Bercow’s Buckingham Begging Boys
Bercow must be feeling the heat from Farage’s growing campaign in his hitherto extremely safe seat. It seems he’s resorted to playing on his position as Speaker to raise money. Local Tory members and donors have been surprised to receive begging letters and phone calls from a front calling itself the “Friends of Speaker Bercow” asking for help to fill a £40,000 election war chest. It turns out the politically neutral Speaker’s Office has been mysteriously handing out useful names and addresses to the fund-raising unit (whose name, you’ll note, even includes his “non-political” title,) who then call up asking for cash.
In what has all the hallmarks of a well oiled unit, a second prong of attack is then engaged: After the request for cash, a well-timed invitation to drinks in the Palace is popped through the letterbox. Conflicted Tory members and councillors have, meanwhile, been warned that they will be deselected and expelled at the first hint of disloyalty or for speaking out about the letters by those still loyal to Bercow. Frank Donlon the Secretary of the organisation just confirmed that Bercow had passed on names.
Much more fun and phone numbers at anna’s place
http://tinyurl.com/yj2bsny
I imagine ‘The Friends of Speaker Bercow’ could hold their meetings in a phone box.
Space suit, more like.
Talking of spacesuits, where was Theresa May’s one this lunchtime?
As promised, a weekly feature, just compiled: Guido’s PMQs Live – Highlights here.
Not so the friends of the Speakers wife
I heard they used her fanny as a blueprint for the Dome.
Coffee meets keyboard and screen – thanks…
Well,it is like throwing a sausage up Regent’s Street,innit?
Oi ! Oi !!
You all would, don’t deny it!
Order, Order, And the Dome has always looked like a boil on the South Bank of the Thames try looking at it from Canning Town flyover!
Sally Alley
I am sure Bercow/Buckingham will be Portillo/Southgate revisited.
As for the PMQ’s – the whole of the Labour cabinet looked absolutely dreadful.
And how can Darling stick his tongue down Brown’s throat after his revelations last night?
What does it take for one person in Labour to stick the knife into Brown and twist it?
Courage
Don’t wait up
Courage, that singular characteristic required in a leader that is utterly lacking in all remaining labour MPs.
I cannot believe the way that some parts of the media have been spinning Gordon’s rages, bullying and lack of self control as a sign of strong, good leadership. It is nothing of the kind. Bullying is the first tactic of a coward and cowardice has NO role in leadership whatsoever. It is the opposite of good strong leadership. Bullying is a sign of extreme weakness, cowardice and lack of confidence, it is triggered by fear.
Leadership comes from confidence and a vision and a strong ability to communicate that vision effectively to inspire and instil in your followers a definite motivating force to them of realising a direct personal or communal benefit in following your leadership.
Brown does not inspire, he does not lead as he has no real goal or purpose other than being Prime Minister. He is an utter failure.
The last labour MP to demonstrate real courage, with a dedication to honest and sincere values is dead. That was Robin Cook and the commons are all the poorer for it.
The last Labour MP who showed any hint of courage was James Purnell when he resigned from the cabinet. But that was not over a matter of sincere and decent values, so much as a matter of selfish miscalculation.
As for Cameron? He does not appear to be a bully, or a coward. However he does not appear to have any central vision or goal either other than being in power.
To be fair, I guess having a goal as British Prime Minister is pretty pointless these days anyway. After all, the EU controls more and more of our country every month. So any goal or vision of a British Prime Minister would have to be to implement EU diktats, otherwise, they are going to be disappointed.
I’ll tell you who had it… Major. quiet courage. A world away from Brown.
When he lost in 97, John Major gave a speech from the stairs of tory HQ, I watched it on t’telly on that “new dawn”, rotten day that it was. And he’d got about ten seconds and an a very melodic and cultured female voice shouted out – to a *defeated* leader mind – “John Major, you’re a star” and he laughed, finished his thankyous, had a few hours kip and went for a pint and to watch the cricket. A decent bloke, on-the-side-nookie, noted, and he betrayed the country with the EU but then they all do that don’t they….
Correct. A courageous man, a lousy party leader, but the best administrator we have had as PM.
