If Guido told you this picture was taken covertly in the Victoria Street offices of the Lord Mandelson’s Dept. for Business, Innovation & Skills would you really be that surprised? Whitehall mandarins in the making need training.
Guido would call the press office for an explanation, but presumably if they have done the training course, they won’t give a straight answer.
If anyone wants to enlighten us, email…
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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”
It started in America
The trickiest question they’ll have to answer is the one the electorate is going to put to them, namely:
“Why the **** should we ever vote for you sorry slackjawed lot ever again?”
http://cogitodexter.wordpress.com
Ooh Guido, you are a wag!
And don’t forget, we’re getting on with the job!
Britain will be a big steaming jobby by the time me and Gorgon have finished getting on with it. Toodlepip!
That’s why i’m heading for a 175 seat majority. It’s a landslide to the Conservative party because the British people have confidence in my ability to lead the country.
Is that a cast-iron guarantee?
Certainly! But don’t leave it out in the rain in case it rusts.
DOH! everyone knows the great thick as thieves is anti racist.
now shut up and stick the fucking kettle on will you?
two sugars for me please.
In an attempt to head off continuing rumours about Griffin’s bisexual past, and in particular Griffin’s failure to sue his alleged former lover Martin Webster, deputy to Tyndall in the 1970s NF, and The Sunday Times and Searchlight who reported the relationship, Lecomber has repeatedly posted messages on a B&P Internet discussion board turning attention onto Tyndall. In deeply homophobic terms, Lecomber questions why Tyndall failed to oust his former deputy when he obviously knew of his gay relationship.
6 million public sector non-workers, millions on means-tested benefits.
The core vote that WILL vote for labour and the reason the Cameroonistas really should not underestimate the task they are up against. And don’t forget about the postal vote tricks that will influence results in marginals
so who is Dave going to vote for since he’s a multi-millionaire benefit cheat
you cripple
Pick a name and stick to it Thieves FFS.
Keep repeating ‘It started in America’, and the Reef Fish will come to believe it.
Clever how there is no real blame attached to that statement. It was actually the fault of Clinton’s administration. Mortgages for all, even if the prospect of them repaying was unlikely. They just never thought it through.
Bush had nothing to do with it nor did the Banks
It was all Clinton’s fault.
Fuckwit.
Said the person unable to think of an original name. Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae were the main organisations to arrange Sub Prime Mortgages. Oh and who did these organaisations contribute Election funds for?
Communist Prick.
Who turned the mortgages into toxic securities ?
Who rated those toxic securites as AAA ?
Who was in charge of regulating the rating agencies and the Banks ?
Who sold the toxic securities like lottery tickets leveraging themselves as much as 40-1 to make short term bonuses of billions on them ?
You seriously think that was all Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Fuckwit?
They were small fry compared with the likes of AIG, Goldman and BOA.
Who all paid far more in political contributions and still do.
Only a complete moron would try to claim it had fuck all to do with the Wall Street Giants and Bush ignoring the facts on the ground.
NeoCon Twat.
It started in America.
Seems that it is to deal with Tricky Questions from Children. The BBC reports
“a new website by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
The website – Science: So what? So everything – gives information to parents on answering those tricky questions from children”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8195805.stm
I wonder if Ed Balls had an input ?
So what?
Tricky Question #1: Mummy, how did evolution manage to avoid Labour voters?
Mandy will one day evolve into God and then youre be sorry
I hope not, we really don’t want to have to see more creepy pictures of him and McMental hanging around children.
The BBC were obviously the first on the training course, then.
M M M M Mr Paxman, I can’t do your show, so I’ll get an easy ride on the sofa of GMTV instead.
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/7856/bbcthisweek20100114brow.jpg
Quelle surprise
Hey dimwit the word is previously not previosuly.
I sit corrected.
Spelling 3/10. Punctuation 1/10.
WTF is ‘modern Scots’? They’re all neanderthals, Scotch bozo.
