Bloggers Will Become Mainstream in this Election
There is lots of speculation around that in this election blogs and even Twitter will be decisive, Toby Helm had a hyperbolic piece in the Observer this weekend How the 2010 Election Will Be Won by Blogs and Tweets. Guido is not so sure.
Nowadays blogs help set the mainstream media’s tone, not just because the most avid readers of blogs are mainstream journalists, but because increasingly we are mainstream.
In the last 24-hour news cycle Guido has seen Iain Dale and Jag Singh going head-to-head on Sky New’s evening show, on the BBC at the same time Shane Greer and Will Straw were spinning their lines. Guido woke up this morning to hear on the Today programme Tim Montgomerie defending the Tories. Bloggers are clearly sexier pundits for broadcasters than old stalwarts like Michael White and Polly Toynbee…
Tolly Boynbee, now she’s worth leg over……..shome mishtake shurely????
Forget the blogging election, I thought this was the Mumsnet election? That’s what it says on their front page!
http://www.mumsnet.com/
So long as it is not a BBC election, although watching BBC news one can see a massively blatant pro-labour bias!!!
The General Election has not been called yet, so the campaign coverage in the media is not yet governed by the strict time and impartiality laws that come into play at that time. I predicted some time ago that the BBC would become a fully-fledged labour propaganda outlet until the election is officially called.
Brown will hang on as long as possible before calling an election, so the official campaign might only be about a fortnight, or even a week long. The labour party are very nearly broke and cannot afford a long campaign, but they will happily use the BBC as their election agent and abuse tax-payer money to promote “public information campaigns” by every government department intensively until the election is finally announced in an official capacity. This is unlawful, but since when did labour care about obeying the law?
The parlous state of both Parties finances, and don’t fool yourself nobody is donating big to Politicians of whatever stripe right now for obvious reasons, is why they are all happy to have the televised debates.
Those will be the set pieces around which all the other media stories cluster.
Will there be other odds and sods, unplanned gaffes and the usual 3 day wonder stories too ? Unquestionably and Expenses and the Iraq Inquiry will both be back to haunt the unwary. But those debates will be the meat of the Election now with any spare cash billboarded and funneled to the marginals for the usual ground war leafleating.
it’ll be the usual twattish arguing over 0.1% of government spending going one way or the other.
Michael White the man for all seasons who actually believes everything he says – scary fuckwit.
GNNNN-HHH!! GNNN-HHH!! (heave) S-KWEEEERRRKK!!! (ting)
What Newsnight’s “experts” think the election campaign would be like.
Guido, on that photo, which one is Dale and which one is Singh?
Nah, bloggers are just as ugly.
On the other hand, I think that there is a gap in the market for bloggers who are a little more direct when they are on broadcast media.
Catch-22: the most direct and interesting bloggers won’t be invited onto the MSM to piss on their parade
everyone conforms in the end
nah, the msm will continue to haemorrhage viewers and readers.
I still watch a lot of the mainstream news, I just don’t believe what they report anymore. They have and continue to lie to us all far too much.
I think you can work out what really happened by watching the Beeb, because they spin and selectively report in quite a consistent way. It’s not like, say, the Daily Excess, where they just make things up.
“I think you can work out what really happened by watching the Beeb, because they spin and selectively report in quite a consistent way.”
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True enough, just take what the beeb reports and reverse it and you are somewhere nearer the truth,
Thanks Guido…you just ruined my breakfast…I don’t like to see the words “Polly Toynbee” so soon after eating.
Bloggers aren’t in their Tuscan villas at this time of year.
Perhaps that will be the new media’s greatest triumph, the demise of White and Toynbee.
We can hope
Ditto
Charlie.What line was Will taking this morning?
The forthcoming General Election will be won or lost on the playing fields of Eton by whichever party tells the best gags
My uncle was always safety conscious.
At the end of every day, he would take out all the plugs and switch off all the lights.
Perhaps that’s why he got sacked from being an air traffic controller
Aw, how sad. I hope he can get another job soon. Although under Gordon Brown’s disastrous leadership, that will not be easy.
No, Ned, you’ve got it all wrong or you’re forgetting. There’s the 500,000 jobs that Brown promised not so long ago. Or will it be one of the million IT jobs he’s going to create? And if Dave ‘ABOLOL’ Cameron’s uncle’s British, well, piece of piss, all those British jobs for british people.
Jobs under Brown and New Labour. No problem. (Just like the economy, education, NHS, etc., etc.). Give me strength.
NuLabour are so classy “Playing Fields of Eton” Campbell is well and truly back.
So the last 12 years desecration of the UK economy was dreamt up on the playing fields of Fettes then?
Can anyone else stand the stench of the labour hypocricy of hating this country being run by public school toffs (Blair, Balls, Harperson et al)???
Bring back the death penalty for labour MPs!
You forgot to mention he unplugged the radar scanner!
Is it your view then, Guido, that the blogging medium is the message or some such baloney?
In reality, blogging allows go-getters like you to be noticed and make money.
Once bloggers become ‘celebrities’, then of course you’re invited onto the chat shows and eventually into the jungle with Katie Price and the others.
