January 7th, 2010

Miliband – the New Macavity

David Miliband has previous at pulling almost Gordon-esque disappearing acts when the Prime Mentalist has come under trouble. It took him a mere seven hours to give a lukewarm statement in support of Gordon last night, and he did not repeat it when he was door-stepped last night.  His SpAd was reportedly calling around cabinet ministers yesterday afternoon asking them to delay giving their support.  A feeble way to undermine the Prime Mentalist.

Only once the coup was well and truly dead, after Mandelson passed his judgement on Newsnight last night, did he come out this morning and endorse Brown’s leadership. How he thinks anyone wouldn’t notice such cowardice and dithering beggars belief.  He messed up his own coup attempt in 2007, let his old friend Purnell down badly by not following his resignation, as agreed, in June and now he is under fire from his own side about his silence yesterday. Even Darling reportedly had the balls to confront Brown face-to-face about the prospect of him standing down for the good of the party, instead Miliband just cowered in the Foreign Office, just as Brown used to in the Treasury.

Why would the Labour Party want to replace one dithering coward with another?

UPDATE : Dizzy has spotted some activity on miliband.org.


285 Comments

  1. 1
    Andrew Efiong says:

    He’s a coward.

    As Foreign Secretary how can he rumble the Iranians or project confidence to the Chinese when he even can’t be straight with his own PM. Flyweight…

  2. 2
    gone fuckin metal says:

    what a fucking chump

  3. 2
    Lil Olmey says:

    Maybe Darling’s hair was wet from the snow. Why else would he want a face-to-face meeting with McRuin ?

  4. 4
    Irene says:

    Sounds like the perfect replacement for Brown – out of office of course!

  5. 5
    oldfella says:

    who cares anymore?

    Brown on the radio said that he has stayed in post for the good of the country and to help it through the bad weather. he failed to answer any of the questions put to him by listeners

    • 51
      Hugh Janus says:

      Remind me to show my appreciation at the GE.

      • 208
        Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

        Hugh, doubt if any of us need a reminder, but funny nonetheless.

    • 54
      goobar says:

      To help the country through the weather – what’s he doing, shovelling driveways ? Maybe gritting some roads ? Oh wait..

    • 59

      Just heard that. He tractor stated the callers.

      Snow fall up 24%
      Gritters up 38%
      Under the Tories only 33% of the country was snowbound, now its 89%. This government is helping to lift people out of snowdrifts and pull them out of ditches. We are working 25 hours a day, 1 extra hour than the Tories, to bring this country to a complete standstill.
      We are now using my preferred method of gritting the streets with £1 coins as all the salt has been used to rub into old wounds.

    • 170
      labour hump on my back says:

      Just like the Brown a PMQ never does the man ever answer a question
      If i was there i give a planted Question then ask another when my time came to ask it. What a sight him scrambling through his papers looking for the answer and then realizing it not there,.brilliant,just brilliant

  6. 6
    googlanger says:

    1st

  7. 7
    half the story says:

    As someone said, he thought he would just be crowned king.

  8. 8
    Optional says:

    Makes you wonder how bad the rest of them are as they repeatedly say GB is the best man for the job!

    • 53
      Mr Ned says:

      Wonder? We don’t have to wonder. We are all experiencing it first hand as the labour government ruins this country with a combination of gross incompetence and wilful malevolence.

      I wonder how much worse this country would be IF the labour party were truly competent!

      Labour: would love to be running a totalitarian police state, but they are too incompetent to fully achieve it. Not for lack of trying though.

      • 150
        Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1967) says:

        Even if they were truely competant they couldn’t pull off their final solution. The UK chapter of the grand, One World Government/Bilderberg plan may have sounded like a good idea in the ’50 & ’60s but its about as credible as Napolean’s plan to invade Britain. There are just too many head-strong nutters in the gutter and ex-soldiers with one foot in the grave who don’t give a fuck. The country would descend into civil war. And probably will.

      • 205
        Not In My Name says:

        For a minute I read that as “Labour government runs the country” and I wondered if I was hallucinating.

    • 72
      Susie says:

      They all (quango chiefs, local authority CeOs, ministers, anyone who receives a fat pay packet via the state) insist they’re the best man for the job… watch this evasive public ‘servant’ nob defending his cushy number…

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/the_daily_politics/8443687.stm

      Andrew Neil is just great btw…

      • 95
        snigger snigger says:

        Heh, heh, that was fun.

      • 166
        barefootcontessa says:

        Brillo’s great. Met should go back to looking at the sky. Blame it on the jet stream.

      • 216
        Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

        Thoroughly enjoyed watching Mr Happy overpaid weatherman being grilled. Political Appointment par excellence.

        Thank You Susie

        • 244
          Susie says:

          I know how it happened as well… sometime in August/September they heard another El Nino was developing — job done they (the MetO) thought: mild and wet for the foreseeable.

          So they sat on their arses or perhaps they were distracted by the imperative to cook the books ready for Copenhagen and didn’t actually look at the facts that there was an extreme stratospheric warming event taking place under their noses (this leads to high pressure over the N Pole and all that polar air would come south with northern blocking over Greenland/Scandi… laziness and resources diverted to shore up Gordon triumphantly ‘saving the world’ again at Copenhagen.

          Meanwhile we’re running out of fucking salt due to the MetO half-arsed advice.

      • 218
        The Ape Man Commeth says:

        Fcuking brilliant.

      • 235
        Between jobs says:

        He might have been grilled by Brillo but he took absolutely NONE of it onboard.

        He sounded just like a cabinet minister.

