October 6th, 2009

Lord Falconer at Tory Conference

FalconerBig Brother Watch’s Alex Deane spotted Lord Falconer outside the Tory Conference. With Cameroons openly speculating about welcoming some Blairites into their big tent, one wonders what he is doing in town. Surely he would be one Blairite too far, though he wants Brown out – sooner – and more sorely than the Tories do.

As to why he was hanging around he was keeping schtum…


628 Comments

  1. 1
    going mental says:

    didnt give the legal advice on iraq?

    • 3
      One flew over the No 10 bunker says:

      yeah twice I believe. Bit like the Irish referendum the first answer was incorrect so he had to do it again.

      • 6
        jgm2 says:

        Bit like working at the treasury.

        No, those ‘predictions’ are no good. Find me some ones that look like this and then reverse engineer the scenario.

        Brown’s M.O. since 1997.

        • 9
          going mental says:

          the “not my fault” line

          • Harry Bag says:

            Why do they always recycle failed politicians?

          • MI6 says:

            This whole thing gets more sickening by the day. The last piece of democracy running down the road. Not asking to turn the lights out as they are already out, as No fuck-er can afford to have them on. Devaluation on the way interest rates at 15% What a bunch of self serving hypocrits. Only trouble is they are putting every one out of business.

        • 13
          Gordon Brown says:

          Using these treasury predictions (which I dictated) I will mainly be borrowing an insane amount of money this year. Just like last year. Only more so.

          • Tony Blair says:

            Using this MI5 Memo which I dictated I shall be basing my decision to go to war in Iraq on the loosely worded ‘conclusions’ I planted in there.

            Just you try and prove otherwise.

          • Special envoy for “president Blair” perhaps ?

          • MI6 says:

            Poor Dr Kelly, just shows you that Greg Dyke got away quite lightly for telling the truth. Its great when you live in a country YOU GET TOPPED OR SACKED FOR TELLING THE TRUTH.

      • 84
        Tony's Flatmate says:

        No, that was Lord Goldsmith. Easy mistake to make – both parachuted into the Lords in 1997 from the same barristers’ chambers. Difference is that Goldsmith’s got a job whereas Falconer hasn’t. Last I heard Brown wasn’t paying him as big a pension as Falconer claimed.

      • 170
        Sick of the Greed says:

        It’s a bit like GCSE course work. you do an essay, submit it to the Teacher and they scribble all over it in red. You then take it away, do what they say and hey presto, A* for the work.
        If only they had given a clearer mandate on the outcome, he would have got there a lot quicker and we would have the boys home by now…

      • 625
        Shithead says:

        The brainless micks didn’t have to fall for it, did they?

        • 627
          Bill O'Bong says:

          They were bribed until they caved in. Bloody morons, the lot of them. Just shows the quality of education in the Emerald Isle. Independent thought? Never heard of it. Pass the Guinness, Paddy! Two words show beyond any sliver of doubt that the EU is a steaming pile of opportunistic, domineering, interfering, fascistic crap – Tony and Bliar.

    • 7
      "Blood is thicker than water", is what the old proverb says:

      Well the Heir to blair would welcome one of the family in. Blood is thicker than water.

    • 39
      Paxo meets his match says:

      From Minute 16.30

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n9m8q/Newsnight_05_10_2009/

      After tying miliband up in knots last week Paxo is brought back down to earth by Boris.

      • 78
        Master Baiter says:

        All that happened was that Bore us back pedalled so hard he kept falling over.

        That Bore us has a strange congenital condition, seen it before.

        • 149
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          There’s nothing like an objective opinion. And that’s nothing like an objective opinion.

          • Master Baiter says:

            Bore us back pedalled himself into buffoonery as usual.

            Either way it’s time to admit that the Conservitudes have the white flag unfurled and ready over Europe.

            Question:
            Why no campaign for a straight forward ‘in’ or ‘out’ plebiscite on membership of the European Union?

            Answer:
            hmmmm……. there is a policy…………..hmmmm
            (ask Ken Clarke)

          • Mr Ned says:

            “Either way it’s time to admit that the Conservitudes have the white flag unfurled and ready over Europe.”

            No MB, that has been labour and lib-dem policy all along, we haven’t a fucking clue what the tories will do yet and if, come the election, we still don’t know, or it does become a reluctant surrender, then they will lose a massive load of votes to UKIP.

          • Mandlesonisalyingtwat says:

            The only issue regarding Europe at the moment is why the lying pricks in the Labour Party reneged on that mandate promise to offer a referendum.

          • snafu says:

            Boris played Paxman extremely well, in fact Paxo threw in the towel at the end of the interview. Very funny, and an object lesson in how to beat the Beeb.

        • 226

          That’s no way to talk about Paxman, MB! You should be ashamed of yourself. He’s a highly professional broadcaster and long time journalist. Could you do his job? No, you couldn’t, so back off and leave Paxman alone!

        • 526
          Thunderbox says:

          Boris beat Paxo hands down last night, lovely to watch. Best Al Beeba capitulation was on Jeremy Vine show today though . The usual Nuliebour plants were allowed on the telephone lines, they all have ‘special’ number connections. Cut out the Cancer Dave. End state broadcasting.

      • 98
        Willsteed says:

        Absolute classic. Thanks for flagging that up. (I’m abroad so can’t access iPlayer, but could find the interviews on Youtube).

        I’m wondering if I’m gonna get to see Hague’s conference speech. Apparently it was damned firey. Not on YouTube yet, but fingers crossed.

        Thx again.

      • 107
        Anonymous says:

        Paul Waugh Blogs that this is, the transmitted material is an edited version, I would love to see the unedited cut.

        http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23752982-boris-v-paxo-the-clashes-that-newsnight-viewers-didnt-see.do

      • 119
        Flower Pot Man says:

        Thank you for that. Paxo was well and truly stuffed.

        • 139
          Engineer says:

          Boris 1, Paxo 0.

          As complete a demoition of Paxo as I’ve yet seen, and Boris was totally reasonable.

          Wonder what Paxo got up to at university? Was he a total goody-goody?

          • Engineer says:

            Demolition, of course.

          • Susie says:

            I thought Paxo was going to give Bozza a filthy look, stand up and storm off forgetting he was connected to his mike…

            Paxo’s face went puce with rage — priceless!

      • 130
      • 156
        sarko says:

        Can’t get it here in la belle France …. Paxman Boris thing i mean.

      • 179
        jgm2 says:

        Boris is briliant. Isn’t he though. Fucking hilarious.

        Hold on! you chose to become a journalist. What kind of job is that? Sitting around all day…

        Ha ha ha ha ha.

        Class act.

        • 209
          Susie says:

          “Get a proper job…” ha ha ha ha ha!

          I wish Bullingdon Clubbers would just say, “You don’t get Firsts at Oxford (as we have) unless you study very hard for them, the Club was a very minor footnote of our time there, stop obsessing.”

          • jgm2 says:

            ‘The blessed sponge of amnesia has wiped the slate of memory’

            Hahahahahaha…

            Fucking brilliant.

            And Boris’s face was a picture when Paxo asked about ‘And after that he chooses to become a PR man. Of all the many possibilities….’

            It was a full-on ‘What kind of C*nts question is that?’

            Even Paxo was laughing when he got stuck into him for becoming a journalist.

            Boris for PM.

            Then Hague.

            Then Hannan.

            The Tories are spoiled for talent and Labour has literally fuck all. In fact if they had fuck all talent it wouldn’t be so bad. What they have is a special breed of anti-talent. Where power seems to accrue to the most fuckwitted individuals you could imagine in your worst nightmare populated entirely by utter fuckwits.

        • 377
          English Viking says:

          Anybody who took Boris’s five minute, point blank refusal to promise a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty when the Cons gain power as good reason to vote for them must want their head looking into.

          • Master Baiter says:

            Bore us back pedalled all the way, ‘yeah but no but’
            It was like watching Vickie Pollard in Little Britain, except that Little Britain is actually funny unlike Bore us the buffoon.
            There is though a startling similarity between Vickie Pollard and Bore us Johnson, no?

            What is it about that man? Seen the condition before, now what is it?

            It is amusing that apart from free loading at the House of Commons and the orifice of London’s Mare he makes most of his ill gotten from being a bumptious journalist, phwoar, phwoar, phwoar!

            No campaign for a straight forward ‘in’ or ‘out’ of the EU plebiscite from the so called euroseptic tanks then, no surprise.

          • Numb Ring says:

            What’s up with the numb ring?

          • Susie says:

            So MB you do agree with UKIP and B&P? Thought so.

          • Master Baiter says:

            Shoo shee oh Conservitude mollusc, wave the tentacles around, sense the Conservitude policy position on Europe?

            That’s right there isn’t one — nothing.

            On the right there is no campaign for a straight ‘in’ or ‘out’ of the EU plebiscite for a good reason.

            They know their bluff would be called and they’d lose hands down.

            “Yeah but no but….”

          • Phil O'Pastree says:

            The fact is this is yet another issue shoveled down the line for the next government to sort out. Another bottled decision by Brown. Coward.

        • 389

          It would be like someone in Italy in WW2 saying: “I really think we need to have a referendum on this alliance we entered in to with Germany.”

        • 433

          Paxman was in a rage. One of the reasons Paxman can’t cope with Boris and looked such a loser was that Boris is a journalist. And if you interview a fellow journalist they always, always interview and question the person who is trying to interview them.

          I did it myself with some poor cub reporter who was trying to interview me for the local rag the other week. We just can’t help it!

          However, the other reason he was in such a rage was because he knew Boris had found him out and that, as a result, so had the public.

          • Mongrel says:

            Boris was actually quite civil to Paxo – when Paxman brought up the Bullingdon and champagne bit Boris could have said “what’s with all the class war stuff – you’re a public schoolboy yourself.”
            Easy to see why Marr wouldn’t go near Boris, after what the media did to Boris over his away fixtures.

      • 222
        Anonymous says:

        I thought he was a embarrassing blithering idiot throughout, and paxo eased of not make him look a complete chump

        • 254
          South of the M4 says:

          Not what i saw. Boris showed Paxo to be following a partisan character trashing agenda and ignoring the big issues. Boris’s eyes said “what a wanker”. Paxos eyes said “oh shit, I sound like a right wanker who has been told what to ask”. That is why he backed off.

        • 259
          Anonymous says:

          Why was you embarrassed, are you a friend of his?

        • 388
          Fred says:

          Get a first at uni did you anon? maybe you are the first rate chump

        • 435

          You really should try watching with the sound on. anon 12.45.

      • 395
        NewGirl says:

        I thoroughly enjoyed that !

      • 601
        Not long till labour gone says:

        That was brilliant!

        Having voted for Boris just to get rid of Red Ken, I can honestly now say that I would be more likely to vote for the conservatives is Boris was leading them. Boris for PM!

      • 620
        cider drinker says:

        You gotta laugh.Underneath that buffoon facade, is a clever , wily geezer ! He says it as it is , and bet having a few beers with him is a right larf.Boris is a legend, unlike the usual , run of the mill fuckhead politicians.

    • 124
      • 287
        Steve Expat says:

        PMSL – no-one told Alix Smith about “scalability” then?

        You would have thought that some Hoon like Draper had set it up…

    • 214
      Anonymous says:

      What’s that Lord Forkbender onside the Tory party conference must be a spy seeing if there is an opening for a former attoney general but can he be trusted

    • 329
      Sukyspook says:

      “advice” – Oooooh, THAT’s what it was…..

