In a story yesterday Guido reported that
Guido has been told that three weeks ago Margaret Thatcher wrote a personal plea to her great admirer Václav Klaus, to stand firm, in the hope of strengthening his resolve. It was to be delivered by William Hague.
Lady Thatcher’s office say she did not. Apologies to Margaret Thatcher and William Hague.
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John Higginson of the Metro explains Quantitative Easing:
“There is £100 and 100 loaves of bread costing £1 each. QE creates another £100. Each loaf now costs £2.”
Maybe if they really wanted to “decontaminate the Labour brand” with business people, they shouldn’t have totally buggered up the economy?
Just a thought.
Naughty boy Guido! Tut tut tut.
Oooops!
Sorry Mr Hague – I believe I called you a traitorous Hoon. Fully retracted.
quality blogging
Nothing wrong with supporting the postmens strike!
Good job William.
Just you remember what happened to The Belgrano.
I can’t see old Thatch doing anything to derail the EU gravy train. She never did in her 11 years in power. Just another fucking traitor she was. Pity some people can’t see it.
“I can’t see old Thatch doing anything to derail the EU gravy train. She never did in her 11 years in power. Just another fucking traitor she was. Pity some people can’t see it.”
I ‘see’ Thatcher’s Treason – and that she was the “milk snatcher” as well, amongst so many other things…..
risking repetition once again: “it’s a big club and you ain’t in it” – unless you sell your soul for $$$$$$$$£££££££££££.
FFS – pissed again!
I like people who are able to say sorry when they know they have been wrong, well done Guido.
Hear, hear. If only politicians would do the same instead of stacking one lie on top of another.
As an ex coal miner, I would vote for Thatcher rather than vote Labour again.
Seriously…
I should hope so, she did you all a favour.
Since you’re an ex coal miner, that doesn’t surprise me one bit. Seriously.
Good on you for fessing up – it did seem a bit unlikely.
Hope your source is eating their shoes.
Ah the old mistake of believing what you want to believe!
As Plato said, it did seem a bit unlikely: Mrs T isn’t that politically active and William Hague these days seems a lot less sound on Europe than he used to be. I heard that he’d tried to dissuade Cameron from keeping his pledge on the EPP.`
Of course the woman’s been gaga for years. She was in fact asked in a brief moment of sobriety to write to Klaus but only got as far as “Dear Santa” before passing out again.
Kudos for the apology. If you’ve been mislead by an informant, perhaps you might like to give us a clue as to their identity?
An apology for the, obviously, unfounded defamation that the letter was still on Hague’s desk would be in order, don’t you think?
How could you have information that a non-existent letter was on Hague’s desk?
Did you, errr, invent it?
Guido was misinformed. The apology is clear.
Blame the Fees Office. They seem to have caused a lot of inadvertent havoc with our honest and upright MPs.
It was all within the rules, so no need to apologise.
Must have been Alistair Campbell who planted the story. He’s twisted enough.
yeah fair play for fessing up Guido but let us be quite honest: if thatcher had written a letter and asked hague to deliver it then there is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that the spineless cretin hague would have left it on his desk.
in fact dave would have told hague to destroy it.
hague is a useless dishonest c’unt, ditto cameron, ditto gideon.
and the fact that an old woman like thatcher should be expected to defend the country because young men like hague and cameron have failed to do so says it all really, doesn’t it.
the tories are a waste of space.
vote independent.
Oh dear, you (I)
oh dear? hmm, that is one of my lines.
come up with your own stuff you fuckwit.
thankyou.
Tat, you’ve shown me nothing but “disrespek” on this blog, but I nevertheless salute your POV and wish you every success at the next General Election.
don’t take it to heart ALF.
it is nothing personal, it is purely business.
Hear hear!
You missed the “w” between the first “t” and the “a” in your handle
One thing I really like about this site, is that you say when you are wrong, and are totally clear about it. Our MPs could learn a lot from that.
MPs won’t learn. Sociopaths seldom do.
