Truth is Stranger than Fiction for Radio 4
Last night BBC R4 ran a story line in which had an emotionally unstable and depressed PM on medication going a bit bonkers and undergoing psychotherapy. Wonder where they get their crazy script ideas?
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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”
decent show
from the inane aspirations of Guido prolly
“Wonder where they get their crazy ideas?”
From a 2 year old Episode of the Thick of it called The Rise of the Nutters
Like many who have been jumping on this story for all that time
That show was on weeks ago, you hoon.
Another BBC repeat, then. Brrrr.
I for one will be witholding my licence fee simply because the number of repeats on our cheapscate public radio broadcaster is an insult to the hard-working licence fee payers of Britain. I haven’t actually paid the bloody thing since I was a 19 year old student nested in squalid digs. But that’s not the point.
Anyway, I thought it was optional.
Brrrr.
Um, no, the show has been on every week for the last month or so, but that was a new episode, not a repeat.
I mean, it wasn’t very good but it wasn’t a repeat.
It was a bloody repeat – and it wasn’t very good the first time – ‘er indoors said last night – ‘do you think this is funny?’ – I agreed – I turned it orf
Round the Horne was on this morning at 8 am on Radio 7
As parents we’ve obviously passed on something to our son – he thinks (now aged 27) that one of the most significant contributions was the intro to RTH from tapes played on long car trips
So there!
Its on Radio 4, no normal people will hear it.
The “thinking backbone” of Middle England will have heard it, ie the ones who write to their MP and run pressure groups. I heard it and, remembering what I had read here on Guido’s blog, it seemed to me that the episode was intended to prepare and subliminally condition the vocal and articulate (troublesome) slice of the UK population to:
1. receive the news of the real PM’s mental illness (alleged), and
2. react in the way desired by the authorities, viz react as if it was
a non-story: “lots of people suffer from depression and just get
on with their lives” and “the PM is a hero for coming out and
being honest about it”.
Normally, it would have been done with a story-line slotted into “The Archers” but that route would have been too obvious.
The playing-off of two newspapers against each other was pretty authentic, I thought.
Over active imaginations!
I must confess that upon reading Guido’s OP I was reminded of Spitting Image and their Ronald Reagan (and Norman Tebbitt)!!
Guido, you really are a prick old son.
what, you love Guido?
Dunno, but he cannot spell probably. It is enough to make a chap loose [sic] his marbles!
The BBC gets it’s ideas from Mandy. Haven’t you been paying attention
is that ‘ideas’ or direction that Mandy gives to Brown’s Broadcasting Company?
*yawn*
You must be a fucking proper knob you mate or you would have noticed the papers and TV seem to be full of Mandy, while Gordon is fucking nowhere to be seen. Now that either implies that Mandy is running the country unelected or Gordon is running the country into the fucking ground and letting Mandy do the dirty work. Either way we are all getting fucked over and you seem to fucking like it. That makes you a prick of the very highest order.
No anon. Gordon is out burning the crops, shooting the cattle and poisoning the well of the UK’s economy. Gotta leave nothing for them bastard invading Tories trying to take over ‘my’ country doncha know.
Then fall back and regroup in the far East (North actually) of the country and wait for winter.
He’s read his history has old Gordon.
They don’t call him ‘Stalin’ for nothing.
that’s why Guido is highlighting a BBC R4 programme that helps spread the damaging idea that Gordie is taking anti-depressants
because it’s Brown’s Broadcasting Corporation
obvious innit ?
fucking dopes
Wolverhampton seem to have sacked some of their £60/hour psychotherapists in recognition of the coming austerity. So the inadequate clientele will need to find a cheaper shoulder to cry on and reinforce their dependency.
I hear Dolly Draper has a few vacant slots. Don’t know about cheaper though.
How on earth has only 4 people left comments! I love Neil Taylor!
fuck off
You mean:
Fuck off!
My God, how much money do we waste on “education” these days? The least we can expect is a better class of troll.
What a prick, go shove a pineapple up your arse shithead.
Leaves first?
No – can first, with lid open.
Where do they get their ideas?
