Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw has laid into the BBC in recent months with surprising gusto for an ex-Beeboid. How does the corporate affairs lobbying team get him back on side must be a vexing issue for them. Well the aging groover is a pop fan. Free tickets to see Robbie Williams, minister? Bradshaw was seen shaking his booty at the Robbie Williams concert last night…
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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”
Was it a freebie ticket for the hoon then?
why does public money have to be spent to keep this arsehole sweet?
The Inquisition
New Labour = We didn’t do it, it was the Tories
… and then they ran awa’ …
“We shall all be paying for the impact of this crisis on the public finances for a generation.”
“The belief that appropriate regulation can ensure that speculative activities do not result in failures is a delusion.”
The crisis is global, it started in America.
The UK has the lowest government debt to gdp ratio of all the leading economies except Canada (source IMF).
Government spending didn’t cause the crisis.
The Conservitudes are bought and paid for by the faction that caused the crisis, which is the financial kleptocratic oligopoly.
You may go.
Who gave the IMF the shitty figures.
It doesnt include all the PFI debt does it?
Brown was over-optimistic about future growth, and so was running the economy on a big gamble. One should realise that whether left or right.
so it is okay for government to waste money but not for the private sector?
that turkey won’t fly MB.
doesn’t make sense.
I think you will find that the IMF numbers are historic. If you look at future projections the picture changes somewhat. Having said that even I would prefer the UK to France (or Longbridge 75 as it is to be renamed), Spain (where the banks are all still carrying property loans on their books at pre-collapse values) or Italy. Sorry, wrong on the last one – I long for a story involving Broon getting inside the knickers of an 18 year old.
The IMF projections are the same in that UK is projected to have 87% debt to gdp ratio in 2014. Up from 57% in 2009.
However all the other leading economies except Canada are forecast to have higher Debt Ratios than the UK, some of them much much higher.
So the UK’s debt ratio is ballooning and as are all the other leading economies
It’s a global crisis.
It wasn’t caused by government spending.
Lesson over
I don’t give a damn about other countries.
only this one.
you are like a thick student, who uses the thickness of other pupils as an excuse to hide their own uselessness and incompetence.
if brown had not wasted so much public money is such a short time with so little results then the global crisis would not have affected us as it has.
the new labour war party has had long enough in power and it has failed.
everyone can see that apart from you.
oh well.
Oh dear MB. I suggest you go to the IMF World Economic Outlook database, as updated this month and look at projections for government net debt (better than gross) as a % of GDP for developed economies. You will find that the UK is forecast to rise from 68% in 2009 to 98% in 2014. In 2014 Canada is forecast at 68%, Germany at 89% and France at 92%. Please get your numbers right in future.
rat a tat a tat tat, why so tame?
Run out of steam?
Nervous?
Maybe to stick to the usual script that is repeated ad infinitum.
Don’t let facts stand in the way of ill informed irrelevant opinions about the effect of government spending.
The point oh mental midget is that the neo-liberal ‘free market’ bull has run its course, it’s over, it is no more, it has expired, its metabolic processes are a matter of interest only to historians!
You may depart tat
An ex-beeboid wouldn’t y’know already have any fucking contacts in the Beeb to get those tickets. DUH! But no, that would spoil the “story”.
This is what counts as News ? Stalking a lightweight like a 3 A.M. girl because he once worked for the Beeb and went to a concert ?
Quality Reporting!
Look up to the top right of the blog masthead – tittle tattle and gossip is what we do – on a good day. Why are you here? Shouldn’t you be over at the Indy?
You had, and still have, some excellent stories about the piggies porking and casting the political news of the day in a different light.
That you think all your stories are like this one and that there might not be any discernable difference between this story and the good ones some of your readers might be keener to read speaks to a low opinion of your better stories or a strange attitude that all your stories are equally gossipy.
Very few of your stories actually fall into celeb spotting and you know it.
3am crackhead,
if you do not like it here you then know where the door is.
refunds are only payable upon production of a valid receipt.
goodbye.
CRITICISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!
I must lick Guido’s arse in a way that would make Oaten cringe to ensure my continued ‘lapses’ are overlooked. Innit ?
CRITICISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!
boo hoo, don’t start crying crackhead FFS.
I told you, no receipt, no refund.
them’s the rules.
And I told you dipshit, stop overcompensating by leaping on anything remotely critical because it makes you look like a pathetic little brown-nosing sycophantic worm
I also praised Guido for his better stories numbnuts
So why don’t you fuck off and stop embarrasssing yourself
Kay ?
Kay
“I also praised Guido for his better stories”
stop rimming Guido you dirty slut.
It’s the difference between constructive criticism and your embarrassing toecurling unquestioning arse-licking.
Lesson over thick as pigshit.
Shame you’re too feeble-minded to learn it.
Now fuck off and find your daily crack dose.
your poor husband!
The bit in your post about having “fucking contacts in the Beeb” is the key point here, my dear man. The cosy relationship between NuLab and the BBC has been well documented over a number of years.
Even after all these years, the BBC still performs the role of a candid friend – or a backseat driver – to the NuLab government. This is hardly surprising as there appears to have been a revolving door connecting the two organisations in recent times.
Oh for goodness sake! I certainly enjoy a bit of jollity gossip now and then.
Even the Gloomy Grauniad has its lighter ‘In praise of…’ section, and its splendid Steve Bell cartoon. I think the Beeb/Bradshaw story is a comical one not a ‘shock horror’ Beeboid corruption one… but then I think Robbie Williams is pretty comical too… Bradshaw and Williams deserve each other.
Like Robbie te Government are washed up as well
Whenever I see Bradshaw I see that hair Gel “Something About Mary” moment is it subliminal perhaps but I fear this government is sending me to the funny farm.
Emily maitlitz needs some of that. What with her hair flopping over her eye and all.
Or “Emily Mattress” as she is known hereabouts.
Ben bradshaw’s hair is his pride and joy. Surely you know ……he’s worth it!
He fancies he’s one of the ‘demi monde’, a louche lad with large private income, apartments in Blenheim Palace, and a cute teddy bear called Rupert to cuddle when he goes to bed at night.
It takes the public’s mind off more important issues like Gordon’s 175 Billion Debt and the Lisbon Treaty where we should all have had our say.
http://petice.eu/?lang=EN#
sign the petition against a United States of Europe with Tony Blair as President.
And the continued Gravy Train of Politics.
http://petice.eu/?lang=EN#
All BBC concerts or shows are free I think, so we paid for it and in the case of Bradshaw, no doubt paid for his transport there and back too! You couldn’t make it up. While Rome burns, debt increases they are still spending, dreaming up new schemes that will fail, new ways to waste money, and will our great leader answer any questions today at PMQ’s, let’s just ponder on this……NO.
Are much did the BBC Robbie Williams gig cost us? It’s time for Pravda to stop wasting our money.
One would hope williams paid the BBC for all the free publicity (The BBC even think this concert is News) But I somehow doubt it.
Now that side of the balance sheet for this little Gig would not be free, I am sure RW’s come back would be costly. I love the way the BBC has morals when it comes to advertising, Rum and Cola, sticky tape, vacuum, etc. but appear on the beeb to sell you new book, film, record or ‘come back bid’, no worries.
£50 I Believe ! He Cancelled His Gig Down At The Rose And Crown For The Chance To Get Back On Telly !
How much has this BBC ‘charity’ “Round the World in 80 days” cost – and what was the carbon footprint?
Words fail me !!
So just what is a carbon footprint?
A carbon footprint is like a tv licence. That’s all you need to know
a carbon footprint is what is left on your shoes after you’ve just cleaned out the wood burning fire.
I think Robbie Williams is reeeeeeeally sinister.
You’ll find out when the bill comes thundering through your letterbox with all the others. You may be entitled to a 5% discount if you pay by direct debit though, so it’s not all bad news.
Second prize was presumably two tickets….
What some politicians think of the BBC.
British Brainwashing Corporation. That hits the nail on the head.
He only dislikes it because he’d want more money for an SBC
If Slimy Salmond is against the Beeb I am for it.
I kid you not Turnbull and his bit of fluff this morning said Williams’ spaced out appearance on Xfactor was because he had drunk too much coffee.
He’d taken lots of something from Colombia but it wasn’t coffee.
