December 3rd, 2009

Monty 4 Salisbury

Last night saw a bit of Twitter swarming suggesting ConservativeHome founder Tim Montgomerie would be a perfect local candidate for Salisbury. The incumbent Tory MP Robert Key has announced he does not intend to stand at the next election.

Guido hasn’t spoken with Tim, but would commend him for his strength of character and sense of purpose. We don’t agree on much ideologically, but Guido has the utmost respect for him as an operator and an innovator. Friends are pressing Tim to consider standing. As good a candidate as he would undoubtedly make, one questions whether Tim would really enjoy the lowered status and reduced influence he would have as just another backbench MP…


206 Comments

  1. 1
    half the story says:

    Would he not be a Carswell for his branch of the Tories?

    • 2
      Mrs Dale says:

      “As good a candidate as he would undoubtedly make, one questions whether Tim would really enjoy the lowered status and reduced influence he would have as just another backbench MP…”

      Same goes for Ian Dale?

      • 9
        Anonymous says:

        Awwwww… nobody swarmed Guido ?
        shame

        • 14
          Militant Homosexual says:

          Oh matron! Is Mrs. Dale thinking of standing, again? 5th time’s a charm!

        • 74
          thick as thieves says:

          the great thick as thieves gets swarmed by cripples and trolls all the time.
          they soon find out after a couple of good fucking hidings that there can only be one top boy.
          my mission is simple: I heal as many of the cripples as I can of their afflictions and I crack open the skulls of as many trolls as is heroically possible. I cleave them open like soft boiled eggs.
          the reader should be warned that in the coming weeks and months the troll attrition rate is going to rise exponentially; the floor will soon be knee deep in trolls’ brains and blood and fragments of skull and smashed teeth. better pack a pair of wellies.

          • Axe Murderer says:

            Pathetic amateur. Wimp.

          • Gordons favourite Butt Plug says:

            Said the man with webbed feet. Which will of course be useful when sea levels rise.

          • thick as thieves says:

            top boy speaks and his bitches start dancing.
            good slags.

          • Gordons favourite Butt Plug says:

            You make Brown look quite reasonably balanced. He may has less of a personality disorder than TaT. All bluff and bluster. Fancy a square do?

            I will let you bring your weapon of choice.

          • thick as thieves says:

            keep dancing bitch.
            you are a good and loyal slag.
            you amuse top boy.

          • Gordons favourite Butt Plug says:

            Like Brown, you never answer a question. Do you? Do you?

            I am very relaxed, because you can spot an emotionally stunted pygmy a mile away. You use rhetoric as a defence mechanism, as you know how shallow you are. Whats wrong TaT, IQ of a diet yoghurt?

          • sockpuppet is a twat says:

            you’re no fucking different buttplug
            just worse and more embarrassing when you attempt the swearing
            like a posh twatty kid trying out naughty words for the first time

          • Conservatives my arse! says:

            How can ANY real conservative join Daves party? these people are simply EU stooges out for self gain, why would they not join UKIP or a real nationalist party rather than this group of EU socialists?

          • Nothing British about the Conservatives! says:

            Nothing British about this EU stooge!

          • Gordons favourite Butt Plug says:

            Swearing? Er not as often as most. Posh and twatty. Oh yes, said TaT’s less famous accomplice. Er TaT.

          • Dave = EU/NWO socialist stooge says:

          • EU Dave's fops before women and minorities policy! says:

            Doesn’t this clown Tim `not nice but dim` run `nothing British about the BMP` site along with baron no lips Bethell, both eager to get in the trough and betray the UK to the EUSSR?

            Why are they not leading by example and giving their safe seats over to an ethnic minority or woman candidate as Dave insists he will do, rather than these Tory fops?

            Looks like both are hypocrites including Dave!

          • Knee Deep in Trolls and Fed Up... says:

            That’s why they’ve all gone to Conservative Home!

      • 10
        A.S.H.Croft. says:

        His influence will not be affected.

      • 18
        Mrs. Iain Dale says:

        Mrs. Iain Dale here! People don’t vote for me coz I’m a poofter, init blood?! I’m sooooooooooo desperate and needy! Please someone vote for me! Norfolk! Bracknell! Beckenham! Countless others! Mmmmmmm food!

