Rich & Mark’s Monday Morning View
Mandelson on Maneuvers – Iain Martin
Another Twittish Tweet from Kerry McCarthy | BBC
What’s the Point of Our Anti-Business Secretary? | Ruth Porter
HuffPo Hiring Pro-Iranian Mehdi “Act of Desperation” | Fox News
Krugman is Seductive, Simplistic and Unrealistic | Jeremy Warner
Lower Taxes, Higher Growth, the Statistical Evidence | CPS
Bash the Unions, Gatecrash the Quangos | ConservativeHome
I Told You So: Euro is Doomed | Douglas Carswell
PM Speaks for the Nation When Bashing Balls | Quentin Letts
Time for an Alliance | Dan Hannan
Farage’s Plan | ConservativeHome
Guardian Open News is a Failure | Heather Brooke
Balls Calls for Deeper Cuts | Speccie
Lessons from the Thirties | CPS
PMQs Idiots | Harry Cole
Jon Cruddas is Not the Messiah | Dan Hodges
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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”
For God’s sake make him inter galactic Secretary and send the bastard to Mars.
he probably already is hidden in his job titles
That wouldn’t surprise me in the least – 1st Secretary of the Intergalactic Council. Which would rank him above Bliar, McDoom, Baroness Whoever of Europe and any one else with a title short of Creator of the Universe.
Not quite the Intergalactic Council but ‘big’ all the same – and he is a ‘friend’ of Brown (well, Brown likes to think so):
“The former British police officer who wants to bring down Barack Obama -
Conspiracist prominent in movement claiming president is an imposter”
“Sankey is pursuing what he believes to be fraud on a gigantic scale — a conspiracy, no less, to infiltrate and destroy the free world by putting a foreign imposter into the White House.
Sankey is a member of the fringe alliance known widely as the Birthers (he dislikes the expression, considering it pejorative). Together with other activists, he seeks to prove that Barack Obama is not a true American and is therefore ineligible to be president.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/22/barack-obama-british-conspiracist
We are NuLab. Resistance is futile.
Labour’s Andrew Dismore, who represents a north London seat about 10 miles from Parliament, claimed £34,000 on a second home in west London between 2001-2003.
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He said he had done the “right thing” by the rules, had not sold on either flat and his claims had reduced.
Mr Dismore is a member of the standards and privileges committee which decides on punishments for errant MPs.
I am not going to bother writing what a Hunt this guy is
Yes but how does that help? I’ll be out of the country too!
I’d like to visit Uranus.
Brilliant!
If he is realistically pitching for the post, it can only be on the basis that he is confident that there will be no election or that Labour will win.
Right now everyone would bet on a Cameron victory so to risk only three months in post would not be a calculation that Mandelson would make. Not at all historical enough for his life’s ambition.
The propaganda machine is already spinning poll results that wildly elevate Nulab’s popularity. They will be used as credible evidence of the swing away from the Cons. when Brown is elected in a low turn-out election with a massive postal vote.
Even if the Exec. believes that the machinery is in place to deliver sufficient swing, there is still too much risk for Mandleson.
Alternative scenario is a war precluding an election. Time enough for Iran to flare up; Mandleson has a good inside line on Israel’s high command; in those circumstances Foreign Sec. would be very appealing to him. Would also give him the only situation that could enable him to usurp Brown without public revolt.
Impossible to imagine Mandelson just fading away after a Tory victory- he will not allow that to happen.
A hung parliament is still the most likely outcome, particularly as many would be tories are unhappy with Camorons stance on Lisbon and are likely to give their support to UKIP. I suspect this is the real reason for a drop in the Tory vote. Labour’s inbuilt electoral advantage and general voter apathy should not be underestimated.
If that were the case, there would be evidence of a fall in Tory support and big changes in the betting markets. There aren’t any. The MORI poll is heavily discredited in its details as discussed on http://www.politicalbetting.com this morning.
The Hung Parliament story is merely a political narrative got up to put pressure on Cameron, after his repatriation of powers speech, and intended to prepare the ground for a rigged election next spring. Before elections are rigged, polls have to be rigged to prepare expectations.
The interesting thing will be how does Cameron respond.
Here in Oxford I know lots of blues switching to UKIP.
Oxford blues. That’s about six people then.
Oxford Blues. That’ll be eight then,nine with the cox.
Did somebody mention cocks?
Tapestry,just looked at your links. Link one does not refute Labour’s poll improvement. I think a bet on Labour to win may be on for many of us gamblers.On another point Mandelson as foreign secretary when Milliband becomes leader after the next election in order to for an alliance to be formed with Libs,in a hung parliament. Milliband favours PR vote.
Labour win?
Mwhahahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha
Black Jack! I’d stick to Black Jack if I was you. You could save time and just rip up a few ten pound notes. It would save the trip to the bookies.
Have you seen the choices for UKIP party leader? It does not inspire confidence on giving the party your vote. You could say that Nigel Farage IS UKIP, and anyone else, well, who cares about the party.
BBC showing its true colours and NOT a good piece for UKIP particularly. I bet a couple of the leadership contenders are kicking themselves in the wake of this hit piece. Nasty, nasty BBC.
Best result = HUNG parliament.
Fuck em all
The fact is that Mandlethrumbleslime is a tosser – it’s just that he’s better than most of his colleagues
Come on now Eddy babe, less of the aggression. Don’t forget you promised you were going to do all the housework this week.
Very good idea, wished I had thought of that one, Mars sounds good.
But it is very interesting to note that Mandelson arrives back in Britain from European obscurity and within a short space of time he becomes the most powerful man in Britain, quite extraordinary and very frightening. Brown must be regretting what he wished for.
I think they should make Mandy the PM.
What planet are you on.Meddlesome is the PM .Gordon is there just to brighten things up.
I think he would prefer Uranus
Sorry.
I disagree.
Mars is far too close.
Neptune at the absolute minimum.
It’s a pity we didn’t strap him to one of the Voyager probes – he’d be out of our Solar System by now
No thank you to Neptune
A good probe to uranus please duckie
wtf is David Owen doing with Fred Flintstone
Pluto would go well with a Mickey Mouse government.
That wouldn’t really be an incentive for Gordon. He needs Mandelson as close to him as heterosexually possible
(although it wouldn’t completely surprise me if Mandelson was the reason behind Gordon and Sarah sleeping in different rooms…)
You don’t think – Sarah and Peter ?! OMG!
Why heterosexually?
Ha haaa!! Nice find Chronic – perfect Mandlesnake characterization!!
Or the often referenced Macbeth – ‘look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t.’
Go back a few years and you get the Cheshire Cat.
He is Lord Voldemort.
Put Mandelson in charge of the Hampstead Heath men’s toilets. He’d enjoy that.
Put Osborne in charge of the Hampstead Heath men’s toilets. He’d enjoy that.
No, no, you got mixed up. Obama IS one. Palin HAS female reproductive organs
Case closed.
And your legs
I think you’ll find that they’ll enjoy this one more on Labourwrist luv…….if they manage to understand it.
Is it OK to make reference to the filthy pervert Mandelson or did that become verboten last week.
Is it OK to make reference to the filthy pervert Griffin or did that become verboten last week.
I’m not a supporter of Mr Brown, but that Rich and Mark have actually got a coherent, pictorial satirization thing, going there. Not funny,but coherent.
fuckin scum , hang the fuckers
Agreed. No time to waste over it, either.
Mandelson is a snake.
Or has a snake.
I forget which.
“Mandelson is a snake.
Or has a snake.”
May I assist with your conundrum?? ahem:
Mandelscum IS a snake and has a ‘one eyed trouser snake’ (probably….) ergo – he’s TWO snakes rolled into one venomous entity.
