September 29th, 2009

Labour’s Election Slogan : “Gulags for Slags”

Locking up teen mums is so New Labour.  What struck Guido was the interesting choice of music at the beginning. Sit Downby James which includes the lyrics:

Those who feel the breath of sadness
Sit down next to me
Those who find they’re touched by madness
Sit down next to me
Those who find themselves ridiculous
Sit down next to me

A somewhat insensitive choice for the Prime Mentalist’s entrance…

UPDATE : Nice to see the illegal donor and odd ball David Abrahams back in the audience for the speech again. Guido hears he has been given a “free” ticket for tonight’s Gala Dinner. That will cost him…

UPDATE II : David Miliband’s close adviser Sarah Schaefer was mightily embarrassed last night – so she might want to tap Abrahams for a donation for David’s campaign – her card bounced at the bar when she was getting the drinks in.


182 Comments

  1. 1
    It's all Balls says:

    So someone in NuLab does have a sense of humour. Find that man and give him a medal.

  2. 2
    McPillGobbler says:

    National Insurance to increase by 0.5%
    Er he means on Employees and Employers!
    So that is 1% extra Tax on everything.
    Unless NI isn’t a tax?
    Ahem!

  3. 3
    Tom Watson Appreciation Society says:

    Hopefully they’ll be plenty of ‘em sleeping on the park benches by next year.

  4. 4
    Marius Ostrowski says:

    Or what about M People to finish?! “Moving on up, moving on out”… yes, “up” sh*t creek, “out” of office…

  5. 5
    Wight Tory says:

    I thought that too, and wondered if somebody was being naughty, but then I remembered that they are too thick to anything other telling those in the room to “Sit Down” As always the devils in the detail. Boulton already picking Harman to bits and the costs mentioned

  6. 6
    haylon101 says:

    One of George Osborne’s favourites if I remember correctly.

  7. 8

    I am feeling strangely ill after that speech! And no longer able to work.

    Did Mr Brown really believe it?

  8. 9
    Kevin T says:

    Possibly the most ill-judged speech a party leader has ever given at a conference and all the masturbatory applause from his mates won’t change that.

  9. 10
    Master Baiter says:

    Volatile polls, volatile polls

    • 17
      a tissue of lies says:

      Tory conference still to come twat boy, and lots of lovely media coverage. Now go and have a weep.

    • 24
      baiter baiter says:

      Not volatile enough for the Tories to leave the 40’s, and the only recent one that did showed Newliebore in 3rd place behind the LibDems!

      Now that’s funny.

    • 56
      Tin Cunliffe-Arsely says:

      Yes, They’ll probably all bugger off home and not finish the olympic village, with the poor number of zlotys you get to the pound these days.

  10. 11

    The exit music wasn’t much better…

    You’ve done me wrong, your time is up
    You took a sip (just a sip) from the devils cup.
    You broke my heart, there’s no way back.
    Move right outta here baby. Go and pack your bags.
    Just who do you think you are?
    Stop acting like some kind of star.
    Just who do you think you are?
    Take it like a man baby if that’s what you are.

    ‘Cos I’m moving on up. You’re moving on out.
    Movin’ on up. Nothing can stop me.
    Moving on up. You’re moving on out.
    Time to break free. Nothing can stop me,
    Yeah.

    • 25
      Man on the Clapham Omnibus says:

      I particularly enjoyed the deeply cool folks clapping along to M People.

      If that don’t bag the yoof vote I dunno what will.

      For today’s Killer Fact: the outro on the original 12″ of Sit Down by James featured a lunatic falsetto voice endlessly repeating the words ‘Lester Piggott’, the sound of a disintegrating mind

    • 179
      Hard-Lazing Voter says:

      “Just who do you think you are?
      Stop acting like some kind of star.
      Just who do you think you are?
      Take it like a man baby if that’s what you are.”

      How apt.

  11. 12
    Disco Biscuit says:

    Too funny for words

  12. 14
    Red eric says:

    And The state is going to seize all children over two years of age and educate them to believe in the state while the state sends their mothers out to work for the state. 1960’s soviet union here we come.

