March 15th, 2010

Rich & Mark’s Monday Morning View


221 Comments

  1. 1

    Is that Elton John?

    • 2

      You should have gone to Spec Savers

      • 6

        Anne Moffat is naming the nasty bullies who deselected her as Labour Candidate for East Lothian

        http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/14_03_10_moffatletter.pdf

        • 7

          Jack Dromey advises Anne Moffat to “ignore” discussions over expenses

          http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/14_03_10_moffatresponse.pdf

          • lolol says:

            OH it appears the election is only weeks away and the toerags have gone into election mode,haven’t they missed something out like telling the public or is it just the longer they don’t say theirs a GE the more public money they can corruptly use.

          • JACK (Spineless Turd) STRAW says:

            the date of the election is not in the public interest !

          • Mr Ned says:

            I agree lolol,

            Brown meeting undecided voters on the politics show yesterday? WTF?

            I turned it off straight away, I cannot stand watching that fuckwit talk, or even breathe.

            But all this electioneering and no date for the election? It’s obvious why of course, because there is the legal obligation to give equal time to all three big Parliamentary parties once the election officially starts. This way he recruits the BBC as a party agent for free.

          • ANDREUS WANK German Ski jumper says:

            we divert public funds to “special” projects and in return they donate it back to labour party funds
            our party is bankrupt ,
            it’s the right thing to do !

          • scribbler says:

            It’s Keanu Reeves!

            WHOA DUDE!

          • Any Lib-Con team can't last. But it would be fun to watch says:

            It is becoming irritatingly difficult for Conservatives to ignore the Liberal Democrats. For most of the last decade they have been seen by Tories as a form of political pest control, helpfully eating away at the Labour vote by positioning themselves as the anti-war party of the left. But for weeks now most opinion polls have pointed to a Lib-Con alliance. If the election does return a hung parliament, then the Tories must be prepared to negotiate – and immediately. It is time for them to think the unthinkable.

            For his part, Nick Clegg is all dressed in blue and ready to tango. Last week, he told the Spectator how much he admires Margaret Thatcher for defeating the miners’ unions in the 1980s. He duly denounced her to the Guardian later – but this is the skill of the Lib Dems. They are ideologically flexible. They embody the Groucho Marx dictum: “These are my principles and if you don’t like them: well, I’ve got others.” Clegg now has an impressive chocolate box of principles: some red, some blue. And enough blue ones to make a Lib-Con alliance workable.

            http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/14/lib-con-team-fun-clegg

          • JOSEPH KABILA SUCKS BIG WHITE ELEPHANT DICK says:

            $£$£$£ 7 million dead in the continuing african-world-war $£$£$

            western protectionism leaves africans scrapping over the handful of products which the united states and european union permit to be imported without the imposition of high tariffs eg. coltan for mobile-phones and computers – yet cameron and obama, the slay-as-you-go oyibo protectionist shits are glad to do business with the corrupt rwandan-born imposter-president of the democratic republic of congo, joseph kabila, who has allowed rwandan troops to rape and murder his own civilians during the ongoing military campaign to pillage valuable minerals from the eastern congo. for cameron and obama it’s ‘slave-coltan good, cheap staple-food bad’, and don’t anyone dare come to me with kenyan-export flowers grown on the white-man’s farms – they will never be laid on the unmarked genocide-graves of the congolese millions. the blood crocus.

        • 65

          Funnily enough, the BBC have commissioned a report to find out if we are too stupid to vote. No, really.

          http://bastardoldholborn.blogspot.com/2010/03/too-stupid-to-vote.html

          • Obo says:

            why the fuck do you care since you don’t vote?

          • Roger Rigid says:

            In that case the bbc had better keep quiet as anyone voting labour have got to be really stupid and should be banned from voting!

      • 18

        bring on the coalition might just stop the war mongers in future

        • 27
          Mr Ned says:

          Who do you mean by warmongers? Alqaeda? Iran? America? or Israel? Because I do not think that a coalition government in this country will have much influence over any of them.

        • 29
          Cockney Christian says:

          Like your set of bastards eh?

          • Bliar and Bush says:

            God told us to invade Iraq
            it wasn’t our fault it was his

          • The Popes Exorcist says:

            It was the Devil infiltrating the Vatican which caused all the kiddyfiddling not us priests.

        • 66
          T.B£iar - the People's Messiah says:

          Remember 9/11 ?

