April 26th, 2010

10 Days to Destroy the Labour Party

As the Tories shift resources towards Labour seats and the Labour Party vote leaves the building with Elvis, the tantalising prospect of a Labour Party wipe out seems possible.  Labour’s messages seem calibrated only to appeal only to their core activist vote and their client vote dependent on welfare transfers.  Middle-England is not being wooed at all.  Consequently Labour is now polling at levels last seen under Michael Foot.  Has anyone else noticed that Tony Blair is supposedly unable to campaign because he is still stuck overseas due to volcanic ash.  Nothing to do with not wanting to be tainted with a loser?


247 Comments

  1. 1
    T.B£iar - the People's Messiah says:

    Want to borrow a tenner, Gordon ??

    http://tinyurl.com/37kjynn

    • 6
      Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

      No thanks, I’ll wait till I have to borrow from the IMF.

      • 21
        Labour's Death Trip says:

        Brown will bottle it by pulling a sickie.The beating labour are about to take will be shocking.

        • 32
          Qui Bono says:

          Yes indeed, like Bliar couldn’t get a jet if he wanted to

          • Hang The Bastards says:

            MELTDOWN here we come !

            I cant wait for 6th & 7th May – for once there will be something decent on the telly to watch !

            The election coverage will be fantastic. I am throwing an election party & will down a shot for every Labour seat lost !

            Conservative Majority – Limp Dems the offical opposition – Labour – Obliterated

          • jgm2 says:

            If you down a shot for every Labour seat lost you’ll be looking at at least five bottles of v*dka. Which would be enough to kill a bull elephant.

            Suicide, by al*oh*l in response to Labour disintegration is best reserved for Labour MPs with P45s.

            The rest of us should be dancing in the street.

          • Undecided says:

            Still can’t decide . . . . head down from a lamp-post or up against a wall . . ..

          • Mr Ned says:

            “as anyone else noticed that Tony Blair is supposedly unable to campaign because he is still stuck overseas due to volcanic ash. Nothing to do with not wanting to be tainted with a loser?”

            Labour cannot afford Blair’s astronomical speaking fees.

          • A Pensioner says:

            Tone can only do 90 days in UK now.

          • They still don't understand first past the post says:

            by ‘destroyed’ you of course mean having almost as many or even more MP’s than the tories according to the polls.

            Talk about clutching at straws delusional desperation.

        • 49
          A Spokesperson for No 10 Drowning (in debt) St. holding a pad to her bleeding face and eye says:

          Ever mindful of His Duty to the Sheeple of this once-great land, The Glorious and Beloved Leader, has, in the interests of economy and best use of time, decided that the forthcoming election will not be held.

          He has not got time or patience to continue with the charade of trying to justify His actions to ungrateful proles. It is clear as daylight that HE IS DOING THE RIGHT THING!

          Neither does He see any need to reassure Himself that the great majority of the sheeple wish to see Him remain in power. He will now do a jobby.

          That is all.

          Get on wiv your work if you have any. And pay your tellytax!

        • 54
          Axe The Telly Tax says:

          In the last nationwide election (Euros in June last year) Liebore only polled 15%

          Bye bye Liebore.

          • Right Bastard says:

            Also bye-bye to Clegg & Co. for siding with Zanulab when reneging on the Lisbon Treaty referendum, proposing an amnesty on 2 million illegal immigrants, supporting the EUSSR and wanting to ditch our ancient currency, the pound.

            Traitorous bastards, one and all.

          • Mr Ned says:

            If you take share of the vote as a percentage of the whole eligable-to-vote population, (rather than simply those that bothered to vote) labour polled less than 5%

          • Tesco is fucking the country says:

            Contact Feedback at the Biased Broadcasting Co-operative NOW and complain loudly at the 22 minutes of naked Liabour electioneering in the first half of the programme, today, Monday April 26th. Presenter Martha Kearney sounded like a delegate at the Liabour conference. Such coverage is BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS. Hit ‘em hard!

        • 166
          Anonymous says:

          heartening morelikely!

        • 202
          Hugh Janus says:

          Where’s Bliar? Well, NuLiebour has a congenital fear of bad news, in the same way that McBust bottled the recent line-up of village idiots outside No 10 when they announced their so-called rescue plan for stranded tourists. You won’t see him either when there’s a difficult story to be put out. Why change the habits of a political lifetime? Much easier to push your minions out to face the cameras. That’s real leadership!

    • 142
      Up sh1t creek says:

      Ed Balls is not concerned that his seat is being targeted to “decapitate” him from parliament.

      Is anyone targeting Yvette Balls / Cooper seat to make sure she does not stay in parliament?

      • 146
        Anonymous says:

        I’d be tempted to leave her there, and make the humiliation even worse

      • 159
        English Liberation Front says:

        Comical Ali + Herman Goering + rapid blinking = Labour weirdo Balls

      • 189
        Mr Ned says:

        Of course he is not concerned, IF Labour manage to screw a fingernail grip on power through dodgy back-room dealing, Balls et all will be brought back into Government via the Lords.

        See that promise to have a wholly elected upper house go the same way as the Liberal democrat, and labour, promise to hold a referendum on the EU treaty!

        If they can keep more power away from the electorate, by hook or by crook, they will.

      • 211
        Anonymous says:

        Nick Pickles

        http://www.nickpickles.co.uk

        Born in the constituency, no relation to Eric Pickles.

        Unfortunately he is into still photography – no youtube clips that I can find.

