May 13th, 2010

FSA Boss’s Partisan Reminder

For better or worse the Financial Services Authority is safe, for now. Despite the best efforts of Osborne to take away its wholesale market regulatory powers, as he has been promising for well over a year, it will be looking after banking regulation for a while long.  The same can’t really be said of its CEO Hector Sants. Sants had announced his intention to depart, but that now will likely come sooner rather than later.

Considerable upset has been caused after it emerged that Sants emailed his entire three thousand strong staff on polling day gently reminding them that the Tories had promised to scrap the organisation and though it may not happen overnight, ultimately the Tories would sack them all. Guido imagines it was a rather awkward conversation with the new Treasury team today. The FSA board are to meet as a matter of urgency to find a replacement.


487 Comments

  1. 1
    Gordon Brown says:

    I’m still an MP.

    • 33
      We're All 'Cleggons' Now says:

      Time to start sacking all those Soviet placemen and without the usual ‘golden handshake’ – starting with this cnut…

      • 71
        Knock knock says:

        Brown has to be lucky all of the time…….

        • 136
          slotted says:

          Indeed. And he won’t be.

          • Bow down to your new lord and master toryboys says:

          • Cameron hates this country - proof says:

            the State hates you, your family and our country, you are lead by corporate pupprts out to destroy you and the country.

            as the goverment slash essential services for the old the sick, the poor, children – think on this for a second -

            Areas which could be cut immediately without impacting any frontline services to the British people would include:

            - Halting British involvement in the Afghanistan war which would cut £5 billion a year off the deficit.

            - Halting Britain’s EU membership which costs Britain £45 million per day.

            - Halting the ‘asylum’ racket which costs Britain around £4 billion per year.

            - Halting the immigration swindle which costs Britain around £13 billion per year.

            - Halting the £9 billion per year foreign aid budget.

            These four measures alone could be implemented immediately, but it seems that the Tory/Lib Dem alliance, like the Labour Party, prefers waging war to looking after British people.

      • 75
        Anonymous says:

        SANTS IS SAFE WITH CAMERON.

        CAMERON HAS SPENT MUCH OF THE DAY REASSURING BUREAUCRATS THAT THEIR ROLE WILL CONTINUE AND EXTOLLING THE VIRTUES OF HIS COALITION GOVERNMENT, no job cuts here!

        • 91
          Lord Coe Ate My Allotment says:

          As soon as the chief sycophants have been identified, he should sling them out.

        • 97
          concrete pump says:

          Yeah alright, i’m not fucking deaf!

          • Lightweight Cast Iron says:

            £491,000,000 a fucking year this shower of shit cost us.

            See Northern Rock coming, did they?

            Useless twats!

            C’mon Ozzy – Sack the lot!

          • Doctor Mick says:

            That’s titfer’s feeble attempt to add emphasis to his inane ramblings.

      • 149
        Don’t Mean to Gloat But says:

        For better or worse the Financial Services Authority is safe, for now.

      • 273

        Daddy is going to make trade union membership illegal….Shhhh…I wasn’t supposed to say.

    • 38
      50 Calibre says:

      … and you’re still a dysfunctional, devious, deranged, deceitful, dithering, duplicitous, dangerous and dishonest pile of shit. You also stole a big chunk of my pension.

      • 46
        AC1 says:

        As they make the law, “stole” is not the right word. Extorted is.

      • 56
        13eastie (How do you like them apples, Gordon?) says:

        It gives me no pleasure to say, Gordon Brown,
        “As Prime Minister’s go, you were shittest in town!”
        It’s hard to recall whether anyone faster,
        Could’ve turned our great country into a disaster.

        Not elected to office was Gordon, but plucked,
        From a short-list of one – that’s the reason we’re fucked!
        With democracy held in contempt from the start
        Gordon, unchecked, could tear Britain apart.

        The man who dared not in the voters put trust,
        told us “Never again will our country go bust”!
        But he set out at once on a mission of doom,
        wasting no time at all in abolishing boom.

        Bent as he was upon wrecking the nation,
        The plebiscite promise was quickly forsaken.
        Our hard-won and cherished self-determination
        Was swapped for a zone in the New Federation.

        Nothing’s been spared from his wanton destroyment:
        You voted for Labour, you got unemployment!
        Indebted forever – your future’s been sold
        at a knock-down price (just like Brown gets for gold)

        So with all we once had, flushed away down the pan,
        We held our breath, waiting to hear Gordon’s plan:
        “DNA-che’ yer wains! CRB-che’ yer gran!
        Dinnae say tha’ ye’r white, or ye’r straigh’ or a man!”

        “Ah ken juist hoo tae handle th’ public purse!
        Ye’r jammy tae huv me! th’ Tories ur worse!
        Tax-payer’s homes whiles git repossessed!
        Ah kip weel ilk nicht! Dinnae s’pose a’m depressed”!

        “Among th’ G20 th’ view’s widely shared
        That cheers tae mah leadership Earth haes bin spared
        Fae certain American sub-prime catastrophe!
        Mind? Ah kin cure cyclical atrophy!”

        England’s been purged of your mental delusions.
        You were the problem, pal, not the “sul-yoo-shun”.
        Good riddance, wrecking-ball “Son of the Manse”!
        Now that you’re gone, we might stand half a chance…

      • 87
        MC Vocab says:

        Illiteration across da nation!

        • 98
          concrete pump says:

          I think you’ll find the word is ‘alliteration’.

          • Moog Taurus Bass Pedals (The Progressive Choice) says:

            No, I think illiteratation
            is apt for da nation

          • Unsworth says:

            Maybe it’s a new word for the process of making people illiterate. The NuLab apparatchiks who have been running our schools for the past decade would certainly know of it.

          • concrete pump says:

            Agreed Unsworth, if it’s not a word, maybe it should be.

          • None says:

            “the NuLab apparatchiks who have been running our schools for the past decade would certainly know of it.”

            I was scanning through graduates’ CVs today. Applications for an IT job. I binned all the ones that contained ‘txt spk’, zero apostrophes, generally illiterate, you know the stuff. After ditching those, how many do you think I had left?

          • Wizz Script Kiddie says:

            0xFFFFF0FF then

          • 13eastie (How do you like them apples, Gordon?) says:

            @None:

            Jst 4 ur info:

            It’s optional, but since you are such a fan of them, you might like to consider adding an apostrophe in “CVs” [sic].

          • Terry Fuckwitt says:

            @none:

            Was it 37?

          • Educated Archie says:

            Beastie – you are the tit. The apostrophe is correctly placed in that sentence. CVs is merely shorthand for a plural.

            I wish we had more employers who did that as it might raise standards overnight. The trouble is that these days most English teachers would have no idea what we were talking about.

            I love the word illiteration; perfick!

          • Throbber says:

            Innit

          • 13eastie says:

            Don’t be a prick, Archie – I said it was optional, but the the convention for use of an apostrophe in pluralising acronyms is: long-established; enhances readability; and reduces ambiguity (although the last two are a matter of opinion). Its use it in this situation mirrors that for numerals (e.g. 1970′s) and letters (e.g. I expect you felt fortunate to get two D’s at O-Level). Admittedly, the convention seems to be in decline, along with the use of periods in acronyms, but it’s nonetheless perfectly acceptable.

            For a self-proclaimed apostrophe aficionado, its omission on this occasion seems both ironic and something of a missed opportunity.

            See you next Tuesday!

          • Since the plural of ‘curriculum vitae’ would be ‘curricula vitae’, the use of an irrelevant and totally superfluous letter for an Anglicised pluralisation is rather a moot point.

            I think you’re both Hoonish pedants, and would recommend a good dose of Latin to bore you into utter darkness.

            Apo’strophes? I shit ‘em.

          • 13eastie says:

            I beg to differ, Para.

            Unless one is perusing multiple versions of the same person’s resumé, one ought to expect the plural of curriculum vitae to be curricula vitarum.

            The superfluousness of the “s” (even WITH the apostrophe) was never really in doubt anyway: The “V.” is quite adequate an abbreviation for any word beginning with the letter “V”, irrespective of that with which it ends (hence S.O.S. and not S.O.S.’s).

    • 45
      Up sh1t creek says:

      The Liberal Democrats inflict their first measure of pain on the UK, keeping New Labour’s incompetent FSA alive……

      • 51
        AC1 says:

        Economics is this governments weak spot.

        There’s a credit boom, and they want MORE lending?

        House prices get more affordable and they want to stop that?

        Admittedly not as bad as labour who thought…
        “Unemployment is high, lets punish employers by raising NI”.

        • 156
          13eastie (How do you like them apples, Gordon?) says:

          There isn’t a credit boom.
          There is a debt millstone.
          Created entirely by Gordon Brown.
          Ultimately, the only thing that will pay off the massive individual and national debts we bear is a successful private sector. When it boils down to it, this is where the tac revenue comes from.
          The private sector needs support and investment.
          Entrepreneurs need encouragement.
          M4 has dwindled to almost nothing. Low interest rates only benefit existing borrowers, who are (understandably) fixated on paying off debt, rather than spending and investing.
          Profitable business still cannot get cash-flow assistance from nationalised banks.
          Declining house prices increase the proportional burden of personal debt and are hugely damaging to confidence and rates of new mortgage applications (key enablers of economic activity).
          Business asset taper relief on capital gains should be reintroduced for the duration of this parliament.
          Meanwhile, Osbourne has to hope that Labour’s other gift to the nation – massive unemployment (combined with a collapsed currency) – will attenuate the inflationary potential that has now been built in to our economic future (taxes, interest rates can only rise)

          • AC1 says:

            > new mortgage applications (key enablers of economic activity)

            No it’s not. It’s a key enabler of bank profits and not much else. Paying more for the same house is inflation, not economic growth.

            >The private sector needs support and investment.
            From investors, not the state.

            > Entrepreneurs need encouragement.
            No they don’t they need the state to get out of the way.

            > Profitable business still cannot get cash-flow assistance from nationalised banks.

            Then stay in credit.

            > Business asset taper relief on capital gains.

            Capital Gains shouldn’t be taxed Government created monopolies should be.

          • 13eastie says:

            House-movers spend money. Spending money IS economic activity. Many industries DEPEND on an active housing market. If people cannot get mortgages, they cannot move.

            Investors can do fuck-all if they cannot borrow cash.

            Entrepreneurs need the state to encourage them by doing away with the fiscal disincentives to going into business.

            > Then stay in credit

            Many good businesses could, during the last year, have achieved this only by ceasing trading. I can only imagine your experience of business is small and narrow.

            > CGT

            100% relief should be offered.

        • 169
          They need to suck Bush's Cock more says:

          Bush’s NeoCon bailout economics were BRILLIANT! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

          • AC1 says:

            Tat
            Where’……s the blog?
            Where’s the blog? Where’s the blog?
            Where’s the blog? Where’s the blog? Where’……s the blo-o-og?
            Where’s the blog? Where’s the blog? Where’s the blog?
            Where’……s the blo-o-og? Where’s the blog!?

          • Doctor Mick says:

            We’ll see men on Mars before we see titfer’s blog.

