March 5th, 2010

MPs’ Pay : Grand Rewards for Failure


The respective frontbenchers will not be taking their grand pay rise but as sure as pigs squeal the backbenchers will be.  They will say it is fair and was recommended by the Senior Salaries Review Board and is based on comparisons with doctors and judges and such like.

Hang on a second – becoming a doctor requires years of training and is a high stress position where you literally make life and death decisions.  A judge is is a position of ultimate responsibility at which you arrive after many years in the law and for which you will have studied hard for years.

Any scoundrel can become an MP with no training and no experience.  Guido will cite the example of the lovely Chloe Smith, a nice enough person, but it is fair to say she became a Tory candidate after a gap-year working for former Conservative education secretary Gillian Shephard before going to university where she did a bit of summer work for Bernard Jenkin and was a graduate trainee at Deloittes for a couple of years before she became an MP.  She is now on a compensation package from the taxpayers of over £100,000 a year in her mid-twenties.  Nice work if you can get it…

MPs don’t deserve a raise, 52% of them were guilty of over-claiming expenses, the country is broke, the rest of the public-sector is facing pay cuts, the private sector is facing tax hikes and reduced incomes. They should be considering belt-tightening along with the rest of us.  Take the trouble to ask your MP: “Will you be taking your pay rise?  Why do you really think you deserve a pay rise?”

Forward any responses to Guido to publish with pleasure…


576 Comments

  1. 1
    Captain Black says:

    It’s the right thing to do…

    • 2
      Martin Day says:

      I am about to throw my hat into the ring to be selected for a safe Labour seat

      • 7
        PM says:

        Whose ring?

        • 16
          Legally Retarded says:

          If it’s Mandy’s, he won’t even have to take the hat off his head…

          ((((STRETCH))))

          • Maybe we could try them in Harriet Harman’s “Court of Public Opinion”

          • May I propose a motion (squatted out over MacMental’s guppie like face, naturally) that we ban the use of the word “fair”?

            It has now been twisted and corrupted into raising a Pavlov response whereby if someone uses the word “fair”, that we must bark “oooh, yes, please shaft me some more, won’t somebody think of the poor, poor cheeeeldren without all their Wiis, Sky boxes and mobiles”.

          • barefootcontessa says:

            Unf..kingbelievable!

          • 1st reply back from Brooks Newmark (con), my MP

            Dear Old Holborn

            Fuck off. When I find out who you are, you’re fucking dead. Don’t ever Email me again

            Yours etc.,

            Brooks Newmark MP

          • udderly 'orrible says:

            OH – Brooks Newmark (con), MP.

            If that really was his response I hope you take it up with the parliamentary standards commissioner, report the (con) to House prefect Hatesusall Harpic and that he loses his deposit, the arrogant tw*at.

      • 8
        where is the cowardly lying thick TaT who dare not squeak his name says:

        They should be docked pay so that the 1.2 Million that the Legg Report cost to the Taxpayer can be paid back out of all of their paychecks.

        Greedy Troughing Bastards every one.

    • 13
      where is the cowardly lying thick TaT who dare not squeak his name says:

      it’s all within the rules
      that they make

      • 327
        Do You Need A Wheelchair Cripple? says:

        Yeah, that’s what TaT used to say.
        You must be one of his fans.

        • 383
          thick as pigshit says:

          you didn’t have any that’s why you didn’t set up a blog or piss off

          • I've Been To TaT's Site, It's Grrrrreeat!!! says:

            Haven’t you visited TaT’s excellent site?
            Oh, of course you haven’t, you’re banned.
            Tough shit spastic!

          • the cowardly druggie tat who dare not squeak his name says:

            you’re a complete cabbage tat
            everyone knows it’s you

          • DOH! says:

            And everyone knows you’re a wannabe twat.
            Innit.

    • 14
      Gordo says:

      British jobs for British workers

      • 111
        Gordon Brown says:

        British MPs for British constituencies

      • 130
        Gordon Broon says:

        Lightly armoured land rovers for driving through mine fields.

        • 142
          Snatchwatch UK says:

          Why are they called “snatch” landrovers? They look nothing like a snatch!

          • A Squaddie says:

            You have to be a c*unt to get in one

          • Enjineer says:

            I believe because of their use in NI by the ‘snatch teams’ who did rapid crash-bang-wallop arrests of terrorists.

          • Susie says:

            NI kids armed with stones… the real IRA terrorists kept right out of the way.

          • PD77 says:

            Not quite true Susie whilst out on patrol in NI in the late 60’s early 70’s my father’s patrol was shot at by a child probably no older than 5 after assumingly borrowing his IRA fathers AK, he and his patrol couldn’t believe what they saw and were embarrassed to report that they did not return fire, makes you wonder at what age they started the training of the IRA’s new recruits back then?

          • Anonymous says:

            while politicians drive around London in bullet proofed vehicles…

    • 20
      Drop dead gorgeous says:

      I’ve got a certain job then when I get out. Just got to change my colour and sex and get selectede for an east end constituency and, BINGO. And I will not be put away inside again, regardless of what I do, YIPPEE.

    • 213
      Confused says:

      Why has Martin Green been arrested?

  2. 3
    Mrs B says:

    £100k a year? I’m in the wrong job.

    • 14
      David Cameron says:

      I’m blooy well sure I’m in the wrong job

      Paddy is walking down the road eating a bag of doughnuts, Murphy meets him & says ‘ if I can guess how many doughnuts you have in the bag, can I have one?

      Paddy said ‘ if you can guess how many doughnuts are in there you can have both of them!! ‘……………

      Murphy says ‘Four!’

  3. 4
    Bogeyman says:

    Chloe gives me a raise

  4. 5
    PengePanther says:

    Worse than this is Catherine Taylor MEP. She has always been on a list so has never been voted for directly and her CV used to state that her only private sector experience was at Boots in her holidays. Her package as an MEP is troughingly huge……

  5. 6
    M.P.s give me the trots says:

    I would

    • 25
      concrete pump says:

      Not sure about the hair, but i would too.

      Beat THAT for political insight.

  6. 9
    Anonymous says:

    How can you tell Broon is lying?

  7. 10
    G Brown says:

    No rewards for failure – except for Jacqui Smith, an outstanding Home Secreatary who worked to make Britain more inclusive, modern and multi-cultural.

  8. 12

    The client state pay for Doctors is also a disgrace. They have had payrises of over 38% in the last 3 years – during the worst recession for 60 years. but hey what’s another few billion down the drain

    • 24
      where is the cowardly lying thick TaT who dare not squeak his name says:

      that was the terrible pay and perks deal that some idiot Labour Minister negotiated
      don’t see a way to roll it back though

      • 80
        Rick the Roman says:

        It was Blunkett – he couldn’t see what he was doing.

      • 83
        bergen says:

        Yes.The doctors’leaders couldn’t believe it.They came in with a high demand expecting to be knocked down in negotiation but Nulab in its anxiety to push through health reforms simply said yes.

        • 224
          Infanta of Castile says:

          as far as GPs go, the agenda was to shove any money at them in order to cut the link between a practice’s remuneration and the number of GPs in the partnership. The negotiators – generally fat cats on committees who had been partners for years- leaped at the chance to ditch out of hours obligations and to be able to delegate their clinical work to salaried doctors earning much less than them while they creamed off the profit. What HMG got in return was the chance to open up General Practice to private sector companies of their acquaintance who could similarly pursue profit regardless of whether they have ever run a General practice in their lives and understand the complexity of why and when ordinary people with real problems consult GPs. The vision was that these companies would ultimately run a lean and mean machine with salaried doctors – not necessarily all GP trained. The fat cats didn’t understand or didn’t care whether future GPs could get a partnership and didn’t think about how the new model might affect their most vulnerable patients. Ministers and their apparatchiks see GP services in terms of what they might want themselves – fast access for the worried well. This means a young man with a verruca can get an appointment as soon as he wants it but an elderly patient with complex medical and social problems has great difficulty getting to see the doctor they have known for years and with whom they have a cultural bond.

          • Susie says:

            This makes sense. My parents (91 and 85 y/os) are passed around the GPs’ surgery like hot potatoes — they see a different doctor every time.

    • 63
      G Brown says:

      Allowing agencies to pay absurdly high wages for some medical overtime counts as an investment in my accounts though and is a useful stick to beat the Tories with. Which is the right thing to do.

  9. 18
    Robert says:

    Nasty boy Andre Walker plans a smear campaign on a train to Windsor

  10. 19
    DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

    This elevates me to the status of royalty.

    I’m not just DisgustedOfMitcham2, I’m now ‘king Disgusted.

  11. 21
    Anonymous says:

    It doesn’t really matter what salary is paid for the Labour party branch office in Scotland will continue to send monkey’s wearing red rosette’s to Westminster.

  12. 22
    thick as thieves says:

    “It was the right decision and it was for the right reason,”

    • 26
      thick arse-thief says:

      to get banned from this blog and then slink back like you did?

      • 336
        Do You Need A Wheelchair Cripple? says:

        TaT didn’t’ get banned you dimwit, he retired undefeated.
        I think he found bashing trolls like you too easy.
        Bit like lynching spastics really.
        His genius was no longer tested by idiots like you and so he left of his own accord.
        Ask Guido if you don’t believe me. Guido didn’t ban him.
        These are the facts whether you like them or not.
        Tough shit M8.

        • 390
          thick as pigshit says:

          if you retired why are you still here tat?

        • 450
          I've Been To TaT's Site, It's Grrrrreeat!!! says:

          I am not TaT.
          Wrong again spaz!

          • thick as pigshit says:

            who do you think believes you tat?
            you sad little twat

          • New Poster says:

            I am a new poster who has only be posting here for the last couple of weeks.
            You are a raving lunatic who has a bee in your bonnet about some person called tat.
            Perhaps you should seek psychiatric help.

          • the cowardly druggie tat who dare not squeak his name says:

            ‘some person called tat’

            so why were you babbling about TaTs site being great

            ‘New Poster’ yeah right, you’re a fucking joke thick as thieves

            lunatic

          • New Poster says:

            I’m taking the piss out of you.
            It’s not difficult.

  13. 23
    There is nothing wrong with the ouses of Parliament that one of these beauties couldn't solve says:

  14. 27
    Nurse! says:

    Brown sinking and sinking – nurse – the injection quickly

    • 46
      Itwasmywaraswell .... says:

      Brown trying to give the impression that both he and the Cabinet were involved at every stage – PATHETIC

      It was Bair’s war – we all know that

      • 140
        13 Downing Street says:

        whats with the one minute censorship delay.

