September 23rd, 2009

Hesford Hurls Grenade at Gordon Live on Five

Rumour going around that the first Gordon knew about this resignation was live on BBC Radio Five:

Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
London
SW1A 2AA
23 September 2009
Dear Gordon Brown

hesfordIt is with considerable personal regret that I find myself writing to inform you of my decision to resign my positions as PPS to several ministers, principally the Solicitor General.
My decision comes about because as an aide to the Law Officers, whilst I have great personal regard for the Attorney General, I cannot support the decision which allows her to remain in office.
In my view the facts of the case do not matter. It is the principle which counts, particularly at a time when the publics’ trust of Whitehall is uncertain to say the least. We have to be seen to be accountable.

In addition, could I just mention matters of policy where I believe leadership is vital.
On the constitution: We must legislate to offer a referendum on how we elect Members of the House of Commons. We must finish off reform of the House of Lords. Generally, I would urge you to move as quickly as possible to withdraw from Afghanistan and to signal a change in our position over Trident replacement.

Finally, on the economy, the Government is to be congratulated upon its clear-sighted and effective response to the downturn. You have my continued support in your resistance to David Cameron’s myopic and siren calls for an “Age of Austerity”. My constituents benefit greatly from using our much-improved public services and they would not wish to see these jeopardised nor have our continued economic recovery put in doubt.

With best wishes

Yours sincerely

Stephen Hesford MP


931 Comments

  1. 1
    School for Scoundrels says:

    Should have been Yours faithfully, surely?

    • 5
      Road_Hog says:

      Does it matter, he’s done thing decent thing, shame that there aren’t more of him. Although it isn’t him that should have resigned.

      • 12
        Wossat? says:

        The guy’s a twat. Noble but still a twat.

        • 67
          On Harman Pride's Dossier says:

          Read the obvious puff down the bottom. This is an under-the-table message from Gordon to Scotland that she should resign. Contrary to Guido’s post, the first Brown knew about this was when he wrote it……

          You’ll know it’s true when Sir/Lord Hesford appears at New Year.

        • 114
          Willsteed says:

          to #69

          Yeah, too coveniently structured eh?

          Skewers Scotland, and then fawns all over Gordon.

          And ‘the first he heard of it was’… amzingly, the day right after he’s gone to NY… he would have had no idea.

          Bollocks.

        • 200
          Blumpkin says:

          Yup, this one smells fishy, and I’m not talking about the contents of Baldrick’s apple crumble.

          Put-up job, methinks

        • 298
          fedupwithbrown says:

          He knows there’s more to come and doesn’t want to be around when **** hits the fan.

        • 655
          13eastie says:

          If the “Last Hoon of Scotland” doesn’t have to lose her job after siphoning the tax-payer’s money into the black economy, can we now expect Loloahi Tapui to re-instated with a full apology from her employer?

          Labour – riding the horse of hypocrisy into the ground…

      • 444
        Archie says:

        Last paragraph reads like fishing for a decent reference! O/T, but have you heard, Guido, that Iain Dale is presenting the phone-in on Radio Bloke this evening, when’s it your turn?

      • 470
        Anonymous says:

        The decent thing?

        Eh? Another looney Leftie Marxist. That resignation letter looked more like an application to be an MP than a real complaint.
        For a moment, I thought he was going to praise the glorious victory of Commrade Stalin and swear to fight to the death against Capitalist Running Dogs of the Imperialist West.

        A politician mistakenly hired an illegal, big deal. Throw a rock from my hose and you’ll hit an illegal.

        Decent thing?

    • 13
      Flick Meatwood says:

      Definitely ‘sincerely’, after use of Browngabe’s name at the top of the thing.

      • 55
        W.W. says:

        I would have thought ‘shove your job up your arse you fucking nutter’ would have been the correct grammer.

        W.W.

        • 88
          Sec Mod guy says:

          Grammar?

        • 109
          Cato Street Conspirator says:

          We miss those grammer schools so much don’t we?

        • 110
          Miss Anna Grammar says:

          Drat. Dropped my knitting.

        • 130
          Heraldic fur says:

          This is precisely why Ed Testicles wants desperately to do away with grammar schools, dumb down the country even more, to the extent where no one really knows or even cares any more whether it’s grammer or grammar and the ZaNus can get away with even more!

        • 211
          W.W. says:

          I went to a comp myself, and did wonder about the spelling, however being a bit busy I knew someone would correct me.

          Still I might be not much of a speller, but at least I am not stupid enough to sell the nations gold stockpile at less than a third of its current value.

          To do that you would have to be particularly stupid.

          W.W.

        • 338
          SpudGun says:

          Well put W.W. and I’d like to add “Death* to Broon, Hoon, Mandlebum and the running dog lickspittles”

          *Death = by Bayonet or Firing Squad.

          On a personal note, I always enjoyed the lessons on Bayonet fighting.

        • 919
          Anonymous says:

          Pity he doesn’t know where to put his apostrophes.

      • 491
        Jethro says:

        338 – What was it? ‘In, twist, out.’ or, more colloquially, ‘Unscrew his belly-button, and his arse falls off.’

    • 19
      Bluddax says:

      No.. yours faithfully if addressed dear sir.. yours sincerely if addressed by name..

      • 24
        Flick Meatwood says:

        Quite. I don’t see ‘dear sir’, but I do see ‘dear Gordon Brown’. Or have I gone insane?

        • 69
          ¿qué? says:

          So, what would be the correct way to finish a letter that starts:
          “Dear C­u­n­t”??

          I’m just writing one to Brown now, using a special ink made from my poo.

        • 96
          Groucho says:

          71 – I have just checked my book on letter writing etiquette and the recommended way to sign off is to wipe your arse with the letter

        • 128
          Sir William Waad says:

          ‘Dear Gordon Brown’ is wrong. It should be ‘Dear Gordon’, ‘Dear Mr Brown’ or ‘Dear Prime Minister’.

        • 137
          Dick the Prick says:

          98 – quite right and then post it down his throat if my Debretts is up to scratch.

        • 208
          Mongrel says:

          71 I think the correct sign-off is “Fuck you” – adds some symmetry.

        • 210
          Throbber says:

          71 – I think it is “Get Fucked Huhneface”.

        • 253
          The Ghost of Christmas Past says:

          “Dear Gorgon” isnt correct.

          There is nothing “Dear” about him apart from his policies and theyre extortionate.

        • 323
          Anonymous says:

          Darling fascist bully boy, give me some more money, you bastard…Love, Neil.

        • 390

          Dear and then use of both names is very unorthodox. Should really be Dear Gordon or Dear Mr Brown.

        • 418
          ron Vibentrop says:

          ¿qué? says:

          So, what would be the correct way to finish a letter that starts:
          “Dear C­u­n­t”??

          Period.

        • 483
          Cyco Billy says:

          I’m surprised it wasn’t “Dear Dear Leader, …”

          Or even “Oh Dear Dear Leader, …”

        • 492
          Susie says:

          ISTR: Well he could hardly write ‘yours faithfully’ when he was jumping ship could he?

        • 502
          Mr Ned says:

          @323, that should be,

          Darling fascist bully boy,

          Give me some more money you bastard. May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman…(boobshanka)

          Neil.

      • 85
        TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

        Easy way to remember is you can’t be sincere to someone you don’t know. If you don’t know them, you haven’t used their name so its faithfully, and vice versa.

      • 293
        Phil O'Pastree says:

        That’s right, if you are writing on behalf of a company corresponding to another company then you would address the letter to the company itself and usually mark it “for the attention of ….”. Such letters begin, “Dear Sirs”, not “Sir” nor “Madam” and end Yours faithfully.

        When you are writing on a personal level then you would address the letter to the person, begin Dear Gordon or Dear Mr Brown and end it Yours sincerely. “Sincerely” is nonetheless the most formal form of signng off a personal letter and not the way you would address a friend in correspondence.

        Note that politeness and formality is the old fashioned way Englishmen deal with people they don’t like.

        • 329
          Mr Bucket says:

          For you Comp boys and girls, and pay attention at the back you grammar school children the correct form is:

          Dear PM, yours faithfully signed Initials only + surname
          Dear Mr Brown, yours sincerely signed Chritian name + surname
          Dear Gordon , yours sincerely signed Christian name only or Christian name + surname

          or to a pleb who you consider socially inferior to yourself

          Dear (Formal Title) or Christian name if respected, signed yours truly

          If I receive a letter (snail mail) signed yours truly I consider it patronising and bin it.

        • 499
          Susie says:

          If you have to write ‘yours sincerely’ (and I sincerely hope I’m never on first name terms with any of these scum) you could always use the dollar sign.

          I enjoyed putting ‘yours $incerely’ when I was younger and less well-mannered.

        • 874
          don E says:

          Brown has a PhD in History, so it could also be Dr Brown.

          A PhD in history and he doesn’t learn from history. Ironic, really.

        • 875
          O Wilde says:

          A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

      • 369
        john miller says:

        Dear Gordon Brown smacks of a mail merge from Outlook into Word. Perhaps he’s serially resigning.

        And there is no accepted farewell after sucha wanky salutation.

        It seems to be written by someone with no caommand of the English language.

        So yes, Brown it is.

    • 32
      (yes I am a cunt / no I am not Nu Labour) says:

      Also

      “In addition, could I just mention matters of policy where I believe leadership is vital.”
      This requires a question mark.

      (It seems peculiar to bother to ask permission to make a point in latter before making it without knowing if that permission was granted ).

    • 43
      School for Scoundrels says:

      Faithful, as in party faithful. As in Not likely to make a fuss, or resign over something as petty as principles. It was a weak attempt at humour…. Pearls before swine….

    • 58
      Pontius The Pilot says:

      And “Dear Prime Minister”?

      (he probably thought “Dear Huhneybollocks” might have been a tad over the top?

    • 67
      bill says:

      Why “publics’” and not “public’s”?

      • 79
        Silly Old Apostrophe says:

        They just don’t know where to stick it any more–except somewhere up.

      • 80
        Flick Meatwood says:

        I blame the teacher’s

      • 81

        Bill – rem acu tetegisti.

        • 133

          TT, rem acu tetigisti

        • 141
          Miss Anna Grammar says:

          Rem acu tetegisti = a rectum tetigi se!

        • 177

          I realised my error after I posted, but Guido’s WordPress-lite does not allow deletions. We can only hope for the future.

        • 203
          Michelle Lodabollox says:

          Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum

        • 215
          Inky Fingered Schoolboy says:

          Unfortunately there is no such word as adipisicing (and others), so your post unfortunately displays itself to be bollocks. Sorry ’bout that.

        • 231
          bill says:

          Thanks for that Tuscan (although despite an O level I had to look up the latin).

        • 260
          Old Nick Heavenly says:

          I had the honour of being the first person to fail Latin O’s for about 15 years at the grammar I upset. If one was crap at Latin one did Geography, but the poor bastard, quite rightly would not have me in his classroom.

          One did not mess with the Latin teacher, Ned!

        • 282
          Hugo Chavez says:

          215 – thought I felt a draft – cheeky boy!

    • 275
      Frank says:

      No “yours sincerely” is correct, he addressed the prime minister by name. What on earth is the world coming to!

    • 328
      Pedant Gurkha says:

      Usually would use “Yours faithfully” after beginning the letter with “Dear Sir”

    • 347
      Andy says:

      If he had started the letter “Dear Gordon” then I would have thought that “Yours sincerely” is appropriate. “Yours faithfully” should be used to end a letter starting “Dear Mr Brown”. But for a letter starting “Dear Gordon Brown”, your guess is as good as mine!!

    • 365
      Anonymous says:

      No …

    • 368
      Loon Broon says:

      That ‘that’ in -

      “It is with considerable personal regret that I find myself….”

      grates as well.

      Most of the shit in Nu labour are retarded filth from polytechnics. Even this ‘Scotland’ monster did some sort of PC pretend degree in a day-prison technical college for crack hos.

      All Nu Labour MPs are corrupt idiot filth.

      • 475
        thick as thieves says:

        yeah yeah heard it all before mate, come up with some new lines cretin.
        every morning when the great thick as thieves arises from his pit, do you know the first thing our hero says to himself?
        the first thing the genius says is “thank the Lord the tories are so fucking dim.”
        all of you are wittering on about the correct way to address someone by letter.
        FOR FUCKS SAKE YOU DOPEY FUCKING WANKERS WAKEY-WAKEY RETARDS
        A HUNG PARLIAMENT IS RAPIDLY APPROACHING TIME TO WAKE UP CRIPPLES!
        the main tory troll topic of conversation for the last few days has been baroness scotland, right?
        yet you do not have the intelligence between you to understand that this letter was designed to be the straw that breaks not only the baroness’s back but also gordon brown’s.
        this a highly intelligent and most intentionally meaningful piece of correspondence.
        by separating his reason for resigning from other items of government policy he is successfully isolating baroness scotland and ensuring her position becomes untenable. good one, eh?
        and by listing the particular items of policy he supports he is also isolating gordon brown. brown will not withdraw from Afghanistan because he does what america tells him to do, he is not bothered about reform, only about saving his own neck and he used to want nuclear disarmament then he didn’t now he says he does again so he is flip flopping like the dithering c’unt he is dithering on that issue as well.
        this letter is basically saying get rid of the corrupt wanker and you can fuck off aswell gordon brown you useless fucking c’unt.
        you tory trolls should be thanking this honourable member but all you are doing is moaning like the bitches that you are.
        typical self obsessed self serving selfish corrupt hypocritical scum tories.
        no change there then!
        and the punchline is that you are led by a housing benefit cheat.
        and your shadow chancellor is a houding benefit cheat aswell.
        and they are both millionaires!
        it is simply fucking unbelievable that all you c’unts who have been moaning and whining on about the immorality of benefit cheats are happy for a false housing benenfit claimant lead your party.
        you could not make this shit up motherfuckers.
        innit.

        • 545
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          Jasuz, yer raving!

          Did yer mam cancel yer World of Warcraft account again?

        • 631
          thick as thieves says:

          you are a total and utter spastic phil.
          fuck off.
          no refund.

        • 732
          Papasmurf says:

          TaT what have you against cripples and spastics that you abuse them thus so often?

          You need a bit of permanent disability to adjust your view of life.

        • 766
          thick as thieves says:

          papasmurf, I will explain: I am using the term to describe an intellectually crippled person.
          when discussing someone with a physical difference then I will use whatever word that person sees fit and I mean no offence whatsoever to people with real issues because I am on their side.
          ofcourse a person with some sort of physical ‘disability’ (perhaps you would offer a word you think suitable, eh papasmurf?) has not chosen to have that particular disability whereas idiots like phil and anticitizen and paragnostic choose to be intellectual cripples.
          perhaps they really are brain damaged in which case I would ofcourse stop baiting them.
          there, that is my answer.
          I play a hard game papasmurf and I make no apologies for it.
          temporary collateral damage for the greater good.

        • 881
          Papasmurf says:

          The trouble with that approach on a blog where anonymity is used is that you don’t really know whether the person has a disability or not. Playing a hard game and having collateral damage may be unacceptable to many, we are not war personally (Yes I know we are actually at war!!)

          What word to use.. perhaps use the term ‘less able.’ I prefer those words because it does not have negative connotations but still gets over the fact that the person has issues.

          You gratuitous offensiveness to people just gets their backs up. Why not use your intellect instead of your anger. Nicey nicey to catch the monkey. You can still be passionate

        • 915
          tat says:

          the time for niceness is over.
          I am here to crack skulls not to make friends.

    • 455
      Labours New Aristocracy says:

      Heard Brown on Radio Today describibg the Baronesses Fine as an “Administerative ” Fine. Now WTF !!! costs five f*****g grand to administer in this tawdry little tale ???

      Listen you lying halfwit of a PM she got a hefty £5000 fine not just because she broke the Law but she broke a CRUCIAL PART of that Law in that unless there is a requirement for employers to KEEP FRIGGIN COPIES on these documents then its open to all unsundry to claim they checked the documents eveny did so.

      If the Baroness doesnt understand this then she is either lying or is more stupid than previously thought considering she allegedly steered this legislation through Parliament ( looked good on her CV I wonder who really did the donkey work ).

      Would a drunk driver escape with an “administrative” fine for the “technical” offence of refusing to give a breath test. No would he F**k in these cases he/she is treated the same way as if she had failed the test.

      Same principle here.

      Dont listen to the spin, THATS why she got a heafty Fine, end off !

      Now this Labour MP who resigned “on principle” also managed to say he wanted to “spend more time with his constituents” and Im trying my hardest to supress any cynicism that I have that he has one or maybe both eyes on saving his seat. I will therefore give him the benefit of the doubt.

      I will not however overlook the fact that he still spouted the Lunacy that Brown is doing a wonderful job with the economy and steering us through the recession blah blah bollocks blah !!!

      Ne

    • 589
      Minekiller says:

      Let me see….umm…wafer thin majority, around 1,000 – Brown needs Scotland gone, but can’r sack a black woman….so does deal with this guy to put him in the Lords when he loses his seat…umm…..Scotland is undermined, has to quit, blames everyone including Tory press, its all the Tories fault blah blah blah.

      • 625

        So cynical Minekiller.
        Its exactly as it looks. this is the New Labour way.
        “as soon as I realised what I had been doing was wrong I knew that someone else would have to go”

        Michael Martin resignation for every MP
        Jim McGovern resigns for Pat McFadden over Post offices
        Angela Smith resigns/u-turns for Gorgon over 10p tax
        Eric Joyce resigns for bob Ainsworth over Afghanistan ..

        And many more.

        • 643
          thick as thieves says:

          oh yes bill, gordon is the enemy within, a cancer in the labour party.
          he will sacrifice anyone to save himself.
          the problem is that gordon brown is a failure and what point is there in protecting an unpopular cowardly failure like mr brown?
          there is no point at all, innit.
          that is why the labour party must kill brown.
          and they must do it now.

    • 707
      Willliams says:

      No no no – have you not been educated adequately? – its only faithfully when you dont know the person – yours sincerely where you do know the person. As one of the Labour MPs he must surely know big gordon

    • 754
      Anonymous says:

      No. It should be Yours Sincerely, but it should be Dear Gordon not Dear Gordon Brown

  2. 2
    Old Proverb says:

    When the cat’s away the mice will play.

    • 50
      Thomas Aquinas says:

      How dare he do such an ignoble act when our own Great Statesman is saving the environment in New York. The Great Statesman is better off without people like Gavin Hensford around who would be better off sticking to putting puppet shows on.

      Now, we need a volunteer, must be old and unsteady, to heckle the Great Statesman at his coming rally so he can dazzle us with his put down.

    • 500
      What did they says:

      Why is Godon throwing our Nuclear ace card into the dustbin?

      Once it has gone it has gone and we will no longer be able to influence any rogue state to not go nuclear.

      Pakistan and India will have more say than Britannia when Gordon is finnished.

      Even worse the Conservative party (at least the Dave branch) agree with Gordon.

      I can no longer vote Conservative, who deserves my vote?

  3. 3
    Abolish the Licence Fee says:

    Is that the sound of crumbling I hear?

  4. 4
    Government-by-Cluster-Fuck says:

    It is a start , but the rot is at the very highest reaches.

    Stephen may be one of the few Labour MPs to be re-elected in the upcoming general because of his stance.

    • 33
      Papasmurf says:

      another Lord in the making to replace him then.

