May 16th, 2010

Milibrothers Favourites, Balls, Burnham, Cruddas Undeclared

Amazing isn’t it that only a week ago Labour politicians were telling us they were right and everyone else was wrong, yet now they are telling us they were actually wrong and now need to renew themselves. Politicians are nothing if not flexible.

Clegg was right on lowering taxes for the lower paid, the Tories were right on immigration and C2 voters stayed at home or voted BNP because Labour had lost connection with the working classes.  So say candidates to be next leader of the Labour Party.  Astounding about turns.

Guido isn’t really sure what change the Milibrothers are offering, more “fairness”, more “progressiveness”, more of the same without the vote losing bits.

Cruddas is dithering, Balls is claiming he is a martyr to a bad press, Burnham is getting his act together. Guido can’t wait to hear the Balls manifesto; he barely held onto his own seat, is hated even within his own party and he now says he is going to consult friends before making a decision.  Should only take 5 minutes to consult all his friends…

Burnham is a bit of a wild card, he wan’t even on the original bookies list of candidates (he comes under “other” now). David Miliband is the bookies favourite, having sewn up the most MPs pledges (shades of David Davis), Ed is the wonk’s favourite and Cruddas the favourite of the left. Balls is the favourite of only Charlie Whelan…

It all remains to play for, and it looks like we won’t know the result until Labour Party conference. Thrilling, eh?

Odds and image courtesy of Political Smarkets.

461 Comments

  1. 1
    School for Scoundrels says:

    Any of them will do. They are all useless, and all tainted by being at the heart of Old New Labour. I wish them luck, riding their party into oblivion, in a Slim Pickens/ Dr Strangelove way.

    • 5

      Only Blinky can guarantee electoral oblivion!

      • 12
        Road_Hog says:

        Am I the only one who finds it hard to get excited by the Labour leader election.

        • 37
          Trinny says:

          No, you’re not.

          • Number 7 says:

            Yawn!!!!

          • i was excited when young Clegg took that strong one right up the arse from the PM in the rose garden, – a direct hit, what?!

          • Lightweight Cast Iron says:

            PLEASE let it be blinky

          • Tories to cast out EU commie Dave, get the country back and a huge majority in the nest election! says:

            Tory eurosceptics seek referendum

            Conservative eurosceptics are planning an attempt to force a referendum on the EU’s Lisbon Treaty within the next few months, it has been revealed.

            Tory MP Douglas Carswell said that he and colleagues are planning to take advantage of a minor technical change to the Treaty to trigger a public vote.

            The move would be a headache for Prime Minister David Cameron, who dropped his “cast-iron guarantee” of a referendum on the Treaty after it was ratified into European law last year.

            And it would provide an early test of the unity of the new Tory coalition with the strongly pro-European Liberal Democrats.

            http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jw2Y75tCjAjt8mwH4GLp00GXzDPg

          • Ivor Tapeworm says:

            *** Breaking News ***
            Charles Kennedy announces that he abstained from voting for the coalition.

            First time he has abstained from anything.

            *hic*

          • Running on Empty says:

            Keep flogging that dead horse no-one cares about Guido

            WHAT A SCOOP!!

          • Cheshire Cat says:

            Amen Trinny

          • Michael Miles says:

            Take your pick

        • 98
          WailsLandofSong says:

          double yawn

        • 107
          Susie says:

          Moi aussi… it wouldn’t bother me if I never heard the words Labour and Party again.

          Boring, Guido.

        • 130
          cant hunter says:

          It is of interest only, at the moment, to political anoraks, and to those professionally involved.. And what dreary candidates; to quote Dr. Johnson, “There is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea”.

          • Sam the First says:

            Correct, it’s almost terminally boring, but wothy of notice because the outcome will impact on us all – if only because the media will give the NuNuLab leader a lot of airtime.

            We need to follow this one, if only to ensure we can push the worst possible candidate into the hot seat (ie best for our own purposes: obliteration of the Police State Party)

        • 237
          Post Democratic Era says:

          I struggle to care.

          • Al Megrahi,s Doctor says:

            Mandleson will decide who is leader anyway!… Another puppet leader!!!!

        • 461
          Alan says:

          No Road Hog you are not – and I am an ex mber of the party. Obviously David “Next labour” Miliband is going to be allowed to win. labour List, pretends to be “neutral” but every night top of the Twitters is a plug for Minibore’s book on “how to win the Afghanisatn war” (actions speak louder than words, Mili).

          But “Next labour” – did Miliband make that up himself – I suspect Mandy or Campbell were doing his homework for him.

          Miliband is a pompous little bore, his brother Ed isn’t as bad, Ed Balls just sounds confused and evasive and Andy Burnham sounds like he got in a blender with D Miliband and T Blair. None of them have what it takes to be PM though I suppose any of them could muddle along as the leader of the opposition, which is where, sadly, I exect labour will stay for quite a long time

      • 84

        Sadiq Khan failing which I will settle for Diane Abbot as leader of the party. Yes we Khan

        • 109
          Road_Hog says:

          Shahid Malik for Labour leader, oh but wait, he lost his seat didn’t he?

        • 110
          Grumpy Old Man says:

          Either an MP caught with his hands in the till or a dispossessed former MP. I admire your chutzpa my friend

          • Choppity chop says:

            Caught with his hands in the till? I think he knows the rightful penalty for that..

        • 208
          BLUURGH! says:

          Anything wrong with having a white candidate LM?

        • 299
          AC1 says:

          Sadiq “Dodgy Claim for Card” Khan?

        • 322
          Ruth Kelly's plaything says:

          Guido – please give this London Muslim bloke an occasional guest column!

          I look forward to his posts; they are always from the planet Daft and amuse me no end.

          Or if Guido won’t play, LM, would you start your own blog, please? I suspect you would gain a lot of followers in no time at all.

          • BLUURGH! says:

            RK’s PT,

            Londonmuslim does have a site, just click on his user-name, and read his inane ramblings, in particular, his thoughts on the stabbing of Stephen Timms.

          • Lightweight Cast Iron says:

            Just had a good look at said blog – A loathsome toad with an abhorrent blog

      • 141
        Biffo says:

        What Guido, it’ll take Blinky a whole 5 minutes to consult his friends? Think you’re a bit over-optimistic. Apart from Yvette I reckon he’s Blinky No Mates – & I wouldn’t even guarantee Yvette!

        • 226
          Hung Parliament? Hang 'em all! says:

          “Balls is the favourite of only Charlie Whelan”

          So Balls is going to win it then. Couldn’t happen to a slimier Hunt.

      • 172
        Budgie says:

        Nooo, I vote for David Millibanana. He’s the real Bliar candidate, except without the brains, the charm and the charisma of the original. Still, if he wins he can go into coalition with the other David – a government of all the Davids. There’s not a right lot of difference anyway.

      • 181
        barefootcontessa says:

        Do we care?

      • 205
        Head Lizard says:

        window lickers the Militwats are the road to labours oblivion,they both look like Draculas off spring.

      • 315
        Trev says:

        The news of Balls’ faltering campaign is desperately bad news.

        But the news of no one being even considered a candidate outside the womb of Mrs Milliband is a shocking and appalling condemnation of the talent available to Labour.

        Lets face it they are all rubbish. The Unions must be hopping mad.

    • 8

      Unlike the bomb that Pickens rides at the end of the film, though, the Labour Party has already fucked the coutry and turned it into a wasteland.

      They’ve also sapped an impurified all of our precious bodily fluids through immigrflouridation…

      • 41
        albacore says:

        Recall the theme played over the end-credits: “We’ll meet again”.
        That fluoridation guarantees it, whichever Labour tosser emerges as leader.

      • 72

        “I think you’re some kind of deviated prevert. I think Gordon Brown found out about your preversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts.”

        Ed Balls discusses David Miliband’s previous coups.

        • 82
          albacore says:

          Bat Guano, a perfect description of the whole shower.
          But it ain’t the Coca Cola Corporation that they’re answerable to.

        • 112
          Grumpy Old Man says:

          Dear Bill. You’ve really got to watch those preverts like a hawk.

      • 204
        Unsworth says:

        Fluoridation. It’s uo not ou. As in fluorescent lights.

    • 17
      Dancing_In_The_Street says:

      I disagree. I reckon that Burnham would be an extremely strong leader. Watch out for him – he could very well come through on the inside…..

      More importantly, Gordon’s gone.

      I know you know, but it’s just great to keep writing it.

      Over and over.

      And over………

      • 23
        MI5 says:

        Gordon has not gone for any new Labour Leader

        He is still on the backbenches

        A very bitter man who will create hell for any Blairite leader

        WIth union support and Blinky running around like the Zombie he is, creating mayhem…

        Banana Boy will be constantly undermined…

      • 24
        Grandma says:

        Let’s just enjoy the moment – Gordon’s gone, but I’ve still got the feeling he’s going to pop up somewhere to cause us more anguish.

        • 151
          Biffo says:

          Bitter & twisted about how he feels he’s been ‘mistreated’ & ‘misunderstood’ by voters & Party colleagues alike – in Gordon’s world nothing is ever his fault – I’m sure he will try to cause as many problems as possible in the new Parliament – a bit like the Bunnyboiler in the Michael Douglas film who kept returning from the (apparent) dead. Problem for you Gordon was that voters & colleagues understood you only too well. Heard anything fom Mrs Duffy since the Election? Sarah still tweeting?

        • 184
          barefootcontessa says:

          I woke up this morning, and felt quite light headed. No Brown, Balls, Evilali, Mandelscum, Postman Al, and co,.

        • 220
          Lordy Mandy says:

          If I can come back, the Labour party can come back. errr.

    • 21
      Who cares? says:

      “Thrilling, eh?”

      No.

    • 78
      Madness says:

      Who cares who leads Labour. For the next 5 years they are irrelevant.

      • 83
        iain says:

        Pity there is absolutely nothing to be enthusiastic about with this new bunch of opportunists.

        • 116
          Grumpy Old Man says:

          How about the end of Scientific Socialism as a political force in the UK?

        • 154
          Biffo says:

          Oh I don’t know – how about the fact they’re not New Labour? After 13 years of misrule & corruption that’s a big plus in my view.

        • 353
          Madness says:

          History will tell us the answer. In the meantime we can be safe in the knowledge that the Labour reign was pretty awful.

      • 265
        g1lgam3sh says:

        Maybe they are but I still want to see them ground into the dirt. If we can’t have Treason and Malfeasance trials then I’ll have to settle for that.