Great post from Nadine Dorries on Robbie’s druged out appearance on x-factor.
http://blog.dorries.org/Default.aspx
Financial misconduct = Conservatives
Angus Reid/pb.com
Con 40% Lab 23% LD 20%
Con 380 Lab 184 LD 55 Nat 10 Min 3
Con maj 110
ICM/Guardian
Con 44% Lab 27% LD 18%
Con 395 Lab 192 LD 33 Nat 9 Min 3
Con maj 140
IPSOS-MORI
Con 43% Lab 26% LD 19%
Con 390 Lab 189 LD 41 Nat 9 Min 3
Con maj 130
New Labour = We didn’t do it, it was the Tories
John Major
William Hague
Ian Duncan Smith
Michael Howerd
Dave Komodo, lizard lips, flicking tongue, stupendous comb over
OK MB see you and raise you a Kinnock
How about a Michael Foot?
http://page.politicshome.com/uk/electoralindex.html#
See your Foot and Kinnock and raise you a Lamont.
Bet David Cameron’s better looking than you, Master Bater.
Feast your eyes Countess
http://www.labourlist.org/uploads/thumbs/L_5d02a534-f0da-a884-19e7-438daa2f196d.jpg
see your Lamont and call on Jacqui Smith
Crikey! Nearly swallowed me tongue TCA.
So that ginge minge is “The Inquisition” etc.? He’ll never get a girlfriend with hair like that! No wonder he also calls himself the masterbator.
bfc,
It’s been a long time, has it?
Ughhhh!!
Ginga and smug.
A real activist that couldn’t get a real job, so he was found one in a Government department. (Labour Party have no money since their rorts of questions, passports, and titles got stopped.)
So we are paying for this sad little tosspot to be tedious, repetitive, and continue to lead a like of Shame being Ginga. Shit, I would much prefer to be a P,a,K,i
I drunk too much coffee once. Got a caffeine rush. Very strange experience.
I had a cheese butty yesterday but don’t think I will today.
Sorry, have I landed on twitter by mistake?
Reminds me of a certain punk rock star who claimed he’d caught Hepatitis from being ‘spat on’ during his performances… yeah right.
Reminds me of a bogbrush in a curry house toilet.
Free tickets to see Robbie Williams – it sounds more like a punishment than a reward.
My Gran has all his 75′s
78s
78′s – We made ours into Plant Pots!!
Robbie does look that old.
He’s been round the block a few times.
What? All his Rover 75s? Wow!
78′s Yes. Sorry. I don’t understand all this technology
78,75 it doesn’t matter. Crap at any speed.
Faster you play it the sooner it finishes.
What happened to your Porsche?
I only get it out on special occasions now.
I don’t blame you, not with petrol at £276.22 a litre (of which £276.20 is tax).
I bet Robbie Williams drives a Jag.
Message for the BBC:
Angus Reid/pb.com
Con 40% Lab 23% LD 20%
Con 380 Lab 184 LD 55 Nat 10 Min 3
Con maj 110
ICM/Guardian
Con 44% Lab 27% LD 18%
Con 395 Lab 192 LD 33 Nat 9 Min 3
Con maj 140
IPSOS-MORI
Con 43% Lab 26% LD 19%
Con 390 Lab 189 LD 41 Nat 9 Min 3
Con maj 130
Selective reporting ,what about the ones earlier which suggest a hung parliament? Have you ignored those,not really intelligent and fair to do that. Class will show its form in the end and I don’t mean social class,wait and see.
It’s culture, of course the shit stabber had to be there.
Angels
That takes the biscuit.
It’s our raisin d’etre
don’t get in a flap jack!
Lol
Crumby
Just a bit of Hob Nobbing on our cash
My favourite is of course millionaire shortbread.
Squashed flies?
From last weeks Gordon is Crackers competition.
Capitalists@work
George Osborne -RITZ crackers
Vince cable – Fox’s Assortments – pick the ones you like , something for everyone
Baroness Scotland – She just takes the biscuit.
Blair – Jammy Dodger
John Bercow has to love shortcake..
David Cameron – Hobnobs (sounds posh but really quite substantial)
Nick Clegg – Rich Tea (not much substance, falls apart under pressure)
Alan Johnson – Digestive (working class favourite)
Alex Salmond – oat cakes (slow burn calories, no sweetness at all)
Alistair Darling – Short{of}bread
George Osborne – Millionaire’s shortcakes from Fox’s super indulgent range.
Gordon Brown – McVitie’s Boasters.
Tony Blair – mini shredders
Boris Johnson – more of a crumpet man really.
Vince cable – Tesco value caramel wafers. Looks like the real deal but is actually quite disappointing.
… and no mention of Marcus Oatcake himself?
Kit-Kat Club, dark orange variety of course.
Meanwhile the the PSBR is T1.2 And counting.
Operation Scorched Earth policy is progressing well and is ahead of schedule.
So’s my scorched arse policy.
Well they probably got the tickets for free in the first place so bribing ministers with free stuff so they are nice to them sounds good to me
Bradshaw is clearly trying to curry favour with the labour rank and file – I wouldn’t rule him out of the race for NuLeader. Though, if they have to stoop that low, labour’s end is extremely nigh!
He is just emulating the Bliar/Campbell attack on the BBC of all those years ago – still just as farcical as the BBC is still stuck in its massively pro-Labour stance (and it better move along quickly if it doesn’t want to rile the incoming govrnmrnt too much!)
Bradshaw BumFuck for leader will never happen. Moreover he will have a hard battle at next GE and one of those who thankfully will hit the scrapheap and well deserved it would be.
He’d have more money to spend on his hair.
Us Exeter geezers will sort him out at the GE , the slippery bloody stabber.Funny he should attack the Beeb , aint his other half a Beeb cameraman ?
I do actually remember knocking him over once when i came out of my local off-licence with 48 cans of Fosters in my arms.Shame i wasnt driving my car at the time
If they can afford to butter up ministers with free tickets they can cut the licence fee for pensioners.
Or give pensioners a free Robbie Williams concert.
Accessory to euthenasia – could get the lawyers in a pickle
What’ve you got against us pensioners?
Not hard to find the BBC connection in the household.
He used to be my M.P. – he really is a smug ‘glad to be him’ creep – Oh and he cannot be trusted!
I attended an HoC Committee meeting on Bovine Tuberculosis when Both Bradshaw and Prof Bourne were ‘examined’
To describe Bradshaw as a greasy, slimey, repellant slug of a person is an understatement – he truly was nauseating – really awful.
Having said that – the Committee members were equally incompetent
I think we really need a sensible Dictator next time around and if your money comes from the taxpayer – you bloody well do what your told – inc Royal Mail, BBC, Banks etc etc
He also tells lies
He fancies himself something ROTTEN!
The biggest problems facing this country are what?
Economic meltdown, social breakdown and the inexorable rise of the fascists.
The Conservative solution to these problems?
The literal and metaphorical emasculation of Parliament by all women shortlists on the part of Cameron.
To come through the times we are now experiencing requires a Parliament of the highest standards and integrity. Compromising our future by discriminating against male candidates is an act of crass stupidity which insults the intelligence of the electorate.
I will not vote for a party which is so stupid and out of touch.
Insults the intelligence of women. Is that what you mean? Women can do it without discrimination in their favour, if they really want to.
Selection on merit, not to fulfill some HQ inspired quota.
Surely there is an under-representation of red haired people in Westminster?, also dog owning cricket lovers are few and far between.
Isn’t it amazing, the ONLY female prime minister we have ever had was
a) Right of Centre
b) Not madly keen on feminists
c) Elected as a result of campaigning and not from an all women shortlist.
There must be a link there somewhere
So how many women on these shortlists do you think will denounce the all women shortlists? Weakness of will?
Cameron is the brand logo, not much more. The real policy decisions are made up by more substantial figures off to one side of the thone; including the un-photogenic and hence unelectable (in this dumb-topia) slap-head Hague. Nobody believes that Vaclav Claus will hold out, and Hague knows this very well. But don’t expect to hear the Conservatives’ policy on this before the election, there’s too much at stake to give Brussels a fore-warning.
Not a very bright tirade when you consider that the female voter is a very important cog in the electoral wheel.Cameron has to appeal to large sections of women voters or we may very well get the gormless clown back in to fxxx the country up completely.
Any man in this country who gives his vote to a party which has openly decared that it is going to discriminate against men deserves everything they get.
