Ever wondered how David Miliband miraculously has time to blog while he is out and about sewing up the leadership vote. Well he doesn’t:
A little look at the RSS feed for the blog shows us who the real blogger is…
UPDATE: Jess loyally claims that David writes absolutely everything and it’s just her job to put things up. So what do his speech writers do?
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Tom Harris bemoans the public’s attitude to politicians…
“Mr Oborne echoes the lazy, anti-politics whine we hear so often these days, all based on the absurd notion that politicians were once loved and only fell out of public favour during the expenses scandal. He should take a walk to the Strangers’ Bar. But not to sup with the patrons he seems to despise so much, dearie me, no; he should instead look at the paintings on the corridor outside the bar, which depict the devastating fire which consumed most of the Palace in 1834. And he should reflect on the fact that on that dramatic night, as the Commons went up in flames, a crowd gathered on the South Bank to clap and cheer.”
The thing that Dave needs to work out is which group is more likely to vote Conservative. Mad swivel-eyed loons or mad homosexuals wishing to get married.
See if you can find out who peels his bananas for him too.
I thought with a name like Asato, she might be a looker. Unfortunately she looks like any other labour mong.
http://www.labourlist.org/uploads/1e1f1475-2c3b-55e4-b9ed-405e126f6a6f.jpg
I believe the term is “rictus smile”.
What a constructive thing to say…seems a bit hypocritical to use the word mong if this is the best you can come up with!
I don’t come here to be constructive, what sort of blog do you think this is?
“a bit hypocritical to use the word mong”.
Can’t argue with that.
to concrete pump: apology accepted… and happy weekend, L
isn’t it a crime to impersonate an MP?
only if you impersonate the MPs corrupt expsense fraud and treasonous sell out of British sovereugnty…
What you mean . . thieving, lying, cheating, conniving, dissembling . . . that sort of thing?
Killing scientists in the woods?
She’s OK but maybe not the sort of bird you’d want to share a twin bedded room with.
Please don’t be so vague about this.
keen to see photo of concrete pump…. please.
actually, before we see one, i’d put money on the fact that jessica asato is hotter than concrete pump.
By about several million degrees, I have tried to upload a photo of my sexy physog, but Fawkes ain’t allowing it.
If you have kids, you might be aware of a children’s programme called ‘imagination movers’, i look like one of the presenters……
But which one…..?
That depends on your predelictions.
to concrete pump: uh huh, sure… i will have to believe that…
but, as another woman interested in politics, it’s relatively dissappointing to see (unfair) appearance-based comments being made so openly…. it’s just not that nice, you know?
Of course you are right, anon @ 11:59, it was crude and unnecessary.
Please accept my apology.
WTF are ‘appearance-based comments’?
well i wont be crawling over Jenni thompson to get to her then…..
an amazing peice of incisive investigative journalism Guido. Let me give you a few other storries of equal import;
Does David Cameron write his own speeches ?
Does the Queen do her own ironing ?
Do bears use a toilet ?
of course they bloody don’t. try sticking to
Does William Hague do his own dirty work ?
Do they claim to?
and neither does the rubber lipped tosser millibland. phrases like ‘my blog’ mean he accepts editorial responsibility for the content. just like Guido.
Until it all goes tits up
So you never say ‘my arse’ because the space chimp pwns it?
To answer your question guido. No I have never wondered. I wonder at many things but never ever at Miliband’s blog.
Lawless politicians attacking the newspapers over the voice mail hacks… let’s remind ourselves of just how much money MPs tried to steal from taxpayers, and how come only three MPs of 650 face trial?
The MPs are two faced hypocritical liars.
who is more sanctimonious, Watson or MacKenzie??
F-I-G-H-T !!!
Watson has the biggest mouth, to match his taxpayer subsidised expanding girth.
It’s a bit like the Belle de Jour mystery, isn’t it? Except that her aim was to screw you and take your money, whereas Labour’s aim is, er …
This little cow is in it up to her hairy armpits. Labour councillor (Islington of course), chair of the young Fabians, on the Fabians executive board. A proper nest of rats
http://www.progressives.org.uk/documents/CLPSpeakerList.pdf
hairy armpits . . . and socialist too! . . . . the world is full of delights
Amazing CV she has there – never had a proper job in her life.
I’ll be amazed when I see a Labour politican under 40 who has
screw up , and take your money anyway ?
What do you mean, “your” money?
All money belongs to the State, everyone knows that. You can’t be trusted with it.
Nah . . we ain’t got bananas fer that git!
Melons . . luvverly melons!
Please . . . we ain’t got NO bananas fer that git!