      • 57
        Sir William Waad says:

        The FSA should have stuck to consumer protection, where it could have whiled away its bureaucratic time designing hoops for financial advisers to jump through, or wagging a finger at banks when they rip off their customers even more blatantly than usual. It’s many fathoms out of its depth at present.

        • 256
          lola says:

          You think? Hoops for advisers? You reckon the FSA is out of its depth everywhere else, well, matey, it’s way out of its depth with ‘advisers’ as well. It is simply entirely dysfunctional.

    • 66

      Ho-Hum! the following is relevant, please read to see why….

      I nearly got the sack from Beecham Proprietary Medicines ( = “over-the-counter” nostrums – I was the brand-manager in charge of Night-Nurse and Day-Nurse, among other stuff) in 1978.

      This sack, if it would occur the next morning, was to be for writing to the Daily Mirror to complain about articles from “ministers” that said “all medicines should be on prescription and should all be free [including aspirin for Christ's sake]. Yes, that there should be no sales of any medicines at all OTC to people… (like in Czechoslovakia…I remember well how this communist nation was held up as “best practice” – the first time I saw this phrase…)

      I made the mistake of photopying my letter for myself, and leaving the copy in the BIG tray without hoovering it up for me…(the “internal” phone went at my desk so I went back to it first….)

      I also stated in the letter, which angered my boss, “Ed” Scott, an early Guardian reader who would have instantly voted for Blair if he’d been invented then, by saying to the Mirror that I was such a brand manager, and I had some say in the direction of advertising revenue.

      This was, to me, quite a sensible thing to say, as I could not, in all morality and honesty, want my employers to spend monies with “medias” like the leftist Daily Mirror, which were fundamentally-opposed to the existence of such an employer, or the civilisation that nurtured such employers.

      I nearly got the sack. The following day, I was called in, with my immediate boss, and told that “the incident would be noted on my employment record with Beecham Group Ltd”, and that I would be advised to consider the direction of my future with the firm”. (There, that dates it for you.)

    • 146
      3,000 dullards says:

      3,000 staff at the FSA?

      Kin L @ not one of them saw the headlights of the financial collapse train

    • 178
      Defacto says:

      Plenty foresaw the financial shit storm that was about to hit the fan the financial BBs were full of warnings.

      Government workers are not allowed to be creative.

      St Vincent of Cable did not predict the banking collapse.

      George Osborne did not even see it when it was a reality (like Gordon)

      Darling and Mandelson stepped in, took over from boom to bust Brown and saved our country from absolute chaos (yes Peter Mandelson)

      These are FACTS.

      • 282
        Doctor Mick says:

        This sounds more like an hypothesis than facts.

        The country was not saved from chaos but merely the inevitable was postponed; they pushed teh problem into the next government’s watch.

      • 410
        Susie says:

        The Tories have been warning of the this for the last 6 years — but they were the ‘nasty ‘ party so what did they know? — Oliver Letwin (chancellor under Howard) commissioned a report in 2002 which was suppressed by the media and McDoom. Letwin, along with Ken Clarke have briefed Osborne for the last 5 years

        http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3333125.stm

        Notice Cable making a clot of himself in the final few paragraphs. St Vince? Don’t make me laugh! I hope they haven’t given him anything really important to do.

        • 429
          Doctor Mick says:

          They’ve given him the job of allowing universities to raise fees. That will endear him to their sandal wearing activists.

    • 402
      BBC Tumbleweed Watch says:

      That last photo of Gordon in the bunker mit Frau und Kinder reminded me of Santa’s Grotto: a fat bloke with a beard and two small children.

  2. 2
    toryman says:

    And still a Hunt

    • 453
      youngnat says:

      Alex Salmond has been a great champion for Scotland but he’s now yesterday’s man. We in the SNP need a new leader for the 21st century.

  3. 3
    BBC says:

    Memo from Lord Mandelson

    Push Gordon for replacement as head of FSA, stress his saving the world and the success 1997-2006 in abolishing Tory boom and bust.

    We have tried to get him a job almost everywhere else but have been turned down, the IMF guys just laughing at us on the phone and President Omaha threatening a restraining order if Gordon doesn’t stop phoning him. So this is it, time to help the one who helped you.

    • 22

      John Lewis are still holding though. They are interested in someone who can fold under pressure. Seems they have a vacancy in the sweater department.
      Doubly apt!

    • 23
      Michael68000 says:

      I think Greece might be interested.

    • 25
      P. Doff says:

      He could get a job in a kitchen… and Obama could vouch he once saw him in one trying to cock – sorry, cook – something up.

    • 59
      GB's Jobcentre lady says:

      It’s hopeless. I give up. This person has no skill set at all. I’m going off sick with stress.

    • 108
      Bob says:

      Brown can always be hired by Macaulay & Co

      Influence peddlers…

      His wife’s firm…

  4. 4
    chutney chutney says:

    http://www.gofourth.co.uk/johns_blog

    fat tub prescott is quiet

  5. 5
    Canary Wharf Rat says:

    Isn’t that a form of bullying?

  6. 6
    johnny says says:

    Wouldn’t that have breached Civil Service guidelines?

    Orf with his head, or at the very least his pension.

    • 8
      Oh and by the way says:

      Gross Misconduct……….. he should go now without any payoffs.

    • 9
      Oh and by the way says:

      Oh and by the way all other Labour appointed criminals should also pack their bags asap.

  7. 7
    Number 10's cat says:

    It might actually be illegal
    representation of the people and all that

    • 10
      Swiss Bob says:

      Glad to see you back.

    • 53
      AC1 says:

      Can we get the police involved? Any lawyers care to add some expert opinion?

      • 62
        Henry V says:

        Are these Liebour’s politico-police like ACPO or the real ones-a-la-Gene-Hunt?

        As somebody has already said it is going to take years to get ‘em all out and close down the quango’s.

        Who knows given a decade or two of ConLibDem we might get proper police, proper generals, hospitals run by clinicians………

        • 64
          AC1 says:

          Need to get rid of the NHS before you get hospitals run by clinicians.

        • 73
          Henry V says:

          And of course there is the Beeb. In my youth when the Beeb was world’s most respected broadcaster it used a blue colour scheme with golden yellow text. Now it is red. Um………..

  8. 11
    phew! says:

    i bet the Brown’s downstair pan stinks

    • 128
      Moog Taurus Bass Pedals (The Progressive Choice) says:

      I’m not exploring his passage to find out

  9. 12
    Rip Van Winkle says:

    I’m FSA regulated. You could not find a more, useless, tick box compliance bunch of nonenties this side of the Yellow River. Who was it who said ‘those who can, do those who can’t teach’? Well, the FSA and their wonderful staff fall into that category – the teachers.

    Nothing they do protects consumers.

    • 18
      lola says:

      I am also FSA ‘regulated’. They are not even teachers. I am married to a teacher and I know what teachers, good teachers, do. They cannot do and they cannot teach it. They are abso-fucking-lutely useless. 1/3 of them want back to BofE, 1/3 are just boosting their CV’s. And 1/3 are bureaucratic twats like Sants. If the survival of the FSA is any part of the price of a ‘strong and stable’ coalition, then it’s not worth it.

      • 41

        We are all FSA regulated.

        Can you recomend a mortgage young man?
        No,that’s illegal. But I can roll my eyes when you pick up a leaflet on an unsuitable one,OK?

        chumps.

      • 472
        Rip Van Winkle says:

        Agreed lola, I was just trying to be a little less direct!

    • 29
      P. Doff says:

      There should be a comma after “do”… but it’s perhaps even more of a truism the way you wrote it and changed the original meaning ;~\

    • 112
      Bob says:

      Why do you think the banks wanted a toothless bunch of ex bankers (!) called the FSA to “regulate” them

      Simples

      And you see the result

      Financial meltdown

      It’s called “Regulatory capture”

      And despite many books having been written on the subject

      No one seems to have cottoned on..

      Surreal…

      • 117
        MI5 says:

        And who were the only people to really benefit from the Financial metltdown ?

        The managers and traders of the banks who ripped off their own shareholders and continue to do so

        By selling AAA bonds that were and are junk bonds

        By the hundreds of billion…MASSIVE…

        That is called fraud…

        • 118
          Jack says:

          And the rating agencies who put AAA on bonds which were not even worth a C

          Paid by the investment banks to fraud the public…

          Still continuing as if nothing had ever happened

          Surreal…

          • Taxpayer says:

            And the FSA in all of this ?

            Still drawing huge salaries and saying it was not their fault

            Fire the lot of them and prosecute them…

        • 418
          AC1 says:

          > And who were the only people to really benefit from the Financial metltdown ?

          You forget one entity. Excess Credit increases consumption. Consumption is highly taxed. this is a massive incentive for a immoral government to allow credit to form a bubble.

  10. 13
    lola says:

    I’ll do it. I’ll do that utter self serviving prat Sant’s job. I’ll do for a Grand. Mind you that’d be for one days work and one baord meeting. The only agenda item. How quickly can we be shut down. Not whether or now, but how bloody quickly.

    The FSA is an utter and complete waste of your money. Not shutting it down is a disaster. I can see Wince’s prints all over this promise reneging.

    I am very annoyed about this.

    • 465

      Most of the skilled people who used to do banking regulation for the BoE are now retired, disillusioned and spitting blood at the theft of their pensions by Brown.

      There isn’t the pool of skilled regulators that we need – and the woeful state of the education that most young people have received means that no recent graduates have the knowledge or the nous to regulate the shysters and chancers that run the current banking system.

      I’d put Tebbit in charge, myself – with orders to cut the FSA staffing by two thirds, employ some real bastards to make the current rules work, and some even bigger bastards to create rules that work properly.

  11. 14

    It would only breach Civil Service Guidelines if he was urging them to supprt the Conservatives or the LibDems. As he was “reminding them” of the Conservative plans – and thereby only indirectly urging them to vote Labour – it is permissable. As the Civil Service is now dominated by Labour members and run from Millbank, you can expect a great deal more of this sort of thing to emerge or for there to be some major “leaks” to Labour friendly media with active wrecking tactics on policy implementation.

    The country is in fact governed by the Mandarins and their staff who write the regulations, rules and even the laws the MPs and Ministers sign up to. Nothing major will change in either government or politics until the Civil Service is reigned in and its power seriously curtailed – which is unlikely to happen this side of an Ice Age in Hell.

    • 44
      MI5 says:

      Civil Service Guidelines

      New Labour tore them up years ago

      Another interzesting point, if this gets beyond the modding

      Mandelson h”planted” homos in very sentitive areas of the British Government and Embassies

      One of them told me this personally !

      It was in the name of deviersity you see ?

      But it remains a powerful undergdound network dangerous of the new Coalition and its Ministers

      So beware…

      • 262
        Infanta of Castile says:

        It didn’t require Mandelson. The civil service has had a very strong LGB network for many more years than those in which New Labour has operated.

  12. 15

    Completely O/T

    I’ve just received my copy of the ‘business voice’ from the Thames Valley chamber of commerce.

    Mandleson is on the cover with a smug shit eating grin. Every knife from our tea room is currently stuck in his face.

  13. 16
    Dave Smash says:

    No doubt the FSA treated Sants’s reminder with as much respect as we used to give him at UBS.

    Fucktard.

    • 20
      lola says:

      Ah, so you KNOW that he’s a wanker. I’d only suspected it from some of the crap I get to hear about, which is not much, out here in the provinces.

