March 2nd, 2010

Official : The Market Hates Labour

Today has been a rather heavy day for evidence based blogging, but one more graph:

Every time Labour show a whiff of recovery the pound crashes.


310 Comments

  1. 1
    Martin Day says:

    Vote Labour

    • 7
      Gordon Brown's Press Officer says:

      Stop talking down this country Guido.

      A dirty Conservative tactic

    • 8
      Mitch says:

      might as well…..

      • 24
        Martin Day says:

        I blame the Laurel & Hardy of British politics,David Cameron & George Osborne

        AUSTERITY AUSTERITY AUSTERITY AUSTERITY

        Those Tory clowns know how to frighten off the electorate

        The election race has tightened over the past month after the economy emerged from recession and Conservative warnings of years of “austerity” to tackle the deficit frightened some voters.

        • 27
          • Hitler was a Socialist says:

            Useful analysis from Ken but unfortunately he is tainted by his Euro fanaticism. If he had his wish we would have been in the Euro unable to devalue and consequently unemployment would be several million higher. No UKIP is the obvious answer!!

        • 39
          The Dirty Rat says:

          FFS. Martin you really are a boring cnut. Just pop off and do something useful like squeezing your spots.

        • 43
          Paint along with Nancy says:

          Yeah! Let’s keep a-borrowin’ and a-spendin!

          Wotz a poxy £1.5trillion debt, eh? Let’s go for £3trillion!

        • 50
          Gormless Bruin says:

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

          Labour = financial incompetence

        • 54
          English John says:

          Pop back into your box with Polly Toynbeeeeee and check the syntax in the Gruniad

        • 91
          Martin Day says:

          I am #1 Troll aren’t I Lord Mandelson? Would you like me to accomodate your throbbing light Sabre again?

        • 154

          I tell you what “austerity” is: people taxed to buggery to pay for the Salaried Unemployed.

          We need to stop taxing the very poor, cut spending by well over £100bln (well on the way to £200bln) and start paying off the deficit.

          People who aren’t taxed as much tend to do three things:

          1. They help their family. Why should any money I give my mum be taxed by Gordon so he can fund people who make my Mum’s life a misery, eh?

          2. Save it. This brings down the cost of borrowing for companies wishing to start or expand. Makes them more competitive, increases employment and wealth creation.

          3. Spend it. People are employed to make and sell what is bought. They go on to do the same.

          A virtuous cycle.

          If you tax more

          1. People have less to spend, save or donate (btw Govts cannot do charity. Charity is voluntary and taxes are coercive).

          2. Companies cannot expand due to higher costs of borrowing, and they are less likely to due to above

          3. More people in the cogs of government = more friction.

          We need light, not heat.

          • Hitler was a Socialist says:

            A lot of useful points but how do you manage the period of transition in which the deficit is being cut!! This is the issue on which absolutely no political party seems to have a clue. if you suddenly remove drugs from a drug addict the addict becomes very ill. it is the same with the economy. I agree with you as to where we ought to be but I doubt if British democracy is robust the onslaught that will be unleashed if massive cuts in public spending are introduced. In short I believe we are well and truely F***ed!! perhaps we could try invading Poland perhaps that would work?

          • You have to cut taxes as well as spending and focus that on the lowest paid.

            A flat rate above £12k, zero below.

            Raise VAT to 20%. VAT is charged on all products sold, imported or domestic, but not on our exports. Lower employment taxes will make our exports more competitive, drawing in wealth.

            We should lower corporation taxes too, so that companies consider booking their taxes here, bringing in profits to the UK.

            The biggest issue is probably the pubic sector Unions.

            As far as I am concerned, the key things to keep running (but made more efficient) are Elderly Care, Mental Health and abandoned children. These people cannot protect themselves nor seek alternatives easily. Using them as bargaining chips is sick and any Union striking that would affect those services even though the frontline would not be affected should be hung out to dry.

            Road repairs keep going but not alterations. Why road repairs? They are the arteries of the economic body. Libraries tick over but can accept donations of books that those who want to keep libraries will obviously support (money, meet mouth). Keep binmen going for now and just deal with them in terms of the ongoing normal quest for efficiency.

            I think that is the message – put money where one’s mouth is. If you want something to keep going, contribute to it even if you do not use it yourself.

            LEAs swallow large amounts of the Educational budget for what? Let schools get the money and decide if the LEA gives value for services rendered otherwise provide in-house or via such things as mutuals between schools.

            I could go on. I usually do.

          • I'm speechless says:

            Maybe we could persuade them to run our economy for us.

        • 199
          Brown's Buggered Britain says:

          “Those Tory clowns know how to frighten off the electorate”

          It’s Brown who scares us all shitless!

    • 11
      Anonymous says:

      zzzzzzzzzzzzz

      • 63
        anon and on says:

        Guido, slightly confused my old beanie: yesterday you said the prospect of a hung parliament was spooking the markets and today you are saying they are spooked by a majority Labour government.
        Which one is it?
        I think it is the recovery of the majority Labour government that is spooking the markets but that rather torpedoes your hung parliament theory.
        Doesn’t it?

        • 164

          Any Government with Labour in it will precipitate the collapse of our economy.

          FACT.

          Everyone thinks that Labour are Economic Knob Jockeys.

        • 240
          Osama the Nazarene says:

          anon and on you are indeed an idiot. Where did Guido say “…a majority Labour Government that is spooking the markets…“?

          What he actually said was “Every time Labour show a whiff of recovery the pound crashes.!”

          So every time liebor show a whiff of recovery we are not heading for a liebor majority but for hung parliament territory!!!

        • 279
          Cutter says:

          Nar, because if Labour get back in, we’re fucked.

          In a hung parliament, Labour would probably cling to power by means of a coalition with the Lib dems, who’ve been out of power so long they’ll happily whore themselves for a sniff of it.

          So either way, the markets are spooked.

          All that will reassure them is a Tory victory.

          So Guido’s point is still valid, whichever way you look at it.

          • Tories Buy Superior Educations But They Are Still As Dim As Labour says:

            Alternative contradictory posts cannot by definition be valid.
            DOH!

    • 92
      Martin Day says:

      Am I one of you big boys now, can I stay here please?

    • 162
      herewegoagain says:

      Just the usual pre-election manufactured crisis; whoever ends up in number 10 will get the usual scare stories, and veiled threats to be nice to the Financial Services Sector. Lads, you should have broken them up during the ‘Credit Crunch’ – when you had your chance!

    • 163
      Up sh1t creek says:

      The Daily Politics on the sinking Pound, part 1

    • 169
      Up sh1t creek says:

      The Daily Politics on the sinking Pound, part 2

      This clip starts from an interesting point, as the New Labour MP tries to justify the UK Pound sinking against even week currencies. But, at least Andrew Neil right at the end says that the UK somehow has managed to devalue even against basket case Zimbabwe Dollar.

      And stop claiming it is a worldwide recession, it is a G20 recession. The other 190+ countries are not in recession.

