September 15th, 2009

Lose the Loser : Harriet 4 Leader!

HARRIET4LEADERCCHQ will be all a quiver at the news that Harriet is back on maneuvers, which she will no doubt deny later today if past performance is any guide.  Her team of volunteers are polling Constituency Labour Party branches for their views on the party leader.  Guido recognises push-polling when he sees it: party activists are being asked to rank Gordon and herself as to who is the “best person to sell the Labour Party” on a scale of 0 to 5. 

It would be very, very interesting if the results “accidently” leaked…

Do you think that it might encourage the penny to drop in few places that she is better than their unelected party leader?  Guido has decided to back her hopes and has come up with a campaign slogan for Harriet. If she was being honest she would campaign to: “lose the loser”.


423 Comments

  1. 1
    nell says:

    But she doesn’t want to be leader. She said so. And these Labour people always tell the truth.!

    • 12
      PM for deputy PM says:

      And Peter Mandelson as her number 2? She seems to have a taste for effeminate men, perhaps she does not feel threatened by them.

      • 19

        It doesn’t matter who have they – they are all a bunch of mendacious hoons and they will be destroyed.

        I’m waiting for the first of them to “get slotted” as Andy McNabb would say.

        • 34
          Gordon Brown's deeply worried psychiatrist says:

          Ah, I’m not alone!

          As the RSS reader fires up the news headlines every morning, I cross my fingers and think “please please please, Gordon Brown’s been shot in the head, please please please..”

          Alas..

        • 45
          Fred Goodwin's Duck Palace says:

          “I was quite sincere in my statement at the time that I had no desire to be leader of my Party.

          Alas! due to the fickle hand of fate and the plotting of shadowy mysterious troublemakers, who I of course have no knowledge of, I have been reluctantly forced to stand by the urging of many supporters. Dragging me unwillingly into the limelight for this leadership contest. Albiet with great sadness.”

          And you can repeat that bullshit for Johnson, Milliband and every other aspiring leader to be for any Party

        • 47
          Anonymous says:

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        • 168
          Anonymous says:

          Harriet and Mandy what a win double. I did not think you could stack shit that high without it falling over.

        • 280

          STOP PRESS

          Bob Crow has just demanded that high earners pay 80% tax on Sky News

          As general secretary of the RMT Bob Crow received in 2007, according to the official certification officer (www.certoffice.org), £79,564 gross salary, plus employer pension contributions of £26,115. That’s more than an MP.

          Let’s render him down for soap.

        • 282
          Rufus Stone says:

          “…best person to sell the Labour Party” – FFS, you couldn’t even give it away.

        • 383
          UK Fred says:

          Why should the rich get off lightly when the poor have a merginal rate of tax, NI and loss of benefits of up to 94.5%? Surely we should have equality of poverty throughout the land (unless you’re a troughing Hoon that is)

        • 393
          Gooey Blob says:

          Gordon will lose the election, but Harriet would see Labour annihilated. Polls consistently show that support for Labour would be much lower if any of the leading candidates replaced Brown.

          If Labour panic now they won’t be staring into the abyss, they will be plunging themselves into it, head first. The Tories weren’t stupid enough to replace Major with Redwood when they fought the 1997 election, had they done so the result would have been so bad that there probably would not be a Tory party today. Labour are now facing a similar stark choice.

          They need plenty of time and thought when it comes to choosing their next leader, something they didn’t give themselves at the last attempt. If Labour change leader in haste again it really could be curtains for them this time.

      • 21
        Bordeaux Binger says:

        With Cherie Blair carrying out her threat to canvass for the Party as well the scale of Labour’s defeat would be awesome.

        • 173
          Come the glourious day says:

          Just a thought (that’s a rarity):

          If you get a liebour canvassser on the phone or doorstep, keep ‘em talking as long as you possibly can. After it is their time and phone bill you are consuming and it gives them less opportunity to spread their lies and disinformation.

        • 177
          Harriets Rabbit says:

          Great news, I have been stimulating her into action over many nights and a few sneaky afternoons at the ministry

          bzzzzzzzz bzzzzzzzz bzzzzzz

      • 43
        FrankFisher says:

        Patrick Swazye, Keith Floyd….#3 – they always come in threes. C’mon Gordon – don’t fear the reaper.

      • 89
        Sukyspook says:

        Sorry #13 PM for deputy PM:

        “And Peter Mandelson as her number 2?”

        I’m old enough and ugly enough to know better, but my mind couldn’t help itself, as Ray said in Ghostbusters: “it just popped in there”.

        • 157
          Hey Big Spender says:

          Was Mandelson attacking Gordon with his “Wise spender not Big spender” phrase yesterday? It can not be denied that Gordon is a Big Spender so is Mandelson saying Gordon is also a foolish spender?

      • 181
        I Hate The Heir to Blair! says:

        If you think Harperson has a taste for effeminate men then you have plainly never met her Husband, Jack Dromey. A more unreformed old style “man’s man” you could not hope to meet and I’m pretty damn sure that it is as a result of having spent all these years married to him that Harpie has become so very anti men.

        I’d love to see her depose Brown, she will be even less attractive to the electorate than the Prime Mentalist himself is!

      • 185
        Mark Oaten says:

        Did somebody mention a number 2?

      • 242

        Mentioning Peter Mandelson and No. 2s in the same breath will bring Mark Oaten scuttling – you mark my words.

      • 267
        Gordon's empty pill bottle says:

        Isn’t she married to one?

      • 267
        Anonymous says:

        I would have thought her taste was for rough trade.

      • 366
        Jack Drommee says:

        Hariet’s MY bitch dood.
        I aint effeminate.
        I’s the man.

      • 388
        Anonymous says:

        Well I always thought she was a rug muncher

      • 389
        Anonymous says:

        I always thought she was a rug muncher

      • 406
        Jethro says:

        281 ‘render him down for soap’ It won’t wash, I’m afraid.

    • 15
      Fred Goodwin's Duck Palace says:

      “I was quite sincere in my statement at the time that I had no desire to be leader of my Party.

      Alas! due to the fickle hand of fate and the plotting of anonymous troublemakers, who I of course have no knowledge of, I have been relectantly forced to stand by the urging of many supporters. Dragging me unwillingly into the limelight for this leadership contest. Albiet with great sadness.”

      And you can repeat that drivel for Johnson, Milliband and every other aspiring leader to be for any Party

    • 193
      Jack Dromney says:

      But the choice is only between her “who does not want to lead the Labor party” and Gordon “I cannot lead” Brown.
      They should have included other upstanding Labour party members such as …. erm … errm

  2. 2
    I Love Shami says:

    Bring it on! Harriet as leader of the Labour Party would be absolutely hilarious for all of us right-minded folks – they would have to stop criticising DC for being a toff too.

    • 40
      Henry Crun says:

      Why? It never stopped them when Tony the Toff was leader.

      • 52
        jgm2 says:

        Actually, my memory is that it did shut them up from that line of attack. Particularly since Major, Hague and Howard (and possibly IDS too) were state school kids.

        However with Dave they have only to mention Eton, which every class warrior muppet has heard about and neglect St Pauls (isn’t it?) which no class warrior muppet is even aware exists. And I’m sure she’ll spin it that she won a ‘scholarship’ or somesuch too so, you know, it doesn’t really count. She got in on ‘merit’ whereas Dave’s parents had only to flash the cash.

        Yeah. Right. Dave is a real thickhead – it’s only cash that bought him a place at Eton.

        You try flashing the cash and see how that works at getting your kid a place at Eton.

        • 144

          Prince Harry did awfully well there. Money had nothing to do with it – I doubt they charged him at all.

        • 150
          Anonymous says:

          very funny! lol

        • 196
          Sir William Waad says:

          As I was walking by St Paul’s
          A woman grabbed me by the arm
          She said “You needn’t look so bucked
          You know the country’s wholly skint
          We must present a bold new front
          And rid us of that Gordon Brown”
          I said “Hattie, dear old stick
          You’re talking little a total fool
          For if you had an ounce of wit
          You’d know that people think you’re dross.”
          I didn’t stop or pause to thank her
          Or mention that Jack Dromey person.
          Hattie, Brown, some other Jock -
          The Labour Party’s gone to ruin.

        • 221
          Alibarbs says:

          I suspect all the class warrior muppets will equally ignore her being the niece of the Earl of Longford.

