Saturday Seven Up
If you were not one of the 55,820 visitors viewing 354,427 blog pages over the last seven days, here are the seven most popular stories (in order of popularity) that you missed:
You may be surprised to learn that Guido’s personal favourite story of the week wasn’t Nadine Dorries winning a damages settlement from Damian McBride. It was the With No End to Recession, Labour Attack Strategy Misfires story, more analytical than a usual Guido story. The media grid plan for Labour was to use the technical end of recession to claim they were right on the economy and Osborne was wrong. Only when the numbers came out, the recession wasn’t over. Guido highlighted the spin plans that went wrong, yet still went ahead.
You are either in front of Guido, or you are behind…
nowt but smears from the goverment this week
another Labour flipper exposed
Scourge of the fat cats is £20,000 flipper: How ex-trade unionist peer milked his expenses
As a trade union leader and chairman of Labour’s national executive committee, Richard Rosser railed against ‘fat cats’ riding the ‘gravy train’ of easy money.
But since being made Lord Rosser in 2004, his attitudes seem to have changed a little.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1224210/Scourge-fat-cats-20-000-flipper-How-ex-trade-unionist-peer-milked-expenses.html#ixzz0VVa6EqSu
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1224210/Scourge-fat-cats-20-000-flipper-How-ex-trade-unionist-peer-milked-expenses.html#ixzz0VVZjEg9r
Andrew Neil would like to apologise for the BBC attempting to censor his innocent comments to Diane Abbot and Michael Portillo.
Agree With No End to Recession, Labour Attack Strategy Misfires was top notch. You will be doing guest appearances in the Dead Tree press next.
Will today’s Blogging be studied by tomorrow’s historians?
Yes, even if they have redesignated History a branch of Media Studies.
I’ll slap you all for what you say about poor, down-trodden AlJABeeba.
We only ever disssemmminate the best version of the troof, – such as Our Beloved Leader would approve. We dump all other stuff as mere idle chatter and tittle-tattle.
No, trust me. We – our finest worldfamous reporters – will tell you all you need to know.
Oh, – and could you write a letter asking for our dosh to be increased? Thanks.
I stopped believing in their ‘finest’ reporters when NuLab sleepers such as Bumshaw and Shitsmith jumped ship to work for The Project.
Didn’t Sixpack end up leaving “The Project” though, disilusioned with the ZanuLab spin machine?
Smears and sleaze – it’s in Labour’s D-N-A.
: )
i preferred the bit where it was bad news for El Presidente.
O/T love the guidogram fawkes
How do you gt it to work? Have subscribed, have had confirmation email, what next to get it to play this week’s? It still plays last week`s, is there a log on or something that I have missed?
you get sent a mail , got mine this morning it has a link init
Cheers just checked email again and sure enough as you say a link to the current guidogram was sent a few mins ago.
I did all that. What link? The attachment? Guido’s face? Confused.
Not doing as well as you should be Guido! That village in Somerset – (I think it was Somerset, and I can’t remember it’s name), anyway, the guy there has managed to oust all the council members, apparently because they have been terrified witless by the comments on his blog! When is the force of your blog going to oust this appalling government?!
Now if it was Lincolnshire I could tell you his name.My Dad.
Even at 70 he rips council officials up for arsehole paper and shits on councillors from a great height.
His latest attack is on how councillors/officials who claim mobility allowance also claim for travel expenses (two thirds of which are already covered by mobility)for council work.effectivly being paid twice for the same thing.
The next Tory government needs to take an axe to the massive rise in local councillor troughing that has occurred under New Labour. More otherwise unemployable comrades on the payroll. They don’t just get expenses any more – hundreds if not thousands of the buggers are being paid big money for as ‘cabinet members’ for this and ‘cabinet members for that’. £50k p.a. is not unheard of. For a fucking councillor. The Audit Commission has been complicit in this scam not least as its run by a seriously dodgy bought and paid for Labour hack. Bent as arseholes the lot of them.
I believe these particular councillors were unpaid.
