March 16th, 2010

Exclusive : Inside the CCHQ War Room
Ashcroft Pushed Out, Loses Desk

With the Osborne and Cameron operation moving over from the Norman Shaw building on the Parliamentary Estate  to CCHQ on the fifth floor of Millbank, it is interesting to note who has been given the chop. The latest floor-plan reveals the fact that, unannounced, Ashcroft has lost his much discussed “office” in the centre of operations.  He has been turfed out and it has been turned into a proof-reading area and editing suite, clearly they have decided it is more important to check the small-print.  A case of “thanks for all the cash m’lord, goodbye!”

The policy unit has been pushed further and further from the centre and replaced with even more spinners, which illustrates campaign priorities. Perhaps worryingly for the embattled shadow Chancellor his desk space is listed as “George Osborne / Hotdesk”, as is often the way with offices using temporary staff.  There are a mere 6 double-barrelled names listed in the 200 strong operation.  See, the Tories really have changed!

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206 Comments

  1. 1
    Mrs B says:

    Best thing for him at the moment. Newsnight last night was appalling, watching some half-baked Trot answer nothing but just bang on about Ashcroft.

    • 5

      anything on Newsnight but Finkelstein please

      • 96

        What is it with Labour? Anytime money is mentioned it’s “ner ner ner ner you’ve got Ashcroft”. Yet he accounted for a small % of the Tory money whereas Unite, with their Brown mate Charlie Whelan, bolster Labour to the tune of 23%.

        Fair enough that the unions pay money to a party they set-up, but doesn’t something stink about Charlie Whelan being involved with Gordon Brown, Unite and the Labour party?

        With the history behind them over McBride, I wouldn’t be surprised if Brown’s intervention was a set-up by Whelan to make it look like he’s not owned by the unions.

        • 130
          QWERTY says:

          Of course it’s all a put up job, Brown doesn’t take a shit unless Whelan OK’s it. Funny that the BBC forget to mention Whelan used to work for them. Whelan used to work for the publicity arm of Liebour/Unite called Radio 5 live.

        • 136
          Al says:

          Labour give the unions over ten million pounds of taxpayers money every year through something called the ‘trade union modernisation fund’, and the unions give Labour back over eight million pounds in ‘donations’.

          It’s basically money-laundering made legal by the most corrupt government in British history.

        • 140
          BBC CAMPAIGNS FOR NEW LABOUR says:

          Its only the BBC which keeps flogging Ashcroft. The BBC owes its survival to parroting labour spin but they’ve completely lost judgement with this one and its become so boring and pathetic that its undoing the brief gain it may have achieved. Horse, flog, dead. Some good has come. I’ve broken the habit of a lifetime now and have started watching ITV News -its political reportage is just so much better and fairer and its a real breath of fresh air not to listen to Nick Robinson twisting every ounce of slippery prejudice in his attempts to please his political paymasters.

      • 144
        Ashcrofts Cash for Bloggers Scheme says:

        you mean he has to direct things from an office elsewhere ?
        the poor lambie lamb

      • 190
        Knowledge is Porridge says:

        Oliver Nitwit is STILL hanging around???
        Extraordinary!

    • 20
      thick as thieves Labour PPC says:

      But where are the lavatories located ???

      • 115
        exiled&angry says:

        You’ve just set them up for any potential terrorist/nutter to chose his target -nice one Guido!

        • 172
          Eric says:

          I doubt we could ever be that lucky. The only explosions they’ll have to put up with will be Eric Pickles continually breaking wind.

        • 189
          Fat Pickles will eat you says:

          Pickles does a guided tour webvid you twat

    • 197

      WHEN I was working, and that happened to us, we used to call it

      THE PLACE OF SKULLS

      • 198

        It’s the worng thing to do, he should havebrazened it out against the GramscoFabiaNazis.

        GFNs hate rich people, nice people, polite people and people who give money to people who hate nasty people.

        You people had better watch it, or the Ashcroft-murderers might remember to hate people with glasses, people with pretty wives (and daughters), people with bigger or cleaner cars that other people, people who read Guido, people who work in the City-Offices of “banks”, and…er… people.

      • 199

        And given that the LabourNazis take money forcibly from trades union members and fascist nondoms (I nearly said condoms) and buy curtains and prostitutes with it, is it so wrong that the Tories whould have money from a mere Lord, who happens to live somewhere else?