Probably from The Telegraph – there are some real nutters writing over there (and I don’t just mean the Catholic Herald numpties, either):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/6203580/A-new-era-of-global-economic-co-operation.html
A Must Read-the comments put most on here to shame-lots of material though; Gordon Brown writes for the Telegraph. Laugh or Cry?
LOL, even the commenters in the DT are allowed to cal him bonkers without the mods interfering – I really hope he doesn’t read the comments, they make us lot on here sound like Labour supporters!
Wouldn’t mind reading those that didn’t make it past the mods. Those mods are probably receiving counselling now, poor things.
I have kept the Gorgon in power long enough to prevent Cameron getting in and giving the little people the referendum they were promised by all the parties. The Irish have been bullied and will cave in.
My life will be so much simpler when all national government is removed and we can just live under the EU. (Assuming they give me that Maserati) It’s the progressive modern way and you will just have to accept it, democracy is an inherently racist concept anyway. And rahter offensive. Why should I have to endure being elected.
Anyway it is time for Gordon to be destroyed. The EU continues to statehood and now people are preparing to vote for the “heir to Blair” – the Gorgon is now expendable and I will use my BBC any way i see fit.
Fair enough, Your Lordship.
Thank you, Your Eminence.
I’m with you Lordy but I do require a high paying non-job where I can irritate and persecute the serfs plus a nice pension with retirement in a nice apartment in the newly converted Tower of London top boy wing for loyal comrades of service to the EU and U
I Have No Comment On This Topic ! Thank You And Good Night !
You may have a title, wigs, ermine, expenses…but to me you will always be a fat bitch.
They say a picture says a thousand words, load of crap, I saw a picture of Gordon Brown in the paper today and the only word that came to mind was ‘Hunt’.
Hoon a thousand times I presume along with the Hoons killing of the UK with a ‘death of a thousand cuts’
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/cartoon/
Now theres a thing. I got into the house to find the dab radio Scotland was broadcasting some show that wasn’t the wonderfull “Get It On”, but rather football. Bollox I thought, its just gone 6:30, maybe Radio 4 will have a decent comedy show on. Tuning in I immediately heard some line that was anti Tory, its of no consequence, but I thought – more BBC propaganda. So it was over to the World Service. They had a phone in about Rwanda, where the government is weaning its economy off of welfare ( ie international development aid”. How interesting, informative and relevant to the way the world really is.
I am forced so often now to listen to the WS because for some reason they can give me news that doesn’t sound like the propaganda ministry of Zanu wrote it. Sure they buy into that global warming crap, but they don’t suck up to Gordos Junta anything like the toady program.
Perhaps one day the domestic service will once again be listenable too.
..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……………………I think I will go back to bed
Mind if I join you?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214317/Well-rein-BBC-say-Tories-radical-plans-prevent-broadcaster-state.html
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Blue hoon
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue hoon
You know just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for
And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will hold
I heard somebody whisper please ignore me
And when I looked to the hoon it turned to rust…..
Friday. Thank fuck.
Has Gordon gone yet?
I hope they all gave a ‘restrained’ performance.
O/T:
I’m sure that having slept on it, Baroness Scotland will take the honourable course of action this morning and resign pending the outcome of the investigation into her conduct – as should any politician in the circumstances.
Resigning is so pre 1997, and it will remain that way regardless of who wins the next election I suspect.
Give her credit where it is due. Her sisters Venus and Serena are both
great champions.
Oooooh you are awful…..shut that door……ohhhhh Matron……..that Brazilian bikini wax job was luverly……….just running the country, important decisions to be made…….please come in front as the back passage is a little dark these days…….you’re kidneying me……..saving the car industry, saving our arses……….Madam, please…..you naughty little tittyvator……..Prince of Darkness, my eye………Lord Mandlescum…..Lord Mandleslime……how very very rude………..it it wasn’t for me the comrades would have been out of office by now, don’t you verily know…….David Cameron, hello…… Lord Cliche here, looking for an all purpose fixer, well I’m your man…..Where’s Gordon?The whole country is looking for Gordon, well not even I know where the silly billy is………tablets, pills, viagra…who knows?
Mandelson has missed his true vocation in life, he really should be running a garden centre
No he hasn’t, He is living his true vacation to the max & we’re all letting him.
Uphill gardening centre?