    • 183
      Rapportez le Franc français! says:

      Hey – where did the ‘Bonsor’ post go to?…

  2. 2
    Fabian Pryor says:

    Well middle england was very wooed to me when I tried canvassing.

    • 105
      Disaffected says:

      Just watched the BBC News channel after Cameron and they are absolutely doing their best to spin it for Liebour. They just had Balls on because the demented Tory leader in Kent has announced that it will cost more to educate if Tories get in- this is from the bloke who employs one of the highest paid COEs wasters in England. Pure self-serving interest and/or moment of fame. Balls had a field day spinning on top of what he said.

      The BBC, true to form, keeps playing it and are making the most of it.

      Surely there is not anyone left in the country who has any form of respect for the capatalist Blair? The Liebour party see him as liability rather than a help after the reaction he got last time he was here. It also costs him money from his spech making world tour- Cherie has a few homes to furnish- theeir new one, Nicky’s in London etc. I suspect she is not crying to appease the public outrage (as she did with Euan in Bristol- I was only doing what any mother would do, snif, snif…. Now she is laughing all the way to the bank while widowers and maimed soldiers try to adjust to their new way of life and cope with the financial loss. Blair is a deceptive, lying war criminal.

      The FOI request about why McSlug sold the UK’s reserve of gold bullion is out this week.

      Trust Brown’s judgment: Brown robbed everyone’s pension in 1997 and is now wondering what should be done to finance people in their old age- Brown won’t let you down. Brown sold our gold when it was at its lowest price costing the UK £7 billion pounds- Brown won’t let you down. Brown improperly financed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, thousands of people lost their lives because Brown did not provide enough money. Brown’s denied this in complete contrast to the evidence of military chiefs. He then realised he did not fund the wars properly and wrote to confirm he was wrong- Brown won’t let you down. Brown wanted to change the face of Britain by mass immigration, he gave false statistics in his speech- Brown won’t let you down. Brown is the one who was given a good economy and now it is bankrupt- Brown won’t let you down. Brown still claims for a second home that he does not have, Brown won’t let you down. He also still says how shocked he is about expense claims- why is h still claiming? Brown recently told the country- I won’t let you down. He cannot be trusted. Brown has let you down for 13 years, it is time for change, vote him out.

      • 242
        Anonymous says:

        If DC doesn’t do a job on Al Beeb in his first year he needs kicking. Then again all through the lead up to the campaign the let open goal after open goal go. My “favourite” was Hague standing in at PMQs not hitting Harmon-what’s-her-face with Lord Paul.

    • 196
      Common Porpoise says:

      I’m a right geezer ain’t I? Me and me mates are always ‘avin’ a right larf.

  3. 3
    M.T.Bucket says:

    I don’t think they need any help, they will self-destruct.

    • 19
      Templar says:

      I’m actually starting to worry that they won’t self destruct. The Tories had this in the bag not long ago, and while they haven’t actually buggered it up completely, they have failed to make the most of what they had.

      I’m just hoping that if this goes to a hung parliament that there is a LibCon alliance, Gordon is forced down (Though knowing him he would insist on hanging around), and while the Labour Party is destroying itself looking for a new leader a new election is called. It seems to be the only way to kill Labour now. Because after the last 13 years there are so many spongers on benefits that need Labour to help them avoid work. Labour has spent the last 13 years buying votes to the cost of our economy, and at high cost to those that want to earn a living.

      • 25
        Betrayed tory says:

        And Cameron will keep his job after leading his party to a hung parliament, right.
        From a 25% lead to a 8% result against the worst govt since ever.

        • 45
          Quantrill says:

          Cameron is an out of touch disaster. How could he lose the tremendous lead he had just a few short weeks ago. Certainely not because Brown has been clever, that’s beyond his ability. He has to go.

          The BMP on the other hand when being interviewed by the odious Krishna Guru Rajha Twat Murphy last night gave confident answers to some questions which were really offside. I’m sure Mr G wasn’t the only one to get caught out in the late 80s recession.

        • 46
          thespecialone says:

          There was no way in a million years that a 25% lead could have been sustained. Dont forget that Liebour have the BBC on their side and often Sky too.

          • Betrayed tory says:

            thespecialone, bollox, maybe not 25% but less than 10%, BBC or no BBC its the cast iron pledge that dun it for him. He blew it, not the Tories, not the media not anyone but Dave

          • Axe The Telly Tax says:

            Blair had a similar lead over Major in the run up to the 97 election. In the end he only won by about 13%

        • 60
          Brown's a Tosser says:

          Oh lest we forget. NuLabour were ahead by similar margin in the polls in 1996 – 97 and of course did not win by that. Quote figures after 6th May and lets see where we are then. NuLabour polling mid twenties is far worse than foot and given the expenses issues its not surprising Limp/Dems are polling well the quesion is will it last and who will effect the most.

        • 81
          Templar says:

          Betrayed Tory, if Cameron managed to form an alliance with the Lib Dems, then there is no way the party will oust him. As long as he manages to get them back in power.

        • 89
          thespecialone says:

          Dont get me wrong I am going to vote Tory but there are so many things I dont like about Cameron’s policies. One of them is the ridiculous ‘green’ policies. On the EU; I think he was hoping that the Irish would vote ‘no’ again and that is why he came up with that comment. And if you read the full comment he does add a caveat. However, dont forget that it was Labour that reneged on their 2005 manifesto pledge to hold a referendum on the EU (supported by the LDs). Cameron was boxed into a corner when the Irish ‘were persuaded’ to vote yes. I am hoping that when Cameron becomes PM, and I still think the Tories will get a majority, then that is the time to start wrestling powers back from Brussels.

