August 9th, 2009

Indy on iPhone

iphone-independent-_230785tRemember Guido’s Plan to Save the Indy?

Well they have gone half way towards the concept.  They have released an iPhone app that allows you to read the paper offline.  Handy for people getting on the tube.  Just launch the app when you brush your teeth.  By the time you finish in the bathroom the paper will be uploaded to your iPhone for you to read on the underground.  Now all they have to do is abandon slaughtering trees for an unprofitable print edition and they could be on the way to profitablity.

Since clearly the Indy people read Guido; can we have a Blackberry version?  Please.


371 Comments

  1. 1
    thick as thieves says:

    it is only right that top boy should feature at the top of comments.
    innit.
    can’t think of anything to say about the iphone far too fucking boring.

    • 7
      NewGirl says:

      ha ha me neither Tat. Nor about the Indy…

      • 349
        13eastie says:

        Guido writes:

        “By the time you finish in the bathroom the paper will be uploaded to your iPhone for you to read on the underground”

        How disgusting!

    • 9
      barefootcontessa says:

      Mandy’s got one.

    • 34

      what’s this got to do with plots, rumours & conspiracy

      • 45
        bloke with nadgers says:

        Given that newspapers have been the main channel through which the spin doctors have spread their plots, rumours and conspiracies for years, it’s surely relevant whether newspapers sink without a trace or get to have a second incarnation on the net. In future it’s unlikely to be “The Sun Wot Won It” because their propaganda will have to compete with every other shade of opinion online.

      • 278
        Pork Sword says:

        Shouldnt you be hacking away at the tumbleweed on your blog?

    • 52
      bonnie greer says:

      You’re an imposter. The real tat is still wanking in his pit at this ungodly hour.

      • 63
        thick as thieves says:

        naughty naughty bonnie.
        I was up and at my desk early, ’tis you who has strolled in at 1.21pm.
        I can only presume that you have been lying around like a slut in your pit.
        good wank was it?

        • 69
          bonnie greer says:

          Dear Mr Tat, If you call a cardboard box an office and an old plastic tea tray a desk, then who am I to differ with someone who is dangerously deranged?

          I have to inform you in this late stage of your tragic existence, that ladies do not wank. That is the preserve of rancid little tossers like yourself, and I am surprised that no one who is close to you have not taken you aside and informed you of these matters. Oh……I forgot, you’re a lonely old hobo and nobody goes within 20 yards of you because of the awful stink of rotting fish guts, stale vomit, and Old Spice.

          Pull yourself together, you’re a fucking disgrace.

        • 106
          dr jew says:

          fuck off tat you muslim cock sucker, bet you sucking your muslim masters dick well tonight after what happened in birmingham. I’ll find you on the battlefield on day stamp your head into paste.

        • 107
          dr jew says:

          * one

        • 159
          thick as thieves says:

          what a pair of fucking retards!

        • 178
          bonnie greer says:

          Hmmm…..cat got your tongue? Dirty little bastard.

        • 186
          thick as thieves says:

          you’re a strange one bonnie.
          stalk someone else c’unt.
          thankyou.

        • 298
          bonnie greer says:

          Yeah whatever.

        • 334
          thick as thieves says:

          “whatever” ? – what sort of a response is that you useless fucking cripple?
          your infantile piffle offers no value to this place.
          take your garbage elsewhere you silly old tart.
          conservativefoam would be more your kind of thing.
          go there now.

          and so the great thick as thieves scores another victory; another troll skull to hang on the wall.
          very good.

        • 351
          bonnie greer says:

          You’re just a horrid little bully who is worse than Нitler.

        • 356
          thick as thieves says:

          oh shit! quickly someone give bonnie some jelly and ice cream, she is about to start crying again! boo hoo hoo!
          bonnie, if you can’t take it, fuck off.
          innit.

        • 361
          bonnie greer says:

          mr tat mr tat mr tat
          you shat on my blogging mat
          you dirty rat
          mr tat
          mr tat
          mr tat

    • 245
      tat? tit more like says:

      top boy?

      Top arsebandit more like

      tho Mandelson would have to fight you for that accolade – and he’d probably win

    • 350
      a Nu Lab student says:

      The Indy is useful as a shit liner for the cat box. Can’t think what use it would be on an iphone though

      • 354
        Ivor schwartzporsche says:

        The brilliant thing about the iphone is that if you’re reading the Indy whilst driving to work and the car roles over, – the page rotates automatically. Cool!

  2. 2
    ASugar says:

    And a version for the Android

  3. 3
    Crème brûlée says:

    Tom Watson + back, crack & sack = Mr Pilsbury

    • 18
      Major_Tom says:

      You can often see this ugly fat c**t in West Bromwich – feeding his fat face,
      you’d be suprised just how many people do in fact like him!
      He’s a local celeb, obviously people need to get out more, or possibly stay in.

      • 62
        dimitri says:

        He’d fit in well with all the other lardarses in the lardarse capital of the Midlands, in the county of lardarses.

  4. 4
    Monty says:

    And how much is the mobile provider going to charge you for the download, even without the subscription to the Indy ?

  5. 5
    Monty says:

    I’m sceptical about doing this on a phone (I’ve tried it – it’s not comfortable) but keep an eye on the e-ink readers that will be coming in the next year or so. For example :

    • 90
      tired and jaded says:

      If they’re not going to bring out a colour version for another 4 or 5 years they’ll be swept aside by the competition.

  6. 6
    Monty says:

    Bloody hell – wasn’t expecting that. My compliments to your blog software.

    • 14
      Abolish the Licence Fee says:

      Duh. It’s only an html tag after all.

      • 20
        Anonymous says:

        Ah but to those with an iPhone – they are easily amused

        • 87
          Monty says:

          HTC Touch HD, Ectually … can’t be doing with any of this Apple nonsense …

        • 91
          The Admiral says:

          ++++MONTY you are BRILLIANT!++++

          At LAST someone who KNOWS about HTC and their Touch HD and the like.

          Why do people put up with Apple and Blackberries when these machines are about.

          I’ve been using O2 XDAs for years and have never understood why they aren’t everywhere. You try and copy and paste on an iPhone staight out of the box!

        • 123
          Mr Ned says:

          “I’ve been using O2 XDAs for years and have never understood why they aren’t everywhere. You try and copy and paste on an iPhone staight out of the box!”

          like I just did with my iPhone 3Gs you mean? I can do everything on my iPhone that I can do on my laptop. I much prefer it to the blackberry I had until June 19th. Copy and paste? Touch to copy, grab the area you want then go to where you want to paste touch again and paste. Peice of piss! Simples!