        • 385
          Augeas says:

          Quite amusing to watch the class warriors trying to explain why Osborne (minor gentry, St Paul’s School) is a toff and Harridan (minor gentry, St Paul’s Girls’ School) isn’t. The only difference appears to be that in spite of every possible educational and social advantage Harperson may have been too stupid to get into Oxford.

  3. 3
    Charles Flaccidwidger says:

    Quite frankly the only thing that could be worse than the one eyed bogey muncher as Prime Minister would be Harman.

  4. 4
    Fred Goodwin's Duck Palace says:

    this Harriet Harman ?

    Harriet Harman is more hated than Peter Mandelson

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/andrewpierce/4980699/Harriet-Harman-is-more-hated-than-Peter-Mandelson—thats-quite-an-achievement.html

    More likely she’s positioning for a top job or a role as a kingmaker

    • 77
      MrJones says:

      If you believe any Labour on Labour smears in the papers then you’re a mug – they get planted by the rival factions.

      • 128
        Fred Goodwin's Duck Palace says:

        Her piggy expenses are now common knowledge so hardly a Labour smear and neither was the YouGov poll the headline came from so I’m quite happy not to be the mug here.

      • 147
        Moley says:

        Following the outing of Mc Bride, most people now have well developed smear detectors.

        Labour smearing each other in their fight for leadership is a new form of spectator sport, and one to be heartily enjoyed.

        Labour will discover that the net effect of a widespread smear campaign over the party leadership is that everyone ends up covered in shit and shunned by the electorate.

  5. 5
    Moley says:

    Fifty percent better than Brown.

    No informed and intelligent male would vote for her.

    • 9
      nell says:

      Neither would any informed and intelligent female!

      • 54

        I’ve never met one of those Nell.
        ;)

      • 60
        Unsworth says:

        Nell, nice to have your reassurances on that matter.

      • 183
        Visiting Spaceman says:

        I’ve been lucky enough to meet a number of informed and intelligent women in my life, Nell, so I agree. Of course, its equally true that a lot of unintelligent welfare drones of both sexes would be happy with Harman. The rosette is the attraction, they believe they know when they’re well off.

    • 53
      Stronghold Barricades says:

      fifty per cent of zero is still…

    • 55
      jgm2 says:

      Labour isn’t relying on informed or intelligent voters. Their core vote is ill-informed and unintelligent.

      Just the way they like to keep ‘em.

      • 64
        FrankFisher says:

        education, education, education!

      • 175
        chav the lad says:

        I is a labour voter mate and I is not fick alright bruv. fCKING over party might cut me dole innit. Ow’s me and Chardonnney gonna keep our fucking kids in cider and fags then eh anint fucking right is it

        • 251
          Labour's Child says:

          Frord! “Me and Chadonney and kids”? Wot, not singul paruntz? Ur 1 of em Toree tofz takin piss n stuff incha?

          Bet uv got a olevel, U boffin.

        • 269
          Anonymous says:

          Don`t worry mate, Dave Cameron is your mate and George Osborne, that arch representtive of the guilty middle classes, will lick your feet and pander you with the finest talcum powder. More wasted public money but you will be Ok mate.

        • 274
          Progressive Thinking Tory says:

          Don`t worry mate, Dave Cameron is your mate and George Osborne, that arch representtive of the guilty middle classes, will lick your feet and pander you with the finest talcum powder. More wasted public money but you will be Ok mate.

      • 394
        THE THIRD ROUNDEL says:

        Perfectly true. It is a control mechanism which underpins all socialist economic and social policy. Pity its now creeping into Tory policy as well.

    • 84
      MrJones says:

      Most of them wouldn’t be informed.

      • 230
        Alibarbs says:

        Unlike hoons like you who want to see this country remain a complete joke.

        • 316
          MrJones says:

          So you think the BBC will inform voters what Harperson’s all about and what’s really in the equalities bill then?

        • 403
          Gordon Boomenbust says:

          Didn’t anybody hear Victoria Derbyshire on our “impartial” BBC talking to David Mellor on Radio5?

          Evidently, “The Conservatives core values are looking after the rich, giving them tax breaks and not giving a stuff about the Working Classes…”

          News to me and to David, it was.

          ..How has this woman still got a job?

  6. 6
    Anonymous says:

    Who wants to be the captain of the Titanic?

  7. 7
    M Bar Go says:

    How come all speeches these days are leaked 24 hours in advance? Will say, expected to say, etc What’s the point of listening to the speech or making any effort to attend the speech when we all know what it contains by breakfast time?

    • 59
      Too Ba Go says:

      No, the fun is if the Big Hoon is going to use the hoon word.

    • 285
      Gordon Brown's deeply worried psychiatrist says:

      “Gordon Brown” and “Speech” in the same sentence is quite possibly the best cure for insomnia known to man.

      The only people who would listen to his speeches are the tiny per-cent of the population who think he’s doing a good job; Pakistani militants, SNP supporters with huge chips on their shoulders, etc. You know, people who are only too happy to see England destroyed.

      Leaking bits of speech in advance is the only way to reach out to intelligent people who would sooner nail their testicles to a passing bus than listen to Gordo’s bullshit.

      • 343
        Anonymous says:

        oh come on Mong’s speechs are the stuff of legend – remember “no more Tory boom & bust” or “Tory cuts v Labour investment”? Tomorrow it’s widely predicted he will be delivering a speech containing only the phrases “wibble wibble” and “you promised it wouldn’t hurt Mandy”.

    • 381
      Hugh Janus says:

      It’s known as future news. And it’s not just 24 hrs either – McBust’s big number today was being trailed by R4 early Sunday morning. The Beeb indulges in this ludicrous practice every day, but they are just cribbing off press releases – much cheaper and no real effort involved.

      The only comment made by Alistair Campbell I ever believed was that most journalists are basically lazy. The media (but the Beeb in particular) prove it every day.

  8. 8
    Anonymous says:

    This is fantastic news!

    Harman as leader should ensure Labour never get another chance to wreck the country (again).

    The self-destruct button has been pressed and not a moment too soon…

    • 24
      Sue Tzuzir says:

      Couldn’t agree more. Come on Hattie put the boot in to Gordo and while your at it completely fuck up New Labour.

  9. 10
    Going Mental says:

    Am sure dave is shitting himself now

  10. 11
    nell says:

    If Harriett is going to make a push for the Leadership she surely won’t do it before the next election.

    She won’t want the chance of leading the labour party to defeat. That might cut her tenure of the leadership rather short.

    She will want to be the one to pick up the pieces after gordon has gone down in flames.

    • 37
      FrankFisher says:

      No – she wants to be PM; that’s a one-off chance and the chance is now.

      • 70
        Agent 99 says:

        very correct I think as when they loose Madbint will be balmed and is on the back benches anyway if she dosent even loose her seat. The labour party is doomed for a generation she knows it and by the time Hattie Fuckwit gets another chance at any sniff of power she will be already esconsed in a wheelchair burbling and dribbling horlicks down her chin.

        No …. she knows, as they all do, the time is right now but just after their upcoming disastorous conference. The upside for Manhater is she gets to be Labours first female PM and all the bunce and pensions to go with it not that her hubby will remember that of course (he has form). The downside is it will be a very short tenure and go down in the history books as such.

        So Its potential PM and oblivion or do feck all and still get oblivion anyway.
        Watch this one with interest as no one thought she would make deputy. If it was not so tragic it would be hilarious all the way to the election.

        • 71
          Agent 99 says:

          Balmed = blamed…. mind you embalmed might be more descriptively accurate on second thoughts.

        • 86
          Four-eyed English Genius says:

          loose = lose. Doh!

        • 123
          Agent 99 says:

          Oops quite so FIEG ! that old chestnut..
          Lose it is but as long as they still let Hardbint loose on the labour party all will be well.

        • 210
          barefootcontessa says:

          Dromie ‘ll be putting her up to it. Dromie the silent partner, I don’t think.

        • 276
          Big Bloke in a white jacket says:

          Yeah – she wants it.

          The first female Labour PM

          The only female Labour PM

          The last ever Labour PM

          And she would have been the best PM of all time were it not for those hideous Cabinet members (the male ones) who messed up their briefs and the previous PM who just messed in his briefs.

      • 72
        jgm2 says:

        That’s the strength of it. Barring an astonishing fuck up by Cameron or reveleations of mass Satanic murders by Tory constituency parties the length and breadth of the country then Labour are looking at a long period contemplating how they managed to totally fuck up the country.

