Who Knew What and When?
Government officials, ministerial denials, attack blogs, smears, sound familiar? In the last few weeks Scottish politics has been caught up in its very own blogging scandal. Dead-tree-press hacks have declared war on the nationalist blogosphere, picking off anonymous bloggers one by one and claiming five or so scalps so far. The biggest story yet has been that of the SNP MSP staffer Mark MacLachlan and the hitherto anonymous Universality of Cheese blog. MacLachlan worked for SNP Minister Mike Russell and was outed by the Screws. The Scottish Government was quick to dump MacLachlan when the news broke and the word is that Salmond’s chief advisor Kevin Pringle wrote and published MacLachlan’s resignation and apology without his approval. The story has been simmering away but looks set to come to the boil.
The story has reached the dizzy heights of First Ministers Questions in Holyrood. Ironically it’s Labour that are putting the boot in, there is no denying that they are behind this war on nationalist bloggers, feeding the names and titbits to the hungry Scottish hacks, keen to reassert their status over the bloggers and the “cybernats”. Mike Russell began by denying all knowledge of the blog, but it seems his sacked former staffer is not going down without a fight. MacLachlan now claims to have the proof that his former boss knew of the blog and most damningly even provided content for it. The Herald got wind of this and led to MacLachlan running email correspondence on the reactivated blog. The Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray pushed Mike Russell hard over his claims that he knew nothing of the blog. If Mark MacLachlan can prove otherwise it would be curtains for the Minister and a heavy blow to Salmond’s already wavering administration.
A THUMPING FIRST FOR LABOUR
Does anyone South of Berwick care about what happens in Hollyrood?
Come to that, does anyone North of Berwick care either?
for those who haven’t cottoned on yet this is the ‘dry run’ of Labour’s dirty tricks department before being let loose on the election proper
all labour lack in london is the docile eager to please pet press pack that they have in scotland but the mirror gaurdian and possibly even n.o.t.w. will oblige if it’s a ‘tasty’ enough exclusive
any conservatives who blog or email would be well advised to get rid of anything even slightly ‘off colour’ fast
I have noticed an increase in Dave Spart type letters from ‘true socialists’ in the MSM.
You know the type that goes on about: Liebore having reduced unemployment compared with the Tories; Liebore having paid back the debts of the previous Tory administration; it is all the fault of Thatcher; the Tories will plunder your pensions and eat babies; and so on.
They seem completely phony, formulaic and obtusely extreme with no references to separately checkable facts. The depressing thought is that the Liebore tribe of voters will fall for it.
The biggest problem with Scotland is that it has its own time zone. I resent that every time I cross the border into Scotland I have to set my watch back 40 years.
Totally. Nowe it’s soon to be an election year, watch them rope in favours from every tame corner of journo land. Media management and strategy are their tools.
Just look at the recent Labour win in Glasogw to show you how a mass of people can be beleive 75 years of no progress will change by voting the same.
Insanity.
“Does anyone South of Berwick care about what happens in Hollyrood?”
Berwick is English, so this should be:
Does anyone South of, and including, Berwick care about what happens in Hollyrood?
It does make a difference, especially to those people in Berwick who are spared the socialism that is Alex Salmond
It makes little or no difference I’m affraid, one is a bankrupt socialist state run by a Scottish clique in Scotland or a bankrupt socialist state run by a Scottish clique in England.
Both paid for by an ever diminishing English workforce.
The only difference is the deep fied Mars Bars.
W.W.
Is there anything north of Berwick? I thought reality faltered beyond there as the 13th floor ran out of computing power.
As a special festive treat, I give you
THE SAGA OF GORDON THE RUINER by Stanislav, a young Polish Plumber- Part 1
http://bastardoldholborn.blogspot.com/2009/02/saga-of-gordon-ruiner-by-stanislav.html
Give them their independence I say. Then Shut down Faslane, Rosyth, Coulport, Lossiemouth, Leuchars, Kinloss, Dounreay and the Scottish regiments. Oh and withdraw financial aid for the Scottish banks.
They won’t be independent for very long with 99% of the population on the dole. The Truth is, is England Finances Scotland and it costs England a fucking fortune.
How laughable
its obvious you know sod all about what happens in Scotland, beyond the titbits you read in the Telegraph!
There are NO Scottish Regiments – they were all merged by Labour and called ‘Royal Regiment of Scotland’ as part of its breaking down Scotland (you dot have a Royal Regiment of England do you?)
Dounreayis already closed and is currently in decommissioning
As for th ‘Scottish’ Banks’ HBOS, is part based in Halifax and is now wholly owned by Lloyds, which the last time I looked was in London
RBS is an International Bank based n Edinburgh, but is also London
Curiously Labour has gone out its way to trash RBS and HBOS,perhaps something to do with Gordon Brown’s ‘I will do ecerything in my power to retain the Union’ (roughly translated means a scorched earth policy towards his own countrymen)
HMS Vulcan at Donreay is NOT decomissionig.
As usual illinformed
‘HMS Vulcan’ is a seperate entity and is a Naval Reactor Test Establishment and Royal Naval Nuclear Propulsion Test and Training Establishment, but is nothing to do with the Power station as so far as power generation is concerned. Its to do with propulsion of Nuclear Subs and is located on Dounreay Airfreild close to the reactor for reasons related to technology swapping
Interestingly, RBS was founded by the UK Government because Bank of Scotland was disloyally financing the Jacobite cause. For years RBS and BoS tried to destroy each other. Nearly three centuries later they destroyed themselves.
2nd Division
51 (Scottish) Brigade
52 Infantry Brigade
Royal Regiment of Scotland
Scots Guards
Coldstream Guards
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
1st Royal Tank Regiment
19th Regiment Royal Artillery
40th Regiment Royal Artillery
105th Regiment Royal Artillery (Volunteers)
32 (Scottish) Signal Regiment
The Scottish Transport Regiment
A (Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick’s Own) Yeomanry) & C (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse) Squadrons of the Queen’s Own Yeomanry Regiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_Scotland
REad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Regiment_of_Scotland
It’s the constant whining and shameless twatty bigotry that they display at every opportunity that must really annoy people.
That would be the Scottish banks NatWest and Halifax then. Your ignorance is showing you moronic twat. As 99% of the customers of both those banks are English perhaps you would care to explain how that is England financing Scotland? Oh wait you didn’t know HBoS is Halifax Bank of Scotland which is a more or less 50/50 split between the old Halifax and Bank of Scotland and RBS and NatWest are one and the same. You’re pathetic Mr Sheep.
As 99% of the customers of both those banks are English perhaps you would care to explain how that is England financing Scotland?
There is your answer Dumbo
The customers are English, Halifax and NatWest are English. That would be England financing England would it now as the people being bailed out (the customers who would otherwise have lost money) are English? Please try to keep up you retarded fuckwit.
why bother trying to educate the fuckwitted bigot ?
it’d be like trying to teach a dog advanced calculas
If 99% of the Scotch bank are English and the Scotch bank makes its money from its customers then the Scotch bank must be making its money from the English. And if it were NOT for the English Taxpayer bailing out the Scotch banks there would not be ANY Scotch banks.
Geddit?
look scotty, don’t take is so bad, just face the facts: you and your beloved scotland haven’t got a pot to piss in.
if it were not for the english taxpayer subsidising your economy then your scottish children would go hungry and be without healthcare or education.
as if it weren’t bad enough that we are paying the way of scroungers like you then you have the cheek to start moaning about it and denying the fact that you are dependent for food on the english taxpayer.
God, the scottish alway go on about how they invented this and that but these modern scots are the dumbest fucks going.
Its always enjoyable to read the half witted ramblings of the hatefilled little Englander towards the Scots.
What does it say about the wonderful English that allowed the Scots to ruin their entire country and destroy their whole English heritage.