          • UKIP Until We're Free says:

            Forget Cast-Iron Dave meakly trying to ‘wrest powers back from Brussels’ – it will never happen. Let’s take all the powers back by getting out. Problem solved.

          • Batty Hattie Harmanescu says:

            “Dont get me wrong I am going to vote Tory.”

            Really? I can’t be alone in reading the rest of your post and wondering why on earth would you would be doing that.

            Cameron could, if he wanted, have a referendum on the EU/Lisbon treaty, ratified or not. But he won’t, he is part of the whole EUSSR project.

            They have been hopeless in opposition, and will, in all probability, become much the same or even worse than NL.

      • 65
        Number 6 says:

        Comrades, my ‘job’ £76,000 plus pension, as organic 5 a day vegetable community enforcement officer for the trans-gendered travelling community is on the line if Labour lose. Please think of me and my fellow comrades on polling day and vote Labour.

        • 99
          thespecialone says:

          Fuck off and get a real job. You leech. Like the civil servants who produced that document about the pope. In the real world they would have been sacked. Not in the civil service though.

          • Amazing how these civil servants and Chris Summer, the BBC Labour complaint officer, have been given ‘other duties’???.

            In any other business they would have been sacked.

          • Billy the Kid says:

            The BBC this morning described the culprit as “a junior diplomat”. FFS with diplomats like that we’d better keep Trident well armed.

          • Gobshite says:

            Sacked or not. They have just booked themselves an express passage to the fiery depths of Hell!

          • Rufus Stone says:

            FFS… Is not one of the Millitwats responsible for the foriegn office also seeking to lead the Labour Pain?

          • Lord Mandelson First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Pre says:

            Gordons promised me the Papacy as well when we win, im qualified to deal with young boys

        • 193
          Jonathan says:

          Cameron is a complete waste of space. If Hague was still leader, I’d consider voting Tory. As it is, it’ll be UKIP for me.
          I thought the ‘Pope’ document was hilarious BTW.

      • 172
        Fred says:

        Nah. Two polls have come out that show results very similar to what the polls were saying before the TV debates, about 38% for Tories 28% for Labour and 22% for Libs.

        I think the polls showing Libs soaring away are prompted mainly be a media trying to inject some public interest into the election, with some other temporary factors thrown in.

        The Tories did their own polling on Friday last week and Cameron was looking extremely relaxed afterwards suggesting he knows that the Tories are going to win. I think they are just extending the number of target Labour seats because they know from their own polling that the Labour vote is collapsing so they can pick up more seats if they push hard enough.

        I’m saying this despite voting UKIP myself.

  4. 4
    ed balls says:

    this driving and talking is a piece of piss

    • 12
      BBC News says:

      We’re covering the real news, “angry Doctor Who fans” on the front page, none of that irrelevant stuff about government ministers breaking the law.

      • 69
        Labia,substance not image says:

        Andy Burnham on Sky am. Is he a friend of Dorothy? The amount of foundation he was plastered with, looked more like AmDrams Prince Charming than proffesional politician!

      • 73
        Number 6 says:

        I am a Doctor Who fan and I am fucking angry with this shite government. I also don’t like the new Daleks, but they could do a better job of running this country than Brooon and his bunch of Marxist monkeys. Come polling day – altogether now EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE!

        • 163
          Anonymous says:

          the new Daleks are gay. The writer is a friend of Dorothy. They have gone all touchy-feeley. ” OOOH GET HER !!!!!” does not have the same impact as “EXTERMINATE!!!” Dr Who has been totally buggered up by the gay BBC

          • gayda says:

            A bell end for an eye, a sink plunger for a hand, and a laser gun that shoots out white stuff…….everything that you’d need down Old Compton St.

          • Jonathan says:

            ‘Dr Who’has been shite since they cast mincing metrosexual David Tennant as the Doc. Chris Eccleston was much better.

          • Number 6 says:

            Eccleston is a labour supporter all that living on other planets and talking to weird fucking aliens has given him the training he needs to support the party.

    • 55
      U-turn if you like .......... says:

      What makes Ed Balls think that his in-car sleeping children will be safer if he uses his hand-held mobile phone whilst driving?

      And was Yvette also a passenger?

      • 72
        Yvette Cooper says:

        Balls has children. How the fuck did that happen? A Gayer and a hermaphrodite.

      • 87
        If it's Brown, flush it down! says:

        Exactly, hypocrite through and through. Childrens secretary indeed. Follow my example, when caught, the right thing to do is ‘fair cop’, endangering his children knowingly, they should be in care!

      • 168
        UKIP Until We're Free says:

        Ed was trying to talk to Yvette at the time but it was a struggle – she’s a well brought-up girl and knows not to speak with her mouth full of journalist.

      • 230
        anonymous says:

        he was so busy on the phone and then dealing with the police that he forgot yvette and left her on the roadside …. shit happens

    • 185
      Anonymous says:

      Must be a piece of piss – seems a growing number of Lab Ministers can manage it

  5. 5
    exiked&angry says:

    With the projected rise in the Lib-Dem share of the vote we will still end up with a Labour government propped up by the Lib-Dems, albeit minus Brown who will be assassinated by Mandlebum and his cronies. Don’t believe the bullshit about the Lib-Dems cosying up to the Tories – it won’t work. Labour are their natural bedfellows.

