July 26th, 2010

Rich & Mark’s Monday Morning View


151 Comments

  1. 1
    Dick Scratcher says:

    Anyone see Kate Garroway squirming on GMTV this morning following her demotion? She couldn’t look Emma Crosby in the face & had a smile supported by scaffolding.

    Looks like Dolly will soon have to start getting out of bed in the morning.

    • 7

      Missed it, I’d have liked to have seen Garraway squirming on a sofa.

      • 17
        Neocon Rory Stewart Was An MI6 Operative says:

        One person I would not vote for is the crusading neo-Conservative Rory Stewart. It is particularly annoying that he is constantly referred to as a former diplomat. Stewart was an MI6 officer and not a member of the FCO.

        Three years ago I received a message from the FCO asking me not to mention this as, at that time, Stewart was still very active for MI6 in Afghanistan and his life could have been endangered. I agreed, and even removed a reference from my blog. However now that he is safely and lucratively ensconsed at Harvard, I see no reason to conceal the truth. I is necessary to reveal this so that people can correctly evaluate his political pronouncements on Iraq and Afghanistan, and his motives in making them.

        http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/09/iain_dales_brac.html

        • 32
          Unsworth says:

          So fucking what? Former MI6 employees not allowed to stand for Parliament? OK then what about MI5, diplomats, the cops, armed forces personnel, met office forecasters, lawyers, etc etc? Complete bollocks. Frankly I’d rather see someone with some knowledge about the subject standing for Parliament than the illiterate uneducated prats that are all too often elected.

          Motives? Fuck off you moron. What an inane comment.

          • piss off you whiny little cun.t says:

            Fuck off yourself you witless poodling twat.

            It means he’s a NeoCon spook and should no more be trusted than any NeoCon fuckwit or Blair who we KNOW lied about WMD and Iraq.

            Or do you think faulty intelligence and lying about a War no longer matters because our troops are dying every day in Afghanistan now and not Iraq?

            I suggest you look at todays News and get your head out of your arse you fucking imbecile.

          • Wikileaks Afghanistan files: download the key incidents as a spreadsheet says:

            It must be one of the biggest leaks in intelligence history. An archive of almost 90,000 files has come to light thanks to Wikileaks, logging the history of the war in Afghanistan, practically blow-by-blow. We’ve trawled through these incidents to help you make sense of the key events.

            http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/2010/jul/25/wikileaks-afghanistan-data

          • Al says:

            Craig Murray and his dubious pals are in effect a whole Dundee cake of eye bulging fruit and nuttiness.

          • Osama the Nazarene says:

            Yeah the Wiki leaks show what a vicious, cruel, malevolent bunch the Taleban are. They deserve to be bombed to kingdom come.

          • Mr Ned says:

            “Yeah the Wiki leaks show what a vicious, cruel, malevolent bunch the Taleban are. They deserve to be bombed to kingdom come.”

            Yeah and I suppose if the Chinese, or Russians or some other invading army invaded this sovereign Isle and bombed your family wedding killing most of the guests and ripping limbs from others rendering the survivors burnt and disfigured, you would be only too happy to collaborate with the invaders who were slaughtering thousands of your countrymen would you?

            We should NOT be in Afghanistan anymore, and we should NEVER have gone into Iraq on a pack of bullshit lies in the first place.

            If you go into a zoo and stick your arm into the tiger’s cage, do not curse the tiger when it bites your arm off!

          • Unsworth says:

            @ “piss off you whiny little cun.t”

            Get a name, you pillock. And who do you trust, exactly?? Craig Murray? ‘today’s News’?.

            Why?

            Fucking grow up.

          • Dick the Prick says:

            Think they must work for the BBC

          • Ivor Tapeworm says:

            tiger or lion…

            … There were one great big lion called Wallace
            His nose were all covered with scars
            He lay in a som-no-lent posture
            With the side of his face to the bars.

            Now Albert had heard about lions
            How they were ferocious and wild
            And to see Wallace lying so peaceful
            Well… it didn’t seem right to the child.