        • 568
          PD77 says:

          It’s so if Bruin does lose it they can quickly cut to an episode of The Thick Of It or show In The Loop and people might not notice, because at the moment life’s imitating art or vice versa you decide?

      • 170
        Susie says:

        “It was the right [pathetic] thing to do”

  15. 28
    Going down,live on TV. says:

    Wow – the Daily Telegraph reader lie detector has gone off the scale!

    Brown’s last day as PM is 5th March 2010.

    • 36
      Captain Black says:

      That lie detector’s about as reliable as those dodgy bomb detecting kits the UK allowed to be sold to Iraq, amongst other nations.

  16. 29
    backwoodsman says:

    Its how the public sector gravy train works, folks ! They decide inhouse who they should receive a salary comperable to and they agree their own pay increases, with absolutely no reference to the reality of the market place.
    Hence all the local government and nhs senior administrators on £100,000 + salaries.
    How to solve the problem ? All salary revue boards to have a majority of members apointed by the local FSB and local chamber of commerce.

  17. 30
    ian e says:

    And who, I wonder, does she know that she got the gap-year job with Gillian Shephard in the first place?

  18. 31
    ContentofCaterham says:

    Any reasonable person would conclude they require a raise.

    But then when has this site ever been a place where reason prevails.

  19. 32
    The Brown Lecture says:

    And he’s starting to smile – oh dear.

    Dosed up to his eyeballs – I hope his bunker staff are going home early today or it will be an overnight stay in St Thomas’ Hospital.

  20. 35
    brown quote no. 1 says:

    “We were absolutely anxious to avoid war”

    can someone put that photo of brown up with the machine gun?

    • 172
      I read a book says:

      I have one of him in the Hitler Youth but can’t get it to post on here.

    • 305
      Archer Karcher says:

      “We were absolutely anxious to avoid war”

      Which is why of course, Bliar secretly agreed with Bush, to go to war, twelve months previously. The expensive and ridiculous whitewash continues.

      • 547
        Hates Liars says:

        Fucking hypocrite isn’t prepared to take on Despot Israel though, who hold the world record for disregarding UN resolutions. That’s because half the donations to the parties come from Zionist extremists.

  21. 37
    • 527
      Susie says:

      He’s just seen the £186,125,000 council pension black hole for the County.

  22. 39
    comments off says:

    Gordon Brown: “Tony Blair? As far as I remember, I’ve never met him or had any dealings with him”

  23. 41
    P. Mandevilson, the Eminence Greasy says:

    What on earth is going on here ?? More than thirty posts and no slagging off of Lord Ashcroft yet ??

  24. 42
    Les B Friends says:

    Chloe Smith looks like a Tom Boy lesbian. As Gillian Shepherd is also a lesbian, is that how Chloe got selected?

  25. 43
    Grofons Blownit says:

    Ot – Chillcott – shows Brown can not answer a question just saying the same old thing over and over again

    • 192
      Genuinely Modified says:

      it must be that damn clone playing up again

    • 549
      Hates Liars says:

      What does it matter, it’s a whitewash anyway and over half the Chillcotters are ardent Israel fans. Complete waste of time.

  26. 44
    the shade of dr kelly says:

    he is just droning on about “global organisations” etc etc. the man is fcking obsessed with some sort of giant stalinist global state.

    he said that people would feel safer from terrorism and rogue states with more global government obviously not realising that the constant interference and behaviour of people pushing for global government is what winds up the terrorists and rogue states in the first place.

    twat.

    • 66
      Britain's Government of mentally unstable, bullying, liars says:

      Remember though, with Britain’s imbecilic, scrounging, juvenile, half wit population, the more he is exposed as having cut funding to the troops the more people will warm to him.

      Brown’s client state care not one jot about his bullying, his malice, his mental instability, his loathing of Britain’s armed forces, his bare faced lying, or his destruction of Britain’s fiscal future.

      They just wants others people’s money, innit

    • 197
      Susie says:

      “not realising that the constant interference and behaviour of people pushing for global government is what winds up the terrorists and rogue states in the first place.”

      That is a very good point SDK.

    • 201
      Rogue States says:

      We only want independence without interference from terrorists and we get called rogue for that.

    • 550
      Hates Liars says:

      I’m far more concerned about the Stasi state scum than any piddling terrorist. The chances of ever being a victim of terrorism/revenge attack are next to nil.

  27. 45
    Spank Sinatra says:

    Brown looking annoyed – woohoo…….

    • 47
      Anonymous says:

      Rod Lyne now taking him apart cell by cell – but Brown is totally unable to answer any question.

      This is a disaster for Brown – he can’t walk out,he can only be carried out on a stretcher.

    • 49
      mondeoman says:

      Brown is going to implode!

    • 67
      Grofons Blownit says:

      what drival – time for a bit of waterboarding/racks/thumb screws to get answers

  28. 50
    sockpuppet #4 says:

    “From university she joined Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu,[4] where she advised private businesses, government departments, and public bodies”

    Can you imagine her turning up at the age of 21 and telling you what to do?

    PS: is york university supposed to be good these days? It was right at the bottom of my UCCA form.

    • 53
      Anonymous says:

      bugger off – get a TV and watch Brown losing his job.

    • 65
      Maladroit Labour Chump says:

      York is number 11 in 2020 Times Good Uni Guide.

      • 118
        Gordon Brown says:

        A former alumnus is Heide Blake who I wish every success in digging up info on Dave Cameron

        • 214
          Bumptiuos says:

          The one minute delay is to give time for the glass eye to catch up with the evil eye.Watch it.its watching the evil eye.weres it going now.to the left.

  29. 52
    Anonymous says:

    Now a lecture on the Middle East.

    Please someone – grab that blue security barrier thingy behind the Jonah and tie it around his…..

    • 57
      comments off says:

      What, the 50,000 volt electrified blue security barrier thingy?

      • 64
        Anonymous says:

        YES!

        Do it NOW – man with the horrible orange tie and orange name plate – do it NOW,for your country!

        • 242
          Bumptiuos says:

          so the slaughter of a million was to warn Gaddafi

          • Phoney Tony says:

            Look I`m a reasonable sort of guy, I wouldn`t say it gave me tremendous joy. But y`know, sometimes tough decisions need to be taken.

            I`m doing my bit as Middle East Peace Envoy now, so all`s well that ends well.

  30. 54
    Spank Sinatra says:

    Excellent Rod – “that was not the point I was making”

  31. 55
    Anonymous says:

    The smile!!!!!

    And the arms are getting animated.

    Rod Lyne;
    “That’s not the point I was making”.

    Incredible

  32. 57
  33. 59
    McBUST'S PSYCHIATRIST says:

    Guido :What about Baroness Ashton she that is NO2 in the Eu?as good an example of “anybody can become an” MP ?

  34. 60
    Anonymous says:

    Mc Cavity was nowhere to be seen

    Ooops – he just did the finger to nose body language to distinguish a lie.

    He is now saying he was not in any cabinet meeting as a Chancellor and Rod Lyne refers to him as the pm in waiting – to which Brown laughs as if that’s the first he has heard of that!!!!!!

    • 69
      The IMF is coming says:

      No underfunding, no underfunding, no underfunding, no underfunding……………………………

    • 71
      this is actually pathetic says:

      nope – i’m still none the wiser – what is he going on about?

      I hope he is sitting under one of those Tiswas chairs and in a minute hell be gunked.

  35. 62
    comments off says:

    Brown’s answers prove that he was deliberately AWOL when decisions/discussions over Iraq took place

    • 133
      Johnny says says:

      Buried his head in the sand = buried our soldiers in it too.

      He really is a dithering coward if he didn’t want to be for the invasion but didn’t want to be against it either.

      • 200
        Clarence says:

        “He really is a dithering coward if he didn’t want to be for the invasion but didn’t want to be against it either.”

        Cowardly, yes, but coldly calculating at the same time. Brown’s lack of vocal support for the war had nothing to do with any objections to military intervention, but everything to do with trying to exploit it for his own political ends.

        To be seen to be too close to Blair – and thus an unpopular war – would have damaged his own leadership ambitions. Thusly, if the war had gone horribly wrong, Cavalryman Brown would have ridden to the rescue.

        In other words, the Iraq war was simply a beneficial crisis to Brown. Tony Blair at least took the political heat and ‘fronted’ the war; Brown lurked in the shadows and waited for his opportunity.

        Brown is quite simply a despicable man.

  36. 68
    The Fool on the Hill says:

    Why is it that if you go in to a pub and some bloke leaning up against the counter is banging on saying he knows how to run the country, you look at him sideways and say, “Yeah, right”

    Yet, if the same bloke is on the telly, wearing a suit with a rosette in his lapel and is banging on saying he knows how to run the country, you look at him and say, “Hmmm, I think I will vote for him.”

    Most blokes I know reckon they could do a better job than the Prime Minister or the England Team manager. The way to stop this is to ask them if they could perform open heart surgery or command a nuclear submarine. Works every time.

    There will be a wonderful opportunity in the coming weeks to put these political wannabees on the spot. When they land on your front doorstep ask them the sort of tough, searching questions you would ask at a job interview. After all YOU are the employer, YOU will be paying them and they will be working for YOU. Tell them that and see how they react.

  37. 69
    HandsomeDavid says:

    Well it appears that Emily Benn could be representing East Worthing in the next parliament (if elected). So she may be following in the footsteps of her uncle Hilary Benn and grandfather Tony Benn.

    Nice work if you can get it.

    She is 20 years old.

    • 270
      Anonymous says:

      Not a lot of socialists in Worthing as far as I remember, but a lot of opportunity for postal voting.

  38. 72
    comments off says:

    I reckon that with the polls narrowing that Brown is now regretting offering to appear before the General Election

    • 77
      Anonymous says:

      Agreed – as usual he dithered and lost the chance to avoid today and the 26th March economic figures.

  39. 73
    Anonymous says:

    Here is Brown’s main attack point – to involve more people in the decision making process than Blair did so.

    And where was Brown in all of this – b*eating up people in the bunker?

    McCavity was never anywhere!

  40. 74
    PETER MANGLEDBUM (lord of the rings) says:

    When selling my arse for party funds !
    i allways use a “non dom”

  41. 75
    The Sleeper says:

    Can’t take much more of this…Brown has not only crashed,he’s completely burned.

