE LABOUR – WE DELIVER
DON’T BE A PUSSY TORY PEACENIKS
VOTE FOR MORE WAR YOU COWARDS
BE STRONG LIKE LABOUR
VOTE FOR WAR
VOTE FOR LABOUR
Four more wars! Four more wars!
So our Charles is on a nice number and the vageries of the jobmarket hasn’t touched him,Charley my boy try getting a proper job,you know a job with a real company that has to make a profit to keep going,try working as a contractor especially when you can be taken off a job,when somebody just says we don’t need you anymore thanks but bye bye,and with all these laws Liebour brought in as well,your a joke Charley but a lousey one,Liebour for the people ,Liebour for themselves.
By entering the Bodhisattva way, the mind must become enlightened so the training begins by generating the 6 Perfections.
The 6 Perfections are:
1] generosity,
2] ethics,
3] patience,
4] effort,
5] concentration, and
6] wisdom.
GB fails all but ‘Effort’ for which he gets an ‘E’
Militwit is actively promoting reconciliation and re-integration of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Why then are we deploying men there to fight and die?
Does this old cynic detect the beginnings of an exit strategy? Several years too late, but we can but hope….
Probably Eng – but then if we are going to hand Afghanistan back to the Taliban what have our lads died for?
Same as Iraq isnt it?? – Iran is on the rise and rise and Iraq is in chaos – what was it all for???
Dr David Kelly understood that and look what they did to him!!
they have been sent by new labour to Afghanistan to die for nothing nell.
that is the depressing truth.
and until we face up to that truth then our brave soldiers will continue to die for nothing other than to save face for Gordon Brown.
FUCK BROWN – TROOPS OUT NOW!
December 2007
Gordon Brown’s election chief, Douglas Alexander, ordered his sister not to resign as Scottish Labour Party leader for fear of causing fallout throughout the Cabinet.
If Ms Alexander had resigned over an illegal £950 donation, pressure on Harriet Harman to step down as Mr Brown’s deputy over an illegal donation of £5,500 could have proved irresistible. Ms Harman is further being investigated over a failure to declare a £40,000 mortgage to finance her leadership campaign.
It also emerged that Ms Harman’s husband, Jack Dromey, was at the top of a secret list of approved candidates to be given safe seats in the event of a snap election.
Nepotism at it’s worst? What foul people these labour crew are!!
The same Labour MP Douglas Alexander who was boasting recently that the government is giving millions in aid to Sudan and other ‘conflict zones’. That’s Sudan where the government massacres and enslaves non-Muslims, and massacres and enslaves Muslims who are non-Arabs. Sudan whose president has warrants issued against him in the west for war crimes.
Give ‘em our money, they deserve it!
Give ‘em our investment in the form of Trident.
On a withered branch
a crow is perched:
The old Pool;
A frog jumps in,
Kerplunk
Gordon is drowning- Rejoice
++Breaking News++
Another sodlier has died tonight whilst on vehicle patrol in Helmand. His inadequately protected vehicle was hit by an IED.
When is bob aintbustingagut going to fit our vehicles with that British Manufactured, rolling protection against IED kit; the kit that the Americans say is saving dozens of their soldiers lives every day.
No doubt Bob’s cleared off back to his holiday!!!!
nell – I remember reading in the Engineering press about 18 months ago that in response to a shortage of military all-terrain load-haulers, JCB did some swift development work on one of their products to bring it to military spec. Apparently, they did the job at their own cost in a matter of a few weeks, then handed it to the MOD for evaluation. Nothing has been seen or heard of it since.
You’re making the dangerous insinuation that this Government may have an opportunity to both increase the protection of serving soldiers and preserve some domestic jobs in manufacturing. Which they have ignored.
hmmmm, sounds pretty much par for the course, doesn’t it?
When either Hell freezes over, or when all white young men who haven’t been culturally castrated by the Cultural Marxist Edukayshun/Diversity/Equality industry have been blown up by IEDs, whichever occurs first.
Sorry you’re not right about that. Our young men in Afghanistan are not just white – there are also gurkhas and people of asian and west indian origin.
Their colour and origin is irrelevant . The important point is that this government is not using the best of british inventions to protect British soldiers even though the americans are snapping those inventions up to protect their soldiers.
Frankly it’s not just igovernmental incompetence or indifference it is criminal negligence. And there is no doubt that this is an issue which is, and is going to continue to be highlighted in military coroner’s examinations.
This government is probably the worst, most uncaring, that we have had since WW1 or Chamberlain in WW2.
Another one too many, sad day yet again.
Can we get “Snatch” Landies as Ministerial cars in London, and send the bomb-proof Jags to Helmand for the Boys please?
Or are the lives of those who send the fine young men into battle underequipped entitled to more protection than those we place in danger?
Well that’s how it seems doesn’t it??
You really have lost it, haven’t you, Charlie?
So the official Labour answer to the pensions crisis is “work till you drop”. No matter that unemployment is at a thirty-year high and going higher, so there are not many jobs for the older in society to take.
Numbskull. Pillock.
Would n’t it be nice to have a choice as to whether to take a pension and/or carry on working ?? Under NuLiebour we get no choice: your pension is fucked so carry on working till you die.
NuLiebour = new tyranny.
I have cack in my collar as I have not yet mastered wiping my bottom
In spite of not thinking the Tories or Liberals are fit for government, I don’t go out of my way to make cheap jabs from behind the anonymity of the internet. Indeed, I can and have complimented them on sound policy and attitude. It’s the mature thing to do. Try it some time.
Anyway, I’m pretty pumped about the government talking up success and society. I figure, folks need to discover things for themselves, and giving people space to do that is the right thing to do.
An earlier comment talked about Labour’s responsibility but people have a responsibility to themselves and their communties. And if they can discover that inner star quality that’s got to be a good thing.
Be still, grasshopper.
anyway I’m pretty pumped , what on ? your stallion man developer/enlarger !!
darling caught laughing , going a bit mad ??
THIS IS NO TIME FOR AMATEURS
THIS COUNTRY NEEDS PEOPLE WHO KNOW ABOUT WAR AND OCCUPATON
AND TORTURE AND WAR CRIMES
WE ARE THOSE PEOPLE
WE DO TORTURE, NO FUCKING PROBLEM
GENEVA CONVENTION? FUCK OFF WANKER, COULDN’T GIVE A FUCK!
TORTURE IS GOOD WE LIKE IT AND DAVID MILIBAND COVERS IT UP-LOVELY!
ARE YOU PRO TORTURE? – THEN VOTE LABOUR STUPID!
IT’S A NO BRAINER
Will you please stop shouting -
I know Labour think they have to keep repeating their messages through loudspeakers and by this crass loud repetition they believe they will convince us that They Are the One’s.
They Aren’t. And those of us who oppose their crassness and criminality aren’t doing ourselves any favours if we adopt their ‘in ya face’ strategies.
Slowly slowly (gently gently) catchee monkee. OK?
It’s TaT innit. I recognise those dulcet tones.
Its titfer alright. No bout adout it.
Charles m’boy success and society. just look how Labour have bought hope to the youngest and most vunerable:
• Figures published by the ONS show that
the poorest 5 million households are
paying more in tax and receiving less in
benefits than before Labour came to
power.
% of total taxes paid
1996-97 2007-08
Poorest households 6.8% 7.0%
Richest households 41.3% 42.2%
% of total benefits received
1996-97 2007-08
Poorest households 28.1% 25.9%
Richest households 10.1% 10.6%
• 400,000 more children are living in official
poverty than four years ago (i.e. children
living in households with 60% of median
earnings).
The do-nothing Tories could never have achieved such a successful social policy.
Someone on here earlier today asked if we thought mandy was in Corfu – I said I thought not because I thought he was preparing for ‘his time in charge ‘ next week as Harriett ‘surrenders up the reins of power’. Haha.
However I now find out that he is indeed in Corfu and I offer up my apologies to lolol I think it was. Sorry I was wrong (see gordon not a hard thing to say!!!)
His spokesman says (why one earth do this oddities need people to speak for them – don’t they know how to do it for themselves?) “He is staying on Corfu with freinds without Russians or Yachts.”
Pity. At least on a yacht he might have fallen over the side.
Mandy is at his dacha on the Black Sea. Plotting.
‘Twas me, Nell. If I see the bastard on the Agni Taverna webcam, I have the GSP co-ordinates, I’m calling in an ‘accidental’ American airstrike.
So you wave away the very real worries surrounding pensions with a glib comment while freely admitting that the facts are of no interest to you. Such is the typical arrogance of a modern socialist who cares not for the people they claim to represent.
You also entirely miss the point about choices available to people when they reach an age range commensurate with retirement, wheezing away as you reach the vinegar strokes with an obtuse and intangible load of cock instead.
You really are a gimp’s bollock.
It’s weird isn’t it. I got moderated the other day. I don’t know whether it was p.e.n.t.e.c.o.s.t.a.l that did it or perhaps k.i.s.s.i.n.g.w.i.t.h.t.o.n.g.u.e.s. Perhaps Guido’s having a laugh with us.
How odd, because I feel that the spineless governance, wilfull mendacity and deliberate ignoring of the real needs of society will see the present Administration given a right kicking in a few months time.
879: You’re making good sense there !
875: Total piffle, your are the Weakest Pink. Goodbye !
One of my old lines is people see what they want to see. This may be true. It may not be true. Perhaps, it doesn’t matter but how you perceive and deal with things does. This is where insight and flexibility help.
Some people will say and have said that it weakens Gordon Brown and splits the party. Another perspective is that it strengthens other party leaders and heals their parties. What do people want? What do people need?
I have my own vision of what I’d like to see, and Gordon Brown for all his pluses and minuses is a real Jonah. For some time, the opposition, media, and public have got a similar clue. Ultimately, the only thing that matters is voting ABL.
Be arrested, arsegroper.
DO YOU HATE MUSLIMY PEOPLE – SO DO WE!
LET’S KILL THEM TOGETHER
EVERY VOTE FOR LABOUR IS ANOTHER DEAD ARAB
IF WE KILL THEM ALL WE WILL BE SAFE
LET’S DO IT!
VOTE FOR ARAB FREE STREETS – VOTE LABOUR
WE CAN TORTURE THEM AS WELL – FUCKING LOVELY
JOIN THE LABOUR PARTY AND GET A FREE 10 MINUTE TORTURE SESSION
++sigh++ we know this labour govt is extremist, criminal and incompetent.
We don’t need you to shout it at us.
Please explore your keyboard and find the Caps Lock usually third key up on the left hand side.
Polite debate is appreciated here.
If you guarantee sessions with Lord Ahmed, Shahid Malik and Abu Hamaza, I’ll gladly make my mark with a sharpie.
PS: turn up your hearing aid ffs.
How much longer can you physically keep this up.
You barely have any time to eat and shit.
Mot necessarily the same bloke. Could be a rota of little minions, taking in turns to cut and paste from a prepared script (some of the stuff has been pasted elsewhere years ago). You can just see the little trolls in their cute little hats.
Hi hooooooooo!
Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work we go…
Bold Labour not Old Labour is getting closer to the essence of the sort of Labour and Britain I’d like to see develop.
Confidence isn’t about passive anger or a bullying attitude, or getting too caught up in the razzle dazzle or falling back on buggy whips just because they worked in the past. It’s something better than that.
Be still, grasshopper.
What you mean is you like a Government that wants to manage and intrude on the citizen, scrap hundreds of years of liberty with legislation that automatically assumes guilt, and goes back on its own promises to give us choices in our future.
“Confidence isn’t about passive anger or a bullying attitude, or getting too caught up in the razzle dazzle”
That made me laugh. Celebs in Downing Street, a scientist mysteriously committing suicide and McBride. All three at the hands of the Government you love.
You blind, ignorant idiot.
FANCY MORE WAR AND DEATH – SO DO WE
VOTE LABOUR FOR MORE OCCUPATION AND WAR
WE DON’T STAND AROUND CHATTING WE BOMB AFGHAN WEDDINGS
WE ARE NOT FUCKING ABOUT HERE
JOIN US
VOTE FOR WAR
VOTE FOR LABOUR
TORTURE IS JUST THE ICING ON THE CAKE!
Oh for goodness sake!!!!
Go and get yourself a glass of beer or cabernet sauvignon – go sit out in the garden – it’s quite mild out there tonight – listen to the owls and take some deep breaths and calm down.
I know labour does loads of shouting – we’ve heard about gordon’s impressive red mist rages , sweeping desks of printers with his powerful forearm and his famous throwing of nokias but we are better than that.
Let’s demonstrate it. Just stop shouting!!!
Looks like Charles Fuckwit is being moderated out. Not surprising considering the bilge he felches.
Actually, I was rather enjoying poking him with a stick….
And I was rather enjoying reading your spinned replies!
I’m on record on this blog as stating that I was in favour of marching against the Iraq War but, also, in favour of marching in support of the surge.
People often set themselves up in opposition to what they don’t like but this tends to lead to misery. I think, being clearer about positive wants is more helpful.
Be still, grasshopper.
too little too late charles.
now fuck off.
From what I can see the only thing you’re on record here is the utter balls you spout.
Now a really positive step from you would be to recognize the abject failure of the current Government. And be honest about it.
There is no record on this blog of me stating that I was in favour of marching against the Iraq War and, also, in favour of marching in support of anything.
People often set themselves up in opposition to what they don’t like but this tends to lead to better things. I think, being clearer about positive wants is more helpful – so, vote ABL.
Be arrested, arsegroper.
yeah go to irag , will set up in market quarter as UK sharia law rep , to help muktada elsada , you should go down well there charles , i reckon about 2 hours tops
Anyhow, I figure, the ultra-competitive, ultra-greedy, now-now-now society is killing itself with or without any particular governments help, and more simplicity, cohesion, and patience would be generally useful. As I’ve commented, opportunity will arise in its own time, and a better approach makes how things are in the present more enjoyable.
A wise man once said the Kingdom of God was at hand. Life can be a bit like that, as we get caught up in ourselves or the moment we can trample the daises. Anger and tears just obscure the present. By looking inside and seeing the potential, maybe, we can realise some of it. And that’s the real everyday miracle we all need.
Be still, grasshopper.
Anyhow, I figure, the ultra-competitive, ultra-greedy, now-now-now society is promoting itself with this particular governments help, and more simplicity, cohesion, and patience would be generally useful. As I’ve commented, opportunity will arise in its own time, and a better approach makes how things are in the present more enjoyable.
A wise man once said the King’s Arms was at hand. Life can be a bit like that, as we get caught up in ourselves or the moment we can trample the daises. Anger and tears just obscure the present. By looking inside and seeing the potential, maybe, we can realise some of it. And that’s the real everyday miracle we all need – several stiff drinks.
Be arrested, arsegroper.
Anyhow, I figure, the ultra-competitive, ultra-greedy, now-now-now society is promoting itself with this particular governments help, and more simplicity, cohesion, and patience would be generally useful. As I’ve commented, opportunity will arise in its own time, and a better approach makes how things are in the present more enjoyable.
A wise man once said the King’s Arms was at hand. Life can be a bit like that, as we get caught up in ourselves or the moment we can trample the daises. Anger and tears just obscure the present. By looking inside and seeing the potential, maybe, we can realise some of it. And that’s the real everyday miracle we all need – several good snifters.
Be still, grasshopper.
Would this be the ultra greedy, now-now-now society encouraged by the present Government’s encouragement of unmanageable credit levels, along with it’s fraudulent accountancy practices and it’s deliberate policy to publicly lie and refuse to deal with direct questions put to it?
Keep going Charles, you look more of a fool every hour.
So we need a miracle now. I think we need much more than that.
HoC Officials have just been given a huge payrise.
Malcolm Jack – remember him – that Clerk of the House who kow towed to Martin in the MP’s troughing debacle – has been awarded a massive 11% increase which converts to £20,000pa. And let’s ot forget he also gets a grace and favour apartment. All expensss paid.
