Profundity of the Punditry : the President Blair Delusion
It was only a few weeks ago that the papers were full of punditry warning that Tony Blair was about to become the President of Europe. He would, we were assured, stop the traffic…
The Thunderer front-paged the news that “Tony Blair is in line to be proclaimed Europe’s first president within weeks if the Irish vote “yes” in today’s referendum. Senior British sources have told The Times that President Sarkozy has decided that Mr Blair is the best candidate and that Angela Merkel has softened her opposition” written with authority by the paper’s chief political correspondent, Philip Webster.
“Tony Blair’s star in the ascendant as presidency chances grow.” “EU prepares to welcome President Tony Blair” wrote David Charter in Brussels for The Times. Blair “is now a front-runner to become the second most powerful man on the planet after President Obama” claimed a breathless Andrew Pierce. “Number 10 believes that Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, will add her support to the move if she is allowed to choose a German for the other new role created by the Lisbon Treaty, the high representative for foreign affairs” said Porter, also in the Telegraph.
The idea that Tony Blair was the favourite for the job was taken as read by most of the serious broadsheet pundits from across the political spectrum (and James Macintyre). A form of parochialism that was much more than just a collective fantasia of social-democratic and europhile wishful thinking. How did the pundits get it so wrong?
Broadsheet pundits are quick to dismiss bloggers, but the error of their ways was pointed out here:
“…overlooked by our somewhat delusional and europhile media elite is one glaring inconvenient fact; centre-right parties are politically dominant in Europe currently, the President is likely to come from their ranks.”
And what happened?
UPDATE : Co-conspirators have pointed out some more missing names from the directory of the deluded; even Fraser Nelson succumbed, Simon Richards frothed “Blair is The Only Man for this Job“, Oliver Kamm, Jackie Ashley, Matthew d’Ancona (“the former PM is certainly the best candidate available”), John Rentoul “Yes, Oui, Ja”. Who called it right? The Telegraph’s Dan Hannan, who has a day job as a eurosceptic MEP. Perhaps he understands the EU reality better than his chattering-class critics…
UPDATE II : The Indy’s John Rentoul emails to protest “I said he SHOULD be. I said he WOULDN’T be. Get me out of that list of losers.”
The slippery one got found out ?
Iraq was the main reason for Bliar not getting in – the successful candidate was always going to be the compromise that everyone could agree on, not someone as devisive as Tony.
In the end they went for the quiet chairman rather than the overly charismatic executive type, a sensible decision given that the first incumbent will undoubtedly set the tone for the role of his office in the future.
No.It’s the old British nieve thinking that it’s a level playing field,when all along the French and German were planning the succession of their puppet,who will dance according to the strings pulled. Did the continental press harbour the same illusions?
The real winners:
I humbly submit that Mrs. Iain Dale is an utter shit: anyone agree??
i do not.michael.
Oh dear, trod on your corns with both her stilettos did she? Tsk, ain’t life a motherfucker?
Of course it was fucking Iraq
only the completely delusional and most poodling of Blairites would think that catastrophe wouldn’t be forever associated with him and follow Bliar to the grave like the smell of rotting corpses
…and what a surprise we have here, a few gallons of whitewash obviously on order
Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war incapable of deciding on legality – judges
Panel members criticised for lacking legal expertise to tackle key issue
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/nov/23/chilcot-inquiry-iraq-war
They were never going to examing the actual reason run-up and legality of the war too closely since that would also involve Bush and his administration, but try and shift most of the focus onto the occupation and afterwards
When the guy in charge keeps saying “this isn’t going to be a whitewash” you have to wonder exactly why he has to keep saying that
Yesh, sure.
Have a piece of free advice. NEVER let a lawyer near an inquiry like this. They are not qualified to run one.
I heard this morning that the report will not be available until at least 2011. So thats ok then and well past the election so all the soundbites will be for the run up to the eelction.
“we cannot comment and presume the enquiry’s outcome” or ‘we cannot comment while the enquirey continues’
Neatly kicked into the long grass
“I heard this morning that the report will not be available until at least 2011. So thats ok then and well past the election so all the soundbites will be for the run up to the eelction.”
Well Agent 99, the signs aren’t very good are they? The enquiry into a mere riot in N Ireland has been running for 11 years and has cost the taxpayer £100m – so far. On that basis they should be able to spin out an enquiry into a whole war for, well, several decades?
Scandalous.
This shortened version from the grauniad sums up what they think of Chillcott “safe pair of hands”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/15/iraq-inquiry-john-chilcott
What’s the old rule? Always select the chairman who will give you the result you are looking for. The Grauniad’s article would seem to suggest that this well-established principle is alive and well. Combine this with the failure to have evidence taken on oath and I think we can see where this one is going…
Iraq. Proof that one man’s “Falklands” (Blair) can be another man’s “Vietnam” (Brown).
Sorry, Steve Expat, Sarkozy & Merkel own the EU and that’s the main reason Bliar did not get the job. Iraq, and the UK not being in the EMU, did not help, of course.
No, it was Iraq
Bliar would do anything Merkel and Sarkozy would have told him to do as he is not unfamiliar or adverse to the role of poodle for those with more power than him while fucking his own countries national interest
But the EU is full of countries and populations who would never accept Bliar as anything other than a former Bush stooge who could not be trusted on anything
It was Bliars last gasp at a job that he hoped would overshadow his disasterous past
Good analysis at *35.
Blair would have learned;
“How high,How high”
in every European language.
Wrong. Iraq is yesterday’s news (except possibly in the UK); who controls the EU is today’s and tomorrow’s news, especially on the continent.
He slipped one in once too often.
