There is a certain irony in Lord Mandelson discussing who is and is not suitable for a seat in the House of Lords. Does he really want to go down this route? No wonder the Lords Authorities say they can’t investigate. Has anyone suggested Ashcroft has broken the law? Has Ashcroft been involved in dodgy mortgage cover-ups, shady passport deals with donors and made his millions on the gravy train?
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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”
“I’ve never voted Tory before but if Lord Ashcroft gave me £5M I’d certainly think about it”
I’ve never voted Tory before but I’ll stand behind anyone to stay in power.
As certified hypocrites, we’re all trying to airbrush over previous scandals together.
it all balances out you see?
so the public should be happy to vote for any of them since they are all as corrupt and untrustworthy as each other
you can pick through two piles of shit to see which has the most sweetcorn all you like, it’s still shit
Mandy is a c8nt
Hey Mandy — something to try when you’re at a loose end in June:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254693/BBC-presenter-Kristian-Digby-dead-east-London-flat.html
Fucking spot on Guido !
Mandy is a complete Hunt. He has taken UK politics to a new low. He is a lying theiving bastard lining his own pockets at the expense of the taxpayer.
The sooner this twat is out the better.
Well, yes, HTB, but isn’t the conniving bastard hoping to be an adviser to the Tories??
truth about mandy and chums, see truthseekers website regarding their hobies and interest
Does Lord ashcroft have direct links to Russian Oligarchs?
Yoo hoo Nat, thank you for my lovely time on your yatch at the weekend.
I fell in the water you know, had to spend a couple of hours bobbing up and down on a Buoy, suuperrr!
Nat promised to take me on a banana boat to Australia, he said we could work each others passages naughty boy.
You won’t here much from me know until I pull out of Sidney – ciao English scum.
or holiday / work in Parrot Cay?
Martin,WILL 6 MILLION HELP
You’ve never voted Tory before ‘cos you’re a fuckwitted socialist
So what’s unfair about paying tax in the country where the money was earned?
Ashcroft pays full UK taxes on earnings in the UK and pays full taxes on his other earnings in the country of its origins. That seems fair to the country where the money is made.
Why the fuck should Ashcroft choose to pay any taxes due in Belize to Gordon-spend-it-fuckin-silly Brown. Are the fuckin journalists stupid??
How many of the BBC’s foreign correspondents pay tax on their overseas income to the British Treasury?
prescient point
I so much wanted to hear Hague – in his run-in with Paxman – say to the preening git: ‘So just WTF is it any business of yours where Ashcroft does or does not pay his taxes? Where the fuck do you pay yours? Are you PAYE on the BBC payroll? Just understand one thing, Ashcroft is breaking NO fucking law!’
As it happens, I’ll bet that, like Kirsty Walk, Paxman is a corporation and does not receive a direct salary from the BBC, but through his company (companies?).
Only the Brown Broadcasting Corporation ones – and they do have to obey their orders from the bunker.
More cowardice from Brown. No election called again.
The big announcement was supposed to come 9 days ago, but then Brown bottled it and announced a recycled re-launch of an old 2003 campaign slogan that had not been implemented “Future Fair for all”, and which 7 years later, STILL has not been implemented.
Then last weekend, the BBC told to be on high alert for the announcement… Big speech full of lies strongly suggesting that a trip to the palace was imminent.
And? AND????
Nothing!
So come on tories, keep telling those pollsters that you will vote labour and see if you can finally get Brown to commit to an election.
at least have the decency not to draw attention to the fact that Mr Fawkes got it so very very wrong and it was he doing the announcing
you are a cad sir!
Peter Mandelson goes completely mental at attacking the Tories. is the stress starting to crack Mandy up?
If Mandelson wants to attack Lord Ashcroft for “bringing down the reputation of the House of Lords”, he should look at himself and his past deeds first.
Also, how he can claim that the Conservatives are trying to buy the election, when it’s New Labour that’s thrown money on the chav benefits scroungers New Labour core voters, even sending vastly more money from the lottery to New Labour areas.
We’re still voting Conservative… We’re still voting Conservative… We’re still voting Conservative… just accept Labour’s finished and move on — hey become a non-dom yourself, we won’t miss you.
I watched this interview this morning and could not believe the brass necked cheek of the man. Throughout he refers to Lord Ashcroft by his surname, omitting his title. This from the status conscious minister with possibly more titles than HM the Queen, who took great exception to that hapless Ms Pratt when she referred to him as “Mandelson” once in an interview.
Twice, when asked to comment on Lord Paul’s status as a non dom, he dodged the question by answering that the rules are about to change!
It’s about time that someone with a bit of chutzpah bitch-slapped the rancid old weasel – he has got it coming surely.
If only they would allow a journalist with real balls interview him. Trouble is, he decides who he speaks to and gets compliant labour mouthpieces every time.
201 Mr Ned
And those compliant Al JaBeeBa mouthpieces are ALL cocksuckers!
Mandy’s a slimy bastard. You forgot to add these to the list of Labour Lords’ CV’s:
Destroying your worker’s pension funds.