  6. 7
    Cocky clegg says:

    aren’t I brilliant. I have changed the political landscape through the force of my ideas and policies and nothing to do with me saying that everyone can have kittens and puppies and no nuclear weapons and no nuclear power but free electricity for everyone as well as no tax except for the horrid bankers and a big tax on their mansions (but not their chateaux or collection of million pound houses like chris huhne’s).

    You see, the people don’t want the two old parties they want the shiny new party that took us into world war one and had Gladstone as prime minister playing tricks with the Sudanese and “helping” prostitutes.

    • 49
      Quantrill says:

      About time that was mentioned. Why hasn’t Cameron had the guts to mention it?

      • 74
        jgm2 says:

        Because it’s bad enough having Labour whining and bedwetting over Thatcher, a PM who has been out of power for twenty years.

        It’d be even more woeful to be moaning about the Liberals committing the greatest foreign policy error of the last 100 years ultimately resulting in the death of millions, loss of global influence, loss of global markets and one hundred years of ‘managed decline’.

        The Liberals are not the enemy (yet). The enemy of the British people is the current Labour government. They must be voted into oblivion.

      • 91
        Sir Reginald Titbrain. says:

        Probably because it happened about 100 years ago

        • 141
          boulay says:

          Its actually a critique of the bullshit about the lobs being new and the others old parties – not about world war one – that would be rather silly!

        • 170
          Quantrill says:

          Exactly, brand new party? I don’t think so. The last lot has kept them out of office for a suitably long time and now memories are fading.

          They may not be the enemy but do we want them in government?

        • 175
          Fred says:

          Precisely. Cameron should be banging on about a party so lacking in ambition it hasn’t held power for 100 years, and yet Clegg still felt an urgent need to join it rather than a party that might actually win.

  7. 8
    FarmerGiles says:

    Panic! Get BBC runs the fox hunting debate.

    • 83
      BBC Bias Unit - not required - this time ! says:

      BBC – Radio 4 – 7 am News

      BBC seek out Kent Education spokesman to disagree with Tory plan for new ‘community’ schools – Leading Item

      Michael Gove – (now my hero!) brilliantly – yes brilliantly – debated the item and thrashed John Humpty !!!

      Fantastic – 8 am News – no longer top news item – totally evaporated !!

      Fantastic – Mr Gove !!

      • 106
        thespecialone says:

        Get this spread around the web. Michael Gove is actually turning out to be good.

        • 140
          Mr Gove's mum .......... says:

          thus – We must must now refer to Gove-rnment not “guv-ernment”

        • 145
          Mr Gove's sister says:

          Yes – He is very good – he’s got a excellent brain and a is bit of an intellect; more than good genug to hold his own with some of the left wing luvvies the BBC has on the Friday evening post-Newsnight love in!

          • Fry.................. says:

            Because of his sharpness of mind – he is an excellent choice for performing the Conservative ‘rebuttal’ role!

            He leaves the Labour liars stone dead!

        • 243
          Gordoom cooks the books says:

          MG has always been good next pm after CMD I got money on it the watch him with rhe slug wheelan no contest if ever you wanted a display of Tory V Liebour look no further

  8. 10
    Anonymous says:

    The utter destruction of the Labour Party would be a wonderful outcome for the past 13 miserable years. Socialisum has been the greatest evil of the 20th Century and this wicked doctrin has murdered well over 100 millon people.

    • 17
      stark says:

      The destruction of the Labour Party would make fuck all difference. Wake up! We’re ruled by (allegedly former) communists – Barroso – baroness ‘yesterday unknown in the UK, today unknown all over europe’…

      • 75
        The UK is becoming East Germany circa 1976 says:

        Please don’t forget our glorious El Presidente, Herman van Whotsit’sname. He wants direct taxation by the EU on all of it’s citizen’s. Dave Clegg-Brown, will let him do it too.

      • 80
        Number 6 says:

        Too true, Labour are only the cocksuckers of the EU, with Dave and Nick on their knees waiting for their turn.

  9. 13
    Mine d'Boggles says:

    When I see that there are only 10 comments, I think ‘Whacko! I’ll read them’. The only problem is that when there are 575 comments, I read them also. Should I see a doctor? Or just congratulate GF for packing them in?

  10. 14
    captain cumshot says:

    Someone’s drawn a big cock and balls on Theresa May’s face, here in Berks. I’ve nothing against Theresa, but it was very funny.

    • 92
      The UK is becoming East Germany circa 1976 says:

      I have rather a lot against the stupid cow. She epitomises idiocy and self loathing. How someone so stupid could be considered potential Minister of State material is right up there with, I have a good idea, let’s make Bob Ainsworth a Minister, thinking.

      • 199
        Thames Valley voter says:

        Theresa May is my MP. I’ve written to her on a few occasions and she has been most helpful.
        I confidently expect her to be re-elected with a thumping majority.

  11. 15
    Labours collapsing vote says:

    Who’s fault is it?

  12. 16

    This election campaign is starting to become embarrassing for Labour, if Gordon Brown were a dog, they would have put him down by now

  13. 18
    Tommy Atkins says:

    10 days to destroy labour, who Wavy Davy?
    you are having a laugh arnt you.
    10 days left as tory leader more like

  14. 20
    Gordon Brown pops out his false eye so Fondlebum can skull-fuck him says:

    Guido,

    Please can you concentrate on the Purcell situation? This has the potential to blow up into a huge scandal in Glasgow, as it could expose the huge corruption so prevalent in the Labour party in the city. Trying to get the Scottish media to report on this is almost impossible, as most, if not all, of the press here is stuck so far up Labour’s arse.

