August 19th, 2009

Dannatt v Jones

Who is the unnamed defence minister in press reports who is behind the smearing of General Dannatt?  Step forward Kevan Jones.

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On one side we have an honourable soldier who has seen action in Belfast, Bosnia and Kosovo, serving his country for the last forty years.  On the other we have a graduate of Newcastle Poly who has never had a proper job in his life.  A degree in Government & Public Policy helped him to become political and legal officer of the GMB Union, a local councillor and then an MP, where he has distinguished himself only by being one of Brown’s lickspittles.  He was one of the signatories of the “Tony Must Go” letter – that saw him eventually rewarded by Gordon with the position of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for Veterans at the Ministry of Defence.

Last summer (while still a backbencher) he submitted dozens of Parliamentary written questions asking about military comforts and perks. Lo and behold, once again Labour MPs have submitted a number of FoI requests regarding wining and dining bills at the Army boss’s home in Kensington, West London in an effort to embarrass him.  Wonder who inspired that trick?

According to the Sunday Times, Gordon Brown personally blocked Dannatt’s promotion from chief of the general staff to overall head of the armed forces as chief of the defence staff because of his repeated calls for better pay and conditions for servicemen.

Kevan is only doing Gordon’s bidding…


647 Comments

  1. 1
    nell says:

    They never learn do they? Everytime they try to smear it eventually comes back and bites them. Ad so it will this time. Just give me a few moments to sharpen something.

    • 5
      NewBoy says:

      nell you cow, I wanted to be first lady.

      • 18
        Andrew Efiong says:

        A good bio Guido. Flyweights like this should remain in local government, chairing meetings on leaf clearance, flower pots and planning applications.

        Dannat should invite him on a tour of Helmand and send him on patrol inside the flimsy vehicles the boys are expected to use.

        To think an MP can have a go at a soldier for dodgy expenses! It would be funny if it was on The Thick Of It. But in real life? election now please!

        • 115
          Papiere - zeigen mir Ihre Papiere - schnell!!! says:

          Ach Ja!!

          Better still, send zis festering kunten on mine clearing duties in Helmand Province wearing a pair of magnetic boots!!

          Dannat for PM!!

          Triumph Acclaim!!

        • 226

          The Armed Forces are two things at once for ZanuLieBorg GramscoFabiaNazis:-

          (1) They are an essentially conservative Institution. it is not possible to confront death, or life fully, over time, without becoming conservative. Tony Bliar, remember, orated magisterially at some lefty conference or other a few years ago, about “destroying the Forces of conservatism”.

          (2) It does not understand them, or value them, never having done real jobs in its life, like “Kevan” Jones has not done. I do not think there are any members of the Cabinet, or even “government”, who have “served”. Possibly not even anybody in the PLP.

          [How can a man give a job to someone called "Kevan"? It is almost as bad as "Mungo".]

        • 234
          Anonymous says:

          Mongo. Ha ha

        • 263
          The Moat Cleaner strikes Back says:

          Speaking of Mongos…

          Douglas Hogg, the troughing piggy with the moat, has made this unvbelievable statement which makes Alan Duncans recent comments seem positively pedestrian

          In his (Douglas Hogg) submission, he said that the lifestyle to which most professionals “aspire” meant that MPs could not live on less than £100,000 a year, plus expenses.

          He added: “The salary of MPs is now so low in both absolute and relative terms as to deter members of professional and business classes from entering Parliament.

          “A parliamentary salary does not support the lifestyle to which most professional and business classes aspire.”

          Bye, bye Mr Hogg the exit is over there

        • 267
          barefootcontessa says:

          Is Kevan the posh version of Kevin?

        • 279
          nell says:

          263. No contessa I think it just means he can’t spell.

        • 284
          Irn Bru Snorter says:

          Good post AE!
          Man… it’s different worlds they live in.
          Even on the Today program this morning, I heard a minister say that despite corruption, murder and voting papers being sold in public in blocks of 1000, that…
          “Putting all that to one side…I feel the fact that there is ANY sort of Election going on at all in Afghanistan proves a major success for us.”

          Huh?

          With politicians, EVERYTHING is a success.

          Even failure…

        • 297
          Chaim Alumberajaque says:

          259- Yes don’t nick any biros on yer way out neither!

        • 362
          barefootcontessa says:

          Kefan’s using Grecian 2000, just spotted it!

        • 378
          Anonymous says:

          No that would be the egg shampoo that Nick receives free of charge from a grateful public, Leaves the hair sleek and shiny.

        • 477
          Just a grumpy twat says:

          Embed him and Ainsworthf*ckall for a six month tour in Afghanistan, they seem to have little if any idea of military demands. They could start by reading reports by Micheal Yon to prepare themselves during their oh so long recess.

          Dannatt for Defense

        • 483
          alex taylor says:

          why do you want to leave this piece of crap in a cushy, do fcuk all job, sent him out as a driver (alone, that is) of the un-protected landy’s in that piece of shit land Afganistan

        • 484
          Scrobs... says:

          Absoluely AE, but please, not planning, there are enough time-serving prats there already!

          Did you know that in LBs like Hackney, you get charged a hefty sum just to ask ‘a planner’ if your scheme will even get past the starting blocks? And this is way before you pay for the actual application!

          That’s why Hackney will always be a heap in days like we are suffering at the moment; bereft of any leadership in developing the worst areas of London.

          Don’t ask about the Olympics either…

        • 611
          Penfold says:

          The MOD has a hideously complex expenses claim mechanism.
          This makes it almost impossible to fiddle expenses, or to overclaim or to overindulge.
          In the case of the latter, scales of expenditure are set in stone, not to be varied.

          Unlike MP’s, Kevan take note you tosser, Members of HM Forces are expected to back up expense claims with something called a receipt or invoice or bill. Cash is not doled out willy nilly. No receipt etc, no payout, nil reimbursement.
          And that extends to the average squaddie buying his own kit as GI is shiite. BUT
          doesnt extend to losses, the squaddie has to pay for that, can’t lose expensive GI even if it is shiite.

          Those socialist pricks at Westminster are useless peculators.

      • 450
        Angry vote number 69827672 says:

        Tory MP Damian Green has DNA profile deleted from database

        One law and rule for MPs and a whole brunch of sh*t laws for the rest of us!
        Come on, how many non MPs have gotten their DNA profiles removed even after the EU court ruled against retaining it FOREVER!

        • 498
          barefootcontessa says:

          Cap’n McDarling leaves his little boat on the Scottish coast to take up his post of PM for the week! On Radio 4 babbling now about our brilliant economy, trying to sound eminently sensible! Eyebrows fully flared and nostrils waxed he wriggles out of the sticky question of whether banks should have their bonuses regulated. He is bright and bushy tailed, in Edinburgh today to open the new Tesco banking enterprise! What a let down, how low can you crawl McDarling to get a favourable photo shoot.

        • 513

          Nice that tesco are going ahead to create a People’s Bank.
          Darling promised the UK a bank back in 1999. More recently he said it was very necessary to have a people’s bank, run by the government, to prevent the excesses of the big banks.
          He has done nothing about it though. PostBank is still under ‘is it necessary?’ discussion 1 year after Peter Mandelson agreed that it must become a reality immediately.
          Tesco can’t wait for Labour to piss about and don’t have too. They just set up their own bank. Post Office, the intended recipient of ‘The People’s Bank’ can’t wait either and have joined up with Bank of Ireland to try and create a bank itself using the BOI licences.

          Neither will be what the government had in mind, a safe deposit, low risk, low charging bank for all.
          But then this government is desperate to sell off Northern rock before the election, to try and claim some false credit for its rescue, instead of using NR to launch ‘new’ banks.

        • 515
          Under funded WAR says:

          He Doesn’t Need A Boat ! He’s Got FLIPPERS !

      • 491
        Neo Hunter says:

        Heil Braun

        Was it Macmillan or Eden during the Blitz who said :

        I didn’t know anything could be Yellower than Yellow, until I met Jo Kennedy

        Shouldn’t you be instituting a “Browner than Brown” award for Politicians of Outstanding Acumen, Shining Integrity, Cheap at the Price etc”

        Oor Kevan is evidently a Leading Contender

    • 114
      Robin Hoodie says:

      Labour hate the Armed Forces!

      And it was Labour that sent them on these suicide missions, without the proper funding, logistics, equipment, and Exit plan.

      This needs to be twittered to the World. The World needs to know how despicable they are.

      They are a disgraceful shower of cowards.

      • 128

        Nobody ever learns from history but here goes Afghanistan will never be tamed by foreign occupation forces regardless of more funding logistics etc

        • 132
          barefootcontessa says:

          Too true!

        • 188
          Robin Hoodie says:

          Totally agree.

          That is why:

          1) Armed Forces should never have been sent there in the first place.
          2) The troops should be brought out PDQ.

          And the real betrayal was to send the boys in there without the proper equipment.

          Period.

        • 290
          Anonymous says:

          I think Genghis Kahn was the last outsider to conquer Afghanistan. Doubtless Blair saw himself as a latter-day reincarnation.
          Still, you can see why that Labour minister of education opposed funding history in Universities ….

        • 319
          terence patrick hewett says:

          Nobody has ever conquered Afghanistan except – The Persians, Alexander the Great, the Seleucids, the Parthians, the Kushans, the Sassanids, the Mongols and last but not least The Mohammedans. So, if you pardon me for saying so, stop talking bollocks.

        • 451
          Jon Forest says:

          Well said Terence. I can’t abide all this “no military solution” or “we can just hope to create the conditions for a political settlement” crap whenever our soldiers are involved.
          Of course, military solutions are possible to “the strongest” in almost all cases – we are just too pathetic to ask our military to do what is necessary (and too miserly to give them the men and equipment to do it).
          Now, I’m not advocating using all-out war on our enemies (or even using our troops at all) but it gets my goat to hear “we can’t hope for a military solution” when what people mean is “we’re a bit too squeamish about seeing enemy dead on the telly”.
          I don’t think Oliver Cromwell would have held the view that the couple of thousand gangsters who called themselves the IRA in the 1970s and 1980s couldn’t have been defeated by military means – especially since almost all were known and monitored by our security forces. I think it would have taken him about a day to “win it” in those circumstances – at least, for the next 100 years or so.
          Alexander the Great operated in most of the modern extremist hot spots but found that most middle eastern cities were surprisingly welcoming to his armies once he’d slaughtered all the men in Tyre and Gaza and sold their women and children into slavery.
          Like I said, I’m not advocating quite that approach today but neither should our young soldiers be sent to war but expected to act like “policemen” and aid workers. It gets them killed.

        • 524
          Under funded WAR says:

          Occupying A Country Does Not Mean You’Ve Conquered It. At Some Point You Have To Leave And Then It Reverts Back To What It Was Before Ask The Romans Also The Same Will Happen With Iraq !

        • 551
          mad fred 2 para retired says:

          Err, Afghanistan was not always Muslim.

          It was “conquered” & converted by force.

        • 559
          SpudGun says:

          I agree we shouldn’t be there. If Afghani muslims want to remain in the stoneage let them. No British Soldiers life is worth giving up for a religion that is as violent,backward and extreme as islam.

        • 612
          Penfold says:

          Why are we fighting for a bunch of corrupt Afghans who have virtually legalised marital rape, enforced sexual relationship in marriage, enforce the subjugation of women (probably a good votewinner if it was HairPerson being subjugated), persecute gays and non-Mohammedans and run a very large drug economy.
          Why are we fighting in a country that has shifting tribal loyalties that are changed on whim or by financial inducement. A country that wants to live in the stone age, that won’t accept 21st century reality. ( mind you if i was smnashed each day on dope anhd had a gun, lots of mates and wanted to be the top dog i wouldn’y have anything to do with the west and the 21st century.)

          Afghanistan is a pile of shit, not worth a cent. But if the taliban want it they can have it, but be warned if they alloq al Quada back then we should nuke ‘em of the map.

      • 144
        Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

        You can say what you like about Labour but they are still commie, facist nazis.

        • 367
          Voting Floater says:

          >You can say what you like about Labour

          I do. Not only are they, nowadays, fascists, but they have lost their very reason for existing. The old division between capital and labour is meaningless in the global nightmare they have so eagerly helped to create. It used to be simple:

          working stiffs > unions > Labour Party

          vs

          top-hat wearing capitalists > establishment > Conservative Party

          Now we have the spectacle of Peter Mandelson saying he is “relaxed” about people making lots of money. So why is he not only a member of the Labour Party, but the de facto and unelected prime minister of a Labour government? Because he and the rest of them in New Labour are unprincipled shits who care only about themselves. To this end they are grooming the country for subsumption in a federal EU run by people like the deep communist plant, José Manuel Barroso.

          Quote:

          Barroso’s political activity began in his college days, before the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974. He was one of the leaders of the underground Maoist MRPP (Reorganising Movement of the Proletariat Party, later PCTP/MRPP-Communist Party of the Portuguese Workers/Revolutionary Movement of the Portuguese Proletariat). In an interview with the newspaper Expresso, he said that he had joined MRPP to fight the only other student body movement, also underground, which was controlled by the Communist Party. Despite this justification there is a very famous political 1976 interverview recorded by RTP in which he criticizes the bourgeois education system which “throws students against workers and workers against students”, showing clear left-wing and maoist inclinations. (Wikipedia).

          So yes, commies too.

      • 241
        the future belongs to me says:

        thank god call me dave is going to pull us out of this catastrophic fuckup that keeps the corrupt in power in afghanistan

        what? oh… right, sorry

        thank god call me dave is going to do the same thing as brown and keep us in this brave fight for womens rights that stops the taleban fighting is over here

        • 286
          nell says:

          I’m happy to wait and see what Dave does when he’s handed this poisoned chalice that gordon has brewed/is brewing.

          We shan’t know the measure of the man until he addresses the challenge.

          What we do have is the measure of gordon and it comes up wanting.

        • 300
          Chaim Alumberajaque says:

          With respect, Nell I don’t want to see Dave do anything else than get us out of europe pronto. We can talk about trivia such as Afghan politics later. It’s easier just to vote UKIP.

        • 389
          Steve Expat says:

          294, vote UKIP and run the risk of getting Liebour for another five years…

        • 400
          Budgie says:

          CMD is Heath mark 2. Lying and denying about the EU; and U turning towards statist socialist policies.

      • 249
        simon r says:

        Of course Labour hate the armed forces, the soldiers and their families don’t fit into their ‘demographic’ – i.e. hard working, generally white middle class or ex public school.

      • 455
        Small bear says:

        Labour hate the Armed Forces because all of us swore an oath of allegiance to the Queen and not to the government.We are her soldiers,sailors and airmen and no-one else’s.

    • 217
      God, I hate New Labour says:

      Jones is a classic Labour Hoon. Worked at Millbank during the runup to the 1997 election where Kevan was well known, and intensely disliked, for his shouting about OLW (Old Labour Wankers) very loudly and very regularly, so much so that even Prescott, the imbecilic son of the even more imbecilic exDPM, told him to shut up.

      Putting this creature in a position such as the MoD just goes to show that Gordon Brown hates the army and England’s defence forces with a passion. It would cost this government £13.5m to equip the 9,000 troops in Afghanistan with Interceptor 2 IOTV armour plating, which will repeatedly shatter a 7.63 AK47 bullet through its boron carbide plating, while the inner vest will catch bomb and bullet fragments and will stop a softnosed 9mm bullet dead and with the side plates is regarded as the best personal protection against IED’s. Of course £13.5m buys a heck of a lot of SpAd’s so guess which gets the Prime Mentalist’s vote – bulletproof jackets or SpAd salaries?

      • 257
        Kevan Jones is 45 and unmarried, with no children. Hmmmm says:

        Why would Brown want to equip the troops with such outrageously futuristic, and life saving devices when he has 130 ‘PRO’ or ‘Spin Doctors’ based in MOD Whitehall.

        One classic story was that a Challenger II MBT was blown up by an IED.

        So nothing can survive that battlefield, but wait we have bought some more vehicles that the Yanks rejected.

        Spin and Spin. Meanwhile young soldiers die and get torn apart through lack of adequate protection.

        Talking of smears, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Kevan Jones fucks Pigs.

        He hasn’t denied it, has he?

        • 282
          Kevan Jones looks like lardy arsed childcatcher nonce with tits FAT FUCKING CUNT SLAG WHAT A CUNT! says:

          What a fucking piece of shit this fucking c’unt Kevan Jones is.
          Scum.
          Traitors like this dog should be hanged. His anti army propaganda is directly responsible for the death of British soldiers.
          Who is in favour of this traitor being hanged?

        • 289
          Anonymous says:

          April 6, 2007 – in Basra, Iraq, an IED shaped charge penetrated the underside of the tank resulting in the driver losing a leg and causing minor injuries to another soldier!
          Bad but still better than a landy

        • 308
          Chaim Alumberajaque says:

          There is no reason why we can’t hang traitors when we have a domestic, democratic Government in the UK.

