Cable Admits He Got Crisis Wrong
Guido has been saying for some time that Vince Cable’s reputation as a seer is much overstated and that his reputation is cashing cheques his actual policy account can’t cover. His ability to provide authoritative sounding soundbites to journalists is fantastic. Hacks never bother to check his prognostications and previous policy flips (who knows what the LibDem policy is on anything besides PR?) He thus gets a free ride in comparison to Labour and the Tories.
So it will be worth tuning into Straight Talk tomorrow where by all accounts Vince Cable gets a mauling from Andrew Neil about his history of changing his position on a range of issues during the financial crisis and Brillo gets him to admit that he was wrong last autumn to support the merger of Lloyds TSB and HBOS. Vince admits to Brillo when challenged “you’re right – perfectly fair comment that my first reaction was not the right one.”
Brillo also spotted that in Cable’s just released policy paper for Reform he is proposing to cut items that were only earmarked by Nick Clegg and Vince Cable in February as part of a planned increase of £6.7 bn in spending on childcare and education.
By all accounts it is worth tuning into Straight Talk on BBC News tomorrow night to see Brillo hold Cable’s feet to the fire for all his flip-flopping on economic policy.
UPDATE : Sam Coates over at Red box has spotted another Cable incoherency.
UPDATE II : There is of course the whole Darth Cable / Brillo Skywalker angle about this: Cable was Neil’s economics tutor at Glasgow. Now the circle is complete, the student is the inquisitor. The force is strong…
You sure?
Weird, I was replying to comment number 2 and now it’s disappeared and my post in number 2.
I guess maybe Guido didn’t like my remark about “Hardtalk” being boring. Perhaps he’s lobbying to get himself onto it?
it is boring
Well it wouldn’t be boring if they had interesting interviews of people like Mr Guido Fawkes and Emily Parkhurst
Keep fucking that chicken!!!!
34. What have you done with Ivor?
“34. What have you done with Ivor?”
He was a boring little shit, so I murdered him
Quite right too.
Yes but it’s not boring watching Guido’s new video on his new thread~
Thought you were dead. Is Guido’s thread in heaven of hell?
Emily Pankhurst Would Be A Good Interview ! She Died In 1928 !
Angry protestations about misunderstandings, misrepresentations, mistranslations and even downright forgery don’t
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Oh dear someone has let hitler on to the blog
Actually, that is what is written, have done business with Isreali Jews and not a pleasant experience. Why would you equate this person with being Hitler, rather think before you post, really pathetic.
Jews, Muslims, Christians, whatever. You’re all fucking delusional.
Just because your fairy tales are 5,000 years old, it doesn’t mean they aren’t fairy tales.
Just because your fairy tales are 5,000 years old, it doesn’t mean they aren’t fairy tales.
TRUE BUT
It does NOT mean they are just fairy tales, won’t come true for whatever reason, based-on, or indicative of real events, useful advice from interested parties, a damned good read, an important insight into classical and pre-historic times, the word of GOD, a corruption of the word of GOD, an astrologically based code book designed by elites for elites, a miss-interpretation of the word of GOD, the mindless imaginings of some old 3rd cenBC deluded fruitcake on mushrooms, ( who made the whole lot of it up, as a rather long term, and overpaid off joke, ) most, or some of these things at the same time, either.
The TRUTH is Mr Withnails, you don’t know the WHOLE truth about anything worth knowing the truth about, I assume this simply because, neither do I.
What is worse no body else does, and even if the people likely to possess such knowledge had a serious clue, they would not tell you, or me anything usefully truthful about it, even over OUR dead bodies.
Therefore instead of perpetuating your ignorance. Try actually reading the odd bit of religious text with an open mind. It most likely will not make you into a bible thumping fundamentalist, but you might just start to understand something that far greater minds then ours worked out several thousands of years ago.
We are very seriously as far away to day at understanding what in the bugger we are actually doing here, then we have been at any time since we first asked the question WHY, or UGG as the case may be. Very possibly even further away.