      When I look at Falconer, his flatmates and his co-conspirators, apart from £££’s, the only other things that come to mind are lamposts and piano wire.

      • 587
        English Viking says:

        It would have to be strong wire to hold that fat carcass long enough to choke.

    • 357
      Julian says:

      The enema of my enema is my fiend … but just so long as nobody mentions forces housing to William Hague?

    • 628
      Susie says:

      O/T but very important! Please sign this petition to back President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic’s brave stand against the Lisbon Treaty:

      http://www.petitiononline.com/sptklaus/petition.html

      Let’s get a MILLION signatures.

  2. 2
    One flew over the No 10 bunker says:

    Are they all starting to panic

    Sky now reporting Comres has the Tories on 42% and labout 27%

    • 9
      jgm2 says:

      So 27% of UK voters are self-harming imbeciles?

      • 17
        Rip Van Winkle says:

        Correct! Never underestimate just how stupid much of the UK population is. I deal with them every day.

      • 20
        jgm2 says:

        Actually, if their harming was limited to self-harming I’d have no problem. They’re not self-harmers, they’re fucking harming everybody by their idiocy.

        • 36
          rick says:

          This 27% are far from being self-harming imbeciles. They are mostly public sector workers or benefit recipients (same thing). They know what is in their own best self-interest.

          • FrankFisher says:

            Yup – no stupidity there – they know which side their bread is buttered. They’re not stupid, just evil.

            Which is great. It will make everyone feel so much better, morally, after the mass executions.

          • tat says:

            oh yeah frank, the public sector cleaners and carers and low paid administrators on £6 an hour take home and a pension of three grand a year are really wicked people.
            you fucking imbecile frank.

          • Master Baiter says:

            Don’t forget to rant against, stigmatise and vilify construction companies, defence contractors, army, navy, airforce service people, oh and don’t forget the banks, now that their in state hands.

            But that won’t happen because Conservitudes and the right only attack groups that can’t fight back.

          • tat says:

            fuck off you idiot.
            you, masterbaiter, are like gordon brown, you are both a fucking liability to working people.
            the road to hell is paved by dimwits like you.
            bugger off to conservativefoam, there’s a good cripple.

          • jgm2 says:

            the public sector cleaners and carers .. on six quid an hour. They’ve all been ‘outsourced’ to various agents run by Labour apparatchiks. The cleaners probably are getting six quid an hour but they are now off the public payroll to make way for the one million bedwetters, box-tickers and bastards employed to hide a further million jackasses from the dole queue.

            And the agency that employs all thse cleaners and carers will be a well-connected friend of this evil, mendacious government. And the fucker will have 100 cleaners earning 600 quid an hour to share between them and he’ll be keeping the other 600 quid for himself.

            A bit like Labour’s PFI initiatives. It doesn’t matter how shit the deal. Just proclaim you’ve ‘invested’ 2 billion quid building a new hospital. Actually dont. Just claim ‘confidentiality’ on any individual deal and report a combined figure for all the ‘investment’ you’ve made.

            It is hard not to agree with the conspiracy theorists taht they fucked this all up deliberately. It’s so thorough in its scope that it’s hard to believe it is just pure incompetence.

          • tat says:

            thankyou for developing my point.

          • Master Baiter says:

            Seroxat’s up for a fight, put em up go on put em up, put em up, go on put em up.

            ad infinitum

            The right won’t say a word against the road and rail construction companies, the defence contractors and the forces personnel, yet all of them are paid by the tax payer.

            Funny that

          • resurgemus says:

            you mean defence contractors like BAe ?

            the one where Tony called off the investigation, that one ?

          • tat says:

            good one!
            masterbaiter is so full of shit it is quite incredible.
            he is like the magic porridge bowl, but instead of porridge he pours out a never ending stream of shit.

          • Phil O'Pastree says:

            Good one titfer! It almost makes me want to vote independent.

          • Master Baiter says:

            Come on Seroxat up em up go on put em up Goldilocks put em up great flaccid lump, put em up!
            grrrrr!

            ad infinitum

          • tat says:

            power is slipping away from the fascist new labour war and occupation party and this is the best you can do?
            oh dear.
            you pathetic wanker.

          • Master Baiter says:

            Don’t forget the bankers, they’re state controlled here in the UK, in the US and in most of Europe.
            Funny that

          • FrankFisher says:

            oh yeah frank, the public sector cleaners and carers and low paid administrators on £6 an hour take home and a pension of three grand a year are really wicked people..

            They and their ilk are fucking my country and fucking my children’s future by continually voting for socialist policies, so yes chum, I’m afraid IMO they are. You think everyone in the Soviet Union was determined to nuke us if we stepped on their toes hard enough? No, of course not, I dare say they were nice people, most of them. But they banded together to perpetuate a system that *would* have nuked us. I’d say, in political terms, evil is an emergent phenomena – it draws on the group, it comes from the group, it is a function of the power that group provides in terms of physical presence numbers, economic might, social pressure and inertia. For evil to prosper all that is necessary is… etc etc.

            The problem is that every individual can say to themselves “I’m not so bad. I do not harm. Well, just a tiny bit” But those tiny bits add up. Read Hitler’s Willing Executioners. Read about the GDR too.

            Now, the guilt is not all on one side. Because what is also necessary for evil to prosper is that good men do nothing. And okay, we dont’ do *nothing*, but we don’t do enough. The first thing we don’t do is get the message out hard and clearly and firmly enough that socialism is evil. It is, right at source, in every implementation and in every theory, evil. it is the most monstrously inhuman doctrine ever devised. Slavery. Slavery of the able. So, is a cleaner evil? Not necessarily. Is a cleaner who votes labour evil? Yes. A little bit.

            you fucking imbecile frank

            Only time will tell.

          • Mr Slater's Parrot says:

            KR-RAAAAARRRKK!!! KRIPPLEKRIPPLEKRIPPLE! FIGHTFIGHTFIGHT!

          • tat says:

            correction: frank, you are not an imbecile, you are a fucking lunatic.
            take your rants against low paid workers elsewhere you fuckwit.
            conservativefoam are always looking for morons like you.
            go there now.

          • FrankFisher says:

            Low paid workers? Some of my best friends are low paid workers. Did you not read wot I wrote? I’m not fussed that they are low paid, or even that they work for the public sector. I’m fussed about how they *vote*.

            Try reading it again. You’ll get it.

          • tat says:

            that is why you are a fuckwit frank.
            DOH!

          • FrankFisher says:

            I thought I was a lunatic? What am I, a fuckwit or lunatic? Please make your mind up, this could be critical in court.

          • Chump says:

            FrankFisher: “I’d say, in political terms, evil is an emergent phenomena – it draws on the group, it comes from the group, it is a function of the power that group provides…”

            An excellent observation.

      • 27
        Alan Douglas says:

        No, sadly. 27 % of the population know that any other vote would tear the state teat from their mouths – the payroll vote (including the benefits payroll)

        Alan Douglas

        • 32
          going mental says:

          hate to piss on your party but some benifit claiments will vote tory

          • David Cameron (Housing Benefit Cheating and simultanwously a Millioniare lowlife tory scum) says:

            Hey guys, go easy on the benefit cheats please.

          • following the dodo says:

            There is an estimated 50 applications for each true UK job vacancy on average, the people seeking these jobs are victims of asset stripping,off-shoreing or eastern block cheap labour.The real parasites are the asylum seekers that have travelled across 15+ countries to recieve there benifits and peddle their crime. All of the above mentioned is a result of our membership in the EU, but things will get worse, the dollar will go tits up anytime now and lead to a new world currency and that is us well fucked.

      • 177
        Sick of the Greed says:

        I think you mean “self-abusing”.

    • 21

      Why would Cameron enterain anyone associated with a new Liebore. If you shovel sht you end up smelling of ti

    • 197
      Mr Ned says:

      The BBC’s DAILY tracker has not been updated since 1st Oct. perhaps they should call it a WEEKLY tracker?

      or a WEAKLY tracker more like?

    • 216
      Anonymous says:

      Does this mean chumps like Alan Milburn will turn up on the Tory side?

  3. 4
    going mental says:

    Fawkes as you done a live chat for gordons speech last week can we assume that one will happen with dave ?

  4. 5
    Anonymous says:

    Guido why can you not distinguish between ‘to’ and ‘too’?

  5. 8
    Article 38 says:

    Errr, isn’t he Tony Blair’s best mate? Perhaps doing a bit of canvassing for President Blair?

    If he did cross the floor though, the Brownite-Blairite civil war in Labour would go nuclear…

    Please come over Charlie, you are very welcome. All is forgiven.

    • 72
      Wino of West Kirby says:

      If Charlie did cross the floor ,the NuCons would come in 4th just ahead of NuLiebour,it’s bad enough him being at the conference,slivers of paper etc.

    • 117
      BrianSJ says:

      Being Tony’s best mate is all he has done. Checking the carpet for the President’s arrival?

      • 256
        Susie says:

        Taking the temperature for his mate President-in waiting-Phony so they can head off any challenges… delegates should keep very very stumm when that traitors’ about.

    • 138
      Right Bastard says:

      Rat jumping a sinking ship is still a rat.

    • 233
      Article 38 says:

      For avoidance of doubt:

      Divide and rule is the benefit, not the endorsement of the useless fat fucker.

  6. 11
    Sir William Waad says:

    Tony’s crony Lord Fatty Falconer: a political career consisting of the Millennium Dome, then John Prescott’s asinine department, then buggering up the criminal justice system, then finally monkeying with the constitution to give Blair and the executive more power. Oh and Going Mental reminds us of that delicate, impartial advice on Iraq. Who needs him?

    • 15
      Pontius The Pilot says:

      What the fuck is Falconer doing there? Chuck the hooning bastard in the Manchester Ship Canal!

      • 18
        Rip Van Winkle says:

        He’s a sinker, though.

        • 23
          One flew over the No 10 bunker says:

          no definetly a floater I’m afraid

          • Master Baiter says:

            Falconer wasn’t attorney general and didn’t give advice on Iraq.

            He was Lord Chancellor.

            But don’t let facts disturb the oozing tosh produced by the dinosaur like dimwits of the right that infest this blog.

          • Mr Ned says:

            WOW MB finally got something right ;) Never thought I would see the day that happened.

            Thanks MB :)

          • Phil O'Pastree says:

            Of course the Lord Chancellor would have had nothing to do with the illegal decision on Iraq because he is only a member of the Cabinet and is responsible for the efficient functioning and independence of the courts.

            Perhaps he was on his lunch break at the time it was discussed.

          • Master Baiter says:

            Flaky, the government depends on the Attorney General to provide legal advice, that is the constitutional role of the Attorney General, but don’t let facts stand in the way, after all the Daily Mail never does.

          • resurgemus says:

            don’t let constitutional niceties stand in the way after all Labour doesn’t

          • Phil O'Pastree says:

            So Blair – a lawyer – vos only obeying orders? Tell that to the marines in the Hague.

          • Master Baiter says:

            No Blair covered his arse by getting the official advice of the attorney general on the legality or otherwise of the invasion.

            The full version of the advice hasn’t been released yet, from which it can be inferred that the cover it provided was not double ply.

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper

          • bergen says:

            No MB-the Chiefs of Staff insisted on Goldsmith signing off the legality of the War to protect the troops from the ICJ.

