January 25th, 2010

Reid on Football, Debts and Presbyterians

Now Gordon has taken to lecturing football clubs about  the importance of financial prudence and in particular not running up debts, it seems timely to reflect on what John Reid has to say about these matters.  The former hard man of the cabinet may not be a fan of Gordon, but he knows a bit about football club management since he is now the chairman of Celtic F.C., he says

“If you start getting into a position where you are running up debts that you cannot afford, spending money you don’t have, it is the road not to success but to ruin.”

He also said “If you want a boring crowd of Holy Willies, go to the other side of the city.” The “Holy Willies” is a term taken from a Robert Burns poem about Presbyterian hypocrisy and self-righteousness.  The  “other side of the city” means Rangers, who are based in Ibrox, which was part of the old Burgh of Govan… where one James Gordon Brown was born.  Reid has vowed to speak no ill of the PM, so these allegories are entirely coincidental…


400 Comments

  1. 1

    Reid never did have any class.

    • 20
      Hun to Hoon says:

      Iain Martin exposed Gordon Brown as a hun last year.This article also explains why Lloyds was sacrificed to the HBoS debt monster.

      http://blogs.wsj.com/iainmartin/2009/10/26/gordon-brown-owns-glasgow-rangers/tab/article/

      • 141
        Maladroit Labour Chump says:

        HUN ??? Or C-HUN- T ??

        • 170
          Bog Trotter says:

          Hun is the Irish for Scottish.

          • Anonymous says:

            No it isnt its a term applied to Rangers supporters as it is erroneously thought that they have much in common with Germans due in the main to the habit of some of their more intelectually challanged support in doing nazi salutes etc.
            The reason this is erronious is that most ( though not exclusively)of the nazi Hierarchy were in fact Catholic ie Hitler, Goebbles, Himmler, etc etc

            The fuckwitt wing of Rangers fc also do not appreciate this , mainly because they are fuckwits.

          • jgm2 says:

            I thought it had something to do with Herr William Of Orange (Dutch – near enough Hun) and our very own Queen Liz and her Royalist German ancestors.

          • Cap'n bob says:

            Goring, the guy who closed down all Roman Catholic newspapers had a Jewish Great-Grandfather

          • Jordanes says:

            The anonymous poster who suggests that those associated with Rangers are called Huns because of the extreme right-wing politics of a significant number of their fans is mistaken (although it’s one of the reasons why the name persists so consistently to this day). The word’s association with Rangers long pre-dates the rise of German fascism.

            In fact, Hun was used to evoke the spirit of the eastern barbarian Attila the Hun (AKA Flagellum Dei “The Scourge of God”). In the early 20thC Hun was applied to German troops because of stories of their atrocities – and indeed some, including the German King, encouraged the use of the description.

            Around the same time Irish people began to refer the British troops in the same way for the same reason (invading eastern barbarians committing military atrocities). The institution that is RFC and its fans are closely associated in the minds of their opponents with the oppressive British military and so “Britannia’s Huns” came to be a derogatory name for them too.

        • 217
          Road_Hog says:

          OT, I see NuLabour are still trying to introduce ID cards through the back door. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/25/id_young_london/

        • 243
          Up sh1t creek says:

          Did you say carry on rolling out the ID cards….

        • 362
          Al says:

          WHAT A SCOOP!

      • 385
        Alice Band says:

        Apparently in Esquire of twenty years ago, follow follow the link, he was exposed as a Celtic fan.
        Curiouser and curiouser.

    • 33
      resurgemus says:

      What’s the choice – Brown on one side of Glasgow, Reid and Michael Martin on the other.

    • 214
      Robert Burns says:

      Bought and sold for English gold,
      such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

      Burns on Scottish politicians 200 years ago.

      Now back to the Talisker.

      • 287
        Bog Trotter says:

        Burns’s poetry is a parcel of dung or,in recent idiom,a bag of shite.

        • 291
          Cyclic Sid says:

          pearls before swine . . .

          • Australian says:

            I always thought the Great McGonigall was a “better” poet – very blunt and to the point(!):

            “It must have been an awful sight,
            To witness in the dusky moonlight,
            While the Storm Fiend did laugh, and angry did bray,
            Along the Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay,
            Oh! ill-fated Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay,
            I must now conclude my lay
            By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay,
            That your central girders would not have given way,
            At least many sensible men do say,
            Had they been supported on each side with buttresses,
            At least many sensible men confesses,
            For the stronger we our houses do build,
            The less chance we have of being killed.”

            How many other poets give you useful structural engineering advice in the midst of a verse, eh…?

          • Australian says:

            Arghh – spelling! I meant “McGonagall” of course…

    • 241
      Up sh1t creek says:

      I knew I was right to let the conference record to the bitter end :)

      • 268
      • 273
        Anonymous says:

        You’ve got to give it to Gordo he does try and has tenacity second to none,which I admire.Bless.Don’t get me wrong I think he’s next to useless but I wish him a happy retirement north of the border x

      • 274
        Hun to Hoon says:

        This is pathetic.If Labour fight the GE with this deluded fool they will get about 100 seats.

        • 284
          David Cameron says:

          100 seats too many.

          We need a national crash-course in basic maths to explain to the 29% of folk who still entertain voting Labour just how utterly fucked this shower of jackasses have left the economy.

          I don’t know. Maybe even having party political broadcasts of the 100 billion times tables.

          One hundered billion times one equals one hundred billion
          Two hundred billion times one equals this years deficit…
          Three hundred billion times one equals total amount borrowed in the last eighteen months to buy one quarter of growth.
          Four hundred billion times one is less than the total debt accrued since 1066 before this Labour government.
          Five hundred billion times one equals total debt projected by this Labour government to maintain illusion of growth.
          Six hundred billion times one equals twice the national debt of 1997.
          Seven hundred billion times one equals seven hundred billion.
          Eight hundred billion times one equals Gordon Browns debt so far..

          The Tories could do a cracking Party Political Broadcast with kids chanting their way through that times-table.

          • Hun to Hoon says:

            It looks like Sarah has landed a decent right hook on Gordon’s left eye.I never believed those stories about him beating her.Quite the opposite.

          • AC1 says:

            Climbing over piles of Notes…

          • Mr Ned says:

            Even the dedicated socialist Actress Julie Walters has come out against labour. She feel’s betrayed by their lies over the need to go to war.

            Is this how dense labour supporters really are? Blair was lying his ass off 7 years ago about the need to go to war, and it has taken them 7 years to finally have the fact that labour are lying sacks of shit permeate into their retarded brains?

            FFS I was writing and protesting against this lot at the time. There were a lot of dedicated socialists, who did not sell their principles when Blair invaded their party, who had left labour and were protesting against this war at the time too. It was most discomforting to be protesting alongside socialists, against labour and the conservatives (as I was a tory at the time)

            I guess this was when I was beginning to realise how much British politics has become an elite vs the people game and the labour and tory parties are the same elite getting their plans implemented via divide and rule tactics.

          • Psst Dave,

            You’ll find that 29% will go down and the 40% go up if you had a fucking policy on getting out of the EU!

        • 308
          Hugh Janus says:

          Splendid.

      • 332
        Brown - not long now says:

        “Er firm er companies er clumps er clubs”…..

        Stringing sentences together is as difficult for this c*unt as writing a letter.

        Total fraudster.

  2. 2
    Peter Mandelson says:

    I like to dribble before I shoot.

  3. 3
    JOHN REID IS AN IRA SYMPATHISER - IT IS ALL ON THE RECORD says:

    Would this be the same John Reid who sang IRA terrorist songs and got so pissed that he rolled around on the floor of the division lobby and pissed his pants?
    Yes, it would.

    • 6
      john reid hates dobbers like the guy the wrote the email above (and so do a) says:

      aw dont talk pish. what ira songs are these? i think you should look at bile your own mob spout out. scotlands shame.

      • 9
        JOHN REID IS AN IRA SYMPATHISER - IT IS ALL ON THE RECORD says:

        It is all on the record. Reid was a supporter of terrorism.
        Go ask him about the terrorist songs he sang.
        Fuckwit.

        • 12
          John Reid warns says:

          I am a hard man so watch it sonny.

          Just ask the folk at The Tudor Hotal in Aidrie about the time that I ko’d someone in the lounge. One shot.

