Ashcroft v Whelan
Ashcroft’s commercial links to ConservativeHome, PoliticsHome and Iain Dale are getting a lot of coverage, not least in the Guardian this morning. People should not forget that Charlie Whelan’s Unite union funds LabourList and LeftFootForward is also union funded.
For the avoidance of doubt, Guido’s blog is an editorially independent, for profit enterprise. If James Murdoch, the Barclay Brothers, Charlie Whelan or Michael Ashcroft want to buy Guido’s blog, he is open to offers.
Until that day the editorial line of this blog is determined by Guido alone…
How much money does Wills Straw get from the workers?
Cameroons and pals loosing argument…..
Its not about a “opposition” party Non-dom…. stop answering questions on this….
Even Harperson showed that when on Andrew Marr she asked 4 questions about Labour nondoms – she talked about conservatives and ashcroft for 6 mins !!!!!!!
(hate her – but well done for avoiding the real issue)
So what an opposition party is getting funds from a non dom…
folks we have a government getting funds from a non dom , and goverment allowing a foreign non dom “privy” access – ie private access to information even we dont get to see……..
privy concillor – “privy” to secret info we can be trusted to see………..
All tory spokespeople showing they not been in government for 13 years and cant turn the debate to … ok we have non dom and we in opposition – the true issue is the government wont say how many non doms fund them, and what they get for it…?
Cameron very good on expenses turning this to a gb wont do anything but splutter, i will act and throw out corrupt tory MP…..
now on this he is all about ashcroft, not know ing when etc etc ect
thats not the issue – !!!!!!!!!
torys are removing a non-doms influence, stopping them holding posts – and acting for the future – unlike the government who could have acted and DIDNT
guido you really need to get tory head office to read this blog and learn….
boring….
“That wasn’t just boring… that was TBNGU preternaturally boring.”
I’ll put it simply for the Brothers.
Cons – taking money from a non-dom.
Labs – taking money from a non-dom who then gets given a position to subvert every and any law whatever, even supreme court rulings.
Which, Brothers, is the cancer in society?
Where are they “loosing” the argument to?
Loose Change? Down the back of the sofa.
losing not loosing
Too long didn’t read
The question remains.How much does New Labour aristo Wills Straw get from union funds?
Which sovietised liar department in the Comrade Madelsonian Labyrinthine Gulag Machine does Tory Boy really operate?
Room 101?
I thought the editorial line was dictated by how much Guinness you’d absorbed during the lunchtime session or the night before.
Absorbed being a good choice of word.
Are you suggesting that Guido is a sponger?
No, that its not wise to talk about ████ing Guiness.
Will you accept Zimbabwe luncheon vouchers?
As they’re increasing against the value of the pound, yes.
One day the £ will be as strong as those. It is the right thing to do.
WHELAN IS AN OAF. I CAN’T BELIEVE HE GOES DOWN VERY WELL WHEN HE IS OUT SALMON FISHING ON THOSE SCOTTISH RIVERS
The Laird of Lard
Does he go down by the river alone?
ooooh er
Come on Brown, you lily livered twat, call an election NOW!
Ok, how about next week?
The longer he leaves it the longer the rope we’ll hang him with… whether he wins it or not.
As if you’d dare.
Worst ‘PM’ ever.
Gordon Brown isn’t actually reading this you know.
It’s a pity Labour bloggers haven’t got the ‘nads’ to apologise to Chris Grayling- He was right to question Browns deceptive violent crime stats.
http://whogoeshome.co.uk/?p=465
ZaNuLieBor don’t do apologies!
That’s why Cammy needs to tell them to fuck off about Ashcroft. I see that Mandelsonbum is quieter outside of the HoL nowadays and is leaving it up to the offshore domiciled Grauniad to keep up the campaign.
Did Ashcroft’s lawyers shut the slimy arselicker up?
He’s quieter because he’s got skeletons in his own cuboard, thats always the way with serial killers.
‘ZaNuLieBor don’t do apologies!’
But if they did the would look like this ███ █████ ███ ██
Sir Trevor again shows off his newly learnt skill for adding fancy bits to his comments.
I thenk yau!!
If you cannot, or do not, recognise the problem, you can never resolve it. And this is why a great many ‘ problems ‘ currently in the UK will never change. They have been driven there by a failed ideology, and the same ideology will keep them there. Utterly incompetent and utterly treasonous. Yet still we see that they have a chance to hang on to power. I think the countries gone mad.
Can the Library check on all stats please.