    • 47
      Cheese Lover says:

      I hope not, WIrral West has traditionally been Conservative. The man is a pratt. Always was, always will be. Should pratt have one or two ‘T’s I wonder…

    • 104
      lolol says:

      He’s my Mp and I promise you he doesn’t have a cat in hells chance,ask him about the clinic on green land less than a mile away from an A&E,right on the edge of the area it covers,he helped shove it through against the lots of no it’s in the wrong place,plenty of PCT toilet paper telling us it’s needed,try emailing him,does he have a computer,because he doesn’t reply.

      • 185
        Cheese Lover says:

        No. He claimed credit for getting it through, but had very little to do with it. The new centre is desperately needed and it was only a couple of local but excessively vociferous loonies who prevented it going ahead several years ago.

        • 187
          Cheese Lover says:

          And it’s not real green belt, it’s a load of broken down greenhouses…

        • 541
          lolol says:

          Nobodys against it the clinic it’s needed but in the centre it’s area not on the edge,it,s not just a couple of local loonies but loads of people,the green houses were the local council greenhouses in the park they weren’t broken down when this crap started they were in use until this clinic descision came up and they got rid of the staff ,that’s when people knew where the clinic was going,they were even told about the dangers of the roads in the area but no,when some people complained ,he even had his picture in the Globe pointing to some chalk marks on a doctors gate as vandalism some 83 year old were blamed,they were part of the group that were complaining,no they were going to put the clinic on that site come what may and screw what people thought as they are Labour and they know better,the saying don’t get mad get even,next year we have the Council votes (Liebour/Libdum) and we have a GE (Liebour),let’s see how the votes stack up for Liebour next year.

    • 355
      Call me Infidel says:

      With a majority of 1000 I rather doubt it. This gesture has more to do with saving a space at the trough than any distress he feels over Scotland’s failure to quit.

  5. 6
    Gurner says:

    ‘FIRE IN THE HOLE’…..

  6. 7
    StevieB says:

    OK – this MP chap also has his own agenda, but good on him anyway for resigning. The problem in the cleaner case is not with the individual -’Baroness Scotland’ – but protecting the credibility of the office she holds.

    She is only delaying the inevitable. If she had resigned ASAP, she would have got some brownie points for doing the ‘decent thing’ – and be allowed back later into another role.

    She’s not very bright though is she ?

    • 29
      Anonymous says:

      I don’t think many of them are very bright. Having an IQ to match their hat size seems to be the requirement.

    • 117

      It started well, but the rest of the letter is just arsenlicken tosh.

    • 122
      bergen says:

      How things have changed.Alistair Campbell may have been a total cnut but he knew when swift action was needed -even when it was Cock Robin being told to leave his wife or resign at Heathrow.Needless to say,the Great Ditherer has now made a bad situation much worse.

    • 204
      Airey Belvoir says:

      This very perceptive comment (from Coffee House) should be followed up by any self-respecting journo:

      JohnAnt
      September 22nd, 2009 8:26pm Report this comment

      The whole photocopying issue is a blind, to throw us off the scent.
      It now appears that the ‘document’ was the employee’s Tongan passport, which contained not a working visa, but a student visa that had already expired years ago. So photocopying it was irrelevant, since it was clearly invalid and expired as well, to all except a dimwit. If a photocopy had been produced by the A-G, it would show that she was either incompetent or guilty of gross negligence and incapable of serving professionally in the government.
      So obviously it was quite opportune that no photocopy could be produced, to ensure a ‘technical’ breach only.
      Is that why the UK Border Agency raided the Tongan employee’s home? To capture and destroy the passport that would have proved embarrassing evidence against the Attorney General, if it had been sold to a newspaper?

      • 226
        Infamy, they've all got it in for me says:

        Photocopier had followed Nokia and Printer out of the window

      • 236
        Ivor Schwartzporcshe says:

        Oh, really? That’s an interesting development

      • 360
        Article 38 says:

        This is the smoking gun. The UKBA has claimed that she used a forged passport with forged leave to remain stamps; but until someone can produce a copy of this supposed passport, I remain doubtful that Scotland did any checks at all.

    • 623
      An Englishman. says:

      “She’s not very bright though is she ?”
      Nope, she’s quite dark.

  7. 8
    Sambo says:

    The final paragraph made me vomit, what a creep.

  8. 9
    Confused of Ilkeston says:

    With best wishes?????

    WTF made him add that lie?

  9. 11
    Seth the pig farmer says:

    I can never remember, but seem to remember that you shouldn’t have “Dear Sir”, and “Yours sincerely”. therefore, if you use name fo rhte address, you use yours sincerely.

    Personally I prefer

    I have the honour to be,
    Sir,
    Your obiedient Servant,
    Seth

  10. 14
    going mental says:

    Its getting intresting in the run up to confrance ? dont you think ?

    • 127
      bandersnatch says:

      The resignation was likely meant to be an Exocet… but it’s turned out to be only a car boot sale copy, and it’s hit above the waterline… just like Elephant Ears’ Evening Standard piece this morning.

  11. 15
    Fred Goodwin's Duck Palace says:

    Ouch!
    The first blow even before the Conference attendees have started packing their bags.

    Brown is sinking fast and the challengers are counting names.

    Didn’t Mandy warn (leak) that the Baroness Scotland decision to keep her on would backfire and hurt Brown ? Perish the thought that Mandy might have gently “encouraged” this resignation.

  12. 18
    Slow and confused product of Labour's education system says:

    “In my view the facts of the case do not matter”

    Of course they don’t, you’re a politician.

  13. 21
    Chris Hicks says:

    Who cares? They will all be gone in a few months any way. Then we can look forward to and relish lots of Tory scalps. Yum yum.

  14. 22
    John Fowler says:

    So if Alastair Darling didn’t do his tax returns on time (or if he hadn’t asked someone else to do it for him) that would have been OK – as it was merely a technical breach of the rules.

    However – even more important is:

    1. who is walking the dog?

    2. and I ask again where is the learned R Machwinney? (class of 1977) He is skulking surely. does he have a view? does his profession? do his clients?

    all bar none.

    or – Bar bar none – especially their own.

    Chin chin

  15. 23
    Rick Nobinson in New York says:

    This is not so much small beer as piss-weak.

  16. 26
  17. 28
    Al Lane says:

    If all the MPs with a speeding fine had to resign there would be none left and that is a more serious offence than the Baroness. So why are they all still there?

  18. 30
    Anonymous says:

    Its all gearing up for a “Crisis? What crisis?” moment for The World Statesman Of The Year as he arrives at Heathrow

    All we need thrown into the mix is an inopportune photo of Bonkers shaking Gaddafis hand at the UN, and Lord Kindly Pussycat has the job stitched up

    • 49
      Groucho says:

      This World Statesman thing must be really messing with his head. Some people telling him that he is the best thing since sliced bread and clamouring to pat him on the back, and yet millions of his own countrymen making it clear that they would not piss on him if he was on fire.

      In his delicate mental state something like this could finally tip him over the edge.

    • 834
      summer_Breeze says:

      A bit o/t I know but does anyone else think, that gaddafi is starting to resemble one of the characters out of Bo Selecta?
      Scary Spice perhaps?

  19. 37
    StephenHesford MP says:

    I learnt all I know on timing resignations from Caroline “Corrrrr” Flint!

    • 232
      Babe Analyst says:

      Flint looks OK (but perhaps getting a bit long in the tooth) but she’s got a horrid cockney voice.

  20. 39
    DZ says:

    The fact that an MP has to include the post code in a letter to 10 Downing Street tells one everything about the slavish correctness of these people.

  21. 40
    Olly boy says:

    Ha ha, another one bites the dust…

  22. 42
    Alan Douglas says:

    DEFINITELY time to give Scotland independence !

    Seth should be given Quote of the Day for :

    “I am incompetent and claim my Peerage.”

    Alan Douglas

  23. 44
    Bruce Bellend says:

    Has this got anything to do with his majority only being around a 1000 I wonder?

  24. 45
    legal dept anon says:

    And so it begins.

    The unravelling of McStalin & the dis-integration of his last remaining remnants of sanity. In public.

    The last paragraph is written in pure fear – fear of the attack dogs that McStalin will unleash against him.

  25. 46
    Postie Patrick says:

    They must have a good post service in London, he wrote the letter today.

  26. 52
    Dr Carnivore says:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/6219819/Home-Office-admits-that-employers-cannot-check-on-the-right-to-work-in-Britain.html

    Ms Walthamstow’s efforts to shift blame for the sheer number of immigrants from Nu Labour, for encouraging them in, to employers, for hiring them, has resulted in an unholy mess that may mean the provisions are ultimately unenforceable.

    “SIR – Is it actually possible for employers, including Baroness Scotland, to determine if a recruit can legally work in Britain?

    According to the Home Office, no. It says, unambiguously: “Currently, employers do not have a reliable means of establishing whether a job applicant has the right to work here.” (First Section-37 Report to Parliament about the Likely Costs of the ID Cards Scheme)

    The Identity and Passport Service, an executive agency of the Home Office, was due to provide a service to employers to make good this deficiency by June 2007. It didn’t and it still hasn’t.

    Meanwhile, the UK Border Agency, another executive agency of the Home Office, can fine employers for breaking a law that the Home Office itself says we have no way of upholding.

    David Moss
    London SW19″

    • 150
      The Pedant says:

      High Court please, AND MAKE IT SNAPPY………..

    • 154
      Justice Fingers says:

      No, employers are merely required to take photocopies of the documents that prospective employees present to them (and keep them for at least 2 years after employment ceases). They are not required to validate those documents.

      It is the absence of such photocopies that is against the “rules” that can result in a fine.

      • 164
        Papasmurf says:

        she may have had the photocopies but not read them at the time. Once she dug them out she would have realised that she had broken the law. Who in those circumstances would have believed that she had not knowingly employed an illegal? She may then have destroyed the evidence herself.

        • 266
          Ivor Schwartzporcshe says:

          But if she had been legal is it not rather suspicious that tongo would go for the type of job illegal immigrants go for herself not being the polish type?

        • 268
          Ivor Schwartzporcshe says:

          sorry that doesn’t make sense.

  27. 53
    John "Hoonkiller" Wayne says:

    The man is noble on the Scotland account but the rest is total crap. The economy is going to tank and there will be people dying in the street.
    Yes it will be that bad.

    http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/337749/Bullish-Today-Marc-Faber-Is-Highly-Confident-the-Future-Will-Be-Very-Bleak?tickers=^DJI

  28. 57
    Fees Office Clerk says:

    What’s the betting that Gordon Brown is planning to steal the limelight during the Tory Party Conference Week. He killed their conference stone dead last year with the Banking Crisis. I just wonder what evil little scam has he got ready this time. I hope it’s nothing worse than an announcement that he’s leaving Sarah and shacking up with Lord Fondlebum.

  29. 61
    There is a light at the end of the Brown tunnel says:

    There is one thing Brown cannot control – the will of the British public who have never had the chance to vote him IN,let alone OUT.

    He will be slaughtered and crucified at the General Election that he is too scared to call.

    He will be totally smashed to even more pieces than he is in nowadays.

    He will be even more wrecked than he is now.

    He will be beaten to a pulp at the election box,just as his police beat the citizens to a pulp for daring to walk home one April evening.

    He will be FINISHED FOREVER – never to be seen again – BLISS,PURE BLOODY BLISS!

    • 91
      Lizzie says:

      When? his ex-boss Blair thinks Brown won’t make it to the next election and he will “chicken out”, either way is good.

    • 93
      scumbag says:

      No he won’t, because he’ll bottle it and stand down (just) before an election.

    • 99
      JMT says:

      Well the scum have done alright out if it – I think that, once some non-entity is “promoted” to fill this vacancy, every Labour backbencher since 1997 has been a minster of some sort.

      It will count for a lot on the old CV when they start their next job; “Would you like fries with that sir?”

      However the one I really want is to see is one of the pricks fill the car up with £80 of petrol and hearing the screams of anguish once realises that he cannot claim it back on expenses!!

  30. 64
    John Fowler says:

    I am very worried about Fido – the dog. Presumably owned only by Patricia – Richard was not interested. May I offer my services as an accredited West London dog-walker with impeccable credentials.

    • 70
      Papasmurf says:

      Please list your credentials… can’t be too careful nowadays

    • 564
      Jethro says:

      Mmm. A name like Fowler is worrying in the context of dog-walking. You do know what the strict liability-march-em-to-a-cashpoint-spot-fines are, do you? Have you ensured an adequate supply of turd-bags (and don’t try saying, ‘But they’re all on the Government Benches, Mr. Officer!’)? Have you been CRB-checked? Need to see your papers, in case the dog is a juvenile…

  31. 65
    Anonymous says:

    She should quit for probably lying, how can she have checked the documents, unless forged ones exist, which the police somehow failed to find when performing a search on her former cleaners residence. It’s much more likely that the documents never existed in the first place, and she’s therefore most likely lying that she ever did check them.

  32. 66
    Oh Kay! says:

    What is it about Kay Burley – she seems to be trying to imitate that ghastly Ann Robinson nonentity – or have the batteries run out on her Rabbit?

    Very grumpy indeed

  33. 71
    AJC says:

    What about this scenario: BS did examine and photocopy some documents but when reexamined they were insufficient or clearly fakes.

    Saying you did not have copies might be better then being demonstrated as totally incompetent

    • 108
      JMT says:

      There is currently a farmer facing 100k fine and jail simply because he could not spot fakes.

      NO WAY was she going to use the same excuse.

      Gordo needs that 100k to offset her 170K expenses scam!

    • 111
      Groucho says:

      You mean better than being wilfully dishonest and knowingly breaking the law?

      I agree though – there is much more to this than BS is letting on. The Tongan woman is probably at this very moment being quizzed by the Sunday papers via her publicist Max Clifford.

      BS will be crapping herself. This could be her entire legal career down the pan.

      • 116
        Papasmurf says:

        Not so, there are plenty jobs in the legal industry… she could work giving out fixed penalty tickets over the congestion charge.

      • 289
        Rip Van Winkle says:

        Max Clifford? Max only ‘does’ Tories. If you knew his politics, you might not think that highly of him.

    • 171
      Old person says:

      Isn’t the Attorney General an employee of the government?
      And, the ethnicity of a person is no guide to the ‘right to work’ in this country.

      Therefore, BS should have her documents photocopied somewhere, together with every other public sector worker.

      Time for an FOI request, Guido.

  34. 82
    Lizzie says:

    Gordon Brown and his Brownies “clear sighted” that can only be described as laughable..ha.ha.ha etc.

  35. 83
    John Fowler says:

    I am very worried about ‘Fido’ their dog. who is now walking it? And is the dog a communal pet? does Barrister Mawhinney have no responsibility thereon? Where does he continue to skulk? He has only been a barrister since 1977. Is he now in his dotage/dogage? is he working/walking from home? and what do the boys think? which inner city academy do they attend? They must have a view – unless they are being muzzled. And what do the 11 siblings thing about sister Patricia? And their children – they must be proud about Auntie Patricia. Play ground bullying. surely not.

    By the way – as she can lob out £5000 with such apparent ease – from her account/their joint account – again does little Dicky M have no view. Where is his Ulster pride?

  36. 84

    Here we have a new type of problem, this time one that started in Wirral West.

    • 156
      lolol says:

      Tuscs, Hesford is a Liebour clone thru and thru,next year or sooner,he will find out how pissed off people are with him in this area,beside’s we have a tasty NuCon PPC.

  37. 100
    Lola says:

    Maybe he’s resigning. And some of the first part of his letter is just about acceptable. But the last two paragraphs of his letter blow his credibility into a cocked hat. What a prat.

    • 121
      JMT says:

      Would have looked so much better to have finished with a paragraph along the lines of:

      “At least I am showing some spine and that may ultimately save my life, because when I go campaigning on your useless bloody record I will otherwise be lynched by a frenzied mob.”

  38. 105
    To Clegg or not to clegg? says:

    Oh Dear Obamarama is giving his UN speech at the same time Nick Clegg is speaking to his faithful. Sky quite correctly are going with Obamarama whist the BBC goes with Nick. Of course I have no doubt if it was Our Dave doing the talking then the BBC would cut away to Obamarama

    • 186
      World Leader Of The Gang, I Am says:

      Of course the BBC favour the Lib Dems, even over Obama Beach

      The Beeboids always regard the Lib Dems rather than the nasty Tories as the true and rightfuloppostion, squeezed out by an unfair system, often refering to their spokespeople as the Lib Dem Shadow Cabinet

      • 238
        Nick Who? says:

        Crazy innit. What Obama says will affect most peeps in the world. What clegg says won’t affect anyone. So the BBC stick with their man even though no one has ever heard of him.

  39. 107
    Papasmurf says:

    Where do you think he posed for that picture?

    Could be in one of those pods on the Eye… the HoP are a bit hazy and out of focus.

  40. 112
    It's a funny old world says:

    I would have diven him 10/10 for actually being one of the few Labour politicians in 12 years(apart from the honourable exception of Robin Cook in relation to the Iraq War)who actually has resigned as a matter of principle.

    However I have to mark him down to 7/10 because of his final paragraph but perhaps we should forgive him – he can’t change the syncophantic tendencies overnight after 12 years of supinely allowing this Labour government,of which until to-day he was a member, walking over the constitutional rights of the citizen and the total disregard for democracy. The growing number of backbench Labor rebels may well welcome him if he doesn’t continue to repeat the syncophancy in the last part of his letter

  41. 118
    Aethelred says:

    Got my hopes up there for a moment Guido.

    Turns out it was only a letter after all :-(

  42. 120
    Ian says:

    This is O/T but deserves an airing:- This is a comment on the UK political scene from Arglit Boonyai of the Bangkok Post:-

    A wise man once said “Education, education,education” It was later discovered that the man wasn’t as wise as everyone once thought and was in fact a war mongering (sic), American lapdog who left an incompetent Scottish troll in charge of Britain.

    This is what the rest of the world thinks about us!

  43. 123
    Enlightened Opinion says:

    Nick Clegg wants to be Prime Minister.

    I want to bed Jennifer Aniston.

    Neither is gonna happen.

  44. 125
    Big Massive Wood says:

    I’d love to know whether there is any truth in the story going round that the Baroness recruited the Tongan to scotch rumours of their Lesbian affair and also to keep her lover closer to hand?

    Anyone got any substantiating evidence on this? Were they plotting to meet at Brighton’s infamous Candy Bar over the Labour Party conference next week? Have they recently rented a Chantal Akerman retrospective on DVD? Do they make their own wooden furniture?

    • 168
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      The DT did a bit on the cleaner today. Seems she’s the oldest of a large family and remits money to help them survive, so credit to her for that.

      This is where the divide comes, isn’t it? Some say she’s helping others, deserves sympathy, let her stay.

      I say she’s doing right by her family, but it’s not our problem. Charity begins at home so, well done lass but goodbye.

  45. 129
    legal dept anon says:

    OT, but shocking:

    A controversial broadband tax should be law before the next election, according to Minister for Digital Britain Stephen Timms.

    The 50 pence a month tax applies to everyone with a fixed line telephone.

    Speaking at a debate in London, Mr Timms said the tax will be presented to parliament as part of the Finance Bill.

    Pravda are running it.

    • 157
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      Tories should say they will simply reverse all these idiotic taxes if they win.

