Rory Running Before He Can Walk
Word reaches Guido that a certain new MP is ruffling a few old guard feathers with his arrogance and brutal determination to climb the ladder. Despite barely having an office and working phone Penrith’s Rory Stewart, the Conservative’s self-proclaimed bright star and Afghan rambler, is lobbying his colleagues hard for a spot on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
Though he failed to mention the time he spent as a Labour Party member, he has bullet pointed his “career highlights” in a letter that has been snorted at by some old timers. “It’s highly unusual for a freshman MP to be seeking a spot on such a powerful committee. But then again, Rory Stewart is a highly unusual little man” one told Guido after lunch…
Having somebody who has actually served overseas would be a bit of a novelty for those jackasses at Westminster.
He sounds like he’s better qualified than the previous foreign secretary and would-be PM in-waiting that arsehole David Miliband.
Thinking along the same lines, don’t know anything about him but his resume looks quite impressive, life experience as opposed to career politicians that have never even held down a job as a dishwasher.
Loved the way you tried to turn being caught lying and smearing Brown (who’s still a cun’t but only a twat would need to lie and make shit up about him since he’s so fucking useless) into some kind of bullshit about your ‘influence’ Fawkes.
There’s a word or two for people who do things like that.
Damian McBride.
Smearing Brown? Has Guido gone ‘on the blanket’?
How is it possible to smear Brown? He went along with an insane, unjustified war in Iraq just to keep his feet under the table then squandered all our money and covered up with false accounting and lies.
If that were me I’d be done for murder and fraud. How is it possible to ‘smear’ Brown?
was in he hospital ? No
were any of McBrides smears true ? No
were you screaming for McBrides scalp for talking shit and lying ? Yes
So shut the fuck up you arselicking hypocrite.
David Cameron said it was important to do what you think is right
Conservative leader David Cameron has said he still believes going to war with Iraq was the right thing to do.
In an interview for BBC’s Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, he said the war had been “very unpopular” and some bad decisions had been made since it began.
But Mr Cameron said “those of us who supported” the military action should “see it through”.
He went along with an insane, unjustified war in Iraq just to look like a tough guy to the conservatives and appease the US.
If that were me I’d be done for murder. How is it possible to ‘smear’ Cameron?
Who says he wasn’t in hospital?
That great champion of truth and integrity Gordon Brown?
Not that I give a shit whether he was or wasn’t. It simply isn’t possible to smear somebody who has committed a major crime by accusing them of a smaller crime. So, for example, you cannot be prosecuted for claiming a murderer is a cat-burning, shit-eating, thief.
Their greater crime trumps all claim they have to a reputation top protect. So it is with Brown.
I wouldn’t trust that lying, incompetent, self-serving, economy-wrecking cu*nt to tell me what day tomorrow is.
Smear Brown?
Not possible.
Who says Cameron wasn’t having an affair a few years ago or to be more specific who says he wasn’t in hospital for an ‘embarrassing’ condition WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT MCBRIDE SAID
See how easy it is to be McBride.
“Not that I give a shit whether he was or wasn’t.”
Then stop fucking whining and get your tongue out of Fawkes arsehole and admit you’re a hypocrite.
“It simply isn’t possible to smear somebody who has committed a major crime by accusing them of a smaller crime.”
Thanks for that legal gem ‘Rumpole’, when’s the trial ?
When you stop talking absolute bollocks explain to me how that doesn’t apply to Cameron who also went along with an illegal War even when he knew the WMD were lies ?
Brown killed a junior staffer in a fit of rage.
Cameron paid to have a prostitute killed.
Both bomplete bollocks but no-one has denied either of them so they must have some basis in fact.
Or not.
When’s the trial?
Good question. One I’d like to put to Cameron.
Conservative leader David Cameron has said he still believes going to war with Iraq was the right thing to do.