  13. 15
    Throbber says:

    Hattie on Sky now in full election mode.
    I suspect they think they can push a bounce in the polls and call a snap election.
    Deluded fools.

  14. 16
    Anonymous says:

    Er, your insight misses the point here.

    Its a song about drugs and depression , even more of bad choice considering recent ‘rumours’.

  15. 18
    Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

    Abrams got planning permission then

  16. 19
    Master Baiter says:

    Up for grabs

  17. 20
    Anonymous says:

    I don’t think I’ve ever heard such questionable claims about their “achievements” as I have today.

    As for where the money is going to come from to pay for this sh!t, who knows.

    Talk about halving the deficit in the next parliamentary term? The deficit? So debt will continue to rise throughout the next parliament? You have got to be f***ing kidding?

    I can see what is going to happen here.

    If the Tories get in:
    Lots of civil servant “non jobs” will be culled and the nonsensical policies that go with them. The sort of “Green Issues Focus Group Coordination Executive Manager” and all that sort of sh!t. Those people will be f***ed as there’s no way the private sector would employ such overpaid idiots.

    If Labour get in:
    They’ll cut frontline services leaving all the numpty non jobs in place. Their defence will be that it would be worse under the Tories.

    In terms of delivery, I actually thought Brown did OK, it was just the content that was complete crap.

    • 173
      BlogLess says:

      I’m a bit worried by this, Who decides who goes?

      If the Tories get in a whole new quango to decide which numpty to cut.

      If Labour get in a whole new quango to appoint the administrators to cut the front line staff and another one to spin the resutling increased perceived service levels.

      HELP I’m drowning, I’m asked to vote for whomever reduces my rate of sinking the mostt!

  18. 21
    Master Baiter says:

    Beware the leakage to the Nincumpoop party

  19. 23
    Anonymous says:

    No mention of the fathers of these children. Do they not have any responsibility?

  20. 26
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    Remember folks, in ‘97 it was “Things can only get better”.

  21. 27

    There’s even recession stuff in “Sit Down”, too:

    Now I’ve swung back down again
    It’s worse than it was before.
    If I hadn’t seen such riches,
    I could live with being poor.

    Very appropriate!

  22. 29
    Reg511 says:

    Year by year the UK gets a step nearer to a Kim Jong Il nightmare, the last 2 hours have been some of the worst.

    Now the commentary begins, the starting of reprogramming a slightly different reality.

    Brillo is not the worst but still a collaborator

    Have just seen Mortitia telling of the greatness of the National Helm’s man

  23. 30
    The Cunt of Monte Cristo says:

    I am full square behind you Mr Brown, a marvellous speech which I believed every word of.
    Bravo Sir! Bravo!
    C’est Magnifique!

    The fact I am currently sat in me own feces has no connection to my awe of you Mr Brown.

    Can I get a teenage slag on the state please?
    I will put her on the straight and narrow in a jiffy Mr Brown, hero of the Britain

  24. 31
    Red Rag says:

    Wonder how Truthful Dave will do next week surrounded by his multi-millionaire friends. Oh did I say truthful…the truth and Dave go together like Lord Ashcroft and payment of British taxes.

    • 38
      Anonymous says:

      You’re wasting your time with that one.

      Everyone knows that Brown is a congenital liar as are all sociopaths and megalomaniacs.

    • 44
      Jam Rag says:

      Strange how all these NewLab trolls come out of the woodwork when Brown makes another crap speech.

    • 45
      The Cunt of Monte Cristo says:

      Well he might try the cunning ruse of being truthful, spelling out the forthcoming debt crisis Britain is at risk of.
      He also might ask the people if Gordon is an economic genius why has our national debt ballooned since 2000?

      Multi millionaire Gordon obviously prefers the company of make it up Maguire, hate filled McBride, and mortgage fraudster little lord sodomite, but I believe he has some millionaire friends too

      • 168
        Under a flower pot at the bottom of the garden until the GE says:

        The truth? A good wheeze; after all, politicians have tried everything else.

