August 26th, 2009

Rowland Gave Tories a Million to “Set the People Free”

David Rowland, the property developer tycoon says of the million he has bunged the Tories this year:

“I made the donation as a result of my passionate concern for liberty and the economic future of Britain. We need fresh ideas, national renewal and above all a Government that sets the people free. I feel strongly that the Conservatives under the leadership of David Cameron are the party that will deliver that. They are the best hope for this country’s future.”

Guido is hard pressed to think of any Tory policies that will set the people free. The only outstanding libertarian commitment they have made is to abolish ID cards.  Cameron rarely speaks about freedom, the Tories sound more like technocratic managerialists than freedom fighters…


222 Comments

  1. 1
    Has Anyone Seen Mike Hunt says:

    Well its Dave or Gordon , tough choice that one

    • 8

      Get rid of Gordon at all costs. Then vote the meerkat in.

    • 20
      Mr Eagle Eye says:

      The sad truth is that any party that even espouses something remotely liberal will be crushed behind the scenes. The U.S. or Europe will simply not allow such things in their new World.

      Totalitarianism is returning

      • 218
        Anonymous says:

        Democracy with the Tories – just stop me laughing. They don’t do Democracy.
        Has anybody an idea how many of there “Grassroots” association are ruled from the top by putting them into “Supported Status”?
        You are right: Totalitarianism is returning.

    • 29
      Budgie says:

      Not true, there are alternatives: other parties and independents.

      To increase our political liberty, scrapping ID cards is a start, but it is more essential that we leave the EU.

      Roughly 80 per cent of new national law is imposed on us by the EU. The UK electorate has no say in this bureaucrat created EU law. Our MPs cannot block it. The EU cannot be held to account by the UK electorate.

      We are thus held in thrall to an oligarchy of commissars. If the Tories won’t get us out of the EU they are a waste of space. I, for one, will note vote for them until they perform a credible U turn.

      • 33
        Budgie says:

        Er, “not vote for them”

      • 35
        Lil Olmey says:

        I recall reading that MEPs have very little time to consider EU laws put before them. It seems to me that the European ‘Parliament’ is little more than a facade. The real power is wielded by this who set the agenda, and that’s not the MEPs.

        • 61
          Archer Karcher says:

          The real power behind the EU, is the corporations and banks, they lobby and dictate the laws and the commission, for a small consideration, gives them what they want.

          The EU exists for the corporate and banking elites benefit, nobody elses.

          All the rest is just smoke and mirrors, lies and obfuscation.

        • 114
          Very confused Tory Lady says:

          Have they kicked McMillan-Scott out of the Party yet?

        • 132

          You might be interested in the following quote from Der Spiegel, the German news magazine [17 July edition, English language version]:

          “Germany’s Federal Constitution Court .. ruled that the EU of the Lisbon Treaty does not satisfy the minimum requirements for a democracy of the type described in the German constitution, and the European Parliament is effectively little more than an expensive, Machiavellian glass facade. And without proper supervision by the national parliaments, the politicians in Brussels are not legitimized by the people”.

          The article then goes on to discuss whether the classic model of democratic legitimization from the bottom up – from the citizen to the state – has become downright old fashioned and whether we are now in an era of “out-put” democracy legitimized by the “persuasive power of results”.

          It is all a bit heavy going. It is also quite worrying – even frightening.

        • 166
          Longshanks says:

          The germans have tried and failed to subvert the treaty with their own sovereign law and have very recently been outflanked by a coalition of left wing political groups that have forced the ratification endorsement as de facto law superceding german sovereign policy.

      • 159
        thick as thieves says:

        you are quite right budgie, if you care for democracy then vote for a local candidate independent of any political parties.
        it is the purest form of democracy and therefore should be the best hit.
        we only need 25-40 independent MPs to hold the balance of power.
        oh and I must say that I am in almost total agreement with roland but I would like to make a couple of tat adjustments to his comments:

        “I have made no donations to those SCUM TORIES as a result of my passionate concern for liberty and the economic future of Britain. We need fresh ideas, national renewal and above all a Government that sets the people free. I feel strongly that David Cameron is a totally fucking useless c’unt and that the Conservative party are a bunch of money-mad whores who smoke crack and they have a dealer who will deliver that. Those motherfuckers are the best hope of completely fucking this country’s future.”
        makes loads more sense innit.
        even if you are a tory. which dave isn’t.
        which is a bit of a problem really, wouldn’t you say?

    • 96
      DaveFaggedMe@Eton says:

      BluLabour = NuLabour = BluLabour = NuLabour …

      Call Me Dave is the “Heir to Blair” – which is about as appealing as the son of Frankenstein.

      • 116
        carla bruni says:

        Are you confusing Frankenstein with Frankenstein’s Monster?
        IIRC Frankenstein was described as handsome in the book.

    • 148

      Perhaps. As much as I utterly detest the present Governmant, I’m not sure the Cameroons would be much better. I fear I’ll be a no-show at the next General Election. Can anyone dissuade me otherwise?

      • 158
        Jethro al'Kernow says:

        Vote: it’s your right – for the moment! – and your duty. But vote wisely: vote so as to twist both thumbs in the eyes of the Corporatists – UKIP, Mebyon Kernow perhaps (if applicable)… or even for a party so nasty that they may not be named.

      • 160
        stilyagi_air_corps says:

        Labour might come second in the election…

      • 181
        barefootcontessa says:

        Britain only ever votes to get rid of the last lot. The whole system stinks. Our democracy, apart from the violence, isn’t much better from that in Afghanistan.

      • 198

        Depends where you live. I might stand in Macclesfield. If you live there I will try and persuade you otherwise.

    • 151
      Wossat? says:

      Don’t waste money by chucking it in Camoron’s direction. He’s a major political fuck up looking for somewhere to happen. Put the cash where it’ll do some good. My bank account would be an excellent start…

      • 155
        Scorched Earth says:

        Let’s hope Cameron or Osbourn hasn’t missed how disgusted the public is with the many transparent and corrupt deals Mandy had done with the rich.

