January 28th, 2010

Champagne Induced False Memory Syndrome

Guido gatecrashed last night’s launch of Inside Out, Peter Watt’s tell-all book on the dysfunctional Labour Party.  His co-writer Isabel Oakeshott (pictured) looked glamorous rather than ghostly.

Charles Clarke, one of the few people on the planet who dislikes the Prime Mentalist more than Guido, was the only Labour MP spotted at the event.   Button-holing him was an opportunity to verify the truth of a story that has tickled Guido for a while.   The scene was a champagne lubricated event hosted by Blair’s former SpAd turned power lobbyist, Darren Murphy, back in the spring of last year at the time Smeargate was unfolding.  Murphy is of course no friend of Damian McBride.  Alan Milburn, with Charles Clarke at his side, says a few words to the assembled über-Blairites.  He finishes his speech with a smirk and raises his champagne-filled flute  to say “the toast is Guido Fawkes”.

Clarke told Guido grumpily that he had no recollection of the event, so we’ll just have to put it down as apocryphal. Though too much champagne can play tricks with your memory…

UPDATE : Darren Murphy calls to say he didn’t host an event, or pay for the champagne and certainly wasn’t there. Another Labour source says that the gist of the story is true.  Perhaps.


248 Comments

  1. 1
    Nip news says:

    Toyota Derby to cut hundreds of jobs.

    Recovery here we come.

    • 3
      Tom Logan, Institute for Studies says:

      I dont fully understand economics but I imagine thats how emerging from recession works: 0.1% growth = A major employer ditching 750 jobs. Well done Gordon, you are the peoples champion!

      • 7
        The green jobs that don't exist. says:

        So the “7,000″ decrease in unemployed announced last week (we all know these figures are fiddled more than a fiddler fiddling while Rome is burning) and now with another 750 lost = 6,250.

        Ho Hum,directive from Downing St – get those people off the register and in to those millions of green jobs!

        • 13
          dave says:

          take away another700 from that, call centre closing rayleigh essex so 5,500

          • dave says:

            sorry 5,550

          • Jobometer. says:

            Guido – an idea – why not have a jobometer on the website,listing all the jobs that are going that Brown and the boy Cooper want to cover up?

          • Simon Simple says:

            A jobby meter more like considering the amount of shite labour come out with.

          • Wayne Trombone says:

            is the MILF in the photo wearing some kind of harness?

            What kind of party was it?

          • Spank Sinatra says:

            And let’s add 1,500 jobs to go at Shop Direct (just announced at 10.36)

          • foureyedenglishgenius says:

            Mr Simple. Why not combine the two. The bigger the pile of ordure, the bigger the total of the victims of the Gurning Loon’s recovery!

          • Osama the Nazarene says:

            ITV News used to have one of those in the 80s when they were trying to stuff Maggie. Wouldn’t expect them to have one now of course.

        • 94
          Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer says:

          That was 7,000 Santa’s that had one month’s worth of work!

          • Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

            You will recall the BBC shouting out every night how many jobs were lost under a Conservative Government.

            They are charming Fuckers aren’t they?

        • 189
          Ministry of Truth Rebel says:

          Those are “fictitious” jobs to manipulate the jobs figures.The “scam” is that you move people into either temporary or part time work;unpaid voluntary sector or into training (when the training finishes there still won’t be any permanent full time jobs so you move them back onto another traing course and so on)It allow the government to then claim that the unemployment figures have decreased. The fact is that in addition to the “official” unemployed figures there are perhaps another 2.5 million not in work or training who don’t appear in the figures because either they are not claiming benefits or are inelegible to claim In addition there are perhaps another 700-800-000 16 -24 year olds(probably 40% graduates) who can’t find work with another 80,000 coming on to the jobs market within the next 3/4 months.

          So never ever belive the unemployment figures produced by the government(any government not just Labour) it’s always been a “con” although this particular administration has actually succeeded in boosting the figures of the unemployed due mainly to Brown’s policies over the past 13 years

        • 242
          Memory Man says:

          While UNemployment decreased 7000 last quarter, employment decreased by 14,000. The gap being explained by flows into “economic inactivity”.

          Sheer journalistic laziness meant that they got away with the outrageous spin, given that it is employment, not unemployment that should reflect economic growth, and that most people will never imagine that both fell.

      • 9
        The Working Class says:

        Recession coming to an end?
        Our wages have been decreasing for the last ten years so the boom never happened for us, it only benefited the middle and upper classes while we were the ones who have footed the bill and provided everyone else with profit made from us receiving lower wages and paying higher prices and more tax than them.
        We wish Gordon Brown would champion someone else for a change because the motherfucker is killing us here, literally.

        • 73
          Lord $Mandelscum$ says:

          May kiss my arse…

        • 129
          BBC says:

          Though you’re racist if you don’t vote for the main parties, remember that.

          • The Working Class says:

            What the fuck has that got to do with the price of eggs?
            You idiot, the working class is made up of all people from all races and the party you are insinuating they should vote for is made up of white supremacists so your argument is invalid.

          • rick says:

            BBC – you mustn’t mention YouKnowWho. Upsets the ‘working class.