There again – if you count his spinal twin-serpent Kundalini energy –
HE’S A VERITABLE ONE MAN DEN OF VIPERS!
Very good very good.
Epitaph for Gordon Brown,courtesy of Albert Speer
“Our plan completely lacked a sense of proportion”
Another Monday Another Shite Cartoon ! I’m Off to Bed !
We’d be calling it Mandelday if the Prince of Darkness had his way.
I suppose he could succeed Milliband when he moves to No. 10 at the start of the fifth term.
….in the year 2052
Wait until Mandelson gaily walks into a senior postion with the next Tory regime!
Does anyone really think that someone like Mandelson would be content to hang his hat on a losing party and just toddle off to his local labour working mans club sitting in the corner with his pint of mild and playing the bandit?
People like Mandelson are drawn to power, political power and all the trappings are hardwired into their souls, he could walk from the labour party to the libdems and onto the Tory party like we would visit different shops.
Political parties are merely vehicles for power to people like Mandelson, he knows where the skeletons are buried, he has the inside knowledge, he is the modern equivalent of the gestapo spies at the end of the war, they simply exchanged one boss for another.
All you Mandelson hating Tory supporters are in for the shock of a lifetime when Peter pops up smiling after the election claiming he was a Tory all along.
It’s already on the cards. There’s no getting rid of this alien parasite.
Cassandra King has got it in one
Using the laws New Labour passed, the Tories could use the economic crimes act to arrest Mandleslime for mortgage fraud, then chuck him out of the Lords.
If it was good enough to send Archer to prison for a non-crime, then it’s surely enough to send Mandleslime to prison for an actual crime.
When was perjury decriminalised?
Sometimes i wonder if Mandy knows which way to turn.
Last temptation of Brown, maybe Mandelson will take Brown up into a mountain and push him off, the country will thank him for doing his duty.
Another MP on the expenses standars committee looks likely to fall on his sword
Shame Guido didn’t think Curry was worth reporting when there was so much lovely X-Factor politics to splash on, but he might find the time to report this one seeing as it’s a Labour MP this time
MPs’ expenses: ‘ethics’ MP faces call to step down over use of £65,000 allowances
A second member of the Commons committee that governs the conduct of MPs is facing a call to step down over his use of £65,000 in parliamentary allowances.
Andrew Dismore claimed £34,000 in second home expenses for a west London flat, which houses his girlfriend’s homeopathy surgery, while designating a property just a few miles away in his north London constituency as his main home.
Mr Dismore then “flipped” his second home designation to the north London property and claimed a further £31,000 after telling Commons officials that the west London flat had become his main residence.
In total, the Labour MP for Hendon split £65,000 in second home allowances between the two London properties over an eight-year period. He also used more than £1,000 in office expenses to pay his girlfriend to do casual work for him.
On Sunday night, he was urged to step down from the Committee on Standards and Privileges by Sir Alistair Graham, the former chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.
The disclosure raises further questions about the future of the committee, which allows MPs to police the conduct of their colleagues. Last week David Curry, a Conservative backbencher, stepped down as its chairman and referred himself to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards after The Daily Telegraph disclosed that he had claimed £30,000 for a constituency property which his wife had banned him from using after an affair.
Sir Christopher Kelly, the retired senior civil servant who this month drew up proposals for an overhaul of the expenses system, made clear that he thought the committee was not doing its job. He recommended that it be forced to have two non-MPs among its members.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/6632237/MPs-expenses-ethics-MP-faces-call-to-step-down-over-65000-allowances.html
Will the piggery never end ?
Actually Guido did report it with a thread all of its own. You must have been comatose at the time.
No, he had a caption competition which symbolically featured an empty speech bubble the irony of which was lost (as usual) on the majority here and Mr Fawkes himself.
According to your ‘logic’ this thread is in-depth reporting of Mandleson coz it’s got his picture innit?
Well we presume it’s Mandelson as others have noted it’s never fucking easy to tell with Rich and Mark.
We’ll see if Guido manages to get interested now it’s a Labour piggy won’t we?
Is it Biffa Bacon and peter cushing ?
Desperate Dan and Vincent Price
Hmmm…….trying to work out Davod Owen’s part in all this…..
…or even David Owen.
Somebody want me?
Dismore’s been flipping. The naughty boy find the journey from Hendon to Westminster tough.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8373562.stm
He’s my MP.
I’ve been praying all summer that the DT had something on him.
Christmas has indeed come early
He said he would have to speak to his mates on the fiddles committee about leaving.They aparently have so much work on.If he leaves they will not be able to get the job done.What a load of crap.
When I call someone a racist, it makes me feel so radical I get an erection. Aren’t i cool mummy!
No.
David Dukes, KKKK – a grand knight was a well-known police informant.
Also did undercover work for the FEDS.
How stupid could anyone by to associate themselves with such crap.
Griffin = another front for idiots to vote for.
Cockney rhyming slang
Duke=Duke of Kent=bent
I have been invited to a dinner with him on the 9th December: should I bring some good quality lubricant?
You need to take a crucifix and some holy water TT…..and remember the name Jesus Christ – apparently it wards off things you wouldn’t want near you….
He’s the one who likes to wear lots of gold, big cuffs and a pinny isn’t he?
But “Hilly” loves ME !!!!!!!!!!! And I’m not going SO THERE – you promised me I’d always be YOUR Foreign Secretary Gordon. It’s not fair ! I’ll resign I will I will I will I will. I’m going to stamp my foot and scweam and scweam and sceam!!!!! So there !!!
I can’t understand why he wasted his talent and brains going into politics. He must be flawed or just lazy
But what happens when Mandelson, Brown and Darling are found guilty by the WTO of protectionism over their intervention to ‘save’ Britain’s banks? Would Lord Moldysort still be in with a chance to become foreign secretary?
Things are becoming even more messy for Brown, no matter what The Guardian’s idiotic Economics Editor has to say on the subject.
Simple – those who can, do. Those like Millitwat who can’t just go into politics.
“The serpent continued to tempt Gordon in the garden….of 10 Downing St”
Gordon’s going to be ‘grandstanding’ at the CBI today – telling them how he’s saved all the businesses in the world and what he’s going to do for British business in the future. I wonder if Mandlesnake’ll be there prompting him in the background – he’s Satan incarnate I’m convinced.
Someone needs to take the mirrors out of Downing Street – Brown might get more of a ‘hold’ on reality then… What a sad and objectionable little man he is.
The CBI should just get up and walk out en masse. Or at the very least give him a slow hand clap.
or don’t even show up at all.
Nope, they’ll pack the meeting with their supporters and prevent genuine invitees from getting in. They do it all the time at constituency visits, conferences and “public” meetings.
You not secretly dressing up in feminine attire today, jgm2?
Why would the CBI give BROWN a slow handclap.Think of all that nice cheap labour he let into the country.Then hear one of them say on the BBC the natives would not take the jobs.You know the ones that GORDON said were for the people of GB.
If the sunlight disintegrated Mandelson into fleetingly incandescent smithereens, would there be any interruption whatsoever in Parliament’s long-established goal of bringing this kingdom to wrack and ruin?
While the private sector of Cumbria bravely struggles to get back on its feet, the heroic public sector shuts down the schools. Bloody typical.
There must be some survivors of the MoD expeditions to Iraq, and ‘Stan.
You know the bonus earners that work up to 17 hrs a day in theatre.
In very dangerous situations.
They could get in there and open some schools.
I am enjoying my new found fame as a stand up comedian
Another one
The mistakes in his recent condolence letter were due to his bad eyesite the Prime Minister explained, to a lamppost.
My eyesight is just fine. My ‘eyesite’, however is a real problem.
“eyesite”
Is that another term for a branch of Specsavers?
