March 3rd, 2010

Even After Earthquake, Chilean Debt Safer than UK Debt

Just how much debt-fuelled danger is Gordon risking with the UK economy?  A reasonable question and the only place we can get hope to get objective answers is from the debt default insurance market place.  Harriet claimed at PMQs yesterday that it is unpatriotic to ask questions about the British economy.  As an Irishman that doesn’t apply to Guido.

Chile has just had an 8.8 on the richter scale earthquake, looting and rioting are commonplace.  Even so, U.S. investors still prefer Chilean government debt to UK government debt as measured by CDS rates.  Do you get how bad things are?

Data source : Morgan Stanley


261 Comments

  1. 1

    How the world views the UK with Gordon in charge. Not a pretty sight eh?

    And still the lies keep coming!!

    • 6
      Brown IS A Cowardly BULLY says:

      When will the stupid british public wake up & realise we are well in the shit and under Broown we will see a rise in interest rates to over 15%.

      We are truley fucked because of the bong-eyed Hunts incompetence.

      • 11
        SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNSHOP says:

        DC needs to get on the telly and tell people in very simple language how much shit we are in and what will happen because of it if we loose AAA etc.

        Let them know what a complete set of twats we have running us

        • 17
          A FUCKWIT TwAT ONCE WROTE ON THIS BLOG says:

          bankers are no better than child killers because their greed kills children.
          they too, as we have seen with their instant return to bonuses are uncurable.
          so I agree that child rapist/killers should be hanged and so it is also appropriate, according to your own logic, that the bankers who have destroyed the economy and who starve children to death in foreign countries by demanding third world debt be paid rather than children be fed should also be hanged.
          hold on a minute though, that means that your rant against china is a load of fucking shit.
          problem with you fawkes is you pick and choose your morals.
          you are a bullshitter, just like grendel brown.
          I am becoming bored of you fawkes. you are tory scum innit.

          • Saddo Watch says:

            What’s your alternative economic model then Hunt-face?

          • the cowardly druggietat who dare not squeak his name says:

            fuck off thick as thieves you thick as pigshit weasel

          • JACK (Spineless Turd) STRAW says:

            Well TaT if you dont like it here !

            You can allways Fuck off back to your own blog !

            ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

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

            Come and join me on http://www.gofourth.co.uk

            You’ll be at home there. Don’t be alarmed by the amount of tumbleweed there is on the site.

          • the cowardly TaT who dare not squeak his name says:

            that’s your own site thick as thieves since you are a Labour Supporter
            the one you said you were going to before you lied to everyone about not coming back here

          • Tosserwatch says:

            j.presclott ….couldn’t resist looking at the Gofourth blogsite…single digit comments and very shiney bright…wonderful to read fattyarbuckle prescott’s rubbish…he’s in china on a jolly at the moment …shame they don’t keep the moron

        • 19
          Anonymous says:

          he would if he could but according to the BBC theres a waiting list till June
          sorry labour first……..fuckers wants shutting down and the place burned to the ground with Marr and Robindon on top.

        • 21
          Jack Dromedary says:

          Can I just say, in public, how much I love Harriet. She packs a lovely pair and really know’s how to jiggle them. I admit she’s a bit useless at work and may not be particularly photogenic on the telly, but she really does have a most accomodating back door.

          • Your Builder says:

            You’re not wrong

          • the cowardly TaT who dare not squeak his name says:

            we know you love her thick as thieves
            you ‘exercise’ furiously to pictures of her when you can’t get your ‘specialist’ mags

          • Tosserwatch says:

            it was a pleasure to watch her struggling to answer Hague yesterday…classic head on side with inane grin when he started to hit home…what a useless twat she shows herself to be at the despatch box

          • Sam Smith says:

            “Dromedary” – isn’t that a camle with two humps…

            Who else are you humping then ?

          • the cowardly TaT who dare not squeak his name says:

            she’s a useless troughing cun’t and a tWat
            always was
            but Hague is now in the shit because Ashcroft ‘owes it all to him’
            and that isn’t going down well with some around Cameron right now

          • Road_Hog says:

            @Sam Smith, unfortunately you appear to have been educated under a Nulabour regime. Bactrian is the camel with two humps. But don’t worry, you probably still got a 99% pass mark in your exams.

        • 33
          I'm speechless says:

          Over on PB it is remarkable to see how many posters are warning of the risks to anyone who wishes to be elected of mentioning the D-word, presumably because it would frighten an electorate which has become blasé about owing huge sums of money.

          ‘Can’t they just apply for an IVF or roll up the money into an easy payments plan?’

          No. Nations cannot just declare themselves insolvent and any voluntary arrangements into which they enter cannot be described as ‘easy’.

          • Australian says:

            ‘Can’t they just apply for an IVF or roll up the money into an easy payments plan?’

            Somehow, I don’t think IVF is going to help anyone’s debt position! Perhaps they mean an IVA…

    • 7
      Clear off then already says:

      titfer, you’re worse than Charles Harwidge with your repetitive shite

      • 116
        Gordon battered bell end. says:

        We have managed to put a gag on the steven purcell affair.Hes still wearing his though.

    • 15
      Andy Coulson's Mouthpiece says:

      So when do we get to hear about the Tory Tax Rises if it’s as bad as you say ?
      We know they are coming from Dave or Brown as if he ever got back in (HE WON’T) he would have ro raise Taxes too, but neither Party seem to want to admit the obvious.

      Is it because they don’t get how bad things are?

      • 82
        sockpuppet #4 says:

        you hint that you do know the answer really.

        No-one wants to scare the voters by telling them the truth.

        • 114
          Mr Ned says:

          The truth is, we are fucked! Labour have run out of excuses, options, ideas and time. Roll on the April GDP figures. It is NOT POSSIBLE that they will show any growth.

          Then again, they rigged the ONS Figures for Q4, so who knows how much they will rig these. They may even count government debt as income and claim we are in a boom again!

        • 125
          ACM says:

          they can hold that line right now and for a few weeks more, but the manifestos are coming and so is the hour long debate on the economy

          sooner or later Darling and Osborne are going to get pinned on the simple yes/no question “will taxes have to go up”

          • Just Get On With It says:

            When is the fuckin’ Budget?

          • Sting's Beard says:

            Just a thought why dont we completely renege on our Natioinal debt. That will F*** the Bankers. Save the country a few bob. Most importantly it would mean that nobody would ever lend to Britain again Job done!! From then on we would be forced to balance the budget but live without the burden of Debt interest which incidentally is completely immoral to pass on to future generations who by definition have not yet had a chance to participate in the democratic process which presides over this economic catastrophe.

            What do think?? complete madness or not so bad when you compare it to all the other alternatives ou there?

          • Gobshite says:

            Go into Euro.

            Refuse to pay debt.

            Get kicked out of Euro.

            No debt, and we still have the Pound.

            Also, it will really upset the French and Germans.

            High five!

          • Mr Ned says:

            We should set up another country on this land (a country being a legal entity, a legal fiction, a piece of paper), Transfer the assets of this country to the new country, legally move there and then close down the old country and let its debts go with it!

    • 260
      wooden spoon says:

      Did you know that Gordo a paedo, check it out at David Icke . com , pass it on.

    • 261
      WOODEN SPOON says:

      BREAKING NEWS ON GORDON BROWN AT DAVID ICKE.COM PASS IT ON

  2. 2
    Down with Brown! says:

    If there’s no confidence
    in your economy
    Who ya gonna call?
    THE IMF

    If the PM’s weird
    and he don’t look good
    Who ya gonna call?
    THE IMF

    We haven’t got no money
    We haven’t got no money

    If your deficit’s
    running in the red
    Who can ya call?
    THE IMF

    The invisible hand
    cut off by debt
    Who ya gonna call?
    THE IMF

    We haven’t got no money
    We haven’t got no money

    Who ya gonna call?
    THE IMF

    If ya all alone
    pick up the phone
    and call
    THE IMF

    • 56
      Jac says:

      Awesome job! Did anyone see that firs time voters QT? I caught a rerun last night on the BBC3 channel. Did anyone think the ‘political satirist’ needed to put on his red colours and wave the flag of Labour righteousness? Absolute jokers.