  9. 9
    barefootcontessa says:

    Milliband fancies he’s the bee’s knees since Hilary fell for him, case of the swollen heads. Mandleson gave all the wobblers a good talking to, that brought them all into line.

  10. 10
    Popeye says:

    For God’s sake, someone give him a banana, better skin it too as he’s too wimpish to do it.

  11. 11
    Archer Karcher says:

    “Makes you wonder how bad the rest of them are ”

    LOL, after nearly 13 years you still don`t know? This shower of shit are DIRE.

    • 43
      Gordons Blownit says:

      Mcblownit-all-on-the-useless, is the only one who didn’t bottle it yesterday – so it makes him a cut above the others – but -Half a degree above absolute zero is still blinking cold.
      In the long term, the cost of getting rid of this lot for ever might be well worth paying.

  12. 13
    Traitor-in-the-ranks says:

    Is the story about Malcolm Powers[Labour,South-East]true,and did Martin Salter[Reading] really order him to stand down at the last minute..?

  13. 14
    My Other Cars Not A Prius Either! says:

    As much as I despise the presbyterian manic depressive,he is preferable to this blank firing new world socialist metrosexual,an utter creep

    • 21
      Thats News says:

      This is off topic but a young friend of mine just came in to the office from the sub zero temperatures and said: “Global warming, my arse!”

      People are noticing the Big Lie…

      • 27
        sockpuppet #4 says:

        Do you think the young friend will believe in Global warming if its a bit warmer by april.

      • 41
        Anonymous says:

        and even local councils phoning up residents with large chelsea tractors to deliver meals on wheels! however they won’t like them again in the summer cos the are too large!

        • 107
          Susie says:

          Oh yes. And we pay a 4 x 4 surcharge on our road tax for the pleasure.

          What happened to the CRB checks on these volunteers? Or was that just another Common Purpose ploy to criminalize those who want to contribute something to their community rather than take from it, like council officials do?

      • 73
        Bottom watcher says:

        Was she female by any chance?

      • 76
        barefootcontessa says:

        TN, Weather is not climate. blame the jet stream, and not gw.

        • 134
          sockpuppet #4 says:

          Interesting that there are no claims about any link between the jet stream and gw.

          Presumably the jet stream is something that links long term climate to short term weather, but no-one claims to understand how.

        • 189
          pedant & peddec says:

          easier to spilt warm hairs though.

        • 236
          AC1 says:

          Cold Weather should be vastly rarer than these (impossibly flawed) models predict.

          Therefore these models have been falsified.

          Climategate displayed the total lack of statistical rigour applied to the Data Collection. On top of that the models then try to ignore exponential error.

          Garbage In, Global Socialism* out.

          *The actual effect of socialism whereby a clique of the more-equal lords it over a population of slaves.

          • Susie says:

            +++Applause+++

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            Wind from the north makes it cold.

            If you can’t tell the difference between climate and weather you’re a thick Hunt.

            If you pretend you can’t tell the difference between climate and weather its simpler than that.

          • Susie says:

            So you say, but it’s still a cyclical evolving system we know as much about as we do about what happened before the Big Bang.

            I just shake my head when BBC News illustrates AGW by pointing out snowdrops in Kew Gardens blossoming earlier than they did 100 years ago… 100 years ago Kew Gardens was practically open countryside, not the small green oasis bounded by the South Circular Road, uber suburbia with Heathrow jets screaming over it.

    • 26
      Gobshite says:

      Can’t imagine Gordon ever getting a haircut, let alone a manicure.

      And the only facial he has ever had was done by Mandy.

      • 171
        barefootcontessa says:

        He needs a jaw lift.

        • 219
          Anonymous says:

          In order to lift the jaw its needs to be broken right ? Any volunteers

          • cant hunter says:

            I have often wondered about Brown; do you think he’s any good with his fists. He’s a big man, though he looks out of condition ( that jogging photo was a hoot), but on the other hand we know he is rather a cowardly sort, lacking completely the courage he so venerates in others. Yet again he has a certain resilience…

          • barefootcontessa says:

            He USED to be a rugby player!

  14. 17
    dr. sipp says:

    David Milliband reminds me of David Ike

    he will be punished hard by the failing lizard—-hoon

    revenge will be sweet

    • 22
      Thats News says:

      Davide Icke is mad. Really. As a hatter.

      Miliband is bad.

    • 36
      Gobshite says:

      Madder than Broon?

      Believing in lizard monsters from outer space is quite tame compared to some of McMental’s ideas.

      ‘We are out of recession’

      ‘We will win the next election’

      And he has better dress sense.

      • 80
        barefootcontessa says:

        Miliband thinks he’s god’s gift, but not as much as Ben Bradshaw.

      • 98
        Gordon Brown stole my pension says:

        Others belters from the gargantuan brain of our Dear Leader -

        “we are best-placed to weather the global economic storm.”

        “let’s encourage saving by stealing £10bn per year from everyone’s pensions, and hand the money over to parasitic chavs.”

        “global warming is the greatest threat to Mankind, which is why I support a 3rd runway at Heathrow.”

        “do we really need all that gold? Let’s flog it off for next to nothing.”

  15. 18
    The Penguin says:

    Because they are truly stupid.

    The Penguin

  16. 23
    I B Seldom-Lucid says:

    Hilary Clinton luuuurves him – ergo he must be a complete arsehole!

    Believes in fuck all but personal ambition.

    • 91
      Tony Cameron says:

      unlike call me Dave

      • 117
        Gordon Brown says:

        My trolls are flogging the Blair/Cameron line again and again. Yawn.