    • 180

      Labour deserve to pick up the shit that they have caused. I agree now, but there again I am now in NZ.

      Marginal Tax Rate to drop to 30%.

      No NI payments.

      No Capital Gains Tax.

      No Inheritance Tax.

      Trust Taxation generous.

      VAT is 12.5% but will rise to 15% to pay for the above.

      No death Tax.

      Cheaper Fuel.

      Council Tax a 1/3, the price and bins emptied every week.

      Huge Investment in roadbuilding and repairs.

      Went into technical recession for 6 months. Good GDP growth forecast.

      Australia is even stronger. Canada has had big Q4 growth.

      Looks like Brown was lying when he stated tat Britain was best placed to weather any storm

      • 202
        DNTT says:

        Thanks to the epic FUBAR performed by Liebour, this once green and pleasant land couldn’t weather the storm from a gnats fart.

      • 218
        Archer Karcher says:

        I did`nea lie, I just did`nea tell the truth and I will punch anyone with my eyeron fists, who disagrees.

      • 234
        Rip Van Winkle says:

        Brown lying????

        No, sorry, got that one wrong.

      • 261
        Hitler was a Socialist says:

        Dont tell anyone in the Labour party but Ireland abolished local taxes like rates in the 70s. I know its suffered a bit of a downer lately but its GDP per head is still way above the UK. Despite widespread rumours that Ireland benefited from EU membership this was not the case. Ireland a country right on our doorstep performed an enourmous economic miracle by massively cutting taxes. Why oh why cant the conservatives just look across the water and ram home the message of what Britain needs to do.

    • 238
      Anonymous says:

      LABOUR IS BRILLIANT AT COCKING EVERYTHING UP.

  2. 2
    Anonymous says:

    Things can only get better

    • 89
      Archer Karcher says:

      It`s been so long since I last heard that.

      So how did that whole Bliar Brown NuLabour experiment work out?
      You know the NuLabour / prudence alliance?

      • 106
        Paint along with Nancy says:

        To be honest, it was a little bit overrated.

      • 188
        Up sh1t creek says:

        It’s gone so well that D:Ream decided to split up and get real jobs. Their reputation went to shit as soon as New Labour took that track for their own.

  3. 3
    Anon says:

    2nd

  4. 6
    back alley sally says:

    can brown fall off a cliff then?

  5. 9
    Matt Merritt says:

    What does that prove, other than the fact that the people who control high finance are all Tories? Not exactly news.

    • 10
      back alley sally says:

      doh

    • 25
      Paint along with Nancy says:

      Didn’t a Mr G Brown Esq of 11 Downing St control high finance in the UK for about 10 years?

      He’s a Tory, is he?

      • 74
        jgm2 says:

        No. He’s a fucking arrogant jackass.

      • 99
        Blue Rosette says:

        Mr and Esq are a contradiction old stick.

        He’s either a Mister or a Squire.

        Honestly the standard of education in this country!!!!

        • 131
          TheDevineOne says:

          Thats wot u get from the Labour educashn sistem.

          • udderly 'orrible says:

            And by way of enlightenment this is what you get from an Oxford education:

            Oxford University researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

            These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.

            A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

            In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as a critical morass. When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many morons.

          • Osama the Nazarene says:

            Did you not mean to say Laborium Governmentium?

    • 35
      Paul C says:

      The graph above shows that the international markets trust conservatives with the UK economy much more than labour.

      Without wishing to cause offense, your comment proves you don’t understand anything about finance.

    • 76
      R Atkins says:

      and for those very few people, all of course exceedingly rich, who hope to take a couple of weeks’ holiday in a Eurozone country, everything is now up to 40% more expensive, thanks to Gordon Brown’s sterling crash. Vote Labour for more expensive holidays …

      • 86
        EU President Damp Rag Rumpy Pumpy says:

        I only pay 15% income tax.
        I’m alright Jacque.

        • 173

          So why are Parliamentarians for the EU allowed a ‘Special Shop’ with everything in it at totally tax free prices?

          A bit like smoking in Westminster. One rule etc.

          The Politicians are all Pigs.

      • 87
        jgm2 says:

        True I’m afraid. My bolt-hole countries have gone up in price by 40% in just 18 months.

        But I suppose we have to acknowledge that the current rates are more in tune with reality. The previous rates of 1GBP = 2USD only made sense if you were the sort of economic half-wit who believed in an economy based on a pyramid of debt where the only economic activity appeared to be selling more and more expensive houses to each other and pissing the difference away on foreign cars, foreign TVs and foreign holidays.

        • 94
          sockpuppet #4 says:

          A few years ago the dollar was a bit shafted too.

          • George Bush Is an Anti-Patriot Anti-American Warmonger says:

            Thanks to George W Bush, who didn’t give a fuck about the dollar.
            I suppose he has so many thanks to his dealings with the Osama Bin Ladens that he doesn’t have to worry.

  6. 12
    Grammar School Boy says:

    Thank goodness McBroon abolished boom and bust or we would really be in the sticky stuff sans paddle!

    • 22
      back alley sally says:

      that is a good point i was thinking of some good things gordo has done for us gratefull serfs innit

  7. 13
    Anonymong OE says:

    Guido – any particular reason to have chosen sterling/euro rather than sterling/dollar or sterling/RMB for that matter?

    • 32
      sockpuppet #4 says:

      Its probably what he cares about most. If he lives in Ireland.

    • 85
      R Atkins says:

      because for those of us who holiday abroad, most go to a Eurozone country where everything is now up to 40% more expensive, courtesy of Mr Brown’s stewardship of the economy. If you want a real validation of Mr Brown’s incompetence, look at the exchange rates…

    • 191
      Information says:

      Because the lions share of British trade is conducted in the Eurozone. The Euro is the most important currency, by far, for the British economy.

  8. 14
    jdennis_99 says:

    See quote of the day:

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

    Been reading up on how the Nazis engineered the economic recovery of Germany. They did it by:
    a) printing money (OK, done that)
    b) slashing public spending (nope)
    c) big tax cuts (tax rises on the horizon)
    d) clever trade negotiations (umm… gold, anyone?)

    Arguably the fastest economic recovery in recent times – they got that right. Reason? The Minister of Finance – Dr. Schacht, wasn’t a Nazi, was qualified for the job, and was also the President of the Reichsbank.

    Now, I’m not arguing that we should make the Governor of the Bank of England the Chancellor of the Exchequer as well, but perhaps reducing a ballooning public sector and cutting taxes to stimulate growth might be an idea? Just maybe? Just a thought.

  9. 17

    Currency ratios are “made” by people, computers and functions that do not care what colour the charts are printed in; brown is rare but so are blue or yellow; red is terrible, black is trendy.

  10. 18
    Foxy says:

    I’d like to see charts of MPs on a Lie Detector.

    • 90
      Yeah says:

      And I would like to see MPs take alcohol and drugs tests before they are allowed to vote.