What do you mean, ‘money’. There is not such thing. Just debt. £4.8 trillion of it. There never will be any money again, not until we discover a second dimension of time which runs backwards.
Reminds me of the SNP who wanted a share of the National Insurance fund on independence.
Ha ha! Nice.
what a twat
Nobody seriously believed these people wrote their own blogs, did they?
Except Tom Watson. The sheer twattish-ness gives him away.
You sure he can actually write?
O/T i see that american pastor is delaying his koran burning , So much for free speech in the USA , Heavy handed state and media , it could be china
A bit incendiary!
Talking of which Anna Racoon reveals Newcasle council are spending £500,000 on bollards, to prevent suicide bombers – honestly !!!
The burning issue.
Hot off the press.
It is suicidal to go drinking in Newcastle city centre on a Saturday night. Can’t think what the bollards will achieve, except to provide something to hang onto.
Totally unnecessary.
Newcastle council are so anti-car, you’ve got bugger all chance of getting anywhere near Northumberland Street.
What if the suicide bomber’s bombs are in a vest? Or a rucksack? It has been known.
I hear the plan is to chain every Muslim to a bollard so they can’t move around so quick whilst still allowing them freedom of religion, etc
Or in his pushbike or giant Koran?
That’s not strictly speaking correct, comrade.
The plan was to chain everyone to bollards, which would be located in your work-detail compounds so none of you could stray from the glorious experience of working in fields, mines, quarries etc etc.
There were plans to let you all move indoors at night during the winter, subject to there being some accommodation left after it had been assigned to immigrants.
They’re dangerous fucking loons. There’s nothing more scary than a genetically programmed religious nut. Just look at T Bliar.
I thought Blair didnt “Do God”
I’m available should he ever need my advice.
He said he didn’t but I woke up with a sore arse the next day.
Well, apart from a millionair ‘socialist’ that is….
Can anyone explain why its lead story on the bbc, when some individual nut job with a tiny following in the Us wants to burn a koran, but not when a muslim religious authority wants to bury a woman up to her neck and stone her to death – after lashing her, of course !
Any one else detect the wiff of hypocracy, double standards and hidden agendas at the tax payer funded bbc ??
USA nutters = bad
Muslim nutters = good
It’s offensive to allow pastor Terry Jones to burn the koran.
I’m sure he could recycle it.
I’m sure Mr Drama O’Banana will be able to put everything right.
Goodbye Darhhhling . . . mwhaaa . . . mwhaaa . . . mwhaaa . . . don’t be late home tonight – remember we’re going to Yvette’s for supper and she says she has a surprise announcement!
It is a bit strange isn’t it. Every day the Muslim world commits many atrocities in the name of Allah and the BBC mostly ignores them unless it directly affects the West. Yet the BBC is getting Hysterical over one man no one has ever heard of before (Except Python Fans) burning a few books.
FFS it’s only a book he is burning FFS.
Now Obama building a Mosque at ground zero is a different thing.
Whiff? It has been a *loody foul stench for some time. If Cameron would take his nose clip off he might feel the need to do something about it.
Good point. If they’d shut the fuck up about it, nobody would have noticed except the local fire department.
Naturally! We deal only in PC noos about Noo_Lie_Bore, wicked wicked USA (except Mr O’Drama) and our Glorious and Beloved Leader!
And pay your telly tax!
What hasn’t he been allowed to say?
I’d suggest he’s been talked out of being a total nut. Wooooo scary.
Its a pity the best option is now impossible: ignoring the freak.
Surely burning books is the best way to prevent free speech? The nutjob was persuaded by free speekers not to do this.
No , It was his private property , He had purchased the books , His protest has been delayed because it will upset some muzzies .
Freedom of speech also means the freedom to offend .
freedom to get a few squaddies killed. hoorah.
Don’t be so wet. The Taliban couldn’t give a shit about this book burning. The want the foreign invaders out of their country whether they are Americans, Brits or Russians.
And a lot of Afghans (including all the women) want the Taliban (many of who are Arabs and Pakistanis) out of Afghanistan.
Burning the Koran will be wonderful for recruitment.
I have seen no propaganda.
I came to this sort of conclusion a while ago, when Blair was baning on about how invading iraq did not contribute to home grown British terrorism.
Its a stupid publicity stunt. Its not worth creating more terrorists for the sake of a stupid publicity stunt.
So lets get this straight, twenty rednecks in Florida, who none had heard of a week or so ago, are going to get our troops killed and act as a recruiter for the Isl*mists?
I dont think so, what will certainly act as a generator for that scenario, is the entire MSM giving it wall to wall world coverage and the President of the USA posturing around as if these twenty or so chancers are somehow going to start world war three.