    • 163
      Sir William Waad says:

      They already have a tax on phone lines. It’s called VAT.

    • 167
      Kick against the Pricks says:

      Timms looks like his features has been put together like Potato Man. And his brain is as dense as the aforementioned vegetable. Surely no sane voter could put a cross against the name of such a fuckwit twat.

    • 294
      Scorthed Earth says:

      If you don’t tax it you can’t control it – tax & control

      Got a big house?

      Got a big car?

      Paid a bonus?

      Tax & Control – Got it?

  46. 134
    Stu says:

    I’m one of the poor sods who is a constituent of that idiot Hesford and I for one can’t wait to vote him out.

  47. 139
    Da Leeda of Londistan, da Champnion of da equality an' inclusive an da divvy, he says:

    It wasn’ae ma fult ye un’stan

    • 169
      The Right Dishonorable Gordon Brown MP says:

      Now you sound like the sort of chap I could make a Lord!

      Westside!

  48. 144
    Sir William Waad says:

    Steve Hensford steeled his mighty mind,
    Gritted his molars and resigned.
    How sad for his heroic stance
    That few gave him a second glance!
    He had the cheek to give a slice
    Of man-in-pub style glib advice
    And, having chucked a well-paid job
    He made himself a total knob
    By trying one last abject suck-up
    About the PM’s total mishandling of the public finances.

  49. 149
    Ivor Schwartzporcshe says:

    Has she gone yet?

  50. 153
    H2S says:

    Guido I would say Hesford lobbed more of a stink bomb than a grenade at Gordon.

  51. 159
    cato the uncensor says:

    Brilliant being cought out by a piece of legislation drafted by an illegal immigrant whose third language is English and then topping it by claiming it’s the same as the Congestion Charge! So maths students in this Nulabour Society a £60 congestion charge fine now equals 5,000 of your English pounds.

    Well done Heston at least you have a conscience. No doubt you will be replaced by one of the asylum seekers from the Jungle, who are definitely not getting asylum over here. Yes no siree maybe.

    • 176
      Anonymous says:

      Really cato, you must make it more difficult to spot your real identity. You are Dick Sniffin of the Buggers Nutters and Perverts and I bet you would have no problem with the jungle if it was full of choirboys.

  52. 170
    Cunt says:

    What an arselicking resignation letter. Why the fuck does this cock even bother offering advice on reforming the HOL or congratulating is ‘master’ on his handling of the economy.

    Wankstain.

    • 182
      All Licked Out says:

      So rare for a ZuNu to go voluntarily and yet when they do, they all end the letter with this same Mandlebum style of rimming!

  53. 178
    Seasick Dave says:

    Bah, I thought that he had hurled a real grenade.

    What an attention seeking fud.

  54. 179
    Max says:

    Dull thud. Another day in the slow-motion multiple car crash in the fog known as ZaNuLiebore.

  55. 183
    Jimmy says:

    It’s not enough just to praise him. I trust those of you who live in the constituency will show your support next summer for his courageous stance.

    • 191
      Four eyes says:

      Ho, fucking, ho.

    • 197
      lolol says:

      Dream on Jimmy he’s for the chop/

    • 467
      C.U. Jimmy says:

      Our Jimmy – he’s a card, isn’t he?

      • 515
        thick as thieves says:

        a very sad character is jimmy the junkie. jimmy’s a crackhead.
        the labour party give jimmy crack cocaine to post threads here.
        how many posts do you have to do for a bag of crack jimmy?
        looks like you have to do fucking loads. that is a bad deal for you jimmy.
        oh well, people are bound to take advantage of you if you are a crackhead whore, innit!
        stop using you junkie. choose life.

  56. 184
    Lizzie says:

    The Rev Clegg has just been booted off Sky TV in preference to Gaddafi.

    • 243
      Warwick Hunt says:

      The Mad Mullah has star quality. Nobody could say that about Cleggover.

      • 301
        Lizzie says:

        Hallelujah

        • 612
          Lord Justice Jethro says:

          301 Lizzie – it’s all right, I know that’s only an assumed name! First: you have used a Hebrew set of words (‘Hallelujah’): this can only mean that you are a Zionist, and support the Zionist expansion into the ancestral lands of those innocent, peace-loving Philistines – sorry, Palestinians. Second, to compound your offence, the set of words you used (‘Hallelujah’) is, in several variant disguises, used, we understand, by that even-lower-than-Vermin-Vermin group, the Christians. In these circumstances, The Religion-of-Peace – no less than The-Religion-of-Atheism – demands the ultimate penalty.[Puts on Black Cap]. You will be taken hence to a place of execution, there to be hanged from a crane until dead…

  57. 188
    Mike says:

    A question for you legal beagles out there…

    If I was to send Brown a turd in a box, what’s likely to happen?
    Is there anything they could charge me with if, say, they decided to DNA it and somehow came back to me…??

    • 337
      Max says:

      Don’t use your own poo; any chance of stealing a bit of Mandlebum poo? That would sort it.

    • 379
      Justice Fingers says:

      It would contravene the Royal Mail/ParcelForce Health and Safety rules and come under the ‘prohibited goods’ list as ‘Foul or disgusting material’ I believe.

      Please note that partially assembled Christmas Crackers are also on this list (I kid you not).

    • 387
      Justice Fingers says:

      Oh, meant to add.

      I suggest you send it by special courier. That should be fine.

    • 398
      Glad to be of help says:

      What’s wrong with a stray dog’s egg?

    • 871
      davy says:

      Get your dog to do it!

  58. 193
    mad fred 2 para says:

    Zanulabour have just announced a Broadband tax – 50p per month for all fixed telephone lines.

    Rumour has it the BBC / TV Licensing will be given the privelige of collecting the tax.

    So, access to the Internet is subject to a levy to the internationalist cabal of left wing despots at the BBC – stuffing up the only free market & final frontier in true media broadcasting.

    Any response from the boy Cameron – or does he think this is another one of those Labour ideas that he can commit to?

    • 201
      Righty Right Wing (Mrs) says:

      Fred,

      How very depressing.

      Regards

    • 221
      Scorthed Earth says:

      This is Labour’s way of getting all out IP addresses, emails etc in place of our ID cards and outsourcing the costs to the BBC prior to …..

      • 234
        Truth Sayer says:

        It’s an EU plan, it’ll slowly turn into an internet license, where if you don’t comply with the governments ”fair use” agreement i.e. if you post dissent against the government or EU you will be banned.

        As the EU strives to control the internet like communist China.

        Only the French have slapped it down so far.

        The only good thing is this might be the straw that finally get’s lazy bastards off their seat to go overthrow government.

        • 522
          thick as thieves says:

          oh shut the fuck up wifebeater.
          you are sitting there on you fat arse telling everyone what’s what.
          fuck off you boring pompous oaf.
          why don’t you go to conservativefoam instead of hanging around here like a bad smell, there are lots of tossers like you there.
          go there now.
          your piffle adds no value to this place.
          retard.

    • 235
      Cheese Lover says:

      The thing is that this really demonstrates that Labour desperately do NOT want to be re-elected. A trivial but very annoying law to be pushed through and a certain vote loser.
      The books must look look even more terrible than the treasury’s published ones…

    • 879
      Sell The BBC says:

      Works for me . I already have mega broadband and got rid of my useless 20C landline some years ago.

  59. 194
    Cunt says:

    O/T
    Where can i find an update on the Sunshine centre for open politics fund- raising to bring that Huhne jacqui smith down?

    I fucking hate her, The Huhne.

  60. 195
  61. 198
    • 307
      nell says:

      I just do not like michael whyte – he is so condescending and arrogant.

      ‘Hesford. Never heard of him and in a job I didn’t know he had.’ Not important enough for michael then. Never mind about whether Hesford’s done the decent thing and best not to comment on whether he thinks the Attorney General should go or not.

    • 385
      oldfella says:

      the usual character assasination by White. The man is not worthy to clean my toilet. He is an ass of the highest order. White is Shite

  62. 199
    Desperate Dan says:

    I might be prepared to overlook the Tongan’s illegal immigrant status if she’s in the process of spilling the beans about Scotland to one of the tabloids for a not too large sum of money. After all she has to raise the price of her ticket back to Nuku’alofa somehow.

    • 318
      Cato Street Conspirator says:

      If there’s any sign of that happening don’t be surprised if there’s a fortuitous road accident.

  63. 202
    Yarnesfromhorsham says:

    I read this letter as more bum licking than standing up for values and principles.

  64. 207
    Stupid is as stupid does. says:

    What a crock.
    Brown can not sack anyone – with the amount of resignations on his watch if he was to sack anyone he would have nobody else. Just him, his couple of celebrity pals and Gadaffi. Do any of the foreign leaders feel the need to speak to him? He is a laughing stock and Mandy as brilliant as he thinks he is can not spin Brown.

    Mission Impossible should be the theme tune for the Labour Conference.

    • 433
      Sarah says:

      Who’d be left in the bunker? Gordon and his (ahem) inner circle. Guest appearances by Gadaffi, Bono, Kim Jong-il, Robert Mugabe and the Tongan Ambassador.

  65. 218
    Stephen Hesford MP says:

    Dear Gordon

    Don’t buy anymore bog paper…I’d be only too pleased to lick your arsehole clean!

    Your’s submissively

    Stephen

  66. 230
    Gooey Blob says:

    There are many decent people in the Labour party, but none of them are near the top. The whole cabinet needs replacing, and Scotland and Mandelson should be the first to go. I look around at the shambolic and discredited mob presently in office and can see no decent and honourable people anywhere in positions of power.

    The only people fit to lead the Labour party are either sitting on the back benches, or are just ordinary party members.

    • 242
      U R Joking? says:

      Name one.

    • 251
      Throbber says:

      Nobody in the Labour party is decent or honourable.

    • 254
      It's a funny old world says:

      “All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing !”

      If there are any honourable Labour politicians – on the backbenches are elsewhere they’ve been very quiet since 1994 when they allowed New Labour to take over control of the Party and doubly so in June/July 2007 when they allowed Brown to usurp the leadership of the party unchallenged. They can, of course, always use the famous “Nuremburg Defence” but it didn’t work in 1945/46 and it hasn’t improved its chances of success in the intervening period much

    • 297
      English Viking says:

      Wrong. There is not one single decent person in the whole wretched thing. A bit like the SS really.

  67. 240
    Nigella says:

    OT – why does toenails plus at least 5 others have to report from NY? How much is it costing?

    • 248
      Why save money with a Telly tax cash cow? says:

      Early Chrimbo shopping and a free lift club class on Virgin Atlantic

    • 259
      Groucho says:

      That’s what the BBC does – waste money.

      The crew:

      Toenails Himself
      Camerman
      Sound engineer
      Script writer (on secondment from No 10)
      Butler
      Fluffer

      • 303
        AnonymousSource says:

        You forgot “hairstylist and make up girl”

        On a serious note – haven’t they already got a correspondent domiciled in the US ?- so they should use him but I suppose of course nobody does “syncophancy” as well as Nick apart from Andy

        • 315
          Hear says:

          I believe they have at great expense a US News Bureau but when it comes to US elections and Prime ministerial visits every man and his dog flies out from London on a jolly.

        • 325
          Groucho says:

          314 – that’s right, they have a news bureau in Washington and another in LA.

          That licence fee looks like better value every day, doesn’t it?

      • 320
        Anonymous says:

        Buffer (polishes Toenails bald bits to a high gloss)

    • 317
      nell says:

      Obviously the BBC are hoping to catch gordon on film in one of his ‘finest moments’ grandstanding on the international stage.

      Then they’ll keep playing clips of it back to us ad nauseum believing that they are winning back the voters for him.

      After all they are balanced and impartial in their coverage of the news.

      • 403
        P1 says:

        A couple of weeks ago the whole “Business” crew decamped to NY to remind themselves it was a year on from the Lehman Bros collapse. Peston, Karney and a few others + camermen, producers etc. Christmas shopping is probably best suggestion so far.

  68. 246
    I hate New Labour says:

    Brown won’t resign. Ever.
    The whole cabinet could flounce out and he’d still stay.
    He waited 10 years for ‘his’ job. Nothing, but nothing, is going to force him to go a minute before he has to.
    So don’t get your hopes up people – it ain’t gonna happen.

  69. 247
    Trinny says:

    Reminder:
    For sale. One nuclear submarine.
    One careful owner. Full service history. Complete with own warheads (never used). No timewasters. No Libyans (or Librarians)

    Best offer is currently a trade for a pizza. Tried my council but they won’t take it for recycling as it doesn’t fit in the wheelie bin. Offers?

    • 257
      President Armoured-Dinner Jacket says:

      Oil for nuclear submarine swap ??

      You did a nice deal for Libya’s McGrahey ????

      • 314
        It's a funny old world says:

        Don’t joke.We’ve probably already sent some naval personnel to train the Iranian Republican Guard Navy as part of the deal to free our hostages from HMS Cornwall in 2007. Free i-pods all round lads ??

    • 262
      Gay Lord Mandelson says:

      Do the crew come with it?

  70. 258
    Stupid is as stupid does. says:

    Given that this lot are always on about ‘toffs’ – how is it that they are desperate to get themselves titles?

  71. 271
    Anonymous says:

    Don’t yer just luv it…

    Gordon Brown… World Statesman of the Year!

    Read all about it…

    http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=126147&st=0

    • 279
      Raving Loon says:

      How…just how?

      • 296
        anon says:

        Ok, who spiked my green tea with LSD?

        I am sure I just read that Mcmental has just been voted World Statesman of the Year.

        Bad trip.

        • 319
          Lizzie says:

          I must change my tipple, Brown World Statesman of the Year, or maybe I should increase my tipple!

        • 658
          Jethro says:

          319 – It’s all right, Lizzie, perfectly all right! Gordon Brown has just been voted The Brown World Statesman of the Year (‘Year:rear! Whadevva!’). It’s all fine, unless you live in a Brown World.

      • 313
        Doris says:

        It’s only in the british press and is probably a bit of spin from the slimy Mandelson’s lie machine. I can’t see any mention of this in the US press.

        It’s a load of balls. The whole world laughs at Brown and thinks he is a buffoon.

        • 321
          Lizzie says:

          That’s more like it.

        • 345
          The BBC - doing what we do best says:

          It’s not on the BBC yet but I expect it shortly

          “Well – Nick. Gordon Brown has won the award of” World Statesman of the Year” – beating pretty tough competition I hear ?”

          “Yes – Jon and in confidence I can tell you that its likely that he’ll also be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Econoomic Sciences for single handedly saving the world banking system”

          “And didn’t David Cameron and the Conservatives say that they dis-agreed with Gordon Brown at the time ?”

          ” Yes but events have dramatically proved them to be wrong ”

          ” And I guess that will leave David Cameron under some pressure tonight to explain himself to the British electorate – Nick ?”

          ” Yes – Jon – I think there must be a big question mark of him and George Osborne after this event in New York to-day”

        • 367
          Groucho says:

          348 – spot on. If the Beeb broadcast those exact words I would not be the least bit surprised.

  72. 284
    WobblyJim says:

    Gordon BullSitter Brown speaks to the country from his hospital bed..

  73. 286
    35mm says:

    Brown could be photographed drunk in the street with a turd hanging out his bottom and he still would not resign

  74. 287
    13eastie says:

    This whole thing is just a Zanu Labour smokescreen to distract people from Nick Clegg’s spell-binding conference speech today.

    • 295
      I says:

      Nick who?

      • 306
        Lizzie says:

        The Rev Nicholas Clegg.

        • 675
          Agatha (Jethro) Runcible says:

          Wasn’t he in that frightfully funny series – All Gals & Garters, or something – with Robertson Hare…? No: I’ve probably got it wrong – probably thinking of Nicholas Parsons… or… someone.
          By the bye, aren’t ‘clegs’ those frightful horse-fly thingies, that bite you like mad…?

    • 302
      righty right wing (Mrs) says:

      Oh how we laughed.

      “I aim to be prime Minister!” said the intellectual angry pigmy in short trousers.

      Stick to the unreal world of Lib Dem fantasy politics Nick, because you are never going to be a Minister of any kind, unless you join the C of E.

      • 309
        Lizzie says:

        As I said it was the Rev Nicholas Clegg preaching from his pulpit, thank God Sky turned him off.

      • 312
        I hate New Labour says:

        That manifesto in full:
        We’re not Labour
        We’re not the Conservatives
        We’re not going to win

        (Apologies to Private Eye)

      • 316
        Stu says:

        Primus Dimidium; First among halfwits

      • 331
        Your starter for 10 says:

        Only a true political strategist could come up with the “mansion tax” policy which will hit voters in the south worst of all – AND where exactly are most of the LibDem’s seats – Nick ?

      • 395
        john miller says:

        The quote is incomplete. In full, he said “I aim to be Prime Minister when I grow up”.

        It used to be a fine aspiration, but Clegg is a squillionare anyway, so why bother?

      • 459
        Sir William Waad says:

        Yes, Nick, you want to be Prime Minister and I want to score all eight goals when England win the World Cup.

    • 322
      Vote LibDem get Labour says:

      As David Steel once famously said – ” I am the first Liberal leader for a generation who can say to you – Go back to your constituencies and prepare for government !”

      Er did I miss something David ??

      • 340
        nell says:

        Oh Dear! I knew the LibDem conference was going badly but I never expected it to end on this silly note.

        “I want to be Prime Minister. Imagine a Liberal Democrat Cabinet. Imagine Dr Vince Cable in his office at the Treasury” !!!!!!!!

        No-one will take them seriously now.

      • 362
        Lizzie says:

        I would need a lot of alcohol to prepare for the Rev Clegg as prime minister of Great Britain, and the silly Mr Cable as Chancellor of the Exchequer, please people “get a life”!

      • 366
        Nick Cleggover says:

        We’re preparing for oblivion now.

      • 415
        Roger Daley says:

        Another son of the — oh no – He started in Scotland.

      • 421
        Clegggova says:

        Go back to your constituencies and prepare for local government !”

  75. 291
    PM says:

    “…the Government is to be congratulated upon its clear-sighted and effective response to the downturn”

    Is this guy having a fucking laugh?

  76. 299
    Roger Daley says:

    Pants of the Manse has invited the Pope over next year – Shame he won’t be around to gladhand the Pontiff.

  77. 304
    General Custard says:

    as Britain is now offically a banana republic we need a new national anthem

    Way down deep in the middle of the Congo, a hippo took
    an apricot, a guava and a mango. He stuck it with the
    others, and he danced a dainty tango.

    The rhino said, “I know, we’ll call it Um Bongo”, Um
    Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo.

    The python picked the passion fruit, the marmoset the
    mandarin. The parrot painted packets, that the whole
    caboodle landed in.

    So when it comes to sun and fun and goodness in the
    jungle, they all prefer the sunny funny one they call
    UM BONGO!!!!

    • 353
      Truth Sayer says:

      lol

    • 462
      Baroness Jockland says:

      Wow!!My cleaners favorite drink,followed by a quick shot of pussy juice. Ahh memories… Still will import a new squeeze soon and can put batteries on ones expenses.

      And just discovered another use for bananas- they’re not just for breakfast,lunch and dinner. I eat boiled miissonary for supper, well one must have at least four square a day to maintain ones figure. And hey girlfriends I find slip-on shoes so convenient to get off for meal times.