        Wouldn’t look too good if this developer suddenly recieved a “favour” or overly generous planning prermission from a brand new Tory Government, would it ?

        • 206
          Budgie says:

          If the Tories got in, they would have to put their own placemen into the government subcontractors first, because at the moment these firms are stuffed with Liebore cronies.

  2. 2
    UDA says:

    least the drunken faux irish basterd finally set the yanks free from the kennedy curse.

    oh wait his son’s a senator too, love the smell of nepotism in the morning…….

  3. 3
    Loony Democract. says:

    Nick Clegg for the win

    • 30
      Pink Floyd says:

      Corporal Clegg had a wooden leg
      He won it in the war, in 1944.
      Corporal Clegg had a medal too
      In orange, red, and blue
      He found it in the zoo.
      Dear, dear were they really sad for me?
      Dear, dear will they really laugh at me?
      Mrs. Clegg, you must be proud of him.
      Mrs. Clegg, another drop of gin.
      Corporal Clegg umbrella in the rain
      He’s never been the same
      No one is to blame
      Corporal Clegg received his medal in a dream
      From Her Majesty the queen
      His boots were very clean.
      Mrs. Clegg, you must be proud of him
      Mrs. Clegg, another drop of gin.

      • 120
        william and the outlaws says:

        Doesn’t rhyme.
        Go Back To Old Kent Road. Do Not Pass Go.

        • 149

          Yes, but it scans.

        • 161
          Jethro says:

          148 Lord Stansted – Not at all sure about that: line 1 has 9 -or 8- syllables; line2 has 7 (but has an internal rhyme); line 3 has 9 – or 8 – syllables (depends on how you pronounce Corporal: is it cor’pral, or is it cor’por’al?), but line 4 has 6, as does line 5 (which rhymes with line 4), the same for line 6; lines `7 and 8 both have 8 syllables and have, if not a rhyme, then a repeated sound – an echo ‘at me’ ‘for me’. It’s certainly not ‘vers libre’, but it doesn’t really scan, and many of the lines end in half-rhymes, ‘echoes’ (‘feminine rhymes’?). I’d give it about four-and-a-half out of ten, but scrawl, in red ink ‘Quite a good effort’

        • 184
          barefootcontessa says:

          Jethro, did you invent the plough?

        • 185
          no longer anonymous says:

          I’ve always rather liked the song myself.

        • 217

          Typical self-obsessed meanderings from Roger Waters. They should have stopped with The Wall – at least it still included some decent music.

          O/T?

        • 219
          no longer anonymous says:

          I believe Corporal Clegg was written before The Wall.

        • 220

          Doh! So it was. Mistakenly thought it was off that Final Cut dirge.

  4. 4
    mitch says:

    We need a revolution in the way we chose people to run our country the current system is so bad it pushed brown to the top.
    We really need some bars set to stop full time politicians gaining power they just don’t “believe” in anything worthwhile.
    perhaps a min age or at leat a min amount of “real jobs” so they have at least a small clue how the world works and not just a degree in fukin politics and some well connected family(yes you millivolt) and anyone called ED Balls should be shot.

    • 6
      Police...just following orders. says:

      That sounds like dangerous talk there.

    • 27
      Four-eyed English Genius says:

      There should be some minimum qualification for voting as well. Say an I.Q. above 50, as many Labour voters would not then qualify.

      • 39
        Anonymous says:

        But that’s the problem, some of them think that I.Q. stands for Idiotically Qualified.

      • 49
        Hugh Janus says:

        Such a requirement would also see off most ministers too…

        • 157
          Robert says:

          There should be a property qualification; that way, we wouldn’t have feckless tossers with no stake in the nation buggering up the rest of us. Anybody who can’t, or won’t, afford a modest two up, two down, wouldn’t be allowed to vote. Alternatively, for presentational purposes, they could have one vote, the rest of us two votes. And no voters under 25, at a minimum.

          And if you don’t agree, you are not allowed in my Party, so just piss off; and your card is marked, so no troublemaking, OK, got it? Oh, and we know where you live.

      • 164
        Jethro says:

        How do you get an IQ of 144?
        Get 12 Irishmen together.
        How do you halve that IQ?
        Make 3 of them Irish Americans.
        How do you convince the rest of the World that the result is actually far higher than 144?
        Make sure at least one of those Irish Americans is called Kennedy, but not the one who thought he was a German sausage (cue: ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’ Just imagine, he could have been in Hamburg and shouted ‘Ich bin ein Hamburger’ – or in Frankfurt: ‘Ich bin ein Frankfurter’; or even in Vienna: ‘Ich bin ein Wiener’… then again, if he’d been somewhere in Suffolk, he could have shouted ‘I am an Eyeliner!’)

        • 208
          Budgie's socialist moron. says:

          Oooohh, this is abusive, racist, un-grauniadist, other-mentalist, sexist, sausage-ist. I shall report you and this blog to the authorities. You will be hearing from my lawyer, shortly. We know who you are.

        • 215
          Super Mario says:

          If I may indulge in a small bit of pedantry here, I believe that “ein Berliner” is a doughnut. Otherwise, spot on.

  5. 5
    Capt Blackbeard says:

    I’m voting pirate party.

  6. 7
    Derek Buxton says:

    Yes, my feelings entirely. I am not convinced that Cameron is to be trusted, especially with our freedoms. Let’s face it he wants to increase the price of drink, very libertarian? And then of course there is the question of the EU, will he free us from that baleful presence. Hint, do not hold your breath.

    • 140
      UK Fred says:

      Sod it, then. I’ll have to take up home brewing again. I used to make a neat bitter with about 5.5% Alcohol by volume. I don’t care which party is in charge, there is a limit to how much tax I’m willing to pay on my beer.

  7. 10
    Dave Cameron the secret communitarian says:

    We suckered David Rowland nicely. Thanks for the dosh, David.

