September 19th, 2009

Bournemouth Bound

Off to Bournemouth, where people go to die and the LibDems are holding their annual conference.  Speaking at Liberal Vision’s session on MPs’ expenses. Mark Littlewood says he has a party membership application form waiting for Guido…


88 Comments

  1. 1
    dazed and confused and fed up says:

    I think the LibDems have just committed political suicide thanks to Nick Clegg

    • 4

      You confuse the Lib Dems with a political party methinks…

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      Susie says:

      And don’t forget Vince “yes I know what I said, but I’ve got a Lib/Lab pact to arrange” Cable (and hopeless).

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      Onan the 15 kw Diesel generator says:

      Agree ,he also thinks we have forgotten his little demo in the HOC over the EU Referendum,taxi for the LibDums

      • 18
        Budgie says:

        We do not forget the Lib Dims reneging on their promise to hold a referendum on the Constitutional/Lisbon treaty.

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          Gooey Blob says:

          Ah, the EU constitution. Were it not for that disgraceful episode, I might be considering a vote for the Lib Dems next year. As it is, I don’t believe I can trust a single word they put in their manifesto. They broke their contract with the voters and sold out.

          Clegg is said to be planning an attack on Cameron in his speech, which should go down well with disillusioned Labour supporters. They’ll need to pick up seats from Labour to replace the ones they may lose to the Tories.

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      barefootcontessa says:

      You’re right!

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    Good luck staying awake,sorry away, from Mr Clegg (boring) and Mr Cable (ahem) .

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      thick as thieves says:

      you fail to understand asta: the English language is the finest language in the world. yes?
      and if thought makes the world then an English man’s thoughts will be the finest in the world because he thinks in English.
      it explains why we had an empire.
      but the ability to speak English is not exclusive to English people, we are a generous, tolerant race and we are happy that our language is learned globally and is used as the world’s language of business.
      oh, and brown is a dead man. eight weeks tops.
      do try to keep up you fucking cripple.

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        Budgie says:

        No, tat, the English did not get an empire because “we are a generous, tolerant race”. We are not a race. We got an empire by selling our manufactured goods and by mistake ended up running other peoples’ countries to enable them to buy our stuff.

        All empires start with a superior technology and fail when the empire can no longer use that technology, still less manufacture it. Currently the UK is failing: we can rectify this if we want to, but I see no desire to do so.

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          thick as thieves says:

          I did not say we created an empire because we are a generous, tolerant people, I said we did so because we think in English.
          English thought shaped the world we live in budgie.
          medidate on that motherfucker.

        • 38
          Dack Blog says:

          What linguistics has to do with (particularly) the LibDems I’ve no idea.

      • 35
        A Pensioner says:

        tat – if the English language was that good there would be a suitable word for Brown – I’ve yet to find that word.

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        Paygan Native says:

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  5. 6
    Zippy, Bungle and George Fan says:

    Guido make sure your tee total or you may end up being conned into becoming a lib dem while your pissed up.

  6. 7
    Anonymous says:

    Not quite convinced about your ‘Boiling Vince’ thingy.

    All it has done, quite correctly, is pitch Vince’s reputation at where it should be if the hype [much of it media, not Lib Dem, generated] were stripped out.

    He has a reasonable handle on things, but certain things like Lloyds / HBOs were a nightmare because even Lloyds themselves couldn’t get a handle on just how many skeletons were in the HBoS cupboard.

    Again, I agree that the ‘Cult of Vince’ is silly, but then as the old saying goes ‘When the facts change, I change my opinion..’ – although I think you have a fair point that Twinkletoes Cable does enjoy some of the glow from the media, although I don’t think he’s quite made the mistake of believing all of it.

    • 29
      Budgie says:

      HBoS failed because it was over exposed to the property bubble. The property bubble was created by Gordon Brown.

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    A firm pair of breasts says:

    There is nothing interesting in Bournemouth.

  8. 11
    Fred Goodwin's Duck Palace says:

    Labour plans secret £15bn tax rise, allege Tories
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6841321.ece

    This is hugely significant
    Not because of the allegations themselves which will quickly become a ping-pong battle of the stats Labour and the Tories.

    But because Osborne has suddenly decided to shift the economic policy talking point from spending cuts to tax rises.

    This could well backfire badly because neither Party wants to admit taxes will be going up after the election and Darling and Osborne will struggle badly to deny any tax rises are in the pipeline. Tactically it’s a bit cack-handed.

