August 17th, 2010

Public Accepts Need for Spending Cuts

Ipsos Mori have been tracking the public’s attitude towards spending cuts. Looks like this is another argument the deficit deniers are losing. When asked did they agree that “There is a real need to cut spending on public services in order to pay off the very high national debt we now have” the response was resoundingly in favour:

Some on the Labour left are basically advocating that the party collectively sticks its fingers in its ears on the deficit and then its head in the sand as well on cuts for good measure. The next Labour leader will need to rethink his deficit denial if Labour wants to be seen as credible on the economy…


627 Comments

  1. 1
    Mad, Bad & Dangerous Gordon McRuin says:

    Deficit ?? What deficit ?? I abolished Boom and Bust in 1997.

    • 7
      More News from the Polls says:

      YouGov on Cameron’s 100 days

      Tomorrow’s Sun has some YouGov polling around David Cameron’s first hundred(ish) days in power. Topline voting intention is CON 41%, LAB 37%, LDEM 15%, a four percent lead for the Conservatives. Over the last week or so YouGov seem to have started to show leads of around 4 or 5 points for the Tories, compared to 5 or 6 a couple of weeks ago. Ever so slowly the polls are narrowing.

      Before looking at the 100 days questions, the fortnightly tracker on the alternative vote referendum is worth noting – 37% would vote yes, 38% would vote no. This question has bounced about a bit from poll to poll, so I wouldn’t be surprised if we got a plurality for yes again in a fortnight’s time, but nevertheless, it’s the first poll to show the NO camp in the lead and suggests there is a downwards trend underneath the noise. Labour voters, who polls initially showed supporting AV, in this poll back FPTP by 46% to 34%.

      • 47
        Nick! Nick! says:

      • 99
        Taxfodder says:

        YouGov polls are total bollocks because these are polling percentile of fuck all.

        They mean nothing, just as always a not very clever attempt to influence those poor sods that ain’t got a clue!

        Yes to what? No to what? then read a percentage of a percentage of bugger all, in other words cods wallop!

        Tragic really.

      • 114
        Sir William Waad says:

        Pretty good, in the teeth of a recession and budget cuts. Once the economy recovers, where will Labour be? With no policy except “Boo! Nasty Tories!” they are going to be stuffed.

        • 172
          Mr Ned says:

          Don’t forget the seat boundaries which currently are still massively biased in labour’s favour are set to be re-balanced.

          This could have a huge impact.

          The labour party in 2010 lost by a big margin. They got fewer votes than John Major’s wipeout in 1997. They got a smaller share of the vote than John Major’s wipeout. So why did they not get wiped out? The massive, in-built majority that is built in to the seat boundaries.

          Once that massively unfair bias is removed, we may see labour out of power for at least another 15 years!

          • HenryV says:

            That is why I hope the Scots gain independence before the Euro goes pop.

            I also want a separate assembly for Londonistan.

            I want Liebour out forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

          • Started shouting at the TV again says:

            Heheh.. You going to send the BBC to Scotland, too?

          • Blue Lady says:

            If we had an English Parliament, we would probably never see Liebore in power in England again which is why the Liebore Government so contemptibly left England out of devolution. The Scots (and Welsh) vote for them but then go on to choose their own Governments/Assemblies irrespective of who is in the UK Government. Gordon Brown (and Darling) were voted in by the Scots but they have no say over health, education, transport, crime ect. for their own constituents in Scotland, only England. The Scottish MPs voted for tuition fees in England which they wouldn’t countence for their own constituents. The Conservatives have a 62 seat majority in England and yet we are in a coalition. Had this happened in Scotland, there would have been rioting in the streets. Wake up England.

          • Boundry changes huge impact says:

            5-10 tory seats

            Liberals lose most of them not Labour

        • 222
          Real Economists says:

          if you think you had a recession wait a few months for the 1929 2.0.We are running round like blue arse flies trying to put fingers in leaks that are opening up every were.The system is fucked,dead,not fit for purpose,twatted,done in,whacked and wellied period.

      • 145
        Benny Fitz says:

        we are all on our hols,wait till we get back and go to yougov.

      • 152

        Isn’t it odd that many of the same deficit deniers are the same people that villify others for being global warming deniers just because they question things?

        Isn’t that right Ed, Ed, David and Andy. Oh and Gordon, John, Harriet…

        • 203
          Mr Ned says:

          The climate alarmists are merely natural climate change deniers, for they deny that there is any possibility of the current variability in the climate from being natural.

          The more that is coming out about how the global temperatures are collected and homologated from a diminishing number of surface weather stations and the recent news that the last decades satellite data is corrupt and was showing a large false warming bias due to the degradation of the on-board instruments casts further doubt on the validity of the claim that the earth is even warming at an increasing rate.
          ( http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/26603 )

          Looking at the raw GHCN data for various locations, where long records exist, the fact is many locations have cooled over the last 150 years. It is only when this data is fed into the computers at UEACRU, NASA GISS and NOAA that these raw data sets suddenly are homologated to show a warming trend over that time.

          Add in the fact that some 60% of the world’s surface stations have closed in the last 20 years, MOST of which were located in Siberia and Canada and you see why that global recordset shows an average warming trend. If you take out most of the cold stations from a recordset then long term trend will obviously show a warming trend when those locations are then in-filled and homologated from the remaining warmer locations.

          And that is not even getting started on the Urban Heat Island effect which appears to be taken into account in the long term trends by having earlier decades’ temperatures in the datasets reduced.

          So the surface station data is unreliable and the satellite data is also now shown to be unreliable. But this is the data entered into the UN IPCC Global Climate Models. These models are filled with garbage and coded to produce the output that the scientists expect to see, or worse.

          So we do not even know what the average temps are, let alone if they are warming and even IF they are warming, it is not outside of a rate and range that has not happened naturally thousands of times before before mankind set his carbon footprint on earth.

          • Cynic says:

            What a tragedy therefore that the Leader of HM Government should have been so eager to jump on this riculous bandwagon, – which I believe to have been largely manufactured by yet another growth industry (like race relations and a host of others), for profit, – and seized on by Brown for disreputable tax purposes.

          • Two Dogs of Empiricism says:

            +1, Mr Ned.

          • Al Gore says:

            spot on but we need a way to tax people globally and this is the best we could come up with…..

          • Eco Dave says:

            Mr Cameron said: “If you want to understand climate change, go and see Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth.”

    • 21
      Up sh1t creek says:

      Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank Of England is surprised at the “high” level of inflation……. how surprised can he be?

      1) The ONS has been rigging the inflation figures downwards to make the government look good, real inflation is nowhere near the official rate.
      2) The Bank Of England went on a money printing binge.
      3) The Bank Of England went on a spending bing.
      4) The Bank Of England approved the sale at massive losses, of UK Taxpayers gold reserves to prop up two failed UK banks, one of which by coincidence a good friend to the establishment.
      5) The Bank Of England has confiscated savers cash with abnormal low interest rates.
      6) The Bank Of England has deliberately trashed the UK Pound, making imports of raw material very expensive (we don’t export so it’s a stupid to even mention that).

      So why exactly is Mervyn King surprised?

    • 26
      Gordon Brown says:

      I, James Gordon Brown, hereby announce that I am tat.I will make no further comment, except to ask that my family’s privacy be respected.Thank you.

    • 34
      Flash Gordon – He Conkered the Universe says:

      I am pleased to tell the House that those on the Labour left who basically advocate that the party collectively sticks its fingers in its ears on the deficit and then its head in the sand as well on cuts for good measure are in every way correct.

      Their collective arse-in-the-air position is perfect for my purposes.

      I shall say no more on this point. I will however, savour the possibilities that now lie before me.

      • 44
        Princess Yvette, wiggling coquettishly says:

        Oooooh Gordon……go on then!

        • 315
          hazel blears the bionic dwarf says:

          Gosh! Gordon
          don’t lick and smother your face in Yvette’s merkin, come tap dancing with me Jackie Smith what a threesome we would look on TV.
          Three bodies moving as one, in our lithe athletic bodies rippling with our efforts.
          But dont fart as you kept doing at Cabinet meetings your arse smells as though there is a dead rat up it.
          Apart from that we could have a sooper time.

    • 351
      Up sh1t creek says:

      Alistair Darling is not a deficit denier…. it just happens to come out that way in this interview. The coalition are wrong to cut the fat public sector, says it all really. The Sky presenter useless for not nailing Darling to the wall on the tosh he was saying.

      So will people stop trying to say Alistair was the sane one in New Labour, there were NO sane people in that party. All we will end up with at party conference time is a shuffle of the decks of the useless, with a Miliband in charge.

  2. 2
    Anonymous says:

    Didn’t you prove last week that the Coalition has also stuck their fingers in their ears? There are no spending cuts – just a reduced rate of increase

    • 6
      Engineer says:

      Current expenditure rising in cash terms, falling in real terms; capital expenditure falling year on year.

      • 68
        Solomon Binding says:

        So after Guido and Redwood have proved to their own satisfaction there are ‘no cuts’ you come along and prove to your satisfaction that there are cuts. No wonder poor old Joe and Jo Public don’t know whether they’re coming or going.