    Lyne is now really pissed off with him.

    …..Give me Novocaine..lalalala.

  42. 76
    My Vote Never Counts says:

    Has anyone noticed this?: Whenever there is potential ‘credit’ to be gained it is ‘I did this’, and ‘I did that’ but if there’s a risk of fault or blame it is ‘we’.

    • 84
      Anonymous says:

      Yes – the “we’s” are very prominent – not one “I” unless it refers to him saving the world.

      How his staff must loathe him – I know from insiders that Whitehall hates him with a greater passion than any politician.

      • 91
        comments off says:

        We’ve had a lot of we’s from Brown. An indication that he’s just pissed in his pants maybe?

  43. 78
    Maladroit Labour Chump says:

    The ‘It’s the right thing to do’ mantra being well over-worked.

  44. 85
    comments off says:

    Gordon Brown: “Robin Cook, never heard of him”

  45. 85
    • 126
      Shell says:

      Away to fuck with this Brown Iraq nonsense, he’s only a blackmailed – D’lane – tool of the bankers and their marxist scum. Petrol will be £1.20 a litre by Easter, higher than the peak in mid 2008 and diesel around £1.22. Add to this latest producer price figures showing raw materials and energy prices rising at 7% on an annual basis and the morons of UK are going to be destroyed by an imploding economy and hyperinflation from the Bank of England’s printing presses. This time there will be breakdown, unlike 2008, when morons thought their house prices would cushion them.

      http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=248

  46. 88
    Bertha Rochester says:

    Well they deserve it, poor put upon souls, I mean not only do they have to work in two places – an old building that hasn’t been refurbished since Victorian times – I mean have you seen all that old paint work? and eat in the works canteen, they have to travel back and forth to shit holes all over the country not to mention manage 2 homes, employ half their own families, find cleaners and gardeners and worse still sometimes they even have to mingle with us proles.
    Leave em alone! After all we can afford it, the pay of dinner ladies, care workers, bin men and library assistants has been docked accordingly.

  47. 93
    Anonymous says:

    Bron now off for an injection while the others have a coffee!

  48. 97
    P. Mandevilson, the Eminence Greasy says:

    Coffee break ! Time to talk about Lord….

  49. 98
    REEVO says:

    Its an utter disgrace in view of the situation the country is in.

    If ever a bad example is required you can be sure our looting grubby collection of free loading MP’s are “up the front”

    Funny how its all quiet from the party leaders too, I’m not surprised though after all they were proved to be “at it” too.

    Just gives me more reason not to vote for any of them!

  50. 101
    QWERTY says:

    Sorry but only Tory MPs robbed the public. The Labour MPs were only taking what as socialists they were perfectly entitled to.

    • 114
      this is actually pathetic says:

      yes even Lord Martin was going to get “what he was entitled to” and bugger me he got it – peerage and everything.

      • 367
        Nanobugs R Us says:

        if you think the watergate tapes were something wait a few years for the mp3′s

    • 117
      Jac says:

      Yes, that’s always been their justification, socialists – sadly a failed concept when it comes to ‘get more for me’ first and help others… maybe… later.

  51. 102
    Brown is a piece of shit says:

    If Brown says “right thing to do” in a sentence one more fucking time, I’ll vote UKIP against all my instincts and principles just to get my anger out.

  52. 106
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    She looks just like the kind of woman that Balls or millipede goes for
    A boy
    Good stuff on McMental coming out , he does like girls , only this time it was a Downs syndrome child in Aberdeen
    Look it up

    • 432
      Mine d'Boggles says:

      Well, there is always a first time to get modded … you must be sailing close to the wind there Beast. Ease the sheets and bear away to sunnier climes, as where you’re comment was headng is full of peril.

  53. 109
    I hate Brown with a passion says:

    I didn’t think it was possible but with every minute that goes by of the inquiry, my loathing for Brown multiples. He doesn’t give straight answers, he avoids questions by reeling off prepared waffle that serves to deflect away from awkward facts, and now he’s started smiling at inappropriate moments when what he’s saying has nothing humorous or amusing in its context or content.

    How much longer till this c/unt calls an election? I swear the gutless shit will bottle even May 6 and have it literally on the very last possible date in June.

    • 128
      John Bull Printing Outfit says:

      Brown using the well tried alibi “Nuthin to do wi me Guv it were all Blair’s fault Sir John !” His assertion that Chancellor’s of the Exchequer have never been involved in previous War Cabinets is totally unbelievable.

      !If I may say so Sir John it WAS the right thing to do and we all know that it started in America anyway !”..

  54. 110
    comments off says:

    Sky are saying that Brown’s thumbs are going like piston rods

  55. 112
    Jac says:

    Isn’t it typical how outraged they all were about bankers, whilst troughing away and getting a pay rise. It’s a disgrace.

    Brown is a liar, Bliar was a good coach!

  56. 113
    Anonymous says:

    This blog is like having two conversations in a pub at the same time.

    Get real Guido – Brown is busy losing his job.

    You cover PMQ’s but not this?

    Bizarre.

    • 276
      South of the M4 says:

      The vast majority of the country will only see, in passing, BBC edited parts of the Brown enquiry interview today. These will not show Brown as the lying, deceiving,
      coward that he is. Thus, no adverse impact. May even be spun as ‘… they never invited me to comment otherwise I would have recommended more funding..’
      type stuff. Utterly shameful and this countries pretty much *ucked. Me and the kids
      are *uggering off. Had enough.

    • 371
      Guzzler says:

      Mines a pint

  57. 115
    Roger Daley says:

    Lying like a cheap rug.

  58. 116
    Lord Paul Pots of Cash says:

    I have lots of lovely dosh and thanks to my mates at the Beeb, you won’t hear anything about it or my tax status! Aren’t I a lucky bugger?

  59. 119
    labour is a cancer on society says:

    Broon keeps digging his own grave hear droning on about needing to make an example of Iraq to show international community decisive in dealing with rogue states etc.

    There should only be one possible answer to save his skin namely that Iraq represented a clear and present danger. At this rate I can see him back for further questions. He is incriminating himself.

  60. 120
    BBC soon to be LBC (Labour Broadcasting Corporation) says:

    This is the BBC News, brought to you by Alistair Campbell & Peter Mandelson Productions.

  61. 121
    Anonymous says:

    That must have been a long injection – Lyne is having none of Chilcotts bollocks

  62. 122
    Macavity Brown says:

    so Gordon is saying, “Nothing to do with me guv”. Macavity made sure that he was NOT involved in any decision making on Iraq.

    • 138
      The Sleeper says:

      Spot on..he’s now trying to distance himself from any decision making.

      This is from the then 2nd most powerful politician of the time. He’s trying to shaft Blair and Straw.

    • 226
      Gordon on the edge says:

      “If I may say so Sir John it was all the fault of the Tory Party and Iain Duncan-Smith that we went to war against Iraq on the dubious of evidence.If he had had the courage to refrain from supporting Tony Blair ……..then things would have turned out differently. Once again the Tory Party has been shown to be wrong on every decison that they have ever taken !”

  63. 123
    The IMF is coming says:

    Chilcot enquiry
    Good day to bring out this news of a pay rise
    Must be shed loads of other bad news stories coming out today

  64. 124
    Margaret Beckett is not and never has been a disgraceful sellout says:

    As a real socialist, I’m entitled to get my hanging baskets on expenses.

  65. 127
    Anonymous says:

    Brown was simply not anywhere that may threaten him.

    Based just on this – the Labour govt must be taken to court for crimes against our country – he is seriously trying to say that the Chancellor and self anointed PM-to be was nowhere to be seen.

    Can he not see how ridiculous he looks with this stance he is taking?

  66. 129
    John Prescott says:

    Can you all stop talking about the inquiry? It’s distracting me from eating.

    • 136
      comments off says:

      Hey John, wanna supersize that meat pie?

      • 145
        John Prescott says:

        Yes please. And I’ll have just a side of chiken bhuna, pilau rice, raita, nan, a bottle of lassi, and a chocolate sundae. Cheers.

  67. 132
    Anonymous says:

    Brown is also lying whenever he nearly closes his eyes and looks in to the distance.

    Lyne has clearly had enough and Baroness Thingy looks really fed up.

  68. 134
    QWERTY says:

    Can’t believe the BBC’s coverage of Mong’s questioning at the Chilcot injuiry. Both Laura Huntsberg and John never sober Sopel was little more than a party political broadcast on behalf of mong Brown.

    No doubt the Tories and Lord Ashcroft will now get the blame for the lack of equipment for our forces, not the one eyed homosexual skirt wearing mong that was Chancellor.

  69. 137
    Brown is a piece of shit says:

    I like Rod Lyne. He can see through Brown’s shit. And that’s probably why Brown is doing everything he can to stop himself from exploding into a rage.

    PLEASE lose your temper, Gordo. And then you’ll have to quit by 6pm tonight, and caretaker Harpy Hardman will be forced to call a snap election.

    • 151
      Anonymous says:

      And we can have more of her amazing PMQ’s?

      Yippeeeee!

      • 159
        this is actually pathetic says:

        he is roger irrelevant.

      • 161
        Brown is a piece of shit says:

        Oh yes. I would relish more opportunities to see her have to turn to Bob Jobsworth and ask “What did he say?” after not hearing a question from a sycophantic Labour MP.

      • 235
        Unbiased BBC says:

        If you’d listened to the Toady programme’s Yesterday in Parliament the day after PMQ’s you’d have thought that Hormone actually won the exchanges with Hague.

        Still, no change there then.

  70. 138
    Spank Sinatra says:

    This is a real gravy train crash in slowmo – such larks.

  71. 143
    Disco Biscuit says:

    ‘Take the trouble to ask your MP: “Will you be taking your pay rise? Why do you really think you deserve a pay rise?”’

    Michael Howard turned his down ages ago.

  72. 144
    Dick Tator says:

    New word from Brown at Chilcott. “Unequivababble”. Look for it coming to a PMQs near you soon.

  73. 146
    Blue Rosette says:

    Back to the troughing please………..

    Look they’re all at it.

    East Herts District Council, Tory through and through.

    Those who continually ask for evidence here it is:

    http://www.hertsandessexobserver.co.uk/Bishops-Stortford/East-Herts-Tories-accused-of-being-fat-cats.htm

    Bloody shameful

    • 157
      Anonymous says:

      Forget the troughing – Brown is reading his resignation speech as you bollock on about a local council.