        Harman has to decide whether or not the ongoing lies and misinformation (Tory cuts – Labour investemnet – recession wasn’t our fault) will enable the Labour liars to get back into power in 2014 as the UK wades through the mass redundancies and public sector hysteria, union strikes etc or will the UK voters remember who is really responsible for this and reward Labour with 20 years in the political wilderness.

        In 20 years time Harriet will be an irrelvance. That pudgy Jock bird that Guido was flagging up yesterday will probably be the new hod carrier of Labour incompetence by then.

        This may be Harriet’s only chance to top off her CV. Let’s be honest – it is her only chance.

        Trouble is those numb-skulls who would vote for a pig if it was Labour will be suspicious of another woman PM. After all, look what the last one did to their cushy, job-for-life-when-you-could-be-bothered-to-turn-up existence.

        Who gives a shit anyway? Brown, Harman, Johnson, A.N.Other? The bastards have all sat there and gone along with the economic idiocy that brought us to this point. They are all equally culpable. They all deserve our unremitting contempt.

        And I think, come the election, Labour will get rolled under the tank tracks of 30 million irate voters.

        Fucking delicious.

        The only other question is will Brown, in a fit of spite, call a snap election.

        • 105
          English Viking says:

          The only problem is the utter meltdown is likely to come just after a new Gov is elected, allowing Lab to say ‘see what happens when were not in charge’. The great unwashed will believe them and sad merry go round will continue next time around.

        • 110
          Fred Goodwin's Duck Palace says:

          We seem to be forgetting that Brown has fucked the country up with a flourish and eye for carnage few others have ever managed.

          Cameron is getting handed a very big bowl of shit as an election gift

          It’s not going to suddenly get better in June or any time soon

          Afghanistan is a hugely unpopular disasterous quagmire with no end in sight and if anything with far worse still to come

          The debt is also staggering
          Cuts and deep cuts there will be and the public only favour them until they actually happen. then when they have to use the public services cut things get ugly

          but worse still there will also be tax rises to swallow and that will go down like a lead balloon in the years ahead

          that’s what scorched earth was all about and many here knew it

          Yes, Labour will lose this Election, but overconfidence at this stage about any elections after that is a fools game and a mistake Cameron won’t make in a hurry

        • 384
          Hugh Janus says:

          “……or will the UK voters remember who is really responsible for this and reward Labour with 20 years in the political wilderness.”

          Only their slow, painful and complete destruction will satisfy me. Never again should this bunch of utter Hoons ever be allowed anywhere near government, it’s as simple as that.

          Go, Manhater-Harperson, go!! Get the top job, it’s yours for the taking – and then I know that everything we wish for will come to pass. The cast-iron guarantee of NuLiebour’s destruction will be the sight of Mrs Bliar wading in with her ‘support’ for the party. Oh happy day….

      • 191

        Agree, FrankFisher. Somewhere at the back of her mind is an image of herself in a corset and cape, flying in to rescue the Labour party, being congratulated by the Harman family at Christmas, her old headmistress kissing her hand and kneeling humbly, standing under daddy’s portrait and being toasted as the first female leader of the Labour party and first female Labour PM.

        The thought of the lemon-puckering of Cherie’s mouth “I couldda beena contenda” as she is forced to show solidarity with da sistas and defer to Harriet, gives Hattie a damp gusset.

        We should all get behind this wonderful thought of Hattie’s and encourage her in her ambitions.

    • 39
      Fred Goodwin's Duck Palace says:

      No, because it’s dawning on the Labour Party that complete electoral wipeout is a real possibility under Brown and they want some kind of Party left after the Election with a few MP’s to lead or what’s the point ?

      Not forgetting an electoral wipeout will put some of the plotters on the scrapheap too. No majority is safe if Brown is still crashing and burning for months yet.

      The basic mistake many in the Labour Party made was that although things were bad under Gordon they didn’t think they could get much worse.

      Oh yes they could! As Gordon has obligingly proved. And they will probably get worse yet if he remains where he is. The plotting begins even before the Hotels in Brighton are fully booked. Fun times ahead.

      They still won’t win of course so the palpable fear shown by some Conservatives at the prospect of losing Brown as their biggest Political asset is telling but it’s overblown. Fact is it’s all about damage limitation for Labour now.

      • 216
        barefootcontessa says:

        You mean a scorched earth policy?

        • 265
          Not at home to mr boasty says:

          She probably WOULD prefer to go to the Lords, but if Gordon’s not inclined to include her on whatever list he’s doubtlessly already drawing up, and surrounded by people who’d quite like to be on it, then she has absolutely nothing to lose by trying to oust him. Topping off the cv is one way of looking at it; rendering herself much more eligible for the international or European gravy train is another.

          I hope Cameron can give time to formulating a policy on the losing Labour list of elevations to the Lords which avoids the ‘nodding through’ principle.

          I hope it’s thorough and takes account of the damage done not just within the UK but to its international reputation by the architects.

          And I hope he publishes both the request and the reasoning.

          No return to the Lavender list, please David …

    • 46
      bergen says:

      It’s now or never to be PM.Almost certainly,Labour will be out for at least two terms and she won’t be a credible candidate in 2018(not that she is much of one now).

    • 91
      MrJones says:

      Now or never for Hattie – she looks good for 106 but after the election it’ll slide to one of the younger generation.

      • 168
        Throbber says:

        I think the now or never argument really does apply. The thing is it just won’t be hattie…… if brown is deposed all the lightweights will want a go at the top spot… her, straw, johnson, clarke… et all. They will be squabbling amongst themselves like mad things and given that slur and personal sleight is the only way they all know how to operate… it should be hilarious.
        Gordon on the other hand will never want to relinquish power – this could get bloody.

        • 179
          gladiatorial TV says:

          The anticipation of the show at the coliseum is fantastic

        • 228
          barefootcontessa says:

          It’ll go to the one who sticks the knife in…first. Dromie might be prepared to do this for HH if he thinks there might be something in it for him. Women can be silly that way.

        • 292
          Big Bloke in a white jacket says:

          This is so like those accounts of life in the Berlin Bunker: Brown is moving imaginary pins on a map, “investing” billions of cash that has long been spent, the sychophants and hangers-on celebrating new promotions (eg. to the ministry of bogroll), planning new big new palaces, quaffing wine, basking in the adulation of a “loving populace”, living in la-la-land etc etc.

          Those downfall spoofs have ceased to be hysterical and are now a genuine historical record of ZaNu-Labour.

          Totally bizarre – History DOES repeat itself.

      • 410
        Jethro says:

        92 She certainly does look good for 106 – never dreamt she was that old. I would have put her at 86 at the most! Perhaps I need to get my eyes tested, again: second opinion, and all that.
        Know what you mean about ‘it’ll slide…’ – tends all to slide South long before 106, though.

    • 339
      Harriet for PM says:

      ‘That might cut her tenure of the leadership rather short.’

      That wont matter. She will still have been Primeminister,with the pension to match, a photo on the staircase wall of no 10… etc etc and a nice cosy seat in the House of Lords!

  11. 14
    The plane crash that is Labour,coming to a TV near you! says:

    Scanning the headlines this morning,you can really see the aircrash that is the Labour plane now taking shape – pretty soon the oxygen masks will be dropping down and the pilot will be putting up the “seatbelts” sign;

    Harman jockeying for position

    Chairman of the Police Federation writing to Brown re; allowing Libyan murderer of PC Fletcher to escape prosecution

    Mandelson on R4 daring anyone to tell him that night is day and day is night

    Libyan terrrorist released from prison to secure business deals

    Banks paying themselves massive bonuses from OUR money

    Poll shows pure hatred for Brown amongst UK public

    Brown to use the “C” word today and declare himself a Can’t

    The insanity;
    Slop buckets in every home
    Child protection checks if you give your son’s friends a lift back from soccer
    Students loan system crumbling into pieces

    the list goes on and on – the plane will have crashed by mid October.

    • 16
      PITA says:

      OT, used to be inside the SLC…
      Would have been cheaper to give every student a grant and close the place down.
      Hilarious.

      • 25
        Mitch says:

        Only outdone by that other farce, the child/working tax credit system.

        I don’t think they ever intended it to work properly.