        Labour Delenda Est!

        • 398
          Snotfunny Any More says:

          Old Labour will almost certainly rise from the ashes of NuLabour, just as the reverse was true. This could go on an on, with a constant battle for the soul of the party.

          Same is true of the Tory party… Point is, we no longer know who we are voting for – did Dave and Nick stitch up the current Govt pre-election, and is that why Dave fought such a half-hearted campaign?

          I used to think it was all conspiracy theory bull, but the more you look at how things pan out these days, the more cynical you might become

    • 379
      New Labour is dead! says:

      Couldn’t give a shit who will be the next leader of Labour. They are a party of fuckwits.

  2. 2
    Backwoodsman says:

    Look forward to the bbc’s hard hitting expose of the scandal of the Unite bankrolling the process, using our ‘union modernisation fund ‘ money – bound to attract as much comment as Ashcroft isn’t it ???

    • 86
      CuttingEdge says:

      When is it on?

      • 88
        Alja-Beeb says:

        We have accidentally lost the tapes.

        • 99
          WailsLandofSong says:

          What tapes!

          • alan bread says:

            The one’s we had to give that nice Mr Whelan’s friend Mr McBride or was it Mr Draper.

        • 278
          Mr Ned says:

          BBC EXCLUSIVE,

          We investigate UNITE and their bankrolling of the labour party and uncover the amazing truth that they are doing nothing wrong..nothing to see here, move along,…. no, er, really. We are the BBC, would we lie?

          It’s all those right wing extremist’s fault. Those racist, homophobic bigots in the tories and the liberal democrats are to blame.

          Look! Labour are the only progressive party. What? Yeah we know they doubled income tax on the poorest workers and pensioners, but that is… what? yeah they gave billions and billions and billions to bankers, but that is…..

          Look just fuck off!!!!

          SCRAP THE BBC

  3. 3
  4. 4
    Thuggie Whelan says:

    I have just switched my support to Geeky Millie

    Balls is such a bloody idiot

    And I don’t want to be in the Scottish wilderness for ever…

    So Geeky will be backed by some corrupt unions at least – just as a warning to Banana boy…

  5. 6
    lolol says:

    Doesn’t matter who is head honcho,Unite like the bookies will win.

  6. 7
    NotaSheep says:

    Since Charlie Whelan has UNITE’s votes and money, I would say that his man had a built in advantage. However if you want a proven campaigner, who has actually won a leadership-type election in the Labour party (and that’s quite a unique title these days) then look no further than Harriet Harman. As she is no longer deputy leader and so no longer constrained by her mantra of therefore not running, could she really not run and leave the leadership position to ‘a man’? I think not and what a battle this could be between the MPs choice David Miliband, the Union’s choice Ed Balls, the wimmin’s choice Harriet Harman, the compromise candidate Ed Miliband and maybe a left-wing candidate…

    • 27
      Bob says:

      As I keep saying, UNITE is not united

      Drome (Mr Harman) and the “moderates” do not work with Whelan and the Destroyers..

      Unite money will go to both factions (Miile I and Millie II)…

      Creating even greater chaos…

      • 162
        I'll get my coat says:

        If one of tweedledum or Tweedledee get the post, will he wet himself? Millipede.

    • 325
      Ruth Kelly's plaything says:

      Harperson would be almost as good as Cruddas. She consistently topped the poll for least-liked NuLab Thing, so could be counted on to alienate voters wholesale.

      What we REALLY need, though, is a return to good old red-blooded socialism – Cruddas is tha man for that – so that they disappear into oblivion for ever.

      • 331
        Labour liars. says:

        Would that be the same Cruddas, MP for Dagenham, who sends his kid to a posh school in Kensington?

  7. 9
    The Watcher says:

    Frightening is’nt it when you look at the calibre of these would be leaders of the liebor party. Bring it on.

    • 15
      Ratsniffer says:

      They look like a hideous bunch of third rate polytechnic sociology lecturers.

      • 20
        eek says:

        third rate? I think they are closer to a Blue Square North feeder league rather than the Premiership.

        • 66
          Crud says:

          I like the smarkets picture of Crudass.He appears to be flesh eating zombie with the gore of his latest victim smeared around his mouth.

        • 225
          alan bread says:

          More like lower reaches of the Rymans League. They all look like Hague circa ’97.

      • 140
        Jan says:

        ‘sociology lecturers’…..no GCSE sociology students.They all look about 15….except for Billy Bunter Balls who looks about 75. Why do men under 40 all look like little boys.Is it ‘cos their mums all took the pill and they are full of hormones?

        • 402
          Snotfunny Any More says:

          Yeah but
          no but
          theire great in bed
          Theyre in touch wiv there feminin side, innit

      • 335
        Third rate polytechnic sociology lecturer says:

        Do you mind-we can do without their sort.

    • 295
      Mr Ned says:

      @9, I agree.

      Remember in 2007, when Brown took over the labour party without a vote? It was reported by labour, and shoved repeatedly down our throats by the media, that the reason was because Brown was, “head and shoulders above any other potential candidate in ability and capability” Brown was so utterly brilliant and impressive and wonderful that NOBODY in the labour party could come close.

      So where does that leave these losers? Even less capable than Gordon tosspot Brown according to who? THEMSELVES!

      FUCK labour, I hope they NEVER EVER EVER get in to power ever again.

  8. 10
    archie says:

    lets have an english bloke/woman leading the labour party for a change

    can anybody remember the last one? jim callaghan? i’m discounting foot as being half scottish and harman (god knows) and beckett (middle earth) were only caretakers

  9. 11
    Anonymous says:

    Can someone please tell me what awaits the Dark Lord Mandelson? Charlie Whelan has a gig writing rubbish for PR Week, Alasdair is writing non-sellers which PR Group will find a home for him in Public Affairs?

    • 80
      Meye5 says:

      “Can someone please tell me what awaits the Dark Lord Mandelson?”

      A fact finding trip to Brazil I think.

    • 118
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      Mandelson will take back the EU sinecure that someone inconsequential is keeping warm for him.

      • 407
        Snotfunny Any More says:

        He doesn’t need to “work” again. The EU pension scheme is very uplifting

        Hence how he has been able to spend all his time recently pulling the strings of the Liebor Party, He will no doubt carry on doing that, inc finding people other than Unite to fund the shell into the next phase – and so carry out another putsch like the first one (which had ABliar as it’s figurehead)

        These folk play a long game

    • 186
      amongymous says:

      Think he had some lucrative job lined up with BP. With the oil slick that might sound too much like hard work – expect him to slime off to the EU.

    • 229
      Tattooed_Arry says:

      Going to retire to Chicken-farm.

  10. 13
    Who cares? says:

    Do we have new Government to be blogging about or not?

    • 25
      Sleepless in Kirkaldy says:

      It will take some time to pour out all the stored bile for Labour. When that is used up, some people will move on…

    • 132
      Kaks says:

      Labour are getting far more air time at the moment than the actual government. The likes of the Beeb are in total denial of reality. I think they have just resorted to pretending their beloved Labour are still in power.

      • 212
        Wing Co. says:

        I thought it was just me, who cares a sh1t who becomes nu lab’s new leader the last lot left this mess in one hell of a mess, something the beeb is in total denial.

        • 328
          Ruth Kelly's plaything says:

          I’ve seen only the S Times today so don’t know how widespread the story is, but their front page tells a frightening tale of NuLab scrambling to sign all sorts of huge contracts in the last week or two, to bribe voters in marginals to vote for them and poison the wells for their successors.

          Nice class of person. I’ve always thought so. Not.

      • 304
        Mr Ned says:

        It is a sign that the new coalition government are not raving baby eating nazis after all. They must be delivering a “progressive” agenda already. The BBC will not argue against that…

        Apparently they have tried. They have been in touch with Dan Hannan quite a bit hoping to stir up trouble, but they utterly failed so gave up.

  11. 14
    Gordon Brown says:

    They are all offering more sleaze, corruption and bullying.

    I should know, I taught them.

  12. 16
    Anthony Overton says:

    Wikipedia says…

    Edward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Doncaster North since 2005 and served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010.

    Born in London, Miliband is the son of Polish Jewish immigrants Marion Kozak and the late Marxist intellectual Ralph Miliband (a Brussels native whose parents were from Warsaw), who fled Belgium during World War II.

    Ralph Miliband (7 January 1924 – 21 May 1994) was a notable Marxist political theorist and sociologist.

    As Adolphe Miliband, he was born in Brussels of Polish-Jewish émigré parents. Both his parents lived in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw, before his father, Samuel Miliband, joined the Red Army in the Polish–Soviet War.[1][2] He is buried in Highgate Cemetery close to Karl Marx and many celebrated left-leaning minds of the 20th Century.

    In 1961, Ralph married the Polish-born Marion Kozak,”a woman in her mid-20s with questioning eyes and disobedient hair”[4], who was one of his former students at LSE. They had two sons, David in 1965 and Edward in 1969.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Miliband
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Miliband

    • 134
      archie says:

      The young Miliband was forced to relocate from Belgium in 1940 as Hitler’s army moved westwards through the country and he managed to catch a boat for London at Ostend. He and his father Samuel entered the UK #illegally on forged papers#

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Miliband

      • 160
        Biffo says:

        Is it too late to ship them all back, Ed & Banana Boy included – with the £5,000 incentive payment of course to ‘thank’ them for what they’ve done to this country?

    • 341
      AC1 says:

      Marxist Economist is equivalent to flat earth geographer.

      EVERYWHERE It’s been tested, it fails and kills.

  13. 18
    English John says:

    Wait until the Conservatives present the 50 day budget, and show how much the deficit REALLY is. The thicko benefit scroungers, and the Jocks with their diet of deep fried Mars Bars and Special Brew will carry on voting socialist. That’s what happen when you dumb down education and make degrees worthless.

    • 155
      Jan says:

      Apparently Nu-Liebor aided and abetted by certains sections of the civil service had a huge spendathon just prior to the GE.Billions of pounds were squandered on ridiculous projects.One example was Ed Balls was handing out monopoly money to schools in Labour’s marginals hoping to bribe the electorate. According to St Vince the books are apparently far worse than anybody ever imagined. There’s nothing we can do about Nu-Liebor as they’ve gone, but those civil servants who were party to this huge spending spree should be named and shamed.Wonder if Gus O’Donnell knew what was going on and kept quiet.

