February 3rd, 2010

A Tragedy for Comedy : Sion Simon Standing Down

Sion Simon standing down from parliament is a great loss for this blog, he has provided so much material in all our favourite categories. Who can forget the unintended political comedy of his classic New Statesman article?  The radical feminism of his “be quiet woman” interview on Sky, when we first realised that perhaps the pressure was getting all a bit too much.  The little things, his tweeted bad taste insult of SuBo’s mental health which led to him apologising wholeheartedly for any distress or embarrassment caused..” More seriously getting caught fiddling £40,000 in expense payments to his sister to pay her mortgage in breach of the rules probably damaged his political prospects.  That, plus owing his promotion entirely to Brown rewarding his treachery against Blair, meant that even with his failing eye-sight he could see the political end was coming.

Knowing that Labour will be out of power after the election, Sion is looking for power elsewhere.  As mayor of Birmingham.  Brummies surely have more sense than that…


300 Comments

  1. 1
    simon says:

    A top candidate for the long gone, but fondly remembered, part of the NME (when it was decent)- Hoon of the week.

    • 3
      yawn says:

      a partisan Labour hoon with a tiny brain steps down
      and it’s news because of he once nicked your chips or something?

      Ah well fuck it why not
      one less piggy bastard is always good news
      only several hundred to go

      • 19
        Iain Dale's Codpiece says:

        How disappointing – I was so looking forward to seeing this particular ZaNuLab hoon getting his comeuppance from the voters. What a coward.

        • 71
          Mr Ned says:

          A coward indeed and a delusional one at that. I would implore, urge and indeed BEG every voter in Birmingham to remember Cadbury’s before even thinking of voting for this piece of shit.

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            So basically Labour aren’t lefty enough for you?

          • Belgian Twat #1 says:

            Basically you would be doing Britain a favour if you’d shut the fuck up about UK Politics you Belgian Goober Gobbler

          • THE ESSEX GIRLS says:

            On behalf of all we women who WON’T ‘be quiet’…bloody good riddance to bad rubbish.

            You’ve got precisely what you deserve Mr Simon.

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            I’m not belgian you idiot, I’ve told you that before. I’ve only been to belgium once, and that was ~shite that makes me sound old~ years ago.

            You appear to think I’m someone else, I don’t know why.

          • Belgian Twat will soon be banned Hurrah! says:

            Because he’s an idiot?

          • Belgian Twat will soon be banned is Guido in Disguise ? says:

            Either that or you’ve just made yourself look a proper cu.nt trying to tell the owner of this site who he must ban on your whim, simply because you’re a think skinned little cowardly bag of Belgian shite

            Gordoom gets far harsher treatment for being Scotch here every day
            Now fuck off if you can’t take the salty language you uptight repressed fartsniffer

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            I’m not really bothered M’sieur if anyone thinks I’m belgian really, but it is barking up le wrong tree – I’ve pissed people off in the past here mais I can’t remember what I’ve done to rattle this ones cage.
            Its not le dodgy-swimwear man is it?

            shite, what a giveaway. talking like poirot.

          • Jus' Sayin' says:

            Poiriot?
            More like Ironside.

      • 27
        Anonymous says:

        Go ahead, have another look and see what we’re losing:

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcS7i4wn01o

        Observe the amount of time during which his mouth is open.
        I think a fly entered and later this stunning literary contribution came out:

        http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/conference/2007/09/labour-majority-increase

        • 69
          Iain Dale's Codpiece says:

          Excellent NS article – belly laughed after reading the first sentence!

        • 194
          Anonymous says:

          I think he really name is wiggy, surely that is not real on a an adult, noticed that he kept talking about young people, you cn’t impress them in a wig.

        • 294
          Roy Orbison's sunglasses says:

          I know his eyesight is a bit crap so I hope he can read this:

          GOODBYE YOU SAD LOSER, JUST ANOTHER DOOMED NEW LABOUR PIGGIE

      • 35
        Anonymous says:

        Simon: “sex with David Cameron’s wife”

        • 39
          Anonymous says:

          A true loss to this nation.

          Will be sadly missed

        • 62
          TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

          See Shitty Sion Simon Squirm.

          • Steve Expat says:

            First class cnut – won’t be missed by anyone.

            Shame there won’t be the moment when the residents of Birmingham Erdington have their say on his performance come May 6th.

          • Kings Heath Lad says:

            As a passionate Brummie, Si will never become mayor of Birmingham, a Gibbet will be waiting at the Tyburn House Chester road with his name on it if this happens.

        • 121
          sion simon is a feckin knob-end says:

          what an utter, utter cnut.. words fail me, how did such a complete moron get into the position he is ????

          • The Dirty Rat says:

            Because he wore a red rosette.

          • The IMF is coming says:

            First time I’ve seen this cretin.
            How,how,how,how do people like him get into positions of power.

            I noticed how aggressive he was during his Sky interview… let me finish etc etc. Who does he think he is? Obviously been to the same charm school as Gordon Brown and Ed Balls

          • jgm2 says:

            I think these c*nts must go on the same course as the ‘Customer Service’ types (not the Indian ones). They seem to be in a race to turn the tables. Put you on the back foot. Establish dominance.

            You’re the one with the shit piece of kit they sold you that doesn’t work but they’re the ones giving it ‘There is no need to raise your voice…’ long before you raise your voice. ‘There is no need to use that tone….’. Long before you use any ‘tone’. ‘There is no need to swear….’ long before you swear. It’s like they’re in a race to get you off the phone so they can not help somebody else that much quicker.

            Much as I despise the legal system I have to say that it really does work wonders in getting your revenge on such arseholes. And I commend the legal route for our revenge on such arseholes as this Sion-fucking-Simon too.

            If Baroness Porter can be surcharged for using tax-payers money to gerrymander Westminster council then Cameron needs to be looking to ’surcharge’ the entire Labour party for unnecessarily squandering half a trillion quid in an effort to gerrymander this election.

          • donkey says:

            “Because he wore a red rosette.”

            It’s easy.

      • 154
        d.mitchell says:

        You are all forgetting Norman Tebbits attacks of “Sion the wordprocessor”

    • 6
      Jabba the Cat says:

      A true cun’t of the first order who will not be missed.

    • 9
      Anonymous says:

      falling like skittles…

      can’t be long now…

      • 30
        Hugh Janus says:

        Rats and sinking ships. Good riddance to this thieving, offensive and pea-brained individual. My one and only regret is that he will no longer be around to inflict any more damage on his party in the run up to the GE.

    • 21
      Pong says:

      Why does Labour attract so many bad eggs?

      • 28
        Anthony Steen says:

        just a lower class of pleb

      • 33
        Rainydayinhell says:

        Because left wingers are generally full of hate and envy and (on the whole) not very nice, balanced people. They hate success and cannot cope with other people doing well and excelling when they are not. They do not grow up and many of them become psycotic monsters (ie Blair, Harman, Balls, Mandelson, Brown, Campbell etc etc)

      • 47
        udderly 'orrible says:

        They actively seek them out using equality of opportunity blather and similar PC bilge.
        Merit is unworthy in Liebour parteh philosophy. Rights and entitlement are their creed.
        That’s also how the putrid scotch egg that has destroyed the country got to where he is, entirely without merit.

        • 51
          Anthony Steen says:

          I once parked in a disabled spot and the fuss from these lower class lefty equal opportunities wallas ? Disgusting.
          I behaved impeccably.