While his party self destructed around him (largely as a result of the EU and the now minor levels of sleaze) he still kept going, winning almost every vote in the commons in spite of a minority for many months.
Blair could not keep a majority of 60 from defeating him in the commons.
Major was a far better administrator of this country, than Blair, Brown or any labour PM we have ever had.
How would these ‘leaders’ score on the trench test?
‘We’re going over’ and up he jumps with all his men
‘We’re going over’ and up he jumps all alone
‘You’re going over’ he threatens with a loaded weapon
Major was also a better man than Blair or the present idiot could ever be.
Ned and Frank. You are not right on this leadership thing at all.
If Major had been a proper leader then he wouldn’t have had the indignity of his voting majority melt away drip by drip as “the bastards” failed to support his government in the lobbies – justice, of course, for his role in the demise of Thatcher.
As for McRuin, the fact that he has not been displaced signifies that for the liebores at least he is a leader – if their leader only. He is of course no leader for anyone who hates his guts, and could never be.
But think about that last sentence, and it will reveal what a leader is. Leadership is support for an individual that comes from the bottom up. It can never be imposed top-down. That is the vanity and hubris of institutions everywhere, whether British corporate management, or the EU Commission.
Not exactly hard.
“If Major had been a proper leader then he …”
Cyco Billy, can you point to where I said he was a good leader? I didn’t. In fact I said he was “a lousy party leader”.
He was a much better administrator and turned the economy round, increased exports and made many improvements to this country.
He was courageous. He was not a good leader. There is much more to leadership than courage. Brown, however, does not possess any of the traits of good leadership.
Yes, John Major was not too bad when he wasn’t sucking off fascist Saudi Arabian Princes and supplying them with weapons to kill Saudi Arabians which led to the formation of Alqaeda but apart from that he was okay.
none, as with all commies, marxists its party before country
Posterior, Posterium, Fricat
…and self before Party.
I thought the cabinet looked very fetching at PMQ’s and a delight to see Harriet Harman flashing her legs
Yes I think I could give her one but I’m pretty sure she prefers a bit of rough trade.
I’m a rough trade unionist, and she’s my hump.
I only wish CCHQ would have “all the hallmarks of a well oiled unit”
I live in hope
Some Labour MPs have “all the hallmarks of a well oiled unit” after after feeding and watering at the Taxpayers’ Trough
That looks like a typo, Are you sure that you did not mean, well oiled c’unt?
That would be “Temporary Speaker Bercow”.
It would appear the Farage has lit a fire beneath Shortround Bercow.
Could be fun.
A pity that I don’t live in Buckinghamshire, I’d like to do some grassroots shit-stirring 
Frank Donlon of Frank Donlon Consultancies Ltd, Milton Keynes.
Frank Donlon who doesn’t like things being built. More info here…
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Farage has just been dropped from tomorrow nights BBC QT
http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-was-farage-bumped-from-question.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BiasedBBC+%28Biased+BBC%29
They don’t like it up ‘em OH.
Controlfreakery by the bucket load.
Not because of this surely?
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/12/money-for-old-carbon.html
That really is shocking. Sad thing is I think Cameron would support such nonsense just as much as McBust.
Try last week old boy, not tomorrow, when it was in Middlesbrough. The clue is in the first sentence. Did you notice that that blog gave a hat tip to its source?
Where does it say he’s been dropped OH? He was supposed to be on last weeks’s QT, but that did not happen. I have not heard anything from UKIP about any cancellation, nor is there anything on the UKIP website about a cancellation of this week’s appearance.
I might, just might have fucked that up. I was being sucked off under my desk by my secretary at the time so may not have been fully concentrating.
Fair enough, anyone can make a mistake under those circumstances.
I know that driving on the motorway at excessive speed is difficult when I am tickling the Missus tonsils with my bell end. Makes the journey a bit less boring though.
Time machine malfunction. Only out by a week. Not to worry OH.
It could’ve been worse. You could’ve been visiting Mandy’s Gloryhole for some relief.
and all that time I thought I had Attention Deficit Disorder.
Regards to your secretary – Nigel. He is quite cute after all.
“… warned that they will be deselected and expelled at the first hint of disloyalty or for speaking out … ”
Now, this Behaviour seems familiar – who does it remind us of
The Four Shits of Hell !!