      • 249
        Susie says:

        Named shamed and sacked — then prosecuted.

        They can’t use the Nuremberg defence, they better than anyone, knew the true state of the public finances.

      • 327
        Rip Van Winkle says:

        Oh, there are things that can be done. Malfeasance in public office at the bottom end, war crimes in the middle and treason at the top end. Where would you want to start?

      • 449
        filipinomonkey says:

        As I recall the consultants taught the Greeks how to improve the appearance of their balance sheet which hid the true nature of the desparate situation they were in.

        I’m sure our previous governement full of right thing to do type people wouldn’t have gone down that route…

        PS. Brown goes and England win the 20/20 cricket world cup, rejoice the lifting of the curse of Gordon!!!!

  14. 19
    thatguy says:

    This conversation I had with my teenage son might be be a shock to Labour politicos

    Son “Why did Churchill lose the election after the winning the war?”

    Me “Grandma said it was because the ordinary troops felt they had won the war and had earned the right to run the country. So they voted Labour”

    Son “But I thought Labour was the party for posh people”

    Think his experience is that his mates whose parents vote Labour have gold plated over paid government jobs

  15. 22
    Bad Al Tweet says:

    Tough Marr questioning here – will you and SamCam have dinner with Nick and Miriam? (unspoken PS, can Jackie and I come?)

    http://twitter.com/campbellclaret/status/14087746665

  16. 26
    Fifer says:

    Anyone as long as they are not a jock. Further, I think England should have a devolved parliament. They should have a right to protect their national identity & rights.

    • 75
      Crud says:

      Fifer,we in the SNP need a new leader.Salmond is finished.

    • 148
      Fifer's echo says:

      Scrub that. The English no longer have an identity or rights.
      On second thoughts, scrub that. The English no longer exist. Job done.

      • 244
        Postlethwaite says:

        White English Native speaking white English is that who you are meaning?

        Postle

  17. 29
    D Mili Tweet says:

    I said to Observer that “new Labour isn’t new anymore…we need next Labour”. Hope they print it tomorrow.

    http://twitter.com/DMiliband/status/14061526951

    • 38
      MI5 says:

      We have SPLIT LABOUR now…(banana and keeky splits anyone ?)

      Hopefully for ever…

    • 50
      Geek picks Geeky name says:

      Next Labour?

      What planet is he on?

      • 142
        Not out of the Outwood yet! says:

        Next Labour,….Top Shop Labour, New Look Labour, TK Maxx Labour, ad nauseum, take your pick…zzzzzzzzz!!!

        • 164
          Jan says:

          Actually when you think about it the Labour Party does not represent people who actually labour in the purest sense of the word.Unless you mean people who labour in bed all day or people who labour sitting in front of the tv drinking all day.Or women who labour in the maternity wards year after year to earn their benefits or druggies who labour by breaking into peoples houses or drug dealers who labour on street corners selling their wares.Or lefties who labour in non-jobs such as diversity outreach workers,sociology lecturers, QANGO bosses,and other such rubbish.I don’t think that the founders of the Labour Party had those kind of labours in mind when they formed the labour movement.

          • Snotfunny Any More says:

            Too right!

            Poison Labour more like
            Contaminates everything it touches

    • 210
      Unsworth says:

      New Improved Labour, with extra bollocks or extra something or other.

  18. 30

    I agree with Nick

  19. 31
    Article 38 says:

    Heseltine summed it up perfectly on QT last week, “I don’t care”.

    • 173
      Susie says:

      He speaks for the Nation.

      • 339
        Love BBC.Hate BBC news. says:

        Let’s hope the BBC catches on soon.

        • 346
          AC1 says:

          So you like Entertainment funded by threatening to kidnap people?

          Subscription, not Extortion.

        • 421
          Snotfunny Any More says:

          No time soon.

          I turned on BBc Politics this morning (Sunday) to see what they had to offer. Some silly fuckwit girl trying to goad the new Scottish Sec into saying something silly, over and over – but no attempt whatever to get any insight into what the new dynamics are or where they might lead.

          Why should any of us pay towards the salaries of these eedjits – or more to the point, their very well paid bosses who send them out to waste busy people’s time like that? Might as well keep asking the bereaved “How do you feel?” – arrgh, where do these ‘managers’ get their orders?

  20. 32
    MI5 says:

    Gudio

    Prepare for the greatest scandal of all

    LABOUR’S SCORCHED EARTH SPENDING JUST BEFORE THE ELECTION

    The Times is disclosing some of it already

    But this is going to be HUGE, as we all suspected…

    BILLIONS OF £

    Criminal bastards…

  21. 33
    reginald iolanthe perrin says:

    when are the brown,darling,balls cabal going to be put on trial?

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7127819.ece

    stop faffing around guido and get these people prosecuted.

    and kerry rat face? would stoning be the punishment in mogadishu?

  22. 34
    Labour....WE HATE you says:

    Labour are stating that they have lost the connection with the British public and don’t understand why ….I suggest that they go over their record in government over the past 13 years and they may find clues…starting with the one sided HRA and US/UK extradition/Lisbon Treaties/Politically correct policies/unfettered immigration particularly when they could have used the transition arrangement to stop our country being flooded by immigrants from eastern europe taking jobs/their slavish adherence to the USA/their taxation of Middle England and finally being led for the past 3 years by a “Scottish Loon” who whilst not creating all of the UK’s economic mess created at least 75% of it by his policies over the previous 10 years and thought that he had saved the World for mankind….is that enough to be going on with

    • 46
      Jack says:

      Labour do not and never did give a shit about the “British public”

      The British public is just there to be bought off by a Giant Ponzi Scheme and abused for their own personal aggrandisement

      Just look at their houses, cars, millions, pensions etc

      Stating with the Grinning Ape Blair and Gutter Boy Mandelson with their mansions…

    • 56
      lolol says:

      Liebour didn’t and couldn’t give a toss what the ordinary pleb thought,it was run for the management of the Liebour party so they could have power and money,everthing they did was to this end,they got so corrupt/concieted they forgot that every 5 years even they would have to be voted back in,it was only when they realised this that they started the brainwashing of the thick plebs but by that time even they were peed off,Cameron didn’t get a majority because people had hope in him but he lied with his cast iron speech,he has a chance to change that when the Lisbon treaty is back in the HOC,make a mistake on that and the NuCons will never get a majority again.

      • 177
        Susie says:

        One of the Labour MPs railing at the LibDems for ‘selling out’ said something very telling about the outgoing government,”They’ve traded their principles for ministerial cars…”

        That’s all power ever meant to Labour — going around in big shiny cars. Utterly pathetic.

        • 246
          Postlethwaite says:

          I’d like to have two Jags!

          Postle

        • 256
          Captain Maxwell says:

          Yes but if you are a redundent steward like Prezza

          Two jags is a real heaven….and that bint of his…she never dreamed of such luxury …

          Plus pies for the rest of his life

          As good as the muslim suicide bombers 73 virgins…..

          • stilyagi_air_corps says:

            Wouldn’t it be awful if there was a mix-up in paradise and the bombers got Pressclart’s Melton Mobrays instead?

      • 316
        Mr Ned says:

        Why should they have given a shit? The electoral boundaries were set such that they were almost guarenteed a win, if not an outright majority.

        What they did not count on, in their outrageous arrogance, was getting a smaller share of the vote than John Major got in 1997.

        The scale of the bias is MASSIVE.

        The tories won more votes and a bigger share of the vote this time than Tony Blair won in 2005. The tories had a 7% point winning margin over labour this time, compared to 2.5% lead for Blair last time.

        Blair, from a smaller vote, and a much narrower lead, won a 66 seat clear majority.

        This time, from a much bigger win over labour, the tories were almost 20 seats SHORT of a majority.

        With a massive in built lead like that, why the fuck do you think that labour did not listen?

        • 349
          revolting peasant says:

          Let’s not forget that they ignored 1.5 million people that marched against the illegal war. Not only did they invade Iraq after producing false “evidence”, they then went to war in Afghanistan without public backing or any clear objectives.
          Failing to equip troops properly and then lying to subsequent enquiries probably wasn’t the smartest move if you’re trying to impress the electorate.

  23. 35
    lolol says:

    I think AlJaBeeb think the LibDums what won it ,most of the political rubbish on seems to point to this,they still seem to be spitting venom when the mention the NuCons.

    • 62
      Anonymous says:

      I think the centre right of the conservative party which resides on the back benches should hold Cameron to ransom in terms of reforming the BBC’s licence fee. The BBC is nothing but a vipers nest of left wingers and is the voice of the Labour party. If Cameron doesn’t do something about them and the unfair licence fee, the right wing of the Conservatives should threaten to rebel and bring him down.

      • 156
        An Englishman abroad in his own country says:

        Hear, hear.

      • 254
        Cheese Lover says:

        The more I read about the coalition, the less I like it. We seem to be about to be run by a Left wing conservative group with Liberal connivance.

      • 337
        Labour is a cancer on society says:

        Here here. Cast my tv out today and cancelled the standing order to TV Licensing. They can stick Woss, Brand, their breakfast tv couches and their license payer funded pensions where the sun don’t shine.

  24. 36
    Harriet Harman says:

    Don’t forget me! I’ll announce my candidacy this week!

    • 54
      Anonymous says:

      I wouldn’t have thought a woman of your years would be troubled by thrush.

    • 76

      Manish Sood. Parachute him into some jockland safe seat and let him become leader.
      Just needs a by-election is all. … Only have to find an MP who could be disappeared without anyone missing them…Kirkcaldy looks like a safe seat…

  25. 39
    Gordon Brown says:

    Can I run for leader again?

  26. 40
    Mossad High Command says:

    We approve of the Milibrothers.

  27. 42
    Thatcher-right says:

    To be fair (and it comes somewhat unnaturally to try to be fair to the lying conniving junta who run the Labour Party ) it’s not the done thing to go into a general election saying “Our policies are no good” and, equally, it’s not going to wash to go into a leadership election promising to carry on doing what failed to work last time.

    • 48
      Annie says:

      It would be honest to admit that the Labour Party has ruined the country financially though

      Now…

    • 357
      AC1 says:

      Socialism fails every-time.

      You cannot be generous with other peoples money.
      Society is not strengthened by punishing and fining people for working to reward those who are feckless.

  28. 43
    I wouldn't put it past al-Jabeeba says:

    The BBC would like to announce that its new chairman is…Alistair Campbell.