          • Prescott's pies says:

            Eee ba gum Steen you bugger – I usually park the jag in disabled spaces as I’m a fat git and can’t walk very far.

          • Arriet Arman says:

            I am an upper class lefty wiv a mockney accent and I park where I want. You know where to find me.

        • 109
          AC1 says:

          It’s all a manifestation of their Narcissism combined with their lack of success.

          Working in Politics is a zero sum game and they only succeed by making others fail. This tends to rub off on their general thinking about the rest of the country.

    • 82
    • 249
      Pontius The Pilot says:

      Brummies got more sense??

      What, considering how many times Claire Short got re-elected??

      Dont hold your breath Guido!

      • 277
        revolting peasant says:

        Whatever your politics Clare Short is a decent constituency MP and did well at the Iraq inquiry.

        • 286
          Call me Infidel says:

          Did well for a fat bitter ugly munter you mean? Trying to get in a few pointless digs at Bliar. If she had any real integrity she would have left the Liebour party for a party that represents her true feelings. Something like…oh I don’t know the Communist party?

    • 269
      Al Lane says:

      Simon is a turd, but comments about his continued sight loss are uncalled for Guido – bad form.

    • 279
      Scott says:

      people of Erdington can cheer. The useless f%$& has gone.

    • 288
      Watch the Skies! says:

      Very O/T but:

      After watching PMQs on BBC iPlayer they offer:

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      Politics Scotland: 27/10/2010

  2. 2
    Furious says:

    Goodbye to bad rubbish. Now he can get back to being a useless arse without it costing apart from his loser bonus for leaving the Commons.

  3. 4
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    Far richer troughing loot available as mayor. Clearly, only retards will vote for this prat but then again it is Birmingham.

    • 67
      The biggest city in England is Birmingham says:

      Oi! Fuck off!

      There are plenty of retards elsewhere in the country. Mostly in West Brom.

    • 86
      Thats News says:

      Not if I have anything to do with it!

      I’ll back Dr Carl Chinn to be mayor! Top bloke and a nice chap.

      • 100

        Top bloke, nice chap, and never has a name been so apt. ;)

      • 296
        Kings Heath Lad says:

        He really is a great bloke and a fantastic historian. His accent is bit dodgy at times more Black Country than Brummie but great bloke all the same. Claire Short has her faults but she does a very good job locally unlike that twit Si! Si! from Erdington.

    • 215
      Goodbye and thanks for all the laughs says:

      Bearing in mind the Birmingham Council is presently NOC with Tories holding the largest bloc of Councillors and Council leader is a Conservative plus the region could have even larger swathes of blue after 6 May I think Simon is on to a winner here. He’s about as likely to be Mayor as Cadbury’s had of staying British LOL.

  4. 5
    Groucho says:

    Sion – here’s wishing you no success whatsoever in future.

    Jumped up little twat.

    • 146
      Engineer says:

      Seconded.

      Sion Simon epitomises much that is failing in national politics – he’s an arrogant, unthinking, vain, toadying sychophant to a failed administration, consumed by personal ambition but showing little willingness to serve his constituents. No loss to the House of Commons, but maybe a loss to political commentators – what a source of unintended mirth!

  5. 7
    Porkbusters says:

    Isn’t Porkbusters due to return this week?
    looking forward to all the disgusting piggies being named and shamed here Mr Fawkes

  6. 8
    Anonymous says:

    Have we got the £40, 000 back? I read about benefit fraudsters being jailed for a fraction of that on a daily basis.

  7. 10
    jgm2 says:

    Stepping down to avoid his ‘Portillo moment’ in Erdington so he can experience it as a failed mayoral candidate too. Looking at the BBC article it is by no means certain that Birmingham wants a mayor at all – having gone to the trouble of voting against the whole silly idea already.

    And they certainly don’t want a mayor with tax-raising powers.

  8. 11
    Anonymous says:

    Have we got the £40, 000 back? I read about benefit fraudsters being jailed for a fraction of that on a daily basis. I see he has only returned less than half of it?? WTF?

    • 25
      Mad Nads is NOT a Disgraced mega-trougher says:

      it soon mounts up you know
      and we’ll see exactly which of the troughing cun’ts wants to return the cash once Legg reports in this week won’t we ?

      thursdays Sir Thomas Legg Report will include a complete list of all the bookings which MPs have sponsored for outside organisations in the Palace of Westminster since 2004, from earnest political meetings to jolly dinners

      there’s bound to be some ­previously undisclosed sport for the media in the small print

  9. 13
    .243 Win says:

    Stepping down as “Culture Minister”.

    Ask any biologist : Culture’s what you grow bacteria in….

    • 95
      Mr Ned says:

      Culture. What an interesting word. In this lunatic left wing world in which we find ourselves, the word ‘culture’ has become something which all foreigners have and which we, multi-generational British, White inhabitants of this free land, must respect and value. We must make room for them and their ‘culture’ we must repect it, and never seek to harm, injure, undermine or prevent the expression of it.

      It is also something which we are being actively denied for ourselves. Our own ‘culture’ does not even exist and to claim otherwise is to invite expressions of outrage and name calling. An entire culture is being actively destroyed, by sections of itself. The left are engaging in cultural suicide. The left are the worst kind of “denier” they are deniers of cultural genocide.

    • 207
      Biology pedant says:

      I know what you mean, but no.

  10. 14
    concrete pump says:

    I have always had a soft spot for Birmingham, i even love the accent, i find it warm and friendly.

    I’m sure the good folk of Brum will see this c*nt for what he is,

    a c*nt.

    • 16
      Cement Mixer says:

      Hear ! Hear !

    • 34
      jgm2 says:

      I was born and raised in Birmingham. And it’s shit. And according to my brother who still lives there it’s got even shitter this past twenty years.

      That said, if they want to vote for this arsehole that is entirely their business but one thing in Birmingham’s favour is that there have always been lots of ’swing’ seats there and the demise of Longbridge and now Cadburys should give them the heads-up as to what a shower of economy-wrecking arseholes and bastards this Labour government of all the incompetents truly is.

      It’s difficult to blame Sion entirely for being such a consumate jackass. There is absolutely no excuse for naming your (male) child Sion. It’s like that c*nt Fabian-fucking-Hamilton or whatever his fucking name is – the Labour MP for Leeds – which he visits by conference call at best. What kind of a start in life is that? You just know that the ‘nurturing’ these c*nts are getting at home is all touchy-feely-be-condescending-to-the-plebs type of shit. Middle class bedwetters and professionally concerned box-tickers with their guilty conscience for poncing off the poor begetting another generation of fucking bedwetters.

      The c*nt was doomed from the day his parents filled out his birth certificate as an arsehole of the first order. How could he ever have amounted to anything useful to society with a name like that? Seriously?

      I blame the parents.

      • 56
        resurgemus says:

        jgm2

        where’s your brother living ? I worked in Birmingham 20 years ago and it’s a hell of lot better today than it was.

        The only sad bit is Labour doing its damnedest to close down manufacturing and replace it with non-jobs funded from borrowed money.

        • 58
          jgm2 says:

          He’s now in Bournville. But we grew up in Northfield. Have you been to Northfield lately? They stand and point at white people in the street.

          • resurgemus says:

            yes, I was one of the people being pointed at !