        Personally, if I was a New-Guinea-Papuan, or a Chinese, I’d prefer to give money to PotatoHead than to BastardBrown, if a gun was put to my head to shoose, which it would be.

  2. 2
    Captain Black says:

    It’s the right thing to do…

  3. 3
    Mrs B says:

    (Incidentally, I think that’s my first first.)

  4. 4
    Sarah Tweet says:

    at Women’s AId board meeting this morning with team looking at new campaign to raise awareness of domestic violence

    http://twitter.com/SarahBrown10/status/10533214908

  5. 7
    Fees Office Clerk says:

    The recent dip in the polls has done the Tories the power of good. Ashcroft was an accident waiting to happen. Reckon Brown will put off calling the General Election now until June.

    • 12
      • 195
        DelBoy says:

        Maybe they are using the office space to identify which commoners and lords to get rid of. It will take about 3 minutes – just type “ALL”.

    • 34
      jgm2 says:

      Oh Christ. I’ve already told y’all. Brown was always going to put off the election until the last possible second.

      He’ll delude himself that, hey, I could call it any time, but his fear of losing will mean that he’ll postpone it until the last possible second just so he can maximise his opportunities for meeting foreign dignitaries, attending foreign conferences, grandstanding at various events etc etc. And his missus will be egging him on for exactly the same reasons.

      She’s going to be off the celebrity after-dinner circuit come June 4th just as surely as the Maximum Imbecile.

      If Brown had a 20-point lead in the polls he’d still put off the election until the last possible moment – because then he’d still be guaranteeing himself more time to accumulate airmiles, photo opportunities and ‘amusing anecdotes for his truly cringe-inducing autobiography.

    • 138
      Kit says:

      What happens if Gordo does not call the election? I know they have to have one but how does it work? As a leader of the opposition one suggested of the then PM (Heath or Wilson I think) do we put the police in to get him out?

    • 159
      Anorak Hoon says:

      Over on Iain Dale it says that two new polls put the Tories with
      a 9% and an 11% lead respectively. Fingers crossed…

  6. 8
    Can we have a Tory party please? says:

    Excellent – Cameron’s by the exit.

    • 42

      The diagram looks like an engineers drawing section view through a toilet bowl.

      That puts Cameron on the splashback rim and means that Pickles is in most danger of getting accidentally pissed on.

      The circle half way down is clearly some sort of disinfectant block and the sewage outlet flows out, understandably, to the right.

      • 137
        Being a son of the manse enables me to bully, smear, beat, and lie with impunity says:

        No i think you have toilets on the mind, this is just an office plan

  7. 9
    REEVO says:

    The Tory party are supported (just like all the other parties) by the idiots who put looting thieving twerps forward to be their local MP.

    These idiots HAVE NOT CHANGED!

    Indeed many still support the 52% of MPs that cheated the taxpayer…

    Until they change….NO CHANGE!

  8. 10
    Maud-Foxley says:

    Surely you can fire more bullshit from 2 barrels than you can from one!

  9. 11
    The Court of Public Opinion says:

    Well, seeing as Bruin is publicly shafting the unions over BA he is echoing the sentiment with Unite – “so long brothers, and thanks for all the cash!”.

    • 16
      Throbber says:

      He’s not shafting them – the whole thing is a set up for him to “bring the parties together and force a solution”. Its all a con trick in order to make him look good.
      The real striking and disruption is being saved up until after the election in case the Tories do win.

      • 17

        I tend to agree – look at the Mirror today “won’t the PM intervene personally to bang heads together…” Just Great Gordon, the King of the World, Saving the Skies themselves!

        I hate that arsehole.

        • 45
          jgm2 says:

          No Frank. Don’t look at The Mirror. Anybody who reads that trash paper already has their mind firmly closed to reality and the facts. It doesn’t matter what lies they write their readers have already made up their minds.

          It would be like getting upset about the content of Socialist Worker.

          The big enemy is the BBC. It is watched by people whose opinions are open to manipulation. That’s what to get upset about. When the BBC will be uncritically reporting that the Maximum Imbecile personally intervened to ‘save’ their Easter skiing trip – with no background as to how it was Labour’s sponsors, Unite, who manipulated the whole strike in the first place just so that the jackass could publicly ‘fix’ it.