    • 274
      Cooking With Balls: World's first testicle recipe book. Our Litry Critic says:

      Mr Ed ‘Get them trousees doon’ Bollocks, world renowned concocteur of audacious Noo receipts, has published a Noo Booky to go with those of his illustrious higher-ranking further-up-the-shit-stained-greasy-pole seniors.

      Hailed as the world’s first recipe collection of its kind, Cooking With Balls includes testicle flatbread, battered testicles and barbecued bollocks with gibberish.

      Eddy Boy said bollocks are rich in bollocksosterone and are believed to be a powerful aphrodisiac. He certainly draws Noo_Lie_Bore Wimmin to him for solace, advice, and sometimes comfort.

      Mr Boy is currently facing downhill.

      • 454
        Biffo says:

        I do hope that the testicles being flattened, battered & barbecued belong to none other than Ed ‘I only blink when I’m lying’ NoBalls who has demonstrated so admirably during the Labour Leadership Contest exactly why the English Education System became a stinking pile of shit during his tenure as Minister for Schools, Children & Families or whatever his Micky Mouse title was.

  3. 3
    Engineer says:

    35% don’t agree? What planet are they on? Planet benefit?

    • 8
      Benny Fitz-Clements says:

      Giz some more Taxpayers’ money; it’s the right thing to do.

      • 70
        Solomon Binding says:

        Says yet another effing bank.

        • 122
          Engineer says:

          Should have let ‘em go bust.

          • Gordon Brown says:

            I did away with boom and bust years ago, weren’t you fucking listening!

          • The TV Licence says:

            Shut the fuck up Gordy and have a fizzy orange

          • Two Dogs of Empiricism says:

            Maybe we should have let one go bust, Engineer. At least USA let Lehmans go. The least deserving to be saved was Northern Rock as it had flouted all the rules of responsible lending. But that was a northern enterprise and we had a Labour government – enough said. The problem is that the pack of cards effect could have brough the lot down with our fractional-reserve system that had been weakened further by inadequate control.

            It will all happen again – but quicker I would suggest. Maybe a decade or two.

          • Doctor Mick says:

            Northern Rock as it had flouted all the rules of responsible lending

            It did nothing of the sort: you don’t know what you are talking about tat. There was nothing wrong with its loans – there were no subprime mortgages this side of the pond. Where it failed was in its business model trying to secure finance from the US to execute the mortgages it had committed itself too. Its source of funds suddenly dried up and it had no cash to give the mortgages it had promised.

            Stick to World of Warcraft, sunshine.

          • Two Dogs of Empiricism says:

            Sorry Doctor Mick, but if you think 135% mortgages are not sub-standard to the wisdom of lending amassed over many years, then you are the one that needs to concentrate upon fantasy comics. For over a decade, I ran one of the most profitable companies in the UK in the field of conventional lending and we would not have touched such business with a bargepole. So what is your qualification in this field that you can feel able to engage mouth before brain so spectacularly?

          • Two Dogs of Empiricism says:

            The NR business model was bad on both sides of the balance sheet. To rely solely on securitisation for funds, was the equivalent of bailing out of an aircraft with 10% of a parachute and no reserve. Note that HSBC, a properly run bank, went through the crisis without any need of assistance.

            To further highlight your cockeyed analysis (which uses some true, but irrelevant, facts) once a bank (NR) has lost the confidence of its depositors, then the issue of what caused the failure becomes irrelevant. Either the government decides to save you or it does not. Governments should employ their taxpayers’ money wisely. What are they supporting with this money? Answer: the loan book. If that was as good as you claim, then why did they subsequently cleave it into two: viz. “bad bank”/”good bank”?

    • 14
      Shire Tory says:

      It would appear that 7% don’t know – how can they not have an opinion?

    • 19
      PREPOSTEROUS! says:

      you’ll be telling us not everyone thinks Cameron is wonderful next

  4. 4
  5. 5
    Andy says:

    Surely a fairer question would have been “There is a need to cut spending on public services in order to reduce the national defecit”

  6. 9
    Gone Fuckin mental says:

    The public aint mugs after 13 years of spin and bollocks

  7. 10
    Gone Fuckin mental says:

    or is still the honeymoon period ?

  8. 11
    sockpuppet #4 says:

    But I bet “the public” want to cut things that “other people” use.

  9. 12
    Fairies wear boots says:

    Lets hope the boy Osbourne is up to the task of making the right cuts? So far it looks like we are heading for the double dip, hardly pass marks.

    But of-course there are no cuts (according to the vulcan Redwood & Guido that is).

    • 304
      I recognise a prat when I see one says:

      Make your mind up then.

    • 343
      Oh look, another Mong! says:

      Keep licking that fuckin’ window or I’ll send Gordy & Mandy round to give you a double dip you’ll never forget

  10. 13
    Double Dip says:

    You won’t be hearing as much about cuts in the next couple of weeks as Hilton, Cameron, Osborne and Coulson have taken heed of the Governor of the Bank of Englands warnings about the fragility of the economy and talking cuts 24/7 was spooking consumer confidence.

    Clegg as acting PM will be doing some ‘blue sky’ policy twaddle for a while.

  11. 15
    Mike says:

    All parties said they would cut, just some less than others, and some more gradually. Labour’s plan more than met the IMF’s standards and the OBR said Labour’s plan would have met *George Osborne’s* own pledge. Will Hutton described Labour’s budget as the “march to sanity”.

    Labour did fail, but where it failed was where it agreed with your lot. It was never the plan to have to borrow- the introduction of market mechanisms into public services was supposed to reduce costs and liberalisation was supposed to help businesses and raise tax receipts without having to raise the levels of taxation.

    Labour’s borrowing isn’t the failure, it is a symptom of its failure. In its “Thatcherism with a human face”, it wasn’t the “human face” part that failed.

    • 20
      Doctor Mick says:

      So Labour failed because it was too conservative? No mate.

      It failed because it was the cause not the cure.

    • 22
      Engineer says:

      “It was never the plan to have to borrow…” It never is, is it?

      Trouble is, they did borrow, and from 2002 onwards, they borrowed heavily. They also failed to deliver an effective regulatory regime for banking, so the banks took advantage (they didn’t in Canada and Australia, for example, so those nations didn’t have a banking crisis).

      In the end, it’s results that count. By that measure, Labour’s record over it’s 13-year term is abysmal.

      • 147
        I am Sick says:

        Labour have been in power four times in my lifetime and four times they have left behind a ruined economy. Why the hell do people still vote for the incompetent cretins?

        • 179
          Mike Hunt says:

          I’m lucky, it’s only been 3 times for me (1964/6 – 1970, 1974 – 1979 and 1997 – 2010)

          • Mr Ned says:

            I am even luckier. 1974 – 1979 and 1997 – 2010. But even then, coming from a staunch socialist industrial working class town, I could see daily the utter green faced, palpable envy of the working classes who hated anyone having any more than them, no matter how they achieved it.

            That and growing up watching constant on-going strikes on the nightly news that reduced our industrial reputation to a sick joke internationally.

          • ST says:

            I emerged blinking into the world in 1981, as a result this is my first experience of being shafted by socialists. I’m feeling very tender, weepy and vulnerable.

            Also:

            “coming from a staunch socialist industrial working class town, I could see daily the utter green faced, palpable envy of the working classes who hated anyone having any more than them, no matter how they achieved it”

            What he said!

        • 281
          Sir William Waad says:

          They didn’t leave the economy in the pink of good health on their first handover, in 1931. It started in America, of course, on that occasion.

          (Actually we had been in recession for some years before that because Churchill f*cked up the exchange rate of the £, but nobody’s perfect).

      • 154
        aquinas says:

        There was an effective regulation for the banks that Maggie stripped away.

        • 244
          Mr Ned says:

          And yet we had a sustainably growing economy from 1992 – 1997….

          Then labour got in, removed the oversight capability of the Bank of England giving that power to a toothless quango and then let rip with encouraging a decade of profligate borrowing, massively overtaxing the resultant boom and wasting those proceeds on building a client state and a booming surveillance society with which to spy on and enforce their misrule.

          • Gordon Brown says:

            This morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in the House, I shall have further such meetings later today.

          • Two Dogs of Empiricism says:

            Right again, Mr Ned.

        • 284
          Sir William Waad says:

          Ah yes, I well remember her crazy decision to hand over regulation to the FSA, a consumer watchdog situated on the Isle of Dogs. Or is my memory playing tricks and that was somebody else?

        • 584
          Amateur Economist says:

          Aquinas….

          Do you have any clue what your talking about? Is it just a political bias that has prevented you from gaining a proper understanding of what has happened in the last thirty years or are you thick?

          Answer the following questions….

          1) Which particular elements of deregulation under Thatcher were to blame and how did they contribute to the crisis?

          2) Were there any changes to the inherited system made by Blair and Brown that contributed in any way to the meltdown of the banking system in the UK?

          Lets see if you know what you are talking about and also if you are capable of being neutral.

