March 9th, 2010

YBF Continue a Noble Tradition

The Guardian have tried doing a hatchet job on right-wing kiddy trainers the Young Britons’ Foundation.  Apparently YBF acolytes visited a firing range while in the U.S. to shoot off some AK-47s, so this means Dave is going to repeal the handgun ban. Well that was the line pumped by one Mrs Bob Marshall-Andrews, the wife of the stalwart Labour MP, who happens to work for the anti-firearms lobby. No mention of the relationship in the article though.

In Guido’s student days we went to actual war zones, not firing ranges, to shoot off Ak47s. Given that Eric Pickles just last Wednesday gave a speech to YBF, praising them and getting them fired up for the coming ground war, it seems somewhat pathetic for him to be trying to distance himself.  Guido was wondering what exactly is wrong with shooting off a few rounds?  After all a right-wing gun nut was Britain’s finest Prime Minister.  The Guardian make it sound like they are being trained for a military coup. They shouldn’t worry too much though, as Guido told the YBF audience just after Pickles had addressed them – they aren’t nearly extreme enough.

They should spend more time on the firing range and less time trying to climb the greasy pole.


516 Comments

  1. 1
    Martin Day says:

    I use a cardboard cut -out of David Cameron for target practice

    • 2
      The time has come says:

      Brown,Balls,Straw,Harman etc etc oh and Cooper Balls – all of them up against the wall.

      Winston – aim and fire when ready.

      • 6

        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.

        http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7055243.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=6848714

        • 13
          righty right wing (mrs) says:

          OH, are you sure – the BBC never mentioned this today on Pravda R4 when they were saying how nice Lord Paul was in comparison to that baby eating tyrant of Belize.

          YBF? Mentoring children to be responsible? Yes, the Guardian would have a problem with that.

          Shame they have no problems with UAF & Unite thugs usurping the democratic process.

          Still, it isnt fascism when the left do it, is it children?

          • Disaffected says:

            Robinscum is still blogging about Ashcroft, he was fed the script by Bad Al and Mandelslime (sorry M’Slug). BBC does not report failings of Labour Party; criticisms of Labour ended when Dyke left and Thompson took over.

          • Expat says:

            Hopefully we will see a few changes at the BBC after 6 May.
            It is very unfortunate that the socialists have imposed their anti gun position on the armed forces.

          • Mr Ned says:

            Legalising, registering gun ownership is one of the few things that could get me voting Tory.

            I spent a fair bit of time states-side. Gun ownership os a good thing!

          • this is not america says:

            lest we forget why gun ownership was banned

            http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/feb/14/ukguns.scotland

          • Anonymous says:

            @this is not america:

            That is the claim, but the police had tried to find a reason to ban handguns for years.

            Sadly, your wonderful ban brought about an almost 100% increase in violent crime, between 1997 and 2004, when it peaked at over 24000. Since then it has slowly dropped. Up to the ban, violent crime was actually falling, year on year.

            I don’t have earlier figures, at the moment, but handgun homicides ROSE by 50% between 1999 and 2002. Between 1999/2000 and 2008/2009 there were 376 recoded handgun homicides – not a single one being caused by a legal handgun.

            Between 1999/2000 and 2005/6, injuries, caused by handguns rose from 352 to 1024 – not one caused by a legal handgun.

            Taking those figures in context (against pre-ban figures), your wonderful ban has been directly responsible for many deaths by illegal handgun.

            I hope your are proud of your little self.

          • This Is Not America

            You mean a gross overeaction to an isolated event committed by a person it appears the police knew should not have had a firearms licence in the first place?

          • overcompensating says:

            i love guns,big phallic metal things that explode
            i’m not impotent

        • 99
          BROWNED OFF says:

          On Five Live they said that Scotland Yard had dropped their investigation into his expenses fraud. Is he a ‘Lord’ in his own land? Why is he a Lord here?

          • Steve Expat says:

            ‘cos Gordon gave it to him, after he had bankrolled his campaign to be PM to the extent that everyone else was so shit scared of standing that he was promoted unopposed to the top job…

          • What has changed since last July says:

            If new tax law comes, I won’t give money, Swraj Paul tells Labour

            http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/business/if-new-tax-law-comes-i-wont-give-money-swraj-paul-tells-labour-lead_100220110.html

          • udderly 'orrible says:

            New statesman says Trotter Paul the Trougher has been forgiven:

            “Paul also revealed that the police had decided not to proceed with their investigation into his House of Lords expenses.
            He said: “I am delighted to announce today that the Metropolitan Police Service have informed me that it has decided after due consideration that it will no longer be proceeding with any investigation or inquiry in relation to my House of Lords expenses. I very much welcome the police decision.”

            Coming soon more copshop whitewash with that other upstanding member of the illustrious upper house, Baroness Udderly Disgraceful.

            Are the police too close to Liebour? (just answered my own question)

      • 148
        smoog says:

        Martin, you are a cardboard cut out, remember?

    • 5
      Dame Mandelson of Jacksy says:

      Oohh Martin, can I pump my Uzi inside you?

    • 24
      ShoutsAtTheTV says:

      Surely a picture of a certain fat, 1-eyed Jock would be easier to hit?

    • 279
      DC - nob joke or knob joke? says:

      I believe the Conservative Party use a cardboard cutout of DC as their leader.

    • 436
      Rita says:

      Hello M A rti N D a Y

  2. 3
    • 23
      Jimmy says:

      Hair to Blair.

      Ithenkyow.

    • 72
      The Court of Public Opinion says:

      I’d like to see wee willy hague do that :-)

      • 86
        ShoutsAtTheTV says:

        “..Most of you won’t be around in 20 to 30 years”

        Talking to the hairs in his fringe, obviously

        • 141
          Brown Is Hitler in Full Retreat and Dave Is Fucking Useless says:

          A picture of Churchill and a piece about the Tories?
          You have obviously been reading a dictionary Guido, and the page must have fell open on the word ‘conflation’.
          Let us be quite clear on this point: if the useless bastard David Cameron and not the great Tory statesman Winston Churchill had been PM during the war we would have lost to the Nazis.
          And Aschroft would probably have financially backed Hitler.
          If Hitler had offered him tax breaks.

          • Susie says:

            So that’s why Ashcroft buys VCs to support their recipients and gives them to the nation. Many of those VCs were won fighting Hitler, ignoramus.

            Just as Ashcroft supports Help for Heroes — the only charity worth trusting in the UK.

          • Jimmy says:

            “If the useless bastard David Cameron and not the great Tory statesman Winston Churchill had been PM during the war we would have lost to the Nazis.
            And Aschroft would probably have financially backed Hitler.
            If Hitler had offered him tax breaks.”

            And the YBF would be on their hols on a firing range somewhere in Bavaria.

          • The Truth of The Matter says:

            Aschroft buys brave men’s VCs to appear patriotic and generous.
            He is neither.
            He lied to the Queen to gain a peerage under false pretences and he evades tax money which are troops in Afghanistan desperately need.
            He buys the medals for the sole purpose of muggin off dopey punters like you Susie.
            Far better for him to pay his full tax contribution than offer these crumbs from his table.

          • Oh really? If Lord Ashcroft wanted to perform a cynical action of patriotism, he could have done so much more cheaply and with less trouble.

            The trouble is, Ashcroft doesn’t fit into your simplistic caricature of an evil capitalist. Tell you what, don’t bother using your brain, just believe the lying hypocritical smears from Mandelbum and Campbell.

          • Doctor Mick says:

            He doesn’t necessarily believe them but is quite content to purvey them. Useful idiot that he is.

          • The Ashcroft Fund For Patriotism and Stuff, Ashcroft Building, University of Ashcroft, Ashcroftshire says:

            “If Lord Ashcroft wanted to perform a cynical action of patriotism, he could have done so much more cheaply and with less trouble.”

            How?

          • The Ashcroft Fund For Patriotism and Stuff, Ashcroft Building, University of Ashcroft, Ashcroftshire says:

            p.s. I’d just like to point out that he does a lot of work for charity but he doesn’t like to talk about it.

          • Doctor Mick says:

            “’If Lord Ashcroft wanted to perform a cynical action of patriotism, he could have done so much more cheaply and with less trouble.’

            How?”

            Perhaps by paying a flying visit to the troops in Afghanistan.

    • 228
      NotaSheep says:

      That’s so embarrassing and I am sure the BBC would love to show it but not so keen to show this …

  3. 4
    Paddy Ashdown says:

    Who needs guns, I could kill you with the stump of an amputated pinky.

    • 58
      ShoutsAtTheTV says:

      ..Is this the thing you use to press the ‘Print Button’ for one of your interesting, endless speeches?

    • 98
      John Prescnut says:

      My saveloy has never been sawn off. I am right peckish.

      • 105
        BROWNED OFF says:

        It was a cocktail sausage or ‘like being fallen on by a wardrobe with the key in the door’. Does Pauline mention his puny winkle in her book? Anyone read it?

  4. 7
    Anonymous says:

    oh… I kept seeing YBF and wondering if Harry Hill had been exceptionally offensive on last saturday’s episode

  5. 8
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Mao
    Hitler
    Stalin
    They all loved to confiscate firearms
    Its what socialists do and precisely why the American have the second Ammendment, it isnt for duck hunting, its all about being able to say
    “Dont step on me” to c unts like Brown , Pol Pot and all of the above.
    Try robbing a house in Zug or Texas and see what you bring upon yourself

    • 56
      Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1967) says:

      Who’s the greatest killer of the 18th, 19th, 20th and – inevitably – the 21st Centuries? Governments! You can’t take your eye off the fuckers for a minute which is why guns in the hands of the people is essential. Leftists have a good laugh about this claim in public, but they know it’s true.

      • 82
        The war from the north says:

        UK 2nd amendment you up for it?

        • 96
          Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1967) says:

          In theory, in modern times, the Monach and the Armed Services should protect the people from tyranny, but it wouldn’t hurt to have to have a plan B. Labour have been quite adept at introducing a soft tyranny in the last 13 years – who’s to say their ambitions have been met?

        • 246
          Mr Ned says:

          He’ll yeah! The free-est countries allow gun ownership.

      • 109
        grommit says:

        Not too sure how having a gun, or lots of guns, protects you from governments. Unless you also have an AA battery and anti tank weapons.

        • 137
          Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1967) says:

          You have noticed the insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan? You only need modest small arms widely distributed to fight off tyranny, never mind the US Marines. Is this the stuff of fantasy? Well, what happens if a recently commandeered Pakistani nuke goes off in London and the governement of the day decides it’s time to start confiscating property and intearning large swathes of the populace in camps? That’s not impossible to imagine, but it just wouldn’t be possible under plan B.

