Pork More Plentiful Under Labour
If you live in a constituency where the train stations are now going to be revamped you are nine times more likely to be living in a Labour seat. 9/10 of those getting a share of the £50 million earmarked by the government controlled Network Rail to be spent on redeveloping stations are represented by Labour MPs. The token opposition station is in Crewe (only recently Tory, and a seat Labour are desperate to get back at the general after their by-election defeat last year.) So who are the the lucky piggies?
- Manchester Victoria – Tony Lloyd LAB
- Clapham Junction – Martin Linton LAB
- Barking – Margaret Hodge LAB
- Warrington Bank Quay – Helen Southworth LAB
- Preston – Mark Hendrick LAB
- Wigan North Western – Neil Turner LAB
- Luton - Margaret Moran LAB
- Liverpool Central – Louise Ellman LAB
- Stockport – Ann Coffey LAB
- Crewe – Edward Timpson CON
Perhaps the Labour Party only thinks Crewe is out on loan politically. Such pork barrel politics is hardly subtle, but what a nice little treat to pop on all those election leaflets next year. Something tells Guido it won’t save Margaret Moran in Luton though…
Glug glug glug goes SS Nu Liebour
What’s the point of traoins these days? You only have to step outside and see that peeps want to travel by road or air.
I didn’t like the meal on the Brixton to Victoria flight
Semen
You really are scraping the barrel for “Spunky Spunky” stories at the moment.
Howling at the moon would seem to be the best way of describing it.
You really need to stop supporting Colombia’s export drive.
Your homework on this is to find the stations missing from the list?
The major transport interchanges in Tory seats that need work done and are missing from the list.
Consequently best of luck.
On a similar subject any comments on the 92-97 real transport investment anomolies –
1) A1(M) south of Peterborough
2) Networker fleet for WAGN?
Were these the “Edwina Currie” projects from the DOT?
Edwina Currie, I hear you gasp?
Close to JM’s heart!
Some Twat called Adonis said on the Telly that people do not want any more roads or motorways or bigger roads and motorways and these people want more train lines.
When I hear the name Lord ‘Adonis’ then see the reality of the ‘man’ sporting that name, my spirits are always raised!
Once more with feeling
Semen
You really are scraping the barrel for “Spunky Spunky” stories at the moment.
Howling at the moon would seem to be the best way of describing it.
You really need to stop supporting the Cali Cartel’s push for increased revenue.
Your homework on this is to find the stations missing from the list?
The major transport interchanges in Tory seats that need work done and are missing from the list.
Consequently best of luck.
On a similar subject any comments on the 92-97 real transport investment anomolies –
1) A1(M) south of Peterborough
2) Networker fleet for WAGN?
Were these the “Edwina Currie” projects from the DOT?
Edwina Currie, I hear you gasp?
Close to JM’s heart!
You’d best address this to Cammo when he’s PM mate.
Anything that will encourage a Liebour canvasser to knock on my door is fine with me. I SO want one of them to make my day.
….and scalextric
Yet you still took the time to comment NLJD – for something so unimportant I’m surprised you’d waste the minute or so of your precious time that it took you to write what you did.
Face it, your bunch of bullying, warmongering scumbag socialists are hated by anyone with half a brain, and failing Gordo finding a way of declaring martial law between now and next may, they’re on the way out.
Deal with it!
The railways are an anachronism.
By train, it would cost £90.80 return for my girlfriend and me to visit her parents. It’s a 40 minute walk to the station at our end, a 20 minute walk from the station to her parents at the other end. Total journey time: 4 hrs 3 minutes, involving 5 changes (presently, one section is a replacement bus service). Most of that time spent standing, while the car I need for work sits on the drive doing nothing.
By car: Cost of petrol, £24 return. Including the 10 second walk to the car at both ends, journey time: 2 hrs 15 minutes, spent sitting in air-conditioned comfort, listening to Radio 3.
As James May once said, a train gets you from where you aren’t, to where you don’t want to go. At extortionate cost.
(Er, never thought of driving to the station?)
Ever since Beeching we’ve suffered from most of the main routes going to/from London. In most of the country, if you want to go east-west, you have the tortuous trip you describe.
If I want to go to Cambridge, 30 miles away, by train I have to go into London and out again, a total of 150 miles. So I drive. Or catch the bus.
HOWEVER, for journeys of between 100 and 400 miles, the train is absolutely the best way to travel. We pop over to Paris (fun) and Brussels (family) from time to time and both driving and flying are daft; the train is superb.
My feelings precisely. I can’t remember the last time I travelled by train – but I do remember it was only because my car had been pranged by some lout driving too fast down a narrow lane. I had to get someone to drive me to the station and collect me later – which cost me a bottle or two of decent wine on top of the exorbitant fare
Train travel is uncomfortable and inconvenient, horribly expensive, and forces you to listen to other people’s kids, iPlayers, conversations, crisp -apers, and farts. Yuck.
Mind you that was one privatisation which was an utter nonsense. The trains should be run, as they are in most European countries, as a public service, not to enrich shareholders.
Then the whole horror show was compounded by Stephen Byers’ theft of Railtrack – worst of every possible world. You can’t have true competition where railways are concerned. Under current conditons, the pricing structures are so somplicated no-body can be bothered to try
You are wrong Sir.
The railways should pay their way. If they can not then there are serious questions to be asked.
The flexible horseless carriage is a fantastic invention and coupled with a natiowide mesh of autoways that take people from where they do not want to be directly to where they do want to be at any time they wish is far superior to a rigid iron grid working to an inflexible timetable.
I love the latest gov film telling me to drive 5 miles a week less each week, love to, then stopping closing huge sections of motorway for months on end just so two blokes can change a light bulb or whatever. The longer I’m on the road in nonsense traffic jams caused by this pointless act the more fuel I use!!! rail alone can’t solve our traffic problems but cutting down traffic jams and traffic calming with a bit of common sense will!!!!!
Well said and furthermore have you noticed that since some of the posh papers went tabloid the railway operators have made the train carriages smaller to take advantage
Many peeps can’t afford to travel on trains any more and many don’t have jobs to travel to anyway….continuing the criminal enterprise that is ‘demockery’ of ZNL – and Tories…and Lib Dems.
Listen to the criminal EU being exposed here and with our taxes the UK Gov is a co-conspirator in FRAUD:
Warren Buffett just spent $44 billion in a purchase purchase of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway company
Someone thinks there’s a future in rail
How much are all those steel rails worth as scrap?
Not so much as they were a few months ago. Has Gordo been in on the sale and thought they wuz gold.
Too right Delboy.
I bet its not even worth your time and effort to strip the church roof these days
The value is in the Land, not the rails.
Or the roof lead?
That’s a money making transcontinental freight railroad. Unlike people freight does not mind going by train and doesn’t need stations.
The yanks take the plane while the freight takes the train.
I’ve been on US trains, they’re quite nice, not too expensive and the last couple had smoking rooms.
Smoking rooms?
Now that is civilised with a CAPITAL C.
If you want to smoke and travel in the UK then your only option is to go by car, now that is UNcivilised.
Some would say that Buffet is buying up railroads for the planned NAFTA Super Highway – by the time it’s finished we’ll already be taxed for our every breath (UN carbon tax) and we will be told which jobs we’ll do and be told if we’re allowed to drive a car at all – if we continue to pretend all this isn’t happening of course…..(aside – Lou Dobbs ‘left’ CNN last week with an $8million severance….):
I’m modded again eh Guido – you’re on to me (for truthtelling) lol!!
BNSF has trains that are up to a mile long and transport heavy goods across vast distances in the US, at relatively low speeds where time is not of the essence. Many of its lines are freight only.
Explain how an equivalent service could work in the UK.
No need for bribes in these areas. You could put a ferret with a red rosette up for election in some of these areas and there enough brain dead numpties that would vote for it. Living in the North West (nice part thankfully, they do exist) I have seen over and over again the same cretinous fuckwits vote Labour, as they are so thick they cannot comprehend that the areas in which they live have never improved at any stage under any Labour Government and never will as Labour have a vested interest in keeping people down.
On a personal note, I’ll start using trains when they go where I need them to and I don’t have to sit next to some dirty sweaty chav with their feet on the seats, getting pissed and swearing at other people in the carriage, as was the case last time I had the misfortune to travel by public transport, 2 years ago.
When the train can take me, where I want to go and exactly when I want to go and can do so via the route I choose and at my pace and allow me to listen to whatever entertainment I choose and afford me the luxury of choosing which passengers I shall travel with. And be able to do that for the same cost as my current car travel, (ie London and back from the North West for 5 people for a total of £60.00), THEN I shall consider taking the train.
I shall not pay more than double the cost to wait at their convenience to travel via a route that takes me out of my way that requires me to change from train to train to bus etc.. that takes far longer and where I am overcrowded and surrounded by the unhealthy and the sick and the chav and the crying babies and the drunks etc…
‘where I am overcrowded and surrounded by the unhealthy and the sick and the chav and the crying babies and the drunks etc…’
your journey is being confused with your arrival home
you need to cut down on the alkyhol old boy
Only because we have the least integrated and most expensive rail system in the world.
Tankie
Any chance of some original thought in your posts?
Yopur comments and phraseology are straight out of Central Casting for “Spunky Spunky” right wing mentalist GIBy’s with no ability for independent thought.
NR budget = £5bill
10 Worst Stations = £50mill
The work needs to be done.
The amount is very low, 1% of the annual budget.
What Tory stations have been missed out?
Answers on a postcard to …
“Answers on a postcard to …”
Numpty Labourite Juvenile Dumbfuck.
Jonty is shorter
Jont is even shorter
Jobby Jabber
Love the quality patter, you really are a wordsmith of the highest order.
Now back to work you twat.
Missing Tory Stations …
Go back to your masters and lick their bottoms.
Power to the people!!!
Time for my speech.
Thank God this is the last time I have to read a propaganda sheet from this most venal and corrupt party.
I’m sorry, ordinary poor people, but if i don’t do it they will abolish me and I’ll have to live in a socialist paradise. Like Newham.