Dismal Dave is terrified that Farage will win and UKIP will get their first man into the HOC. The heir to Bliar, is shitting himself, good.
Troll logic. If Farage doesn’t win, I don’t give Bercow long in the job. If Farage does win, he’s hardly going to hang about the liebore lobbies. Why should Dave care less?
I am assuming Cameron has a majority. But if Cameron isn’t thinking in those terms, Bercow is the least of his problems.
That it would also upset the Cameroons and not just Bercow is yet another reason I’ll toast to a Farage victory.
Plus it will cause such anger in the EU we should all be praying UKIP beat Bercow.
If only I could afford to move to Buckingham for a few weeks.
Can’t you flip your second home like we do ??
Farage for the win.
If the seat was uncontested, Bercow would not need a campaign. UKIP means that normal rules apply, but using the position of speaker on the material is out of order.
Hope the odious little shit loses his seat to farage, the whole rotten system needs kicking down.
The speaker, being a personal friend-and wife(she can join us anytime!) should be left alone to get on with his completely impartial position and not be targetted by Tory nonces.
Sorry OT:
I responded to a fellow posters request to send a message of support to Christine Pratt of the anti bully helpline.
Despite all her worries she sent me a reply.
Her latest communicaton to me was very sad indeed.
Like me,you will have reservations as to what Mrs Pratt stands for and the manner in which she has made herself a target.
But the fact is, she told the truth and is being destroyed by known liars at No10.
I would like to request, as did a fellow poster,to send Mrs Pratt a message of support.
http://www.nationalbullyinghelpline.co.uk
Done !!!
I note from their Contacts page that they spell Privacy, Privicy…..
Is that perhaps Franglais, Privi ici ???
Done… under my real name. I ‘m actually glad she is getting advice from Max Clifford… if that’s true. Despite all my reservations about him… I think he would be sensible about showing her the options clearly when under attack as she must be right now.
He will be advising her alright. He will be advising her to shut her fucking trap, because she is hurting the labour party that he loves.
In my reply, I told her to play the man not the ball, like them wankers have done.
Message of support sent.
Sadly, I doubt it will do much good.
but Max is wedded to the truth…….
no – third rate seo like that is execrable.
Pity his missus didn’t keep her client database
Bercow is a dwarf pervert….who’s wife can’t get enough cock.
Why on Earth did she opt for him?
Perhaps she likes him watching her being shagged by well hung studs.
A storm in a teacup
Some storm ! Some teacup !!
You can’t help but feel sorry for Tory councilors most of them seem to be half wits.
Not sure it’s just the Tories either.
Is it in order for the Speaker to use the resources accorded to his office to entertain donors to his parliamentary election campaign?
Normally, no. But Bercow is a man who has modernised and moved from right to left and is therefore given special privileges. Now, let’s talk about Lord Ashcroft. (He too can disappear from our stories if he will more fully embrace socialist policy)
Being circumcised as he is, anything goes when it comes to fund raising..
Turncoat scum that he is…
Jesus was out walking one day, when he came across a stoning. Jesus looked at the crowd and then said:”Those amongst you who have no sin shall throw the first stone.”
A man at the back of the crowd yelled: “Jesus, you always want to go first!”
after me matey, after me….
I have always done the right thing.
“Politician in seeking funds for election campaign shock”
Frank Donlon is a respected community figure in North Buckinghamshire and if he wants to offer support with fundraising to a politician he knows and respects, good luck to him.
Whilst it makes good copy, I am sure that your correspondent confuses the “Speaker’s Office” in Westminster with his election campaign in Buckingham. I imagine that is what is in one of the many bits that has been deleted.
I am sure you could uncover a handful of local fringe Tories don’t support him but the vast majority do.
Looking at the website for the company he works for, it seems he specialises in taking money off the health service for writing reports – not the sort of person who inspires much respect in me, I’m sorry.
Although not directly employed by the state, his sort of ‘consultant’ are parasites, made all the worse because they exploit the incompetence of the socialist bedwetters to suck even more money out of the taxpayer.
Nice to see you like him, though.
Raising funds is one thing.
