November 20th, 2009

Going Cold Blackberry

Guido’s Blackberry is dead.  They can’t deliver a new one until Monday.  The spare phone in the bottom of the drawer just makes and receives calls and you can text (by pressing keys four times to get the right character).  It doesn’t even have a camera.

No Twitter, no Facebook, no Bloomberg, no Reuters, no live securities prices, no mobile trading, no MMS texts, no email, no real-time feed update, it all just seems very quiet.  The information tsunami has evaporated.  Guido is in a virtual limbo.  For a news junkie this is terrifying.

Disconnected…

UPDATE : Gaby Hinsliff has similar issues.


403 Comments

  1. 1
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    Is that a dramatic way of saying “no updates until Monday”?

    • 6
      Dick the Prick says:

      Good man – have a gud un

      • 116
        barefootcontessa says:

        What’s the problem? Human beings have been without this paraphernalia for thousands of years!

      • 402
        Master Bates says:

        Someone should make a Downfall video of this! “Guido finds out that his Blackberry is dead”

    • 11
      Samee says:

      Guido you luck b*stard – I wish mine would break. Never a minutes peace since I had one forced upon me.

    • 38

      Alas poor Guido, I knew him well…… keep going till Monday, in the meantime have a good time and take the wife somewhere and enjoy the peace and quiet -aka a 1970’s
      pre -tech weekend. Enjoy.

      • 55

        Bad luck. You’re missing the story of the decade. It seems that Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson have been caught red handed in a ..
        Well, I’m sure people are emailing it all in to you..

    • 75

      best read my blog then. Apparently I’m good for a laugh.

    • 101
      Twit Woooooo says:

      fuck the Black Berry. Get urself a Nokia smartfone. U will B impressed.

      Black Berries R so yesterday.

      • 178
        Susie says:

        My 10 y/o Nokia has just croaked… I only used it about twice a year anyway, but s’pose I ought to get another. Would the 6303 be termed a Nokia smart phone? The others looked like something out of a cracker.

      • 336
        A National Trust lunatic says:

        I prefer raspberries to blackberries

      • 383
        Bill D'Sarse says:

        Yep, I’ve got an E63. Old model, but the fucker still works very well as a smartphone. Wouldnt be without it.

    • 159
      old git says:

      Enjoy the quiet time, Guido.

      I had a blackberry in my last job. It started off alright and took some of the tension out of life, until I realised that my employers were cashing in because it meant i was reading work email on my way into work and home again and at other times. They were gradually getting more and more time they weren’t paying for by using my personal downtime. You had to do it to keep up with other blackerry using colleagues.

      Final straw came when I caught myself reading emails at three in the morning whilst heating up daughter’s milk.

      The following week it packed in (well it fell into the bath). I couldnt tell IT for a week and I suddenly realised that I’d got my life back. It was six months before anyone discovered that I wasn’t using it and that only came about because my mobile bill showed zero usage.

      Employers who give their employees blackberrys should have to compensate them for the benefit to the business this will bring.

    • 174
      Bri says:

      Welcome to the real world Guido, you are beginning to sound like all the Lobby journalists.

      • 193
        thick as thieves says:

        you better skin a big fat one up to help you chill out Guido FFS you are giving off a john lennon withdrawing from heroin at tittenhurst manor roped in to a chair to stop him escaping to buy more heroin kind of vibe. chill the fuck out man.
        choose life Guido.
        crackberries are for drones, innit.

  2. 2
    cogitodexter says:

    You must feel naked!

    Now there’s an image I’m sure nobody really wanted this time on a Friday evening…

    Cheer yourself up with McBroon’s opinions on Jedward instead! http://cogitodexter.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/to-jedward-or-not-to-jedward/

  3. 3
    Fred says:

    Get an iPhone for heavens sake!

    • 13
      Tired and jaded says:

      Guido’s smarter than that. No-one ever got mugged for a Blackberry.

    • 180
      TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

      Or for those beyond single tasking get an Android device. Far, far better and you don’t need a ponytail to be seen with it either.

    • 258
      iPhone junkie says:

      Correct, nothing is smarter or easier to use than an iPhone – you can even get TV for nothing on it – BBC ITV etc plus also get the full range of Sky sports, so you can watch footie etc for just £6 per month! Plus get all your Reuters, BBC, Sky news, etc. Goodbuy Blackberry!

      • 307
        iPhones are very nice indeed says:

        Seriously? Knew about sky sports (I’m not getting that, would lose my weekly pub pass from the missus!) But BBC and itv?

        Love my iPhone too but it’s a temperamental bastard. Keep freezing, forcing to reboot several tines a day. Which is finevwhen you know about, no good if it goes into a coma in your pocket and you can’t receive calls. And email doesn’t always work. Actually, now I think of it, it’s fucking shit.

        Hopefully upgrading to 3GS soon though. I’m like a cuckold to the thing.

        • 401
          iPhone junkie says:

          To get free TV on your iPhone (or on your PC) go to www. tvcatchup.com and download it. Simple as that, cristal clear TV on your iPhone for free. Better clarity of picture than on most TV’s as well!!

          You need to be in wi-fi area for it to work. At the moment you get BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, ITV2, Channel 4, Five, BBC3, Film4, 4E, More and 4 Music.

          I sound like a bloody teacher, sorry. I have nothing to do with iPhone or the TV stuff by the way!

  4. 4
    Fenman says:

    Good Excuse for Weekend Break

  5. 4
    DZ says:

    Try Blueberries. £4 for 2 x 200 gms at all well-known Tescos. All the way from South Africa. You know it makes sense.

  6. 8
    Randy Old Man says:

    Least you still got an internet connection and access to porn, I would die if i lost that.

  7. 9
    Whitby Freedom Fighter says:

    Guido, I got an HTC Touch Pro 2 about 3 months ago because I didn’t like my schwarzberry any more. Changed my life, and I am now an arch communicator. Windows compatibility, fast switching, inbuilt QUERTY keyboard, MP3 and all the gizmos. Don’t go and tamely submit to the schwarzberry again. Give it a try (and I am not taking a commission from HTC either).

  8. 10
    Ivan says:

    let this be a lesson to you and make sure that you always have a back up blackberry.

    Just out of curiousity you haven’t let the prime menatlst have use of your blackberry ?

  9. 12
    Irene says:

    For goodness sake pull yourself together man!

  10. 14
    teenage angst says:

    Makes one wonder how we all survived without them for all those zillions of years.

    • 78
      Gordon Brown stole my pension says:

      I still do manage without one. But then, I do live in a home without a TV and no hot/cold running water, and no central heating (obviously – no running water).

      Still, all the money I saved went into the pension pot, so I can look forward to a long, happy, worry free.. ah, shit.

  11. 15
    IH says:

    See if you can do a paper review somewhere later – or pop along to Children in Need.

  12. 16
    I have an awesome media centre says:

    The best is having your smart phone, sky box HD, pc and xbox and ps3 all linked together

  13. 17
    Sir William Waad says:

    You only have ONE Blackberry?

  14. 18
    Sukyspook says:

    Just Chill Guido – saving the world is a harrowing and timeconsuming business. You need a break so simply ENJOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!

    Thanks for all you do.

  15. 19
    caesars wife says:

    Introduce your self to the kids make some giraffes out of bits and bobs , enjoy creative time together , compliment misses on life in general have a nice meal and a bottle of margaeux , pop on a bit of mozart or puchinni, realise your human attributes !!

    just hope you havent got the NWO too worried .

    i wonder why there isnt a rival called raspberry , we had apricot and apple seems odd calling pollution making consumer devices after yummy fruits !

    • 28
      Sukyspook says:

      Remember this Caesars Wife: Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town – now that was humour…..when we could larf without taking/giving offence and swearing was something only degenerates did – “I’ll give you one” and “Inspector Corner of the Yard” lolol:

  16. 22
    Anonymous says:

    Ring your mate Cameron. I’m Sure he can sort one out for his unoffical blogger

  17. 23
    Terry Tibbs says:

    Guido any comment on the Jonah Curse hitting Nottingham and the east midlands today?