Facilitating a deal to allow asset stripping of a British Steel company to allow setting up of a Steel plant in India (Mandy’s old constituents, some of who will have worked at Corus will be loving him for that).
Buying influence over foreign governments to allow a Steel plant purchase to go through.
Also, Lord Ashcroft has announced he is coming back to UK to pay UK Taxes, whereas Lord Paul has already announced he’s fucking off!!!
Guido, please keep ramming the hypocrisy down the Bastard’s throats. We need the mainstream to whack Mandy and the Cyclops with this, live on TV. I want to see Brown dragged from No. 10 in a straitjacket, foaming at the mouth. As for Mandy, I want to see the bastard swinging by a rope, wheezing his last breath for all to see. Then we deport his Brazilian Boyfriend.
And you know what happens when people are hung, don’t you?
I’ll be there you can be sure, waiting to lap up my share of the spoils!
Mandelson is just full of bullshit! I’m surprised the lying, hypocritical toad managed to keep a straight face during that Sky news piece. What a piece of work!
See what I mean!!
He They are scared of Lord Ashcroft pure and simple as for steal election mmmm Postal Votes eh Lord Mandybum FUCK OFF
USING CAPS AS IS PRICELESS,OK THEN HERE IT IS IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY YOU CAN SEE 1 EYE,BALLS & HARPY HIDING BEHIND THE CURTAINS SAYING “FUCK ME HE`S ACTUALLY DOING IT” THEN WHEN MANDY GOES BACK IN THEY SPIN THE BOTTLE TO SEE WHO HAS TO DO THE NEXT DARE.
Mandy can be seen speaking up his sleeve yet again!
Is that after the re-sleeving job he had done in hospital a few months ago?
Is that his “Wizard’s Sleeve”?
Stitch me a new one, please!
peaceful night – no marching bands before dawn, all the rehearsals done ready to extend a Brit welcome to South African President this week
http://twitter.com/SarahBrown10/status/9867053039
“peaceful night – no marching bands before dawn”
is this some kind of euphemistic code?
McBroon has found someone who’s equally corrupt to praise and lavish a welcome upon.
Watch Zuma zoom into insignificance over the next few months….
Don’t forget that the great man Zuma has found a cure for AIDS. Just take a shower after rapi.. ahem, sleeping with your partner.
Lotta gold in SA. Brown sez, “Oh lovely, Kruger Rands, how very thoughtful of you.”
Mrs Rochester’s Spouse !!
He’s such a twat
He’s an even bigger twat than me.
Yours,
Mr A Twat
4 Twat Street
Twatingham
Twatshire
Twatland
TW4 4AT.
Nobody in the general public gives a flying fuck about any of this, Tory or Labour, top story on news at 6 give me a fucking break.
NuLabor = Good, Conservative = Bad.
You just haven’t got the hang of it yet Guido, now back off out to play chess at the cafe in the park.
NuLabor = Bad. Conservative = Bad.
I think you’ll find that’s pretty much what the public think these days.
And who can blame them?
Yes, this looks like it will be a historic “turn out” for the “none of the above” party this election. Garnering more votes than ALL the other candidates in the entire election combined.
But do these people who are going to abstain, realise that they area a supporter of the biggest, and potentially the most powerful, and by definition, least effective power block in UK politics?
Whoever wins the election, they cannot claim to have anything like a democratic mandate.
It’s gonna favour the Tories though. The more likely a hung parliament looks, the less likely it is to happen…….hung parliament paradox.
Like in 1992 you mean? when the fear of a Kinnock government drove 14 million people to the polling stations to vote tory?
There is a chance of that, but it looks more and more to me like people do not care who wins, because they cannot stand either of them. So they genuinely do not care if it is labour or tory or hung. So they will not vote.
They might go out to vote if other parties had a chance, but the way the media conditions people (lies) into believing that only labour or tory can win, that will not change, even when only 20% of the electorate end up voting.
Good ole Mandy, he’d spin in his grave he’s so wired.
What arrant hypocrisy from the man.
McBroon and Co have sunk to new depths.
Mandleslime is a twat…Simples
Mandy treats HoL and HoC as his own personal fifedom
“fifedom” – what a splendid new Broonism
I agree.
Mandy has his fiefdom – HOC & HOL
Broon has his fifedom – the UK
Fiefdom even or perhaps it should be thiefdom.
Whatever happened to your brother, Peter?
Where did he go to?
Mandy in the Lords Just shows the hypocricy of the whole system
Why doesn’t Teachers TV have an apostrophe?
http://www.teachers.tv/
der ar no winers and no lozers innit
er, because it would be grammatically incorrect…..
Why don’t moths have balls?
Send your answers on a postcard to be in with a chance to win.
How do you know, have you been ‘feeling up’ moths?
Q. What have you got if you have a mothball in your left hand, and a mothball in your right hand?
A. One hell of a big moth.
You can’t have apostrophes in domain names, just dots and dashes.
and letters and numbers
I’d have thought they have the potential to cause havoc in a URL.
