+ + + Sky: Purnell Standing Down at GE + + +
Update 10.47: Seems this was shock even to his own constituency office: “trying to find out what going on! i was with him last night, he was talking about the rest of campaign.. odd“
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Ed Balls stretches credulity by claiming he isn’t ambitious…
“I would love to be part of Ed’s Labour government but what I do next for me is not an all-consuming passion. I’m more bothered, in a personal sense, about getting to grade 8 piano by the time I’m 50.”
Bill Quango MP says:
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
Shame – at least he did the right thing and stood down – shame the others didn’t follow him.
Do they have any MP’s left to resign?
All the Blairites are standing down together.
Well done Jimmy – immaculate timing too, just before the election campaign launch
…”trying to find out what going on! i was with him last night, he was talking about the rest of campaign.. odd…”
Very odd. What has been uncovered and likely to be used against him in the campaign? We know what sick minds many of those at the top of politics have. What was about to break in this case?
there were rumours of him being spotted in a New York Bath House with a male friend from school/uni.. Evening standard planted Story? Maybe someone can verify?
I don’t blame him. Clearly he doesn’t want to be associated with Robber Brown even distantly.
It’s bad enough being in the same solar system as him – I can’t imagine being in the same Party.
http://cogitodexter.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/brown-accuses-tories-of-scaring-people-has-he-lost-his-mind/
Once less New Labour piggy. Now how about people like Jacqui Smith standing down, now she has all the taxpayers money?
Will be much more fun to see her voted out!
… sent to jail you mean!
That’s great news
I’m going to get well fucked by stella tonight, just bought 2 cases of it.
I’m sure he has something cushty lined up in the city or on the continent. We desperately need a decontamination law to be applied to all central and local government troughers to prevent them from taking their address book to the private sector where they can make a few million. Ten years should do it.
The only way we will ever get politicians we need is to make the job so difficult and thankless for the holder, that it is only taken up by those with a genuine urge to serve the country.
Or parliamentary seats are assigned via a lottery.
I have more and more sympathy with those who think the last people we should allow to be politicans are those willing to be elected.
Then we may purge our political system of the current crop of war-mongering psychopaths.
He’s just seen the books and Miliband and Balls flexing their funny muscles
“trying to find out what going on! i was with him last night, he was talking about the rest of campaign.. odd“
Downing Street have released dirt on him to the Sundays perhaps? They have a lot of previous in this area.
Fraser Nelson over at The Speccie will be heartbroken…
No great loss to anyone.
Re: the link to his “own constituency office”.
Bio: Derranged Socialist
One and the same surely.
This guy is a talent. It wouldn’t surprise me to see him switch sides.
Good riddance, along with the rest of them.
Well at least he will have plenty of time to clean his flat.
He used to take a dump in his kitchen sink and there is a picture in the Guido archive to prove it.
Mark Oatens been outed as his lover?
One lump or two?
Don’t be faecesious.
And escapes a Portillo moment.
er, the one at university?
There’s more than one?
Ed Balls will be pleased. Unless of course, he has his own Portillo moment…
It’ll never happen whilst he has the Postal Vote on his side.
At least he will have time to clean his flat now.
All the blairites are standing down that just leaves the brown nosers.
GOOD!
Shame that those who share the Blairite philosophy are all moving into and taking over the tory party from within now.
This will not make the labour party any more electable, but if they excrete the Blairite, “new-labour” poison from their party, they may become a party that is honest and can stand for a principled position on something. Unfortunately for them and their supporters that thing will be socialism, a regularly tried and failed philosophy.
But at least they could openly and honestly argue a case for something they actually mean for once.
Unlike them I am not a socialist!
System slow today Guido. You sure Mossad aren’t tampering with your site?
I’ve just written to the Israeli Ambassador in the UK asking for a price list to renew my British Passport. If they can give me one cheaper than the UK Passport service, I will buy it.
Expecting a no fun reply, but suggest we all do the same to wind them up.
Do they provide a tennis kit to go with it?
It’ll be cheaper if you order wholesale.
Can they provide fake biometric information on the passport too? And bodge the British records so that the new ‘Mossad Issue’ appears on the real British passport list? I’ll have two of those please.
Wind up Mossad?
I wait for the news that a Mr.Purpeline has assasinated an arab leader.
It is not possible to wind up Mossad. They have no sense of humour or else they would realise how ridiculous they are.
I mean, look at those syrups FFS.
