Balls : It Wasn’t Me
Ed Balls may be an unpleasant bully, but he is no fool. He knows Labour is going to lose the election and he knows he will be blamed almost as much as Brown, for he is Gordon’s homunculus. The politics of reckless dividing lines, big government over-spending, the vicious briefing against internal party enemies, his personal use of “Mr” McBride to poison politics and his low, lying Machiavellian ways are not going to be faulted for Labour’s defeat if he can help it. If they are, his ambitions will be thwarted. In private he and his few allies are blaming the prospect of defeat on Hoon and Hewitt’s recent divisiveness.
Labour’s defeat will, he and other loyalists claim implausibly, be nothing to do with the years of kamikaze politics from Balls and Brown…
To the bunker with the children GoebBalls
To the lamp posts with their piano wire
Sources close to Sp1do Sho0rts tell me that even HE has abandoned them and willl vote SNP
bye by Labour.
merciful Allah will fuck their picket fence – repent labur infidel you dog
Inadvisable. Acute danger of splinters. Nasty – and embarrassing at A&E.
I was painting my fence in the nude when….
Excellent! Ed Balls is Gordon’s Salacious Crumb – wicked creature.
If Mr Balls was houseboudn in the snow would the headline be
Balls Cut Off
It would be good to see that happen anyway
SarahBrown10: is impressed that of the 20 Most Powerful Gay Men in the whole world, 9 are Brits http://bit.ly/5cLCv8
http://www.number10.gov.uk/sarah-brown
Mmmm
What about the top ten gay women…..
1/ Millie Tant
Excellent cartoon dudes,pity its a 60 million seater these hoons are about to pancake,they dont seem to notice how our future is linked to their behaviour, seemingly hellbent on seeing if their ideology can be force fed to free people!!!!!
That’s why we call it the “English disease”
Top 10 beards?
Not another taco muncher
Where can I find a list of the top ten sham marriages?
Where can I find a list of the top 10 Ugly NewLiebour Women?
Must include Mrs McTurd and Mrs Bliar for sure
Second.
!6 weeks too the election tomorrow.Bring it on.
Or even 16.
The Leadership Election will still be the same names we have been hearing for months.
Balls hardly needs to put any blame on the Blairites as Hoon Hewitt and Miliboy blasted themselves and all the Blairites in the head with a shotgun taking any small remaining Blairite credibility with them.
Those in the Leadership Election will all be united by the common goal of shitting on Hoon and Hewitt though how Miliboy pulls that one off god only knows.
Mandy still has power to influence but he’s a semi-detached Blairite and might just leave them all too it and go make cash at BP.
Still can’t see Balls getting it as he is indeed just far too Brown.
He can’t distance himself and Labour know Brown 2.0 is not an option.
He’ll pull out of the early Leadership rounds and try to rally support around someone else.
Blairite ? Brownite? Ballsite? Bullshite? Even now these apologist f*ckwits don’t get it so lets spell out Labour’s propects in words of one syllable. Dire. None. Done. Dead. Broke. Gone. ‘BYE
You’ve been asleep for the past 12 years I take it ?
Or maybe you can’t grasp what a Labour Leadership Election signifies.
Try reading the article you post on and tell it to Guido you tit.
There’s no guarantee of course, that Balls-up will still be an MP after the election, so he may not be in a position to challenge. ( We can but hope )
Why is this piece illustrated with a picture of Chandler-out-of-Friends taking Susan Boyle from behind in a Reliant Robin?
So not me.
So not me, I distinctly remember shaving.
I believe its because its Osborne’s favourite wet dream and he asked if it could be included.
Could this shitbox plastic car BE any more wobbly?
I hate every man jack of them!
And women jack too.
The age old alibi of rogues and jackanapes throughout the ages – Blame the messengers NOT the message
It wasnae me.
I can’t see what Balls’s Machiavellian plans are in aid of. What’s the point in presiding over the ashes and ruins of a totally destroyed Labour party for a decade or more?
The pay and expenses of the leader of H M’s opposition perhaps?
To let him create a party in his own image of course.
Interesting thought that – the new Nationalist Socialist Party led by Herr Balls and Eva Cooper?
What, entirely composed of thugs and bullies?
Perhaps they could call it the Stasi.
Where’s Eva gone to? Was on every programme known to man a few weeks ago, now not to be seen. Has Ball’s sent her back to the kitchen?
Collogen lip implants and a boob job. Christmas present to herself. Put it on expenses as ‘wholly necessary’.