    Osborne is jumping on a damaging story for Labour without fully thinking through what it implies. A good Labour tax rises headline or two must be weighed against shifting the whole discussion onto possible tax rises from any Party.

    Osborne is not the brightest spark on the Conservative front benches as we know.

  9. 12
    rick says:

    I went to Bournemouth once, a long time ago. The hotels were full of old people in permanent residence, most reading the Financial Times and tracking their share holdings. I expect they use lap tops now.

    • 21
      Watt Tyler says:

      Great analysis.

    • 40
      Anonymous says:

      I love Bournemouth. I go there to get away from the detritus that swills around London. People there are friendly, unlike most of the shit pot of a country.

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        South of the M4 says:

        Old average age in the winter, but a vibrant and young place in the summer. It is all those English language schools you see. Brings in the youth from all over the world.

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      RavingMad says:

      had a great club – Slinky – not sure it’s still open……probably full of 6o year old ravers if it is!

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      Four-eyed English Genius says:

      It has a large “University” aka jumped up Poly and lots of young undergraduates in term time. Unfortunately, it also has loads of Scouser benefit scroungers!

  10. 13
    Zippy, Bungle and George Fan says:

    Do old people still have sex, ewww granny and grandad orgies at Bournemouth.

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    Rip Van Winkle says:

    This Clegg business – deciding to slag off the Tories and play politics, rather than actually play the long game.

    It doesn’t make sense to me. There’s a real possibilty of Labour meltdown, let’s say under 100 seats. Tories look certainties to win a majority overall. But there’s lots of other seats up for grabs enough, possibly, for the Lib Dems to take second place. That leaves them as the official opposition in the next parliament.

    Now I would reckon we have a few years yet of massive economic problems, possibly economic armageddon. The Tories will take some blame, if not all. One thing you can guarantee is the Tories won’t be as popular in 4 or 5 years time.

    So we go into 2014 or 2015 with an unpopular Tory government and a rump of Labour (who have not had time to put the wheels back on track – they may even rip themselves apart – please God!). This scenario surely gives Clegg a real chance of making government at the election after next.

    But the tit decides it’s the Tories wot gets it now. To me, he’s saying vote Lib Dem, get Brown back in charge. Now, to me the political suicide.

    Am I reading this wrong or is Clegg as thick as two short planks?

  12. 20
    Watt Tyler says:

    DON’T JOIN, GUIDO!!!!!!!! We need you outside of the party system.

    Besides, do you really want to affiliate yourself with these degenerates?: http://eotp.wordpress.com/category/liberal-democrats/

  13. 22
    dirtyden says:

    Rather you than me.

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    Axe The Telly Tax says:

    I hope they take a leaf out of Prezza’s book and make sure viagra and chip butties are on the menu. The perfect cure for a Limp Dick conference

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    Jimmy says:

    They really have lurched to the right.

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    streamfisher says:

    Well we did have have a policy of restoring student grants but we’ve now decided it would be too expensive, but tell you what, some femdom has put forward proposals to make it illegal for magazines to airbrush pictures of models to make them look slimmer, FFS. Meanwhile Rome burns!, are they all fucking loonies? answers on a postcard from Bournemouth, do they still do those ones along the lines of: Nurse I said prick his boil, not boil his …..

  18. 32
    Ratsniffer says:

    Christ Guido, surely there’s a decent bottle of red at home you can have with sunday lunch, rather than attend the most pisspoor excuse of a prattling party conference ever staged? I’d rather be rodgered by a pack of syphilitic wolves all wearing strap-on tungsten spiked dildos than listen to Nick Smegg droning on. I suppose it is marginally better than listening to Snotty’s moronic mob of marxists, but only just.

    I hope there is at least a good restaurant with a decent wine list, it could make the trip just about bearable.

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    chronic says:

    Mark Littlewood sounds like what you should do when judging an American porn film about a man with a small cock.

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    streamfisher says:

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    GORDON BROWNSYNDROME says:

    Maybe Political Partys Go There To Die Also ! Lets Face It The Lib Demics Could Offer Free Holidays And Fish Suppers For All And They Still Wouldn’t Get In. They Are Just There To Make Up The Numbers And Take The Money

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    Arkwright says:

    I wouldn’t mind nibbling Ms Fe…Fe…Featherstone’s candy floss G..G….Granville.