But note that Dale is a frustrated politician, and can’t wait to enter the parliamentary house of horrors; blogging for him is a means to an end that you despise.
And in your case you’re into blogging for the money.
Tony
Not really, am in it to make mischief and have fun. Making money is a satisfying by-product. If money was the main aim my best choice, as Mrs Fawkes never ceases to remind, would be to go back to bond trading.
Bond trading?
Balls + Balls territory it seems and the bond market is now beggered.
Stick with the blog.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/6933232/Pimco-move-to-sell-gilts-raises-spectre-of-a-UK-sovereign-debt-crisis.html
Money?
Where?
I’m only in it for the mischief
Bollox OH – your blog is also sometimes quite educational.
nobody does ‘fuck-you’ better than OH. Very funny
fuck you
you’re right, that is funny
Guido blogging soley to make money? That would be a big mistake, and if that where really the case, this blog would unrecognisable from what it is now.
Doing anything ‘for the money’ is always a big mistake. You do something cos you enjoy it.
I’ve seen countless people take on managerial positions or other things they really don’t like simply cos they will get 2 or 3 lots of £x instead of one lot. Like New Year Resolutions they never work out. They end up cutting corners, others can see their heart is not in it and they end up losing the respect of their staff. When they look back on what they did they don’t like it.
Guido in this blogging malarkey for the money? I don’t think so.
Your implication that Polly Toynbee was at one time “sexy”, has left me deeply disturbed.
Seek help, Mr Fawkes, without delay – otherwise the delusions will only grow stronger… Before you know it you’ll be stalking Margaret Beckett around Westminster with a pair of fluffy handcuffs and a tube of K-Y.
La, la, la, la, la.
Can’t hear you, can’t hear you!
!!!!!!Shouts loudly with fingers in ears!!!!!!!
And a fancy collar for the gide dog.
More chance of stalking Beckett
With a Bag Of Oats and some Carrots !
Guido, Guido, Guido – being classed as “more sexy than Sir Michael Shite and Poorly Toshbee” is not really an accolade – anyone with a pulse fits that catgegory.
think he means media-sexy, not actually sexy
Is there a difference? Polly should have stayed in her first job and put the kettle on.
It’s great to realise that Polly, despite her spoutings of love for Socialism and equality, only got where she is by nepotism.
Steady on AC1 – she managed to get thrown out of Oxford too – oh, hmm, I see, err….
Oh, thanks for clearing that up. I have reworded my comment to take account of your erudte intervention.
It now will read:
“”Guido, Guido, Guido – being classed as “more sexy than Sir Michael Shite and Poorly Toshbee” is not really an accolade – anyone with a pulse fits that catgegory.”"
Anyone with residual warmth fits that category.
I’ve got a Lomax 223!
Polly and Michael going at it hammer and tounges.
Enjoy that thought – it’s the startling political insight I come here for everyday. Cheers Gaydo.
Its hammer and tongs I think you mean.
Thongs would be better. However, Polly in a thong is not a nice thought.
Blimey Charlie!!
I really didn’t need that image in my head…
Hammer and tongues?
Tongue and Polly? You have put me off now.
Blogs like kiwiblog.co.nz had a huge effect in the elections last year in NZ. Labour NZ got a hiding, because the Internet was the best place to reveal the inconsistencies and lies of the Labour Government. the collective memory recall of the posters was far more persuasive and damning than that of the professional repeaters in the MSM, who were writing is relative isolation.
I truly believe that the micro-processor chip will bring down this GDR style Government.
But I don’t want to be ‘mainstream’ – I want to prattle on in any undefinable way , and as stupidly as ever, without being incorporated into the the new avant garde of blogging celebrity – once blogging becomes appropriated into the mainstream we’ve had it, it’s power will be lost!
Not true, because the power of blogging is in the reciprocity of the blogger to reader relationship. If such a blog becomes a mainstream entity and reflects that bland and false version of reality, then the readers will desert it.
Guido could kill this blog by parroting the BBC establishment line about political events.
I don’t read blogs.
Me neether
What is a blog anyway?
Sun readers don’t read the Sun. They look at the pictures.
As for Sunday Sport readers….
pressed wrong bloody button
what I also want to say is that as I look out of my window I see the warmest snow in history falling. At the same time the head of the Met Office is due a 25% pay rise – MPs back at work today then – let’s get the bastards……….
BBC Weather headline: “Arctic weather continues across China”
That’ll teach the f*ckers to deny global warming!!
The ice has now completely disappeared from the Artic and is now settling further South. Go on Gore tell us again how much Polar ice is receding.
See Antarctic Ice extent increase by 50% since 1980
http://tinyurl.com/iceup43-nsidc
That’s the wrong kind of ice.
Some of the Alarmists are admitting that there is more ice, but they claim it is “rotten” ice, so it does not count!
Gore predicted that Arctic sea ice would be gone in 5 years, he predicted this two years ago.
So far he looks to be on to a loser.
There are thousands of people waiting to remind him in 2013 of this prediction.
Dr Hansen (one of the biggest proponents of the coming ice age in the 1970s, one of the biggest proponents of global warming in the 1990s and one of the biggest proponents of climate change in the naughties) predicted that unless we radically reduce our carbon emissions, that much of New York would be under sea water in only 20 years time, due to rising sea levels.