      I know I’m Nick in disguise- yawn!!!!

    • 560
      13eastie says:

      Progress has been made in the Congo in 2009. With the fragile peace ending the Kivu conflict, things are hopefully starting to look up.

      Gordumb’s Federal Republic of Britain’s rate of regress on the other hand defies Darwinian wisdom, and there is no light at the end of the vertical shaft down which we continue to descend.

      As far as the Congolese go, credit where credit’s due, surely?

  78. 308
    who dunit says:

    The mentalist is shortly to speak at the UN that is if his mate Gadify Duck would just shut the fuck up, he has been making strange noises for over 25 min so far.
    Gadafy Duck must be looking forward to delivery of a Trident sub, in good nick for a few barrels of oil.

    • 311
      Lizzie says:

      Unfortunately Sky have a duty to show Brown at the UN, it will be the usual boring lament from Brown, time to change channels methinks.

  79. 324
    Pas says:

    Old mad dog is still ranting away at the UN, I hope his latest best friend Gordon Brown is getting bored to death.

  80. 327
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Any truth in the rumour that Ian Huntley has turned down a photo
    opportunity with McMental?

  81. 330
    Baron Scotland says:

    Who is this geezer wanting Gordo to give the Baroness the heave ho?.

    Another Deripaska Mandy no doubt.

    The Baroness has Gordo’s vote of confidence.

    So my snout remains firmly in the trough.

  82. 332
    Ian Brady says:

    Even I wouldnt lower mysef to mix with that Hoon
    He may be as guilty as I am of a terrible crime (being Scottish) but even I have standards.

  83. 333
    Desperate Dan says:

    She’ll probably put a Dominican voodoo curse on Hesford. Or make him into a zombie like Gordon.

  84. 335
    Mr Bucket says:

    What a tedious blog, yours truly

  85. 339
    Obama is a Twat says:

    Brown is a one eyed fay lying jock Huhneee

  86. 342
    Peter Hichens says:

    Mr Brady, whilst it may be fashionable in certain left wing liberal (south American) circles to bugger children most of us view this practice with a mixture of both revulsion.
    Kindly fuck off.

  87. 343
    Truth Sayer says:

    Do UK banks or exchange rates store Chinese Yuan?? Or is the easiet way to get your hands on some, would be to go to China and buy it yourself??

    Friend of mine in fianance gave me a tip off.

  88. 346
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    *Stop Press*

    Pope to visit Britain in January 2010

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8271556.stm

    Will he be part of the Brown election campaign as a favour to his friend Tony Bliar?

    • 348
      I hate New Labour says:

      Bliar plans to *be* pope by then surely?

      • 359
        Stop Press says:

        No – His Holiness will be welcomed to British soil by His Excellency Tony Blair – President Elect of Europe and his charming wife the “First Lady of Europe” Cherie Blair

    • 361
      Trinny says:

      Is he coming to deliver the last rites?

    • 377
      Steve Expat says:

      So is Gordoom planning to have something on every week for the next 6 months, in order to keep his incompetence is kept off the front pages?

      Wait and see how much bad news comes out while the Pope’s here

      • 414
        Truth Sayer says:

        He’ll probably think he’s in Pakistan if he ventures too far into London.

      • 702
        Jethro says:

        653 Good argument there, tat: well-developed logically, clearly enunciated, other side forensically dissected… I think you qualify for The Bar – indeed, m’learned friends suggest a ‘Q’.

    • 456
      Anonymous says:

      I don’t like the pope, he uses soap on a rope.

  89. 350
    Max says:

    Interesting to note that whilst the McDoom is in the US the US embassy in London have a £50 million VAT dispute on the go with HMRC. US supposedly VAT exempt but HMRC a bit embarassingly desperate so won’t let it rest.

    Hope Barry O’Bama has a tug on the Great Leader’s lapel in the next few days. You can imagine the smile, the giggle, the rapid phone call to the Treasury.

    The McDoom is a titan in the rest of the world (apparently). A ragged arsed titan clearly. Makes you proud.

  90. 357

    It’s a shame that the usual Right-wing hate-mongers are seizing on an innocent mistake by Baronness Scotland to drum up self-righteous anger.

    I wonder – could the fact that Baronness Scotland is female and a BME person have anything to do with this?

    Guido and his fellow Tories are tryign to distract us from the economic recovery that is already under way thanks to the decisive policies of Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Lord Mandelson. Hard-working families are already seeing the benefits – benefits that would be cut if the millionaire Tories seized power.

    Over the last 12 years, New Labour has made Britain a fairer and more prosperous place in which to live. But we need another five years to continue our project of transforming Britain.

    Vote Labour in 2010.

    • 370
      The Admiral says:

      lol nice one whoever…..

    • 371
      Mondeoman says:

      like your leader, keep taking the tablets

    • 376
      Anonymous says:

      Ha ha ha!

    • 378
      Vote LibDem get Labour says:

      You ought to apply to the Labour Party they’re looking for good speech writers. We your talent for fantasy you could end up Director of Communucations in no time

    • 380
      roygbiv says:

      Fabian,

      I have to say that is a very patronising response to women and BME people specifically. Being female and BME should not protect someone in her position if she has done wrong. Quite simply, she enacted many of the current immigration regulations which require that people must have documentation checked – and copied and retained – by an employer, an educational organisation etc.

      She has undermined herself because she insisted on this legislation yet we see that she herself did not stick by it.

      Being female and BME has absolutely nothing to do with it whatsoever and I think it is wholly disingenuous to suggest otherwise.

    • 382
      Max says:

      Another five years to continue transforming Britain? LOL! It’s heading towards Mad Max territory now (with apologies to my namesake). I’ll assume this is a joke post.

      Although if you really are from the Fabians can you please direct me to where on that fooking tory website it says that millionaires are going to get tax breaks, I just can’t find it. Any chance of a link?

      And by the way, you can’t spell “trying”. Though you are.

    • 394
      Insider says:

      Hello Jonty. Keep on trying. You remind me of the Lib Dems. No hope whatsover. What’s the point?

    • 430
      Doris says:

      Fabian_Solutions – you are a very sick and easily influenced person and you need help. You are a sheep yet you seem to think you are a human being. Sheep should not be allowed to leave messages – it should be banned – as all they write is pro government nonsense and propaganda…..in other words, drivel.

      Most of us do not give a toss whether Baroness Scotland is black, white, male, female, dog, cat, horse or whatever. The fact is, she has broken the law plain and simple. The problem is with the baroness’s moral compass. She is both a coward and a loser with no backbone. ie a typical labour cabinet minister. She also clearly cannot differentiate between right and wrong (another nulabour trait).

      So please stop trying to twist and meddle with the truth (another nulabour trait).

    • 448
      I_Despise_Labour says:

      Fuck off you dipshit socialist bell end

    • 602
      Does anyone here speak English? says:

      What the fuck is a BME person?

      • 693
        Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

        Black and ethnic minority. For some odd reason this is written BME instead of BEM. FKW.

        • 914
          Max says:

          It is BME to avoid confusion with the BEM’s ie Brotherhood of Evil Mutants or Bug Eyed Monsters (ha, ha, thanks Wiki!). Although BME also stands for Body Modification Ezine, if you are into piercings and tatoos.

    • 696
      English Liberation Front says:

      “Over the last 12 years, New Labour has made Britain a fairer and more prosperous place in which to live. But we need another five years to continue our project of transforming Britain.”

      Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

      etc.

      Transforming? Yes, into East Germany circa 1960. You people are stark raving bonkers.

  91. 364
    Patriotic says:

    Anyone know whats happening to this pondlife scotlands 170,000 expenses claim or is it dead and buried?.
    As for this latest arsehole resigning,my dear Gorgon what an arse licker this grovelling bastard is,whats dear about this lying treacherous scottish bastard of a pm.

    • 397
      Max says:

      It’s dead. The gummint office (or whoever) have decreed that if you are a minister in the Lords then you can claim whatever you want even if it does not fit exactly. Or something. Basically that it is ok, “within the rules” etc. Effectively a huge payrise at the stroke of a pen. I know this is a lazy post, I’m supposed to be working on something else.

    • 404
      Max says:

      You’ve made me feel guilty, here’s what they say, courtesy of DT:

      “A spokesman for Lady Scotland said she is entitled to the allowance, which is paid automatically to her by the department rather than being claimed as an expense, as legislation does not specify where the peer should live to qualify.

      A spokesman for the Attorney General’s Department said: “There is nothing in this legislation, nor the order which gives effect to it, which specifies that this allowance is only to be paid to ministers whose main residence is outside London.

      “The Department pays Baroness Scotland the allowance based on this understanding of the legislation. Baroness Scotland has initiated no claim for this or any other allowance.”

      “To confirm, Baroness Scotland at no time told the Department that her main residence was outside of London.”

      The Cabinet Office agreed that the payments were not against the rules as they stand.”

      Sorted, innit? Cabinet Office says so. Move along now, nothing to see here.

    • 488
      Anonymous says:

      y dear Gorgon what an arse licker this grovelling bastard is,whats dear about this lying treacherous scottish bastard of a pm.”

      Seems like these sassenach dinosaurs are reverting to type with their racist instincts, lager loutish tendencies and throwing shit all over the place!

      Hahahahahah!

      • 929
        Wee Jocky McSkirt says:

        It’s not racist to call someone who was born in Scotland, Scottish.

        Even the BBC don’t think that.

  92. 372

    Gordon BrownLabour Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has outlined the clear choice between Labour and the Conservatives on the economy.

    Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, said:

    “The choice is between Labour who will not put the recovery at risk, protect and improve your front line services first and make the right choices for low and middle income families in the country.

    “And a Conservative Party which would reduce public services at the very time they are needed most, make across the board public spending cuts to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest few, and make different choices about public services because they have different values. These would be the wrong choices at the wrong time for the wrong reasons because they have the wrong priorities for Britain.”

    • 384
      resurgemus says:

      rather a shame he hasn’t done what he promised over the last 12 years then

    • 392
      I knew it was too good to last says:

      Bloody hell – Uni’s back then ? Can’t you go and find some nice female Politics “freshers” in the SU Bar to impress instead ?

      • 451

        Most of them are rugmunchers, and converting them takes too long when you can just shag a nice NatSci from Girton ;o)

        • 543
          thick as thieves says:

          I am 100% pro-lesbian paragnostic and will, even though there is nothing in it for me, stand in solidarity with the lesbians.
          I will not allow a moron like you to attack them without challenge.
          you are a tit, a complete imbecile who has no manners and who clogs up this place with worthless bilge.
          fuck off paragnostic your posts are shit.

        • 571
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          says the elegant bard

        • 669
          thick as thieves says:

          well done phil, you are beginning to appreciate the genius of thick as thieves.
          maybe some of my genius will rub off on you phil.
          nah, thinking about it you’re too thick and stupid to understand even the concept of such an vast intellect as mine phil.
          I have come to the conclusion that you would be far better off completing an internal transfer for you: my diagnosis is that your treatment would benefit you spending your blogtime at conservativefoam rather than staying here wasting everyone else’s time with your inane crap comments.
          this place is not for you phil, you are too dim and cretinous to offer any extra value here, conservativefoam is much more your kind of place.
          go there now.
          good cripple.

        • 686
          Duncan DisorderlyS says:

          I don’t want you to rub anything off on me you nonce. Keep yer distance.

        • 729
          thick as thieves says:

          said the nonce.

        • 761
          Jethro (Q.C.) says:

          543 – “You are a tit” Mr. TAT, you use this as a term of abuse?’
          ‘Yes, of course: everyone knows – apart from you, Mr. Cripple, apparently!’
          ‘I see, Mr. Tat – and let us not get into any kind of ‘tit-for-tat’ argument here – and so, to call someone “a tit”, is to imply, suggest, or indeed, state, that that person is a very silly person, a deluded person, an ignorant person, a person without significant brain-power…/’
          ‘That’s it, retard! Got there, eventually!’
          ‘Thank you, Mr. TAT. Now, this word, ‘tit’: would you agree that it is normally used to refer to a particular part of the female anatomy?’
          ‘Ohmigosh! How(blushing-all-over!) am I meant to reply! YES, spastic: women have tits! News to you?’
          ‘So, Mr. TAT, you are quite happy to equate a perfectly normal and natural part of the female body with – stupidity: worse than that, “imbecility”. Tell the Court, Mr.TAT, do you find the female body threatening, repulsive, objectionable? Is the reason why you claim to be “100% pro-lesbian” because you actually hate women? ‘Tit’, Mr. TAT: isn’t that a Fourth-form way of saying the unsayable ‘Breast’? Can you not bring yourself, Mr. TAT, to talk about women’s breasts? Are they too threatening to you? Breast, Mr. TAT, breast: does that conjure in your mind a Mother giving suck to her child – the most natural, and loveliest image? Perhaps, Mr.TAT, you find that image revolting, unnecessary, silly, idiotic…IMBECILIC? The Court needs to be clear, Mr. TAT: do you feel that some parts of the female anatomy – the Breasts, perhaps – have an innate silliness, stupidity, ‘imbecility’ about them? Would it be true to say that your thinking goes, ‘Women have tits, therefore women are tits.’ Do take your time, Mr. TAT.

        • 769
          thick as thieves says:

          what a tit!

    • 406
      The Admiral says:

      Enjoy the wilderness…..

    • 409
      Max says:

      Oi! You “Fabian” hoon. Where do the wealthiest few sign up for these fooking tax cuts please? I shall have my local Trading Standards after your Dear Leader if he keeps on about this.

      • 452

        There’s no point arguing with someone who thinks productive work should be punished ascending with productivity and sloth should be rewarded.

        Taking economic advice from a Fabian Marxist is like booking a round the world cruise from a flat earth believer.

    • 466
      Sir William Waad says:

      Indeed, he is hopeless at pointing a point across.

    • 930
      Fabian Fables says:

      Gordon Brown who is called Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, for it is he, Gordon Brown, spaketh. And Gordon Brown who is called Gordon Brown spaketh saying yea verily it is I Gordon Brown who is called Gordon Brown the prime minister…

      More to follow!

  93. 381
    john miller says:

    Can someone ask BS how long she has known Tapui? Did she know the lady’s husband? Exactly what documents did she see? I sense a criminal conspiracy lurking here underneath all the bollocks we have heard. Brown is now hinting that the documents were forged. Is the PM entering into a criminal consipracy here? BS forgets to photocopy documents, but suddenly the PM has a psychic moment and “just knows” the documents BS saw were forged?

    Can Guido bring down the entire government?

    • 396
      Steve Expat says:

      There’s something really not right about this story the more it develops.

      If she did check the passport (she is criminally negligent if she ddn’t, remember) then she would have seen the expired student visa from several years ago.

      Even if you marry a Brit, you still need to apply for residence before you have the right to work here – this is not a nice process and involves lots of nasty questions designed to weed out bogus marriages.

      • 412
        Max says:

        This marriage of solicitor and cleaning lady did not endow residence; rules not fulfilled etc. There are 3906 new laws to read through to establish exactly where it all went wrong though. I’m sure I saw a photocopy of something that said that. Or something else.

      • 437
        Sarah says:

        You have to got through a process of being allowed residency, then applying for permanent leave to remain. If you’re from outside the EU and without that “permament leave” or “right of residence” proof, or a current student visa, you are basically an illegal.

        Being married to a Brit means absolutely nothing, and you would think that a lawyer would know that.
        Is she thick as well as dishonest?

      • 878
        NuLabLad says:

        nah, nah, there’s noffin wrong here mate.

        we in da labour party are just a little bit slow an dat.

        we know she’s got the right papers an dat.

        we just a bit slow and dat cos we’re not dat clever and are always cockin things up and dat but Gordon is the right man for de job and we are getting betta.

  94. 386
    Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

    I have wondered for some time now why Manglebum is often nicknamed
    ‘The Bermuda Triangle’
    According to his Brazilian plaything it is because he swallows Semen.

  95. 388
    Young Mr Grace says:

    Seems we now have 2 in the Commons with a semblance of integrity. Frank Field and Stepehn Hesford.

  96. 389
    Nick Clegg PM in Waiting says:

    I am Nick Clegg 37 1/2. I am preparing for Government and have instructed Pickfords to prepare for my move to #10.

  97. 391
    Rip Van Winkle says:

    Fabian, no one is listening any more, No one believes a word Brown or any of his cohorts say any more. They’re dead, defunct, kicked the bucket. So, please just go back to Labour List and agree amongst yourselves just how wonderful this Government has been.

    Will you do that? Good boy.

    • 405
      Master Baiter says:

      It is saddening to witness your lame response.
      What are the Conservitudes planning?
      Answer:
      Simpletonian supermarket basket case economics supported by noone other than cheats and thieves.

      Listen to the silence about financial corruption and malfeasance that has led the world to the brink ————- go on listen, you buffoon.

      • 416
        Max says:

        I see the doorman’s on a break.

      • 427

        > Listen to the silence about financial corruption and malfeasance that has led the world to the brink

        Yep the regulators really did a lot of damage with their credit bubble.

        How did they expect banks to cope with all the credit inflation they were pretending wasn’t real inflation?

        Idiotic Regulation.
        Fiddled Statistics.
        Lack of Economic Knowledge.
        Labours Legacy.

        • 481
          thick as thieves says:

          er, got anything new to say?
          if not then fuck off and bore some other site to death you c’unt.
          WAW.
          innit.

        • 482
          jgm2 says:

          You forgot the wilful pump-priming to the (borrowed) tune of 35bn a year average since 2001. PLUS 15bn a year or so in PFI borrowing. That kind of borrowed money pissing about the economy will do all kinds of things to the price of houses.

          Soaring houseprices does all kinds of things to the uneducated great British Public who, suddenly feeling flush, remortgage their house for 10s of 1000′s of pounds and piss the lot away on foreign cars, foreign plasma TV, foreign holidys and a down-payment on a Buy-to-Let flat. Well, its me pension innit?

          Anybody with an IQ greater than a fish was screaming from the rooftops back in 2004 when inflation was allegedly 2% a year house prices were zooming away at 15% increase a year and the Maximum Imbecile was strutting the stage telling everybody how prudent he was.

          What a fucking jackass eh?

          But no, the arrogant prick and his imbecile apologists were just batting back any criticism as being politically motivated. No. It’s not. I’s motivated by sheer frustration at watching an absolute arsehole totally destroy an economy.

        • 551
          thick as thieves says:

          garbage jmg2.
          the tories were loving it aswell, look at the number of millionaires on the front bench, look at the arms dealers and finance guys sitting there pretending they had nothing to do with it.
          I would say that the tories have proved to be the worst opposition in the history of parliament. which is no mean feat.
          it is rather presumptious of the such a fucking awful oppostion to think they would make a first class government innit.
          it is simply not possible.
          david cameron is a dodgy c’unt, just like blair.

        • 645

          JGM2 yep, that can’t help either!

          Especially as most of the borrowed cash was spent on people who’s role is to destroy wealth creation.

        • 739
          thick as thieves says:

          don’t talk over top boy you ignorant c’unt.

        • 774

          Bottom Boy TaT,

          We aren’t, only your badly written posts were in the way.

        • 916
          tat says:

          I snap my fingers and my bitch dances.
          you are a good and faithful bitch anticitizen.
          keep dancing for top boy.