            But I’ve got to say the City Centre is almost civilised. I used to work off Broad Street and was there 2 weeks ago for lunch. I said to my colleague that if I had stood on the same spot at this time 25 years ago I would have been mugged !

          • I used to live in Northfield.

            The high street now has more Pawnbrokers than any other type of business.

            Sainsbury’s at one end with a soon to be HUGE Wetherspoons next to it, Wilkinson’s and Poundland at the other. Fuck all in between.

            They built a bypass so that the posh folk from Barnt Green didn’t get carjacked on the way into Brum.

          • Grumpy Old Man says:

            So you kept moving. just in case?

          • jgm2 says:

            I lived in (fucking) Dunfermline for six years. It has a shop that is even lower down the gourmet pecking order than ‘Iceland’. A shop called ‘Farmfoods’. I can almost guarantee not one item of food in ‘Farmfoods’ has been anywhere near a farm for over a year. Unless you count driving it down the motorway in a giant freezer truck as ‘near a farm’.

            (Fucking) Fife is full of such outlets. Northfield is the only place in England I ever saw one.

            It’s fucked.

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            http://www.farmfoods.co.uk/index.php?p=storeFinder&action=regionSearch&region=E40

            Here’s your guide of where not to live in the south of england.

          • jgm2 says:

            There used to be an old pub opposite Sainsbury’s – ‘The Bell’ I think – what happened to that?

            Is that the one they’re going to be turning into a Wetherspoons or have they moved further into town and knocked down that parade of shops between Sainsburys and the dairy?

            There used to be a slightly incongruous gunshop in that parade of shops – Benjamin Wild and Sons.

          • Bernard Manning's Ghost says:

            I felt like a spot on a fuckin’ domino.

          • Lucy Lastic says:

            I went to the pub in Northfield once. No real ale, but they’d gone all continental and had chip baguettes on the menu!

          • jgm2 says:

            Pub in Northfield? ‘The Black Horse’. Fantastic looking building. Not a nail used in its construction according to my dad. All wooden pegs apparently.

          • JGM re shops in Northfield:

            Sainsbury’s has moved to newer premises at the other end of the High Street. It is now opposite the Black Horse pub on Frankley Beeches Rd.

            The Black Horse has been sold by M&B to Wetherspoons and is being fitted out at the moment.

            The premises of The Bell are no longer a pub.

            The Traveller’s Rest has been demolished to make way for the by pass.

          • jgm2 says:

            FUCK! ‘The Black Horse’ a Wetherspoons? And the fucking ‘George’ is a chinese restaurant.

            I’d forgotten they’d moved Sainsbury’s. They also knocked down ‘Ken’s’ newsagents which is where during the 1970’s the kindly shopkeeper would open a pack of cigarettes and sell single fags to primary school kids. Thanks Ken. The oncologists at the Queen Elizabeth salute you.

            The Great Stone is a nice pub and the Old Mill in Northfield is the only pub in the world from which I am officially barred. Which was lucky because we were just walking out when the place got raided by plod.

          • Yeah, I should correct myself and say that Punch Taverns and not M&B owned the Black Horse prior to Wetherspoons buying the place.

            Gotta love those old Newsagents: a single and a match for 10p :)

            The George V has been a Chinese for years. The last time I had a pint in there must have been well over 10 years ago.

            Talking of police raids, West Midlands plod haven’t had much work to do since the Beeches pub was destroyed by fire and The Dingle has been demolished.

      • 94
        Thats News says:

        JGM2, it seems that it got better about 20 years ago. Wonder why that should be?

        Only joking. Brum is not what it was. Due to the inept Labourites who did their best to wreck the place.

        I’ll be meeting up with some mates in Brum on Saturday for a few drinks. Should be interesting, 2 of us (myself included) are a bit deaf!

        My wife thinks that Brummies are so loud that Birmingham is the only city on Earth that can be heard from space! She might have a point!

        • 123
          jgm2 says:

          I can’t say I’d noticed Brummies as being particularly loud. Perhaps it’s just that monotone accent that makes everything seem incredibly loud. No modulation. No expression. No variation in pitch.

          ‘Arrrr, it’s really bostin here. I’m so excoited. I can hardloi contoin moiself. Our ‘ouse cort foire last noight and we had to sleep in the caaar’.

          All delivered with no sense of expression or any semblence of passion. If they can be heard from space the poor fuckers must be bored to death up there by now.

      • 203
        jgm2 says:

        Wayhay. No sooner do I mention Fabian-fucking-Hamilton. A no-goodnick doomed from birth with the mark of a wanker’s monicker like ‘Fabian’ when up he pops in ‘Seen Elsewhere’.

        http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Leeds-MP-forced-to-pay.6033613.jp

        Leeds MP Fabian Hamilton has been forced to repay thousands of pounds to the public purse after failing to spot that £7,000 had been mistakenly paid into his bank account.

    • 53

      If Sion Simon becomes mayor of Brum, then I’m off…
      /a Brummie

      • 77
        Maladroit Labour Chump says:

        Haven’t they got a goat or a bit of road-kill they can put up against Slime Simon ??

        He wouldn’t get elected then, would he ?

  11. 15
    JEMIMA JIZZBUCKET says:

    Pockets full time to move away from the trough !

    • 41
      Anonymous says:

      More like trough running low, time to move to a new one ….. after licking the 1st clean of course – and nicking the wheels (do troughs have wheels?)

  12. 18
    Tommy says:

    Good riddance to a lump of shite!

  13. 20
    Gordon Brown says:

    There won’t be a dry eye in the House

  14. 22
    genghiz the kahn says:

    Why does he think that his past abuse of public funds allows him to seek public office.

    Simon, like smith, Brown and many others ought to be barred from holding office or political life, so far thses bastards have got off too lightly.

  15. 23
    David Cameron says:

    Fairy liquids adverts have been updated to reflect modern Britain.

    “Mummy why are your hands so soft ?”

    “cos i’m only 14 , now shut up and eat your pot noodle !”

  16. 24
    Doris says:

    I just watched the video on the link above that Guido has provided. Sion Simon is a really nasty piece of work; thick as pigshit aswell. How on earth does such a stupid low life get into politics? He really is from the gutter and hopefully will go back there after leaving politics. Full of his own self importance and clearly a case for the medics (in white coats).

  17. 26
    Ex Bootneck says:

    “We can not be killed” (but we can try and run away and hide)…

    This runt of the litter should be charged with fraud and punished.

    Yet another champagne socialist!!!

    Yours Aye,

    ExBootneck

  18. 31
    Doc Trough says:

    Mare of Brum eh?

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mare

    “Mare

    A woman who meets at least three of the following five qualities:

    1. Between the ages of 35 and 60
    2. Is a lesbian
    3. Is heavy set
    4. Works in various service industries including postal worker, bank teller, plumber, firefighter, construction worker, and/or Wal-Mart greeter
    5. Has a short, manly haircut

    As a bonus way to identify a Mare, many Mares often enjoy enjoy eating at Ryan’s buffet, or “the trough.” They can also be spotted wearing sweatpants, plaid, moo moos, and wrangler jeans.”

  19. 32
    The PM shouldn't be disturbed but this cunt is says:

    What is this you’re trying to pull Fawkes?

    Simon? The pompous, smug, self regarding, puffed up, preening, pointless, chip on both shoulders, arrogantly stupid, hectoring, lecturing, fiddling, and deeply wretched hoonist gobshyte is depriving the nation of his selfless service?