      • 55
        Dave Smash says:

        ‘Fraid so. Of epic proportions. The bank must have been sniggering in its hands when it recommended him for the job.

  14. 17
    Anonymous says:

    Brown for Speaker! Make him sit there while a Tory government undoes all his damage.

  15. 21
    Nick2 says:

    Good riddance to bad rubbish. I seem to recall that Sants fucked Marks & Spencer badly, and actually worked part time as a competitor whilst ostensibly running it.

  16. 26
    Get Smart says:

    Spot on I think about EU.

    • 176
      Get a Tin Foil Hat says:

      Lizards!!!

      • 359
        why are you scared of the truth? says:

        Funny, that when i see some sheep start posting, tin foil and lazards under videos, they have been the most infornative and intelligent ones to view.

        It would appear by your actions that you are scared of the truth getting out!

        please keep posting your crass panick replies as it helps to highlight videos worth watching!

      • 427
        Meye5 says:

        Tin Foil these are the Lizards you need to worry about.

        “The European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, has revealed a set of proposals to fully integrate the economies of the EU member states and centralize power under a federalized union.
        Following monday’s announcement of a €750bn EU bailout fund, the EC head and Bilderberg darling José Manuel Barroso announced details of the plan for further European integration.”

    • 412
      AC1 says:

      Why are you trying to discredit Eurosceptics with Ickes support

    • 430
      Anonymous says:

      Is he sat in a book shop or something? Or is he some kind of weirdly obsessive
      book collector?

  17. 27
    MI5 says:

    Guido

    You are well versed in these matters

    But I would like to remind the co-conspirators of a few facts

    The Bank of England until 1997 had the regulatory authority over all banks.

    Gordeon Brown with his whiz kid Balls decided to split the regulatory power of the BoE

    The FSA was given authority and “recommendations” to apply “light touch” regulation.

    Their powers and their mandate were never clear

    They were heavily influenced by financial deregulation in the US, started by ex-Goldman Sachs boss Bob Rubin, who became Treasury Secretary under Clinton (who nows says he was “badly advised” by Rubin), which led to the abolition of the Glass Seagal Act which separated investment and commercial banks – after the 1929 crash

    At the same time, Alan Greenspan, who though that banks would always act in their shareholders interest, encouraged the deregulation and boosted the credit explosion with articifially low interest rates, whenever there was a hickup (like the dot com buibble).

    New Labour followed the example, and their deregulation like the US deregulation led to a credit bubble which we all know.

    The real problem was (and is) that in the US and UK deregulation (called light touch in the UK) led to only nominal regulation. Added to which the banks pushed a lot of their operations off the balance sheet and sold hundred of billions of $ and £ of AAA rated instruments which were worth virtually nothing within 6 months (the toxic assets)

    The result was a credit explosion, fraudulent banking practises (investigated in the US at the moment by the SEC, because the banks did not act in the interest of their shareholders but in the interests of their bonus driven executives – called “management capture” for the economists who read this) and losses on a scale that brought the world’s financial system to its knees.

    Brown, in his total ignorance, had no idea about what had happened or why. He was and remains a financial ignoramus.

    The result was a doubling of British national debt virtually overnight and an unacceptable budget deficit.

    There has been collusion (in the French sense of the word) between the major investment banks and New Labour since the beginning. The fact that Blair is paiid £ 1 million per year by Morgan Stanley (bailed out by the US government) is one example. the fact that Brown opened the London offices of Lehman Brothers is another.

    The fact that Mr Brown’q gatekeeper (Sue Nye) is married to the ex-Goldman Sachs multi-millionaire afirstNew Labour Chairman of the BBC is just another.

    I could go on.

    But the real point, Guido, is that the New Labour government was entirely responsible for the financial meltdown in the UK. It did not start in the US. It had already started in the UK for the same reasons.

    last point, there has been deep and pervading corrution in British finances since New Labout took over.

    They must be investigated, along with the investment banks.

    • 266
      lola says:

      Ah, so it IS Sue’s fault!

    • 411
      AC1 says:

      1/ it was the lowering of reserves (Basel2) that created extra credit, not interest rates.

      2/ The government did it for the tax.

      3/ Glass Steagal just layers the credit markets. It does nothing to solve systematic risk caused by too much credit.

      • 468

        Correct, AC1, and nowhere near enough emphasis is given to the effect of suddenly increasing available credit by reducing the requirement for adequate reserves.

        All that imaginary money had to go somewhere, and the property boom was the result.

        I think the Glass Steagal element is more important in the mechanics of the crash itself – the lack of fluidity in the inter-bank lending was in large part due to the relaxation of requirements for sensible reserves, and it was the realisation that there wasn’t sufficient cash to meet immediate needs that toppled weak institutions like Northern Rock and Lehmans in the end.

        But what the fuck do I know – I’m just a mathematician ;-)

  18. 30

    Its the leadership contest Ed Balls and you must hold your nerve.
    Its important to keep a steel visage. This is your big chance. Remember, whoever blinks first…

    Oh dear.

  19. 31
    Anonymous says:

    The EU will require the continued existence of the FSA. Setting up the tripartite regulation system was to conform with an eventual structure where the FSA reports to the european regulator and the “national” banks end up as branches of the ECB. If you can’t see that, you’re blind.

    • 34
      MI5 says:

      That s not true

      The British govenment set up the tripartite (non) system independently

      Brown and “whiz kid” Balls

      No one else…

      • 60
        Anonymous says:

        Yes, by WHY did they set it up ? GB got up one morning and said ” oh, I know hat I’ll do today…”

        • 173
          N. Toto says:

          ECB has been caught out, like every other central bank, by losing control of credit creation. But apparently someone said to Brown and/or Blair that an FSA would be a good idea, even though it effectively operated as a smokescreen for activities that in the USA required abandoning Glass-Steagall.

          • AC1 says:

            I’m not sure that Glass Steagal would have helped much.

            However you are right that the CB turned the credit in their currency monopoly into a commons (via Basel2), and thus made it inevitable that there would be a credit inflationary boom, then credit deflationary bust.

            Why would they want this? Makes a lot of money for early entrants, and tax for government.

        • 182
          My Other Cars Not A Prius Either says:

          Irelands government did likewise in the same year,fucked Ireland proper too,ho hum just a teensy mistake no harm done.no super inflation of “economic” activity,a rush to invest in “stable” property,un-affordable house prices,huge levels of fraud and total burn-out bust with consumer confidence shattered

    • 39
      MI5 says:

      The ECB was and is a total shambles

      Their remit is to control inflation (under German/Bundesbank influence)

      They are now doing QE FFS

      They have no fical control

      So any member of the éEurogroup” can spend as mch as they like

      Line the Greeks

      And wait for Vaterland Germany to bail them out

      That is called Eurocommunism !

      Surreal really…

  20. 32
    MI5 says:

    I have a long blog that is “awaiting moderation”

    I trust it is only your machine !!

    Best

    MI5

  21. 35
    3000 staff! says:

    3000 staff …you must be joking…3000! What do they do all day…well not check the balance sheet of Northern Rock.How much does this FSA cost per annum…goodness Brown and co have built some empires. The sooner they can be eliminated, the sooner we start to get down Brown’s £170,000,000,000 overspend per year.

  22. 36
    Anonymous says:

    Countermanded. Now I know there be lizards.

  23. 37
    Sarah Beard says:

    It’s so nice to be back with my friend in Kent.

  24. 42

    A full on purge of Labour cronies is needed, ASAP

    • 226
      Glad to be out of it says:

      Couldn’t agree more, though having myself recently come out of the Civil Service I’m afraid that the whole of government is stuffed to the eaves with NuLabour placemen and women. Knowing some of these cnuts as I do, it will take a whole army equipped with crowbars to lever these bastards out, there being so many of them in positions of power and influence. Cameron talked about a bonfire of quangos, but he will need to be watching his back wherever he moves in Whitehall. Expect full on guerilla tactics when they start trying to implement cuts, mark my word.

  25. 43
    50 Calibre says:

    Sants was useless before the election. I doubt if he’s changed as a result of the outcome.

    Difficult to blame the staff for getting it all wrong. Bit like blaming the ship’s engineers for the Titanic sinking…

  26. 48
    Martin Day says:

    Labour will be back with David Miliband at No 10.

    Fantastic news ‘Labour party sees record surge in membership’ 10,000 new members since the election – http://bit.ly/a6Qw72

  27. 49
    3700 staff! says:

    Just done a search …I see FSA now employ 3700 and cost £491,000,000 to run.This is cloud cuckoo land numbers…come on George save at least £250million hereasap.

    • 63
      Sir William Waad says:

      Cripes! That’s £132,702.70 each! Even taking off a few bob for office costs hat beats working for a living.

    • 88
      rocknrolla says:

      Just abolish it. And every other pointless failed quango.

      Just saying how much it costs this year is just a faction of the true cost – since we’ll have to fund huge pensions for the cretins who “work” there.

      Truly McMong’s desire to create a labour voting client state has well and truly screwed us all.

      • 130
        Anonymous says:

        86 Labour know very well their re-grouping must be swift and ready for the next election.They have no time to waste with the Libservatives at no 10 who know, their own political future depends on the weaning off Labour “clients” from the state teat and reallocating them to the private sector/education etc.Before the next election of 2015.This is why its in the best interestes of the Libservatives to make this coalition work.If they blow it Labour clients remain in place all ready to vote Lab at the next given opportunity.

    • 124
      New York Times says:

      Unbelievable

      £491 million to do NOTHING to avoid our financial meltdown ans STILL doing NOTHING…

      This is out of sight…

      The British Government and British people are stark raving loony mad to put up with this…

    • 129
      Ex-trader says:

      I honestly believe the financial crash would not have been worse WITHOUT THE FSA

      What did they do before it ?

      Or after it ?

      Put them in jail with Bernard Madoff I say

  28. 50
    ExultantTory says:

    Sants+moron. Shot his bolt, it seems. Where now Hector? His goodnight line to his wife tonight: I’m just a stupid old Hector………don’t write in if you don’t remember Hector’s House

  29. 54
    CarbonNootral says:

    Next in line to be terminated: Ed Richards of Ofcom !!! One of the highest paid regulators in London

  30. 61
    Danger Mouse says:

    Good grief, Penfold! What a fiendish plan – masquerading as a banker! Wait till Colonel K hears about this!

  31. 65
    Post-Election Frolics says:

    Tonight’s Question Time will be a laugh. They’ve got David Dimbleby Hezza, Falconer, Simon Hughes, Melanie Phillips and Mehdi Hasan (senior editor at New Statesman).

  32. 67
    Universal Hiss says:

    FSA. Fiscal Shit Arses.

    Getting back to important stuff,where is Mr. Slater’s parrot?

    Tosses grape.

  33. 68
    Martin Day says:

    Congrats to the 23 millionaires in the cabinet for accepting 5% cuts to their Government salaries.

    BASTARDS,THE LOT OF THEM !!!!!!!!!

    • 72
      lolol says:

      Yes 1 lot of Liebour multi millionaires with red rosettes replaced with another lot of multi millionaires with yellow or blue rosettes no change then

      • 90
        AC1 says:

        Hopefully this lot were millionaires BEFORE they got to the cabinet rather than mysteriously becoming millionaires whilst being publicly paid rather to little for anyone else to get that wealthy.

