+++ Eric Joyce Rumoured to Be Resigning as PPS +++
Rumour is now widespread. Eric Joyce not answering his mobile for the last two hours. If he is resigning as PPS to the Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth and he blames the treatment of soldiers, it will be explosive. If…
UPDATE 19.01 +++ CHANNEL 4 NEWS @ 7 CONFIRMS +++
+++ RESIGNS OVER AFGHANISTAN +++
+++ YOU READ IT HERE FIRST +++
Eric Joyce resignation letter alleges Brown doesn’t empathise with the military. Joyce denounces “behind the hand attacks on senior personnel” by defence ministers. Explosive!
good
The first shot in the new leadership challenge battle is fired and the plotting can now begin in earnest.
Preparations are no doubt underway for the Labour Party Conference to become a seething snakepit of nametaking and votecounting between Milliboy and Johnson as they seek a possible stalking horse.
Oh what good entertainment; seething snakepit hissing spittle, backstabbing and inuendo, rumour gossip and plotting. Etc. Guido-prepare your sponsors! Well done btw:)
Well, it’ll give my MP (Gerry I-claimed-£400-a-month-food-allowance Suttcliffe) something to do if he is still Johnson’s ‘manager.
Yes, Sutcliffe is a Minister for Sport, but what does he actually DO? If he died, would anybody notice? I mean, would anybody notice before the stench of decay was smelled? I think not
GERRY GERRY GERRY
Eric Joyce ex Major looks to be a man of Principle. I wonder if he will get the Kelly treatment, Hope not!! Can we have some more men of principle stand up against this path of Madness lets see who the men are and who the mice are that remain.
Ah By the way, have these Wars helped to push us into Bankruptcy. I know the last one nearly did, It did bankrupt Argentina, Yes WW2 also give our exchequer a kicking. Can someone tell me how the Economists have missed this fact. USA have borrowed 3 Trillion to execute the conflict in IRAQ. How much are we into it for?
It will be good as we withdraw to the borders and just bomb the shit out of Taliban in Afghanistan.
We need people on the ground to oversee the Opium Harvest. Look at the UN report its detail is quite worrying when it is portrayed that the Drug business is some criminal enterprise. I thought criminal activity was between criminals and not Government organisations? Or is that the new government?
Children in the UK are being tortured, 30’000 on the at risk register, and we really are expected to believe that we invaded Afghanistan to give them that.
Wake up people smell the coffee cause my sense of smell is reeking of shi-
Ahem – allow me: “and so it begins…..” (hopefully).
so should a lot of other on the day the 212th british soldier dies
The soldiers are being treated abominably. It’s absolutely sickening and an international embarrassment.
Joyce ??? Darling ??? what the fuck!!!
Doubt he’s going to be thank explosive, but as the nice people at Tesco say: “Every little helps!”
Hope he hangs that twat Ainsworth out to dry
SQUE-EEERK! SAUCY!
If it is Eric Joyce, then I hope Kevan Jones and Bill Rammell his colleagues have the decency to follow suit , most especially Kevan.
General Sir Richard Dannatt will be watching this one with interest.
Bob ‘ainbustinagut’ has retired for the evening to the bomb shelter under his dining table.
oooh, he’s just gone
and forgotten
Who?
Isn’t there meant to be one resignation a day between now and the Party conference? Are there enough honest men and women in the Labour party?
You mean this Eric Joyce !
Tell him to get his Irish/Scots arse up to the front
Are you sure he is resigning over Afghanistan and not his shady financial arrangements ?
everyone, please view this video – typical shyster of new labour squirming embarrasingly.
Can anyone supply sub-titles?
Why would you need sub titles Grumpy old man, judging by your bigoted little Englander comments it would appear you have shit for Brains and most probably illiterate anyway. Who do you get to post your wank comments ?
yep, just been announced on C4 news…
Eric Joyce- isnt that the same Eric Joyce the crook MP that claimed and claimed again on expenses
In May 2007 Joyce claimed £276.13 for an assertiveness at work training course – is he now being asertive?
I wonder if he will still be selected by his Falkirk constituency – perhaps not
nope
another Hunt bites the dust.
Nearly 20 minutes before even Sky News! Nice work, Guido! What hope newspapers in 2009?!
As you can see for the kindly supplied video – good riddance to a piece of trash. The guy is a complete tit
A genuine, bona fide scoop. Well done, Guido!
+++ YOU READ IT HERE FIRST +++
That’s why you have a dedicated readership…. well done again Guido
Cripes!
Eric Joyce MP is also a former Army Major – I reckon we might get some truth about what Kevan and Ld Foulkes have been up with their spinning and smearing of General Sir Richard Dannatt now. I wonder if there’s a trail leading direct to gordon?
Bob ‘ainbustinagut’ has exited his domestic bomb shelter and made a run for the drowning street bunker.
I read this quickly but I think the hoon is resigning because of an over-dose of some kind of fawning drug.
Apparently he is going because of the awe inspiring economic competence of McDoom which means ZaNuLab are set to win the next election; text here.
That makes sense.
…oh and PS these squaddies once voted for us and now they’re dead and we’ve fooked that. Apart from that McDoom you’re still Our Hero.
I think he’s trying the sandwich of put the nasty stuff in between some nice things and it’ll get more noticed.
How he could write such bollocks for bread without dying of over-vomiting, I don’t know!
Impressive scoop Guido, well done.