    Oh joy of joys, me cup runneth over Sir!
    Back of the net!

    Get your stoopid smug little face out of elected politics Simon and take your quite ridiculous haircut with you.

    Having said that, which public body consisting of spendaholic wastrels and hectoring half-wits has offered him gainful employment?
    A cow’s gash like this will be never far from the giant public teat.

    And I am unanimous in that

    • 97
      • 230
        albacore says:

        Nice one, T T @ 97.
        That link chucked me right out as soon as I clicked it.
        BTW, did anyone notice what terrible gnashing of teeth and rending of raiment there is in the NHS at the mere suggestion of moving from Internet Explorer 6 to IE7?
        Not IE8, mind you.
        If we’re not already in the middle of a civil war or European Gestapo occupation by then, expect Armageddon in 2014 when M$ withdraws support for IE6.

  20. 36
    EC1 PhD says:

    Well, at least the crosshairs will miss him.

  21. 37
    JEMIMA JIZZBUCKET says:

    What an Ugly C*nt ! No manners,rude Worzel Gummidge look alike Tosser
    With a cromwellian hair cut !

  22. 42
    Groucho says:

    If the mayor thing doesn’t work out, he could always try running for parliament again. As MP for Bell End in Worcs, or Twatt in the Orkneys perhaps?

  23. 43
    nell says:

    I’m getting really worried about what we are going to do after next election Guido.

    All these troughing little piggies that you’ve exposed are running away from the electorate knowing they’ll not get enough votes to put them back in power. If edballs and twatson fall at the next election and labour find enough guts to remove gordon, who’s going to be left to aim the crosshairs at?

    • 49
      Turnip Taliban says:

      Sorry to break the news to you love but there’s hundreds of Tory Troughers to go around too

      You do actually remember the expenses scandal don’t you dear?
      Big fuss? Duck houses ? Moats ? Porn Vids ? Telegraph ?
      It’ll come back to you don’t worry

      • 65
        genghiz the kahn says:

        And all of Brown’s treasury team.

        • 131
          George Osborne says:

          frightful shower!
          if only they were as capable and honest as me
          Now if you will excuse me I have another announcement to botch and some expenses to fiddle

          • Mike Naylor says:

            Great post yeah, keep it up, you’re doing great work.

          • The heir to Blair says:

            Great post yeah, keep it up, you’re doing great work.

          • Another Day, Another Fluffed Tory Announcement says:

            George Osborne said:

            “I am delighted that Lord Stern has agreed has agreed to advise us on the creation of this Green Investment Bank.”

            In response, Lord Stern issued a statement saying:

            “I should stress that I am not, and have no plans to be, an advisor to any political party.”

            Doesn’t the government own enough banks already without creating a ‘Green Investment Bank’?

          • Mike Naylor says:

            Great post yeah Guido, keep it up, you’re doing great work.

      • 75
        nell says:

        Look I know it’s early morning and you probably haven’t had your coffee but the point is that lots of the MP’s coming in after the next GE will be new, tory and labour, with no record to speak of that can be targetted, at least to start with.

        The prediction is that at least half of the 640 mp’s that make up the HoC will be new. Given that labour are haemorrhaging mp’s like sionsimon, at a rate of knots that figure could be much higher.

        • 87
          genghiz the kahn says:

          i wonder how many of the ‘retiring’ Labour MPs are:
          1. brown’s supporters.
          2. blairites.
          3. failed ministers.
          4. old and past it.

          • Grumpy Old Man says:

            Seeing as how most of them have had a go, there’ll be an awful lot of failed ministers. Brown supporters? all 6 of them to go. blairites? after Iraq, not a warm seat left in the house. Old and past it. If they all leave Parliament can start afresh.

          • Simple Simon says:

            5. Troughers

        • 90
          Grumpy Old Man says:

          Scum always rises to the top. 6 months into the new parliament and Guido will run out of cross-hairs.

        • 147
          Turnip Taliban says:

          no love
          the point is you’re going doolally if you think the expenses saga was all one way traffic

          try all the excuses in the world but it’s just bullshit or as you might say Turnip Mash

          Fuck all the thieves
          Jail them
          And Fuck all their pathetic hypocritical lickspittle apologists who think the public didn’t notice that they were all at it
          whether they are Labour Conservative or Lib Dem
          they are almost as repulsive and disgusting scum as the thieves themselves

        • 187
          Sir Everard Digby says:

          Nell,

          All the turnover will do is let more of the political classes into the sweet shop.We know they actively conspire against being regulated,so whatever garbage system McRuin puts in place will give them plenty of room to wriggle. Expect more ‘within the rules’ ‘in good faith’ ‘Claimed in error’ soundbites.

          Within the rules= Yes it’s theft but I don’t care -try and prove it

          In good faith = ‘ I need the cash -go away’

          Claimed in error = ‘ Must be more careful next time -that was obviously theft even to the low life types in the electorate – who I re-label hard working families every 4/5 years.

          The House of Commons is the source of the disease and the newcomers will be infected by it.

      • 89
        Quentin Belltower-Davies says:

        Ding Dong !!

  24. 44
    AndyinBrum says:

    I live in Simon’s constituency and was looking forward to voting the useless fecker out. To claim he’s stepping down to “lobby” for mayor is a conceit of the highest order.

    Is there any way we can force him to stay on so we can have the pleasure of voting him out?

  25. 45
    Its happening says:

    IMF talking with UK govt re debt.

    • 52
      nell says:

      Nope. gordon’s invited them coffee at no.10 because he’s canvassing their support for when he applies for the job of head of that new world bank.

      He’a ruined the UK economy now he wants a stab at bigger fish.

      • 133
        AC1 says:

        I’m coming to the conclusion that the IMF exists to make the most money for it’s backers with zero effort/risk.

        Government should be a lender (School fees, Degree course costs + perhaps Unemployment), not a borrower.

      • 202
        NorthernGit says:

        apparently hes auditioning for the fish fingers ad role..a finger of fudge is just enough to shove up gordon’s chuff..sorry wrong ad meant…. c’mon me hearties try some of sarahs fishy fingers

      • 225
        Wavy Davy Bullingdon Gravy loves to eat his Greens says:

        Would you like to open an account at my spiffing new Green Bank?
        If you’ll just place your carbon footprint up my arse I’ll give you a cabbage leaf to use as a credit card.

  26. 46
    JEMIMA JIZZBUCKET says:

    Dont interupt me shut up and let me speak ! an interviewers nightmare !
    reminds me of Spoilt bastard from VIZ

  27. 48

    [...] been an absolute gift to comedy – albeit as a laughing stock rather than a joker. Guido’s article on this great loss to satire contains some excellent [...]

  28. 53
    Labour = scum says:

    What a classic Labour Hoon: a self-righteous, envious little nazi.

    No-one believes the ‘I’m running for Mayor of Brum’ bollocks. He’s leaving before he’s humiliated by his constituents. And, New Labour to the last, he’s even lying on his way out the door.

    Rot in hell.

  29. 55
    Khan Blivitsnat Bhutta says:

    Good riddance to grade one fuckwit.

  30. 57

    If he thinks he has got a chance of becoming Mayor of Birmingham, he best think again.

    He knows full well that due to his televised and tweeted gaffes, his theft of public money via expenses, and let’s face it being a fucking ignorant twat, he has no chance of winning Erdington again.

