September 21st, 2009

Jackie Ashley, Tory Strategist

Don Paskini laments the profound insight into political strategy offered by the Guardian’s Jackie Ashley, the self-confessed Brownite also know as Mrs Marr:

jackie ashley

June 2009: “what is silly is to imply that Labour would not make cuts or that they would not have to raise taxes for ordinary families…Better to admit the obvious and draw clear lines between Labour policies and Tory ones. There is a sensible, grown-up argument to be had, and it’s one that Labour could end up winning.”

Labour took the advice and how did it work out?

“It’s certainly now much easier for the Conservative government to make cuts. Labour has provided cover and, deliciously, Ed Balls has started the process.” ConservativeHome.

ConservativeHome is now reporting that

Today Jackie Ashley’s column is on the need for Labour to set out its plans for tax rises.

Guido has some sympathy for Paskini when he foams at the mouth “next time don’t write a newspaper article about how Labour would be more popular if they did what George Osborne wants them to do.” Quite.


377 Comments

  1. 1
    Pillow talk says:

    I wonder what Mr and Mrs Marr talk about in bed?

    • 20
      Bardirect says:

      Ask Andrew he’s all ears!

      • 36
        jgm2 says:

        I looked up Alice Miles on Google. Can’t blame jug-ears for jumping ship. No contest between them two. But what thoroughly cheered me up was the second article on the list:

        http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article1343405.ece

        ‘There was an appalling account this week of the desolate death of the former Labour MP Fiona Jones. After a brief political career of almost no merit whatsoever, marked out by an obscure court case over electoral expenses, in which enemies from her own local party joyfully participated, Jones began drinking alone in London, lost her seat in 2001, failed like so many former MPs to find another job, drank more and more and died last week surrounded by empty bottles. Her two sons, now 14 and 17, have spent their childhoods watching their mother disintegrate; her husband recounted how on the day of her death, the eldest had to go into her room and lifted her back into bed after she drunkenly fell out of it. ‘

        I look forward to reading of many more Labour MPs taking the same route to oblivion. Too good for the fuckers after their destruction of the UK.

        • 75
          Steve Expat says:

          Much as I’d like to wish the same fate on the whole lot of them, this is a personal tragedy for those involved, especially her two young sons.

          I know there is little sympathy here for MPs, especially the recently caught out troughers – but let’s hope that the parties have help in place for those who will find themselves redundant in a few months’ time.

        • 83
          Sir William Waad says:

          You are a cad, sir.

        • 84
          jgm2 says:

          No Steve. Let’s not.

          They’re adults. They had free choice. To go along with Brown’s economic destruction. To go along with Blair’s insane Iraq war even after the facts became public. To sit there and take the pay and expenses and pension contributions.

          Or to resign in a principled manner.

          They chose cash.

          Fuck ‘em.

        • 93
          Budgie says:

          This is the reason why MPs salary should be reduced to the average pay in the UK, with a provided small flat if their constituency is more than 1 hour away from Westminster, and one secretary.

          This will cut down the number clamouring to be an MP and give the incumbents a more realistic idea of their pay after they are dumped by the electorate.

        • 110
          Steve Expat says:

          JGM, you’re pretty heartless if you think that leaving two teenagers without their mother is a good thing just because she was an MP.

          Even if Gordon Brown died or went doolally, I would still feel sorry for Sarah and his children.

          I have no sympathy at all for him losing his seat though, along with most of the other 645 of the fuckers!

        • 117
          jgm2 says:

          Steve, I’m not getting into the ‘think of the children angle’. I’m focussed on the rage that I have for these Labour MPs who sat through 12 years of idiocy – leering and cheering the imbecile Brown to the rafters while he borrowed 30bn, 40bn a year and proclaimed an economic miracle.

          Those fuckers, by their complicit idiocy have fucked the UK. There’ll be a lot more than a couple of MP’s kids moping about lamenting the loss of a parent as a direct result of this fucking bunch of imbeciles economic destruction.

          Nope. Shame for the kids but as for the MPs themselves I hope they rot in hell.

        • 156
          Anonymous says:

          unbelievably cheap
          are we really going to wallow in deaths and the kids of MP’s now ?
          thought not

        • 175
          jgm2 says:

          Wallow in the deaths of this cadre of Labour MPs?

          With a song in my heart.

        • 180

          Feeling sorry for them? What about my children? What about me? What about my country that my grandfathers fought for? What about the dead of Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan? What about the wretched future these bastards have crafted for us all?

          Fuck em.

          My only regret is that I can’t dance, so I can’t dance on their graves.

        • 188
          McBride is pleased says:

          Great work jgm2!

          Can I suggest you go after MP’s wives next after their children?

          I did and it never did me any harm.

        • 198
          LOfa on the Sofa says:

          just goes to show the evils of socialism

        • 224
          Old Nick Heavenly says:

          jgm2

          Full marks for honesty!!!!!!!

          Compassion, IMNSHO, is doing something about it. Something real, that you can feel and touch, internally and externally.

          Projecting oneself into the place of the kids, thinking, what if this was my kids, is just self pity masquerading as compassion!

          Some poor cow burnt herself and her handicapped kid to death the other day back in Hellhole Britain.

          Every time I look at the Mail, one of the bad habits that I have picked up since coming here, there is another Hellish story; nothing is too terrible for these bastards, fuckpig politicians. That their own children pay the price is their own fault, nobody elses!

          No mercy for the merciless!

          And your fuckpig government are merciless!

        • 225
          jgm2 says:

          Another one of the fuckers on the skids.

          http://tinyurl.com/mpresb

          You can find the video on Y*uT*be – or you used to be able to.

          Quality entertainment.

          Very slimming black by the way Helen. It’ll make a nice shroud.

          Just in case you Labour MPs really do sneak over to find out what folk thins of you – yes I despise you. I loathe and detest you for the pusillanimous, self-serving, principle-free scum that you have proven to be this past 12 years.

          You know how y’all hate Maggie?

          How do I hate you? Let me count the ways.

        • 234
          Anonymous says:

          You must be a very nasty person to take delight in such a story.

        • 247
          jgm2 says:

          232 Anon

          I’m a very civil person. I’m civil to folk I don’t know. When folk reveal themselves to be arseholes I generally shun them. But with Labour MPs it’s kind of hard. Because every idiot idea that pops into their idiot heads affects us one way or another. Mainly in the pocket but also, increasingly in the sense of loss of liberty. So if I’m nasty to Labour MPs my defence is – they started it. It’s self-defence.

          They fuck up the economy, start an unnecessary war and oh, did I forget, totally fuck up the economy and then sit there with their smug, glib, fuckwitted expressions, cheering the imbecile Brown to the echo as he announced year-in, year-out in his wannabe-Churchill-I’ve-got-gravitas-me-voice deficits of 30bn and 40bn quid a year.

          Arse-fucking the entire economy. Pump-priming rampant house inflation and then, when the penny finally drops they still don’t ‘fess up their idiocy but run around like headless chickens scape-goating every fucker that pops into view.

          Fucking arseholes. There’ll be a fuck of a sight more people will commit suicide as a result of their imbecile politics and economics than the 400 self-serving Labour jackasses that totally fucked the UK’s economy.

          So, you know, fuck ‘em.

        • 263
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          I kept waiting for the,”Don’t you know who I am?!”. It would make a good documentary series that – “Blair’s Babes: Where Are They Now?”

