Making the Most of a Rare Treat
Ed Balls savaged Michael Gove on Monday for suggesting that only 45 pupils on free school meals went to Oxbridge – “You keep refusing to listen! I think he should do his homework a little bit better…” he spat across the Dispatch box. His humiliating climb down came only hours later. Thankfully Michael Fabricant, like many others, wishes to savour a rare moment where Balls concedes one of his many dubious lines was, in fact, wrong:
EDM 1054
CORRECTION BY THE RIGHT HON MEMBER FOR NORMANTON
Fabricant, MichaelThat this House notes that following remarks made by the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, the right hon. Member for Normanton in Oral Questions in the House on 8 March 2010, Official Report, column 6, where he contested figures provided by the hon. Member for Surrey Heath, concerning the number of students entitled to free school meals being admitted to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the right hon. Member in a letter dated 9 March 2010 to the hon. Member now says that `following our exchange in the House yesterday I have had an opportunity to look in detail at the figures you quoted and I can confirm that they are, on this occasion, correct’.
The correction should have been to the House to the first place rather than in a face-saving private letter.
Vote Labour please
Ok then.
Thanks for the advice.
Michael Gove in the Cameron Dog House
David Cameron has apologized to parliament over getting his facts wrong. At PMQs last week he wrongly said that two Muslim schools run by those linked to extremists had received funds from a government scheme designed to combat extremism.
Speaking during a debate on Afghanistan, the Tory leader said: “Can I start by putting right something I got wrong last week. While the two Islamic schools I mentioned got government money while being run by people linked to the extremist group Hi+butTahrir, and while they did receive that money under a Pathfinder scheme, it was not the Pathfinder scheme concerned with combating extremism. I am sorry for the error. I believe that when you get a fact wrong you should put it right but I continue to believe that it is wrong that taxpayers’ money goes to schools run by extremists.”
It is quite unusual for a party leader to have to correct the record in this way, and the Tory leader will be less than pleased. Cameron was armed with the wrong facts in this case by Michael Gove MP, the Tory education shadow secretary and one of his closest confidants. He is part of the small group that briefs the Tory leader ahead of PMQs and was sat next to Cameron on the frontbench in the Commons as the apology was made. He will be mortified.
http://blogs.wsj.com/iainmartin/2009/11/30/michael-gove-in-the-cameron-dog-house/tab/article/
Useless Oik!
Martin Day has a tiny willy.
Oh where can I find a real man?
try learning to spell first you feeble minded twat
Balls could not savage a damp rag or even a low grade bank clerk
Balls really does sum up this lousy no-good Government, hell bent on lying their way out of anything. What a sodding pure excuse for a politician AND HE IS GORDO’S BEST FRIEND – say no more!
Booorrringg!
*yawn*
Didn’t read.
That was the most incredibly boring post you just made Anonymong.
However the other post backs up Guido’s claim that Balls should have apologised to the House and not just in a letter.
But you didn’t read it because you are an ignorant twit.
Yeah, tatwatch, keep waffling, you worthless sack of shit.
have a life; don’t read long posts.
Yet more twattery from the twit.
You can’t read long posts because you have the attention span of a gnat and the IQ of a cabbage.
Now do everyone a favour and kindly go fuck yourself. twit.
You do think a lot of yourself Anonymous – are you Ed Balls-up by any chance – bet you are!
It’s called apologising in public when you’re wrong.
It’s called honesty and integrity, something somewhat lacking on the Government benches for the past few years…
ZaNuLieBor don’t do apologies because they believe they have not done, and could never do, wrong.
Pretty good job, too, otherwise all of our airtime would be filled with the c.unts sobbing about how they have completely fucked up the UK!
But Gordon Brown HAS apologised! He’s really sorry we were involved in the slave trade
Doesn’t matter. Labor will get reelected, much to my chagrin. The masses are sheep.
It now appears that Ed Balls is condoning racism in schools.
And your point is ?? what? that he made a proper apology at the right time and in the right way ? god! what a cad! he should have put it in a letter !.
Poster #29 made an excellent point there about apologising properly and in full when a mistake is made.
Perhaps the Government should read it and take careful note.
I won’t be holding my breath on the likes of Balls or Brown to realise this however.
Brown would spend all day at the dispatch box if that was the case.
a month more like!
Atleast it would be a month where he wasn’t doing even more damage to the country / economy / children / etc. / etc.
Balls by name, balls-up by nature, hoon by character!
‘David Cameron has apologized to parliament over getting his facts wrong’
No doubt you will do the same, as the matter in question was reported in November last year – not ‘last week’ as your post is intended to suggest. So this issue is done and dusted.
Do keep up.
Of course we could keep it open -If so, when will McRuin be apologising for his weekly lies to Parliament at PMQs?
The privately educated nazi-fetishish Ed Balls isn’t interested in poor kids.
I am, I love ‘em, poorer the better, no questions asked.
That’s why i doubled their tax rate from 10% to 20%. It was the right thing to do.
This is no time for a nonce !!!
Little boys are cheap today
Cheaper than yesterday
They come at half a crown
Standing up or lying down…..
Ra-ther old Fruit
Pip! Pip!
0.3% of City AM readers voted for Balls (out of 300). 1 person in the City (his brother) voted for him. When I mention his name to Labour MPs they all groan. When Brown goes he will as well.
Labour isn’t interested in poor people as anything other than vote fodder. I thought it was very revealling that when C4 did their Tower Block of Commons docu-soap, only the Tory and LibDem MPs seemed concerned for the tennents, the despised victims of Labour’s social engineering down the generations. Labour MP Austin Mitchell was contemptuously dismissive – he clearly couldn’t wait to get the scum out of his sight. As the series progressed he pulled a more sympathetic face, no doubt at the prompting of his handler.
asswipe still spouting excreta?
yes, you are
brilliant, see how he squirms…..
Goodness gracious great Balls of liar
goodness gwacious gweat balls of what
He looks, talks and gestures like a fucking nutter. Good turn, Devil Eyes! What’s with the stuffed nose, Balls? You sound like a frustrated gym school teacher who boosts his confidence with frequent trips to the staff loo.