        • 152
          Lord Wayne of Trombone says:

          get an iphone you loser

  7. 8
    jgm2 says:

    The Independent has never been any good since Alex left.

    • 29
      bergen says:

      Dunno.Telegraph is dreadful these days.I’ll keep with it as long as they keep Richard Ingrams and Alan Watkins.

  8. 11
    mitch says:

    All they have to do now is put something worth reading on there….aint happened yet.

  9. 12
    Too much power for one man says:

    ..and if the content remains free, then the wrinkly prune tit lover, other wise know as Murdoch, has got it wrong about charging!

    • 15
      Abolish the Licence Fee says:

      That remains to be seen. Whereas I’d be happy to pay for the content of the FT, Bloomberg or Murdoch’s WSJ., I’d never consider paying a single penny for regular news.

      • 364
        Croesus says:

        The FT??? The Copy’n'paste version of corporate and government handouts? It’s the worst newspaper on Earth. Just about as far from the WSJ as you can get.

  10. 13
    Abolish the Licence Fee says:

    Is the Indy still going? I’d have thought all paper newspapers would have been history by now. Who wants to read news that’s already out of date and get their fingers smudged in black ink into the bargain?

  11. 16
    Billbo-jo says:

    The iphone are Bo**ocks!

    A friend of mine works in the local 02 shop, and he told me he’d never seen so many iphone’s returned. Apparently the majoirty need re-flashing (whatever that is), but they are basically crap.

    • 23
      2 tin cans and a bit of string says:

      Screen Cracks (mainly after hitting it with a brick)
      due to so-called “touchscreen” failings.

      • 93
        The Admiral says:

        Try any HTC unit and you’ll wonder what you ever did without copy and paste. I get soo p*ssed off with all the hype over iPhone.

        A real shame.

        • 125
          Mr Ned says:

          Mine works faultlessly, there is so much jealousy out there from people who are clueless about the iPhone and listen to people too poor to afford one.

          Copy and paste is soooooo easy on the iPhone and they have better apps.

          I was a loyal blackberry owner until a friend showed me what there iPhone could do, now I have an iPhone. Superb piece of kit!

        • 154
          Lord Wayne of Trombone says:

          Rear Admiral

          Get an iphone you loser.

        • 160
          The Admiral says:

          ps Touch HD is dearer than iPhone….

          Takes one to…..

  12. 22
    Cynic says:

    Times online is fine for me.

    Why would anyone waste time reading the Independent?

    • 41
      Sir William Waad says:

      You’d miss things like

      http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/the-iiosi-weather-lists-part-2-1769701.html

      a fascinating gander through some rather unusual weather events since 1868, though written in rather too sensational a style for my taste.

      Interestingly, it appears under the heading ‘Climate Change’, while tending to demonstrate that there hasn’t been much.

      • 129
        Mr Ned says:

        The last few thousand years have seen an unusally low range of climate change compared to normal (in geological time frames), the 0.6 degree warming over the last century (based on dubious measurement methodology) is a low level of warming and falls within entirely normal ranges for any century during the last 11,000 years. There has never been a time of climate stasis over multi century time-scales. Climate change is normal as he default state of climate is one of change. Always had been, always will be.

        • 215
          Auntie Venom says:

          So why the belief concept of “we are all doomed man made global warming carbon emissions cuts near death in heat species wipe out” bollox? Being controlled? The facts are clear, THERE IS NO EVIDENCE.

          Feckin Goebbel’s lies and ZanuLab, IPCC distortions led by the Hadley Centre which won’t release any data…peer review? Only by their mates who wont say either…BBQ summer? Wind turbine lecky when there’s no wind? Zilch. Wind turbine contribution to lecky during the last cold spell 1% of capapcity. Lying luvvy dovey bastards.

          And now “folowing a period of 9 years where there has been no measurable change in temperature experts today have said that we are due for a nine year hot spell” says the humanities graduate presenting science on the Beeb!

          After they have already sent some bollox Fogle to the Arctic to claim the ice was thinning but coldn’t get a measure through as it was so thick and frozen solid!

          Why cant the greenies and the anal pores of the ignorant stop emitting so much effluent and leave us alone?

        • 274
          Reality Check says:

          Because they get involved and you don’t.

  13. 25
    Charlies Anal says:

    Paper is cheaper than a i-phone,plus when you’ve finished reading you can use it to wipe your arse with,savings all round.

    • 33
      bloke with nadgers says:

      How can anyone read a newspaper on these little gadgets? I’ve got a little Zen Creative mp3 player. It’s great for listening to music, podcasts, FM radio; I can even watch a movie on it if I wear my glasses and sit in a darkened room, but I wouldn’t want to read text on it. By the end of the second paragraph I’d be cross-eyed and be well on my way to a force ten migraine.

      p.s. I’d never use newspaper to wipe my bum because I’m a delicate flower and love my bum too much.

      • 167
        Sod 'em all says:

        If you really must wipe your arse with a newspaper, I’d recommend the Guardian. There’s really nothing more fitted to the task. It’s full of shit anyway.

    • 48
      Charlies Anal says:

      Regretfully i’ve ran out of bogroll,but the NTOW came to my rescue this morning.
      And i must say the reddish brown streaks across Mark Lesters face make it a much more intresting read.

    • 99
      Trough Mixture says:

      With an Android OS you could use the Nomorestickyfingerscuzthesheettore.com’s app – aArsehoover. Cyclonic and bagless, the battery cover doubles as a collection tray which may be emptied into an ‘on the list’ colleague’s beverage mug upon arrival at the office.

  14. 26
    Director General says:

    Can I get the “Radio Times” on my iPhone?

  15. 27
    So17 says:

    An iphone App for busy outreach workers.
    Here’s your cardigan,coffee mug with ironic slogan and iphone.
    Now get on and shuffle round the office handing out useless fucking advice and some pamphlets.

  16. 28
    subrosa says:

    Buy yourself an IPhone Guido. Go on, you know you want to …

  17. 31
    The PM shouldn't be disturbed but this cunt is says:

    Forget the Indy, what we all want is the the intense pleasure of witnessing Rusbridger, Toynbee, Behr, and the other wankstains out in the street, days after the Tories cease all Government ads for non jobs in their rag.

    Right kids?

    I’m sure the ‘cottaging officers’ in my London Borough do a fine and socially enriching job aiding AIDs ravaged gentlemen to meet each other at public toilets.
    However although I am loathe to point this out, it must be said there are just some of us who dont wish to urinate over strangers in a lavatory, and would really in honesty prefer a few more council employed drop in centre staff for elderly folk, or street cleaners please.
    I appreciate that type of extremism makes me a disgusting Tory.