We have generally come to an understanding that evolution has something to do with something, but right there is basically where our understanding ends.
Oh and BTW.
I think I can safely state that Muslims, Christians and Jews do actually exist on this planet. Maybe you have some evidence that suggests otherwise, you could bring forth. You may be more right then you think. They do as we know, believe in very similar things.
Otherwise I believe it is yourself that is also being delusional.
As far as Alex is concerned. I can see that he has completely missed the point, as Jew haters usually do.
If one go’s deep enough ( which is not very deep at all) into all of the worlds major religions, you will find that they are all as deeply psychopathic in textual nature as each other, especially from the TOP-DOWN. What is more important they are in essence, all of the same religion.
Therefore if one religion turns out to be correct in principle, they are all correct in principle, and most surly not in the relatively completely unimportant details of the matter.
We are either intelligently and deliberately created in some way. Or we are the very indirect product of an extremely long succession of chance events, equal to winning the national lottery 100 times in a row.
Given the un-imaginably high amount of planets out there this string of highly unlikely chances could indeed have taken place. However it is highly unlikely all of the same. You can see why our forefathers just thought it was a lot easier on the old brain cells, if they just blamed it all on the SUN and the stars, belonging to some individual creator or something, and left it at that for many thousands of years.
Fuck off Griffin.
And Vince Cable Said All this ? Wow !
Posting acres of tosh that is not in the Old Testament and then painting it as the Jew’s religion is just what I’d expect from a muslim.
Brillo’s quality
Angry protestations about misunderstandings, misrepresentations, mistranslations and even downright forgery don’t stack up
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Could you sub that down to one line, please?
What’s it all about ….Alfie? RotP
… is it just for the moment we live? What’s it aaalllllll about, Aaaallllfieeee?
Are we meant to take more than we give… etcbloodycetera…
No, Cilla Black, actually!
That Vince Cable Sounds Like A Rabbi !
‘cashing cheques his positions can’t cash’
‘Straight Talk on BBC News . . . Hard Talk on BBC News’
Long lunch, was it Guido?
Yes.
Do you think – “that his reputation is cashing cheques his actual policy account can’t cover” works considerably better? Changed it to that anyway, you were right on the lunch. Had a couple of pints and a spliff with the intern this evening so that will improve the prose immensely.
“….immensely?”
“Considerably” would have been better.
Thanks for the mention, but Cable is on ‘STRAIGHT TALK WITH ANDREW NEIL’, on the BBC News Channel, not Hard Talk.
How sad. With such a title His Noble Grace The Lord Thy God will be barred from Mr Pad’s comfy chair.
Bit pissed. Sorted now.
OI CABLE…SHUT IT!
I was beginning to think that the guilt was off the ginger bread.
… obviously a Calvinist confection…
oo-er missis…
The sad fact is the public will warm to him even more as he owns up and admits to his mistakes unlike JONAH BROWN who does a runner or pretends he orignally thought of the u-turn position he’s forced onto.
how do we save some money?
20billion estimated for the id card system to go through its final stages (something which has no benefits whatsoever and which only has downsides and which isn’t needed anyway) ….that was easy….what’s next?
as babs windsor would say:
evewy li’l ‘elps
ID Cards: this is a typical labour thing; they know it costs a fortune, serves no purpose at all, and actually costs people money to buy a card on top of the tax cost, yet they still want to go ahead. They are completely insane.
I’m glad the libdems have always given it a blanket “no; it’s just plain fucking mad/stupid” without any caveats, because that’s what it deserves.
abolish child Trust funds forthwith.
Quite apart from the fact that it taking money out of the system, 50% of kids being credited with our tax money at the moment are the offspring of women who weren’t born in the UK. Some of these may stick around and possibly become taxpayers to support us when we are in our dotage but it’s reasonable to assume that a lot will leave the country as soon as we’ve paid for their education(especially if UK PLC becomes a lot less congenial and highly taxed) taking their nest eggs with them.
Yeah, but it might buy them votes while they’re here.