  98. 399
    ceasars wife says:

    This resignation letter shows a few things that mainly a few labour mps think the Ruin has charted the wrong course , renaging on the lisbon referendum , being unable to determine Afghanistan and ineffective help to those being chutneyd in the credit crunch .
    It appears to have gone wrong for the lib dems in Bornemouth , but MPC isnt to sure we are seeing “sustainable growth” and Blanchflower fires at broadside a George Osbourne , Lib dems sage vince cable has found that there is a difference between analyst and policy and has put forward an ill thought mansion tax (CW ponders about how B&Bs will fare) .

    Whilst there are conflicting views on how to steer the economy , we musnt forget that the Ruin has made one side of the economy function , so it is perhaps no surprise that we should see bankers and the economists on the payroll of bankers making arguments pro there own view, CW thinks there is tradgey unfolding in the real economy that the figures are not explaining .

    The Ruin has now done further damage by not sacking baroness Scotland , charles Clark has been long time critic and we are getting to the stage where goverment is transforming its self into a despotic dictatorship which is setting the scene for a very fitfull ending for the whole labour sham . Ever since the dark masterplan to oust Blair came to fruition and the previously unimplicated Ruin rose to unoppsed power CW thought he would not be able to manage the backlash but then policy wise he has been all wrong as well which is why voters are deserting labour .

    CW thinks the vanity led mps that have forgotten so much about good goverment are in trouble , parliament is always a trust , carrying on being a cad with the public is running out of patientce and road , you cannot really blame the public for asking the question “do our elected masters know what they are doing ” CW continually picks up that the games of labour are causing a much deeper resentment a panto dame PM with wishy washy politics is holding back the work that must be done to repair broken governance .

    The libs by not attacking labour have placed themselves in the all mouth and no trouser , they actually sound like the EU elected elite confident the public now take up there rule like dumb animals , which has been what labour has foisted upon us .

  99. 401
    Disraeli says:

    Why does anyone bother lsitening to the Lib Dems? They’ve got more chance of winning the jackpot in the Euro Lottery than getting into Government. Such a waste of time, energy and money in having a Conference. Give the money to charity.

  100. 402
    exiled &angry says:

    A message sent to me by my son-in-law:-

    “Firstly, apologies in advance for the colourful language, but your son in law is a little aggrieved with the shit hole called the UK…..

    Over the past several months, I have been seriously questioning whether the UK is the best place to spend the rest of my life and raise your grandson……

    The straw that broke the camels back came this week when I discovered that more social security benefits (ie jobseekers allowance, incapacity benefit (aka ‘I can’t be arsed’), tax credits, you name it) are paid out per annum than the TOTAL RAISED IN INCOME TAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE ARE SUPPOSED TO LIVE IN A CAPITALIST COUNTRY?????!!!?!?!?! SWEET BABY JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Please read that sentence again – its fucking UNBELIEVABLE. That means that after we’ve paid the lazy scrounging bastards, the only thing left for transport, police, nurses, teachers etc etc comes from council tax, corporation tax, inheritance tax, capital gains tax, duties on stuff like booze fags and fuel and of course VAT etc. And it now appears that the family allowance (the only benefit we get) is about to be cut if your combined income is over £50 grand. Utter bollocks. Until this week, I felt that the majority of the whingeing you hear about benefit louts and what we’re paying for was largely over exaggerated and designed mainly to fill out conversations for people who had little else to talk about and pat themselves on the back because they are in work. BUT ITS ACTUALLY TRUE!!!!!!! This statistic is utterly terrifying.

    To put it another way, that means that every single penny I pay in tax goes to a fuck up lazy prick. I’m working solely and utterly for a third of my income to be spread amongst a bunch of failures. ARE WE IN STALIN’S USSR????? HAVE I BEEN SELECTED TO BECOME ‘COLLECTIVISED’????

    In the UK, 30 million people are of working age. However, as you know, the government don’t consider single mums and the people on ‘incapacity’ (i.e lazy bastards that can’t be arsed, who hide behind 3 men in cambridge who actually have no legs that they sell as the norm) unemployed at all….. but anyway, of that 30 million, 11 million of them are NOT in work. Of the remaining 19 million, one third are civil servants in one form or another, so they get paid from the tax payer. That means of the 60 million people in this shit hole, only around 12 million are actually creating any wealth whatsoever.

    And to put a roof over my head, it costs a mere £120000 quid to live in a small shit hole, within this overcrowded cold and windy shit hole.

    I’m no rocket scientist (as I’m sure you know) but the economics don’t add up here…..And I need to get out of it.

    Says it all New Labour’s vision for the U.K.!!

    • 417

      > I’m working solely and utterly for a third of my income to be spread amongst a bunch of failures.

      No it’s far more than a third.

      Income Tax 40%
      + Employee NI 12%
      + “Employer” NI 12%
      + VAT 15%
      adds up to a lot more than a third of your time being used for the rent-seeking classes.

      Face it, you are a slave.

      • 463
        JMT says:

        Actually when you consider the amount paid out on fuel, food, drink, council tax etc – in fact anything – the true tax-take from Joe Public is something like 70%

      • 479
        thick as thieves says:

        but you are not British anticitizen and you do not pay those taxes.
        you’re a fucking idiot anticitizen.

    • 420
      ceasars wife says:

      As I said somthing truly awful is happening in the real economy , which your point is one aspect of . Labour have and are continuing to lie .

    • 432
      who dunit says:

      Thats the real reality, the bare bones of it. Unfortunately the only remidy would be to completly destroy the system and start again. Stop paying the taxes, fuck them, tie up the courts, the tax offices, council taxes, the lot in so many appeals, requests, clarification, wrong payments, anything to bugger up the system. I know it works by the amount of corespondence I recieve from the money grabbing mongs.
      I recently paid one “demand” 30 mins before the case was to be heard and never said a word to the court about it, just walked out the building. Well, you should have seen the chaos caused, but the amount was paid before the case was heard, so tough. All that time and resourses expended by them bastards for nothing from me but a big smile from me. Its my hard earned, be nice if you want it.
      If you have had enough, fight back in any way you can is my advise, it is the right thing to do.
      power to the people.

      Oh yea, write a nice letter to your son in law, let him know some others have sussed it too

    • 464
      Axe The Telly Tax says:

      I don’t blame him. I’m thinking of trying the Philippines next year. You don’t need to be a millionaire to retire there. Lovely people and a load of ex-pat Brits & Yanks to chat about old times, when the UK was a place worth living

      • 538
        Phil O'Pastree says:

        I worked out there for a few years. Good medical facilities and dentistry at about a tenth of the UK cost. Three times as many females as males. Cheap booze (a litre of locally produced licensed Gordon’s gin was 50p FFS) and you could get yer limes out of the garden. Fuck I’m getting a hardon just thinking about it.

  101. 407
    Tom Murphy says:

    “It is the principle which counts, particularly at a time when the publics’ trust of Whitehall is uncertain to say the least.”

    the publics’ trust for heaven’s sake!!

    Perhaps ” the public’s trust ” which they have lost and will never recover.

    Such a display of ignorance of the use of language by a politician, whose main tool is language, exemplifies the NuLieBore politicians.

    A politician requires no formal qualifications to be elected. Perhaps if they were required to be conversant in the mother tongue of the country they purport to represent there would be less excuse for them to be lying hoons!

    • 424
      Justice Fingers says:

      Leave off, he’s only a barrister FFS. You can’t expect him to have been educated as well.

  102. 428
    mike w says:

    Apparently six gurkhas were meant to appear with Clegg during the closing minutes of his speech .Did they ? And why ?

  103. 429
    Winston says:

    LOL, contrary to his musings the constituents of Wirral West can’t wait to kick him out.

  104. 434
    Jumbo says:

    OT but where else can I say: Nick Thing of Liberal Dems or whatever they call themselves now expresses wish to be PM. Can I be the first to laugh my moobs off?

    • 443
      Anonymous says:

      Nick Clegg: Dillusional excited kid

      • 609
        Patriotic says:

        Never thought dillusional was spelt like that,thought it was DELUSIONAL.
        A for kid do you mean a young goat or a child.

    • 450
      Peter Hichens says:

      Keep your Moobs?
      Only if you can prove that you are legally entitled to be a UK resident
      Until then your Moobs must be kept in some kind of steel lined corset approved by the Home Office.

  105. 445
    Francis Futurama says:

    Am I missing smoething, or is this Patty Scotland affair a bit daft?

    I mean, you are effectively required by law to, ahem, PHOTOCOPY documents as a means of protecting yourself from possible prosecution.

    These documents are CONFIDENTIAL personal identity documents – which you are expected to keep on file – for two years after the employee has left you.

    You cannot tell or prove whether someone has a right to work in the UK from documents alone – but if their documents turn out to be invalid or false you still can’t rely that on having had them photocopied will avert prosecution.

    OK – I get it. The answer is …. wait for it … ID Cards!

    So my question: will everyone employing a cleaner eventually be required to have an ID Card reader and biometrics verifier in their house? Yes – this seems to be the way things are going.

    • 447
      john miller says:

      Yes and the kit will cost you about a grand. ID cards, on the other hand, will be available on the black market for £250.

    • 461
      streamfisher says:

      Am I missing something? after hearing wahatisname defending Attorney General on Newsnight saying it was only a failure to photocopy documents which she had seen, but what documents could she have seen if, as is the undisputed case, the cleaner she employed is an illegal????

      • 473
        Francis Futurama says:

        This is the question everyone should be asking.

        What documents exactly were photocopied on Baroness Scotland’s combined Epson Printer/Scanner/Fax/Copier?

        Are we to believe this bitch went and slid an expired Tongan passport onto the glass and pressed the ‘start’ button?

        If Brown can go on the media with a eulogy for Jade Goody, can’t we reasonably expect him also to kick out the chief solicitor when she is OBVIOUSLY LYING? If he can rant and rave and hurl printers against the wall for trivial reasons, then, commensurately he should be dowsing Patty Walthamstow with petrol and chucking a match at her. Figuratively speaking, of course. No-one would actually want to cause her any physical harm.

        • 474
          Not long till labour gone says:

          She probably has another Tongan slave to do her photocopying…

        • 505
          Labours New Aristocracy says:

          eh no , her position is that she didnt photocopy any documents thats why she has been fined. It is of course open to speculation whether she even checked the docs as she claimed. If she did one would think its natural just to copy them before giving them back but it appears she didnt. Im afraid we cannot trust her when she says she checked them, No copies no beleivie !

      • 486
        The Pedant says:

        Yep you’re missing something. As GBroon said in the media, and from previous thread….

        250The Pedant says:
        September 23, 2009 at 2:21 pm
        Come on people, you’re missing a point.

        “I take this very seriously indeed, but when you look at the facts of the case she has been misled by an employee who has give her wrong information.”

        SHE DIDN’T CHECK ANY DOCUMENTS. She relied on “information” i.e. her word.

        Goes like:

        Goodmorning, you’re from Tonga then thats nice, and you’re married to an English solicitor. Thats fine. When can you start?

        Job done …. Send her down…….

        • 496
          shelling-out says:

          If she’s already married to an English solicitor, doesn’t that give her the right to stay here?

          Just asking.

        • 508
          Papasmurf says:

          question is, does her Serbian husband /solicitor have a right to stay?

        • 516
          Steve Expat says:

          s-o, it does but only when a whole load of nasty interviews and other formalities have been completed, as the govt attempt to aviod bogus marriages. Her passport will be stamped with “indefinite leave to remain” once this process is complete

          The point remains that if she saw the passport but didn’t copy it, she would have seen that the visa was expired and she KNOWINGLY employed an illegal

        • 527
          shelling-out says:

          I think you’re right, SteveExpat.

          I don’t think any more will be said about the Tongan’s passport. It will be swept under the carpet along with everything else.

    • 476
      Border Guard says:

      Hold hard!

      Didn’t it go like this – She comes in from Tonga – her Pisspot is stamped – indicating that she has to away within say two years – whatever.

      Scottie looks at Pisspot – and there you have it – expired?

      So let’s have a look at Miss Tonga’s Pisspot please.

      • 483
        UK Border Agency - A neat contradiction in terms! says:

        Therein lies the problem, seems like a simple answer but you are a proper Border Guard not one of those surly tinpot UK Border Agency asylum seeker types.

      • 487
        streamfisher says:

        Back to what I was saying, we know her passport or leave to stay had expired, so what document did Baroness Scotland ‘See’ as being proof of residency/right to work,…..???? again.

        • 517
          Baroness Scotland says:

          Alright – I give up – she had a P45 and ‘proper’ NI code – she was married and well recommended and said to be trustworthy and cheap – I did look at her documents – but not her Pisspot – I agree that all I needed to do was to make a call to the Home Office to check her out – I didn’t

          I assumed the documents were genuine and thus OK

          I regret this technical / administrative lapse from my unusually high standards which have led to my appontment to the position of AG

          Besides – I sacked her & reported myself to the authorities

          What more can I do?

        • 526
          streamfisher says:

          Resign

        • 529
          shelling-out says:

          Resign – AND pay back the full amount of the money you owe – PLUS interest. Then, I want you to turn yourself in, you crook!

        • 851
          Moley says:

          Not sure whether “Baroness Scotland” is the genuine article or not.

          If she is, she appears to have done far less than the Devon Farmer currently having problems with the Baroness’s legislation.

          Didn’t she know that her position necessitated that she take extra care and didn’t her position allow her to make checks of a degree of thoroughness which was well beyond the capabilities of the average employer?

  106. 446
    Papasmurf says:

    “particularly at a time when the publics’ trust of Whitehall is uncertain to say the least”

    I wonder why he used the term “Whitehall?” He actually means politicians and especially the Labour politicians that ‘govern’ in Whitehall.

    Hiding behind a generic term. a bit cowardly in my opinion.

    • 468
      Justice Fingers says:

      No, I think he was spot on.

      The public distrust the politicians, civil servants and the shed loads of quangoites and assorted hangers-on.

      Lord Rix had the right collective term for them all – ‘a Whitehall farce’.

  107. 458
    Piston Broke says:

    He wrote “I cannot support the decison which allows her to remain in office”.

    Whose decision, presumably not the AGs (or he would have said so)?

    And, for those pendants amongst you, shouldn’t be “that allows her to remain in office”?

    • 480
      Sir William Waad says:

      We pendants are just hanging on, grimly.

    • 495
      Peter Hichens says:

      As we dont physically move about with together surely that should be
      ” among” as opposed to “amongst”
      Maybe a pedant can tell me otherwise?

      I can also think of” a Mong” that I would like to get out of Downing street.
      Maybe a pedant can tell me otherwise

    • 852
      Moley says:

      There has been no decision.

      The making of any decision has been scrupulously avoided.

  108. 460
    Brown's nokia says:

    I’m in pain, I’m broken, smashed against the wall…. what did I do to deserve this?

  109. 477
    Ewanme says:

    OMG !!

    I ain’t gonna read all this shit but wotsisname was doin OK till he said ‘the Government is to be congratulated upon its clear-sighted and effective response to the downturn.’

    Wot a turd .

    Byeee E x .

  110. 478
    nell says:

    According to Charles Clarke, gordon has also messed up the Labour Party finances.

    He says ‘The collapse of funders’ confidence under the current labour leadership means we’re struggling even to pay staff wages let alone finding the £20million we need to pay off our debts. Raising money to fight the next election seems almost impossible.’

    Everything gordon touches………..

    • 485
      Truth Sayer says:

      Good, lets hope the party crumbles.

      • 586
        Steve Expat says:

        Would be a real shame if they can’t afford an election campaign, if every other party has billboards and leaflets galore but Liebour can barely get money together for their 5 minute tv movies!

        Looking forward to it already :-)

    • 489
      jgm2 says:

      Obviously time for Labour to rush through a bill on state funding of ‘approved’ political parties then.

      He’ll want to exclude the B&P ‘cos they’re stealing too many Labour voters but you can be sure the ‘approved’ list will include UKIP to nick the Tory ones.

    • 490
      thick as thieves says:

      turns to shit.
      let’s face it nell, if gordon brown was a crack dealing pimp he would still lose money.
      gordon brown is a failure.
      end of story.

      • 503
        Gordon Brown says:

        No I’m not. I’m an outstanding success. Wait until you read my autobiography and see all the pictures of me with world leaders, famous celebrities, famous monuments etc etc. I can tell you I didn’t waste those two years of flick-your-fingers world travel that being the most brilliant PM ever, ever, ever affords me. No sir.

        And when I reveal the helpful little bon mots that I dispensed to these various dignitaries you will see that my life is a complete triumph befitting the most brilliant PM ever ever ever. My only regret is that my father isn’t here to see it but after June 2010 I plan to devote my considerable, nay unparrallelled intellect to raising the dead. So he’ll at least be able to read about it.

        In my Autobiography. Working title: Gordon Brown – I’m fucking brilliant me.

        • 510
          Not long till labour gone says:

          Gordon definitely is more concerned about being remembered for saving the world, or just remembered, than he is about the economy. Same as Blair.

        • 519
          Papasmurf says:

          He will be remembered. Just remember that the next government is to issue the HMRC to put on your tax return “Brown Credit Crunch Supplement” How could we then forget him. It will be on there for 100′s of years.

        • 537
          jgm2 says:

          I like the idea of a seperate line on your PAYE statement:

          Labour Incompetence Tax: 20%

          I wouldn’t name Brown though. I’d prefer if his memory was erased from history along with Blair. Deny them the one thing they most crave. Not even negative recognition like Stalin or Mugabe.

          Nothing. They never existed. Make them an un-person.

        • 565
          Cape Cod Boys Clubs says:

          What time are you arriving this evening Gordon?

        • 573
          Max says:

          You are a Titan amongst Prescotts Gordon. End of.

        • 574
          Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

          In New York there is The Statue of Liberty. After Gordon has left us alone the public, by subscription, should build an image of Gordon Brown at the mouth of Thames called ‘The Statue of Fuckwittery’ – No more immigration.

        • 659
          jgm2 says:

          Ivor.

          Or the Statue of Idiocy?

        • 676
          john miller says:

          Congratulations on being named World Statesman of the Year. A prestigious title. Only Lil’ Nic the Frenchie fule won it last year, so it isn’t worth a flying fuck at a rolling donut.

          Must give you a bit of a stiffie, though.

    • 497
      streamfisher says:

      Nothing a little quantitative easing can’t solve, after all you know its the Right thing.
      Debt Good, solvency…..Bad.

  111. 493
    Ratsniffer says:

    Just got in from a hard day…what’s all this crap about The Snotster suddenly pretending to be the friend of the middle classes? Fuck me…laugh? I nearly filled my pants with a couple of pounds of prime ripe shite!

    Please tell me this is a gag, someone.

  112. 494
    shelling-out says:

    Haven’t had time to read the above comments, so apologies if this is duplicated.

    As for Hesford’s resignation, has he already secured another top job for himself in the private sector?

    • 528
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      I would imagine most Labour MPs will have had their CVs updated and out in the marketplace for quite some time now. 2010 GE is going to be a bloodbath.

      • 533
        shelling-out says:

        Off one gravy train, and on to another.

        • 557
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          For most, no. I should imagine that many of them are beginning to realise that McDoom is giong to drag them all down. The spectre of the P45 might just give a few of them a little spine to actually do something about the disaster that is the Labour Party and remove the dead head. Better late than never.

    • 531
      nell says:

      He’s a lawyer – he has a fairly narrow majority in his constituency that he is expected to lose. He is expected to go back to the bar, if that’s the right expression.