They are all bent, including the last ‘growth’ figures.
How do I know wheter my cash is being used for a Labour website?
If you are in a Union, then it is!
Unless of course you took the step of ‘contracting out’ when you joined the union (if it affiliated to the Labour party). If it is not, then you have nothing to worry about.
Is that true though? I would have thought that virtually everyone ‘contracted out’ but they still seem to be minted.
You thought Gordon sold only half the gold? Anyone checked the vault recently?
Union representatives either ‘forget’ to tell new members about contracting our or don’t even know about it themselves.
They stand over you when you sign to be contracted out, there is evidence of victimisation of employees who opt out.
There is no evidence at all.
If there was,
heit would be rubbed out!I was constructively dismissed from my job by a shop steward for opting out of Labour donations.
Shut iit you slaag!
Nobody did that to me. Filled in the form at home. Ticked the contracting out box and posted it off. Simple.
The Union are useless though.
Yet they are still a model of openness and honesty compared to the BBC. Hard to believe, harder to deny.
You pay tax.
Until that day the editorial line of this blog is determined by Guido alone…
But the comments may well be determined by the courts..
section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 state:
Improper use of public electronic communications network
(1) A person is guilty of an offence if he—
(a) sends by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character; or
(b) causes any such message or matter to be so sent.
(2) A person is guilty of an offence if, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another, he—
(a) sends by means of a public electronic communications network, a message that he knows to be false,
(b) causes such a message to be sent; or
(c) persistently makes use of a public electronic communications network.
(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or to both.
Couldn’t give a flying fuck about that lot! Comments are comments! mere words! When the use of words is illegal, you have lost your freedom and are living in a de facto totalitarian fascist police state.
Fuck them! I would sooner not recognise and renounce my nationality and all laws, customs and protections it provides, then bend to accepting the above injustice and tyranny.
Mr Ned was a talking horse on a 1950s saddo kids programme…..
Neigh, thrice, neigh
Mister Ed, surely !
Horse-faced funnyman Frankie Howerd, no?
“(2) A person is guilty of an offence if, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another, he—
(a) sends by means of a public electronic communications network, a message that he knows to be false,
(b) causes such a message to be sent; or
(c) persistently makes use of a public electronic communications network.”
That means most of the Labour Front bench and most of the mainsream media should be locked up. These laws are blatantly broken every fucking day by the media!
Pretty much does for the climate cultists! However, the word ‘purpose’ makes it unenforceable, since you can’t look inside somebody’s head to find what their purpose may have been.
Mr Ned, when will you learn that you should do as you are told and believe everything the Labour Party (line given by Slug Mandleslime and Bad Al Press slugretary) and the BBC tell you. Your free speech will be suppressed and Labour will deny any involvement at the time of your downfall or death and at the subsequent public inquiry. Come on Robinscum, where are you? Is this a story you could on your blog until everyone is bored stupid!
Yep – and with London the libel capital of the world, where anybody (rich jews) can sue anybody on Earth (to keep them from telling truths), and these obscene ‘super-injunctions’, it is clear Britain is firmly under the boot of the jew.
The 2003 Communications Act was crafted so that everybody is criminal and can be arrested at any time. The jews are gradually turning Britain into Hell.
Yeah, like that Saudi businessman and that Kate Hudson woman.
And on superinjunctions, did Shoesmith put one on Balls, or did Balls put one on Shoesmith? It’s all gone rather deathly quiet on that side of Baby P case.
That Max Mosely bloke’s got a hell of a conk on him, hasn’t he?
Didn’t his father have something to do with Cable Street back in the 30s?
Just goes to show…
Hmmm does this “act” apply to websites hosted beyond the jurisdiction of the UK courts?
Teehee! Fun and comments all round!
It CAN do. A man in the UK published material on servers in the USA which would have been illegal to publish in the UK.
He was prosecuted (and found guilty) because the UK law allowed the courts to pretend he had published the material in the UK.
Here’s a dumb analogy: If you stand on the border of one nation and fire a bullet, so killing a person on the other side of the border, an offence takes place in both nations.
Nobody needs to ‘pretend’ anything.
236, yes that was a dumb analogy. Because what the man was doing was NOT illegal in the USA. But it was illegal in the UK.
“Improper use”
Define “improper”. Tee hee!
I bet my definition is different to the woeful wallies in westminster. Tee hee!
And I care not one jot what they think! Tee hee!
improper use is when you use a noun instead of a proverb, or an exclamation instead of a colon, innit?
my colon is full of poo
tee hee!
