November 12th, 2009

Mirror Reflecting Sun

The Sun’s desertion of Labour and spirited onslaught on Gordon Brown, is clearly inspiring the Mirror to become ever more shrill in their attacks on Cameron.  Which promises to be quite good fun to watch.armistice-exploit

The attack today is a little bit bizarre. The Mirror has an expose of Cameron being photographed in the Garden of Remembrance yesterday. They’re outraged that, shock horror, he posed for a photographer.  Terrible.

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On a different page a Guido co-conspirator, MisterE, has spotted the appearance of this obviously non-exploitative picture.

Could they be related?


632 Comments

  1. 1
    Chumley Warner says:

    Labour Chumps

    • 10
      I'm not the Inquisitor but since he forgot to link it to the first reply so it's always on the front says:

      Financial incompetence = Labour

      I thank you

    • 15
      NLJD says:

      Semen

      How are you getting on with your homework?

      1) How many right wing hacks were educated at the MOD’s expense?

      2) What is the cost of the middle class welfare state funded by the MOD?

      How many sets of body armour would that buy?
      For the ES readers on here, how many duvets would it buy?

      3) How much revenue does NI take from the squaddies and their families?

      How much profit does it make on this?
      How much tax does it pay on this profit?

      4) Where should NI journalists host their social networking / self publicity pish?
      Answers on a postcard to TND at Facebook.com.

      • 155
        Work will set you free says:

        New Liebour Job Dodger try googling for it you lazy shit!

        • 183
          NLJD says:

          Wage Slave

          Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!

          At least you will have worked out NI’s hypocrisy.
          Sure they support our boys, talk is cheap.
          Different matter if they did it through corporation tax.

          Now if you can start to understand the MOD funded middle class welfare state we really would be getting somewhere.

          If you are stuck , ask Trevor over at the Speccie

      • 356
        Pontius The Pilot says:

        It was your dumbarse chancellor’s fucking tax system that let them dodge it in the first place you stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, lying c’unt…………..

        A chancellor who just so happens to be the current PM!

        A fuckwit without equal!

    • 52
      Lady Thatcher says:

      How come the Mirror photographer was in the same Garden of Rememberence?

      Waiting for Slack Jaw to appear so he could take advantage of the same photo opportunity?

      Honestly the hypocrisy of these Commies knows no bounds

      • 140
        State Pensioner Bill says:

        Just felt pig sick yesterday to learn that Toffs are using their government vouchers to pay for boarding in some private schools.No wonder G>Brown is changing the system I would welcome this change.

        • 165
          Sir Trev Skint MP says:

          What’s wrong with that? They take them at my daughters finishing school in Switzerland!

          • cogitodexter says:

            Well it’s not like the whole event isn’t a huge photo-op anyway. If you’re a dignitary of any stripe you’d have to be under the surgeon’s knife to get away with not showing up, from the Royal Family downwards.

            http://cogitodexter.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/mirror-tries-to-have-a-go/

            It’s just a case of sour grapes on the Mirror’s part. And not exactly surprising either that they’d try. With their diminishing circulation, they’re only preaching to the choir: they won’t be making any converts.

          • Master Baiter says:

            Merde Ock’s sun is suffering from a declining circulation. In fact Merde Ock has made a number of mistakes in the last few years. The purchase of MicePace has been an unmitigated disaster.
            Regarding mobilising berieved mothers of dead servicemen Noose International is bricking it because of the recordings of the handler and the grieving mother.

            Hahahahaha

          • gordonsaysbyebye says:

            Do the mums in the Houses of Charletans in Westminster get nursery vouchers too? A lot of them are objecting to having them taken away.

        • 189
          Frodo Mandelson and the Ring of Power says:

          I must get hold of some of those boy’s school vouchers, how many do you need for a nice freshman?

        • 221
          Four eyes says:

          You, Sir, are a troll.

        • 240
          Sticky Fabian Solutions says:

          Aha! One of Charlie’s Chumps

        • 331
          CHIPPY says:

          How i agee.As a tax exile living off of my huge pension.

        • 360
          Pontius The Pilot says:

          Well you wouldnt want them educated at the local scummy comprehensive where the little darlings end up not being able to write or count up, would you?

          Obviously Blair and Diane Abbott agree, their kids are privately educated….

          you fucking spoon

      • 611
        Sukyspook says:

        Once again, Matthew 23 fits the bill perfectly:

        Matthew 23:14
        Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

        Matthew 23:25
        Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

        Matthew 23:27
        Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

        I’m not ‘religious’ but I recognise TRUTH when I see it.

    • 66
      The Yorkshire Ripper says:

      Agreed. Complete fucking hoons. Nothing better to write about so lets get on the attack and divert attention from our own inadequacies, splurg, vomit, etc. Hopeless show of hands from The Wanking Wasters on the Wirror

    • 271

      If only Toynbee wrote for the Mirror they could have made up stories that were funny as well

    • 391
      Leeds a Dog says:

      just seen Tory lead cut to 10% in latest Populus poll. Is this hung parliament territory?

      • 403
        Frod Mandelson and the Ring of Power says:

        Well hung I hope duckie

      • 447
        Anonymous says:

        No change from the previous Populus poll a month ago. So not “cut” to 10%. Populus generally show a lower lead than others.

      • 466
        statechaos says:

        The previous Populus poll on October 11 had the Tory lead at 10%. Both Conservative and Labour are down 1% which probably means that voters are getting fed up waiting for a general election.

    • 512
      Thunderbox says:

      Yes, but study the pictures. In Dave’s picture there is a military uniform. No self respecting military person would be seen dead with the Prime Mentalist, the man who stole your pensions, sold the gold cheap and failed to procure the right equipment for our heroes. The man sucks.

  2. 2
    The Inquisition says:

    Financial misconduct = Conservatives

    • 22
      Jim Devine's shelves says:

      Who was it that had to go to the IMF in the seventies, was it the Conservatives? No, it was Labour therefore Financial misconduct = Labour

      • 34
        The Inquisition says:

        Wintertons, Thomas Legg,

        At least one MP couple will be asked to repay more than £100,000, senior Commons sources said.

        • 45
          jgm2 says:

          The Balls-Coopers mayhap?

        • 48
          Putin says:

          The Keens. Morley. They are all at it.Do try to keep up

          • Master Baiter says:

            Winterton’s who are Conservative MP’s are being asked to pay back one hundred thousand pounds, that’s a lot of after tax cash.

          • Good.
            Guido has been after the Wintertons for a long time, as you well know MB.

            Not me though. MPs are very underpaid for all the hard work that we do. I often work 2-3 hours a day. Why just yesterday .. excuse me,must dash. My real job is calling.

          • Master Baiter says:

            Don’t forget to fold the vests properly, top drawer on the left, ok?

          • Charlie Whelan says:

            Look, I just want to make sure that everyone has got this right.
            I am not a rapist, I mean, I have never been convicted of rape.
            And the women who claim I have raped them are all whores who probably deserved it anyway.
            Dirty sluts.

        • 144
          State Pensioner Bill says:

          The Tory couple WINTERTONS<fat cats.

          • Four eyes says:

            Hello again, Troll.

          • D L George says:

            Hang on Bill, ‘ Lying deceiving astroturfing Hoons?

          • D L George says:

            What theh*ll happened there?

            Bloody HTML markers. I’d write it again but it’s an HTML marker problem, it’ll never work.

            Note to astroturfurfing Bill, you just stated the Wintertons are LESS THAN fat cats.

        • 337
          McGroom says:

          Inquisition / Master Baiter (for they are the same)

          Let’s just check out how many front bench Labour party MP’s that were as poor as chuch mice when they enetered Westminster and are now multi millionaires.

          New labour = Champagne Socialists (intensely relaxed about getting filthy rich while the poor get poorer)

          Ing / MB – I hope you have stashed a bit away during your “Ferdinand / Imelda Marcus” style rape of UK finances, because after 7th May 2010, you might find paid employment a little difficult.

      • 54
        NLJD says:

        Plank of wood

        In true “Spunky Spunky” right wing “GIB’y” tradition you have missed out the following

        Sailor boys doubling of unemployment in a time of growth.
        Barber’s nervous breakdown, sorry boom.
        Oil price increases.
        Oil price increase induced recession.
        Bank of England “Chicken Licken” impression.

        After all that we didn’t need the money.
        Compare and contrast with Maggies industrial genocide in 80/81.

        Thought not.
        Why let the facts get in the way fo a good winge.

        Away and bile yer heid ya muppet.

      • 55
        Speaker Martin's wallpaper says:

        I think you’ll find it is more correct to say:

        Financial Incompetence = Labour.

        Financial misconduct, while not to be condoned, tends to be of the aggregate order of a few million quid here or there. But financial incompetence is an 800bn quid ball-game.

        Several orders of magnitude more serious.

        Labour, of course, are masters of both.

        Vote Labour.

    • 27
      NLJD says:

      Semen

      I am impressed.
      Post your real name and you are automatically “moderated”!

    • 28
      Lord Mandelson Minister of Bullshit says:

      You seem like a nice boy, can I come round?

    • 131
      Labour MP Stephen Byers stops counting the £125,000 expenses he claimed for his partner's flat and says:

      .. that’s not entirely accurate, Inquisition.

    • 174
      • 250
        QuestionEverything says:

        OH you should look into the sudden 10% increase in postal applications in Glasgow NE….. whiter than white methink not.

        • 353
          gordonsaysbyebye says:

          It’s high time they stopped this postal fraud. Well perhaps not it’s a labour seat.

    • 453
      Anonymous says:

      change the record shithead.

  3. 3
    Peter Grimes says:

    Toilets Maguire just dumping again!

    Where is Mark Oaten when you really need him?

    • 6
      Mark Oaten says:

      I’m here, under the coffee table

    • 7
      Canute says:

      Gone to get his haircut.

      A Number 2 all over.

      Again.

    • 33
      NLJD says:

      Semen

      Very impressed with the set up on “Spunky Spunky”!
      Post your real name and you are automatically “moderated”.

      Thin skinned are we?

      • 107
        Polite and Thoughtful says:

        NLJD – If you don’t like the rules, fuck off.

        • 132
          NLJD says:

          Mental as Anything

          I see we belong the “Norman” wing of the English nation.

          Know you place
          Doff your cap
          Man with biggest stick wins

          On days like this I thank my lucky stars for the Bishops in St Andrews.

          • tat says:

            fuck off you dick.

          • NLJD says:

            Failed French Airline

            Love the effort, love the thought that went into that post.
            Semen really is doing his bit for the social welfare of all the “GIB’y” nutters of the world.

            Consequently away and throw shite at yersel ya windae-licker, ya muppet

          • tat says:

            you’re a twat.

          • NLJD says:

            Failed French Airline

            It justs get worse and worse.
            The Twitter generation hits “Spunky Spunky”.

            Fully developed, thoughtful response No.1 = 14 keystrokes
            Fully developed, thoughtful response No.2 = 11 keystrokes.

            I fear you will be disappearing up your own arse some time soon.
            You are a complete and utter walloper in the making.

    • 113
      mondeoman says:

      He was Cr*p on Got news for you, I hope he was’nt paid, he made so little contribution on the edited version, just the stupid grin!

    • 134
      iain, ni says:

      Is that the same Maguire bloke who sits there on HIGNFY contributing absolutely nothing to the show and laughing uncomfortably at jokes he doesnt really get?

  4. 4

    Gordon is standing in front of the “troops killed in Afghanistan due to lack of equipment” section.

    ….. therefore Gordon is paying his respects because “it is the right thing to do”.

    • 9
      Master Baiter says:

      That line doesn’t quite work any more, does it?

      • 29
        Four eyes says:

        Mr Kettle, meet Mr Pot.

        You really are a fud.

      • 126

        Helicopters: “The right thing to cut”.

        Is that better?

      • 238
        Mr Happy says:

        £1000 bonus anyone?

        F*cking bankers bonuses
        what about the f*cking penpushers/ back office MODcstaff?

        we found a f*cking budget for bonuses
        but not for night goggles
        not for the f*cking nimrods

        and liebour think the broon sob story (arguing with that woman)
        means they have swung the public support????

        Talk about clutching at f*cking straws (and that f*cking tw0t jack)

        f*cking hell

  5. 5
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    Flippin Blinky Balls too busy filling in another £33 claim for poppy wreaths to show up?