    • 28
      The BBC/Labour Coalition Party says:

      It was Thatcher wot did it, McMental saved the world and Polar Bears ‘n stuff.

      Osborne inherited a golden legacy and fucked it up in 100 days –

      Note to all reporters, please don’t mention Obama at the moment, he’s not too popular. Oh and we’d better drop the climate change crap too, the public have worked out that it’s a lie. Don’t mention Europe either, the Tories are performing better on that than us.

      Just go on about cuts cuts cuts…. oopps no you can’t say thet as rRedwood proved there are’nt going to be any.

      You can mention milk snatchers though.

    • 41
      Up sh1t creek says:

      IMF = Incompetent Money Fiddlers

  12. 16
    Gone Fuckin mental says:

    If there is a double dip its because no more QE , The public sector living within its means at last unless mps are just there for the power ?

    • 161
      Russia bans wheat exports says:

      basic food prices will triple by Christmas,see how popular the tories are then.

      • 586
        Amateur Economist says:

        Triple? Based on what evidence?
        By Christmas? Why not by Feb 2011 or Oct 2010?

        Do you know what you are talking about or are you just making it up for effect?

      • 611
        Mr Ned says:

        I suspect it is based on wild internet speculation of the effects that the Russian’s banning the export of their wheat and the Pakistani floods ruining crops will have on the price of staple foodstuffs on the world market.

        However what they never mention is the record crop yields in America at the moment, which can more than compensate for any drop in global yields due to the Russian and Pakistan problems.

  13. 17
    Desperate Stuff Guido, Absolutely Desperate Propaganda, you are trying too hard says:

    The public may well agree with the need for deficit cuts but you are being disingenuous as usual Guido.

    They agree with reducing the deficit but not with the Tories’ plan to permanently cut services.

    There is a big difference between the two positions.

    The Tories are using the deficit as an excuse to reduce services permanently and think they can trick the public into this. Their assessment is incorrect and unfounded and the backlash against the Tory party on this flawed assumption will be a wonder to behold.

    This government will be a one term administration, guaranteed.
    You can bet on it. Could someone check the odds?

    • 24
      Doctor Mick says:

      When more than one in five people are employed by the state (and therefore are overheads, not productively employed) then it is time to take the knife to this bloated behemoth.

      We do not need, nor can we afford, such wasteful extravagance.

      • 32
        sockpuppet #4 says:

        All public employees are overheads?

        You aren’t a real doctor are you?

        • 80
          Up sh1t creek says:

          Why did Labour give the GP’s so much of a wage rise, AND cut the number of hours they do, AND cut the out of hours service?

          GP’s don’t do anything except whine and give dangerously bad advice, and now we pay even more taxes for the privilege.

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            you know. I think you’re right.

            The NHS would be much better with no GPs at all.

          • Mr Ned says:

            They also proscribe very dangerous poisons from which they take a nice commission on the sales.

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            NED. GOOD.

            pro·scribe/prōˈskrīb/Verb
            1. Forbid, esp. by law.
            2. Denounce or condemn.

        • 224
          Doctor Mick says:

          When Labour massively increased the size of the public sector it wasn’t by increasing the number of doctors and it is certainly not where the cuts should start.

          That said the medical services are not productive and do not contribute to the balance of payments. Someone has to pay for them and that someone can only be in the private sector.

          • Mr Ned says:

            They spent 3 times more on the NHS, but it definately is not 3 times better! The spending is not efficient.

          • Doctor Mick says:

            Those who run the PFIs are laughing all the way to the Cayman Islands.

    • 25
      tattyboy the battyboy says:

      Where’s the blog you mad Huhne ?

      • 76
        Desperate Stuff Guido, Absolutely Desperate Propaganda, you are trying too hard says:

        Now now Guido, don’t take your defeat at the hands of a better propagandist too badly.

        If I were you you should be more concerned with the fact that your stat numbers are tanking. Maybe you should start giving away free t-shirts?

        Oh for the golden days when TaT used to post here and reader numbers were increasing and this place was somewhere worth visiting.

        Those were the days, eh.

        • 88
          thick as thieves is thick as pigshit says:

          you’ve gone round the bend again Tattyboy

          you’re craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy

          • The Governor says:

            I think you will find the reader will judge for themselves who is round the bend.
            Eh, Guido.

          • thick as thieves thinks it's Guido posting because he's a nutcase says:

            I’m obviously not Guido you nutjob
            You really are a drug addled schizo freak

          • The Governor says:

            Nah, you’re definitely Guido.

          • Hahahahahahahahahaha!! says:

            he’s not going to swoop in and delete all these comments because you’re calling me Guido you mad twat

            what a prize fuckwit you are

          • The Governor says:

            Yup, you are definitely Guido.
            Insulting people who disagree with you is really backfiring on you Guido.
            It merely exposes you as the vulgar mouthed slob you are.

            I am not surprised you are so upset, what with your stats going down the toilet, 10% a week tanking in visitors. I wonder how long this place will continue with your numbers dropping off the edge of a cliff.

            No wonder you are so upset at the moment.

            Perhaps you should be more civil to your guests or they will all leave. And maybe you should stop being so miserly and give away some free tshirts?

    • 27
      Engineer says:

      Is a Quango a service, or just a means of administering a service? If the service remains, but the Quango goes, does this count as cutting services?

      • 56
        proverbial says:

        what you see with one eye, you miss with the other

      • 60
        Cynic says:

        A QUANGO is a means to employ otherwise unemployable ‘high’ (sic) profile people. Usually self-righteous.

        Usually they turn up on many committees / Quango’s / useless unproductive ’bodies’.

        The infection caused to the body politic by these self-multiplying organisms should be diagnosed, and exterminated with the same vigour as befits any infective disease.

        The people have in recent times often been granted an OBE. A sure sign of the stinking taint forced on our society by 13 years of unprincinpled arrogant posturing Bliarism and Brhoon cronyism.

    • 63
      The IMF is not coming says:

      What fucking planet is Richard Murphy on?
      Heard him on Radio 2 being a deficit denier.

      Jeremy Hunt was on Radio 5 liars a few weeks ago -gist of it was: where is the £2bn coming for fast speed broadband? Won’t be that much – will be, won’t be and so on. Man from BT comes on air – ‘to be fair we don’t know the precise figure -probably less than £1bn. Next number of news headlines, despite having the figure from the horse’s mouth; £2bn cuts needed to fund broadband

      • 282
        R Branson says:

        Broadband optic fibre can be run through existing water pipes at a much lower cost than BT

        • 283
          R Branson says:

          PS.My broadband has a free unlimited 10 megabyte download speed as the basic package.

          • Mr Bell Wire says:

            Alright alright Richard ‘golden bollox’ Branson, stop blowing your own fucking trumpit and get it piped out to all the shires and then I’ll be impressed.

    • 72
      Archer Karcher says:

      Have you ever considered the fact that many people want a cut in “services” they never use or have no say in funding or how they are managed?
      There are plenty of things that government has no business in and even less promoting. Government could comfortably cut 20% across the board and none would notice the difference.
      How many pen pushing staff have the MOD got in relation to servicemen and women? How many useless layers of boxticking admin are there in the NHS, or any other bloated public sector departments?
      Same for Local Authorities, where I used to live there was one employee, for every eight residents and believe me, at least half could have been cut and there would have been no discernable drop in services.
      Add to this the stinking Quango sector of waste and nepotism and the fake, government funded charities and pressure groups and you have an opportunity to cut peoples taxes significantly and lower costs of service provision.
      Stop spending money you do not possess.

      • 183
        For the chop says:

        I don’t need diversity awareness co-ordinators and nobody else does either.
        There must be huge numbers of people in these non-jobs who could be axed.

        • 388
          Tory plots n plans will back fire. says:

          then unemployment figures would look very bad.

          • Amateur Economist says:

            No. The figures would reflect reality. Most of the public sector do fuck all now. They are ‘unemployed’ but still get paid through taxes from middle class types not quite rich enough to pay for decent tax advice.

      • 189
        Mike Hunt says:

        Got it in a nut shell, the only ones who will notice are the people currently in non-jobs who will be in no job.

        • 233
          Doctor Mick says:

          Your classic modern day Labour voter. The Labour Party no longer represents (nor are represented by) the Working Class. Why even Prescott has become a collaborater with the Establishment by accepting a title.

          So what’s left? Leftie administrators in 6 figure jobs in the NHS, LAs, Unions and BBC on the one hand and benefit scroungers on the other. Add to that a bit of constituency boundary gerrymandering, postal vote fiddling and a new wave of uncontrolled immigration and what do you have?

          No more than 30% I should say. That’s them fucked forever I hope.

    • 293
      The TV Licence says:

      Check the odds?
      What in FIVE FUCKING YEARS TIME.
      Shut the fuck up you c’unt and stop stroking your crystal balls.

  14. 23
    Indigo says:

    O/T but what a difference between the BBC R4 World At One’s treatment, just now, of the Road Safety Analysis report and that by the Today programme this morning. The World At One had an informed conversation about the report findings – about traffic density as well as whether or not children “play out” – whereas this morning Evan Davis just obsessed about “Chelsea tractors”. He even tried to “seed” the reply of his interviewee by saying “Chelsea tractors” before asking him any questions. Evan Davis is single-handedly making “Today” unlisten-to-able.