        • 41
          The Uttleford Times Correspondent says:

          The problem is I suspect not Dale’s “sexuality” but the fact that the people in charge of the various local Conservative Associations probably don’t like high profile bloggers for candidates

          • I want Women do you hear me? Women! Dave says:

            Definitely not his sexuality, it’s his sex, it does not conform to Dave’s all women A lists.

    • 7
      Heir to Blair says:

      Yep. useless and sidelined and ignored
      Like all the Tories Guido champions
      How is life in obscurity Mr Hannanas ?

    • 101
      David Buik says:

      “Could you please turn round from the door of Number 10 and go straight back to Paris’.

      “We in the City are very disappointed by his insulting behaviour. But we are equally upset that neither the Prime Minister nor the Chancellor really saw this coming and did enough to prevent Monsieur Barnier’s appointment.

      “I expect the City to lose 30 per cent of its power during the course of the next five years because of this.”

      Sarkozy cancels London trip after invoking wrath of City

      • 205
        Tapestry says:

        Sarkozy is 5 ft 3 inches. He claims 5 ft 5″. And he cannot be seen except with people under 5 foot 6″. In France he busses round extras short in stature to all his visits to factories and so on. No, seriously. His wife bends her knees and bows her head and tries to look as short as she can. He has a serious inferiority complex.

        Barnier is the oaf who was handing the PLO millions of Euros every year, and subsidised the totally corrupt Palestinian Authority, without asking for any accounts.

        We are now ruled by a Poison Dwarf, and the controller of a terrorist slush fund.

    • 125
      WHAT I SAY says:

      Does this Monty person come from or live in Salisbury?

      If he doesn’t then he should not be selected. Local peeps for Local MPs is what I say.

      • 206
        Tapestry says:

        Of course he comes from Salisbury.
        That’s the whole bloody point of this thread.
        He’s known as Tory Taliban.
        Dýou think he lives in Kabul?

  2. 3
    Anonymous says:

    Come on Tim

  3. 4

    We need anyone we can in the Conservatives when they win in May to push Cameron towards a smaller state, lower taxes, out of EU and slash the public sector in half.

    I hope Tim is one of them.

  4. 5
    Praguetory says:

    It may be a sacrifice for Tim, but it would be good for the party and good for politics if he were in the HoC.

  5. 6
    Disco Biscuit says:

    The only constituency to which Tim would be suited would surely be Canterbury? And I don’t think Brazier is shifting.

  6. 17
    Anonymous says:

    There should be an MP for a virtual constituency voted for by blog commenters.

    Would we vote for tim or guido?

    Will Wotsit will probably win as they will have invented 1000s of imaginary virtual immigrants to falsify their e-postal voting.

  7. 23
    gone fuckin mental says:

    jobs for the boys then init dont want normal people standing eh

  8. 25
    Just tell them straight says:

    Is Hilton of LabourHome still standing as an MP?

    Draper should give us all a laugh and try again.

  9. 26
    Just tell them straight says:

    TAT should stand as an MP!

    If someone or tat gets round to setting up a donations website or paypal account for us to chip in to cover the 500 quid standing fee.

    Although the fucker best not run off with the money, 500 quid can buy alot of sherbet dip.

  10. 27
    Prime Minister Gordon Brown says:

    I’m sure the whole House has heard of the sad death of Bleach, a greatly loved Coronation Street character, and will wish to join me in sending our sympathy to her family.

  11. 28
    Sir William Waad says:

    So what do you need to be an MP? An instant opinion on everything, accurate political antennae, the ability to please, being a smart ‘operator’, no unpopular commitments, being good at soundbites, keeping yourself in the public eye, having researchers to catch out your opponents…above all bearing in mind that most of us have a short attention span. It sounds a perfect fit. Sorry.

  12. 31
    Randy Teenager says:

    Catholic Match wtf?

    might give it a go though, those south americans are nice looking.

  13. 36
    Brown needs some help says:

    An idea to help Brown.

