February 25th, 2010

+ + +BBC Source: News Team on “Red Alert” For Election Call + + +

UPDATE: Guido understands that the BBC political teams have been told not to go away over the weekend.


897 Comments

  1. 1
    Stepney says:

    Although £100m overspend means they can’t cover it.

    Or am I living in the real world?

  2. 2
    Mr Plum says:

    False alarm

    • 43
      Billy Blofeld says:

      There is an opportunity to bottle both the budget and Iraq enquiry though…….

    • 152
      Anonymous says:

      Still reckon Brown will bottle it, I don’t care what calculations are at hand regarding GDP figures or whatever, he’ll just in the end plump for hanging on til the bitter end.

      • 174

        I am drumming up my courage before deciding whether I am more scared of facing the electorate or more scared of facing the Iraq inquiry or more scared of having to front a Budget. I am being extremely passionate, strong and brave about these scary things. May I have extra milk before bedtime please, nurse?

        • 191
          udderly 'orrible says:

          How about facing the Argies?

        • 884
          "For the restless, not the true believers, this one's for you.." says:

          (Nod to Floyd)

          So ya
          Thought ya
          Might like to go to the show.
          To feel the warm thrill of confusion
          That socialist glow.

          I’ve got some bad news for you sunshine,
          Brown isn’t well, he stayed back at the hotel
          And they sent Lucifer Mandelius and The Blair Babes along as a surrogate band
          We’re gonna find out where you electorate really stand.

          Are there any Libertarians in the theater tonight?
          Get them up against the wall!
          There’s one in the spotlight, he don’t look right to me,
          Get him up against the wall!
          That one looks English!
          And that one’s Geoff Hoon!
          Who let all of this riff-raff into the room?
          There’s Dave smoking a joint,
          And another with spots!
          If Harriet had her way,
          She’d have all of you shot!

          Mother do you think should I drop the bomb?
          Mother do you think they’ll like this song?
          Mother do you think they’ll try to break Ed Balls?
          Mother should I build the wall?
          Mother should I run and hide under the president?
          Mother should I trust my mates in the government?
          Mother will they put me in the firing line?
          Mother am I really so trying?

          Hush now baby, baby, don’t you cry.
          Mother’s gonna make all the people’s nightmares come true.
          Mother’s gonna put all her fears into you.
          Mother’s gonna keep you right here under her wing.
          She wont let you drive, but she might let you listen to Sting.
          Mama will keep baby cozy and warm.
          Ooooh baby ooooh baby oooooh baby,
          Of course mama’ll help to build the wall.

          Mother do you think Tony’s good enough — to me?
          Mother do you think Tony’s dangerous — to me?
          Mother will he tear your little boy apart?
          Mother will he break my heart?

          Hush now baby, baby don’t you cry.
          Mama’s gonna check out all your affiliations for you.
          Mama wont let anyone sane get through.
          Mama’s gonna wait up until you get in.
          Mama will always find out where you’ve been.
          Mama’s gonna keep baby healthy and clean.
          Ooooh baby oooh baby oooh baby,
          You’ll always be baby to me.

          Mother, did the deficit need to be so high?

      • 294
        Gordoom cooks the books says:

        Mandy will leave it to the last minute as he likes playing at being important

  3. 3
  4. 4
    concrete pump says:

    If Brown calls an election before May, i’ll eat my socks.

    Vote Tory.

  5. 4

    The Beeboids will by now have been fully briefed by No. 10 and will know what’s required of them. Life or death stuff for the socialism’s nirvana and its greatest advocate.

  6. 6
    your mum says:

    please for the love of gordon browns insanity let it be true

  7. 7
    Mark Francois is annoying me on BBC Parliament right now says:

    He would fucking do it during the Tories’conference wouldn’t he!

    • 57
      Steve Expat says:

      In the same way as the Sun trumped Brown during his conference, yes.

      That’s politics, nothing new about it.

      Election ASAP please!

  8. 10
    your mum says:

    What effect would this have on the chilli chilcot whitewash.

  9. 11
    Tapestry says:

    This time there’s a gun to his head….

    The budget, recession not ending, revenues down GBP 50 billion, GBP falling by the day.

    This is running for coverbefore the economic collapse buries Brown completely.

    • 23
      • 70

        If he didn’t have bad luck, he would have no luck at all!

        • 284
          Lucky Jim says:

          He would still have a 0% growth in luck, for it’s the right thing to do.

        • 457
          Susie says:

          Think this line was from ‘Born under a bad sign’by Albert King. Typical — the Moron can’t even get the acredition right.

          • Boring musical facts says:

            Born Under a Bad sign was written by William Bell and Booker T Jones. It was the title track of an Albert King album but better known, at least by me and others of my ilk (50 something, grew up in the late 60′s early 70′s) for the version by Cream. Correct lyrics “If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have no luck at all.”

            Brought to you by Friday afternoon pedantics, all rights reserved :)

      • 148
        Arthur Haynes (Comedian) says:

        The first sentence from that report is wrong (When the real story gets to be told, the long reign of Gordon Brown over Britain, will be explained by two words – spending and debt.)

        It will be Boom and Bust

    • 40
      Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1967) says:

      Time to short UK PLC. Going now is confirmation the economy is fucked and they know it.

      • 137
        Anonymous says:

        Stabed in the back by Darling
        No Chillcot
        No Budget
        No televised debate with Clegg and Cameron
        No first quater figures showing us back in recession
        Timed to fuck the Tory conference

        My money is on March 28th

        • 166
          Golden Days says:

          BUT on the other hand, Gordo would have to actually make a decision that has every chance of ending his wretched career. I just can’t see him taking the plunge.

          • Grammar School Boy says:

            There is no chance of him risking personal humiliation on May 6th. Tony Blair’s birthday…picture the champagne flowing!!!

            His real weakness is his vanity.

  10. 12
    Lord Carrington's binoculars says:

    Clocks go back on March 28th, Sunday.

    The following Thursday is April 1st, day before the Easter bank holiday.

    Could be, especially if 1st Q trade figures slump back to recession.

    Also, lighter evenings, and better mood ahead of long weekend off, family gatherings etc…

    Anybody know what Piers Corbyn says about the weather?

    • 24
      Gordons battered bell end says:

      Anything to keep Burnhams involvement in giving trust status

    • 91
      i am not a sociopath says:

      don’t mention anyone called piers……..we don’t want the clunking fist pretending to feel human emotions again…….

    • 188
      Koba says:

      BBC forecast is:

      Sunny all day, have a BBQ every day through to the election.

      We have ‘Global Warming’haven’t you noticed how temperate it is?

    • 299
      PD77 says:

      As it’s my birthday on April 1st (stop sniggering in the back, I’ve heard ‘em all before) if the GE does fall on that day all I would want as a present is to see the back of this shower we call a government, the total and utter collapse of the Labour Party and the arrest of Brown, Balls, Mandelson et al. for treason, that would really make my day.

      But knowing my luck all I’m going to get is socks, again (it’ll be just like Christmas :( )

      • 593
        Hats of meat says:

        Hey, less despondency here. Old Holborn (@53) asserts above that you can give the missus one up the bum on your birthday. Chin up!

  11. 14
    Anonymous says:

    Gorgon obviously likes the polling gap at the minute. If it swings back to the Tories again prepare to invade Argentina!

    • 36
      Gordon Brown stole my pension says:

      The last I heard (this morning), Gordon ‘Courage’Brown is prepared to ‘negotiate’(read: capitulate, surrender, hide, run away, flee) oil rights with Argentina.

      • 214
        Some Linguistic Analysis says:

        F,F,F,F-itty, F. There was a chance of another lucky oil strike resetting our debt clock to zero and and moncular Muppet goes and F’s it up.

      • 274
        TONY BENN'S WILL says:

        please don’t interfer Gordon you know you always fuck things up,we’ll probably guarantee all Argies can claim benefits and send in postal votes..that we’ll pay all the investment and they can have all the profits and he will apologise for sinking the Belgrano which we all know was out rescuing fur seals….if I write any more it will all come true

        • 544
          Susie says:

          After 500 of our troops dead in 2 wars in support of the US, they say they won’t be able to support us at the UN… well pull the guys out RIGHT NOW and fly them down to defend the Falklands and OUR oil fields.

          Fuck America. Fuck Obama.

          • Gordon Brown stole my pension says:

            Yes, I wondered about that one, too.

            I know Obama hates the British, I didn’t quite realise how much.

            So I agree – fuck the Americans, get our troops out of Afghanistan. If the U.S. wants its troops to die supporting a government of medieval fuckwits who’ve legalised rape within marriage, that’s their affair. We, however, have got $6bn worth of oil to defend.

          • Gordon Brown stole my pension says:

            Sorry – $6 THOUSAND BILLION.

          • Beowulff says:

            I’m with you brother.

            Time to say good bye to the septic tanks.

          • Mr Ned says:

            Obama still hates the British for killing his tribal great grandfather in Kenya.

            You are right though. We have no special relationship with America. Those backward war mongering fucking retarded colonials have never given a shit about us. They always waited to see which way a world war was going before joining in. Bliar even committed war crimes to support those remedial religious fundementalist extremists in the US of A.

            Now when we could do with a little diplomatic support in the UN, Obama fucks off! The fucking cowardly, betraying lying sack of shit!

  12. 15
    Will not hold my breath says:

    Now we might find out if CMD has been keeping his powder dry or he really is clueless

  13. 16
    Britain's Government of mentally unstable, bullying, liars says:

    If true, its because the sociopathic, bullying, hate filled, inadequate, childish, brooding, sulking, smearing, Scotch loony has data confirming Britain’s impending re-entry to recession.

    Some typist tarts are probably gonna get the shit beaten out of them soon.

    And he thought he had abolished the economic cycle HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  14. 17
    Gordon Brown stole my pension says:

    Sounds like a good day to bury bad news is in the offing.

    In other stories, immigration hitting record numbers, record number of immigrants getting British passports (and voting rights), a hospital signed-off as A-OK by Andy Burnham has killed 1,200 patients etc etc.

    • 59
      AC1 says:

      It doesn’t need to be buried if it’s not reported AT ALL

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/

      • 141
        South of the M4 says:

        Was reported on BBC 1 news at 6, but as ” falling immigration numbers…”

        • 328
          Call me Infidel says:

          Falling asylum cases presumably since UKBA now spends tens of millions of pounds billeting immigration officers in Calais instead of trying to man the barricades in Dover. Not to worry. Student visas will help bring plenty of new Sewer Party voters to Britain.

    • 79

      Makes the Taliban loo like amateurs.

      The National Death Service.

      In Eugenics we trust

      • 216
        Sarah Palin's Fag Hag says:

        Fuck off you neocon retard

      • 224
        Why Are The Tory Trolls Are Trying To Lose The Election? Dave Is Doing That Already! says:

        Don’t be stupid Tory troll, if you start banging on about abolishing the NHS like that other nutter Hannan the Tories will lose another 20 seats.
        You Tory trolls are so dumb.

        • 447
          Jethro says:

          Why not abolish the NHS? The NHS has twice nearly abolished my wife.

          • Susie says:

            Had a couple of go’s at my mum and dad this year… both came out of hospital with infections.

          • Gordon Brown stole my pension says:

            Doesn’t everyone have an NHS Horror Story? It looks that way.

            The NHS has nearly killed me once, it’s killed two of my uncles, it very nearly killed my dad. Private healthcare saved him; ironically, private healthcare courtesy of a perk of his job as a civil servant. The civil service doesn’t entrust its employees to the NHS. Need I say more?

            The NHS is utter shit.

          • Scrap the Whole System or Improve It? It's a no brainer says:

            You are the nutter Daniel Hannan and I claim my 5 euros.
            Now get back in the cellar before you lose Dave the election.

  15. 19
    Brown Nappy Man says:

    Betcha the Bottlerannounces it so he does not have to speak at Chillcot

    Man of Courage???

    You are joking?

    Spineless Lying Bully more like

    • 33
      DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

      And they’ll have to leave the budget until after the election as well. They really don’t want to have a budget that says “sorry guys, the economy is totally fucked” just before an election, do they?

      • 511
        Jethro says:

        “…as was predicted in the pre-budget statement, growth has stabilised: it is now around a less-than-positive mean. As was also flagged in earlier announcements from The Treasury, Gross National Debt now exceeds Gross National Product by an amount that puts the Party opposite to shame: they are the owe-nothing Party, on this side of the House, Mr. Speaker, we are the owe-lots-and-lots party. Honourable Members may jeer and fleer, but I can confirm today that debt-growth under this Government has far-exceeded anything that has gone before: we are the Party for Growth; opposite is the Party for dis-growth, the Contraction Party!
        There is much talk of the IMF, and of its imminent ‘visits’. I remember my Parents, all one of them, I remember him – or, maybe it was she – or even her – I remember being told ‘Beware of the Fairy’. That is what we must all beware of now: the I Am Fairy. You see, my Government, we, my Government and I, must beware of The Big Bad Wolf – No! Even Badder, we all, you and I, I and you, we, you and I, all of us together, must fight hard against the Wicked Fairy, The Infinitely Wicked Fairy, The Ineluctably Malicious Fairy. We will fight her on the banks, we will fight her on the spreadsheets, we will fight her on the ledgers, we will fight her in the books and on the tills, we will fight her on the Tables and at the cards: we will fight, and we will never surrender.

  16. 20
    Purpleline says:

    If the Revision of GDP is positive tomorrow, Brown spun +0.2 already, they will go on Saturday this avoids Chilcot & budget. It is also the best hope as the second revison in April to 4th quarter GDP will show that it really was still below growth at -0.2

    The pound is under real pressure, Greece is blowing up and next target will be UK so it is his only option. I also believe the polls have been rigged to show a better labour vote than is really the case. All designed by Mandelson to get the Tories in but with brewing economic problems. Unemployment will go to 3.4 million and Labour to get re-elected anythime within the next 20 years need Tories in office as it breaches the 3 million figure.

    It is all about survival of the party. Reason Darling said what he said on Sky on Tuesday on Randalls programme

    • 175
      Golden Days says:

      See my comment above.

    • 746
      Al Megrahi,s Doctor says:

      Screwdrivers at the ready lads……..news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Labour-Party-Cancels-Vote-To-Select-A-Parliamentary-Candidate-After-A-Ballot-Box-Seal-Is-Broken/Article/200904315264333?lid=ARTICLE_15264333_LabourPartyCancelsVoteToSelectAParliamentaryCandidateAfterABallotBoxSealIsBroken&lpos=searchresults

  17. 22
    How can Brown be part of a solution when he is the problem? says:

    Global Dominoes – its all about to collapse

  18. 28
    Purpleline says:

    Have I upset you Guido why are all my posts today waiting moderation?

  19. 29
  20. 31
    Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1967) says:

    Yes, it’s going to be called. It would have been last weekend but bullygate ruined it for them.

  21. 32
    anon says:

    Nah. It’s nothing to do with the election. It’s the final of the oneman bobsleigh competition at the olympics and Britain has someone in 39th place who, with a bit of luck, could come 38th

    • 65
      Anonymous says:

      COMMENT AWARD WINNER!

    • 185
      Golden Days says:

      I’m turning off my computer and switching on the Games. Thanks for that- I’d have hated to miss it.

    • 372
      Not long until Labour gone says:

      Unless Brown shakes his hand and wishes him luck…if that happens he will be lucky to come out alive!

    • 513
      Mad as hell and won't take it any more says:

      Deserves a Knighthood then.

      Much better than giving one to a jumped-up nobody like Bruce Forsythe (what has he done, they have given them out like sweeties to everyone but him)

  22. 35
    Uncle Bob says:

    I can’t stand any more of this cockteasing…get to the fucking palace Bruin!

  23. 37
    Lord Carrington's binoculars says:

    Conservative Spring conference?

    Well last time the Conservatives had an unfettered conference, Osbourne came up with the inheritance tax idea and killed Broon’s snap election dreams…perhaps the clunking fist fears another few bright conservative ideas, which will boost their poll ratings.

    Also, friend of mine was at a Tory gathering in the Cotswolds last weekend. Met Cameron. Said the talk was of expected hung parliament with Tories as biggest party and whether to bring in any big policy announcements before second election.

    Second election calculation may be based on Brown’s likely refusal to step down as leader and sees a Labour wipeout as a rejected Gordon remains leader for the second election.

    • 702
      Susie says:

      In that case what a bloody disgrace they are. What the hell has happened to this country when the once great Conservative Party throws in the towel before the bloody election’s even been called?

      I despair.

  24. 37
    Bob says:

    Rawnsley book’s on Sunday will probably say that the demented Brown tried to kill someone…

    Or threw wobblies on the floor of no 10…………….

    While his minions smeared everyone else…

    • 52
      Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1967) says:

      I once worked with a guy who shared many of Brown’s flaws: over-educated, angry, twisted and confused by his own sexuality. Yes, in the end he really did try to kill someone, which is why the police dragged him off to be sectioned.