        • 196
          #)# says:

          I don’t know some apache helicopters have been brought down with old 303 endfields

          • budgiebumhole says:

            And you gleaned this information from where?

          • Glerk says:

            it will never be admitted officially but some of the lessons learnt from downing the soviet Hind were put to use in Iraq.
            http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/02/iraq.main/index.html

          • The IRA did quite well with not much more than a bunch of small arms.

            What they don’t want you to realise is that even dictators are generally unwilling to let loose the full orchestra of war on their own people. Partly this is because of the bad pr doing so would cause, partly it’s because the chaps who play the instruments come from the same population as the “enemy” and might just say “no”.

            You don’t need Apaches and nuclear weapons to take on a modern super-power, just a few guns and the will to fight harder and nastier than the other side.

        • 337
          Roger Rigid says:

          There is a vast army of gun owners in this country, the government are of course aware of this and will be wondering if us owners are perhaps somewhat mad and could be disguising it, after all, guns are meant for one thing only, killing, oh yes, some are used just for target practice but the reason is just the same, killing something or someone, will the guns be turned on them? That I suppose depends what they do, it cannot be ruled out.

        • 378
          Ken Dodds Dads Dogs Dead says:

          This government even decided that toy guns firing little plastic balls need to be regulated. Its called the Realistic Imitation Firearms act.

          Thats right, can’t own guns and can’t own anything that even looks like a damn gun. You need to get nearly half of the damn thing painted a bright colour. Never mind it couldn’t fire a real bullet.

          Class.

        • 433
          Homo Jocko says:

          Tell that to the Romanians

      • 194
        Anonymous says:

        Socialist/ communist governments to be precise. If you can justtify banning firearms then you should also ban socialists, they kill far more people

    • 368
      Muggins says:

      Try robbing a house in england and see what you bring upon yourself – untold “Rights”.

  6. 10
    Martin Day's mum says:

    Martin has gone out to play with the big boys again, and without his jumper. He should be doing his homework.
    He will catch a death of cold and I’m not looking after him again.
    When he gets back it’s straight to bed and there will be no ‘Home and away’ for him tonight.

    • 21
      Martins Teacher says:

      Mrs Day. I need to speak with you about some of Martin’s rather disturbing habits. I have managed to keep the lid on it for the time being but some of the parents of the girls involved are becoming impatient for some action to be taken.

      • 60
        Martin Day's mum says:

        I blame his father, drunken oaf, only moves off the sofa when he needs to go to the lav. We dread Friday nights when he comes home from the Working Men’s club .Working Mens club ! He hasn’t worked since 1998 when he injured his back pulling up his pants.
        Of course Martin picks up his bad habits, thinks he knows more than he does, irritating the life out of the bigger boys, they humiliate him but that doesn’t seem to bother him. Drives us mad here going on about Gordon Brown and ‘that man Cameron’. Between you and me he has pictures of Cherie Blair in his bedroom. We thing he is gay.

      • 111
        grommit says:

        disturbing habits?

        He’s got the crotchless PVC nun outfits on again.

      • 248
        Educashon, Educashin, Edukashun says:

        Let’s just hope you are not Martin’s English teacher.
        Your punctuation is appalling.

    • 88

      Dear Mrs Day

      I notice that Martin’s hair is getting a little long. please make sure to arrange for him to have a proper haircut before Palm Sunday.
      I realise that some of the day pupils have a propensity to emulate their long haired heroes but Martin should be reminded that Lenin was a baldy and Stalin only allowed his moustache to grow long. The long haired revolutionaries were all failures.

      Also Mrs day, it is CCF week and even lilly livered cowards and namby pamby softies are required to fire 12 rounds at the Old Barn.
      This tradition goes back to Wellington’s time and is essential to toughening up the boys. Especially the mollycoddled ones.
      So please make sure that Martin does not have a socialist workers rally or an outbreak of conscientious objection or some other excuse on Thursday.
      He can hold the .303s for one of his braver classmates if he must and even wear his yellow and pink earmuffs that he sported during the recent snows.
      But he must attend.

      yours sincerely
      Martin Day’s house master.

      Bing Quango DFC DSO {Wing commander – retired}
      Haethsome school for young ladies
      Ascot.
      Berks

  7. 11
    QWERTY says:

    So how many more Coroners have to blame deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq on a lack of equipment (hence money) yet the BBC bummers still spin that the gay one eyed Scottish homosexual had nothing to do with it?

    • 27
      .243 Win says:

      According to the Justice Ministry’s web site, Coroners are “independent judicial officers”.

      So. Independent people trying to uphold the cause of law.

      Guaranteed to be hated and ignored by ZaNu in equal proportions. They make the laws, they don’t get law applied to them. Particularly not by independent people….

      • 55
        Harry the Camel says:

        “independant judicial officers” !!! Can’t have that !

        Time for Straw to pass his Inquests in Secret, as Directed by Ministers, law then.

        Wait for it to slip on the statute book this summer if ZaNu get back in.

      • 85
        The war from the north says:

        its justice day soon were you can pretend to be arrested,no mention that your dna will be stored

    • 51
      lenko says:

      Gay homosexulas? Quick nurse — the screens!

    • 277
      bbc news editor says:

      It is all Ashcroft’s fault !

      We’re not sure of the details yet but we are trying to cobble something together for the 10 o’clock news.

      • 514
        A Campbell, Labour Press Office says:

        we are trying to cobble something together for the 10 o’clock news

        Will you fuck!

        Who the fucking fuck do you think you fucking are? A fucking independent fucking broadcaster?

        You’ll fucking wait until I fucking tell you what to fucking say. Now get back in your fucking box and finish that fucking article about the fucking Tories being responsible for fucking global warming, the fucking recession and that fucking earthquake in Haiti that killed all those fucking nignogs.

  8. 12
    Clarence says:

    To think that this is the newspaper that actually employed a real-life jihadist.

    Is it true that the Guardian is going to ask readers to write letters to voters in marginal constituencies, pleading with them to vote Labour?

    • 15
      righty right wing (mrs) says:

      I dont know why the Guardian is so anti Tory.

      Its not like the Tories will cut the advertising monies that the taxpayers keeps the Guardian afloat with, is it?

    • 20
      Number 6 says:

      Graduiad journalists had a circle jerk (in a non homophobic, gender neutral fashion) when the twin towers where brought down. They hate all that the liberal western democracies stand for, while keening on about wimminms rights, gay rights etc etc all of which are dear to the hearts of the ‘religion of peace’ as demonstrated by stoning women to death in football stadiums and stringing gays up on cranes.

      • 172
        Susie says:

        Their Editor Alan Rusbridger was at school with my brother at Cranleigh which, at the time, had the most expensive school fees in the country… what a waste of money that was.

        • 184
          Susie says:

          Forgot to add Cranleigh had a very well subscribed corps and went on exercises most holidays as did young Alan himself.

          Labour/Guardian hypocrisy again.

      • 381
        Call me Infidel says:

        Rumour has it Michael Shite was the pivot man.

  9. 14
    Sir William Waad says:

    Had a great time at Mikhail Kalashnikov’s 90th last November. The old boy is a great admirer of Churchill; says the Soviet Union had to fight the Nazis, though it didn’t want to; Churchill could have got out of the war but risked everything to beat them. He put his longevity down to drinking good vodka and chasing bad girls!

  10. 16
    Roger O. Thornhill says:

    Guns don’t kill. People do!

    • 31
      Steve Expat says:

      Exactly!

      • 57
        Sting's beard says:

        Generally speaking when people get killed it tends to be by Governments. Therefore the less government you have the better it is for everybody. Simples!!

        • 120
          Old Nick Heavenly(real dimwit) says:

          Well, Sting’s beard, it has been a very cold and sunny day here in the snow covered Ardennes, the jewel of the non-country.

          Mrs H is getting a little tiresome though, with her grinning reminders of how I used to proudly tell her that United Britney was one of the least corrupt countries in the world.

          She will be beating me with this one for as long as I am foolish enough to read english newspapers!

          Otherwise, compared to Britney, led by that charming, honest financial genius, Brownthing, then it is paradise here!

        • 201
          toothbrush CD rack says:

          Governments banning guns is a sure sign of their lack of confidence in their own ability.

    • 38
      concrete pump says:

      Guns don’t kill people,

      Rappers do.

    • 116
      Sir William Waad says:

      It’s a gun and a person together that kill people. No person > gun just lies there harmlessly. No gun > the worst the person can do at a distance is shout at the other guy.

      Simple reasoning for very hard for some to take in.

      • 494
        YBF Supporter says:

        No gun > the worse the person can do is punch/kick/stab/stone/beat/bomb/run over/hang/machete the other guy.

        People will kill each other with sticks and stones. What do you propose? A ban on those as well?

    • 260
      toothbrush CD rack says:

      Roger O. Thornhill says:
      March 9, 2010 at 4:56 pm

      Guns don’t kill. People do!

      AND GOVERNMENTS!

  11. 17
    Jimmy says:

    “it seems somewhat pathetic for him to be trying to distance himself.”

    More or less pathetic than Blaney taking his blog down for a spring clean?

    It’s taking him a long time to edit out the embarrassing stuff. Wouldn’t it have been quicker to start a new one?

    • 484
      Sir Everard Digby says:

      No less pathetic than trying to link it to a claim that the handgun law will be repealed. Don’t you think?

  12. 18
    Comintern says:

    Strange how the handgun ban preceded an explosion in handgun violence/deaths in London, Birmingham, and Manchester.

    It is now easier and cheaper to buy illegal handguns than before the ban, and they are far more widespread.

    And I am no military expert, but AK-47s are not handguns are they?

    • 42
      .243 Win says:

      AK47 types were banned after the Hungerford massacre – technically they’re assault rifles. There is a thing known as an AMD65 that’s effectively a handgun version.

      If you want one of the more perverse effects of the handgun legislation, British target pistol shooters for the 2012 Olympics have to train outside the UK (most currently train in Switzerland) and they can’t claim any public funding as their activities are considered illegal in the UK.

      • 62
        Sting's beard says:

        So are they going to change the law in 2012 just to pressent a false front to the world and make out that Britain is a liberal country. Otherwise how can it still be an Olympic event and take place in the UK SERIOUS QUESTION

      • 89
        Gulf says:

        But you can still have a barret .50

        • 235
          Steve Expat says:

          I’m sure that our friends from 22 Regiment and based in Hereford have plenty of 50-calibre weaponry, but you or I are certainly not allowed one without a fucking good reason!