    • 26

      Using the plane analogy, you can see First Officer McDoom pushing down on the joystick (he’d like that, wouldn’t he), Captain Mandlesnake pulling up on the joystick (he’d definitely like that) and at the back trolleydolly Harman issuing free drinks and peanuts while reassuring the terrified passengers with “it’s the right thing to do” and “we are best placed to survive this aircrash” and “it all started when we took off from America”.

    • 50
      e.Balls@thebunker.eu says:

      Using the word “CU*TS”

      No – you’ve all got it wrong – Fuhrer Brown is performing brilliantly and Corporal Cameroon has fallen into the Fuhrer’s carefully planned trap

      With one bound we shall be free – free as birds – and it will all be because Brown has stayed heroically – stoically – resolutely to the phrase ‘hard choices’

      His long-planned timing of using of the word ‘”cu*ts” at today’s TUC meeting is perfect timing and positions the Party ideally to address the problems of the Nation which – as we all know – started in the USA

      Fuhrer Brown will once again Save the World

  12. 17
    Going Mental says:

    Has anyone seen the pm (not mandy)?

  13. 18
    chrisg says:

    Are you seriously campaigning for her to be leader, she’s useless….

  14. 20
    Billy Blofeld says:

    Labour please keep Gordon!!!!!!!!!!

    I want the satisfaction of booting the lying arrogant bastard out myself at the ballot box. I want to watch him drive out of Downing Street for the last time with the warm feeling of knowing that I helped him on his way.

    It is the least Labour can do, because we are going to be paying for his idiocy for years and years and years and whilst the cost of living goes through the roof – I can console myself, however momentarily, that we eventually did over the bastard responsible.

    • 62
      Cardinal Richelieu's mole says:

      A sound point, Billy Blofeld.

      For completeness though, Brown really needs to be seen driven away from Downing Street in a Black Maria.

      • 88
        Agent 99 says:

        can’t he just be thrown into one of his governments ‘slop buckets’. Save a lot of expense

      • 113
        Four-eyed English Genius says:

        I would settle for a hearse!

      • 119
        Something for your sore throat,Brown? says:

        Better to see him swinging in an Autumn wind…..

        • 413
          Jethro says:

          120 ‘Mum, what’s that awful smell, and why’ve I got this terrible taste in my mouth?’
          ‘The answer, my child, is swinging in the wind, the answer…’
          ‘You mean – I’ve got Brown’s brown… EURFGHGH,HRGHLTHRP,…EURGHTHHWCKSLOBBASLOBBASLOBBA…

    • 63
      Stronghold Barricades says:

      Will the tv cameras catch the tear in his eye?

    • 127
      Dr Goode says:

      It’ll be men in white coats that take him out the back door in a straight-jacket

      • 135
        Margaret says:

        Wasn’t how they got rid of the previous occupier?

      • 205
        bandersnatch says:

        At 2.30pm I’m going to listen carefully and count the times El Gordo says ‘cut’, ‘cuts’, or ‘cutting’, making a tally on paper with a sharpened pencil… just like we used to count the times our old history teacher used to say ‘Understand? Mmm?’ in a lesson.

        Isn’t Will Lewis’s brother advising the PM now? He’s probably told him to say the buzzwords, and now its been all over the press that he will, he’ll be guffawed at if he does, or ridiculed if he doesn’t. If my tally goes over 5 and I have to start drawing a second ‘gate’, he won’t be able to take the stress of his appalling utterances. The Gorgon’s jaw will wobble, his eyes… make that eye… will water and he will start to shake all over…

        It’s then, Doc, that the men in white coats will move in.

      • 414
        Jethro says:

        128 Dear Dr. Goode, I imagine that your Doctorate is in something other than Medicine, or Psychology – or, indeed, English: otherwise you might have known that the term was ‘strait-jacket’ – ‘strait’, as in confined, narrow, restricted, rather than ‘straight’ as in aligned, not-deviating or undulating…

    • 296
      Big Bloke in a white jacket says:

      I really want to see him lose his seat to the SNP.

      That would be brilliant.

    • 386
      Hugh Janus says:

      Join the queue BB – it’s a bloody long one.

  15. 22
    Going Mental says:

    ill vote for dave if he promises to bring in a law that would give the death penalty to any goverment that wrecks our econmey that would make sure that labour never gain power again

    • 104
      lolol says:

      Then that would make Dave just like this shower of sh*t,it’s up to the voting public to get rid of the garbage for good not more laws, Dave could provide help to educate the braindead but he would have to wait until they have watched Coronation st on there 52″ plasma’s.

  16. 23
    FrankFisher says:

    “Gordon is a disaster, let’s switch to Harriet!”

    hahahahahahahahahahaha

    Oh I love it.

    Worst. Government. Ever.

    I mean, worse by orders of magnitude. You couldn’t satirise anything this crap. SO awful. I mean, yes they’re destroying the nation inch by inch, and the futures of our children, and our children’s children, but you’ve got to laugh haven’t you?

  17. 28
    Man With a Very Hot Bladder says:

    Is “Monkey Lugs” Clarke still in the running?

  18. 29
    Michael says:

    “best person to sell the Labour Party” on a scale of 0 to 5. ???

    I think Gordon says all there is to say about the Labour party and expresses it perfectly – IT’S ALL BROWN STUFF!

    • 94
      Agent 99 says:

      FFS have they no confidence in themselves at all. Even ice skating scores are marked higher.

      Labour Party

      Artistic Content = 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
      Technical Merit = 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
      Total Fuckwittery = 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0

  19. 30
    varsteiner says:

    Our Great Leader is addressing the TUC in Liverpool today then popping over to the Vauxhall Ellesmere Port to discuss them building the new Ampera electric Car – that’t them f*cked then – plant will close in weeks – the curse of Gordo strikes again.

  20. 31
    Trough Mixture says:

    Violet Elizabeth Harman?

    O for a catapult and a bucket of conkers.

  21. 32
    Anonymous says:

    Who will replace Labour after they have dissapeared up their own arses ?

  22. 41
    genghiz the kahn says:

    How would they sell the privately educated niece of a Countess, and descendent of Neville Chamberlain to the proles?

    Perhaps she is Harriet4PM on ebay who advertises a brain in mint condition.

    • 114
      Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

      Her Election Slogan- ‘I’m Harriet. Vote Labour. It didn’t do me any harm’

    • 124
      MrJones says:

      On the TV they’d try and sell her to the lost centre-ground voters as a nice middle class lady while at the same time trying to sell her “equality” bill on the sly in the Sun / Mirror as anti-middle class instead of anti-white.

      Might work. Might not. You can get away with a lot with all the TV guardianistas on your side.

    • 151
      Lord Windbagheot says:

      They would replay all her lousy interviews with Radio 4′s John Humphrys (?) and her exchanges with Mr William Hague – she’d be laughed out of the People’s Court

      • 213

        Bikini photos. The Harriet Harman exercise video. Harriet wearing nothing but long wig, riding on a white horse through Banbury. Harriet running over a hillside, brandishing a carpet bag and a ukelele. Hattie in a tight vest, shorts and big builders’ boots, Harriet in a surgical gown, mask and headcover, just huge mascara eyes looking dreadfully concerned. Harriet singing “Cinderella Rockefeller” with Peter. Oh, sorry, not that one. Yes, no, maybe.

      • 333
        MrJones says:

        Which they – the BBC?

        Don’t think so.

  23. 48
    Max says:

    For tactical reasons it was always better for the tories that McDoom continued until the bitter end. However the prospect of a Harperson versus Mandlebum fight over the dregs of a bankrupted ZaNuLab on the run up to 2010 does have something going for it.

    Harperson for PM!
    Go for it Peter!

    It sort of defines win-win.

    • 87
      Jack says:

      I think a leadership challenge is a wonderful idea and would keep us all entertained until the election main course comes along and greatly add to the gaiety of the nation. Happily Labour would also exhaust what little cash they have left on this end of life spat.

      • 100
        jgm2 says:

        Quite so. Tearing themselves apart. Explaining why Gordon has to go in public. Explaining why they sat through 800bn quids worth of squandering without batting an eyelid but 1000bn quid well, that’s just too much.

        All their shit policies getting aired for free without having to be teased out by BBC reporters who would rather blame Margaret Thatcher for the economic clusterfuck. All their lies getting aired instead of the Omerta that has allowed the BBC to pretend that this isn’t as big a clusterfuck as it appears.