It all depends on whether you think a question is something you ask, or something you have to answer?
Your immediate response is an indication as to whether you are one of the governing class or merely a tax paying minion barely fit to stick your head up a dead bears arse.
C 22=Catch 22
The Syndicate is run by Milo Minderbinder in the novel,Catch 22.
I don’t know what this means.
Milo Mandybender buys eggs for 5c in Malta and sells them for 3c in Egypt and makes 1c profit on the deal ,because he is an evil genius.
Gordon, who is evil but no genius, tries to copy the scheme.
He bought gold for £208 in 1997 and sold it for £186 in 1999 making a loss of £22 an ounce. But he cunningly bought the gold back in 2010 at £1,000 an ounce so making a profit of .. erm, ..how does the last bit work again ,Peter?
Might be the Mandelson treason cell:
http://johnrentoul.independentminds.livejournal.com/173348.html
Hope this isn’t the sort of gold Gordon paid £1K for…….. H/T hangmall on OH
http://www.daily.pk/fake-gold-bars-in-bank-of-england-and-fort-knox-14477/
Fuck a duck!
old hoolborn please send yr link
Tricky question, ‘What are you lot doing in June?’
Same as we do every other month. Submitting our expense claims.
wanking and smoking cigars.
I have a process improvement for that.
Tricky question should be, ‘What will you be doing after June?’
Where’s the surprise? Politics is a profession and thereby run by professionals who work all day on presentation. Labour’s champion has always been Mandy,which is why the Conservatives employed Coulson. The Lib Dems no doubt have their own media guru,whoever the fuck he is, and the General Public’s 10 minute attention span is the target for these pimps.
Who gives a fuck apart from the party faithful who greet each revelation with a cheer, somewhat like the noise that arose from Tyburn as another wretch dropped in on God.
It don’t amount to a hill of beans.
If only we could all learn to fart in UNISON every time Mandy opens his gob
“If anyone wants to enlighten us, email…”
I wouldn’t know where to start.
No, you don’t, clearly.
Evident for a very long time, now.
Brown’s shit and you know he is.
That’s you started Jimmy.
Tricky question eh? Stick Gordon in a magic and izzy wizzy and abracadabra out pops David Miliband! How does he do it?
Tricky questions answered with the ‘Magic Mandy’s Eight Ball’
Just £49.99. Available in red. {blue available in June}
{shake shake}
1. All will be revealed
2.Ask again later
3. The situation remains fluid
4.Reply hazy, try again
5.Ask again later
6.Better not tell you now
7.Concentrate and ask again
All these answers could also apply to Cameron’s policies.
I think there’s some shit in your clear blue water son.
Yes. It’s called modern Conservatism.
perhaps Darling as an ecnomic policy one
1 sell the gold
2 sell more gold
3 make an ineffective tripartate super commitee
4 dont do a spending review
5 be as vaugue as possible about worsening ecnomic situation
6 employ more commercial bankers and consultant bankers
7 dont answer phone calls from next door or mention inflation
Apologies for double post.
McBust must be running the course he’s Never answered a question since he’s been in government !
McScrotum’s approach to the tricky question:
1. Grey, sullen glare at the interviewer to transmit a sense of hostility and vast superiority, the intention here is to establish that your authority may not be challenged and hint clearly at how nasty you will get if, at any point, you decide abruptly to interpret the questioning as unreasonably persistent.
2. Deliver an unending stream of leaden tractor statistics in the manner of a jammed verbal assault rifle, ensuriing there is no gap in the flow that would allow the interviewer to interrupt without having to shout. The object here is to use up time, exhaust the interviewer and make everyone completely forget the original question. No reference should be made that in any way addresses the original question, even in the most indirect way.
3. Follow-up questions should be perversely interpreted as deliberately attempting to challenge your supreme mastery of the universe and deliberately misunderstanding of your tractor statistics – which should now be repeated and expanded upon in an irritable and truculent manner.