    The whole of Birmingham was once a Labour stronghold. However, thanks to New Labour fucking over 8000 jobs with their complete lack of support for MG Rover while bailing out banks to the tune of BILLIONS, and for their refusal to give financial support to manufacturing in the area, the West Midlands has, along with the North East, seen the greatest growth in unemployment during the recession.

    Over the past few local government elections, the wards have gradually been turning blue. Edgbaston will revert to being Conservative at the next General Election, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Northfield and Selly Oak go blue too.

    As a Labour gobshite, Sion Simon has no chance of being elected to any public office any time soon.

    LABOUR ISN’T WORKING

    • 61
      jgm2 says:

      If places like Selly Oak (packed with students) go Blue then Labour is finished. They will have achieved what was hitherto considered impossible. Turned middle-class-I’m rebelling-against-my comfortable-upbringing-hippy-liberal students against the socialists.

      Way to go jackasses.

      • 70
        JEMIMA JIZZBUCKET says:

        They need to be reminded that labour is the reason they leave uni 10’s of thousands in debt
        and that the Spawn of labour get educated in Jockland for free !
        Oh and its also free for the underclass !

        • 84
          jgm2 says:

          This educated for ‘free’ in Scotland is misinformation. A degree course takes four years in Scotland to take account of them finishing secondary school at 17 with much shallower (but arguable broader) qualifications. The first year is spent bringing ‘em up to ‘A’ level depth of knowledge. The next three are a regular degree.

          So they get four years ‘free’ university. But they have to pay four years accomodation.

          In England you have to pay three years (10K total is it?) tuition but you get to save one years accomodation.

          I would argue that for an English student it is not worth sacrificing one extra year of their earning life PLUS accomodation just to ’save’ 10K in tuition.

          PLUS the weather is SHIT.

          Scotland is (practically) empty for a reason. Okay, many reasons.

          ‘Free’ tuition is just one of the many initiatives to try and bribe folk to stay there.

      • 92

        I think between Selly Oak and Northfield, Selly is more likely to go blue.

        The current incumbent is not seeking re-election. I’m not surprised as she was caught with her hands in the expenses till to the tune of 22 grand.

        http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1189357/Labour-MP-Lynne-Jones-spent-1-100-taxpayers-money-wallpaper.html

    • 68
      AndyinBrum says:

      Funnily enough, my thoughts exactly, I was looking forward to help canvassing against him.

    • 78
      Sir William Waad says:

      Simon’s only possible chance in Brum would be to convert to Islam and get cicrumcised. Then he truly would be no end of a pr*ck.

    • 80
      resurgemus says:

      really I can’t understand why Labour got votes in W Mids in the 1990s. They have basically presided over the destruction of the manufacturing base. The Cadbury’s fiasco ( the approval for Kraft was voted through yesterday ) will no doubt be their leaving present. It will be a huge cock up and destroy a good company for no reason.

      Mandelson’s argument that he could do nothing defies belief. Rather he wanted to do nothing as it might mess up his chances of getting som e nice non-exec work with his financier mates.

      • 259
        Yardarm says:

        Mandelson will be about the only person in the entire hoonry to actually get a job thanks to this government. As far as he`s concerned it`s every man for himself and he`s the first one on the U Boat to Argentina while the other morons bitch and whine in the Bunker.

        The fucker just loves money and power. Where he gets it is of secondary importance. Remember Maghrahi ? Only three months to live ? He`ll be back leading the Libyan Olympic Team in 2012. And what`s the betting Mandelson`ll be on the board of BP ?

    • 96
      English Liberation Front says:

      You forgot to mention LDV, but Birmingham hasn’t forgotten or forgiven.
      Whatever the outcome of the General Election nationally, there will be a massive swing against Labour in the West Midlands. The West Midlands have been shafted by Labour – it has been denied the client state funding of the north, whilst missing out on the faux boom of the south. As a consequence, the West Midlands is now a Labour graveyard (although ex-Labour independents like Clare Short might do well).

      • 117

        Yes, LDV too. And yet Liam Byrne has a humungous labour majority for Hodge Hill.

        Silly me, I was forgetting. Most people that lived near to LDV don’t do any work.

        Hodge Hill is full of idle, dolescrounging, immigrant layabouts. Oh, and before the ZanuLabour trolls accuse me of rascism, I STRONGLY suggest that they visit Hodge Hill.

        See if you can find someone that can speak English. If they can’t speak the local language how the fuck are they going to integrate into society?

        Hodge Hill has become a ghetto for spongers, wastrels, and is a hotspot for radical religious nutcases to recruit “disaffected” (whatever the fuck that means) young people.

        LABOUR: THE DEATH OF BRITAIN BY A THOUSAND CUTS

      • 135
        resurgemus says:

        yes LDV , I had forgotten.

        All Mandelson had to do was place an order for some vans to keep it rolling through a crisis.

        If he had ordered say 1000 mini buses for schools and hospitals plus maybe another 1000 vans for MOD and govt. hewould have saved 750 jobs at LDV and five times that in the supply chain.

        As most of these jobs are W Mids based I wonder what Byrne will say. I remember him on C4 news in the summer stating govt will help out. Then when the May elections were out of the way Labour developed a short term memory problem.

        • 171
          English Liberation Front says:

          It does puzzle me greatly – I would have expected Labour to do something to help the workers at LDV – as you say, it did not need to be a handout, just some orders for vans. Yet Labour did zilch for LDV. I sometimes wonder if that is because the Business Secretary, Lord Mandelfly himself, felt compromised by his links with Derepaska.

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            Yes its wierd. If we’re going to have a government that likes spending money you’d at least hope that they’d be a bit more keynsian, and not afraid of looking “protectionist”.

            There’s probably EU laws that say you shouldn’t be “protectionist” like that, but all the other member states probably know that you aren’t supposed to take them seriously.

          • Rip Up The Lisbon Treaty - It's an illegal document says:

            The answer is simple, our government slavishly follows EU laws, regulations and rulings while all the other members don’t.
            If we are going to be even more specific as to which department has most vigorously promoted and enforced the erosion of British Sovereignty then we can identify the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as the principle traitors. The Whitehall officials at the FCO have spent the last forty years pushing the project down the country’s throat.
            The Foreign Office are the main traitors and look who we have heading up the department now: the torturer in chief, David Miliband.

          • North, but not Scotland says:

            Don’t forget Massey Ferguson at Banner Lane, Coventry and Peugeot at Ryton.

  31. 59
    resurgemus says:

    Maybe Sion can get a job writing in the Daily Telegraph again.

  32. 60
    Anonymous says:

    Still. Would be very cheap to run the camaign against him. The links in the post will be enough.

  33. 66
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    Soon Bruin will be the sole turd in the wilderness – all the flies having gorged then scarpered at the signs of the approaching tornado.

  34. 73
    Odds Bodkins says:

    OT but Doug Carswell makes some interesting points about the effect the internet will have on money. In the same way as the internet has smashed the state monopoly on communications, it could also break its monopoly on currency:

    http://www.talkcarswell.com/show.aspx?id=1280

    It would be well overdue, “as governments debauch the currency” as he puts it.

  35. 88
    English Liberation Front says:

    Oh it is so funny, Sion Simon is so far up his own posterior, he doesn’t even realise how absurd he is. I look forward to seeing this joker removed from the political scene :-)

  36. 91
    nell says:

    http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2010/01/25/put-birmingham-mayor-in-house-of-lords-says-study-65233-25676273/

    This is the real reason sionsimon wants the Mayor of Birmingham’s job.