          • Working Class Hero says:

            The British Retard Party supports only white people and as I have already pointed out the working class is made up of all races.
            Back to the drawing board rick you dimwit.

      • 12
        Jugeared Genius Clarke : master plotter and champion failure of brewery piss ups for 3 years running says:

        a·poc·ry·phal ( -p k r -f l). adj. 1. Of questionable authorship or authenticity.
        2. Erroneous; fictitious 3. Laughably egocentric bollocks you choose to believe

      • 18
        Why worry? says:

        Have no fear,the economy is in very good and caring hands…

        Daily Mail;

        “Treasury officials have been told to ‘shelve problems’ to help keep their stress levels down in the face of Britain’s dire public finances.

        A 70-page taxpayer-funded guide to ‘stress awareness and management’ advises officials to put off difficult decisions to another day if they are causing them anxiety”.

        This must have been written by the fraudster Brown – after all,why worry about a little £178bn debt?

        • 30

          As a leading supplier of Prevarication Facilitator Further Training (PFFT… for short), may I propose that we have a meeting about this after the election?

        • 37
          Hugh Janus says:

          With a public sector job paying above the average of the equivalent private sector job, and a guaranteed pension, I can well understand the stress that this induces……………in those of us who have to foot the bill whilst watching our own shrinking faster than an ice cream on a hot day.

          The Treasury – another dysfunctional department of the state, buggered senseless by 13 years of NuLiebour incompetence and meddling.

        • 72
          Sheerness will be guggered by a big explosion says:

          Yeah Lets put all difficult decisions off until another day. Would that be the day a wall of water 1000ft across and two miles high comes tumbling down on our beautiful corner of paradise. Check out the SS Montgomery on the net and the ditheratis inability to even think about it!!!!

          • Gordon dives as economy follows suit says:

            Could we not send Gordon down in a diving suit?

            At least he would go out with a BANG!

          • Sheerness will be Buggered by a big explosion says:

            No keep that man away. Announce a 30 mile exclusion zone call out the yeomanry!! Come the election I dont want to hear any talk of a visit to North Kent by McDoom and is entourage.

            PS I finally learnt how to spell Buggered!!

          • Mrs Slogan says:

            Well, the Conservatives COULD use that as an election slogan.

            New Labour, the party who likes to dither whilst the country withers.

            New Labour, no pain today, twice as much pain tomorrow.

      • 82
        Talwin says:

        Tom Logan. You have obviously not read the Weekly Mash’s helpful explanation for the 0.1% recovery from Gordon Brown’s ‘downturn’; that it ended ‘owing to a chubby woman in Doncaster buying a Cadbury’s Boost from a Shell garage at 11.20pm on New Year’s Eve’.

        Now you know.

    • 6
      Lanchester Daily News says:

      Labour a pretty well shafted in most of the “West” Midlands marginal seats so they may as well be totally “buggered” by losing support in the “East” Midlands as well

      • 56
        Charlie says:

        Please dont’ use the B word…

        It gives me nightmares about James Bond and people like that…

      • 63
        Darwin says:

        BTW

        Now that Nu Labour have lowered the age for buggery and promoted it nationally…

        When are they going to promote incest ?

        And “same family marriages”

        That is the next step….

        And perhaps legalise zooophily as well just for good measure…

        Or do Zanu Labour have some limits to their deviant behaviour ?

        • 90
          Captain Black says:

          Labour legalized zooophilia and sado-masochism a long time ago.

          They’ve been flogging a dead horse for years.

        • 104
          Mr Ned says:

          You cannot discriminate against sexual deviants, unless they are Christian heterosexuals and those perverts should be controlled. Breeding like, well like, er good Christian heterosexuals really, but you get the point.

          There is a German MEP who is lobbying to get child molestation legalised. By child he means primary school age. Not the 16 year old children that can be legally buggered in this country thanks to new labour’s immoral crusade of filth.

          There are some very sick people in global politics.

    • 24
      Gordon Brown-Stuff says:

      I was always better at being a Number Two

    • 99
      Double-Dip-Here-We-Come... says:

      Did Gordon Brown visit the factory recently ?

    • 109
      Jobs cuts accelerate says:

      and;

      “Student Loans Company to axe 150 Scottish jobs”

      Of course,Scotland has about 1,250 of the 1700 jobs within the SLC – naturally…..

      So, now Brown is not only cutting University support by £700M,leading to massive job cuts and far fewer places at University,but he is also ensuring that the almighty fuck-up the SLC have made in getting loans to students over the past 6 months will look like a vicar’s tea party NEXT September.

      THIS is the kind of thing Cameron should be shafting Brown with at PMQ’s – throw all the evidence back at Brown.

      • 125
        Mr Ned says:

        But then Cameron might …..win! He doesn’t want to do that. If he wins, he’ll have to clean up the mess that Brown is busy compounding.

        • 133
          NOBODY WANTS TO WIN THE GENERAL ELECTION says:

          Quite right Ned.
          This General Election is turning into a pass the parcel competition that nobody wants to win because the contents of the parcel is a bomb which will blow up in the winner’s face.

          • udderly 'orrible says:

            Maybe it will be cancelled?