Because it’s TV for teachers (plural)
Not for teacher’s (one teacher, possessive)
or Teachers’ (plural, possessive)
and of course apostrophes are not allowed in urls
Shouldn’t it be http://www.lazygoodfornothingpoliticisedleftywankers.tv ?
I wish we could do away with apostrophes. They arent necessary and dont help to show the sense of a sentence.
Sorry Waad, didn’t understand any of that. apostrophize man!
Have you seen the 10th Edition of Labour’s Newspeak dictionary? No apostrophes. Only one page long.
Good: multiculture, ethnic
Doubeplus good: Labour, Gordon, Socialism, envy
un-good: wealth, history, Britain
thought-crime: aspiration, hope
No sign of the election being called then? No trip down the mall? No sign of our great leader going for his morning run? No gut’s, dethering again, weak and no courage. Drive the country into the ground, weak currency, weak economy, weak man.
Going for his morning run? Has anybody tracked down any of those ex girlfriends yet?
Mandy appears to desire power for power’s sake. It doesn’t matter which party/colour/creed so long as the power is there.
What will be interesting will be his actions as soon as Liebour are trounced at the election – assuming Broon doesn’t change the constitution to prevent one.
He’ll join Tony in a lucrative job with the banker wankers
hmm what about this for an idea, if a person is a career pollie then this should be treated as extended higher education and all pollie earnings be treated as a student loan. The loan would then have to be paid at punitive rates against all future earnings ohh say 95% of gross no matter where it is earned. imagine what the Blairs would do !!!
we could also apply this to benefit scroungers but at a lower rate after they are forced off the system, very easy to do just a simple balance sheet and a set of books would suffice.
we could even go one step further and apply this concept as a cost per child, you scrounge your child pays if you can’t or won’t. or even better, if you are wanting to have a child with no visible means of supporting that child or the system that they will bleed, then you pay a child per child deposit prior to giving birth! hey hmm how about extending that to immigrants etc.
call it forward levied taxation.
i am sure some else can make this sound more sensible than me.
On the ashcroft thing, well if you earn it offshore and leave it offshore why the hell should you pay this bunch of wasters any of it!
Good. Likekit…
He’ll still be a Lord and will try and get a job in a tory cabinet. He has already admitted it!
He could sit next to the Wedgwood.
Why does everyone seem scared of this bloke? Surely people only have to point out that he was fired from the cabinet twice for being well dodgy to destroy any attack made by him on them.
If the redoubtable Mrs. Pratt’s calling him “Mandelson” upset his so much, imagine what someone calling him “Mandy” would do? He’d disappear up his own backside, which given his orientation and self centeredness , would no doubt please him no end.
Have some of this Comical Mandy
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1254755/KENNETH-CLARKE-How-dare-say-crisis-isnt-fault.html
He must have a lot of dirt on a lot of journalists, or more likely, their editors!
Have some of that you C*unt.
Off topic.3 young bbc gay presenters have now died, is there someone knocking em orf.
No
Police sources said that they believe he died in a solo sex game which went tragically wrong.
Arsehole!
It’s called unnatural wastage.
ROFLMAO!
Where is Julian Clary these days?
Chained-up in Mandy’s boudoir?
Not playing with his Fanny – she passed away some years ago.
Time to start on the rest now.
no knocking them orf….
knocking them up !!!
They are probably knocking each other orrrf…
Too much cottaging and jealousy
Nothing unusual about young gay guys dying before their time.
It is quite common and is also known as Darwinism in action!
Mandy on the beeb just now being challenged about the hypocrisy of Ashcroft versus Liebour non-dom peers.
“and all these rules are going to change” is his answer – but Ashcroft is worse… apparently.
BBC challenging Labour? – pull the other one
Listening to BBC radio yesterday they led with the Ashcroft story – evil bad Tories. They also had a 10 second piece on the collapse of the £ but neglected to tell us all why it was dropping faster than a safe hurled out of a helicopter.
It’s greedy bankers isn’t it?
Oh no, it’s because one insurance company bought another. Yes, that’s it.
Quite right – a little too hasty using the word “challenge”
Lord Mandelson DOES want to go down this route.
It is the old “don’t fight with a pig – you’ll both get dirty, but the pig enjoys it..”
Mandy is used to the brutal world of politics, Smoothy-chops Cameron is not.
I agree but Coulson will eat him & spit him out he ain`t in his league why do you think CMD gave him a job i know someone who was at the Basildon Echo with him way back in 89 rekons he don`t take no prisoners
It was very entertaining to see Mandelson appearing on the news last night, giving an interview in very fine black tie. He was so obviously loving dressing up for the occasion!
A good man of the people there…
Oh yes, only the best for Mandy. Note the very nicely cut suits and the £10k+ Patek Philippe watch. And when it came to EU cars, only a Maserati was good enough, apparently.
And Christ knows where his £2.5 million house came from.
Isn’t socialism great?
Before the 20th Century the House of Lords was full of people whose only qualification to sit there was that their ancestors had robbed, pillaged, murdered, sucked-up and schemed their way to wealth and privilige. It is only right that the current incumbants sit there by virtue of their own achievements.