    • 13
      Elvis Jnr says:

      it’s my long lost daddy

    • 16
      David Cameron says:

      There was a guy who was struggling to decide what to wear to go to a fancy costume party… Then he had a bright idea.
      When the host answered the door, he found the guy standing there with no shirt and no socks on.
      “What the hell are you supposed to be?” asked the host.
      “A premature ejaculation,” said the man. “I just came in my pants!”

    • 37
      Martin Day says:

      It looks like Lord Ashcroft in drag

      • 47
        King Aurther says:

        Thats no way to talk about a great benefactor of good causes Mandy.
        How are things going in scotchland kiddy fiddler?

      • 78
        Martin Gay! Labour party Bitch says:

        You read that on the cubicle wall of a public toilet
        as you were being rear ended by Nick Brown !

    • 93

      It’s George Michael

  2. 3
    Sarah Tweet says:

    http://twitpic.com/18k1ka – just got my very own @SarahBrown10 Twitter brooch – nice!

  3. 5
    A concerned parishioner says:

    I can’t draw either!!!!!

  4. 8
    lolol says:

    Go back to your constituencies oh sorry we kingmakers,the dreams these toerags have,LibDum we always hang onto the tailcoats of the ones in power as we will never be in power ourselves our policies do more damage than the one eyed snot gobbler

  5. 8
    CALL ME DARLING says:

    Just the fact you have to put his name around his neck to give people a clue proves what a shit cartoon this is

  6. 10
    CHARLIE DIMMOCK'S EXPERTLY TRIMMED BUSH says:

    Is it our entry for this years eurovision ?

  7. 11
    Tom Logan, Institute for Studies says:

    That exactly how i think of Nick Clegg, the only thing that is missing is a bejewelled pimp cane.

  8. 12
    John Bull says:

    Beware the ides of March

  9. 17
    Hang The Bastards says:

    CAMPAIGN: To get “GORDON IS A MORON” back to No1 in the charts for May 6th

    Sign up on facebook and tell all !

    http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=10669047740

    This will swing te election. It sorted out Cowell, now it will sort out Brown.

  10. 20
    Filthy Jocko Scum with Blood on his hands says:

    Me and de Cleggmeister is tight.

  11. 21
    Prickly_Pair says:

    What is Nick’s favourite mumsnet recipe?

    Cooked Cactus

  12. 24
    Fees Office Clerk says:

    Gordon Brown’s appearance on yesterday’s The Politics Show is a must watch. Loved his claim, during the programme, that “Britain led the world out of recession”!

  13. 30
    They're all cunts at the BBC, 'cept Susanna Reid whom I wish to bum very much says:

    Thanks for putting the bling name tag on this male figure in this cartoon, I know who it is sposed to be now dont I.

    Personally I am oping Anna Arrowsmith, aka Anna Span can persuade Susan Kramer to appear in one of er porn vids, as I wishes to see er ejaculates on a frequent, if not constant basis.

    Ms Kramer, If you are willing to do a Span squirt vid I will proudly vote for you an all you stands for, wont I

  14. 32
    Get Smart says:

    Does anyone know if Blair is paying tax in the UK I suspect he’s got Non Dom status?

  15. 40
    thick as thieves Labour PPC says:

    Lord Ashcroft

  16. 59
    Hey Nonny Nonney says:

    Whoops, I did it again. More good news for the trailer trash of British politics.
    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=a0a8xAghPS8I
    Bye bye to AAA.

    • 68
      Engineer says:

      That’s just the ratings companies catching up with the markets; they’ve already made their decision and acted on it.

    • 100
      死鬼佬 says:

      Message for the Downing Street imbecile from Peking.

      You borrowed, moon faced sei gweilo.

      Now lick the porcelain.

      No work, no eat.

  17. 60
    Anonymous says:

    Completely off-topic but still interesting : remember the love-in between our supreme leader and Sarkozy just a few days ago?
    The curse of the one-eyed son-of-the-manse in action again :
    Sarkozy on his way to defeat in French election count, swiftly followed by Carla’s exit to greaner pastures.
    Sad really.

    • 67
      CHARLIE DIMMOCK'S EXPERTLY TRIMMED BUSH says:

      A top job in europe awaits shortarzey
      with high chair included

      • 80
        sockpuppet #4 says:

        He’s got his job for another 4 years, and he’s got a very good chance of a second term. which gets him to 2021

        • 140
          HandsomeDavid says:

          But will his marraige last that long?

          Carla will be giving us a clue when she starts wearing six inch stilettos.