    Just like his roofliss atchet job on the vile, execrable Hillary Armstrong MP, Cam the Man is gonna show no mercy for the ordes of ‘we know best’ liberal filth wot infest public life in this nation.

    Dame Suzy Levver! fuck off ore, get a real job

    Wot was that about Iphones?

    • 35
      Lens says:

      Methinks Thou Dost Protest Too Much

    • 36
      Anonymous says:

      Dave ‘Boy Green’ Cameron aint gonna do fuck all except follow his EU masters, just like the rest of the fucking lib/lab/con triparate of EU cock suckers. Dave just sucks it in a Brussels bog instead of the local karzi.

      Fuck them all.

      • 83
        Rick says:

        Absolutely right. The boy Cameron is part of the Lib/Lab/Con-trick. There is no way he will upset his ‘Guardian’ chums by withdrawing their government non-job advertising revenue.

      • 136
        Mr Ned says:

        Agreed. Very sadly I have not seen any evidence that supports the theory that cam is a libertarian conservative. He is much closer to a Blair, than to a Ron Paul. This is what his Rothschild handler’s demand!

      • 169
        Sod 'em all says:

        “Fuck them all.”
        Well, I’d say “sod them all” but there again, that’s Mandy’s department and probably what he’s up to right now in Corfu.

        • 267
          barefootcontessa says:

          Mandlescum’ll be in Corfu trying to wring money out of his rich ‘friends’. Wringing his hands and whining like a ……..oh, I mustn’t say that must I?Newlabour sinks further in to the mire, and more money won’t help them. His blackberry’ll be red hot, if that’s possible for a blackberry.

  18. 32

    Guido, how come this blog is not available in an iPhone version?

    Its not hard to do: see this very fine blog in its iPhone version (link works in a normal browser too, on an onscreen iPhone). Damn’ clever, these software people..

    • 39

      Intelligent thinking, thank God!

      now, if only they could start thinking a bit more and provide apps for Blogger and WordPress sites, to provide live news feeds, then they might really have something.

      http://thatsnews.blogspot.com is ready for them. How about it, chaps?

      • 140
        Mr Ned says:

        They already do. You can browse blogs on the built in safari browser or download any number of blogging apps. I have three diffferent apps that I can update by blog, Twitter and facebook accounts from, one of these apps is hands free so I can update my blog whilst driving, with excellent voice recognition. For keeping up to date with your favourite blogs, there are also many RSS feeders too.

        • 172
          Sod 'em all says:

          That’s no fun. I know a Scottish truck driver that had a habit of updating his website whilst driving. He’s doing 7 years for killing 3 people on the M4.

        • 174
          Sod 'em all says:

          That’s no fun. I know a Russian truck driver that had a habit of updating his website whilst driving. He’s doing 7 years for killing 3 people on the M4.

        • 176
          Sod 'em all says:

          That’s no fun. I know a Armenian tractor mechanic that had a habit of updating his sparkplugs whilst driving. He’s doing 7 years for killing 3 people on the M4.

        • 264

          A point well made, but not quite what I mean. Here’s an example of what I mean:

          http://shropshirenews.blogspot.com/

          Virtual Shropshire provides a news feeds for sites relating to Shropshire. The Indie could do the same for news/politics blogs, I am thinking.

  19. 37
    Sir William Waad says:

    If they abandon the print version they will have to re-name it The Intangible.

    Basic problem – either the screen on any portable device is too small or the device itself is too big. Until they find a way to make a screen that folds up small, this problem is insoluble.

    Somewhat unrelated problem – computer screens are in landscape format when, for reading text, they need to be in portrait format.

    • 141
      Mr Ned says:

      You have never used an iPhone have you? The page size is easily adjustable and turns from portrait to landscape as you turn the phone. I have no problem Reading news websites on the iPhone. I have a far bigger problem with the lies the mainstream media attempts to pass off as truth.

      • 149
        Sir William Waad says:

        Well I was taking about computer screens rather than screens on phones. They are still tiny, though, so if you adjust the page size you can only read one word at a time, like this:

        Mr Brow
        deficit g
        unt. Tom
        tit, ever

        • 153
          The Admiral says:

          See where you’re coming from, but try it first, I can assure you it works, even if (or preferrably, even) you’re short-sighted…

        • 270
          Mr Ned says:

          Yup that’s proof positive that you have never used one. The page scales to whatever size you like, you can read whole paragraphs easily.

      • 312
        Anonymous says:

        Blimey, the phone nerds are out tonight. You lot on commission?

    • 293
      OwlHoot says:

      @Sir William Waad [36] “Until they find a way to make a screen that folds up small, this problem is insoluble.”

      Before you know it everyone will be using heads-up specs, like this model, which use small (and presumably safe) lasers to project a large image of a print page or film etc.

      Oh and, getting back on topic, whoever we’re discussing in these comments is a hoon.

  20. 38
    HandsomeDavid says:

    Remember “The Red Rag” – well it aint so red anymore – lol.

    http://theredrag.co.uk/

  21. 40
    Agent 99 says:

    Sky news this morning running this article….Interesting if true watch your mobiles or a newspaper may not be the only thing you see?

    Hackers Could Control iPhone With SMS Message
    Hackers could take over your iPhone, according to security researchers who say Apple is aware of the problem and the method is chillingly simple – a text message containing one square character .

    Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner say they have found a flaw in the way the phones handle text messages, which could allow hackers complete control of the handset. The hack would come in the form of a burst of SMS messages which contain a single character. They would let the hacker control dialling the phone, visiting websites, the phone’s camera and also sending texts to other iPhones, allowing control of them as well. The only thing you can do to prevent it is turn off your phone. Mr Miller will reveal the flaw in the Apple phone during a speech to the Black Hat cybersecurity conference today. He claims to have told Apple about the potential bug over a month ago, but the company still hasn’t released a patch to combat the potential hacks

    • 70
      Annoymouse says:

      The patch for the iPhone has been available for a while now….just keep to the latest software updates…

      • 78
        Dixie Dean says:

        The glaring hole in iPhone security fixed. If you have not updated and get square in message switch off immediatly and take to nearest apple store genius. Ensure though NOW to update phone if not done already. Shit I still honour King Ludd but bought an iPhone to reduce my waste newspaper pile and bloody re-recycling. iPhone ain’t perfect but is an excellent tool. Sure better stuff coming(hope) but mines in black and I ain’t going back
        ps don’t let three year old drop it in loo!