      • 75
        Sue Denim says:

        Over-educated?

        Thick as s***!

      • 110
        Keep it real says:

        ‘over-educated’?

        • 150
          Call me Infidel says:

          Under medicated more like.

        • 318
          Judge folk by the company they keep says:

          It will be a tale to frighten the kids with

          Gordon’s chosen socialist titan for his Phd thesis : Maxton

          In Wiki:

          Maxton was chairman of the ILP from 1926 to 1931, and from 1934 to 1939; he was generally seen as the symbol of the ILP after its break from Labour in 1932. A militant socialist, he was horrified by the class collaborationism of the Trades Union Congress after the defeat of the 1926 General Strike, and was co-author with the left-wing Miners leader, Arthur Cook, of the Cook-Maxton Manifesto of 1928.

          • witless says:

            that must have been a fantastic thing to study….would explain everything about the great leader.

          • cant hunter says:

            Did Brown obtain public funding for that ? God what a bloody luxury. And what self indulgence.

          • the worker's flag is drenched in blood says:

            maxton was also involved in industrial agitation during the first world war……directly damaging the war effort to further his loonycommunist aims…….you can see where he gets it now can’t you……if he were alive today maxton wouldn’t just be cutting helicopter budgets he would be getting the filing down the engine parts before shipping them to the wrong place…….and he is mcruin’s hero.

    • 623
      BenDoon & PhilMcCavitty says:

      baby oil and sweat! Oh Yeah! Rub it all over. Yes! Yes! Yes!

    • 871
      Kevin says:

      Smeared them with what? Enquiring minds want to know. Just not during while they’re eating.

  25. 41
    Going away present says:

    Fantastic – I am going to get absolutely paralytic when he is driven out of Downing St – I will be there to watch him and my family will be at strategic locations along his route to the abattoir with posters sayong,for example;

    “Now go and slit your wrists you utter excrement”

    and

    “You are the most hated person in Britain – die very soon of cancer you c*unt”

    • 146
      CJJ 'Chuck' Berry says:

      The first Rhubarb wine is ready, seems appropriate

      • 569
        Susie says:

        And the flower of the month, the yellow daffodil in full bloom — even more appropriate.

        • 628
          BenDoon & PhilMcCavitty says:

          Leave the daffs alone, Broon’s more of a crocus man – his secretary is more purple and yellow all over as the bruises clear.

      • 604
        Beowulff says:

        Difficult to imagine Chuck drinking rhubarb wine.

        In fact I’m sure the delicate Rhubarb plant is pretty well unkown in the USA

        • 607
          Beowulff says:

          That’s done it. American Rhubarb has blown the modding safety valve.

          • Election or have they had an alert to a major event that could be brewing?

            Resignations? Defections?

          • punter says:

            The Tory lead has been cut to 5% in a mori poll for the Telegraph. Brown will seize the opportunity to call a March or April (8th) election before the economy goes over the cliff.

            http://www2.politicalbetting.com/

          • Anonymous says:

            Please god he believes this horse shit.

          • Brown's a Tosser says:

            Could it be the tories have bribed the pollsters and lulling Brown into a false sense of security. Now that would raise my expectations of the opposition and would that not that be lovely. Moreover its the “right thing to do” for the sake of the country.

          • The Grim Reaper says:

            I honestly think that the Blue Team now want a hung parliament – particluarly one where they ahve won the popular vote but not the seats. The markets will flip, sterling crash, and another election in 6 month’s time which will bankrupt Labour for a generation, if not permanently.

            The inevitable inflation will rub out our debts – and savings. It will all happen on Brown/Clegg’s watch, but Team Blue get the benefit.

          • Brown's Buggered Britain says:

            Makes you wonder – has the tosser REALLY become more popular in recent weeks?

          • Doris says:

            No. I think labour are fiddling all the figures etc. We all know how dishonest they are and how they like to deceive and spin. So why not with polling figures?? Mandelscum knows lots of people in high places – he also has dirt on them!

            Question Time last night was a prime example of blatent and unashamed biased nonsense (with a hidden agenda of ‘trashing’Nigel Farage). How on earth are the BBC getting away with this sort of unbalanced socialist clap trap? Every time Hain spoke everyone clapped (regardless of whether he spoke sense); when Liam Fox spoke nobody clapped apart from a few hardened tories in the audience. I don’t believe this was representative of a Cardiff audience. It was a blatent fix.

          • Flat Earther says:

            I had the same reaction when I watched it stooge audience and lets get Farage.Unless we are the only two people in this country with a similar view, which I doubt, question time’s days should be numbered along with Dumbleby.
            His father really must be turning over in his grave.

          • mondeoman says:

            I switched off, only watched 5 minutes; this audience was not representative, the list of heads to roll gets longer by the day. Let’s hope there will be a chance to enact it?

          • Doris says:

            But who’s going to do something about it? Why isn’t Cameron turning issues like this into public debate? It would show how shameless & sick the labour party is.

          • markedman says:

            Agreed. At one point, Fox simply repeated what Hain had said about the banks. Hain’s answer was greeted with applause, Fox’s almost silence, even though Hain was nodding in agreement to what Fox was saying.

          • Grandma says:

            Why did Cameron say in PMQs 6 weeks to the election?

          • I think you’re right. this is his Good as it gets moment. He can’t afford to let it go again.

          • Brown's a Tosser says:

            Dream on.

  26. 42

    GDP revisions tomorrow and Tory Spring Conference at the weekend. Hmm.

  27. 45
    Dack Blog says:

    *invests in popcorn just in case*

  28. 46
    Fees Office Clerk says:

    The BBC political teams have been told not to go away over the weekend because their Travel and Subsistence Budget is overspent.

    • 53
      Steve Expat says:

      Will 75 of them get stuck in Canada?

      • 104
        Olympic spirit says:

        Can’t we send Brown down the toboggan run,without a helmet and with some faulty steering?

        And perhaps the thunder thighs Sarah Twitter can do some figure skating – that would be a laugh.

        • 128
          Purpleline says:

          The new Toyota Bobsleigh should do the trick for Brown

          • Grease Monkey says:

            Toyota have apparently come up with a standard fix for their car problems.

            They are going to reduce the petrol tank capacity to only one pint – that way, the car will only be out of control for a couple of miles before the fuel runs out.

            Damned cunning these Japs.

    • 193
      Down with Brown! says:

      New shipment of coke for BBC journalists is coming.

      • 228
        Some Linguistic Analysis says:

        Must be cold down Wood Lane if they’re stocking up on Nutty Slack.

        • 526
          Jethro says:

          Nutty Slack= Coke? Coke burns almost smokelessly, Nutty Slack with copious greeny-grey smoke. Now, Derby Brights…. or even ‘Welsh Steam’…

  29. 48
    Steve Expat says:

    Obviously an attempt to usurp the Tory Spring Conference, as well as the budget and the shit economic data on the way.

    The only question now is March 25th or April 8th?

    As soon as possible, PLEASE GOD for the sake of the country!

  30. 49
    Get rid of Labour says:

    What I think – Darling has staked his claim for independence – he is unsackable and with his exposure of the “furies of Hell” out of Downing Street, it is clear he will produce his own Budget and not the one the mad, one-eyed Mong wants.

    What can the Prime Mentalist do about that? The one thing he can control is when the election is called. Adds up to me! A non-Budget election!

  31. 50
    doom head says:

    it would make sensehis party is about to self destruct his secret is allmost out so he knows he is allmost fucked if he calls it now all the attention on him woolas burnham etc will go i’ll put a pound on it(life savings)

  32. 51
    Craig says:

    Assuming that a member of the Labour party reads this …

    BRING IT.

  33. 56
    Anonymous says:

    That would explain the timing of Darling’s shafting of GB – the backroom labour long term strategist (a joke I know) boys want labour to lose the election – all because whoever wins will have the most poisoned chalice imaginable and will probably be blamed for the cuts to come.

  34. 58
    ex-pat pete says:

    RBS deficit announced this noon, check the figures on what happened afterwards, gone way down the swanee , get your money out now!http://uk.reuters.com/business/currencies/quote?srcAmt=1000&srcCurr=EUR&destAmt=&destCurr=GBP&historicalDate=

  35. 60
    Steve Expat says:

    BBC News team on “Red Alert”

    Hardly likely to be “Blue Alert” now, is it?

  36. 61
    We're drowning says:

    This would explain the timing of Darling’s shafting of GB – the labour back room strategists (a good joke I know) have decided to lose the election as who ever gets in will be drowned in debt and get the blame – GB’s inheritance – spin, lies and spend spend spend

  37. 62
    Sir William Waad says:

    Brown is a bottler. Therefore he will bottle it.

  38. 63

    BBC “news”? What’s that?

    Anyone hear the 6 o clock news on R4 just now? Expecting to hear something about the Stafford hospital scandal? Nope. not a sausage. That story has been unhappened. Take a look at the Beeb website – the story is buried deeper than fucking Troy. And not a mention of Burnham’s role, naturally.

    The BBC: fucking cünts; it’s what we are.

    • 93
      To the barricades says:

      Christ you are right Frank – this must be how it was with Goebbels at the helm in 1939.

      A shiver goes down my spine – but I shall die to rid this country of these vermin than let them ruin us.

    • 140
      Anonymous says:

      If this hospital story had happened on the Tories watch it would by now be the biggest scandal to hit Britain since the war. 1200 deaths. No Tory Government could withstand that scandal. Yet it is a one day story, even the Tories aren’t making much of it. Incredible.

      • 149
        VC says:

        When anything like this happens under a Tory govt it wil get wall-to-wall coverage on the BBC, don’t doubt it.

        • 177
          Cassandra says:

          The BBC must die. Well most of it anyway!!!

          • Maybe if the BBC could suffer a slight injury and then is directed towards the Staffordshire NHS for a check up it may die “accidentally”?

          • Jethro says:

            Sly Thinking – Perhaps that’s why they were all ‘encouraged’to move to Manchester: London – Manchester – Staffordshire…? I mean, Staffordshire! ["We're not talking about 'north of Watford', here, we're talking 'north of Hadrian's Wall', aren't we? Well, north of Waitrose anyway, and far north of Harrods."]

          • Jack says:

            Move the whole BBC to Stafford and privatise it

      • 194
        Golden Days says:

        Absolutely right. The Tories would have been reviled in a frantic manner. They would have been accused of running the NHS into the ground. It would have dominated the Beeb’s current affairs to the exclusion of all else.
        But under Nulab, it’s all a local tragedy apparently.

  39. 64
    Labour insider says:

    I told you yesterday, Gordon is going to cut and run and hold the election on 8th April.

  40. 66
    Caligula says:

    You meane I have to break up my homo-gang bangs, smearing, thieveing lying, thretening and general mayhem which I have loved so much with demented Gordon and his jolly crew?

    • 135
      robert graves says:

      yup…and take cincinnatus with you on the way out…..

      • 207
        Jeremy Thorpe says:

        Yup

        and even Y Fronts will have problems now..

      • 278
        stilyagi_air_corps says:

        Ahem. Incitatus…

      • 286
        Rick the Roman says:

        IMO Cincinnatus would have made a better job of running the country than Bruin

        • 303
          Rick the Roman says:

          Cincinnatus was a farmer and military hero in the early days of the Republic, who was persuaded to take on the role of dictator by the Senate – when he had saved Rome from the barbarian hordes – he relinquished his office and went back to being a farmer. A great Roman lauded amongst great Romans.

          Incitatus was Caligula’s horse who was made a senator – he would have been better than Bruin!!

          I apologise for the history lesson – should get out more.

          • BenDoon & PhilMcCavitty says:

            Gordon Brown drinking wine parlez vous.
            Gordon Brown drinking wine parlez vous.
            Gordon Brown drinking wine,
            Swallowed the fart the dirty swine,
            Inky pinky parlez vous.

            The fart went rolling down his spine parlez vous.
            The fart went rolling down his spine parlez vous.
            The fart went rolling down his spine,
            Knocked sweaty balls out of line,
            Inky pinky parlez vous.

          • caesars wife (grand parent edition) says:

            No appolgies necessary , now back in my day ……………….

  41. 67
    streamfisher says:

    I wish, go away and don’t bother coming back.

  42. 68
    Labour Labour Labour - Out Out Out! says:

    If Brown does call it before May 6th 2010 – They will try and call it a SNAP election which is laughable given we are just weeks away from the last date where they can pick the date rather than be forced.

    I think May 6th 2010 is the date = I cannot believe Labour will wish for two elections in a matter of weeks.

    Indeed if there was a Hung Parliament it could end up with three elections! Labour are Bankrupt already!!!!

  43. 69
    They're fiddlers all says:

    Off topic:

    We read that the data fiddlers in the CRU at the University of East Anglia are hoping for a cover-up…

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7315250/Climategate-university-rejects-accusations-that-it-manipulated-research.html

    • 89
      Ed Balls' scrotum says:

      Just copying Gordon’s ability with a calculator. Brown is the Toyota of politics, the accelerator’s stuck, the occupants are screaming with fear but onwards he ploughs into oblivion. Time to recall him.

      • 170
        Brown you can't drive my car beep beep beep yeah says:

        Am I right in thinking that Brown cannot actually drive a car?

        Another of the reasons why this freak is such an impostor.

        Drives a nation to the grave,taxes motorists to the grave but the git cannot even drive a car.

  44. 80
    Morgan Everett says:

    Trying to avoid a pre-election Budget?

    • 85
      Banker says:

      We are beyond any “Budget” now…

      We must just call the IMF…

      • 113
        Billy says:

        Yes

        £ 20 billion a month of new debt on top of the mountain we already have…

        IMF to the rescue…

        • 161
          we're doomed laddie.....doomed... says:

          the imf are fucked already……the only thing they can do is call on ‘special drawing rights’…..which is actually…..yes you guessed it….inventing money. So the imf will simply do some more quantitative easing……fairy dustr money that doesn’t exist and trashes the worth of other parts of the system…..

          asset values are going to collapse, whether it is now or in 12-18mths time…….the casino is closing. property and guns (assuming you’ve already got 3 years of baked beans in the cellar ) are the only sensible buys.

          look what happened in france with john law’s fiat money…..we are weeks away………

          • Billy says:

            I have lived in France for 30 years actually…

            I know John Law’s story as well…

            I agree with you but at least the IMF might impose deficit cutting…

            Otherwise not worth even calling them…

          • Billy says:

            And it seems to me that we are approaching Weimar Republic conditions

            Serious players are also saying that there will be multiple sovereign defaults…

            More than in the Great Depression….

          • AC1 says:

            Now there’s no gold standard nations cannot directly default.

            They can pay gilt-holders back in photocopier paper though.

          • udderly 'orrible says:

            “John Law, a gambler, was born into a family of bankers and goldsmiths from Fife…. He established the Banque Générale, and was responsible for the Mississippi Bubble and a chaotic economic collapse in France…”

            So no change there then. The Snoteating McRuin is a clansman.
            Bust and bile are in the Kirkcaldian ‘genuis’lifeblood .

            Demerge Scotchland for pity’s sake.

          • Susie says:

            And what people forget is we were the workshop of the world in the Great Depression and had a empire — India, Canada, Australia, the Caribbean, Kenya, Rhodesia, South Africa to mitigate it’s effects. Not this time around.

            We are so fucked. So fucked.

          • Marchamont Needham says:

            AC1- unless they don’t have their own currency – Greece perchance?

          • AC1 says:

            Well I’ve never said joining a “one size fits none” currency like the Euro was a good idea.

    • 711
      Susie says:

      Cameron and Osborne really must highlight this in the GE campaign… bottling a budget — jeez!

      Make him look like one of those spendoholics who throws away the bill envelopes unopened because they can’t face up to their debts.

  45. 83
    Bob says:

    Are the men in white coats finally approaching the Bunker ?

  46. 86
    Steve Expat says:

    Has the Bunker got sight of Rownsley’s Sunday revelations??

  47. 92
    Kirsty says:

    I’ll be flashing my red muff cosy after the announcement.

    More on that stoory later…..

  48. 96
    concrete pump says:

    Fucking bbc. They just showed the plans of the new aircraft carrier, that’s going to keep jobs in Pompey for a good while.

    That c*nt Ainsworth was spouting about the money Labour have spent, and the BBC mentioned that if the Tories win the election, they might scrap the build.

    And this was on BBC South Today, not the national news.

    I really, REALLY fucking hate the BBC.

    • 101

      No one is building any aircraft carriers. They might say they are, but they aren’t.

    • 106
      The Prime Mongolist says:

      But we can’t afford the planes to put on it. Perhaps we will use it to bring more halfwits over from Calais?

