October 14th, 2009

Ed Vaizey’s Three Hour Lunch with Tracey Emin

Scotts VaizeyPhoto credit : a co-conspirator.

Just got off the phone a few minutes ago with Ed Vaizey. Guido called him via the Maitre’d of Scotts of Mayfair.  When he came to the phone he demanded to know which table Guido was sitting at.  Alas Ed, some of us have work to do.

His lunch partner – Tracey Emin – must be very entertaining.  Guido makes it that he is into his third hour of lunch since a co-conspirator alerted Guido.  The call went like this:

Ed What table are you at? I was just bemoaning that MPs can’t get away with anything.

Guido You do know there is a recession on?  Get back to work.

EV I am going back to vote.

GF Can you hear the division bell in Mayfair?

EV I know what time the vote is…

GF Look it is alright for me to take a three hour lunch, I pay your wages.

EV It was not a three hour lunch.

GF Get back to work.

Just another tough day in the life of a hardworking public servant…



539 Comments

  1. 1
    going mental says:

    no wonder he is a fat hoon 3 hour lunch

    • 5
      Chomping at the bit says:

      It takes a lot of persuading to keep artistes to stay in the country. Perhaps negotiating an exemption for the arts of the 50% tax rate?

      • 7
        Dack Blog says:

        Maybe she’ll insist that in return he’ll become just another notch on her Van-go.

        • 56
          Andrew Efiong says:

          Who paid for the lunch?

          • Archer Karcher says:

            “Who paid for the lunch?”

            You did.

          • Susie says:

            Everywhere there’s lots of piggies
            Living piggy lives
            You can see them out for dinner
            With their piggy wives
            Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.

          • Phil O'Pastree says:

            I would presume that the Conservative Party paid for the lunch not the taxpayer.

          • Doubtless the receipt will find its way to the Fees Office with a postit attaced describing the luncheon as “vital discussions of national/constituency importance”.

          • Can't read between the lines cause I'm thick says:

            We paid for the fat bastard’s lunch of course!!!

        • 78

          …No offence intended, but any of you bastards ever read John Stuart Mill ?

          See the trouble you cause dad with your fooking listeria obsession? I hope Gordon Brown wins the election just to spite you ya old bastard.

          AND WHERE’S THE FOOKING REFERENDUM on the LISIBON TREAT eh? I disown you – you aint my dad, ya PR prick…fuck you and your cocaine pipe *|*

          signed : Dead Cameron Baby

          • Dick the Prick says:

            You are perhaps one of the most pathetic individuals ever to grace this blog. Obviously, whilst in your pre-pubescent state you have little understanding of the offence you garner but I would strenuously advise you to go away.

          • tat says:

            but you are an internationalist you c’unt.
            so what the fuck are you going on about the lisbon treaty for you fucking idiot?
            you are a fool.
            a wicked fool.

          • Dick the Prick says:

            I really didn’t know trollery could sink so low

          • Dick the Prick says:

            You are in no position whatsoever to be a judge of anything or anyone. You have crossed so many lines of decency and you don’t even give a shit.

          • Make Britain Great again ! says:

            *** GUIDO ***

            You doubtless will have “Er1ic P1ck1es” IP address. Is there any chance you can post it on here. ?

            His comments were in such disgusting taste I think it is worthy of naming the hoon.

            Working in the broadband sector I can trace it down to a home or business very easily for you.

          • Disgusted says:

            You sick hoon!

          • Spolvil says:

            Its definately time to name and shame this utter utter hoon. Fcking disgraceful.

          • gary says:

            We know where you live.

          • A bit of calm says:

            Guys you are missing the point here, this cnut is posting something that is derisable, in appalling taste irrespective of political allegiance. To lather an attention seeker with precisely the attention it wants is unlikely to be effective.

            I think just as we would necessarily hope that such posts would be deleted, we should stop short of requesting people’s names and addresses to be published online, it would do more damage in destroying the anonymity that is assumed when people post here.

            Don’t act like a lynch mob- the internet is full of assholes like this who have no boundaries, just feel a momentary pang of disgust and pity for someone who finds it enjoyable, and MOVE ON to something else without giving the fucker what it wants.

          • Make Britain Great again ! says:

            Getting a bit worried now are we ???

          • Dack Blog says:

            Not that I know much more than fuck all about this stuff, but I imagine modding is auto and as soon as GF is ‘hands on’ he’ll delete such garbage. It’s probably more about discrediting the site than seeking attention. It’s human nature to tar everyone with the same brush, we all do it; politicians, public sector workers, party supporters – ‘they’re all the same as each other’ etc. If one commenter is a sick fuck, they can say we all are.

          • A bit of calm says:

            *Sigh*

            No I just wish people here would give trolls less time.

            Would MB post so often if people didn’t give it what it wanted?

            Just move on, ignore…

            : )

          • A bit of calm says:

            Agreed, that said, there’s nothing to stop Guido from privately identifying the IP address and publishing the findings.

            I tried to post the 24 Hour Carter-Fuck Twatphone here yesterday but the comment was deleted, In fairness I can undersatnd why as an admin of a site like this you wouldn’t want to go “too far” lest such activities could be construed as criminal.

            But in any case, troll success – we’re discussing it. (as usual)

          • Make Britain Great again ! says:

            The best way to deal with a Troll is to print their name.

            Have you noticed the troll has gone quiet. They suddenly realised that one simple decision & we can have their name and address on here.

            Maybe this troll wont sleep tonight.

            Guido – nail the koont !

          • A bit of calm says:

            But you realise it’s hard to do that, it depends on whether someone has a dynamic or static IP, and even then you still (depending on which one) have a barrier of an ISP, if the person concerned had gone through a proxy server (of which there are thousands) you would have a dead trail from the beginning.

            What IS easier is commercial addresses, because they are generally administered on known IP ranges – for example, if you found that the cnut concerned was doing it from Labour offices it could be very damaging.

            I just think that you have very little chance of finding a name, there’s barriers, and if you think about how many hurdles Intellectual Property outfits have to go through in order to get a name/address for someone filesharing I think it unlikely in this instance.

            Would like to be corrected though – someone might have some sort of access that circumvents the above..

          • The Ghost of Christmas Past says:

            Such is the burden of free speech unfortunately.

            A point that the anti fascist brigade would do well to take heed of when they seek to shut up legitimate parties from having their say.

            I may disagree wholly, exclusively and necessarily with what you say, but id defend to the death your right to say it.

            However, such comments as made by this ere troll deserve contempt, but let him say it it, it lets us all know what kind of a lowlife he really is.

          • Make Britain Great again ! says:

            Dear “A Bit Of Calm”

            I can have most IP address traced & through most of the ISP providers as well.

            Wont be a problem once Guido posts his IP address. Will take less than 24 hours to do.

            I LOVE TROLL HUNTING ! Especially those that stoop to such barbaric comments. Maybe the troll has realised the errors of its slimey ZanuLabour ways & like this government has no morals.

          • Sod 'em all says:

            The fact that it’s in diabolically bad taste is just tough shit, I’m afraid. You either have free speech or you don’t. Some will abuse it; most wont. and if we start falling for gagging a somewhat obvious agent provocateur like this piece of shit for his 2p worth, where’s it all going to end? Once a precedent has been set, it’s a slippery slope and the only winners are the enemies of truth in government who seek to enslave us all. This POS is a nobody. Learn to deal with it: ignore the cnut.

          • Anonymous says:

            Oh, it’s you again. Ofcourse, IP tracing is relatively easy using WordPress…

            Your problems will not come from being outed on the net. It’s when you are outed to friends and family.

            Case in point. A Hoon very much like yourself (same line in with) was attacking a bulletin board with obscene posts. He thought it highly amusing to abuse his position as an IT consultant. Until he was outed.

            Within a week all of his clients had fired him and pretty soon his wife threw him out.

            That was fun.

          • A bit of calm says:

            But this is the thing, where do you draw the line?

            I saw no one raise a hand in objection to jokes about stephen gately’s recent death – the difference in this case is:

            a) it’s a child
            b) it’s not funny

            But in terms of “how offended it makes you” (the frankie fraser mad’o'meter, if you like) does it make you more offended than muslims get when people publish cartoons of the prophet.

            In both instances, I am in favour of anonymity, I support the right of people to publish material that is objectionable, whether it is funny, has value, or in the case of this issue, is devoid of humour and simply offensive to us.

            Because the other alternative worse, and if the govt proposed doing it here you and everyone else would be rightly mortified.

            We’re adults, things offend us, but we deal with it because we can.

            And the Court of public opinion mainly watches sky and reads the fucking sun.

          • Can't read between the lines cause I'm thick says:

            You disgusting twat!

          • NuAttackDog says:

            Out this clown – trolls are trolls but this one has crossed a line

          • Hugh Janus says:

            Sick and pathetic. Abuse our hard-won freedom of speech and you simply hand to them on a plate the argument for even further restrictions.

    • 27
      Clock on Clock off says:

      No doubt the “lunch” went down on expenses.

      Shouldn’t his boss dock his wages for taking time off work without permission?

      How can anyone look at Tracey Emin for 3 hours, did he sound pissed Guido?

      • 39
        Anonymous says:

        Aint Trace a real woman of da people artist? What is the old slag doing dining in Mayfair? Another fucking champagne socialist.

        • 77
          Archer Karcher says:

          “Another fucking champagne socialist.”

          The socialist elite, their hangers on and the politically correct art / luvvy squad, all are.

          • Labours New Aristocracy says:

            These New Labour Aristocrats even have their own Gentlemans Club in Soho , its Called The Groucho. Toffs the lot of ‘em !!

          • Archer Karcher says:

            I see the wine list at Scotts has a rather nice, Le Montrachet 1999 Grand Cru, Etienne Sauzet , a snip at a mere £750.00.

            How heartwarming it is to see our political class reflecting the austerity around them, with such humbling self sacrifice.

          • Wonky faced spunkbucket.

            She’ll love France. Loads of hairy arsed Turks and no soap.

          • Dave says:

            The Groucho – is that from the Marxist pedigree?

          • Billy Bragg says:

            Not me mate, I am still a man of the people still doing benefit gigs to get rid of Fatcher and to save the miner’s jobs.

          • Concerned of Bolton says:

            I feel a bit sorry fer ‘er, like. The lass has an ‘orrible face with a complexion like a welder’s bench. She’d never have got anywhere in the real world with her own merits. Just like every other socialist, if the truth be known. Sad, i’nt it?

        • 271
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          I don’t think Tracy Emin has ever professed to being a socialist. She recently expressed disgust at the high tax rates in the UK, which is fair enough, to the extent she may emigrate. You may not like her art – I certainly don’t – but she doesn’t leech off the state and without having had any advantage though a privileged birth she has made a real success of life on her own. Good for her. Her tits ain’t half bad either.

          All I am reading is the classic British trait of sour grapes against those who take more risks than themselves and reap the rewards. If she was a worthless Lottery winner she’d get nothing but admiration.