Go on Gord make his day and give him the F O. Then move banana man into a few of the his Lordships jobs so he can get off his high horse flirting with Mrs Clinton to reconnect with the Hoons in the Cabinet . He needs them on-side if he wants the leadership. Then to level the playing field give the the treasury to Ed the Balls so all three can fight over your job in the bunker.
1st prize – to have all the power of a party in opposition a modern day Mr Donkey Jacket or Neil Bollocks the welsh windbag.
Why is Jeremy Irons depicted in Skid & Marks cartoon?
All he did was play an old gay boy in Brideshead Revisited.
Why would David Owen want to be foreign secretary again? That’s who is looking over Brown’s shoulder isn’t it?
I thought it was Larry Grayson and Chris Moyles
When a cabinet minister says “I want that job because my gramps had it” you know the ship of state is in deep, deep trouble.
Perhaps he wants to start issuing his grandfather’s steel table bomb shelter?
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWmorrisonshelter.htm
Might be useful at No. 10. Being Nokia proof…
And I keep on churning them out folks
First John and Edward get voted off Xfactor and then Jordan quits I’m a celebrity.
What’s a man got to do now to watch a pair of tits on ITV?
Watch me and Mandy in action !!
From a cupboard ………naked.
Dont think you will be able to watch a pair of tits on TV not with your “eyesite”
You could watch a pair of tits on the TV and let the taxpayer
foot the ‘pay-per-view’ bill if you are ‘connected’, eh Jaqui?
I didn’t realise that David Owen was back in British politics; quite takes me back…
The most intriguing question in politics at present is; does Brown actually have the hots for Obama, or is it merely ideological excitement (still highly embarrassing) at having a left wing, relatively inexperienced coloured guy in the White House.
Naaaah. The most intriguing question in politics at the moment is what ‘spectacular’ will the Labour Party come up with to wipe out any coverage of the 9th December pre-budget statement.
Or will they just simply present a whole bunch of rigged assumptions and figures to justify their insane borrowing and squandering binge without any details of when this alleged commitment to a 50% reduction in budget deficit will come about.
Possibly another “cloudburst” and knowing Brown’s jinxed luck,it will create the biggest snowstorm ever witnessed with 6,000 feet deep snowdrifts in er… Norfolk.
No ,it’s just a case of financial engineering.The BOE “print” money to buy gilts from the banks.So now the banks have the money and the BOE have the gilts [just pieces of paper really],but as the Government own the BOE they have got their own IOU’s back.So the Treasury and the BOE [being good mates really] say ” well it’s only paper-lets call it quits and burn the stuff”.As the “value” of this paper is about 50% of the total deficit – it’s case of problem solved
That’ll be why gold has gone from about 750USD to 1150USD an ounce in the past two years then.
And the little fibbers are still trying to kid on that they’re printing money to ‘save’ us from deflation.
Lying bastards.
I think they are racist putting Obama beach behind a bullet proof screen.
Just coz he’s black dosent mean he will shoot someone.
Following my earlier post I had a telephone call from our worthy keeper of the purse,he said we can use a talent like that -want a job as an advisor”,I saud “what does it pay” – he replied “the going rate is 50p per hour plus luncheon vouchers[but these are a benifit in kind and therefore subject to tax.” I asked about expenses,he replied “that’s a rather tender area at present you may have noticed some inaccurate commnmt in the press recently,however, how about 100k for starters
They say that once you try black, you never go back.
Sir Conrad’s wife can testify to that.
Surely that’s ‘Once you’ve tried Black you can jail the fucker for six years’.
Better jgm2.
What happened to jgm 1 by the way, carcass mouldering Fred West-style under the patio slabs?
Something like that Tony. Stillborn shall we say.
With the antics of the U K’s most dominant political parties it is no surprise to UK voters that the next parliament will be well and truly hung.
Hugh swathes of voters will stay away at the next election (I am one of their number). Voters now know their only use is to vote legality to the theft of their rights.
Voters now know they DO NOT have a voice they now know they are ignored, on important matters, fleeced, deceived and largely, despised by Westminster.
M P’s have wholly failed to represent the people that voted them into the job.
Moving deck chairs and public displays of sickening ingratiation are all they think they need to make you , sit, beg and roll over.
Your collar awaits fido….all you have to do is vote!
No Fido. All you have to do is work and pay taxes. You have the power though not to work or, at least, not to pay so much tax. Make your car last longer. Drive less or car share. Make your clothes last longer. Make your TV lastlonger. Mke your computer last longer. Make do with the sofa you have. Work less overtime. In fact do no overtime.
Just make do with less. Deprive the government of your taxes.
That’s what I do and in another few months that’s what the missus will be doing. Quitting.
Fuck ‘em. I ain’t supporting them evil jackasses in their economic destruction a single cent more than I can avoid.
They don’t need your vote Fido. They just need your taxes. You’ll do them far more damage by arranging your life to pay the absolute minimum (ideally nil) in taxes than merely depriving them of your vote.
The government will spend something like 600bn quid a year. With 29 million in the workforce – if it actually balanced the budget – that would work out at roughly 20,000 pounds for every taxpayer in the country. Or 100,000 pounds every five years.
So, on average, the government squander 100,000 quid of your money for every single vote you are eligible to make. And, since only 60% or so bother to vote that means that the average vote costs the average working voter 167,000 quid.
You think the fuckers would treat you with a little respect after paying that much money for your vote wouldn’t you? But no.
Fuck ‘em. Pay ‘em nothing. Don’t work. Don’t pay tax. Your vote still counts the same but at least you didn’t pay the fuckers a penny.
They take taxes off all of us, and think they are being magnaminous when they announce a paltry sum to be returned. £1m for Cumbria.
Why don’t they just take all our money, and give us an allowance to buy necessities.
That is what they really want to do. Yes, all MP’s despise the electorate. We are the bastards that disrupt a smooth career path, and ask awkward questions in surgery.
Voters, an interuption of an MP’s working life!!
Bloody cheek – I have every intention of voting thank you very much!
And a fine Monday morning once more;
The media machine stands in Cumbria trying to make “breaking news” that kids won’t be going to school today due to the floods – well,in Brown’s Broken Britain there are thousands of kids who don’t go to school whatever the weather – it’s called truancy.
And the world waits for the next bridge to collapse – guaranteed they will break in to the less important news of climate change manipulation to announce that another bridge HAS indeed collapsed and that the poor people of Cumbria,aleady having had a visit from the fraudulent doomster Brown at the weekend,will soon get another one so he can give his advice on which bridges should be next for closure.Funny – never knew he was a sodding BRIDGE expert! He’s saved the world and saved Cumbria.
More sobering this morning was the TV report on the morons who continue to pay hamper companies for Xmas food bundles – one world leading moronic couple reckoned it was value for money to pay Park Hampers £38.12 to buy a load of food and drink that it would cost them just £13 to buy in a supermarket.THESE are the arseholes who will vote Brown back in.
I am now off to prepare for a job interview – the job description is something about a grassy knoll and they have given me a photo of some ugly flabby git supposedly on a 3 mile run around a park – from the look of it,he looks like he will do the job himself.
Brown will be back to his modest best soon. Boasting about how he ‘dealt’ with the floods in Cumbria just as in the first flush of his PM-ship after his coup he was bragging about how he’d ‘dealt’ with the floods in Devon and how he’d ‘dealt’ with the foot and mouth outbreak.
It looks like the same reason we had such flooding in Cumbria is the same reason we had a F&M outbreak in 2007. Because Gordon had cut funding to the government laboratory that leaked the fucking F&M and because Gordon had cut money to the environment agency that should have gone towards flood prevention.
And pissed away the money he’d ‘saved’ on his idiot social engineering and ‘tax credits’ regime.