    I take my orders from the Bilderbergers. Not him.

  8. 11
    streamfisher says:

    So that means we are back to the barrels of gunpowder solution again, metaphorically speaking of course.

  9. 12

    All too true I fear. I do think that constitutional matters will be forced onto Cameron’s plate sooner or later and can only hope that we get something a little more liberal. All I can say is that Labour would be so much worse.

  10. 13
    gildedtumbril says:

    Where is the freedom in the communist state? The new world orifice, communist purpose traitors have no need of freedom. You may kiss it goodbye. There is only one party which is patriotic and will free us from these traitorous bastards.That party is NOT Ukip (UKIP while they steal and do bugger all about the EU shitheap) There is but one British party.

    • 15
      Realist says:

      Too bad it’s being ripped to pieces by legal onslaughts at the moment along with the other smaller parties who dared steal labours voting base.

  11. 14
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Arise Sir David
    Or Lord Rowland of backhander

  12. 16
    Watt Tyler says:

    …surely he means “set the crooks free” -for these crooks are still at large and gorging taxpayers money.

    http://eotp.wordpress.com/category/conservative-party/

    Perhaps the People should be “set free” -free from the tyranny and rotating dictatorship of the Lib-Lab-Con-men

  13. 17
    Anonymous says:

    Guy are you are not describing Gordon McBroon of Doom “Cameron rarely speaks about freedom, the Tories sound more like technocratic managerialists than freedom fighters…”

  14. 18
    Anonymous says:

    The BBC have a blog entry on this too.

    Can someone please post there about alan sugar giving labour over a million quid and getting massive government contracts for his company and a cushy job in government where he gets to peddle his company?

    Sugar’s off limits as far as the bbc goes, but if everyone makes a posting and they all get removed then at least it’ll be clear that they’re actively hiding things for purely political/bias reasons.

    • 139
      Anonymous says:

      done!

    • 153
      • 154
        Anonymous says:

        follow the money.

        it’s all about money.

        you can spin it however you want, but in the end everything comes down to maximising money in the politicians’ personal bank accounts.

        money. plain and simple. always has been. always will be. don’t look deeper than that because at the core of all these things is always sheer simple greed by politicians. this is the same for “procurement” as it is for “expenses” (for “expenses”, please read “tax free perks given as expenses due to mass tax fraud by parliament”)

        I’ve got nothing against sugar in this, he’s just a businessman doing a deal. I do, however, have a problem with the government, who are supposed to be acting in the interest of the tax payer which is plainly a fucking sick joke.

        • 209
          Budgie says:

          I recently watched the first Superman film. In it the newspaper editor is telling his reporters to find out about – then he lists pairs of requirements, including “politicians and corruption”. The film was made in 1978. Nothing changes.

  15. 19
    EC1 PhD says:

    Guido, freedom should not be considered an absolute in this context but I see what Rowland means. Even taken in relative context is a vast improvement from the status quo. I.e., freedom from surveillance of our rubbish by council workers using anti-terror laws; freedom from such intense interference in our children’s education with the plethora of league tables; freedom for doctors and nurses to perform their jobs without the dense fog of administration which shakles their enthusiam; freedom for teachers to supervise conker fights at school without risk of prosecution; freedom for unmarried couples to live together without losing benefits; In a nutshell, freedom from the surveillance-clipboard-nanny state that this once great country has become under 12 years of Blair and Brown.

    • 66
      Steve Expat says:

      Here here.

      While it’s great to want things to be more libertarian than they are at the moment, the guy with the best chance of making progress right now is Dave and the Tories.

      This government have overseen the biggest grap of human rights in British history, enforced not by the courts but by councils and bureaucrats – let’s kick them on to the dole queue as soon as possible, fingers crossed Liebour’s wipeout will let some of the smaller parties make some progress…

      • 99
        Pedant chappie says:

        Steve, it’s hear hear from “hear ye him” etc

      • 193
        David Cameron-Housing Benefit Cheat&multi millionaire who claimed maximum allowances from day one says:

        Hey, thanks for your support Steve Expat. One of the guys told me your nick-name here is Steve the crack-head Tramp! Good one! I just wanted to pop by to thank you for saying such nice things about me, you are very kind Steve. But as you are out of the loop you will not be aware that the main problem with my pitch in the run up to the GE is that I have to bluff it a lot because deep down I am not really a Tory, I am more of a flim-flam-laissez-faire-unless it affects me type of communist if the truth be told.
        I am, as Tony Blair was, a chameleon charming whoever sits in front of me with my communist bullshit. Basically I am just a more camp a more lickspittle version of Tony Blair.
        I have proved by maximising my allowances as soon as I became an MP that I cannot be trusted with public funds. I still don’t understand what all the fuss was about and that is because as a multi-millionaire I am completely out of touch with the real world. As PM I would be totally out of my depth; and I am too dodgy for the top job; I simply have too many dodgy friends doing dodgy deals. The country needs a person without such dodgy and nefarious contacts. We need someone straight and honest, not some dodgy benefit scrounging multi-millionaire like me.
        So go ahead and vote for Dodgy Dave if you want to Steve.
        But you really must be a crack-head if you do.

    • 75
      Archer Karcher says:

      Do you really believe CMD will change anything?

      Most of the laws ZaNuLab have introduced have been EU inspired and untouchable by any domestic “government” under EU Law.

      The UK is now effectively a Vassal State, thanks to all three major parties.

      They have systematically given away nearly everything to Brussels in return for, pretty much nothing except their own enrichment.

      All CMD can realistically do is ask the EU nicely not to implement new EU laws in the UK and when they tell him no, do as he is told.

      He has already revealed his line about a referendum is merely spin and if it is impemented before he gains office, well he will have no choice but to go along with it, in other words, no referendum and no prospect of there ever being one either.

      How much longer when in power can he parrot “it is not me, the EU has told us to do it and we have no choice” before he gets rumbled as a sell out too?