          The ugly bitch had to go to the Monklands Hospital to be stitched up.

          OK so I was pissed.

        • 24
          Anonymous says:

          Typical bigoted comment from a typical bluenose sub humanoid.
          As always trying to throw mud to make themselves look better.Will you ever learn ? Probably not you uneducated fool.Sorry…next thing you’ll be trying to convince us that you are. excuse me dr goebbels Stick to inbreeding & silly handshaking ceremonies you lowlife.
          RFC ..keeping bigotry alive and well since 1872.

          • jgm2 says:

            I worked about 20 years ago with a Scottish client rep. I’ll be honest I’d never given Scotland much thought up until then and although I was vaguely aware of the Celtic/Rangers thing I wasn’t really up to speed. Anyway I have a bit of an Irish accent which I ‘caught’ from my parents and this chap was very keen to know which part of Ireland my parents were from. See the naivety of youth. This is the question Scots ask you to find your (likely) religion.

            Well since I grew up in England I’d never had anybody say anything untoward about Catholics despite going to a Protestant secondary school. It simply never came up. So I told him. Southern Ireland mate.

            Fuck me. This c*nt couldn’t wait to tell me about how his grandad had a seat at Ibrox and how he’d passed the season ticket on to his dad and how his dad had passed the fucking season ticket on to him. Fucking great Bobby. Great story. Oh, but there was more. He REALLY couldn’t wait to tell me that he’d torn the fucking thing up and sent it back to the Rangers directors when they hired Mo Johnson. Not because Mo was a Catholic you understand. But because he was a ‘mercenary’.

            Fucking Rangers fans. I shit ‘em.

          • JOHN REID IS AN IRA SYMPATHISER - IT IS ALL ON THE RECORD says:

            I am not a Rangers supporter.
            I have drawn a very telling comment from you though.
            You must be a terrorist sympathiser like John Reid.

          • JOHN REID IS A FENIAN BASTARD says:

            Aye, but not doing quite as well in that dept as CFC?-FORGOT TAE MENTION THAT DID YE?

        • 79
          your still a dobber says:

          songs of terrorism? is this al quedas top 10 pop charts your on about. the soldiers song is a national anthem, nothing to do with the IRA.

          this is great coming from a hun anyway. what mob started the racist bile of the famine song?? think it was your horrible lot wasnt it. .. infact do you know any song that is not secterian. former rangers keepers with links to UDA, former board members (DF) singing up to your knees in …..what was it again. look at your own mob pal before you start spoutin your pish on here.

          god bless

        • 373
          Proud to be a Scot with Irish Roots says:

          JOHN REID IS AN IRA SYMPATHISER – IT IS ALL ON THE RECORD. You really are a dumb shit, Reid has been on record admitting he sang Irish song big deal. But can you name an “IRA” song thico. If you go and read the propper words to the so called “IRA” song you will find there is no such songs. When “IRA” is mentioned in the songs it’s an add on added to it by people who don’t understand.

          Not every person who fought for Irelands freedom was in the “IRA”. You should go and read books on subjects about both sides of the fight for Ireland and you will maybe come to a better understanding of what has went on over there over the years.

          As for John “Dr Death” Reid his time will come and will be tried for War Crimes

          Oh and by the way thicko, if he really was an “IRA” sympatiser as you put it, why the hell did he embrace the Brit Government and Policies so much, cause no “IRA” sympathiser would embrace that lot after all they have done

      • 282
        Anonymous says:

        look on you tube you prick. It’s on the record

        • 377
          Proud to be a Scot with Irish Roots says:

          Yes there is footage of him singing Irish Rebel songs but wher is the crime in that.

          If it’s a crime to sing an Irish Rebel song then it’s a crime to sing “Flower of Scotland” because at the end of the day thats a Scottish Rebel song or is that also to hard for you to comprehend

    • 18
      Anonymous says:

      I don’t think this is true of John. You obviously have a dislike of the man and that is your problem. I can assure you that he is no friend of any terrorist organization, be it Loyalist or Republican.

      • 25
        JOHN REID IS AN IRA SYMPATHISER - IT IS ALL ON THE RECORD says:

        You must be John’s press officer.
        It is all on the record. Look at it this way: if he hadn’t been a terrorist supporter and sung IRA songs and pissed himself on the floor of the division lobby then you wouldn’t have had to come to this place to lie on his behalf.
        On the bright side, at least you will be receiving over-time for lying for him this evening.
        You liar.

  4. 4
    Anonymous says:

    I rather liked Reid – I thought he was going to try and get the ‘full house’ of cabinet positions.

    Shame he didn’t give ‘the heid’ to Gordon Brown, and grab the top job for ‘isself..

    • 8
      JOHN REID IS AN IRA SYMPATHISER - IT IS ALL ON THE RECORD says:

      John Reid is an ex-Marxist terrorist supporting piss-head but you rather like him and think he should have grabbed the top job?
      Fuck off shithead.

      • 197
        the thin blue line says:

        And Boy George is a coke dealing pimp with the dirty on Dave – noone in politics is perfect.

  5. 5
    Wolfe Tone says:

    And you dare to call me a terrorist, while you look down your gun and i think of all the deeds that you have done.

    • 16
      Anonymous says:

      Wolfe tone was a protestant.

      • 21
        Wolfe Tone says:

        I know, and your point being?

        • 58
          resurgemus says:

          he supported Rangers ?

          • Fucking delicious! says:

            No fuckwit! Like Wolfe Tone, I was born protestant, and I support the Hoops. Religion has fuck all to do with it for me…

            Fucking delicious!

          • resurgemus says:

            this Wolfe Tone was he the one demanding freedom for Tooting ?

        • 207
          Anonymous says:

          My point being that the original cause of Irish independence had fuck all to do with religion, just like religion has fuck all to do with football and yet the fuckwits on both sides of the so called religious divide have made it so. They are thick as pig shit in the same way as those neanderthals who recently rioted in Stoke claiming to be defending England or some fucked up construct in their stupid low cock esteem heads. Arseholes everywhere.

          • Allan@Aberdeen says:

            The drive for Irish independence was secular until the Catholic Church of Ireland decided to involve itself in a manner which left the Protestants with little choice other than to set up their own statelet.

          • Proud to be a Scot with Irish Roots says:

            You will actually find that the Irish struggle for independance was faught for by both Catholic and Protestant. The reason it became religious is due to the Brit Governments usual tactic of divide and conquer. They are the ones who promotted the religious hatred and still do to this day in other countries when it suits their own means.

            Un educated people are the ones who spout most pish, they really should go and read a book. A lot of you idiots probably believe that Willem of Orange was always a Prod, he was a Catholic who saught the Popes permission at the time. Partition was cause by the Brittish wanting to keep a part of Ireland under Brit rule

          • Que? says:

            Nice to see that Dave is joining in the jollies by getting his mate Cranborne to show how unionist the Conservative and Unionist Party really is.

          • Ruth Dudley Edwards says:

            The drive for Irish independence was secular until the Orange card was cynically played.

  6. 7
    Lumpy pants. says:

    Brian Wilson, Billy Connolly, John Reid. Hardline unionists and fanatical Celtic supporters. Shouldn’t they be Rangers men?

    • 46
      jgm2 says:

      My dad was an Irish Catholic unionist. No shit. He was like those folk in India and Zimbabwe who just gape in awe at the fuckwittery that took hold once they’d kicked the British out.

      • 76
        Dry Martini says:

        There’s no difference in principle between an Irish Catholic Unionist and an English Protestant Europhile. I happen to disagree with the latter, but it’s a reasonable position held by millions of reasonable people. What is objectionable is the idea that people dare not make up their own mind because they are owned by their ancestors. This seems to be the prevalent view in Scotland and Ireland.

        • 87
          jgm2 says:

          Not southern Ireland. Well, once you get away from the border shitholes like Carrickmacross.

        • 127
          Peace_Factory says:

          I applaud your sentiments. Celtic people have too much in common. One day our ancestry will show through. Protestants and Catholics are pretty well the same. They must unite. All 45 million of them.
          Gloria in Excelsis Deo!

        • 179
          final salary civil servant pensioner says:

          That is so right – which is why, like myself, millions have departed Scotland and Ireland as soon as they were able.