So McBride should have received a six month sentence and thousands of £ in fines…
Start with the criminal smearers…
Yummy
This act, designed to be used for stopping stalkers repeatedly leaving messages on answerphones and such, is currently being used to prosecute someone who posted a hoax bomb threat on twitter to his friends.
The law is being bent like a fish-hook to make it fit that crime.
http://www.thelawyer.com/the-twitter-%E2%80%9Cbomb-hoax%E2%80%9D-case-worse-than-we-thought?/1003651.article
“(2) A person is guilty of an offence if, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another, he—
(a) sends by means of a public electronic communications network, a message that he knows to be false”
Bill – we must be able to get McBust banged to rights under section 127(2)(a). EVERY message he sends out over a public communications network is false (and he must know them to be so) and he certainly causes “annoyance, inconvenience AND needless anxiety”.
I think 6 months in chokey might do McBust a power of good. It would certainly assist the rest of the country.
Brilliant idea!
I’ll give you a fiver for it.
Don’t look at me, it’s him over there.
Will Charlie pay for my drugs?
Charlie Pays
Charlie! Charlie! Charlie! We all want Charlie!
Charlie is my Darling.
Darling is a charlie.
Who tried to run interference for you Charlie ? Guido, any more info on that operation and how it fell apart !
Any more Draper/Mcbride e-mails compromising for the thug Whelan Guido ?
In other words, low-paid workers are paying for navel-gazing Labour blogs that no one reads.
It must be great to be a highly-paid Unite official: you get to own the government and you don’t even have to stand for election.
Did someone say Murdoch or do my ears deceive me?
Guido, be nice about Charlie Whelan or he will threaten your wife.
That’s Charlie’s modus operandi.
Guido’s wife would chew up Whelan and spit him out!
Tee Hee!
Guido’s wife doesn’t spit, at least not from my recollection.
Let’s cut to the chase.
Name the asking price for your blog please
You couldn’t afford it, but I might…
He he he hehehehe!
Haha ha ha ha!
Cackle cackle!
“UK trade deficit widens to worst in 17 months”
Enough said FFS…
BBC says “unexpectedly” on it’s “news” article…
Oh, FFS!!
Er, hello?, lads….have you been watching the economy lately?
What economy?
We only have drugs, rentboys and huge salaries here you fool !!
Exactly…
Editorial standards at the Beeb are in terminal decline. Watch news reports or listen on radio, the editing of reports is poor and as for the impartiality of content, you could write a whole Blog about it!
Like this blog ? ….
http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/
I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again. For the BBC, impartiality is more about imp art than lack of partisanship. They have been taking the piss far too long.
What’s unexpected about it. Devalued pound pushes up import prices, QE creates artificial credit masking the deflationary pressure. Exports cannot appear magically replacing the collapse in financial services ,particularly as investment in the productive sector is down 28%, being squeezed out by the competition of the massive level of public borrowing.
A widening trade deficit was only to be expected at this stage of Gordon’s election debt-fuelled mini boom of less than 1% growth after a 7% collapse year on year.
To113,and we now have a 53 billion black hole in council pension schemes,as reported by the tax payers alliance.
They suggest that £1 out of every £5 you pay in council tax goes into the pesions.
Sorry missed the N out.
And 3,500 councillors are enrolled in the LAPS… slight conflict of interest there when it comes to raising council tax I’d have thought.
Write to your councillor and ask whether they’re in the scheme or not… local elections coming up next month and all that.
Here’s the link to see how much your LA owes:
http://c.ss35.on9mail.com/sendlink.asp?HitID=1267607421759&StID=5024&SID=6&NID=163555&EmID=5860143&Link=aHR0cDovL3d3dy50YXhwYXllcnNhbGxpYW5jZS5jb20vRGVmaWNpdHMucGRm
I started laughing when the “unexpectedly”comment was made.You have to hand it to the BBC.As a propaganda outlet for a political party they are unbeatable.However Toenails Robinson lets the side down by being a tad too obvious in his fearless quest to bring the opposition to account.
Have gun will travel.
Paladin, Paladin
Where do you roam?
Paladin, Paladin
Far, far from home.
Guido
What is youre connection then to Alex Hilton please ?!
Mentioned in Alex Hilton’s Wiki entry…
They are friends and set up message space together
Meet for a drink later?
now then F S b triggers a mod
the boys over at the guardian are just beginning to see the light:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/mar/09/january-trade-deficit-widens#start-of-comments
maybe the bbc will do the same
if we don’t make anything we can’t export it
We’ll take in each others’ washing, and sell homemade cakes?