        • 311
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          allo titfer

      • 492
        Thunderbox says:

        As a veteran I have an idea for this Jones lap dog. Get General Dannat’s boys to strap him to the front of a snatch landrover, like a human shield, and send him on patrol in Helmand. While they are at it, add Ainsnotworthatoss and all the other feeble and useless Labour Defence Ministry lackies. God how I hate them.

    • 438
      Cynic says:

      Labour scum

    • 639
      Biffo says:

      Kevan (couldn’t his Mum spell?) like his boss Gordon is just another lying c***. What has he done for the country during his years of non-jobs?

  2. 2
    Pontius The Pilot says:

    Good man Guido, these fuckers need to be shown up for the complete and utter fucking wankers that they are.

    They’re not fit to smell the steam off Dannatt’s piss, any of the fuckers. What the fuck will a GMB man know about Defence? Let alone veterans? Less than fuck all.

    Fucking hoons, all of them. Roll on the fucking election.

    • 7
      Premier Gordon Brown says:

      I enjoy sniffing Mandy’s piss. I like to bathe nightly in it too. So very refreshing!

    • 39

      Don’t sit on the fence Pontius, say what you really think

    • 83
      John (the Zanulabour Destroyer) says:

      For me its roll on a Military takeover in the UK with Brown, Blair, Campbell and the rest of the usless, incompetent, low class Zanulabour thugs strung up from the lamp posts.
      Our country badly needs cleaning up, and the only way to get rid of weeds is pull them up by the roots, thats why the whole Zanulabour gang should be destroyed,, politicians and their lickspittle friends in the so called free medai.
      Can someone who lives near Westminster please get a hold of this Kevan Jones and silence him for good,,,They think they are untouchable, well I, ve never met anybody who didn,t die after they,ve been shot, stabbed and beaten up.

      • 192
        Elby The Beserk says:

        And that is why … as The Dear Leader loves to say … the army are set to be in Afghanistan for years

        • 314
          Chaim Alumberajaque says:

          Mr Farage will deploy them on domestic defence duty probably if we ask.

    • 193
      Talwin says:

      Pontius “What the fuck will a GMB man know about defence”? About the same as his bastard boss, Ainsworth, a fitter/sheet metal-worker & union man. Couldn’t you just fucking weep?

      • 245
        fedupwithbrown says:

        Tear your hair out. Put any labour dummy up for election in the north and they romp home. Something to do with high unemployment and lots of state benefits I think. Nice and easy for Kevin Jones to get elected. Ban safe labour seats. Under labour they will never improve. Too important to keep them poor and grateful

        • 379
          Anonymous says:

          You need to travel a bit more. North Durham is rather smart.

        • 493
          Churchill's Cattleprod says:

          Go even further north … there they will not only vote in a semi-blind authoritarian chimp with a major personal body odour problem but the party will then make him Prime Minister.

        • 519
          LabourOutSoon says:

          It’s true. I live in a nice part of the North and in some parts you could still put a red rosette on a donkey and it would win an election. There are many bone idle wasters up here just scrounging off benefits. They should be scrubbing road signs or breaking rocks into gravel for roadbuilding. Lazy twats. There are also many hard working people too and these are the ones who feel most shafted by the shameless families who infest parts of the North.

      • 505
        Pontius The Pilot says:

        Yeah, agree 100% Talwin. Ainsworth’s an embarrassment, always has been. Ashamed to say he’s a fellow midlander…

        Things Can Only Get Better, eh?

      • 552
        backwoodsman says:

        Yes, but you must admire their consistency – the latest agriculture minister is a vegetarian london mp , from the fire brigade union !

      • 629
        Thats News says:

        Years ago, your trade unionist, sheet metal worker, welder, etc., would know all about war, as they’d have spent WW2 fighting the Germans, Italians and Japanese. Now? They hate the armed forces.

    • 449
      The simple Truth says:

      Yes, roll on the election!
      Looks like the Tories have finally found some spine! Here’s their revised Manifesto:

      - We will campaign for Britain to withdraw from the EU.

      - our MEPs will always vote in the European Parliament in the best interests of Britain and the British people.

      - We will seek to expose and oppose EU corruption, incompetence, fraud and waste.

      - We will work closely with MEPs from other countries that share our aims and beliefs, in order to be more effective and successful.

      - We will maintain the highest standards of probity and integrity. In this regard, all our MEP candidates have signed a pledge to donate ten percent of their pre-tax salary to local cultural groups and activities in their regions. This would mean payments to groups celebrating our national saints’ days.

      - We should have British control over British borders so as to stop unlimited and uncontrolled immigration and reduce crime and terrorism.

      - Britain, not the EU, should decide who lives in this country.

      - Anyone not born in Britain who commits a crime here should be deported.

      - British citizens should only be extradited where they have committed a genuine offence abroad and there is sufficient evidence against them.

      - Our armed forces should be under British control and serve British interests.
      - We must keep the Pound and control over our own economy.

      - We oppose the UK’s payment to the EU – next year this will cost British taxpayers around £9 billion.

      - We support the ability to trade with other countries when this is done fairly and on equal terms.

      - ‘British jobs for British workers’: employers should be obliged to provide jobs and training to British workers.

      - We need to eliminate unnecessary and bureaucratic EU regulations which cost British businesses around £75 billion per year.

      - Britain must withdraw from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) which costs each family around £450 per year.

      - Britain must withdraw from the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).

      - Britain must have exclusive control over its territorial waters.

      - Britain must retain control over its oil and gas supplies.

      - We should restore the use of Britain’s traditional weights and measures.

      - The British parliament and British courts should be independent of any foreign body.

      - The government should stop the closure of Post Offices, especially in rural areas, and there should be no privatisation of this public service.

      =========

      Well, it’s always nice to dream. Sadly this is not Dave’s vision at all. It’s actually the up-to-date policies of the BΝP – or the “New Conservatives” as they might more properly be called. Very much like the OLD Conservatives, in fact, as they once were back in the good old days of 50 years ago before insanity too hold.
      Dave, if you can’t see the simple truth in the above plan as being essential for the country for the country as a matter of the utmost urgency, then please just fuck off and let someone with BALLS have a crack at restoring a FUCKED-UP country. Thank you for your time….

      • 494
        Archer Karcher says:

        The B&P are national socialists, cherry picking their Manifesto like you have is rather disingenuous.

        The people who have the most to lose from the rise of the fascist B&P are fascist ZaNuLab, their natural authoritarian rivals.

        You are correct to point out however, the weakness of CMD and his dead parrot “opposition”. Under him the tories have abandoned virtually everything they have ever stood for and are left with nothing except the rather feeble refrain of “at least he ( CMD ) is not McRuin”.

        Frankly if that is all the tories have to offer, they do not deserve to succeed.

    • 626
      harpic says:

      The General reached the top of his profession and was decorated for gallantry. That supperating chancre “Kevan Jones” has probably spent his entire adult life in some dreadful lowly political position. His unwarranted promotion to so-called Minister in the MOD was no doubt due to burglarising Brown`s turds or sucking him off. It is thought that his fellow Ministers, being sleeping catamites, have achieved rank through the same devious practises. The only action “Kevan Jones” has seen is the cum stained sheets on his mother`s bed.

  3. 3
    vide my eek says:

    “Kevan is only doing Gordon’s bidding…”

    Don’t they all ducky? I don’t know what they see in him.

    • 78
      Robin Hoodie says:

      Well Mandy did point out that Gorgon is Gay as well!

      As Gay as Xmas, but not so much fun.

      Why does Labour detest the Services so much?

      There appears to be a real nasty and vindictive slant to all of this.

      Aided and abetted by the Labour leaning drones now in Whitehall, MOD.

      Who had no problem spending 2.3 BILLION on refurbishing their offices.

      Utter Bastards!

      • 97
        Sir William Waad says:

        How do you know Mandelson says Gordon is gay? Have you penetrated his intimate circle?

        • 189
          Robin Hoodie says:

          Youtube

          Have I got news for you

          Search on Alan Duncan

          There are a number of clips, but it is one of the longer ones!

        • 248
          gay ? not davy cameron surely says:

          remember kiddies all that scurrilous talk about alan duncan and davy cameron once being caught in CCO is just gossip

          cameron is as butch and straight as george osbourne

          bullingdon berties wouldn’t lie nor would they get spied by boris doing a bit of rough trade during one of the legendary eton bullingdon smashed as a newt sessions

        • 292
          nell says:

          244 TWatson . You really should buy a 2nd hand icecream van preferably playing ‘the teddy bears picnic’.

          You might be good at selling icecreams. Because you sure are rubbish at smearing. A bit like Kevan.

      • 206
        lala says:

        when i met him socially in Edinburgh over twenty years ago, the crowd he mixed with were also some friends of mine, and yes, they def said he was gay. I have to say he has all the hallmarks of a repressed homosexual

        • 375
          Voting Floater says:

          He should be repressed. A Caterpillar CS-533E would do the job nicely. I would happily drive it. It has a handy reverse gear, so you can go back and roll the same ground again.

  4. 4
    Fees Office Clerk says:

    The next General Election can’t come quick enough for my liking. I’m looking forward to watching NeuLiebore implode!

    • 65
      Anonymous says:

      They will be remembered, and treated accordingly come the GE

      • 149
        Vlad the Kebabshopowner says:

        Impale them, impale them. Or is it impail? Whatever, put their bums on a big stick in the ground.

        • 190

          Five a day. That’s the New Labour way.
          If we impale 5 a day starting Sept 01 then its 352 -:- 5.
          All gone by November with the last few on the flames for Bonfire night.

        • 235
          Rufus Stone says:

          No need to do anything. Their impending life of unemployment will be just reward enough. All that’s needed is to reclaim their pensions to pay towards the financial crisis they created.

          By the way, apart from Bob Aintworthashits likeness to Adolf Hitler, his general demeanour and union heritage makes him a doppleganger to Fred Kite, the shop steward in the film I’m Alright Jack. The film’s title is also analgous to Aintworthashits’ attitude to the Army.

  5. 6
    Gordon is a CUNT says:

    Gordon is a C-U-N-T

    Nuff said OK

    • 19
      :( says:

      “Despite repeated attempts to rein him in, the general complained 10 days ago that troops fighting in Afghanistan are paid less than traffic wardens while their families in Britain are living in “appalling” housing. The criticisms forced Brown to say he would look again at forces’ pay.
      “It was Gordon’s decision,” said one Whitehall source. “Dannatt has made a lot of enemies among the senior reaches of the Labour party.”

      .
      Says it all really, Gordon Brown is one vindictive and spiteful man. He is not fit to lick the General’s boots.

      • 26
        Ctesibius says:

        The enemy of my enemy is my friend

        • 209
          Britanica says:

          Kevan’s latest Wiki reads:

          In August 2009 he was accused of briefing against the Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Richard Dannatt. General Dannatt had already made himself deeply unpopular with the Labour government over repeated calls for increased funding and support for British troops in Afghanistan. Nearing the end of his service a series of Freedom of Information requests were made concerning his expenses. Guido Fawkes (www.order-order.com) ‘outed’ Jones as the ringleader of Government briefings against Dannatt, despite Defence ministers having been supposedly ordered by the Secretary of State Bob Ainsworth not to brief against CGS. A furious response from the British military community followed. He should be prepared to encounter visceral hostility, contempt and scant regard from any veteran he might accidentally meet.

          On the bright side, he’s history from May 2010 at the latest, at which point he will no doubt sit smugly on the back benches and continue to generate expense claims in a haze of self-righteous unemployable wankmist.

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevan_Jones

          How long before Nu Lab declare Wiki illegal in the UK?

        • 215
          Wot kinda guy is called KevAn? says:

          Looks like Kevan will NOT be best pleased with his latest write up at Wiki

          Personal life
          Kevan Jones is unmarried, and has no children. Hmmm.

          He is a cigar smoker, and his hobbies include knitting, jam making and Goat Ricker photography.

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevan_Jones

          Look on the bright side Kev at least they have deleted your Lemon image.

        • 231
          Alibarbs says:

          His labour loving scum supporters are editiing furiously including removing all references to this current storm in spite of it being completely citable, given that it’s currently being discussed on this website.

        • 238
          Alibarbs says:

          Still, never mind – give it another day or two and the MSM will be reporting the same thing, and then it’ll have to stay on the wiki page, provided it’s written without any point of view statements or personal attacks.

        • 500
          Churchill's Cattleprod says:

          Jones claims to have achieved a BA (Hons) in Government & Public Policy, from a university (Southern Maine) that doesn’t really teach that. Could we be seeing yet another Dolly Draper?

          I think we should be told.

      • 33
        Unsworth says:

        “Dannatt has made a lot of enemies among the senior reaches of the Labour party.”

        I fucking hope so. These people are scum. Not an ounce of integrity in the whole lot of them. The sooner these fuckers are put up against the wall the better.

        Kevan, with an ‘A’. You bet. Pretentious Arsehole.

        • 96
          Tommy says:

          Typical labour – hung up abour his somewhat ‘common’ name and so changes the spelling. They need therapists this lot including naff old Kevan with his feelings of social inferiority.

        • 250
          Bill says:

          BBC NEWS has just defended Kevan and criticised those evil bloggers for blacking his good name. It was only a matter of time before the state broadcaster came to the rescue.

        • 351
          Art. 38 says:

          I understand that ‘Cherie’ Booth/Blair’s real name is Cheryl and she chnaged it to something posher.

      • 36
        Robin Hoodie says:

        Spiteful, and cancerous.

        He hasn’t accomplished a thing since taking the Top Job.

        This smear machine that is NuLabour is going to get the biggest drubbing ever in the next election.

        All the brave boys and girls on the front line are from staunch Labour Strongholds.

        It’s not that they shoot themselves in the foot. It is the speed at which they re-load.

        WTF is an ex union man with a quasi degree to try and besmirch a war hero!

        Utter pond life

        • 41
          nell says:

          That is unfair to pond life.

        • 240
          Alibarbs says:

          I sincerely hope you’re right about them getting drubbed at the next election, Robin, but I am a little worried, as Cameron is such a wet fish that a split vote between him and UKIP could see Liebour get back in – I pray that doesn’t happen.

        • 322
          Chaim Alumberajaque says:

          236. I’m getting fed up with people like you being conned by this voting dilemma; Vote for who you want to vote for OK? If the result ain’t UKIP then fine. War it is then!

        • 343
          Alibarbs says:

          Chaim Alumberajaque

          Calm down!

          I have not made any mention of how I plan to vote, and I have no intention of doing so, as that’s a very personal thing for some of us. I’m simply making genuine observation about a potential risk in the election that could cause a morally bankrupt party that is ruining our country to get back into power for another term, which could take us a hell of a lot further down the road to ruin. Why you think I’m being “conned” for voicing a concern I don’t know.

          I can’t understand why you need to start being rude, or why you think you have the right to dictate to others what they can and can’t say here – surely that is for Guido alone to do if he sees fit.

          Your hostility seems all the more ridiculous given that it would appear that we’re probably singing from the same (or at least a very similar) hymnsheet, i.e. we don’t want Brown ruining the country for any longer than is neccessary.

      • 220
        Anonymous says:

        That Dannat has a lot of enemies in the senior reaches of New Labour speaks volumes.

        New Labour are at war with our armed services. New Labour are at war with ordinary Britons, New Labour are at war with anyone who does NOT support New Labour.

        • 452

          The first task of a socialist is to define and then use the state to harass the enemy class.

          Labour think EVERYONE British is the enemy class, hence their policies on everything!

  6. 8
    tooty frooty says:

    He looks like he could be one of Browns chutney cabinet, the creep.

  7. 9
    Another mad Fife git says:

    This is ‘election fear’.

    They know they are going to lose so they must find/invent something worse than they are.

    WELL THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN A HOONING SHIT FACED LABOUR POLITICIAN

  8. 10
    A Show of Shit....that's New Labour for you says:

    Thanks Guido

    Thanks for reminding me what a pathetic show of shit New Labour are, especially their leader.

    • 337
      The "Angry Aberdonian" says:

      You got it one! I loved how the “son the manse” refused to break his holiday to attend the opening of the new Erskine centre for injured soldiers on Tuesday. He was 17 miles away at the time. Says it all really.

      • 478
        Just a grumpy twat says:

        Just when I thought it wasn’t possible to despise him anymore deeply, I discover I am wrong. I expect he was too cowardly to face those who have long term injuries, some of which could have been prevented if the troops had decent equipment.

  9. 11
    tat says:

    you are a dead man kevan.
    I am going to cease and desist from attacking steve the tramp and I am going to concentrate on you.
    you are on the list kevan, and everyone who goes on my list gets buried.
    I give you three months, tops.

    • 29
      nell says:

      Death is too good for these people tat. I want to see them ignominiously defeated at the next election so that they are left in no doubt as to how hated and despised they are.