    • 206
      MEANWHILE . . . AlJaBeeba Outside Broadcast brings you live (as a girl gets sh*gged by a Town Hall) says:

      Ministers admit failure on teen pregnancies (Times)

      Labour blames town halls and promises to send girls texts to remind them about contraception

      ohh . . ohhh …ahh …ahhh ….ahhhh ….ugh ….ughhh …… ohh . . ohhh …ahh …ahhh

      (bleep bleeep – ring etc)

      This is a message from Noo_Lie_Bore telling you that as soon as you knocked up good and proper we have a flat, cooker, TV, ‘n that . . waiting for you.

      Have a really good fuck – and vote for Noo_Lie_Bore – WE NEED YOUR LITTLE VOTER!

      • 227
        Caligula says:

        ROFL

        Oh I like it

        You are beginning to get into the swing of things I see

        PS Only incorrect on one point…these teens can only get “knocked up” there is no “good and proper” to add…!

        • 313
          Slap and tickle says:

          I notice that it’s only the girls getting pregnant.
          Boys are being ignored.
          Where’s the equality?
          Will Hattie become involved?

      • 233
        Liz says:

        In other words

        NuLabour wants you to get “‘knocked up, good and proper”…

        • 236
          One Ball says:

          Yup

          It’s called breeding CHAVs

          A Zanu speciality….

          • AC1 says:

            If you wanted to destroy Britain, what would you do differently to Zanu-Labour’s policies?

          • Allan@Aberdeen says:

            Exactly so! It’s deliberate. This bunch of marxist/trotskyist traitors have engineered the demise of Britain and the British people. Even 1940 wasn’t as bad as this because the nazis weren’t in the country.

    • 548
      Mad as hell and won't take it any more says:

      And where will they be assembled?

      Yep, Scotland

    • 614
      Susie says:

      And on Look East tonight… this is the email I’ve just sent to BBC News:

      “On the Look East report from Cambridge of Nick Clegg’s visit the commentator closed the item with speculation on the next General Election result for the constituency. “David Howarth MP is stepping down, so the LibDems will face a serious fight from the Labour and Green candidates…”

      No mention of a Conservative candidate at all! For your information the Conservatives came 3rd in 2005 with 16%, the Greens 4th with just 2.9% of the vote.

      BBC = Blatent Biased Corruption”

      • 779
        Tonto says:

        christ you’re a radical susie…bet they’re shitting themselves having read that…do you really think the BBC give a flying fuck what the public think about their coverage of anything…wake up

      • 780
        Anonymous says:

        Send the same email with the last bit cut out to the BBC trust and ask them to investigate political bias.

        They have ot investigate it, and the BBC are findingt he Turst increasingly difficult to deal with.

  49. 97

    But which slogan to pick..?

    A future fucked for all ?
    Standing up for the nanny ?
    No time for a nonce ?
    Our legacy is your austerity ?
    Britain deserved better ?
    Ein joke, ein Scotch , ein loser ?
    Don’t flog a dead horse in midstream ?
    Can we fix it ?

  50. 100
    The Prime Mongolist says:

    The BBC have been put on standby as I hear the drug dealers in Islington are doing an ounce of smack and a rent boy for £150 Friday and Saturday night. No wonder the BBC are on alert.

  51. 105
    Anonymous says:

    Am i being dense here? Why would he be motivated to call the election now if the GDP figures are going to go DOWN?

  52. 109
    Moley says:

    I think Brown is playing will I, won’t I, will I won’t I, just like he did last weekend.

    He is a tease, isn’t he.

    • 130
      MI5 says:

      Gordon Brown is demented and punch drunk..

      He has has no idea of where he is

      What he is doing

      What a disaster he has created

      We talk too much about him…

      Mandy must have finally had enough…

    • 136
      Wam Bam Thanks you Ma'am says:

      Is he playing it with his fists against a secretary’s head?

      Bam! – Will I?
      Bosh! – Won’t I?
      Boot! – Will I
      Punch! – Won’t I?

      Fancy it – a British Prime Minister (even an unelected one) having to defend himself against massive never ending bullying charges – you could not make any of this up.

  53. 111
    Anonymous says:

    tory 37% labour 33% libs 21% .the prices are there to be snapped up…get on.

  54. 114
    Dungeekin says:

    It does sound plausible.

    The timing would suit his desperate desire to upstage Cameron, and others have already spoken more eloquently than I can about the financial elements.

    Bring it on….

    D

  55. 121
    Anonymous says:

    Off to buy some piano wire and rope tomorrow.

    I hope the Tories take the Beeb apart………….

  56. 125
    gildedtumbril says:

    I have always suspected that the brown rat is a fugitive from a Fife funny farm. I keep reading most unwholesome comments on our glorious cretin. Perhaps that is why I usually refer to him as Eva Braun the wee scots jessie of the Downing Street Bunker. He really is an Anabolic Steroid Games 2012 dog turd.
    Have I exhausted all the insults?
    No, here is a last one. The two aircraft carriers being assembled should be named BOOM and BUST. Instead of the anachronismic twaddle planned. And what the hell are they for? To invade Iran, perhaps.
    We are in exceedingly deep dogshit.
    We may not extricate ourselves in 100 years, I am an optimist.

    • 334
      gildedtumbril says:

      I am amazed that there appears to be something unacceptable in my comment. To be honest I am wondering what the hell it is.

  57. 126

    Heh, it is dirty tricks. The BBC political staff will be at their desks in London, which will mean that they won’t be in Brighton and so Dave’s Spring Conference will not be covered on the BBC.

    Simples! And even better, get Guido to naively do the dirty work.

  58. 139

    [...] As I’ve said, I’m not sure on its validity (although it does claim to be from a BBC source), but this is the original source making these claims. [...]

  59. 144
    Perhaps? says:

    Maybe Gordon is just going to resign and Liebour will parchute Straw into the PM’s role in time for the election? Just a thought!

    • 158
      Moley says:

      Plausible.

      Brown could claim that he would have won if he had been left in place.

      Maybe the knives are out for him properly this time.

    • 869
      Doctor Seuss says:

      Hasn’t Darling poisitioned himself as Leader-Unelect?

      The accidental mis-spelling stands, it’s apt for Labour’s dealings.

  60. 145
    snrednek says:

    Brown is bonkers. All normal thought is out the window. He will do what he thinks is best for Gordon Brown. If Labour goes bankrupt or 2 or 3 elections have to be fought he doesn’t care. In his madness Gordon Brown will do what is good for Gordon Brown. His strategy must be that he is just 6% short and time is to go now. Major did this in 1992 and won. Gordon is hoping he can do the same!

  61. 153
    Gorgon Brown says:

    Please vote for me. My beard had a child who died and wasn’t mine to begin with but that didn’t stop me rehearsing for week with Herr Campbell before going on TV and shamelessly using emotional pornography to get votes.

  62. 155
    drakes drum says:

    But Cameron, in PMQ’s said that we facing a general elction in six weeks.

    Do the buggers all know?

    • 173
      Steve Expat says:

      That would be April 8th, six weeks today.

      Everyone assumed that he meant Parliament would be dissolved for the election campaign in six weeks, assuming May 6th.

      If he calls it this weekend, it could be as early as March 25th – T minus 28 and counting…

  63. 156
    The unelected Organ Grinder, watching the unelected monkey jump up and down, banging his tin mug, says:

    maybe time to let him have a run around before I lock him up for the night.

  64. 160
    Geezer says:

    John Bercow asked me this. And I’m afraid the answer is yes, John. I did.

  65. 162

    Its the Tick of it script.

    Brown is calling a general election just to change the news stories !

    • 164
      Liz says:

      I don’t think Brown even knows what the time of day it is any more…

      Completely spaced out…

      • 182
        Brown - the colour of s*hit says:

        Incredible – how many d*rugs can his fat bloated body take?

        He must be injected every morning with kilo’s of stuff.

    • 248
      nell says:

      If labour is going to call an election it won’t be down to brown. mandy’s the one with the power and it will be called on his say so only!

  66. 167
    gordon brown and rent boys in the hamptons is a story worth investigating says:

    gordon loves an erection!

    bbc too!

  67. 169
    Doc Trough says:

    Happen Baroness Abbott will drop a hint on the Brillo show later.

  68. 175

    Christ all fucking mighty, how long have I been saying that it would be March!!?
    At least I won’t have egg smeared all over my smug face!

  69. 177
    Avis - we try harder says:

    Quickest way to confirm this is to try and hire a fleet of limo’s fro the weekend in cnetral London.

  70. 190
    Anonymous says:

    Launch an election before the worst of the economic figures come out, and before you have to make a budget.

    That way they’ll say “if you’re one of our core voters, we’ll give you a million quid; that’s what’s in our manifesto budget” and nobody can say they’re lying because manifesto pledges aren’t something you have to legally stick to.

    They’ll promise loads of completely insane things to their core voters, and the worst of the economic figures will come out slightly too late to do them real damage.

    It’s all about getting to the electorate before the bad economic stats do, and trying to pretend that everything’s ok.

    Mind you, it’s probably just as well; if the existing debt-denial continued until may/june then it’s possible the agencies could downgrade us before a may/june election, at least an election being announced now will give us a bit of time on that front.

    • 373
      Gordoom cooks the books says:

      the nxt set of figures will blow em away even after the dark lord has massaged em and they know it

    • 479
      Gobshite says:

      Liebore will tell the public sector that there will not be that many cuts.

      The Tories will do the same.

      Both are lying, but they will believe Liebore out of desperation.

      Call the election now, you one-eyed Hoon!

  71. 192
    cassandra king says:

    Tommorow is going to be very interesting IF the 4th quarter GDP revision is negative, that would really put the tin lid on the maximum imbeciles claims of recovery wouldnt it?
    All the talk of greenshoots peddled by the BBC for months is all in vain, the UK is crashing into the brick wall of economic reality and nothing Browns trained chimps say will be believed ever again.
    All the hundreds of billions of pounds borrowed and then squandered has made no difference whatsove to the car crash of Browns making.

    Tommorow is going to be very interesting indeed.

    • 198
      Moley says:

      The only thing that would make sense is a revision to GDP figures to make them more positive and an election announcement to coincide with the “Recovery”.

      As I have said before, revision from 0.1% to 0.2% or similar, spun by Pravda and Labour as “Growth doubles under Labour, don’t risk a return to recession with the Tories.”

    • 203
      Golden Days says:

      My own instinct- revised slightly upwards.
      Which isn’t to say that next quarter’s figures won’t show a decline again.

    • 241
      Max says:

      I figure it would be win-win for Liebore tomorrow whichever way the figures go, BUT they would need to capitalise immediately by indeed calling the election.

      Win-win because if the figures are up then it’s easy, “we got you out of recession so vote for us or risk it all going wrong”.

      If the figures are down then it will scare the (few remaining) wits out of their feeble clientele and the story will be “we told you it was dangerous times; you need us to sort it or look what you’ll get if the baby killers ever get in again”.

      That’s done it for me; date called on Saturday, tories shoved off the presses Sunday, elections March.

    • 384
      Gordoom cooks the books says:

      Da word on da street iz a quick as Badger finds a few quid Gordoom spends it Badger say`s I canny take it no longerrr watch this space the Sky interview was a subtle warning interesting

  72. 195
    Anonymous says:

    30 year rule on publishing Government papers to be reduced to 20 years.

    Belgrano????????? Thatcher bad egg let’s all be reminded.

    Wouldn’t think there would be an election coming

    • 285
      Anonymous says:

      I hope you aren’t saying that lives of Argentinian sailors are worth more than British sailors………..

      • 440
        AC1 says:

        He’s anti-Thatcher so probly a Marxist so OF COURSE he thinks the lives of Argentinian sailors are worth more than British sailors

      • 450
        Wing Commander says:

        If one of the two British aircraft had been sunk at the time, then the RAF would not have been able to provide air cover to the rest of the Fleet and the land based troops. In other words it was a good thing it was sunk but sad that 347 Argentinian sailors lost their lives not a dissimilar figure to the number of British troops killed in Afgani stan in the past few years but well short of the thousands of innocent people Nu Lab have murdered in I raq due to their lies over w m d’s.

      • 608
        Anonymous says:

        doesn’t help David Kelly though, does it?

    • 463
      Anonymous says:

      What I was saying is that any “secrets” that Mrs T and her administration may have had, and I have no doubt there were some, then by changing the rules they can be unlocked in time for the general election. Thus deflecting away from their own criminality.

      I think we will all be demonising this bunch c’iint’s for many more years than they can ever imagine.

    • 892
      COVLAD says:

      Belgrano. The poor fuckers died because they did not have their ‘war-heads’on.

      Same as the Sheffield. If you sail to war, expect to be attacked.

      Changing your course and speed is normal procedure. ‘Tactical Zig-Zag’, your at sea and there is a war on, you are a target.

      Even the Russian submarine who came to spy on us knew this. That is why he fucked off so quickly when detected. Making lots of noise to show us he was off.

      No more Bollocks about this. Leave the dead to rest in Peace.

    • 893
      COVLAD says:

      BBC on red alert ? Hum,,,,

      Brown to call on the Europeans to send military aid to suppress the civil reaction to his cancellation of the next election ???

      The Elgin marbles to be sold to China and the proceeds lent to the Greeks at a reduced rate of interest ???

      Brown is to retire to an unknown mountain hide away. Where he will sleep with his toadies and followers untill the British people once again face the prospect of a secure and prosperous future, which we need someone to fuck up for us. ???

      Could be any of these. (My money is on the Elgin marbles sale)

  73. 196
    Steve Expat says:

    O/T Breaking

    Mr Tessa Jowell gets away with the shit he was done for in Italy – 10 year statute of limitations apparantly, the same rule that stopped them jailing their own PM!

    Will she now have him back??

    • 230
      streamfisher says:

      Bad blood shit (in the haematology sense was dealing in infected blood products), never moved very far anyway, next street, breakup a sham.

    • 240
      nell says:

      After the election Steve they’ll quietly get back together – she’ll no longer be an mp and no-one will notice!!

      They’ll probably spend most of their time in a villa in Florence near to a villa owned by their good friends the bliars oh and pollytwaddle – let’s not forget her!!

      • 268
        streamfisher says:

        All the Mafiosi together, its family, why do you think Blair insisted just before he left office that all you tax payers would fund him for 24/7 security protection, cost in excess of £1 million a year, maybe some day he will wake up with a horses head on the pillow next to him (no not Cheries).

        • 297
          jgm2 says:

          Beckett?

        • 304
          Lord Carrington's binoculars says:

          We also paid for Blair to have a fully bombproof Land Rover Discovery 3, hand-built at Solihell.

          Wonder how much that cost?

          • nell says:

            Did we? Why wasn’t that in the news?

            After the election there are lots of things that will come out of the woodwork about the last 13 years of this rotten government – as we were saying on an earlier thread – someone is going to make a film of it .

            I think this probably is going to go in history as the most corrupt, foul-mouthed, incompetent government of all time!

          • Steve Expat says:

            nell, why do you think the Tories don’t dare make promises on spending?

            DC and Osborne are going to be shitting themselves once they see how bad things actually are – the numbers don’t just fail to add up, there’s going to be a big black hole somewhere.

            The current scorched earth policy from the government is only adding to the situation, election really can’t come soon enough. Hopefully Guido’s source is right, election announced this weekend for March 25th will have me drinking Champagne!!

          • Steve Expat says:

            nell, longer comment in the ‘queue’but basically the Tories don’t dare say anything about spending until they find the inevitable black hole in the numbers.

            Fingers crossed for an election ASAP, 25th March would do nicely!

          • ByStander says:

            fully bombproof Land Rover Discovery 3

            ??

            I take this to mean that the bomb would be placed INSIDE the vehicle to destroy the occupant without jeopardising the people outside?

            How typical of the Sainted One to be so selfLess.

            Self immolation before anyone else gets hurt.

          • We’re going to need a bigger bomb…

  74. 199
    oldrightie says:

    No chance. it’s all a scam to spoil DC’s weekend since labour can’t afford or find anyone for a spring bash!

  75. 201
    Caligula says:

    Guido

    You must know by now that when the BBC teams are put on “red alert” it is because the Government wants to go “cottaging” with them…

    Even I knew that…

  76. 202
    NuLabour make me sick says:

    oh he’ll turn up in Afghanistan in a tutu to cause a diversion from the tories.

    new poster:

    Flash of all the FOREIGN statesmen like political leaders – montage of GB in all his picture glories – death stare – nazi flag – gurning, set to the music of rhubard and custard – with the words

    PLEASE. GOD. NO.

  77. 204
    John Wilkes says:

    I think following European news is much more interesting for judging the way things are going – unsurprisingly the spirit of harmony across Europe is developing apace in these difficult times – see for example
    http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100008_24/02/2010_115158 for the Greek perspective on the front cover of the German magazine Focus – which can be seen – it seems the German public think that the Greeks are a load of cheats – whatever next.