    • 12
      It's all Balls says:

      Close but no cigar.

      He was told he couldn’t claim this year so he thought “bugger that” and took his Mrs out for a “business” lunch (‘cos he could claim that).

    • 13
      jgm2 says:

      Probably too early for it to show up in the new publicly available on-line expenses website they’re setting up.

      Oh, they’re not you say?

    • 96
      Dack Blog says:

      They were discussing their exec expense claims on the Beeb today (wages and expenses to be updated quarterly on the website for the top 100 or so) and I swear the bloke mentioned someone had made a 4/5 quid claim for two ‘good luck on the kids in need gig’ cards.

  6. 8
    Lizzie says:

    Words fail me to describe Maguire, he is an embrassment for the Mirror, the Mirror should dump Maquire, a sorry excuse for a journalist. The Mirror are making fools of themselves.

    • 11
      Master Baiter says:

      Hey, fool, the story in the Mirror about Cameo’s fashion shoot is by a Victoria Ward.

      • 24
        YSL says:

        The fools are our elected Government.

        The red top won’t last long as the hard up will not be able to afford to purchase the rag for too much longer.

        Fashion…ummm the country always appreciated Foot in his Donkey Jacket. Contemporary fashion….take a look at the sack clothes 5 bellies wears. Hahaha

        Pip pop

        • 40
          jgm2 says:

          Once you get beyond a Size 24 you find that the high street stores no longer cater to your girth. You have to start spending four times the price for a similar looking rag. Which is only fair I supppose because by that stage you’re probably using four times as much material and have eaten enough grub for a family of four.

      • 26
        Bill Pitt Rivers says:

        He can call himself anything he likes.

      • 58
        Comical Mandy says:

        Not talking about the non story above -words fail me to describe Maguire, he is an embrassment for the Mirror, the Mirror should dump Maquire, a sorry excuse for a journalist. The Mirror are making fools of themselves.

    • 18
      jgm2 says:

      Does the word ‘arsehole’ even begin to describe him?

    • 20
      Road_Hog says:

      “Words fail me to describe Maguire, he is an embrassment for the Mirror,”

      Which is exactly why they should keep him.

    • 44
      Boycott Israel, it worked on Apartheid says:

      He spends far too much time working for AlJaBeeba

      Fiona Millar on DP, ‘it’s not the number of immigrants, it’s the increased demand on services’ why is she given a free hand to disinform on TV?

      Fuck

  7. 16
    Derek says:

    Only thick twits read the Mirror, so who gives a Sh***

    • 41
      Lizzie says:

      Right, they are playing to the Labour gallery.

    • 61
      barefootcontessa says:

      Mirror mirror on the wall , you and Maguire are the ugliest of all.

      • 76
        NLJD says:

        ShoelessSlapper

        Any chance you could rise above the usual level of “Spunky Spunky” right wing GIB’y shite?

        • 97
          Polite and Thoughtful says:

          NLJD – If you don’t like it round here, fuck off.

          • NLJD says:

            Mental as anything

            And miss your inciteful patter and witty repartee?

          • tat says:

            YOU DO NOT TALK TO BAREFOOTCONTESSA IN THAT DEROGATORY MANNER YOU FUCKING C’UNT.
            I WILL CAVE YOUR FUCKING SKULL IN YOU CRIPPLE IF YOU EVER, EVER SHOW DISRESPECT TO BFC AGAIN.
            YOU FUCKING WANKER.

          • Polite and Thoughtful says:

            Poor misguided tat. Don’t you know I’ve been popping round to sort out BFC regularly for months. She loves to feel a real man’s spunk on her feet. She’s great tat. Shame you can’t get it up.

          • tat says:

            said the peeping tom.

          • NLJD says:

            Mental as anything vs Failed French Airline

            Now that is a fight I would pay to see.

            Seconds Out — Round 2 …

          • tat says:

            said the peeping tom’s wanking partner.

      • 291
        Highbury Lill says:

        I would not name myself after a cooking programme,not very original. However I think the Tories are not doing too well with Cameroon and should switch to Hague He has the common touch and is well liked because he drinks beer and comes from Yorkshire.He also has a nice Welsh wife called Ffion,sounds better than having a wife called Samantha,how weird is that.By the way cooking programme is barefoot contessa.

      • 323
        Beehive says:

        Why name yourself after a cookery programme ?

      • 329
        Leeds a Dog says:

        William Hague for Tory Leader says Yorkshire. GET RID OF CAMERON CAMPAIGN STARTS HERE.

    • 87
      Hard-Lazing Voter says:

      I only read it for Victor Lewis-Smith’s column. Once he fucked off, I fucked off.

    • 104
      Thick Twit says:

      I do like Andy Capp though

  8. 17
    Reality check says:

    Last gasps of desperation from the Commies.

    Not long now before we can all have our freedom returned from Nanny.

    Labour are going to get wiped out

  9. 21
    Master Baiter says:

    According to Victoria Ward of the Mirror.

    David Cameron squirmed yesterday as he was confronted about the exploitation of a grieving mum for political gain.

    He refused to answer questions about the way relatives of soldiers killed in action were being used in a Tory newspaper’s tawdry vendetta against the Prime Minister.

    Shadow Chancellor George Osborne also wriggled – both men embarrassed at the behaviour of their new political masters.

    • 31
      Wrigleys says:

      Wriggling isn’t on a par with your slack jaw moron.

    • 60
      Putin says:

      I ‘m no friend of Master Baiter but,the Mirror always gives a balanced view,provided it’s on the left.
      Therefore you can accept any attribution by a Mirror journalist as absolutly true.Especially about Tories.

      Please note in his previous post MB referred to this person as ‘a Victoria Ward’ i.e he has no idea who she is. Suddenly she becomes the Oracle.

      Baiter, get a grip.

    • 62
      QuestionEverything says:

      Think it`s a case of cutting your nose off to spite your face.

      The Sun was well liked in the Labour Party for 12yrs, funny how a few months changes that, but with our new “Minister of Information” I`m sure the balance will return.

      • 69
        jgm2 says:

        Of course. Twice weekly Press briefings like th US President. Comical Mandy will field planted questions from Mirror and Guardian ‘journalists’ and then regurgitate reams of lies which will duly be reported by the BBC in their 6PM and 10PM news programs.

        No Sun, Telegraph or any tother potentially hostile questioners will be invited to ask a question. In the interests of impartiality you understand.

        1984. Meet 2009.

        2009. Meet 1984.

      • 83
        Minister of Information says:

        Hello duckies – as Minister of Information I am here to piss down your backs and tell you it’s raining – now who’s first?

      • 302
        Beehive says:

        Actually No! Most Labour Party members hated been linked to Murdoch’s Sun. I relished the day we were set free from the burden.The Tories are welcome to The Sun and all its nasty dealings.

        • 319
          QuestionEverything says:

          Yeah yeah and were still at war with “Eurasia” Beehive, Socialists love to re-write history it`s in the “mantra”

        • 357
          CHIPPY says:

          Most labour voters cannot stand Meddlesom.Now he has given himself another title.They will be biting their crampons.

    • 65
      Anonymous says:

      Victoria Ward? Kevin McGuire?
      Has Kev taken to crossdressing now then?

    • 72
      Sir Trev Skint MP says:

      The Conservatives are not yet in power.

      Every looney leftie who posts on here is displaying their ultimate resignation of defeat.

      • 112
        Master Baiter says:

        Conservitudes are dropping in the polls, ah diddums!

        • 141
          Master Baiter says:

          Thank fuck, the lead was beginning to look embarrasing!

        • 143
          Mr Ned says:

          That’s not due to an increase in support for labour though. It is because more and more people are waking up and seeing that there is no perceivable difference in practice between labour and tory anymore. They are both on the same side and that is not ours.

          So the left are going to the B&P and the right are going to UKIP.

          • gordonsaysbyebye says:

            It would be fun if everyone asked said they were voting for a minority party. What a shake up that would be for the pollsters.

        • 366
          CHIPPY says:

          The problem for gobby Gordon and his boss Meddlebum is Liebor voters are going to the BMP.

        • 454
          Anonymous says:

          Liebour are dropping in the polls, ah diddums!

          30% Populus 11 October.

          29% Populus 11 November.

          Oh dear, MB, it’s not working.

    • 121
      I'm no friend of... says:

      And of course “according to Victoria Ward of the Mirror” means that’s it’s conclusively true then. No bias there. You really are a feeble dribble of piss MB.

      • 142
        Master Baiter says:

        If it wasn’t true Cameo and Osborne would deny it, isn’t it?

        • 151
          I'm no friend of... says:

          There’s fuck all to deny – “I never squirmed” would seem ridiculous – in fact, it’s almost exactly what your autistic leader would do and hence a good guide of what not to do.

        • 152
          Charlie Whelan says:

          Masterbaiter will back me up on this one, won’t you?
          I am not a rapist. I have never been convicted of rape, that is a fact.
          The incident with the waitress was merely a misunderstanding.

          • Master Baiter says:

            Fuck off rapist

          • Charlie Whelan says:

            You are a loyal New Labour troll Masterbaiter, so if you do not back me up then everyone will think I AM a rapist.
            Come on, show a bit of solidarity with your fellow party members.
            Tell them, that to the best of your knowledge, I am not a rapist, please.

          • Frodo Mandelson and the Ring of Power says:

            All Labour luvvies will back each other up .. It’s my new decree

        • 292
          Peter Grimes says:

          Typical misbegotten logic from the early-aborted foetus that is Mastur Bator!

    • 446
      Master Baiter says:

      Yet Gordon and Tony used to rush to Murdoch’s side not so long ago, if Tony beat Gordon there were tears and sulks!

      The Mirror=Labour’s Sun, but not as effective. I eat my own poo.

  10. 25
    Morris 1100 says:

    Whilst reading through the PMQ thread earlier, I couldn’t help noticing that Fabian Solutions copies and pastes his comments a lot; they are repetitive to the point of extreme tedium. Is this something that investigators can use to prove he’s getting paid to post? If he’s getting paid PER post, he’s found a way to improve his income, like that bird Homer uses on the Simpsons.

    Wonder if he’s posting the same things on other websites. ‘Gordon has created a perfect world for me’.

    Scary.

    • 68
      QuestionEverything says:

      Don`t worry, he`s a NUS leader who lives in a Socialist Utopia created by his inherited wealth and private education, a true class warrior with the best interests of the working class at his heart, much like the Labour front bench.

    • 235
      1800 Cunliffe-Arsely says:

      What a strange surname you have.

      • 314
        Jethro says:

        Oh, I don’t know: I have a friend called Mk. IIA – his Christian names are ‘Sunbeam’, ‘Talbot’, and ‘90′

  11. 30
    A fly on the bunker wall says:

    Visited the Mirror’s site yesterday,must be twenty years since i’ve seen a copy,and was in stitches at their take on politics.Well worth popping over for in depth coverage of the conservatives failure to tackle the country’s problems,and the fiscal mismanagement of the shadow treasury team,with has left this nation potless.

    • 35
      Dr Rhodes says:

      Their take needs to be on a level with the standard of education now available in the UK

    • 210
      Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1967) says:

      I decided to take a look…

      “ERROR

      The requested URL could not be retrieved

      While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.mirror.co.uk/

      I kid you not.

      Looks like me and the five others who followed your advice took them down.

    • 458
      Peter B ................. says:

      I was very closely associated with the acquisition of the Trinity Mirror group’s ISP – ic24 – TMG had invested some £30 M – we bought it foe £4.5 M – TMGs shares went UP on the announcement – They occupied a large office block off Trafalgar Square – they laid off 300 – 400 staff – nice guys – but not a clue !! We ran it with 2 guys – part time !!

    • 514
      Nick says:

      Really? All I could see was celebrity & sports gossip.

  12. 32
    jgm2 says:

    Nobody in the real world gives a shit what The Mirror has to write because they are myopic ‘Labour can do no wrong’ jackasses and so are 99% of their readership. Labour could start rounding up the folk of Glasgow NE and start taking them for trips in a ‘cinema van’ withthe exhaust fed in the back and the arseholes at the Mirror would be cherering that it was the right thing to do and the Tories would ‘do nothing’.