He made that prediction in 1990.
Why are we taking these insane people seriously at all?
Your right the fact is we shouldn’t.
Warm-Mongering Prediction from 2000
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
Global warming leads to these sorts of conditions.
If you don’t believe in it, then you’ll enjoy the extreme conditions to come.
I don’t believe in global warming because it isn’t true.
News 2 minutes ago suggested we’re heading for the coldest winter for 100 years.
Bollocks!
So 27, global warming leads to more cold weather!!!!!?????
I suppose you are so stupid you think Gordon Brown is a great Prime Minister.
Have you thought it may be the differential between temperatures that is the problem?
if the temperature differential i.e. fluctuation, is the important thing then why call it global warming? why not global cooling?
the truth is that the weather changes over time as it has done for millions of years. Man’s influence is negligible.
Is that the same as saying if you don’t believe in Jesus, you will burn in hell?
Sounds remarkably similar
OH – I like yours better.
Exactly – Just like the trees waving their leaves creates the wind!
See also – People who say “did you do that” cause farting!!
Farting Gas! Catch it bottle it save the planet.
Met Office boss gets 25% pay increase
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100021337/q-whats-the-difference-between-weather-and-climate/
He should get a 100% pay cut if they were measuring performance.
This snow is far warmer than it used to be isn’t it though?
It’s cold now so it going be cold all the time
What’s a season?
What does change mean ?
What’s an extreme ?
How many far right political halfwits does it take to make a scientist ?
What does science mean ?
Why do bad comunist scientists think they know science better than smart blog cut and paste peeple ? must be conspiracy with every other science type coz email from one bad science type is all science types
food goes in mouth!
No some people think yiou will freeze in Hell
I get it reverse global warming is the answer then. Out comes the hairspray I must increase my CO2′s to save the Planet.
Polly Toynbee still hasn’t made her Christmas Log
Slightly O/T. What is it with all these Public Information adverts at the moment? there are constant messages on how to run our lives or how to get the most money on benefits or warning us of perils unthought of. I do hope that this isn’t a convenient way of Labour padding out their election spend with contra deals in lieu of cash deals in the MSM. Our local ILR are chocka with Gummint Infomercials.
Because whoever wins the election one of the first sections of any department to go will be the publicity & media crap; swan song. All these middle managers on £70k per year have to try and justify their existence and they think that by doing pointless work people will be fooled into thinking they’re valuable, when in factual act the reverse is true. Hey, media studies degrees aren’t all they’re cracked up to be!!
It is because the labour party is on the verge of bankruptcy. They cannot afford to run an election campaign.
Labour will wait as long as possible before calling the election and leave a very short amount of time between calling the election and the election itself, it will be a very short official campaign for two reasons:
1. They will use Government departmental communications budgets saved up for years as a means to promote their policies, in lieu of a party funded campaign.
2. They will rely on the BBC being a blatant propaganda outlet until the election is officially called. When that happens the BBC is then bound by strict time and impartiality laws. Until then they will willingly give labour all the free publicity it can handle.
a moderationless post this time:
It is because the labour party is on the verge of going broke. They cannot afford to run an election campaign.
Labour will wait as long as possible before calling the election and leave a very short amount of time between calling the election and the election itself, it will be a very short official campaign for two reasons:
1. They will use Government departmental communications budgets saved up for years as a means to promote their policies, in lieu of a party funded campaign.
2. They will rely on the BBC being a blatant propaganda outlet until the election is officially called. When that happens the BBC is then bound by strict time and impartiality laws. Until then they will willingly give labour all the free publicity it can handle.
Is it that bloggers are cheaper than Guardian Journalists ?
Polly has seen the light…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/01/death-wish-brown-crash-labour
“crisis ignited in the US housing market and then came rolling across the Atlantic towards us” – as if our own housing bubble and over–reliance on the City were not contributors to our plight, along with failing to tax enough to cover Labour’s [snip] public spending increases.
When even an ideologically blind Toynbee admits the truth you know that the Big Brown Lie is fooling nobody except those who want to be fooled.
She’s putting cart before horse.
Labour needed a credit boom to fund consumption, in order the extort the tax to pay for gerrymandering rises in pay to the extortion funded sector who tend to vote labour.
All Guardian journalists are cheap. Michael White is Bargain Basement with a Blue Cross.
The biggest influence on voters this election will be the BBC.
So far they’re still pulling out all the stops to ensure a Labour victory. They might not be successful but can you imagine what the opinion polls (for Labour) would look like with a hostile BBC.
Nobody actually believes the BBC anymore. They are a spent force. More and more are getting involved with comments on the Dead Tree Press websites, and searching for alternative information on the web.
Don’t be so sure. Just because we (all) live in our own little ‘bubble’ of self-selecting friends and acquantances and all congregate on this website it doesn’t mean that out there, in the wider UK, the same mentality that believes everything the BBC says isn’t alive and well.
Those 28% are getting their ‘facts’ from somewhere. They don’t all read ‘The Mirror’ or ‘The Guardian’. The lies are being disseminated directly into their homes by the BBC.