        Stick to wanking lads, it’s what you’re good at.

        Leave nasty backstabbing and paranoia to me.

        • 196
          labour hump on my back says:

          at least there well dressed not like you you scruffy bastard Brown worse dressed man in the world like his fucking policies.

  17. 24

    I’m delighted that Gordon is still in place. If he was replaced, there might be a chance of the hoons staying in power.
    I just hope to god that Cameron & Co are at least slightly better.

    • 83
      barefootcontessa says:

      At least the Cameroon apologised this am.

    • 179
      Gordon Brown stole my pension says:

      If there was even the slightest chance of Cameron being any better than Brown, the Tories would be far, far ahead in the polls.

      The Tories’ rating is about the same as Labour’s because (under Camoron) the Tories are about the same as Labour. The only thing that differentiates them is the colour of their rosettes.

      Pro-EU, pro-immigration, multi-culti politically correct, financially inept, dishonest, snouts-in-the-trough, vacuous incompetent socialist vermin.

  18. 25
    Postal Vote says:

    My postal vote friends and I will happily help Brown secure another term and help the UK secure the recovery towards a decade of aspiration.

    Snow, coups and numpty Ross, ideal for labour to keep the postal votes farce under wraps!

    • 39
      Gobshite says:

      Vote now!

      Vote often!

    • 68
      Cyco Billy says:

      Meet the nu nu layber decade of aspiration, same as the old nu layber decade of aspiration – aspirations for banksters.

      North Dakota, one of only two states (along with Montana) expected to meet its budget in 2010. North Dakota was also the only state to actually gain jobs in 2009 while other states were losing them. Since 2000, North Dakota’s GNP has grown 56 percent, personal income has grown 43 percent and wages have grown 34 percent. The state not only has no funding problems, but in 2009 it had a budget surplus of $1.3 billion, the largest it ever had – not bad for a state of only 700,000 people.

      North Dakota is the only state in the union to own its own bank. http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/pottersville.php

      Of course, if it were that simple, we’d all be doing it. But the cretins of nu layber would fuck it up if they were handed the banana on a plate. Oh look, they just have been…

  19. 28

    Fuck, for a moment then I thought you were talking about me.

  20. 30
    RavingMad says:

    Miliband is one of those pernicious little oiks who have attained a pre-eminent position in our country without anyone knowing how the hell he did it. Yes, his dad was a well known political writer but somehow people have voted for this dickbrain thereby enabling him to take up space that was probably, rightfully someone else’s.

    He is a weak, bendy, fluorescent piece of dung, devoid of any humanity or commonsense and, hopefully, forever on the losing side. If I was his boss I would saw his legs off and even his local JobCentre office would deny him any benefit because he is too ugly and scares babies.

  21. 31
    Dave"A barrel load of laughs" Cameron says:

    A girl comes across Gordon Brown lying in a ditch.

    Gorodn Brown is fast asleep and the girl decides to take a peek up his kilt to see if the stories are true.She looks,and discovers the stories really are true and that Gorodn Brown is hauling a whopper.

    As a joke,she takes a blue ribbon out of her hair and ties it round Gordon Brown’s todger.

    A few hours later,Gordon Brown wakes up with a hangover and a full bladder.He hitches up his kilt to have a piss and is surprised to see a blue ribbon tied around his dick.

    “Well laddie,”he says.”I don’t know where you’ve been,but i’m mightily pleased to see you won first prize.”

    • 60
      MisterE says:

      Gordon Brown = Massive Cock…?

    • 79
      Brown - born to fail. says:

      Anything that makes Brown seem human,bigger,better etc than the rest of us is NOT to be condoned.

      He is the most ghastly piece of dog excrement that ever walked in politics – a steaming pile of shit on the pavement.

      Gordon Brown – the most hated man in Britain.

    • 90
      barefootcontessa says:

      It’s generally a red ribbon for first prize, isn’t it?

    • 200
      Dr Ruth says:

      It’s well known in Labour circles that Gordon Brown is about as well equipped as the British Army. A tiny little weapon that doesn’t fire properly. Just ask Sarah and examine the fruits.

  22. 32

    Miliblandward is a twot. A clever twot but still a twot. Look at that fucking haircut. He didnt even give hilary a seeing to for the good of the country.

  23. 34
    Mr Ned says:

    “Why would the Labour Party want to replace one dithering coward with another?”
    ——————————–

    Because that is all they have to choose from. Incompetent, dithering, dishonest, craven, supine, cowardly, inept, amateurish, corrupt, dip-shits all of them.

    The have had several opportunities to kill off Brown and his curse on this country and failed in every single attempt through cowardice and ineptitude.

    By so publicly declaring, at every opportunity to do the opposite, that they support Brown, they are also forever smearing themselves with the stench of Brown’s own failure.

    When Brown limps away from the labour leadership after labour’s defeat in the general election, NONE of the current slumpage of discredited, failed fuckwits are capable of taking over and reviving the party.

    It is about time the creditors called the receivers in and closed the labour party down.

    • 258
      udderly 'orrible says:

      Mr F: Can we have a daily hate for each of Brownstain’s leaderless lackeys in turn?
      Today’s banana-hate and LierParteh meltdown is warming the cockles o’ me heart at this time of extraordinary global warming.
      Tomorrow harprick-hate?

  24. 35
    george says:

    Everyone but Cameron knows global warming is a hoax.

    • 215
      Australia on fire, New Orleans flooded... says:

      Are you a complete fuckwit? Only asking…

      • 246
        AC1 says:

        No, he’s not but you are.