      • 88
        Phil says:

        I laughed when I read arsecozy “was not amused” by Osbournes comments and that it would do Osbourne damage. After barking one’s shins on a shortarsed frog’s instant height equalizer as far as I can see the damage has already been done.
        For the benefit of the MSM and the BBC there are a lot of Briton’s who do not give a fxxx what a gallic dwarf thinks.

        • 107
          The Director of Politically Correct ‘n Convenient Troof at AlJaBeeba, - the Brhoon Bullshit Corpse says:

          Oh I say!!

          We very much respect our colleagues in la belle France, just across la Manche (shirt tail to you) in the same eurozone.

          After all, we – the Crème de la crème of broadcasting – have our holiday cotts there, we drink copious amounts of french wine, enjoy their cheese, and all the other comforts and benefits as befits our status in an advanced socialist society.

          Now come along! Rally behind our Glorious and Beloved Leader. Let us at AlJaBeeba give you, the sheeple, the benefit of His Wisdom and Narrative.

          And make sure to pay your TellyTax. It pays for all the above, and ensures a lovely pension for us.

    • 131
      Parisian Banjo Player says:

      I am giving Carla a right good seeing to. She is fed up with being humped by Dopey.

  18. 62
    Engineer says:

    Is that Nora Batty and Marina fighting over Cleggy?

  19. 69
    CHARLIE DIMMOCK'S EXPERTLY TRIMMED BUSH says:

    Another monday another guess who the fuck is in the picture contest !

    Sir Trevor McDonald looks more like Nick Clegg that this cartoon

  20. 75
    Anonymous says:

    Who’s up for digging a mass grave? Bury ‘em deep and bury ‘em alive. Unbelievable!
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/7442579/Lords-official-signed-gagging-order-over-peers-expenses-memo.html

  21. 79
    Hilary Clinton says:

    Is Al-Megrahi dead yet?

  22. 83

    These cartoons are just shit

    we cant go on like this

  23. 84
    The Ape Man Commeth says:

    Even though the puss filled giant coward hasn’t called the actual election, the first election poster has gone up in my street, and, yes, it’s Liebore. It would seem the African family across the road are keen to show their support for the worst political party in living memory.

    When I used to live in a council flat in a very expensive part of South London in the 1970s I remember how, for the first time, I questioned my inherited political allegiances; when, during an election campaign, as I was walking past some big four, five and six bedroom detached houses with single occupants, and noticed posters for the Labour party in their big (net-less) windows. I thought at the time this can’t be right, this is just dishonest they should be for the Tories.

    My thinking was that it might be a way for some to offload any feelings of guilt they may have had about living in such (relative) luxury while 200 yards down the road folk were living in council rent barracks. Then, as now, the Left has somehow managed to fool most of the people most of the time that it is a morally pure and altruistic entity and is the sole institution of good in society: politically, socially and spiritually. And now like the Christian church before it, will, for a price, cleanse the guilty those same guilt trips they devise in the first place.

    • 110
      The Court of Public Opinion says:

      Interesting perspective. For me in my youth it was the opposite. My parents really bust a gut over decades to pay off their 2 up 2 down terrace in an ordinary northern town whilst the unemployed, literally across the street, larded about in their council semis with gardens 2, 3 times bigger. They knew that at least by working hard they would one day own their own homes so come what may no one could take them away, which wasn’t the case for the freeloaders they had to look out at every day.

      That’s until the tories decided to give them all away – a crime unpunished to this day.

      • 141
        Brown's a Tosser says:

        Tories gave away houses! You lived in different times to me do you have a tardis by any chance.

      • 201
        The Ape Man Commeth says:

        Don’t know about giving houses away, but there was a case for giving those capable and healthy people locked into a vicious circle of labour housing = labour votes and therefore a labour mentality of: please look after me, an opportunity to stand on their own feet like your parents had managed to do.

        Also as part of my political awakening at this time was my next door neighbour in the flats, I can remember him moaning to me about how many weeks he had been asking the council to come and fix a small pane of broken glass in his toilet, and when I suggested that it would cost next to nothing and that he could do it himself, his head nearly exploded with the difficulty of understanding the concept. He may have been an exception but it was indicative of the mentality Labour encourages.

      • 205
        Mortgage and no car but pride says:

        In the 70′s a council house meant no rates, decoration or maintainence costs and could be inherited. They were often three income households.

        That’s why the council estates in SE London had higher per capita car ownership than owner occupied streets with mortgages.

        Council housing was a skive, well past its sell-buy date and subsidised by the rate payer who, in many cases, had less disposable income than a council tenant.