            Andrew Hawkins – ComRes
            “I’m tempted to speculate that the general election will be cancelled in the wake of an April military coup…This is a personal prediction, not a ComRes one – Tory lead of 13% points.” (Politicalbetting)

    • 179
      Road_Hog says:

      Good old Al-Jabeeba, went searching for the story about Toyota shedding 750 jobs. on the BBC website. I couldn’t see it, there was a bit about Toyota, “Toyota recalls another 1.1 million cars in US” Yep, nothing to do with the UK, but wait, half way down is the bit about Derbyshire job losses. What a great way to hide to hide a headline that would be bad news for your boss Gordon Brown.

    • 247
      kings Heath Lad says:

      Another kick in the teeth from manufacture hating Nu Lab.

  2. 2
    Blue Rosette says:

    Why not put Isabel on the bill boards instead of Call Me Dave?

    Might attract a few more votes.

    Every little helps

  3. 4
  4. 5
    keith says:

    Mention of the Prime Mentalist reminds me of one of Saddam Hussain’s official titles, which in translation reads:

    “His Excellency The President, The Leader, God Placed Him”

    I think this would be an appropriately apposite title for our own Great Leader.

    • 8
      Left dangling says:

      And a rope ended him

    • 75
      Sting's Beard says:

      THe King of sardinia was formerly known as ” The Great Sardine” and Margaret Thatcher was ” The immaculate misconception”. Any more out there?

      • 115
        pussy glorious (i'm sure) says:

        Tony Blair was known as “The Massive C­u­n­t”…

        …at least, he was in my house.

      • 139
        Old Nick Heavenly(real dimwit) says:

        sb

        we were watching a telly about the yanks training dolphins to do their dirty work, whilst staying with friends in portugal

        the portuguese eat vast quantities of sardines

        our buddy declared very seriously

        ‘that’s nothing, we portuguese are training sardines’

        • 174
          Sting's Beard says:

          Trained to do what exactly?? Is this a devious and cunning plan by the Portugese. I’d keep my eye on them if I was you, or Gordon!

    • 86
      Talwin says:

      Blair’s place man, more like.

  5. 10
    George Osborne says:

    What Charles Clarke meant to say was

    “Guido Fawkes is toast”

    How true when I take power

  6. 11
    The IMF is coming says:

    The Soly u shun to everything?

    Throw money you don’t have at it

    • 28
      Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

      Yes, well, Tony threw your money at The Good Friday agreement in 1998 to buy off Gerry Adams and Co so that he ‘could feel the hand of history on his shoulder’.

      Now we’re planning to throw more of your money at the Taleban to buy them off.

      As you know we never negotiate with terrorists though….

      Eh ?

      • 34
        The IMF is coming says:

        Government by open chequebook

      • 35
        Mr Ned says:

        Of course we don’t negotiate. We pay the asking price straight off.

        Well that is not strictly true. We kill loads of them until we realise that killing them is against their human rights, then we pay them what they ask for.

      • 45
        Hugh Janus says:

        “Yes, well, Tony threw your money at The Good Friday agreement in 1998 to buy off Gerry Adams and Co so that he ‘could feel the hand of history on his shoulder’.”

        Not to mention the scandal of the £100m of taxpayers’ cash thrown at the Bloody Sunday enquiry – which is still rolling on and stacking up the bills.

        13 years obviously not long enough to tell us what we already knew.

        • 92
          Cynical Bastard says:

          Could it be possible that the IRA terrorist funding Americans only gave belated impetutus to the Northern Ireland peace process in order to provide Tony Blair with sufficient political capital and cover as a ‘peacemeaker’ to support the illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?

  7. 14
    Where is England's Glenn Beck? says:

    Fear not the ‘event’ will be in his book

  8. 16
    The Dirty Rat says:

    OT.
    Iraq inquiry is being ‘gagged’ after secret documents withheld

    Why doesn’t Chilcot just stamp his foot and pull the plug. What a waist of time and MY money.

    • 23
      Hugh Janus says:

      Yes, he should suspend the enquiry immediately and seek a court order for the release of the documents he considers relevant, citing the promise (ho ho) by McBust that he would have access to everything he needs. I doubt that he would have to wait very long for them to appear.

    • 26
      Pals says:

      Waste of money too. It was so obvious that the Goldsmith fellow was lying.

      The story was told as if the only time he spoke to Blair was at minuted Downing Street meetings. No mention of their many social and Tennis meetings, Goldsmith is Blair’s friend FFS.

    • 32
      Covered up says:

      And Rod Lyne on the Chilcott team comments on documents that are declassified;

      “by our ever-bountiful Government”.

      Chilcott should call a press conference – AFTER Bliar has appeared tomorrow – and call the whole thing off,citing Brown’s govt as covering up the whole thing.

      Brown will then disappear to another country needing his “expertise” for a few weeks.

    • 36
      Bliar the Liar his pants are inflammable says:

      WHITEWASH

      • 53
        The Dirty Rat says:

        If there is any over can I have it to do my shed?

        • 89
          ghost of morgan phillips says:

          unless the inquiry has evidence taken on oath, what is the point?

        • 235
          Watch the Skies! says:

          Listen, what’s left over will be enough to lower the albedo of the entire ‘warming’ planet.