        Bring it Harriet. It’s your only chance. To hell with the country. To hell with the Party. You’re a Labour politician. Do what you’ve done your entire political life – think of yourself FIRST.

  24. 49
    backwoodsman says:

    Don’t rise to the bait, chaps. Its an evil ploy by mandy to make us look like a bunch of malevolent misogynists (including you, Nell) , by being rude about that nice ms hatty harperson.

    • 65
      typo says:

      According to a BBC Radio 4 ‘comedy’ (I can’t remember which, they’re all mostly crap and I turned off after a couple of minutes) there is only about a thousand of us nutters who post all the comments on the internet, which precludes us from any pretensions of being at all influential.

      Well, at least those lefties at the BBC seem to be reading it.

      • 90
        Moley says:

        As Guido has said, there are many who read without posting.

        The huge benefit of the internet is that it makes it impossible for politicians to lie without being found out. Even more important, it makes it impossible for the BBC to lie and spin without being found out.
        The BBC will carry on destroying its global reputation until it realises that we now live in a world where lies, distortion and misrepresentation serve only to destroy the reputation of those who utter them.

        • 122
          FrankFisher says:

          Seen those ACORN videos? Righties are taking on Obama’s client state now – and it’s literally jawdropping. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtTnizEnC1U&feature=channel

          Time to start hammering these malicious “charities” and NGOs here too – they’re mostly rotten.

          T’internet is freedom – they are synonyms. This is why we must be on our guard against each and every attempt to control and/or restrict it. if we lose the net, we are lost for all time.

        • 167
          lurker in the shadows says:

          yup, I,ve been reading this stuff for months and this is my first comment. There are millions more like me just waiting to have justice for the damage this Gov’t has done to our country.

      • 132
        Old Nick Heavenly says:

        If you have to be in a club it is best to be in an exclusive one.

        Minorities change eveything!

        The sheep follow later when it becomes fashionable!

      • 171
        Desperate Dan says:

        Most of the nutters are Tom Watson, Derek Draper and Damian McBride posting under various guises.

      • 342
        Prof. Pedant the Pompous says:

        I’m glad I’m not the only one who turns off the Radio 4 Comedy Programmes, usually within minutes of the start, just as they get to the hilarious cutting edge stuff of Poo and Willies.

        When you think how funny BBC Comedies used to be.

        My God we have fallen a long way under the Bliars

        But Stalin is being reinstated as a great hero in NuUSSR so maybe there is future hope for Bliar and McDoom.

    • 129
      MrJones says:

      Good point, especially given the easy ride male politicians get round here.

  25. 51

    Official Campaign Tag.
    “Let’s lose only half our votes with Harm-Men!”

  26. 56
    Right Bastard says:

    A fantastic 9 months ahead watching the death throes of Labour as their Armaggedon next June draws ever nearer.

    Oh the deliciousness of it all.

  27. 57
    humpy says:

    Haven’t they got anybody who isn’t a candidate for the fucking nuthouse?

  28. 61
    Moley says:

    Labour’s epitaph, brilliantly written by Trevor Kavanagh in the Spectator.

    http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/5317216/the-new-politics-of-decline.thtml

    Labour is a corpse and Harman is the ideal vampire to mutter the necessary incantations to resurrect it.

    • 69
      Max says:

      In part it is the fact that both Harperson and Mandlebum actually so desperately want the corpse which is so compelling. Zombie fight!

  29. 73
    S&M says:

    She’s gonna have all us guys strung up and whipped, so it can’t be all bad.

  30. 75
    Michael says:

    To be fair, Harriet would make a very good leader of the opposition – she ought to keep Labour in the wilderness for decades!

  31. 76
    Thomas Aquinas says:

    What a bloody mess! Labour and Brown really have hit rock bottom if they can even contemplate Harman as a leadership candidate.

    Come on, get it over with and make Brown walk the plank.

    • 81
      Hang 'im high - live on Sky HD says:

      I would prefer the same exit as Saddam – on The Mall,live on Sky.

      Would be a great opportunity for Sky to push their HD service.

    • 186
      Rip Van Winkle says:

      Well who do you suggest?

      One of the Milipedes?

      Alan Johnson?

      Alistair Darling?

      Ed Balls?

      Ben Bradshaw?

      Mmmmm, isn’t very appetising, is it.

      • 208
        Engineer says:

        Caroline Flint.

        Maybe Return of the Chipmunk as deputy, and they could have some blokes in the cabinet as window-dressing.

      • 226
        bandersnatch says:

        There’s always Crude-arse at least he speaks like a Continuity Labour politician… a Real Labour politician. No… maybe not a good idea

        I don’t want a total wipe out… a one party state… Ye gods! A bit of genuine opposition from a few of them would be the grit in the oyster…

        But I fear I’m scraping the bottom of a fairly rotten barrel.

      • 232
        Thomas Aquinas says:

        Jack Straw. A decent man who, unlike Brown, can actually communicate. He wouldn’t win an election, but may avert a landslide.

        • 287
          Max says:

          He has not been communicating upon his past activities in Libya very well lately though has he?

        • 323
          comment says:

          very funny

        • 325
          jgm2 says:

          Jack fucking Straw? A decent man? Signing off the yanks ‘rendition’ flights? Decent?

        • 337
          MrJones says:

          Razorblades on the crown jewels must hurt like f**k.

        • 344
          Prof. Pedant the Pompous says:

          I like it.

          Can we vote to send the whole fucking shower on a Rendition Flight, one way ticket, natch.

          Go Nulabour = NuRendition

        • 373
          Four-eyed English Genius says:

          Careful. It can hurt if you stick your tongue in your cheek that hard!

        • 374
          Straw Warts says:

          Straw decent?
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          oh no, I’ve wet myself.

        • 392
          Cyco Billy says:

          He shook hands well with Mugabe. He was very sympathetic to Pinochet. Man of straw — should fire well when doused with petrol.

        • 405
          Frau Doktor Reis says:

          That man’s name is not to be mentioned in my presence. Mudderfukka’s inappropriate.

  32. 79
    Four-eyed English Genius says:

    Bring her on. It takes a lot of ability to be hated even more than Fondlebum and MacBust! She would probably ensure an even greater meltdown for the hoon party at the next election.

  33. 82
    Sid Rumpo says:

    Or in modern intarweb parlance – ‘Loose the looser’. And they’re free to mangle such simple words; grammer nazi’s are the worst pedant’s evar, amirite?

    Hm. Ms Harman. Transpires a likely lad from a local newspaper dated her way back in the seventies or possibly during the late sixties, He later dated Mrs Rumpo Snr. Nice bloke -charming, educated, well-spoken and highly regarded. Doubtless a Tory voter. Sid got to pose in his cherry-red Ferrari once. Wonder what titbits he could reveal about his old flame, all these years later? (Harman, not Mrs Rumpo Snr., preferably).

    Anyway, yes. Loose the looser. And about bloody time.

    • 351
      Prof. Pedant the Pompous says:

      No no no Sid, this won’t do.

      It should be ‘Grammar Nazis are the worst pedants ever. Am I right ?’

      but I suspect you knew that.

      Anyway totally agree the sentiments, old boy. INNIT ?

  34. 92
    Jethro Q. Walrus-Titty says:

    Going from an insane one to one who is affected.
    Six and half a dozen I suppose…..both losers

  35. 98
    Thats News says:

    So, Frank, one day is enough?

    Once they cotton on to that, the list of hopefuls to replace Brown as PM will be huge!

  36. 106
    Chris Bryant says:

    Does my bum look big in these?

  37. 108
    Sod 'em all says:

    The only position I want to see harridan Harman occupying is shackled to a wall wearing a scold’s bridle so she can’t open her stupid gob.

  38. 121
    More Tories Please says:

    I just wonder what planet Horrible Hattie is on? She recognises that she is not popular with men but somehow thinks that she is the ideal choice for leader of the LP and as Prime Minister. Perhaps her thoughts are along the lines;
    “I won the Deputy Leadership when Gordon was popular. Now he is unpopular the Leadership is a certainty”

    • 170
      EnoughisEnough says:

      Did she not win because of the transferable vote method being adopted; she was a lot of peoples second choice, so they got second best, now she is a second rate deputy leader of the labour party, but not deputy leader of this second rate government!

    • 338
      Susie says:

      Groan — we’ll be seeing a lot of that giraffe suit again. What she always wears when she wants to look like a pro.