I think he’s into bedding plants.
They would say that, wouldn’t they.
Ah now Gordon is in Downing Street right now talking with his cabinet about making cuts.
Is it the real Gord or Gordon “Fucking” Ramsay?
Does anyone fancy going out for a drink tonight?
Just somewhere quiet, nothing too heavy you know…..
God I’m tired, by Friday I’m knackered.
See yer.
I’m up for that.
Hell, at my age, I’m just happy to be up for anything.
Nick Robinson bigging up Darling’s swinging axe and pressing the tories for their spending plans today. Hopefully he’s first for the chop.
Let’s hope so, he and the rest of his mates at the bbc are so up Labour it is embarrasssing then VC comes on, is he so good as to be given saint status? Easy when you would’nt be making the tough decisions!
The first thing Cameron needs to do in office is to sort out the BBC starting with Toenails Robinson and Andrew Marr.
The first cut should be removing Browns balls with a pair of garden shears
and very BLUNT garden shears,perhaps previously owned by Anthony Blunt himself – now was he not a Russian spy and a mincer too?
Hmmm- what a co-incidence…….
Perhaps we could get Alan Shearer to carry out the surgery with Blunt’s blunt shears?
Seems To Me That When The Russians Need Some Information ,They Know That The British Politician Cant Resist A Bit Of “Butt Hole”!
Come To Think Of It Where Is Mangledbum And His Russian Billionaire Chum ?
……maybe nail scissors would be more appropriate
On some billionaires yacht with rampantly-hetro Georgie boy Osborne ?
Why Is Mangledbum Like A Yacht ? Ans ! They’re Both Attatched To Buoys !
Bum Chum?
You mean he has got some. I have never noticed!
O/T Why Are We Still Using Harriers And Tornados In Afghanistan ?
What Happened To This”Euro Fighter ” That Cost Us Billions Of Pounds ?
Have We Got One?
Is It any Good Or Does It Only Fly At Air Shows?
What A Shit Name For An Aircraft Anyway !
Who Named It,
Was It The Winner Of A Primary School Competition ?
Probably too fast and unsuitable for ground attack role whereas the old Harrier can land and take off in confined conditions i.e. vertiically and also go backwards useful if your overfly target
Also the “Eurofighter” was designed as NATO intercept for the tackling of the “Russkis” not bombing the bejesus out of the Ialiban
Quite so. With the technology available to the Taliban we could load up the Battle of Britain memorial flight’s Lancaster and start shoving 500lb bombs out the back again.
Get out the plans for the old Mosquito and lash up a few wooden planes and have at the fuckers for a fraction of the cost.
They’re still using the old Lee Enfield 303s out there and the “clicky ba” when they runs out of ammo.
Nothing wrong with the .303. Stop a cavalry charge at 600 yards.
That’ll do the job.
I could hit the bull (sometimes) at 800 yds with a good .303, great little gun that.
DZ
Funny thing, Major, but when we do get the euro fighter, they wont be able ,( I kid ye not !) ,to take off or land on our two new £4 bil a throw aircraft carriers . The main thing to remember however, is that the two carriers will be built in labour marginal seats, which fully justifies their adoption ahead of a ied proof infantry carrier.
There is a malicious (but delicious) rumour that our brand spanking new carrier will be steaming round the globe with a row of cardboard cut-out aircraft on the deck. Either that, or we go on bended knee to the Yanks and get some second-hand ones.
What the hell do they do with the fucking defence budget?
They were supposed to be in service by 2012. Let’s face it, they’ll never get built.
Major Fuck Up Was An Appropriate Title Then ?
So far, yes.
I suppose it’s fair to say that if we’ve noticed, someone in the MOD might have as well. Whether or not they are doing something about it is another question.
Buy Harriers from the US Marine Corps. You know it makes sense.
DZ
The Taliban dont have ground attack or strike aircraft, so having a pure air superiority aircraft in theatre is a tad pointless
Are you a major arsehole, or just a pricktits gobshyte?
Hunt By Name Hunt By Nature !
You really are a prize fuckwit
NO Shithead Just Someone Who Was Bored With The Topic Like Many Other’s So Injected A Side Topic To Keep It Flowing ! TIT !