    Did he visit cocklemouth recently as well?

    • 31
      Sukyspook says:

      Update from Nottingham – my middle offspring rang me (I forgot to tell him Jonah was in town). He went to visit a friend and there was an entire street covered in plodmobiles by the Albert Hall – at least 50 he said and he was gobsmacked!! Our taxes at work. Feck off back to Londinium Gordo before we’re flooded here too.

      • 41
        Terry Tibbs says:

        There is a Gala Casino and a RBS headquarters type place by the Albert Hall in Nottingham, don’t suppose he was picking up some freshly printed readies to take down to the casino in a bid to reduce to deficit?

        • 43
          Terry Tibbs says:

          It is not like he is a stranger to gambling away other peoples money after all.

          • Sukyspook says:

            Indeed Terry, indeed and no point in going in to RBS – it’s just numbers on a screen now – want £5billion?? No probs – add some extra noughts – ch ching!

            Ah yes CW – those feckin trams……….grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I’ve never used one – however, when I first started work in Manchester at 16 they still had trolley buses!! Like Beeching, the idiots who got rid of trams originally were merely working for the oil lobbyists – once again and altogether – ch chiiiiiiiiiing!

      • 148
        Attila the coalminer says:

        The Reverend Rushcliffe has a literny on:
        http://parishofnottinghamshire.blogspot.com/
        about todays Notts visit including tram riding

        • 156
          Sukyspook says:

          Nice one Attila – thanks for the link/site which I haven’t seen before……..I might be spending quite some time there from now on (I can hear the cheering lol).

    • 51
      caesars wife says:

      He could have travelled on the tram !! , mind you be fun if experian went down

      • 65
        Terry Tibbs says:

        Shame they didn’t send him down St Anns in my opinion.

        • 107
          Sukyspook says:

          Actually Terry – the toffs wouldn’t need to go to St Anns any more – even the relatively recently regenerated Hockley is a shadow of it’s pre-£1m EU paving investment now….sigh.

  18. 26
    Master Baiter says:

    Bring back internment for Conservitude scum like bag carrier Guidiot the Big Oaf.

    Hahahaha

    • 42
      TOO FAR says:

      Never be upset or influenced by small children and idiots….. and MB, TAT and Jonty and people who can’t spell!!!!!

      Need another glass of red Ho! and pissheads

      Have a good one GF or P.S. !!

    • 384
      Bill D'Sarse says:

      Unfortunately something that’ll never happen to your lot eh Baiter?

      How much did it cost you to bribe the fucking pigs to learn to look the other way all the time?

      What is it, 3500 new offences since 1997 and your c’unts havent been found guilty of a single fucking one of them, despite bleeding the rest of us dry, dangerous driving, illegal wars, employing illegal immigrants….

      Laws are for the little people arent they? Bit like taxes.

      Not for the New Labour Nomenklatura…. heaven forbid…

      Dunno why Cyclops doesnt just rename No10 to “The Kremlin” and have done with it.

  19. 27
    Anonymous says:

    You are not Westminster news and gossip.

    You are a fat man who blogs.

    You should delete this.

    • 35
      rooneys bald head says:

      ” You are a fat man who blogs ” Fucking brilliant

    • 96
      (yes I am a cunt / no I am not nu labour) says:

      While we are on the subject of pointless personal attacks.

      Also
      Emily Nomates and ToryBear are also very peculiar as human beings.
      There is something not right with the both of them, mentally and physically.

      Also
      I am amused by the contrast between the dashing Guido graphic cartoon and the physical specimen that the jarringly high-pitched voice comes out of.

      • 104
        blue remembered chills says:

        Ere, we can’t ‘ave a сunt wivart New Labour mate, it’s just not done round ‘ere.

    • 394
      fruitcake says:

      Gordon Brown then, is a slobby one-eyed undemocratically created PM who’s fucking this country sideways…

      …oh yes he is, no shit Sherlock (and you can stay out of this Oaten)

  20. 30
    albacore says:

    A man of Fawkes’ calibre unable to obtain a replacement hi-tech essential for 3 (count ‘em) days?
    I’d've thought they’d be queuing-up to heap chauffeur-delivered free ones on you just for this plug.
    Not been throwing the poor thing at Emily have you?

  21. 32
    Anonymous says:

    Guido, if you need something to pass the time try this:

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/19/breaking-news-story-hadley-cru-has-apparently-been-hacked-hundreds-of-files-released/

    Government agency losing data, warmists and climate-change sceptics raging at each other, conspiracy theories, all good fun.

  22. 33
    DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

    You’ll just have to spend your time drinking beer instead. That’s what I’d do.

  23. 36
    Seanski says:

    Easy answer…. Semaphore,very green and good excersise too.

  24. 37
    Anonymous says:

    Murphy’s

  25. 39
    Saltpetre says:

    Just buy a new one on expenses… and then get a gold-plated helicopter to bring it to you…..oh dear.. sorry… you’re not a Westminster MP are you…better go down to Tottenham Court Road – can buy anything for cash there !

  26. 40
    nell says:

    I thought it was gordon who was in virtual limbo.

    Apparently he doesn’t even know how to use a computer let alone a blackberry.

    But then he wouldn’t want to have access to the news and public opinion because he believes that he’s a popular PM that the public thinks has all the right answers.

    He wouldn’t want to hear the truth on the web, that he’s the most hated and distrusted of PM’s ever.

  27. 44
    Gordon Brown says:

    Guido,my dear chap!
    Let me throw a spare blackberry curve in your direction on my way out tonight.
    The very best of luck in your endeavours in the unlikely event that I fail in my mission to deliver it.

  28. 45
    Lizzie says:

    Enjoy the peace of limited technology Guido, your wife might enjoy some extra attention, and a good bottle of that Rose you talked about, I am sure will get you through to the other side of the week end.

    • 195
      thick as thieves says:

      but I am not at all sure you will make it to the other side of the weekend if you come here posting sentimental fucking slush like that lizzie.
      this is clearly not the place for an uptight catherine cookson loving spastic like you lizzie.
      why don’t you fuck off to conservativefoam, eh love?
      thanx.
      ps. don’t come back you silly bitch.

      • 205
        Knight in Rusty Armour says:

        I say old chap, no way to address a lady, what?

        Do fuck off, old bean.

        • 214
          thick as thieves says:

          lizzie, we know that is you posting as knight in rusty armour you retard.
          the reason your brains are being bashed out is because you are a party troll, it is nothing personal you understand, it is strictly business.
          look at at this way: toughen up or fuck off.
          top boy says it is not acceptable for a troll to complain when they are smashed over the head by the great thick as thieves.
          thick as thieves bashes trolls, it is what he does, you cannot expect him not to cave your skull in when you come here whingeing and moaning and pushing the party line.
          if you do not like that arrangement then you will just have to fuck off.
          innit.

        • 250
          Lizzie says:

          Thank you, it is good to see chivalry is not dead in Britain ….yet!

      • 249
        Lizzie says:

        Oh dear, somebody called “tat” is full of himself! I think Guido runs this blog mate, get over yourself!

    • 359
      Mr Patel's emporium of over-priced groceries, I even mark up goods with the RRP printed on the packet says:

      Knew a Lizzie once. Nice girl, great in the sack and great company. Wanted a very rich chap though and I was merely some rough. Last seen hunting in the House of Lords bar, I do hope she found what she wanted.

      Very good very good.

  29. 46
    Sent from my two cans connected by string device says:

    Why the bullet hole?

  30. 47
    Dave "Cast Iron Guarantee" Cameron says:

    This sounds like an ideal opportunity to bury some bad news this week-end then

  31. 49
    Road_Hog says:

    Good for you, enjoy your weekend in peace.

  32. 50
    roadrunner says:

    If it was a bullet that blackberry saved your life,who’s out to get you Guido?apart from the entire HoC that is.

    • 52
      caesars wife says:

      yeah i wondered that it does look like a bullet hole , mind you could be a stilleto , just hope you paid cash at spearmint rhinos

  33. 56
    Jimmy says:

    Hundreds of guidophiles forced to form their own opinions for an entire weekend.

