Media Rant?
Perhaps Clegg could get Legg to look into Liz Barker’s home address? The Baroness seems to be suffering from amnesia…
We Must Understand the Ancient World First - Boris
Sarah Must Have Watched SamCam and Gulped – Quentin Letts
LibDemVoice Ignores Party’s Censorious Illiberalism – Shane Frith
Election is a Battle for Hearts More than Minds – Matthew D’Ancona
Will MacShane Stop Writing for The Guardian? – Iain Dale
Speculators Are Doing God’s Work – Paul Murphy
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Former Labour Party Chief Press Officer Colin Byrne said:
“What the hell is a strike mongering politically discredited nutter like Charlie Whelan doing at the heart of Labour’s election campaign?”
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Have these people no shame?
Well obviously bloody not. They’re far too detached from the public and the real world to care.
Roll on the election, hopefully there will be plenty of independent candidates.
haha!
Certainly no shame at all. And seemingly no memory.
They have stolen, got caught out, and are now making things worse for themselves by
their peurile reaction to the issue.
Pay up, and shut up!
But they won’t because they all think that they are special.
Bastards, the lot of them!!
Is she Olive from On The Buses?
Ah, the old early onset of altzeimers defence.
Follow the theme “No More Excuses” Pity we have to get the wonderful Floyd to express the message for troughers.
Maybe a message from beyond the grave from Rick Wright.
Alzheimers? well slightly offtopic here’s Telegraph on Mcfruitcake:
“If there really is to be a debate between the three party leaders, Gordon Brown is in trouble. All the Tories or Lib Dems have to do is arrange for a member of the audience to ask the Prime Minister a straightforward question about everyday life. The answers always seem to elude him, as he demonstrated at the weekend in an online chat with Mumsnet. The man who saved the international banking system was stumped not once but a dozen times when the mums, not unreasonably, wanted to know: “What’s your favourite biscuit?” As the latest PR charm offensive collapsed in a welter of bad headlines, Downing Street was forced to issue a statement revealing the biggest state secret since the return of Mandelson. He likes “chocolate ones”. So, come the big debate, forget the small print of the bank bail-out. The Tories should simply ask: “What’s your favourite cake?” We know the answer even if he doesn’t. Fruit cake, with lots of nuts.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/6376761/Frank-Fields-a-good-man-but-hes-got-this-horribly-wrong.html
Apparently he likes Kit-Kats, but what must have been churning through the Great Helmsman’s giant brain as he made a complex decision as to whether to reveal this or not? “Er, lets’s see, they are a Nestle product, people disapprove of them due to their policy of marketing formula babymilk in Africa, er um and o god yes their ad slogan begins with ‘Take a Break’ no way can I give the press that one, er, um, what to do? need a few days to come up with the right answer…etc etc”
Pathetic.
Perhaps we are on the verge of a great clinical discovery of a widespread condition that presents as an instantaneous psychotic regression into early childhood when asked a simple straight question.
Once upon a time, but no more, it would have been treated so:
Responsible adult: “Right, Jimmy, where do you “lose” Billy’s bath duck?”
Jimmy: “uh uh uh dunno”
Responsible adult: smacks head
The prognosis was invariably excellent
I’m not of course advocating universal head-smacking of children should become the norm. Torture, so the government strenuously believes, is justified in some cases. I will have a little bit of that hypocrisy in situations where it should work well.
A Holiday Home By The Sea No Doubt
Could be Burgess Hill or Epsom
B_O_R_I_N_G
Baroness who?
Twas ever thus with the Lib Dems.
It is the thing that annoys me about the LD – there duplicity and failure to get their own house in order with reguard to expenses before making comments on other parties. Clegg failed on Rennard, his MPs and other questions on sleaze – he said one thing and did another: Lightweight. A great example of which yesterday was UKIP being made to fofieght a donation that the electoral commision advised was impermissable. The shameless LDs on the other hand are allowed to keep over £2.4 Million of stolen money. The difference being Libdems help Labour to sell out this countires interests to the EU where as UKIP has sought to protect us from the Nazi EU assualt on our freedoms.
lib dems are labour, remember the branch of of 4 labour lefties who left a nd set up this shower of lib dems ,they want a hung parliment.. Vince Cable was a labour lefty hes an EU fanatic and luvs international goverment ,, most of labour are marxist.. most dictators were so called socialists.. they bring in legistatrion likes theres no tomorrow ,, we are all racist now xenaphobic right wing you name it the Engish are labled just cos you speak up about these islamic fanatic muslims. this labour will cause civil war before long they gotta go pronto.. Cameron needs to tear up the treaty. its not worth the paper its written ..Brown had no mandate NOBODY ELECTED THE SLACKED JAWED TOE RAG.