It tells us how the mainstream media works. Someone says at an Islington dinner party that they heard a rumour that Bliar is a sure thing to be EU President. Jug Ears marr tells his lovers. They tell their workmates and suddenly its all over Fleet Street and the Pravda news channel.
After Brown and his cronies, the mainstream media are the worst thing about this country.
Lovers – there’s more than one. Pray tell.
He only needs one, that one yells all hers!
Read Richard Dawkins on Memes. This was one . A bigger one is Global Warming
Or better still read Richard Dawkins on global warming and Iraq
You’re wrong. If the media was actually doing the job we pay them to do, particularly AljaBeeba, ‘Brown and his cronies’ would never have got us into the position we are, socially and economically.
Put the media right, you put the Government right.
It’s called ‘making them accountable’.
I thought it was the duty of HM Opposition to hold the government to account?
No, on second thoughts, you are probably right RVW….silly me.
I reckon our Tony got stitched up by Sarkozy & Merkel for leading us all into Iraq on false information – or maybe ‘cos they just don’t like him.
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Or maybe they thought they would take the piss out of Britain,as usual.
Next trick.All those wannabee new europeans at Calais waiting to join in the grand design should be allowed free access to EU citizenship,as long as it’s in the UK.
Guido, it filled news space, so at the time it was ‘good’ copy. After point of sale you can wipe your arse with it.
The British have the odd idea that the rest of Europe owes us a living. We don’t fight for anything, then wonder why we get stitched up by the French and Germans. We are whingers, who consider it beneath our dignity to scrabble for advantage. You can see it in our politicians – Cameron, Brown – and in our ‘let’s negotiate defeat’ FCO.
Correct in all respects. Even the people are sheeple most of the time and maintain the stiff upper lip while just as an example the frogs would be out torching the place if they did not like what was happening.
Hack’s right.
Newspapers are a business their job is to sell the paper.
Doesn’t matter that today’s headline grabber is tomorrows arse wipe, as long as you fork up your 2 quid, advertisers will continue to display and pay and presses will roll.
That said the power to expose, hold to account and shame remains a key motivator for most dedicated hacks and their editors. Democracy would be hugely diminished without a free press.
Liebour’s outrageous and insidious assault on liberty, free speech, and individual freedoms is a serious affront, the McOppressors must be stopped and their legislative diarrhoea repealed en bloc.
When are the dead trees MSM editors going to realise (like the Sun) that we don’t like this government.
They might sell more papers if they stop dancing to No 10’s tune and get a bit more inquiry into government mantra.
The Brown, Balls, Mandelson triumvirate is doing so many things wrong on a grand scale and the MSM needs to emulate blogs by getting a lot more critical of New labour lies and dogma.
Gordon Brown takes the electorate for fools, the MSM should not make the same mistake as they do not have tax revenues to keep them afloat.
Brown doesn’t have tax revenues to keep him afloat either. Hence borrowing money since 2001 to generate the illusion of an expanding economy.
Then when he couldn’t borrow any more, just turning on the printing presses.
Yep. It suits Brown to blame external events in 2007 for his economic incompetence but the roots of his idiocy and the UK’s uniquely fucked economy go back many years in his maladministration..
MSM, No taxes to keep them afloat Sir?
You are forgetting the Beeboid Broadcasting Corp surely?
No advertising required, No investigative journalism required, Broadcasting Bullshit until the fat lady sings, all the while suckling the protective teet of Goblin McDoom.
Aye. Did you see ‘Newsnight’ last night. Some butter-wouldn’t-melt-in-his-mouth Labour arsehole trying to fit the Tories up over their EU grouping.
Straight-faced giving it to Dan (condescendingly calling him ‘Danny’) Hannan ‘What you must realise Danny is that it isn’t the Labour Party who is highlighting this, it isn’t Wanker A from ‘The Guardian’, it isn’t Wanker B from ‘The Independent’ – it’s the independent ‘investigative journalists’ from Newsnight’.
The cheeky fucker.
Since when were the BBC ‘independent’ when it came to pouring shit on Labour’s political rivals?
A full-on state-media sponsored hatchet job. The laughable thing is that if Labour’s core vote in our vibrant immigrant communities – typically Stockholm-syndrome voting Labour constituencies – gets wind of Kaminsky and his alleged anti-semitism they’ll be more inclined to dump Labour and vote Tory.
After all, that’s how Gorgeous George targetted Oona King’s (Jewish) seat.
So, paradoxically, while nobody in world Jewry gives a hoot about Kaminsky Labour are highlighting to the ethnics that hate the Jews that the Tories are quite relaxed over somebody with an apparently anti-semetic history.
And Labour think this will win them votes how exactly?
Jackasses.
That c*nt was Alan MacLadd or was it Dennis McaShane; did you see his fecking trainers he was wearing..blue and white shite..MP for Rotherham..a Privy Councillor…nuff said!!
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AMERRYKAN SUKKERS
GHEEDOUGH THE INDyPENDENT POLITICKLE BLOGGER WURQKS FOUR AUNTIE MAUD
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AIN*T THAT RITE GWEEDO
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Only a delusional Zanu airhead could think the beeb aren’t batting for their side. Incredible.
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A Full-On State-Media~Sponsored Hatchet Dgjhob
U DENY THE HOLOKAWS
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You mean like the poll yesterday that said Broon was about to win a landside..
Landfill more like.
Well, who cares, I’m just glad that gurning git Tony B.Liar didn’t get the gig.
I never ever want to have to hear from that hoon ever again.
Besides, isn’t his supposed day job – the Quartet’s Middle East peace Envoy (oh the irony) – enough for him?
I’m a full-time Property Baron, actually.
He he.
