February 2nd, 2010

Osborne: Hold Me To Account

Guido just got back from the British Museum for the Tories “Eight Benchmarks for Britain” speech. Half the shad cab and Dave trundled out to another new and exciting speech location. Presumably these random venues are envisaged by Steve Hilton to make them look cool. The Lobby didn’t look too impressed at having to leave the safe confines of Westminster this early in an election campaign.

Osborne’s “New Economic Model” made a lot of the right noises and he was on much better form than he has been in the last couple of weeks. Osborne urged the public to judge the success of a Tory government on whether Britain’s credit rating is dropped on their watch. A brave gamble, especially if Britain is shown to have re-entered recession in April on the eve of the election. Clearly fired up by yet another mauling from Mandy yesterday Osborne was quick on the attack. In retaliation Mandelson has just accused him of plagiarism of his own speech from last month. This little battle is set to get very nasty again very quickly.

Guido could only see Nick Robinson’s bald spot but he imagines he was rather red-cheeked when Boy George stuck the boot in with a pithy put down. Robinson stated that £1.5 billion in cuts wasn’t very much, to which Osborne responded “Well obviously I know the BBC salaries are huge, but a billion pounds is still quite a lot of money.The naughty kids at the back made sure a stifled laugh from the audience turned into a round of applause.

As ever with the Tories at the moment the problem lay within the detail. In the entire twenty-four page document, packed full of statistics about how rubbish the legacy they will inherit is, there is no detail, or crucially any facts about how the Tories will fix things. Two months before an election, if you are going to summon great audiences and the nations media, you need to be providing them with more than a promise to give “every household an entitlement of up to £6,500 worth of energy efficiency investments.” The other development was that Stelios is backing the Tories economic plans. Will union baron Tony Woodley be tearing up his e-tickets like he did with The Sun?


219 Comments

  1. 1
    Every Little Helps says:

    Bercow could have saved us money by buying cheap wallpaper off Osborne’s dad rather than the blingy-stuff he and Mrs Speaker chose.

    • 10
      La' says:

      Speakers House is now apparently decked out in Playboy wallpaper

      • 23
        Gideon begin again says:

        if the best little Georgie boy can do is attack toenails (my dog could attack toenails and better) when the obvious is put to him then no wonder the polls are going south
        or does anyone think 1.5 Billion is really anything but peanuts out of this deficit? that’s barely a Banks bonus pot

        • 37
          Mike Naylor says:

          Good post mate!

          • Red Rag says:

            Yeah, a real cracker of a post, you got us laughing down in the bunker.

            Thanks pal, what a scream.

          • Charles Flaccidwidger says:

            You aren’t enough of a wanker to be the real Mike Naylor.

          • what fuckwits says:

            yes you are

            cutting ripostes chaps

            right up there with poo breath and you smell
            Tory Trolls are certainly in a different league of fuckwittery

          • Mike Naylor Red Rag Charles Flaccidwidger says:

            who got the little tory twats panties in such a bunch he had to post thrice ?

          • Belgian Twat says:

            I love spouting off about somewhere I don’t live because I am a hypocritical cun’t

          • Benchmarks for Britain = time for some tiffin says:

            I am the Heir to Blair.
            Hear my soundbites roar.

          • Mike Naylor's family says:

            Yeah your posts attacking the Tories are so out here, soooo cooool, we love it.

          • Fabian Sol y ushuns says:

            Socialism = lack of humour
            Labour = smear

            Dull poster can’t even think of anything constructive to say. If in doubt just insult people. Typical behaviour.

          • Kev and the Socialists says:

            Lefties don’t likehumour when it comes their way do they? Especially all those lefty comedians the bbc so adores.

        • 81
          Labour slaves says:

          We love your posts, oooh especially when you call yourself Gideon. Gets us all hot and horny below stairs at number 10.

          Mmmmmmm rcoking horse time chaps!!

        • 104
          sockpuppet #4 says:

          1.5billion = peanuts. Therefore britain is just shafted.

          I’d suggest investing in special brew and big cardboard boxes.

          • Belgian Twats says:

            it’s allright you can fallate Belgian Goobers for small change to feed your cider habit

      • 33
        BROWN YOU C*NT I WANT MY PENSION BACK ! says:

        Why is it called Playboy Wall paper ? Does it have a few Split’s in it ?

    • 13
      Al says:

      That’s better from Osborne. Still a way to go but better.

      Always good to see Toenails Robinson being shown up for the BBC Labour cretin he is.

      • 31
        Brussels Louts says:

        speaking of toenails
        just how far up George’s arse are you?

      • 120
        Ex-pressman says:

        No, Robinson’s a Conservative. Don’t you read the papers? But he’s a journalist first. His questioning of the baby-faced public school prefect (a description which fits more than one of the Tory front bench, I would suggest), is called ‘doing his job’. We media types are SO misunderstood by the great unwashed.

        • 124
          Hostess says:

          I hear those Miliband brothers are terribly clever.

          • Ex-pressman says:

            You’re right, they are. One holds one of the great ministerial offices of state, the other is talked of as a future party leader. And all this achieved with comprehensive school eduction, to boot…

          • jokin right? says:

            Party leader?

            Arf!

        • 217
          Martin Sage says:

          Why is promoting hatred of people who went to public school any different to promoting hatred on the basis of race, colour, religion or any other group considered acceptable by the liberal left and the BBC I wonder? The only groups who seem to have lost their right to protection from discrimination are public school graduates (and I am not one) and rural residents (of which I am one).