He really is an arsehole.
JGM2
You do disservice to hardworking arseholes all over the world by so naming McMental
There’s no harder-working an arsehole than mine.
Poor old Prescott – getting on the ‘Global Warming’ train just as the facts are getting off.
poor old Prescott seeing more flooding you mean – who was it who allowed homes to be built on flood plains again…………………
Oh aye. The ‘Thames Gateway’ aka the ‘Thames Floodplain’. It’s almost as if they were deliberately trying to create 100,000 homes in an area under going (negative) geostatic rebound that would inevitably end up under water just to reinforce the myth of global sea-level rises.
no, the reason they built on flood plains was because of they did not have any evidence to prove global warming.
it is proof that global warning is a scheme created purely for revenue collection purposes.
how taking all of our money is going to save the planet is the part they haven’t explained yet.
Yes giving a Labour governemt access to money is like giving a drunk a barrel of beer,you know the outcome- the only question is which wall will they use
ha ha ha that has made my day!
you are right!
The morons of this Country think that Brown etc are working on their behalf – if that’s the case then how come they are Millionaires? How come they don’t want to be taxexd 50%? The working class people are patronised into thinking that Labour give a stuff. They don’t.
Prediction:
I seem to remember it was mooted some years ago that the Thames Barrier was no longer efficient enough to cope with MMGW/climate change (scam).
I predict that the next big project will require gazillions to rebuild or at least, re-engineer said Barrier.
It’s all about the money you see – power and control too of course:
THIS IS THE MOST TELLING STATEMENT OF ALL from the Club of Rome:
“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution,the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”
http://www.infowars.com/the-road-to-copenhagen-part-i-the-club-of-rome/
The article in the Mail today partially confirming some sort of cover-up to reveal climate change data seems to have been sabotaged or mis-edited. Either this or the paper is failing to proof-read its stuff properly. (An entire paragraph has been inserted between the word “temperature”)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230122/How-climate-change-scientists-dodged-sceptics.html
My own dealings with the Mail seem to confirm that they offer a pair of deaf ears whenever one tries to criticise their lack of editorial skills. Obviously part of the diversity culture in Britain, headed by Mr Spellathon himself.
Nigel Lawson mentioned the Climate Change Data Fiddling Scam on Today, wonder if Al Beeb will wipe the tape?
However, Telegraph have a short article. The Green Tax The Proles Lobby will scream that Lawson is only publising his Sceptical Tank.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/6634282/Lord-Lawson-calls-for-public-inquiry-into-UEA-global-warming-data-manipulation.html
Yes – heard the interview.
The climate change man was literally shouting and Lawson was good – of course Brown’s Broadcasting Corporation allowed the moronic climate change wanker the last word.
Naturally,as we have no official opposition party anymore,this story will not gather any momentum.
I say this because I am fed up with Cameron – he simply allows Brown to spout crap like “we have saved 500,000 jobs” without ridiculing it as the lies they so obviously are.
Until Cameron can work out what he wants to do at PMQ,Brown will get away with it.
For gods sake Cameron,get angry,really angry – these are OUR futures and our soldiers lives on the line – why do you let Brown get away with murder and fraud?
Perhaps Brown and Cameraman work for the same people, working for the same result.
This posted on Air Vent
Flintshire Council tackling climate change issue
http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/81826/flintshire-council-tackling-climate-change-issue.aspx
All council buildings must meet stringent targets set by the European Union, the UK government and the Welsh Assembly Government and reduce their carbon emissons by 60 per cent by 2021, and a new strategy has been drawn up at County Hall.
Sack 60% their office workers. That would take about 1000 useless carbon-emitting berks off the roads. Use their salaries to put towards a new nuclear power station.
Kin ya guess what it is yet?
G’day Rolf!
I wouldn’t give Mandy a job, would you? It’s all very well to say that you’d prefer him on the inside, pissing outwards, rather than vice versa, but you could never trust the blighter. Sending him to Brussels was the best idea our Tone ever had. Recalling him was another of Gordon’s misjudgements.
Might another of McDoom’s misjudgements be his handing over of the EU financial services brief to the French (to the City’s detriment) in his desperation to get a Liebore hoon in place as the Foreign Affairs rep?
As reported HERE and the car wreck described in full HERE.
Oh dear, dear, dear.
It’s a pity the lightships around our coast are now fully automatic. Mandy would have been a fine candidate for ship’s cook.
Mandy was no doubt relying on Tone to get him a plum job in the eu when he became President. Now that hasn’t happened he is calling in favours from Mc Broon in return for having propped him up for the past twelve months. Should be interesting.
I’ve already been Foreign sec
And a splendid job you did in Biafra, too.
Perhaps we could make him an offer….
I see the picture shows that Peter has a cruch on Gordon!
When New Orleans flooded the BBC rent boys went after George Bush for being useless, yet days after a bit of flooding in Cumbria 21st century Britain still can’t put a fucking temporary bridge up and people living there are are starting to run out of food, yet all the BBC can do is praise the one eyed gay jock mong.
What the flooding story shows me is just how gullible the media machine really is – Brown knows how he can easily divert attention away from his fraudulent activities by using these stories to his advantage.
A dead British soldier is flown in to RAF Lyneham – not a sign of Brown.
The soldier had written about equipment shortages two weeks before he died.
A police office dies on a bridge during a heavy rainstorm – Brown is there within 24 hours.
The media machine is today camped out on Calva Bridge begging and willing it to collapse for their cameras.
I accuse the British media of a dereliction of duty – they are lightweight in ability and heavyweight in non-stories. They literally cannot see the wood for the trees and not one of them has any courage.
They could demolish Brown in a single Press Conference.
Exactly what I was saying yesterday…………..
and Gordo was looking soooo pleased and happy when visiting Cumbria….
I agree with me completely
The problem is that the UK papers have their entrenched political ‘narrative’. So The Mail and The Telegraph are always going to be critical of Labour and attract a readership who is receptive to that point of view. Conversely The Mirror and The Grauniad can see no wrong in any amount of idiocy perpetrated by a Labour government so their readership gets no balance either. Indeed their leadership doesn’t want balance. It just wants to have its prejudices confirmed.
So basically most newspapers are not in the business of ‘news’ at all.
The big problem is the BBC. It uncritically regurgitates any old shit that the Labour government feeds ‘em. This has been made infinitely worse since the government rigged an Iraq inquiry to exonerate itself from starting a pointless war ‘justified’ by a pack of lies and then blamed the BBC for innacurate reporting and had the journalist who blew the whistle and practically the entire board fired and the chap who fed the journalist the facts is no longer troubling the scorers at all.
The BBC are now utterly panicked by this government and are simply mouthpieces for any old shit that pops into Brown’s fucked-up head. And, since in Brown’s fucked-up head it is he who is paying the piper (even though it is our taxes), then he gets to call the tune.
And the BBC are singing and dancing to Brown’s fucked-up music.
Gordon Garbage again…”I,m only happy when it rains, I only like it when its complicated”….”deep depression” etc.
You only had to listen to the slack language coming out from Pravda this morning to realise how debased their reporting’s become :
Beeboid near Calva Bridge : “It’s inevitable that this bridge is going to collapse. And if it doesn’t, then it’ll be demolished”. WTF ? So an “inevitable” collapse means that it may not ?
Then we had Beeboid #2 reporting from the CBI conference that the country was “already coming out of recession”.
Just another day on Planet Beeb…
Another one that really pisses me off is the reporter on TV or radio says;
“OF COURSE,the rain has…”
“OF COURSE,we know that the rain has been falling…..”
Listen today and hear how many times these wankers say “OF COURSE” at the start of a sentence. The two dinosaurs on Radio 4 Today programme are the kings of it.