      And the ‘yoof’ bemoaning how politics does not engage them… what exactly are these people learning in their bloody universities? It engages because you work, or claim benefits, live in and pay taxes. I hate people that don’t vote, sorry all you detractors.
      If you don’t vote get off blogs like these, because you don’t have a voice to criticize!

      • 68
        Mr Ned says:

        Well said.

        If you support “none of the above” you are in the majority and have a “patriotic duty” to get out and vote.

        Get out and vote for a candidate, I don’t care which one, so long as it is not labour, just get out and vote.

        • 77
          Eggo the Ostrich says:

          “Get out and vote for a candidate, I don’t care which one, so long as it is not labour, just get out and vote”

          You should care which one: vote for the candidate who can beat Labour.

          • Labour MP for BBC Television Centre says:

            This country badly needs another 5 years of Gordon. Unfortunately at the moment there are still some nuclear families who are self reliant. Another 5 years and Gordon will have crushed them too.

            Come on everyone get out there VOTE LABOUR.

          • BBC Lover says:

            SELF RELIANT???

            How very dare they!!! They are preventing our marvellous government from implementing their real and proper and progressive vision where the GOVERNMENT provides fairly for ALL.

            Lord Paul has his British income provided by the GOVERNMENT by turning up to the Lords as he should do. That is the GOVERNMENT being progressive and fair for all in action.

            Lord Ashcroft dodgilly prevents the GOVERNMENT from providing for him by NOT claiming what the GOVERNMENT wants him to claim. He is a dodgy selfish man who should not be allowed in this country except in prison.

        • 199
          Sting's Beard says:

          As long as there is a box for None of the others i really dont think it too much trouble to require everybody to vote once every five years!! interesting isn’t it we can be fined for not completing a census form! But there is no requirement to participate in democracy.!

          • Mine d'Boggles says:

            Compulsory in OZ I think you will find. And an interesting voting preference system.

  3. 3
    Anonymous says:

    These scumbags always try to adopt the moral high ground when attempting a cover up. Until recently the same approach was adopted (and worked!) when anyone attempted to discuss the scale of immigration. They really are scoundrels.- and chumps of course.

  4. 4
    Down with Brown! says:

    The tidious Lib Dems have revealed their true colours by teaming up with Labour to smear Ashcroft and moan about how much money the Tories have. If too many people vote Lib Dems then Labour will remain in government.

    Vote yellow, get five years of Brown.

    • 13
      Anonymous says:

      Unless they split the mong vote like in ’83.

    • 69
      A FUCKWIT TwAT WROTE ON THIS BLOG says:

      because tax evaders like aschroft are evading paying their contributions.
      innit.

      it is!

      • 72
        budgiebumhole says:

        Fuck off, spaz chops!

        • 140
          'Spaz Chops' Is A Cool Insult.. says:

          ….but I much prefer ‘tossflap’!!!!

          • the cowardly TaT who dare not squeak his name says:

            I much prefer ‘thick as thieves’
            can’t get much more insulting than that

      • 84
        Mad as hell and won't take it any more says:

        And Lord P**l is fine I suppose. Raiding pension funds, it is what Liebour do.

        Tit

    • 210
      Just Get On With It says:

      Labour 1997 manifesto promised to rid the country of non-doms. They didn’t.

      Labour have for 13 years allowed non-doms to sit in the Lords.

      Labour for 13 years have accepted donations from non-doms.

      Lib Dems for 13 years have accepted donations from non-doms.

      If they hate non-doms so much why the fuck have they not got rid of them.

      It’s the fuckin’ lib/lab/BBC hypocrisy that stinks.

  5. 5
    Down with Brown! says:

    Harman was beyond crap on PMQs yesterday. Hague showed her up for the total idiot she is.

    • 9
      Hang The Bastards says:

      Harman is one stupid dumb phuck !

      I watched her performance yesterday in total disbelief! How could anyone in such a position provide such stupid answers to sensible questions. ?

      Her attempts to get the subject onto Ashcroft were juvinille. Doesnt she realise the public would rather see 1,000 Ashcrofts in the Lords doing good for this country (i.e. setting up CrimeStoppers, taking no money for public office, buying VC War Cross’s and gifting them to the country).

      She shows Labour for all it is worth, completely out of touch, inept, unable to string together a coherent argument, and downright fucking stupid.

      Add to the fact the stupid whore sits there knowing her twat of a husband who does his best to bring this country to its knees won an ALL FEMALE party shortlist to stand at the next election.

      FUCKING STUPID HYPOCRIT. I hope Labour employ more of these buffons.

      • 28
        Anonymous says:

        hear,hear

      • 30
        A FUCKWIT TwAT WROTE ON THIS BLOG says:

        and the reason your daughter cannot get the rebate she is entitled to is because tax evaders like aschroft are evading paying their contributions.
        innit.

        • 31
          the cowardly druggietat who dare not squeak his name says:

          sounds like a fucking hypocrite to me

        • 76
          Mr Ned says:

          Ashcroft has paid every penny that the law requires him to pay. He has also NOT claimed tax-payer’s money for attending the house of Lords, unlike the labour Nom Dom Lords who are only to willing to trough at everyone else’s expense and rip off their own worker’s pensions.

          VERY Future fair for all. NOT!

          What Lord Ashcroft has done is put his own money where his mouth is in creating crimestoppers to cut crime, in buying VCs to put on display for free for the good of the nation out of respect for the fallen and he directly contributes, with his own money, for the good of this nation. He has donated more money to good courses than would have been taken in tax, and therefore has seen that the money has been better spent than if it had been voluntarily donated to the treasury.

          We need a thousand Ashcrofts!

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            Never mind the money. If you’re a non-dom you are stating quite clearly “I don’t really live here, I don’t want to stay, I don’t give a shit about this place”.

            I don’t see how any non-dom can expect to be in politics.
            Unless they of course were bullshitting (hmmm – thats obviously the opposite of catch22).

          • The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

            He also shagged that girl who did the VW ads in the 1980′s
            Paula Hamilton, top man!

          • Jart says:

            Apparently it’s all down to ‘assurances’ that were made and seem to have been renaged on.
            I doubt we’ve heard the last of this.

          • Sting's Beard says:

            Quite frankly if Lord Ashcroft was an alien beamed down from the planet Zog he couldn’t be any worse than Labour. Any help from any quarter is welcome in getting rid of this pressnt shower.

          • Just Get On With It says:

            99.9% of the population don’t know Ashcroft set up CrimeStoppers. The Tories are so fuckin’ hopeless at getting their point across.

        • 118
          Pontius The Pilot says:

          oh just fuck off back to school will ya, you fucking prick?

        • 153
          They're All At It says:

          Avoiding, not evading you complete moron.

    • 26
      Anonymous says:

      Not according to Micheal White he made it a draw,ffs that twat must be on a promise.

      • 48
        The Dirty Rat says:

        What a terrible thought first thing in the morning.
        From a female prospective: Having White’s wrinkled member thrust inside you.
        From a male perspective: Pumping Harman’s slack gash.

        BARF!

        • 60
          the cowardly TaT who dare not squeak his name says:

          sounds like you think about it far too much and in excrutiating detail
          *BARF!*
          tranny’s like you do like pretending they are other people

    • 81
      Anonymous says:

      You wont believe this then. Jon Craig on Sky reckons Harman gave Hague a battering, he must have been watching a different PMQs.

      http://blogs.news.sky.com/boultonandco/Post:42918a8d-713e-4c69-8f23-608acd84ed4f

      • 108
        Sir William Waad says:

        They are only interested in Ashcroft, i.e. political trivia with no bearing on the governance of the country, the economy, war or anything important. That’s the meeja for you.

      • 113
        Oscar Wilde says:

        I always said patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel, but this Craig thinks it is the last refuge of a fishwife too?

        • 207
          Sting's Beard says:

          Oscar, you have misquoted yourself do go and lie down until you feel better! It was Dr. Johnson still almost there I spose. its usually one of you two!

  6. 8
    filipinomonkey says:

    Unpatriotic? She’s having a laugh…

    I suppose they have form though, remember if you even question immigration that’s being racist.

    • 10
      Hang The Bastards says:

      Being a Patriot is all about alowing masss immigration to dilute the British population, and then signing all our powers over to Europe !