Fire Balls
Empty balls
The Right (Dis)Honourable Balls should learn when to keep his legs ( sorry, his mouth) firmly shut….
Balls= Twat = Labour
Just goes to show what a total knob the man is. If he’d said ‘Sorry you were right’ that would have been the end of it.
But the stupid sheeple who watch his lying performance on the telly will have seen his invective and absent a retraction, will believe the fat, lisping, useless, Nazi-loving c.unt!
(And not lisping in that sexy Emily No-Mates way either!)
Ha Ha Ha Briliant.
Ed Balls = Full of shit.
…whereas I am a serial abuser of the truth.
For anyone interested Scottish FM questions about to start. Wonder if Glasgow scandal will be raised. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/scotland_politics/default.stm
Not on your nelly.
Dear Edward living up to his name of ‘Ed NoBalls & No Brains’ then!
He lies – he is a liar – he is just like all of his mates – liars.
Faced with a fact he denies it, he belittles it – he lies about it.
Wonder how that sort of behaviour will go when he is not in government?
Surely he can be made to explain his fuck up to the HOC, and apologize to Gove.
Is that what Labour are going to do in the run up to the election, come out with complete shit across the despatch box to make their point, knowing that their lies wont have to be explained except in a private letter.
I wonder how much attention this gets from the BBC.
Paxo had a pretty good attempt at getting a ‘sorry’ from Balls last night.
Let’s look at the substantive – 45 students on free school meals went to Oxbridge last year. What a shocking inditement of 13 years of “Education, Education, Education”
55 days and counting…
But will the Tories reintroduce the proven system of getting bright kids from poor backgrounds into top universities? Ladies and gentleman I give you grammar schools – something that actually worked in this benighted country! But will the Tories bring them back… will they fuck! They’re all dancing on the same fucking pinhead! Avoid the LibLabCon.
And vote for?
Too right!
The reintroduction of the grammar schools and the direct grant would be the best starting point for a reform of education.
Followed by – the removal of university status from the polytechnics masquerading as unis, the funding of free courses for science and engineering, the reintroduction of proper, exam based qualifications…
But we’ll never see that, because it’s too sensible and 35 years have now passed since Shirley fucking Williams started the destruction of our education system. I was one of the last intake of direct grant pupils in my school, and will forever hate Williams and the twisted values she and her ilk thrust on our country, though the greatest hatred will be reserved for those responsible for the last 13 years.
If Brown and his scum are reelected, I will not be responsible for my actions.
Hear! Hear! The grammar schools worked. What didn’t happen properly under Beveridge was the introduction of technical (and these days hi-tech) schools aimed at producing engineers, architects and the like.
In post-war Britain it was never deemed possible to work in the “arts”…not a proper job. These days they could also introduce arts based schools to work in fashion, design ad the performance arts.
And the former polys are responsible for a lot of the social sciences people who have gone on to ingominious careers in social engineering. Scrap the bloody lot.
Would be nice to see them back;
thus the brightest and best would be put into Universities,
and not just those with money.
In a way its not particularly surprising.
I’ve seen very few kids who I’d expect to get into “first division” universities who didn’t actually have working parents and being of “mondeo-class”.
Intelligence is likely to be either genetic or down to how intelligent parents look after their children. So you’d expect a 20 year old capableof getting to oxbridge to have reasonably intelligent parents, and even if they didn’t get to university in the 70s/80s, they were likely to have been in employment for much of the time since then.
I wonder how many of those 45 are actually getting free school meals because of invalidity benefits from people who are absolutely unfit to work.
I don’t buy into Lamarckianism – I’ve met too many mediocre offspring of the well-heeled in my time, but genetics does play a part as does sex when it comes to intelligence. The aim of having all parts of society equally represented in higher education, the company board etc is as stupid as having all sizes, weights and shades of people represented in the Olympic’s 100m sprint.
45 is probably a substantial overestimate of the number of Oxbridge entrants from genuinely deprived homes.
I suspect that some of the 45 are the offspring of fairly well-educated single mothers who have worked out quite carefully the balance of advantage, in means tested Britain, of working throughout the child’s schooldays and being a stay-at-home mother. Such children tend to get much more educational support from their devoted parent than most kids do and sometimes have grandparents who oil the wheels financially so they are not really living on a benefit level income.
Yes, but to a socialist, a lie only counts if you get caught and have to retract. They don’t do honour or integrity, only means to an end. Therein lies the diference between a socialist and a normal person.
Tell me please someone, which religion actual encourages its adherents to lie to non believers.
I doubt any such religion exists. It would have to be pretty awful. Definitely man-made, fake, baloney. Probably started by some paedo as an excuse to form some sort of sex-cult. That sort of thing.
They are all man-made, the notion of a ‘god’ is man-made.
Oi! Who you calling a paedo?
You don’t subscribe to the idea that Man is God-made, I take it!
Nope
There is an interesting symmetry here. A bit like God/dog.
NuLieborism?
Oi vey! Vat are you sayink ?
Mandelism
Barney R. The answer to your question is the religion of “climate change is manmade”.
It’s permitted in Islam, and Judaism has different standards of appropriate behaviour depending on whether one is Jewish or a Goy.
I can find the exact references to both cases in my Library somewhere but I’m rather busy at the moment.
Try Taqiyya and Kol Nidron
Or even Kol Nidre
That’s the Islamic one that I was referring to, I came across it whilst looking at the Ismailis, excuse spelling if wrong, the research I was doing was some 25 years ago.
Thanks for the correct term for the Jewish version.
No problem, we Salford chaps have to stick together, big street party when the chipmunk gets her just desserts.
Oops, wrong person but I’m sure you’re a very sound chap anyway :-)
Muslim
Ed Balls a socialist? Nah. Don’t think so.
Who knows? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_chic
I am not a nazi.I am a neanderthal from the neolithic,the same origin as the swastika
Ed Balls monstered Gove on Newsnight last night. Gove was flapping around like a goldfish on a kitchen table.