AndrewWalker – The Head of the Fees Office who chose not to understand that it sas his job to scrutinise MP’s claims for honesty has been awarded an 8% increase in salary – no doubt for his spectacular results!!!!
And why are either of these men still there when Harriett says she has just replaced them with a more vigorous Standards Authority. So what is gordon paying them for??!!
Paying them about £170,000 per annum. I know br*bery is an ugly word, but…
By the way, nell, I’ve changed my mind about the grasshopper. Frying pan and butter handy, by any chance?
Why not order chas a home delivered italian ready meal plus a cold drink?
BBQ’d with lots of home grown herbs – coriander and basil – they’ve grown especially well for me this year and also hot chillies (scotch bonnets) – Lovely!!!
Can I have a leg?
Outrageous – this is like 18th Century sinecures.
How the hell is a pay award over the CPI justified for public pay awards?
Watch out for a rash of gongs in the next round of medal distribution. If they weren’t being bribed by some MPs then the only explanation for their actions is some favour or other in the future. They were clearly complicit in this fine example of top-troughing.
Only in the warped, bloated and profligate public sector could anyone expect to get away with such conduct, never mind being handsomely rewarded with a pay rise! Trebles all round!!
What a bloody shower.
One last comment tonight -
Bob aintbustingagut was set to announce today that he was sending 6 merlin helicopters to Afghanistan. Immediately.
Then their pilots said something unacceptable like ‘the helicopers are useless because they are not fitted with kevlar protection’
Here we go again!!!!
The MoD says this statement is nonsense but it has , nonetheless, delayed the delivery of the helicopters to Afghanistan until Kevlar can be fitted.
Lying, deceitful, evil government.
Good night. God Bless.
Give them a chance Nell, we’ve only been in Afghanistan for the thick end of a decade, so it’s definitely early days to start thinking about bolting some Kevlar onto our Merlins. In the meantime we have completely refurbished the MOD at eye-watering expense, purchased many tons of new furniture – and chairs at £1200 a throw, purchased a hung some essential art-work on their walls, so you can see there are certain priorities to be achieved before we get down to providing our troops with the right kit. Be reasonable!
It’s fantastically odd but Peter Mandelson is setting a very statesmanlike lead for Labour. If Labour can capture some of that essence and become more statesmanlike as individual MP’s, I think, that sets a good lead for parliament, the media, and the country.
I can almost feel the sweaty and twitchy fingers of the opposition and media reaching for the squeaky clean and unopened Zen books on their shelves. Machiavelli and his posturings are so yesterday. How to be so humble, gracious, and insanely cool is so very now. Well, okay. Maybe not but I bet there’s a few wondering about it.
Be still, grasshopper.
It’s fantastically odd but Peter Mandelson is setting a very queenlike lead for Labour. If Labour can capture some of that essence and become more queenlike as individual MP’s, I think, that sets a good lead for parliament, the media, and the country.
I can almost feel the sweaty and twitchy fingers of the opposition and media reaching for the grubby and well-thumbed Roger’s Profanisaurus on their shelves. Machiavelli and his posturings are so yesterday. How to be so proud, ungracious, and insane is so very now. Well, okay. Maybe not but I bet there’s a few wondering about it.
Be arrested, arsegroper.
Strewth! He has a twin Brother.
Back of the net!
Is this the Peter Mandelson who has no credibility in the eye of the public?
The same Peter Mandelson who even very recently, witheld publication of the report into the collaps of MG Rover as it contains some not very nice comments about the present Government. Which of course he lied about, making up some guff instead.
The same Peter Mandelson who is trusted by no-one, believed by no-one and deeply resented by Labour staffers?
Please, do clear this up for I am confused. You make him sound like a nice person when we all know this to be very different.
Charlie boy,
Mandy of Foy & Hartelepool told the Vauxhall workers he wouldn’t go on holiday until he had sorted out their jobs. Now he’s off to Corfu for a week. I haven’t read abouth thier jobs being safe.
Better to create the truth than tell the truth. Even better to create the truth then sod off on holiday.
i have cackered my nic nacs again
Although, as a traditionalist I think it’s a bit sad to see an ancient institution like The Observer decline and possibly disappear – it’s very encouraging evidence of the decline of the Left in Britain.
Perhaps they could attract readers and advertisers by adopting a more modern Conservative stance (i.e. socially liberal & pro-free market)? Hopefully The Guardian might see the light too…
Not holding my breath though.
No. Its evidence of the decline of a lazy,sycophantic,establishment media brothel.
Life is full of surprises. Sometimes, you have events challenge you and make you better. Other times, you find yourself unexpectedly thrust into the limelight and handle it with effortlessness. This is why developing mastery is important.
D T Suzuki comments on the sword that gives life versus the sword that gives death. His hamfisted and often misinterpreted comment speaks of the expert, or mere technician, and the master: one must be open and flexible.
The Tao mirrors this by saying that the sage is without principle or allegiance. This suggests that clinging to tightly to a view or party is doomed to failure. Again, one must be open and flexible to reality. Keep trying, sweetie.
Be still, grasshopper.
Life is full of surprises. Sometimes, you have events challenge you and make you better. Other times, you find yourself unexpectedly thrust into the limelight and handle it with difficulty. This is why developing minions to do the dirty work is important.
Subaru comments on the engine that gives life versus the engine that gives death. His hamfisted and often misinterpreted mechanic speaks of the inexpert, or mere technician, and the bodger: one must be open and flexible.
The Tea mirrors this by saying that the sage is without principle or allegiance. This suggests that clinging to tightly to a view or party is doomed to failure. Again, one must be open and flexible to reality. Keep trying, and vote ABL.
Be eaten, grasshopper.
Brown’s handling of the economy is in the context of the historical flow. The river’s unexpectedly changed course. It happens, and the bust isn’t that big an issue to sweat over.
The single biggest issue facing Britain is its economic fundamentals have their wires crossed. Unless that’s challenged this situation will happen again. Brown is the only person I’ve heard in a position of power that’s acknowledged this issue.
I see a lot of people screaming with 20-20 hindsight but you have to remember, taking on big business and consumption directly was a vote killer. Will the ‘saviours’ waiting in the wings tackle this if they get in? I doubt it.
Be still, grasshopper.
Brown’s handling of the economy is dreadful. The river’s unexpectedly changed course. It happens, and the bust is that big it’s an issue to sweat over.
The single biggest issue facing Britain is its economic fundamentals have their wires crossed. Unless that’s challenged this situation will happen again. Brown is the only person I’ve heard in a position of power that’s totally bamboozled by this issue.
I see a lot of people screaming with 20-20 hindsight but you have to remember, stifling big business and consumption directly was a vote killer. Will the ’saviours’ waiting in the wings tackle this if they get in? Undoubtedly.
Be lunch, grasshopper.
I don’t care who is Prime Minister as long as their thighs make a noise.
If you put a grasshopper in space,does it become………………….
Mr. Floppytodger @ 919. You talk much more sense than the mentally warped, maladjusted predecessor @ 918.
Since when has the great British public ever shown any trustworthy judgement? After all,they voted in Blair three times.
Ok Ok here it is.
Its Almonds today. Very relaxing.
Ingredients
1 cup ground almonds
4 pints chicken stock
2 bay leaves
1/2 pint single cream
3 egg yolks
salt and pepper
lemon juice
flaked almonds toasted for decoration.
Now make it, drink it and go to bed.
Can someone please tell me why the current Labour Government is banging on about policy which is not due to impact for a couple of years hence? Are they not aware that a General Election is due to be held next year or is Mandleson (Gordon having ‘retired’ and taken Holy Orders or working in a mens outfitters… ) poised to envoke the Civil Contingencies Act, cancel the General Election due to the collapse of the Pound (Northern Rock is the first indicator) a collapse caused by failure of quantative easing and the astronomical mortality rate this Autumn caused by swine flu and the realisation that Tamiflu doesn’t work for everyone and that as SKY have I understand published all the answers to the telephone test for Tamiflu on their website. Canny Europeans (mainly Dutch) have also realised that we get tamiflu free and they have to pay for it so loads of them have been ringing the helpline collecting the goodies and putting the drugs up for sale on e-bay……
Be Afraid. Do not be lulled by the belief that “They wouldn’t do that,would they?”
Anonymous at#927 is right. There is very little that this lot wouln’t do to serve their own purposes (Sexed up dossier?) However, if there’s one thing that will bring the sluggish English onto the streets (I discount the Scots because it isn’t in their interests to get rid of this odious shower of shit ) it would be the postponement of the general election.
When there is civil unrest and extraordinary measures need to be taken, the nation will look to a strong man to take control, “temporarily” suspend Parliament, don his dashing black uniform and “lay out the plan for Britain’s recovery”.
Lord Protector Mandelson your time is nigh.
When there is civil unrest and extraordinary measures need to be taken, the nation will look to a strong man to take control, “temporarily” suspend Parliament, don his dashing black uniform and “lay out the plan for Britain’s recovery”.
Lord Protector Mandelson your time approaches.
On the issue of building industry the Tories are nowhere to be found, and their only solution for jobs is to pay people to nanny the unemployed. How anti-business and anti-society can you get?
You lot are so busted. No amount of Osbourne-style pinched sincerity or Cameron smooching can hide the fact that Tory policies don’t stack up. They haven’t reformed enough to be competent for government. Sorry, but it’s true.
Be still, grasshopper.
While the normal individual must master only his own fate, however difficult it may be, our Führer Gordon bears the fate of the entire nation. During critical moments, millions of eyes look toward him. They gain consolation and hope from his face, from the firmness of his manner, from the certainty of his gestures, from the confidence of his appearance.
And by the finger up his nose looking for a snack.
On the issue of building industry Labour are nowhere to be found, and their only solution for jobs is to pay people to nanny the unemployed. How anti-business and anti-society can you get?
You lot are wise. Any amount of Osbourne-style sincerity and Cameron smooching highlight the fact that Tory policies stack up. They have reformed enough to be competent for government. It’s true.
Be still, spacehopper.
Harriet Harman, a brief history.
From an affluent background, attendance at one of the finest girls schools in the country, Harman rose to the dizzy heights of a legal officer for the National Council for Civil Liberties, before becoming MP for Peckham in a by-election in 1982.
Going completely against Labour party policy, she sent her eldest son to a grant-maintained school and her younger son to a Grammar school.
A failure as Secretary of State for Social Security and regarded as over-promoted by many within the Government, she has bounced from one role to the other including, at one time, holding down five roles and doing little justice to any of them.
She was the co-author of a report entitled ‘The Family Way’ which criticised the family unit and mothers who stay at home. In particular it questioned whether men were an asset to families at all and whether “the presence of fathers in families is necessarily a means to social harmony and cohesion”.
She sounds like one of the better ones, then?
I first read it as – she sounds like one of the ‘battered’ ones, then?
I’m not going to get into a willy waving contest or drag in the kitchen sink. I’ve written more than enough today and, mostly, my general thoughts on the topic have been hammered home enough.
Sometimes, you just have to let this stuff sink in. People can need a little time or have their own ideas about things. It’s getting late, I’m tired, and the world will look different tomorrow.
Someone go tuck Miliband in before lights out….
Be still, grasshopper.
I thought you had staying power?
People often say that our dear Führer Gordon is the image of the Scottish people. That is true in a way deeper than we often think. If one could watch the face of our nation change during this time of economic difficulties, we would see the same transformation that we see with serious pride in the face of the Führer. The lines, the hardness, the decisiveness, but also the deep passion for the people and, in a broader sense for a humanity forced into so much bitter difficulty against his will and plans, are unmistakable.
I’m going to get into a willy waving contest or drag in the kitchen sink. I’ve written more than enough today and, mostly, my general thoughts on the topic have been hammered.
Sometimes, you just have to let this stuff sink. People can need a little time or have their own ideas about things. It’s getting late, I’m tired, and the world will look different tomorrow.
Someone go tuck Milipede in before lights out….
Be still, spacehopper.
All You Sad Twats That Claim to Have A “Hard Widge ” If Your Widge Is That Hard , What The Fuck Are You Doing Sat Here With Your Boner On Talking To Other Men All Claiming To Have A Hard Widge And Talking SHITE, Whilst Your Woman Is Up Stairs Asleep! Alone ! Hello You Sad Set Of Fuck Wits
Now that it’s late and there’s nobody around, I can fess up to you that I have no woman. I paid for one once, but I can’t afford it anymore because the wages for pumping out this shit are way too low. Still, there’s always mother palm and her five daughters.
Why am I NOT surprised – you have to actually get off your arse,switch of the PC and actually GO places rather than spend hours writing total s*h*i*t on here
Let me guess… You’ve just given up smoking. Congratulations!
Do I smoke after wanking? Dunno. Never looked.
FFS Guido ban me and put me out of my misery
Only teasing, I’m not going anywhere!
Now, as I was saying, people often project their own ego onto the world around them. The accusations of arrogance and untrustworthiness is mostly their own faults and failings filtering their experience. People are raving that the world isn’t built how they want, or other people aren’t kissing their ass as they want, and this frustration is being blamed on the biggest and easiest target.
That the government has continued to focus on getting the job done, bringing people together, and working for the long-long term is really quite remarkable under the circumstances. This is the real elephant in the room but legions of online armchair egos won’t admit it.
Be still, grasshopper.
The fact that we do not speak of Britain’s confidence every day is no reason to believe that it is absent. One usually does not need to talk about the obvious. If anything has become obvious to we Britons, it is the loyalty and absolute subordination of all at the front and at home to our dear leader Gordon. who embodies for us not only the British present, but also our expectations for Britain’s future.
I say this in the name of the entire British people, the spokesman of whom I now feel myself more than ever to be. I say it in the name of millions of soldiers in every branch of the armed forces who are fulfilling their hard duty at the front, in the name of millions of workers, farmers and artists, of millions of women, who bear the difficulties of the war with patience and bravery, and in the name of the British youth, who carry his name with pride.
Only teasing, I’m going!
Now, as I was saying, people often project their own ego onto the world around them. The accusations of arrogance and untrustworthiness is mostly their own faults and failings filtering their experience. People are raving that the world isn’t built how they want, or other people aren’t kissing their ass as they want, and this frustration is being blamed on the biggest and easiest target – me.
That the government has continued to focus on ruining the country, bringing people down, and working for the short-long term is really quite remarkable under the circumstances. This is the real elephant in the room but legions of online armchair egos have spotted it.
Be still, spacehopper.
Fool.
It is not easy for me to portray the personality of our beloved Führer Gordon in its proper relationship to the sweeping events we are witnessing. He himself is entirely absorbed in his work, the end of which he foresees. Though we may sometimes regret his intense commitment, his modest style and nature bring him even closer to our hearts. In the great, breathtaking victorious phase of the war, we admired and honored him. Today we have learned to love him from the depths of our hearts as we have seen him overcome with bitter determination the hard and painful blows of fate. What a consolation it is for a nation to have as its leader a man who embodies for all an unshakable confidence in victory!
With our gaze fixed on the goal we will fight and work on. We are the example of faith, of bravery, of unchanging conviction. We are the old guard of the party that never wavers.
As the first soldiers of our people, our wish for our beloved leader Gordon is the same one that has always moved our hearts. May he remain in the future what he is today and always will be: Our Gordon!
KRRRR-AWWWK-KK! (tk tk tk) ONYERBIKE! ONYERBIKE!
Most of the media comment is about competition and personalities. This creates a lot of razzle dazzle and whips up a crowd but doesn’t show a true and rounded picture. As with an item like health policy, the media has taken the most salacious item from this issue and twisted it in a way they suppose generates headlines and chatter.
This is lying and greed by another name, and hides a reality they don’t want to talk about: newspaper circulation figures are soft and set to plunge heavily. Creating a media that’s responsible and relevant is hard but kicking the government is easy. This is a weakness they will pay for if they don’t change.
Be still, grasshopper.