Folks, the fanatics in Isl*m need no excuse to try and kill the K*ffar or die trying.
As for the extremists enablers around the Isl*mic world, well their biggest source of information to stoke up any manufactured rage, is the MSM itself, beaming the non event around the world 24/7.
It’s as if they WANT a violent reaction and the bigger the better as far as the MSM are concerned.
I still say burning people’s ideas (in books) is as much about destroying free speech as censorship. Don’t see the relevance of them being his property – oif they weren’t then he would be committing a crime.
His only reason for doing this is to offend. Freedom carries responsibilities as well as rights.
Wrong the book still exists, his burning is only destroying a copy(s) of the book.
So if we back down everytime a muzzie gets upset thats fine ?
We may as well all convert to islam then
Freedom of speech should be abousolte , No censorship , if this bloke wants burn the koran , the bible any other book then fine , Every time someone upsets the muzzies they go burning flags , and eefiges of people , Remeber when Dave said P*kistan was responsable for terror ? Thay burned a dave effigie , they cant have it both ways .
Agreed, ideas cannot be destroyed. Principled and righteous religions can stand criticism.
Surely his intention is to express his disgust and anger at a religion he disagrees with? Provocative and blunt, yes.
If everybody burned the Koran then there’d be none left. As it is there would be fewer which isn’t a good thing unless you don’t like other people’s ideas being spread.
It is not about backing down, it is about poking a stick into a wasps’ nest: you don’t need to do it; it is just malicious and it will have consequences.
“You dont need to do it ”
Possibly but he has the right to do it , Just as the ground zero mosque should go ahead as well .
” I despise what you say but defend your right to say it ”
The full quote is better
The Koran is considered a sacred thing by muslims, perhaps like the pastor’s corrugated church. I wonder how he’d feel if someone burned that to the ground “to express disgust at his form of Christianity”?
The church is not there property so it would be arson , however if they want to buy a few thousend bibles and burn them fine .
The church is the House of God so it belongs to everyone.
If muslims burned bibles in Rednecksville, they would be lynched.
clearly mr umpire-ever, you have not understood to what extent a physical book is regarded as holy by muslims.
Obviously I don’t get that myself. Equally someone burning a flag would just be a tit with a burning piece of cloth.
I wouldn’t burn an american flag, it would be pointless.
Anyone who wanted to do such a thing, but thought it was just a piece of cloth, would need to be told what sort of consequences it would bring.
To sock4
Whats more important , Freedom of speech or some book , As soon as we start chipping away at what is acceptalbe and what is not we lose that freedom , the muzzies win .
“some book”
you see. being ignorant again. I am free to say “There is no god, get over it.” I am free to make all sorts of arguments and statements saying what I disagree with in any religion.
I would however think that it would be a bad idea to attempt to urinate on the pope.
False dichotomy logical fallacy by the way.
sockie – nobody is advocating unfettered free speech:
Swastica’s on synagogue’s – wrong
Crucified Christ in a jar of p*ss – wrong
However, book-burning and flag-burning is probably on the right side.
“There is fragility and what is important is for Muslims to hear from people like me and to know that the pastor does not represent us any more than extremists represent the truth about Islam.
http://www.tonyblairoffice.org/news/entry/tony-blair-condemns-us-pastors-plan-to-burn-the-koran/
Blair’s policies and actions did more damage to relations with the Muslim world than any nut-job with a lighter ever could.
He did indeed. But it might have been worthwhile to…
a) get rid of Saddam
b) get rid of his weapons (OK we all know now).
c) Something else that we weren’t told about.
Perhaps (c) was just so we weren’t viewed in america as being similar to the french.
His subsequent appointment as ‘peace envoy’ was seen in the middle east as just taking the piss.
Yep, well who caused the ‘fragility’? The islamic nutters or some other grouping?
Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work
Its nothing to do with freedom of speech. Nobody is stopping this idiot from speaking his mind.
He is proposing deliberate incitement.
Ed Balls finally achieves something worthwhile.
Great !!! My campaign is going according to plan. After weeks of spitting bile I’ve moved up in people’s estimation from non-entity to irrelevant !!
We’re all irrelevant together.
is that his new album cover?
has it got his new single on it – “I lied and I’m fat”?
When Millibananas ‘wins’, Balls will still be there. So we get a nicely split Labour: Milly’s Bliarists who recognise the Berlin Wall has fallen, and Balls’ statists who don’t.
Labour’s only hope is to ditch both Bliarism (and with Milly’s history that will be difficult), and statism (bully boy Balls makes that difficult too), re-inventing themselves as the localist working class movement of the co-ops and the friendly societies. We shall see.