    • 35
      crip says:

      Evan Davis needs the ring pulled out of his foreskin and to be trampled by a hippo, or even better, hit by a chelsea tractor driven by a hippo. the daft prick.

    • 38

      It became unlistentooable when Humphreys replaced John Timpson. Then when Brian Redhead went the whole lot went looney left.

    • 39
      Cynic says:

      And, how many years is it since Toady was ‘listen-to-able’?

    • 61
      Rent Boy(14 yrs 3/4) says:

      Evan seeded me last night. So he did!

    • 78
      streamfisher says:

      I thought the reports conclusions were that Chelsea Tractors land was a lot safer for school kids, in the same way that it is proven more people drown at sea if they are fishermen and set to sea in crap boats, who funds these people for statements of the bleeding obvious?.

      • 98
        sockpuppet #4 says:

        Obviously they aren’t paying enough for their PR/media consultants.

        Its more to do with people living in sprawling estates where theres lots of people but enough room for cars to go fast.

        Perhaps equally obvious, but different. Why don’t we just guess everything I say.

      • 428
        Must get a pseudonym one day says:

        The reason there’s so many deaths in Preston is that you can’t see anything for the flapping burkas worn by so many of the current inhabitants – they can’t see anything either, so chuck all their kids into the path of traffic.

        Good job they’ve got the Claims Direct phone number handy…….

    • 374
      Chief Rabbi who knows says:

      Actually “Chelsea tractors” are now called “Hampstead tractors” after all the New Labour Vermin Ermine who bought peerages…and milked the taxpayer under zanu Labour…

    • 608
      Anonymous says:

      I stopped listening to R4 after 9/11

  15. 31
    Gordon Brown says:

    I would not have made any spending cuts. I’d have increased spending by 657%

  16. 33
    Anonymous says:

    Cuts?

    What cuts?

  17. 36
    SamCam says:

    BrokeBack is pining for his botty sex from Nick
    I’m off for some more of Clare’s finger licking good Quim.

  18. 43
    Sarah Beard says:

    Slow down, Gil. I’ll get carpet burns.

  19. 45
    BrokeBack Nick the new PM says:

    • 48
      concrete pump as thieves says:

      Fap Fap Fap Fap Fap Fap Fap Fap Fap Fap Fap Fap Fap #SQUIT!#

      • 82
        The Governor says:

        you do lots of fapping but your posts are mainly #SQUIT#

        • 85
          thick as thieves is thick as pigshit says:

          Where’s the blog tattyboy?

          • The Governor says:

            Oh dear Guido, you will not win any more readers posting guff like that.
            Au contrare, you will lose your readership overnight if you keep posting that type of garbage.

            Oh well, you had a good run, so you can’t complain.

          • thick as thieves thinks it's Guido posting because he's a nutcase says:

          • The Governor says:

            You were asking where is the blog twat.
            You are the blog twat and you are here.
            I hope that helps.

          • The Tattyboy says:

            complete nutcase

          • The Governor says:

            Not really.
            You are the blog twat.
            That is merely stating a fact.

          • thick as thieves the druggy fantasist says:

            I’m not the one who said he was going to get his crack team of Lawyers and Hackers to shut Guido’s site down

            You did that tat you mad twat

          • The Governor says:

            Calm down Guido.
            With your blocked arteries and high blood pressure you will have a heart attack if you keep ranting like that.

          • White Van man says:

            I love reading these window licking mong fights, makes my fucking day!

          • Doctor Mick says:

            I’m not the one who said he was going to get his crack team of Lawyers and Hackers to shut Guido’s site down

            I still chuckle over that one. But I thought the threat/promise to leave forever was genuine.

          • The TV Licence says:

            Its mongged out this thread, a total retard attack it needs ConDeming!

  20. 46
    SpunkBack Labour says:

    Sploot for me, Gordo!

  21. 49
    The Establishment says:

    So ….. the propaganda is working

  22. 53
    NBeale says:

    And no Labour Leader will be taken seriously if he was part of the Brown Gang that wrecked the public finances.

    Furthermore Labour will probably go bust. So they are out for the count for at least 5 years.

    • 58
      Gone Fuckin mental says:

      But then they will create Newer Labour

    • 303
      The A-Team says:

      “Furthermore Labour will probably go bust. So they are out for the count for at least 5 years.”

      Well fuckin’ duh!!!

      Why is this post full of pill popping nose picking retards, that’s what I wanna know?

  23. 55
    Dr Beaker (locum homicide) says:

    “Lib Dem Support Slumps To 8%” sky news bollox

    It seems only fags, trannies, kiddy-fiddlers, rug-muching bull dykes, and C of E child impalers, are voting for the sodomite party.

    I hope these Lib Dem perverts get wiped out at the next election.

  24. 57
    Gone Fuckin mental says:

    Deficit deniers ! Darling says he disagreed about the deficit but then attacks Osboune for attacking the deficit ?

  25. 59
    Loony Lefty Libcons says:

    Cameron prefers the Coalition to a Tory majority

    David Cameron is happier sharing power with the Liberal Democrats than he would be with an all-Conservative government.

    Despite misgivings among Tory MPs, insiders said there was a group of aides and ministers close to Mr Cameron who saw the Coalition as an opportunity to enact major reforms in politics that a single-party government would struggle to pass. Many of those reforms, including a potential change in the electoral system and a move to five-year fixed-term parliaments, are unpopular with many Conservatives.

    More than 40 backbenchers — enough to defeat the Government — are threatening to vote against parts of the legislation that will trigger a referendum on changing the voting system.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7945353/Cameron-prefers-the-Coalition-to-a-Tory-majority.html

    • 69
      proverbial says:

      maybe he should form a new party then. Something like the centre middle not too far left or right of centre right left party…?

      • 73
        proverbial says:

        I mean, honestly, can you imagine manchester united playing fabregas and van persie and ferguson saying he prefers being having a mixed squad …. honestly, this is crap …. cameron just loves the power and the game … it’s all a game to him ….

      • 77
        The BBC/Labour Coalition Party says:

        Every body would think there has never been a coalition in government before!

    • 191
      Up sh1t creek says:

      John Prescott doesn’t like the coalition much.

      • 260
        Doctor Mick says:

        As a doctor I’m often asked what are the symptoms of bul­imia.

        Well you know, when I was at med school I used to suffer from buli­mia myself. Every Friday we’d go down the pub after lectures and I’d gorge on 15 pi­nts of la­ger. Then I’d crawl round the back of the watering hole where the empty barrels were stacked and spe­w up viole­ntly.

        Gross, I know. Bulimia. Classic symptoms.

      • 299
        dog says:

        If the choice is between these two (or three – interpret at will!), I would rather go without.

  26. 70
    Broadcasting from Gordon Browns downstairs bog says:

    cough
    cough
    parp
    brump
    cough
    brump
    uurrrrrrrgggghhhhhhhh
    splatter
    urrrrrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhhh
    splatter
    cough
    plop

  27. 74
    Norfolk & Wheelclamps says:

    About time too

  28. 75
    Solomon Binding says:

    So Cameron has gone to Cornwall. The way the weather is going he’ll come back looking a little – wait for it – pastie.

    • 598
      Anonymous says:

      Good choice recently come back myself, great surfing and festival at Fistralbeach.Not bad weather managed a tan too.

  29. 84
    Tim Lovejoy says:

    Hi , My names Tim Lovejoy and i am a legend

  30. 86
    Ladbrokes says:

    The odds on this being a one term administration are currently running at:

    2/1

    But if we get too many takers we will have to slash those odds and close the book.

  31. 89
    streamfisher says:

    Will Gordon Brown donate all the proceeds from his latest book to charity?, Pulp Fiction.

  32. 91
    Rats Arse says:

    Who ARE these mongs that vote Labour? I just can’t believe their mentality. Now Labour are spinning that it’s all the Conservatives fault that we are up to our neck in shite and these morons who vote Labour soddin well believe them!

    • 123
      Sir William Waad says:

      Labour have built up two large constituencies among claimants and public-sector overmanning. These have to be dismantled. People who do actual jobs are far less likely to vote for a high-tax, control-freak party.

      • 140
        And the contractor was from a town 150 miles away. says:

        And on that basis here is one I just seen. A man,a contractor was walking along cutting the grass on a verge. Behind him another man was blowing the grass around in the wind with a blower. Now the second man has a job. But what is he contributing? The wind was doing his job for him.

    • 135
      Tories wrecked the economy. says:

      Its very simple. Tories are bankers. Bankers robbed us and fucked the economy. Bankers got bailed out but robbed the money and won’t lend. End of lesson

      • 168
        Socialism Ate My Future says:

        And the moons made of cheese, tastes like Cheddar

      • 182
        Rip Van Winkle says:

        Bailed out by who?? Oh, I forgot, faggot Brown. Yes, your ‘I saved the world’ Brown.

      • 195
        AC1 says:

        It’s actually very simple.