Using taxpayer-funded parliamentary offices for wining and dining in order to sweet talk prospective donors is another.
Don’t know about feeling the heat in my view Bercow is toast!
Still, there is a stage version of the Wizard of Oz next year and he will make a great Munchkin. Mandleson always reminds me of the Tin Man, Frank Field is a dead ringer for the Scarerow and Sir Patrick Mercer the lion.
And for some reason Bercrows missus reminds me of Marylin Chambers with her clothes on.
Marilyn ‘kin Manson more like…
That drunken bum alister campbell has some shite up at CIF. the comments are not good, feel free to go give him a kicking.
Gordon Brown has a “cuddly “article in the Telegraph and it looks like the Labour Party have flooded the board with ” My Hero!” comments.
New Labour are looking a bit tired, all that fighting is exhausting.
New Labour’s record in office:
Restoring honour and integrity to politics: Damien McBride
Transparency and probity: Porno films on expenses
Ethical foreign policy: Illegal war
Being honest with the public: Dodgy dossier
Setting an example at the very top: Tony B Liar’s expenses mysteriously shredded
Ethical foreign policy part 2: Standing by silently during Israel’s war crimes in Lebanon
Freedom of speech: Throwing out a Holocaust survivor for heckling
Keeping election promises: Introducing tuition fees
Social justice: 25p extra a week for pensioners
Real socialists at the heart of government: Margaret Beckett’s hanging baskets
Freedom of speech part 2: Dr David Kelly
Setting an example at the very top part 2: Gordon Brown bullying subordinates
New Labour. A brand/party you can trust..
…to fuck you over.
Nice one!
It started in America. I am doing the right thing.
When does the Friends of Speaker Bercow meeting start?
When can you get here Mr Brown?
Mr Keegan is Bercows old mate from Lambath Council days and a former Parliamentry candidate in Vauxhall
Didn’t know that the Speaker is allowed to raise campaign funds?
Or is this one of the many “traditions” and “conventions” that he has abandoned because he prefers not to follow them?
Remember David Mellor ?
Carlo Ancelotti says he’s looking to bring in a Chelsea legend who will show the players how to behave in a Chelsea strip.
John Terry and Ashley Cole hope it’s David Mellor.
Listen you muppet Antonia de Sancha was a fantastic shag and I was merely following a long tradition of Tory grandee’s having a bit on the side whilst spouting a load of bollocks about family values.
It all ended up with the loss of my seat and a visit to the clap clinic. The misus was furious.
Aye, at least you didn’t have to forcefeed ya kids a couple of burgers in front of the cameras.
And labour now have made it acceptable to have gay affairs and get up to all sorts of perverted things and call it “normal”.
Of course it is only wrong when it’s a tory doing it. When labour do it, it’s called diversity.
Whatever happened to Antonia de Sancha ? Also I remember that gorgeous pouting Indian girl that Andrew Neil, and others, dallied with; what ever happened to her (Bordes or something). Where are the slappers of yesteryear ?
Can someone buy Gordon some Listerine please? Thank you. It’s not easy being his beard, you know.
Re that Guy News Video
Mark Harper is my MP
what the fuck is he doing running round like a chef on speed during office hours?? that’s my money he’s spending – bastard
I’m just gonna have to go over the hill and sort him out …….
The should be a counter group called Enemies of Speaker Bercow pointing out that the little rat-bastard is a fucking Huhne.
He’s stinking the place up with foaming-at-the-mouth jews and his lame jokes. Plus, the brain-dead donkey women he married (for her horse sense) is angling to become a Nu Liebore slapper MP.
It’s shit and Bercow is a disgrace. GET RID OF THE RAT BASTARD AT ALL COSTS.
He’s much, much better than Gorbals Mick though, wouldn’t you say? He didn’t nobble the Legg enquiry?
Frank:
I get the feeling that you don’t really like Jonathan (I wish I was taller|) Bercow.
thought he was prime minister material !
The passing on of the names is probably a breach of the Data Protection Act. Contact details can only be used for the purpose for which they were given: they were probably given as part of support for the Official Conservative Candidate. Bercow is no longer the Official Conservative Candidate and as such is not entitled to use the names and contact details. Further the party to which he gave the names and contact details should be registered under the Data Protection Act as a data handler, I doubt that they are.
