September 2nd, 2010

LibDems Try To Hire Apprentice

Bad news for Lembit Opik – it seems that Cowley Street doesn’t have faith in his bid to be London Mayor. Much like the Tories were before Boris threw his hat in the ring, the LibDems are desperately seeking a decent candidate for the coalition’s first big election battle. A yellow spinner said “that’s not the way we would do it”, but Guido hears that senior LibDems have approached The Apprentice winner Tim Campbell and asked him to put his name forward…

A rather odd choice of candidate given a) Campbell is not a LibDem and b) he has just taken up a role advising Boris.


142 Comments

  1. 1
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Who ? Dont watchBBC

    • 5
      jgm2 says:

      Surely, in the spirit of coalition, the Lib-Dems should put forward Lembit so as to avoid splitting their vote and allowing th*rs*y Ken back in.

      • 32
        Sarf of the River says:

        This coalition sham really is a load of crap. If they are working together and all is peace and free love why are the LimpDumbs even fielding a candidate?

        • 110
          13eastie says:

          Labour Back in Power May 2011!

          Not content with having offended the entire UK (and our most important ally to boot) by freeing Britain’s worst ever mass murderer, Nicola Sturgeon of the Scotch National Party is offering next year’s Holyrood election on a silver plate to Labour by proposing a minumum 45p / unit retail price for alcohol.

          This would set fixed prices accross the ‘nation’ for items such as the following:

          	Bottle of Piss-Poor Wine 12% ABV	£  4.05
          	Slab of Own Brand Lager	5% ABV		£ 23.76
          	Bottle of Own Brand Vodka 40% ABV	£ 12.60

          I think we’ll find out how important home rule is to the Scotch soon enough.

          • Archer Karcher says:

            Presumably the authoritarian cow wants to live in a one party state, though not her own.

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    • 87
      Diversity Cheef says:

      is ‘im a batty boi? troot be tol’ im a big token vote grabbah heh heh!

  2. 2
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Boris is going to win anyway , Red Ken aint got a hope in hell having been rejected before

  3. 3
    Sir William Waad says:

    If not Lembit, why not the Cheeky Girls?

    • 13
      Horny fucker says:

      Got my vote.

    • 26
      Willy Hague says:

      Not for me thanks

    • 44
      Ian E says:

      If the Cheeky Girls got the mayoralty, would we all have to rise when they entered the room?

      • 60
        Must get a pseudonym one day says:

        At least that would sort out the men from the boy-fanciers.

        • 119

          ou’ve got to love the tactics of the left. When you can’t beat them on policy, ‘nail’(excuse the pun) them on personal issues.

          So, a reminder to you Labour freaks of the actions of the former, ahem, ‘Right Honorable’ Deputy Prime Minister, (now, and it’s not hypocritical AT ALL Lord Prescott) is in order methinks.

          The fact that Mr Vague had to reference his wifes miscarriages to answer this s*&t says more about his accusers lack of morality than his own, whether he likes to tap young man arse or not. Is that the best labour can come up with? Sleaze……again?

          Everybody knows the tories have a ‘do as i say not do as i do’ policy on morality, so even if it’s true, get this labour
          1. In the 21st century, it’s irrelevant.
          2. Sleaze is old news.

          I feel sorry for him & his wife. This is what you’ve done to politics labour. You’ve made a boy from the welsh valley heartlands feel sorry for Tory Boy Mk 1. Nice tactic, i’m not sure it’s going to win you the next election (or 5).

          Vote Diane Abbott so that your party at least generates some interest. If Balls wins he’ll never win an argument, just shout ‘BALLS!’ at him every time he speaks, if one of the MiliBLANDS get it i’ll fall asleep in protest. Apparently they’ve got a token northerner too, how quaint. No scots though, thank fuck.

  4. 4
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    What about simon Hughes ?

  5. 6
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    is this bloke a gay spad ?