    If the media in England start to pick up this story then hopefully it will be impossible for the media up here to sweep it under the carpet.

  15. 22
    Mandelung says:

    I will still be around to tease you.

  16. 23
    Javelin says:

    Brown has cursed the party and himself …

    Search google news for “duchenne smiles live longer” and you will find people with fake smiles don’t live as long.

    Will Labour be able to run a second election before they go bankrupt.

  17. 24
    English John says:

    All that bullshit, all that spin, all that graft to make the socialists electable. That’s why Billy Liar is keeping away. He watches Jonah fucking it all up. So bloody funny!

  18. 26
    Tristram Hunt says:

    I’m about to be beaten by the B-N-P in Stoke. Is it too late for me to join the Tory Party and be given a safe seat in the south-east?

  19. 28
    Anonymous says:

    Being a woman the only thing I noticed yesterday in Brown’s campaign was Sarah’s shoes, she could barely walk in them and they made her look like Minnie Mouse. The Elvis impersonator will regret performing with Brown the Jonah curse will probably follow him.

  20. 29
    Dale Goldman Tat says:

    I hope my tan doesn’t fade in 10 days.

  21. 30
    Lincolnshire Squire says:

    Toby Young on the DT blogs found this poll analysis site:

    http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/04/labour-danger-uniform-swing.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

    Very encouraging.

    • 118
      For your attention ........ says:

      Good spot – most comprehensive – well worth a look – thanks

      • 227
        Lord Carrington's Binoculars says:

        Bloody hell.

        I can’t believe that we still even listen to uniform swing polls.

        In 1979, the swing was double digit in some places in the south, low single digit in the midlands and north west and actually away from the Conservatives in Scotland.

        Dunno why uniform swing polls are even allowed.

  22. 33
    Orwell says:

    What are these “dark forces” that various religious groups are claiming is launching constant attacks on Christianity in Britain?

    Could it be that unholy aliance of Fabians, Gramscians, Frankfurt Schoolers, etc that have taken root in the Labour and Lib Dem parties and are intent on achieving their historical mission of destroying British society, it’s traditions and institutions?

    • 37
      banana-boy caught brainstorming says:

      Radio 5 Live: “A senior government spokesperson today denied that David Miliband attended part of the ‘brainstorming meeting’ at the Foreign Office, which suggested that the Pope should bless a gay wedding and open an abortion clinic”.

      • 59
        Hang The Bastards says:

        Thats funny because my sources says HE WAS THERE.

        Maybe it was a mistake & his fuckwit brother was there instead. Either way Milliband was there.

        • 123
          Cesspitanalytix says:

          Brain storming ? Milliband ??

          DRAIN STORMING more like

          • ebygum says:

            Brainstorming Milliband! I’m sure he’ll find one someday if he looks hard enough.Tosser.

        • 130
          G. Lance Bachwart ............ says:

          He was there – that’s why it’s always been ‘the Govt’ expressing regret and Millipede saying something obtuse about it – the weak lying coward – that he is – he was there for sure!

      • 76
        Just stating the obvious says:

        “A senior government spokesperson today denied that David Miliband attended part of the ‘brainstorming meeting’……”

        Well THEY would say that wouldn’t they ?

        • 90
          Engineer says:

          Does anybody believe anything that “senior government spokesmen” say these days?

          • The UK is becoming East Germany circa 1976 says:

            The Fabians and Gramiscians are in the Conservative party too.

        • 97
          another Westminster junior (not FO) says:

          I heard it was Dave Miliband himself who suggested the Pope should bless a gay wedding. He must be shitting himself now. No wonder they’re trying to blame it all on some unnamed ‘junior’ like they always do.

          • Engineer says:

            Millipede is a junior, albeit without the required integrity to be a civil servant.

          • Thinking the Unthinkable ...... again ...... says:

            Yes – it was Milliband that introduced the session and ‘scoped out’ the purpose of the meeting – he gave the ‘gay wedding blessing’ as an example and set the ‘tone’ of the meeting – after he left the meeting – it got a bit more ‘intense’. Milliband did not see the final report before distribution

            The (single) civil servant responsible for the report is currently being held in a safe house not far from London until after May 6th – everyone else present at the session is sworn to secrecy under threat of immediate dismissal !

            The Government is doing its best to keep a hat on this topic – After all the Pope is coming soon !!

          • Gobshite says:

            So that’s the Catholic vote gone, if they ever had one.

    • 42
      culture of critique says:

      You can add Common Purpose, the Equality Cmmission, the BBC, the National Union of Journalists, and the NUT to that list.

    • 48
      Tal Mudd says:

      Nope, it’s the ****.

  23. 34
    Tree hugger Dave says:

    Dave’s having a green day. If he wins the election he is going to plant a tree every time a child is born in the UK, didn’t say what he would do every time someone dies though.

  24. 35
    UK - twinned with Sodom and Gomorrah says:

    Emigrate to Hungary. 2/3rds majority against ‘socialists’(international communists).

  25. 36
    Peter mandelson says:

    I have always worked hard to prepare the ground for the liberal democrats and my great friend nick clegg.