            So straight ‘way the brave little feller
            Not showing a morsel of fear
            Took ‘is stick with the’orse’s ‘ead ‘andle
            And pushed it in Wallace’s ear!

            You could see that the lion didn’t like it
            For giving a kind of a roll
            He pulled Albert inside the cage with ‘im
            And swallowed the little lad… whole!

          • Mongsworth says:

            Grow a fucking spine twat and stop poodling for NeoCon fuckwits you mong.

            You do sound exactly the kind of stupid brainless wanker who believed and trusted Blair and Bush about Iraq and WMD.
            So it’s no wonder you’re an apologist for this clueless NeoCon pratt.

            Now Piss off you witless worm.

          • Fuckwits says:

            I believe Bush and Blair and the NeoCons coz I’m a fucking RETARD! Doh!

          • Osama the Nazarene says:

            Difference is, Mr Ned, that no one in this country provided succour and support for terrorists who massacred over 3,000 people in New York. These Taleban criminals nurtured filthy wahabi terrorists in their midst and deserve everything they get.

            By the way Iraq is not Afghanistan its a totally separate country. The fact that bird brain Bush and Blair invaded Iraq (for daddy) does not diminish the Taleban’s culpability in mass murder.

          • Al Q moved away long ago dumbo says:

            Osama B.L. is culpable along with the 15 from Saudi and others in the planes you neocon twat

            he’s the one who isn’t in Afghanistan and is currently laughing from the safety of Pakistan as he watches the Afghan quagmire steadily become worse than the Iraq disaster

        • 36
          MI5 says:

          These MI6 types have always been a dangerous lot…

          This time they helped Osama Bin Laden create another Jihad…

          See evidence of Elisa Manningham-Buller, ex head of MI5, to Chilcott…about the threat to Britain created by the neocon Irak war…

        • 37
          bergen says:

          At any rate,far better than the usual uni,researcher,spad career of most wannabee politicians these days.

          • all neocons are morons says:

            a liar like bliar

          • Dick the Prick says:

            It’s not that insulting either plus, the Cumbrians have trouble reading anyway. The thing about a kid getting killed by a tractor seems a bit leftfield though. He is a good lad but I think a bit of humility may help a bit. If he thought Afghanistan was a war zone then he should use that experience to deal with the internals of the Tory party – he could get his head caved in at any moment without even knowing why.

        • 43

          Spook – schmook, who fucking cares.

        • 71
          Anonymous says:

          Even worse, he looks like a sad reject sent to Eton by his parents. Oh, he is.

          • Osama the Nazarene says:

            Top school Eton. All schools should aspire to provide a similar education.

          • Anonymous says:

            Nah, most parents don’t hate their children and would not want them abused.

    • 9
      HappyUK says:

      Was that what is was all about? Besides being married to Dolly, I wondered why she had a face like a half-sucked lemon.

      • 79

        Well for a 43 year old bottle blonde bouncy castle she ain’t that bad looking.

        As for squirming in embarassment, that sounds like poetic justice – she did make money laughing at other people’s misfortunes as a presenter on “The Biggest Loser” after all.

    • 72
      Anonymous says:

      “Kate Garroway squirming on GMTV”

      Any pictures?

  2. 2

    Sounds like fair comment to me.

    • 21
      Wossat? says:

      What a cunning stunt. Insult your hard working constituents because you haven’t a frigging clue what hard work is. Time for a by-election in Penrith methinks.

      • 41
        NeverRed says:

        Your having a laugh. Hard working constituents in Pentith. They are yokels.

        • 53
          A TUG ON THE TWINE IS ALL MINE ALL MINE says:

          Whats Penrith got to do with it ?
          It’s about 30 miles away

      • 138
        gildedtumbril says:

        To hell with a by-election. How about piano wire and a lamp post, The nerve of the cretin, critiscising the sartorial elegance of his constituents. Thoroughly bad form. And Guido, you seem to attract an awful lot of distinctly vulgar contributors.I fear for their sartorial elegance.