Whatever. I’m just broadening out the point, namely that the troughing and venal behaviour generally of local government councillors needs purging after the next election. Far too many in Westminster, particularly on the Labour benches, honed their skills in sleaze and corruption in local government. Local government is an area that’s boring and so is frequently overlooked but it is replete with troughers and troughing opportunities for political players.
Mind you, after the next election there may not be that many left on the Labour benches anyway.
Actually City of Vice – the bigger money issue is not the local government councillors. It is the VAST expansion of local government officers drawing generous salaries and expenses for non-jobs all at our expense, paid for on the rates.
Steady on, there are now more Tory local councillors than Labour ones so Cameron could be shafting his own kind.
I am afraid politics is of little consequence to most councillors who are more interested in the power and trappings.
That is why the voices of voters are rarely paid any attention and why bureaucracy continues to exapnd.
We need a widespread system of referendums at a local level to ensure that councils serve us not the other way round.
Actually there aren’t more Tory councillors than all the rest. The vast majority of councillors in Britain are parish councillors, almost all of whom are elected without being members of any political party at all. And very few parish councillors claim a penny in expenses, unlike the troughers at every other level. Of course, parish councillors are a mixed bunch from the amazingly good and hard working to some pretty useless specimens, but in the event of getting a useless one it isn’t too hard to get rid of them. Two people to sign your nomination papers and an hour or so to deliver a few hundred leaflets and its job done.
That’s intriguing.
What was the Somerset Blogger accusing the councillors of? Being closet Wurzels? Morris Dancing in a lascivious manner? He wasn’t accusing them of – shock, horror – not drinking cider – was he?
Do tell….
It was part of Newsnight last night, conducted by Crick. The blogger accused the councillors of various things, including secrecy over expenditure, dubious property deals, racism, being ugly etc etc etc. The locals appeared to back the blogger, and there was a chance the town would shortly be without a council.
One wonders if the Blogger in question will stand for election.
There seems to be a bit of a difference between highlighting hypocrisy and malicious name-calling. You may disagree with Guido’s point of view, but he does have a basis for the things he posts. The Somerset Blogger sounds as if he’s plugging his opinion rather than hard facts. Calling councillors for being ugly may be accurate, but it doesn’t advance local politics much.
Apparently he got some shit back in return for upsetting them.
Muck&Brass Blog – Councillors walk out
Council collapses as lone blogger’s ’sniping’ forces mass walkout
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1224013/Council-collapses-lone-bloggers-sniping-forces-mass-walkout.html
***** SCOOP SCOOP SCOOP***
The blogger Mr Connolly says his wife does want to be named.
I can today announce that I have discovered her name is ———————————–
MRS CONNOLLY!!!!!!
You bastard! We’ve all been trying to keep that quiet.
He was calling some of them ugly and a Tory builder councillor in sunglasses was called crooked.
With No End to Recession, Labour Attack Strategy Misfires story.
That was an excellent piece. Explained why these odd anti Osborne stories kept coming without a real hook to hang them on.
The Confederacy had the same problem as NewLabour. Attrition takes its toll and there just isn’t the calibre of senior officers left to fill all the posts. The enemy has found a way to counter the old successful tactics and the troops are weary and have had too many battlefield defeats to believe in victory.
I’m probably in a minority of one here, but I think Osborne is pretty much on the ball, and has been for some time. Apart from him supporting the principle if not the method of the bank bailouts that is, but I guess I’m in a minority of one on that too. The incompetent banksters should have been gone to the wall. I suppose it helps that Osborne understands something about real business, unlike Brown and Darling for whom the concept of running a business was theoretical, and who are now proven to the incompetent bullshit artists many of us long suspected they always were. Never mind all the Bullingdon and substance abuse jibes, that’s all Labour are good for, they can’t stand on their record.
Not sure that you are in a minority of one.
I can’t help feeling that the country might have been better off if the bust banks had been allowed to fail. The government could then have stepped in and nationalised the retail part of the banks, thus keeping commerce going whilst allowing the risk-takers to take the consequences of their actions. The bank shareholders may have lost out, but that’s the risk of investing.
The Labour obsession with smearing Osborne suggests that they can’t defend their own economic record. To use a footballing analogy, they are playing the man and not the ball. Very weak – can’t win on merit, so cheat.