        New Orleans was caused by the Dam breaking plus building a city under the water line.

        Australian Fires were caused by Green regulations that banned scrub clearance.

  25. 37
    Anonymous says:

    What did Darling get as his payoff? A free hand on speaking about cuts? VAT?

    And Mandy? Impossible to believe he was not aware of this plot. Happy to let it run to put the squeeze back on Brown’s Balls?

    • 99
      three day wonder says:

      Darlings a coward too
      Brown let him stay Chancellor when Balls wanted the job but forgot to tell Darling because that had annoyed Brown Darling would now have as much power and say in the job as the cleaning lady

      Darling just has to grin and bear it as they have now all waited far too long and didn’t strike when the coup would have worked
      Hewitt and Hoon are now toxic waste and nobody else wants to share their fate

  26. 38
    Hugh Janus says:

    Millitwat is so typical of the type of politician that now infests our wretched political class – self-serving and incompetent. I can’t wait to see him out after the GE, but the trouble is there are plenty more of these hoons in DC’s party so we are far from rid of this type if NuLiebour lose.

    • 81
      Engineer says:

      Over the Christmas break, I heard an interview with Ann Widdicombe. She talked about the changes in the HoC since she first took her seat. There were people with significant war records, former industrialists etc., and she cited the example of a neurosurgeon on the Labour benches, and an orthopaedic surgeon on the Conservative benches. “We don’t have people of that quality now” she said.

      Politics used to be a field to which people of achievement gave time once they’d made their mark in other fields, thus bringing a wealth of experience and the common sense and pragmatism that brings. It’s now a career in itself, in which advancement is in the hands of the whips. That’s not good for democracy.

      • 192
        Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1967) says:

        We need psychological testing of all Parliamentary candidates. Sociopaths to be rejected.

        We need professionals and working class chavs only. Graduates of politics or economics to be rejected.

        We need four year term limits. Infact, let’s go Founding Fathers on them: nobody should actually want to be an MP – they should only stand, reluctantly, out of a visceral desire to serve the country. No fucking expenses, no fucking cars, no fucking anything. We should fuck them up so badly, being an MP would be the least popular and most admired occupation in the country!

        • 276
          Allan@Aberdeen says:

          A good start would be abolishing all University courses on politics, including PPE at Oxford. For some reason, that particular course produces more traitors to this country than anywhere else.
          After that, our self-appointed rulers might have to pursue a real career for a while.

  27. 40
    When Harry,Jack, Milly,Douggie,Bob & Jim didn't meet Patty& Geoff says:

    Whatever else you think about Hoon(particularly seeing as how he has been Chief Whip and presumably knows “where the bodies are buried”) and Hewitt they are unlikely to have acted without some indication that some members of the Cabinet would act also in tandem.

    The fact is that none of the alleged “Spineless Six” would move first and expose themselves publicly as plotting Brown’s downfall thus allowing Brown and his allies to pick them off in a face to face with Brown at Downing Street in the afternoon – one by one – once the E mail broke.Jim Murphy was first out of the trap with his pledge of loyalty at 2pm and after that much like the “July Plot” againsy Hitler 1944 it was all over before it began. With “Hilly”‘s favourite pin-up boy Milly reluctantly having to admit that once again he blew it and also at the same time proving that he is totally unfit to lead the party now or at anytime in the future. Brown is of course renowned for “forgive and forget” isn’t he ? At some time in the future Milliband will be repaid probably when he tries to stand as leader when Brown steps aside

    Thursday’s Cabinet should be interesting will they all be “bustinagut” to get in first with their pledges of undying loyalty to the “Leader” ??

    • 122
      Brown - a failed Soviet experiment. says:

      And no doubt D Miliband will be last in to the meeting from hell they call The Cabinet.

      The Labour cabinet of ’79 was piss poor but these cretins really deserve to be hanged in alphabetical order.

      At least we would then have the pleasure of Balls and Brown hanging out next to each other.

    • 161

      It looks like they weren’t even that organised

      Or it was a ruse by McMental to “flush” out the unfaithful

  28. 42
    Dave"A barrel load of laughs" Cameron says:

    I’m on a roll, please don’t stop me

    What was Stevie Wonder’s first hit? A lamp post.

  29. 47
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    Intellectually Miliband is still in very short trousers.

    I blame his parents.

    • 62
      Anon says:

      He wasn’t born, he was excreted.

    • 138
      filipinomonkey says:

      3 B’s and a D at A Level, a first at Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. A sign of a great University or a rubbish degree?

      • 278
        Allan@Aberdeen says:

        His ‘D’ was physics. The twat presumes to lecture us on ‘global warming’ and he only got a ‘D’ for physics.

  30. 50
    Gobshite says:

    It takes a special kind of Hoon to screw-up a coupe d’etat against a dead duck.

    • 52
      Gobshite says:

      coup d’etat.

      Damn you Clarkson!

      • 217
        Le Frog says:

        état

        AltGr + a vowel gives you it with an acute accent.

        This has been a public service announcement. You may now return to your rod-walloping.

  31. 58
    Manchester old Labour says:

    I have just learned the truth about yesterdays plot from a senior Labour backbencher.

    The Brownites discovered that several cabinet ministers (the 6 Robinson named) were planning to speak out against Brown this coming weekend.

    In a false flag operation designed to spike the real rebellion, the Brownites co-opted Hoon and Hewitt to announce a fake rebellion which had no real support and was designed to fizzle out quickly and leave Brown looking stronger.