    • 60
      Master Baiter's Mum says:

      Up pops Red Reg, a pale and pimply bargain basement Goebbels. Trolling for Gordon, how cool is that?

      • 87
        Master Baiter says:

        David Cameron is a worried man, Gordon Brown is a worried man.
        David Cameron is going to find the road a lot rockier than expected.

        Rocky IV!

    • 68
      moral compass says:

      Does Ashcroft pay his housekeeper 6 quid an hour? Or is that only Attorney Generals in the party of ’social justice’?

    • 113
      Anonymous says:

      Nothing to say about his own failed leader so has to attempt to make something up about someone else.

      Although it’s the same fool as is posting on conhome – can they only afford one troll nowadays. How times have changed

  25. 31
    Edward says:

    Whore stores

  26. 33
    Manc says:

    All the teenage slappers who churn out kids as meal tickets and see life on benefits as a cushy career choice should be given the option of moving into a hostel or else look after yourself.

    The trouble with Brown is he’s all bullshit and lies. He will never sort out the growing and massive problem of career welfare spongers and their armies of feral kids. After all, he helped to create this nightmare in the first place.

    • 50
      Scenic says:

      I’m guessing hostels will cost more than benefits.

      • 88
        Anonymous says:

        Under Labour they would but when they existed years ago (there were still some left in the seventies) they were run very cheaply. They were meant as a deterrent not to let scrubbers live in the lap of luxury.

        • 128
          I'll have some of that says:

          They’ll be housed in repossessed buy to let flats from Northern Rock. It’s the right thing to do……but European Court of Yuman Rites will forbid it….

    • 59
      Anonymous says:

      Brown’s trying to win back some of Labour’s hundreds of thousands of votes lost to the B n P. You can see through the useless lying turd from a mile away.

    • 111
      Tesco Is Shite says:

      Nay, nay and thrice nay, Manc. The one-eyed Scottish idiot deliberately helped INCREASE the army of welfare spongers so they’ll vote for him. Nuliabour wants to end up with 51% of us on the dole so they can be voted in every time.

  27. 36
    Stark raving Bonkers...Marr was right says:

    So homes for slappers is Gordon’s key to winning the next election?

    He must be mad.

    • 65
      Anonymous says:

      British Slags for British Lads

      • 89
        Princess Polytwaddle, a pointless po-faced plonker says:

        Oh . . Mais Non!!

        There must be full diversity, equality of opportunity, and inclusiveness

        That means ‘British slags for any lads’

        Any gal who is up the duff must qualify for a flat, sofa, huge TV, an all the trimmings.

        • 148
          Jan says:

          All those young men hanging around the camps in Calais must be salivating at the chance of getting to England so they can impregnate all those Vicki Pollards. That’s why they are so desperate to get here.On second thoughts perhaps they should be running in the opposite direction.They don’t know what they’ll catch…….

      • 125
        hattie will not be pleased says:

        How did he get this one past Harriet?

  28. 37
    UK VOTERS says:

    [Cabinet:]
    There’s a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall
    And the bells in the steeple too
    And up in the nursery an absurd little bird
    Is popping out to say “cuckoo”
    [Tessa, Hilary, Baroness Royall:]
    Cuckoo, cuckoo

    [Tessa, Hilary, Baroness Royall: ]
    Regretfully they tell us Cuckoo, cuckoo
    But firmly they compel us Cuckoo, cuckoo
    To say goodbye . . .
    [Tessa, Hilary, Baroness Royall:]
    Cuckoo!
    [Cabinet:]
    . . . to you

    [Cabinet:]
    So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night
    [Hain:]
    I hate to go and leave this pretty sight

    [Cabinet:]
    So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu
    [Yvette:]
    Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu

    [Cabinet:]
    So long, farewell, au revoir, auf wiedersehen
    [Straw:]
    I’d like to stay and taste my first champagne