      • 144
        TheDevineOne says:

        I’d like to see them take an IQ test, a CRB check, an ISA check and a common sense test before they vote, and the Chancellor should pay for all debts – that should make sure he keeps his sticky mitts off the cash, and make sure the books ballance.

        • 193

          Mandelson gets huffy because Ashcroft gets declined for the Lords twice and he thinks that is a problem because?

          Who was it that left Government twice in disgrace?

          Tell us how you got so rich off just a salary? Do you pay full taxes Mandy?

        • 232
          Holsten pills says:

          I’d like to see them all take a DNA test, then have it all published on-line, because they have nothing to hide so nothing to fear (it’s what they keep telling everyone else).

          They should also be tested to see if any are taking happy pills, and have psycho tests performed on them to make sure they don’t have anything undiagnosed.

  11. 19
    david says:

    Really! seem to remember the Tories had more than the odd problem with sterling over the years. Ah! who can forget the young Dave scurrying behind Norman Lamont when interest rates hit 15%.

    • 28
      English Viking says:

      You’ll be wishing for those halcyon days if these mongs stay in power. (In office, more like, obviously not power).

    • 29
      jgm2 says:

      15% interest rates? For about 1/2 an hour before they remembered they were supposed to be adults and acting sensibly.

      Meanwhile the Maximum Imbecile and his Hari Krishna cult of economic lunatics continue to borrow 200bn a year on top of the 400bn they’d borrowed in the ‘good’ years.

      Fucking idiot kids.

      • 36
        sockpuppet #4 says:

        I wasn’t into conspiracies and other odd theories when that 15% for half an hour happened.

        Surely they didn’t simply believe that you could turn the economy up to 11 (badly worded so I’ll have say “spinal tap”).

  12. 21
    Morgan Everett says:

    Labour has become an economic suicide cult.

    • 72
      Grammar School Boy says:

      Best news I’ve had all day.

      As long as its a members’ only club then we can all watch and laugh!

      • 150
        TheDevineOne says:

        We’ve been paying the membership fee for years, and they’ll drag us all down with them.

  13. 26
    nabidana says:

    I’ve been saying this for months, but since I forgot to register my blog at wikio, nobody gave a tuppenny fuck.

  14. 30
    Gordon Brown's Press Officer says:

    In David Cameron,the Labour Party have a election winner

    Playing the race card and economic innumeracy, promising unaffordable tax cuts while pledging to reduce the borrowing deficit, is a proven Conservative strategy to lose elections.

    The simple truth is that when voters examine what Mr Cameron is offering they don’t like what they see.

    • 33
      jgm2 says:

      Mr Cameron is offering the one thing which anybody who isn’t an economic fuckwit wants.

      And that is Anybody But Gordon – the economic fuckwit.

      Brown is just an economic disciple of Mugabe. He really is. Printing money just to pay the police and army. For fuck’s sake.

    • 38
      The IMF is coming says:

      And prey what is the Labour doctrine? Print more money?

      Not that it will be relevant

    • 242
      jdennis_99 says:

      The problem with Cameron is that he’s offering change from ‘old Conservatism’ rather than a change from New Labour. Their electoral argument is: ‘vote for us, we’re not as bad as them!’

      It should be: ‘vote for us, we’re better than them, and here’s why…’

      Personally, I don’t see what’s wrong with old Conservatism. If it means getting the economy back on it’s feet, rolling back a ballooning and interfering State, driving forward a low-tax agenda and generally allowing people to live their lives in whichever bloody way they want… where do I sign?!

  15. 31
    Bumfluff says:

    Don’t worry everyone, the bookies know best.

    http://www.online-betting-guide.co.uk/uk-general-election.htm

  16. 34
    ex-pat pete says:

    in september 2007 the pound started losing out to the euro, coincidence?

    http://uk.reuters.com/business/currencies/quote?srcAmt=1000&srcCurr=EUR&destAmt=&destCurr=GBP&historicalDate=

    set the interactive chart setting to 3 years and e.g. 1 week

    • 44
      sockpuppet #4 says:

      Coincidence with what? Thats pretty much the date of Northern rock isn’t it? Quite clearly a turning point when people other than pessimists started to think the housing bubble was going to pop.

      • 227
        Information says:

        Correct. I live and work in Euroland, and November 2007 is when the pound slipped from 1,45 to 1,36 in the course of a fortnight. A devaluation of some 6%. British exporters got an immediate boost into their main export market.

        The real fun started in November 2008, by Christmas 2008 the pound was at near parity for some six weeks. It has never been above 1,18 since.

        A massive devaluation of over 23% in 15 months and still Britain is running a trade deficit with the Eurozone.

        British competitiveness and productivity must be non-existant.

  17. 37
    Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man says:

    More spinning by the CCHQ Blog. I don’t think there’s much point posting here anymore. All we get is Tory McBride lies and spin.

    Fact is: Brown will win. Tories: FAIL.

    • 41
      Labour Listing says:

      can’t afford you anymore?

      • 45
        Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man says:

        BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN.

        • 55
          Labour Listing says:

          …A PENSION IN A FEW WEEKS

          • LABOUR WAR TORTURE OCCUPATION FUCKED UP ECONOMY, ER NOTHING ELSE says:

            I can only presume that the above plagiarist is a New Labour War Party Troll.
            The above post proves the Labour Torture party has no ideas of their own as to how to attack the Tories.
            LABOUR – INTELLECTUALLY REDUNDANT
            REDUCED TO COPY AND PASTING OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

    • 42
      Gormless Bruin says:

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

      • 48
        Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man says:

        You’re full of shit, son. Brown is a genius. It’s just Huhnes like you who can’t see it.

        And I have evidence given to me personally that Cam’s been a naughty boy. Sammy won’t be happy about that. Labour don’t lie. The Tories do.

        BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN.

        • 59
          jgm2 says:

          No more boom and bust.

          • gobshite says:

            my golden rules which will never be broken-erm

          • jgm2 says:

            Ah yes. Debt will never go above 40% of GDP. Ahahahahahaha.

            What is it now? 65%? 70%? What will it be in four years time on Brown’s insanely optimistic figures? 100%? 120%?

            No doubt it’ll be less than some other comedy country to compare to though so that will justify that particular stroke of idiocy.

          • LABOUR WAR TORTURE OCCUPATION FUCKED UP ECONOMY, ER NOTHING ELSE says:

            Correction, thick as thieves’ original post said:
            VOTE INDEPENDENT

        • 67
          Labour Listing says:

          Fact of the day: The £ has fallen 7% against the Zimbabwean dollar since the start of 2010

    • 49
      jgm2 says:

      Brown will win?

      Win what? The opportunity to clear up his scorched earth economy. Cue more printing of money, hyper-inflation, allotments in Hyde Park. People guarding their allotments with shotguns.

      Brown won’t tackle the economic catastrophe he’s created. He won’t even manage to meet his pitifully poor target of halving the deficit in four years.