As much as most people dislike the so called “masters of the universe” in the city, I don’t see anyone else capable of getting us out of this mess. If Gorgon drives them all abroad with high taxes we have got nothing left.
Whelan and Unite are trying their hardest to ruin what’s left of BA
My sister’s doing up a second house near Frankfurt in the past month, for a banker and his family…
Car scrappage scheme.
Supported a company in Castle Bromwich that makes a needle for a speedo in a Daihatsu. Supported Banks who finance vehicles. Supported economic growth for Q4.
Supported the international motor industry. Screwed our trade deficit
85% of the cars bought under ‘scappage’ were built overseas. Nothing like supporting the Korean economy, is there ?
Cheers, pals. And can we have another quarter of a billion quid towards our space program? Ah, you’ve already promised it. Thanks, you give us so much money, we forget.
Ta.
Trouble is, we don’t actually make a lot any more. Bear with me.
Unless you mine the ore and produce the energy required to smelt it, you don’t “make” metal. If you don’t produce and process the crude oil, you don’t “make” plastics or all the other precursor chemicals that most modern manufacturing needs.
What we do is import shed loads of pre-refined/part fabricated product (which is where the real value-add lies) and assemble it. Labour and infrastructure costs are all that’s necessary. If someone, somewhere else can do it cheaper, then it all gets outsourced/contract manufactured/whatever euphemism you want to apply.
Net result : Jobs gone.
All the Bliar bollocks about the “knowledge economy” just made that industrial model easier to apply to service industries. Hence call centres in Guangzhou, Krakow and Mumbai. In 13 years in the IT Outsourcing industry, I saw it rip the guts out of the UK industry in the two years before I quit the whole viper’s nest. We just rolled over in the UK and let everyone else in the “global” company protect their own corners of the empire. Most UK CEOs then went to France or the USA.
Globalisation at its finest. Concentration of national wealth into the hands of a few.
Politicians in the UK are running a textbook Corporatocracy – they don’t give a shit where jobs or lives go, because they’re set the moment they get into office. They don’t give two shits who gets shafted providing they’re the ones doing the shafting.
So don’t expect any of this to get much in the way of attention; they -as always – aren’t the ones who are going to end up paying for it.
sounds like kids lego to me
Lego.
Danish.
The fact that it is -still- Danish stands out. Were they originally British, their production would likely have been offshored. We had Meccano: they went to Calais. How is that cheaper?
I do remember talking, in a union bar, to a right old (although perhaps only 19 at the time) shire tory who told me that manufacturing industry was a thing of the paaast and the country’s balance of payments was all down to the money made in the city, and he was quite proud of that.
I won’t mention who was prime minister at the time because it’ll make me sound like a dodgy old lefty stereotype.
I see youve sussed the Labour lie .243 wiin , the redistribution of wealth was mis labelled , it should have said the redistribution of the ability to create wealth (and hold onto it), via increasing demand whilst wrecking the home supply capacity.
Balance of trade figs today show £7.99 bn gap in what we import (tangible) vs export all this despite a lower pound !!
Yup – got it in one.
And who is talking down the UK economy.
Why non other than David Cameron’s Conservatives
March 9 (Bloomberg) — The pound’s drop last week to a 10- month low may help the U.K. economy grow faster than the region sharing the euro, which is hobbled by budget deficits and aging populations, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Concerns U.K. elections this year may give the nation its first minority government since 1974 helped drive down sterling by 7 percent since Dec. 31, the worst performer this year among the 16 most-traded currencies. The euro is still trading about 10 percent above its fair value against the dollar, said Erik F. Nielsen, Goldman Sachs chief European economist.
“People are very bearish on the U.K., probably more than they should be,” Nielsen said in an interview in Sydney yesterday. “The euro is clearly in its biggest crisis since it started, so it’s kind of strange that it’s overvalued.”
You should be pleased it’s overvalued, makes UK EXPORTS cheaper.
So what’s gone wrong?
Trouble is we don’t make anything that anyone wants anymore.
I’ve got hairs in my eyes you fuckers
Oi Guido you a right winger can you sort the UUP out? Do you accept reverse charges on calls? Coz I in Lala land and it aint cheap phoning all the way from here to unite and bring peace to Ireland.
Larfin at the Unite minimum wages proles wot dont care Whelan is spunking cash on NaziLabour, the parteh wot as flooded the nation wiv slave labour immygrints.