    [Cabinet:]
    So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
    [Balls:]
    I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye — Goodbye!
    [Mc Cavity:]
    I’m glad to go, I cannot tell a lie
    [Harperson:]
    I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly
    [Mandy:]
    The sun has gone to bed and so must I

    [Cabinet:]
    So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
    Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

  29. 41
    EYE D EYE says:

    *
    *
    *
    *

    HAI GUISE

    WUN MINIT THE INTRODUCTION OF KOMPULSORY ID KARDS

    IS A MATTER OF IMMEDIATE AND PARAMAOUNT NATIONAL SAFETY

    AND SECURITY

    GIVEN THE THREAT POSED BY THE ONGOING UNKL SAM GLOBAL WAR AGAINST

    GLOBAL TERROR

    AND NEQKXST MINIT THEY HAVE BEEN DROPPED FROM THE EQUATION

    IT ONLY SERVES TO PROVE BEYOND ANY AND AWL REASONABLE DAOUBT

    THAT THE WHOLE MULTI~BILLION~DOLLAR ID KARD FIASCO

    FROM ITS* CONCEPTION IS A FRAUD

    A LIE

    A PARLIAMENTARY DECEPTION

    YE DU KNOT NEED ID KARDS

    *

    ASTA

  30. 47
    Anonymous says:

    What a pathetic speech from Brown. When all the deliberately induced hysteria amongst the braindead in the hall has died down a huge depression will set in over the Labour Party.

  31. 48
    ToryBanter says:

    Labour 2009 “If you get knock up you get lock up”

  32. 53
    Master Baiter says:

    Soft in the polls

  33. 57
    beeboid bollocks says:

    Daily Mirror front page….”WE LOVE MANDY”

    Of course they do, he’s a fucking crook like all socialist bastards.

  34. 67

    Gulags:

    I suspect this is to enable the Fabians to control those kids that would otherwise not be indoctrinated in childcare (mum not working) or school (kid not attending).

    Don’t presume to think that they have not seen this “benefit”.

  35. 70
    Anonymous says:

    change of address:

    Chantelle Chardonnay Sagbottom
    c/o Slag Towers (was Nelson Mandela House)
    Kenyatta Street
    The People’s Republic of Tower Hamlets.
    Londonistan.

  36. 71
    IT Cynic says:

    As someone pointed out on the Grauniad site, the idea of homes for teenage mums was put forward at the last BNP conference (http://sim-o.me.uk/2009/08/good-old-fashioned-values/).

    Nice to see Gordo moving to the right!

    • 146
      rick says:

      Didja notice the fluttering Union Flag in the background. Sweet. Was a time when the Left identified that flag as being exclusive to the Party who must not be named. Apparently, they have stolen more than one of the fore mentioned parties slogans as well as policies, also.

  37. 72
    AP says:

    I prefer ’slut huts’, i think it sums up what over a decade of labour rule can do to a country rather well. Is it just me or is it really really amusing that the BNP announced this at their last conference?

  38. 73
    Master Baiter says:

    Damn, they have a horrible picture of Gordon puckering up to that silly wife of his. Oh if only he had stuck by his pledge not to use his family. And many of his other empty pledges, come to that. God I have a truly sad job writing my propaganda, matched only by my truly sad life!

  39. 74
    Just imagine . . says:

    .. the titles for the associated (and highly paid) quangos and quangocrats associated with that bullshit.

    and doubtless a ministry (or ‘department’ (sic) )

    and more rules

    and regs

    and ed-yer-kayshun

    ‘n that

    innit

  40. 80

    Guido is that the dinner they only sold 330 out of 800 tickets for?

  41. 81
    gildedtumbril says:

    I do not need an ID card. I know who I am. In 1951 I signed the Offcial Snotrags Act. I call it that because it is there not to protect me but rather to protect the official snotrags. My identity is classified. If I were to divulge it to a policeman he might sell my details, for a quid or two. Ballox with that.
    Now, the sooner we can dispense with Eva Braun, the wee scots jessie of the Downing Street bunker, the better. However, R.Swipe, Camoron would be no improvement. Nor would idiot Cleggover. We need a cull of the whole frigging lot of them.

