Gordon Wanted to Set an Etonian to Fight an Etonian
On Sunday the Mail reported that Gordon Brown was looking for someone to replace the piss-poor, soon to be side-lined Simon Lewis. Lewis is a former press secretary to the Queen and brother of the Daily Telegraph editor, Will Lewis. He was recommended for the job as Gordon’s spin-doctor by the friend-of-Mandy power-lobbyist Roland Rudd. He has not worked out with the Lobby or changed the negative narrative pervading Gordon.
Gordon is in desperation seeking someone new to be his Alastair Campbell and make up for the loss of Damian McBride. He is having difficulty finding takers and has been rebuffed thrice by people he has offered the job – including once the MoS reported by the political editor of a newspaper. It turns out that the political editor was not Damian McBride’s mate Kevin Maguire – Ephraim Hardcastle in the Mail reports* that Gordon wanted something a bit more classy, and begged Old Etonian Patrick Hennessy of the Sunday Telegraph to take on his fellow Etonians. Floreat Etona…
*Attribution. Something Ephraim should learn to do.
I look forward to it.
But he was not a member of The Bullingdon Club
Guido, put yourself forward for the position, then sabotage from within.
Is friend-of-Mandy another one of those euphamisms like friend-of-Dorothy?
WHY IS TOENAILS called TOENAILS ?
Apparently it’s because his head is so far up Labour’s arse only his toenails are visible.
I once read something by Robinson where he justified his sympathetic reporting of Labour dirge. Basically he said he was a ‘reporter’ ie he reported what he was told. So when Labour hand him a press release he ‘reports’ it.
Thanks for clarifying that Robinson. The rest of us were under the impression ‘reporters’ actually reported facts as opposed to any old shit that pops into a politicians head but hey-ho.
His finish biting all his finger nails so its an obvious progression.
why would anyone want such a temporary position ?
and one FAR more temporary than most people yet expect
everyone loves a surprise at christmas
Who calls their son Ephraim Hardcastle?
Cruel, cruel parents.
I don’t know – I’ve never penetrated Lord Mandelson’s intimate circle.
Phill Hall doing the paper review on BBC breaky last Sunday morning said he had been offered the job of Gordon’s spin doctor but had quickly turned it down.
Why doesn`t Campbell do it, at least up to the election?
Because any political editor worth his salt will ask Campbell every time he comes into his office ‘Hi Alistair, just how do you sleep at night having driven David Kelly to his death and covered up a completely unnecessary war resulting in the death of hundreds of thousands?’
‘Hi Alistair, do you feel the lies you told to justify the Iraq war in anyway lead to the London Tube bombings. ‘Cos I do Alistair.’
Campbell does not like to lose and was a Blair guy and not to fond of the Hoon.
The same could be said for Mandelson, so why not Campbell?
Good point, but don’t get me started on Mandy not today. My blood pressure is already high enough!
Because,good as Ali C was, he can only work with the materials he is presented with. Hard to turn out a Constable landscape with just a red and a yellow crayon.
Gordon’s sorry. But he ate the yellow crayon.
Gordon eats daddy longlegs.
None of those offered the job are looking for a very short term contract.
You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear . FACT.
Well, Hennessy has completely fucked the Blairgraph from its traditional Tory roots now so he might as well move on to working for ‘Ole Misery Guts. The nu-lefty rag doesn’t even have any decent second-hand value as chip paper or emergency toilet paper any more with people like Mary (“Tony for President”) Riddell or the other vacuous columnists who spend their time navel-gazing with such joyfully inane subjects as ‘the death of the dinner party’.
I am sure there must be some adage that the longer socialists remain in power the more all papers end up looking like The Guardian.
gordon brown is a loser.
nobody wants to work for a loser.
end of story.
well, there is one person….TOILETS
Old Etonian Banker/Hedge Fund Manager vs. Old Etonian Banker/Hedge Fund Manager. I would pay to watch that.
Just goes to show how left-wing the Telegraph has become since the sinister Barclay brothers took it over.
Someone to put spin on 5 more dead British soldiers shot by an Afghan policeman?
Good day to bury bad news. Cameron’s explanation for no Lisbon referendum will be lost in the noise.
Meanwhile Gordon’s betrayal is all over this mornings newspapers.
Brown signed the treaty and Labour refused the referendum that was promised in their election manifesto.
This is Brown’s and Labour’s betrayal not Cameron’s, despite the frantic spin Toenails Robinson and the rest of the Labour shills at the BBC are frantically trying to put on it.
Agreed. Its now spun to be the bad tory issue like everything that went before it is forgotten. Blair/Hoon are the ones people should be angry towards not the tories. Thoe problem for DC is 6 questions is not enough on a day like today.