    • 57
      Engineer says:

      I would imagine that pretty well every constituency has enclaves like that Stewart describes. (Possibly excluding Kensington and Chelsea, where they use silken cords to hold their trousers up. I’ll lay long odds that they still have a few tramps and homeless beggars, though.)

  3. 3
    Down with Brown! says:

    Elitist Etonian idiot.

  4. 4
    Grumpy Old Man says:

    Well, at least the cartoon is pertinent AND contemporary……

  5. 5

    Hahahahahaha! What a twat.

    Funny though.

  6. 6
    Lord Envious of Avarice says:

    Apparently it is widespread practice in the five core towns (Leeds etc) to the tip of Scotland and I suspect they get the strnng on the social.

  7. 8
    simon says:

    Methinks MP of Jock descent should f’k off back across the border and represent real primitives. Mind you, an effective cross-section of ‘ScottishWierdo’ society is represented qiute happily (except the Weegies that sit in there) in the ScotsParly.

  8. 10
    Jess The Dog says:

    Well, he won’t be going anywhere near the Foreign Affairs Committee for a while. Beware wünderkinds bearing gifts of promise. Labour MPs in ‘deprived’ areas learned it was best not to dwell upon constituents’ idiosyncracies a long time ago. Incidentally, has he given evidence to Chilcot yet? I would expect so, if his tales of Iraq escapades are accurate…

  9. 11
    Tapestry says:

    What does he want? People from advanced society with their trousers round their ankles? Rory should call Mandelson.

  10. 12
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    East is east and west is west
    And never the twine shall meet

  11. 13
    philip walling says:

    It’s not exactly what he said.
    There’s a whiff of being out to get him here.

    Mind you, he hasn’t done himself any favours, but surely we don’t want tedious clones – he adds a bit of colour to the proceedings – and a wider view than narrow party politics.

    As for finding people who are offended by what he said, I’m Cumbrian and am not the slightest bit offended. I don’t believe that anybody in Cumbria, who was being honest, would think it anything other than mildly amusing.

    • 29
      Mr Ned says:

      I’m Cumbrian and yeah, it was a bit funny!

      I wish people would not be so willing to get themselves offended and upset on other people’s behalf.

      Cumbrian’s are big enough and ugly enough to take care of ourselves thank you very much!

    • 62
      Engineer says:

      Given that in many rural areas baler twine (Farmer’s Friend) is used for pretty much everything, it would be rather amazing if it wasn’t used as emergency trouser support.

      Many upstanding stalwarts of the countryside communitywill wonder how townies can survive without it.

  12. 14
    Rory stewart mp says:

    The Sunday Mirror has claimed today I called people “primitive”. This is a complete misrepresentation of what I said during an interview two weeks ago in another newspaper when discussing poverty in Cumbria. What I said then was “some areas here are pretty primitive”. I apologise if this was in any way unclear, but I meant that there are areas in Cumbria where people lack things, taken for granted in cities, and that these areas need more investment and more public services. It was never a judgement on people. I have already received an apology from the journalist who originally interviewed me. The Sunday Mirror’s misrepresentation of my words is an insult to the hard-working people of Cumbria. I am investigating raising it with the Press Complaints Commission. I remain very sorry for any hurt that this misrepresentation may have caused.

    http://www.rorystewart.co.uk/blog/37-blog/153-a-clarification-and-an-apology

    • 15
      Tapestry says:

      i think we all knew it was a stunt, Rory, but there is absolutely nothing in the news to get excited about. the breakback coalition rubbish is so dull. this holding up your trousers with twine thing was looking good for a bit of a laugh for a day or two. now you’ve gone and ruined it. i should think an apology is due. what can we laugh at now.

    • 16
      Al says:

      Sounds fair comment, end of.

      Stupid Mirror.

    • 26
      Spin Control says:

      “Some areas around here are pretty primitive, people holding up their trousers with bits of twine and that sort of thing.”

    • 69
      Spank Sinatra says:

      Was this a verbal apology perchance? If not, can we see it on your website please otherwise cynical bastards like myself might just conclude that we have to take your word for it. Ta….

  13. 18
    philip walling says:

    Just as I thought – an attempted stitch-up by the lefties.