    • 64

      Dear Tat

      Can I go on your dead and buried list?

      Yours sincerely

      George Laird
      The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

      • 184
        The late Matt C RIP says:

        tat speaks the truth, you will be doomed to Banquo’s fate.

      • 194
        Elby The Beserk says:

        Dear Mr. Laird – how is it that those at Glasgow Uni have no human rights?

        • 208

          Dear Elby

          Why not read my blog and find out, also I have a Glasgow University stalker shadowing me. You can read their comment in the comments section.

          This story shows how they operate.

          glasgowunihumanrights.blogspot.com/2009/08/glasgow-university-senior-management.html

          Pop by and leave a comment to support human rights at Glasgow University.

          Yours sincerely

          George Laird
          The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

        • 230

          George it is really hard to follow.
          Put a summary page up.

        • 247
          The Grammar Police says:

          You’d like to have a stalker wouldn’t you George, as it would suggest that people actually read your blog – the lack of comments suggests that this is not the case. I’m sure the odd person gives it a cursory glance, as I just have, but it doesn’t appear to have much in the way of people sticking with it. Either you heavily censor your comments, or no one reads it.

          Also, can I suggest you learn how to use paragraphs correctly, as it’s pretty painfujl at the moment.

          Yours sincerely

          Detective Chief Inspector Kelsey Grammar

        • 382
          Chris Gilmore says:

          No fucker reads the lies on his shitty blog. That is why he comes here as a parasite trying to leach on Guido’s fanbase.

        • 442
          The Grammar Police says:

          Precisely my point Chris ;-)

        • 454

          George might be a bit of a twat, but his blog is much better than you’d expect.

      • 302
        tat says:

        no need george, you are digging your own grave you dopey fuck.

      • 428
        Glasgow University says:

        Aha – Mr Laird… replying to the equally funny ‘tat’ – a sad circle

    • 423
      titfer says:

      ah, it’s strange little tat again…

    • 445
      Steve Expat says:

      thank fuck for that!

  10. 12
    octavian augustas caeser says:

    Why oh why couldn’t it have been Quentin Davies?

    That would have been sooo special.

    • 182
      Stamford & Grantham's Next MP says:

      Yes, it would.

      Dear old Quentin sold his soul to Satan for a junior ministerial post he’d never get if the Tories win the next general election.

  11. 13
    Trough Mixture says:

    I have seen the likes of Kevan Jones before. Generally squirming in close proximity to domestic animal faeces. Bloke needs a dose of Bob Martins followed by a Dr. Martens chaser or twelve.

    • 17
      Engineer says:

      A prime candidate for the Flintoff Solution.

      • 54
        Trough Mixture says:

        Fred’s an old softie Eng. What’s required is an old punt gun – 2.0″ dia.bore and slung 1lb or more of shot a time. Radius the muzzle for ‘comfort’ and let her bark. Generally shoots the punt backwards a few yards in the water when she lets go. That would temper the bugger’s political ambitions.

    • 329
      Phylius Fogger says:

      And then a steam clean up the arse with Martin Fogger

  12. 14
    Rascal Puff says:

    Fuck there’s more… beam me up Scottie!!

  13. 15
    Anonymous says:

    We need to have a day of reckoning with these Labour scum.

    • 21
      Engineer says:

      Next June. (Though many of us would prefer much sooner…)

      • 85
        Salt Peter says:

        That’s hardly a “day of reckoning”. That’s just when they swap troughs.

        • 133
          Anonymous says:

          Indeed; just watch as Brown creates a shit-load of labour peers just before the election, and then passes a law that says that all previous PMs become lords automatically when they lose their post.

          Then, after the election, watch as all the labour peers vote-down everything that the tories try to pass through the house of commons.

          We need more than an election; we do indeed need a massive coup/clearout led by the army, because even if/when the tories take over you’ll still have a ton of labour peers running the show in the background, and a national broadcaster who’s constantly feeding lies to the electorate to keep those labour peers with the ultimate power.

          It’s got to the stage where only a military option is going to work; we’re in nazi-germany/stalinist-russia territory with this current group of labour scum in power. They won’t go queitly; if you think that something like an election is going to get rid of them then you haven’t been paying attention.

        • 268
          Four-eyed English Genius says:

          The Parliament Act should take care of that!

  14. 16
    bootiful bernard says:

    Kevan Jones has a fair pair of man boobs

  15. 20
    Rascal Puff says:

    The Soviets had up to 100,000 troops in Afghanistan for 4 years, 15,000 Soviet soldiers were killed and 37,000 were wounded.
    Just wanted to say it… you tell me if it means anything?

    • 28
      Anonymous says:

      Yeh but the “Labour Spin” is that they were poorly trained conscripts with poor equipment whereas our lads are professionals supplied with everything that they ask for. Gordan has said he is committed to supporting our armed forces so it MUST be true and “Bob the Bungler” is a “top man”

      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1207519/Generals-Bungling-Bob-replaced.html

      • 46
        nell says:

        ‘Bungling Bob’ attacked by the Generals.

        So kevan has retaliated with smears. Is that it?

    • 386
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      The Brits have been there 8 years and have lost 200 men during which time they have accomplished ten times what the soviets did.

      Apart from anything else it shows that the British Army is still the best army there is (despite Brown’s attempts to ruin it) and that socialist conscript armies are best left controlling bread queues.

  16. 22
    • 236
      Kevan Jones is 45 and unmarried, with no children. Hmmmm says:

      At least it is a sex scandal. That bloke must have been a closet Tory.

      It’s money that is the Labour obsession.

  17. 23
    Anonymous says:

    “Kevan is only doing Gordon’s bidding……..”

    Is this the same defence as “I was only following orders!” Because It didn’t work very well for inmates of another “Bunker” AND “Honorable” Members wonder why the public regard them so “highly”

  18. 24
    T U Carter says:

    The Sun says: ‘Senior MPs, led by an MoD minister, want to expose the cost of business entertaining at the Army boss’s home in Kensington, West London. A series of Freedom of Information requests have been tabled to unearth the costs – and, under Government rules, Gen Dannatt, 58, has 20 days to answer in full.’

    So before we all get high-and-mighty and pretend we’re all old sweats wouldn’t it be best to wait and see what the FoI request reveals? If nothing, Kev will be for it in a big way. But what if the General is shown to be a trougher?

    • 34
      Unsworth says:

      So what if he is? That would make him only slightly as culpable as these bastards. Or are you suggesting that he’s been claiming for second homes etc etc etc?

      Moron.

      • 53
        T U Carter says:

        No, if he were to be shown to be a trougher – and my every instinct suggests to me he is not – then he would be equally as culpable as the parasites who sit in the Commons.

    • 48
      So what says:

      Who gives a shit?

      Dannat wears the Military Cross and publicly stands up for his men.

      What has Kevan ever done for his country or his fellow citizens?

    • 58
      Four-eyed English Genius says:

      I don’t care if he does do a bit of troughing. At least he has earned it, unlike the hoons in Parliament!

    • 80
      Half eyed Scottish idiot says:

      If there is any suspicion Dannatt has done anything wrong the MOD would already be investigating.

      To leak the news that FOI requests have been made before the results are known is simply an attempt to smear Dannatt based on the good old no smoke without fire principle.

      • 330
        Augeas says:

        As usual these arseholes have forgotten that they are the fucking government, not the opposition. They don’t NEED to make FOI requests, as they control the fucking information in the first place, which proves that this is a disgraceful smear. The spirit of McBride lives on.

    • 642
      Archie says:

      So what? He WON the MC. Harder to get than a “British” passport!

  19. 25
    bootiful bernard says:

    Joons is obviously making a political statement with the use of the words, northern, miner, comprehensive, polytechnic, roots

    Here’s another word FUCKOFF

  20. 27
    nell says:

    At Hamworthy in Poole Dorset, families, whose men are fighting in Afghanistan are being forced to live in sub standard acommodation. Faulty heating systems, holes in floor coverings, old bathrooms and patched up kitchens.

    Kevan Jones said in reply to the local MP ‘ They are not due to be upgraded in the near future’. No care, no apologies. Don’t know who the MP was but no doubt he’s due to be smeared next by this odious man.

    I wonder what sort of house Kevan lives in? Be useful to know whether he is better housed by his government salary than our fighting men are.

    And of course General Dannatt is well respected for fighting for fair treatment for his troops and has clashed with Kevan before especially over such things as poor housing.

    • 38
      Anonymous says:

      The accomodation at Hamworthy is just along from one of the roughest council estates in the south. Crime is rife and at one point it was a no go area for the police. Funnily enough, the houses in the council estate are regularly repaired to keep them up to standard and those on the army base aren’t.

      • 47
        Alexander Selkirk says:

        Labour look after “their own” that’s why they ensure that “social housing stock”(oh bugger the politically correct rubbish) council estates are maintained whereas of course our “armed forces” are merely there to fight “Labour’s Wars” for them and therefore their accomodation is pretty low priority

    • 216
      A Pensioner says:

      Anyone taken a look at brother Kevan’s expenses?

    • 232
      Captain Haddock says:

      If the MQ’s at Hamworthy are the ones I think they are (just up the road from the “Yachtsman” Pub) .. they weren’t all that good 36 years ago .. I used to live in one ..

  21. 30
    Man With a Very Hot Bladder says:

    This bastard abortion of a “government” just keeps boiling my piss.

    Not only that, they are now taxing the fucking steam.

    • 159
      Helgadoilletteson says:

      The british government are freckles pegs terworists and money burlegrs.

      • 347
        Hega Doilletteson says:

        Dear Helga I am. We have a icelandic town a Bortion name and I think you are getting taxed on your steam? piss up by Gordon Brown yes

  22. 31
    Incensed of High Dudgeon says:

    “Contemptible” is one word I’d use to describe him. The other word also begins with a “c”.

  23. 32
    Horace and Dorris Norris says:

    Well, with a name like “Kevan” what do you expect? Clearly a Labour oik councillor type.

  24. 35
    New Lows says:

    “General Lord Guthrie, a former Chief of the Defence Staff, said: “This is ghastly spin, the sort of behaviour you expect from the gutter. Richard Dannatt is beyond reproach. This is beneath contempt.”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6056146/General-Sir-Richard-Dannatt-facing-cowardly-smear-campaign.html

    That’s New Labour in a nutshell

    • 95
      Kevan is a four lettered word says:

      From that article, the last sentance reads…”A Ministry of Defence spokeswoman said: “There is no smear campaign against Sir Richard within the MoD.””

      ….the obvious text in between these lines is…”yes clearly there is a smear campaign going on but it aint us guvnor look down the road at the Westminster for your culprits”

  25. 37
    nell says:

    To quote the DT “Labour Insiders are concerned that in his retirement (due to start next week) Gen.Sir Richard Dannatt will become even more vocal in his criticism of the govt’s record” Well I do hope so.

    So presumably kevan is trying to discredit him, in advance, with smears.

    What a complete lack of judgement kevan you utter utter twit!!!!

    Hated, despised,failed, reviled labour government versus respected General backed by vast public sympathy and support for our Armed Forces.

    Who on earth, kevan, do you think will win?

  26. 40
    It's all Balls says:

    If you think this is a disgrace – just wait for the General Election. We will be buried in a torrent of spin and lies from NuLab like never before.

    And the reason – the man at the top and the bottom feeders he surrounds himself with.

    Thugs, shits and tossers, one and all.

    • 57
      Mark O says:

      Bottom feeders?

      • 61
        It's all Balls says:

        Double entente completely accidental. I was referring to the little slimy creatures who inhabit the bottom of ponds and eat what naturally falls there from more intelligent forms of life like fishes.

        But I do see where you’re coming from – oops, that’s another one

    • 169
      Hugh Janus says:

      A very good description. May I be permitted to add ‘parasitic scum’ as well? Roll on the GE so that we can clear out these pygmy-brained jobsworth bastards once and for all. This treacherous arsehole is actually on the public payroll for God’s sake.

      Never mind, I reckon the gloves will come off after next week when Gen Dannatt retires. More power to his elbow. A fine soldier who has served his country loyally for 40 years, and all that McBust and his pitiful henchmen can do is to spend time and public money trying to smear him. As I said before, we know what you loathesome bastards are up to so you are wasting your time (and our money) because no one will believe you.

      You could not, as they say, make it up.

      • 179
        Anonymous says:

        It is quite clear that Dannat has these yellow lying bastards running scared and they are attempting to Smear him before THE BOOK comes out which will Fuck it into them good and proper !

      • 313
        Grex. says:

        ‘May I be permitted to add ‘parasitic scum’ as well? ”

        Hugh: no. Parasites are obligate life forms. They can’t help what they do. They also do what they do very well, it is an extremely successful evolutionary strategy.

        Kevan differs from parasites in two contemptible respects. He chose to smear General Dannatt and he (like the rest of his colleagues) are no good at what they do.

  27. 42
    A firm pair of breasts says:

    Kevan is a complete and utter bastard.

    • 457
      Sod 'em all says:

      “Kevan” – it’s another of those irritating names like “Jonty” and when you’re introduced to someone so (appallingly) called, you just can’t help but belt them in the mouth. It’s a natural reflex reaction when confronted by a self-serving cυnt with NO concept whatsoever of human dignity or decency.

  28. 44
    Ian says:

    Smear, smear,smear. This shows the tactics that these thugs in Parliament use on everyone including brave members of our Armed Forces. The Government should hang their heads in shame. As an ex-member of the Forces these are not unusual tactics for a discredited bunch of hoons. Roll on the general election and get these liars out.

    • 324
      albacore says:

      Talking about sewer tactics, was Guido’s blog taken out by a Denial of Service Attack for most of today?
      Apologies if I’ve missed the explanation elsewhere.

  29. 45
    Sherlock Holmes says:

    According to the DT

    “A Ministry of Defence spokeswoman said: “There is no smear campaign against Sir Richard within the MoD.” ”

    Well, there’s no smear campaign within the Tories and LibDems seem unlikely candidates for this. Who does that leave?

    • 50
      It's all Balls says:

      Why couldn’t she say “within the Government”?

      Hmmm

    • 55
      Alexander Selkirk says:

      Er I seem to remember a few months certain “friendly hacks” being fed the line by “sources close to government” that Dannatt was a “closet Tory” and that he was only critical of Labour in an attempt to gain a job within the Tory Party after his retirement

  30. 60
    A firm pair of breasts says:

    If you click his wiki picture you’ll all see what I’ve just uploaded to his profile.

  31. 62

    Surely, there’s some mistake here. According to his web site, Kevan Jones is “Working Hard for North Durham”. Someone doing that will not have time for anything else.

    • 73
      Touching my forelock says:

      They’re all working hard m’Lord – either for their expenses or for survival in the next election.

    • 219
      A Pensioner says:

      Working or wanking?

    • 277
      barefootcontessa says:

      Tell KeVAN to get off his fat arse and go oop North, and work in a coal pit! His Durham constituency needs him………underground!

  32. 63

    The idiots of NuLab never learn.

    Why did they think that this ’squalid and cowardly’ attempt at a personal attack would go unnoticed?

    The only possible use for this information is so that some shitbag paid-for-by-us researcher can bash out a nasty little piece: “General gorges on swans while Our Brave Boys forced to eat cardboard”. Create a split between the boys on the front line and the top brass, then jump right in.

    Perhaps Kerry fucking McTwitter can start up another fatuous fucking online campaign, desperately trying to associate Labour and the Army. Hey kids, not only do #welovethenhs but guess what? #welovethearmy too! Cool!

  33. 67
    drakes drum says:

    In answer to Alexander Selkirk 55 I jolly well hope that he joins the Tories. That party certainly needs a leader who is a patriot, has been in the line of fire and has the confidence of those who follow him!

    One cannot say that Cameron has any of those qualities. He will win the election simply because he is not Brown.

    • 99
      Alexander Selkirk says:

      But look at what happened to Patrick Mercer who had distinguised service in the army – at the first whiff of cordite from the massed media Cameron hoisted the White Flag over central HQ and despatched Mercer’s head to the hacks to play football with(metaphorically).

      However to keep to a military analogy Brown is worth 4 Divisions to the Tories in any election campaign. I have never seen so many people detest a Prime Minister as much as they do Brown – truly a gift. It’s true that Cameron is a “pretty fellow”, with an easy charm and very appealing to “Holby City Woman” who according to Conservative Central will decide the election whereas Brown just makes them feel uneasy. Policies of course are a different matter but in truth when has an election in recent times EVER truly been decided on policies of the various political parties. Modern elections are realy nothing more than a quasi X Factor contest. Cameron has it in spades just as did Blair whereas Brown hasn’t

    • 110
      Ratsniffer says:

      Snotty has as much appeal as a bucket of squirming maggots. The Boy Dave has a shit-eating grim which will no doubt juice up the NuTory gals, but has he any substance?