My target is some Hunt that sits in his underpants calling people Hunts. Off to Coventry with me Passport application hopefully
Brilliant……..ha…..wet myself laughing
Maybe not Mossad direct but SAYANIM (look it up)
Mossad Direct? Is that some sort of tennis clothing catalogue?
Nah – it’s where Tescos buy their fruit and veg.
Do you need a carrier bag?
Looked it up. Saw the line :
Sayanim must be 100% Jewish. They live abroad, and though they are not Israeli citizens, many are reached through their relatives in Israel.
Didn’t the Soviet Union do the same thing? Pressure on people outside the USSR via their relatives/friends still there?
No, they just shot everyone.
ah yes. Mr. “hovel in Hyde”.
The Blairites jump, so that Labour in opposition have no-one even half-sane to lead them? Oh happy days… now if Cameron could stop trying to impersonate Heath, I’d be a happy boy!
Purnell dropped his resignation the day before Labour’s election launch and after Browns big speech today. The Boy has immaculate timing.
Bang on for timing.
Then we can get the Bully Boy Brown story out over the weekend.
Can thunder thighs window dresser wot’s her name resign at 5.15pm again?
Why not get a badge made for everyone to wear – “I ducked the Nokia and survived”.
Purnell! You’re a c***.
Buy Nokia shares before word gets out to everyone!
Who called the Hunt a Hunt.
A coward, jumping ship before he is pushed by the electorate. Shameless!
Depends, he might be stepping down because he has a big story to tell that will destroy Brown forever.
He probably just to get on the job market ahead of the rush.
He probably just wants to get on the job market ahead of the rush. Not totally stupid then.
Perfect timing, I just hope that he has the decency to stab Brown in the front.
As opposed to James’ usual approach with Gordon?
This is weird, 2 supposedly Labour safe seats with majorities of 7910 for Walsall Sth and Purnells majority of 8500 both quit 2 days in succession, what are we missing here? Is Labour internal polling so bad that these guys are running away.
Seems weird 1 day before an election launch, you have 2 labour mps running off for no reason in moderatley winnable or non target seats.
In Purnell’s case the clue is in the election launch. Bruce George has stood down to precipitate an AWS to prevent a local Asian man from being slected.
I say again and again – Labour know from their private polling that they are facing complete,utter,total and unbelievable meltdown at the ballot box.
Every time they try and put their flag in the ground,slong comes another statistic to knock them for 6;
0.1% growth
21,000 new benefits claimants
Economy worse than Greece
Retail sales down 1.8% – largest ever dip
January borrowing worst on record in a month when they have never had to previously borrow.
The cancer that is coursing through the country is now making the body smell and bleed.
Brown cannot control it and he can only make more ridiculous statements.
Expect him to get worse as the evidence of the reality of the mess keeps piling up.
I suspect that the private polling of marginals particularly in the West Midlands is pretty dire for Brown & Labour.
That’s why he’s launching his campaign from Coventry on Saturday(?). Labour have taken some pretty big hits locally on unemployment increases and over the “botched” Cadbury’s jobs guarantee by Mandelson which has been proved to be even less enduring than a Cadbury’s Flake in a heat wave.That’s ignoring the subsequent closures/job losses/increases in youth unemployment/jobseeker claimants in the region which are a daily feature of local news bulletins
Well he certainly won’t be launching it from Teesside.
Another 1,600 direct steel jobs going today and the supply chain will add another >4,000. How many mortgages andrepossessions will that mean?
British dole for British workers!!
SkyNewsBreak Steel workers are to be balloted for strikes in
protest at the mothballing of the Corus plant on Teesside
the curse lives on, Brown was up there yesterday.
A smelter of discontent…
How bad will it get? Brown is worse than his mentor Sunny Jim.
Socialism, lest we forget.
How much will Corus get in CO2 reduction credits for this?
Carbon trading, you know it’s a con.
We designed the Carbon Trading Scheme with our good friend Al Gore and we deeply resemble that remark.
“How much will Corus get in CO2 reduction credits for this?”
I believe the figure is in the region of £200 mil.
Oh yes and to maintain production levels, they are building a replacement plant in India with loans from British Banks and grants from the EU and Indian governments.
Stangely I can see no mention of any of this in the MSM or the BBC. All I have heard today, is some cockwaffle about falling demand worldwide and a drop in steel production, due to the recession.
Jobs created abroad and paid for by the EU and British Government via the AGW de-industrialisation program, while British workers are thrown onto the scapheap these bastards continue to lie about the dangers of CO2.
To paraphrase another rotten regime from another elitist age, “let them eat carbon credits”.