    NewLocal Government Network recommonds that Birmingham’s Mayor and Mayor’s of toher large cities should be given a seat in the House of Lords. The NLGN is a left-wing thin tank. Dig deep enough and I would bed that sionsimon had something to do with their recommendations!!

    • 110
      LIE-BORE EDUKAYSHUN MINISTER says:

      Dyslectic Nell makes a statement
      Interpretation to follow !

    • 125
      Sir William Waad says:

      The idiots want a single mayor for Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country. Straight away they have alienated more than half the potential referendum voters who won’t want their affairs run from the mayor’s palace in Birmingham. It’s no good central planners drawing ballpoint lines in the road atlas. You have to understand the voters. V-o-t-e-r-s. Yes, you remember.

      • 130
        SHOULD HAVE GONE TO SPECSAVERS says:

        i’m suprised we haven’t had lots of emergency boundry changes to include large council estates in tory strong holds to give Labour a Sporting Chance

        • 180
          Engineer says:

          We have. In my part of the world, staunchly Tory villages have been cut adrift from their parent town and grafted onto a Labour stronghold, thus weakening the Tory vote in said parent town (which is almost certain to return to blue after a flirtation with Red anyway, and the majority in the Labour stronghold isn’t unassailable, so it might backfire on them this time.)

    • 158
      MingeMunchersRus says:

      nell behave yourself gel…just spilt my horlics reading this…put the kettle on and nibble a hobnob … what would your hubbie say ?

    • 228
      Thinking of having a STAB at politics says:

      sex sex sex Nell thats all you think about !

  37. 98
    Anonymous says:

    It makes a serious political point! Lisping gonk.

  38. 103
    • 178
      concrete pump says:

      Unbe – fucking – leivable. Catholic wankers.

      The sooner religion is wiped off the face of this planet the better.

      Atheism…..you know it makes sense.

      • 250
        Choose your targets with care 'cos says:

        The party strives for the complete destruction of the connection between the exploiting classes and the organization of religious propaganda and the actual liberation of the working masses from religious prejudices.

        Lenin 1919

        I wonder why he would have thought that?

    • 204
      woof woof says:

      S.a.u.s.a.g.e.s

  39. 106
    Mrs Sion Simon says:

    Stop being so beastly to my husband

    My husband’s a classically trained musician.

    Every morning, he gets out of bed and farts The Trumpet Involuntary all the way to the bathroom

    • 128
      Spank Sinatra says:

      Dear Mrs Simon,

      We would be most grateful if tonight you could place a pillow over your husband’s head and sit on it until that disgrace of a man is silenced forever.

      Thank you

      Yours etc

      • 143
        SHOULD HAVE GONE TO SPECSAVERS says:

        Mrs Simon: Who do you think of when the Scarecrow is humping you ?
        Just wondered thats all !

      • 205
        MingeMunchersRus says:

        forget the pillow and just drown him..the ’sarah brown’ technique i think its called

    • 152
      SHOULD HAVE GONE TO SPECSAVERS says:

      A lot of people on this blog seem to think he’s very good at blowing horns !

  40. 107
    Gonk says:

    Stangely, Sion Simon’s put down of the strange
    looking Sky girl with powerful lower jaw mandibles
    was the only thing about him I sort of admired.
    Rats leaving the sinking ship now but still puzzled
    by apparent support for the horror.
    Polling organisations could be in for huge shock come
    the blessed day.

  41. 112
    an impossible choice says:

    You have a gun with one bullet.

    Sion Simon and Ed Balls are lined up against a wall in front of you.

    Who gets it ?

    • 116
      George Osborne says:

      I would turn it on myself.
      Oh how I hate politics

    • 118
      Sir William Waad says:

      Stand to one side of Ed Balls and you can shoot through him and hit Sion Simon too. It would be less effective to start with Simon because he’s thicker than Balls.

    • 122
      SION SIMON MALE MUNTER says:

      Dificult decision what you must do is duct tape their heads together
      and shot Simon through his ear And hope for the best !

    • 138
      sion simon is a feckin knob-end says:

      Shoot Balls in his ed-sack, and club Simon to death with the gun. Then take off and nuke the site from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.

    • 150
      jgm2 says:

      Who cares? Shoot one and use the corpse to beat the other one to death.

      • 160
        Thinking of having a STAB at politics says:

        Where is the wall ?
        reason i ask is first you must find a local “native”
        and trade the gun for a large but blunt knife !
        hours of fun and so much more satisfying

    • 159
      Engineer says:

      If you turned them sideways so that you could take the shot straight through their earholes, would the bullet pass straight through without causing damage?

    • 162
      The Dirty Rat says:

      I would emulate that great master Idi Amin . He would execute 30 people with one club hammer – the idea being that you twat the bloke to your right and pass it on.

    • 173
      EC1 PhD says:

      As they are lined up against the wall, I suspect it will be the one who’s closer.

  42. 119
    Sion Simon says:

    Is it cos I is jewish?

    • 137
      jgm2 says:

      I’m afraid being Jewish is not an acceptable excuse for being an arsehole. Nor is it a necessary condition. For example Gordon Brown isn’t Jewish and he’s an incompetent arsehole too.

      Being an incompetent Labour arsehole is a multi-faith activity. Open to all faiths. And none.

      You are, I’m afraid, just another incompetent Labour arsehole.

    • 182

      No, its because you’re a total and utter prolapsed rectum.

      I don’t give a stuff which imaginary friend you pray to. Just stop fucking over the electorate so that you can remain on the gravy train.

    • 197
      BillyBob ... reduce crime, prison numbers and the benefits black hole? Stop immigration !! says:

      Being Jewish does not automatically make him a hero within the Jewish community. Thankfully there are plenty of discerning voters out there………

    • 208
      96 year old miffed says:

      no just a wanker and thats being generous

  43. 127
    Moley says:

    Like all writing; Sion Simon’s article in the New Statesman contains grains of truth which the writer conceals even from himself;

    Quote; “Perhaps the magnitude of the moment we face is too great for us collectively to bear”.

    When we face the awful and complete truth about Labour’s debts.

    Quote. “As we prepare to strike out again from our camp”.

    The Unions knee jerk response to spending cuts.

    If Sion Simon’s only gift to the nation is his New Statesman article, his life was not wasted. It should be engraved on his tombstone.

  44. 129
    Anonymous says:

    Tom’s a Proppa Blogga…

    There should be t-shirts available with that slogan..

    • 193
      BillyBob ... reduce crime, prison numbers and the benefits black hole? Stop immigration !! says:

      Toss pots come in all shapes and sizes !

  45. 140
    Thrusterbuster says:

    no loss in any way…complete twat who should have been sanctioned by his front bench in the first instance for that ludicrous video …humour is one thing but it was neither funny nor appropriate.

  46. 142
    Steve Expat says:

    What bloody good news to wake up to this morning – another unrepentant troughing cnut bites the dust.

    He should apologise to the residents of Birmingham for not givin gthem the opportunity to send him packing on election day – I’m sure most here were looking forward to watching him squirm as he lost his own seat!

    Interesting timing of the announcement BTW, will he be on the front pages tomorrow as one of the top troughers by any chance?