    In the American football games,they have a bloke who does nothing but come on and make the kicks to goal – bit like Jonny Wilko but they don’t get tackled and generally throw themselves at 7 feet tall,27 st bad ass All Blacks as Wilko does.

    Perhaps Brown needs similar specialists alongside him at all times;

    1 to read out film stars names

    1 to read out fallen service men’s names

    1 to step in and correct “eye-ron” to “iron” and “trans-parents-see to “transparency” and “alky-ada” to “Al Qaeda” etc etc

    1 to pop the pills in his odd gob

    1 to write letters at the correct time to the correct people in the correct spelling

    1 to correct any economic mistake (okay,this perhaps needs a few hundred
    specialists) such as Spain is in the G string 100

    1 to stop him getting lost in Windsor Castle/ anywhere else

    1 to teach him that it is good manners to shake the policeman’s hand when Omaha does so.

    In this way,he would be surrounded by an entourage that makes Mugabe’s look like a tiddlywink’s team

    • 50
      Gordons favourite Butt Plug says:

      Spot on.

    • 52
      Engineer says:

      In a sense, he’s already got all that; it’s called the Government and the Civil Service. The problem is that he can’t delegate, and insists on thinking for himself. It’s when he tries thinking that the problems start. Oh, and doing.

      That’s what he needs to do – delegate thinking and doing. Then he can concentrate on disappearing into the background and just existing, or better still, ceasing to exist.

      • 57
        It wasn't me,Your Honour! says:

        Do you think this will all come out when the wankers like Straw and Harperson etc write their memoirs – bit like the prison guard locking the doors for the “showers”;

        “we couldn’t do anything to stop Brown”

        or

        “how could we stop him?”

        These cowardly thugs led by the ultimate bullying coward.

        • 77
          jgm2 says:

          Naaaah. They’ll be like that Demjanjuk. They’ll be keeping their heads well down and not incriminating themselves in any way. Hoping that the passage of time will make all their crimes blow over.

          They’ll probably get away with it too.

          • Maggie says:

            Can’t imagine Cameron as PM.He is very changeable,jumps on all sorts of band waggons.Where have all the Tories gone.Long time passing.

        • 87
          L Fansafety says:

          Straw says in a New Statesman article that they should have gone to the polls in 07 (in retrospect)

          • jgm2 says:

            Anybody with an IQ greater than a fish would know that Brown stood the best chance of being elected if he’d called an election straight away. An election I think he’d have won at a canter.

            There would be no trouble justifying it. A new PM with a mandate all of his own. His ‘vision’ set out in a manifesto all of his own.

            The voters would have had no trouble at all with that.

            But Cameron gave one speech and he bottled it.

            If the UK survives this Brownian clusterfuck it will only be because he doesn’t have that election under his belt and another two years of his money-printing, suicidal borrowing, defer-defer-defer politics to fuck us up even further.

            Cameron’s speech will become as celebrated a speech in UK history as ‘We will fight them on the beaches….’ Because it marks the high-water mark of Labour idiocy.

            The idiocy is still going on. Indeed the tide has still not gone out but the inmates of UK can be more confident now that we know we have only six more months of this mendacious jackass instead of another two years.

          • Flusterclucked says:

            Do you get a bonus point for the insertion of the word “clusterfuck” on every posting?

          • jgm2 says:

            Clusterfuck.

          • Anonymous says:

            10 points
            momentum
            unemployment
            policies

    • 53
      L Fansafety says:

      1 to buy new nokia’s on a regular basis

      • 61
        Nokia = " 'Nother Killed In Action" says:

        Perhaps the guys at the Nokia warehouse somewhere north of Milton Keynes have a nightly despatch of a pallet of Nokia’s for Downing St?

        Has anyone seen it being driven down the M1 past the Toddington Services with a couple of police Range Rovers and a helicopter escort?

    • 68
      Sir William Waad says:

      Brown does have such people, but they already have a full-time job, telling him when to smile, reminding him not to eat his own snot, getting his pills ready, replacing office equipment and keeping a change of clothing for him.

  14. 37

    MP’s? Tories? Labour?

    The political parties are part of the problem. MP’s prime interests are themselves, followed by their political parties.