You want to save serious money, you could:
- scrap the NHS computer system, currently burnt up £16bn and still doesn’t work.
- scrap the £18bn ID card system
- scrap the shiny new internet / phone intercept system £10bn (what they admit to).
- scrap the £9.6bn (that they currently admit to with the cooked books) of taxpayers cash for the 2 week Olympics.
- scrap the £1bn so far wasted on the children’s “ContactPoint” ID database.
- scrap adding innocent people to the DNA database £1bn.
- scrap New Labour (priceless).
Forgot to mention, scrap the 10′s of interrogation centers New Labour built / are building around the country for the ID card / passport applications. We don’t need these bunch of f*****rs.
Scrap the BBC. Another 3.5bn – yes, three and a half billion pounds – saved.
Vince Cable’s reputation is built upon his persona “you can trust me and what I say because don’t I look like a harmless old aged pensioner”.
And don’t forget he’s a whizz at ballroom dancing.
He looks young to me
I don’t think he’s that old.
Cables position has been built by bbc and gullible media because hes not hard labour or new tory so he must be ok
Yeah, ok, Cable gets it wrong but at least (as your post shows) he’s actually prepared to admit he got something wrong – not a quality much apparent amongst any of the other lying bastards.
I agree.
I dont agree
Excellent, I *do like a good argument
I wanted an argument, not a disagreement.
Yes he has admitted he was wrong but only under interrogation -I would prefer a voluntary admission from all politicians……I am not holding my breath.
I prefer this version of ‘current events’ – green shoots my arse:
Gerald Celente: Revolution or Renaissance ergo: there is no recovery, it’s a cover up:
I think it’s about time. The world needs to drop a billion or more people from the population list also so it’s a nicely ticking over.
I suggest you an Celente volunteer to “go”.
Thanks for the video Sukyspook. I feel sorry for the americans because they have elected someone like we are just about gonna get rid of. They should’ve listened to Ron.
“…cashing cheques his actual policy positions can’t cash.”
Anonymous is right. It should be “…writing cheques…”.
I personally think the term “economic expert” is used in the media far too often. Over here in America, there is still a big debate about whether Bernanke and Obama were right to bail out the banks and AIG.
The argument was (and is) that these institutions are “too big to fail” and that, if they were allowed to collapse, a systemic failure would result. I’m not clever enough to know one way or the other, but if they were too big to fail, why didn’t someone spot this earlier?
Bernanke spent his whole career in academia prior to becoming the Fed Chairman, but neither he nor any of his colleagues counselled against the banks in America becoming too big. If they’re all so clever, why didn’t they spot the danger?
In think Cable should be praised for forseeing some problems, but he’s certainly not the genius some claim him to be.
In reality Banks didn’t get too big, Governments created* too much credit, and then taxed the results.
This is the root cause of the economic damage we see today.
*Governments control the volume of credit in the economy via reserve requirements.
they failed, they had to be bailed out, they were too big
can’t understand why anyone would try to excuse and justify the outragous greed and incompetent behaviour of the bankers any more than anyone trying to justify the Brown one’s stupid incompetence and greed
they all fucked the economy and are scum
I wouldn’t grovel to these shits under any circumstance
“LEEEETTT’SS GET READYYYYY TOOOOO RUMMMBBLE !!!!!”
I never rated him anyway he is always all things to all men. Mind you there are a few in government that are going to have to flip flop shortly
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214309/Britain-facing-immediate-risk-financial-crisis.html
Mind you its not all bad news……………….even if they try the loophole of
‘she was married malarky’ Bang to rights. Take her down!
Attorney General Baroness Scotland faced humiliation last night over employing an illegal immigrant.
The Border Agency launched an inquiry and the government’s senior lawyer faced the prospect of a fine of up to £10,000 and even a ‘raid’ on her home.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214289/Attorney-General-faces-raid-home-10-000-fine-illegal-immigrant-housekeeper.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214289/Attorney-General-faces-raid-home-10-000-fine-illegal-immigrant-housekeeper.html
Modded on the last one no idea why?????