          • Call me Infidel says:

            Steve all you need to do is join a rifle club, pass their probation and have a decent steel cabinet for storage. The problem with a 50 cal is where you can use one. Not too many ranges are cleared for one, but you can own pretty much any target rifle you like provided you are not an ex con or loony.

          • Tattooed_Arry says:

            50cal a target rifle!!!!!
            By the way, the Barret range of sniper rifles ,that respondents are writing about, are available only to Government Agencies not to private individuals. The situation may have changed since I last visited their site. But I doubt it, considering the panic that ensued when the IRA were rumoured to have obtained one of them.

          • Call me Infidel says:

            An acquaintance of mine in the UK has a 50cal target rifle he shoots at an army range. I don’t know if its a Barret, but it uses the Browning 50calibre round and takes about half a pound of powder per shot! He has to give them notice of when he intends to use it. Most ranges are not cleared for it as the energy level is too high, but there are civilians in Britain who own them.

          • Gulf says:

            I rest my case

      • 208
        toothbrush CD rack says:

        The Hungerford massacre with the paedos in government connections, you mean?

    • 44

      The AK – 47 is the most reliable assault rifle ever invented, even the chinese AKM is a brilliant copy.

      • 245

        Luckily Bob Geldof bought a few million for the starving Africans. They’ve never looked back since

        • 392
          rick says:

          They certainly put them to good use. There aren’t nearly so many hungry Africans now.

          • Call me Infidel says:

            I suspect there are actually a damn sight more now than thirty years ago. The one thing they don’t run out of in Africa is people.

    • 97
      Marchamont Needham says:

      not strange at all – the handgun ban act legalised “brococks” – hence the massive rise in handgun crime.

      • 135
        .243 Win says:

        Brococks come under Section 1 of the Firearms act – you need a cert.

        Not that licensing requirements prevent chavs and criminal types from getting hold of handguns anyway…

        • 199
          Chav says:

          Brococks.ha wer u coming from mate.what would u like

        • 224
          Marchamont Needham says:

          Pay attention at the back.

          the 1998 act took CO2 airguns off ticket – they were re-classified as being just like any other airgun. An explosion of converted Brococks ensued.

          It was such a disaster they passed another act to make them section 1 again a few years later.

          Those who had them at that point could either apply for an FAC to keep them or hand them in. In reality most of them vanished.

          • “an explosion of converted Brococks ensued”

            Not surprised – firing a real round through the cheap barrel of a Brocock is a very good way to play fast and loose with your fingers.

            Fuck ‘em – I’ll stick with my crossbow.

          • Erm, pay attention at the back.

            Brococks used compressed air, not CO2, you pillock. Thus, they have always been off ticket, just like any other PCP.

    • 258
      Mr Ned says:

      Outlawing guns has exactly same effect as only allowing criminals to have guns, leaving the law abiding majority unarmed and at the mercy of armed criminals.

      It is fucking idealogical insanity.

      • 310
        the Duck of york says:

        you can make a fucking cannon from a scaffolding tube and some shotgun carts

      • 495
        Shauniebabes says:

        The law abiding majority never owned guns. Apart from the million or so shotgun owners you appear to have forgotten about

        • 515

          They don’t have to own guns, merely have the chance to do so.

          Check household insurance rates in US jurisdictions that have “lax” gun controls versus those that are “more responsible”.

          Also check the number of anti-gun campaigners who have the cojones to erect signs on their front lawns telling the world (and every criminal in the area) “there ain’t no guns in this house”.

          Those million shotgun owners could do the rest of the law abiding majority a great favour.

  13. 19
    Brown is a war criminal says:

    Coroner’s inquest confirms unlawful deaths of four soldiers due to LACK OF EQUIPMENT and INADEQUATE TRAINING.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8558252.stm

    Brown has blood on his hands. His moral compass is shoved somewhere up his arse.

  14. 21
    Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man says:

    Who gives a fuck about dead soldiers? Labour are gonna win the election, so fuck all you Tories and critics! We don’t give a shit what you think!

    • 65
      Sting's beard says:

      Maybe you dont, but most people on this blog do!!

    • 178
      Susie says:

      Study this photo:

      http://www.guzer.com/pictures/cat_police_dogs.jpg

      Do you feel lucky punk?

    • 261
      thick as thieves says:

      I am just about to get banned by the arch tory Guido Fawkes.
      Fawkes never gave a damn about the expenses scandal, he only used it as cover to act as a propagandist for the tories.
      now the general election is so close Guido is sweating like a rapist and the reader should expect no impariality from this place from here-on-in.
      Fawkes is a tory fifth columnist.
      end of story.
      still going to be a Labour win Guido and when that happens I will return to gloat.
      you lose, I win.
      VOTE LABOUR GUIDO IS TORY HQ STOOGE FFS
      FUCK THE TORIES VOTE LABOUR

  15. 25
    thick as thieves says:

    Lawd help me, the funk has hit me in the face and turned me every way but lose. I can’t sit down you’ll, my feets have a mind of their own. I’m standing on the edge of this bath tub singing and dancing my a– off . Somebody call the ambulance this funk is too much me

  16. 29
    Steve Expat says:

    Guido,
    What reaction were you expecting from the government whose first major Bill banned an Olympic sport in this country, as a reaction to one individual nutter and the tabloid press?

    Of course, this most useless piece of legislation (along with the Dangerous Dogs Act also under discussion today) led to no percievable decrease in gun crime – in fact the evidence suggests the entire opposite, with guns now routinely available in most cities through the black market.

    When you outlaw guns, then only the outlaws will have guns…

  17. 30
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    And another thing
    That fucking slag Gill Marshall Andrews up the “Gun control network”
    Its 3 people , and the fucking whore was invited to adress the Labour party conference about banning all guns, the stupid blamange face slag even wants to ban toy guns
    If guns are so bad why do all these fuckers like Blair , McMental and five bellies surround themselves with people carrying them when popping out for a kebab?
    An armed population is a free population

    • 35
      Steve Expat says:

      Banning then from being legitimitely held maybe, but will drop gun crime not one bit as the black market will continue to supply whatever is demanded.

      Prohibtion of anything doesn’t work against those who have no intention of conducting themselves within the law…

    • 54
      g1lgam3sh says:

      “An armed population is a free population”

      That’s their problem right there, ‘free population’ is their kryponite.

    • 66
      Sting's beard says:

      Don’t forget Flak Jacket Hattie. Can we have lots more pictures of her in her getting down with the ordinary voters costume. apparently there’s going to be an election!

    • 70
      Mrs T says:

      If they banned all guns how would Mandelscum and Cheery Blair go for a shooting weekend with the Rothschilds ???!!!

    • 92
      Gulf says:

      shoot the cow

    • 100
      Marchamont Needham says:

      and they’ve never explained their funding and never published any accounts !!!!

    • 156
      Shauniebabes says:

      With an armed population we could soon be as free as Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan.

      • 238
        Mohammed Al Tair says:

        sounds good to me brother

      • 262
        Mr Ned says:

        Or as free as Switzerland? Outside the EU dictatorship, where the government has to ask for permission from the people to introduce new contrevervial laws and where gun ownership is compulsory.

        • 327
          William Tell says:

          Switzerland is unusual in Western Europe in having a high level of gun ownership. Accurate figures are not available, as guns do not need to be registered, but most estimates say there are at least 2 million weapons in circulation, with some placing the number at twice that. The Geneva-based Small Arms Survey estimates that the country has 46 guns per 100 people, which makes it the country with the fourth-highest level of gun ownership, behind only the United States, Yemen and Finland. Even Iraq has a lower level of gun ownership, with an estimated 39 weapons per 100 people.

          As a small, neutral country, Switzerland has traditionally felt the need to maintain an armed militia, a strategy known as the “porcupine” approach — the country may be small but it has millions of deadly “quills” in the shape of its reserve soldiers.

  18. 32
    The Dirty Rat says:

    National Rail strike threat
    Rail passengers are facing the threat of the first national strike in 16 years with maintenance workers and signalers threatening to walk out

    Here we go, here we go, here we go. Fatcher out ………….

    Hang on a mo.

    • 48
      Lanchester Daily News says:

      We wont notice the difference. We have “Rail Buses” most weekends on our line anyway so what difference Rail Buses Mon – Friday other than it taking three times as long to get anywhere.More congestion on the M6……That’s why they’ve been working overtime and through the night to make the hard shoulder into a fourth lane to ease congestion ??

      • 93
        Gulf says:

        hmm so a few ell planned breakdowns could fuck the economy

        • 164
          Steve Expat says:

          The French manage to do just that on a regular basis. I’m sure the same would hold here, only takes a couple of trucks stuck with their brakes on…

  19. 33
    Dangerous Dave says:

    If Dave commits to overturning the handgun ban he will have my vote.

    • 114
      The ERA says:

      vote for us and we will abolish government gets mine

    • 404
      Call me Infidel says:

      Too many bed wetting Liberals in Britain for that to happen I fear. The people can’t be trusted with guns in a socialist paradise.

  20. 34
    streamfisher says:

    When I see somebody in a suit and trilby and clutching a tommy gun it reminds me of the gangsters now running this country.

  21. 36
    lard-arsed, benefit-scrounging layabout single mother of five, sorting out tonight's tea says:

    Two large fish, ten chicken nuggets, a meat and potato pie, cheese and onion pastie, five southern fried drumsticks, a portion of donor meat, two large curry sauce, one mushy peas, two pea fritters, three saveloys,five large portions of chips with salt and vinegar, and six large cokes.

  22. 37
    DV8 says:

    Funny that. If the tories promised to repeal the ban I might actually vote for them

    That’s unlikely to happen, so at least I can cast my vote away from Gordo and Tony-lite with a clear conscience

  23. 39
    Martin Day says:

    Chill out and just smoke the weed…Fuck those Politicans..Enjoy Mr Brown and his front bench at PMQ’s and wow what a gig…We got stoned on Nepalese Temple balls and it was Heaven,What a day.