    Doesn’t bear thinking about.

  34. 57
    Anonymous says:

    Any reason for death Guido? Or was it an accident?

  35. 58
    Jonny says:

    So funny you Londoners

  36. 60
    Brown - the colour of shit says:

    Comment from the posts on the Nottingham newspaper reporting Brown and his thugs visit to the city today;

    “Would the men in suits object if we follow Gordon with a baseball bat?”

    Brilliant.

    The defeat that Brown is about to suffer in the election will be so stunning that they will ask for another attempt,citing election fraud.

    • 67
      Sweet Rose says:

      If the Tories win the next election you will no longer have this blog as it would not have a purpose.All the stinking venom will have flowed away on the river of hate.You will have no need to keep up with the news because you will be worshipping the great God Cameron.Therefore get used to blackberry free days.There is a new moon out there,enjoy it.

      • 74
        Oh lawdy says:

        I have seen New Moon thanks, Edward and Bella get back together at the end.

      • 77
        Brown Bread says:

        “All the stinking venom will have flowed away on the river of hate.”

        Bye Gordon!

      • 89
        nell says:

        rose sweetie , some of us on here, ( by no means all ) may think cameron has to be the next option because brown is so useless.

        But the nature of politics means that no PM is going to be all things to all people.

        Therefore there is always going to be room for political comment, criticism and dissatisfaction. Actually that’s called democracy.

        There will always be a place for blogs like this regardless of whose in power.

        • 110
          Sukyspook says:

          Nice one Nell ;0) I’ll be here…..(note to self AGAIN – life: get one).

        • 170
          13eastie says:

          Thankfully, I spent barely any time at all in the UK during the 1970’s and I enjoyed a comfortable winter of discontent in the tropics.

          Fortunately, I picked up enough bad vibes then that I never considered voting Labour subsequently for an instant, however dismal the Tories became.

          I have a British passport. I’ve served in the British Army. I love this country.

          If Labour get in again, I will retire immediately to fairer climes and will not come back. Labour will never waste another penny of mine.

          In 1979, the nation collectively said, “Never again”. But people who should have known much better let Labour back in.

          As with every Labour government, they will leave power having increased unemployment. The have run out of other people’s money, much of which has been wasted on needless failed social experimentation. The entrepreneurship on which we depend has been dealt a crushing blow during thirteen years of prescribed dependency on the state. (Napoleon once called us a ‘Nation of Shopkeepers’. We are now a nation of Town Hall automatons and benefit scroungers).

          The economy is in tatters and, once more, we are the sick man of Europe.

          We have had the worst recession of any major economy just now, our own worst on record. The country is bust, more so than at any time since WWII.

          We have truly become Little Britain.

          Come the summer, we go into “Lest we forget” mode.

          Labour must never be allowed near Government again.

          The Tories must be forced to reject all Labour’s class war nonsense, however unpopular this seems at the time.

          Despite what the Queen would have had us believe yesterday, we cannot eradicate the national debt by making it illegal!

          Someone is going to have to fucking well pay. It won’t be the Labour Party, so we need new business activity to step in and face down the horrible tax burden.

          If the UK loses its competitive position as the easiest place in Europe to invest and do business, we are all going to be fucked. Nonsensical, EU-driven, Luddite employment laws, designed to bring Britain down to a common level of continental mediocrity, must be thrown out.

          Driving the banks out of London would be catastrophic.

          If we’ve learned anything from the last thirty years, it’s that the job of keeping Labour out is a life-long one.

          Guido will still have his uses after the summer!

      • 187
        Susie says:

        Do you really think we’ll have forgotten the NuLabour hell we endured for 12 years after just a couple of months of Cameron?

        I’m usually a good sport, but how I shall enjoy kicking Labour when they’re down. Oh yesssss! Guido can keep us updated for years on how they’re suffering out of office and I’ll tune in to hear the good news.

  37. 62
    Mr Ned says:

    guido, You have all my sympathy. My ISP lost connectivity where I am for most of today. My I phone could not pick up 3G today either and here in Cumbria was a blackout zone after a bit of rain.

    I felt like I had both my arms cut off!

    Thankfully, Virgul Brigman is back on the air!!!

  38. 64
    Down with Brown! says:

    How did your Blackberry die? Is there an attempt to destroy your conspiracy?

  39. 66
  40. 68
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1229469/Father-shoots-dead-son-15-sexually-abusing-half-sister.htm

    FUCKING GOOD JOB!

    I would have let the little twat keep his clothes on but well done that man.
    The man deserves a medal

  41. 70
    shelling-out says:

    I can survive without a mobile. I have done for years. Both my sons are joined at the hip to theirs and they ring constantly. It would drive me mad.

    The internet does all I want.

  42. 71
    Engineer says:

    Never mind Guido, you could always buy a newspaper to find out what’s going on. Or listen to the Beeb…

    I’ll get me coat….

    • 103
      nell says:

      A newspaper?!!

      Good Lord we still have a beadle with a bell and a pamphleteer who anonymously nails the news to the church door on a saturday night so that the parish can read it as they go to church on a sunday!!!

      • 273
        Cyco Billy says:

        A beadle?!

        Great Balls of Fire the way things are going I am expecting soon to have to find the real news by strangling a cat and inspecting its entrails.

        • 335
          Engineer says:

          Since you mention it, the nation’s cat population is rather excessive, and having very negative effects on the songbird population. I like the dawn chorus, but not yowling moggies. A bit of entrail-reading would be good news in itself.

  43. 79
    Sir William Waad says:

    Goodbye Blackberry Way
    I can’t see you, I don’t need you.
    Goodbye Blackberry Way
    Sure to want it back another day.

  44. 84
    nell says:

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5igud4bRGXpVJ9ngOcpBgiSFti9ag

    Talking of mobile phones and blackberries – I see that gordon has said he has every confidence in hattie harpic after it has emerged that the CPS are going to prosecute her for driving into a stationary vehicle whilst gossiping on her mobile phone.

    I just wonder whether there is any crime this labour crew could commit that would provoke gordon into sacking them??? I don’t actually think there is !!!Employing illegal immigrants? Robbing the public purse? Fleeing the scene of an accident without providing name address and insurance details? Drink driving? Attacking a police officer whilst under the influence of drink? Fraud?

    All crimes one or the other of this labour crew have already committed and no-one as yet has been convicted!!!

    I think gordon is privately saying “Anything goes for members of the labour government. Go out there and get on with it whilst you can”! Especially whilst Guido’s blackberry is out of operation!!

  45. 85
    Ken Lorp says:

    Guido,

    I’m sure Mrs Fawkes and the little Miss Fawkes’ will doubtlessly relish the undivided attention they will get this weekend!

  46. 88
    Gaius Valerius says:

    Mourn, O Graces and Loves,
    And those men who are of the Graces:
    Guido’s blackberry is dead,
    The blackberry, delight of our Guido,
    Whom he loved more than his eyes.
    For sweet was its way with him,
    And it knew him as well as a girl her mother.
    Nor would it move from his lap—
    But, hopping this way and that way,
    Would sing for Guido alone.
    Now he goes on the dark path,
    The one, it is said, no one comes back from.
    Evil be with you, evil darknesses
    Of Orcus, who swallow all beautiful!
    For you have taken from Guido his lovey blackberry.
    Ah, unkind doing! Ah, poor blackberry!
    It is your work, that, of Guido,
    The eyes are red and heavy with weeping.

  47. 98
    Vloating Foter says:

    GO COMPARE! GO COMPARE!

    Shut the fuck up, you twat.

  48. 99
    Sir William Waad says:

    Meanwhile Gord has only 18 days left to save the world….Yggdrasil shudders and quakes, while the great wolf Fenrir grows ravenous…..

  49. 102
    brown envelope says:

    Boy loses old bat, boy gets girl, boy gets boy, boy loses boy, boy regains old bat.

    Classic entertainment.

  50. 108
    DelBoy says:

    Ha ha ha. Vodafone cut me off without any warning, the gits. Problem at Natsweat I hear. Bugger them I can get calls but can’t make em.