      • 374
        Hopping Mad says:

        Emmin. Perfect example of an Illuminati champagne-swiller. Zero fucking talent, yet paid shedloads of wonga and celebrated by the (not so) great and good for turning out work after work after work of pure shite. This bitch should have been strangled at birth and flushed down the toilet (half way) with her toes still sticking out and then her mother could have exhibted the result as a “controversial work of art” at some Paris modern Art show in about fucking 1975.

        Lord Saatchi bought much of her old shit to make himself look cool and trendy and it was wonderful news when the warehouse he stored all her soiled old sheets and fanny pads got burned down in a great conflagration (thank you, God). I’ll bet he did alright out of the insurance claim, though!

        Fucking artists! Artists my fucking ARSE.

        • 383
          Labours New Aristocracy says:

          “This bitch should have been strangled at birth and flushed down the toilet (half way) with her toes still sticking out”

          As is practised in Red China and Imperial Rome. Yep a sure sign of totalinarianism if ever there was one. Thanks but no thanks.

          • A critic says:

            “It’s an artistic allegory, you WANKER. Only artists would understand the underlying metaphorical value of the juxtapatation of libertarianism – and indeed Libertinism – with social responsibility that this witty, pithy, yet vitriolic utterance conveys.”

            - The Guardian

          • slant gob emmin says:

            you’ve given her ‘inspiration’ for her new work

    • 110
      Sir Dundee-Marmalade says:

      What are they voting upon. Do we know?

      • 115
        Saturn v says:

        They are voting for to extend lunches from 3 hours to 4

        • 137

          Have a heart. We MPs regularly eat there.
          There is an exceptional wine list but the service is very slow.
          You can’t leave before the sweet trolley comes round either.

          Black muscat jelly with Jersey cream . Snip at £10.50

      • 120
        Jethro says:

        113 – …and, at least as important, do they know?

    • 124

      was the lunch Halal?

    • 406
      Big Bazongas says:

      Ed who?

    • 526
      reactionary fred says:

      Getting ideas above your station Guido!

  2. 2
    Throbber says:

    Well done – hound the fuckers into the ground.
    Persecute them without mercy.

    • 42
      Dick the Prick says:

      To be fair, even though he’s got the culture brief – sitting down with that horrible pikey is more work than i’d be comfortable with; rather clean out my drains frankly. Odious creature.

      • 292
        Vindictive Vic says:

        Yep. He has my sympathy. I’d rather dine with the fuckin’ Gorgon.

        • 400

          After the Battle of El Alamein, a member of the House of Commons protested that the victorious British general Montgomery had hosted a captured German general, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, for dinner.

          Churchill replied ‘Poor von Thoma, I too have dined with Montgomery’.

      • 418
        Davy says:

        She really is a dirty girl, he might catch something from her!

        • 429
          Down with Brown! says:

          After their three hour lunch, they went to back to Tracey’s flat and spent three hours in her unmade bed.

  3. 3
    Anonymous says:

    Glad to know where my tax money is doing

    • 6
      Chomping at the bit says:

      note date…. check ex’s when disclosed!!

      • 223
        Jon Forest says:

        I’d want more than 80 grand a year and unlimited expenses to sit next to that trollop for three hours. Who would be an MP?
        As for having the meeting over lunch – imagine having to tuck into your snap while staring at close range into a bulldog’s arse and you can see that Vaizey has been going above and beyond and deserves our sympathy and praise, not opprobrium.
        Not only that, but some f***er might change the rules in a few years time and retrospectively demand that Ed pays for the meal himself, instead of putting it on exes. Just when he was getting over the trauma.

  4. 4
    Dack Blog says:

    I hope he’s got a four hour therapy session booked for having to sit looking at Emin for so long, listening to that pretentious garbage she comes out with.

    • 10
      People's army of Engerland fight back starts here says:

      I know I should ‘t but I think I would.

      • 21
        Road_Hog says:

        See my posted photo link in post 14, I think you would, dirty little madam.

        • 32
          Mitch says:

          the answer’s still no

        • 81
          People's army of Engerland fight back starts here says:

          Actually I could do a Sarah Brown a doule paper bag jobby on her.

          Can you imagine Gorgoyles bag dropping off mid thrust, Sarah Sarah am I in yet. No Gordon I told you to take the blue viagra tab to counter your anti depressants. No not in there Gordon that is reserved for a real man and the father of your children.

          • People's army of Engerland fight back starts here says:

            p.s. i have had worse oops

          • Dick the Prick says:

            Me too….uurrgghhh…got proper knob rot off it also. A very bad night indeed. Whoops – may have put tea in jeopardy.

          • The Ghost of Christmas Past says:

            Thanks awfully for that horrid mental imagery.

            Im off to the kitchen now, to hack my head off with a rusty butterknife to try and erase it all.

  5. 8
    tat says:

    ed vaizey has always been in it for himself.
    public servant?
    don’t make me fucking larf.

  6. 9
    People's army of Engerland fight back starts here says:

    I think this is excellent, perhaps the people who have been watched can now turn the tables and we can create a blog and website dedictaed to spotting MP’s out and about.

    Most of us have phones and camera’s so come on little peeps let’s get teh barstards baclk

    • 12
      Dack Blog says:

      As I don’t have a bottomless pit of taxpayers’ cash to dip into, I don’t tend to hob-nob in the same circles.

    • 22
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    • 36
      Anonymous says:

      Nice one, the Hoons spy on us every day via their poxy CCTV, council wankers playing at James Bond to catch people letting their dogs crap on the pavement or trying to get their kids into a better school and internet police to read what we talk about via the net. Turn the cameras on the fuckers and watch them squirm and plead for privacy!

      • 100
        Genghiz the Kahn says:

        Didn’t Hattersley get so fed up with Eye readers spotting him in resturants, then writing in that he had been seen with a woman, not his wife somewhere in London?

  7. 11
    cronshd says:

    Top work……….!!

  8. 13
    Road_Hog says:

    And for our foreign visitors who may wonder who Tracey Emin is or what she looks like. She’s an artist, of sorts.

    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/08/04/article-1041390-02277AA100000578-879_468×630.jpg

  9. 14
    Piers F-D says:

    Guido, I think you’re moving into dangerous territory. You are on the verge of officially becoming a twat.

  10. 15
    Raving Loon says:

    If I took a three hour lunch break at work I would probably get punched in the face (he says blatantly on GF during the day…)

  11. 16
    rimmyarse says:

    Vaizey is one of those spoilt little rich kids who wouldn’t know how ordinary folk are coping with the recession. My son’s just been made redundant – what prospect of another job soon in London?
    To Vaizey and all the other arrogant Makkabi wiseguys, I say: you make m,y stomach churn

    • 139
      durotriges says:

      What is a makkabi wise guy please?

    • 262
      Phil Free says:

      What prospect, of another job, in LONDON you ask??
      Are you shitting me?
      Are you a mentalist?
      Do you mean LONDON ENGLAND?
      No jobs?
      None?
      At all?
      None there at all?
      Seriously?
      No work to be found?
      No fucking vacancies whatsoever in LONDON?

      I agree though, Vaizey is a c’unt.

    • 311
      Anonymous says:

      If you can’t find a job in London then you’re a skiver.

  12. 18
    A firm pair of breasts says:

    We’ll be paying for his lunch no doubt. Hurrah for us.

    • 356
      RavingMad says:

      if we are paying for it, then we should chose the options – how about a nice plate of splintered glass pate with a sprig of mint to start……

  13. 19
    michael read says:

    Surely, how much and who paid?

    Terrific work. Push piggy noses in the pooh.

  14. 20
    Tin Cunliffe-Arsely says:

    How much is tracey Emin worth?
    I ask this because if she moved to France the french state would demand that. In all its details, every last penny she owns, everywhere on earth, and slap a tax on it if its over something like £500k. Every year.

    Perhaps she should spend more time with her accountant.

  15. 23
    Archer Karcher says:

    Tory, Labour, Limp Dims, whats the difference?

    It is all pretence for the mug punters, watch CMD`s “tories” in action after they win the next election.

    If you shut your eyes they all sound the same, if you open them you would be very hard pressed to differentiate between nearly all of them.

    Consensus politics has destroyed choice and is designed primarily for the destruction of democracy as a viable political system.

    Message to the political class, no we do not all agree and we do not all want the same outcomes, represent our views or you will be destroyed.

    • 37
      Anonymous says:

      Another labour troll with the desperate spin that “they’re all as bad as each other”.

      Well, as a floating voter I don’t have any great faith in the Tories but one thing I’m sure of is that they won’t be anywhere near as appalling as Brown and his sycophantic gang of cockroaches.

      The Tories will be getting my vote because I can’t wait to see the back of these stinking Labour turds.

      • 104
        Archer Karcher says:

        “Another labour troll with the desperate spin that “they’re all as bad as each other”.”

        Erm not actually, frustrated and angry former tory, who despises what passes for political choice these days.

        I too, will vote for the NuTories, out of desperation rather than hope, though I expect CMD to disapoint in record time.

        The fact is that the mainstream political spectrum in the UK offers virtually no choice at all.

        They agree on virtually everything, the only debate is how we arrive at the same statist, multiculti, pro EU, green socialist, Keynesian, undemocratic “utopia” more efficiently.

        I repeat, they are ALL the same.

      • 480
        Anonymous says:

        “Another labour troll with the desperate spin that “they’re all as bad as each other”

        Trying to pigeonhole someone as something derogatory simply because they share a differing viewpoint to your own is the height of ignorance – why else do you think the government have made so much use of this method for the last 12 years?

    • 52
      rick says:

      Slimy consensus is easy. Look at the stick Thatcher took for being a conviction politician. The pain is simply not worth it for decent people – maybe a strong dictator ship is the only way from here on.

  16. 24
    General Hoon Alert says:

    Did anyone watch the Gorgon do his statement on Afghanistan today ? The trougher palace was fuckin empty. These clowns don’t give a flying fuck that hundreds of soldiers have died for their country. Seeing the The PM and Cpl Jobsworth sitting giggling while Nick Clegg spoke was repulsive. I’d send the fuckers to Helmand for 6 months. Wipe the lardy arsed smirk off their overfed chops. Fuckin hoons.

    • 28
      Anonymous says:

      This is the worst government by miles we have ever had the misfortune to have in this country. Lead by the worst prime minister ever.

  17. 25
    William Morris says:

    Tracey Emin, what a joke. Call that art? I certainly don’t. Her and Damien Hurst must be laughing all the way to the bank.

    So-called “Brit-art”, typical of the sort of dross produced under psycho Brown and his appalling Labour government of all the scumbags.

  18. 26
    cloudy apple juice says:

    Maybe there talking about Emin creating a new work of art like the “Bed” only this time with Vaizey’s skid marks down the sheets.

  19. 29
    snaf2 says:

    O/T but interesting to see that vicious old crook Berlusconi is now plugging Tony B as our first Reichs President. The word is that in return for this support, Tony has promised Silvio immunity from prosecution. What fun!