    And no matter how many of the fuckers they gassed the survivors would still vote Labour.

    You cannot reason with these people and you cannot insult them. All you can do is out-vote them and then ignore them.

  13. 47
    half the story says:

    This is great as it totally negates the positive praise Brown was getting.

    Talk about stupid.

  14. 51
    Kevin Maguire says:

    I have nothing to say………………..just like HIGNFY last week

  15. 53
    Canute says:

    **Exclusive**

    Daily Mirror persuades readership to vote Labour.

    **Shock**

    • 91
      Deep Thought says:

      I suspect that 100% of The Mirror readership support Labour and if they can be arsed to get out and vote – Vote Labour so the effect of this on the voting public is completely zilch. Cameron has inherited Blair’s teflon coating and this will have minor impact wheas Brown could be photographed giving free food to the starving multitudes in Africa and everyone would still say – “What’s he up to- playing politics again ?” and portray it in the worse possible light.

      Labour have to get used to the situation – Cameron = Winner. Brown = Loser.

      The Mirror can waste gallons of ink trying to portray Cameron badly – it doesn’t work. The deal is almost sealed

      • 136
        bergen says:

        I agree.Few Mirror readers will vote Tory anyway.It has a very elderly readership who started in Cudlip’s day and have stayed with it.It has been on a slow decline for forty years.Back then,it really used to matter and its chairman,Cecil King,was one of the most powerful men in the country.Nowadays it is little more than inconsequential fish n’ chip wrapping.

      • 169
        Lizzie says:

        Yes methinks the Mirror protests too much.

    • 125
      mondeoman says:

      Daily Mirror endorses Labour, shock

      • 164
        Lizzie says:

        True to the losers they are, have they not heard about “the Jonah Curse”. I would steer clear of Brown and Labour if I were them.

  16. 77
    Mike Nailer says:

    I am no fan of David Cameron, but when I saw the picture of him paying his respects to the war dead I will definetely vote for him now.

    • 88
      Master Baiter says:

      I am no fan of David Cameron, but the Labour supporting Mirrors attempt to ridicule him was pathetic!

      • 89
        Charlie Whelan says:

        Baiter you c’nut, you only do it for Gordon!

        • 93
          Master Baiter says:

          Ooops, sorry Sir, can I have 2 minutes off to change my YFronts?

          • Charlie Whelan says:

            I never raped you, did I Masterbaiter?
            You see? I am not a rapist.
            Honest.

          • Tom Watson says:

            And I would like to add that I am not a rapist either.
            Er, I mean I have never been convicted of rape in a court of law.
            There was that one time where it may have been interpreted as rape but that was certainly not my intention.
            I can assure you of that.

          • Anonymous says:

            Tom Watson = PROPA BLOGGA
            down with da yoff my man!

    • 100
      Mike Nailer says:

      I am a fan of David Cameron but when I saw the picture of him paying his respects to the war dead I will definitely vote for him now

    • 103
      Mike Nailer says:

      I am not a fan of David Cameron but when I saw the picture of him paying his respects to the war dead I will definitely not vote for him now

    • 110
      jgm2 says:

      Just for balance…

      Normally I’m a big fan of Gordon Brown but now that his incompetence has totally fucked the UK economy and his ministers are seriously looking to pass laws allowing ‘delicate’ inquisitions to be held in private and he’s doubled the tax on poor people and etc etc etc I now realise he’s a complete arsehole.

    • 117
      Mike Nailer says:

      Sorry I am a bit confused with all of this

  17. 78
    Kezza the Hat says:

    But Gordon is doing his best to ensure we remember the War dead, after all, if it wasn’t for this Labour Government there would be less dead soldiers to remember.

    • 99

      That’s right. Gordon’s policy of sending squaddies to fight other people’s wars that put our country in danger, while dressed in tissue paper body armour driving rebadged “snatch” robin reliants will ensure that Rememberance day is always fresh in the mind of many widows and orphans for decades to come.

      I’m no fan of Gordon Brown but his dedication to the cause of poppy manufacturers and false limb fitters is a credit to our nation.

    • 101
      In remembrance says:

      Pity he only started remembering them when the support for the War in Afghanistan in the polls started to “tank” instead of obstructing every request for equipment when he was Chancellor

  18. 86
    Clarence says:

    Cameron posing for photographs? Cameron engaging in PR exercises?

    Right, so what is http://www.number10.gov.uk/ ?

    And what the fuck is this? http://www.number10.gov.uk/sarah-brown

    An informative guide to the office of the Prime Minister? Or shameless propaganda funded by the taxpayer?

  19. 94
    Anonymous says:

    David Cameron accused of exploiting Remembrance Day for political futherance.

    Maybe.

    But why is no-one accusing Gordon Brown for playing the same PR game by having his wife attend the Cosmo party with her wammers half out?

    • 130
      Sid James says:

      (.)(.)

    • 145
      Mike Hunt Stinks says:

      Looked like fucking cows udders

    • 154
      Lizzie says:

      Gee, Saucy Sarah, maybe she is looking for a replacement husband for when Gordon leaves Downing Street.

    • 178
      Dack Blog says:

      My nan wants her curtains back.

    • 190
      simon r says:

      Let us not forget Blair trying to exploit the Queen Mother’s funeral for his own gain.

      • 269
        Mr Ned says:

        And Dianna’s too. In fact anything that can get a media photographer to attend.

        I mean, IF the mirror even had any kind of point at all in that story, but. Nothing! they have nothing.

        IF they were trying to make a point that it was wrong to criticise Brown for a condolence letter, and then they would attempt to prove it by criticising Cameron for showing his condolences at a remembrance garden, you know, as an example? But it just simply does not work and is a BIG joke.

        But the two are completely different. One is Cameron just having a photographer photograph him doing something, that ALL the party leaders do as a matter of cause.

        The other is the man who the labour spin machine spent two years lecturing us over his far superior ability, attention to detail, this colossus of a world statesman who was head and shoulders above EVERYONE else in the whole labour party in terms of raw ability and decency and compassion and intellect and, well, everything really. This shining example of detailed perfection…

        This man who cannot even spell the name of the deceased correctly in a felt-tipped scrawled, condolence letter to the mother.

        Now, I know that the media are lining up to profess their certainty that he genuinely feels the grief and means his condolence 100%, but I do not buy that at all.

        The man is 100% twat and would not know compassion if his life depended on it. He would not be fucking this country backwards they way he has been if he was compassionate. As for ability? A scrawled, misspelled letter with bits crossed out? This is a very graphic example of carelessness, as in LACKING IN CARE, as in HE DOES NOT CARE!

        I would not have been allowed to send a letter home from junior school to my own parents if it looked like that. It is symptomatic of a man with NO standards and it reflects very badly upon him and this country.

        When I was at school in the late 1970’s we were only allowed to write in pencil, until we achieved a standard of handwriting in cursive script that was acceptable to be allowed to graduate into writing with a fountain pen. Felt-tip pen was forbidden, unless used for colouring in!

        This may seem archaic, but it instilled standards for being able to communicate effectively.

        For the words we use are but a small part of the overall message conveyed. The standard of handwriting and the care in spelling and punctuation also conveys a lot of information in an important letter. And could anyone really receive a more important letter than a condolence letter from your Prime Minister? For me, that would be singly the most important letter I could ever receive.

        You would think that a party which is so utterly grounded in spin and being “on-message” would understand that more than most, and the message sent in this letter shouted clearly, your son is dead, but I don’t give a rat’s ass!

        He can see well enough to read it, so he has NO excuse for how bad it looks.

        THAT is the underlying message and that is what the Sun correctly reported.

        • 351
          jgm2 says:

          I think that covers all the points.

          I agree totally. With the added suspicion thatthe sole purpose of writing these letters was so that some widow/relative woul spontaneously ‘leak’ how cheered up they were to get a hand-written letter and so try and build a narrative about what a caring, thoughtful man he is. Ali C or Mandelson will have put him up to it.

          But as we see the Maximum Imbeciles heart just wasn’t in it and he made his usual half-arsed effort figuring that since such slap-dash bullshit had got him this far then it would do in the future too.

    • 191
      Anonymous says:

      If you found yourself married to a man who bats for the other team and did not appreciate the beauty of your lady lumps, then you would want to pop them out in public for other men to admire. Men who appreciate a nice pair of lady lumps. Men who do not wear nappies or prance around on rocking horses or enjoy the company of other men. Real men who admire lady lumps and give them the love and attention they deserve.

    • 308
      Master Baiter says:

      I’ve screwed more attractive goats than her

    • 413
      Susie says:

      The cymbals clash
      And the dancers walk
      With long silk stockings
      And arms of chalk
      Butterfly skirts
      And white breasts bare
      And shadows of dead men
      Watching ‘em there

      Alfred Noyes 1918

  20. 98
    Dungeekin says:

    Maybe the best thing to do is give Gollum a break for a while then.

    D

  21. 109
    CCTV Camera says:

    Camerons photo looks like it was sneaked from a distance (probably by the mirror reporter involved with the story) Browns is front on and a definite photo shoot op.

    Oh dear, but its only the Mirror and lets face it they are not very bright

  22. 122
    Greychatter says:

    Can’t see anything wrong with David Cameron paying his respects to the war dead – only a Mirror reporter could think this obscene.

    Think Mirror site is a crap web site, can’t appear to be able to leave comments. Never looked at the site before, never read the Mirror. If they are trying to throw Sh.. at David Cameron they have wildly missed the target.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/11/12/david-cameron-accused-of-exploiting-armistice-day-for-photo-shoot-115875-21815032/

  23. 127
    Martin Day says:

    Labour are a party of scum, the daily mirror is sucum in print. Given Gordon Browns wince inducing speech at the ‘Berlin wall’ event where he was delibrately using the occasion as a partisan platform i view the daily mirror as a joke! The fact Brown had similar pictures taken just shows how crap Labour now have become. I looked at another story in the Daily Mirror and they were insighting people to give Cameron a ‘fat lip’ – would not surprise me if a thick labour supporter did that come the election. Of course it will backfire like the mirrors made up stories.

    The Glasgow by-election should be interesting – Not the result as Labour will have bought it but the about of coke, smack and puff Labour will have traded for votes! A smack head will do anything for a bag of tricks, a postal vote is but stroke of a pen. It brings an election being ‘fixed’ a new meaning!!!!!!!

    • 133
      Anonymous says:

      That would certainly be a new dividing line!

    • 146

      Generationally fixed. Those untermensch see absolutely nothing wrong with tribal voting. “A’hm voting the wee ma auld daed grannee voted, dy’ken?” Fucking morons.

      They’re at one end of the spectrum of the kind of idiocy that has destroyed any notion that representative democracy can ever succeed as a reliable mechanism for government.

      Without an analysing, intelligent, responsive electorate, representative “democracy” simply becomes wholly tribal pork barrel bread and circuses – worse than dictatorship or monarchy. Utterly futile, if you permit brain-dead chumps like that to vote.

      I’ll tell you now, I genuinely believe our country would be better governed under Fuhrer Mandelson than by any government that had to seek popular support. Representative democracy isn’t the answer – it’s the bloody problem.

      • 159
        Dack Blog says:

        Anyone who votes for a party is a tribal voter. And equally dense.

        • 192
          jgm2 says:

          Which is why Labour are spitting feathers over ‘The Sun’. Because ‘The Sun’ reflects the thinking of those ’swing’ voters.

          The Mail and Telegraph readers are going to vote Tory or UKIP. The Mirror voters are going to votel Labour or B&P. The Grauniad readers are going to vote Labour or Liberal but ‘The Sun’ voters hold the balance of power. They’re the ones who decide the election. They are the ’swing’ voters.

          That’s why Labour has declared war on Murdoch hoping to frighten him into a heart attack before he damages them any further. That’s why Brown is ringing the proprieter of a newspaper. I hope Murdoch had the good sense to record the conversation. I bet that would be political dynamite. The fact that he hasn’t revealed what was said suggests that Brown might have hit him with something he wouldn’t want revealed or that Murdoch forgot to press ‘record’.

          Either way, according to the FT, we now have the government openly interfering with a free press for purely political reasons. That’s how completely out of control Brown is.

          That should be todays big story. Labour government challenges freedom of press.