    I hate bloody Children In Need.
    They refuse to give any money to my fave children’s heart charity because we couldn’t tell ‘em how many effniks we help – any that bloody ask, the turds.

    • 200
      DelBoy says:

      Bin modd2wice now. That bloody bear.

    • 340
      Mr Patel's emporium of over-priced groceries, I even mark up goods with the RRP printed on the packet says:

      Fucking hate children in need too. How the fuck can there be any children in need in the uk considering the vast taxes they take. Children should be a priority, along with defence, there should be no children in any fucking need! Same as our forces should want for nothing.

      A mate shaved his head for these children in need. He’s no longer a mate, after I suggested he pays for his own fucking hair cuts. Hoon.

  51. 112
    nell says:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229586/US-senator-wants-bomber-jail.html

    Guido – News tonight that you might be missing – al megrahi who was so ill that he might die any day as a conse gordon had campaigned for his release, is still alive, released now vfrom hospital and ‘living quite comfortably’

  52. 114
    ☭ordon Brown says:

    Don’t get a Nokia.

    They don’t last five minutes.

    • 194
      Susie says:

      My own’s lasted 10 years — the last 5 with a whacking great crack across the screen — great little phone, I can’t tell you the model number, because it’s worn off.

  53. 115
    nell says:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229586/US-senator-wants-bomber-jail.html

    Guido – News tonight that you might be missing – al megrahi who was so ill that gordon said he would die, imminently , is not only still alive 3 months after his release, but is at home and living very comfortably, thankyou.

    Did gordon lie??? Surely Not!! He is The Son of the Manse!! The Only Man in Britain with a Moral Compass!!!!

    • 145
      Bob Page says:

      What are the odds of him still being around at election time? Could be pretty embarrassing for Gorgon down here and the SNP up there.

    • 210

      I knew someone who was given 6 months to live. They managed to make a year before their willpower just wasn’t enough.

  54. 117
    DelBoy says:

    I heard on the radio tonight (and last) that training Surgeons don’t think they will ever be as good as the current generation due to the effect of the Working Tinme Directive.
    I brought this issue to the attention of a Senior Conservative MP over a year ago in relation to Children’s Cardiac Surgery to avoid another Bristol Children’s debacle. Guess what I got back?
    Platitudes from Liam Byrne ( as unbelievable then as now).

    • 131
      barefootcontessa says:

      Liam Byrne is one big platitude.

    • 152
      Stronghold Barricades says:

      The simple answer is you have to take less money per doctor in salary, and then you can employ more doctors to fill the shifts without inflating the salary budget

      For too long the doctors have worked too many hours, for little reward, so now you have to rebalance the £/hour rate of employment

      If it takes longer to do the apprenticeship then that needs to be built into the career plan.

      It is what happens in the real world

      • 185
        Infanta of Castile says:

        Sadly, that isn’t a simple answer. The medical profession is now so regulated that a fat chunk of every doc’s life is used on a pile of non clinical stuff – appraisal, attending diversity courses, auditing against targets, and so on. This chunk of time is fairly constant, regardless of how many hours you work so one doc working 60 hours a week is far more efficient in terms of time spent on patient care than two docs working 30 hours.

        When ministers blather on about more doctors and nurses than ever before etc. the key question to ask is ‘how many full time equivalents are there?’. I don’t know the answer but I doubt if it is more than it was 12 years ago and, in terms of hours spent directly on patient care, it is probably less.

  55. 118
    Ampers says:

    Looks like a bullet hole to me Guido – who could possibly be after you?

    HTC Hero, best phone I have ever played with, it was my job to play with phones as well.

    • 124
      .243 Win says:

      Nah. Looks more like the impact damage from a misplaced pint of the black stuff.

      Either that or Guido’s been perfecting his Prime Mentalist impressions. Interns have been mentioned…

      • 133
        nell says:

        Wow!!

        Was that a hole made by a ‘randomly’ thrown, prime ministerial, nokia, just after Her Maj had delivered gordon’s rubbish speech, and he had heard everyone in parliament, including Guido, laughing up their sleeve at his feeble effort. ??!!

  56. 121
    David says:

    Get an iPhone.

  57. 122
    Down with Brown! says:

    ***JONAH ALERT******

    Gordon drones on about x-factor. News come out that Simon Cowell had dinner with CMD.

    http://page.politicshome.com/uk/simon_cowell_in_private_meeting_with_david_cameron.html

    • 154
      Dave "Cast Iron Guarantee" Cameron says:

      Listen I gave Simon a cast iron guarantee that George Osborne and myself would appear on X Factor to support John & Edward Grimes (Jedward)

  58. 126
    Anonymous says:

    Why the weekend off? is he some sort of pikey gippo – no desktop or laptop?

    I thought he’d be techno’d up to the hilt – surely a sponsor can help out.

    ‘Sent from my Blackcurrant’ – so annoying to read in email. Still, better than them waving their small dick at you instead I suppose.

  59. 127

    What happened to the Sony-Ericsson Xperia ?

  60. 129
    barefootcontessa says:

    Let me remind you Guido that Any Questions is currently on Radio 4. Various politicians are taking part including H Harman……… Enjoy!

  61. 130
    Odds Bodkins says:

    Guido,

    Think of this as a brief, quiet respite from the stress and complexities of modern life while you enjoy your pint. Emerge refreshed and ready to continue your monumental task of exposing hypocrisy, humbug and hubris.

    Reduction in information = simpler life = less brain damage.

  62. 134
    The Chairman says:

    HTC Touch HD does it for me. And IF you really can’t manage Mob Windows(sad), Opera is built-in.
    Love the massive screen and proper “cut & paste”.

  63. 135
    Magog says:

    OT Sorry, but has anyone else noticed that the BBC have shut down open comments on the “Have Your Say” section of their website?

    The now only invite you to ‘Send Your Comments’.

    If these ‘comments’ are approved by the BBC censors, they might just appear on the web page under the heading: “Here are some of your comments”.

    “Some” being the operative word here, I think.

    Obviously they though that open comments might be a bit problematical in the run up to a General Election.

    Fascist wankers!

  64. 137
    Peter M's friend says:

    Gordon has to feel the same feelings of rejection all over again as he is once again traded in for a younger model.

    Tony and Gordon, Gordon and Dave.

    This time he might top himself if we do not handle it well.

  65. 139
    Anonymous says:

    By the looks of the blackberry it looks as if it has had the El Gordo treatment.

  66. 140
    Kevin T says:

    A “blackberry”. I think I’ve heard of that. Wasn’t it like a prehistoric iPhone? The dinosaurs used to get emails from work on them? Back in the days before the wheel and the App Store.

  67. 141
    barefootcontessa says:

    Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. Shakespeare, Henry IV.

  68. 142
    Scrobs... says:

    What’s wrong with semaphore then eh?

    Take a tip from Wuthering heights by Monty Python…

  69. 144
    barefootcontessa says:

    How pertinent!…………… Tristram Hunt rhymes with…….. twat!

  70. 147
    Agent 99 says:

    I have just been watching this program Queen in 3D. A friend passed some of those free glasses to wear so I have watched part of it. A couple of things have struck me about the situation.

    It seemed not so long ago that the first TV came into living rooms I do remember that. We were actually very very lucky to have one. The grainy black magic box in the corner we thought was beyond belief we jsut could not get over it. Now as I pointed out the 3D to my teenage daughter I was tols yeah dad old hat. Ho hum!

    Most importantly watching the people there watching Her Maj at the coronation. I sit here and just wonder how we went from that wonderful society of make do but one of honour and respect to this one we now have or want everything little respect and law makers are law breakers. How did we allow our once beautiful country and that comradeship to be sold down the river for this undemocratic antagonistic situation.

    I do hope those in the future forgive us for letting this happen but somehow I think they probably won’t and in fairness we probably don’t deserve forgiveness. I have never ever voted Labour and never ever would but we all share the responsibility.

    It happened on our watch.

    • 153
      shelling-out says:

      Some of us have complained bitterly about what’s happened.