  20. 31
    Cuckold of Cookfield says:

    Thanks Guido. My wife told me that she was in Norfolk this week, but I can see her on the next table. Don’t know who the bloke is. Can you confirm that this was today, please, as this could well be the breakthrough that I was looking for. Thank you again, I’m very grateful.

  21. 33
    Jac says:

    Okay I’ve just looked this guy up. Shows how interesting he is to me that I didn’t know he was in my party. Sounds like he needs to get a swift kick in the Constituency and get back to work. Disgraceful! I hope he didn’t put it down as expenses!

  22. 34
    Anonymous says:

    Ed Vaizey is losing the plot. He recently came out in support of the BBC, against top slicing the licence fee to support public service broadcasting by the commercial sector and against selling Channel 4.

    Gone native big time.

    Most of his girl friends are lookers though.

    • 67
      Mike Huntstinks says:

      You seem to have a spelling mistake in the last sentence – that l should be an h

  23. 38
    Buy Forks says:

    Berlusconi backs Blair for EU Presidency.

    Surely that’s the end of the Liar’s campaign?

  24. 40
    Anonymous says:

    these bastards need a chip inserted so that we can tell how many hours of work they do and if and when they are in the house

  25. 41
    Cyco Billy says:

    I wanna live like common people, do the things that common people do.

    • 227
      You Couldn't Make It Up says:

      Vaizey has family money. He can afford Scotts, Emin is is mega-wealthy now

      Emin btw alwaysw looks dirty – sort of greasy. I’ve been close enough more than once to know!
      Iused to have a job on the fringe of the ‘art’ world. Hirst is cute, in every sense – she ain’t

      • 359
        Anonymous says:

        But she does have a nice pair of breasts and a nifty cleavage.

        She has a dark skin tone due to where her dad came from.

  26. 44
    Anonymous says:

    Clearly a stupid ignorant scumbag to dumb to understand just how horrible it is to lose a child – no one deserves to have that experience and any decent human being wouldn’t even wish it on their worst enemy, which speaks volumes about the kind of pond life that thinks it’s okay to crack jokes about it.

    You aren’t Dolly or McPoison by any chance are you?

    • 50
      Anonymous says:

      In fact I take back my final comment – I think I’d be right in saying they both have kids, so neither of them would surely stoop quite as low as this piece of shit has.

      • 422
        snaf2 says:

        He is indeed a piece of shit, and textural analysis reveals that it is our old ‘friend’
        s-p/ae do s_ho/rts

  27. 45
    Lizzie says:

    Well maybe it won’t be so “cushy” after the general election, there is a God!

  28. 46
    Geordie Boy says:

    Cheer up. Prof Prescott on telly tonight explaining the north/south divide. So why do the BBC think we wish to listen to the opinions of a lying thieving pie-chomping fuckwit who can hardly string two words together?
    Pray tell.

    • 51
      Southern Softie says:

      I thought you Northerners understood him

    • 58
      Two slags in China says:

      Presott’s trip to China for the climate conference gave us that brilliant video he took from his toilet. ( complaining about auto flush shitters etc ). Any chance of seeing it again Guido ? It was funny as fuck. Only beaten in fun by the readers comments.

      • 294
        Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

        talking of climate: TheEcologist (.co.uk) have released today, a report saying carbon capture is more effective by forrests and oceans. The Ecologist!

    • 98
      Labours New Aristocracy says:

      you forgot to mention he also shagged his staff on the public purse.

    • 99
      Anonymous says:

      If it’s as big a laugh as his last series about “Class” I should set the recorder. Pauline will no doubt try to curb his more frenzied outbursts like last time !! The guy is a natural successor to Les Dawson and for some unfathomable reason seems to be in his element. He is a born comic performer of which fact he appears totally unaware of. Pity about his inferiority complex and enough chips on his shoulder to make two chip butties cos’ otherwise you could actually almostwarm to the bloke(ignoring his politics of course)

  29. 47
    Alan Duncan MP says:

    See what I mean, can’t a chap even have a nice lunch in peace!

  30. 48
    Dire Straits says:

    Go for it Guido!

    They’ll not feel safe anywhere soon, which may mean they get on and actually do some *work*.

  31. 53
    Cyco Billy says:

    Trouble at t’Mill? Try Benthams. He’ll have you breathing better in no time. And 100% ready to resume troughing.

  32. 54
    McGroom says:

    I bet he expenses lunch citing research on High Net Worth individuals leaving the UK over the 50% tax rate. As Vaizey was joint first in claiming the absolute maximum Additional Cost Allowance and he is pretty handy with his Incidental Expenses Provision he is a tier 1 trougher.

    Cameron said that the Conservative party had to be seen to do the right thing over expenses. Perhaps someone from Dave’s office should clarify with Vaizey that troughing high on the hog with a known con-artist may not be “seen” to constitute the right thing.

    • 234
      Charlie Whelan ate my hampster says:

      I have no money at all, but I find the British in one of their periodical attacks of Puritanism to be utterly repugnant. There are three people at the table, and was clearly a fourth – see the coffee cup in front of the empty chair.

      We have no idea who paid for lunch and no idea of its purpose or agenda – most long lunches in London are in the course of business of some sort. It’s an amusing pic, but Purrr-leeze!

      • 290
        rick says:

        Calm down, Charles. We only take the piss, because here we have a table full of sanctimonious Socialist bastards who normally tell us how much they identify with the working classes, living the life of Reilly – probably on working people’s money, directly or indirectly.

  33. 55
    Anonymous says:

    Do you not record your phone conversations? … be much more fun for us if you did!

    • 59
      Mike Huntstinks says:

      I bet the governement does

      • 80
        Anonymous says:

        There’s probably an unmanned drone equipped with laser guided missiles permanently stationed over “Guido” with a direct link to Brown’s Bunker.The only thing that keeps Brown going is the thought that on the morning after the election his final act as Prime Minister will be to issue the launch codes!!

  34. 57
    Anonymous says:

    Why do you suppose it’s the taxpayer that’s paying – he’s not a government minister. Anyway, long lunches should be encouraged. If they spent more time enjoying a long lunch then maybe they would spend less time intefering with us. Guido, do you prefer life with or without long lunches?

  35. 63
    It may be art but it's certainly NOT work says:

    Tracey Emin was working – she will probably throw a few glasses of wine on the table,smear some food over it and the Tate Modern will be gagging to buy her latest “work of art” for £2 million. !!!!

    • 248
      Tate Modern Luvvie says:

      Yaaaaaaaaaahh, sounds frigging maaaaaaavelllous daaaarling! MWAH MWAH!!

    • 293
      rick says:

      You forgot she would need to shit on it also, and then have it endorsed as a kosher masterpiece by Sachi & Sachi.

      • 520
        NuAttackDog says:

        #248 just earned me several curious glances from co-workers wondering why I’ve just cackled like a madman

  36. 63
    ghanimah says:

    Cheers Guido, Mr Vaizey is my MP. Will remember this for when I next meet him.

  37. 70
    Jac says:

    Can you please get rid of that offensive name?

    • 85

      ..No offence intended, but any of you bastards ever read John Stuart Mill ?

      See the trouble you cause dad with your fooking listeria obsession? I hope Gordon Brown wins the election just to spite you ya old bastard.

      AND WHERE’S THE FOOKING REFERENDUM on the LISIBON TREAT eh? I disown you – you aint my dad, ya PR prick…fuck you and your cocaine pipe *|*

      signed : Dead Cameron Baby

      • 149
        Anonymous says:

        If ever there was a case on here to ban someone….this is surely it Guido??

        • 276
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          There is no registration here so how do you ban someone? New ID, another IP addie – easy peasy.

          • Phil O'Pastree says:

            Freedom of speech is a responsibility as well as a right. Numpties like you simply make it harder for those who have something worthwhile to say.

  38. 72
    NewsLion says:

    SPIT IN HIS FOOD!!!

    http://newslion.blogspot.com/

    • 527
      James S says:

      newslion, well you stop posting that fucking irrelevant link to your shitty blog after every single post you make?

      Your signature = SPAM.

      Don’t click, folks

  39. 75
    Freedom! says:

    Tracey, Ed and the poorly dressed companion were obviously lost.

    They have no shame. You’d think they would be uncomfortable in a restaurant like Scotts.

    Mayfair isn’t what it used to be.

  40. 76
    Dan G says:

    Good: Expenses scandal has ignited interest in politics. At Last!

    Bad: Morons who never gave a shit about politics before get confused over ‘entitlement’ to an opinion and ‘worthwhile’ opinion.

    All this bluster and rage from ‘taxpaying victims’ who don’t know their political arse from their elbow. Yes, some MP’s have had their snouts in it. Yes, they should be punished. Yes, let’s get angry about it and change the system. But that doesn’t make everyone a fucking expert on everything overnight.

    Simple question for all the deeply upset people in this damp little blog:-

    Why do you think politicians spend time making links with people outside professional politics?

    Guido, you’re brilliant but really should know better!

    • 129
      TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

      The way Mark Oaten did?

    • 318
      Hard Working, Honest Tax Payer says:

      Dan G

      You self righteous prig. You don’t own the only right to be indignant.

      You sound like an MP yourself.

      Jumped up little oik.

      All taxpayers reserve the right to have a view, even if it upsets you.

      Grow up.

    • 342
      Mongrel says:

      Answer: to line their pockets after (and perhaps even during) their political careers. Why else would Mandelson hang out with Deripaska, Brown with Lord Paul, or Cameron with Christopher Moran, the only man to have been banned from Lloyd’s, the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
      You are clearly a newbie here, and still have illusions about politicians, but don’t patronise us. It would be tribal to get angry with all the incompetence, illiberalism and dishonesty of Labour without holding the other parties to the same standards.

    • 345
      Mongrel says:

      Dan. Answer: to line their pockets after (and perhaps even during) their political careers. Why else would Mandelson hang out with Deripaska, Brown with Lord Paul, or Cameron with Christopher Moran, the only man to have been banned from Lloyd’s, the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange

      • 445
        Freedom! says:

        Tell me that’s a joke! Cameron is stupid enough to hang around with Christopher Moran? (CJM 1 on his Rolls)

        That man was thrown out of everywhere.

        Camerhoon, remember you are judged by the company you keep.

  41. 86
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    And shouldn’t Emin be at home making her bed and counting the used condoms?

  42. 87
    Trinny says:

    Surely the man deserves his lunch. Three hours with Tracey Emin! I’d be out of there after 5 minutes.

  43. 89
    Anonymous says:

    Didn’t Ed once share his duvet with Esther McVey?

    She is rather nice totty – no, she is hot totty

  44. 97
    PM says:

    Good to see that Scotland Yard are tackling serious criminality once again after the Damian Green fiasco.

    They’re now investigating Leona Lewis’ slapping in Waterstones today.

    • 108
      Rusty says:

      Frankly this is not worthy of you GF. As long as he doesn’t claim lunch it’s OK

      We really don’t want a bunch of teetotal workaholics in Parliament. Frankly they are the ones more likely to dream up ponitless and at times damaging legislation.

      For myself I am happy for Mr Vaisey and other trenchermen to lunch away as long as they don’t start trying to run my life.