Fat ugly jock dyke on Radio5 claimed that the one eyed mongs plan to borrow even more money didn’t matter due to the size of the debt we already have (carry on spending and borrowing folks) and that the Tories were out of step this their evil plans to cut taxes for business and pay off the debt.
And she’s the BBC’s economic expert!!!!
According to Cumbria County Council, Calva bridge is not necessarily going to be demolished… this is from their website today:
“Rumours have been rife in relation to Calva Bridge being demolished. This is NOT the case. No decision has been taken relating to the future of the bridge and, until the technical evaluations have been completed, it would be inappropriate to speculate on the long term future of the structure.”
I hope they can save it as from what I’ve seen it’s the only nice thing in Workington.
The BBC has decided that the science of bridges is settled and that we should all pay more taxes for bridges.
The BBC have many bridge experts you know, just like their climate change ones.
Is it true that Gordon Brown’s favourite song is “It’s raining men” by The Weather Girls?
If they do run out of food then Brown can use some of the helicopters that aren’t in Afghanistan to ostentatiously organise food drops. Demonstrating what a decisive kind of guy he is and how he ‘dealt’ with the flooding in Cumbria.
As you said – where’s the fucking Army and the Royal Engineers with a temporary bridge. Surely they practise this kind of shit all the time in case the Russians get uppity and kick off by knocking out our essential infastructure. You think they’d be delighted to get in some practise just like the Navy is happy to rescue folk off fishing boats because it keeps their skill levels up.
Apparently the army don’t have bridges for cars and lorries, only tanks. So all those pictures I’ve seen or British trucks driving over bridges from WW2 onwards must be a figment of my imagination. The Bailey Bridge doesn’t exist (or it’s descendants) anymore, except for the ones I used to inspect of course (fine bridges they are as well)
The BBC were bigging up the MOD line, I just wonder how long it will be before the weekend Cocaine wears off at the BBC and they start to wonder why people are still living in caravans and tents? After all the drug addled beeboids dumped on Bush within hours of the flooding of New Orleans but the one eyed jock mong is going ot get away with this.
I couldn’t believe the clip I saw on the news yesterday evening with entire streets no longer under water but blocked off and ‘guarded’ by police.
WTF? What do you mean I can’t go down the street to my home? What do you mean it’s not safe? The fucking water has gone. I want to go to my house and start cleaning up.
We’re finished. The UK is finished. When the police feel qualified to just block off streets just ‘cos theres a few trees and assorted shit lying there after a flood and when the UK population just meekly stands at the edge of a piece of tape and lets ‘em.
It’s the very epitome of a nanny state. An adult population would be down the street cleaning up their own street rather than meekly waiting for ‘the council’ to get its shit together. But no. They just allow themselves to be treated like helpless children.
I bet people there are wondering where all these fat useless fucking plods came from? Could it have something to do with OVERTIME which forced their lardy cowardly fucking arses out of the local McDonalds?
I expect the Americans could put a bridge in 24 hours. Perhaps we should ask them. They have these big flying machines called ‘helicopters’ that can be really useful.
You could put up a bridge with a fucking zepplin. Or a crane. You don’t need 50 million quids worth of egg-beater.
The bridges are on order. The MoD put the order in on Saturday afternoon after Gordon’s visit.They’ll be delivered all being well in 2011 or possibly 2012 in time for the Olympics(lucky that Cumbria is designated as the Sailing Venue) as you know what government contract delivery times are like but I’ll be busting a gut to get things sorted
Boris Johnson has offered the loan of his Piffel Tower (being built in France by Polish Piffel Tower builders)
They were still living in caravans for 18 months after the Hull floods a couple of years ago.
Wheres the army? Afghan.
You dont think theres enough expertise or money or anything else to allow them to be doing stuff like this do you?
After all, we’ve had it from the Cheif Of Defence Staff himself, a couple of weeks ago… Everything to be thrown at Afghan. Bollocks to everything else…
JGM2 – I couldn’t agree more re the police stopping people going to their homes – watched with amazement yesterday as a couple said that they had managed to collect a few essential possessions before the police had “spotted them” and told them to leave (their house). They meekly complied. Just unbelievable. Also, just listened to a chump of a “Civil Engineer” on Radio 2 explaining that it would take weeks to put up Bailey bridges…..WTF???!
Was that a real civil engineer? or one of those Guardian reading 5 a day nappy co-ordinators in a yellow jacket?
Good job those Hunts were not in charge of the Rhine crossing in WW2 then.
“Also, just listened to a chump of a “Civil Engineer” on Radio 2 explaining that it would take weeks to put up Bailey bridges…..WTF???!”
Quite so, Dame DP! I seem to recall that in September 1944 in Holland it was possible for XXX Group to put a Bailey Bridge over the Wilhelminakanaal at Son in 8 hours or so (and with the Germans just up the road)!
Cue Elliott Gould (Col. Stout) in “A Bridge too Far”:
“Hey, have you Limeys got any of that Bailey crap with you?”
does call me dave suffer from aquaphobia ?
does ‘I save the world gordo’ sort out the problems in Cumbria??? not a flocking chance……. u are doomed, doomed……… head to the hills !!!!!
It is always best if politicians (Any politicians) stay away from disaster areas while the situation is ongoing. Provide support as much as possible yes but stay out of the area. The protection and escort of such people just cause immense disruption to any rescue and relief efforts ongoing at the time.
Brown needs his photo op off course but his visit would have caused untold chaos on top of everything else happening however no one can actually say so without being in fear of their job and Brown would not give a shit about that anyway so long as he got there first.
Thats the fact of the matter.
He’s probably suitably chastised after being told off for using Rememberance Sunday as a photo op and is keeping out of the way to let the emergency services etc get on with their job. Because it’s the right thing to do.
Brown of course is immune to chastisement. Or reality. Brown will be delighted to be grandstanding over this instead of having to sit through yet another interview and explain how the fuck he allowed the UK to slip into the longest and deepest recession in its history. And why he’s running the lrgest peacetime budget deficits in its history. And why he’s accumulated the highest national debt in our history.
Compared to that scenarion flying up to Cumbria and grandstanding about making a million quid available (which will just about cover the police and firemens overtime bill) is a fucking God-send.
you are posting far, far too many posts jgm2.
such the fuck up you boring c’unt.
less posts, more quality.
thankyou.
The man with a very Gay friend has spoken!
WTF do your friend make of you, or it that a mute point. Manners maketh the man, and you have fuck all.
Best your fuck off yourself dullard. jgm2 was making sense and was interesting.
Envious?, you prime dullard.
jgm2 is a woman who likes to go on and on and on and on.
you are clearly a woman aswell because you too like to go on and on and on and on. shut up you silly slag.
both you c’unts like the sound of your own voices.
I am top boy, I am a genius and when I speak people learn.
when you two c’unts speak people switch off.
the good reader does neither wants nor needs to listen to the nagging PMT moaning of a pair of old whingeing bitches like you two.
top boy has spoken, no appeals will be heard.
Don’t forget, this twice-disgraced unflushable turd was a paid up member of the communist party.
What gets me when Bruin does favours for cronies like making him a “lord” is why the proper lords don’t rebel at having their house debased to such low levels – the same way as if they’d let Gary Glitter in or Ian Huntley.
The ‘House’ is already debased by the likes of Michael Martin, Baroness Uddin and a whole slew of other recent appointments made by Labour to ‘address’ the historical right-wing bias of the HoL.
Unfortunately they’ve addressed the bias by filling the house with jackass apparatchiks rather than principled independents.
ah, a sensible post at last.
Oh Mr Judge, Jury , and Executioner. How pleased we all are with your input.