Say ‘Tata’ to all those jobs – yet more manufacturing lost because Labour have cosied up to their corrupt subcontinental friends.
I wonder how many steelworkers will relish being retrained as LGBT outreach facilitation coordinators?
And you can’t mothball a blast furnace – once it’s cooled down, the lining is fucked and you have to rebuild it.
It was a fucking disgrace that on Questime Time last night, not one of the panel had the inclination to mention the carbon trading aspect to all this. Factories all over the developed world will soon be shut down in exchange for carbon cash, only to be shipped overseas to operate under weak environmental laws. All part of the plan, mind you.
I wonder how the Jonah Effect (R) will harm Coventry?
Jaguar to announce job cuts soon?
We need a volunteer to ride naked through the streets to protest oppressive taxation.
Coventry would sooner be bombed by hitler again that see that one eyed twat get re-elected
We are going to pay £250 million to have our street light-switches changed. It will take over 100, yes one hundred years, to get a return from this stupidity. However the magic ligths we will get are not going to need replacing for……… Oh 20/30 years. Brill.
However the boys and girls in the council are going to get jobs on the board of the company set up to run this Public Private Initative.
Some would call that corruption. I how ever, couldn’t possibly comment.
All good reasons to shoe horn the election in on March 25th ahead of a budget…..
It is the right thing to do!
Stop being silly Gordon, people are seeing through that, I did it for a long time and now no one believes me.
The Labour Cabinet collectively went to Exeter recently to support Ben Bradshaw’s re-election – and he’s got a majority of over 6,000 or so
Labour is on the run – it’s downhill all the way!
REJOICE !!!
McShiteGob doesn’t do reality, hasn’t done so since he was rector of some totally useless Uni in McLand where he spent his time bouncing rent cheques.
if it wasn’t rent cheques it was rent boys he bounced
Don’t give the game away
Wasn’t it actually an ex-Technical College?
Gangrenous.
Bruce George (who?) in Walsall South will be 68 in June.
Presumably he wants to take his payoff and retire in the style he’s been used to.
Only IF he gets elected!
On the basis that power changes hands every so often,it’s bad news in the long run(and not only for the future opposition )to lose one of the few left in Nulab with any sense at all.
Don’t forget that Purnell was the lying c.unt who appeared on tv the weekend after the Scottish Abrahams fake donations scandal to say that they HAD been repaid. Anyone who can lie so blatantly for ZaNuLieBor can never be said to have any sense.
A lying hoon is what he is.
I is missing him already
Stop messing about
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/steve-richards/steve-richards-the-false-promise-of-romantic-ideas-1902771.html
“The former cabinet minister, James Purnell, is on the romantic wing too. Purnell has become one of the country’s most stimulating politicians because he dares to surprise sometimes in a stifling, cautious political world where the unexpected does not happen very often.”
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Unexpected now, Steve?
so much for Purnell’s trust in Richards, feed him some crumbs but saves the big treat for afters.
ho, ho, ho, ho.
I wonder if there be some more resignations later today.
The only surprising thing about Purnell is the filthy state he left my flat in.
The deposit came nowhere near the cost I incurred cleaning it up after the dirty bugger left.
It was like a bloody pig sty. He even shat in the sink for Christ sake!
It’s the right thing to poo.
It wasn’t me – I had that Mark Oaten round my place.
Knew it was a mistake. Now Fatso McDoom is going to splash it all over the newspapers, which is what I asked Mark to do in the first place.
That Exlax – so unreliable>
what sort of deposit are wetalking about here?
Majority of 8,348, it would take 12% swing to remove him; so maybe he figures best to jump ship & get a real job but who knows… if he doesn’t feel safe with that majority then the inside polling/story must be grim or maybe he has no stomach for the inevitable bloodletting that will follow…:)
Look back in anger:) James Purnell MP, Stalybridge & Hyde (TheyWorkForYou.com) http://bit.ly/bITQG6
Another one bites the dust!
Purnell is going to make an attack on Brown over the weekend – the presses are being prepared.
Brown to go by the end of next week.
You wish there will be no brown out the labour party are too weak to get rid of that Hunt
Ton of shit delivered to Purnell’s house.
So that is where Gordon is speaking?
I’ll be there in a minute.
I think you’re just going through the motions now…
Got up this morning and found comment on economy delted , whats goin on fawkes ?
I’ll be next one to go.
Politics is hacking me right off
My wife wanted one of them new bum bags, I had to shop around but i found a blue ikea bag that covered one cheek .
Joining the Tories?