  6. 7
    Matthew Palmer says:

    Having worked with Tim on the Apprentice I cannot say enough good things about him – If his politics makes him a Lib dem, fine – He will however find himself way out of his depth when “swimming with sharks” to quote Alan Clark

    • 37
      'celeb' obsessed nation of fuckwits says:

      How old is the silly Huhne? There’s something of the SpAd about him.

    • 133
      Bazza says:

      And for fucksake LibDums, hoist your banner around cheap ephemeral celebrity and you’ll seem relevant only until nulabor wheel out that grotesque Lily Allen thing again.

      Try thinking up some liberal policies instead. Try to be more like Lembit.

  7. 8
    William Hague ate my ploughman says:

    Tim nice but dim.

  8. 9
    jgm2 says:

    OT

    Here’s one for you Guido. Not content with benefitting from multiple voting in the parliamentary and council elections Labour likes to have multiple votes in its own leadership elections…

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11162916

    Labour MPs, MEPs, party members and members of affiliated trade unions and socialist societies are all entitled to take part in the contest.

    But people can register for more than one vote by joining different bodies.

    Senior MP Tony Lloyd said it reflected Labour’s federal nature and that they had never said the contest was run on a strictly one member, one vote basis.

    UK council elections and general elections must likewise be run according to Labour’s ‘federal nature’.

  9. 10
    Pete says:

    Charles Kennedy anyone?

  10. 11
    Tim Lovejoy says:

    Hi , My names Tim Lovejoy and i am a BBC legend who is not running for Mayor.

    Ps More money for the BBC so they can employ top talant like me .

    Ker Ching !!!!

  11. 12
    Anonymous says:

    MP drunk, recorded making allegations regarding Hagues sexuality

  12. 14
    sockpuppet #4 says:

    yeah right. Its not August any more.

    Even if it feels like it on a French beach.

  13. 16
    Mr Plum says:

    Why does everone keep suggesting knob heads for london mayor.

  14. 17
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Yeah but , What do Mossad think ?

  15. 19
    Simon "straight choice" Hughes says:

    The LibDems are an irrelevance. Ignore them and they’ll go away.

  16. 22
    Gordon Brown says:

    If I keep very quiet I will be able to hear them – they have bugged my teddy bear. I think hey put something into my fizzy orange so they can hear my thoughts.

  17. 29
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    73

  18. 31
    Big Denise says:

    Can’t we have more dwarf related stories?

  19. 36
    Sue Perrin-Junsham says:

    The Apprentice is full of wannabee TV stars who reckon they are experienced business people. On the whole they aren’t.

    Perhaps they could choose an X factor winner or a Big Brother idiot.

    Mayor Susan Boyle
    Mayor Josie

    • 40
      'celeb' obsessed nation of fuckwits says:

      Or maybe just have someone ‘normal’ and not utterly full of themselves and thus likely to be in it for selfish reasons above anything else.

    • 93
      Jacob Stoatgobbler says:

      Surely “The Government” is full of wannabee TV stars who reckon they are experienced people. On the whole they aren’t.

      • 127
        Susie says:

        Politics is showbiz for ugly people.

        If they’re so ugly they can’t get into showbiz or politics they go on reality TV. Nuff said.

  20. 38
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    In the good old days this ****** would have been cutting sugar not working for a *** of the same name

    • 117

      Wait Wait Wait. Back up. Im pretty sure this article refers to Boris as ‘decent’. Whatever next?! ‘Lloyd George was a good family man’? ‘Gordon Brown has people skills’?

      Il admit, being welsh, i feel uncomfortable commenting on your wonderful language, but surely the word ‘decent’ cannot be applied to Boris, can it?

      Then again, labour are apparently having a ‘leadership’ election. Whatever next! Is english losing all meaning? Or has my hillbilly hick brain just stopped processing the subtle changes?
      Help me! Im confused!

    • 130
      Susie says:

      Hey Mr Tallyman tally me banana
      daylight come and I wanna go home

      • 131
        Susie says:

        In reply to Beast — I haven’t got a banana. Guido’s Reply feature’s gone wrong (again)

  21. 42
    Trevor Phillips (OBE FFS!) says:

    Racist bigot!