    • 211
      John Wilkes says:

      here’s the link to the picture
      http://www.focus.de/magazin/

    • 251
      Banker says:

      The Greek Deputy Prime Minister called the Germans Nazis today

      And accused them of stealing their gold during WWII

      A good way to get German cooperation for a bail-out…

      And a member of the Bundesbank said that if one Euro country defaulted it would be the end of the Euro…

      So the only solution for Greece is the IMF….

      Just before the UK…

      • 718
        Susie says:

        Oh shit no!

        That means my bitch of a sister in law and her German husband will be burnt out of their Greek villa and have to come back here and live with us…

  78. 210
    Gay Gidders says:

    Ha ha ha… Gone are the days when you right wing fuck wits were baying for an election date. No more crys of “Bring it on ”

    PS

    I see Gideons big speech yesterday had all the Tory Trolls exalting his brilliant economic credentials……errrrrrrrrrr . NOPE. Not a single post. nuff said !!!

  79. 219
    nell says:

    YouGov has been publishing daily polls showing a narrowed lead for the tories for the past week (unusual for YouGov to do that) , ONS results due later in the year are expected to show we’ve slipped back into recession and alastair darling is refusing to follow bunkerbrown’s line and cover up the truth. Oh and the tories are holding a spring conference this coming weekend.

    If we get an election announcement this weekend it will be because mandy has weighed up all these points and decided that this is the best chance they have of getting a hung parliament. It won’t be anything to do with gordon making a decision.

    In fact if they really do call an election this weekend gordon will be cowering in the bunker at having to face an election for the first time ever!

    • 229
      panic in CCHQ! will he ? won't he ? says:

      whatever happened to bring it on ?
      you should be delighted not worried

      • 280
        nell says:

        Well if it happens I shall be delighted, even if we get a hung parliament, although I don’t personally believe we shall.

        We are long past the time when the British electorate should have been given the opportunity to vote for this hardly popular, unelected, PM.

  80. 220
    jgm2 says:

    I’m going to stick to my prediction. There is no way Brown will call an election before the last day possible.

    Not a chance. He’ll toy with the idea. Muse on the possibilities available to a decisive chap such as himself. Consider them all carefully and then decide to postpone the whole idea until the last possible second. Which I believe is June 3rd.

    There is no way Brown would wish to miss out on any summits, opportunities to glad-hand Obama, Merkel, Sarkozy. Plus his missus will want a few more charity dinners to complete her full set of Brit Award name-drops on twitter.

    I just can’t see it.

    If, however I am wrong then it tells you everything you need to know about how badly fucked the economy is if he thinks it can’t last until June 3rd.

    • 225
      AC1 says:

      I concur. Bet on the author of “Courage” being a coward.

    • 232
      Gideon the coke head says:

      I see all you right wing fuck witts briming with 100% confidence…errrrrrr NOPE. Those days are over

      I see Gideons big speech yesterday had all the Tory Trolls exalting his brilliant economic credentials……errrrrrrrrrr . NOPE. Not a single post. nuff said !!!

    • 245
      Sting's Beard says:

      Just supposing our spineless PM failed to call an election by June 3rd what are the chances of our spineless Mandarins telling him to F*** Off?

    • 246
      Misinformation is to keep your opponent on the back-foot and panicking says:

      The Papers always get the first sniff not the Beeb.
      I’d watch for any ‘EXCLUSIVES’being held tonight till after 12.

    • 273
      The IMF is coming says:

      Could it be a Tory plot.
      Spread the word, a few whispers.
      Then when it’s not called, he’s a bottler.

      Personally I think whatever he does he’s missed the boat. A supposed 6 point gap is the best he’s going to see

      • 320
        who else is saying an election is imminent ? says:

        if it’s a Tory plot then they won’t be panicking over at CCHQ will they?
        easy way to find out is if CCHQ are currently running about like headless chickens trying to get the leaflets, billboards and ground troops organised and frantically changing dates

        if it’s a Labour plot to panic tories it seems to be working

        or it’s just vapour and Guido is jumping on anything as a possible scoop fearing he’ll get gazumped by another blogger

        my ‘sources’tell me that speculation is always amusing

        we’ll find out soon enough

      • 729
        Anonymous says:

        er… it’s now 5

    • 308
      nell says:

      But what if??, jgm, mandy, alastairdarling and militwit have teamed up and told him this is what has got to happen or else……….

      gordon might throw his dummy out of the pram but he’s powerless to oppose them.

      And if that is what has happened it places darling’s ‘no10 unleashed the forces of hell on me’statement in a different category. Because it means that that was the opening shot of a well planned operation to force bunkerbrown to call an early election.

      At this moment in time , if that’s the case, gordon is raging and brooding in no.10 tryng to find a way of not giving in to their demands as there is no doubt he would hand on to the bitter end if he could!!

      • 335
        jgm2 says:

        Jack Straw and Milidolt conspicuous by their absence these past few days. No rushed statements to say they ‘don’t recognise’these bullying descriptions of the Maximum Imbecile.

        Perhaps they’re both at home with a runny nose.

        yeah. Right.

      • 341
        CCHQ phone lines are all busy, we will deal with you when we can says:

        whatever beef Darling had it was primarily with Balls and the henchman as Balls was the one who wanted his Job
        nobody in NuLabour want’s to ‘force’an election nor can they
        they are all playing wait and see for the top job once Gordon goes
        Any cabal who wants Gordon out knows that the best way to ensure that is if he and he alone is responsible for every facet of the election
        that way if it’s a disaster he gets all the blame and resigns the day after leaving the field clear for the plotters to launch their leadership bids

        Right now you are all losing your minds over one Guido ‘source’who says the Beeb might have kept some political reporters over on a weekend that sees the Conservative Spring Conference

        If it’s good info Guido will have scooped an awful lot of poeple
        if it’s not he’s going to have a job persuading anyone about when the election will get called from now on

    • 543
      Golden Days says:

      I think you are quite right.

  81. 221
    Gay Gidders says:

    Nice to see all you right wing fuck witts briming with 100% confidence…errrrrrr NOPE

    I see Gideons big speech yesterday had all the Tory Trolls exalting his brilliant economic credentials……errrrrrrrrrr . NOPE. Not a single post. nuff said !!!

  82. 231
    slipx says:

    Brown won’t call an election until the last minute.

    He hates elections.

    • 270
      nell says:

      Brown’s problem is not that he hates elections it that he Fears elections!! And being a coward he does everything he can to avoid facing them!

  83. 238
    Sting's Beard says:

    I see the Knives are out for Mr Farrage. apparently he is going to be suspended from the EU parliament for telling the truth. Its not as though he swore or mooned at Von Rumpy. But apparently you cant tell our new masters you dont like them.

    • 250
      Farage is going to whip Bercow's scrawny ass says:

      And if they do it will prove what an anti-democratic, fascist organisation the EU Parliament is.
      It’s a win-win.

    • 261
      nell says:

      Actually I think that was his deliberate intention when he behaved in such an outspoken manner.

      It has gained him some prominence in the press, and let’s face it his sentiments will have hit a sympathetic cord in Britain, always a good thing when you are fighting an election as he is soon to do.

      • 279
        Pot in shocking Kettle abuse says:

        just a shame that Farage looks like a frog with a banger up it’s arse and has the personality of a dr*nken Ian Duncan Smith

        two bald men fighting over a comb

        • 324
          A very French Pissed Filospha says:

          At least Farrage has a personality and speaks the truth. You are obviously a Labour stooge beamed in from another planet just for the election. If you don’t go away I will pretty soon start talking sense and you certainly wouldn’t like that!!

        • 362
          crazy meg says:

          but in a good way

      • 290
        Steve Expat says:

        If he had said what he did in the Westminster Parliament, he would certainly have been rebuked by the Speaker, probably told to take a week or two off…

        • 321
          jgm2 says:

          ‘Fraid so. It was more than enough to mock Rumpy and Baroness Ashton for being unelected. He could really have gone to town on Ashton and just how unelected she is. He could even have (maybe) got away with suggesting Rumpy has fuck-all personality. But you can’t get after a chap for the way he dresses unless he makes a point of wearing zebra-print plus-fours, flip-flop, a neon-blue hunting jacket and top-hat.

          Bloody funny all the same. Shake the smug, complacent, unelected, dictatorial fuckers up a bit. Not that they should be worried about Farage being beastly when the Greeks and the Germans are getting stuck into each other and the Euro-zone is falling apart.

          I wonder how relations are at Buck House over that spat?

          • A very French Pissed Filospha says:

            Just imagine in ten years time. Who will be showered with honours and baubles by a grateful nation. Bercow or Farrage. My guess is that Nigel will end up with F*** all. and that tells you allyou need to know about what a pile of excrement britain has become!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

          • Mall Gossip says:

            Philip, if you for one second imagine that one will pick up the tab for those trollops, you got another thing coming!

      • 722
        Susie says:

        Farage doesn’t give a shit… he’s got his eyes on winning Bercow’s seat and he’ll probably do just that.

        Just telling them what he thought of them before he throws in the towel EU-wise and good luck to him.

  84. 243
    David Cameron says:

    CALL THAT ELECTION!
    The guy at kwikprint promised me that my leaflets will be ready, without fail, by close of business next Wednesday.
    I’m going to phone them on Tuesday just to make sure and then
    CALL THAT ELECTION!!
    GET IN YOUR CAR DRIVE DOWN THE MALL AND TELL MAJ MY LEAFLETS ARE READY AND CALL THAT ELECTION!
    BRING IT ON!

  85. 255
    Brown's confirmation says:

    Very intersesting article that confirms that brown will go for an early election to avoid a budget as his “Darling” is holding a grenade with no pin;

    The Daily Telegraph – Jeff Randall;

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeffrandall/7318736/Alistair-Darling-is-a-dead-man-talking-and-hes-taking-sweet-revenge.html

    By the way – nice not to have to hear/see that awful Robert Peston character these days.

    Jeff Randall is a million miles ahead of that dreadful oink.

    • 288
      jgm2 says:

      Outstanding.

      In Randall’s mind there is no doubt Darling knew exactly what he was saying and exactly the effect it would have. I like to believe Darling was trying to do the right thing for the country and if his action has pushed the Maximum Imbecile into calling the election so we can be spared three more unnecessary months of idiocy then so much the better.

      • 514
        Perfection says:

        Thus, Mr Darling has nothing to lose. He is unsackable before the election but, in political terms, unemployable after it. This frees him to grind out the remaining weeks, doing not the Prime Minister’s bidding but what he believes is in the best interest of the country.

        Mr Brown’s desire – to throw someone else’s money at the problem – will, one suspects, be resisted by Mr Darling, who will not want to be remembered as the Chancellor whose final Budget led to a run on sterling and the destruction of Britain’s AAA credit rating.

    • 296
      AC1 says:

      It that Lord Pestons son? How DID he get a job at AlJaBeebya?

      • 315
        Lord Carrington's binoculars says:

        Quite. Why do think Robert Peston had such an ‘in’during the financial meltdown?

        His father’s a Labour Peer.

        Why is that never mentioned?

      • 385
        Rt Hon.W.Gummidge says:

        senior common purpose apparatchik

    • 301
      Steve Expat says:

      Darling is indeed a dead man walking – he knows that:

      1. His own seat will be pretty tight
      2. If Labour win then the reshuffle will probably give Balls the job
      3. If labour lose then he’s on the wrong side of the House
      4. He’s a fundamentally honest man, and is seriously fucked off with Brown saying that the economy is fine, and how dare the Dear Leader be contradicted…

    • 421
      Steve Expat says:

      Quote from the article:

      Mr Brown’s desire – to throw someone else’s money at the problem – will, one suspects, be resisted by Mr Darling, who will not want to be remembered as the Chancellor whose final Budget led to a run on sterling and the destruction of Britain’s AAA credit rating.

      This is how Darling must be thinking now – in Gordon Brown’s government it is every man for himself!

      • 735
        Susie says:

        Double bind, catch 22… and GOTCHA. The last thing Brown wants is an early election, but the other last thing he wants is for Darling to present another budget unless it’s a Gordon Everything’s Fine Budget.

        Darling has pointed out that a Gordon Budget will create a run on the £ and we lose AAA rating and he’s refusing to do that. Checkmate. Well played sir.

  86. 258
    Leader of Her Majesty's Opposition says:

    I fucking hope Brown doesn’t make an announcement over the week-end, the guy at Kwikprint said my leaflets won’t be ready until next Friday at the earliest!
    Fuck!

  87. 260
    A Handbag? says:

    Bingo. You give them legal personality and they sue for defamation, like an outraged Maiden Aunt

  88. 265
    Adam Boulton says:

    I will be doing a Sky special if anyone’s interested

  89. 271
    Mitch says:

    Olli Rehn, the EU’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner, said: “The UK stands out as the only large member state for which growth has been revised downwards.”

    more bad news for the snottwieller

  90. 277
    March It Is Then says:

    Brown governs by expedience, which means a March election.
    The only momentum he has is the polls, he has nothing left. He has half the campaign funds of the Tories, he knows the economy is going to tank back into recession, he knows his popularity is lower than his party and he figures the poll figures will turn in favour of the Conservatives again. It doesn’t get any better for Brown, only worse. He knows that he has no-where to run and that he has run out of road and so he will pull the trigger because it is expedient for him to do so. He has no other choice.

  91. 282
    The curse of Gordon continues says:

    Would this completly NON partizan move be designed to enusre that coverage of the Conservatives this weekend would need to only be 1/3rd of the total when Labour got 100% last week?

  92. 283

    [...] that UK election could be called early, like now Guido Fawkes (who appears to have some sources) is suggesting that the UK election could be called very shortly indeed. Possibly this weekend! __________________ Thanks [...]

  93. 291
    David Cameron says:

    This is just not cricket.

    Our printers went into administration for fucks sake

    We have no leaflets to distribute

  94. 293
    Barnabas Scudamore says:

    Just out of interest, I saw some of Simon Mann’s work “mates” in town today.

    Now correct me if I’m wrong, but Simon went to Eton with Dave and Osbourne did he not ?

    So, again, if Brown doesn’t call that election, he’ll be sealing his fate.

    Her Majesty’s men will take control of parliament if Brown don’t call that election, (either in an official capacity or in a grey capacity using such people as mann).

    I didn’t actually see simon though !

    This can be assured.

  95. 298
    Andrew Lloyd Rip-Off says:

    Surely the “alert” is simply because all the media are geared for a Brown bashing weekend…or maybe bashing is too close to home for GB…..you know what I mean….that and the Conservatives having a policy flurry means that they could get spread very thin….

    I also hear a rumour that John Terry and Ashley Cole are in Number 10 as we speak – having a chat with GB about building better friendships and relationships with colleagues….

    • 317
      TONY BENN'S WILL says:

      may be they are all going to be told that now is a good moment to switch sides.It’s all right being a leftie when it suits but cuts coming up and school fees to pay and the rest ,can’t be too careful

  96. 302
    TONY BENN'S WILL says:

    Sounds like a good day to bury bad news is in the offing.
    between 400 & 1200 people died through incompetence of labour government and it was headlined on BBC for ONE FUCKING DAY just ONE FUCKING DAY.what happened to journalism , and on news at ten last night Tom Bradbry,if that’s his name,said he he been shown a secret survey done presumably by NO10 that showed Gordon’s popularity was slightly improving.Well I used to like that reporter but excuse me you cannot use a secret survey done by the most vested interest on the planet,not to be seen or corroberated by anyone else and take yourself seriously as a journalist…did anyone else notice ?

    • 565
      Golden Days says:

      If it is true, though, what does it tell you about the populace of this country that they seem to like to hear their Prime Minister is a foul-mouthed, intemperate slob?
      Though, actaually, I don’t believe there ever was such a survey.

  97. 306
    Gordon Brown's Press Officer says:

    It’s all down to you Guido,mate

    CCHQ Printing Problem
    Given that candidates have been on the highest state of alert since the new year, gearing up to an election that could be called at any moment, Guido is unsurprised by the amount of anger this latest blunder has caused. It would appear that the printing company that CCHQ were using went bust leaving constituencies and their agents stranded and angry. CCHQ are working to calm the situation

    • 399
      Steve Expat says:

      They will normally book time at the printers well in advance, then submit the content at the last possible minute.

      The critical thing at the election is the amount of money spent, as there is a limit on that – hence all the local parties booking with the same printer – economies of scale with such a huge order. Printing can be done at the local copy shop if needed in an emergency, but it’s bloody expensive to do that.

      Hopefully they can find a printer with a low workload next month…

  98. 307

    Confirmation of a sort here.

  99. 309
  100. 310
    Anonymous says:

    Immigration minister Phil Woolas admits his children have suffered because of migration

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1253770/Immigration-minister-Phil-Woolas-admits-children-suffered-migration.html

    The immigration minister has admitted that his own children have ‘suffered’because of the number of foreigners who have flooded into Britain.