          • Ex-pressman says:

            It’s not hatred. It’s pointing out that the privately-educated (only around 7% of the population I think, but I’m willing to be corrected) might – just possibly – have difficulty relating to the lives, aspirations and experiences of the other 93% who they seek to represent. Even Conservatives do it. Remember Michael Howard’s put-down to Tony Blair some years ago? “This grammar school boy will not take any lessons from that public school boy”

      • 127
        Eggo the Ostrich says:

        “Nick Robinson’s bald spot”

        You mean his head?

    • 14
      Benchmarks for Britain = Skidmarks to shit in says:

      Benchmarks for Britain
      Hahahahahaha!!

      Fucking hell!
      has no-one told these fuckwits that meaningless Blairite soundbite twaddle like that only puts the voters teeth on edge ?

      Epic Fail

      Ken Clarke wil be pissing himself laughing right now

      • 40
        Mike Naylor says:

        Good one!

      • 46
        Mike Naylor says:

        Too true!

        • 51
          Jonty Pryor says:

          We are having a hoot as this guys posts. Charlie just got a call from old Draper saying how true your post is.

          Great stuff. Love it.

          • Mike Naylor Jonty Prior Red Rag Charles Flaccidwidger says:

            that the best you’ve got ?
            fucking pathetic

          • Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

            I like to fellate tramps for cider money

          • Mike Naylor's Dad says:

            ‘Benchmarks for Britain etc’

            You are a giant in the Labour troll community.

            Nobody does it better, you are a shining example to pimply students everywhere.

            Bravo Sir!

          • Mike Naylors Submental Stalker says:

            Mike Naylor, flaccidwidger, Al, fabian, red rag, Gordon Brown at bottom etc.

            Why not post something actually worth reading for a change little twat ?

            all you ever do is post a kneejerk insult at anyone who disagrees with Cameron or Osborne because you are completely devoid of intellect

            instead of this peurile fuckwittery why not first ask yourself..

            Why you stupidly think this is a Conservative website for you to smear, like an arselicking tory minion, anyone who doesn’t agree with Conservative Policy when Guido himself has said he is an independent blogger ?

            In short, find somewhere else to troll because this isn’t Tory Central Office and you don’t decide what can or cannot get criticised you arrogant little shitbag

            ALL MP’s are fair game here

            Brown’s a cun’t, Mandelson’s a corrupt weasel and Blair is a warcriminal

            If you are so delicate and thin skinned that you can’t handle seeing anyone Conservative mocked then again the answer is obvious
            FUCK OFF because this isn’t a Conservative website you twat

          • Mike Naylor Jonty Prior Red Rag Charles Flaccidwidger says:

            I’ve never voted for Labour and Brown is a useless cun’t
            you are the partisan whiny little thin-skinned humourless twat who thinks this is his own personal conservative website to troll anyone who disagrees with you

            ALL MP’s are fair game here shit for brains

            so fuck off before you make a fool of yourself again

          • You fool says:

            Er, not all the same guy so wrong there.

            Forced you up to surface eh?

            You have a thin skin.

          • Mike Naylor Jonty Prior Red Rag Charles Flaccidwidger You fool says:

            thanks for proving my point retard

            you are the hypocritical Tory Troll who shits himself if anyone dares question his heroes Dave and George

            Go and have a wank on Conservativehome because this isn’t an official Conservative website stupid

          • Mike wossname's a lefty arsebandit says:

            You don’t have to be a tory to despise you lefty nonces farkwit

      • 93
        rick says:

        Didn’t Blair issue ‘Pledge cards’ in a previous election? As Benchmark says – just a meaningless Blairite soundbite.

    • 94
      Anonymous says:

      Just seen Brown on the TV. Everythings under control no problem too big to solve. Thank God for that. I was worried there for a moment that he had fucked everything up!

    • 186
      Up sh1t creek says:

      Hold Nick Robinson and the rest of the BBC New Labour sycophants to account, especially THEIR expenses and pay, which they get “Due to the unique way they are funded” (compulsory tax to watch ANY TV station).

  2. 2
  3. 3
    G Brown (BA Phd MP Patron of the clean 2nd flat society) says:

    Does Mandelson dye his hair, by the way? He looked a bit spooky yetserday when announcing Labour’s swingeing cuts on Universities – may be it was the script he was reading.

  4. 4
    Great Granddad says:

    It’s a pity that Osborne is such a lightweight.

    • 15
      Thats News says:

      What, as compared to Prescott, you mean?

    • 25
      Gideon begin again says:

      Don’t talk such tosh
      He’s a featherweight

      • 32
        Gideon begin again says:

        Dead give away using ‘Gideon’, I know.

        Mr Balls makes us use it wherever possible.

        I must use my time in a more constructive way.

        A wank I think.

        • 75
          Gideon begin again says:

          then fuck off and have a wank you feeble little tory twat

          • Fabian Sol y ushuns says:

            We dont have nuffink to say so we will just insult you. clever isn’t it.
            I blame it on thatcher
            your recession was worse than ours
            we saved 500,000 from the dole

            power to the people

          • Alex Milfton says:

            This guy posting as Gideon, he’s a scream, a real trooper for the cause comrades. Quick get Prescott’s useless cock of a son to give him some cash to do some ads.

            What a talent!

          • Alex suffers from a multiple personality complex mad cunt says:

            Alex, we know that is you posting as both Gideon and Fabian.
            Raise your game or fuck off moron.