        • 213
          The Court of Public Opinion says:

          Sigh.
          For those that need these things spelling out, the tories gave them away in the same sense Bruin gave away the nations gold, or any other valuable-asset-sold-ridiculously-cheap analogy one can care to construct.

  24. 89
    Ed says:

    The 6% conviction rate for reported rapes is becoming an increasing embarrassment for the government. So what does this Labour government do about these incredibly low conviction rates?

    Instead of trying to improve the conviction rate they get one of their apparatchiks, Baroness Stern, to write a report stating that conviction rates are not important and it’s “aftercare and counselling for victims” that should be the main focus of the police and other agencies.

    On Radio 5 this morning they even had a chief constable who said the report was excellent and went on to say that “the police must get involved with the office for national statistics to produce more helpful and meaningful staistics”.

    All very sinister. All very Gordon Brown.

    • 98
      Al says:

      It’s all very Orwellian.

      We really must get Brown’s bunch of crypto-Stalinists out soon before it’s too late.

    • 156

      Maybe a sense of perspective as to what constitutes rape might reduce the reporting rate and allow the police to concentrate on those reports that actually refer to forced sexual intercourse.

      The promotion by feminists of ‘date rape’ (otherwise known as silly women getting drunk and regretting the shag in the morning) has led to a huge increase in reporting of incidents that are not really worth wasting police time on.

      But now that there are organs of the state dedicated to feeding the rape problem, the process of office empire building and PC reluctance to challenge stupid assumptions has led to a self-sustaining bureaucratic fallacy, dedicated to keeping and expanding the jobs of the rape professionals.

      It’s just more Frankfurt School bollocks aimed at fucking up the free citizen.

    • 204

      There is a worrying amount of Baronesses appearing on TV these days. Labour have a Baroness for every type of media damage limitation requirement.

      Where have they all come from, Stern, Uddin, Scotland, Ashton – there are hundreds of these non-entity Baronesses?

    • 206
      Maximus M. Bacillus says:

      I am in favour of abolishing the offence of rape altogether. I am at a loss how a rape can fail to be eo ipso an assault, and a range of offences exist to deal with that. In addition, the issue most vexatious to the mad Hatties and her would-be dragon slaying sistas, that of mens rea, is avoided altogether. And last, but most of all, the dreadful consequences of such an assault might be ameliorated – there are countless cases where the victim suffers not just at the hands of the attacker, but subsequently and even more from family and society – and all because the victim is seen as a chattel of a premium value. If the femministas would do one useful thing for “equality”, it would be to abolish this medieval and tribal concept.

    • 221
      Iano says:

      Statistics are like lampposts for drunks. There for support and not illumination.

  25. 91
    JN says:

    Beckham out of the world cup. Now I know there is a God!

  26. 92
    Mr 'Dave' ("I DID chuck them votes away") Camerhoon, simpering says:

    Mr Brown certainly has powerful arguments.

    And he is the more experienced politician.

    And he has had years in Government.

    Therefore, I feel I should defer to his Judgments.

    And support him – as I have done so far. Well, – I’ve certainly done nothing to impede him.

  27. 101
    The Curse of Jonah Brown says:

    Well that’s Beckham out. Rooney is next.

    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/10/article-1256863-04FD27EE000005DC-449_468x286.jpg

    • 103
      DS says:

      Good riddance to that c’unt Beckham. He was past it years ago.

    • 104
      LMAO says:

      It’s Beckham’s fault for spending so much time posing with his pal Gordon Brown on the doorstep of 10 Downing St. He’s fucking useless anyway, and just there to sell shirts.

    • 120
      The Dirty Rat says:

      Sitting there crying FFS. the twat wants to get some balls. So he was disappointed, not as disappointed as some of those lads losing their limbs on our behalf.

      • 125
        Ken says:

        Beckham is a spoilt, attention-seeking brat. No wonder he likes Gordon Brown. I bet the two of them have tantrums over who’s going to sit on the rocking horse first.

  28. 102
    John says:

    I see that after last night’s sympathetic portrayal of the Camerons, Trevor MacDonald is already being smeared by Gordon Brown’s gang.

    Brown, Draper, McBride, Whelan, and Maguire. Was there ever a more odious bunch than this lot?

    • 121
      Dave's a nice man says:

      So, Daves a nice man and loves his Mum and doesn’t beat the wife. What in that Dave Love in even remotely indicated that he has what it takes to be a PM or that Dave is even a Conservative?

      • 128
        Ken says:

        At least Cameron is a normal human being and not a deranged, self-obsessed sociopath like Brown.