    By helping Gordon brown totally destroy the country I have ensured the liberals a blank canvas on which to project their many wonderful conflicting ideas onto the gorgeous people of Britain.

    I selflessly volunteer to become foreign secretary for the new government so I can continually improve relationships between my favourite things, me, foreign boys and chauffeur driven maseratis.

    Must go, oooh is that gazpacho?

  26. 43
    September Election says:

    10 weeks then another 16 weeks for the other election. Oh marvelous, I am an election addict.

    • 64
      Quam Parva Sapientia Britannia Regitur says:

      Dave despite being asked several times including a question by his arch-nemesis Peter Hitchens kept saying that he did not believe in PR…. and the Lib Dems were “away with the fairies” most of the time and Clegg wouldn’t know common sense if it came up and hit him in the chops ….so no coalition with the LibDems then and Clegg won’t deal with Labour so it’ll be bloody chaos from 7 May and another election within 6 months.Meanwhile in the real World…….the UK goes into financial meltdown whilst the politicians haggle for who gets the Ministry in charge of paper-clips

  27. 58
    simon says:

    Is that Sarah Brown telling Gordon not to wear a tie just in-case he feels like topping himself (usually he tops Ed Balls)!

    • 67
      Hang The Bastards says:

      So is that why Ed doesnt mind Yvette topping Telegraph poles ?

      • 82
        ?? says:

        Who’s Yvette supposedly shagging on the Telegraph then, and is that why she’s having an alleged breakdown?

        • 101
          simon says:

          Who would want to shag Yvette? Apart from John Prescott who ain’t fussy who he shags:)

        • 218
          Daily Mirror Chicken. says:

          Shouldn’t she be putting out for the lefty press?

          No loyalty.

          I’m clucking clucked off.

  28. 71
    Rip Van Winkle says:

    ‘….. Nothing to do with not wanting to be tainted with a loser?’

    Ermmm… how about, nothing to do with being a tax exile?

    • 96
      jgm2 says:

      Or indeed not being welcome even by the Labour Party.

      Remember, it was the Labour Party that put the knife in on Blair.

  29. 78
    Anonymous says:

    As an election strategy, it’s certainly novel.

    Take the country to the edge of bankruptcy. Near bankrupt your own party. Oust a bloke who won you three elections, more or less effortlessly, and offer delicate Middle-England instead a mad, ranting jock.

    Then tell the country that only more of the same will do.

    It might work.

  30. 79
    Engineer says:

    I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. The injustices and quirks in British society that brought the Labour party into existence have been cured (some of them by the actions and policies of others). There is no further reason for it’s continued existence. We have two old-established, and (relative to Labour) more honourable parties, one to the left of centre, and one to the right, with the historical foundation and current vitality to govern Britain adequately in the future.

    I’d also like to think that the Labour party in it’s current incarnation, the party of Brown, Bliar, Mandelweasel, Whelan, Campbell et. al., is about to reap the whirlwind for the years of spin, deceit, lies, and contempt for the British public.

    May those responsible rot for ever in political hell.

    • 115
      anon says:

      Very good, I agree, but the credibility of your argument is destroyed when you will write it’s when you mean its.

      It’s not difficult to sort out its from it’s.
      It’s = It is.
      Its = belonging to it.

      Hope your engineering was more precise than your prose.

      • 120
        stickler says:

        If you’re going to correct others at least get it right.

        The correct usage is its’.

      • 126
        Engineer says:

        Thank you for the polite and sensititive manner of your kind correction.

        Do please carry on with correction to the spelling and grammar in the rest of the thread. I’m sure Guido’s readers will be most grateful.

      • 176
        Doctor Mick says:

        anon is correct. No such a thing as its’ stickler.

        • 225
          VGER says:

          Having put right the manifest injustices which it was created to destroy, its programming became garbled and it set out to identify and correct injustices of its own invention.

          Having started out with intentions of Mary Poppins, it’s become a Star Trek villain.

  31. 85
    Fisiani says:

    Do you guys in UK have a nod and wink strategy to really destroy Labour by Con and Lib Dem/SNP/PC campaigns tag teaming to swing anti-Labour votes behind one candidate with a swings and roundabouts allocation of winnable seats. Are your voters bright enough to realise that they have the first chance in 70 years to inflict a fatal hammer blow rather than just wound them

    • 129
      What did you do in the election,Daddy ? says:

      Have you met the British Electorate ? 15% don’t even know that there is an election taking place 20% won’t bother to vote and 40% think they’re taking part in an X Factor/Strictly Come Dancing/Who will be Dorothy ? style phone vote

  32. 93
    • 102
      Balls says:

      Ed seems to be confusing Britishness and Englishness

      • 178
        Doctor Mick says:

        Ed seems to struggle with the concept of smiling. It does not come naturally, either that or he is suffering from terrible wind.

  33. 103
    there's no smoke without fire says:

    Oops!

    A spokesman for David Miliband has strenuously denied he attended, all or part of, the notorious “brainstorming session” which has caused fury amongst Roman Catholics.

    • 109
      Sir Humphrey says:

      Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

      • 171
        Anonymous says:

        Can I be first to coin the phrase ‘Popegate’. I genuinely haven’t heard it used yet.

    • 110
      Jon says:

      Miliband is digging a big hole for himself.

    • 151

      If the pope was Muslim Milibanana wouldn’t get to see sundown this evening.

      • 228
        Lord Carrington's Binoculars says:

        Ha ha!

        Milicock’s inner Marxist lets him down again….