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I note that the BBC have only just put this onto their ticker tape headlines..with no further coverage.
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Was he a career soldier like he’s a career politician. Has anyone seen him in Falkirk recently? With his expenses, I doubt it.
YES !!!! Gordon’s fucking nonsense on manouevres with the troops in Afghanistan shown up for the spin cycle rubbish it is…
+++ Gordon rumoured to be a twat +++
+++ One-eyed idiot +++
+++ You heard it here first +++
Al-Beeb, accurate as ever:
“Minister quits over Afghanistan “
Time for a general election
Eric Joyce resigns.
Stand by for action from the Bunker Smear Machine.
“Gordon never really liked him anyway, not since it was discovered that his mother was a camel”.
Hope Joyce is well prepared for the huge dose of excrement about to land on his head.
First will be a statement from bob saying that Eric Joyce told him months ago that ‘he was resigning in September for family reasons’
If it gets really sticky they’ll say something vague like ‘he has private health issues’ whilst insinuating that he is suffering from some stress related disorder.
After all bob’ainbustinagut’ has those mega spinners and smearers on his team kevan and Ld Foulkes – they’ll know exactly what to say to the BBC to get the smear message out.
The BBC now says this:
“Labour MP Eric Joyce said the UK could no longer justify the growing casualty toll in Afghanistan by saying the war would prevent terrorism back home.”
Their paymasters will not accept this for long (call from Mandy about now, sub-ed dragged away from canteen etc) so link here.
No link back to terror? Goodness me.
By tomorrow it’ll be “fully supportive” of the government but a “clash over priorities”. That’ll sort it.
Meanwhile the soldiers keep on dying. Another today.
Nice one Guido. With gold up and this, it has been a great day!
And for the conspiracy theorists…..
Did Brown lean on Defence to not oppose the release of McGrani on terrorist grounds??
Will this eclipse the embaressing Libya/BP thingy???……
I wouldn’t have thought so. It just rubs it in.
Overall a fairly toady resignation letter talking about ‘ gordon’s great economic successes’ so clearly the man is numerically challenged. We have to also bear in mind he is a scot.
But one or two notable sentences :
“I don’t think the public will accept for much longer that our losses can be justified by simply referring to the risk of greater terrorist activity on our streets”
and
“Britain fights, Germany pays, France calculates, Italy avoids”
gordon’s slow car crash continues.
They ‘found’ the economy in a state of weakness? Next Labour term?
At first, I suspected propaganda and Mandelson, not necessarily in that order. Then I considered a viral attack of irony, possibly caught off front-line soldiers. Then, I suddenly found myself imagining it came from the pen of a German General having to break bad news to Der Chef, circa April 1945…
The same almost schizophrenic detachment from reality and its consequence – or was he just being tactful?
Nell why do we have to bear in mind he is a scot ? Why dont you ever say when referring to most of the cabinet actually that “well we have to bear in mind he is English “?
You’ve obviously been in a coma for 12 years…
Barefootcontessa: he wasn’t a careerist (as opposed to career) soldier – he quit the army to speak out on what he felt was a matter of conscience.
He didnt seem to have a problem with his conscience when he regularly claimed the highest travel expenses in the UK nor when he avoided paying capital gains tax ( remember tax is for the little people) on property deals. So pray tell what was this conscience issue he left the Army over ?
“I believe the next election is ours to win, thanks greatly to your personal great economic success.”
wat
Joyce is a political opportunist, a would be wide boy. Still if it hurts Brown ….
Give him some credit for doing the right thing…..whatever the motive!
Putting the boot in will only lessen the damage to Brown and lessen the chance of urgent action to sort out the Afghan mess.
So an x member of the third battalion of Jockland is upset, please have your independence and we will never see your pissed up delinquent’s on Salisbury plain again
“Eric Joyce resignation letter alleges Brown doesn’t empathise with the military.”
Well I think you can definitely claim that as an “exclusive”. Certainly no-one else seems to have this.
‘Brown doesn’t empathise with the military’, but he does empathise with………????
[...] Guido broke the story, which has now been confirmed. The PPS to the Secretary of State for Defence, Eric Joyce, has resigned his post. Channel 4 News have just sent a press release out, giving the following details… In a letter to the Prime Minister – and seen exclusively by Channel 4 News – Eric Joyce lays out his reasons for standing down concentrating on Afghanistan and the need for “greater geopolitical return from the United States for our efforts.” [...]
The Taleban must be crying into their machineguns feeling sorry for our troops being led by people like this.
And wasn’t Bob Ainsworth in the territorial SAS? He should be out there, he looks like a killing cove!
Since Bob Useless has been “bustinagut” to get those extra helicopters that he and Brown definitely don’t think we need for a few months now. Can anyone confirm the net change in helicopter numbers in Afghanistan please (don’t forget to deduct the one our chaps had to blow up as Brown arrived for his photo-opp)? I wonder what the increase is? Can’t be fewer than 20 can it? Just imagine if the answer was , say, 1 or 2 – what a laugh that would be.
Beware the use of percentages in any Brown tractor-stat answer on this one.
[...] been answering his mobile for hours – (the Twitterati picked up the hint). At 6.46pm Guido named Eric Joyce after a co-conspirator emailed some corroborative information on the back of the 6.27 pm [...]
[...] been answering his mobile for hours – (the Twitterati picked up the hint). At 6.46pm Guido named Eric Joyce after a co-conspirator emailed some corroborative information on the back of the 6.27 pm [...]