      Please don’t be so churlish and cheap, it rather lessens all the really good stuff you do.

      • 237
        Charlie Whelan ate my hampster says:

        Well said, it’s the Puritans who are ruining the country and curtailing our freedoms – they always do

      • 247
        RUSTY GETS ANALISED PART ONE says:

        Frankly this is not worthy of you Rusty. As long as you don’t insult your host it’s OK.

        We really don’t want a bunch of uncouth wankers like you visiting order-order. Frankly you are the type of wanker who is more likely to dream up pointless and at times completely bullshit and boring comments.

        For myself I am happy if Mr Vaisey and his other trenchermen analise you and steal money from your pockets which they use to lunch away for as long as they like while they discuss how they can ruin your life.
        That’s cool.

        Please don’t be such a uptight motherfucker you arshole. but it would be impossible to lessen the other stuff you do because it’s shit.
        Show your generous host some manners you ungrateful whore.

      • 279
        Phil O'Pastree says:

        It’s just a bit of goss, Rusty … get some WD40 on your joints, man.

        The phone conversation is just teasing.

  45. 101
    Genghiz the Kahn says:

    Perhaps he was outlining Tory policy on tax, and telling Tracey that life’s better under a Conservative.

  46. 103
    Genghiz the Kahn says:

    ur Damien McBridle, and I claim my €5.

    • 117
      exiled &angry says:

      Guido,

      Get this cretin off. This is going beyond the bounds of the generally acceptable bad taste we can all wince at on your site. Highly offensive and upsetting for anyone who’s lost a child!!

      • 125
        Anonymous says:

        I agree.. warn this guy not to be such a tw@ or you’ll post his IP, then do it – they can’t complain if you warned ‘em.

        Even if proxied, there’s enough people here who are friends with the proxy owners to find it out

      • 136
        resurgemus says:

        isnt this the idiot Hoon from Troon ?

    • 121
      Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

      Guido,do you remember how a lot of us were concerned when your little one had swine flu?

      How the fuck can you tolerate this obscenity?

      Are your user figures so crucial in your advertising statistics that
      you allow such depravity.

      Fix it Guido!

      • 128

        Guido this tosser wants sorting out more than a Ed Vaizey’s lunch break, let us have the IP address, then the lads can pay him/her a visit.

      • 141
        Truth Sayer says:

        He aint dolly draper either cause i don’t think even dolly would stoop this low especially after bringing a new baby into the world with kate recently.

      • 156
        Doc Trough says:

        It’s the Hoon of Troon ffs. Needs a track pin round his sick napper.

  47. 105
    Daveyone says:

    Here is one she did earlier it is as sacred as the Labour party!

  48. 113
    Gonk says:

    Resist impulse to sneakery Guido.
    Unlike you. Or so I thought.

  49. 123
    The cunt of Monte Cristo says:

    Good gracious! I hope he is able to fulfil his booking on the Wright Stuff tommorow.
    What the flying fuck are the Tories doing courting these ghastly celebs???

    ’spunk stained’ Emin, and tax evading, puffed up, preening, self regarding, tax evading Celt kunt, Bono are really the polar opposite of the type of people the Tories should be championing.
    Are they prostrating themselves in front of Billy ‘i had one good joke in 1974′ Connolly, and that bevy of self important actor homos wot av big upped the Labour filth too?

    Im gonna fooking vote for Bob Crow’s shower at this rate, at least you know where you are with Bob, comrades.

    • 365

      Cameron is sending a message to Pa Broon!

      “See, Brown? Bono has looked at what you have promised, then taken a look at what you subsequently did. So he no longer trusts you. And young artists like Tracey Emin no longer have any faith in you! Goodbye, Gordon.”

  50. 130
    Dack Blog says:

    The last chance to oust Brown?

    http://blogs.news.sky.com/boultonandco/Post:13e3b3ea-c273-449a-b16c-c2db19500b38

    Room 13 – ominous. (For Brown we hope).

  51. 134
    Genghiz the Kahn says:

    Guido. “Ed., how’s the Art Tart.”

    Ed. “I’m just offering Tracy some quantitative easing after lunch.”

  52. 135
    The Lesbian Treaty says:

    Civilization is doomed.

  53. 138
    Truth Sayer says:

    I’d shag tracy emin now she’s got her teeth and knockers sorted out.

  54. 140
    Monty says:

    Who is Mr Vaizey? Doesn’t ring a bell or a tracey with me.

  55. 142
    Gonk Wan says:

    Why is there no fashion on here soooo annoying giddeo

    • 147
      lupus lupus says:

      Yeah, we’re holding, “A face like a bag of spanners week,” and you’ve just come top.

  56. 145
    An Englishman says:

    I have no idea why Emin is one of the UK’s most prominent artists, but she is.

    Vaizey is the Shadow Minister for Culture. Meeting with one of the UK’s most prominent artists can be a wholly appropriate use of his time. The length and venue of such a meeting are not of interest.

    Of course, Vaizey might care to validate his meeting by publishing the minutes of it.

    Guido, don’t you have more important ways to spend your time?

  57. 150
    Art Blakey says:

    Get that bus out!

  58. 151
    Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

    O/T-I think we should ditch europe and have closer links with the commonwealth countries. We’d be a million times better off and our buddies will benefit as much as we do. Restore pride in the flag and our monarchy. Reconnect with our roots and the homelands of commonwealth and former commonwealth immigrants to UK.

  59. 159
    nell says:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/6318790/MPs-expenses-rebellion-over-Lady-Smith-on-the-streets-of-Redditch.html

    The petition against jacqui as MP and against her being given a peerage has apparently really taken off in Redditch since her shoddy ‘apology’ to the House on Monday.

    It was disgusting to see the only speaker of the house to be ousted in the three hundred years being installed as a peer yesterday in the HoL. Jacqui getting a peerage would be a move too far even for this corrupt labour government.

  60. 162
    Engineer says:

    I take it that Vaizey is the besuited one on the right of the group, and Emin the female one in the middle facing the camera; who is the scruffy oik on the left? How was he admitted to a posh restaurant dressed like that? Or have restaurants in London given up bothering with standards?

  61. 164
    Anonymous says:

    Take a crate of bubbly to make Tracey Emin look even remotely tasty

  62. 165
    Truth Sayer says:

    I hope the fackers left a decent tip for the waiting staff

  63. 166
    chronic says:

    OT, c4 news , new speaker , no change.

  64. 168
    nell says:

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6860232.ece

    I presume what we are witnessing is Emin, a lifelong Labour supporter, changing sides and giving her support to the tories. Obviously gordon’s too much even for her.

  65. 169
    Anonymous says:

    I am surprised that some fundamental issues remain out of the spotlight.

    Gold is currently trading at near all time highs. It is thought Brown sold off most of our gold reserves at rock bottom prices, having warned the markets beforehand he was going to do so! Has anyone worked out what that particular bit of “prudence” / aka lunacy cost the nation?

    Brown also raided the pension funds, a traditional nest egg there to help fund/deal/buffer precisely the sort of financial crisis we have been enduring. That vital safety net has been squandered, but upon what?

    Brown is driving major corporates offshore with a severe consequential implication on tax revenues. What a good move when tax revenues are collapsing!

    How many quangos, complete with executives, office staff and offices, have blossomed under Brown? The cost is exhorbitant. Did you know there is now apparently one dealing footpaths?!

    The cost of Health and Safety and Political Correctness, even before one takes into account the cost of the resultant court cases and admin charges, is stupendous and in so many cases achieves the square root of F*** all. We are not all idiots who need signs to tell us the obvious everywhere we go. (There were no signs when I was young and yet here I am!) Nor are simple knicknames offensive unless you intend them to be. I get called everything under the sun from Pom, Brit, Bog Irish , Mick etc etc tc and couldn’t give a toss. How can this idiot Brown preside over this fiasco and do nothing?

    The treatment of compensation to injured armed forces personel and the inadequate provision of equipment for those in theatre is a national disgrace. If the UK cannot afford to do things properly we should not send our superb armed forces into harms way. We can no longer afford to act like a global power, especially when the justification in many cases for so doing, is severely questionable. (for the record I am not a current or ex serving member of the armed forces with an axe to grind. I simply voice what I think we all believe)

    I reckon Brown/Blair have probably done more damage to the UK Economy and our way of life than Hitler managed to do in a World War II! I struggle to find any lasting legacy either have genuinely delivered off their own bat which will stand the test of time.

    I do not really care who replaces the Brown, or which party they come from, provided we get someone with basic common sense and realism in the job and the balls to stand up for traditional British values with a sustainable and balenced approach to all the issued including the unmentionable immigration and the racial cauldron problems, which are now building.

    We are in danger of losing all credibility in the world and also our fundamental quality of life which is a crap legacy to hand on to our kids. In short we need a new Government who can and will GOVERN using common sense and realism combined with financial expediency, and not denture sucking platitudes.

    Yours

    Erkinwald the Concerned (a new reader of your excellent site)

    • 177
      Charlie the Chancer says:

      Basic common sense and realism,then we are well and truly screwed as none of these so called politician’s we have as MP’s fit the bill.

      • 183
        nell says:

        Let’s face it the only time they show any passion or enthusiasm for anything is when they are being told they have to pay back expenses that they criminally troughed when they thought nobody would find them out.

    • 184
      Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

      Hi Erkinwald. ‘Completely agree with your observations and concerns. leaving Labour and LibDems aside, I think the election run-up should enable a lot of those concerns to be ironed out by the choice leftovers. I also think because of the stink that any manifesto pledges will be in indelible ink. Woe betide any party that breaks a promise again. We are very patient as a society but we have snapped in the past and we are due for another anytime soon.

    • 185
      Doc Trough says:

      He gets ever so defensive when anybody talks about the gold. Sweats, shaky hands, bitey nails. One hopes for an arresting spectacle.

    • 261
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      Brown then realised £2 billion from gold sales which would be worth £ 8 bn at today’s prices. Nice one Gordo!

    • 372

      Day price for gold at the local -honest- jeweller has gone down in 6 months from £11 to £6.

  66. 170
    I'M JUST CAPITAL says:

    Get Rid Of The Fucking Lot ! Lab Con And Lib Vote In A Gang Of Nobodys And I Bet They Do A Better Job The Small Independents Are Still Wanting To “Make A Difference So Give Them A Go ! It Doesn’t Matter Which Of The Big Three You Like They Are ALL AT IT ! Cameron Clegg And Most Of All Brown Have All Been Caught With Their Hands In The Public Till !They Are Damaged Goods And It Is Time To Start Afresh !

  67. 174
    shelling-out says:

    I’m not too bothered about Ed Vaizey. Let him eat, for tomorrow he will lose his seat.

    • 188
      nell says:

      Um Shelling.

      I think you have the wrong man. Vaizey is a tory. Shadow Culture Secretary. And already has an 8000 majority in his constituency. Furthermore he doesn’t seem to have any major expenses issues, though I stand to be corrected if I’m wrong.