Who is the self-righteous twat above getting all het up about the Hunt Brown? Is that you Hoondal? Or Jonty? Fuck off.
piss off TAT or go crying to Guido again you blubbering little pussy
Moi, ?, are you playing with a jobulani.
what of the famously batty female Tory MP said to be caught red handed with a vibrator in a hotel assignation ?
There is the committee subject matter and then there is the committee. Politics is about the long game not the resume. But I tend to agree. In a couple years time he might be worth investing in.
Anyone’s better qualified the Milliband senior
Miliband major and Miliband minor to you!
he looks more Taliban than the Taliban
To understand the enemy, live amongst them.
The only way that would work in the Stan is by being one of them.so I say what has he done
I recall reading about him prior to the election. Pretty impressive character – I’d have thought it would take balls of steel to go strolling around the ‘Stan looking so hideously white but he does seem all about meeting and understanding the Afghanis the better to come up with some solution to the clusterfuck in which we find ourselves.
A genuine Lawrence of Arabia type from the article I read.
It would be supreme arrogance not to seriously consider what he might bring to government. But since supreme arrogance is what the British Establishment does best then I expect he’ll be knocked back until he’s ‘cut his teeth’ arguing the toss over badger culls at DEFRA or somesuch.
Or he could just be an arrogant git who is riding for a fall!!!
Well, he could be. He does sound a bit gung-ho but unlike, Gordon ‘Courage’ Brown his self-belief and arrogance has been field-tested as opposed to merely self-proclaimed.
Respect is due, in my opinion, to any white face who’d go walkabout in the ‘Stan these days.
Like this bloke. Balls of steel..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/15/us-man-quest-kill-bin-laden-pakistan
Could be a Muslim. lets call him hmmm Rashid?
He’s MI5.
Very impressive.
Having seen his abysmal performance on QT I can confirm that he would have been one of the donkeys leading the lions. He’s one of those typical public school educated officer class – good for fuck all and therefore perfect for Sandhurst and a commish!
link
I saw RS on Question Time and he came out with the only bit of sense I’ve heard in 8 years on what to do about Afghanistan — stop the nation-building and support the tribes so they can sort themselves out.
Western democracy it ain’t, but it’s a lot cheaper both in lives and cash.
So the knives are out for any Westminster Wally that has real balls and experience.
No change there then – he will join Davis, Hannon, and a very few others.
Shame on you Guido – we need all the enterprise we can get – and without the stupidity and arrogance of the last 12 years.
Hey guido this guy is a good guy.
He’s a NeoCon twat and worse
Neocon Rory Stewart Was An MI6 Operative
http://tenpercent.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/neocon-rory-stewart-was-an-mi6-operative/
Wait for it, wait for it, where have all the good guys gone, and did they ever exist.
Anyone who wears a meat pie on his head is fine by me!
What’s wrong with being an MI6 operative (unless you’re a traitorous commie of course like Burgess, Philby or McLean)?
I have mates in the FO who say he is a pumped up cock, he’s not liked there.
Funny, I’ve heard most of those guys love a pumped up cock
Mates in the FO? Not something anyone would like to admit to, surely?
If the shirtlifters don’t like him, thats makes him good, no?
The FO is a nest of vipers, who regard any display of patriotism as so, so beyond the pale, and any action performed that actually looks after this interests of this country as almost laughably quaint.
Probably jealous because he had the balls to leave the office and talk to some foreigners.
Exactly.
Considering David Miliband is foreign and European (not sure if those terms are exclusive) he is very qualified.
My word! He dos like to …… erhem …. make the most of his various minor achievements ….. doesn’t he?
There’s nothing wrong with signing up for one of the army’s Gap Year Commissions (or Suck It And See Commisions as real soldiers refer to them) but to make it sound like this was full on military service (as our Rory would doubtless love us to believe) is a bit much. GYC Officers do a three week course at Sandhurst and then seem to spend most of their time on outward bounds courses – probably to keep them from getting under the proper soldiers’ feet. They do not get sent on active service.