So I shall read it out , but if you look carefully you can see I’m rolling my eyes and shaking my head.
I wouldn’t object so much except its written on the back of a letter to a dead soldier. And it starts Dear Elizsabletf reed this owt.. And its written in crayon. And it smells.
Still, keep thinking to yourselves, in six months they’ll all be gone.
Any chance you can conduct your vendetta with Guido by e mail?
Reading your posts is like bystanding a lover’s tiff.
Incomprehensible arguments about things that don’t matter.
When you put it like that, fair point.
In future I will address most of my points to the GIBy right wing mentalists who inhabit “Spunky Spunky”.
Pish article though.
Read some of the Transport blogs and this has been 3 years in the making.
Piss off you brain-numbingly dull twat.
“Read some of the Transport blogs….”
Jeez, this muppet is a fucking trainspotting anorak. Explains a lot.
NLJD is a total dick.
NLJD – you are none other than Charles Hardpellets and I claim my Socialist Weekly-sized looroll dispenser.
As Moley more eloquently put it, get lost you bore.
Bloody hell, Sky reporting Marc Boland to become Marks and Sparks boss.
Get it on down at M&S
As long as his company car isn’t a mini he’ll be fine.
He’s renaming it Barks ‘n Sparks in memory of his encounter with a tree in SW London.
when he died he was on the radio, and the dashboard and …
I’ll get my coat
Network Rail have announced plans to plans to spend £3.25bn to improve more than 2,000 stations across England and Wales by 2014.
That 10 cases appear top of the list a week later of which 9/10 are in Labour constituencies,is of course complete coincidence.
This means others,including the Tory ones you wish others to highlight will have been pushed down the list.
Of course, no-one would be daft enough to take up your challenge to list them as the research will take forever and would not fit on a postcard.
Guido is entitled to an opinion which is I presume, intended to provoke discussion. Your assumption that he is deliberately bending the truth probably reveals more about you than him. He is not claiming his opinion as fact.
I also think harping back to 1992 is a little desperate. If that’s worthwhile how about:
Cash for peerages
Ecclestone’s donation
Iraq War
David Kelly
Super Csinos
Lisbon referendum
The economy
The gold sale
I am sure others could add a few more.
Future lynx
integrated transport policy
The dome
M4 bus lane
Heathrow third runway
total lack of energy policy
MRSA
HIPS
pointless VAT cut
Legal aid cuts
Prison non building scandal
42 days detention
unfunded super carriers
Eurofighter contract
Apache contract
and many more
PFI, the labour time bomb
Merlin Contract
Chinook Contract
SA80 Rifle reliability & renovation contract
Type 45 Destroyer Contract
Printing money a la Zimbabwe
Rigging elections with postal voting
Educashun Educashion Educateon
Tough on Crime
24 hours to save the NHS
etc…
HIPS Bill, I had one replaced under Labour and haven’t walked properly since
Foot and mouth
GP contracts
That minor hiccup over dentistry services
Any IT project you want to recall
This is a gift which just keeps on giving……
Tier 2 visa abuses – allowing companies to displace the UK workforce with cheaper labour
IR 35 travesty
S660 travesty
Retrospective taxation
Fiddling with the tax system so it now becomes unfathomable
Adding so much pointless red tape to everything that actually making a profit becomes impossible when competing in a global marketplace
Raising SME Corp Tax while lowering large companies CT
Using council tax to carry out socialist welfare by the backdoor
Encouraging self-employed to incorporate then hit them with new taxes
Increasing the tax take on low earners
Stealth taxes by the arsefull
Gordon’s Tax credit system: “where we take your tax, waste it on bureaucracy and give you some of it back”
Continuing the Tory position of moving welfare claimants onto Disability allowance to make their employment record look better
Minimum wage: hits profits, low paid work is moved offshore and the indiginous low skilled worker ends up trapped on benefits
Yup, that’s quite an achievement for a bunch of socialist arsewipes.
Illegal destruction of animals during the F&M fiasco (& whole conduct of same)
Years wasted on a useless Hunting Bill based on class hatred not facts
Theft of pensions
Treatment of pensioners, some starving and most freezing in winter
Sending the army to war unprotected and starved of equipment
Sale of gold reserves
And many more
Just a minor point perhaps, but it did strike me that the 10 worst stations were all in Labour held constituencies. It just had that stink of the left-wing obsessive hatred of anything and anyone wishing to be proud of their work, their community and their facilities, hauling it all down into the gutter to make sure nothing stands out, all is grey and identity, pride and ambition is destroyed.
Although the comment that many other stations will be improved is perfectly valid, NJLD somewhat misses the point; that such publicity should be pumped out by a Labour Tranposrt Secretary which focuses on redevelopment work on stations in Labour constituencies. It’s not hard to see the political game being played here is it?
It’s not a new tactic of course, but that doesn’t make it acceptable.
… Veggie …
The list was drawn up by those two well known Labour lackeys –
Chris Green + Peter Hall.
Consequently I fear the bias accusation will be a bit harder to substantiate.
Main point for me is the spin put on this announcement by Semen and the echo chamber analysis put forward by the mentalist right wing GIBy’s who crawl out of the woodwork to post on “Spunky Spunky”.
My main point on the “Edwina” projects is that JM was a quite a good political operative even if he couldn’t lead a rendition of “Happy Birthday”.
Maggie on the otherhand is / was / will always be a witch / draft dodger / reptile of the highest order.
Are you pissed NLJD or is it that you just can’t spell
Are you pissed NLJD or is it that you just can’t spell or maybe it’s because your scottish
Try Knutsford for a start, Liebour troll boy.
Zit
I see we have the high productivity wing of the “Spunky Spunky” right wing mentalist gang.
1 station takes 5hrs 25 minutes.
Away and throw shite at yerself ya windae licker arsewipe.
Our disgraced MPs have disgraced themselves again. Only a handful of the “honourable” members had the grace to turn up for the Queen’s speech.
I hope their wages are docked for skiving off.
couldn’t someone lock them all in together – for ever – and let the rest of the population get on with their busy live?
Like they care?
I realise Her Madge had a cold (‘da swines’ innit aka ’swine eleven’) however I thought she sounded pretty peed off reading all that EU/world twaddle.
She looked like she was going to throw up, perhaps it was something that she had to swallow? Or perhaps she was suffering from those ‘Dark Forces’ that stalk the nation?
No votes to be gained by tarting up railway stations in marginal “consteruancys” Majority of travellers can’t afford to use the train these days.
Nice try!
But as a Tory living in Clapham Junction – I have 2 points – firstly the station (the self-styled busiest in the UK) is a dump and needs an overhaul. Secondly, the Conservatives are likely to hold this seat 5 months from now.
Guido’s on Radio 5
Wullie the Walloper
What are they talking about on R5?
Colombia’s export drive?
Mad Nad and the Tory MP shagging scene?
Scratchy’s “Cleanliness and Discretion” tribunal.
Robbos muck and the sewers that accept and enjoy it?
NI’s tax position / hypocrisy?
James is on Platform 6…
Aug
What are they talking about on R5?
Mad Nad and the Tory MP shagging scene?
The Cali Cartel’s push for increased revenues?
Scratchy’s “Cleanliness and Discretion” tribunal?
Robbos muck and the sewers that accept and enjoy it?
NI’s tax position / hypocrisy?
I’m not going to Richmond today!!!
You are if you are on Platform 6 matey!
Damn it
Will the train standing on platform six please get back on the track.
Twack.
What a twain wuns on.
The train arriving at platforms 5, 6 and 7 is coming in sideways.
ding-dong: ‘The train arriving at platforms 3, 4 and 5, has just come in sideways…’
Fucking delicious!
Given the level of overhaul many stations need, £5 million per station won’t scratch the surface. Token gesture politics.
% million quid gets you nothing these. It’ll cost that just to do the risk assessments of scraping the rust off and re-painting the roof of Victoria station.
Oops……… 5 million quid
They’ve been painting my local station ’tis slabour’ the last few weeks. I initially thought the colour grey they’ve been using was undercoat, it’s apparently the finished deal. £5m our station lmao. I’d put the price at no more than £10K for the lot inc paint and wire brushs to put it on with. Thats what I think they’ve been using looking at the finish.
You do realise that these government contracts are very mutually lucrative dont you? Ever wondered why the same companies always get the contracts, the work is always uniformly shoddy and overpriced, yet none query the real cost as opposed to the contract cost?
Yes Britain really is that corrupt these days.
Friend of mine had a new shower filled by one of these charity quangos.
Nearly £5000!!!
One cheap bath, one wall, plaster-boarded and skimmed.
No new toilet, and a second hand sink!
Money for nothing!!!!
Fitted sorry not filled…must clear up this work station…..
Is James the green one or the red one?
Red, definitely red.
Thomas, Gordon and Edward were blue.
Percy and Henry were green.
Toby the steam tram was brown due to him having a timber frame carriage.
God I’m so dull :C
Don’t count your chickens James – Martin Linton may have a tiny majority of 163 votes, but firstly you don’t know how many newcomers to the area, grateful to the glorious leader and his lackies for giving them a passport, may vote for Labour in the election, and secondly you don’t know how many “postal votes” might keep Linton in parliament.
Serious gerrymandering required to keep Linton in his job!
James:
“But as a Tory living in Clapham Junction”
You mean you live in the station? I can understand why you would like it fixed up! There is no such place as Clapham Junction (other than the point on the tracks just east of platforms 5 and 6). The station of that name is in Battersea – it’s just that the London & South Western Railway Company thought “Clapham Junction” was a more upmarket name than “Battersea Junction” would be.
Anyway, leaving aside the constituency in which it is located, the “announcement” was yet another lie by our Glorious Leader and his Happy Band of Helpers, since the Clapham Junction upgrade was announced ages ago and work has been going on for a long time already.
This is simply another classsic case of reannouncing the same thing over and over to make the plebs think something new is happening.
RP – the area is better known as Frappé Sur Mer.