Yeah, being a lying loudmouth gobshite is really big and clever. Anything rather than answering the fecking question.
balls
so what
Still, at least Surrey Heath council overturned the planning permission for the mosque overlooking Sandhurst last night, following Gove’s
belated support for his constituentsbrave and steadfast opposition to the act of cultural vandalism.The Conservatives will then be in and we will have an honest and industrious government with the policys to take ENGLAND back to the place it belongs.
England isn’t coming back. It was handed to the Scots plus some English Gold a long time age.
The Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish can join in as well as long as they behave themselves.
That’s what bullies do…
What a twat I am
We concur.
Total laughing stock wanker too.
Also and interrupting little twunt on Newsnight last night – why can’t you have the respect to shut the fuck up while other people are talking?
Is it because you are always making shit up and are too immature to realise that saying something more frequently an louder does not make it more factually correct?
You are the epitome of all that is wrong about this screwed up country, you nasty little weasel…
It was like watching the 3 stooges
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1jnvt_three-stooges-in-color_fun
The 3 stooges were funny in an American sort of way. These 3 on Newsnight weren’t funny. They were pathetic except for Blinkybollox. The man’s a fucking thug. Is his middle name ASBO?
http://www.edge.co.uk/haveyoursay
Tell Balls what you think.
So what…
I mean Weak! Change the Hansard records or I’ll…
crafty mad little kunt that balls
Out of his depth and hopefully out on his ear
I suspect he will make a good traffic warden post 9th May.
I double-dare him to step in front of my car.
He could start by learning how to pronounce the letter “r”.
And also to avoid looking like an unmoustached Hitler.
“… they are, on this occasion, correct…” What a graceless, patronising tw6t.
Yes, everything they do is chippy.
A government of sociopaths, thanks Labour.
Oxford Uni is famous for producing outstanding moral citizens.
ps Cherie is interested in the free school meals scam. kindly send on any details.
What about a “cast iron guarantee” then ??
Cast iron is very friable and is sometimes used in components that are intended to break, Martin, which is why Dave didn’t say “titanium”.
Meantime are you enjoying Andrew Rawnsley’s excellent recent book on Gordie?
He he he. Cast iron to a Conservative apparently has no meaning.
Dear Derek
I demand that you immediately cease the use of my name and impersonating me on this and other blogs.
If you choose to ignore this polite request I will have to resort to other methods.
Cheers
Martin Day
Go fuck yourself you sanctimonious cocksucker
Go fuck yourself you sanctimonious cocksucker
What about the referendum Labour promised in their election manifesto?
Are they going to bother with a manifesto this time round, given that we lall know it’s just a pack of fucking lies?
great show tdy
“I can confirm that they are, on this occasion, correct” You can practically see the spittle emanating from his mouth, contorted in a rictus of contempt.
Then and again I’d probably feel equally tense if my post-work prospect every evening consisted of Yvette Cooper.
“You could practically see his spittle” only if he was stood on his soap box
Didn’t apologise to Gove on Newsnight.
Gove then said Balls ‘…….is to integrity what King Herod is to childminding’.
Balls called him offensive.
I do hope Balls meets his ‘Portillo’, otherwise labour will end up with Balls as leader with his new 50 odd Unite linked commie bastard MP’s.
How to make the ‘World’s favourite airline’ go bust in six months by Unite. They just don’t get it do they. Majority of private sector employees have forgone pay rises or taken pay cuts to save their jobs. But they seem hell bent on putting thousands out of work for the sake of their vanity.
Balls ‘…….is to integrity what King Herod is to childminding’. heheheheh love it !!
And me. Top comment!
Uaf Uaf
IMF – I believe BA are fighting a proxy war on behalf of the Tory party, they want to take unite down and beat them. WHich I support 100%.
They also need to kill them off otherwise AA will never merge with BA and Iberia. This is very similar in political terms to the small battle that took place before the Miners strike.
I forget the name of the small company involved, but it was used as the testing battle in the coming struggle to kill off the unions again, which needs to be done beofre we can recover. If we ever do.
Yep
Neither side giving way.
If, god forbid, Labour got another term (even Hung P’nt) would Unite stand down? Apparantely there are 50 or more Unite linked new PPC’s.
One must conclude that they are not expecting to get back in power.
that small muslim company
Purpleline, are you thinking of the Grunwick dispute? If my memory serves me correctly a certain Union leader now married to HarHerperson was very involved with it at the time.
I believe it is alleged he has now been selected as a Liebour parliamentary candidate for a constituency with an all women list.
I wonder if ‘er indoors had anything to do with that?
And why not? The first woman to run two constituencies? better than Maggie eh?
Ha ha ha that’s quite funny — Gove’s a bit of a cove.
Tried to avoid knowing about Balls, he’s truly disgusting and I’m glad no children of mine have been exposed to the little shit.
So you don’t live in Scotland then
There was a rumour here some days ago, that he was work sharing in that department. I think a journalist was mentioned.
David Blunkett seems the obvious candidate.
Like Narcozy — Carla’s on the razz again [allegedly] — that marriage’s lasted for… hmmm, well over a year.
oh come on. Who would climb over yvette to get to harriet or hazel?
not me mate, don’t like heights…
yuk who would want to climb over any of them
Look at the eyes. The eyes have it. That demon blink. We are all doomed. lol
I can’t understand why they write “hon.” instead of “hoon”. Same number of keystrokes. Maybe they hope to save the planet by using less ink.
Hoon and hoon, yes
hoon and Cúnt then
In an ideal world they would all be our Kunta Kintes.
What a good series that was. With all the repeated shite on the multitude of satillite channels, you would have thought it would have popped up again before now.
David Cameron’s attempt to reinvent himself was in disarray yesterday after a close ally said he was more right-wing than he acts.
Shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey said the Tory leader was privately very conservative and only pretended to be moderate for political gain.
His comments came in a profile of Mr Cameron in US magazine Vanity Fair.
Just days ago Mr Vaizey embarrassed the Tory boss by suggesting his wife may have voted Labour in 1997.