      • 60
        Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

        Whereas I am just a deadweight.

    • 54
      George W Osborne says:

      I am not a lightweight! I have almost learned how to use ‘spreadsheets’. Did you like my speech?

      • 62
        Mike Naylor says:

        last post Jonty – back to 5live and the daily mail comments

        • 84
          Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

          fuck off back to central office you shitmunching little worm

          • Fabian Sol y ushuns says:

            Constructive as usual.

            Has it dawned on you that perhaps people on this blog are here because they want to be?
            Unlike people like you who are paid to be here.

            You are probably too dim to realise that you are wasting much needed Labour funds posting on here.

            Tally Ho!

          • Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

            Can’t think of your own sobriquet and need to steal mine ???!!!!

          • Tory Troll Control says:

            Brown’s a cun’t Blair’s a warcriminal I’d never vote for any of them and you are the partisan little arselicking troll paid by conservative central office. you simply can’t bear to see anything negative about Dave or George get said without your peurile childish abuse

            you are the very definition of a troll

            now fuck off back to Conservativehome because ALL MP’s are fair game here you stupid wanker

            Mandelson is going to have to spell out what he meant by his massive cuts too sooner or later and then he’s toast
            but George is feeding us meaningless pablum and spin that even Blair would roll his eyes at so he gets it in the neck for his stupidity right now

        • 106
          Jonty Pryor says:

          Ok Mike, I can’t wait to stay up all night posting on the Daily Mail site.

          Yummy scrummy and lashings of cake from my tuck box. And phaps a ginger biscuit or two will get nibbled eh?

  5. 5
    BBC Poll Tax says:

    How much does Nick Robinson get from the State?

    • 9
      Thats News says:

      As Nick Robinson might say: “That’ll teach me!”

      • 76
        Maladroit Labour Chump says:

        Toenails is probably paid about £ 600,000 per annum ( excluding free lunches, overseas junkets and ‘entertainment’ allowances.

        He is actually worth about two bob.

    • 16
      Anonymous says:

      Nick Robinson outside British Museum on mobile “It’s a big favour I’m doing, you owe me one”
      http://twitter.com/eyespymp

      So, what is he up to?

      • 26
        smig says:

        Apart from sucking the mouldy, fetid, smegma encrusted cock that is New Labour you mean?

      • 27
        Comical Mandy says:

        I simply ask you Nicholas to state ‘that £1.5 billion in cuts isn’t very much’ – I rather messed up yesterday with my speech

        “It’s a big favour I’m doing, you owe me one”

      • 119
        Thats News says:

        Probably agreed to stop off and pick up a sandwich for a colleague.

    • 24
      La' says:

      free pair of nailscissors to trim his toenails

    • 212
      Tennerpants. says:

      “How much does Nick Robinson get from the State?”

      Obviously not very much, or he would wear contacts, Instead of those Joe 90 goggles. Anyway who cares? he’s a fucking ‘off the shelf’ B&Q lightweight ‘presenter’. In this day and age of PC, and given Harriet’s equality drive, why cant they employ someone with a nice arse and great tits.

  6. 6
    DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

    “there is no detail, or crucially any facts about how the Tories will fix things”

    I’m guessing that’s because they realise that things are so bad that there is no realistic chance that they will fix things.

    • 17
      Gordon Brown says:

      There is the slight question of the Conservatives winning the General Election first.
      No chance with the present gormless line-up

      • 29
        Mike Naylor says:

        Nice one!

        • 89
          Sir Everard Digby says:

          Naylor -back again. Quiet day in the rapid rebuttal unit ?

          PS are you still no fan of Gordon Brown?

          • Mike Naylor says:

            Indeed sir! I am no fan of Gordon Brown but……………..

            I’ve had some time off re-training (between you and me, I think the bunker is trying to conserve some funds).

            But I am back! We have some new guys onboard and we are ready for a full frontal medja attack on comment pages, blogs, phone ins etc.
            Mr Mandelson, Whelan etc have really fired us up and told us to expect some real dirty tactics.
            The thing is though, that a lot of people fall for our chicanery, but I suppose we do have the BBC ‘onside’ – I often get called at home by producers asking me to comment!

          • Mike Naylor Jonty Prior Red Rag Charles Flaccidwidger says:

            it’s not your fucking personal conservative website you whiny little tory twat

            ALL MP’s are fair game here you tiny-brained partisan robot

          • You loon. says:

            Poor mad fool is posting as an unholy mixture of his heroes!

            I hope nurse takes his laptop away from him soon.

          • Mike Naylor Jonty Prior Red Rag Charles Flaccidwidger You loon. says:

            they are your soubriquets you pathetic little weasel
            I’m just pointing out the obvious

            I see you don’t have the guts to respond to the point as usual
            you spineless little robot wimp

            it’s not your own personal conservative website you ilttle shit so fuck off

          • hang 'em says:

            you can fuck off anall

    • 70
      Gordon Brown stole my pension says:

      DisgustedofMicham2 – probably true. Brown’s debt mountain is now so large and unstable that when it comes crashing down – as it will – like a fiscal Aberfan, it’ll smother, crush and destroy anything and everything in its way.

      Cameron’s half-heartedness is probably born out of a (subconscious?) reluctance to be the one in Downing Street when it happens. Who’d blame him? Better to let it happen to Brown, and then take over, in a 2nd election late this year or early 2011.