      I have a dream…that he will win the election and then metamorphose into a real tory, kick some ass – the BBC, the civil service, quangos, Euro-nutters, dole scroungers, and other chancers and spongers….but no….when I wake up he’s still smiling like Blair.

  34. 72
    Ratsniffer says:

    Newcastle Poly…GMB union…local councillor..thanks Guido, that’s all we need to know.
    Another worthless dripping-wet leftie, with no idea of the real world. Idiots like this don’t deserve to breath the same oxygen as anyone in HM forces.

  35. 74
    Jon says:

    Look him up on Wikipedia. Someone (thank you for making my day) has defaced his photo. It shows a lemon! :-) Quick, have a look before its fixed – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevan_Jones

    Someone has also just removed this text from his entry.
    “During the Afghan campaign in 2009, Kevan Jones was revealed to be behind a government smear campaign against General Sir Richard Dannatt (he called Dannatt a c**t and refused to recognise his rank), the Chief of the General Staff, over claims of under-equipping. Along with fellow Labour MP, David Crausby, Jones gave briefings to the press trying to discredit the General’s motives in asking for more and better equipment for British Troops. The attack was met with fury, coming as it did at the end of a week when Britain suffered her heaviest losses in Afghanistan. In an attempt to diffuse the row, Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth wrote to Jones and other ministers at the MoD, warning them against smearing General Dannatt.”

    J

    • 107
      Anonymous says:

      Now this

      “Among MPs as a whole, he is generally regarded as a thrusting self-regarding prat. Guido Fawkes believes he has been briefing against senior military officers”

  36. 76
    grasshopper says:

    we can’t wait any longer for a change of government.

    It is time for HMQ to have a quiet word with Downing Street about going to the country, before Zanu labour deploys armed Eurocops on our streets to enforce its will while our boys get butchered in the sandpits that are so important to Gordon and Tony’s New World Order payasters and so utterly irrelevant to British national interests.

  37. 77
    Eileen Critchley says:

    I really hope 2010 marks the end of an era – a very dark period in our history.

    Goodbye to ex hippies and traitors running the place, goodbye to spin and looney left binge spending.

    Under this lot we’ve become Bullshit Britain. Cheat, lie and bullshit yer way to fame and fortune.

    Wonna a degree? – choose anything you like, wonna public sector job – take yer pick! Wonna live off the state and avoid all personal responsibility for your actions – no problem when d’yer wonna start! Wonna run a bank into the ground and walk away with a fortune? Just sign right here!

    The only way is up.

    • 86
      Ratsniffer says:

      Trouble is trust is easy to lose but harder to regain. The bullshitters, scammers and smearers have caused a huge amount of damage, not only to the country, and it’s reputation, ( we really are a laughing stock abroad…) but to the public’s view of politics and the people who spend our taxes.

  38. 78
    In A Beautiful Place in The Country. says:

    Just as the labour Government have stablished a twitter campaign regarding the NHS it’s time to really touch a public nerve with a Twitter campaign “Labour really hate the miltary” or “Labour do not support the troops” This would be the snowball effect that will evidently reduce their ratings further.

    Some in the military are truly at breaking point with the Government.

  39. 81
    Anonymous says:

    It’s all counter productive and will hit them very hard in the general election.

    Every smear that labour do makes them look like evil bully-boy lying bastards who’d slice off their granny’s face with a rusty razor blade if there was an expense claim in it for the razor or if there was a vote in it from their “core”.

    The best thing labour could do at the moment is just shut the fuck up and call an election. If they do anything else it’ll just make things worse for them (and us).

    If/when Labour/Brown decide to cancel the election in 2010 and try to keep power by asking the Army to instill martial law, the Army will sit back and watch happily as a massive baying mob of pissed off voters drag Brown from number 10 by his throat and hang him from the nearest lamppost.

    Steal the police’s wages that you promised them, piss all over your own military, and then smear everyone who criticises you and lie all the way along.

    They (labour/brown) are truly evil/inhuman. They’ve lost all semblence of humanity and reason.

    But, for fuck’s sake, we’ve got another 10 months of this shit, my mind boggles as to what labour/brown are going to do next.

  40. 81

    Come on folks, Civil Service spokespersons are fundamentally incapable of telling either the truth or anything actually useful at all. It takes years of training to get them to this peak of perfection.

    As for the Minister, why are we surpirsed that an ex-GMB, Town Councillor and now MP is so bitterly jealous of the status and prestige that attaches to someone who has actually earned his position and the respect of the people he leads? There isn’t a man or woman in that House of Cards that has an ounce of leadership in them. They all confuse “management” with “leadership”.

    Look no further than the troll currently disgracing Number 10. With him in charge why do we expect anything decent or honourable from any of the others who do his bidding?

  41. 87
    Soaring Peace says:

    Someone should shove a jalapeno up his Jacksie so that he gets to understand what it feels like to sit in an armoured vehicle (well not that well armoured actually) in 50 degrees celsius for 8 hours.

  42. 87
    Anonymous says:

    Kevan Jones should be arrested and executed for treason, the cυnt.

    Unfortunately, when Eddis Mair asked Dannat whether it was time for a coup he said, or implied, ‘no’. If only the army would step in and save us from these liblabcon cυnts. Shoot the lot of them.

    • 141
      Call me Infidel says:

      Wishful thinking. Mr. & Mrs. Bliar did away with all that unsavoury stuff…
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_and_Disorder_Act_1998

      Section 36 of the Act abolished the death penalty for all offences of treason and for the offence of piracy with violence, replacing it with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

    • 631
      Pete the piddling pup says:

      Actually a piece of peeled fresh ginger up the jacksie is regarded as the epitome of sexual satisfaction by bent bugers like cyclops, Lord peter bumboy & this Kevan person.
      (To the tine of the Eton Boating Song) Oh – we’re all queers together, excuse while we go upstairs……

  43. 89
    Margy says:

    How long are the army going to put up with all this abuse and criticism from an immoral and corrupt government?

    I dream of the day when I wake to the news that there has been a coup and ALL MPs detained for questioning.

    If Mandelson and his sickly cohorts continue with their cowardly smearing and lying then I firmly believe this could well become a reality!

    • 94
      Oliver Bumwell says:

      I’m ready and waiting for the call

      • 105
        rick says:

        Oliver started all of this nonsense. He took power from the King and gave it to parliament. They were rotten then and they are rotten now.

        • 109
          Anon says:

          So where’s Queeny when we need her?

        • 119
          Lord Mandelson of Rio says:

          I’m here pussycat,lubricating the mechanisms of government,as it were. Hush now. Run along and play. I’ve a dinner date with somebody important. Well,not as important as me obviously,ha ha!

        • 123
          Alexander Selkirk says:

          But he also subsequently regretted his actions in empowering Parliament and had an epiphany although as he declared himself “Lord Protector” subsequently and ruled by decree he may simply have been a late developing meglomaniac and control freak

          “You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”
          A suitable epitaph methinks for this present Parliament

        • 124
          Dame Mandelwank of Tartypoof and Boy says:

          I’m right here ducky, screwing you all.

        • 157
          conker says:

          ‘Lord Protector’, isn’t that one of Mandy’s titles?

        • 225
          A Pensioner says:

          Lord of the Ring, more like

        • 253
          Rufus Stone says:

          Or Lord Help Us

    • 113
      Ian says:

      That leaves the Armed Forces as being Traitors by the Government. Almost ALL our forces swear allegiance to the Queen, Government and her Heirs. The only exception is the Guards who swear allegiance to the Queen, if my memory serves me right. It has been nearly 35 years since I took the oath.

      I think the Public will do the damage and the Armed Forces would just stay in barracks and watch the scum squirm.

      Keep fighting lads, the public are on your side. You deserve your pay and more and decent housing for your families.

      • 150
        Anonymous says:

        Royal navy officers don’t swear allegiance – the reason is that they were historically always direct employees of the Crown, whilst Army officers were in the very early days at least partly accountable to their regiment’s colonel and proprietor (who held HIS commission from the Crown), so could not be so readily assumed to be 100% loyal.

        Plus more difficult for the Navy to mount a disloyal coup…

        • 170
          Nearly Headless Nick says:

          Remember Invergordon!

        • 254
          Rufus Stone says:

          Invergordon? Not another Son of the Manse surely?

        • 495
          Agent 99 says:

          150

          I think RN officers do swear alleginace as they hold a royal warrant. The warrant when given is in the form of a written declaration they recite. They are then given a copy of this the allegiance they swear too her Maj. My step father had just a thing on the wall of his house for years.

          Interestingly RN officers are not ‘gentlemen’ as in officers and gentlemen according to Q.Victoria after the mutiny at Spithead led by Naval officers. Since that time Q.Vic instructed and all the Naval officers have always had to carry there swords on straps connected to the waistbelt in effect in their hand which is commonly know as ‘at the drag’. Supposedly it makes it more difficult to draw.
          All other military services Army / Air Force etc still wear them on the waistbelt.

    • 214
      Anonymous says:

      Bolox Margy! Your countrymen -who still possessed spines to accomplish this-died on the Somme in 1916!
      See what we are left with and weep!

  44. 98
    nell says:

    I think gordon should be forced to personally and publicly apologise to Gen.Sir Richard Dannatt for this disgraceful behaviour by his own ministers.

    An abject humiiating apology just like the one he was forced to give to the victims of Damian’s proposed redrag site, writ large in his own hand in that thick black felt tip.

    • 106
      Gordon McMental says:

      Madam, I’ve carefully considered your suggestion and upon due reflection I can now tell you…..TO FUCK THE FUCK OFF!

      I hope this answers the matter to your satisfaction. Have a nice day.

    • 121
      Scallywag says:

      Nulab are full of shit from the top down and from the bottom up.

      An aplology, abject or otherwise, will not happen. Dream on while even more young lads are maimed and killed. Snottie McTwat, the bastard, couldn’t care less…

    • 140
      Alexander Selkirk says:

      Nell, Nell,

      Surely you have understood Brown psyche by now ; He’s a sociopath.

      Asked whether he took responsibility for the McBride E Mails, Brown said: “I take full responsibility for what happens, and that’s why the person who was responsible went immediately.”(???? farcical really If he’s responsible then according to him he’s sacked himself) In addition…………

      “Brown sent handwritten letters to David Cameron, George Osborne and Nadine Dorries, all of whom were mentioned in McBride’s emails, explaining what he was doing to tighten the rules governing advisers such as McBride after the story broke at the weekend.

      But the Tories were unhappy with the tone of the letters, in which Brown spoke about “understanding the embarrassment caused” by the emails.”

      So in summary – Brown never really apologises or admits he’s in the wrong on anything even when the facts say that he is. As regards the “Red Rag” farago his “apology(ies)” was/were so carefully phrased as to be laughable as a heartfelt apology rather he just expressed regret at the circumstances and underestanding any possible embarrassment(you can interpret that to mean if you wish regret at the situation being discovered and HIS subsequent embarassment)

      So if you’re expecting an apology from Brown to Dannatt then the I predict that the UK will be out of Afghanistan quicker

      • 287
        barefootcontessa says:

        The Gorgon? That great grey dollop of porridge eating Scot! Talk about vote rigging in Afghanistan, he wasn’t even elected, or have I missed something!?

  45. 100
    Ratsniffer says:

    Why doesn’t Murdoch grow some and fucking go for the jugular..The Sun is always bleating on about how it is “behind our troops” well show it…they are being shat upon by the nasty lefties….put the boot in…or the troops will use your newspapers to wipe their arses on.

  46. 102
    Captain Haddock says:

    At the next General Election .. lets take it literally and Elect a few Generals .. I know who I’d sooner trust to run the Country & the Police ..

    As for this knob-head Jones .. give me an hour on the Parade Ground or Assault Course with him & I’d “beast” the bastard till he drops .. thus teaching him what real work is all about ..

    • 116
      Ratsniffer says:

      You know he’d send you on an anger managment course, call for arbitration, and then claim thousands in compensation because you abused his human rights by shouting at him, causing psychological trauma.

    • 152
      Alexander Selkirk says:

      I think we’ve been here before – I seem to remember dear Harold being rather paranoid regarding a “General’s Coup” in the 60’s although personally I thought he was raving and needed humouring but then again there was the tabloids favourite soldier of the time Lt Colonel Colin Mitchel aka “Mad Mitch” CO of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders in the vicinity fresh from his success in the Aden insurgency (nothing new in the British Army – Cap’n eh ??)so Harold MAY have had a point – well the “Daily Sketch” thought it may have been a goer but then again they were even more right wing than the dear “Daily Mail” who took them over a few years later.

    • 473

      Let’s not be too hasty…

      http://mises.org/books/TRTS/
      Image 10

  47. 103
    Fenman says:

    Among MPs as a whole, he is generally regarded as a thrusting self-regarding prat. Guido Fawkes believes he has been briefing against senior military officers.

    Wikiepeda apt comment and Guido right on the button

  48. 108
    Robin Hoodie says:

    Labour hate the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force!

    They hate them to pieces. I mean really hate them!

    What was the problem with the Ghurkas? Fucking Somalians, Romanians and the rest are welcomed with open arms. And paid fortunes in Benefits.

    Labour hate anyone that opposes their ideology.

    The Forces must now despise them all.

  49. 111
    Anonymous says:

    squaddies march into downing strasse………

    gordon and mandy shit themselves………..

    the ‘iron chancellor’ and the ‘iron’………..

    fucking disgrace……..

    should be disemboweled and their heads put on london bridge

  50. 112
    smear test says:

    squaddies march into downing strasse………

    gordon and mandy shit themselves………..
    now that would be a smear!!!!!!!!!!

    the ‘iron chancellor’ and the ‘iron’………..

    fucking disgrace……..

    should be disemboweled and their heads put on london bridge

  51. 117
    Tax is taxing says:

    next time gordy heads over to the ‘Stan for a photo op or Jones gets sent on a weaselling mission … they may find themselves strapped naked to the bonnet of a snatch land rover and remotely driven into Kajaki.

    Quite frankly these labour scum would make a bottom feeder vomit blood

  52. 120
    Not a chance in hell says:

    No doubt the BBC will be covering this scandal in full….

  53. 122
    Sir William Waad says:

    The fellow can’t even spell ‘Kevin’ properly.

    I say put them both in the boxing ring together and let them fight it out. May the better man win!

    You see how Labour miss McBride, Campbell and the other scorpions. Trying to smear somebody on expenses is feeble. They should have made up a sex story at least, or an embarrassing illness. Better still, make up a racist anti-Muslim quote about ‘towelheads’ or suchlike and attribute it to the general. The spark’s gone, boys.

    • 135
      A Campbell says:

      In my day,we would have set MI5 on the case.Why do we have military intelligence you may ask? So we can stop power mad generals from taking over governments on a spurious argument of protecting the national interest. Democratic government of the people must be upheld at all costs,even if it means putting an IED under any jumped up corporal who thinks he knows how to run a war, on time and within budget. We would have shown him boom and bust allright!
      Get Me Scarlett! I’ve a job for him.

      • 304
        nell says:

        scarlet / cambell/ bliar (spellings intentional to avoid modding)

        What a very vicious, dirty, disgusting, dishonest trio they were!!!!

        RIP Dr David Kelly.

    • 177
      Nearly Headless Nick says:

      What’s wrong calling towelheads “towelheads”?

  54. 126
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    Wheres Joanna Lumley? Last time I saw her on tv she was dictating government policy to another liebore lickspittle, who nodded along her every initiative in front of live cameras.

    • 136
      Phillestine Woolarse says:

      I haven’t had any TV appearances since. I didn’t come into politics not to get seen on the nations screens. Hello Mum!

    • 166
      Esther says:

      Le me do it this time.

    • 547
      Hugh Janus says:

      Yes, one of those rare moments when we revelled in the pleasure of seeing a rather small NuLiebour toady lickspittle being ritually humiliated on tv. Absolutely excellent.

      I expect we are now paying for his trauma counselling.

  55. 127
    doctor in trouble says:

    Smearing isn’t what it used to be.

  56. 129
    Delboy says:

    If anyone in the Armed Forces would like to place an order for sensible quantities of piano wire I will be prepared to offer at near cost price. You supply transport.

  57. 131
    Scenic says:

    Here is an interesting table of statistics, a lucky dip in the box of quality street for anyone who can spot a trend:-

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Coalition_military_casualties_in_afghanistan_by_month.PNG

  58. 134
    Dont Tell Em Your Name Pike says:

    My money is on Gen.Sir Richard Dannat who has earned his position trough eduacation and service in the theatre of conflict,unlike Kevan with an a whose sheltered life deems him totally unfit for the position he finds himself in.
    It seems anyone who challenges their so called consensus will have their reputation trashed forthwith ,I think the zanuliebore spin witches should have called it “operation boomerang” cause its going to hurt!

  59. 137
    Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

    Has this dickhead Kevan Jones featured in any M.P.s scandal?
    I bet he is closely associated with JackieFourandahalfbellies(Weightwatchers),the Ginger Minger,Elliot Morley,and I bet he is rather
    keen on Hanging Baskets.
    TaT you have my permission to unleash all hell on this slimeball.