      • 100
        I'll Do It says:

        Who is responsible for blocking the release of the documents to the Inquiry.
        That person should be dragged out onto the streets and shot in the back of the head.
        Problem solved, documents released.

  9. 17
    Hugh Janus says:

    O/T – but another richly deserved nail in the coffin of man-made global warming:

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7004936.ece

    How we would have rejoiced at a successful prosecution!

  10. 22
    Jonah says:

    Mr Brown said the Taliban could be “easily divided” because many were not ideologically committed to the group

    http://page.politicshome.com/uk/article/5137/karzai_must_tackle_corruption_says_brown.html

    Oh yea, Suicide bombing is is not an ideological commitment?

    • 33
      Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

      As you know though, we never negotiate with terrorists. I told Gerry Adams that yesterday when I was ducking PMQ.

    • 40
      Enjineer says:

      That’s actually true.

      There aren’t that many hardcore, committed to the cause Taliban. And a large percentage of them are foriegners. The majority of natives fighting with the insurgents are doing it because:

      They think NATO/ISAF/USA will lose/pull out without wiping out the Taliban, and they want to be on the winning side.

      The Taliban pay quite well (until recently, better than the Afgahn army)

      The Taliban are the only functional authority in much of the country, so a combination of compulsion/fear/tribal loyalty.

      Also, keep in mind that when the MSM say ‘Taliban’ they are talking about 3 seperate groups of insurgents. (If you don’t count the various drug gangs)

      The situation is more complex than it’s generally portrayed.

      • 48
        Iraq 2.0 says:

        even the CIA says the are no more than 100 active Al-Q in Afghanistan

      • 54
        Anonymous says:

        Easily divided is NOT true. Over two hundred and fifty service families will bear witness to that.

      • 62
        Mr Ned says:

        Yup, it is a lot more complicated than the media portray it. The Afghans are a very independent minded people and they are aware of global geo-politics. They are loyal to their tribe and their god, before any nation or world order. but that is to massively oversimplify. They will double cross each other for a quick-buck, but they will just as quickly take the money, the weapons and training and immediately turn back against those who thought that they had bought loyalty.

        This “scheme” will buy some warm and fuzzy media imagery, but it will not turn Afghanistan into a Western-style functioning democracy or a client state of the West.

        • 78
          Willy Whitelaw says:

          Anyone who isnt confused doesn’t really understand what is happening

          • Anonymous says:

            Gordon is all over the place. First he says that the Taliban can be easily divided as they are just peasants then he says that they are global terrorists and a threat to the UK public

          • South of the M4 says:

            Its simple really. They have found a way to increase their wealth by essentially blackmailing Brown. As Mr Ned says, they will take the money, pose for the photograph – and then strap on the bomb belt. Brown is a gullible idiot.

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            Of course, the situation is complicated.
            Unlike, say, in a theoretical country ruled by a very unpleasant dictator, but one who’s oppression meant there were no pockets of lawless where al-Q could operate.

          • The Great Kazi of Afghanistan says:

            I think it will be about another 300 years before I can pull my operatives out of the United Kingdom. Generally speaking I tend to pursue a policy of flushing away the opposition.

            Your case is a bit exceptional. I could try a policy of buying off the malcontents. But how do you bribe 63 million people!!!

      • 107
        Enjineer has been identified as Donald Rumsfeld's press officer - shoot him in the back of the head says:

        Enjineer, that is the biggest load of bollocks to have been posted on this site for some time. And God knows there is a lot of garbage posted here.
        You are a liar. The Taliban is made up of local Afghans, everybody knows that you dimwit!
        AlQaeda are the foreign fighters, the Taliban are the local fighters.
        These are serious matters we are discussing and British soldiers’ lives are at risk so I advise you to fuck off, learn about the subject you are pontificating on and don’t come back.
        Your careless talk is deadly for our troops.
        Fuck off you war propagandist.

        • 207
          Rambo III says:

          that kunt’s not an engineer, he’s just a twat.

        • 210
          Enjineer says:

          I am one of ‘our troops’, moron.

          My point was that the majority of locals fighting for the ‘Taliban’ are not ideological hardliners. They are far more pragmatic than that, hence talking to them is actually a very good idea – and the only way the current stalemate will be resolved.

          • Enjineer has been identified as Donald Rumsfeld's press officer - shoot him in the back of the head says:

            Bollocks, you are a liar.
            The nearest you ever got to a rifle was playing tin-pan-alley.
            You have completely changed your story.
            Fuck off arsehole.

      • 205
        Nick2 says:

        Afghans also (until very recently?) held their own footsoldiers in low regard. Apparently the majority of Afghan recruits were men who’d been banished from their home villages for committing crimes and enlisted either as a condition of not being summarily judged or because they couldn’t find anyone else to employ them.

        I’ve also seen a YouTube video called ‘Hashish Army’ which portrayed 80% of Afghan recruits as being (profoundly) stoned during their waking hours.

  11. 27
    Brown Hater says:

    Listening to the lunatic now, grandstanding about Afghanistan. How foolish he sounds.

    Such nonsense, lies and waffle, to be paid for by 19 year old wide eyed squaddies and the British taxpayer.