    • 48
      The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

      We know that you are
      If it wasnt for the fact that you were of a dusky hue you would be licking envelopes in the BBC mail room or claiming grants for some yoof project
      Innit

    • 121
      Deranged Barmpot Bigot says:

      Sir Trevor, I can understand. But Dotun Adeboyo (of BBC Radio 5′s late night graveyard slot) leaves me totally unimpressed, ever since he left their ‘Brief Lives’ obituaries programme, where he performed a useful service in reporting the lives of people who would never have merited even a quarter page in the Telegraph.

      He’s got an MBE, for some reason: ‘for services to insomniacs smashing in their radios from anger at how far the BBC is dumbed down’?

  22. 43
    smoggie says:

    Advising Boris….

    Oh no, please don’t tell me bonking Boris is a bicycling bender?

  23. 45
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    For god’s sake, just when you think politics can’t get any more ridiculous something like this comes along. Why don’t they go all the way and get someone from Countdown?

    • 54
      Captain Black says:

      Or put someone from Playschool in the House of Lords.

      How ridiculous would that be, eh! What the f***?!

      • 59
        white van man sham says:

        It’s all about inclusion silly! Any talent someone has is neither here nor there. A talent for ripping off the small people however is very much encouraged.

        • 67
          Must get a pseudonym one day says:

          Talents do matter – for example, the talent of being black, or the talent of being female or the talent of being both.

      • 124
        Get real with the b'st'rds says:

        What can be more ridiculous than Prescott – Lord of Pies?

    • 104
      Not many people agree with Nick anymore says:

      Does it matter…the LibDems have f*c* all chance of winning this or any other future election.They’re totally f*c*ed electorally

  24. 47
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    He looks like a lizard !

  25. 49
    white van man sham says:

    Advising Boris coz he iz blak and can get dahn wit th yoot (many of whom seem perfectly happy to be left alone to shoot and knife each other thank you)? Reporting of most crimes of this nature seem to go hand in hand with the word “Trident”.

    Abbott should be running for the Labour leadership on a ‘deport all black males of fathering age’ platform … she may have a point.

  26. 50
    absolutebaloney says:

    Only a tenth of the population give a monkeys who gets elected as London Mayor. Why waste time on a minority interest. London is a money pump sucking the life blood out of the rest of us. Who cares?

    • 68
      All political parties says:

      Don’t you understand? London is an international financial centre and us party types are in hock with the tossers who run the place.

      Not doting on London’s little foibles and games is akin to biting the hand that feeds you.

      In any case Europe says we have to have mayors etc. as it continues the mirage that people have some control over their silly small lives. It also provides us with even more employment opportunities with which to feather our retirement nests.

    • 83
      Anonymous says:

      It’s a “money pump sucking the life blood out of the rest of us” but is a minority interest no ones outside of london cares about?

      have you thought this through?

  27. 53
    Mr Slater's Parrot says:

    GORDEYSPLOOTEYBOT-BOT! (grape) (crest) HOMOPHOBE! (cuttle) SKREEEEWKK!!!

  28. 55
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    The butler done it !

  29. 61
    Tim Dalziel says:

    What on earth are Tim Campbell’s qualities? I view him as the FRank Bruno of the bsuiness world. Know what I mean Sir Alan!

  30. 63
    Anonymous says:

    3 Current England footballers are gay

  31. 70

    Christmas is coming.
    What should we get Gordon?

    Nokia warranty?
    Waterstones credit valid for recent political memoirs?
    Sock puppet of Ed Balls?
    Tony Blair punchbag?
    Dignitas vouchers?

  32. 76
    Anonymous says:

    If the idiot is an apprentice doesn’t this indicate he knows fuck all about fuck all just now? Way to go LimpDumbs!

  33. 81
    Cato says:

    This guy is as qualified to be Mayor as he is as a Special Adviser at the Foreign Office.