  24. 46
    Limp Dummy watch says:

    I shall avoid commenting on this thread other than to say I shall avoid commenting.

  25. 48
    hopalong says:

    The Telegraphs’ Matt has it spot on -
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/

  26. 49
    Stu says:

    Qoute from Cable regarding new revelation of Liebour tax increases.

    Liberal Democrat economics spokesman Vince Cable said: “The Tories are deliberately putting two and two together to make five.

    “But the Government has a case to answer. It is clear that it is hoping for unrealistic growth, a rebound in tax revenues and a return to business as usual.”

    The Tories are either right or wrong and if the government ahs a case to answer doesnt that make them right Vince DOH.
    Lib Dems putting the Li in politics.

  27. 50
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    Labour = incompetence
    Tories = corruption
    LibDems = Ooh, can’t decide, lets give everything to Brussels & hope for the best

  28. 51
    Sukyspook says:

    Being someone who ‘saw’ through Osa sorry, Obama before his “election”, I am saddened to see Clegg adopting the teleprompter style Obama is so proficient at (Autocue lol) and hope that others ‘see’ through this ridiculous practice and hence, through the corporate manipulation that masqerades as “democracy” and “politics” in the UK and sadly, throughout the world.

    • 70
      Ratsniffer says:

      He looked like some slimey snake oil salesman, doing a staff motivation conference ….. “and the person who has shifted the most units this year is Jane from our Stoke office, who gets the pewter tankard and 15 pounds worth of Millets vouchers!” (cue lots of whooping and cheering)

  29. 53
    Purbeck Bonker says:

    Fancy a beer Guido I live near Bournemouth and know some great ale and cider houses. I’ll get the 1st one in .

  30. 56
    A Silent Emission of Bowel Gas says:

    Bournemouth is too boring to die in.

    • 84
      Terry Hamblin says:

      The full joke runs like this:
      Why are there so many old women in Bournemouth?
      Like elephants seeking their burial ground, they come to die, but whereas elephants have prodigious memories, the old women become senile and forget what they came for.

  31. 58
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    I wonder if Mark Oaten has a hand in the refreshments?

  32. 59
    Bod says:

    Guido, thats more like it. Take their money off them for adverts and then viciously take the piss out of them with posts like this.

    I like your style.

  33. 60
    RobC says:

    Mark Littlewood says he has a party membership application form waiting for Guido…
    Sorry I could not resist it “perm any 8 from 10″

  34. 64
    Lizzie says:

    The only question is, does Guido own sandals?

  35. 67
    Cigar Smoking Man says:

    Mark Littlewood says he has a party membership application form waiting for Guido…

    CSM’s standard response to this sort of thing is “I have a nice private villa in downtown Kabul/Baghdad/{insert topical place} with an ocean view going cheap. How much were you thinking of spending?”.

  36. 68
    Iain Alexander says:

    Mark Littlewood says he has a party membership application form waiting for Guido…

    have you run out of toilet paper?

  37. 69
    Raving Loon says:

    Anti Iraq war: good
    Rabidly pro EU: bad

    This is the sum of my opinion in the Lib Dems, apart from the small migrane I have each time Vince Cable is referred to some sort of “hero of the recession” or economic guru despite knowing almost nothing about economics.

    Overall My choice is either UKIP or UKLP.

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    Peter the Painter says:

    My personal experience of party conferences is that most people only go for a Cleggover, but there you go…

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    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    I find it quite amusing watching these toy parties strut their stuff as if they have some kind of relevance. Mind you, they’ll all be getting a much bigger share of the vote next time – not enough to get any power, but just enough to really, really p*iss off the big boys and thats what counts.

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    frewinsled says:

    google annual species negative

  46. 86
    Peter says:

    I think’d I’d put that membership application on hold if I were you Guido.

    These people are a load of berks. They haven’t even got any guts – look how Cleggo is in retreat already on his ‘savage cuts’.

    And I say this as a former LibDem activist for 10 years.

  47. 87
    Neil Craig says:

    Since they have made it a condition nof membership that one must support, if only with silence, massacres, genocide, child rape & dissecting people while alive to steal their body organs, they would probably have to turn you down in the end. These are all things NATO police are acknowledged to have done in Kosovo with the enthusiastic support of the Lib Dems (but not the less racist BNP). I was expelled from the party for not supporting it.



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