    • 49
      Adam Boulton says:

      I want to interview this bum again

      PLEASE…

      • 59
        Al Campbell says:

        Dignity, Adam, dignity.

        I have dignity. Even with the blood of a million dead Iraqis and thousands of dead troops on my hands, I have dignity. My bank balance proves it.

        • 358
          dodgy dossier says:

          Big bank balance maybe Al,but you have to live with yourself for the rest of your life.
          I’d rather be poor and have a clear conscience.

          • Conspiracy Theory. says:

            I bloody wouldn’t.
            Ethics is a pace on the eastern side of England.

        • 429
          Snotfunny Any More says:

          And don’t forget Dr Kelly – we never shall

        • 443
          The big D says:

          The only problem is the face of Dr Kelly you see every night.

  29. 44
    david says:

    Hmmm politicians saying one thing in public and something different in private how blood unusual. Perhaps you’d like to give us a list of all the, ‘nice’ things Clegg said about Cameron and vice-versa before the election. Wouldn’t be a very long list would it.

    I do hope Guido you are going to become press officer for the ConDems.

  30. 45
    Stephen Timms says:

    Can I have a stab at standing for leader?

  31. 51

    Didn’t the Milliband brothers appear on Sesame Street for a while?

    Only then, they were called Bert and Ernie

    • 57
      Post-Election Frolics says:

      That is very offensive.

      Bert and Ernie were honourable and honest men.

    • 77

      I don’t know if you’ve noticed Lakes, but Ed Balls is a ringer for an angry Chuggington.

      • 79
        concrete pump says:

        I Lol’d when i looked that up.

      • 90
        Lady Virginia Droit de Seigneur says:

        I don’t know who Chuggington is but Balls is definitely a dead ringer for Piers Fletcher Dervish out of the New Statesman

      • 115
        streamfisher says:

        This is a true work of genius, the resemblance to a certain new P.M is uncanny and it also sets out all his policies in a tot friendly fashion.

  32. 52
    Quiz Time says:

    Are Labour:

    a) C-unting c-unts?
    b) Utterly c-unting c-unts?
    c) The most fucking evil c-unting c-unts to have poisoned British politics in history?

  33. 53
    streamfisher says:

    I ask myself who would Gordon have wanted as his successor but I expect he is still in a state of shock that the bigots of middle England could dispense with his ‘services’.

  34. 55
    Gordon Brown says:

    I’ll be back…

    to pick up my suitcase.

  35. 58
    Sunday Morning says:

    It may have taken too much time but it’s nice to finely hear some Labour folk admit that they lost the election instead of trying to gather crumbs of victory from a loaf of defeat….

    • 124
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      ReRead them. It’s all about the treachery of the LibDems and the failure of the electorate to see through the lies of the Fascist right-wing Murdoch-controlled press. All institutionalised, “it wasnae us”!

  36. 60
    Man in a kilt says:

    Miliband and Next Labour. Drop the n & the t and it may get my vote.

  37. 61
    Post-Election Frolics says:

    Gordon, do you have a hard working family? Or just a sham marriage to a hard working beard whose sons will never know their real father, except for the number assigned by the clinic to his frozen sperm?

  38. 63
    streamfisher says:

    I’ve decided Blinky should get the job, the Country needs somebody to hate with a passion as we bite the bullet of past fiscal stupidities for the next 15 years.

  39. 64

    We won the 2010 election! Gordon is still our prime minister! It’s you Cons and Lib Dems who are in denial, not us!

    • 320
      Mr Ned says:

      In that case, John Major won the election in 1997. He got more votes and a bigger share of the vote in 1997, than Brown got on the 6th May this year.

      THAT is the scale of how utterly rejected Labour was this time. They were massively flattered solely by massively biased seat boundaries.

  40. 65
    Eweniversity of Titheads says:

    Labour have been banging on about gender inequality in the Lib Con govt. Where is the token female window dressing candidate for labour leader then. Is our ‘Azel going to throw her hat into the ring?

    • 153
      Blinky the Zombie says:

      Bring on the Poison Dwarf

      Please…

      • 182
        Granny smith says:

        Would that be charles kennedy?

        • 230
          bergen says:

          Years ago,Viz had a spoof political column by”The man in the pub-Britain’s most ill-informed commentator”.I thought of it when I saw Cheerful Charlie’s pearls of wisdom in the Observer today.

          • Mr Ned says:

            that wee bitter ginger scottish twat. Cannot accept his own party’s policies due to his own prejudices. Disgusting really.

          • Lady Virginia Droit de Seigneur says:

            I always liked “Fanny Batter and her Hollywood Gossip” – reminded me of Polly Toynbee for some reason.

    • 228
      Angry and Despondent says:

      Look at the “talent” we were lumbered with thanks to “equality” – Jackie Smith, Margaret Beckett, Hazel Blears, Ruth Kelly, Estelle Morris, Angela Eagle,and on the other benches, Lynne Featherstone, Sarah Teather, Julie Kirkbride, and others too numerous to mention or so totally useless their names are forgotten, if they were ever known.

      It just shows the dangers of tokenism. Never mind if they are any good at their job (most of them depressingly incompetent) as long we get the right gender balance. Oh I dream of a true meritocracy but we’ll never have one thanks to political correctness.

  41. 67
    Margaret Beckett says:

    I want to be leader. I’ve got nowt to do these days, especially now that I can’t put hanging baskets on expenses anymore.

    • 108

      I’m sure you’ll find something else to eat instead.

    • 114
      Gynae Kangaroo, Oz's fave bush obstetrician says:

      Most women over a certain age suffer from ‘hanging basket’. There’s not much you can do for these poor shielas as they don’t relish the knife being taken to their undercarriage.

    • 433
      AN Other Woman says:

      At least now bone fide researchers might be able to use the Admiralty Library for its proper purpose.

      It was NEVER your “private sitting room” you hoon!

      There are more abuses by LieBour ministers than most of you on here have ever dreamed of… you can’t imagine what’s been going on

  42. 68
    NeverRed says:

    The liars still can’t stop lying, it’s in their nature.

    Milliband junior and senior have said is, that Labour got some things wrong and quotes immigration as driving people to the BNP.
    How many votes did the BNP get? Hardly any. Labour lost millions!

    What he failed to mention about what labour got wrong:-

    Doubling tax rate for low paid workers by removing 10pence rate.
    Selling Britains gold at the worst possible time.
    Leaving our troops without sufficient helicopters and proper kit.
    Failing to regulate banks by forming the FSA.
    Encouraging the housing bubble (the burst in boom & bust)
    Allowing banks to give 125% mortgages
    ID Cards
    Adding 1 million jobsworthy’s to the taxpayers bill.
    Lordships for scum and heads of quangos getting millions.

    Not enough space on this blog to list lost data etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.

    No more money from taxpayers to trade unions (modernisation fund scam)
    Equal sized constituencies to remove labour bias
    No more postal votes to remove labour fraud

    A lot of work for Dave & Co.

    • 231
      BLUURGH! says:

      So, you’re allowed to talk about immigration now then?

    • 364
      AC1 says:

      These 3 are the same

      Failing to regulate banks by forming the FSA.
      Encouraging the housing bubble (the burst in boom & bust)
      Allowing banks to give 125% mortgages

      The housing bubble in debt was regulated into existence to create the Potemkin economy. If you discount the growth of debt from GDP you realise how much poorer we are because of Labour.

  43. 70
    Abdul Rafah al-Tariq bin-Ali al-Sallah bin-Jihad says:

    We demandings George Galloway as new leaders of the United Britain! Or we will blows you up!

    And can I backdates my benefits, please?

    • 334
      Mr Ned says:

      Of course you can and bring in all your extended family too.

      MI6 will even give you multiple sets of a new identity, probably Iranian, and a back-pack and a job ‘pretending’ to be a suicide bomber, for alert exercises only, you understand!

      Hague is in a hurry to prove how manly he is to Iran.

  44. 71
    Screwed Labour says:

    Expect big bust up with the Unions. The two Eds have strong support from the marxist machinery.

  45. 73
    concrete pump says:

    Surely, Burnham has got to be the best of a shit lot?

    Even if he does look like he wears eye shadow.

  46. 74
    Jonathan Prescott Esq. says:

    I like meat.

  47. 85
    Dr Dre says:

    Wassup, motherfuckaz? When you gonna have a real motherfuckin leader of the Liebitch party? A motherfucker who gonna tell it like it is? I’m gonna be the new leader of the Labia party. Gonna get my teeth into it. I’m gonna use the Liebro party to make me and my homies rich. Just like the last motherfuckaz did. But first thing I’m gonna do, gonna get my Uzi and blast that ugly ass bitch called Buckett dead. She one ugly ass ho. Peace out, motherfuckaz.

    • 94
      Sniff Petrol says:

      What ho homies! Crazy Dave Cameron iz speaking wiv you from da, like, south side. Da south side of me house, innit. So what me wanna speak wit’ you about, like, is dat we iz got a problem in dis country, know wha’ I iz sayin’? Dat problem is Mr Gordon Brown, who is Scotch and a battyman, innit. He ‘az made like a mess and dat of our roads and ting. So what I iz wantin’ to arks you, cos you iz people what like cars and dat, iz what you iz wantin’ me to say that iz goin’ to make you vote for me and dat. Cuz it don’t matter wha’ it be and that, I iz goin’ to say it, ya knaaa, I iz gonna like reprazent for you. You want da roads to be like mended and dat? You want like no more of dem speedy camera shit? You want like better flowin’ motorways and dat? I iz like ready to promise like anyting you want, ya knaaa? And den when I iz like totally like livin’ in Downing Street and dat, I iz hactually going to like totally ignore you and pretend to be like interested in da environment and shit. Ya get me? Oh blast, one of the ponies has trampled into the breakfast room. Ta-ra.

  48. 89
    Post-Election Frolics says:

    Why does Blinky start every sentence with “Uh” – and in a mong-sounding intonation – and thereafter punctuates his sentences with frequent “ums and “uhs”, all also intoned like a mong? Combined with his blinking, he comes across as retarded.

  49. 91
    Philby in a Trilby says:

    Milibands are a threat to international peace & security. They are in cahoots with their relatives in Moscow, planning the next cold war. It is top secret so don’t tell anyone.

  50. 93
    The Secret Diary of Gordon Brown MP, Mental Aged 11 and 3/4 says:

    They didn’t reject me, they rejected the party. They didn’t reject me, they rejected the party. They didn’t reject me, they rejected the party. They didn’t reject me, they rejected the party.