          • BBC CAMPAIGNS FOR NEW LABOUR says:

            Yes you are correct, the BBC commentator’s New Labour bias is sickening and is getting even more desperate as they seek to defend the indefensible. The BBC is party to labour lies and their promotion and as such may one day be held to account. Its interesting to see that however pathetic the Tory opposition spokesmen have been, given their wealth of opportunities to ridicule Brown and his hopeless cabinet, they seem at last to be beginning to raise their fighting spirit and take on, and even occasionally expose, BBC commentators who constantly front labour spin and deliberately conceal Brown’s criminal lies and his sordid cronies deceit. Roll on the election, it may be unfashionable to think it but maybe the great British public aren’t so stupid after all and will throw out Brown, his ghastly front bench, Mandleson and all the other back door scoundrels in and out of the BBC that Brown relies on to prop him up.

          • jgm2 says:

            Here are the BBC uncritically parrotting Labour lies to conceal the fact that Brown’s trashing of the currency and insane travel tax has given us the highest petrol prices in history..

            http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8569525.stm

            Lindsay Hoyle, Labour MP on the Commons business committee, told the Daily Telegraph: “Crude oil has gone up this year, but nothing like the rise in petrol prices. Motorists are being legally mugged at the forecourt by petrol companies.”

            See that? They had to go to ‘The Telegraph’ to get a lie – which was presumably disembowelled in The Telegraph but was just repeated verbatim by the BBC.

            Outright fucking lies. Petrol is more expensive than it was when oild was 150USD a gallon because the fucking currency has collapsed against the dollar. And it has collapsed because Brown is dr*ving the economy into destruction.

            And that is the fact.

          • The Sun says:

            BIG WOBBLY TITS!

          • The Mail says:

            Celebrity gossip, celebrity breasts and house prices

          • The Express says:

            Princess Diana murdered ?

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            jgm2. Note that Lindsay Hoyle is a very strong Brown Loyalist, and the (ex?) Employer of Jonty Pryor.

        • 167
          Unsworth says:

          And I hate The Mirror arseholes, too. Fucking fifth-columnists.

    • 119
      Phil says:

      I listened to Brown and he did not “shaft the unions” he said the workers and management at BA had to sort themselves out and he deliberately avoided any reference to his union cash cow pals.

  10. 13
    hang um high says:

    The great leader should have gone for the election earlier,but hes a bottler and now the chickens are coming home to roost………… thank you lord.

  11. 14

    A fax machine in the office (see outside Osborne’s door) is about as reassuring as a starting handle on a new car. Party of technology indeed.

  12. 15
    Purpleline says:

    Shock Horror Gordon Brown to be interviewed by Lorraine (Paxman esq) Dr. Kelly (do not mention her last name) in a very hard hitting interview on GMTV in half an hour.

    What a Huhne that McTwat is, at least he is keeping it in the Scottish family.
    Mind I would give her one.

    He is after the women vote, I wonder what Baroness Ashley (sic) Ashton would sya this morning after being called a useless Huhne at the weekend by Brown. I believe she is and has been set up, to take some heat until fondelbum is ready to go back to take her job.

    • 85
      barefootcontessa says:

      He’s attacking her because her husband isn’t showing Newlabour in a good enough light in the polls.

  13. 18
    Purpleline says:

    Banana’s useful for Aids- HIV as Mc Twat is eating so many can I extrapoltate that the Huhne is dyung (hopefully) of Aids.

    I wonder what Sarah PR expert will say about this after defeat.

    I never had sex with that man he only used a Turkey baster three times, with sperm provided from residue found up a rent boy’s bottom in the Hamptons collected a mouthful after safe sex with wee gordan in 1986.

    Look I’m a fat whore, how can I have Aids like Brown (Banana republic, eater of nine Aids free Bananas a day)

    Sarahs Press release for when it all goes tits up (if ever an election is called)

    • 25
      Lord Mandescum-Mossad says:

      Oh you are awful

      And dont’ forget

      I LOVE wimmin…

    • 64

      Well, today is the anniversary of the resignation of Lord Kagan’s best mate Harold back in 76 due to ill health…

      Ennobling dodgy donors – it’s in their genes!

  14. 19
    Martin Day says:

    London, Mar.16 (Martin Day): The leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, David Cameron, is heading for a massive election meltdown and humiliaitng defeat

    • 36
      Mandy's Doctor says:

      Dream on Mandy
      XXX

    • 97
      Natalie Rowe says:

      Nonsense, when my book is published two weeks before the election voters will learn about what stallions Dave and George are, and that it is an exaggeration how much coke was at my parties; there was only enough to get the boys started. A sure vote winner to know how manly Team Cameron is. (And the stories that the only Western Dave likes is Brokeback Mountain, is entirely false.)