      • 43
        I'm speechless says:

        It fits into a scheme where there are no ‘ethnic British’ and ‘Britain’ is less a nation than a geographic shorthand for an archipelago of islands adjacent to the similarly fictitious ‘France’.

        This level of self-loathing is rarely seen outside psychology textbooks. It is no wonder that Cameron is labouring to revive the concept of ‘patriotism’ as healthy, rational and non-toxic.

        • 201
          Susie says:

          Watched Newsnight’s piece on Cuba last night.

          Struck me that’s exactly where we’re heading under Labour… ‘workers’ paradise’, average income $10 a week, kids playing in open sewers and Hyde Park turned into a city farm. Except we won’t have the weather, the tourists (apart from the health ones) or the old bangers (they’ll have been scrapped).

        • 211
          Sting's Beard says:

          I’m speechless your point made with humour has much merit. What is the illness that afflicts people like Harman and so many others in Labour. Can we pin a name on it? Oh I have just come up with it. They are communists doing everything in their power to destroy our way of life while masquerading as Social democrats!

        • 217
          Just Get On With It says:

          The French have a distinctive way of life which they will fight to preserve no matter what. Multiculturalism is definitely not for the “ethnic French”.

    • 16
      Doctor Mick says:

      Last resort of a scoundrel

      • 87
        Mad as hell and won't take it any more says:

        Quite so.

        Nothing to talk about here, move along please.

      • 132
        The Bottle Fed Triplet says:

        DM should read more of the works of Dr. Johnson. The quote was regarding a particularly disreputable 18th century political figure whose career was on the slide. When he started making speeches about his loyalty to the Crown, Johnson penned the epithet, “Patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

        Since then, many ignorant people have read it without understanding the context, thus misinterpreting the phrase as ‘patriots are scoundrels’.

        This is a very popular twisting of the facts amongst lefties, who, despite understanding the true context of the phrase, love to use it to attack anyone claiming to be a patriot. Lefties think patriotism is bad, ergo patriots are scoundrels ‘cos Dr. Johnson said so. Easy Innit!

        • 144
          the cowardly TaT who dare not squeak his name says:

          Political grandstanding/sloganising using jingoism as a cheap cloak to cover a lack of substance or scandals is indeed what Johnson got to the nub of

          I’m afraid that has hardly gone out of fashion

  7. 12
    Man With A Very Hot Bladder says:

    Guido, is there a link to the Morgan Stanley Data source please?

  8. 14
    Dack Blog says:

    I’m going to Easter Island via Chile this year. The popular theory is that the people stripped the island bare of assets (which back then was wood, pretty much) and wiped themselves out. Ring any bells?

    • 51
      Captain Black says:

      So my 30-foot statues of Gordo and the rest of his troika won’t be wasted then?

      Future tourists will gaze upon it with Ozymandiuslike wonder amongst the tattered remains of Whitehall.

    • 134
      The Bottle Fed Triplet says:

      I wonder what went through the mind of the bloke that cut down the very last tree on Easter Island?

      • 215
        Sting's Beard says:

        The same thought that went through the mind of the captain of the iceberg just before he hit the Titanic?

    • 259
      Down with Brown! says:

      Read Jared Diamond’s book Collapse about the fall of once mighty civilisations because that is what is going to happen to Britain if McDoom is given four more years.

  9. 18
    The Dirty Rat says:

    Coming to a UK near you soon.

    Mass unemployment,
    Benefits cut,
    Rioting,
    Looting,

    Ticket to Santiago anyone.

  10. 20
    Right Bastard says:

    The Chilean earthquake will be nothing compared to the one Britain will get if McRuin and his bunch of neo-Marxists get voted back in.

  11. 22
    LIEBOUR'S RABID REBUTTAL UNIT says:

    Whenever the Tories highlight what a sh1t awful mess we have got the Country into, immediately shut down the debate by proclaiming VERY loudly
    that ‘the Tories are talking the Country down’.

    Same with the debate about Immigration, as soon as legitimate questions are posed, shriek ‘ RACIST !’ VERY loudly.

    Watch how people shut up straight away.

    • 110
      sockpuppet #4 says:

      Conservatives came out with a fairly sensible policy, but it was rendered rather dim with fixed limits, that they claimed would be inflexible. I fear that was because if the limits had a bit of flexibility in them they …. would …. be ….. wait for it … TARGETS. A word more foul than any other.

      • 142
        Roger Daley says:

        Not forgetting the “Cancer” word !

        Who would dare to talk down Brown who is going to save all those lives lost the “Cancer” every year ? Every family must have lost a relation to the “Big C” why would you not want Brown the Grand Panjandrum to save us all – It’s the right thing to do – The Tories would let you all die”

    • 160
      Pontius The Pilot says:

      If only the fuckers would grow some bollocks and ram it back down their fucking pinko throats.

      Come on DC, what the fuck is keeping you? Enough of this Queensbury rules shit, the country needs to know exactly how fucking far down the sewer these self serving bastards have dragged us!

      Or do you want to chuck this election?

  12. 27

    Ah, just put it all on the credit card. The UK is a very rich country and can afford anything it wants.

    Increase overseas aid, increase the Civil Service, throw more money at the NHS, Special IT projects, more Government marketing. Everything will be fine.

    We can always get more credit cards.

  13. 32
    barefootcontessa says:

    OT, What was Alistair vile Campbell doing on Newsnight last night pontificating about M Foot’s death?
    There is absolutely NO connection between M Foot, who was a good man, and AC who is a bad man.
    M Foot must have detested Newlabour, newspin, newlies, and their antipathy to his life’s principals.
    BBC appear to be still under the sway of Alistair Campbell’s obsequious lobbying. Is their memory so short they have forgotten that it was AC who tried to destroy the BBC?!

    • 36
      Alistair Campbell says:

      Listen bitch. They do as I fucking say, when I fucking say and how I fucking say. I’m the master, that is part of the deal. Now get back in your box before I put you in one like I did with David Kelly.

      Um. Or I’ll cry because this is so emotional for me..

      • 40
        the cowardly TaT who dare not squeak his name says:

        You’ve got to wonder why a despised warcriminal scumbag like Campbell doesn’t just change his name and hide from the public like a coward

      • 46
        JACK (Spineless Turd) STRAW says:

        On the topic of David kelly
        Why has the press of this country not picked up on the fact that his autopsy results have been classified for 70 years !
        this makes my blood boil the only reason for this is so the labour party MURDERERS can live out their wealthy lives before the results are released ! by which time they will allbe dead we should push and push untill we get these results and the criminals getwhat they deserve

        • 216
          Sting's Beard says:

          Good point. I dont know anymore than is in the public domain, but what I know stinks!! Why in the name of all that is holy is this going to be hushed up for 70 years. Whoever the next Government is should get a grip on this because it will not be forgotten and will fester for a long time otherwise!!

  14. 34
    rotten cripple says:

    shit, even old Zuma is shown in a better light than that thick pig headed, fuck ugly shit-eater.
    Is it bad to want to kill Brown?

  15. 35
    R.McGeddon says:


    Gordon, oh Gordon you’ve taken us for fools.
    You lied about Prudence and your ‘Golden Rules’.
    You plundered our pensions and decimated our savings,
    We’re fed up of listening to your ‘global’ ravings.
    Blair claimed you’re a genius; he lied to us too.
    The ‘British’ economy is in deep doggy-doo.
    ‘No BOOMS, NO BUSTS !’ you used to shout out.
    That was all hubris, of that there’s no doubt.


    You bang on and on about your Presbyterian daddy,
    Born a son of the manse and raised in Kircaldy.
    Now how would he regard you, with disgust or with pride ?
    Having watched you for years as you stood there and lied ?
    You’ve ruined this country, we’ve become a basket case.
    Moody’s and the others might even remove our triple A’s
    Yet you’re still in denial, saying we’re ‘uniquely placed’
    Have a long look in the mirror, your reflection is two-faced !


    I watched you just recently on the Andrew Marr prog,
    The look on your face was unusually hang-dog
    You said you’d prepared a ‘Decade of Shared Prosperity’.
    I think you’re deluded-your ideas will result in more Marxist Austerity !
    You bored me to tears with your grandiloquent prolixity,
    A dull raft of statistics in a broadcast of mendacity.
    Then you told us that yours is the Party of aspiration!
    You’re clutching at straws, man; that’s total desperation !