I thought we wanted rid of Harriet and were on the way to achieving it, and lo and behold, Cameron has put on her clothes and is poncing about the political arena extolling the virtues of positive discrimination in favour of women.
Enough.
I think that Cameron’s use of all-female shortlists is intended to send a very different signal to Labour’s quotas.
He appeals to a rather nostalgic sort of ‘fairness’ (used to market the Britannia building society not so long ago).
Labour insists upon defining and enforcing a whole series of ‘entitlements’ (which come across poorly to broad swathes of the population).
A very British battle-line.
Still no mention on Pravda last night of the three polls that put the Tories 17% ahead, but the one last week that put Labour 10% was labelled on Newsnight a “Labour fight-back”.
Whatever happened to the BBC Poll Watch? It seemed to stop when the polls went south after Cameron’s speech.
They’ve changed it to Prole Watch.
Pole Paedo Watch
It was changed to Pole watch, but now the Eastern European plumbers have all gon home,they can’t afford to live here.
Looking at the wrong Poles, mate. Try the icy ones at latitude 90 North and South.
The Consevative support is going to fall as fast as the media start telling the truth the way it is:
http://synonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2009/10/the-shameful-silence-of-the-tories.html
Conservative support will increase when the true picture of what the Labour Party have done to this country slowly emerges.
Actually most of the damage is via Eurolaw. The troughing and dishonesty also reflects euro socialist hierarchy
Heir to Blair
Whaddya talking about – look, we’re only £2.2 trillion in debt (an increase of £400 billion since February), we’re still printing money and keeping interest rates at bargain prices, inflation is a dead certainty, we may default on our debts having to go the IMF, we’ve got more public sector non job wasters than you can shake a large stick at, we’re gonna have to work until we’re 70 and pay shed loads more in tax – what is there to possibly complain about? I don’t understand some people, I really don’t.
No, nurse, I thought you said take 2 of the blue ones!
Conservative support will sink because of the Conservatives failure to speak out against the corruption in Parliament and the Lords and to detail their plans to address it.
The attitude to expense fiddling in the Lords is offensive beyond belief.
I have studied enough history to be truly afraid of the fascists, but on the other hand, I can understand completely the feelings and fears of those who support them.
The whole political class need evicting from this country’s system. They are the enemy of the people of this country.
Yes, very much yes.
Don’t mention Europe, look what happened to Boris.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221682/Revenge-dish-best-served-cold-Boris-Johnson-receives-chilling-Godfather-text-message-wake-conference-speech.html
Fuck Europe .. Nelson had it right .. Happy Trafalgar Day to all true, proud, loyal Britons ..
To celebrate, I think I shall wear my Tricorn hat and an eyepatch all day. Oh, and shoot at any Frenchies I see.
i second that
Free tickets….that should do the trick.
Free anything Should Do The Trick With Any Of These Scum !
Who on eath is Robbie Williams???? What does he do that is so marvelous?
Not sure: I think he was married to Judi Dench…
no, that was robin williams
He’s a wild, wide eyed rubbish singer, who would suit the effeminate, fake, tosser bradshaw just fine.
Nah, he was the actor in Mrs. Doubtfire and Good Morning Vietnam.
He’s the Archbishop of Canterbury — anyone knows that, FFS!
RW’s comeback is shite. It must be a great disappointment to only reach number 2 after all the hype.
He’s washed up, finished. An ageing boyband member with very little talent of any description.
But why hide away in LA for so long? The only reason for going there is to make movies. Is that what he’s been doing? God knows he needs a big idea to relaunch his career.
He’s in greater need of a decent relaunch than Brown- and that’s saying something.
I believe he is George Osbornes supplier.
Was he shaking his booty or his botty?
Neurotic man with saucer eyes seen at BBC gig
With stories like this…
on can appreciate why there is a growing ban of licence fee non payers.
“Bradshaw was seen shaking his booty at the Robbie Williams concert last night…”
Some of us haven’t had our fucking breakfast yet you know.
I lost my breakfast.
Time for privatising the Beeb.
However, the Brook’s cartoon in The Times reminded me of the Douglas Bader Fokker joke.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/cartoon/
I remember it well, my how we laughed! Pity it ended Stan’s tele career though.
Yet another example of ‘unique’ funding at work… er… play.
Robbie Williams,wasn,t he that guy who failed to take the USA by storm.
Sounds about right for Benny boy and the Pravda muppets.
Reports this morning that McMental is toying around with giving mp,s a rise to quell the backbench rebellion,supposedly off the back of ministers pay.
Yes and a pig just flew over my house if you believe that one.
Would McMental Dare Give Them A Rise At This Time ? They Still wouldn’t Be Happy And Would Carry On Troughing !
TIFKAB,
you post too often and your posts are shit.
this is not your hotmail account c’unt.
post less often and drastically raise the quality of your comments.
thankyou.
+++Exclusive – thick as thieves real identity revealed+++
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2692469/70-stone-Brits-tragic-ambition.html
good one.
That porker is an interloper!
http://tiny.cc/xWpWa
I’d give him one if he looked like that.
His bog is a dumpster
He’s an example to us all. Who says we Brits have no ambition or drive left?
Surely we can wire up his bed to the National Grid and do away this pestilence?
£100K of our money?
And I get nothing in support when i don’t have a job – just stop feeding him and use the blubber for candles for Brown to use on Mandelson.
Yeah – shoot the fucker
Why Arn’t You At School You Little Shit ?
More like why isn’t he hobbling down the benefits office with his fake walking stick.
Hope you don’t mind me saying, tat, but you’re not your usual polite self today. Can I offer you any counselling or maybe I shouldn’t ask? Perhaps I should just say sorry for asking.
He’s never very polite first thing Gran, it’s the Guiness you know.
No one is going to take lessons from a low life turd like you who has been deleted so many times and told by Guido that your comments are FUCKING SHITE ! You dickhead !
they all start out as gobby as you TIFKAB but top boy always knocks sense into them in the end.
you will learn.
titfer, why are you posting in Title Case?
…and why are you talking to your alter ego?
oh shut up phyllis you silly old tart.
you are the one talking to yourself not me you moron.
Yoiu are correct, Corky. He did fail to take the US by storm- and after a lot of hype.
He then claimed he wasn’t interested in ‘breaking’ the Wolrd’s largest record market and was living in LA to get away from the awful British press. His fans lap this up, of course, believing anything his publicity machine says.
If you’re not interested in breaking the US then why live in LA? Why not Dingleberry, Alabama?
Something more here than meets the eye……
Culture Secretary goes to see Robbie Williams, ha,ha,Haaaa!
Well I hope Robbie sings my favourite: ‘Tripping’. First line is the Mahatma Ghandi quote; “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”
Some interesting articles on the BBC’s coke-fuelled celebs:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6883052.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6389212/Off-the-wall-TV-and-radio-stars-may-be-high-on-cocaine-says-former-BBC-producer.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221850/Former-BBC-producer-reveals-TV-executives-PRAISED-cocaine-use.html
These are just high-profile tips of a big and squalid iceberg of course… They are all at it, lock, stock and barrel, executives as well.
In the same way that those who use this drug often turn into raging assholes, the real reason why the BBC wastes so much money and makes so many crap decisions are probably cocaine-influenced.
Frank Bough!!! Forgotten about that one.
what about me?
No cocaine for me thanks, just heroin.
John le Mesurier as well.
He was just a common or garden plain alcoholic, no doubt brought on by being married to Hattie Jacques.
Who was that popular BBC Sports Commentator – nice guy but sniffed a lot?
That’s him !! Cheers
Bacon?
The full Monty.
What do you think was the cause of Ross’s stupid and offensive behaviour?
High salaries and cocaine use go hand in hand.
In return for public money the BBC needs to institute compulsory drug testing and zero tolerance of drug abuse. The same applies to the Banks.
The taxpayers are subsidising cocaine use, crime, and terrorism.
In return we get a financial industry which has thrown our future away and a broadcaster which has not produced anything of value in years.
Yes.
Durrr obviously it’s coke. Given a vast budget and t’power to high and fire who you choose, can there be *any* other explanation for the incredible shitness of BBC programming? Have you seen Clever vs Stupid?
The only other possibility I can think of is too many dopey timid women unwilling to take creative risks. Or too much bumming.
definitely bumming.
Wednesday and another PMQ session at midday.
Last week Brown was clearly trying to speak slowly and appear relaxed at PMQ’s,with only the last planted question from Salter bringing out the old Stalin (I shall shoot you all) mentality.