  51. 95
    Ash Cloud says:

    Hi everyone! I’m back!

  52. 97
    Manlickscum & Sweaty Balls says:

    Whoever gives Mandelson the best bj is the winner.

  53. 100
    Labour is rotten to the core says:

    There is only one guarantee with the Labour party.

    They will spin/lie and spread shit to get elected. Then they will do absolutely NOTHING that they had promised.

    I truly hope that I never see another stinking, corrupt, bankrupting, spinning scumbag Labour party in charge.

  54. 101
    Meye5 says:

    Thing is in a years time we will still be taking orders from the EU.
    We will still have our troops been killed in Afghanistan keeping that scumbag Karzai in power.
    Still have uncontrolled immigration.
    Still be paying these lard arses to sit around all day having kids and drawing benefits.

    • 127
      Engineer says:

      Priorities.

      The new government hasn’t existed for a week yet, and it’s first big job is stopping the public services costing us about 30% more than we can afford. Then get some measures in place to encourage the private sector to generate more jobs, more output, and hence more tax revenue.

      Most other things are academic if we don’t do those.

      (Liam Fox is on WATO as I type explaining defence policy.)

      • 326
        Tattooed_Arry says:

        Afghanistan can be solved (over a couple of years/growing seasons).

        Offer the Poppy farmers a price better than the Taliban are offering, and buy the entire Afghani raw opium crop.
        No Opium = No Morphine = No Heroin = No Money to buy arms, munitions, supplies, and crucially – support.
        Result lots of happy Afghans who can grow a cash crop to support their families.
        Hell, they’d make enough money to build their own schools etc….

        There would also be 80-90% less Heroin for the Criminal gangs to sell on the streets of the World.

        The same solution would work in the Cocaine producing areas of the Americas.

        If the supply chain moves elsewhere, do it again in that area of the World.

        At the bottom of every Drug supply chain there is always some poor farmer trying to feed his family on poor agricultural land.
        They would jump at this chance if it were offered.
        And the Marxist, and Terrorist organisations of the world would lose most of their support, and the “water in which they swim” – to paraphrase a Marxist theorist.

        But unfortunately America and the UN would never stand for it.

        • 367
          AC1 says:

          End the war on drugs then demand for illegal heroin would drop like a stone and Afghan farmers would grow something useful.

          Prohibition is always a fail.

          • Tattooed_Arry says:

            They can grow something useful – Poppies.

            Why subsidise farmers to grow Poppies on land that can be used for food crops, as we do.
            There are areas of the world where the soil is useless for growing food, at least on a sustainable basis.
            And in those areas live some of the poorest farmers in the World.
            Drug crops can give them an income.
            And that income generates trade, and with trade comes development, and a better standard of living.
            A bulwark against Terrorism and Marxism.
            Areas of the Andes, and the semi – arid regions of Asia could be used to grow drug supplies for Medicine.
            Incidentlt I found it highly amusing a few years back when there was a shortage of analgesics (opiates) in Britain’s hospitals, at the same time as a glut in the supply of illegal opiates caused a crash in the street price of heroin.
            Clearly something is not working in the present system.
            Unfortunately the corrupt governments in places like Afghanistan thrive on the illegal trade.
            And the US has consistantly blocked any move in the UN that would solve the “Drugs Problem” along these lines.
            And any attempt at unilateralism in this area, would I venture be treated as a hostile act, by the US and it’s proxies in the UN agencies.

            And so the “War on Drugs” continues……………………………….

          • Tattooed_Arry says:

            sorry about typos – really old keyboard at this end.
            I must concur re: your view on prohibition.
            Nothing but an income for organised crime and anti-drug agencies.

          • AC1 says:

            If poppies are the most economically productive crop for that land then good.

      • 342
        Mr Ned says:

        They had not yet been in power for a full day, when they started working towards scrapping ID cards, the contactpoint database and rolling back the totalitarian state. The great repeal bill deserves all of our support.

        That was an excellent start.

  55. 106
    Mrs Dromey says:

    Vote insanity. Vote Hardperson.

  56. 111
    Fraser Nelson for the chop says:

    I can not believe the Spectator Blog’s editor plummy voiced and getting plumier Fraser Nelson. He has seriously fallen out with PM Cameron and is using his blog to do all he can to throw spanners in the coalition . Now talking up the party of Brown and Blair. Unbelievable.Just cancelled my speccie sub.Hopefully lots more conservatives who believe that Cameron might just be the country’s salvation after the worse PM ever ,will do the same and in one week , we will get rid of Brown, and Nelson!

    • 152
      Hoodwinked Tory says:

      But Cameron is not really a tory is he? We like him because he’s not labour. But is it any surprise that tories are slowly realising they’ve been hoodwinked, and it’s a left wing agenda as usual for the next five years?

      “Tories ditched policies as fast as they could” in order to get a deal with Clegg.”

      ‘A Lib Dem frontbencher said: ‘We thought the Tories would try to strike a tough bargain. But Danny said they were easy pickings. It was as though they couldn’t wait to get shot of chunks of their own manifesto.’

      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1278779/Tories-ditched-policies-fast-listed-Cameron-wanted-bury-party-Right-say-Lib-Dems.html

    • 302
      bergen says:

      If this administration declares war on the big brother state created by Nulab,masters the deficit and has a bonfire of the quangos(getting rid of their Nulab placemen controllers),then it will have my total support.

      But then,I’ve not so much a Tory , more someone who detests socialism.

  57. 113
    lataupe says:

    This is about as riveting as watching granite erode….

    who cares who wins ?

  58. 128
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    So much for German thoroughness
    If only they had got Ralph and his wife into a cattle truck on time we would’t have the Millibands on the public payroll

    • 168
      Dearie me! says:

      What a nasty fu/cking comment.

    • 183
      Anonymous says:

      Are your parents tramps?

      • 221
        The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

        NO!
        But they are also not Marxist illegal immigrant Y* ds

    • 218
      concrete pump says:

      Not a fan of the 4×2′s, are you beast?

      • 223
        The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

        Mr Pump
        I think that you will find that they have a rare talent for annoying most of humanity and have done so for at least 6000 years
        Escaped Egypt?
        My arse, I bet the Pharaoh told them to f*** off without a free train ticket to a Polish Butlins unlike the generous volf of Germania

    • 253
      Bob says:

      Take a look at Triesman as well Mr Beast…

      Enough to scare our women and children…

  59. 131
    Ideas for labour says:

    Can nExt Labour not blacken Divy Milibland up and hail him as the next Obama?

  60. 136
    Dack Blog says:

    Piss off Gordon, ‘the right thing to do’ is now Dave’s line.

  61. 137
    Dack Blog says:

    I never thought I’d say this but in this case I agree with Labour.

  62. 138
    Postal Vote says:

    Balls needs another constituency. His 1,100 majority will not survive stricter (enforcement of) postal voting procedures …

    Remember the confirmation of Labour’s postal voting shenanigans in Bristol east and keep in mind that Unite encouraged everyone to go postal.

    Whelan will get Balls that other constituency since he is funding the Labour party.

    Libdems and conservs should tidy up postal voting presto!

    • 200
      Yorkie Barred says:

      And Proxy votes too – that’s being abused in many ethnic areas on behalf of ‘UK citizens’ back in their real countries – surprise, surprise.

    • 201
      Yorkie Barred says:

      No-one with dual-citizenship should be aloowed to vote – this demonstrates a lack of commitment to the UK and should debar them from voting.

    • 245
      13eastie says:

      We briefly had a solution to most of the electoral fraud that Labour has since bestowed on us.

      Bring back the poll tax.

      • 288
        Can't remember my moniker says:

        Vote allowed only if all payments UTD

        • 311
          13eastie says:

          Indeed.
          No representation without taxation.

          • AC1 says:

            If your going down that route a Taxocracy might be more consistent whereby you get one vote every pound of tax extorted from you.

      • 374
        albacore says:

        Take a look at the new wheeze, Individual Electoral Registration, due at your friendly local electoral registration office any day soon.
        Won’t be worth a damn unless the councils can do a far, far better job of it than they did with the Community Charges (“Poll Tax”).
        Judging by the 12- and 14- year olds who voted and the massive number of frauds at the last General Election, that’s as likely as Mandelson winning the Grand National mounted on Brown.

        • 386
          13eastie says:

          I doubt any of this has been lost on the Tories.

          It’s possible they don’t want to look like “bad winners”, by complaining about the vote, or perhaps that they are relaxed right now because the next election is five years off.

          But, there should be an Inquiry into the blind eye Labour turned to electoral fraud, all part of a package in which Labour is put on trial while the crimes are still fresh in people’s minds e.g. Cameron’s audit of Labour’s scotched earth retreat over the last two months…

          Labour should be prepared for a lot of electoral reform that it won’t like. (Look forward to that gluttonous sack of shit Prescott being voted out of the HoL).

  63. 144
    Closed Borders says:

    Fucking Milliband immigrant scum, If only Hitler had won then these scum would never have been brought into this world.

    Fucking scum.

    Look at you all, fucking spinless idiots letting polish soviet immigrants run amok with your lives and controlling everything you do and you just sit and take it.

    Idiots.

  64. 145
    Ideas for labour says:

    Blacken up Divy Milibland and hail him the next Obama. This covers the token ethnic agenda.
    Stick Ed Milibland in a dress. This removes the need for anymore female window dressing.
    Ed Balls to come out of the closet for gay rights. If he becomes leader Mandelson will break him in.
    Yvette Cooper token doormat and Tea lady.

  65. 146
    adge says:

    I agree with Hese “I don’t care”
    What bothers me more is, everytime a Lab MP says he or she is going to stand, the BBC and all the political shows will spend the week following them around as though it is the most “important news of the week” we could be in for weeks of clapping, hugs and kisses, “I put a lot of thought into it, bull” “I have been listening to the people, bull” etc, etc, etc.
    There you go I have written the script, lets see if i am not right.

  66. 147
    A Firm Pair Of Election Breasts says:

    I’m enjoying watching the Labour Party fragment.

  67. 163
    Beastmaster says:

    Who gives a Muscovy?

    Are them hoons are arseholes.

  68. 166
  69. 167
    Milibland Broth says:

    We are the cheeky boys & we got the X factor. We gonna win Big Brother.