    In an extraordinary declaration, gaffe-prone Phil Woolas accepted the influx of migrants under Labour has taken a toll on local communities and services.

    BUT WE HAVE ALL KNOWN THIS FOR YEARS, BUT NOBODY LISTENS OR CARES, NOT EVEN THE TORIES.

    • 387
      Steve Expat says:

      Maybe he should have thought about the impact of his policies on his own family – and then think how those of us who earn less than £141,000 might cope with the same situation..?

  101. 311
    A very French Pissed Filospha says:

    Le Mentalist premier est aussi désagréable pour moi comme un serpent faim avec le mal aux dents. Comme il louvoie et squirms vous n’êtes pas certain si il va mordre vous ou un jour que vous finira par lui piqueurs.

    • 349
      Sting's Beard says:

      Tony and Cherie were in Tuscany last summer. Cherie got bitten by a snake. Unfortunately the snake died!!

    • 354
      streamfisher says:

      I went to a secondary school, we did do French for one term, 2 hours a week so my interpretation of this would be:
      The disagreeable Prime Mentalist is a serpent with bad teeth, the rest sounds like dish of the day in a five star Paris fish restaurant…
      Comme il louvoie et squirms vous n’êtes pas certain si il va mordre vous ou un jour que vous finira par lui piqueurs.

      • 380
        A very french pissed Filospha says:

        “The Prime Mentalist is as disagreeable to me as a hungry snake with the toothache. As he twists and squirms you are not sure if he will bite you or one day you will end up biting him”.

        • 408
          Alexander the Third King of Scots of the kindred of st. Columba says:

          “Be as wise as the Serpent and gentle as the Dove”

        • 409
          streamfisher says:

          I got it right the first time then Voltair (nice one).

          • A very French pissed Filospha says:

            I owe it all to Lady whiskey, Valium and a copy of yesterdays Sun!!

          • streamfisher says:

            You are Harriet Harmon and I claim my £5 pounds, Sorry! tu vu porqua vezes un cupppa merde!

          • A very french pissed Filospha says:

            Maybe but with regards to the General elections of 2010 as we say in existensialist circles ” The second Mouse gets the Cheese” I must go my public is waiting and Filosophy is a cruel mistress!!

  102. 327
    Heart DJ says:

    ….. and as we move into the evening, here’s a nice little tune dedicated to a Gordon Brown and Andy Burnham this lovely night.

  103. 330
    OwlHoot says:

    It’s a long shot, but could this be a deliberate leak “from the BBC” to spook the Tories into kicking off full election mode, in the hope they will peak too early, and announce policies which Labour can pinch?

    • 340
      Andrew Lloyd Rip-Off says:

      Now thats as bonkers a Lee Harvey Oswald being Governor Connely’s gay lover and jealous that he smiled at JFK – their is a conspiracy theory and then there is CONSPIRACY theory!

      • 533
        A very french pissed Filospha says:

        Why do baddies always have double barrelled names

        John Wilkes Booth
        Lee Harvey Oswald
        Osama Bin Liner
        Gordon F******g Brown

        Strange but true

    • 410
      The IMF is coming says:

      Assuming the printers have delivered the order

  104. 333

    Liebour are the party of social division in this country,they seek to divide the nation and the union in every way. They have undermined Parliament and every institution and deliberately sidelined and undermined the monarchy.

    They hate people who do well and have replaced meritocracy with placements and quotas for undeserving candidates just because it suits their political correctness. No wonder we are in debt and don’t make any thing any more.

    Any one with an ounce of spunk to make something of their lives will have fucked off to other countries where hard work and endevour is rewarded.

  105. 336
    Andrew Lloyd Rip-Off says:

    Oh God just realised if he calls it I am going to have to put up with hearing Caroline Spellmans nasal whine across the radio for weeks on end!

  106. 338
    Anonymous says:

    Go on Alastair stick the knife in then move it around a bit.

    • 339
      jgm2 says:

      Alistair did stick the knife in.

      • 363
        Morgan Everett says:

        If he really wanted to get sweet revenge he could resign the night before the budget speech.

        Maybe Gorgon is considering calling an early election in case something like this happens?

        • 383
          Steve Expat says:

          lol – what a fucking good idea – take note Mr Darling ;-)

        • 416
          jgm2 says:

          If he wants to stick the knife in he can resign if Brown does call an election. Refuse to parrot Brown’s lies during the campaign.

          • Gordoom cooks the books says:

            Better still (I`m all a quiver just writing it) DARLING SWITCHES TO THE TORIES oh I think i`m gona cum in my pants just thinking about it imagine Gordoom it would be PRICELESS

          • Steve Expat says:

            PMSL Gordoom,- would be fucking funny but I doubt it would happen.

            Too close to the election for the Tories to find him a safe seat for a start…

  107. 344
    TONY BENN'S WILL says:

    anyone seen or heard from the MP for Stafford? no thought not .anyone from the BBC gone and got an interview all you need is a pair of legs and a microphone, What the fuck has he been doing all these tears.,would anyone recognise him if they saw him.. thought not. He should have been shouting from the bloody roof tops for years ..instead the relatives have to campaign themselves what the fuck is an MP for. I’m abso;utely fucking speechless

    brilliant this blogging lark isn’t it

    • 350
      THATCHERS LIVING WILL says:

      The Health Secretary Burnham should resign over Stafford.
      No if’s but’s or maybe’s.
      RESIGN.
      NOW.

      • 360
        nell says:

        But if he does that he will lose his £65K resettlement allowance after he loses his seat at the election!!

        • 375
          Steve Expat says:

          if he resigns as an MP immediately then he loses his ‘redundancy’payment – more likely is that he resigns as a Minister now, and/or as an MP at the election, in which case Keep On Troughing!

        • 377
          THATCHERS LIVING WILL says:

          I don’t give a monkey’s fuck about his pension and Burnham will be the one praying this speculation about an election call is true and not just the usual false alarms so he can keep hiding from the fallout of this scandal.

          He must GO!
          And a full public inquiry must now be held for the victims families.

          • TONY BENN'S WILL says:

            HIMSELF FIRST ..PATIENTS SECOND

          • The NHS 1948-2010? says:

            Correct.
            The NHS is at a crossroads. If it is allowed to slaughter 1200 citizens without being called to account then the NHS will be signing its own death warrant.
            Such avoidable murderous incompetence cannot be allowed to stand.
            What is the NHS? A Health service or a slaughterhouse?
            That is the question.
            If there is no inquiry and nobody is held to account and charged with corporate manslaughter then it is clearly the latter.

          • nell says:

            cameron has already said he supports an independent public inquiry.

            So guess who the people of Staffordshire are going to vote for?

            Mind you I don’t know whether staffs mp’s are labour or tory – guess someonee will enlighten us ??

          • THATCHERS LIVING WILL says:

            Burnham himself is the biggest roadblock to a full independent public inquiry so the sooner he goes the better.

            If Cameron has not already done so he needs to start calling for a full public inquiry and so does Clegg.

            There was a time when a disgusting scandal like this would see the opposition go into full attack mode. That needs to happen now and the pressure must be relentless.

          • Steve Expat says:

            nell, it doesn’t matter what colour they are now, they will be blue (or independent?) after the election.

            Expect lots of public enquiries if/when (hopefully when) there is a change of government.

      • 459
        Gordoom cooks the books says:

        He won`t go that would take moral compass of which Liebour have non!

    • 397
      Engineer says:

      The gaffers of the Stafford hospital all escaped blame – one got a £400,000 payoff and a pension pot worth over a million pounds. Others have been re-employed elsewhere.

      The local MP (identity not yet disclosed) is maintaining complete silence.

      There have been no political resignations (so far), and I’m not holding my breath for any.

      Is anybody taking responsibility? What has happened to this country?

      • 438
        Steve Expat says:

        Welcome to NuLiebour’s Britain 2010, where failure is rewarded with promotion, and no-one appears to be accountable for fuckups – even when literally hundreds of people have died as a result of serious mismanagement.

        Sad…

        • 485
          D. Pressed says:

          Eng. and SE

          I believe the algorithm or proc. is quite simple.

          Stage 1. Blame (if possible by innuendo, smear, and isolation) junior and middle ranking oiks, especially those who have a propensity for honest application and hard work. In short, the ‘old fashioned’types who cared about what they did, had gained experience, and did their best. [Not many of those left now – they were either ‘re-organised’out of the organisation, or left of their own accord, being unable to stomach the bullshit any longer.

          Stage 2. Promote sideways or AWAY, all senior people, who by neglect, attendance at pointless meetings, preoccupation with pointless gummunt ‘targets’and other claptrap, allowed a bad situation to develop or fester (no pun intended).

          Simples.

          • Engineer says:

            That is (sadly) highly plausible. There is no wilier or more ruthless a politician than a middle or senior manager with something to hide.

          • Steve Expat says:

            How true.

            If I read it right, the guy who is now head of the NHS – Top fucking quangocrat of the world – was the chief exec of Stafford hospital when people were needlessly dying every week.

            Of course, that Chief met all of his targets, all financial and none of which measured outcomes of patients admitted – all an irrelevance to the NuLiebour ideals.

            Fucking terrible, does NO-ONE HAVE THE BALLS TO RESIGN ANY MORE??

      • 452
        Gordoom cooks the books says:

        I don`t know who is in Stafford but I bet my balls it`s a Liebour troll if it was a Tory then Burnham would be blaming him “LOOK YOU LOT IT WAS THE EVIL BABY EATING TORY WOT DID IT NOT US AT NEW LIEBOUR THE NHS IS IN OUR DNA”

        • 475
          Engineer says:

          Sadly, that is so true….

        • 572
          Eric Cantona says:

          The strangely quiet MP for Stafford is David Kidney, Liebour of course!

          * Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Energy and Climate Change (since 13 Oct 2009)

          * Entered Parliament on 1 May 1997 — General election
          * Majority: 2,121 votes. — 556th out of 644 MPs.

          Could be out on his arse quite soon then?

          Burnham needs to go too and face a public enquiry if it is true that he signed off the hospital as OK. What a twat!

      • 586
        Brain dead apologist for Stafford says:

        This is the attitude that lies behind the ultimate idiocy that is Labour. The mindset.

        Doesn’t the woman realise the nonsense she is spouting. People only have themselves to blame that they need hospitals. They are such ingrates that they waste resources. Eugenists reborn in a shoddy, suburban sort of way.

        You silly cow. Healthy people also succumb bit a couple of years later. It’s the human condition.

        Her words:

        ‘One of the ways the NHS could improve patient care is if people actually made an educated choice to live a more healthy lifestyle. When govt doctors suddenly start banging on about better diet, stopping smoking and drinking, and getting exercise the standard reaction is along the lines of crying “nanny state”. This is a short sighted attitude. If we think about it, the more we take care of our own health, the less money needs to be spent on healthcare so rather than taking the cynical “nanny state” attitude maybe people would be better off actually listening and acting on what they’re being told. That way, the government can afford reduce health spending, then the deficit and then taxes.

        Not only that but not smoking, getting drunk, eating crap whilst getting regular exercise actually makes you feel better and improves the quality of life. Self aid first.

        Just to pre-empt the obvious first. No, I don’t actually smoke, never have and the picture isn’t really me. Before the Potty Craig Fanclub say it, no, health tourism isn’t a burden on the NHS, it costs just 0.03% of the overall budget.

        If we want to stop this kind of thing becoming regular news we need to start helping ourselves and living more healthily and stop expecting the medical profession to pick up the pieces for poor choices.”

      • 750
        Susie says:

        And the Health Authority… employing a hotel manager as CEO, FFS!

    • 528
      Whisky Rebellion says:

      David Kidney

      Meet David Kidney. Stafford MP.

      Enuff said.

    • 552
      Bob says:

      The MP for Stafford is DAVID KIDNEY (Labour)

      Currenty Undersecretary of state for energy and climate change

      He has probably been on Planet Mars while his constituents die like flies in their hospital…

  108. 345
    sow confusion and panic says:

    Brown will call an election because he fears a double dip!!!!
    Brown won’t call an election because he’s a coward and will wait till the last moment!!!
    It’s a Conservative plot!!!
    It’s a Labour plot!!
    It’s a plotter plot to oust Gordon!

  109. 351
    Anonymous says:

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!! Love the feature – left click using your mouse and scroll on posts like you when when copying and pasting!! Secret comments ahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha genius!!!! Poor ole Clarkey

  110. 352
    nell says:

    Just a thought folks. If bunkerbrown calls the election this weekend, does that mean he won’t be appearing before the Chilcott Inquiry on Friday 5th March?

    And if he calls the election for say 25th March does that give the media networks a chance to arrange those tv debates between the leaders that we’ve been promised?

    I suspect both of those will be pulled!

  111. 365
    DON'T PANIC! says:

  112. 366
    How can Brown be part of a solution when he is the problem? says:

    • 369
      How can Brown be part of a solution when he is the problem? says:

      The coming crisis easily explained

      • 391
        SEE! the astonishing Proof of the Power of Glenn Beck's Batshit Insanity! Mentalists felled mid rant says:

        • 407
          How can Brown be part of a solution when he is the problem? says:

          Yep that’s what happens when you finally understand the crazed economics of the Left

          • Glenn Beck Prophet and Infallible source for Mentalists Everywhere says:

          • the falling down crazies says:

            Glenn Beck’s sources and ‘experts’can’t even stand vertical for a few minutes so their brilliance in economic matters and predictions might just be as shaky as they are.

          • aunty beeb says:

            Shhh… we mustn’t speak of such things in front of the children.

          • ranty boob says:

            fuck me you’re even crazier than Beck!
            I didn’t think that was possible
            you actually BELIEVE horseshit about FEMA ‘Death Camps’?!?!?
            Even Beck isn’t that far gone

            I’ll save myself the bother and just post you usefull Tin Foil Hat making info next time nutter

          • aunty beeb says:

            We love that bullying mental case in No.10.

          • Bush and Bliars Catastrophic War Apologists says:

    • 412
      little tich says:

      “Americas first black president……” cue picture of Bill Clinton. Funny.

      • 434
        Nah! THIS is funny says:

      • 466
        How can Brown be part of a solution when he is the problem? says:

        Oh the wonderful antics of the Left

        First Lie and lie again
        Second Smear the messenger

        Beck and the Tea Party movement are on to the left wingers big time exposing their lies and left wing agenda – and, in particular, the Progressives – he is knocking 7 bales of S**t out of em.

        The problems he highlights are almost a carbon copy of what Brown and co are up to – remember his meeting with “Progressive leaders” last week?

        Progressives are trying to achieve Marx through evolution and not revolution but the journey’s end is the same = MARX

        This is why when ever there is a reference to Glenn Beck here the Labour lap dogs will attack and smear.

        watchglennbeck.com

  113. 378
    Engineer says:

    BE ALERT.

    Your Country Needs Lerts.

  114. 381
    TONY BENN'S WILL says:

    labour have just realised they have to have the election before the next series of HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU as they are the only thing on the BBC which represent how real people feel about these corrupt sleaze bags, no sorry that’s too nice.. economic criminals.
    By the way can anyone explain to me how the bank of England ,the FSA and the treasury all given the responsibility of overseeing the banks managed to miss a £300 fucking BILLION error in the banks accounts they were supposed to be watching.They haven’t had their comeuppance yet
    BRING IT ON GORDON BABY, BRING IT ON

    • 413
      Engineer says:

      The BoE, the FSA and the Treasury all thought it was the responsibility of one of the others.

      Given that lack of clarity at that highest level, the responsibility has to lie with the politicians for not ensuring that there was clarity in the system – the politicians set up the system, after all. Not, of course, that they’ll accept responsibility.

    • 798
      John Bull says:

      HIGNFY is an on message liberal propoganda patsy for the corporate media, and the state, they are only allowed ‘rebellion’within prescribed lines and have a stock set of pc stooges to maintain the balance.

  115. 389
    The Admiral says:

    Given Albeeb knows GF doesn’t altogether love them, is it conceivable that someone is winding us here all up for err fun?…

    • 491
      Engineer says:

      BBC? Sense of humour?

      Somehow, it just doesn’t seem plausible.

      Mind you, it might be that the Beeb (given it’s over-inflated sense of it’s own importance) is just going to make an announcement along the lines of a Director General retiring, or something equally trivial.

  116. 396
    Anonymous says:

    WHAAATTTT????!!!! Mark Clarke and WHOOOOOO! Erm. Ew.

    Yuk.

    Yuk.

    Yuk

  117. 414
    Anonymous says:

    Perhaps they are shitting themselves SO MUCH over what is in Andrew Rawnsley’s revelations in this Sunday’s Observer that they need to suck all the oxygen of publicity out of the air with a big announcement…

    Or at least more ‘fake election’magubbins like Limos Circling near Downing St..