          I wish I had been born somewhere nice like Cornuw – sorry Cornwall – sorry Cymru -sorry Wales oh feck it!

          • Phil MacCrackin says:

            Think of those who are not able to leave and are subjected to all the scum and shite that is left – not to say anything about the incomers and inferior beings from europe and even a place they call england . . . .

          • Anonymous says:

            oh, bloody hell…now we’re getting Welsh and Cornish independence thrown in here…INDEPENDENCE FOR STOK-ON-TRENT

    • 77
      Hamish Macbeth says:

      Celtic…Rangers…Unionist….Catholic….Presbytarian…Prod…..etc etc yada yada….

      Who gives a *** anymore……

      Ireland North and South are not run by the UK but by the EU….

      Religion is unimportant now in the UK and Ireland … unless you are a follower of Islam

    • 177
      tbird says:

      Brian Wilson?
      I thought the beach boys were too busy having fun

  7. 10
    Gordon Brown says:

    And Glasgow Rangers are on course to be Scottish Premier League champions this season.

    So there you have it

  8. 11
    Brown likes to smear copiously-FACT says:

    I am fucking sick n tired of these lying, thieving, smug, spendaholic Celts who comprise the Scotch raj in London-FACT

    These vermin bicker over who is the best Scotch to ensure the continuation of Scotch rule over England, not over how England’s immense problems are to be tackled-FACT

    If I paid tax in England I’d be fookin furious-FACT

    Scotchland is ‘fantastic’ yet London is full of chip on both shoulders, mouthy, narky, opinionated, ghastly, self regarding, lazy Scotch-FACT

    This website is too flash heavy-FACT

    I deals in facts-FACT

    • 99
      COVLAD says:

      My, you are upset, you fucking Romano. Norman fucker. Leave now. Return to the new Reich Lite. The world is our’s you fucking monkeys. Get at life or loose it.

    • 302
      Cyclic Sid says:

      Fact – Scotch is a drink – eejit

      • 365
        udderly 'orrible says:

        It also pisses up the Scotchlanders no end when its used to replace “Scots”.

    • 378
      Anonymous says:

      If you don’t like Flash, you can turn it off. In Opera, uncheck the menu option Tools, Quick Preferences, Enable plug-ins.

  9. 13
    mickybhoy says:

    john reid (go on home british soldiers go on home war monger )

  10. 14
    Where is England's Glenn Beck? says:

    “Reid has vowed to speak no ill of the PM, so these allegories are entirely coincidental…”

    Bollox – he has no need to speak ill of the “PM” – Gordon’s actions and flaws show all we need to know about this flawed and unelected Joker – but note the use of the term “PM” – The gloves will be off after the election when Brown is no longer PM and all the stupid marxists line up to sell their version of events and the fools that have brought us to the verge of economic and social meltdown.

    History is going to have a lot to say about these Marxist scum.

  11. 15
    Anonymous says:

    West of Scotland Labour party = catholic mafia

    • 26
      nell says:

      Don’t underestimate scottish presbyterian beliefs.

      Calvinist and Puritan roots = dour, disciplinarian beliefs that each person is inevitably a sinner who cannot be freed from his sins and must be punished in order to find salvation.

      The puritans and calvinists which formed the basis of this religion believed that music, fine clothes, joyful emotions, were evil – not sure what they would make of gordon’s £3000 suit but suspect his presbyterian roots have already condemned it as a sin. As for alcohol………. !!!!

      No wonder gordon is depressive having been brought up in this emotional straitjacket of a religion!!!!

      • 35
        WHY DON'T THE SCOTTISH POLITICIANS FUCK OFF TO SCOTLAND AND FUCK THAT COUNTRY UP AND LEAVE US ALONE says:

        I just wish the Scottish Mafia would keep their nasty sectarian religous hatred to themselves but they have exported it to this country.
        Their religious backgrounds explain a lot about why the Scottish politicians infect this country with their spite and why they hate the English and wish to ‘punish’ us in the form of taxations and fines for the merest errors such as having our bin lids open an inch.
        It really does explain a lot of the vicious and nasty treatment English residents have received at the hands of the Scottish New Labour warmongers.

        • 159
          JOHN REID IS A FENIAN BASTARD says:

          AH how inconvenient for you.Tell us where you are and we will come and “leave you alone”

      • 55
        Anonymous says:

        Calvanism and the Protestant work ethic was the origin of free market capitalism. Nell you really are thick as mince sometimes, is your entire belief system based on stereotypes and half arsed popular misconceptions or are you just having a laugh.

        Where on earth did you read that Calvanism requires anyone to be punished to find salvation. I am not religious so I have no issued with using language to describe your utter utter ignorance of theology as bing a pile of pish, but at least I know what they believe even if I dont agree with it.

        You have no idea and sound off like an idiot !

        • 70
          nell says:

          Indeed it was – but you need to understand it’s deeper origins and darker results. Try Culture and Belief – Englander and Norman or Protestantism – CSL Davies.

          Or more usefully try being a protestant – it’s what most of us were raised as in the fens.

          • Anonymous says:

            Nell you were raised thinking its ok to marry your cousin on the fens so I think I’ll pass on that one

        • 133
          stilyagi_air_corps says:

          I think you’ll find it was the Hugenots and Dutchies who kicked off the Work Ethic.
          Predestination? Are you fucking sure, mate?
          Explains Gordon though.

        • 249
          TONY BENN'S WILL says:

          PISH that’s going too far!!

        • 375
          Sting's Beard says:

          “Protestant work ethic”

          Dont make me laugh. It was Irish catholics who built the roads. Railways and canals and latter factories not only of Britain but of the empire and the States. Meanwhile some fat Scottish Oaf who claimed to be an engineer sat on his arse and took all the credit.

          • Anonymous says:

            At least the “fat Scottish Oaf” engineer lived to tell the tail; and enjoy his profits.

        • 379
          Cyco Billy says:

          > Calvanism and the Protestant work ethic was the origin of free market capitalism.

          So what? Are you saying we should extend ancestor-worship to ideas, isms, and ideologies? Don’t be thick yourself.

      • 59
        jgm2 says:

        Nah. That whole punishment thing is Catholic doctrine. I should know. I grew up with that shit.

        • 73
          FUCK OFF GORDON BROWN YOU CUNT says:

          The Catholics and Protestants have had a dutch auction of self hatred which they externalised to commit acts of hatred against each other.
          The land clearances for example were carried out by Scottish people on their fellow Scots.
          The Scots are just fucked up and full of religious based hatred. They are now projecting that hatred onto English residents through our own Parliament and spitelful mentally deranged individuals like Gordon Brown.
          Fuck off back to Scotland Gordon, you are not welcome here you fucking useless wanker.

          • jgm2 says:

            ‘A Dutch auction of self-hatred which they have externalised.’

            Pure class.

            And true. In NI and Glasgow at any rate. The rest of the UK doesn’t give a shit. Although Lewes still bears a grudge over something or other.

        • 84
          God of vengeance says:

          One word jgm2….Predestination.

          That’s the vision of the deity which underpins the Calvinist psyche.

          All mankind is damned except a chosen few and each believes that he is one of the elect and has to prove it to himself and his neighbours.

          Guilt trip mega style.

          • resurgemus says:

            Of course Calvin was french – Europe’s premier fucked up nation.

          • nell says:

            ‘All mankind is damned except a chosen few’ . Exactly. That is precisely the presbyterian doctrine gordon was raised in.

            And it is very obvious, isn’t it ? that he regards himself as one of those chosen few!!!

            What an ego!!

          • Watch the Skies! says:

            If Gordon is one of the ‘Elect’, count me out.

          • jgm2 says:

            This isn’t that literal translation of the bible that the Jehovahs Witnesses believe in is it? That there are 132,000 or whatever places in heaven and that’s it?

            The place could well be full already at this rate you fuckers. It could be like a giant fucking ballon debate up there. Some do-gooder arrives and the rest of ‘em have to justify why they get to stay.

            Fuck that.

          • Anonymous says:

            Gordon wasnt Brought up on Calvinst doctrine, that had long since departed the Church of Scotland by that time. No Gordon would have been brought up with a version of Liberation Theology which was and to a degree still is endemic in the Church having taken a grip in the 1960′s. This theology is basically Marxism dressed up as christianity.
            This explains much of Browns outlook.