Khazi better
Do Brown and Ball’s even recognise the ashes and ruin?
I hope they are ruined for longer than a decade – my choice would be to see them gone for good, and even that’s not long enough!
Slightly off topic
After the failure to relieve the worlds taxpayers of trillions of hard earned dollars, the IPCC announces that Global warming is over.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/6965342/Big-freeze-could-signal-global-warming-pause.html
When do the prosecutions start? This was very nearly the biggest theft of public funds in the history of the world by corrupt corporations and governments. Will no one be held to account?
Meanwhile, in other news, Melbourne (Aus) swelters in a heat wave…
Compare and contrast one region within one country having a heat-wave with almost the entire Northern hemisphere having 4 weeks of unusually freezing weather.
Quite so ned. But don’t worry. The entire Northern hemisphere is just experiencing ‘weather’. All month.
We’ll have to look at the big picture over the past decade. And when that doesn’t show any warming then we’ll have to look at the big picture over a thirty year period. You see the last decade of global cooling was just ‘weather’ too.
And if/when the thirty year window shows nothing out of the ordinary [Rolf Harris] can you guess what it is yet? [/Rolf Harris]. Aye. It’ll be a thirty year window of ‘weather’ as opposed to ‘climate’.
Still snowing here by the way. That’ll be the weather.
We are still of the opinion that this will be the warmest winter on record.
Turning out a bit like met office predictions of a BBQ summer which was a wash-out. Now the winter’s become a white-out.
met office – must do better.
Mr Ned – it is even more dishonest than that! Melboune had one hot day (nowhere near a record for January by the way) followed by a distincly warm night (one night!)
I have looked at the BBC weather article that was spinning this story and it is complete rubbish. They talk of the hottest night in 108 years. They have a very strange way of measuring it. For instance the BBC disingenuously says temperatures “reached” 34 degrees – implying that was the overnight minimum. It was not! The overnight minimum was 24.2 degrees (what’s a mere 9.8 degrees between friends, eh?). I see the “Independent” is spinning this rubbish as well.
The BBC even “backs up” its garbage by quoting a RECENT immigrant from the UK saying “it’s probably the most uncomfortable night I’ve ever had down under”. So that’s nice and scientific isn’t it? A British migrant thinks it’s hot in Melbourne, therefore Melbourne is embroiled in a heatwave! Sheeeeesh……
The official records still show that the highest minimum overnight temperature recorded in Melbourne during January occurred on 21 Jan 1997 (28.8 degrees).
By the way, the fake “record” on Monday night was preceded a few nights earlier by an overnight minimum which was below the long range January average of 14.3 degrees. The month to date is just over 2 degrees above the long range average with the promise of some quite cool weather after a warm day tomorrow.
The Climate change wankers are not averse to attributing ‘Weather’ events to global warming either.
Lingering shots of melting Ice in the North pole, filmed in summer when the Ice is SUPPOSED to melt anyway.
Aye, and calving glaciers at any time of year – look another bit’s fallen off – that’s your 4×4 that did that you environmental rapist.
~ bet you own a leaf blower
How else would you shift the snow off your drive?
How else would you shift the snow off your dr*ve.
The Guardian are desperate to make sure that this cold snap does not disprove AGW.
They’ve kept this thread open a week now, FFS.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/jan/06/cold-snap-climate-sceptics
Expect a name shift from ‘Climate Change’ to some vague phrase that can be used with a straight face during the coming mini Ice Age. ‘Carbon Damage’ is a good one. Gotta keep Cap and Trade viable. Gotta keep Al Gore in spaghetti and meat balls.
They will all be down in the Antarctic in March to report hysterically on the melting Antarctic that has enough ice to raise sea levels by 50 meters.
Ignoring the fact that Antarctic sea ice extent is exactly the NORMAL amount for the recorded history of satellite records and it has been above normal for most of the last 2 years. NONE of them reported the record high ice extent last September did they?
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_timeseries.png
We will get a re-hashed image of the wilkins ice shelf breaking away AGAIN.
We will see images of penguins trapped in crevasses that have opened up in the melting ice.
All things that are NORMAL and happen every year.
thank you to the esteemed members above of the British Royal Society
the UK’s National Academy for Science, for that enlightening lecture
What am I going to do with this f***ing Polar Bear in my front garden I want to know.
Don’t worry about the polar bear Max, the Great White that’s in your pool will dispatch it.
thats entropy man
Is that Flanders the latest Al JaBeeBa ‘economics editor’, worthy successor to the equally incompetent Evan Davies and a rankly partial Tory-hater to boot?