We don’t really know Osborne’s mettle yet, in the same way that we didn’t know Clarke’s or Brown’s before they took over the Treasury. Clarke turned out to be competent, Brown didn’t. Osborne should be judged on his actions when he gets a chance.
Yes. Protect the ordinary depositors, transfer their accounts to the remaining sound institutions and let the executives and shareholders of the failed banks take the hit for their mismanagement. However, Brown and Darling couldn’t do this because they had debased the regulatory regime and the bust banks were generally centred on areas of Labour support – Northern Crock, Halifax RBOS…Where’s the moral hazard? Labour socialised the risks and privatised the gains of the banking business.
I’m with you C o V!
I agree too.
But But this morning a City bigwig on Radio 4 said that Osborne is wrong on all counts very worrying.
Which City bigwig would he be? One that might have to take his bonus, if any (for one year only) in shares instead of cash and doesn’t like it?
They never have Sir Stephen Green (CEO of HSBC) who said, “”Underlying all these events is a question about the culture and ethics of the industry. It is as if, too often, people had given up asking whether something was the right thing to do, and focused only whether it was legal and complied with the rules. The industry needs to recover a sense of what is right and suitable as a key impulse for doing business.”
Correction: Stephen Green’s not a Knight… why am I unsurprised?
Runs a solvent and mostly successful bank which hasn’t had to call on the taxpayer to bail it out… obviously a loser.
Osbourne finished the week well, despite the NuLabour onslaught. He’s made of much together stuff that the Lefties release and he obviously knows how to hack them off. Far from being a weak link, he’s a great asset for the Tories. I am sure he’ll be a very influential figure in the future Cameron administration.
A joke I presume.
Yes, please define ‘window lickers’.
I’ll have a guess.
Someone who looks, but doesn’t get involved. Think 19-year old male window cleaner working at an all-girls’ sixth-form college.
(Mind you, anybody employing a 19-year old male as a window cleaner in an all-girls’ sixth-form college is a complete moron. The poor sod wouldn’t stand a chance.)
You may not like the definition but here it,
(derogatory) ~ sl.: euphemism for a person of mentally challenged status. Etymology: C20 – Derived from the stereotyped behaviour of mentally challenged people, observed to place their open mouths into prolongued contact with the external windows of public or private transport on which they are seated.
From Urban Dictionary.
Clearly not applicable to our nulab masters, if public transport is involved.
“Window lickers” is a term of abuse. It has, in a nod to political correctness, replaced “mong” in Guido’s lexicon of abuse towards the irritating comment trolls who Guido would prefer fucked off elsewhere.
So relieved your possible ‘ratner’ moment – (use of the words window lickers) – didn’t refer to all of us!
‘Window lickers’ has been used on here for yonks to describe New Labour and it’s apologists. Get over it FFS.
I am sure another phase of abuse for Labour supporters can be used. Persons who are mentally challenged have no option about their condition. Labour supporters have no such excuse for their idiocy.
Trolley-pusher
Nice of you to confess.
“I am sure another phase of abuse for Labour supporters can be used. Persons who are mentally challenged have no option about their condition. Labour supporters have no such excuse for their idiocy.”
Do fuck off you po faced twat.
window lickers are people on the outside of power licking the glass that separates them from the important people.
so that means currently david cameron and gideon osborne and the tory trolls who infest this place are window lickers.
Apparently still not over for Bastard Blair and his desire to become king of Europe. Mr. kirb crawling Campbell in the mix, rooting for his ‘best friend’. As I said before, ….rats tend to climb back up the u-bend into the lavvy bowl looking good as new.
Dissent is needed for a healthy blog site not toadying to a right or left wing opinion.
Who are you irritated by,those who agree with you or those who oppose you?
Girls of the playboy mansion eh? I think Dave may be a bit fooked on his Europe stance
Up the creek with Hannam bananas.
the banana moment belonged to militwit! Bless!
Yes but Hannan is bananas and bonkers,we call him swivel eyes around here.