As for his foreign office service. A seven year career (more than twelve months of which saw him enjoying an extended sabattical hitchhiking the old hippie trail to Katmandhu) seems to have seen him in some ineresting places (perhaps his superiors hoped he’d get bumped off?) but I somehow don’t see him being given quite the leading role he would have us believe. You also have to love the bit about “in command of his [CIMIC] compound in Nasiriyah when it was besieged by Sadrist militia”. He might have been the CIMIC team leader but “in command”? I think not. That implies military things and I doubt even her Maj’s FCO puts real military command in the hands of a former GYC. Methinks he’s trying to bask in reflected glory from the CIMIC House battles that happened in Al-Amarah during the Sadr Uprising – ie when Johnson Beharry earned his VC.
Ramblers don’t hang about
Ron Davies hung around. Looking for badgers, look you.
Ambitious, swapped parties, annoys his colleagues………… photos of him looking like a total twat………. this sounds just like the career path of a certain Mr Edward Balls esq.
If you ever watched Rory’s documentaries, particularly the one about Lawrence of Arabia, you’ll certainly change your opinion of the guy.
He’s had near death experiences at the hands of the Taliban and a few nasties over in Iraq.
He is a modern day Lawrence and is no doubt more capable than a dozen or so Westminster louts.
I Agree entirely.
Good stuff on Rory here..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-rosen/rory-stewart-remember-thi_b_411272.html
him and his crowd are a bunch of charity troffers and Bentley drivers
fuck mod what now
him and his crowd are a bunch of c*harity troffers and B*entley drivers
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fuck mod what now
him and his c*rowd are a b*unch of c*harity troffers and B*entley d*rivers
Either C*rowd,B*unch or d*river are now mod word
I feel bad about likening him to Ed Balls now…….. I’d never heard of him before….. he does indeed sound like a good fella….
he’s not, as one who has experience of him, he is a self deluded arsehole, doesn’t mean he’d do a bad job though
“Ambitious, swapped parties, annoys his colleagues”. Actually, it sounds like the CV of Winston Churchill. He swapped sides of the house on more than one occasion. I have seen programs by this guy and he certainly seems to know the area well. That will put him out of the running for any role in the Foreign Office. Can’t have a jonny upstart knowing when people are blagging it, can we?
Having followed his election campaign I am not one bit surprised. He is definitely more experienced than almost anyone in the Govt you care to name (note to self some bugger will).
If I were DC I would watch it as I had thought he is probably a leader of the party in the not too distant future.
That’s the death knell Madme. “future leader of the party”. Many others have had that said about them. Lol.
Eton and Balliol. Sounds pretty sound to me. Though I can’t imagine how he found himself at home in recent Labour.
His documentary on Lawrence of Arabia is brilliant. His knowledge on foreign affairs is sound.
His documentary on Lawrence was a shambles, unoriginal and just plain boring. Had he read any books other than those written by Lawrence himself he wouldn’t have been so in love with him? Think Matt Smith would make a better Lawrence…
You were watching something different to me then.
You were watching the film and thought Peter O’Toole was the lovely Rory.
The documentary was great, he has done a fair few tricky jobs, he wouldn’t be the only spook in parliament (if he is one) and Rory Stewart will liven up a dull house. I say ‘go for it Rory’. He will annoy many troughers and old hands, and I shall probably get exasperated by the diminutive genius’s cockiness… but hell… who wants any more boring dullards than we already have.
He’s one of the finest in the new bunch of MPs, even if his mannerisms are dull
If the other candidates have half his intellect and practical experience in foreign affairs, we will be very lucky indeed.
His CV would seem to suggest that if he gives the impression of feeling he is a cut above the rest it is because he is.
He was strutting down the Strand angrily shouting into his mobile at around 3pm this afternoon….
You are Mossad and I claim my fiver
Rather him than anyone else I can think of.
They may snort, but he’s far more qualified than most of the old guard who’ve been polishing the green benches with their arses for decades.
Rejected in Bracknell where he was all wooden with plastic trim
Let him lobby. The old boys don’t liek that there is a new boy in town that has relevant experience of living overseas, foreign policy and the armed forces.