    • 121
      .243 Win says:

      Er…

      It’s not like it’s open to a virus-style attack- you have to manually hack and “infect” every iPhone that you target. And even then, you can only get to the address book and, well, do the same to other iPhones. Not exactly a profitable option to those operating with criminal intent.

      • 142
        Mr Ned says:

        And that hole was found and fixed before any handsets had been effected. Old news. Yawn. Next?

  22. 42
    Andy Wall says:

    The iPhone is frankly overrated and its days are numbered ( ditto the Indescribably boring snoozepaper ). Check out the Googlephone. And you don’t need a bloody Mac to write apps for it either.

    • 94
      Alibarbs says:

      I think the sales figures they’re notching up would beg to differ with you, as would Apple’s recently posted quarterly profits.

      • 103
        The Admiral says:

        Granted, if your life is rule by MARKETING. They are still seriously over-rated…

        The only reason O2 bought them was to stop Voda, Orange and the rest of them…..

        Job done……..

    • 143
      Mr Ned says:

      I would have agreed with you pre 3Gs. But I have been converted. The 3Gs is a superb piece of kit!

      • 157
        The Admiral says:

        OK try this.

        Go to IE browser, find say, Daily Mail (I know, but work with me on this). click on a story and “copy” the bit of text you want, open Mobile word and “paste”. You can then either file or open any email and attach the document.

        Have you got Word for a start?

        Can you copy a URL off your browser and send it via Word? or Excel, or Power Point?

        Can you copy and paste a phone No. to Word.

        Is there a proper wordprocessor packaged with the iPhone (this one I really DON’T know, correct me if I’m wrong about the 3Gs)

        Its not that I’m simply anti for the sake of it, I’m really baffled about what seems to be just hype…..

        Maybe HTC just don’t market like Apple.

        • 280
          Mr Ned says:

          Yes to all of it, (except it is safari , or there are other browsers available, instead of ie) you can get apps that read and write Microsoft documents and you can copy and paste easily into emails.

          I can even receive, read and resend attachments in web-mail like yahoo or gmail.

          Like I said, I was NOT a fan of the iPhone pre 3Gs, but now it is totally worth the 35 quid a month it costs me, for plenty of calls, texts, unlimited internet. I can use it as a USB drive with a linux distro, I can have a fully functional web server on it and develop and deploy web apps from it if I choose.

          Like I say, it now does everything I want it to, except play flash video files. It does have a youtube app though. so that’s no biggie as I have a laptop if I need to watch a vid!

  23. 43
    streamfisher says:

    Really guido “abandon slaughtering trees” it sounds like something a Ent might boom before wrecking Sarumans pad, although if somebody wanted to make a lot of repetitive posts on the Guardian online to: The TREE Slaughterers under some silly name like…., well who could object to that?.
    P.S iPhone is not a good idea, an invitation for a flood of unsolicited consumer reports.

  24. 44
    2when all this nonsense over MP's expenses is over" says:

    So now all you diehard noveaux Conservatives can read all about the beloved party and it’s great leader Dave, with sidekick Boy Wonder increasing your taxes.

    For those who were so blind and poo pooed me over the past months about how useless and hopeless the opposition front bench really are, I’ll leave it up to you to wonder how it all went so wrong.

    For a dozen years true Tories have watched in disbelief at how such utter tossers can make such a meal of it. Yes vote Tory and see your tax RISE.

    For us true Tories, there way out of this mess is derugaltion, lower taxes and severe public sector spending cuts. Halve the 29,000 politicans costing the UK £1.5 Billion pa. The list goes on and on and on.

    Meanwhile we await any Policy on anything. We await any sign of leadership. We await Dave showing moral leadership in shedding his thieving lying MP’s who stole from the taxpayer.

    God help us all. This lot are total morons.

    • 85
      Rick says:

      Time to re-think voting LibLabCon? There are other parties out there – some who cannot be named.
      Be shrill grasshopper.

      • 164
        thick as thieves says:

        you are not welcome here rick you fascist.
        the sign on the door clearly reads no nazis.
        now fuck off.

        • 182
          'ello sailor says:

          “you are not welcome here rick you fascist.”

          Whereas of course, you are.

        • 196
          thick as thieves says:

          I am top boy.
          if I were not here to maintain some kind of order then cripples like you would run riot.
          please try to keep up.
          goodbye sailor.

        • 283
          Pork Sword says:

          There was no sign saying “We need demented fucktards” – but you’re here.

        • 287
          TaT's Barmy army says:

          There wasn’t a sign saying no halfwits,but you’re here.

        • 300
          'ello sailor says:

          “I am top boy.”

          I don’t know about top boy, but you should certainly be topped.

        • 339
          thick as thieves says:

          please form an orderly queue and I will distribute you all with a thick as thieves fan club application form. don’t worry, no-one will miss out, I have enough copies for everyone.
          I am afraid that due to the huge popularity and healing powers of the great thick as thieves it is necessary to ration the amount of time he spends with cripples like you. until you have completed, submitted and had authorised your applications you are not entitled to any direct face time with your hero.
          a tough ruling I know, but if that rule did not exist the great thick as thieves would constantly be mobbed by spastics trying to touch his clothes to be healed of their afflictions.
          oh, and please note that submission of fan club forms does not guarantee membership: your forms will be scrutinised and judging by some of the cretinous posts made by you cripples I would say that your chances of acceptance are not looking very good at all.
          oh well.

        • 353
          'ello sailor says:

          Someone please do him a favour and have him sectioned. It’s not right leaving him like this.

        • 359
          thick as thieves says:

          if that is the best you have got sailor then you are fucked.

        • 363
          'ello sailor says:

          You can’t afford me, so fuck off.

        • 367
          thick as thieves says:

          and how many washers do you charge?
          I believe mandy is in the market and she would very interested to know your rates.

        • 370
          'ello sailor says:

          As you don’t even have two washers to rub together, I’m still well out of your league……dream on bitch.

    • 114
      Ratsniffer says:

      The Boy Dave has yet to grow a pair of balls. He’s eager for the party to be seen as a new “caring conservatism” which kind of hints that before, his party were, er, uncaring. Nice one, Dave, insult your party grassroots, why doncha.

      But then Dave is very keen to be seen as part of the centre liberal conscensus, the Guardian reading luvvies who are into “issue” politics.

      So, while loveable Dave is hugging hoodies, trying to appear cool by swearing on the radio, and saving polar bears those who look for leadership, an antidote to more than a decade of NuLabour disaster, and a new sense of direction might as well go and whistle dixie.

      On current form, it’s gonna be more of the same, dressed up in blue instead of red.