          • BrownTrousersRus says:

            calvin would do anyone’s brain but he still makes quite cool jeans

    • 160
      Just saying says:

      All this Religious stuff sounds terrible, not surprising it always ends in Wars, and Ithought it was just the dews and muhamedans

      bad karma and all that

  12. 17
    Rabbi Burns says:

    Oy vey!

  13. 22
    concrete pump says:

    FFS Fawkes!

    leave religion out of it will you.

  14. 23
    G.Adams says:

    Up the ‘RA.

  15. 27
    Ewanme says:

    OMG !!!

    Holy Willyby ain’t borin . She’s lovely .

    All bible-bashers are sad fuckers an I challenge any one of them to prove me wrong x .

    GET LOST you mongs .

    Love E x .

  16. 28

    Gordon on football club debt on 25/1/10
    “The management of clubs must look seriously at their responsibilities to their supporters”

    “football clubs don’t have the income that is necessary to deal with the leverage that they have.”

    Gordon on Governent Debt on 25/1/10
    “The biggest mistake we in Britain and individual countries could make would be to withdraw now from the supportive actions we need for growth and jobs.”

    Conclusion: Football clubs should sack useless players and save money. Government should carry on paying people in non jobs to do non work which will then ……………………create jobs in the Private Sector??????? (Sorry dont see how that works)

    • 299
      Cyclic Sid says:

      ‘Poor’ Gordo – he talks the talk but can’t walk the walk – nowtNu for NuLabour then.

  17. 30
    Engineer says:

    “Reid has vowed to speak no ill of the PM”

    You mean he’s got a spokesman to do that for him?

  18. 31
    tod says:

    It started in Scotland

  19. 32
    GORDIMODO says:

    So Mr Reid you say our troops will go to Afgahanistan and return without a shot being fired ?
    Get your coat and close the door on your way out !
    You Fucking Dickhead !

    • 85
      Dry Martini says:

      I think he meant to say “without firing a shot”. Something about Gordon Brown, Labour cuts and the supply of ammo.

  20. 39
    Helpful says:

    Is he trying to line up some Non Executive Directorships for after the election? With a bit of United will offer him a sinecure and that will finish them off. Lucky they got the bond issue away before his intervention.

    • 239
      TONY BENN'S WILL says:

      he could be a good luck charm like URI GELLER was for some team which got relegated

  21. 42
    Max says:

    +++ JONAH WATCH +++

    OT but the curse of McDoom hits Doctor Who actor:

    Daily Mirror: Vote McDoom Says Actor

    Daily Mail: Actor’s Career Blighted

    Not a moment too soon.

  22. 43
    mickybhoy says:

    could someone tell me what john reid brings 2 celtic

    • 50
      jgm2 says:

      He’s a fucking terrior inside the penalty box. And he has a ferocious header. Allegedly.

    • 57
      GORDIMODO says:

      They will return to the top of the league” without a shot being fired “!

    • 61
      resurgemus says:

      Scottish MPs like Michael Martin so that they can spend tax payers money in the directors box and claim it back as expenses.

  23. 44
    Mick says:

    Actually Gotdon Brown was born in Giffnock in the Orchard Park Hotel which used to be a maternity home.

    • 252
      TONY BENN'S WILL says:

      was it closed down soon after gordon was born?

    • 388
      James Wales says:

      EDIT WAR
      EDIT WAR

      Giffnock, Renfrewshire was where his parents were living though he was born in Govan.

      Until the nest EDIT WAR when it will be reverted.

  24. 47
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    The back of John Reids sofa would probably turn up some far more interesting stuff than a rummage in McMentals DFS special would ever do,

    • 121
      genghiz the kahn says:

      white marching powder?

      • 175
        genghiz the kahn says:

        http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4957354.stm

        Cannabis found at John Reid home

        The discovery was made at Mr Reid’s home several days ago.

        A “minuscule” quantity of cannabis resin has been found at the Scottish home of Defence Secretary John Reid.

        Mr Reid said the cannabis – worth less than £1 – was found in a guest room and police had told him it could have been there for years.

        “I have no idea where it came from, or when,” the defence secretary said.

        Police are to take no action over the find, made during a security sweep of the Lanarkshire house. They said Mr Reid was not suspected of any offence.”

        iguess that all is clean, and Reid made all his statements on oath.

        but i did wonder why the Gers fans held a banner “dawn primarolo loyal rsc”.

        http://mreugenides.blogspot.com/2009/02/red-white-and-blue-dawn-primarolo.html

  25. 48
    Tony Blair says:

    Rangers are not going to win the league. They are going to go bust.

    • 52
      jgm2 says:

      If they don’t win the league then they deficnitely will go bust. Although a concerted letter-writing campaign by the Rangers faithfull to BOS might persuade them not to pull the plug. On account of the number of bank branches that might suddenly burn to the ground.

      You understand.

  26. 51
    Jimmy Torbett says:

    A lecture from the Chairman of a football club when faced with a homosexual paedophile scandal did what? absolutely nothing, leaving dozens of young bhoys to fall prey.

    If you know your history
    It’s enough to make you sick…

  27. 53
    John Reid is a Fenian Bastard says:

    Anyone who would listen to what this wee divot has to say needs a break at the State Mental hospital Carstirs, which indeed is not far from where the vertically challenged one lives.

    • 63
      John Reid's mum says:

      Is that where you live? How do you manage to type whilst wearing a strait-jacket?

      And it’s spelt Carstairs.

  28. 54
    John Reid's mum says:

    Leave my wee John alone. He’s a very nice boy

  29. 56
    nell says:

    Scottish presbyterianism, northern irish catholicism, radical islam.

    Where’s the difference??

    • 60
      John Reid is a Fenian Bastard says:

      Where is the similarity?-do you always keep your head up your arse?

    • 64
      resurgemus says:

      the main difference is the choice of fire-arms .

      • 72
        jgm2 says:

        In Glasgow they generally prefer knives.

      • 96
        nell says:

        Yes. But they all share the same belief that their extreme opinions will give them power over a malleable, peace loving majority.

        More particularly this marxist, scottish domination of england is coming to an end – It is now clearly a failed doctrine.

    • 73
      John Reid's mum says:

      Well, radical Islam is aiming for the creation of a worldwide caliphate with the imposition of Sharia law. So far the Scots and Northern Irish have not perfected flying a packed jet liner into a skyscraper.
      Presbyterians believe in the use of very strong mints and discrimination against anyone who doesn’t agree with them.
      Northern Irish Catholicism doesn’t exist; it’s Roman. Simples!

      • 130
        nell says:

        But you see radical islam and the scottish mafia have similar aims – domination of peace loving masses who won’t rouse themselves to oppose them!!

        And yet both of them are failing. The Scottish mafia will fizzle out first!!!

  30. 62
    GORDIMODO says:

    O/T I see McDoom has gone to Belfast To Sort The Paddy’s Out !
    Thats it then Civil War By Weekend

    • 68
      Anonymous says:

      Apparently the Cabinet meeting has already been postponed so he can ‘stay overnight and sort it out’…

      Developing…

      • 75
        jgm2 says:

        Yeah. Well, you know, he did personally sort out the world’s banking system one Sunday between crimping one off and having breakfast but sorting out a conflict with roots going back 800 or so years might take all night for a man of his intellect.

        Fucking nutcase.

        • 369
          udderly 'orrible says:

          Al ja beeba somnolently announced this morning: “The UK will emerge from recession later today”!

          Yep quite so, probably about 11.04, straight after morning coffee.

          Meeja study graduates all of ‘em.

      • 136
        stilyagi_air_corps says:

        Fucking looks like it, reading all the popebilly shit on here!

      • 218
        pass it on says:

        Do the Taliban know he’s there?

      • 301
        Cyclic Sid says:

        Lord ‘elp us – a son of the manse is going to settle an ‘argument’ between protestants and catholics – no brainer eh!

        Back to the hard hats and flack jackets then and that is just for us mere mortals :-)

    • 90
      Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

      It doesn’t have a very good feeling about the whole situation. And watching the MM person on the news, they are taking full advantage of Robinson’s turmoil.

      Well done Iris. You really let your base instincts screw up so many people’s lives.