Under Prentiz’s comment :
“If you’ve been mislead by an informant, perhaps you might like to give us a clue as to their identity?”
there’s a video of Wayne Rooney.
Hold on a second…. how reliable are Guido’s contacts ? Anything from Rio Ferdinand on Wolfgang Schussel becoming the European president ?
Now if Guido was in charge of the hoonry, he’d be saying that the rumour started in America, and he couldn’t be expected to know it would turn out to be false.
Good man for apologising.
It was actually Giles Brandreth that wrote the letter. It is in the post…….. still…..
If it’s written in thick felt marker pen and poorly addressed then it was MacSnotty himself.
One of the greatest lies in the world, won’t mention the others.
Well done for the apology Guido..
Perhaps all those attack dogs who made rabid comments about Hague will now also apologise..
Some hope!
it’s a closely garded secret but margaret thatcher actually passed away several years ago and all public appearances have since been achieved using a clothes maker’s dummy, animatronics and television trickery. they did they same thing with helen daniels from neighbours.
The technology you refer to was developed for the late Queen Mother and kept her on public duties for ten years after she actually passed away from a seizure brought on by a massive gin binge. While the QM’s voice synthesizer could only manage ‘How are you’ and ‘Everybody’s been so kind’, by the time it as used for Thatcher, it was able to handle more complex sentences, such as: “Winston must be turning in his grave’ and “Who is that ghastly poodlefaker who claims to be running my Party now?”
If that’s the case then can you kindly explain why the chair Thatcher sits on during these interviews has to be hosed clean of piss and watery stools afterwards?
Julie Kirkbride;s saying she;s going to stand again what a nerve this womens got
She’s realised the morons of Bromsgrove would vote for a dining room table if it had a blue rosetted…
I’d vote for a bloody dining room table. At least it wouldn’t cost£400 a month in groceries and flip its main home!
Or tell barefaced lies to start a war to make it famous.
Memo to self – post caption competition quick to bury this?
What, don’t you bother scrolling down when you look at a website then Mr Simpleton?
At least a retraction on a blog is the same prominence as the original howler.
Unlike the weasels from the print and broadcast MSM.
she didn’t? WHY NOT?
Somebody informed Guido that Mrs T had written to Vaclav Klaus and that William Hague was requested to deliver it. Now that makes sense if one believes that: a) Klaus admired Mrs T and would take her request into consideration and b) the request was to delay signing the Lisbon Pact until the UK general election and c) david cameron had got himself into a pickle on the referendum matter and d) if Klaus were to delay his signing then Dave would be in bigger trouble with his bosses in Brussels.
Note that Guido himself has not stated that the letter didn’t exist : he merely repeated a statement from Mrs T’s office. This doesn’t mean that the letter didn’t exist.
What does your party think of Klaus’ Sudetenland opt-out? That must be bitter-sweet for your fellow stormtroopers.
Exactly – her office says she did not write it. ITherefore I think we can safely assume that she dictated it to a flunkey who did the writing.
Fair play on the correction Guido. Some others, bloggers and elsewhere, could learn from this.
Are the lawyers after you G? Is that why you had to fess up?
Learn what? Publish first then check?
said jimmy the new labour war party member.
you care so much over the precision of tattle jimmy but seem to have no view when it comes to the big subjects like the wars and occupations and torturing that the new labour war party has carried out.
are you pro-war and pro-torture jimmy?
must be, innit.
If I’m reading your posts then suppose I must be pro-torture.
that is rather the point jimmy.
DOH!
Why didn’t you check with Lady Thatcher’s office before printing ? It did not make sense that a) Lady Thatcher would give such a letter to a third party and b) William Hague would behave in that underhand manner.
It really does make me wonder who provided this story and why you believed it – whoever it was did not have your best interests at heart. There must be a queue of people desperately trying to trip you up or have you inadvertently spread misinformation. That article seemed to imply Lady Thatcher had placed naive trust in an untrustworthy Hague – wonder who would like that spread about?
Your apology is refreshing though and I agree with the others – if only the politicians could have the guts to do the same.