4. Upon even more persistence the process is repeated, The body should be moved forward in a defiant and aggressive way and the jaw jutted out. Hands moved quickly to grasp the chair arms will imply you are about to get up and leave in disgust at the interviewer’s rudeness and ripping off the microphone will confirm this.
5. Barge back through the green room talking only to personal aids and advisors, a sheaf of official confidential papers should be waved in the face of anyone who tries to look you in the face as you leave.
Err…… If an assult rifle is jammed, it doesn’t fire anything. It remains silent until the blockage is cleared. Somewhat like Salvatore Mundi in a crisis. The condition you describe is known as a “runaway gun” when the weapon fires until it runs out of ammo. Somewhat like, Airbrush…Airbrush…Airbrush…Airbrush…Airbrush.
Also lets not forget the shaking claw when he gets really wound up & grinning like a circus clown when (if) he thinks he’s scored a point – he also bends over at that point & I reckon it’s to stop him pissing himself with excitement (this doesn’t always work alas – therefore the high cleaning bills on his expenses)
6. Delve deeply into both nostrils with chewed fingernails and flick snot indiscriminately around the room, thereby distracting the questioners.
well played…2 and 3 are textbook… even the great unwashed that put this bunch of twats in power recognise the tactics these days.
Who care’s jamed or run away ? fantastic and right on the money explanation !
Are you an Mp ?
Have you been on this course ?
Tricky question: the question that still remains after you have answered all the other questions (that weren’t asked).
+Golf Clap+
Guido: For comedy’s sake I hope it’s real, but (at risk of sounding suspicious), was it you who ran the pic through Photoshop at 5 o’clock? (just a shame the Curve doesn’t geotag – and that you can edit the exif data if you know it’s there)
Oh, and for added comedy, the sole google result for “Tricky question training” (http://tinyurl.com/yf95csg) is this : http://tinyurl.com/ycxnatb
Summary of article – get other people to give you answers, maybe change them a bit if you want. That way it still sounds like you knew what you were on about to start with.
And the best bit: the advice linked above is from a company called “psychotactics”
‘T was Guido.
How did Gordon manage to cripple our economy? Boom without bust! Get your bangers out Mr Brown you sad git!
3 miles a day jogging, World Summits on a daily basis, and making sure that young men can pay their rent has decreased the Moobs.
The answer is Dave’s poster
Minister, you are in a room with three other men. One has a roll of cello wire (good school), the next a can of petrol and the last a suspiciously large cucumber. What happens next?
Report the man with the oversize Cucumber to the EU. Explain to the man with the Petol just why the Fuel Duty accelerator is good for the Country, and use the Cello wire to measure the offending vegetable. Actually you are going to sweat for England, as you know that you are going to be taken outside for a bit of Citizen feedback. Thsi is no ordinary Focus Group.
Very similar to the marrow, tub of vaseline and a suicide bomber in the bathroom scenario
Hello again workers, Harridan here.
I think you’ll find that no-one in the Labour Party has had any training in how to handle tricky questions, simply because we never answer any. Our Mandelchips prevent us from making simple errors like actually answering a question. Instead, we are programmed to turn the question around into an attack on the Tories whilst at all times maintaining that it’s the right thing to do, we’re making the difficult decisions, investing for growth, jobs, investment, the NHS, schools, hospitals and poor kittens stuck up trees that the nasty Tories would just leave there. That and pointing out the inhertance tax cut for the 3000 richest families in the country, whilst conveniently forgetting that we also made a similar pledge and bottled an election that we would almost certainly have won after we saw that people actually thought cutting inheritance tax was a good idea.
Because it’s the right thing to do. Anyway, must dash, I’ve got a group of law abiding white middle class people to go and infuriate and my burning bra is beginning to sting a bit, too. Good job I keep a fire extinguisher in the old Fiesta after that last little shunt, eh? That could have been nasty, good job I’m a cabinet member in the most corrupt, hateful, disfunctional clusterfuck of a government imaginable, eh?