Up the workers Charlie HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I like Charlie hehehe
We’ll do what we like. What the fuck are you Tory tossers going to do about it? We’ll rig the election! Ha ha! You’re fucked!
Sadly,this post could well be correct.Glenrothoes,anyone?
++TOP BOY HAS HAD ENOUGH OF GUIDO RIMMING THE HOUSING BENEFIT CHEAT DAVID CAMERON AND THE CRACKHEAD GIDEON OSBORNE++TOP BOY DECIDES TO START HIS OWN BLOG++TAT IS NOT INTERESTED IN WHORING HIMSELF TO THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY HIS ONLY CONCERN IS ELECTING BROWN NOT MONEY GRUBBING AND ACCESS WHORING LIKE GUIDO++THICK AS THIEVES BLOG WILL BE THE ONLY LABOUR BLOG WORTH READING++GOING LIVE SOON++WATCH THIS SPACE++TOP BOY HAS HAD ENOUGH OF GUIDO AND HIS TORY MATES STEALING ALL MY IDEAS ANYWAY++WITHOUT CONTRIBUTORS LIKE TOP BOY THIS PLACE IS NO BETTER THAN CONSERVATIVEFOAM INNIT++YOU HAVE QU33RED YOUR OWN PITCH GUIDO++WHAT A MUG++
Somone should put an ATO
Anti-Thug Order on Whelan…
alls fair in love and war
http://cardiffblogger.co.uk/archives/gordon-brown-learnt-to-bully-from-charlie-whelan
Wake me up on May 7 when Labour are gone. And if by some horrific chance they’re still here, wake me up anyway so I can book the next flight out of the country. I have a feeling many will want to do the same if Gorgon Brown gets back in.
I hereby make an offer to Guido to purchase his blog for $100,000.
Charlie Whelan is a repugnant and complete fucking sociopath. And if he doesn’t like me saying that, he can send his wife over to suck my balls.
I’m here, it will be nice to meet a man with a real pair.
Good girl. On your knees now. And don’t worry. Unlike Charlie, I won’t force you to use coathangers or methamphetamines during our session.
Murkeyside police has referred itself to the indepenent police concurring commision over the Ashliegh murder so all is well
The IPCC will take as long as it possibly can to deliberate on this matter. Will be a while though because the record for not telling anyone anything rests with Ian Tomlinson – anyone remember him? See, I told you so. We can get away with murder in new labour’s Britain.
Everyone who works for the Guardian and reads it is a bummer.
Whelan and Draper are planning to make a film together:
C/UNT AND C/UNTER
This looks like: “Come on Grandad. I have to get you back to the care home by 5pm. As my permit to be out of Broadmoor runs out at 7pm this evening.”
Privately educated, salmon fishing, pheasant and grouse shooting Communist.
Understands the plight of the common man
Yeah right…
Question.
If we are encouraged to “spend our way out of recession”, and we don’t make anything ourselves (sorry farming. you don’t count…) What precisely is going to happen to our ballenceof payments? Our only grouth industry WAS banking…
Hmmmm….
“sorry farming, you don’t count”.
Too right. In 2007 we were only produced 58% of the food that was consumed in the country. We’re a net importer there too…..
According to one of the clueless little teenagers at the Maily Telegraph, iPhone apps are our new growth industry, which will pay off the £1.5trillion debt that Gordon decided to lumber us with.
Tee hee! Is Apple moving all of its manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, marketing and product development to UK?
And is it bringing all of Microsoft and Google along too?
iPhone Apps: Making Steve Jobs richer while I get poorer.
Nah, Microsoft (and many others) use prison labor to box up their goods.
yes and photos of Gordon, our greatest ever leader
well we have to have some industry after selling ringtones declines.
“How fortunate for leaders that people do not think” – Adolf Hitler.
He also said,
“Fu*ck ze Rooskies are at ze door. Pass me mine Luger.
I’m not spending a penny I don’t need to until savings rates increase to a reasonable level. Until then Brown and his incompetent economy-wreckers can get stuffed.
Q1 2010 figures will probably see a fall. The economy won’t really start to get better until the shambolic government that caused most of our financial problems is removed from power.
So;
Who is Guido’s preferred bidder?
How much would someone pay to close it down?
A bloody fortune
The last major free site in the UK
(sorry, Nevis !)
If things go on like this
And this is only the beginning of the election camcpaign…
The political landscape will be strewn with Zanu and Tory bodies…
There will be no one left to run the fooking country…
Never fear! I am here to step once more into the breech and rid England of these dastardly cowards!