Just fuck off you plank.
said the manhating butt plug.
hold on…. you are a manhater and a buttplug… therefore you must be harriet harman and I claim my £5 but you will only want to pay me £2.40 because you hate men.
This bridge in Cumbria facing imminent collape, is this the one Jonah Brown visited?
They’re dooomed!
Jonah survived the whale just like Gordon is surviving all the insults thrown at him by the Tabloids and right wing blog sites.Bring it on The public is now giving him the sympathy vote .Go Jonah Go.
McGay is a tool.
“Go Jonah Go.”
Make up your mind FFS.
“Go Jonah Go”
You get it at last!!! Thats all we are asking him to do but he won’t call an election
I’m farting in a wind tunnel trying out all my woeful new characters.
Still, I have more time for wanking and eating my own poo for afters!
Isn’t it, though.
“Spread punters unimpressed by hung parliament talk
November 23rd, 2009
SportingIndex
CON 352-357 LAB 208-213 LD 50-53
MORI moves the Labour spread by just one seat”
P.B.Com
Oh dear, what were you saying about a sympathy vote?
Rule No 1: Don’t fall for your own media hype, fuckwit.
Better than any poll, no sentiment or bias down at the bookies, its called putting your money where your mouth is.
Interesting though all the Lab freaks started foaming at the mouth in anticipation and shouting hung parliament (Have they given up on a win then?) and Pravda the station that does not report polls reporting its all over for the Tories and the fuckwit has it in the bag.
Tossers all.
Just come back from a holiday in The Bahamas. Is it true that Labour is only 6 points behind the Tories?What happened to Cameron while I was away?
“SportingIndex
CON 352-357 LAB 208-213 LD 50-53
MORI moves the Labour spread by just one seat”
P.B.Com”
Nothing much.
BREAKING NEWS
POLICE IN COCKERMOUTH ALLOWING PROPERTY OWNERS TO RETURN TO THEIR PROPERTIES
POLICE ADVISE ALL TO WEAR WELLINGTON BOOTS !!!
We would like to express our thanks to the Police
We don’t want any unnecessary and preventable incidents to occur
In addition to wearing wellington boots – please don’t forget to take a camera to record the ‘current’ problems
NEW LABOUR PRESS RELEASE
I’ve been advised to consider using the Army to assist with the Cockermouth disaster and to ask the Royal Engineers to build a few bridges – I am advised this could be achieved in very short time with minimal impact on the Army’s other commitments
I am giving this advice full consideration and have asked Lord Mandelslime to form a committee and report back to me by May 7th 2010
Rubber Gloves are being handed out to all Cockermouth residents as we speak 10:48
The rubber gloves come with a Nanny State warning
DO NOT USE THESE GLOVES NEAR WATER, UP A LADDER OR CLOSE TO PETS
Shop owner been arrested by Police for not wearing his gloves whilst in his ground floor premises
“I am giving this advice full consideration and have asked Lord Mandelslime to form a committee and report back to me by May 7th 2010″
Can’t ! still trying to sort out the Hull floods from years ago
Labour;
Why worry about getting a life threatening disease, when you already have one in Downing Street?
Funny how so many Scousers are claiming they own shops on Main Street Cockermouth.
Evidently at least 15 of them have appeared,claiming to be the Bank Manager of The Lloyds Bank branch.
I’ve just had a Barclays Bank whilst wearing a pair of these rubber gloves. They are fine apart from a little irritation to my foreskin.
Was that the left hand or right hand glove?
Some Army wanker was on the TV this morning claiming that:
“We can build bridges, but they are for tanks crossing rivers and so would be of no use to the people of Cockermouth”
So how does the Army get the refueling tankers across rivers, along with Land Rovers, trucks carrying ammunition, food and water?
They get the RAF to bring it in by Chinook
Sorry can’t help our navigation system is down until the repair man turns up.
Which Chinook – the red one or the blue one?
If the Army bod is claiming that the bridges are only suitable for tanks, has Brown been pissing more money in the wrong areas?
But some of this stuff looks as if it is for soft skin vehicles.
http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/engineering/1495.aspx
Yeah I heard him say that. Twat. If the bridge can take tanks then it can take buses and lorries. There’s been a “temporary” Bailey bridge over the trent at Barton since just after the war. It’s single file traffic but as Ed Balls would say, So what?
Just order TWO of them
A British Invention
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey_bridge
Come on Gordon a couple of these could be up within a week. Get your finger out of your arse.
Looks like it is now a Yank company.
http://www.baileybridge.com/
Perhaps we could borrow some of Barton Bridge’s ‘meccano’ ‘temporarily’?
BBC NEWS BREAKING
The UK Govt has announced that the SIX helicopters due to be shipped to Afghanistan will be diverted to Cumbria after the bridges have been replaced which will facilitate the creation of the Emergency Landing Area
Although I am currently on holiday in Barbados and I am keeping in touch with the happenings occurring in Cockermouth and can assure Cockermouth residents (and indeed the Nation) that lessons will be learned from these unforeseen occurrences.
An Impact Assessment strategy (document) is being developed by my staff and is promised to be available by 8th May 2010 – this may be later than we would like but it is important that all stakeholders are given sufficient time to consider the implications of any developments.
I too am on holoday in Thailand and as Chair of the Bridge Administration Liaison Society (BALS) I look forward to returning to the UK before Christmas and contributing to supporting the bridge effort
Worthington Bridge in trouble – Prime Minister advised to ‘dither’ on whether to blow up the bridge and divert the river Chinese-style
We have consulted EU Legal Experts – they state that the Government will be liable for replacement and contingent liabilities – thus the UK govt is advised not to get involved and to allow the bridge to deteriorate until it falls down or is declared dangerously unusable – and therfore becomes a liability to be addressed by the local council.
And anyway, if we got the troops out to build a straightforward, safe and speedy Bailey bridge it would cost us EXTRA MONEY from central funds!…
Far better for the Cumbrians, in these economically difficult times, to do their bit, and not complain, but take a little time and trouble to drive 40 or even 90 miles around and about if they really must go to Sainsbury’s or Boots.
There are businesses that specialise in temporary bridges, e.g
http://www.mabeyhireservices.com/access.asp
Chinese-style? Is that a ‘take-away’?
THIS IS IMPORTANT
FROM THE ZIG-ZAG NATURE OF THE RIVER IT LOOKS POSSIBLE TO – CHINESE-STYLE – DIG A NEW PATH FOR THE RIVER – BUILD THE NEW BRIDGES (TWO OR THREE TEMPORARY?) THEN DIVERT THE RIVER (TEMPORARILY) !!!
Ah so – verree cunning !!!
BREAKING NEWS – BBC
DAVID CAMERON QUOTE
If I were PM I would visit Cockermouth & Worthington NOW
I would have called in the Army already
Bridges would have been being replaced
Project Management expertise would work with the Army
Deadlines would be set and met
UNFORTUNATELY GB IS PM UNTIL MAY 6th
Unfortunately much like Iraq(nothing to do with me and I must refer you to Hoon by that I mean “Buff” not Gordon) -the Army only has 5 bridges and they’re all in Afghanistan but rest assured they are crucial to the success of our mission there !!
They are in our school playground. We use them as climbing frames at playtime. We love British Tommies but our parents don’t.
If the Army had had Chinooks, they wouldn’t have needed to take all the bridges over there to transport men and supplies (dangerously) by road
Jeez!!! Vietnam was better logistically organized than this and it was over 50 years ago.
Ah they are all going to get a “elf and safety pack” in Cumbria. Very useful for wiping your arse with, especially as lorries can’t get to deliver toilet roll.
I’m waiting for some turd to go around handing out parking tickets to all the smashed up cars.
Hi chaps,
Someone is impersonating Daily Mail journalists on this website, so I thought I’d use my full double-barreled name so that you know that it really is good old Quenty.