        • 136
          JL says:

          And Samantha Cameron comes over as a normal, likeable, person unlike that fat scheming bitch Sarah Brown.

          No wonder the No 10 staff call her Magda Goebbels behing her back.

          • SamCam says:

            I’m so glad you enjoyed me coming out
            to support Dave
            wasn’t it a jolly super wheeze

  29. 108
    Al says:

    Are Gordon and Sarah Brown turning into the Honeckers? They remind me more of the Ceaucescus.

    “Mr Brown’s contributions read a like a broadcast by a member of the East German politburo who seldom leaves his headquarters and who still believes the regime’s propaganda that everything is getting better and better.”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7443379/Comrade-Brown-as-deluded-as-the-East-German-politburo.html

    • 122
      jgm2 says:

      I didn’t watch it because my mind is firmly closed to the liar Brown and his lying lies. But reading the article suggests that the Maximum Imbecile’s handlers didn’t manage to mobilise the ‘right’ sort of ‘undecided’ voters to apply to appear on the program.

      As for the lie about employing 30,000 more doctors. Well it fucking well has to. After it gave all the doctors a 40% payrise overnight with only 5K for working weekends they promptly all went to a four day week. Same money for much less work. More (foreign) doctors required at vast expense to make up the shortfall.

      Jackass.

      • 193
        Infanta of Castile says:

        The extra docs are needed, partly because increasingly the medical workforce consists of women who elect to work part-time but also partly because of the ludicrous changes in conditions over the past 30 years viz

        in the 1970s/early 80s “junior” doctors habitually provided on-call for 100 hours a week (there are 168 hours in a week) of which, on average, they worked flat out for 70 hours and were available to be called to casualty or the ward for about 30. In teaching hospitals medical students prvided a lot of basic work like taking blood, suturing etc. No female doc would have dreamed of applying for a job knowing she was pregnant. Typically it took 12 + years as a junior doc before getting a consultant post.

        This was far from satisfactory but we have now gone from the sublime to the ridiculous because of a combination of EU directives and politically correct imbecility. e.g.

        a woman is appointed as consultant when she is pregnant and goes on maternity leave after a month in the job. After her maternity leave is over she chooses to take unpaid leave, only returning when she is pregnant again. She works 2 months and then goes on maternity leave again. After three kids -she has allegedly been a consultant for >5 years but has actually done about 6 months work. The hospital cannot advertise her job and limps along, employing locums or doing without until she finally returns, only to find she now exercises her EU constituted right to take more unpaid leave because she has children under 5 so she never works August or Christmas/New year

      • 207
        Root and Branch says:

        http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article757261.ece

        Since its inception the Health Service has, to quote Bevan ”Stuffing their mouths with gold’, been paying a danegeld to the medical closed shop. To keep the socialist pipe dream alive, doctors have to be bribed. That has gone on now for 60 years.

        Without the doctors, the whole rickety construction falls apart and the doctors play on this mercilessly.

        An insurance system would break the stranglehold, provide more patient choice and better outcomes than the ‘biggest employer in Europe’.

  30. 109
    The Director of Politically Correct ‘n Convenient Troof at AlJaBeeba, - the Brhoon Bullshit Corpse says:

    Oh I say!!

    We very much respect our colleagues in la belle France, just across la Manche (shirt tail to you) in the same eurozone.

    After all, we – the Crème de la crème of broadcasting – have our holiday cotts there, we drink copious amounts of french beverages, enjoy their cheese, and all the other comforts and benefits as befits our status in an advanced socialist society.

    Now come along! Rally behind our Glorious and Beloved Leader. Let us at AlJaBeeba give you, the sheeple, the benefit of His Wisdom and Narrative.

    And make sure to pay your TellyTax. It pays for all the above, and ensures a lovely pension for us.

  31. 114
    Gorgon the Moron, looking on his heap of steaming economic shit says:

    Aye! – ar’ it’s arl mae ain wurk!

    an nuthn’s ma fult ye un’stn.

  32. 115
    Norman Tebbit says:

    Looks like the Only way a Tory can vote these days is UKIP.

    Vote Conservative get Socialist Liberal Dave
    Vote Labour get Socialist Brown
    Vote LibDem get a Socialist Government

    • 129
      Ken says:

      A vote for UKIP is a vote for five more years of Brown.

      • 151
        Brown's a Tosser says:

        Spot on.

      • 153
        Nigel Farage says:

        No it’s not.