    • 129
      U nobkockey says:

      I don’t see what’ so bad about this. While we all know this wretched Government has plunged us into a swirling sea of debt, it’s not so easy to find a fairly straight forward document that tells s just what it all is; Liebore have hideen it all over the place like a an alcoholic’s stash.

      If Osborne played a straight bat and just put out exactly what this Government has done to the nation’s finances then they will have to spend time denying it. And even if they do, an easy reply would be to ask if it is actually more than estimated.

  7. 7
    La' says:

    SUCK ON THAT COMICAL MANDY!

    • 35
      EC1 PhD says:

      I watched Comical Mandy’s speech yesterday and the way he put across his economic arguments was quite impressive. Then I thought about what he’d just said and realised what a lying wanker he is.

      • 193
        Up sh1t creek says:

        New Labour has saved private businesses, with more taxes than ever before lumped onto them, and in the future, to pay for the ever expanding state. The state has saved us, rejoice (in the record breaking £2.5Trillion deficit New Labour ran up). Nearly 60% working for the state is “not” unsustainable.

        or

        The UK has come out (no it hasn’t) of the recession stronger than anyone else. The UK is SO strong, that they used the Bank of England to cover up the £200bn they are borrowing this year with their asset stealing quantitative easing scheme.

    • 39
      Benchmarks for Britain = no pot to piss in says:

      I’m sure he’s shitting himself at more sub-Blair soundbites

      all too clear these wankers in Blu-Labour and Nu-Labour haven’t a cigarrette paper between their ‘policies’

  8. 11
    Ken Clarke says:

    David Cameron needs a “bruiser” like me as Shadow Chancellor, not a wise-cracking George Osborne

  9. 12
    Cost cutting dept. says:

    Saving £1.5Bn is easy – just think BBC expenses and top salaries and you’re most of the way there. Robinson fisrt to go, but expect he’s not paid as much as top interviewers such as say, Paxman, Brinckley or Chiles.

    • 22
      BROWN YOU C*NT I WANT MY PENSION BACK ! says:

      OR JONAFON WOSS !

    • 41
      smig says:

      “Top Interviewers” huh? Where? The BBC? Behave.

      They’re nothing but a bunch of hand-wringing, bleeding heart Liberal, champagne Socialists since Robin Day died.

      These numpties couldn’t rigorously interview if their lives depended on it!

      • 59
        BBC Poll Tax says:

        Andrew Neil is earning his corn.He’s the next Director General for my money.

        • 64
          smig says:

          He be the exception that proves the rule.

          I take back my last comment. They’re all a bunch of Liebour sockpuppets apart from Brillo.

          • Steve Expat says:

            Stephen Sackur on Hard Talk is also pretty good, but for some reason they only ever let him interview foreigners.

        • 68
          Cost cutting dept. says:

          Chiles is clearly best at the mo- although we hope to persuade Titchmarsh (A) of Kyle (J) to join. Logan might get promoted to Toady or Newsnight on current form.

      • 80
        Mr Ned says:

        The article on the BBC news website mentions 8 benchmarks, but doesn’t say what they all are. So what are they? What are we supposed to hold them accountable to?

        Labour failed in their golden rules, so what are the tory party’s alternative?

        • 99
          Benchmarks for Britain = I love my mittens says:

          It’s another competition

          If you can come up with 8 benchmarks and a policy for George the email them to the Conservative website and you could win a cabbage

        • 188

          Follow the link that Guido gave. The 8 “benchmarks” (if you can call them that) are:

          “These are the eight Benchmarks for Britain. They are clear and transparent. Achieving them over the next Parliament will mean we have put Britain back on her feet and are building a new British economic model, very different from the debt-driven model of the past.

          “At the end of the Parliament, people will be able to use these Benchmarks to judge whether our economy is more stable, more balanced and more competitive. Then they can hold their government to account.

          “1 Ensure macroeconomic stability
          2 Create a more balanced economy
          3 Get Britain working
          4 Make Britain open for business
          5 Ensure the whole country shares in rising prosperity
          6 Reform public services to deliver better value for money
          7 Create a safer banking system that serves the needs of the economy
          8 Build a greener economy”

  10. 18
    Billy Blofeld says:

    I’m so bored of the Tories. Brown should be dead and buried by now.

    On the other hand……….. Clare Short was fantastic today. I always thought she was a total nutter (as per the spin from Downing Street) – but she certainly put the boot into Blair today.

    • 55
      BROWN YOU C*NT I WANT MY PENSION BACK ! says:

      Thats what you get when you steal a party that represented the working class and turned it in to Tories MK2
      The old Labourites only realised when it was too late
      The likes of Short ,Clarke,Benn,Cooke, Etc all became very disgruntled !

      PS Did she say enough to get the lying shite B-liar to the Hague ?

      • 67
        Billy Blofeld says:

        “The ministerial code said legal advice should be circulated and it wasn’t. We only had the answer to the parliamentary question [Goldsmith's short ruling]. There was a lot of misleading of parliament too by the prime minister of the day.”

  11. 19
    Stelois says:

    Ah Shaddupa your face !!!!

  12. 20
    BROWN YOU C*NT I WANT MY PENSION BACK ! says:

    O/T but this morning on radio 5 live it stated that if a police officers shift runs over by a quick phone call related to his case then he can claim a MINIMUM of FOUR HOURS at TIME and a HALF!
    So you can work out for yourself that a bit of paperwork /phone call a chat related to a case !
    just enough to make sure of the over time
    also if they have to work a bank holiday
    they have to be given a minimum of 8 Days notice and get paid DOUBLE TIME With a day in liew
    Now with all these rich pickings can you really see them prosecuting their pay masters ?
    I Think Not

    • 50
      Axe The Telly Tax says:

      We the pissed off council tax payers are their paymasters. If we had a mass council tax payers revolt, the whole rotten edifice would come crashing down.