  113. 501
    Nick Clegg PM in waiting. says:

    I hope, I can count on all your votes in the election.

    • 511
      Vince Cable says:

      Except mine!

    • 519
      Sir Mandelson PM-in-waiting says:

      LMFAO !!!

      I’ll fight yer for it, lovey.

    • 552
      nell says:

      Well I personally wasn’t planning on voting for you, not here, in my backyard you understand, as I’m fairly confident , in our sleepy little rural bubble we shall return a conservative candidate, who fortunately hasn’t troughed quite as hard as some.

      However, I was sort of hoping enough people would vote for you elsewhere (nimby) to get the LibDems enough seats for you to become the 2nd party. Then this week at the LibDems Conference you’ve spent the week shooting yourselves in the foot and I can see those votes I was wishing in your direction slipping away.

  114. 504
    per says:

    Why is Godon throwing our Nuclear ace card into the dustbin?

    Once it has gone it has gone and we will no longer be able to influence any rogue state to not go nuclear.

    Pakistan and India will have more say than Britannia when Gordon is finnished.

    Even worse the Conservative party (at least the Dave branch) agree with Gordon.

    I can no longer vote Conservative, who deserves my vote?

    • 746
      albacore says:

      This is the wrong place to ask, Per.
      My recommendation lasted all of 5 minutes before modding, even though I encrypted the name of the Party that must Not Be named.

  115. 506
    Sukyspook says:

    As no one’s mentioned this, I feel it’s my duty so to do: (modding expected…)

    Newsnight 21.9.09
    http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/6096/newsnight.png

    • 514
      Papasmurf says:

      Is David Icke right all along?

      • 524
        Sukyspook says:

        Ermmmm, never did I think I would say this but…..yes, I think he is!
        (cue ridicule)

      • 534
        Papasmurf says:

        I had to attend, in an official capacity I hasten to add (to also attempt to avoid ridicule) a meeting he had. It was well attended, with labourite / union officials all ready to give him a good kicking over his opinions.

        Short story is that there was not a peep out of these people and Icke kept the audience enthralled for the good part of 4 hours. It was a tour de force.

        Some of the things ones reads on this blog and the obvious ‘inside’ knowledge that people have does seem to give the impression that there is something in his opinions.

        The ridicule he receives may in part be due to the autocracy and vested interests spinning their way out of trouble.

        So let’s keep an open mind.

        • 544
          shelling-out says:

          …but what about the lizard people? :-)

        • 547
          Papasmurf says:

          Oh the lizard people are all going to be given a trouncing at the GE and many will be sent to the Lords to sit with the other sun basking reptiles!!

        • 563
          Truth Sayer says:

          I think their are two different conclusions to the idea

          1. Literal lizard people

          2. Cold blooded people who would cannabilise their own and surroundings akin to a Lizard to survive, much like our leaders.

          Although except for ‘surviving’ they disregard the populace for profit and power.

  116. 507
    Labours New Aristocracy says:

    Posted this earlier but my typos were so bad coupled with the debate on good grammar which is going on here, meant I had to post it again and hopefully scrape a c + or in New Labour lala land an A+ with bells on !

    Heard Brown on Radio Today describing the Baronesses’ Fine as an “Administrative ” Fine.

    Now WTF !!! costs five f*****g grand to administer in this tawdry little tale ???

    Listen you lying halfwit of a PM she got a hefty £5000 fine not just because she broke the Law but she broke a CRUCIAL PART of that Law in that unless there is a requirement for employers to KEEP FRIGGIN COPIES on these documents then its open to all unsundry to claim they checked the documents even where they didnt.

    If the Baroness doesn’t understand this then she is either lying or is more stupid than previously thought considering she allegedly steered this legislation through Parliament ( looked good on her CV I wonder who really did the donkey work ).

    Would a drunk driver escape with an “administrative” fine for the “technical” offence of refusing to give a breath test.

    No, would he F**k in these cases he/she is treated the same way as if she had failed the test.

    Same principle here.

    Dont listen to the spin, THATS why she got a heafty Fine, end off !

    Now this Labour MP who resigned “on principle” also managed to say he wanted to “spend more time with his constituents” and Im trying my hardest to supress any cynicism that I have that he has one or maybe both eyes on saving his seat. I will therefore give him the benefit of the doubt.

    I will not however overlook the fact that he still spouted the Lunacy that Brown is doing a wonderful job with the economy and steering us through the recession blah blah bollocks blah !!!

    • 610
      shelling-out says:

      A few months ago, we were stopped by the police. We found out that we had been stopped because wwe had forgotten to get our MOT done. The car was just over 3 years old. We apologised profusely and told the copper that it was an oversight and that we’d get it sorted out as soon as we got home.

      He slapped us with a £120 fine.

    • 674
      johnfromcamberley says:

      My Spin-English / English-Spin dictionary defines an administrative fine as one that can be reimbersed through the ministerial expenses system.

  117. 509
    Stupid is as stupid does. says:

    Given Gadaffi’s inane rambling this afternoon it beggars belief that:
    a) we are doing business with him.
    b) that we thought by asking him not to make a fuss at the airport that he would give a stuff.
    Am I mental or is it Brown?

    • 521
      shelling-out says:

      The only friends he will have are people like Gadaffi. If he’s not careful, he’ll alienate us from everyone.

    • 525
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      He is sitting on a lot of oil. What should we do? Regime Change, freeze or let the yank oil companies get in first?

      • 542
        shelling-out says:

        Whichever way we go will not be beneficial in the long run, but Gadaffi will have us by the short and curlies. Is that really where we want to be?

        Not sure.

        • 553
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          Don’t agree. Gaddaffi needs currency more than we need his oil. The yanks are only kicking up a shit because we beat them to it (thanks to BP & BG not GB).

          After the first Gulf War you’d think they’d show a little gratitude to the Brits but no, every single fucking reconstruction contract went to a yank outfit. Nothing to the UK, not even UK based yank offices got work.

        • 559
          shelling-out says:

          But Phil, that was always on the cards. We were hanging on to the yank’s coat tails hoping for a few crumbs, but we didn’t even get them. Dona*d Rumsfe*d’s company got the lion’s share, mainly because of his standing (and power) at that time. Tony was arse-licking Bush for months, but it didn’t work, did it.

          Merkel beat Mandleson to keeping on as many german workers as she could when GM went tits up. The real losers will be the employees in the UK. We just don’t have the clout any more.

        • 580
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          Those personnel are to do with the second Gulf War (Iraq) but the same applies, the yanks got all the business financed by Iraqi oil. No wonder the frogs were against it – they had steadily built up $30 billion of investments in Iraq to see it all wiped out overnight.

        • 583
          shelling-out says:

          Sorry Phil – I’ve had a couple of glasses of wine…………

        • 592
          Papasmurf says:

          Talking of the wars…… remember to watch the Wounded doc on the Beeb tonight. These boys have given loads for the war crims B & B. The ones that die although sadly missed are out of the pain and missery these men have to endure… trust me I know.

        • 624
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          …and we are expected to feel sorry for Brown: for his depression; the weight of his office; his unpopularity; climate change and the African burden to solve; it’s tough at the top, but somehow he finds the strength to struggle on.

          What a stateman he is.

        • 648
          jgm2 says:

          If Gaddafi needs currency why doesn’t he just fucking well print some? Like we do.

        • 660
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          Erm…. he needs to pay for the paper?

  118. 523
    Francis Futurama says:

    In all honesty I can’t see this bitch surviving to the weekend – even in Brown’s Government of all the Corruptions. She’s toast – pop her on the rack and serve her with those neat little mini-jars of marmalade.

    The real question now should be to what extent Broon has taken a minimalist approach to the truth in his public statement on the affair.

    Come on guys, Brown knows the facts, which are:

    Baroness Scotland was instrumental in bringing in legislation with draconian, some would say entirely disproportionate, penalties for employers employing any without the correct status. She then went on, with the fullest and most detailed knowledge of the exact provisions of that law, to entirely disregard it when it suited her to employ the wife of a friend at the Bar.

  119. 536
    Ewanme says:

    OMFG !!

    No one likes Gordon an I know how he feels x .

    Hiya TAT , darlin . You still tryin to be someone , hun ???

    Have you actually done anythin constuctive in the last few months , babes ???

    Nah , thought not .

    E x .

    • 549
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      He’s solved the “Middle East question”, what more do you want, Ewanme?

      • 554
        Ewanme says:

        *giggle*

        Nothin Phil , hun x .

        I’m gonna chill out in my capitalist utopia , drink a smidge of herbal tea wiv a little oatcake an I’ll see ya in a couple of months , if somethin happens .

        Failin that , you can catch me makin a twat of meself at DT.co.uk blah blah .

        I’m amazed this thing is still goin .

        Later E x .

      • 571
        thick as thieves says:

        ah, so you have finally made it out of the intensive care ward ewanme.
        ’twas a hell of a fucking beating I gave you back there, I smashed your skull into a thousand pieces so I must congratulate the surgeon who reconstructed your ugly and oversized head and nose.
        as your post demonstrates you are still suffering from depression caused by your trauma of being bashed by the great thick as thieves.
        in due course that depression will lift and you will able to make a more positive and worthwhile contribution to this place.
        phil is a depressed nobody too, why don’t you two nobodies hook up and you can depress each other instead of the poor reader.
        good luck.

        • 587
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          I’d give ‘er a right ol’ depressin given the chance but I fear she has more sophisticated tastes.

          Titfer, if you want to be a wifebeater, first you need to get a wife you virgin.

        • 615
          Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

          I thought TaT was a female writer by her chav, xr3i convertable tones

        • 617

          Filo,

          He’ll need to change his job. TaT can’t meet many women when he’s working in the gay cinema.

        • 628
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          He meets women, but they ain’t real women ;)

        • 678
          Ewanme says:

          Hiya , TAT , petal x .

          Ain’t quite outta Holloway but they give me a compooter for a couple of hours to help me get normal again .

          My head woz never oversized , darlin , but my conk woz always slightly Manilowish .

          Did you ever get have that penis-normalisation op , sweetheart ???

          BTW – Phil don’t sound tooo down . He’s just a bit borin .

          See ya E x .

        • 700
          thick as thieves says:

          oh god ewanme, you are not going to go on a downer about the size of your nose are you?
          for fucks sake you will just have to toughen up ewanme, you will have to stop feeling sorry for yourself and pull yourself together instead of you wallowing in your self pity.
          I will help to get you out of your selfish lazy rut and back to normal.
          after all it I was the person who bashed your fucking brains out in the first place so I feel slightly responible for your disability.
          don’t you worry, we’ll beat this thing, ewanme will beat it.

        • 752
          Ewanme says:

          Cheers , tat , hun .

          Yeah , must toughen up – you sort me out , darlin .

          I ain’t no good as a shrinkin violet .

          Na night E x .

        • 780
          thick as thieves says:

          sweet dreams big nose.

        • 793
          Ewanme fan says:

          Ewanme don’t leave i love you.

  120. 539
    Crime pays in Brown's Britain says:

    Ah good old British justice,led by this nonentity Baroness Scumbag;

    2 “strangler robbers have been jailed for LIFE” following hundreds of attacks on defenceless women.

    Well actually,just as this Baroness lies about the severity of her own offence,so the term “life” actually only means,in Brown-speak,to be 14 years and nine years for these two scum.

    So there you go – Brown’s “tough on crime,tough on the causes of crime” are just another bullshit bollocks from this useless waste of breath.

    I shall be standing at the fortified entrance to Downing St when they drive that piece of shit out forever after the election – and you will hear me shout;

    “BROWN YOU UTTER C’UNT – THE JOKES ON YOU”

  121. 546

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  122. 548
    |GU1D0-the-Paedo| says:

    You really must tell your wife to stop deleting my posts – it is doing you no good atall you silly boy! Tell her who the boss is in your house.

    • 550
      Papasmurf says:

      G-the-P

      Wondered where you had got to. Have you removed those callouses from your hands yet?

      • 570
        |GU1D0-the-Paedo| says:

        Yes darling I got rid – and I am in the middle of creating some new ones :-) )

        • 579
          Papasmurf says:

          Anything caught your interest yet or are you bored?

        • 604
          |GU1D0-the-Paedo| says:

          I am fed up talking – how are you – where are you – and what are ya up to?

        • 608
          |GU1D0-the-Paedo| says:

          Aw okay – I am listening to a Carlos Castaneda ebook right now – you ?

        • 611
          shelling-out says:

          Why? Can’t you read it?

        • 634
          |GU1D0-the-Paedo| says:

          sorry – made a mistake – I should have said Audio Book :-(

        • 718
          Papasmurf says:

          Been watching the Doc on Beeb 1 Wounded.

          The misery of the war victims. It makes me so angry watching what the war crims Blair and Brown have done. There he is parading his ego on the world stage and the men and women on the front line are giving there flesh and blood for their ideals.

          Part 2 after the news.

  123. 555
    Henry says:

    Cyclops says he is not going Blind

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gvs5y4tiu8Gp1Y41WUYhfU0y8PbgD9AT6MLG0

    “I had all sorts of operations. I then had one operation on the other eye and that was very successful so my sight is not at all deteriorating,” he said.

  124. 561
    ceasars wife says:

    Its a bitter sweet carcophony of lies , I think the LIbs are visually tory but dont have recession polices , they are still a tax and spend party but being as the gulf in the economy means little room for a spot light entertainment they cant mention the pains to put it right , in other words they havent a clue how to mend the finaces of a soveriegn nation , they just work out of the large pottage pot of the EU political theory .

    there is nothing concrete policy wise from this conference , wich you either take as hedgeing bets for next years election of they dont know , they couldnt even mention the EU , I keep wondering if they werent becoming a bit fascist uisng financial constraints to make the case for moving over to EU governance , i think they are dishonest , i dont like there polices but I mean dishonest about who they are , hoping that it forces the tories to appear nasty which is a nu labour trick .

    Can anyone think of good idea that has come out of this conference ?? exactly , you cant tell what they want to do .

    • 575
      Miss Brahms says:

      What conference? In the Telegraph, there was a picture of some ugly old buffers asleep in chairs. Do you mean that, or was that the TUC?

      • 595
        shelling-out says:

        It was PMQ’s

      • 626
        ceasars wife says:

        I wonder if those not happy with clegg were not happy when ming was dispatched ??

        they had an ideal oppertunity to define EU liberal policy , but they didnt all very strange .

        In this climate failures go promptly unless your the attorney general that is

      • 679
        Lap Dog says:

        It was the Baroness Skottland School For Lap Dancers (and that’s not dancers who hail from Lapland,either).

        Every skool must have such a place by the end of the next school year – then once qualified, they can apply to be Attorney General,which is a revolving job depending on how much of a fine you pay for driving your car in the exclusion zone…..

  125. 568

    Gord and Darlings new single

    Let’s get ready to crumble
    (Let’s get ready to crumble)
    (Let’s get ready to crumble)
    Watch us take the mick
    Watch us take the mick
    Psyche!

    (Let’s get ready to crumble)
    (Let’s get ready to crumble)
    Let’s get let’s get let’s get)
    (Ready ready)
    (Let’s get ready ready)
    (Let’s get ready ready)
    (Let’s get ready to crumble)

    straight up proven
    We won’t get you boomin’
    our debt’s ballonin’
    We just know hype

    Watch us take the mick
    Watch us take the mick
    Psyche!

    Let’s get ready to crumble
    Let’s get ready to crumble
    Get ready get shaky and crumble
    Everybody crumble

    We is cracker jack
    Don’t we just slack
    Drown in time
    To the marxist crack
    I’m Gordo
    I’m Darling

    A duo
    A twosome
    So many lies
    We’re frightened to use them
    So many lies
    We’ll keep them in stores
    We’ve even got them
    Comin’ out of our pores
    Your Father
    Your Mother
    Your Sister
    Your Brother
    Everyone’s gotta be an AAA debtor

    Remove all motivation
    We can cause depression
    Remove all aspiration
    We can cause depression
    Give us queens top speed
    Cause the queens stampead
    Stylin’ defilin’ everybody butt-whilin’

    Let’s get ready to crumble
    Let’s get ready to crumble
    Get ready get shaky and crumble
    Everybody crumble
    Let’s get ready to crumble

    Partners in crime
    We’ll never do time
    A sentance for us
    It’s the end of the line
    We are the law see
    Mandy tried to do me
    ‘scuse me so noone tries to sue me

    We lay down the law
    We’re quick on the flaw
    We bet it
    We wrecked it
    The rest don’t score
    No jokes No messin’
    We teach you a lesson
    A state of confusion
    To keep you all guessin’

    Freackin’ it sweatin’ it
    Taking the Mick
    Slammin’ it jammin’ it
    You’ll Do what we like

    Let’s get ready to crumble
    Let’s get ready to crumble
    Get ready get shaky and crumble
    Everybody crumble
    Let’s get ready to crumble

    Freackin’ it sweatin’ it
    Taking the Mick
    Slammin’ it jammin’ it
    You’ll Do what we like

    (Ready ready)
    (Let’s get ready ready)
    (Let’s get ready ready)
    (Let’s get ready to crumble)

    Watch us take the mick
    Watch us take the mick
    Psyche!

    [repeat to fade]:
    Let’s get ready to crumble
    Let’s get ready to crumble
    Let’s get ready to crumble
    Get ready get shaky and crumble
    Everybody crumble
    Let’s get ready to crumble

  126. 597
    Daveyone says:

    …and there is still a PM petition to sign 71,500 can’t be wrong?

    • 646
      Not long till labour gone says:

      Keep checking to see if someone has created a ‘Sack Baroness Scotland’ petition.

      • 706
        Daveyone says:

        Think she will soon be gone, just a matter of if she jumps or gets pushed? Strange how Straw has been quiet on this but then again never sure what he is up to anyway!?!

  127. 599
    says says:

    When will Sky’s Adam Boulton’s head explode? Everytime it comes on the telly it looks redder and bigger.

    • 614
      ceasars wife says:

      I wonder if he will have either a large leaver or custard pie under the desk , after repeated asking for an answer to his question , if they dont they either get the pie and face , or the leaver gets pulled and interviewe chair tilts back into a waiting vat of sewage “right thats enough of that now for some news !”

    • 901
      Troughy says:

      He comes from good Sontaran stock.

  128. 601
  129. 603
    nell says:

    OK I’m a sad soul who has just watched gordon speak to the UN and ruined my supper.

    But for goodness sake is this man for real?

    ” If we give in in Afghanistan AlkyAda will return. We have to work towards Afghanistanisation. ” What does that last word mean?

    “In order to promote solutions for climate change we must have flows of capital from the public and private sectors “( Tax to you and me)

    And last but not least !!

    “Britain will offer civil nuclear power to non-nuclear states” How? When it’s already accepted because we haven’t built enough nuclear power station ourselves this last ten years we are facing power cuts in the coming years. How are we going to offer our deficit to anyone? Perhaps I misheard.

    gordon that juvenile speech writer you have is not any good. And someone needs to tell you to stop making that peculiar arching gesture with your left arm and fingers it’s really off-putting.

    • 616
      ceasars wife says:

      Ghaddafis speech was more coherent i believe

      • 641
        nell says:

        Well he looked saner than gordon though not sure why he appeared to be wearing a sari.