Many residents call this area of Battersea “Clapham Junction” after the fucking great big station that exists smack-bang in the middle of it. Nobody this side of the fucking 1940s calls it Battersea Station.
Rest of your comment goes without saying with this Government.
Now fuck off and count trains.
James:
“Now fuck off and count trains.”
Just doing that now actually James! Thought I would head on down to Battersea to do some trainspotting at Clapham Junction ;-)
Not my cup of tea – but enjoy
Good spot – nearly missed that one!
That guy that got arrested for handing in the shotgun. Anyone who followed that story over the weekend might like to read this.
http://www.thisissurreytoday.co.uk/news/cops-suspended-alleged-dishonest-conduct/article-1016771-detail/article.html
Hat tip to bigbrotherwatch for finding it.
Nice to know, but it won’t help the poor bloke who has seen the country he served chew him up and spit him out into the prison system.
That is fucking scandalous. Fucking pigs bought off by the politicos again for a fucking change. WTF is this country coming to?
Absolutely scandalous, and shows how utterly incompetent the lawyers drafting our laws now appear to be. There is barely a law passed in the last 15 / 20 years which doesn’t have detrimental consequences to the innocent, all of which should have been forseen. That’s what the damn lawyers are paid for!
As someone involved int his case said, “what would you do if you found a shotgun in a public park – woudl you leave it there?”
However, in order not to further jeopardise the soldier’s position, I’d better say no more
“Comments on this story have been disabled for legal reasons” as the link says…
PS The incident would also appear to demonstrate how far the police have taken leave of any common sense. Or maybe, just been deprived of any discretion.
So what will Cameron be saying to Brown as they walk along the corridor in to the Chamber for this year’s irrelevant Queens Speech?
DC; ” I see you even had to beg your wife to get her knockers out for that photo opportunity”
If he touches them, theyll be saggy in a week
Blimey – I hope he doesn’t do that jaw movement with them.
Scratchy will be asking for help with finding a convenor for his “Cleanliness and Discretion” tribunal.
zzzzzzzz….tumbleweed.
Be quiet at the back there!
I shall wish Dave Cameron the very best of luck at the next General Election
“Please don’t put sardines in the curtain rails at no 10″?
Perhaps the list all of it. shows what happens if you have a Labour MP. He is more interested in riding the gravy train than looking after the stations.
You have landed on my station where I have bought 3 hotels. Please pay £1500 and take a card from the Community Chest. Do not collect £200 as you pass Go.
Change long established rules that have worked for years, introduce credit cards, build hotels on railway stations, taken all the fun away
Introduce tomorrows kids to credit cards as young as possible, no need to teach about cash
Zanu Party anthem.
We will, we will
track you, track you.
To prove the point Guido should give examples of run-down stations in Conservative or Liberal constituencies. Otherwise it could just be that run-down stations tend to be in Labour constituencies, perhaps because Labour voters are more likely to vandalise their local station or vomit over it.
or cut off the odd hand or two.
Selling Railway Station :” Formerly an excellent example of country station architecture, it was mysteriously destroyed by fire in the early 1990s, shortly before it was to be awarded listed building status”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selling_railway_station
Nothing there now.
Every feckin Labour held constituency is sh!te.
Labour voters are a vile lot. Lazy, thieving scum. They rape their own kids and force their dogs to take drugs.
I am unanimous in that.
Sir Trev, what you say about Labour voters may or may not be true. However, it is certainly true that my constituency is shite. This is because I spend the majority of my time elsewhere avoiding those who elect me to represent their interests and who pay my for my substantial salary and perks!
And that is just how it should be! I am a passenger travelling on a wonderful gravy train whch masquerades as Democracy! Isn’t it wonderful?
Ker-ching!!!!
Correct, Sir William.
Cause and effect.
that’s a helluva lot of vomit, Sir William!
It doesn’t say much about Labour’s attitude to it’s loyal voters if they are only getting round to fixing their Railway Stations after 13 years in power. And – why it seems logiacl to ask – are the Railway Stations in Tory constituencies in better condition?
Labour=Incompetence
Glad you pointed it out. Not many people would have known that. Another service performed for the electors.
Typical NuLiebor making you think that these stations were chosen because they were really really in need of repair! When all it is, is good old Liebor pork barrel politics.
50 Million seems a lot BUT I’m guessing that to properly fix the roof at Manchester will be about £5m, to add more tunnels at Crewe (you can’t close the existing to widen) will cost £5m+ as you the rest well you get the idea. You really need to spend the bulk of the £50m on one station but this way they get to boast that they’re helping 10 whilst helping none.
This is a sticking plaster to cover a gaping wound – 60 years of chronic underinvestment, as it was easier to deny the public utilities cash than raise taxes, it’s common across all the utilities, Thatcher privatised what she could so that the private utilities could borrow what they needed. (new water plants new sewerage plants,)
This is the same problem with the Post Office year after year it was raided for cash and not allowed to modernise, now what mess is it in?
You are right – even the Scouser’s are going to Holland to make cash withdrawals these days.
fuck you la,
I wouldn’t want to fuck with you Stevie, as I’m well aware that you can give me a bloody good shoeing and then see your smart arse barrister convince a bunch of Liverpudlian jurors to find you not guilty.
British justice at its best!
…. by train
Just as well really, they can’t drive very well.
The problem really, really wasn’t a failure to raise taxes. We did that, big time. The problem was a failure to use those taxes intellingently.
Read my lips .. No new taxis
TAXIS?????
That’s what Gordon said in 1995.
NO NEW TAXIs.
He stuck by that pledge too.
“No Newt Axes”
Rubbish,
The level of tax is FAR too high, and it’s raised against all the wrong things.
Extortion then bureaucratic direction of extorted funds skips the customer demand part of the “economic equation” and thus always generates waste and misallocation of infrastructure.
Isn’t that because Labour constituencies are hovels of poverty and underinvestment, and the people in them have been conditioned to believe that if they keep voting the same way every 5 years then one day they’ll get different results.
Huh?
Guido, surely Margaret Moran is standing down in Luton – or has she had a Kirkbride-esque change of heart recently?
I heard she had accidentally sat in a bath full of dry rot powder.
actually it looks like she’s stood-down already:
http://www.margaretmoran.org.uk/index.php/2009/11/statement-2/
why the gratuitous reference to being elected 3 times?
Thank fuck for that!
This little piggy won’t ever want to set foot in Luton again. Ill health my arse, she’s shit scared of the lynch mob waiting for her.
Would be interesting to know, to whom does she have to send the doctor’s letter, or do we just carring on paying her becuase she says she’s sick, up until her ‘redundancy’ at the election??
It doesn’t say that she is standing down.
http://www.margaretmoran.org.uk/index.php/2009/06/statement-of-margaret-moran-mp/
Thanks, quite clear in that statement, which is accompanied by the headline;
“Making Luton a better place to live”.
How true.
…and how much better will it be without that little piggy in town!!
You can send your best wishes to her on the contact page
Mitch:
“why the gratuitous reference to being elected 3 times?”
Just to emphasise how catastrophically thick the voters of Luton really are (or maybe that Luton is another place that has lots of “postal” “votes”).
Luton being listed is complete spin anyway. The rebuilding of the Train and Bus station has been on the go forever! They started by knocking down the bus station for over 12 months ago! (The old/new bus station is now just a car park, as they discovered that the second largest car park in town was about to fall down.)
That luton is on the list is a joke. While not a good station, there are MANY more much worse in the south east. The only time things where really bad was then the goverment shut down Rail Track while they were half way through replacing the roof. We had a winter standing the rain.
Guido,
of comment I know, watching the BBC news last night regarding inflation they said that ii would have a greater effect when the 2 1/2 % went back on fuel.
Is it me , but i thought that the VAT was never taken of fuel in the first place.
There up to something, after all its only a week since Robinson metioned an exit stratergy, and look at where we are now a possible conference January.
VAT levied on already excessive fuel duty – only in this country?
VAT is not only paid on the fuel, but also on the fuel tax. Between them they are about 80% of the pump price.
and are the tories proposing to reduce those tax overcharges on fuel, steve?
Given the parlous state of the nation’s coffers how would you propose a Conservative Administration plugs the resulting hole from abolishing VAT on fuel then TaT?
TaT could auction his organs and other body parts on eBay for a start. The unused brain and very muscular right forearm (excluding hand, which by now will be in an advanced stage of carpal tunnel syndrome) will surely be enough to pay for Mandy’s new Patek Philippe.
I can recommend a good wank to wind up an automatic.
Tuscan Tony could auction her organs and other body parts on eBay for a start. The unused brain and very muscular right forearm (excluding hand, which by now will be in an advanced stage of carpal tunnel syndrome) will surely be enough to pay for Mandy’s new Patek Philippe.
animal: the coward, steve expat, has run away from answering my question. he has probably run off to his crackdealer’s house. so it is very good of you to step in on your boyfriend’s behalf.
so that is a no on vat reduction. now, pray tell, what is the conservative’s policy regarding the reduction of the cripplying 80% fuel tax on fuel.
will the conservatives reduce that extortionate level of fuel tax set by gordon brown?
Of course they won’t Tat, for reasons Animal has already mentioned – how is it cowardly to state the bleeding obvious? You’ve not answered the question put to you
Excessive tax on Fuel has been around for so long now that no government would reduce it by anything of note – Brown may have increased it, but it wasn’t exactly low before he and his bunch of cretins got into power in 1997. Add to that the fact that we now have green nazis screaming “Denier” at anyone who questions anything they say, and it would have to be a government with bloody big cajones to attempt to cut fuel tax.
I’m not saying I agree with it being as high as it is – I started driving about 18 years ago when petrol was around 42p a litre, and I’d love it to be back there again, but it’s a fact of life that it won’t be coming down.
Cameron may be a twat, but he’s not a completely mental twat, so don’t expect him to reduce fuel duty in a hurry, as he’d only have to increase a tax somewhere else which would no doubt have the master baiters of this world and their political masters screaming down the house about how it’s not just labour that put up taxes.
Trying thinking about reality rather than your idealistic world view for once.