      • 98
        jgm2 says:

        They should send in Mandy. Seriously. He did an okay job (I think) last time. They certainly should not have some Scot born in fucking Glasgow to Presbyterian parents. Talk about a red rag to Martin McGuinness or Gerry Adams.

        Being lectured by a fucking Presbetyrian Scot?

        Oh Christ. Not again.

        • 107
          resurgemus says:

          whereas sending an openly gay pseudo toff was just designed to keep the DUP happy ! Why not compromise and send some religiously dedicated young men with beards and backpacks next time. That way all parties can have something they empathise with.

          • jgm2 says:

            Seriously though I thought Mandy did okay – although the passage of time and the sponge of amnesia (thanks Boris) may have developed a false memory there.

          • resurgemus says:

            he didn’t do bad in keeping the show on the road, but then UK govt lost the plot and decided to knife the moderates and appease the nutters. The point about Adams \ McGuinness and Paisley\ Robinson is they sodding well need to be upset and actively stopped from getting their way. It’s the only way the other 66 million inhabitants of these islands are going to get a break.

          • TONY BENN'S WILL says:

            Martin was sweating like a good un

        • 212
          Anonymous says:

          Listen jgm2 when we want lessons in tolerance we wont be asking the english Very few ( if any actually) people were burned at the stake for heresy in Scotland , plenty appear to have been burned in Englandshire. Barbarians.

          • jgm2 says:

            If you say so. How’s the ‘One Scotland Many Cultures’ (Stop stabbing the blacks) campaign going?

          • Anonymous says:

            Stabbing the blacks ? Prey tell What is that statement based on ?

          • Anonymous says:

            Seems to be working well by and large as there is no evidence of much inter racial warfare going on as in the English cities. Hows operation Trident going ?

          • Anonymous says:

            The pride of England, you must be very proud of these folks

          • The COUNTY of scotland says:

            211 must one the very few (if any actually) Jocks sober on tonight, one hates to stereotype but how was the battered mars bar you had for tea?
            Its funny that England is full of Scots telling us how wonderful it is back home when reality it must be pretty grim, otherwise why would you want to leave it?

          • jgm2 says:

            Operation Trident isn’t tackling inter-racial warfare. It’s tackling black-on-black warfare.

            As you well know.

          • jgm2 says:

            Oh Scotland is like Ireland. Practically emptied of anybody with any ambition. All of ‘em sitting around in clubs and bars in England, Australia, America, wherever lamenting the ‘beautiful’ country they’ve left behind.

            The Pogues had it nailed on…

            ‘Where e’er we celebrate
            The land that made us refugees…’

          • jgm2 says:

            FFS

            ‘Where e’er we go we celebrate…’

          • The COUNTY of scotland says:

            jgm2 has a good point, go to any bar, in any City in the UK or Europe and you will find a Aussie telling you how great Australia is and every day they have a BBQ on the beach because it never rains and all English are poms etc etc etc etc and then some twat from Hollywood then makes a film about how wicked the Brits were and the poor little Jocks and Paddies have never ever done anything wrong .This is despite the fact that most of you a from Viking stock, known for their peaceful nature!!!!

            By the way don’t you have a slight issue with people settling in Glasgow from Eastern Europe? And how are relations with the Mus lim s , didn’t one have a parking problem at Glasgow airport and tried to park his burning car in departures?

          • Sven Errikson says:

            OI! Vikings are nice.

      • 101
        GORDIMODO says:

        What has Iris Robinson and IKEA got in common ?
        ANS :One dodgy screw and the whole fucking cabinet falls apart !

      • 106
        GORDIMODO says:

        Lie-Bore say “We Don’t Deal With Terrorists” Well You Fucking Installed Them As Part Of The Government In Ireland !

      • 109
        jgm2 says:

        This cock-related self-destruction neatly bookends the Labour idiocy. Right at the beginning of The Idiocy you had Paddy Ashdown letting the side down by going off piste and allowing Blair to kick his promised PR referendum into touch and now, at the end of The Idiocy, you have Iris giving Marty a golden opportunity to turn the fucking screw.

        Brown will just buy him off with several hundred million pounds of (English) taxpayers money. Billions possibly.

  31. 69
    Ya Did Nay Qualify says:

    Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha

    http://www.myfootballfacts.com/2.jpg

    Dont let Gordon get his hands on it

    • 95
      GORDIMODO says:

      To be fair the jocks arn’t bad at that game where you chuck a big stone across the ice
      then shout at it while two old women run in front of it with sweeping brushes

  32. 78

    Debt advice from the Government

    “The worst thing you can do is to ignore the problem – it won’t just go away.”

    Gordon read your own f*#king website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 102
      streamfisher says:

      We know Gordon is useless in the matters of the fiscal and being Scottish he can hardly claim a tribal affiliation to footballing excellence, last I heard he only ever played one-eyed Rugby Union (allegedly).

      • 128
        Brown Hater says:

        Photos, team mates?

        Still nary a one!

        • 143
          jgm2 says:

          I’m guessing it was a one-off game against one of the local private schools. Dollar Academy or Strathallen and they got a fucking good kicking. Literally in his case.

          It explains his absolute pathological, blood-vessel busting visceral hatred of Cameron. He looks at Cameron and he sees a size 12 studded boot smashing into his face. Unfortunately he looks at the whole of middle England and sees the same fucking boot. Hence his determination to destroy the country.

          Job done Brown. You can fuck off now. You’ve had your revenge.

          • A Pensioner says:

            Is that boot for sale? It would have to have suitable attribution – like a letter describing the moment in graphic detail when the toe-cap made contact with the eye, and the blood-curdling scream of pain etc. A Photo would be even better.

          • Just saying says:

            good explanation. How unpopular he’s been for so long

        • 161
          Peter 'takes one to know one' Manhandlebum says:

          More like ‘Brown Hatter’

      • 137
        nell says:

        Apparently , it was said that he sustained an injury to his eye (s) through rugby at school. Now it is being said that he sustained an injiury to his eyes by heading a football at Edinburgh University.

        Why then has gordon’s ‘elf and safety brigade not banned heading footballs in the playround or on the football pitch!!!

        It should be banned!!! I suspect under labour’s Duty of Care laws sport should be banned per se!!!

        • 154
          Engineer says:

          Perhaps it was nothing to do with rugby or football. Perhaps it’s something less glamorous.

          Perhaps he was struck in the eye by a flying conker fragment. That would explain much….

          • nell says:

            Right! Let’s ban conkers then !!!

            We shouldn’t let our children explore the games that we enjoyed as children should we??

            Labour says that is dangerous!! Labour says we should chop the trees down!!!

          • Just saying says:

            enjoyed is a bit strong Nell

          • Anonymous says:

            Remember Nell is from East Anglia and conkers must have been the highlight of their week !

        • 390
          James Wales says:

          end of term rugby game until the next EDIT WAR

  33. 80
    Anonymous says:

    please stop i cant stand this any more

    • 111
      Engineer says:

      I’m genuinely bemused by the bulging-eyed, foaming-mouthed hatred unleashed by Guido mentioning a couple of football clubs. I just understand the hatred at all.

      For crissakes you pillocks, it’s kicking a ball round a patch of grass. If you want to have a war, join up and go to serve the country in ‘Stan.

      If that’s what football does to people, there’s a case for banning it. They can take up tiddlywinks instead, and see if they can hate each other over that. Sadly, they probably can….

      • 125
        Engineer says:

        Doh – “I just don’t understand the hatred at all.”

        • 134
          jgm2 says:

          It’s just another good reason to leave Scotland.

        • 189
          reverse engineering says:

          Your lack of understanding is clearly your problem

          fukin simple if you think about it

          • Engineer says:

            …..and you’d have to be ****ing simple to think like that.

            If the Celtic/Rangers bigotry merchants put as much effort into economic endeavor as they do into hating each other, Glasgow would be a paradise of riches. But they don’t, so it isn’t.

          • jgm2 says:

            Ah, Engineer, but if the Labour Party put as much effort into genuinely helping people out of poverty as they do to subsidising/inventing excuses for them staying there then the UK would be like fucking Switzerland.

          • Engineer says:

            Can’t argue with that, either.