If James was joining any other party, all he had to do was cross the House. Something is up and it could be the dissolution of the House of Labour into it’s tribal groupings.
James would not wish to join a bunch of losers going under the name of the Conservative Party
Right ! I’d rather stay here with the Liebour Party winners…..
They do need people in the Lords
OT.
Didn’t Brown say he was going to Brum?
Curry houses blighted by exploding tandoors
Health and Safety officers have issued a warning to the curry houses of Birmingham after a spate of injuries caused by exploding tandoori ovens.
HERE.
Dabbling in gemstones too?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1251782/Tanzanian-ruby-valued-11m-sells-just-8-000-proved-lump-rock.html
He’s been Wrekin the economy…
I’ll get my coat ;-0
So that’s where they store the explosives!
If Purnell is followed by a couple more MPs, it would really stiich Brown up.
How could he claim to have a united party? The headlines for Brown would be even more grim.
Go on, go on, you know you want to. Stitch the Hunt up.
Epic Beard Man delivers righteous justice.
Is that Mr. Purnell skulking behind the beard?
Could be Prescott – he’s a bit tasty with the dukes.
69
Only when he has lots of coppers around him. Fat gobby, illiterate c.unt!
Isn`t that Gordon`s job ?
Hmm. Lots of tough talk but then turns into a blubbering crybaby. Hey, that reminds me…
and watch him get tasered by the cops at a baseball match.
Dont tase me bro
Funny that.
Its exactly like that on the 08:10 virgin intercity from cheshire to london.
Mothball production will increase under Labour! They have a new plant in Teeside.
PMSL, comment of the day (so far!)
They’d better put the fire out in the blast furnace first, or the smell of burning mothballs will anaesthetise any remaining Labour voters around Teesside.
I love the small of napalm in the morning – it reminds me of Middlebrough!
Middlesbrough is the classic example of what Labour gives you.
A crap Labour council and a crap Labour MP who take their electorate for granted.
If you are ever unlucky enough to experience the place, bear this in mind.
Well, I’ve no complaints.
It’s been a nice little earner for me!
Ker-ching!!!!
Oh be sure and hide your cheque books from Stuart’s son, won’t you…
Labour supporters sound like they are anaesthetised already. Every time they talk politics I cannot help but think that they are in a dreamworld.
I wonder what NICE LITTLE EARNER he has lined up?? No dole queue for him methinks!
He’s in the constituency nextdoor to mine. Local ASDA in Hyde are always looking for new shelf stackers
Purnell standing down? Symptom of more rifts in the Liebore party, methinks – especially given the timing.
On an unrelated topic, more common sense from Jeff Randall in the Telegraph, quoting even more sense from Churchill.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeffrandall/7266568/Studying-history-is-vital-there-are-obvious-lessons-for-David-Cameron.html
The Conservatives have been fucked yet again at local council elections and they will be at the General Election
Labour gained two seats from the Liberal Democrats in the latest council by-elections with just 15 weeks at most before Gordon Brown’s date with destiny.
However there was also good news for the Lib Dems after victory in a west country Tory stronghold
Another good man gone. Time to go after Brown in every way possible. I’m doing my own bit with myLabourposters Unleashed at http://jontomes.typepad.com/blog/
Breaking on Dales Diary
McBust called to face Chilcot 4/5 March so March 25th date is on(?) as if he calls for dissolution 1 March he will be regrettably unable to attend due to prejuding election
Or even prejudicing(bloody keyboard)
He’ll be back you mark my words.
That’s over a quarter of the PLP who are leaving the sinking ship. Do they know something we don’t?
Death tax, Labour admit to abusing regional cabinet meetings for politcal ends, labour councillors deselected, Labour’s bid to increase rents thwarted, more names for Brown’s Wall of Shame, more Labour MPs stand down 1/4 plus of PLP! Yes, it’s LBU! Labour Business as Usual!
That’s 1/4 who are leaving voluntarily and another 50% who will be leaving at the behest of the voters. There’s going to be fuck all of the imbeciles left at this rate.
But while there is a single Labour MP re-elected who served in this government of all the imbeciles then it is one imbecile too many.
You could have a point, jgm2…
Made my fucking day. This careerist creep, emblematic of the good for fuck all political class has never known a day`s honest in his life, merely sliming his way up the greasy pole.
It was brilliant to see the twat resign last year in anticipation that he`d precipitate a coup against McBirdbrain only for the rest of them to bottle it and instead of him ending up as Home Secretary under Miliband he was on the back benches.