    He shames us. Have we ever had a worse PM in the last 150 years?

    • 41
      History is whatever you want it to be says:

      Campbell-Bannerman ?
      Asquith?
      Baldwin?
      Chamberlain ?

      Nope you’re right Brown is much worse

    • 41
      Klingon says:

      He’s not a Prime Minister – he was never elected as a leader of a Party in a General Election.

      He has sat in that post for nearly 3 years now,knowing that he will be torn apart at the ballot box.

      The history books will refer to this monster as the “unelected one”.

      Any person with half a brain (and a tiny slice of courage) knows that in his situation,you need to go for an election ASAP – this moron has clung to unelected power for 2 and a half years!

      • 76
        Mr Ned says:

        The only leader who ran away from an election that he was sure to win.

        This was because his ego and vanity fed a cowardice that would not let him accept the risk of a smaller majority than Blair won in 2005. So he chickened out and his delusions assured him that he would become even more popular with time. Shame that we have had to endure another 30 months of his appalling failure of leadership, but at least we can look forward to the real probability of him being kicked out on his arse within a few weeks, instead of in another 3 years time.

        I remember writing at the time that he chickened out of that election that I would rather wait a year or two for an election he was certain to lose, rather than him hold an election then at which he could have won and secured a further 5 years.

        • 80
          Sting's Beard says:

          I fear that you’re being a bit unfair on the chickens of this world. At least once in a while they make a good Sunday lunch. I doubt if our glorious leader would be quite so appetizing!

        • 192
          Bustaflush says:

          The suggestion you make that brown would have been sure to have won an election at that time is not a reliable contention. True he was enjoying some popularity within his ranks but a groundswell of support for Brown has never materialised unlike blair who built on his popularity. Brown is a moron who bottled the election opportunity as he did not want to be labelled as the the shortest time Pm in modern times. He also knew his future would only be guaranteed if he did the world stage bit for at least 2 years plus and hoped he could go on to ‘out do’ his previous boss.

    • 50
      concrete pump says:

      My history aint great, but no, i believe that Brown is EASILY the worst PM this country has had to suffer.

      And we didn’t even vote for the c*nt.

    • 77
      King Beardy says:

      sod the last 150 years… he’s the worst since Ethelred the Unready so thats about a thousand years………….

      • 84
        Sting's Beard says:

        Hi beard!!

      • 85

        Unfair on Elthelred: if you check him out the “unready” moniker referred to his surprising arrival on the throne, and is nothing to do with looking and acting like a pile of ungorged erectile tissue as is the case with the present incumbent. Bit like white rhinos not being white, but wide.

        Here endeth the lesson.

        • 98
          King Beardy says:

          god….. if you want to get pedantic the “unready” moniker was actually an old english joke that has been badly translated over the ages. Going back to the original text his name (Ethlred) means Noble Council and the unready part is a poor translation of unraed…. which means “no council”….. so the full joke is that the King was referred to as “Noble Council – No Council”

          Here endeth the marking….. you score a C-

    • 178
      Sir Everard Digby says:

      Listen, there are many things you could call a soldier but ‘wide eyed’ ain’t one.

      The Army teaches you that severe amounts of shit are the norm and show you how to deal with it and still function.

      Unlike the Treasury apparently.

  12. 29
    15 more years of Afghan Carnage says:

    Things can only get better
    eh Dave ?

    You either stop the madness now Cameron by signalling that there is no Conservative blank cheque for another 5 years of this idiocy.
    or
    You’re next 5 years are guaranteed pointless slaughter for a corrupt regime in a War the public already dislikes and will grow to loathe which will drain money from the UK like a corrupt Afghan Policeman finding a Westerner at a checkpoint.

    • 181
      Old Nick Heavenly(real dimwit) says:

      Or a scotish cop catching a man blowing his nose as he is stationery and with the hand brake on!

      • 224
        Nick2 says:

        They’ve got to meet their arrest & fixed penalty quotas – another innovation of New Labour!

  13. 31
    The PM shouldn't be disturbed but this cunt is says:

    Recession’s back on now the Government cant afford to pay people to buy cars, and Asda’s have let their Crimbo shelf stackers go.

    Double dip recession, unsustainable structural deficit, Sovietisation of huge parts of the economy, a million encouraged into the disablilty fraud scheme, cowardly approval for Blair’s war of aggression, the bullying and smearing of party colleagues.

    Not even the most deluded, naieve and smug of NaziLabour’s apologists can seriously think McDoom has been anything other than a disaster for Britain.
    The BBC accepted of course, those Trot scum will support NaziLabour no matter what crimes their fellow idealogues perpetrate on the British people

    • 52
      Ministry of Truth says:

      Memo: To all news and current affairs editors

      “The 1980’s were much much worse under the Tories!”

      Please ensure that your newscasters insert this phrase at least once into any report on the economy.

      Many thanks for your cotinued support

    • 83
      Onaism is the One says:

      The BBC lashed themselves to Labour and know they will go down together. Like Nazis looking to the end of the War, they fear the tribunals.

      But better to surrender to the West…

      • 208
        ShoutsAtTheTVwhenGordo'sOn says:

        Heard Evan Davies this morning, joking that, “…That would be like the BBC setting the License Fee!”