I’m sure he is sound asleep.
If you live in the UK then you should be asleep as well, unless you work nights or something like that.
“Good night then: Sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. brightly it will shine on the brave and true, kindly upon all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.”
Vote Lib Dem, get a hung parliament, we will all be dancing to a Scottish tune according to the SNP.
lol guido is gay.
Wow has the pound been devalued or something?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6377179/Serial-Belgravia-squatters-vow-more-action-after-taking-over-15m-property.html
“The squatters vowed to occupy dozens more, in a bid to force wealthy owners to “squat proof” their wealthy properties.
The last known person to live there was London-based French property developer Henri Charbit, who was ranked 438 on the Sunday Times’ rich list with an estimated fortune of £120, which had fallen from £175 last year. “
As well as the editor failing to spot basic errors also this particular dead tree press is lying about when articles are published:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6377179/Serial-Belgravia-squatters-vow-more-action-after-taking-over-15m-property.html
“By Andrew Hough
Published: 7:00AM BST 20 Oct 2009″
It is not 7am BST yet.
So boring you are here reading his boring stuff?
Crikey.
£120 doesn’t sound much.
Sausages
News this morning that when the European parliament is meeting in Strasbourg that there will be PMQ-style questions for the President of the Commission. Apparently the Eurocrats think the way to get more interest in the European parliament is to make it more dramatic.
Hopefully it will lead to more scene like this:
Farage put it well in that with 22 languages much of the humour is lost in translation and with the headphones and time lag, there is no sense of theatre.
“dramatic” sounds rather close to “democratic” – was something lost in translation? I wonder what the English for “transparent” and “accountable” is.
The fat greedy little piggies are squeeling once again, try to smear Sir Thomas Legg in the Daily Telegraph. Names mentioned including Douglas “I love my moat” Hogg and Alan “I can’t live on rations” Duncan.
“Some MPs have voiced public criticism of Sir Thomas’ handling of the inquiry. Several have accused him of making basic factual mistakes, and some have questioned the way he set retrospective rules. Douglas Hogg, a senior Tory backbencher, has called Sir Thomas’ approach a “denial of natural justice”. Alan Duncan, a Conservative frontbencher, has called the way Sir Thomas informed MPs about his findings as “a complete Horlicks.” Lynne Jones, a Labour backbencher, has said responding to the auditor’s requests for repayment was “a waste of time”. ”
Time for the piggies to pay up, time for their leaders to throw them out of their parties.
Privately, some MPs voice much stronger criticism. In the Commons tea rooms, Sir Thomas, 74, has been described as “a senile old fool” and “totally out of control”.
The final paragraph there. It wasn’t chiselled young Adonis (mind like a laser), Stuart Bell was it?
They will have a problem with smearing Sir Thomas Legg.
The purpose of smearing is to turn public opinion against him. The trouble is the more they highlight their objection to paying up what they owe the more hostile the public become to them , not Sir Thomas. Indeed , the tougher Sir Thomas is over their disgraceful expenses the more public support he gains and the more public attention it draws to their troughing.
They should remember what happened to Fookes and Kevan when they tried to smear General Sir Richard Dannatt, the public simply turned their attention onto their expenses , and found horror of horrors , that fookes and kevan were major troughers.
In the interests of balance it should be said that I too often forget where I live, especially after a long and refreshing lunch at Reynier Wine Library.
That must be your second home. You can claim for it, I’ve heard.
If gordon won’t order it , Cameron when he comes into office is going to have to order a major independent audit of the Lords expenses exactly along the lines of Legg.
When he has done that then he needs to reorganise the Lords into an elected Senate in order to get rid of the dross of which there is great deal .
One Lib-DEM member I would stand up for Is John Hemming Yardley Birmingham and infact has one of the strongest messages in Parliament and it is a shame this millionaire electronics director cannot invest in a better web-cam as much of what he says is lost including a recent meeting with all the top political writers at the Commons!