        No doubt muammar and gordon tonight are sharing a plush dinner, cementing their new found friendship and commiserating with each other at Omaha’s refusal to meet with either of them.

        Time for a glass of wine I do believe.

      • 651
        Phil O'Pastree says:

        I don’t speak a word of fuckin Libyanese but it certainly made more sense than Broon’s to me.

        • 710
          Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

          Yeah he did me too-telling it like it is. Btw; the NYC carncil won’t give im permission to park heeese tent I read. How petty minded.

    • 640
      says says:

      I am well confused. I thought Alchy ada blew up the twin towers and the Taliban made their womem wear masks.

    • 657
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      The five nuclear power stations being built in the UK at the moment (about 5 years too late) are being built by the French.

    • 661
      Poopy says:

      I do believe we have had to enlist the help of the French to build our next generation Nuclear power plants because we British are now to technically inept and thick to do if safely for ourselves. All our brightest and best talent go into Casino gambling in the City. The only thing we now lead the world at is Reality TV shows and binge drinking.

      • 731
        Duncan DisorderlyS says:

        90% of French electricity is generated by nuclear reactors, they have no coal nor oil so they have developed the expertise. We had the expertise but did not lose it because our “brightest and best” went into the City but because the Labour government has allowed Moscow using their proxies the tree-huggers and the NUM to dictate UK energy policy to the detriment of our once leading nuclear industry.

        Anyone who thinks that the whirling bird slicers and “wave” power will solve the impending energy crisis is a fucking hemp shirted, body-pierced fuckwit.

        Within five years, or less, there will be blackouts. It will take 10 years to get the nuclear power stations commissioned.

    • 726
      Labours New Aristocracy says:

      That peculiar hand gesture is similar to the one used by the peter sellers character Dr Strangelove if you remember . Yes the hand is getting stronger everyday.

  130. 618
    Papasmurf says:

    I am FUMING.

    Just watched the end of Trawlermen whilst waiting to see Wounded.

    Some poor Captain of a trawler and his son were given a PRISON sentence for refusing to throw back fish and instead sell them illegally.

    And these Hooning Troughing Politicians get away scot free….!!!!

    • 629
      Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

      Papasmurf 9.02pm…and some folk want to vote conservative still.

      • 728
        Papasmurf says:

        Sorry to disappoint but that is where I am heading. But surely sending businessmen to prison for trying to feed the nation is just plain crazy?

        My father was Fisherman and I KNOW what these men go through having lived it and I would want to see McDoom or any politician try and survive 1 week of the hardships they endure so we can all eat fish and chips.

        • 755
          Engineer says:

          I watched it, too. From some of the things I’ve done in life, I know that even the best produced television can’t convey what it’s really like, but trawler work sure is no job for shrinking violets.

          Am I right in thinking that the fine (several years take-home pay for a trawlerman) was imposed for the technical breach of EU fishing quotas? I think the skipper in question landed fish that he’d caught, even though over quota, rather than throw it back into the sea, dead.

          I gather that other EU nations don’t enforce this rule – their fishermen land what they catch, quota or no quota.

        • 833
          Sarah says:

          I don’t mean to give offence, and my mother’s family were fishermen for generations, but…….
          If they don’t stop trawling the seas, there aren’t going to be any fish left.
          Seriously.
          This is not tree-hugging bollocks, cod is basically non-existent in the great fisheries off the coast of NE America. I feel desperately sorry for people who have to leave the sea, my uncles went to the oil rigs or the dole. But there simply aren’t the fish left.
          Where I come from in Ireland, they’re now down to whelks and other bottom feeding slime that the frogs and japs eat.
          And no, it isn’t made any easier by the sight of massive Russian super-trawlers just outside territorial waters hoovering up every living thing for miles around.

        • 848
          Roger Daley says:

          92% of fish caught in Irish waters every year was taken by “other nations” such as Spain. It was the price for The Celtic Tiger. T

          The barrel is empty now.

    • 647
      Reality checker says:

      No-one said life was fair did they?

      Baroness (!!!!!) Scotland only committed a “technical” breach and has paid her trifling “administrative” fine of only £5k, so that’s all finished anyway. In contrast, that Trawler captain sounds like a right criminal, and most importantly he is not a part of the Labour project in Westminster or in any way relevant to Gordon Brown’s powerbase, so what did he expect?

    • 672

      He should have got a very deep tan.

  131. 627
    Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

    Heeees an Utter fruitcake but very dangerous- why ‘o’ why doesn’t MI5 take him out?

    • 749
      Atlas shrugged says:

      The answer is simple.

      EMEYE 5 have not taken him out, because EMEYE 5 clearly have not been instructed to do so.

      This is self-apparently the case, because he is still alive and kicking.

      By inference it is clear that if EMEYE 5 were indeed instructed, by who ever it is that gives that kind of instruction, he would, within an hour or two, become quite effectively, very dead indeed.

      Which begs a very important question. A question that James Bond films and books, never tried to explain in useful detail. That is, WHO is the person who actually gives the orders to EMEYE 5 or 6 and for who’s interests.

      The Queen? No, the queen is never asked for so much as an opinion.

      The people? No. The evidence is self-apparent, socialism in all of its forms is the common peoples worst possibly nightmare. We have all but out and out COMMUNISM now running the world show, and no one has assassinated any notable, central bankers, Fabians or other fascists lately.

      The people through their elected government? NO. Obvious answer, see above, and especially given the last 12 years.

      The Elected government. No, Not even Gordon Brown or Labour MP’s are as devoutly evil, as their policies clearly are. I am sure that most would claim in private, that they had no idea 12 years ago, that every policy they had been brainwashed into going along with since or beyond their university days, was going to turn out so incredibly and murderously counter-productive, as well as all but universally despised.

      The Press or The BBC. No, Obviously not, they have their work completely cut out controlling the minds of the idiot classes. Which is of course, all classes.

      The House of Lords. No, not even a little bit any more, although you can bet that the top dude would not have resisted the temptation to gather some kind of high establishment honour on the way.

      Even if you think you have worked out who is ultimately giving the orders, it is still impossible to know for sure, for even they could in turn be getting orders from an even higher level.

      The truth is virtually no one knows who tells the secret services what to do. We are expected to believe that they make it all up as they go along, like some kind of over dangerous, nuclear powered, gigantic headless chicken on an unknown one way mission to hell, for only God knows who or what. In the same way we are expected to believe entities such as Mossad, The KGB, and The CIA carry on there affairs.

      I could be wrong, but I think I know who really gives the orders, to all of the worlds secret services, but I ant telling.

      But here are some clues.

      Apart from none of the above controlling the secret services. The fact is that not even the secret services themselves know who ultimately controls the secret services. Which is not surprising as these services are indeed very secretive ones. If any of them did actually work it out, they would in no way be allowed to tell even their own wives, neither would they risk doing so, especially if they were right about the exact WHO it has long since been.

      • 776
        Truth Sayer says:

        Rothschilds

        • 805
          Atlas shrugged says:

          You may say such a thing, I on the other hand could not possibly comment.

          However it seems clear neither does the BBC have any intention of doing so either. Neither does Sky for that matter, or any organ of the main stream media from all of the way from the so called far left, through the middle, and all of the way to the so called far right.

          Any honest BBC commissioning editor, with even a nail scraping of knowledge concerning how this country has long since been operating around the globe for 200 years or so, must at least have an idea worth a BBC documentary or so, SURLY, if only in order to debunk the whole well documented historical facts of the matter? Or is the BBC not up to the job of convincing us that black is white, 2+2=37, poverty is good for us, good is bad, right is wrong, left is always right, and on and on and on and on, any more?

          However for the BBC to do such a thing, would be as gigantic an act of suicidally inspired ‘biting the hand that feeds it,’ then there has ever ACTUALLY been, in the history of civilisation. Which is why such an earth shattering event has never intentionally happened before, and will certainly not ever be allowed to happen in the future.

        • 838
          Atlas shrugged says:

          Oh and BTW TS.

          It may be who you say it is. The truth is you must at least be very close.

          There is much evidence to suggest that other more spiritual based powers really call the shots. The truth is I don’t know for sure. Perhaps it is a combination of several very powerful individuals, groups and institutions still in some small ways competing for position and influence? Whatever the exact truth, two things are clearly obvious.

          First, they all conspire in private for their common ends and benefits, while getting on with each other, much better then they will ever allow their enslaved people to do with each other.

          Secondly, they will, over all of our dead bodies if required, do anything it takes to keep them UP where they have always been, and us DOWN, where they always intended on keeping us.

          For ultimately is has not been capitalism and it will not going to be communism, or socialism that will rule the world. There really has only ever been one ISM, and that ism is Feudalism.

        • 931
          Ain Grand says:

          Wotchoo on about Willis?

      • 777
        Call Me Dave Icke says:

        Is it TaT?

      • 870
        D L George says:

        Home Secretary = MI5
        Foreign Secretary = MI6

        Possibly.

    • 801
      MI5 says:

      Who are we talking about now?

      Broon or Gaddafi?

  132. 632
    jaffa says:

    “My constituents benefit greatly from using our much-improved public services and they would not wish to see these jeopardised nor have our continued economic recovery put in doubt.”

    Just empty our dustbins and keep the fucking roads up to scratch you simpleton. Oh, and no more jobs for Liebore voting Outreach Coordinators and Core Management Facilitators.

    Now fuck off, and good riddance.

  133. 637
    • 644
      Gordon says:

      That’s my boy

    • 650
      nell says:

      When gordon spoke the hall was vrtually empty and I wondered why. Now I realise that he was part of a trio of speakers, gadaffi, ahmadinajad and him. Delegates had sensibly all left for ‘ more pressing engagements’

      I don’t blame them.

    • 656
      jgm2 says:

      You know how Scotland fans have those wigs they wear with the red hear and the tartan caps? You know, to have a good laugh at their own stereotype?

      This fucker is just begging for an entire city in China to start manufacturing Gadaffi hat’n'wig cobos.

      Isn’t he ethough?

      You know, the next time you see the Libyan football team playing – in the 2012 Olympics for example – you really would want the entire crowd in Gadaffi wigs.

    • 695
      One's got one eye and the other's got ball's says:

      Bugger me – this is like allowing Hitler into the H of C in 1940 to make a speech.

      Problem is,it is very difficult to decide who is more incoherent,unstable and overall off their f’ing trolley’

      Brown

      or

      Gaddafi

      It’s a very close run thing.

      Maybe Brown is edging to a Professorship in World Saving at the University of Terrorism in Libya?

      • 713
        nell says:

        Hey! don’t forget armoureddinnajacket!!!!!

        • 760
          Sukyspook says:

          At 1′ 00″ 50 Ghadafi says: “my son Obama”, earlier: “son of Africa governs America” – so he doesn’t believe the Hawaiian BC either!!

          Ghadafi asks some very interesting questions about the invasion of Iraq, the execution of Saddam Hussein and sodomy at Abu Ghraib from 1′ 09″ 00….you won’t get Obama or Gordy asking the UN to investigate those events eh??

          Talk about “terrorist countries”?? imo Libya is way down any such list, if on a list at all – and certainly well below US and UK…

  134. 654
    Raptor says:

    In reference to earlier comments about Libyan oil concessions, American oil companies Exxon and Conoco already have rights to the two biggest oilfields in Libya. They were negotiated some years ago, with no bother about Lockerbie or terrorism. The Americans do have resentment about BP getting in on the act, but that is what one would expect from them.

  135. 666
    truman captoe says:

    We don’t mind the ugliness, It’s the fact that you’re so fucking thick we can’t cope with.

  136. 668
    yop says:

    Chocolate flavour?

  137. 673
    Phil O'Pastree says:

    Well she sure ain’t a hot crumpet.

  138. 687
    nell says:

    I rather think she is a bit like that suet pudding my mum used to make to fill us up when food was scarce.

    Loadsasuet- because it stuck in the gut.

  139. 688
    BROWNS ACHING BOLLOCKS says:

    Another Swift Kick In The Spuds For The McMental One ! Is There Really Only One MP Who Can’t Live With The Fact Brown Is A Spineless Whimp Who Has No Power Over Anyone In His Party Even Darling The “BADGER” Refused To Stand Aside ! The Man Is A Twat !

  140. 698
    BROWNS ACHING BOLLOCKS says:

    I Thought I Read This Morning That She Was tongue’n The Tongan ! Is This True?
    If So That Means She Wasn’t A Rug Cleaner More Of A Rug Muncher !

  141. 699
    nell says:

    Who cares. What she is, is another corrupt labour minister trying to hold on to power after she’s been proved to be dishonest and incompetent.

    • 717
      Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

      Don’t forget to ask the door-knocking parliamentary candidates whether if elected they will push for war crimes, sovereign and economic treason and the ultimte penalty. Thanks.

  142. 701
    Ewanme says:

    Cucumber sarnie ??

    Promises very little an delivers even less , darlin .

    E x .

  143. 714
    BROWNS ACHING BOLLOCKS says:

    To All Lie-Bore Ministers : If You Want The Slightest Chance Of Keeping Your Nose In The trough ,You Better Follow This MP’s Example And Distance Yourself From The Mental One ASAP ! Or Make No Mistake You Too Will Face Unemployment Come The GE !

  144. 727
    smilie in your stout says:

    Hesford? The cure’s worse than the disease it would seem. Wants to hand the Afghan franchise back to Al Queda. Why not just give them a nuclear bomb and tell them to get on with it…

  145. 734
    Mr. Nobody says:

    Yet another scandal. Labour are just bad all the way through. Brown isn’t the problem, it’s all of them.

    • 740
      Engineer says:

      Even the foreigners have worked that out. Obama is having one-to-one talks with almost everyone but Gordoom at this Climate Change junket – he’s waiting for Cameron before he’ll talk to the UK.

  146. 735
    Speeeeedo says:

    sorry folks – more posts deleted – back again tomoprrow (bit knackered)

    • 738
      Engineer says:

      Don’t worry on our account, old chap. Have a good, long rest. Several decades would do.

    • 741
      nell says:

      I tried to tell you , you need a name change and a change of personality.

      C’Mon you can be much nicer than this.

  147. 748
    nell says:

    So what’s happening in New York tonight?

    Omaha is meeting with the people he thinks are important in the world – and that does not include gordon.

    gordon is rubbing shoulders with third world terrorists like muammar and armoureddinnerjacket.
    .
    France,Germany and Spain are dining together tonight laughing at gordon’s incompetence. Ater all he did say ‘ we are best placed to come out of this recession’ . They are all coming out of it and we are still there.

  148. 750
    Daveyone says:

    Prime Minister
    10 Downing Street
    London
    SW1A 2AA
    23 September 2009
    Dear Gordon Brown

    It is with considerable personal regret that I find myself writing to inform you of my decision to resign my positions as PM to several ministers, and the mugs out there!.
    My decision comes about because as an aide to the European Parliament and whilst I have great personal regard for the President of France, I cannot support the decision which allows him to remain in office.
    In my view the facts of the case do not matter (they never did!). It is the principle which counts, particularly at a time when the publics’ trust of Whitehall is certain, they think we are a lot of wasters to say the least. We have to be seen to be accountable even when we are not!!.

    In addition, could I just mention matters of policy where I believe leadership is vital, and that is not me!.
    On the constitution: I should have legislated to offer a referendum on Europe and how we elect Members of the House of Commons. I thought I had finished off reform of the House of Lords by fobbing them off to the New Supreme Court. Generally, I should have moved as quickly as possible to withdraw from Afghanistan or at the very least give our troops the kit they need!! and to signal a change in our position over Trident replacement and add another not reduce by one ( I forgot Iran, North Korea and Pakistan!)
    In response to the downturn. I have to support David Cameron’s myopic and siren calls for an “Age of Austerity”. My constituents benefit greatly from using an photograph of me and and whilst they are content to call me a one eyed idiot they do not regard me as Scottish any longer so am content to accept the Presidency of the IMF and move to New York forthwith, so our much over subscribed public services can be cut down to the correct size knowing this would not jeopardise our continued economic recovery which would be put in doubt if I remained in office.
    With best wishes

    Yours sincerely

    Gordon Brown PM

    • 790
      Daveyone says:

      I also hear he even signed his own petition!

    • 896
      Daveyone says:

      Pehaps we could all copy and paste this letter to a fresh sheet of A4 and post it pp, you never know it may have a greater effect then the petition and as the greater Statesman with the self congratulating US behind him he will have to act on it!!
      ( PS. Yanks he is the worst PM this country has ever seen!)

      • 907
        Papasmurf says:

        Talking about petitions….. my petition about Baroness Scotland has still not been approved or rejected. They must be waiting for someone to give the ok or not. I suppose as McDoom is out of the country he can’t say yea or nea.

        • 918
          Daveyone says:

          Normally if you make your case clear and accurate enough it should be OK and don’t forgat Brown was silly enough to acceptone for himself so it is assumed all else is fair game!

  149. 751
    Anonymous says:

    +++++++++++++++++++++++

    Baroness Scotland LEAD on Newsnight..

    CHARLES CLARKE IS IN THE HOUSE..

    This could get nasty..

    +++++++++++++++++++++++

    • 762
      Steve Expat says:

      Clarke’s obviously pissed off with what the Labour party has become,

      I’ve heard Tories be nicer about Broon than Clarke was in that interview!!

      • 771
        Anonymous says:

        He was very subtle in saying ‘this is not news, I’ve been saying this long time’..

        TRANSLATION..

        ‘I told you stupid fuckers he was going to be useless, why didn’t you listen?’

    • 778
      Mr. Nobody says:

      Clarke’s rantings won’t get rid of Brown before the election, but they’ll reinforce the impression that Labour are fighting among themselves, and that will only increase the size of the Tories’ majority 8 months from now.

  150. 753
    Nick Smeg says:

    I want to be Prime Minister – because it’s only fair!

    • 768
      Engineer says:

      Now, now, little Nicky – go and play nicely with the other minnows. If you ask Lembit nicely, he might let ou play with his Cheeky Girl. Too late? Bit like some of your political analyses.

  151. 758
    Glenn Beck says:

    “The story of Stuff” – this is wrong – American kids now being brainwashed by this sort of Marxist crap within their schools and it all links back to Obama via the Tides Organisation.

    Socialist Europe has now been achieved now it seems that the ‘project’ is underway in the USA

    • 767
      nell says:

      We should be more worried about the fact that Prezza is travelling around the country visiting our primary schools talikng about man-made climate change.

      He needn’t come anywhere near my little one and her school .

      I want her properly educated, not corrupted by someone who thinks he , as labour sinks, can earn his living following in al gore’s footsteps.

  152. 765
    Gormless Brown ( from the UN ) says:

  153. 775
    Baroness Sleaze says:

    Gordon Brown honoured in New York as World Statesman of the Year

    http://bit.ly/IL611

    • 779
      Dack Blog says:

      Brown and Bono in one sitting would test the strongest stomach.

      • 788
        Engineer says:

        Bono – “Every time I clap my hands, a child dies in Africa.”

        Voice from Crowd – “Well stop fucking clapping, then.”