      • 255
        Dack Blog says:

        On 18 May 2009 the Daily Telegraph reported that receipts submitted by Vaizey show that he ordered a £467 sofa, a £544 chair, a £280.50 low table and a £671 table in February 2007 from Oka, an upmarket furniture shop. The Commons fees office initially rejected the claim as the receipt said that the furniture was due to be delivered to Vaizey’s home address in west London, but was later paid when Vaizey told the fees office that the furniture was intended for his second home in his Wantage constituency. Vaizey said it “had it delivered to London because we would be in to collect it and we were driving down with it.”

        When these claims became public, Mr Vaizey said that he had repaid the cost of the Oka furniture and the antique chair which he had bought with taxpayers’ money: “I accept that the £300 armchair was an antique item and therefore that claim should not have been made. I also accept that the Oka items could be deemed as being of higher quality than necessary. I have paid back both these claims. I have not claimed for any other furniture bought for my constituency home at any time before or since.”

        Slippery hoon.

        • 270
          nell says:

          Well I accept.

          But militwit also did the same thing with his hand-made furniture.

          We need an end to these troughing people. Legg is on the right course. He must NOT do a Hutton and Whitewash everything because of pressure.

          • Dack Blog says:

            Agreed Nell. Don’t let party get in the way of principle. Vote for the best candidate. Fuck the parties. (And that includes the Tories. A trougher is a trougher).

      • 373

        Shadow Culture secretary talks artist? Hardly news, is it?

  68. 175
    Inquirer, he says:

    Do they sell the (stained) tablecloth?

    or keep it as a moment o?

    Anyone wanna buy my old knickers?

  69. 176
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Tracey Emin
    The face of a Gargoyle, combined with all the artistic talent of a senile chimp

    BUT WHAT A FUCKING GREAT PAIR OF TITS!

    She can give me a Tate wank anytime (just as long as its ironic)

    • 182
      • 195
        The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

        Fucking hell Mr Sayer that photo is ironic

        Remember when saatchis “art” collection burnt down?
        There was that tent with the name of every man she had ever slept with on it
        I bet some fucker thought
        “OMFG THE SHAME OF IT” then bought a can of petrol and some matches.
        She is a “PRAWN”
        Tasty body ,fucking horrible head

      • 203
        Axe The Telly Tax says:

        Jesus H. now that is frickin scary and it’s not even Halloween yet.

        • 314
          Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

          Did I tell you about the time I approached a dock-tailed bulldog in front going up an escalator? Anyway even the collar looks the same.

      • 238
        gerald kaufman says:

        She looks like my dad.

      • 241
        Dack Blog says:

        That’s enough to put you off becoming a feminist. Like the ones trying to put people off smoking.

    • 240
      • 245
        Dack Blog says:

        I’ll show that to my rather buff decorator, in the hope it’ll give him ‘ideas’.

    • 249
      I'M JUST CAPITAL says:

      Great Pair Of Tits ? She’s Probably Got More Body Hair Than A Fucking Ape !

    • 259
      hoobah says:

      A Tat wank more like. He’ll be whacking one off when he sees that photo below. He loves lezzas or anybody that looks like a lezza. Dawn Primarolo and Eddie Izzard are still his favorites though.

      • 324
        thick as thieves says:

        get back in your fucking box hoobah.
        good retard.
        I do not want to cave your skull in but I fucking will if I get any more backchat from you, you fucking slag.
        but regarding tracy the ugly bastard: I am not going to fight the beast of berkwell for her handjob. he can have her.
        let us be quite candid and honest: she’s a gargoyle bog eyed c’unt FFS.
        you would just have to flip that bitch over.
        but as beast noted she has got great tits so you would have to either cover her face with a bin liner or something or position the mirror just right.
        these are all mere suppositions ofcourse.

        • 338
          hoobah says:

          Next time you crawl out of your wank stained coffin, you’ll get the end of my boot up your arse.

        • 339
          The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

          Mr Thieves
          A bin liner is not enough
          That ugly bitch needs her head encasing in concrete
          Japanese style
          Film it, sodomize her to death and its art
          Damien McBride can pickle her tis and then sell them for a fortune
          Udder and slaughter reunited

    • 479
      pragmatic poker says:

      One doesn’t look at the mantlepiece when poking the fire

  70. 178
    Truth Sayer says:

    I’ve just watched a few clips of Mr Vaizey on the Matthew Wright show via youtube and I have been enlightened to what a smug cretin he actually is.

  71. 187
    Snotty says:

    Well well well look what we have here. Looks like we may have a coup in the offing: http://labourfuture.net/index2.html

    This could get tasty but I’m not getting my hopes up. Bottle is not something the PLP does well!

    • 192
      nell says:

      They don’t need to. Bottle is something gordon does to Olympic standards.

      Interesting website. Charlie Falconer, Meg Munn, Denis MacShane and Charles Clarke..

      Perhaps they should attempt a modern labour breakaway a la Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Bill Rodgers.

      Another Limehouse Agreement statement perhaps?

    • 194
      Ivor Schwartzporsche says:

      Do people actually read that shite?

    • 201
      Dack Blog says:

      I posted that from Sky further up, but Nick Palmer is denying a plot over on PB.

    • 393
      Anonymous says:

      hosted in america

  72. 189
    GB is boring, useless and still sodding there. says:

    she’ll probably take the left overs home in a doggy bag and sell it to some art lover for 10 mill.

    • 197
      The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

      Doggy bag?
      Is that what all of her ex boyfriends have stuck on her head so that they can just about bring themselves to fuck her?

  73. 191
    A firm pair of breasts says:

    fneb.

  74. 199

    Tracy Emin is a well know artist, a bit hard faced but she has a fair pair.

    I suppose that could explain the three hour lunch on vaizey’s part.

    Nothing ventured nothing gained.

    • 208

      She also sports a handlebar moustache that would put Terry Thomas’ splendid effort in the shade. Must take 20 minutes of soap and razor to get rid of the thing every morning.

  75. 200
    Daveyone says:

    The aftermath….

  76. 205
  77. 207
    Ed Vaizey says:

    I did not have cultural intercourse with that woman

  78. 209
    nell says:

    I wonder if she was discussing making a contribution to the tory electoral fighting fund?

  79. 215
    I'M JUST CAPITAL says:

    She Looks A Right Scruffy Bitch ! Dirty Undies Everywhere I Bet !

  80. 218
    Clothes horse says:

    Filly dress

  81. 224
    Tapestry says:

    Is this the way out from blog hell for MPs?

    MPs Must Fight Back

    • 236
      nell says:

      The disgraceful truth is many of them are only in it for the money.

      Look at the passion they have invested this week in defending their rights to those troughed dodgy expenses.

      And then look at the speed with which many of them left PMQ’s before their failed PM made his announcement on Afghanistan. They don’t give a toss about our troops dying out because of insufficient numbers and poor kit.

      These are not lawmakers out to serve their country.

      These people are shallow, self-serving, troughing leeches.

  82. 226
    I'M JUST CAPITAL says:

    What Exactly Do They Do ?
    Turn Up At 12oclock Sit On Their Arses For An Hour Listening To Some Git Babbling On
    Go For Lunch For Three Hours
    Back To The Commons Bar Get Pissed Go Home
    So Long As They Look Like They Are Doing Something Nobody Gives A Fuck !
    As We Are Now Run By Europe We Could Get Rid Of All Of Them !

    • 254
      Camp David says:

      Alternatively…

      Show their passes
      Sit on their arses

      It’s 12 o’clock
      Time for cock

      Listen to a git
      Go for a shit

      Off to lunch
      for three hours

      Back to the Commons
      For golden showers

      Nobody gives a fuck
      Have another suck

      Anti-Europe rant
      pull down your pant

      In the style of Neil Tennant, naturally.

      • 288
        I'M JUST CAPITAL says:

        You Are Right These Sponging Bastards Have So Much Time On Their Hands That They Indulge In EVERY Type Of Sexual Depravity !

  83. 233
    Engineer says:

    What was the menu for this three-hour lunch? Presumably they didn’t just drop by for pie and chips, so how many courses would it entail to be sat for that long? How many bottles of best plonk?

  84. 244
    picasso says:

    Wasn’t she the artist who lost a cat or summat and put ‘lost cat’ posters on lamp posts in the area where she lived?

    Trouble is people in the area knew who she was, and started ripping them off the lamp posts and selling them on ebay.

  85. 253
    Ratsniffer says:

    First I get the horn for Suzie Teather, now I’ve got it for Tracy Emin. I need some therapy.

    • 257
      Dack Blog says:

      You need a new glasses prescription.

    • 264
      Engineer says:

      You sure do.

      First job tomorrow morning, round to Boots for a bulk order of Bromide. Cold showers three times a day, and plenty of healthy exercise in the fresh air. Try muck-spreading. It won’t cool you off, but it’ll keep Ms Teather and Ms Emin away.

    • 265
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      Try Specsavers

  86. 256
    James1st says:

    This is but the tip if the iceberg

  87. 260
    One flew over the No 10 bunker says:

    O/T but just reading the papers online after getting in from work busting my guts all day and three simple stories across a wide range jump out at me which remind me why I hate Nulabour and the society they have created.

    **Ambulance crew barred from helping girl, 9, with fractured skull ‘because they were having their lunch’

    **Outrage as judge rules travellers who illegally developed Green Belt land on bank holiday ‘had best intentions’

    **Corner shop worker told to stop singing in her store – or pay for a performing licence

    and one extra that makes me wonder why do I and many others bother busting our guts working at all so these scumbags can put their feet up all day????

    **Just one in six incapacity benefit claimants ‘is genuine’ as tough new test reveals TWO MILLION could be cheating

    Read it all here
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/headlines/index.html

    • 308
      Rip Van Winkle says:

      **Corner shop worker told to stop singing in her store – or pay for a performing licence

      Funny you should mention that. Got a phone call at work yesterday

      ‘Hi, my name’s Sam from Performing Licencing. Could you tell me if you have a radio or TV at your office on which you listen to music?’

      ‘None of your business, Sam’

      I’m sorry, sir, but, if you do you’ll need a licence’

      Oh, will I? Well, you better get round here, have a look and listen and tell me if I do’

      ‘But you have a resposibility to inform us, sir. We can take Court action if needs be’

      I’ll see you in Court then. But, I hope you’ve got the evidence with which to make any charge stick’

      So you do have a radio or TV?’

      ‘Do I? I must admit, I’ve worked here for some 7 years and I haven’t noticed…’

      It went on and on and on. Looking forward to the knock on the door in the very enar future. No radio, no TV. But it saves some other schmuck getting the same shit.

      • 426
        A bit of calm says:

        Yes I’m now 2 years in to “we are NOW Seriously Going to SERIOUSLY investigate you” about having a potential TV.

        These people would be happy working as parking attendants, SS officers, debt collectors, but seem happily content conning stupid people in to letting them in to their home so that they can take a photo of a tv in situe.