      • 163
        Phwoarr!! says:

        If he’s got any sense he’ll be a fan of Cowgirl, especially with that foxy SamCam.

  15. 22
    Money is not the solution. says:

    Stuff Ashcroft.

    I wanna know what Dave is going to do about the things that make life miserable for ordinary Joe.

    Such as High petrol prices, useless and costly HIPs, Hospital acquired infections, speed bumps, speed cameras, green taxes, immigration, political union with Europe.

    Ashcroft can throwaway as much money as he likes but until Dave starts addressing the matters that matter heain’t getting my vote.

    • 108
      Impartialbroadcaster says:

      It is all in the plan.

      As soon as the election is called, Dave will say he will introduce the fuel stabilising measure which Labour laughed at which will reduce the tax as petrol goes up, scrap HIPs, get hospitals clean and prevent Hospital acquired infections, get more police and remove most speed cameras, put green taxes on hold as climate change caused by humans is now not proven, cap immigration, have a referendum about our EU membership with options of total withdrawal/status quo/back to original Common Market.
      That should ensure Brown is banished back to Northern Britain (Jockland).

      • 152
        Heir-to-Blair says:

        he will then sort out the middle east peace process, end the war in Afghanistan feed the 5000 from a packet of crisps and develop cheap and plentiful solar power from all the sunshine the above delightfuly deranged poster sees shining out of his arse

        course he will son, course he will

        Hahahahahahaha!!

  16. 23
  17. 26
    SamCam says:

    And not one woman in Dave’s war room.

    • 28
      Mrs T says:

      Yes

      But seriously

      Are there any intelligent fighting Tory ladies ?

      • 35
        Anonymous says:

        Are there any intelligent fighting Tory men?

        • 38

          Are there any Tories?

        • 62
          david and dave says:

          Dave has kicked David Davis into touch. This IMHO is a bad mistake as Davis has the support of most Tories.

          • DD has his sights on 2015

          • barefootcontessa says:

            True. David Davis would be the right ‘rough’ antidote to their well bred team. Why do the Tories continuously block out their best vote winners?

          • Real Alternative says:

            “DD has his sights on 2015″

            Events dear boy. You mention Plan A. This is if Cameron has a small majority.

            If Cameron does not get a majority and Brown clings on (Lib-Lab), there will be about 9 months before the next election. DD’s Plan B is to start a leadership campaign soon after the election based on the phrase “I told you so”. Real Conservatives will oust the bluLabour Team Cameron. The next election (early 2011) will then be Brown/Davies and the result a foregone conclusion.

          • Boris for PM says:

            I think Boris may have something to say about Mr Davis ambitions

  18. 29
    David Cameron says:

    I was at the cash machine this morning when a homeless guy asked me if I could spare a quid for “a cup of tea”.

    I said “sure mate, as long as you give me your dealer’s number, I like the sound of his prices”.

    • 114
      Gideon's "doctor" Brother says:

      Why have you stopped buying from me? Is it because I am a muslim now?

  19. 31
    Bob says:

    Guido

    Is there a Tory “Attack Team” in Millbank ?

  20. 33
    Gon's TV station says:

    GMTV = Gordon’s Morning T V

    • 132
      Postal Vote says:

      a few years of friendly questions lands you in a safe seat …..

      ….. mmmm

      Labour can really learn the conservs a few tricks if the conservs would like to play nasty and blur the lines between politicians, journalists and editors:
      -channeling public sector job ads to the guardian to (not-so) covertly buy friendly reporting and miles of column inches on the comment pages
      -more generously funding the bbc than the conservs ever will
      -give the safe seat to the GMTV poltical editor
      -Mirror Morgan interview el Gordo

      All courtesy of the net taxpayer

      You may despise Campbell and Mandy, but, together with Straw’s postal voting scams, they really rival Berlusconi’s grip on the country (and the majority of the Italians do not seem to mind that much, so Brits take note, soon you’ll have a Unite parliament, and an even lower productivity growth than rpeviously)

  21. 37
    Postal Vote says:

    Postal Vote Tsunami nearing British shores. Mr Whelan is writing to his high-flying Unite members to get the postal votes up in the air, on behalf of El Gordo,

    from the Telegraph:

    He writes: “With many of our members working shifts we’re also asking you to make sure as many of our members register for a postal vote.”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7450454/Leaked-email-shows-how-BA-strike-union-is-campaigning-for-Labour.html

    Florida 2000 will seem kids’ play. In addition to the deficit, postal voting this spring will really embarass the UK.