Let the lad have have his say. It’s a committee, they can always put him in his place with a majority decision.
He’s learning quickly the 3 rules of troughing: early, deep and often. The better the position, the better the ability to max on all 3. It’s the sole purpose of the taxpayer to keep it filled for these parasites. All they need do is keep pretending they have their best interests at heart and no-one can do anything to stop it.
first two lines apply to my sex life – (in my dreams)
You so funnnneeee!!!! funneee funneeee funnneee!!
more ov yoor clever yootoobs pleasings!!
Heee Heee Heee Heee Heee!!
He is positively taking delight in the VAT hike. Not good politics.
Thank you for reminding me what an absolute arsehole that man is
What an evil shit. His party coat the playing fields with turds then sneer at the people coming in to clean it up because they might get smelly.
Please, for Gods sake, for Britain, for the future of all that is good and decent , everyone who has the power – make this twat the next liebour leader and keep them away from power forever.
Almost forgot: http://tinyurl.com/r4kggh, http://tinyurl.com/yae7yu2 and http://tinyurl.com/2c7c6z7.
Werner von Gordon hands office over to Balls attack..
irrelevant shit from a halfwit
tats back
He may come across as arrogant but he has packed more into his life than most. No doubt he thinks it’s worth having a go- and knows very well he has a better understanding of foreign affairs than most tossflaps in the Commons.
Good luck to him. I expect the “old guard” means “doddery old duffers who’ve sat on their arses for 30 years while pocketing bucketloads of taxpayers hard-earned”
The Last committee
Mike Gapes (Labour, Ilford South), Chair
Rt Hon Sir Menzies Campbell (Liberal Democrat, North East Fife)
Mr Fabian Hamilton (Labour, Leeds North East)
Rt Hon David Heathcoat-Amory (Conservative, Wells)
Mr John Horam (Conservative, Orpington)
Mr Eric Illsley (Labour, Barnsley Central)
Mr Paul Keetch (Liberal Democrat, Hereford)
Andrew Mackinlay (Labour, Thurrock)
Mr Malcolm Moss (Conservative, North East Cambridgeshire)
Sandra Osborne (Labour, Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock)
Mr Greg Pope (Labour, Hyndburn)
Mr Ken Purchase (Labour, Wolverhampton North East)
Rt Hon Sir John Stanley (Conservative, Tonbridge and Malling)
Ms Gisela Stuart (Labour, Birmingham Edgbaston
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmfaff/538/53801.htm
Nuff said, time for the rest home for most of them!
I am sorry Guido you picked on the wrong guy this time. I for one would like this guy on the FASC. He would no doubt shake them up and force them to think outside the box over and above their own self interests. Is that why no one is keen? He would certainly rattle a few cages.
Guido likes to puncture self-importance. Even where his shots may be somewhat misplaced nevertheless an admirable trait.
Never trust a turncoat.End.
Never trust anybody who cannot admit he made a mistake either. Churchill crossed the floor.
(not to Labour though)
From what I have read and watched he’s the sort of person needed in public life. Has done and experienced far more than most other dishonourable members.
That he dallied with Labour is shameful and something he’ll just have to get used to regretting for the rest of his natural.
A saying came up recently but the author not mentioned.
To be young and not vote socialist is not to have a heart.
To be older and vote socialist is to not have a brain.
Hmmmm.
Anyone recognise it?
Winnie
‘Highly unusual little man’ = spook
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/11/another_old_eto.html
but anyway, good for him.
FASC could do with some ruffling of feathers.
well if this is a sample of our journalists we are fucked.
When the mega-corporation that pays my salary insists on truthful and informative journalism, then you’ll see some.
Until that day arrives, George Dutton, “the law of supply and demand” will rule, i.e., my employer demands tripe, so I will supply it.
murrys site comments above
Never met the bloke so can’t comment. Nothing wrong with the arrogance of youth but more often than not, wisdom comes with age.
Either that or dementia and incontinence.
Indeed!