  25. 46
    So17 says:

    I bought a copy of The Independent once but just before I got on the train guilt overcame me and I rushed back to the newsagent and swapped it for the latest issue of ‘Big floppy tits&Booty’.

  26. 47
  27. 49

    Excellent! At last a left leaning app for my beautiful iPhone.

    I am back BTW. Corfu was divine, but the KY couldn’t handle the heat.

    • 66
      george micheal of the heath and dogging says:

      Yeah, those friction burns can be quite nasty when the coming and going gets tough.

      • 86

        I see we a travellers on the same highway to heaven, Georgie.

        Much Love (any chance of some free tickets darling?)

        Mandy

        • 100
          barefootcontessa says:

          SHOE ALERT! Mandyscum has been seen wearing a pair of …….. fit flops! Fit flops = a new style of sandal that makes your legs thin. They’re (reputedly) so comfortable that you never want to take them off.

          The idea, obviously aimed at women, who are succours in the face of inane body image advertising, has taken off, and is seriously threatening sales of the ubiquitous rubber shoe, the Croc. Last year their name was flip flops, (widely worn in Eastern countries by the world’s poor), re-named ,with a thick rubber sole and now sold to the world’s rich, and gay, and socialist (so-called), as fit flops.

          About the only thing members of the disreputable party newlabour don’t need is thinner legs. And they’re already flops.

        • 147
          Sir William Waad says:

          Britain’s answer to Putin with on horseback, with his shirt off.

        • 156
          shelling-out says:

          Thinner legs eh? To go with his thin promises, no doubt.

  28. 55
    caesars wife says:

    yeah and get eye strain as small print jiggles about on kanckered rail smothness , how do you read them ?? staring at tichey screen bumping into everyone as you cant walk and read at same time in confined space and vast numbers of people .
    Anyone know how you recycle a dead phone ?? exactly they dont show that bit cos they cant do it .

    clackety clack clackety clack , should be fun on northern line

    • 60
      wireless says:

      Sorry to hear about your dead phone, can I be the first to offer my condolences, scatter its ashes at a special place you both used to go, Its closure.

      • 65
        caesars wife says:

        It is an ex phone , pining for the 3G

        • 67
          wireless says:

          You really should contact Mobile Bereavement Counselling on 0800-8765-432 but how insensitive of me, it will just bring back the memories.

  29. 58
    Hansard Remembers says:

    O/T but important (via Doctorbloggs):

    British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline has orders for its swine flu vaccine from 16 countries and is in talks with 50 more. British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline is set to reap billions as fear of the swine flu pandemic grows. The world’s second-largest drug company has secured orders from 16 countries for 195 million doses of the vaccine it is developing against the H1N1 virus, which has killed more than 740 people worldwide.

    At $10 a shot, when did any government spend 20 billion dollars to avert 740 deaths?

    With 20 billion dollars, you could elimate malaria, give every child in Africa clean drinking water or pay GlaxoSmithKline. So why are western governments choosing to give money to Big Pharma. Are the ministers frightened or are they getting kickbacks?

  30. 73
    Prescott's fat belly says:

    Why not just print it on toilet roll? It’s only fit to wipe my arse with anyway.

    • 75
      tracy temple says:

      Good point Prezza.

    • 77
      streamfisher says:

      Mr Prescott…..Question: What do you think about the further quantitative easing being rolled out by the Bank of England, don’t you think this might seriously damage the value of Stirling vis a vi other major currencies?.
      Answer: As above.

  31. 96
    michael cashmans wife says:

    Eeh oop, ah duhn’t get a penny oh that 8 fookin’ grand a moonth that mostly coomes from the bien peasant foocks in Snottingham. Nay thee auld fooks, ah joost end oop wi’ a soore arse an a free HIV test evr’y fooking full moon.

  32. 97
    The Admiral says:

    OK lets stop pussying about.

    The HTC platform will let you read ALL newspapers and allow copy and paste your favourite bits in a way only a laptop can compete with.

    O2 have been using them for years, as have I, in the form of the XDAs. My current favourite is the Touch HD or as a starter you might like the Zest (made by ASUS) or the Guide (by HTC) for O2.

    Either way Blackberries and iPhones are ………..

    Trust me……

  33. 98
    Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

    Fuck the Indi. Fuck BlackBerries.

    Give us more,more and still more of M.P.s Expenses scandals.

    • 101
      barefootcontessa says:

      Oh yes! anybody’s expenses scandals, I just can’t live without them.

  34. 108
    Atlas Shrugged says:

    This might work, but I do see a problem.

    Being seen to be reading certain publications, especially on public transport is a fashion or otherwise statement in itself.

    Unless the leftist victim of mind control, with the big boobs and shapely legs sitting opposite on the tube, can plainly see which paper you are reading. There is little or no point whatsoever in reading anything much, especially The Independent.

    Of course in this case it may not be a female the reading is trying to impress. That was just a bit of casual sexism I thought I would needlessly include, for the sake of humor.

    Perhaps the back of the I-Pod could also illuminate the statement.

    I AM READING THE INDEPENDENT, THEREFORE I AM A VERY SAD METRO-SEXUAL DESPERATELY IN NEED OF MY FIRST SHAG.

    This may increase take-up somewhat.

    However not nearly as much as The Financial Times I-Pod could if the back of it contained the words.

    I AM READING THE FT, THEREFORE HAVE GOT MORE STOLEN CASH IN MY BANK ACCOUNT THEN I COULD POSSIBLY EVER SPEND ON MY OWN, AND A VERY LARGE PENIS. WOULD YOU LIKE TO HELP ME OUT?

    This would increase take-up beyond the infinite, no ‘may’ about it.

    • 109
      Atlas Shrugged says:

      BTW

      The above was the best business idea you lot have ever been given free of charge in your entire lifetimes. Please feel free to make your fortunes with it. I have already made mine.

    • 144
      Sir William Waad says:

      Real bosses don’t read the FT. They have somebody read it for them.

      • 150
        The Admiral says:

        or..

        Real Bosses read 1st Editions of the Beano and Dandy…….

        • 271
          barefootcontessa says:

          Those collectors’ pieces? They’re REEEEEEEALLY expensive, and difficult to get hold of. Dundee has a lot to answer for.

  35. 111
    anonymous says:

    I don’t have an iPhone

  36. 112
    The Admiral says:

    BTW hell its gone quiet.

    Perhaps everybody has something better to do on a Sunday afternoon.

    or

    everyone is looking up HTC v. iPhone v. Blackberries………

    • 118
      silence is golden says:

      BoNg, Bong, squauck!, I scream van (greensleeves), eeooo!, eeooo! Ambulance, eeooo, eooo, Police!