He will ask 6 questions, but none of them will be on the important issues of the day. This is is history. Just don’t know why.
Wants Brown to stay, then ramp it up closer to the election
Sky are only reporting what bed news this is for Dave, and predicting the start of a tory civil war, no mention of the fact that Labour had a manifesto promise
Sky not following sun lead
What deal did Dave make at the crossroads?
Not sure what is going on at Sky use to like their somewhat unpartial reporting but just lately its becoming very slanted towards NuLabour and as for their lead stories well enough said. Please could they not get someone other than Michael White he is so partisan its now a complete joke.
Agreed. This is Brown’s problem no matter how some try to spin it.
Agreed, it is Brown’s problem, tories should go in for the attack.
That’s definitely the Conservative Central Office Spin old boy!
Well done lad! and remember
KEEP ON MESSAGE AT ALL TIMES
NO-ONE IN THE TORY PARTY CARES ABOUT EUROPE ANY MORE
IT IS ALL A LABOUR PLOT
THE EUROPE POLICY IS CLEAR WHEN DAVE WORKS IT OUT
Impartial even geeezzzz.
‘fraid not, that nice Mr.Davis is giving some advice.
“He says that a nationwide vote should be the first announcement of a future Conservative government and the referendum should take place during Mr Cameron’s first three months in Downing Street.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1225053/A-referendum-Mr-Cameron-COULD-people.html
Good day to bury BROWN.
Seconded
Thirded
fourthed.
fifth’d – something Dr Lector would enjoy saying and doing
Must have enhanced his nervous tick,and have you noticed he is stuttering a lot, must be the dr whoops medicine
The sociopaths of Labour are now busy setting a trap for Cameron when he takes over as PM next year.
Various Labour MPs are now calling for withdrawal from Afghanistan.
This isn’t to make Brown and co withdraw the troops but is simply planting a time-bomb to explode under the new Tory government.
Labour have form for using the troops for political point scoring.
The whole Iraq war was about using troops for political point-scoring. A nice easy victory and a Falklands war bounce in the polls for Tone. Massive yank involvement – they’ll do all the heavy lifting anyway.
It’s nailed on. The British people are going to love me after this. Just you watch.
I’m going to be the most popular PM ever.
What could go wrong?
That went well.
The Lib Dems are heavily tipped to move their policy to a full withdrawall soon for the Election. Brown might just sound it out too but his hands are partly tied until he hears if Obama is going for a massive troop surge or not.
Fact is people have been criticising this disaster long before now and it’s getting worse by the day as the Afghan Police shooting British troops proves.
There is no “play it safe” Policy for Afghanistan.
If you’re in you’re in for perhaps a decade or more in which it could yet get even more catastrophic.
If you want out then why bother delaying ?
BTW nobody forced the Conservatives to back Blair on Iraq.
Complaining Blair was a liar after the fact is like complaining Bush was dumb.
Bit silly.
You back a war you’d best be sure you know what you’re letting yourself in for. I’ve a feeling Cameron still doesn’t but he should remember that even if Obama goes for a 45,000 troop surge it will still take an entire year to get that many troops in place during which time the situation on the ground in Afghanistan will be.. bleak, to say the least.
Was CMD the party leader when British troops were commited to these wars?
Or are you just attempting to ‘realign’ our understanding?
what’s stopping him uncommiting himself and finally having a policy of his own ?
apart from cowardice as he proved on lisbon
if you believed Blair at the time you were an idiot
most of the public didn’t and knew he was a Liar
if the Conservatives were too stupid to see through him is entirely down to their gulliblility.
if Cameron decides to keep the troops in for at least the 5 years spoken about by the Chief of the Army then he has to accept the consequences.
and they won’t be pretty
So you don’t accept the idea that the Tories voted based on Blair and Campbell’s “dodgy dossier”, and it could well have been a very different vote had the truth been told to parliament in the first place?
the fact that the dodgy dossier was dodgy and cut and pasted from the Internet came out and ambarrased the Government well before the War Vote
Anyone who didn’t have their head buried up George Bush’s arse knew it meant the Government and Bliar was talking shite on Iraq but not the Conservatives
In the middle of that article in the Telegraph about the five dead soldiers, it says that 92 people have died in afghanistan this year. It then goes on to tell us how 255 soldiers died in 1982 during the Falklands war. Talk about trying to spin.
92 people? Surely a lot more PEOPLE have died than that.
Unless some humans don’t count as people.
Patrick Hennessy has been a Brown stooge for years.
Triple Cognac – please.