  70. 169
    MI5 says:

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article7127983.ece

    Just read about another Nu Labour gobshyte who has wrecked Britain’s chances for 2018 World cup…

    They are the dregs…

    • 213
      Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman says:

      You understand now why we have regular Pogroms, British friends…

      He is just the descendant of those who fled the Czarist Pogroms and then the Communist Pogroms…

    • 216
      Up sh1t creek says:

      Good, less taxpayers money to be p1ssed up a wall.

  71. 170
    Gooey Blob says:

    Labour MPs made a bad choice last time, and they look as if they are about to repeat the mistake if they are lining up behind Miliband D. Voters don’t like nasty partisan leaders like Brown, and Miliband is cut from the same cloth. As for Ed Balls, the idea is just laughable. Darling is the only sensible choice.

    Clearly, the PLP are as out-of-touch and deluded as ever. I wonder if the grass roots membership know any better?

  72. 171
    Madme Defarge says:

    I believe I read that they can replace her and will. If they then scrap the House of Lords in favour of an all-elected second chamber then where will she go?

    Can’t be another quango as the sun is setting on those. Back to CND I s’pose.

    • 329
      Mr Ned says:

      The Lords will be elected by PR, which as I understand it means party Lists, so safe labour Lordships for Mandelscum, Lord Paul, Lort Sugar, Baroness Ashton, Baronness Scotland et al.

  73. 175
    MI5 says:

    Guido

    The Commons vote tomorrow is at all, on a new Speaker

    No comments ?

  74. 176
    The Boys from Brazil says:

    Blessed are the children of Adolph.

  75. 180
    Anomie says:

    For a collective organization Nazi Labour do a good job in alienating individuals.

  76. 190
    Eddie Booth from Love Thy Neighbour says:

    Going viral

  77. 198
    Hang The Bastards says:

    Fucking LIBCON Twats …… Tax hike on CGT comming our way !

    Having been a lifelong Tory… the fuckers can go hang themselves if they raise the CGT just because of those Liberal bastards !

    BRING BACK LABOUR !!!

  78. 199
    Albert Hall says:

    Who gives a flying fook?

  79. 202
    Yorkie Barred says:

    A tad overstated perhaps, but there is a germ of truth therein – having worked as an external consultant within the public sector, I know that the same output could easily be achieved with 50% fewer staff. All it needs is proper management.

    • 250
      LSE professor says:

      The problem is deeper than that

      You must have seen it as an external consultant

      The problem is motivation

      You cannot motivate public servants apart from the Armed Forces and, perhaps, the Police

      Why do you think Comminism and Socialism collapsed EVERYWHERE

      You cannot motivate civil servants

      Privatise everyting apart from Defence, Justice and foreign affairs..

      It can be done…

      PS Even justice is heavily privatised through arbitration…!

      • 409
        AC1 says:

        Wrong way around. The problem is that there is no customer in the extortion funded sector.
        No customer= no useful feedback (you might say “that was nice, but you won’t spend your own money to avoid hurting a strangers feelings).

  80. 203
    John Prescott says:

    I’m fed up with peiople taking the piss out of me for being a pleb. I’m not eating pies anymore and I’m moving on to tapas. My favourite is kebab meat stuffed inside a sausage roll and dusted with dessicated tripe. I feel it’s tres sophisticated.

    • 436
      A Doctor (of arseholes) says:

      I think you have small arsehole syndrome, John.

      You need to get your arsehole enlarged so that you can shit more.

  81. 206
    Ash Cloud says:

    Told you I was lurking

  82. 209
    Anomie says:

    Whoever Labour choose, it will be political suicide. May the socialist scum rot in hell.

  83. 214
    Up sh1t creek says:

    Progressive = Communism.

    Why do you think the right in the Conservative party are so p1ssed off with Cameron? Cameron keeps on talking about the lefty “progressive” Conservatives, and the dumping of some really good policies to please Nick Clegg shows Cameron is out of touch with those that voted for CONSERVATIVE policies, now left with lefty cr@p.

  84. 217
    Unsworth says:

    She’s just keeping the seat warm for Mandelson.

    • 422
      stilyagi_air_corps says:

      I zink you’ll find Mandleson’s seat is ‘Warm’ enough, Herr Unsworth!

  85. 219

    What’s any of this got to do with you fascist scum anyway?

    • 427
      stilyagi_air_corps says:

      Err, you’re the one stirring aggro against a democratically elected Government, if I read the work Smashmob correctly. ‘Tis thee who ees the fascisti, Marxoid…

  86. 224
    Anomie says:

    Next Labour? The contents the same but branded differently. You can’t polish a t*urd.

  87. 231
    Anomie says:

    How is labour going to pay for the leadership contest? They have an outstanding bill to pay which will leave them ruined for 10 years at least. See how they like their aspirations being shot to pieces over & over again.

  88. 233
    Fidget The Squeaking Midget says:

    I do hope that the tories get rid of that odious oily little creep the speaker tomorrow. But what’s the betting they bottle it. Bad move. He’s a link with the previous labour administration (their MPs chose him) It’s time for a fresh speaker and a fresh start. Do the right thing: ditch him. I’d rather have Ming. At least people respect him.

  89. 234
    Mr Pickens says:

    Nice picture of Gordon Brown in the Mail showing off a prize bogey to Lilian Duffy and the cameras. He seems proud of this one.

    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/16/article-0-0957EFEB000005DC-823_468x298.jpg

  90. 236

    That we are even talking about the Labour leadership contest is a measure of what a failure the Tory election campaign was. Labour are still very much in the game.

    New Nu Labour government sooner than we think.

    • 239
      Labour is finished says:

      That’s because it never was a conservative election campaign. It was one bunch of left wingers lifting their rear ends and offering their wrinkly turkey butts to another group of left wingers. We’ve ended up with a centre-left alliance. That puts labour in a very dangerous place. If the government is already made up of lefties, why do we need labour? They are finished.

    • 252
      Ash Mole Ian says:

      You and your newt.

    • 287
      Jan says:

      Once DC and his team turn their attention to postal voting fraud perpertrated by Nu-Liebor and stops postal voting, Nu-Liebor will be an irrrelevance.

  91. 241
    Slimefinder General says:

    Have you been sent here to try to sabotage this site with your crazy, nasty, racist, putrid rantings? Kindly fuck orf back into which ever slime pit you crawled out of, eh?

    • 263
      Cheese Lover says:

      It’s a problem called ‘coprolalia’. Many socialists have it in addition to their other mental difficulties.

      • 277
        Slimefinder General says:

        What a disgusting stink there is in here when Guido is away. The filth and scum and dregs come oozing out to try to pollute the place with their cancerous bile. Be gone, ye odious trolls, shitten from beelzebubs reeking arse.

  92. 242
    Tony says:

    Can I stand?

  93. 255
    Tries_Man says:

    I’ve always preferred Rugby!

  94. 259
    Prezza Five Bellies says:

    Well what i say is as the labour party starts to recover from what was so nearly a huge victory we have to re group under a new leader hope to hell it isn’t harriet she’s not a bad old bird just never smiles and hates it when I cock a cheek and drop a fart but let me tell you this labour will rise again like a penis from the ashes and knock those two public school ponces off their perches two cheeks of the same arse they both are I can tell you now then we’re off for a chinese tonight I’ll be stuffing my gut with some crispy pork balls

  95. 260
    50 Calibre says:

    Whereas I couldn’t give a flying fuck which of these losers ends up leading the rabble, somehow there is a certain appeal about Blinkybollox winning.

    That would ensure that the remains of nuliebour quietly fester away as some of those who were misguided enough to vote for them wake up, smell the coffee and try to get out a bit more…

  96. 262
    RavingMad says:

    this is the time of day when considerations of who will lead the new labour party pale into insignificance. A fine Chateau Haut Tayac Cru Borgeois Margaux, having been open for a couple of hours, is now to be lovingly and sensitively drunk and savoured ……

  97. 264
    Labour Party Conference says:

    Balls licked by Miliband

  98. 267
    David Cheshire says:

    Labour have to play a long game. Elect Miliband; back the voting reform referendum; help campaign pro-PR or at least the alternative vote; sit back and prepare to enjoy the new political landscape.

    • 294
      nell says:

      Hopefully it will be a very long game!

      Of course, the tories and the libdems can’t live in this marriage forever. But I want to see them make it work for the next few years whilst they sort out this absolute catastrophic mess that labour have left us in. And I’m glad they persuaded Frank Field to join Ian Duncan Smith in getting to grips with the welfare dependency state that newlabour created, wrongly believing that it would keep them in power forever!!

      After that I’m hoping that a tory/libdem success will make both of them popular parties and push labour into third place forever , but, if not, at least until 2050, when some of us will not be around to see them in power again!!

      I don’t want to live through another 13 years like this last 13 years of self serving, lying,warmongering, incompetent, egomaniacal,financially incontinent, trash labour government that we’ve just been through.

  99. 268
    Anonymous says:

    So if bullyballs takes over (and I do hope so) he’ll be renaming the party ‘real labour’ , if davemilitwit gets it, he’s going to call it ‘progressive labour’, when actually what it is is regressive, stalinist, b++ankr++upt (financially and morally), dead in the water labour!!

    And incidentally how are they going to pay off that £30million de++bt that they’ve so incompetently run up under gordon whilst mr hattyharpic was their treasurer?!!

    • 269
      nell says:

      What a pain, new computer, forgot to type my moniker in.

      • 292
        Can't remember my moniker says:

        You did that on the old man’s laptop, I seem to remember? Careful with that Claret!

        • 300
          nell says:

          Two weeks of failed laptops and finally a new one. What a time for it to happen!!

          Now this new one’s up and running I think that calls for a glass of cabernet sauvignon dont you? Especially since we’ve got rid of the hated incompetent, socially incapable, gordon and his foul lying government at the same time!!!

          ‘Course I’m not entirely happy with the coalition, then again I want it to work which is very contrary of me. And I like the fact that they’ve persuaded Frank Field to come in with them as well. I hope they’ll bring Kate Hoey in too!!!

          +++Cheers+++

          • Mark Oaten says:

            Bottoms up!

          • Can't remember my moniker says:

            Cheers nell! Bless you. Zivjeli.

            If you are ever mad enough to read Hegel, you will see that contradiction is quite OK! I am now of the ripe age that I am beginning to think that he had something right here. See also what Walt Whitman had to say about it.

            One more admirable name from the bad party, unfortunately now lost to us: Gwyneth Dunwoody. I admire people who are independent in their views of the dogma that their organisations attempt to force upon them.