      Unfortunately, our successive governments have been a law unto themselves and have systematically ignored the requests and pleas of their people.

      They are now reaping what they’ve sown, and we’re paying for it!

      • 182
        rick says:

        “Those in the future” will not know what they have missed – and that’s the trouble, they will have no incentive to try and get it back. What I miss most is the unbelievable freedom we used to have and took for granted.

        • 204
          Susie says:

          I’m so glad other people feel the same… growing up in the ’50s and ’60s was truly a golden age for most of us. Standards existed to strive for, exams were proper tests of knowledge and worked for and achievement meant something.

          Everyone who’d lived through the war years was just grateful and glad to be alive and at peace with themselves and each other. All gone trampled into the dust.

  71. 148
    Afghanistan Banana Stand says:

    O/T

    Just watching a program on Sky History Channel entitled “The Prime Minister is Missing”
    It’s about Harold Holt, the Aussie PM who went missing in the sea in 1967.

    Still.

    One can dream, eh?

    • 158
      Agent 99 says:

      Well thats what McDoom does everytime something goes wrong is it not?

      • 165
        Gorgon, the Monetary Moron, inept, false, duplicitous, facile, scribbler, arsehole, and lunatic says:

        Ye Skunna, – ahm fearless – me!

        Ah write books on courage.

        Take that!

  72. 151
    Browned Off says:

    Who are these peopele applauding Harriet Harpeson on Any Questions? On now as I write.

    The woman is mad – so are her supporters.

    • 155
      jus saying says:

      It’s friday night apart from us too old or can’t afford to go out, it’s the lentil eating wooly jumpers, die hards night to pounce about like they own the manor as everyone else is out getting pissed and rat faced.

      • 166
        Nanny State, simpering, says:

        And NONE of them smoke – OR drink alcohol !!

        Aren’t they dears – and they only want to do good in the world, – and tell people how to live their lives!

        Bless!

  73. 157
    Off with their heads says:

    Not to worry Mr. Fawkes.. Dan Hannan is helping your cause:

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100017426/probably-the-worst-party-political-broadcast-ever/

  74. 160
    Anonymous says:

    Fuck me, even with one eye Gordo Broon managed to hit the target with his new rifle – you were lucky not to be killed by that bullet Guido. The Blackberry saved your life!

  75. 161
    caesars wife says:

    LOl harriet was on any questions R4 , she got well booed , came up with sub judcie excuse for phone call smash bit .

    • 164
      caesars wife says:

      Forgot to add just seen cleggs fireside chat political broad cast , reminded me of labours land of plenty and a bit disengenious on the scale of tax rises let alone extra one for EU .

      CW gives it the full 5 pap rating

  76. 162

    You are indeed an unfortunate man, Mr Falks. It will be a good idea that you get a replacement phone very soon, I do hope.
    I will soon be texting my EU citizens with exciting new policy announcements and the mobile phone will indeed be a prerequisite as you British are proud to say.

  77. 163

    Suggest – go down to the country, paint your mailbox blue.

    • 169
      Jon1 says:

      You’ll have to talk to the Mrs (without interrupting yourself) and play with your kid over the weekend then.

      Have fun!

      • 171
        Jon1 says:

        Thinking about this, you would have been better not to let the Mrs know that your Blackberry was broken, now you have no excuses whatsoever, for not talking to her all weekend. Had you NOT mentioned it, you could have pretended to have just gotten a critically important message that you had to deal with ASAP.

        Also….. this is now of course a very good weekend for the Nulabour “government” to try and bury bad news! Less chance of Guido being around on-line to respond quickly to take the justified piss out of them.

        Go for it Gordon and Mandy!!

  78. 168
    HASH GORDON (SAVIOUR OF THE UNIVERSE) says:

    Goodbye blackberry way, Guido wants you back another day !

  79. 173
    The Ape man commeth says:

    Here’s something for the weekend:
    THE PARABLE OF THE EYE OF THE SQUINT-EYED.
    A squint-eyed son asked his father (the manse), O thou whose words are as a key to the things that are locked up, why saidst thou that a squinter sees double? I see no more things than there are; if a squint-eyed person counted things crookedly, the two moons that are in the heavens would seem four

    • 183

      That’s terrible! My Blackberry isn’t dead, though it’s never been all that good. I think this is probably because I am with Orange…

      Incidentally, there could be trouble in the climate change camp. It seems they have been keeping a lot of data secret. Why would they feel the need to do this?

      Hacktavist publishes secret climate change data. Will this embarrass Al Gore?

      • 230
        D L George says:

        Will it embarrass Al Gore?…

        “And, he explained, with references to the US government’s apparently negative stance on climate warming – which former vice president Al Gore has been trying to publicise for years – the data leak could cause severe ructions on Capitol Hill”

        It’s Bush and co that will have red faces by the sounds of it. I wanted to read it but the link on your site’s down. Any other links?

        • 235
          D L George says:

          OK then.

          Some people think it’s genuine, others think it’s a deliberate hoax to embarrass people involved in the up coming climate talks. Another lot reckon it’s a hoax to convince climate change deniers and then reveal it all to be folly.

          Anyone fancy reading 61MB of data to find out?

  80. 186
    gone fuckin mental says:

    shocking , that mean no guidogram ?

  81. 192
    HASH GORDON (SAVIOUR OF THE UNIVERSE) says:

    That is just like my phone i have no screen i can’t see my messages or who is phoning me it’s my buisness phone and i dont give a fuck !

  82. 196
    Agent 99 says:

    comment of the night on pb.com

    43: It will be the headline in the Mirror the day after the election:

    “Massive Landslide to the Tories- Cameron Devastated”

    by NigelJ November 20th, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    hahaha..nice one

    • 208
      Agent 99 says:

      and the reply was

      46. And the BBC.

      “Some say this is a disaster for Cameron”.

      The some being Crick, Waitlis, Flanders, Davies…

      by John R November 20th, 2009 at 1:39 pm

      Double hahaha

    • 267
      Lizzie says:

      Or it could read, “Massive landslide to the Tories, Brown cries electoral fraud, he wants a recount of all votes cast across the country”. Even if Brown is the so called “political heavyweight” he won’t be able to change the result.

  83. 197
    • 207
      DelBoy says:

      Perhaps he should take some expert advice – then listen to it and maybe then follow it.

      • 224
        TOO FAR says:

        Incredable, isn’t it? a labour minister making a mistake, so unusual….FFS, NOBODY TAKES ANY NOTICE ANYMORE….. bit like shell shock. We all accept it as the norm.
        Just think you labour voters what you gave the UK 4& half years ago.
        NOW would anyboby vote for Prescot, Harman, Brown, Balls(UP)….. A monkey with a red roset?

        Wake up in labour land. They sold our right to make our own laws to the soviet EU WITHOUT ASKING US. WHY? because they not “up to the job”
        Think… is that too…. FFS much?

        • 244
          Lizzie says:

          Some people are gluttons for punishment. You have to question some people’s state of mind to keep voting for a party such as Labour who continue to deliver pain to the public. They only spent 11.4 billion in October to add the the other trillions of our money they are frittering away. I think Labour voters should take a long hard look at Gordon Brown, the man is a bully and looks a wreck, and then decide if they want another five years of torture from him and his Brownies.

    • 212
      christy says:

      To Billy.
      Yes I watched Mr SO WHAT Balls ,playing his usual game,but getting caught out in the end.The bloated puffed up arsehole is typical of these Liebour numpties on their individual ego trips.
      I also saw some answers to exam questions recently,try these for size:-
      What is Sir Walter Raleigh famous for? Ans:He invented cigarettes and bicycles.
      Where to people called Malays come from?Ans Malaria.
      What is a Fibula?Ans A little lie.
      Why do people live next to a power station?Ans So they can get their electricity faster.
      What is a free press?Ans When your mum presses your trousers.
      Name six animals that live in the arctic?Ans two polar bears and four seals.
      Balls is having a bloody laugh at our kids expense, education, education,education that was the Bliar mantra,sooner we get this bunch out and start getting back to real values in education the better.