          • One flew over the No 10 bunker says:

            Flaky, the government depends on the Attorney General to provide legal advice, that is the constitutional role of the Attorney General, but don’t let facts stand in the way, after all the Daily Mail never does.

            So that would be the Hooness Scottie then?

          • Phil O'Pastree says:

            When the Attorney General is in the position of having to advise the government about her own situation of having broken the law then that is a clear conflict of interest. There is only one possible course of action…

            Carry On Troughing!

      • 54
        Manchester Ship Canal Company says:

        Do you mind. We’ve spent years cleaning the canal up. Now you want to dump pollutants in it. Shove off.

      • 145
        Anonymous says:

        His support for the suicide assistance is paying dividends. It now says that all people that have no “future life quality” should take the right choice and people will help them.

        Now think about children in this county that can see that any recorded aberrant behaviour will stay with their records for their life and bar them from any caring/financial jobs. Even a 71 year old great granny defending her house with a lethal poking finger is now a criminal! Our society is broken for children and we daily tell them that they can not escape. ID cards, criminal record checks, NHS records available to all. There is no way to shake off a bad childhood.

        Youngsters, that by their birth community and early life errors, have therefore no future life quality that is obvious to them. So we get Scottish bridge incidents and other daily pacts.

        If he has a conscience he would take his advice and jump into the canal. Using his argument we could push the pelican crossing button to help him across.

      • 268
        Exiled in Wales says:

        It’s too far, throw him in the Irwell.

  7. 12
    UK DebtSlave says:

    Meet the new boss, same as the old boss – Pete Townsend

    Seriously, do people think anything is going to be different under a Conservative government?

    The Bilderberg Group and the EU run this place. Cameron is just another PR savvy stooge for the same authortarian powers that run this place.

    Hardly surprising to see Lord Falconer mincing around the fascist hoon

    • 47
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      I seriously think some things are going to be different under a Conservative Government, since you ask.

      Not necessarily as good as I wish, but certainly better than I fear if Labour continue.

      Whoever runs the place has faces a monumental task which Labour are simply not up to.

      Their latest schoolboy ruse of making an announcement that should been made at their conference during the Tory conference shows the paucity of their decency and underlines the feebleness of their tactics. My only surprise is that Brown didn’t announce it from Afghanistan.

      • 96
        Master Baiter says:

        Is it the case that the Sun announcing it’s backing for Cameron was a surprise to the Conservitude campaign managers?

        Maybe not.

        This isn’t tiddly winks and it’s only starting, stop blubbing or just go home and join the Limp Dumbs.

        • 111
          anon says:

          double yawn

        • 121
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          The timing was probably Coulson’s idea in revenge for Hard Labour’s pathetic smear attempts.

        • 219
          Putin says:

          Ho ho ho. Just admiring your many comments about the ‘truth’ Coming from someone who has posted the largest volume of unsubstantiated(at best) or just plain wrong information on this blog,this seems a tad hypocritical. Given you seem to favour a regime which took the line of ‘no cuts’ only last June but now talks of repaying 50% of the national debt in four years, I wonder how in touch with reality you are.

          I am not right wing or a Tory voter,so kindly do not assume all posters on here fit your neat view of the world.

        • 238
          Moley says:

          M.B.

          Can you tell us why Labour broke their manifesto promise to hold a referendum on the EU.?

        • 257
          stilyagi_air_corps says:

          Ready for some red-hot Socialist Action, Baiter? Sounds a right Lark. You’re right, it isn’t tiddlywinks. What you gonna do when the Government falls, and it’s a free-for-all like a bar-room brawl? Call the police, like most lefters do when cornered. Only, soon, they’ll be tooooo busy, even for important fellows like you.

          The Rage in this country is growing. And people like you are the target,

    • 85
      Grandma B says:

      Something has to be different because we can’t prosper with this mountain of debt around our neck.

      • 361
        Come the glourious day says:

        Which continues to grow unabated @ £?000 per second. Last number I heard was 6.

    • 94
      Sir William Waad says:

      They don’t actually ‘run’ anything. They just interefere. Most of the important stuff happens anyway, whether the pols like it or not. Their role is to make random interventions, sometimes for good and sometimes harmfully, and to satisfy their need for money, fame and power.

    • 297
      McGroom says:

      You can add the Council on Foreign Relations and Common Purpose to the “lets take over the world” group alongside Bilderberg Group.

      The EU is just a product of their endeavours.

    • 454
      Sukyspook says:

      Sadly I have to agree with you 100% UK DebtSlave….

      WE PAID OUR MORTGAGE FOR A WHILE AT 15% UNDER THE TORIES…..

      My MP as already said numerous times is Ken Clarke, Europhile and long-time Bilderberg attendee. I’ve never voted for him and I’m not about to start now….

      • 605
        Old Timer says:

        NO we did not, THAT was the overnight Interbank Rate.

        Next time why not check your facts before writing ?

        And whilst we are at it, the only reason for the Interest Rates to go so jigh was because Major was following a PLlicy of shadowing the German Dm, which WAS FULLY PUBLICLY SUPPORTED by Bliar and Brown, until of course the crisis, and then suddenly they developed amnesia about it.

        • 608
          Sukyspook says:

          Oh and remind me who John Major has been/was working for since he ‘retired’ from “politics” ….join the dots and follow the money to the ‘C’ Group….

          Major is another “politician” who swore blind we could trust him with his ‘back to basics’ policies of honesty – only to be exposed as having had a four year relationship with the egg-woman whilst espousing ‘family values/morals’.

          Same s*£t, different a’hole.

  8. 14
    Doc Trough says:

    Yaroooooooo!

    State of it! Perhaps a modicum of sympathy could be extended to Charlie though. He has after all had to endure the horrible coupling of the gruesome twosome in an adjacent reptile chamber, with all the rattling and hissing that entails – and survived.

    Then again, maybe not. Slam a ‘Kick Me Hard!’ giant post-it on his back and see who bites would you?

  9. 19
    English Viking says:

    Another grossly overweight, dangerous, fat muppet. Talentless and patronising, with the sole qualification of being someone elses (Bliar’s) mate. Eric Pickles’ evil twin. Yet more evidence (not that any is needed) that all these scum-bags are in the same criminal gang and the only political convictions they have (apart from all the criminal convictions) are those which further enrich them and their mates.

    • 41
      South of the M4 says:

      Have a taxidermist stuff both Falconer and Pickles and use them as bookends in the commons library.

  10. 22

    He seems to be there in the company of The West Wing’s Will Bailey, too. All very mysterious.

  11. 26
    Anonymous says:

    Another bloated lump of lard whose only loyalty is to his pocket. British politics is lousy with such beasts.

    • 195
      Giovanni Prescott says:

      That’s just Westminster tittle – tattle!

      A class warrior me!

      Working man I am, me!

      Working class credentials going back years, me!

      Croquet anyone?

  12. 29
    Lizzie says:

    There is probably one guy who really gets up my nose big time around the conference and that is Kevin Maguire, every time I hear his voice I want to stuff something in the guy’s mouth. I think is life’s goal is to save Gordon from obscurity, a “finger in the dam” come to mind, someone should let Maguire down gently.

    • 35
      PM says:

      … I want to stuff something in the guy’s mouth

      Join the queue

    • 93
      The Sleeper says:

      I can think of bigger sharper things to shove into him..and it wouldn’t be his mouth.

    • 223
      Pontius The Pilot says:

      Like a phosphorous grenade…. minus the fucking pin.

    • 313
      McGroom says:

      Kevin Maguire was on LBC at the weekend spouting about millionaires in the Tories.

      real chip on his shoulder

      would comment on the number of New Labour Cabinet ministers though

      the guy is a joke

  13. 30
    It's all Balls says:

    The free booze tents at the NuLab conference were thin on the ground ‘cos no-one (apart from the muppets making up the 27%) think they will win.

    I think he’s just there for free beer and chips.

    If he’s hoping for some freebie Pol Roger he will be disappointed – Big Dave has banned the shampoo.

  14. 31
    Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

    Not enough room for him and Pickles, surely?

  15. 33
    Bowie fan says:

    I must have got this wrong – but I’m listening to the Tory Conference online and it appears David Bowie’s singing – what a coup for the Conservative Party

  16. 37
    One flew over the No 10 bunker says:

    Just located this on Comres by accident. Just wondering why Pravda are only asking this specific question to conservative councillors?

    http://www.comres.co.uk/page1901194930.aspx

    • 104
      Mr Ned says:

      typical BBC Marxist mud-slinging

    • 248
      Moley says:

      “Do you think your party’s role in the MPs’ expenses scandal has damaged you locally in terms of your MPs’ or candidates’ chances of being elected, or not?”

      What a stupid question.

      How can anyone answer that with a yes or a no.

  17. 43
    It's all Balls says:

    Tough question – let me get back to you

  18. 44
    shelling-out says:

    I’m glad this picture got published. I want Gordon to see his party faithful divided.

    As for Lord Falconer – he certainly knows which side his bread is buttered!

  19. 45
    Inglorious Basterd says:

    Fuck the tory conference. Have you ever tried hoying a 103″ wall mounted plasma TV out of a hotel window?

    Fuck it the mini-bar’s empty.

  20. 49
    Road_Hog says:

    Plus ça change.

    Blue Labour it is then.

  21. 52
    mmmm says:

    The Falcon is only at the Tory Conf to deliver orders from President Blair to DC.

  22. 55
    going mental says:

    same shit different faces

  23. 56
    r supward says:

    surely thats not all lard, is it?. did security check him for suicide belts?.

    • 62
      Security says:

      We didn’t need to bother. Nobody makes suicide belts that long.

    • 539
      Bottle-fed Triplet says:

      It is a suicide “belt”. That much fat round the middle means Hypertension, Diabetes, Heart disease, Gall stones and possibly Cirrhosis. It may be really slow but it is suicide none the less.

  24. 57
    Inglorious Basterd says:

    6, 14, 32, 35, 45, 48. These are the six winning jackpot numbers in tomorrows night’s lotto, promise.

    • 142
      Venture Capitalist says:

      I’ve just put 10 million pounds on, hope your right

      • 150
        Alister Darling first Lord of the Treasury says:

        But the jackpot is a maximum £2.5 million and you would have won the same with a £1 lotto ticket .

        Send your CV in a stamped addressed envelope, your just the man we need.

  25. 64
    The Met Office says:

    you can tell it is in Manchester, the male prostitute is pictured holding an umbrella.

  26. 66
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    President Blairs old flatmate.

    I would not trust this hoon with a bag of sweets.

  27. 67
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    I would not trust this hoon with a bag of sweets.

    President Blairs old flatmate.

  28. 68
    they are all traitors says:

    lib/lab/con= all the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    all lording it over us…………

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1218373/Former-Labour-minister-faked-death-Communist-spy.html

    now what about gordon,badger,jack+mandy?

    all well known communists……..
    where are our Woodward+Bernstein?

    • 89
      backwoodsman says:

      No they are not all the same, where are you nutters comming from ? All the Conservative mp’s I’ve ever met have been normal ish people , who understand their constituents want to get on with their lives, make a bit of money, educate their children and not fall foul of some absurd law.
      In contrast, both the labour mp’s I’ve met, have been complete loons – absolute foaming zealots . You really shouldn’t bracket them together !

      • 97
        tat says:

        oh yes we should backwardman, for they are as thick as thieves.