  34. 85
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    The last time the Lib Dumps had a mayoral candidate it was a “bent” ex copper
    Now they seem to have chosen Tarzans chum

  35. 89
    Da po-faced Divvy ‘n Equaltitty 'n da Inclusive ofsah, - also on da lookout for da raycyst says:

    Yo am not ta say dat ‘Short’ word or da uvva wurds wot says da bleedin obvus!

  36. 90
    Anonymous says:

    that guy ed fordham would be a guid shout.

  37. 91
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    what about the special one ? even they could tempt him ?

  38. 96
    Mark Thompsom says:

    Yes the BBC has been guilty of chronic left-wing bias – but that is now the past. It looks as though we might lose our luxurious lifestyles paid for via the licence fee, so we promise to be more balanced in future (at least until we have negotiated a favourable licence fee with the Government.

    • 106
      Ministry of Truth and Reconcilliation ? says:

      Said the spokesman for the “Official Opposition” and “Anti-Coalition Alliance”

    • 112
      Engineer says:

      Does anybody else have the vague feeling that some quiet, unrecorded conversations have taken place between senior beeboids and senior politicians along the line of, “License Fee….saving public money…Charter obligations…political balance….wouldn’t want things to get nasty and public…”?

      Think also the Minister for Culture Media and Sport has made public noises about value for the License Fee payer and possible reduction of same.

      • 129
        Susie says:

        Let’s hope so.

        They’re going on strike, that should be a opportunity for a good shake out. I went to an Any Questions recording the other week… it was surreal, all the shit I’d thought about the BBC was confirmed.

  39. 102
    Anonymous says:

    Recent winners of the Apprentice have all had the habit of jumping into bed with their new colleagues and getting themselves up the duff when any serious business people would have concentrated on making a success of their new career. I trust all Sugars appointments aren’t as bad as this since it says a lot about his judgement.

    • 108
      Archer Karcher says:

      It says everything about his judgement, follow the track records of his hirelings, most mediocre.

  40. 103
    The Court of Public Opinion says:

    I wonder if this political betting site has odds on which minister will be the third ConDem one to be caught with a rentboy?

  41. 111
    barefoot contessa says:

    David Cameron goes into the Doctor, Doctor says “right, I need a urine Sample a poo sample and a sperm sample all bringing in tomorrow”

    David Cameron leaves the doctors and goes home to Samantha”well what did the doctor say?” Samantha asked

    David Cameron replies, “ermm for some reason he wants me to bring a pair of your knickers!”

    • 113
      Engineer says:

      Told you before – stop pinching other people’s screen-names.

      Stop posting old jokes, too. Do us all a favour and find some new ones.

  42. 118
  43. 120
    Andy McPoo says:

    Ha ha – a monkey as Mayor of London. That cheap mong black bastard will legalise pimping, and crack, and will have fat tattooed white-trash slappers selling melons on street corners.

    Send the spoons back to Africa.

  44. 122
    Bigoted Blogger. says:

    Is he a shirt lifter? Where is he flocking from? When are we going to start picking on people with disabilities, retards? The we can pick on the moozies and then the lezzies and anyone who under 5′ tall, fookin dwarves. Then we can start on the old coffin dodgers. Then soap dodging sponging students. Then the workshy socialist. Then the nutjob psychos.
    Do not ever pick on the middle classes

  45. 132
    hari says:

    bets best

    best

  46. 135
    chris says:

    No offence to Tim but the LIBDems are getting desparate I think

  47. 136
    Ed Joyce says:

    I believe that the Lib Dems should select Lembit Opik. Lembit is keen to take the challenge on and is a true Liberal. This will not be an easy election for the Lib Dems but politics is unpredictable, and the party could construct a campaign behind Lembit who is both a politician and widely known. It seems pretty clear that Lembit is the only Lib Dem who wants to do this. Press ganging someone to be our mayoral candidate will not help in the long run. Let’s go with Lembit.

    Ed Joyce



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