Now I accept some of that 28% are still traumatised by Thatcher shutting the mines and steelworks but I can’t believe that 28% of the voters were employed by British Coal, British Steel and British Leyland so they must be getting their alternative version of reality from somewhere. I maintain that the biggest threat to the UK in the coming election is the BBC. Labour can lie till it is blue in the face but if the BBC were exposing their lies it would do them (Labour) more harm than good. As it is they continually bowl underarm to pre-approved questions and let Labour off Scot-free.
So true
Most of the ex miners I know have done rather well from their redundancy , with new jobs or running their own business. I dont know any who ended up on the scrap heap for any length of time. Popular myth methinks.
Tend to disagree. Very few of friends and acquaintances have an inkling as to how biased Aljabeeba is and the complete b**!t broadcast every single day.
Don’t underestimate just how dumb the average is Brit is!
Durr?
I get a bit hissed off with the right and the left having a go at Auntie for
not reporting their pet positions. I don’t think the beeb is as good as it was by a long way it was and that fuckwit Campbell (at the behest of tosser Bliar) that did most of the damage. The beeb is too big and has too many hangers on. How thay can pay Woss or their managers etc. more then the market rate is beyond me.
Not sure how I got the Desert Islands Discs gig either, best forgotton IMHO.
Unfortunatel;y I have to agree. Some so-called educated friends of mine have virtually no political views other than those they pick up from News at Ten. They don’t even watch Newsnight. On Sunday one senior secretary asked me who should she vote for this time. As though it is the same of choosing washing-up liquid FFS
I’m counting on it.
The BBC are the Labour party’s propaganda unit.
The BBC must be one of the first targets of a new government. It must be politically neutered – all the marxist placemen and women removed. It must be cut heavilly……get rid of whole tiers of useless non-job managers, channels that no one watches, and PC stuff put out purely for the purpose of box ticking.
Dave will do nothing, he’s one of them.
Well he’s definitely got my vote ducky.
The BBC is in many ways like the NHS in that politicians veer between wary and downright fearful of it. We no longer have the visionaries in any party that have a clear, unwavering focus on making changes to either the NHS or the BBC to better serve the citizens. Instead we get this tinkering mentality, fiddling with the edges, playing with the curtains and ignoring that the entire house is crumbling.The BBC needs ripping apart and building back again, then set properly away from continually interfering successive Governments and tied to a clear, strict mandate and operating policy.
You know, if someone leading any of the major – or fringe – parties stood up and spoke a tough line on change, of spelling out, in simple detail how they would get the country out of this disastrous situation and into prosperity then they would probably get more attention and respect from the electorate. You may not agree with their suggestions, but you would listen to them nonetheless.
But we have a meek and opaque political class that lost any spine, is bereft of ideas and only knows the blame game. Westminster has become the bland blaming the blander, and we have nothing and no-one to look to who has the courage of their convictions to try and save us.
Agreed, they must be added to the list for reform as and when the opportunity comes. It is amazing how any tory story is featured, always with a dig or main headline twist or hostile interviewing (knockerty this morning!!). bring on the revolution
Bring on Subscription, and a Board elected by subscribers.
On the mark.
And mine…
You make a good point. The BBC is very influential which is why it needs to have some checks and balances placed on it. This Government will not lets hope the next one will.
well, a lot of people still do believe the BBC, but when they come out with obvious shit like “this is the worst winter in a century” as they did this morning, then even the most die-hard fans will start to wonder.
Me, I’d have them all shot, diced, fed to pigs. Then shoot, dice, burn the pigs. Bury the ashes, salt the earth.
Nuke the site from orbit. Only way to be sure.
A foot of snow here. Wuuuuuuuuuuuuunnderful.
Your not for taking any chances then Frank……..
The bastards probably said ‘this century’ rather than ‘a century’ – it’s the way I tell ‘em.
Hear me now, Murdoch jnr is your man to get rid of the Beeb
Either Murdoch is precisely why the BBC should remain, and be repointed to ensure that it truly presents unbiased news and reportage.
The presentation and bias on Sky is as annoying as that undertaken by the BBC. That is what gets forgotten on a predominantly right-wing blog like this. Don’t pretend Sky is unbiased – it isn’t. The idea that it balances out the left-wing bias inherent in the corporation is similarly a bad viewpoint to take. People should not be spoon-fed opinion to influence their behaviour; they should be given the facts, honestly and clearly, and allowed to make up their own minds. Both camps fail dismally.
I don’t have SKY so if you say it’s right-wing I’ll have to take your word for it. The reason I don’t have SKY is because I have to pay extra for it. So I choose not to. The problem with the BBC is that I have to pay for it whether I want to or not (short of having no TV).
So I’m paying for left-wing government propaganda. Which would be fine if that’s what I wanted to watch. But it isn’t.
This Labour government would be dead and buried by now if the BBC was not an eviscerated mouthpiece of this government.