    Democratic powers need to be re-repatriated first from Europe and then to the people.

    People with any credibility or capability should be encouraged to engender change, not to repeat the same old turf wars between the political parties.

    Tim – don’t become an MP. Do something more constructive.

  15. 38
    anon,anon,anon...... says:

    No MB and no Inquisition…..bliss

    • 47
      Gordons favourite Butt Plug says:

      Inset day for Diversity and Fabrication of truth. Followed by “How to bore 50,000 folk to death, in one easy lesson”.

      The last active seminar is about ‘Gingas in the Community, and advanced GayLord acts’

  16. 39
    Titan says:

    Robert Key was a local man, educated at a local school, perhaps the people of Salisbury would like another local candidate.

  17. 48
    jgm2 says:

    Who’s the bloke with a stack of pancakes on his head?

  18. 49
    Dave "Cast Iron Guarantee" Cameron says:

    So, Gordon Brown mixed up Reese Witherspoon’s name with Renée Zellweger’s as she visited Parliament for her work as a global ambassador for cosmetics firm Avon’s campaign against domestic violence. Now that’s what I call a slap in the face.

    • 58
      genghiz the kahn says:

      So a publicity stHuhne.

    • 83
      Baboon 2-The Revenge says:

      Isn’t forgetting names, poor handwriting, weak mental arithmetic,
      bad aim when shaking hands, indicative of early onset something?

      • 153
        Big burly guy in a white uniform says:

        It is indicative of the early onset of a requirement for one of our special long-sleeved sports jackets which buttons up the back.

      • 193
        concrete pump says:

        Rabies, aids………..scrofula!

  19. 56
    Dave "Cast Iron Guarantee" Cameron says:

    My mate told me he could make vodka out of cow faeces.

    I think that’s Absolut Bullshit.

    • 62
      Anonymous says:

      Daves hoping to construct a cabinet out of bullshit.

      • 65
        jgm2 says:

        He won’t need to bring his own.

      • 109
        Play up Play up and play the game of politics says:

        Security at Eton Founder’s Day will be a nightmare – half the bloody Cabinet will be attending

      • 143
        Labour Mong with six months notice says:

        No problem there – we have been reycling shite as cabinet members since 1997. Very eco-friendly method of dealing with shite.

        However that shite Cameron will have to make do with a shite Tory cabinet because, after 13 years of that other shite Brown, there will not be enough shite left to make a shite Labour Cabinet.

  20. 63
    Dave "Cast Iron Guarantee" Cameron says:

    And here’s another one, Prime Minister

    I just bought a car off this Paki and it goes like absolute shit off a shovel. I looked under the bonnet to see what was going on and there were a couple of white towels wrapped around the engine.

    He’d had it fitted with twin turban boosters.

  21. 67
    A Firm Pair Of Breasts says:

    He’d end up being another trougher whatever his morale stance and good character are now.

  22. 70
    Agent 99 says:

    Just when I thought this fucking idiot of a PM could do no worse he plumbs the depths even further. What the hell is going on in No 10 these days. To make it worse if you actually could it was an aide of the PM that actually apologised not the fuckwit himself. This PM is the most loathsome creature in this country he absolutely disgusts me.

    “The father of a soldier killed in Afghanistan received a condolence letter from the Prime Minister almost two years after his son died.”

    http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20091203/tuk-pm-sympathy-letter-two-years-late-6323e80.html

    Read and weep…………….

    • 76
      Unsworth says:

      Yep, it’s just the sheer fucking incompetence of these clowns that’s so wearing. If they can’t even post a letter on time, WTF are they doing to the economy? Have they actually heard of Next Day or Recorded or Registered Post? If there’s a wrong way to do it you can count on them.

    • 80
      L Fansafety says:

      And it wasn’t broken by The Sun, but the BBC

      Thought he said he wrote to every family, obviously a bit of catching up to do.

      • 92
        jgm2 says:

        That of course was the big story. I knew nothing about Brown writing letters until a few days before the Janes story broke. But I was not alone in my ignorance because it seems that none of the families were making a big fuss about these personal letters.

        So Gordon Brown thought he’d tell us all what a fucking spontaneously nice guy he is by leaking the fact that he does write these letters.