    This took the real opposition to Brown by surprise and has now left them in a bit of a quandary as to what to do next.

    • 65
      Mr Plum says:

      Is Brown really that smart

      • 139
        Brown and out says:

        Brown is simply a walking disaster zone – he has one man whose sole job is to extricate Brown’s tiny dick from his flies every day and another to wipe his grotty arse.

        Mandelson is in charge here,it has nothing to do with Brown.

        Brown simply asks Mandelson how high he want him to jump.

        • 180
          barefootcontessa says:

          I agree, Mandelslime’s in charge, got his hand up the back of ruin’s jacket, just can’t seem to get the hang of opening and closing his mouth. But, he’s working on it.

      • 185
        South of the M4 says:

        Nothing to do with being smart – everything to do with being deceitful and dictatorial. He does that.

    • 66
      JBV says:

      I was wondering why that creep Hoon seemed so pleased to announce that the revolt had failed only hours after it had started. The whole thing was a set up. I wonder what Hoon and Hewitt have been promised by Brown as a reward?

    • 74
      Doctor Mick says:

      Shite. Why don’t they just do what they were going to do?

      Brown looking stronger? My arse.

      • 101
        barefootcontessa says:

        They’re all spineless, nulab have always been spineless.

      • 243
        Between jobs says:

        What a fucking tangled web they weave.

        I don’t think that I can despise them any more than I do.

    • 93
      Engineer says:

      Is that the best that Bunker Control can come up with? Brown looking stronger – the man’s obviously friendless, apart from Balls and Cooper. The whole government is fractured and staggering, and only held together by desperate spinning from Mandlescum, increasingly hollow news management by Aljabeeba, and by the Tories going easy on them.

      • 142
        Keeping up with the Ball's says:

        With Balls and boy wonder Cooper Balls as friends,who the hell needs any enemies?

    • 103
      The IMF is coming says:

      Mark my words, there is more to this story and more to come.

      BTW At PMQ’s yesterday Brown mocked DC for being ‘not uncommited’ to educational maintenance allowances. This quote was lifted from Left Foot Forward, who have subsequently apologised stating that this was not the form of words used. Ie a lie. Will brown apologise? No.

    • 135
      When a coup is not a coup says:

      I would agree with that – Hoon himself,on Newsnight, agreed that he is a total arsehole.

      He had nothing to lose and it was all so lame.

      However this does not mean the six mutineers will not carry out their mutiny.

      Brown will not be (unelected) PM going in to the GE.

  32. 61
    NewLabourAreScum says:

    What has really annoyed me no end has been the way that both Sky News journalists and the BBC News presenters described Brown as having the better of Cameron and the Tories at PMQ’s!! They must have been watching a different PMQ’s!! Not ONE journalist or presenter has even mentioned let alone criticised Brown for evading any of the questions that cameron has been asking as per bloody usual!

    • 70
      Mr Plum says:

      Do you think they really are journalists or do they just read out what they are told.

    • 84
      nell says:

      I liked the way gordon forgot he was supposed to be PM and started asking cameron questions as though cameron was the PM!!

      • 145
        Anonymous says:

        What about the fact that Brown said there would be Departmental CUTS!! To my knowledge he has never said that before yet this remark has passed without any comment whatsoever. FFS would the Tories please up their game.

      • 148
        Leader of the Opposition Question Time (LOQT) says:

        Yep – simply amazing.

        Again though,Cameron does not seem to be very quick on his feet – he should have stood there and said; “Mr Speaker,this c*unt is now asking ME the questions,if he can summon the courage for a General Election,he will then be able to ask me uestions EVERY Wednesday,assuming he is still in politics”…….

      • 149
        NewLabourAreScum says:

        Yes and considering the high salaries that BBC journalists (esp. political ones!) get paid their lack of criticism over this issue is scandalous and leads to suspicions of strong partiality.

        • 277
          Susie says:

          Suspicians???? Is the Pope a Catholic? Do bears shit in the woods?

          The BBC spins government propaganda and nothing but ever since Hutton.

      • 154
        Infanta of Castile says:

        Cameron suggested that Brown should call an election if he wants to be the one who asks the questions at PMQs rather than is supposed to answer them. This line should be given more publicity.

  33. 63
    NewLabourAreScum says:

    Correction “for evading any” should be “for evading ALL”

  34. 64
    DS says:

    Here’s the truth about yesterday’s gilt auction with the warning that next Wednesday may see a gilt buyers strike. How would Brown explain that away?:

    http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/01/07/121526/more-on-that-gilded-gilt-auction/

  35. 67
    The Dirty Rat says:

    Why would the Labour Party want to replace one dithering coward with another?

    Because it’s the right thing to do.

    • 155
      NewLabourAreScum says:

      lmao -reminds me of the gangsta rap sketch they did a month or so ago on The Impressionists “He’s brown like that – he’s Brown like that – I’ll tax you 50 pee in the pound like that”!! Hehehehe

  36. 75
    backwoodsman says:

    Please tell me, he doesn’t really look like that – if it was the caption competition, the entry would be ‘PM congratulates winner of village ‘gurning’ competion.’
    OT, good to see a fair bit of colateral damage to the bbc too !

  37. 77
    final salary civil servant pensioner says:

    I think old ‘too soon’ Hoon and ‘Blewit’ Hewitt did us a favour by showing us what kind of chancers and no hopers work in the Cabinet. The two of them should be applauded for ther courage

  38. 78
    Anonymous says:

    Two of GMTV’s top-earning presenters face losing their jobs as part of a cost-cutting exercise by ITV.