        • 296
          Doctor Mick says:

          EXACTLY. Their bellies are already full so they have no need be troughing at the expense of the taxpayer.

          Look at the property portfolios the likes of Blair, Mandleson and Prescott have amassed in the last 13 years.

    • 78
      CJ says:

      hahaha if you stopped wanking or posting jealousy based crap on here then you too could be wealthy……

    • 110
      fox u says:

      True Mr gay but at least these millionaires cost us 5% less than yours do that’s a saving ai it mertin?.

    • 165
      Anonymous says:

      YOU LOST NOW FUCK OFF

  34. 70

    [...] I saw it at Guiod’s place here. [...]

  35. 76
    bofl says:

    last time i checked the sfa didnt have anyone working there who had been a stockbroker,bond trader etc…..

    hector pants (£400,000 pa) failed to spot fraud at northern rock,bradford+bingley,hbos and rbs……..

    nice work if you can get it!

  36. 77
    FIRM RESOLUTE TORY says:

    tHE COST OF THE CIVIL SERVICE WILL BE DRASTICALLY REDUCED AND THE NUMBER OF BUREAUCRATS WILL BE REDUCED TO 1997 LEVELS. tHEN WE WILL EXAMINE THE SITUATION CLOSELY TO SEE WHAT FURTHER REDUCTIONS MIGHT BE MADE.

  37. 79
    Three of the worst says:

    These three really are the scum of the earth.

    Is there really NO accident that can be arranged?

    http://www.the-daily-politics.com/home/38-editorial/1482-car-crash-labour-news-conference-27th-april

  38. 83
    Martin Day says:

    Lansley salivating at the prospect of delivering deeper cuts than he promised in the NHS!

    Horrible Bastard

    • 92
    • 96

      Rumour has it the Cleggster has little time for this socialist monolithic enterprise. Things are looking up for NHS clients.

    • 102
      Engineer says:

      NHS budget £110 billion this year, I think. That’s nearly £2000 per person per year – and it doesn’t do freebies. You pay extra for prescriptions, dental care and opthalmic care. Many people don’t use it from one year’s end to thee next.

      Can’t help thinking that private healthcare would work out cheaper.

      Anybody having any dealings with the NHS know that while there are many highly competent, dedicated and caring people trying to do their best, it is a bureaucratic behemoth strangling itself in it’s own organisational incompetence.

      There must be ways to get better results for less cost; if Lansley can find and implement some, he’ll do all of us a favour.

      • 141
        Unsworth says:

        Gerry Robinson did – only the bastards then went on to ignore what he had to say.

      • 210
        Susie says:

        I’m perfectly happy they’re cutting the NHS…

        Dad had an eye appointment, the cars are parked in every available space in the grounds and 80% of them are staff.

        Three receptionists at the desk, two chatting and the other ignoring us reading something, after a minute or two she deigned to book Dad in for the 1/2 hour wait to see somebody. A simple eye test, opthalmic examination took 3 hours in there. Hearing tests are even worse.

      • 288
        lola says:

        Agreed. Lots of good pro clinical staff shafted by the bureaucracy. I know I spent 6 weeks in it late last year after NICE tried to kill me with one of its reports and ‘uidances’.

      • 301
        Doctor Mick says:

        You even pay three quid minimum charge to stop in a PFI hospital car park. The meter starts running even before you enter the building.

        That’s how a few waiting lists have been reduced.

        • 470
          Quantrill says:

          Run ragged, the HCAs at our local hospital on little over the minimum wage and with part time status are holding the place together. The majority are white. The well paid nurses from overseas are in general, useless, many can barely speak English. Grossly overpaid doctors pass their duties on to the nurses who in turn get unqualified HCAs to carry out what used to be nurses duties.

          Staff often have to pay these inflated charges to park in the hospital car park as their allotted free space is full.

          Meanwhile the grossly overpaid NHS Trust Director approves spending £3 million on a Greek style Portico.

    • 106
      Dorian Smith says:

      Do remember any cuts that have to be made are solely down to your beloved Labour party. Thanks to Gordon as Chancellor and unelected PM the economy is screwed.

      Are you saying had Gordy still been in power, he wouldn’t be making any cuts? Even your party finally admitting cuts were coming, after lying about “Labour investment against Tory cuts”.

      Perhaps Gordon would have made nice ‘fluffy’ cuts to clear up his own financial mess.

    • 107
      reginald iolanthe perrin says:

      how much does it cost to keep you in broadmoor martin????????

      the next five years are going to be so funny -reading your pathetic posts……

    • 113
      BillyBob - Stop immigration - reduce crime! says:

      hahahahahaha….. get a grip!! too many useless non jobs and waste……..!!!

    • 131
      Ex-trader says:

      Degrease the Monster NHS you idiot

      It is like the Soviet Army

      Grossly overmanned

      Grossly incompetent

      And when you need it, totally dysfunctional…

      Privatise the whole NHS I say

      After the BBC…

      • 140
        Universal Hiss says:

        Quite. I’ve not bothered the NHS for 10 years. A “friend” who pays 40%tax uses the NHS for her asprin as she feels entittled to it.

        I think she needs her legs broken for taking the piss & then she would get real value for money.

        Spits.

    • 134
      Get Real says:

      Sack all the “consultants” including Voldemort’s company…

      To start with

      Put in professional managers from the private sector

      Could save billions per year just like that…

      • 197
        Anonymous says:

        Yeah, like this ones who run the banks.

        • 294
          lola says:

          No. Keep up, please. The banks are part of the ‘client state’. The ‘managers’ exist in the NHS now, it’s just that they aren’t the existing managers. They’re staff nurses and sisters (yes, I know they are not called that these days, but you who I mean), doctors – but less doctors than nurses.

      • 399
        AC1 says:

        Put patients in charge of their own budget.

        Catastrophic insurance (subsidised upto the cost for insuring a healthy person of your age and sex) would pay out and you’d choose your care from competing providers, not wait for a bureaucrat to ration out some treatment.

    • 161
      Anonymous says:

      you lost , you had your day

      now fuck off

  39. 94
    Cassandrina says:

    Sants is indicative of the state of management in the last government.
    His act defies logic as a public servant entrusted with enabling financial wisdom into an incompetent government.
    This said I am sure there will be others of similar ilk “assisting” the government.
    Would like to see a copy of the email though – he could be up for national economic espionage.

  40. 100
    he'll need Mandelson says:

    Isn’t it blissful now there aren’t all those ghastly adverts that made one feel as if you lived in North Korea or Nazi Germany?

    Well, Dave and Nick – here’s an easy £253 m you can save right away

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8514798.stm

  41. 104
    Thick As Thieves says:

    What a lying shit David Cameron is

    The Evil Standard says Tories to cut NHS by £20bn+ – despite “I won’t cut the NHS” lies from Cameron

    • 111
      BillyBob - Stop immigration - reduce crime! says:

      TAT………. cutting the NHS budget does not mean cutting front line staff…… it means cutting out all the unnecessary expenditure and useless non-jobs that your mate created………… !!

      • 308
        Doctor Mick says:

        Next time you visit a hospital and are forced to park 300 yards from the entrance you will have to walk past the adminstrators’ designated parking area. Look at the vehicles parked there. It’s like a Top Gear special.

        That’ll give you a clue as to where some of the dosh is going.

        • 394
          AC1 says:

          It’s the same as the overpaid GPs car park.

          • Quantrill says:

            If you are Staff other than the administrators or overpaid doctors/consultants, there is a very good chance that you won’t even be able to park anywhere near the hospital where you work.

    • 115
      fox u says:

      Yes twot but that was a Tory gov promise and we don’t have one do we thicko!.

    • 126
      concrete pump says:

      I object to that. It was a black midwife that brought me into the world, supported by 2 black nurses and a black matron.
      As i grew up i watched Floella Benjamin and Derek Griffiths on Playschool and numerous black people on Sesame street.

      Your feeble stereotypes are the product of a brain that is suspended in piss.

      Fuck Off!

      • 144
        Mr Plum says:

        I liked the black & white minstrels,

      • 190
        Sick of left and right says:

        ‘Your feeble stereotypes’

        And yet you go on to paint black people in a lovely dovey perfect rainbow world stereotype yourself lol.

        Face it there are good and scum in all races thats all you had to say before making a bedwetting arse out of yourself like the knuckledragger did before you.

        • 215
          concrete pump says:

          ‘And yet you go on to paint black people in a lovely dovey perfect rainbow world stereotype yourself,’

          It was a brief window from my very early childhood, used to make a point about the previous’s posts incredible ignorance.

          Thought you sounded clever when you read your own post out didn’t you.
          You think i’m not aware that every race has pricks.

          Wanker!

    • 138
      Annie says:

      Only £20 billion ???

      The NHS is Britain’s Red Army

      Cut all the red tape, bureacrats, consultants and thieves…

      There is at least £40 billion there without touching “front line services”

      (some of which are not front line at all, BTW!)

      • 391
        AC1 says:

        Take the money from the NHS, and give it to patients to buy their own care.

        Patients are now customers, not costs to be minimised.

    • 152
      Indigo says:

      It’s the Evening Standard not paying attention, then. Neither are you. On R4 “Today” this morning, Andrew Lansley was interviewed about this and made it clear – despite Humphrys – that these will be efficiency savings.

    • 167
      Anonymous says:

      YOU LOST
      NOW FUCK OFF

    • 218
      Socialist power games says:

      Black people are just as much victims of Labour and collectivism as anyone else. To treat them as ‘victims’ is insulting and inverted racism. They die in Afghanistan too.

      But we have a problem with black crime NOT black people.

      Let’s realise what evil divisive b*ggers the PC socialists are…no one is allowed dignity unless it is defined against someone elses guilt. Its men versus women, black versus white, young versus old, town versus country…its socialism battening on PEOPLE.

      Divide and rule. Create issues where they do not exist. Pretend to be the ‘righter of wrongs’.

      It’s about power for people who are riddled with ideology and leads to the failure which we all suffer.

  42. 109
    BillyBob - Stop immigration - reduce crime! says:

    I wonder if he is doing the Lotto this week??

  43. 120
    Mitch says:

    Gordons gone, Labor lost hahahahahhahhahahhahahhahhaha sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 147
      Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

      Wait till you see the shit I’ve left behind in the Nation’s accounts…..

      No-one will be smiling then…..

      The Pound may have to bear some of the strain

  44. 121
    Your Starter for 10 says:

    C4 News wittering on about lack of women in the LibCon Cabinet . Surely the men can make their own tea and coffee?

    • 139
      Annie says:

      At least the new Cabinet are not mysogenist thugs like the Labour Cabinet…

    • 151
      .243 Win says:

      Hmmmmm.. Let’s have a look at a top ten of what “positive discrimination” gave us :

      Batty Hattie Harpic
      Five Bellies
      Caroline Flint
      Margaret “so that’s what happened to Shergar” Beckett
      Margaret Moran
      The Chipmunk
      Kerry MacCarthy
      Helen Brinton (google or Wiki her…. a classic)
      Patricia Hewett

      …and of course, at the No. 1 slot, that all-crowning achievement of all-women shortlists; Ladies and Gentlemen I present to you (drum roll…..)