Rats! Here was me thinking I was in for a couple of choruses of “The Gasman Cometh”
Gno, Gno, Gno, she’s a Gnu
#25:
“Meanwhile, in other news, Melbourne (Aus) swelters in a heat wave…”
No it doesn’t you ridiculous little troll. Forecast for today is 13-24 Celsius – a distinctly cool Summer’s day. Stop peddling your garbage here!
Do you work for Hadley-CRU? Your comments on Melbourne’s weather are about as accurate as their’s would be.
You must remember that, for the AGW true faithful, a heatwave is evidence for global warming but a prolonged period of intense cold throughout the Northern hemisphere is just ‘weather’.
Luckily, Melbourne’s residents have noticed that at certain times of year it can get quite warm (some have dubbed this period ‘Summer’) often reaching 110F, and that this trend has been going on for quite some time. The local population have therefore taken to wearing clothing appropriate to the conditions, and The Emperor’s new clothes are particularly light and airy!
The truth is that they haven’t got a Scooby-Doo. Like bankers and investment advisers, they just forecast that things will continue in the same way only more so. We know only slightly more about climate change than a giraffe knows about skating.
Nobody has a fucking clue how the Earth’s climate really works. Our knowledge only scratches the surface of the complexities. How the hell the world’s troughing politicians thought they could get away with formulating policy on top of AGW is beyond me.
Uh – but so far we have let them get away with it, haven’t we !!??
So far.
Wrong, because on the tele a man on the beach showed us how if you had a row of black and white pebles, and you took away the black ones it proves there is Global Warming. Besides, ther’s the fact that climate has nothing to do with weather: climate is what we pay our taxes on. weather is the other thing, er
No fucking chance of getting our money back.
Too much governemnt income relies on energy taxation.
What sort of mongs make government revenue dependent on the tax stream from a product that the government does not want us to use?
Mongs = every chancellor of the exchequer.
Mind you we car-drivers may all get a windfall by sueing all the enviro-groups, Al Gore and every vote-hungry MP for libel.
Once some legal parasite twigs that one, watch the UK tourist libel laws change PDQ.
113 days.
And oh yes, two halfwits trying to depose a despot are too blame.
Him and his mrs and the Robinsons of the commons.
too-o-o-o-o many o’s ~ is your smellchucker not working
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could say you balls’d that up engineer
He’s only called Balls coz his mum couldn’t spell Testicles. Testicles (400 – 327BC) so named for his reduction of Plato’s principal dialogues: philosophy, logic, rhetoric and mathemathics to bollocks.
How about a range of Guido Fawkes’ branded voodoo dolls for the politicians you love to hate?
Would need a wharehouse just to display them
Whorehouse?
I’d prefer stressballs, little foam piggies with the name of the offending politician written on their sides. Harman can have her own shade of piggiepink lipstick and Jacqui Smith could be a xx rated version complete with orifices. That should get her hubby all excited!
It’s gay porn that excites Mr Jacqui Smith
Do you know if your mate Damian turned up for his caretaker job this term, Guido, or has the snow and the fledgling election campaign kept him away?
hope he’s clearing dogshit off the school field
This is an insult to all the noble kamikaze pilots who gave their lives for their country.
Could never quite understand why kamikaze pilots wore helmets
Or seat belts?
health and safety init!
Health and Safety has a lot to answer for….
Grrrr… Mr Ned got there first
Cartoon makes the gorgon look FAR too dynamic.
Very good point.
How dare you suggest Labour will lose the General Election !
I am in bruising form today and will destroy the fox hunting.Old Etonian leader of the Conservatives.
His face will be redder than normal, the Hoon
If you mean todays Prime Ministers Question Time, then I agree.
I have had enough and am feeling very tired and emotional today and if you are not careful I might lose my temper
Cameron should ask Brown why he’s still there. Surely Brown must have finished setting out his vision now, and would very much like to hold an election?
Alternatively, he could ask Brown hwo the war cabinet meeting went today……oh, no, I forgeot that Brown doesn’t have a war cabinet, but does have a “salt cell”. Good to see the Government concentrating on the big picture.
Did I just hear Cameron ask two questions about road salt?