It’s unlikely that the Tories will be cutting many taxes tat, especially one that’s been around as long as fuel duty – from memory it raises about 40Bn quid a year!
I’m hoping they cut the silly 50% top income tax rate though, it’s just socialist spite which will lead to an increase in accountants’ fees and an increase in emigration, but a reduction in tax take.
Expect massive spending cuts though, if I were one of those “Ethnic Diversity Monitoring Directors” earning 80-100k, I’d be shitting myself at the prospect of the Tories winning!
ah, no change from gordon brown’s position.
thankyou steve.
Thanks for not answering the question I asked TaT but then, hypocrisy is a nasty little trait of yours.
It’s patently obvious that the next Government will be facing an unholy fiscal mess that will prove difficult, painful and unpleasant to unravel. Are you able to see past your childish point-scoring and understand that or do you think that your sneering remarks reflecting your own suppressed sexuality and keyboard warrior posturing somehow elevates you above such matters?
oh dear, you are a very dim troll indeed.
TOP BOY ASKS THE QUESTIONS AND YOU FUCKING ANSWER THEM!
YOU CHEEKY FUCKING WHORE!
YOU DO NOT BACKCHAT TOP BOY YOU FUCKING SCUM TORY SLAG!
I am not running for government, animal.
and I am not at your beck and call: I am top boy, you belong to me.
therefore I do not need to answer your spastic questions.
you answer to me animal.
don’t you forget it you fucking slag.
Yeah, but the climate change co-ordinators and carbon offset directors (with their company jaguars) will be safe, won’t they!
Ve are asking ze qvestions, tat.
back to the Question will we be paying 20% VAT on Unleaded in the new year
Move along now, nothing to see…it’s all above board.
Ah! Trains! There’s absolutely NOTHING wrong with Preston, charming station. Warrington is a shit-hole but it’s a bit rich to criticise for the perspective of ‘factories and car parks’ – it’s in Warrington, for effs sake. How on earth did Manchester Oxford Road miss the cut?
I see Redditch train station isn’t on the list.
Even Liebour don’t think they’re going to retain that seat any more…
Redditch station consists of a hut and a platform at the end of a spur line. The local railway franchise holder cancels trains to the town as the whim takes them. Which is often. Not worth spending 50p on, never mind 50 million.
The best use of public money for Redditch is a very, very large bomb. Delivered in person by their MP.
You mean a suicide bomb I think.
AH! TRAINS! There’s nowt wrong with Preston, charming little station. Warrington Bank is a shit-hole ’surrounded by factories and car parks’ but it’s in WARRINGTON, for effs sake. How on earth did Manchester Oxford Road miss the cut? Arnside – beautiful view. Go there.
It is always the same irrespective of party.All governments throw money at their marginals.The safe seats-Rhondda and rural Surrey have more in common than they realise.No need for electoral bribes there.Forgotten areas.
Train Station! Come on Guido you are getting as bad as those semi-literate Beeboids.
It is a Railway Station.
You don’t have an aeroplane port or a ship port, do you?
He might have a car port.
I’ve got a carport
Guido is more likely to have a fine old ruby port.
It’s hardly a surprise.
That said, what would be interesting would be the amount of cash spent (on trains, regeneration…etc) on the marginal seats – and yes, I know most of Liebours seats could now be classified as marginal – in an effort to show how fantastic they are…
Also, how many of the recipients of this cash (advisors, industry…etc) are Liebour supporters. One last scoup of the gravy train before they get off??
The ‘investment’ strategy for upgrading Network Rail also promised another electrified route from Liverpool to Manchester, yet funds are strangely missing for the redoubling of track between Salisbury and Exeter, Stroud and Swindon, and Notwork Fail claim it would take 7 years to reinstate the line from Portishead to Bristol for passenger use.
It would be pertinent to ask why Heathrow has not got links to the National Rail Network to take traffic off the roads?
Too many of the recent upgrades are to lines which pass through Labour held marginals, and too little has gone on improvements to lines in areas of economic growth.
Brown and Blair highlighted the success of improved spending on the railways, but I wonder how much of it went on the gravy train ride across Kent to Brussels.
Personally I’ve always found the Heathrow Express useful for accessing the national rail network, if you don’t mind doing it via Paddington. Useful if a trifle expensive.
in a time of great economic turmoil I fink the best solution would be to just have one station – going from my front door all the way round the back, into the garden and back in through the kitchen – close the rest.
Heathrow has a rail station and an 2 underground stations (terminal 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 and terminal 5).
Ah but then, the southwest isn’t exactly Labour territory is it? Perhaps this would explain why it takes nearly three hours to take a 40 mile train journey from Yeovil to Bristol.
That is because the most impoverished places in the country are those where the voters elect Labour politicians.
To defeat Labour comprehensively money must be directed towards these areas to improve infrastructure and quality of life.
An interesting idea. After the Conservatives win the next election they should hose the Labour safe seats with money and point out that after voting for Labour since the ice age, only the Conservatives can deliver.
Great publicity.
I kid you not, there are no labour safe seats in constituencies that still have a majority of real English people in them.
This ‘money’ that you speak of, from where does it come?
At present it seems to come from the Bank of England photocopier!
Ah yes, the inflation printer whirring away.
Liebour’s motto – when you run out of money, just make some more of it!
You’ll find that money comes from wealth, wealth comes from meeting demand & improving productivity and those come SOLELY from comparative advantage.
It’s why taxing exchange is so disastrous for the economy.
Working, Employing and Investing all have positive externalities and the tax on them should be zero.
There’s only one good tax, and that’s on unimproved land values (and other state created monopolies).
You’ll soon have to watch out for the patronising letter from the prospective parliamentary candidate. I had one reecently asking if I had pride in my community and can the PPC help with getting better buses or new swings in the park for the kiddies.
Why are these people footling around as if they are parish councillors? Still it may help them avoid the difficult questions like our debt crisis, Afghanistan or immigration.
I would like to help my local MP cut his head off with the chainsaw he bought on expenses and then stick the two vases he charged us (£25) right up his arse.
I predict a diet (or a cull).
Surely the vases first?
Probably because all the really important decisions are taken at EUSSR level. This means that Parliament and our MPs get bored and decide to do the local councils’ jobs for them – badly! And if it’s something unpopular (like concreting all over the countryside), then they get a quango like the regional assemblies to do it. Yes, I’m a councillor, yes, I’m pissed off about it….
We don’t do difficult questions. I don’t get paid enough to do that. Now, if you want to give me a pay rise…………well, who knows…………???
Lets not forget that, when he was transport minister, Alistair Darling only built new stations and track in his OWN constituency….
I do wonder when Barking was added on to the list for improvement, was it before or after Nick Griffin decided to stand against Enver Hodge?
Perhaps a mole at Notwork Rail would like to spill the beans?
I think Nick has got Labour worried, especially in Barking. Perhaps, in future, the present MP should be refered to as “The foreign-born millionaire’s daughter, Lady Hodge”.
I’m sure that will go down well with the salt of the earth working class in Barking!!
Her name is Oppenheimer
Margaret Hodge was born in Cairo to Jewish parents. She changed her name many years later when they moved to Britain.
Was Oppenheimer, then it was Watson now it is Hodge. Anyway, whereabouts in Barking does she live, or doesn’t she share with her constituents the joys of living in her constituency?
23 Belgravia Heights, Westminster, London near Barking, LBB1 2MAD
but not THAT near to the common oiks.
Enver spends a lot of her time in a sweet little village in Norfolk, one that her party colleagues might describe as appallingly white or monocultural.
Pork barrel politics – reminiscent of the kind operated by the zionist lobby defended by Guido yesterday?
And this has nothing to do with Labour holding more urban seats than the Tories with a higher proportion of transport hubs?
That’s because most labour seats are utter shit holes.
For list of vulnerable seats see
http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/
I am sure that given time Labours “investment” will create a new generation of facist right wingers
It will be the same in Europe, where the far right will hijack the framework the Left have assembled
It is a good job the EU did not exist in the 1930’s as Hitler would have easilt taken power
The naive left, base most decisions on false assumptions i.e you can end boom & bust or once in power, the Left will stay in power.
How is an EU President going to be removed when he or she usurps power and becomes a dictator?
Strangely enough, there appears to be no mechanism for such an eventuality.
I wonder why?
Same way as all freedoms are ultimately defended, with bullet and blade.
What else is the independent nuclear deterrent for?
ticket to the big boys club?
You can end boom and bust. They are caused by the regulator increasing credit in their currency monopoly.
The rich have left the inner cilies where these stations are located.
What on earth is a cilies?You thick clown.
Thorry, I have a bit of a lisp.
and only thicksteen.
Lithp?
This total bollocks about a law to ensure future govt’s have to do “x’ with the economy/debt that the c*unt Brown has saddled us with,is the most Alice In Wonderland pile of crap ever!
Is this country REALLY going to stand and watch The Queen read this list of f ing crap out?
We must be outside Parliament as she speaks,making enough noise to ensure the scum in there can hear us and will not let this crap happen.
I predict a massive riot within the next month
“I predict a massive riot within the next month”
Duly noted. That’s the 76th prediction we’ve had this year.
I predict that this will be the 77th.
Bppk him Danno.
It is truly incredible that this moronic lot of fraudsters and clowns can gather like this, in public, with all the show and pomposity of something meaningful yet riddled with deceit, ineptitude and vainglory. It is a measure of how low we have fallen as a nation that they think and do – get away with it. Honestly, what is the point of this anymore?? They have no credibility with the majority of the population and they continue as if nothing was wrong……
Colombia’s export drive
The Cali Cartel’s push for increased revenues
“Pork More Plentiful Under Labour”
Of course it is.
Who can remember the ad in the 1980s of a desolate railway station with the VoPo in their cars watching everybody on the streets? – thinking about it, it seems to be describing now in EUland…
I suppose Gordo fancies himself arriving at the Finland station to “save the nation” (from himself).