    In the early days of 2010 a few chumps tried to shaft you
    I’ve got this strange feeling that this won’t be the last coup.
    Yet once again the Dark Lord came riding to your rescue.
    The public all think you should be end up like Ceacescu.
    You’re ‘getting on with the job’ of rebuilding the economy,
    Stop trotting out these phrases with predictable monotony.
    You’re sending us to sleep trying to explain your ideology.
    The only thing we’re interested in is the action of psephology!

  16. 38
    JACK (Spineless Turd) STRAW says:

    Harman was a fucking embarrassment not only to labour but to this country !
    watch out for the new word of the moment ” INEXPERIENCED ” used three times yesterday in her pathetic rant abut Ashcroft( cameron,hague,osbourne )as if the government being “Experienced” are so much better they had their chance fucked it up time to move on
    and as for her statement that integrity is of utmost important to every member of the house what a fucking joke
    Not a single one of the bastards has an ounce of integrity and they should drop the word very quickly as should they stop using the term “right honourable” which makes my skin crawl !

    • 219
      Sting's Beard says:

      In future members of the H of C should adrress each other by using the correct terms eg “The complete Tosser” The absolute Wanker. the Fucking Gobshite etc etc It would certainly boost the viewing figures and liven things up a bit. Most importantly it would restore truth and honesty to Politics!!

  17. 41
    The Dirty Rat says:

    Will Brown get ‘strung out’ tomorrow re his lack of equipment funding and causing the death of UK service men and women.
    Don’t hold your breath. I guarantee a little gurning and a wet eye.

    • 55
      the cowardly druggieTaT who dare not squeak his name says:

      I agree nell. but if we were to use the photo of david cameron on the last thread looking like a spanish spiv with the tagline ‘Do you really trust this man to look after our troops in Afghanistan?’ I would be just as concerned. I know you are a conservative nell but let us be honest: Afghanistan-wise, david cameron and gordon brown are two cheeks of the same backside.
      innit.

      You seem to have changed you tune thick as thieves
      what’s the matter?
      scared to criticise Cameron since you ran blubbering to Guido for help?
      coward

      • 85
        Mr Ned says:

        This thread has been heavily modded hasn’t it. I cannot even see the comments by nell and tat, but the reply has been left.

  18. 42
    Things can only get better.. says:

    Boom and bust has been abolished. The economic Golden Rules have saved us. Total employment has been achieved in our lifetime. Child poverty has been eradicated. Prosperity, fairly shared, is all around.

    Politics is whiter than white. Our ethical foreign policy is respected around the world. We are at the heart of Europe, using the Euro.

    1997 will forever be remembered as the dawn of a great new age for our country.

    • 75
      Hang The Bastards says:

      Will we all get a new tractor ?

      Do we have to turn our gardens into vegetable paqtches to grow food for the state ?

      • 88
        Mr Ned says:

        You steal any spare patch of land you can get your hands on, it’s called guerilla gardening apparently, it is the latest thing according to the BBC.

        • 220
          Sting's Beard says:

          Oh another word for communism subtley slipped into our culture by our friends in the BBC

  19. 44
    Labour MP for BBC Television Centre says:

    I think Gordon Brown will single handedly fill the Downing Street Register.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255264/Pupils-aged-hate-register-Teachers-log-playground-taunts-Government-database.html#comments

  20. 50
    Martin Day says:

    On behalf of the Labour Party I would like to wish Lord Ashcroft a happy birthday.
    He is 64 years young today and next year will be entitled to his State Pension to add to his free bus.
    Lord Ashcroft is the best gift the Labour Party has had in its efforts to win the next General Election

    • 54
      Martian Gay says:

      Unlike Lord Paul, Ashcroft probably won’t take his pension or bus pass. The money grubbing Labour fuckers never miss an opportunity to grub some more even if they’re millionaires.

      By the way, how much UK tax has Blair paid this year?

    • 57
      Martin's Mother says:

      Martin. How many times have I told you to leave your father’s computer alone. When you get yourself dressed you can tidy up your bedroom – do something useful for a change.

      • 65
        Martin Day says:

        I will not rest until we in this great country of ours have

        FIVE MORE YEEARS OF GORDON BROWN

        and that lying northern git William Hague is booted out of the Conservative Party.

        THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY IS A BROKEN PARTY SPLIT DOWN THE MIDDLE

        • 89
          Mr Ned says:

          What hallucinogens are you on, Martin? Because you are having a really bad trip there.

          • the cowardly TwAT who dare not squeak his name says:

            sounds more like a common or garden twat

            He’s full of shit whoever he is as Brown is fucked and Hague is Shadow Foreign Secretary and as immune to demotion or sacking as Osborne

            It’s not Hague that’s facing calls to resign it’s Ashcroft (He won’t unless there are new revelations) though Hague has hardly covered himself in glory with this affair

        • 95
          Maladroit Labour Chump says:

          Whereas the Liebour party is rock-solid united clearly demonstrated by having had only THREE coup attempts to oust Gordon Brown. Now THAT’s unity !

          • the cowardly TaT who dare not squeak his name says:

            it’s hilarious incompetence too if we’re honest

            you’ve got to wonder what the Labour Leadership fight will be like after the election going by their keystone cops style attempts at coups

            Charles Clarke will probably wade and in destroy the frontrunners with cack handed endorsements while Hoon and Hewitt will run abour emailing blank pages to all the Labour MP’s much to their confusion

            should be very funny indeed

    • 143
      The Bottle Fed Triplet says:

      When I am 64 can I have a free bus please? Mind you they use rather a lot of diesel and there is only me and the missus so parking outside the warden assisted flats could be tricky. How about something smaller. A mini-bus perhaps or even a taxi. I’d go for a hovercraft but the skirt would get ripped by the rose beds and they tend to fill up with eels.

      MD, do you ever read your stuff before you send it?

  21. 52
    Jac says:

    Harriet and her merry band of ‘change if you want too’ Harmon always use that retort. It’s a fullback position when you don’t have an answer for how you’ve screwed the English people, their economy, allowed the banks to get off scott free with all of our money and have more than 3 non-doms in the Lords who bankroll the party.

    And the Tories are liars, hypocrites, Etonians? Holy cow whatever next, William Hague mopped the floor with dozy Doris yesterday, she and the speaker got better acquainted than ever before with her meagre attempts at attacking Lord Ashcroft and even the planted questions had to be restated because she was so flustered by William Hague :) Go Willy ;)

  22. 53
    thick as thieves says:

    So this is why Guido backs the lying Tories

    David Cameron: Tory party would give Guido Fawkes more time off

    • 58
      the druggieTaT who's finally using his name says:

      I take it back
      You actually had the balls to put your own name to that post tat
      Because I certainly didn’t post it
      As anyone capable of reading an ip-address like Guido will know

  23. 59
    Economic Comment Fair For All says:

    Tories talking down the UK economy – bad. Labour saying the economy is fine – good.

    • 86
      The Able Semen says:

      Yes – That’s about it. In Labour’s terms, the economy is about what they dream up to say in the morning. Nothing to do with fundamentals which are an inconvenient side show. Any talk to the contrary is tantamount to being awakened from a pleasant dream and therefore unwelcome.

      Appearance is the new reality. Until polling day ……….

    • 94
      Mr Ned says:

      Tories talking down the UK economy – bad.
      Labour fucking the economy backwards – good.

      Labour need to be punished at the election.

      • 222
        Sting's Beard says:

        Good point Discussing things used to be called democracy in this country. However now its referred to as unpatriotic. This lot are really showing their Marxist roots

  24. 61
    thick as thieves says:

    “As an Irishman that doesn’t apply to Guido”

    Will you please give us all a lecture on the Irish economy and stop talking down the UK economy.

    Bloggers and politicians like you wil let Labour win the next General Election.

    On second thoughts keep on as you are.

    VOTE LABOUR

    • 64
      the druggieTaT who's finally using his name says:

      not me again son
      trying to get Guido to do your bidding and mod me?
      shame he can read ip-adresses and will know it’s you posting it

      try again
      FAIL!