One of the problems with Cameron is that he wants to be too damn nice, to be seen to be fair and likeable. Therefore when he wins the Spring election, he will treat L;abour with courtesy and respect and consideration; there will be no recrimaintion or inquiry about the last appalling 13 years. I say , to hell with that; let there be endless taunts over their record, let Brown know that there will be an investigation into his handlling of the economy, that the immigration scandal will be the subject of a commission, that there will be a proper Iraq enquiry, that army equipment failings wll be accounted for, that Blairs financial earnings (post premiership) will be examined , perhaps with recommendations for future behaviour. We must ensure that the guilty are made to atone for their trasnsgressions, that Brown should be held to account for his absurd posturings and for the way in which he caused more damage to the UK than anyone since the Luftwafe. I want revenge and punishments, I want recrimation; I dont want magnnimity.
Pantyliners are a socialist invention.
They don’t find a solution to a problem but try to patch over it with some overgrown uncomfortable bodge.
Then when that didsn’t work well they start adding wings and other expensive glorificaions.
..and of course designed for Hoons
I’ve always liked this Kamizaze cartoon by Rich and Mark. It sums up the Brown / Balls relationship perfectly.
I really don’t care how they blame each other, the internecine strife ought to do the Labour Party some lasting damage as they once again become the natural party of loony left opposition.
Nasty, vindictive, spiteful charlatans who should know better; thankfully they don’t.
This Brown / Balls axis will prove to be a real benefit to the UK ingeneral but England in particular.
“This Brown / Balls axis will prove to be a real benefit to the UK ingeneral but England in particular.”
It hasn’t so far. Rather the opposite. The damage has been extreme, and will take many years to repair.
I think you misunderstood me Engineer. My point is that the very real damage they have inflicted will consign the Labour Party to the outer reaches of UK politics for the med/long term. That exclsion is the benefit.
Best rid of bad rubbish but it will take a high degree of damage for the Labour core sheeple to realise it.
Hey George, does your surname begin with “K as in Knife”?
Balls comes across as a bully but he is a fool as well if he really thinks he can distance himself from Brown. He was one of the first to use the ridiculous phrase “it is right thing to do” and now struggles to answer any question without including it in the response so he either believes he is always right or that we are stupid enough to accept he is just because he tells us that he is ! He underestimates the intelligence of the general public and cynically plays to the core Labor vote with his simplistic dividing lines. If he really thinks others can’t see him for the political opportunist that he is then he is a fool. In fact he is everything that’s wrong with the current crop of politicians. An overarching personal ambition at the expense of colleagues, opponents and the country with an arrogant self belief totally out of proportion with his own very ordinary talent and ability.
Like the rest, just wants power, at any price.
Dyson introduces the HandyMandy: no loss of power or suction
Balls, the guy who wants to borrow even more than the current 3.5 billion pounds extra every week.
PS Don’t be surprised if the FT, Balls previous workplace, runs an editorial condoning the large deficits. Mr Wolfe today gets it worryingly wrong on Japan. Get scared!
I’m still waiting for the economical-with-the-truth Economist to do an update on the 1997 (I think) piece pointing out that the value of UK private pension funds was about equal to the value of the private pension funds of the rest of the EU!
I’d be interested to see the current comparison, but given the Economist’s 12 year left-leaning bias I’m not holding my breath!
That’s why the EU was trying desperately to get us into the Euro – to boost it up.
Now thay would not touch us with a bargepole.
At least the maximum imbecile did something right, albeit by total accident.
SarahBrown10: is impressed that of the 20 Most Powerful Gay Men in the whole world, 9 are Brits
http://www.number10.gov.uk/sarah-brown
How many are friends of her husband?
This is blatant abuse of taxpayer money for party politics. Like the expenses of a few pennies for one of ms bornw’s phone calls to a friend in the middle of the night at christmas. Get out of the country, like I’ve done. Don’t be a fool to keep such scroungers afloat.
Mandelson, Stephen Fry, Tatchell. WTF
How come her husband is not on this list, isn’t he powerful enough?
He’s not even in the top 20 most powerful men in No.10.
How much power has Stephen Fry got? Isn’t he just a professional witterer?
Fry: pro labour, pro beeb (who pay him too much – why do we put up with the laughing sound mixed in to tell us when to laugh – as happens during quite a few shows, incl have i got news for you and ross)
I HATE that SF.
All of them?…
Did you see that cringe making photo of the blessed Sarah staring at that guy in his underpants at the London fashion show last year. What were her thoughts…
gordon would like a bit of that…
“Labour’s defeat will, he and other loyalists claim implausibly, be nothing to do with the years of kamikaze politics from Balls and Brown…”
No, no. Of course not.