      • 177
        Blue Rosette says:

        And where do you think most of the existing MP’s were found?

        Yes you anonymous coward, councils.

        To stop the rot, you need to prevent infestation in the breeding grounds.

        Next.

    • 281
      Anonymous says:

      East Herts Council is a sham. Not only the elected members but also most of the paid staff that prop it up – full o f corruption, incest and thievery

      • 302
        Blue Rosette says:

        There are a few Independents who work overtime to expose what is going on.

        I see no difference between Parliament and East Herts.

        But I thank you for acknowledging the amorality of the authority

  74. 160
    The Sleeper says:

    In the last answer,he said..”The right decisions for the right reasons” at least 4 times.

    General Election please….”The right decision for the right reasons”,Brown!!!

    • 269
      Susie says:

      No I’ve counted ‘The right thing to do…” is now at 14 times. “learning lessons… ” 18.

  75. 163
    Spank Sinatra says:

    Which country you bastard!

  76. 164
    Anonymous says:

    So Michael Foot departed this world this week and today Brown will be on his gloomy way.

    Two in one week.

    Nirvana!

  77. 165
    PETER MANGLEDBUM (lord of the rings) says:

    O/t : last night on this week Diane abott said we can’t fight an election at the moment “We are Broke “ha ha ha
    jealousy RE Ashton or what !

    • 174
      Brown is a piece of shit says:

      Only a total Hoon like Abbott would make Portillo look human and likeable. Then again, put Charles Manson next to her and she’d have the same effect.

      • 184
        PETER MANGLEDBUM (lord of the rings) says:

        I think they should give her a clothing allowace
        she only seems to have one outfit !

    • 179
      Captain Black says:

      Ashton? What’s the Baroness got to do with this?

      • 223
        PETER MANGLEDBUM (lord of the rings) says:

        ashton ashdown ashton ashcroft too much ash and not enough fire !

    • 198
      obnoxious hypocrite Abbott says:

      No. She said Liebour couldn’t fight a second election if the first government collapsed. And why do you believe anything that hypocrite says ? Sends her kids to private school while voting to dumb down state schools and stop parents choosing the school of their choice

      • 277
        Brown is a piece of shit says:

        I loved it when she once openly admitted on This Week to being a glutton when it comes to food. I think we ALL knew that already, you dumb Hoon!

  78. 166
    Spank Sinatra says:

    The old France lie yet again………..

  79. 168
    Anonymous says:

    ALERT;

    Brown now breaking apart live on TV.

    Lyne is going to make him fall apart.

    • 176
      Anonymous says:

      Brown REALLY rattled now.

    • 178
      Not long until Labour gone says:

      He keeps saying “new world” and im half expecting to complete the sentence with ‘order’…

    • 187
      easyleys says:

      He doesn’t know which countries sit on the security council. A few weeks ago he didn’t know which ones make up the G20.

  80. 169
    this is actually pathetic says:

    on the bright side, whilst he’s out they can put padded walls in the bunker and remove the Nokias.
    why he is going on about the cold war – is he james bond?

    • 190
      Anonymous says:

      Why not just change the locks at the bunker so he can’t get in?

      • 219
        this is actually pathetic says:

        why doesn’t he move to south africa with his new mate ? he can relax in the sun with all the other esteemed african leaders around him and he can harass the vunerable whilst saying he is doing charity (and he could be a non dom and not have to pay that pesky tax).

        McMental – saving the world, eradicating poverty, chairing everything – estemed leader of all that is good.

      • 405
        The Theory Party says:

        why not lock him in and throw the key away, and weld the doors.

  81. 171
    Grofons Blownit says:

    Answer the question you Hoon

  82. 173
    Nick2 says:

    I have divined Brown’s strategy – he’s going to blather along, burning time until either his time-slot ends or the inquiry start to ask questions that suit him.

  83. 181
    the shade of dr kelly says:

    he’s going to get destroyed in the live debates because he simply cannot think on his feet – can only recite pre-prepared propaganda statements!

    • 185
      Anonymous says:

      Agreed – this man will not be PM on 6th May.

      • 247
        Gordon Brown's bruised and battered spokeswoman says:

        The Prime Minister regrets to announce that he will be unable to participate in the debates as he has important meetings scheduled long in advance with the deputy prime ministers of Lichetenstein, Lithuania and Tuvalu. He deeply regrets the scheduling clash as he relished the opportunity to debate with the other party leaders.

  84. 186
    BBC editor says:

    Never mind this bollocks about whether a war was legal and whether the troops had enough gear and whatever

    The real story is whether The Tory high command knew that Ashcroft, who had given the party £848 million and was now running the party, was a non dom or a con dom or a dom dom, when they knew this and what are they going to do about it? He is a nasty man who has not funded charities and will not be bequeathing his fortune to the nation. Compare with angelic Labour peer who did not raid a pension fund and who did not claim £240k in exes

    • 208
      obnoxious hypocrite Abbott says:

      Yes surely they could cut to the Ashcroft nomdomathing during the intermissions. To show fair play and that the BBC isn’t really Gorgons mouthpiece.

  85. 187
    Dick Tator says:

    “We only invaded Iraq and killed lots of Iraqis to ‘send a message to other possible rogue states’. What the fuck????

    We only overspent by billions of pounds to send a message that other countries should not do it. NOW I understand….

  86. 191
    Gordon Brown sucked off his father says:

    That Olympic winner Amy Williams has a gold medal around her neck but she also has a gold medal arse. I could wank myself into a coma over it.
    Cloe Smith is shit. She can’t even give us her real surname. But I’d torture her in the bedroom, though.

  87. 193
    Tin foil hats all round says:

    “New World Order”. We have it…

  88. 194
    comments off says:

    Oh shit! The beneficial effects of the injection is wearing off

  89. 199
    Anonymous says:

    And we haven’t even got to the equipment budget questions yet – I hope Martin Gilbert is not asking these questions cos Brown will get away with it.

  90. 204
    Anonymous says:

    Mandelson is obviously under Brown’s table – hence the bizarre smiles every so often.

    I hope Mandelson leaves his dick hanging out when he gets up for lunch

  91. 207
    comments off says:

    Ask the Hunt about the helicopters!

  92. 210
    the shade of dr kelly says:

    i wish he would stop fcking saying “look” as if he is making some amazing point and that the questioner is stupid.

    and again he wants a global UN international task force agency……….

    • 453
      Sue Denim says:

      Picked that habit up from B£iar. Just waiting for the “y’know”s and the “well”s.

  93. 211
    Anonymous says:

    Another lecture from the spivvy Scotttish college lecturer.

    This is revolting – like Hitler lecturing on health and safety at the death camps.

  94. 212
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    It started n America

  95. 215
    Another Engineer says:

    “I can’t take responsibility”

    Quite.

  96. 216
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    BANG
    No support of the UN
    illegal!

  97. 217
    comments off says:

    I was chairman of the IMF???

  98. 218
    Anonymous says:

    Another of those odd mid-sentence changes which looks as if the editor has spliced two parts of the interview really badly.

    This man is on something very strong.

    “I was Chairman of The IMF at the time”

    Oh no you were NOT!

    • 259
      PETER MANGLEDBUM (lord of the rings) says:

      yes i was i had to be to save the world just after i invaded obama beach it was !

      • 490
        Point of Information says:

        He was rotating chairman (in his capacity as Chancellor of Exchequer) of the International Monetary Fund’s International Monetary and Financial Committee.

        The IMFC is responsible for of advising, and reporting to, the Board of Governors as it manages and shapes the international monetary and financial system. It also monitors developments in global liquidity and the transfer of resources to developing countries; considers proposals by the Executive Board to amend the Articles of Agreement; and deals with unfolding events that may disrupt the global financial system.

        The IMFC usually meets twice a year, in September or October before the Bank-Fund Annual Meetings and in March or April at what are referred to as the Spring Meetings. The Committee discusses matters of concern affected the global economy and also advises the IMF on the direction of its work. At the end of the meetings, the Committee issues a joint communiqué summarizing its views.

        He was NOT chairman (or managing director of the IMF)…merely the highest ranking British political delegate who happened to be chosen chairman of short meetings which took place every six months.

        BUT THAT IS PEDANTIC…his influence in concert with America to sell gold to prop up the fiat dollar and drain gold finally of its status suggests that his finger was in some of the pies to fit up international finance to enable the fiat boom and we have all seen how that ended.

  99. 220
    Dick Tator says:

    When was one G. Brown Chairman of the IMF. He just stated that live on TV.

    Can this be right?

    • 250
      Captain Black says:

      International McCavity Forum.

    • 402
      I am the Walrus says:

      Managing director and Chairman of the executive board of the IMF from 2000-2004 and now president of Germany was of course Horst Köhler

      • 492
        Point of Information says:

        Managing Director …Gordon never was. See 487 above.

        • 500
          Point of Information says:

          Gordon’s former chair is now occupied by Egypt.

          IMFC

          Egypt (Chair)
          Algeria
          Argentina
          Belgium
          Brazil
          Canada
          China
          France
          Gabon
          Germany
          India
          Indonesia
          Italy
          Japan
          Korea
          Netherlands
          Russia
          Saudi Arabia
          South Africa
          Spain
          Sweden
          Switzerland
          United Arab Emirates
          United Kingdom
          United States

  100. 220
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Chairman of the IMF?????
    In your dreams McMental

    • 249
      this is actually pathetic says:

      I was Chairman of the IMF

      I was sent a roasted pig

      I saved the world

  101. 225
    Anonymous says:

    Rod Lyne is just like the school headmaster who has caught two pupils smoking behind the sheds – he is losing patience with this cretin.

    Brown has lost the election.

    There will be no debates.

    Brown is finally finished.

    • 231
      Another Engineer says:

      You assume that the BBC will cover any of this in the main news in a balanced fashion.

      Move along, nothing to see here.

      • 261
        Groucho says:

        By 6pm it will have become a magisterial performance by the Prime Minister.

        • 430
          Pontius The Pilot says:

          You dont even have to wait that long.

          That Hunt Toenails is spinning it as a performance from a master chess player. I’m not shitting you, take a look at his blog

          and hold your nose whilst you’re at it.

          Whichever car crash he’s watching… its not the same one as this!

  102. 227
    comments off says:

    That blue security barrier goes through one ear and out the other

    • 236
      Dick Tator says:

      You’re right. Just perfect, I like it, quite a fashion statement for a total asshole.