      • 127
        Lora Norda says:

        A major reason for the rise of the b+p and UKIP is the fact that even firm promises by the three major parties are not worth a candle. A few weeks ago Cameron gave a “CAST IRON GARENTEE” that he would hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Already he is now failing to reaffirm this promise since the Irish voted “yes”. He now looks to be as bigger liar as the Labour party, he knows that the overwhelming majority would vote “NO” on this issue. What a missed opportunity for a wipe out of Labour and the Lib-Dems. Under British law no government can tie the hands of its successor and that if he really wanted democracy on this issue gives him the freedom to allow a vote.

        Such duplicity by both of these parties Tory and Labour is why the b+p and UKIP are becoming more to the forefront, neither side are listening to the electorate. We should wake up and smell the coffee before that arsehole Blair rules the world.

        • 141
          tat says:

          vote independent.
          voting hitlerites into parliament is not the answer.
          we did not defeat hitler’s fascism to then vote fascist c’unts into a British Parlaiment.
          we already have enough fascism with the new labour war party in power, we do not need nor want even more nazis running around the place.

          • Ivor schwartzporsche says:

            TaT. Me old mucka. How can you honestly state that UKIP are facists?
            Please. How do you know that any of the Independents are not facist?

          • tat says:

            I was attacking the british nazi party, not UKIP.
            please read my posts more carefully.
            thankyou.

  29. 70
    Frank of FORMBY says:

    New High for US$ gold at 1025.8 this morning.
    Sterling gold at £643 it’s high was £698 on 20.2.2009.

    • 76
      going mental says:

      shall we sell some of our gold stash?

    • 79
      Wino of West Kirby says:

      £6 a gram at Ellesmere Port Arcades yesterday.

    • 115
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      At this point this is where Broon buys it all back.

    • 607
      Mongrel says:

      There was a brilliant report by the National Audit Office proving that using VaR methodology (yes, the same VaR methodology that the banks used to persuade themselves that all their toxic assets were just fine) Gordon reduced the risk to the Treasury by selling the gold for $275 per ounce. You see, the asset was worth $3.5 billion and we got cash. If we had kept the gold it would now be worth $14.7 billion, and all that $14.7 billion would be at risk if the value of gold went to nothing. So in pissing away $11.2 billion (NOT £2 billion as some stooges have said on here) the supreme imbecile did the right thing.

  30. 74
    Daveyone says:

    Oh boy a Law Lord who did nothing to enforce court orders and we had to wait for Jack Straw just to get his open court policy online Lord Falconer is happy to live a privaliged life but not make justice work in the UK!
    I for one will be following the progress of the New Supreme Court and here is their first judgement;
    http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6862386.ece

  31. 75
    Wavy Dave says:

    So what are the Tories saying about women’s pensions? It is no good only telling half the story. Like the referendum Dave is NOT being straight

  32. 77
    backwoodsman says:

    Whats happened to the ukip trolls today ? Place was crawling with them, or at least a bod with multiple aliases.
    Good to see you’ve got some quality advertisers at last Fawkes !

  33. 80
    Inglorious Basterd says:

    In the photo why is Falconer wearing a blue shirt? Is that the Manchester ship canal in the background and what the hell is he doing with his other hand.

    These are very important questions that I will be asking during the Leaders televised debate.

    • 92
      Anonymous says:

      it’s a spoof. It is pissing it down with rain in Manchester today, the dudes brolly would be up if it was kosher.

    • 101
      Sir William Waad says:

      Falconer is the one in the white shirt.

      It is not the Manchester Ship Canal. The clue is in the word ‘ship’. Ships are big.

      • 112
        Inglorious Basterd says:

        My apologies your worship, lordship, or canalship.

        I was obviously in err and meant the Manchester Shit Canal.

    • 103
      Inglorious Basterd says:

      And another thing why is Falconer smiling if he’s in Manchester and can’t these people wear ties like all respectable labour twats.

  34. 95

    Waiting for the pasties to arrive by the looks of him: fat Hunt.

  35. 110
    Separation_of_Austen says:

    He should retire, keep sparrows and eat bird seed

  36. 113
    Wino of West Kirby says:

    live chat on total politics

  37. 116
    Citizen Smith says:

    Are John Prescott and Eric Pickles related? Both fat troughers who think a lot of themselves.

  38. 133
    Inglorious Basterd says:

    I really do think that Brown is a jonah. he sends Johnson and ‘elicopter Bob over to theatre in Afghanistan to take some media attention away from the Tory Conference only to be told by a soldier in no uncertain way that we ain’t got enough troops and equipment which is costing lives and as if to prove the point another soldier killed is announced today.

    • 304
      South of the M4 says:

      I suspect the real reason was so that Brown did not have to go and suffer that fate. Bob and Pat are expendable. One a scape-goat, the other a competitor. Brown had already arranged the headline grabber with Darling. Brown’s only obvious success – covering his own arse.

  39. 140
    Anonymous says:

    Not even CAM the SHAM would sink that low.

  40. 147
    Anonymous says:

    What’s the idea of making George look likes he’s stood in the tree tops as he makes his speech?

    Better than Labour’s pink backdrop last week though.

    • 154
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      Or Ed Balls hilarious Ross Noble routine. When he’s kicked out of government he can do stand-up for a living. I was in tears. And I mean that most sincerely.

  41. 155
    McGroom says:

    Why would the Tories want to get into bed with a troughing serial failure like fat Charlie.

    Doesn’t anyone remember the Millennium Dome, law reform, House of Lords reform, abolished the Lord Chancellor.

    Everything he touches turns to dust

    DO NOT GO THERE

    • 177
      More Tories Please says:

      Certainly a doubled edged weapon. Nice image of a senior rat abandoning a sinking ship. However, rescuing a plague ridden rat might not be good for the good ship Cameron.

    • 301
      South of the M4 says:

      Any NuLabour staffer should be avoided. This is just an attempt to plant an ‘insider’ to cause disruption from within in the future. They have all failed and can add no value. They should be tempted so that they make sacrifices and then at the last minute be told to *uck off.

  42. 157
    going mental says:

    has boy george grown up ?

  43. 159
    Inglorious Basterd says:

    BBC just announced:

    “UK industrial output fell unexpectedly in August, confounding analysts’ expectations of an increase and casting doubt on the strength of the economy”

    Stock Markets are surging this morning, pound is falling.

    What the fuck is going on?

    • 194
      One flew over the No 10 bunker says:

      dead cat bounce as many have mentioned

      they know the economy is fucked only McRuin does not. The move of the chancellor last night was most likely also seen as a panic move both economically and politically and markets don’t like that. The policy is ill thought through, rushed not comprehensive and affects only a small number and they don’t like that either.

      Labour = fucked = UK = fucked thanks Labour (again)

      Vote anyone but Labour

    • 206
      FrankFisher says:

      Look at gold…

      • 358
        Inevitability says:

        Middle East Oil moving out of dollars. Stock market rush into assets. Fate of Sterling to follow dollar to basement. Inflation here we come. (See Gold)

  44. 161
    More Tories Please says:

    O/T I see NuLiebour suppporters over at LabourHome are trying to make political capital out of Tory run Birmingham Council’s problems with Social Services.

    More gutter politics with selective memory loss.

  45. 169
    Anonymous says:

    stonking speech from George at the moment

    keep this up!

  46. 173
    going mental says:

    i am well fucking suprised at george

  47. 174
    Anonymous says:

    Brilliant 50,000 pension cap. Now we will have a mass rush for retirement from the public sector during the next few months.

    This will mean that by May next year the majority of public sector troughers will be missing from the system.

    • 244
      Seymore Clearley says:

      It’s more humane than shooting them

    • 291
      South of the M4 says:

      That would be the plan then. Better to budget for a known cost now, than to guess at an unknown cost for many years. ‘ Natural wastage ‘. Comes without strikes.

  48. 180
    Anonymous says:

    operational allowances for the military doubled!!

    That will go down really really well

  49. 181
    Lest we forget says:

    Labour’s legacy, lest we forget:-
    * £22,500 of debt for every child born in Britain
    * 111 tax rises from a government that promised no tax rises at all
    * The longest national tax code in the world
    * 100,000 million pounds drained from British pension funds
    * Gun crime up by 57%
    * Violent crime up 70%
    * The highest proportion of children living in workless households anywhere in Europe
    * The number of pensioners living in poverty up by 100,000
    * The lowest level of social mobility in the developed world
    * The only G7 country with no growth this year
    * One in six young people neither earning nor learning
    * 5 million people on out-of –work benefits
    * Missing the target of halving child poverty
    * Ending up with child poverty rising in each of the last three years instead
    * Cancer survival rates among the worst in Europe
    * Hospital-acquired infections killing nearly three times as many people as are killed on the roads
    * Falling from 4th to 13th in the world competitiveness league
    * Falling from 8th to 24th in the world education rankings in maths
    * Falling from 7th to 17th in the rankings in literacy
    * The police spending more time on paperwork than on the beat
    * Fatal stabbings at an all-time high
    * Prisoners released without serving their sentences
    * Foreign prisoners released and never deported
    * 7 million people without an NHS dentist
    * Small business taxes going up
    * Business taxes raised from among the lowest to among the highest in Europe
    * Tax rises for working people set for after the election
    * The 10p tax rate abolished
    * And the ludicrous promise to have ended boom and bust
    * Our gold reserves sold for a quarter of their worth
    * Our armed forces overstretched and under-supplied
    * Profitable post offices closed against their will
    * One of the highest rates of family breakdown in Europe
    * The ‘Golden Rule’ on borrowing abandoned when it didn’t fit
    * Police inspectors in 10,Downing Street
    * Dossiers that were dodgy
    * Mandelson resigning the first time
    * Mandelson resigning the second time
    * Mandelson coming back for a third time
    * Bad news buried
    * Personal details lost
    * An election bottled
    * A referendum denied

    • 196
      Inglorious Basterd says:

      Fuck me are they in order of importance?.

      That’s an impressive record no wonder 27% of the electorate want more of them but on the plus side which you omitted to mention we have the best soccer hooligans in the world.

      • 207
        Romper Stomper says:

        Even they have gone downhill since the heyday of the early eighties. You average chav hoolie of today would be out of breath lifting his Doc Martens’ off of the pavement.

        Italian Ultras and the cloggies could give the English a kicking any Thursday in Europe.

        No wonder the Toytown Na­zis want out.

    • 215
      Giovanni Prescott says:

      Apart from that I thought we did rater well, me!

    • 236
      Sir William Waad says:

      Brilliant. Permission to copy it and troll it on Labour blogs?

    • 246
      Raving Loon says:

      And now for chapeter 2:

      Weelie bin Nazis
      General grovelling to the EU
      Government spending well over half of GDP…

      • 282
        Sir William Waad says:

        The percentage is higher now than at any time in history, apart from during the Second Worls war. We won the Great war on a lower spending percentage:

        http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_20th_century_chart.html

        • 486
          Raving Loon says:

          It makes me laugh when someone says our current economic calamity is due to “capitalism” or whatever. If the government allocates over half of our nation’s resources, how the f**k is that capitalism?

      • 333
        Ivor schwartzporsche says:

        Hospital parking charges and yellow lines everywhere administered by who knows who and pot holes in the road. recycling nazis, health and safety nazis and bullying police

        • 473
          Susie says:

          Blocking perfectly good roads off with chicanes and traffic calming, 10 road signs and/or traffic lights at every junction…

    • 345
      McGroom says:

      Lets get Kevin McGuire, Toynbee, White, Marr, Robinson and the prize chump that is Fiona Phillips to defend that one.