  118. 425
    Socialists are shit and they know it says:

    All the gays in Labour will feel stupid once the Euro folds and the EU becomes a figment of the past as it collapses.

    HAHAHA fucking socialists doing the only thing they are good at; failing.

    • 435

      What has the sexuality of certain Labouroids got to do with anything? George Washington was an active closet homosexual but this is never raised as an issue when studying American history.

      • 445
        that's life says:

        SAUSAGES.

      • 458
        Barnabas Scudamore says:

        Washington was a closet homo?

        Interesting – I never new that.

        Homosexuality really isn’t a taboo anymore, I don’t think people really care these days.

        The only real big taboo still left – MENTAL ILLNESS.

        GORDO IS A FUCKING MENTALIST !

      • 611
        What the heck says:

        Guido Westerwelle is gay and he is no socialist. No one makes an issue of it in Germany.
        Erich Mielke the murderous head of the Stasi was gay. His gayness is not at issue but his murderous Socialist/Fascism was. He cut his teeth as part of a Stalinist death squad in Spain (you know when Orwell was there) taking out Left wingers who were not under Stalin’s control.

      • 693
        Anonymous says:

        Sounds like TT is laying the ground for his own coming out party.

    • 444
      Gideon and Dave's Bullingdon Trysts says:

      Oh Ducky ! You dont have to tell Dave and me about that
      we ‘fall’on each other regularly in the Shadow Cabinet with wee Billy Hague and all his fancy ‘Judo’moves
      you wouldn’t believe what a ‘clumsy’boy Georgie Peorgie is !

      • 453
        no to the jock gay mafia says:

        It’s about time we had some British homos running the country.

        • 467
          Engineer says:

          Could we have some half-way competent ones next time, please?

        • 480
          Barnabas Scudamore says:

          I agree – I for one couldn’t give a shit if someone was gay.

          As long as they didn’t lie.

          As long as they did “the right thing”

          As long as they had a sense of fair play installed into them.

          As long as they……………………………………….

          Nah, couldn’t give a shit, homosexuality is not the barrier it once was.
          My own personal view is that the amount of porn we are exposed to makes sex and sexuality much less of a taboo than it was say 10 years ago.

          Its a bit like tattoos – at one time if you had a tattoo, you were “classed” as this or that.

  119. 430
    genghiz the kahn says:

    Gordon orders Leather to unlesh the hounds of hell.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8537865.stm

    160 complaits about the National bullying Helpline…who are they from, is there any way of finding out?

    I hope it will not be just a load of discredited zaNuLabourites, but their names should be public merely to show it is cross party concerns, and not Operation Save Gordon’s Face.

    • 531
      Mark Mywords says:

      Mrs Pratt has:-

      * seen her own solicitor
      * she has not resigned
      * Max Clifford has seen the emails
      * Max Clifford is still running with the project
      * Other communications have been received by NBH
      .
      * It’s all going as planned
      .
      Another reason why Brown wants announce ?

    • 550
      udderly 'orrible says:

      Rival anti-bullying lines and Liebour scum such as EdSmallBalls, and don’t lets get started on SuziLeather, harridan of the Charidee sector and another Liebour placemat. Burn that witch

      • 570
        Wikki ................. says:

        Ms. Leather has held over thirty public sector posts in the last fifteen years which has led some right-wing commentators to question her own motivations and the motives of those who appoint her. The Adam Smith Institute accused her of pursuing a “political agenda” on behalf of politicians who lacked the “moral courage” to tackle the issue themselves.

    • 579
      Mark Mywords says:

      Guido

      I hope you are right to moderate for good reason

      And I hope I’m also right !!

      Cheers

  120. 431
    Gordoom cooks the books says:

    for all those who hate Gordoom as much as me (which is a fukin lot believe me) take some comfort from the fact that he is in hell right now he must be pulling his grey hair out as Homer would say Mmmmmmmmmmmm NICE

  121. 436
    colleen mcduff says:

    Meanwhile over on PB.com, they’re launching the, ‘Andy Cooke seats calculator final version.’
    http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2010/02/25/launching-the-andy-cooke-seats-calculator-final-version/

    Boy, those guys really know how to party don’t they?

  122. 441
    JonBoy says:

    Does this mean he wouldnt appear at the Iraq Enquiry as it would be in “election time”?

  123. 460
    Heart DJ says:

    …. as the evening get late and our spirits reflect on the day, here’s a dedication to a lucky chap called Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, who has ears but doesn’t listen and has a mind that’s turned bad ….

  124. 461
    Engineer says:

    If Broon does announce an election date this weekend, how can we be sure that he isn’t just telling another lie?

    Is he going to use his normal technique of making an announcement, forgetting about it, and re-announcing it with a great fanfare early in April?

    We can’t be sure until we turn up at the polling station and actually find it open…..

  125. 464
    Insider says:

    Just heard from contacts that the latest meetings in the Home Office have shown dissent and cncern about their next funding budget.

    Seems Burnham has dropped a huge one, and Brown’s aides say he is apopletic.

    More as evening moves on.

  126. 470
    Make Labour History... says:

    Definately looking possible…

    Sterling falling – down almost 1.5c today, QE ended – probable Gilt auction failures in the offing.

    Difficult to present an honest budget just weeks before an election.

    Would GB want to go down in history for being the leader of the 2nd Labour Government in succession to have to go cap in hand to the IMF ?

    March election means he might be able to get away with it and dump it all on DC before everything goes t*ts, if he hangs out for another month it could all come horribly unravelled on his watch.

    Labour have to go, and this time for good.

    • 484
      I wish it would happen but says:

      Heard it all before in 1979, they will be back because of the BBC and infiltration of the education and public sector at almost every level.

      • 497
        Dracula says:

        Time for a major overhaul of these institutions then. If Labour can do it, so can the Tories.

        • 523
          Barnabas Scudamore says:

          A start would be to rebalance the absurd policy of banning membership to far right parties.

          The Tories should implement a policy of banning membership to far right and far left communist parties.

          Why do police officers (for example) have to swear that they are not a member of the BNP, yet it would be perfectly acceptable for the officer to be a member of the communist party of great britain ?

          Both are extreme parties, both are run by subversive elements……it just so happens, the communist party of great britain, is the more dangerous of the two, hence its former leader Mandleson in the position he is today.

          Communism needs to be outlawed and treated in the same way as Far right politics.

        • 540
          udderly 'orrible says:

          Its been going on schools (aptly named NUT) and universities since the 1950s, will take a massive amount of weedkiller and sheep dip.

    • 503
      Insider says:

      Not so much that, it’s the RBS scandal which has been mentioned more than enough.

      Creative accounting is being done as we speak – expect some more numbers tomorrow.

    • 636
      Third time unlucky (for Britain) says:

      They crashed in flames in 1932, too.

      Hopefully it is three strikes and you’re out.

      Suspect it won’t be.

      Incendiarists are known to revisit the scene of the crime.

    • 666
      Grumpy Dad says:

      F*cking unlikely given the shit polls and general ineffectual performance…

  127. 473
    Sarah 'I love my fat sweaty mental husband' Brown says:

    Gordon is my hero

  128. 474
    Fees Office Clerk says:

    Just come through Parliament Square. There’s a convoy of black official looking limos going round and round and round and round……

  129. 487
    nell says:

    I wonder – have alastairdarling and mandy joined forces to force gordon into calling an early election because gordon is actually, mentally, falling part at the seams and they are afraid he won’t be mentally fit to fight an election in 2/3 months ahead??!!

    • 504
      Fees Office Clerk says:

      I don’t think Darling and Mandelson want Brown around anymore as Labour Leader irrespective of whether Labour wins the GE or not.

    • 508
      regis says:

      Yeah nell, and what if we’re all aliens from the planet smarg and Gordon has 3 penises. Dwell on that one over your horlicks.

    • 510
      Insider says:

      Seems probable.

      Darling and Cameron talking.

  130. 488
    • 532
      English Liberation Front says:

      Mr 9.3% Cuts and Mr 100% LIAR Brown. Then to cap it all that prat Izzard, like a malevolent left-wing gnome.

  131. 495
    Hooray! (I think?) says:

    Talking a fucking failures – that Obama arse-hole can’t walk without an autocue 6 inches from his small head.

    March 25th is the day. The books and statistics have been cooked to a pulp by government scum and the dirty lying trash in the civil service. If the filth in Nu Liebore leave it longer, the awful truth will start oozing out like the stinking diarrhoea that oozes out of Brown’s arse all the time.

  132. 496
    Gordon Brown says:

    Just because I like counting the number of grey pubic hairs I got doesn’t mean I’m mad 26, 27, 28..

  133. 505
    denverthen says:

    Here’s a little bit of evidence that the election’s about to be called – and Guido’s source is right.

  134. 506
    Sarah, a simple serving girl at Ye Olde Crooked B ender, summoned by a shifty, evil-looking geezer says:



    Moi Lard?

    SE-LG. Would you like a new dress ?

    S. Moi Lard?

    SE-LG. And would you like to be seen with important people ? . . .

    S. Moi Lard?

    SE-LG. And can you remember a few simple lines to speak ?

    S. Moi Lard?

    SE-LG. That’s settled then. Now have a fresh young boy sent to my room.

  135. 534
    Ryback's Cook says:

    You fools! It’s not the election! They’ve dusted off old senile Maggie to lead a battalion into Argentina!

    The Falklands 2: Electric Boogaloo

  136. 539
    The Admiral says:

    Wartime coalition?…

  137. 558
    Tony B Liar says:

    NOUT ON THE NEWS YOU BUNCH OF LIARS

    • 576
      nell says:

      Patience.

      You ever heard the saying -’slowly slowly catchee monkee ‘ ??

      The electorate’s time is coming!!!

      • 601
        Al Megrahi,s Doctor says:

        Can,t wait, although i have a monumental fear they are going to rigg the whole thing. Desperados.

        • 774
          Susie says:

          They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords,
          Lords without anger or honour, who dare not carry their swords.
          They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes;
          They look at our labour and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
          And the load of their loveless pity is worse than the ancient wrongs,
          Their doors are shut in the evening; and they know no songs.

          We hear men speaking for us of new laws strong and sweet,
          Yet is there no man speaketh as we speak in the street.
          It may be we shall rise the last as Frenchmen rose the first,
          Our wrath come after Russia’s wrath and our wrath be the worst.
          It may be we are meant to mark with our riot and our rest
          God’s scorn for all men governing. It may be beer is best.
          But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet.
          Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

  138. 564
    Down with Brown! says:

    A recession is when your neighbour loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And a recovery is when Gordon Brown loses his.

  139. 568
    Down with Brown! says:

    This video should be sent to every house ahead of the election:

  140. 571
    nell says:

    Interesting point . If gorrdon is going to call the election soon what are the nine labour mp’s for staffordshire doing.

    Is any one of them pressing for an Inquiry into the scandalous deaths of 1200 people in staffs nhs.

    The answer is NO!

    Paul Farrely Mp is openly supporting burnham in a shutdown of the embarrassing siruation.

    Charlotte Atkins MP is also openly suporting burnham to cover up what has happened in Staffs nhs.

    David Kidney ignores the nhs question completely and pursues a nonsense issue about british gas profits.

    mark fisher is fighting off a beenpea challenge to his seat that he might lose.

    joan walley is trying to spin that teenage pregnancies in her patch are lower than they were in thatcher’s day!!!

    robert flello is 1 of the 70 mp’s more concerned with battling to hang on to his ill earned expenses than concerning himself with winning the next election maybe he’s standing down next time!!

    Be interesting to see how many seats labour wins in staffordshire won’t it??!!

    • 584
      nell says:

      I hope guido is not going to keep my modded comment underwraps for too long!

      9 staffs labour mp’s, NINE!! none of them interested in the staffs nhs controversy. Why is that??!!

    • 767
      caesars wife (grand parent edition) says:

      When this storey broke last year , I just put it with dirty Hospitals (which also was a bit fake) , however on this second look , its shocking , I mean 400-1200 people may have died , and no public enquiry !! They have been keeping all this from the public hoping it wouldnt blow , and now it has . They shouldnt lie to everyone like this about such sensative matters .

      I was listening to PHill woolas on DP and he claimed immigration was a erm “more cock up than conspiracy” , what Phil failed to illuminate as well as not allowing Andrew Neil to publish the document on his website , was how a whole sector has been undermined by cheap labour . Evanomics “the day the immigrants left” had me putting my foot through the telly , given that unemployment has not been much below 1million even in the boom (never mind the actual able to work figure) , it was a no brainer allowing more unemployment into the country in a boom period knowing full well you would have a big dependent surplus as soon as the the peak dropped off , with work being undercut in the downturn .

      labour are mad , lieterally mad to have allowed/created this set of circumstances

      • 832
        Disco Stew says:

        Not mad just bad,they knew what they were doing.
        When you allow in low/no skilled immigrants into the country,
        they will vote labour as a thank you or will end up on benifits
        and vote Labour.

  141. 582
  142. 583
    Down with Brown! says:

    Free enterprise can do a better job at producing things people need than government can!

    • 594
      nell says:

      Well of course free enterprise can.

      Keysenianism is a cancer that needs to be eradicated for ever. bunkerbrown and this last 13 years of labour will thankfully mark the death throes of this leaching, failed view of economics.

      • 603
        nell says:

        modded for saying keynsian economics is a cancer??

        Well golly gosh!!

        • 639
          streamfisher says:

          Your not the only one Nell, times I have been modded for things and have ended up being completely baffled as to why.

        • 641
          Steve Expat says:

          nell 587, obviously not that that was modded!!

          • Jim says:

            Labour could win the election or at least be the biggest party, on tonight’s Mori figures of just a 5% tory lead.

            If Brown doesn’t go for it and call a snap election now, he really is a gutless bottling coward. This is the best and only chance he will get before the SHTF over the economy.

          • Sunonmars says:

            how convenient that the polls narrow just now, call me cynical…………….

          • Ed says:

            There’s only one poll that matters but Brown hasn’t got the guts to call it.

          • tim says:

            Mori poll indicates:

            Lab 283
            Con 279
            LD 55
            SNP 8
            PC 5
            Oth 2
            NI 13

            Labour the biggest party.

            Call that election, Gordon!

          • Steve Expat says:

            Oh God, tim from PB has turned up here –

            You know that UNS does not apply in the marginals, and that the ANS poll shows a 50 seat majority for Cameron.

          • JP says:

            The Telegraph’s Andrew Porter is still shilling for Brown:

            Labour could still win most seats, new poll shows
            Labour could still win the most number of seats at the general election, a new poll reveals today.

            By Andrew Porter, Political Editor
            Published: 10:00PM GMT 25 Feb 2010

            The latest survey indicates there will be a hung parliament, but it would be Gordon Brown who would be in the position to try and form a government as leader of the largest party.

            An Ipsos MORI poll looked at those who are “absolutely certain to vote.” Of those 37 per cent said Conservative, 32 per cent Labour and 19 per cent Liberal Democrat.

            If translated into a general election, with a uniform swing, that would see Labour with 19 more seats than David Cameron’s party, but lacking an overall majority.

            http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7316518/Labour-could-still-win-most-seats-new-poll-shows.html

          • Vin says:

            Brown will bottle it again

          • Busted nokia says:

            the coward will only go to the polls when he is pushed

          • Al Megrahi,s Doctor says:

            It,s all happening like you said it would Tap.

          • Turin says:

            The absolute worst Government in history and this is the best the hopeless Conservative party can do. The best thing Dave could do now for the Tories would be to literally drop dead.

          • Anonymous says:

            Yes, that is probably correct. My question is this: when the Tories lose the election, as they will, then will they dump the Eton Rifles? Cameron will surely be replaced and it must be a foregone conclusion that Osborne will go too.

            Labour have been utterly dreadful but they will be returned because the Conservatives are such an awful alternative. Oh yes, and the reason why the Tories will lose? One word: Thatcher. The terror that Thatcher delivered onto much of the country north of Watford is her legacy.

          • Dracula says:

            So how did Major manage to win then?

          • Anonymous says:

            Major arrived during very different economic times indeed.

          • History is whatever you remember says:

            British Grit,Self-Confidence and a soap box ??

          • Gordons battered bell end says:

            Forget the Eton rifles.Its my friend the Loretto loser you should be concerned about

          • Mr Ned says:

            14 million voters were shit scared of Kinnock winning!

          • Brown's a Tosser says:

            You do write a load of nonsense sometimes. Pity you cannot redact this one.

          • I hate New Labour says:

            I almost agree, it’s the Tories fault for choosing a weak PR man as leader…

            However, if Thatcher was that bad, Major wouldn’t have won in ’92.

            I think it’s more to do with the fact people see Cameron as Blair mk2.

            I’m really angry with the Tories for not appointing a real Conservative as their leader. We don’t need 5 years of Blue Labour.