          That’s the big news today folks and just like the early days after Brown had an opposition MPs office raided I don’t think the full ramifications of Brown’s intervention in press freedom have sunk in to the mainstream yet.

          But it will.

          • Lizzie says:

            You may have something here jgm2, I thought stuff like interfering with press freedom only happened in communist countries, please confirm and reassure me Britain is not a communist country.

          • Dack Blog says:

            It’s a symbiotic back-scratching relationship. The lot of ‘em. And that’s not news.

          • D L George says:

            jgm2, where did you hear of Brown making the call?

            Interesting stuff.

          • jgm2 says:

            Side Bar to the right..

            ‘Seen Elsewhere’

            Brown Called Murdoch to Complain About Sun – FT

          • Colonel Chinstrap says:

            JGM2: Side Bar to the Right? I like the sound of that!

      • 244
        Groucho says:

        Agreed 100%. Tribal voting is the reason we are stuck with the execrable Kevan Jones here in North Durham. That and the many thousands of locals on the dole/IB whose votes have been bought and paid for.

        My MP is a useless pile of shite. He always puts his job prospects and expenses before the good of his constituency by being one of Gordon’s keenest arselickers. His obedience in the HoC has been rewarded with a junior ministerial role, so its all looking good for the ex Students Union administrator.

        Everyone around here knows what he is like and nobody, but nobody, has a good word to say about him. But still they vote for him, even his critics, simply because he’s Labour and that’s what you do around here.

        Its incredibly frustrating and as you say, is far removed from democracy.

        • 281
          Kezza the Hat says:

          I’m long term unemployed, having being made redundant in January, all thanks to this inept lying Government. I’ve worked for 27 years but now find myself having to live off my savings and my overdraft – I get no benefits because my wife works full time. So, although our income has halved, we just get on with it.

          We have a young child and a mortgage so I’m desperately looking for work but find that the line of work I do is no longer needed. My Masters Degree is fucking worthless and the latest job being advertised around here is for a ‘Sandwich Artist’ on £5.80 an hour. We’re getting deeper and deeper into debt just to survive – hopefully riding out the storm until I get another job.

          But if I lived in a council house, drank Stella from 8am, never worked, voted Labour, fathered half a dozen kids to half a dozen mothers I’d have benefits thrown at me. Rent paid, Council Tax paid, weekly benefits, no worries at all about a fucking recession. What do I get after paying Tax and NI all those years? Fuck All.

          I don’t mind standing on my own two feet, it is what we should all be doing. But it annoys me that those who are at the bottom of society, those who are a drain on society, get spoon fed. No worries about where the money for this months mortgage will come from, or this months Council Tax, no worries about losing their ‘job’, or their home. No worries at all during a recession.

          Harsh, but its about time the long term unemployed, those on IB, and the state sponsored Labour supporters (unemployable single mothers) were not allowed to vote. Fuck em!

          I’m off to open another bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild while I still have some bottles left…

          • From one of the 4 million says:

            Me too – the damage I would like to do to Brown,well I would be arrested by his sinister police stasi if I suggested it.

            And when was I first made redundant?

            2007.

            And when was the evil unelected piece of crap “unelected” in to office?

            2007.

            The very Devil is ruining this country – get him out and do it now.

          • Get divorced, you get rewarded with extra benefits for breaking up a family…

            That’s why I put quotes round the “welfare” state.

          • Groucho says:

            The Daily Mail published a table a couple of days ago showing the correlation between the political party of all elected MPs and the percentage of claimants of dole, IB etc in the relevant constituency. Unfortunately I can’t find it now, so no link.

            Labour buys its way into power, using our taxes. I know that we know that already, but seeing such a clear correlation is quite shocking. From these figures, there is simply no argument about it.

            In some constituencies, 25% of the working age population is on IB!

          • Master Baiter says:

            Whichever party gets in many of the currently smug middle classes will be cut down in swathes and will run screaming and howling for any help they can get. It isn’t going to be fun.

            Hahahaha

          • Mongrel says:

            You really are even more of a c’unt than I thought you were, wankstain, with your pathetic class war fantasies. The middle classes don’t come any smugger than your chums in Tired Old Labour.

          • jgm2 says:

            Finally MB gets one right. Whoever gets in the Middle Classes are going to be absolutely reamed. They’re the only ones with any money. Their pensions will be stolen, their savings will be inflated away to fuck all, many of them will lose their ’safe’ hospital adminstrators jobs and other bedwetting fantasy jobs created in the last decade.

            They will be taxed into oblivion, their houses will crash in value.

            Oh yeah. the Middle Classes are really going to get it.

            Along with everybody else.

            Thanks Labour for so spectacularly fucking the entire nation.

            No. Really. Stand up Gordon Brown. Don’t be fucking shy. Stand up so everybody can see the jackass responsible.

            Now take a bow Gordon.

            And now…. FUCK OFF.

          • Master Baiter says:

            Said middle claases will be squealing, squealing, squealing and ruing the day they vilified people less well off than themselves.

            Hahahaha

          • jgm2 says:

            Ruing the day they voted for Labour more like.

          • Self employed get screwed more says:

            I sympathise with your circumstances. But if you want to know about being royally screwed, you should try being self employed then having to close up from lack of business etc.. You get bugger all unemployment benefits for weeks and weeks on end. When you retire, you find out you are shafted by paying years of self employed National Insurance contributions – next to no state pension. I know someone in that predicament, their state pension is 30p a week. That should be a national scandal, but it’s not. The self employed are seen as rich or doing it because they can “fiddle the books.”

            New Labour have destroyed self employment, just so they can buy the chav bastard council estate votes.

          • Self employed get screwed more says:

            Grouch, you mean this article on the Daily Mail website

            http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1226031/EXPOSED-How-Labour-depends-votes-Welfare-Britain.html

            Labour has been accused of relying on the ‘welfare vote’ after the Conservatives published a provocative league table ranking Commons seats according to the number of benefit claimants.

            A total of 189 constituencies in the first 200 are represented by Labour MPs, which the Tories claim explains why Ministers are failing to tackle the spiralling welfare bill.

            Gordon Brown and 12 Cabinet colleagues represent seats in the top 200, while just four have a Tory MP.

            But Labour fought back, saying the research highlighted a widening gulf between the Conservative Party and the most disadvantaged sections of society.

            The row is the first salvo in what is set to be a bitter Election battle over benefits. David Cameron has set up a top-level policy group, headed by Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, to look at ways of cutting the number of claimants.

            The annual £165billion welfare budget is predicted to balloon further over the next two years as the recession squeezes jobs – unemployment figures being released on Wednesday are expected to show the count passing the 2.5million mark.

          • Kezza the Hat says:

            Self employed get screwed more – I know the feeling, I tried to start a business but in this climate I’m totally fucked by tax’s. I’ve tried for 3 years to just start but, looking ahead, I realise that unless I’m loaded or willing to lose other peoples money, its too hard to even bother.

            MB – by the way, I’m not middle class. Brought up by a widowed Mum in a council house, worked my way up, studied hard, supported Labour, spent weeks on strike, days on the picket line, now support the Cons… sad.

        • 610
          Brown's front bench are Churchill the dog clones. says:

          I had exactly the same problem…I lived in a small town, just west of Manchester called “Atherton”…no one, but no one would even think about voting Tory….”tha closed down’t mine the did”

          Who was my MP, well, that would be the socialite arselicker himself, “Please pay my expenses, or my wife is gonna divorce me”

          Andy “Twatface” Burnham.

          Government health minister…that would be the same person that closed down Leigh (His constituency) A&E hospital, forcing the people of Atherton, Leigh, Tyldesley, ect to rely on Wigan hospital…10 miles away.

  24. 139
    James says:

    The attacks on the SNP in Scotland are of a similar nature. Nothing substantive. Just piddling little things, because the opposition parties are clutching at straws to find something on the SNP. BBC Scotland, The Herald, The Scotsman all anti-SNP. What a disgusting media we have!

  25. 148
    REEVO says:

    Sun and Mirror Newspapers are more a comment on the intellect of the androids they hope to attract.

    It is possible that they just look at the pictures and interpret from there, much like their owners who who delight in making it up as they go along.

    If you are reading this, and you actually read the Sun or the Mirror (indeed and including the Daily Mail for that matter) then it is my sad duty to tell you you are a sad case with little or no brain and most likely a face like a squished tomato….

    Hahahahahahah

  26. 152
    Sir Trev Skint MP says:

    Jonah McBruin has just congratulated Flight Lieutenant Kirsty Moore on becoming the RAF Red Arrows first female pilot!!

    Anyone want to join the House of Commons sweepstake? We’re having a bet on the number of dead spectators at the 2010 Fanborough Air Show!

    • 173
      next slide please, d-day says:

      If it wasn’t so serious it would be funny!

      • 186
        Steam Iron says:

        How the hell is she going to get an ironing board in that small cockpit?

        • 217
          tat says:

          she will have an awful job making a cup of tea mid air won’t she?

        • 231
          Dack Blog says:

          Even a small cockpit is too big for some men.

          • tat says:

            oh bloody hell, dack blog has transformed into fucking harriet harman.
            can’t take a joke dack?
            or are we not allowed to joke anymore?
            bit fucking new labour innit.

          • Dack Blog says:

            You can say what you like but please don’t accuse me of being in any way newlab.

            I was joking too, ffs – can’t you take it? (Hit a nerve, did I)?

            Plus you’ve made that ‘make me a cuppa, luv’ joke too often for it to be funny anymore.

            Would I laugh if you dropped your keks?

          • tat says:

            dack, the cuppa joke is a good gag, come on stop being so fucking tetchy.
            yes I can take it and no you would not laugh.
            I think that covers everything.

          • tat says:

            oh yeah, I retract the bit about you being new labour which we all know you are not.
            happy now?

          • For some “un-guessable” reason TaT becomes very annoyed when Pen15 inadequacy is discussed.

            I wonder why?

          • Amused Bystander says:

            Don’t know, but Dack Blog has just asked to borrow a magnifying glass.

          • Dack Blog says:

            It’s a good gag, but not a running gag.

            And is a retraction the same as an apology?

            I dunno AC1. You always sound quite bitter, which is sometimes born of feeling a tad inadequate in the trouser department. Tat just sounds angry. Maybe he has more than he knows what to do with.

          • Dack Blog says:

            I’m hoping to be happier after the election.

          • Tat rising says:

            Don’t you mean erection?

          • Dack Blog says:

            That was the obvious joke, yes.

          • High and dry says:

            The first time that Tat’s erection has satisfied anybody.

          • thick as thieves says:

            you fuckers will stop backchatting top boy NOW!
            cheeky fucking slags.

    • 179
      Frodo Mandelson and the Ring of Power says:

      Yes I met her when she was in Bummer Command!

    • 180
      1 wing bad two wings good says:

      ROFLMAO

    • 202
      Lizzie says:

      All I can say is who invited Jonah.

      • 218
        Mr J.G. Brown MP PM VC and Bar'sterd says:

        We are right on women pilots
        we are right on the climate
        we are right about polar bears
        we are right about saving the world
        we are right about maffs and inglesh spelling n’ stuff
        we are right to pay bonuses to civil service c’nuts

        We are right, you are wrong, ICH BIN EIN BERLINER!!!!

        • 236
          Baroness Tracey Shellsuit of Essex says:

          Can I get a pilots license wiv my vouchers?

          • Mr Ned says:

            Yes, but just when you get used to using it, we’ll revoke it and give it to even poorer chavs.

        • 535
          D L George says:

          Surely ‘ICH BIN EIN OSTEN BERLINER’

          Ok, I looked it up, been years since I did German.

        • 624
          alpha male's cousin says:

          Socialist New Labia SCUM are wrong about everything especially trying to turn men into feminised NEW MAN NONCES and women into MEN. I have decided to emigrate because Call Me Dave won’t be any different. He too will pursue a politically correct agenda and ther country will suffer for it.Where can we go to get away from FEMINAZIS and ISLAMICNAZIS? Answers on this blog please!!!!

    • 209
      The Sleeper says:

      Except you won’t be at the HoC by then..will you?

  27. 156
    Disgusted of Farnborough says:

    Fuck me I’m moving!!