        And let’s not forget that for ‘progressives’ the Catholic church is the Great Satan. Apparently African men are so in thrall to the Pope, that they won’t use condoms. Yup, all that HIV transmission is all the Pope’s fault.

        Still, I see that the FO is still only hiring on-message, privately educated, Oxbridge lefties…

  34. 108
    How to fuck Nu Liebour says:

    How to destroy the Liebour party.

    1. Make sure every rent boy in Islington is riddled with HIV

    2. Lace all Islington supplies of Cocaine with Cyanide

    • 116
      jgm2 says:

      Surely it’s White City where you need to be working your HIV/dirty cocaine magic.

  35. 124
    Henry Crun says:

    BBC apparently haven’t been told – they’re still bigging up Gordon & Labour

  36. 125
    How to alienate a whole section of society says:

    Doesn’t David Miliband want the Catholic vote then?

  37. 136
    Smokers against Labour says:

    There are over 10 Million of us

    • 139
      Motorist Lobby says:

      There are 18 million of us motorists who signed the petition against road charging….and they still can’t be arsed to repair the potholes

  38. 143
    Up sh1t creek says:

    Break the law, don’t resign. The law is for you little people, and Ed Balls (like the rest of the New Labour clan) has no honor and won’t resign.

    • 161
      The Fabian solution says:

      We have already won, Marx is victorious, you have been ensnared by europe and the Tories have been forced so far to the left they even failed to honor their promise on the Lisbon treaty.

      We of the left own the language – we say Marxist you say no – so we change the language to Socialist and you say yes – then we fuck it up so we change socialist to Progressive and you say yes again – yipeee.

      You see! with every move, with every change, we of the left gain ground

  39. 153
    Tapestry says:

    Labour’s Heartbreak Votel

    Ever since Tony left me
    The Party’s been sheer hell
    He went n won three elections
    But I ain’t doing that well

    We’re all missing you Tony
    We want you back here
    We want you to come back and take control

    Mandy’s gone power crazy
    Al Campbell’s lost the plot.
    He hired an elvis presley act
    Which put me on the spot

    were all missing you tony
    we want you back here.
    we want you to come back and take control

    But now that Tony’s left us
    We’re going down the pan
    The polls have put us in third place
    And no one gives a damn

    we’re all missing you Tony
    we want you back here
    We want you to come back and take control

    • 157
      jgm2 says:

      Typical fucking Labour. Couldn’t even get it right when it came to cheering people up.

      They should have ordered a stripper instead of an Elvis impersonator. That’s have been a much better laugh.

      • 203
        Unsworth says:

        Male stripper or female? After all both Gordon and Sarah were there….

        Possibly one of each, then.

  40. 154
    Odds Bodkins says:

    Yeah, just where is that Tony Blair hiding these days? Certainly not out mixing with the proles in damp Blighty. He’s got more of an orange gob than Kilroy-Silk these days.

    • 162
      jgm2 says:

      90 Day rule old chap.

      More than 90 days in any one tax year in the UK and you’re liable for tax on your worldwide earnings. Blair is now ‘none resident for tax purposes’.

      And who can blame him? 50% tax? My missus leaves the house at 05:15 every morning and gets home around 19:15. At 50% tax she doesn’t start earning a penny for herself until after mid-day. She got up at 4:45 to spend the whole fucking morning working for that cu*nt Brown. And even then he can’t do her the courtesy of balancing his budget.

      What a fucking cu*nt. No wonder she’s quit work. The amazing thing is that so many people still bother to go to work at all with such egregious plunder and theft at large in the land. All slaving away to pay for their ludicrously over-priced pile of breeze blocks and plastic pipes.

      Fuck you Brown. We ain’t your slaves.

      • 169
        Cassandra King says:

        Browns slaves/newlabours slaves/Daves slaves/conservative slaves/liblab slaves/libcon slaves meet the new boss same as the old boss but twice as nasty.

        Anyone think that the state will set us free now? Anyone still think that the state establishment will not turn the screws on us when they have their liblabcon stooges elected? Anyone think that the gigantic debt about to drown the ordinary folk of these islands will somehow melt away?
        The establishment has worked hard and long to put us taxslave scum where they think we belong, with the establishment boot on our necks and the chains of debt they are going to turn us into their new serf class, born to be slaves.

      • 221
        Unemployed Person says:

        I agree!

  41. 160
    Odds Bodkins says:

    And come to think of it, there has been nothing new from staunch labourite Dolly Draper for quite some time…

    http://derekdrapersblog.blogspot.com/

  42. 164
    angelnstar says:

    http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/twos-company/

    Boris Johnson says the whole Cleggie thing is a fiendish plot by Lord Mandelson. But has it backfired?

    • 181
      artboyusa says:

      TIME: 7 May 2010
      PLACE: the hollowed out volcano secret headquarters of Lord Peter Mandelson, where a guest has arrived…

      “Ah, Mr Clegg; welcome! So good of you to come. Would you care for some refreshments? Milliband; fetch some green tea for Mr Clegg”.

      “At once, Master” grovelled Milliband.

      “Cut to the chase Mandelbum; I’ve got a busy day ahead of me”.

      “Indeed you have, dear boy! Please accept my warmest fellatio, I mean felicitations, on your almost-victory. How delighted you must be!”