Ta ta. You know where to get hold of me!
Magic! and just SO Harriet.
Last night on QT, Hain was looking uncomfortable. yet he still managed his IHT cuts for the few jibe.
IHT is the unfairest tax of all. The problem with it is that the de minimus starting point for allowances is so low. Labour also want the allowances to be zeroed so that all Assets to be passed on to Offspring or Friends Relatives are fully taxed. That is what there spending plans for any future term are based on. Parliamentarians are exempt of course.
WTF is this defined 3000 richest people meme?
Hain was also big on the fact that Choudrays benefits unless fraudulent are rightful, and proper. Un fucking believeable. Bring in more dregs and let them scare us and bludge off us!! Labour think they will get the Muslim vote. They are so wrong. Recent Immigrants are the LEAST likely to want further immigration. Fact.
“Choudrays benefits unless fraudulent are rightful,” giving him twice as much disposable income as a squaddy in Afghanistan. Paying the Enemy to fight against us is rightful? Labour OUT.
Nver occurred to Hain that it is the actual Benefits System that is wrong. They are under pressure from the EU to continue with the Policy. It is the level of entitlement and the ability to claim without any attempt to get a job, and a system that allows claimants to claim ad infinitum.
Or perhaps it never occurred to Hain that Army/Forces pay is undervalued. For sure the Government thinks that the MoD Twonks are brave and should be rewarded. After spending £2.4 BILLION on Office Upgrading in that department alone. Now that would have been a sum worth spending on Heavy Lift Chppers instead!
Another nonsense statistic. If tax was expected to be paid on that ’40 Billion’ most of it would not be earned in the first place, therefor it could not be taxed. The country would simply be poorer. Try harder.
That Shappi bird was a fucking disgrace last night on QT. Of the Gordon Brown coup attempt: ‘er, er, er, oh, er, I don’t know what to say.’ Way to go girl, if the whole panel did that it’d be one short arsed television show. This Week could start 45 minutes earlier. Then after she’d had ten minutes to think of something she wades back in with ‘save Surestart! The Tories are already talking about cutting it!’ Get to fuck, you idealist left wing beeboid. 13 years of a government that you voted for and the best you can come up with is a piss poor £3 billion waste of cash now lingering on McDoom’s Visa card, underwritten by us.
Ironic for Shappi that her own father fled oppresion in Iran yet she pledges allegiance to the most hateful, un-democratic and corrupted government we’ve ever had.
Get Clarkson on the panel, or Hislop, or Chuck fucking Norris. Just not her again, ever. In fact, I might go watch Delta Force right now. Go, Chuck!
” Get Clarkson on the panel, or Hislop, or Chuck fucking Norris. ”
Like it.
Pat Condell, Fiona McEvoy, Mike Denham, Chris Mounsey, Godfrey Bloom, Richard North, Christopher Booker, Donal Blaney, Douglas Carswell, Susie Squire……
her career gets a leg up from the BBC and “oh dear I’ve said it now I support Labour”
can you see how it works yet?
This ‘it only helps the 3000 richest people’ thing that these lying tossers are all urged to keep spouting is so stupid. I can’t understand why the tories aren’t refuting it.
THE TOP 3000 PEOPLE WILL BE THE ONLY ONES PAYING INHERITANCE TAX.
The rest of us who have worked and bought our houses with taxed income will benefit after our deaths by being able to pass on OUR hard won assets to our offspring or whoever we wish.
Why aren’t tory spokesmen saying this?
Common sense at last…
Inheritance tax is theft. If Osborne can’t initially afford the £1million promise then do it in stages. Kick off with £400K, then £500K in time for 2015. It’s a middle class vote winner and these are the people, that all parties agree, need to be on board for election victory. The Labour party are now talking about being the aspirational party. But why aspire to anything if the State are going to take it all off you?