Mr Vaizey told Vanity Fair: “He is much more Conservative by nature than he acts, or than he is forced to be by political exigency.” The article also raised fears about Cameron’s commitment to the NHS. Fraser Nelson, editor of the right-wing Spectator is quoted as saying: “I don’t believe for a minute he believes protecting the NHS is a good idea.”
Ex-deputy PM John Prescott blasted: “His comments show Cameron is nothing but a second hand car dealer.”
“a close ally said he was more right-wing than he acts”.
Thank fuck for that.
Certainly if even his close friends do not know to what colour he aspires then neither will the voters
Sorry Martin. Not voting Labour.
Wouldn’t your employer find you of more use if you were out actually canvassing for the Labour Party rather than sat at your computer hour after hour pointlessly flogging the dead horse of Cameroon’s political corpse. Both Gord’ an Dave are well past their sell by dates yet you spend hours each week on thus blog spouting utter drivel….do yourself a favour and get a life.
Bore off
Derek you cripple
You are on very thin ice.
Cheers
Martin Day
And what does Mr Prescott know of second hand car dealers? Most shcd’s sell to the local community and can lose their reputation if they rip anyone off. The honest ones flourish. Shame the same can’t be said of MP’s. I don’t suppose Mr Prescott will have met many second hand car dealers as his Jags were likely to have been new ones paid for by the taxpayer don’t cha know.
Not working ‘Martin’
55 days and counting until this disgusting excuse of a government are thrown to the wolves
“Ex-deputy PM John Prescott blasted: “His comments show Cameron is nothing but a second hand car dealer.””
Better than being a second rate pie eathing, adulterous, CND supporting, shipyard wrecking ships steward.
Correction first rate pie eating.
We won the Cold War, despite bores like him!
Just days ago Mr Vaizey embarrassed the Tory boss by suggesting his wife may have voted Labour in 1997
Suggesting? May?
Weasel words is the term for this on wikipedia
well done Mr Vaizey the funds are in your haute de la oops Jersey account
John Prescott is nothing but a chippy, fat, pig-ignorant, unprincipled, jumped-up shop steward.
Socialist? My arse – he couldn’t ram his snout any further into the trough if he tried. It is and always has been about how much HE can personally cream off and fuck everyone else.
I would rather deal with a second hand car dealer any day.
you have been.what do you think the scrappage scheme was
Oh dear! Fancy being accused of being a second hand car dealer by shagnasty Prescott. That’s extremely amusing.
DC will still be PM come May 6th with a workable majority. I don’t think you realise the contempt and hatred for GB and Labour. DC may not be great…he may turn out to be excellent or even average but whatever he does it has to be light years ahead of this corrupt, perverted cess pit of a Government.
The mystery is HTF Labour has got away with it for so long.
But this is of course government policy: respond with a pack of lies and so play to the public gallery and then apologise privately later when the impact will not register with the voter.
Hey Ed, here’s a new word for you, try to learn it as you will be tested later…
Definition
sorry adjective (APOLOGY)
/ˈsɒr.i//ˈsɔːr-/ adj
[after verb] used to say that you wish you had not done what you have done, especially when you want to be polite to someone you have done something bad to
Oh, I’m sorry – I didn’t see you there.
Tom, I’m so sorry about last night – it was all my fault.
I’ve said I’m sorry.
@JamesAsser good evening with Angela Eagle and @HarrietHarman to celebrate International Women’s Day – thanks for coming to support
http://twitter.com/SarahBrown10/status/10315713827
How was foxy bingo?
Angela Eagle doesnt live in Canterbury does she.I do know she is rather fond of greek practices.Is the Beard starting to come off(or oout)
Well well well. Angela Eagle has a moustache and Sarah a beard.
“Labour women with facial hair” … they do don’t they, wonder why, short back and sides in hair cuts too.
Blinky’s motto.I set myself low standards and continually fail to achieve them.
We aimed low and missed.
I was hopeless at counts at school but ok at english
The sheer arrogance is dripping from it: “…, on this occasion, correct”!
Says maybe more about the man than intended. Not that the client state, including its media, cares.
We don’t. if the masses swing to conservative we will too.
They do as we say.but we agree with it
Just remember that Blinky has been well trained by an even bigger liar- The Prime Mentalist. What can you expect.
Gordon Brown believes he is like a solider at war, and shouldn’t Old Etonian Whelan show solidarity with fellow trade unionists, not bankroll Brown?
Old Etonian? Charlie “what about the workers?” Whelan. Why, yes, he is…
‘In 1980 Whelan became a foreign exchange dealer.’ I think that makes him one of your lot, doesn’t it?
Has anyone noticed the recent increase in paranoid activity on this site as well as in the Commons from the lunatic Mc Doom / Balls clique?
They are very worried. Their fate is sealed and they know it which is why they are thrashing about in panic like drowning rats.
Anything, absolutely anything to cling on.
Why? What have you heard?
Is it true? or true its rumoured?
Is it? IS IT? When?
Vote Labour
Yes we have noticed it.
Dave — you did well in PMQs yesterday. Keep it up.
Ed was asked to apologise to Gove on Newsnight last night. Asked a few times by a gleeful looking Paxo.
Balls declined to do so. I’m sure there must be a clip somewhere on iplayer.
“Police have begun a criminal inquiry into Harry Cohen” (previous blog)
Of course he may be proved innocent (ahem!!) however if it wan’t for this blog I would have not known any investigation was underway at all. Strange this does not appear on the BBC as it would certainly have done if the man was a chippy right wing MP along now doubt with the compulsory hour special on endemic corruption in the Conservative party.
I presume the Labour non doms are also still not mentioned although Ashcroft got top billing at PMQ’s by the truly nasty party.
More power to your ‘mouse’ Mr Fawkes.
Its on LBC- Start listening to commercial
What’s the SP. on that thieving cow Baroness Uddin?
Her Majesty has asked me to inform you she is concerned about the way the country is heading since the scandel of members of her government broke. Her Majesty is deeply offended by their behavior.Her majesty has indicated she supports Mr Camerons stance on the matter.
Plod should have launched a standard fraud investigation into all 646 of them (plus Lords), eliminated the genuine innocents, and prosecuted the rest.