      Jack Dromey.

  45. 133
    Anonymous says:

    Is anything being done to sort Pravda out.? Perhaps revisiting it’s charter to start with.

    • 142
      Annie says:

      I will judge Cameron and Clegg by whether they take down the digracefully partial BBC

      If not, sadly I will believe that they have no cojones…

      • 153
        The BBC says:

        We only cost you muppets £ 3,600,000,000 per annum. What’s all the fuss ??

      • 184
        new balls please says:

        Mr Cameron stressed that he supported the BBC

        He said: “The BBC is an important national institution. I want to see it prosper and succeed and be a fantastic cultural asset.”

        He added that he was a “supporter of the licence fee”

        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.”

        Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has defended the BBC, saying it’s “unique in the world and we should be proud of it” and said the trend for politicians to constantly attack it was wrong.

        • 483
          Educated Archie says:

          But they are quite intelligent enough to know when to change their minds for the better.

    • 263
      Bruce says:

      The BBC is hideously white male, white males caused the great depression. So destroying the BBC is a good thing as there are many white males, 99% of which beat their wives. It will be rebuilt as an equal opportunities employer where only women are allowed to work.

      • 313
        Doctor Mick says:

        Wives? I think most of the white males in the BBC are confirmed bachelors.

      • 482
        Educated Archie says:

        Where I live, all the BBC tv presenters etc are hideously blackish southern Asian. Not a white face in sight most of the time.

    • 464
      Number 10's cat says:

      This is the organisation that built their headquarters round, so they could reach all parts of the building without having to turn right.

  46. 135
    Anonymous says:

    As I commented on another thread here, the Gorgon is now pulling in 65K for doing absolute sweet fuck all. Not a bad reward for his monumental car crash fuck up of the economy / country / everything the one eyed twat touched.

    • 148
      Universal Hiss says:

      He needs to talk to Eck the fish. You can claim for wine & sandwiches & pesto & beer & stuff even if you don’t go anywhere near Westminster & the House is on its summer recess.

      Eck had three jobs & gave his MP salary to charadee.

      Ha,ha,fucking ha.

    • 154
      • 240
        Musings says:

        What would rather have sheets of paper with uimbers printed on them, or something that you can hold and sell when the time is right?

        • 241
          Musings says:

          NUMBERS

        • 386
          AC1 says:

          Golds only advantage is that it’s quite difficult to inflate the Gold supply, whereas sheets of paper with numbers on are not…

          If the government correctly keeps the ratio of bits of numbered paper in circulation relative to the amount of time exchange in the economy then bits of paper or electronic bits are preferable.

    • 246
      Captain Panick says:

      Apparently the Mong will now be holding Surgeries in his constituency. What has the one eyed mong been doing all these years, and do the Jock locals not understand how much c*rap they have to listen to from the demented one????????????????

  47. 157
    Bazz says:

    Two Crockodiles, one large, one small
    The smaller one turned to the bigger one and said, ‘I can’t understand
    how you can be so much bigger than me. We’re the same age,
    We were the same size as kids. I just don’t get it.’

    ‘Well,’ said the big Croc, ‘what have you been eating?’

    ‘Politicians, same as you,’ replied the small Croc.

    ‘Hmm. Well, where do you catch them?’

    ‘Down at the Labour Car Park by the Houses of Parliament.’

    ‘Same here. Hmm…..How do you catch them?’

    ‘Well, I crawl up under one of their Lexus cars and wait for one to unlock
    The car door. Then I jump out, grab them by the leg, shake the shit out of
    Them and eat ‘em!’

    ‘Ah!’ says the big Crocodile, ‘I think I see your problem. You’re Not
    Getting any real nourishment. See, by the time you finish shaking the shit
    out of a Labour Politician, there’s nothing left but an arsehole and a briefcase.

  48. 158
    Geordie Scoot says:

    Perhaps FSA should become part of the voluntary sector in the Big Society. Actually, I was tempted to become part of the sector myself, having seen the following two vacancies in my local rag this week:

    “Alcohol Specialist £23,030pa 35 hours” and
    “2x Young Persons Substance Misuse Trainer, £24,310pa 35 hours”

    Now I’m not sure I could drink for 35 hours but I presume its spread over 5 days and at least they pay you for it. As for the Young Persons Substance Misuse, I didn’t realise they needed training – don’t they teach them anything at school these days?

    • 380
      AC1 says:

      Small Print on Job Ad: Must have proof of voting labour.

    • 393
      Rasta Bob says:

      Hey Mister

      Stop taking the piss out of the Big Tent Society

      Our kids need to learn how to space themselves out

      You should see my clients at the BBC

      After a few lines they just lie for 24 hours non syop…

      It’s what they call freedom…

  49. 159
    Engineer says:

    Lots of nice things seem to happening all at once. ID cards are being scrapped, for example. Even Chris Hunhe has had to make quite positive noises about replacing nuclear power stations. The Great Repeal Bill is in the Coalition agreement – it’ll be interesting to see what rubbish that sweeps away.

    • 163
      Libcon Hippies says:

      New build Nuclear stations only if they aren’t subsidised
      So that would be 0

      • 171
        Engineer says:

        Don’t be too sure….

        • 186
          Libcon Hippies says:

          They are all subsidised
          Whether through electricity price massaging, PFI off balance sheet accounting or by astronomical government re-insurance

          • Engineer says:

            I think you’ll find that applies to all the means of electricity generation we have, with the possible exception of some gas-fired stations.

          • Mr Plum says:

            I’ve got the answer to our energy problems – nuclear powered windmills

          • Engineer says:

            No – we’ll just import electricity, same as we do everything else.

          • Doctor Mick says:

            Well we certainly have to import the technology.

      • 221
        Nuclear power for sale...economies of scale and up to date technology says:

        Buy them off the peg from South Korea or Russia…the Turks are

  50. 160
    Wavy Davy Liberal Gravy Loves to eat his Greens says:

    “The more I think about this coalition the more excited I get!”

  51. 170
    Anonymous says:

    TO ALL THE LIEbOUR TROLLS

    YOU LOST

    NOW FUCK OFF

    • 194
      laughing scotsman says:

      The war has merely entered the next chapter you fuckwit.

      • 230
        Anonymous says:

        you lost

        yet you still want the english to pay for the fuckwit scots

        get a real job and pay for your fucking selves for once!

        • 378
          AC1 says:

          Pity as Mr Patel likes nice countries, and that’s why he’s decided against migrating to Scotchland.

  52. 174
    Anonymous says:

    yet another LIEbOUR government bites the dust leaving the nation and the tories to clean up yet again after them.

    imf here we come again.

    no more boom and bust, just £164bn debt this year alone

  53. 177
    Anonymous says:

    is ther a pussy now in no 10 does any one know? or did gordon kick it to death?

    • 183
      Dave's Progressive Liberal Pact says:

      Yes, he’s called Dave.
      Clegg bent him over the negotiating table and got everything he wanted and more.

  54. 179
    Anonymous says:

    GORDON FORCED THE POOR TO PAY 20P INCOME TAX, INSTEAD OF 10P.

    NOW THE ALLOWANCE WILL RISE TO £10K

    AT A STROKE THIS GOVT HAS DONE MORE FOR THE POOR, FAR MORE THAN GORDONS DOUbLE TAXATION FOR THE POOR

    • 185
      Universal Hiss says:

      He is still an MP.

      So he’s going to be backbencher then. He must have gone back to Fife,looked at his bank balance & thought how the fuck can I earn 100K+ anywhere else by doing fuck all?

      Even Gordon isn’t that stupid.

      • 484
        Educated Archie says:

        Will he dare to show his face in London again? Remember now he has no police guard.

  55. 180
    Dave's Progressive Liberal Pact says:

    We are the progressives now.

  56. 188
    Anonymous says:

    Hector Sants. Just another liebour supporter bought with a six figure salary.

    They’re all over the place aren’t the?. Charity Commission, Equalities Commission, Regional Development Agencies, quangoes that are too nukerous to mention. Most of them ‘working’ three days or less a week for 6 figure salaries.Most of therm pointless. I want to know when nick and dave are going to get rid of most of them!!

    Talking of worthless public servants paid huge sums from the lublic purse, I hear that there will be legislation going through the works by Christmas to turn the HoL into an elected (by AV?) Senate with approx. 300 seats . Appareently thats less than half the nuber there is now!!

    Oh Yes Please!!!

    • 225
      Uddin says:

      What about little me?

      • 248
        nell says:

        Suggest you retire to your marble palace before you have to seek election to stay in the HoL/Senate.

        Even your Tower Hamlets neighbours are not likely to cast a vote in your favour given your mega troughing whilst they are living on the breadline!!!

  57. 189
    I wish them well says:

    I do hope that Dave and Nick pull this off. i really do.

    Both men are seem really energised and determined to do what is best.

    • 199
      Anonymous says:

      I agree, and I also believe the world is all fluffy and pink.

    • 252
      nell says:

      Let’s face it what we have now is miles better than what we had under gutlessgordon, ainbunstinagut, alastaircampbell, mandy, balls and whelan.

      It feels very like the story of the Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe when the world, after a great struggle, was finally released from perpetual winter!!

      • 376
        AC1 says:

        Where’……s the blog?
        Where’s the blog? Where’s the blog?
        Where’s the blog? Where’s the blog? Where’……s the blo-o-og?
        Where’s the blog? Where’s the blog? Where’s the blog?
        Where’……s the blo-o-og? Where’s the blog!?

      • 469
        Turnip Taliban says:

        Fuck off hoonshite you Labour lickspittle shill.

        You might be smart enough to confuse a retard like AC1 but he thinks everyone is his shitmuncher boyfriend thick as thieves because he’s lonely.

        I know how to spell Taliban, I’m not some twatty kid wanking in Esther Rantzens letterbox or a twat who supported a useless cun’t like Bruin.

        The voter told you and your War-Criminal Labour masters to FUCK OFF.
        Why don’t you do the same ?

    • 322
      Doctor Mick says:

      It’s a honeymoon period now. Hope they still have the steam when Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition (Whelan and his Unite Party) begin their nation wrecking activities.

      • 401
        Prezza says:

        They have Pickles in reserve

        By his sheer size, he will defeat Unite and any other traitors who dare attack Chateau Clameron..

        Rest asured proles…

  58. 195
    Wharf serf says:

    Guido, I think you may be barking up the wrong tree here. A quick straw poll of my colleagues here at the FSA reveals that (a) none of us read our dear leader’s missive that way, and (b) most of us voted Tory. No-one gave a shit whether the FSA was abolished or not. Sorry to piss on the chips of a story….

    • 205
      Universal Hiss says:

      Hello FSA peson.

      You don’t care if the FSA is fucked off then? Do you have private means or do you hate your pointless job so much you would rather be a Big Issue seller?

      Just curious.

    • 329
      lola says:

      Well, the other Wharf Serfs what I have spoke to over the years seemed to agree with you. Most of you appear to be doing a couple of years for your CV’s, another bunch want to get back to the B of E and the others just don’t seem to give a shit. All of which probably explains why the FSA is such a sack of shit.