      • 197
        Greychatter says:

        Don’t pay your council tax and the Police will come knocking – On Double Time.

        Anything for an easy life – what are Criminals?

  13. 28
    EC1 PhD says:

    It is right to focus on a potential S&P or Moody’s downgrading from AAA. Trouble is, the majority of the electorate think they’re talking about some rock band. The credit rating argument must be taken to Labour because they will avoid the issue like the plague.

    • 92
      Benny Fitz-Clement says:

      Lose out triple AAAs ??? Where would I get new batteries for me SkyTV remote then?

      I wouldn’t be able to watch me fellow benefits claimants on the Jeremy Vile show.

    • 155
      Man Dibbles At Work says:

      Don’t give the liebores ideas. The Great Unwashed will go mcmental if they’re told there is this issue like the plague only more infectious.

  14. 30
    Require an ASAP EVAC from this shit-hole says:

    Why not hold a meeting/conference in job centres up and down the country you know where real issues and real voters are?

    Oh wait, forgot all you corrupt media and political scum are in it for yourselves and the rest of us have to fight and make do with whatever crumbs you throw down from you ivory towers and fantasy worlds.

    The sooner decent hard-pressed taxpayers leave and the system collapses and swallows you all the better.

  15. 34
    Try the Mark Oaten Diet Plan! says:

    Fact: George Osborne was born into a wealthy family and has never had a job in his life. We’re supposed to judge him on his record?

    • 42
      purpleline says:

      So kill all rich parents and send their children down the mine>

      Poeple like you deserve to be treated like shit as Brown does

      • 49
        what a fuckwit says:

        So murder everyone in Brtiain who isn’t rich and sell their bodies for catfood>

        People like you are a stupid as a very large strawman made of pure shit

        • 82
          purpleline says:

          Fuck-wit how aptly named, you will be first in the Whiskas Tin you fucking spastic

          • burblewhine says:

            said the sad retarded thick as pigdshit little weed

          • No Offence Intended But.... says:

            Ah, the old copy other people’s work trick.
            Well it aint working.
            Add something original to this place or fuck off.

    • 47
      Sir William Waad says:

      So, just like most of the Cabinet?

    • 48
      BBC Poll Tax says:

      Fact:James Gordon Brown was born into a wealthy family and has never had a proper job in his life.He will be judged and condemned on his record.

      • 58
        Fabian sol y ushuns says:

        ditto:
        Most of the cabinet.

        The standard of posting by labour trolls has really gone downhill.
        They even sometimes amused, but their desperation is palpable

        • 98
          Liebour Troll Ops says:

          Normal (abysmal ) service will be resumed as soon as possible.

          Please bear with us as we attempt to train the latest intake of knuckle-dragging dross up to Key Stage 2 standards

          • Tory Troll Control says:

            We apologise for the fuckwittedness of the small stupid toryboys who escaped their nanny and found a keyboard

            rest assured these spotty little twits will be placed in the care of David ‘hug a hoody’ Cameron until they learn to behave

          • Mike Naylor says:

            Great post Tory Troll Control.

            Keep up the fab work.

          • Iain Dale says:

            love your work Mr Naylor
            want to come back to my place?

          • Just Sayng says:

            Amazing, modern history is gathering speed to get the biggest thrill possible as we shoot the white water ride of the U-bend whilst Labour adult trolls quite openly joust with ‘small stupid toryboys who escaped their nanny and found a keyboard’, adult labour groomers more like-it’s what we do

          • Tory Troll Control says:

            we don’t want to know your obsessions and what you get up to in your spare time you sick pervert

            now fuck off to Conservativehome if you can’t handle MP’s being mocked on this site

          • No Offence Intended But.... says:

            Handbags at dawn.
            Calm down FFS you are making yourselves look like a right couple of twats.

          • hang 'em says:

            TTC – shut the fuck up

            you made your point

      • 83
        Never Forget says:

        He hasn’t even cleaned his own flat.

    • 57
      REEVO says:

      He has no record, its like employing an inexperienced surgeon to operate on your children….

    • 125
      Thats News says:

      34, on that basis, I would judge him in exactly the same way I would judge, Benn, Harman, the Milibands, Blair, etc.

    • 178
      Granny smith says:

      What jobs have the balls up done?.

    • 183
      The Bottle Fed Triplet says:

      George Osborn was born in to a wealthy family, was he?

      Yup! And how many years did Gordon do down t’pit. Then there was Harriet’s fifteen years in the foundry or Jack Straw’s first job, nine years as a welder before he went in to politics. Of course Mr. Tony had to struggle in his early years as the ninth child of a lowly paid farm worker.

      Oh Aye, lad. They’ve all suffered at the hands of the bosses. Alastair Darling’s childhood was rough. Every morning he got up at five to sweep the chimneys of the rich people in his town.

      Aye Lad, happy days!

  16. 38
    purpleline says:

    Brown losing temper on TV as I type to Tory Luff MP. These Bozo’s need to get under his skin. Als him if he believes he has made a mistake stop the tractor figures and comparisons with other countryies.

    If he continues to use other countries just say what does that prove if they all go bankrupt, would it make you happy you are in the same ganag or do you want Britain to be above its peers. You mental Hunt.