      • 71
        tick as teefs says:

        I am in favour of all Tory posts being modded.
        The Tories are not capable of telling the truth

        • 78
          the cowardly TaT who's finally using his name says:

          changing a couple of letters in your name doesn’t change you ip-address tat
          you look like you’re panicking now

    • 101
      Maladroit Labour Chump says:

      ‘Stop talking the economy down’ is Labourspeak for let’s not discuss the parlous state of the economy. When all else fails, simply shoot the messenger.

      Everyone should focus on more important matters such as the recently improved ( massaged ) tractor statistics.

      • 105
        the cowardly TwAT who dare not squeak his name says:

        I’d like to see anyone talking up a double dip recession

        • 223
          Sting's Beard says:

          A double Dip reccession looks very petty when expressed as a graph. Perhaps its down to their flirtation with the Fauvist movement!!

    • 138
      Court of World Opinion says:

      The Anglo-American globaliser banks screwed up and created a massive debt trap. The Irish economy, indeed all the worlds economies were massively sucked into the liquidity trap. The City of London, regulated by Labour, and Wall Street regulated by their American friends (you know the ones we gaily went to war with) have destroyed the legitimate hopes and hard work of 100s of millions.

      Please acknowledge that instead of making inappropriate and irrelevant points.

      Now let’s get on with fixing it.

      Thanks very much.

  25. 66
    Hang The Bastards says:

    Im looking forward to the rioting !

    Its about time the British public took to the streets and regained control from these Hunts.

    They are abusing the publics apathy in them.

  26. 70
    hang um high says:

    Andy Burnham on sky being interview by that fat twat Holmes on health no problem there then they had to get in whats your opinion on Ashcroft then a 3 min labour broadcast what a Labour loving station, no mention of Lord Pual.FFS

    • 102
      QWERTY says:

      Did the fat Man U twat ask about the 1200 people bummer Burnham sent to their deaths?

  27. 73
    Sarah Tweet says:

    South African State Visit has started well http://bit.ly/X3spx all those rehearsals paid off – sounded note perfect to me through the window

  28. 74
    Wee Willie Hague's nondom confusion says:

    Poor Hague has landed himself in the shit with his admission last night that he only knew about Ashcr*fts nondom status a couple of weeks ago

    • 79
      ashcroft who? says:

      No one is bothered about ashcroft…not even the BBC, they are more worried about Radio 6, a statiob no one had heard of until this week.

      • 90
        Wee Willie Hague's nondom confusion says:

        really?

        Ashcroft ‘kept top Tories in the dark’ on his tax for a decade

        David Cameron was last night facing calls to sack Lord Ashcroft after it emerged the Tory deputy chairman had apparently kept the party leadership in the dark about his tax status for a decade.
        William Hague, who nominated Lord Ashcroft for a peerage, admitted he had only discovered in recent months that the secretive Tory donor still enjoyed ‘non-dom’ status, enabling him to avoid paying UK tax on his extensive foreign business interests.
        As Tory leader at the time, Mr Hague gave assurances that Michael Ashcroft would end his status as a tax exile and ‘take up permanent residence’ in the UK as a condition of being granted a peerage

        http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255348/Ashcroft-kept-Tories-dark-tax-decade.html#ixzz0hCAV3sji

        Even that bastion of socialism the Daily Mail are running with it along with every other paper

        • 111
          Unsworth says:

          Tomorrow’s chip wrappings.

          In the meantime the pound sinks, unemployment rises, stagflation looms.

          Ashcroft will be forgotten in days, but the economic shambles is here for years. Give it a few weeks and even more voters will be wanting to know why. Never mind all this bollocks about starting in America, they’ll be more worried about putting bread on the table.

          • Grammar School Boy says:

            Foot will helpfully keep Ashcroft off the front pages for a day or two.

            Do you seriously know anyone who is remotely interested in the Ashcroft issue? Apart, of course, from the liberal media luvvies?

            …in any event I wouldn’t want to pay full tax on money earned outside the UK to McBroon, to waste, either!

          • memory hole says:

            true.. but it was supposed to have been yesterday’s story yesterday
            unless there is more to it it will soon be out of the headlines
            though i’d say voters are far more aware of the effects of the recession than the politicians so far and have been for months
            not for them the cushion of expenses claims and fat pensions

        • 130
          Lord poole says:

          Im amazed the BBC or SKY have given me such an easy time with the child labour and english steel workers pension fund issues.Those nasty Tories have made an FOI request about me but they will have a long wait.

        • 200
          JACK (Spineless Turd) STRAW says:

          What is so good about being granted a peerage ? does it give you good tax breaks ?

          and O/T Why d* peop*e k*ep writ*ng li*e th*s ?
          is it trendy ?

          • Unsworth says:

            Nope it’s nothing to do with fashion. You remember those old greetings cards with crap illustrations which were ‘painted with the mouth’, or foot or whatever? Well, this stuff with all the asterisks is ‘typed with the penis’.

        • 230
          Just Get On With It says:

          Ashcroft doesn’t “still enjoy non-dom status” he WAS a tax exile before he became a Lord. He was told he could not become a Lord as a tax exile. He agreed to become a UK resident, it was at this point he became a non-dom. A perfectly legal position for a Member of the House of Lords as many Labour peers can attest to.

          Since the suspicion for the last 10 years was that he was a non-dom, if the Government thought it was so horrifying they could have disqualified non-doms from sitting in the Lords. They didn’t. I wonder why?

    • 97
      sockpuppet #4 says:

      I don’t feel any less respect for Hague for having to bullshit us.

      I feel less respect for my own judgement that I take on board glaringly obvious truth when he was in some sort of deadlock-loop with Paxman.

      • 122
        Pompous Paxo says:

        The Taxpayers give me a million pounds a year to ask Tory politicians the same question over and over and over and over again until they lose the will to live.

        Long live the Beeb ! Long live Liebour !

        • 129
          The Dirty Rat says:

          Here’s a question for you Paxman.

          Mr. Brown. Why did you cut the funding budget to our troops in Iraq thereby depriving them of essential equipment and causing them many unnecessary deaths.

          • Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

            Don’t worry about that. What about Lord Ashcroft ???

          • the cowardly TaT who dare not squeak his name says:

            it’s a question for the Iraq inquiry actually and we’ll see if Chilcott has the balls to ask it
            I wouldn’t hold my breath as he’s been a meek nodding dog so far

          • Sting's Beard says:

            Here is another one for Gordon

            As you were too ashamed to be seen signing the Lisbon Treaty and would not allow a photo to be taken; why do you feel the rest of us are under any obligation to honour any of it!!

  29. 80
    nursemorepillsplease says:

    Guido, please help.
    The lunatics have taken over your asylum, again.
    There are some of us who are not completely nuts who would like to keep visiting here.

  30. 83
    Martin Day says:

    The House of Lords has a momentous decision to make – should it call in the Army to chase the Conservatives that have infested one of Britain’s most famous buildings?

    London’s Houses of Parliament, also known as Westminster Palace, has Conservatives, and the peers aren’t exactly sure what to do about it.

    Ivan Anthony Moore-Brabazon, the House’s administration chief, on Wednesday turned down suggestions to acquire the Army. He says the Army could wander around the chamber and disrupt business.

    He favours the current tactic of using Lord Ashcroft.

    Parliament staff have reported daily sightings of the Conservatives in the palace’s restaurants and bars.

    • 251
      Grandma says:

      Do you mean mice? I understand the peers discounted the use of a cat because of health and safety issues and advocated poison. Please get your facts right in future.

  31. 91
    The Dirty Rat says:

    Good to see that despite the BBC hyping it up, the Ashcroft bollocks is dying the death. An obvious Mandelscum/Campbell attempt to divert attention to the information coming out following the FOI request on the disgraced Lord Paul.
    Labour’s shit is really going to hit the fan – the HOL will resemble a farmyard.

  32. 93
    Ed Balls says:

    Welcome To My Dream Guys

    • 163
      Maladroit Labour Chump says:

      WTF ?? There’s not ONE mention of Lord Ashcroft in there ??

  33. 96
    Sir William Waad says:

    Guido. I do not think you should assume that your readership, erudite though we are, knows that CDS stands for ‘Credit Default Swap’, or that we would know what a CDS was if one bit us in the leg.

    Also, please remember to label the axes on your graphs, even if Morgan Stanley don’t. 350 what?