  24. 41
    TomTom says:

    AK 47s…I thought only young Muslims were allowed to do that and be filmed on YouTube

  25. 45
    Steve Expat says:

    A good time to remind everyone of the planned Great Repeal Bill, as first mentioned by Carswell and Hannan in The Plan, a book whose ideas are ending up as Conservative policies…

    At the top of the list are the handgun ban and the Dangerous Dogs legislation
    http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Great_Repeal_Bill
    this is on a Wiki so anyone who thinks of something they missed can add to it…

    • 67
      streamfisher says:

      Labour have come up with a solution to the dangerouse dogs problem , it is exactly the same solution that they come up with for everything,
      1) All dogs to be chipped and put on a national database (cost £100 million + and fizzle out with usual I.T. contracts fiascos).
      2) Require all dog owners to take out insurance policies, this will be welcomed by.. err people who sell insurance of course.
      3) Mission accomplished, the many law abiding suffer for the few again (who obviously will not chip or insure their Akita’s, Rottweillers and Pit Bull terriers).

      • 79
        Steve Expat says:

        Indeed – more government yet again.

        Will be another costly fiasco achieving nothing, as the yobs on the estates who currently don’t insure or tax their cars are unlikely to be queuing up at the post office to do the same for their dogs, are they?

        Can one not already be ‘done’ for failing to control an animal in public?

        Let’s enforce the rules we have already, rather than introducing hundreds more…

        • 101
          estate dweller says:

          my Glock sez fuck off

        • 150
          Musing says:

          10% of motors without insurance in UK.

          0% in Germany

          Reason: Number plates remain public property and cannot be made outside licensed workshops (usually opposite the license office) and only handed out against proof of insurance. Insurance company informs licensor of change or lapse. One letter to registered keeper, three weeks later car impounded and two weeks later crushed if fines etc not paid. (or exported via dealers to the Third World for parts). Saw a documentary on holiday.

          Wouldn’t work for dogs though ‘cos unlike cars, they breed.

          • Moley says:

            I don’t think the Germans have a database of cars or drivers not on the database.

            That’s why it’s 0%.

            If they had a queue at airports for “illegal immigrants”, they probably wouldn’t get many people in it.

          • Susie says:

            It would if they were castrated. Has an almost immediate effect on aggression and motivation to wander away from home.

          • Chav says:

            Nazi

          • Animal lib says:

            There was widespread support for animal welfare in Nazi Germany and the Nazis took several measures to ensure protection of animals. Many Nazi leaders, including Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring, were supporters of animal protection. Several Nazis were environmentalists, and species protection and animal welfare were significant issues in the Nazi regime. Heinrich Himmler made efforts to ban the hunting of animals. Göring was an animal lover and conservationist. The current animal welfare laws in Germany are modified versions of the laws introduced by the Nazis.

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_welfare_in_Nazi_Germany

            Funny old World. First environmentalists.

      • 84
        Rover says:

        As anyone thought of chipping humans and putting them on a national database.
        Save all that DNA and ID card rubbish.
        They could all be connected to sat nav so that the government will know where they are

      • 87
        Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1967) says:

        It’s all about control. These freaks increase the size of the state at every opportunity, stealing wealth from the people for themselves, their cronies and their future employers. You can suggest a hundred good reasons to roll back the state, or a thousand bad laws to repeal – they won’t listen to a thing you say.

      • 102
        Ctesibius says:

        Would insurance premium tax apply to the insurance premiums? Another nice little earner for the Government if so.

        • 183
          Steve Expat says:

          Of course – surely you didn’t think Liebour would suggest anything that didn’t involve more tax?

      • 106
        Marchamont Needham says:

        if your dog even looks at the postie that’ll be ten grand in compo then.

  26. 46
    duuh says:

    Labour government policy is that thousands of criminals have handguns but law-abiding citizens are not allowed to.

    What’s wrong with that?

  27. 47
    QWERTY says:

    Anyone else hear finally a Tory MP shove it up the arse of the BBC this morning? Graham Stuart MP dumps a steaming pile on Pravda Radio 5. About bloody time.

    “Imagine a Tory donor who’d bought a company, run its pension fund into the ground, bought the assets back for pennies in the pound, who became a privy counsellor even though he wasn’t qualified while personally funding the leader’s leadership bid – they (sic) would be a massive story and yet somehow the BBC runs day after day on Lord Ashcroft, who as far as I can see has done nothing wrong, and gives Labour an easy ride. It takes me back to the tales we had of the champagne bottles in 1997 and I’m afraid the BBC remains biased and fails to ask the proper questions of those who are currently in power.”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r9823

    Starts about 12 minutes in, hat tip to biased BBC website

    • 59
      .243 Win says:

      Victoria Derbyshire. Typical institutionalised Beeboid shrew whose reportage is so crap it gets slated by other Beeb luvvies (John Humphries : “Her comments were idiotic and flippant. She should be ashamed of herself…..grotesquely irresponsible and stupid”).

      • 62
        QWERTY says:

        The BBC are all shit bags.

        • 326
          MadArthur says:

          close the bbc

          victoria derbyshite is a crettin and yet in receipt of our money – is this what we want for our children?

          get rid of the bbc

    • 64
      Steve Expat says:

      Fucking Brilliant! I think we may hear more from Mr Stuart in the coming weeks.

      Guido, there’s several choices for a quote of the day in that interview!

      • 177
        BBC Editor says:

        You won’t. After that little outburst, we will ensure that he is never heard again on our airwaves.

    • 68
      The Dirty Rat says:

      Replay ‘not available at this time’ ???

    • 80
      Sting's Beard says:

      Why do the BBC not mention the funding Michael Foot used to reguarly receive from the KGB!!

      • 161
        Down with Brown! says:

        Because the BBC used to receive payments from the KGB. It’s not called Pravda for nothing.

        • 294
          COMMUNISTS! COMMUNISTS!! COMMUNISTS!!! COMMUNISTS! COMMUNISTS! COMMUNISTS! COMMUNISTS! COMMUNISTS! says:

          • stilyagi_air_corps says:

            GEORGE W. BUSH!!! NEO-CONS!!! ZIONISTS!!! SARAH PALIN!!! LIZARDS!!!
            JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSS!!!

            You show me your documentary proof, and I’ll show you mine.

            PS. David Icke don’t count.

      • 455
        Tattooed_Arry says:

        Or the three former Union Bosses who were outed by “The Spectator” as paid KGB assets – where are they now?
        Sitting as Labour Peers in the House of Lords.

  28. 49
    caesars wife says:

    Are you making the case fawkes that being pleasing and fawning gets you on in politics more than sound idealogy ?? Good grief with that attitude ypu might think that it has become a club for troughers !

  29. 52

    Time was, a chap got no breakfast unless he was man enough to bag it.
    Mind you, the staff at Tesco Metro weren’t mighty pleased at chaps taking aim at their beautifully laid out shelves of cornflakes

  30. 69
  31. 75
    The war from the north says:

    arm scousers and its sorted.

  32. 76
    The Rev Ian Paisley says:

    Having a few firearm certificates around the place never did me any harm.

  33. 78
    toothbrush CD rack says:

    They think that disarming them turns potential wolves into sheeople.
    Didn’t work in various other totalitarian countries though.

    Now they are even scared we’ll turn our dogs on them.

    • 91
      Mr Slater's Parrot says:

      SSKRRRRRRAAAWWKK!!! (foam) (slaver) (peck)

      • 107
        AC1 says:

        BOOM {flying feathers} {blissful silence}

      • 121
        Sir William Waad says:

      • 127
        streamfisher says:

        Hold that Parrot down and chip it, careful its got a nasty peck!, wots next gov?, rampant Gerbil alert at number 57 its got 3 asbo’s already so we will go in with the full swat team Tasers fully charged.

        • 489

          Oi, You keep those blimmin chips away from us parrots!

          … hang on, someone’s opened my cage, who’s that … aaargh … no … gerroff … squaaawk!

          … Anyway as I was saying, I love Gordon Brown,
          He is the only man for the job, he is my hero, doing what has to be done, …clunking fist … my hero … vote labour … dribble wurble blurble …

  34. 112
    Lord Manhandlybum says:

    I’ve got a right greasy poll someone could climb onto.

  35. 115
    BillyBob - Stop immigration, reduce crime !! says:

    Labour’s Dirty War……….

    A bit two faced considering Labour’s dubious and illegal wars over the past 13 years and the trail of death they have left behind them !!

    • 118
      BillyBob - Stop immigration, reduce crime !! says:

      Of course no mention of the dubious and secretive activities of acolytes linked to the Blair Faith Foundation !!

  36. 117
    Sir William Waad says:

    What exactly is the Young Britons’ Foundation? Is it anything my mad great-great-uncle Sir Roderick Spode’s Blackshorts?

    • 146
      streamfisher says:

      Are you sure? your revered ancestor (and I have done some extensive research) made some mention of a Black Thongs movement in correspondence recently revealed under the 200 year freedom of information act, this sadly did not then catch on as a serious political force, in many ways he was ahead of his time.

  37. 119
    shooting party says:

    For some reason lefties have always had an aversion to the plebs having guns, especially since the Ceausescus found out what the people really thought of them.

    • 133
      Cato Street Conspirator says:

      Or as SBS puts it below: ‘The conservatives have a terrible record on banning firearms, it was the conservatives that banned semi-auto rifles in 1987-88.
      It was the conservatives who banned full-bore pistols in 1996-97.’ If you’re going to come on here with the grown ups perhaps you should mug up on the politics of it all first. I bet you don’t know which government first placed restrictions on private firearms. I’ll give you a clue – it was before Labour formed its first government.

  38. 122
    Margaret Beckett is not, I repeat NOT, a cunting sellout says:

    If you’re asking me what I think about the coroner’s verdict of unlawful deaths over the 4 soldiers who died in 2008, then my honest opinion is:

    I like my hanging baskets. Now fuck off.

  39. 123
    Jimmy says:

    I’m not sure pointing out that tory students back in the day used to hang out with fascist terrorist groups is the most helpful argument for the defence, but don’t let me stop you.

    • 125
      a troll in the woods says:

      “….fascist terrorist groups.”

      That’ll be ZaNuLabour then.

    • 204
      stilyagi_air_corps says:

      Yeah, like GBS and H G Wells, and most the Fabian mob, innit?

      You’re such a cretin, Jimmy.

      • 246
        Oswald Mosely Labour MP says:

        Labour supporters made good blackshirts.

        • 283
          Cato Street Conspirator says:

          Can I rephrase that for you? ‘Good Labour supporters made mincemeat of Blackshirts’. Closer to the truth don’t you think?

          • Plague on both your houses says:

            Family squabble

          • stilyagi_air_corps says:

            Good Germans fought against Hitler, too. Honest, guv!