          Mostly in a hostelry somewhere it seems.

        • 280
          13eastie says:

          @75

          So what if she fiddled a few expenses along the way to her wretched alcoholic disintegration?

          There are people people in this country who have given up years of their lives without pay to try and get a job working for the nation, and whose peculiar occupations keep them away from their homes and families.

          They should all be entitled to freebies, such as grace-and-favour accommodation.

          Just like the mildew-stained, stinking grief-holes offered to newly-qualified doctors…

      • 41
        MI6 says:

        After the TUC the Liberal party annual and the Labour party. Lets talk about massive Public sector cuts. BUT DON’T MENTION THE WAR. Funny that i thought we lived in a democracy where you could talk about the real cost to the public purse. DONT MENTION THE WAR. The press have ignored the BIGGEST COST TO THE ECONOMY. Ah and yes it has bankrupt us, we would have had some cash to ride this one out but No the money is gone borrowed by a bunch of mad men who thought they could role over the Iraqi’s with a puppet government like the one they had before. Any body think that puppet government has taken over here, someone must have their hand up Gordons Arse and it must be the same person or persons unknown who had it up Bliars. What a bunch of digenerates, Ah yes don’t mention the War just Jordan’s Tits. Thanks the BBC for years of b

    • 31
      Talwin says:

      Alice Miles?

    • 34
      Quasimodo says:

      What Blinky’s told them to say next.

    • 35
      shelling-out says:

      Are they still together after Mr Marr’s relationship with Alice Miles?

    • 205
      Wing nut says:

      She calls him “jug” and he calls her “ears”. Talk about sweet nothings.

    • 233
      Anonymous says:

      They talk about their son, Johnny

  2. 2
    going mental says:

    i think most have been rumbled judging by the comments

  3. 3
    Peter Grimes says:

    The daft bint is even more dopey than her philandering old man!

    • 118
      Chairman of the Bored. says:

      Philandering? He’d fuck a warm scarf.

      Like a lot of the ‘elite’ he has two standards to match his two faces..

  4. 4
    going mental says:

    also i think they have underestamted the power of the net, they think by putting the spin on the web it works , bollocks , it gets ripped apart even quicker .

    that is why if dave gets in he will have to be honest from day 1 , we could be seeing a voilitile part of politics until they get it

    • 30
      Steve Expat says:

      The web is a good leveller against the relentless spin that has characterisd politics since Blair became Labour leader.

      Dave will have to be honest if he is to survive, he can expect as much shit as the web is currently giving out to Liebour, if he is also caught telling pork pies in government.

      Hopefully, he understands this. It was almost unheard of for an opposition leader to drive the agenda by talking about cuts until DC did it, he realised that honesty is important during the expenses scandal.

  5. 5
    economist and realist says:

    What will the Guardian & all the metropolitan luvvies do when public sector jobs are advertised only on a website?

    The Guardian has sucked at the taxpayers teet for too long – best get a business model together you champagne quoffing socialist bastards.

    • 8
      Steve Expat says:

      Dave should annouce this as policy at conference next week. It would save millions if public jobs were advertised on departmental websites, and would have the obviously completely unintended concequence of fucking the Grauniad at the same time!!

      • 16
        mad fred 2 para says:

        But isnt DC all cuddly with the Grauniad crew now?

        There is no chance that he will upset his Notting Hill neighbours – just like he will do nothing about the BBC.

        Its all hot air.

        DC is a centre ground social democrat & should be treated with derision & contempt by all true Tories at Conference.

        Even with this Governments fiscal insanity, their corruption & lies DC has not laid a glove on McMental – & that is shameful.

        All Tories should boo the bastard for his weakness next week.

        • 46
          rick says:

          Well said, Mad. A lot of Tories are going to be very disappointed very soon with our Dave. EU referendum? Curb immigration? Slay the BBC monster? Not even in his dreams.

        • 59
          Steve Expat says:

          Rick, if DC wants people to vote for him, he had better come up with a good manifesto that doesn’t duck the major issues.

          If he doesn’t do that, then expect not only a hung Parliament but a lot of “others” to get a look in, to include UKIP and the unmentionables

        • 79
          ID Witheld says:

          We live in hope.

        • 372
          Archie says:

          What ‘mad fred 2 para’ said!

    • 28
      Master Baiter says:

      Yawn

  6. 6
    Wight Tory says:

    I look forward to the PMQ’s session when Cam says we will cut the transport budget by 15% and Bruin, in his dividing lines manner trumps it with the “and we would cut it by 30%- doh!”
    moment…

  7. 9
    Raving Loon says:

    Can’t stand her and Polly’s articles. Full of economic voodoo.

  8. 10
    Trinny says:

    Is there anyone in politics who isn’t married to a journo/MP/head of quango etc etc? Incestuous little bunch aren’t they.

    • 11
      going mental says:

      bit like eastenders everyone is related to everyone else

    • 12
      Peter Grimes says:

      Is that why they are all so unremittingly fucking ugly?

      • 15
        Trinny says:

        maybe ugliness is cause rather than effect

        • 42
          jgm2 says:

          Definitely cause rather than effect. The pretty ones are getting serenaded and partied all through their lives while the ugly ones have got their heads down filling them with absolute socialist bollocks.

          In their minds the reason they’re not ‘successful’or have a nice home and lovely ski-ing holidays is ‘cos they’re oppressed by men as opposed to shunned by men ‘cos they’re so fucking ugly.

          Yeah. That’ll be it. It’s male oppression not sheer bad luck (looks?) on their part.

          Yeah. This socialism shit speaks to me maaaan.

        • 206
          A Pensioner says:

          Spot on jgm2. The wimmin are socialists because they’re ugly and its the only way to get fucked (by either sex), and the men are socialists because they are poor and have massive chips on their shoulders.

        • 359
          Susie says:

          Agree about the wimmin. The men are socialists because it’s the last refuge of a socio/economic failure layabout… “I know I’m not bright enough to make it, so I’m not trying”.

    • 27
      Steve Expat says:

      Trinny, I prefer it the other way round.

      Is there not a political journalist out these not in some way connected to the Lab/Lib conspiracy?

  9. 13
    jock says:

    cluless,class war lefies like the marrs have had their day.the country is bust with their tax and spend.

    i cant wait for them all to disappear and quick.

    • 26
      Mitch says:

      No, they’ll just moan and groan about a fascist state when Cameron carries on basically doing what Blair and Brown have.

  10. 14
    Anonymous says:

    What she didn’t count on was labour’s inability to do anything right.

    Sure if they’d come out in the first place and said there needed to be cuts and identified sensible places for them then it would be OK.

    But instead they build it up for ages saying there isn’t going to be any, digging themselves in a hole then do a huuuge u-turn but pretend they haven’t and what is the first thing they say should be cut? quangos? nope… savage cuts in near-enough font line education.

  11. 18
    Babewatch (not) says:

    Trout-faced harridan. No wonder Marr turned to Alice Miles.

    • 33
      Harridan Harpoison says:

      Not guilty.

    • 43
      jgm2 says:

      Trout-faced? She looks like the doctor who brought her into the world shoved the ventouse on her face.