    • 49
      Anonymous says:

      Be like confetti at a wedding. Labour’s edukachun ‘system’ limits ability to count just in time for another debacle.

    • 93
      Sir William Waad says:

      I’m up to six postal votes at present. Can anyone beat that? It’s easier out here in the country of course because we can quietly bury people without having to tell the authorities that they’ve died. Plus, like certain inner-city areas, there are a lot of people with the same surname.

  22. 41
    jgm2 says:

    Meanwhile petrol prices are about to hit a record high thanks to the Maximum Imbeciles woeful economic stewardship totally trashing the pound.

    And when petrol prices go up so does all the transport costs so folks food will be costing more. Inflation will continue to rise and Unite is already getting practice in for mobilizing strikers. Wait till Cameron gets in and we have inflation at 5% and Unite has all the nurses shrieking through Whitehall wanting ‘cost of living increases’ and all because the jackass Brown has totally fucked the currency.

    And oil is still ‘only’ 80USD a barrel – about half its peak of a couple of years ago.

    And all this public sector striking and we still have an annual deficit of 200bn quid.

    Scorched earth economics from the Labour party of economic destruction.

    • 48
      Inflate to beat the debt. says:

      Don’t lock your savings in fixed rates. Whoever is in power will create inflation to reduce the debt. This is what ALL governments Always do.

      • 61
        jgm2 says:

        Inflation?

        Yes. I know. I was predicting exactly that five or six years ago. And the printing of money.

        Not many people were predicting the government would be reduced to printing money but I was. Because I am not a fucking idiot. Because I can see the inevitable consequences of these jackasses incompetence.

        June 2004.

        http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=8764925&sort=postdate

        Which is why I know that the nurses will be used by the unions to finally destroy the economy and tear the country apart and return us politically to the 1970s. I predicted that years ago too.

        • 67
          ST says:

          I tell you what I didn’t predict this morning: that I would be agreeing with the European Commission.

        • 82
          Anonymous says:

          My wife started nurse training last year. When she opted out of contributing to labour funds, she was seen twice by union reps and strongly ‘advised’ that it was in her best interests to contribute. We’ll see if she makes it to year two!

          • LibLabCons enemies of Britain says:

            Unions are a Labour protection racket and a weapon of sabotage. Their bosses couldn’t give a toss about their membership other than as a cash cow and as political canon fodder.

            Just look at the unions deafening silence as Labour flooded the country with cheap imported labour. Hardly in their memberships’ interest I would have though. But certainly in the Marxist anti-British Labour parties interest. And that’s all that mattered.

            Unlike the Tories, I want strong Unions. Employers left to their own devices can never be trusted to look after the welfare of their work force. But the Unions I want should be ruthlessly de-politicised and have zero affiliation with any party by law.

            But alas, you can be as sure as hell Labour thugs would try and subvert any such setup. So we’re left with anti-union Tories and weaponised union Labour.

            Fuck both of them.

      • 121
        Ken "inflating waist" Clarke says:

        I heard from Dave that “inflation” always happens when Voderman is in the room. It’s those Palin glasses that does it for him.

    • 51
      Blue Rosette says:

      So very true.

      The pound weakens, savings and pensions devalued by currency devaluation and inflation.

      What a shambles.

      Just wait until April when income tax and NI go up.

      • 73
        jgm2 says:

        Our families income tax is going down in June because my missus has handed in her notice. Three months and counting. Fuck you and your 50% tax. Fuck you getting up at 4:30am every fucking morning to commute and working until mid-day just to pay Brown’s fucking client state before she starts working for herself after lunch. Fuck you Brown. Fuck you you thieving thief.

        We have officially gone John Galt. I’ve been there for ten years but now we are a Galt family. We shall live off the interest from our savings/investments and by the time that has been inflated away to fuck all – say ten years – then we’ll be eligible for our work pension and if that’s (as seems likely) rendered valueless by the economic destruction set in train by this foul and evil administration of incompetence then we’ll simply plant a few vegetables in the back garden.