Today I predict he will revert back to Stalin very quickly and lose his marbles by 12.15pm.
Watch closely as Harman keeps everything crossed in the hope Brown doesn’t come out with any dreadful (“I saved the world”) announcements.
And watch to see just how switched off the moronic front bench appear – after all they only have the task of running (ruining in their case) the country.
And just think, we have circa 20 of these sessions before he gets well and truly kicked to smithereens in the election that he has tried so hard to avoid.
This pretty much sums it up:
WARNING – IF YOU DON’T LIKE SWEARING – DON’T WATCH!
He’s obviously hiding out in his shed.
Not a happy bunny, “In your face Fuck You!”, yeah tell me about it.
As bad a case of tourettes I’ve seen in a while. He’s gotta point and is actually quite restrained. Sacks of Gold man!!
I could only watch to half way. Does his head explode?
I wonder whether this gentleman has a concealed firearms permit? Reminds me of Hunter Thompson.
I recognise this guy – he was Brown’s former shrink and tried to keep him sane during the Obama Beach day’s of the past summer months.
However,he was sacked as his approach was seen as being too mild for Brown.
Could we set up this guy to be around when Brown turns up to open another of Ball’s local schools? Would be better than Ali v Frazier!
Did you notice the sides of his head where it has previously exploded and they have done a really good job of cramming his brain back in without showing too many stitch marks.
It calls them up and tells them to meet either them or one of their minions at News Corp HQ or even at number 10
No, wait… that ‘s Murdoch
Wenn ich Kulturminister höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning.
I understand Bradshaw’s is an over-and-under whilst his partner’s is a side-by-side
Sie möchten das Kultusministerbraun malen?
73 I prefer to reach for my Tennyson.
Ah yes, the old Tennyson rapid-fire semi-automatic. Kills ‘em in the aisles every time.
But only in Guido and the far-right nutters heads
Cameron despite being the Heir to Balir at least knows reality and wouldn’t dare get into popularity contest between him (an MP that most popular of people next to the Bankers) and the BBC.
He has no intention of making himself a liar to the British publicgoing back on what he has said and doing Murdochs bidding and privatising part/privatising whatever.
Which in case you didn’t already realise, is the reason Murdoch via The Sun said they still weren’t fully “convinced” by Cameron when they switched sides and stopped supporting Labour.
Cameron already told Murdoch he wouldn’t recast the entire Network TV regulations and dismantle the BBC according to Murdoch’s “plan”.
So Murdoch still isn’t a happy bunny with Cameron.
Tough titty Mr Murdoch as Cameron can now dodge you by claiming (rightly) that after Lisbon much of the Big TV Regulation Decisions won’t be his to make and you will have to fight for your Sport and Media holdings in the European Courts.
Why do we need to have a state run broadcaster?
The BBC instinctively plays up the role of the state, and plays down the cost of big interventionist government.
That interventionist big government and it’s medlling ‘light touch’ regulation in the City. That’s what made the Bankers fuck the Economy up the arse while laughing at their Bonuses. Big Government! Seemples!
It started in America, it actually did.
The governement didn’t make the bankers do anything.
The political consensus was that the market self corrected, that the market was efficient.
It isn’t, the neo-liberal revolution is over, broken, just like communism in the run up to 1989.
The US banks are in state control.
The US car companies are in state control.
The Government was charged with REGULATING the Banks and the Credit Ratings Agencies. In the Square Mile and in Wall Street. It manifestly FAILED.
That’s a big fat Government mistake of epic proportions and few were more lax than Brown because he was stupid enough to believe delivering almost everything the City wanted would protect him from any possible downturn or iminent catastrophe.
Look up what happened in AIG and where the London offices were pivotal in it’s downfall and promotion of C.D.S.s
This was an Atlantic market disaster and Northern Rock isn’t an american Bank. Brown gets half the blame for being utterly clueless and hopeless.
Ford is an independent company.
Chrysler is owned by FIAT
No Uk automotive companies are in state ownership because the government pushed Rover and LDV into insolvency, though not until elections were out of the way.
Watch Mandelson screw up Vauxhall.
Who is Vauxhall?
Angus Reid/pb.com
Con 40% Lab 23% LD 20%
Con 380 Lab 184 LD 55 Nat 10 Min 3
Con maj 110
ICM/Guardian
Con 44% Lab 27% LD 18%
Con 395 Lab 192 LD 33 Nat 9 Min 3
Con maj 140
IPSOS-MORI
Con 43% Lab 26% LD 19%
Con 390 Lab 189 LD 41 Nat 9 Min 3
Con maj 130
Nothing to do with socialist tw*ts pressuring the banks to lend to the great unwashed who could never repay?
Nothing to do with the socialist tw*ts trying to pretend that the poor were better off by getting them to borrow money?
Hmm, a very one sided view MB!
GM is state controlled.
Ford is state supported.
Chrysler is state supported.
The US banks are state controlled.
None of these came about as a result of Gordon Brown. In fact they came about under a right wing tax shredding Bush Presidency and Republican legislature.
The market has failed.
‘Free market’ neo-liberalism is unmasked as a fraud.
The Conservitudes are bought and paid for by the faction that created the cirsis, the financial kleptocratic oligopoly.
really Baiter you need to keep up with events dear boy
Chrysler was bought by FIAT back in June.
Ford have stayed a listed company and refused Govt help as they don’t want the interference.
I’m sure the folks at Goldman Sachs will be surprised to discover they’re civil servants.
Since your beef seems to be on companies being supported by the state
and we could had Renault, Peugeot, FIAT, Opel ….
perhaps you would like to expalin why every other government is supporting major industries through tough times except the UK ?
Ironically, banking which you whine about most, is the only sector getting support , and they’re promptly paying it all out in big bonuses. One can only assume this is with the agreement of Brown and Mandelson. Looks very Neo Liberal to me.
At least they have US car companies whereas our scheme involves subsidising foreign companies through the scrappage scheme.
A thought – could we extend the scrappage scheme to include politicians? Obviously two grand is way over the top but 10 to 20p would be a fair exchange I think.
I don’t want anything back other than a signed agreement to fuck off into the sunset.
How stupid, Fiat is a fig leaf, what did they get paid to take Chrysler? I
t’s state supported, it’s bust, the tax payer is stumping up.
It can’t pay its own way. Ford is bust too.
Which leaves just the erstwhile largest corporation in the the world GM or General Motors which is state controlled clearly unequivocally.
Free market my aunt…..
your knowledge of US car companies and Chapter 11 is minimal
Chrysler in private sector, restructured and trading.
Ford in private sector and issued a strong forward looking report .
GM going through Chapter 11 and will emerge later and be privatised.
UK banks – assited by Uk government. No controls put in place and big bonuses all round despite what govt. said.
If the BBC didn’t exist, the suggestion to create a state run broadcasting corps would quite rightly be looked upon as something deeply suspect and sinister.
Why do we need to have a Tax dodging Murdoch ?
Because the public still buys and likes some Sky TV packages.
And the public still likes the BBC and pays the licence fee.
Until that changes the chances of a privatised BBC are Zero.
Is that the best you can do to justify a state run broadcaster?
I don’t need to justify it any more than I need to justify Murdochs Tax dodging Media Empire. They just are and until there is sufficient demand otherwise they will just be.
And if the public were really as foaming at the mouth angry at the BBC as the nutters then it would already be gone.
Public opinion matters and Cameron is, if nothing else, pretty canny with public opinion. Which is why Cameron won’t ever do more than tinker at the BBC. Even Maggie wasn’t dumb enough to try and privatise it.
Cameron will also be a bit busy trying to put a shattered economy back together and paying back the debt without putting up our Taxes too much. So any BBC P.R. reshape of the Trust and slight tinkering with Ofcom (his most likely reforms) will hardly be his first actions anyway.
You seem to be suffering from wishful thinking. The BBC will fetch a very good price, and tories have already spoken about this.
Cameron has spoken about it and ruled out privatisation completely.
It’s the nutters who are delusional and suffering from wishful thinking.
Murdoch is past it.
tic toc, tic toc
Angus Reid/pb.com
Con 40% Lab 23% LD 20%
Con 380 Lab 184 LD 55 Nat 10 Min 3
Con maj 110
ICM/Guardian
Con 44% Lab 27% LD 18%
Con 395 Lab 192 LD 33 Nat 9 Min 3
Con maj 140
IPSOS-MORI
Con 43% Lab 26% LD 19%
Con 390 Lab 189 LD 41 Nat 9 Min 3
Con maj 130
The biggest toilet flush in British electoral history is going to happen soon.