I think it’s a nasty phrase used by scum like Draper, McBride and Campbell to smear people who are a nuisance as being “intellectually challenged” or whatever the euphemism du jour happens to be. Not sure why our host has gone along with it.
Wrong Mongrel, Draper certainly started to use it after he saw it being employed on here for quite a while.
BTW, we tend to say what we like on here, up to a point.
A typically grown-up attitude by the Brown government. The UK has suffered a crippling recession that has put millions out of work and left thousands of small businesses teetering on the edge. The consequences will continue long after the recession has – technically, anyway – ended.
And what is the government’s response? To try and get one over Osborne.
A fair percentage of the people in the UK probably do not know who George Osborne is, but clearly Brown and his collaborators feel it is more important to ‘get him’ than to try and engage with the people who vote for them and pay their bloated salaries. It is little wonder then that Brown is so widely and deeply despised.
I’m rather suprised that there has been no story about the Nutt sacking by Guido. Can this be because the only thing more laughable than the government in this is the pathetic line taken by Chris Grayling in supporting the sacking. Show some spine Guido and give both Postman Prat and Grayling a double barrel.
Click on Older post, and it will take you to it.
Thank you Chronic, excellent
The continuation of the New Labour Project, after suborning and politicising the Judiciary, the Police, the Education system, the BBC…. code of conduct for comedians what you may or may not say (good example Newsnight Chocolate Hobnobs and Custard Creams) They have now moved on to stifling any debate based on factual analysis and empirical evidence.. Nutt sacked. Now we have a pogrom of the despised intellectuals, Ring any Historical Bells?
Lying and weakness and allowing policy to be dictated by tabloid hysteria is really the current NuLabour way.
Science, which essentially espouses a reality independent of Belief, is a most dangerous opponent to them…
Religion is their best friend. Religious people can be converted by supplying new dogma, Science can’t be subverted without supplying new facts.
When are newlabour going to start burning books? They’re desperate to get their grubby little mits on the internet. They espouse god in order to give themselves a so called ’spiritual cover’, make themselves inviolate to attack. They think!
Grayling supported the sacking Doh!
Reminded me of the statement (who said It?, could have been Nutt) That Horse Riding is far more dangerous than taking an E now and again, indisputably correct by a huge factor but this statement was roundly condemned by Al Beeboid.
Actually some people are paralysed by horse riding ,in fact quite a few every year.
And the never-ending curse of Brown’s bad luck on himself continues even over the weekend – it really is a 24/7/365 thing for Brown.
He’s the bloke who if he won £100M on the Euro lottery,his ticket would have been eaten by the dog/cat.
Now the sacked drugs adviser is calling him everything under the sun and more advisers are sure to follow and resign.The image of him as a meddler are reinforced and another nail in his coffin is banged in.
Surely this can’t continue for another 7 months – something has got to come up that eventually crucifies him?
Smirking Postman: I gather you have a scientific report for me about drugs?
Messenger: Yes. The evidence is clear, smoking pot or taking ecstasy are less harmful for people than living under a Labour government. Your government’s drug policy is politically driven to embarrass opposition politicians, is of no benefit to the health of the nation, and is not in accordance with scientifically proven fact.
Smirking Postman: The only facts that are facts are the ones we say are facts. You were wrong about the drugs being harmless, but right about the labour government being dangerous. Stand still for a moment while I shoot you. That’s better. I won’t be losing any sleep over that.
look alan johnson was a postman-so he knows more about everything than mere profs!!!!!
more people die each year from playing cricket than taking E’s……..
but sensible discussions are not allowed because the vile labour nazis dont like to be questiones…ffs!!!!!
Besides the postman gets an awful amount of revenue from fags and booze… don’t want to put anyone off them so we’ll pretend the alternatives are much worse.
Look – it’s a set back. And I’ve got the missus on me back I grant you.
But hey! – I’ll make a comeback – like all my cronies do – sooner or later – and wiv enhanced
emoll….imoller. . . .emolly. . . perks, ‘n that.Cos I’m a straight kinda guy.
And I’ve got the missus on me back
Has slotty got a strap on?
Alright,I know it’s time to get tough with the striking postal workers.