      • 60
        bandersnatch says:

        What a tediously misogynistic bunch of old blokes you are… always commenting on how ugly your political opponents are if they are female… Are you yourselves all George Clooneys and Bradd Pitts to look at?… It matters not a hoot what these women look like, you hoons! Criticise, preferably with wit and verve, what they say and not their appearance!

        • 64
          jgm2 says:

          I make no bones about the fact that I’m an ugly bastard.

          Et alors?

        • 71
          Brad Pitt Lookalike commenter says:

          I’d shag myself i could.

        • 76
          Jennifer Aniston says:

          He fucking well tried it often enough the narcissistic bastards.

        • 82
          Angelina Jolie Voigt says:

          He is constantly trying to give himself a blow-job.

        • 91

          If men could give themselves blow jobs you’d currently be on an empty blog with an empty comment section.

        • 135
          Right Bastard says:

          Shagging a jar of raw liver would be easier and a lot more pleasurable.

        • 208
          A Pensioner says:

          It does matter how they look because it determines their politics. Thats why socialist wimmin hate men – they’re ugly and resent being rejected. Is their one of ‘em you would consider, when sober?

        • 212
          thick as thieves says:

          it is funny you should mention bill hicks because if he was here he would post something like
          “HEY ANTICITIZEN YOU SUCK SATAN’S COCK YOU WHORE
          LIKE BOMBS HEY? LIKE WAR YOU? LOVE WAR YOU FUCKING HATE FILLED SACK OF SHIT!
          DIE ANTICITIZEN DROP DEAD NOW YOU WARMONGERING PIECE OF SHIT!
          SUCK SATANS COCK YOU FUCKING COCKSUCKING WHORE OF SATAN!
          that is the kind of thing bill hicks would probably post about you and I am quite sure he would dislike his material being misused by a c’unt like you.

        • 215
          jgm2 says:

          ‘Kin ‘ell tat. You save up all those capital letters just to use ‘em in a one-er like that?

        • 244
          thick as thieves says:

          yeah but I fucking hate that wanker.
          and it is interesting to note that I have forced anticitizen one to change his name.
          which means I win, anticitizen one loses.
          thick as thieves claims another troll skull to add to his very large collection.
          excellent!

        • 251

          TaT’s comments remind me of Vanilla Ice.

        • 253

          Bottom Boy Tat,

          No name change needed.

        • 265
          thick as thieves says:

          see? top boy tells his bitches to dance and they start dancing, no messing.

        • 321
          Dack Hicks says:

          This is just a ride fellas. Don’t sweat it.

        • 325

          Exactly.

          How do you like dancing to my tune?

        • 333
          Dack Hicks says:

          It’s great, thank you. Just bear with me while I plaster on a fake smile and plough through it one more time.

        • 343
          Bill Hicks Expat says:

          “I love talking about the Gordon Brown assasination. The reason I do is because I’m fascinated by it. I’m fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. I think that’s interesting in what is ostensibly a democracy.”

        • 368
          tat says:

          seriously anticitizen, kill yourself. I’m not joking, you are satan’s spawn kill yourself do it now.
          really, hang yourself, or take some poison I don’t care how you do it just do it.
          you are scum and you are not worthy of life you warmonger.
          do it slit your throat, kill yourself.
          but before you do it, dance for top boy bitch.
          one last dance for old time’s sake you slag.
          good bitch.

    • 55
      Chairman of the Bored. says:

      Marr is more of a kipper.

      Two faced and no backbone!

  12. 19
    genghiz the kahn says:

    Does this wretched woman have any views about ministers breaking the laws which they help frame?

    If Ashley and Marr understand the principle about equality before the law why are they so reluctanct to criticise the actions of Za Nu Labour placemen who seem to be incapable of following the same rules they force on the plebs.

    She is just like her husband a waste of O2.

  13. 22
    genghiz the kahn says:

    Last time I saw a face like that it was set in stone on top of Durham Cathedral with a water pipe set in its mouth.

  14. 23
    Master Baiter says:

    Oaf the varicose ulcer.

    • 32
      Master Baiter says:

      Compression therapy is used for venous leg ulcers and can decrease blood vessel diameter and pressure, which increases their effectiveness, preventing blood from flowing backwards.

      • 95
        stilyagi_air_corps says:

        Sound like they’ve switched the jammers back on – it didn’t work then, it won’t work now!

        It only makes the Voice of Freedom that more vital!

        If you work for the Government in any way masterbaiter, you are breaking international law.

      • 163
        barefootcontessa says:

        Have you been on a first aid course since you were last on this blog MB? I really appreciate your medical advice, ‘cos Im thinking of taking my GCSEs in witch doctory.

        • 324
          Anonymous says:

          Nope. He may know about leg ulcers from having diabetes, in his case brought on from alcoholism (yes, type 2 diabetes can even effect the under 14s). Then again, from the terminology he using, he is talking bollocks.

  15. 24
    Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

    Is Andrew Jumbo Marr African or Indian?

  16. 25
    fedupwithbrown says:

    Balls only came up with that so he could do a UTurn

  17. 29
    Sir William Waad says:

    The link to today’s article is:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/20/tax-fairness-spending-cuts

    We need higher taxes like Gazza needs another drink.

    • 293
      Moley says:

      Can somebody explain to me why anybody pays any attention to what columnists write in the Guardian?

      Very few people read it, and most of those who do are very definitely not floating voters, they are committed Labour and Lib Dems.

      The Guardian’s influence on voters intentions is zero.

  18. 37
    Ambrose Silk says:

    Tra laa!

  19. 39
    Anonymous says:

    As previously reported on Guido…

    Yesterday on the Today programme there was a discussion as to if the mainstream media would sit on a story that Guido would not. Sarah Montague dismissed the idea that there is in fact a cosy media elite. Well here is another story that everyone in the Westminster media knows yet won’t publish. It involves three household names; Jackie Ashley, the Guardian’s cheerleader-in-chief for the Brownies, Alice Miles of The Times, who cheers for the Cameroons and Andy Marr, Gordon Brown’s much favoured BBC interlocutor.

    If this story was about soap stars, footballers or chart-toppers it would be all over the papers. If an actress on EastEnders had an affair with an actor on Coronation Street who was married to the star of Emmerdale which resulted in a love-child it would be front-page news on every newspaper. Yet Andy Marr fathering a child with Alice Miles whilst married to Jackie Ashley goes unreported. Across newsrooms, at Islington and Hampstead dinner parties it has been common knowledge for years. These three journalists are at the heart of the politico-media nexus that constitutes the new ruling class. The producers and editors who are the media gate-keepers would not be keen to dish the dirt on their own… despite the fact that it would be of huge interest to the public.

  20. 45
    Pot-bellied Oaf says:

    Is this a wonkfest?

  21. 52
    Master Baiter says:

    Curiously, ischemia (restriction of blood supply) in the brain produces liquefactive, rather than coagulative, necrosis, due to the lack of any substantial supportive stroma.

  22. 61
    Desperate Dan says:

    If Labour and the Lib Dems are going to rewrite history you’d think they’d wait for longer than a couple of weeks. We don’t all suffer from short term memory loss much as they’d like us to.

    • 66
      jgm2 says:

      They’re stuck in the pre-internet age when newspapers were tossed out the same evening and so they could rely on simply hectoring you that you are the one with a faulty recollection (as Mandelson tried with Nick Robinson the other day).

      So 1997. All sing from the same lie sheet. Deny everything. Generate another headline. Move on.