        Feels like they do already, mate.

  14. 38
    Anonymous says:

    PHWOOOAAARRRR !!!

    Political journalists ain’t what they used to be, that’s for sure..

  15. 46
    It's happening says:

    Cabinet Minister resigning.

  16. 49
    Corrupt UN says:

    Ban Ki-moon the head of the UN talking in his pigeon English about corruption in Afghanistan. Well the Head of the UN would know ALL about corruption.

  17. 51
    Onaism is the One says:

    What as Obama mentions himself 132 times during a speech.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnSQJ-ALqDs

    Me, myself and I.

    Altogether now, sing with me, “I am the World. I am the Children. I am the one who make a brighter day…”

  18. 55
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    Voters today realise a cast iron guarantee is worth precisely the same as a no more boom and bust promise. With the libdem frantic Euro giveaway driving away their voters too we’ll see the biggest upsets in history come May.

    It’s a choice between the devil-you-know guaranteed crap from the top 3 or send ‘em a message and risk chaos being better.

    A mate just bought a house with a pool in Australia. He can’t praise the place high enough. Sounds so tempting…

    • 71
      Onaism is the One says:

      Australia is boring and too hot.

      6th biggest country in the world. 7th least populated country in the world.

      Who lives next door? 230million muslims in over crowded Indonesia.

      To demonstrate the principle, here is a jokey ad about New Zealand. A good joke always has an element of truth.

    • 202
      exlax says:

      well bugger off and live there…bunch of loud mouthed pissheads

  19. 65
    Gonk says:

    Gossipy I know, but I wonder how much
    Watt was paid for “leaving “the Labour Party,
    how much for the book and if he’s going to
    be sued for spilling the beans.

    • 142
      Useful tips for students - No.15 says:

      I see he was “one of the girls” in his nursing days as everyone assumed wrongly that being a trainee nurse he had to be gay. Yeh good move that Peter – works every time with the ladies who want to try and convert you to the “straight and narrow” Much better pastime than McBust’s student days i.e. writing a book how to “con” the state out of benefits

      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-447205/How-scrounge-State-Gordon-Brown.html

      • 152
        I hate him the most says:

        Shame no one hanged Brown with that tie he is wearing in that photo.

        I hate this c*unt so much it is simply incredible.

        I could move mountains with the hatred I have for this excrement.

        • 180
          Gonk says:

          It’s close, but I hate him more
          than you.

          • Granny smith says:

            Could we not club together, and send him for a weekend break to one of those lovely villages in Midsomer.

        • 201
          Simple things are the best says:

          The answer is simple if everyone agrees to get 5 of their friends to vote the sitting Labour MP out and those 5 get 5 more of their friends to do the same etc and so on and so on……………It works best in a Labour marginals of course

      • 171
        TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

        Wise words indeed from the young Master Brown, where we get an amazing early glimpse into the economic policy which has carried him well through these recent troubled times:

        An “infallible” method of cheating your way into bring-a-bottle parties is to “use a carrier bag of empty cans with two half-bricks at the bottom”.

  20. 67

    Maybe he finished the speech with “Guido Fawkes is toast?” ;-)

  21. 70
    Sir William Waad says:

    This French champagne
    (domestic)
    So good for the brain -
    Well, did you evvah!
    What a swell party this is….

    Have you heard? It’s in the stars,
    Next July we collide with Mars –
    Well, did you evvah!
    What a swell party this is….

    • 79
      Piazza Lorreto says:

      Evelyn Waugh said that Champagne is “the quickest road out of Welfaria.”Welfaria being the Labour State. of boredom,incompetence and intrusion.Drink up.

    • 150
      Dem Ole Cole Prête-à-Porter Bones says:

      Champagne don’t drive me crazy
      Cocaine don’t make me lazy
      No bodies business but my own

  22. 74
    Box of Kleenex says:

    Can we have a larger photo of that Isabel sort? I need a change from my Harriet Harman desktop, you know.

  23. 81
    Groucho says:

    Someone suggested earlier that we should keep a record of jobs being lost.

    Can we also keep a record of big businesses delaying payment to smaller suppliers in the hope that if they drag it out long enough, the supplier will go under and hey presto – the debt disappears!

    I’ll start with BT and Tesco. Shameless, cynical bastards, the pair of them.

  24. 91
    Gordon Brown says:

    I see that Andy Murray has lost to Marin Cilic, what a stupid Scottish twat.*

    I see that Andy Murray has beaten Marin Cilic, he’s a true British legend.*

    *Please delete as appropriate

  25. 101
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Mr Groucho I seem to recall that during the days of the blessed Lady T the BBC would anounce every night how many jobs had been lost that day, 7 days a week
    They dont do it now do they? the f*cking c*nts

    • 117
      Thats News says:

      Good point, Beast.

    • 121
      Hugh Janus says:

      Those of us who have been around for a while will remember Red Ken’s running job loss total hoisted on the front of County Hall for all to see. Probably explains why Mrs T took a bit of a disliking to him and his loony left cronies and abolished his employer. What style!

    • 124
      Groucho says:

      I have given up on BBC news now. These days they don’t even try to appear impartial.