What’s his next ambition I wonder..
Tax the rich
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TAX THE GOLD AND SILVER BULLION MARKIT
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What difference does it make what happens in Europe anymore to the punter on the street?, nobody got a chance to place their bets anyway so instead of Caligula’s horse for senator we get a Belgian muppet.
Caligula’s horse had to settle for High Representative.
Neigh lad – I were a bloody Consul, me!
Well South Africa got, wait for it…. wait for it..
‘Whinnie’ Mandela
On the subject of people not having jobs, will you be making any comment on the Galley sacking?
Nobody fucking cares knobhead, so just fuck off.
I know Milifuck said he wanted someone to stop the traffic, but this is taking the fucking piss.
Oh yeah, the Tories are to blame for the current 2.6 million unemployed. Or even better, why not Thatcher?
We’re not unemployed.We’re jobseekers.
Just keep believing that Jimmy.
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THE APATHETYQK VOTER IS FIRMLY BASED AND IS IN THE ASCENDANTSEA
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Well I am a fighter and believer.
and a total monkey by the sounds of it
well stick your tin hat on jimmy and get yourself out to the frontline in Afghanistan.
you don’t want to go?
ah, so you are not a fighter really then jimmy, you are just a fucking coward who is full of shit.
innit.
Most losers are.
Lady Thatcher gets blamed for everything that has gone wrong since 1997…. labour have a motto ” Admit nothing. Deny everything. Blame the other person”
If the Labour government insist on following Thatcher’s deluded policies then, in the same way as Marx was responsible for the Soviet Union, she is to blame.
i’ve been saying that for years
Churchill’s to blame if he hadn’t pushed Chamberlain out, we would have had Hitler walk all over Britain and not even Tony or Gorgon or Mandy would have got into power!!
The Millibrands would be working for the Reich or Russia.
History is a cruel thing.
Was this Galley the ‘terrorist’ ?
Not like the incompetent Porker ex speaker Martin who brought disgrace to the office of Speaker and his constituents and so was rewarded by Brown with a Peerage for his bumbling incompetent buffoonery
There’s plenty of jobs in Tescos this time of year FFS, so no excuses.
Tough room
Tough titties.
Well if it’s the Galley who the Labour fuckwits set the anti-terrorist squad on to arrest (because as you know Jimmy Labour are progressive in all things Authoritarian and Stalinist) because he leaked embarrassing Home Office info then it’s only fair to contrast why he was sacked from his original job with the treatment of the idiot Speaker Martin who allowed the ant-terrorist Stasi into the Commons because he was a clueless piggy.
The only reason Galley was ever fired as a civil servant in the first place is because the Met allowed themselves to be pressured by the Cabinet Office or the Home Office, and pursued the case because of incompetent embarrassed Labour Ministers.
So aim your fire at where the blame lies Jimmy old son.
I think it’s cos he was shite.
A lot of MPs were worried that with him gone it could’ve got better, but luckily now that Tory Twat, Harry Cole is doing it, all’s at peace in the world again.
The Chinese know how to call public servants to account
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8375638.stm
My two current nominees would be a) hugh orde, crime excessive pimping for labour, b) whichever fuckwit is in charge of Defra, crime incompetence above and beyond the bounds of possibility.
Can we send Brown there on a FAST boat to China?
He is re-training.
Re?
re-training so he can learn to delete pefectly innocuous coments for no reason?
What? is the Galley, Damien Green, anti-terrorist plods barging into the commmons because of a pig ignorant Speaker Martin now a big fucking secret?
or does it offend thine delicate eyes to be reminded of it?
It’s almost as if Guido didn’t want to talk about it.
But didn’t some British bint get some job? Is this her?
http://stablescoop.horseradionetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/uglyhorse1.jpg
I’ve had her.
And i had her mum.
And I agree with everything I say under my comments
fuck off, i agreed first
Look you fucking sock puppet, there’s only one dobbin.
She’s mine (oops, glasses on)
Damn attractive all those sheep on the header
There be a welcome innnn the Hillsides
Margaret Beckett, in full cry.
the “screaming skull”!
Living proof that Brown is blind
It’s like this: putting Blair in the running was the only way these newspapers were ever going to get people to read articles about the European Union, and they knew it. Short-termist sensationalism over building long-term mutual respect with the readership.
Anyone with the faintest clue about European affairs knew that the decision did not rest with Sarkozy alone and that Blair didn’t have a chance in hell. But hyping up his chances was politically useful for Euroscepticism, and the Tories (because it got idiots like Europe Minister Chris Bryant out in the open hypocritically telling us how wonderful Blair would be having played a huge part in getting rid of him three years prior, as well as making hypocrites out of all sorts of other lefties), and Baroness Ashton it seems.
Oh and the hype was useful for Blair of course, who is currently hawking his wares across the Earth and other planets and therefore grateful for the massive promotional push his brand has received in the run-up to Christmas. Discourteous git.
It was Brown that lost it
Well done McMental
12 years and finally your accursed touch came in handy
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You should get the highest honour for nominating Blair as a candidate for President of Europe
That fucked him
Thank you Gordon
*Kisses McMentals shoes*
Its no loss
he is a fucking hoon just get him to gitmo
Anyone but Blair was the campaign. If Labour hadn’t shafted us, then perhaps we’d have been more vociferousness in our for the support B.liar.
‘our support for the B.liar.’
I shouldn’t post at this time of night.
Be thankfull that he didnt get the job , what a nightmare , said he should be in chillcott inquiry in feb/march , teflon tone ?? tea towell tone ??