The State Crown has arrived at Westminster, I hope Gordon doesn’t spot it, a few bob there.
guess the city folk coming into waterloo won’t see their station improved before spring 2010
i remember that waterloo and city line – time warp set up – fantastic
why didn’t all that get shown to the IOC members visiting london prior to its election for 2010?
Haha, who will be the lucky piggies???
Waiting to see.
genghiz the kahn says:
November 17, 2009 at 9:39 am
Today’s lucky Rail Lottery winners are Tony Lloyd, Kate Hoey, Martin Linton, Margaret Hodge, Ann_Coffey, Helen Jones, Helen Southworth, Mark Hendrick, Neil Turner, Louise Ellman, Kelvin Hopkins, Margaret Moran.
Funny how so much money is being used to upgrade stations in Labour held constituencies.
Write Brown’s “school report.”
http://www.power2010.org.uk/page/s/GradeGordonBrown
Seen on Coffee House.
I think if you dig deeper, you might find that this is re-announced money
Lord Adonis also said that the money was dependant upon money from local councils
I know that the revamp for Crewe is a project in motion because they have already taken back buildings from Royal Mail, and plans are close to being presented to the local council because the revamp needs to include the replacement of a road bridge which is a main arterial road in Crewe
That will cost about 30 million then.
Indeed it is Stronghold. The work at Clapham Junction has been going on for months already – the place is a total mess now (as opposed to the partial mess that it was!). It was originally announced last year.
Guido, any thoughts most major train stations are in urban areas and these tend to be Labour seats. After all they do control more than half of all seats and most urban seats country wide. Also what have the Tories given us on transport? Privatised railways and chronic underfunding for a generation…
Ask why so little has been allocated to Southern England, The West, The South West, Eastern England, East Anglia, The West Midlands, The East Midlands.
Is it not a cause for wondering why so much has been shifted to window dressing projects in the above seats.
The short sightedness of some people. The majority of total investment goes to the south. CHannel Tunnel, Jubille line extension, now cross rail, east london line extension and the Tube. The south has dominated infrastructre development for a generation. THe stations referred to are chronically underfunded and desperate for a revamp. Allow the north to catch up and stop being so myopic!
Here, here
You can happily have the tens of thousands of homes the Government says have to be built in the East and South East on good farmland.
We have a chronic water shortage which is not being addressed in the planning decisions. The new homes will bring in permanenet water rationing and sky high water bills.
Not just good farmland, but Green Belt land -mainly in the safe Tory shires-will also be built on thanks to the recent relaxation of planning reglations
Bit unfair, the reason the GOvernment wants to extend housing, was the over heating southern english economy. Why has it done so well and the rest of the country not? Political decisions. Allowing the City to run wild and favouring a service led economy whereas european states have favoured high skill manufacturing.
They are only responding to shortages. Make a more balanced economy and there will be less demand. As for greenbelt. Most of it is nonsense scrubland and worthless. Maybe if we had had better transport links the economy could be more balanced and demand for housing in the south lower. But then that would involve state investment and central planning, some thing you guys are seemingly hostile to…
Oliver,
The USSR is in the past where it belongs.
Look up the LVT instead, it helps even out these sorts of problems.
Oliver- don’t tar us all with the same brush.
Green belt land has been protected for generations for a reason and it’s not all worthless and useless scrubland.
Moley, we won’t just get a chronic water shortage. Eventually we will have a food shortage.
The last thing I am is a commie, but we should look to Havana and operate a ‘food first’ policy, which saved Castro’s regime after the collapse of the USSR and the loss of Soviet aid.
A greater self-sufficiency in food production, and therefore more food security, would help create employment and contribute to a more stable society.
But such a commonsense approach is highly unlikely to be adopted. If our nation produces more food, the less land it will have to build crappy starter homes to house the humungous amount of immigrants we have experienced in the last few years.
Of course, I’m no conspiracy theorist, but it is hardly surprising people look for other explanations for such short-sighted policies that will only increase our national dependency culture.
Rent an allotment and use it before your local council builds the slums of the future upon them.
I’m lucky enough to have rented an allotment for the past ten years. Keeps my family in fresh fruit and veg all year. Sady there’s now a waiting list of 50 for plots and no sign that my local council will release any unused land.
Just had a knock at the door, two people asking me what I thought about Government’s, was surprised, canvassing for a Political Party?, no Jehovah Witnesses, obviously seen a gap in the market.
PS. Noticed that M.Ps and Party activists no longer dare to face the general public.
It is an interesting state of affairs when it is a welcome relief to discover that it is the Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking on your door and not a politician!
I heard Polly Twaddle on the wireless at the weekend saying that the Conservatives don’t understand the economy and that UK plc cannot be run like a household. (Sub text-All you little people do not possess a towering intellect like me, the Great Polly!!). She even had the brass neck to say that Economics was a failed science that didn’t work.
She obviously hadn’t grasped the basic and very simple concept of living within your means. Britain is living on tick, Polly, and the buggers want ME, and loads of other poor sods like me to pay the tally man.
Of course you can run an economy like a household. You can borrow lots of money without thinking how you will repay it, splurge it all on God knows what, boast to everybody about your extreme cleverness, lend huge quantities to ne’er-do-well relatives (banks) and then blame somebody else when it all goes belly-up.
Economics is not a science, since its theories cannot usually be tested rigorously by experiment. That doesn’t mean it’s useless or that it has ‘failed’. Indeed, it means that it cannot actually fail, because it does not make definite predictions.
I made predictions, they came true.
Economics is easy. It’s just that those in the establishment only listen to neo-Keynesian*/Marxist nonsense. Prbably because they are mainly rent-seekers and it benefits them (at ours and the countries great expense)
*Not even Keynes would agree with.
The laws of thermodynamics apply especially to economics.
Can’t get something for nothing.
Expanding money without work being done cools the economy (Adiabatic).
Being more than a vessel to hold the reaction (Property rights) slows the reaction.
Economics being a pseudoscience, that few economists know anything of physics, this economy all starts to make sense!
To be honest, and I dislike zanulab as much anyone, but rail stations north of Brum do need a desperate revamp. Anyone who has had to change at Crewe or
Warrington Bank Quay will now the score. They are shit-holes.
I’m no fan of Labour Railway Stations, but…
Glasgow Central is nice, really quite classy with good facilities. Glasgow Queen Street, by contrast, is not so good and seems to attract the drunks.
Edinburgh Waverley is surprisingly grotty for a supposed landmark.
Has anyone seen my rocket?
I think I found it (and George, stop taking credit for your son, Robert’s work).
You sound tired Sir William, are you a little run down?
Only taken ZaNuLab 13 years to get around to doing anything. Too busy paying billions and billions to welfare scroungers ( core vote ) economic migrants ( core vote ) and worthless box filling, spot fining, paper shuffling, public sector employees ( core vote ).
Oh and of course themselves.
Shouldn’t they be improved based upon the revenue the station actually produces?
“Shouldn’t they be improved based upon the revenue the station actually produces?”
In a proper market yes, trouble is they are by and large private monopoly holdings and as such, the amount produced is always distorted by lack of meaningful competition.
My season ticket is up £700 this year, no alternative service provider and no real option other than to pay, or leave my job.
State opening of parliament,get a eyeful of that hat Mrs Brown is wearing.
Sorry for being OT.
Not worth the bother of Lillibet getting togged up for it, another load of promises, pledges and guarantees that will never see the light of day anyway thankfully.
Point taken, but aren’t these stations are quite big and used mainly by people from outside the constituency they are situated in?
Mandelson prefers Cottage Pie with a smear of chutney to large helping of Pork
Mincing pork nonetheless.
and mushy peas lad.
And lots of fudge……
With a side order of Gentleman’s Relish.
Don’t you mean Cottaging Pie?
Just tell ‘em all to fuck off Liz. There’s fuck all in this speech anyway. Flooding?! Hardly the most pressing of issues is it?
Flooding will take the Canute(*) approach, since there will be no budget.
*) The 11th century King Canute, or more properly Cnut the Great, commanded the tide to halt and not wet his feet and robes; but the tide failed to stop. The current Great Hoon will no doubt be as successful with his flood and water management bill.
She was meaning the flooding of money on to the markets,surely?
Hey, fuck off will ye. I predicted one first.
Up yours mister Kaiser, we were here 1st
The story is often incorrectly told. Canute was, as is Brown, surrounded by sycophants. Unlike Brown, Canute tired of them and wanted to prove that he too was mortal. Canute deliberately used the tide to demonstrate this as he knew that even he could not stop it. His objective was to bring his ‘team’ into the real world and thus prevent the inevitable self-destruction.
A story often incorrectly told – but clearly relevant to our deluded leader who shows no sign of showing his arse-lickers any reality. In turn, they cannot see it.
That’s how Cnut’s adviser Cnampbell Halftroth tried to spin it.
Very droll, Sir William! Well done…
Interesting. We await with interest the spectacle of Brown standing with an unfurled golf umbrella directly beneath the booster rocket of the next shuttle. Nae werries, lads!
Has the empoorer got no clothes?
I say tie Brown to a chair on Brighton beach and just leave him.
Between the low water and high water mark? How very Freemason of you!
This is a stupid analogy because unlike Cnut, Gordon Brown can turn back the tide if he wishes, as he proved when saving the world in September last year. That is why he knows that, by passing laws to say that emissions will reduce by 80% by 2050, that children will no longer be poor, and that all old people will have full time carers, these things will come to pass. By contrast the Conservitudes are the do-nothing party – they can’t even trough properly.
“My government will introduce a Bill to strengthen the law against bribery…”….presumably, thereby, making the Quneens Speech illegal.
Queen’s Speech finished already – was only about 10 minutes!!
Fucking hell! It’s finished! 7 minutes long!
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
“Brown Draws Election Battle Lines”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8364858.stm
Shame he can only draw U turns.
The labour propaganda machine speaks!
Placed on the Beeb site unedited by Peter Mandelson. He has access.
I have access to all sorts of dark places…
Isn’t this where Maak Oaten is supposed to show up with an “ooo-errr missus”?
Oo-err mister, actually TT.