English = Spineless moaning faced pussies.
Getitupyeez
When you lot have finished sniping at each other, the facts are these. HBoS was a merger; head office in Edinburgh. The Halifax part was predominately house mortgages with a bad debt ration of about 3%.
The really bad decisions were made in Edinburgh (a Viking city, not Scots) mostly involving commercial property. Presumably the BoS people believed their Scot’s mentor Gordoom McDebt when he proclaimed the end of boom and bust, because they tied HBoS even more into property rather than diversifying.
RBS was an exercise in hubris by Sir (who recommended that?) Fred Goodwin who was Gordoom’s favourite banker. RBS took over NatWest (it was not a merger) and it was run from Scotland.
The fact that Goodwin’s grand design fell about his ears is not the fault of RBS’ customers whether Scots, English or from anywhere in the world. But those customers have paid for RBS incompetence and chicanery.
It’s not just Brown.The Scotch are a tragic and cursed race.This is a lesson of history and a horror of the present.
but we wasted all the income from Scottish oil.
Actually most of it was English Oil, don’t believe everything a Scotsman tells you.
In fact don’t believe anything a Scotsman tells you. Particularly if he is a camp madman with a wonkey eye, or with peculiar eye brows
W.W.
Be careful WW – very slippery ground there…
Marine territorial rights are notoriously difficult at the best of times, what is beyond doubt is ownership (and declaration thereof) at landing point. Last time I checked there hadn’t been a huge big pipe going from the northern platforms down into territorial England.
That’ll be why there was a classified secret Government paper in the 1970s called the McCrone Report, stating that Scotland would be “in chronic surplus to a quite embarrassing degree” and England would be “in dire straits”.
“North Sea Oil” is usually a misnomer: it includes oil and gas found off shore of Scotland, and England, in the North Sea all the way down to Dutch waters; and Norwegian oil landed in Scotland; and oil and mainly gas found off England’s west coast (Morecambe Bay gas).
Actually was 97% Scottish, until Labour, you know the one led by the one claiming to be Scottish and 1 eyed, slipped through legislation in 1999, bending the east coast marine border from a recognised horizonal, to a near vertical, to take in some oil fields (idiotically placing an are of North Sea to the North East of Edinburgh in England!
This is how warped minded Labour are!.But after that effort it still is left with just over 90% of existing oil in Scottish waters, this ignores the new fields to the west and north west of Scotland
Yep Gas and oil – most of the Gas comes from England and onshore by the pathetic phallus waving going on here. ‘Spose you wouldn’t know what else to do with it now you’ve found it!!
But when it come defending the country you are prepared to have scots fight and die for you. Hypocrites one and all.
Trouble all the smart folk have left this pathetic country call great Britain to its fate and no wonder.
But Cameron is now saying that he will not allow Scotland to have a referendum on independence. Tosser, the sooner we are shut of them, the better.
That’s odd, Gordon is eyeing up a pair of Tits.
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/09slcrV3Uy3Ad/610x.jpg
He mounds were reminding him of what Peter Mandelson looks like from the rear.
The lady looks very creeped out. I don’t think he is actually looking at her lady lumps at all. He is just practising his gurning. Weird fucker.
She certainly seems very agitated at Gordon’s presence. Poor lass there are 30,000 people at the conference and she was the one to draw the short straw and be placed next to Gordon.
She’s probably wondering what fate is to befall her due to The Curse of the Jonah
He was only looking at one !
clean your shit up Vera, and without the shouting
They put him next to the Princess???
What the fuck were they thinking.
Mind you she’s from Tasmania – so is probably quite used to being surrounded by inbred retarded dimwit fuckers.
“Mind you she’s from Tasmania – so is probably quite used to being surrounded by inbred retarded dimwit fuckers.”
Quite so, Throbber. Tasmania is to Australia as Scotchland is to the United Kingdom!
What, half the troughing Aussie cabinet come from Tassie? Not too sure about that one!
As usual you mistake quanTITy for quality. Sheep throbber
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
A pornographic Jacqui Smith D-V-D!
Please, I’ve just had breakfast!!
Two illegal Wars !
NB Kosovo was also illegal as the “genocide” was faked.
The war on cows was fairly dubious too
Anthrax alert in Glasgow
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/17/anthrax-death-heroin-glasgow
O-H’s delivery for Brown mis-delivered by incompetent postie
Damn. If a job’s worth doing etc,….
He looks like a mong.
Not a pleasant sight to view over my morning porridge.
‘Curtains for the Minister’? Somehow, I doubt it – he’ll just say, oh dear it happened on my watch, so I feel I have to be the one to sort it out!
Yes, but who was the MSP cruising for rent boys?
We demand to know
“If you remember correctly, it was you who told me about driving a drunken &%$^(*) ^*%$&& in Edinburgh and having to stop the car whilst he picked up some young men, where else could I have found that information?”
It’s not us,we’re too busy delivering survey leaflets.
It’s tame, tame stuff compared to any of Guido’s talkbacks.
However, seeing the News of the Screws in spluttering moral indignition about smears and scurrilous stories and rumours is pure comedy gold.
You couldn’t make it up! As one of their scumbag mong hacks would no doubt say.
>You couldn’t make it up!
But they can, and do, all the time, as their annual libel bill attests.
For the bookish: The Lost Honour of Katherina Blum by Heinrich Boll is a fantastic chainsaw-job on the tabloid press.
I really don’t give a f’k about this one. I watched the Jock Parly yesterday for FMQ’s and was quite amused by the sanctimonious attitude toward such attack blogs. ALL parties do it. They all tell outright lies in parliament as well. If it becomes clear that Salmond/Russell/anyone in particular knew precisely WHAT was going on with MacThingies blog after saying they didn’t- no big deal. It’s not as bad as outright lying to Parliament about going to war is it. It’s not as bad as fiddling expenses. it’s not as bad as being caught on camera ‘banging one’s secretary’ in Parliament. Some perspective please. What i don’t want is a shitty Labour administration in Holyrood. As a Tory voter- the SNP ain’t done bad being in a minority administration.
At the House of Commons, she is known as ‘the Towering Inferno’ because of her 6ft height, red hair and fiery character.
And Solicitor-General Vera Baird lived up to the nickname when a woman complained about her puppy allegedly fouling a railway platform.
A furious row developed which left the other woman close to tears and prompted a police investigation into the minister’s behaviour.
British Transport Police even seized CCTV footage of the row. Six weeks later, the investigation has finally been closed and Mrs Baird will not now face prosecution, but the affair is a big embarrassment for the senior MP.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236839/Solicitor-General-Vera-Baird-embroiled-row-failing-pick-dogs-mess-railway-station.html#ixzz0a1nmvpeI
“not now face prosecution” – getting used to those words now.
New Labour = Puppy Crap
“She said: ‘My new puppy was unwell and made a mess on the platform at King’s Cross some weeks ago. A member of the public complained to me and she and I had an argument.”
So basically, the Solicitor General (It seems unnecessary to point out she is Scotchlandic and an MP) drags her sick puppy around a railway station, leaving a festering trail of diarrheaic dollops and smears. A member of the public, who could have been her own constituent, has the damned cheek, the temerity, the gall, to remind her gently about the law, and the Nu Lab bitch blows up, screeching and screaming insanely at the poor woman.
No, this lot won’t get back in.
I would have cleaned it up for her if she’d just text me the location.
Hello big boy
I Wish “The Little People ” Would stop complaining about every little bit of shit that Labour throws at them !
monny a mickle macks a muckle
baroness young, uddin, harman, sorry i mean any one thats is liebour is immune from prosecution, didnt you know that? we only pass these laws for them, those little public people, not for us for heavens sake. Fairness and equality laws stop for those in power. I hope you fat c u n t s rot in hell. It wouldnt matter to me if you all went to afghanistan and were killed by roadside bombs. Thats what you deserve. You only have to look at bliar to realise they are there to line their own pockets through lying.