    • 368
      Anonymous says:

      @181 lest we forget

      and thats just for starters.

      hope you dont mind might just copy your list, just to show some delusional labourites, that still cant see no wrong with labour.

    • 443
      A vile, fearty, farty, no-good, mendacious little git says:

      aye, – but ah did it my way!

      An’ nuth’ns ma fult ye un’stn!

  50. 185
    shelling-out says:

    The hall is packed out.

    Bit of a difference from the Labour Conference last wweek.

  51. 186
    going mental says:

    fuck i didnt know george had it in him

  52. 189
    SO17 says:

    A fat bastard placeman deliberatly put in by Blair to undermine the role of Lord Chancellor.
    Lord mckay was a modest man with a 20 year old jag and he and his wife were quite satisfied with their little flat above the shop.
    In comes fat bastard demanding £1000 a roll flock fucking wall paper and generaly making a mockery of this ancient title.
    My beloved Lords becomes a den of thieves that the British people are now glad to see the back of.
    Job done Tony you cu*t.

  53. 190
    going mental says:

    fucking hell , how many policys?

  54. 201
    Master Baiter says:

    The Boy has come of age, have to admit it’s a good speech.

    • 228
      George Osborne says:

      ‘Ere stop messin’ abahht!

      • 240
        Master Baiter's Mum. says:

        Ladies and gentlemen. I’d like to introduce you to one of my son’s other lame alter egos.

        he pretends to be George Osbourne and with his hilarious catchphrase, ‘ere stop messin’ abahht!’ He shows himself to be the pimply Gordon worshiping masterbation king that he really is.

        Baiter, come down from your smelly room right now, I want you to pop down Asda for me, y’hear!

  55. 203
    shelling-out says:

    Absolutely brilliant speech!

  56. 205
    going mental says:

    8/10 speech Very good george

  57. 210
    FrankFisher says:

    I can see the headline on the BBC now: “Osborne speech disappoints”

    • 264
      One flew over the No 10 bunker says:

      can see it yet but no doubt it will appear. Meanwhile they do have this thought they blame it on holidays????

      UK industrial output fell unexpectedly in August, confounding analysts’ expectations of an increase and casting doubt on the strength of the economy.
      It fell 2.5% from July, the biggest such fall since January, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
      The same measure of output was down 11.2% year-on-year, dashing hopes of a speedy economic recovery.

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8292211.stm

      • 482
        Susie says:

        This recession looks like turning out to be the Pitman shorthand sign for ‘bank’ shape — a curved down stroke with a horizontal line for those of you who are secretarially-challenged.

        • 553
          Bottle-fed Triplet says:

          Susie!! you are in danger of giving your age away! I haven’t heard of a lady proficient in Pitman for many a long year. I didn’t think they did it any more, a lost art, a bit like morse code or using a slide rule?

  58. 213
    Anonymous says:

    Brillo and his two commentators complaining that he wasn’t ruthless enough.

  59. 220
    Olly boy says:

    For the food, preferably sausages? Although with Pickles around I doubt whether there’s much left.

    • 232

      Well, here we are in Brown’s Broken Britain. How long, do you think, will it take for the next Prime Minister to fix the damage Brown has done? And no matter who wins the next election, or if there’s a Labour Lid-Dem stitch-up, what’s the odds that Brown will NOT be the next Prime Minister, even if Labour DOES cobble together something that keeps the Tories out of No. 10?

      Banana Boy Milliband refuses to apologise, Jack Jones WAS KGB spy, Human rights act MUST go, Crimespotting game worry in Brown’s Broken Britain

      From being a supporter of the Human rights Act I now think there’s a good case for Cameron abolishing it, or replacing it with a Bill of Rights and Responsibilities for all subjects of the UK.

      • 245
        Master Baiter says:

        If Dave Komodo, lizard lips, flicking tongue and stupendous combover was to waddle his way to number 10 Downing Street and become Primp Minister there is nothing, nothing he could do about the Human Rights Act apart from renaming it.

        The Human Rights Act is an obligation from being a member of the European Union.

        It’s all hair spray and the lights are melting it.

        • 255
          resurgemus says:

          well that explains why Blair and Brown keep giving away our money to Europe.

          Go buy a spine boy.

          • Master Baiter says:

            Membership of the European Union means there is an obligation to have the Human Rights Act.

            Why don’t the Euroseptic tanks campaign for a straight forward ‘in’ or ‘out’ plebiscite on membership of the European Union?

            Anser:

            The ‘out’ would out and out lose and the euroseptic tanks know it.

          • One flew over the No 10 bunker says:

            MB “Primp Minsister”

            Is that someone who would be responsible for Gulags for Slags?

          • resurgemus says:

            Roll over

            Give in

            say there’s nothing you could do.

            Can’t imagine Chirac or Sarkozy accepting being stitched up.

            Tony will do anything to feel liked and Gordon just bottles out. And you call that leadership!

        • 263
          Master Baiter says:

          Ps: Phew, managed to escape my mum, what a wheeze, got another laptop hidden in the cistern of a local gents loo. Nothing will stop me worshiping at the alter of Gordon and Goebbels! Smells like my bedroom in here, scrummy!

        • 286
          Osama says:

          So you are confirming that Brown/Blair surrendered us to an EU dictatorship and that we should leave as soon as possible?

        • 295
          Master Baiter's stalker says:

          I smell fear.

        • 441
          The Hardest Screw in Shawshank says:

          Fuck off you retarded barrel of monkeyspunk!

          Boohoo, you’ve had it good for so long and now its pay back time for all of your, and your political masters ineptitude.

          I love playing with trolls as they entertain me during those brief moments of respite that i get from actively working to increase the GDP and reduce the debt of this country.

          You, Sir, are a pathetic, useless maggot of the lowest and most base order.

          May all your children have small penises, including the girls.

      • 319
        The Right Bill says:

        And a bill of rights to execute in public 100 feral scum from Brown’s broken Britain EVERY week.

        Oh and a Bill Of Rights to ensure every Labour cabinet member is never seen in the UK ever again.

      • 342
        Our rights says:

        If anyone hurt my grown up sister,my brother and I would bury them in a woodland plot ,never to be heard of again – and we assert our moral rights to do so.

  60. 227
    FrankFisher says:

    Guardian is already squealing about a pay freeze on anyone in the public sector earning more than 18K. I think he should have pitched that a little higher – okay, hardly anyone in the public sector votes Tory, but Georgie shouldn’t be giving the dissilusioned labour voters any reason to get out of bed and actually vote Labour. We know these people vote only on their pockets – so showing them such an obvious effective cut directed solely at them could backfire. What he should have matched that with is a huge jump in the basic personal allowance. Maybe he will closer to the day. Hike that to 15K.

    • 241

      okay, hardly anyone in the public sector votes Tory

      Frank, that’s a good point. But maybe we should say: “hardly anyone in the public sector has voted Tory”?

      With the wage freeze things might not be quite as stable as they used to be. For example, someone I know works in a Job Centre Plus office which has had an 85% increase in unemployed people seeking their help. And they are understaffed. He used to be a Labour voter, but not any more.

      • 323
        streamfisher says:

        Well he must have THE safest job in the country now thanks to Nulab, the only sector of the economy with growth potential, Jobseeker plus.co.uk

        • 381

          Really? You’d think. But apparently staff are warned NOT to be too helpful to the public who are looking for work. Management want throughput, rather than output.

    • 247
      Sir William Waad says:

      I would distinguish between people who actually provide services and those who don’t. Give the former a pay rise but not the latter. If they don’t like it they can try for a job elsewhere.

    • 252
      Bingo says:

      Let them squeal, the newspaper is losing the plot more than ever at the moment.

      • 271
        Steve Expat says:

        Grauniad are shitting themselves that when Dave and friends get in their lucrative funding stream of adverts from the public sector will disappear almost overnight!

        • 326
          The Labour job creation scheme - make one up says:

          About 3 years ago,my wife would buy the Guardian on the day it carried the public sector jobs – the social edition – was it on a Tuesday?

          I used to look at this jobs edition with incredulity – it was thicker than a telephone book and carried thousands upon thousands of new jobs in the public sector,from your classic “you can only have this job if you lesbian,one eyed,of an origin other than British and severely disadvantaged due to the fact you were workshy” up to the pages and pages of local govt / quango executive jobs paying £150K basic with performance related pay.

          And how we have paid for these NON jobs now.

    • 269
      Anonymous says:

      That’s a rise of minus 3K, right ?

    • 311
      Rip Van Winkle says:

      They’re lucky to have jobs. If they don’t like the frying pan called the public sector, let them try the fire called the private sector.

      Most wouldn’t last 2 minutes. No index-linked pensions, no six months full, six months half pay sick, no coming in 15 minutes late, no going home an hour early.

      Most would get fried.

      • 328
        They won't like it up 'em! says:

        and no 36 plus days holidays etc etc.

        Plus they have no experience of working for a business that has to compete with anyone!

      • 387
        Anonymous says:

        Do not tar all of them with the same brush. Some of them are actually working very hard and are dedicated. Flexi time is pointless as they work beyond the hours anyway.

        However the other 80% are trying to make so many mistakes that no one ever gives them real work again.

        Some people just have a mentality for public work and wish to protect the public and have no wish to become part of the private sector who just want to make a profit without any care for the community. I’m married to one and I selfishly wish she did not care so much.

        • 424
          More Ananymous says:

          Don’t knock profits, they pay for everything else….

        • 427
          tat says:

          oh dear, you tories are so incredibly dim that it actually hurts my genius brain to climb down to your cretinous level.
          surely the answer is not to drag the public sector benefits down to the level of the private sector but to drag the private sector wages and pension benefits up to and beyond the public sector levels.
          you tories are being handed a knife by gideon and david and you are slitting your own throats.
          you fucking morons.

          • FrankFisher says:

            At least we’re capable of slitting our own throats and don’t need some fucking Throat Slitting Outreach worker to come along and empower us to slit our throats like you pissweak public sector equality monkey twats would do.

          • Susie says:

            tat — what part of we can’t afford them do you not understand?

          • tat says:

            susie, what part of vote independent don’t you understand?
            the tories have not changed a single jot: they don’t give a fuck about you susie, you are just a mug who is misguidedly representing tax breaks for millionaires.
            fuck dave and fuck gordon – vote for a local independent candidate.

          • tat says:

            frank,
            I do not work in the public sector so your attack is wrongly targeted.
            try to take a better aim before shooting your bolt old man.
            you sound as if you have got the early stages of alzheimers frank.
            going to go private for your healthcare for your mental illness are you?
            no?
            oh, you will be using the NHS eh, you fucking geriatiric.
            shut up frank, you are full of shit.

          • FrankFisher says:

            oh, you will be using the NHS eh, you fucking geriatiric.
            shut up frank, you are full of shit.

            Which I have *paid* for.

  61. 235
    Mista Harperson says:

    Hattie Harpersons due for a pork chop slappin.

  62. 237
    Article 38 says:

    Remember the wrestling sequence in Borat The Movie?

    Now just imagine that with Falconer and Prescott….

    • 258
      Sir William Waad says:

      Prezza would make mincemeat of Falconer. Then he would fry it up with some tomato puree, chopped onions and green peppers and make a nice big plate of spaghetti bolognese for a mid-morning snack.

    • 310
      Harry Hill says:

      FIGHT!