Only then could we have any confidence that any of the slippery weasels hadn’t got away with it.
And, as a bonus, that would have added another 1,000 plus potential crooks to the DNA database !
I think it was mentioned on Today in passing on an item about Morley & co claiming Parliamentary privilge.
It was on Cefax early this morning.
A little news is better than no news.
After the Bank’s Bonus payouts……………
Brown pitches on economy with £3bn pay freeze
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7056366.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1
Gordon Brown today made a controversial pledge to freeze the pay of top civil servants, judges, generals and doctors to save £3 billion, as he made a pitch to British voters over his handling of the economy.
The Prime Minister, who also confirmed that the pre-election Budget would be unveiled in two weeks’ time, is defying recommendations from the independent salary review bodies to go for small increases in top people’s pay.
But he has agreed that the armed forces should get a 2 per cent rise in recognition of the work they have done in Afghanistan and prison officers will also get a 0.7 per cent increase from next month.
Junior doctors are also in line for small rises…………………..
But most GPs run in ‘partnership’ practices, which operate as small businesses and out of which they pay themselves from the ‘profits’.
The Dept of Health does not control their ‘salaries’, so that particular gravy-train trundles on unrestrained – it just makes good headlines to suggest they’re being trimmed back, but it’s complete bollocks as usual.
Blah Blah Blah Ashcroft
Blah Blah Blah Bullingdon Boys
Blah Blah Blah Margaret Thatcher
Blah Blah Blah Gordon is Great
There you go I have completed my days work and now I am off to visit the Pink Pineapple gay bar which is being used as a campaign office for Brave Gordon and his special friends.I am overseeing the delivcery of the rocking horse and mandys gimp suit so must go.
Toodle Pip
Should have done his homework better
on this occasion
Arrogant cu*t.
O/T
Looks like the railways are coming to a halt over Easter (more so than usual) due to strike action.
All these strikes won’t look good during the election campaign…
Get back to China. You’d be happy there, they don’t allow strikes.
The railways in the UK ALWAYS come to a halt over Easter….nothing new there. Perhaps we can talk to the French Unions and the fishermen we’re sure they must be overdue for a blockade of the Channel ports and annoying “Les Anglais” (not that anybody can afford to go abroad given the falling pound but still it wouldn’t be Easter without travel problems would it ?)Now then let’s see how many roadworks we can get in place for the Easter break on the motorway system.Well we’ll start with the M6 and M1 followed by M25/M2 perhaps even the M4/M5 too.
No.
At the moment its the turn of nursery staff and doctors. no really. no sheet.
Oh and the trains of course, but they’re always at it. Because I think they shouldn’t retire at 50.
Mon you make us have the laugh.we own the channel ports Le Dover
As I looked from Balls to Gove and then from Gove to Balls on Newsnight last night I wondered where the nurse had gone with their 10pm medication. Are there two more funny little twerps active in politics today? (The Lib Dem reminded me of the insurance man who used to knock at my old mum’s door years ago).
They should both team up with Prescott and Pickles for the Commons own Laurel and Hardy tribute team twat off.
Frazier and Niels Crane spring to mind and then out again as they are funny smart actors.
When Dad was on shift and you always got sent to the shops for a mars bar?
hello son
We will of course not report any of this.
In contrast we wish to broadcast lots and lots of positive of coverage for OUR Prime Minister Gordon Brown working hard for the recovery.
Don’t let Cameron and the Conservatives put the recovery at risk.Remember Thatcher.The Tories cannot be trusted with the economy or the reins of government ever again .Did we also mention Lord Ashcroft bankrolling the Tory party ?
Kids are really cheap to employ here.Lucky for me MSM dont mention it or health and safety.
Well it’s a bright sunny day with no further rain forecast,here in Belize
Good Morning
A lovely day in India today as I look over the lovely factories I have built here using assets stripped from british companies and money i have nicked from the pension fund.
See Yah suckers
I understand the children are cheap to employ as well lord “p”
Thats why I am particularly popular among certain senior scottish politicians who like cheap children.
and one “English” one
My taste is more for the svelte youth.
And the productive farmland is easy to concrete over — hell, the displaced peasant farmers organized a welcome demonstration in my honour.
I sent a text to my grandad, using my deceased nan’s SIM card.
I’m sure he’ll see the funny side, once he’s recovered from the heart attack.
I am going to steal 10% from all dead people and thats not a joke.
Thats on top of the 40% that I already have off them before they are cold.
NOT just dead people.They’ll be a 10-15% levy on everyone’s savings over a certain limit too.
I am looking at grave leasing. Why 90 years when corpses rot away in 10 years. That grave can be re-leased
I used to work as a mortuary assistant once.I got the sack when my colleague said it can be dead boring at times and I misunderstood.
I used to be into necrophilia till some rotten cu*t split on me.
I’m sure some wanker at the treasury had a spiritualist moment during a financial crisis meeting and blurted,
“I see dead people”.
The bloke probably didn’t intend to suggest that dead people should be seen as a taxable resource.
Shows how fucking desperate Labour are for cash.
yep.they took 8k off Guido yesterday
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/mar/11/frail-economy-needs-another-stimulus
Christ just read the link Guido. More fantasy drivel from morons, half wit Labour MP’s and the Unions. The signituries preferring their economic advice are worth noting. Kevin Maquire, Dianne Abbot, Will Straw?………
We don’t read the Gaurdian
Well it looks like you all missed it,when on news night when Balls man agreed
that every one at school must learn,”READING,WRITING,and wait “COUNTING”
when i went to school it was called MATHS,what do they count
BALLs?.
And we have to pay for this brainless one.
I am the Count. 1 2 3 muha ha ha ha
Michael Howard’s demo tape?
You have to be able to count the debt.
£179bn and counting.
That’s just this year.
he meant Hooning
There have been many honourable and distinguished Conservative Prime Ministers unlike the labour party. Vote Conservative, its the honourable thing to do.