      • 58
        back alley sally says:

        brown cannot confront it he is mad

      • 296
        LABOUR WAR TORTURE OCCUPATION FUCKED UP ECONOMY, ER NOTHING ELSE says:

        Correction: thick as thieves’ original post said:
        FUCK THE LABOUR WARMONGERING TORTURERS – VOTE INDEPENDENT

  18. 40
    jgm2 says:

    O/T

    Chairman of Brown’s flagship independent FSA confesses to being a fuckwit with the memory of a goldfish and so is everybody in the department….

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8545048.stm

    • 60
      Martin Day says:

      The tripartite regulation system has been a tremendous success. Gordon Brown is an economic genius. It started in America etc…

      Nurse!

    • 246
      jdennis_99 says:

      Bloody FSA.

      I work in financial services. They give you cause to hate them. Clueless pricks who just worship the banks and let them get away with murder, and instead bully small firms which account for less than 1% of the total economic activity in the country.

      Fucking pricks.

  19. 46
    thick as thieves says:

    Lord Ashcroft says we all need to pull together: us from here, him from Belize

    • 52
      Martin Day says:

      Silence child. I am top dog now.

      • 57
        sockpuppet #4 says:

        Hmmm… a sense of humour. The game of git-cludo becomes more interesting.

        • 100
          Archer Karcher says:

          FFs tat`s back and talking to himself again. How`s your blog going ya loser?

          • Does Martin live in a Council Flat and drive a Brown Micra as well?

            So many co-incidences.

          • Banning Notice says:

            That is not tat you dullard.
            But I don’t think he minds people copying his name if the imitator is atleast amusing.
            How do I know that is not tat?
            He doesn’t use upper case.
            Oh, and I hear tat’s site is going very well indeed.
            But you will never know, because you have been banned.
            Tough shit loser.

          • concrete pump says:

            Regular posters to this site will be aware that my political insight is shit.

            And my grasp of economics is even shitter than shit.

            Can we go back to slagging off Sally Bercow?

          • LABOUR WAR TORTURE OCCUPATION FUCKED UP ECONOMY, ER NOTHING ELSE says:

            Correction: thick as thieves’ original post said:
            DAVID MILIBAND IS A WAR CRIMINAL HE COVERS UP TORTURE
            LOVELY!
            FUCK THE NEW LABOUR TORTURERS VOTE INDEPENDENT.
            If you Labour trolls can’t think up your own slogans you really are fucked.
            Good.

        • 107
          Don't Believe the Hype says:

          Yesterday a parliament with no clear majority was to blame and today its a majority government’s fault.
          Does not compute.
          And everytime I make that point it is deleted.

          • jgm2 says:

            It’s very simple. The only party the markets trust to actually address Brown’s utterly fucked economic legacy is the Tories. So when the Tories are ahead in the polls the market figures – okay, just a few more weeks and my money is safe.

            As soon as the Tories flag – to the point where it might be a hung parliament then the market shits itself. Because a Lab-Lib government isn’t going to take any tough decisions and a Con-Lib government won’t be able to take any tough decisions because the bed-wetting Liberals will put the kybosh on any tough decisions.

            It’s not that difficult to grasp.

  20. 47
    back alley sally says:

    bbc news website appears to have crashed,prob from the weight of leftie communist nu lab shite spouting from its corrupt bloated self righteous orifice.

    • 213
      Susie says:

      No it’s a coup by the Bunker trolls — Mandy’s realized the BBC ones are blown.

  21. 51
    Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man says:

    BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN

  22. 56
    Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man says:

    I’ll say what my colleagues in Labour won’t. Yeah, Brown may be autistic and secretly gay, but I’d rather have him in power than Bullyboy Dave and his bullying friend Andy Coulson.

    And if anyone thinks Iraq’s still an issue, forget it, son. No one in Labour gives three shits about that old chestnut. We did what we wanted and there’s sweet FA you can do about it.

    BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN.

    • 66
      back alley sally says:

      you forgot to mention that brown is also a fucking barking loon hellbent on dragging this country into his mad communist nightmare world

      • 73
        Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man says:

        Rawnsley says you’re full of shit, son. FAIL

        BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN!

        • 298
          LABOUR WAR TORTURE OCCUPATION FUCKED UP ECONOMY, ER NOTHING ELSE says:

          Er, you keep misquoting thick as thieves.
          That is most unwise. He will probably bash your fucking skull in if you scum Labour trolls keep stealing from him.
          Thick as thieves was anti-Labour because your party carries out torture and occupies other peoples’ countries and sends our soldiers to their deaths underfunded and for no good reason other than to rim the Americans and fight their dirty wars.
          Innit.

    • 71
      jgm2 says:

      He may (or may not) be autistic and secretly gay. But he is very publicly shit and incompetent and a liar.

  23. 61
    Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man says:

    BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN. Get used to it Tory Trolls. BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN.

    • 68
      sockpuppet #4 says:

      Paddy power will happily take your money.

      • 110
        Archer Karcher says:

        He hasn`t got any, he spends all day every day in here, so no work and no money.

        Unless of course he is being paid to be here, unfortunately for him, his masters do not pay well at all ( unless it is to themselves ) so still no money. LOL.

  24. 62
    righty right wing (Mrs) says:

    If Blue Labour were any kind of opposition then there would not be such volatility in the markets.

    If rusty Dave had sealed the deal with the electorate the markets & investors would have a future Government to hang their hat on in a few short weeks time.

    But they dont.

    Even with the target rich environment that this poor excuse for a British Government has presented to the Tories Dave has rarely landed a glove on McStalin.

    So we have a fiscally incompetent Government & a failed weak opposition.

    No wonder the markets are up & down like the Assyrian Empire.

  25. 64
    Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man says:

    Independent blog my arse. What’s the point posting here? It’s just an arm of Andy and CCHQ.

    • 113
      Afghanistan Banana Stand says:

      Collect your £5 refund and don’t let the door hit you on the arse on your way out.

    • 114
      Archer Karcher says:

      Fuck off and start your own then.

      If you build it, they will come and all that.

      • 299
        LABOUR WAR TORTURE OCCUPATION FUCKED UP ECONOMY, ER NOTHING ELSE says:

        Now you have proved yourself to be not just a thief and a liar but also a bore.
        Well done!

    • 229
      Martin Day says:

      They are rude to me too, I can’t think why, can I start my own blog, will all you bigger boys come and say some cool things?

  26. 65
    Clarence says:

    It’s all very well saying that “the people who control high finance are all Tories” but Gordon Brown’s fiscal incontinence means that the markets are scared shitless of another Labour term. As an employer, I know I am.

    There are a lot of people out there who fear that the UK economy will fall off a cliff if Brown manages to con enough people into voting him back into office.

    If a Brown-led Labour Party wins a majority at the general election, I shall close my business and withdraw from the tax system. As a small-business-owner, I have been bled dry and massively fucked over by Brown and his Treasury fiddles, and I am not prepared to pay another penny to a government led by him.