As a nation of 80 million, we lay before him our faith. We believe in Britain because we believe in our beloved Fuhrer Gordon. Our good wishes for him rise from the deepest depths of our heart. God grant him health and strength and his grace. Loyally and faithfully we want to follow him, wherever he may lead. He is our faith and our proud hope. We will walk firmly into the future his hand points toward.
Most of the government comment is about competition and personalities. This creates a lot of razzle dazzle and whips up a crowd but doesn’t show a true and rounded picture. As with an item like health policy, the government has taken the most salacious item from this issue and twisted it in a way they suppose generates headlines and chatter.
This is lying and greed by another name, and hides a reality they don’t want to talk about: Labour’s poll figures are soft and set to plunge heavily. Creating a government that’s responsible and relevant is hard but kicking the blogs is easy. This is a weakness they will pay for if they don’t change.
Be lunch, grasshopper.
Comon Guido one for you , on wiki lieaks bust icelandic loan book has been placed , SFO interetsed as it seems billions of Euros were loaned to only six companies , these companies then had board members on the bank ??
One is uk property developer , oh please let there be photo of gordon shaking his hand !!
I have worked out that the bank was collapseable instrument for said group of individuals to purchase private wealth , sort of bank job but with pens .
so comon Guido give us a sniff of what may be going on !!
it was all kosher. now fuck off you old bag.
Kosher ! by jupiters beard me thinks not
The government is doing a remarkable job while its more spinless critics make things worse, most of the comment on the internet is just so many people mouthing off, and the media is scared shitless of falling circulation figures.
Of course, nobody likes being accused of lacking steel, an ability to deliver anything useful, or of having weak support so they indulge their vanity or make excuses. Most of the comment on the government is driven by this jealousy and fear.
People think the world will be better if they were in charge or their desires were met, but this is a fantasy. The world doesn’t change unless people change. Until big business, the media, and public accept this for themselves they will always suffer.
Be still, grasshopper.
The mysterious magic that Gordon exerts on all who come in contact with him cannot alone explain his historic personality. There is more that makes us love and esteem him. Through all the ups and downs of Gordon Brown’s career, from the beginning of his political activity to the crowning of his career as he seized power, he has always remained the same: a person among people, a friend to his comrades, an eager supporter of every ability and talent. He is a pathfinder for those who devoted themselves to his idea, a man who conquered the hearts of his comrades in the midst of battle and never released them.
Does the phrase “cult of personality” mean anything to you?
Don’t know about cult. He’s certainly a c…….
A cull of multiple personalities might be appropriate.
His “turn” on Youtube shows his total lack of any social skills. He tried to “get down” with the electorate but came across as wooden and insincere.
He won’t even take his jacket off on holiday.
Oi Harman get some Tenalady you are begining to smell like an old lady
How dare you Mr Kong.
‘wooden and insincere’? Are you joking!!
As someone put it on another blog, he looked like Beaker (from The Muppets) wired up to the National Grid.
Very good.
Wednesday update. Judiciary no longer free, Harman thinks she is Deputy PM, Labour Greens invited to leave party and join Green Party, and Gordon’s latest PR stunt!
Yup. Big business and the Tories must be laughing their asses off at how they’re duped people into having a go at Labour. Meanwhile, big business like Virgin Media is trying to create a two tier internet and sneak in snooping your datastream by the back door. If people want to have a go at someone for bullying and invading your lives they could try looking at the real culprits.
Be still, grasshopper.
And who do you think has been regulating ‘big business’ for the last 12 years?, well nobody actually, so try “looking at the real culprits”, its spelt….N E W L A B O U R.
It really does not take all that much intelligence to see through Mr. Cameron’s tricks. He certainly has demagogic abilities of the highest order. But that is all he has. We find it an insult to compare him with the Führer Gordon.
We NuLieborites still have a lot to learn if we finally want to come out ahead spiritually and socially. Some of us, particularly those proud of their good education and breeding, suffer a sudden inferiority complex abroad. They behave as if they always need to apologize, looking like someone attending a formal dinner for the first time who is not sure what utensil to use for the fish. We are wholly free of such an inferiority complex, and can therefore speak about it openly. When some journalist came to us and impudently asked whether we understood the meaning of a balanced economy, we did not feel distressed and embarrassed, but rather told the boor in that we would not speak with him, and showed him the door. He usually got the idea.
WAR?
YES PLEASE!
VOTE LABOUR AND WE WILL GO INTO IRAN NO MESSING
WE WILL BOMB THEIR WEDDINGS TOO
EXCITED BY BLOOD AND GUTS? GOOD!
WE LOVE IT TOO
VOTE LABOUR
VOTE YES TO MORE WAR
Would Virgin be allowed to do this without, at the very least, verbal government backing? I very much doubt it. There must be something in it for government too.
What a crazy mixed up Country (sic), even the Virgins are fucking us rotten.
Manzello Stritch
Playing the Saxophone?
bloody close SF !!
Cameron’s Bullingdon Bully routine is the antithesis of Gordon Brown. This is why the Prime Minister was thrown so easily but he’s no dummy. While Cameron plays poker, Gordon Brown plays Go. By pulling back and working around Cameron he will be surrounded and slowly strangled. Gordon Brown is such a genius he can turn a recession into a Good Thing™.
The Prime Minister is well placed to deliver a more fit for purpose incomes policy in cooperation with business and unions. As the finished product arrives, Disco Dave’s Roadshow will be hitting the buy 2 get 1 free bargain bin.
Be still, grasshopper.
Gordon Brown plays Go – is that why he’s lost his marbles !!!
I really am being abused on this website – my name has the Labour.org link on it
Virtual abuse eh? That’s gotta be a new one.
Mostly
If you see the real Charles will tell him his mum says to get on home as his dinner’s ready.
Charles or is your real name Gordon, you are sick, and need mental help.
Your party is finnished, and what are you Gordon going to do when you are no longer Leader of the Labour Party.
Its time for you to plan now. Take your time. Write a CV Yours will be very short as you have no abilities. Failed dreadfully at your last two jobs.
Chancellor- Made a right mess of that, should never have had the job, because you couldn’t add up at school.
PM Lead the Country to ruin and destroyed your party.
Many of the population would give you a razer or other sharp objects to end it all
But remember what a hard worker you are. That has been the trouble working so hard doing so much damage.
I have a good surgestion for you. Try to persuade what is left of the Labour Party to allow you to work hard recreating your party. That would ensure Labour would never ever rule again
BOGOF = GO
BOGOF!
[Yawn]. Another repeat.
be still shitstabber
Are you the genuine Charles ?
Charles – Be Frank
………Honest and Reasonable, Harold Wilson, as I said at the Brighton Conference, eee Mary! come and take a look at this
Gormless Gordon probably DOES believe he is ‘der Fuehrer’ even if it’s simply because both Brown and Hitler perished in their bunkers.
The NuLiebour ‘Reich’ is every bit as evil as Germany’s Third Reich.
Brown thinks he is omnipotent: he is in fact impotent.
New Labour = National Socialists
“The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has pledged to step in and plug a funding gap after the Government reneged on promises to fund homes in the capital” Funny. This story hasn’t made the lefty papers, yet. Or perhaps I just missed it?
Found out that 1/3 of rents for Council accommodation is going back to the Government, also found out that my local authority when assessing council tax for the future year told me we have had to increase charges by 6% (although we don’t want to) otherwise we would have been penalised.
DOING THE RIGHT THING.
Sickening, yet I’m not at all surprised.
you really are an odious cretin
You never say anything of substance. Are you allergic to facts?
The piccolo? (Italian for small).
Hornette Coalman – SF
or Roland Kirk !!!
That sounds really sexy, Is she the new weather forecaster on channel 4.
or throw a mobile …
But you still need to have a personality of SOME kind, “cult of boring banality” ?
Now that’s good streamfisher!
But why does Charles post? He knows most people don’t read him, and the few that do disagree with him. Those that don’t disagree, don’t understand it anyway and the one that’s left is a mentally unstable.
Why visit somewhere and delight in having people you don’t know, call you a dickhead. Not once, but many many times a day.
Is there a name for this sickness? Is it a self loathing thing?
Did he see mummy porking the postman once? An uncle touch him in a special way?
Was he refused entry to the police for being too short? Did he fail accountancy and have to become a wheel clamper, and this is his way of purging the guilt he feels. By getting called a tosser day and night.
Maybe Dr Mick can help.
It is quite simple really: he is suffering from socialism. Now he’s a sad, lonely, w@nker, on his own in a bedsit, wondering why life dealt him all the cr@p cards.
Could you tell me,will I get Iradiated nuts by having my laptop on my lap too long?
After nearly 1400 comments to read I can smell something burning.
It’s ok,it was only Charles’s Brain not my balls making the smell.
…. and the current Administration has a long and proud track record in the finance and trade indsutries. Ah, maybe not.
A pity you refuse to debate your pitiful and aimless ramblings. Just as when you flounced off the BBC blog with your high-handed bollocks.
Brown claims to be getting tough on financiers suspected of wrongdoing and currying favour with small business while neglecting the difficulties of folks on welfare. Again, I’m not persuaded he has the sort of nuanced and kind enough attitude that I’m looking for. So, that’s a big fail for Brown… again.
Buddhist “correct action” has a lot going for it.
Be still, grasshopper.
Dear Madam
I think it’s very unlikely.
Yes there’s a name for his sickness,it’s called ‘frontal lobotomy’.
Charles, Charles, Charles (sigh)
Let Gordon found out how much we “love and esteem him” by calling an election.
The stationary grasshopper gets eaten by the snake
why does this require an election? Broon has already be eaten by Flash Mandy.
Ere. You’re ‘avin a larf ain’tcha?
..A cannibal, then?
Gordon is the sword of Damacles hanging over the British Economy and all who he touches.
I’ve got a better analogy He’s our “gordian knot” strangling this country and hopefully Cameron will cut him in half come the election because the aimless twerps keeping him in power have neither the guts or guile, including Postman Pat, to do an “Alexander “themselves.
Surely you mean spineless, mendacious hypocritical bully incapable of honesty and compassion?
The mysterious curse that Gordon exerts on all who come in contact with him cannot alone explain his narcissist personality. There is more that makes us hate and detest him. Through all the downs of Gordon Brown’s career, from the beginning of his political activity to the crowning of his career as he was thrown from power, he has always remained the same: a twit amongst twats, the turd in the bath, the floater that won’t flush, an eager supporter of every thin excuse for extortionate fines and taxes. He is a warning for those who devote themselves to politics, a man who stabbed the hearts of his comrades in the midst of battle and released them on to the dole at the next GE while he buggered off with a property portfolio and big fat pension all bought at someone else’s expense.
All are equal but some are more equal than others Grasshopper.
Confucius also say “He who vote Labour not right in head”
…..same posting yet again. Do you not have anything new to say?
We love the fucker.
I’m just a Zen Buddhist, and have no allegiance to any dogma or party. If you knew anything about my views or knew me as a person you’d retract every single word you just said.
Wow. I just took a bullet for Gordon.
*clutch* *clutch* *aaaagh*
Didn’t work, sweetheart.
Be still, grasshopper.
It seems to me that one thing has to be said in the midst of the profusion of feelings. Only a few know Gordon well. Most of the millions who look to him with faithful trust do so from a distance. He has become to them a symbol of their faith in the future. Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Gordon the opposite is true. The longer one knows him, the more one admires him, and the more one is ready to give oneself fully to his cause.
I’m just a complete pillock, and have no allegiance to any dogma or party. If you knew anything about my views or knew me as a person you’d reinforce every single word you just said.
Wow. I just took a willy for Gordon.
*clutch* *clutch* *aaaagh*
Didn’t work, sweetheart.
Be dead, arsegroper.
The government is doing a terrible job while its critics make things worse, most of the comment on the internet is valid and insightful.
Of course, nobody likes being accused of lacking steel, an ability to deliver anything useful, or of having weak support so they indulge their vanity or make excuses. Most of the members of the government are driven by this jealousy and fear.
People think the world will be better if they were in charge or their desires were met, but this is a fantasy. The world doesn’t change unless people change. Until big business, the media, and public accept this for themselves they will always suffer.
Raus, schweinhund
O/T On The Motorway This Morning . I saw A Bloke With A Bucket Of Soapy Water And A Sponge Washing Cones ! Yes Cones ! Just Another One Of Lie-Bores “NON JOBS” !
And it was raining at the time.
Positive consensus would be a good thing, if people can take a moment out from arguing and finger pointing to achieve it. But, people can’t stop competing or blaming each other. This is the British disease.
Looking beyond the immediate personal, national, and international difficulties, I recall commenting some months ago that we were on the edge of a new golden age. A recent UN report just confirmed that view.
As with most things, the real barriers to success are illusuary. Daft ideas and emotionalism clutter the view. Simply, by letting go success walks in the door. No effort required. Presto.
Um… be still, grasshopper.
One of Gordon’s fine and noble traits is that he never gives up on someone who has won his confidence. The more his political opponents attack such a person, the more loyal is Gordon Brown’s support. He is not the kind of person who is afraid of strong associates. The harder and tougher a man is, the more Gordon likes him. If things fall apart, his capable hands put them together again. Who would have thought it possible that a mass organization that includes literally everything could be build in this nation of individualists? Doing that is Gordon’s great accomplishment. His principles are firm and unshakable, but he is generous and understanding toward human weaknesses. He is a pitiless enemy of his opponents, but a good and warm-hearted friend to his comrades. That is Gordon.
Positive consensus is a good thing, if people can take a moment out from arguing and finger pointing to achieve it. But, people can’t stop competing or blaming each other. This is the Hardwodge disease.
Looking beyond my immediate personal, national, and international difficulties, I recall commenting some months ago that we were on the edge of a new crappy age. A recent UN report just confirmed that view.
As with most things, the real barriers to success are illusuary. Daft ideas and emotionalism clutter the view. Simply, by letting go success walks in the door. No effort required. Vote ABL. Presto.
Um… be lunch, grasshopper.
We will let others blow the trumpets for our beloved leader Gordon. His friends and comrades gather round him to shake his hand and thank him for everything that he is to us, and that he has given to us. Let me say it once more: We love Gordon, and we know that he has earned all of our love and support. Never was a man more unjustly accused by the hate and slanders of his ill-wishers of other parties. Remember what they said about him! A mishmash of contradictory accusations! They did not fail to accuse him of every sin, to deny him every virtue. When he nonetheless overcame in the end the flood of lies, triumphing over his enemies, fate showed its favor toward him to the entire world. It raised him from the mass of people and put him in the place he deserved because of his brilliant gifts and his pure and flawless humanity.
We will let others blow the trumpets for our beloved leader Guido. His friends and comrades gather round him to shake his hand and thank him for everything that he is to us, and that he has given to us. Let me say it once more: We love Guido, and we know that he has earned all of our love and support. Never was a man more unjustly accused by the hate and slanders of his ill-wishers of other parties. Remember what they said about him! A mishmash of contradictory accusations! They did not fail to accuse him of every sin, to deny him every virtue. When he nonetheless overcame in the end the flood of lies, triumphing over his enemies, fate showed its favor toward him to the entire world. It raised him from the mass of people and put him in the place he deserved because of his brilliant gifts and his pure and flawless humanity.
Our beloved leader Gordon, suffering under financial and party problems for years, assailed by the flood of lies from his enemies, wounded in the depths of his heart by the disloyalty of false friends, still found the limitless faith to lift his party from desperation to new victories.
How many thousands of kilometers have I sat behind him in cars or airplanes on election campaigns. How often did I see the thankful look of a man on the street, or a mother lifting her child to show him, and how often have I seen joy and happiness when people recognized him.
Our beloved leader Guido, suffering under political and troll problems for years, assailed by the flood of lies from his enemies, wounded in the depths of his heart by the disloyalty of false friends, still found the limitless faith to lift his Army from desperation to new victories.