This is ground-breaking stuff.
Guido on the case, once again getting to the bottom of the seedy underbelly of political life and prising open another can of worms.
I think this deserves a wider investigation. Is it a widespread practice for politicians to delegate to their staff? Does it cross the political divide?
Feeble sarcasm.
Miliband is not Barbara Cartland and should not be claiming to write under his own name when others are the author.
Probably wears the same underwear, though.
In one sense you are right: a politician lying is not “ground-breaking stuff”. That said Milliband has still lied.
What an amazing revelation – you’ll be telling us that WebCameron wasn’t all the great man’s work next!
at least we know Guido writes his own
Dont care unless he is in recipt of taxpayers money
He writes his own material and gets ad revenues from the private sector. Unlike Miliband.
Do we?
We could always get the unbiased BBC to investigate
Who is this ‘we’?
How despicable, another author writing for someone else! I find the great thing about guido is you always know who’s writing.
What a total waste of a read this was. Hardly a scandal is it that David Miliband nor any other politician are able to actually sit there at a computer and do their blogs. Just because they’re uploaded etc by somebody else it doesn’t mean that they aren’t written by the politician themselves.
Oh, by the way, get a life!
yeah right, that’s probably what happens
oh, my, you are so clever ….. common sense = common purpose?
O/T,
I see that the nice new government ( hurrah ) as opposed to the nasty old government ( hiss ) has decided that it needs some advice on safeguarding vulnerable children.
They have racked their brains and come up with the world renowned “expert” Sharon Shoesmith of baby P notoriety, to give them that advice.
The new politics, so much better than the old politics, don’t you think?
you have gotta be kidding. Where is that gem from ?
It’s in the Daily Mail,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1310709/MPs-advice-Baby-P-boss-Sharon-Shoesmith-talk-child-safety.html?ITO=1490
Hells F*ckin bells what’s up with these f*ckin people,are they so up themselves they can’t think the damage they will do by bringing that person in,
From my otherwise completely empty head.
Linky-linky, AK.
Try this CP – I haven’t read the article yet, though
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1310709/MPs-advice-Baby-P-boss-Sharon-Shoesmith-talk-child-safety.html
Ta.
Seriously?!
That’s like inviting Ian Huntley round for bathtime.
Fred West to put in a new patio? While Rose makes the bed?
So, George said to me, “Dave, we can’t keep giving the EU £45million every day whilst cutting services and raising taxes! People will go nuts” and I said, well, we need a distraction, and George said, “do something really fucking idiotic, like asking Sharon Shoesmith’s advice about child protection.”
And the rest is history.
Miliband is a perfect leader for the Labour Party – the socialist grandchild of illegal communist immigrants. Bug ugly. Smarmy. A perfect fit.
You forgot the rubber face and the Black and White Minstrels wig.
How I miss Spitting Image
And his grandfather was a traitor..the fruit does not fall far from the tree.
OH no! he’s not a fruit too is he?????
The top General says the burning of the Koran… will inflame tension in the Middle East and could lead to the death of US troops.
WHAT about the US invading Muslim countries in illegal wars, like that’s not going to inflame tensions and lead to the deaths of US troops.
3000+ at the last count.
Yes but burning books is un-necessary. The wars were.
discuss
well.. profits.
Not again? 60,000,000 brits v T. Bliar, and guess who will win? Again.
“Yes but burning books is un-necesary. The wars were.”
Please tell me you aren’t being serious Fahrenheit?
The wars were necessary. Afghanistan was governed by tribes that had legalised r-ape within marriage. Our troops went in, a few hundred died, and they’ve replaced that government with a new government that has legalised r-ape within marriage.
What’s not to like about that?
Bet the fuckin lefties are pissed off because Blair backs goverments plans to tackle deficit .
Front page on this weeks Shooting Times magazine ” Blair Talking Bol**cks Again.”
Link?
I would like to do a pump on Tom Watsons belly
I would like to squeeze some blackheads on his back
I would like to write his blog for him. What’s the going rate?
I am aware that some gay men catagorise each other with names such as Muscle Mary’s, Bears etc
What catagory would Tom Watson be put into?
Repulsive cnut.
I believe he could be known as the Captain of the Cleveland Steamer
Wankfuhrer?
Butch. As in fit for an abattoir.
It’s into the second week of September
In England
OneDay international delayed because the outfield is… er…wet!!
At least two paying customers
Who decided on the games in September, in England …… ?
Just what the fuck do they expect?
Maybe someone wanted to put 100 grands worth of Rupees or whatever on a delayed start and slipped the scheduling committee something nice to make it happen?