  28. 161
    Lord Rogers-Fellowes says:

    I’ve almost forgiven Mr Cameron for his disgraceful lies over the referendum now I’ve seen this ludicrous attack on the fellow.

    The sort of people who read the Mirror are obviously from the same stable as those who read that other spermatazoa wrapper, the Sun.

    HKLPs the lot of ‘em, shouldn’t be surprised.

    Wouldn’t have ‘em down at Stroke Bottom if they paid me.

  29. 167
    Flatcap Army says:

    The Labour politicians like Lord Mandelson now accusing the Sun of exploiting a woman’s grief to attack Brown are presumably the same ones who were quite happy to get Ann Pearston up on stage at the 1996 Labour conference and use the Dunblane massacre for political gain. Funny old world.

  30. 176
    Anonymous says:

    What The Mirror says is completely irrelevant. The only people that read it would vote labour even if Brown personally went round their houses and cut off their legs. There’s not a single swing vote in the mirror readership. The only effect they can have is to try and increase the labour-voters’ likelihood of bothering to turn up on polling day. ie they can influence the amount of labour voters who turn up to vote, but they can’t influence the number of people who are labour supporters.

    The Sun on the other hand is read by a very large number of swing-voters, and people who don’t read it still consider what the sun is reported to be saying via other media. Whereas when swing-voters hear what the mirror’s doing/saying via other media they wouldn’t bother to listen because they know how insanely pro-labour the mirror is.

    The mirror have the mentality of “you should vote labour even if they promise to destroy the country and kill off any chance you ever have of keeping/getting a job. you should do this because the alternative is allowing some posh people to have control, and all posh people are evil. but all labour supporters (even posh ones) are god’s angels and can do no wrong”

    • 305
      Anonymous says:

      I doubt Sun readers would know how to fill in a ballot paper.

      • 369
        Cross says:

        I resemble that remark

      • 599
        Jethro says:

        305 – It’s quite simple, really (like me): you just right the name of the person you want to vote for in the little box opposite (never understood why they make the boxes so small!). Then, you check you’ve wrote/writ/wroten it write, crossing out anything rong, then you go round to the booth your Missus is in, and get her to chek again waht yuve rote, and she hasn’t got her glasses, so she has to borra yours, then you go back to your booth, and scratch it out and change it again, because, you never know, your Missus could be a six-columist. Then you fold up your paper, nice and small, and try and get it into the box (I could never understand why they make the slits so narrow!). Then you nod at the chap with the red-rosette, then you doff your cap to the chap with the blue-rosette, then you wink at the woman with the yellow rosette. Then you wait with the engine running til your Missus gets in the car (why ever do they always have to make such a fuss about a little puddle?) and you drive off, and she says ‘I thought we were going shopping…’
        More or less.

  31. 194
    Lizzie says:

    Just split my sides laughing. reading for the first time “Kevin Maguire and Friends” on the Mirror website.
    Listen to this for an introduction…..Low life and high politics are meat and drink to award-winning Kevin Maguire, our man prowling the corridors of power………sorry can’t write any more of this drivvel on the “Magnificent Maguire” of the Mirror!!!!
    Guido you need to up your intro you know….

  32. 199
    Clementine says:

    Labour does believe in the power of newspapers to influence votes despite what Harriett said at the Labour Party Conference.

    This week Brown telephoned Rupert Murdoch to complain at the Sun’s publication of his letter and the subsequent details of his telephone call to Ms Janes. His intention appears to have been to persuade Murdoch to order the Sun to be more friendly towards him. Murdoch appears to have declined.

    • 214
      Sors immanis says:

      Yeah but Brown has stated that he has “the most enormous personal regard” for Murdoch now, which presumably means that the Dirty Digger will be either dead or bankrupt by New Year. Go Jonah go!

      No, please, just go.

  33. 201
    Raving Loon says:

    1000’s of people have been killed in the wars in the middle east, I don’t care who took photographs of whoever.

  34. 208
    BROWNED OFF says:

    Why hasn’t anyone commented on the fact that Bercov’s wife has been selected as a labour candidate for Westminster? Farage must be laughing his head off.

    • 219
      Lizzie says:

      Because it is of little consequence I suppose.

      • 224
        tat says:

        of little consequence? honestly lizzie you really are a daft cow aintcha.
        bercow’s wife is standing because bercow thinks he is about to get kicked out on his arse when the voters choose good old farage instead.
        please try to keep up lizzie.
        you dopey c’unt.

        • 282
          Mr Ned says:

          If Bercow was unelected at the next election, I would laugh my cock off!

        • 365
          Anonymous says:

          At least Berko will be able to become his wife’s secretary if she gets elected. For the next five years anyway.

          • Jethro says:

            In our Village Hall, we got a urn called a ‘Baby Burco’ – and thas’ a awkard little b”!*># , I mean, piece of equipment, too! When yu’re spittin sawdust for a cup, the bliddy thing won’ boil: soon’s you turn yer back, flippin thing’s boilin over and fillin the whoal plaace wi steam Trevithick wud have bin glad of! Never knew W.I. members could swear so well: like troopers.
            So, long an’ short is, we’m goin give it to Black Bart when ee next comes round, and replace it wi’ somethin’ proper.

    • 233
      BROWNED OFF says:

      Sorry, Westminster Council that is. The story was in the Evening Standard but I see they’ve spiked it now.

    • 294
      orderorder,ohbugger says:

      She’s just guaranteed that neither of them will be in the HOC after the election.

  35. 213
    streamfisher says:

    When will The Mirror break?

  36. 226
    Anonymous says:

    The Mirror has for a very long time being dying a slow death. They tried dumbing down during the 90s in an attempt to appeal to those of less education or intelligence. It didn’t work. The Sun still trounced them.

    They later changed its masthead from red to black, in an attempt to dissociate itself from the red top Sun. That didn’t work either.

    Then there were Piers Moron’s fake Iraq photos… And the cock-up that ensued when they wrongly accused Kate Garraway of having an affair (not that anyone would blame her)…

  37. 229
    Hamid Karzai says:

    This is what we should be talking about not that rag the Mirror, who gives a s*^”what they print.
    Home Secretary Alan Johnson today defended bonuses paid to civil servants in the Ministry of Defence.
    Angry families of British troops killed in Afghanistan hit out as it emerged MoD officials had received performance-related payments totalling £300million.
    Of course he does because his old mate John Reid is one of them.. 9 Jan 2009.
    Former Defence Secretary John Reid has secured a £50,000 job with a private security company operating in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    Dr Reid, who famously boasted in 2006 that he expected British forces being sent into Helmand would leave again ‘without a shot being fired’, is to be a consultant to G4S Security Services.
    The company provides armed security guards to British Government employees stationed in war-torn countries.

    • 241
      Lizzie says:

      Serious stuff here. Brown wants to ban the bank bonus culture but for his penpushers in Whitehall it’s “groundhog day”.

      • 247
        tat says:

        are you a tory computer programme?
        you fucking sound like it love.
        how’s that tea going? is it brewed yet?
        well don’t hang around FFS get pouring!

        • 255
          tat says:

          NEW LABOUR = WAR AND OCCUPATION AND TORTURE AND CORRUPTION.
          tell us something we don’t know, eh lizzie.

    • 249
      streamfisher says:

      Now John Reid wants loads a shots being fired, a percentage on every bullet.

      • 257
        tat says:

        I want reid to get a bullet in the back of the head.
        I will supply the bullet and pull the trigger. no charge.

        • 538
          D L George says:

          tat what are you like, shooting himself in the back of the head would require some thought, planning and ingenuity, none of which you’ll find in the ranks of zanu liebour.

        • 540
          barefootcontessa says:

          Let me assist you! Mr.”No shots fired,….. only there for a PR exercise, to pat the natives on the head, and bung them a few sweeties” Reid.

    • 256
      A fly on the bunker wall says:

      No doubt he was hired due to his expert analysis in the field of military appraisal,and not because he could open lucrative contract doors.
      Standard role of Ministers from all governments since time began.

    • 267
      Doc Trough says:

      A poor man’s Blackwater (pukes).

      Dishwater?

  38. 237
    Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1967) says:

    I see The Telegraph is reporting the world has reached ‘peak gold’.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/mining/6546579/Barrick-shuts-hedge-book-as-world-gold-supply-runs-out.html

    Someone tell the Mirror-reading chavs it’s their patriotic duty to stuff their sovereign rings and gold chains into their postal vote come the election.

  39. 243
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    Hardly a campaign likely to fill the Labour Party election coffers

  40. 248
    OUCH!!! says:

    O/T

    Dumblebore to miss QT – Bollock trouble (I think it said bollock…)

    http://tinyurl.com/ycyswqg

    • 276
      Doc Trough says:

      Humphrys deputises. You’d have thought they’d use a paragon of impartiality like Old Father Marr.

      • 310
        Nick Robinsonofabitch says:

        They asked me to do it but the sound check was poor due to my head being up SHAUN WOODWARD’s arse

    • 328
      Confused says:

      Reading the article, it says it was his wife’s bollock, and he was loading it onto a trailer at the time. That raises several questions….

      • 546
        D L George says:

        He also said He’ll be avoiding b*llocks in the future. No more Liebour on question time then.

        ————————

        Just want to add, I like Dimbleby, best wishes old Son.

  41. 253
    Anonymous says:

    Lol, do people still buy the Mirror? FFS!

    • 261
      Mirror reader in Liverpool says:

      No, we always shoplift ours up here.

    • 271
      jgm2 says:

      Public libraries probably.

      I can’t believe that anybody with a high enough IQ to read would waste any of it poring over their ‘Labour is magnificent and the past 12 years have been a triumph’ shit.

      • 315
        Anonymous says:

        All British tabloids are shit- without exception.

        • 327

          The Sun’s awesome fun and the daily wail’s website is sticky. Just don’t expect to find news in them.

          Still they are better than AlJaBeebya Left Wing Narrative 24, where you will discover the opposite of the truth.

          • Master Baiter says:

            Aunty Zit, Dotell what’s the view on the Conservitudes backing QE (quantitative easing). It’s another reversal of direction from Cameo and another reversal of direction from Osborne, isn’t it? What were they on about a while back? Ah yes, Save, Save, Save. Now it’s Lend, Lend, Lend.
            They just don’t know what to do.

          • Anonymous says:

            Get off that fucking pony will yer? It’s dead , deceased, kaput….it is no longer a pony, it’s on it’s way to the glue factory….etc etc.

          • Master Baiter says:

            It’s the real economy stupid.

            The Conservitudes finally catch up with reality and admit QE (quantitative easing) should continue.

    • 340
      From one of the 4 million says:

      Only when Andrex workers are on strike.

  42. 259
    civil servant on mandy's payroll says:

    ‘I’m no fan of Gordon Brown but…’

    …hang on, is that the time ? Oh it’s post Thursday lunchtime, that is me done for the week ( flexitime of course ), see you all on Monday.

    I’ll be in about 10.30am as usual.

  43. 263

    Whoohoo – govt backs down and lets Lords amendments stand on coroners and justice bill – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8356093.stm

    Although no doubt just cus they want the secret inquest stuff on the books asap. Smells like a clearing the decks exercise… Gordon making anti-immigration noises too?

    Snap election December 3rd?

    nah…

    • 277
      jgm2 says:

      Not a chance. Barring so absolutely astounding Cameron revelation as already mooted by somebody ie Madeleine McC being discovered in Cameron’s freezer then Brown will hold out until the bitter end.

      All he’s got left to look forward to is a miracle. That somehow the Tories implode. That’s the only hope he’s got.

      The entire UK knows what a lunatic Brown is. The proof is everywhere. The economy is destroyed. Half the high street has plywood in lieu of windows, the government is borrowing more money than Iceland (which we know is ban*r*pt). It’s a complete and total clusterfuck.

      Brown is holding out for a miracle.

      It could happen. Major got one.

      • 287
        Lizzie says:

        Yes, but Major was not insane, and was not a control freak etc etc. OH …and by the way was not a lousy Chancellor prior to becoming PM who sold all the UK’s gold reserves either, I think that gives Major an edge over Bonkers Brown.

      • 352
        Frod Mandelson and the Ring of Power says:

        You can get a nice Vindaloo ready-meal for 1.25 at Iceland

      • 408
        Deep Thought says:

        Major’s “secret weapon” was his famous “soapbox”. oh that and the fact that Neil (Can the last one out of Britain please turn off the light)Kinnock was leading the Labour Party of course.