SPEAK UP OSBORNE
Because they don’t want to win the election. They are going through the motions, but they gave at least 7% of their support to UKIP, they have stolen labour all-ethnic or all women shortlists, they have adopted political correctness and are doing as much as they can to shed their core support.
THE TOP 3000 PEOPLE WILL BE THE ONLY ONES PAYING INHERITANCE TAX.
Not many of the very richest, as they’ll have generally payed for good lawyers and accountants to set up the necessary dodges to get as much of their property out of the reach of the grasping socialists as they can.
regarding Tony Bens views on inherited wealth as I understand them I would love to see his will !!! may be the BBC could ask him
don’t forget that someone sanctioned his benefit claims in the first place ,they were ok with them until he hits the headlines…
how many more of them on that money are there?
just say to yourself “I really want 5 more years of this”
keep up the good work “postal vote” truth will come out eventually
By the way after the Lisbon treaty I thought all our benefit questions would be decided by Brussels.So we working people pay and someone unelected decides who can have that money….thats democracy for you
We the people all have to pay inheritance tax on this Governments bleedin great big deficit. That will trickle down through the generations.
yes we do …..by the neck very very firmly and squeeze hard
Yes Hairyarse Harman, we certainly do have some ideas where to get hold of you. Hopefully all painful.
I’m hoping that come May this politicisation of the Civil Service may stop. However, after 13 years of mandarin brainwashing, it is conceivable that the process is so ingrained in the Civil Service psyche that it’ll be too late.
They have been assimilated. Next is the thinking element of your Society.
‘fraid to dash your hopes but the politicisation of the Civil Service started under Thatcher (was there, saw it, got the badge).
2,3,4
Counts the days into years
Yes 82 brings many fears
Yesterday’s laughter turns to tears
His arms, his legs don’t feel so strong
His heart is weak there’s something wrong
Opens windows in despair
Trying to breath in some fresh air
His conscience cries “get on your feet”
“Without you Jack the town cant eat”
Grocer Jack grocer Jack get off your back
Go into town don’t let them down
Oh no no
Grocer Jack grocer Jack get off your back
Go into town don’t let them down
Oh no no
The people that live in the town
Don’t understand
He’s never been known to miss his round
Its 10 o’clock the housewife’s yell
When Jack turns up we’ll give him hell
Husbands moan at breakfast tables
No milk no eggs no marmalade labels
Mothers send the children out to Jacks house
To scream and shout
Grocer Jack grocer Jack get off your back
Come into town don’t let us down
Oh no no
Grocer Jack grocer Jack get off your back
Come into town don’t let us down
Oh no no
Its Sunday morning bright and clear
Lovely flowers decorate a marble square
People cry and walk away
Think about the fateful day
Now they wish they’d given Jack
More affection and respect
The little children dressed in black
Don’t know what’s happened to old Jack
Grocer Jack grocer Jack
Is it true what mummy says
You wont come back
Oh no no
Grocer Jack grocer Jack
Is it true what mummy says
You wont come back
Oh no no
Grocer Jack grocer Jack
Is it true what mummy says
You wont come back
Oh no no
Grocer Jack grocer Jack
Is it true what mummy says
You wont come back
Oh no no
Grocer Jack grocer Jack
Is it true what mummy says
You wont come back
Oh no no
You hoons need to jack the politics in and get with Grocer Jack.
I think I will do a version on the electric Ude
Phew I thought it said tacky questions !
Does the Quarry need books down the trousers , flame proof suite , toledo steel or George Carmen ?? ive had the steak meal and unleven bread.
they didnt want to let Ken Clark speak did they ! Any truth in Kelvin Mckenzies ruins cabinet giveaway are other voices going to speak ??
No change in government is going to change anything.