        And why is Dave supporting Speaker Bercow? Speaker Bercow is no longer a member of the Conservatie party and even his wife doesnot vote for him.

        • 170
          Brown's a Tosser says:

          CCHQ cannot be seen to NOT support Bercow. It is my guess they would like nothing more than to see him lose and lose big.

      • 164
        Moley says:

        A vote for UKIP is a vote for change.

        Vote for what you believe in and don’t listen to all this rubbish about “You’ve got to vote Conservative”. (Because we say so).

        If the Conservatives want votes, they need the policies to get them.

        • 180
          Brown's a Tosser says:

          Dream on. There will only be three outcomes come the GE.

          Tory win.
          Labour win.
          Hung Parliament.

          There is not a chance of any other outcome given the two main parties and our voting system and be in no doubt a vote for UKIP is a vote for Gordon fact. I have no great love for DC but this country cannot afford five more years of Brown and the sooner he is gone the better for all IMHO. However, each to there own and on May 6th we will all get the chance to place our cross where we feel most comfortable, for me the choice is clear and my handle says it all.

    • 138
      Catflap says:

      Your right Norm, the big 2 and a bit political parties are dancing on the head of a pin. I want a choice not a set fucking menu.

    • 152
      Stu says:

      So lets get this right Mr intelligent, lets vote UKIP a single issue party with little experience outside the troughs of Europe and few other policies to get this country out of the mire it’s in.
      I smell Liebour troll here.

  33. 119
    Hey Nonney Nonney says:

    Brown , our glorious saviour has reportedly stepped in to ease the BA crisis (oh dear) by personally speaking to the two deputy generals of Unite. Why nust just lean over the effing desk in No10 and speak to Charlie boy?? Sky and aljabeeba seem to have ommitted that link bless them.

    • 127
      jgm2 says:

      Unite has already done the damage. Anybody with holiday plans will be booking Virgin, American, Continental, any fucker at all but BA because the arseholes might go on strike and strand you.

      Jackasses.

      • 143
        Hey Nonney Nonney says:

        Can’t quite see the logic here with Wheelan appearing to stuff labour. Adonis doesn’t get hugs from Broon so I can see his motive but is Wheelan looking to deal himself a more lethal position at NO 10?

      • 148
        jgm2 says:

        Record fall in air passenger numbers last year.

        http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8567493.stm

        Well, the longest recession in UK history precipitated by the Maximum Imbecile’s reckless economic policy certainly didn’t help. That and the pound going down the shitter hiking the cost of holidays once you actually do step onto the tarmac in Mallorca or Miami.

        And in the teeth of all these inconvenient facts the arseholes at Unite thought it appropriate to incite the BA cabin crew to strike?

        • 177
          sockpuppet #4 says:

          Wasn’t it part of the rather dim “shove it on the credit card” years that folks went away for the weekend on planes? I was certainly tempted, but didn’t do it very often.

          It’d be interesting really to know what % of air travel was whim-spending that people are doing without easily.

          • Harold Musgrove says:

            we pulled the same shit at British Leyland as Willie Walsh is doing at BA – unsaleable cars, get the workers out on strike – cheaper than paying wages – empty planes , get the cabin staff out on strike and then close down the factory and flog off to asset strippers – British Aeropspace – and then close it down finally – Longbridge. BA to be gone within five years.

          • jgm2 says:

            BA is a lot better than it was pre-privatisation. One of the happiest days of my travelling life was when Lord Young (I think) fired 6,000 of the fuckers one morning.

            That certainly woke them up. No more one free dr*nk and then hide down the back of the aircraft for the next eight hours planning their next free week layover in Jamaica or Harare. Suddenly you got the same service Virgin had been giving for ten years.

            This UNITE idiocy is just some effort to re-establish the institutionalised BA idiocy of the late 1980’s/Early 1990’s.

            As others have said – it’s the same mentality that did for BL. The unfortunate thing is that BL were driven to destruction by the unions but BA were doing okay until recently. It doesn’t have to be this way but it looks like UNITE doesn’t give a shit. It’s all about flexing their muscles and to hell with their members.

        • 185
          H'row body scanner says:

          yeah, but we got them lovely kiddie photos.

          • jgm2 says:

            They’ve had them body scanners at Moscow airport for years. If anybody wants kiddie scan pics then I’m sure a few roubles in the right direction at Domodedovo would get ‘em all they want.

            I’m still trying to get rid of all the old pictures of me in the bath when I was a kid.