The Poll question was:
Who are more pro-europe?
No the poll question was:
Who are more pregnant?
CON 47 (+8)
LAB 24 (-1)
LD21 (-3)
source: MORI
Totally agree
In industry, when you make a loss you send out the accountants to find all the “hidden” losses, and make it one huge loss, so that you get back to profit as soon as possible.
Labour was making a monumental loss during the conference season, and sure enough they went out, and made the loss the biggest they could.
Now as the election approaches you will see that defectors will start realigning themselves, for their own good, and the sheeple will get positive Labour messages daily. Not “convinced” means we will defect back just at the last minute, maybe.
The groundswell is being set up. The conservatives have lost the ability to see the tsunami coming, since few have had any industrial practical political training.
Labour have even started the double target tactic, again. Vote for us and you will get X and in time you will get Y. The illness issue is the inevitable change decision that the voters who prefer the alternate will cling to, and the Brown lovers will disbelieve. But the conservatives just go for the traditional single stand up act, with support artists.
It’s called off balance sheet accounting and apart from the Banks the biggest culprit of all is.. BROWN. PFIs and PPSs are costing hundreds of Billions and going to cost many more.
There is no strategy as Brown has been lurching from disaster to disaster for months hoping appearing on the world stage would help him in the polls.
It clearly hasn’t and the polls are pure electoral disaster.
That you would actually try and pretend that the Labour Conference was deliberately shit speaks to a level of derangement that can easily be classed as a mental illness.
Fear of the Tories only works if you aren’t desperately copying every policy they have and that is Mandelson’s one and only strategy. Try to outflank the Tories in the forlorn hope the middle England marginals will prefer Brown to Cameron.
Anyone with even the most rudimentary political knowledge knows that this hasn’t worked, won’t work and Brown is doomed.
Keep dreaming softwidge as you are a masterclass in self delusion and clutching at straws.
I see you have trouble reading. I’m sorry.
I said “Labour was making a monumental loss during the conference season” I did not say it was deliberate. Just like companies do not make deliberate losses.
However, I was talking about the side shows that have dumped their poll ratings: like the Sun. Once dumped their only trend is to get better!
Taxes used to be the main voting argument. Now we have handouts. The electorate knows that these handouts will go away if Labour fails. There is no tradition of maintaining handouts. Therefore the sheeple WILL vote labour as they only see the short term. There is no long term, because the EU stands in the way of any long term plans as a wall of uncertainty destroying all decisions.
My proof is that even after the Iraq war the country still voted them back in, and there has been no demonstrations against them in particular. However, G20, energy companies, climate conferences, etc. still get a good turnout.
The delusion is within your mind.
(As for your other assumptions, you are wildly out.)
I see you have trouble reading and understanding what YOU actually wrote.
You said “Labour was making a monumental loss during the conference season, and sure enough they went out, and made the loss the biggest they could.” You did say it was deliberate.
Taxes are stil la massive voting argument but since all Parties will have to put up Taxes after the next election they are dodging the issue, for the MOMENT only.
In the short term we are in a crippling recession with people in those crucial marginals losing their jobs daily.
Instant Electoral Death.
That isn’t going to stop tomorrow or next month or next may.
It’s going to keep rolling on till the end of next year IF we are lucky and the recession doesn’t double dip.
If unemployment reached 20% it still wouldn’t be 20% of votes going to Labour as the Labour heartlands deserted NuLiebore long, long ago. And it still leaves that 80% who aren’t obsessed with ‘handouts’ as you put it.
You ‘proof’ is based on the misconception that the Iraq War is the only issue anyone votes on or that there was a credible alternative at the time. There wasn’t.
“and there has been no demonstrations against them in particular. However, G20, energy companies, climate conferences, etc. still get a good turnout.”
Iraq had the biggest peacetime demonstration ever seen.
You have demonstrations on issues and don’t tend to get demonstrations against the big Political Party’s because you get ELECTIONS and OPINION POLLS to register displeasure.
We recently had a European Election.
Labour support dropped like a stone to unheard of levels.
Spin all you like even a child can tell those numbers mean they will lose.
Elections are almost always won or lost on the state of the Economy and unless you have indeed had your head up your arse for many, many months then you’d know it’s up shit creek.
Anyone who thinks there is a glimmer of coherent Labour strategy or is so deranged as to think he has “the ability to see the tsunami coming” needs urgent medical attention.
The tsunami is going to be that which sweeps some of Labours Ministers from Power in a hilarious reverse rerun of 97 as Brown’s promised ‘turnaround’ of the polls proves to be yet another delusion that he promised months ago but just can’t deliver.
BTW anyone who describes the British electorate as wooly farm-animals is a complete cock and/or a tin-foil hat wearing lunatic.
Just so you know.
So “for many, many months then you’d know it’s up shit creek.”
I have known it is up shit creek for years. 2004 to be exact. I was gob smacked when they got back in last time. The reality is that for most the economy is not the issue. The next cash in hand job, or the next hand out is as far as they can see.
If the greater population was knowlegable about economics why is the personal debt at record levels. They all believed the “new economy” story and followed the one in front over the fence to borrowing hell.
Europe elections were insignificant, they less useful than a poll. That organization is not even democratic. No vote actually makes a difference to anything.
The only thing that counts for labour is election day.
As for Iraq demonstrations, that was years ago. What has happened in recent times since the realization that the economy is toast? Nothing.
They might be crap at running a country, but there stage act does have the ability to hold the audience in silence.
missing “are” and a wrong “their” Sorry.
Today from 1130:
- Tony Blair as EU president?
- Labour MP Caroline Flint
- Tory MP Nick Herbert
- PMQs and Guess the Year
- Strictly’s Camilla Dallerup on dog micro-chipping
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE FLINTSTONES – THE GOBBY FLINT SHOW
ANDREW HAS HER ON JUST TO ANNOY ME !!
No to be missed – The Flintsones I mean !!
She is poorly groomed, almost sluttish
Not the sharpest tool in the box
she is despicable
Right at the end of Brown’s dire speech to the Labour Conference, as lukewarm apathy filled the room, one man, a certain Mr Bradshaw, jumped up to hail his leader’s words. The BBC camera caught this display of spontaneous loyalty.
I’d love someone to post it here. It sums the odious slug up perfectly.
That cun t that was on Newsnight last night after being proved a complete idiot for massively overstating the forced prostitution based in a Daily Mirror report should be pilloried more.
He was as big a waste of space NuLabour mong as I have ever seen and tried to bully both Paxo and the Guest with hilariously pathetic results. Utterly revolting little tosspot.
No – that wasn’t Bradshaw – it was that obnoxious twat that was European Minister – bloody awful geezer – wot’sisname – I am glad I’ve forgotten it!
Got it – it McShame – bloody awful !!
fucking commie Pole
Yeah, didn’t think it was Bradshaw but couldn’t remember his name.
McPain.
He really is a repulsive little reptile who should be strung up by his balls.
Dennis McShane, a puffed up trougher of the worst variety. He was attacked by a woman, and he didn’t like it! She represented ‘ladies of the night’, and was brilliant, bested Paxman and all.
Pure professional jealousy from McPain then as he is merely an amateur prostitute of the state.
Those ladies have to work for a living and can’t claim expenses.
My dear Smarmy Git
“It sums the odious slug up perfectly”
Don’t you mean –
“It sums up the odious slug perfectly”
I thank you!
I’m happy either way.
oooo-er
Either is correct, I think, although the second scans better.
Try this dynamic meeting in Cornwall, couldn’t keep my eyes off the optics, definitely stoats arse territory (that’s a pint glass and measure from every bottle along the wall).
Hate Fuck.
Can spot his carefully smarmed down hair from here!
Good to see Impy still doing the slogan thing.
Strength Through Joy! etc
Communists and fascists love their slogans. Hides the failures.
Nothing like a long list of self proclaimed achievements to mask a longer list of self evident failures. Anyway , carry on, but maybe a little variety.
Even clunker Brown eventually changes his tune. Usually when reality makes the slogan impossible to continue with, but still..
How about…
The Imposition
Financial Services Authority = Confusion
The Indigestion
Final solution = consumption
The Incipid
Gross misconduct = Jacqui Smith
Just to liven it up a bit.