Balls and Brown et al have done a marvellous job, and if only those divisive pair had not spoken out, everything would be fine in La-La Land
Utterly. delusional.
Liebour need to be completely decimated at the GE
Rightly so – they are without doubt totally unfit to form HMG.And I say that ,as hand on heart, an ex Labour voter and coming from a family of lifelong Labour voters.None of which will vote or Labour EVER again.
Write that down and put it in your wallet.
In a few years time when there’s another election maybe it will help you remember that socialism is always a disaster, and always led by troughing frauds.
Ditto.
Decimated only involves a 10% loss. I think we’re looking for more like 99.9% – although Frank Field might get a bit lonely on the opposition benches.
Balls can spin away all he likes, but his character will always shine through. His creative (ie greedy/questionable etc) expenses – including double-dipping with his wife, his “so what?” moment, his lies, his manoeuvring for Alistair Darling’s job, his ransacking of private pension funds (or is that just Brown briefing against him?), and his slavish adherence to the myth that Gordon Brown is some sort of worthwhile leader will all be remembered for a very long time. The irony of his wife being Housing Minister whilst fleecing the taxpayer to buy their own houses will also reflect badly on him – No Mr Balls, we won’t forget any of this, but most importantly we won’t forget what an appallingly useless cabinet minister and MP you have been.
Politics of envy?
Politics of blind idiocy.
an erudite and highly plausible account of the reality.
balls is shit
double dipping with his wife egad! who was the other fella?
Excuse me for being thick, Fawkes.
But why does it say ‘Thanks to Thick as Thieves’, on the side of the poorly drawn Mitsubishi Zero.
At last you have some insight.
you really are pretty new here aren’t you?
it was hardly all that long ago tat made the comment and it tickled Guido and thence the cartoonist
TaT made an interesting comment?
I normally scroll past if I’m not in a baiting mood.
Thanks for clearing that up.
And yes i am new here, but i’ve kept the same name since i started.
not to mention incompetence, ignorance and being crap at politics!
No, they are great at politics and politicking but hopelessly fucking incompetent at finance and government!
“Reckless dividing lines”
Heard this charge put very effectively by Michael Gove
in Hoc debate. Funny how small comments and phrases
can diminish politicians easily.
I adore a good political insult. Ed Balls is a homunculus! Once I called Tony Blair Lord Mandelson’s prancing succubus.
Boris described Gordon as “Like Marlon Brando in the last scenes of “Apocalypse Now” hahaha He also said “Hoon’s a buffoon and Hewitt blew it!” Read a stream of sparkling witticisms from the Mayor here.
http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/johnson-versus-johnson/
as Boris debates “His cousin Alan” Alan Johnson early this week. Boris won the debate needless to say.
I bet you nearly wet yourself.
Simple things……simple minds….etc
Student level Labour troll feebly farts onto this site.
FYI: The Mirror makes The Daily Mail seem a calm and focused arena of debate.
I can reveal that Balls has a secret agreement with the unlovely Yvette, for them to say “Balls” to the Labour Party and vote Tory in the vain hope that PM Dave will take pity on them and that somehow they will be able to blab information as to where the bones are buried in return for keeping their ministerial salaries, cars and expenses. I understand that Balls has suggested to Dave that new jobs be created for him and shagnasty Yvette as Ministers for confession to past government idiocies, scams and scandals. He plans to reveal their conversion to devout Conservativism just after little David Milliband stages the next attempt to oust Brown, immediately after the date of the election is announced. You read it first here!
he is going to change his name to ed cooper after the elction, get a decent accent unlike the hare lipped one he adopts now and seek a safe seat for the lib dumbs
Actually, the only party which would really accept the Balls’s is the BNP, although they are said to be worried about losing votes if the Balls dou join! Could this be yet another Balls-up by Ed and Yvette?
another unfunny cartoon from rich and mark. they commit hari kai everytime they print one
another unfunny cartoon from rich and mark. they commit hari kari everytime they print one
echo that
For fucks sake forget about the damage this odious pair of mendacious, vile, deceiptful, hate filled, bullying, cowardly, incompetant, maladroit, spendaholic parasites have wrought on the Labour parteh.
While McDoom and his bum boy are coining it in from pensions and other state trinkets of office, the hard working, law abiding, save for the future, minority of this once proud nation will be thrown to the wolves.
They’ve wrecked this nation simply to keep themselves in power.
The pitiful fact is they will now spend the next few years carping form the sidelines about those nasty Tories cutting this and slashing that.