The DM can reveal that Miss Tapui was refused a visa renewal not once but twice – yet immigration officials did nothing to deport her.
Despite Lady Scotland’s attempts to draw a line under the affair, senior government sources were expressing doubts that she can survive.
One former Labour minister said: ‘If this were America, she would already have had to resign.’
‘No Attorney General in modern political history has faced such a scandal.’
She’s Toast!
Another first for Nulabour.
Hi daisy, thought you’d risk the hazards of a comment on Fawkes again eh? Welcome back.
I wonder whether gordon can afford for her to go – who is there left who he can appoint to fill her post? Nobody wants to work with him.
Then again there’s always cherie – she was being especially nice about him the other day and saying she was going to canvass for him at the GE. I’m sure she’d do it for a peerage now that her relationship with tone is looking a bit rocky.
Is Tony going to shave the Beard?
Nah, Cherie travelled without a train ticket-she has form.
I think she’d make a great Attorney General! Just imagine what authority she would add to this failing government!!
Nell, I do hope you’re joking!
I can’t remember any PM ever being questioned by the police either. But Bliar was.
That was a scandal in itself.
twice
Leave the honourable ( not horrible ) Baroness alone !!
She and I are both innocent !
HOONourable?
That Will Be A Phonecall First , Hello! May We Come Round To Look In Your House Please ? We’ll take Our Shoe’s Off And We wont Make A Mess Is 4 o’clock OK With You Baroness ? We’ll Come Next Week If You Want ?When Ever Suits You M’lady !
BUNCH OF C*NTS !
Harrest me, an tek me ganja?, Never, me ‘iding place superior!
Always amusing to see Tories frothing at the mouth over Cable’s reputation.
It must be frustrating being stuck with someone as lightweight and utterly unconvincing as Osbourne in comparison.
yawn….
Ken Clarke? must be annoying for Labour to sit in the same room with real ‘competence’ and respect from financial boffins around the world, someone who can do sums properly and has plenty of experience cleaning up ”Labours Bankrupt Britain” legacies.
Tacere consentire est
Amo, amas, amat.
I do love a threesome
Hey troll, at least you didn’t mention P.M./Chancellor Brown.
In the week when Osborne’s political strategy over the debt issue has matured and left Brown looking utterly pathetic as he makes u-turn after u-turn, and remembering that it was Osborne and IHT that stopped the 2007 general election in its tracks, I sense that your insults are born of a frustration that time and again George fucks you over…..
Osbourne is frothing at the nose.
The stupidity of your comment about cable made me laugh. O sborne is head and shoulders above him. Cable can say what he likes as can all Lib Dems pretending to have any chance of actuall governement. Lib Dems putting the Li back onto politics
I can’t stand him.
Smug! and is starting to believe his own publicity
Headline in the media:
”John Lewis put’s on brave face as profits fall”
LOL
Would it be because MP’s can no longer buy anything they please. One would hope so.
Er, John Lewis is a very good employer and their service is great built on the back of happy staff so don’t slag them off.
And they’re supporting the Duchy’s Originals too.
Pass the Duchy to the left hand side.
Yeah, they’re a great store. They only charge me 39% apr on the John Lewis credit card. No one can beat that surely.
111. spend what you earn. It will save you loads.
If only the Treasury had done that over this last 12 years!
don’t believe any of these politicians truly understand the complexity of this financial situation we are in and I suspect Vibce Cable would be the first to admit it.
Gordon and george osborne both have degrees in history and not much employment pre parliament to speak of. Alastair Darling qualified as a lawyer and then an advocate. None of them have studied or worked in the economics field .
Vince Cable obtained a PhD in Economics from Cambridge. He was once a Treasury Finance Officer for the Kenyan Government and after that Chief Economist for Shell. If we’re down to educated guesses on what the economy might be doing I think he’s probably the best bet.
Ole’
Nell I thought he was just one of the many backroom boys that Shell have.