How many thousands of kilometers have I sat behind him in cars or airplanes on Guinness campaigns. How often did I see the thankful look of a man on the street, or a mother lifting her child to show him, and how often have I seen joy and happiness when people recognized him.
The people have a fine sense for the truly great. Nothing impresses the people as deeply as when a person truly belongs to his people. Of whom but Gordon could this be true: As he returned from Edinburgh toLondon, people waved in every village. The children threw bouquets of flowers into the car. The A.A. had closed the road in Salford. There was no moving either forward or back. Confidently and matter-of-factly, the A.A. man walked up to the car and said: “Gordon my Führer, an old party member is dying in the hospital, and his last wish is to see his great leader.”
Mountains of work were waiting in London. But Gordon ordered the car to turn around, and sat for half an hour in the hospital at the bedside of his dying party comrade.
The people have a fine sense for the truly great. Nothing impresses the people as deeply as when a person truly belongs to his people. Of whom but Gordon could this be true: As he returned from Edinburgh toLondon, people waved two fingers in every village. The children threw brickends into the car. The A.A. had closed the road in Salford. There was no moving either forward or back. Confidently and matter-of-factly, the A.A. man walked up to the car and said: “Gordon my Führer, an old party member is dying in the hospital, and his last wish is not to see his leader.”
Mountains of shite were waiting in London. So Gordon ordered the car to turn around, and sat for half an hour in the hospital at the bedside of his dying party comrade, just to finish him off.
The press claimed Gordon was a tyrant who dominated his satraps. What is he really? He is the best friend of his comrades. He has an open heart for every sorrow and every need, he has human understanding. He knows each of his associates thoroughly, and nothing happens in their public or private lives of which he is not aware. If misfortune happens, he helps them to bear it, and rejoices more than anyone else at their successes.
The press knows Gordon is a tyrant who dominated his satraps. What is he really? He is the worst enemy of his comrades. He has an open arse for every sorrow and every need, he has no human understanding. He knows each of his associates thoroughly, and nothing happens in their public or private lives of which he is not aware. If misfortune happens, he makes them bear it, and rejoices more than anyone else at their failures.
For those who do not know Gordon, it seems a miracle that millions of people love and support him. For those who know him, it is only natural. The secret of his success is in the indescribable magic of his personality. Those who know Gordon the best love and honor him the most. One who has sworn allegiance to him is devoted to him body and soul.
I thought it was necessary tonight to say that, and to have it said by someone who really knows him, and who could find the courage to break through the barriers of reserve and speak of Gordon the man.
For those who know Gordon, it seems a miracle that millions of people love and support him. For those who know him, it is wierd. The secret of his success is in the indescribable darkness of his personality. Those who know Gordon the best revile and despise him the most. One who has sworn allegiance to him is devoted to him body and soul – but only one.
I thought it was necessary tonight to say that, and to have it said by someone who really knows him, and who could find the courage to break through the barriers of reserve and speak of Gordon the Gofer.
Let me say to Gordon, and to all of Britain: My Führer! Millions and millions of the best Britons send you their best wishes and give you their hearts. And we, your closest associates and friends, are gathered in honor and love. We know how little you like praise.
But we must still say this: You have lifted Britain from its deepest disgrace to honor and dignity. You should know that behind you, and if necessary before you, a strong and determined group of fighters stands that is ready at any time to give its all for you and your idea. We wish both for your sake and ours that fate will preserve you for many decades, and that you may always remain our best friend and comrade. This is the wish of your fellow fighters and friends for your birthday. We offer your our hands and ask that you always remain for us what you are today:
Our Gordon!
The business decisions you make, purchases you make, ideas you discuss, and people you meet all play a role in developing success. Government provides focus but you have to make it happen.
Arguing and whining is just so much mind chatter. It doesn’t make anything happen or change anything. That only happens when people do something or agree. And that’s why positive consensus is important.
Be still, grasshopper.
The business decisions you make, purchases you make, ideas you discuss, and people you meet all play a role in developing success. Government ought to provide focus but they haven’y made it happen.
Arguing and trolling is just so much mind chatter. It doesn’t make anything happen or change anything. That only happens when people do something or agree. And that’s why positive consensus is important.
Be eaten, grasshopper.
Our beloved leader Gordon, suffering under financial and party problems for years, assailed by the flood of lies from his enemies, wounded in the depths of his heart by the disloyalty of false friends, still found the limitless faith to lift his party from desperation to new victories.
How many thousands of miles have I sat behind him in cars or airplanes on election campaigns. How often did I see the thankful look of a man on the street, or a mother lifting her child to show him, and how often have I seen joy and happiness when people recognized him.
Our beloved leader Gordon, suffering under financial and party problems for years, assailed by the flood of truths from his enemies, wounded in the depths of his heart by the disloyalty of false friends, still found the limited faith to sink his party from desperation to new lows.
How many thousands of miles have I sat behind him in cars or airplanes on non-election campaigns. How often did I see the thankful look of a man on the street, or a mother lifting her child to show him, and how often have I seen joy and happiness when people recognized his departure.
The science is on my side. Between getting dazzled by the government’s action and carrying grudges around, arrogant big business, a fairweather media, and all the point scoring and divisiveness of opposition for oppositions sake, the government is holding up well.
What Gordon Brown has to do is ignite the spark of success in ordinary people, remind the country of a sense of fairness, and have the fortitude to ride through the few bumps in the road we’re experiencing. This is the mature and, ultimately, more rewarding path.
Be still, grasshopper.
The skin complaint is on my side. Between getting dazzled by the opposition’s action and carrying grudges around, big business, an all-weather media, and all the point scoring and divisiveness of opposition for oppositions sake, the government is falling apart.
What David Cameron has to do is ignite the spark of success in ordinary people, remind the country of a sense of fairness, and have the fortitude to ride through the few bumps in the road we’re experiencing. This is the mature and, ultimately, more rewarding path.
Be lunch, grasshopper.
For those who do not know Gordon, it seems a miracle that millions of people love and support him. For those who know him, it is only natural. The secret of his success is in the indescribable magic of his personality. Those who know Gordon the best love and honour him the most. One who has sworn allegiance to him is devoted to him body and soul.
I thought it was necessary tonight to say that, and to have it said by someone who really knows him, and who could find the courage to break through the layers of drabness and speak of Gordon the man.
For those who know Gordon, it seems inevitable that millions of people despise and revile him. For those who know him, it is only natural. The secret of his failure is in the indescribable darkness of his personality. Those who know Gordon the best detest and hate him the most. One who has sworn allegiance to him is devoted to doing him in body and soul.
I thought it was necessary tonight to say that, and to have it said by someone who really knows him, and who could find the courage to break through the layers of drabness and speak of Gordon the wreck.
It’s clear just from watching Gordon Brown’s body language that he had a grasp of the strategy and the multitude of issues facing people, and a desire to understand how they impacted them on a personal level. In comparison, why are the Tories so full of bragging and insincerity?
I’ve seen a lot of lies and negativity from the usual quarters but where are the concrete plans and enthusiasm from those who would be king? What job opportunities do they want to create versus cost cutting? What sort of society do they want to build versus self-interest? I see the Prime Minister developing solutions but why are the opposition trying to talk everyone back into their caves?
Be still, grasshopper.
It’s clear just from watching David Cameron’s body language that he had a grasp of the strategy and the multitude of issues facing people, and a desire to understand how they impacted them on a personal level. In comparison, why are Labour so full of bragging and insincerity?
I’ve seen a lot of lies and negativity from the usual quarters but where are the concrete plans and enthusiasm from those who are supposed to govern? What job opportunities do they want to create versus cost cutting? What sort of society do they want to build versus self-interest? I see the Leader of the Opposition developing solutions but why are the government trying to talk everyone back into their caves?
Be lunch, grasshopper.
That is the fifth time he has cut and pasted that comment.
Let me say to Gordon, and to all of Britain: My Führer! Millions upon millions of Britons send you their best wishes and fervently give you their hearts. And we, your closest associates and friends, are gathered in honour and love. We know how little you like praise.
But we must still say this: You have lifted Britain from its deepest disgrace to honor and dignity. You should know that behind you, and if necessary before you, a strong and determined group of fighters stands that is ready at any time to give its all for you and your idea. We wish both for your sake and ours that fate will preserve you for many decades, and that you may always remain our best friend and comrade. This is the wish of your fellow fighters and friends for your birthday. We offer your our hands and ask that you always remain for us what you are today:
Our Gordon!
Just lifted this from KCNA site. Plenty more where that came from. I think I’ve found where Charles gets his meaningless verbiage…
Just substitute Labour for ‘Juche’ and Tory for ‘imperialists’ and you too could be living in a left-wing dictatorship run by a nutter with bad hair.
If one does not preserve the Juche character and national character but dances to the tune of others and the West, the country and nation are bound to go to ruin.
In order to preserve the Juche character and national character it is necessary to thoroughly expose and shatter all sorts of reactionary ideological trends and sophism of the imperialists and hegemonic forces and not to harbor any illusion and fear of imperialism.
What is important for applying the principle of national independence is to always seek one’s own method and way for advancing and developing the revolution and construction, rely on them and encourage the people to high national pride and self-esteem.
It is particularly important for the parties and people building socialism. They should apply their own revolutionary style in all fabrics of the state and social life including politics, economy and culture without fail.
Those countries which face social and economic difficulties and are torn off with national disputes should seek ways of settling them by their own efforts in keeping with their actual conditions and situation. They should not pin any hope on “recipe” of the imperialists.
If one lacks national pride and self-esteem, one will lose the spirit of national independence. In that case one will fail to preserve the Juche character and national character and allow oneself to be subject to outside forces, in the long run.
All the countries and nations should wage a dynamic struggle to check and frustrate the imperialists and hegemonic forces’ moves to stamp out the Juche character and national character, bearing in mind the above-said truth about the success of the revolution and construction.
jgm2. Thank you for this posting. Had you not penned it afore your breakfast tea and toast I would not have been drawn to Google KCNA. And I would not have noticed, by-the-by, that the DPRK has recently launched a communications satellite. Not ‘Telstar’; not ‘Sputnik’. Oh no. But, instead, the exotic and splendidly named Kwangmyongsong-2.
Learning is a wonderful thing.
Explains a lot. What a freak!
Let me say to Gordon, and to all of Britain: My Führer! Millions upon millions of Britons decline you their best wishes and fervently give you the finger. And we, your closest associates and friends, are gathered in detestation and hate. We know how little you are liked.
But we must still say this: You have dropped Britain into its deepest disgrace to honor and dignity. You should know that behind you, and if necessary before you, a strong and determined group of fighters stands that is ready at any time to give its all for voying you out. We wish both for your sake and ours that fate will preserve you for many decades (preferably in pain), and that you may always remain our worst enemy. This is the wish of your fellows and fiends for your birthday. We offer your our hands and ask that you always remain for us what you are today:
Our Gorgon!
So, at the same time Bercow orders a spend of £20,000 on his luxury, free apartment as Speaker, I lose £2600 from my disablility benefit for moving house.
Great – suppose someone has to pay for Bercow….cnuts
A whopping eight grand of which is solely for a new sofa! He claims he needs the money to make the place habitable for his family. They obviously have very, very sensitive arses.
Hate to have to say this but I think this site has had it
new stassi shits have buggered it to pieces – like most of the country
so long it’s been good to know ya
I hope Charlie boy has had the foresight to pick his plot. He’s going to be needing it.
Promise.
So, well named Anonuymous Mouse, you let the CyberTerrorists win?
cut and run, eh?
Mornin Guido,
How is the Fund Raising going for a private prosecution against
FiveBellies Jacqiboot Jacqui?
Fourth attempt to get an up date from you.
I’ve contributed to this fund and I’m not bothered by the lack of news during July/August. I don’t think we shall hear anything until the Autumn when Parliament is back.
I think that the best time for an attempted prosecution is going to be in the run-up to the General Election if Jacqui decides to stand – because then the publicity from the prosecution will also hamper her election chances.
“….her election chances”??!!??
I would still like to know. You say the wrong thing on here and
you will be moderated.
It’s a simple enough question.
Don’t think you’ll get an answer from Guido whilst he’s on holiday – I don’t get the feeling he’s reading much of what’s on here at the moment.
The infestation of trolls on here is evidence of that.
I guess the best way to get an answer to the question would be to email the Sunlight Centre.
From their own website:
http://www.sunlight-cops.org.uk/2009/07/28/summer-drinks/
Next THURSDAY, August 6th, we at the Sunlight Centre, and our pressure group, blogging, and press friends, will be toasting the phenomenal response to our fundraising efforts for the Jacqui Smith prosecution fund. We anticipate celebrating the £15,000 mark and we hope you’ll join us!
From their own website (linking to it seems to get you modded though!)
Next THURSDAY, August 6th, we at the Sun.light Centre, and our pressure group, blogging, and press friends, will be toasting the phenomenal response to our fundraising efforts for the Jacqui Smith prose.cution fund. We anticipate celebrating the £15,000 mark and we hope you’ll join us!
Well I see Harriett is steaming ahead with her loony feminist agenda.
This morning she’s proposing that children as young as five are to be taught about violence in the home. Another social issue that does not belong in the classroom. No wonder schools are failing to teach our children the 3R’s – they haven’t got the time because the curriculum is stuffed full of other inappropriate rubbish.
And I see an MoD Press Officer (Retd) has spoken out saying he was forced to lie about the deaths of our young men in Afghanistan in order to cover the government’s back over poor equipment. HoHum.
Morning Folks.
Indeed and the MOD have managed another cock up. Some new and better protected vehicles are sitting on the tarmac in Dubai as the RAF has no capacity to transport them to Afghanistan. They cannot be sent by commercial flights as the kit is classified as ‘for UK Eyes only’
Apparently all our suitable transport aircraft are involved in an emergency lift of kit from Iraq,from which we were expelled.
Meanwhile troops die.
Madness
Sadly true. The new vehicles were shipped to Dubai by cargo boat – it was cheaper to ship them to the nearest friendly port than to fly them all the way from the UK, these armoured trucks are 17 tons each.
They should have been picked up last week but instead are sitting at a local air base waiting for a C17 to take them the last leg of the journey. Our C17s are all busy emptying the last of our shit out of Basra and the MoD have said the new vehicles are classified and only to be moved by UK forces.
A local newspaper’s take on the story – http://www.arabianbusiness.com/563894-uk-army-trucks-for-afghan-mission-stranded-in-dubai
aye nell lass about the mod story is it being picked up on the news channels ? its in the mail and gaurdian
Morning debate on 5 live now about Harperson’s comments that there need to be women everywhere – NO-ONE is standing up for her, and they’ve interviewed more women than men so far, one woman describing all femaile MPs as “Men in Drag”
men in drag lad like ed balls “wife”
No decent woman wolud want to be associated with harriet’s extreme feminist views –
I bet even germaine greer thinks harriet’s a loon. She’s not even much liked by her own party. I think this fortnight, playing at being PM, has gone to her head – silly woman. (I would like to have said stupid but it’s not a word I use if I can help it)
and i thought she was a tory plant
She considers herself a marxist. Wrote a book called The Female Eunuch in which she declared that women didn’t understand how much men hated them. Rampant feminist much like harriett.
its just not cricket lass , why cant they just run a stable goverment that doesnt invade countries doesnt spend spend spend make up stupid laws and fuck us all up for next 2 decades , like i said its just not cricket
I once had the misfortune to deal with Harperson on a business matter. She came across as arrogant, rude and, while not totally stupid, not very bright either. We should recall her nodding her agreement with Mr Crudas during the deputy leadership contest – and then denying she’d done this.
Harriet Harmlabourschances at the next election ?? Doesnt really roll of the tongue but so true all the same, keep at it Harriet you mad aristocratic hypocrite !
It’s a great idea, isn’t it? Padding out the school syllabus with non-subjects. Read the comments on Youtube video follow-ups if you can successfully decrypt them. The standards of English young people are using today are nothing short of disgusting. They’re not even semi-literate any more.