            Just remember not to type a++ohol!!!

  100. 270
    Duncan says:

    Would this be candidates for/from the party responsible for this?

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7127819.ece

    Would there be a way to levy some kind of tax against Labour party members?

    • 275
      nell says:

      Undiscovered financial black holes from the labour government who hid most of its spendspendspenthrift, shopaholic habits of the last few years under gordon, as they tried desperately to buy voters by printing money. What a surprise?!!

      Well labour are now looking for new names for their party as they elect a new leader, something that will distance them from these last 13 years of economic disate , lies, spin, wars and more lies that will forever be associated with the name of ‘new labour’. How about ‘responsible labour’ or ‘honest labour’ or ‘credible labour’?!!

      Don’t think anyone will believe them anymore do you??!!

  101. 273
    The Watcher says:

    If Blinky wants a safe seat look no further than Stoke on Trent. I’m sure Mandy (the Brown Hatter) can pursuade the thickos of the above City to vote for another liebor shit bag when the time comes. This City is full of pig ignorant voters who just aint got a clue..

  102. 274
    MandyPickleSniffer says:

    The Sunday papers sure are going out of their way to expose what a two-timing double-dealing Hunt Vince Cable is, eh?

    Should be interesting to see how much a lefty like Cable will try to get away with before someone gently reminds him that the Lib-Dems actually got slaughtered, and lost seats, and that he certainly does NOT have any fucking mandate to push thru his zany pseudo-communist ideas. If it wasn’t for the Scottish barstewards & their undue influence the Tories would never have been shy of a majority…and would never have needed to get into bed with theLib-Dems….but now we just have to live with it.

    Hey, who knows…maybe Vince will croak of old age sooner than people think…

    Speaking of that, how will they deal with vacancies that are bound to appear here & there over the years? Is the ratio of Lib-Dems in the govt set in stone? If one of them should find it necessary to resign because of a sex scandal, or get fired for incompetence, or croak of old age, do they HAVE to be replaced by a Lib-Dem?

    I’m hoping that this coalition will slowly slowly just morph into a Tory government, and that without too much fanfare the Lib-Dems will just fade away into oblivion….which is where they pretty much were in the voter’s eyes.

    Know your place, Vince ! Don’t overplay your hand. You don’t want to wake up with a horse’s head in your bed…

    • 284
      Ratsniffer says:

      I like your thinking. Sadly, Cleggy can see that coming too, and among the many promises he managed to extract from Cameron without actually having to try too hard (he was pushing at an open door) was probably one which buys his wet, limp chums more cabinet places than they should ever have been entitled to, guaranteed, even if one of them leaves.

      Everyone keeps banging on about this “new shift in politics” but they forget most of britain actually voted conservative. What they have got is essentialy a left wing government, which has abandoned most conservative policies, replacing them with liberal dem ones.

      Once the euphoria of getting rid of The Brownian Marxists has worn off, the population will realise that it has got a government which has replaced one set of left wing idiology with another.

    • 289
      bye bye coalition says:

      so now you know who will be bringing it down – cable and kennedy, as well as when – about a year and a bit

    • 303
      Tattooed_Arry says:

      Anyone who has ever lived in the Richmond and Twickenham area could have told you all you needed to know about Cable, Hughes, and (Lord) Williams.
      A bunch of corrupt, lying, sleazebags.

  103. 276
    John Galt says:

    Why is Yvette Cooper not standing?
    She would highlight the lack of women in cabinet and wouldn’t be such an easy target as her better half.

  104. 285
    Post Election Crash says:

    numbers plummet, interest wanes, who wants to hear government spin?

  105. 293
    The Court of Public Opinion says:

    The drunk that used to lead the libdems seems bitter (“yes, a pint please”). He’s been on the telly saying this new government will all end in tears. Well, he should know – nowadays he’s only at his best when on HIGNFY. If he were to lower his standards a fair bit he could well put himself forwards for this hilarious contest, although being the leader of the liebour party is akin to being the highest tramp at a rubbish dump.

  106. 296
    Mr Slater says:

    I know your kind, Mr Leon: next, you’ll be attempting to torch even home-bred and hatched Parrots for their alien, intrusive beauty and forthright, if somewhat repetitive, political and sexual comments. You, Sir, are a Psitticaphobe. Long may your discomfort persist!

  107. 301
    Our real masters speak riddles with forked tongues says:

    Marxist Progress = condeming people, crushing them and climbing over them.

    You need to start educating yourselves to the corrupted language they use.

  108. 305
    stilyagi_air_corps says:

    Interest Wanes – is that Bruce’s sister?

    • 308
      Boy Wonderbra says:

      Batman’s sister is a nun.
      Who do you think he borrowed those knickers from?

  109. 307
    What have we done says:

    Social Consveratism will never work, it never has and never will!

    In desperation the Consveratives fell for the cheap Cameroon side show and have doomed our futures.

    The Tories & Liberals have doomed us to welcoming our own Adolph, Mussolini or Stalin etc. with open arms in the future.

    • 313
      nell says:

      Sorry to tell you this but we’ve just got rid of our version of stalin, he was called gutlessgordon, adolph was akin to bullyballs and mussolini to hattyharpic. The berlin bunker was recreated in 10 drowning street and populated by magda(sarah) and goerring(mandy) and alastairc (??).

      Let’s not ever forget them because they are the scariest people we’ve EVER had in charge of our government and it must never happen again!!!

  110. 312
    Sky News is biased says:

    Doesn’t matter who wins the leadership election, no-one likes the Conservatives and Nick Clegg has committed his party to electoral suicide. Labour comfortable majority at the next election.

    • 314
      nell says:

      That’s why the polls are, tonight, showing that 70% of the population does approve of the coalition then??!!

      Poor old stalinist labour reduced to spinning and lying in opposition as it did in government because it cannot and dare not face the truth of it’s own incompetence!!!

      • 333
        Yawn says:

        Your talking about a population who voted Nu Labour in three times a row you dozy sod nell.

        At least try and be consistent in your arguments.

      • 338
        Loony Lefty Libcons says:

        We are the progressives now.

      • 376
        nell says:

        That’s what labour are hoping of course. But then 5 ads on TV is about all they can afford now and they’ll struggle to fund that as they try and get to grips with that £30million deficit that the labour party has run up under gordon and mr hattyharpic their treasurer!!

  111. 319
    angelnstar says:

    http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/england-rampant/

    The evil Scots curse is broken! England rampant as they win their first world title in the 20/20 cricket! Hooray, hooray, let joy be unconfined!

  112. 321
    archie says:

    are you damian mcbride on black ops?

  113. 323
    Limpdick O'Prick says:

    G’is a job.

  114. 330
    Capital C for Cameron & Clegg says:

    I pushed the button and elected him to office and a
    He pushed the button and he dropped the bomb
    You pushed the button and could watch in on the television
    Those motherfuckers didn’t last too long

    I’m sick of hearing about the have and have not’s
    Have some personal accountability
    The biggest problem with the way that we are doing things is
    The more we let you have the less that I’ll be keeping for me

    Well I use to stand for something
    Now I’m on my hands and knees
    Trading in my god for this one
    and he signs his name with a capital C

    Don’t give a shit about the temperature in London
    Don’t really see what all the fuss is about
    Ain’t gonna worry about no future generations
    And I’m sure somebody’s gonna figure it out

    Don’t try to tell me that some power can corrupt a person
    You hadn’t had enough to know what it’s like
    You’re only angry cause you wish you were in my position
    Now nod your head cause you know that I’m right..alright!

    Well I use to stand for something
    But forgot what that could be
    There’s a lot of me inside you
    Maybe you’re afraid to see

    Well I use to stand for something
    Now I’m on my hands and knees
    Trading in my god for this one
    and he signs his name with a capital C

    Well I use to stand for something
    But forgot what that could be
    There’s a lot of me inside you
    Maybe you’re afraid to see

    Well I use to stand for something
    Now I’m on my hands and knees
    Trading in my god for this one
    and he signs his name with a capital C

    • 378
      13eastie says:

      …I pushed a button and copied and pasted some shit song lyrics…

    • 403
      stilyagi_air_corps says:

      Well you want me to kiss your ass
      Well bend over Buddy, here comes my vote
      I don’t need your cry-ass shit
      Temper’s rising, take a fist

      Bite it, you scum (x4)

      I used my ears and a bit of poetic license. G G Allin: the melody of his threnody haunts my reverie.

  115. 332
    Tony says:

    David Milliband is even more pukeyfying than Tony Blair

    pukeyfying is an old English term that describes how you feel when you see an extremely horrible person

    That Cruddas bloke seems O.K. though

    If he gets the job and chucks out all the Nu-Lab Nazis, then there might be an Opposition again that represents the interests of the ordinary working man.

    • 348
      nell says:

      Indeed cruddas for an even more left wing labour leader than gordon!!!

      The Unions will love that if labour can, under cruddas, eventually win back the government as the unions will then be in charge!!!

      • 359
        Tony says:

        nell,

        The Unions never caused me a problem. When they called a strike in support of me and nearly all my mates being sacked, I went into work.

        I still got sacked though.

        • 371
          nell says:

          When I was a girl my Dad said to me ‘ Never join the unions. Never trust the unionsT they only want to use you to give them power. They won’t do anything for you as an individual’

          He was a good working class man, a man who believed in working long hours and hard to support his family and to better their options in life.

          He never believed the unions would help him in that aim and he was right!!!

          The men in the Unions, like the men in the Labour Party have only ever been out to help themselves at our expense!!

          Real Hard Working Class people like my Dad who were born before the Wars knew that and taught us, their children, to understand that!!! We have tio work hard for ourselves and distrust unions and politicians
          especially when they are labour!!!

          • Tony says:

            nell,

            When I was a lad, the unions negotiated for me 34 days paid annual leave + bank holidays, and sufficient wages that I could afford to leave home and get my own house when I was still a lad.

            They also negotiated a fantastic pension and redundancy package, such that when they finally fired me for the very last time I could actually afford to eat.

            Meanwhile, both my kids, who are not in any union, are quite exceptional in that they have actually managed to get jobs unlike most kids the same age.

            They are of course on the minimum wage which is £4.83 per hour if you are a Girl.

            Of course it all helps to turn us into vegetarians.

            But how can anyone afford meat?

            Our cats would starve except for our frog pond at the bottom of the garden.