    • 105
      Bring it on says:

      With you there citizen

      Get the wheels oiled and ready to roll

      Shall we set up in Drowning (in debt) Strasse ?

      Would be fitting (no pun intended)

  42. 84
    daisypoo says:

    Mc Hoon is so desperate, he is dusting off the old proprtional representation
    offer to the Lib Damps in the hope he can get a few tactical votes.
    They fell for it last time, Then Blair Shafted them.
    Yogurt knitters never learn.

  43. 91
    half the story told says:

    Close Adviser………… Like Prescott close?

  44. 95
    anon says:

    Labour in third behind Limp Dums.

    Soon enough Nick & his British pals will be over taking McMental & his Scotch Raj.

  45. 97
    Raving Loon says:

    Locking up teen mums wouldn’t be necessary if there were no child benefit, but I fear such a policy change is too brutal for modern social democratic wussies.

  46. 107
    TGF UKIP says:

    Any connection between Sarah Schaefer’s card bouncing and her ex, Matthew d’Ancona, losing his Speccie job? Been cut off has she?

    Meanwhile, Guido, how come you haven’t illuminated us as to what the personally venomous shouting and swearing row was between d’Ancona and his boss Andrew Neil which resulted in d’Ancona’s exit from the Speccie editorship and building there and then.

    Or does the Village Mutual Protection Society’s code of omerta preclude revelation. If Guido is too much of a back-scratcher, I guess we’ll just have to wait for Lord Gnome to reveal all.

  47. 114
    I;m not mad just Bad Gordon Brown lived here 2009-2015 Broadmoor Hospital G20 Ward says:

    Fuck me, the you gov idiot on tv saying a Brown bounce. I’d like to bounce his head on my boot.

    Is Sarah now fair game, I don’t mean for a fuck, I’d rather stick my cock in the bacon grinder at Tesco’s, she’s a nice illegal Black bird. Well they are all pink on the inside.

  48. 118
    Anonymous says:

    Cut the benefits and free council flats and getting pregnant would no longer be worth it for most of these lazy scrubbers.

  49. 119
    Lord Gnoame says:

    Matthew d’Ancona couldn’t light Andrew Neil’s farts.

  50. 120
    caesars wife says:

    gulags for slags even made it onto con home

    maisonettes for chavettes

    homes for the post bone era

    housing for carousing

    flats for flapps

    condos for no condoms

  51. 126
    Gooey Blob says:

    Dear oh dear.

    At a time when the public finances are in a desperate state thanks to a decade of fiscal incontinence, Brown has now set out a shopping list for the next few years. He may have maxed out the country’s credit card many times over, but he still wants to go on spending. Has he or his policy advisers ever considered for one moment who might be going to pay for all of this? The country is on its knees and drowning in debt, both public and private, yet Labour are still looking to increase the burden.

    At least we can be certain that none of this will ever come to pass.

    • 136
      Anonymous says:

      It’s just more hot air from Brown. The disaster of the last 12 years which has left us in this nightmare was nothing to do with him.

  52. 130

    shoud,a been “TATTTERS” by “LOU REED”
    never heard it,????
    D/LOAD it from “ARES”

    “Break your fucking heart”………

    or try “KNOCK KNOCK ON I.M.F,s DOOR”by good old “BOB”
    just another lonely night for Sarah with the “RABBIT”and TURKEY BASTER”
    good name for a lesbian boozer.

  53. 135
    Master Baiter says:

    Bungalows for Bimbos
    Chalets for Chardonnays
    Maisonettes for Muslims
    Flats for Faggots
    Houses for Homos

    Sorted!