  103. 228
    Anonymous says:

    Brown mistakenly, agai, claiming he was the chair of the IMF – what a Huntt

  104. 229
    Roger Daley says:

    “Iraqization” wtf !

  105. 230
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Get the Iraqis on your side by killing them

  106. 232
    Lie To Me - The New Series says:

    They should get Tim Roth (Lie To Me) sat right in front of him,peering in to the man’s face.

    He would be interjecting every 30 seconds;

    “He’s lying there,there there there there and everywhere”!

  107. 234
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Gordons NWO

  108. 237
    Anonymous says:

    Ohh – he was nearly sick then!

  109. 239
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    ahahahahah
    like Bush wold have listened to you McMental

  110. 240
    Stan Butler says:

    I’m currently inable to watch the coverage. Could anyone give me a brief synposis of how the scottish prick is shaping please?

    • 252
      Nick2 says:

      Fantastic – there should be a gallows awaiting him when he walks out of the QE2 centre…

    • 253
      Gordon Brown says:

      Yes…….it started in America, I saved the world, it’s the right thing to do.

    • 254
      Anonymous says:

      Stan – he is making the longest resignation speech of all time.

      Rod Lyne and Baroness are really pissed off with him and are running rings around him.

      And he is not answering any questions with anything but a lecture.

      And he is only saying “We” – he was simply not around when anything was decided that may land him in it.

    • 257
      Spank Sinatra says:

      A long and painful death

    • 266
    • 319
      Stan Butler says:

      Now on lunch and able to listen on Pravda 5 Live. Thanks for your help.

  111. 241
    Macavity Brown says:

    Gordon is wrong. The invading country has a duty of careover the country it invades..not the UN.

    And what’s this shit about Brave bean counters?

  112. 244
    Anonymous says:

    Don’t they deserve a rise for so stalwartly defending our liberties and right to privacy? Oh yes I see what you mean, they are just lobby fodder aren’t they voting as the whip tells them? A monkey could do that.

  113. 246
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    “remodelled iraqi currency”
    so you fucked it as you fucked ours/

  114. 248
    Grofons Blownit says:

    Stalinist – he is telling them what the conclusions of the inquiry MUST be. Not even pretending it is independent now. By the end he will give them the finished report, and they can have the rest of the year off.

    • 263
      gordon's White wash says:

      Quite. But it is Gordon’s inquiry, he set it up, he wrote its terms and he appointed the inquisitors.

  115. 255
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Why does he keep grinning?

    • 260
      Anonymous says:

      We understand that Mandelson is under the table for his Friday lunchtime blow job.

  116. 256
    this is actually pathetic says:

    “there is a right of the citizens to participate in the political system”

  117. 264
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Thick Hunt couldnt fix our country let alone iraq

  118. 265
    Gorgon Brown The Prime Mentalist says:

    Look, I was…it was the right thing…look, you see…but…look….AAAAAGH! ALL THESE FUCKING QUESTIONS! DON’T YOU KNOW I’M PRIME MINISTER AND SHOULDN’T HAVE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS! BRING ME A FEMALE SUBORDINATE TO SHOVE OUT OF HER CHAIR!! I HATE WOMEN!

    • 272
      Anonymous says:

      Even as we watch,Mandelson and Balls have stolen a light aircraft from a Surrey airfield and are currently trying to fly it in a semi straight line towards Central London to create a massive diversion and immediate cancellation of any further proceedings at the Chilcot Enquiry.

      • 283
        Gorgon Brown The Prime Mentalist says:

        “Look…the thing is…when Sarah and I lost our daughter…DRAMATIC PAUSE…It’s just that…TEARS WELL UP…It was a very…LOOKS INTO DISTANCE AND GULPS…Sorry, can we take a break and resume in May?”

      • 287
        WingCo "Ginger" Smythe says:

        Got the blighters in my sights. Permission to fire a sidewinder?

      • 460
        South of the M4 says:

        And I don’t suppose they will obey the air navigation order rule 5, or file a flight plan to enter class A air space either. *astards. They will give pilots a bad name.

  119. 267
    Anonymous says:

    If Browns underpants were white this morning,they most certainly will be the same colour as his name by now.

  120. 271
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    didnt know that we were at war with afghanistan

  121. 273
    Mitch says:

    Brown’s learned that when the country is at war the decision making needs to be better.

    No shit, Sherlock…..?

  122. 274
    McTwat says:

    This is getting boring.

    We’ve established Gordon had nowt to do with invading Iraq and all that the Nice Mr Gordon wanted to do was rebuild and throw hedloads of money at the problem.

    Now ask him about the lack of money for equipment, body armour, helicopters and armoured vehicles. The twat was prepared to give billions away to Iraq but could not find the dosh to equip our troops properly. Cvnt

  123. 275
    Gordon Brown says:

    I was told this was the Piers Morgan Inquiry, who’s this prick Chilcot and his impertinent cronies?

    Do none of them want to know how I feel about Tony and Cherie’s pram?

    • 314
      Tony Blair says:

      On my first date with Cherie she told me I had a little cock, I said it may be small but it can fill a pram.

      • 321
        Gordon Brown says:

        When I first shagged Sarah she said “‘ere, ain’t you got a little organ”, I replied, “it’s never had to play in a fucking Cathedral before bitch”!

  124. 278
    Nick2 says:

    Ha! Chilcott – ‘after the lunch break – looks like Brown’s televised agony will continue beyond lunchtime!

  125. 279
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    setting aside money?
    thieving Hunt deprived the army of money

  126. 280
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    pissed away more billion in africa

  127. 282
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    “found” billions?
    down the back of the sofa?

  128. 286
    You can always rely on MacGuire says:

    Kevin Maguire tweets;

    “Brown’s playing for the Bore Draw at Chilcot. Still 0-0 after 90 minutes. Not sure I can stand extra time”

    He must be watching another G Brown at another enquiry,cos the one we are seeing it’s about 6:0 to Rod Lyne with an assist by Baroness Thingy and several own goals by the Jonah himself.

    • 292
      Brown is a piece of shit says:

      Maguire is a twat who waits to get instructions from Mandelson before he writes anything.

      • 310
        Dame Mandelson of Jacksy says:

        Toilets writes nothing, I supply 100% of the content for Maguire’s rag.

  129. 288
    Harridan Harpy MP says:

    Come on, Gordon! Please fuck it up so I can become ZaNew Liebore leader after you lose the election for us!

  130. 289
    Spank Sinatra says:

    This is a disaster – luvin’ it big time. He’s obviously making a pitch as new head of the Ramblers Association

  131. 290
    • 298
      Argy Bargy says:

      Ha Ha – this is the infamous movie where Brown SHOVES the bloke away so at to make the special handshake.

  132. 293
    Smile Gordon,you're at the Chilcot enquiry says:

    He’s making figures up;

    “billion here,billion here,two hundred million there”

    The thing he really does not understand that the likes of the ex Defence chiefs are going to be on any media that are not controlled by Labour tonight to destroy his lies.

  133. 296
    Brown is a piece of shit says:

    I wonder how many female members of staff Brown will beat up during the lunch break?

    • 301
      Anonymous says:

      and his wife,sorry – “contracted partner”

      By the way,isn’t Chilcot a total waste of time?

  134. 299
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    every request met??????????????????????/
    how about some chinooks or body armour
    Hunt

  135. 300
    Red Bacon says:

    Met office now to stop weather forecasts…

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8551416.stm

    They now work purely on their bonuses, pay rises and pensions….oh, and climate change

    I did not make this up

    • 317
      Mitch says:

      “Although we can identify general patterns of weather, the science does not exist to allow an exact forecast beyond five days, or to absolutely promise a certain type of weather.”

      Er, you are contradicting yourself. We don’t know what will happen next week, but it will DEFINITELY be warmer in 100 years?

      • 363
        B. B. Q. Summer says:

        Oh no no no, that’s not weather, it’s climate. It’s as different as, well, chalk and, er, large quantities of chalk. Anyway it’s true because we say so.

        • 385
          Red Bacon says:

          The Met Orifice do state that they are “extremely accurate” on short range forecasts.

          eg “It’s sunny outside and we predict with great accuracy that it will be sunny in 5 seconds. Thank-you.”

          How much do we spend on these faceless final salary scheme oiks?

    • 417
      Moley says:

      I read the article.

      Apparently the Met Office cannot make longer term forecasts because “The UK is the wrong kind of Country”.

  136. 303
    geordieboy says:

    £20 a week, now they can afford to pay their food and drinks bill in the house canteen.

  137. 304
    Brown is a piece of shit says:

    Look…it was the right thing to do…Oh, you know what? Fuck it. I can’t be arsed to answer your questions anymore. I’m going back to No10 to put on my pampers and ride my rocking horse until I jizz. Good day, gentlemen. And you female who I despise because I loathe all women.

    • 352
      Sir William Waad says:

      How do you like the new Soft Play Area at No 10, with the wipe-clean surfaces?

  138. 306
    Grofons Blownit says:

    Clever asked about the Golden rule
    Yes what did happen to it?

  139. 307
    Another Engineer says:

    A low blow there asking about his “Golden Rule”. More!

  140. 308
    Brown resigns in 4 hour long lecture says:

    The Golden Rule – you could not make this up.

    Chilcot is a wet pathetic man.

    • 369
      Gordon on the edge says:

      I think you underestimate Sir John and the panel .They merely give the witness sufficient rope and let him finish the job which Brown is doing extremely well.He either was involved or he wasn’t but not according to him he was half involved and half not involved.

      “If I may say, Sir John this is not the main issue here at all…………I was assured by the Prime Minister,Mr Blair,that it was THE right thing to do and I made my position clear in Cabinet regarding the matter which as you will know was an extremely complex and involved matter stretching back many years and covered by many UN resolutions and although the Attorney General did indeed make it clear to the Prime MInister, Tony Blair, the legality issue and of course I was happy to accept the Prime Minister….Tony Blair’s….assurances (drone..drone…drone….drone….)”

  141. 309
    Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

    The Gordon Rule, sorry I mean Golden Rule.

    I breached my Golden Rule because of the global recession. I t was nothing to do with my personal miscalculations and total incompetence.

  142. 312
    Make My Day says:

    Can’t the Baroness just stand up,pull a Magnum .44 out of her handbag and end all of this rubbish with a discharge from aforementioned weapon towards the Jonah?

  143. 315
    The Money Shot says:

    At what stage does someone throw a shoe at him?