(Robbing, pillaging, murdering, sucking-up and scheming in their own lifetimes)
Mandy is on the TV now digging a hole. Says Lord Ashcroft has brought the House of lords into disrepute. Made a big error in saying Ashcroft’s money will allow the Tories to steal the election when it is called.
… and Michael Martin has not ?
Mandlebum speaking outside No. 10 now – and the hacks are not letting him get away with the Labour non-doms.
He ends up walking away back through the big black door as the question on Lord P a u l come in…
Any links? vids?
Well this rolex wearing non elected peer wants to kick up a fuss.
bring. it. on.
Wasn’t it a Phillippe Patak?
Of course dear boy and my Italian partner has a matching one.
Nothing is too good for the workers!
I think it’s a Baksheesh Oligarch
Phillipe Patak?
Must have been a present from a grateful non-dom trying to curry favour with him…
Mandleson is scum of the Earth..Tories stealing the election!!!!!!!
If this goes viral,he may regret such words.
I still believe in the fundamental decency of the British people.
Labour needs to be punished.
excellent plan. Bankrupt the Country now – give billions away – snort, whimper and whinge about the tories being toffs and when they win bleat that the election was ‘stolen’. That will really make me laugh – the unelected peer and the unelected PM greetin about the theft of their jobs….
Quite a lot of what he says recently gets more bizarre.
He`s like a mad Panto Queen priceless
More labour doublespeak. They always accuse others of being disgusting and cheating by doing what they themselves are doing. It is called transference.
The idea being that if you criticise your opponents for doing what you yourself have been doing loads of, and raise a big stink about it, people will be to disgusted by it to look at what you have been doing yourself.
in this case, from what others are saying, it looks like labour might not be getting away with it this time as the more they are pointing “look at that disgusting pile of shit over there”, the more we are shouting “What about your own, even bigger, pile of shit over here?”
Labour does need to be punished indeed!!!
Caption Competition:
Lord Mandelson detects the stench of New Labour hypocrisy.
Arsenal
Yup, that stinks too!
O/T
German High Court has declared the storing of E-mails, Internet and Telephon connections on databases for illegal, according to the german constitution. All data has to be removed immediately. There is still hope
Brown and Blair were locked in a mutual loathing far greater than even Thatcher and Howe as Rawnsley reveals
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/161282/Gordon-Brown-believed-Blairs-left-pram-out-to-taunt-him-over-baby-s-death-
Mr Rawnsley wrote: “The Blairs lived in the flat above No 11. They would leave little Leo’s pram parked outside the flat door, where it was visible to the Browns.”
Mr Brown allegedly continued to nurse this grievance for years.
“Brown would continue to rage about the Blairs’ ‘cruel treatment’ of him and his wife, bringing it up with one minister a full five years later,” the book recounts. Mr Brown was convinced that they had tried “to deliberately remind him that the Blairs had what was taken tragically from him.”
He went on: “They were perhaps insensitive, but outside Brown’s paranoid imagination there is no evidence that they meant to be malevolent.”
Mr Rawnsley also revealed senior Cabinet colleagues believed Mr Brown was mentally unstable. Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, is said to have told Mr Blair to put up a sign saying: “Remember: The Chancellor is mad.”
And he hints at the origin of a comment that caused uproar in 1998, when a “secret No10 source” said Mr Brown was “psychologically flawed”.
Spin doctor Alistair Campbell had “always publicly denied it was he who called Brown psychologically flawed”, wrote Mr Rawnsley, adding: “He had to maintain this line to remain in his job.” Mr Blair, he said, was “entirely in agreement with the assessment. Blair told a friend that ‘psychological flaws’ was not the half of it”.
But about the Blair’s we COULD believe it?
Who’s the worst dysfunctional person/family – Brown or Blair? Wouldn’t like to call that one, tbh.
All too true.
Who would believe that nice Tony Warcriminal would ever do anything bad?
He has such a nice smile after all.
Yep, Brown was left brooding too long and went over the boil as Tony reneged on his promise to step down.
We all knew Campbell was the one who started it all with the ‘psychologically flawed’ leak.
But I seriously doubt anyone believes Blair and Cherie didn’t despise him and would do everything in their power to keep him off balance and away from Tony’s job.
Blair was happy to have a lunatic in charge of the Treasury, with the drastic consequences we see now. Just so he could prance around the stage himself. Utterly disgusting…….
Jesus wept – Brown really is a psychopath
Downing Street has been a bastion of quality and cordiality for years, then the NuLab scum move in and start sqabbling like a Gorbals tennement dwellers – When will these communist fuckers leave our politics for good?
see u jimmy.we wudda chivved em by now
I hope that was ironic ?
I doubt it’s ever been quite so personal and full of loathing in modern times as between Brown and Blair but the idea that 10 Downing Street was ever the home of a Genteel Tea Party is laughable.
Major had his bastards and Thatcher was stabbed in the back as she saw it. If Dave does get in he’d best get wear a knife proof vest at all times.
Paranoid definitely, psychopath certainly to a degree.
It is a profile that fits most of those working in the City and in cut-throat jobs like politics though.