The one time they had Labour over a barrel – when Gilligan proved they were lying about WMD in Iraq – this government promptly convened a kangaroo court and had an ‘independent’ report clear them, then, without pausing for breath they destroyed the careers of everybody involved and hounded the source to his death. In light of those facts I can well understand the BBC employees being a bit shy of going against this vile government. But they surely don’t have to continually allow them air-time to continue their tirade of lies.
jgm2, I do have Sky – partly for the sport and partly for the extra channels. They’re a bit rubbish frankly but there are some good documentaries and wothwhile programmes to watch, particularly if you hate the reality telly as much as I do.
Basically you’ve hit the nail on the head. I pay for both but only one of them voluntarily. And until the BBC is made to adopt a stict code of non-bias, with staff made to realise they political leanings MUST be left far away from the workplace, and the corporation is halted from its semi-private sector indulgences – why the hell are they allowed to have such a huge publishing arm for example? – then they cannot be regarded as a true disseminator of factual information that allows citizens across the world to discover the truth behind the news.
Andrew Gilligan is a significant milestone, and millstone, for the BBC. From that point on they realised that the Government, that they had been quite enthusiastic in supporting, was their master and that what possible bite they had as a media was now removed. Obey us, the Government said, and the BBC meekly whimpered its submission.
Nah, I would then have all the earth from that nuked site dug up to a mile depth and have it all loaded into capsules and shot into deep space. Just to be sure.
Surely, in this age of austerity, the cheaper option would be to put the fuckers (dead) directly into a capsule and fire it into the surface of the Sun.
Mind you the malevolence of the evil bastards might be enough to extinguish the damn thing. Maybe better to fire them into somebody elses sun.
I think you mean “are a cheaper date” than…
Let’s be honest the reason why Will, Jag, Iain, Shane, me and you get asked on news 24, sky and the rest is because we provide and easy and cheap way of doing he said she said quickly and easily without having to stand outside college green and without the tedium of having to listen to actual politicians spouting the party line.
Our presence represents the need for cheap, quick, disposable commentary on 24 hour news.
After being stuck in the snow today I’ve decided to keep a spade in my boot. At least if it happens again the fucker can give me a push
not bad if original
You don’t get out much do you?
No spade
I predicted this in a letter published in THE TIMES 13 years ago.
A better type of democracy
Guido,
The trouble is that those of you who write the blogs and those of us who read them are pretty much like the vicar & the congregation: you’re preaching to the converted. Or to put it another way, it’s a bit like huddling around a guy in a pub who’s got the local gossip and putting the world to rights.
People who are so fed up with the lies we get told by the MSM & government seek out sites like this in order to get a more truthful version of events. You need to find a way to reach the masses – and being “on the Net” isn’t good enough if people don’t know you’re there and where to find you. I didn’t until the McBride scandal last year and that was purely because of a brief mention on the BBC.
Having said that, blogs *will* influence the election because they’re clearly read by people in control (your list of domains the other day show that). By saying what we think on here, it’s much better than the once-every-five years visit from the incumbent MP who just wants your X and doesn’t give a toss what you think as long as you put it beside their name.
Sorry for the long post, but the onus is actually on “us” here to make sure that our less enlightened friends know that there is somewhere that our voices can be heard.
Watch out for new dirty tricks from Labour aimed, this time, not at the wives of politicians but rather at the bloggers who Labour see, rightly or wrongly, as being ‘pro-Tory.’
Not pro-Tory, rather anti-Government.
Reading the postings on here, most people are not unduly impressed with any of the parties. Brown, Cameron and Clegg would do well to remember this.
It would be easier to have some hope for the future if Brown hadn’t (and wasn’t continuing to) totally fucked the economy.
There will be no ‘Thiiiiiiiiings can only get betttteeeeer’ after election night 2010. Because they won’t – whoever gets in. They are going to get considerably worse for everybody.
We’re fucked. It’s fucked. We need 20% cuts in public service payroll (either sackings or paycuts) and we need ‘em last year. Only one party can do that without starting a civil war and they’ve already ducked the decision.
It is completely fucked. Rather than alienate the public service block-vote and precipitate civil war there may well be asset grabs – any savings over (say) 25K simply appropriated by the government. Private pensions looted. Massive tax hikes for everybody. It is fuck-fuck-fuckety-fucked by this incompetent shower of jackasses.
And we’ll all have to live through it while the remainder of the disingenuous, incompetent jackasses jeer from the opposition benches as Cameron et al take the unpopular measures necessary to try and balance the budget.
Gordon Brown is pure malice and evil.
As far as Wee Jimmy Brown is concerned, anti-government = pro-Tory.
Bring it on. The last time that happened, an unshaven gobby fat man and a nasty balding hoon were seen walking off into the sunset, holding hands, gently sobbing.
OH, while I doubt the experiments in Scotland on the blogging fraternity will ever be ramped up across the border, I do think bloggers will have to watch their backs for the first part of this year. I would not, for example, put it past this Government to bleed out a honeytrap for specific sites such as this – or yours – in order to try and cripple the credibility of the anti-Govt blogs running up to the coming GE and giving some clear air to the compliant blogs.
BTW, anyone who thinks the likes of Draper and McBride are now persona no grata at Millbank & Downing Street is in for a rude awakening. You think such characters are going to accept their fate – and that their masters will happily relinquish their services? Think again.