  144. 316
    Chilled_Clots says:

    So far only “soft” questions have been asked of Brown – he is being allowed to give a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of Brown:
    Will we ever hear the central question:

    If you were against the war and in a position to stop it why didn’t you?

    If you were clearly in favour of the war why are you not sharing the blame but shifting the blame onto everybody else?

    • 323
      Anonymous says:

      But most of all;

      He strangled the defence budget, leading to the loss of fine British soldiers.

      He is a murderer.

  145. 326
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    why doesnt chilcot just suck gordons cock

  146. 329
    comments off says:

    This is tame pointless shite. Replace the chairman!

  147. 330
    a question for brown says:

    where did he get the £50,000 cash to pay rent boys with?

    did it just appear like magic in a similar way to QE?

  148. 333
    Susie says:

    “The right decision” No 17

  149. 334
    Another Engineer says:

    Simper simper.

    Can we bring in a proper Barrister please?

    • 474
      Susie says:

      1242 From BBC political editor Nick Robinson:

      It was like watching a skilful chess player who had a defensive move prepared for every possible attack. Yes Iraq had been the right decision for the right reasons but of course he had regrets.

      Words fail me.

  150. 339
    comments off says:

    Brown: “Every request made was met”

    The Army head brass was told not to make any requests

  151. 340
    McTwat says:

    Gordon is taking charge of the iquiry and Chilcot is letting him..

  152. 342
    Jan says:

    Daily Politics now defending McDoom.They are saying that he was not ‘in the loop’ about Iraq. McDoom they are saying was ‘slightly detached’…..you could say that.
    Horse-face Coburn saying that he didn’t want to be part of the inner circle. So it was all Tony Blair’s fault.Maguire now defendidng McBroon as well. Sickening……
    Al-Jabeeba yesterday sickening..
    Daily Politics …Ashdown main story.
    QT…..Ashdown main story.Audience totally filled with Nu-Liebor trolls
    This Week….Ashdown main story.Also two left wing guests.
    Where the f….k is there ANY political balance ???????????

    • 350
      Captain Black says:

      Ashdown? What’s Paddy done now?

    • 355
      Mitch says:

      Brown was involved in EVERYTHING he wanted to be. If he wasn’t, then it was deliberate. Either way, he is implicated.

      • 372
        Jan says:

        …OOOOPS..ASHCROFT ASHCROFT ASHCROFT…..
        Daily Politics have just mentioned him again as their Top Of The Pops. So Ashcroft is more important than McDoom at the Chilcot inquiry.

    • 361
      Stan Butler says:

      The entire MSM is biased towards the left wing scum, Pravda, SKY, the lot. I’m currently listening to Pravda 5 Live and they are making every excuse possible to defend Browns performance. If the Tories get in the first thing they should do after a referendum on the EU should be the disbanding of the BBC.

    • 370
      Morgan Everett says:

      I didn’t think QT was too bad, especially after last week’s disgraceful showing.

      Notice how Boris distanced himself from the taint of the non-dom though? I think he is secretly enjoying all this Ashcroft drama.

  153. 346
    Anonymous says:

    Just a thought,
    If cameron went public and backed calls for the details of Jon Venables latest crime to be made public, he would connect in an instant with the Labour Voting heartlands. People who would never have wasted a thought about David Cameron, would suddenly find themselves in a position where they not only agree with him, but he lookes like he really cares.
    Gordon Brown would then have to make a decision, say no, and alienate his core vote, or say yes, and Cameron takes all the credit. Either way, Cameron wins, and at the same time forges a bond with the electorate.

    Or if you were a clever copper, you could leak the information. The Sheeple would build some bridges with the police, and as a consequense the police would be flavour of the month for a new government. A great starting place in cuts season.

    If you were a really clever copper you would do a deal with Cameron and leak the information 48 hours after he went public. A great show of support to your new masters, and with the added bonus that that Brown is incapable of taking a decision, his dithering would make him look a fool and expose the government to be powerless in decision making.

  154. 348
    Sir William Waad says:

    We’ve got this the wrong way round. The problem is not that MPs are paid to much but that they achieve too little. I’d happily see them paid £250,000 each if they actually took responsibility for conducting public debate on policy and passing good-quality legislation.

    • 354
      Anonymous says:

      I wonder how long it will be before it sinks in? Keep whistling.

    • 389
      Nick2 says:

      I agree almost totally, Sir William. £250K does seem excessive. £150K (paid to only 350 MPs) would attract high achievers – and providing the candidate selection rules can be made open and fair then the country would end up with a better class of legislator.

      Whatever happens, there’s likely to be a bonfire of the public sector, although MPs may be at least partially exempt. My only fear is that following a Labour victory/hung parliament & financial collapse the country suffers a spell of ‘juche’ – North Korean/Romanian style.

      • 446
        Johnny says says:

        £250k per constituency, funded by the constituency, (with less for shandy drinking southerners and more for skirt wearing Scottishers due to travel costs) and let the MPs themselves decide what to spend it on. If they can’t manage that budget and get a constituency office, some staff and a living out of it they aren’t capable of holding the Government to account – which is the job they simply have not been doing.

        They have moved towards being super councillors and super social workers at the expense of their primary parliamentary duty which is to protect the public from the excesses of the State. Too many of them want to be the Government. Too many of them are paid by the Government.

  155. 349
    Anonymous says:

    As ever here, it soon degenerates into idiot name calling and petty parochialism. The whole things is rotten, Labour, Tory, Liberal, call it what you will. They lie, they cheat and they tell you anything. And you will still vote for one of them. As the great Lou Reed put it, “one day soon you’re gonna reap what you sow.”

  156. 351
    Disaffected says:

    As long as the armed forces get 5% as well …. and the nurses … and the police … and the bin men … or else the word fair has lost a little in its translation.

  157. 353

    There is no fuckin’ way he’s going to stand up and debate live on t’telly with Dave and Wossisname. I said earlier this week I’d put money on it not happening. After this pathetic “I was in the kitchen when they decided to invade Iraq, I didn’t hear that” session this morning nad just the wretched distortions of the man’s face… I just cannot see him voluntarily having one of these PM debates.

    He’ll be unavoidably detained. Meeting Zuma again, washing his hair, taking (as a FOAF, Paul, once memorably did to miss his sister’s wedding to a guy he couldn’t stand) his library books back… he’ll decide the ruled haven’t been met, the audience are not correctly balanced, the lights make him look old, he has a dicky tummy, Mars is in the ascendent…. it is NOT going to ahppen. You heard it here first. He won’t do it, and… I’m wondering if he’ll actually make it to election day…

  158. 356
    Brown Has Damned Himself With One Sentence says:

    Did anybody else spot the sentence Brown made during his evidence today that damned him and his New Labour government of knowingly commiting an act of criminal negligence regarding Iraq?
    I did. But I have offered enough clues for now.
    After I have written my piece on the issue I will return to this place and offer that sentence to my fellow readers.

    • 364
      comments off says:

      Was it:

      Brown “I diverted body armour destined for Iraq to eBay and made a tidy profit”

      • 386
        Sarah; twitterworld says:

        Keep you chopper grounded

      • 398
        The IMF is coming says:

        “I can’t take personal responsibility for everything that went wrong”.

      • 403
        Sir Everard Digby says:

        Was it ‘I responded to the request for extra funding by having a whip round in No 11 – the 45p and 26 drachma seemed an ample increase in funding as Tone told me the Iraqi army were only armed with welcome mats”

    • 384
      barefootcontessa says:

      Brown spouts garbage at the Inquiry, he’s turning into a better liar than Blair!

    • 388
      Spank Sinatra says:

      About not having approval from UN I presume…..

      • 409
        barefootcontessa says:

        He’s only scratched his nose once (a sure sign of lying) blinked (dry eyes) once or twice, and said the word ‘look’ twice, but he’s lying all the same. What a dollop of cold porridge he is! I hate him nearly as much as that archduke of lying, T Blair.

    • 397
      Lie In State says:

      Er;

      “My name is Gordon Brown” ?

      • 418
        The Dirty Rat says:

        “Let me say, I must point out, it wasn’t me, another big boy …………………..

  159. 358
    Anonymous says:

    While they have a grand pay rise, at our small company we have agreed to another pay freeze (three years now) in an effort to keep the business going and save our jobs.

    • 451
      barefootcontessa says:

      Bureaucrats are the enemy of the people! In France they are spoken of in whispers behind cupped hands.

  160. 360
  161. 368
    Lord Paul Pots of Cash says:

    I got loadsa money. How abouts you?

  162. 373
    comments off says:

    Anyone see Carol Vorderman on last night’s Question Time? A Tory attack dog if I ever saw one. Brilliant! Suggest that Dave uses her as offen as possible if he wants to win the next election

    • 395
      barefootcontessa says:

      She was a bit screechy though.

    • 396
      Carol says:

      How very dare you – suggesting that I allow myself to be “used”. Dave doesn’t do things like that. Well, not often…(giggle)…

    • 400
      Milf Watch says:

      Go and take a long run followed by a cold shower.It always worked at Eton

    • 406
      The Dirty Rat says:

      I certainly would.

      • 419
        barefootcontessa says:

        That great ‘lover’ Adonis looks as if a steam roller ran over his head sideways at birth. What a creepy creepy man, almost in the league of Alan Johnson.

        • 423
          The Theory Party says:

          was’nt Adonis something to do with good looks.someone was having a fucking laugh giving him that name

      • 427
        Groucho says:

        Me too. I sat next to her on a flight once. Nice lady. Strangely, more petite than she looks on the telly.

    • 415
      Jan says:

      Carol doesn’t waffle…unlike many Tory MPs…..Suggest if Dave gets in he sends his people on meeja training courses (perhaps run by ex Al-Jabeeba staf who have been given the chop). She’s not as screechy as that dreadful Caroline Spellman. How could anybody listen to THAT voice for longer than five seconds? She has a truly awful tone of voice (bit like Patricia elocution Hewett).

      • 427
        barefootcontessa says:

        Harmful Harriet is exceptionally screechy too, and, she should have her pointy finger tied behind her back before she speaks in PMQs.

    • 429
      The Dirty Rat says:

      What really impresses me about Carol is that she can multi task and instantly convert inches into millimetres.

  163. 376
    Eileen Critchley says:

    Do I put it on expenses / don’t I put it on expenses?

    Shit the stress of it all – I need a few weeks off!