    The broadcaster is looking to save 20 per cent on the breakfast show and bosses have warned that they want to axe a minimum of one male and one female anchor. Andrew Castle, 46, John Stapleton, 63, Kate Garraway, 42, Ben Shephard, 35, and Penny Smith, 51, are said to be ‘anxious beyond belief’. But insiders believe Shephard will survive as he is a ‘massive face on the channel’.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1241239/Cost-cutting-ITV-Two-GMTV-star-presenters-face-axe.html?ITO=1708&referrer=yahoo#ixzz0bvlNEOQO

    Pretty Pleeeeeeeeeaaaaassssseeeeeeeeee let it be that bitch Garroway and good fucking riddance.

    • 108
      GMTV says:

      Can’t see them binning Smith and Stapleton as they are the only two prepared to get up super early and do the 6 till 7 stint on a regular basis. Actually that first hour can be quite good and intelligent things happen.

  39. 82
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    What a suprise, its as you were lads now the fuss has died down:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8444705.stm

  40. 94
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Milliband as PM ?
    We could call him Prick the younger
    The Prime Mongster may indeed be a fucking cretinous knob jockey, but unlike Milliband at least he has the ability to fill a turkey baster with some potent baby gravy.

  41. 96
    Disco Biscuit says:

    He is very goodlooking, though…

  42. 97
    gildedtumbril says:

    The coup? Merely a storm in a chamberpot. I see D Millipede is looking forward to getting stuck into the GE… I guess GEs are not female then.
    The wee scots jessie Eva Braun of the Downing Street Bunker is surrounded by the most odious bunch of scumbags I have ever had the misfortune, or should I say we have ever had the misfortune to be crapped upon by.
    I remember once, nay twice in one day, in public, myself telling the then Prime Monster, Harold Weasel to fuck off. I could not stand his White Hot Technological Stagnation. Ah! those were the days… Who could forget Lord George Brown of Ale? Or John Stonehouse? Bastards all.

  43. 109
    barefootcontessa says:

    Why weren’t you invited to speak on woman’s hour this am on women in politics Guido? Dale and Mum’s net were there.

  44. 112
    Watt Tyler says:

    (2009) New Labour David Miliband M.P. -PARASITE AND SUPPORTER OF TERRORISM: http://eotp.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/2009-new-labour-david-miliband-m-p-parsite/

  45. 114
    Dave says:

    Miliband is a very silly silly boy. This was his last chance to be PM . He may get another go at being leader but now he will never be PM.

    Silly boy , he should have taken the chance when it was there.

  46. 115
    Cross Party Conspiracy says:

    Look. Never mind plots and elections, what’s important is that Sir Ian Kennedy, chair of the IPSA, doesn’t introduce draconian rules that leads our democracy into destitution.

  47. 118
    David Milliband says:

    I AM THE ONE AND ONLY

  48. 119
    The IMF is coming says:

    OT

    The Winter of discontent part 2

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jan/07/gas-rationing-national-grid-factories

    1970′s all over again

    • 161
      Slip sliding away says:

      Christ – and the cold weather is happening again from Sunday onwards.

      I predict a riot by February,although we shall all be slipping over on the ice in Whitehall in our bid to hang Brown from the lamp post outside his bunker.

    • 163
      Tapestry says:

      yet this time the IMF is the future employer of our Prime Minister as he supports their taking over the supervisory role of democratically elected governments. He will be able to borrow as much as he wants.

      If Cameron resists the power of the OWG, Sterling will be deliberately crashed, interest rates driven up and him out.

  49. 123
    opsimath says:

    Q. Why would the Labour Party want to replace one dithering coward with another?

    A. Because there are no other kinds of people in the PLP; even ‘the conspirators’ are equivocating ‘flinchers’.

  50. 125
    That's democracy says:

    It matters little, really. The Tories will be elected and they will be no better. Only fundamental social and constitutional change can help Britain now. The inequality, the unfairness, the injustice of it all is evident for anyone to see. Expect civil disobedience in the near future. In this hierarchical, class obsessed society, the tragedy is that most children will never be given a chance. That is the legacy of these so-called “leaders.”

  51. 130
    Sir William Waad says:

    Milliwatt will have much more chance of taking over as leader when Labour have lost the election, so you can’t really blame the little twerp. If the coup had succeeded he’d have to have said that he supported it. To expect him to take a principled stand would be ridiculous. What on earth is there for him to be principled about?

  52. 131
    On the job says:

    Brown: “I’m just getting on with the job”
    Milly-Band: “I’m just getting on with the job”
    Harwoman: “I’m just getting on with the job”

    For the sake of the Country would they please stop getting on with the job and give it over to some folks who will actually know what they’re doing.

    • 160
      Johnny says says:

      Do it right or do nothing. They do not have the talent to do the former nor the humility to do the latter.

  53. 140
    allan akhbar says:

    milipede? straw? mandy? harman?balls?
    jeez…….

    ‘choice’?

    talent?

    an amoeba has more talent than the lot of them put together!

  54. 144
    Steve Expat says:

    o/t, anyone else heard about top fuckwit Sion Simon standing down at the election?

    • 158
      nell says:

      Well he is one of 80 MP’s who are fighting to keep their ill-gotten gains and isn’t he also one of the mp’s who are trying to use a law from 1686 or something to keep their gravy train rolling?

      Perhaps he knows that his grasping stance won’t go down well with the voters so has decided he’ll go rather than be pushed.

  55. 146
    AC1 says:

    >Why would the Labour Party want to replace one dithering coward with another?