          • Mervyn says:

            TO – Anonymous, February 26, 2010 at 1:31 am

            What you write is such a load on nonsense!

          • Rip Van Winkle says:

            If Labour get in with 5% less votes, get more seats and form a Government there’ll be trouble. In particular in England, where I would have no doubt the Tories would be 10% ahead.

          • Al Megrahi,s Doctor says:

            In the future, this period in british political history will be held up as a shining beacon of how not to succesfully run a country, They will hold lectures on Gordon, the man and his staggering ineptitude. What a legacy.

          • John Bull Printing Oufit says:

            God help us all ! The British Public are determined to let “Mrs Rochester” burn the house down around them it seems !!!!!

            If Labour is re-elected or worse still we have a hung Parliament and THEY are the largest party the subsequent financial meltdown in the currency markets will make Greece look like merely a small ripple to the tsunami that will hit the UK. Govermment Gilts will be next to worthless

          • I hate New Labour says:

            How on earth could Cameron not win this?

            If only the Tories employed first past the post, David Davis would be their leader and he’d surely have slaughtered the fat scottish cyclops.

          • Farmer Tupac from pb.com says:

            tim, haven’t you got any cows that need milking? LOL

          • Britain's Government of mentally unstable, bullying, liars says:

            Wrong, at 7% national it showed a Tory maj of 24: Waffer thin

          • REMPLOY LTD says:

            Well done Cameron You have managed to lose a fucking election that was given to you on a plate ! just stay behind the sofa it’ll soon be over !

          • mondeoman says:

            Not yet he has’nt. Watch this space.

          • The Prime Mongolist says:

            The BBC have done a brilliant job of destroying the Tories, the BBC have earned their drugs this week.

        • 670
          Cross the road when a Keynesian approaches says:

          Since Keynesianism reared its ugly, head there has been only one government that has successfully applied it, but with some extraordinary controls, and that was Hitler and Schacht 1933-36. That’s why the German working class flocked to him and abandoned marxist socialism for the National Socialist variant of left wingery.

          In Britain it failed miserably in the post-War period, the only period when the British economy shook off the dead hand of Keynes was 1979-1997 under you know who. A balanced budget and set fair….for Labour to wreck yet again.

          Britain deserves better.

          Britain is shaping up to be the deathbed of Keynesianism.

          • Beowulff says:

            And of course the German Government was bankrupt by 1939 which meant they had to go out and ‘free up some new resources’to keep the Keynesian dream going.

            But I can’t see Grodon Von Brown leading a fight for lebensraum, though God knows we need some now as a result of his policies.

        • 677
          Beowulff says:

          The machine’s on the blink tonite.
          It took exception to Chuck Berry and Rhubarb for some reason.
          I mean you could understand if it was Rhubarb and Custard.

        • 709
          Marchamont Needham says:

          post 587 would suggest that’s not true.

  143. 589
    lloyd J says:

    Seems like the D Mail/UGov poll distortion is going to work!

    • 602
      Anonymous says:

      Polls in 1992 predicted a hung parliament, mainly due to overstating Labours share. Well, we all know what happened.

  144. 595
    Golden Days says:

    10:14 BBC news website. No mention at all of Stafford hospital slaughter. One Birmingham child, though.

    • 622
      Theodor Adorno and the Frankfurt School says:

      Perhaps the BBC think that one black child is more important than 400 elderly whites?

      • 681
        Accountability says:

        Perhaps you’re right Theo, more important that Balls goes before Burnham

      • 805
        The Grim Reaper says:

        I see her father whinging about more should have been done – obviously eyeing up a compo-claim.

        Obvious retort is; “And where the fuck were you? If you actually visited and spent time with your daughter you might have spotted a problem.”

        • 878
          yourefficient social worker says:

          it is wrong of you to force western styles of parenting onto other cultures…..just because he didn’t bother to see his daughter in the 6 months she was being starved to death doesnt make hin a bad dad.

  145. 599
    nell says:

    Guido why have you let no10/bbc brownites take over your modding.

    Time for bed

    Night folks.

    Don’t foget as you go comfortably to bed that we still have lads , under equipped, fighting for their lives in Afghanistan!!

  146. 618
    Ed says:

    Tonight’s Mori poll for tomorrow’s Telegraph shows Labour now only 5% behind the Tories. With all the economic news about to get far worse Brown will call a cut and run election later this week for March 25th or April 8th.

  147. 629

    Peter Hain – what a twat.

  148. 630
    Moley says:

    Andrew Rawnsley’s book is due to be released on Monday. March1st.

    Would the announcement of an election stop its release?

    Would an announcement on Saturday affect the content of Sunday’s papers, which will have already been written?

  149. 632
    Odds Bodkins says:

    BBC in Save Gordon Mode! Full pelt!

  150. 634
    Ed says:

    Budget won’t be called as there needs to be a Finance Bill to ensure that income tax is collected over a general election. All parties are agreed to this – well all of those who accept that the tax introduced to pay for the Napoleonic Wars still needs to be maintained.

  151. 645
    Will says:

    ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!

    The Tory lead is cut to 5%. (Mori poll) That is hung parliament or possibly even a narrow Labour win.

    Five more years for Gordon the man who saved the global economy from recssion and who is safely steering the UK back to growth and prosperity.

    Swing on it you Tory shit trolls LOL!!

    • 655
      FD says:

      The Tories are in shell shock. They’re staring defeat in the face and they can’t cope with it.

      Fuckin delicious!!

    • 663
      Moley says:

      As the saying goes; there is only one poll that counts and that is on Election day.

      Will you still be laughing then?

      • 673

        To be honest its a Tory win either way.

        If Dave wins Gordon is flushed down the historical toilet.

        If Gordon wins he will have to face the consequences of his disastrous policies that have bankrupted the country. He will have to sack the doctors and nurses and teachers, close the schools, cut the military and raise taxes and interest rates and within a year he will lose an election far more badly than the high standard for failure set by Michael Foot.

      • 674
        tim says:

        Mori poll, MPs by party:

        Lab 283
        Con 279
        LD 55
        SNP 8
        PC 5
        Oth 2
        NI 13

        Labour = biggest party!!!!!!!!!

        Suck on that Tory boys LOL!!!!!!!

      • 685

        Moderator seems to be in Wheelan mode. Nothing allowed.

        All I was saying was if Dave wins its a result. No more McDoom.

        If Macbreath wins then the whole shitty mess will be his to handle. Including the plotters and coups and the Chancellor who is now unsackable and won’t do what he wants in an irony that must have Blair grinning his Cheshire grin day and night.

    • 667
      ben says:

      Oh dear, we’re all going to feel your pain when the only poll that matters is held.

      We’re only waiting now for the bottler to call it.

      WELL, WE’RE FUCKING WAITING……!!!!

    • 692
      Morgan Everett says:

      Are they doing these polls in Scotland?

    • 712
      TH OFF says:

      Which Gordon was that who saved the world economy ???

      Gordon ( Bullyboy ) BROWN ???????????????

      BWAAAAHHHHAAAAHHHHAAAAHHHHHAAAAAHHHHAAAA !!!!!!

  152. 647
    Steve Expat says:

    QT – Liam Fox raises bullying against David Kelly.

  153. 652
    Odds Bodkins says:

    Non-job of the week: “Deputy Director – General and Director, Operations INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION”

    http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/968519/deputy-director-general-and-director-operations?RSSSearch=0&gusrc=gu_jobs_box_World%20news&link=World%20news_jbx_vac&INTCMP=ILCNEWTXT180

  154. 653
    Anonymous says:

    A March Election before more shit comes out about Brown, his Beard, The Economy, Northern Ireland, The NHS, Other Public Services the various wars and other assorted sleaze attached to this repugnant Government.

  155. 659
    ToT says:

    Maguire twittering april 8th election!

  156. 662
    Moley says:

    The co-incident timing between an election announcement and the Tory conference can be used to full advantage.

    Just a little bit of thought is all that is required.

    I think the latest poll results make the chances of an announcement very high, and I think too, that the polls are out.

    Read “Caveman’s” comment on Political Betting.

  157. 665
    Pate en croute says:

    what would Elvis thought of Gordon Brown?

  158. 684
    The Admiral says:

    shhhh or Gordoon will hear you….

  159. 689
    Beowulff says:

    And of course the German Government was bankrupt by 1939 which meant they had to go out and ‘free up some new resources’ to keep the Keynesian dream going.

  160. 690
    Beowulff says:

    For some reason Keynesian is now a forbidden word.

  161. 700
    qwerty says:

    Face it blue nose twat boys…it aint gonna happen for you. Lab majority 20

  162. 703
    Poz says:

    Just had to switch off QT. How do they get away with it???!!!!

  163. 707
    thedarknight says:

    I believe that the polls are rigged. I have noticed that there is a Labour bounce for no obvious reason at opportune times fro the Labour Party. When the geeks at political betting delve into the mechanics there are all sorts of weird weightings going on that give Labour more votes. I believe they are engaged in an attempt to manipulate public opinion by ramping, in the style of astro-turfing used by Axelrod for Obama. They are trying to give the polls a kick by exploiting the herd instinct. I have no proof for this, I just believe it. Am I paranoid? You decide. But these results are awfully convenient … Brown will call an election.

    • 724
      English Liberation Front says:

      I agree with you. The influence of a minority of Left/Labour activists in our society is disproportionate but underrated. They are pulling out every propaganda stop they can to stop the Tories winning outright. They don’t care about Brown – it’s tribal.

    • 741
      Britain's Government of mentally unstable, bullying, liars says:

      Sadly you are an anus

    • 752
      Septic Tank Watch says:

      Every poll must be wrong unless they show a huge lead for Cameron.
      That’s just Psephology 101.

  164. 708
    Gorgon Brown The Prime Mentalist says:

    Hi. Vote for me. My beard had a dead child. It wasn’t mine to begin with but thanks to Herr Campbell, I managed to fake some emotion over her in my pre-rehearsed interview with Piers Morgan.

    Vote insanity. Vote Labour.

    • 753
      Sp33do shorts is back from the bottom of the pond says:

      That’s the last post you will make for while if Fawkes sees it sp33do shorts

      Guido ban hammered you before and he’ll do it again for being such a cu.nt
      You’re a smearing Liebour cu.nt trying to discredit Guido by posting lunatic McBride smears that M’Learned friends would take an interest in

      Fuck off back to Labourlist Hoon

  165. 713
    John Prescott Makes Sense says:

    The problem being that is with this right-wing publications by the conservative supports press and in doing that is that man of honour Brown has integrity will fight honest an election at time is right of his choosing but not pressure coming by Mr Cameron and then that is the Tory press supporting Murdoch is owned and that is.

  166. 716
    Abdul Bassett Hound Al-Megrahi says:

    I’m voting Labour. They helped set me free! And six months later, I’m still on the brink of death from cancer!

    • 888
      Al Megrahi,s Doctor says:

      we are still giving him his meds but its hard to fit them in around his golf.
      Shame they didnt put him in stafford. Burnham would have fixed him up a treat.

  167. 717

    I just hope that Mr. Brown doesn’t ‘bottle it’again by giving the impression that there will be an election, but then being too afraid to call it.
    I couldn’t bear another eighteen months of him hanging on as unelected Prime Monster.

  168. 728
    sunbeds on the titanic says:

    if labour get in again it will be time to take all your savings and get everything that you can abroad……..it will be a re-run of argentina.they will steal your savings and pensions.

    the imf will be called in….

    and they always make a fuck up of everything!

    the u.s is the biggest player-anyone seen what is happening over there?
    $$$$$$$$$$ trillions in debt and real unemployment at 20%……….

    • 775
      Susie says:

      LONDON (Reuters) – Business investment in Britain fell by a record 24.1 percent year-on-year in the last three months of 2009, casting doubt on whether fourth-quarter GDP will be revised higher when a fresh estimate is published on Friday. The Office for National Statistics said on Thursday that business investment fell 5.8 percent to 27.121 billion pounds in the final quarter of 2009, giving the steepest annual fall since records began in 1967.

      The figures were much lower than analysts had forecast and are likely to dampen hopes for an upward revision to total Q4 GDP on Friday, which the ONS estimated last month to have grown 0.1 percent, slower than most economists had expected.

      “The substantial fall in business investment in the fourth quarter of 2009 is a horrible surprise and extremely disappointing,” said Howard Archer, UK economist at IHS Global Insight. “It dilutes hopes of an upward revision on Friday to UK GDP growth … and even raises the spectre that this minimal growth could be revised away,” Archer added.

      Manufacturing investment fell 8.2 percent on the quarter and 35.3 percent on the year to 2.304 billion pounds, while private-sector services investment dropped 8.3 percent in Q4 for a 24.5 percent annual decline to 18.376 billion pounds.

      • 806
        Brown's a Tosser says:

        The above together with some other bad news it seems will see GDP adjusted to a negative figure later this morning or so reports suggest. That in itself will blow away any possible chance that McBust will call a snap GE for late March or early April.

    • 818
      sockpuppet #4 says:

      Good name, 716.

      If labour get in again, the pound will drop like stone. Before you get your money out. Even before “Instantly” because they will anticipate it- they are already anticipating it. You’re already on the Titanic.

      So you should get your money out of the UK now if you are in that mood. Its not as if the pound will be instantly restored to its pre-northern rock value the instant Dave walks up to No.10.

  169. 731
    25march says:

    If only to add fuel to the fire, note that Labour are likely to do quite poorly in marginal seats where students are. The talk from Bristol is that an election early will suit them fine since the students will all have gone home for their Easter hols, thus protecting a few Labour MPs from their Lib Dem/ Tory fate…

  170. 734

    [...] +++BBC Source: News Team on “Red Alert” For Election Call+++ UPDATE: Guido understands that the BBC political teams have been told not to go away over the weekend. [...]

  171. 748
    Ronnie McDonnie says:

    Not long to go now.

    Bye Bye, Gorgon!

  172. 754
    EMPTY YER BIG BLACK SACK IN MY COLE HOLE ASHLEY says:

    Looking at the sheer size of the grave yard tonight
    (all the comments at the bottom of the post that do not have a number )
    i can see that everyone is getting “modded”
    so i might as well just join them
    All i have to say is

    I dont like “Nick Griffin And His BNP Party” That should do it !

    thank you and goodnight !

  173. 755
    The big D says:

    Time to remind Gordon of his 1992 quote against the Tories.

    ““A weak currency arises from a weak economy which in turn is the result of a weak Government”.

    What goes around comes around?

    With sterling heading for dollar parity and below euo parity wonder if there will be a chance to ask him about this little gem on the televised debates?

  174. 759
    REMPLOY LTD says:

    We at Remploy ltd eagerly await the arrival of our newest recruit
    he is a Mr Gordon Brown of downing street London
    his CV states he is “A Born Leader Of Men”
    so we have decided to put him straight in at the top
    as head of the screwing the lids on toothpaste tubes department !

  175. 763
    LABOUR'S FINAL DAYS says:

    I bet this conversation will be taking place at Downing Street…

    “But Prime Minister, we can’t cancel the election. That would be illegal…Yes, I know we do illegal things all the time, like your private slush fund, but cancelling a general election would be hard to hide from the public when they know we have to call one by June…What national emergency?…You want us to create a national emergency in order to postpone the election?…Prime Minister, I cannot go along with such an idea. It’s obscene and fascist…Prime Minister, please don’t throw the secretary out of her chair. I know you hate women but that’s really not the answer.”

  176. 765
    caesars wife (grand parent edition) says:

    Quote of the day had me in stsiches Guido , thankyou for that .

    Being as CW called that it was last sat (some 8 days before the event) , my sources had reverted back to 6th of may , so this bit of news suggests Burnham situation has upset no10s view and dithering abilities . Last saturdays slogan launch , was all the more bizarre with this rumour . Harriet didnt give much away in business questions , Tessa Jowells hubby has had his conviction quashed , and ruin is due to go to chillcott next Friday ,poll lead narrows.

    So either he can get out of chillcott by calling one , or Burnham situation is scarying them potty (well what ever alert levels of pottyness no10 currently use) , as well as ruins ecnomic case collapsing with april stats .

    CW can see how the ruin may have a political advantage in dodging certain events/stats ,yet being as last saturdays slogan launch (cough bottled election declaration) has had no taction , I cannot see why he would think this weekend would . the conservatives are having a spring conference , so he either thinks he can run a drama soaked spoiler , to favour his ambigous posiend well ecnomic strategy , or hes finally realised that the closing months begin to blow the wind in the conservatives favour .
    CW is also convinced that Dave wouldnt be in as much of panic as the ruin might like to think , but he will have to watch how the ruin pitches his spoiler in trying to create a febrile mood. We have all seen how the ruins spin opps work and know that over Time his positions always weaken .