There are very few Politicians you would actually want to spend a great deal of time with and Brown clearly isn’t one of them. Of course outside of Politics they might be less unstable as their families will attest, but they are never are outside of Politics very much if at all.
And even if you don’t go into Number 10 a bit doo-lally you sure as shit leave it that way as almost every Prime Minster has proved.
Where did his £20,000 Patek watch come from ?
Ratners?
Doubt is – they only sell crap. What I really meant was who paid for it. I think the boyfriend is training to be a nurse, so don’t imagine he sprang for it – the watch.
Surreptitiously removed from the cold dead hand of a patient in the hospital morgue?
Ooops – Lesson 1) Read the blogs more carefully
I would have a ‘stab in the dark’ (I bet mandy would like that) and guess that it (the watch) may have been a present from Deripaska.
Rich Russians and yacht owners like to give gifts, to oblige you to help them in future if they need it sort of thing. It would not surprise me if old Mandy was not being black mailed into helping ruin the country over some sordid gay orgy that took place on board Queen K…..
Time for some cross-hairs on this scum.
…and a cock up my bum!
Mandlescum is asking for a probe apparently. What a chump.
Mandy’s always after a “probe”
Pillow biter Reinaldo is prolly non-dom. Has mandy gifted him anything recently?
He has apparently moved on from him and is currently getting stuck up a young Italian boy’s loggia.
Mandy is always slips me a wee thing now and again.
Do think that’s the arrangement? I always had Mandelson down as Martha, rather than Arthur.
Mandy is forever making small deposits in the appropriate Reinaldo quarters!
As the EUSSR special compliance and enforcement commissar in the former UK now known as the administrative region of La Manche Peter Mandelson will be staying in power even IF the Tories are elected.
People think that Mandelson is a labour minister when in fact his role from the second he arrived back in the UK was that of EU overseer, IF Cameron is elected he will ‘invite’ Mandelson to join his government giving him a leading role.
Our government is being subverted and taken over in order to harmonize all its institutions and departments with the continental system, in order to oversee this transition to subject region status an enforcement and compliance czar has been planted in the heart of HMG and his name is Peter Mandelson.
The EU has a plan and they are sticking to it, after the next election the plan will include removing the voter from their role and excluding them from the political system leaving in its place a fake anti democratic system that simply gives the illusion of voter participation, this will happen if any of the big three or a combination of them takes over.
This coming election has been rigged in favour of the EU power grab and If Cameron is elected and he offers Mandelson a place then we will all know the true nature of Camerons modern party but by then it will be too late.
The coming election will be our last ever free vote in a sovereign nation so its worthwhile taking part!
Rubbish
Is it Pip?
Not long now and all will become clear, you fail to understand the essential nature of the new world order common purpose of our so called democracy.
Cameron congratulated Ashton, a grubby Marxist shite never elected to any office and he actually congratulated her, if he is happy to work under a scumbag like Ashton and vandamprag does it not ring alarm bells?
Worryingly, I fear there is more than a grain of truth in this. Where does Mandelson’s prime loyalty lie? Remember that EU pensions are paid on the understanding that the EU can remove this pension, if in the view of the Commission or the Luxembourg Court, they “fail to uphold the interests of the European Communities”.
It is called Hunt-sultative De-mock-ra-see.
You will hear the word ‘Hunt-sull-tay- tion’ alot in the future.
It’s ‘New Speak’.
“But we held a ‘Hunt-sull-tay-tion’. They all have to die. It was agreed.”
The thing is. Who are the C/nts ?
You ?
O dear. Will not work if moded like this. The point is lost.
Absolute bollox.
Is it really Peter?
Not long now before we find the true nature of Cameron, I will be expecting an appology in due course OR will happily issue an appology, but lets wait and see eh?
Always makes me wonder what the proper lords think when pricks like Mandy, Archer etc join them. I bet there’s a clique within, where these obvious scammers get the cold shoulder. There must come a point at which the whole institution has been debased so much it collapses due to its sheer lack of credibility.
It’s a bit like a geriatric “The Hustle” – but on the wrong side.
72 There are very few ‘proper’ Lords left – BLiar finished most of them off and filled their places with a load of common ZaNuLieBor troughers.
They are using my plan
They’re just there to wave through badly thought out, half baked legislation, with troughing as a sideline. No wonder the country is fucked.
FUCKIN UDDIN SAY NO MORE
Bounders and scoudrels sir
Oi! You bastards talkin about me?
Anyone with a grain of common sense would ABOLISH THE HOUSE OF LORDS
It’s just become the home of fiddlers, frauds, non-doms and assorted clusterfuckers…
I’m inclined to agree.
When the Lords was heriditaries supported by Lords Spiritual and a few appointees, it may have been all wrong in theory, but in practice it worked rather well. The hereditaries in particular, rarely had a political axe to grind, and saw the work as a duty. It was often said that the quality of Lords debates was far higher than Commons equivalents, but most Lords work is the meticulous scrutiny of legislation in Committee with a view to improving it’s workability and fairness.
Since the hereditaries have been turfed out, we’ve had expenses scandals, ammendments-for-sale scandals and the deliberate packing of the House with placemen.