    Perhaps you (Rory) could persuade them (the odious lefties at the Mirror) to donate a decent sum to helping to pay for those things that would make the area less primitive.

  14. 19
    Ed Balls says:

    So fucking what ??

    I wear my ragged trousers at half mast during the leadership hustings……and look where it’s got me.

    If only Yvette had stood for leader

  15. 20
    BrokeBack Cameron says:

  16. 22
    Chris Huhne says:

    Imagine if Jedward’s names were Peter and Rick

  17. 23
    The Ape Man Commeth says:

    Labours ‘big idea’, in fact their only idea, now, is class hatred. They are conceptually challenged; broon was to give us his ‘vision’ when he got in power, it never came, he never did, just like the two empty cans and a brick the lying fuck didn’t have one. Idea’s wise they are fucked, all they can do is attack; not really legitimately on policy, but a long term and constant assault using class as their weapon.

    It started around the time Mc jobbie got into number 10, and has been going on ever since, recently it was Goldsmith, on C4, they are targeting the ‘toffs’ and hoping by the time of the next election to have built up enough momentum to more or less win on class hatred alone.

    • 38
      Bob says:

      Class hatred AND “wacism”..

      The two pillars of the continuing Labour fraud

    • 99
      Cato Street Conspirator says:

      Don’t be silly Ape Man – ‘class hatred’ is when you cut the services the poor need.

    • 114
      Mr Ned says:

      Brown’s only half decent idea was a new bill of rights, but that never materialised as it would have been about 4,000 pages of illegible, self-contradictory legalese enshrining politically correct racism, sexism and heterophobia into law for all time. So I am glad that it never happened.

      We should have a bill of rights and a written constitution. But they needn’t be more than a couple of pages long.

      We could use America’s as they are not using it anymore.

      We also need to differentiate in law the difference between a free and innocent law abiding man and a convicted criminal serving time. The latter should NOT have the same rights as the former.

  18. 24
    Ian E says:

    I thought that the drawing was Obama at first – now that would be a good use for the string!

  19. 27
    Unsworth says:

    What does McGuire use to keep his trousers up, anyway? For that matter why bother – seeing as his arse is constantly in operation?

    Still it’d nice if Stewart gets the Mirror to formally apologise. It’d be nice if the Mirror stopped plagiarising, too. Any chance of that?

    • 42
      Toilets McGuire says:

      What would I do if I cannot misquote Tory boys and plagiarise ?

      All we have left in Chip on the Shoulder Labour is smearing…

      And we have a long history of smearing…

      As Guido knows…

      PS Long live Robert “Bob Bob Bobbing in the Atlantic” Maxwell (BTW did the Mirror employees ever get their pensions back ??!)

      • 50
        mongsworth says:

        look at Guido quote of the day stupid

        • 93
          Al says:

          Oi ‘mongsworth’ the Mirror won’t write itself you dipshit. Get back to work with all the other monkeys!

        • 124
          Mr Ned says:

          And you believe that is an accurate quote, taken in context and reported accurately in the Daily Mirror?

          I have some sea-front property in Warwickshire to sell you!

  20. 28
    A po-faced, hand-wringing, ShamPain socialist (sipping Bolly whilst ‘reading’ (sic) the Grauniad) says:

    Oh comrades!

    Gorgon’s sheeple-controlling covert-tax measures are being dismantled one by one!

    Now it’s Gatso’s.

    True, they only caught paid-up sheeple, and the real rogues – poor primitive dears brought up in poverty – escaped.

    When will our Beloved Leeda return?

    And where have all my effnic skirts gone?

    • 45
      Albie Here says:

      They keep telling us how much we need these cameras for road safety and stopping deaths on the road and then you find out it’s all about job protection, their own,nice to see these highway robbers men having to go down to the job centre,maybe they will hit the real jackpot and strangle the power of ACPO and put it back as to what it should be a union for Chief Constables and the greasy pole climbers..