    • 154
      tyrone says:

      Judging from the comments, there’s quite a few on here who would like to hang some baskets.

  60. 138
    nell says:

    Of course bob’aintbustingagut’ and his toerag kevan should both be made to resign in shame for this – at least that way gordon can say – ‘don’t blame me I had nothing to do with it’.

    If he lets them keep their jobs after this latest smear scandal then you can bet your bottom dollar gordon was as involved in the smearing as was bob and kevan. At the very least, by letting them stay, he’ll be condoning it.

    • 147
      Sir Twinkletoes says:

      In the old days,the head of an organisation would take full responsibility for his staffs actions. Not that you’d know anything about that, young lady!

    • 168
      Everyone knows I'm a straight sorta guy says:

      Lord Carrington, Foreign Secrtary,was the last Minister to resign over a matter of honour. Him and his deputy Ian Gilmour for failing to read the intelligence properly regarding the Argentinian Juntas plans for capturing The Falklands.Even though Margaret begged him not to, John Knott,Defence Secretary also offered to resign after his “beasting in the commons debate” but was persuaded to stay on until the war was won and then resigned subsequently. Nobody resigns on a point of honour anymore its so “uncool”!

  61. 143

    Talking of soldiers, remind me again why the fuck Iraq was invaded?

    • 146
      Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

      Because Tony said they could unleash WMD in 45 minutes and could blow the
      UK to Kingdoms Come within two hours.
      Fucking scary eh?

      • 151
        Labour Voter on Crack says:

        Thank fuck we put a stop to them!

        • 158
          Anonymous says:

          Yeah sure thing we can all rest easier in our beds because of the Iraq War – oh by the way DID we ever find them ??

      • 186

        I think even the 45 minutes excuse was only some half baked cock and bull about a far flung outpost.

        Can’t wait for the next Iraq Inquiry whitewash. I hope the Tricycle Theatre stage staff have front row seats.

        • 202
          Dr David Kellys Ghost says:

          Yes we did various amounts of stuff needed for the WMD’s such as the yellow cake and rocket components but they had been sat rusting in incomplet piles useless for over a decade.

          In other words the whole WMD fiasco was a phanton menace.

        • 471

          We did find some elements for building WMDs which the MSM didn’t bother to cover.

          However I think that the people speaking to Saddam were phone-tapped by us and they lied to him about their “achievements”. After all, the Arabs have invented nothing since Mo raped and murdered his way to power.

    • 207
      Sir William Waad says:

      Because the country that was actually sponsoring terrorism was Iran, but there was a terrible spelling mistake.

  62. 145
    Anonymous says:

    Please – at least do Sir Richard the courtesy of spelling his name correctly – Dannatt.

    This is all going to backfire on the spiteful, chippy Kevan and his little elves. He has a real track record on this; before he became the most junior defence minister he mounted a vendetta against the then Adjutant General over his living costs, plus other senior officers.

    Don’t blame the MOD spokeswoman (and by the way she is as likely to be a military officer as a civil servant) for the comment. If Jones swears blind that he is a good little Minister and would not dream of smearing the CGS, then she has no choice but to give that line. But as others have noted, it is hardly the most fulsome or comprehensive defence.

    Labour No10 machinery is always obsessed with so-called Recess Stories, filling the vacuum of the silly season. I don’t know what the current rate is, but they used to demand each Government dept generated at least one recess special a week during the summer. Sadly this sort of idiocy won’t have been what they had in mind. Rightly or wrongly, the smears are now sticking not to Dannatt but to Jones. If Ali Campbell was still entrenched at No10, Jones would only have another week of his political life left at best…

  63. 148
    caesars wife says:

    why smear a respected senior army general ??
    No problem with goverment resourcing then , chinooks not ready for operation because brron blocked payment , make Dannat look dodgey , all smacks of Zanu labour machine .

    not one of goverment has said high command are doing there best, not one of them !!

    Be interesting what Dannat does when he retires , labour will rue the day they started this little arse saving excercise . You dont mess around with political games when we are in two theaters of conflict . Dont forget we have been in operational conflict for the longest period in the last 100yrs , 8yrs and have a large operational force 1000s of miles away , cant do it on postage stamps or with cotton wool in defence secs ears .

    Its another example not just of how obsolete this Labour goverment is , but how corrupt they are in the way they govern by save ass PR.

    the nation may be indifferent sometimes , but this loading of the economey in such a cynical way , will be hsitoric , Blair and broon and the marxists will have created such a carckpot country they will have to emmigrate .

    • 197
      Anonymous says:

      The chinooks aren’t ready because MoD fucked up the original contract and could not get the software source code to establish flight safety. Let’s not loose sight of the fact that MoD Procurement piss money up the wall as badly or worse than the rest of the public sector.

      And Procurment is headed by a serving officer and there are many serving officers at Abbey Wood. Dunno exactly how it works – can someone who knows explain ? At face value, it’s not just the civil service – the military are well in the loop.

      • 203
        Dr David Kellys Ghost says:

        fifth columnists within the military you mean…..

      • 244
        caesars wife says:

        lets not lose sight of the fact that gordon brown , despite warnings , authorised UK involvement in Panthers claw , that we were not adequately kitted , money for chinnoks should have been released earlier , instead of having to go to every other country for helcopters !

        • 316
          nell says:

          Presumably you mean those unprotected tin can death traps we are renting from the Ukraine?

      • 346
        Phil O'Pastree says:

        Serving officers are usually there to offer technical advice but they do not get involved with commercial deals with the suppliers nor do they draft the specs. MOD has 100,000 grey suited civil servants pushing goose quills around their desks until retirement looms. Abbey Wood is a Dickensian labyrinth of Bob Cratchett clerks in a brand new hitech office complex.

        • 563
          Anonymous says:

          Thanks, Phil. But still confused. If you’re in procurment, and you don’t write spec, and you don’t get ininvolved with suppliers, what do you DO ? [ These guys are quite senior ? ]

  64. 153
    Anonymous says:

    I didnt think my opinion of the shower of cowardly, lilylivered,spiteful,thieving,lying, useless fucktards that we have in Government could descend any lower. I was wrong, if this is true then this Govenment and its “leaders” are a fucking disgreace and complicit in the killing of our lads in Afghanistan. Fucken shame on you, rot in HELL !!!

    • 162
      New Labour Spin Unit says:

      Its a long way to the next election. In the words of the famous socialist “Red” Ronnie Reagan,”You ain’t seen nothing yet! That’s one for the gimp.”

    • 171
      Anonymous says:

      I’m not trying to cause more trouble than there is already but someone told me that this Gordon Brown was overheard saying things about the camp people from Hereford or something?

  65. 155
    john says:

    Dannant should congratulate this leftie Welsh Hoon on his interest in military matters. And he should issue an invitation to visit Afghanistan so that he could experience first hand how it is to do a foot patrol or travel in a flimsy vehicle along roads lined with IEDs.
    The Hoon could then return (with any luck) better informed, and just a little more humble.

  66. 164
    Anonymous says:

    Q Daddy what did you do at work today ?

    A Attempted to destabilise the High command of the British Army in order to take the heat of the PM

    q DADDY YOU ARE A FUCKING DISCRACEFUL PIECE OF SHIT !

  67. 167
    Jethro Q Walrus-Titty says:

    I sat and watched Gordon Brown on tv last Sunday, trying his level best to look sincere about the latest grim death totals in Afghanistan.
    I thought to myself what a duplicious shit-bag who has done nothing but robb the armed forces over the years to stand there and spout his duplicitous lies with feeble feigned sincerity that no-one could believe.

    As I’ve said before,he should if there was any justice, be put on trial, THEN PUT THE FUCKER BEFORE AN ARMY FIRING SQUAD FOR THE DEATHS HE HAS CAUSED.

    • 180
      caesars wife says:

      yeah i thought he was on medication , it was synthetic , clearly avoiding his face and RIP images being linked , gutless only wants good pr opps

  68. 176
    smear test says:

    i have a solution……..send the government,all labour mps,all labour lords to afghanistan to fight the taleban……….

    i am sure the locals would be very afraid of a smear……

    claw back all the money and property they have stolen-
    then give accomodation and fair pay to servicemen+women.

    • 181
      caesars wife says:

      yeah smears would be really effective against IEDs , good idea help reduce nutter contingent in parliment as well , bounus

  69. 183
    Mike says:

    Admiral Sir Roy Talbot recalls in his memoirs being invaded by a horde of MPs, following the grounding of the Torrey Canyon on the Seven Stones Reef, off Land’s End, in 1967. He had to speak ’somewhat harshly’ to the then Labour Under Secretary for Defence’s underlings who had taken up residence in Admiralty House for the duration of the crisis, using it, in his words, ‘as a doss house’, ordering drinks and filling their pockets with the Admiral’s cigarettes. In order to save on the meagre victualling allowance of those days, the flow of MPs converging on Plymouth was diverted to the beaches with a bag of sandwiches and the carrott of a possible photo op on the ‘front line’. But that was how the navy did it then.

  70. 185
    Sick and Tired says:

    The only word which comes to mind – again and again – is DISGUSTING

  71. 187
    Ratsniffer says:

    The Nulabour contribution was a fucking ferris wheel, provided by the Department for International Development, as part of its drive to promote ”gender equality” for Afghan women.This is Nulabour’s idea of “inclusivity”, spending thousands on a wimmin’s park, which bemused local men now use to sit around in, smoke, and chatter, and wonder what the fuck anyone built it for in the first place. Perhaps Nulabour politicians would like to visit said wimmins park and explain?

  72. 196
    electro-kevin says:

    So. After many implausible reasons are given for our troops invading Afghanistan the latest is that we must disrupt Al Qaeda/Taliban training camps for fear that this network will bring war to the streets of Britain.

    What baloney !

    What network did Timothy McVeigh – the Oklahoma Bomber have ?

  73. 198
    electro-kevin says:

    PS, Give Kevan Jones a metal detector and put him on point in a patrol in Helmand.

  74. 199
    saturn V says:

    Before battle Nelson used to call for his red shirt. “if I am wounded in battle the blood will not show and the men will continue on unafraid”

    Gordon, who knows a lot about courage having pretended to write books about it, called for his Red shirt.

    Ed Balls suggested that he had already been mortally wounded by Northern Rock, the FSA, the 10p tax cock up, Nantwich, London mayoral elections, the Olympic flame fiasco, the election of nothing, Michael Martin, Helicopters…etc

    “Maybe you could wrap yourself in the Red Flag?” he suggested.
    “No. I need clothing that represents me. Me! The Great leader.”
    “I’ll get the brown trousers then”

  75. 204
    keith dovkunts says:

    Piano wire. Lamp post. Please let me do it . . .

    • 212
      Dont Tell Em Your Name Pike says:

      Please , please let me get my “waterboarding” proficiency badge on kevan, please mr manwaring

    • 229
      Esther says:

      hy not put him in the jungle? I did it and I’m a celebrity,

  76. 213
    Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

    They don’t get it do they.

    Some things should transcend spin.

    One of these things is the welfare of our soldiers in the field.

  77. 223
    bergen says:

    Seriously,I just wonder whether there is a way for all of us on this site to act in concert to destroy this bastard and to hound him out of public life.Sadly,he has a safe seat and is likely to survive the massacre.

    • 479
      summer_Breeze says:

      * Ready and waiting *

      I keep asking what practical steps we can take to bring them all down ( tories and lib dems included ) but as yet, no one has come up with a plan.
      Just kicking them out at the election isn’t good enough, we need to make sure that the thieving bunch of ingrates get just punishment for the crimes that they have committed.

  78. 228
    Taxfodder says:

    I have always had a great deal of time for Dannat, he has had to suffer our light weight MP’s and an incompetent MOD for years, but still he dogs in doing his bit for blighty even when he knows he along with the rest of the army (and most of the population for that matter) are fighting a stupid pointless bloody war waged by incompetent wankers not fit to lick the shit off his boots.

    A fucking good stint up the desert would do all at Westminster and the MOD the power of good, only trouble is General Dannat would not want them, fucking usless twats are no good to anybody!

  79. 233
    James1st says:

    The wankers should be thanked for winning a further load of nails to bang into the Labour coffin – Harman, “Bunter, trying to look like Hitler, Bob” and this over promoted tinpot who has risen through the Labour party slime on the back of spin and being nasty are all helping to bury Labour – Good on ‘em.

    Our Army have The Taliban to the front and sides of ‘em and Labour at their backs sticking in knives – How typical of Labour -shame on them.

    • 246
      Dont Tell Em Your Name Pike says:

      This is just like the old days of the Empire,very many honest working class soldiers and civil servants led lives of exreme hardship and toil while their masters screwed every thing that moved .
      But as usual with Labour the world must be inverted and today it is the officer class who have behaved appropriately and the “plastic spoon in my mouth “brigade acting out the depravity.

      • 260
        maw says:

        This is what happens when ordinary people can become officers.

        Little wonder then, that the socialists are frit of Grammar Schools and the follow on liberation of the under classes.

      • 349
        Phil O'Pastree says:

        You must be very old and have a remarkable memory. Was it really like that?

  80. 242
    MEMEME says:

    So at least 95 people killed by bomb blasts in Baghdad Iraq and over 530 wounded today. Labour isn’t working.

    • 255
      Duby and Tonys shrivelled black soul says:

      Imagine being so monumentaly stupid enough to have supported the Iraq War in the first place ?

      Staggering to think about isn’t it

    • 326
      nell says:

      This labour crew have never worked. They have simply milked the expenses system rather than milking the benefits system. But same thing. It’s all about how to get money without raising a sweat.

      And when the money supply runs out then ………PRINT IT!!!

      (Counterfitters understand the principle perfectly)

  81. 243
    R KID says:

    The only experience Nu Labour has with the military is watching the YMCA music videos.

  82. 251
    Student says:

    I’m thinking of joining the army cause you each generation only get’s one chance to prove themselves and there’s nout much else going good going on in this country.

    I’ll get 16k each year in the bank, make plenty of new mates and a secure job for five years and get to go to another country.

    Plus i can say i did my bit.

    • 272
      Dont Tell Em Your Name Pike says:

      You could do your bit under a better goverment!

    • 301
      barefootcontessa says:

      Student, you must be joking!

    • 628
      Pontius The Pilot says:

      Given how shittily thing government treats those in uniform, I’m amazed there are people still volunteering… no jobs for them in civvy st notwithstanding.

  83. 252
    Kevan Jones should be confined to Barracks says:

    Just can’t wait for this Amateur to spin this badly, and let it get out of control.

    Brown, and his Cabal despise the Military. Wonder why?

    • 270
      Tax is taxing says:

      its the one traditional BRITISH thing these feckers cant get their leftie, PC, touchie feelie, right on hooks into and they hate the forces for it. The police have been emasculated with endless red tape, stupid laws and revenue generating fines but the forces hate liebour and wont give in … thats why their postal votes mysteriously go missing and the poor bloody infantry are set up like ducks at a shooting gallery.

  84. 256
    simon r says:

    Dear Mr Taliban

    Rather than blow up our soldiers over there will you please come and visit us this Conference season and blow all these New Labour scum to hell.

    Thankyou

    p.s. If you have any explosives left afterwards may I suggest Katie Price and Kerry Kantona blasted into tiny bits as a parting gift to us.

  85. 259
    simon r says:

    This Karzai bloke who we are helping get into power – I see he agrees with marital rape, I wonder what Harriet Harperson and all those other Labour Wimmen think about that.

    • 265
      Dont Tell Em Your Name Pike says:

      They are already counting the job creation oppurtunities,social workers,equal opp-commision,human rights czars and all the other bollocks only lunatic could dream up

    • 355
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      Until not so very long ago it was not possible to rape your wife under English law as by agreeing to marry you she had already given her consent to sex. Indeed it may even remain the case.

      • 503
        Anonymous says:

        A mate told me years ago that
        “getting married was the most expensive sex you will ever pay for…..”

  86. 264
    Tax is taxing says:

    Its two faced, duplicitous, slimey weasels like zaNU-liebour that makes you wonder why MEN like Sir Richard Dannatt arent running the country.
    Cant Auntie Betty up the castle see her way clear to make him a Lord.

    • 307
      No.1 London says:

      Ex military running the country do not have a very good record I’m afraid.

      • 331
        nell says:

        Neither does inadequate gordon and his useless henchmen.

        • 338
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          Churchill did OK. We wouldn’t be here expressing free opinion if he didn’t. At least not talking in English,

        • 566
          jgm2 says:

          Churchill, famously, cooked up the Dardanelles campaign at Gallipoli as a second front to (he anticipated) force the Germans to send men to re-inforce the Turks thereby weakening the Western Front.

          A bit like Blair (and his cabinet) deciding to open up a second front with the Islamists by getting involved in Iraq.