Maybe. Tee Hee!
christ this website has deteriorated into banal shit. Perhaps Guido should get some donor influence. Lets face it there are not really any articles just a sort of comment intro to throw to the pack to encourage their comments which are to say the least hardy though provoking.
I will now accept a full refund and fuck off
We are windowlickers of the highest order. You expected rational debate?
You love us long time. Go on big boy, thump that tube for me one more time!
is that before you ram it up his arse?
Easy tiger. He can at least buy me a drink first.
Tee Hee!
Best laugh you can have on the web,your just a miserable fucker.
What’s he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin.
If we are mark’d to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires;
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more, methinks, would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart. His passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse.
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say, “To-morrow is Saint Crispian.”
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say, “These wounds I had on Crispian’s day.”
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words,
Harry the King, Bedford, and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered,
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
O/T Iain Dale says the much vaunted equal intended poll figures in marginals are bollocks as they ignote the top 50 Tory/Lab marginals and ignore Tory/LimpDim marginals as well.
Funny, the bit I heard on The World at One didn’t mention that…
Have any Tories been seen or heard of today ?
Or have they been put to sleep ?!
It’s rehearsal day. Dave promised that a Tory government would be subservient to the unelected EU dictators, so he and his chummies are practising sitting at the back of a room, being very quiet and smiling obsequiously to people.
The 2010 No Shagging Day campaign kicks off tomorrow with David Cameron’s recreation of the classic Queen video ‘I want to break free.’
Labourlist’s Alex Smith will be voting in his first general election when it comes. I suggest until he’s had a few under his belt he’ll remain detached from reality he might stop looking at the Labour Party as though it were heaven sent.
WHEN LABOUR WIN THE GENERAL ELECTION
The most obvious loser will be the lobbying industry, which has recently been inundated with former politicians and advisers hoping to cash in on their Conservative contacts.
“Many public affairs consultancies will be left with an enormous amount of egg on their faces when Gordon Brown pulls victory from the jaws of defeat,” says Ian Hall, editor of lobbying industry magazine Public Affairs News.
“So many of them have been rushing to hire even the most junior of former Conservative Campaign Headquarters staff.”
The most obvious losers would be the bookies, who don’t rate Labour’s chances very highly at all.
For some strange reason.
yes, i know, don’t understand it at all. new labour have been so, erm, well good haven’t they …. except with the economy, and the police state, and wars and that. Must hurry, off to see Msr BendOver ….bye
Much as i often praise bookies for their choices, and that they are bound to be pretty subjective, there’s one point to consider.
If in reality there are two horses of 50:50 chance of winning, in theory they should both be evens to win. (ignoring the margin for now).
BUT, one of the horses has 10x more bets on it, chances are the bookies will alter their odds accordingly.
If labour win, the bookies might not lose out on the betting if theres been far far fewer people betting on a labour win.
PS: In general the bookies do seem to know what they are on about.
Having just lost £20 betting on a February election at 20-1, I see your point.
Did you win a bookie’s pencil, though?
The most obvious loser will be the… entire country, don’t you think?
Labourlist’s Alex Smith will be voting in his first general election when it comes. I suggest until he’s had a few under his belt he’ll remain detached from reality and he might also stop looking at the Labour Party as though it were heaven sent.
v PC
Sarah Brown might have voted BandP ….
Would Guido sell to Whelan?
This Whelan?
http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/2774
The Whelan who supported Brown at every step in his efforts to undermine Blair as PM, throughout most of his Premiership and in so doing prejudiced the future of every person in the country.
The Whelan who “unleashed the forces of hell” on the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he was engaged in managing one of the biggest financial crises this country has ever faced.
The Whelan who puts personal feuds before the interests of his Union members and before the interests of his country.
I won’t have the election until June 3. Because it’s the right thing to do.
Desperation!
The BBC didn’t tell me this. They just said that the police will not be perusing an inquiry. I am not holding my breath.
Lord Paul is to be investigated by the House of Lords authorities over claims that he falsely claimed thousands of pounds in expenses.
The Labour donor announced today that he would renounce his non-dom status and pay full UK taxes from next year.
He also said the Metropolitan Police had told him that it had wound up its investigation into his expense claims.
But that announcement provided the trigger for the Sub-Committee on Lords’ Interests to say that it would be looking into Lord Paul’s claims. The committee had been waiting for the conclusion of the police inquiry.