  21. 30
    Ed Balls says:

    ‘The question is: who is the best fucking person to beat the arseholes David Cameron and Nick Clegg.
    ‘On judgment and on campaigning and on strength of character I am fucking well the best person to do that, because I lack in both of those attributes
    In his most outspoken assault to date on the brothers – who are widely seen as geeky and unable to connect with the public, Mr Balls said that while the Shadow Foreign Secretary and Shadow Energy Secretary have been touring the country drumming up support, ‘I have spent my time in the House of Commons smashing fucking Michael Gove’s face in on school building cuts, challenging that toe rag George Osborne on this deeply-unfair rise in VAT and getting fucking well rat arsed.”

    • 39
      Albie Here says:

      Sorry Eddy baby being a foulmouthed MP won’t help your cause unless you are just looking for your votes from the chavs who came through the school system in the last 13 years.

      • 127
        Mr Ned says:

        But the flaw in that carefully constructed plan is the fact that most of them cannot spell ‘X’

  22. 31
    Sir William Waad says:

    What a nasty cartoon. This casual attitude to violence is corrosive.

  23. 33
    • 140
      Wonga says:

      The last time I saw Gordon Brown, he made me cry.
      Why? did he kick you in the twat??

  24. 35
    Albie Here says:

    Perhaps the primitives are vegetarians prefer not to have the skin of a dead animal keeping their kecks up,so maybe he’s just a nasty snotty nosed git who was thinking out loud,has he forgotten what happened not long ago when a pi**ed off primitive got upset.

  25. 40
    RICH@MARK WASHROOM ATENDANTS AND PART TIME CARTOONISTS says:

    What the fuck has Mick Jagger said now ?

  26. 44
    Ghettobaby says:

    Congratulations R&M, usually your crappy drawings and lack of imagination elicit only a sense of boredom and sometimes moderate anger. BUT this time you made me wanna puke up my breakfast onto my keyboard. This is by far the strongest reaction to your scribbling yet. Also, I feel it looks more like Gordon Frown, due to the Frankensteiny-decomposy qualities……….

  27. 47
    HappyUK says:

    re: http://blogs.notw.co.uk/politics/2010/07/brown-plans-his-own-memoirs.html

    “His former aides say Mr Brown has been writing at an incredible pace – sometimes pounding out as much as 10,000 words a day.”

    The infinite monkey theorem springs to mind…

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

    • 74
      Sir William Waad says:

      Anthony Trollope only managed 3,000 words a day, but he also had, and conscientiously did, a full-time job so that he could only write bewteen 5.30 am and 8.30 am; he had no computer; and he wrote stuff that other people really wanted to read.

      Trollope also distinguishes himself from Brown in that his novels show a deep appreciation of the importance of money.

    • 81
      Down with Brown! says:

      Gordon is typing ‘I hate bloody everybody” 2,500 times a day-

    • 131
      Mr Ned says:

      Some of the greatest literary and musical talents create copious amounts of almost nothing but rubbish most of the time.

      They call it writing for the bin. They know that if they restrict themselves to what they write, to try to make sure that they only produce wonderful masterpieces, that they would never write anything and remain creatively blocked.

      They write for the bin, letting every idea come out, knowing that an occasional jewel of creative genius will pour out of the rubbish that they produce.

      This reduces the stress that setting such a high standard for oneself can create and frees the mind to allow genius to present itself in it’s own good time.

      This is NOT what Gordon Brown is doing, I am sure. He will just be writing rubbish. Nothing else.

  28. 49
    Michael Gove says:

    I’m waiting for Ed Balls to fall under a bus

  29. 51
    I use the red flag as toilet paper says:

    Fuck Muckguire, fuck the Daily Record, fuck Brown, fuck Mandelson, fuck Balls, fuck Straw, Fuck the Millibands, Fuck Cooper, fuck Harman, fuck the Labour party.

  30. 54
    yalleriron says:

    I think a lot of you are being unnecessarily harsh about Rory.

    He always looks to me as if he should be on Blue Peter, making useful things out of twine, used lavatory rolls and sticky-back plastic. That, or rowing the Atlantic naked with a chum like B. Fogle in a craft held together with twine. Or perhaps a sort of adolescent lounge lizard entwined with a nice county girl at the May Ball.