It has been named “Typhoon”. Though there were worries that it might upset the Germans because a plane of the same name was particularly successful in WW2.
How about another big-wind themed aircraft name then. I suggest ‘Hurricane’. Surely they can’t have a problem with that?
Cyclone? What’s wrong with ‘Cyclone’?
Anyway. Bollocks to big wind themed aircraft names. We should name them something suitably menacing like ‘Spitfire’ or ‘Armageddon’ or ‘Deathstar’ or something.
Or The Harris Bomber ?
I think they should call the new fighter Taz instead of Typhoon after our Prime Minister
MIG? We could call it a MIG. That should scare the shit out of people.
Or howzabout the TalibanToaster, the MullahMayemizer or even the BurkahBlaster for collateral damage attacks.
81, Or “The Brown Bomber” ? After His Favourite Speed Pills !
“Sopwith Camel” might be suitable for Afghanistan.
Some Great Names Here Keep e’m Comming !
Stuka is quite good. Or Bolton Paul Defiant. Or possibly FreedomBringer or Catchthisfuckerbeardie ?
If it has to be Big Wind themed, you may find it ends up being called the “Prescott”!
It also killed more pilots in training than when in service. Ask some of the poor bastards who had to fly it.
Typhoon is English for “Kamikaze”.
神風
This is BORING
maybe they are softing us up for a anocement?
As if being bonkers was bad enough, sure he’s not a n**ce too?
Here’s truth stranger than fiction…
the PSNI have been sending senior officers to Libya for several years to train their Libyan counterparts (breaking now on Nolan’s show on Radio Ulster).
The same Libya which armed the IRA to kill police in NI for years.
Who signed this one off, as NI politicians on the policing boards appear to know nothing about it.
Never be? That is serious shit.
I’m sure Cameron must be very concerned about Gordons health – just think of the possible sympathy backlash if he keeled-over!
“sympathy backlash” = “street party”
Besides which I don’t think anyone would notice any change if McDoom did keel over. He probably has already and is just being wheeled out occasionally with strings attached to his slack jaw to simulate movement.
WE’LL Worry About That After It Happens ! PLEASE !
“sympathy backlash” = “whiplash” as I run to the pub to celebrate.
Sympathy – found in dictionary between shit and syphillis.
Some sympathy for his young family undoubedly, but for the Liebour party who have fucked up this country beyond all recognition of the great nation it once was – no chance!
Some people think Im bonkers
But I just think Im free
Man Im just living my life
There nothing crazy about me
Oi! That;s my tune!
We need Mandelson to keep on providing the chutney
I switched on and thought it was coming directly from No. 10
According to the Telegraph, MPs who have “flipped” the designation of their second home will be exposed by Parliament for the first time when the next round of MPs’ expenses claims are published, John Bercow, the House of Commons Speaker, has said.
Will this include previous flippers? No thought not.
But they’re still not providing addresses, only saying whether the second home was in London or in the constituency – DESPITE the fact that their address appears on the ballot paper.
Make them all stay in a hall of residence somewhere, I believe there’s a few thousand flats becoming free at the end of 2012 so give them 3 years’ notice to sell up now
Given the number of alledged ‘batsmen for the other side’ in the House, an announcement that some will be exposing themselves is unpleasant but not entirely surprising.
Gordon Brown is not mentally ill in the sense of having depression, bi-polar disorder, or schizophrenia.
He is actually a sociopath (aka personality disorder, or psychopath) who is experiencing extreme and growing cognitive dissonance as his world, and the illusions he has built up in it, collapses around him. As he becomes increasingly out of touch with reality he becomes increasingly dangerous.
It is frightening that such a disturbed creature is prime minister of the UK.
Not only frightening but makes the UK a laughing stock when the man himself should be in one.
I see the Scotland woman hasn’t resigned yet. I wonder what it takes to make on of these corrupt useless bastards to resign.
Something like half eaten remains of 15 dead bodies found in home secretaries residence. Response, “I have reported myself to the authorities who are now investigating, but I read all their papers before I ate them and they seemed legitimate to me. So nothing to see here move along you thick headed voters.”
God, she’s ugly!!
No. I’m ugly. She’s very ugly indeed.