He’s 37…
Is the twat being watched Rory or the old duffers who think they are owed a top job merely by being there for long enough?
Plenty of doddery self serving time served tossers in that place to sink a battleship, if we have any left.
I weally like him.
Being so short he’d look odd on a camel though.
Oh look at the Rory fans with their tongues lolling about because wee Rory went on a long walk one day and bamboozles them about his vast ‘experience’.
Yet Rory doesn’t have the honour to correct people when they say he was a provincial Governor in Iraq (he wasn’t) and that eh was an officer in the British Army – 6 months in some student gap year doesn’t cut it as military service.
Guy’s a fraud with a girlie like fan club fawning all over him.
A charity exec none the less who gets to go to Royal bashes.fuck him orf
He’s a modern day Lawrence of Arabia?
What? He wanted to join the IRA but the war came to an end?
He had fatal accident on his motorbike in Camel world.
He tried to overtake me,lovely int it
don’t get all excited. Bear Grylls seemed to be a mans man at first.
http://www.survivalshows.com/23-bear-grylls-is-fake/
My favourite barbecue dish.
eat my shit bear boy
You called?
So he once supported Labour. Big Deal! Was Churchill always a Tory?
Do you mean the architect of the disastrous Norway campaign which brought down Chambelain but then became the PM himself?
The same guy who thought Gallipoli was a great idea because it was the soft underbelly of Europe? Who then went on to repeat the same mistake in WW2 in Italy?
The man who backed the Communists in Yugoslavia?
Who sold out the Poles in 1944? Let millions of Bengalis die in a famine and said it didn’t matter because they bred like rabbits?
Well he was right about the Bengalis at least.
Huffington Post – ‘You heard it here first – Rory Stewart will become prime minister of Great Britain.’
Hooray. The Six Counties leave the grip of the old Empire before he becomes PM.
washingtons mile and Londons is the same realtor
Spook
Rory Stewart is MI5
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Behold. Me.I stand in awe. be awed of me. I walked 6000 mile across Afghanistan,alone.,unarmed.
Rory also walked across Iran, apparently, on his way to Afghanistan – and what’s more, took the time to learn Farsi first – although for some reason he doesn’t talk much about this experience.
MI6? How on earth can people suggest such an unkind thing?
The really rum point about him, though, is the way he lets people get away with saying that he’s served as an officer in the British Army – nothing wrong with a short service commission, nothing at all, but at a time when soldiers are getting killed in Afghanistan it would be more impressive if he’d point out that his military career didn’t extend to e.g. seeing active service of any sort.
For all that, though, he’s better than 99.9 percent of the Cameroon Cuties.
But not unbummed I’ll wager
Muzzies do not wish to kill us for the sake of it,they tend to be well mannered people who wish to live in peace
They probably just laughed behind the back of this Laurence of Bumgayvia
And just exactly what is your problem with this bloke? Or are you just an angry inadequate?
I patrolled across South Armagh repeatedly for 6 months, armed to the fucking hilt. IMO, this guy’s got big balls.
He’s taller than Berkow and handsome with it! How can he fail?
He reminds me of the young new MP for Oldham in 1900: ‘ . . On those who met him he generally made an instant and powerful impression, though not always a favourable one. Hyperactive and transparently on the make, he was far from the English ideal of a gentleman. To many of his fellow officers he appeared pushy and bumptious . . ‘ Who he? Winston Churchill. [DNB]
Pull the other one!
Impressive CV, but he has constituents to represent and should be getting to grips with that. If he wanted a foreign affairs job, should have kept the old job up or shifted to the FO.
Exactly.
A SSC followed by walking about dressed like a c *nt
What a f****** w*****
Black watch?
More like another candiddate for twat watch
One “d” too many
The man is very obviously a perv*rt
The Beast will sit back and enjoy his downfall
I thought the Beast was so fucking lardarsed that you couldn’t do anything but sit back?