    That also applies to the electorate and Cast Iron Dave.

    • 202
      Steve Expat says:

      Whatever you think about Dave, he cannot possibly be any worse than the incumbent.

      Stage 1 – kick Liebour out – way, way out
      Stage 2 – look at alternatives to Cameron or the Tories. Personally I’m a fan of the English Democrats – see the new Mayor of Doncaster for more details.

      • 223
        Anonymous says:

        stage 3 get the tories elected, replace with real tories headed by hannan.
        simples

  56. 151
    Another ignored media hack says:

    The beeb is making populist moves in the face of a incoming Tory government to keep you all on side, If Labour where a dead cert to get back in Johnathan Ross would have gone no where.

  57. 153
    Johnny says says:

    “How he thinks anyone wouldn’t notice such cowardice and dithering beggars belief. ”

    Perhaps he is an agent provocateur for BROWNIE, the BRitish Organisation for Wrecking Nations, Investments and Enterprise.

  58. 159
    Tapestry says:

    Yes, it’s 3rd time unlucky for Milliband (major) who demonstrates again that he has less grit than Cheshire County Council

    from comments on politicalbetting.com

  59. 165
    Is it safe? says:

    Reminiscent Of John Major and his wisdom teeth. At least he had the nous to come up with a half credible excuse.

  60. 168
    nell says:

    It might be the militwit has now lost the chance of becoming leader of the labour party.

    After their defeat later this year , this faction ridden labour rabble will have to run a proper election campaign to find a new leader, always supposing of course that gordon decides to resign. Given his over-bloated ego, he might choose to stay on as leader of the opposition considering himself ‘the best man for the job’

    Anyway if there is such a contest militwit will have to fight it out with ed balls and harpy harriett and anyone else who chooses to throw their hat in the ring.

    I think any one of those three would make a fitting leader for what’s then left of the labour party

    • 177
      Bill De Berg says:

      Who cares? By then Dave will have led us into the broad sunny uplands of EU paradise.

      • 191
        nell says:

        There’ll be no sunny uplands for us for years to come given the complete financial disaster gordon has managed, single handedly, to manufacture from what should been a short-lived crisis.

        • 212
          "Taps side of nose" says:

          Don’t worry nell. Gideon has a cunning plan involving the Bolivian futures market.

  61. 173
  62. 182
    Anonymous says:

    “Canadian family’s dog saves 11-year-old boy from cougar”

    I presume this is not another story about Sam Taylor Wood.

  63. 184
    Brown - born to fail. says:

    Brown on Radio Solent;

    “And then, to be honest, for the rest of the day, I was dealing – as I am this morning – with how we can co-ordinate better our supply for dealing with these [weather] emergencies.”

    In years to come the rabble called the Labour cabinet will RIGHTLY talk about how Brown took over their own jobs and interfered everywhere with their own jobs.

    In business,a Chairman has a board who deal with each area within the business. The HR Director makes HR statements etc.

    With Brown – he tries to run the whole show – part of his inability to trust anyone because he knows they will do better than him,so they all get taken down to his level of cursed inability.

    • 232
      Johnny says says:

      The problems of this country in a nutshell. The PM sticking his oar into things that are for local councils and authorities not central Government. His priorities are wrong. The answer is not more co-ordination. That just means more and more faceless bureaucrats taking resources from the frontline – in this case salt and gritting lorries.

      Co-ordination is akin to collusion and when corporations collude the consumer loses out – in this case us. There is greater and greater co-ordination and emergency planning which looks good on paper but doesn’t put grit on the roads or in salt bins. Catching the pennies but missing the pounds.

      • 253
        Tom Logan, Institute for Studies says:

        Very much like Hitler controlling individual companies and battalions at the battle of Stalingrad from his bunker in east prussia. Out of touch with the situation on the ground and completely unproductive.

        Naturally when it all went wrong he blamed his generals….

  64. 186
    Jan says:

    I see Dolly Draper’s wife Kate Garrway could be for the chop on GMTV.She is AWFUL.Perhaps somebody(Guido) should start a Facebook petition to get rid of her.

  65. 187
    barefootcontessa says:

    Hoon’s a hoon for a’ that.

    Hoon’s ok as long as everything’s going ok for Hoon.

  66. 195
    Mrs Trellis says:

    weasel

  67. 197
    The Hon. Loretto Fettes says:

    It is well known in the intelligence community that Miliband has been in communication with the Swiss Red Cross and has offered to release some of the Jewish prisoners to them as a prelude to his opening secret negotiations with the civilised world. This is in the vain hope that they would recognize him as the country’s leader after the downfall of the regime.

  68. 201
    Brown - a failed Soviet experiment. says:

    Oh my God – listening to Brown on Radio Solent interview;

    “I just wanted to come down to Southampton and Ports Mouth.”

    The only person I have ever heard calling Portsmouth “Ports Mouth”

    Fucking incredible – this utter c*unt now making names up out of thin air.

    • 260
      Anonymous says:

      Why is he down here? Haven’t we had enough trouble with the snow and what-not? That’s my drive home well and truly fecked then.

      Please return to Scotchland.

    • 262
      udderly 'orrible says:

      …like alki aida when he refers to a bearded cave-dweller in the Kush

  69. 204
    Kezza the Hat says:

    Gutless, the whole bloody lot of them, totally gutless.

    For God’s sake, go.
    For Heavens sake, go.
    For the countries sake, go.
    For fucks sake, GO NOW!

  70. 209
    Brown - a failed Soviet experiment. says:

    Listened to Brown down in Southampton.