        My suspicion is that Brown hasn’t been writing these letters for very long at all. It was all dreamed up relatively recently by his PR people. Look Brown, write a few letters to the families and sooner or later one of ‘em will leak it to the papers and you’ll get to look like a great guy.

        Right ho.

        But of course nobody was ‘leaking’ the news that Brown had written ‘em a letter. Probably couldn’t read the fucking things or had other things on their mind at the time anyway. So, just like he couldn’t keep his fucking gob shut when Obama confided he was increasing troop numbers in the ST*N he just had to blab it out there what a spontaneously caring kind of guy he was.

        Which rather the defeats the stated purpose of the letters of condolence.

        It is safe to say that there is literally nothing Brown does that isn’t geared to preserving his reign of idiocy.

        Even down to writing ‘spontaneous’ letters of condolence. This letter is two years late ‘cos he only wrote it a few days ago. Same as the rest of them. For publicity purposes.

        • 112
          L Fansafety says:

          Too right jgm2.
          G Brown in particular and Labour in general are hell bent on another term, whatever the consequences.
          Print money to show growth next quarter, more troops, etc etc etc
          Expect dirty campaign with manipulation everywhere, including mega astroturfing and Richard Timney type letters. Why don’t editors wise up to this?
          So much for policies not personalities.
          Best response – hit them with policies.

          • Sonny Tzoo says:

            ”Why don’t editors wise up to this?”

            Most are first name friends and bought and paid for by the parties.

            But fear not bypass the editor completely and hit the papers advertisement revenue.

            Fire off letters and complain to the people who help bankroll the papers through product placement and advertisements, it does actually work once you get enough people to put the frighteners on them.

    • 86
      War is above politics unless of course there's any advantage in it says:

      I believe this came to light when this gentleman actually rallied to the support of Ms Janes and contacted the BBC and confirmed that he too felt his son’s death had beem contruboted to by insufficient helicopters to medivac ?He was then asked whether he was satisfied with his letter of condolence that he had received from Brown and said effectively “What letter?” – he’d never received one. The BBC then contacted No10 and that’s when the ess-aithch-one-tee hit the fan and a letter was rushed out further compounding the insult. It seems therefore that perhaps either someone in the PM’s office(again) is not doing their job by requesting the casualty lists from MoD or worse until Afghanistan became the top priority this year – nobody including Brown gave a monkeys about casualties which is even worse AND when is Brown going to make a decision on recommending to the Queen that Wooten Bassett be awarded the “Royal” prefix to mark their continunual honouring of the fallen on behalf of the nation ? Of course THAT would show HIM up badly as he’s never once attended a re-patriation at RAF Brize Norton nor has any other Minister of Cabinet rank ? AND that is a bloody disgrace too !!!

      • 123
        Anonymous says:

        He daren’t show his ugly mug in the town. The Police and his armed minders probably wouldn’t guarantee his personal safety.

      • 147
        The Archbishop of Canterbury says:

        It’s RAF Lyneham, not Brize Norton.

        Completely with you on the rest though.

        • 165
          Play up Play up and play the game of politics says:

          Apologies your Grace of course it is Lyneham NOT Brize Norton –

          However whether its Brize or Lyneham it appears that neither Brown or his Cabinet actually know where either place is or are even prepared to actually stand on the tarmac as better men(and women) than any of them are carried off the plane into the waiting heares(s) by the “honour guard”. Brown won’t even let a member of the Royal Family attend in case it puts his electoral chances in jeopardy. The man’s bloody disgrace to his office.We’ve never had such a complete and utter “Hoon” in the job since Chamberlain and his piece of worthless paper at Munich!!!

    • 133
      No Excuse. says:

      I don’t see how he can blame his staff. He reads out all the names of all those he has sent to their deaths in his pointless war in front of Parliament. He has no excuse that he was not given this boy’s name.

    • 164
      We,The People says:

      Next he will be sending one for a soldier who is NOT dead.

      Hour by hour,day by day,week by week,month by month Britain slips further in to hell,taken there by this ignorant,evil,odious piece of shit called Gordon Brown.

      Brown – drop dead.