      • 119
        The Admiral says:

        waste of pixels

      • 122
        bloke with nadgers says:

        If Hughey Green’s Opportunity Knocks was still on the tele you’d win hands down with that act! Have you thought of going professional?

    • 128
      RUOnCommission says:

      What I need is a phone that can do copy and paste. Know of any?

      • 131
        The Admiral says:

        LOL I wish……..

        I found the old XDA when they first came out. Bits fell off BUT it kinda worked. The Mk II did too but nothing fell off. The rest is history, that is till marketing brought the iPhone. Those that still use the Pocket PC are still laughing……..

      • 135
        The Admiral says:

        ps No commission for saying what I think of O2′s “main seller” either…..

      • 158
        shelling-out says:

        Ask Charles. He’s probably built one from scratch.

      • 275
        barefootcontessa says:

        What I need is a ‘phone that’ll dust the shelves, hoover the carpet, do the washing, drive the car, make the bed, cook the meal, and do a whole lot more. Know of any?

  37. 116
    Ever Vigilant says:

    I have spent the afternoon reading Labour List .

    I used to think that PSEUDS CORNER was confined within the pages of Private Eye.

    Labour List is a better source of amusement as well as providing the answer to all of the problems that would not exist if New Labour had been strangled at birth .

    I doubt that I will bother to revisit the site though .

    • 127
      streamfisher says:

      “I have spent the afternoon reading Labour List”.
      Not a good opening line on this blog.

      • 137
        Ever Vigilant says:

        Just trying to be progressive .In any case I got fed up waiting for a new subject here . The bloody holiday season should be abolished.

    • 193
      shelling-out says:

      No grass to cut? No papers to read? Labour List would be the very last thing I would look at on a Sunday.

      You must have been bored rigid.

  38. 117
    bloke with nadgers says:

    O/T Laura Kuenssberg has taken over Nick Robinson’s BBC blog while he’s off on yet another bloody holiday. Unlike Nick, who wouldn’t be arsed to blog at weekends even if the entire cabinet resigned, she’s taking her blogging seriously and putting up some good stuff about the MoD and the cost of the Iraq war. Worth a look.

    • 168
      shelling-out says:

      I stopped commenting on Nick’s blog about 6 months ago. I was really fed up with hearing Nick, waxing lyrical about how wonderful Gordon and the Labour party were, while picking up on everything ever said by any conservative, and making some sort of derogatory statement about them. He even referred back to Margaret Thatcher’s premiership to make a political point in favour of the present government. That finished it for me.

      Laura is a breath of fresh air. If Nick had any sense, he’d hand the blog over to her. I read some of the comments and it seems she’s far more popular.

      Won’t entice me back, though.

    • 181
      freddie flintoff says:

      last time i looked no comments allowed on latest topic

  39. 120
    Truth Seeker says:

    The Not So Independent may be saving a few trees, but they certainly cannot see the wood for the trees

  40. 126
    Canary Wharf Rat says:

    Headline in todays Times:
    ” Lord Mandelson to favour poor pupils”
    MMMnnnn

  41. 139
    Susannah says:

    I missed the bit where you explained how this will make money?

  42. 170
    So17 says:

    Went and got the MoS for a bit of light reading.
    What is Suzanne Moores fucking problem? Every sunday she can’t write her column without a dig at blokes.
    In fact I have yet to read a female columnist who does not partake in this sport.
    Does Peter Hitchens or Andrew Alexander add a few barbed comments as to how selfish and wrapped up in ‘ME’ women have become these days.No they do not.
    Why is the bitter old fucker in there anyway arent the birds happy enough with that thick fucking tome called the ‘YOU’ magazine which should be renamed the ‘ME ME ME’ fucking mag.
    What do us guys get? the ‘LIVE’ mag, half of which is made up of the fucking telly pages that the Birds will read aswell.
    I tell you what lets combine half of the ‘YOU’ magazine with the FOOTBALL FUCKING EXTRA.

  43. 171
    freddie flintoff says:

    o/t lads who is running the country?

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    freddie flintoff says:

  45. 185
    joe smith says:

    anyone read the indy ?

    • 192
      So17 says:

      I think the printworker does just to spot for spelling mistakes otherwise it’s off the press straight in the bin just like the ‘Morning Star’.

    • 194
      So17 says:

      Only the Hunt who writes it.

  46. 195
    a voter says:

    ronnie biggs should stay in jail until the reaper takes him , he abused our courts and only come back for health care

    • 221
      Rick says:

      Lay off Ronnie. The boy done good. He didn’t steal as much money as ZaNuLab, or kill as many people, but he did the best he could with limited resources.

      • 317
        Budgie says:

        Biggs should be in jail. But it is true that you are much more likely on average to be robbed or killed by your caring government than a criminal.

  47. 200
    shelling-out says:

    Yes, I agree. He has abused our Courts, but when you take a look at some of the scumbags who abuse the Court system time and time again, and still get meagre sentences, it’s the system which is at fault.

    Gordon’s government has let out thousands of prisoners early. People who should be behind bars, but are now on our streets because this government couldn’t be arsed to get the penal system sorted out.

    Ronnie Biggs is but a pimple on the arse of this government.

    • 205
      joe smith says:

      the baby p parents got 5-7 years and they are THE PARENTS

      • 207
        shelling-out says:

        They should have been hung IMHO.

        • 210
          freddie flintoff says:

          imho ? yes they should be hung , bye the balls with a fish hook

        • 214
          joe smith says:

          thy should sevre a proper sentence

        • 217
          shelling-out says:

          Why? Why should we pay for these people to be fed, housed and live better than some of our pensioners?

          Sorry Joe. I believe that the parents of Baby P should have paid far more dearly for the terrible things they did to that poor defenceless little boy.

        • 218
          joe smith says:

          i get the feeling , but they have been sent to jail under the guidelines

        • 219
          shelling-out says:

          The thing is, the way the system is at the moment with overcrowding, they may well get released early.

          What does that say about the memory of the little one?

        • 220
          joe smith says:

          thats down to the goverment to make sure enough places

        • 222
          shelling-out says:

          They won’t be able to build prisons fast enough to cope with the influx of criminals we have now. Violent crime has increased dramatically, despite the government’s massaged figures to the contrary.

          Government knew there was a problem when they came into office. They just chose to do nothing about it and now our prisons are at breaking point.

          Their fault, not ours.

        • 223
          joe smith says:

          has anyone resigned ? putting the public at risk ?

        • 226
          Buggins Turn says:

          Still,when Dave gets in,it’ll all be put right,won’t it?