Just saying like
the wet conditions will go some way to making the tourists feel at home
He’s just another Labour con artist, a bit like Blair. No doubt the union idiots will elect him leader and we will have to suffer his smarmy, greasy face for the next few years.
The Russian Foreign minister had a word or two for him. The phrase eludes me at the moment.
Only until after the next election. He has all the ineffable stupidity of the McHatter but can’t seem to say boo to a goose. Nu liebore being the fascists they are, do expect their authoritarianism at the top. When they realise they aren’t going to get any, there will be a most entertaining self destruction to savour.
Have to be honest Guido, you’re really at the bottom of the scandal barrell here, is this really all you have, is this what you’d call enlightening the people. Lord almighty! Hague story-brilliant, this-Bloody awful!
shouldn’t you get back to your ISO9000 auditing?
Try reading Guido’s headline banner,he’s not the UK political internet news service,for that you need AlJaBeeb,who’s motto is we take your tax and provide you with left wing sh*te biased news programmes.
Plus a shitty soap opera and some even shittier weeknight dramas about a school and hospital. Oh and don’t forget that Strictly Come Dancing Bollocks. Not bad for to they say get £3.5 billion a year. The BBC is entertainment (social engineering) at it’s finest.
As is BBC ‘News’.
I’ve never seen Strictly Come Dancing.
Nor a single episode of Big Brother, nor X-Factor, I don’t even know what Simon Cowel’s voice sounds like. I haven’t seen an advert or paid the BBC a penny in 11 years.
You should try it!
What ? so story with no evidence [but about a Tory] good ?? story with evidence [but about a liebour wingnut ] bad ? OK just checking there !
Isn’t wasn’t the evidence of lack of which made it interesting. It was the fact that it was something which people wanted to read, nobody actually cares who maintains politicians blogs. FACT!
It wasn’t. Apologies for not concentrating but it’s not the most engaging of topics!
But you clicked and read it………
Oh yes I come here to be enlightened. Someone show this guy the door.
I’ve just enlightened myself of 2 kilos.
By doing poo poo.
You can always have a refund and fuck off ? common sense ?
So the media(and I include Guido in this) possibly misrepresent a politician and you don’t like it……..unless it’s a Tory,when it’s fine.? And you have the nerve to use the words ‘common sense’
Ok by me to have a political bias but don’t then bang on about the subject. You are part of the problem.
All the comments on this blog are generated by spambots.
Including this one.
All generalisations are f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-false.
Cheer up – Jo Coburn is back on the DP today.
Hellova jawline that lady has.
Gudio
ReJanogly
This the guy who a Shadow Business Minister had solicitors “seconded from his law firm” (and paid by it) to “help him in his work”
It so happens that the solicitors he worked for were also representing private equity firms lobbying for tax breaks…
It all stinks
AGAIN…
Does Guido write all his own Blog?
Is a pig’s arse pork?
Cant you tell by all the errors ?
David M has not “sown up the leadership vote”
Ed Miliband will win on second preference votes, no problem !!!
“Miliband‘s Press Officer”
Note to Ed: Check CVs. Private/grammar education = good, state education = bad.
he didn’t write it, someone else did
Guilty by association.
It must be shit being a number 2.
Thank fook for Terry Jones
You might think I’m writing this …. but you’d be wrong!
Someone else is writing this for me.
Your guess as to who it is would be as good as mine, ‘cos I haven’t got a clue either!
In light of England Cricket team playing ODIs in September in the rain, we at the Olympic Committee, in our wisdom, have decided to host the next Winter Olympic Games in …. Dubai
Makes perfect sense as long as they have the time to build a mountain high enough to precipitate snow, failing that they could use a few thousand of those snow machines, they’ve got the money.
Ps, Paddy says he can do the scaffolding.
Mossad wont allow it
Labour are well known for never lying to the people and any research they do is written by expert advice in publications. That Iraq business was just a coincidence.
Amazing what you can do with computers these days…
Do you really need MilliMarxiPede?
HAL would suffice.
Then we would all know our place and limitations.
“I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.”
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The Milibandwagon appears to consist of brainless celebrities with a supporting cast of minions who actually have the brains and are capable of coherent thought.
Where it all goes wrong is when the subterfuge succeeds in getting the brainless celebrity elected and everyone discovers that the star of the show is incapable of writing his own lines and is a disaster in office.
Practical and pragmatic intelligence and socialism are alien to each other; that is why socialist politicians are brainless and their speeches have to be written by paid wordsmiths who will write anything for a shilling.
I am desirous of being socially divided from the majority of the population and disposible income is by no means my most important criterion.