          • I think you missed the point; Labour supporters and the LABOUR MP Oswald Mosely left the labour party in a strop to create the blackshirts.

            Blackshirts = Labour, the only difference is one is red, the other red and black.

  40. 124
    QWERTY says:

    BBC trying to smear the Tories again. On the 6PM news why did the beeboid fag reporting from Stormont ‘suggest’ that because the Tories have a pact with the UUP the Tories might have wanted them to vote no?

    Try reporting on Lord Paul you fucking BBC wankers

    • 160
      Down with Brown! says:

      Or how about reporting Labour’s fucking awful balance of trade. Exports plunge again, despite the pund going through the floor. So much for Darling and Brown’s export-led recovery.

    • 451
      Don't trust Al-Beeba says:

      It was that smirking tw*t Lansdale…only doing Liebour bidding…saving his skin!

  41. 126
    S.B.S. says:

    The conservatives have a terrible record on banning firearms, it was the conservatives that banned semi-auto rifles in 1987-88.
    It was the conservatives who banned full-bore pistols in 1996-97.
    I stopped voting for them because of that, I will only vote again when they do repeal these stupid laws.

    • 179
      The Admiral says:

      The ban included .22 didn’t it. Or was I had…

      • 190
        S.B.S. says:

        Conservatives banned full-bore, then when labour came in in 1997 they banned .22,
        But the conservatives put on such tight controls on .22 shooting thatonly about two ranges would have existed in the country.

    • 193
      The Admiral says:

      Also I think it was fully auto rifles that were banned, as .22 semi-auto rifles are currently permited.

      • 230
        Marchamont Needham says:

        Fully auto rifles have been banned since 1922 (S5). The Hungerford act banned fullbore self-loading rifles and I think fullbore pump action rifles, though not fullbore lever action rifles.

        And it’s always worth remembering – Cullen did not recommend a ban, he only wanted disassembly. The handgun ban was pure electioneering by Labour, with the Tories responding in kind. Bastards!

      • 233
        S.B.S. says:

        Full auto firearms have been banned since 1936 in the U.K.
        Semi auto full-bore rifles were banned after Hungerford 1987, due to the assholes Hurd & Hogg Douglasses both!
        .22 semi-auto rifles are still allowed in the U.K. at present,
        Not a lot of fun for someone truly interested in many types of firearms.
        In fact you have more freedom in some marxist communist countries regarding firearms, this country is crap.

        • 376
          Out of my cold dead hand says:

          .22 semi auto and single shot rifles
          38,44,9mm etc, single shot rifles and lever actions.
          12gauge,double or single barrel, semi auto and pump limited to 2/3 rounds in tube mag.
          303,7.62etc in bolt action high velocity rifles.
          Revolvers with about an 18inch bar welded to the butt and a Colt Buntline specials, classed as ‘Carbines’ not pistols.
          That is the variety of firearms you can own more or less, as a private citizen with the right certificates and safe storage.
          Now get out to your local cop shop and apply for your licence before they ban them buggers.

          • Out of my cold dead hand says:

            Sorry,
            There are obviously different bore shotguns other than 12bore but same rules apply I think.

    • 511
      Archie says:

      So here’s something you might find interesting.

      http://www.thehomegunsmith.com/

  42. 128
    Bob Page says:

    I would welcome the reopening of the debate on handguns. I would also like to see the 100 year D notice on the Dunblane massacre lifted.

    • 499
      S.B.S. says:

      Yes me too, we were promised a fair enquiry, and then they put a 100 year clamp on things.
      They wanted an excuse to ban things and did, I wonder if Hamilton had used a pair of Purdey’s or Holland & Holland they would have banned them?
      Hypocrisy.

  43. 129
    The ERA says:

    Molon Labe

  44. 131
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    Dear oh dear. What is it they call little twerps like this in Italy? Vitelloni.

  45. 132
    Babushka on banana phone says:

    Handguns should be banned. Too many idiots out there.

    • 152
      Steve Expat says:

      but the idiots still have them – while our Olympic athletes have to train abroad…

      Prohibition doesn’t work – the Americans realised that in the 1930s

    • 174
      toothbrush CD rack says:

      Just because Police are too dumb to have them, or Tasers, doesn’t mean only criminals should have them.

  46. 136
    Bored says:

    Guido care to clarify what warzone you visited in your student days I’m intrigued…

  47. 139
    Gordon Brown is a war criminal says:

    I have blood on my hands. Because it is the right thing to do.

  48. 140
    Babushka on banana phone says:

    Guido was in the Boer war.

  49. 142
    Anonymous says:

    OT – recorded message from the Inland Revenue that they’re on industrial action !? Did I miss that in the press somewhere ?

  50. 143
  51. 147
    Shauniebabes says:

    Isn’t it a bit dangerous having a depressive alcoholic with a machine gun ?

    • 154
      Jo says:

      Alastair Campbell hasn’t got a machine gun.

    • 159
      Alki Ali says:

      What did you call me?

    • 351
      Fotoarchiv says:

      It’s a Nazi propaganda photo montage. Depicting Churchill as a Chicago gangster complete with ‘Tommy’ gun.

      It ‘backfired’ (pun intended) in Britain and was taken as a compliment.

      Funny old world.

  52. 149
    Irish Republican Army Volunteer says:

    Totally agree with this post Guido.
    100%.

  53. 151
    Ed says:

    At least the Tories have now come out and made clear that they will not support Labour’s proposals to harass, tax, and fine law-abiding dog owners when they become the next government.

    So stuff that up your fat arse Gordon, you dog-hating, English-hating piece of shit.

    • 168
      Ed says:

      It’s already the law for certain breeds, like pit bulls, to be insured, chipped, licenced etc but that law is rarely enforced.

      These latest proposals from Labour are simply to attack, tax, and penalise law abiding and responsible dog owners while continuing to let the chavs and muzlem dog-fighting gangs to do what they like.

      I’m glad the Tory’s Nick Herbert has come out against it.

    • 169
      JC says:

      hear hear, fuck Labour and their creeping Stasi police state

      • 171
        Down with Brown! says:

        Gordon Brown has taxed every working person in Britain to death, now he’s going to tax animals to death too.

        • 201
          non-dom bashing fair for all says:

          And there’s the new Death Tax as well.

        • 229
          Susie says:

          My Labrador’s health & third party insurance costs £24 a month… more than the annual road tax.

          • Petrolhead says:

            I’ll bet fuel and maintenance set you back a bit as well. At least Labradors don’t need new tyres every 20,000 miles.

          • Moobyrak says:

            The Toyota labrador is always breaking down

          • Susie says:

            Food’s about a fiver a week, having one’s hot, tired feet licked — priceless.

  54. 153
    Down with Brown! says:

    Has Tony asked is best buddy W to start making life difficult for Cameron?

    • 158
      Al says:

      Whoever thought Dubya Bush and the Guardian would end up getting together to smear Cameron. Strange bedfellows, eh?

      • 170
        Down with Brown! says:

        Dubya supports Labour for their sterling work in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is also impressed at their ambition at rigging election. W’s team manipulated the election in one state in 2000 but Labour’s trying to do it across a whole fucking country this year.

        • 226
          xx says:

          George Bush is just helping out his fellow neo-cons and stooges of Israel in the Labour Party.

          Surely there’s no harm in that?

      • 452
        A1 says:

        Dubya is a filthy marxist communist socialist new world order banker stooge

  55. 155
    AlQaeda Member EU Division says:

    I’m with the paddy on this one.
    Totally agree with this post Guido.
    Arm the youth, right on man!
    You sound like our kind of guy, fancy joining?
    Maybe you could do a bit of propaganda for us?

    • 162
      JBC says:

      Labour’s policy is to make it easy for criminals to have as many handguns as they like, while making it illegal for the rest of us to own anything more than an air pistol.
      And I hear they plan to make air pistols illegal before too long.

      • 198
        Wazim says:

        Long as I can still get my Nitro-Fertiliser and Hydrogen Peroxide from the local shops it wont cramp my style too much.

        • 475

          Mixing the two might, though – you may wish to vary your recipes and use either one or the other.

          On the other hand, if you’re called Wazim, go right ahead…

    • 163
      AK47 this says:

      I would have thought your lot were already well armed mate. Time for us natives to have a go.

    • 186
      toothbrush CD rack says:

      Teaching kids to shoot teaches them responsibility, FACT.

      • 264
        Gun in my pocket says:

        Lets face it ragheads will think twice about getting on a bus or train and trying to blow it up if everyone from little joey to old granny is packing heat.

        Why do you think they never managed a 7/11 style attack in the USA.

        • 423
          AC1 says:

          The US Not having a welfare state does tend to make it harder to setup Islamic colonial enclaves, as muslims then tend to need to deal with the community.

          • if truth be told says:

            Immigration and the Welfare State do not function. Quite right AC1.

            It’s either or.

            Welfare States only work in societies which are stable and homogenous,,which have the necessary social trust and agreement. Immigration wrecks the compact. Immigrants have no incentive to move out of subsidised ghettos and parallel societies emerge. You can see this all over Europe.

            America has always been an immigration society, and absence of welfare spurred the new arrival to make efforts to pull off his immigrant coat and work himself out of ‘Ellis Island’. That used to be Americas strength, but sheer numbers have now overwhelmed the States ‘carrying capacity,’ and cultural shifts are taking place.

        • 491
          Shauniebabes says:

          Because American gun owners are far more successful at killing Americans than Al-Queda will ever be. So whats the point ?

      • 497
        sockpuppet #4 says:

        I read that slightly wrong.

        “Teaching kids to shoot teachers”

  56. 175
    Steve Expat says:

    O/T

    Congratulations to David Masters, the Wiltshire Coroner with the balls to deliver a verdict of Unlawful Killing, along with a devatating critique of the MoD for allowing four brave soldiers to die in a vehicle designed for 1980′s Belfast.

    Any bets that he will the next target for Liebour smears?

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7406954/Cpl-Sarah-Bryant-unlawfully-killed-in-Afghanistan-after-inadequate-training.html

    • 181
      nell says:

      I hope that verdict means that the families of those four can now sue aintbustinagut and his labour chums under the Duty of Care Act for criminal negligence.

      • 250
        streamfisher says:

        Did you hear Bob on the Beeb breakfast?, three minute interview and at least 30 y’ knows, y’know, y’know, no Ainsworth I don’t fucking ‘you Know’ If wanted any sense I would be better asking Wayne Rooney about Afghanistan…. you know, FFS…. that so called fucking cabinet minister thinks a snatch land rover is called a Terry and plays for Chelsea.