  27. 68
    A Cost-Benefit analysis is wanted here says:

    On the theme of Labour being wedded to debt we see that Ed Miliband has proposed that people should borrow money for energy “improvements” and that the debt is passed on to the next owner of the property. My, my, “get now – pay later” for overpriced insulation. Labour just loves running up debts for others.

    • 146
      Grandma says:

      I am so tired of being lectured on saving energy by Ed Miliband and the rest of the hangers-on. I need a break from politicians and the like saying “do as I say, not as I do. Just leave me alone to run my own life as I’ve done for 40+ years.

  28. 70
    Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man says:

    When Brown wins, we’ll introduce the Alternative Vote system and you Tories will be fucked. Ha Ha! BROWN WILL WIN!

    • 77
      jgm2 says:

      What? Like the PR referendum in 1997? Introduce AV? If Brown gets in again he’ll fucking well abolish voting. It’s the next obvious step in a reign of supreme idiocy such as his.

      • 300
        LABOUR WAR TORTURE OCCUPATION FUCKED UP ECONOMY, ER NOTHING ELSE says:

        Cut and paste cut and paste.
        Write your own stuff dullard.
        Thank you.

    • 81
      back alley sally says:

      is that the alternative that whoever you vote for brown wins a la zimbabwe,now we know why they didnt invade zimbabwe.

    • 88
      Rigsby says:

      If he introduces the AV system we will see BMP officials elected to parliament, still anything for a short term narrow self interest gain

      • 237
        Bagehot says:

        The whole point about first past the post was to keep lunatic parties out. It has, however, signally failed in the case of Nulabour.

  29. 75
    back alley sally says:

    loser brown went to town in a knackerd hand cart the clown fell down and broke his crown and we all lived happily after etc or gordon brown the muppet clown found mandy in a pasture he bent right down too suck/////

  30. 77
    Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man says:

    Once we’re back in power, guess what Tory trolls? We’ll bring Blunkett, Beckett et al back on the frontbench. We’ll do what the fuck we like, just like we did on Iraq and pensions.

    BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN, BROWN WILL WIN!

    • 79
      jgm2 says:

      AH. My mistake.

      Keep up the good work.

    • 112

      I’m quite looking forward to a Brown win.
      Didn’t want the extra work being in government brings anyway.
      Especially now the countries as fucked as this.

      Far better to sleep on the backbenches a few more months and wait for Gordon to actually explode in a rage when the markets collapse and he has to be told by the really big boys at the IMF that he just isn’t Prime minister material..

    • 148
      The Bullyingthem Club says:

      You bring back Blunkett, Beckett and we’ll bring along a sick bucket.

    • 301
      LABOUR WAR TORTURE OCCUPATION FUCKED UP ECONOMY, ER NOTHING ELSE says:

      Memo to Labour troll who is stealing thick as thieves name: you have already posted that several times.
      Thick as thieves is anti-Labour which is funny really, because the Labour Party is anti-Labour too!
      Guido, are you going to delete this Labour cretin?

    • 302
      LABOUR WAR TORTURE OCCUPATION FUCKED UP ECONOMY, ER NOTHING ELSE says:

      Until the Labour scum troll misappropriated TaT’s comment it read:
      FUCK THE NEW LABOUR WAR PARTY – VOTE INDEPENDENT.
      That the Labour trolls have been reduced stealing the name of and misquoting a blogging legend like TaT says it all really.
      New Labour are finished, they have run out of steam and have no ideas.
      New Labour = Intellectually redundant.

  31. 80
    thick as thieves says:

    How fucking childish of the Conservatives

    2 Mar 2010 … The Tories have made a Freedom of Information request about the appointment of “non-dom” Labour donor Lord Paul to the Privy Council

    VOTE LABOUR

    VOTE LABOUR

    VOTE LABOUR

  32. 83

    I run a fruit and veg stall at Borough Market and no one asked me

  33. 93
    Civil Servant says:

    The election looms and Guido shows his true colours. Is Ashcroft throwing money at you, or are you just an arse-licker?

    There is no chance of a Labour victory. The market is concerned, as always, about uncertainty, in this case the uncertainty of a hung parliament.

  34. 95
    Anon says:

    “In economics he undermines the states until the social enterprises which have become unprofitable are taken from the state and subjected to his financial control.”

    “Religion is ridiculed, ethics and morality represented as outmoded, until the last props of a nation in its struggle for existence in this world have fallen.”

    “The jew hates the white race and wants to lower its cultural level so that the Jews might dominate.”

    It has all come true – we are under the boot of unelected criminal jews out to utterly destroy Britain.

    • 105
      Tinfoil hat says:

      Don’t forget the Islamists. And the Catholics. And the blacks. And the French. And the Martians. they are all out to get us!.

  35. 98
    Martin Day says:

    What has Aaron Ramsey’s leg and Wayne Bridge’s ex girlfriend got in common?

    They both got destroyed by a defenders tackle

  36. 101

    I’ve got a tenner.
    I’ll take £9 for it right now.

    Anyone?

  37. 102
    Ed Milliband (Minister for Climate change&Silly walks) says:

    That is like no graph I have ever seen.I thought they were all shaped like Hockey sticks.

    • 142
      .243 Win says:

      They were.

      Until the woman “who invented the carbon credit trading system” announced on AlJaBeeba news this morning that “the science is not settled”.

      Try getting that on iPlayer : “Sorry, this programme is not available to watch again”

      • 175
        Climate Data Fiddler says:

        Yes, I can confirm that the science is not settled. However give me a squillion quid in research grants, a big car (jag or range rover – not some pleb-mobile) and a tribe of coolies to number crunch under my personal control and i will see what i can do.

        This can be paid for by taxing the motorist a bit more – just use some cock’n'bull story about the world warming up or something to justify it. If the numbers will not work for us, we will either hide them – or delete them!!

        It will be alright – trust me, I am a scientist.

        • 239
          Anonymous says:

          You noticed the heard of the climate research unit getting into his black mercedes s500 limo usually favoured by african dictators.

        • 241
          Vancouver tarts coop..moving to a conference near you says:

          Don’t forget the airmiles to 5* Conference locations in desirable and fashionable locations. (with hot and cold running tarts)

  38. 103
    Postlethwaite says:

    Labour Will Win, Will Win, etc seems to be a war cry of sorts.
    Clearly a cry from someone not old enough to remember the resulting carnage of the last Labour government.
    And not literate enough to learn any history.
    In any case anyone with that apparent certainty, one would say *shall* win.
    I hope Labour do win. Then they can pick up the pieces.
    I’m probably off to Brazil with my money before the Big Devaluation, maybe Argentina.

    Postle

    • 115
      LABOUR MUST BE SACRIFICED FOR THE GREATER GOOD (LET'S START WITH MARTIN) says:

      It is not a war cry, it is a death rattle.

    • 157
      Postal Vote says:

      get rid of your not-so-sterling now!

      1950: 14 swiss fancs to the pound, 1.61 now

      • 244
        Exchange controls says:

        1965 13 DM (6.5 euros) to the pound, 1.09 now.

        Anyone remember when the old half crown (12.5 pence for you post decimals) used to be called ‘half a dollar’.