  34. 124
    Hey Nonney Nonney says:

    **nust** – not

  35. 126
    Decided Voter says:

    I’m going to miss him when he’s gone

  36. 137
    Martin Day is gay says:

    Please do give generously if you can. Bless you!

    * ESSEX HURRICANE APPEAL *

    A major hurricane (Hurricane Shazza) and earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale hit Essex in the early hours of Friday with its epicentre in Basildon. Victims were seen wandering around aimlessly muttering, “Faaackinell”.

    The hurricane decimated the area causing approximately £30 worth of damage. Several priceless collections of mementos from Majorca and the Costa Del Sol were damaged beyond repair.

    Three areas of historic burnt out cars were disturbed. Many locals were woken well before their giros arrived. Essex FM reported that hundreds of residents were confused and bewildered and were still trying to come to terms with the fact that something interesting had happened in Basildon .

    One resident – Tracy Sharon Smith, a 15-year-old mother of 5 said, “It was such a shock, my little Chardonnay-Mercedes came running into my bedroom crying. My youngest two, Tyler-Morgan and Victoria-Storm slept through it all. I was still shaking when I was skinning up and watching Trisha the next morning.”

    Apparently looting, muggings and car crime were unaffected and carried on as normal.

    The British Red Cross has so far managed to ship 4,000 crates of Sunny Delight to the area to help the stricken locals. Rescue workers are still searching through the rubble and have found large quantities of personal belongings, including benefit books, jewellery from Elizabeth Duke at Argos and Bone China from Poundland.

    _HOW CAN YOU HELP?_

    This appeal is to raise money for food and clothing parcels for those unfortunate enough to be caught up in this disaster. Clothing is most sought after – items most needed include:

    Fila or Burberry baseball caps
    Kappa tracksuit tops (his and hers)
    Shell suits (female)
    White sport socks
    Rockport boots
    Any other items usually sold in Primark.

    Food parcels may be harder to come by, but are needed all the same.
    Required foodstuffs include:

    Microwave meals, tins of baked beans, Ice cream, cans of Colt 45 or
    Special Brew. 22p buys a biro for filling in the compensation forms.
    £2 buys chips, crisps and blue fizzy drinks for a family of 9. £5 buys
    B&H and a lighter to calm the nerves of those affected.

    _**Breaking news**_

    Rescue workers found a girl in the rubble smothered in raspberry
    Alco-pop.

    ‘Where are you bleeding from?’ they asked.

    “ROMFORD” said the girl, “woss that gotta do wiv you?”

  37. 139
    The Dirty Rat says:

    What was behind Sarkozy’s visit to Brown. Pound to a pinch of s*it Brown has committed the UK to assisting in the bail out of Greece.

    • 155
      Brown's a Tosser says:

      You make an interesting point.

      • 158
        Brown's a Tosser says:

        Hit wrong key was going to add. Darling ruled out any UK support for Greece which is not surprising given the condition of our own economy.

        • 169
          The Dirty Rat says:

          We might find that when push comes to shove we can not refuse help. Who knows what is wrapped up in the Lisbon treaty?

    • 168
      Decided Voter says:

      Simply a French Tourist visiting London because of the plummeting £.

      Bargains at Oxford Street’s FCUK store.

    • 216
      Oozo_Mountain says:

      Brown has gifted the EUSSR at least 17 Billion by now from the surrender of Mrs Thatcher’s refund.
      That money given by every UK consumer has for a long time been redistributed to every poor EUSSR member – Greece included.
      Efharisto Megalay Britannia (Thanks Britain)

  38. 145
    Baboon's arse says:

    This was posted on the last thread but the last line is so good it deserves another airing!

    Enjoy.

    —————-

    A company created by former Glasgow City Council leader Steven Purcell is facing an independent audit after awarding around £10 million of contracts to a firm run by Labour’s biggest Scottish donor.

    City Building (Glasgow) LLP, an arm’s-length company set up by the Labour-run city council, awarded two large deals to City Refrigeration Holdings UK in 2007.

    The founder and boss of City Refrigeration is Willie Haughey, who has donated more than £1.1m to Labour since 2003.

    City Building, which replaced the council’s Building Services Department, was created in 2006 as a tax-efficient trading unit, which could bid for construction work beyond Glasgow, and now has a turnover of £180m and more than 2,000 employees.

    It has numerous ties to Labour through its managing director, chair and board. One of its executives is Scottish Labour’s former general secretary, Lesley Quinn.

    For more than a year, City Building has refused to release details of the City Refrigeration contracts following Freedom of Information (FoI) requests from The Herald.