I don’t doubt for one minute that the anti-blogging experiments in Scotland will be deployed south of the border. As well as the massive increase in postal votes.
This election will be positively Mugabesque.
If we get one at all.
WHat did it for me was the BBC reportage when Brown was forced to bail out the banks in Oct 2008.
‘Failure of Thatcherism’, ‘Collapse of Capitalism’ complete with remasters 1980′s footage of pin-striped yuppies, power-dressed girls with massive shoulder pads and huge mobile phones.
Eh? Eh?
Huh? Why aren’t they reporting ‘Collapse of Brown’s Economic Miracle’?
I suppose because I was actually ‘in the know’ a lot more about what actually happened I was expecting to see Brown annihilated for the months of dithering that broght the banks to the verge of collapse. Little did I realise how (as is usual with the Brown Idiocy) a lot more thought had gone into the presentation of the bail-out than averting the collapse in the first place.
You found Guido. Others will too.
If you build it, they will come
Ooh you are awful……
once I have launched my new blog I fully expect to be inundated with offers to appear on TV and radio. well they can all fuck off. I am not getting involved in handbag fights with auntie dale and brillo.
I’ll have you know that Auntie Dale earns nealy £25 a go for hauling his gargantuan arse to Sky News at 11.30pm on a Sunday once a month to read the papers for 4.3 minutes to an audience of 12 in Ramsgate
I used to get 150 a pop from Sky for a three minute talking head spot at Millbank; poxy BBC would never stretch beyond a ton. They’d always send a car though.
Is that because you cant swear, cant call people cripple, spastic, tramp ,crackhead, window licker
or all the other abuse you come out with
the only word left in your armoury would be DOH!
still upset about that hiding I gave you yesterday?
you’ll get over it.
stop whingeing FFS.
Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) — The British pound may fall toward a three-month low against the greenback as it is close to forming a so-called “dead cross” trading pattern, according to Gaitame.com Research Institute Ltd.
Sterling is nearing a dead cross as the currency’s recent declines push it closer to its longer-term moving average, which normally signals an extended drop, said Kumiko Gervaise, a Tokyo-based currency analyst at the research unit of Gaitame, Japan’s biggest currency margin trader.
“It now looks to be only a matter of time before the 20- day moving average falls below the 200-day moving average,” she said. “Should this happen, the pound may stretch its decline toward $1.57.”
The pound was at $1.6081 as of 10:21 a.m. in Tokyo, bringing its 20-day moving average to $1.6121 and the 200-day moving average stood at $1.6093, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The pound fell to as low as $1.5708 on Oct. 13.
The U.K. currency climbed as much as 7.1 percent in the weeks after forming a “golden cross” on May 29 when the 20-day average moved above the 200-day mark, reaching a nine-month high of $1.7043 on Aug. 5.
“If the pound’s 20-day moving average manages to stay above the 200-day mean, the currency may be able to rebound toward the 60-day moving average level, which is a very strong resistance line,” Gervaise said. A resistance line is where sell orders may be clustered.
The British currency’s 60-day moving average was at $1.6387
chartism – right up there with alchemy.
Oh come on.
Alchemy is possible (with atom smashing equipment).
Made one 50yrs ago with Meccano, still producing Sovereigns
Is this good, bad or indifferent?
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do i get fries with that ?
Is The Answer 5 ?
Christ knows I’m still reading the second para for the tenth time.
Another twat who got a Fisher Price Forex trading platform for Christmas!!
FAO: Met Office
I transacted (bought forward) a million tonnes of SALT / GRIT on the basis that Gordon would be wrong again – I used the well know AL GORE RHYTHM software (regd) to perform the necessary calculations
Condiments to the Ch(i)ef
Anyway, if I can refer you all to my recent superb blog postings on the climategate issue, you’ll see the dark side of this. IF the independent media remains independent, the govt and MSM will declare war on us. ON THE OTHER HAND, if the indies decide they’d like some of that pie too, and join the mainstream, the blogosphere becomes just another army of the lizard people conspiracy.
http://www.frankfisher.org/?p=120
Did I say superb? I meant world-shatteringly brilliant.
“Bloggers are clearly sexier pundits for broadcasters…”
You? Sexy? Hahahahahahahahahahaha….
ifi’m sexier puond for pound, then i’m the new Tiger Woods !
At 20 stone that make me some Fanny Magnet !
Come on girl’s Bring It ON !
Is this a blog
Am I a Blogger now
er, in a word, no.
It’s window lickin’ good.
er, neither are you dick.
Your ass smells of dick.
so that makes you a rimmer.
what a spastic.
No. You’re a pathetic Troll.
Shouldn’t your tongue be stuck to something?
As is frequently the case you are right on this issue. Car worker Fred or plumber Joe don’t spend their time looking at blogs. They occasionally glance at the news and maybe read the Sun. I would have said the Mirror as well but this rag is nothing more than a celebrity follower these days. Its level of political coverage is truly pathetic.
Grandma Jane or teacher Tina might look at their e-mail but certainly will not bother looking at blogs.
BUT
Students with their fancy internet enabled phones with eager minds are a future target audience.