    • 213

      That’s classic Balls, is that.

    • 290
      Down with Brown! says:

      Some leftie blogs had the video and hearlded it as the moment that Balls made Gove look an idiot. No, it was stupid Ballsup wo was shown to be the childish idiot and not for the first time.

  84. 199
    Anonymous says:

    According to Channel 4 news, Peter Mandelson was against Baroness whatshername getting the EU Foreign Minister job because he wanted it for himself and was heard giving Gorgon an earful at Number 10.

    • 218
      christy says:

      To Anonymous.
      Not surprised he wanted it himself,would do his ego and bank balance a power of good.
      Ms Ashton comes from my neck of the woods,from farming stock,not done much,some health authority position and a minor operator in CND.
      Never been elected to anything,what a grand appointment by the EUSSR commissars,shot and foot spring to mind.

    • 245
      Lizzie says:

      Oh dear pretty Peter missed out on a top EU job, this now leaves him free to go after the top job in Britain. Brown your days could be numbered! The man is forever schemeing, the snake in the grass waiting to strike, this is what happens when you are driven by money and power and not necessarily in that order.

    • 263
      A spiteful and vicious man says:

      Some reports in today’s papers suggest Brown supported Ashton for the EUSSR foreign job rather than pushing a Brit for one of the major economic and trade roles to spite the Tories and to knock Minibanana down a peg or two.

      • 266
        Lizzie says:

        It’s called “politics”. Brown still practices it against anyone he feels is a threat to his authority and position, even though his old mate McBride doesn’t hold his hand anymore. I wonder who pushed for Harman to be prosecuted, questions, questions.

    • 292
      Baron Von Ripwinkle says:

      I think you have all missed the point. The fact you are arguing or even discussing this point is tantamount to acceptance that this is a credible role. It is not, it never will be and it won’t be until someone gives us the public a vote whether we want to be part of this or not.

      Remember, No taxation without representation !!

      • 346
      • 368
        Billy Sarsted says:

        Baron, this is merely a side issue, I think most people on this blog would like to introduce the EU to a new word, “goan”
        as in- “goan fuck yourself”

      • 374
        Lizzie says:

        I think we need a vote on whether we want Brown for PM don’t you, something denied us to date, and he is the man throwing away all your money, now I think that is more important.

  85. 209
    Agent 99 says:

    Well that Queens speech policy lasted 5 mins

    Gordon Brown fights for his elderly care reforms as objections grow

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6924288.ece

    • 242
      Lizzie says:

      Short on Queen’s speech, shorter on the content of Queen’s speech. We suffer, we suffer, we suffer!

  86. 217
    Del Boy says:

    Anyone know how much a stolen HTC, Iphone or Blackberry sells for these days?

  87. 221
    thick as thieves says:

    so what would happen if the eu president was assassinated or had a heart attack or was blown up by terrorists or if he overdosed on cocaine or heroin, who would replace him?

    • 222
      is a shit band and dead guy who caused WW1 says:

      Franz Ferndinad

    • 234

      The King of the Belgians, naturally!

      As the whole thing is unelected, why not have the Royal Families of Europe have a rotating Emperorship? Be cheaper, in the long run.

    • 344
      Engineer says:

      The EU commissioners would get together for another nine-hour twenty-course banquet (at our expense) and annoint another mug – er, sorry, candidate to do their bidding. There’s half a billion people to choose from, so there’s plenty of scope.

      • 356
        thick as thieves says:

        it is a serious question guys.
        what would happen if the eu president got a bullet in the head like JFK.
        it is not an unlikely possiblitly as so many people within europe are against the fascist and corrupt EU and its parliament. across eastern europe the anti EU consensus is equally strong and therefore it is a very real possibility that the eu president could be assassinated by a disaffected and anti EU group, or even by a lone gunman or a group of lone gunmen working in tandem.
        let us not shirk the nasty details of such a scenario for it could happen at any moment and then the EU would be leaderless.
        BANG BANG and the president’s brains would be splattered all over the shop.
        and so I ask again: who would replace the EU president?
        there is only one answer to that question innit: barosso the communist.
        barosso the midget communist is the main protagonist and propagandist of the EU and so he would resign from his current post to be chosen as the EU president.
        such an outcome does ofcourse beg a further question: what would happen if barosso was made president of the EU and if he was assassinated as well.
        top boy thinks such a double assassination of successive EU presidents would lead to the dissolution of the european parliament and the revocation of the lisbon treaty.

  88. 232
    Guido Fox News says:

    Yes Ms Palin

  89. 233
    tajblue says:

    “your comment is awaiting moderation”

    Now there’s a surprise!!

    • 278
      Jim says:

      Baroness Ashton is a typical member of Common Purpose, a group actively working to subvert and destroy traditional British society.

      CP, the Fabian Society, and the higher echelons of the Labour Party are the active descendants of the Frankfurt School, a group of Marxists who set out to destroy the West, particularly the US, UK, and Germany, by stealth employing subtle propaganda and the tyranny of political corectness, and “multi-culturalism.

      http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/articles/MacDonald-WheatlandII.html

      • 315
        Stop Common Purpose says:

        Notice how she never has been elected to a job she has got them through blackmail and underhand tactics of the common purpose order.

        • 353
          Ratsniffer says:

          “Notice how she never has been elected to a job she has got them through blackmail and underhand tactics of the common purpose order.”

          You’d think they’d be a bit nervous of unelected leaders….after what has happened in the past. I mean people like Stalin…..ooops….what am I saying…he’s their hero.

          • BillyBob poops on ZaNuLab says:

            Yes of course, left = good and right = bad

            Stalin never killed or ordered anyone to be killed, never ever………and marxists are just cuddly teddy bears. Marxist regimes have never ever been responsible for the killing of millions and millions of people, now way !!

      • 332
        Dave says:

        That’s a real eye-opener. Explains a lot of what’s going on these days.

      • 349
        Ratsniffer says:

        These are the sad sacks who wept when the berlin wall came down and the soviets realised that communism was crap.

        Now they are creating a new EUSSR – a re-run of their university marxist debating society circle jerks…only this time it is for real and we’re paying for it.

  90. 237
    The Quite Man says:

    Does anyone out there know if Baroness Ashton is still getting paid as a member of House of Lords?

    • 246
      Lizzie says:

      Well she won’t be there much if she is trotting around the EU, so she won’t earn much, Lords only get paid on the days they attend the House.

  91. 239
    freddie flintoff says:

    eh up lads , i see they are still at it .

    Shoot em up the arse and guido get better sponsers

  92. 240
    freddie flintoff says:

    Just for laugh lads , have a butchers at this

  93. 241
    Agent 99 says:

    Ve vill ensure the top gruppenfuher job iz not yours

    Calls from Angela Merkel told Tony Blair he would not get EU’s top job

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/nov/20/tony-blair-gordon-brown-eu-row?CMP=AFCYAH

    Well its the gruniad so has to be true

  94. 251
    Anonymous says:

    Guido , I have a question.
    Here in Scotland we have lost a superior blogger who claims to have been
    ” attacked ” at home and work by several newspapers, threatening his liveliehood.
    I know OH had problems at one time, how do you protect yourself?
    Or are you now too big for the powers that be to take nasty action against you?
    The blogger involved was exposing some devastating truths which made uncomfortable reading for the media and therefore the Labour party.
    The media in Scotland is a disgrace to truth and integrity with few exceptions.
    Last night we had two gleeful news programmes covering the arrival of an extra large WMD , we were told how wonderful this was for Faslane and how it protected Scottish jobs when the entire country and some wants rid of these evils on the Clyde – parked next to the largest population in Scotland.
    Not to mention the leaks , the Scottish media tries NOT to mention them.

  95. 252
    restandbthankful says:

    Queen’s speech? Did I miss something? Did little Lord Mandelgrub say something ?

    Sad about you Blueberry Guido.

  96. 253
    restandbthankful says:

    245 I watched that with utter disdain last night. WTF are these people on.

    I see the Scottish Government are now dictating what we should watch on STV – more and more of Lorraine can’t speak for giggling Kelly and more Scottish propaganda along the lines of the latest Government Queens Speech political broadcast – it’s all crap and more crap funded by the Scottish “government”.