Good point, Helpful.
It almost certainly is a breach of the DPA. Sadly, the DPA is not enforced (other than in the most egregious and high profile of breaches), so there will be no consequences.
Why does Gordon Brown hate women? I know he’s autistic and asexual but really, that’s no excuse.
But I love women! I love shoving them, hitting them, shouting at them and sacking them. Bitches, whores, slags
I may be a misogynist but that doesn’t make me a homosexual. Does it ?
sorry shouda posted this here
john wayne says:
February 24, 2010 at 4:49 pm
What all this reveals, and was highlighted in last nights little drama No Expenses, is that the culture, the boys club mentality that has prevailed for centuries at Westminster is still in place. It’s taken a battering but there is a rearguard action under way to save the old style luxury that all MPs and Peers have enjoyed throughout history. It’s confirmation also that they do see themselves as above the rest of us – a misguided elite, privy to all sorts of deceits and all of our money. Nobody can question them for they truly believe they are our betters. It’s insane, it’s corrupt but they won’t give it up without a fight – even it includes blatant lies, bullying and mischief
Who gives a shit?
In these shitty times, we need some humour.
Until Brown is kicked out on his arse, enjoy this off-topic bit of fun…
Cameron and his identikit Bliarite toadies are leading a captive Tory party to defeat, what should have been a landslide has turned into at best a hung parliament.
What choice does the voter have? A retarded mental case psycho unable to distiguish between his own fantasy island reality and actual reality, a man that lies and actually believes the lies he spews out daily OR an empty common purpose/social democrat/greasy pole climbing spiv without two original ideas to rub together, a man with less going on upstairs than a coma patient.
Its a comedy in real life, an empty bumbler and a raging nutcase fighting for a job neither of them can do and all the time the HMS UK sinks into the mire cheered on a chimps tea party of a parliament filled with whores,pimps,crooks,spivs,perverts,morons and shitkickers!
Did I mention the greasy toad currently tottering about on the small shit heap that is the libdems? Whats the point? If they are the answer to anything then we are fucked.
Speaking for myself I would rather have the mentalist raging psychopath back in that honest cast iron Dave, another Bliar right now would be too much.
That’s why lots of us will be casting our vote elsewhere.
Fuck all you LibLabCon lickspittles.
Torys need to lose this one.
There’ll be another election along in a year or so – that’s the one to win.
Yeah! What the fuck has happened to Cameron?
He’s like a Manchurian candidate. All the life has gone out of the bastard.
I wonder if the jews have got him, destroyed his soul, and turned him into some sort of nkisi, who will robotically order our lovely lads in the armed forces to commit yet more jew horrors (a la Blair) against random Arabs.
We are fucked if that human shell Cameron gets elected.
Fuck you Frank you dribbling wank stain. I’m gonna fuck you up bad if you bad mouth me. You’re warned c’unt.
He’s not daft – he doesn’t want to get elected.
mmmm he may be chuntering from a sedentary position then , pithy replies welcome !
Could this be the same Frank Donlon who is, or used to be, on Aylesbury Vale District Council?
Frank Donlon. Address : 16b Mursley Road, Little Horwood, Milton Keynes, MK17 0PG. Email : frankSfdonlon.co.uk. Phone Number: 01296713335
yes
[...] a story about Bercow was about to break in Bucks, but it seems Guido may have gotten their first. Bercow’s Buckingham Begging Boys – Guy Fawkes' blog It appears that the Speaker (who is suppose to be neutral) is attempting to raise money to [...]
Ali Dizaei had a bucket of excrement thrown on him by another inmate in prison and he was also punched and knocked out.
THAT’S MADE MY FUCKING DAY, WEEK AND MONTH!!!!
give that man a pardon!!!
Give him extra rations so he can do the same morning and evening.
It really does warm the cockles of your heart.
restores your faith in humanity, that does
Shame no-one has done it to that fuckwit bullying wanker Brown too
They can do it to me…
please…
Come off it. How can the Speaker be neutral if people stand against him in an election.?
The whole point of not attending against the Speaker is to allow him to be neutral.