On Monday I will personally rush through legislation re-introducing capital punishment for those striking postmen.
My cabinet is convinced that the majority of the public will back me on this issue and will delight to spectate at the spectacle of theses overpaid skivvies being strung up.
I run this country not a bunch of anti-modernising toerags.
Now just watch my ratings in the opinion poll ratings soar
Yes, for sure, he’ll be working on this exact script as we speak.
Better step away from the roadside,I can see another U turn coming…..
At what point do the number of successive U-turns become a spin?
Hopefully when they crash.
The only thing I want to spectate at , is the downfall of this government!
Europe leaders incensed by David Cameron’s letterSarkozy, Merkel and Zapatero criticise Tories for attempt to delay treaty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/30/david-cameron-europe-treaty?CMP=AFCYAH
Good!!!
So long as we and he upsets the Frog/Kraut axis powers he is doing something right. I note McFuckwit his kowtowing down to them after stealing our referendum which he knows will be a resounding NO!
Demockery in action
HOOO DAR’ tha’ scunners aske ma whit ar eatty !!!!!
They jus’ put tha biccys i’ ma’ tinny tray an’ ah eat ut.
I di’nae know wa’ tha’ gi’ ma.
Ah’m tha’ glad to gut anythin!
An’ nuth’ns ma fult ye un’stn!!
Good God, you are SO right….
Gorgon was SO wonderful this week.
All his plans and predictions are coming true.
Oh his Manliness! his MASCULINITY! his DEEP VOICE calling me like a stag in rut – and me a helpless pawn in his sights – should that be fawn?
Anyway, – I must put on my burqa ready for Halloween – I don’t want other men lusting after me.
But Gorgon, – - oh the first cramps and pangs of pleasure are coming – no don’t help me – let me crawl to a quiet corner where I can give myself to the waves of bliss that will pile over me like . . . like – - – - – - (whimpering)
Isn’t it time you were off to over-winter in your villa in Tuscany, Polly?
Absence makes the heart grow fonder… except in her case.
Don’t ‘waves of bliss’ wash over you ? Never heard of waves of bliss piling!
Thoroughly enjoyed the wee hearts and flowers love story. You could perhaps try for a contract with Mills and Boon!?
oh the waves of bliss as the waves crashed o’er me . . .
the eruption of the volcano that drowned my smouldering fire . . .
‘ ere – wait a mo – ‘av I got me mutafors mucked up?
One is so confused at times like this
I’m right behind Guido – rearing to go!
Cooooeeee! Let’s all have a daisy chain! We could fit together like lego!
. . . except you might need a few buckets of cold water to get them apart perhaps?
When I was in the middle of Papua New Guinea last year a tribesman approached me and said ‘You’re Matthew Parris, aren’t you?’
Realising that I had provided this simple man with the greatest moment of his life, I replied, ‘You may be correct, but what leads you to make this assertion?’
‘Because you not only eat shit, but talk it as well!’
I was profoundly moved that someone in this remote part of the world knew so much about me….
You don’t have to to so far to ascertain this!
You didn’t mention though Guido that the BBC were in on this smear on Osborne as well. All morning last Friday the BBC were bigging up the “economy is out of recession” shite from their favoured newspapers (Grauniad, Mirror and Independent) and we had a string of leftie’s on the BBC trying to tell us Gordon one eye was the man.
Then it all fell apart as you rightly stated
lick lick lick lick look uncle guido i am cleaning the windows lick lick lick lick
Hilarious to see that the Government plans to prosecute us for lying.
Can we do the same to them? No? Thought not.
Well said!!
Best words in there are ‘ the dying days of this +++++++government’
I do so hope you are right.!!
Seeing as nuffin is true until tested we had better do just that.
I will make a statement – and wait for it to be verified.
Test Statement begins >
Gorgon is a heart warming guy to know.
He is a fund of good jokes that no-one has heard before, is witty, alive with gay banter, and turns any gathering into a riot of fun.
He is noted for truth at all times, and at whatever cost. Veracity, probity, and prudence are his hall marks, and he is noted throughout the world for his forward thinking, utter and complete honesty – even when times are bad, – and for his utter contempt for people who fawn or try to influence him with favours or bribes.