  116. 340
    dredge says:

    Trust that inconsiderate twat Brown to resign when I was over 30,000 feet up, and with no access to a PC for a week. A cuпt to the end.

  117. 343
    Brown - now out but hould be hanging around. says:

    I just hope Brown is not long for the world – no sympathy for the utter c*unt.

    And his gang of thugs – hang them all and do it tomorrow.

  118. 344
    Bow down to your new lord and master toryboys says:

    • 350
      nell says:

      What do you want to see then sweetie – another labour liar in power who believes in printing money and spending us into perfidy??? hmm?

      ‘Course now that we have Osborne, Cable and Frank Field all on the same side and on the brink of telling us the truth about labour’s financial black hole created by gordon’s spendaholic policies, labour must be going into panic mode, and looking for ways to stop the truth coming out, musn’t they?!!!!

      • 369
        nells rose tinted glasses says:

        You would believe any shit spewed out by the government just like you fell for labours tricks in 97. We have long memories..you will try and lie about not voting for nu labour again either, we both know it’s not true.

        • 373
          nell says:

          bliar enacted a believable charade in ’97 didn’t he??

          Truth is though the real working classes never quite trusted him.

          By the time he took us into the Iraq War everybody knew that Britain had elected a lying warmonger with a failing uncaring chancellor.

          They’ve gone now but they won’t be forgotten!! I’m making great efforts to educate my descendents about that catastrophe and how that failed labour government has left us all with a financial black hole and an unresolved war to pay for in lives and in taxes!!

          • Turnip Taliban says:

            and even Blair didn’t try to rig the voting system and mess with the percentages you need to defeat a motion to push through Iraq
            but Dave wants to rig the voting system already to keep him in power

            only a few days in and even less honourable the Blair
            you must be so proud sweetie

      • 370
        Bow down to your new lord and master toryboys says:

    • 351
      Anonymous says:

      fuck off and rob a pensioner

      • 352
        nell says:

        If we are talking of the previous labour government they have already done that!!

        • 361
          Fuck Labour says:

          The trouble with Big Government and Socialist bureaucratic ‘operations’ is that it allows the bad guys – such as Hitler, Stalin, mao etc etc – to rise to the top of the tree.

          Witness Gordon Brown here was a man who went on and on about fairness and equality yet when the King Rat left the sinking ship he demanded the top job! What was fair or equal about that? where was the democracy? And just look at the result! We the taxpayers will be paying for this for decades.

          Now within the party that insists it is all about fairness and equality we are about to see more of the same sordid antics.

          We need the end of Socialism, big government, Marxism and the Labour Party to stop the rise of the evil or just plane stupid ones.

          • stilyagi_air_corps says:

            The trouble with Big Government and Socialist bureaucratic ‘operations’ is that it inevitably, given enough time allows the bad guys – such as Hitler, Stalin, mao etc etc – to rise to the top of the tree.

            just tweaked that a little, FL, hope you don’t mind…

        • 419
          Err... We've been here before says:

          Trouble with big government is when some dick comes up with the concept of big society.

  119. 360
    Anomie says:

    From an individual’s perspective the Labour Party & their minions have no integrity. They have labelled themselves as such. They are the party who can only hold onto power through smears & bully tactics. Spin is their tool of choice to cover the mess they make of things. The brand is an absolute lie that keeps the sheeple voting for them. Labour cannot progress because they cannot be truthful about their own nastiness. They cannot fight for truth, justice, fairness & freedom because the party lacks these qualities and so opt for gimmicks instead. The Labour Party is a package with little content and the best it can do is to try & wrap this content with a rather spectacular bow. Labour is the brand of empty promises.

  120. 365
    Ordinary Bloke says:

    Who gives a fuck!

    • 417
      Carrot or stick? No contest says:

      Not us! We just pay our taxes over to those arses in Westminster to piss up the wall and then accuse us of being in debt.
      I blame the people who abolished corporal punishment.

  121. 380
    New Labour is dead! says:

    Jonah’s curse has been lifted. The nation is free to be successful again under the leadership of Cameron:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/8684847.stm

  122. 384
    New Labour is dead! says:

    The Labour Hunts spent even more than we thought:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8685125.stm

    • 397
      Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

      I did warn you about my ScoTched earth policy.

  123. 391
    Catflap says:

    let’s lay bets on when the first riots kick off and who starts it.
    Socialists at a civil servants or BA demo is my bet starting this year or spring next.

    • 423
      Boomerang (I always come back) says:

      The way fuel prices are going, you might want to forget about those plastic anarchists and watch us truckers when we flex our muscle.

      • 439
        Rolling Stone says:

        Spot on. I view fuel price protest as legit, fuck rent a mobs and fairer votes for all, besides I always thought Billy Bragg’s music was shite.

  124. 393
    Benny Fitz-Clements says:

    I’m looking for a hand out, not a hand up.

    Still, thirteen years. It was good while it lasted.

  125. 395
    Hot air to Brown says:

    So with one of the Millibads as a leader of one of the Major parties, we have are first Black leader of a mainstream party

  126. 400
    J.Presclott ( five bellies, two Jags & two inches ) says:

    In future, you may refer to me as ‘Your Lordshit ship’.

    Henceforth, I want to be referred to, with due deference, as Lord Lardarse Prescott of Pork Pies, Punches and Paunches.

  127. 415
    Milibland Brand says:

    Labour the regressive party.

    • 430
      Where do we go from here? says:

      The problem with having an ineffectual opposition has been highlighted over the past thirteen years. If Labour disintegrate, as many here wish, that leaves a vacuum in which the government can overstep the boundries of democracy and impose idealogical thinking in place of pragmatic action.
      We need a Labour party cleansed of superficial idols and led instead by honest negotiators who recognise that everybody has aspirations of affluence and equality of opportunity realised through application of endeavor.
      A fair future for all nobody can deny, but not the “New Labour” model.

  128. 418
    Lord kitchener says:

    Come on lads, get signed up, apparently we need another war with Germany,
    So get your shares in Halliburton but make sure you sign them over to your wife.
    because you wont be coming back.
    Don’t worry about the wife, there will be plenty of ethnics to look after her needs.

  129. 432
    Identify the soundbite tossers says:

    Had to laugh when I heard that eejit Milliband say he would be campaigning on a platform of “Change”. Change from what exactly ???

    Oh I see change from 13 years of Labour rule !

    What a soundbiting tosser !

    • 440

      Who ever campaigned on a platform of stay the same? Who would think a platform of ‘No change’ would be a winner?
      What cretin would think that saying ‘ohhh..nooo. Looks a bit risky.Best stick with us. You know us, you recognise our faces from the telly.
      Stick with us, we know the way. And if we get lost, at least we’ll all be together..”

      Oh yes. I’ve just remembered. It was Gordon wasn’t it?
      How is he these days? Haven’t seen much of him recently.

    • 453
      filipinomonkey says:

      Which eejit Milliband, Bananaboy or the other one?

  130. 434
    Henry V says:

    Can we have some politicians who were born of an English linage of at least three or so generations? I don’t care if they are black or from the Indian sub-continent or some other part of the Empire (apart from the Celtic Fringe;) just somebody who’s family has been here over 75 years. No wonder these fuckwits don’t care about our country.

  131. 435
    Frequent Flyer says:

    What a fuck up! Stansed open, Luton open, Gatwick & Heathrow closed until 6am with no word what’s gonna happen after 6. What a way to run a country

    • 450
      Ash I was tellin' ya says:

      BA strikers thinking of re-scheduling to avoid striking on days when travel is in so much chaos that no-one will even notice whether your luke-warm coffee is sloshed in your lap by a just-fucked tart in too much slap or King Kong.

  132. 437
    tat to twat, hero to zero says:

    when cameron became pm, my head exploded like a melon.

  133. 438
    QWERTY says:

    Isn’t life peaceful without the one eyed mong and his vile henchmen?

  134. 441
    nobody gives a fuck now says:

    elections over
    no big stories
    why bother ?

  135. 442
    Anonymous says:

    This scorched earth policy is getting a bad press. Why can’t we adopt it? Starting with Tower Hamlets

  136. 446
    sorry for this says:

    It’s the Steve Miller Band or the Glenn Miller Band

    (ba-bum Ching)

  137. 447
    Cliff Sterling says:

    Truth is, the UK is as bust as a whore’s hymen.

  138. 452
    albacore says:

    As mentioned above, the powers that be intend to switch to a system of Individual Electoral Registration.
    If they wangle it through, you might as well post your vote up the chimney and ask Santa to deliver it.
    The Community Charges (“Poll Tax”) had an in-built safeguard: basically, if you weren’t registered for a Personal Community Charge, you couldn’t be registered to vote.
    I can’t see too many phantom voters queuing up to register if the eventual result is a pair of friendly bailiffs banging on the door.
    Individual Electoral Registration smashes the link, tenuous as it already is, between paying Council Tax and voting.
    The Community Charges failed because the councils were incapable of administering individual registration. That was 20 years ago. The dumbing-down of governmental administration in all its forms, especially in any enterprise whatsoever involving a computer system, has since proceeded apace.
    If you want a laugh, take a look at the Electoral Commission’s plans for monitoring a rolling changeover between now and the envisaged completion of the compulsory process in 2015.

    • 454
      The wimmin guardian writers are mad says:

      This air head is fukkin MAD! are the Guardian staff truly so bloody thick?

      The job of PM is a ‘big’ job and it needs, more than ever, a person of REAL ability
      – this demented writer thinks a woman should run….. ‘er simply because all the others, so far, are men – she even suggests Cooper or Diane Abbott!!

      Oi Dave! how about forbidding both national and local governments from advertising their non-jobs in the Guardian – this dangerous paper needs closing down!

      http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/16/labour-leadership-women-candidates

  139. 455
    nell says:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/16/george-osborne-cut-spending-blanchflower

    I see now that the coalition is able to open the nation’s books they are fidning all sorts of hidden debts and deliberate overspends that labour have left behind.

    Apparently our national debt which gordon said was in the region of £890billion is actualy more in the region of £1790billion.

    Why am I not surprised!!

    • 456
      PFI says:

      most of it is called PFI and ickle George is also all for it too because he’s a big fuckwit as Darling and Brown

      • 458
        Lurker says:

        He might be all for it but he didn’t write contracts that were so over the top in favour of the PFI contractor and such piss poor value to the taxpayer. (Civil servants angling for jobs with said contractors maybe?)
        Oh of course, the last 13 years never actually happened, it was all Thatcher’s fault.

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