      Now the whole country knows the government is a bunch of incompetent, lying, thieving, self-serving bastards.

  23. 77
    Osama says:

    ALLLAHHHHH ACKBARRRRRRRRRRRRRR

  24. 80
    Fees Office Clerk says:

    Vince Cable: “The Lib Dems will lift 300,000 low income employees and pensioners out of the tax bracket”

    Methinks that Vince is beginning to sound like Gordon Brown!

  25. 81
    Angelina Jolie Voigt says:

    He’s constantly trying to give himself a blow-job.

  26. 85
    The Sleeper says:

    O/T,but..

    Anyone seen Prescott’s eulogy about Brown..

    “Former deputy PM John Prescott has said the prime minister is a “global giant” who can win the next election.

    He said “everybody” outside the UK believed Gordon Brown had “turned this global economy round” and dismissed his opposition rivals as “pygmies”.

    Jeez…bet Mandlebum’s feeling all cozy and happy now that the ex DPM has made such a mind bogglingly brilliant statement.

  27. 97
    Alien Ant Farmer says:

    Dear Jackie Ashley – you state “you’re sacking people – real people who have thought they were doing useful jobs”

    I have had to pay huge amounts on money to make people redundant who have worked for me for 20 years because of the damage Labour have done to the enconomy.

    I can tell you now, I would not flinch more than treading on an ant to go to the local council and sack the lot, they could then re-apply for a reduced amount of jobs with more realistic terms and conditions

    The private sector has made it cuts now it it time for the public sector

  28. 100
    • 105
      jgm2 says:

      Yep. That’s why Labour used to make sure the front seats were packed with bug-eyed young zealots with damp gussets.

    • 109
      Max says:

      Is it Susan Boyle or The McDoom in disguise checking out maybe some new policies to pinch?

    • 115
      Cut and Paste says:

      Isn’t that white thing in front of the “large” woman photoshoped in – what is it – a document?

      Ah……. the Lib Dems – they remind me of when I fantasise about winning £90M on the Euromillions lottery – it’s easy to think about,hurts no one just thinking about it,makes me feel good for a few minutes and ultimately,it will NEVER happen!

    • 130
      Troughy says:

      McGuinness has put weight on and Kavanagh is shopping at the same snack outlet as Snotty.

    • 149
      Sailor says:

      Who’s the bastard asleep? At least he’s doing the right thing.

    • 215
      A Pensioner says:

      @113 – I think its her truss that slipped down. Not 100% sure its a woman though. Could be a man or indescriminate in a skirt. These are LibDems after all.

  29. 103
    resurgemus says:

    O|T latest opinion poll

    Tories now have 17 point lead

    Nobody believes Brown on economics

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/sep/21/poll-labour-public-finances

    • 258
      Steve Expat says:

      Even the Grauniad are now going for Liebour…

      Even Labour supporters do not trust their party: only 36% of current Labour supporters, and just 26% of its 2005 voters, think the government is telling the truth about debt.

      By contrast 36% of all voters believe the Tories, 32% believe the Lib Dems and 33% believe no party. Unlike Labour, a clear majority of each opposition party’s supporters trust what its leaders have to say.

    • 261
      Rip Van Winkle says:

      26% would STILL vote Labour!!!! Have these people got functioning brains? Just what has Brown got to do to lose their fucking vote?

  30. 104
    Mandatory Drug Tests for Westminster says:

    Formula 1,rugby,cricket,politics. Is there any sport not populated by cheats and scoundrels?

  31. 108
    Andrew K says:

    It annoys me that the Guardian’s munter sisters (Jackie and Polly) both had long stints at the BBC funded by (inter alia) me!

    • 121
      Budgie says:

      So get shot of your TV licence, then you won’t.

    • 153
      Ratsniffer says:

      Guardian staff are interchangable with BBC staff. It’s like they work for the same organisation, they seem to simply flit at will between the two. But it keeps our chip shops in wrapping paper.

  32. 111
    A Cut Above Everyone Else says:

    This cuts stuff sounds like my time with a major global company when the UK head seemed to be competing with the heads of the company’s divisions around Europe in how many employees he could cut – he cut 30% of the sales and marketing people in the UK and probably won the “big hanging dick” competition amongst his fellow directors in U….whoops nearly stated the company there.
    At PMQ the three “leaders” (if ever there was a word so incorrectly used it is “leader” when describing the scum that are politicians) – will be trying to out do each other,until Brown states;
    “I will cut the entire UK budget for everything by 110%”.

    If only he would cut his wretched neck I will be forever satisfied.

    • 128
      Thomas Crown says:

      It’s fucking worrying now pyscho Broon has been made to believe cuts are a good thing.

      We might wake up one day and he announces Pol Pot Year Zero style reforms.

      He’s that fucking loopy that i don’t even jest about it.

      • 214
        Under a flower pot at the bottom of the garden until the GE says:

        I thought that was May 1997…

        Nothing of any consequence happened before that.

    • 131

      We’re in so much debt he actually could cut by that amount (relative to the amount taxed).

    • 154
      South of the M4 says:

      Brown really wants a 0 % cut.

    • 161
      Anonymous says:

      You don’t mean the man that will not even walk behind the Union Jack! The one that has single handed managed to remove UK ownership or the flag from two further institutions.

  33. 113
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    Could I just take a moment to congratulate the BBC on finding such a prominent space on its website for the nice and early launch of this years Wogan in Greed. I can’t understand all these nay sayers who think our courageous but invisible PM’s biggest U turn over spending cuts, nor the highest lawmaker in the lands corruption merits any coverage compared with helping its own fleece licence payers even more. Yellow buckets all round!

  34. 126
    TROMBONE says:

    no one ever reads comments down here
    (or if they do they are losers without merit)

  35. 129
    Kevin T says:

    LOL seriously how can the woman possibly believe that Labour announcing it’s going to whack taxes up could be anything but a gift to the Tories?

  36. 139
    mitch says:

    Thinking about F1 cheating and the links to nulabia(little bernies millions) is snotty deliberately crashing the UK into a wall? and can he claim off our national insurance or has he not been paying the premiums?

  37. 146
    Loafer says:

    what chance Gordon spilling all

  38. 148
  39. 158
    Totty Watcher says:

    FACKING HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!

    I suppose someone has to love it, no wonder all the munters and dykes become leftwingers.

  40. 159
    Baron Gideon Partisan BabblingBigot says:

    Taxes are going up. Labour or Conservative.
    Little Georgie boy won’t be laughing when they start asking him are you going to put taxes up in the next Conservative government ?

    Except they already have and both Darling and Osborne both squirmed uncomfortably because they couldn’t say no

    So it all depends if you want to act surprised or not when taxes do go up or want to pretend they aren’t

    • 202
      Peter Grimes says:

      The only difference being that the Tories have not lied about the need for cuts up till now, nor said that they won’t put taxes up, whereas McFuckingDoom and his darlingDarling have – for months!

    • 254
      Steve Expat says:

      Osborne has been refreshingly honest, he knows he can’t say no to tax rises because the IMF may well give him no choice.

      Darling has been completely hamstrung by his boss, who up until last week was constantly banging on about spending increases “investments” being a good thing…

      • 337
        jgm2 says:

        The new ‘narrative’ is Tory cuts ‘v’ Labour savings.

        Savings = good. Cuts = bad.