        Fuck ‘em. We’re not their slaves. I ain’t working another fucking day to keep them bastards.

        • 90
          Pressure Ron says:

          How many families do you have? I can see you are a valuable member of the community. Indeed, you attitude and assumption of entitlement leads me to suspect that you must ba a politician, a peer, or a banker. Whatever you are, you’ve made it clear that you wish to be know as something that rhymes with banker.

    • 56
      The end is nigh says:

      This is exactly how things are going. Sterling is fucked- import costs are going through the roof and petrol is expected to hit record highs. Add to this rising interest rates as whoever getes in tries to bring inflation under control, job losses, falling house prices and the double dip means we are all in for a few years of austerity. Count yourselves lucky if you can still keep a roof over your head

    • 60
      Being a son of the manse enables me to bully, smear, beat, and lie with impunity says:

      You think facts make one iota of difference to Brown’s client statists?

      What percentage of Brown’s hordes of professional benefits scroungers/disability fraudsters/public sector paper shufflers/immigrants with free health care and housing/
      ‘I knows me rights, but give two shits bout me responsibilities ruffian troglodytes/Scotch parasites, care about where their money is coming from?

      5, 2, or 1%?

    • 68
      Blue Rosette says:

      Pay off your debts pdq

      debt is real. they will not evapourate

      In the 70′s debt was eroded partly by wage inflation.

      There will not be wage inflation this time, not for a long time anyway.

      We had all better get used to a lower standard of living. Austerity is around the corner.

      The public sector is living in a dream world.

    • 69

      Hey,t he BBC says it’s all about profiteering oil companies – nowt to do with the crashing pound! You’ve been told!

      • 72
        Supply and demand sets price says:

        China’s demand for oil jumped by an “astonishing” 28% in January compared with the same month a year earlier, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says.

        The body added that demand for oil in 2010 would be underpinned by rising demand from emerging markets, with half of all growth coming from Asia.

        • 154

          China building fuel reserves in the spring?

          I’d hazard a guess that they’re preparing to batten down the hatches for something…

          Either a dollar crisis or some adventurism?

      • 92
        jgm2 says:

        Ah yes. A bare-faced lie from Labour reported as fact for ‘balance’ by the BBC…

        ‘Lindsay Hoyle, Labour MP on the Commons business committee, told the Daily Telegraph: “Crude oil has gone up this year, but nothing like the rise in petrol prices. Motorists are being legally mugged at the forecourt by petrol companies.”‘

        What a fucking liar eh? This liar is on the ‘commons business committee’ and comes out with bare-faced lies like that. They blame the banks for their own 200bn quid deficit and they blame the oil companies for a trashed currency and 300% tax on free movement.

        The outrageous fucking liars.

        It was Saudi Arabia, when Brown flounced off down there last time oil went to 150USD a barrel to order them to reduce the price of oil who pointed out that Brown could reduce the price of petrol by 70% if he wanted to just by removing the tax.

        What a shower of disingenuous lying liars eh?

        • 153
          Purpleline says:

          Osborne should start saying the unthinkable that they will reduce the Tax take on fuel to ensure the ecnomic growth of the nation. It is the everyday hard workingfamilies that siffer from excessive Tax on fuel, as prices rise in shops and they spend more of their disposable income in Tax.

          This action would boost the economy and make the labour workers realise that they are being royallyt fucked. Reason it wont happen is the Tories bought in lock stock and barrel to Global warming.

          Which is natural and 30 million brits paying higher fucking tax on petrol is not going to stop it, when China is selling 1 yes one million new cars a month.

          I am not an anti globalist on trade, but if China do not listen and allow their currency to appreciate to counter the trade in balance then we should refuse to buy their goods.

          Maybe we could even open a factory in England.

          P.S. Rumours circulating in the Pakistani High commission that pakistanis paid off the kidnappers of the little 5-year using British development funds.
          Funny how if true we can pay his randsom rather than free the British couple held by the Somali pirates.

          • Anonymous says:

            The “British couple held by Somali pirates” were warned against sailing into
            those waters and chose to ignore the warnings.

          • jgm2 says:

            I would be surprised if the FO doesn’t have a warning about British citizens travelling to PKSt*n too.

  23. 47
    Being a son of the manse enables me to bully, smear, beat, and lie with impunity says:

    Beating that useless Ashcroft whore was the right thing to do, i masturbated very aggressively when she started to cry as my power over the idiot woman was total by that point.