++NEW LABOUR WAR PARTY TAKES QUEEN HOSTAGE++THE QUEEN IS FORCED BY GORDON BROWN TO READ OUT HIS NEW LABOUR WAR PARTY’S ALIBI FOR ITS WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY++QUEEN FORCED TO PROVIDE DIVERSIONARY PROPAGANDA FOR DEEPLY UNPOPULAR NEW LABOUR PARTY++QUEEN SAYS “IRAQ WASSNEE MAH GOOVMUNTS FAL!” SHE ALSO SAYS “GLOOBUL CREESEES NUT MAH GUVMUNT’S FAL EITHAR MUTHA!”++LABOUR PARTY POLITICISES MONARCH++ANOTHER SAD DAY FOR DEMOCRACY UNDER THE NEW LABOUR WAR PARTY++
AlIbi thats a good one
Yes that’s exactly how the BBC would report today’s events if they had happened in a country the Birtists who still run it have decided they don’t like.
£50 million that’s just the consultants fees.
Legal obligation to halve the deficit?
That’s an incredible thing for anyone to even think they can have as legislation.
Next Brown will be telling Cameron that at least 235 days of each year must be sunny with no rain.
Crock of bullshit – am I in a dream of some kind – this is total lunacy.
If Cameron does not demolish this crap,then he deserves to lose.
No it’s a nightmare which has lasted over 12 years, unfortunately we have some time to go but slowly the majority are waking up to the lies – lets hope it is not to late!
99% of the Queens Speech will NEVER become law. It’s a total waste of paper. It’s all hypothetical
It’s the Labour Manifesto for the 2010 election that’s all
Any Liebour manifesto = toilet roll
“Queen’s Speech” = Complete and utter bollocks, oh I loved the commitment to ban cluster munitions (this has already been decided for the UK) thus depriving our armed forces of yet another weapons sytem while at war – and then the commitment to work toward a world free of nuclear weapons -this is code for “Dump all of or part of the Trident system, so we can keep the client and dependent state happy, and hope and pray that the Iranians or Taleban-AQ don’t attack us in some way”.
What a farce. A NuLiebour raft of more lies and undeliverables designed not for Britian but to derail any incoming government in 2010.
Really, any government, of any stripes, that came up with that utter tripe should be prosecuted for criminal / professional negligence.
It’s a little like saying that they’ll legislate to abolish breathing.
Legislate all you like : A statute doesn’t provide a mechanism to ensure that the object of the legislation actually occurs – it’s a paper tiger, totally impractical.
The real intended effect imho ? A further devaluation of Parliament.
Total bollocks, it’s the right thing to do.
Half of the proposals are aspirations, and the other half are uncosted give-aways to embarrass the Tories. Practically none of them will pass the Commons in time without a guillotine and the Lords should be able to frustrate progress further.
I’d also be interested to read the details of
The bill (that) would also introduce transparency in the workplace to address the differences in pay between men and women
Harman’s previous suggestions on the matter have included the proposal that women should have access to mens’ salary and employment contract details but not vice versa. That, if implemented could be the basis of a few appeals to the courts…
When I want to hear the Queen speak, I just ring her up.
Windsor residence, lady of the house speaking!
what I wanna know is why the bloody queen didn’t tell brown to fuck off and have them all arrested – thrown into the cells and left to die – yeah, come on, let’s hear it – democracy SHAMOCRACY
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha residence. Frau of the house speaking!
50 million is a very small drop in a very large ocean.
It’s a poxy amount considering that Network Rail released plans on 13 November for 3.25 BILLION of investment for 2000 rail stations between now and 2014.
Birmingham New Street, London Kings Cross, and Edinburgh Waverley are expected to receive £100 million EACH.
Sorry Guido, but I think you and a lot of others have been reeled in by this £50 million hook that has been designed to make Adonis and his Cabinet colleagues look good.
“Sorry Guido, but I think you and a lot of others have been reeled in by this £50 million hook that has been designed to make Adonis and his Cabinet colleagues look good.”
Au contraire: Guido is displaying healthy cynicism and pointing out that this ‘extra investment’ is being trumpeted just prior to the general election campaign; and it appears that this ‘extra investment’ just happens to be aimed predominantly at marginal constituencies. I doubt this ‘extra investment’ will be noticed – it’s just a nice soundbite. Guido, like the rest of this, know this to be the case.
You will probably find similar announcements (or re-announcements) being made in coming months as the Labour Party uses public funds to support its pre-election campaign. Lots of ‘cash boosts’ for skoolznhospitals that will simply be rehashes of previous announcements and will scarcely amount to a bucket of sand.
Keep your eyes open too for a barrage of public service adverts on TV: government advertising expenditure will soar in the weeks leading up to the official general election campaign.
Furthermore, I wonder if Gordon will announce another one-off Council Tax discount just before next year’s election? I mean, that wasn’t a cynical exercise in pre-election bribery, was it?
I can agree with that. I was playing double devil’s advocate.
In that by raising awareness of the £50 million spend it will create more news about it within the blooging and commentating world.
No such thing as bad publicity and all that.
Ah, I misread the tone of your message and on second reading I realised I was echoing your own sentiments.
Sorry!
To be fair, six of these stations are in the top 100 by number of passengers 07/08 and there are a couple more in the top 200.
Warrington at 454 and Wigan NW at 612 are a little further down but they still take 1.5 million passengers a year between them.
Can’t really be much of a surprise that most of these stations are in Labour seats. I imagine that more than 65% of the UK railways are in Labour consituencies right now.
It’s not like Reading (in Reading East) is having £400m spent on it
Listened to a Radio4 programme a few days ago wherein it mentioned that in the 1950s,a then personality stated that it was his ideal Summer’s day to while away a few hours at a certain Train Station.It went on to mourn the passing of such places.A subliminal message being planted,no doubt.
I bet he called it a railway station.
Beeb reckon that the Queen said that the national debt will be halved in 5 years’ time.
Bollocks, she actually said that the annual defecit will be halved in 5 years’ time, ie in 5 years’ time the amount by which the national debt goes up every year will be half what it is now, it’s not scheduled to start coming down for another 10 years at least!
BIG DIFFERENCE THERE GUYS!
Perhaps I missed it,but I didn’t think she gave a timeframe?
Don’t think Queenie actually mentioned the timescale – was in the usual leaked detail though.
As Phil Hammond just said: You cannot half the deficit by passing legislation saying that the defecit will be halved, you halve the defecit by presenting credible policies to restrain spending.
OK,thanks.
Phuk, are you sure?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/6597045/Labour-under-pressure-to-set-out-deficit-reduction-plan-after-Queens-Speech-vow.html
I wish she’d announced that the sun would shine all summer, and we’d have a white christmas every year. Why doesn’t Cameron promise that? It’s as realistic as Brown’s dogshit that the poxy BBC are lapping up like the feckin word of god or something…
be patient Frank, this information is on its way……along with reductions in petrol tax and repealing all ALL of new labours laws …..won’t be long now….
Now wouldn’t that be great.
I’ve got my pen and paper out and with a bit of “back of a fag packet” maths have worked out that…
Today the national debt is at 800 billion, and increasing by about 132 billion per year. I used the ONS figure for deficit of £11 Billion for September 2009 and went from there.
So, in five years time, the increase in debt (the deficit) will only be allowed to be 66 Billion per year.
However, in that time the national debt is increasing. By 2014 the national debt will have increased from 800 Billion to 1295 Billion.
Remind me again, how does the government raise money to service its debts? Would that be tax by any chance?
More scribblings and calculations here…
http://solopolis.livejournal.com/4805.html
where’s that bloody equalities minister?
we want equality for our railway stations even if the trains are fucking crap and don’t run or run badly
Okay….whilst walking from The Commons to The Lords,Brown and Cameron were having a chat. Brown looked like he was sucking lemons,whilst Cameron talked.
The only snippet heard of that conversation was Cameron saying..
“Yes,we’ve had a very good…..”
Wonder what was he talking about?
Perhaps….”laugh about your pathetic Parliamentary programme Liz is announcing today”
Any further thoughts?
“…..think about it but Sam finds the ’swinger’ concept a bit sleazy. I hope Sarah won’t be too disappointed.”
“look at your wife’s grotesque breasts – they like you are a truly sagging phenomenon.”
“..return on buying the gold that you sold off for fuck all. We invested heavily in Zimbabwe dollars, which are doing rather nicely against Sterling. So even if your bunch of mongs get in again, me, the kids and the missus are set up for a cushy life outside of the EUSSR shithole you signed the UK up to”.
Railway station. The expression “train station” is not English.
Or more simply “station”.
Pile of Portakabins?
STAISHOOOOOOOOOON
What kind of a country uses titles drawn from medieval times? Lord this, Baroness that, Viscount etc. I’d say it was a load of bollocks if it were not so obvious that these so-called titles are yet another way of keeping the foot on the neck of the average person. How can anyone with any morals walk around calling themselves “Lord”? It’s fuckin disgusting.
At least they’ve got a name..unlike some here.
He don’t wanna get twonked by the Marquis of Queensbury do he?
I firmly believe that the lower classes need someone to look up to.
The Queen is a fine example.
I wouldn’t put myself in the same class, obviously, since I’m something of an idiot, but my staff are always singing my praises, bless them.
I look up to Prince Charles. It’s his intelligence, wit and sincerity that I particularly admire. Even better is the queen’s husband. No one understands and appreciates the cultures and customs better than that old bigot.
Ahh – the ROYAL Family;
Misfits
Dunces
Spongers
Thicko’s
Not the father’s they are supposed to be….
The Queen? Fine
The rest? An embrassment of morons.
I wholeheartedly agree. The gentry have always been the backbone of the country, while the aristocracy have been a self-serving luxury product.
Its rather a shame that you cannot see what the pre industrial era was like or think that symbolising it is of any value , I take it you dine at mcdonalds regualry and have all the plastic toys .
We could always have a modern approach like in the US of A. That’s where they call their children Duke or Earl. Then there is their really modern law enforcement bodies with titles like “Marshal” and “Sheriff”. They were really up to date in the Middle ages. Their legislation has titles such as “Governor” and “Senator”. How delightfully Roman!!