    • 333
      Moobyrak says:

      did’nt hear that on the beeb

  57. 180

    My fellow Britlanders, I have given a guarantee to your Prime Mister, Herr Sarkozy, not to invade Irishland before the general elections. So you can rest in peace for now.

  58. 185
    sarahs ginger growler says:

    aren’t we killing enough people in afghanistan?

    bombs,grenades,rifles.no need to goto the u.s when you can do it for free with my courageous hero leading the charge………..(from the bunker,of course)

    no equipment too costly for our kids!

  59. 188
    Anonymous says:

    Following the discovery of CCTV cameras in school changing rooms and toilets, Sky said:

    In 2007 it was revealed schools had fingerprinted thousands of primary school children without their parent’s consent.
    The Department for Children, Schools and Families later ruled that if schools want to obtain and store biometric data from children, consent is not required from parents.

    How fucking scary is it that your kid’s school can take your kids’ fingerprints and dna and store it in a database without even fucking asking?

    I’ve told my kid not to allow them to do it if they ask him, and to tell his teacher to talk to his parents. I told him to tell his teacher that if they try then his dad’ll sue them for assault.

    • 205
      Chav says:

      Teacher will be bundled into transit van and taken to secluded place.rest censored

    • 215
      JL says:

      WTF are they doing with CCTV in bogs and changing rooms. No wonder so many pervs go into teaching, and no wonder most of them vote for perv-friendly Labour

      FFS!

      • 275
        Look behind the motives says:

        More female than male teachers in this country.

        Still think modern feminism is all about empowering females? or subverting them to lesbianism as the will of lesbian feminists who have infiltrated and warped the ideology.

      • 336
        Moobyrak says:

        I support the lil darling who kidnapped the 15 year old,the lucky little bastard.it never happend in my dreams when i was 15,sex lessons for real.

    • 386
      Anonymous says:

      I would argue this School and those responsible for installing these cameras may already have committed a criminal offence. Look at it this way, if you were to enter a toilet used by unsuspecting children and install a camera and were caught, what do you think would happen?

      Just because its a school doesnt make it right.The excuse tendered by the Headmaster is typical of the unthinking robotic health and safety/data protection fanatics who now thrive in the public services.

      I would also have serious reservations about any teachers who supported this move and would wonder what their real motivations were!!!

      Disgraceful.

  60. 191
    Sinn Fein says:

    Does David Cameron stand for anything?

    • 203
      Steve Expat says:

      He stood for election as leader of his party – somewhat more than other party leaders that one might care to mention.

    • 222
      Royalist says:

      The National Anthem.

    • 239
      Anonymous says:

      Getting rid of Gordon Brown and stopping him destroying this great country.

    • 270
      sockpuppet #4 says:

      proctology

    • 292
      nell says:

      Protecting the rights of the individual.

      Curtailing labour’s big brother invasion of family life.

      Promoting the family.

      Protecting and Supporting Soldiers on the Front-Line.(****)

      Cutting the Deficit as opposed to labour’s Spend!Spend!Spend!(***)

      Reforming the House of Lords (Inevitable) – (Please cameron make it a fully elected chamber to get rid of u+ddin,n+oon,martin,sugar,p++aul,mi*ittal and all the other dross)

      • 303
        two warmongers don't make a right says:

        (****) protecting them with invincibility shields after Dave runs out to Afghanistan to kill all the naughty Taliban himself with his bare hands

        the Afghan war will all be over by May 6th thanks to Dave’s brave stance in not opposing it and everyone will forget all about it

        • 397
          nell says:

          No! You just have to give them the body armour, helicopters for transport and medivac, protected vehicles, weapons that fire properly and on-site medical support.

          That’s the minimum that a decent government would make sure they had.

          THIS government has never provided ANY of those things?! Why???!!!

          • two warmongers don't make a right says:

            because Brown is a warmonger who desn’t care about dead troops
            just like Dave

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  62. 211
    Manchester Labour says:

    Just heard the budget will be on March 24th. Brown will announce it in a speech tomorrow.

    Don’t expect sockpuppet Darling to write it though.

    • 223
      Dating game says:

      March 24th 2010?

      Or 2011?

    • 224
      G says:

      Spend, spend, spend, and fuck tomorrow.

    • 240
      Steve Expat says:

      Source for that?

      The date for the Budget will be annouced by Darling, if Broon’s announcing something tomorrow then it’s probably the election for April 8th – let’s fucking hope so!

      • 479
        D L George says:

        Yeah, but this is the guy who thinks Spain’s in the G20, believes He used to head the IMF and let’s not forget the ‘I saved the world’ fiasco.

        He’s as mad as a f*cking mad thing from mad town on planet mad.

    • 269
      sockpuppet #4 says:

      indeed. you can piss off sweety.

      I’m too busy with me Limoncello tonight.

  63. 212
    David Cameron says:

    I can do speeches without notes.
    Can I run the country now?

    • 217
      David Davis says:

      No!! Fuck off and let someone who can.

    • 221
      The BBC says:

      No, we want Gordon to stay in charge.

      • 227
        Sorry BBC But Wish Will Not Come True says:

        Well you better talk to Nick Clegg then. He’s not having it.
        Brown’s out on his arse if it’s a hung parliament.
        The Liberal Democrats don’t want anything to do with the c’unt.

      • 232
        nel says:

        I’ll just bet the beeb want gordon to stay in power!

        They know that if cameron wins the election their biased rubbish reporting, champagne glugging days are over!

        Robinscum, as someone aptly called him on here today, is very clearly spinning for labour at the moment, because he’s trying to save his own skin!!!

  64. 218
    nel says:

    Let me get this straight. Earlier today I heard gordon shrilly accusing cameron of ‘derailing the peace process in Northern Ireland ‘ because the UUP, the tories distant cousins in NI, were saying they were going to vote against devolution of police and justice powers.

    Labour piled on the hysterics – NI was going to descend into chaos if the UUP didn’t vote for the bill and it would all be cameron’s fault.

    Then, horror of horrors,the UUP stuck to their threat and voted against the devolution of powers. The bill went through with a majority all the same, as gordon and his shrill, over excitable ministers knew it would.

    And then gordon issues a statement saying ” this marks the final end to decades of strife”

    And wait for it! Where’s the chaos that gordon promised with his doom and gloom hysterics? NI has just undergone a normal democratic process, +yawn+ their parliament voting for a bill , some votes for and some against. As expected, the majority vote won the day. The ‘return of civil war’ that gordon was prophesying this morning has not materialised.

    gordon and co are beginning to look increasingly deranged – abandoning the normal day to day management of the country, they are chasing around after photo-ops, imaginary scandals they can stick on the opposition, and non-stories that they hope the beeb will soup up to smear cameron and their other opponents.

    Frankly, labour and the beeb are very close to becoming a laughing stock!!

    • 272
      nel says:

      Modded. What a nuisance. Let’s try again.

      Let me get this straight. Earlier today I heard gordon shrilly accusing cameron of ‘ endangering the peace process in Northern Ireland ‘ because the UUP, the tories distant cousins in NI, were saying they were going to vote against devolution of police and justice powers.

      Labour piled on the rhetoric – NI was ‘on the brink’ if the UUP didn’t vote for the bill and it would all be cameron’s fault.

      Then, oh dear, the UUP stuck to their threat and voted against the devolution of powers. The bill went through with a majority all the same, as gordon and his shrill, over excitable ministers knew it would.

      And then gordon issues a statement saying ” this marks the final end to decades of strife”

      And wait for it! Where’s the ap+oc+alypse that gordon hysterically promised?

      NI has just undergone a normal democratic process, +++yawn+++

      Their parliament has voted on a billl, some members for and some against. As expected, the majority vote won the day. And where is this morning’s prophesy from gordon that the NI faces meltdown if UUP vote against the devolution of justice and police powers?

      gordon and co are beginning to look increasingly silly. They have abandoned the normal day to day management of the country. They are spending most of their time chasing around after photo-ops, imaginary scandals they can stick on the opposition, and non-stories that they hope the beeb will soup up to smear cameron and their other opponents.

      Frankly, labour and the beeb are very close to becoming a laughing stock!!

  65. 243
    Labour's Final Days In Office says:

    New Labour have come to represent all that is corrupt, poisonous and venal about politics. Every Labour activist who knocks on doors during the election best be prepared to see first hand how hated their party and their grossly incompetent, criminally negligent, dishonest and corrupt leader are.

    • 249
      Staunch Conservative says:

      And Dave can give speeches without notes.
      He’s a shoe-in for PM.
      Isn’t he?

      • 253
        Labour's Final Days In Office says:

        If he’s so shit and destined to fail, why hasn’t the brave and courageous Mr Brown, author of a book on courage, called the election then? If the polls are so disastrous for the Tories, surely Brown’s got nothing to fear.

        Oh right, I forgot. He’s actually a gutless c/unt who’s scared to death of elections and can’t bear the thought of going to the country until he absolutely has to by law.

        So that’ll be June 3 then.

      • 350

        When you change your posting name you should change your message too.
        Otherwise you’re just another lightweight multiple post troll.

  66. 252
    I'll Be Back says:

    I’ll vote Tory if Cameron promises to legalize the sale of guns like this:

  67. 257
    Christy says:

    Well I’d almost given up hope,but congratulations to Graham Stuart MP for absolutely shafting that Radio 5 liebour luvvie oven Mr Paul privy councillor,about time we had someone in the Cons who give it to the totally biased Pravda lot.
    Cameron would be well advised to take note and at every opportunity carry on along these lines to show people what this bunch of Beeboid liebour arselickers are all about,they know damned well that this liebour marxist government has and still are intent on destroying the very nature of what this country used to hold dear.
    For a British government to sell the people of this country and their beliefs down the river for their own political dreams of a state/world order of total control of people is treason.
    But as Old Holborne keeps saying there are 645 of them and 66 Million of us,it’s in our hands.

    • 278
      Tears for Piers says:

      It is. And democracy has become so corrupted in this country that the ballot box is increasingly a waste of time. Labour has manipulated the electorate so that immigrants+benefit scroungers+state payroll+BBC= permanent majority and permanent power. Welcome to the USSR circa 1935.

      • 285
        DC - nob joke or knob joke? says:

        So true – a choice between Labour gerrymandering or Tory reintroduction of the property qualification.

        • 335
          South of the M4 says:

          Country needs a revolution. Where is our Cromwell?