CW was amused at chief clerks support for jill pay , appently he never told her when she was given the job that the seargent at arms had the right to not allow a warrant serch !!! must improve employee tarining eh
tories fire up on green economy , theres gold in dem there landfills !! well not quite but its a start , CW is alittle unsure about the mix but it is better than lab or libs offerings so far . east anglia university radio rebuttal was extarordinary in that it failed to mention mand made climate change once , but managed cliimate change is happening quite a few times .
the knock on effects around the scientific community is almost disbelief , so we are back to re evaluating certain effects , but as ever this has sod all to do with pollution . will comment a bit more tommorow when we see annoucements . Its a start , but so far no party has so far , proposed anything like a swing to the eco rules , and tin foil hats moment for greenies isnt help full , as were all thorwon back into corporate conspiracy theory world , is it the oil cos , is it the NWO marxists , or just scared world leaders !
dont what dennis macshane is doing still smearing kaminjinsky , i mean you could argue that macshane is a anti capitalist and is associated with mass murder aka pol pot , stalin etc etc and should just resign for aligning himself with mass murderers beliefs.
CBI conference , gathered all the great business leaders in white tie to listen to all 3 party leaders , talk about a situation that still isnt clear other than we are in a lot of trouble and heading towards failed nation status , Cameron wants a growth budget, cleeg wants banking reform and the ruin doest want to upset fragile growth.
Putting aside that it was the ruin who allowed us to be in this mess , banking reform has to happen , but the ruins stratgey is based on on the debt being repaid by yet unspoken levels of growth , CW asks the question what if growth is lower or even non existant , this compounds the debt effect and we are truely bust . So reducing the debt is a win win situation , if growth is weak we are reducing our risk of bust , if we do get growth we can reduce the debt quicker and bring back some spending in a few years time .
Ruins explanation of his policy was terrible , he might as well have gone up the podium with sign saying “ime a big liar” round his neck , the fact he didnt even touch upon the conservites thinking was unbalanced . But at least we now know he is betting everything on growth , being as he got growth in the new retail economy by opening the credit taps up , CW ponders what sort of growth he is expecting with no credit , this agian will show how bar the finacial services he has left the structural economy weak , damaged even and the last ten years criminal treasury policy .
I had to applaud B&P article , brown gives Cumbria £1 million in same week as he gives £248 million in foreign aid , I mean what idiot runs nations wealth so hard into the buffers that he can afford £2 million when insurance comapanies say total could for disaters be nearer £100 million , and we still have rest of winter to go .
Gordon Brown called Alistair Darling into his office one day and said, ‘Alistair , I have a great idea!? We are going to go all out to win back Middle England ‘. ‘Good idea PM, how will we go about it?’ said Darling.
‘Well’ said Brown ‘we’ll get ourselves two of those long Barbour coats, some proper wellies, a stick and a flat cap, Oh and a Labrador . Then we’ll really look the part.. We’ll go to a nice old country pub, in Much Something or other and we’ll show we really enjoy the countryside, ………
‘Right PM’ said Darling. So a few days later, all kitted out and with the requisite Labrador at heel, they set off. Eventually they arrived in a quiet little village and found a lovely country pub and, with the dog, went in and up to the bar.
‘Good evening Landlord, two pints of your best ale, from the wood please’ said Brown
‘Good evening, Prime Minister’ said the landlord, ‘two pints of best it is, coming up’
Brown & Darling stood leaning on the bar contemplating new taxes, nodding now and
again to those who came in for a drink, whilst the dog lay quietly at their feet.
Suddenly the door from the adjacent bar opened and in came a grizzled old shepherd, complete with crook. He walked up to the Labrador, lifted its tail with his crook, looked underneath, shrugged his shoulders and walked back to the other bar.
A few moments later, in came a wizened farmer who followed the same procedure, to the bewilderment of Brown and Darling. People of all ages and gender followed suit over the next hour. Eventually, unable to stand it any longer, Darling called the landlord over. ‘Tell me’ said Darling, ‘Why did all those people come in and look under the dog’s tail like that??? Is it an old country custom?
‘Good Lord no,’ said the landlord. ‘It’s just that someone has told them that there was a Labrador in this bar with two arseholes’
Hush, now, C W.
Slipping in comments like your last paragraph will earn you time in the awaiting-moderation naughty bin.
Celeb tittle-tattle is what puts bums on seats here.
Emperor Brown might be waving his naked botty around, splattering borrowed billions worldwide but carping on stuff like that just lowers the tone.
Süddeutsche Zeitung, where you got your info, is a lefty paper.
And if the EU is run by mostly right-wing parties how come it’s an undemocratic authoritarian shithole? Is that what righties are like?
The reason Brown kept pushing the Blair candidacy right up to the last minute was to negotiate some Brit influence into one of the jobs.
If you need anymore of the basics explained, just gimme a shout.
Stupid boy, the EU regardless of simplistic right / left labels, has always been an undemocratic, authoritarian institution.
You have obviously been reading too many copies of OK magazine, instead of paying attention.
Go to the back of the class and recite 100 times, “I am a braindead clone, with no discernable intelligence”.
Kunts
The reasons don’t really matter just the fact that he didn’t get the job is enough and the thought of slot gobs disappointment still makes me laugh out loud.
Indeed, the thought of Cherie Antoinette unable to become Empress of EUroland, does raise the spirits in these dark days.
i think merkel and sarkozy took one look and realised that they didnt want the celebrity obsessed grinning hoon Blair lauding it over them
THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES APPLICABLE TO EVERYONE IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE:
1. Selflessness: Holders of public office should act solely in terms of the public interest. They should not do so in order to gain financial or other benefits for themselves, their family or their friends.
2. Integrity: Holders of public office should not place themselves under any financial or other obligation to outside individuals or organizations that might seek to influence them in the performance of their official duties.