Am entertaining the delicious thought Purnell will end up in the Jobcentres of which he was once overlord but no; his networking skills have no doubt landed him a lucrative chair polishing position in quango land, very likely as Mr Expat suggests working for the Tories. He won`t be the last one on the U boat to Argentina: Mandelson`s probably already positioning himself.
*Applause*
He’s resigned to spend more time with his sideburns and his airbrushing kit.
Coming to Sky3 soon – “James Purnell Waltzing with Mathilda “- Ex Cabinet Minister James Purnell goes on a terribly long railway journey through Australia in a sort of amusing kind of blokey manner- meeeting all sorts of funny characters with heart warming stories on the way!” To be followed by a stint as Chairman on the new series HIGNFY(James takes an irreverent look at his former colleagues in Westminster)
Purnellcilla, Queen of the Desert(er)?
Only he won’t actually be there, they will just paste in a picture of him….
Can you put up a pic of Stinkies kitchen Guido ?
It always cheers me up and makes me feel less guilty about not doing the washing up.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L8UPYI89QFI/SfQsooZiFLI/AAAAAAAAAIY/QgF7P3op-7g/s400/james-purnell-london-flat.bmp
Thanks Bill. Just off to have a shower now I think.
None of this is being reported on Radio 5 mind, instead all they can do is get the fat queen Nolan (is he really one of the Nolan sisters by the way?) to spout on about how the Tories are boycotting Liebour’s plan to save the elderly (by taxing them even more)
Radio 5 presenters will be able to afford clever accountants who will get them out of paying the new Death Duty for the Rest of Us. So why would they care?
Actually they are boycotting labour’s plans to take the houses off the hard-working families who look after frail relatives.
I know that I have worked hard to pay for my home. I would like to leave that home to my only child when I die. I do not want the fucking thieving bastard government to get one penny of it!
If I was in power, I would change the law so that if you own a property that you use as a family home, and it is your ONLY property and you own it outright, you could voluntarily apply to have that property de-listed as an asset, or listed as a valueless home. This would then be the case until you die, or you apply to have it re-listed as an asset.
In other words, You would volunteer to have the property listed as a valueless, unsaleable item. You would not be able to rent it out, sell it, and you could not be taxed on it, or have it included as an asset in any kind of benefit claim. You would not be able to take out loans against it, nor use it for any sort of revenue generation at all. It would be a home and nothing more than that.
After making such a declaration, there would be a five year limit before being able to re-list it as an asset. Any re-listing as an asset would take place no sooner than 10 years after the application to re-list it, to prevent people abusing the system for instant personal gain.
This way your home could be passed to your children, as a home, but not an asset. If they wanted it to become an asset, then they would have to apply for it to be re-listed as an asset too and then realise the asset value of it after 10 years.
I think that there should be a legal definition of a ‘home’ that is distinct from property, and that a person could own their own home, giving them peace of mind and security, without having any of the financial benefits or traps of property.
A fantastic idea, would you mind if I quoted it?
Not at all, feel free!
O/T but I just saw a quote on Norman Tebbit’s site:
“I did go to one Bilderberg meeting (on the advice of my officials that I should know what it was all about). I was never invited to another – which tells you something about both the Bilderbergers and me.”
Respect to Tebbit
He knows something we don’t
i’ll bring the lot of them down if i have to
I love it when you speak dirty ….Daddy !!
Do you fancy a threesome with Commander Corder?
SDP Mark 2?
I wonder how many of the Labour MPs about to leave Parliament would come back if Gordon were to do the decent thing & stand down as Leader after the disastrous election defeat…. just shows that the cowards should have fought him together but they didn’t dare. Go Gordon go. ABGB.co.uk
We are unable to confirm or deny rumours that George Osborne will resign this week-end !!!
We are able to confirm that he is a economic clown
More than 60 leading economists backed Chancellor Alistair Darling today over his decision to delay spending cuts until next year.
In two letters to the Financial Times, they said it could be “positively dangerous” to begin cuts – as the Tories are planning – and would risk tipping the economy back into recession.
The letters are a direct riposte to a letter sent to The Sunday Times by a group of 20 leading economists urging more rapid action to tackle Britain’s £178 billion deficit.
Clueless
On the other hand there are about 2,000,000 micro-economists who have to manage small budgets on a monthly basis who endorse the fact that Gordon Brown’s Chancellorship and unelected premiership has truly screwed the country and that neither he or his sink rat Darling have the slightest clue how to fix it.