    One way or the other, he’s a man who knows his twine.

  31. 60
    State of Play says:

    Two polls in the Sunday papers: YouGov have topline figures of CON 41%, LAB 36%, LDEM 14% – which is still very much within the margin of error of the CON 42%, LAB 35%, LDEM 15% figures that YouGov have been floating around for the last few weeks.

  32. 61
    HETROSEXUAL CUMBRIAN MAN says:

    Maybe the bachelor Mr Stewart has trouble undoing said twine ?
    but never mind there are lots of sheep !

  33. 63
    Eunonymous says:

    why is Gordon Brown still being paid by us to write his memoirs and save Africa?

    shouldn’t he be doing his day job?

  34. 65

    Looks very painful!!!!

  35. 66
    His 'n' hers private jets. Freebies galore. The great carnival of vanity rolls on and on . . . says:

    On a raised stage of a packed town square, a group of angelic-looking children, chosen specifically for their telegenic appearance, are midway through an unashamedly schmaltzy version of the Michael Jackson song We are The World.

    The giant backdrop to this brazenly saccharine spectacle consists of two giant blow-up photos of Tony Blair displaying a suitably statesman-like bearing.

    And there at the back of the podium is the former Prime Minister himself, arms raised in the air, swaying awkwardly to the music and bestowing a beatific grin on the thousands of Union flag-waving locals who have gathered in the sunshine to pay homage to him.

    What an extraordinary contrast to the way the ex-Labour leader and his wife are viewed at home.

    Just this week, there were calls for Mr Blair to be hauled back before the Iraq War inquiry to answer yet more devastating charges that he blatantly lied about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.

    The Mail also revealed earlier this week that Cherie took £167,000 of private jet flights from a notorious Albanian businessman facing trial for beating up an investigative journalist who had criticised him.
    No wonder, given his problems here in the UK, that Tony is far happier spending his time abroad.

    I’m told the couple have jetted off yet again this weekend in a party of 13 which includes three of their four children and at least five police bodyguards, for a lavish holiday in China and South-East Asia.

    They do not plan to return before the end of next month. But, then again, the Blairs can certainly afford to indulge themselves thanks to the more than £25 million he is estimated to have earned since leaving Downing Street.

    They have even taken to flying in his ‘n hers private jets.

  36. 68
    A TUG ON THE TWINE IS ALL MINE ALL MINE says:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Stewart#Early_life_and_education

    Yet another Jock !
    who was a member of the labour party and served in the black watch !

    • 73
      here comes the Limpservatives says:

      brokeback Dave welcomes all Eton bumchums to the Liberal brokeback coalition

    • 76
      A TUG ON THE TWINE IS ALL MINE ALL MINE says:

      The guy he replaced as MP was also a jock one David John MacLean
      who also made a famous quote :
      “When i see a beggar i always give him something
      Usually a piece of my mind !”

    • 113
      Mr Plum says:

      Jocks can hardly call others primitive, if it wasnt for the English they would still be sporting skirts

    • 122
      Doc Trough says:

      What as? A fucking pull-through?

  37. 77
    ??? says:

    Rory is right they are primative.
    if it were not for the railways arriving in the 1800′s they would have died out from in breeding, 25% of Cumbrians are their own grand-father with in-breeding.
    Can not speak english.
    think welfare is a job.

  38. 78
    I use the red flag as toilet paper says:

    I see woderwick stuart was engrossed with lawence of awabia.

  39. 80
    JUST A THOUGHT ! says:

    If there is a more loathsome pile of shite on this planet than “Toilets McGuire” Then i have yet to step in it !

  40. 83
    Gordon Brown Fan Club says:

    Gordon Brown: There is life after No 10 – Profiles, People … 26 Jul 2010 … The last time I saw Gordon Brown, he made me cry. It wasn’t just the way he stood, a Heathcliff battered, but not broken, a wounded warrior …
    http://www.independent.co.uk/…/gordon-brown-there-iis-ilife-after-no-10-2035409.html

  41. 85
    Down with Brown! says:

    John Major was once photographed using a safety pin to keep his trousers up.