        • 227
          joe smith says:

          no biggins , i didnt say that

        • 231
          Buggins Turn says:

          No,you did’nt,but 13000 people in Norwich that like to be shit upon did.
          God help this fucking land. And i’m an athiest.

        • 234
          joe smith says:

          biggins the goverment always wins

        • 246
          Buggins Turn says:

          Only with the compliance of half the electorate stuck in the rut of a traditional left and right dance,and the other half who are so apathetic that they can’t be arsed.

        • 252
          joe smith says:

          thats me biggins

        • 259
          Buggins Turn says:

          Well the time is ripe to stand up and be counted. Vote for anybody you fancy,apart from Liblabcon.

      • 224
        shelling-out says:

        If anyone does resign it will be an unknown civil servant – like one of the prison governors. They’ll make him a scapegoat and pin everything on him to save their own scrawny necks.

        Did Ed Balls have to answer to anyone about Baby P? I think you know the answer to that.

    • 228
      shelling-out says:

      A lot of people (myself included) didn’t elect them. They were elected by people who have either always voted Labour, or believed that they would do much better if Labour were in power.

      Remnember, Gordon was unelected. Tony Bliar was the elected PM – nobody actually voted for Gordon.

      • 230
        joe smith says:

        thats not quite true his local seat did , my vote was wasted but i respect the system we have , will anything change ? no it wont

        • 233
          shelling-out says:

          No! He was never elected PM. This was done in-house. The public had no say at all.

        • 235
          joe smith says:

          we dont elected pms , thank god , we vote for local mp

        • 236
          Buggins Turn says:

          The system we have favours the established parties. They get the maximum airtime,whilst any new movement is labelled as “lunatic fringe”

        • 237
          joe smith says:

          thats true , but we have new media , never give up

        • 238
          shelling-out says:

          Joe. I thought Tony Bliar was the elected PM, not Gordon. He got in by default IMO.

        • 240
          joe smith says:

          what does ” imo ” mean ?????

        • 243
          shelling-out says:

          In my opinion.

        • 249
          joe smith says:

          cheers not up to text speak

        • 256
          Buggins Turn says:

          We have a history of unelected Prime Ministers. A Eden.A Douglas Home.J Callaghan.J Major.G Brown.

        • 268
          Huge Grant says:

          And the elected were,H McMillan.H Wilson.E Heath.M Thatcher.J Major.A Blair.
          Just goes to show that the established parties could’nt give a fuck about democracy.
          Ever get the feeling you’ve been had?

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      shelling-out says:

      Brilliant! Let’s drag everyone down to the lowest possible denominator and then the pass rate will be wonderful. In fact, everything about Labour is wonderful.

      I’m sure Mandleson thinks he’s cracked it. I hope he chokes on his Ouzo.

      • 203
        joe smith says:

        welcome to a labour goverment

      • 229
        Crème brûlée says:

        Fundamentally, the lavatory works; it is comfortable, and the thunderous flush is highly efficient. Thomas Crapper lavatories are superb

        • 232
          shelling-out says:

          Send ‘im round to sort out the government, then.

        • 239
          A Posh Bird says:

          I have to rub my eyes in wondrous disbelief at the splendours you produce. With the happiest mix of distinguished scholarship and sensational salesmanship, you are doing great honour to the memory of Thomas Crapper. I am full of admiration”.

        • 281
          barefootcontessa says:

          That’ll be a clean flush then.

    • 261
      grobdj says:

      What a shock! I thought that Labour had put an end to child poverty

      • 289

        No, the benefits system is designed to create “Poverty of Aspiration”, and no amount of extorting from the productive will help them.

        • 291
          Dole Bludger says:

          The benefit system is a wonderful safety net for people who fall on hard times.
          Unfortunately,like the MP’s expenses system,it relies on the assumed honesty of claimants.

  49. 242
    Anonymous says:

    another Labour smear?? Tories to raise VAT to 20%

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8192095.stm

    • 247
      joe smith says:

      prob true gotta fix the black hole somehow ?????

    • 250
      shelling-out says:

      More scaremongering from Labour Central Office. They haven’t got anything constructive to say, so they have to make something up.

  50. 244
    Mr Slater says:

    Guido – I return from an extended absence only to discover that my 157 year-old African Grey has not only been ‘posting’ on this ‘site’, he has also been ‘modded’. Does this mean he has won a scooter, or something?

  51. 251
    A Posh Bird says:

    ………financial secretary Stephen Timms said Tory leader David Cameron “needs to explain” his plans…….

    How about explaining Labour’s financial plans you fucking mong

    Stephen Timms is a fucking retard who needs putting in a net, hanging from a tree and left there until Labour’s debt is paid off

    • 255
      joe smith says:

      put him in the stocks , more fun

      • 262
        Wilfred says:

        That’s my MP you’re talking about. Show some respect please. He’s working hard to build a multi faith consensus to build the vibrant driven politics of the new Britain. And he had a starring role in the Bash Street Kids.

      • 263
        Wilfred says:

        That’s my MP you’re talking about. Show some respect please. He had a starring role in the Bash Street Kids.

        • 284
          barefootcontessa says:

          He’s got a strange roving mouth. Could it be a disease he’s caught off the gorgon?

        • 285
          500-1 says:

          Gordon is his mentor. With that sideways jaw shift,he may well fancy his chances of leading the labour party after the assassination of Ceaser. He’s probably just what they deserve.

  52. 260

    Electronic Readers are about source aggregation.

    You could have the
    Tits from “The Scum”.
    The comment from “The Torygraph” (and the Matt cartoon).
    Bloomberg News.
    The non-jobs from Al-Graniad.
    and
    The gossip from “The Daily Wail”.

    all in one read…

  53. 266

    I tried uploading a post to my site using my Blackberry. Not as easy as I’d hoped!

  54. 269
    Just a Guessed says:

    joe smith=freddie flintoff?

    • 288

      Joe Smith? Didn’t he found the Mormon church, marry over 30 women -some who were already married to other men- and some 14-year-old girls? Randy bugger!

      • 290
        Lay Preacher says:

        There’s nothing pulls the totty like “God moves in mysterious ways”. Do you want to see my relics?

  55. 277
    Calisto says:

    Is Mandy a andy pandy who was on the Ore list???

  56. 282
    Mark Mewords says:

    I’m Spartacus! And also the father of Whacko’s kids and the monkey.

  57. 292
    Peter Mandelson says:

    I am,in fact,presently running Britain. But enough of that,what’s a sweet young thing like you doing tonight?