    Usually with a woman I start with verbal bullying, and then work up to threats of physical abuse, and on to delivering a beating, but with this idiot I went straight to the verbal intimidation/physical violence axis.
    I am not a man to accept poor performance.

    • 87
      The Court of Public Opinion says:

      Indeed. other managers, upon entering the office in the morning, say “take a letter miss jones”. I however use this opportunity to exert my manliness by saying “take a flight across the room miss jones” as I playfully hurl her wallwards. Its the only language they understand.

      • 131
        Ben 'Buggering' Bradshaw, gobshyte MP and floppy haired cunt says:

        LOL at ‘take a flight across the room miss jones’

        I personally enjoy using my position to further the careers of sexy young lads in the civil service who pack big uncut bull cocks, it’s the right thing to do.

  24. 50
    A TOTAL CHUMP says:

    Help.
    GMTV’s win a Toyota Prius competition.

    Gordon Brown is a …………..
    a) Twat
    b) Liar
    c) Mentalist
    b) All of the above

    Think Lorraine Kelly made him looked a d), but not sure.

  25. 66
    More to this than meets the I says:

    The story of the little boy who went AWOL in the Punjab is a most odd one.

    • 74

      It’s interesting – I talked about that to a number of people, right after the first news stories. *Everyone* thought it was fishy – why? Cus the father “didn’t look right”. Human beings are really *really* good at detecting liars. It’s v. encouraging.

      Just one more reason why Broon is NOT going to attend any live leaders’ debate.

    • 78
      Sadiq Khan says:

      Ssssh.

  26. 70
    sockpuppet #4 says:

    What on earth is the Coulson love shack?

  27. 75
    angelnstar says:

    LATEST NEWS ON POLLS

    http://bit.ly/d2O9K6

    Shy SamCam proves a hit. Tory lead stretches to 11 points in Opinium poll. ICM poll shows Cameron 9 points ahead.

    Sarah Brown’s hard sell is starting to grate, and let’s face it, she is promoting a tainted brand.

  28. 83
    basettlaw hound says:

    Extraordinary! A Labour MP who claims never to have wanked!!

    http://www.mannisms.com/

    • 100
      The Dirty Rat says:

      He should seek advice from Lard Arse Prescott. He is well qualified in that particular art.

  29. 86
    Sir William Waad says:

    Did my eyes deceive me or was there a ‘Loveshack’ in the middle of the office? So the Tories haven’t really changed that much. Or is this an obscure reference to Coulson’s intention to carpet-bomb the media, like B-52s?

  30. 88
    Mikey says:

    Yes, but where does (N) Sheridan Westlake sit?

  31. 89
    Cameron has bottle, Brown is a bottler says:

    David Cameron speaks to an initially hostile audience of students at Lewisham College and wins them round earning a standing ovation at the end. Could you imagine cowardly Gordon Brown ever doing something like this?:

    • 98
      Ed says:

      I’m not a great fan but I have to admit Cameron did really well. The main heckler seems to be some fucked-up Labour-supporting junkie but Cameron dealt with him comfortably.

      There’s no way Brown would walk into an audience like that. Everything has to be stage-managed for Gordon and even then his weird mental state causes him to cock it up.

      • 105
        JL says:

        Great performance from Cameron. He comes across as down-to-earth, normal, and genuine (yes, really!)

        What a contrast with that freak Brown.

        • 112
          Mondeoman says:

          I watched this last night, at first I thought it was going to be painfall, but as DC got into it, he turned in a very good performance, straight question got staright replies, including the guy at the back who kept shouting. A man on a mission and in a hurry! GB would of asked for more medication and new pants.

        • 123
          ex-Lib Dem says:

          Kudos to Dave. He did well.

      • 168
        ST says:

        Yeah, you can tell the smug little twat with the swipe card round his neck is some NuLab monkey whose been planted and planting questions. It’s so obvious that “I think housing is a big issue.” was a plant.

        Nice one Dave.

    • 122
      Being a son of the manse enables me to bully, smear, beat, and lie with impunity says:

      Naturally the filth who compile the BBC 6 o’clock news last night showed only the teenage wankstain with the ridiculous put on black voice saying the country didn’t need a novice.

      God my hatred for the BBC is endless

      • 126
        Al says:

        Cameron’s first task in office must be to sort out the blatantly biased BBC once and for all. They are just asking to be carved up like the lying swine they are.