        Outcome same.

        • 340
          Steve Expat says:

          I would say Tory cuts vs Liebour c­unts is more appropriate!

        • 360
          Baron Gideon Partisan BabblingBigot says:

          That WAS the narrative.

          Osborne decided to move it from spending cuts onto Tax rises by Labour.
          The Liberals have also decided to move onto Tax rises.
          Spending cuts isn’t much of a narrative if every Party is saying the exact same predictable things.
          “Yes there will be spending cuts. No we aren’t going to write you a budget.”

          Tax rises will get the journos far more excited as they know they won’t get very many straight answers from anyone on that one.

  41. 160
    Totty Watcher says:

    I suppose someone has to love it, no wonder all the munters and dykes become leftwingers.

  42. 165
    Seasick Dave says:

    Some good news, fellow posters!

    I had rumpy pumpy this morning :P )

  43. 169
    nell says:

    Let’s face it gordon’s downfall has not been the admission that there will be cuts. This final truth wrung from this devious man has trumpetted his dishonesty to the world.

    Gordon’s downfall has come from his every statement being revealed as a lie , that he will invest and not cut, that he’s not planning tax hikes, that the lads in afghanistan have all the equipment that they need, that we are winning the war, that he has saved the world, that he has cured boom and bust, that he never intended to make edballs chancellor, that he didn’t scheme to get almegrahi released for oil deals, that he has every faith in his attorney general and is not planning a mini reshuffle to replace her, and on and on.

    Very simply, he is no longer believed.

    • 181
      streamfisher says:

      No point in re-shuffling a bent deck of cards Nell, still end up with a hand full of Knaves and Jokers.

    • 250
      Steve Expat says:

      To quote George Osborne over the weekend:

      There is a convention that you don’t accuse another MP of lying. But in Gordon Brown’s case…”

  44. 170
    streamfisher says:

    Gordon has jumped up and announced he is the first leader to commit to going to the environment conference in Copenhagen, Groan!, vitally important, last chance for the Planet, blah,blah. Flash, Aa, Aa, he saved everyone of us!. Please, please somebody at least stop him from Flashing the plastic again.

    • 184

      Flash – not:

      just a man [doubtful]
      With a man’s courage [deffo not]
      You know he’s
      Nothing but a man [mincing about the Hamptons in his 40s and single?]
      And he can never fail [...err...not so.]
      No one but the pure at heart [nope]
      May find the Golden Grail
      [Indeed he did, but flogged it for $275 an ounce]

    • 189

      Meanwhile a majority are now sceptical of tidal change…

      Especially when the answer to every problem seems to be MORE TAX.

    • 248
      Steve Expat says:

      Maybe he should concentrate more on saving his own economy than saving the world?

  45. 171
    GOGERRUM says:

    Guido,

    Where is McRuin ??

    Where is ms. Scotland ???

    Where is the Government of the country ??

    All gone missing.

    FIND them, chase them…we need the truth

    Give up on LibDems and get back to work for chrissakes

    • 197
      anonymous says:

      you might not believe this but University Challenge is half way through the first round and MPs have still not turned up for classes. Another few weeks off for them don’t you know.

  46. 176
    Kick the Pricks says:

    On Channel 4 news it was suggested to some NewLab twat nonentity that illegal immigrants are desperate to get to the UK because of the generosity of the benefits system. He said it was because they had a few words of English and it would make them feel at home. I wonder if they understand Fuck off.

    • 186
      The Sage of Omagh says:

      The natives speak better English in Germany, France, Spain, Greece, Portugal, the Baltics, Scandanavia, Iraq, pretty much everywhere, ‘cept the United States, but they don’t stop in those countries, ‘cept the Mexicans in the US. UK, US, going off a cliff, simultaneously, like as if it were planned or something. Funny.

      • 195
        Truth Sayer says:

        Yeah the few words they know is:

        ”Give me free house” ”give me free money”’, and ”not guility” when pulled up on rape or crime charges.

        Fit in right at home with Labours core underclass vote then

      • 221
        Under a flower pot at the bottom of the garden until the GE says:

        Last time I looked the countries listed above we just as safe as here and thus perfectly good places to claim asylum.

        Only the countries above are not run by a bunch of lily livered wankers.

        Get them all on a boat (as leaky as possible) and sink it in the middle of the channel, in the dark and in a storm.

        That’ll make the fuckers think twice.

  47. 183
    nell says:

    And for another of gordon’s failures – failure to hold that much promised referendum on Lisbon.

    Well now there may be hope.

    The Czech Republic may be forced by a legal challenge to delay ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.

    If a Czech Referendum is delayed until May then it is possible we shall go into the GE with the treaty unratified despite an irish ‘Yes’ vote.

    That will give cameron the chance to hold a referendum early in his term.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/6212920/Lisbon-Treaty-Czech-Republic-offers-hope-of-a-referendum.html

    • 191
      brussel-louts says:

      so why can’t Dave simply commit the conservatives to one if lisbon is ratified ?

      it’s not rocket science
      he just needs to say “I promise a referendum.”

      it’s ok nell we all know why because he has no intention of ever holding one
      keep believing in fairy-tales

      • 199
        nell says:

        Well the question is – if the treaty is ratified before cameron comes into power can he do anything to reverse it?

        If he holds a referendum, AFTER the treaty has been ratified, which subsequently produces a resounding no vote against Lisbon, does he have the power to introduce legislation to nullify the Lisbon treaty?

        What would our legal options be at that point? Maybe someone like Dan Hannan might like to enlighten us.

        • 203
          Peter Grimes says:

          I’m sure Dave will listen to you brussel-louts and call a press conference tomorrow to make his promise. Wanker!

        • 217
          brussel-louts says:

          no. the question is does he want to be the master or will he bend over for the EU once he gets into downing street.

          he can promise a referendum easily and if he hasn’t worked out how to nullify lisbon already he has plenty of time yet. even if he can’t he then has the clear backing of the British public to start tearing up that undemocratic gravy train piece by piece

          call me crazy but I think that would be incredibly popular and not just with core conservatives

          his move
          we’re watching and listening

        • 223
          lolol says:

          I thought one Parliament couldn’t carry over to another Parliament so our Dave could use that as an excuse for a referendum,but I also thought that the holding bill used to get us in the EEC could be repealed but this lot of politicians after seeing them in action, they see the EUSSR as another pig trough,anyone with real knowledge of this please let us know.

        • 243
          Steve Expat says:

          nell, my understanding from Mr Hannan’s writings is that once all 27 states have ratified the Treaty (23 have at the moment) then it becomes law, and only another Treaty can make changes to it, requiring all 27 signatures again.

          This is delibarate to avoid national governments undoing what they have already agreed to (eg Tory govt undoing what Lab govt agreed to).

          Germany, Poland, Czech Rep and Ireland are still to ratify. Assuming that there is at least one country still to ratify at the UK election, an incoming Tory govt can rush through Parliament a bill calling a referendum on the Treaty.

          If the four remaining countries have all ratified the Treaty before the UK GE, then it becomes law and nothing can be done about it by the UK govt of any colour.

          Cameron has promised a referendum if he has the opportunity to do so. If the Treaty is already in place that is a moot point.

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon_treaty appears correct with regard to the status in each country of the Treaty bill.