        In order to cover over the damage caused by progressive taxation (AKA wealth destruction) credit was regulated into existence until a credit bubble destroyed the economy.

        It actually fits the facts, rather than being marxist claptrap.

        • 208
          Is Guido A Tory Stooge? Course he is - He's a Camerloon! says:

          Is that right, Guido?

        • 211
          At last says:

          an educated man.

        • 397
          Nobody Believes Banker Wanker Apologist Bullshit says:

          You are actually saying that NOT requiring the Banks to have a reserve, thus NOT regulating them in any way with a reserve requirement, is OVER regulation ?

          Bonkers.

          The overleveraged Banks, who made Billions in Bonuses selling/re-selling and re-packaging worthless CDS and CLOs in casino bets, then went running to the taxpayer to save them.

          Not evryone is some City Shitter idealogue too blind to see that the Banks were just as much to blame as Brown.

          The public aren’t fooled and they know that the Bankers are scum.

  33. 92
    Sarah Beard says:

    I love you, Gil.

  34. 96
    SamCam says:

    I love your quim Clare

  35. 110
    The Real Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man says:

    Splooge for me, Gordon!

  36. 118
    The Real Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man says:

    I hate it when people say Brown shoved his secretary. It never happened. Spunk on me, Gordo!

  37. 128
    The Masses know says:

    IPSOS MORI have a set of seal clappers and cheerers like the BBC.

  38. 132
    IPSO FACTO POLL says:

    Poll of 500 people conducted in local bingo hall.
    What do you think of Dave Cameron? He’s a Huhne.
    What do you think of the labour party? They are Huhnes.
    What do you think of Nick Clegg? He’s a Huhne.
    What do you think of the ConDems? They are Huhnes.
    What do you think of poilticians? They are robbing Huhnes.

  39. 137
    A Teacher says:

    I have come to this blog with a view to adding it to a daily new review we have for our 14-16 year old students

    All I have found is filthy language from what I have no doubt are middle aged men

    What sort of idiot would spend time writing ‘hoots mon i havnae paper to wipe ma brooneye”

    I give up!!!!!

    • 139
      incase you misse dit says:

      cough
      cough
      parp
      brump
      cough
      brump
      uurrrrrrrgggghhhhhhhh
      splatter
      urrrrrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhhh
      splatter
      cough
      plop

    • 141
      Freddy Flow is my biggest fannnnnn says:

      Get real you mug your students could teach us a few things or two about swearing.

    • 144
      tattyboy the battyboy says:

      tattyboy’s having another breakdown

      • 170
        The Governor says:

        Guido, judging by the comments you have made today, you are the one having the mental breakdown.

        I suppose it must be depressing seeing all your decent regular readers leaving your site and going elsewhere while you are left with the dregs of society and the dole scroungers.

        Not very good news for the advertisers, is it? They will be leaving soon as well I expect.

        • 204
          Dr Dreg says:

          take a look at any US site, the advertisers don’t give a shit who posts or what they say. Its visitors,numbers that matter,nothing else

          • Don't think so says:

            Dolescroungers and retards really are a prize target for the advertisers, aren’t they?
            What an idiot!

          • fourth generation mong gets a mong still says:

            they don’t know who are on site muppet.

        • 276
          Sir Cum Spect says:

          I see your’e still here. Are you just a dreg, or a dole scrounger?

    • 162
      too much modding says:

      Yes it has gone down hill.

  40. 138
    Freddy Flow is my biggest fannnnnn says:

    Fuck them all.

    Up the taxpayers, down with the public service parasites.

    • 486
      White Van man says:

      Too right, cut the fuckers heads off!

      • 601
        Anonymous says:

        Couldn’t agree more.The deeper Osborne cuts the freer and more prosperous we become.Can’t wait for the spending review-hear the reds wail- it’ll be fucking magic.

  41. 146
    A Teacher says:

    have I found the Viz Comic blog?

  42. 178
    Molok says:

    The US are way down the list on oil.
    http://www.powerlineblog.com/OilChart9.php

  43. 184
    The Owner of This Thread says:

    That is how to boss the Tory Trolls about.
    Easy innit.

  44. 186
    Gone Fuckin mental says:

    Just sort the fuckin mess out .

  45. 200
    Anonymous says:

    ” The problem with socialisim is that you always run out of other peoples money”

    • 603
      Anonymous says:

      True only LIEbore were hoping they’de have the police state locked into place before the dough ran out.

  46. 201
    Rice and peas spo-on after Blair's muh D-i-k says:

    bollox

  47. 202
    The Governor says:

    See how the comments section gets going when the governor is in charge.
    I have got to go now because I have more important things to do.
    Guido, maybe if you want to pay me some cash I might come back to do some more comments and bring this place back to life again.
    No cash, no comments. Without posters like me this place will not last long.

    • 206
      Guido Fawkes press officer says:

      Dont call us we will call you.

      • 212
        The Governor says:

        Don’t worry I won’t call you. And if you call me I won’t pick up.
        What does Guido pay you in, washers?
        I think he’s being too generous.

        • 216
          Gubboner says:

          Then the governor walks off,arse hanging out of his pants,soles flapping on his shoes while drinking from a can of last nights tenants super only to realise he pissed in it so he could keep his card board box dry.

        • 501
          The Governor says:

          Can’t wait to see the public services cut slashed and burnt to the ground, those lazy useless fuckers can kiss my fucking arse!

    • 252
      Doctor Mick says:

      Thank you for going, Guv.

  48. 205
    Two Dogs of Empiricism says:

    The trouble is that it will not actually pay off the National Debt.

  49. 215
    tip of the day says:

    psst,don’t use plastic.

  50. 217
    Taxfodder says:

    Here is another little gem from Skys political Fantasy League.

    “if there was an election today” bla bla bla along the lines of “if I won the lottery”

    Conservative 42.86%
    Labour 23.81%
    Liberal Democrat 8.43%
    Other 11.33%
    Don’t know 9.46%
    Would not vote 3.60%
    Not eligible 0.51%

    Great then happy days Tories can now ditch the LibDems and steam into office, no? thought not.

    • 231
      Not many people seem to agree with Nick anymore including his own Party says:

      I think the LibDems have dumped themselves without any assistance from the Tories.They’re totally f*ck*ed at the next election

      • 261
        LimpDems says:

        They’ve always been a bunch of fuckwitted mongs, their out of their depth.

      • 265
        See we know says:

        he cut his own throat joining the cons and shitting on the lib vat promise,There is also a big lack of media news re libs.

  51. 223
    Moves.com says:

    George Soros just dumped all of Petrobras

    • 228
      S Notty says:

      Soros advised everyone in January that gold was a bubble and to be careful. But he spent the last 8 months buying gold and gold mines.

  52. 225
    Anonymous says:

    Fucking hell!

  53. 226
    Broadcasting from Gordon Browns downstairs bog says:

    clunk of lightswitch
    cough
    cough
    rustle
    cough
    tinkle
    cough
    ahem
    cough
    tinkle
    drip

  54. 227
    Dave Griffiths says:

    Even better, the public accept that they will have to pay rather than the bankers who got us into this mess. Trebles all round!

    • 256
      Gooey Blob says:

      Actually, it was Gordon Brown who was the chief architect of the mess in which we now find ourselves.

      My grandmother always used to say that Labour couldn’t run an economy. She had a point.

  55. 237
    Jill says:

    I don’t see this as a particularly hopeful marker! It just says one party’s propaganda is doing better than other. People haven’t weighed up the genuine economic arguments (whichever one you agree with, personally I’m for cuts) at all. In fact, it’s worse. They don’t even know there ARE opposing arguments about it in the non-political sphere. People think there’s NO choice. They’re not agreeing with – and backing – the TORIES’ choice.

    • 267
      Guido's post says:

      “Some on the Labour left are basically advocating that the party collectively sticks its fingers in its ears on the deficit and then its head in the sand as well on cuts for good measure.”

      • 415
        Bob says:

        It would be far more amusing to see Millibands and Balls stick their fingers up their proverbial bums

        And for Burnham and Abbott to stick their proverbial heads down in the sand…forever…

        Can they is the question ?

        At least we could laugh…

  56. 246
    Gordon McRuinous says:

    I have boys to bathe

  57. 251
    Dominic Raab says:

    I keep getting tins of chopped pork in my mailbox, I’ve been told to treat it as Spam.

  58. 253
    Guido Fawkes press officer says:

    We can confirm that this site has been sold to Lord Ashcroft

  59. 254
  60. 262
    CBBC says:

    faggotising children for 20 years

  61. 263

    Can we have a new thread, this one’s got a bit silly?

  62. 268
    Achiological site says:

    whoa Guidos visitor count just hit zero

  63. 269
    Head Lizard says:

    What the hell happened here?

  64. 270
  65. 271
    Yes we can can (kick your legs up) says:

    Talking of graphs: The spoon in the White Crib is being ‘dissed’ by the morbidly obese clinical imbeciles, that comprise the US population. The American tards, who would cut out their own kidneys and feed them to cats if 2 adverts on TV told them it was the right thing to do, seem disenchanted (obviously the fat mong fucks in the US have no idea what disenchanted means, as they only have a vocabulary of 60 words [really]) with the first Blakey.