        • 178
          Not going to happen says:

          Jeremy Hunt Conservative MP, Shadow Culture Secretary

          “I believe that the BBC is a great national institution.”

          “I am proud of the BBC. I think that most British people think that we are very lucky to have a BBC and most people who aren’t British, if they don’t have a BBC, wish they did have one.”

          “I don’t see the BBC as a State broadcaster. “I think people see the BBC as operating at arms length from the government and it’s very important that it should continue to do so and that’s why we’ve said we will protect the BBC charter.”

        • 191
          Anonymous says:

          30 second job. Pull the plug by abolishing license fee. Next !

    • 125
      QWERTY says:

      What a bunch of fuckwits though. If that’s the cream of the UK, we’re fucked, really fucked.

      • 129
        wigger says:

        Eh maan, show de yooth sum respec mon or de posse a cum round yer ouse and teech ye sum innit

      • 170
        ST says:

        At least they’re fucking doing something rather than sitting round scratching themselves before nipping down to William Hill to spend my tax money.

  32. 94
    Chutney Mary says:

    Does my bum look big in this?

  33. 99
    statechaos says:

    Guido I am disappointed in you. This story could have been written by Alistair Campbell, Charlie Whelan, or even Damian McBride. Whats in a double- barrelled name for goodness sake? Did the Labour party change when they called themselves New-Labour, or was it a ploy to attract Tory voters? And will the election be determined by the configuration of office furniture?

  34. 103
    Anonymous says:

    So how much is Anglesey Council’s Chief Executive paid (and why is he paid through a company)? He seemed somewhat reluctant to say on the Today programme this morning.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8569000/8569635.stm

  35. 110
    barefootcontessa says:

    Take note Tory hierarchy! Today prog radio 4 this am. Naughtie v Byrne and Clarke. Clarke won hands down, an excellent Shadow business secretary!

    He should be rolled out over and over again. He has years of experience, he fulfills womens’ love of a father figure, he has a natural tinge of eccentricity.

    Overall ‘a good egg’! Despite his ?former alliance with BTC and his love of Europe he is definitely a VOTE WINNER!

    • 134
      QWERTY says:

      Because Clarke bitch slaps mincing BBC journalists.

    • 139
      FG says:

      That sociopath Liam Byrne was given a free ride to spout shite on Radio 5 by the Labour-supporting female hack. She couldn’t stop simpering all over him.

  36. 117
    Anonymous says:

    Guido – what is the reason we don’t get the original version in the thumbnail?

    • 182
      northern liberal grumbler says:

      Yes – where is the proper version, as per your thumbnail, doesn’t seem to be available via the link posted, unless I’m being a bit thick?

  37. 128
    Anonymous says:

    http://dizzythinks.net/2010/03/dianan-johnson-mp-and-mysterious.html

    another mystery.

    Are newspapers turning off their comments as those on Mail on Brown story are inaccessible and Sky News won’t take them at all?

    • 135
      JK says:

      It’s the election innit. (Even though Brown hasn’t actually called it yet. LOL)

      No criticism of Labour will be permitted. Gordon must have his majority, as he told that nice BBC lady on Radio 4 yeaterday.

  38. 161
  39. 166
    Blue Rosette says:

    About time Cameron and Osbourne said a few brave words and go for broke

    i e

    Reduce tax on petrol – vote winner
    cancel BBC lIcence Fee – vote winner
    Reverse tax increase and NI increase – vote winner

    Go lads, you can do it. Errrr on second thoughts…

  40. 185
    Penfold says:

    Leadership near the exit for a fast getaway when the staff revolt.

    It has got to the stage where i regard all the politicoes as scum.
    Sponging scum, who in the main have never done an honest days labour/toil in their lives.
    Sponging scum as they have never contributed to the national economy, just ripped the taxpayers orff year after year.
    It’s all becoming a bore, with all 3 parties fighting to seize the central ground and be all things to all people.
    I am of the view that what this country needs is a return to the Commonwealth, bring back Cromwell. A Cromwellian will have some serious bloodletting which will clear the Augean Stables of politics and then we can get on with the job of rebuilding.

  41. 203
    Jimmy says:

    “The policy unit has been pushed further and further from the centre ”

    It usually is.

  42. 205
    fuido gawkes says:

    thats no floor lay out thats a cluedo board , sure i saw cam follow georgie porgie into the library holding a candlestick



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