  63. 239
    mancie manc says:

    hey, I’m waiting for Alex Reguson to turn up – then you’ll know there’s trouble at ‘mill

    • 242
      mancie manc says:

      soory shudda been Ferguson oops

      • 273
        not a mancie manc says:

        And that actress from coronation st now that would be a problem for liebour

    • 288
      Sir William Waad says:

      If Ferguson turned up, the conference would end after 90 minutes in an atmosphere of hostility and mutual incrimination.

      • 318
        Big Al says:

        Plus however much added time Fergie needs

        • 340
          streamfisher says:

          Yeah, we’ve only had 12 years, 4th official has held time board up saying another 6 months to go, still time to get a few of the oppositions players sent off, one or two dodgy penalties awarded by the ref (who we appointed and pay) and get Scholes to cripple a striker.

    • 337
      Arsene Wenger says:

      I did not see it

  64. 243
    Anonymous says:

    Well said that woman in the studio.

    Pay NI all your life and you get £90 a week state pension.

    Pay no NI and get £130 a week state benefits.

    So Obviously so unfair. she was blair’s advisor so why did he not listen or did gordon overule them with his means tested credit system?

    • 277
      Raving Loon says:

      It’s these adverse incentives which are one of the worst aspects of Labour’s economic policy. A person should never find themselves in a position whereby working is less profitable than claiming benefits.

    • 383
      Jan says:

      I’m VERY confused about this state pension thing. McBroon has decreed that effective 6/April 2010 people will ONLY need 30 years contributions to get a full state pension.Whereas women like me who have reached 60 before that date need 39 years FULL contributions. Men need 45.How is this fair?Also how can we afford to give out state pensions with less contributions?.This is madness.

      • 412
        jgm2 says:

        It’s only madness if you’re worried about boring old maths and reality. If, however, you are Gordon Brown you are only worried about being elected.

        Maths. Facts. Reality. Truth. Honesty. These are meaningless concepts to Brown.

      • 431
        Anonymous says:

        Gordon confused us all on that one. I was paying voluntary contributions to preserve a full pension and now I have no need to. He must have lost a lot of voluntary contributions from people like me, not that I am complaining mind.

  65. 250
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    Of course Blairites will be linking up with the Tories – there is no difference between them, contrary to what many of the ZanuLiebour-spouting golf-club morons who come on this site seem to think.

  66. 274
    Doris says:

    If any of these two faced, duplicitous, labour ‘main chancers’ want to cross to the tories, Cameron should most definitely say no!

    They have all been complicit in the destruction of this country and should have no place in a future conservative government.

  67. 283
    Lizzie says:

    Great speech from the shadow chancellor, he tells it as it is, the country is in dire financial straits, whose fault…..Labour, time for a change of government, out with the spendthrifts.

  68. 293
    The Sleeper says:

    Already the Labour luvvies over on Toenails blog are squealing about public sector pay freezes.

    WTF are these people on?

    Somehow they seem to think that whilst the rest of the Country suffers..all should be cosy and warm for them in their protected jobs.

    Fuck ‘em,I say.

    Osborne’s protecting the lowest paid and asking the rest to take the medicine whilst the Country’s sick..like everybody else has to.

    • 330
      Engineer says:

      Predictable squealing from the unions (Mark Sawotka) on WATO.

      It looks as if I won’t get my state pension until I’m 66, now. I don’t much like that, but we’re all in this boat and we all have to share the pain. My suspicion is that the majority in the public services will accept the proposals on pay freezes in the same way, it’s only the loony lefties that will jump up and down about it.

      After all, nobody voted for a deficit of £175 billion a year. We are where we are now, and we have to do something about it.

      • 348
        charlie the chancer says:

        Think of the jobsworths how will the councils be able to support these hard working people

      • 353
        Code 5 says:

        Well put ! ffs it’s a freeze not a pay cut they should shut the f up !.

      • 369
        shelling-out says:

        He should think himself lucky it’s only 66.

        It would be 70 under Labour.

      • 380
        Susie says:

        Pensioners have just lost a High Court Judgment in which they wanted the choice to continue in work past 65, if physically able to do so, and not be forcibly retired.

        WTF planet are these people on indeed!

        All it says to me their jobs are so fucking useless and boring that they can’t wait for their fat pensions so they can free up more time for sitting on quango committees and the like. Well if that’s the case these jobs should cease to exist.

  69. 303
    Hughes. says:

    Good grief, Falconer, mendacious apologist for over a decade of wholesale attacks on civil liberties. I’d rather have John Prescott than him.

  70. 307
    Ronald Reagan says:

    Beware of anyone who says to you:

    “I am from the Government & I am here to help you”

    • 352
      DelBoy says:

      Sounds very scarey when a Michael Howard type voice is imagined – but then, everything does..

  71. 308
    Kevin Muckguire says:

    ‘Gordon Brown’s only chance of being re-elected is if Madeleine’s body was found in David Cameron’s garage’

  72. 321
    REEVO says:

    He was prolly there worried about his copper bottomed pension.

    • 351
      Susie says:

      Why? In his case it’s 30 years away.

      We are all worried about our pensions full stop mine’s halved in value in 2 years, in addition to McRuin creaming off 5% a year for the last 11 years.

  73. 327
    A Firm Pair Of Breasts says:

    Kevin Maguire is a twat.

  74. 335
    Enlightened Opinion says:

    I’m looking forward to life after the next General Election. I’ll be able to listen to the Commercial Radion Station LBC without it’s output being constantly interrupted by New Labour’s Nanny State adverts.

  75. 336
    Was it only a week ago? says:

    It’s a shame Osborne didn’t show any excerpts from the Labour conference last week – was it really a week ago?

    Brown’s tantrums with Boulton
    Ball’s – the worst speech by any minister ever made in history
    Public ripping up of a newspaper and insulting hard working newspaper workers
    Millibollocks disgraceful speech as a supposed Foreign Secretary
    Harman – well,perhaps just put up the quote – “you know where you can get me”
    the list goes on and on.

    The Labour Party died in October 2009.

    • 409
      The Encyclopaedia of the Worst Political Decisons of the 21st Century #The Brown Years says:

      They died in July 2007 – the day they allowed Brown to become leader

  76. 347
    Susie says:

    Another truly great speech from the Conference, George Osborne Rocks!>/b>

    • 350
      Ronald Reagan says:

      I didn’t make great speeches – it was enough for me to pursue small Government, low taxes & to bring down my countries enemies without a shot being fired.

      • 434
        English Liberation Front says:

        Actually you did (make great speeches).

        But you forgot the enemies within.

    • 366
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      I do hope he’s not flashing his I-Went-To-Oligarch’s-Yacht-and-All-I-Got-Was-This lousy-Patek-Philippe-watch. Unlike some.

    • 439
      English Liberation Front says:

      And Caroline Spelman’s speech not bad either, busting Brown’s Stasi/Nazi state and promising an end to a few oppressions of the people.

  77. 354
    RestandBthankful says:

    Great speech by Osborne. At least we got to see all of it on BBC News.

    • 360
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      The lad should be made a politician of the year or sumfink.

      • 378
        sharon from accounts says:

        Oh do behave.

        The lad is barely out of short trousers & we are inflating his ego before he has achieved anything.

        We saw what happens when you get a young arrogant git like Miliband & stroke their massive egos – lets not make the same mistake with young George.

        Its results that count – not speeches that have been practised to death in fron t of flunkies & hotel room mirros.

      • 451
        Ivor schwartzporsche says:

        Even Bliar made very good speeches. That’s why I don’t trust them.

      • 515
        Susie says:

        When he’s Chancellor, I’m going to miss his contemptuous scowl at McRuin from the opposition benches… used to cheer me up imearsurably.

    • 371
      Gordon Trott says:

      Only because they thought he’d be crap

    • 506
      yates' says:

      Grow upo tosser

  78. 370
    sharon from accounts says:

    Guido,

    The blog has been a bit dull for the last two days.

    Any gossip, rumour or scandal brewing anywhere that we can pick over in your absence?

    • 457
      Engineer says:

      There’s a rumour that Baroness Scotland is still hiding under the desk, and that Harriet Harman has applied for a Driving Instructor’s job for after the GE.

  79. 374
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Why was he there?

    Easy all those free buffets at fringe meetings

    • 424
      charlie the chancer says:

      Beast,Guido has earned those free buffets this year,are you ever going to start up again.

  80. 382
    Moley says:

    Osborne’s speech in full.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8292995.stm

    Hopefully the BBC will keep the link.

    • 447
      Engineer says:

      Thanks, Moley.

      Osborne found the right tone; not a tub-thumper of a speech, but a reasonable assessment of the nation’s economic state, and some sensible proposals to start to yackle the problems. I liked the pledge to encourage saving, and I liked the pledge to dispense with Regional Assemblies.

      He did give the impression of recognising the scale of the challenge, but being prepared to accept it. I suppose only time will tell whether he’s up to it or not.

      • 552
        Ivor schwartzporsche says:

        Thanks for the link Moley. It sounded good. Sadly many folk won’t be able to save a penny because they have got into too much debt.

        • 598
          Bottle-fed Triplet says:

          Even those without debt won’t be able to save much as the interest rates will have to stay low for a long time to come.

  81. 384
    Davey says:

    I bet that twat Sean Woodward tries to return to the tory party if they win the next general election. Cameron should should tell him to bugger off.

  82. 391
    Mzzz. Ho Ho Ho HaHaHa-Person says:

    he wears bigger knickers than I do!!

    And that’s saying something.

    I suppose he’s cleaverer than me.

  83. 393
    A (still whining) Diversity + Compliance Officer in a Town Hall near you says:

    Oh Dear . . . it’s such a worry!

    What about my career pathway if Gordo loses the election?

    • 396
      shelling-out says:

      It’ll go the same way as mine did. Downwards, until it doesn’t exist any more.

    • 398
      South of tgher says:

      Your career may well suffer negative growth. Remember, careers can go up or down. This has been happening in the private sector for years. In the interests of equality it it is now your turn.

    • 426
      Moley says:

      Losing that job could be the best thing that’s ever happened to you.

      My life has had rather a lot of “enforced change”, but bloodymindedness and hard work has usually enabled the change to be made for the better.

      But life is really shit for a while.

      • 430
        A (still whining) Diversity + Compliance Officer in a Town Hall near you says:

        Hard work . . . . ?!

        Bloodymindedness . . . ?!

        But that’s anathema to me!

        Oh dear!!!

        Sigh.

    • 524
      Susie says:

      Sack a few more social workers and community nurses.

  84. 399
    shelling-out says:

    Ken Clarke may have been a good Chancellor, but he doesn’t ever come across as being sincere.

    Shame, that.

    • 415
      resurgemus says:

      Darling comes acorss as sincere but he’s a crap chancellor

      • 423
        Anonymous says:

        Gordon comes across as insincere and was a crap chancellor to go with it.

        • 452
          Brussles Bliar says:

          So where that does leave me?

          I was crap . . and insincere . . but I wasn’t chan .. chanca .. . . that name you mentioned

          • Master Baiter says:

            George Osborne comes across as being insecure.

            The lip curl,

            ‘Well, since Nat Rothschild left me,
            I found a new place to dwell.
            Its down at the end of lonely street
            At heartbreak hotel.

            You make me so lonely Nat,
            I get so lonely,
            I get so lonely I could die.’

            (sounds of screaming)

            His speech was peach flavoured, furry peach.
            It was a furry peach speech

          • resurgemus says:

            Osborne is now getting to that point where he pisses off Mandelson so much you can’t not vote for him.