      • 84
        EC1 PhD says:

        AK, I disagree:
        Councils using anti-terror laws did not come from the EU
        More CCTV cameras per square metre than anywhere else did not come from the UK
        Education league tables did not come from the EU
        NHS bureaucracy did not come from the EU
        Private prosecutions of teachers on school trips did not come from the EU

        However, your point about us implementing EU laws without question is valid.

        • 222
          Anonymous says:

          NHS bureaucracy DID come from the EU, in the form of Common Purpose, the EU 5th columnists who predominantly run NHS bureaucracy. It is their job to destroy the NHS from within.

    • 98
      bandersnatch says:

      Or even … hear hear… Nice one, Oh well-qualified city-dweller.

    • 103
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      Freedom to have a fag in a pub would be progress, especially if you were allowed a cigarette afterwards.

      • 124
        bandersnatch says:

        Bollocks. The smoking ban is about the only thing Zanu have done that I approve of.

        The only problem is that the pub garden is now full of smoking fuckwits. Arse.

        • 134
          Fay Wray on hearing a disturbance in the garden says:

          The only thing Labrat have done that I vaguely agree with is compelling dog owners to take a shovel with them when going walkies.

          I would prefer if even that was a suggestion,not a bleedin law

        • 152

          Well as a smoking fuckwit, I prefer my pub gardens free of anti-smoking health nazis like you.

          It’s killing the pubs – would you rather have more pubs, or no smoke and no pubs?

          Wanker.

        • 210
          Budgie says:

          bandersnatch – your attitude is why ZaNu has got away with it so often. As a non smoker I certainly don’t like smokey rooms either but, if I do not defend smokers, ZaNu may come for me next. Or you.

  16. 21
    SO17 says:

    There is nothing noble about donating to a Political party.
    Whats this blokes bottom line?And I don’t mean Alan Duncans VPL.

  17. 22
    Realist says:

    Let’s be honest, Thatcher had it right but the commies and the no hopers will always complain because they where made redundant and useless as soon as the people where given power to do what they like and abit of self governance.

  18. 23
    Believe it when I see it says:

    Yep, Cameron is going to have spout policy this conference.

  19. 24
    It's all Balls says:

    Technocratic managerialists my arse.

    Why, in a speech only the other day Cameron promised that he intended to leverage the goodwill of the people and to think outside the box in order to deliver a unique political USP.

    He went on to say that there will be some downsizing and also a need to restructure and reorganise, but the journey will be worthwhile. He also promised to bring in a leading firm of consultants to review and advise how to reduce consulting costs in Government.

    You know what – even if the above were true – he would still get my vote.

    Anyone but Brown – PLEEEEEEASE

    • 80
      Archer Karcher says:

      “He also promised to bring in a leading firm of consultants to review and advise how to reduce consulting ”

      Pretty much sums up the phoney choice offered by the LabLibConspiracy.

      McSnot and his merry bunch of cowards, traitors and incompetents, replaced by more of the same, but with a nice fresh aroma.

      Wait till the shopnew smell wears off and the new shit starts to smell just like the old shit.

  20. 26
    barefootcontessa says:

    You’re right Guido. David Davis has made an attempt, but apart from him, the rest don’t appear to be able to breathe new life in to a dead cat, let alone the country. My god, how we need a saviour!

    • 34
      fedupwithbrown says:

      We do but there’s no-one listening. This country is in such dire straits now the next government are in a strait jacket and we cannot expect anything from them apart from pain and more pain. Who would want to take on such a task?

      • 183
        Jethro says:

        How splendid to find there is another soul left who knows that it’s not a ‘straight’ (i.e. unwavering, unwobbly lines) jacket, but a strait- (as in narrow – like Straits of Gibraltar…) jacket. Heartfelt thingummies, Sir – and keep up the good work. Milton wrote ‘New Presbyter is but old Priest, writ large’ we could say ‘Dyslexia is but misspelling re-named’ – and not only re-named, but given an whole Psychological, Neurological, and Educational aetiology.
        As to your final Question… Let me just say that I’ve just re-surfaced from diving into Dozmary Pool (much colder, particularly at this time of year than Chappaquiddick) and have, in my right hand, an ooze-covered, rust-encroached, but jewel-hilted sword, whose fierce glitters, darting hither and thither, afright the eyes, amain. As I grasp its damascened blade in my hand, light from the setting sun, glancing on its gold haft and from its manifold gems, blinds the assembled folk, who fall to their knees, murmuring,’Tis he!’ ‘Tis who?’ ‘Nay: tis he – the long-promised one.’ ‘Oh, they’re long on their promises, they are: short on their…!’ ‘Hush! Do you not feel the magic of this moment? For shame! For ’tis he: he, of whom they spake!’ ‘What? you don’t mean…?’ (she nods) … Jan Tregeagle?’ [There is lightning and rolls of thunder, the sky darkening. Distantly, a Harmonium can be heard, softly playing. A wide ray of dying light glows from the scuddy sky, lighting, for an instant on the heroic form of Jethro, sword in hand, then narrowing to a pencil of light, it touches for a few moments on the still-turbulent surface of Dozmary Pool, fixing, at last, on an hideous shape, just emerging from the bubbling waters]

        • 188
          barefootcontessa says:

          Jethro, did you invent the wheel as well as the plough? Apologies for any grammatical errors.

      • 202
        Foot Soldier says:

        Who would want to take on such a task?
        Someone with a pair of bollocks. Which rules out the parliament of eunochs.

    • 51
      Baroness "The Iron Lady" Thatcher says:

      Did someone call?

      I am still more of a man than the entire house of disrepute.

  21. 31
    no longer anonymous says:

    Alas they are trying to appeal to the curtain-twitchers.

  22. 32
    Max says:

    Freedom from McDoom and the lying hoon Liebore party would be a start; freedom from ZaNuLab big government would be another worth having.