    • 205
      Captain Black says:

      350 basis points (or bps). A basis point is a one-hundredth of 1%. Therefore 350bps is 3.5%.

      Simples.

  34. 100
    QWERTY says:

    The BBC.

    Lord Ashcroft
    Lord Ashcroft
    Lord Ashcroft
    Lord Ashcroft

    Oh and just how many of these drug taking BBC twats dodge paying their taxes?

    The economy is in meltdown yet the BBC ignores it.

    • 127
      mondeoman says:

      It’s what they do.

      • 177
        BBC Spokesperson says:

        Listen you chumps – if the Tories get in we are soooo fucked. It’s all Thatcher’s fault, aided and abetted by Ashcroft – the polar bear drowning bastards.

        • 244
          QWERTY says:

          Funny that the BBC ignores the economy going down the pan but had time to highlight the increasing use of Cocaine in the UK (presumably as more Guardian jobs have been created) the BBC seemed worried, not that it’s bad people use drugs but that it might make it scarce for them.

  35. 104
    REEVO says:

    Its that time again, reminds me of the Spring Rut, which everybody knows is the best time to see “true colours”

    Media spouting “well thought out” bollocks, quoting percentages of percentages that have little foundation in fact.

    Worried politicians dishing the dirt on each other, squirming and posturing in the hope of impressing a wholly disenchanted electorate.

    Quotes of great doom and disaster if people don’t vote (when everybody knows)…

    Less government = less tax = more disposable income = happier voters.

    But then again politicians ain’t really interested what voters want only their votes….your consent to stick it to you as they see fit

    Same old Same old, nothing new just more of the same!

    Yes thank you goodbye, I will let you know……

  36. 106
    Martin Day says:

    VOTE LABOUR

    VOTE LABOUR

    VOTE LABOUR

  37. 107
    Bong, Bong, Bong, says:

    James Bulger killer Jon Venables was taken back into custody after a bust-up at work, it has been reported.

    The 27 year old grappled with a colleague and had to be pulled away – eventually being suspended from his workplace after an official complaint was made and then recalled to prison, the Daily Mirror reported.

    He is also alleged to have a history of drug abuse since being released in 2001 on licence after serving eight years for the infamous murder.

    Won’t be long before his name is known now I suspect.

    How many 27 year old men who look like him have just disappeared after a fight at work?

    • 148
      Diddle Dee Diddle dum along the train will come says:

      The net closes in – reserve his space on the railway line.

      Eye for an eye.

  38. 112
    The Dirty Rat says:

    FFS. The BBC still banging on about Foot, alternated of course with Ashcroft.
    Meanwhile, back in the bunker, Brown is receiving lessons on how to smile and cry in preparation for his whitewash tomorrow.

  39. 117
    The Court of Public Opinion says:

    Bruin telling the UK everything is ok, and them lapping it up, whilst the rest of the world watches in horror at what’s really happening?

    See it all before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzlgXPbGy-E

  40. 119
    Martin Day says:

    William Hague should face axe for his role Lord Ashcroft tax dodge

    Now that’s what I like to read.

    Off with all Tories heads

  41. 120
    Britain's Government of mentally unstable, bullying, spendaholic, hate filled, liars says:

    Come the glorious day it’s gonna be sooo funny watching the hate filled, maladroit, bullying, smearing, spendaholic, brooding, mentally unstable, juvenile Brown and his henchmen reeling off a list of who’s to blame for the run on Sterling, the shedding of public sector jobs, the lack of growth in the real economy, and the loss of the AAA rating.

    One of their thousands of new laws will be to make it a racialistic crime to question Mr Brown’s glorious command economy.

    Labour will get re-elected by the work shy, the professional benefits scroungers, the public sector paper shufflers, lobotomised Union members, the million ‘naturalised’ non English speaking immigrants, the chip on both shoulders, drunken, obese Scotch, that’s all fair enuff.

    But what are these parasites gonna go when Mr Brown’s bribes run out?

  42. 131
    fat tits tone says:

    brown and zuma this should be splendid.

    sa – g20 – g8+5 ? does he mean g13?

    • 183
      the thick as shit says:

      is that the number of wives Zuma has in any given month?

      • 221
        Susie says:

        Zuma couldn’t decide which one to bring, so he thought he’d bring the biggest one so she could have a free State Dinner and he could save on the groceries back home.

  43. 133
    ex-pat pete says:

    I thought I´d put this link in, as it´s the first time that I´ve seen such an article in the german press. http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,681597,00.html

    let me know if the link doesn´t work

    • 146
      The Dirty Rat says:

      Gordon Brown says, “It’s just the nasty Germans talking down the pound”

      • 151
        Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

        Don’t worry about the disastrous state of the UK economy. What about Lord Ashcroft ??

        Oh, and by the way, this is no time for a novice.

        • 169
          Labour Spokesperson says:

          Micahel Foot’s death was a terrible tragedy for the Labour Party – we need all the votes we can get.

  44. 141
    Live from Downing Street says:

    There he stands,just a few difficult questions away from total mental breakdown,exploding head,frothing at the mouth and a straitjacket.

    Watch his eyes – he is so paranoid of all he surveys.

    Not long now – max two months and 2 days away from the exit of this grotty man.

    And what is it with this “solooooshian” rubbish? He literally invents words as he invents his own importance.

  45. 145
    mloh says:

    Now my 5 year old will not be allowed to call Brown a t w a t . Possibly he’ll get away with hoon.

    Daily Mail:-
    Heads will be forced to list children as young as five on school ‘hate registers’ over everyday playground insults.

    Even minor incidents must be recorded as examples of serious bullying and details kept on a database until the pupil leaves secondary school.

    Teachers are to be told that even if a primary school child uses homophobic or racist words without knowing their meaning, simply teaching them such words are hurtful and inappropriate is not enough.

    Instead the incident has to be recorded and his or her behaviour monitored for future signs of ‘hate’ bullying.

    The accusations will also be recorded in databases held by councils and made available to Whitehall and ministers to help them devise future anti-bullying campaigns.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255264/Pupils-aged-hate-register-Teachers-log-playground-taunts-Government-database.html#ixzz0hCLw4K97

    • 152
      The Dirty Rat says:

      I would like to see the database for Kirkcaldy West Primary School 1955 -1965.

      • 237
        Just Get On With It says:

        I’d like to see the data base for 10 Downing Street 2007-2010.

      • 242
        Australian says:

        You mean it took Brown 11 years to pass out of primary school? Why am I not surprised?

    • 155
      Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

      Look, don’t worry about that. It’s the right thing to do.

      I mean, what about Lord Ashcroft ??

    • 235
      Sting's Beard says:

      Yes my wife used to be a teacher. She was instructed years ago to make a note of any pupil who she suspected, yes suspected of being racist!! New Labour=New NAZIS I love my country but I loathe the people who have got hold of it!!i

  46. 150
    Volcano says:

    Watching Brown on TV now – he is so doped up with d*rugs it is incredible.

    Underneath a very thin veneer lurks a rage like a volcano about to blow it’s top.

    Get rid of him.

    • 191
      mondeoman says:

      Given the chance we will, roll on the election. Of course he was speaking of attending the world cup (as PM), this conference and that conference (as PM), the arrogance of the man. It will be interesting watching the election debates, will he be able to stand for 90 minutes, swaying from side to side, body language experts will have a field day!

  47. 157
    Martin Day says:

    WILLIAM HAGUE IS DEAD MAN WALKING

    Some of the media coverage has focused on the fact that Hague, who vociferously pushed for Ashcroft’s peerage in 2000, was kept in the dark by his close friend for nearly a decade. But surely the real scandal is the fact that in the “last few months”, as journalists and the opposition have turned their full heat onto the issue, Hague has repeatedly evaded the question by denying any knowledge of Ashcroft’s tax status.

    Let’s just compare Hague’s recent statements on the matter.

    Last night on Radio 4′s The World Tonight:

    Over the last few months I knew and, after that, of course I was very keen to support him in making that position public.

    One month ago (7 February) on the Andrew Marr Show:

    Andrew Marr: …does he pay tax as a British taxpayer, as a British citizen? Which is a very straightforward question.