Yes the USA do use some great names. Did you see Stryker McGuire at the weekend on Sky, bureau chief for Newsweek. Now there’s a name. Strker McGuire. What do we get………….Toilets.
and you’re more likely to get a hospital – look at Gatwick!
I WISH DAVID CAMERON TH EVERY BEST OF LUCK IN THE DEBATE ON THE QUEEN’S SPEECH
AND I MEAN THAT MOST SINCERELY
Don’t you mean SINPITUITALLY ?
Did yo’ lick tha’? So long as the boogers don’t put up the bloody tax on steam coal to pay fer it. Bloody station bars are always bloody shut.
The only one of those stations I have much experience of is Warrington Bank Quay, which could be described (charitably) as ‘functional’. The site is awkward, being thin, and elevated above the access road. There isn’t much space for adequate buildings. The ones in place date from the sixties, and are decidedly ‘tired’. There is (or was – it might have gone now) a large chemical plant, Crossfields, on one side of it. Romantic it ain’t. It badly needs an upgrade.
I can never quite understand why all the discussion about rail investment focusses on passenger facilities. Post privatisation, the rail freight businesses did very well, to the point where quite a few lines are at capacity, and badly need upgrading. Getting freight off road and onto rail isn’t always possible, but when it can be done, everyone benefits.
Another point worth lobbing into the discussion is that the entire road system is maintained by the public purse. The rail system relies heavily (though not entirely) on private investment, so economic comparisons are always difficult.
Indeed Engineer – next down from war (profiting from death and destruction) on the list of despotic, tyrannical fascist behaviours of the ruling mindset, are the various PFI projects which translate as ‘we the people’ paying for the infrastructure and any resultant investment shortfalls – ‘they’, the corporations/bankster-gangsters reap the profits. Nice work if you’re evil enough to live that way… Don’t forget that if anything goes wrong or further investment is required – we’ll always be there – idiots that we are.
Crewe station is supposed to be relocating,perhaps this has now been scrapped?
No it’s going ahead – It’s just that it’s now being re-located to Stoke-on-Trent as the government need to put “shit-loads” of money into the “Six Towns” to counter the rise of the party with no name and the fact that for decades they took the Labour vote has a “dead cert”
Yes, they realised it would be better to keep it near the railway.
This little piggy went to market, this little piggy went to market, this little piggy went to market, this little piggy went to market, this little piggy went to market…. and so on for another few hundred times…
Brown draws battle lines and draws a little mud in his M&S knickers
Guido – I’d STRONGLY suggest you do the same analysis on those constituencies in which the “relaxing” of the Green Belt and Planning processes are imminent.
Crikey – talk about getting your retaliation in early!
Ah yes, ‘relaxing the greenbelt’ translates as ch chiiiiiinnnngggggg £££££££££££!
Labour….. what a load of bollocks
Cripes fawkes made it on aljabeeba on queens speech day , move over robinson !
Ruin probebly enjoyed queens speech , “my government is going to fo more about reform of the second chamber” it was a political queens speech which he no doubt thinks will give him some sort of edge of the success of the reformers , CW knows that the ruins bust can be translated into wasting wealth for pretty much most of the time he was in offce , as for equality i think you will find most people would prefer respect and community , given hes turned out more ferral loons than any other governement , equality !
CW enjoyed earleir post its the ruins Alibi , spot on
Labour and the BBC are a sick joke. A bill to abolish child poverty? I thought Labour already did that? And how do you abolish child poverty when your definition relates tot he media? It isnt’ about abolishing child poverty, it’s about abolishing difference. And how? And how are they going to do everything else? And how dare they try to bind future parliaments? And *why* are the BBC taking this at all seriously? I bet they won’t even publish all the bloody bills, let along get them through the house.
Oh why am I even bothering. This is the sorriest pile of idiotic wishful thinking and plain fucking wank I’ve ever had the misfortune to read. I dont’ give a shite what Labour say or do, I’m simply not interested in their claims, ambitions, spin, policies. I just want them all fucking dead. I want to see their corpses twirling in the breeze, surrounded by hungry crows.
Dead dead dead. Torn to fucking shreds. That’ll do. Anything else, Im not bothered with.
Let’s see Queenie sitting for ten minutes listing the methods of torture and execution to be reintroduced for the crime of Treason. I’d pay to listen to that.
“My government will be taken from this place to a place of public execution, there to be hung by the neck until they are very very dead indeed”
they are not supposed to lie are they , thats what gets me , all the system of on your honour has been totally corrupted from when balir got in , for wonk EU waste of money , cant stomach it when they tell you its an improvement , any normal circumstances he should have resigned and appologised for busting country.
Cw has no intention of letting labour get away with it
Brown to be hanged very slowly indeed – could sell the TV rights to the Taliban for £180Bn.
* applause *
It’s just fucking nonsense.
Just like the previous 12 years. Except the Mr and Mrs Average Joe are so bloody average they can’t see throught it.
Munters.
From the sound of her, I think Her Maj was trying very hard to stop the gag reflex every time she had to say the words “my Government”. They make me feel sick.
If you want you see whats instore for Britan if the poison fucker gets in again google this
Christopher Newsom / Channon Christian murders.
i bet you never heard about that one, thanks to the poison bastard these acts will never get reported here and the reason is that the victims were white, when the victim is black we never hear the fucking end of it.
At the least they have the death sentence – why has The Queen not sentenced Brown to death for treason?
You need to more attention. The death penalty for treason was removed from the statute books shortly after the grinning liar came to power in 1997.
infidel
I am furious that no mention of John & Edward Grimes (Jedward) was made in the Queens Speech.
I will be bringing this matter up in the House later this afternoon and don’t give a flying fuck if my face turns red with anger either
“I will be bringing this matter up in the House…”
Sounds like another Brown Bogey day.
The train now standing at platforms 3,4,5 and 6 came in sideways.
There are moves underway for a people’s demonstration in early December – details from the web talking about a Wednesday in the first week – 2nd or 9th?
A demonstration of what?
The latest Dyson vacuum cleaner evidently.
Cleans up corruption within seconds,safely storing it in it’s patented cyclone chamber for release in a safe place like er,Italy.
“There are moves underway for a people’s demonstration in early December – ”
more info please
I heard this too from a workmate in West London – seems to be about Afghanistan from what she was saying.
Now look at my banburies all over the floor!
oops
You are Sarah Brown and I claim my £5
I LOVE THAT FILM!!!
it wasn’t very long though was it luv
When someone next says to you “See You Next Tuesday” ie C.U.N.T. acronym which is quite offensive –
Reply “Tuesday, Wednesday And Thursday” ie T.W.A.T. acronym! You’ll have the last laugh
Who was it said that Prime Minister’s don’t have a sense of humour ??
Who smelt is dealt it
response
He who denied supplied
There we are then
Most of labour’s seats are in inner cities (where railway stations are) and most Tories seats are in the shires and suburbs (and Dr Beeching removed their stations decades ago).
This is a non-story. Try again Guido.
Bollocks.
Stories, non stories, schtory stories….we luv ‘em all.
I have been waiting on platform 1 at Todger’s Bottom for 42 years. That certainly explains a lot. Does this mean that it is cancelled?
Ther station at Todger’s Bottom is Guido’s holiday home. Pop-in and ask for a cup of tea.
The whole speech stinks like the commies abolishing unemployment.
Have they NO idea how much they are detested?
How many Millibandesque slop buckets will be emptied over Labour canvassers’ heads?
The Mclaren Formula 1 Team have just confirmed that world champoin Jenson Button will be joining them next season alongside former world champion Lewis Hamilton.
Two world champions, two Englishmen in an English team based in England.
For fucks sake no one tell McDoom!
Wash your mouth out!
There is no such thing as English.
Under the direction of my spymasters in Moscow,I have abolished the mere mention of England.
White scum.
English doing well at sport.
Say goodbye to watching it on the Beeb & freeview
England must be ethnically cleansed, the English must be replaced as soon as possible with more compliant serfs. As I have always maintained, the English are not worth saving as a race.
You might want to look at where Labour are proposing to build the 18 new Nuclear power stations too.
Dungerness has had a nuclear power station for 40 years but can’t have a replacement. Oh it’s a solid tory seat …silly me
Didn’t the same thing happen with new hospitals? Every one went to a Labour controlled area.
yes – and if you look at gatwick you will see that if there was an incident there you will have to travel quite far.
as i have said before you need to look also at mp’s who own land and what potentially might be built on it.
new labour are an elective dictatorship.
focusing resources in a self serving manner is what elective dictatorships do to re-inforce their position.
in the case of new labour, they have focused resources on the benefits class. indeed, for the last decade new labour have been expanding the benefit class. if you threaten claimants payments then they will not vote for you. they will get up off their backsides to vote against anyone who want to reduce their money.
now, I don’t normally like to offer advice to the SCUM TORIES but I do like to see a fair fight, so the tories should listen closely to top boy for he has a message for them:
benefit claimants are the swing vote in this election.
unpalatable but true.
therefore if david cameron wants to win the next election then he will have to guarantee the claimants that he will not reduce their money.
as we are in recession that is not a totally disastrous position to take, it is in fact quite a good position. people need help at this time.
and in fairness, should the tories get to decide policy, then they will need a period of two or three years to figure out a better benefit. they will also need time to figure out how to dismantle the over complex clusterfuck benefit system brown set up.
politically speaking, gordon brown is leaving a fucking mess behind.
my concern is that I don not believe for one moment that the tories are capable of cleaning brown’s mess up.
cameron and his shadow cabinet have been useless in opposition therefore they will be useless in government.
it is not rocket science, is it?
FUCK DAVE AND GORDON – THEY ARE C’UNTS
VOTE INDEPENDENT – VOTE DEMOCRACY
So what major railheads in tory constituencies were left out?
Guildford.
Was supposed to have been thoroughly overhauled but now seems to have fallen a long way down the list.
Honestly, the crap I’m asked to read out loud…………………….f’kin disgusting!