  97. 256
    Arse says:

    Fawkes, you fucking sad bastard!

  98. 257
    Dave "Cast Iron Guarantee" Cameron says:

    As the leader of Her Majesty’s loyal opposition I do hope that members of the publlis will dig deep this week-end,which is the annual event “POLITICIANS IN NEED” and there are some 646 identified as such

    Thank you and good morning

  99. 261
    Gordon Out says:

    Looks like the Blackberry took the hit and saved the bullet an your health??!! Where was Damien at the time???

  100. 264
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    Try to enjoy it Guido – this is the past and this is the future.

  101. 265
    HASH GORDON (SAVIOUR OF THE UNIVERSE) says:

    O/T My pension company want me to take my pension now at 52 Is this because there wont be enough money in the potto pay out in a few years time ?

    • 270
      Gordon the Imprudent says:

      Perhaps because annuity rates are so low at the moment you ought to take advice but what do I know I sold gold at the bottom of the market and buggered the best privately funded pension regime in the World with my annual £5 Billion Tax raids on Prive Pension Funds. Small change now of course I need at least £500 Billion now

  102. 274
    • 286
      Ugliness is in the eye of everyone says:

      Could you get an uglier woman than this?

      As for the metal bits and pieces on her bondage outfit,is this a job requirement – that and having been a Health Authority chairman/woman/thing?

    • 291
      minty says:

      It’s all part of Brown’s scorched earth, fuck Britain policy, so all part of the plan really.

  103. 275
    BillyBob poops on ZaNuLab says:

    ***BREAKING NEWS***

    Gordo arriving at Cumbria Police Headquarters to thank them for their efforts during the floods and to pay his respects to the PC who drowned on Thursday evening….

    hmmm…. a human side showing at last? perhaps an election due next year??

    Doe not show his face when our troops, killed in action, return home !!!

  104. 276
    Ed says:

    At least one Tory is still concerned about the dangers of enforced multi-culti swamping our country:

    “Why haven’t any of our would-be MPs got normal English names, asks Tory official Peter Hobbins”

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229637/Why-havent-MPs-got-normal-English-names-asks-Tory-official-Peter-Hobbins.html#ixzz0XUEzrRGw

  105. 279
    Ig Noramus says:

    Come on Guido. Cut to the quick
    This is / could be the greatest political scandal of the century.
    We need more emails from insiders.

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/

    • 296
      duckman says:

      “This is the BBC. The main headlines.

      Reports of a huge scandal surrounding climate change scientists is emerging, showing that man made global warming data has been manipulated to support they’re claims…….”

      And then I woke up.

  106. 280
    BillyBob poops on ZaNuLab says:

    This Mail story about our Politically Correct Royal Navy just sums up the Labour Years, the rank and file must be totally frustrated by the political decisions……

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229654/A-Navy-vessel-just-50ft-away-pirates-kidnapped-British-yacht-couple-Why-didnt-sailors-stop-Human-rights-course-.html

    We have a Government and MOD that tell blatant lies and rewrite events to suit their needs……even when faced with the truth they stand there saying black is white.

    • 317
      Capt Pugwash RN says:

      The pirates are annoyed that no-one in the British Government appears to taking any notice of them or has actually contacted them to arrange a ransom payment. They obviously have no conception of UK policy or the fact that the UK never pays any ransom on any occasion

      The RN crew were fully equipped with “i-pods” though and you can’t risk those nasty pirates taking them off you now can you ? Anyway in fairness to Royal Navy the ROE” are so restrictive and they are instructed by MoD to ensure the pirates Human Rights are respected . In addition if we capture any Somali pirates they can claim political asylum as Somalia is too dangerous to return them to and we have to bring them to the UK for a free house and benefits.

      If the US Navy had been 50ft away when our nationals were being kidnapped the Somali pirates would have been shark-bait by now. The only way to treat these scum.They can argue about their Human Rights from the bottom of the ocean

      • 350
        Yard Arm says:

        Thought that piracy on the high seas was a capital offence ? The sight of several Somali pirates hanging from the, er, yard arm might show their mates that this crime does not pay. Did this bedwetter government abolish the offence as well as giving us 3000 extra laws ?

        The RN has a long and proud record of fighting against piracy and slavery in waters around the world, including off East Africa but this smacks more of our appeasement of the Barbary pirates in the early seventeenth century.

        Now we know what the MOD chair polishers got their bonus for. What we need is an up and at `em admiral like Fisher who in 1914 told the chair polishers that he would make their wives widows and turn their houses into dunghills if they impeded him with red tape.

        No doubt the chair polishers will make any future RN boarding parties wear hi vis jackets and include a Diversity Outreach worker. Christ, the matelots must be seething

        • 360

          By the time Pompey was asked to handle the pirates, they were out of hand — almost destroying commerce, preventing trade between cities and capturing important officials. In order to put an end to their power, laws had to be passed and special powers had to be granted to Pompey in 67 B.C.

          Pompey eliminated the pirate threat within three months

  107. 281
    JH says:

    Gordon Brown is publicity grabbing in flood-hit Cumbria. He posed in front of the TV cameras with a local policeman and grabbed the man’s hand to shake it but held on to it for ages while the cameras were on him. The poor copper looked like he had been sexually assaulted

    • 293
      Brown - the colour of shit says:

      So this Hoon can get all the way up the M6 to Cumbria,but a trip down the M4 to W’ Bassett is just a little too far – yes too far POLITICALLY.

      Utter piece of dogshit Gordon Brown.

      • 308
        If it looks like it - then it probably is says:

        No votes in Wooten Bassett – it’s Tory country- whereas there is in Workington and the surrounding districts.

    • 301
      Doc Trough says:

      Just the thing to do. Piss off the cops when he’ll be needing them e’er long to save his worthless scabby hide.

  108. 285
    Anonymous says:

    Doesn’t the appointment of Van Rompuy and Ashton just go to prove that the governments of Britain, France and Germany etc aren’t really interested in a United States of Europe.

  109. 287
    ian e says:

    So, Guido, isn’t it time to discuss the CRUgate affair concerning hacked emails from Hadley revealing some of the lying, cheating and fudging going on among the climate change ’scientific’ community? See e.g.

    http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2009/11/20/climate-cuttings-33.html

    and

    http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2009/11/hadley-hacked.html

  110. 295
    Down with Brown! says:

    Superb article by Dan Hannan in the Guardian. The Euro lefties no longer believe in democracy:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/20/eu-stitch-up-demeans-democracy

    • 298
      duckman says:

      Dan on the money again regarding the hypocrisy of the left lining up behind, and I paraphrase, “…the most anti democratic and elitist project in the western world.”

      • 299

        Lefties have neve rbelieved in democracy – they’re fucking evil. Plain evil.

        By the way, y’know the lefties mock climate change sceptics, suggesting if MMGW was bullshit, thousands of respected scientists would have to be in on the scam? Well bugger me, they are.

        http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/20/climate-sceptics-hackers-leaked-emails

        So, we know global warming is bullshit – but what does the entire political establishment’s embrace of this fantasy tell us about our world? How? Who? Why?

        There are no pleasant, easily ignored answers.

        • 303
          Raving Loon says:

          Global control, tax and wealth re-distribution.

        • 313
          Evil Lefty says:

          Guardian|
          A spokesman for Greenpeace said: “If you looked through any organisation’s emails from the last 10 years you’d find something that would raise a few eyebrows. Contrary to what the sceptics claim, the Royal Society, the US National Academy of Sciences, Nasa and the world’s leading atmospheric scientists are not the agents of a clandestine global movement against the truth. This stuff might drive some web traffic, but so does David Icke.”

          They have a point.

        • 314
          loki says:

          Already a desperate damage limitation exercise underway, from the look of it.