    William Hague: Well, I’ll give you another clear statement, which is that when he was made a peer in the year 2000, he was asked to give certain guarantees about that and he then implemented those guarantees — and he’s assured me that he did. Although what they were in detail was defined between him and the Inland Revenue at the time. I am not a party to that any more than the –

    AM (over): But he’s a very key figure.

    WH: — Labour Party is a party to all those people in the House of Lords, some of whom are non-domiciled and so on, but who give donations to the Labour Party.

    Hague has yet to clarify exactly what he means by “a few months”, but unless he’s employing a different calender to the rest of us, it is a fair assumption that he knew considerably more than he was letting on.

    • 165
      The Dirty Rat says:

      Another example of Martin’s homework.
      Could do better, boring cnut.

    • 167
      Peter Mandevilson says:

      FINALLY !!

      Thank fuck for that !! A full five minutes had elapsed without a single mention of Lord Ashcroft.

      • 179
        Martin Day says:

        Make no mistake the issue of Lord Ashcroft will LOSE the election for David Cameron’s Conservatives

        WLLIAM HAGUE

        LIAR LIAR LIAR

        • 193
          Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

          FFS, whatever you do, don’t let people talk about the economy. I mean that could possibly be a slight election loser, perhaps ????

          So let’s just keep bringing every conversation round to Lord Ashcroft. Even if gilt yields keep going up, even if the Pound keeps sinking, just keep mentioning Lord Ashcroft.

        • 197
          Pontius The Pilot says:

          What a load of old shit.

          because you labour Hunts cant tell the difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance, thats why you’re hounding Ashcroft, but letting News International, Astra Zeneca and other large corporates off without paying a red fucking cent in corporation tax.

          You Hunts arent fit to be in charge of a fucking piggy bank you lying, scheming, pocket lining, self serving bastards.

          And for you lot to accuse any fucker of lying – fucking unbelieveable! You’ve elevated lying to a fucking art form!

          • Susie says:

            I just don’t see the problem. Ashcroft pays tax on his UK earnings. Why should he pay tax on what he earns abroad as well?

            Thousands of others don’t, a friend of mine has just got a job in Dubai (3 months working there and 3 weeks back here), giving him a chance to save and come home to buy their first house when the contract’s over. What’s wrong with that?

        • 198
          Martin Day says:

          I am an insult to spotty, smelly students everywhere,

          I eat my own shit and wank over pictures of Ed Balls.

          • the thick as shit says:

            I’m sure you do.
            Do you also like to dress up as other people like a pervy tranny ?
            Sounds like it.

        • 239
          Labour MP for BBC Television Centre says:

          Thank fuck Ashcroft will lose The Tories the election. For a minute there I thought the economy being completely clusterfucked by Gordon might cause us a problem.

          VOTE LABOUR!

    • 246
      Unsworth says:

      Do you mean calendar or collander?

      Yet another State Education victim.

  48. 158
    The Bottle Fed Triplet says:

    Help me here fellow bloggers but wasn’t Robin Cook, a well known athiest, given a memorial service in a cathedral in Edinburgh?

    What’s the betting that Michael Foot gets something similar. Lashings of irony and hypocrisy all round?

    • 182
      Sir William Waad says:

      Nobody is an atheist when they’re dying.

      • 213
        concrete pump says:

        That is quite possibly the most stupid thing i’ve ever heard, Waad.

        Get a grip.

      • 225
        concrete pump says:

        I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

        Mark Twain.

  49. 159
    Leather Apron says:

    Ronnie Kray’s police file has just been discovered, after 40 sitting on a shelf – remind you of anyone???

    The file, which details his criminal record from the age of 17, begins: ‘Ronald Kray has been the leader of a ruthless and terrible gang for a number of years.
    ‘He has strong homosexual tendencies and an uncontrollable temper and has been able to generate terror not only in the lesser minions of his gang, but also in the close and trusted members.
    ‘He would brook no incompetence or interference from anyone and was very conscious not only of his own public image but also that of his underlings.
    ‘For this reason he used to like to set an example and enjoyed the name of “the Colonel” amongst his subordinates.’

    It added that he was ‘extremely violent’

  50. 172
    Ken Clarke says:

    Harman you fucking dozy socialist double-think twat

    IT WAS UNPATRIOTIC TO GET THE UK INTO THIS FUCKING MESS

    Election….now!!!! And if that doesn’t work, Guido, you know what to do…

    • 209
      South of the M4 says:

      And this the tone that Hague/Cameron et al must use. It is unpatriotic to have got us here; it is patriotic to spell out where we are, and where we should go. We need more robust re-buffs against this madness if our kids are to have any future in the UK.

      • 250
        Ken Clarke says:

        Here here South of the M4

        It would porbably be unpatriotic to suggest that Godawful Brown is the biggest danger to the UK since Hitler.

        But when you are allowing circumstance, whether it be national debt crisis, needlessly allowing British troops to go into combat without proper kit, destroying the best things about this country, allowing unfit idiots like Harman, Milliband and Smith to hold office, or through complete incompetence and being a narcissistic one-eyed scottish Hunt, it is perfectly clear that:

        GORDON BROWN IS A BIGGEST DANGER TO BRITISH INTERESTS
        HIS WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION CAN BE READY AS A P45
        LIVES HAVE BEEN, AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE RUINED, AND LOST, BECAUSE OF HIM
        I DON’T NEED TO SEX THIS DOSSIER UP

  51. 174
    mloh says:

    Is this the thin edge of the ( potato) wedge?

    Government demands thicker chips to help Britain’s obesity crisis

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255186/Government-demands-thicker-chips-help-Britains-obesity-crisis.html#ixzz0hCQCl9TY

    For info the “read more” link appears automatically. Is The Daily Mail the first?

    • 203
      the thick as shit says:

      I see John Prescott has been busy.
      Fat Chips for the many not the few.

  52. 178

    Never mind all this shit – are you aware that last night the House of Lords agreed to give courts the power to block domestic and foreign websites and web services merely on the *allegation* that they might host copyrighted material, OR something that the govt decided threatened the security of the state?

    Several Lords explicitly made the comparison with the IWF-managed system to block sites alleged to distribute child porn – but this dumbass LidDem amendment goes even further than that – demanding that, on reciept of court instructions, that *any* “internet location” be blocked. Not taken down, blocked. So that’s P2P included too.

    They are killing the internet folks – the British internet is being ruthlessly controlled. They will happily turn this place into a fucking prison. They are *all* in it together, they are *all* using every dirty smear to put copyright infringement and paedophilia in the same bracket, they are *all* determined to stop US – me, you, Guido – from communicating, except via their approved channels, in the way that they choose. It’s happening. Now.

    It’s really happening.

    And who warned of it?

    Me.

    I told you fucking so.

    Paranoid… they said.

    They dont’ say that any more…

    • 257
      Axe The Telly Tax says:

      Even a fuckin’ 3 year old knows how to use a web proxy to bypass censorship on the net. The authorities are pissing in the wind. LOL.

  53. 185
    nell says:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255305/Gordon-Brown-blunders-cost-family-50-000-PM-blame-ruining-economy-say-Tories.html

    I wish the tories would do more of this – gordon’s trashed economy will cost each family £50,000.

    • 194
      Mr Plum says:

      Why do they always call Gordon’s financial disasters a mistake or a blunder as it lets him off the hook a bit with just being an idiot when in fact we all know he is doing it on purpose nobody could be that stupid.

  54. 188
    Lord Paul, smiling face of progress and Labour to the core says:

    : London-based industrialist Lord Swraj Paul was greeted with protests during his visit to the controversial Tata small car plant in Singur.
    Despite the protests, Paul said he would build three plants in the state. “We found Singur very impressive. We are building two plants, rather three plants there. So, we certainly have faith in West Bengal,” Paul said. Tata Motors started to build its factory in Singur in January 2007 to make the world’s cheapest car. In January, the much awaited one-lakh rupees car, Nano, was unveiled by Tata Motors chairman Ratan Tata in New Delhi, which is likely to hit roads by October. But the project has been mired in controversy with peasant farmers declaring that the government took their fertile land against their will leaving them destitute.

  55. 189
    Carefully Selected Chilcott Enquiry interrogator says:

    Well Prime Minister, before we start, have you taken your daily medication?