    • 781
      Anonymous says:

      ‘The fucking new world order brigade out in force’…

      KISSINGER – ‘Well done Brown, you’ve fucked up the economy so badly people will be in debt to the state for the next 10 generations to keep our bankers in bonuses’

      • 809
        The crazy world of Gordon Brown says:

        As i said to the United Nations General Assembly,when i had the honour to address them,shortly before receiving the World Statesman of the Year,which i fully deserve,having led the way in stabilising the global economic crisis,that threatened to undermine our goal,which is to bring prosperity to all,and equality of opportunity to the emerging partners in the global markets that i,and President Omaha recognise,are the future of the global recovery that will banish poverty,once and for all.
        We have the chance to lead the world in bringing fairness and justice to all of those oppressed masses,who suffer under the yoke of Conservative class politics that promise much,but deliver only division and stagnation. Only under the leadership of worlds statesmen of the year,like President Omaha and myself,can we deliver real change,and global recovery,unlike the do nothing approach favoured by international conservatism,which should be confined to the history lessons,having no place in the new global theatre,that requires leadership and inspiration to fulfill the destiny that only World Statesmen of the Year can provide.

        NURSE! I need another nappy,and can you bring some oats for dobbin. We need to finish our conference speech.

        • 837
          jgm2 says:

          Mock ye not.

          I predict that a year from now you too will be able to buy, for only 1p plus postage from Amazon, almost exactly that passage in Brown’s autobiography. With colour photographs.

          Although I’m not guaranteeing colour because that might detract from the homage to the black and white iconography of the Churchills era.

          Y’all thought Blair had an eye on his place in history? This fucker has looked into history and is stalking a dead guy (if that’s even possible but you get what I mean). This fucker genuinely believes he is the heir to Churchill. Man of gravitas. Historian. Writer. Wit. War leader.

          The signs are everywhere. He can hardly give a speech without quoting him. The entire economy in the shitter an he’s pumping out books on ‘Courage’ to try and compete with Churchill’s definitive history of WWII.

          The guy (Brown) is an utter fucking fantasist. Jetting off top lecture the Saudis about the price of oil. Blocking the runway at Dulles while the UK embassy pleads with Bush and Omaha to cut five minutes off a boy scout visit just so that he (Brown) can get a photo for his mantelpiece. Fucking world statesman me.

          It would be utterly laughable if he hadn’t completely fucked the UK economy in his vain crusade to be PM.

        • 840
          The crazy world of Gordon Brown says:

          Buy it? I’m pitching for a job of ghost writer.

    • 782
      nell says:

      Yes but brown’s aides have just made four failed requests to Obama for a one to one meeting between brown and obama. Omaha has left brown to his pal quadaffi.

      Paradoxically the queen has a great relationship with Obama and his wife.

      • 813
        If the walls could talk says:

        Ask HM’s retinue about the PM’s visit to Balmoral on Sat 5th Sept.Shortest ever PM/Monach Balmoral stay…he left 6th but a very interesting few hours. Alas they will never breathe a word out of admired loyalty to QE2 and her 1st class family.

      • 844
        I'll have some of that says:

        It’s not paradoxical – the Queen and Obama are Heads of State….why shd bullshit Barry waste his time with Gordo? Even Sarko’s got more clout…..

      • 854
        Moley says:

        Do you mean HM or Mandelson?

    • 796
      R.McGeddon says:

      on a par with Hitler being chosen Many of the Year 1938 by
      Time Magazine….

      http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19390102,00.html

    • 799
      What I Think Of Gordon Brown says:

  154. 789
    Article 38 says:

    Things that don’t add up concerning Baroness Scotland, the UKBA and Loloahi Tapui:

    1) Scotland claims she saw a passport with appropriate visa, but did not keep a copy.
    2) Loloahi Tapui’s flat was raided, but it is now claimed that she has gone on the run.
    3) The UKBA claim that the passport was tampered with.
    4) Has anyone seen a copy of the passport that the UKBA claim to seen?
    5) Has the UKBA actually interviewed Loloahi Tapui?
    6) If the UKBA has not seen the ‘forged’ documents or interviewed Loloahi Tapui how can they have reached the conclusion that Baroness Scotland in only guilty of a ‘technical’ breach of the law?

    It seems to me that there are still very many unanswered questions around this scandal. Until I see evidence to the contrary, I suspect:

    1) Baroness Scotland either never checked any documentation, or knowingly employed an illegal immigrant.
    2) Loloahi Tapui is actually been kept in hiding by officials of either the Labour Party or government.

    • 813
      going mental says:

      fuck sake , dont you know ? they are above the law

    • 831
      durotriges says:

      I am rather hoping Lolo has been tucked away in a nice hotel, a fat cheque in hand, by a Sunday paper journalist & we will hear a whole lot more on Sunday morning. Did’nt she seek bisexual partners on the internet. Could be a very juicy read. Scotland will be gone by Monday.

      • 859
        Sir Jock Stirrup of that Ilkley Moor Ba' tat says:

        One nuke.Airburst over Glasgow.Ten thousand feet,and you could well be right.

      • 860
        Jonah Watch says:

        i don’t think she checked it.
        which is why she is relying on a “defence” (don’t ask me I am from the cps) that she merely forgot to copy the docs (as our mighty leader says an “admin error” (Rwrld alert))
        she does not mention that the reason the law requires employers (yes and some of them are women with irish (she said it) home helps) to copy the documents is to ensure they are not ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….lying…

        who is lying?

        • 866
          Sir Alan Green Director of the Crown Prosecution Service says:

          Once you accept that they both drink from the furry cup,and are intimately bound,you will understand that desire drives prominent public figures to take hazardous risks.

    • 909
      BROWNS ACHING BOLLOCKS says:

      She Didn’t Copy The documents Forged or Otherwise ! Did She Know They Were Forged so Didn’t Copy Them ? It ALL Boils Down To The Fact That This Woman Who Is A Millionaire Off The Backs Of British Taxpayers , Knowingly Employed An Illegal Just To Save A Few Quid She Could Have Phoned Many LEGAL Cleaning Companys To Supply A Cleaner !

  155. 791
    Dack Blog says:

    Well I’ve just pootled home along Hoonton seafront and already the barricades are up, the portacabins are stacked, the cops are abroad and three cars had been pulled over for a ‘chat’. Anyone would think the Gov feared rightful wrath of the populace.

  156. 792
    Dack Blog says:

    ‘The’ rightful wrath of course. (I’ve been steeling my liver for the invasion).

  157. 795

    [...] permalink …is treason, so if helping our lame duck premier out of his role by dictating his resignation letter, then I must be eligable! Hesford Hurls Grenade at Gordon Live on Five – Guy Fawkes' blog [...]

  158. 798

    With a majority of 1,097 votes. — 592nd out of 643 MPs what the fuck do you expect? It would have been so much better if he’d left out the other crap.

    Arse lickin’ tosser.

  159. 802
    jgm2 says:

    I’m coming around to the opinion that this resignation letter, praising as it does, Gordon Brown’s economic acumen was indeed dictated by the Maximum Imbecile himself.

    The clincher for me though is that this MP, who is allegedly a QC or barrister or somesuch legal low-life completely forgot to enclose an invoice.

    I mean, come on, when was the last time you got a letter from a solicitor that didn’t demand money?

  160. 803
    Blog review says:

    labourlist dont welcome Tories even if they have a good idea , see doublespeak 2nd one down .

    • 817
      Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

      that’s coz tories are evil

    • 822
      jgm2 says:

      But this is how Cameron just keeps trapping Brown into pratfalls. In any given situation there is the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do. These decisions are not 50-50 calls.

      So, for example, will I have another beer or will I stick my dick in the blender is, for most people, a no-brainer. It is NOT a 50:50 call. The problem for Brown is that he hates being upstaged. If somebody like (say) Cameron says ‘Make mine a Guinness’ then Brown can’t just say ‘I’ll have a Babycham’ because then he’ll look like he’s following the other guy instead of using his self-proclaimed genius to plough a path of his own.

      So before you know it he’s unzipping his pants and plugging in the blender.

      Brown spends so long triangulating and considering the possible nested pratfalls that he misses the completely obvious solution. The entire planet is screaming the obvious answer and he’s holed up trying to come up with some suitably off-the-wall-IQ-of-a-fucking-planet solution that by the time he emerges blinking into the sunlight the only option left available to satisfy his lust for a unique-Brownian-answer is, to the casual observer, utter fucking lunacy.

      And then yopu have 400 Labour MPs who are so lacking in self-confidence the just completely acquiesce to the fucking imbecile.

  161. 804
    Speeeeedo says:

    Good evening everybody

  162. 807
    GuidoAshcroft says:

    Website for sale – website for sale !

  163. 811
    Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

    Clegg and Griffin – a right pair of old Nickers – God is dead.

  164. 820
    Overheard in Bournemouth Playground says:

    “I want to be head milk monitor”.

  165. 821
    Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

    Look at me i am gay , i want to rim Gordon and mandy

  166. 823
    Stephen Timms says:

    Give me fifty pee a month,and i’ll let you all crucify Gordon.

  167. 824
    going mental says:

    Whos turn to take the trash out ?

  168. 825
    Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

    Buddhist Quote of the Moment

    The Buddha’s teaching is all about understanding suffeing – its origin, its cessation, and the path to its cessation. When we contemplate suffering, we find we are contemplating desire, because desire and suffering are the same thing.

    Desire can be compared to fire. If we grasp fire, what happens? Does it lead to happiness? If we say: “Oh, look at that beautiful fire! Look at the beautiful colors! I love red and orange; they’re my favorite colors,” and then grasp it, we would find a certain amount of suffering entering the body. And then if we were to contemplate the cause of that suffering we would discover it was the result of having grasped that fire. On that information, we would hopefully, then let the fire go. Once we let fire go then we know that it is something not to be attached to. This does not mean we have to hate it, or put it out. We can enjoy fire, can’t we? It is nice having a fire, it keeps the room warm, but we do not have to burn ourselves in it.

    Ajahn Sumedho, Teachings of a Buddhist Monk

    • 827
      jgm2 says:

      If we wanted fung shui bollocks we’d unblock Charles Halfwits IP address.

      • 832
        Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

        this is an incitement to LOVE not an incitement to hatred, get it? dig ?

        • 836
          going mental says:

          you aint rimming my arse

        • 839
          jgm2 says:

          Nope. Sorry. Too Hardwidgean for me. Wasted too much life reading Onanistic horseshit like that.

          But if it’s lovin’ you’re after I suggest you get yourself down to a cashpoint and then head to the nearest dockyard.

        • 841
          jgm2 says:

          Nope. Too Hardwidg*an for me. Wasted too much life reading Onanistic horseshit like that.

          But if it’s lovin’ you’re after I suggest you get yourself down to a c*shpoint and then head to the nearest dockyard.

    • 830
      Papa Ratzi says:

      I met that Charles E Hardwidge once. That was enough.

  169. 845

    Does Mandy ♥ Osborne but feels rebuffed?

    • 847

      Meant to add, The extremely ‘irresponsible’ parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann have returned to Portugal together for the first time in two years for a tribute tour. They landed and shortly afterwards met some lawyers! You couldn’t make it up.

      Fuck off Gerry and Kate.

      • 911
        Sir says:

        They ought to be locked up for neglect – at the very least, theyre both dead behind the eyes those two, shifty and snaky bastards.

    • 850
      Neutered Tom says:

      The Owl and the pussycat went to sea,
      In a beautiful Russian yacht,
      The pussycat squealed,as the Owl dealed,
      and Georgie was hot to trot.

      But the union foundered,as fleet street found out,
      And the pussycat was hung out to dry,
      The Owl was chuffed,
      His knob had been buffed,
      And the pussycat had been shown to be bi.

  170. 853
    Jonah Watch says:

    Apologies if already raised, I did not take a copy but this piece is spot on
    http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/matthew-norman/matthew-norman-the-perfect-new-labour-scandal-1792101.html

    IMHO

    • 858
      Moley says:

      Well worth a read.

      • 863
        Sir Michael White says:

        Two bit,populistic ranting. A diatribe of malice,distortion and vindictive perception.
        Unlike my unbiased,reasoned pieces of journalistic art,that reflect the true vox pop.

      • 869
        Francis Futurama says:

        Yes, quite amusing. I hope and pray that over the next two days Lady Walthamstow clings onto her job like grim death – only to then finally lose that grip during the wretched writhings of the conference. It is just so perfect that this bitch is causing so much mayhem and will subsequently be seen to have closed the Nu Labour chapter. Good show, Patty. Keep it up!

    • 877
      RavingMad says:

      yes, an excellent summary of the position that this mendacious government regularly find themselves in

  171. 861
    ceasars wife says:

    hope ruins press office are feeding him news that two broadsheets are making barry obamas snub over lockerbie release news , big hitters didnt turn up for his bankers conference !!

    Charles Clark was erm pointing out that he will lose his dignity , fun starts on monday , see what Mathew Parris thinks he was on form tonight and in his “dutch” analysis .

    Mervin king calling for great gathering of economists CW thinks some business are now beyond bank help , so yet another of the ruins strategic errors to watch , there is a deffinte consumer switch going on with people now shopping for cheap goods and previous dual income families (unless your in public sector) now having to cut home costs as one is out of work , certain self employed finding lack of custom . I just hope mervin is not missing somthing in the stats , bank liquidity for goverment bonds cant go on at this level more must reach the businesses to bail them out , it would be rather ironic that the banks have healthly balance sheets only to have few customers .

    Rock to be split , good bit to be sold off we get the debt ?? but will securitisaion structure remain for new owner ?? whole rock structure wants converting into simple structure , and debts made safe . bidding process had better be open .

    CW has thought a bit Willie Walsh attempt to secure the airline from eco nutters , halving the emissions by 2050 is a pretty useless statement , as was his staement that Bio fuels will help , he conveiniently missed that it is emissions total that needs to fall which translates to reducing airflights , and that needs to be done not in 40 years but more likely 5 . Dont mind the case for more fuel efficient flying , but there is little point in saying more fuel efficent planes means we can have more planes in the sky , he failed to say what the business was doing with most polluting aircraft , they dont appear to be being scrapped !

    • 922
      South of the M4 says:

      No, but they are scrapping pilots. That’s why this household is now down to one wage and cutting expenditure.

  172. 872
    bye bye Brown says:

    Mandy gets wind of the Obama UN snub to Brown from his ‘friends’ and leaks it to the press

    the plotting continues to snowball

    • 880
      Brown is down says:

      Even the pro-Labour BBC are leading with the Obama stub story.

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8272061.stm

      “A diplomatic source” =?

      • 882
        Hey Gord ! Take the slop bucket out to the garbage willya ? says:

        “Mr Brown finally got his chance as Mr Obama was leaving a function at the UN building on Tuesday night. He offered Mr Brown a “walk and talk” as he left, for security reasons, through the kitchens”

        http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6846771.ece

        • 888
          Greasy Spoon says:

          a walk and talk through the kitchens FFS? Doom is just a walking International embarrasment for this country. It would have been better not to meet at all than to have that reported.

          This just can’t go on its getting ridiculous.

        • 890
          jgm2 says:

          ‘Yo. Brown. What are you doing in the kitchens? I’d expect to find that fat fucker Prescott down here’.

        • 905

          A “walk and talk”? That’s like being invited to take a bird out, on a promise, and ending up with nowt but a hand shandy and the last bus home.

          Ah Gordon, Gordon, Gordon… You’re shit, and you know you are.

        • 910
          Papasmurf says:

          in the kitchens……….. mmm……. must be ‘cooking’ something up!!

        • 921
          South of the M4 says:

          The ‘ 3 minute elevator speech ‘ is part of American business culture. If you cannot get your point across in that time you just don’t have it. Wonder how Brown did? I cannot imagine him being that succinct.

  173. 873
    el ponderer says:

    If one had a high powered job I’d guess a little Tongan could relieve a lot of the stress.

  174. 883
    Procrustes says:

    O/T but as we are heading for an election, perhaps it’s worth preparing for the BS which will emanate.

    Here’s Labour’s 2005 offering

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/13_04_05_labour_manifesto.pdf

    It was laughable then but the joke is now on us.

    Was I living in the same country described in these pages?

    • 886
      nell says:

      Rising prosperity, citizens empowered, secure borders??!! Shows what a load of lying toerags they are doesn’t it?

      But hopefully more of the electorate will know better next time not to believe them.

      • 923
        Fish Head says:

        Nell,

        are you sure ?-New Labour appear to inhabit a different reality.It is so far removed from mine (and yours presumably) that I am beginning to wonder if my world is real. Have they been putting something in the water supply?

  175. 884
    nell says:

    I see gordon eventually got his meeting with Omaha yesterday – just a brief one, walking through the kitchens where Omaha could avoid being photographed with him.

    The only person at the G20 who seems to want to shake his hand is his new pal Quadaffi. Poor gordon this G20 has not been the grandstanding opportunity that he thought it would be.

    Oh well, sun’s up.Time for a cup of tea.

    • 892
      jgm2 says:

      Fucking hilarious snub. Of course it won’t stop the Maximum Imbecile referring to ‘the conversation I had with President Omaha last week as we saved the world at the UN….’ at every fucking opportunity.

      What I want to know is – when are the UK’s multi-cult, melting-pot, inner city schools going to stop disrupting their lessons just so the Maximum Imbecile can get some meeja exposure without having to face any difficult questions.

      • 902
        Robin Hogg says:

        Its quite funny ain’t it? He shouldn’t have snubbed that handshake with the black policeman outside Number 10 with Obama and his bro’

    • 904
      Papasmurf says:

      No jokes about ‘kitchen cabinet’ now.

      The bit I particularly enjoyed was the report that Downing Street was “frantic.”

      My immediate reaction was that McDoom probably was dithering about being frantic ie now what should I do. dither frantic dither frantic dither frantic dither frantic. A bit like a dog chasing its tail. Classic.

  176. 885
    Hail to Obama Beach says:

    “US President Barack Obama has called for “a new era of engagement” with the world !!!!!”

    …..err.. thats all but McDipstick of course

    http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090923/twl-obama-hails-new-era-of-engagement-41f21e0.html

  177. 887
    Shittlestikker says:

    if Brown is so fit and goes “running” why does he look such a middle aged slab of boneless pork belly who cannot produce a regular bowel movement

    • 889
      Obama in the Kitchen says:

      obvious answer
      “coz he’s full of shit”

    • 894
      jgm2 says:

      The ‘running’ probably occurs in his fucked-up head along with the rest of the Brownian ‘narrative’ where he is the most brilliant PM ever, ever, ever and the saviour of the world’s financial system.

      And certainly not the architect of the biggest deficit and biggest national debt ever, ever, ever.

    • 895
      Ding-a-ling says:

      Brown has taking such a pounding in recent months, I am surprised he can walk let alone run

    • 912
      Troughy says:

      It’ll be that paw twitching, lip curling little yelpy ‘running’ that dogs and cats do when they’re asleep. When was he last wormed?

  178. 891
    Sheriff of Nottingham says:

    What about the Robbing Baroness? Has she resigned yet and if not why not??

  179. 893
    We are being used says:

    Three unelected turds – Scotland, Brown & Mandelson. This is democracy?

  180. 897
    White House Spokesperson says:

    The President denies that he has blanked British Prime Minister Brown. In fact only this morning the President sent Gordon Brown a set of American movies on VHS tape.

  181. 903
    Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

    I heard DC got 1van mummified – is that true ?

  182. 926
    gildedtumbril says:

    In the resignation letter the word decision should be delusion.



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Maybe if they really wanted to “decontaminate the Labour brand” with business people, they shouldn’t have totally buggered up the economy?

Just a thought.


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