Brown, Balls, Little Lord Sodomite et al, are enemies of the state
For these little Napoleons it’s a case of ‘L’etat, c’est moi’.
Little fucking Emporers, prancing about signing ministerial decrees with a flourish and assuming that because they’ve decreed it then it is so. @no more boom and bust’, ‘Pruden’, ‘Doing the right thing’.
They probably genuinely believe it. Coccooned in a bubble of idiocy, their courtiers frightened to tell them the truth, convinced that the low poll ratings are simply a failure to ‘gettheir message across’ rather than a reflection that the message has finally got across.
Utterly, butt-naked Emporers strutting their fine new clothges over and back for our amusement.
Jackasses, arseholes and incompetents one and all.
They are of course delusional and incompetant, but a lot of senior civil servants will have to be culled for their abject failure to protect the nation also.
They stand guily of failing to resist the maniacal spending of these idiots
I’m Ed Balls and I endorse this message.
So what?
Is this the same right honourable gentleman who put in a claim for £33 for remembrance poppy wreaths, seen here reinforcing his respect for the countries fallen?
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/26/article-1062940-02D0151800000578-424_468x354.jpg
Ah! The Daily Mail!
What a twat.
Excellent. Right on cue. Attack the messenger not the message. Old school. Like it.
Indeed, to some people it matters not what the crime is, if the Daily Mail reports it, then it must be acceptable.
“Daily Mail condemns Prime Minister feasting on babies!!!”
“Bloody daily mail, fascist rag, those babies should be honoured to be eaten by Gordon!”
I have noticed recently the loony left have been labeling Daily mail readers the same way they used to label Sun readers.
It aint working tosspots,the jig is up, the MAJORITY have had enough.
Ah, so the same pic from this source is completely different?
http://order-order.com/2009/12/04/ed-balls-privileged-education-in-eton-not-at-eton/
So last century, 84.
I had to look up the work “homunculus”
I thought it was something do to with men snogging
It was all due to Guido’s latin education at school with that thuggish ZaNuLieBor Harrow MP. Likes to throw in a little teaser every so often to test his readers’ intellect or Wikipedia search ability. Mastur Bator always used to fail!
Good. I’m glad I’m not alone in my ignorance, I thought it might be some sort of orifice.
Does GF think he’s Will Self or something? throwing in complicated words so we knows our place.
homunculus is an oft used word on this site for a long long time.
“Peter Hitchens” started it’s use. IIRR
When one considers the government of one’s country, one finds Balls to be a carbulculus on the face of a much loved friend.
Oh yah!
Right… so for twenty years the temperature record will record a cooler planet due to the North Atlantic oscillation…..enough time for all the warmists to realign their ‘research’ and identify the coming ice age given temperature trends..which will have to be studied with large teams, expensive super-computers and regular international conferences at five star locations.
..
And oodles and oodles of ‘government’ (ie ‘our’) money!
Christ… An ice Age. We really could be in trouble.
Still, now I can get that Defender.
you’ll be taxed if you dont produce enough CO2
You appear to believe that “north west of europe” = “the planet”
I seem to remember a “spitting image map of the world” that looked something like that.
Not just northwestern Europe. For example, northern China has had record low temperatures (-40C last week); there’s been frost in Florida that’s damaged the orange crop; deep snow in Seoul. It’s pretty much all of the northern hemisphere.
Still, it’s only weather, not climate as we know. Climate being something that’s measured over whatever time span you need to get the answer you want.
http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/01/warming-trends-in-england-from-1659.html
Fastest Warming 30 year span?
1691 – 1720, 5.039 °C/century
Must’ve been all those 4WD carthorses?
Naaah. It’ll be all those horse farting 24/7. Now that we’ve killed ‘em all and replaced ‘em with tractors the world is cooling down.
Poor. You are clutching at straws there.
They hadn’t invented a decent temperature scale. Even Mr. Farenheit himself couldnt measure the temperature properly.
And you don’t appear to be happy with Western europe being “the globe”, you want central england to be “the globe”.
M Fish:
Since when was Friuli-Venezia Giulia in North West Europe? The Friulans have been experiencing their coldest winter since 1929. It’s been bl**dy cold in the Dolomites and Julian Alps for some time. Try looking at the recent weather conditions in cities such as Udine.
As Fidel X Penses also points out, last time I looked, neither China nor Korea (nor Florida, nor Texas) were in North West Europe.
