February 1st, 2010

Why Did You Join Labour? - The Winner

John Prescott Tweeted followers last week asking:

Why did you all join #Labour? Personal experiences? Shared values? Same vision of a progressive Britain? Let us know!

Guido asked for submissions and promised the winner of the competition a copy of The Big Red Book of New Labour Sleaze.

It has to go to whoever was behind the “Emily Benn” contribution:

“Because my uncle and his dad and HIS dad wanted to eliminate patronage and nepotism from politics”

So if you could email Guido with your postal address a copy will be sent in the post…


51 Comments

  1. 1
    You could not make this shit up if you tried says:

    And the punchline is it probably WAS Emily Benn who posted that comment.

  2. 4
    BROWNED OFF says:

    WORTHY WINNER

  3. 6
    David Cameron says:

    Thank you so much Guido,and I look forward to receiving my prize.

    I feel I have brought a whole new meaning to the phrase “cast iron guarantee”

    • 41
      New Labour is evil says:

      Labour trolls should be able to do better than that otherwise they will be helping to sweell the NEET numbers.

  4. 7
    Brown's a Tosser says:

    Given the weekend polls there are still 31% of the electorate who will vote Labour at the GE ffs has the the country gone mad or at least 31% of them! Unbelievable but shows if you dumb down the country you can secure votes forever.

    • 9
      Just Saying says:

      key activity is diluting any feelings of patriotism, united UK has achieved much

      • 25
        LABOUR PARTY STATEMENT says:

        PATRIOTISM IS NOW ILLEGAL
        BOMBING AFGHAN WEDDINGS AND TORTURING AFGHANS IS NOT
        VOTE LABOUR
        WE WILL KEEP COMMITING WAR CRIMES
        THAT’S A PROMISE

    • 17
      • 26
        buffy says:

        Yeah, we’ve hear it all before, “We’re the listening government etc…”

      • 34
        Cash, NI numbers, and a passport for votes says:

        How dare you suggest New Labour are gerrymandering anything. that kind of language is only reserved for the likes of Shirley Porter who tried to kick out New Labour voters from the borough of Westminster. To redress the balance, we, the New Labour party of all the worlds dross, have imported millions of immigrants from all over the world, no questions asked, and continue to do so.

        Now WE will have all the votes for New Labour, we made sure of it, we illegally gave many of them National insurance numbers, so now they can apply for a vote. And you know who they will thank for all this…….

    • 21
      Anonymous says:

      No fucker is putting their money where their mouth is though.

      ” Even at these reduced levels punters are taking a much more bullish view of Tory chances than three of the last four opinion polls and there seem to be very few gamblers about ready to risk their cash on Labour.

      A problem that pollsters still have is the form book. Only one of the 31 pre-election surveys since 1987 has over-stated Labour.”

      PB.Com

      • 44
        Song for all the Tory trolls says:

        Dream dream dream, dream dream dream
        Whenver you want Dave to win the election
        Dream dream dream dream

    • 27
      Steve Expat says:

      Add up all those currently sucking on the public sector teat, and 31% is probably not far off. Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas, do they?

      • 39
        On Harman Pride's Dossier says:

        A mug punter would be one who ties up money in a bet when there’s no outcome for 5 months.

        The national swing is a very broad brush – Ashcroft’s money in the marginals will crush skint Labour. The only difference the national swing makes is what is a “marginal” seat.

        The majority will be 70+ in the end.

      • 45
        15 years of Labour oblivion says:

        Yeah you know better than the spread betting market.

        CON SPREAD RANGES
        347 – 352 Sporting Index
        343 – 348 ExtraBet
        351.5 – 355.5 Betfair Line market

        Twat.

  5. 10
    Mr Benn says:

    Ask the shopkeeper.

  6. 11
    Catflap says:

    A back to basics tweet.
    Forget the wars,rising crime, fucked economy and destroyed working class communities but remember WHY you joined the Labour movement.
    Fat prick.

  7. 12
    Jock McJock says:

    I thought castration was the cure for nepotism?

  8. 13
    Infamy Infamy they all have it in for me! says:

    Rumours abound that Blair may be recalled due to inconsistencies in evidence.

    According to 10am news Tony Blair possibly to be recalled by Iraq enquiry due to inconsistencies in his evidence. Clearly that was not in the pre-enquiry script!!
    by Easterross February 1st, 2010 at 11:11 am PB.COM

    Good!!!! hope they nail the lying twat

    • 15
      ShoutsAtTheTVwhenGordo'sOn says:

      Wicked.

      Now where’s that syringe full of Sodium Pentothol?..

    • 19
      Chilcot says:

      Former prime minister to be questioned in public and private over evidence he gave to panel on invasion’s legality

      http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/01/chilcot-inquiry-recalls-tony-blair

      • 23
        Beautiful Day says:

        Lies will always catch you out in the end, the more complicated the situation and the more people involved the harder it gets to tie everything up.

        With that news and the sun hitting my garden for the first time this year, I think I might treat myself to a liquid lunch.

        O/T Just seen on Sky, a disabled service man visiting Gordo to promote a charity with Lawrence Dallaglio falls over leaving No 10, the curse strikes again.

    • 20
      T.B£iar - the People's Messiah says:

      Oooooh, cripes Cherie.

    • 40
      CIA Agent says:

      Three important points for the panel:

      1 Red is positive
      2 Black is negative
      3 Make sure his bollocks are throughly soaked before connecting the car battery.

  9. 18
    Ed Milliband (Minister for Climate change&Silly walks) says:

    Anyone fancy a bit of climate change hysteria?
    C’mon i’ve got 60 million pamphlets to shift.

    • 36
      Gordon Brown stole my pension says:

      That’s nothin’, mate. Gordon Brown’s got an entire village to shift, to make way for the 3rd runway he wants built at Heathrow. Which he wants to build because, erm, “it’s vital we build a low carbon economy.”

      • 50
        Gerry Mandering says:

        The runway is vital to bring in all the technology made overseas we will require to make Carbon capture plants.
        You don’t think we were going to make it here did you.

        Oh and to bring in some more Labour voters to put it all together, you didn’t think we were gonna give the job to British workers did you ?

  10. 28
    George Osborne says:

    Just finished wanking off to BBC Parliment, nothing like a good old debate in the morning.

  11. 42
    Sir William Waad says:

    Good choice. I congratulate you, madam/sir.

  12. 43
    Plod_Vitch says:

    The winner’s not even funny – sounds too much like Neil Boyo Kinnock

  13. 46

    Yeah, it is a much better version of the one I did.

    Tony Benn:- “The hereditary principle”

  14. 51

    [...] a legion of admirers, who regularly add there own equally witty comments; a competition to find the best quote for joining the Labour Party was won with “Because my uncle and his dad and HIS dad wanted to [...]



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