They have systematically stolen our language and developed a way of communicating, verbal and written, that both sets them apart and leaves us high and dry. Based on the legal need and desire to defend themselves they never give an answer to anything. We are left with the impression that everything, is therefore, our fault.
It’s rape and abuse and thuggery. Even people with intelligence and argument are fristrated by them. The bureaucracy in a sense has won and always will. We have to burn their houses down and begin again……
That is the only sensible solution.
Hoist them on their own petards. Throw their language back at them but most importantly stick their heads up a dead bears bum!
Why doesn’t the sign say “how to lie”? effectively? Remember the people we are lying to are only the people who pay our wages so no worries.
Standard Socialism. Screw the owners and kill the Golden Goose.
Here is a tricky question, BBC saying 2 days ago that up to 500,000 died in Haiti quake, now it appears to be just 50,000 ??
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8460417.stm
How can they get it so wrong?
Journalism is not what it was……….
If they claimed that the total could be “up to” 500,000 and it turns out to be 50,000, they are not wrong, merely using the language of advertising. Politicians, journalists and even scientists have started using “Up to” as a lazy way to exaggerate the impact of their story, but the public seems to be too thick to react against it.
Sea levels could rise by up to 100 metres…
Possible to rise up to a 1000 metres if there was to be a huge Asteroid etc. etc.
Sound bites for the Masses.
As another poster commented on here.
“To-Day I will be mostly, be being scared to death by the Media”
It’s difficult to check the facts in Haiti when you’re sending in your expenses from Miami.
Nick Clegg has slept with up to thirty women.
1?
2?
So if only 50,000 the we can celebrate ……. yippppeeeeeeee !!!
Another trick question for a number Labour MPs…..
Why did you support the First Great Leader and his war in Iraq, and continue to do so, yet condemn the Tories for the sinking of the Belgrano ??
two faced twats!!
should read …. tricky question !!
it is too early for all this……
they fight the taliban in afghanistan while introducing shari courts in UK
they say they are fighting terrorism in afghanistan while they release the world worst terrorist from prison..by the way is he dead yet?
It was the right thing to do.
Tricky Question – How could you lot fuck up this country so much?
Labour: A talent for screwing up Britain.
Labour – a talent for screwing up everything they touch – both here & abroad (think Ivan Lewis)
The tricky question for the DTI as it was is “what are you for?” At the last election there was talk of closing down the whole dept.
Give money to Haiti. The President needs a new Palace.
The poorest, most corrupt, feral country in the Americas. Twinned with Liberia, and Sierra Leone in Africa. Albania in Europe, and Myanmar in Asia.
There is a very slim chance that your donation will help ordinary citizens in dire need of help. Meanwhile aid workers are marking time in Dominican Republic, due to ‘Formalities’.
Sad, lamentable, and actually avoidable. The French haven’t been prominent in their support so far, have they?
What you say about donations is sad but true. If you look at what happened to the £millions that were donated tto charities after the Boxing Day Tsunami – vast amounts of that money never reached its intended goal .
The best hope for Haitians at the moment is the American government with it’s hospital ships , pararescue teams and helicopters, and our own rescue teams for which we are justifiably respected.
Links:
https://www.ircuk.org/haitiappeal
http://www.redcross.org.uk/
http://www.unicef.org.uk/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243351/Shadow-Chancellor-George-Osbournes-bonfire-middle-class-benefits.html
If they win the next election the tories will cut £700million benefits to middle classes immediately . Thank Heavens for common sense. It’s not enough but it will make a good start.
Tricky question for gordon – what are you going to do after the next election which your party is most likely to lose and when your colleagues try and remove you from your failed leadership?
I am resolute. I’m doing the right thing. I shall read Invictus out loud until they all go away.
you could read how Martin Webster had a three year gay affair with his NF buddy Dick Sniffin while you’re at it
Boring.
Who cares?
Half of Parliament is gay; it’s almost compulsory.