Beast, not even a short service commission (SSC) – six months at Sandhurst followed by three to five years of real service with real soldiers. Our champion served something called a Gap Year Commission – three weeks at Sandhurst learning how to use a knife and fork followed by 11 months of Outward Bounds well away from real soldiers and real guns.
I despise ‘old timers’ – there should be a one (maybe two) term limit on MPs…
By Allah your all cruel bastards on here.
It wouldn’t be right to have an MP on the committee that actually knew what he was talking about would it? Committee? How about the cabinet, that would make more sense than a bunch of ex-SPADs being there?
I’d have had him as a minister for international development. Indeed, as a LibDem (and something of a left leaning one) one of the few things I thought was immediately good about the coalition is that it would have meant Rory in International Development or at least the foreign office. Lets not kid ourselves; he isn’t there to be a constituency MP for a place he’d probably never been to before he’s there because he’s a foremost expert in one of the most geopolitically significant regions in the world (an area stretching from Iraq through to India – what one might call ‘eastern arabia’.
I never thought of Guido as being a party hack. I assumed, like me, he generally wanted talented, experienced, competent people doing jobs. So he was a Labour party member? Who gives a fuck? – maybe that was the best way for him to get taken seriously when he was trying to get a political posting out in Iraq (I wouldn’t put it past the Labour party). You honestly think he won’t be up to the high standard set by the likes of Sandra Osborne? If he’s upsetting the party bigwigs that’s a pretty clear sign he’s doing something right. If we’re going to spend all that money on International Development we should have someone like Rory in charge of it.
Here he is talking about Afghanistan with more sense than anyone else: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH-Etn1TwUg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbltuJERN2U&feature=channel
I’ve met Rory in Kabul. He is very impressive, knows a sight more about the place than the timeservers in Westminster. Put him on the committee
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About time we had MP’s keen to blow out the cobwebs, why would anybody new and dynamic with a bit of vision need the approval of “the old guard”
Experience and wisdom is one thing, fat arsed lazy old troughers worried about being shown up for what they are is something else!
he’s a NeoCon MI6 stooge
Quite right! What effrontery. He should wait a couple of parliaments until he’s thoroughly captured by the system and has forgotten all his useful recent experience. Then he could fill a committee place in the proper style.
Or to put it another way, I’m surprised to see you speaking out in favour of the Commons’ Buggins Turn system. At least he knows something about something.
Damn right! we were here first he should get in line, got his knees brown and thinks he knows more than those of us with over 35 years worth of expenses claims pending.
The buggers gone native thats what, far too many years rubbin shoulders with the wog!
A weird little fellow who like Prince Charles has sampled a bit of this and that without being master of anything much except a scheme to preserve Afghan carpet making techniques (backed by Prince Charles inevitably). Just the sort of posh Brit beloved of the Dimblebys. What has he actually accomplished and what was the role of nepotism in anything he has done?
Rory is a very strange lad. Picked as candidate by the silly women who dominate things up here, seen as a loony bullshitter by us blokes.
Last autumn he set off to walk round the constituency – Penrith & Border in rural Cumbria – staying in villages en route. Sort of Afghan lite walking tour.
What a tit. He should have stayed at home shagging his girlfriend – if he had one which he doesn’t.
Says more about you really Border Terrier.
I voted for him. He is not the regular student activist, SpAd, safe seat non entity. If only half of what he has written is true then he is head and shoulders above the majority of parliament let alone the new intake. He talked sense on QT.
Give him a chance, he walks the walk but doesn’t feel the need to talk the talk.
Why am I being compared to Rory?
Just because I said on US TV that I’m glad Britain only drew with America and slagged off BP, does that make me arrogant?
All claims that millions want to remove my Damehood are a total fiction: the Brits love me.
To Death.
Interesting to see that he won on an open primary.
Also interesting to see that he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his service in Iraq at the age of 31.
No wonder white feathered little nerds like Guido hate him so much
Give him a job. He must know more about Af-Pak than Miliband.
The ‘old guard’ are simply frightened that Stewart may (unlike them) know what he’s talking about!