      Mind you, the various ‘managers’ that spout of in the press are self serving corporatist new liebour dependent bastards.

  59. 196
    Anonymous says:

    vote labour

  60. 198
    Universal Hiss says:

    An orange,plastic bag & a good quality leather belt is the way to go,so I’ve read.

    • 257
      Anonymous says:

      No doubt Cameron has consulted Julie Kirkbride on the finer points of policy in this regard.

    • 260
      Anonymous says:

      No doubt Cameron has consulted Julie Kirkbride on the finer points of policy in this regard.
      He has said he will always consult the experts.

      • 269
        Anonymous says:

        Gillan claims for dog food! An essential parliamentary expense.

        • 302
          Anonymous says:

          She lives in Wales.

        • 315
          nell says:

          dog food hmm??

          Well at least that’s less expensive then edballs and yvette double claiming for everything from mortgage payments and stationery to groceries and travel.

          How very inventive they have been to maximise their expenses ‘ within the rules’!!! Let’s not forget that little, over used phrase!!! Just the sort of shady couple we want, aren’t they, as PM and wife??!!

      • 305
        Anonymous says:

        She kives in London.

  61. 200
    a new day is born says:

    just a quick one for the labour boys
    what is a trillion pounds supposly what we we on the public sector pensions
    if i spend a million pounds a day every day i would have started in the time of Alexander the Great and today i will still be able to spend for another 375 years makes your mouth drop.
    thanks Gordon

  62. 201
    a new day is born says:

    another way were are fucked

  63. 202
    David Minibanana says:

    I shall rename the party The Labanana Party.

    • 404
      Madonna says:

      Great..

      It sounds like an exotic dance

      Will Mandy show us how to dance it please ?

      Or the fading Dancing Queen Blair ?

  64. 203
    Thick As Thieves says:

    Latest from No10: Dave has found one of Thatcher’s old dresses in a cupboard and is wearing it…..

    • 211
      Crystal Balls says:

      Heh T(w)at…do you know what’s really scary mate….I’ve been told that after regroupning themselves after a good kicking, another fucking communist regime may get into power again in 30 years time….a nightmare for our childrens children…

      • 244
        Ed Balls. The coming man says:

        We’ll be back in power within 5 years after the nation has been traumatised by the ConDemned party’s vicious attack on the poor and the vulnerable in order to fund tax cuts for the rich and tofu for the wife swapping Liberals.

        • 290
          The thought of Ed balls cumming anywhere scares the female electorate says:

          Selfish Tories and Liberals raising the threshold of Income Tax to 10k, shelving inheritance tax changes and increasing Capital Gains Tax.

        • 373
          AC1 says:

          Attack the poor = Robbing the productive less?

          What colour is the sky on your world?

          http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_2_soviet-archives.html

          In the world’s collective consciousness, the word “Nazi” is synonymous with evil. It is widely understood that the Nazis’ ideology—nationalism, anti-Semitism, the autarkic ethnic state, the Führer principle—led directly to the furnaces of Auschwitz. It is not nearly as well understood that Communism led just as inexorably, everywhere on the globe where it was applied, to starvation, torture, and slave-labor camps. Nor is it widely acknowledged that Communism was responsible for the deaths of some 150 million human beings during the twentieth century. The world remains inexplicably indifferent and uncurious about the deadliest ideology in history.

        • 408
          Madonna says:

          Dont’ think the Liberals do muchwife swapping a

    • 213
      It's OK in Bangkok says:

      Don’t knock it pal…Gordons missus has tried dressing up as a woman for quite a while now.

      • 229
        Jackie Dromedary says:

        Funny old world. I am a successful all woman shortlist candidate dressed as a man.

  65. 204

    For him to be deliberately setting up the death of two guys is a little on the edge of his “morality scale”. Kitchen Wholesale

  66. 206
    QWERTY says:

    Isn’t it peacful now that McFuckwit is gone? Back to the home of the twats in McTwatland.

  67. 207
    • 212
      Universal Hiss says:

      I really enjoyed that. Thanks.

      Still a few brain dead in the comments bit still believing the Labour lies. Quite amazing.

      • 219
        JRand says:

        Let’s have every Quantatively Eased BoE bank note overprinted with the words “Brown’s Boomshell”, that way no-one will ever forget his robbing and thieving legacy.

    • 224
      13eastie (How do you like them apples, Gordon?) says:

      The key thing here is to keep pinning this on Labour, which is the only truthful and fair way to present ongoing economic policy.

      The UK’s vital signs, inherited from Labour, are truly terrifying.

      Cameron and Clegg should be making a huge deal of this: the legacy of Labour’s lunacy is setting the entire legislative agenda at every level, and the public should be brutally reminded of this in monthly press conferences.

      • 300
        BBC editor says:

        The cuts over the coming years will be referred to as Tory cuts. When Gordon Brown left office public spending on schools and hospitals was increasing and had he not lost we would have reached full (state) employment, more diversity and equality. Cameron will be as big a hate figure as Thatcher by the time we’re finished.

    • 417
      rocknrolla says:

      Thanks for the link; one of the best articles I have ever read explaining the damage done by McMong. Only real problem is it fails to pin enough blame on that treasonous warmonger liar Blair. Will have to settle for the fact that he is the most hated man in the country.

  68. 214
    Post-Election Frolics says:

    Is Ian Hislop a closet Tory? He’s defending the coalition on Have I Got News For You and laying into Jonah.

    They’re actually making a lot of fun of McDoom. Martin Clunes, hosting, said “Here’s a look at the best bits of Gordon’s career” and showed him saying “Thank you, and goodbye.”

    • 228
      Gordoom cooks the books says:

      and your point is?

    • 250
      Trimbush says:

      Ian Hislop is a Lib Dem supporter – admitted that to Brillo on GE day on the BBC boat piss-up!

      • 293
        BBC coverage was shit says:

        I think everyone has admitted being LD after a few drinks and regretted it in the morning.

  69. 216
    Post-Election Frolics says:

    Julia Hartley-Brewer looking quite taste on Have I Got News For You. Lovely posh totty.

  70. 220
    Genghiz the kahn says:

    Sants must go.

  71. 223
    marcus aurelius says:

    How about a public inquiry into the FSA’s role in destroying the financial services industry? It worked just fine when the Bank of England regulated it but turned to shit when Gordon put a bunch of vindictive jocks in charge at his ludicrous FSA

    • 365
      AC1 says:

      Gordo deliberately regulated a massive increase in credit (to tax the inflationary effects) and then dumped the blame on the banks. He needed the tripartite mess to cover the tracks.

  72. 227
    Gordoom cooks the books says:

    can anybody tell me what planet campbell is on

    • 233
      Engineer says:

      Not even Campbell can answer that one.

      Labour will have no chance whatever of rebuilding any shred of credibility until Campbell, Mandelweasel, Whelan and Balls – the remaining effluent of the New Labour “Project”, are cast adrift and silenced – for good.

      For that reason, I would be quite happy if they are retained. However, someone should whisper “dodgy dossier” every time Campbell opens his mouth.

      • 270
        nell says:

        Campbell’s only concern on his blog tonight seems to be to press sales of his book about bliar. It’s been in the bargain basement of Amazon for weeks because nobody wants to buy it (very like gordon’s books on courage)!!!

        As for alastair and mandy,’ the labour party have rejected them tonight dubbing them the unelectable and the unelected. Both have gone to ground after their disastrous handling of gordons last days in drowning street!!!

  73. 231
    angelnstar says:

    http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/an-astrological-warning/

    A well known US astrologer believes the trends are against the Con-Lib coalition. Don’t read this if you want to stay up beat, or if you think astrology is junk.

    • 232
      Box office, no subsidy says:

      “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
      But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

    • 460
      sockpuppet #4 says:

      Don’t bother reading anything at all if you think astrology is not junk.

      Your brain is broken and there’s no fixing it.

  74. 236
    Engineer says:

    I can’t remember where, now, but saw a snippet on one of the news feeds that the new administration has called in the IMF to do an independent audit of the nation’s books.

    Can anybody confirm, or was this someone’s wishful thinking?

    • 277
      nell says:

      political senile dementia??

      That’s exactly why gutlessgordon, balls and mandy have fallen out of favour with the electorate. They had and have completely lost the ability to connect with the electorate and reality.

    • 326
      Doctor Mick says:

      Simon Heffer in The Telegraph suggested that they should do that. Then we’d know the extent of the problem and whose fault it really was.

  75. 237
    Shell shocked says:

    I still can’t believe he’s finally gone. I’m wandering about in a daze, bumping into door jams and slumping in stunned silence on the sofa. Staring, slack jawed out of the window, trying to comprehend the image of a world without that gurning gimp casting a shadow upon my life.
    Give us twenty years and i’ll probably be ok.

    • 415
      Englishman says:

      And that awful Jock accent

      I used to accept it but Scottish labour has made me hate even hearing a Jock now

      Go home Jocks and stay there

  76. 238
    13eastie (How do you like them apples, Gordon?) says:

    There has been a vacancy within the Order of the Garter for a little while.

    What chance of Blair or Brown joining the ranks with Thatcher and Major?

    • 340
      Palace Insider says:

      Appointments to the Order of the Garter are gazetted on St Georges Day…so no possibility of Blair being admitted until April 2011 and by then so much will have been discovered in the cleaning of the stables , that there is no way that this personal gift of HM will be going the way of The Rt Hon Anthony Blair.

  77. 245
    nell says:

    The HoL to be reformed into a Senate and reduced to approx 300 members
    ( more than double that at present!!).

    The Senate to be elected (AV?). Legislation due to be presented to the House by Christmas!!

    Goodbye – foulkes, uddin, sugar, scotland and all those other labour trash that gordon might be adding to the Lords in his end of term list of labour favours due to be published soon including prezza and jacquismith!!!

  78. 247
    Papers says:

    So if I ain’t got an ID card then I am not an immigrant?

  79. 249
    'Honourable' Cameron's first sleaze says:

    Trying to rig the historic parliamentary rules on how votes of no confidence work. Even Blair and Brown didn’t go there and they were c’unts.

    • 253
      Anonymous says:

      Its all in the national interest.

    • 255
      Anonymous says:

      Cameron is a dangerous man.

      • 292
        Post-Election Frolics says:

        Fuck off, Liebore troll. Your pals totally fucked democracy and the British political system.

        • 312
          Sleaze-Cam says:

          and now it’s Camerons turn ?
          so you admit Cameron is just as big a scumbag as Brown and Blair
          you must be so proud

          • revolting peasant says:

            No one else comes even close to being as duplicitous, self serving and hypocritical as Blair and Brown. The damage they inflicted on this country was severe and will take years to try and fix.

      • 356
        AC1 says:

        Brown’s government was deadly for deliberately under-equipped British troops

  80. 254
    Nae Hawkers, nae Tinkers, nae Campbells says:

    When do the Auditors report, I want to see audited Crash Broon Accounts.

  81. 264
    Anonymous says:

    We must put the national interest above party interests.

  82. 265
    Anonymous says:

    It is all outrageous.

  83. 272
    Post-Election Frolics says:

    Question Time in a few mins on BBC1. Hezza vs Falconer will be fun.