          • Phil O'Pastree says:

            So you are a fucking psychotherapist now, as well as an amateur smearer?

          • Master Baiter says:

            Furry peach speech is more horticultural than psychological.

            Don’t you think?

            Is the lip curl something to do with peach leaf curl?

            The thick plotters.

      • 510
        The Sleeper says:

        Sorry..I may have agreed.. until the ‘announcement’ last night.

        Darling has now shown that he is a complete coward.IF he had already decided on public sector pay freezes last week(which he must have done)..why did he not announce themt then? It is simply inconceivable that this had not already been decided.

        I’ll tell you why he didn’t..because he couldn’t contemplate the threat of Union revolt…and Brown/Mandleson told him not to.

        So he’s a coward either way..and dishonest too.

        It was not a cynical political announcement..it was a panic stricken Government doing what it does best…

        Lie..cheat and mislead the electorate.

        • 530
          Susie says:

          A nice point George Osborne highlighted… Darling couldn’t face all those union shills walking out on his conference speech and client state crestfallen faces.

          So glad the Sun put the boot in.

    • 531
      Axe The Telly Tax says:

      At least he enjoys a smoke and a drink. Wonder what he has to say about Labour’s smoking ban in pubs & clubs?

    • 554
      Sukyspook says:

      Ken Clarke speaks with forked tongue.

      Piano wire and lamposts, once again, come to mind.

  85. 406
    Clarke is my Darling says:

    Guido- most important announcement today.

    Sunset clause on all Quango’s/

    I will go and buy a beer and a pair of hush puppies in celebration

    • 408
      jgm2 says:

      Seriously? Sunset clause on all quangos? Who announced that? And how long until sunset?

      A day after the election? A week? A year? Five years?

      • 421
        Anonymous says:

        Ken Clarke, best speech of the conference so far.

        • 432
          Anonymous says:

          gedda waay Bilderburg

        • 440
          CANCER STICK KEN WILL KILL FOR CASH says:

          IF IT KILLS KEN WILL SELL IT!

          • Clarke is my Darling says:

            You got to be some sop to put one in your mouth. So quite right, we need to reduce the population so let them smoke Cigs Oh my little lefty friend, is Castro a good guy or bad guy for selling Cigars.

            The left are as thick as Gordon & Darling

          • CANCER STICK KEN WILL KILL FOR CASH says:

            IF IT EXPLODES AND BLOWS PEOPLE UP KEN WILL SELL IT!
            YOU DO NOT NEED TO PUT A BOMB IN YOUR MOUTH FOR IT TO KILL YOU
            BOMBS, CANCER STICKS, KEN DOESN’T GIVE A FUCK HE WILL SELL IT
            PROFIT IN DEATH AND MISERY
            KEN SAYS YES!

        • 513
          Clarke is my Darling says:

          Best speech of the comference season.

      • 538
        Susie says:

        When the Conservatives get in there’ll be an immediate revue from then on it was every year. If they couldn’t justify their existence, they’d be merged, cut and or folded.

        Regional Assemblies are a gonna. Susie’s put her Happy face on.

    • 436
      Anonymous says:

      Start with the east of england interference agency

      • 541
        Susie says:

        Ohhhh YESSSSS!

        Responsible for paying gypsy/travellers to set up shop on every village near you (£750,000 for one ‘extended’ family in our case).

        Responsible for paying 2 Germans £250,000 grant to install steel girders in the sea off Dunwich ‘to represent the 14thC lost churches’ I kid you not.

        Backing Stansted Expansion.

        • 568
          Ivor schwartzporsche says:

          Susie. Three words: Common Purpose. (I know it’s only two but I can’t remember the word that means that word as it changes so frequently)

        • 592
          EC1 PhD says:

          I used to come into contact with some of the civil servants in the Regional Development Agencies. I would have said ‘used to work’ but work never came into it. We would sit through meetings counting how many companies we had come into contact with and claim that each one was an ‘intervention’ which meant that we could have gold stars all round. In reality, the companies whose time we were wasting, whose coffee and biscuits we were enjoying never got one benefit from the visits but at the end of the day my ‘handler’ could record how many companies I had visited and on that basis his own bonus was decided. Think of the salaries that go to waste for nothing, let alone the pension contributions. Abolish the lot NOW.

  86. 410
    James Gordon Brown says:

    I’m only happy when it rains
    I’m only happy when its complicated
    And though I know you can’t appreciate it
    I’m only happy when it rains

    You know I love it when the news is bad
    And why it feels so good to feel so sad
    I’m only happy when it rains

    Pour your misery down, pour your misery down on me
    Pour your misery down, pour your misery down on me

    I’m only happy when it rains
    I feel good when things are going wrong
    I only listen to the sad, sad songs
    I’m only happy when it rains

    • 414
      jgm2 says:

      You’re shiiiiit and you know you aaaaare,
      You’re shiiiiit and you know you aaaaare…

    • 437
      streamfisher says:

      I would be too lazy to post all that type, but appreciate the sentiment (which has occurred to me before as regards Gordon Brown).

  87. 413
    Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

    Out in the car listened to Osborne’s speech on 5 live. When it finished Pienar, I think, made reasoned comments and praised it, on the whole, as daring.

    Stupid tart of a presenter then tried to make a big deal of ‘all in it together’ being some kind of song; cue inane teen jingle, laughter, jollity.

    Yea, everything’s a joke in luvvie land, refuge of the inept.

    Especially the bloody staff.

    • 448
      tat says:

      they are a fucking desperate bunch of new labour rimmers on radio five innit.
      that bitch in the morning is alway fucking moaning she’s a right man hating bastard.
      I know I want a hung parliament but in some ways it would be great listening to radio five if the tories got in, can you imagine it? they would be so fucking depressed one of the c’unts might even top themselves on air!
      excellent.

    • 508
      Big Al says:

      All In It Together was a single by The Pirates in about 1978.

  88. 422
    Master Baiter says:

    There all in it now.

    • 428
      Master Baiter says:

      Co-wreck shun

      They’re all in it now.

      Osborne, just papering over the crack pots.

    • 529
      Master Baiter's Mum says:

      Your Baiter, I’m sick and tired of having to wash your spunk encrusted duvet.

      Also if you insist on having that revolting picture of Gordon puckering up to that fraudulent hard nosed bitch of a wife on your wall, please have it laminated.

  89. 429
    Moley says:

    The economy grew by 0% July-September.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8292958.stm

    That’s a relief; we were all afraid it wouldn’t grow at all.

    • 445
      jgm2 says:

      If two consecutive quarters of ‘negative growth’ signal a recession then surely we need two consecutive quarters of positive growth to signal a recovery?

      • 464
        Sir Humphrey says:

        Usually that would be the case, but you are forgetting the momentus times & turbulent era we are in.

        No Minister or Government could or should be held to such outmoded rules of thumb at this particualr juncture in the fiscal cycle.

        And remember – if the PM says its 0% growth then it probably is. Or not.

      • 475
        Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

        A recovery is what we all need of course but don’t get too excited when it starts.

        Firstly, it just means we’ve passed the bottom of the valley and see the slopes ahead, but it will be a while before we gain any useful height. If we ever gain any useful height.

        What do we make that people want to buy?
        What services do we offer that people want to hire?
        If economic activity increases, what will be the effect on our already dodgy balance of payments?

        Do you get my drift? It will he a long, long haul. We don’t need 2 consecutive quarters, jgm2, we need a fucking miracle.
        Those jokers who think we’ll be right back where we were in a couple of years are la-la-landers.

        • 488
          jgm2 says:

          I’m aware of that Sir Reg. But you and I know that if GDP grows by so much as zero % then Brown will proclaim victory over the recession. Labour will swagger round proclaiming their economic brilliance and the BBC will be in no rush to point out that that GDP ‘growth’ cost a minimum of 50bn borrowed pounds last quarter. And for every quarter for the next 18 months.

          Absent government borrowing we have been in recession since 2003.

          This isn’t a five quarter recession. It’s a fucking five year recession. And looking like another five years too.

          • resurgemus says:

            On news NIESR are expecting zero growth Q4 09

            How do you think Gordon will call it ?

          • jgm2 says:

            Zero growth? He’ll claim the recession is over thanks to his courageous plan to borrow 200bn quid this year. Not to be confused with his courageous plan to borrow 60bn quid last year, 40bn quid the year before….

            etc etc

            Nor indeed his courageous plan to borrow 200bn quid next year.

  90. 442
    Potkettle says:

    Er……Why didn’t George call the Public sector pay freeze a 0% increase.

    I think that was a kill shot missed

  91. 444
    Article 38 says:

    The pathetic and biased BBC have a feature about ‘Tory Boy’ on their website.

    If they’re keen on features about past embarrassments, how about a retrospective on Jack Jones and 3 Labour MPs being in the pay of the KGB?

    • 455
      sharon from accounts says:

      Labour are a Party of traitors.

      They care nothing for Great Britain.

      They have even changed the name of our Olympic team to suit their warped view of British history.

      Anyway, its all over for us – Europe are our masters now……………………until the insurgency begins – & boy, wont the English just make the very best freedom fighters?

      I can picture it now.

    • 456
      FrankFisher says:

      yes but the KGB were good. I mean, okay they killed people, but their goal was EQUALITY and this is of course good. Whereas the Tories – well they closed t’pits and there was Section 28 and they just don’t like OUR GOD EQUALITY so they’re bad. Thatcher! Bad.

      It will come to blood in this country. I see no other future. We have a minority of people in positions of great power and influence who are so thoroughly contaminated by this equality shite that they’re simply not going to give up. They are a cancer.

      • 469
        Phil O'Pastree says:

        In Wilson’s day Tony Benn closed more pits than Thatcher. Somehow that has been airbrushed out of history.

        • 520
          Skippy says:

          Quite possibly, but did the closures mean we had to depend on imported coal?

          • jgm2 says:

            No. We had to depend on the Marxist union leaders not getting out of bed on the wrong side and deciding to plunge the country into darkness for three days a week because they fancied more money.

            Well, we just do.

            L’Oriel negotiation.

            Because we’re worth it. And if you don’t agree then we’ll leave you in the cold and the dark on the fucking operating table if necessary to contemplate how fucking ‘key-workery’ we are.

            Poles never did that to us. Even the fucking Russians never turned off the gas. But these fuckers, regular as clockwork.

            Fuck ‘em.

            Eh Arthur? Eh?

            Fuck you Scargill.

          • Phil O'Pastree says:

            Now we have to depend on French imported expertise in nuclear energy because Hard Labour has put its faith in fucking windmills.

          • resurgemus says:

            yes but only after it made sure we had to import the windmills too

      • 577
        Gordon Brown take sit up the Aris says:

        I think the Tory party needed a good PR man when Maggie was around.

        Think about it, not having to send your sons, there sons, there son son sons downtpit anymore. Think how they have saved those Welsh boyo’s and Nottinghamshire lads. cue Hovis music.

        Poll Tax I can tell you if I lived next door to students or family with 20 people all shitting in the bog, putting 20 times more rubbish in the bins, I would say oi pay your fare share. It is all about PR

        We now have the PR all we need is the opportunity.

        • 586
          jgm2 says:

          Spot on. Margaret Thatcher is personally responsible for the increase in longevity that has taken place. No longer are generations of men sucking up coal dust and dying horrible deaths as a result.

          No longer are generations of elederly freezing to death in their homes because the fucking miners are on strike again.