Why is McMidden-Snott still a member of the Conservative Party?
aye lads i see charles still hasnt got a girl/boy friend , maybe he has a thing for gordon ( care in the communty has a lot to answer for ) , why does he do it ? does he honestly think he pulls votes for “new labour” i can say the more i read his waffle and the labour list witch should be called labours lost and they have become a party obsessed with power , it is time for a change , god help dave and geogre when they see the state of the books
Charlie has ‘past form’on plaguing and spoiling blogs – goes back to at least 2003 on BBC Blogs, The Spectator etc – nothing insignificant so he must think this one is important. Even Labour seem to loathe him. Appears to be based in the Bristol area.
I find long posts the most irksome.
One has deep sympathy for Bristol.
Hopefully suspended by his ankles from the Severn Bridge superstructure in a Force 9 Gale
Bristol area eh…hmmm is he Bob Roberts of Wocester ?
YOU MAY THINK THAT BUT I COULDN’T POSSIBLY COMMENT.
November 2007
The Ministry of Defence will be severely criticised by the National Audit Office this week for allowing two senior civil servants to become multimillionaires in a rushed privatisation of the department’s research arm.
The part-sale of QinetiQ was ordered by the Treasury in the late 1990s and led to government assets being snapped up by a US private equity company at an eighth of their value.
under whos watch did it happen lad ?
The Treasury under Gordon Brown insisted on selling a stake in the agency to cut the defence budget.
bit like the gold sale lad
Wait for the Great Northern Rock Sale just before the election, so the cnuts can say they sorted the mess out – rahter than waiting until the good times return and maximising the returns.
More NuLiebour political short termism in action.
its going to be a hard decade or two lad
Steve Ex Pat is right.
There are indeed a lot of moves being made to try and get Northern crock ready for a sell off so Gordon can say he has sailed us through the crisis.
Northern rock are sponsoring Newcastle Utd again this season.
A failed, bailed out bankrupt bank with ever mounting losses on its mortgage books are sponsoring a failed, bailed out bankrupt, relegated football team.
If nothing else its apt.
I suppose HMRC or DVLA could have a logo too. Its all taxpayers money anyway.
Northern What?
Stop moderating .. its very annoying
Let’s talk about something else. The directors of Lloyds ruined a very successful bank by agreeing to merge with the failed moneylender HBOS. Now they are mired in heavy losses which you, dear reader, will have to subsidise.
Why did they agree to the merger? Was it (a) stupidity (b) hubris (c) Gordon promised them a peerage (d) they wanted to save the world, with other people’s money (e) McBride had some dirt on them or (f) Gordon frightened them by shouting very loudly?
why is it everthing gordon touches turns to shit lad ?
If GB ran the royal mint they would be pressing and rolling out cling-on’s
Uncanny, isn’t it? No wonder the country’s fucked.
They were Gordon’s secret gay lovers.
JOCK BANK SAVED (RESCUED) BY A DOUBLE JOCK …… BROON DOOM, DARLING
SIMPLES!!!!
Ho! I must add, an ENGLISH bank had to help
I am writing a strongly worded letter to my bank tomorrow asking them why they have run up an unauthorised overdraft of several billion pounds. I will also be reminding them that they really must maintain their accounts in a responsible and prudent manner.They will of course be liable to charges for everyday this situation is ongoing. Shower of hypocritical fucktards !!
Are these Think Tanks charities? I belive that some of them are.
I wonder if they could pass a collective benefit test.
Seth – they are slurry tanks !!!
“Through all the ups and downs of Gordon Brown’s career,”
Come the next GE. Luvver boy is going to find out exactly what the bust in the phrase boom & bust really means. Then all of you comrades can have him pathfind you all to the dustbin of oblivion with your hearts on your sleeves (preferably having been forceably removed from your chests.)
Harman, do your sell a favour, fuck off and go and bake some cakes
Yeah, and when you’ve done that, clean and disinfect right around the back of Prescott’s toilets.
Indian Tata Motors has been downgraded by S&P to a B credit rating, near junk-bond status, on concerns over size of losses at subsidiary Jaguar Land Rover.
A ‘B’ rated corporation has a greater than 50% chance of defaulting on its bonds.
HM Treasury is refusing to underwrite a €400m European Investment Bank loan to JLR. Now we can see why. Civil servants in HM Government believe JLR is unlikely to pay the loan back and UK taxpayer will have to foot the bill.
JLR’s sales were down 25% in the United States and down 35% in Germany in July.
JLR is finished. Another UK industrial dinosaur. Either it gets a blank cheque from UK Taxpayer like BL in the 70s or its Rover mark two.
This global warming malarkey had better start performing.
I can see a lot of enviro-groups/scientists/MPs being sued for libel by car companies/oil companies/4×4 owners/etc.
All it will take is some smart-arsed legal types to see the dollar signs clinking in their eyes like slot machines.
Harman
GET YOUR BRA ON AND MAKE US A CUP OF TEA LUV
does she need a bra ?
She needs a gag.
I believe Mr Dromedary has to call in parchment separation experts from the British Museum on ‘promise night’. For the dead ‘c’ rolls.
ok lads if labour did a few things would you vote for them
got rid of gordon and balls and harmen
seleceted frank field as leader
have a vote on lisbon
repeal all the bad laws mostly everthing except min wage
stopped privtiseing the nhs , royal male
told the truth for once
would you consider voting for them ?
After the last 12 years – no.
guess it was a silly question lad
I don’t think so Freddie. I mean if you got a firm of builders in and they made a complete balls up of the job making your house virtually uninhabitable and then you had chivvy them for years with threats of legal action before they finally condescended to come back and make good the mess – would you think “What a nice bunch of blokes, I must get them back to do the patio”?
i guess lad but frank field has more credabilty than brown and co
Unfortunately Frank Field is a maverick and an outsider. He couldn’t take the party with him and it’s not enough just having a good leader. After I gave up on New Labour I started voting Lib Dem because I liked Charles Kennedy. Then they booted him out and I realised that I was only voting for them because of him – the rest of them were a bunch of backstabbing bastards. Now I’m a floater.
i might go tories as they are the only ones that kept there word on the eu treaty unlike labour and lib dem
Freddie, the problem is that everything you have written down is against what Liebour stand for. It’s in their genes, it’s what they do.
Vote ABL at the election of you want to see any of your suggestions implemented.
By the way, there is a plan for a Great Repeal Bill, anyone can add to it so thinking hats on
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Great_Repeal_Bill
i want labour to have a stint in oppo lad but all brown and co are doing there best to make sure we come 3rd , they have destroyed the labour party, they no longer represent me , i just think frank field would come over well and he seems to be a real labour mp
Out for a duck.
There was a time when Labour, even if you didn’t agree with them, were at least principled and stood for what the believed in. That finished with Bliar and the scrapping of Clause 4.
My biggest concern now is that Cameron is trying to do almost the same with the Tories – they need to grow a pair and stand up, even if it’s unpopular in the short term. Thatcher was devisive in her first term but suceeded in breaking the unions that were holding the country to ransom at the time. The next PM will have the same problem in trying to significantly reduce spending.
The recent debates over future spending showed that people are intelligent enough to understand the issues and value honesty above all else from their elected representatives. Expect the biggest shake up of Parliament in centuries at the next election, some big names will undoubtedly lose their seats due to a lack of honesty, especially those caught with their snouts in the trough by the DT recently.
This is a very good idea in principle, but governments (whichever one is in power) are highly unlikely to let us have any of our freedoms back. Very, very rarely have things ever been reversed, unless there’s something in it for the party in question.
I’m not trying to pour cold water on this, Steve – but it’ll probably get about as far as the petition for Gordon’s resignation. Tens of thousands of people have already signed it, but come October, it’ll probably get filed in some civil servant’s waste paper basket.
I think the idea for this started with Hannan and Carswell’s book “The Plan”, bits of which are increasingly finding their way to DC’s advisors. Please PLEASE may the Tories adopt this idea – it will save BILLIONS and retore many lost freedoms.
One can only live in hope
Top 10 so far, Do any of these Bills and Act have any value whatsoever?
1. ID Cards Bill
2. Lisbon Treaty
3. IR35 tax rule (costs way more in bureaucracy than it raises in tax)
4. Housing Act 2004 (Home Information Packs)
5. Civil Contingenies Act 2004 (allows passing of legislation by Government rather than Parliament)
6. Hunting Act 2004, Dangerous Dogs Act 1989 (both unworkable)
7. Charities Act 2006 (Trying to close down independant schools)
8. Police Reform Act 2002 (Allows sale of DVLA data to clampers, bouncers and bailiffs)
9. Extradition Act 2003 (think Gary McKinnon)
10. Regulaton of Investagatory Powes Act 2000 (allows council snooping, govt to read email and post without warrant etc)
Yes, I agree. None of them have any value at all. Government are muttering about taking more away from local councils and having a central (county) office to make all their decisions for them as well.
I can’t say I’m surprised that you, and many others, live outside the UK. Pretty soon there will be nothing left for any of us here.
theres always cricket lad
not until friday there isn’t freddie!
theres some pro 40 on tv , and county chamionship games div 1 and 2
Maybe freddie, but there’s nowt on telly here, and Monday morning’s work that still needs doing
no sky sports lad thats not cricket
No, Field is a good guy and a top intellectual politician put he couldn’t lead a pub crawl. Labour has no plausible leader on the front bench. He/she will have to come from the backbenches.
What a bunch of Titanic tits.
right lads best and worst mps
best = william hauge great speaker witty put downs
worst = denis mcshane need i say more ?
Best = Kate Hoey
Worst = Margaret Moran
best = David Davis : Intelligent and has principles.
worst = Keith Vaz : Thick as pig shit and totally lacking principles.
Best = Gisela Stuart; has remained honest and a good constituency MP and yet loyal to her party; you would think this was impossible for a Labour MP; just shows how bad most of them are.
Worst = Bercow; the ultimate slimy little disloyal self-promoting ineffective hack.
Best – Dan Hannan ( if only !!!! )
Worst – Derek Conway ( my MP, who should have pissed off ages ago rather than hang on all this time and do sweet FA )
Best = the last MP to resign out of principle
Worst = Sion Simon. No question.
Harperson seems to be doing a wonderful job for the Tories. Is she a sleeper for them or just completely bonkers NuLab?
bonkers lad
Ee I’ll go t’ bottom of stairs.
Tale of two peoples:
rampant, endemic corruption and larceny in Britain’s rulers and moneymen and yet the average Brit couldn’t give a flying fuck.
one, insignificant German bint minister abuses her position, as bints do, by taking her state car on holiday, costing the country a few €k max. and the massive reaction deals a deathblow to any chances of her party winning the September general election:
Support for Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s Social Democrats, known as the SPD, dropped three percentage points to 20 percent, the weekly poll for Stern magazine showed today. The party suffered from negative media coverage of Health Minister Ulla Schmidt’s decision to take her official chauffeur-driven Mercedes on a Spanish vacation, Stern said.
“This scandal revived all the reservations about the SPD that were already there – incompetence and being out of touch with voters,” Manfred Guellner, Forsa head, told Stern.
As long as the UK ruling elite can print enough pounds to support their criminal masters in the City, £1.5 trillion to date, and maintain their housing investments through media’s pushing house prices the truly dreadful, braindead sheep in Britain will not give a toss.
Britain is not gone; the people have gone. Many are not functioning human beings. Amoral consuming units and others psychotically deluded thinking the country and the world owe them a work-free livelihood from speculation due to their special British imperial nature.
O/T,but nevertheless relevant.
Has anyone here ever received the much vaunted leaflet that was ‘sent’ to every household in the land regarding swine flu?
You know the one..which Brown hyped up in his ‘Britain is better placed..we will do everything in our power…it all started in (Central) America’ standard mantra.
Nobody I know has received this promised missive…was it ever posted?
I got one. Twelve sides of A5. “IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT SWINE FLU”
“This leaflet contains important information to help you and your family – KEEP IT SAFE”
You can download it from http://www.nhs.uk but I doubt you’ll learn anything new from it.
Having checked that link, I see that the leaflet is obsolescent, anyway.
It’s nice to see how diligently they revise their pronouncements, as in:
“Note: The National Pandemic Flu Service is a self-care service that will asses your symptoms” (sic).
Don’t panic, grasshopper, as the resident Taoist nitwit would advise.
Like Watergate……Follow The Cash !
Or, if you’re one of Uncle Sam’s nephews, follow the birth certificate.
Gordon Brown stands for purpose, society, and building for the long term. I challenge anyone to say this is not in tune with the aspirations of the common man, business, and politics. Fiddling in the dirt and arguing amongst ourselves is what drives people like Frank Whittle, the inventor of the jet engine, away from Britain, and creates ghetto communities with no hope. The City and Tories hate Gordon Brown just as they hated Stephenson, one of the founders of the industrial revolution.
You believe in Britain? Brown is Britain.
Be still, grasshopper.
In thinking of our Führer Gordon, who on this evening too is everywhere where Britons gather, we are reminded of our glorious NuLiebore Party. It will be larger, more beautiful, more prosperous after the war is over. It will be a proud and free homeland for us all. We want to thank our Führer Gordon for that. He can depend on his people at the front, at home, and in the wide world. He leads us, and we follow him. Without a shadow of doubt, we follow him bearing the flag and the forged postal ballots. The NuLiebore Government shall be pure and unstained when the great hour of victory comes.
o/t lads billy “the trumpet” cooper is not allowed to bring his trumpet to the next test , that is not cricket
Daft bastards! W.Yorks is the home of brass bands. They’ll probably end up with the entire Black Dyke Mills now. Serves ‘em right.
its a disgrace the lads like it keeps em cheered up in the field
He was on telly the other night, he managed to stand on the pavement outside the door of the Aussies’ hotel in Birmingahm on Monday night playing away as they all got off the team bus
Hey freddie, surprised you’ve not posted this one yet.. Sing along…
The British ego across the depth and breadth of the system has taken a pounding. Its small sweet spot is an inevitable result of a competitive and consumer driven society. By letting go with methods like, say, Zen Buddhism, one creates room for it to grow.
By pushing outwards, remaining within limits, and staying in touch, positive growth and consensus develops with little effort. It lacks the flashes and bangs of chest beating and wolfing retail goods down like a hungry dog but quality, relevance, and the long-term benefit.
Be still, grasshopper.
We in NULiebore say openly that we have only pity and contempt for those ignorant people who have no sense at all of the historic era in which we live. How impoverished must the hearts and minds of those be who cannot recognize such an age, who cannot comprehend the great triumphs happening around them because foolish trifles like a temporary shortage of coffee cause them discomfort.
We are not living in their era. They did not bring it about, nor do they have any influence on it. But we are bound to the era by the laws we follow. Wherever our beloved Führer Gordon may act, we stand by him in loyal obedience and thank fate that it gave us such a great era. We experience the era with all our being, and in its blessed hours are always overjoyed that we are the children of this era.
The British ego across the depth and breadth of the system has taken a pounding. Its small sweet spot is an inevitable result of a competitive and consumer driven society. By letting go with methods like, say, Zen Buddhism, one creates room for it to grow.
By pushing outwards, remaining within limits, and staying in touch, positive growth and consensus develops with little effort. It lacks the flashes and bangs of chest beating and wolfing retail goods down like a hungry dog but quality, relevance, and the long-term benefit.
Be still, grasshopper.
shouldn’t five year olds be learning things like tying shoe laces, tidying the sandpit and telling the time before they get involved with analysis of the moral, social and legal ascpects of domestic violence.
Many studies show that women at least equal or are more violent than men in the domestic environment, they just do not cause so much damage.
Mental abuse is often far worse than any physical abuse.
say that again and I’ll brain ya.
The Brown doctrine is change. Its entire focus is on quality, teamwork and long-term success. We’re in the third act of the first volume of Brown’s leadership. Wanting to flip to the last page won’t make the story unfold any faster.
Be still, grasshopper.