Perhaps bliar is making all that money so he can male poverty history in africa, in sure thats what he’ll do with all his monet, earnt off the back of the people.
sorry “male” should have been “make”, havent yet had me hot oates on this cold morning.
Apologies about that, I got a little bit tied up this morning. I promise I’ll be round later.
“male poverty history in africa” – not just the dark continent, if I have my way.
“the affair is a big embarrassment for the senior MP.”
Ghastly hyper-agressive woman.
Labour has left a whole pile of shit that the whole country will end up cleaning up !
Not me.
normal behaviour for liebour. What’s the problem? Every body knows they shit on every one any way and expect other peple to clear the mess up and pay for it!
Of course – wisnae uz – wuz them Blue Noses
I think you got that the wrong way round.
The puppy took her for a walk and she had
sudden evacuation reading about the expenses scandal.
We ought to have a public statement.
I Really Hope Nobody Knows Where I Live !
They Just Might Start Shoving Turds Through My Letter Box
And That Wouldn’t Be Nice
So I’m Really Glad No One Knows My Adress
And If You Do Know It
lease Dont Put It On This Website
So People Can Shove Shit Through My Letterbox !
Someone should have rubbed her nose in it.
W.W.
Who said about whom knowing what about someone else who said they didn’t know anything about who?
Gordon Brown’s satellite navigation system
Grammar, El gringo!
The end of the sentence should read;
“… didn’t know anything about whom?”
Remember, subject v. object…
Cor blimey! An educated Antipodean.
Now you can have an excellent education in prison now – given time
is that the bloke shagging Katy Perry?
On environment, Obama and scientists take hit in poll
As President Obama arrives in Copenhagen hoping to seal an elusive deal on climate change, his approval rating on dealing with global warming has crumbled at home and there is broad opposition to spending taxpayer money to encourage developing nations to curtail their energy use, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
There’s also rising public doubt and growing political polarization about what scientists have to say on the environment, and a widespread perception that there is a lot of disagreement among scientists about whether global warming is happening.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/18/AR2009121800002.html
The (G20) New World Order has run out of money due to the collective recession they created from their greed. So they have invented a new $100bn a year tax “for the environment”, so they can get rich all over again off the backs of others work, and you will just pay and pay and pay. Why do you think Gordon Brown is so enthusiactic about the New World Order?
Nobody goes into politics unless they can steal more of it back when in power.
Quote from film Brewsters Millions (when Brewster runs for mayor).
isnt this what all politicians do? LIE? then leave joe public to pick up the mess and pay for it?
is that a rhetorical question
no, I demand an answer!
It seems that Brown has declared the country IS in distress. Or he is insulting the Crown again. See flag on table.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/19/20091217/img/pwl-denmark-climate-summit-be00e7e74766.html
Remember Meddlesome did this some time back, last time China was talking.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1135545/Embarrassment-No10-Union-Jack-flies-upside-down.html
Not that the prime mentallist or anyone in the motley crew would know – bankrupt at home and politically bankrupt abroad – everyone is laughing at us just like the last time they were in power – trouble I do not think they realise it as they are so full of themselves – they believe their own spin so much – the PMs new clothes
He looks like a very mad In- Bred sweaty
Who cares what happens in the “Scottish Parliament” – it’s irrelevant and is a joke to everyone except its members. It is nothing more than a huge waste of yet more public money. Once the oil is gone it will soon cease to exist – mark my words!
Perhaps Guido is trying to expand his readership to over the border?
Believe it there is plenty more sunshine! Bet ya come begging like mark my words!
You will understand it is better to be a unionist than a bigoted nationalist.
You are correct in what you say about a sustained Labor engineering war against their opponents blogs in Scotland. If history is anything to go by they are testing out their tactics in Scotland before applying them in England – so bloggers south of the border beware in the run up to the UK general election.
You are correct.
Instead of parroting racist clap trap from Daily Mail ” England subsisdises the whining Scots” editorials, English posters on this site should maybe think about what is happening in Scotland, if only to stop it happening in their own country.
The position is this:-
EVERY major Scottish newspaper title, EVERY Scottish edition of the big English titles (especially the Times, Sunday Times & Telegraph) and political coverage by the BBC and STV are all pro New Labour, some rabidly so, (except the Sun – although it does not support Labour any longer it is still hysterically Unionist/anti SNP in its political coverage).
The “journalists” who work for these titles are often ex. Labour party apparatchiki.
Of course Scotland is not a one party state like the former DDR but political reporting here is one sided in the extreme, much of it being more Nulab polemic than reportage.
Democratic it ain’t!
That is why so called cybernats have had to resort to other means of communication like the Internet to get their message across and counter the constant and unremitting tide of New Labour propaganda emanating from the traditional mass media. This cannot be tolerated by el Gordo so to counter this NewLabour and their media friends are trying to close off this new channel of communication.
The first step was the Herald withdrawing their readers comments blog. The same process is now in train at the Scotsman. I don’t know what else this shower have planned to complete the process of silencing the opposition in the run up to next year’s General Election but it is all getting a bit Orwellian for my taste.
This is exactly what is happening up here. It will happen in England next for sure. If NuLab ‘win’ the next election we are going to enter full scale repression and totalitarianism. They will use the economic collapse that they have caused as justification for the terror.
Good posts. Here’s an example of many over the last weeks. There’s things on a daily basis like this happening.
2nd Dec 2009. A recent MORI poll showed SNP was ahead of Labour at both Westminster and Holyrood. Poll is here to be viewed. http://tinyurl.com/ylj26wb
However both The Sun, Daily Record and others, wrote that Labour was ahead of SNP! The Record writes, “The poll was yet another blow for Alex Salmond”
Work that out!
Even the report on the UK Polling Report link states…
- “A coveted gold star award for atrocious media reporting of polls for the Sun, who have managed to present the poll as showing Labour ahead by delving into the tables and taking the figures before MORI had applied their turnout filter, thus grossly overestimating Labour.”
They, whoever they are, must do everything to protect the UK State. It is pro-Labour and anti-SNP at every turn, actually anti-Scotland too. These media offices are doing one thing for English consumption then another for Scottish consumption. Closing these blogs in another piece of the jigsaw.
Last night I told my Wife that I would go to the end of the world for her, and she said, “Yes but would you stay there?”
Have you got screwed last night for the first time this decade,or does Brown screw you every day like the rest of us?
I authorise and facilitate the torture of detained combatants.
I don’t really give a toss for these scotchers, but what’s the story anyway? Why is it controversial to have a blog?
When are these parasites going to fuck off and have their independence anyway? That’s the only question I’m interested in. Fuck off jocks. Get out of our parliament.
Does this merit a reply – well let’s think now – . . . . . . . . . . . . .
at least The Scottish Parliament has proportional representation unlike UK Parliament – but then your not into democracy arfe you!!
SO the only question is when is the UK parliament going to introduce proportional representation for the UK?
nuff said………………………………………….
What would happen if Omaha’s Air Force One crashed on the Copenhagen Conference Centre – wiping out our beloved Jonah and the rest of the so called world leaders?
Who would take over?
a.) John Prescott (isn’t he there eating 3 months of Denmark’s danish pastry exports?)
b.) Tony Bliar
c.) Ed Ball’s
d.) Harriet Harman
Who showed you my plans?
Obama has entered the building. His plane lamded earlier at a snowy Copenhagen. Gordon is now like a Bitch on heat trying to attract Obama so that he can have his photograph taken with him.
What,in the same room he tried to entice Gore into yesterday?
Ben Bernanke the saviour of the human race
Bernanke will be remembered by the next generation as a man mesmerized by the memory of the Fed’s mistakes at a single point in history – 1930-32 – for whom printing more money was the right answer in every economic situation.