Also mr and mrs middle class being drowned in PC with no one to hear their concerns.
OAP’s who have had their pleasures of bus travel and sitting in a pub with a pint and a pipe taken away from them are a target audience.
Alot of the working class are too wrapped up in looking up facebook for their next shag to actively rely on. Although the more we can get onside the better.
I’m expecting 10.00″.
10 column inches?
Will party political blog campaigning be seen as part of each constituency election budget which is strictly limited by law? Could fall foul of the law then?
Haven’t seen Kevin Maguire on the BBC for the last few days spouting his pro Labour nonsense – is he on holiday…or has he done the world a favour and topped himself?
He was dissecting the papers on Sky last eve with Samantha Simmonds. Running the tap of news, so to speak.
http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2010/01/tory-attack.html
“Radio 5 presents Yougov’s Peter Kellner as a neutral”
Radio Five just interviewed YouGov’s Peter Kellner on the election – specifically his opinion on Cameron and the Tories. Q. Why were Tories not doing better in the polls considering Labour’s unpopularity? Obviously the real answer is Cameron’s position on European Union and Global Warming. Kellner’s ‘analysis’ was that the Tories were still suffering from Major era, while Cameron remained very popular. A few sentences later he smeared Cameron. BBC did not mention that Peter Kellner is married to a Labour Minister. How can BBC interview someone so biased on the election and keep the bias from the listener?
Because the BBC is totally and unashamedly biased in favour of Labour.
Now the election campaign has started the BBC is intent on smearing Cameron even more than usual.
think they don’t mind a Cameron government so much, just not with a majoirty big enough to do anything seriously conservative
The election campaign has NOT started. Or rather, the official election campaign has not started, regardless of what the tories are doing. The official campaign cannot start until Gordon Brown announces the day and asks the queen to prorogue Parliament and the Queen then dissolves the Parliament.
When that happens all TV media is under strict rules of time and impartiality. UNTIL then the BBC will be a wholly willing propaganda outlet for labour.
This is one of the reasons that Gordon Brown will want as short as possible time between the dissolution of Parliament and the election.
The labour party is very nearly financially broke and cannot afford a long election campaign. SO they will have as long as possible faux campaign whilst using both the BBC as a propaganda outlet and using the Government’s departmental communications budgets as party political advertising spending before officially calling the election.
Or that his Yougob (sic) organisation promises to pay people for taking part in their polls. Then forgets to pay them. Hang on. That sounds like a Labour business model if ever I heard one!
ANYTHING ANYTHING
To consign over the hill Polly Toynbee to the scrapheap.
Evolve or die.
Well, I have to say, Guido, even you are sexier than Polly Toy – and that comes from a male heterosexual!
This blog is hideously hetero.
not totally
That makes two of us then.
11.49am, do not steal my name.
you will be bannned.
no more warnings.
Come here gorgeous!
I always find Yasmin Alibaba-Brown to be totally fair, unbiased and objective, and, despite what people say, she doesn’t hate non-Labour voters, Kaffirs, and white people at all.
“Bloggers are clearly sexier pundits for broadcasters than old stalwarts like Michael White and Polly Toynbee…”
Is a stal wart, in this context, an ugly disfigurement on the fair(ish) face of journalism?
I don’t like TV News because I have to wait through all the stories I’m not interested in. With a newspaper or a blog you don’t have to do that. You can ignore the stories about trade unions, Barack Obama addressing the burghers of Hicksville and nasty but irrelevant crimes if you want to.
“You can ignore …
And the adverts (both state and commercial)
Which is another reason why the blogs present a REAL threat to power.
Gordon has been lying again.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Detroit-Bomber-PMs-Spokesman-Admits-UK-Did-Not-Pass-Intelligence-To-US/Article/201001115514578?lpos=Politics_Carousel_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15514578_Detroit_Bomber%3A_PMs_Spokesman_Admits_UK_Did_Not_Pass_Intelligence_To_US
No. Really? I can’t believe that.
Brown’s biggest lie of the weekend was when he claimed that he and Obama had personally discussed the Yemen situation before closing their embassies in the country.
The US denied any contact between the two of them and Brown admitted on Marr that he had not spoken directly to Obama.
Once again though, Brown gets away with lying and using the terrorist threat for party political advantage.
Imagine if Cameron was caught blatantly lying? The BBC and Sky would be full of it.
It’s in his DNA.
I believe the Brown quote was something like ‘telephone discussions have taken place…’ In the context this was clearly designed to give the impression that when he picks up the phone Barak Obama stops doing the dishes and answers it personally.
But strictly speaking it just meant ‘telephone conversations had taken place… between one of my flunkies and one of their flunkies’ Or possibly between me and my brother – he’s on holiday in the states at the moment. It is this constant being taken for a fool that is one of the things that pisses me off about Brown. That and his utter economic incompetence and his determination to land the incoming government (and the entire UK) with the biggest economic clusterfuck in the western world.
Every utterance he makes is designed to mislead or conceal the truth. He cannot answer the simplest straight question honestly. His ‘go-to’ response is a lie or an irrelevance or an attack on his political opponents. Generally an outright lie picked from fresh air. And onwards, ever onwards with more lies…
And 60 million people’s economic fate in the hands of a complete lunatic.