  39. 125
    Engineer says:

    “best person to sell the Labour party”

    Only a taxidermist would want the Labour party, and then only if they paid him to take it. The only thing left to do with it is to stuff the corpse, and display it somewhere as a terrible warning to future generations.

  40. 133
    Anonymous says:

    I noticed in the excellent BBC2 programme “The Love of Money” that Jonah Broon wished Lehman Bros & Dick Fauld good luck when GB was guest of honour at the opening of their new offices in Canary Wharf. They had no chance after this!

  41. 137
    Stu says:

    Embarrasing to say that the SUN has it right, this creature is the embodiment of all that I personally loath about the interfering politically correct nanny state this country has become under Labour.

  42. 138
    Olly boy says:

    What a great slogan! May want to add “and replace with less of a loser who is not quite as unpopular but still mad”.

    You only had to look at the sort of views and opinions she was expressing in the summer to come to the conclusion she’s as bonkers as Brown.

  43. 146
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    What about Tessa Jowell? She’s good with numbers.

  44. 148
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    No matter who gets to be leader, Mincing Mandy the unflushable t*urd will still be bobbing about behind the scenes. He could give an election broadcast whilst drowning puppies and the tards would still not get rid of him, or if they did just to pay lip service he’d be back 5 minutes later.

    • 159
      Pontius The Pilot says:

      LMAO!

    • 160
      Desperate Dan says:

      Gordon Brown has subcontracted the job of PM to the wan-faced, pinched featured, short tempered, po-faced megalomaniac Baron Mandelson of Somewhere He Once Went on Holiday. He was elected to his post by a secret cabal headed by Tony Blair.

    • 249
      Steve Expat says:

      Funny, but Mandy will be off and throwing Gordon to the wolves the day Lisbon gets ratified by the Irish.

      Guido, are you planning any ‘No” campaigning from here on the referendum?

  45. 156
    Going Mental says:

    Has anyone got the odds ?

  46. 161
    SO17 says:

    After Harriet becomes leader will Labour have a ‘Harman Bounce’?
    I doubt it.
    Strictly a lights out sack of spuds kinda girl.

  47. 162
    Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

    I truly believe that the power of the Internet,much thanx to Guido,brought
    the Right Honourable JacquiBootsFiveBellies tumbling out of the Home Office
    falling flat,as best as possible that is,on her face.
    This power is without precedent and should be used to rid us of incompetence
    and dishonesty.
    Pump up the volume fellow Thousand Nutters.

  48. 163
    Lord Mandy says:

    Give it a rest Guido, I am the leader, I’m the leader of the gang.

    • 235
      bandersnatch says:

      Mandy, you are the cleverest, and most silver-tongued and most devious of the lot of them… How you must rage at your lack of popularity amongst them… and amongst everyone else as well!

  49. 164
    Inglorious Basterd says:

    I want all their scalps including hers.

  50. 165
    FrankFisher says:

    Sir Michael White appears to think Mandy’s performance yesterday demonstrates that Labour really can win the next election!

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2009/sep/15/mandelson-gordon-brown-labour-election

    Oh, and that Harriet’s “smart enough to know that she’s not smart enough” – I think this is guardian code for “Hattie is as thick as pigshit”.

    If Labour *do* win the next election via BBC propaganda and electoral fraud… well… what might we do? Three choices i guess.
    1) Put up with it,
    2) leave the country,
    3) take up arms.

    • 174
      Going Mental says:

      i would like to think 3 but in reallity it will be 1

    • 182
      EnoughisEnough says:

      Let’s hope the with wise amongst us dont put the X in the wrong place and get these morons for a 4th term, because if the choices have to be made, I would go for option 2 then 3 because I for one could not contemplate option 1. It is still hard to comprehend circa 27% would wish to vote for them anyway! On the BBC front, I swithched the TV off last night before I threw a shoe at it, they are so pro labour it is untrue, come the day, they are in serious trouble.

      • 253
        Steve Expat says:

        Add up all those on “benefits” and all those in public non-jobs, you’ll find it’s probably not far off that 27%, which I think is around 9 million people.

        • 271
          Moley says:

          All the BBC staff are a part of Labour’s client state. That is why they have abandoned any pretence of impartiality.

    • 187
      O'Really O'Reilly says:

      Best take up arms now – just to be sure – to be sure !

    • 206
      Moley says:

      The Guardian as ever has missed the point completely.

      Labour is now judged on its actions, not its words.

      Everyone knows that Labour has lied and will continue to lie and that no manifesto commitment is worth the paper it is printed on.

      Labour has shown itself utterly incapable of translating words into effective actions and there has to be very serious doubt as to whether they even have the intention to do what they say.

      Empty words, and broken promises is all we have had from them and all we will ever get.

    • 220
    • 244
      TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

      The tards of Salford just reelected the flippin’ chipmunk, so anything is possible.

    • 256
      Steve Expat says:

      2) for me too!

    • 261
      Four-eyed English Genius says:

      2 or 3. I am not putting up with another 5 years of this crap!

    • 266
      Groucho says:

      Option 2 for me.

      Just read this morning about the introduction of paternity leave entitlement in 2011.
      Thats another umpteen thousand small businesses fucked then.
      I have just about had enough of the hassle, red tape and grief associated with employing people in the UK – Labour seems hell bent on strangling the life out of small businesses.

      • 283

        Lucky we’re not in a recession, as that new entitlement to paternity leave will harm job creation.

      • 298
        Steve Expat says:

        And there’s the story of the EU court ruling that says it’s now your employer’s problem if you fall ill whilst on holiday. Are they trying to increase unemployment?

        • 332
          Groucho says:

          I swore I would never offshore our development work, but its looking like an increasingly attractive option.

    • 281
      Cato Street Conspirator says:

      Sir Michael could very well by the William Rees-Mogg of his generation – wrong on everything.

    • 357
      Prof. Pedant the Pompous says:

      They took our arms away, Too old to leave, What does that leave ?

      It’s beyond comprehension that Sir Michael White can routinely write such horse shit, and even more incredibel that buffoons pay money to read it.

      I suppose it’s all the result of edukashun.

      Well they all deserve what’s coming to them, except the grandchildren, poor sods.

      They didn’t have any voice in this evil 13 year trip to the knackers’ yard, but they’re the ones who will have to pay for the Corruption of Socialism all their lives.

  51. 172
    Depressing says:

    Gordon must be well pissed off. Yesterday the news was all about Mandy’s speech, today it is all about the deaths of an American actor and TV Chef, and little mention of Gordon.

    • 188
      lolol says:

      Gordy is supposed to be at Vauxhall Ellesemere Port today,telling them the same crap as this lot told the MG workers,jobcentre at the Port Arcades ready for business.

  52. 176
    slime monitor says:

    Certainly if the Labourites leave their conference with Gordo still in charge, they’ll be in BIG TROUBLE come the election.

    • 184
      EnoughisEnough says:

      Let’s hope so.

    • 190
      Michael says:

      . . . and Cameron would give a huge sigh of relief.

    • 361
      Prof. Pedant the Pompous says:

      Much as I loathe McBroon, all the alternatives are fortunately equally loathesome.

      Socialism is the Problem, and the personalities that go with the evil creed are naturally awful because they peddle the corruption in order to gain themselves power privilege and fortune.

      It doesn’t matter who they pick, they’re well and truly fucked.

  53. 189
    the pro from dover says:

    Surely steady Eddy Balls has to be the man.
    I was told that, since he and his lot centralised university placings, Exeter (for one) has accepted more students than they have lecture rooms for, accomodation for, catering for, and academic staff for.

    He sounds like the man to run the country.

  54. 192
    Twiggy says:

    Did you hear about the Iraqi lady who threw her shoes at Harriet?

  55. 194
    Denise Buckle says:

    And called her a bitch?

  56. 195
    who's dropped their guts? says:

    Micheal White – doh!

  57. 199
    Scenic says:

    Michael Foots still available

    In all seriousness he would probably be an improvement

  58. 201
    Engineer says:

    It’s an oldie, but it’s a goodie. Hattie at work.

    • 231
      Papasmurf says:

      Here is the reply received from the BBC in regard to this edition…….

      “Thank you for your email regarding ‘Question Time’.

      I understand you feel the broadcast on the 2 July showed an unnecessary interruption on Ian Duncan Smith by David Dimbleby which you believe was provoked by Harriet Harman.