Did he not have an inconvenient view of Gordon’s world saving financial tactics?
I’m ready!
I’m waiting!
I’m THE FUTURE, – ME and all the WIMMIN!
Could any Rangers fans give me your perspective as to the SNP?
SO Whats New ! They’re only doing what the Labour Trolls do on here every night !
It seems that Brown has declared the country IS in distress. Or he is insulting the Crown again. See flag on table.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/19/20091217/img/pwl-denmark-climate-summit-be00e7e74766.html
Remember Meddlesome did this some time back, last time China was talking.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1135545/Embarrassment-No10-Union-Jack-flies-upside-down.html
Now then girls, play nicely.
Latest from Copenhagen.
President Omaha;
“This is a moment in history – we have all agreed just the one measure which will be legally binding;
Gordon Brown’s mouth will be permanently filled in with concrete.
We believe this measure – alone – will ensure the world can move forwards to sunlit uplands and peace,financial prosperity and safety across the entire globe.
Thank you and goodbye (have they got that cement mixer yet?)”
Just stuff the bastard in the cement mixer and have done with it.
All that hot air going to waste!
Can’t someone organise a bloody good bonfire and burn the whole fuckin lot of the bastards!
Lest ways, there’d be a good few less very high maint people to feed, clothe, and ship round the globe in the ‘style to which they have become TOO accustimed’
bastrds!
Time Magazine-Person of the year
Ben Bernancke.
I can’t beleive it.
————–
Previous winners:-
Adolph Hitler
Joseph Stalin.(myself)
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1946375_1947251,00.html
IIRC Ayatollah Khomeini was the winner in 1979 (Time’s “Man of the Year” as itused to be called – doesn’t have to be a “good guy”).
It’s tough being a politician. Half your reputation is ruined by lies the other half is ruined by the truth!
NuLabour are becoming increasingly paranoid about blogs and the Internet. Only because they can’t control the output on non aligned outlets.
No control=Nervous SpAds
They are happy to peddle their lies and propaganda on the self same medium, but cannot understand why their are free thinkers out there who not only refuse to comply, but actively seek to expose their lies and propaganda. So no surprises that they are closely monitoring us. If they were to get in for a Fourth Term, expect all dissent to be closed down within 12 months under Terrorism, Copyright, Elf. ‘n Safety, EU Harmonisation, Hatespeak, or Double Ungood legislation. They are nasty vicious Bastards.
this is worth reading in the guardian this morning.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/17/cameron-election-polls-conservative-politics
I’m not a steady drinker…….. my hand shakes too much.
“DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?”
Labour’s Dog-Rough Solicitor-General, Vera Baird, throws her weight around when her dog craps on a station platform and she refuses to clean it up. Her boss, Baroness Scotland, would be proud of her:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236839/Solicitor-General-Vera-Baird-embroiled-row-failing-pick-dogs-mess-railway-station.html
Vera Baird is one of the most obnoxious, arrogant, sociopathic and vile turds in the whole Labour gang.
In school I was the teacher’s pet……..She couldn’t afford a dog.
i used to play darts with my dad !
till his head went blunt !
What’s the difference between a Scotsman and a canoe?
A canoe sometimes tips!
what’s the difference between your crap jokes and a lump of shit?
nothing.
Two Scottish idiots are trapped on an Iceberg:
Scottish Idiot 1: We’re saved, we’re saved.
Scottish Idiot 2: How do ye know that?
Scottish Idiot 1: Here comes the Titanic
Terry Wogan has just stood down – now can’t Brown just follow his example and FUCK OFF
Not before he has done his 27 years.
What do you call 2 scotsmen hanging from a washing line?
A pair of tights!
Two jocks walking towards a gang of thugs
Angus one says We are about to get mugged !
I know ,here’s that £600 i owe you !
Here’s an interesting thing.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1236853/Auschwitz-Iron-sign-entrance-concentration-camp-stolen.html
I remember reading years back of a request for a section of that sign to be tested to determine the date at which is was smelted – because obviously it *should* date from the pre-atomic era. Concentrations of trans-uranics and isotopic elements vary in steel from pre and post-1945. So I’m told. Anyway the request was turned down.
I wonder if someone’s decided to give it a bash regardless?
Or maybe Al Gore’s going to stick it above a new climate re-education camp?
It’s part of Brown’s plans for guaranteed jobs for 17-24 yr olds who have been jobless for 6 months.
“Work Makes You Free”
Brown will just change it around a bit to read;
“Freedom from Work, Just sign for free benefits”
Climate change refugees have priority,scum British get to the back of the long long queue.
Expect it to appear on Job Centre Plus’ in the very near future
No doubt it’s all the work of anti-semitic goose-stepping seig-heiling nazis intent on holocaust-denial.
send pizzas.
can I come to London yet? your war criminal scum comes here, why can’t I go there?
it’s ‘Sieg’, you prick.
No need for the comma after “sieg”.
An Englishman, and Irishman and a Scotsman went into a bar.
The Englishman stood a round of drinks, the Irishman stood a round of drinks and the Scotsman stood around.
He’s not daft – why pay out for 2 drunkards
Does any fucker actually work in Jockland and Lyingland? Or do they all just make up stuff – WMDs, Temperatures, Smears, House Prices, Wars on Terror – and expect the rest of the productive world to pay for their shit?
Did you see our carbon reduction commitment
42% within the next few years
USA 4%
China and India – a couple of carrier bags per 1m new births
Stockpile Air while you can. And CO2. You wont be able to get any soon. The trees will have to buy it from somewhere
We seem to be getting off quite lightly. The CO2 reduction will divert a lot of money and effort from more useful research and investment, but it’s really just hot air. Our share of the $100 billion, if it is paid at all, can be taken out of aid budgets so needn’t cost us a penny, though doubtless a few hundred new desk-jockeys will be recruited to manage it.
Rumour has it that many windmills are erected on old airfields just because they can be built there and quotas must be fulfilled. These sites were chosen as airfields because they are not very windy.
Sorry to say Sir WW but I’ve worked on quite a few airfields and they are known for their windiness – it’s ‘free’ airspeed and is therefore A Good Thing for aircraft taking off/landing and logically therefore a good thing for wind turbines. And if we have large open areas surrounded by farmland (as they often are) isn’t that a good place to put turbines ?
WRONG (as Brown would say) – he is taking it from other fund sources other than the .07% of our own GDP
I thought airfields were usually built in fog hollows so that BA staff could have plenty of days off. Gatwick certainly was.
Labour in Scotland have been itching to do something like this since before 2007.But since they lost power in Scotland, its sharpened their atitude towards the internet. You see they have sway over the printed and broadcast media, but they have no control on what is put out over the internet, which grates with them. It was Labour that spun the term ‘Cypernats’ as a dig, but which is now brushed off by everyone that writes in forums in Scotland. You see when you mention something against Labour, a Labour troll will call you you a ‘Cybernat’ regardless of which politics you actually believe in. They just dont like having criticism, so if you criticise them then you must be a Nat (SNP supporter) as the SNP is their main rival in Scotland.
Watch out for similar attacks by Labour in England
Is support for the SNP and Labour split along sectarian lines Cream Puff?
Orange Order (sectarian bigots) said just a few months ago they would back Labour. Also said they were already out canvassing in-directly for Labour in Scotland and took credit for the Glenrothes by-election victory.
This was mentioned no where on BBC Scotland and Daily Record. Now if that was vice-versa it would be making headlines for sure. This is the kind of media in Scotland.
come on Guido new subject. The Sweaty Socks (scots) depress me.
Lets get on too Obama bin Ladling out the bollocks in Copenhagen while brown invents a new Breath Tax for the middle classes
So where the fuck is this “global warming” we keep hearing about?!