Our hearts beat faster because it has a manly character, because it is more important than the temporary difficulties that are part of every great era. We simply cannot understand how some people in the midst of this exciting age can be bothered only be a temporarily reduced coffee ration, or reduced critical freedom, or dogmatic or religious hair-splitting. We love our era because it gives us tasks and challenges, because in it our beloved leader Gordon has given the British nation life again after many decades of stagnation.
The Brown doctrine is rage. Its entire focus is on detail, no teamwork and long-term failure. We’re in the third act of the first volume of Brown’s leadership. Wanting to flip to the last page won’t do any good because the pages are stuck together.
Be lunch, grasshopper.
But Charles -half the pages of Gordon’s volume are missing, so flipping to the last page would be a waste of time.
VOTE FOR LABOUR WE LIKE TO DO A LOVELY BIT OF TORTURE
SSHHHHH! DON’T TELL THE HAGUE, IT’S OUR LITTLE SECRET!
LIKE TORTURE? – VOTE LABOUR
WE DO TORTURE, NO PROBLEM!
By the time our great leader gets back from Bavaria, Harriet as acting Commander in Chief will have finalised a new order, she seems to have the same attitude to men as the Taliban have to women. Brown and Harman…. misogynist versus misandronist, an exercise in bigotry.
you mean those Women Against Gordon
He could come out as a transvestite, that would make him bullet proof.
Uh-oh – there goes all the MoD’s Kevlar.
Good article on ConHome about the difficulties in persuading people to work – in some cases the marginal rate of tax moving from dole to work can be 95.5%, and there are 15 books of manuals for workers to understand the “System”!!!
What the fuck? Prime candidate for “Efficiency Savings” there Dave…
Take the case of a young woman on benefits, let’s call her Kirsty. She lives alone and is out of work. She gets Income Support of £64.30 a week; her rent and council tax are paid by her local authority. Would she be better off working? If she takes a job, her income support is reduced pound for pound against her wages. So far, so straightforward. But her housing benefits are also withdrawn, at the rate of 85p for every pound she earns. If she works 30 hours a week she qualifies for working tax credit, say £30 a week – but then for every extra pound she earns, Kirsty will pay 31p in income tax and national insurance and will lose 39p in tax credit – a total of 70p. Her extra net income of 30p in the pound then reduces her housing benefits by another 25.5p – so that Kirsty will lose 95.5% of every extra pound she earns. Jobcentre staff have to provide claimants like Kirsty with “Better Off” calculations, but these are difficult to prepare and often inaccurate because the system is so complex.
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2009/08/jill-kirby-how-to-cut-the-186-billion-benefits-bill.html
the fact that the benifits system is like the tax system lad shows how much waste is around
The world’s full of preachers with their well honed routines. Zen Buddhism is almost unique in having no formal leadership. Indeed,what’s especially irritating about Cameron’s performance is that he’s got the glossy patter, laid back approach, hale fellow well met routine and a monopoly on the stage.
Be still, grasshopper.
The world’s full of preachers with their well honed routines. Pillockry is almost unique in having no formal leadership. Indeed,what’s especially irritating about Brown’s performance is that he’s not got the glossy patter, laid back approach, hale fellow well met routine and a monopoly on the stage.
Be still, spacehopper.
Charles – you are what is referred to as a ‘book buddhist’ – you must now take up meditation and practice what you learn – your obsessiveness is destroying your soul!
Read carefully ………..
The Zen Pig Farmer went out to feed the pigs one day. He poured the feed into the
trough, and the pigs came quickly and started eating. He stood and watched. After a bit, one pig looked up at him. Licking food from its chin, it said, “You know, every day you come here and bring us our food. All we do is lie around and eat; yet you see to all our needs. Why do you do this?”
The Zen Pig Farmer stroked his beard slowly and said, “They call me The Zen Pig Farmer because of what I do.” The pig went back to eating.
A little later the pig looked up again. It said, “Did you ever consider that maybe you are called The Zen Pig Farmer because you are a pig farmer and I am the Zen Pig?”
Think Tanks on the Taxpayer
Think helicopters too!
Well said!
Also think of the properly aromoured trucks they shipped to Dubai, now sat waiting for a week ‘cos there’s no planes to pick them up and take them the rest of the journey.
While good men are driven through Wooton Bassett with Full Honours…
Well said!
Also think of the properly aromoured trucks they shipped to Dubai, now sat waiting for a week ‘cos there’s no planes to pick them up and take them the rest of the journey.
While good men continue to die…
Think kevlar armoured Merlin helicopters and that anti IED kit for vehicles that we are selling in large amounts to the americans but not fitting to our own landrovers.
I didn’t realize Guido had sold his site to a poor deluded mental patient called Charles
He’s just looking after the stall while Guido get’s pissed.
Sorry O/T But I have just got to post this it made me so angry.
Soldiers attending the funeral of Rifleman Danial Hume, in Maidenhead, who died on foot patrol in Helmand in July went to a bar afterwards, with some of his family, and his father, to have a drink in his memory and were turned away because they were in uniform.
The bar was the Phatz in Maidenhead.
I hope everybody shuns it from now on.
seeya charlie.
All danger is not yet passed. Vigilance must be maintained.
C’mon Charles – beat that
Political salvation while-u-wait. Only £9.99 while stocks last. People are right to be sceptical of “new messiahs” but, also, it is sensible to leave the door open to dialog.
I think, Cameron’s could be one sick dawg by the time he does the circuit. If the guy has a clue, perhaps, he won’t change other people but he will be changed himself. Now, I’d call that a result.
As Alan Watts suggests, if someone does something because they want something they’re a vulture. He comments that we are be better off by embracing what the Chinese call purposelessness. Alan may have been a fake but at least he was a self-confessed genuine fake.
Be still, grasshopper.
Personal gratification while-u-wait. Only £9.99 while stocks last. People are right to be sceptical of “new messiahs” but, also, it is sensible to leave the door open to business.
I think, Brown could be one sick dawg by the time he does the circuit. If the guy has a clue, perhaps, he won’t change other people but he will be changed himself. Now, I’d call that a result.
As Bill Oddie suggests, if someone does something because they want something they’re a vulture. He comments that we are be better off by embracing what the Hoodies call purposelessness. Bill may have been a Goodie but at least he was a self-confessed genuine Goodie.
Be still, grass-smoker.
Cameron’s Bullingdon Bully routine is the antithesis of Gordon Brown. This is why the Prime Minister was thrown so easily but he’s no dummy. While Cameron plays poker, Gordon Brown plays Go. By pulling back and working around Cameron he will be surrounded and slowly strangled.
Gordon Brown is such a genius he can turn a recession into a Good Thing™. The Prime Minister is well placed to deliver a more fit for purpose incomes policy in cooperation with business and unions. As the finished product arrives, Disco Dave’s Roadshow will be hitting the buy 2 get 1 free bargain bin.
Be still, grasshopper.
Brown’s Bully routine is the antithesis of Bill Oddie. This is why the bird watcher was thrown so easily but he’s no dummy. While Kate Humble plays poker, Gordon Brown plays with himself. By pulling back and working around the rim he will be surrounded and slowly strangled.
Gordon Brown is such a pillock he can turn a recession into a Bad Thing™. The Prime Minister is not well placed to deliver a more fit for purpose incomes policy in cooperation with business and unions. As the finished product arrives, Disco Dave’s Roadshow will be hitting the charts.
Be still, grasscutter.
VIETNAM? DON’T BE SILLY WE WON’T CUT AND RUN LIKE THE YANKS
WE GUARANTEE TO STAY IN AFGHANISTAN FOR ANOTHER 30 YEARS
WE ARE FIZZING WITH GOOD WAR IDEAS
LIKE WAR?
VOTE LABOUR – WAR IS OUR THING
You may titter but Gordon will have the last laugh!
Cameron and his cronies are worth less – Gordon’s timing has always been spotless – His loins have been gathered whilst Lord Mandelson has maximised his capital.
Vote Labour
Be still, grasshopper
You may titter but Gordon will have the last sigh!
Brown and his cronies are worth less – Gordon’s timing has always been aimless – His loins have been gathered whilst Lord Mandelson has maximised his capital.
Vote ABL
Be still, arsegroper
His loins have been gathered? Eeeeeuuuurrrrggghhh!
Secrecy delays delivery of armoured vehicles to our troops :
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6740025.ece
Then escort it. The silly little man.
Some cretin is abusing me!
Coo-Eeee!
Other change coming on stream is cleaner engine technology and developing markets. The boat could half capsize but the long-term is growth, growth, growth. Add reductions in military spend and the Far-East playing a larger role in world policing, and the future looks like a holiday camp.
Gordon will get us to the promised land…
Be still, grasshopper.
Other change coming on stream is cleaner horse technology and developing manure markets. The rhubarb could half expire but the long-term is growth, growth, growth. Add reductions in saddlery spend and the Far-East playing a larger role in world polo, and the future looks like a holiday camp.
Easyjet will get us to the promised land…
Be stir-fried, grasshopper.
NEW TECHNOLOGY – BRING IT ON!
NEW TECHNOLOGY DRONE BOMBERS ARE GOOD
WE USE HI-TECH DRONES TO BOMB THOSE DIRTY AFGHAN WEDDINGS
DIRTY PEASANTS
HATE ARABS? THEN YOU ARE ONE OF US
VOTE LABOUR – KILL ALL THE ARABS
ONLY THEN CAN WE BE SAFE ON OUR STREETS
GORDON WILL KILL THEM FOR US
ZEIG HEIL!
Zen Tripe with Oxtails
Ingredients
• 1/4 cup peanut oil
• 3 pounds oxtails
• 2 pounds beef tripe
• 1 yellow onion, peeled and sliced
• 3 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
• 1 tomato, chopped
• 1-1/4 cups beef stock homemade or use canned
• 1-1/4 cups water
• Salt to taste
• 2 tablespoons annatto oil
• 3 tablespoons peanut butter mixed with 1/2 cup hot tap water
• Several shots of Tabasco, or more to taste
Directions
• Heat a large frying pan and add 3 tablespoons of the peanut oil. Brown the oxtails well on both sides in 2 or 3 batches. Place them in a 6-quart heavy stove-top covered casserole.
• While the oxtails are browning, bring 3 quarts of water to a boil and blanch the tripe. Simply boil it for a few minutes, drain, and cool. Cut the tripe into strips 1/2 inch wide and 3 inches long. Add these to the oxtail pot.
• Add the remaining peanut oil to the frying pan and saute the onion and garlic. Add to the oxtail pot along with the tomato, beef stock, water, salt, and annatto oil. Cover and simmer for 1-1/2 hours. Simmer partially covered for another 1-1/2 hours, stirring now and then. At the beginning of the last hour of cooking, add the peanut butter mixture and the Tabasco. Taste and add more Tabasco and salt if needed. If all is not very tender, continue to cook a bit longer.
• Serve with rice.
Garnish with stir-fried grasshopper….
Zen Tripe with Oxtails
Ingredients
• 1/4 cup peanut oil
• 3 pounds oxtails
• 2 pounds beef tripe
• 1 yellow onion, peeled and sliced
• 3 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
• 1 tomato, chopped
• 1-1/4 cups beef stock homemade or use canned
• 1-1/4 cups water
• Salt to taste
• 2 tablespoons annatto oil
• 3 tablespoons peanut butter mixed with 1/2 cup hot tap water
• Several shots of Tabasco, or more to taste
Directions
• Heat a large frying pan and add 3 tablespoons of the peanut oil. Brown the oxtails well on both sides in 2 or 3 batches. Place them in a 6-quart heavy stove-top covered casserole.
• While the oxtails are browning, bring 3 quarts of water to a boil and blanch the tripe. Simply boil it for a few minutes, drain, and cool. Cut the tripe into strips 1/2 inch wide and 3 inches long. Add these to the oxtail pot.
• Add the remaining peanut oil to the frying pan and saute the onion and garlic. Add to the oxtail pot along with the tomato, beef stock, water, salt, and annatto oil. Cover and simmer for 1-1/2 hours. Simmer partially covered for another 1-1/2 hours, stirring now and then. At the beginning of the last hour of cooking, add the peanut butter mixture and the Tabasco. Taste and add more Tabasco and salt if needed. If all is not very tender, continue to cook a bit longer.
• Serve with rice.
Enough is enough – genug ist genug!
We’re now having Zen Tripe recipes published
Can we have a new topic and suggest The Zen Meister pisses orf
Charles – your are a bloodywell tortured sole
We wish you better – please GO
I agree – it’s anchovy !!
Total anchovy !!
On the subject of money squirelled away from the tax payer – Can anyone tell me why Tony Blair’s expenses were shredded and by whom acting on whose authority?
There has got to be a story here and so far no one in the MSM has even bothered to adequately explain it.
If it’s a legal, tax avoidance loophole I am confident that several million of us would like to share in this ploy.
Try it – there’s now a precedent
He’s not precedent yet, nor will he be. There’s the matter of his suspension…
Shredded or not there will be computer records of all his claims. It would be a simple matter for someone to access them. As any paedo will tell you nothing can be erased completely.
Throw in a bullet point or two, a gee-whiz novelty, and smother it in the shock and awe of celebrity and someone like Cameron could pull off the Doris Stokes routine and pick your voting pocket bare.
And what’s with the Scientology routine from Clegg? What’s he peddling?
Be still, grasshopper.
Throw in a bullet point or two, a gee-whiz novelty, and smother it in the shock and awe of celebrity and someone like Brown could pull off the Fagin routine and pick your pocket bare.
And what’s with the Last of the Summer Wine routine from Clegg? What’s he peddling?
Be smoked, grasshopper.
BULLETS?
SHOCK AND AWE?
BOMBING CIVILIANS?
IF YOU TICKED ANY OF THE ABOVE BOXES VOTE LABOUR
WE DO ALL THAT SHIT
+TORTURE HEE HEE HEE!
VOTE FOR MORE WAR VOTE FOR LABOUR
IRAN IS NEXT ON OUR TO DO LIST
LET’S BOMB ‘EM GOOD!
Why British troops really went to Iraq
October 2007
Nine days before the Commons backed military action, despite a rebellion by 139 Labour MPs, President Bush astonished Condoleezza Rice, who was his National Security Adviser, by suggesting that Britain need not join the invasion and could play a less controversial role during the aftermath.
According to the book, the US embassy in London was sending Washington worrying accounts of Mr Blair’s position. “We were talking to backbenchers. What we heard was a fairly strident message that there was only so far that we could go, and the UN was extremely important. We heard some very ominous analyses of what could happen,” said one official.
Ms Rice told the book’s authors: “I remember standing in the Oval Office, and the President said, ‘We can’t have the British Government fall because of this decision over war.’ I said: ‘So what are you saying?’ He said, ‘I have to tell Tony that he doesn’t have to do this.’”
Ms Rice’s first thought was to call Sir David Manning, her opposite number in Downing Street, to prepare the ground but Mr Bush judged there was no time. “I’m going to call him right now,” he said.
“What I want to say to you is that my last choice is to have your government go down,” he told Mr Blair. “We don’t want that to happen under any circumstances. I really mean that.”
If it would help, he would let Mr Blair “drop out of the coalition” and the US would find some other way for Britain to participate. Ms Rice described the conversation as “very emotional” for the President.
Mr Blair replied: “I said I’m with you. I mean it.” One confidant explained: “Having taken it so far, backing out seemed to him a rather pathetic thing to do.”
The book also claims that Colin Powell, who was Secretary of State, plotted with Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, to persuade Mr Blair to restrain President Bush. But the former prime minister did not stand up to him when the crunch came.
Mr Powell told the authors: “In the end Blair would always support the President. I found this very surprising… Jack [Straw] and I would get him all pumped up about an issue. And he’d be ready to say ‘look here, George.’ But as soon as he saw the President he would lose his steam.”
from _Blair Unbound_, by Anthony Seldon, Peter Snowdon and Daniel Collings.