Can I just say that we at the Mail are awfully impressed by you chaps over here, although I had a major task persuading Melanie Philips the other day that Guido Fawkes is not really THE Guido Fawkes. What comes from residing in an ivory tower, i’d say
Anyway, be a bit nicer to the ‘Hitch’ in future, would you chaps? He’s a great guy once you get to know him.
Toodle pip!
Eh?
Darling Quents to the best of my knowledge we have never met
(Although I could have been very fucking pissed and then forgotten our brief flirtation )
I know that you used to post here using a pseudonym and used the word c*** even more than I fucking do, then you fucked off
Please come back and help us sell more missiles, Pizzas and other evil but profitable shit
The Hitch
I’m very busy at the moment old bean but my friend Peter McKay (‘Mucky’ to his mates) is trying to organise a skittles tournament.
Don’t suppose you’d be interested? Jan Moir is on for it.
Only if you can arrange for Peter Hitchens to be a skittle and I can have first toss
The twat really does resemble a skittle
Small head ,huge feminine hips , small legs, completely fucking wooden and easily knocked down
Popularity and wisdom do not go hand in hand
Fuck me, there’s a porch monkey with the keys to the White House
Trust me, 6 months into 2010 that N**** will be cramming all the wide screen TVs he can into his last helicopter ride
Fucker will probably also load in all of the spoons and bath robes
I left out “Mutha”
Apologies
I am top boy and I have many fans and I am also a genius so I do not accept your premise.
I’ve directed the MOD to release 25 Soldiers to help victims of the Cumbria Flood Disaster.
Will the media turn against Brown if the Royal Engineers have no suitable bridges, or too few units to work on temporary bridges? If this isn’t a case of calling in the military to assist the Civil Powers, what is?
How long will it take to bridge the river in Workington? Or will Al Beeb and friends of Gordon stay silent if the Army isn’t allowed to carry out a bridge building training exercise on cost grounds?
Govt Spokeswoman says:-
In response to the need for bridge building expertise – following the creation of an independent bridge building apprentice scheme quango – 10 apprentice places will be created and Lord Sugar will be responsible for implementing a strategy to co-incide with the announcement of an early election
The BBC are playing a blinder, reporting amongst the crowd that are being preventing from returning to their properties and homes. ” have you got a shop on main street ” enquires the roving reporter, ” Yes, a shoe shop ” comes the reply, ” it has been totally wiped out ” informs the reporter.
On the Breakfast prog. BBC reporter says bridge will have to be pulled down if it does not fall dow. Reporter turns to copper, copper says when the waters subside then engineeers will have a look to see if they can fix the bridge. Back to studo where they say it will take a year to build new bridge as the old bridge must come down.
Did no obe at the BBC hear what the copper said?
They only get £92,000 a year you know – how can they be expected to listen too?
It’ll be interesting to see who gets the new bridge building contracts…..THEY’D BETTER GO TO BRITISH COMPANIES…..
This would be a great opportunity to give some labouring jobs to those who want them and those who are temporarily laid off. JOBS SHOULD BE OFFERED TO BRITISH WORKERS FIRST. That’s not racist – just SENSIBLE – if the ‘government’ cares just one jot for this nation, (which between you and me – they don’t…..)
The Polish bridge builders are on their way.
Gordon has just acquired some budget bridges donated from our friends in Pakistan.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JmpkIMgnzIE/SiDuNh9XVcI/AAAAAAAAfJc/h9b-HpAMtHg/s1600-h/Dangerous+Rope+Hanging+Bridges+4.jpg
British Bridge Builders for British Bridge Building
On radio 1 news this morning at 06:30, and repeated at 07:30, apparently
“….. 16 bridges have either fallen down or in danger of falling down”. Unquote. Anybody know exactly how many have actually fallen down?
If I wasn’t such a conspiracy theorist, I might say that that many bridges collapsing is a conspiracy…..
Touting for more jobs for Labour luvvie architect cronies… I can see it now — Lord Rogers is probably creaming himself. However, Cumbria council says differently:
http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/news/2009/november/22_11_2009-183802.asp
Was she a sole trader?
heel !!
Stop talking cobblers!
‘ang on Gordon ‘ave we got that many to spare ?
The picture behind Brillo is water vapour not CO2 from burning of fossil fuels. Hillary Benn is wrong…again.
Why do people bother to listen to this idiot when he can NOT get simple facts right. The BBC has always used water vapour from cooling towers to trick the public, they did it with acid rain a few years back.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/the_daily_politics/8314566.stm
Because the liberal arts journalists at the BBC are so fucking scientifically illiterate that they think the cooling towers are fucking enormous chimneys. They must be – look at the smoke coming out of them.
That’s why they’re so easily duped by ‘global warming’ research generated by a bunch of fucking geography students when the real scientists – the chemists, the physicists, the mathematicians and the geophysicists were giving it – that’s a load of shit.
Hilarity Benn was on the box last Thursday saying his Environment buddies had spent £50 mill to prevent the flooding.
50 million quid? I bet their wage bill comes to more than 50 million quid.
No getting away from the fact that its another £50 million that’s gone down the drain then.
Not in Cockermouth. It was the Environment Agency who blocked a proposal of dredging of the river 10′ deeper last year — as it was an ‘Atlantic Salmon spawning’ ground — lying again, Benn.
It is not water vapour. It is water droplets.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/20/britains-new-interne.html
It’ll be the Mandelnet soon
Nationwide Gives a Gloomy House Prices Forecast for 2010
http://www.e1buytoletmortgages.co.uk/news/housing-prices-news/nationwide-gives-a-gloomy-house-prices-forecast-for-2010-3985.html
The latest house price forecast for 2010, which was made public by the Nationwide Building Society on Friday, November 20th, suggests that the British housing market should prepare for another double dip in house prices next year.
According to the Nationwide’s predictions, house prices will decline by another 10% in 2010 and might only return to their 2007-level in 2014. The forecast of the building society was based on the results of a survey carried out among leading estate agents and economists of the United Kingdom.
While the vast majority of respondents claimed that the British housing market will need approximately half a decade to recover, Capital Economics experts said that the recovery of the UK property market should only be expected in 2019.
At the rate cash is being printed I expect average UK housing prices to hit 100,000,000,000 pounds each by 2019.
That’s what happened once Mugabe started printing money just to pay his army of political appointments.
In theory this is probably correct.However we are told that the population is to soar over the next decade to nearly 70 million and the number of new houses being built has been stunningly low for a few years with no immediate likelihood of vast increase any day soon.As a result,I suspect that old fashioned”supply and demand”will hold up house prices rather more than expected.
The additional 10 million will be coming from countries where entire families share single rooms. There will therefore be no requirement for additional housing in the UK as they will all simply sleep in the homes of their ‘qualifying’ relative with the British passport.
Sadly,you may be right.
Good news maybe my son can now afford to buy a house.They have been far too expensive.
http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/engineering/1495.aspx
Are there any sets in the UK or has Brown either scrapped them, or diverted them to a foreign aid budget?
I wish I was the MP for Cockermouth
The local Labour MP for Workington is actually handing out rubber gloves to those property owners returning to their properties in Cockermouth. Apparently the proverbial ess-aitch-one-tee has hit the fan literally as there is a sewage works 1 mile down the rode which has breached its tanks !!!!! So the government IS literally up to its necks in you know what
I think you mean Cockhismouth.
Not really the fault of Government.There was a great deal of rain,once in a thousand year event.Even David Cameron would have been in deep doodoo with this one.We are trying our best up here.
This thousand year thing – how the fuck can you be so sure – got relatives back in 1009 have you?