We have flown from all over the world to find this global warming and we are freezing our nuts off.
Global warming is currently happening in the Southern Hemishere. In about six months time, it’ll have stopped happening in the Southern Hemispere, but started in the Northern Hemisphere. In about twelve months time….
They now use the term Climate Change…it covers hot and cold, thus enabling twice the tax rate to be plundered by Brown to fit in with the socialist/communist/fascist core agenda of central control and re-distribution of wealth…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeffrandall/6835767/BAs-selfish-staff-are-symbolic-of-a-country-thats-falling-apart.html
Amid such disharmony, it is awe-inspiring to observe one of the few remaining institutions that helps sustain us as a united kingdom: the Armed Forces. Their commitment and stoicism in the face of terrible adversity give us a reason for pride in what we are. Yet, even as the coffins arrive home draped in Union flags, ministers plot to cut the defence budget.
The attack on social cohesion goes on.
About sums it all up
Words cannot express what a great job our servicemen and women are doing in that hell-hole of central Helmand. Their courage is an example to us all. This Government sent them out there with no real strategy or mission, with little or no proper equipment, paying them a pittance and they lay down their lives. And most of us are asking – for what? Every time I see a grieving mother on the telly, or see the coffins going through Wootton Bassett, I say – “bring them all home”.
I don’t want any more 9/11′s or 7/7′s but is this the best way to prevent them. Our armed forces are certainly paying a high price. It just puts the venal activities of our so-called politicans into context – our MP’s are not fit to clean the boots of our brave soldiers.
On no account let any of our M.P.s anywhere near the boots of our soldiers.The thieving hoons would steal the laces.
I certainly don’t want any more 9/11’s or 7/7’s – No more N\/\/O staged events to make the people frightened and allow the government create police and fascist states.
If you remain blinkered to their machinations you will succumb to the Hegelian Dialectic (Problem – Reaction – Solution).
This Government is depriving us of our liberties, one by one, on the back of terrorism including going to war illegally – real reason as we know is oil, drugs and power – driven on by world governance.
The EU (latest Lisbon Treaty) is part of it- think about this Hermann Goering quote
“Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
How true – remove the blinkers
Radio presenter stays in hotel overnight so that he will not be late for his morning programme – no snow in his area meant it was a waste of time and money. Said presenter is due to leave the studio in a moment – cameras waiting outside for his departure. Apparently it’s a bloke called Terry Wogan! Who is he? Is he an important figure? Must be if he’s on Pravda. Between than and all the fuss about spatterings of snow it must be a slow news day – what’s new in Pravda land.
I don’t understand a word of this.
Please write more clearly or get a sub.
A Jock was traveling by train seated next to a stern-faced clergyman.
As the Jock pulled out a bottle of whisky from his pocket the clergyman glared and said reprovingly, “Look here, I am sixty-five and I have never tasted whisky in my life!”
“Don’t worry, Minister,” smiled the Jock, pouring himself a shot. “There’s no risk of you starting now!”
It is my job to cover up the torture that Gordon Brown authorises.
That hook-nosed prick in the photo looks familiar. Didn’t he work with the grasses on the One Show?
Did you hear about the Jock who was once run over by a brewery lorry……..It was the first time in his life that the drinks were on him.
Don’t you mean a yorkshireman
Did you hear about the Scotsman who was arrested for a smash and grab raid on a jewelers shop window?
He came back to collect the brick!
I’ve got a feeling my missus is shagging someone behind my back.
I don’t really care to be honest.
In fact, when I finish posting this joke, I might even turn around and have a look.
Oh Forget that – silly me ’twas I the eton ‘erbert
Jesus…Brown is recahing religious/orgasmic heights….voooooooooomit
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/146662/Climate-change-doubters-are-dishonest-says-Brown
get ready for open-wallet surgery from the Saviour
“No one can honestly deny that without common action, rising sea levels could wipe whole nations from the map.” – except experts on sea levels.
If everyone in the world( 100 billion ) went to the seaside with a big bucket
and took a big bucket full of water out of the sea
then went up their local volcano
and poured the water on it
hen we would have no more global warming
and much lower sea levels ! SORTED !
Wee Jimmy Brown, the Circus Clown!
After swanning around the fucking world ommitting more carbon than anyone else alive ! he turns up at someone else’s party when its half over starts spouting as if he is in charge of it telling everybody that they must cough up billions for it leads Al Gore into a fucking broom cupboard what the fuck is he on does he really think HE can “save the world” ? or is this a last gasp attempt to save the labour party !
Fuck me what a scary looking bastard he is
Why do all Jocks look like they want to kill sombody?
I woke up to 8 inches this morning! oooh look it’s snowing….
The only way i can give my wife 8 inches
Is if i fold it in half !
Pious hypocrites. Sign away our sovereignty without turning a hair but make a big issue out of this. If the shit shovellers don’t like the smell,stop shovelling.
PS I see global warming is taking effect this morning -nature 1 bullshit fuckwits 0
I can’t see the bullshitters winning this one. They will not be able to get nature on message.
Ahh, its not global warming anymore, but climate change. Any ‘unusual’ weather is now a result of ‘climate change’ and by the hairy fucking hippy definition it is therefore caused by man-made CO2.The end.
I wonder how they can tell its the man-made CO2 rather than the tree made CO2 that is going to kill us all in ten years?
Death awiats us all! The climate will freeze/roast/drown/desert-ify*(is that a word? it is now) everyone in the next ten years unless we give billions to developing countries.
*delete as appropriate for your stupid fucking argument for man made global whatever.
The can’t see it can they – The Sun in the sky I mean – cos their noses are down in the troughs or their tongues are boot-licking the American president -
Did you hear about the Scot who put his bed in the fireplace?
He wanted to sleep like a log!
I know about all about Gordon Brown authorising torture.
I did nothing to stop it.
Did you hear about the Scot who went bankrupt in the laundry business?
……..He says he’s all washed up.
Says Gordon: “Hurricanes, floods, typhoons and droughts that were once all regarded as the acts of an invisible god are now revealed to be also the visible acts of man.”
Well which is it you stupid prick? Acts of god or acts of man? Also? Also? What does that mean, mealy mouthed prick?
“My talks this week convince me that while the challenges we face are difficult and testing, there is no insuperable barrier of finance, no inevitable deficit of political will, no insurmountable wall of division that need prevent us from rising to the needed common purpose and – on the following plan – reaching agreement now. I do not ask my country or any country to suspend its national interest but to advance it more intelligently”
bastard.
Fifty quid to anyone who gobs in his face.
If it’s all the act of man rather than an act of God then there is no cop out for insurance companies any longer ne’st pas?
Has this prick Brown ever heard of the power of nature?
I only ever use jacket hollow rounds
Acts of God – well now that we no longer seem to be a God-fearing society then perhaps by some dick-dawrkinsian logic God no longer exists so there can be no Act of God!
Sad is it not! And everything must either be right or wrong, black or white and truth or lies – no halfway house, no compromise and especially NO TOLERANCE
How can the scince in such a complex matter as climate change be settled! – This is not the objective scientific argument – it is the biased political one Just Like the IPCC which is at heart a political body – it was set up as such
Get the politics out of science and if the findings do not match the conclusion you were looking for then tough – face the facts and deal with them appropriaely – that is the inconvenient truth of the matter
How many Scots does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Five. One to hold the bulb, and four to drink beer until the room spins!
How many English does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Five.
One to bend over with his pants down. One to hold the bulb at the first’ anus, and the rest to form a scrum behind the second and push as hard as they can while the second turns the bulb
Brown must realise because he is universally regarded as a dishonest fucktard, anything he says regarding climate change will stink of his particularly putrid brand of human filth
You need to cut the scientists out of the argument and clearly state that the preservation of the worlds resources is a good idea – period,
cutting down rain forests is a bad idea – period
clean energy is a good idea – period
It will be engineers who resolve all these issues not some bearded lefty bastards
Bloody Hell! Labour have got a nerve to criticise the SNP for one blog! Have they forgotten the Drapergate affair? Yes, they probably have.