  54. 138
    Ever Vigilant says:

    The idiosyncratic Brown did not exactly stop telling the old lies (as requested by Labour MP ,Barry Sheerman ,but he got stuck into plenty of new ones —
    whopper after whopper including another ‘promise ‘of a referendum ,this time
    on the UK voting system . It seems strange that he did that except for the fact
    that he can now see wipeout for Newlabour unless he can persuade libdems to ‘lend ‘ him their votes at the next election .

    I had previously thought that the biggest lie he ever told was ,”I always tell the truth “.

    He topped that today ,the fraud when he claimed to “love this country “and even compelled his wife to verify that intentionally false statement .

    When will the gullible Sarah realise that she married a ‘man ‘ incapable of loving anyone other than himself or the noble queen , Mandelson .

    2

  55. 142
    Michael says:

    It’s clear that those within this dying government will promise ANYTHING in the desperate hope of being able to hang-on – The irony is that they don’t even realise how stupid they look.

  56. 144
    The Sleeper says:

    All very well that those here (well..99%) fully realise that this was blatant electioneering..mostly a pack of lies…that most of it will never materialise..that the country can’t afford it..that he is pinning hopes on a LibDem pact…slagging the Conservatives as murderous bastards..etc.

    BUT…we also all know that many of those who have no brain will have fallen for it hook,line and sinker.

    The upcoming election is no foregone conclusion for the Tories..they will have to upstage Brown and Mandleson..and really come up with credible,positive policies that chime with sensible voters.

    I hate to say this..but I will be holding my breath next week and in the run up to May 6th.

  57. 145

    James – Born of Frustration would have been a better choice

    All this frustration
    I cant meet all my desires
    Strange conversation
    Self-control has just expired
    All an illusion
    Only in my head you dont exist
    Who are you fooling
    Dont need a shrink but an exorcist

    Show me the movie
    Of who you are and where youre from
    Born of frustration
    Caught up in the webs youve spun
    Wheres the confusion
    A vision of what life is like
    Show me the movie
    That doesnt deal in black and white

    Stop stop talking about whos to blame
    When all that counts is how to change

    All this frustration
    All this frustration
    Who put round eyes on a butterflys wings
    All this frustration
    All this frustration
    Who gave the leopards spots and taught the birds to sing

    Born of frustration
    Born of frustration

    Im living in the weirdest dream
    Where nothing is the way it seems
    Where no ones who they need to be
    Where nothing seems that real to me
    What can we build our lives upon
    No wall of stone, no solid ground
    The world is spinning endlessly
    Were clinging to our own beliefs

    Born of frustration
    Born of frustration

  58. 153
    dr spock says:

    brown is nutts

  59. 155

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  60. 163

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  61. 164
    smilie in your stout says:

    Well this is a sensible policy. If it ever were introduced in a robust form we would see the single parent births drop dramatically.

    It doesn’t help calling this Gulags for slags. We owe single parent mothers nothing. We haven’t asked them to get pregnant but they expect us to act as surrogate father to their child. OK, well if that’s the case we should have surrogate rights.

    If young single parent mothers who cannot support their children were brought together in accommodation blocks, it would be much more cost effective. You could have inhouse social workers and health visitors and the children would be properly monitored. There could be a communal play room.

    But I think the main benefit would be that most teenage girls seeing what was on offer (being busy-bodied by the state) would do the sensible thing and avoid pregnancy.

  62. 170
    Rufus.T.Firefly. says:

    “If young single parent mothers who cannot support their children were brought together in accommodation blocks” yes what a brilliant idea i know lets call it ‘internment ‘ and we can send them on learning courses around the globe to show them how others live we can give it a snappy name like ‘transported’ i hear Australia is nice, oh how i love living in the 18th century a real time of great social works, anyone off to the great exhibition or has mandy gone home?.

  63. 178
    Disco Biscuit says:

    “David Miliband’s close adviser Sarah Schaefer…”

    Is that a euphemism?

  64. 180

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  65. 181
    Daniel says:

    The British Constitution Group has ‘Our Politicians on Trial’
    This coming Halloween @ Friends House, Euston Road, London
    Hope you will have a representative there Guido!

  66. 182

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