I used to take Invictus when I had a stuffy nose
Judging by his performance in Finchley last night, the unpleasant Hain might have benefitted from attendance at such an event.
Half expected to see Rufus CorpseBride on the panel.
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/tricky_questions_training
Ha!: “PS I hope this question is not too tricky for you.”
And I thought Government Departments weren’t influenced by political parties, or at least they weren’t meant to be.
Socialist State springs to mind.
Definition of a tricky question: Which would you find most repulsive: muff-dive Harriet Harman, lick Brown’s scrotum or vote Labour?
Apparently there’s one member of the cabinet that’s done all three.
Wibble.
raaaaather old bean
Weeble.
Not-so-tricky question: Do you feel comfortable borrowing an extra 3.5 billion pounds every week?
Weird. Ed Balls keeps asking me to do his wife while he watches. He must think I’m fucking stupid, I can tell it’s a bloke. He should get Mandleson on the case.
Ian’s cock is bigger than Fat Eddy’s. Fat Eddy’s is the tiniest in the commons. Ian likes scat.
Labour Tricky Question Manual:
When somebody asks you a question to which know the answer (but the answer makes you look a Hoon)
1) Smile wistfully using untrained lip muscles
2) Talk about when interest rates were 13% (when saving looked good)
3) Always use a “Tory dependent clause” e.g…. “which is a lot more than when..”
4) Answer avoidance. This is a complicated technique but pretending to be a woman helps, for example asking the questioner another question.
5) Refer to the Dave poster (good for a couple of belly laughs and hope they thereby forget the awkward question)
6) Look at watch and fuddle message about urgent meeting
7) Have a stooge in the audience who will fart just as you are attempting the embarrassing answer
8) Attack the questioner’s motives
9) Use an outright but unprovable lie
10) Answer a different question
11) Make a statement of intent rather than fact (“We are determined to tackle the problem of….”)
12) Make a motherhood statement (“Nobody wants the threat of crime on their doorstep….”)
13) Even when caught our never, ever, ever give up the chance to smear the messanger and thereby re-write history…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8460340.stm
And when you get really stuck just impose a soviet style tyranny over your fellow man, murder one hundred million of your fellow humans and hack into the internet activities of your population.
It’s Tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that’s right on time
It’s Tricky…(How is it?) Tricky (Tricky) Tricky (Tricky)
It’s Tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that’s right on time
It’s Tricky…Tr-tr-tr-tr-tr-tricky (Tr-Tr-Tr-Tricky) Tr-tr-tr…
There are no tricky questions.
Only tricky answers.
All I know is that sex is not the answer.
Sex is the question, to which the answer is invariably, “Yes”.
How to handle tricky questions – get questioned on the BBC, not other news channels.
What level is this NVQ course?
Should say – how to give tricky answers to straightforward questions.
I don’t think Paxo asks tricky questions, just the ones they don’t want to answer. Marr is a little below the belt, asking Gordon about his mental health, but not tricky.
George Osborne on TV last night.
Oh my God. A rabbit caught in the headlights.
OK so he’s poor and not trained for being on TV – I all ow him that.
OK so he doesn’t want to give too much away now 3 months before the GE
OK so he doesn’t know what the Cons will do as they need to see the books first
OK so he has no numbers, no facts, no details – nothing.
How can I seriously vote for this clown?
Get out whilst you still can. Protect yourselves. The tsunami of incompetence, hopelessness, uselessness of all these Politicians is coming our way.
You have been duly warned.
I am a complete idiot and will help the Conservatives lose the next General Election by my stupid speeches.
What else do you exoect from an Old Etonian??
Quote from a serious politician not a twerp like Osborne
There’s a big risk that if cuts begin suddenly and on a purely political basis that the economy will be plunged back into prolonged recession
Vince Cable, Lib Dem Treasury spokesman
Whadya mean ‘plunged back into recession’?