Incidentally, it’s not going smoothly for Brown, is it? How sad.
Friday Update 80 MPs give two fingers to Legg, CCTV trebles in 10 years, “It’s not entertainment” Says Chilcot. Er thanks for that! Israeli officials frustrated by Brown’s government. We know the feeling well!
what issues, you moron?
one million dead in Iraq through invasion and overthrough of a sovereign country?
a backdoor totalitarian regime in your own country; fifth columnist marxists intent on the destruction of an independent nation and the impoverishment of its working classes?
another invasion and regime change in Afghanistan to guard opium production and set up bases for the encirlement and invasion of Iran?
the deliberate mass medication – vaccinations – and dumbing down of the people through state education to the final status of dumb cattle, to be used and disposed of at will?
and on.
and pricks like you want to concentrate on ‘issues’, you fuckling imbecile.
people, older people in Britain, will die with this cold and inability to pay the carbon-taxed gas/elec. to keep warm.
away to fuck you prick before someone deals with the piece of shit issue that is you.
This has GOT to be TAT,back from the Super Job Centre Extra Plus?
wrong again spaz.
I don’t double space.
try to keep up you cripple.
do you need a wheelchair?
A-EEEEERRKK!!! KRIPPLEKRIPPLE!! (shuffle) (ping) (rattle) SKRAAAAAARRKK!!!
you really don’t have anything better to do than stalk tat and pull your tiny todger whenever you think you spot one of his posts do you ?
you really are one sick weirdo
Fuck off Salmond you deep fried turd.
Mmmmmmm, tuuuurrrrrddddd!
Engineers have always had to work within the prevailing political and market conditions. The best idea going is no use at all if nobody wants to buy it because it’s 50% more expensive than the old way.
The UK could cut it’s CO2 emissions quite significantly by replacing it’s existing coal-fired power stations with ones of similar electrical output but more modern design. (A ‘super-critical’ coal-fired power station could give the same output with about 20% less fuel, and hence 20% lower emissions, than some existing 40-year old stations.)
Pragmatic solutions such as this would be far more practical then greeny dreams about supplying all the nation’s electricity with windmills.
Sadly Engineer, it would not be a solution. It would win a battle, but any step to supply more energy just results in more people.
Once a person sees a never ending supply of comfort they breed. Just a sad fact of life. We did not evolve with any other sudden massive injection of energy so there is no in built population control that works against it.
The only way to stop it is to limit oil for transport. Once transport is too costly then sustainable communities only grow around resources.
However the other solution is to follow the current partial World governance process, and we will have the third world war when rationing starts. Note that Spain declared that it would overbid every UK price offered for gas in the last spat they had with supplies.
The only other in-built trait of humanity is to fight when there is a threat to their living resources.
Not too sure about some of this. We’ve never had it so comfortable – relative to past centuries – and the birth rate is right down. Against this, mortality rates are right down, as well. Not sure that Britain’s population is growing that fast, if you exclude the effects of immigration. That the world’s human population is burgeoning is undoubted, and it does, of course, pose problems. The solutions? Have to confess I don’t know, and it’s not a debate I want to get involved with.
My point was a rather narrower one about our energy use and it’s impact on CO2 emissions. If ‘carbon’ is a problem to the environment (arguably that’s a debatable point) then there’s a practical method of reducing it almost immediately without disturbance to our way of life. We thus buy time to develop and deploy other solutions – if they turn out to be practical and economic.
Of the other major energy uses, transport and heating, we are still heavily dependent on fossil fuels, and there seem to few practical alternatives at present. There’s great scope for invention and development, and for modifying behavior. For example, the average car weighs about a ton (give or take) but spends most of it’s time moving one human from point A to point B. There’s a clear opportunity for the use of smaller cars, but I would suggest that few would give up the freedom that a car gives them. Limiting people’s freedom to travel where they want, when they want, is not something many would accept without a very bitter fight. The same would apply to limiting access to heating, though there’s scope for using it more sparingly and wisely.
kill them all pick one million from each race with the best genes and fuck the rest into the ovens and start again.
Sorry but you did not make the top one million of your race’s gene pool.
Goodbye.
thank fuck for that we are saved because we all know everyone in England are poofs, so the will be no newborn there
http://political-graffiti.blogspot.com/ – updated news on copenhagen jolly
PM: 10am, two more hours of fraught negotiation. Glad that Pres Obama just arrived to keep us focused on big picture
http://twitter.com/DowningStreet/statuses/6791645990
Absolutely pathetic.
Imagine Winston Churchill doing this shit back in WW2.
“Just met the wanker Stalin,blimey Roosevelt looks quite ill – probably die in April 1945 by the looks of it”.
Brown – the most hated man in Britain.
Quite agree, he should be stopped from doing this. Surprised that the press has NOT attacked him for it. How demeaning to KowTow before Obama.
He is a Complete TWAT
PM: 1am – late night haggling with 30 leaders. Tough, but we’re determined to crack it.
PM: crucial meeting with Premier Wen of China, and then 5 minutes to grab a steak.
http://twitter.com/DowningStreet
Yeah – a stake thru his bloody heart hopefully
Would this ‘big picture’ be ‘The Lydian Plain ‘ by Harald Jerichau in the National Gallery in Copenhagen? It’s impressively large.
Had a shit.I swear there was an image of Obama in it.kept me focused on Climate deal as I wiped my arse.
East is East and West is West,
PM knows where the sun shines Best.
Obammi, Obammi
I’d crawl a million miles,
For ones of your smiles,
Ohhhbaaaaaaaaammmeeeeeeeeeee
Did you know that William Paterson, a Scot, founded The Bank of England in 1694.
Say what you like about the Scots, most of which is a lot of rubbish, they did invent an awful lot of things that we take for granted today. Imagine a world without, television; telephones; penicillin; antiseptics; lawnmowers; microwave ovens; marmalade; computer games;tarmac, golf to name but a few.
I would forego all those things for a world without Scots
It’s perfectly true, and they were all invented after the Act of Union.
One of the problems this website has is that it appears to attract Scot bashers every time there is an item about Scotland. If they stopped and thought for a moment they would realise that the SNP are doing England a massive favor as they are the only political party north of the border that can oust Labor and with that people like Brown and Darling etc. They would also be aware that the SNP has never voted on England only matters in Westminster unlike the Labor. Tory and Lib Dem parties who routinely do so. Whilst they are throwing insults at Scots it is also timely to remind the Scots bashers that if it was not for Sir Hugh Dowding and Sir Robert Watson-Watt (both Scots) the battle of England would have been lost to the Nazis in 1940 and in all probability these Scot bashers would all be speaking German now!
There are labour trolls here using every method possible and trying to divide common allies from uniting and ridding labour from our lands and lives.
nah, it’s just you are such a bunch of fucking moaning scroungers.
Sounds a lot like you – - just a load of old TAT
The Scots have certainly invented a lot of awful things which we would be better off without. Why they persist in claiming that they invented television is beyond me. Baird dreamt up a crap system which was never going to succeed, as was rapidly proved to be the case.
Is that right – try colour television – optic fibres etc – try and educate yourself rather than trot out same old trite pap that is used to decry his efforts- he did a lot for the war effort during WWII and had many patents to his name.
Penicillin was thieved by a Scotsman.
William Paterson did indeed found the bank of England, along with the national debt which put all the revenues of England, Wales and Ireland (joined 13 years later by his fellow Scots) to paying interest on it at 8% to Paterson and his fellow bankers. The world would have been a better place if he had been strangled at birth.