      While I appreciate your concerns, I can assure you this interruption was not provoked as a result of Harriet Harman’s comments. Prior to this interruption, David Dimbleby actually interrupted Harriet Harman to allow Ian Duncan Smith to speak. It is his role as chairman to ensure that discussions keep to the specific topics raised, and on this occasion he felt Ian Duncan Smith was not keeping strictly to the issue of Government spending through the recession. Despite this challenge, Ian Duncan Smith was allowed to finish his comments.”

      • 233
        Papasmurf says:

        Should have added to the above that seeing it for yourself does not really accord with how the written reply reads. Spin I think.

      • 254
        Moley says:

        What we need is an impartial public service broadcaster which accurately catalogues what Labour said it would do and achieve and compares it with what they have actually done and achieved.

        That would be a true and necessary public service and an essential consideration for every voter come the election.

        We know the BBC won’t do it and we know that they are not impartial.
        The BBC should lose all its taxpayer funding until it demonstrates impartiality, and returns to its role as a public service broadcaster.

      • 270
        Steve Expat says:

        Well done to IDS for finishing his accurate and insightful commentary on the real societal problems facing the country. You could see Harperson almost want to throttle him!

        • 297
          Throbber says:

          We do not need a public service broadcaster at all. All TV should be commercial, funded by subscription, advertising, whatever – but not through ANY state funding. TV channels should live and die by what people are prepared to pay for – not what some government scumbag decides the proles can watch.

    • 364
      Prof. Pedant the Pompous says:

      If only we could throw out the evil AlJabeeba with their paymasters.

      Much as I enjoy many BBC pogrammes, I would willingly forego the lot to get totally rid of the evil Trot bastards for ever.

      Just one election left.

  59. 202
    Chris says:

    No, I want the day to come when my vote will eject the lying snot gobbler from number 10, with Mandelson and the rest into 10 years in the wilderness.

  60. 218
    tat says:

    if the answer is harriet harman then the question must be: name a black magic witch man hater.
    we must burn the witch on a bonfire.
    it is the only way to kill witches like harriet harpy.

  61. 223
    cityboozer says:

    Harriet looks great for 59.

    And before I’m accused of sexism, that’s 59 seats.

  62. 227
    davefromluton says:

    I don’t like ‘Lose the Loser’ although it has a certain ring.
    What about ‘Toss the Tosser’ or ‘Fuck the Fucker’.
    If Harriet used the feminine ‘Fuck the Fuckee’ as a slogan I doubt she would be trampled in the rush

  63. 236
    Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

    Message for Nell, your mate Bob Aintgonnabustagut,live on SKY in a minute.

    Oh yes, and watch out for Daniel Quilp,he still has designs on you.

  64. 243
    windy miller says:

    Says something when the best that Labour have got are Harriet and Gordon.

  65. 245
    Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

    My money’s on Fungus Clark. He’s been out of the limelight for a few months, which has distanced him nicely from the present idiocy; he’ll be able to say he watched aghast from the sidelines and had to throw his hat into the ring. Also, he’s such a vision that he will appeal to the voters as a genuine person, it being totally impossible to make him look anything but a tramp, albeit a well fed one.

    The first signs of this happening will be when there is some Foy inspired briefing against him.

    • 263

      The cunning plan would be for wing nut to “come out”: he’d then be guaranteed to have Baron Munchhouseboy right behind him and closely watching his rear.

    • 291
      Michael says:

      There will be no support for an open challenge to Brown – they will all be falling over each other to demonstrate their loyalty to the git.

      If he doesn’t fall on his sword – they are stuck with him . . of course he’s not been looking too well lately and when you are under a lot of stress, you might mix-up your medication . . . .

  66. 246
    Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

    Sorry Nell,it wern’t bustagut it was that other ‘orrible Bob,CROW.

    Still watch out for Daniel Quilp though.

    • 306
      nell says:

      Hi Vote Vote – Just come in for lunch so missed him.

      Bob Crow he who says the British public want the railways re-nationalised and then goes on to say that the public are much more leftwing now the recession has come. Another loon just like gordon!

      As for Daniel Quilp – a deformed hynchback dwarf with an unattractive personality -he’d fit in well with the labour party wouldn’t he?

  67. 259

    This all seems like a rather undignified scramble to decide who is to replace Captain Edward Smith, at about the moment when the hulk settles into its final course – a gentle cantering glide slope to the bottom.

    • 275
      And the Orchestra played on says:

      No doubt their campaign song will be “Nearer My God to thee ”

      Meanwhile “Commodore” Mandelson tells the worried passengers that there is no need to worry

  68. 272
    Going Mental says:

    weather shit today , what to watch gordon at the tuc confrence or england get done by austraila .

    what a fucking choice

    • 289
      Steve Expat says:

      At least there’s a small chance that the cricket might turn out good. I’d go for that rather than Broon, who we know will be as cringeworthy as always…

      • 301
        Ted says:

        But Gordon is certain to smile when he should be frowning and vice versa, that’s always good for a laugh. Be interesting to see if he has had a jaw fix over the summer too..could explain his silence over Lockerbie.

    • 295
      Mick says:

      Could shag the aupair I suppose.

  69. 293
    Ethan says:

    FFS Harridan Hatemen as PM? WTF have we done to deserve that!

    Any chance of an election or is it yet another shoe in job?
    Like I said I have the rope…you bring the tree and the mob and we’ll have ourselves a little regime change necktie party. Tomorrow afternoon at three any good for you?

    Oh and I love Mandy as Number 2…I’ve always thought of him as a steaming plie of Number Two’s…..

  70. 303
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    I hope Gordon stays
    Everyday will be complete agony for him.
    CMD is a Hoon so will not change anything, lets keep McMental in number 10 as a punishment until he finaly does have to be removed in an armoured ambulance wearing a nice blue straight (hahahha “straight”) jacket.

  71. 304
    shelling-out says:

    If they ditched Gordon and put Harriet (or Mandleson) in his place, we would have yet another unelected PM.

    That’s democracy for ya!

  72. 305
    copacabana says:

    Micheal White’s brain is still in 1976

    We have witnesed the age of free flowing capital and now we are in the age of free flowing labour

    White only exists because he writes for a state sponsored mouthpiece, I note he has nothing appearing on amazon.co.uk

  73. 308
    Max says:

    Only two hours to go and McDoom is being forced to say “cuts” on TV; can we have a countdown clock or something on here?

    What about £5 for anyone spotting Mandlebum prodding him from behind or any wires coming out of him?

    Brown Broadcasting Corp says “Mr Brown will use the word “cuts” and will add it will be necessary to “cut costs, to cut inefficiencies, to cut unnecessary spending on low priorities”. So they’ve seen the script!

    I have a late lunch booked and will be celebrating if he stumbles at the last minute and doesn’t say it; in which case Go For The Kill Harperson!

    • 312
      nell says:

      It’s a bit reminiscent of all that effort that went into getting him to say ‘sorry’ isn’t it?

      I suppose that McNeill person wrote his speech so I don’t expect it’s going to be attention grabbing or anything.

    • 318
      Kerosene says:

      He says cut, I say cυnt.

    • 322
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      The interest must be not in the much advertised use of the word but the crock if shit he will use to justify his late conversion.

      Expect some tripe about him being misunderstood, all the PMQ exchanges were about then whereas he is looking a year ahead, being such an expert and all. What else can he say?

      He was right then and he’s right now. Timing, you see. And bollocks.

    • 334
      Max says:

      My guess is “wise and sympathetic cuts to non-essential services” compared with “spittle-flecked vicious and rampant cuts especially to jobs made by the enraged madmen of the tory party and (new addition recently here) their friends and supporters in the media, cuts made with great big sharp blade things, possibly powered by huge motors, on the things we hold dear, like your granny and babies, and things like that. Bunny rabbits too.”

      [Huge cheers from half drunken idiots in the crowd; Lord Mandleson calls for a half day National Holiday. Etc]

    • 346
      EnoughisEnough says:

      It is wrong how the double speak messages are being carried by the Babour Broadcasting Corp, every headline for the past 48 hours has been dominated by their messages, on the radio, on TV and on Line. This is not acceptable, the only saving thought thnak goodness is no body believes them – well I hope that is the case!

  74. 311
    black gold says:

    The frightening thing is that she is terminally stupid. It’s the sort of dead eyed single minded dumbness that Hitler had.