        • 282
          Cutter says:

          Shit, as low as that in Swiss Francs? I remember living in Die Schweiz and getting 10 francs to the pound as recently as the mid eighties.

          I remember getting over 3 DM to the Pound as recently as 1996.

          Oh wait, noticing a trend there…

          It’s funny. Talk to any Kraut in the street who works for a living and not a Kraut politician and (like here) you’ll find they fucking hate the Euro, and are sick of having to pay mega taxes to keep feckless Ossies in clover, to say nothing of the French peasant farmers via the CAP and the idle Spaniards and Irish…

          Asking the Kraut taxpayer to keep Greece afloat will probably end up being the straw that broke the camel’s back…

  39. 108
    Martin Day BBC political correspondent says:

    Conducting negotiations with my editor on what we can say about Lord Ashcroft without getting a legal threat

    • 120

      Just say like you have been saying all day on the BBC that he pays no UK tax and makes no contribution to the UK at all.
      Only Labour donors do. Tory ones are Nazis.

    • 137
      jim noodlepants says:

      i love lord paul but hate lord ashcroft says mantldad

  40. 109
    The IMF is coming says:

    Official : I Hate Labour

    • 133
      ££ / Sterling / GBP says:

      Me too

    • 147
      Postal Vote says:

      don’t worry, overseas bond investors hate labour too! They’ve been net sellers since the QE left for Dubai. I mean, since the BoE started QE.

  41. 118
    .243 Win says:

    Pravda were spinning this like loons on the DP – the rationale was that “the markets were afraid of a hung Parliament”.

    Just like the ZaNu crew, everything they do turns to shit. It was only a couple of days ago that they were gleefully talking up the idea of a hung Parliament, now they’re trying to turn the market reaction into a “get McTwat back in” strategy.

    At least one of the commentators gave it both barrels and attributed the stirling slide to the prospect of more years of economic suicide from McDoom.

    • 225
      Susie says:

      Which one was that?

      [Note the past tense — he won't be a commentator now].

      • 283
        Cutter says:

        If it was the thinking man’s Crumpet, Sophie Raworth, my admiration of her will only increase after her grilling of Fondlebum on his return to the government (for the third time)…

  42. 121
    David Cameron says:

    And now for a bit of light relief

    What happens when a dwarf walks in between a women’s legs?

    A clit round the ear, a flap round the face and a crack on the head.

    • 140
      Ed Milliband (Minister for Climate change&Silly walks) says:

      I refute claims the Gordon Brown is a bully,
      Ok, me and Dave get the odd clip round the ear for climbing on the furniture at No10 but the man is full of passion.
      I know, I felt it while I was sat on his knee.

    • 174
      George Osborne says:

      Jane had been a pilot for seven years when the airline announced she would be grounded. They’d found a crack in her undercarriage.

  43. 125
    Gordon's got it sussed says says:

    Look boys and girls:

    -6 million public sector WORKERS (not employees) of which 75% on taxpayer-funded inflation-proofed final salary pensions (do you want a promotion a year before retiring?), not all of them will vote labour and some live in conservative safe seats, but they have relatives too (isn’t life great);

    -a few million voters on means-tested benefits paid for by the net taxpayers in predominantly conservative constituencies, not all of them will vote labour and some live in conservative safe seats, but they have relatives too (isn’t life truly great!);

    -many labour activists with a lot of time on their hands, as opposed to conservative activists with a real life;

    -postal votes will help labour in the marginals much more than conservatives some how, but the beeb won’t look into it since labour will give more money to the beeb the conservatives.

    And then, post the hung parliament, alternative vote gets the nod, and union funding combined with AV will make labour the dominant political force for the next century.

    Luckily I’ve moved out (except for my state pension which I might get in 28 years, but by that time will be …

    … means-tested indeed.

    Sterling parity with the euro on its way!

    1970: 10 swiss francs to the pound
    now: 1.61 franc

    But Brown’s pension is inflation-proofed, paid for by you! The guy has got it sussed!

    • 130
      Gordon's got it sussed says says:

      Forgot to add, the friendly PM’s party got 9.5 million votes last time. Seems he has bought most of them already!

      Cheeriu

  44. 129
    The puppet master says:

    I am the puppet master.
    I own the world lock stock and well the lot….
    UK ,no money to be made here i’m afraid.
    China ,yes ill put it there.
    Besides once you Britons ,if thats the word for it now, are on the brink of starvation.
    Well you will work just for bread.
    Won’t you !

    NEEEE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH !

  45. 139
    Postal Vote says:

    The currency of the guy who saved the world is being dumped. It’s not fair!

  46. 145
    jim noodlepants says:

    mentalson reckons ashcroft is trying to steal the election he should know about fraud i spose

    • 165
      Peter Mandevilson says:

      I have turned my evil, lying Spin Machine onto regulo 12 today !!!

      • 219
        Engineer Scott says:

        Aye, aye My Lord MandelScum, but I dinna think the LieLithium Crystals can take much more. She’s spinning oota control…!

  47. 153
    Nick says:

    Spare a thought for the recently cursed town of Reading .
    As reported by the Beeb , “Gordon Brown has thrown his weight behind plans by Reading to bid for city status during the Queen’s Jubilee year in 2012″
    City Status! After the inevitable freak Tsunmai rolls in down the M4 they’ll be lucky if there’s so much as a grease spot left.

    • 183
      The IMF is coming says:

      Guess who visited Chile last year?

    • 198
      The Sleeper says:

      The Jonah curse has surely been cast on Reading.

      “Brown thrown his weight behind their bid…….”

      That obscene carcass of rotten goose fat would flatten anything

  48. 156
    Jimmy says:

    “Today has been a rather heavy day for evidence based blogging,”

    What on earth does that have to do with you?

  49. 159
    QWERTY says:

    BBC News 24 just showed a clip of Cameron saying that the Ashcroft matter was a dead horse well flogged.

    When it cut back to the studio the reall camp looking male beeboid newsreader gave a little huff under his breath as if to say, “no chance you Tory bastard”

    • 249
      Desperate Dan says:

      This morning a BBC employee who is also a union rep told Victoria Derbyshire that Thompson was closing radio stations to placate the Tories and that the Tories must be stopped from destroying the BBC.

      • 272
        QWERTY says:

        I heard that as well, I thought the leftist scum thought the jock wanker was going to win again?

  50. 161
    QWERTY says:

    Still haven’t heard the BBC ask Mandelson about his mortgage application yet.

    • 222
      nell says:

      They wouldn’t get an honest answer if they did. One thing mandy does to perfection is lie!