3. Objectivity: In carrying out public business, including making public appointments, awarding contracts, or recommending individuals for rewards and benefits, holders of public office should make choices on merit.
4. Accountability: Holders of public office are accountable for their decisions and actions to the public and must submit themselves to whatever scrutiny is appropriate to their office.
5. Openness: Holders of public office should be as open as possible about all the decisions and actions that they take. They should give reasons for their decisions and restrict information only when the wider public interest clearly demands.
6. Honesty: Holders of public office have a duty to declare any private interests relating to their public duties and to take steps to resolve any conflicts arising in a way that protects the public interest.
7. Leadership: Holders of public office should promote and support these principles by leadership and example.
SEVEN STEP GUIDE TO LIEBORE’S UNPRINCIPLED PUBLIC SERVICE:
1. Selflishness: Holders of public office should act solely in terms of self interest. They should do so in order to gain financial or other benefits for themselves, their family and their friends.
2. Lack of Integrity: Holders of public office are obliged to abuse their official duties for favours (financial or otherwise) from outside individuals or organizations that may seek to make use of them.
3. Objectivity: In carrying out public business, including making public appointments, awarding contracts, or recommending individuals for rewards and benefits, holders of public office should always make choices based on party political or personal gain.
4. Accountability: Holders of public office are never accountable for their decisions and actions to the public and shall never have to submit themselves to the kind of scrutiny an honest citizen would think appropriate to their office.
5. Secrecy: Holders of public office should be as guarded as possible about all the decisions and actions that they take. They should never give reasons for their decisions and restrict information at every possible opportunity.
6. Dishonesty: Holders of public office have a duty to conceal any private interests relating to their public duties and to take steps to coverup any conflicts arising in a way that pisses the public interest up a wall.
7. Leadership: Holders of public office should promote and support these principles by leadership and example.
Is this cut and pasted from Labour MPs’ terms and conditions ??
Ahrrggg, rumbled!
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The tragedy is that it’s necessary to spell this out.
And what happened?
Gordon gave his official backing to B’Liar
I am the master of destroying everything I back…
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“it was never like this in the good times, shhh wahhh! ssssh wahh!”
The media luvies adore Bliar. They even backed him on the absurd decision to go to war in Iraq. They have repeatedly yped Labour and have failed to examine their lies. The mainstream media are culpable for the current mess we are in.
CON 39%(+1), LAB 22%(-2), LDEM 21%(+1). 17 point lead! I’m sure Pravda will return to their previous policy of not mentioning opinion polls.
David Cameron is left reeling after the latest poll showing the tories are unable to reach even 40% of voters.
The tory high command are in meltdown as the new shocking figures suggest that tory support is waning.
Meanwhile elsewhere, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised more aid to the flood stricken region of the north west. In his press conference today, he pledged one million pounds of immediate aid and had this heartwarming message for the stricken folk in Cumbria, ” I understand your suffering and will do everything possible to stop the rain that has so unexpectedly fallen here in Cumbria, for the last 2000 years” he added ” Our hearts go out to all those suffering hardship at these difficult times and to those who have lost their lives and the loved ones they have left behind” he said ” The people of this great nation can expect nothing less than my 100% determination to carry on and do the right thing for all of our people, unlike of course those do nothing tories”
Now back to the studio.
Apparently he sent 25 artillerlymen to Cumbria. Can someone explain to him that artillerymen blow shit up not rebuild it.
I’m sure these guys will really do their best all the same and will be of some help but Jeez!
He should send those chaps from the Royal Tattoo. The ones who rig up a rope bridge and take a field gun across the ‘ravine’ and reassemble it in about 90 seconds. I’m not sure what help it would be but it would be fucking entertaining plus we could shell Brown’s limousine at the end.
With Brown in it – plus as many of his crooked Cabinet as possible – like a Guinness World Records “how many crooks can you fit in a ministerial Jaguar?
OED
TRICK: A crafty or fraudulent device of a mean or base kind; a stratagem, ruse, wile. b. An iillusory or deceptive apperance; a semblance, sham.
Fanny mouth: You see mr Paxman it’s not a trick in the way everybody thinks of a trick, that’s to say err, a trick is not a trick, it’s just an honest way of showing everybody is wrong and we are right whatever the figures are. Now, do I keep my job and get promoted?
I met former US Vice-President Al Gore, whose powerful film about climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, is about to be distributed in UK cinemas, and I am delighted that Republican Senator John McCain, who has done so much to promote a cross-party consensus on climate change in the US, will be coming to our party conference in Bournemouth. Rising to the threat of climate change will require more than conventional party politics has to offer
- David Cameron
Seems like two wrongs still make you right, I suppose your just as tricky with numbers as you are with words.
Not an OED subscriber, but:
From dictionary.com
TRICK:
A clever or ingenious device or expedient; adroit technique.
The art or knack of doing something skillfully.
The Cumbrian weather started in America……now they need a bailout…..or a bridging loan to tide them over a rainy day.
g’morning GF….
i like gold
Something I said?….
Sorry, I’ll take that back. It’s the un-numbered posts that confuse…
Anyone heard the rumour that Cherie is shagging around with her personal protection officers?
Yes – that’s old news – evidently she takes them on in two’s,hence the width of her mouth.
Eugh. I shall write and ask for my job application to be returned to me at once.
No, I can’t believe that even Personal Protection Officers, whose standards are low anyway, would plumb the depths and shag the wide mouthed frog. Unless of course one of them has an STD and is doing a grudge f*ck.