    • 185
      Anon.. says:

      He probably gave it to Alan Johnson to post.

  23. 78
    Jack Frost says:

    Personally, I was desperately sad to hear about Rob Key’s retirement. How on earth England A will replace him in the top order, God only knows, let alone Kent, as Rob has been an inspiration to fatties everywhere with his firm forward defence and expansive cover drives.
    I really don’t see how anyone can suggest that Monty will be able to fill his boots. Monty gets the odd one to turn on helpful wickets, I admit, but he really doesn’t know which end to hold the bat. And his fielding!
    I really don’t think this suggestion will have the Aussies losing sleep. Let’s move on.

    • 173
      Peter Alliss says:

      Montgomery is well past his best – I fear the Majors are beyond him and his best bet is to captain the Ryder cup until he is old enough for the old boys team

  24. 81
    Dave Cameron says:

    Does a pound of bullshit weigh the same as a pound of cast iron?

    • 158
      Chief Shitting Bull, London SW1 says:

      I don’t know, but if this is true, Brown has been speaking nothing but pig iron since he seized office…

  25. 85
    John says:

    Yep, he is one mother f*cking powerful blogger isnt he. Guido you do really talk up bloggers dont you??

    • 106
      Derek Draper, P45 says:

      Yeah. You’re not so hot.

    • 139
      Guy Fawkers says:

      that’s just one of the things that makes this place such comedy gold

      it’s like a satirical pisstake of Daily Mail readers who’ve been at the psychotic paranoia inducing drugs

      well that and the twatty rimmers who can only parrot a few Labour dickhead’s names when they are about to blub
      they are always funny

  26. 89

    “one questions whether Tim would really enjoy the lowered status and reduced influence he would have as just another backbench MP…”

    Which is why I would recommend your good self, Guido, for the job

  27. 97
    The unelected Noo_Lie_Bore Monkey, goaded by its Organ Grinder + SpinMeister, endlessly screeching says:


    Ah Wun! Ah Wun! Ah Wun!

    An’ nuthn’s ma fult

    An’ naewun stands a chance agin ma’

    Cos ah sav’d the wuld!

  28. 111
    Anonymous says:

    There is absolutely no need to run scared of Brown, Campbell, Mandelson or the rest of New Ponzi. They fuck up every thing they touch – past, present and future. The curtains they’ve been hiding behind for years have been lifted and we can see clearly what a lot of lying shysters they are.

    Brown’s performance yesterday at PMQs had no other purpose than to highlight the fact that the rest of the Ponzi Party have no intention of challenging his position this side of the election.

  29. 120
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    ‘… lowered status and reduced influence he would have as just another backbench MP…’

    Exactly. Does anyone with any ability of any kind go into politics? Or with any idealism, I might add.

    • 132
      Mein Fuhrer, Herr Comrade UberGroppingKapitan Schmitt, looking up, says:

      Ach so!!

      Ich did foor zer money unt zer chipps unt zer bath plug.

      Unt vee vill vin zer Var for zer Baron Von Rumpy-Pumpy.

      Drive on von MunchyBumm!

  30. 124
    Miss Primrose ‘Sincerity’ PoFace-Wanka, Chief Spokesperson for the British Wankers Association says:

    The Wankers deserve their bonuses, and no, there’s no money to spare for anything else.

    Wanking is such a very risky business, and they can’t do it in the full glare of public glaze.

    I always advise they do it behind closed doors, – over port and something. I’m there if they need me.

    But we’re all so grateful to Gordon. How else could we get all this lovely dosh for doing nothing?

    Does my face look sincere in this?

    • 144
      Sonny Tzoo says:

      The bankers are small fry compared to the real issues affecting this country, overbloated inefficient public sector, a record number of mp’s that don’t do or produce anything other than claim expenses and last but not least a colossus of a welfare state that sucks the life out of every wage earned. To name a few….

      Anyway, a majority of the people who rage on about the bankers, I have found on closer inspection have belonged to one of those three main groupings listed above, and are merely projecting their own and what i think they know; inadequacies, in a latent state of reality onto another target.

      Sigmund Freud wrote alot on the subject of projection and the methods of projection.