    Re- Osborne all he needs say is Labour have destroyed our economy, our financial position is the weakest in history and labour have done it again.
    The cupboard is bear, it is our intention to reduce the debt burden if we are elected.

    We will study the books including the off-balance sheet burdens on the public purse and yes hard decsions will be made because of Browns economic incompetence and because of BROWN we will have to introduce in law a cap on pensions in the public sector and increase public sector pensionable age to 70 from 2011.

    • 175
      Krassus says:

      Every Party and their dog are saying Brown has ruined the economy in the election campaign, besides the fact that people do tend to notice a recession of this magnitude.

      It’s not enough.

      Any Political Party that can’t tell the voter exactly what they will do will get punished. The public remembers the expenses scandal and the public don’t like it when they ‘choice’ looks to be the same policies in a different suit.

  17. 44
    Benchmarks for Britain = Bad as Dick Sniffin says:

    two cheeks of the same tory Blair backside

  18. 45
    Require an ASAP EVAC from this shit-hole says:

    Cancel the license fee for starters, then come down like a ton of bricks on corrupt landlords abusing property loopholes.

  19. 53
    Two for the price of one says:

    Osbourne and Mandelson – I can just see then falling into the Reichenbach falls as they duel to the death…

  20. 56
    concrete pump says:

    Nick Robinson was made to look a bit of a c*nt.

    Marvellous.

  21. 61
    Cynical B*****d says:

    Labour’s latest;

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2834603/Anger-as-Labour-lets-poor-pay-debts-by-credit-card.html#ixzz0eNBgR3xg

    Then again since they are maxing out the UK credit card….

  22. 66
    genghiz the kahn says:

    clegg looking like a deranged hitch hiker, who has not been crb checked.

    http://www.libdems.org.uk/what_we_stand_for.aspx

    one for the archive mr fawkes.

    • 96
      concrete pump says:

      Eeuurgh!

      He looks like an amalgamation of every perv on the sex offenders register.

      • 101
        Baillie Vass says:

        He must have let off a powerhouse fart because the fart flap on his jacket is at almost 90 degrees

  23. 72
    BROWN YOU C*NT I WANT MY PENSION BACK ! says:

    Osbourne : Hold Me To A C*nt !
    If you did he still wouldn’t know what to do with it !

    • 170
      Baron Harkonnen says:

      Very funny. You should write the political bit of the Mirror or something equally highbrow.

  24. 79
    Anonymous says:

    Now that George Osborne has laid down clear benchmarks would dave please not go and FOG them up again. Enough is enough.

  25. 97
    George Osborne says:

    Ein Folk Ein Reich Ein Cameron

  26. 112
    Benchmarks for Britain = George's fart kitten says:

    Since when did politicians get to tell the electorate on exactly what they are allowed to be judged on ?
    Arrogant nonsense

    Judge me if the apocalypse hasn’t happened
    Right George

    You will be judged on how shit you are and on the economy like every other politician including Brown

  27. 115
    catflap says:

    Ok the economy is big news but,
    Nothing from the Conservatives on any other issue for fucks sake.
    I was recently assaulted and the fucking police are useless.
    I am now convinced the cops only job is to protect criminals and prevent me seeking justice myself.
    “Nothing we can do,but you stay clear to avoid any more trouble.”
    WTF.
    The cu*nt who did it should be the one looking over their shoulder not me.
    Cameron’s statement “Burglars will leave their human rights at the front door” is shit and worthless while Britain is in the EU.
    Another subject avoided by the Cons whilst dancing on an economic pin with Labour.

  28. 118
    Smash Labour says:

    Yes Toenails got bitch slapped by Orborne, about time to. But I’m betting the BBC won’t run that clip again just like they didn’t when Boris bitch slapped that fucking mong Paxman on Newsnight.

    Fucking BBC. Toenails you really are a fucking turd.

  29. 122
    EC1 PhD says:

    O/T but didn’t Brown just announce an additional £1.5 bn spending on defence at the same time as the Ministry of Defence intends to close RAF Cottesmore in advance of the next strategic defence review? Why do it now? Why not wait for the review first? Is this sleight of hand, Gordon?

    http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/SAVECOTTESMORE

    • 135
      South of the M4 says:

      ” Is this sleight of hand, Gordon? ”

      This should be engraved on his gravestone.

  30. 131
    catflap says:

    Lord Stern gives Osbourne the bumsrush.
    http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23801316-tories-poach-gordon-browns-climate-adviser.do
    Why do the Cons want that wanker Stern anyway?
    Climate,EU,immigration,crime and justice all the fucking same Blulabour.

    • 162
      Lil Olmey says:

      Quite. Stern is very much part of the problem, not the solution. He’s another high priest of the AGW cult. He seems to have learnt much from the thinking of L Ron Hubbard, i.e. if you want to make an obscene fortune, start a religion.

  31. 132
    concrete pump says:

    Do you want your smart, bright children to end up in a run down comprehensive school, full of ‘Tasha Slappa’s’ and feckless morons because of Labours stand on fucking ‘inclusivity’?

    No.

    Vote Tory.

    It’s a dirty job but we have to do it.

    • 134
      Mike Naylor says:

      Post of the decade,mate

      Even though its bollocks

      • 150
        Tory Troll Control says:

        said the pigeon brained bollock merchant

        • 203
          No Offence Intended But.... says:

          TTC, tat has already done the whole said the…. thing to death and it is really boring now.
          Stop copying other people. Failing that fuck off.