Hanging is too good for him. But I’d settle for it.
JGM – I agree with each and every sentiment.
red hot poker down the throat
Brown :Hello is that Barak Reply : At the third stroke ……..
That’s Dog Bites Man.
Can anyone find an example of him telling The Truth??
Anyway, anybody know how these postal votes are going?
They’re 99.99% in favour of Labour, particularly in Bradford, Luton, and Oldham.
Yes allready counted and boxed
McBust got the idea from sadam who like brown was dispised
yet still managed to get 98.5% of the vote
lets hope he gets the same outcome !
More work for Pat eh (once one of the diterer’s mates completes AND SIGNS all those forms)?
Iain Dale is the Chris-Chan of the blogosphere.
more like the cracky chan of the blogosphere
cracky-chan is a fucking babe. don’t put her in the same category as Mrs Dale.
ends up being a bit cyclic in an inward spiral.
Just like now the world of celebrity is now a closed door to most people as it’s making people famous for being a vague association with someone who was famous for being famous – and then it’s big news in the land of celebs when this unknown person goes to the toilet.
News could go the same way and maybe has if bloggers talk about the media who then invite bloggers on – the information of the News gets lost.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GGLA_en-GB&um=1&q=gordon+brown&sa=N&start=120&ndsp=20
Would you buy Gilts from this man?
Scroll down to the bottom line and note the Guardian’s photo
cant see the gaurdian photo what page is it on ?
when i click the link i start on page 7
but if you go to page 1
there is a black and white photo of young Brown
He Looked like a retard even then ! It’s worth a peek !
For some reason it jumps from page to page…..it’s the one of Cameron holding a baby titled Gordon Brown
thought so ,it shows they’re really on the ball ! it appears on pages 7@8
Gordon Brown Hopes everyone is enjoying this tropical heat wave that he alone has created !
It started in Siberia
Danke Herr Brown from South Est! Oh, and cousin Eva sends best wishes from a small, secluded ‘holiday resort’ somewhere in Argentinean hinterland.
Buy gilts from McRuin ?
Not a chance.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate-uk/2009/12/29/why-we-need-a-bond-market-crisis/
The BBC reporting from all these places we got 3″ of snow here we got 6″ snow there
Fuck me i live in manchester an at the moment for the first time in my life i can say ” Ive got 12 inches”
i threw the cat out this morning and could only see the tip of its tail
i had to fucking rescue it !
What’s UAF supporting David Cameron said about the muslim march into Wotton Basset?
Gordon Brown has come out against it, are you people really going to elect a ditherer and coward like Cameron into power?
There’s going to be no “muslim march” in Wotton Bassett you clown. The whole thing was a stunt designed to allow so-called “moderate muslims” to oppose it and thus pretend they’re really peace-loving and moderate.
It looks like they’ve fooled dhimmified useful idiots like you.
Meanwhile, their real aim, the islamification of Britain, the new caliphate, and the imposition of sharia law, gathers pace, aided and abetted by their friends in the Labour government.
Well RT i hope you don’t vote for Cameron then
Yeah, and you first voted Tory in 1689, but will never, ever do it again, cross your heart/s.
I should of knew the saddos would trot out their usual excuses that Cameron is keeping his powder dry and doesn’t want to scare the horses but little do you know he is doing neither and is really that lightweight.
The muslims only wanted the oxygen of publicity. Nothing more.
Enraged Ex-Tory.
It really saddens me that people like you can be so naive. Wake up, smell the coffee and read again what RT has said – it’s about as close to the truth as you can get.
I’m not that naive if i’ve seen through made of glass Cameron and his cronies.
Vote for the Nu Conservatives and your voting for more of the same wake up people.
“Enraged X Tory” I’m willing to bet you are (a) on some sort of benefits or drugs (b) in a non job working for the local none job lefty council. (c) worried about your (paid for by taxpayer) pension …….. OR A TOTAL IDIOT (Who would vote for the likes of Prescot) HO! I forgot, and a dried up cow dung with a red roset, well that would be better than McBroon ….. at one time I thought there was hope!!!
Where do these “people” come from?
FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Yes, the wintry weather must all be Labour’s fault.
At least the “Daily Politics” will soon be back with Alistair Neil and Nick Robinson
to bring clarity to the political scene, along with Andrew Marr of course.
can you imagin the expeces claims from this shower of shit for this year ?
£3,682 for snow plough !
£897.93p To grit my drive
£5,873 .94p private helicopter fliht from surrey to westminster
£873.42p to rocksalt around my moat
£84.91p paid to my brothers snow removal company to get the snow off my Jag
£34.47p for two snow shovels
£1.26p for de-icer
63p for a tub of table salt !
Burn in hell the fucking lot of you !
Guido, you listen to the BBC? Poor show if you don’t pay the telly tax.
Iain Dale sexy – I don’t think so.
He has as much charisma as a flat tyre…
Isn’t he the one who sticks up for MP’s fiddling the system.
Spot the fat tory Tart is all I have to say.
Sexier than Polly Toynbee – less of a mass murderer than Pol Pot
ROFL