< Test statement ends . . . I can't go on . . . I feel too ill . . . where's the bucket . . ?
. ..
MR X
As the favourite line in a PhD viva goes…
‘Show me your evidence…’.
No sorry, you have failed your PhD at the University of Public Opinion. Although I suspect that your heart was not set on the thesis from the outset!
An interesting essay on how we may all have been sold down the river by political ambition.
Peter Oborne on how Blair’s dealings with the EU might have been swayed by self interest, rather than what would have been best for our farmers, fishermen, and taxpayers. Read it…and weep….
http://tinyurl.com/y9am5c9
Note to Call Me Dave: cut this article out and pin it up on your notice board…read it every single day.
To 70.
OT I know but I see that eyebrows darling has just admitted that the hike in flying tax is nothing to do with saving the planet but is to plug the black hole in government finances.Just read it in the DM on line what a bunch of muppets we have running things.The lot should be tried for treason.
Which will lead to less revenue being generated anyway, most of the other European countries have cut taxes and duties on air flight to encourage trade through their airports, people and air transport providers will just fly via France and Belgium. The Numpties strike again.
NuLabour. The masters of the adverse unintended consequence. Muppits.
cause no one likes the whites
Call Me Dave hasn’t got the bottle to deal with any subject which NuLabour could use against him, as it did with Michael Howard.
However, the climate has changed since then and the public will no longer tolerate debate being stifled by the deranged, foaming at the mouth marxists screaming “racists” when the subject of immigration is mentioned. This was, of course, one of the tactics which was mentioned by Neather, and it duly played out with all discussion on the topic effectively curtailed.
Dave knows all this, but he chooses not to make it an issue. I wonder why that might be?
My lips are sealed.
Shouldn’t that be White “Persuasion” or didn’t I pay enuff attention at the PC Bollocks session?
I didn’t need persuading to be white. It just happened at birth. By choice today in the UK, I would rather be a black, one-legged lesbian. Would help my job prospects.
So are mine. Hic. Puff. Yawn.
“more analytical than a usual Guido story.”
High praise indeed.
Thank you so much. You’re too kind.
Ha
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1224192/Colonel-Thorneloes-memo-MoD-warned-helicopter-shortage-cost-lives–weeks-later-dead.html
Men are dying in Afghanistan because we don’t have enough helicopters. America has the capacoty to produce what we need in black hawks but broon refuses to buy them.
gordon lied, in Parliament, saying that our troops have everything they need. Now this tragically dead soldier’s emails to the MoD highlighting the fact that men ARE dying, just days before he too died, because of LACK of helicopters, have been leaked. Whose going to pay for this government’s lies and their fatal lack of Duty of Care?????
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6897905.ece
And Alan Johnson is sacking his scientific advisors because he doesn’t like the scientific evidence they are producing in respect of drugs and alcohol. No doubt he wanted them to lie in order to spin the government line.
This whole government is built on lies and spin.
This whole government is built on lies and spin.
This whole government (insert) WAS, AND is built on lies and spin.
Browns hatred of the military is well known and I am always angered at his insincere condolences when he pays ‘tribute’ to our fallen service personnel. That is just one of many reasons that I would be more than happy to deliver a close proximity double tap to the depraved, lying hypocrite.
In fact, there are few that I would not enjoy delivering the good news to. Smiff, McNumpty, Mandeslime, Gorbals Mick, so many worthy targets, so little ammunition!
The scientific dishonesty on the matter of drugs is entirely consistent with the blatant lies re. ‘climate change’.
When you have your next appointment with your corrupt psychiatrist, Brown, ask them if you are right to think it is not a lie if you believe it.
And whilst I am on, could you please shut down the ePetitions con – you have no intention of giving any consideration to what we, the great unwashed, think. So at least stop wasting more of OUR fucking money by pretending that you believe in democracy. Dickhead!
The truth always hurts !
BROWN DID N’T SAVE THE WORLD; DARLING NEARLY FCUKED IT…
Simon Mann getting out of chokey Scratcher must be crapping himself……….
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