          • Harry Lime says:

            Famous for only cuckoo clocks

          • Gordon Brown says:

            It’s a global economic crisis which has affected every country in the world except Switzerland*. Which is the country in the world most associated with banking. Anyway I’m not the PM of Switzerland. So their banking and economy wasn’t fucked. By America. And the banks.

            Anyway it started in America and had fuck all to do with me.

            * And China. And Australia.

          • Graham Greene says:

            and guarding the poo

          • Graham Greene says:

            typo Pope (before Mark feels redundant)

      • 321
        Hugh Janus says:

        Thanks Eng, you have just saved me the trouble of saying “It’s only a game” etc.

        Yawn….

  34. 82
    Concrete Bungle says:

    I work as a civil engineer

    We were going to model some concrete bridge supports on based on the proportions of Sarah Brown’s legs, but after modeling in 3d on Solidworks, we decided not proceed as we would require to much concrete, especially in the “ankle” area

    We did some calcs and reckon that Sarah’s legs could support a 22st person

    • 94
      Dry Martini says:

      So they’re just about right, then?

    • 119
      Engineer says:

      I reckon that by the time you’d got the thighs constructed, you’d be very near the compressive stress limit at the ankles. Definitely have to allow 28-day strength to develop there before casting the thighs.

      Need a fair acreage of shuttering, too.

  35. 86
    Anonymous says:

    you all need your mouths washed with soapy water

    • 91
      Anonymous says:

      what make of soap

      • 103
        Ben Bradshaw says:

        Under current Health & Safety regulations it just has to be…….MILD GREEN FAIRY LIQUID

        • 230
          The old ones are the best says:

          There were 3 chefs. Hans, Judicious and Gervais arguing who would kill the wild, green, hairy lipped squid

          I’ll get my coat, good evening

  36. 88
    Anonymous says:

    you need your mouths washed with soap

  37. 100
    Orange Men Are Poofters says:

    Get back to worshiping your wee Bonny Prince Dutch Scumbag and marching like a pack of poofters with your wee orange sashes you scum.

    • 112
      resurgemus says:

      whereas following grown men in dresses and kissing their rings is clearly heterosexual ?

  38. 105
    Marian says:

    Support for Labour and Rangers or Celtic is confined to the West Central area around Glasgow and and the majority of the population of Scotland live outside that area so please don’t tar all Scots as either Labour or Rangers or Celtic supporters. Labour’s core vote are either people living on state benefits of one kind or another or employed by the state and they vote for Labour out of self-preservation and for no other reason. The key to unlocking the Labour core vote in the West Central area around Glasgow is to get rid of the endemic dependency culture and cut the state down to size. The prize awaits the first political party to do so.

  39. 113
    Ed Balls Doesn't Think You Should Own Your Own Home says:

    John Reid, is someone I respect, but he isn’t qualified to talk about anything.

  40. 138
    The voters revenge says:

    Said it before and will say it again – seal off Scotland and cast it adrift.

  41. 142
    Mitch says:

    I see that under the Maximum Imbeciles watch Northern Ireland is imploding again, what is it about brown that increases chaos, is he some kind of Entropy machine? like perpetual motion without the usefulness.

    • 144
      jgm2 says:

      He is a black hole of malevolence. He brings out the worst in everybody he meets and in everything he touches.

      • 146
        Shin Bone Unionists says:

        Everytime i glance at the news another collection of throwbacks troop out to voice their Ian Paisley impersonation, and then troop back in to continue working on the word Never.

  42. 150
    Clarence says:

    Don’t worry, kiz. Everything will be great tomorrow because the McRecession will be over, thanks to the Benevolent Gordon and his superhuman efforts.

    I wonder if the BBC has commissioned an end-of-recession anthem to celebrate this wonderful news? I hope it is as good as their snazzy ‘Downturn’ logo. That was cool.

    • 181
      My Vote Never Counts says:

      I do hope the Beeboids and media types have some kind of inside information on the UK growth figures – otherwise there is going to be some massive egg-on-face tomorrow.

      • 194
        jgm2 says:

        Just ike there was in October you mean. When everybody thought that the 250bn quid squandered since the start of the recession to that point must surely have bought some ‘growth’. Ooops. Six quarters of recession. New national record. Brown officially the worst PM ever.

        They’ll be shitting broken glass if 300bn quid hasn’t bought some ‘growth’. It’ll be too late by then. If 300bn quid doesn’t do it then watch Brown go immediately into reverse squander-wise to ensure that the squandering doesn’t show ‘growth’ straight away on Camerons watch.

    • 221
      streamfisher says:

      They have, desperate as they are for a return of the New Labour Party, enjoy!

  43. 155
  44. 156
    Anglican Left Footer says:

    What is it with the Celtic nations and the bearing of grudges? Throw in religion & football and it gets worse.

    • 198
      resurgemus says:

      You forgot the alcohol

    • 215
      Anonymous says:

      Your right, why dont we drop some napalm on some vietnamese villagers. God Bless America !

      • 242
        jgm2 says:

        You’re getting a bit Brownian there. Ie our economy isn’t as fucked as Zimbabwe’s. I’m not as incompetent as Mugabe. Our deficit isn’t as large as Iceland’s. I’m not as big an alc*h*lic as George Best.

        Just because there is some fucker, somewhere on the planet, who is an even bigger arsehole than Gordon Brown or a country that is even more fucked up than the UK or a country that is still bearing older grudges than Scotland doesn’t mean that we’re off the hook.

  45. 164
    T. B£iar says:

    Ya know, today’s not a day for soundbites. But I feel the hand of history on our shoulders, I really do.

    • 167
      jgm2 says:

      I’m waiting for the day when you feel the rope of history around your neck and the bag of history over your head.

      Because it’s the right thing to do.

    • 169
      • 178
        nell says:

        tone and alastair have been implicated in Dr Davud Kelly’s death today.

        11 medical experts and norman baker MP have issued a statement saying that they believe Dr Kelly was Murdered .

        If he was murdered – given that he died as he was trying to testify that bliar and alastair were lying about Iraq’s wmd’s.

        Who benefitted from shutting him up and his subsequent murder???

  46. 173
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Mitch Jgm2
    Dont tell me that McMental wasnt given a good deliberate gouging in the scrum or an accidental cranial stomp as he lay on the ground
    Another thing, just who would pick this f^cking clown to be in the pack?
    Beast is sure that he was foisted upon the team and got a f*cking good booting for his trouble
    C>nt

    • 176
      jgm2 says:

      I’m guessing his middle-class mummy and daddy wanted something other than ‘swot’ on his UCCA form. You know, something to put in that big box that private schools fill up at a canter but state schools don’t because the teachers all knock off at 3:30.

      Now this is very important Gordon, if you want to go to Oxford you’ll have to be more than just clever. You’ll have to have a ‘sport’. Why don’t you join the rugby club. Okay so you’re a ponderous, uncoordinated arse but they’ll find a place for you in the pack.

      And ‘lo it came to pass.

      • 246
        March Election on the cards says:

        I thought Browns Right eye looked particularly inflamed at his news conference today. Could this be a deliberate ploy to have him retire on Health grounds to avoid his coming humiliation at the polls ?

        Also having watched bustaguts so called “slip” yesterday I am of a mind that this was anything but a slip. Look at his face and his deliberate utterance. I am in no doubt he meant to say this.

        Therefore it is possible an election will be called for March.

      • 246
        The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

        Fucking true
        The Beast was in the officers mess in Ballykelly with the Cheshires
        For some reason they thought that I may be a leader of men (until I got pinched)
        “What sports do you play?”
        Me
        “None if I can help it”
        Reply
        “Well that wont go down well at RCB and as a regiment we expect people to be good at games”
        If only the taliban turned up for a game of tennis the British Army may stand a chance of winning

        Bye bye career

        • 255
          The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

          This was over 20 years ago and we were mainly concerned about Osama Bin Adams
          McMental was writing shite about socialism, passing secrets to the ruskies and pretending to be heterosexual

        • 258
          jgm2 says:

          Naaah. The Taliban would kick our arse at tennis. Tim Henman might win his game but after that we’re fucked.

          They’d probably cane us at cricket too. Apparently they’re pretty good at it.

      • 269
        Just saying says:

        ‘Swot’?