If a major party, well a plausibly significant one, stands against the Speaker, well he is entitled to raise funds.
it would not bother me if Bercow loses. though it would bother me if he loses to the odious opportunist Farrage who sporcifically seeks a target which cannot normally fight back.
Indeed Farrage’s UKIP present the real danger to preventing Bercow being voted out of office as Speaker, ie a small Tory majority. Vote UKIP and get Labour or hung parliament and the perpetuation of Berkow.
Such is the lunacy of UKIP.
I think Guido’s point is that Mr Bercow may be using the resources of the Speaker’s Office to assist his campaign, which would be cheating. You may feel this is like criticising a mud-wrestler for having a small bit of spinach between the teeth, but MPs are only to supposed to fiddle and misuse public funds within loosely-defined limits.
sporcifically?
WTF is that?
Why are these NHS organisations called ‘Trusts’.
You wouldn’t TRUST any of these MPs or politicos to run any of them.
What a country the UK is now under these useless bastards!!
Bercow out. You gotta watch ‘em you know, those 3x2s.
Wermin to be exterminated
Well I am not a UKIP supporter but I am hopeful that Farage will beat bercow at the election.
What’s the point of a speaker who pretends to be a tory but is really a labourite and who kowtows to the labour benches. A neutral speaker he is not! And if they can get rid of him then the Commons, after the next election ,can vote in a a decent speaker. We need another Betty Boothroyd!!
Cameron is a fucking mong, why support Bercow even if you clearly hate him?
Fucking old boys club Lab/Con/Libs
Scum
From now on my vote goes to UKIP, B*N*P, Greens, Jury Team, anyone but the above old gang standing in my area.
The apostrophe is entirely superflous old chap
“Superfluous” and “old” should be separated by a comma.
Slogan
New Labour FIGHTING for our future.
New Labour are all the RAGE
New Labour BEATS the Conservatives
The Conservative pulls No PUNCHES with policies.
Gordon is a CRACKING PM with a SMASHING government.
Sarah Brown, Gordon’s little BELTER.
I’m glad this has been picked up, that little twunt deserves a good kicking, at the very least.
; )
Listen up people. I can see that the people of this country are tired. Tired of being cheated. Tired of being lied to. Tired of being robbed. Well, given that Brown is an arse and Cameron a slapper, you need someone with Strength. Someone with Courage. Someone with Vision. Between us we can defeat thes nasty, aggressive, self-centred bullies. Follow me and we’ll get the country back …… come on then …….
I got a little confesstion to mek abaht maid marion n me chipolata
I’ve got CCTV on every tree, helicopters with infra-red and biometric data on the lot of you. Don’t even think about it.
And who is picking up the bill for the “drinks at the Palace”?
Campaign expense-should be pretty hefty.
I’m afraid I’ve got a dose. I need to advise my previous sexual partners. I’ll be holding a meeting at an aircraft hangar at Heathrow on Friday. Do come (again).
Labour’s election slogan:
VOTE LABOUR OR WE’LL UNLEASH THE FORCES OF HELL ON YOU.
OH WAIT, WE’VE ALREADY DONE THAT. IN THAT CASE:
VOTE LABOUR OR GORDON BROWN WILL PUNCH YOU.
im thinkin of making a political party. its not classy in a talkin sort of way. decisions are made by havin a wrestlin match. i think this would go down well with brown and new laba. no more pmqs just three rounds with me, in the ring, now
I blame it on the fact that ever since Gordon watched Russell Crowe in Gladiator he’s wanted to be known as Gordus Maximus Debtus
Farage has been insulting our Supreme European Overlord..you know..whats-his-fucking-name
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8535121.stm
Good work sir! Next time just call him a c*unt and be done with it.
Priceless!
Comparing me to the President of the EU is a gross insult. I will be launching the forces of hell upon you forthwith.
Great stuff!
The BBC are throwing up their hands and fainting with shock at the language, so utterly all aflutter that an unelected undemocratic unworthy shit like vandamprag could be so insulted.
The BBC fail to understand that this outing and bating of such a hated figure will endear him to the electorate!