        They’re never EVER getting in to my abode, I am never responding, I am never going to be polite, I am going to tell the person at the door that he is a cun.t

        Apparently my CASE HAS NOW BEEN SENT TO THE ENFORCEMENT DIVISION, which as you can imagine sends shivers down my spine… for anyone else who is sent monthly updates on the status of their impending “VISIT”.

        YOU MUST RESPOND TO THIS LETTER OR FACE FURTHER ACTION it yells..

        except obviously for the legal point that THEY HAVE THE BURDEN OF EVIDENCE NOT ME, however thanks to this pathetic interfering state of softly fat middle managing fuckwit asshole dickheads they feel they have the right to lie in a manner that no company on earth would get away with.

        I fucking HATE the bbc, I have no intention of ever donating money to pay for it, and wish that people realised that if everyone simply refused entry or license fee for a single year the entire operation would be bankrupt and the Hoon.S who work there (with no fear of ever not working there) would have to find employment elsewhere.

        Urgh, and I had no idea we actually required licenses for people to listen to music at work, makes sense though, perhaps eventually people will need a license in order to take a shit at work, or merely a wanking tax to claim valuable money back from liverpool.

        • 524
          Dame Davina Pancake says:

          Bad eh – I know if you buy a cd player, tv etc with a company credit card or cheque – the seller has a legal obligation to inform the PRS who will then chase you to pay for a “suitable” licence. I learnt the hard way on this.

  88. 263
    Odds Bodkins says:

    Vaizey: Get on with your work. If I was your boss you’d get my size 11 boot up your ring.

    Emin: Hurry up and emigrate.

  89. 266
    Odds Bodkins says:

    Other than that keep this kinda stuff coming relentlessly Guido, it’s all good ammo.

  90. 267
    I'M JUST CAPITAL says:

    This Blog Has Run It’s Course ! New Topic Please
    Or Has Guido Been Invited Out For Dinner By The Still Truoghing Mr Vaizey ? Guido If You Have Gone To Scotts Of Mayfair
    Have The Plate Of Seafood As A Starter It’s Only £26.75 Each !
    I Have It Every Time I Go ! It’s Top Nosh !

    • 300
      nell says:

      What you mean is that the comments on here are getting too close to the the bone re Labour.

      Not to worry labour are finished as a political force. All that is left of them is the shouting.

      • 309
        I'M JUST CAPITAL says:

        NO ! Thats Not What I Mean !I Mean There Are More Interesting Things Going On !
        OK?

        • 313
          I'M JUST CAPITAL says:

          Oh And Just For The Record Nell,Ed Vaizey Is A Tory ! Yes A Tory !

          • nell says:

            Go On!! More interesting things going on?? What are they ?!!

            Actually I did know that Vaizey is a Tory.

            Have you noticed that you are SHOUTING!!!

            But don’t worry !!!

            At this moment – gordon is throwing nokias at the walls of no.10 and wrecking printers!!!!

            At this moment he is laying on the floor of the cabinet office and kicking up against the cabinet meeting table.

          • I'M JUST CAPITAL says:

            Nell Get A New Script You Are Obsessed With “busagut twatson damian Etc

            As The Wine takes Hold You Think Everybody Is A Labour Supporter Trying To Rock Your World
            The Fact Is When The Tories Win The Next Election
            They Will Be No Different Than This Lot ! OK !

  91. 268
    Odds Bodkins says:

    (2nd paragraph)

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

    Does Scott’s of Mayfair have its own division bell I wonder?

    • 281
      One flew over the No 10 bunker says:

      Obvious point but worth mentioning again

      They respond to the division bell and troop through the relevant turnstyles like the queues of people on the Queen ‘Radio Gaga’ video but have they actually got a fucking clue what they are voting for???? and do they care???
      (given as shown here they had not heard the last 3 hours or arguments for and against)

  92. 269
    monet says:

    Nice one Tracey, now get back to your fucking bed.

  93. 272

    Is there anybody on here who hasn’t been sucked off in a train station toilet by Tracey Emin?

    Her evil Nazi lips are that mashed up because I slapped her retarded vacant face with my 20″ cock.

  94. 294
    nell says:

    So mandy is trying to win over F1 Racing.

    How many votes will that carry ?

    Let’s think about that. Wasn’t’ it Bernie Ecclestone who contributed £1million to the Labour Party so long as they would exempt tobacco advertising at F1 events?

    Good move mandy – timely reminder to we voters about labour’s perfidy

    • 366
      13eastie says:

      Labour gave BE his money back, so he actually got to change the law without spending a penny. Definitely nothing illegal there.

      What a pity his wife divorced him for billions and we don’t get to see him looking like a tiny twat stood next to her any more.

  95. 296
    A feminist artist says:

    I have just painted the theory of evolution with my menstrual blood. We are doomed.

    • 306
      wayne says:

      I don’t mind a bit of blood luv.

    • 312
      nell says:

      No the doom laden lefties . The leftie shock artists. The leftie MP’s who are facing Legg’s demands to pay pack their disgraceful aca claims. gordon. mandy. ainbustinagut.

      These are the one’s who are Doomed.

  96. 301
    A feminist artist says:

    Should bag a few squillion rubles

  97. 305
    Engineer says:

    Have just been trying to watch the BBC2 programme about John Prescott investigating the North/South divide. Gave up in disgust.

    One suspects that the producers set out to reinforce their own prejudices, i.e., it’s grim oop north. (Prescott makes an excellent televisual tool to reinforce that particular chestnut.) Well it is – in places. I’ve no doubt there are some pretty grim places darn sarf as well. There are some pretty well-heeled places oop north, as well. Sure, the big money is down south, but that brings it’s own problems, like house prices.

    One interview was with a ‘civil engineer’ in Liverpool who hasn’t found work for four years. This seems odd – Liverpool, or at least the centre and waterfront – has been virtually rebuilt over the last decade. The amount of money spent has been huge, and if a civil engineer couldn’t find work among that lot, one wonders why.

    • 315
      nell says:

      So Labour has had 12 years to even out the North South Divide and prezza is saying the north is still deprived under this Labour government!!! Why????

      • 330
        Engineer says:

        Too many benefit handouts, low educational attainment, stifling regulation of commerce and not letting people get on with finding their own answers. Too much control-freakery, in a nutshell.

        • 436
          Monet is the root of all evil says:

          Jacqui Smith’s arse crack has been designated the North/South divide.

      • 332
        Bardirect says:

        Stifle their aspirations and opportunities and they’ll keep voting Labour?

    • 317
      resurgemus says:

      Prescott can’t seem to understand his mob keep the North back by giving people no ambitions.

      • 327
        Engineer says:

        There is much truth in that. It’s also true that there are sink estates on which few can be bothered with work or education. I suspect they are not confined to the north. There are plenty of intelligent, motivated people of northern origin doing good work and earning good money all over the UK and overseas.

        I suspect the answers are to demand high educational standards, and to reduce the barriers to business activity. Perhaps some financial incentives of the type that brought Nissan to Sunderland might help. Then let commerce get on with it.

        • 337
          Bardirect says:

          The same could be said of Labour’s sink estates in Oxford (Blackbird Leys) and similar in virtually every Labour metropolitan seat and most of Scotland. Labour shits on its own and still relies on their vote.

        • 341
          Geordie Boy says:

          The whole thesis is bollocks. There are sink estates all over the country,the same as there are well-heeled middle-class areas. Some of the poorest areas in the country are in London.
          Labour are keen to define the North as “poor” because that’s where their core support is and they can t

          • Mongrel says:

            Yes. The days when people with no functional education could get a job on the production line are over, so there are swathes of the country where people have no economic use, after 30 plus years of crap education. It probably began with Shirley Williams.

          • a voice in the wilderness says:

            It started in America.

          • Tin Cunliffe-Arsely says:

            The trouble is, and they mentioned it … that some of those places down south are only a short bus ride from places where there are at least half decent jobs to be had. The same is true near places “up north” that are quite boyant.

            Manufacturing jobs used to keep those northern towns ticking over. I don’t see quite how they’re going to come back, and without some sort of real money-making the whole country is shafted. As it is.

    • 323
      Geordie Boy says:

      Had his reinforcements stolen along with his car tyres?

  98. 322
    Jimmy says:

    Stop Press! Obscure MP in eating food shock!

    Once again the mainstream press has been scooped. Eat your heart out Micheal White.

    • 331
      thick as thieves says:

      how’s the heroin habit jimmy?
      managed to cut down at all recently?
      we all want you to pull through this, we don’t want you to be a skanky smackhead all your life you know.
      you can do it jimmy, just stop lying like a skanky smackhead c’unt and start living.
      choose life instead of all this deceit and bullshit and your mad rants.
      you can do it.
      and hey, what’s the worst that could happen eh? cold turkey, that’s all.
      you can handle it jimmy, you used to be a big man once and now you’re a fucking nobody but I still think you can break your heroin habit jimmy.
      go for it! stop being a user you fucking loser!

    • 335
      Chump says:

      Remember you have school tomorrow, young man.

      • 344
        hoobah says:

        Yeah, the headmaster has got something hard and straight waiting for him.

        • 358
          thick as thieves says:

          creepy.

          • hoobah says:

            You certainly are.

          • thick as thieves says:

            I said it first fuckwit.
            fucking hell, here we go again: tory HQ have sent another bird to represent them here by nagging top boy with their gobby fishwife tactics.
            BORING! SEEN IT ALL BEFORE LUV.
            ’tis a sad and desperate state of affairs for the tories.
            just when they thought victory was in their grasp and then it all slipped away. their possible victory is just melting away.
            and so they have resorted to deploying retards like hoobah to backchat top boy.
            tell me hoobah you silly old tart, what’s it like to be a troll?
            better tell me quick because I am just about to bash your brains out you dopey cripple.

          • hoobah says:

            Calm down retard, it’s only a blog.

          • tat says:

            do come up with your own lines next time you retard.
            I know you are a fan but just blatantly copying all my stuff is pathetic.

          • hoobah says:

            Too late mate. You’ve taken too long to come up with a response, and even then it was pathetic. Must do better. Now jog on.

          • tat says:

            said the spastic.

  99. 333
    The Lesbian Treaty says:

    Civilization is doomed until I find the turkey basting kit.

    • 361
      Sarah Brown says:

      I’ve got a turkey basting kit you can have.
      It has been used though.
      Best give it a good rinse before you use it.

  100. 347
    nell says:

    gordon says he is sending 500 troops to afghanistan .

    They will never go.

    Best we put our trust in Hague!!!!

  101. 352
    RavingMad says:

    ………. and just started over on Channel 5, ‘Above The Law’, an action packed thriller starring Steven Seagal, a movie about one man’s violent and physical quest to sort out the 646 MPs at Westminster who have been misbehavin’ RECOMMENDED

  102. 363

    By creating calm and trimming tiny mistakes before they turn into big mistakes, the government will continue to develop success. Being rich is easy. Creating poverty is hard. Thus, Jedi Master Brown and the government follow the way of the force.

    Britain’s broken economic fundamentals are the root of problems, which is why ignoring the external problem and focusing on internal solutions is key to success. If folks want arguing and negativity, that’s what they’ll get as effort follows focus. So, if you want a better outcome switch to a better focus.