They’re not trying to fix it. They’re still trying to cover up their incompetence that got us into this fix. It is their failure to admit they fucked up and the massive 500bn quid cost of the cover-up that is going to fuck us over far more than putting their hands up back in 2007 and changing tack.
We have just marched three years down totally the wrong path just because Brown and his imbecile government cannot admit they fucked up and that we need to change the plan.
Arseholes. Incompetent, mendacious, scum-sucking fuckwitted arseholes.
… and that’s putting it mildly.
Quite.
60 leading economists?
Can any one of these useless c*nts point to the letter they all wrote and signed back in 2001 warning Brown not to employ one million non-jobbers on insane salaries and advising him that house prices were going up by 15 – 20% a ear and he’d better put up interest rates or the economy would go down the shitter?
60 leading economists?
I have shit better economists.
The only economist I’m interested in is one who will give me a decent return on the few bob I have in the building society. I’m talking a minimum of 5% here, preferably more.
Try moneysupermarket.com Lots of accounts paying 5% for 5 year bonds or NS&I paying Index-linked+1%.
Indeed, predicting a tax take of c 1 billion in January -we borrowed 4 billion plus instead.
Missed the recession completely
My favourite is the dimwit (yes he signed the letter) who thinks having a balance of payments surplus and exporting more than you import are not signs of a strong economy.
Q:Why did God create economists ?
A:In order to make weather forecasters look good.
A Physicist, an Engineer and an Economist are shipwrecked on a desert island. There is no food but one day a packing case filled with tins of baked beans is washed up. They open the case and puzzle on how to get the beans out of the tins.
The Physicist says “Easy! Put the tins on a fire and the heat will not only cook the beans but when it gets hot the lid will burst open!”
The Engineer says, ” Easy, put a sharp stone under the rim of the lid and knock the lid off”
The Economist says, “Easy, assume we have a tin opener!”
The best way to tackle a debt cris is to rack up more debt. Then get elected out and leave the mess for somebody else.
Economists are not leaders, they are followers
Economist are accountants without wacky the sense of humour!
Keynesians and socialists to a man (and woman).
60 beats 20, so they must be right! (Finding out they are wrong will be too late of course.)
Yes but one of those economists is one D. Blanchflower, of the parish of BBC and Channel 4; if I were Chancellor my instincts would be to do the exact opposite of what this individual advocates.
He used to be captain of Spurs (in the days when they could play a bit,).
He should have stuck to football.
Blanchflower, speaking from the USA, seemed a bit bonkers on Channel 4 last night. They turned the volume off on him to allow the other economist to speak.
Perhaps it was jet lag.
Indeed, if arch-dove Blanchflower had managed to get his way, he would have made the debt problems which led to this crisis far, far worse.
The single most stupid decision, however, was Brown’s decision to remove house prices from the official inflation figures. House prices are central to the British economy, unlike other nations.
So some clueless leftie economists write a stupid letter in the Pinko FT?
So what?
The truth is that FWIT Brown has bankrupted the nation!
More problems for the Chief Hoon, Boris Johnson
The Fire Brigades Union is calling on London Mayor Boris Johnson to fire the vice chairman of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority, Councillor Bertha Joseph.
Ms Joseph was suspended as a Brent councillor, and her appeal against suspension was rejected last week.
Her six month suspension – the longest the Standards Committee can impose – came after she allegedly used charitable donations to buy herself ball gowns. She was also ordered to repay £200.
She will not be able to perform council duties until the end of the suspension period, including constituency work and any formal business of the
council.
FBU executive member for London Ian Leahair is writing today to Mayor Johnson, who alone has the power to remove her.
Mr Leahair said today: “This councillor, mired in sleaze, is considered unfit to sit on Brent Council.
“Yet Mayor Johnson apparently thinks she is perfectly fit to have a key role in running London’s fire service. The Mayor must have a very low opinion of firefighters and the fire service.
Nobody gives a shit about this no-mark from the FBU any more than that troughing tart from Brent.
A ‘key-role’ in running the Fire service? What’s to know? Plug in the post code on your SAT-NAV. Drive to the fire. Put the fucking thing out.
Another chosen one on the take, ffs.
Nobody gives a shit about this no-mark from the FBU any more than that troughing tart from Brent.
A ‘key-role’ in running the Fire service? What’s to know? Plug in the post code on your SAT-NAV. Dr*ve to the fire. Put the fucking thing out.
What about Diversity? Recruiting disabled firepersons? Solidarity with Cuban Firepersons etc…
LFEPA responsibilities Bertha Joseph
Deputy Chairman, (Ceremonial events and activities associated with Community Outreach)
What is it about these w*nkers in the public sector politics, do they feel that a ‘trough’ is their birthright!!