  51. 166
    David Cameron says:

    The doctor told a man that masturbating before sex, often helped men last longer during the act.
    The man decided, “What the heck, I’ll try it.”
    He spent the rest of the day thinking about where to do it. Obviously, he couldn’t do it in his office. He thought about the restroom, but that was too open. He considered an alley, but figured that was too unsafe. Finally, he realized his solution.
    On the way home from work, he pulled his truck over on the side of the highway. He got out and crawled underneath as if examining the truck. Satisfied with the privacy, he undid his pants and started to masturbate, he closed his eyes and thought of his lover.
    As he grew closer to orgasm, he felt a quick tug at his pant leg. Not wanting to lose his mental fantasy or the orgasm, he kept his eyes shut and replied, “What?”
    He heard , “This is the police. What in the hell are you doing?”
    The man replied, “I’m checking out the rear axle, it’s busted.”
    The cop says, “Well, you better check your brakes too, because your truck rolled down the hill 5 minutes ago.”

  52. 168
    Sir William Waad says:

    So – vote Labour if you want higher employment in the UK through exports or import substitution. Vote Conservative if you want cheaper Tuscan holidays.

  53. 170
    A Futures Market Fair For All says:

    Only toffs notice the fall of Sterling when they go on their posh overseas holidays

    • 182
      jgm2 says:

      Only the poor notice the fall of Sterling when all their fuel bills go up and their food goes up to cover the cost of imports and transportation by fuel denominated in dollars.

      Anybody who thinks it’s only rich people having to pay 40% more for their holidays who are affected by Brown’s destruction of the economy and the weak GBP has their head up their arse.

      • 250
        Exchange controls says:

        Agreed. ‘Rich’ people have long since covered their positions. No point in having all your eggs in one basket.

        Money goes anywhere at the press of a button.

        It is the poor, the unemployed mortgage payer who will feel the pain of inflation which is the consequence of a devalued currency.

    • 195
      Gordon Brown says:

      Shit – that’ll be Polly Toynbee voting Tory now.

      • 206
        Tony Blair says:

        And me!

      • 207
        Polly Toynbee says:

        I’ve never voted Tory before but thanks to King Mong it’s too expensive to fly to Tuscany

      • 223
        Andrew Marr says:

        I’ve never voted tory before, but thanks to the weak pound my illegitimate children can’t afford to go to a Swiss finishing school.

    • 200
      The Sleeper says:

      Fuck me….cackling drunken Glaswegian families are toffs????

  54. 172
    jim noodlepants says:

    mandelson knows about evidence based blagging though!

  55. 177
    nell says:

    And when is gordon ‘spend!spend!spend!’brown going to stop smearing darling, ashcroft, the tories the national bully helpline and on and on and start telling us about what great policies and plans he has for his fourth term in office?

  56. 186
    thick as thieves says:

    My son hit Puberty today.

    Fuck me, some of the kids he hangs around with have got ridiculous names.

    • 203
      Paint along with Nancy says:

      As posted earlier today on sickipedia. And it was boring, then.

      • 304
        LABOUR WAR TORTURE OCCUPATION FUCKED UP ECONOMY, ER NOTHING ELSE says:

        And it wasn’t posted by TaT.
        Labour trolls are very sad characters.

  57. 190
    martin tiddlepants says:

    brown wished the england footie team goodluck aswell so thats the world cup campaign torpedoed.

  58. 196
    Darrin Simkins of red ditch says:

    Why for do yoos richies hate the labours party

    Me an sharon got too kids and alsow asn new oner on the way
    I canot work cos of my back and sharon brings up are kids properly

    Who will care for us with out the labors

  59. 204
    Michael Anthony Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft, KCMG, says:

    I have absolutely no comment to make

    • 209
      Unnamed Labour Non-Dom Political donor says:

      Scrap that 50% tax or you’re getting fuck all more.

  60. 208
    Desperate Dan says:

    Gordon has handed the entire contents of the Treasury over to non doms.

    • 217
      martin tiddlepants says:

      good point and he has handed british steel to india his achievements are boundless and he brought us mandelson back from the dead-my hero

  61. 210
    nell says:

    gloomygordon should be asked who he’s going to make chancellor if the electorate decide to give him a fourth term, because it’s not going to be darling.

    balls as chancellor! – think what that would do to the markets!

  62. 211
    Lord Paul of broon says:

    Fuck the workers

  63. 212

    [...] Fawkes blogs with evidence with two interesting posts:  The Market Hates Labour providing a clear graph that when Labour rises in the polls the pound drops and the pound rises [...]

  64. 214
    Gordon Brown says:

    That is an evil Tory lie – the Chinese and the Indians got a few billion too.

  65. 221
    sofa spud says:

    Sky News, 15. 50 PM approx:

    Ed Balls has just accused Ashcroft of using “foreign” money to bankroll the Tories.
    As far as I know this is an offence under electoral law and so Balls obviously has 3 options:

    1) Stand by his accusation and make a formal complaint.

    2) Stand by his accusation and defend himself in a libel court.

    3) Retract immediately and shut his fat mouth.

  66. 224
    This does not mean the pound here at home in your pocket has been devalued says:

    Labour has no credit rating TripleAAA or otherwise left.

    We’ve been here before . Labour governments ALWAYS ALWAYS end in economic failure .Unfortunately a whole generation has never experienced the massive Labour burn-out of the economy as in 1976-79 which is being repeated now but ten times worse I’m afraid(which is what every man,woman and child should be if Brown is given a mandate for another 5 years)and actually believe what Brown is telling them or more precisely NOT telling them.

    He and Labour are just not being straight with the British electorate and some of that electorate are burying their heads in the sand and actually think things are improving and they can continue borrowing and spending as they’ve always done.They’re not and they can’t.It’s simple as that.

  67. 243
    Jan says:

    Totally O/T…I am incensed by an article in The Evening Standard today about ‘The Dispossessed’ by one David Cohen. The headlines are:
    THIS MOTHER OF 11 LIVES ON JUST £7 A DAY PER CHILD AND IS BRANDED A SCROUNGER.IF SHE WORKED IN THE CITY SHE’D BE HAILED AS SUPERWOMAN.
    Now this is real Nu-Liebor territory. Twisting and spinning everything. Of course the woman who works in the City has a large family but she is NOT being paid by the taxpayer,she has a nanny and she works. This woman with the 11 children by five difererent men has never contributed towards society in any way and like most Nu-Liebor clients gets huge sums from the taxpayer (in this case £28,000 plus a year) to keep breeding and she has NEVER worked. Of course Mr Cohen spins and puts it down to her background and all the problems she had as a child. This is utter b……….cks.I know people who have had equally dreadul backgrounds who aren’t breeding like rabbits. One of the children interviewed blamed the fathers of the children,not good ol’ mum
    Why do we keep getting these leftie journalist bleeding hearts churning out this trash? Are people really taken in by this horse manure?????? Perhaps the NHS could sew her legs together then problem solved. But it won’t be will it? Because you can bet your bottom dollar that all the children will carry on reproducing, cos that’s what they do innit??? No wonder the country is bankrupt.

    • 253
      The big D says:

      Soylent green, anyone?

      • 260
        J.Presclott ( five bellies, two Jags & two inches ) says:

        Does that come with large fries ??

    • 255
      Sweaty Eddy Balls says:

      You get loadsamoney from SureStart, Child benefits, Child Trust Fund, free this, free that…….