Too many adverts are appearing all over the place on this site Guido. And you can stuff the Sky advert which suddenly turned my screen black whilst it loaded and had me wondering if a fault had developed. The only thing these adverts do to me is make me angry against the advertiser. Fook the lot of ‘em!!!!! And fook you too Guido if you cannot control the situation.
What is this? Parish Council news?
And stuff that bloody Sainsbury’s van that keeps appearing across the screen!
I bit OT, but relevant in the context of ‘brown stuff’ I suppose…
…another arrogant ‘don’t you know who I am’ person of the people, arrogant nulabour arsehole….
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236839/Solicitor-General-Vera-Baird-embroiled-row-failing-pick-dogs-mess-railway-station.html
Cheeky bitch started shouting at the poor mum who after all was only pointing out the law this government passed.
Her defence? – “I thought a cleaner would get rid of it”. Cleaners might follow you round in your palace, Vera, but everyone else cleans their own shit up.
The arrogant fucking bitch…
That aint the best of it, she reported the PSCO who had to deal with the situation for ‘attitude’
Fucking spiteful old bitch, vote the fuckers into oblivion next year and hopefully she won’t even be able to get a job as a cleaner.
Nobody’s got a more aggressive ‘attitude’ than old Vera. Mouthy twat.
She fucking stands at the depsatch box making this and that illegal and telling us all how to run our lives then she can’t even pick her own shit up.
Right, snotty letter I think. It’s the English way……
Just like the rest of Labour – leave someone else to clean up their mess.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236839/Solicitor-General-Vera-Baird-embroiled-row-failing-pick-dogs-mess-railway-station.html#ixzz0a2RtVdk0
Guido: Why have you deleted the post about the China/Brown talks yesterday with the upside down flag. See AP report with face to face tables.
A man goes into a travel agents and says that he wants to book a vacation in China.
“Peking?” asked the travel agent.
“No, I want to have a good look around.”
Thought for the day :
Who ever invented decorating want’s fucking !
Who ever invented fucking want’s decorating !
Why was there screams coming from the kitchen?
The chef was beating the eggs.
I apologise in advance on behalf of those who will have to point it that it’s ‘WERE there screams…’ not ‘WAS there screams…’
Public sector borrowing soars to record £20.3bn.
Meanwhile GB goes on a unicorn hunt in Denmark.
During the last years of the previous Tory administration, the Labour opposition screamed blue murder at the then ANNUAL deficit of £14 billion (I think).
We’ve exceeded that for most years of the last decade, and now exceed it every MONTH.
AND STILL THEY CONTINUE TO THIEVE FROM US AND NOT ONE OF THEM HAS EVEN BEEN PROSECUTED. THIS MAN IS A THIEF. WHAT CHANCE IS THERE OF HIM BEING PROSECTED AND PAYING ALL OF IT BACK? NO DIFFERENT TO A BURGLER WHO BREAKS INTO YOUR HOME AND STEALS YOUR VALUABLES. ABSOLUTE SCUM!
Between 2004 and 2008, Mr Simon claimed £81,000 in allowances for the flat, including £44,000 in rent and another £37,000 to pay for household bills and food. Overlooking Regent’s Park, the property is in one of London’s most expensive areas.
In contrast, Mr Simon’s “main home”, which he funds, is a modest £135,000 terrace house in his Birmingham constituency.
Mortgage interest payments on the house are likely to have been substantially less than his rent claims.
From April 2004, Mr Simon claimed £1,000 a month in rent for his sister’s London flat. She lives with her husband in Hampshire.
He also claimed £150 a month for cleaning, £100 a month for council tax, £50 a month for telephone bills and the maximum £400 a month for groceries, as well as up to £250 a month for other utility bills.
Most MPs submitted copies of mortgage or rent agreements and invoices to support their claims. But Mr Simon’s expenses files suggest he did not submit a single receipt for any living cost at the flat after April 2004, when records began.
another prize wanker. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, Simon.
Contrast with the ex-squaddies* who is being sentenced today for handing in a gun he found in his garden. Possession of a firearm is a crime of strict liability i.e. no defence, especially ignorance.
* admittedly he has previous and sounds a bit dodgy
A Labour minister is to repay around £21,000 in expenses after admitting using second home allowances to rent a flat from his sister.
Culture, Media and Sports Minister Sion Simon leased the London property from 2003 until the end of 2007 at a cost of £1,000 a month to the taxpayer.
In total, he claimed more than £40,000 from the taxpayer to pay his sister rent on the flat.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236861/Minister-paid-rent-sister-forfeits-21-000.html#ixzz0a2UnvaQL
Guido do you know if anyone (like Tax Payers Alliance) is planning to make a formal complaint to the Police over the fiddling of the data from Russia at the CRU and Met office?
Seems to me these fucking scumbag so called scientists need to be cautioned and made to spill the beans about their lies. These c.u.n.t.s could cost us tax payers billions with their lies and half truths.
Together with Australian Senator Fielding, he (Monckton) has written this to Dr Pachauri:
We have looked for your declaration of these interests in the documents of the IPCC, particularly in its 2007 Fourth Assessment Report, but we have not found them.
Our conclusion is that you have numerous substantial direct or indirect vested financial and commercial interests profiting from the emissions reduction processes that the documents produced by the IPCC under your chairmanship have triggered.
I would be very surprised if the cricket-loving, jetsetting, troll-impersonator remains the IPCC’s chairman for much longer. Not after these equally devastating assaults by Richard North here and here.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100020261/climategate-monckton-kebabs-pachauri/
“Hooray for Holyrood
You may be homely in your neighbourhood
But if you think that you can be an actor
See Mr. Factor, he’d make a monkey look good
With a half an hour, you’ll be in (sort of) power
Hooray for Holyrood”
(Doris day)
Labour-Dog, Vera Baird, a truly nasty piece of work…….
Solicitor-General Vera Baird embroiled in row after ‘failing to pick up her dog’s mess at railway station’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1236839/Solicitor-General-Vera-Baird-embroiled-row-failing-pick-dogs-mess-railway-station.html#ixzz0a2UBBQQV
Baird, that name sounds Scottish. Why do we always end up with their shit?
In May 2009 the Daily Telegraph revealed that Baird had inappropriately attempted to claims for £286 of Christmas decorations using her expense allowance. Baird has described the goods as “miscellaneous items”, but House of Common officials noticed the nature of the items on the receipt and refused to pay. Baird also benefited from the Additional Costs Allowance (more commonly known as the ‘second homes’ allowance) by designating her London flat as her main home while claiming allowances for the four-bedroomed property in her constituency she has designated as her second home.[7] She also earns an annual salary of £125,602
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Baird
She might have a Scottish name but the disgusting cow was born in Oldham – so that explains a lot!
It started in America
Sion Simon sleeps with his sister.
Shut up you mongs and pay attention…OBAMA is speaking to the world.
and Omaha has a very bad track record in Copenhagen – last time he went there to add impetus to the USA’s bid for the next Olympics,Chicago was the first to be thrown out of the selection – a huge snub to Barry.
Jock is on holiday in Isle of Skye with a new hire car for a week as part of the deal. After his seven days’ driving his tank is nearly empty, needing to return it full to get back his 200 quid cash deposit. At the fill up station next to the hire company depot Jock is about to fill the tank when he espies a vat of used motor oil abandoned by a recent lorry. While nobody is looking he funnels all the contents and sludge into his petrol tank till it shows full. He drives the spluttering hire car to the hire company’s parking bay where it gives its last dying cough for ever.
Jock hand over the keys at the desk, gets his cash in his hands, and is ready to walk out when the lady behind the counter says. “One final thing…….
I have some very good news for you. As our one-millionth customer we are giving you a prize. You will be amazed to hear that you get to keep as its sole owner the sparkling new vehicle you have been hiring for the past week!”