Message to the our Futures Generations
ARBEIT MACHT FREI
47 hours 18 hours 34 minute left for me to “Save the World” ! Why has Peter taken away my Nokia ???
In the words of Mervyn King last night:
“The belief that appropriate regulation can ensure that speculative activities do not result in failures is a delusion.”
That’s the Conservitudes for you, delusional.
They say that regulation should have been with the Bank of England and not the FSA. The Bank of England says it’s delusional to think that appropriate regulation can ensure that speculative activities do not result in failures.
Check mate.
The Inquisition.
Angus Reid/pb.com
Con 40% Lab 23% LD 20%
Con 380 Lab 184 LD 55 Nat 10 Min 3
Con maj 110
ICM/Guardian
Con 44% Lab 27% LD 18%
Con 395 Lab 192 LD 33 Nat 9 Min 3
Con maj 140
IPSOS-MORI
Con 43% Lab 26% LD 19%
Con 390 Lab 189 LD 41 Nat 9 Min 3
Con maj 130
I’ve checked mate and I really do believe that you are not at all familiar with all the ‘types’ of ‘banking’ – they ain’t all the same – it goes from Co-Op type finance to having half-a-crown (that’s Gordon betting with the Nations money on Public Services for electoral gain) on the fifth favourite in the 3:30 at Ascot
Silence in the stalls, and up in the circle.
Chubby cheeks isn’t going to swing it.
The belief that appropriate regulation can ensure that speculative activities do not result in failures is a delusion.
Yes, the Conservatives are delusional.
Bank of England, the FSA, the Tripartite system.
I’ve got news for you MB. IT FAILED.
So what the fuck do you expect King to say ?
If I and Brown had been doing our job this shitstorm wouldn’t have happened and took out the whole Economy plunging us into recession ? Don’t think so somehow.
Delusional
The Leader is good,
The Leader is great.
I surrender my will,
As of this date.
Eric Pickles
George FFFFFoulke’s brother?
Do(s)h!
MB: Mervyn King is actually talking about breaking up the very large banks. Who was it who pushed through the disastrous merger of Lloyds, even removing the competition regulations to allow it?
Who was that again?
While we’re on the subject of Beeboids (paid by the public via. the License Fee), here’s a bit on Jenny Abramsky’s £4 million pension package. And more.
Troughers don’t only reside in Parliament….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3560523/Jenny-Abramsky-are-you-retiring-comfortably.html
anti-setimitic bastard.
Trougher.
Interesting. Makes you sick doesn’t it?
To be fair, Radio 3 is still very good, though not quite as good as some US stations playing proper music. Also, to be fair, this woman must have approved the appointment of Chris Moyles, so that Stupid could have a voice.
Troughing Yentob, Troughing Abramsky, Troughing Thompson (pp Mrs Thompson). I am seeing a rather embarrassing pattern here at the BBC. What is it with these people that they just can’t keep their heads down.
O/T
Frank Field has now replied to his critics
“How fair is my comparison of Sir Thomas Legg’s imposition of a retrospective 5 year claw back on MPs’ housing claims with a similar retrospective decision to change the speed limit?
I have likened Sir Thomas Legg’s application of the rule on expenses to the scenario of a motorist who drives at 25 miles per hour in a 30 mph limit zone then five years later, once the speed limit has been changed to 20 mph, discovers he has been fined for speeding following a decision to back-date the claim.
Emails have pointed out that I’m wrong to use this analogy. The speed limit should not have been 30 mph in the first place. It should have been 20 mph all along. Yes, that is presumably why the Highways Agency has taken the decision to reduce the speed limit. But should the change be introduced retrospectively and fines imposed?
I have never made an ACA claim which I thought was unfair to the taxpayer. I would be ashamed if I had. Indeed only by assuming that I was intellectually inadequate could one take the view that I was using my housekeeping bills as a means of boosting my personal income. The total of all of my claims over the past five years have ranged from 50 per cent of eligible sums to 30 per cent last year.
The main point that I was attempting to make in my column for the Liverpool Echo was that Sir Thomas has arbitrarily imposed a cap on only cleaning and gardening expenses. At no stage has he explained this, nor why he has restricted his cap to only gardening or cleaning costs.
If his precedent had been followed consistently Sir Thomas would have applied his retrospective rules to all the main headings allowed in my claims. He has not done so.
Robert Verkaik in today’s Independent goes further. He argues that Sir Thomas Legg’s decision is not akin to retrospective changes to the criminal law, but to the changing of tax loopholes or windfall charges on corporations who have benefited from unintended legislative consequences.
The charges arising from the closing of tax loopholes, however, are never retrospectively imposed.
But if Robert Verkaik’s argument is to hold, and there is much attraction to it, shouldn’t the new retrospective rules be applied consistently across all main headings of expenditure?”
Yes Frank they should and all troughers should go to prison.
Time is ripe for a root and branch reform of both houses.
sorry link
http://www.frankfield.com/blog/
is robbie a gay icon?
Yes.
But he’s not gay at all- honest! That’s why he’s so in love with his beard, sorry- girlfriend, Adya Field.
Can’t alienate the gays because the pink pound has such huge purchasing power. So it’s good business sense to keep his sexuality ambiguous.
Perhaps he should go into musical theatre. That would be a good relaunch for him. Can’t be any worse than his present relaunch.
Brown was heard singing this morning:
Come cheer up my Lads, ’tis to glory we steer,
To add something more to this wonderful year.
To honour we call you, as freemen, not slaves,
For who are so free as the sons of the waves?
Heart of oak are our ships, jolly tars are our men,
We always are ready, Steady, boys, steady,
We’ll fight and we’ll conquer again and again!
He’s golden rivet happy.
Please don’t defile a traditional English sea shanty by suggesting that the son of the manse would sing it.
Ben Bradshaw might be thinking:
“I’m not going to have a job after the next election, unless I can persuade Cameron that I would be a good ‘independent’ person to put into the BBC or some broadcasting quango. So if I slag off the BBC now it will improve my career prospects.”
OMG what has Caroline done to herself?
Yeah… not looking her best. Needs her eye bags doing & that tooth gap sorting with joint filler. I’d still do her though.
Hairdresser should be shot. The brown is not good.
She’s on to argue in favour of President Blair.
That’s no excuse.
How much will she get paid for that?!
i thought the bbc still ran on cocaine?
The children’s secretary talking Balls again::
http://page.politicshome.com/uk/balls_defends_atkinson_appointment_to_committee.html
I know he’s minister for children, but he doesn’t need to behave like one:
Just confirms it really. Being attacked by Dopey Dave is like being savaged by an arthritic toothless Koala.
Dave’s good enough to be 17% ahead in the three polls last night.
Angus Reid/pb.com
Con 40% Lab 23% LD 20%
Con 380 Lab 184 LD 55 Nat 10 Min 3
Con maj 110
ICM/Guardian
Con 44% Lab 27% LD 18%
Con 395 Lab 192 LD 33 Nat 9 Min 3
Con maj 140
IPSOS-MORI
Con 43% Lab 26% LD 19%
Con 390 Lab 189 LD 41 Nat 9 Min 3
Con maj 130
The public have always had sympathy for elderly Koalas.
Caroline Flint on Daily Politics showing how useless she is at anything above the hotizontal.
Some talk of a 7p increase in income tax.
a seven percent cut in my income to pay for Gordon’s egotism, rampant welfarism and parliament’s corruption? Fuck off.
Oh, and in case Call Me Dave is considering it too, fuck off.
here here
What next for Dithering Dave? Eton only shortlists?
If the Beeb is adopting this approach can we expect to see pictures of George Osborne snorting a line with various Beeb luvvies?
Why not Bullingdon only shortlists?
Its obvious. Women only shortlists are designed to provide fresh meat for the Bullingdon members.
Presumably he was drowning his sorrows after an abysmal performance in front of the DCMS Select Committee earlier in the day. He has all the smugness of Ed Balls but even less substance! Quite remarkable.
http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=4866
Why is Ed NoBalls appointing yet another trougher? A children’s minister – the current lot can’t do their jobs. In the current economic climate why do they feel the need to add another little piggy?
Ooops! Children’s COMMISSIONER
Nick Robinson is reporting that Gordon is powerless to stop the Parliamentary Labour Party troughing. The greedy piggies aren’t going to pay up.