      “Well I was a little surprised, to tell the truth, to come from behind like that…”

      “As were we all I can assure you” said Mandelson, languidly stroking the Angora cat which lay across his lap. “But I’ve come from behind many a time myself, oh my goodness yes. You know, Mr Clegg politics is so full of surprising events; some pleasant, others… not so pleasant”.

      “Hang it Mandelboy, are you threatening me?”

      “My dear chap! The very idea! Oh dearie me, that’s not my style at all. I was born for a simple, quiet life of aesthetic contemplation and calm reflection you know” said Mandelson, sniffing the green carnation in his buttonhole. “But of course should any motherfucking motherfucker fuck with me I’ll cut off his fucking balls and turn them into fucking cufflinks, capeesh?”

      Clegg fingered his cufflinks nervously. “You don’t scare me, Mandlebone” he lied.

      “I should hope not! I want us to be friends, Nicholas – may I call you ‘Nicholas’?”

      “I suppose…”

      “Excellent! And you may call me ‘Lord Mandelson’. I do hope we can be friends, Nicholas. Very good friends. A young man such as yourelf, fresh and untried if I may say so, needs friends who are a little older, a little more schooled in the ways of the world, to help, um, smooth his path, as it were”.

      “Look, if this is about keeping Brown on as PM you can forget…”

      “Oh Nicholas, you do make me laugh! Poor dear, hopeless, grumpy Gordon; I’m afraid his brief moment in the sun is well and truly over, poor lamb”.

      “Really? But he says he won’t leave Number 10; he wants to go on and on”.

      “I’m afraid there may have been -how shall one say it? – a degree of shortfall between dear Gordon’s personal expectations and the, um, political reality. As this small item may perhaps demonstrate”.

      Mandelson withdrew a rough canvas sack from beneath his enormous marble topped desk and threw the reeking bundle at Clegg’s feet, where it landed with a wet, squelching noise. “Do have a tiny peep inside, Nicholas” he urged softly. “It won’t bite”.

      With shaking fingers Clegg untried the strings and peered inside Mandelson’s dripping sack. “Oh god!” exclaimed the professed atheist. “Oh my god!”

      Gordon Brown’s grey, jowly, monocular, dead face glowered up at him.

      “A small token of my esteem, dear Nicholas” hissed Mandelson “Given in anticipation of our successful future partnership. I do hope my gift pleases you?”

      “No! Not this way!” wailed Clegg. “Not like this! NO!!!”

      “Oh dear boy” cooed Mandelson. “You’re trembling like a leaf! Whatever can the matter be?”

  43. 174
    Phil says:

    “Tony Blair is supposedly unable to campaign because he is still stuck overseas due to volcanic ash”

    Shouldn’t that be “a mountain of cash”?

    • 236
      anonymous says:

      you’re right of course – apparently there is no such thing as volcanic ash , all the fuss over the last week has been for nothing!!

  44. 184
    England Needs Representation says:

    The Liberal Democrats should now concentrate their fire on Labour, with the aim of not merely suppassing Labour’s percentage in the polls, but of actually winning more seats than Labour. It is not possible for a third party to go straight to Government in one easy move, they are not prepared for it for a start. But imagine Clegg as leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition – that would give them the springboard to go on and win an election in 4 or 8 year’s time.

    • 188
      Anonymous says:

      God forbid.

    • 201
      Fred says:

      That would be the LibDems, the party that doesn’t even bother campaigning in most seats it is so used to coming third?

      Can’t see it myself.

      The LibDems will only come second when Charlie Whelan has thoroughly screwed the Labour Party and left the Tories in office for the next 30 years.

  45. 190
    Sundeland Bob says:

    The rest of the country need to do something about the sheer amount of their money being pumped into the North East in public sector wages.

    Stop throwing bad money at us and simply give huge tax breaks for companies locating up here. Give the lazy fuckers that I can see coming out of the Job Centres no choice but to work.

  46. 198
    Fred says:

    Don’t think Labour is quite finished off but it will be by the time of 2015 general election. Charlie Whelan will see to that.

  47. 204
    50 Calibre says:

    Blinkybollox didn’t want to wake the kids eh?

    Where did he get that excuse from several days after he was caught redhanded on the dog and bone by plod. He doesn’t give a flying fuck for everyone else’s kids. So why should we believe he would show such concern for his own. They probably hate him anyway…

  48. 214
    Roger Windsor says:

    The decision of Nick Clegg not to allow Gordon Brown to “squat” in N° 10 if Labour are the largest party in terms if seats but not in terms of the “popular vote” may lead to the resignation of Gordon Brown as Leader of the Labour Party to be automatically replaced by the Deputy Labour Party Leader, Harriet Harman, as was the case following the death of John Smith when Margaret Beckett became Leader of the Labour Party.
    Perhaps we should now hear from Clegg as whether he is willing to enter into discussions with Harriet Harman on behalf of the Labour Party about forming a colation government.

    • 239
      spiv says:

      I fink Harman and Beckett would togevva in a coilition thingy make a good pantomime horse

  49. 241
    They still don't understand first past the post says:

    What’s the tally of MP’s elected for each Party for Guido’s poll of polls ?

    I’d count that up before all this amusing self delusion.

  50. 246
    Klingsor says:

    Cleggy says he will not support Brown if Labour comes third, but may, apparently, support a different Labour PM. Is this arrogant Lib**al telling us that he, not the British people, will tell us who our PM is to be after the election? What a nice surprise that will be for us.

  51. 247
    Klingsor says:

    Are you American, or what? Honour, not honor. The latter was in the Avengers.



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