    Too many folks are wrong headed and want to impress their friends, so the blog comments and national economy skitter along the bottom. This is madness but in spite of reality delivering a clear signal nobody will let go and capital continues to shrink: the more people cling the more the sand runs between their fingers.

    To succeed, you must unlearn failure.

    • 389
      jedi master baiter says:

      You feel a disturbance in your farce.

    • 390
      Labours New Aristocracy says:

      No you stupid f ucker, to progress you must experience failure and learn from it. Jesus Christ you are such an immature wanker.

    • 392
      Mongrel says:

      Welcome back, fuckwit.

    • 397
      Charles H. translated into Swedish chef says:

      By creeteeng celm und treemming teeny meestekes beffure-a zeey toorn intu beeg meestekes, zee gufernment veell Hooneenooe-a tu defelup sooccess. Um gesh dee bork, bork! Beeeng reech is iesy. Bork bork bork!

      Creeteeng puferty is herd. Bork bork bork! Thoos, Jedee Mester Broon und zee gufernment fulloo zee vey ooff zee furce-a. Breetein’s brukee icunumeec foondementels ere-a zee ruut ooff prublems, vheech is vhy ignureeng zee ixternel prublem und fucooseeng oon internel sulooshuns is key tu sooccess.

      Um gesh dee bork, bork! Iff fulks vunt ergooeeng und negeteefity, thet’s vhet zeey’ll get es iffffurt fulloos fucoos. Um gesh dee bork, bork! Su, iff yuoo vunt a better ooootcume-a sveetch tu a better fucoos. Um gesh dee bork, bork! Tuu muny fulks ere-a vrung heeded und vunt tu impress zeeur freeends, su zee blug cumments und neshunel icunumy skeetter elung zee buttum.

      Thees is medness boot in speete-a ooff reeleety deleefering a cleer seegnel nubudy veell let gu und cepeetel Hooneenooes tu shreenk: zee mure-a peuple-a cleeng zee mure-a zee sund roons betveee zeeur feengers. Um gesh dee bork, bork! Tu soocceed, yuoo moost unleern feeeloore-a.

      Much clearer.

      • 427
        Charles E. Beaker says:

        Mee mee mee mee mee!

        Mee Mee Meemeemee.

      • 484
        Ivor Svartsaab says:

        Eeeet take I tvwenty minutes vreed that to do

      • 509
        FiddleMarshall OberLeutnant Schmitt says:

        Und now ve vill za roll-call make!

        Meinen fattenarsencracken is ready for zee Norf-Sarf division, – und I have meinen Beidecker und bathenpluggenholenstoppa ready.

        Heil Mzzz. HaPerson’s NooVorldOrda!!

  103. 370
    Seasick Dave says:

    And so to bed.

    But, before I go, here is tonight’s headline from the Telegraph:

    MPs’ expenses: Tory David Wilshire pays £100,000 to company he owns with girlfriend

    David Wilshire, a senior Conservative MP, used his House of Commons expenses to pay more than £100,000 of taxpayers’ money to his own company, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

  104. 377
    The Lesbian Treaty says:

    Tats ok sarah I can get one free with this w/end daily mail. Alan Carr is giving away free samples. Not his samples though…

  105. 379
    85,000 and counting says:

    May Blair and Bush rot in hell

  106. 386
    Typhoid_Laura says:

    The extra 500 troops to be sent to Karzghanistan will probably be only reserves.

    It is just a signal of support towards America. Any less would have seemed puny; any more would have sounded pompous for a third class nation.

    The rest of the allies seem to be waiting for hostilities to stop before they commit their own troops. If Brown was Luke-warm about sending more troops then we need to know whether Cameron would want to restore the special relationship with the US that Brown has obviously lost. What would that entail for the UK?

    Remember the only reason why the UK was not sucked into Vietnam was the consequence of the Eden government getting a kick in the face from the US over Suez. We were able to sit on the wall afterwards – to the great embarrassment of Kennedy and Johnson.

    If all hell were to break loose later on in that lawless state East of Pakistan then it wouldn’t be nice for Sarkozy or Merkel to jeer at us for our overstretched foreign policy – like overfed, self-righteous, stuffed puritans.

    • 396
      Charlie the Chancer says:

      Link stolen from comment 163

      Hague to our Australian friends,I like to call them our true friends.

      http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26210561-7583,00.html

    • 399

      But they have stopped all training of the TA now, to save money.

    • 402
      I'M JUST CAPITAL says:

      Would These Be The TA Reserves That Have Had Their Training Halted By This Scum Government To Save A Mere £20,000,000 ?
      They Will Probarbly Be Sent Out With Wooden Rifles And Pitch Forks As Well

    • 410
      don't tell him Jones says:

      ” that lawless state East of Pakistan”. Is that India ?
      I don’t see why France etc should get involved in our pointless wars. They tried to warn us about Iraq but were humiliated by the UK and the US. They’ve got more sense than us. Letting our young troops get slaughtered to prop up a corrupt evil regime in Afghanistan.

    • 434
      Cassandra King says:

      Extra troops?

      The maximum imbecile stated he agreed to boost troop levels by 500 “on principle”, McMental certainly has a way with words doesnt he?
      What he really means is that there is no way an extra actual 500 troops will be sent, rotations wil be extended for specialist troops like mine/IED clearance/surveilance experts and command & control staff with extra bodyguards either staying on or recruited to protect the civilian reconstruction teams and the figure will include the standby reserve company which is not in theatre but only waiting to be deployed in a direct emergency.
      In other words McBust and his puppets at the MOD will fiddle the figures, juggle a few deployment schedules and hey presto/Bobs yer uncle the extra ‘troops’ will suddenly materialize!
      Its a cunning plan BUT with one tiny insignificant flaw, its a complete load of newlabour lies’N’stuff, there will not be 500 extra combat troops on the ground and the fighting power of the units will not increase.

      The phrase ‘lying treacherous toerags” springs to mind.

  107. 387
    Labours New Aristocracy says:

    Actually Tracey Emin isnt being paid by me and you. Ed Vaisey is ! He is the lazy c unt in this not her .

    • 394
      junta says:

      No, she get’s paid by the nut jobs who buy her 6th form art project bollocks.

      • 401

        Then I am glad she found them!

        • 407
          junta says:

          They probably had, “I’m A Sucker,” tattooed on their foreheads, so not that difficult to find.

          • I'M JUST CAPITAL says:

            Have A Look On Youtube At The Interviews With Her ! She Is Off Her Fucking Head !
            She Is More Mental Than McMental She Says That She Does Not Want Children Because
            If she Had a screaming baby she would Throw it out The Fucking Window ! Dangerous Bitch !
            Vaizey Will Wake Up Minus His Cock If He’s Not CareFull !

      • 463
        Tin Cunliffe-Arsely says:

        Doesnt some of her stuff get bought by publicly funded art galleries?

  108. 403
    Peter says:

    More shit hitting the fan tonight with David Wilshire fleecing the state for 100 grand!!!

  109. 408
    Tubes says:

    Chop his toes off

  110. 412
    TROMBONE says:

    J SMITH

    CRIMINAL
    let her swing

    If you do not agree you are not a good Brit

  111. 414
    Womb with a view says:

    T’is a disgrace to humanity

  112. 417

    Who gives a crap where he had lunch, with whom and for how long. Waste of a good blog post. We have no idea of the circumstances and background and so all this mudslinging is just hot air.

    For all we know he’s making up the three hours later. Or booked half a day off. Or was specifically sent to do some sort of job relating to art and had permission to wine and dine. The party may have paid for it, he may have paid for it out of his pocket – hell, SHE may have paid for it.

    It’s one thing to go on a bloody tirade when something is bad. But this is just spacefilling. Innocent until proven guilty in the UK, last I heard. There’s plenty of PROVEN bad stuff going on out there to get stuck into. This does not fit into that category at the moment.

    • 440
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      Er, we don’t want any more of your intelligent comments, thank you very much.

      • 455
        Mongrel says:

        Sorry Sir Reg, I think you are wrong. We had Austin Mitchell’s wife on R4 this morning trying to persuade us all MPs are honest, the biggest mortgage flippers remain unpunished, and here we have synthetic outrage about a shadow culture minister having a long lunch with a famous artist. (I think she’s crap, but that is neither here nor there) A bit of light relief (under the table?) but let’s get back to the serious stuff.

  113. 421
    Summer_Breeze says:

    ” Ed Vaizey’s Three Hour Lunch with Tracey Emin ”

    Oh how the time must have flown.

  114. 423
    Tim Baxter says:

    NO.

    Now this is more about Guido and his ability to stalk people.

    STOP IT YOU DOUBLE CHINNED Hoon!

    I know you earn money by this but stop it you slack jawed guinness supping tosser!

    Shock politics lose the shock when some fat twat becomes the story!

  115. 433
    nell says:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1220473/Territorial-Army-personnel-risk-training-cuts-save-20m.html

    I see aintbustinagut and gordn are still trying to destroy the army.

    yesterday gordon said he’d send 500 more troops to Afghanistan and then made so many provisos that the likelihood of any of them being posted is absolutely zilch.

    And whilst he was saying that aintbustinagut was pulling all training funds on the Territorial Army for 6 months so that men going to Afghanistan from the TA ( there are currently 650 TA over there in the frontline) will be posted without proper training.

    There really are no words to describe this uncaring incompetent government.

    • 438
      Shocked of Sheen says:

      And the US are sending a further 45,000 troops in, it’s all rather humiliating. Frankly I can’t believe the outrageous behaviour of our government, and every day even more greedy troughing MP’s are unmasked. We really do need a general election.

  116. 439
    I'M JUST CAPITAL says:

    I Think The HSE Should Step In At This Point ! If You Send Someone To Do A Job In Industry And They Get Injured As A Result Of Of Lack Of Training , Then The HSE Would Have Your Ball’s On A Spike ! So Why This Cant Apply To Mp’s Sending Untrained Troops To Afghanistan Is Beyond Me !

  117. 441
    I HATE SPONGERS says:

    Why Can’t We Send All Our Long Term Unemployed “Doleites” And All Our Lazy Arses On Incapacity Benefits ? They Would Make Excellent Cannon Fodder And Save Us Billions Of Pounds ! Which Could Be Used To Train Our Troops ! We Could Also Send Any MP Who Wants To Keep His Ill Gotten Gains As The Officers To Motivate Them !

  118. 442

    Guido, has anyone managed to identify the other chap sitting at the table with Vaizey and Emin?

  119. 446
    Lord Stansted says:

    On Vaizey’s web site there a picture (http://www.vaizey.com/text.aspx?id=36) of a pile of unopened mail – no doubt he’s out to lunch.

  120. 452
    Anonymous says:

    I am a Labour Party branch official in the North West and can tell you that an alliance has been formed between senior ministers inc. Jack Straw and David Miliband, to remove Gordon Brown within 2 months. Under a new leader, Labour will be in a position to stop the Tories winning outright the next election.