        • 259
          Septic EUSSR Sceptic says:

          Considering it will have been introduced by a corrupt gumment of neurotic imbeciles led by Bliar and Gorgon, – yup.

          It’s like a contract signed by madmen : fault lies with the people that believed them sane and honorable!

        • 346
          brussel-louts says:

          ‘Cameron has promised a referendum if he has the opportunity to do so.’

          when has cameron said if lisbon gets ratified I will hold a referendum ?

          if lisbon is ratified then dave will just give up pretend it doesn’t exist.
          that’s leadership. he’s a lightweight afraid to take on the EU

        • 352
          Steve Expat says:

          brussel-louts, the whole point is that if the Treaty is already ratified there is nothing Dave or anyone else can do about it without the same unanimous agreement from all the nations again.

          The last hope if the Irish vote yes is that the Czechs hold out long enough to allow Cameron in to hold the referendum.

          There is no point in challenging Dave over whether he will call a referendum on an already-ratified Treaty as it will make no difference to anything.

        • 362
          brussel-louts says:

          poor dave. prime minister and powerless. so sad.
          those big bad EU boys will send him to bed without any supper were he to actually stop preening and mouthing off and do something
          spineless

          if he had a referendum it would ensure massive public support of any crackdown on the EU you would care to name, massively popular too
          but not for dave the smack of firm leadership on so vital an issue

          or do you think the EU would try and over-ride British sovereignity, it’s prime minister, parliament and huge public support with their crack troops and EU army ?

          the UK is still a sovereign nation and can abrogate any treaty it chooses

          daves a lightweight and the EU will walk all over him

    • 192
      Bloomberg is god says:

      He won’t deliver it.

      • 376
        Archie says:

        If the party whose name isn’t allowed to be spoken here can pull us out of Europe, why can’t Wanky-bollocks (Cameron) whatever the state of play with the other EU inmates? Or is it the usual, sad British case of “Oh dear. They’ve said this is so. It must be so”? Why can’t we just tell the EU to “Fuck off. We’ve had enough!”?

    • 196
      streamfisher says:

      One ring to rule them them, all one ring to bind them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Still time to syphon some molten lava down McDooms crack?.

      • 200
        streamfisher says:

        One ring to rule them them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Still time to syphon some molten lava down McDooms crack?.

  48. 210
    nell says:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8267420.stm

    Prezza tonight says that:

    ‘gordon has turned the GLOBAL economy around’
    ‘the opposition are pygmies’ (well I guess they are compared to prezza)
    ‘the next government will be Labour’

    Poor deluded soul.

    What is the state going to do with these unemployable idiots after the next election?

    • 213
      jgm2 says:

      Elevate ‘em to the HoL seems to be the plan at the moment.

      Imbeciles Uber Alles.

      • 218
        thick as thieves says:

        this government has been drunk on power from the beginning.
        they have been pissed on power for the last twelve years and they have now reached the point, like an alcoholic, of being so wasted that they have become belligerent, aggressive and deceitful.
        the landlord is trying to kick them out but they do not want to go home.
        they wish to keep feeding their addiction and like junkies new labour will pull any type of skanky smackhead trick to keep injecting their poison.
        withdrawal and detox is the only answer for the junkie labour war party.
        innit.

      • 219
        nell says:

        Well that raises the question doesn’t it? What are we going to do with all these troughing Lords that Bliar and Brown have elevated into velvet and ermine for the sale of favours or money?

        Cameron is going to have to re-shape the HoL very early in his term.

        He needs to get rid of the worst troughers fairly quickly. I don’t know how he’s going to do it but I hope he’s working on a strategy.

      • 230
        Steve Expat says:

        Imbeciles Uber Alles.

        PMSL, post of the day!

      • 330
        Anonymous says:

        Let me inform you that the winter will be very cold with lots of snow down south. Gordon will claim he is beginning to win the war on global warming. Don’t throw your patio heaters out just yet. It will be a severe winter-promise.

    • 222
      BARONESS STRAP ON says:

      He Has Turned It round ! He’s Turned A Thriving Economy Into A Desolate Wasteland Of Mass Unemployment And Debt ! And As For “The Next Government Being Labour” These Will Be The Insane Mutterings Of The McMental One , As He Is Led Away From No 10 To Start A New Life In The asylum !

    • 229
      Countryside Alliance says:

      There exists a sport known as ‘hunting the clean boot’, in which a volunteer (willing or otherwise) is set off across country, allowed perhaps twenty minutes law, then hunted by English Bloodhounds. The hounds follow scent until they catch the ‘victim’, whereupon there is much tail-wagging and licking. The hounds enjoy it, too.

      A similar sport could be devised using unemployed Nulab lobby-fodder and apparatchiks as the target. Suitable ‘hounds’ might be Rottweilers or Pitbull Terriers. No muzzles, of course, unless it is thought wise to muzzle the politicians for the protection of the hounds.

      Should be fun. Unofficial bets could be laid which ex-trougher would give the best hunt; the larger specimens would barely exercise hounds even if given several days law, one suspects.

    • 231
      Tracey Temple says:

      fuck ‘em. worked for me.

    • 308
      Labours New Aristocracy says:

      Prescott should have been charged with the criminal offence of Misconduct in public office over his seual shananigans with members of staff on Government property and during the course of his duty as a government minister. Doubtless the fat fuck will respond that he wasnt the first nor the last to do this. So fucking what that aintv a defence you hypocritical lying bastard.

      • 312
        Labours New Aristocracy says:

        Go on prezza gourge yourself on food paid for out of the public purse, stuff your fat face you greedy Huhne . Oh sorry I forgot it was an illness .

  49. 226
    George Osbourne Fan says:

    I love George Osbourne!

    I want to work for him.

  50. 237
    A vile pontificating, lying, pernicious, thieving little shit says:

    It was’nae ma fult ye un’stan

    an’ ah’m the one that saved the world.

    Ar hope ye recognise that when ye com’ ta’ vote.

  51. 241
    marlon brando says:

    “Since President Barack Obama has today declared the worst of the recession is over, stock markets are booming again, and houses prices rising, is it too absurd to suggest that Gordon Brown might actually have a great chance of winning the next General Election?

    After all, David Cameron said the Prime Minister’s rescue plans for Britain would fail. So if by next spring the country is back on its feet and prospering once more, he’d have to admit he was wrong about the biggest crisis we’ve faced in decades and Brown was right. Wouldn’t he?”

    Piers Morgan, Live magazine.

    Morgan, if there was any doubt, you are a total сunt.

    BTW, you’re on the fucking piano wire list for sure.

  52. 245
    Just going to bed says:

    At a stroke our financial problems and the Barnet formula disappear when Scotland becomes independent……half of them are on welfare and the rest are in the public employ and without Scottish Labour MPs never again a Socialist government in England….why didn’t I think of that before??????????? Should have done it before HBOS and RBS.

  53. 246
    Nanny State says:

    Now look boys and girls, – it really is time for bed.

    Boys – wash behind your foreskins – if we haven’t taken it off you already!

    Girls – wash all those private places – and remember your morning after pilly-willy!

    Girly boys – well – you know what you should do!

    And for everyone – follow my advices in the Grouniad – and be suitably frightened – very VERY frightened.

    Jacks will give you up-to-date info.

    She’s really plugged in to the nerve-centre.