        In Brown’s case:-

        a) He’d probably fall off the soap box
        b) Somemone would kick it from underneath him
        c)Some SpAd would leave it on the campaign bus
        d)It’d be nicked and sold on “e bay”
        e)It would still have the original “embarassing product name” on the outside
        f) It would be made of cardboard

    • 345
      The time is drawing near.... says:

      Frank – was thinking the same this morning watching the ultimate piece of dog excrement Brown and that total nothing Andy Woooo Last.

      They remind me of the perfume salesmen outside Harrods – they offer you not ONE not Two and not even THREE bottles,we shall make it FOUR!

      The fact it’s full of an Egyptian’s piss is of no relevance,look at the packet,it SAYS YSL!

  44. 264
    Roger Dodger says:

    Is there a special tool for scraping barrels?

    • 278
      jgm2 says:

      No point Gordon using his fingernails. He’s bitten them off to the first knuckle.

    • 283
      Doc Trough says:

      Oh yes. Hoonpygge has a mindboggling selection of Ainsworths. Order before 2pm and one of our former posties will fetch it round on his bike.

  45. 266
    Jimmy says:

    Yes that’s exactly the same as what the Sun did. A better comparison would be between the Mirror and this site.

    • 299
      backwoodsman says:

      Unlike the miror, the proprietor here didn’t steal all the pensions. Suggest you take the offer of a full refund & foxtrot oscar

      • 320
        jgm2 says:

        Unfortunately, just like the Mirror’s ex-proprietor, the temporary proprietor of UK Plc has nicked our pensions.

        The pension thieving bastard.

        And deferred the others. Including private pension schemes. I still cannot figure that one out. If the trustees of these private schemes were content to pay a reduced pension from the age of 50 then what fucking business was it of government to compulsarily move that to 55?

        I have to admit I can normally see through their evil machinations but I cannot see what they were up to there. I think it might have been laying the groundwork so that they could then renege on allowing public sector workers to retire early on reduced pension at 50 (because, unlike private schemes which have actual pension assets the government has fuck all pension money put aside and cannot actually afford to pay the fuckers if they all retire at 50) but I think the unions spotted that one and headed them off at the pass.

        But if, as I believe, the unions have headed them off then I don’t see why this is still on the statute books for private pension schemes.

  46. 279
    This blog achieved says:

    Ahhh, this is useful stuff. Other blogs seem frightened off of criticising Brown for fear of being called a bully. This is exactly how the Labour smear machine works, and with a population of the sort that likes to make shrines to squirels, it is very effective. When the Tories get in, perhaps they will begin to de-programme the nation.

    • 347
      SO17 says:

      Since when was being a Cu*t a disability?
      Forget Autism and ADHD your just a little cu*t. Thats what these kids should be told.
      Half blind,bad handwriting and spelling, nah yer just a Cu*t Gordon.

  47. 280
    I'm a Mirror reader and new to this interweb thingy says:

    This all riveting stuff but has Button signed with Brawn yet

  48. 284
    This blog achieved says:

    p.s. Patriotic British do not forget that the Mirror is the paper that brought you fake pictures of British soldiers pissing on Iraqi detainees thus directly putting the lives of our servicemen in jeopardy.

  49. 297
    Scenic says:

    Michael Caine just been on Radio 5 (because of this Harry Brown film) and said it was a disgrace that a socialist government had left us in a state where working class people were abandoned and marginalized and their situation had got worse under Labour. That it says something that we need to look to a Tory govt to sort it out, also said he had historically been a Labour voter, so that’s another one lost Gordon. Was surprised how genuinely wound up he sounded. Hopefully he will do a Jack Carter on the Cabinet.

    • 308
      • 311
        Lord Minister for propoganda Peter etc says:

        You’re a big man Gordon, but you’re out of your league.
        With me its a full time job.

      • 338
        Under a flower pot at the bottom of the garden until that c'nt brown calls the General Election says:

        I’ve come for you, Gordon

        • 342
          Scenic says:

          You couldn’t run an egg and spoon race Gordon

          • Do you want to go to the toilet gordon? says:

            Gordon: For Christ’s sake.
            Jack Carter: You knew what I’d do didn’t you, Gordon?
            Gordon: It started in America. I didn’t cause the crisis.
            Jack Carter: [as he kills him] I know you didn’t.

      • 550
        Jack says:

        Look at your eye Gordon – like a pisshole in the snow.

    • 362
      jgm2 says:

      I’d rather he over-delivered on ‘blowing the bloody doors off’ the cabinet.

    • 374
      Andy Carpark says:

      He can afford to be a Labour voter, the one-trick buffoon.

      In Zulu. ‘Don’t throw. No bloody spears. At ME.’

      In A Bridge Too Far. ‘Don’t drop. No bloody bombs. On ME.’

      • 389
        jgm2 says:

        Yeah. He does appear to be from the Mike Ried school of acting.

        ‘Ere Mike. Read this out. No, don’t bother changing your accent.’

    • 407
      Sir William Waad says:

      He never actually said “Not a lot of people know that.”

      Not a lot of people know that.

    • 409
      SO17 says:

      The opening scenes in ‘Gladiator’ I’m sure they used the Impi warrior chant soundtrack from ‘Zulu’. Fucking cheek.

      • 444
        No a lot of people know that ! says:

        “Zulu” was a bloody good film that stirred the patriotism of the audience even if the soldiers were South Wales Borderers – “24th Regt of Foot” I defy anyone not to glow with pride at the end as the narrator recites the list of names and VCs won

        Perhaps film makers ought to be doing the same for the Afghan War – it certainly has a similar theme of a small professional force surrounded by thousands of “natives” wanting nothing more than to stick their “assegais” in

        “It’s a miracle.
        If it’s a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it’s a short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber miracle.
        And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind.”

      • 530
        Peter Jackson says:

        Don’t tell anyone that I sampled the chanting and used it in LOTR too.

  50. 306

    Daily mirror Crossword.

    1 Across: Which party is not to be trusted. Begins with T. 4 letters
    1 Down. Who caused the financial problems we face today. Begins with T. 4 Letters.
    2 Down: Which party is cast iron ? 4 letters
    3 Down. Which party we hate? 4 letters
    4. across : Who didn’t give anyone a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty? Hint-That one could apply to any party but the correct answer is Tory.

    To win a Giro just send your answers to
    Daily Mirror Crossword Competition
    Is it the Tories as usual?
    Piers Morgan House
    Harmsworth-Northcliffe
    BUM33R

    And remember the answer is always ‘it was the Tories’

  51. 322
    Scenic says:

    David Dimbleby will not present QT tonight, he has been knocked unconscious by a young bullock, supreme narcissist John Humphreys steps in

    (This, bizarrely, is true)

    • 332
      jgm2 says:

      First Blunkett. Now Dimbleby.

      Those cows have sure got it in for the bedwetters and arseholes of the left.

      I plan to eat the evidence later.

    • 372
      In the china shop says:

      Perhaps he has just had enough of the BBC’s manipulation of the audience and the total arseholes on the Panel?

      And made up a real cock and bull story to avoid it?

    • 373
      Farmer's Spokesperson says:

      Gordon Brown has telephoned the NFU to complain of right-wing bias among farm animals.

    • 405
      Sir William Waad says:

      Steps in what?

    • 484
      Because they don't have bells says:

      Sure it was not one of the Balls double-act? She gives me the horn (not).
      Honk honk. I thank you.

  52. 348
    Euroseptic says:

    Brown needs keel hauling thrice daily under the Dover to Calais ferry to remind him how small the distance really is between Engalnd ad France

  53. 371
    The Elephant In The Room says:

    Brown on GMTV tomorrow morning;

    “Mr Brown (you utter scum,thinks the lightweight interviewer) – how can you say that The Labour Party has had a ringing endorsement from the electorate in Glasgow North East?”

    “Look,Cameron is WRONG on everything”

    “But how on earth can you say that you are happy about this result – you won by a single vote?”

    “Exactly,this is the clearest message yet that Cameron is WRONG on everything”

    “But we are getting news that the single vote was actually registered to a voter called;

    “The Elephant,
    The Room,
    Glasgow Zoo”

    now surely that can’t be a genuine voter Mr Brown?”

    “Cameron is WRONG on everything”

    • 375
      Postal Voter says:

      We’ve already made it a landslide

    • 379
      Electoral Register (massaged version) says:

      There’s a very large family of McPatels in Glasgow North-East, and their postal votes swung it.

      • 417
        Electoral Register (massaged version) says:

        OOps – sorry – should have said, “could swing it”. Sorry about that, slip of the tongue. Don’t tell the Returning Officer, eh?

        • 433
          Glasgow East Returning Officer says:

          There will be a delay concerning the result, due to the McPatel postal votes being wrongly attributed to the B&P.

    • 392
      Cameron Apologist says:

      7000 postal votes have been newly registered in the run up to the Glasgow North East by-election. I leave it to you to surmise which party will benefit from any gerrymandering! Surely not the party led by the one-eyed idiot?

      “Rigging the polls is the right thing to do!”

      • 399
        Gordon Brown says:

        Hey you just fuck off otherwise I will instruct Carter Ruck.

        I may be one eyed but I am not an idiot

        • 462
          udderly 'orrible says:

          McRuin you are not only one-eyed and an idiot but also a criminally insane porridge monkey.

          We don’t like you, don’t want you, never needed you and fervently believe that you and the rest of your commie cabal will soon wither and die.

          PS We also know you are presently schlentering the bye-election with falsified postal votes, so that makes you a shitty schmuck as well as being a Scorchlander.

          I suppose it could be marginally worse.

      • 422
        Hamid Karzai says:

        We all allow for a little bit of ballot fraud but you’re just taking the piss.

  54. 384
    Florence Nightingdale BSc(Hons) says:

    I’m still paying off my effing student debt

  55. 388
    Cameron Apologist says:

    It is clearly going to be a long and very dirty election campaign. I don’t really care, so long as the result comes out right – Labour consigned to the Opposition benches for at least 18 years!

    • 394
      Gordon Brown says:

      I do hope you will read the headlines in tomorrows papers

      LABOUR WIN BY ELECTION IN GLASGOW NORTH EAST

      THE CONSERVATIVE VOTE CRUMBLES

      THE DIRTIER THE TORIES PLAY IT THE BETTER I LIKE IT

      • 410
        Cameron Apologist says:

        Erm – the Conservatives don’t have a vote in Glasgow North East to crumble.

        The headline is more likely to be “questions asked about vote rigging in Glasgow North East”.

        • 463
          ReichsPropagandaMinister Peter says:

          No it won’t. we don’t allow headlines like that, do we?

          • barefootcontessa says:

            They’ve only got one woman to represent the whole of the tories in Scotland havn’t they? Hope the SNP make a good fist of it.

      • 418
        Scenic says:

        How can the Conservative vote crumble, they did not even contest the seat at the General election?

        • 438
          Gordon Brown says:

          Hasn’t Cameron’s party got the balls to fight ???

        • 473
          Gordon Brown says:

          “How can the Conservative vote crumble, they did not even contest the seat at the General election?”

          Err…that’s what Mandy told me to say. I’ll check and get back to you at a later date.

    • 412
      Sir William Waad says:

      Longer than 18 years, I hope. Once the last of the old Communists have gone (John Reid, Peter Hain, Gordon Brown) there will be nobody left except opportunists, spivs and a few tired old union hacks. Most of them will desert the party once it is out of office, because there will no longer be any money in it. In England at least the Labour Party could become extinct.

      • 607
        Jethro says:

        412 -Sir Double Double-U, that’s the most inspiring and enspiriting thing since Pope Benedict offered generous terms. Let it be so (my Latin’s not up to putting it in ‘the decent obscurity of a learned language).

  56. 397
    I need some time away from this horror says:

    Dear All

    I am afraid I am going to have to take a break from this superb blog of Guido’s.

    The reason is that I am so angry about the state of this country that I find myself getting all sorts of physical and mental problems by the end of each day.

    I care passionately about this great country of ours,but I am so sad about how it has been ruined by Gordon Brown and his thugs.

    I am ready to march on London to protest to The Queen,but no one seems to want to join me.