          • Al Gore (He's not poor) (You will be though if buy this c'unt's bullshit) says:

            Now don’t be so unreasonable guys, you are taking those scientists’ quotes out of context.
            And the other thing I would like make sure everyone understands is that Enron had nothing to do with the Carbon Trading Scheme.
            Any body who says Enron designed the Carbon Trading Scheme is a fucking liar.
            It’s not true I tell you it is simply not true.
            Enron did not design the Carbon Trading Scheme.
            Okay?

          • Hey, didn’t Enron design that Carbon Trading Scheme?

        • 351
          backwoodsman says:

          In a similar vein, its reassuring that one of nulabs favourite tame police , hugh orde, threatened to resign, because the Tories might want to tell him to catch criminals, rather than harrass Brian Hoare et al. Reaction pretty much unanimous, leave the gold plated pention, fuck off and we’ll get someone who can do the job properly.

          • Worse than that though wasn’t it? He said it was against democratic principles for the police to be under any kind of, umm, democratic control…

  111. 302
    Thumper the Rabbit says:

    Welcome to rural Britain, Guido …

  112. 304
    Anonymous says:

    Where did Gordon Brown holiday this year?

  113. 309
    Obama is a Twat says:

    iPhones suck, the only people who own them are Cocaine users and homosexuals… oh hang on everyone at the BBC owns one.

  114. 316
    Anonymous says:

    I have just seen the Prime Mentalist visiting Cumbria. There he was, no neck and all jowls nodding sympathetically with some old dears…
    Oh Dear…Expect more flooding this afternon.

    Bad enough being flooded out of your home. To endure idiot Brown wanting a handshake, that goes beyond punishment.

    • 331
      Obama is a Twat says:

      And all that twat with the face of an abused rent boy (Benn) can prattle on about is climate change (read for that more taxes)

  115. 319
    Anonymous says:

    Gah! McDoom is consoling victims 5 minutes walk from my front door and I haven’t got a gun handy! Remiss of me and I apologise.

  116. 321
    PDM says:

    Gah! McDoom is consoling victims a mere 5 minutes walk from my door and here I am without a gun. I apologise sincerely, though I reckon the Army woudl lend me one if I went down the town and asked nicely.

    • 334
      Yard Arm says:

      PDM at 319.

      Run for it ! Get out now ! The curse of Jonah will descend on your neighbourhood. An asteroid is probably tumbling towards Earth right now.

      • 342
        The worse floods in one Thousand Years says:

        I feel sorry for the couple who had just “completed” to purchase a bungalow in Cockermouth and went to check over the property on Friday morning to find it under 5 ft of muddy flood water. Was Brown doing their conveyancing ?? Flood Plain ? No – there’s absolutely no risk – I mean you’d have to wait 1,000 years before you’d be flooded out and the last deluge was now let me see, I never was any good at maths, ah yes here it is ……in 1009

        • 382
          Anonymous says:

          BUT…

          “The Met Office said the rainfall that sparked the Cumbria floods broke the previous record for a day’s rainfall in England, which has stood for more than 50 years.

          The agency’s gauging station at Seathwaite recorded 314.4mm (12.3 inches) in 24 hours, compared to 279mm (11 inches) which fell in Martinstown, Dorset in 1955.”

          Ah, so a 1-in-a-54-year event then.

    • 348
      Brown - the colour of shit says:

      Just go up to him in the guise of a flooded foreign refugee,wearing a T towel on your head and an african robe of some kind (an old curtain).

      Then,just as he is promising you first priority for money over the scum he calls Englishmen,whip out your Magnum .44,the most powerful handgun in the world and blow his head clean off LIVE on Sky.

      That would be a great advert for Sky HD;

      “Did YOU catch the grey matter in all it’s 1008 HD glory? If not,we can get a man round within 8 months to drill a hole in your wall and half attach a dish to your outside wall. for only £49!”

  117. 322
    Gordon Brown, texture like shit says:

    I’m there right now. Live on Sky. Must leave before the earthquake strikes. It’s the right thing to do.

  118. 323
    jgm2 says:

    I secretly dress up as Emily. Hee hee.

  119. 333
    final salary civil servant pensioner says:

    Eh!?

  120. 337
    Anonymous says:

    Brown’s gone to Cumbria. As if they haven’t got enough to worry about already.

  121. 352
    Brown - the colour of shit says:

    I hear that every UK Regional Tourist Board are holding emergency meetings this weekend to work out a strategy in case Brown the fraudster decides it will be THEIR region he takes a holiday in after his election thrashing next year.

    I understand that Cornwall are going to agree to host the Global Germ War Fare Games across the whole of next summer in the hope he chooses Devon instead.

    • 363

      Won’t help them. He’s going to have a long,long holiday.

    • 364
      caesars wife says:

      He did holiday up there this year and ed balls went following week !!

      probebely said “you must be all looking forward to an indian summer I wish you all well “

      • 377
        Lizzie says:

        If you are planning on going there now for your hols you need to take a canoe. Brown started his premiership with floods of biblical proportions and now he is ending his premiership the same way, sort of getting “flushed out”.

  122. 361
    thick as thieves says says:

    I desperately need help. I’ve still got this fucking great growth on my biffins bridge and it smells absolutely evil and as if that was’nt bad enough, Dolly won’t answer my calls. Do you think he still loves me?

    This is what happens if you’are a socialist, liebour supporting brown hatter so children please beware!!!!

    thick as shit, sorry I mean thieves.

    • 365
      caesars wife says:

      just the one ?? do you have a freind who would be prepared to bravely wheld a red hot poker ??

      Biffins bridge sounds like a 17th century expensive dental treatment

      • 370
        thick as thieves says:

        CW, this particular stalker is rubbish.
        my favourite stalker/imitator was the one who did the bullingdon letter box thing.
        now that was funny.

    • 378
      Lizzie says:

      Quote for TaT “I desperately need help”….now there’s an understament if ever I heard one!

      • 390
        thick as thieves says:

        lizzie, I have already told you that I am not going to buy sex from you.
        I do not pay for sex.
        now please leave me alone.

  123. 366
    Obama is a Twat says:

    The Environment Agency is run by dickheads, farmers don’t give a shit anymore (who can blame them?) and more and more houses are being built in flood land. how fucking stupid are people?

    By a house next to a river and guess fucking what? it floods, live on a fucking boat if you want to live on a river.

    This has got fuck all to do with climate change, how can you put down a small localised event to man made global warming? It’s fucking bollocks dreamed up by men who fuck small boys up the arse in Islington, Cocaine addicts and wankers with a degree in English who work at the BBC (Roger Harrabin)

    • 399
      HASH GORDON (SAVIOUR OF THE UNIVERSE) says:

      You Prick Most of the houses in Cockermouth and surrounding area’s are hundreds of years old and not built on flood plains !

  124. 373
    Dick Scratcher says:

    Anyone hear that bitch Harperson on Any Questions? What a fucking lunatic. Someone should give her a shovel and get her to do some real work. She’s warped.

  125. 387
    thick as thieves says says:

    Worried about being outed tat? I happen to have in depth info and it concerns you, Brian Paddick and a very big dildo. So be afraid you cocksucker, be very afraid!!!!!

    Sorry but I’ve got to leave you and fucking detest you and Dolly, bye byeeee.

  126. 388
    Disco Biscuit says:

    Mrs F must be relieved! Did she smash it out of frustration? :)

  127. 389
    petuniabean says:

    Being one of the happy few who do not have a blackberry (except in the freezer)
    and do not intend to get one, I am delighted for you, Guido, and hope that you really enjoy living this weekend.

  128. 391
    Tom Pierce says:

    Go for a play in the park with your kids for a change, Guido. The world won’t stop whilst you are there!

  129. 398
    Calfy says:

    Can’t you stick a camera in the top? I hope it’s not my fault if you can’t….

  130. 400

    [...] Going Cold Blackberry Guido’s Blackberry is dead.  They can’t deliver a new one until Monday.  The spare phone in the bottom of [...] [...]

  131. 403
    Syntagma says:

    When my BlackBerry went cold, I was advised to take the battery out, wait a moment, then replace it. Wait until GPRS appears in caps at top right. It did all that and has been okay since.

    I don’t believe that bullet hole, by the way. :)







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