No Live Chat today?
Doesn’t look like it.
a bit late today??
I’m guessing PMq’s has turned into such a farce where all parties ignore the real problems facing the country, that any live comments are pretty much a waste of time.
Planted question on Swine Flu. Gordon boasting of the success of producing the vaccine and quoting lots of statistics.
Ahead of the world, didn’t the Australians have the vaccine a month ago.
Swine Flu is just a cover to transfer more of our money to parmaceutical drug barons.
It’s the Blair way, artificially create markets for very few people to benefit from financially
But the swine flu question related principally to a local programme in Scotland which is surely a devolved responsibility.
Guido, are you losing the plot?? No Monday cartoon and now no PMQs??
Perhaps the Men in Black have turned up……and taken him away??
Times Izzard m’boy !!
Who was the female MP sat behind Jacqui Smith? She looks like that woman who gets out the bath in the Shining – the rotting one
That’s what all women shortlists could lead to
289 …and now Cameroon wants them so its dozens of Tory Jackboots next! Poverty stricken fool.
Maybe there’s something big going down in Westminster (and I don’t mean Jockey Spliff).
Daily Politics is doing a livechat now
search ‘swiss bob’ in google
come on the GBP
He didn’t stop the bill because he couldn’t sell the Royal Mail, he dropped the bill because he couldn’t sell it to his backbenchers!!!!!!
GB referring to Tory frontbenchers as ministers!!!!
CMD got a good hit in about the CWU funding cyclops…..
Dave keeps using the word “weakness” to describe GB.
Brown’s now obviously on beta-blockers too, since the side-effects of the antidepressants are now much reduced.
Gordon’s mad now. He’s angry that Dave mentioned the biscuits.
Crumbs !!
Let me digest that for a minute…..
Blimey, she’s a size!
I wish they wouldn’t ask me difficult questions…..
Like a toddler throwing a paddy then, laughing my tits off watching him, he is so easy to wind up.
Cameron brought up the issue of Gordon’s leadership and he responded by having a hissy-fit. All that was missing was the flying Nokia.
One more question.
I was hoping that he would turn round and smack that smarmy wee git behind him.
Browns losing it on PMQs
Good…..
Clegg asking a question Mervyn King’s speech. Gordon disagrees strongly with what the Governor said last night.
The Governor of the Bank of England and the PM are clearly at war!
Psycholops sees himself as at war with everyone.
Obama mention!
The beach or the gentleman from Africa?
A Labour backbencher refers to Karzai as a corrupt thief. They are no longer on message. Watch out Gordon for the knives in your back.
Typical ‘cos Gordo say’s that Karzai is a good all round egg and a real snappy dresser!!!
…and like Corporal Jones, he slips him half a pound on the side
Greenhouse gasses moonbat alert!
Brown definitely on beta-blockers to control the shakes.
Proper use of License Fee payers’ money?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/6015128/BBC-spends-11000-on-leaving-party-for-executive.html
You’ve no idea how expensive kosher champagne is, if you want something drinkable – and if you invite one person to these leaving dos, you have to invite the entire shtetl.
and bring the shlong along
Lock your doors, it’s the ex. Home Secretary.
She is looking morbidly obese…
Good.
On fucking CO2 now on PMQS
Piggie Jacqui is asking a planted question. Gordon is thanking the thief for everything she has done…….
having a go at the tories about losing funding… oh the irony
Brown thanking Fatti Five Bellies! Bitch should be put down!
She’s obviously been putting on even more weight recently. All that time in the trough makes a piggie very, very fat.
Great tit wank tho
Jacqui Smiff looks a right old munter now
must the the time of the month, looking bloated and really hacked off
i guess someone is looking out the old dvds
Sauce!
maybe a career as a centrefold doesn’t beckon for her.
is that Jacqui Smith?? I mean is that fucking Jacqui SPLIFF????? What the fuck??? Apoplectic fucking apoplectic, me that is not her, she’s a lying cheating whore
Peter Bone asks a question about losing our rebate and Bliar becoming EU President. Gordon responds with lots of tractor statistics. Ignore the bit about Blair.
Christ. Hain’s been irradiated. Glowing or what ??
Gordon Brown is a real cnut
Hes going to cure diabetes now.
he’s already done cancer. easy innit?
pity he can’t cure his own dementia
Jacqui smith looked awful (more awful than before) . Why isn’t she sleeping at night?
..cause the dark’s afraid of her.
Harman is looking hot!
why is Gordo banging the desk???? Violent tendencies perhaps??
Don’t all high pols fuck their secretaires?
Fat Leftie sitting near Skinner slags off Brown for letting poor people subsidise bankers. I sense a major rebellion coming.
Bob Ainsworth Minister of Defence and can’t be bothered to wear a poppy – he’s a first class weapons grade contemptable ar*ehole
Seen the size of that gut ? Bet he wouldn’t pass BFT.
Ainsworth is a Fcucking Communist
Wee dougies nose is growing biger by the day
Mrs. Balls is looking a bit retarded
Next labour government thats a laugh
………and he’s fuckin’ mad
all the rumours are true……….
Hit the desk………. again !!
Dispatch box is getting a right pasting today.
…as did Bent Bradshaw back stage with Robbie Williams
Could we not get him a free ticket to the British Antarctic base for next February?
or robbie williams concert??
who’s the boris look-a-like just sitting behind georgie osborne?
Michael Fabricant (he has a fibre optic lamp on his head)
every home should have one
He’ always got his finger in somebody’s socket.
What’s with all these North Eastern Labour MPs being called to speak. At least 4 now – all of them as thick as two short planks.
So whatareyeezgannadeeaboorit?
Why Aye – It’s Geordie Questions… when the boat comes in…wor jackie…gannin doont pub….when’s stripper on?
fuckin geordie mafia innit
Makes it easier to understand McSnot the Scot and his mates
Ma noo song iz crap liike, bu ee will steel be noomber whan liike
see what I mean..
Cherile,
Will yiz gan oot wi’ us wen yon Ashtary’s got a forrin gayum? A’ve got me oehn sellotayup an everythin an a’ll bring yiz sum tabs.
Jaqui Smith looks like the female equivalent of Mr. Creosote:
Seeing this smelly, one-eyed pile of jock shite wheeled out yet again makes me ashamed to be British. When is Mandy going to hand the useless fucker a pearl-handled revolver and a stiff drink FFS?
Ratings:
Cameron 5 ( Dull questions, but linked the strike and GB’s poor leadership).
Brown 1 (Evasive, grumpy, angry at times, linked himself to Jacqui Smith).
Clegg 7 (Good questions, poor delivery as always).
Clegg might ask a good question, but he will not understand the answer. The man and his party are an irrelevance.
It is a pity that Cameroon did not bring a link into the PSBR figures of yesterday, or King’s comments on the economy. If his strategy is to make Brown lose the plot then Brown will get the sympathy vote from his supporters. For it is they who should be made to see the link between Brown and the *ucked up economy.
Cameroon 5? You are being over-generous. He still under-performs.
Cameron wasted his four middle questions by asking the same thing. But he annoyed Brown big time by mentioning the biscuit indecision as an example of his poor leadership. Brown had a whole set of statistics in his back pocket about the banks and the deficit but instead he had to answer a question about why he can’t decide what his favourite biscuit is.
funniest PMQs for ages – he’s off his fucking nut, surrounded by sychophants, the morbidly obese and/or orange, and crooks. What must the rest of the world think of us?
it’s the multi-coloured swap shop innit
Nothing. They won’t be watching.
And wouldnt it be a bit like on Father ted when they looked at “rugged island”, or when you catch sight of a foreign version of weakest link.
Of course Jean-Marie LePen would never suggest that the army chiefs should be hanged for taking France into illegal wars.
Britain’s got talent,
To be honest,PMQ’s is a complete waste of time now.
I’m sick and tired of the planted questions that give Brown the opening to dive headlong into Party politics.
PMQ’s is supposed to be the tool for Opposition parties to bring Government to account. Wasting valuable time by planted questions from Labour stooges is not what it is supposed to be.
Devils Kitchen gone ?
http://devilskitchen.me.uk/
Humm… Maybe he’s given up the fight? DK was pissed off with the whining about him threatening to punch some Hunt in the Hunt and throw her in the sea. It seems even the libertarians are becoming infested with PC. It’s a fucking war….