    When you are ready,please let me know.

    Until then,I am going to stop reading the papers,watching the news and being part of Guido’s blog – I simply cannot take the stress anymore.

    Thank you Guido for the facility of your site,thanks for the witty posts and the passionate posts – at last we know that this time next year Gordon Brown and his thugs will be no more.

    Yours

    M.

    • 416
      Anonymous says:

      Just because you are “passionately about this great country” does not mean the rest of the voters have similar views.

      They are only passionate about TV, Drink, Friday nights ….

      Do not set yourself up for a breakdown when May comes next year, and you find that the national debt has no meaning at all to the majority. The live today, some one will bail us out tomorrow, gang will make sure your dream does not come true.

    • 421
      SO17 says:

      Enjoy the war while it lasts cause the peace will be fucking awful.
      The gallows humour on here keeps me sane so don’t be too hasty M. Sleep on it.

    • 445
      kabbaged says:

      Queen = No powers

    • 460
      Lizzie says:

      Don’t forget to register to vote my dear, I know that you feel stressed but Cameron needs every vote to get rid of Brown and the Brownies, so do your duty my friend.

    • 461
      Michael Winner says:

      Calm down dear, it’s only a blog.

      • 479
        Lizzie says:

        Contary to belief blogs are powerful, don’t listen to the Labour PR machine on this. Gudio has done some good work, hence no McBride in Downing Street.

        • 588
          Anonymous says:

          I agree, but it is just necessary insurgent work. The real war is with the people who voted them in last time.

    • 605

      You know what to do – keep your poweder dry, wait for the moment, do what’s right when required.

      Piece of piss

    • 623
      D L George says:

      I know exactly how you feel.

      After events of this week – The Brown scribble offence – The Brown not bowing offence – The Brown telephone offence, then PMQ’s with Brown attacking the tories for something they didnt even do and worst of f*cking all, ZANU back up to full strength on dirty tricks and astoturfing.

      It’s hard to see through the red mist.

      If you have to go, come back in the new year when the final countdown begins and we can see the end of these torrid fuckers for good.

  57. 414
    Lord Rogers-Fellowes says:

    I think that Farage wallah’s the sort of chap we need. Good looking, too. I know one or two of his chaps are a little confused over accounting procedures, but compared to the gang in parliament they’re snow white.

    Only thing the others seem keen on is filling the country up or giving it away.

    My grandfather used to canvass all over the estate and invite the locals to Stroke Bottom for a gallon of beer and a mutton pie.

    He always got in.

    • 465
      Lizzie says:

      Sensible fellow your grandfather, is he still available or have you taken up the mantle?

      • 609
        Jethro says:

        463 – ‘Taken up the mantle’: what a charmingly delicate way of putting it, Lizzie – almost Masonic in its obliqueness!
        ‘Have you taken up the mantle?’
        ‘No! Honest: it’s just the way I walk’
        ‘Have you taken up the mantle?’
        ‘No: go on, just another half.’
        ‘Have you taken up the mantle?’
        ‘Just because I’m quiet, doesn’t mean I’m not listening, and thinking.’
        ‘Have you taken up the mantle?…’
        We had a Squire down here like that – Sir Roger M. Rigid. Burngullow, he lived in, though the locals all re-named it Bumgully…

  58. 419
    Master Baiter says:

    Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King rounds on Cameo.
    Suddenly the press is not being obedient.
    What’s occurring?

    http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23767982-king-rounds-on-cameron-for-trying-to-interfere-in-quantitative-easing.do

    • 429
      Scenic says:

      What a flattering picture of him.

    • 434
      Mongrel says:

      OK wankstain explain in layman’s terms how QE works in practice, will you?
      No I thought you couldn’t. To be fair, I can’t either, because although the banks replace gilts with cash in their balance sheets, it doesn’t mean they can actually lend any more money. It’s a purely textbook exercise with no practical effect other than to fuck up our public finances still further, so actually Cameron or Osborne should be firing warning shots across King’s bows rather than the other way round.
      If the Bank of England had not been so supine over the removal of their powers by McFucked, they might have been able to intervene in the case of Northern Rock and the two Scottish banks and we might now be in the same shit as the Europeans, rather than much worse.

      • 441
        Monkey Chops says:

        It’s easy: our government has been funding itself by printing money a la Zimbabwe. The BoE (part of government) creates the cash then gives it to the Treasury to hose against the wall, supporting Brown’s client state.

        Here’s the graph showing where the £200bn is going:
        http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/other/markets/apf/apfquarterlyreport0910.pdf

        It’s the pink one on page two for the hard of reading.

        We’re fucked. Hahahahahaha!

        • 476
          jgm2 says:

          Indeed we are. Completely fucked. 200bn quid printed and still in recession. 200bn quid squandered and still in recession. Unemployment still rising. this years unemployed graduate cohort still not allowed to claim the dole so another half million at least to go on those figures.

          It’s fucked.

          We’re fucked.

          Fucked by the world class incompetence of this Labour government.

          Utterly fucked.

          • Mongrel says:

            Looks just like the gold sale, only the other way round. We buy gilts at a 2% yield and then have to issue them in 2 or three years’ time at 5 or 6%. How has Brown got King to go along with this insanity?

          • Master Baiter says:

            Who hasn’t gone along with it?

            Hahahaha

        • 503
          Technicolour dreamcoat says:

          Christ – this is more exciting – and colourful – than Ben Hur!

    • 436
      Mike Nailer says:

      I don’t normally have time for Mr Cameron, but having read your awful bullying I have changed my outlook and will now vote for him in the upcoming General Election on December the 3rd 2009

    • 442
      Number 7 says:

      Voters round on Bruin for this:-

      http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/5532908/electoral-fraud.thtml

      Electoral Fraud – It’s the right thing to do

    • 472
      1800 Cunliffe-Arsely says:

      Whats all this “Cameo” bit. A new amusing pun for us all?

      Puns are shit. Many of us are old enough to remember the good old days of sitcoms.

      Also old enough to remember that top of the pops performance.
      It makes me titter to think of Dave donning the famous outfit and singing “word up” for children in need or whatever, but actually not in a particularly mocking way. It might almost make him cool. yeaow.

  59. 431
    Disco Biscuit says:

    How can the Mirror complain about David Cameron being photographed paying his respects in the Garden of Remembrance, when they illustrate their report with photographs of him being photographed?

    Fucking dipsticks.

    • 449
      Mrs Fat Bottom Slack Jaw says:

      Disco – your observation.
      It was mentioned 3 hours previously on this blog

    • 451
      Anonymous says:

      Brown was photographed in the same place with Sarah. What’s the big deal? The media can be the biggest stirrers!

    • 486
      Sir William Waad says:

      Caption competition: Brown is saying “I’ll have filled the other part of the lawn by next year.”

  60. 437
    Jon Forest says:

    Who cares? Most Mirror readers only vote if:
    a) a bit of NewLiebour totty gives em a ride to the shops at the same time as taking them to the polling booth;
    b) someone organises a postal vote for them – in which case they don’t actually get to put the X in the box themselves, it mysteriously gets done by someone in the local working man’s club/union office/liebour HQ.
    c) the local polling both happens to be next to the betting shop or dole office.

    • 452
      Mr Manglewurzel says:

      I take the Mirror to the bog to check out me piles

    • 490
      The Sun its wot they do best says:

      “The Mirror” has little leverage on public opinion as its readership largely supports Labour(if they bother to vote at all)and is nothing more than a “propaganda rag” for the Labour Party. Its readership are ageing anyway and it is not attracting the younger readership so overall any campaign on any subject that “The Mirror” launches usually fails to deliver. There capacity to be a “persuader” of public opinion is therefore -very limited

      Whilst – “The Sun” is an equally scurillous rag the difference is that the readership are mainly C2DE demographic who whilst one would suppose them to support Labour they actually don’t. They surprisingly are “traditionally” conservative(with a small “c” in thir outlook;fiercly patriotic(in fact a lot of service personnel read “The Sun”)by nature “eurosceptic” and concerned about the levels of immigration(although not racist particularly)and their fears for their jobs;their children’s jobs;housing etc. Blair and Labour “borrowed” their support between 1997 -2009 as did Thatcher and also Major from 1978 – 1994/5.
      It’s clear that “The Sun” has now set its face against Brown(although not necessarily Labour) and like its campaigns earlier against Callaghan;Foot;Kinnock;Major etc where it ridicules and personalises its attacks it is extrememly effective in “setting the tone” of an election but despite its previous hubris i.e. “It’s The Sun wot wun it !” it cannot guarantee the ultimate election outcome unless a party or government allows itself to be unsettled by it, which judging by the recent Labour Party Conference where a copy was torn up on stage it has succeeded in doing.Despite Labour saying they don’t care whether they’ve lost the support of “The Sun” they are very very worried and know that they are being wounded by the attacks which are very effective in destroying Brown as a credible PM.Ridicule and disgust and loss of respect are very very effective if dirty strategy for ensuring that a party loses an election providing you know when to row back before launching another attack or by alluding to other events make sure the target is also tainted by association even though they may be only on the periphery of the item

    • 505
      Lizzie says:

      Most of them will probably be on the Costas anyway at election time.

  61. 470
    What a shame! says:

    I think you will find that Gordon signed the Lisbon Treaty in the wrong place and also did not spell his name properly. Rgondo Wrnob indeed. It is thus void.

    This sort of thing is as expected from a dud lecturer in a dud college with no life skills or work history in the real world. What happened to education, education, education and joined-up handwriting?

    • 474
      Lizzie says:

      Yes it is a problem taking on a man who is very confused and deluded and nuts and oh dear the list is too exaustive, plus the Jonah curse, this is difficult.

    • 536
      caesars wife says:

      that is an interesting thought , if they cant read the signature Lisbon could be null and void , hooray !!

      If we burn it before ratifcation it cant go in library , no proof , claim vid showed gordon having to put all peters titles on a Eu arrest warrant

      • 589

        The video shows a man in a dark room wearing a crumpled suit signing a document. No one else apart from the camercrew is there.
        He good be filling in his euromillions slip for all we know.

  62. 477
    The IMF is coming says:

    Trying to slip this under the radar;

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8356617.stm

    • 482
      Sir William Waad says:

      Note that, while the salaries quoted are annual, the expense claims are only for three months (it says in faint letters), thus making them appear smaller than they really are.

      • 491
        The IMF is coming says:

        Follow the link and eventually you will find PDF’s for full expenses – hotels, parking meters, lots of lunches, congestion charges etc etc. ‘Cut your cloth’ doesn’t seem to be apparent.

    • 495
      Anonymous says:

      Mark Thompson looks like a fucking tramp.

  63. 478
    Sir William Waad says:

    The sad thing is that the Election will be decided by people who ‘read’ the Mirror or the Sun. We have a kakistocracy. It should be ‘no job, no vote’ until you’ve worked for at least 25 years.

    • 485
      The IMF is coming says:

      Perhaps we could have an X factor special – The leaders do a ‘turn’ then half the population vote by pay as you go rather than popping down to the polling station.

      • 524
        shelling-out says:

        …I don’t think that will be far away. There were mutterings some time ago about this.

    • 494
      I B Seldom_Lucid says:

      IMHO, it would be fair to grant the right to vote only to contributing members of our society. That is, they should be tax payers or those who have paid tax.

      Nobody who has been supported by the tax payer all their lives without giving something back should be allowed to vote for their own self interest.

      Were it implemented, such a rule would take many thousands of votes from Browns crooks.

      But he and they know that and so it will never happen.

  64. 487
    Technomist says:

    Apologies for being way O/T but does anyone know if there is any truth to the rumours (now being denied) that Harry Cohen’s vacating seat in Leyton, the last unfilled seat in London, is NOT going to be an all-women’s short-list because Harriet Harperson has realised it is the last best chance of a place for the to foist her husband, Jack Dromey, on a “safe” (7000 majority) constituency?

    http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/wfnews/4735845.LEYTON__Local_Labour_party_hits_out_over_Dromey_rumours/

    • 489
      Sir William Waad says:

      Not so – Jack Dromey is going to have a sex change. For him, sex probably would be a change.

    • 499
      Lizzie says:

      You have to be kidding of course, just trying to wind us up on this blog. Jack is going to be in the “Scrubs” surely.