  84. 274
    Anonymous says:

    Cameron is an honourable man, so are they all, all honourable men.

  85. 275
    Gordoom Brown says:

    I’m still an MP. And if you turn the letters round, it spells PM.

    • 477
      Monocular Mong says:

      No it doesn’t. It spells dW.
      I should try opening your good eye rather than the glass one.

  86. 279
    Post-Election Frolics says:

    I bet the QT audience will be full of Liebore plants who’ll say McDoom won the election!

  87. 280
    Article 38 says:

    What’s the betting on QT tonight that despite the Cons and LDs representing the majority of voters, that Labour and anti-coalition ‘LDs’ will get the most claps?

    • 283
      Post-Election Frolics says:

      Of course. Mehdi Hasan has already had applause for attacking the coalition because it “let the Tories in”.

    • 354
      AC1 says:

      It well known that Aljabeebya stack the audience. They bus in radical lefties from way outside the area to pretend to be locals.

      • 361
        Tin Foil Hat Watch says:

        And the BBC broadcast Lefty hypnobeams during Eastenders too

        nutter

      • 382
        revolting peasant says:

        That’s a fact. Around the time the date of the general election was announced a friend applied for 3 tickets for Question Time in Woking. She clearly stated on the on-line application form she was a floating voter. On Easter Monday, a QT person phoned and said her application was successful and they’d contact her the next day with details. The following day they rang and said she could now only have the tickets if she was a Labour supporter.
        My friend was honest and stuck to her position that she was a floating voter so the offer of tickets was withdrawn. When she watched that weeks programme, the audience was obviously stuffed full of young Labour plants- in Woking!

        • 435
          apocrypha as fact says:

          and if your ‘friend’ told you the moon was made of chesse that would make it a fact too would it ? LOL! Pathetic.

          • revolting peasant says:

            It’s the truth. Just because we’ve become accustomed to 13 years of lies, it doesn’t mean everyone’s at it. Don’t judge everyone by your own low standards.

  88. 281
    Post-Election Frolics says:

    Mehdi Hasan, a fucking lefty c/unt from New Statesman bemoaning the coalition. Fuck off, twat.

  89. 284
    BBC (Blatantly biased corpororation) says:

    Just watched BBC 10 ‘o’ clock news showing photos of Gordon’s last few hours at no 10. Surprised they weren’t in soft focus with accompanying tear jerking music to make us all feel sorry for him. Isn’t ‘News’ meant to be current?
    Also didn’t Saddam Hussein use children as a human shield like Gordon did when facing the press – at least he (SH) had the moral compass not to use his own!

    • 344
      Deidre (I've got neck sinews to hold my sagging tits up) Barlow says:

      Saddam was the Ace of Spades, Gordon is the Joker!

    • 395
      David Kelly says:

      Sadly ITN news had exactly the same nauseating eulogy, complete with an interview with cuddly Alistair Campbell. I think it’s all part of Labour’s plan to rewrite history. Just can’t help themselves in patronising the electorate can they?

  90. 285
    Anonymous says:

    Any Questions – Simon Hughes says Cameron is brilliant. “The Tories are willing to adopt our Agenda”.

    • 405
      anon says:

      I thought Hughes was pretty good tonight and I’m not a usually a fan.
      He managed to remind everyone of Labours sustained attack on our civil liberties. The coalition needs to bang on about that more- I’ve got a few teenage kids who were outraged by things like ID cards and the digital economy bill and that generation needs reminding that it was Labour who attempted to curb their freedoms.

  91. 286
    Engineer says:

    Mehdi Hassan rather upset on QT. Oh dear. :-)

    • 289
      Post-Election Frolics says:

      He’s a lefty cock.

    • 323
      ROFLMAO!! says:

      Melanie Phillips rather upset on QT. Oh dear. :-)

      She’s a lefty cock.

      • 409
        revolting peasant says:

        Er- she’s certainly not a lefty cock and she always seems rather upset.
        God she’s so fucking uptight and humourless- can you ever imagine her smiling or telling a joke?

  92. 287
    Post-Election Frolics says:

    What the fuck is Hasan doing on the panel anyway? What does he know? Twat.

  93. 295
    Post-Election Frolics says:

    As usual, Hezza talking sense.

    And that twat Hasan talking shit. The c/unt looks about 14.

    • 339
      Post-Election Bollocks says:

      “THIS GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO BE VERY UNPOPULAR”

      As usual, Hezza talking sense.

      ROFL!!!

  94. 297
    Post-Election Frolics says:

    The lefty brigade are out in force on QT.

  95. 298
    nell says:

    Soon to be revealed jack straw’s and lord taylor of blackburn’s tawdry deal with bae systems over weapons!!! It’s all about how the labour members of the HoL buy and sell thei favours.

    Time for Change!! HoL to be an elected Senate during this Parliament!!

    Sounds good to me!!

  96. 299
    Matthew Amawillywally says:

    Fuck me. Who’s the lippy Muslin on QT?

    • 303
      Post-Election Frolics says:

      Senior editor from New Statesman called Mehdi Hasan. He looks 14 and keeps showboating to get applause from the audience. Hezza has already torn into him, saying “You’ve used the old line that the left always uses.”

    • 304
      Mad Mel Phillips says:

      Mehdi Hassan

      • 324
        Dave Miniballs says:

        New Statesman? What happened to Alan B’stard?

      • 426
        LIFE LONG CONSERVATIVE VOTER says:

        A typical, angry, obnoxious, bullying, rude lefty!

        New Labour = nasty, rude , disgusting creatures

        Arn’t they all just proving what a sad-sack load of bad losers they are!

  97. 306
    Article 38 says:

    The ConLib coalition is already delivering for the British working class:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7721618/Coalition-government-tax-cuts-of-140-for-workers-on-basic-rate.html

    Why would any working person in this country ever vote Labour again?

    • 343
      AC1 says:

      It’s tax cuts for the productive that we need though. We need productive people keeping as much of their money as possible.

      • 434
        Hooray for the Banker Wankers! says:

        People who work aren’t aren’t productive, casino Bankers are.

  98. 307
    lolol says:

    The Libcon coalition is getting SLAUGHTERED on QT. LOL!

    • 309
      Post-Election Frolics says:

      Hasan is a weedy little Marxist twat, recycling old lefty bollocks.

      • 317
        ROFLMAO!! says:

        he was talking about the arch Marxist Melanie Philips recycling old lefty bollocks

  99. 314
    Article 38 says:

    What QT is proving is that the BBC will now have 2 parties interested in breaking it up – can’t imagine Clegg and Hughes will care too much now they are on the receiving end of its extreme left bias.

    • 320
      Post-Election Frolics says:

      Hezza’s consistently putting schoolboy Hasan in his place. I hope Cameron gives Hezza a ministerial post.

    • 327
      ROFLMAO!! says:

      Melanie Philips works for the BBC does she ?
      The coalition is doomed. The Libs and Tories can’t even defend it coherently.

      • 336
        DT Editor says:

        She’s just another self-publicising Daily Femail hack.

        • 345
          conservativehome says:

          she’s the voice of the conservative grassroots.the coalitions fucked

          • Post-Election Frolics says:

            She’s the voice of her own far-right fanaticism and doesn’t represent most Conservatives.

  100. 321
    lolol says:

    Oh dear the shitarati on QT are really pissed off,Phillips is spitting venom,good.

    • 333
      Post-Election Frolics says:

      Mehdi Hasan needs a smack in his lefty mouth.

      • 349
        lolol says:

        First time Iv’e seen or heard this guy,so I don’t know anything about him,as far a that goes he’s just a Liebour gob, they lost because the bullying and the postal corruption and the flash mobs didn’t work,didn’t they win with 33% in 2005 and the NuCons got more votes, so they don’t have anything to be pissed off about .

        • 377
          BEN E FIT says:

          Agreed :that bloke is a fuckin clown
          blinkered vision “I love you Gordon” he’s gone get over it
          i have read on here that your shitty magazine is bombing on sales good because under the coalition your benefits wont be quite so generous

          • Labour are irrelevant. says:

            What’s the betting he’ll be adopted as a Labour candidate in a safe northern seat in a few years?

          • BEN E FIT says:

            Yes: one where all his Asian friends can fill in the postal vote forms for him !

  101. 331
    Tarzan says:

    “THIS GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO BE VERY UNPOPULAR”

    First bit of truth to pass your lips Hezza.

  102. 332
    Indigo says:

    JPMorgan Chase – the bank to which Tony Blair is an adviser – is being investigated again, this time by the US Federal Agency for precious metals markets manipulation.

    9 May 2010
    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/feds_probing_jpmorgan_trades_in_gZzMvWBqOJpB55M7Rh9vwM

    (Last autumn JPMorgan Chase was investigated by the FSA for muddling up £8.5 billion of its clients’ funds with its own since 2002.)

    This is being discussed all over the web but there seems to be a black-out in the mainstream press, other than the New York Times. This is, allegedly, how they manipulate the markets

    http://www.gata.org/node/8466

    PayPal bank with JPMorgan Chase, by the way.

  103. 335
    lolol says:

    Is this the BBC not being biased on QT,they really need taking to task,this is like that B———–N———-P guy getting a kicking except it’s the NuCons and the LibDums

    • 352
      lolol says:

      that’s why it’s so funny
      the Libservatives on the panel don’t have a clue how to defend or justify wqhat they’ve done

      • 357
        Post-Election Frolics says:

        Simon Hughes and Hezza have been articulate. Falconer’s just recycling what he’s said for the last 13 years. Phillips is foaming at the mouth as usual. And Hasan just keeps shouting in the desperate hope it’ll get him applause.

        • 367
          lolol says:

          oh no they fucking haven’t
          they’ve spluttered and weaseled embarrassingly through the whole thing
          it was hilarious!

          almost as hilarious as watching on message toryboy drones defend lefty simon hughes
          more please!

          • Sir Everard Digby says:

            One question lolol -how long have the government been in power?…..48 hours. Other than you don’t like them, precisely what is there to judge them on?

            Personally, I think it’s not what you say it’s what you do that counts. Results or lack of them will be my opinion former, not the political classes waffling on the BBC.

            Question Time is an irrelevance. The country needs some urgent work doing which Labour did not have the balls to undertake. Lets see if the new lot have the courage to do what needs to be done.

            Get a grip and take a reality check.

        • 379
          BEN E FIT says:

          Was Falconer ever elected to anything ? or is he just there because he was Tony Blair’s Butt Buddy ?

    • 353
      Mehdi Hasan/David Miliband Were Separated At Birth says:

      Yeah. The ConDems are up against “The Firm”.

      • 359
        Mehdi Hasan/Ed Miliband Were Separated At Birth says:

        Obviously, I meant Ed. They all look the fucking same.

  104. 337
    Post-Election Frolics says:

    Can someone please give Hasan a punch in his lefty mong face?

  105. 341
  106. 342
    Post-Election Frolics says:

    Hasan is such a fucking smug c/unt. He tries to crack obnoxious jokes and is painfully unfunny.

  107. 346
    Post-Election Frolics says:

    Well done to Hezza! He was asked who should be Lab leader and he said “I don’t care!”