“Attlee was a modest man…..but he had plenty to be modest about!” Whereas of course I’m extremely better than him and not modest at all about my undoubted abilities and intellectual skills. After all it was…..I,……..ME…..that, saved the World just like Churchill did !! AND now I pledge to save the recovery. I Will NOT let you down(again) !!!
I’m turning in my grave.
why did you die and leave us this joke v funny
he was a jock too ya know Ja.
Could someone on this thread who is good with computers, photo shop a cock going in and out of Balls’ mouth in the picture at the top of this page.
Try and time the thrusting to coincide with Balls blinking.
Or am i just very immature?
You dont need photoshop…. the real videos exist out there in Gordon Browns own pribvate collection.
I’m surprised they even know what is the truth.
Woke up to the issue of the new Street View. Checked family homes. 2 number plates visible. One caravan security locks detailed. One youngster pictured in their kitchen window, no blurring.
So to get them removed we now have to supply to Google in the US (outside UK DPA laws) more personal details.
As for the old lady that had her terraced house door open, we all know what is in her front room. Bet she has never used the internet.
In the US is started as a low resolution street scene. Now in the UK we have higher resolution cameras raised above what can be seen by even a horse rider. What next “anti-reflection” processing to see through the windows clearly?
This is a database of personal data and is covered by UK laws. Why has this government waived these laws for Google, so that they can have their spy database. Even the local policeman say they use it for operations. By definition, the people who do not want this invasion are not internet users. So the polls and opinions are biased.
The government is there to protect all its people, not just the ones that can tweet. Will any other party come out and say they will restrict these invasions of our country for the profit of foreign individuals.
I saw a load of kids throwing house bricks at a google camera car. I did the responsible thing and kept lookout.
Just checked out house – wife’s Aston Martin has it’s number plate blurred out (ok,Ford Focus 1.8,only doing 31mpg for some reason,but it does at least brake at the right time).
I wish they had warned us and I would have cleaned up the garden a bit and painted the garage doors.
Is there an appeal process to get another photo done once we make it look tidier?
Just think if I was to drive around Silicon Valley photographing all the factory, installations and the security fences. “Anyone can see them”. Wonder what they would do with me?
How about a camera on the mountain at the bottom of the Red Sea showing the security/cargo of the ships passing through. Pirates would like that?
Why not Tesco publishing the purchases of every home delivery. It is only property, and can not hurt you, so why not. Exactly the same.
Why not the DVLA publish the home addresses and type of car for the whole country?
Why not Amazon publish the addresses of every electrical item bought by each address. Only property, so what is the issue.
Why not a picture database of the security details of all small boats. Smugglers would love that?
These would all be useful to the bored voyeur, but would they be legal or necessary? No because they are personal information in a database.
(Do not get me wrong, a picture of me, my house, or other property, on the internet is OK by me. It is the fact that it is in a database is the issue.)
I don’t care for the stuff your voyourism gets off on I prefer porn
I checked my address on Google Earth and saw a satelite image of myself washing the car.
Now I know why there’s been a spate of burglaries in the village recently especially targetting building sites…
Neighbourhood Watch might as well shut up shop as it often reports the pre-burglary recce (strangers wandering about and their cars).
Ed Balls is a fucking clueless BULLY !
As Forest Gump would say EdBalls is as Edballs does.
He is obviously stressed because the attack dogess Mrs Balls has been sucking some journalist’s balls.
She was always going to dump you Ed… you FAT PODGY BASTARD
P-A-L-E-A-S-E . . . Edwin is totally reliable.
I had him seen to years ago.
Yes – this rumour about Balls Boy Cooper and the journalist is popping up all over the place.
She looked terribly sad on the front bench while Brown was getting his comeuppance at PMQ’s – obviously Ed has now found out.
There is a tenement block up in Glasgow that would welcome them to drop in – all 15 storey’s worth of drop.
I sort of fancy her in a weird way….. should really get out more……knocking them out over Mz Balls can’t be normal.
It would be funny if it turned out to be Paxo.
Ones bigger than the other
She has been kept of the telly lately !…. low profile hoping the story will not gather pace ????
Hmmmmm
to stop the telly melting through her evil
I thought that my husband’s performance on Newsnight last night was sensational. I can’t understand why people accuse him of being a wide eyed yob with zero charisma & a complete inability to listen to and answer a question. Why anyone would want to punch his face in is beyond me. I can’t wait for my little Eddie to be promoted to his true position in life…the PM!
Ed Balls
Yvette Cooper Boy Balls
Two of the nastiest specimens of the Labour experiment.
£15,000 net monthly income between these two charlatans and they claim an annual £4,000 food allowance, while a pensioner gets £4,784 per year state pension to pay for their entire cost of living,breathing and I suppose even more soon just for the pleasure of dying.
Goodbye Labour,we come to reclaim our country back.
Yes they are supremely vile, aren’t they?
Balls is like ‘mong of Brown’
Post Morton.we can arrange it
Gordon just got driven past me and his arm was shooting up like Michael Murreys. Has he gone over the edge.
Do MI5 and special twig set up the auto modding on here. Some strange keywords trigger it.Is Guido MI5 or special twig
use * to confuse them in the moderator suite.
MI5 of course….
Thats seig heil syndrome,he’s practices it every day
The fact that these tossers have been caught out lying time and time again, doesnt matter these days in our Socialist utopia…It’s just what they do.
Now Vote Labour!!!
Don’t let Ed have to tell you again.
Labour are elected liars. Conservatives are not.
Elect liars or vote Conservative
Vicki Pollard on Radio 5 spend nearly an hour interrupting George Osborne every 5 seconds on his interview. Contrast that with the St St Vince is allowed to spout bollocks in total adoring silence. This is the same dozy cow who thinks the Jane Garvey champagne story isn’t real.
Victoria Derbyshire is a thick-as-shit, dyed-in-the-wool Labour shill. Her blatant Labour bias is even becoming embarrassing for some of her leftie/liberal BBC colleagues.
Is the weakness of Sterling all bad news?
There is no doubt that the past 18 months have been extremely tough for those of us here in Spain reliant on income from the UK. Payments from pensions, salary and savings converted to Euros have seen a drop of between 20% to 30%. With the prospect of a hung parliament and low investor confidence there is no end in sight to the misery.