Fabulous stuff. The political class and the BBC are livid that Farage did not show due deference and tug his forelock to the unelected dictator fuckwit Rompuy.
Fucking nice work from Farage.
You never get that sort of honesty from Cameron!!!
Don’t vote – just offer your sitting mp a fight – if he dies, he wouldn’t of been any good, if he survives he gets sacked anyway – it’s great therapy
Surely Brown/Balls/Mandy team will be lending him the same support that secured the Speakers chair.
fucking Toenails sticking up for the Mong again, on mention of McBride. What fucking planet is Toenails on?
will ken livingstone back england or chavez over the falklands farce
What no-one seems to realise is that the current ‘Falklands Crisis’ has been deliberately manufactured by none other than the Royal Navy.
Think about it. There’s a Defence Review (a competitive sport, remember) in the offing and, for the past 10 years, both the Army and Air Force have been getting lots of free publicity for their ‘amazing achievements’, hearts and flowers, repatriation runs etc., all flowing from land-locked actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. And what does the poor bloody Navy get, sitting in its redundant bathtubs with far more Admirals than ships ? Fuck all.
So, what they needed was a perceived ‘conflict’ somewhere which would absolutely require their ‘service’ as an essential component of the action. And where better than slap-bang in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, on a pointless island-group occupied by superannuated sheep-shaggers, allegedly threatened by a nation corned-beef canners with an air-head as Presidente.
Result:- Preserve and expand Navy budget, provide yet more never-to-be-used ships, retain never-ever-used Admirals in palatial splendour. Game over.
And with everyone’s eyes fixed on Whitehall bullying, no-one’s going to work it out.
Oops – I just did.
i think its a socialist plot to make gordon look tough and win the election
chavez and the argies are socialist so is gordon
Not quite correct. The Royal Marines are part of the Navy, and they have seen plenty of Afghan action. RN pilots in the Joint Harrier Force, and flying Sea Kings.
All you need to know about where cast iron Camerons true loyalties are.
Cameron congratulated that ex CND active traitor never elected to by any electorate when she was given a post in the new eurotrash dictatorship.
Cameron is an EU stooge, thats why he lied to and betrayed the UK population about a referendum he was never ever going to allow.
Cameron is a happy servant of the new EU empire, he has no policies for a good reason, the EU overlords dictate policy and honest Dave obeys no questions asked.
whereas most tories would hate for what you say to be true, the evidence does point in that direction.
Farage gave Rompuy a verbal kicking. That video should go round all of the Buckingham Constituency.
Farage is a true Tory
The bloody Conservatives need to wake up and smell the coffee
CMD is a waste of fucking space
UKIP is the heir to the conservative political tradition in this country!!
Please do not donate. Thank you.
John Simon Bercow goes into ASDA and flops his circumcised manhood on the checkout.Go on he says roll back this one.
So that is why Bercow cut Brown off mid-sentence today.
He is worried that Farage is going to steal his seat at the trough.
Our Tory MP returns from a vacation in Babados whilst the house was sitting, not during any of the 4 months holiday he enjoys.
All this 10 weeks before an election.
Then we hear he won’t be spending too much time in his own constitunecy for the campaign (as he has a very safe Tory seat). Why? Because Cameron wants him canvassing in the West Country.
So take your votes for granted eh?
my mp won a westminster pancake race whilst he was at ‘work’ – how’s that for taking our nation seriously – these people are just taking the piss – and enjoying the celebrity and culture tht they so crave
You do realise that by convention Bercow is standing as “the Speaker seeking re-election”?
His status is listed on the ballot paper; I can’t fault him for mentioning it on his campaign literature.
The promise of a reception at the Palace of Westminster is more problematic, but probably requires a little more than a second hand account from someone who clearly doesn’t like the man.
Calling the official campaign a “front” goes a bit far. If it’s Bercow’s campaign, why shouldn’t Bercow, in his non official capacity, pass on a list of potential donors? Has he made no contacts in the years since he was first elected?
The Speaker’s official office consists of career civil servants. The idea that they somehow have a list of potentially sympathetic Buckingham activists is laughable.
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Alistair and I are like conjoined twins – only I look a lot younger. I mean, just look at the grey haired old fart. And THOSE eyebrows !