        Implies some intelligence

  47. 174
    Reid you fucking mong fuckwit says:

    John Reid – the scotcher fuckwit who sent our army to war in fuckistan saying not a single shot would be fired

    fuck you reid – may you die screaming

    • 192
      nell says:

      And let’s not forget bliar appearing befoie chilcott on Friday to justify his wmd or regime change excuses for following bush into war!!!!

      Amazing isn’t it that his slavish devotion to bush has absolutely minted him £millions and £millions of dollars on the USA lecture circuit in recent years !!!!

      Of course bliar didn’t know that he would be able able to mint money from his slavish support of bush’s failed Iraq War = Did He??!! Just as he condemned our Armed Forces to death and worse!!!!

      Just like he and alastair were not involved in the death of Dr David Kelly!!!!

    • 201
      the thin blue line says:

      Be fair – he was judging the prospective violence by the standards of Glasgow on a Saturday night.

  48. 183
    Anonymous says:

    bonkerd

  49. 203
    Ed Balls Relishes 4 years in opposition and all the strikes that he will be organizing says:

    The real reason to dump Scotland soon (not yet) is the largest decline in Oil production of any oil exporting region/nation. The burden on the English must sooner or later become non-viable, or bad for business.

    Scottish Oil Production
    1999 = 2559 million barrels
    2007 = 1452 million barrels
    2020 (est) 500 million barrels

    • 232
      Diane Abbott's Toyboy says:

      We need a program to Britishise the scotches.

      Just as Labour has done to the BBC, we must do the opposite to teach the Scotches to love Britain and hate socialism. It is a tough job but needs to be done for their own good.

      Perhaps we could have a program where English families, possibly ex-servicemen, could claim land in Scotland. 20% of the population is already English. It would only take 7% of the population to resettle in England and Bingo! Scotland becomes useful.

    • 235
      Diane Abbotts Toyboy says:

      We need a program to Britishise the scotches.

      Just as Labour has done to the BBC, we must do the opposite to teach the Scotches to love Britain and hate socialism. It is a tough job but needs to be done for their own good.

      Perhaps we could have a program where English families, possibly ex-servicemen, could claim land in Scotland. 20% of the population is already English. It would only take 7% of the population to resettle in England and Bingo! Scotland becomes useful.

      • 277
        jgm2 says:

        Not at all. We need to throw open the border to our beleaguered Scottish cousins. The poor bastards can’t help it if the political scene up there is two scorpions in a jar trying to sting each other to death by promising more and more and more free shit to those who lack the ambition to leave.

        We need to nurture their ambition. Look how successful Scottish and Irish (and English) emigrants have been in the new worlds they went to. Englands relative success, given that so few natives left, can be laid at the influx of a constant stream of ambitious immigrants.

        By contrast Scotland (and Ireland’s) decline can be laid at the feet of the unambitious laggards who remained. Scotland is fucked. FUBAR. The SNP and Labour are engaged in a contest to pledge as much free stuff as the Barnet formula and the UK Parliament’s sense of fair play and (in Labours case) safe votes from muppets will allow them. And then some.

        I should have kept running when I left Scotland but no matter how bad the UK is as a whole. No matter how bad things are in England at the moment there is some hope. But Scotland is truly fucked.

        And I say that with no pleasure. The UK is fucked. Fucked by Labour. Fucked by Brown. But there is a natural party of grown-ups and adults to try and repair the damage. But Scotland’s political scene is now a choice between the Labour jackasses who want to ‘employ’ 80% of the population who can’t be arsed to leave or the SNP jackasses who want to employ 80% of the population who can’t be arsed to leave.

        Scotland is fucked.

  50. 205
    nell says:

    So according to Reid – gordon’s a ‘holy willy’

    Well poor Sarah!!

  51. 228
    Diane Abbott's Toyboy says:

    Outrageous bias on Newsnight tonight. Philip Hammond wasnt allowed to get a word in. Paxman led the badgering and was joined in a pack. Then he would turn to Labour’s man in soft reverential tones. Paxman must go after the election. His time is up.

    The bias can also be seen elsewhere. BB2 doing a special on Thatcher and how she destroyed British industry. No mention of strikers holding governments to ransom or how Britain has lost more industry under Labour.

    After Channel 4′s Bullingdon Billhooks, next we have a weepy about Mo Mowlam.

    It is all publically funded.

  52. 238

    Happy news year to all policisie people!! Also I get najked on blog wanna see?

  53. 251
    The IMF is coming says:

    Did I mention how much I hated Brown, Balls and Campbell today?

    That’s all from me today

    If the recession ends tomorrow will there be an early election? But then he is seen a bottler (I Rak enquiry)

    • 264
      Bunker Weasel says:

      election before Brown goes before Chilcott.

      • 318
        Hugh Janus says:

        Definitely. Aintworthatoss ‘leaking’ the 6th May was no accident.

        Note also how desperately urgent was McBust’s trip to sort out the squabbling Irish. It couldn’t wait even one more day. No PMQs to face (or, more precisely, Questions to the Prime Minister to Be Avoided). How convenient.

        • 328
          JMT says:

          Strange that – if we are out of recession why is he not stuttering away in PMQs about saving the world from evil baby-eating do-nothing Tory bastards, all rapturously applauded by the trained seals on the labour backbenches.

          Is there really good news? They have gotten this wrong before.

          As a NI resident, it worries me that he is not in Whitehall, babbling on about a fragile recovery (thereby cursing his own party), than sitting in Belfast putting the scud on our local losers.

  54. 295
    Mitch says:

    http://www.arrestblair.org/

    The moonbat making sense !!! go donate.

  55. 297
    caesars wife (aboard the dustcart) says:

    Note to Bill Quango MP Cycle to spain to escape ? More of Brittany person however interesting idea , just remember not to say thankyou when they trick you with english chat as you board the bus.

    Some interesting real poltics about , equality bill wants scrapping , it just undermines decision making and will lead to unprovable acusations , keep trying to tell them you give people freedom under the law , not opression .

    Blairs hedge fund friends is an insult , making £100mn from northern rock fail just smacks .

    The ruins my judgement is right moment, is in some ways what I always did think would happen to him, anyone who would surely corrupt our democratic process to this degree heads towards nero .

    The libs must be waiting to see how Chillcot progresses hoping to be the pacifist democrats , although I dont think it will do them any good , as even if they do come up smelling fragrent , the rest is very contradictory, let alone Simon Hughes sell out speeches .This is where the just like you idea looses traction on those places where they have blown all the money let alone the complaints of tin pot extortion fees for things like parking .They have also kept very quiet about there green agenda which has combusted with others .

    Everyones trying to avoid the suction as the lying EUSSR Labour , goes under , i cant help but wonder now, where the ruins delay will take us , hes set in motion some very opposed forces now which will run beyond the election , hes not as clever as I had thought , either that are he just waiting to spend any money he has on a very short campaign , god knows how much of our money is getting blown on government adds !

  56. 306
    Concrete Bungle says:

    i don’t know what position Brown played at rugby but I bet he was a ball squeezer

  57. 307
    • 309
      The Ministry of Truth says:

      Latest ICM Monthly poll(C40L29LibD19)gives 57% of those polled saying that they do not think Conservatives were party solely for “Toffs” and represents people like them. How does “Pravda” spin this ?

      “In a poll from ICM out last night almost ONE THIRD of those polled thought that the Conservative Party represented the Upper Classes” Classic stuff ……you couldn’t make it up!!!

      • 315
        Mr Plum says:

        Yes heard that one several times this morning on tv and radio already.
        Why would you even put that question in an opinion poll unless you wanted to use the outcome for spin purposes.
        Also good news on the economy, may even get an election announcement today with any luck.

      • 316
        The Admiral says:

        My favourite is 40% Con, 29% Lab, 19%Lib therefore 48% vote against Con.

        Yeah right…

      • 327
        Up against the wall says:

        I still think that dreadful One Show bit about the Tory toffs has got to be “Exhibit A” when we come to execute the whole of the BBC,lined up along the Shepherds Bush Road.

  58. 312
    nell says:

    http://www.arrestblair.org/

    Interesting way to start the day – a new website set up to collect donations in order to award people who are prepared to make a citizen’s arrest of ‘our tone’ for war crimes.

    Good idea but I would thin there are a fair few people out there who might be willing to attempt it for free!!