He’s been peddling a good line, backing the right horse. He’s a politician for god’s sake. There must be plenty of wise economists out there, but they ain’t politicians. Cable? – think soft shoe shuffle.
When you look at their credentials, how many of them have actually got any worthwhile experience in economics? Not very many, but that didn’t stop them getting the jobs they got.
It’s cronyism at it’s best.
They – snotty and co – don’t know what they are talking about and they got rid of any civil servants who do, and replaced them with arslickers, who tow the line and give advice their masters want to hear.
Actually looking at their credentials is quite amusing. Not to mention enlightening.
Take EdB. He was privately educated and then studied at Keble(Oxford) and Harvard but doesn’t appear to have obtained any qualifications.
His claim to economic fame is a speech he wrote for gordon in 1994 using the mind bogglingly pointless phrase ” neoclassical endogenous growth theory.” No doubt something he had heard, and thought sounded good, during his time as a student.
And we can see where it led us can’t we?
No qualifications, eh? Has he been talking to Dolly?
I’ll have you know he has got an A* GCSE in Androgenics.
” neoclassical endogenous growth theory.”*
is basically, believe it or not…
Tax exchange as much as you can, the economy will magically grow because of “innovation”…
Of course this is total bollocks, the economy grows because, wealth is only created through the exchange of time, and innovation only supports that.
Bollocks
Channel 4 News has just run a story about the Treasury having worked out that proposed Tory policies will cost loadsofmoney. The Treasury estimates have been released under a convenient FOI request and C4 immediately cut to some lefty think tank character and a lib dem who both said that it was shocking, Tories were toast etc.
Can any co-conspirators from Whitehall comment on whether Treasury officials would usually be costing up opposition proposals in such a way and, if so, who would usually get access to the figures?
Doesn’t have to have any substance. We’re in the silly season now in the run-up to the GE. The figures were probably proposed by the Treasury’s tea lady.
Labour is going to utter lots of unsubstantiated rubbish. More than they normally would in an election. This election is theatening to wipe them out. Survival is worth any lie.
Probably shows something of a divide in the Treasure.
On one side the old school types who resent the way Nulab have politicised the department and put in a load of wonks like Balls to teach them how it’s done. These are probably the ones who leaked the ‘cuts document’ to the Tories.
On the other side, the wonks, fearful of oblivion.
I was under the impression that there were few Tory policies to cost at this stage.
The name of the game is from now ’till the election is disinformation. Those who can most successfully dress it up as truth will win.
Smokescreen.
Whenever Labour put out such disinformation like this they are hiding something. I would like to know who sanctioned this though because we pay for it and civil servants are not allowed to undertake party related work and this can only be construed as such.
Either way the announcemnt was made on the same day that the governments borrowiing guesstimates have again been blown completly out of the water and we are now heading into 200 billion plus zone and thats before the end of September. Neatly took it off the front page though except Pravda who never even bothered to mention it.
We are so buggered we really are.
Can someone use the freedom of information act to demand to know who used the freedom of informatoin act to create the spoiler non-story about Con spending plans (on news at 10 now)?
£16 billion borrowed is last month is about £250 for each of us. Where’s my share? Must be the post strike.
Susie, that News at 10 story sounded like one from the days of McBride, desparately spinning any story they can against the Tories with little to back up their arguments. Shocking.
Sir Reg, your share needs to be paid to the government, rather than from it. Darling’s 175bn annual PSBR figure is looking more and more optimistic by the day…
What we really need to know is who commissioned this report in the first place?
My girlfreind is Herpetophobic and she wouldn’t watch that Cable ‘cos of his eyebrows.
She must be like him then a bald Hunt
No she has a fear of creepy crawlies like catapillars
And The Biggest “Creepy Crawly” Of Them All Mangledbum ?
She won’t be watching darling either then, will she?
You can anti-biotics for that sort of thing nowadays.
Blimey, this dancin’ lark is a bit ‘ard. Hope I can do better than England are doing in the ODI series. My cunning plan is to show a bit of arse to the women judges and use my natural charm to woo ‘em. Two left feet and a bit of reverse spin….. Wish me luck as I’ll bloomin’ need it. No brains left – the village idiot got all I ‘ad.