    • 458
      nell says:

      Anyone accepting the leadership of this drowning labour party this side of the GE would be more than foolhardy because whoever it was they are going to lose the next GE big time.

      There is real anger amongst the population generally at the disastrous way they are handling the Afghanistan War and leaving our troops unprotected and unsupported.

      There is real anger at the ongoing MP’s expenses scandal and especially how this labour crew are squealing this week and reaching for their lawyers as they try to find ways to hang on to their ill gotten gains.

      No they would be better to let gordon lead them to defeat in the GE and then have a good civil war over leadership afterwards.

      And let’s not forget the disgustingl spectacle of gorbals mick being given a peerage this week for being the first speaker of the HoC to be kicked out in disgrace in more than 300 years.

    • 460
      I HATE SPONGERS says:

      Happy Christmas Gordon From Your Old Mate Jack And NuLabour Ha! Ha! Ha!

    • 464
      Red Ken says:

      I’ve voted labour all my life pal and I know there is no way Labour will get back in, its not because the tories are any better its just because people vote governments’ out, not governments’ in. Especially with them two reptillian fucking slime balls at the helm.

    • 486
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      Snide comment and joking apart, the dismal reality is that Straw and Milliband probably do represent the best chance Nulab have of turning it round.

      This present cabinet must be the most feeble ever. I doubt any of them could support themselves elsewhere.

      • 495
        Ivor Svartsaab says:

        Straw is to justice as Gordon is eurosceptic. As for Milliband he would look out of his depth on a parish council

      • 501

        They were feeble on day 1.
        Remember Gordon’s great unveiling of all the talents? A cabinet of all the lackeys.

        A circle of jerks.

    • 508
      shelling-out says:

      Anonymous. I’ve just read your post. You clearly live in HoC World.

      This is not the real world, this is a fantasy world for you and your cronies, only made possible by the efforts of the hard-working families you keep banging on about helping.

      Wake up, and let’s have an election. Then you’ll all be able to see how despised your party really is.

  121. 459
    cockney christian says:

    Austin healey’s posh wife has been on R4 this morning bemoaning the lot of the poor hardworking mps and their longsuffering wives. She had the audacity to say that since the exes scandal she now has to think about things carefully before she buys them – what a fucking joke, I nearly threw my netto gruel at the wireless. Bastards.

  122. 469
    Moley says:

    On poisonous trolls.

    If it is possible to find out who the ISP, is report it to them as abuse.

    In extreme cases they can legitimately deny service; the service contract allows them to do so.

    I have done that with e mail crooks when I was selling a car.

    • 476
      TROLLEY says:

      When did Guido give you the right to pick who posts on his blog ?

    • 478
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      Thin end of the wedge, Moley. Someone has to decide on how poisonous they are. Guido can get rid or the real pains, but it’s probably best that they are simply ignored or that Guido steps down from his Mr Creosote mission for a while and bans them, like he did with that swimming trunked tosser. He’ll be back soon in some other guise, no doubt.

      • 491
        TROLLEY says:

        He is still here Thick as thieves !

        • 503
          Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

          Oy you,leave TaT alone he plays a key role on here and is welcome by me as he crushes skull after skull.
          It is that depraved thing mocking CMD’s tragedy that wants exterminating and I think Guido might just have kicked him into touch after yesterdays concerted effort by the offende few.

  123. 471

    [...] Emin – Tory Artist, Pt II Guido has the story here - I wonder what they were [...]

  124. 475
    nell says:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/14/vaclav-klaus-lisbon-treaty-czech

    Whilst the Czech President holds out agaist the Lisbon Treaty there is hope yet that we may get our referendum.

    • 485
      Ivor Svartsaab says:

      I don’t want a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty: I want one on european political interference in UK state gover’nance. I think Klauss should refuse and we should tear up the any political agreements already made with europe. That’s political not commercial agreements.

    • 519
      rocknrolla says:

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

      Sign it and email it to others. It’s time to flex our online muscles, we can’t just rely on guido.

      In America when Bush tried to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants websites like freerepublic got all their members to totally swamp congressmen with faxes/emails/letters/phone calls, crashing the systems in many cases. They managed to stop it. I am sure similar tactics here could yield some success, though it needs leadership from someone like guido and the readers to follow through. Imagine 10,000 faxes a week to conservative head office telling them that without a cast iron promise on the referendum we’ll vote UKIP. Cost to us individually – next to nothing – would shut down their business though, and at least get across the anger. Similarly everyone who reads this blog ought to be involved in a co-ordinated effort to email Klaus and let him know we’re supporting him and pleading with him for just a few more months so we can have our say. It would strengthen the resolve of the greta man more still.

  125. 481
    McGroom says:

    Some may see outing Vaizey having an expensive lunch as a bit of fun. However, Vaizey may have had a legitimate reason and we don’t know that Emin wasn’t paying as she can certainly afford it.

    However, this places great power in the hands of the blog master who could wage an unprincipled propaganda campaign if motivated.

    With power comes great responsiblilty, be careful how we use it, the Westminster village and the MSM will be quaking after yesterdays Vaizey stunt.

    • 487
      Tin Cunliffe-Arsely says:

      Its not as if the printed media would ever be unprincipled. thank god for that.

    • 490
      Ivor Svartsaab says:

      I wouldn’t have thought it would be too difficult for someone motivated to identify the red snapper in the resturant?

    • 512

      What’s wrong with unprincipled propaganda campaigns?

      Add jiggling titties and you have a worldbeater.

  126. 492
    DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

    I would be genuinely interested to know whether Ed claims this on expenses.

    Bear with me for a minute, this is not for the obvious reason. I know we are all fed up with MPs claiming for their entire lifestyle on expenses, but there is a more subtle point here, which I think is quite important.

    For someone running a business, it is sometimes necessary to take people out to lunch. I know this, because I run a business. I have taken clients out for meals from time to time, which is an important part of building relationships, and is necessary if I want my business to be successful.

    However, HMRC disagrees. Such expenditure is classed as “entertaining”, and is not allowable as a legitimate business expense when calculating my corporation tax bill.

    I wonder if the same rule applies to MPs? There may well be legitimate reasons why the Shadow Culture Secretary is having lunch with one of our leading artists, but if so, I would expect him to be subject to the same rules as the rest of us and have to pay tax on it.

    • 499
      Ivor Stash MP says:

      I would expect him to be subject to the same rules as the rest of us and have to pay tax on it.

      Your having a laugh – get back in your overtaxed over-regulated box you prole

    • 500
      Tin Cunliffe-Arsely says:

      You seem knowledgeable: Where is the line drawn between a fully-expenses-friendly meal and entertaining? ie wheres the line between a £2 Sainsbury sandwich, a basic restaurant meal, and something fancier.

      Obviously … wherever that line is for normal people and the tax man, isnt the same as it is for mps.

      • 522
        DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

        The line is drawn, at least for the purposes of us ordinary mortals who have to abide by HMRC rules, at the point where the client (or indeed anyone who doesn’t work in your own company) joins you for the meal. Then, even if you’ve bought your client nothing more elaborate than a Big Mac and fries, it’s considered entertaining and it’s not an allowable business expense for tax (and indeed VAT) purposes.

        If I am travelling on business with a colleague and we go out for a meal after whatever business meeting we’ve been to, that’s subsistence, and is an allowable business expense, provided it’s reasonable. If we claim for a Big Mac and fries, there would be no problem. If we went to Scotts of Mayfair, that might be considered taking the piss. As far as I know, there is no specific definition of what counts as reasonable. I would, however, fully expect that HMRC would have no problem defining it retrospectively if we were to be inspected and they thought my choice of restaurants was too extravagant. So sadly, I don’t tend to eat in restaurants like Scotts of Mayfair and charge it to expenses.

    • 502
      shelling-out says:

      I think it highly unlikely that Mr Vaizey would have to put his hand in his pocket to pay for a lunch at Scotts; a place where most of us have never been, or are ever likely to be able to afford to go.

      It sickens me to my stomach that we pay for their affluent lifestyles. They stay at the very best hotels and eat the very best food – all paid for by us. Our lifestyle, which has never been affluent, went down the gurgler when I lost my job last April.

      Shysters – the lot of ‘em!

  127. 496
    Oi Loike Golde says:

    Surge on the GBP, goo on yer buzzard

    • 498
      Tin Cunliffe-Arsely says:

      Surge? Its just a bounce from after the traders over-reacted a couple of days ago.

      • 510
        Try before you buy says:

        Tim, I just love the way you have corrected Oi Loike Golde, “Surge?” dead cool, you put a question mark despite knowing the answer

  128. 515
    Hugh Janus says:

    Lunch with Vaizey or Emin? Not a difficult choice – I’ll go without.

  129. 516
    Porky Pies MP says:

    Tracy Emin, God she is one hell of an ugly bitch. She’s definitely one for a paper bag over the head whilst fornicating. I only hope she’s not going to do a Paul Daniels when the 50% tax hike arrives.

    • 518
      Who Dinnae? says:

      The hot air windbag stayed in UK. That’s magic, my arse. Couldn’t even make himself disappear.

  130. 521
    RestandBthankful says:

    I saw that eejit Prescott on TV with his just as loathsome wife yesterday promoting some senseless TV mockumentary they had made. Mrs Prescott went on and on about being sick on a boat journey and having to attend a drinks party afterwards. You really do have to ask yourself how these brainless twats get the jobs, and the remuneration, they do. I don’t think they have a brain between them. I wonder if they would have been living the affluent lifestyle they clearly live had they not been feeding at the Parliamentary trough for so long. You just have to look at the current front bench of the Labour party to see them for what they are – a bunch of absolute nutters with about as much class as Katie Price.

    • 536
      nob ed vaisey says:

      That is probably true, but he can relate to the majority of his constituents on their terms, and therefore they feel that he represents them in all the senses of the word – which is part of the point. Or perhaps the good burghers of Hull would have preferred some southern oxbridge ponce who would never have set foot in Hull unless he was parachuted in for a troughfest

  131. 525
    Daveyone says:

    Well as a grown upGlam Rocker could not resist this seems to some this thred up!

  132. 529
    Uranus, the Magician says:

    Hell – she’s an ugly, talentless, self promoting cow, though – he surely wasn’t trying to pull her?
    He’d need three paper bags – one over his head, one over her head and one to be sick in afterwards.

  133. 530
    A Silent Emission of Bowel Gas says:

    Ed Vaisey is fine.

    I know parliament was sitting, but he wasn’t dining on his MP’s time, see.

    He sets that particular time aside for one his three other jobs.

    It was on their time.

    Okay?

  134. 531
    sd says:

    Shouldn’t the payoff line be:

    Just another trough day in the life of a hardworking public servant…

  135. 533
    Frank Randle says:

    I always confuse Miss Emin with Amy Winehouse. Mrs Randle says it’s probably because both ladies are in urgent need of a scrubbing brush and a jumbo bar of carbolic soap.

  136. 534
    Snuggles says:

    She is probably crying to Ed about the 50% tax rate, and how artists should have bigger government subsidies.

  137. 539







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