    Interview half way down the page – 7 minutes of utter crap.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8445464.stm

    But it does show that Brown is so out of touch with any form of reality.

    He even says at the very end that every cabinet minister was out declaring love for him “within an hour or two.”

    Utterly incredible.

    Interesting also that the BBC Radio Solent bloke was refuting everything Brown had to say and taking the piss.

    Just what the hell has to be done to rid this country of this failed Soviet experiment?

    • 214
      resurgemus says:

      To paraphrase PM

      Broon – a floater not a sinker

    • 250
      RavingMad says:

      can anybody understand what the fuck he’s talking about?

      here bbc

      “And then, to be honest, for the rest of the day, I was dealing – as I am this morning – with how we can co-ordinate better our supply for dealing with these emergencies, so it’s taken up very little of my time,” he said.

      “I think it’s one of these sidelines in this time when people are far more worried about – as they should be – about what we’re doing to deal with the weather and how we’re making sure that people are safe and secure.

      “So it’s not going to take up much of my time and hasn’t certainly taken up much of my time today or will in future days.”

      • 257
        The Hon. Loretto Fettes says:

        It would take up less of his time if he could speak concisely. Instead of the normal verbosity of Lefty [Geoffs].

      • 263
        Lil Olmey says:

        Are you quite sure that wasn’t Prezza ?

      • 264
        South of the M4 says:

        The biggest ever deficit, a potential down-grading of UK plc’s credit rating, two generations financially screwed and millions robbed of their pensions and / or jobs – and he thinks peoples’ greatest worries are how to deal with a little bit of snow. Did we not used to publicly protest against such idiots in the past?

  71. 209
    Mitch says:

    Isn’t it a bit weird that his children were paid for, on a BOGOF basis?

    Makes me kinda distrust him.

    • 259
      The Hon. Loretto Fettes says:

      Oh I don’t know. If he could ‘roll out’ that approach to government procurement more generally I think we’d be better off.

  72. 221
    Fuck off back to Scotland McMong says:

    Does Miliband like it up the shitter like McMong?

  73. 242
    These plotters couldn't plot their way to the bar says:

    To be honest I can’t really see what advantage for the Labour Party either holding a ballot or replacing Brown would be .It’s a lose lose either way.

    1. They basically tell the electorate a few weeks before an election – we’ll be asking you to vote for him but we don’t think he’s much cop
    2. If Labour wins election(big if)does that mean that the electorate would in effect vote for Labour thinking Brown was leader and get Harman or Militwat ? Again very destabilising
    3/ If they succeeded in booting Brown out and assuming he went voluntarily(unlikely) what would they have achieved ? Other than civil war between the Parliamentary Party and the wider Labour membership/unions(unless of course the latter were in on it and wanted to foist Harman on to the party ?)

    Surely either way it would have been better to wait until after the election.If Labour won it they could ease Brown out after 12/18 months if they lost it he’s out immediately. So the whole shebang is senseless or is it so machiavellian that nobody apart from whoever is pulling the strings and I don’t think it’s Hoon or Hewitt(suggestions on a postcard)understand what the hell is going on

  74. 265
    Johnny says says:

    Who is in charge?

    Iceland says gets UK assurance on EU bid

    Iceland’s foreign minister said on Thursday he had been assured by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband that a presidential rejection of the so-called Icesave bill would not torpedo Iceland’s EU bid.

    Bankruptcy

    Iceland’s president refusal to sign a bill to repay Britain and the Netherlands more than $5 billion their savers lost when Icelandic banks collapsed, forces a referendum on the issue and threatens vital economic aid as well as Iceland’s application to join the European Union.

    “I have spoken to Foreign Secretary Miliband and I have his permission to state officially that this will not affect the EU application,” Icelandic Foreign Minister Ossur Skarphedinsson told Reuters in a telephone interview.

    • 281
      Susie says:

      Unfucking-believable. Welcoming another failed state into the Euro family… I’ll bet it won’t even affect the price of their ‘line-caught’ fish. But sure as eggs is eggs we’ll be subsidizing them so they can have shiny new trawlers to take out our failing fishermen.

  75. 268
    RavingMad says:

    Miliband in the shit with his ministerial colleagues (co-wreckers)

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6979076.ece

  76. 269
    Warrick Hunt (ex 1.01 King of BF) says:

    Imagine being kidnapped by the Iranian militia who aren’t operating in Iraq whilst you are working in Iraq, and knowing that Mr Bean is running the Foreign Office.

    Brown v Milliband is no contest. Cruddas must be enjoying this.

  77. 273
    Section D Notice says:

    All the spine of a jellyfish.

  78. 282
    TomTom says:

    Miliband couldn’t even get into Oxford without his father pulling strings. What has he ever done that required drive, determination, or effort ? It was handed to him on a platter like the nancy boy that he is

  79. 283
    Anonymous says:

    Is it true that Millyboyt is descended from an NKVD death sqaud murderer? I read his grandfather was a trot so evil that Stalin expelled him. And that Millyboyt’s grandfather had personally killed huge amounts of Russians in Soviet Gulags? Can anyone confirm?

  80. 285
    angelnstar says:

    Hahaha, Prime Mentalist! I originally thought Lord M. was The Mentalist, because a mentalist is someone who manipulates peoples’ minds, and can Gordon do that? The way he juggles the truth around and hopes no-one will notice is pure mentalism though.

    Boris Johnson visited West Hampstead today and he injected rich red blood into the anaemic body politic. The details are here!

    http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/boris-galvanises-west-hampstead/



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