HM – just a suggestion. Why not get your husband Phil to stand in for you and read the speech. I am sure he would add some suitably colourful commentary to it!
The Queen …. that’s exactly what I was thinking as I watched her Majesty reading that utter garbage today. I visualised her throwing the papers aside and saying – that’s it, no more will I utter this rubbish.
Good to see you on the News channel Guido – thankfully that silly protestor was nowhere to be seen unlike when Vince Gable was on – so funny (the protestor and NOT Gable).
O/T
Wonderful article in the Teletubbygrub about 10 good reasons to hate the Brits, written by my wonderful neighbours, the Belgians.
Wonderful stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nick – is that your neighbours, the Walloons, or your neighbours, the Vlaams? I don’t know anyone who considers themselves Belgian!
It’s a federation.
I am now able to tell the electorate the gag that Dave Cameron told to me while we filed into the Chamber for the Queen’s Speech
“Father! Father! An old man on crutches walked up to the holy water a minute ago, and he splashed some on his right leg and then he threw away his right crutch! Then he splashed some more on the other leg and threw away his left crutch!” “My boy, you’ve witnessed a miracle! What happened then?” “He fell on his arse!”
It’s rather good and will receive cross party support in due course.
Heard the joke about Brown?
He died.
290: Please don’t put perfectly good Catholic jokes into the mouth of the Scum of the Manse, thank you.
“We dinna haev jokes or evil jollity in thae Manse”
How can a new law half the deficit?
Next week in my speech, how to nail a jelly to the ceiling!
Tomorrow is my Big Day.
I’ve waited long enough.
And it’ll shut up her wiv the big gob.
EUSSR Dave says
I think Tone has done ever so well for himself, – don’t you?
It’s true…Wakefield’s getting a huge revamp. It’s probably worth more than the city itself…which doesn’t take much.
It’s the Prison wot done it for Wakefield guv – gotta look good for the high profiles innit
I worked from Wakefield briefly in the early 1990s and the Railway Station was the best part as it had a means of transport to get away from the place.
Try Dewsbury!
Nice station in Dewsbury,done up with a good bar.Rest of the town leaves much to be desired.
I must add that it’s Wakefield Westgate that’s getting the refurb. Wakefield Kirkgate – the most dangerous in England – isn’t.
What do you call a person who
(a) cannot accept responsibility
(b) will not accept responsibility
(c) has extremely limited comprehension of economics (‘n that)
(d) has extremely limited understanding of economics (‘n that)
(e) has scant understanding of the meaning of ‘Truth’ . . .
(f) . . and even less regard for it
(g) is an habitable liar, thief, and wastrel
etc . .
Answer (clue : it’s the colour of shit)
David Cast Iron Cammeron
That just about describes many politicians of whatever party but probably David Chameleon more than most (apart from the rather childish colour of shit).
I see MacGordon has his train set out again to play with. I bet Crewe station is a run-through.
jesus there are some scary people in the world. How are you people allowed to vote? Prior to my arrival there was less than one brain cell amongst these reponses… hahahaha
what a fucking weirdo.
Anon, you are right. After all – look at the government we ended up with!
said the weirdo rimmer.
Stop talking to yourself, TwAT.
said the guy holding the camera.
???
said the riddler.
Guido thinks it won’t save Moran in Luton. I’m hoping it won’t save Coffey in Stockport. She’s USELESS! Not everyone in a liebour constituency is dumb enough to vote for them.
Another of Blair’s babes……sunk without trace
Correction
Sorry to insult the babes. This one was never a babe.
Neither were any of them
We have got to fight for what we want, for all that we believe, It’s right to fight for what we want, to live the way we please. As long as we have done our best then no one can do more, and life and love and Labour are well worth fighting for.
And we should never count the cost or worry that we’ll fall, It’s better to have fought and lost, than not have fought at all
Let’s always take whatever comes and never try to hide face everything and anyone together side by side
As long as we have done our best then no one can do more
” One last push” …..it was stillborn last time
What an absolute headcase…..(Wasn’t this the theme to the “Flashing Blade” back in the 60s/70s?
Thank fuck, Clapham needs it..
It’s a shame Clapham Junction isn’t in Clapham then!
This is the first time I have looked at this “blog” and I am truely appalled by the bad language
good.
now fuck off.
thankyou.
oh, I get it now.
sorry mrs parsnips.
so am I, Mrs Parnham
what shall we fucking do?
Read between the lines……it’s much worse than you first think.
But if you are as lillywhite as you would have us believe you will not get the nuances.
Stay for a few days and ignore the dross. There are many well informed bloggers on here.
Mrs Val:
“I am truely appalled by the bad language”
… and we are TRULY appalled by your bad spelling. Welcome anyway – you will get used to it!
You think the langauge is bad, just wait until you see the crap cartoons on a Monday.
Yes on this blog there is very little decorum, some anger, some nonsense and some good debate.
There is way too much fucking swearing though
No there fucking isn’t
Yes, you are probably right FrankFisher, there are a lot of people on this blog possibly suffering from Tourettes Syndrome.
FUCK YOU! FUCK OFF C’UNT!
SOAPY-TIT WANK JESUS YES!!!
FUCKING SLUT! TIT-WANK PLEASE!
WHORE!
I agree its a tad rude and I shall for one will tut very loudly in private. Just a thought I haven’t had a soapy titty w@@k for yonks , must get out more………
Fuck off then. And don’t let your fat arse hit the door on the way out…
It seems clear then that NuLabour is heading for the buffers.
Adonis wants to build a high speed railway line(about time too) but he wants another PFI scheme), and also last time I looked the country was currently was broke. The transport budget is going to get cut as it is quite easy for the government to do it(look at all the cancelled tram systems for the major cities Liverpool, etc).
If you think that the south has good rail infrastructure should know that the trains in the southern region still run on third rail electrical power not overhead like most lines north of Watford. There are also very few express services(like the Intercity 125) in the southern region(only the Javelin service which is very limited and maybe Brighton to London). Until quite recently the south had slam door rolling stock!
Both parties haven’t served the railways well. Prescott’s 10 year transport plan was good wasn’t it? Yup like most of he does! The Tories have royally mucking our system(splitting it into a million little bits) privatisation has been a disaster for the railways. Where is the new investment? Most of the money goes off to the managers and shareholders, and ironically we spend more money now on rail subsidy than we did under British rail. We have lost two of our train building companies in York and Birmingham(mainly due to privatisation because it held up train replacement programme). The only thing that would be good in the private sector is the freight side, even that is held up as the plan a couple of years ago for a great central freight railway and taking off some of the congestion on the M6 and using the channel tunnel fell through under Prescott’s time at the Transport job.
am I correct in my understanding that there are only 33 parliamentary days in the next session due to holidays, erm more holidays and various breaks plus champions league football – so how the fuck is any of this going to happen??
it isn’t, but don’t tell anybody
Does Margaret Hodge support endangered species such as the ‘Web Footed Barking Bollocks’, er..I say fuck ‘em as she is to be an endangered species – the ‘Troughing Labour Member’!!
Great speech from Cameron, brown looks like crap
The gravy train is on time in all of the stations listed. Cameron was on top form this afternoon in the House. I have not got the patience to listen to Brown. Animal lovers must be cringing over the loss of all the ermine and mink in the last twelve years, Cameron said ” stoats for goats”, I had a good laugh, although the wait for a General Election is not so funny.
Labour have made enough scamming on the gravy train to do up all the stations but who’ll be loco enough to vote for them?Even in Margaret Hodges contituency they’re not all barking.
I am gruffffruffff rrrraaawwwwllllll grrruffffff yyeeeelllppppppppppppp yyyaaaaaapppppp sausages
Good boy Fido,well said.You make more sense than New Labour but remember that remarks about sausages might alienate Moslem voters.
Train Leaves Here This Morning – Gene Clark – top of da pops, poppickers
Adam Bouton said Cameron held back on any killer blow! Boulton is probably hoping for a few mince pies in the bunker at this xmas do, that is if they can afford any do’s this year.
Missed Cameo’s appearance, Brown’s speech a peach.
Yeah, a rotten one.
It wont save Martin Linton either!
It happens at local level too. The districts where the evil Nu Liebore kleptocrats live, have clean streets, manicured public grass areas, and well maintained streets. Whereas areas that don’t vote Nu Liebore have filthy streets, pot-holed roads, and dog shite all over the place.
It’s part of our fairer britain. Fairer to those who vote for us. It is the right thing to do.
Guido, many, many thanks for doing the analysis – I’d suspected as much when I heard the news but haven’t had time to check the politics of the lucky recipient towns myself.
Can anyone (even NuLab trolls) tell me exactly what is the moral basis for a government that relieves me of money by menaces and then gives it to their friends?
NuLab = Mafia
NuLab = tribalism
NuLab = liars, swindlers, thieves and illegal warmongers
lord I made it to the station
with my suitcase in my hand
walked up to the window like a natrl born man
said I sure do hope
that choo choo train runs on time
(ozark mountain daredevils)
I see there are several comments around that it is not new money just shuffling around Network Rail’s existing budget.
Someone on a railway forum commented that some of the station managers could not understand why they had been chosen and everyone seemed to realise that it was just electioneering.
trains are and have been of major importance to our way of life. Wiki lists the songs related to trains, there’s hundreds of ‘em
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_train_songs
probably more, they’re not just about transport, for some they’re a way of life……..
Stinking NuMarxists trying to buy votes again. Desperation.
Stockport Station has had a major revamp in the last 5 years. If that has failed to get it out of the worst 10 in the country, what is the good of the same people throwing another few million quid at it.
Didn’t the Labour Left keep on chanting on about the real issues? In a modern secular society has the opiate that keeps society in its place the silver tongue of the Lord Almighty?
Here was me thinking pork sales were down because of all the foreigners Labour has let in!!
The 2 million pledged for Cockermouth is a insult to the people affected by the floods, I wonder how much RBS is going lavish on their Christmas party next month at our expense!!!! Great people and a great town Cockermouth the best of luck to you from the West Mids.