  47. 149
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    Sion – the public are past laughing at you now. You’ve probably woken up and realised you’ve been a jerk and think you can make amends. Unfortunately the mocking has been replaced with pity, which gets you even less votes.

    • 190
      BillyBob ... reduce crime, prison numbers and the benefits black hole? Stop immigration !! says:

      I doubt he ever got it, with his “look at me I am soooo clever” attitude. We laughed at, not with him !

  48. 157

    Just had a knock back form the No10 e-petitions kabal. Anyone fancy re-writing it?

    Hi,

    I’m sorry to inform you that your petition has been rejected
    again.

    Your petition was classed as being in the following categories:

    * Issues for which an e-petition is not the appropriate
    channel

    Your petition will now appear in the list of rejected
    petitions.

    Your petition reads:

    We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to: ’seriously
    consider taking early retirement due to his known one remaining
    eye sight degeneration and general public concerns about his
    medical health. If Gordon Brown is unwilling to retire, he
    should be required to prove that he is medically fit by
    publishing results of recent medical examinations.’

    All very senior management and board positions in public
    service, industry and commerce require senior candidates to
    undergo a full independent medical. If they fail the medical,
    the offer of employment is usually withdrawn or modified. The
    Prime Minister is urged to set an example,endorse this quality
    standard by opening up his medical records for expert scrutiny
    to prove beyond doubt he is medically fit to continue as Prime
    Minister after the General Election.

    — the ePetitions team

  49. 161
    chazza says:

    He would definitely make one of my Top Ten Biggest Cocks in Parliament.

  50. 172
    Doc Trough says:

    Chilcot.

    Nice pair of pins over Razor Boy Reid’s right shoulder.

    Must be quite warm in those lights….

  51. 184
    Anonymous says:

    Looks like Miss Burdett failed with SS. Did she do a better job with the next man?

  52. 185
    Margaret says:

    Sion Simon is the minister for creative industries and he has led by example. One particularly creative industry that he has been involved with is the renting of his second home from his sister, Ceri Erskine. MP’s, including Mr Simon, were banned from renting property from family members in April 2006. However this rule did not deter Mr Simon from continuing to rent the property from his sister and claiming over £20,000 in rent from the public purse.

    I am sure that the voters in Birmingham Erdington will rejoice at this wonderful news and give the Hoon the kicking he deserves when he stands to be Mayor of the City of Birmingham. What a shame that the coward jumped before he could be pushed flat on to slimey little face.

    • 188
      BillyBob ... reduce crime, prison numbers and the benefits black hole? Stop immigration !! says:

      He is a tosser, a corrupt tosser, a jump in with both feet tosser!!

      Another one bites the dust……………… ??

  53. 201
    Technomist says:

    Whatever happened to the Proceeds of Crime Act?

  54. 206
    Brown re-invents the 1970's "Brain-Drain" says:

    O/T But the “sign of things to come”(?) for Labour corporate tax regime as Switzerland woos drinks giant Diageo to tempt them move their HQ away from London with low-tax deal. Diageo turn it down but how many more multi-nationals if approached would ?

  55. 211
    Spank Sinatra says:

    I was just thinking how nice it might be for us all to send dear Sion a link to this page by way of a leaving present. Something for him to keep for posterity, show his granny etc….. It is rare that so many people who have never met can come together in such an outpouring of emotions. Does anyone have his HOC e-mail address?

  56. 213
    Tories must look harder ....... says:

    Tories promise BBC change !!

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7012882.ece

    • 218
      Green Bankers are still Wankers says:

      Amazing stuff! They are replacing the BBC Trust WITH ANOTHER TRUST!!
      Revolutionary and Quangotastic

    • 222
      AC1 says:

      Is the Trust board elected by License Fee “payers”?

      If not then it’s not a real trust.

      • 227
        Moatley says:

        They can call it a Board, Trust, Collective, Circlejerk, Quango, doesn’t matter.

        It’s simply vaguely plausable Public Relations Corporate speak for ‘we will fill this with our bunch of yes men and buggins turns when the time comes’.

        Plus ca change

  57. 214
    MP's are growing scared.. Legg is coming tomorrow! says:

    Come Thursday it’s open season on Piggy MPs again

    Rumours are there’s even quite a bit of brand NEW dirt on the House of Criminals inmates from the Sir Thomas Legg Report into their expenses

    Will there be resignations ?
    Yet more MPs standing down ?
    Not long to wait now

  58. 216
    Cuts says:

    Brown cut £1bn from defence budget after Iraq invasion in 2003.

    Cameron must make this the number one question.

    There is blood on this appalling man’s hands.

    • 231
      Questions for Cameron to ask in PMQ's,but he won't. says:

      And here’s another one for Cameron to use,but of course he won’t;

      Independent;
      “Thousands of police recruits who were promised jobs more than a year ago have been told that, due to budget cuts, the positions earmarked for them are no longer available…”

      So Brown gets his massive protection squad – so we can’t nobble him – and we all get nothing,just a closed police station and a number to call if we have any problem.

      Utter utter utter c*unt. Kick Brown out now.

  59. 221
    Disco Stew says:

    I would like to smash he’s fucking fat face in.
    But then i have allways been a bit of a liberal.

  60. 223
    Contrarian says:

    Meanwhile, what are we to make of the useless performances of Dave and Sideshow George.

    They must be Labour Party moles run by Campbell. How else can we explain their worse than nothing contribution to getting rid of the Mong.

    If they just sat still and said nothing they would be further ahead than they are now.

    As for the cast iron benchmarks. How strangely redolent of Tone’s pledgecard. Perhaps they even recycled the originals.

    • 229
      pendulum says:

      Roll on May to finally shut the traps of gobby pillocks like you.

    • 236

      The KKKonservative Party and UKKKIP are a bunch of frothing, swivel-eyed Europhobes.

      The Tories claim they’ve changed. But compassionate conservatism is an oxymoron. They are in no way progressive.

      They are still the Nasty Party of Thatcher and Tebbit.

      • 242
        Nice Old Dear says:

        Looking forward to more lovely progressive policies from the nice lovies like Mr. McDoom and Mr. Campbell.

        So nice, thank you.

      • 243
      • 255

        wrong again chump

        the public are europhobes because you and your Labour buddies rode the corrupt Euro Gravy Train and with the help of Kinnock somehow made it worse

        then you bottled a manifesto promise on the referendum on Lisbon with feeble semantics

        you denied the public a voice and they don’t like it

        • 263
          Rooney says:

          Neither Conservatives nor Labour do much for me. Both are vaccuous of policy and peopled by morons.

      • 290
        Summer_Breeze says:

        You are mistaken.
        It is the europhiles such as yourself, that are the swivel-eyed ones!
        How on earth you can justify the payment of nearly £50 million per day into a corrupt cesspit is beyond me, that’s without the job losses that this country has suffered as a direct consequence of our membership.
        You need to do some research and check out your facts because as it stands, you are very ignorant of the disaster that befell this country the day we were conned into joining the EEC.

  61. 226

    Sion should surely be given credit for the good things he’s done, like this amazing game he developed a while back:

    http://www.freegames.ws/games/kidsgames/simon/mysimon.htm

  62. 232
    reeser says:

    Take a look at this idiots face, he doesn’t know what’s fucking hit him.

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/2837015/Jordan-and-Alex-Reid-get-married-in-Las-Vegas.html

    • 262
      bread and circuses says:

      “Jordan’s agent added: “Their decision to marry has not been made with any media deal in place. It is purely down to their love for each other

      Jordan, 31, had told a magazine she and the cross-dressing cagefighter would be “together for ever”.