  42. 86
    Now this is funny says:

  43. 87
    Martin Day BBC political correspondent says:

    EXCLUSIVE

    It is time to look beyond Ed Miliband to the next leader of the Labour Party and “those in the know” are tipping Chuka Umanna.

    Watch this space

  44. 89

    Sounds like another example of what happens when you select your candidates according to Islington/Notting Hill criteria then parachute them into distant rural constituencies. Truly I am beginning to think that Cameron will go down in history as the Conservative Leader who blew a once in a generation chance to turn back the forces of socialism.

    The Mirror does need to do a bit of fact checking, itself though.

    For a start Rory is hardly “an ex-army officer”. He served a year long “suck it and see”, gap year commission with the Black Watch. That’s basically where you get to live in the officers’ mess, watch real soldiers train and go on a few outward bound courses. Gap year “officers” don’t command soldiers, lead them on operations or anything else that would qualify a person to call themselves an “ex-officer” in my book.

    • 141
      Anonymous says:

      Except that Stewart won an open primary to get his nomination.

      • 151
        The Cumbrian says:

        Mr Stewart did indeed win the open primary at Penrith. The Penrith and Borders Conservatives had in excess of 140 applicants to succeed the expenses disgraced David Maclean. They produced a shortlist of 25 and the final six , which contained no local candidate, for the primary were selected by Conservative Central Office. Rory Stewart was the best candidate on the day but I can assure you he had nothing to beat

  45. 96
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Here in London we are a little more sophisticated
    I hold my trousers up with Duct tape and bungee cords

    • 106
      Can’t remember my moniker says:

      If you call it Gaffer tape, it sounds very slightly posher.

  46. 105
    Can’t remember my moniker says:

    Does anyone seriously suggest that there are not people who tie their trousers up with a bit of twine?

    After the last government’s persecution of the average indigenous citizen, I am surprised that there are still folk left who can afford to do otherwise.

    • 144
      North, but not Scotland says:

      The sort of people up here who tie up their trousers with twine are usually seen at auctions paying tens of thousands for pedigree livestock or hundreds of thousands for fields that neighbour their own.

      If there is anywhere that you shouldn’t judge people by their appearance it is P and the B. Unless, of course, you are a parachuted wannabee country gent jockatory “army officer” who couldn’t get elected in their own country, in which case you are a twat.

    • 145
      North, but not Scotland says:

      The sort of people up here who tie up their trousers with twine are usually seen at auctions paying tens of thousands for pedigree livestock or hundreds of thousands for fields that neighbour their own.

      If there is anywhere that you shouldn’t judge people by their appearance it is P and the B. Unless, of course, you are a parachuted wannabee country gent jockatory “army officer” who couldn’t get elected in their own country, in which case you are a pillock.

  47. 121
    Keith Dovkunts says:

    I hope this is a one off glip. I have high hopes for this guy . . . and wished he were my MP.

  48. 123
    Afghanistan Catwalk says:

    Yes, the whole world should look to Afghanistan and use it as a model to raise standards in their own country especially Cumbria.
    Our Haute Couture fashion is the envy of the world.
    Our caves have won awards on Channel 4 Grand designs.
    We have Rory Stewart to thank, he pointed out that we are the Flintstones and we mended our ways.

  49. 132
    Sid says:

    Typical toryboy letting slip what he really thinks about the lower classes. He’ll be happy to take our taxes in the form of his salary and expenses though. Tory shite, always have been always will be.

  50. 136
    Tapestry says:

    Q. Why do firemen wear red braces?

    A. I don’t know. why do firemen wear red braces?

    Q. To stop their trousers falling down.

    Rory the Tory needs to rebrand. He should start cycling around Cumbria wearing a straw hat, and chewing a stalk of grass, and apologising for not being a bankrupt.

  51. 147
    Lady Hamilton's Pussy says:

    It’s frankly racist to caricature a black man in such a way.



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Maybe if they really wanted to “decontaminate the Labour brand” with business people, they shouldn’t have totally buggered up the economy?

Just a thought.


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