      • 153
        concrete pump says:

        Do you want your ill elderly parents to have their house sold by this government so that it provides them with future health care in a shitty nursing home next to scum who have never paid tax in their feeble fucking lives.

        Bearing in mind your ill parents HAVE paid taxes all their lives, but they stick your parents there anyway, even after the sale of their house which would MORE than cover the price of PROPER healthcare.

        Labour = Wankers of the highest order.

        Get them OUT.

        Vote Tory, its a dirty job but we have to do it.

      • 157
        Tramp Concern says:

        Hey Tory Troll Control has been let out again.

        Goody!

        He fellates old tramps throught he park railings. The rotter.

    • 149
      Chunky (the man with the pineapple bollocks) says:

      You are having a laugh.
      Most of the diversity shit happened under Tory rule.
      18 years the Conservatives had to scrap Comprehensives,secure borders bring back capital punishment etc.
      Their greatest legacy was getting the UK even more ensconced with the EU at Maastricht and cutting the police’s balls off via the CPS and PACE.

      • 160
        Chunky (the man with the pineapple bollocks) says:

        Selling out the UKs most loyal subjects to IRA Baby killers was started under the Cons as well.

      • 173
        concrete pump says:

        I was writing about ‘inclusivity’ not ‘diversity,’ on that particular comment Chunky.

        Although labour suck quite hard on the ‘diversity’ cock as well.

        Suck very hard actually, fucking cock suckers.

  32. 133
    Apagusta says:

    The Tories are not going to go ‘definite’ on any spending plans or deficit reduction plans until the election date is named. Everyone is saying cameron is giving Brown an easy time but we can be certain once the gloves are off and the real race is underway..mandy ‘the prime mincer’ will be leading the labour onslaught and Cameron et al will come into their own..this government’s performance speaks for itself but repeating this mantra at this stage is too
    early. Brown will flounder in the TV debates and it is at these type of events where the message will sink in.

    • 140
      I have seen the future and it sucks says:

      Cameron hasn’t seen the real figures yet, anyway.
      He’d better be wearing one fuck-off great nappy when he does see them.

    • 140
      South of the M4 says:

      … and by then the BBC led media indoctrination would have already programmed the audience to hear what they expect to hear. With the national broadcaster against
      you, it may be a crass policy to leave your attack too late.

      Cameroon will go into the televised debates at a disadvantage because he failed to present a strong face beforehand. It will take Brown to go into meltdown on screen before the audience will see the truth. Can that be guaranteed?

      • 144
        Brown stuff says:

        Ten to one he picks his nose!

      • 174
        Apagusta says:

        Fair comment given the bias of the BBC but as the previous poster said the cons have not seen inside the books yet..and frankly given the pile up of debt we can guarantee it will be a very messy picture when they do and thus the best tactic remains to hammer away at the government’s performance.

        Cameron has a very different style to what the public has been used to for many years. Blair was a very slick performer but performing is what it was.. not substance .. Blair called himself a socialist.. pseudo ‘socialite’ yes socialist no and the great unwashed bought it. ‘New Labour’ was a clever tagline but what was or has since shown itself to be ‘new’ about their governance.. zilch..same class politics same deluded economics and totally discredited ethos.

        This government has betrayed the very people they have always professed to represent.. Cameron has made the conservatives electable and regardless of what we all might say on this site the days of this shower are numbered and ukip, the lib dems et al are shadow boxers to the main event.

        Cameron will not have all the answers nor will he get everything right but at least we have a rational alternative to what we have now and nothing could be worse in prospect than 5 more years of Brown’s dross and very probably Mandelson as the next ‘unelected’ Prime Mincer.

  33. 143
    50 Calibre says:

    Osborne: “Hold Me To Account”

    I will, but will it make any difference?

  34. 151
  35. 152
    Gordon Brown says:

    A marvellous gesture by Total Hygiene and may I wish them the best of luck for the future

    The cost of inclusive toileting is being safeguarded at Total Hygiene.

    The company, manufacturer of the top-selling Clos-o-Mat automatic ‘wash and dry’ toilet, has announced it is bucking the trend and holding 2008 prices for the foreseeable future, against inflation rates of over 2% and competitor price increases over the past year of almost double that. The only change will be the application of the Government’s VAT increase, from 15% to 17.5%.

  36. 158
    Chunky (the man with the pineapple bollocks) says:

    I forgot,
    The Cons started the ball rolling in Northern Ireland, selling out the UKs most loyal citizens to the IRA childkillers/abusers.

  37. 167
    Benchmarks for Britain = Bingo card Chicken says:

    I am the Heir to Blair.
    Hear my soundbites roar.

  38. 168
    Terry Pukker-Pie says:

    Brown should have a sex change, I think he may be happier

    Riding the underground dressed as Margo Leadbetter must be better than being recognised as Gordon Brown

  39. 169
    Brown and out says:

    The pile of excrement Brown on TV now – go on,have a heart attack you utter crap,you lying fraudster – drop dead.

  40. 171
    Maladroit Labour Chump says:

    The next time you hear a a Labour halfwit use the
    word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about
    whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending
    YOUR tax money.

    A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,
    but one advertising agency did a good job of
    putting that figure into some perspective in
    one of its releases.

    A.
    A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

    B.
    A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

    C.
    A billion hours ago our ancestors were
    living in the Stone Age.

    D.
    A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

    E.
    A billion Pounds ago was only
    13 hours and 12 minutes,
    at the rate this ghastly government
    is spending it.