Nice to know my money is being well spent at the State Broadcaster. If you want a tree shouldn’t you buy it yourself?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230168/BBC-Autumnwatch-tree-giveaway-costing-licence-fee-payers-150-000.html
The BBC – branches everywhere.
“I have only had a quick browse of the Ipsos MORI detailed data, but from what I have seen, the word ROGUE just screams out from the data. The most blatant example of a totally unbelievable figure is the Greater London split (Table 4):”
Lab 38%
Con 31%
LD 20%
BNP 5%
Grn 3%
UKIP 0
oth 3%
One of the latest comments on PB.Com about that rogue poll, if anybody is interested in the truth.
I like it.
Gives the man some hope. We don’t want this PM packing it in, he’s comedy gold.Pure gold.
I think we need a few more polls showing a labour victory, just to keep him in place.
Hes like the hitchhiker who dashes after the car as it stops 50 feet away and just the hiker gets close it pulls away.
And then a fucking great big truck then splatters him on the tarmac.
Only a blu-labour government can stop the floods in Cockermouth.
When you’re weary, feeling a tool
When tears are in your eye,
I will wave goodbye
When hope is low and
When polls get rough
And voters are hard to find
I Use fudged postal voting
I am Gordon Brown
Use lots of postal voting
I am Gordon Brown
When you’re down and out
of No10 Downing street
When taxes rise again
It was still my fault………
I’ll steal your cash and…
When darkness comes
And all the power fails
Use a candle for your lighting
I am Gordon Brown
Use a candle for your heating
I am Gordon Brown
Slither on Mandleson
Slither on by
Your time has come to plea
for all your crimes… yeah…..
See how they mount
Ohhhhh You need a special friend
and Gordons right behind
Like a bridge falling into water
I am Gordon Brown
Like a bridge falling into water
I am Gordon Brown
I’ve just tried to sing this song out loud – at least the words are good
Me dog – Jack – an ‘ansome fella – joined in and started howling
Very poor poem 2 out of 10.
These English Teachers (Retarded) ain’t no good at numbers – 2 out 10 WHAT?
Did you know that the suns rays can burn off ozone?
I didn’t till yesterday after watching ’2012 apocalypse’ on Sky.
The earths magnetic field which protects us, when in flux developes holes and these holes allow in, the ozone destroying rays.
Do you think like me that the big wobbly hole in the ozone layer above the northern hemosphere might not have had anything to do with CFCs after all?
It may or may not be relevant, but the Earths magnetic field has reversed itself in geological history.
About every 600,000 years we get a field reversal. I’m not sure when the next one is ‘due’ but magnetic field strength is declining.
I know stuff like that. That and the fact that AGW is a load of shite. I know that too. Because I’m not a fucking muppet geographer.
Browns Moral compass has been gyrating out of control, field reversal in only 12 years.
Also we can get hit by a huge asteroid plummetting to Earth as in Armageddon or freeze our knackers off as in The Day after Tomorrow or just get invaded by bloody alians as in Independence Day.
P.S
Only 13 days 20 hours 13 mins 38 seconds left to save the World
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/copenhagen
I plan a visit to Cockinyermouth soon, providing some pie shops are open. Failing that a chippy perhaps. I love fried Mars Bars.
Dont forget you Huntz – vote BlueLab come the GE, for a better breed of troughers.
Eric Pickles – the only man alive with a head WIDER than the Calva Bridge.
It’ll make a nice change.
“I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature [the science journal] trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie, from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”
I used to work for Nature. The editor’s name is Phillip Campbell — perhaps we should all write in and ask him why he fell for it or did he knowingly go along and publish knowing it was a trick.
“I used to work for Nature. ” – so does that make you a naturist Susie?
just caught a glimpse of the CBI conference at which our great ‘bridge engineer’ is present. what is it with him? he’s taking questions from people and busily writing things down. he’s not looking at the questioner. he repeats this for 3-4 questioners then delivers his thoughts to everyone.
1. is this not very poor engagement with people at the conference?
2. does this not enable him to waffle about anything he wants other than properly answer questions and debate with people?
3. why has nobody shot him?
He’s actually writing letters of condolences to the shop keepers in Cockermouth and promising them each 12.5 pence support.
As Chancellor I intend helping those residents inconvenienced by missing bridges and longer car trips. To that end I am going to increase the cost of fuel by 2 pence a litre from Jan 2010.
This will also help the economic environment by impoverishing hard-working families to subsidise the CRU Climate Scare Machine, giving me an excuse to raise taxes further to cover Gordon’s dodgy IOUs.
Funny if it were not so true.
Isambard Kingdom Brownhell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IKBrunelChains.jpg
Like everything we invent it and it takes a yank to work it.
Nah, only good for Main Battle Tanks. Put anything light on them, and the results can be devastating.
All the available Bailey Bridges will be en route to Afghanistan I expect.
That’s right a couple of transit vans with some bedding and and bang, into the river she goes.
You are a cub photo-journalist in Workington. You have taken some shots of the floods, people in rubber boats, ducks in the High Street, damaged houses and so on when you receive a call – the Prime Minister is in town – you must get some pictures. Just then you see a portly figure in a dark suit bobbing rapidly down the Derwent…can it be? Yes, it’s Gordon Brown! He’s fallen in! You could try to save him or you could get the pictures that could make your career!
So you have a serious moral dilemma. Should you use colour or go for classic monochrome?
Throw him a brick for bouyancy.
Sepia tone would be appropriate for Brown (its made from squid ink).
It costs a lot though (Squid Ink). About Six quid.
Simply laugh in his face as he dies
Sir William – you are a star – never let anyone say you are negative!
Blood-sucking vampires can’t cross running water (although the sea’s alright). There’s more to this than meets the eye Van Helsing…
Colour. You can go for the monochrome option in Photoshop at some later point.
Someday my prints will come …
Ah yes, the old ones are the best….
brilliant
OT
OECD reports UK still fucked by unique concentration of Labour economic imbeciles and jackasses.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8374042.stm
Japan delivered the strongest growth, expanding by 1.2%, while the UK posted the weakest, contracting by 0.4%.
The UK was the only G7 country not to grow in the quarter. The eurozone grew 0.4%, while the US expanded by 0.9%.
No wonder Brown is delighted to be grandstanding over some flooding instead of fielding embarrassing questions about how uniquely fucked his miracle economy of debt is.
you are making the assumption that there is anybody who will field embarrassing questions on the economy. Thus far Cameroon has not.
last time Brown was doing well in the polls?
floods
don’t know why the fuck that is but it was
Maybe because he’s so full of shit, he’s the only thing that floats.
I love quotes, and this one really fits the bill:
From Julius Caesar:
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder;
And that craves wary walking. Crown him?-that-
And then, I grant, we put a sting in him,
That at his will be may do danger with.
Th’ abuse of greatness is when it disjoins
O/T but finally Brillo’s let it out about the UEA CRU leaks…
AGW wonk squirming and trying to say that the data wasn’t relevant even if released in entirety as there’s other data sets out there that show what they want ! Followed by the usual “we need a public enquiry”.
AND the truth is – Everyone on the planet is going to die…………………………………..eventually
into the hacking…ffs
Drivers are told not to use their SAT NAV for fear of going the wrong / blocked way.
Why not update the SAT NAV guidance in real time and USE the sat nav to help rather than hinder?
NATTY SAVVY = SAT NAV geddit?
Shat Nav don’t work that way.
A delivery was delayed because the driver’s sat nav was at least five years out-of-date.
BREAKING NEWS – MRS THATCHER IS GOING TO BE HUNG IN No 10 BY GORDO !!
Personally, I’d prefer: Gordo is going to be hung in No 10 by Mrs Thatcher.
Dinner with the Duke of Kent. Bloody nesting failures!