  23. 36
    Anonymous says:

    Dave is a paid up EU whore like the rest. Freedom for the people, while he supports the EUSSR. Fuck off. I’m voing UKIP and call me Dave can go hug a fucking tree or a hoody with his lib dumb wannabe party.

    • 46
      mad fred 2 para says:

      Cameron is Blair “Lite”.

      New Labour morphing into Blue Labour is not going to cut it.

      I never thought I would see a Tory leader that was so enamoured with
      BIG GOVERNMENT & HIGH TAXES.

      But I have, and Cameron “heir To Blair” is it.

      UKIP for me.

    • 72
      Steve Expat says:

      Dave could almost say that he would rape babies at the moment and we would still vote for him. No-one has ever fucked up this country more than Gordoom Broon, the people will vote for whoever has the best chance of getting rid of him!

    • 129
      Max says:

      Vote UKIP and you’ll get McDoom for another five years; better not to vote. Please.

      • 175
        Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

        That’s up to Cameroon then. To put right because if what you say happens it will be your fault and his. Out of Europe-he gets the ukip vote.

  24. 41
    genghiz the kahn says:

    I have been looking in vain for up to date comments about the late Edward Kennedy from Ms Harriet Harman.

    Am I wrong to presume that she would not have wanted him as a chaperone or chauffeur.

  25. 42
    Ted Kennedy says:

    Any one fancy a quick spin in the car??

  26. 43
    Hugh Janus says:

    Apart from David Davis I don’t hear anything about freedom from the rest of the Conservative party. And whenever DD speaks he seems to be swimming against a strong tide, a lone voice in the wilderness.

    If only DC would put as much effort into ‘freedom’ as he did to ‘being green’ then we might be making some progress away from our increasingly totalitarian state where intrusiveness and control is definitely the name of the game.

    • 44
      Methusala says:

      Being green is the new religion, anything that makes the proles feel gulity and makes them subservant to you even though you have no real answers or powers is a religion worth following.

    • 55
      backwoodsman says:

      Thats because with the majority of people, it currently isn’t a major issue and the conservatives have at last learnt the lesson that unless they address issues relevant to the majority of voters, you don’t get elected and we all get stiffed by brown for another 5 years.
      OT, thats some good software you have there Guido – if you write ‘brown is a cnut,’ it automatically changes the naughty word to hoon.

    • 94
      Party Energy Monitor 276 says:

      Freedom is not approved by our real government in Brussels.

      Green fascism is extremely welcome however.

      By the way comrade, according to our data, your home is not fully utilising the installed insulating and heat reduction technology installed in it.

      You have overused your monthly allowance of electricity by 2.5% and are now on the premium rate of €5.00 per hour until the end of the month.

      Failure to pay will incur a cancellation / disconnection fee of €5000.00 and a fine of not more than €25000.00.

      Thank you for your co-operation comrade.

      Party Energy Monitor 276, Sector 11GX.

  27. 47
    Ever Vigilant says:

    Cameron is our only realistic option.

    Given a chance to exercise power .he will surprise his many doubters but he
    does have to win an election first.

    His first big test will be over Europe . Brown and Clegg are bought and paid
    for on this issue ,especially that overgrown schoolboy Clegg.

    His instruction to his MPs to walk out of the commons at the time of the debate on the Lisbon Treaty wrecked any credibility that his party may have
    accrued up to that point.

    • 58
      rick says:

      “Cameron is our only realistic option ……… “. God help us – we’re all fucked.

      • 71
        Ever Vigilant says:

        Your alternative please /

        • 73
          Steve Expat says:

          The alternative is five more years of Liebour – your call…

        • 79
          Sir William Waad says:

          Sub-contract the business of government to Switzerland – hell, most of it’s been sub-contracted to Brussels already, we might as well use somebody competent.

        • 108
          Archer Karcher says:

          Emigration?

          I am serious here, if CMD has not fundementally changed the relationship between the UK and the EU back in our favour, within his first 18 months, he never will and it is all over for the UK.

          My money is on CMD bottling, accepting that the UK is finished and doing some deal, like Bliar, in return for a pot of danegeld.

        • 126
          IRB says:

          Overturned police cars has a certain appeal.

    • 85
      Ever Vigilant says:

      A re you being serious or have I misunderstood the sequence of these comments?

  28. 50
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    Rowland’s comments are further evidence – if any were needed – that making money out of property does not require intelligence. Unless he’s been given the nod that easier planning legislation will be the quid pro quo for the cash.

  29. 53
    mad fred 2 para says:

    When will the mourning & wailing over that fat coward Kennedy be over on BBC Pravda?

    They have turned over their entire global network to elavating that drunken scum bag to that of a saint.

    FFS – he played a major part in the murder of British troops & citizens you treasonous BBC bastards.

    • 189
      Jethro says:

      53 Mad Fred 2 Para There’s some folks (taps side of nose) reckon that Lord Haw-Haw might have been hanged, but that his voice, William Joyce, was quietly reprieved, and has worked his way up through the BBC ever since. Do you remember ‘Uncle’ someone, who used to play the piano on ‘Listen with Mother’? Do you remember all those ‘Sandy Macpherson’ non-stop broadcasts? Why was Lord Reith’s proffered resignation unceremoniously accepted? Who followed him? Hugh Carleton-Greene – with a brother in Intelligence!
      I can tell you now, that ‘The Radio Times’ continued its War-time work (‘V’ for Victory…) but to an adjusted Agenda.
      Ever wondered whom Robert Dougall most resembled?
      Ever wondered who kept slipping drinks to Reginald Bosanquet (now, there’s a name…!)

  30. 54
    Come the glourious day says:

    No point in making hard policy public right now, ZaNuliebour will pinch it then fuck it up.

    Lets wait for the starting gun for the GE and then we can read the manifestos.

    • 63
      Hugh Janus says:

      Manifesto – definitely a document to be filed on the ‘Fiction’ shelf.