If it isn’t broken yet, it’s nowhere near as good as it was a decade ago. Time for a big re-think.
So you want more ‘elected’ representatives, do you? You want more spineless, moronic, robotic wankers sitting in the ‘other place’ to rubber stamp shit legislation that the toerags in the Commons either don’t inderstand at all or simply have no idea at all as to how such legislation would be enforced.
So more politicians is the answer to the UK’s problems? Right.
And about the only organisation in the last few years that has – perhaps ironically – perhaps, stuck up for democracy, habeas corpus and all the rest of the social and legal institutions that the Labour government has tried to consign to the wasteland that has kept Britain a relatively decent country for the last, oh, let’s say few hundred years.
Much as my gut instinct in theory is to agree that a second chamber should be elected, in practice, the HoL has actually done a damn good job, precisely because so many of the incumbents aren’t elected – they don’t have to suck up to donors or party whips or the electorate or sign up to the latest social misadventure, but can apply some common sense and can actually make decisions based on the best long-term interests of the country.
Does that mean he wants to get rid of that fat-arse scottish wanker who was the speaker?
McFatarse?
McTosser?
What the f**k was his name?
Gorbals mick,as he loves to be called
Tenement please.
Why is Mandy holding his nose in the picture?
To stop the spunk dripping out.
You’ve got to admit that Mandy is good at this sort of thing, in the same way that Mr Methane is good at farting.
Yeah, Mandelson and Lord Browne have swapped chickens:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-457914/Mandelsons-partner-linked-Lord-Browne.html
2009.
“So Até a Vista! then, Reinaldo, the man who, for a number of years, has had the least enviable job in Britain, sucking Mandelson’s cock.
His former employer/ lover has “struck up a friendship” with a 32-year-old Italian fashion designer, Marco Coretti, owner of a chic boutique close to the Spanish Steps in Rome. They were apparently introduced to each other by Reinaldo, whilst on holiday in Italy.”
Isn’t it romantic.
At least Reinaldo got British citizenship out of it. A personal gift from the Good Lord.
You could not f*cking make it up, could you?
The Unflushable Turd always tosses off his ladyboys once they get too old.
There was a saying in the navy
“The hand that wanks the captain rules the ship”
What do they say about the hand that rocks the cradle?
Coretti looks a though the mowing machine has just run him over…
I’m fucking insane i am.
I thought i just saw Mandelson lecturing on ethical behaviour.
I’m emigrating to Somalia.
I’ll come with you as soon as i get out. This country is run by lunatics.
Why are we debating anything Mandelson says? The man is a has-been.
The Conservatives shouldn’t be defensive about this, they should be on the attack.
The Conservative Party response should be along the lines of:
“Regarding Mandelson, well he would say that wouldn’t he? This is politiking of the cheapest and mose base kind. We will take no lessons on propriety from a twice disgraced former minister, or from a party whose leader’s own leadership bid was part-financed by a non-dom, whom they have since made a Privvy Councillor, or from a party who had the police turn up at No.10 Downing Street to question the Prime Minister of the day about corruption. We will not answer any more questions concerning Lord Ashcroft until Labour fully disclose the dom status and tax status of their very own suspected non-dom contributors.”
We should all be more aggressive in using the Freedom of Information Act. Why hasn’t the Conservative Party site not have details of what can be released under FoI and how to submit an FoI request?
Absolutely spot on – why do they not go for these open goals?
Lord Paul, one of the Labour party’s most generous donors, said his primary residence was a one bedroom flat in Oxfordshire when he allegedly really lived in London.
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The flat was part of the three star Bignell Park Hotel, near Bicester, which is owned by the Paul family.
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Throughout the time he claimed it was his main home, it was allegedly lived in by the then manager of the hotel, Mark Stevens.
Lord Paul told a Sunday newspaper: “I don’t say that I stayed the night – I said that it was available to me
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“That was my main address because I was spending time there. The manager lives there and I always had the opportunity to tell him to go and sleep in the hotel – if I wanted to sleep.
“All I knew that if I wanted to sleep there, he could go to the hotel room. It didn’t .happen.”
Lord Paul designated the flat as his main residence between 2004 and 2006, which allowed him to claim expenses for staying in London while the Lords was sitting.
SPOT ON !
Cameron Take fucking note ! Get a spine you useless Hunt otherwise you’ll loose my vote !
Good to see the Tories attacking Brown in Canary Warth
Wharf ooops
wart would have been right
Let’s have a real investigation of all the peerages purchased under Zanu Labour…
The list is long…
oh go on publish it.
Laughin at Little Lord Sodomite, when Brown get’s back in he’ll be dump the defraudin cocksucker faster than Blair dumped bullying, lying, mental Campbell.
Along with badger,milli-no-bottle,man-o-straw,Bob Aintworth,Harpy, have I missed anyone out
I had a tenner on McDoom calling a March election. Talk about the fucking Jonah effect, a tenner is a lot of money these days, even though it’s worth fuck all.
labour have become way too complacent and Parliament has become way too lapse in my opinion so pleased to see sally bercow twittering about having to move out during general election campaign.