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Everyones a winner in the EU,except Britain says:
November 24, 2009 at 12:19 am
Did the continental press harbour the same illusions? XX
Yes. The mainland seems to think this prick is some kind of hero, like they think of T******r.
Beats me.
Tractor?
Twizzler? Thermidor?
Seems to me that this is a classic operation to “blind side” your opponents as to what is actually the likely to be the final desired outcome by the powerful states within the EU – France and Germany
Sarkozy.Baroso and Merckell have all played an absolute blinder compared to Brown and the Noble Lord Mandelson(who antagonised a lot of people within the EU during his stint as Trade Commissioner with his imperious manner). It’s obvious that they never wanted Blair but rather someone like Van Rompuoy as President.Barroso always wanted the more consensual Ashton as EU High Rep(the added bonus was that this could be sold to Brown and UK as a consolation prize and would me pitched to Brown as having Britain in the second spot and make out that this was actually a “powerful” role. Miliband was just a distraction – they knew that he would never leave the Uk and the coast clear for Balls to ascend to the leadership of the Labour Party after an election and close any route back for Miliband into UK politics. It had the added bonus of causing some friction within UK government circles as they suspected it would with Mandelson agitating to be made UK Foreign Secretary as a result of the EU “overtures”) Sarkozy/Merckel were much more interested in the Econmoic Post which looks like going to a frenchman so they can effectively control the City of London to their advantage
They played Brown,Blair,Mandelson & UK media like fish in a barrel and at the same time got one over the old “enemy” – “les rosbifs” !!
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Brown can go now he has fulfilled his destiny of keeping Blair away from the Presidential suite in Brussels. Goodbye Mr Brown, and please apologise for the right mess up you made of absolutley everything else you had to do.
No; keep him there so that the whole nation can witness his long slow political death.
He died after backtracking on the election that never happened.
I suspect that the only thing supporting his rotting corpse is a gold seal battery operating his limbs and a tape recorder stuffed up his jacksie repeating “its the right thing to do” and “it started in America”
Thank God he bottled. He’d almost certainly have won if he’d called an election immediately after knifing Blair. And then we’d be stuck with the jackass for another three years.
Imagine that. At the moment he’s ‘only’borrowing 200bn quid this year to try and borrow a single quarter of ‘growth’. Imagine how much he’d have to borrow with another three years of idiocy ahead of us as he continued to claim that borrowing 200bn quid next year and 300bn quid the following year was ‘taking the tough decisions’ and ‘the right thing to do’.
Rather than admit he was wrong all along and attempt to actually balance the fucking budget.
Are Labour budgets, or rather Brown’s (not Darlings) budgets meant to balance or even be in surplus. Is this a double bluff thing a variation of negative growth, or positive stagnation.
My head hurts. Yet I bet the bastard has plenty of dosh in personal accounts.
Hopefully Blair CAN stop the traffic – when he gets blown to bits and pieces.
When I pronounced that the EU President should be someone who could ’stop the traffic’ I was correct.
In Monsieur Rumpole you have got a person who looks exactly like a Lollipop Man.
Morning chaps. Morning Colonel (say it just like English gentleman isn’t it?)
Me just popping into troll briefing in bunker and then come back here post my pithy clever one-line for comrades many times.
Try to use clever word “Conservitudes”. Very clever that one. Me pleased at that one. Master Baiter No.1 is No.1 not like Master Baiter 2 imposter dude try to bluff double bluff.
Later dudes (say it like ugly American isn’t it?)
Isn’t it?
Er . . .
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Hahaha etc
You are not the real MB. It is far too early for MB to be stirring and then he has to spend some time with himself before he gets up.
It shows how out of touch the MSM is and / or how UK focused they really are. For whose purposes is questionable???
On a brighter note, it was good to hear of several people in Cumbria taking over the Job Centre Plus offices, vacated by tiresome DWP staff, and setting up tressles and trying to restart their businesses in some way. Certainly highlights the desire of ordinary people to get back to normal and highlights Frank Fishers ludicrous and bigotted comments about them
See that what I mean. Master Baiter No.2 imposter bogie man come on here try to disrupt Master Baiter troll No.1 blog for Gordon not having bogies. Only one true left hand man for Gordo not have bogies troll No.1 Master Baiter. Not be fooled by imposter trolls. Imposter having bogies troll man piss me off. Have serious troll to do for Gordo not have bogies. Better believe. Yessir bob.
Hahaha
Uhuhuhuhuhuh
What has labour ever done for us????
Blair and Brown and the ‘Uman Rights Act have well and truly stuffed the Royal Navy, article by Max Hastings today expresses it very well..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1230314/A-cowardly-Navy-cautious-SAS-Britains-humiliation-pirate-rabble.html
‘ere steady on – Pirates ‘as rights an’all y’know. They could claim millions from us an’ where would me department’s bonus be then I’d like t’ know ?
Anyrode them snooty naval captains knows their ships only got one shell amongst five o’em and it were not that there Sea Wave whatever ships name turn to ‘ave it this month.
Anyways I’m bustin me gut ‘ere y’know gettin’ them there what y call it Bailey Bridges thingys up t’ Cumbria from the imperial war museum stocks. You wannna try loadin’ one on a low loader and pullin’ it up the M6.It’s no joke
I’m impressed Bob.
None of us round these parts had any idea you knew words such as ‘Bailey Bridge’, ‘low loader’ and ’stocks’, never mind how to string them together in a usefull sentence.
Bravo.
How is Herman centre right? He’s a lunatic federalist who wants to do away with nations and replace them completely with a continental government.
Good morning
HOW TO START EACH DAY WITH A POSITIVE OUTLOOK
1. Open a new file in your computer.
2. Name it “Gordon Brown”.
3. Send it to the Recycle Bin.
4. Empty the Recycle Bin.
5. Your PC will ask you.
“Do you really want to get rid of
“Gordon Brown ?”