I would like to watch it but, our area has gone digital and I can not afford a new T.V.
As am not allowed to work.
If you really are SBS I dare say you could earn a right few bob sailing up the Thames with gun-boat and levelling the brothel known as Parliament.
Politicians are always flip-flopping, big deal. The reason people like Vince is that he isn’t a compulsive liar.
Well, not knowingly, anyway.
It’s all a bloody farce anyway, New Labour have shoved us all up shit creek without a paddle and little tête a tête’s with any Political leader ain’t gonna cut any mustard. The truth is this Country can never recover from the last 12 years, financially, socially or morally, that’s the issue none of them dare address. Straight Talk.
I like Brillo. I do NOT like Cable (iam sure he is a nice guy, as far as politicans can be nice) but his answeer to every problem is striaght out the paly book of Das Kapital, you see the rich can afford Marxism us poor plebs can not(something Cable always forgets)
http://newslion.blogspot.com/
Have you noticed how many MP’s start a sentence with the word “Look”.
That really pisses me off.
along with “if you’re asking me why [turn the question around to what I want to reply to with a yes or no]“
I’ve stopped falling for that one; Look!, then they kick you in the bollocks and run away..
Well, an honest admission of error or failure seems like a good start for a politician’s return from the wilderness to me.
I hear he enjoys laying cable.
Underwater?
possibly, but not sure if his wife’s a scuba diver
Any Questions with Dimbleby, on at the moment radio 4. – rubbish as usual. You could make it all up yourself given the boring predictable contestants taking part.
Saira Khan saying “ban the burka in public” was interesting – the PC brigade can’t really shout her down as they would almost anybody else.
Otherwise, as you say, quite predictable.
Dimbledore is apparently away for the next four weeks, and Eddie Mair is chairing instead, so it might improve.
Interesting that Dimbleby was also, a member of the Bullingdon Club.
As for ban the burkha . Well of course we must.
One point that did cause me to grind my teeth a bit was Margaret Beckett telling us in patronising tones that borrowing this month was only £16 billion instead of the projected £18 billion. Well, that’s all right then.
And wee Gordy has only just woken up to the fact that we have to cut public spending……..What planet are these people on?
Margaret Beckett spends too much time parked up in her roving home. If she’d only come down to earth where we all are she might be able to see the wood for the trees. She’s far too good for this world, I wonder when she’ll be transported upwards to the heavenly realms of the Lords?
Only if she can take her 60 hanging baskets. Unfortunately she does not have the mental wherewithal to work out how much that will cost her.
She wasn’t to busy then this time to to like err… notice these things.
Cannot understand the praise for Andrew Neill on here:
* he trivialises
* interrupts people just as they are about to make a valid point (usually in order to crack one of his pathetic ‘witticisms’)
* trivialises
* seems to be out of his depth on a huge range of issues
* falls into the No.1 presentational trap of thinking that the programme is about him, rather than the subject
As for Cable; if the media keep describing him in glowing terms he’s hardly going to dispute their assessment is he? At least he has some relevant background and, astonishingly in modern politics, accepts that issues may be complex, incapable of being easily resolved, and that his sense of what should be done may indeed be fallible!
Not bad qualities.
Andrew Neill has a degree and MA in Economics and political science. And interestingly was tutored by Vince Cable.
He has got a ridiculously overgrown sense of his own importance, though. And a right dodgy barnet.
You’re right about his barnet! Is he related to Brucie? Or Arfur Scargill even?!
Wogan?
Oh please! get a life, he is a born again idiot, nobody on this Island should take any notice of what this man has said or will say. Having said that, I really do wish that the Liberals would become the Opposition to the Conservatives, because then I can do what my Great Great Grandfather did and, beat the beejabs out of them! Only a pleasure. Arsewipes!
Brillo has these essential quality for an interviewer.
He is clever
He can distinguish between bullshit and an answer to the question.