  56. 196

    [...] that issue… Guido Fawkes has an interesting observation this morning about Britain’s debt (less safe than Chile even after the Earthquake) and it would appear that our American friends (taking a break from sitting on the fence on the [...]

  57. 208
    Francis Futurama says:

    Not so sure that Ronnie = Gordoom.

    Ronald Kray had a glamourous lifestyle and cared about his appearance. He might have bitten the heads off a few whippets, but would never have eaten his own snot in public. And in his day, it was other people who chewed their fingernails, not him.

    Homosexuality they do, admittedly have in common. But where Ronnie indulged in nasty rumpypumpy mansex with rent boys, Brown merely squirms secretly on a butt-plug, sniffing a secretly stolen pair of Mandy’s knickers.

    And Ronnie was at heart a streetfighter – Brown is just prone to ugly tantrums and petulance.

    Nah, giving Brown the name Ronnie would be too much of an honour – and an insult to the Krays.

  58. 212
    JACK (Spineless Turd) STRAW says:

    O/T As hague said yesterday Jack gormless or Mr Harriet Halfman managed not only to beat an all female field to win a nomination in Birmingham.
    but on the night of his local labour party interview
    she was supposed to be chairing the all female labour party group that appoints said women
    but failed to show

    i bet the bookies never saw that one coming

  59. 228
    Anonymous says:

    “Harriet claimed at PMQs yesterday that it is unpatriotic to ask questions about the British economy. As an Irishman that doesn’t apply to Guido.”

    Guido, maybe it doesn’t apply to you, but I’d have though it would appeal to you.

    To me, Harriet’s statement doesn’t sound like an assertion, it sounds more like the start of a joke.

    There was an Irishman, a Scotsman, and an English woman….(just fill in the rest yourself)….

    • 238
      Anonymous says:

      The Irishman said “What do we do about this trillion pound debt which is increasing at a rate of almost £200billion every year?”

      The English woman said “shhh. don’t mention the debt. I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it”

      The Scotsman said “The solution is simple, we borrow more money to pay off the interest and to increase the structural debt as much as possible, and we keep doing that until we can no longer borrow any more money, the debt gets called in, and we get declared bankrupt. Then we all become hunter-gatherers again. Pol Pot is my hero.”

      not very funny, but then again the situation’s not much to laugh at either.

      • 255
        Barnabas Scudamore says:

        I knew Pol pot played a central role in the cyclop’s life !

        I Just KNEW it !

        Pol Pot was fantastic. If kids were taught history (which they are not) or if kids could read (well they can, but only lithuanian,Polish, Hungarian etc etc)……..

        My arguement has fizzled out as kids generally can’t read, and think last summer’s issue of heat magazine is “history”.

        What with all the lesson plans and action points that teachers have to adhere to or face being strung up by their feet by chains and hung over a pit of fire until they confess to adding their own opinions to a lesson……….

        Yes Pol Pot’s exploits read like some science fiction film script.

        All in the name of Gordon “cycloptic” Brown style of Communism !

        Gordon Brown = the reincarnated soul of Pol Pot.

        Down with cyclops —Down with cyclops—Down with cyclops.

    • 245
      Unsworth says:

      Yes, ‘Patriotism’. The last refuge for these traitorous scum.

  60. 231
    tory boys never grow up says:

    That will be the debt default insurance market that priced the risk so accurately on mortgage and other asset backed securities I presume?

    • 240

      Yes it would be the same insurance market that meant that Lehman’s collapse with billions of liabilities basically caused very limited ripples with direct counter-parties.

  61. 234
    South of the M4 says:

    Well put, except that I do not believe that the current NuLabour government actually has any talent to contribute toward a ‘ government of national unity ‘. Thus a hung parliament will not achieve that aim. The markets appear to think the same.

  62. 249
    Civil Servant says:

    Oh, if only we were doing as well as the Irish economy with their austerity program.

  63. 252
    from the office of The Prime Mincer says:

    For circulation to activists only.

    Just a few pointers for you workers to think about

    This Chile finance nonsense is just a storm in a teacup..they run their finances like the Greeks..sweaty place never been there…oh forgot Corfu but hey thats an island and doesn’t count… like their finance minister. Gordon has told them all to use an exercise book…note down their outgoings and ingoings and giveaway..ings …oh well you get the picture…budget it…budge tit..no that was the secretary..well you get the message we saved the world .. it all started in the America.

    South America thats the big bit near the Falklands that the Argies still want. Some wag suggested if Gordon was to retire he could walk becoming Governor General of the Falklands but we had to shelve that idea pretty quick as the entire island threatened to move to Buenos Hairies.

    Anyway back to home news …. what a week everyone needs to keep going on the Ashcroft story…the longer we flog that dead horse the longer we can continue to avoid discussing our own donors. Don’t forget we have serious skeletons in our funding cupboard so keep off the subject. Just because the electoral comission says it all legal We say it isn’t fair, he doesn’t claim expenses, he doesn’t seek the limelight, he works tirelessly to put right what we’ve had 13 years to destroy…its just not fair they have such a generous benefactor enough said.

    Make sure any bad news is slipped through on friday as you know who is at Chilcott Enquiry…just to give you the inside nod..we’ve been practicing for weeks and the slack jawing is still a problem but hes smiling better just not at the right time but it’ll come and with the Tv debates coming up soon too we’re keeping at it daily. I got a peerage to do this job and if we win I’m not sure what I want to be next….Queen ? no only joking thanks will be enough.

    I think you will all want to join me in congratulating Harriet on her performance at PMQs she managed very successfully to avoid having to answer any question and did really well keeping Hague on his toes. I think the score was Hague 10 Hymen 2 (she got his surname right). Told her to watch the ‘head on one side and silly grin’ pose as it has the look of Frank Skinner…no sorry Frank Spencer doing a whoopsie. Lastly did say Hubby Drone can’t wear drag on the hustings now that hes been adopted under the all women selection process (excepting husbandesses) she didn’t like that but you know what shes like …one rule for them one for us etc etc yawn.

    Must dash as Gordon’s back …getting on with the job..got a couple of spears and a jungle drum from Gungerdin Zuma…thought the Zimbabwe ploy worked well…you know Gordon wanting to be sure everything going to plan before allowing Brother Mugabe’s henchmen to resume their shopping trips
    around the globe ..houses etc drawing a bit of dosh from the old accounts etc etc Harrods with the old envelope stuffer. As you all know Gordon has spent years helping all the ex-pats that keep getting knived,shot,thrown off their land etc etc so that the Mugabe coterie can grow tomatos and a few veg so good to see him playing the ‘Saving the World’ role so convincingly.

    All in all going very well so far and haven’t had to name the date yet…we all know when it is but no need to tell the plebs yet keep ‘em guessing…the budget planning is going really well…we shouldn’t need the postal votes (good to have them in case) as the budget should do all the buying the electorate we need to get 5 more glorious years.

    It is absolutely vital that we hold the party line and under no circumstances get into discussions with anyone about our performance over the last 13 years just keep pushing our ‘Vision’ for the future…how we have bought us through the recession and know the best way forward for this country. Our past record is for losers and those living in the past.

    Remember on May 6th (possibly just teasing) Vote Labour for a fairer shafting for all.

    ps…coke is something poor people put on their fires or drink not labour mps sniff up their hooters…they’re what hazel shoves up her duster..no I digress
    and must go its not phones flying today hes got those spears ..GORDON PUT THAT DOWN.

  64. 256
    Barnabas Scudamore says:

    Harman talks of patriotism ?

    How many of the cabinet have served in Her Majesty’s armed forces ?

    Jack straw talks of the English as “a race not saving”.

    Straws own grandfather (?) imprisoned for refusing to do his duty to Queen and Country by NOT fighting in WW 2.

    Then there is the ubiquitous talk of “global view” and “global scale” John Mcfall turning the conversations on the policts show to global.

    English flags not allowed to be put up on town halls

    Union flag not allowed to be put up on civic buildings

    Cyclops Brown spend just £230 – yep £230 quid over FIVE fucking years promoting st George’s day.

    How much did they spend “celebrating” the end of slavary ?

    How much was spent on “gypsy awareness” month ?

    Gordon “cyclops” brown is the most anti british and specifically anti English prime minister.

    I can only hope, David gets in (he is of course related to Her Majesty the Queen, Something I hope he does not forget).



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