Just saw the loathsome bastard’s canting handwringing “condolences” for the latest British troops he’s got killed in Afghanistan. Feel quite ill.
Howells, as I know personally, is a cut above the usual Labour politico. He is absolutely right
Howells knows the troops aren’t going to be withdrawn this side of next years general election in the UK.
He is setting the ball rolling by calling for withdrawal so that keeping the troops over there this is something Cameron can be attacked for when he gets into government.
Labour insiders close to Brown see Afghanistan as Cameron’s Vietnam, ie a massive vote loser for the Tories.
It wouldn’t surprise me if that was the plan.
Pure scum.
They’ll leave the country in a total shambles, and blame it all on the tories. The tories ‘ll take several years just to even start getting things straightened out. Blame Newlabour, and keep on blaming Newlabour – the most disreputable, self serving government since the beginning of time.
Absolute (I)s
Remember kids! only the Tories are allowed criticise the handling of a War
Hypocrites March! left,right,left,right,left,right,left,right,left,right
Don’t forget that it was JFK who committed US troops to Vietnam (remember JFK?, he was the good guy?)
The US President who withdrew most of the US forces was Nixon (remember Nixon? He was the BAD guy!).
So, doesn’t always follow…
Can we expect the birth of a saviour politician in the vein of Harry Potter? ‘Born to those who have thrice defied the Dark Lord… and he shall have power that the Dark Lord knows not…’
Who knows, but personally I find the idea of quoting books written by an over rated old hag who gives millions to Nulab pretty distasteful.
Hw many rats do you swimming to join a sinking ship?
Cameron is a spineless lying turd just like all politicians !
Deren Brown is the best man for Gordons needs, he can make people think they can win the lottery, he can stick people to their chairs when they feel the urge to burn down parliament, a con man is the best man to advise a con man.
I could do with a new lline of business
Is turd polishing lucrative?
If you stop bloody moaning, I’ll bloody well do it. What are you all whingeing about? Can’t get the bloody staff.
PS New series starts soon
Hope it’s called “Amstrad in search of something, ANYTHING, that actually works”.
My new SKY+HD box by Amstrad is a piece of unmitigated crap.
Polish a turd, It’s still a turd. No matter who’s doing the polishing!
An Old Etonian would never diss another. It’s in the DNA.
For sale one rather burnt pair of trousers
Apply Mr D Cameron !
Sickened to the core to hear about the 5 assassinated soldiers this morning and his cheap grubby condolences and assurances aboutequipment and support etc. I despair.
The Grauniad has a story about Brown paying West Wing script writers to do him speeches to U.S. audiences. I wonder who paid the bill – himself, the Labour Party or the taxpayers ?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/nov/04/gordon-brown-speeches-west-wing-writers
Simple the taxpayers.
And with all this, Mandelson says teenagers with top grades will NOT get best uni places, Boris saves woman from gang attack, late call for withdrawal from Afghanistan, £1,000 rail ticket introduced how the hell could anyone put positive spin on these stories?
Gordon says the whole country will mourn. You can be sure that certain muslim factions in this country will NOT be in mourning.
Looking to follow Tony on the US lecture circuit then. No investment of our money is too great to ensure he too can give patronizing, condescending speeches on the rubber-chicken circuit at 100,000USD a pop.
Can we pay him to start the circuit early? I’d chip in.
Who would want to pay to go watch him? I do like Blair but at least he has some charisma unlike Brown.
missed out NOT. So bloody angry my fingers cannot keep pace with my brain!
All the Charisma of a dog having a shit
You may not like Blair and I like the dog analogy but you have to respect him. He led this bunch of Nulabour halfwits to three GE victories. No mean achievement in the circumstances.
Yes, where the hell’s the NOT?
RESPECT the bastard Blair, you MUST be joking!
hanging from a cast iron lampost? I would
He’s good at Fairytales though
Judging by our PMs present state of mind he should seek out the script writers from “Fantasy Island” for his state propaganda(speeches).
I actually write most of his speeches.
Good point!
Nothing will change the negative narrative on Gordon.
He simply is a hoon and always will be.
No, his a Tosser.
As Gordon IS bad news. Everyday is a good day to bury Gordon.
Like it!
well why doesn’t he trawl one of his fabulous academies and look for someone who is on the talented and gifted’ register (ie is more bright then the rest of the class) and use one of them instead – why does he want to employ a ‘toff’ as he and his cronies so eloquently put it.
Champagne socialism again.
Anyone find out what school his son goes to yet?
I’ve a feeling Brown’s son is not a well boy and, if he’s old enough to go to school, it’s probably some special institution.
Best not to go there.
I don’t want a smidgeon of sympathy for the incometent, economy-wrecking bastard to cloud my pure contempt for the man.