6. Firmly Click “Yes.”
7. Feel better?
Tomorrow we’ll do John and Edward
Now that has cheered me up this morning!
my Mac does not do this, so I just created a folder called “HELL” and placed “Gordon Brown” in it
Unfortunately, many of us are still stuck with v*sta. If you make a file called Gordon Brown and attempt to delete it, you have 100/1 odds it’ll say…
“You do not have sufficient rights to delete Gordon Brown”
M*crs*ft and Goblin McDoom, tis a very f*cked up world we’re living in.
Brilliant. If you use ccleaner you can shred the fucker as well. 7 passes and you get McSnot Mince.
Did all these stories begin in Drowning Street?
Were all these stories simply fed to the lobby by Spads?
Teflon Tone was stuffed from day one of his aspirations to be El Presidente.
Sarky and Housefrau were having none of the Bliar royal family swanning around.
Bliar too high profile and too much illegal war baggage and an enquiry into the pro’s and con’s of that war.
I also think that Merkel at some point refered to Bliar as flash.
Anyway it all turned out well in the end,seeing we got our CND woman in there and what really made my day was Mandelscum blowing a fuse over Gorgon’s inept handling of this.
Poor old tone & imelda, the only place they are destined to strut their stuff and ’stop the traffic’, is downtown Ramala.
You’ve got to hand it to them (not sure who “them” are, but you know what I mean).
Tone and Cherie Antoinette scuppered and the deadly insult of making that minging nobody the Foreign Minister instead of Mandelson, or Miliband.
Along with the leaked climate change emails, this has been a great week. I’m almost tempted to break into my election night champagne stash……….
It has been his ambition to be president of Europe long before the post was even thought up, which makes his failure all the more delicious.
Why is it that despite being one of the largest contributors we are always the ’sick man & woman’ of Europe.
Could our membership have been built on lies and deceptions?
Another cancer drug too dear for Britain: Bowel cancer victims denied life-prolonging care that’s free in Europe
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230349/Bowel-cancer-victims-UK-denied-life-prolonging-drug-thats-free-Europe.html#ixzz0XlY6r8Sg
What makes this whole Euro pantomime (and it’s the season !) so amusing is that Blair and Mandelscum were passed over in favour of garden gnomes …!!
Nice…
There’s some arrogant, but quite pathetic, journalist called Oliver (Kamm?)from The Times on Radio 5 right now desperately and dishonestly trying to defend Tony Blair from charges of being a war criminal.
Poor pathetic Oliver is getting ripped th shreds by the callers but is spinning, distorting, and squirming like mad to try to defend his hero.
Aren’t the owners and editors of The Times ashamed and embarrassed to have such a miserable creature representing them in the media?
…..and of course the BBC are not providing any balance, despite their charter, because it suits their corporate needs – Kamm is a wanker and imperialist war monger and a fascist – so who need s balance?? Fuck the BBC
Tune in to Radio 5 to hear this:
“There’s some arrogant, but quite pathetic, journalist called Oliver (Kamm?)from The Times on Radio 5 right now desperately and dishonestly trying to defend Tony Blair from charges of being a war criminal.
Poor pathetic Oliver is getting ripped th shreds by the callers but is spinning, distorting, and squirming like mad to try to defend his hero.
Aren’t the owners and editors of The Times ashamed and embarrassed to have such a miserable creature representing them in the media?”
The next one they’re moving on to – as Guido pointed out yesterday – is the ‘hung parliament’ theme. They vary this with the ‘leadership challenge to Brown’ story. They really are shit, aren’t they?
O/TY I know but has anyone else noticed the startling similarites between William Hague in an old straw hat, and Rachel Chandler?
….ans so the Iraq War (non Imperilaist and ultra clean version) Enquiry begins – Pass the whitewash please, and order 400 tons from B&Q whist your at it
Lovin’ our lead in the polls.
Hahahaha
See here he is again. Master Baiter No.2 imposter troll talk about lead polls. What is lead polls. Like medicine balls? Why he is loving lead medicine balls? He licking this lead in balls? That is poison. No wonder he write shit. Brain turn to mush from licking lead in lead polls. Then he laughs about licking lead? Fucking insane. Much different to eating bogies, you bet, yessir. Need to get health safety cadre wash him down quick. This is bogie man imposter not troll for Gordo genuine No.1 Master Baiter posting troll left hand man isn’t it?
I is only true Master Baiter No.1 left hand Gordo troll posting for comrades isn’t it?
Better get loony imposter No.2 and take to hospital get brain checked and scrape lead off tongue quick and wash down isn’t it?
The MTM were cross when van Rompuy and Ashton were appointed, not because they were chosen undemocratically but because not one of the media had picked either of them. It would have required actual journalistic effort on a large scale to gain an insight into what Brussels was thinking. It was not sufficient to hang around Westminster and wait to be tipped off. Stories about Blair and Miliband were a local substitute for the real thing.
The enquiry that has just started will do nothing for justice.
Read very carefully just who these Privy Council members are.
This will be a whitewash as they cannot possibly find against anyone.
Other countries must be watching this in astonishment.
Seminars will be held / Evidence will be heard / Witnesses will be called. Yeah right.
And meanwhile,a lorry load of B&Q own label white paint (times are hard) is stored in the basement of the QE2 Centre,ready for a liberal splashing.
Don’t bother wasting any of your life on this – focus on Brown – he’s the Soviet spy ruining Great Britain and England in particular.