  54. 256
    Richard (on secondment) says:

    Gordon Brown hat das Kapital von Labour verspielt und die Partei in eine Neurose geführt. Am Ende fühlen sich alle vom britischen Premier verraten: die Unternehmer, die durch Steuern gebeutelte Mittelklasse, die Schwachen, die Browns Wohlfahrtsbürokratie als Karikatur einer wahren Sozialpolitik empfinden.

    Handelsblatt (Frankfurt)

    Trans:

    GB has squandered the capital of the Labour Party and led them into a state of near nervous breakdown. In the final analysis, everyone feels betrayed by the British Prime Minister: business, the middle class hammered by taxation, the lower income groups who see Brown’s welfare bureacracy as a caricature
    of what a welfare state should be.

    ……………

    What was the bar steward telling us about the great Leader who is saving the world?

    Brown is NOT the architect of the world’s recovery..he bears enormous responsibility for the state the UK is in. High spending through borrowing in the midst of a credit boom was guaranteed to make matters worse when the bubble eventually and inevitably burst.

  55. 257
    Anonymous says:

    Dave says that Gordon has lost the plot – it’s worse than that!! Remember that Labour will do or say anthing to remain in power. I dont understand the criticism of George Osborne that comes up from time to time. While he’s got no experience whatsoever, why don’t you just give him a chance? I’m sure he’ll come up trumps – unlike Labour!

    • 268
      jgm2 says:

      Who cares if Osborne has no experience? You could replace Brown with a 1p piece and just flip it and it would give you the ‘right’ answer 50% of the time. Brown will sit and wait for somebody else to come up with a proposal and then, just to ‘prove’ how individual and decisive he is, he’ll take completely the opposite option.

      The problem with this approach is that generally most sentient beings pick the obviously right option first so he ends up pig-headedly doing completely the wrong thing. The one in ten times he actually calls it right you never hear the fucking end of it. The nine out of ten times he gets it wrong he’s got a list of folk to blame as long as your arm.

      The yanks. The banks. The Tories. Tony Blair. The Age of Irresponsibility. The banks (he’s got it in for them ‘cos the public has little sympathy with them fuckers on a good day).

      This is why the man is such a fucking running joke. He’s just like a child Afraid of being caught in a lie so inventing the most fantastic scenarios to explain why things didn’t occur exactly as he’d promised.

      When I say ‘exactly’ I mean ‘nothing like’ he’d promised.

  56. 260
    Steve Expat says:

    Ja, Ja, das hokey cokey. Is this some kind of joke because it isnt funny at all. Have you considered the extent to which the sub-prime mortgage crisis owes much to the crash in the US? I suspect that such knowledge may be beyond you. Get your facts right before you post such stupid comment.

    • 264
      Steve Expat says:

      Oh dear, the imposter is back.

      • 267
        nell says:

        Just ignore him Steve, he’ll go away – just like Labour!!

      • 269
        Truth Sayer says:

        I reckon it’s tat trying to play both sides of the fence also he usually has a hardon for you.

        • 272
          nell says:

          That’s not me either

        • 281
          Steve Expat says:

          I wasn’t going to mention that name, I’ve managed to avoid him for a while now…

        • 282
          nell says:

          No. Not Tat.

          Maybe Damian or TWatson or Derek, stressed by the new baby(bless). Or Kevan desperately trying to prove his worth and avoid gordon’s imminent next reshuffle.

        • 294
          Steve Expat says:

          All the little shits are back from their holidays.

          This place was somewhat nicer over the summer when they all fucked off – a bit like Westminster really!

        • 369
          tat says:

          said the homosexual.

        • 370
          tat says:

          that was directed at truth sayer, no you steve.
          oh and the tit impersonating you is not me.
          clearly not me.
          I am a geniusand the person impersonating you is obviously a dullard.
          maybe you posted it when you were drunk or high on crack and now you can’t remember?
          just trying to help.

      • 273
        nell says:

        Rat Poison.

        Can’t think of anything better for failed labour and it’s trolls.

      • 279
        Mongrel says:

        Smells like Jonty or Softwidge to me. It began in America etc etc. Only delusional stooges like that try to pretend that a serious article in a respected German newspaper is a joke.

    • 276
      Herr Lipp says:

      Ja ja dis knowledge is beyond me. Pleez enlighten ….eet vel be very eeenteresteeng.

    • 277
      jgm2 says:

      That’s it? That’s Labour government narrative for the UK property boom (and crash). America had one too so we thought we’d tag along? But it’s their fault really?

      That’s it?

      Actually, that is it.

      So if the Americans had just kept on borrowing even more money to pay even more money for their ludicrously over-priced houses then we could have kept on doing the same and Gordon could have kept on borrowing 40bn quid a year to pay his newly-minted civil servants for ever.

      That’s it? That’s Labour’s excuse?

      Fucking arseholes.

  57. 270
    march hare in september says:

    No respite for Gordon from ICM.

    http://politicalbetting.com/

    • 288
      streamfisher says:

      Don’t think there is any chance of a hung Parliament, Libdems dreaming again especially after the lacklustre conference in Bournemouth, and their councillors would rather support Labour than the Tories and don’t think expenses scandal will affect polling?, seems the carry on troughing mentality dies hard.

      • 295
        nell says:

        Agree with your view abour LibDems Conference. Very Lacklustre and disappointing.

        They should have been trying to seize this once in a lifetime initiative to make themselves the 2nd party.

        What have they done? – they’ve confirmed themselves as lacking in the ability to rise above their present 3rd rate status.

        • 299
          Truth Sayer says:

          Was flicking through the channels last night watched some of the Lib Dem conference apart from Clegg, Cable and the housing minister lady the rest where a pack of jokers.

          Not one iota convincing, sounded very unsure of themselves and as if the speeches where trying to convince themselves as a party instead of the public.

          I suppose the only thing Clown got right was his ‘Now is no time for a novice’ remark.

          Shame that some of the talent in Lib Dems will be wasted because of the incompetence of the party.

        • 338
          South of the M4 says:

          In Wales the LibDems had the chance of power in the assembly- but ran away.
          Too scared of real responsibility. For me, and many others, they lost all credibility then and there. Completely of no consequence and deserving only of contempt. *ucking bunch of *ossers. Apart from that, I have no strong feelings………….

  58. 271
    Mongrel says:

    O/T
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6843506.ece
    Mandelson wandering around showing his briefs to anyone who wants to look. After all his troughing he can’t afford a briefcase. Must have spent all the money on designer clothes, antiques, moisturiser etc.

  59. 274
    Truth Sayer says:

    Does anyone know why the IMF have been quiet recently?? Surely they can help us out by pointing out more of Brown’s follies and just how deep in the shit we all are so even the labour voting thicko’s still in the UK can face reality for once.

  60. 291
    march hare in september says:

    Hi guys, having a great time out here in Jamaica with my lawyer. He assures me everything is fine and that even if I broke the law, I didn’t, so that’s alright then. See you any time now, when it’ll be a great day to bury bad news.

    BTW, I heard this crap joke recently,

    I say, I say, I say, the Attorney General went to the West Indies.

    Jamaica?

    No, she went of her own accord, (after being being told she should keep her head down until she gets her story straight.)

    • 318
      Labours New Aristocracy says:

      The Baroness is part of the new caste system introduced by this despicable Government. Them and Us has never been to pronounced as Britain under Labour !