  164. 393
    QWERTY says:

    Drunkard Sopel still backing the gay Scotsman and attacking the military. At least Brillo on the DP pointed out that over the time McGay was in charge defence spending stayed at 2.6% despite fighting two wars.

  165. 401
    comments off says:

    The MOD, in connivance with the Treasury, only submitted requests for funding, for equipment, that would be accepted

  166. 404
    Pissed off Old Fu*ker says:

    This news comes at a particularly bad time for me when having received a state pension forecast awarding me the grand sum of 91 pounds per week it has been changed/reduced on payment (“sorry we made a mistake”) to 85 pounds per week.

    I hate all the c*nts and especially that lying f*cking c*nt Brown.

    I feel a bit better now, thank you.

    • 431
      barefootcontessa says:

      Yes, Guido’s blog is a good form of free therapy isn’t it?

    • 435
      G Brown says:

      well your easily placated. This man is right .follow his good example

    • 462
      Jan says:

      The Pension unfairness that McDoom has introduced. Here is a scenario about female twins born five minutes apart…One born at 11.57 pm 5/4/1950 and the other at 12.02 am on 6/4/1950. The first twin born before midnight needs 39 years of contributions to get a full state pension.She could well have been a ready and steady single woman who has always worked and paid her taxes,living in a grotty bedsit somewhere.Whilst her twin sister needs only 30 years to get a full state pension and could have spent her life married (or otherwise),working a bit, having coffee mornings.,drinking brandy all day or staying in bed,pregnant every year,living in a council house,overrun with children and animals. She gets Home Responsibility Allowance for every year she has children (even though she is irresponsbile having children she cannot afford)…..What a bummer..

    • 477
      albacore says:

      Wait till you get your new tax code (or half a dozen different ones in the same post) before you let the relief overflow.
      It’s not woth telling HMRC they’ve got it wrong, either. If you don’t curl your toes waiting for somebody to answer the phone, they’ll agree with you and then tell you to sod off until April when, miraculously, they’ll fix it in a jiffy.

  167. 408
    a question for brown says:

    so you were the 2nd most powerful person in government ……

    yet you knew nothing about what was taking place re iraq?

    HOW DOES HE REMEMBER ALL THIS SHIT?

  168. 412
    PISSED OFF MAN says:

    These bastards and bitches of every party are dead men and women walking word to the wise get out after this upcoming GE or you will be hanging from posts in a few years.

    It is the French Revolution Mark II brewing across the land.

    I sat in astonishment in the car this morning listening to Radio 4 with Al Ja Beeba and some council dogsbody promoting ‘Pay as you dump’ bin taxes as the best thing thought up since sliced bread and they should be hurriedly implemented across the land alongside microchips in your bin.

    How much more money do these blood sucking parasites think the common man has left in his pocket, over 60% YES DO THE FUCKING MATH 60% of your wages now gets given to the state through direct and indirect taxes.

    I will probably have to take another fucking mortgage out tommorow in all likely hood just to take the kids to the cinema with their friends as a treat for their birthday.

    I can’t wait till the people rise up against these parasite scum and we drag them out screaming from west minister and put the noose around their necks.

    I used to be a mild mannered man with low blood pressure as well, but things change…..

  169. 413
  170. 414
    thick as thieves says:

    There is likely to be industrial action by Civil Service members of the Guido Fawkes Union over two days on
    Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th March 2010. Our on-line services will be available as usual however, there is likely to be limited support available from the Help Desk and same day services cannot be guaranteed over the two day period.

    Please accept my apologies in advance, for any inconvenience that may be caused.

  171. 416
    comments off says:

    The Ministry of Defence, in connivance with the HM Treasury, only submitted requests for funding, for equipment, that would be accepted

  172. 419
    comments off says:

    The Ministry of Defence, in partnership with the HM Treasury, only submitted requests for funding, for equipment, that would be accepted.

  173. 426
    Sir Everard Digby says:

    The sad realisation is:

    A % of the population are on anti-depressants
    another % are on anti-psychotics
    Another % are pissheads
    Throw in the crack users
    and the glue sniffers
    Kids getting drugs for ADHD
    A % are on blood pressure medication
    The average pensioner is on a cocktail of medicines if my mum and her mates are anything to go by.

    This leave fuck all people with any clue about what reality is

    No wonder NICE can’t sanction any new drugs -McDoom is busy chemically suppressing most of the population either directly or through stupid laws.

  174. 437
    Gordon Brown PM says:

    Well the plan was to ring up Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sly Stallone and Martin Sheen to win the war for us, but as the CIA had briefed President Bush, Prime Minister Blair and I at the the time, they where currently retired so we would have to fight the battles ourselves.

    Of course, I could not take any responsibility, so the right thing to do was to send as many young soldiers from the USA & UK to their deaths *Cough* I mean to invest in Iraq and Afghanistan by fighting our battles for us.

  175. 440
    comments off says:

    Just spoke to Chilcot in the bog. He told be that he’s decided not to ask Brown about Snatch Land Rovers. I asked him why and he replied that he didn’t want to listen to ten minutes of waffle about saving the banks.

  176. 442
    Another P*ss*d Off Man says:

    These b*st*rds and b*tch*s of every party are dead men and women walking, word to the wise get out after this upcoming GE or you will be hanging from posts in a few years.

    It is the French Revolution Mark II brewing across the land.

    I sat in astonishment in the car this morning listening to Radio 4 with Al Ja Beeba and some council dogsbody promoting ‘Pay as you dump’ bin taxes as the best thing thought up since sliced bread and they should be hurriedly implemented across the land alongside microchips in your bin.

    How much more money do these blood sucking p*r*sites think the common man has left in his pocket, over 60% YES DO THE F**K*NG MATH 60% of your wages now gets given to the state through direct and indirect taxes.

    I will probably have to take another bl**dy mortgage out tommorow in all likely hood just to take the kids to the cinema with their friends as a treat for their birthday.

    I can’t wait till the people rise up against these p*r*site sc*m and we drag them out screaming from west minister and put the noose around their necks.

    I used to be a mild mannered man with low blood pressure as well, but things change…..

    • 521
      Johnny says says:

      “I sat in astonishment in the car this morning listening to Radio 4 with Al Ja Beeba and some council dogsbody promoting ‘Pay as you dump’ bin taxes as the best thing thought up since sliced bread and they should be hurriedly implemented across the land alongside microchips in your bin.”

      Pay as you go public services would be great. If you don’t use a service you don’t pay for it. Ill people to pay for the NHS. Parents to pay for the education of their children. Victims of crime/insurance companies to pay for the Police. Things would change very, very quickly. And largely for the better too as the gross waste of taxpayer money would have to come to an end.

      Could even be done on a co-operative and charitable basis. Local hospitals raising money locally. Local schools raising money locally. Communities mucking in to raise money. That the public sector sees taxpayers as a blank cheque is part of the problem. If money was raised locally to be spent locally, by locals, accountability would not have to wend it’s way from our homes to Westminster then back through a labyrinth of committees, quangos and technocrats where it gets lost.

      If a public service is crap people wouldn’t pay. How much more ‘there’s no such thing as society’ (to selectively quote Maggie) can there be? And corporatist Labour is all for it! It’s that it’s payg rubbish collection on top of council tax that’s the issue.

      They’ve also buggered up rubbish collection by insisting everywhere goes to fortnightly – this is a public health concern due to the pathogens and insects that can develop in less than two weeks and the vermin the rubbish attracts. All to avoid being ‘fined’ by the EU on how much goes to landfill.

    • 535
      Stan Butler says:

      Well put. Couldn’t agree with you more. If the Liebour scum get in again their could be anarchy. Consider who vote for them; criminals, immigrants, public sector workers and doley shite. All the fuckers who pay in least and take out most. Why the fuck should I pay for these bastards and while I’m in rant mode why should all the bone idle non-job fucking public sector left wing labourite lackeys get huge fucking great fucking pensions that they pay fuck all in to when my final salary scheme has been closed and I can expect to be in fucking poverty when I retire thanks to that scotch prick Brown.

      Rant over.

    • 557
      Granville says:

      I’m printing a poster for my Mp and sticking it on a lampost with the words RESERVED FOR BOB WARING.do the same.it would be heart warming to see all the lamp posts labeled.

  177. 448
    Sodom A-Z says:

    How many do we need for a Junta
    Bit bored with all this MP crap.

    As a matter of interest ,could all bloggers get their two pennerth in quickly,
    come June/July the big bad wolf has his paw lingering over the delete button
    Oh no he has’nt

    OU YES HE HAS

    There’s always the barricades if you know were your boots are.

  178. 449
    Gordon Brown PM says:

    Sarah bought some M & S underwear for me to wear today.

    • 459
      comments off says:

      Sarah Brown bought Gordon’s underpants from Chuck Norris

      They don’t take no shit!

  179. 457
    Spank Sinatra says:

    This from the toenails blog on performance of brown this morning

    “It was like watching a skilful chess player who had a defensive move prepared for every possible attack. ”

    Such utter bollocks. His performance was dire (and that’s being generous).

    • 466
      Bob Page says:

      He’s like a 13 year old girl at a Westlife concert whenever he writes about him.

      “Ooh Gordon, Gordon, yes, grab me by the lapels! Take me roughly from behind!”

  180. 461
    Nutter says:

    I was welding my car sills when I got the overwhelming feeling my wheelie bin was watching me. I promptly lifted the lid and connected the croc to one side of a strange looking fitting and fried it. I will claim mental illness as my defence

    • 465
      Another P*ss*d Off Man says:

      Not before they charge you for each individual item you put in the bin in the first place!

      You think i’m joking as well……

  181. 463
    Gordoom cooks the books says:

    Just heard a Liebour droid on Radio 2 guess what it was the Tories fault there is not enough helicopters in Afganistan no our great leader`s you couldn`t make it up

  182. 464
    Another P*ss*d Off Man says:

    Tried to post three times in a row what is going on?

    • 467
      comments off says:

      What is going on? When you open a packet of M&S Custard Cremes does it look like some Hunt on work experience has stamped on them?

  183. 470
    Another Engineer says:

    “Every request was met”

    Can some one ask him if he discouraged requests? Please? Isn’t it obvious that he’s dodging the question?