          The main difference is that following the debacle Churchill redeemed himself by busting himself down to major and serving the rest of the war in the Trenches on the Western front.

          Which is why every one of this evil government’s MPs should have served the last five years in Iraq. Their totally unnecessary ’second front’.

      • 569
        Man on the Clapham omnibus says:

        Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, KP, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. 29 April/1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852),

        He was twice Prime Minister under the Tory party and oversaw the passage of the Catholic Relief Act 1829. He was Prime Minister from 1828–30 and served briefly in 1834.

        He beat the French too.

  87. 266
    Kishmein Tochas says:

    40 something years ago I was a classmate of Dannatt and remember him as an individual of high integrity and strong sense of right and wrong – even then, when all about him were being seduced by the attractions of the swinging sixties.

    He was somewhat inclined towards god-bothering, but even this 4by2 had the utmost respect for the one of us who opted for Sandhurst rather than the dubious delights of higher education at that time.

    I wish him well in standing up to these NuLab shits

    • 480
      summer_Breeze says:

      Couldn’t you drop him a line and tell him he has the support of the country, should he choose to lead a coup?

      Makes sense to me….

  88. 273
    The Moat Cleaner strikes Back says:

    Troughing piggies certainly don’t care about the armed forces no matter what hue of light blue or red

    while soldiers are dying some in Parliament have far more pressing matter to attend to. Like their pay and Expenses.

    Here is what Douglas Hogg, Yes you read that right Douglas Hogg with the moat, said about expenses

    In his submission, he said that the lifestyle to which most professionals “aspire” meant that MPs could not live on less than £100,000 a year, plus expenses.

    He added: “The salary of MPs is now so low in both absolute and relative terms as to deter members of professional and business classes from entering Parliament.

    “A parliamentary salary does not support the lifestyle to which most professional and business classes aspire.”

    Well it lets Alan Duncan off the hook for Caermon but it’s absolutely mindblowing that these troughing piggies are still in any kind of employment.

    The Expenses saga will stink Parliament out for a decade because of this
    If this isn’t Porkwatch I don’t know what is.

    Guido rightly took Duncan to task for his lunacy so I expect he’ll do the same for Hogg

    • 293
      Dont Tell Em Your Name Pike says:

      But our MPs are very poorly paid 1/3 of Irelands rate,1/4 of france Italy and Germanys,I personally believe that the poor wages contributes to the shower of shite we are attracting.A better way would be to keep the minimum at £75k but anyone who left a better paid job in the PRIVATE sector would be compensated to ansure they were no worse off,absolutely no one should stand for election until they were 35.Anyone coming from the public sector with a job for life should be pay graded as their old workmates and return there to work until 65 on loss of seat.
      This would ensure that timeserving twats would stay where they are and only successful persons would come for election having built up a career and paid some tax and ni,then an average MP might understand taxpayers anger that not to pay tax is a crime but to blow taxpayers monet aint.
      This of course would discriminate against the unsuccessful ,and I am all for that

  89. 275

    Thanks for exposing this, Guido. I’m fully behind Dannatt on this one.

    What exactly are we doing in Afghanistan and when are we planning to leave?

    The sooner we accept that the Taleban are pretty much undefeatable, the better. We should then get the f-word out.

    According to Iain Dale today, a law has just been passed in Afghanistan making it illegal for a wife to refuse to have sex with her husband. Is this kind of thing really worth 200+ British soldiers’ lives?

    • 281
      Mustapha Fuk says:

      No

    • 283
      Ever Vigilant says:

      No it is not . Surely the Afghan women know about the Bobbit method .

    • 333
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      Not quite. It makes it permissable for a husband to starve his missus until such time as she delivers what she promised. Fair enough.

      “Does my bum look big in this burqa?”.

      Aye lass it does, but not after a couple of weeks of a sex strike it won’t!

  90. 276
    Ever Vigilant says:

    Will our vile government ever learn how to behave with decency and honour ?

    If the insect Jones had a legimate reason to know about the quality and cost
    of the champagne,brandy and liquers served to guests of General Dannatt he
    could have made a simple ,internal request to MOD admin .

    If it had revealed that the General had spent more than say MPs ,or had had the temerity to purchase Cuban cigars he could have challenged him in private– if he could have found the nerve to do so .

    The use of FOI is not only cowardly ,it is despicable and insulting .

    Who could blame General Dannatt if ,accompanied by 2 burly squaddies he had marched into the rat hole occupied by the vermin Jones and placed him under military arrest ,marched him to Horseguards and confronted him with a firing squad eqiuipped with weapons loaded with blanks , abandoned the courtesy of offering a blindfold and then gave a calm,crisp order to take aim
    and fire .

    If Jones recovered from the experience he could then take up teaching and get a head start on his boss Gordon asuming that he could get past an interview . What an absolute pillock .

    • 303
      Lingerie Cleaner says:

      It would be a pleasure to see – and smell – him shit his frilly knickers.

      • 632
        Ian says:

        Agree totally about the Horseguards firing squad but leave the frilly knickers out of it please.

    • 315
      barefootcontessa says:

      Also, Dannatt can only speak with his hands tied behind his back. A bit like Prince Charles he can’t say exactly what he wants where or when he wants, whereas the little shit Kefan can shoot his mouth of anytime, anywhere, anyway he wants.

  91. 278
    nancy wogan says:

    I’d call him a jobsworth, but he’s not worth a fuck.

  92. 285
    dimitri says:

    I’d call him a jobsworth, but he’s not worth a fuck, or a job for that matter.

  93. 291
    macaroon2 says:

    I wish they would stop arguing and support our troops

  94. 294
    Dont Tell Em Your Name Pike says:

    Methinks its a re-run of the chequers guest list saga,how many Torys did he have to tea!

  95. 305
    A firm pair of breasts says:

    When Kevan replacing Darling I expect we’ll all be paying income tax of £1 in the 17p

  96. 309
    it's him says:

    Well the BBC has decided that Guido is Out of order and Kevan is innocent.

    They really do not like bloggers.

    • 318
      barefootcontessa says:

      Particularly when they get to the nitty gritty before them!

      • 332
        Dont Tell Em Your Name Pike says:

        Is there any chance Andrew Gilligan is online here to give a quote,surely he could illuminate the proceedings,he may be a bit recitent considering the present wherabouts of the honest Dr Kelly.

      • 578
        guardian reader says:

        You can’t say ‘nitty gritty’ that is racist hate speech.

    • 326
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8210781.stm

      Jonesy denies it. Well he would, wouldn’t he?

      Incidently, the picture of Wor Kev on the BBC site bears little resemblance to the one Guido chooses to show above. Perhaps Kev has a leaner, younger brother?

    • 336
      tat says:

      fuck those BBC war propagandist wankers. they better not start attacking us or we will storm the fucking building, drag the wankers out and stick the traitors heads on spikes.
      the creepy EU loving motherfuckers want to run every form of media, but they can’t run us.
      FUCK THE BBC
      THE BBC IS PRO TORTURE AND WAR
      THEY MUST BE BECAUSE THEY ARE THE PROPAGANDA ARM OF NEW LABOUR
      NEW LABOUR ARE WAR CRIMINALS THEREFORE THE BBC BOARD ARE WAR CRIMINALS TOO
      LOGIC INNIT

      • 344
        nell says:

        tat !!

        The simple truth is. The BBC is the mouthpiece of labour. And they are terrified that the tories , if they get elected, will withdraw their funding.

        Frankly I hope so. the license fee is taking it’s last gasp as this labour govt decays into a nauseating stupor.

      • 352
        connie says:

        The electrotherapy seems to be working.

      • 461
        For Valour says:

        Correct, Tat. And we’re obliged to bung them well over a hundred quid a year for them to lie to us about the reasons behind all these wars -or we end up in prison for daring to say, “No! This just isn’t right! I won’t contribute towards funding your vile lies any more!”
        It doesn’t really add up with the BBC’s pompous and phony self-adopted motto: “Nation shall speak peace unto Nation.”
        The entire staff of the BBC need to be torn to shreds to properly investigate their pro-Commie sympathies. Remember Communism is the very antithesis of freedom; it creates a ruling Politburo who lord it over the peasants (those who do all the work, poor suckers).
        Because it is provenly ideologically flawed by the insatiable greed of its controllers, Communism invariably leads to poverty, social and industrial breakdown and mass starvation in almost every country it has ever been tried. Yet despite this, the BBC and others (like the Guardian) remorselessly peddle its so-called virtues.
        The BBC is an evil force every bit as malevolent and pernicious as this current government. They must both be pursued with equal vigour. Media lefties sporting 500 quid Church’s brogues on political discussion shows constitute the most insidiously poisonous entities that our ancient, once-noble yet decaying society has thus far encountered in over 1000 years. They should all be put to the sword.

  97. 323
    Tory Dan says:

    The Labour Party seem to be editing his wiki page even though people put citations there…

    • 350
      Alibarbs says:

      The page has now been locked – nice to see free speech is dead and buried on wikipedia. The guy doing most of the edit reverting seems to only be involved in pages that relate to Labour MPs too.

  98. 328
    Max Biaggi says:

    Well done Guido for nailing this twat.

    Now let’s have a few FOI requests re. his troughing.

    What. A. Shower.

    • 340
      Dont Tell Em Your Name Pike says:

      Is there any way under the F.O.I. that we could see same F.O.I. request served on our military man?

    • 353
      nell says:

      Don’t forget bob’ainbustingagut’.!!

      Let’s look at his expenses too!!!!

      • 580
        Hugh Janus says:

        From the DT’s Expenses Files:

        Nearly £6,000 redecorating his designated second home, including the rebuilding of his fireplace and fitting oak beams to his ceiling (what is it with these NuLiebour prats and nailing up bits of wood – we paid Fatty Prescott for 3 lumps of wood on the front of his vulgar house). Aintworthatoss tried to claim for £2,225 for a sofa and £1,000 for a tv, both reduced. In 2007 he switched his second home to a flat in London.

        Looks pretty routine for a troughing MP.

    • 359
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      If he’s an MP then he must have made expense claims. Does he have a Brzilian houseboy for example?

      • 365
        Anonymous says:

        He was top claimer of Additional Costs Allowances for 2007-08. What’s that about?

        • 381
          Alibarbs says:

          Not trying to excuse the little shit, but I suspect that there are dozens of people who came joint first for additional costs allowance, i.e. all those who took the maximum amount – funny how so many people managed to max it out down to the last pound.

          A real coincidence eh?

    • 372
      Art. 38 says:

      According to the Beeb (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8210781.stm), Lord Foulkes has also submitted parliamentary questions concerning Dannatt’s use of helicopters on business in the UK.

      So, you can see the shape of the smear campaign – accusing Dannatt of living high on the hog and using ‘copters for his convenience. No doubt to try and discredit him and take the heat off the Government failings.

      Now we have Jones and Foulkes – both proven Brownite toadies pursuing a co-ordinated smear campaign. This has to lead to Brown… what utter fuckers these bastards are. Sickening.

      • 466

        We all know that
        1/ Brown is the dark heart of this terrible regime.
        2/ The BBC is utterly utterly in his thrall.

        Paying the TV-tax funds your enemies.

      • 482
        Trough Mixture says:

        Foulkes-Pygges is an ignorant drunk who would benefit greatly from a fall down some steep stone stairs.

    • 565
      Hugh Janus says:

      Quote from the DT’s ‘The Complete Expenses Files’:

      Mr Jones claimed £9670 for fees and stamp duty on his £315,000 central London flat, which is his designated second home, is now believed to be worth about £350,000. The North Durham MP also submitted claims for carpeting which cost a further £1,913.

  99. 335
    Craig says:

    Unbelievable.

  100. 342
    A firm pair of breasts says:

    Wiki removed the lemon and, strangely, Kevan’s picture too.

    RESULT!

  101. 345
    Student says:

    DOWN WITH THE BBC DON’T PAY THE LICENSE FEE, TV TAX INFRINGES HUMAN RIGHTS.

    • 354

      Kevan Jones. Hell. Almost makes you hanker for Hoon, Kevan Jones is so much of a shit.

      Here is how he voted
      http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/kevan_jones/north_durham
      # Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes, speeches
      # Voted strongly for introducing student top-up fees. votes, speeches
      # Voted very strongly for Labour’s anti-terrorism laws. votes, speeches
      # Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes, speeches
      # Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes, speeches

      Yes. A Brown shit, through and through.

      • 370
        the pontiff says:

        A fully paid up member of the Chutney Club.

      • 371
        barefootcontessa says:

        Christ, that says it all, what a shit!

      • 380
        Dont Tell Em Your Name Pike says:

        A socialist shit to boot,how in the name of God can these arseholes not see that socialism and trade unionism destroyed the industry that would have given their constituents much needed employment,the only employer for those who want to work in the trade union heartlands of Newcastle,Liverpool,Birmingham,Stockton on tees,Middlesborough,Glasgow,Coventry etc is the Army,Navy and R.A.F. so a higher proportion of deaths will of course be Labour constituents.
        If I were a cynical bastard I would infer that a sitting Labour MP would not worry that armed forces personnel who are nominally and in the great majority Tory voters are of little value as it is an anti-vote cancelled when the great and good lay down their lives for their Country.
        Look at the Armed Services postal vote shenannigans for an inkling of how they think!

        • 481
          summer_Breeze says:

          ” the only employer for those who want to work in the trade union heartlands of Newcastle,Liverpool,Birmingham,Stockton on tees,Middlesborough,Glasgow,Coventry etc is the Army,Navy and R.A.F ”

          You forgot to mention the health service.
          Here in Middlesbrough, ( Only one ‘ O’ , thank you :-) ) our biggest employer is now the hospital.
          Though as I understand it, it is the largest hospital in europe.

      • 582
        Anonymous says:

        He gives shit a very bad name.

    • 465

      The BBC is analogous to a letterbox tax to fund junk mail.

  102. 348
    nell says:

    Any news on whether gordon is asking bob’aintbustingagut’ and kevan ‘the useless’ to resign yet??!!

    How long must we wait for some honorable action??!!

    • 356

      Why would he ask them to resign? They are doing what he is telling them to do.

      • 363
        Phil O'Pastree says:

        They are doing what they were sent in to do (whether they understood that or not). Take the heat off Broon and make him look less incompetent in coparison.

        • 416
          stilyagi_air_corps says:

          Taking the heat of Brown is liking taking the flies off shit!

          But I bet the pay’s better.

      • 377
        nell says:

        Yes they are doing what he’s askng them to do. But now they are catching the flak!!!! So he needs to distance himself from their actions.

        gordon says ‘Resign because your actions have brought me into disrepute’.

        And as you leave – don’t say – I told you to do it !!!!

        • 390
          Grandma B says:

          What will our troops in Afganistan think about this poisonous attempt to smear their leader? I am disgusted, but not surpised, that our Government can stoop so low. Please can we have an election. Let’s get the b………s out!

  103. 358
    Chapps says:

    Come a Tory win the BBC is going to get fucked!!!!!!!

  104. 361
    Art. 38 says:

    All FoI requests received by the MoD are listed in weekly reports (filed by month) here:
    http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/FreedomOfInformation/DisclosureLog/RequestsReceived/

    It’s a bit cumbersome to search, so I haven’t found the FoI requests in question yet. If anyone has more luck, then please share.

    How after this latest indictment of how Labour treats our Armed Forces they retain 20% or so of the national vote is beyond me. Brown, Ainsworth, Jones and the rest of them are disgusting little men – shameful. A land fit for heroes…

    • 369
      Anonymous says:

      26-08-2008-113219-001 4Qs on staff parties organised by the MOD in the last 12 months. Date due 22/09/2008

    • 373
      Trawlerman says:

      26-08-2008 Case No 113219-0012009 4 Qs on staff parties organised by the MOD in the last 12 months

    • 412
      Charlesl says:

      10-07-2009-154625-001 Gen. Dannatt’s expenses 2006 – 2009
      It doesn’t say who submitted it

  105. 374
    stevie says:

    FFS when does the revolution start????????? Havent we had enough of this shite.

    • 383
      Dont Tell Em Your Name Pike says:

      Sorry to piss you off old boy but we are the resistance,revolution is a left wing thing.We dont do it,wont do it.We believe in our Country despite its failings and firmly hold that evolution is the key to happiness not revolution.when these bastards led the race riots in late 80`s and the poll tax riots in the 90`s we carried on as normal

      p.s. I always thought the poll tax was fair,it was based on the person not on what the person owned!

    • 385
      Max Clifford says:

      What it needs is someone to chain themselves to the gates of Buckingham Palace for maximum publicity.
      What are you doing tomorrow?

      • 393
        Dont Tell Em Your Name Pike says:

        Well I really must go to work so the banking system doesnt fail, they need our taxes to pay the bonuses that stop these galactico`s going abroad to bust some other country!