Labour have just squandered 300bn quid we don’t have to try and buy 1bn quid of ‘growth’ last quarter. If Brown had made the necessary cuts way back in early 2008 then we’d have them all behind us by now, we wouldn’t be 300bn quid extra in debt and any growth might actually be real growth as opposed to another 300bn quid of national credit card debt.
Oh, and another 300bn quid in the pipeline, minimum if we believe Darlings fanciful economic forecasts. Which, given prior form, will be wildly optimist.
We are sooooo fucked.
This isn’t over. This has hardly started.
Old Etonian?
Get your facts correct numpty.
Like Vince ‘change my mind often’ Cable knows his onions.
The country is in a mess because morons like yourself personalise incorrectly their vitriol.
Fact: Osborne went to St Paul’s not Eton
Fact: Socialists tax and spend
Ah yes, the economics expert who decided it would be a great idea to create a new tax especially for the homeowners in his own constituency. D’oh !
If Vince Cable was any good at anything why did he not get the Libby Fibby top job instead of that man who dresses like a Mormon?
“Syndicate room”
Do ZaNulabour now use the language of the real MAFIA ??!!
The message could not be clearer – if you find yourself on the wrong road, you take the first available exit instead of carrying on,” said Mr Osborne
I won’t mince my words,George as you have been on the wrong road for years.
Take the first available exit out of the House of Commons you wimp and get a decent job like a painter and decorator
Guido…
If we ever come across things like this and want to get them to you how can we do it?
I can’t email from my phone…is it ok to MMS to the tip-offs number?
The problem with the “modern” Conservatives is that they do not know how to deliver bad news.
It should be done quickly and communicated clearly, cuts and job loses should be done in one go, if you get it wrong, as you probably will, it is easier to re-employ people than suffer a long and painfull period of uncertainty.
If you are not prepared to do this you are just Blue Labour, as I suspect Cameron is
Why would Cameron have to deliver bad news as he is not responsible for any yet.
Labour have to deliver so much bad news because they have caused so much damage thats why you think they are good at it
just say to yourself “I want 5 more years of this” and look yourself in the mirror then go and get some help
Mandelson is teaching people how to mince their words
It doesn’t say which syndicate is to use that room. Tricky
http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/i%e2%80%99ll-fight-him-any-place-any-time/
Tricky? I’ll say! Labour are setting up a special unit for Operation Get Boris. The idea is to scrutinise Boris under a microscope, hoping to find ammo to destabilise Cameron. Their secret weapon? Ken Livingstone.
Boris will fight Ken any place any time, and the result will be exactly like the first time.
Remember last winter the Bum Bandit Corporation attacked Boris over the lack of preparation for the winter, note how this year the same bummers at the BBC have said nothing about it? Why? because the one eyed mong and his cronies are complete fuckwits so the BBC can’t attack Boris again
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7978280.stm
I wonder if there will be an inquiry this time into the fuck up by the one eyed gay mong?
Tricky question.
“Mr Mandy is it true that you were once seen by an aide in an office with Gordon Brown and both of you had your trousers round your ankles?”
It’s the right thing to do.
It all started in America.
It would be nice to see an ‘Honest Answers Training’ sign for once. Really, is politics today simply about lying to the public – 50% know you are liars – the remainder you need to bamboozle to get elected?
Tricky question: What is a Bamboozle? is it legal, and where would you buy one?
Give me a job
and I’ll give you the low
down
Doesn’t anyone else have the misfortune to hang out in the basement of 1 Victoria Street on occasion? C22 is one of the rooms let out for conferences. Heaven only knows who is trying to handle Tricky Questions.
We ran a course on ‘Paper cuts in the workplace’, very cutting edge.
It isn’t Tricky Questions we are worried about – it’s direct questions.
The course is really about giving Tricky Answers.
You must have a mole. How our money is and has been spent !!! Martin bells views of mandy are revealing. Mandy is like a disgusting disease that won’t respond to conventional medicine. Syphilis. Keeps on coming back.
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