    • 319
      The Admiral says:

      You’re up early our Nell…

      • 331
        nell says:

        6.30am yawn!

        Got up early to toast this first recession free day, that labour have been shouting about, with a cup of tea.

        Thought I’d get myself to Tesco’s and see if the price of food is falling. Not likely is it?!!

        • 336
          The Admiral says:

          ‘Fraid not, even in “Real Term”…;)

        • 342
          Sir,that's £114 please. says:

          Just went and spent £114 at Tesco this morning.

          The checkout girl was embarrassed and I checked my receipt – no way are we out of recession.

          I tip Brown to call an election very very soon – he is so demented that he will cling on to any signs that things are “getting better”.

    • 334
      Flatus says:

      I bet this is just another blair money making scam

  59. 313
    Hugh Janus says:

    This morning the BBC is trumpeting from the rooftops that we are out of recession today.

    The accepted definition of a recession is 2 consecutive quarters of ‘negative growth’, Why, then, doesn’t the reverse apply, ie the recession is only over when there have been 2 consecutive quarters of growth? And if the next quarter is negative growth again, will the BBC, by their own rules, declare that we are back in a recession??

    Discuss.

    • 317
      Mr Plum says:

      Don’t hold put much hope for the next quarter, what with the bad weather and Christmas most people in construction have been out of work for a month.

    • 325
      No way out says:

      They seem to think it’s like opening the curtains one morning and lo and behold’

      “Ooh look dear,we are out of recession – the sun is shining and the sky is blue.”

      Absolutely pathetic.

    • 340
      nell says:

      Price of petrol 112.9 – £60 to fill the car and the bank still only paying just under half percent on investment account, the part of the construction industry our family are connected to are still laying people off and the price of food is still rising.

      I don’t know what statistics the government uses but they aren’t related to any of the normal costs most of us have to deal with every day.

  60. 322
    Prickly heat says:

    Ha Ha – Gordon Brown was up until 3.30am this morning in the Northern Ireland talks – he’s going to be even more fun to be around today and tomorrow.

    Expect an extra bad temper at PMQ’s tomorrow – if only Clegg and Cameron would join forces for a joint attck on him at PMQ’s,we could have this lying nonentity being taken away by men in white coats carrying syringes by 12.30pm tomorrow.

  61. 337
    Flatus says:

    i don’t know what position Brown played at rugby but I bet he was a bum sniffer

  62. 339
    Breaking Views says:

    Brown to call General Election for March 4th.

    • 345
      nell says:

      I think gordon will regard calling an election in much the same way that he regards saying sorry. He can’t do it. He’ll wait until the absolute last minute the law allows.

      Unless of course he knows that the next quarter figures, due at the end of April?, will show the economy going back into recession , then he’ll call a march election to avoid the embarrassment.

      • 348
        Fiddling the figures while England burns says:

        Who says the figures are true?

        Message from Gordon Brown;

        “Mr Director at the ONS – would you like a knighthood? We need you to do something for us…..”

  63. 341
    Harriet's Clit says:

    It serves to remind just how many of these useless Jocko wankstains we’ve had running the country this last 13 years. What’s the great attraction of them? It’s a country of herion-addicted piss-addled scumbags. The only half sensible ones are always quick to get the fuck out.

    • 344
      Brown - like the weather in Scotland says:

      The BBC weather even starts with Scotland for god’s sake.

      We know the weather in Scotland – dank,grey,dark,gloomy,drizzling,damp,cloudy,did I mention wet and raining?

  64. 343
    Phil's Tampon says:

    O/T

    A 16-year-old girl who was raped in Bangladesh has been given 101 lashes for conceiving during the assault. Her fate was decided by the muslim village elders.

    And immigrants from this country are enriching our wonderful multiculteral society with their quaint customs and traditions

    • 346
      Brown and out says:

      Well,we have had the two blokes locked away for grabbing a violent criminal who invaded his house and tied his family up.

      I am leaving this country as soon as we have got our kids through University (studying a profession they can continue overseas).

      This country is not ruined – it is totally fucked,finished and a wasteland.

      • 353
        Anonymous says:

        We’ve rented our house and got rid of all our furniture. The rest of our belongings are being delivered to our new home abroad at the end of February. Hopefully, we shall be leaving this country very soon after that.

        Every good thing about this country has been whittled away by this incompetent and greedy government and now there is nothing left for us but to leave.

        • 357
          sockpuppet #4 says:

          It would be interesting to know which country you’re off to that you think is better.

          PS: I’ve not heard about a case where two men got locked up for grabbing a criminal.

          • Anonymous says:

            The country we’re going to is not perfect by any means, but there are pro’s and con’s wherever you are.

            The pro’s are that there is very little crime, there are no CCTV’s, no yellow lines, no speed humps, no speed cameras, and the few crimes which do occur are usually dealt with swiftly and properly. The hospital is spotlessly clean and very well equippped, the dental treatment is less than half what we pay in this country. The dentist, by the way, was trained in the UK. Added to all this, the weather is superb.

            The con’s, we’ve decided we can live with!

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            So you’re not telling us where it is then!
            I promise I can’t be arsed selling up my house and following you.

          • Cheese Sandwich says:

            Could be Bahrain, Dubai or Saudi Arabia.

      • 355
        Sir William Waad says:

        Don’t forget to send us some money to repay their educational costs.

    • 347
      The Admiral says:

      Has she survived, poor little sod? I weep…

  65. 349
    nell says:

    http://blogs.news.sky.com/boultonandco/Post:4c95666d-daf6-41f2-b07e-b85d231c9876

    baronnessU and her cronies are ‘soon’ to find out if they are to be prosecuted for fraud.

    I do hope we haven’t got to wait much longer for the CPS to take a decision.
    And hopefully before the next election!!! And I hope someone has removed the worthlesss troughing baronesses passport so she can’t run away to her marble palace, built with our money, and hide.

  66. 350
    Anonymous says:

    ‘Hun is the Irsh for Scottish’ – what sort of a moron are you.
    The term isn’t applied to some nonsense about Germany either.
    It is applied to Ranger fans after riot at the first euro success in 1972. Following this a judge siad that rangers fans acted in a barbaric and hunnish manner i.e. pillaging looting and rioting which made newsheadlines.. flashforward to manchester and nothing much changes!!!

    • 358
      genghiz the kahn says:

      it applied to rangers fans before 1972.

      the huns are out the cup,

      chanted at all grounds (whenever the gers weren’t visiting) in 1967, after they lost to an english team in the scottish cup.

  67. 354
    Sir William Waad says:

    Dear Weegies,

    The Reformation happened in the sixteenth century.

    Get over it.

  68. 364
    Brown Plop Plop! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! (Toryboys are funny 1968) says:

    WOW! WHAT A SCOOP!

  69. 367
    rparker says:

    there is no such thing as celtic nation a dna map of british iles proves that celtic nation hood is figmant engineered by regional politicians who want their chunk of power ,as for scotch its a scotsman in newcastle and thats that .as for godon it displays a disfunctional lack of self awareness a trait he infected its wife with as s he walked on stage to boos at the national tv awards to finally sink what was already a terrble show

    • 399
      Snottie says:

      och aye the nooey..wez rite prood of az broon and his wifey sarah…stickies to slamming yer owwn titz

  70. 372
    Spud Murphy says:

    McBust was actually born in the constituency of East Renfrewshire, a Tory stronghold at the time. The addition of some sink estates means it is now temporarily Labour.

  71. 381
    An Aussie Writes ... says:

    Labour until creepy Jim Murphy loses it at the next election.

  72. 391
    Anonymous says:

    An example of an oxymoron? Celtic class!

  73. 396
    Dawn Primarolo Loyal says:

    George Galloway is on record stating that John “Burundi” Reid regularly treated young members of the Scottish Labour party to a medley of Irish rebel songs. Burundi has never denied it.

    Roman Catholics from the West of Scotland are seriously fucked-up people.

    I blame the schools.

  74. 398
    Thrusterbuster says:

    best things to come out of scotland…scotch and oil
    worst thing to come out of scotland…scots
    solution; give them independence and let them paddle

    best thing to come out of Ireland…guiness
    worst thing to come out of Ireland… irish
    solution; let it drift into the mid atlantic and scuttle it



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