    • 113
      Archer Karcher says:

      Manifesto, that curious document the courts have already ruled, is not worth the paper it`s printed on?

      How reassuring.

      • 135
        Hugh Janus says:

        It is merely a vehicle for a whole string of politicians’ lies – as long as the media flock to its launch then that is all that matters. The media rarely bother to challenge years later what was said. The political parties also know that few people bother to read what has been written although I do gain a sort of perverse pleasure in looking at them years later, and finding out how many of these things ever come to pass.

        Very few of course – now there’s a surprise.

  31. 59
    Einy says:

    Labour have turned our nation in to a Big Brother society, there is no freedom. Yes, the Tories don’t boast on about the freedom policies but that’s not to say they don’t fully support it. Labour have also manipulated the freedom of information act (see link) in the past. Tories have voted against the dreaded ID cards and to say the least if this country stays under a Labour govt then we will soon have bar codes tattoo’d onto us!

    “Labour have manipulated the Freedom of Information Act” – http://www.conservatives.com/Video/Conservatives_TV.aspx?id=682b5b67-69ff-47e6-b5a5-93ebd286eb38

    • 191
      barefootcontessa says:

      The easiest way is to tattoo at birth. Newlabour are currently working on it.

  32. 60
    Happy Chappie. says:

    Could end up like Canada, the Tories collapse after one term leading us into a whole new ball game.

  33. 62
    sandra from accounts says:

    Great comment on Pravda BBC HYS:

    “Why is the BBC giving any air time to the death of a foreigner who supported and financially helped the murder of many British citizens?

    [swindoom], United Kingdom

    Because to the BBC we the British people are the “enemy within”

    Operation Overlord”

    Too true

    • 68
      fedupwithbrown says:

      Pathetic the air time given to Kennedy. Apart from Straw and Brown who cares about the life of some silver spooned US senator. Had he not had the name Kennedy he’d have been booted out of politics years ago. Driving a young girl over a bridge into a river and not reporting it until the next day would have got him a jail sentance here.

      • 70
        Ted Kennedy says:

        Bobby always said ‘Ted ma boi!!!! your breast stroke will always be better than your driving’

        Who knew he would be right.

      • 110
        Anonymous Source says:

        Brown & Straw don’t give a toss either really they’re just “grandstanding” for the americans – but it helps divert attention from our Inglorious Leader’s own deficiencies and lack of backbone.

        As for the BBC they are beyond re-construction . They are and always have been anti-British in their sentiments and seem to think that the rest of us actually share their institutional collective guilt for this country’s history and actions.We don’t !!

        • 136
          Hugh Janus says:

          “As for the BBC they are beyond re-construction . They are and always have been anti-British in their sentiments and seem to think that the rest of us actually share their institutional collective guilt for this country’s history and actions.We don’t !!”

          I’ve just substituted ‘The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’ for ‘BBC’ – it’s spot on.

        • 192
          barefootcontessa says:

          Is it perhaps because the BBC are now infiltrated by ‘non Britishers?’ The BBC have bent over backwards to be politically correct. These people have no sense or knowledge of British history.

  34. 65
    old rockape says:

    Cameron is a Lightweight and has no Balls.Cant even sort out his own Troughing Pigs yet alone this mess the Gorgon has got us into. Vote UKIP

    • 78
      Ever Vigilant says:

      And get Labour –again . That makes sense to a newlabour supporter . Declare youy allegiance .

      • 115
        Anonymous Source says:

        Totally corect – voting UKIP at the General Election is total madness. It will only deliver a Labour Government for another 5 years and preecious little benefit for UKIP aims on the Lisbon Treaty or re-negotiating the terms with the EU. Camer’s Conservatives aren’t perfect but Labour is a million times worse and Labour certainly won’t re-negoiate anything with Europe other than how quick do we run up the White Flag

      • 117
        Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

        Vote UKIP and look your kids in the eye and say “I voted for who I wanted to whilst we still had a democracy. It’s all I could do”. Vote for who you want.

        • 128
          Anonymous Source says:

          Still stupid decison though. UKIP is going nowhere near power.It might win the odd seat but all it does is increase the chances of Labour winning in some constituencies. The greater need is to get rid of Labour to actually ensure your kids HAVE a future and Cameron is the ONLY one who is capable of that not Nigel Farage & Co. Vote UKIP in the Euro Elections but the General Election is too important to waste a vote unless UKIP has a chance of being the next government – which they ain’t.

          Division over Europe and the “Maastricht Rebels” cost the Tory Party 13 years in Opposition and for what ? ………Fuck all really other than an ego trip for the media.Get real -Cameron be he the next Blair a total lightweight or just a glib PR man – if he can get rid of this detestable Labour Government & Brown, which it will, I’d vote for him anyday over UKIP in a General Election

        • 176
          Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

          What’s stupid is Dave. If he can’t win the ukip vote on immigration and the EU it is his stupidity.

        • 177
          Air Force Blair says:

          If Cameron was on fire,i wouldn’t piss on him. The old 20th century buggins turn politics was proved to be shit.
          “You’ve got to vote tories or nulab will get back in”. Fuck off! Why would anybody with any self respect vote for any of the incumbent crooked mafias. Because Britain has become a nation of wimps,only too ready to bend over and take another portion.

        • 194
          Jethro says:

          Spot on, Ivor: I have been telling any ‘Conservatives’ (what do they plan to conserve, apart from their own assumed right to patronise us?) for several years now, that, as a life-long Tory, I intend to vote UKIP (we are still allowed to mention them aren’t we? Oh, for the moment: thank you!); the answer is always the same, ‘Then, all you’ll do, is let in a Lib-Dem…’ to which, I answer, ‘Well, if it takes droves of us voting for UKIP and ‘letting Lib-Dems in’, then perhaps, eventually, the Party will realise that it needs to re-think its policy and become more aligned with its natural electorate.’ I am sometimes almost moved to add, ‘By the way, Ted Heath (the Bustard!) is dead, you know!’