    • 369
      Beowulff says:

      Surely you’re being a bit hard on Herr Hitler old chap.

      Adolf was never as stupid as Harriet of the Ring.

  75. 315
    BOFL http://ageofkali.blogspot.com/ says:

    all of them are repulsive vogons………..

    harriet………prize loony………delusions of grandeur.extolling the virtues of freedom and equality while using her position to push through her own laws!

    what a fucking sterile sap her husband must be.
    probably another one wanking over free gay porn.

    • 328
      shelling-out says:

      She’s married to Jack Dromey, who was party treasurer in 2006. He denied all knowledge of £3.5m donations to the party by 3 people, who were nominated for life peerages.

      ‘Nuff said.

      • 336
        Groucho says:

        Did they ever hand the Abrahams money back?

        Not that dopey old Jack knew anything about it of course.

    • 349
      Lover of Free Gay Porn says:

      Don’t knock it…

  76. 329
    Anonymous says:

    This is all great, just look at the likely labour leader possibilities:
    Brown
    Harman
    Balls
    Milliband
    Mandelson

    All useless, and all destined to leave labour in opposition for decades (I hope).

    I remember the hatred for the Tories in ’97, but that was like happy hour compared to the vitriol people have for the socialist nitwits…

  77. 331
    streamfisher says:

    party activists are being asked to rank Gordon and herself as to who is the “best person to sell the Labour Party” on a scale of 0 to 5.
    0 per cent increase?. Mrs slaters parrot would do a better job:
    SQUAWK!, SQUAWK!

  78. 353
    FrogDog says:

    John Hutton’s sold us short again just like his boss Gordon the Gopher did with the gold. And made it through the revolving doors…..
    And they wonder why we think they are lining their own pockets at our expense……

    http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1213023/Minister-lands-job-French-power-firm–just-year-giving-ahead-British-nuclear-plants.html

    • 355
      shelling-out says:

      Hutton’s seen the writing on the wall and knows he won’t have a job next year.

      I wonder if his job was part of the deal………?

  79. 360
    Max says:

    About an hour to go before McDoom says “cuts”; his team are arriving at the conference NOW.

    • 376
      Prof Pedant says:

      Countdown to the Cuts.

      I bet he’s shitting himself the worlds will all come out wrong. Let’s hope so.

      If he gets the N letter in the CUTS, it could be an early retirement on health grounds.

      I hope they’ve got the jacket ready for him, the one with no arms in.

      Then Joy of Joys we can see all the other Supergoons they’ve got lined up to be Leader of the Socialistos, with their nice cuts as opposed to nasty Tory ones.

      • 377
        Prof Pedant says:

        Words – Worlds. See how easy it is even for a Prof. to make a mistake.

        • 380

          Ah was workin’ on the World, ah is noo focused on gittin’ ma words right; too true professor. Did yer by any chance get yer qualificashun courtesy of ma gummint? In which case tha’ understands tha’ owes me one. Ok?

          Aw ferk; I’m on…

          “socks up, trewsers out!”

  80. 362
    Seymour says:

    Hairperson for PM, Blears for Home Office, Jackboot for Chancellor and Flint for Deputy.

    A fair division of jobs and a godsend for liebor at the polls.

    Just have to find a camera that wouldn’t explode to take the snapshot.

    Please dear liebor, what do you have to lose?

  81. 363
    • 372
      Richard the Turd says:

      Well, it does have a “seldom seen ravine”, and it doesn’t allow men…

      Pets : Yes
      Smoking : No
      Children : Yes
      Men : No

  82. 368
    Kraft says:

    This time the shortest suicide note in history? “Harriet Harman”

  83. 378
    thatguy says:

    Harman is just another self obsessed wierdo.
    According to her Additional Allowances claim she spent over £3,000 of our money last year with a company called Durrants. What Durrants promise is “… powerful insights and hard evidence of your PR success”

  84. 387
    bandersnatch says:

    Well… He got through it better than I thought he would… 35 mins of it … Beforehand, whilst an elderly Welshwoman in specs was giving out awards, and he was presenting them – school speech day fashion, he was smiling, smiling, smiling a lot, and bouncing about on the balls of his feet. During his speech proper he did his usual nervous re-straightening of his papers top and bottom… many times, but otherwise showed much less evidence of bonkersdom than usual… Better pills?

    Laura Keunsberg claimed he said ‘cuts’ seven times… I counted 13 cuts/cut/cutting… The bulk of them about what the Tories wanted to do NOW! The only reference to any cuts HE was preparing to make was crammed into a couple of gabbled sentences eg: ‘We are not going to cut our front line services’… NO reference to specific cuts… Just a reference to ‘hard choices’ to be made because of the debts due to the global recession: ‘we will be cutting costs where we can… in areas of lower priority’… and he stressed again: ‘but growth is the best antidote to debt’ and that was it re cuts! No rethink on identity cards natch…

    Thinks… there WAS one specific cuts ref I noted. It was to cutting Whitehall severance packages. There was also a bit about the removal of certain tax reliefs for higher earners, and a 50p tax rate to be brought in… These were not referred to as cuts, natch…

    Very little ‘content’ and a lot of flummery about hundreds of thousands of new apprenticeships, and millions of people around the world who would benefit from education and health improvements due to his past G20 meeting, and there would be many more good results from his next one… Hah!

    • 399
      shelling-out says:

      He only mentioned Whitehall severance packages, because DC has already said that he would cut the MP’s perks and pay.

      He had to come up with something which would placate the unions and get the electorate on side.

      It hasn’t worked for me.

  85. 391
    simon says:

    Michael Foot is still available so there’s no need for Labour to do anything so stupid as appoint Harriet as leader. But I hope it does.

  86. 396
    Ever Vigilant says:

    Brown is the type of spendthrift,having travelled from rich man to poor man and now surrounded by bailiffs and furious creditors,tries to maintain the fiction that he is still solvent.

    I have listened to the speeches of many leaders of the British Labour Party.
    Gordon Brown ,with his rant today,takes first prize for intelluctual dishonesty,fantasy and partisan claptrap.

    One thing is obvious. When he becomes unemployed,there could be a brilliant
    job for him .

    If there is an attempt to resurrect the periodical ,’Billy’s Weekly Liar ‘he should
    accept the nomination for the job of Editor and chief Leader Writer– it is the only way he could earn an honest oiving .

  87. 398
    Poop Scoop says:

    One dog turd replacing another.

  88. 401
    Ever Vigilant says:

    No real need to on a blog but I apologise for misspelling intellectual in 397.

    I couldn’t find my reading glasses at the time .

    A lso ,for any fanatical pedants ,I always use ‘s’ instead of ‘z’ –it woz the way I woz tort .

  89. 404
    The elephant in the room says:

    The elephant in the room is really this;

    who is going to shoot the bastard?

  90. 408
    Watt Tyler says:

    Is Guido backing a Misandrous Hate-criminal, Harriet Harperson, who Tries to Defend -with Utter Contempt for the People- the Crooks in Her Gang:

    Watch the video: http://eotp.wordpress.com/videos/

  91. 409
    Anonymous IP address says:

    “I drew her on like a well oiled sea-boot” – from the memoirs of Jack Dromey.

  92. 411
    anticant says:

    Yoicks, tally ho! Batty Hattie for leader! Yes please – she’ll lose Labour far more votes (mostly male) than even Gordon could.

  93. 412
    Cynic says:

    Oh yes please. Make her leader and we will have a majority of 250!

    Labour could even become an all woman party – membership 1 (plus the Lesbian in the corner who forgot to pay her subs)

  94. 415
    smilie in your stout says:

    Harman is a joke. The Tories would eat her up for breakfast like a cat making quick work of a canary.

    Mandelson is the Tory nightmare. His command of an interview is a wonder to behold. His only rival in that respect is Ken Clarke. Clarke of course could never be taken on by the Tories because of Europe.

    Mandelson is despised by Brownites and old Labour. But desperate times call for desperate acts – and Labour is in desperate need of a leader with formidable powers.

    I really think Mandelson could stop the Tories being the major party in parliament and maybe even retain a majority.

    The alternative of sticking to Downer Brown will mean certain death for Labour.

  95. 419
    Mandy says:

    Re. “LOSE THE LOSER”

    Excuse me, which one is the loser – Brown or Harman?

  96. 422
    Jim Beam says:

    Burn the man hating feminazi bitch with napalm!!!!1



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