      She also said she wanted to have kids with Alex.”

      Entertainment never came so cheap.

  63. 233

    Labour is slowly gaining in the polls.

    The Tories’ once-impregnable lead has been cut to around 7 points according to the latest opinion polls.

    Cast-Iron Cameron has not sealed the deal.

    We are now looking at a hung Parliament – but if the trends continue, Gordon Brown will be re-elected to power for another 5 years with an outright majority.

    The British public is waking up!

    Together, we will succeed – because we must.

    Labour – the change we choose.

    • 236
      And here is the Labour troll again. says:

      Just one minute with you and a squad of British soldiers is all it would take.

      • 241

        Getting worried are we?

        Labour’s Internet campaign, pioneered by Derek Draper, is getting our message across to the voters and bypassing the biased mainstream media.

        The Right is now being challenged on its own stronghold, the blogosphere, and they don’t like it one bit.

        Thanks to Labour’s internet campaign, more and more voters are realising that Labour will give real help to the many, unlike the Tories who are incompetent and only care about fellow Old Etonian Hooray Henrys.

        That is the change we choose.

        • 251
          Nice Old Dear says:

          Roll on May to finally shut the traps of gobby pillocks like you.

        • 252
          yahboo says:

          You poor deluded twat, I worry for the state of your mental health….actually I don’t.

        • 258

          nobody seriously gives a fuck about the blogosphere apart from bloggers

          the real politics are on the ground and Ashcroft will outspend you in the marginals by a factor of 20

          How did the Iraq War taste when public schoolboy Tony was wheeled in front of the Inquiry to Lie his bloodstained teeth off and remind us all why we hate him?

          Have you washed the blood of David Kelly and hundreds of thousands of dead civilians out of Alistair Campbells underpants yet little minion ?

        • 264
          the change we want says:

          You are right, we want change, not more of the same. 13 years of New Labour is more than enough.

          You compound the perception of New Labour referring to ‘Old Etonian Hooray Henrys’. Utter and complete hypocricy. How many Labour MP’s are millionaires ? What possible connection do they have with the ordinary working man in the street ? Can’t see Mandelson having a pint down the pub. Not that he is an elected mp.

          The difference between the Labour champagne socialists and the Tories is one of aspiration. Labour people become wealthy and pull the ladder up behind them whilst complaining about those who have been born into wealth. You youngsters are a few years away from having children the same as the Hooray Henry’s you so despise. And of course to some, it is already happening .

          So in summary …STFU

          • ShoutsAtTVwhenGordo'sOn says:

            Twat.

            I followed your link to YouTube. Posted up a humorous satire (well, it was funnier than your Parliamentary Representative, Sion’s uninspiring effort), ending in the hysterically funny tag line “Vote Labour” – funnily enough, my contribution, dripping in sarcasm, hasn’t appeared.

            Q) “How many Labour MP’s are millionaires?”
            A) Far too many, and they’ve attained this status off the back of others (the hard-working, non-labour-voting majority).

            They are talentless bastards who couldn’t get a job in the real world.

            I don’t want anything to do with you, your self-delusional ‘good ideas’, and the people (poisonous slime) with whom you associate.

            Why are you so blind? Why don’t you see what makes you so repulsive? Why don’t you do something about it?

            Sort yourself out! Stop blaming everybody else for your OWN failings!

        • 274
          smig says:

          Hahahahahahaha fuck off you knobjockey.

          I’m feeling generous. Have my nokia, now go and talk to someone that gives a shit.

        • 291
          Summer_Breeze says:

          Form the party that tried to parachute Georgia Gould into a working class safe seat. What would she know of their lifestyles and their needs?
          To sum up, you are ignorant about the damage the EU has caused this country and you in denial about the hypocrisy amongst your own ranks.
          Not only are you swivel-eyed but you’ve got one eye going to the shops and the other coming back with the change – or, in line with government thieving policy, the change squirrelled away under a false name.
          You are a complete idiot!

    • 240
      Arriet Arman says:

      You are striaght guys trying to bed a Lesbian.It ain’t going to happen

    • 247
      ray says:

      There’s only one polling company to take notice of this election……Angus Reid, and for very good reasons.

      http://www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2010/02/03/dare-you-bet-that-the-angus-reid-algorithm-is-wrong/

    • 257
      EC1 PhD says:

      There’s a dog turd on the beach at the end of the clip.

  64. 234
    PMQ's or rather PMB - Prime Minister's Bulls*it says:

    I think there is a growing number of brits who are now asking what Cameron is doing to attack Brown,rather than what the hell Brown is doing because we all know the evil that is Gordon Brown,but we cannot see any evidence of Cameron going for his jugular.

    This PMQ’s will be his last chance for me.

  65. 244
    Penfold says:

    He wants his pants taken down, given a damn good spanking and made to get a real job.
    Don’t any of these tossers have jobs to go to, are they solely reliant on the public purse……Bah, off with his head, and all the other wretched spongers and crooks and liars and scumbags

  66. 261

    This means he gets a golden handshake of what was it, 30k tax free?

    It would be so nice to see this lot stripped of pension rights the way police officers can sometimes be punished when they turn out to have been on the take for years.

  67. 278
    Jimmy says:

    And of course he was undoubtedly the inspiration for Guy TV. Serves him right.

  68. 280
    Sniffy says:

    I read wine magazine Decanter, for which Mr Simon used to write a monthly column, banging on about all the lovely wines he’d drunk (presumably at the tax payer’s expense) in the period. The absolute archetype of a champagne socialist. Perhaps someone running against him in Birmingham should republish a collection of those memoirs of absolutely splendid premier-cru Chablis to remind voters of the expensive habits his expenses claims need to fund.

  69. 281
    PK says:

    Guido : have you got his email address, so we can all wish him well for the future ?

  70. 282
    BhamTory says:

    Birmingham doesn’t even have an elected mayoral system! We will only get one if Dave wins and forces it on us.

  71. 283
    liam says:

    HE LOOKS AND TALKS LIKE CLARE SHORT HA HA HA.

  72. 287

    [...] Perhaps even more cringeworthy was the interview he did on Sky News afterwards, attempting to defend the video. He ended up near-shouting “Be quiet while I speak!” at Anna Botting. As luck would have it, I’ve found that video too [hat-tip: Guido Fawkes]: [...]

  73. 289
    cato the uncensor says:

    Is it possible to hate someone more than Gordon Brown who isn’t Ed Balls?

  74. 292
  75. 293
    They're all at it says:

    Sion Simon is an arrogant piece of sh*’it. He clearly knows that he’ll lose his seat, because he’s a c’u'nt, so he’s going to try to pull the wool over the electorate’s eyes by aiming for mayor instead. Why can’t someone please just take a baseball bat to this f&uckers face??

    I seen an interesting little spat on wikipedia where someone was updating his entry to (correctly) talk about his publicised lies, deceit and arrogance, but another person – I wonder who??? – kept on automatically deleting the additions… Didn’t that c’untface admit that he spend a lot of time googling himself??

  76. 295
    the change we see says:

    ok i admit i am really the boring arsewipe Ch4rl3s H4rdwidg3, i am also deluded and i play with myself while i look at photos of my great leader gobshite gordon the shirtlifter.







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