There’s no need for her to move out?
If she was that bothered about proprierty and political independence she wouldn’t have announced she was standing as a Labour candidate?
What are the odds on Mandy finishing up in prison in the next 5 years?
Could be worth a flutter.
He’d enjoy it too much for my liking.
He’d be welcome in my cell.
Who wants a private proctologist?
no, you stink
he wants to be the filling in the sandwich
Leave Lord Mandelson alone! Ghastly right wingers, he is a fine and noble public servant
He’s got a lovely deep rectum too
I love it,
The Tories and NuLab are shitting themselves because anybody who cares and was ever likely to vote for them, has seen right through them.
The scum has truly risen to the top of the Westminster Cesspit.
No new Ideas, No real Changes, just more of the same….
Thievery, toughing and idleness, thats all they can do!
and, they are not even clever at that!
Perhaps the Tories are shitting themselves a little less so. A poor turnout favours them.
we love them
The old hypocritc Fondlebum always gives me a laugh with his pompous statements…all said with a straight face too! We’ll miss him when his retires to Monte Carlo to spend the millions he’s tucked away!
No we won’t. The sooner that two-faced, lying, hypocritical sleaze-bag disappears permanently from politics the better for all concerned.
What has Monte Carlo done to deserve him?
It’s hard to believe this filth could get reelected in May, April or whenever it happens.
Mandelson could be Ambassacor to Iran, they’d fix him.
Hmm – accusing Ashcroft of using money he should have paid in taxes to steal the election, forgetting 1) he’s in Downing St and not covered by Parliamentary privilege 2) Ashcroft could afford Carterwhatsits fees without batting an eyelid. Might not be so much of those millions left after all when he retires to oblivion.
Does that c*unt want a second helping yet?
I don’t mind chicken shit on my dick
Some chicken, some dick.
One thing the Mandy outburst has revealed, is that Labour are still shitting their pants over what Ashcrofts money has achieved in the marginals.
Mandy sniffs his fingers after sorting out another mess in Gordons chutney cupboard.
hmm what about this for an idea, if a person is a career pollie then this should be treated as extended higher education and all pollie earnings be treated as a student loan. The loan would then have to be paid at punitive rates against all future earnings ohh say 95% of gross no matter where it is earned. imagine what the Blairs would do !!!
we could also apply this to benefit scroungers but at a lower rate after they are forced off the system, very easy to do just a simple balance sheet and a set of books would suffice.
we could even go one step further and apply this concept as a cost per child, you scrounge your child pays if you can’t or won’t. or even better, if you are wanting to have a child with no visible means of supporting that child or the system that they will bleed, then you pay a child per child deposit prior to giving birth! hey hmm how about extending that to immigrants etc.
call it forward levied taxation.
i am sure some else can make this sound more sensible than me.
On the ashcroft thing, well if you earn it offshore and leave it offshore why the hell should you pay this bunch of wasters any of it!
barren island-muslims-nuke.job done
bit extreme mate
barren island for pollies, scroungers and any general arse holes yes, Nuke nawwh couple of warships stationed around the island would be fine. nukes screw up the weather!
Running low on anal lube, Mandy goes for the snotty finger technique.
you bitch,now I know you were with him that night
We will deal with this
What’s Mandy’s Tax status — maybe the BBC will enlighten us.
How much Tax do Ministers and MPs pay? We get all the shouting from this crowd possibly to cover up their own shinikins.
Hague wrote to Blair in 2000 that Lord Ashcroft’s new status would mean that he would be paying millions of pounds each year to HM Treasury. After yesterday we now know that for the last 10 years that was clearly not the case.
So two questions remain for the Leader of the Opposition (Hague/IDS/Howard/Cameron) to answer;
1) What did they know about Lord Ashcroft’s “arrangement” post-2000? , and
2) When did they know it?
Guido has made a very pretty graph in the next topic – a sort of “compare the ermine.com” the chart shows quite clearly exactly who has questions to answer and it is not William Hague or IDS or Howard or Cameron.
HELLOOOO Lord Paul and Brown and Mandlson
Hague liftd his lip smakin thirst quenchin type speech straight off Guido from a post bout 10 days ago
Hague should be leader of the Tories then one could at least tell the difference between them & Labour (New or Old).
There is something so unsavoury about Mandy that even Barry Manilow would probably change the title of his song after a meeting with this sleazy money grabbing, false god!
“Oh Andy, you came and you gave without takin’ and I sent you away…”
“Has Ashcroft been involved in dodgy mortgage cover-ups,”
If you’d ever thumbed through the Auld report you’d realise that’s not necessarily a rhetorical question. One has to be careful of course as Lord Evil is suing the Indo over this.
But of course as a staunch anti-sleaze campaigner no doubt you’ve already blogged this extensively.
The stench of rotten peers!
Of course, mummy left me enough money to buy my mansion, allegedly!
Why no meaningful investigation of the facts!
Quote from Lord Fondlebum:
“He [Fondlebum] added: “Frankly, this reflects poorly on the House of Lords. Lord Ashcroft is bringing the Lords into disrepute.”"