    • 501
      I B Seldom_Lucid says:

      I wonder what it is like to live in a country that has a democratic political process.

      Perhaps we will never know.

    • 510
      AnonymousSource says:

      I would have thought that even with a majority of 7,000 Leyton isn’t “safe” and in fact ElectoralCalculus confirms that view as well

      http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/

      • 532
        Technomist says:

        Thanks for that. Not clear what factors they take into account in their prediction of a 4.85% Labour win.

        Local factors include the Waltham Forest Labour Party being in meltdown; symptoms of which include racially motivated councillor deselections and defections; activists disappearing, tmillions mislaid or squandered by a cadre of now departed council officers, the recession, and Leytonstone Town Centre turning into a waste-ground. That is before the Harry Cohen expenses fiddling effect.

    • 521
      shelling-out says:

      Well, he’s got to have somthing to do when it all goes tits up. There won’t be any money left in the Labour coffers for him to “Treasure”, so he’ll be out on his ear.

  65. 488
    Tax is taxing says:

    labour and the left – big on hypocrisy, big on the causes of hypocrisy

  66. 492
    Lizzie says:

    Every day a new disaster for Brown, what will happen tomorrow, watch this space…..America may announce they are to withdraw from Afghanistan, Obama does hold the current Nobel Peace Prize, I don’t think advocating war is good for his image, his hands are tied from here on in I would think. Clever people those Nobel crowd.

  67. 493
    calling master baiter says:

    for master baiter- earlier you said the middle classes were ‘going to get it’….

    ie hammered……

    so seriously-what is middle class?
    someone earning above £x?

    let’s say £30,000……..so that includes teachers,the police,doctors,dentists,plumbers,electricians,shop owners,solicitors,supermarket managers,scaffolders ,plasterers etc..or train drivers?£40,000 pa for drivers operating out of felixstowe docks!!! fucking capitalist bastards!!!!!…….

    so who deserves to be hammered?

    would it be couples whwere both do shit jobs on £15,000 but as the total £30,000 then they will be wiped out?

    maybe a council worker? there are 6 vacancies in southend on sea with £100,000 salaries……!!!!!!!!

    those in whitehall?

    mps?

    girls aloud?

    i am not a tory………….tell me how reducing everyone to poverty doeas anyone any good?

    mark

    • 615
      Corky says:

      To 493.
      You wont get any sense out of that GhettoBlaster guy he is a romantic idealist of the worse kind.

  68. 507

    Does the Mirror receive indirect funding from Labour or the unions, he asks innocently?

  69. 517

    I just hope that the Mirror doesn’t criticize that nice Mr Cameron’s handwriting, that’s all.
    He went to Eton and only ever writes with a quill pen, I understand. So he won’t be blotting his copybook!

  70. 523
    Mad Jock McMad says:

    You know the country is in a mess. I know the country is in a mess. The Mirror knows… squat … like its fellow boob tube the Sun. There is little or no difference in competence between Cameron and Brown because they both, in reality, lead the same political party of:

    ‘ME FIRST and b**ger the rest of you’.

    What I do know is Labour have been putting around in Glasgow NE that a vote for the BNP will let the SNP in …… and that a lot of Scots think the Glasgow NE electoral register will go walk about at the weekend with the same swiftness as Glenrothes’ did after Labour mysteriously won on the balance of all the additional postal votes that had never been posted before – just coincidence, honest. The Tories and Libdems are on track to loose their deposits with the BNP 3rd with just enough vote share to save theirs.

    Watch with laughter as the Torygraph and Times run stories about how voting SNP will let the BNP in, via Scotland. The Mirroor will run a BNP victory in Glasgow NE piece (BNP get 5% of votes cast, all Scots are bigots – except those who voted Labour) and the Sun will run with; Fwhoar! Take a look at Griffins man boobs – mines’ are bigger wails Gordie… and Mandelson will run yet another article in the Groiniad on how the Sun is always putting Gordon Brown down about his man boobs ………. sadly, its pity it is not a vet doing the putting down – I say!

  71. 527
    caesars wife says:

    CW ponder if the lib dems are mid way through a costume change , to centre right , given simon hughes has been such a partisan member of open boarders and enrichment . looks like there election campaign will be dry wipe marker board and in denial that it has been there pap outputs that have contrived to give us such a weak form of governance . They love state control .

    Mirror photo op is obviously a squeak , champagne must be running low .

    yesterday was youth unemployment disaster today its labour doing somthing on dementia cosh drugs in care homes , mmm after 12 years still not sure if medicated or mass media mind control is a good thing ???? CW thinks surely socialism doesnt end up in some sort of run away debt whilst all the co horts and beneficiarys of corporate state control run off to the med in yatchs . twice in power and runining the UK is a fairly convincing argument for just how crap socialism is dont you think !

    bouneses for state pshycophants , join the cult of the ruin , targets for most zombies created , what an acheivement !

  72. 531
    jonkers says:

    This attack is witless, pointless and a total waste of space…..a bit like a Daily Mirror reader actually.

  73. 549
    Anonymous says:

    On the subject of media stories I was startled to misread the headline on the BBC News site “Dimbleby injured by bollocks”. Turns out he was trampled by a bullock but I prefer my first reading.

  74. 554
    barefootcontessa says:

    Guido, may I ask why my comments about Alistair Campbell, his wife, Brillo’s politics’ show, and the BBC were moderated? What could I have possibly said that would have annoyed them – or you?

  75. 556
    Recursive politics says:

    … but who is taking a ‘photo of the bloke taking a ‘photo of the bloke taking a ‘photo of Cameron?

    It’s a bit like the Ooslem bird jokes

  76. 558
    caesars wife says:

    Breaking news : dimblyeby is in hospital after getting butted by a bullock , John Humphreys to host tonights show ,, could be a hangin and a burnin tonight then !!!

  77. 562
    Recursive politics says:

    Yep, according to Brillo on the Daily P. we have the delight of A. Campbell tonight on This Week, so it’s a “two for one” day today for NuLab.

  78. 566
    Master Baiter says:

    It’s the real economy stupid

    Conservitude Treasury spokesman Phillip Hammond

    “What has got Britain through the recession so far has been the activist monetary policy at the Bank of England, keeping interest rates low, supporting the economy through quantitative easing,” Hammond said.

    Conservitudes say ‘Print money!’

    Hahahaha

    • 576
      tatiana, queen of the bloggers says:

      Repetition, deviation and just plain fucking boring. Get a life ginger knob.

    • 581
      jgm2 says:

      You make it sound like a radical proposal this ‘printing money’. But I knew that Labour’s recklessly incompetent economic policy would reduce the UK economy to this five years ago.

      Sept 2004.

      http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=8764925&sort=postdate

      We’ll simply print money – well, by the time we’ve got Italy’s national debt and pension liabilities the pound will be worthless anyway so we might as well.

      Any old fool (like you) can report what’s happening today but it takes a grown-up to understand the reckless consequences that the actions taken today will have in five years time. And the consequences of printing money will mean that in five years time we will be even deeper in the shit than we are today unless somebody grasps the nettle.

      Brown is leaving that nettle for somebody else.

    • 585
      her maj says:

      “It’s the real economy stupid”

      What fucking economy stupid? I think that’s a bit of a misnomer now mr dumb, don’t you?

      • 591
        jgm2 says:

        Presumably the ‘real economy’ which even with 200bn quid extra added to the national debt and 200bn quid of printed money being handed to the banks has still managed to contract for the sixth straight quarter. The longest and deepest recession on record.

        And the only option left to the Uk government in order to maintain order in the public service by continuing to pay them is to …..print money. Robert Mugabe did that. The Weimar Republic did that. The Argentinians did that.

        The real economy is in meltdown. We are printing money just so we can pay the teachers. The more money we print the more money we will have to print. This is not a treadmill you can easily get off. To my knowledge no country has ever successfully stopped printing money without a full-on financial and social meltdown. Because it becomes too easy to just print a few more hundred billion rather than addressing the underlying situation.

        It’s fucked.

        Labour fucked it.

        • 606
          Agent 99 says:

          …..and as before th Tories (who sorted it all out) got the blame while the fuckwits in Labour just bitched from the sides.
          bastards

    • 616
      Corky says:

      MB
      Ragyed

  79. 569
    Cynic says:

    Is it just me or are Liebour list now censoring posts?

    As an example, there was one bemoaning that Gordon hasn’t yet paid his respects at Wooton Basset. I commented in all innocence that it was too risky – there were just too many lampposts in the Main Street. The censor fairy deleted me.

  80. 570
    super soaraway sun says:

    A bit slow on here tonight, so if anybody wants to keep a-breast of events, check out how Rosie get’s the world record for the most amount of bra’s put on and taken off in one minute, together with Becky who also makes a honking effort. What a lovely pair.

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/

  81. 577
    Mr.Prole says:

    Ok guys… lets gets a few things staright.

    Firstly NULABOUR is,nt and has never been Socialist.

    Secondly, all parties (in oppostion) expound Socialism to get elected, but once they are elected, carry on with their Capitalist ideologies unabated.

    Camerons blu-labour is an example of this.

    The Blair/Brown party is both captialist and right wing.

    When the Cameoons get to power next GE, does anyone think anything will change? It will continue on course AS IS.

    • 579
      Ukiper says:

      unfortunately very true.

    • 586
      jgm2 says:

      Nu Labour never been socialist? Pull the other one.

      We’ve had one million extra bedwetters added to the public service payroll. National debt is out of control. We’re running the largest budget deficits in the western world.

      Half the country is on the dole or ‘tax-credits’ or working directly for the government or in some way beholden to the government for cash.

      Not socialist?

      That’s what the socialist bedwetters want you to believe. That Labour hasn’t let you down with socialists policies but by not being socialist enough.

      It’s utter bollocks.

      • 597
        right up the Bullingdon! says:

        utter bollocks is the idea that beetroot headed Wavy Davy or little Georgie porgie would have done anything different

        How they railed against out of control house prices and the out of control Banks

        NOT

        both Parties are fully signed up to short term growth at any price and sucking the cocks of the City and they always will be

        • 603
          Anonymous says:

          sorry but this brings a mental picture of my dog licking his own balls given that the Conservatives are the City.

        • 604
          Anonymous says:

          I’m Bullingdon Georgie
          I’m terribly haughty
          I saunter along like a toff
          I’ve screwed lots of blokes
          And smoked loads of tokes
          When on exeat looking for rough
          I’m George, George….etc

      • 600
        Red-blue spot the diff says:

        The champagne socialists really never change: lecture everyone else about fairness, equality and, as already promised, keeping pay claims low blah-blah etc and happily enjoy a life-style way above and beyond the ordinary, hard-working people they claim to represent.

        Still, pottering about on the yacht of some passing billionaire, Russian or otherwise, one should really not look out of place among the rich folk!

        Pointing out that the Tory toffs probably do the same is hardly an issue: isn’t that what the Tories are supposed to be about, according to Labour propaganda, when spending their millions?

        No surprise Mandelson says he’ll happily work with the Tories, if Labour loses the election.

      • 628
        Four-eyed English Genius says:

        NuLabour is Nazi. i.e. National Socialist, except they forgot about the Nationalist bit!

    • 587
      Anonymous says:

      Better blue labour than red.

    • 594
      The_Vicar says:

      Agreed, lots of Champagne Socilaists, not genuine people.

  82. 578
    Jon1 says:

    Thanks Guido

    You’re a star. Thanks for being here.

    Please don’t go for any walks in woods!

    I’m sure you’ll get various invitations to go for walks before the next UK general election.

    Mirror Mirror on the newsstand who is fairest of all?

    O Lady Mirror, fair ye not be, Guido Fawkes is fairer far for all to see

  83. 583
    Heir to Blair (without the hair) says:

    “The Mirror is no different from the Sun, yet you don’t hear the Tories whinging about it…”

    Unless you’re fucking BLIND that is
    Even Brown could spot this hilarious contradiction with his mole like vision

  84. 584
    Soaps-uk says:

    Very slow on here tonight….

    Does Roy go to the cops over Tony,
    and does Roys Tranny wife take it up the arse like Gordon Brown?

  85. 621
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    Isn’t it about time someone enlightened those unaware of how toilets got his name?

  86. 630

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