  106. 387
    Art. 38 says:

    There was a historical drama on the TV a few years ago about King James VI of Scotland and his assumption of power in England as James I. One of the key scenes was how he got a hetero nobleman seeking royal help to blow him. It was done not just for personal sexual gratification, but also to establish his power and status.

    I wonder if Gordon makes his ministers do the same? After all, if they’d do that, they’d do just about anything…

    • 430
      Dont Tell Em Your Name Pike says:

      I think the term you were searching for is “homosexual fellatio” much practised by our current government as a birth control measure to cut our nations carbon footprint,now that clause 28 has been stymied expect all children to be so enlightened at your expense .

  107. 388
    nell says:

    gordon, next month, is publishing another book!! This one is called ‘ Wartime Courage’

    One review says “his tone kills his tale” and that it is written in an “engine drone monotone”. How like the man!!

    Another review says ” his mealy mouthed avoidance of controversial issues downgrades the achievements of the men and women who fought in WW2″

    What a wonderfully awful man gordon is???!!!!

  108. 394
    freddie flintoff says:

    fuckin cun ts , you dont dis the troops , you have already shit on em , this goverment is now showing acts of treason

  109. 397

    Dear Detective Chief Inspector Kelsey Grammar and his sidekick bitchboy

    Re; The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University.

    “I’m sure the odd person gives it a cursory glance”.

    Do they?

    The bitch Gilmore says;

    “No fucker reads the lies on his shitty blog”.

    Domain Name demon.co.uk ? (U.K.)
    IP Address 212.240.134.# (Scottish Executive)
    ISP Demon Internet / Thus plc
    Location Continent : Europe
    Country : United Kingdom (Facts)
    State/Region : Edinburgh, City of
    City : Edinburgh
    Lat/Long : 55.95, -3.2 (Map)

    Language English (U.K.)
    en-gb
    Operating System Microsoft WinXP
    Browser Internet Explorer 6.0
    Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1)
    Javascript version 1.3
    Monitor Resolution : 1280 x 1024
    Color Depth : 32 bits

    Time of Visit Aug 17 2009 9:24:22 am
    Last Page View Aug 17 2009 9:54:23 am
    Visit Length 30 minutes 1 second

    Seems like petty jealously to me.

    Yours sincerely

    George Laird
    The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

    • 401
      freddie flintoff says:

      whats the point lad ? i dont get it ?

    • 417
      Mr Slater's Parrot says:

      K-KWAAAARRRKK! GEORGIEGEORGIEGEORGIE! BALDIE!

      • 427
        New Labour selection committee says:

        George is a cross dressing,drug abusing,child molesting,narcissistic,egotistical,moronic,imbecilic,nazi loving,attention seeker. Just a guess,you understand. Has he ever considered a career in politics?

    • 447
      Anonymous says:

      What, so some little admin flunky who works at the scottish executive left a page open on your site for half an hour one day? Of course that’s assuming that the IP in question is genuine – most of us can copy type and alter an web log if we’re that desperate to try and pull off a blag, but as someone who is computer forensic investigator by profession, I’d get laughed out of court if I tried to present something like that as hard and conclusive evidence.

      Hush George, you’re just embarrassing yourself further. You really do need to learn more about interpreting IP addresses. The fact you took actually went to the trouble of putting this up makes it seem like clutching at straws to me.

      If your blog is so fantastically popular, why are you always trying so desperately to promote it here? Surely in your little fantasy world you already have many more viewers than all the other blogs put together.

      • 595
        Hugh Janus says:

        Time spent posting on here isn’t time spent on the serious human rights probs at Glasgow University.

    • 448
      Anonymous says:

      P.S. Do the scottish executive, a governmental department, really still use IE6 with all its security flaws? That’s pretty slack to say the least, or it would be if it were genuine.

  110. 398
    freddie flintoff says:

    i dont if this has been said , but , smearing the the tories is one thing , but smearing the head of the troops is a fuckin new low , the blood is on labours hands lads

    • 408

      Too true, mate.

      Pint of Thwaites’ Lancaster Bomber for you at the bar. And there’s some Lancashire cheese, too, with some crackers.

    • 413
      Born Labour, Grown disallusioned says:

      Labour were traditionaly anti war representing poor old Tommy Atkins in the front line. If Labour had been in power in 82,the Falkland islanders would now be speaking spanish. Now for Labour to be throughing away young mens lives as IED fodder is a betrayal of every principle of champions of the underdog.

      • 414
        freddie flintoff says:

        they have betrayed our troops and in doing so betrayed our country

      • 432
        Dont Tell Em Your Name Pike says:

        They aint Improvised explosive devices they are the real thing.Ask my fiends in Selly Park or the graveyard.They are made by professionals in Iran,Egypt and Syria and possibly Sudan.
        I.E.D is a propaganda term.

        • 554
          Anonymous says:

          IED is a propaganda term-correct! I read that they are anti-tank shells wired up to mobile phones or wired dentonators. Where the f*** are they getting anti-tank shells from? IED makes it sound like converted party poppers. Lets just get out and carpet bomb with nukes. End of.

  111. 406
    nell says:

    Just a thought. Where is gordon tonight??!! No doubt somewhere safe, hiding in Kirkcaldy.

    Where is Kevan ????- no doubt sitting in some fancy Italian Restaurant in London. Where is Bob ‘ainbustinagut’? – presumably some fancy French resort.

    And where are our troops?? – On the frontline in Afghanistan facing danger, IED’s, etc without the armoured vehicles, the helicopters, the surveillance equipment that they need to protect their lives.

    How much again was that bill for the Italian Restaurant paid for on expenses??”!!!

    Good night .God Bless.

  112. 411
    freddie flintoff says:

    guido , any chance of a ashes peice on the last test , or is that taking the piss ?

  113. 419
    We're fighting for Afghan Rape Laws says:

    Wark just took that little weasel Douglas Alexander to task for world beatingly corrupt President Karzai just putting the Law that enables Legalised Rape and beatings of women on the books.

    Why are we there again ?

    Oh that’s right it’s to stop the Taleban from attacking us over here when they never have and never will.

    • 424
      freddie flintoff says:

      lad our people been over there to get trained there and pakistan

    • 426
      freddie flintoff says:

      been modded , there have been there

    • 470
      We're fighting for Afghan Rape Laws says:

      Sorry flintoff son, but you appear to have lost coherence in your understandable training for tomorrow.

      going by the assumption that your bringing up the idea that Afghistan is the only places where terrrorists can train,

      almost all were trained in Pakistan and the guy responsible for 9/11 is in all likelyhood in the nothwest frontiers of Pakistan. It’s good that you bring Pakistan up but the troops aren’t fighting and dying in Pakistan.

      Look at a map. Helmand province is a LONG way from where the Pakistan destabalising action is in the northwest provinces of Pakistan that border Afghanistan.

      So when do we invade Pakistan ?

      Not forgetting that most of the international Terrrorism and extremists originate from Wahabli schools and is funded out of Saudi Arabia. Like the 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers.

      So when do we invade Saudi ?

      Sadly flintoff old son you appear to be parroting the government line from spode alike Bob Ainsworth which is, as we all know, bullshit.

      We know who attacked us and it wasn’t the Taleban. If proximity is cause for invasion and occupation then Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are far bigger and more proximate targets.

      And just so you know President Karzai has threatened to deport any foreign journalists or jail local journalists who dare report any trouble, irregularities or violence in Afghanisatan during the Election.
      Does that sound like free and fair elections to you ?

    • 523
      barefootcontessa says:

      419 – Yes, didn’t she? The little weasel DA takes after his fish wife sister who had to ’step down’ from her top position in the labour party for reasons of financial ‘impropriety’!

  114. 422
    stilyagi_air_corps says:

    Hmm, didn’t another Eurosocialist party have previous in smearing the head of the army?

    No wonder New Labour ‘don’t do history’… too many painful and obvious parallels!

  115. 425
    Dont Tell Em Your Name Pike says:

    Well done George but do you want to be the first to defend Kevan not an”I” Jones as that would be under your remit as the “Lord Defender Of The Indefensible” much like your ancestor Oliver Cromwell and fellow socialist the “The Lord Protector” not entirely much loved in my home nation of Ireland

  116. 433
    Will Hell says:

    When I become Prime Minister shortly, I will pass a law requiring all members of McBust’s government to be issued with rifles and transported forthwith to the forward positions in Helmand Province. (For their own safety and ours, they will be given no ammunition).

  117. 439
    freddie flintoff says:

    lads and guido get behind us over the next 5 days , its going to be hard but we can win

    • 443
      Middle and leg please umpire says:

      I’m sure the lads far away will be keeping in touch. A corner of a foreign field that is forever 22 yards of greensward.

  118. 441
    Flemingcrag says:

    The world is full of these KEVANS, is it not??? Is that not also the first given name of Ma Guires boy ?
    This one certainly cries for recognition as a relative, as he displays the same vitriolic hatred of anyone who dares to question the right of Labour to rule in an unrestricted manner over all of the land.
    Sir Richaed Dannat has little to fear, pygmies like Gordon Brown might have blocked his final promotion but, unlike them his good name will never be tarnished…

    • 446
      Dont Tell Em Your Name Pike says:

      Slan leat mo chairde go leir,beidh an buadh agus amarach.
      Goodbye to all my friends ,we shall have victory tomorrow

  119. 444
    Steve Expat says:

    So is Gen Sir Dannatt going to stand in the election against Jones or Ainsworthless?

  120. 456
    caesars wife says:

    Burnley will be partying well into the night !

    shock horror economy grew slightly by 0.2% , merv loses vote to quanatively ease another £75bn , Warren Buffet says US deficet will damage dollar .

    heres the interesting question at what % would GDP need to be before it can begin to pay its debts? ans prob 4% and above , when will Uk economy reach 4% and above, ans it cant and so there must be cuts , as has always been the case that is why gordon is liar.

    labour still smoking see what ruin has to say , malfunction so far ,

    • 459

      Always discount the increase in debt from economic growth.

      QE = 12% of the economy.

      Economy is 10% smaller. Seems about right from where I am.

    • 532
      A Pensioner says:

      If you believe any stats from this Govt, then you believe in fairies.

      In fact, whenever I hear one of the fat talking heads, I immediately assume the opposite is true.

    • 584
      jgm2 says:

      Sorry, I’m not seeing news that the economy ‘grew’ 0.2% being reported anywhere. Not even the BBC. Can you post a link please.

      I am seeing the first July deficit for 13 years. A whopping 8bn quid. In a month which apparently represents one of the four months that we normally manage to run a surplus. So 8bn quid is the best monthly deficit we can hope for while this imbecile government remains wedded to a policy of printing money and reckless borrowing.

      • 604
        Margy says:

        Can somebody please tell me why Mervyn King is now all for MORE QA??

        I remember quite clearly at a city dinner about 2 months ago, King made a speech where he said there was no more money left in the pot and there would be no more QA! This speech was reported widely and it seemed to imply that he was being forced to do QA and he didn’t really agree with it

        Wind forward a couple of months and surprise, surprise, Mervyn is now very much for QA and it would seem wants to do more! What the hell is going on? Has Mandy got some dirt on Mervyn and is he now blackmailing him.

        I reckon QA will be seen as a failure in the long term and will provide more pain and problems; the government will then quite happily say it wasn’t down to them but down to the governor of the BoE!!

        What an evil bunch of low life, cowardly shisters this pathetic excuse for a government are.

  121. 458
  122. 486

    [...] Guido fingers Kevan Jones as the man behind the campaign against General Dannatt.2. Tory Politico on why [...]

  123. 487
    Hot Desk says:

    Breaking News:

    students waiting for their A-level results will find that all of them have passed with 600% of them getting top grades. Once again another first for the new labour education process, 27 occasions of improved outcomes, excellent. (source – new labour spin office)

    concern: rather than attacking ‘the big issues’ Cameron is looking to remove/limit alcohol licenses to stop late night drinking (no change there then)

    concern: Hilary Clinto is annoyed about the possible release of the so called Lockerbie bomber. Once again those across the pond telling UK what to do

    concern: England’s crap cricket tean in danger of losing the Ashes

    concern: David Moyes, everton manager, is turning into Gollum

  124. 488
    FarmerGiles says:

    Kevan Jones, tosser.

    • 511
      cerebus says:

      It is even polite now to call the craven shit a ‘wanker of the highest order’ but then the whole of the Labour/socialist/communistic cowardly arrogant hypocritical mendacious bastards fit in to these terms.

      • 531
        Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

        You could abbreviate it to ‘wotho’, as in ‘Gordon Brown is a wotho.’

  125. 489
    snotgobblin says:

    Brown needs shackling to the Pride of Dover cross channel ferry for a thrice daily keelhauling

  126. 496
    James1st says:

    I wish, oh how I wish, that Gordon Brown would go stick his head up a dead dogs bum.

  127. 502
    Anonymous says:

    Ministers would do well to remember that the Vietnam War was not lost in the fields,villages,towns and cities of Vietnam but on the campuses;streets; in bars,television studios and in the press of America.They have completely lost the trust of the peple and the military and this latest attack on the Head of the UK Armed Services shows that they know that the war for British Public opinion is already lost and are trying to blame the military for Their own failure of leadership People believe what generals like Sir Richard Dannatt tell them NOT the government.The games up – Gordon – the battle for hearts and minds in the UK is already lost

    • 536
      A Pensioner says:

      You make a fatal assumption: that the Liebour Govt is batting for the troops and country. I don’t think so!

  128. 509
    nell says:

    The MoD is unable to find £6.6.Billion of military equipment ‘due to inadequate book-keeping.’

    During an Audit by NAO 1 in 5 weapons and other pieces of equipment were found to be missing.

    £6.6Billion is equal to the MoD’s annual budget.

    Criminal incompetence or theft? Either way this government doesn’t look likely to acknowledge or publicly investigate this scandal anytime soon.

    Morning Folks.

    • 512
      barefootcontessa says:

      Darling covering up all bad news today from newlabour by opening new banking centre for Tesco. How the mighty have fallen! How low do Scots have to crawl to get a job? On the other hand, Tesco are good at destroying other businesses , perhaps they will destroy other banks as well?

      • 573
        Engineer says:

        If they are going to do two-for-the-price-of-one deals on twenty-pound notes, I’m all in favour. The only thing that bothers me is that I might get trampled in the rush.

  129. 510
    barefootcontessa says:

    I understood that the Taliban were formerly our friends?!

    • 534
      Sir William Waad says:

      Not exactly. We supported the mujaheddin because they were fighting the Soviets, on the principle that my enemy’s enemy’s is my friend. This was successful. The mujaheddin were not quite Islamic enough for some tastes, however – they were a bit soft on stoning victims of rape, for instance – so the Taliban were formed.

    • 636
      Ian says:

      Correct. Same as Saddam was when he was fighting the Iranians

  130. 514
    mitch says:

    nulab=no honour

  131. 516

    Can’t decide whether the new word used here by Guido – “backnbencher” was by accident or design. Either way it is a perfect description of a parliamentary porksnuffler.

  132. 520

    Good exam results. well done to everyone.
    But in future instead of having time consuming exams and sending out expensive certificates, Ed BAlls will just read out the names of the 5 students who didn’t pass . Everyone else gets an A.

    • 577
      Sarah says:

      Lol.
      But seriously, this is a ridiculous. The top universities in the country are not going to accept students with 4 As in flower arranging, media studies, hairdressing, and sociology.
      Why not?
      Well, if you believe Labour, it’s just class snobbery and discrimination.
      But the real reason is because they know fuck-all about anything and have no mental training or discipline. Most public school kids who are also seeking these precious uni places have been doing 3 or 4 languages (incl. Latin and Greek) , maths, science, etc. etc. from an early age. And on top of this many will also have done up to grade 8 in a musical instrument, or have some other cultural achievement.
      Who would you choose to have in your university?
      No, it isn’t right, but there is absolutely no point in blaming those who succeed.
      Most state schools in this country are simply abysmal, and no amount of envy is going to change that. If Labour gave a shit about youngsters from less-advantaged backgrounds, they would vastly improve state education. Look at Germany, look at Finland, it’s not that hard.
      It’s a little early for a full-on rant, but this is a subject I care deeply about.

      Back to young KevAn – what an egregious little shit. But what do you expect, his parents couldn’t spell!

      • 605
        Engineer says:

        Sarah, you are absolutely right.

        If Labour is so concerned to give everyone a degree, it could solve the problem very cheaply and easily by handing everyone a degree certificate at age 21. They would not, of course mean a damn thing, but there, everyone has a degree; problem solved.

        That of course, leaves us with the problem of working out who can contribute what to society, and who is best fitted to fill which roles. We need to punch our weight on the world stage in all walks of life; political, diplomatic, commercial, artistic, sporting, academic, practical. We will do that best with a well-educated population.