In other news Alaister Darling things borrowing is the best route to recover. He thinks debt is dandy. Watch the black hole get bigger and bigger.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE59K27Z20091021?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
“Withdrawing the support we’ve provided to the economy would put the recovery at risk and abandon people facing unemployment,” Darling will say at Reuters Newsmaker event in London, according to extracts from his speech given to Reuters. “Borrowing to support people now and to invest in the future may feel counter-intuitive … But in the longer run it will mean the bills we face as a country are lower, and that we are better placed to pay them off.”
Said old mother hubbard as she was forcibly escorted from her hovel by the bailiffs and thrown into the debtors prison.
Another fucking knob jockey
McMental seems to like to surround himself with them doesnt he?
Now Im no poof hater (OK I am) but its a bit fucking odd how many male politicians enjoy smoking the one eyed owl isnt it?
As a I would suggest that most of them suffer from “Dirtythievingdegenerativeitus”
Symptoms are
An elavated sense of importance, kleptomania and sexual deviancey
you gotta a promotion?
One eyed owl? Whatever can Beast mean?
That’s gotta hurt.
If Cameron wants a battle with Tory bloggers he can have one – but we won’t vote for him. Pillock.
What an ugly c’unt Ed.Milliband is!
Laughing his bollox off throughout PMQ’s
Why don’t he get a job at the London Dungeon
scaring kids? They would make a fortune not
having to employ makeup artists.
The Moribund twins
Addams Family rejects (too scary).
Come to daddy kiddo.
The most telling thing regarding BBC bias is their removal of the pollwatch.
If anyone wanted proof then this is it.
Not a single mention of the triple poll result in one night all giving the same lead for the Tories a common outcome almost unprecedented according to Pb.com
The BBC are just cowards and must be done away with at the very earliest opportunity
Bush House and TV Centre should be burned down and the ground they occupied salted so that nothing may ever grow in their place.
Brillo talking goats on tv now. Flint throwing her weight about. God she looks shagged out!
Clap Clap Clap Clap
Well done, I’ve been sacked this morning for being on the BP membership list.
Now who do you think i’ve got no other choice but to vote for now i’m persona non grata with no chance of remployment.
I hope you all enjoy forking out for the lifetime worth of benefits, I will be on now. Seeing i’m deemed not worthy enough to earn a wage or pay taxes in society anymore.
I’m just waiting for the crowd with pitchforks to come get me or my family outside the house now.
Clap Clap Clap
Well done you got what you wanted.
Well I’m not a BNP supporter but that is pretty disgraceful to lose your job over your political beliefs.
Truly the thin end of the wedge.
Why so unhappy?
Don’t you understand the point is that you have lost your job.
This is all going to plan, excellent.
Now you can use your undoubted powers of persuasion to get others to follow you.
The path to power will be paved with loyal followers, there will be casualties. But when we achieve power we will be able to deal with any opposition summarily, no questions asked.
One Folk!
One Party!
One Leader!
Hail!
Are you John Prescott by any chance?
what who wanted? No one here I’m sure. What were the grounds for dismissal?
Being a member of a banned organisation that comprimises my ability to do the job, yes supposedly I actually spent my days arresting black people or asian people solely on their colour.
Infact they where all innocent, those drugs I must of planted on them, I must of punched the people they punched, It was me white cop who stabbed people and planted the knives on the innocent etc. etc.
All white english cops are racist and it’s a grand conspiracy against everyone of colour that the crime figures in regards to them are so high.
Looks like I’ll be in the local paper and news as well if not the national news and papers.
If you are an (ex) copper, then most of what you do is to enforce the regulations and rules of a corporation. Nothing to do with law at all.
Our ancient common law system has been virtually usurped by admiralty law, the laws of bankruptcy and commerce.
I don’t have any sympathy with the police anymore. Too bad that you lost your job. At least you wont be able to arrest people for non crimes like taking photos of public buildings or wearing a T-shirt with FUCK BLIAR written on it.
Watching back. Brown said that three million British jobs depended on our membership of the EU. Surely this is total nonsense.
Strangely enough all of Norway’s jobs depend on the EU as well, and they’re not even members.
Are that many MEP’s then?
England’s going Tory.
Latest poll for England:
CON 47 (+8)
LAB 24 (-1)
LD21 (-3)
source: MORI
I think I’ll top meself.
why so drastic ?
there are always agitprop vacancies in North Korea.
Don’t think it, do it. You’ve been saying this for 12 years now.
England has been Tory since 2005. It’s the celts that have kept this lot in power. The time of our freedom is near though.
Just waiting for the go ahead from the real PM to call the election. It has been a long decade.
Legg writes to Ken Clarke to say sorry for over-charging. So the Tory front bench have all paid up.
http://waugh.standard.co.uk/2009/10/legg-apologises-to-ken-clarke.html
Oh dear. Sir Thomas Legg has just written to Ken Clarke to offer an “unreserved apology” for getting his sums wrong and for demanding more than £4,000 “payback” for expenses claims.
The payback demand has been revised down to £1,345. Clarke will see this as a vindication of his clear refusal to accept the Legg letter’s calculations.
The reason for the error is duplicated forms, I’m told. Yet more proof of the chaos of the Fees Office, maybe?
Sources close to the Shadow Business Sec stress, however, that he is not against the Legg review in principle.
But this blunder will be manna from heaven for those MPs who believe the whole process has been shabbily handled and ineptly executed.
It can only undermine the credibility of the Legg team, that’s for sure.
Probably an honest mistake guv’nor. So it’s all right for MPs to fuck up big time, but not ok for others to make mistakes. I was Legg I wouldn’t apologize, they still gotta pay up.
Abso – bloody- lutely not. He has exposed many gits and £1345 is not just a round of drinks is it?
Cuddly Ken Clarke? Not the hush puppy wearing, jazz loving, cigar smoking Bilderberg fascist? surely not. He’s a jolly decent chap.
I hope he ends up hanging from a lampost like the rest of them.
I hadn’t realised until last week that he does a Beavis and Butthead “huh huh huhuh” thing between sentences. Is that a recent thing?
BBC leading on Leaders clash over postal dispute , Sky News showing GB getting angry.
Yes and doesn’t Brown look “silly” when he gets angry, he just makes me laugh at him more.
Cameron’s performance on the TV highlights looks much better than it did live at the time. Yes, it was boring stuff at the time. But people watching the news tonight will agree that Brown is weak.
Angus Reid/pb.com
Con 40% Lab 23% LD 20%
Con 380 Lab 184 LD 55 Nat 10 Min 3
Con maj 110
ICM/Guardian
Con 44% Lab 27% LD 18%
Con 395 Lab 192 LD 33 Nat 9 Min 3
Con maj 140
IPSOS-MORI
Con 43% Lab 26% LD 19%
Con 390 Lab 189 LD 41 Nat 9 Min 3
Con maj 130
MORI
CON 47 (+8)
LAB 24 (-1)
LD21 (-3)
The longer Brown hangs on the more people will have a chance to hate him more. But he has none of the “courage” he has written about to call an election. Anyway it is probably all in the hands of his Lord high and mighty and everything else Mandelson.
Even Sky News are not updating, lazy bastards.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Labours-Popularity-Picks-Up-In-Opinion-Poll/Article/200910315408258?lpos=Politics_News_Your_Way_Region_1&lid=NewsYourWay_ARTICLE_15408258_Labours_Popularity_Picks_Up_In_Opinion_Poll
What makes you think Labour’s facing wipe out If they dare call a general election?
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of incompetent wankers.
PMQ’s is really quite boring and uneventful each week. It is a picture of a dying government in it’s death throes. All stepping on egg shells, there a so many “elephants” in the hall, one wrong move and “your dead” almost. How this is all going to go on until next May seems impossible. Over 100 of the MPs apparently not standing again, what a shabby state of affairs. It would be kinder to the nation to call a General Election this Autumn than dragging this sorry state of a government along for months ahead. Come on Brown put yourself out of your own misery!
This parliment is dead in the water, the Pm looks awful, the government backbenches are off message, the cons and the libs should go for the killer blow asap to save the country, may willbe to late.
Yes I think the government back benchers hate Brown more than we do. Must be difficult to be around such a person.
The killer blow? Wossat then? We’ve been looking for it for ages.
I wish we could find and soon.
Just how many seats is Dithering Dave going to try and “dump” on with his women only lists?
Nu Labour Freebie= Not in my name