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/gallup-daily-obama-job-approval.aspx

    If you didn’t know any different, you might think the blakey in the White crib is a golfer (like tiger proz-bummer). The spoon is never at work.

    • 298
      Septic Tank says:

      You know we can extradite you for subversive stuff like that don’t you? And your light weight leader would send you.

      • 411
        Dan says:

        I eat big mac with my bum (arse-burger syndrome), so I’m untouchable.

        Wait a minute… Nazi American filthy shit love killing retards and children – so I’m fucked!

        “The USA’s willingness to execute prisoners for crimes committed when they were children puts it in a world of its own, Amnesty International said today.”

        “More than 10,000 men and women have been put to death in the USA since executions resumed there in 1977. thousands of these people had histories of mental impairment.”

        Americans are filthy shit. There is no culture, no art, no science, no humanity in the cesspit that is the USA. I hope I live long enough to see the USA invaded and American filth slaughtered. I want to see millions of American Nazis burned alive.

  66. 272
    Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man says:

    Hi. My name is Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man and all I can do is post videos of Cameron under the name BrokeBack Cameron and I have an obsession with talking about Cameron having bumsex with Clegg. That’s because I love my Gordie, who was regularly bootybusted by his pal Mandy. I also like Damien McBride to sploot on me.

    Sploot on me, Damo! Sploot on me!

  67. 273
    Gordon Brown says:

    I want you to wee wee in my bot bot.

    • 285
      Nurse MacTavish says:

      Gordon, you’re doing your Father Jack impersonation again, aren’t you? You know that’s not nice. No jelly for you!

    • 288
      Anonymous says:

      Feeble doesn’t even come close to describing this juvenile attempt at humour.

  68. 286
    George Osborne's Press Officer says:

    George Osborne admitted today that Britain’s economic recovery will be “shitty”, but insisted there is no light at the end of the tunnel.

    The Chancellor said there are grounds for “cautious pessimism” over the country’s prospects, despite figures showing CPI inflation still above target at 14.9%.

  69. 291
    Gordon Brown says:

    Mummy has promised me fizzy drink with my din-dins if I behave myself. Yaaay!

  70. 292
    R Branson says:

    Fellow funsters on here. During this economic down turn I would like to tell you a way of cutting your phone bills to almost zero,You too Guido will find this useful,so it is not a spam as I have no interest in the company except the 6 year service I have had from them. I would ask you all to look into VOIP with Vonage.All UK local and national calls are free with no limit to use.15 countries are also free,some with free mobile calls.My contract began 6 years ago for 5.99p.it is still the same cost today,no increases at all. The service has never failed me.All the extras BT charge for like call waiting etc are also totally free. You have a web page that logs all calls data,price,length etc.It also stores all answer phone messages,very useful when you want to quote some scrote company that is denying a call.My average bill has been 10 quid for the past 6 years,as I make some mobile calls to non free mobile networks. My average bill with BT prior to Vonage was 365 Quid a quarter.
    http://www.vonage.co.uk/call-plans/?loc=google&source=ppc&gclid=CPfTh8H2wKMCFWIA4wodzV4V8w

  71. 297
    Ed Balls Public Relations says:

    Dear Guido,

    Over 1,000 people have already taken action against cuts to a new programme to protect the victims of domestic abuse.

    They have added their name to the letter Ed Balls and I are writing to the Home Secretary Theresa May about Domestic Violence Protection Orders. We are urging her to think again and reverse this decision.

    If you have a couple of minutes, would you be able to sign the letter too?
    http://action.edballs4labour.org/page/s/WritetoTheresaMay

    Before we send the letter we need more people to sign up so we can show the true strength of feeling on this important issue.

    And once you’ve added your name please use the special form on Ed’s website to send info about the campaign to all those people you know will care about this awful decision.

    Let’s say loud and clear that this is a callous cut too far.

    Thanks,

    Barbara Keeley MP

    • 300
      Where's Mr Brown these days? Is he in hospital? says:

      Does this letter also call for action against bullies in the workplace, such as those who shove secretaries and throw mobile phones at terrified underlings who end up calling the National Bullying Helpline?

    • 312
      Two Dogs of Empiricism says:

      You are doing such a wonderful job for Ed Balls’ public relations. Keep it up. We are all rooting for you.

    • 387
      Tat tap says:

      Ed Balls for PM!!!!

    • 402
      FT Correspondentl says:

      Miss Keeley

      It is high time you stopped trying to con the British People.

      Your Paryty has wrecked the country financially and you are trying to divert attention from the suffering of millions becuase of your financial irresponsibility.

      Your constant aggression and changing of the subject does not wash with anyone now.

      Face up to what you did, especially the years of bullying, smearing and lies of Gordon Brown and his henchman Ed Balls.

      You are frauds and it is time you came clean about your Ponzi scheme.

      Thanks

      An ex-Labour Voter

  72. 306
    Even Arnie would have been better than Mentalist McDoom says:

  73. 308
    MI5 says:

    Guido, great information,

    Let us put your last post’s poll re Osborne togther with this one

    1) The British Public are not all fools (about 25% are)

    2) The thinking 75% realise that New Labour was a BIG CON

    3) Pickles has started a movement that must continue, of publishing the expenses of Goerbment departments. This must be extended to show the People that Labour pissed their money up the wall or spent it for their own supporters regardless.

    So :

    There is still strength and reason in the Old Dog called the British People.

    And, above all, the Old Dog knows in its biones that New Labour was a MASSIVE, PONZI, ZANU FRAUD…

    Never forget that…

    PS

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Howell,_Baron_Howell_of_Guildford

    For the younger members of this blog, Lord Howell, who is George Osborne’s father in law, was the person who invented the term “privatise”. Great Man. This idea changed the WORLD.

  74. 322
    The Secondhand Bookstall at the 2011 Church Fete says:

    No copies of Gordon’s book, thank you.

  75. 324
    Anonymous says:

    “……if Labour wants to be seen as credible on the economy.”

    Let me stop you there.

  76. 328
    Klep Tomaniak says:

    I’m working for the mob now.

  77. 335
    end of thread credits says:

  78. 336
    Emily Nomates says:

    I have to come out of the closet and confess that I now support Ed Miliband for Leader.

    He is the only credible politician capable of finishing off David Cameron

  79. 339
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    Engineer says:

    It would appear that Labour Party HQ staffers have gone on strike, refused to accept orders from Batty Hatty, and are using Party computers to play on Order-Order.com instead. Well, either that or it’s IT experience day in a loony-bin. Add to that school holidays, so there are bored teenagers playing with their hand-held devices (it’ll make you go blind) and trying to bypass the parental controls on their computers, and we have the above mess.

    Summer holidays do seem to activate the lower form of Troll.

  81. 345
    concrete pump says:

    Lost.

    1 sense of irony.

    If found, please return to ‘concrete pump’.

  82. 352

    Cuts, cuts, cuts. All they do is go on about cuts. I hope they don’t cut my Balls.

    • 366
      Bob the Builder says:

      Nuts whole hazelnuts

      Don’t forget that Eva…

      It’w what makes the world go around…

    • 382
      Mandy & Gordy says:

      We heard that rumour and we reckon Yvette ‘boy’ Cooper’s packing

  83. 355
    TaT tarat says:

    • 356
      TaT tarat says:

      P*akcam

      • 357
        TaT tarat says:

        • 372
          Fuck ZaNu Liebore says:

          Ha ha! SplootBack Cameron/Bullingdon Dave is having a hissy fit, posting Youtube videos in a Liebore arse licking frenzy!

          • Tat the crackhead says:

            you’re a schizo nutcase TaT

          • tat expert says:

            That’s not the real tat.

          • Angusduras Brunapattius says:

            I am the brother of the previous prime minister of Mongerland. I have 450 tons of gold bullion that my brother smuggled out of the country during the civil war.. I need someone to deposit the gold in a new location. For doing this I will give you 200,000.000 pounds.I will need 50,000 pounds to set up the transfer that you will have to send to me in order for me to have the gold released.

        • 378
          Mandies anal Advice (I fucked Labour and now I want to fuck you) says:

          Its a fundamental human right to bum and be bummed, and MPs shouldn’t have a free vote on such things.
          They should be whipped in to pro-bumming and I’m just the man to do it!

  84. 358
    Jonty Pryor says:

    Just wallow in this poll Guido

    Labour level with the Tories in new ICM poll
    August 17th, 2010 It’s 37/37/18

  85. 359
    TaT tarat says:

    • 376
      Don't you dare make fun of my Gordie! says:

      Waaaaah! Leave my Gordie alone! I wuv him to give me bottyfun! I’m such a whiny Liebore HQ pussy!

  86. 361
    TaT tarat says:

    wavey davey faggoty ravey smoothing his bitchy hair

  87. 364
    TaT tarat says:

    Mongo for the mongs.

    • 368
      Fuck ZaNu Liebore says:

      Ha ha! BrokeBack Cameron/Bullingdon Dave is having a fit, posting vids in a Liebore-licking frenzy!