          Hurray for Maggie. Did more for longevity statistics than a trillion quid squandered on the NHS.

          • Gordon Brown take sit up the Aris says:

            Jgm2 we really need to get the message out.

            That Hunt Ben Elton and the poofter comics of the marxist left were able to sout their bile on TV that were blatant lies.

            I want Cameron to make Ministers responsible for their actions and then retro it, so we get that one eyed gay scottish Hunt. I bet even the KGB turned the madman down, so no file on him at MI5 only one in Broadmoor mental institution

      • 596
        EC1 PhD says:

        Frank, I’m not aware that the KGB’s goal ever was equality. Their objective was intimidation and corruption through a network of ‘thieves-in-law’. Post Soviet Union breakup they simply brought their activities into the open – why else is Putin Russia’s richest man (and most powerful)?

      • 612
        Old Timer says:

        Another idiot who has not researched the facts before ranting a load of sh*te. Dear God, do you all come from the same factory ?

        Can we not make culling you, legal ?

        Point No. 1 The Conservatives did not close the mines. Scargill did that by preventing maintenance men from keeping them from flooding.

        Point No. 2 The Strike was a wholly Political strike. Even Kim Howells who was one of the NUM executive during those times now admits that and further more, says that there was no alternative to the TWO pit closures originally proposed. They were worked out. Reduced demand for british coal came about because of SUBSIDISED coal being exported to the UK from from the SOVIET UNION. Brother eats brother, eh ?

        Still why let the facts spoil a good old Leftist hatefest !

    • 460
      Gordon_Must_Go says:

      Nobody’s interested anyway…its old news, as for Jack Jones there was long a rumour of Harold Wilson being a communist sympathiser.

      • 470
        anon in C-Dept says:

        Always interested in traitors & the complicty to cover up their crimes.

        Todays Unions are no doubt just as bad if not a sight worse on the treason front.

        I can think of a few Ministers who are very close to Union bosses – what is the foundation of those relationships WE wonder?

  92. 458
    Moley says:

    Ken Clarke’s speech. (manuscript).

    http://www.conservatives.com/News/Speeches/2009/10/Ken_Clarke_Britain_will_be_a_decent_place_to_do_business_again.aspx

    I thought Osborne’s was better, but I haven’t found a video of Clarke’s speech.

    • 543
      Anonymous says:

      Ken Clarke was terrible. Content OK but delivery was poor. He has a very odd way of speaking.

      Osborne was clear and had the right amount of detail. I remember taking to a student that was born in 1971 and ending up feeling sorry for them as they had missed all the good times. Space race, first computers, birth of computer games, first emails, the first networks. Concord’s first flight. He is even younger than the first microprocessor.

      I wonder what is missing from people that have never witnessed a country all going in the same direction to push the barriers. Since then we have just had the destruction of most industries and the rise of the individual wealth as a form of competition.

    • 574
      Anonymous says:

      “Try telling business people or politicians from the States, Germany or Japan, that you can have a successful wealthy economy without having any manufacturing. Only the British came to believe that. In 12 years of Labour Government, the number of manufacturing jobs in Britain has dropped by more than a third. We have paid for the error. Britain has to make things again.”

      Finally, the penny has dropped. Tories are just as much to blame for the death of our manufacturing base but at least they realise that was wrong now and look like they want to do something about it. It’s a start.

      • 582
        Gordon Brown take sit up the Aris says:

        Yes, there was a lot they could ds in opposition.

        The EU fucked us as a nation, tell me what we export to France?

        Or Germany.

        We have the bigest trading block next door and we give them money to be our friends and we still have a trade gap with them. ANyone with any sense who sees the real numbers would pull us out tdy.

        Fucking Itish turncoats

    • 594
      Susie says:

      Our Ken was very good.

      He just doesn’t seem to have aged in 12 years at all. He has an endearing habit of laughing at his own jokes — and at the end, the totally divided, back-biting, Euro-sceptic conference
      all stood up to give him an standing ovation.

      Hah! Take that Toenails and Paxo.

  93. 459
    Anonymous says:

    Cameroon = Blair 2.0

  94. 461
    Anonymous says:

    BAD BOY

  95. 471
    Lord Hard says:

    Tory and Nu lab cocks jockey for position – its going to be neck and neck… GOBBLE…

  96. 472
    Lord Hard says:

    Suck my tory cum socialist (Blue-lab dick you monkeys)!

  97. 476
    Tony Blair says:

    “Let’s be honest: five more years of Brown is about as attractive a proposition as a handjob from Edward Scissorhands.”

  98. 477
    Anonymous says:

    I am ‘socialist’ born in the late 1950s. never voted Labour,
    never will – Fucksters, same with the crappy tories.

    Tories are the new red

    Piss poor all round.

    Fuck em all.

  99. 479
    Sir Richard Taliban says:

    IEDs going cheap……..

  100. 500
    Arthur Clapper says:

    Any Gary Glitter fanz here?

  101. 504
    Remember, remember says:

    We have been promised ‘bonfire of the quangos’ before.

    What happened? In Wales the staff and their functions were just moved into the Assembly proper. The same staff just kept on doing the same jobs.

    What we need this time is for all these non-jobs to disappear altogether.

    • 516
      Beelzebub says:

      Now then… none of that here!

    • 546
      Groucho says:

      Steady on. That would cause mass unemployment round here in the North East!

    • 580
      Anonymous says:

      Mr Cameron. While your about it will you give your shadow chancellor the figures on how much common purpose costs us and how much is given to it with tax money via such clubs as senior police officer ones? AKPoo, this week. Ta.Thank you

  102. 507
    Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

    O/T from the DT

    Spectators at Australia’s Bathurst 1000 motor-racing festival have been issued with strict limits on alcohol consumption – limiting them to “only” 24 cans of lager or four litres of wine…

    Strewth, Bruce, gonna be a thirsty weekend.

    • 517
      Beelzebub says:

      Definately OT Titbrain now FORK ORF

    • 533
      Road_Hog says:

      Yeah, but their tinnies/stubbies come in 375ml size and most of their beers tend to be sub 4% alcohol, so on a hot sunny day, it wouldn’t be hard to drink that amount.

  103. 523
    Anonymous says:

    Brown owl … calling Brown Owl.
    Reboot Cameron 2.0 Dos…….
    Blair FAT32

  104. 549
    Sukyspook says:

    Whilst teecher’z out of the klassroom, ‘ave a laff at this:

    • 558
      Ickey says:

      boe – bad man.

    • 589
      English Liberation Front says:

      Hilarious. But probably true. Something going on.

      Google communism in Britain – surprised so many fuckwits still believe that shit.

      Gordon Brown Bad Man

      Master Baiter Bad Man

      Guido Pawkes/Tawkes (etc.) Bad Man

      Charles Thingy Bad Man

      Baroness Scotland Bad Woman

      Harriet The Mad, the Red Queen – Very Bad Woperson

  105. 550
    Legion says:

    Does anyone realise that the death penalty will be back on the books when the Lisbon treaty is ratified.

    Cross the banks at your peril!

    • 559
      Sukyspook says:

      Yes, but those deserving of said penalty will ALWAYS be the ones pulling the trap-door lever….twas ever thus – sigh.

  106. 557
    Reverend Spooner says:

    Crown is a bunt

  107. 563
    The Sleeper says:

    Some woman from UNISON just on Pravda…bleating about the public sector pay freeze.

    Why should the public sector bear the brunt?..she says.

    It’s not just you ..says reporter.

    But they will cut public sector jobs as well..says Mrs Mills

    Will you strike?..says beeb reporter.

    Might be a ballot..says fat unionist.

    What fucking planet are they on? This is why Thatcher (warts and all) had to break the Union stranglehold. They don’t see any reason why they should suffer any of the pain that the rest of the country is feeling.

    To be fair the beeboid did give her a reasonably hard time.

  108. 600
    Obama is a Twat says:

    God the last thing the Tories need is a load of fucking scumbag fat bastard Liebour scum hanging around.

  109. 602
    Seth the pig farmer says:

    The difference in the Labour and Conservative conferences has highlighted to me the fundamental difference in the 2 parties.

    Labour want to gain power by democratic means, in order to suborn the apparatus of state to ensure political power in perpetuity.

    Conservatives want to gain power by democratic means in order to use the mechanisms of state to make life better for the majority, and thus receive a further democratic mandate.

    The cycle of life is such that all political parties need a spell in the wilderness for renewal – the tragedy is that we have to alternate the Tories with Labour. The socialist roots of Labour are fundamentally undemocratic and totalitarian.

    I pray that we can finally drive a stake through the heart of Labour and move into a new political landscape where power alternates between the Tories and the LD’s. The liberal roots of the LD’s mean that while they might espouse some similar polices to Labour, they are a democratic institution. Wishy-washy lentil eating do-gooders espousing misguided polices would be a refreshing change to the big-statist, hypocritical scorched earth policies of Labour.

    • 619
      English Liberation Front says:

      “Labour want to gain power by democratic means”.

      Not sure I agree with that. I think they want to gain power by any means, including lies and propaganda, smearing and demonising opponents and rigging election results. Their communist motivation convinces them that the end justifies any means. It is what they do. They view the whole process as revolutionary, gaining power in order to disempower those they consider to be “enemies of the people” or counter-revolutionaries. Look at the trolls on here and the way they operate. It is not about political debate but a game to win power over others, actual or psychological.

      Much New Labour/socialist/commie cant is not about winning arguments or persuasion but about discomforting, demonising, marginalising and suppressing dissent or disagreement. It is vile dogma and it gets an easy ride.

  110. 603
    john miller says:

    Good enough reason to vote for UKLP or UKIP

  111. 606
    Down with Brown! says:

    Great line from Ken Clarke to Lord Mandelson “Why on earth did you save Gordon Brown for the nation? The nation is not grateful.”

  112. 614
    Anonymous says:

    The first flatmate was hiosting a dinner as chairman of Thames Gateway London Partnership so would not welcome him do not necessarily have anything to fear.

  113. 615
    Blackburn Raver says:

    BBC lies on TV now.They never interview a small business man.

  114. 616
    Anonymous says:

    I was at a Question Time recording where one of the audience knifed Crash Broon, have to say Falconer had a fill yer boots son look on his face.

  115. 618
    Blackburn Raver says:

    Did anyone see Jonathan Meads on scotland and its people.Best bit was about the plastic jocks that visit to buy some shortbread hen fuck off back to some better place.A Campbell springs to mind.
    SCOTCHLAND home of the buckfast alci.

  116. 622
    Will Heathen says:

    The Tories have been completely infiltrated by the idle political elite.

    They were boasting about getting David Freud on board and various others have been ‘attracted’ over from New Labour.

    What all this confirms is that there is a cosy club in Westminster with no conviction, just a desire tostay there, taking the money and lording it over the rest of us.

    I shaln’t be voting Tory now – I’ve had enough ‘centre-left’ policies over the last twelve years – why do I want to pay tax to support them for the next five?

  117. 623
    Archie Wedderspoon says:

    I note that, in Australia at any rate, an ad for ‘tips for a flat belly’ comes just underneath Charlie Falconer’s corporation. He’s put on an awful lot of weight since his schooldays.

  118. 626
    Richard Blogger says:

    ROFL Cameron must really be losing his marbles if he wants Blair’s former mentor in his “big tent”. Brown found that the GOATs idea doesn’t work, so why would Cameron think that it does?



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