      • 168
        Hooray for the Bankers!! says:

        no, the Bankers are definitely parasites and cun’ts
        trillions of £ of taxpayers money and debt for their gross incompetence and inadequacy
        you mistake loathing and hatred for jealousy
        find Fred Goodwin and ask about projection

        you are simply out of your tree or a Banker yourself if you think the public don’t know the facts and despise the pathetic wastes of oxygen who fucked the entire UK economy with Browns help

        tell you what, you campaign for bigger bonuses for these misunderstood piggies and we will stand well clear and watch the fun

      • 172
        PJ says:

        BANKER’S PAY – IT’S SIMPLE !!!

        1. ‘Bankers’ got us into this mess and ‘Bankers’ will get us out of it !
        2. The Banks have been rescued with Public Money and are now back to doing what they do best – Making Money – with both Shares and Pension funds up
        3. No other UK commercial activity can generate as much profit and as quickly as Banking
        4. We need UK Banks to be profitable
        5. We need UK ‘dealers’ to be competitively rewarded
        6. What a ‘dealer’ takes home at the end of a year is not the problem
        7. It’s the type of risky deals he does on a day-to-day basis that needs watching
        8. We now own the Banks and it is now “our Profit”!
        9. Brown & Darling were previously very happy to receive all the associated tax revenues
        10. If they want to help put right their grossly incompetent mismanagement of the UK’s finances they must swallow hard and again support ‘Banking’ and all that this entails

        The reason we are ‘LAST OUT’ of recession is because we have been more dependent (proportionately) on the BANKING & FINANCE SECTOR than other countries – we naturally took a bigger (predictable) hit!

        It’s time everybody understood this and GOT REAL !!!

        Vince ‘the’ Cable, etc are just playing Politics – this is irresponsible, selfish and wrong !!

        • 178
          bankers are scum says:

          get us out of it by doing the exact same things they were doing before

          Yeah, i can’t see any problem or massive danger with that approach

        • 188
          Mark Mywards says:

          The Xmas credit card binge will temporarily take us out of recession only to be thrust back in prior to the General Election – double dipping thereafter!

      • 190
        Cato Street Conspirator says:

        ‘Anyway, a majority of the people who rage on about the bankers, I have found on closer inspection have belonged to one of those three main groupings listed above, and are merely projecting their own and what i think they know; inadequacies, in a latent state of reality onto another target.’

        Yes, I’ve always noticed the issue of projection among – say – bankers or other idle parasites when they rage on about public sector workers, particularly lower-paid manual workers. The idea that someone might actually be performing a useful service to society rather than leeching off it provokes a sense of self-fguilt that has to be directed elsewhere.

        • 194
          PJ says:

          Cato

          Before ONE single penny can be well spent on education, fighting crime, health etc etc – it has to be earned and funded via tax

          The more we have – the more we can do – don’t you think?

      • 200
        Herr Doktor Frood says:

        Ah so!

        Zer PsychoBabble has der uses afta all!

        Heil der Wankas!!

  31. 136
    Millbank says:

    We have lots of opportunites available for trollers leading up to the next election

    http://www.labour.org.uk/new_job

  32. 140
    Pees Danes says:

    Parp!

  33. 146
    Master says:

    dimwits

  34. 152
    Master B8er says:

    Hahahaha

  35. 154
  36. 161
    Gordon's Wrong Again says:

    Gordon has just given Pakistan another $83m of OUR money.

    http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/12/2009123104413716135.html

    Pakistan by the way says that Gordon is wrong and Bin Liner is not in Pakistan, which shoots down Gordon’s reasons why he is sending UK troops to Afghanistan

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article6942291.ece

  37. 162
    from now on master b8ter will be called jgm2 Hahahaha says:

    Hello dimwits

    Hahahahaha

  38. 169
    Harriet Harman says:

    “Spain is in the G20+ – so the Prime Minister was absolutely right on that point.”

    http://page.politicshome.com/uk/pm_absolutely_right_to_say_spain_in_g20_insists_harman.html

  39. 171
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    Jonahwatch: Bruin met the Pakistan leader this morning. Now we wait with baited breath, wondering in awe at what form his magic touch will manifest itself.