  184. 473
    Gordoom cooks the books says:

    “M m m m m m mr speaker it was the Tories who wanted to cut the defence budget not me” reply “This is the Chilcot inquiry YOU MUPPET”, “fuck me Mandy`s got him well dossed up today someone wipe his mouth he`s dribbling everywhere”

  185. 476
    comments off says:

    Sarah Brown: “Hello Darling, back from the Chilcot Inquiry already. There, it wasn’t so bad afterall was it? Told you you’d get away with it”

  186. 478
    The world's expert on everything,live at the QE2 says:

    Brown’s been told to hide his hands.

    All of this millions and billions – is this billions of sheep/pins/people or what?

    And it’s all our money he is spending or not spending in this case.

  187. 479
    Gordon Brown PM says:

    Osama Bin Laden? Never heard of him….

  188. 480
    comments off says:

    Methinks that Brown is about to get his bollocks toasted

  189. 482
    I saw a shiote were.there on a chair says:

    play Gorgon backwards in recorder and he makes more fucking sence.

  190. 483
    comments off says:

    Defence Budget was rising!

  191. 483
    The world's expert on everything,live at the QE2 says:

    Watching Brown,I would like to make a statement and please don’t mod me, Paul.

    Gordon Brown is under the influence of something not normally found in one’s body.

    He smiles,frowns,glares and smirks all within the space of speaking one of his sentences.

  192. 485
    Gordon Brown PM says:

    I have disarmed over one hundred IED’s single handedly Mr Chilcott in-between saving the world, the forces know I am the right man for the job Mr Chilcott.

  193. 487
    Gordon Brown PM says:

    Mr Chilcott if the tories get in at the next election, they will surrender to the taliban so for the sake of nation and International community Mr Chilcott, I will be suspending all further general elections.

  194. 488
    A danger to the world says:

    And here lies the disingenuous nature of Brown;

    “No request that was made was turned down”

    And you can bet your bottom dollar that the edict was sent out;

    “No more requests to be made”

    • 494
      Moocher says:

      “No more requests to be made”.”That is all”.

    • 509
      Anonymous says:

      Did they pick up on it? Did they ask “yes, we know that you met the requests that were physically asked for, but did you or any of your staff let the military know that no more requests were to be made or that there was no more money available or that you were unlikely to be sympathetic towards new requests, or did you ever obfuscate or cause other problems which led to the military not asking you for something that they actually needed?”

      If this was a law court, he’d be in the cells now for contempt, and only allowed out when he answered their questions.

  195. 489
    And on and on he goes says:

    Are they going to stop him going on and on?

  196. 491
    Drav Macerron says:

    Student looking for ideas for political manifesto. Must be aimed at diehard cynics

  197. 492
    Women? Ha. says:

    “I am sorry Mr Brown can you slow down for the stenographer to keep up?”

    ‘What? No way do I slow down – get another secretary and shove her out of her chair”

    • 498
      Bam bam says:

      there are some up and coming ones in Falluja with a few hands who can keep up.

  198. 495
    Roger Daley says:

    Massteefs and booldawgs !

  199. 496
    Gordon Brown PM says:

    Mr Chilcott the invasion of Iraq was the right thing to do, to stop young British Pakistani boys being kidnapped to Pakistan.

    I hope you can join me Mr Chilcott and esteemed inquiry members in condemning David Cameron and Tories for allowing Sahil Saeed to be kidnapped from his home and taken to Pakistan.

    I would just like to take this opportunity to reassure the nation that Labour party and I will personally fly out after this inquiry to rescue the young boy and bring him back home.

  200. 499
    National Bullingdon Helpline says:

    Why can’t they just live off their trust funds like the rest of us?

  201. 504
    Commander says:

    Yes we have what we need but we have no bananas today

  202. 507
    Roger Daley says:

    It is all just tractor stats.

    Waffle waffle unchallenged.

  203. 508
    comments off says:

    Budget rising, more money allocated to MOD….zzzzzz

  204. 510
    the shade of dr kelly says:

    why don’t they pull him up on the crap about the MOD budget going up each year – that is absolutely fine if you are only doing what you were doing before but if you are fighting 2 super expensive wars it is nothing.

    basically it is like saying that every year the weekly shopping budget is going up by 1% – woohoo – but then inviting the whole town round to eat every night and drink until they fall down – funnily enough the old budget doesn’t cover it any more.

    god he really is a complete hoon.

  205. 511
    comments off says:

    Brown: “I wouldn’t want anyone to go away with the impression that I haven’t said that all requests were met enough times”

    • 519
      South of the M4 says:

      We certainly have the impression that all requests were pre-screened and many were not passed on.

  206. 513
    Anonymous says:

    So, the man bankrolling the war has openly and publicy said that he didn’t give a flying fuck whether or not Iraq was actually a threat, and that the only reason he agreed with the war was because Iraq broke UN sanctions.

    He’s openly saying (paraphrased) -

    “I bankrolled a war that killed hundreds of thousand of innocent civilians, and the sole reason I did so was to uphold the bureaucracy of the UN. If a country doesn’t tick the boxes on the forms that they’re supposed to, then we should kill a substantial amount of their population to teach them a lesson. Don’t fuck with the forms, forms are very important. Fill them in or die.”

    I can’t even begin to express just how much I hate that fucking evil shit.

  207. 514
    a n o n y m o u s says:

    Is their any country left on earth where just white people live? I’m sicking of paying tax for rice bowlers to have four kids.

  208. 515
    Susie says:

    “All in all, despite his obfuscation, Brown emerges as a man who looks prime ministerial. He backs war against dictators, but has learned the lessons of Blair’s excesses – that’s the impression he seems to want to give.”

    Paul Waugh at The London Evening Standard

  209. 518
    Susie says:

    Giving Iraq advice on economy? — They still only have a few hours’ ‘leccy a day. Thanks a lot.

  210. 523
    Purcell drug counsellor Mr Rogers says:

    Problem solved.

  211. 525
    dogman says:

    I’ve only caught snippets of Brown’s lecture but it seems to me we should hail him as the Messiah. Were are all the defence experts that were complaining of lack of money and equipment? I also note that Sky and beeb havn’t got any Tory ‘guests’ to ask what they think of his comments.

  212. 528
    Purcell drug counsellor Mr Rogers says:

    How do you go about claiming damages for putting up with Brown et al shite.

  213. 529
    comments off says:

    Brown might get away with it this afternoon but he has made a number of claims on funding to the Inquiry that might just bring him down if the newspapers care to investigate them in detail.

  214. 530
    Smurfle says:

    Can’t watch it – can’t bear to see his face and listen to his lying, droning, lying voice. However, the Telegraph are covering it live and their journo isn’t convinced at all. Neither are the readers – 71% of an online poll said McRuin was fibbing. Sorry, unconvincing was the phrase they really used.

    Can’t work out the Telegraph anymore. Their editorials are firmly anti-Brown, Jeff Randell is savagely anti-Brown but they do seem to publish some really soft and fluffy pro Labour stories. Has this schizophrenia come about as a result of Damien McBride’s nobbling of the paper?

    • 536
      Gordoom cooks the books says:

      Mandy`s got a sore finger from clicking the yes button it clicks yes automatically on all the free laptops the chavs have had nice

    • 546
      udderly 'orrible says:

      Sales. Trying to be all things to all men, they think will boost sales. We shall see.

      • 558
        Smurfle says:

        Yes, I am sure you are right, but it never works does it? That’s where Dave is coming unstuck. You have to know what you stand for and believe in.

        Back to the Torygraph – there was a particularly schizophrenic Sunday edition with only one editorial comment completely blasting Brown and his total incompetence and then a double page spread of a fluffy Gordy interview. Taht interview made me seethe I can tell you!

        The BBC are another mystery. Supposedly their journalists are educated, intelligent human beings, so why do they want to support a man who has brought this country to its knees? Do they seriously think that what the UK needs to return it to greatness is another 5 years of Labour. Christ, it really does hack me off.

  215. 531
    Gordoom cooks the books says:

    Just heard Gordoom at Chilcot he said he gave the MOD every penny they wanted that clears that up WILL ALL YOU DOUBTERS NOW LEAVE HIM ALONE AND CAN WE PUT THIS TO BED PLS remember his father told him TO ALWAYS BE TRUTHFULL so he can`t be lying can he

  216. 532
    Confused says:

    I can’t understand why this website is not carrying more on Brown’s appearance for over 6 hours today and yet we get the full on PMQ’s clown circus every Wednesday.

    I just find this rather odd.

    No doubt Paul will blast me for even daring to say this – I am by the way a devoted poster on this superb site – just seems odd not to cover this event more thoroughly.

  217. 533
    Susie says:

    He’s scared shitless of Lyne.

  218. 534
    Stay indoors says:

    Blimey,Brown really hates Rod Lyne’s guts – he better not take any kind of walk in the countryside this weekend.

  219. 537
    Gordoom cooks the books says:

    Ahh paying tribute to our armed forces get this you mug they can`t stand you

  220. 538
    My Vote Never Counts says:

    This is worse than Vogon Poetry.

    ‘Ode to a small piece of green snot I found in my left armpit one morning…..drone…. drone…… blether…….

  221. 539
    comments off says:

    That was a fucking joke!

    • 542
      Not in the public interest says:

      hah ha.no jokes are funny this was a fucking kick in the balls to each and everyone of us,with a big fuck you Hunts

  222. 540
    Anonymous says:

    And there you have it, another day another dollar

  223. 541
    Not in the public interest says:

    gorgon is getting in his armour plated jag,somewere in afghanistan squaddies are in the tin plated landrovers.seems to me the towel heads are aiming the ied’s at the wrong vehicle

  224. 544
    Gordon Brown PM says:

    It was the Tories fault not mine.

  225. 545
    Anonymous says:

    Now where were we with that Ashcroft thingy?

  226. 548
    r hardingham says:

    Chloe smith,actually worked for Deloittes 4-5 years after a 1st class degree at York Uniersity. The best estimate of what somebody like that would be earning is about £70-75k

    Secondly what is this nonsense about a £100k,package, your site is a mixture of ignorance,lies, jealousy and madness.

  227. 559
    Granville says:

    I just said this in a reply. Print a poster with the words RESERVED FOR enter MP’s name and stick it on a lamp post.cover the countrys lamposts with them they might get the message then.

  228. 564
    Doc Trough says:

    I take it someone has drawn our attention to the discussion we had at her election, when many felt the lass would be quite splendidly hirsute at the business end?

    Watching Joey Jones a few mins ago. Seems as twisted on the inside as his mug is on the outside.

  229. 572

    Oh come on Guido, it not like £100k is that much these days.
    Most Conservatives would see that as chicken feed.



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