          • Engineer says:

            Six feet under. As is King Arthur.

            Looks like we’re going to have to sort this one out ourselves. Ballot papers at the ready…..

  68. 263
    Anonymous says:

    Seem to remember a Glasgow councillor firing an AK or was it a Dragunov on his hols somewhere in the Hindu Kush.
    Don’t remember complaints about that then.

  69. 265
    Christy says:

    OT,53 Billion council pension scheme black hole,reports taxpayers alliance,£1 in every £5 of council tax being used to pour into this black hole,how the hell did this come about?.
    Who the hell are the pensions trustee’s that let this situation develop,my understanding is pension trustees are legally bound to look after pension schemes,or am I wrong on this?.

    • 288

      You’re spot on: I was involved in the problems surrounding the Lucas scheme 15 years ago, the trustees have almost exactly the same liability and duty of care towards the fund as a director does towards his company.

      • 293
        Engineer says:

        Tuscan – in your opinion, what proportion of the blame for pension fund shortfalls lies with government for it’s windfall taxes, with losses following stock market falls, with inadequate management by trustees, or other reasons?

      • 296
        Engineer says:

        Out of interest, Tuscan, where in your opinion does most of the blame lie for pension funding shortfalls?

        • 308
          Christy says:

          Engineer,it is the legal responsibility of the trustees of a pension fund to ensure that the fund is able to meet the liabilites of that fund to pensioners.

          • Engineer says:

            I just wondered how much Gordoom’s windfall taxes and stock market movements had hampered them in their duties.

            So many pension funds seem to have fallen into deficit over the last decade or so. Surely they can’t all have incompetent trustees?

          • Engineer says:

            Modded. Damned if I can see why. Try again.

            I just wondered how much Gordoom’s windfall taxes had hampered them in their duties.

            So many pension funds seem to have fallen into deficit over the last decade or so. Surely they can’t all have incompetent trustees?

          • Sad death of the final salary scheme says:

            One unfortunate side effect of quantitative easing, the Bank of England’s attempt to loosen monetary policy further, was that it was pushing down bond yields — which had the effect of boosting pension fund liabilities.

            The fallout from the implosion of US investment bank Lehman Brothers last September hit pension schemes particularly hard, with companies that filed results in December 2008 reporting an estimated £42bn of scheme losses

            Prior to the crash, the arbitrage a la Gordon Gecko meant that well funded pension schemes were targetted by corporate raiders, hedge funds et al meaning that pension funds were seen as an existential hazard for many companies and were ‘cinderalled’ to make them less tempting, plus Brown’s pension fund smash and grab.

        • 321
          South of the M4 says:

          I was a trustee of a private pension company for many years. Our role then was to ensure that the investors were performing, that fairness for all members was considered and that all legislative rules were being met. We did not design the pension scheme. Trustees since 2007 have had more power and, correct, they can be legally liable.

          Pensions are a long game and investments rise, and fall over the short term.

          Many companies took a ‘pension contribution holiday ‘ in the 90′s when markets were up. Then Brown raided the pensions; then markets took a downturn; then Brown introduced the pension protection levy (a tax on well
          managed pension schemes). Then we all started to live longer. A toxic mix but pension rules demanded that companies increased their contributions over a period to reduce the deficit. Difficult, and many pension schemes
          became the deal-breaker in many take-over discussions. Many defined benefit schemes closed. But past benefits earned could not be removed so the change to lower benefits could be phased.

          But this was the private sector. Throughout this period a pension apartheid
          was allowed to develop between the private and public sectors. Public sector pensions, funded a little differently, took none of the difficult decisions that were taken in the private sector. And successive governments have failed to tackle what has been a brewing problem for ~20 years.

          Political cowardice from both Labour and Tories, and political deceit by Brown in particular. Those are the root causes.

          • Bustaflush says:

            in broad terms a fair analysis but the killer blow was Brown’s tax changes and raid on the pensions business in total. The nature of a pension being ‘over the longer term’ allows for the ups and downs the markets experience.

    • 289
      DC - nob joke or knob joke? says:

      For once being serious (!) the answer is simples – trustees invest long term, therefore expect a large deficit in times of economic problems. This is a tired old story which will be replaced by complaints about surpluses when (if) the markets recover. And while that may be 10 years the time horizon for pension schemes is 20-30 years.

  70. 267
    Labour and Conservatives level in marginal seats says:

    Labour and the Conservatives are almost level in their battle for the marginal seats which will determine which party wins the general election, according to a new poll.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7402102/Labour-and-Conservatives-level-in-marginal-seats.html

    • 309
      nell says:

      http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2010/03/09/populus-marginals-poll-has-the-tories-just-short/

      The poll shows that based on the 2005 election – in labour seats which were won from conservatives there is now a 6.5% swing to the tories. That leaves labour , which had a majority in 2005, exposed on an even footing with the tories!

      Well that explains labour ministers increasingly hysterical and nonsensical media statements today over NI, Afghanistan, Ashworth and anything else they thought might grab headlines.

      Spin, smear and lie. Labour’s tactics for this election!!

      Never mind about the proper management of day to day government!! Labour has given up on that!!

      And never mind about our troops in Afghanistan – aintbustinagut is going to impose a News Blackout on them!!

      • 317
        stings beerd says:

        hung parliament
        you can’t say you weren’t warned by top boy nell

        • 338
          Anonymous says:

          Er, level is good for the Tories you twat.

        • 353
          nell says:

          ‘tat’ I’m disappointed in you. What happened to your support of the independents?

          I can’t help feeling that the real tat would have understood that the populus marginal poll published today shows a swing to the tories.

          I rather suspect that you are a fake tat , possibly a damian, whelan or twatson person who doesn’t have the intelligence to analyse what you are looking at.

          Come back the real tat! We miss you!!

          • nell the turnip brain says:

            The poll excluded the 50 easiest seats for the Tories but included those the party needs to win for an overall majority.

            In the key seats, Labour is still just ahead, on 38.2 per cent, down from 45.3 per cent in the 2005 election. The Tories are on 37.6 per cent, up from 31.4 per cent. This would involve a gain of 97 Labour-held seats. It is likely that the Conservatives would need up to 20 further seats from the Liberal Democrats and others for an overall majority after taking new boundary changes into account.

            your brain is a turnip nelly

          • nell says:

            We’ll wait and see. gordon hasn’t dared to call the election yet. mandy is trying to coax him to come out from under the cabinet table at the moment!!!

            When he does I suspect all those silent polls that are not producing results at the moment are going to kick into action.

          • .256 says:

            The election is on May 6th.
            Always was,always would be.

          • Nick Annanfrank says:

            I’m hoping so nell.

          • Beautiful Day says:

            People are reluctant to admit to being Tory voters, the polls are rubbish, it’s going to be a wipeout for Labour – pretty please.

  71. 280
    Anonymous says:

    Guido, this is off-topic I know, but I would like to see you blog about this story; the government quango dragging a political party into court a few weeks before an election in order to force it to admit people hostile to its reason to exist. It may be an intra-socialist quarrel, but for Labour to do this — and who can doubt such a move must have government backing — means that they are trying to win the election through the courts, not at the ballot box. Do you want to wait until expressing opposition to global warming is also illegal for a politician? Never mind what the BNP is — this is election tampering of the sort we see in the third-world. Why is there no outcry?

  72. 282
    DC - nob joke or knob joke? says:

    Having come across the YBF I am all in favour of giving them Kalashnikovs. They are, to a man (and I use the term advisedly) so retarded and generally drunk that this would be the quickest way of removing them from the gene pool.

  73. 298
    British Militia says:

    The hand gun ban should be repealed anyway. Guns provide the means of defence for life and property from assailants, and of liberty from government.

    • 306
      Trigger says:

    • 311
      Engineer says:

      That’s why the ban on handguns is very unlikely to be repealed.

      I remember reading somewhere, when the handgun ban legislation was going through, that there is a strong faction in the Home Office that believes that civil order could break down in Britain at some point, and wants all firearms, including airguns and shotguns, banned. Only the military and police would be permitted to touch – let alone carry or use – any firearm. How true this is, I do not know, but you can see how it would appeal to socialist/pacifist politicians.

      • 330
        nell says:

        You can’t imagine gordon repealing the ban can you??

        He knows he’s more unpopular than c++auces++cu!!!

        • 343
          Moobyrak says:

          you can’t spell it or an auto mod will ensue if you say the name

          • D L George says:

            What on Earth for? The modding on this site is getting weird.

            There’s a chap a few posts up who mentioned the Beanz’N'Peas party in three letters and got away with it.

            Very strange.

      • 465
        Billi says:

        The EU is expecting some kind of reaction to the final transfere of power to the union from the nation states.

        That is why disarming the civil population, identity-carding and DNAing are so important.

        Even the Conserv-it’s-self party has stopped talking about saving money by stopping ID cards. No point the Internal Action Services require these to be in place before the enactment of Union Statehood.

        The tranfere of control of military power is planned for the next five years.

    • 493
      Shauniebabes says:

      You are aware only 50,000 people owned hand guns and for target use only ?
      I doubt they’ll be as successful as US gun owners in stopping elections being stolen or large sections of the US bill of rights being ignored.

  74. 300
    effing ell says:

    The UK has donated £1m ($1.5m) to South Africa to buy condoms in a bid to combat HIV and Aids, as the nation builds up to the football World Cup.

    South Africa says it needs one billion condoms this year, anticipating extra demand from foreign football fans.

    BBC

    one million quid borrowed at what rate?

    Note:

    South Africa is a middle-income, emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; a stock exchange that is 17th largest in the world; and modern infrastructure supporting an efficient distribution of goods to major urban centers throughout the region.

    CIA Fact Book

  75. 301
    Christy says:

    Again OT,Coroner in todays inquest over the 4 soldiers killed in Stan will write to the MoD expressing concern over standard of equipment supplied to our soldiers,(God bless them).
    In response government spokesman Rammell comes up with the usual rhetoric of this disgraceful bunch of marxist propaganda merchants.
    The people of this country are now sick to the back teeth of having to endure the spectacle of young bodies being brought back,and families being seen in absolute anguish and despair at their loved one’s being taken from them.
    What the hell is this all about?,the so called politicians will tell you we are protecting you from terrorism,not true the only terrorism we have seen so far is home grown,they are walking our streets right now under the guise of all sorts of visas/permits call them what you will.
    My wife who is not into politics whatsoever wept when she saw a funeral being held in Stalybridge where she saw a father absolutely distraught at his sons funeral.
    She said to me how can we justify seeing so many young people who should be looking forward to their lives and aspirations being brought back in coffins.
    I said to her politics is a funny game it doesn’t matter to them who suffers what as long as they achieve their objectives.