        To improve education, leave the best schools alone. They are setting the standard. The task is to get the poorer schools up to the standards of the better. It’s also important to recognise that all people are different, and work out ways to ensure that they benefit from education in ways that suit them, and best equip them for life, so enabling them to make the best contribution to society that they can. The one-size-fits-all model is patently flawed.

        The unintended consequence of Labour’s drive to give more people degrees is that it devalues those who don’t get degrees. That is a serious failing – it’s almost as if they are condemned as failed people; social stigmatisation is reinforced, not eliminated. Until all contributions to society, and all educational (and training) achievements are valued properly, this failure won’t be addressed.

        • 614
          barefootcontessa says:

          I think Kevan is the Welsh form of Kevin, to be fair. Perhaps originally Kefan?

        • 622
          Engineer says:

          I believe there is no ‘k’ in the Welsh language. Maybe an angicisation of ‘Cefan’, but I have no idea if this is a regularly-used name or not.

  133. 521
    nell says:

    I see there’s no news yet about the resignations of bob’aintbustinagut’ and brainless kevan.

    That must mean then that gordon was supporting if not directing the smear campaign they were trying, so unsuccessfully, to aim at General Sir Richard Dannatt.

    I do hope that the General is going to join the next Tory Government in some capacity.

    • 544
      A Pensioner says:

      I suspect its not the General’s style, but if I were in his boots, I would be having a quiet word with Carter-Fuck – one false slip and the turds are toast. Since the old mediaeval penalties are out of play, at least drag the bastards into the open and show the world what they really are.

  134. 527
    barefootcontessa says:

    BBC HAS got it in for the Blogosphere. Their political correspondent twice referred to the silly season on the blogosphere this am on radio4. The discussion was about Dannatt v Kefanwe smears .

    • 537
      nell says:

      Doesn’t look much like to silly season on here to me. Serious discussion about labour’s self inflicted wounds. They are like a very sick patient who habitually self-harms.

    • 540
      Sir William Waad says:

      The blogosphere is unsubsidised competition. Of course the Beeb fears it.

      I would like the Beeb to stop doing news and current affairs, where they are just a propaganda mouthpiece, and concentrate on costume drama, music and nature films, all of which they do well. The liberal bias still comes through in those shows but it less obtrusive. Many people think they do minority sports well too.

    • 548

      Best stay away from the beeb’s outspewings BFC: like consuming a 400 gram bar of Swiss chocolate, you think it’ll be OK but no good will ever come of it.

  135. 529
    Cynic says:

    Is this misfeasence in public office?

  136. 530
    Cynic says:

    More important than the loss in financial terms, where the hell are all those missing weapons?

    • 541
      nell says:

      I wondered about that and then I remembered that militwit was saying something about some terrorists were more likely freedom fighters with a legitimate cause or some such thing. I presume he must have been referring to some left-wing groups.

      Maybe his support went further than words.

  137. 533
    Cynic says:

    Wee Kevan knows a lot about expenses. Last year he was joint 1st in claiming Additional Costs Allowance and high up in the travel stakes

    Mind you he was well down the field in terms of thinks like stationery and IT – the sort of expesnes you incur in responding to constituents or working as a jobbing MP

  138. 539
    THE AFGHANISTAN OIL AND GAS PIPELINE CORPERATION says:

    On The News Last Night A Candidate In Afghanistan Said He Asked Karzai Where The West Get The Figure Of 6,000,000 Children In School In The Country ? He Asked Karzai To Name One School In The Whole Of The Country Which Had Children In It ! Karzai Named a Posh School near Kabul ! To which This Guy Told Him . There Are No Teachers , No Desks, No Chairs, No Laboratory,No Books Etc. He Also Said That A Teachers Wage Is $60 Per Month Not Even Enough To Feed Himself Let Alone His Family , And He Also Wants To Know Where The 21 BILLION Dollars Given To Karzai Has Gone !

    • 545
      nell says:

      It all comes back to the question – Why are we there?

      • 576
        Sir William Waad says:

        “We’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here…..”

        Actually we went there for a good purpose. The problem is we show no sign of achieving it, nor do we appear to have a serious plan for doing so. We did the same in Iraq but were (to some extent, possibly) rescued by the Americans and the Iraqis themselves. Nobody in Government seems to understand that you can’t half-fight a war.

        • 617
          barefootcontessa says:

          ‘We’ never do things for a good purpose. We, like USA are always after the main chance. The question is, is it the oil, is it to defend the nuclear status of Pakistan, is it fear of Iran, or is it to do with Israel ( in a round about sort of a way? It certainly ain’t the lovely poppies, and it certainly aint’t the welfare of the people of Afghanistan, and it certainly ain’t to defend us from terrrorism!

    • 550
      A Pensioner says:

      A very good question. The old saying “follow the money” needs keeping in mind whenever the word Afghanistan is spoken – its all about who controls heroin/oil. With plenty to be made on the side from foreign aid. Forget all the bollox about terrorism/democracy/nation building.

    • 558
      Jack Bivouac says:

      Did you go to that school? Judging by your eccentric prose and punctuation I reckon you must have.

  139. 549
    Gordon Brown man without principles says:

    So we are setting the Lockerbie bomber free because British Big Oil wants Libya’s oil.

    Yet again new Labour does the wrong thing in it’s thirst for cheap oil.

    • 556
      nell says:

      tony bliar had a meeting with Libya’s leader just hours before BP said it would invest £500million in finding oil there.

      Strange isn’t it? that that is almost the same amount to that paid by Libya in compensation to the families of the victims of the Locherbie bombing?!

      And stranger still that rumours that an announcement to free the bomber was imminent, broke at the same time.

      This morning some of those families are accusing tony of ‘dirty dealing ‘ and talking about ‘blood money’

      Ugly scenario – so this is how tony is using his role as Middle East Envoy?

      • 564

        Tony is a pretty straight kind of guy.

      • 570
        A Pensioner says:

        Nell: for a country lass you I suspect have your finger on the pulse.

      • 609
        Half Dorf says:

        it’s sad that so many don’t have a clue about the Lockerbie case

        it’s about who actually did it because calling him the Lockerbie bomber doesn’t make it true

        the evidence was later revealed to be a joke and it was all about political expediency of the time involving letting Iran off the hook

        and who led the way in uncovering evidence and revealing most how much of a farce it all was ?

        one of the victims relatives who leads a sizeable faction of the victims relatives of the Lockerbie bombing who just want the truth to come

  140. 555
    visiting yankee doodle says:

    Scotland has chosen Libya over the United States of America.

    The Senate & the House of Representatives will NEVER be allowed to forget the American peoples anger at this low life terrorist being shown compassion for blowing away 270 people, many of them US college kids.

    Scotland, enjoy your friendship with Libya – the cost is eventually going to be greater than you can imagine.

    Sad day for western democracies & justice

    • 560
      Obama is a wanker says:

      Fuck off yank. Hand back the IRA scum that are still hiding in America that Irish wankers like Edward Kennedy (why can’t that Hoon just DIE!) have been protecting for years.

      Finally someone has the bottle to stick two fingers up to the yank. If releasing this guy helps our interests then good, you fucking yanks do it all the time. I’ve lot count of the number of times we Brits have been shafted. So fuck off!

      • 579
        A Pensioner says:

        OIAW: I couldn’t have put it any more eloquently. The closest the Army came to a mutiny was when the yanks vetoed the IRA solution.

        • 620
          barefootcontessa says:

          AP and OisaW, I totally agree. Been saying it for days. Yanks butt out. Politics are a nasty business.

    • 561
      nell says:

      Well with due respect, if you are truly an American , you may not be aware that we, here in Britain, don’t actually live in a democracy at the moment. And I haven’t seen anything that might resemble justice in, oh about, 12 years.

    • 571
      A Pensioner says:

      Yankee doodle: rule 1 is insert a “not” before every statement a politican makes. The fact that the yanks are complaining may be just for show, I suspect.

    • 574
      John Bull says:

      I echo Nell’s comments – the UK is an elective dictatorship started under you Yank’s hero – Tony Blair;Labour has emasculated Parliament;politicised the civil service;the media is riddled with Labour fellow travellers;anyone who takes a different view is “briefed against” by un-named Government Ministers too cowardly to put their names to the lies they peddle about honourable man;we have an unelected Prime Minister and an equally powerful unelected Minister who really controls the country. Over 1 million people marched against the Iraq War and the government basically gave them the finger as they do to the public in general. This government is held in contempt by the majority of its citizens;it fights a war that has little public support and despite massive opposition from the British public extradites its citizens to the USA on the flimsiest of evidence although it cites the “human Rights Act” that stops it from deporting real terrorists in case they are imprisoned or mis-treated when they arrive and in the meantime they pay them £1000’s in benefits and fund their legal cases out of public funds whilst their own citizens are the most monitored;taxed and deprived citizens in Europe.

      And remember this “Yank” the majority of the UK already think that the USA is too influential in UK affairs and your stance does little to persuade them otherwise.

      P.S.

      By the way Scottish Devolution was another brain wave of your hero Blair – to ensure continued influence by Labour in Scotland – that didn’t work out too well as it allowed the Scottish Nationalists to become the Scottish Government and allowed them to take their own decisions and as usual when everything goes your way it’s hunky dorey but if not you become peevish and threatening. Well the best way to deal with a bully is to tell them to piss off so to use the British vernacular so beloved of you Yanks – “If you don’t mind awfully old chap if it’s not too much trouble- can you just please -FUCK OFF !!! Thank you so much!” Have a nice day !!

    • 581
      Engineer says:

      There is some doubt about the safety of Magrahi’s conviction. That should have been tested in a court of law, but if Magrahi’s illness is genuine, nature would have intervened.

      We all know that there is a great deal more to this than has been made public, and oil seems to be at the core of it. Of all the nations, America would be the most hypocritical in criticising others for iffy dealings involving oil.

      • 598
        jgm2 says:

        Magrahi’s ‘conviction’ was a set-up from start to finish. I’m not convinced the Libyans had anything to do with blowing up a Pan-Am flight although if they did then it may have been in revenge for Reagan making a pre-election gift to Bush Snr by bombing Libya. Bear in mind that Gadaffi kept his gob shut from the second he was bombed. We heard nothing more of his sabre-rattling. He was put right back in his box by Reagan.

        The more likely possibility is that it was the Iranians taking their revenge for the heroic downing of a passenger jet by ‘The Vincennes’ in July of the same year (1988). An action which saw the entire crew decorated and the captain awarded the ‘Legion of Merit’.

        It’s that kind of in-yer-face fucking idiocy and lack of thought that winds people up to the point where they take extreme measures.

    • 583
      Sarah says:

      With respect, Scotland is not yet an American colony and can make her own decisions about what happens within her borders.
      While you’re here perhaps you could tell us what secret hold the US has over successive UK governments which means that every time (almost) the US wages war, the UK sends our own troops in cardboard tanks off to be slaughtered so you guys can drive massive cars and leave the lights on 24/7?

      • 607
        Obama is a wanker says:

        Because yanks are fat and stupid.

        • 637
          Nearly Headless Nick says:

          ………………………and they can’t spell!
          Color,center, theater.
          Peasants!

          Visit WITH Fred, when just plain visiting Fred would do.
          Green is different THAN Red … WTF?
          Ignorant fuckwits.

    • 592
      Groucho says:

      The crime was committed in Scotland and the Scottish legal system has decided what action to take.

      Piss off and mind your own business.

      • 623
        barefootcontessa says:

        Scotland has it’s own different legal system. A good system. A Roman system. They should not have been hectored by the USA with the UK running along like a liittle lap dog behind them yapping, “we’ll do anything you want, anything you want, anything you want. Oh great masters!

      • 634
        Cynic says:

        Ok but can we now stop subsiding it?

    • 602
      Anonymous says:

      visiting yankee doodle,

      Lockerbie did involve 270 murders, people from 21 countries including 11 Scots. Our population is tiny compared to the USA, the relative size of the loss was the same in Scotland and the USA. Outside the USA people know why this happened, six months earlier the cruiser USS Vincennes shot down another airliner flying it’s scheduled route, they achieved 274 murders. America has never apologised, the Vincennes crew got medals, the captain promotion.

      What is happening is going to upset a lot of Americans, I have sympathy, I also have sympathy for the relatives of the innocents on Iran Air Flight 655 murdered by America.

  141. 557
    Labour and the BBC are Scum says:

    Anyone else see the scumbag Ian Watson off the BBC defending the Government on BBC News 24 last night?

    The BBC just love sucking Browns penis dry don’t they?

  142. 562
    Tony Blair says:

    I’m rich, I’m rich, I’m rich beyond your wildest dreams, I wear the snappiest of shades and float on the nicest of yachts.

    Peter my old friend and how are you doing!

    • 597

      Dear Tony,

      I’m fine. Got a little sunburned on my feet on the yacht. It was so hot.
      I’m still deciding what to do about G.
      Tempting to just cut the strings and let him go floating off.
      We have been teasing him for a long time now haven’t we and there isn’t really anything else that he has that I want. Is there something I could do for you? Apart from the presidency of EU of course. If not it might be time to let him go. I’ve arranged a finance post in Brussels for him. He can get us some great loans from there – no questions asked – no tiresome forms or anything.
      Let me know who you think should replace him. i still fancy DM as he’s so childish. But if you want HH I can do that. It might me fun. I even had the idea of having them both at once , oohh err. But seriously, they would fight non stop, leaving me to actually run things.

      I shall see you at Ambani’s little get together next week.
      Love to the WMF.

      Peter.

  143. 568
    A firm pair of breasts says:

    Kevan’s wiki page has been locked against editing.

    Do I get a medal?

  144. 575
    Groucho says:

    Kevan Jones is my MP and I have had the misfortune to meet him on more than one occasion. The last time was when he knocked on my door to introduce the new Labour candidate for our council elections. The slimy patronising bastard was seemingly asking me to vote for his candidate simply because she was a woman and women were under-represented on the council.

    I asked if he agreed that positive discrimination is still discrimination and he couldn’t get away fast enough. In retrospect I was far too nice and should have set the dog on him instead.

    I can confirm that he is indeed a useless twat who will preserve his cushy job at all costs.

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      Pontius The Pilot says:

      Groucho:

      If it wasnt going to be particularly cruel on the dog, I would suggest starving him for a week or two, then feeding him on raw meat with Kevan’s body odour from his ample man bosoms on it (god knows how you’d secure such a commodity).

      Then let ol’ Rover at him at the bastards next constituency surgery…..

  145. 586
    Talwin says:

    So the Daily Telegraph says that Labour insiders are concerned that in his retirement Gen. Dannatt will become even more vocal in his criticism of the government’s record.

    So how about if General Dannatt, when he’s retired from the army, stands against Jones at the next general election?

    You can see it now can’t you? Dannatt, GCB, CBE, with his Military Cross (won in Northern Ireland), who also served in Bosnia and Kosovo; and loudest shouter for ‘our boys’, bristling with integrity, stands against union man and odious wanker, ‘Kevan’. Christ, in a delicious irony, Dannatt even attended Durham University (geddit? Jones is MP for Durham North) and has a BA in economic history.

    Go on, General. See the bastard off. Or, if you don’t really fancy it, why not, if only for sport, just suggest you’re thinking about it. ‘Labour insiders’ and Jones would shit themselves at that one.

    • 601
      Groucho says:

      Nice idea, but no chance of ousting Jones. Durham North is one of the safest Labour seats in the country – you could stick a red rosette on a chimp and the locals would vote for it.

      Most of the working population around here are on the public sector teat and like sheep, they vote Labour because their parents and grandparents did. They have no understanding or interest in politics other than that the Tories are ‘nasty’ and Maggie Thatcher stole children’s milk and closed the pits.

      We end up with obnoxious, ambitious Inner Party twats like Jones who could not give a shit about local issues, but most of the locals just don’t see it.

  146. 590
    Borg Drone Won says:

    Never had a real job? suitable for New Labour then

  147. 593
    ben dover says:

    so while our troops die , and there familes worry , our kids getting stabbed on the streets and all the minister can do is smear , what a fucking disgrace

  148. 630
    Thats News says:

    They do not have the Ba Hon. system in the USA. So that claim is totally wrong.

  149. 633
    Cynic says:

    In that photo is Kevan saying to the soldier “Can I have a receipt please?”

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    [...] Dannatt v Jones Who is the unnamed defence minister in press reports who is behind the smearing of General Dannatt?  Step forward [...] [...]

  151. 640
    HarrietHarman`sLoofah says:

    However much Sir Richard spends (and as an ex-soldier I can tell you every bean will be accounted for) he`ll be hard put to keep up with the Jones`s,

  152. 641
    Anonymous says:

    Being opposed by creatures like Brown and Jones is a great compliment for Dannatt. It’s a badge of honour to be excluded from the ranks of those who are in favour-Kinnock- Sugar-Mandleson.

  153. 645

    On a slow Friday afternoon, between Australia losing wickets, I decided to have a look at the history of changes to Kevan’s blog. What a lovely end to the week!

  154. 647

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