Have the police really dropped their investigation into his expenses or is he telling lies?
Robinson says on his blog:
“I find myself pondering why the Tories biggest donor is facing so much grief when Labour’s biggest donor, Lord Sainsbury, is treated completely differently.”
How can someone have the gall to write such a thing when it’s written by the same person that’s been reporting it in that skewed way in the first place?
fucking arsehole.
His cornflakes are shite too.
Shite cornflakes?
Sounds yummy!
Toenails Robinson is taking the piss now. That’s how fucking arrogant these Labour pricks are.
Sky News subtitles never cease to amuse me with their typos – this morning they referred to Lord Ashcroft as tory party donut
education, education, education.
Ich bin ein Berliner.
(I am a doughnut)
A weak currency is supposed to help exports, but not in Britain’s case.
Gordon Brown has managed to achieve a weak currency and falling exports at the same time.
Are there no limits to his incompetence?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/7404682/UK-exports-plunge-threatening-hopes-of-economic-uplift.html
It’s a miracle!
You know Brown is a dangerous c,unt when that arsehole David Blanchflower supports him.
I’m going to rig the election, then I’ll introduce the Alternative Vote system to guarantee that the Tories will never get into office again, and I’ll bring Blunkett and Smith back onto the frontbench just to wind you all up.
Now who said I’m never honest and straight with the people?
Lady Smith please…
Feed me
If Jack Straw asks, don’t tell him I told you, but rumour has it that David Calvert is the new name Jon Venables is using, he now lives in Fleetwood and the reason he was sent back to prison was he raped a 19 year old girl in Warrington.
David Calvert??..
That’s not a very witty username.
Hello Damien (McBride) I see you’re shit-stirring again.
Did your friend Magda Goebbels-Brown put you up to this or did you think it up all by yourself?
http://blogs.news.sky.com/lifeofcrime/Post:378d3257-3ea1-4744-b8fc-5ec63dca9413
“Published pictures of him growing up, crucially between the ages of 10 and 18, convinced even his most neanderthal accusers.”
As I’m sure you know the media has already ascertained that the poor chap you’ve just named is not, and was never, John Venables. He is a young family man with two small children and he is being terrorised by malicious people like you.
And just in case there is any doubt, he has just recently been interviewed in his own house so he clearly can’t be John Venables because JV is in prison!
Yet another bodge up by labour damaging the lives of innocent people.
‘George Osborne’ = Labour black ops (ie McBride spreading smears again)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1256533/Jon-Venables-Terror-young-father-accused-Bulger-killer-Facebook.html
Damien, there’s an empty crisp packet blowing round the playground. Go and pick it up you lazy cu nt.
Sarah Brown, aka Magda Goebbels, voted B, N, P, in 2005 but is considering voting Lib Dem if Gordon decides to hold an election sometime this year.
Magda voted NF in 97
Leftfootforward is FUNDED by union ?
What the fuck ?
TORIES KEEPING THEIR POWDER DRY!
Apparantly they have some material to blow Labour away…… Time it right, wait until you get all the little Huhnes in the room at once..
then BOOM !
Expect Cameron to totally outdo that lying bastard Brown….. Eventually your lies and failures will catch-up with you. The debates will see to this.
He can’t reveal the big one on Brown because it’s still subject to an all-encompassing D Notice.
that d notice is up for renewal this month. will a major newspaper have the balls to challenge it? it would blow brown’s reelection chances out of the water.
I have to admit that some of David Cameron’s jokes have been pretty good recently.
The one which is the subject of a D notice is so awful and I would not put in any of my Xmas crackers.
David Cameron will be humiliated again at tomorrows PMQ’s
Is Gordon actually going to turn up then ? I thought he’d be staging a photo-op somewhere or other as I know how much he “likes” PMQs and being made to look a complete chump most weeks !! Although after last week and “Hatties” dire performance,he perhaps thinks he can’t do much worse.
Does a “D” notice include mentioning it on the floor of the House of Commons?
“The D-Notice system is a voluntary arrangement between the government and the media, whereby the media agree not to publish certain information in the interests of national security. It represents voluntary censorship on the part of the media. The alternative to the D-Notice system is legal action by the government to suppress allegedly sensitive material, for example, by use of the civil action of breach of confidence, or to punish the media after publication by use of the criminal law. There is a major deficiency in both the D-Notice system and the legal alternatives to the system. It maintains that the public interest, that is the interests of the general public, is insufficiently represented in the operation of the former and is often not sufficiently recognized by the judiciary in the latter. The result is that material may be suppressed which has no connection with national security but instead exposes the government to embarrassment.”