  76. 302
    Irn Bru Snorter says:

    Quote [In Guido’ student days we went to actual war zones..]

    Jeezo!
    I’m impressed man!

    I don’t know much about you personally Guido apart from this very excellent Blog..

    But did you personally really go to “war zones”?
    ..and if so which and in which capacity and for what?

    Sorry if you feel I’m maybe getting at you Guido..I’m not.

    I like your stuff.

    I’m just genuinely interested.

  77. 314
    Doctor Mick says:

    I didn’t know Thatcher was a right-wing gun nut. Well I never!

  78. 325
    FF says:

    Brownite sycophant Labour MP Nick Palmer has informed http://www.politicalbetting.com that Brown will announce a March 24th budget in a speech tomorrow.

    Spend it like there’s no tomorrow!!!!

    • 354

      Speech to Reuters.
      Will the speaker ask the Plum Minister to explain why he doesn’t like attending parliament?

      • 385
        Good to hear from you again says:

        Nick i’ve been parachuted into a safe Nottingham seat but i hate all of the thieving chav Huhnes Palmer Local Labour MP

  79. 334
    Magda McTwatter says:

    “My Hero ” tweet tweet !

  80. 352
    Da Uzi 9 Millimeter says:

  81. 356
    Gordon Hoony says:

    is law and order mimicking the thompson venables trial on telly now

    • 367
      streamfisher says:

      Gordon loves the x factor the Arctic Monkeys and Sarah what’s here name, Mr Straw has gone off trial by Jury, so lets just sit back and be entertained by the BBC on prime time Saturday night, Graham Norton introduces… Paedophile of the week… vote vote vote now ( calls charged at minimum £1.50).

  82. 359
    JB says:

    Gordon Brown has launched a smear campaign against Joanna Lumley according to the front page of tomorrow’s Independent.

  83. 362
    Maggie's Thatch says:

    Blast from the past…

    • 370
      Judas Iscariot MP says:

      She was that wonderful that those behind were just contemplating the pleasure of sticking the knife in her back.
      Tories! Dontcha luv ‘em.

      • 375
        nell says:

        gordon – three labour coups in three years – how desperate is that!!

        labour don’cha love ‘em!!!

        • 382
          infamy infamy says:

          Trouble is nell, all of the cowardly shites were only carrying rubber knives.

        • 389
          Judas Iscariot MP says:

          A coup is only a coup if it works. Otherwise it’s just a busted flush.

        • 395
          Samantha Cameron says:

          I do love them nell and I might vote for them.

          • Ed Vaizey says:

            Please be quiet Samantha!
            nell says I would get fired over that today and she’s never wrong.

          • nell says:

            I sure hope not ed – time to get rid of you!!

          • nell says:

            dear sarah – samantha has more sense than you and keeps out of the limelight – she really doesn’t need photo-ops with that nokia throwing naomi. But you should keep it up, it reminds us of gordon’s aggressive bullying tendencies!!

          • David Cameron says:

            Vote for me dear please, I am the heir to Blair really!

  84. 364
    P. Mandevilson, the Eminence Greasy says:

    TWO OF THE FOUR SHITS OF HELL….

    • 369
      they both like a bit of charlie says:

      Eeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuwwww…..!!!!

    • 372
      nell says:

      massively impressed with what’s gordon’s doing!!!

      +++laugh+++

      As a middle england voter I am massively entertained by gordon’s shrill, hysterical, keystone cop, bunker mentality non-government

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    Hoony says:

    the background to the scottish tower block jumpers,lobbed.
    http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2010/03/mystery-surrounding-serge-serykh.html

    • 400
      We are fucked says:

      The marxists have well and truly taken over level in this country, so much for our security services looking out for us.

  87. 391
    Homo Jocko says:

    Fairness for all

  88. 412
    1381 says:

    All I know I loathe that Pickles.
    He is a great fat gross apology for a lib Dem posing as a Tory.
    I would party all night if he lost his seat.
    Pig in drag.
    This is the sort of MP that makes the Tories unelectable as a ‘Tory’ party.

    • 416
      Anonymous says:

      Along with Alan Duncan Francis Maude and all the others who prostitute themselves for the Murdoch shilling.
      Clear the fucking lot out.

      • 425
        David Cameron's Gynecologist says:

        Thatchers overthrow had fuck all to do with the pole tax but her growing Euro skepticism.
        After that the Conservatives have been shit to this day.
        And I weren’t a fan of Thatcher either.

        • 437
          Only One Mrs T says:

          They had to get Old Thatch out the way as she wasn’t keen on going into Iraq and quite right the EU or ECC at the time was stuffing backhanders and promise of endless money to the Tory MP’s to trough in.

          Ken Clarke still has blood on his hands from his part in the deed.

        • 438
          The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

          “Poll tax” you fucking tosser
          Maybe if we did tax the Polish we may have a chance of paying off our debts.

      • 444
        Steve Expat says:

        Alan fucking Duncan will be the ‘safest’ Tory to lose his seat – there’s a story going round that following the expenses saga several local shopkeepers in Rutland banned him from their premises.

        Also unconfirmed rumours of a well-known local indy candidate preparing to step into the ring (if you’ll excuse the pun) for the election…

    • 429
      nell says:

      The six figureheads of today’s labour, brown, balls, twatson, foulkes, mandy , aintbustinagut.

      And the six things that they are incapable of : truth, honesty, decency, financial capability, competence, care of our armed forces.

  89. 421
    Tapestry says:

    Interest rates set to rise in the USA -

    http://tinyurl.com/yz2u9u9

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    • 434
      Shit! says:

      British expats in Spain are getting boned.
      Expats leave these shores with hard cash from property sales in UK.
      Guy in UK who bought the property from them has no cash but massive debt.
      Expat gets boned on property he bought(demolished) then returns to UK with fuck all money and nowere to live.
      UK Asian rents property to immigrant honky.
      Property markets allow thick people to acquire lots of money by default.

  91. 431
    nell says:

    Have to be up at 6.30am so ‘night folks.

    Hope someone is looking after our lads and lasses in Afghanistan because gordon and co sure aren’t . Despite years of criticism of the snatch landrover and today’s Coroner’s damning report, gutlessgordon is still only saying that half the protective vehicles that are needed will be in place by 2011!!!

    • 446
      two warmongers don't make a right says:

      Dave wil fix it by supporting a continuing pointless quagmire and slaughter
      simples!

  92. 432
    infamy infamy says:

    A hedge fund speculator just ripped a champagne socialist a new asshole on Newsnight.

    Great fun.

    • 440
      Steve Expat says:

      Are Newsnight finally getting it, or did they think the hedge fund manager was just going to roll over for them?

      • 460
        Osama the Nazarene says:

        It was brilliant and I think the Newsnight propagandists underestimated the hedge fund guy judging by Paxo’s resigned look at the end!

        A real spanking for the champagne socialist from Europe as a bonus.

    • 445
      Only One Mrs T says:

      was it good? i will catch the later edition.

    • 447
      Gamblers Anonymous says:

      I love mug punters

  93. 441
    Charles Manson says:

    If Brown gets back in, I’m off to the first arms dealer I can find to purchase my very own AK47. It is the right thing to do!

    • 449
      Charlie doesn't surf says:

      Charlie it is all wishful thinking on your part again, the parole board will never let you.

  94. 443
    Interweb novice says:

    We’re all socially interacting in the virtual world instead of forming a lynch mob after last orders at “The Dog and Duck”.

    These are the blessings of mass communication.

    • 472

      Not convinced that is a blessing, or indeed progress.

      • 488
        The Admiral says:

        Would we have had Poll tax unrest if blogging was common then? Or would we have realized that as taxes go, it was a much fairer system than the one we have now?…

  95. 453
    Steve Expat says:

    O/T

    Jeremy Hunt now on HardTalk on BBCN24, getting a proper grilling from Stephen Sackur – could anyone imagine Balls or one of the Millibands doing the same??

    • 459
      QWERTY says:

      If Sackur had Balls on he’d be giving him the best oral he’s ever had. The BBC sucking Labour cock is what we do (oh and telling lies)

  96. 457
    QWERTY says:

    Yet again the BBC attacked Cameron over the UUP stating that Cameron couldn’t work with them because they voted against the policing change in NI but Cameron supported it. The BBC were smearing the Tories about this.

    So will the BBC point out that the Lib Dems couldn’t therefore work with Nu Liebour as Liebour want Trident, the LD’s don’t, Liebor want ID cards, the LD’s don’t, Liebour would like 90 detention, the LD’s oppose that.

    Er of course not, the bummers at the BBC will simply state that these are ‘minor’ issues but in reality they can do a deal.

    The BBC telling lies and buggering boys is what we do best.

  97. 458
    Psychic news says:

    Cameron is going to win the next election and you lot are going to spend the next five years moaning about it.

  98. 468
    Jeremy Hunt MP (Con) Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport says:

    ‘The BBC has probably the best news service in the world.’

    • 471
      Steve Expat says:

      If you’ve ever lived abroad you would agree with that too. Seriously, they do.

      Yes, their politics coverage in the UK is seen as biased (by everyone) and is probably a little too far left (or am I a little too far right?) but the BBC is honestly something that most foreigners wished they had.

      Doesn’t mean that they couldn’t be cut in half though – get rid of BBC3, BBC4, all the copycat shows, expensive sport etc and concentrate on the ‘public service’ stuff that no-one else would make, along the lines of PBS in the States, leaving the populist stuff to the commerical operators.

      • 482

        As long as it goes subscription and abandons extortion I don’t care.

      • 496
        sockpuppet #4 says:

        you might note that BBC3+4 don’t cost much and are closer to “public service” (ie dull?) than a lot of the other output. 30 minutes of bruce forsyth could probably pay for years of Micheal Portillo on a train.

        I have in the past watched french TV and its way to the left of the BBC. I’ve only once heard someone say “tax payers money”. Also very strangely pro-government.

  99. 470

    Then, straw dummies are tossed into huge bonfires. Real Estate

  100. 510
    Jimmy says:

    “The following note was added on Tuesday 9 March 2010

    This article is the subject of a legal complaint made on behalf of Donal Blaney.”

    So who’s serving this one, you or Sporty?

  101. 516
    glasnost says:

    Well Done! I Like it!



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