Was that Incompetant or Incontinent or in the Continent? quite a few possible connotations I guess.
wood oi do?
oi went ter 1 o them
ac. …akader…akkerderm…. skols – b4 oi wen ter yooni.oi kan spel ‘n coun ‘ ‘n oi kno aloa facs
they sed oi wuz talun ted
gorn – gius a job
innit?
oim good at games 2 – them as u pla on weeee
This cruel country has driven me down
Teased me and lied, teased me and lied
I’ve only sad stories to tell to this town
My dreams have withered and died
Richard Thompson
Just imagine the public response if Brown turned up at Wooton Bassett !
Will not happen.
Rejoice! Rejoice!
What about Nicola Burdett? She has done such a good job with the YouTube video, the swastika pictures, the pilates classes, and generally improving Gordon’s image…
I reckon Guido should apply for the job.
I feel a little q ueer . . .
It’s all come together so well.
- and it looks like it’s going to sticky enough to last!
I welcome it – whatever it is – as long as it’s OK with Tony
When I was at Eton the only bottom worth having was rough boys.
The aristos were too loose from overuse.
Ah yes of course, because all the plebs are convinced that everyone who goes to public school must be homosexual. Very tired old myth.
The answer is staring everybody in the face.
Toenails is the man for the job.
I wonder Moley, does toenails use scissors or clippers when he cuts his toenails?
Will he get a roasting in front of an open fire?
Job Description
The successful applicant would be responsible for the public relations of, a one eyed, pill popping, piss smelling, inarticulate, warmongering, EU ratifying, expense fiddling, phone throwing, boom and bust creating, unelected, megalomaniac. It should mentioned that this post may have difficulties due to the fact that the employer is Scottish.
LABOUR WILL NOT SHY AWAY FROM DEATH
OKAY SO THE POLICE WE ARE TRAINING ARE TURNING THEIR FIRE ON US
OKAY SO AFGHANISTAN HAS TURNED INTO BROWN’S VIETNAM
OKAY SO BY OCCUPYING AFGHANISTAN WE ARE FUELLING TERRORISM ON OUR STREETS
SO WHAT?
THE LABOUR PARTY HAS NEVER LOST ANY MEMBERS TO WAR
IT IS THE SOLDIERS AND BRITISH CITIZENS WHO ARE DYING AND BEING BLOWN UP NOT LABOUR MPS – WE’RE ALRIGHT JACK!
WHY SHOULD WE CARE?
VOTE DEATH VOTE LABOUR
WE GUARANTEE THAT MORE SOLDIERS WILL LOSE THEIR LIVES FOR NO REASON
CAN ‘CAST IRON’ CAMERON MATCH THAT PROMISE?
I wait for the statement this afternoon with less than baited breath.
Off topic:
I am feeling very angry that troughing MPs have given away something that they had no right to give away: that is, our ability to determine our own destiny. My anger, and that of others on this central, nay fundamental, political foundation, will not go away.
If Cameron is hoping that I will vote Conservative on the basis of some feeble promise then he had better think again. I’ll just vote UKIP, and I don’t care about the “by doing that you’ll let the Europhiles in that way” argument, as all the main parties seem to be EU luvvies now.
Newlabour has taken the country and put a noose around it’s neck. We are now under the jack boot good and proper. The gorgon’s sold us out, fed us to the lions, done the dirty on us, shat on us from a great height, and the creep headed it all up with mandelscum, bastard blair, Milliwotsit, the lib dems et al snapping away at his feet. The only intelligent thing to do is to calmly work out how to get out of the iniquitous treaty. I notice no one is celebrating, although Mandelscum’s probably had a wee glass of champagne a deux.
Why is it only the Czechs who have negotiated anything back from the Lisbon Treaty, or perhaps other countries have prior to raitification but the BBC would never mention that in case it upset their masters? Cameron has a difficult job now that Blair and Brown have caved in thanks to Mandy’s pressure.
You can’t sell a bad product.
I cannot ever remember when a Prime Minister has ever been so reviled, ridiculed and not given the respect his office commands as Gordon Brown currently (deservedly) receives.
You have to smile at Brown’s delusion that “Simon Lewis has not been able to change the negative narrative pervading Gordon”.
Gordon is a traitorous, incompetent liar and he is sidelining someone for not being able to change our opinion of him.
How stupid and gullable does he think we are (unless you are a Beeboid)
It’s a big ask, making Gordon seem acceptable.
Dave Cameron shows true leadership on his cast iron guarantee of a referendum. Spinless limp wristed turd!
she is not available, but mary shelly would have been a good choice,michael.