Obamha think he is in Normark or is it Denway?
O Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa MA
obloodi
obama
life goes on
waoh tra la la la la la la
So far as I can see, the modern day Jock is at most only one step removed from the Sawny Bean of however many hundred years ago it was.
Bean and his sick clan ate travelers raw by the side of the road, sometimes without even having the courtesy of killing them first. Whenever I picture a Scotchman, I picture Sawny Bean.
And by the way, for if anyone’s the little this or little that, it’s the Scotch, who have been defining themselves by the degree to which they detest the English for generations. Only in the last year or so has the feeling become reciprocated (and this time for very good reasons).
Independence for Scotland? I’ll happily vote for that.
You sad sad sad gullible little man.
Don’t you realise that Sawney Bean only ever existed in the twisted mind of an anonymous 18th century English racist who was writing in order to stir up predjudice against the Scots. That he still suceeds in poisoning ‘minds’ like yours over 200 years later is truly astounding.
The first clue is actually in the name – ‘Sawney’, which is an 18th century English term of abuse for a Scotsman. You can find the rest out for yourself on the Wikipedia site as I cannot be arsed continuing your education.
PS
I am Scottish. I do not hate English people; even poor, uneducated little bigots like yourself.
You are more to be pitied than laughed at.
The Widipedia? ROTFL!! Any old wanker can edit that – and it looks like one has:
“A 2005 article by Sean Thomas[2] notes that historical documents, such as newspapers and diaries during the era when Sawney Bean was supposedly active, make no mention of ongoing disappearances of hundreds of persons.”
Gee wizz. You had newspapers in Scotland around the year 1500? Fuck me! Next you’ll be telling me the Scotish invented the printing press!
The truth is that Sawney Bean is such a monumental embarrassment to the Scots owing to his and his clan’s craven depravity that you’re trying to pretend the whole thing is just a myth. Those of us who’ve studied mass murderers of the UK know better. The Wikipedia indeed!
If any idiot can edit Wikipedia, why don’t you try.
You seem to be eminently qualified
UK debt now over £800bn or 60% of GDP thanks entirely to the Jocks. Independence Now!!!
Its not all bad, those tartan tins of shortbread they sell in the M74 services are nice.
They say computers have changed the way we live our lives.
I’d have to agree- I now wank with my left hand.
I still need both hands
All of Britain’s nuclear subs are in Scotland… so if it became independent, like former USSR states, they would be a nuclear power and might borrow Kenny Evertt’s slogan… “Lets bomb England”. Problem solved. No more worries that you are “financing” Scotland, no more grumbling about how English people are losing out because you believe in the private sector and Scots believe in a strong public sector (thats why you’re all so poor).
Even Thatcher admitted in her autobiography that without Scotland’s oil the uk economy would go bust and senior civil servants were writing “secret” (but now leaked and now published) reports stating Scotland would have “an embarrassing budget surplus” if it moved towards independence and “the strongest currency in Europe”.
If you really think Scotland is a subsidy junkie, then do something about it and back independence for England.
You of course have missed one vital point about the ‘Scottish’ Nuclear weapons in your little fantasy. The missles are on submarines. Submarines are ocean going vessels. Its quite feasible that an ocean going vessel can move from one place to another place at any given time. An example might be moving from scotland to england prior to you lot fucking off and living in your tartan paradise (soon after to become europes biggest council estate) with your glorious independance.
“Scotland would have “an embarrassing budget surplus” if it moved towards independence and “the strongest currency in Europe”.”
What currency might that be, then? Scottish banknotes which are generally not accepted in England aren’t even legal tender in Scotland itself! Dream on.
If they were independent they would then have their own currency as they would be, erm, INDEPENDENT. Do you get it Mr Dimbo? Fucking idiot.
Do you drool much?
last comment for rotten.
I certainly wouldn’t say Alex Salmond’s government is faltering – quite the contrary. The Scots have a choice here and they like what they see in the SNP government.
Well said SR. This whole blogogate thing is just smoke for the more sinister doings of Labour. It was reported weeks before that Labour were employing activists to stir and inflame shit on blogs.
This is just the New Labour scottish media watching out for it’s friends. And all unionist papers remaining remotely silent.
“Scottish” Banks
!. Halifax Bank of Scotland – Not entirely Scottish, half English as the Halifax is English. Customer base of 5,000,000 Northern English chavs, Labour voters every one. I wonder why they got resuced then. Nothing to do with the customers being Labour voters. Would they have been rescued if the Bank of Scotland had merged with a bank based in Hampshire or Surrey? I think not.
2. Royal Bank of Scotland – Partly Scottish but with the small inconvenience of also being very English as NatWest is part of the group and if it had been allowed to fail then hundreds of thousands of English Labour voters would have lost money.
3. Clydesdale Bank – Scottish but part of the National Australia Bank Group and doing very well indeed. Making a profit every year and a three-fold increase of liquid assets over the last two years. Draw your own conclusions as to why they never get mentioned.
Just to link this story with the Copenhagen summit
To give our English freinds a flavour of how bias the press are in Scotland
as well as nationally.
Alex Salmond the First Minister for Scotland has been in Copenhagen for about a week. He did ask that the Scottish Government have a represenative go along as part of the UK team, so that they could talk about the developments in renewables that is happening in Scotland. Unsurprisingly Labour who hate the SNP, ignored the request. So FM and his envornment minister plus aides went and took up residence on the fringes, with the aim of pushing the Scottsih renewables and meet like minded governments. They were of course not given any help from the diplomats in Copenhagen. But did have various receptions for national and local governements attending. The BBC made every effort to ignore the presence of the FM and his team, no doubt on the orders of Brown. But were happy to interview everyone else including Boris Johnson!. The only time Alex Salmond got a mention was when the likes of Arnie Shwartzenagger pulled out and the Scottish media made great play making out that the FM had been snubbed (which wasnt the case)
Later Arnie Schwartzenager did have a meeting with the Scottish environment minister, but this was largely ignored
The Scottish Government managed to do much at Copenhagen signing up deals involving the Maldives and getting the mssage over about the renewables being developed, again largely ignored
Brown goes over and its over the top coverage of the vomit inducing kind,but he hasnt done anything!
By the way the rea lreason Brown went earlier, was to try and upstage Alex Salmond in case the FM had managed to get some coverage, as well as getting in before Obama. Browns like that, he is after all a control freak
What 5 or so blogs? As far as I can see only one Nat blog was shut down because of the media.
Just more Labour lies.
MESSAGE TO MARK..
Hmmm… ‘unemployable’ eh ?
I strongly suggest you approach the Welsh Assembly Government taffia.
They would have need of someone competent but with the ability to use ‘shock and awe’ tactics against political opponents.
Of course, learning Welsh would take a little while but the main thing is you have a bit of time on your side, and unlike Michael they are not in the least bit ‘blushing’ when it comes to sticking up for ‘no holds barred’ political campaigning.
They won’t leave you hanging in the gale when any dirty tricks come to light, that’s for sure.
Best of luck for your future – but I am a little intrigued what these ‘pictures of al-megrahi’ are all about.
You could go and try and take some snaps of him yourself, as that would help to pay the bills for quite some time…
taffia
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
The latest news on the Cheese blog story is that the SNP leader on the local council (Dumfries & Galloway) having previously denied any knowledge of the blog has now belatedly remembered that he in fact passed on some stories to the blog.
One of the best bits in the emails was that the blogger, when effectively being sacked, his first reaction (in the leaked emails) was to ask for a cushy job in a quango.
It looks like this story will drip drip on. Looks like Mr Salmond’s spin doctor may be ghost writing another resignation letter.
Nice to see the English Nationalist Racism on display here as per usual.
Little england – little mind
or is that
empty cans make the most noise
Lang may yer lum reek
Slainte