They say they won’t ’shy away’ from criticism. That’s because a horse has to get close to something before it can shy. I doubt that the thought of criticising Tony will even speculate about the possibility of crossing their minds. “Need to react swiftly…fog of war…better communications…credible information…security implications prevent full disclosure…national interest…Saddam jolly bad sort…relied on the USA…nothing to see here, move along please.”
Its all going to plan Blair will have this job after Herman.
He did not get the job because of the Iraq war baggage he carries. Just today a whitewash is starting he will be cleared [as all Liebour whitewashes do ]
Then he will take his place at the head of Europe as God has told him that’s his duty.
Did anyone ever find out if the hoon is still paying taxes to GB on the many millions that he is making despite being such a feeble man?
I strongly suspect not, he’s not spending much time in the UK at the moment. What are the chances that he’s a tax-exile?
The line from the Blair camp was consistent from the beginning (quite some time ago but cannot remember exactly) – he would love to do the job if it came with real authority. As long as the job was nothing more than chairman of a committee he did not want it. Why the media fell in love with Blair again I don’t know.
Blair’s approach revealed the job to be a minor one but the churnalists were in their own little world of President Blair putting everything right.
Food for thought. Sorry it’s off topic.
I have two children and am divorced. The children spend half the time with each parent; I pay all the costs for clothes, activities, school trips, shoes, uniform, hair cuts etc. under a court order.
Ex is working part time and on benefits. She is well qualified and could get a much better job if she tried.
In equal residence cases the Child Support Agency makes an assessment on behalf of the parent who gets Child Benefit, so I have to pay a CSA assessment as well; most of which is kept by the State, (I think the new rule is to give a maximum of £20.00 per week toa mother on benefits).
Most of my money comes from compensation payments for a work related injury which initially the CSA accepted was exempted by law from their calculations.
There has been no change of circumstances, but the CSA have decided to change their minds, disregard the law, include compensation payments in their income calculations and backdate it too.
So just before Christmas I have a demand for £1500 arrears plus substantially increased payments monthly.
That £1500.00 won’t go to the children, it will be taken away from them, I won’t have it and my ex won’t get it because she is on benefits.
What has happened is that the CSA has received instructions to grab as much money as possible as quickly as possible to pay for the rising benefit bill.
The significance of this move is its effect on any injured servicemen who receive injury compensation.The Military have high divorce rates and are favourites for the CSA because they are easily traceable and it is easy to make earnings attachment orders to any payment from the Government.
Compare my case to that of a crooked MP.
I have not committed an offence, I have been totally truthful at all times, I have little money, poor health, yet the Government is taking £1500.00 off me by force.
The MPs are allowed to keep all the money they have gained by fraud; they are far richer than I am, no- one will take money off them. They will have a nice Christmas.
I have appealed; the CSA’s interpretation of the law is highly dubious, and their action in backdating an assessment changed due to their own incompetence is a disgrace.
This is Labour; those that have shall be given more; from the weak and the vulnerable and those that have not we shall steal everything because they cannot fight back.
You must have missed the memo anon. It read…
“Avoid any and all contact with the government, they’re a fucking disgrace.”
ps Sorry to hear about your troubles, I keep thinking Liebore are as low as they can go, then someone goes and proves me wrong.
All the best.
Sorry to hear about this, and wish you luck (and apologies to Guido for the OT).
Try these people: http://www.nacsa.co.uk/
Thanks for that; it looks useful.
@John Rentoul
Those saying Blair would be President were just wrong. Saying he should be was delusional. Who is the loser?
Some of these did predict a Blair presidency; several didn’t.
Rentoul banged on for weeks about why a Benelux premier would get it.
Similarly, what Steve Richards wrote was that “Blair is the obvious choice for president which means he probably does not have a chance” so should not be in your list either.
(I haven’t dug it out but from memory d’ancona’s position was similar).
Others said they would prefer Blair, not that he should be chosen. Charles Clarke wrote an Indy column that Blair had little chance, and was the wrong choice, and that the UK should go for the HighRep job.
Poor old Tone. He even tried to get the catholic vote by buying himself a rosary. What will he do now? Probably just count the dollars as they roll in from a grateful US of A.
KNOW YOUR ENEMY:
THE WAR CRIMINAL BLAIR. Know YOUR ENEMY : http://eotp.wordpress.com/?s=Blair
LOL!! It just gets better!!
Tune in to Radio 5 to hear this:
“There’s some arrogant, but quite pathetic, journalist called Oliver (Kamm?)from The Times on Radio 5 right now desperately and dishonestly trying to defend Tony Blair from charges of being a war criminal.
Poor pathetic Oliver is getting ripped th shreds by the callers but is spinning, distorting, and squirming like mad to try to defend his hero.
Aren’t the owners and editors of The Times ashamed and embarrassed to have such a miserable creature representing them in the media?”
Unless there HAD been indications issued that Blair would be the first EU president? Until someone in the EU thought: “We must not allow Blair to become the first EU president!” Why? Why might that be the case? “Iraq inquiry wait finally over” Oh! Read all about it!
Oops!
You can bet your arse that Bliar will squrim out of all questioning. Will he blame his pet puppet “Dubya” you bet. Meanwhile Cheney and his mates walk away scot free (and now even get to blame Powell – what?).
Blair was used by Cheney et al to massage Dubya into action. All the lies and half truths on WMD must haunt the good Cafflick lad.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23774115-iraq-inquiry-no-guilty-verdicts-and-blair-wont-be-put-on-trial.do
Iraq inquiry: No guilty verdicts and Tony Blair won’t be put on trial
Paul Waugh, Deputy Political Editor
24.11.09
No politician, military chief or official will be found guilty by the Iraq war inquiry, its chairman said today.