He keeps going ’till he gets an answer, or if none is eventually forthcoming [example Balls both Male and Female] announces the fact before moving on.
Cable always appears in front of the cameras wearing a cheap looking suit, shirt and tie. This with a bald head, squeaky voice and sallow, grey complexion makes one imagine that he wears the same underwear all week.
Hoe can anyone take him seriously?
Or anyone else in the LibDems for that matter?
From your description, he it The Beast. Or possibly The Hitch.
I hear he is a magnet to the ladies. He must have something about him if he wears unwashed underwear, is bald, has a squeaky voice, sallow grey complexion, and wears cheap clothes. Is it his economic prowess, his ‘in the ballroom’ skills, or has he hidden talents under all those impossibly boring, unwashed cheap jack clothes?
He is truly the Woody Allen of West London Contessa.
If he got a shower first, ah he already has the Lib Dems.
Lib Dems have the luxury of being able to spout professorially on pretty well anything in the sure-fire knowledge that they will never be in the difficult position of actually having to make decisions or do something about it. Makes commenting very easy, as we know all too well on this blog. The difference is that we don’t get paid £65,000 per annum plus expenses to spout garbage.
The privilege of the Eunuch since 3000BC, Engmesiter.
Go away and prepare yourself for office, as a door ‘man’ in the Hareem.
Dead right. His sageness is a bleedin myth. I feel sorry for the make up girl
having to trowel on the cement back studio before he goes live.
I wouldn’t like to lend him my nose trumpet either.
is.
Is what?
Who?
refer yourselves to comment 93 please.
O i c. silly me.
Forgiven, BFC. GF has become so complex since these multi hundred threads.
Vince Cable runs Brown and Balls close for being the biggest charlatan in Parliament.
That he appears to be hero worshipped by, stupid but influential, people like Paxman is indicative of their total lack of understanding of economics rather than any talent on Cable’s part.
A stupid persons idea of someone clever. Here’s a few others.
Stephen Fry, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins….all rather similar names and all as shite as each other.
Don’t forget Obama, Geldof and Michael Jackson.
I rather like Richard Dawkins, intelligent, very intelligent, nice face, but wears terrible cheap slip ons.
He looks like a Parson and he’s incredibly thick……..in other words a stupid persons idea of someone clever, ie you.
Thanks Wittgenstein,your comment is really important to me. I’m so flattered.
My goodness, Sir you have just articulated what I was actually thinking, you Sir have just stated the absolute obvious, but, do you think, that your words will be adhered to?
Gordon Brown appears on Question Time at last:
Spitting Image come back in cartoon form. At last!
deserves an ocsar
Guido’s put this up as the next topic
I Wonder If Oaten Has Ever “Laid A Cable”?
An underwater cable? No, don’t think so, hasn’t got a wet suit or goggles.
I Think He’ll Have A Good Selection Of Wet Suit’s Made Of Rubber Pvc Latex Etc
Why are so few of our politicians so lacking in appropriate qualifications?
And why have so few of them worked in the real world before they’ve ended up in Westminster.
From looking at Wiki it seems likely that some of them can’t even spell their own names.
These people are supposed to be governing our country!!!!
I wonder what would be on the syllabus for ‘A’-level Politician?
– Creative expense-form filling, obviously.
– Acting ability – how to tell bare-faced lies without blushing.
– How to discuss any subject at length without knowing anything about it.
What else?
It is called Socialism, I think it started with the Unions, but, of course, they were helping the Working Class escape from the Bonds of sorry, read your History. Big Mouths, a tad more education, provided of course by the oh so dreadful Tories, and hey presto, the Labour Party, where you can become someone you only dreamt of being before they invented the Working Class, and destroyed the people with Titles in the first place, I am just going to plug myself in just now, must blick of to the Work House must vote Labour, dear God!!!
nell……… stating the fucking obvious with monotonous regularity for 50 decades, (perhaps 60).
I’m looking forward to this. Brillo’s uncompromising approach is infinitely preferable to smarm merchants like Marr and Frei.