  61. 292
    • 306
      Watcher in the Rye says:

      Do you get paid to puff up dodgy Dave,or are you just related?

      • 313
        Steve Expat says:

        Neither I’m afraid – just happy to see the opposition to this despicable government actually opposing them!

        The plans to strip private schools of charitable stauts is yet another of Liebour class warfare, dumbing down approach. Let’s face it, the more people that want to opt out of state provided services, the less the state has to pay for them. We should be giving tax breaks to private education and health, encourage as many people as possible to use them to save taxpayers’ money!

        • 341

          They should leave paying for education to the people who caused the children.

          i.e. Parents should pay for the education of their own children.

        • 350
          Watcher in the Rye says:

          If you want a better education for your kids,and you can pay for it,fair enough.But don’t claim “Charitable Status” on the basis that you throw a few pious crumbs to those you cherry pick from the rest. Society is composed of all,and while inequality is a natural condition,the perception of favoured status for some,like MPs,only builds resentment amongst the less talented. Don’t mention Labour,because they are the worst kind of hypocrites,preaching equality,while living the new money dream.Sending their kids to selective “state” schools,Blair being a prime example. But Cameron does the same.His children go to a school in west london that has no comparison to a “Bog Standard” primary in the real world.This from a very wealthy man who has no qualms in bilking the taxpayers for his very comfortable home in the shires,even though he could well afford it.After all,it’s within the rules,and he didn’t enter politics not to get what he was owed,did he?

        • 361
          Nazi Moderator says:

          Steve, I am deleting 90% of tats less lucid abuse from now on, hope you enjoy the comments more from hereon in.

        • 366
          Dack Hicks says:

          I was – once – impressed by Dave during his (bit long) post expenses scandal speech. Then he used it as an excuse to sack a few Tory grandees and that was it. I’ve been unimpressed on numerous occasions and uninspired on many more. Don’t get your hopes up Steve.

    • 311
      nell says:

      Maybe there is hope for educaton yet!!

      If only we could release us from the ball and chain that is edballs.

  62. 296
    Truth Sayer says:

    The Germans have it in for him

    His own countrymen can’t stand him

    The French and immigration issue has just sunk any idea or policy soundbite he comes up with to stop B N P taking traditional labour votes

    The Americans have cooled off our friends with benefit status and are pressing him for more troops that he can’t afford to pay for or equip

    His new best mate Gadaffi is already pulling the knife from out of his back that Brown put in over the IRA training trails

    Surely he’s got no where to run and no where to hide left now and has to call a GE in Feb or March.

  63. 297
    Truth Sayer says:

    The Germans have it in for him

    His own countrymen can’t stand him

    The French and immigration issue has just sunk any idea or policy soundbite he comes up with to stop BEEE ‘ENN PEEE taking traditional labour votes

    The Americans have cooled off our friends with benefit status and are pressing him for more troops that he can’t afford to pay for or equip

    His new best mate Gadaffi is already pulling the knife from out of his back that Brown put in over the IRA training trails

    Surely he’s got no where to run and no where to hide left now and has to call a GE in Feb or March.

  64. 302
    terg says:

    This is what happens when real people get within spitting distance of McTwat.

    • 316
      jgm2 says:

      Fucking hell. No wonder he’s only ever seen with carefully vetted classrooms full of primary school kids.

      Labour are doomed.

      If this isn’t a clagged on soundtrack then spontaneous booing at a memorial service has to be as clear an indicator as you can get that politically – you’re fucked.

    • 317
      Not long till labour gone says:

      “Former deputy PM John Prescott has said the prime minister is a “global giant” who can win the next election.

      He said “everybody” outside the UK believed Gordon Brown had “turned this global economy round” and dismissed his opposition rivals as “pygmies”"

      I guess the boo’ees were not told that they were supposed to believe he has turned the global economy around.

      Nice of the BBC to allow Prescott to big-up the PM though….

      • 327
        jgm2 says:

        Gordon Brown can win the next election if MI5 are sitting on pictures of David Cameron mainlining heroin or snorting cocaine off a whore’s naked back while hammering the arse off her.

        Even then it will be touch and go.

        The scary thing is that it wouldn’t surprise me if Dave had (like most of us) done one or two things in our youth that we’d rather not share in glorious technicolour with the voters. The other scary thing is that since I’m not a high flying Eton educated, Oxford PPE then my embarrassing misdemeaneurs are lost to posterity. However, as Ricky Tomlinson dicovered MI5 do like to keep an eye on politically active folk of whatever age.

        Blair wasted no time ‘outing’ Ashdown once he’d made no waves in the 1997 election campaign. When would Brown or Mandelson play any trump card they had up their sleeve? Two days before the election vote?

  65. 303
    A firm pair of breasts says:

    Balls’ cuts. Figures.

  66. 307
    Media watcher says:

    Watching a speech by Ed Davey at the Lib Dems conference. Most of the seats, even in the front section where you’d expect them to be packed in for the cameras, are empty! Can’t they even bus in the locals like Labour plan to?

    And is it my cable box, or are there lines going down the screen slowly on the close up camera of the speaker. Oh dear :)

  67. 315
    Media watcher (cont) says:

    “David Cameron – The David Brent of British politics”; the latest corker from Ed Davey

    I’m sure I heard at least 4 claps from various parts of the audience. So embarrasing its fun to watch these jokers.

    • 319
      jgm2 says:

      Trying to trump Vince Cable’s ‘Mr Bean’ comment.

      Better luck next year Ed.

      • 322
        Labours New Aristocracy says:

        Why didnt he just say Prescott makes Robber Barons look like the little sisters of the poor such is his greedy fucking troughing at the public purse and be done with it.

  68. 328
    Steve Expat says:

    o/t the little shit Oaten is on 5 live now, the debate is “What is the point of the Liberal Democrats?”

    Beeb reporting that 36% of those surveyed about Clegg didn’t know who he is!

  69. 332
    Stu says:

    Read the article. Usual Guardian twaddle. They just don’t seem to get the fact that Labour has destroyed this countries economy. Their short memories dont remember the budget surplus Major handed over. Fucwits

    • 351
      Truth Sayer says:

      You have to laugh looking back at the Major years it all seemed so innocent compared to these parasites.

      • 353
        Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

        The Cones Hotline was a bit dear from a carphone though.

      • 356
        Major Minor says:

        It was funny to find that his “back to basics” campaign meant shagging Edwina, but at least he was shagging a woman, and a woman who wanted to be shagged by him, rather than than raping the country and the economy, unlike Gordon Brown.

  70. 357
    MIKE HOCK says:

    Well She Was Very Basic !

  71. 363

    Jackie Ashley isn’t as nice as she looks.

  72. 365
    Inglorious Basterd says:

    I want her scalp, the Mrs Guardian labour cheerleader BBC wife of twat Marr BBC labour cheerleader boots and Galastonbury along with Mrs Sarah Brown. The BBC only advertise jobs in the Manchester Guardian bunch of socialist Chardonnay-swigging twats along with Polly when the going gets tough I fuck off to Tuscany Toynbee.

  73. 377
    Anonymous says:

    Don Paskini laments the profound insight into political strategy offered by the Guardian’s Jackie Ashley, the self-confessed Brownite also know as Mrs Marr:

    Ha this explains the Painkiller question and why so many punches are pulled in TV Interviews with NULabour incompetents.



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