Distinctly mild in Melbourne (Aus) right this minute as well (only 14 Celsius at 11pm in January for goodness’ sake – irrespective of the garbage measures poster #25 above is looking at for his false claims about Melburnian heat waves). Looks like Melbourne is going to be very chilly over the coming weekend too, after a couple of mild days in between.
Australian. you were deliberately spinning last time.
Are you saying it wasn’t bloody hot in Melbourne on the 11th?
#25 is wrong now of course, the heatwave ended some time on the 12th. but of course, the other day you were pissing about with the definition of “yesterday”.
In an absolute parallel, you can now say that the British winter is back to normal. Mild, a few degrees C, raining.
Not true M Fish (me spinning, that is).
Go and look at the temperature records yourself. It was hot on the 11th yes, but not a “record” and one hot day certainly does not make anything like a record.
As I have shown in a post further up this thread, even the claims about the overnight temperature were total garbage backed up by the BBC with the comments of one recent British migrant who thought it was hot – therefore it must have been a heatwave. The spinning is so obvious, it is laughable.
As for the comments that started this in yesterday’s thread, the overnight minimum recorded in Melbourne on the night of the 11th/12th was NOT any sort of record. It was in fact 4.6 degrees cooler than the highest overnight minimum (recorded back in 1997). The spurious BBC comments about the temperature “reaching 34 degrees” were deliberately misleading. I suspect that temperature reading was taken in Melbourne’s outer western suburbs the moment the sun went down!
Regarding your final comment, I have never claimed that the UK winter this year is exceptionally cold or unusual. I have not “spun” anything. My objection was to the original poster who falsely claimed that a (non) record overnight minimum for one night in Melbourne showed that the world was about to end due to man made global warming!
By the way, that’s not rain today – it’s called snow, you know, the white stuff that falls from the sky? I don’t know where you are, but it sure as heck hasn’t been raining across the South of England today.
If Balls and Yvette had a kid, would it be known is Mini Cooper?
no it would be known as mad c’unt
I had a ‘Vauxhall Yvette’ Small,uncomfortable and not very economic to run.
Commonly known in the motor trade as the vauxhall shove-it!
The number plate would be ’999′.
No,’B811SUP’ if I seem to remember.
’999′ but upside down to reveal the mark of the beast!
ed and gordon will try to re-write history at every opportunity up until the election………and beyond…..
they will blame EVERYONE ELSE………..
sadly with so many thickos being churned out by eddies schools nowadays a lot of idiots will believe him………
then again if we had an opposition it might help?
how about some truths?
Equality….
When New Labour came to power in 1997 the proportion of the country’s wealth in the hands of the richest 1 percent had reached 20 percent. By 2004, with Brown as chancellor, it had increased to 24 percent.According to one commentator, the 600,000 individuals who make up the richest 1 percent were, on average, £737,000 richer than they had been under the Conservatives. More recently, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2005-6 saw both relative and absolute poverty increase. The institute reported that income inequality today is “higher than Labour inherited by a statistically significant amount”
“Once you learn how to fake the sincerity, the rest is easy”
bob monkhouse
So what you are saying is that labour’s “aspirational” record has worked really well for those wealthy people who felt terribly guilty about being rich and are now less well off.
They have their Aspirational policy Bass Ackwards!
Hi there ! Remember me ? I went to a nice fee-paying school as a youth but now, of course, being a very good commie, I want to close them all down.
I gave the world my post-neoclassical endogenous growth theory. This probably helped Gordon and me to save the world recently.
if you look at twat balls website and go to contact ed it gives the impression that he is switching constuencies or is this a boundary change
http://www.edballs.co.uk/index.jsp?t=contactEd
Even Labour would not be stupid enough to make Twitcher Balls leader, or the Nerd Miliband 1 and 2. But they might be stupid enough to go for the Purnell/Cruddas ticket.
It will be like the 1979 – 1997 wilderness years all over again. They’ll have plenty of time to have four or five years each as ‘Leader of Her Majesties Opposition’.
There are kids just entering secondary school who will be Prime Minister before any one of them.
because when Dave slashes public spending and raises taxes due to Brown leaving him a nice big bowl of shit the voters will be very understanding and write-off the next 5 year Parliament as a practice session that doesn’t count
governments lose elections
oppositions don’t win them
Hence the serial denial of any cuts in the Labour budget and the printing of 200bn quid just to stumble over the election finish line without actually taking any tough decisions at all?
Just so they can blame the whole shit-pot on the Tories?