Resigning never works old chap, just look what happened to me!
Let me tell you how it’s going to be.
There’s one for you, nineteen for me
Cos I’m the broonman, yeah,
I’m the broonman
Should five per cent for you appear too small
Be thankful I don’t take it all
Cos I’m the broonman, yeah,
I’m the broonman
If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat
If you get too cold, I’ll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet
If you have a shit, I’ll have your arse
Broonman!
Cos I’m the broonman, yeah,
I’m the broonman…
The wife asked how I liked her new dress
” looked better with the potatoes in ” wasn’t what she wanted to hear.
Back on the sofa tonight
You’ll be able to watch me on BBC Parliament then!
Is this why Brown and the p aedo cabal want children to have laptops at home:
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/17/school-used-student.html
I just went for a slash and missed.
Update from James’ constituency office via Twitter:
“mate, words cant describe how pissed off i am.”
O/T….Can you imagine the outcry if Laura Bush had visited a school somewhere in Africa where whites made up say 10% of the total population,and Laura had swooped down hugging all the white kids in the school audience ignoring the blacks?Can you imagine what would have been said if she then invited 10 white kids from that school in an African country back to the White House.There would have been an absolute outcry.So why is is alright for Michelle Obama to invite black kids from Islington to visit her in Washington. Laura Bush would have been called a raciist but good ol’ Michelle can do no wrong. This is absolute outright racism.Apparently they had a competition for the best essays and these kids supposedly won the competition,the prize was a trip to Washington to meet Mrs Obama.Well,if you are black in London you get extra help from the EMAG (Ethic Minority Achievement Grant) YOU are all paying for it but only blacks need apply.There is extra tuition etc etc…….. I know that poor white kids in areas of London have a really bad time at school. My mother who is not known for her incisive political analysis (well she is rather ancient) also noticed that Mrs Obama was favouring black kids. It’s bloody outrageous.How can she bring herself to sleep with a half white man? It must be very very difficult.
But these pseudo socialists have one rule for them and another for everyone else. We see it every day with the labour party and Brown.
They are very confused, screwed up people who live in denial. They all need help. Brown, Obama – the whole bleedin lot of them.
Help into an early grave maybe.
It’s racist when you honky folk do it, but not when we do it!
Remember, there’s no such thing as racism against white people.
Please stop trying to apply logic to distorted socialist constructs, Jan.
BBC still leading with 60 v 20 nah, nah,ner nah. Also ‘Scary’ tories.
and that crap Radio 5 this morning was saying “60 world leading economists”… whoever is the producer there I would sack the biased b*stard !!
MY economist is BIGGER than your economist ——- so there !!!!
How many of those 60 warned of the obvious credit bubble?
At least ONE of them in a position to have his voice heard in the MPC was pushing for even lower interest rates in the years the asset bubble was inflating…had that happened the collapse would, I venture to say, been even worse for the UK (as if it isn’t bad enough)
Plumbers know about plumbing, bookies know about gambling, violinists know the violin and farmers know about farming yet, strangely, economists seem to know nothing at all about money.
…and don’t forget to include NuLiebour Chancellors….
Ho Hum…..
Only 13 economists in the whole world predicted the GFC – global financial collapse.
Damm and blast it . Back stabbing Burnham doing a runner
We were hoping to give this two timing filcher a hearty welcome to
Goodison Park next time he shows his many sided face.
Not stupid,this devious prat,he has a safe seat in the Land that time forgot,
Liegh,Gtr Manchester.The yonners round there would vote for a stray cat
as long as it could miaeow the Red Flag
What does Cameron do all day? Why is he so nice and timid?
It seems people prefer liars and bullies!
Just an observation.
AMBULANCE FOR 137, QUICKLY !!!
This is excellent news, the more anti modernisation, anti Anglo Saxon, anti aspiration, anti prudence, high tax leftists in Government and the PLP, the better I say.
But I am a bit mental
FAKED – LIKE GORDOOM BROWN’S & ALYINGSTARE CAMPBELL’S TEARS…
Faked photograph
In September 2007, a photograph of James Purnell was faked and released by the press office at Tameside General Hospital as part of a press release for the Tameside Hospital Private Finance Initiative (PFI) rebuilding deal.[3] The Tameside Trust claimed that Purnell agreed to the amalgamation of the two photographs,[4] as he was late for the original photo call, but Purnell denied this. Another Labour MP, Tom Levitt, present for the photoshoot stated that he and other Labour MPs deliberately left a gap for Purnell when the original photograph was taken, knowing that Purnell’s image would be superimposed onto their photograph. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Purnell
That’s the one. The really worrying thing is – they think this is perfectly normal conduct.