However, as with most situations there is an upside. If you are selling or have sold your property in Spain the rate of exchange is a major plus point. As an example, if you purchased a property for €200,000 three years ago the rate at the time would mean the property would have cost you £137,931. Today the same property would generate £178,057 if sold and the funds repatriated. This in part may help to overcome the pain of any discounting needed to generate the sale. You can also increase the amount of sterling by using the thick as thieves repatriation service.
Repatriating money can be complicated. You should bear in mind that:
•Exchange rates are constantly fluctuating – so knowing when to trade can be tricky.
•In some countries, banks can charge up to 1% of the value of your transfer.
•People often repatriate funds to the UK, believing they will make a profit, only to lose money unexpectedly.
Our repatriation service addresses these issues Contact thick as thieves now to find out how to maximise the amount of sterling you receive AND how to avoid costly Spanish bank charges.
Yawn, (stretch) fap fap fap fap fap fap.
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Selling your old villa in Spain is impossible unless you take a BIG hit on the price paid in Euros. The exchange rate bringing back cash from Euroland does help yes, but you will not make a profit. Generaly people would rather stay in Spain but pensions from the UK are now worth HALF what they were due not only to a s h i t exchange rate but also price increases in Spain. Especialy to Brits as the Spanish are getting angry about their economy and are now blaming the Brits.
As for the TAT currency converter service. Better to boil your head in last years gravy I think.
use a muslim bank
this is truer than yawn zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
The trouble is you need to sell the property first.
With bad news about buying property in Spain and lack of cash rich Brits willing to buy them that may prove very hard now.
Who was holding the camcorder?
Grumpyoldtwat – http://grumpyoldtwat.blogspot.com/
well done that man,we will give you a paid job not an intern once Dave is in and we switch sides
priceless
One could be forgiven for expressing the opinion, ‘Blinking bastard’ . Balls? Was ever a twit better named?
Somewhere someone is preparing a list of all those usurpers of power who are in urgent need of ‘re-education’ . The day of reckoning is nigh.
Careful! You’re talking about the future leader of the Labour Party!!
future leader of the losinig party
What, chutzpah me? Rubbish, I’m a very modest and humble kind of a guy and I’ve certainly got a lot to be modest about.
Now, pass me another expenses form.
I always knew that boy would come unstuck in the end. He’s too thick you see.
Why are the BBC still not reporting on the investigation into Labour MP Harry Cohen’s expenses?
They are also still saying that there are just three Labour MPs now under police investigation when the corect number is now five.
If these were Tory MPs it would be headlining every BBC news broadcast and all over the website.
WHY do you think ! We have no intention of reporting anything detrimental to Labour this near to an election.The Tories are of course fair game
The BBC don’t think Labour scum have done anything wrong, that’s why.
because he is a Cohen as well as labour.
Vote Lib Dem get Balls.
Ha! Ha! Ha!
HEADLINES
Desperate David Cameron turns to Barack Obama for election help
Not like Brown eh?
Who’d never, say, chase ‘Barry’ through a kitchen just to get a photo op…
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Vote Labour. Filling kids with lefty shit gives meaning to our lives.
Glory to Comrade Fish-eyes for this sunny day.
lefty fudge packer shit boy poker
May I just put the record straight, I am not the journalist who is currently slipping one up Mrs Ed Balls
Thank you
Thanks Pete
Is it Andrew Marr?.
Are you the gay Hitchens or the other one?
Guido is better looking than Shelagh Fogherty.
Guido on the Daily Politics now, debating with Will Straw.
Surprised the Beeb let him back after his Newsnight ambush a few weeks back!!
Andrew Neill to Guido and Will – “Let’s hope you cause as much trouble as possible”
I’m sure they’re right, the online community will be doing what the MSM are not allowed to do during the campaign proper.
Yet another balanced offering from the DP again today. NOT.
Justine Roberts from Mumsnet : That’ll be the ex-journalist who is hitched to the deputy editor of the Grauniad. Blew her cover a shade wen she described the closing OPs as “brilliant”.
Another fifth-columnist.
True.no matter how feminist they get they are still gasbags who yap too much
All women need something shoved in their gobs to keep them quiet.
Nice one on the Daily Politics Guido!
You kept that quiet.
Nor me Peter, I prefer a woman to have huge tits and and fiscal probity
plus would you want to put the old chap anywhere that Ed Ballbag had been?
From Army Rumour service.
Edward Michael ‘Ed’ Balls (born 25 February 1967) is Labour MP for the West Yorkshire constituency of Normanton and is thus one of the Labour MPs who shat their pants when Northern Rock went tits up.
A Brownite, he believes in the big lie, micro management and ignoring the real issues – with a heavy dose of contempt for the electorate.
Currently (since June 2007) Eddie baby has been Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families and is thus the arch enemy of MDN.
He’s (conveniently) married to Yvette Cooper MP, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. So any t-shirts you want to print saying ‘Yvette Cooper kisses Balls’ can be accurate in several senses.
He does exactly what it says on his tin… talks balls.
http://www.beatballs.co.uk is the campaign to make Balls the Portillo Moment of this election
well done to dawn perry for hitting the target amount with one dip in her purse
Hey Guido..good show DP.. after a slow start.
You looked pissed for the first couple of minutes!!!!
LOL
Bit early in the day for that, or did you mean ‘pissed off’?
Both.
Off Topic.
This is really in line with yesterdays ‘Smoking post’ but thought I’d pop it here so people have a chance to see it.
Liebore have a new law coming on June 21st (If they get in – if they don’t, I suppose as it’s linked to the MHRA it could well go through anyway).