      • 131
        Hugh Janus says:

        Even the slightest suggestion that the BBC news ever aspires to be impartial now is quite outrageous. Wash your keyboard out immediately.

      • 156
        Ministry of Truth says:

        One of the conditions of our Charter is that we must educate the British people. So it is our duty to remind them constantly of the need to re-elect a Labour goverenment to ensure the recovery is not put at risk by the “nasty” Tories behind that “nice” Mr Cameron

      • 227
        Nick2 says:

        BBC TV news is unwatchable & News 24 is an affront to any principles of journalism (other than ‘never over-estimate your audience’).

        I’ve long since compromised on R4’s main news programs, as the most informative of a very bad bunch.

    • 144
      Onaism is the One says:

      The BBC must be tackled after the next election.

      Remember that thought.

  26. 103
    Anonymous says:

    Guido you need to get a phone with a decent camera. Top Totty and a blurred picture is NOT good enough.

    • 166
      King Beardy says:

      seconded!!!

      • 218
        ShoutsAtTheTVwhenGordo'sOn says:

        I second the second-ing..

        Even so, could have been improved with a bit of Photoshopping. Boost the constrast. Adjust the brightness. Unsharp Mask. Stick Mandlescum’s head on her body.. That kinda thing

  27. 105
    Precious McKenzie says:

    Who’s the woman in the picture? Is she a powerlifter?

  28. 111
    Anonymong says:

    She could have taken her rucksack off!

  29. 112
    just dropping by says:

    shop direct 1500 jobs to go

    • 206
      History is whatever you want it to be says:

      One thing’s for sure Q0110 ain’t going to be showing 0.1% positive growth.More like 0.4% negative.The BBC will of course “spin” this is because of “special seasonal factors” – bad weather and so on and that economists will no doubt be adjusting the growth figure upwards(as per Q0409)

  30. 132
    Gordon's Hymn Sheets says:

    So which is it Gordon?

    “This mission is vital for all our national securities, vital to the security of this region, vital to the security of the world.”

    OR

    “You’re looking at a group of people who are easily divided because most of them have got different reasons for being part of this insurgency.”

    Either they are a threat to the whole world or they are easily divided. I have a feeling Gordon is wrong in both statements. If they are easily divided, then they would have been divided years ago and if they are a threat to the security of the world they would not be blowing their underpants up.

    • 147
      GORDON BROWN AND KARZAI ARE AMERICAN STOOGES says:

      Yes they could have been divided years ago.
      Then we occupied their country and that is the only reason the Taliban tolerate the presence of Alqaeda in Afghanistan.
      My enemies enemy is my friend.
      If we stop occupying Afghanistan the Taliban will kick Alqaeda out of their country.
      So the only way we can do what Gordon Brown claims he wants to do, divide the enemy, is by not occupying Afghanistan.
      Logic, isn’t it.

  31. 135
    Fees Office Clerk says:

    Gordon Brown: “Free NHS Healthcare for the Talaban……it’s a deal clincher”

    Hamid Karzai: “Let’s toast that deal with some Dom Pérignon…..paid for by the British of course”

  32. 136
    No one likes me either says:

    Guido, you’re too modest and unsure of yourself. Nearly everyone dislikes the Prime Mentalist more than you.

  33. 151
    snotgobbler says:

    “Western nations are planning to attempt to buy off up to 12,500 members of the Taliban with a promise that they will be paid to defend their own villages. ”

    Now being from the West Midlands we are considered to be the thickest of the thick but even I see a problem in this, shouldn’t this have been done covertly becuase otherwise I think we are in danger of recruiting even more Taliban, then we won’t be able to pay them off = even bigger problem

    • 162
      Anonymous says:

      Seems to me every man and his dog will want to be in the Taliban now, courtesy of loads of free money from the British Taxpayer to not be in the Taliban.

      Gordon can just not resist giving other people’s money away

      • 170
        Dole Scrounging Cunt says:

        Where can I buy one of those pork pie hats they wear?
        And if I sign up will it affect my housing benefit and jobseekers’ allowance?

    • 164
      Remember,he has form and it's all bad. says:

      I would like to announce that I intend to sell a lot of gold sometime soon.

    • 165
      Hugh Janus says:

      I seem to recall that they tried this last year, although on a smaller scale. On that occasion a number of them pocketed the cash and carried on as before. Who would have thought it?

      Once again, the deluded and utterly prat-ish McBust seems to think that the path to political glory is paved with mountains of taxpayers’ cash.

      • 173
        Bribes says:

        French died after Italian troops paid off Taliban

        http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/54769,news-comment,news-politics,french-troops-died-after-italians-bribed-taliban-in-afghanistan

        As soon as the bribes stopped the Taliban went on the attack again. Gordon’s cunning plan will have the British Taxpayer subsidising the Taliban for evermore.

        • 186
          Sir Everard Digby says:

          and of course Blair wasted 30 million buying off the poppy farmers (in one year!) When the cash was not forthcoming the next year,they started growing poppies again.

          • Nick2 says:

            There was a better solution trialled – buy the opium from the farmers & hand it over to western drug companies – apparently there’s a shortage of legit raw opium. It was tried for at least one year – successfully I understand.