    • 355
      lolol says:

      of course he doesn’t
      he doesn’t even care what Party he belongs to now

      • 381
        lolol says:

        Hezza is a real Conservative,the ones that are in now are the NuCons the touchy feely to the left of the Conservatives

      • 416
        Labour sour grapes says:

        No the reason Hesletine and the majority of the population don’t give a flying fuck who the new Labour leader will be is because the party is now an irrelevance.

  108. 347
    Bigot says:

    Jobs for the boyos – but, methinks, not now.

  109. 362
    BEN E FIT says:

    A member of the labour party in the audience has just made the first reference to the 53,000 rise in unemployment !
    it’s that Camerons fault !
    you fuckin brain dead idiot they are last months figures
    and Labours unemployment figures will continue to rise for about six to twelve months
    i cant believe we let these people breath our air

    • 371
      Post-Election Frolics says:

      It’s OK. Her benefits will get soon and she’ll be forced to get off her arse, stop watching Jeremy Kyle, and get a job.

      • 372
        Post-Election Frolics says:

        Doh! Should have said “Her benefits will get stopped soon!”

  110. 363
    Post-Election Frolics says:

    Virtually all the attacks have been attacks on the coalition and the Tories. Typical al-Jabeeba balance. There’s no point in complaining. Their complaints unit was/is run by a fucking Labour c-unt!

    • 423
      Jan says:

      Every single Al-Jabeeba political show this week has been an attack on DavenNick. ‘Cos they are public school boys and they went to Oxford. ‘Cos at Al-Jabeeba they is all secondary mod kids innit?

      • 481
        Grandma says:

        I’m a secondary mod kid and I received an excellent education. I’m also as someone once famous said “extremely relaxed” about public school boys and Oxbridge. If they can do the job well, who cares?

  111. 364
    Jaded63 says:

    FFS WHY aren’t they getting rid of the FSA? WHY exactly has this leading commitment been instantly ditched? Haven’t seen any reason yet. The Limp Dicks eren’t mad keen on the utterly useless FSA where they? I musta missed summat.

  112. 369
    Post-Election Frolics says:

    Muslim Hasan bemoaning lack of women in cabinet. Oh the irony.

  113. 374
    Post-Election Frolics says:

    Get the Blue Nun. This Week’s on with good ol Brillo.

  114. 384
    BEN E FIT says:

    Labour Gob Shite and defender off the working classes Billy Bragg is on this week fresh from his mansion on the south coast
    i’ve had to turn it off !

    • 392
      Article 38 says:

      Bizarrely, he is kind of open to the coalition – he seems to be supporting it.

      Meanwhile, the only argument the left can deploy against NicknDave is that they are both a bit posh – pathetic.

      • 400
        BEN E FIT says:

        I really want this to work and i think alot of people do but when you listen to the fuckwits like Mehdi Hasan on Q/T it makes your blood boil WHAT THE FUCK DO THEY WANT ?
        i know !
        as you lot didn’t win , you should all swear allegiance to the labour party
        we fucked up your country for 13 years just give us one more chance to fuck it up permantly

  115. 406
    LOL says:

    LOL

  116. 413
    Angry hunt says:

    I see you found the link I posted before about Bercow. The author involved in the spat has written this:

    http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/simon-carr/the-sketch-how-about-a-liberal-speaker-isnt-it-their-turn-after-80odd-years-1973090.html

    Perhaps you could cover this, Mr Fawkes, and help ban the Bercow (hopefully in favour of Ming).

  117. 431
    Canary Wharf Rat says:

    listening to Melanie Phillips on question time make me wish I’d voted Liberal rather than Conservative. She is a right wing dinosaur of the first order. As for the editor odf the New Statesman what a bitter opinionated twat.

    • 467
      Father Abraham says:

      That New Statesman smurf was a stereotype for all those ranting ethnics whose idea of democracy is to shout people down if they don’t agree with their view of the world. God (or Allah) help us all if they’re given any my prominence.

  118. 432
    Meye5 says:

    All posts and appointments made by liebour should be scrapped.
    All Cheif Constables ect should be made reapply for their jobs.
    Just change the title like its done when take overs in private industries.
    Why should all these liebour lickspittles just carry on as if nothing happened.
    The first place to start is the BBC.

  119. 433
    Canary Wharf Rat says:

    Time to stop paying the license fee. You would have thought that seeing the writing on the wall the BBC political staff would temper their bile and prejudice and try to get some sort of balance in their political reporting.

    They seem determine to wallow in their miserable poisoness attitudes and now are trying to incite class war. This is not what the licence fee should be paying for. They have no divine right to shove their minority views down their viewers and listeners throats. They are taking their positions of trust and responsibility for granted.

    I think one of the commercial independents should, with the new interest in politics, give these sad biased fuckers some competition with an alternative honest political reporting agenda. Create an alternative to Question Time with real members of the public in the audience that more closely represents the population, An alternative to Radio 4 AM & PM where serious political reporting is completed and an alternative to Newsnight without the bias and the sneers.

    Time for the tail to stop wagging the dog. Time to alienate those in the media that seek to alienate. Time to stop watching, listening and paying.

    • 447
      Hairy Dwarf Twat says:

      You can tell when the windowlickers have been overdosing on their stupid pills.

      “Time to stop watching, listening and paying.”

      Then fucking STOP you utter cretin.
      If the public depises the BBC as much as you, and if the public think they it’s an evil lefty conspiracy of communist propagandists like you, then simply they won’t watch it. There are other Radio stations and other political programmes and other News Networks. think They can change the channel anytime. Something you have staggeringly only just realised.

      You’re problem, apart from being a whiny pussy, is you won’t even take your own advice. You windowlickers have been whining about the BBC for decades. It’s what you do. And it’s only NOW realise you realise should stop watching something you self evidently despise so much????

      What an idiot.

      • 451
        lolol says:

        Isn’t it time for school twat,the person knows what’s available,it’s having to pay on the pain of going to jail if he doesn’t pay the tax to allow him to legally use the other channels,the BBC is biased and not worth paying for.

        • 459
          lolol says:

          Then don’t pay for it and don’t watch any of it you stupid cun’t.
          And that means any of it and any radio not just the bits you don’t like.
          If the public thought it was grossly unfair they would do the same as they did with the poll tax and risk fines and imprisonment to get rid of it.
          I’m not holding my breath for that just because it upsets the windowlickers.

          • lolol says:

            Twat the politicians may be thieves,but most people are honest and like to pay their way legally,if twat the licence was just for the BBC then your correct,but the licence applies to all tv/radio and certain communications,I don’t use the BBC but still have to pay because I use ITV and SKY,if they use a card as Sky does then I would never buy one, and hopefully no licence to pay for,it’s obvious you don’t pay for a licence as you would know this.

          • lolol says:

            I pay for it and I’m not the one whining like a pussy because I pay for it
            If the public don’t like the BBC they won’t watch and if they don’t like the License they won’t pay, just like they did with the poll tax
            there’s reason Dave doesn’t listen to the windowlickers
            cretin

          • revolting peasant says:

            Stop talking to yourself loser.
            The fact that the purple flashmob brigade pathetically attempted to disrupt a Kay Burley Sky interview, calling for her to be sacked and urging everyone to watch the BBC, speaks volumes.
            And before you accuse me of loving Rupert Murdoch- I was a regular fixture at Wapping demos while you were fagging at your private school.

  120. 436
    Anonymous says:

    guido

    where is MI5 POST WHICH IS ‘AVAITING MODERATION’

    HE TALKS MORE SENSE THAN ALL OTHERS ON HERE

  121. 438
    Maggies Drawers says:

    You think it is bad now? Those not old enough may care to be enlightened of The budget Debate of 1980…………..

    The country was in a terrible state
    Parliament had rose for a bu­dget debate
    It was quite a few moments before Th­atcher spoke
    Then she said SEX will cost 2 quid a poke
    Then Tony Benn said “Maggie look here, will the tax still apply to the lads who are queer?”
    Treasurer Lawson rose and looked glum, “Will I be exempt I only like him?”
    Maggie replied and sounded quite airy, “You will pay double you dirty old fairy”
    Up rose David Steele to tremendous applause
    He grabbed ‘old of Shirley and whipped off her draws
    He straddled across her and fucked her at will
    Then shouted “Maggie, put that on the bill!”
    Michael Foot then shouted “I think I”ll resign,
    I have not had sex for a very long time,
    I dream every night of a big juicy crutch
    But 2 quid a time is a bit fucking much.”
    The debate carried on, oh what a sight
    Kinnock was wa­nking the whole of the night,
    MPs were coming, the Speaker was last
    And in the excitement the dumb bill was passed.
    So now in the bedrooms of England each night
    There’s many a f­anny that’s closed good and tight.
    They are taxing our bo­oze and taxing our smokes
    And now the Ba­stards are taxing our pokes!.

  122. 442
    cockfoster says:

    monkey’s cocks

  123. 449
    Total Wipeout says:

    Time to Etch A Sketch the whole thing out and start again.

    All the Labour non-jobs, quango’s (start with the Unelectoral Commission hag bag) and Local Authority/Health Authority robbers earning over £100K.

  124. 450
    Erased. says:

    Can we get a BOGOFF with Alistair and Nicky Campbell?

    What would be the fee to do it?

    I will donate £100.

  125. 452
    bye bye far right says:

    no wonder melanie philips was ranting against the cuddly libcons last night

    she thinks climate chance isn’t real and hates the bbc
    she thinks obama is a marxist and speaks out against islam
    she opposes gay rights in favour of traditional family values

    clearly, she’s one of the far right lunatic conservatives dave has now made an irrelevance by embracing the lid dems

  126. 454
    Anon says:

    To be clear, he emailed staff *at the very end of the day*. His email was to say that whatever the outcome of the election, regulation would either continue at FSA or continue at Bank of England and others, and current FSA staff therefore *shouldn’t* worry about their jobs. Mountains out of molehills, Guido.

    • 462
      lolol says:

      If he had done the deed after the election had closed, yes Guido wouldn’t have a story,the end of the day I presume is 5pm then the polls had 5 hours to run so whatever his innocence and his text on the email he left it open for bias,considering the amount spent in that dept from newspapers then none of it was to get decent staff to check the dot the I and cross the T on that email.

      • 480
        Education standards have plummeted. says:

        I suggest you brush up on your grammar and punctuation.

  127. 456
    Anonymous says:

    a new dawn has broken has it not?

    Unfortunately we have to, yet again, clear up the labour debt.

    at least that megolomaniac isnt in no 10 and cant continue spending money he doesnt have.

    liebour governments always leave enormouse debts for the poor to have to pay off.

    • 461
      Anonymous says:

      brown stays on for the money and to see his bum chum ed balls installed as leader.

      what else would UNITE and the 100 UNITE mps want to happen?

      after all, they do own the liebour party now.

  128. 457
    Anonymous says:

    don’t worry about the liebour leadership election.

    it’s who UNITE want as leader that is important and as paymasters will win the day.

    no contest, it will be ed balls.

  129. 487
    Elgin's lost his marbles says:

    We need a “White Yezhov” (or Yadoga) to purge all the “socially friendly’ elements from the State (and for them to not be replaced). All they need to lose are their jobs and pensions. Sack 4,000,000,000 bureaucrats, then we might have a chance at making a functioning economy.



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