They want to make ‘all nicotine products’ illegal and class them as medicines. The document is from the MHRA in consultation from the Government, it’s called ‘MLX 364′.
http://www.mhra.gov.uk/Publications/Consultations/Medicinesconsultations/MLXs/CON065617
MHRA is in Cahoots with large Drugs companies selling various nicotine replacement products. The government itself makes an enormous amount of money in tax from tobacco products.
ie, Tobacco (cigarettes etc) and nicotine replacement products sold by pharmaceutical giants will currently NOT be affected. What they’re after on this occasion would seem to be Electronic Cigarettes (Contain no harmfull chemicals unlike tobacco and undocumented nicotine replacement products). They’re a lot safer than cigarettes and some say say safer than the pharmaceutical giants products, however, the government is not making any money in tax and the pharmaceutical companies are losing out on sales.
My opinion here is, if you use electronic cigarettes then shout and scream this from the rooftops. If you’re a standard smoker or someone who thinks banning people from smoking is a serious problem under our Orwellian government then be afraid. This government thinks nothing of bringing laws in through the back door.
There’s nothing to stop any government after the 21st of June declaring…
“We’re NOT bringing in draconian measures at all (Banning smoking), the law has been in place for some time, we’re merely clarifying the situation). How many times have we heard this in the last 13 years?
They’ve played this game so many times it’s not funny.
Thanks for the post George
So why didn’t they force the Mentalist to do this over his claim that Spain is in the G20?
I’m beginning to dislike Mr. Balls (aptly named) more than I loathe most of Newlabour! He behaves like an arrogant gutter snipe, with the manners of a gutter snipe! There is a real bully, no wonder he and Bruin get on so well. On last night’s prog with Paxman he behaved outrageously! Staring, pointing, shouting down, what a horrible man he is! M Gove behaved impeccably considering Balls was almost sitting in his chair and giving him the evil eye the whole time.
Balls is a Chav in a suit.
Well here’s the clincher. I rekon the Brown-machine is run by balls. If it wasn’t for Balls, Brown wouldn’t have lasted this long.
How does that make you feel?
Like there is hope yet.The world is full of much more nicer competent people.
Like Dave, that nice man who cooks on his website and cleans up after his kids,what a nice man. Myself and all my friends are voting for him.
PS. That Mr Brown is a very nasty person.
What was going through Balls’ mind? There can’t have been a single person
watching who thought ‘Isn’t that Ed Balls a decent man, dignified and statesman-like? You know, I feel more inclined to vote for his party as a result of this performance’
Basically, he was just displaying the characteristics of the guilty and dishonest. The belligerence is a dead give away – if he was being honest and had done nothing wrong, he’d be cool, calm and collected.
But this is just like Harman with the banshee wailing of “Ashcroft” at last week’s PMQ’s.
I say again; Labour know from their private polling that they will be destroyed at the General Election,wiped out for decades and they are now cornered and becoming more and more desperate.
Expect more of the same as the beast that is Labour disintegrates before our eyes.
I know.its like the reaction a chav gives to his drug dealer when he tells him he lost the weed he smoked that he was supposed to be selling, a vigerous defence of potential violence.
“I’m beginning to dislike Mr. Balls”
Nice to hear you’ve woken up last, but what the – took you so -ing long?
Gordon’s people tried to get him on Match of the Day 2, which goes out on a Sunday, with Labour luvvie Adrian Chiles. (the man who shopped Carol Thatcher for speaking incorrectly in the green room of The One Show).
Apparently Gordon wanted to wish our boys good luck in the World Cup.
Amazingly, they turned him down. (inappropriate before an election).
I don’t think they quite realised how disastrous Jonah would have been if he’d got on the show.
Oh they did
The one eyed Jockanese Jonah must NEVER be allowed to give our boys his kiss of death
For fuck’s sake! Will someone tell these Kunta Kintes in CCHQ that launching a technology manifesto with no mention of nanotechnology makes you a bunch of pricks. The ‘next generation’ of great tech companies won’t be like Google and Facebook. They will be nano- and genetic-engineering startups created in the fucking garages of Shenzhen – not Milton Keynes judging by this.
Judging by what?,so fucking nano text we can’t see it
calm down calm down
Jesus, what happened to you website Guido? You’re a fellow time-traveller too?!
what happend is you posting a comment on the wrong blog entry,go to the right one.
Dunno. I prefer to think of it as a kind of miracle like times of old. I would join a religion with such promise.
Gove has a brain. Balls just has…well -
I think Balls would really look the part as the chauffeur of one of those 1930′s open Mercedes so beloved of a certain regime. Nice peaked cap and all that black and silver.
He’d rather be in the back wearing a small moustache…
To be fair, what were the odds of a tory “statistic” actually turning out to be correct?
That statistic was supplied by a tory cameraman in the studio
the only thing worse than being ed balls would be to wake up in the morning to find you’re sharing a bed with yvette cooper.
Your right it was a bit scary
you can taste the enriched opprobrium in here. it’s … well, it’s glowing in a weapons-grade, critical mass sort of way.
has anyone got a general election trigger made from the purest revulsion?
I’ve got some nails, a hammer and a tree, those would do nicely.
Well done – now fucking apologise for wearing a Nazi outfit and claiming £33 for poppy wreaths.
Not once we get hold of it for another five years.
Rule Britania my ARSE!
Thursdays QUIZ QUESTION !
Which MP’s wife (who is also herself an MP) is ALLEGED to have said….
“I did not have sexual relations with the journalist”…… but I did blow him off !
At last the british public are starting to see people like balls et al for what they are… self preserving manipulating lying bastards that have managed to reduce this country to it’s knees. Roll on may the 6th and a huge farewell to this scumbag filled government
Give Balls a break.
It must be hard being a complete and utter wanker all day every day.
Has Bals finally lost his marbles
Has balls finally lost his marbles?
The man is a Brown clone or is that a drone?
Who will rid me of this turbulent lefty moronic fukwit?
[...] Balls fucks up again! See the article here: http://order-order.com/2010/03/11/making-the-most-of-a-rare-treat/ [...]
In a fair world the c*nt from Normanton should be called to the Bar of the house and made to read is apology publicly. As it is the idiots (otherwise known as voters) will only see his flasehoods played back on TV.
Interesting. If Sunder Catweazle is signing in a ‘personal capacity’, why does he feel the need to mention that he’s the Gen Sec of the Fabians? Pompous little prick.