      • 403
        Tat the crackhead says:

        come on tat! go full retard

        threaten to shut down Guidos site again with you imaginary team of lawyers and hackers

        Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !

        What a schizo freak

        • 407
          Don't you dare make fun of my Gordie! says:

          I luv you, Gordie! Sploot all over me! Sploot for me, Gordie! I wuv you when you give me botty fun!

        • 413
          Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man says:

          Hi. My name is Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man, AKA BrokeBack Cameron, and all I can do is post videos of Cameron because I have an obsession with talking about Cameron having bumsex with Clegg. That’s because I love my Gordie, who was regularly bootybusted by his pal Mandy. I also like Damien McBride to sploot on me.

          Sploot on me, Damo! Sploot on me! Ream my botty!

    • 370
      dreck says:

      Jonty you ginger prick, stop posting these lame vids under tats name FFS, it’s getting fucking ridiculous.

  88. 369
    Two Dogs of Empiricism says:

    Hold assets – not cash (just keep enough of that to get by).

  89. 371
    Chief Rabbi says:

    Well WTF was Myners doing being a Minsiter in a Government

    “who consistently spend more than they can raise in taxation, and certainly nothing progressive that endows generations to come with the liabilities incurred by the current generation”

    Another total hypocrite, wanker and disgrace..

    Really, New Labour, you served up the dregs and the dregs of the dregs…

  90. 373
    BrokeBack Cameron says:

    I wuv Gordie to sploot on me evewy night!

  91. 375
    This never stops being entertaining says:

  92. 381
    Ratsniffer says:

    Labscum are in collective denial. Their argument – also being peddled by their friends at BBC Pravda – is that cuts now will “harm the recovery”. In labour LaLa Land, we have to keep borrowing like some junkie stealing credit cards to get an extra fix. Labscum, having already fucked the country, is in no position to tell us how to run a piffling corner shop, let alone an economy.

  93. 383
    Jonty Pryor says:

    Labour Annual Conference 2011 will be taking place in Liverpool from 25 to 29 September 2011

    See you there Guido

  94. 385
    Torygraph Correspondent says:

    Hi Oooona Looney Tune

    We are watching your campaign closely

    I think you need to invite Bob Crow to give it some chutzpah, don’t you?

    Or a latter day Lenin, Marx or Engels or Mandelso ?

    Or are Zanu Labour running out of Wevolutionairies ?

    In which case, I am no longer interested in you…

    PS Unless you show us your tits like the lovely Bryony who is soon to become our Editor to show that we believe in equality between wimmin……

    • 418
      Oona makes me spew says:

      I suggest you seek help if you genuinely want to see Oona’s manky baps.

  95. 391
    Second saviour of the World says:

    Helo fellow intelletcuals

    I am Edward ben Milliband

    I was Gordon Brown’s Special Adviser when he finally went mad in 2003

    But Ed Blinky and I kept it quiet until we had climbed the Zanu ladder a bit

    And we were thus collectively responsible for the New Labour Ponzi scheme…

    But I am regaining my virginity now and will please you all with my dwiiiiiiivel..

    Thank you

    • 399
      Green Grocer says:

      Oi! You the guy wot wants bananas?

      If so – we ain’t got any.

      Got some luvverly carrots if you want summat ter stick up yer arse though!

      • 439
        Engineer says:

        You can’t be a greengocer, you haven’t got an apostraphe.

        • 444
          Engineer says:

          Your spelling’s better than mine, though.

          • A Retail Trader In Fruit And Vegetables (formerly Green or Green- Grocer (see above)) says:

            It’s the green grocer’s apostrophe’s wot dun it for me guvna!

            All them bananas’ apple’s horange’s and leek’s.

            It’s épicière for me from now on.

            Neva did hear from that Millisquit guy though.

  96. 395
    Alky Broken down Dodgy Cambell says:

    I’m high on my happy pills again

    I can’t risk another breakdown or being proven a lair once more

    So just to say that Zany Labour won the Election and that anyone who says it’s not true is a liar like Adam Bolton…

    And of course I am very important since I was a collaborator in ruining the country financially…

    PS Regards to the great Sir Michael Shite who lamped me once… over that honest boss I had at the Mirror, Robert Maxwell….

  97. 396
    Toilet Papers says:

    The only cuts this member of the public supports is the throats of the fucking mong faced twats that got us into this fucking mess!!

    • 408
      MI5 says:

      Starting with Toilets Maguire of course

      Who goes of to the freedom-loving Cuba to make friends with some Stazi type communists

      To get out of Britain !

      • 414
        Doctor Mick says:

        There’s some tasty slappers out there (non of yer Viz Fat Slag types as found in Jordieland) but I’m sure Toilets will be chaste.

    • 436
      Gone Fucking mental says:

      Oh!! you’re SO butch TaT!!!

      Ha ha ha ha ha

  98. 412
    Tattyboy the battyboy's on crack says:

    wank wank

    wank wank

    wank wank

    innit? innit?

  99. 419
    Angusduras Brunapattius says:

    why did my post end up all the way up there ^

  100. 422
    Hail Libs says:

    as soon as Dave went on holiday Nick banned clamping.

  101. 430
    Bl-ak-ey news says:

    “Eighteen people injured as train hits Diane Abbott.”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/7950830/Eighteen-people-injured-as-train-hits-sewage-tanker.html

    “An eyewitness says there were rice and peas everywhere.”

    Apparently the stinking grease oo-zing out of the Na-zi spo-on p-ig bit-ch, mitigated the extent of the injuries, as people were caked in la-rd as they hit the buffers.

  102. 431

    Brothers! I believe that every man woman and child has the equal right to be elitist as the elitists themselves has.

    • 451
      A Brownian Motion says:

      Ohh I feel all tight inside!

      Oi! Steward – got anything to help get things moving?

  103. 433
    Bl--ak--ey news says:

    wtf

  104. 435
    Gone Fucking mental says:

    why is tat such a twat ?

  105. 449

    I would like to say that I am utterly appalled by the level of commentary on this website. There is very little real political analysis and that which there is appears to be couched in the terminology of the guttersnipe.
    Time was when a man could make a serious political point without it being shot down by a train-load of rabble all espousing their own somewhat blinkered and narrow minded political views.

  106. 455
    concrete pump says:

    TaT fucked off before the election, he isn’t here anymore.

    All of the youtube posts, the reactionary profane filled responses, the rather poor propaganda type comments are all done by someone else.

    Posters claiming that TaT still exists here should check Guido’s archive and study Thieves’ posts. They resemble nothing that exist on these more recent threads.

    I imagine the real Thieves isn’t posting any more because he is too busy pissing himself laughing at the mess he’s left behind.

    • 456
      The rel reason why some posters havent been seen since the election says:

      Or the fact that he got himself elected !

    • 462
      Anonymous says:

      You’re right concrete, there are now more tats than you could shake a prick at. I think he does post ocassionally though.

      • 471
        Poke it wiv a stick says:

        The real tat’s fist is unmistakable when it deigns to construe a few home truths to you undeserving hypocrites.
        The imitators do so in the spirit of teasing the pussies with a tweak of the string.

    • 469
      concrete pump as thieves says:

      you really are a NUTCASE TaT.

      LOL!

    • 472
      schizo alert says:

      you’re right me, i agree with everything i said.

  107. 457
    Brown and still out. says:

    First time on here for some months.

    Have they hanged the utter excrement Brown yet and cut the throat of every one of his criminal cabinet?

    Brown – a study in freshly laid crap.

    The most vile person ever to draw breath in this country.

    • 460
      T.B£iar - the People's Messiah says:

      Oh, I say ! I rather thought I might be awarded that accolade.

  108. 459
    P. Mandevilson, the Eminence Greasy says:

    Pace EyespyMP, “Mandy strolling the Gaios waterfront with friends on Paxos just across from Corfu.”

    How do you pronounce ‘Gaois’, Reinaldo ?

  109. 464
    Genghiz the Kahn says:

    ”You can’t have political credibility without economic credibility.”‘ Alistair Darling on why Labour lost the General Election.

    Even the Beeboids quoted it.

  110. 465
    bluebell says:

    Guido – sort this lot out – this blog is becoming a pathetic joke with all the puerile postings. A lot of people will just stay away from what looks like a website that is now obsessed with masturbation.

  111. 478
    The Real TaT says:

    I would never post this filthy stuff.

  112. 480
    Labour level with the Tories in new ICM poll says:

    ICM 16/08/10

    Lab 37 Con 37 Lib 18

    Given that we see them rarely and that many regard them as the “gold standard” a new ICM poll is something of an event. – M. Smithson.

  113. 492
    British businessman 'entrapped' by US agents says:

    A retired businessman facing extradition to America accused of selling batteries to be used in missiles in Iran has claimed he was unlawfully entrapped by US customs agents.

    Christopher Tappin, the 63 year old president of Kent County Golf Union, claims he stood to gain just $500 (£320) from the deal to transfer the batteries from the US to Holland.