      ‘Labour are the party of the many, paid for by the few’

      • 259
        Sweaty Eddy Balls says:

        BUDGET NUMBERS 2009/10:

        INCOME TAX £ 141 Billion ( projected )
        NATIONAL INSURANCE £ 98 Billion ( projected )
        ——————————————————–

        SOCIAL SECURITY
        & SOCIAL SERVICES £ 220 Billion ( projected )

        The productive sector of the Country must work hard to support the reproductive sector of the Country.

  68. 256
    The Great Leader says:

    Sky reporting the televised debates to go ahead. Three in number, domestic, international and economy. The breakdown of the domestic debate? Not a single mention of immigration.

    Another fucking whitewash from the ‘big’ parties.

  69. 263
    jojo says:

    the prices are falling quick-time, i urge you to get on labour to win the election with a 20 seat majority.

  70. 265
    Bob Dowling says:

    That graph is hardly a ringing endorsement of your claims, Guido. What about all those uncoloured areas where Labour and Sterling are both rallying?

    Can you point us at the raw data?

  71. 269
    Barnabas Scudamore says:

    As Gordo would say : “uh.uh.uh.uh…well, I don’t recognise your figures ! ”

    Does anyone remember the interview on TV the day after The Sun switched from McDoom ?

    “….well, the sun has a readerships of 5 million doesn’t it?”

    “uh uh uh uh well, uh no,a,no,aaa,no I don’t recognise your figures!”

    The sooner this cycloptic idiot is “disposed of ” the better.

    (Yes I do mean cycloptic, as his other eye is a marble is it not ?).

    DOWN WIH CYCLOPS

  72. 270
    Down with Brown! says:

    Great diagrams, Guido.

    Some evidence-based suggestions for future posts. Why not show how our balance of trade has steadily deterriorated since Gordon became Chancellor in 1997 or how the stock market is below where it was in 2000 or how the price of gold has gone up since Gordon sold ours or if you take out public spending (the unsustainable bit of the economy) the UK economy has been in perpetual recession since 2005 or how our deficit has surged since 2007 or how unemployment has gone up dramatically since GB became Prime Minister?

  73. 274
    Gordons Blown our wealth says:

    as the little boy said – “the prime minister has no clothes”

  74. 276
    Hooray for the Bankers! says:

    Vote the way the Market tells you or we will relelase the Bankers

  75. 280
    angelnstar says:

    http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/boris-goes-with-the-punters/

    There is huge concern that Labour, in spite of all their transgressions might make more of a fight of the election than expected. Boris johnson however holds firm that the Tories will win with a decent majority. Instead of the polls, he urges the public to check out the professional gamblers. Betfair, Oddschecker are, Boris says, uncannily accurate and give a much more promising view of the Tories’ chances.

    • 284
      Christy says:

      To Angelnstar.
      I have a suggestion of what Cameron might use as a poster.

      A weak currency is a sign of a weak economy,which is a sign of a weak government.
      GORDON BROWN 1995.
      Southernsky,Isle of Skye.
      I wonder if Mcbust has changed his mind now,or will he not remember saying it.

  76. 281
    Ang says:

    Where did that nice article in the daily mail go about Sarah Brown?

  77. 285
    Not good with figures says:

    I’m puzzled by this. Except where you have coloured bits in with your little crayon, it looks like the currency is increasing with the Labour polling in 2010. Could you be talking bollocks?

  78. 286
    Christy says:

    OT.
    I believe the local council in Wigan are a bit upset that it is being suggested that they scrap the backup car for the Mayor which is apparently 13yrs old and hardly ever goes out and that they buy a 27k car to replace it.What the hell goes on here in this coming age of austerity,who in their right mind would even suggest this.
    However seeing that this council is solid labour it should not come as any surprise bearing in mind the old saying that labour are excellent at spending taxpayers money till it runs out.
    People here should tell the Mayor your 1st car breaks down take a bus.

  79. 287
    Frank Mother and the Zappas of convention says:

    Labour’s ripped my pension

  80. 288
    david says:

    Your esteemed columnist adopts the nomenclature: ‘Thick as Thieves’.

    This could be considered a middlingly unpleasant libel of Thieves – most of whom I have found to be surprisingly intelligent.

    Having had the pleasure of the company of ‘Thick as Thieves in these columns over many delightful months, might we venture that he adopts the slightly more appropriate: ‘Not distinctly articulate’.

    Some dictionary definitions make my point:

    Thick
    composed of or containing objects, particles, etc., close together; dense: a thick fog; a thick forest.
    Thick
    not distinctly articulated: The patient’s speech is still quite thick.
    Thick
    mentally slow; stupid; dull.
    Thick
    disagreeably excessive or exaggerated: They thought it a bit thick when he called himself a genius.
    Thick
    in a manner to produce something thick: Slice the cheese thick.
    Thick
    lay it on thick, Informal. to praise excessively; flatter: He’s laying it on thick because he wants you to do him a favor.
    Thick
    having relatively great extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thin: a thick slice.
    Thick
    measured, as specified, between opposite surfaces, from top to bottom, or in a direction perpendicular to that of the length and breadth; (of a solid having three general dimensions) measured across its smallest dimension: a board one inch thick.

    • 292
      angelnstar says:

      In the same spirit, will you return to kiss Guido’s bare feet when the Tories win? (and any other part of his anatomy that he demands that you kiss?)

      • 305
        LABOUR WAR TORTURE OCCUPATION FUCKED UP ECONOMY, ER NOTHING ELSE says:

        Angelnstar, you must be new here. That is clearly not TaT. TaT hated the Labour scum party because they are warmongering torturers who are only interested in lining their own pockets at the expense of the taxpayer.
        The above poster is a thief who has stolen TaT’s pseudonym, the actual slogan TaT wrote was:
        FUCK LABOUR – VOTE INDEPENDENT.
        There, I am glad I have set this thread straight.

  81. 291
    angelnstar says:

    http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/gordon-tells-the-truth/

    At last! Definitive proof that deep down, Gordon Brown knows exactly what a ballsup he has made of our economy.

  82. 306
    Anonymous says:

    As Guido well knows, the market is reacting to the prospect of a hung parliament and the consequent increased risk of political and economic paralysis, not the chance of another Labour government.

    Knowingly misleading your readers for party political purposes is pretty dodgy, isn’t it? It’s not like there aren’t enough legitimate Labour shortcomings to aim at.

  83. 308

    [...] 4th, 2010 Graphic Example of Media Influence On Tuesday Guido posted a graph displaying every time Gordon showed whiff of recovery the value of the pound went into free fall. [...]

  84. 309
    Anonymous says:

    if you overlay the stockmarket you get another interesting correlation betwen the rise from QE and Labour support. If a bear hug grabs the world before May, Cameron’s home and dry.

  85. 310
    Tapestry says:

    stock market also correlates with labour support. if a bear hug grabs the world before May, Cameron’s home and dry.



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