    It claims the method used to award them was so novel and unique it constitutes a trade secret and is therefore exempt from FoI.

    • 171
      Moley says:

      Some more questions about Purcell.

      1)

    • 175
      Moley says:

      What does Purcell know that makes it so absolutely essential that he has been removed from the Country?

      Is Purcell still alive, or is he feeding the fishes at the bottom of the Clyde?

      The Police need to answer the last question.

      • 208
        Baboon's arse says:

        He DID meet Jonah in the days previous so that may expalin it.

      • 211
        The son of the manse says:

        The Gord giveth and the Gord taketh away.

        Its the righteous thing to do.

        Amen.

      • 212
        Maximus M. Bacillus says:

        There are a lot of ways to dispose of a corpse with concrete, as the mafia can testify.

  39. 146
    Mr Brown has blood on his hands says:

    So Gordon is getting involved in the BA strike. The TWAT HAS ALWAYS been involved. Charlie Whelan (Unite) is Gordon’s best friend and personal aid, Jack Dromey(Unite) is married to Harriet Harman (deputy leader of Labour).

    Gordon and Harriet have been involved since day 1 and do Not be surprised that this is all a pre election set up where Gordon saves the national carrier.

    This strike is about raw politics and fuck all to do with helping BA cabin staff, indeed the BA employees are CHAFF.

    • 154
      jgm2 says:

      Yes. I have to agree. It makes no sense at all to be inciting BA cabin crew to strike when the facts are that airline travel has fallen by a higher percentage than any year since WWII.

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8567493.stm

      It can only be a bit of muscle-flexing and button-pushing practice for UNITE for when the Tories are in power. Then they’ll be pressing exactly the same buttons to get the nurses marching through Whitehall. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of ‘em bussed in to screech about a ‘fair days pay for a fair days work’. No thought at all for the wider economic picture.

      • 183
        Moley says:

        The argument will be “Only Labour can work with the Unions”.

        It stinks.

        • 194
          jgm2 says:

          Yep. We know that. Only Labour could have taken the tough decisions that needed being taken without instigating a civil war.

          They have declined to do that – instead they’re teeing the whole keg up for mass strikes, social division and civil strife. Pitting citizen against citizen for purely political purpose.

          They know that they have fucked the economy and will soon be out of power. They know that difficult decisions will have to be made but they’re already lining up the union shock-troops for mass strikes and priming a class war against Eton Dave and the Tories.

          The evil fucking bastards.

    • 161
      Stu says:

      Dromey and Whelan are the sort of union scum I thought this country had seen the back of.
      Interested in the welfare of BA cabin crews, what a laugh. Pushing them and BA to oblivion for their own political ends. Reminds me of the UK car industry when we had one in the 70′s.
      Brown intervenes when the damage has been done, how useful. God help them now, self serving garbage from the union movement who will still have jobs when this debacle is over and the curse of Jonah Brown.
      BA = British Leyland.

      • 197
        DelBoy says:

        A very useful comment of R4 over the weekend. Get rid of both Union and BA leadership.
        This is going to cost us (again).

    • 209
      Anonymous says:

      That would imply Broon is diseng/dsisngenu/… a lying fucker.

  40. 157
    Hairy Palms of Hamstead says:

    Mr fucking IPS Moderator,you have still not explained why ‘SamCam’ is still shown on my favourite ‘Bored housewife’ spank sites list.
    If I wanted to see a real bored fucking housewife I’d look at my fucking missus rather than that Cu*t Camerons wife.
    Sort it.

  41. 172
  42. 174
    bored to death by Gordo on the box says:

    Anybody watching Gordo’s little outing on Sunday’s BBC Politics programme may have noticed how often his reply was to “set up an investigation” into some failure of his grand plan. About time we had an investigation into how Unite’s Dromey seem to have got preferment in becoming a PPC in a safe Labour seat.

  43. 178
    Griff Nickin says:

    Seen on the Al-Beeba Website.

    BBC R4 10:00 Wimmins Hour, With Jane Garvey. Gordon Brown and the etiquette of going bra-less in public.

    (Isn’t Tony invited as well!)

  44. 200

    Nice cartoon. I predict an enraged article at LC before the day is out.

  45. 203
    QWERTY says:

    This strike is all a setup. The one eyed mong has now stepped in and will be made to look the hero, all hail Gorgon the one eyed tool.

  46. 219
    Watt Tyler says:

    Rofl! Ace cartoon.

  47. 220
    Jo Swinson says:

    That tooth flosser was worth it



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