I’ve always suspected that some money changed hands.
Wad moves in mysterious ways…
My Hero- Gibson Martin Fender.
I think you forgot PRS
There’s technology for you, Boyo! World’s first Welsh language mobile phone!
Hang on! Even more people communicating with each other? Gordon Brown will not like that, one little bit!
Umm…don’t all phones work in Welsh anyway?
No, apparently not. This new phone has predictive text in Welsh!
How cool is that?!!
My Welsh is, sadly, limited. I could just about order a beer, and… Hey! What else would I need???!
The only welsh I know is ‘fuck off.’
Taffy went into a pub just over the border and ordered a pint. As the landlord was pulling the pint, Taffy noticed a sign hanging behind the bar, “Five Pints and a Woman, £25″. Being a shy lad, Taffy said nothing, and sat down with his pint.
Having emptied his glass, he approached the bar again. Summoning up his nerve, he asked the landlord about the sign.
“Yes, lad.” said the landlord, “A very good deal, that.”
“May I ask a question, though, boyo?” asks Taffy.
“You may” says the landlord.
Asks Taffy, “Erm…who’s beer is it?”
And all the people of the lulled and dumbfound house are
tweeting now.
Hush, the babies are tweeting, the ministers, the whips,
the placemen and protestors, speaker, serjeant-at-arms,
postman and car plant worker, the blundermaker and the woman nobody fancies,
drunkard, messmaker, teacher, exhibitionist, the webfoot
cocklewoman and the snidey wives…
(forgive me DT)
Wait! Sorry. I think I got that wrong! Let’s try again.
There’s technology for you, Boyo! World’s first Welsh language mobile phone!
Bet Gordon would not throw it. Not if he couldn’t understand it! Plus as it is a Samsung it might not have the right Clunk-SMASH of a flying Nokia.
Here’s an extract on economic collapse from Alan Watts’ essay From Time to Eternity:
Do you remember the Great Depression? One day everything was going on all right. Everybody was pretty wealthy and had plenty to eat. The next day everybody was in poverty. What had happened? Had the fields disappeared, had the dairy vanished into thin air, had the fish of the sea ceased to exist, had human beings lost their energy, their skills and their brains? No. But on the morning after the Depression a man came to work building a house, and the foreman said to him “Sorry chum you can’t work today,. there ain’t no inches.” He said “What do you mean there ain’t no inches?” “Yeah” he said, “Yeah, we got lumber, we got metal, we even got tape measures.” The foreman said “The trouble with you is you don’t understand business. There are no inches. We have been using too many of them and not enough to go around.” Because what happened in the Great Depression was that money, there was a slump in money. And human beings are so unbelievably stupid, that they confused money with wealth. And they don’t realize that money is a measure of wealth, in exactly the same way that meters are a measure of length. They think it is something that is valuable in and of itself.
Are you awake yet?
Anyone wish Alan Watts was hidden by a cloud pish?
It is reported that todays exam results see a record number of passes . Oh FFS !!!! when are we going to see an end to this shite ! Who are they trying to kid !
Who are they trying to kid? Themselves.
Interesting letter Li*m F*x Shadow Defence Minister has written to bob aintbustingagut today. The gist of it is :-
“There has been understandable anger and anxiety about the delay in getting armoured vehicles to Afghanistan.
If we are having difficulty moving only 6 out of the 9 Ridgebacks into theatre in a period of 6 weeks, what plans are in place to move the 50 which are expected to be in Dubai in November.
I understand that several of our coalition partners, Americans, Canadians, Australians, operate C-17′s. Have you asked them for help?
The vehicles may be marked for UK Eyes Only but what does it say about our coalition partners if we will not allow them to help?
Bureaucratic obsession should never take priority over frontline needs.
Finally where are the remaining 100 Ridgebacks promised by gordon in December 2007.”
MOD scrambled response as per the Evening Standard is that two have been flown out today by a RAF C17 Globemaster, and the remaining one will be flown by end of the week. It is totally shambolic, I just view the MOD with contempt.
The MoD are doing the best they can with the resources given to them by the politicians…
I thought the MoD had spent all the money on office furniture, a great boiling masss of bureaucrats and procuring very expensive kit that doesn’t work.
The MoD offices were one big PFI at the insistence of the Treasury, as was the spin-off of QinetiQ (for a fraction of their real value).
Old-fashioned mil procurement worked just fine for many years, but as soon as the politicians and beancounters get involved it all goes completely FUBAR.
Couldn’t we just ask the Yanks to keep their eyes closed as they flew them in? After all, most planes have so much technology these days, they just about fly themselves anyway.
Either that, or throw a sheet over the Ridgebacks.
Seriously – this reeks of incompetence, not security.
I wonder if bob ainbustingagut is going to make his answering letter public – if he doesn’t then I hope that Liam will publish it for him.
And what has happened to those 100 Ridgebacks that gordon promised in 2007 (2007!!!!!)
This government is just not incompetent it’s also criminally negligent and I hope that the families of every soldier who has died because of this government’s failure to act can sue for negligence, and does.
The 40 helicopters promised in 2002 haven’t tuned up yet either.
To cheer him up Hungry Joe tells Yossarian that M&M Enterprises is getting some oranges for the mess, and that they are all going to receive even more shares.
We won’t see any of those shares. We won’t even see the oranges
Labour Government – how is it possible to get things wrong so often?
I understood the ridgeback was a breed of dog, from South Africa. A big big dog! Attacked a jack Russell of mine, a few years ago.
Never have the British people had such a drive toward intellectual and spiritual things as they do today. I am not speaking of the less pleasant manifestations of Gordon’s mental instability, which are always there. But one should look to our theaters, concert halls, museums, and art exhibitions. Day and night, summer and winter, tens and hundreds of thousands of Britons sit or stand there astonished at so much beauty. We have become richer, more fulfilled, and better as a result of NuLiebore. Let us all give thanks to our beloved leader Gordon.
Never have the British people had such a drive toward intellectual and spiritual things as they do today. I am not speaking of the less pleasant manifestations of Gordon’s mental instability, which are always there. But one should look to our theaters, concert halls, museums, and art exhibitions. Day and night, summer and winter, tens and hundreds of thousands of Britons sit or stand there astonished at so much beauty. We have become richer, more fulfilled, and better as a result of the war. Let us all give thanks to our great leader Gordon.
Jack Straw said in 2000 that the English are a “potentially very aggressive, very violent” people who had used “a propensity to violence” to subjugate Ireland, Wales and Scotland, and used it “in Europe and with our Empire”.
Why DID Klingon Rice sleep on the floor? Somebody got a new job shortly after that.
Well he would say that wouldn’t he?
c’unts like you are not welcome here.
the sign on the door quite clearly states “no white supremacists posing as Indian fellows in an attempt to stir up racial hatred”.
you are one of life’s inadequates. you are an anti-semitic loser bn p scum troll fuckwit.
the heroic thick as thieves is pro-lesbian, pro-peace and pro-jewish people.
if I see your crackerjack arse around here again I will bash your fucking brains out you fucking c’unt.
boot, arse, door.
refund? no.
Sorry, that should be new labour cυnt minister Jack Straw should be shot.
You can’t get the staff these days.
Whatever, Jack the Straw is a detestable little toady. He denied the fact the UK were complicit with the US re rendition.
If you go round upsetting them, most of the peoples of the planet can have a propensity to violence. Maybe Straw should remember that….
I’ve been a new man since the prostate treatment.
Amazing what a rebore can do.
Hatty Harman is using her week in the spotlight to show Labour backbenchers what the party would look like if they replaced Brown with her. I wonder what Mandelson will get up to when it’s his turn next week. My guess is he’ll sell Chequers to himself at a knock down price.
She makes Kim Jong Il look like a beard and sandals LibDumb.
I believe that the New Labour government has made many, many mistakes—
some of them titanic.
I know that enormous numbers of people share my view but can anyone tell me about any occasion when any senior labour politician admitted making a mistake ?
A reply from a labour supporter would be appreciated .
How can a political party which would sooner tell lies than admit a mistake expect to be relected now that it has been rumbled even by many core supporters ?
Labour is finished whatever is claimed by the mentally defective supporters who infect this site
You’re right – Labour are finished for as long as the next government is reasonably competent.
As to Labour politicians admitting mistakes – don’t hold your breath.
(P.S. I’m not a Labour supporter.)
Big problem. This son of a bitch, Brown, along with his media outlet, the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation, are talking this ‘economy’ up… and there are plenty of plonkers out there who believe them.
The UK economy won’t revive, won’t flatline, it will simply fall vertically off a cliff at some point in time. 100% guaranteed. Brown and his media outlet are doing their utmost to keep that fateful day from coming any time soon even if it bankrupts the country. Problem is it has and it will.
And who will be in charge when it inevitably does. One David Cameron, Conservative Party leader. And the population of the UK is so thick and so lazy, it will be Cameron who takes the can.
Robin Cook’s resignation from the Cabinet over the decision to invade Iraq is the only example that comes to mind, where his speech to the Commons included the assertions that “Britain is not a superpower. Our interests are best protected, not by unilateral action, but by multilateral agreement and a world order governed by rules.”
All political parties appear to operate on the assumption that the electorate sufferers from attention deficit disorder. As each new “idea” or law or reactive action comes along, the public is encouraged not to remember what happened last week, last month, let alone last year. And news coverage does the work of the government in making this possible.
We no longer have history, only a series of disconnected moments.
Thank you. I enjoyed reading that.
Oh FFS ! I wish people would stop holding the odious bastard that was Robin Cook up as some sort of man of principle. Just ask his ex wife about his fucken principles ! He resigned to position himself for Leadership of the Labour party as he gambled that Iraq would spell the end for Blair. No more no less, he was an utter Huhne !
Is that cucking funt still here? Jesus.
1. “The party should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master!”
2. “There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons … every man will have advisers by his side, but the decision will be made by one man.”
3 “Strength lies not in defence but in attack.”
4.”Great liars are also great magicians”
5. “How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.”
6. “The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes”
7. “Always before God and the world, the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills”
8. “The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.”
9. “The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.”
10. “The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”
11. “Who says I am not under the special protection of God?”
12. “The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.”
The Scotsman reported today that that there is a call to ditch the BBC License Fee as their share of British TV audiences has fallen to it’s lowest level ever.
Just one third of the population watch the BBC , despite all of us having to pay the fee. 2/3rd’s watch commercial TV. Not suprisingly there is a growing number of people refusing to pay the fee.
Amusingly a BBC spokeswoman last night tried to claim that the BBC reaches 85% of the population with its programmes. I suspect she’s been trained in that fancy school for media professionals that provides many of the BBC’s staff, that is run as a profitable sideline by the BB1 Controller JH*nt.
I’m not being cynical – well, not deliberately – but I suspect that BBC audience share is so low because many of it’s programmes are not good enough. My telly is switched on about twice a week, and going all week without is not unknown. Perhaps I fall outwith the BBC’s target audience, but why should I? Reasonably engaged with the world, interested in many things, willing to learn more (and on the score, ‘Coast’ was quite interesting last night – did you know that the science of seismology started on the coast of Southern Ireland? neither did I – but ‘Coast’ is the exception that proves the rule). Why so few programmes to engage my interest? I know I’m not alone, either.
The license fee is not a bargain.
Eng – interesting point about Coast is that it was actually made in conjunction with the Open University for a course that they ran.( ran? well I think they are still running it). The OU provided the professionals, experts and knowledge not the BBC.
It’s a great watch!!
Good point nell – it would be interesting to know what proportion of BBC TV output is made by BBC staff, and what proportion is commissioned or purchased from independent makers. The beeb employs more people than it ever has before, and makes fewer programmes.
Perhaps there’s a moral here. When Railtrack was privatised, it put most of it’s track and signalling maintenance out to contract – but had to keep a large team in-house to manage the contracts. After many problems, maintenance was taken back in-house and, lo and behold, costs fell and quality rose. I think the beeb has fallen into the same trap – the result is an increase in cost, and a drop (with honourable exceptions) in quality.
I chucked my television on a skip about twelve years ago and never replaced it. I do listen to BBC Radios 3 and 4, but I’ll probably give up on them when they go digital as I am a skinflint and won’t shell out on a digital radio.
I’ve no idea what BBC Radio does – the only radio programme I listen to in the car and at home when I’m cooking is Classic FM.
Nutcracker Suite?
In fairness, Radios 3 and 4 are probably about the best of BBC output.
I bought a digital radio a couple of years ago in order to listen uninterrupted to Test Match Special. As far as reception and sound quality go, I can’t tell much difference to FM, but it is better than Longwave. Price of new digital radios might come down a bit as demand increases; they ain’t too cheap at the moment. My bog-standard digital cost me £50, and it’s nothing special.
With the internet, newspapers and magazines, TV and radio are no longer necessities, and there are so many other constructive things to do with life than vegetate in front of the goggle box.
You sad, sad fuck.
Worth every penny for the test match . Enjoy!!!
Last night, one of my best friends and I were sitting in my living room and I said
to her, I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug.
She got up, unplugged the computer, and threw out my wine.
She’s such a bitch.
“The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has pledged to step in and plug a funding gap after the Government reneged on promises to fund homes in the capital” Funny. This story hasn’t made the ‘lefty’ press, yet. Or perhaps I just missed it, there?
Interesting snippet from one of the northern newspapers on what MP’s up there are doing with their ‘modest’ 11 week break.
James P*rnell – off to Chile where he says he will be speaking at conferences.
Phil W**las – he who the fragrant Jo*nnaL*umley wiped th floor with is off to La Rochelle
Ivan Lew*s of Bury South is spending 3 weeks visiting the Middle East, China, Tibet and the USofA , but for the Foreign Office – you understand?
PaulR*owan of Rochdale is off to Kenya.
AnnC*ffey of Stockport is off to Canada and
NeilT*urner of Wigan is off to Cyprus.
AndyB*urnham and a host of others declined to say – I can well understand why.
As we get ready to depart for Scarborough in these economically challenged times – I’m sure we can all read betwen the lines about these MP’s holidays.
Well this modding lark’s a real pain – What’d I do.??
A northern newspaper is reporting some of their MP’s plans for their ‘modest’ 11 week break.
JP*rnell is off to Chile ‘to speak at conferences’ you understand?
PW**las- he who was bested over the Gurkhas – is off to LaRochelle
IL*wis of Bury South is spending 3 weeks compliments of the Foreign Office, visiting the Middle East, China , Tibet and the US of A.
PR*wan of Rochdale is off to Kenya to spend part of his time on community service ( sounds like gordon)
AC*ffey of Stockport is off to Canada
AB*rnh*m and a host of others declined to reveal their plans.
As we start packing for our trip to Scarborough, in these economically challenging times, I’m sure we can all read between the lines!!!!
Banished to the basement again, I see, nell. Time to invest in another bottle of hair colour…
Eng. I’ve just looked. I’m not in the basement. Don’t say such a thing. Shhh!!
ALL LAbour MPs should spend ten days in Helmand province, looking for the Taliban and any members of ‘Alky Ada’.
Short of body armour ??? Tell John Presclott to walk in front.
Use the bar-steward as an inhuman shield, huh ?
Thursday morning update. Harman, it’s like shooting fish in barrel and nobody believes the Defence Minister
Indeed they should R.McGeddon. I wholeheartedly agree.
My prayer – keep our lads safe.
Good night. God Bless.
And God bless you too nell.
you are an angel in this den of thieves, trolls and cripples, you know that, don’t you?
Well thank you for the compliment thick as thieves.
But I don’t regard this as a den of thieves and thingies – you’re all a bunch of very interesting people who brighten up my day and sometimes make me laugh – well with the exception of charlie and his sidekick that is.
According to the local rag, Colin Challen – whose special interest is saving the environment and stopping climate change – is going on a multi-island flying holiday in the South Pacific.
Anyone know any friendly senior officers in the Japanese airforce?