Cameron should do what opposition parties do in African dictatorships. Spell allthis out and call a general strike. Precipitate the IMF coming in on Brown’s watch rather than on his first week in office.
the markets will try and flex their muscles before election day, don’t worry
probably when they see both Parties Election Manifestos, or rather what they DON’T see in them
the rating agency hawks are the ones Politicians most fear at the moment, the IMF is still a long way off, but not impossible of course
Isn’t Purnell the liar who appeared on tv the weekend after that Abrahams guy was found to have made serial donations to ZaNuLieBor saying that the money HAD been repaid?
The very man. And the one who can be in two places at once thanks to Photoshop. Clearly a man to watch – in the same way you watch that kid in the hood on the corner to make sure he doesn’t creep up on you unawares.
As much as I laugh at his past CV and eyebrows I am quietly impressed by Alistair Darling and the way he has played Brown for a prize muppet recently.
Given a half decent PM for a boss he may have made a reasonable job of being Chancellor. That’s a big MAY however!
They could do a lot worse than appointing Darling as a stability holding leader whilst they attempt to regroup in the post election maelstrom. They truly have nothing else, IMHO.
Oh dear!
Dennis Skinner’s the man. Oh yes.
To use a quote from that pastmaster of communication and strategy – the British public (ungrateful bastards)should be “extraordinarily proud” of what Labour has achieved in 13 years of government on behalf of themselves!!!
The British public should be “extrordinarily proud” of surviving the last 13 years. Especially the ones that never voted for these imbeciles in the first place.
Can we have some more muslims now please sir?
Did you hear about the Jewish Kamikaze pilot?
He crashed his plane in to his brother’s scrapyard.
Where there’s Shmuk there’s Brass.
You just can’t have a Prime Minister called Balls. We’d continue to be the laughing-stock of the world. He should change his name to Cooper.
Just like that!
Russia has a PM called ‘Putin’. Which is very rude in French.
Isn’t that putain, old fruit? OK if you say it I spose.
Let us briefly remind ourselves of Sarkozy’s bravura press performance at a recent meeting with Putin.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1242470/Ed-Balls-accused-tying-schools-1-1billion-red-tape.html
ed balls is going to spend £1.1.billion on giving children legal rights to tell their schools and teachers what they should be taught and how long they should spend in school.!!
Sugar! I hope young nell doesn’t come to hear about that she’d abandon all lessons other than dance and only bother with school on odd occasions when it suited her!
Fucking Daily Mail reader . . . Say no more. How’s the banjo practice coming along?
The DailyMail website’s far better than AlGrauniads.
Racist.
My mate Billy Connolly said f**** off.
hope young nell remembers her promises and dishes the hobnobs
Interesting to compare and contrast the Balls/Cooper approach to personal finance with the Balls/Cooper approach to Public finance.
Aren’t they the same? Spend what you want: someone else is paying.
Ed will say: “It wasn’t me!” But as everyone knows, that’s just Balls…
[...] Fawkes reports that Ed Balls, the schools secretary and widely considered Gordon Brown’s closest political [...]
Labour only know how to blame someone else for their world-class total and utter failure.
Everything that they have touched has turned into useless and expensive rubbish.
None of them are employable, all of them are cronies, zero commercial or management skills exist in their circles, they are utterly delusional and criminal fuck-wits to a person.
Their collective destruction of anything and everything is all the fault of someone else ? No Mr Testicles, it is YOUR fault, there is no doubts in the minds of 90% of the population who’s fault it is.
Wankers all – world class useless tossers and thieves.
nb: on a similar note, my smell-cjekker wants to change wanker for banker – is there a difference then ?
“Leadership” election ??
These fuck-wits have never had a shred of leadership in their team. What they do have is very good liars and criminals (not yet prosecuted), gaming the political system with deceit and lies.
I’ve always tried to avoid getting personal in politics, but Brown and Balls just disgust me. Two utterly dislikeable individuals who deserve nothing less than being despatched to the dustbins of history after the Election. Sadly Balls and his poison will continue to infest British politics thereafter, but maybe that’s good, because at least he’ll be a continual reminder of why why Labour turned the hope of 97 into the horror of, well, of 98 onwards! Utterly odious, and thank you for reminding me about his ludicrous “Mr” McBride bollocks. Odious man. Odious Prime Minister. Odious Government.
yvette cooper balls is a mealy mouthed ascerbic piece of minge who suits creepy scumbag eddie a treat.. both of them need a good twatting with a bogbrush recently removed from gordon’s bumhole