  40. 175
    Alistair Campbell says:

    FFS
    I am now on radio 2 Vine show talking about IHT with Kelvin

  41. 176
    Nick says:

    O/T but did anyone else hear Michael Mann on Radio 4′s World Tonight last night? He was there to defend Steve Jones, whilst repeatedly stating that

    1) Jones was being hounded and misrepresented
    2) Mann couldn’t comment on any of Jones’ emails, since he hadn’t sent them
    3) AGW is a fact – look at all the scientists who subscribe to it.

    The BBC muddied the waters by devoting the last part of the piece to the vaccination against cervical cancer (!) but they never challenged Mann on the data used to ‘calculate’ historic temperatures, or the manipulation carried out afterwards. What a surprise!

  42. 177
    Eileen Critchley says:

    Ever thought of standing Guido?

    Anyway, I see the Luftwaffe…oops sorry I meant the bankng fraternity are doing their bit for Labours poll rating.

  43. 181
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    I would much rather have this chap leading the country other than Blanche Mandelson and Norris Brown.
    “Self Coronation street”
    A tale of simple Westminster folk hanging around boozers, shagging people that they shouldnt be shagging and commiting a murder now and again.
    Hazel Blears can play Rita Fairclough
    Michael Fabricant plays Ken Barlow and half of the house of lords can play the corner shop owner

  44. 182
    Bert the Cert says:

    Guido very slightly OT my screen goes up and down and all over the place while those ads load up. Is this normal? Or is it as normal as Jonah behaving like a sane person?

  45. 195
    Cameron's No Conservative says:

    Well that does at least explain the sudden and wholly unwelcome change on Conservative Home from it being the, often critical, voice of the grassroots to it currently being the wholly uncritical, indeed even fawning, voice of the Cameroons and other assorted lefties.

  46. 196
    Tapestry says:

    Monsieur Sarkozy,

    You are too scared to be seen in public without a crowd of dwarves surrounding you becoz you are only 5 foot 3 inches.

    You train your whore to bend down and kneel when being photographed next to you.

    We pees on your stupid regulations. Your puppet Monsieur Barnier gives millions of Euros to terrorists every year, without even asking a receipt.

    Take this scum out of our beautiful City.

    London will not be ruled by your corrupt cronies. I am sorry. If you arrive here you will probably be shot.

  47. 199

    Blimey, a local news item. Whoever is selected will, if they win, have a job for life. Robert Key made no impact whatsoever nationally or on the people of Salisbury – he was our big fat MP who did not upset the apple cart – and yet he managed to remain in office throughout the New Labour period without any serious challenge to his position; not because he was a super-charismatic political genius, but because he was the Conservative in a traditionally Tory area. Perhaps the fact that he did nothing helped him. The locals do not like change.

    I can’t see this blogger fellow going down too well, though. He looks a bit young. A bit modern. What with the internet thing.

    On a tangent, and especially given the racial makeup of Salisbury – which is akin to Norway circa 1939 – I am continually amazed that the BNP don’t poll huge numbers here. According to the leaked BNP membership list there are only a handful of BNP members in the Salisbury area. I suspect this is because the existence of coloured people simply does not register with the typical Wiltshire resident, or whether it is because the Tories fill the same gap, I don’t know. Again, this young blogger looks a bit too trendy for Salisbury.

    • 201
      Not Nadine says:

      Ashley you are misinformed. Monty is a boring, authoritarian prat who goes on about Europe, grammar schools, invading foreign lands and on and on.

      He has never stood for election. Time he did. Does he have a proper girlfriend these days?

  48. 137
    Financial misconduct = Conservatives says:

    The Spanish Inquisition

  49. 170
    jgm2 says:

    To be fair why should they traipse out to the middle of nowhere just so the dimmer monomaniacs can split the difference over what is or isn;t the right way to behave.

    Thatcher wouldn’t even allow injured soldiers to go on her Falklands/Turkey shoot victory parade.

  50. Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

    National Bullion Reserves Mismanagement = Labour

  51. Labour are Useless Liars says:

    Financial Misconduct AND Total Incompetence = Labour



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