A story known in the trade Guido as “too good to check”.
At least he’s man enough to apologise.
Secondeded
But not man enough to name and shame the person who was spreading false rumours.
Perhaps but I’ll wager that they get stiffed in some other way.
Respec.
How much does Hague charge to deliver mail?
dunno, but that useless c’unt crozier charges around three million pounds a year to deliver mail and his company is always on strike FFS.
adam crozier is a failure who should be sacked really.
don’t you agree jimmy?
Negotiations w/o preconditions.
that was not the question I asked you, jimmy.
you are so dim that you are unable to answer a simple question.
what an imbecile.
Indeed. It was, however, the one I chose to answer.
weasel words from new labour party members.
no change there then.
Have you checked with Klaus’s office to make sure they didn’t receive said letter? Politicians do lie sometimes.
Never! They misspeak or are misunderstood or you fail to recognise the context in which they were talking but lie. No no no.
“This rumour of this letter began in America and was a sub-prime communication that I, sorry we, have never seen and McBride Removals who should have been working in Hague’s office and left the letter failed so to do.
I am responsible so I have sacked the person responsible who is that Alky Aida.”
Looks like a bit of over-serve down the local Guido ;+)
I hearby sign the document of surrender. As you will see my troops are already in surrender mode.
Unlike the dead tree press who bury apologies (when, and only when, they have been forced at cheque book point to give them), you printed it clearly on the front page.
Great to see bloggers leading the way with standards in journalism
I think Maggie should apologise for not writing the letter in the first place.
But I did dear boy!
There, there me duck (she’ll ‘get it’ as a native of Grantham….). I KNOW YOUR MEMORY ISN’T WHAT IT WAS (shouting so she’ll understand).
Remember Mark Thatcher and Simon Mann peeps……and Mrs T’s hubby was very wealthy….she’s no angel but neither am I. However, I’m not wealthy – but I sometimes sleep at night….when I’m not thinking about the many and varied conspiracies lol.
Looking forward to Mr Mann’s legal comments in the future regarding that paragon of virtue Sir Mark Thatcher.
Oohh the silly boy got it wrong, he was supposed to bring down the leader of New Guinea.
Just as well he wasn’t a Japanese pilot, he would have bombed Poole Harbour.
Mr Fawkes
If that information was given to you by a politician you should know better, the truth comes from the public! You must question everything and believe nothing today.
F*ck you all.
I’m going to keep troughing for ever!
Plenty of yummy taxpayer cash just waiting to be hoovered up by me and hubby.
Hmmm… maybe I can get him a job working for one of my fellow troughers…
Must go, I’ve got your money to go and spend!
Giz a job Jules babe!
Unfortunately, I can’t be right behind Julie – but her hubby might suffice
Fair do’s Guido for realising your mistake so quickly and printing a retraction, shit happens.
A lie is halfway round the world before truth has got its boots on.
she should have. the stupid lazy bitch. now look what she’s done. i hope she gets robbed by a hoodie
Never believed it – joined up writing is a challenge for her these days. Like joined up thought once was…
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Apologies to Margaret Thatcher and William Hague for my jellyfish like weakness in the face of the EU
How many years will it take New Labour to to apologise for the lies and misinformation it force feeds the already brainwashed sheeple with.? The WMD’s propaganda is just one example that demonstrates how dangerous this government is.
Guido at least you apologised,cant say the same for these so called politicians we have at present.
They are nothing but a thieving bunch of untalented troughing pigs.
Now we are signed up to the EUSSR communists we really have no need of them anymore all our country is now subservient to our EUSSR masters,what a fucking disgrace,shut down parliament as a talking shop who can only rubber stamp.
As for that joke called the House of Lords did you ever see such a bunch of inflated arseholes in your life,living the life of Reilly at hard working peoples expense.
Finally the spectacle of these three parties LibLabCon who all piss in the same pot pontificating about Britains future fills me with disgust,they are all treacherous bastard scum of the highest order and may they rot in hell.
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