There isn’t a single innocent MP.
The ones not directly named in the expenses scandal, although I think that term is too mild, “corruption exposure” is a better fit, stood by whilst the public purse was looted. By doing nothing to save their own skin they they put themselves ahead of the pubic – exactly what they promised not to do when they became an MP.
They blame the ‘System’.
Who developed the system?
Gotcha!!
Anyway, Brown is the problem really. He actively told the MP’s to trough to the limit in order to contain their ‘reported salary’ and appear in control of the House.
That is why Labour Members are really pissed off, actually.
So to get the presentation of renumeration looking sweet, the devious tick infested bastard endorsed and encouraged troughing.
That is the “System’.
And the poor dears still think they are hard done by, Lords next, and then the BBC.
Cameron needs to send a team to Australia, to start negotiating a lease on Botany Bay from the Federal Govt.
BBC management ?, serial Quangoist ? labur spad ? disgraced minister ? Move along the boat there, next stop seven years penal servitude.
We still own Elephant Island – cold, mountainous and remote. It’s the perfect place to send our corrupt MPs and officials as punishment for their crimes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Island_(South_Shetland_Islands)
33 More to be gained by dealing with local councils before the bbc.
I apologise for being off topic but I am so damn cross! That idiot Balls (So what!) is now saying all British families who host foreign exchange students will have to have CRB checks (both parents)! Supposed to protect British students – how? No checks for parents of exchange partners (in their country)! So now all British parents are branded potential paedophiles unless and until a CRB check says otherwise. Unbloodybelievable!
Rant over.
Boil-in-a-bag Bully Balls gets lathered by Quentin Letts today:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1221583/Why-school-bully-Ed-Balls-spanking-MPs-turn-Gordon-Browns-closest-ally.html
I’m sure Quentin Letts has heard the same rumour that I have heard that when Ed Balls wrote for the Financial Times they had a sub-editor assigned full-time to his material because it was so full of mistakes.
Not the first time that Ed Balls has been rinsed.
‘Igor’
Excellent!
I usually appreciate Quentin Letts for his humour. That article I relish for its having truthfully hit the nail on the head or a better metaphor might be for its… ah… perhaps not…
Shona Mercy, This has been happening in the UK for years. One of my children was on an exchange trip and when we hosted the foreign student my wife and I had to have CRB checks. When my child was in “the foreign country” the hosts knew that anything untoward would land them in a labour camp for “re-education”. See! no need for a CRB there!
That’s enlightning! So this is not a new system, why then is Martin Borman Balls re-announcing it?.
Go away silly little Shite and get Yvette to blow up your water pipe.
Why then announce a system that’s been in operation for years? Sound just like NuZanu again.
So another opportunity for a private individual to show a little entrepreneurship and contribute to the fabric of society is being attacked. These zanu labour really have it in for the small businessman or businesswoman. They have been chiseling away at the fabric of society for years.
I thought that all copies of Lib Dem News came with a (rigged) bar chart at the top right corner which says;
“Only the Lib Dems can beat Labour”
Whilst failing to mention that on a 30% turnout anything is possible if people bother to vote.
(We have a Lib Dem dictatorship in our neck of the woods).
Check this out then Guido.
http://page.politicshome.com/uk/electoralindex.html#
I wonder where the 30 women Clegg boned are? I bet one was Sarah Brown – no way McDoom does it.
Alan Simpson has joined the fight to get more ‘members only’ seats allocated at a cafe in Parliament.
Nottingham South’s Alan Simpson is among a group of MPs who became angry after half the seats reserved for them in the cafe were made available to the public.
The change was made because staff and visitors often have to wait for a seat even if the less-used cordoned off MPs’ section has spaces.
They don’t like it up ‘em do they?.
Speaking of the libdems, footage of one of their ex-leaders on holiday has recently surfaced having a little trouble with the bag containing their policies:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f84_1256009167
Perhaps Clegg could also look into Lembit Opik’s expenses. Why did he claim on his London flat, and rent it out, whilst living with his finacee?
http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Ivory_Coast_toxic_dumping_report_behind_secret_Guardian_gag
The Above is Unrelated.
Are you under a gag order as well?
Err, yes, but Guido ignored it.
Do try to keep up:
A Case Study in Media Disintermediation : #Trafigura
Point taken.
Will do.
Thank you.