Healthcare regulator Monitor is to carry out an independent review of the way Tameside General Hospital is run following public outcry into a catalogue of failings. The Care Quality Commission will also be examining patient care at the hospital.
Only 12 weeks to “Save the NHS” again…
Forgive me. Who is this Purnell chap?
What has Purnell ever achieved?
Replies welcome.
Achieve ??Achieve ?? They ACCRETE.
Lab MPs don’t achieve anything. They just accrete wealth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Purnell
Oh yes…..
No doubt he is about to be exposed for fraud and financial shennigans
Never trust any man with bushy sideburns who isnt in a 1970s sitcom
Oh and sexual perversity
So its lobbying and blackmail as Jimmys new career choice
Are they re-making – “Rising Damp” then ?.
Times says he can see which way the election is going and wants out.
Perhaps his boyfriend is pregnant? Or maybe he just wants to spend more time with his fridge magnets?
Not much point in anyone with political ambitions standing for a party headed by Gordon is there?
BBC RADIO 2 running with Winterton story – “different class”
John McCririck on now – arsehole !!
Wouldn’t it be great if MP’s only got their money for leaving Parliament if it was involuntary….ie they got voted out as opposed to simply standing down or not getting selected?
Or maybe it would be better the other way? I wonder how many Labour MP’s would show their confidence in Gordon Brown by not following Purnell if that were the case!
Purnell won’t have any trouble in being in politics and out of politics – the man who can be in two places at once.
One of his local Bruvvers has just commented ‘Good Riddance’. Yes…lets not have any poncy intellectuals around here getting in the way of the socialist workers dream. Throw another billion on the fire Gordon … its a bit cold today.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/11/04/drug-baron-burned-1m-115875-21796294/
Shows he was a good father and family man….
I know idiots who drink with the Prat Purnell in his Stalybridge Labour Club
Control Module. You’de have more fun in an horse drawn barge on the Styx.Occasionally frequented by hobbits,gender benders ,CAMRA froth
blowers and budgie breeders ,not forgetting the local Shawl and Clog
Ensemble reminding the locals about Satanic Mills and Rickets
this is good news
over at Guardian the numbers of accountants in favour of governments economic strategy (sic) has risen from 60 to 67 – curious?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/19/battle-britain-economic-future#start-of-comments
The NEF just recruited 7 more staff at taxpayers expense?
Expect to see Baron Purnell on the Tory benches after the general election and if Cameron is Prime Minister! He will also have a position in government.
Left foot Straw and Hopi Sen found it hard to cover this breaking news story, funny how they both found other stories to blog about today,
I suspect he will end up trying and resume his career with the BBC after the election where he was head of corporate planning. This would fit in with his stated desire to continue to be of service to the Labour Party. Doubtless after the election many of the Labour government will be looking for jobs in the BBC as it’s where they are made so welcome while in opposition.
It why “Dave” should end the TV_Tax, goto encrypted subscriptions, and let subscribers elect the BBC board.
Remember “No10’s gay smear attack on James Purnell after bust-up with the Prime Minister
Hissy FitShock Horror Probe”http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205283/No10-s-gay-smear-attack-James-Purnell-bust-Prime-Minister.html
Have just read an interview.
My conclusion – mid life crisis/breakdown.
One thing in his favour and the thing that should be noted is he at least has the balls to stand down.
This takes more fortitude than staying where you are.
I think this bloke should be congratulated on at least having some morals.
[my previous post was made in ignorance before I read his interview]
Is he waiting to sign on? Someone should tell him he’s not entitled to JSA becuase he left his job voluntarily.
Is it to do with those bisexual rumours?
Very sad to see Purnell go, I felt he was the one potential Labour leader who could turn the troubled party around. I may well have voted for him, whereas I can’t say the same for the Milibands, Johnson, Harm-men or Balls.
Where do Labour go from here? It looks pretty bleak for them now.
It’s pretty bleak for the Tories if the latest poll in The Times is correct. Cameron has to remove Osborne and substitute Ken Clarke NOW. It’s the only way for the Tories to pull it off. He has to do it this weekend – no ifs, no buts. NOW.
Agreed.
And then Ken Clarke can replace Cameron with Lord Heseltine and it will be just like the old days.