      • 122
        Archer Karcher says:

        “And get Labour -again”

        You are assuming ZaNuLabs vote will hold up, dont count on it.

        The B&P look likely to capture large sections of their core English vote and many more will never vote for the immoral, corrupt, incompetent, troop hating, freedom stealing hoons again.

        Also, if a sizable number of UKIP, say 20 were elected, then CMD could only get their support by getting tough on the EU.

        Then the game is really on.

        • 171
          Ever Vigilant says:

          Taking that risk is a risk too far .

          We must be sure of getting rid of New Labour and as far as I can assess
          only a vote for the Tories wiil make that possible .

          I would like to see UKIP get more influence but not if it splits the Tory vote
          and allows New Labour to escape annihilation and total humiliation.

        • 178
          Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

          Dave only has to stop pretending where he stands on europe. In or out? If labour gets back in because Dave ain’t too honest with the electorate fuck the consequences; UK sovereignty is worth dying for if need be.

        • 180
          Air Force Blair says:

          The tory vote is split. Where do UKIP get it’s core vote from?

  35. 67
    doom monger says:

    i enjoy making the UAF riot so i know who i’m voting for.

  36. 69
    long haired drug taking hippie says:

    free love dude, we’re sticking it to the man today!! we’re standing up against climate change mannnnn we’re totally rad and gnarly.

  37. 74
    Elmer Fudge says:

    Is is still silly season on the blogosphere, I would like to wunt sum wabbit.

  38. 76
    Gordon Brown says:

    I had to give Edward Kennedy a knighthood to get five minutes with Obama and a photocall.

  39. 77
    Sir William Waad says:

    It’s hard to discern any Conservative policies on anything. Dave knows that policies tend to lose votes because they annoy people who would be worse off but those who would be better off just think “about time too”. Policies give the other side something to shoot up. Having no policies didn’t do Blair any harm in 1997, after all, and that worked out just fine…..er…..

    • 91
      Steve Expat says:

      And every policy the Tories have come up with in the past few years has been summarily stolen by Liebour as their own. Let’s see what’ in the manifestos once the election is called (sooner rather than later please)

    • 196
      barefootcontessa says:

      Sir WW, If the Conservatives talked more about their policies newlabour would just pinch them, that’s the problem.

  40. 81
    There's only one Derek Draper says:

    I’m borrowing Kate’s bra’s these days to hold the man boobs in

    and

    I haven’t had a shave in 6 months

    curse you all

    • 88
      Charles Flaccidwidger says:

      You probably haven’t had a bath or shower or changed your clothes in six months either, you grubby little bastard.

  41. 83
    Ratsniffer says:

    I keep hoping that Cameron is just pretending to be all huggy, euro-loving, touchy-feely heir to blair just to get elected, and once in will immediately sprout a huge pair and start kicking some serious arse: pruning the marxists from the BBC, telling europe we want our rebate back or they can shove it, we’d also like our fishing back please…fuck off spanish trawlers. And we make our own laws thanks.

    Getting law and order sorted out, never mind hugging hoodies, jail the law breaking little toe rags. Sort out all the lefties and marxists who have been rising up the police hierarchy aided by their Nulab masters. Build a few more jails and reform the sentencing system – it’s a joke – the crims and scrotes are taking the piss big time.

    Sort out the quangos – scrap most of them – they are a waste of oxygen. Sort out the public sector…get rid of all non-jobs. Deal with political correctness. At least have a policy on immigration – fair enough if people want to come and work here, integrate, and pay taxes. But do we have the infrastructure in place to cope with massive population increase? If not either sort it or get those borders more tightly sealed.

    And, of course, the economy..a full open investigation into the “brown years” let’s see the books, what’s been going on behind the scenes, and an open and honest account of what we need to do to get back on track. Oh and prepare for the public sector unions to strike, as they traditionaly do whenever there is a tory administration.

    I keep dreaming all this, but it won’t happen.

    • 87
      fedupwithbrown says:

      Excellent manifesto you’ve got there. Can I vote for you?

    • 89
      The Guardian says:

      there will never be an investigation into the Brown years. Dream on amigo.

    • 90
      mad fred 2 para says:

      *** Applause ***

      Stand & I will vote for you.

    • 93
      EC1 PhD says:

      Don’t be so sure

    • 95
      Ever Vigilant says:

      Most of it should happen and a lot of it could happen if the scourge of newlabour is
      is eradicated.

    • 126
      Steve Expat says:

      Let’s hope your dreams can be realised soon, there must be some hope left in the world!!

    • 133
      Cato Street Conspirator says:

      Ratsniffer says: ‘I keep hoping that Cameron is just pretending to be all huggy, euro-loving, touchy-feely heir to blair just to get elected…’

      What, in the way Brown pretended to the more gullible elements of Labour (not to mention Polly of the Guardian Hussars) that really he was a lefty and nothing like that awful Blair? Dream on.

      • 207
        Grandma B says:

        Cameron’s managed to make the Tory Party electable, so I think he’s got a tough game plan if elected – won’t be easy though after Gordon’s scorched earth policy.

        • 214
          Snafu says:

          Labour have made the Tory party electable. Just as the Tories made New Labour electable. More of the same granny?

  42. 86
    mad fred 2 para says:

    Someone mentioned that the only way to effect real political change in Great Britain is to go down the “metaphorical gunpowder” route.

    Whats wrong with the real thing?

    • 97
      Barrel of TNT says:

      Is this a simile or a metaphor?

      • 105
        bandersnatch says:

        A metaphor…… BOOOOM!

        • 213
          Confused Barrel of TNT says:

          If it’s like a metaphor then surely it’s a metaphorical simile which makes it a…………BOOOOM!

      • 111
        chronic says:

        Its like a wolf in sheeps clothing, looks harmless on outside but full of destructive power on the inside,ie,the Liebour Government.

    • 146
      UK Fred says:

      Yes!!!

      We even got the instructions.