          • NHS Spokesman says:

            We keep getting fucked up the arse by the rip-off pharmaceutical companies so if we had a contract to buy all the opium it would save us millions of pounds and also stabilise the region.
            Two birds with one stone.

        • 204
          We will protect you says:

          Happened to a Chinese mining company.

          Ignorant of local customs they turned down a friendly offer of paid armed ’security’.

          A week later 12 mining engineers were ambushed and killed.

          The Chinese now pay for local assistance.

        • 214
          Doomonger says:

          ridiculous solution kill the bastards much better

    • 185
      Sir Everard Digby says:

      Does not learn does he? Tipped the market off about his gold sale and now acts like a recruiter for the Taleban.

      Fuckwit

    • 190
      Unsworth says:

      Where is the Taleban Head Office? I think I’ll drop my CV in – could be a nice little earner.

    • 194
      Sir Everard Digby says:

      Didn’t we try that with Danegeld a few centuries back? Once the cash went,the Danes remained.

      • 213
        Plain Tales says:

        It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
        To puff and look important and to say:—
        “Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
        We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”

        And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
        But we’ve proved it again and again,
        That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
        You never get rid of the Dane.

      • 225
        Sven Errikson says:

        you know there’d be no fit women in yorkshire if it wasn’t for the viking invasions.

  34. 168
    Andrew Neil says:

    The dam is cracking

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/dailypolitics/andrewneil/2010/01/the_dam_is_cracking.html

    Isn’t it time the BBC reviewed its decision that man made global warming is fact and questioners of these facts were to be patronised?

    • 191
      Sir Everard Digby says:

      they must be following Blair’s strategy from 1997 onwards. Governement will not give facts,only narratives.

      • 241
        Merely an Observation says:

        Which is rather strange and contradictory when New Labour policy was supposed to be evidence based.

  35. 172
    GORDON BROWN UNDERFUNDS OUR TROOPS AND AT THE SAME TIME FUNDS THE ENEMY says:

    What a fucking traitor.

  36. 184
    Pesto says:

    George Soros, the hedge-fund billionaire who made a fortune from speculating on sterling’s weakness in the early 1990s, has warned that the outlook for the UK economy is “bleak.”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2010/01/soros_bleak_outlook_for_uk.html

    • 197
      The PM shouldn't be disturbed but this cunt is says:

      Double dip recession brought to a town near you by the National-Socialist-Labour parteh

      Fooking juicy

    • 211
      Gordon Brown says:

      Why do you delight in talking down the UK economy you scrote.
      Why be like all the rest of the Conservative Party?

  37. 216
    .243 Win says:

    Latest wheeze to massage the “jobless” figures :

    Local guy in the area has been on incapacity benefit for years. He has an arthritic shoulder and hip. Gets a car (motobility), accommodation paid for and despite his lack of mobility, doesn’t seem to have too much problem walking his dog around. Gets a load of stuff via internet shopping so he’s got some keyboard skills too (shoulder doesn’t seem to interfere with that too much…)…

    Anyway. Years ago when he did work, he had a nice number going : unionised tenure with the old DLO that allowed him plenty of time (in the 5 years he was there) to build up the sick record in support of his incapacity claim. And in all that time, his pension contributions kept being paid.

    So now, he’s told that he’s due a pension, because he’s hit 60. Them’s the rules he was under.

    Gummint response ? He’s a pensioner now so it’s off Incapacity and onto Pension Credits.

    Meanwhile, everyone else gets told they’ll have to work ’til they’re 70.

    Think he’s the only one ?

    • 245
      Smash Labour says:

      Does he vote Labour? If so leave him alone, all you Tory fuckers should work till you drop. Labour voters should be allowed to never have to work. Oh hang on none of them do.

  38. 217
    Two leaders, only one elected. says:

    So this is why Kazi wears a pork pie hat all the time, he’s as bald as a coot

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6875376.ece

  39. 219
    duster says:

    Looney Boon world stage act this morning…banky moonlighting ahhhhso…khazi deckchair never going to change diddlysquit. Whats happened to Hilary ? too many late nights or not getting enough ?

  40. 236
    Damian McBride says:

    Ask that Isabel bird if she will

    give me a ‘job’

  41. 243
    Smash Labour says:

    Guido should have a “mongometer”. This would be a gauge with a picture of mong on it and a needle and as the mong’s monglets (the BBC, The Guardian, Toenails, Toilets and Sir Michael) spout more shite the gauge would whizz around giving us a “shit reading for the day”

  42. 244
    Smash Labour says:

    The bird is really fit, why don’t we see her on telly instead of fucking mongs like Alibi Brown, Toynbee, Toilets ans Sir Michael?

    oh and did I catch mong saying today that he’s going to give my fucking taxes to the Taliban? When will this fucking one eyed twat STOP giving my fucking money away?

  43. 246
    Civil Servant says:

    How is this a fucking story?

  44. 248
    Anonymous says:

    It all becomes clear now.. Peter Watt has to rat on his friends, and sell out the Labour Party for a few shillings…

    “Don’t worry Peter, we can work on the book together, you and I have some long chats and I can ghost-write it with your help..”

    Yup, I would have sold it my friends too..







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