    • 302
      Bank of England says:

      Working 24/7 to print money in a doomed attempt to keep the UK from becoming a Mugabe-esque case study of how not to run an economy you cock-sucking, mortgaging scamming, principle-free c-unt.

  58. 294
    nut cluster says:

    The Tories think the internet favours them. They’re wrong

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/09/david-cameron-rafael-behr-politics

    Bollocks Rafael, the internet favours the Tories because it is capitalists who own the internet, left to the left we would just have a single state mouthpiece such as the Guardian

    The internet is the lefts worst nightmare, you cannot control it you prick

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/17/backpackersbulliesandintern

    Sunday, 17 February 2008 – The web doesn’t do democracy

    The web is no community. It is brilliant for some things. It does information, misinformation, entertainment and commerce. It does freedom. But one thing it doesn’t do is democracy.”

    Why don’t you just stick a jam jar up your arse?

  59. 295
    Calisto says:

    Lol Fucking LoL!!!

  60. 296
    Calisto says:

    Yeah More like running the country into the ground before you bog off into the russian sunset…tosser!!!

  61. 297
    Calisto says:

    As for young I have piles older than you and better looking too!!!

  62. 301
    Labour Central says:

    The Tories are going to tax you for having a shit, this will be disproportional tax on the very fat as they have increased poundage when compared to rich people who live on caviar

  63. 304

    [...] Indy on iPhone Remember Guido’s Plan to Save the Indy? Well they have gone half way towards the concept.  They have released an [...] [...]

  64. 306
    caesars wife says:

    I quite like presscots fat bellys idea , i mean why not print news papers in a bog roll format , bit bad on the crossword section as the pen will go through , but so long as print doesnt come off , save going to the recycle skip . come to think of it why not make all junk mail in kitchen roll format !

    Lord mandelson says hes gonna not take any pressure from the EU, how very british of him , well if hes in that kind of mood why not go the whole Hog and scrap lisbon , ooppps must be spiv spin week again then for labour.

    • 323
      jgm2 says:

      Why not print the Labour Manifesto on perforated absorbent sheets too. Then it might be useful for something.

  65. 309

    “Now all they have to do is abandon slaughtering trees for an unprofitable print edition and they could be on the way to profitablity.”

    ——-

    The trouble is newsprint is otained from trees planted specifically for the purpose. No newsprint = no trees. You should realise that.

  66. 314
    geoff hoon mp says:

    good morning all , i just poped by to say that i am geoff hoon and i am a hoon , thankyou all and have a good day

    geoff hoon mp

  67. 315
    uncle johns says:

    i as many others do read the said paper , its shit

    • 320
      Lil Olmey says:

      So why read it ? Are you paid to do it ?

      • 321
        uncle johns says:

        i also read the times , telegraph and the gaurdian , have seen labourlist and ian dale , it is good to see all points of view , but the layout of the indy is very poor

  68. 318
    Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

    O/T But did I hear it correctly on the 8 am news? They are going to scrap the plan to keep all health records on a central database, so if I have a heart attack 300 miles from home I can be saved? Now I won’t be able to go out.

    Is this the scheme that cost £21 billion?

    No sign in the papers as far as I could see, but I wouldn’t put it past them to sneak this out on the quiet.

    • 332
      jgm2 says:

      Its the evil baby-eating Tories who are going to scrap the central database and ‘save’ 12bn quid. Or something.

      12bn quid? Fucking peanuts to this government. A typical monthly over-run on their budget. They print more than that every month.

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    [...] 2005 (4)February 2005 (2)January 2005 (4)December 2004 (1)November 2004 (3) I see Guido has spotted that the Independent has launched an iPhone app. One of the good things the Indy app [...]

  71. 325
    Trough Mixture says:

    Constituents have smashed up Hazel Blears’ car according to Morning with Murdoch.

    She should keep it in it’s box when she leaves it – could be worth a lot one day in the original packaging.

    • 327
      Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

      It’s a great pity she weren’t in it filling out her expenses forms with her mate JacquiJackboots.

    • 333
      jgm2 says:

      I do hope ,if true, it was done for the right reasons. Ie as part of a targetted attack against this evil government of occupation rather than some random act of vandalism.

      • 338
        jgm2 says:

        Hurray. The BBC is reporting it. Ha ha de ha ha ha.

        Fuck off Blears you condescending little shit.

        No, really. Do fuck right off into obscurity. I hope you develop a thirst that kills you along with all the other evil fuckers in this government. And that would be all of them.

        Incompetent, economy wrecking jackasses.

        • 342
          Trough Mixture says:

          Now wouldn’t it be the icing on the cake were the insurance not up to date? She having memory issues and all.

      • 348
        shelling-out says:

        The rest of us have to put up with random acts of vandalism, so why not Ms Blears? Someone ran a key down the side of my car when they broke into it and stole what they could. There was nothing of any value in it, but it took the police almost 7 days to come and get a statement.

        Maybe they’d do something about it if it started to impinge on them, and their friends.

  72. 326
    labour voter says:

    whats a blackberry ?

    • 329
      Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

      Well,it’s a bit like a Rasberry but you don’t get a Disabled Badge.

    • 331
      Dark Baron Dirtybum of island life says:

      It’s like a blackcurrant but with hairs on it.

    • 337
      jgm2 says:

      It’s what you’ll be reduced to scavanging and eating from hedgerows as a result of this fucking incompetent governments catastrophic mismanagement of the economy.

      • 341
        jgm2 says:

        Meanwhile, in other jackass news, it appears we are on the threshold of another ‘Great Leap Forward’. Hilary Benn, Minister for Marginalising Farmers, is proposing an increase in agricultural production to enable the UK to be self-sufficient in food.

        Onwards comrades, you with your hammer and sickles, and me in my Zil.

        • 347
          shelling-out says:

          Where I live, almost every field is full of wheat. It’s the crop to grow this year because of the shortages. I think farmers know what best to grow, rather then being told by some MP in London, don’t you.

          Hilary Benn comes from a very priviledged background and (I’m guessing here) I’d be very surprised if he had anything to do with it at all.

      • 368
        Mountains to climb says:

        I can understand Hilary as a surname, ie the great Sir Edmund Hilary, you are born with it, but what sort of parents call their boy a girl and to add to the confusion have a blokes name as a surname, as in Bill and Benn.

        All smacks a bit of English upper classes and if so why is he still a communist when most of his ilk have seen the folly of it all.

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    bimbo says:

    Even the iPhone doesn’t work on the tube.

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    ukglanc says:

    Really its an useful information to me, thanks

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    indhyan says:

    great information, thanks

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    Anonymous says:

    who wants to save the Indy, anyway?



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