    The hung parliament idea may not work in the ruins favour either , because a second general election later in the year is risky in that all the labour lies will be visible including his ambigous ecnomic ones even the EU has predicted Uk annual growth of 0.7% (which makes Darlings figures a joke), people arnt stupid they know that it was the ruins policies right from 2004 that set the debt supertanker on its course , they know that the numbers are so big that it will take time to undo all all the toxic legacy .

    I still remember that early PMQs when Cameron , looked him straight across the despatch box at the grinning ruin and without any trace of anger as he realised the ruin was going to adopt a scorched earth ecnomic policy and said “we are going to blow you out of the water ” , you know what, CW thinks hes just waiting for that day .

  177. 778
    How can Brown be part of a solution when he is the problem? says:

  178. 783
    albacore says:

    Someone above referred to the herd instinct, a concept which appears to me to be far more critical than is acknowledged.
    The only available lever to turn the herd from its ongoing stampede over the Lib/Lab/Con-excavated precipice will be a massive vote for the B<N<P.

  179. 785
    nell says:

    Ipsos Mori show tory lead down to 5%.

    Now has brown got the nerve to call that election or is he going to bolle it again?

  180. 789
    restandbthankful says:

    It’s strange that over the past couple of days on the BBC business section they haven’t been showing the £/$ exchange rate. It’s usually there – is something happening with the pound against the dollar – parity perhaps?

  181. 791
    Ghost_of_Bankquo says:

    I can’t understand all this talk of doom and gloom just because one poll gives a rather low 5% lead for the Cons. It is like winning by 5 goals and still feeling depressed about it.
    Even 5% will effectively obliterate Brown’s spin machine from puking out any more stifling legislation. Brown really deserves having to go around the minor parties, cap in hand and more glycerine tears.
    The Queen will let the corgies pee on his trouser legs and let him in by the back door.
    It is the humiliation a national destructor deserves to have to bow and scrape to every passing influence, even his SNP – to be forced by the IMF into making even deeper cuts than Osborne would make Brown and his toadies have to work late into the night without overtime while the opposition howls at him and blocks any bill that even smells of Socialism. Can you imagine how the Gorgon will look after 6 months of this? Bring it on I say!!!

    • 820
      sockpuppet #4 says:

      For a start – you never believe the polls. I wouldn’t bet on a football match if i couldn’t guess a result accurate to within 5 goals.

    • 821
      Jack says:

      I think we could get Phil the Greek to top Gordon on one of his visits as well…

      But this will be marvellous when Gordon has to beg the minor parties for a coalition …He will immediately lose his rag and start shouting “you’ve fucked me” or “you’ve ruined my life” and other ciivilised things like that…

      He will be truly titanically demented for the whole workd to see this time…So be warned…

      While Sterling, Gilts and the economy collapse…

      Truth is far stranger than fiction you know…

  182. 797
    udderly 'orrible says:

    Time for another Downfall remake, McHitler Brown as described by Guardian:

    “He’d had very few encounters with Brown in his life, and he was expecting to have a civilised, thoughtful discussion about the details and consequences of the proposal. Instead he encountered a glowering chancellor, puce with fury, who within minutes was picking up pieces of paper from his desk, rolling them into balls, and throwing them at the adviser’s head, screaming: “You’ve fucked up my political career!” Even an outsider was not immune from being treated with complete contempt..”

    http://tinyurl.com/yhzeos7

  183. 804
    Axe The Telly Tax says:

    Britain can’t afford to let Mrs Rochester loose for another 5 years.

    • 813
      nell says:

      I can’t imagine bullybrown surviving a hung parliament and trying to negotiate with the libdems and the snp to form a government.

      We’ve already been told more times that I can count that gordon dictates and when anybody crosses him he throws rages that are completely off the scale . He has got away with that because those rages have been thrown at people inside labour or staff in no10 that dare not speak out.

      Once he starts throwing those rages at the libdems and the snp, and if he has to negotiate with them, he will, his extreme and strange behaviour will all be out in the open in graphic detail.

      I think it might be quite entertaining to watch!!

  184. 807
    nell says:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/gordon-brown/7318723/Gordon-Brown-dismisses-claims-he-accused-Blair-of-ruining-his-life.html

    gordon spinning like a top saying he never shouted at bliar that ‘ he had ruined his life’.

    Given that bliar told friends about it over dinner, apparently, it does appear that gordon is lying again. Becoming a bit of a habit isn’t it? Or is bottler brown trying to imply that it is bliar that was lying about the incident? That’s possible I suppose. What a ‘lovely’government we’ve had for the last 13 years!!

    And that poor old moral compass is looking completely decrepit now, a bit like poor gordon’s face.

    • 810
      Sir William Waad says:

      This is Tony Blair saying something. He will remember the conversation as it ought to have been, from his point of view.

  185. 809
    angelnstar says:

    Friction at City Hall is unavoidable between the various party elements, but there are still lots of positives to take away if you make them a visit.

    http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/mayors-question-time-part-2/

    Big strides made in some areas, some are still a struggle, but Boris’s wit would enliven the dryest proceedings.

  186. 811
    David Cameron says:

    And next on Dancing On Wheels: Stephen Hawking performing ‘The Robot’.

  187. 814
  188. 817
    Jack says:

    O/T

    The Beeb cutting back drastically…

    Have they now understood that we are going to take them apart bit by bit until all that is left is the BBC Library ?!

    No more coke and cottaging then ?

  189. 826
    I hate New Labour says:

    It won’t happen.

    There’s more chance he’ll hang on until June 6th.

    Like most bullies, Brown is afraid of confrontation – and he knows that come the election it will be game over. The job he coveted for a decade gone, never to return.

    I’m actually looking forward to all the new labour wretches revealing the truth once the fear of losing the election has become fact. Brown is in for a very lonely, very miserable existence once labour have no further use for him I suspect.

  190. 827
    Reasons to be cheerful,part 1 says:

    The Guardian – Jenni Russell;

    “Last year I asked a cabinet minister why a reform of which he was particularly proud was taking so long to become a reality. He shrugged. Held up in Downing Street, he said, with the prime minister, who didn’t like it, refusing to make a decision one way or another. Why didn’t he demand some clarity, I asked. You can’t do that with Gordon, he said. He won’t talk to you if he doesn’t want to, and you can’t argue with him if you disagree with him; he just flies into a rage. So what is your department doing, I asked. Waiting, he said. Paralysed.”

    Says it all – the reasons for the 10p tax crisis,the Gurkha’s and on and on – Brown evaluates any project in terms of himself and the micro control he practises,the project drifts and then plunges in to a crisis made by Brown’s terrible management style of interference.
    Brown would not rise beyond a very junior office clerk job in a provincial town double glazing firm.Just happens he got to this position….

    • 830
      jgm2 says:

      Private Eye has been onto this for years. It seems that the island of St Helena was promised an airport years ago instead of relying on an old mail streamer once a month or whatever out of Cape Town. The airport would cost of the order of 20 million quid. A fraction of the kind of money Brown loves to announce he’s pissing away on free laptops for an ad-hoc afternoon sound-bite.

      Apparently it was approved about ten years ago. It just needs the great mans initials on the paperwork. But will he make the decision?

      Will he fuck.

      And if the Falklands doe blow up again wouldn’t it be handy to have another staging runway down in the general area (actually a little bit closer to the Falklands) for ferrying out supplies? No point starting building it now and claiming it’s a ‘strategic’decision.

      Silly c*nt. Just cannot make a decision.

  191. 828
    PHH says:

    How can I contact Guido with information on the extra-curricular activities of a Labour MP?

  192. 829
    Mitch says:

    House prices in the UK went into reverse in February, bringing to an end nine consecutive months of price rises, Nationwide said in the building society’s monthly survey of the market.

    oh dear, more bad news for McMental

  193. 831
    The Prime Mongolist says:

    I see yet another Labour mong has been caught out on Twitter. Fuck me and these halfwits are running the Country!!!

    http://twitter.com/EdMilibandMP

    # hhey, i’ve been having better sex and longer with this here http://www.hurl.ws/c7dx about 3 hours ago via web

    Has he been dating Mandy as well?

  194. 838
    Mitch says:

    The adviser – a sophisticated man, accustomed to professionalism and good manners even at times of stress – could not believe what happened next.

    He’d had very few encounters with Brown in his life, and he was expecting to have a civilised, thoughtful discussion about the details and consequences of the proposal. Instead he encountered a glowering chancellor, puce with fury, who within minutes was picking up pieces of paper from his desk, rolling them into balls, and throwing them at the adviser’s head, screaming: “You’ve fucked up my political career!”

    hahahahahahaha wot a tard.

  195. 840
    Steve Expat says:

    GDP revision – up to 0.3%

    • 847
      jgm2 says:

      Eh? What was that they were trailing in the Grauniad yesterday then?

      300bn quid now buys 1bn quid of ‘growth’.

      • 855
        Steve Expat says:

        That will be in the second revision, end of March apparantly.

        Election called this weekend?

  196. 841
    Boys From County Hell says:

    0.3% Election it is

  197. 842
    Farsical says:

    Economy GDP figures revised to +0.3% growth!

    What a joke.

    Lets hope brown calls an election.

  198. 845
    Not long until Labour gone says:

    UK economy grew by 0.3% in the last three months of 2009, although im not sure how this fits into the big picture….

    • 850
      jgm2 says:

      Story as it stands at the moment. Notice factual but negative comment on the state of the UK economy during the recession.

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8538293.stm

      Wonder how long that wording will stand…

      The initial estimate released last month showed that the UK economy had emerged from recession, having grown by 0.1% in the last quarter of 2009.

      The economy had previously contracted for six consecutive quarters – the longest period since quarterly figures were first recorded in 1955.

      The UK had been the last major economy still in recession.

  199. 849
    anon says:

    Last! Woo Hoo!

  200. 851
    Danko says:

    2010 Q4 revised growth figures out 0.3%

    • 865
      DAVE(has he gone yet?)CAMERON comming to you from CCHQ behind the sofa says:

      Do we believe them ? just before an election rumor
      if we do then it just shows what fuckwitts are working out the figures
      as that is 200% higher than the one they gave us the other week
      how can you be that far out on such a small figure ?
      Today could be the day by- election win, economy “Rocketing skyward ”
      what other great news can labour possably throw at us ?

  201. 852
    julian gardner says:

    Labour win another small election, but look at the number of postal votes

    Electorate Votes Turnout
    In person 4234 840 19.8%
    Postal 2073 1193 57.5%
    Overall 6307 2033 32.2%

    So nearly 2/3 of all votes cast were postal and the result was a bit of a wonder?

    1. Ken Stephenson Labour 854 Elected
    2. Pete Hodgkinson British N&&&&& Party 566
    3. Aaron Luke Independent 213
    4. David Alan Rice Independent 174
    5. Anthony James Lanaghan Conservative 124
    6. Susan Heather Troupe Liberal Democrats 100

    joolz

    • 858
      Steve Expat says:

      Fuck- that was close to being a seat for the Unmentionables.

      • 864
        jgm2 says:

        Still doesn’t justify rigging the result with 54% postal votes though. Look at the dumb Tory with 150 odd votes. I can’t believe he put his back into door-stepping folk with a handy pile of proxy forms.

    • 872
      Gordon(maths was never my strong point BROOOOOOWN says:

      Fuck me that was some by-election
      in person 4,234,840
      postal 20,731,193
      overall 63,072,033
      Where was it India ?

  202. 860
    DAVE(has he gone yet?)CAMERON comming to you from CCHQ behind the sofa says:

    A hung parliament would be better for everyone in the long run
    it means i can still slag off the shite policies of Brown
    without having to think one up of my own

  203. 863

    [...] Yesterday Guido reported that the BBC politics team were on “red alert,” and have been told not to go away over the weekend. While announcing the date of the poll this weekend would overshadow David Cameron’s Spring Forum Speech, and give Parliament a longer ‘wash-up’ period I don’t see it happening myself. This is because Chilcot is the elephant in the room and left not forget that Labour does not have the funds to fight a long election campaign. AKPC_IDS += "5274,"; Tagged with Alistair Darling, Budget, Chilcot inquiry, Conservative strategy, General Election, Gordon Brown, Labour strategy [...]

  204. 877
    restandbthankfull says:

    Is there trouble brewing for MI5? Senior judge criticises MI5. Court ordered the paragraph that has been rewritten a few times to be published in full in it’s original form. SHTF?

  205. 883
    King Pixie says:

    Melchett Brown’s office. Darling is asleep at the desk. Brown comes in with
    a candle. He is wearing a robe, and a hairnet for his moustache.)

    Brown: Darling.

    Darling: (with a start, stands) Sir!

    Brown: Oh, sit sit sit sit… Can’t sleep either, eh?

    Darling: Er, no, sir — thinking about the Push, sir, hoping the Tories will
    forget to set their alarm clocks, oversleep, and still be in their
    pyjamas when you call the election, sir.

    Brown: Yes, yes. I’ve been thinking, too, Darling.

    Darling: Sir?

    Brown: You know, over these last few years, I’ve come to think of you as
    a sort of son. Not a favourite son, of course — lord, no! — more
    a sort of illegitimate backstairs sort of sprog, you know: a sort
    of spotty squit that nobody really likes. But, nonetheless, still
    fruit of my overactive loins.

    Darling: Thank you, sir.

    Brown: And I want to do what’s best for you, Darling, so I’ve given it
    a great deal of thought, and I want you to have this. (picks up
    a piece of paper from the desk and hands it to Darling)

    Darling: A postal order for ten shillings…

    Brown: No, sorry — that’s the UKs cash reserve. (picks up another
    piece of paper) Here.

    Darling: Er, no, sir — this is a letter putting me on the back bench, sir.
    (holds it out, to give it back)

    Brown: Yes. I’ve been awfully selfish, Darling, keeping you back here
    instead of letting you join in the fun and games. This will let
    you get to the front line immediately!

    Darling: But, but, sir, I, I don’t want to.

    Brown: …to leave me? Heh, I appreciate that, Darling, but, damn it, I’ll
    just have to enter Number 10 without someone to carry my feathery hat.

    Darling: (stands) No, sir, I don’t want to go.

    Brown: …without me. I know. But I’m too tired, Darling. I’m just going to
    have to sit this one out on the touchline with the halftime oranges
    and the fat, wheezy boys with a note from matron, while you young-
    bloods link arms and go together for the glorious final scrumdown.

    Darling: No, sir… (walks around the desk to Brown) You’re, you’re not
    listening, sir. I’m begging you, please — for the sake of all the
    times I’ve helped you with your dicky bows and dicky bladder —
    please (falls to his knees), don’t make me–

    Brown: …make you go through the farewell debagging ceremony in the Cabinet.
    Heh! No, I’ve spared you that, too, you touchingly sentimental young
    booby! Look: no fuss, no bother — the driver is already here.

    Darling: (turns, still on his knees, as the door opens; a shadow of the
    driver is cast from the bright light in the next room [extra bright
    for dramatic effect]; the driver salutes) But–

    Brown: No, no — not a word, Alistair. I know what you want to say. I know.
    (Darling stands slowly) Goodbye, Darling.

    Darling: Goodbye, sir.

  206. 885

    [...] data would prompt U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown to call an early general election. The Guido Fawkes blog said the news team at the British Broadcasting Corp. had been put on ‘red alert’ this [...]

  207. 887

    [...] an election looming, sovereign jitters hovering over Europe, plus renewed speculation over the possibility of a [...]

  208. 889

    [...] on from Guido’s post, I have had confirmation from a couple of other news organsations that they too are on [...]

  209. 891
    Flora says:

    And you can also meet many sexy & open-minded gay, lesbian, bisexual at (B i M i n g l e .c om) also couples who would love to explore life as this is the right life style you all love.

  210. 894
    COVLAD says:

    Having watched Question Time I was supprised that two non-white members, out of all that audience, were given an opportunity to speak, about the assault on the Euro-President. Not that they should not have been given time to state their case. But they both attcked Nigel Fararge.

    Did the BBC know that Nigel was about to be called a racist ????

    Visual reinforcement I think they call it

    This is very good… The stupid and gullable will not notice this sort of thing. Easy to dismiss as ‘just on of those things’

  211. 895
    Anonymous says:

    wow – last time I read comments on Guido I don’t recall it being infested by:

    * people who swear all the time because they lack restraint / a good vocabulary
    * right wing racists

    I appreciate this isn’t everyone on here but there are a lot of posts of this nature. The fact that other posters don’t moan about them much also speaks volumes.

    I’m no fan of GB btw. I can’t wait to see him leave office.

    I guess the above plus the fact that this rumour about the election being called was groundless means I won’t be stopping back here any time soon.

  212. 896
    DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

    Hm. Looks like you were misinformed.

  213. 897



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Maybe if they really wanted to “decontaminate the Labour brand” with business people, they shouldn’t have totally buggered up the economy?

Just a thought.


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