    Building Permit Tax
    Cigarette Tax
    Corporate Income Tax
    Income Tax

    Vat Tax
    Unemployment Tax
    Fishing License Tax
    Food License Tax
    Fuel Permit Tax
    Petrol/Diesel Tax
    Hunting License Tax Inheritance Tax
    Inventory Tax
    (tax on top of tax)
    Liquor Tax
    Luxury Tax
    Marriage License Tax
    Property Tax
    Real Estate Tax
    Service charge taxes
    Social Security Tax
    Road Usage Tax
    Local Tax
    Vehicle License Registration Tax
    Vehicle Sales Tax
    Workers Compensation Tax

    Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago…
    And our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world.

    We had absolutely no national debt…
    We had the largest middle class in the world…

    What happened?
    NEW LIEBOUR HAPPENED.

  41. 176
    Benchmarks for Britain = Bag tarts are spiffing says:

    I am the Heir to Blair.

    Hear my soundbites roar.

    • 181
      Baron Harkonnen says:

      You are a dull, tedious Labour troll. Worry not – you P45 is just 3 months away.

      • 185
        Tory Troll Control says:

        said the partisan tory fuckwit

        • 204
          No Offence Intended But.... says:

          TTC, enough of the …said the etc bullshit.
          It used to be quite funny when tat did it but you are just a copycat with no originality.
          For the third time fuck off.

  42. 177
    Richard Manns says:

    Why does Osborne have to spell it out?

    Thatcher didn’t.

    She

    a) spelt out what sort of mess we were in (a big one) and
    b) spelt out her aims.

    Much as the lack of revelation worries me, Thatcher’s 1979 manifesto was almost anaemically specifics-light.

  43. 180
    Groucho says:

    Stephanie Flanders is emerging as competition for Toenails. Yesterday in her BBC blog, she tried drawing a parallel between Cameron and Richard Nixon, FFS.

    This election campaign is going to be pretty dirty and the Beeb will be right on side, doing its worst. Rest assured of that.

    Next:
    Osbourne compared to Hitler
    Similarities spotted between Hague and Pol Pot

  44. 189
    KARBON6O says:

    *
    *
    *
    *

    GIVE Every Household An Entitlement of Up to £6,500 WURF
    of Energy Efficiency Investments

    KHURTESSAE OF LAWD STERN

    LAUD PHOOL~HEAD ASSTURN, AS THEY SAY IN THE SHITTAE OF LUN DUN

    £ 6,500 MULTyPLYDE BUY 20 MILLyUN = A £130,000 MILLyUN

    KREDDIT KAPPyTALEYESZAYSHUN

    GREEN INVESTMENT BANQK
    KARBON KREDDIT DEFAULT SWAP DERIVATIVES

    A WURTHLESS XBENTCHURS* POLYTYQKAL POLLYSEA

    TYPYQKAL OF THE SORT OF THING THAT LENDS ITS* SELF TU
    KHONGHLHOMMER8* SKRYPTLODING

    AS THE HANDYMANDYKANDYD8* WITHAOUWT A DEMOKRATTICUSS MANDYD8* WOOD SAY

    AIN*T THAT RITE GHAEDEAUX

    *

    ASTA

  45. 192

    The British public seem unable to think things through.

    The only party who can make concrete suggestions on budgets is the party who have access to the books.

    How can any other party tell us what they will do when they have no idea of the real problems facing us?

    And, come to think of it, the party who do have access to the books, can’t understand them which is why we don’t hear any firm proposals from the Government. It’s either that or things are so bad they don’t know what to do.

    One good counter that other parties could give the Government is: “You want firm proposals from us? OK, we will give them, just thirty days after we have seen the books. And we mean “seen them” We will want our accountants to have 30 days access to the treasury. So if this idea interests you, you’d better hurry up, there’s only two and a half months before the election.”

    There is no way the Government would agree is there?

    Ampers.

  46. 194
    Smash Labour says:

    Brown of course is talking nonsense. The two aircraft carriers (to be built in Scotland of course) are hopeless without the Joint Strike Fighter, a project that is also in jeopardy.

    Not only that but people seem to forget that without airborne early warning these aircraft carriers are white elephants. During the Falklands war the Navy had to bodge up helicopters to carry a crappy radar and of course have ‘picket ships’ like the Sheffield to provide early warning and we know what happened there.

    Also what use are two aircraft carriers for wars in land locked Countries like Afghanistan?

    Of course the English tax payer is simply funding more jocks to produce crap ships we don’t need.

  47. 196
    Unsworth says:

    “The naughty kids at the back made sure a stifled laugh from the audience turned into a round of applause.”

    Very carefully edited out by Al Beeb, of course.

    • 201
      Smash Labour says:

      Of course the BBC wouldn’t want to see Toenails bitch slapped. It’s about time Osborne bit back against these losers at the BBC.

  48. 213
    A UK General says:

    I need a few Volunteers for a liitle Oppo Her Majesty has asked me to cook up, can I count on any of you chaps.

  49. 215

    [...] critical analysis of the political paralysis surrounding the fiscal situation? The report back from the Shadow Chancellor’s benchmark launch? The highlighting of the hypocrisy of a senior [...]

  50. 216
    Martin Sage says:

    A new Email to members of the party from George this morning asks for comments. A Sign In button on the site is provided but when I hit this, I get a Google message telling me the page is invalid. Not a good start to a new initiative.



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