See 49 above.
Maybe Patricia was sooo ugly they had her adopted and just concentrated on Venus and Serena the beauties of the Williams Family. Are the Scots too?
To be honest i don’t really give a shit whether she’s black ugly or whatever, but where does she as attorney general keep her integrity. I guess it must be in a well sealed box along with Mcmentals moral compass.
Stu, Patsy’s integrity is in the box next to Gordon’s marbles – the problem is that they both seem to have been misplaced somewhere…
Looks like someone set fire to her face then put it out with a hammer.
Just leave all us fine, honourable Peers of the Realm alone.
We’re admirable people; show us some respec’ !
Dolly was on R4 late last night too
Casting aspersions about mental capacities of a few politicians (unnamed of course)
How does that moron get air time????
Same way as I do !! xxx
Only morons get air time.
Someone gave Dolly airtime??
Did Guido ever get to the botttom of whether he actually is qualified to be a psychologist?
Well Steve ask youself first is the attorney general qualified for the job of highest law officer in the land. Shouldn’t take more than a micro second to reach a conclusion.
The AG is certainly qualified in that she has passed a load of exams and has the right to wear Silk – unlike Dolly, whose qualifications are known to be somewhat dubious if they exist at all.
Whether AG should be allowed to remain in the job while standing accused of breaking a law she herself introduced, absolutely not, she should resign forthwith in order to clear her name
More bad news for Broon, PSBR figure out, £16.1bn in August – overall debt now stands at £804.8bn
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8262434.stm
!6.1 BILLION for the month of Augast, wots that £500,000,000 per day? Which mother fucker lends that kind of dosh,?
Who dunit: No one is lending the UK that kind of dosh. It is just being Quantitatively Eased (i.e printed) out of thin air.
Do keep up lad! It’s McDoom’s economic miracle (aka “theft” on the grandest scale you have ever seen).
The Coffee House Debt Counter at the Spectator shows the current debt. It’s quite hypnotic in a grim kind of way.
O/T But I’m worried that the ‘cuts’ will have an effect on the number of coppers available to investigate “Who raped Jordan?”
I’ll give them a clue….it probably wasn’t Handlebum.
Who cares? She’s cried wolf far too many times before
Apparently the big-titted fantasist says it was a celebrity scotsman…
You don’t think…. nha. Couldn’t be.
Mind you, he’s doing it to the rest of us.
nice one frank
That’s what she said
Oh no. I have just had a vision. I can see a Celebrity Scotsman identity parade like the parade in Carry On up the Khyber. “SQUAAAAAAD, WAIT FOR IT, UUUUUUP KILTS”
William McGonigal, perhaps?
If I had money I would start a magazine about these so called celebrities. Useless talentless fucking parasites.
Mag would be called, “who gives a shit,” headlines like Jordan claims she was raped, Victoria Beckham falls under a bus. Editaorial restricted to the following, “WHO GIVES A SHIT.”
Somebody got there first. Isn’t it called “Hello!” or something?
When I worked in magazines for a failing publisher (which is like all of them) and we were struggling to come up with cash earning ideas (apart from niche porn titles) I suggested a celebrity death magazine called “Goodbye!” which I’m convinced would have been a seller. People die all the time, you harvest the best bits from all the obits, scrape up some scandal, and once they’re dead you can libel the fuck out of them too.
My concept was cruelly pooh-poohed.
lol, what a superb idea, a guaranteed moneyspinner! There’s certainly a market for presenting a more honest view of someone’s life once they can no longer sue you!
Hat’s off to you Frank, sounds like a brilliant idea.
Bloody great idea!
Yeah well they rejected it which is why they went bust and we all got made redundant. Chiz.
My nice porn ideas were basically “SuicideGirls”, but in print – this was… 1995, 96 or something.
I coulda been a contender…
This country needs more unstable politicians
Then why is Cameron removing the subsidy on HOC bars?
They get the ideas from the 10-20% of the public who suffer from things like IBS and OCD.
Wibble says James Gordon Brown.
Isn’t this even stranger – Gordon Brown gets an International Statesman award – just proves that the Yanks don’t understand irony?
http://www.appealofconscience.org/news/article.cfm?id=100195