You couldn’t make it up, could you?
So Lord Mandelson thinks that Lord Ashcroft is bringing the Lords into disrepute does he? That is about what I would expect from someone who has been “elevated” to the Lords despite his own dodgy dealings and a “man” who was sacked twice from high office for being dishonest.
However, how he has the cheek to call Ashcroft disreputable is beyond belief, especially as Lord Ashcroft hasn’t actually done anything wrong or broken any UK laws. Contrast this with these fine upstanding Labour peers, who were all guilty of taking cash for questions. They are still there troughing though:
LORD TRUSCOTT OF ST JAMES
Peter Truscott, 49, is a former MEP and energy minister. He was one of Tony Blair’s special envoys to Russia. He became MEP for Hertfordshire in 1994 and was made a life peer in 2004. He has seven consultancies and four non-executive directorships and is an advisor to Gazprom in Russia.
LORD MOONIE OF BENNOCHIE
Lewis Moonie, 61, is a strong ally of Gordon Brown. Ennobled in 2005, Lord Moonie earns £35,000-£40,000 to lobby for Edinburgh-based Americium Developments. He is on advisory boards of Northrop Grumman IT and software company Perseus Global, and is senior advisor to Pharmathene Ltd.
LORD SNAPE OF WEDNESBURY
*Peter Snape, a 66-year-old former railwayman, is a friend of John Prescott and veteran of Labour politics in the West Midlands. He was MP for West Bromwich East for 27 years, and spent four years as a whip. He is consultant to transport company First Group, manufacturing firm Sterling Lloyd, and Halton Gill Associates.
LORD TAYLOR OF BLACKBURN
Thomas Taylor, 79, a former magistrate, was an expert on school management. He sat on the Lancaster University council for more than 30 years and was a Blackburn councillor from 1954 to 1976. He is friends with Jack Straw. He lists five consultancies, is president of Wren’s Hotel group, and holds three non-executive directorships.
And then add Michael John Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, enobled for his memorable services to the UK Parliament. Unbelievable.
Labour have absolutely nothing to complain about until they get their own house in order.
Someone should take Mandy to task for calling our Guards soldiers “chinless wonders”, since when our boys have been giving their lives for his frigging government.
[...] is a dangerous route for Labour to go down, on many levels. Not only (as Guido points out) is Mandelson not really the best poster boy for clean politics, but it risks drawing more [...]
Can we get an investigation into how Mandy made his millions ?
He has systematically abused his public position to feather his nest. He is a disgrace & to see the Hunt on TV spouting for an investigation into Ashcroft beggers belief.
At least Ashcroft has not claimed any expenses for attending the Lords & he set up CrimeStoppers.
Now what has Mandy done that is so memorable to British Society…. fuck all !
Don’t worry, as long as you can see him, Mandleson’s message is completely nullified by the insincere facial expression. Come to think of it, his inability to produce the appropriate non-verbal behaviour is a characteristic shared by both Brown and Balls. At least Blair lied convincingly. If you’re reading this, Mandleson, I accord you the courtesy of addressing you as ‘Lord’ when you do the same for Lord Ashcroft.
Last week Prescott on temper management and anti bullying. This week mandelson on financial
probity and ethics. Good to see the labour party still do irony.
I am absolutely delighted you all appreciate my performance…sorry interview… today after my invaluable input at cabinet.
I know something about dodging around in the dark..failing to be clear about financial arangements..obfuscating when being asked to answer a question when it relates to my own party’s donors and believe me when it comes to making it up to suit my audience I am a master.
Don’t tell me or expect me to admit that my former prime minister Tony Blair passed the law that allows Ashcroft to help fund the Tories and our donors give us money because these rules are changing.
Because Ashcroft wishes to give his money to the Tories and help them get elected at the forthcoming election I don’t like it, it isn’t fair and it has got to stop. I realise he doesn’t even claim expenses for his Lord’s attendance.. something I consider to be a disgusting betrayal.
Our donors are different they just give us huge chunks of money and do normal things such as asset strip our companies or pension funds and then clear off when we get chucked out…they are not involved with us politically we are just friends who share the same values.
So in summary I am right now always have been and always will be..you are incapable of understanding my objectives and what really drives me forward to line my own pocket because I am, like our great leader, getting on with the job of stooping as low as it gets..I’m limboing under doors at the
moment.. weaseling my way through to the election so that when the day comes to count the postal votes we won’t need them anyway…the budget will have done all the ‘buying of the election’ we’ll need.
Remember on May 6th..Vote Labour…a fairer double talking slimey two faced shafting for all.
Bye plebs.
Is Mandy trying to hide the fact that his nose is getting longer in that picture above Guido?
Is Mandy trying to hide the fact that his nose is getting longer and longer in that picture above Guido?
Watch the DP Show on I player best Tory PPB you will ever see Liebour have nowhere to hide WE ARE FUCKED double dip here we come our bonds are worth less than Italy`s what the fuck
Labour politicians in the House of Lords – is there a worse hypocrisy?
Fuck ‘em all.