    But he could face 35 years in prison if he is sent to El Paso, Texas to face charges following an extradition hearing in two weeks’ time

    Mr Tappin was accused of selling batteries to be used in Iranian surface-to-air missiles after being caught up in a sting by US customs officers.

    He denied the allegations, claiming he believed the batteries were to be used in the automotive industry and he had been “the victim of unlawful conduct by US agents”.

    The case raises further questions over Britain’s extradition agreement with America, which has been labelled “one-sided” by campaigners.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7950055/British-businessman-entrapped-by-US-agents.html

    • 499
      Wheatchief says:

      saw this early this morning then it went off the news. He contacted a US business advice firm who told him it looked suspicious,the same reason he had contacted them.He took their advice and dropped the deal.So why he is being extradited is a mystery.The batteries in question are the same as you start your car with,available any were in the world.Time to tell the septics what to do.

  114. 493
    Sky Survey: Support For Clegg's Lib Dems At 8% says:

    Support for the Liberal Democrats has slumped to under 10%

    • 503
      Latest news......... says:

      Its coming in, its coming in…
      Yeah 8% is under 10%, BBC News has just confirmed it this second.

      • 509
        Sandals off, Boots on says:

        The coalition’s lifespan will be dictated by the Lib Dem conference.
        While Nick and his band of ho’s bask in the sunshine from Dave’s arse, the rank and file are getting no satisfaction from having to support Tory war on the proles.
        Expect blood!

        • 516
          White Van Man says:

          Good I’ll fetch me popping corn, and watch the blood bath commence.
          By the way when is the next LimpDem conference?

          • Well hung, but without stiff support, doomed to rot says:

            About two months before the next election.
            Without Nick, Dave’s just another lonely wanker.

        • 542
          Fred Kite says:

          The lib dems would much rather be having a marxist circle jerk with their labour Komrades.

          • The Punisher says:

            Yep, that party of fuckwitts needs ripping in two.
            They’re all in the centre now and there isn’t enough room for three Liberal party’s, in the end something has to give.

          • Bye Dave! says:

            Unfortunately, it’ll be the coalition.

      • 514
        dickhead who can't read says:

        Sky Survey

  115. 505
    SploogeBack Liebore says:

    Gordon Brown is a great human being, politician, father, husband, statesman and humanitarian.

    And he makes me sploot.

    • 512
      Gordon Brown (Deary Leader) says:

      I did the right thing because it all started in America even though I did away with boom and bust, prudence wasn’t available then and neither was Sarah as she was curled up on a rug in Canterbury at the time.

      I will be making a statement to the house on these issues… Oh I’ve just shit myself again…

    • 518
      tattyboy the battyboy says:

      we know he does tat
      you druggy mong

  116. 517
    Questions says:

    Why does Gordon Brown hate women?

    • 523
      White Van Man says:

      Maybe he’s an in denial gayman and likes to take big cocks up his arse?

      Just a thought.

      PS, Sarah (His wife) loves a bit of rug munching down in that there Canterbury place, probably one of those quirky marriages of convenience. Its all show!

      • 532
        SamCam says:

        My Brokeback Dave loves Nick’s big cock up his arse.

        I’m happy to bury myself in Clare’s quim.

        • 540
          The Punisher says:

          Rumour has it it’s the other way around, apparently Nicks been living on a prayer since the joining.

  117. 526
    The Governor says:

  118. 527
    Rude weatherman says:

  119. 529
    Record jump in food prices keeps inflation high says:

    A record increase food prices has kept inflation above 3 per cent and sparked warnings that the cost of living will keep rising.

    Higher prices for vegetables, meat, fruit and mineral waters, soft drinks and juices all helped keep inflation on the CPI measure at 3.1 per cent in July, the Office for National Statistics said. Potatoes, onions and cauliflowers were the fastest risers.

    The inflation rate was down from 3.2 per cent in June, but still well above the Bank of England target of 2 per cent, the ONS said.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/7950492/Record-jump-in-food-prices-keeps-inflation-high.html

    The Bank said it had been “surprised” by increases in prices, and warned there remains a “substantial risk” that prices will remain well above the target rate for many months.

  120. 530
    BrokeSmack Brown says:

    I’m off to have botty sex with Chris Bryant. Sarah’s in Canterbury.

    • 536
      The Punisher says:

      If I were a homo I’d rape Brown and rip him up a new arsehole.

      • 538
        tattyboy the battyboy says:

        you are a homo tat

        • 545
          The Punisher says:

          Oooowww I wuv Gordy and have to protect his good name in ever forum, oh fucking yawn.. Battyboy’s in denial again, what I reckon your really saying is ‘you’d like me to be a homo like you so you can suck my COCK’ eh?

          Is that true battyboy?

          • tattyboy the battyboy says:

            you’re the one fantasisng about brown’s arsehole tat

          • The Punisher says:

            Well fuckin’ hell, your the one calling yourself a battyboy in full view, what the fuck is all that about then eh?
            Is it a free advertisement of your bot bot wears curtsey of Guido’s blog?

          • The Punisher says:

            Oh really Battyboy, well you could have fooled me with a name like that!

          • tattyboy the battyboy says:

            you’re easy to fool because you’re thick as pigshit tat
            the name is mocking you for being a battyboy tattyboy

      • 539
        Bitch Slapper says:

        I rather think you’d be the one receiving the extra opinion emitter.

  121. 537
    Tat's Gone Fuckin mental says:

  122. 548
    The Punisher says:

    Oh fuckin’ Yawn :-( )

  123. 566
    Man with a beard says:

  124. 572
    The Real Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man says:

    I’m still here. I love Gordon’s brown.

  125. 578
    The Real Bullingdon Dave and his Bullying Right Hand Man wuvs Gordo says:

    Sploot for me, baby
    Sploot all night
    Sploot up my bot bot
    It’s really tight

  126. 579
    McDoom says:

    I’m the biggest cu(n)t of all

  127. 589
    proverbial says:

    Dave and Nick still in close touch, even though Dave’s on holiday

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3100513/Pick-ass.html

  128. 590
    Martin Day BBC political correspondent says:

    David Cameron is a shit and will be punished by the electorate for being a liar and a toerag

    Cameron’s response in words that he might come to regret was: “We will keep the free television licence, we will keep the pension credit, we’ll keep the winter fuel allowance, we’ll keep the free bus pass.”

    • 596
      sreamfisher says:

      Gordon Brown was shit and was punished by the electorate for being a liar and a toerag.

  129. 591
    David Cameron says:

    Parkeestan is expecting an economic boom soon as house prices are set to rise.
    Estate agents are stocking up on “Excellent water feature” signs.

  130. 593
    Simon hughes says:

    but any Lib Dem MP with a moment to spare from picking up rent boys should have the right to veto anything

  131. 594
    william pitt says:

    In 100 days I defeated Napolean and laid the foundations for aglorious 19th century Britain.
    Cast Iron Dave all you’ve done is cringe and apologise to your foreign masters in the EUSSR and the United Soviets of america. Worst of all you’ve betrayed conservatism by listening to old Stalinists like “Vince” Cable

    • 624
      Cobbett says:

      Er…no you didn’t. You blew a load of money on foreign wars and saddled the country with a massive debt. You were also quite keen on taxing people left right and centre to pay for it all. Sound like anyone else you know?

  132. 595
    "Saint" Vince Cable says:

    Wasn’t I the Hoon in charge of economic forecasting when Shell so disastrously iver stated its oil reserves?

    Yes come to think of it I was. And that’s all of a piece with my Mansion Tax and Banking regulation nonsense too.

  133. 597
    Ed Balls says:

    You can shove this coalition up your arse

  134. 600
    Nick Clegg says:

    Losing a wife can be very difficult.

    In my case fucking impossible!

  135. 602
    Gordon Brown says:

    I’ll make a statement to the House in a few minutes.

  136. 607
    White Van Man says:

    Good Morning all, what’s on the menu today I wonder?

    • 613
      Can't remember my moniker says:

      Your lot, not content merely with licking windows, doing wheelies on my drive all day long, it appears.

  137. 609
    Gordon Brown says:

    Oh, I wanna dance with somebody! I wanna feel the heat with somebody! Oh, I wanna dance with somebody, with somebody who loves me.

  138. 614
    Sarah Beard says:

    Time to buff my muff.

  139. 616
    Broadcasting from Gordon Browns downstairs toilet says:

    urgh
    urgh
    brump
    urgh
    urggh
    urgggh
    ooo
    urgh
    och I think I will give it half an hour

  140. 617
    Can't remember my moniker says:

    It’s 09:00.

  141. 618
    White Van Man says:

    BBC news at 9am is still running the first 100days of Dave & Nick and cuts cuts cuts cuts…………………….

    Yawn

    • 622
      White Van Man says:

      Fuckin hell the BBC news has just suggested Dave & Nick will be cutting winter fuel payments for old codgers, will be back to milk snatching in a minute.

  142. 619
    Ed Balls says:

    Today, I will mostly be a totally odious c-unt. Like every other day.

  143. 623
    concrete pump says:

    I think Fawkes was on the train that drove through that shit tanker in Sudbury yesterday.



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