I feel sorry for the people of Chile, but at least the people of Stalybridge and Hyde won’t be deprived of Mr Punrell since we all know he can be in two places at once.
Seriously, I am not worried about these folk going on holiday. I’m more worried about their coming back.
What The Fuck Is Wrong With Your Keyboard ?
1281 N**L What The Fuck Is Wrong With Your Keyboard ?
Me too..
I had a good one for you too.
Not really sure I can say anything that hasn’t been said already. So I’ll say noffink!
I’ve just been researching this Think Tank thingie –
The TaxPayers Alliance says that govt. has paid about £38million into them.
It also says that what this govt is doing, instead of openly stating its case about any given issue, it is commissioning (paying taxpayers money) to do it for them.
This way this govt. is claiming that the view is independent. HaHa!!!!
How very Bliar and Brown. All very part of the growing and profitable spin industry. It’s not what I’d call a worthwhile occupation.!!!!
I think we need to say – Dave you need to do better than this.
Can I ask you all for your support?
Just remind me again. Who are you??!!
Don’t mention ze var you tommy fokkers.
Can I be sure of all your support?
I’ve got a knob like a tent pole.
That’s odd.
The Pole who did my bathroom was a knob
The Scotsman reported today that that there is a call to ditch the BBC License Fee”
Up here, it is known as the “Hootsmon”
Its “journalistic talent” comprises masses of automatons who do nothing but regurgitate liebour party handouts. Its a crying shame really.
Just remind me. What were you right about??
Rivers of blood nell………BLOOD, BLLOOOD, BLLLOOOOODDD!
This really is the crappest government I can remember, they end up in the garden pretending they havent doane anything wrong.
Anyone for a rebellious uprising before winter sets in ????
Yeah, what we do is wait for our dear leader to arrive at the next big match at Wembley, then we all stab him so that no one person gets the blame.
Sorry Caeser’s wife – we’re english and don’t do rebellion very well. Last time was in the english civil war — 1640′s – guess we’ve lost the knowledge of how to go about it.
What we will do is vote this lot out, big time, next June.
Probably the best way given how many died in that civil war – we are after all losing enough young men to this governnment’s criminal folly in Afghanistan.
Let’s vote against them instead.
fuck off nell gwyn ye poxy, salacious whore.
oliver cromwell – what happened to him??!!
Nell Gwyn was not a whore nor an orange seller. She was a celebrated Restoration actress and a longstanding mistress to Charles II and bore him two sons.
She postdates Oliver Cromwell who died in 1658.
you joined me in hell ye jezebel hag, don’t ye remember? suck on my satsuma ye auld bitch.
The last revolution the United Kingdom had was 1688, the so-called Glorious Revolution when the unlovable and Catholic monarch James II was forced into exile and the very Protestant William of Orange invited from Holland to take the throne.
The last would-be revolution was in the 1830s and 1840s, which was centred around the Chartist movement, seeking an extension of human suffrage, secret ballots and annual parliamentary elections, was utterly crushed by both law and violence.
Like today really.
If you want to be anti-monarchy be our guest. But if you want your vote to mean anything then its the Tower.
Gordon’s sprouts are doing well.
1,570 people being checked by the Criminal Records Bureau were wrongly given criminal records, mistakenly given a clean record or accused of more serious offences than they had actually committed in the year to March 31 2009.
This compares with 680 people in the previous 12 months.
Yet another government fuckup – the intention is obviously to have so many screwups that we become immune to their effects. That is 1,570 people who have lost jobs and livelihoods, will face a nightmare in trying to convince people that they’re not criminals.
The gorgon pontificating again about the beauty of nuclear power! We all know whose job he’s protecting. Oh, the wonders of EDF!
Contessa – everyone in Britain’s electricity generation business has known for fifteen years that our ageing nuclear stations need to be replaced.
We could replace them with coal-fired stations, but that has it’s drawbacks – the cost of keeping them fed with fuel being one, and the flavour-of-the-month environmental concerns another.
Government has known this, but for reasons of blind and ignorant ideology, has chosen to ignore it. Consequently, the knowledge and skills we had maintained to lead the new build retired or left the industry to pursue other interests (I know – I’m one of them).
It’s worse than that. Back in the early 90′s, when nuclear power was out of fashion, BNFL bought Westinghouse Nuclear, the big American specialist in reactor engineering, and moved many of it’s operations to Britain. Slowly, it prospered, and in 2004 won a £4billion contract to supply reactors to China. Just a few weeks later, the government instructed BNFL to sell Westinghouse, to the utter disbelief of all, and in spite of vigorous advice to the contrary. The Japanese own it now.
Our native reactor design specialist, National Nuclear Corporation, withered slowly until the remains were sold to AMEC in 2006 (I think). That leaves us with Rolls-Royce, who don’t do much on the civil nuclear front.
Commercially, the government has hampered the industry by heavily subsidising the renewable sector (despite it’s very small contribution to the grid) and telling the rest to get on with it. Thus, power generating companies went for the cheapest and most profitable option – gas. However, about 60% of our generating capacity is coal-fired or nuclear stations, all of which are ageing rapidly. The government has ducked the issue until it is critical – so now we need to act fast, have no time to rebuild the coherent skills base, and are thus easy prey for stronger commercial interests.
The government has shot Britain in the foot over this – it is so sad.
Well said Engineer.
This government has put all their eggs in one basket with so-called “renewable” energy, and when it turned out not to be the predicted holy grail they are left with a load of ’70s and ’80s power stations in desparante need of renewal the government hoped would never need to happen.
Yet another public spending time bomb waiting for the incoming government, and as you say, we will have to rely on others such as the French for the technology this time!
Cast your mind back a few weeks to that “Rally” that Mandleson arranged in East Ham as Brown teetered on the edge of complete Breakdown. What a load of bollox that was, I mean I have never seen such utter pish as that. To cap it all of behind Brown sat two fuckwits grinning and pretending all was rosy. With friends like these…
Warning. Your scrotum may contain nuts.
couldnt stop laughing tonight Kelvin mckensie and Charlie wolfe on sky news paper , all three of them wre brilliant , Kelvin swine flu one “yeah well it gets off the front pags that brown is an idiot” LOL
I still cant get my head round banking losses , still lyyods may be saying debts have peaked , but what a deal HBOS was 90% of bad debts came from that merger that gordon approved .
i keep thinking Dunfermalin, royal ank of scotland , halifax bank of scotland , can you see the pattern ?? . Any bank with scotland in the title or scottish name ,was into derivative instruments , the hoons .Scotland used to a buy word for sound finance pratices , now look since jock in cheif and now second jock darling have took over , gambles blown up “oh sorry rest of united Kingdom we jock socilaists have got economy a bit wrong, sorry about pension losses and poverty for next ten years , just dont want you to think it was jocks thats all”
So if gordon is son of manse jock , why is he so crap at banking and ecnomics , amongst other things ?? CW notes no coments , rock is most hideous of all as the securitization instrument will keep on making it s balance sheet bad (but someone elses good) .
i just hope someone is keeping track of the figures , dont ant to let these liars and decievers off with spiv spin when vote day arrives , I want financial grape shot at close quarters when vote day arrives , i want the ecnomic policies of labour to be the embarrasment (again) in history so that the the marxist nutters are never seen of again .
so even when they do sell them on , it will still have cost us , as Sir John Varley put it “the banking crisis is now over , we now have an ecnomic recession problem”, so when gordon is making his i saved the bank speech at labour conference 20000 have lost there jobs in banking in the business that came under state control , he may well have inflation now to deal with , which means higher interest rates .
beware of geeks bearing gifts glasspaper , he only has enough waffle time until inflation hits , hes already been found bullying farmers , forces compensation , the man is just hoping to bore us to death and not mind he has damaged this coubtries national wealth for many years to come , note he doesnt advocate sound money !!
scrap BBC licence fee (whats the point you can view BBc online in Usa without a licence), stop paying stars stupid money , keep regional prgrammes , kick cultural marxists out , dont pay much for live sport , cannoise David Attenbrough and Bill cotton , hold burning at stake event for Mark Thompson and BBc board
This blog needs easing quantitively. Print more numbers !
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not much going on lads , wouldnt it be better if a mps fucked off permitnly?
Anyone who rolls up just to libel or insult me gets applauded. I reward trolling or flamebait with more than that, and if you keep it up it’s only going to bite you harder in the ass.
I try to cultivate intolerance and lack patience for strategic reasons: 1. It helps The Great Leader. 2. My enemies end up destroying me with no effort. That’s a whinge-whinge.
Morgan Tsvangirai seems to be playing a different game against Mugabe, and Brown seems to be playing with Mandelson. It’s the tougher and slower option but quite, quite useless.
End of lesson.
Be gone, arsegroper.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1204637/MoD-wastes-2-5bn-year-wrong-kit-government-accused-trying-suppress-damning-report.html
fuckin labour
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/05/harriet-harman
lads read this and laugh
What makes The Sleeper laugh is that Harman wouldn’t last 5 minutes in a half decent commercial organisation.
Not that she would be ‘harried’ (??!!) by men..the women would despair of her prejudices and plot and execute her demise with extreme haste.
she is as deluded as the pm lad
Even the Guardianistas think she’s a joke, judging by yjhe comments.
i have to admit the comments were a laugh this morning lad
No more free on line Times ,Sun & News of The Screws,fucking good job really.
Rupert is down to his last 3 billion Squid.
does anyone read the sun website ?
Only if it is about Jordan,and not the one in the Middle East.
the sport pages are good lad
As we say in the IT industry – EPIC FAIL!
Why does Murdoch think that we will pay for his ‘content’ while the DT, Indy, BBC, AP, Reuters etc are all still free?
if hes not making money when they are free , how will charging for them make them more profitable ?
He’s obviously thinking that a smaller number of readers will be happy to pay than currently read it for advertising.
Web advertising is being broken due to lots of scams and fake claims by internet advertisers, as well as technology such as adblock for firefox (I never see any ads on the web!). A smaller number of readers will also reduce costs like servers and hosting.
The only UK site that charges for news is the FT. They have very specialist content and a lot of their subscribers are probably having their company pay for it anyway. And if you know what cookies are and how to delete them, it’s trivial to get their content for free anyhow
Anyone who rolls up just to libel or insult me gets applauded. I reward trolling or flamebait with staying away, and if you keep it up it’s only going to improve things for everybody else.
That’s better!
Be gone, grass-smoker.
is this the only blog where comment numbers go down instead of up ?
I am innumerate so I dont know Fred.
acounting not your strong point ? am sure i heard that before lad /?????
My strong point is spelin Fred.
1373 seems like he has got the hump. Aw my gawd.
Thank fuck there is still a few saddos left.
i see what you mean lad
It may Have Slipped Your Tiny Minds But This Blog Has Now Become A Lets All Talk About Charly Shortwidge Blog ! How Fucking Sad Are You Lot That Youve Let Him Get Control Of It !And Got Rid Of All The Good Posters Who Had Something Good To Say He’s Done Exactly What Labour Have Paid Him To Do And You Lot Fell For It What A Set Of Twats !
Wanna bet? Take a careful look at yesterday’s posts.
If you’ve got something to comment on concerning the world of politics, or you have a humorous thought to share, then we want to hear it.
If all you are interested in is boring, repititous crap, and not responding thoughtfully to the other genuine people who come here to learn a bit, offer comment and have a laugh, then fuck off and good riddance.
Eat the grasshopper.
The Queen and Prince Philip are talking.
Queen: “Philip, one has come to a monumental decision.”
Philip: “Not again Liz ! Last time you did that we ended up having Edward.”
Queen: “No! I’m going to dissolve parliament, all these money grabbing b@stards running the country.”
Philip: “What! Who is going to bloody run it then?”
Queen: “We are, the whole family!”
Philip: “What like the bloody Mafia?”
Queen:” Look you can run the Foreign Office, you’re good with Johnny foreigner.”
Philip: “True.”
Queen: “And we have natural leaders for every job in the cabinet – Charles can handle the environment, Zara can do sport, Wills can do defence and of course Harry can handle immigration policy!”
Philip: “Actually, on reflection it’s a great idea!”
Queen: “Too right it is, now Windsor or Balmoral?”
Philip: “What about them?”
Queen: “For the second home allowance!”
well bowled lad well bowled ( gets my vote )
Brown is not intelligent.
From an objective view, the majority of Brown’s political and financial policies have proved to be failures. It is not an argument to state that Brown will be proved correct in the long term, as the nature of a fixed term Parliament means that all policies have to be at least proved to be working within a few years of implimentation or risk being altered by another Goverment.
To impliment radical policies that require huge amounts of state capital and 20 years to see any real benefit shows a lack of intelligence, one must always return to the concepts of gradual change, fiscal competence and a flexible but strong moral framework. Only the private sector can offer the stability for this long term investment strategy.
Brown should fuck off, start his own business and if he is so clever he will be able to generate enough capital to start making the radical global changes he is looking for.
However I suspect he will spend the remainder of his days stinking out the toilets of various University faculties ………….. I wouldn’t go in there for a bit Gordon Brown has just had a shit
lad i just had breakfast , i agree with most of it but the last para is just not cricket
A report into MoD procurement, written by a former MoD Aide, has been leaked this morning.
It shows that the MoD squanders £2.5Billion per annum by buying wrong or unsuitable kit for frontline soldiers.
The report should have been published before recess but gordon panicked and ordered that it should be suppressed.
The report concludes that the government is wasting money which they should spending protecting our troops abroad.
Morning Folks,
morning lass i posted the link above whats more important to the pm the labour party or our loyal troops
morning freddie – sorry didn’t mean to steal your thunder – never saw that link – not awake yet – just on my first cup of tea.
Apparently the MoD has managed to get 6 of those Ridgebacks to Afghanistan – (Well so they say – question is can we believe them?) – 3 still stranded in Dubai. I can’t see them having the organisation to move another 50 in November. This govt is a real shower!!
no worries lass , and they tried to hide the report lass, its wrong there are playing games with the troops the only people who wont fight back , its gutter politics
Having already promised billions to fund free health care to the 3rd World , Now gordon is turning his Spend!Spend!Spend! addiction to providing £8.5.billion for free education in the 3rd World!!
Like I said before it’s a commendable aim but where is he going to get all this money when he has already bankrupted our economy?
One, he needs to concentrate first on getting Britiain out of trouble and two, why is Britain taking it upon itself to provide free health and education to the 3rd World – what about other nations taking upsome of the strain? I suppose it’s gordon wanting to be seen as the saviour of the world again!
gordon is a loon!!!!
Modded! Let’s try again. Having already promised billions to fund free health care to the 3rd World, Now gordon is turning his Spend!Spend!Spend! philosophy to provide £8.5Billion for free eductaion for the 3rd World.
Like I said before it’s a commendable aim but where is he going to get all this money when he has already ruined our economy.
One, he needs to concentrate on getting Britain out of trouble first and two, why is he taking this mammoth and expensive task upon the shoulders of british taxpayers – what about persuading other nations to share the burden? I suppose it’s gordon wanting to be seen as the Saviour of the World again!
gordon is a loon!!!!
Interesting – the automod either didn’t like to word b*ankrupt*y or add*icti*n
Scorched Earth policy in action – 1st class Hoon who still claims to have saved the world but can’t control his deputies not to have it out in public while he’s away
PS nell, if you reply to your modded comment everyone else sees the new one in the basement
And Hammond shouldn’t stop there.
Whenever The Sleeper sees posts like the one in the early hours,that claim libel (??)and insult will never get a response..he wonders what the mindset is that feels the need to say such things.
If no response is the strategy..why go to the trouble of telling us?
…Feeling vulnerable?
The Sleeper is wondering what H Harman meant this morning when describing herself in relation to a wilting violet?
Does she know about violets?
Does the following shed any light on her strange comments?
The Violet propagates itself by throwing out scions, or runners, from the main plant each summer after flowering, and these in turn send out roots and become new plants.
Hmmm.
Last!
Maggie, are you there?