Lib Dem leaders by and large have always been all talk: David Owen, Paddy Pantsdown, Menzies Campbell … and Cable. All wax and no wick. All mouth and no trousers. All hat and no cattle.
All piss and wind.
Doesn’t say much for labour. What are they full of?
KY Jelly and stale semen in Brown and Mandelson’s case.
EV I used to work on an oil rig with divers Whitby fishermen. The phrase of that moment was: “A good for nothing bladderhead full of wind and piss.” They had plenty of other catchphrases too, by the way.
I learnt from my mother when she was drunkenly describing my father. He wasn’t, by the way.
Talking of labour records and firsts here’s another one for the scrapbook
The dire state of Britain’s public finances were laid bare today as the Government unveiled new figures that showed public sector net borrowing swelled by a record £16.1 billion in August. It was the largest increase in the amount of new debt held by the UK Government since records began.
and the comment from No 10, as the yearly borrowing total heads rapidly to the + 200billion zone was?
Downing Street says the figures are “broadly in line” with predictions and are less than the markets had expected.
Ye gods!
Just come across this quote as well and Cameron has commented as follows
“We used to worry about borrowing £16bn in a whole year, but under this government we are borrowing it in a single month, they have completely lost control of the nation’s finances.”
Cameron is a Dickhead ! William Hague Is the Only Man To Get Us Out Of The Shit !
Another good ‘un from Dan Hannan:
True..every word
EUSSR a very apt title.
He’s defintely got passion look at the steel in his eyes. Dave get him onboard in the main party pronto.
he looks mad as a box of frogs
why would Dave want an eccentric like Hannanas, who idolises Enoch Powell and thinks the NHS was a mistake, anywhere near him ?
Dave has an election to win and Lisbon to ignore
This is outragous! It’s not even funny anymore, ’tis getting dangerously serious. Our sovereignty has to be reclaimed in its entirety. Now.
Or seriously dangerous even.
Andrew Neill bitchslapping his old tutor for all the hard times and coursework assingments.
CAN’T WAIT.
SLAP HIM DOWN ANDREW SHOW THE OLD FOOL YOUR NO LONGER AN APPRENTICE BUT A MASTER.
So Cable was a finacial adviser to the kenyan lot,was that when the mau mau were around.
Anyway all this political lot are guessing or we would,nt be in the bloody mess we are in.
McBottler has to be the most incompetent chancellor/pm this country has ever seen,we really do need to give him a medal the DCM(dont come monday).
There is another huge tide coming, so hold your breath and hold your nose and go under, just keep treading water, we will surface, but, only when the person who is in charge has gone and this Government has gone, hold faith, we will get there. There are many people like myself and you people who will rise above it, we always have done before. Hold fast, I know everyday, we wake up and the whole Karma of this Island is negative, but, we have lots going for us, as long as we can tell the Greens to sod of we can start exporting our Commodities, gripes we are English, onwards and upwards. Gripes why do I bother.
Onwards and upwards, together. Its getting serious now.
Did anyone laugh when the ‘Castor is it a man or a woman’ debacle deflated like a balloon when the head of the sports commisson turned out to be black himself LOL.
Nice to see the PC brigade’s parade getting blown to peices before it even got off the ground.
All together now;
”””””””””’wascisttttttt””””””””’
Oh wait………..
Didn’t Vince Cable Claim To Be The Only One Who Saw The Recession Coming ?
Are you going around calling yourself “The Recession” these days, Mark?
The name Vince Cable will eventually become a byword for vacillation. As in: “That chap’s a really Vince Cable!”)
However, I understand that the BBC male’s love St Vince’s arse, they appear to be up it all the time.
I know, let’s just vote for the Tories, cause they’ll bring the change this country needs.
Oh hang on, no they won’t, they’ll be just the same as Labour, just a bit posher and richer.
The one thing Cable need not worry about is being interrogated by Brillo. He is the most intellectually overrated munchkin since David Starkey.
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Cable “stitched” !
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WQft3z I want to say – thank you for this!