If you publish a D Notice – what then? Prison? Water Boarding? Death by misadventure? Death by hanging?
If it’s just the first, give me the info and I’ll publish – it’ll be worth 5 years for my kids sake.
Mr Winkle, if the result went the right way there could be a royal pardon on the 7th May for services to the country.
The media has decided it wants 5 more years of Labour then………….
Well let’s face it the majority of them can leave or set up tax avoidance schemes or become “Non-Doms” so why should they bother ?
I’m not saying my sex life is shit but the only time I get to take down a girl’s knickers is when I bring my grannies washing in.
The only time Gay Gordon took down a girls knickers was when he removed Mandelson’s thong but that was before they had that huge tiff and stopped seeing each other.
They were bang at it on election night in 2005.
So which one of you cowboys is going to free Ireland? There is an Irish $50 and some Charlie as a reward. Form an orderly queue.
Guido, I thought we’d been over this before. This blog is nothing without you so there’s nothing to sell except yourself!
I’m sure Ashcroft wouldn’t want your server space or the archives. Maybe if you threw in Ms Nomates?
listen all you labour pricks.!!!!!!!!
the damage has been done since 1945 when every govt. has pissed £trillions down the drain on quick fix schemes designed to win votes. manufacturing only makes up 11 % of the economy!!!!!!!! besides that all we do is push piles of bricks around-filling the country up with every tom,mustapha and dilip that wants to add to the squeeze on resources-to keep the pressure on the upside for prices……….
the insanity of qe has been noticed by everyone-how odd-it is a joke!
every trader in the world should have been short of sterling ‘assets’ from the day it was announced! talking down the economy? how about shouting so fucking loud that it is deafening??????????????????
8million on the dole? qe? rising inflation? etc……..
all really bullish reasons to crow about the ‘goldilocks’ economy…….
(remember that kids? it was bollocks too!)
talking down the economy started in 1997 when two pratts that knew nothing got their hands on the keys to downing strasse.
paying interest on interest is the fast way to the poor house……..
I see that Labour’s multi-millionaire benefactor, Lord Paul is to be investigated for expenses fiddling by the House of Lords. Not content with being super-rich he is also said to have claimed hundreds of thousands for a hotel room claimed to be his main residence.
What a sleazy bunch of greedy, troughing bastards these Labour scum are.
i am voting tory.i am sick of being surrounded by gurning scots that cant get a hard on/……….besides my friends in islington and canterbury dont like this 50% tax rate thingy………..tweet tweet…….off for an espresso!
Tony Benn’s (nee Anthony Wedgwood-Benn) granddaughter is standing as a prospective Labour parliamentary candidate at the ripe old age of 18.
No nepotism here folks. Move on, nothing to see.
TroughingPublic service is in our genes.Experience rules OK!
I hope her opponents plug the “No time for a novice” line for all they are worth.
‘Training of troops involved in an operation which led to the death of the first female British soldier in Afghanistan was ”inadequate”, a coroner said.’
Over to you Prime Minister.
AND ……..you think he actually cares ? He has already told us ….he denied the military nothing they asked for and it was all the General’s fault anyway.
One aspect of this government is the passing of responsibilty to everyone but themselves so they can blame everyone else. Day after day theu pass the buck, not me guv. Here we have another example, last Friday our great leader sat and did the same in front of that joke of enquiry. One day, this merry-go-round will stop and judgement will come……
How would they fair in a photo finish?
Fare!
We would consider paying a few million out of the public purse for the IP addresses.Call us later for sale terms.
Eh Guido, I thought you were Irish domiciled?
Presumably with a website offshore, £30k bunce money + tax on remittances is more tax than you actually pay on profits.
Otherwise the reputable firm of Hamilton & Mills (Neil and David) Tax lawyers would be only too pleased to advise you. U(nu)sual payment terms.
Yes Guido – I thought you were a non-dom, and if you aren’t, you bloody well ought to be!
Apols if this has already been mentioned (no time today to read other posts), but WE are funding the Unions via the Modernisation Fund. By that route, NuLab gives taxpayers’ cash to Unions to ‘help them to “modernise”‘.
I pay tax, and nobody asked me if I wanted ‘modernised’ Unions, whatever they may be.
It takes but a small, cynical (or merely worldly) step to suspect that, by this means, taxpayers are funding NuLab.
Vote Labour!
Ha yes Labour has a pension for other peoples money.