      Just watch “V for Vendetta”

      Oh and Guido, wasn’t it sweet of him to go around looking like you all the time.

  43. 92
    EUSSR Diversity and Equality Officer says:

    Dream on … the historic, very real and effective positive changes to Economic Region 7 (formerly Britain) are cast in stone and cannot be changed.

    We own the main three parties in Economic Region 7 – so go ahead, vote for your choice.

    We win what ever, who ever, when ever you vote.

    • 100
      Ever Vigilant says:

      Is it too much to hope that events have not taken us that far,yet ?

      • 109
        fedupwithbrown says:

        I heard they’re going to kill off Big Brother before Blair gets a part in it.

        • 119
          East Angular - that's abroad innit says:

          Still the 2010 Season to go AND also “Celebrity Big Brother” – AND who can forget a programme that gave the World – St Jade of Bermondsey ??

        • 123
          Steve Expat says:

          St Slut of Racist, surely?

        • 141
          Hugh Janus says:

          A programme that takes the piss out of half-wits, associated pond-life and the criminally egotistic. OK, sign here Bliar.

          A ‘spokesman’ said on the lunctime news said that they were ending the programme while it is still popular. Really? Nothing to do with the ratings hitting the floor then??

        • 199
          barefootcontessa says:

          Killed off when still on a high? Aren’t you excited that Come Dancing will be returning shortly with a renewed panel, and with more strapping sportsmen taking part than last time? The BBC are.

  44. 106
    Uncle Joe's Ghost says:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209137/The-Soviet-road-map-shows-USSR-planned-invade-Manchester.html

    We gave up on that idea and sent you Tony Blair & Gordon Brown instead.

  45. 112
    • 121
      Steve Expat says:

      Add the 5 million who don’t work to the 6 million that work for the govt, and you’ve pretty much got the 24% that the polls are still saying will vote Liebour.

      • 150
        Grandma B says:

        I used to be a lowly paid employee of local government, but there was no way I would have voted Labour. This was probably because my father had started a small business, which was always threatened with nationalization. As a local government employee and ratepayer, I also saw and recognized the extravagance, waste and inefficency tolerated in the system.

      • 162
        No No Never - No No Never - No more says:

        So the BBC staff could swing it for Liebour?

    • 137
      Max says:

      There are then the millions more who rely on soft benefits like “working family tax credit” whereby you get plenty more top ups if your wages are low or you can only manage to work for say 17 hours per week. Or can at least persuade people to pay you cash after 17 hours. Not that a few million Brits have worked that one out. Obviously. And nor that employers have worked out that there is no need to pay above national minimum wage, er on account of HM Govt steps in to help. Mmmm…

      • 179
        Madman On The Clapham Omnibus says:

        Like Tesco,Sainsburys,morrisons and Asda combined profits of £6billion ,what would the profit margin be if they had to give a decent liveable wage to all their staff.

    • 142
      Hugh Janus says:

      It’s McBust’s client state. Well, he’s almost there – just the few who still work to be ‘converted’, then job done.

      It makes you weep, it truly does.

  46. 125
    nell says:

    Come next May the Tories are going to get rid of gordon for us.

    That’s a good enough start for Cameron. I’m prepared to wait and see what he makes of the job after that.

    Whatever. He can’t make a worse job of it than gordon. gordon is just embarrassingly inept and completely incompetent.

    • 131
      Anonymous says:

      and a
      c u n t

    • 144
      Anonymous says:

      I lose the will to live listening to Gordon – Cameron is a good talker and I’m hoping that here is a bit of substance there – boy do we need it

      • 156
        Anonymous says:

        I gave up listening to brown well before he performed his coup.

        I can’t listen to such a lying scumbag wanker without wanting to kick the shit out of my telly, and I don’t want to do that becaues I don’t have the money to buy a new telly because brown stole all my money.

        Everyone I know falls into one of two categories:
        1) No interest in politics at all; will just put their fingers in their ears and ignore whatever brown says.
        2) Interested in politics; will just put their fingers in their ears and ignore whatever brown says because they know he’s a lying bastard that you should never ever listen to.

      • 201
        barefootcontessa says:

        He’s not bad looking – Cameron – as long as he doesn’t get any fatter. Thin lips though. I was always told when I was wee never to trust anyone who had thin lips. Don’t all rush to the mirror at once.

    • 167
      Longshanks says:

      famous last words

  47. 163

    Since I clearly put it to you whilst I was still a student that I only ever had a plastic carrier bag containing two bricks and some empty beer cans over the top of them you can hardly say years later that I am a lying scumbag.

    PS I should also point out if anyone is still fooled that I made up that thing about a “moral compass”. No such thing exists.

    PPS I am also not lying about Tory Cuts; clearly we will not be making Tory Cuts because in our case they would be Labour Cuts which for short I tend to call Additional Spending Over and Above What The Tories Would Do Which We Did In A Previous Period.

  48. 165
    Lord Peter there is vermin in my genital ermine says:

    IM FREE
    To the highest bidder

  49. 172
    gildedtumbril says:

    Someone mentioned green and the green new religion. I suppose that includes ‘green’ cars. What frigging difference does it make what colour a car is?

  50. 174
    Anonymous says:

    “a Government that sets the people free.”

    Let me guess – Camera-on has promised that even more British jobs will be outsourced to India, Poland, anywhere- that-isn’t-England.

  51. 194
    Raving Loon says:

    Cameron is explicitly anti libertarian and anti liberty in general. Think about the greatest threats to individual liberty in our country and one will realise that it is our own government that poses a greater threat than any foreign enemy, real or imagined.

    • 204
      Foot Soldier says:

      Cameron is a fence sitter waiting to see which way the wind blows. His appearance with J Lumley confirmed his only interest is to be on the winning side.

  52. 216
    When all this nonsense over MP's expenses is over says:

    David Rowland property developer has just spunked his dosh but I’m sure he’ll be pleased with his seat in the Lords.



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