September 27th, 2010

Khan He Be Home Secretary?

One of the downsides of the Ed Miliband victory is we are now going to have to endure the slimy and arrogant Sadiq Khan coming to the forefront of the Labour team. The loyal campaign manager, who only just survived the election after a series of expenses misdemeanours, will have to be rewarded with a proper Shadow Cabinet post.

Khan’s outspoken foreign policy views rule him out of the FCO or defence. In a message to Ed Miliband supporters during the campaign Khan said Britain needed to support “a more independent foreign policy”, the subtext of which is in line with his rant last year that the UK’s relationship with the US was “poison”.

With little experience other than transport,  he is not qualified for the treasury and Khan has now gone favourite to replace Alan Johnson as Shadow Home Secretary, the position Ed Balls had his eye on if David Miliband, or Yvette, get the Shadow Chancellorship. Despite the fact that  both are instantly dislikeable on television and in person, struggling Teresa May would surely breathe a sigh of relief not to have the more experienced of the two bruisers shadowing her.

The Scotland Yard investigation into Khan’s expenses fraud might make his potential new role a little awkward though…


197 Comments

  1. 1
    JoinUsAtTheTrough says:

    Can’t see it myself, too much baggage.

    • 7
      usual suspects creeping out of the woodwork says:

      You’d be surprised. It seems the more baggage one has the further one goes in British Politics.

      The mong and nonce Brown for example.

      • 14
        TROOPS OUT NOW! says:

        so we should do what Obama tells us?

        fuck that

      • 26
        Animal says:

        Can’t see it happening personally. Straw will likely have a quiet word in Miliband’s ear about his campaign organiser and just why he was being bugged by the woodentops on his watch. Even if the new Liebore leader were to disregard the advice given from his honourable friend (!), I can imagine a private phone call from the Babylons will put him off, not to mention the realisation that Khan shadowing the Home Office will result in a dramatic reduction in co-operation from the department for all manner of strange reasons.

        • 34
          Backwoodsman says:

          more please ?

          • Animal says:

            The Khan bugging story got plenty of press attention a couple of years ago so there’s no need for me to add anything else.

          • Osama the Nazarene says:

            Teresa May struggling, surely shome mishtaake there. She’s doing a grand job just like big Eric.

        • 55
          jgm2 says:

          Straw was probably bugging every c**nt. He’s the only one, apart from Brown, who went all through the 13 years of Labour idiocy without being fired or ‘reshuffled’ to ‘Minister for Sticky Buns and other Desert Products’.

          There’ll be a reason for that.

          • Gordon Brown says:

            I will be talking to the new Cabinet later today. After that I will engage in a meaningful discussion with the Sofa and have a full and frank exchange of views with the Standard Lamp, followed by some ‘face time’ with Mr Beeblebrox, the President of the Galaxy.

          • Anonymous says:

            Sorry I thought for a minute you said “buggering” there, my mistake, carry on.

          • Lady Virginia Droit de Seigneur says:

            Darling lasted the distance as well

          • Batty Hattie Harmanescu says:

            Straw thirteen years and not fired or reshuffled, really?
            Surely Straw got the bullet at the behest of Washington for trying to get into Condoleza Rice’s knickers.

          • Batty Hattie Harmanescu says:

            He was fired as foreign secretary, no?

      • 28
        13eastie says:

        He is well-qualified to comment on immigration, national security, the prison service, and extradition.

        The valuable time he’s spent in jail catching up with Labour-voting international terror suspects with whom is on first-name terms will be indispensable.

        Khan’t see the problem, myself.

    • 13
      Dick the Prick says:

      He was the useless knob who never thought that grit may be important when it’s cold. We’ve got oodles of rock salt and young Khan probably cost the economy a fair few billions – bit over-qualified probably.

      • 193
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        That was because scientific advisors had told the gummint that it would never snow again. Another big win for the Greens and other GW Extremists like all those wealthy gentlemen who have invested in the most expensive and uncertain of all power generation, wind, or have put themselves in jeopardy on the Carbon Futures Market.

    • 22
      Ken Lorp says:

      This is the gift that keeps on giving …

    • 77
      Fat Cat says:

      Sadiq would have to get elected to the Shadow Cabinet first

      That’s not sure either

      • 194
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        With the Labour voting rules, where 1 person can have several votes, anything is possible. And there’s always the Postals……..

    • 85
      They cannot help themselves says:

      You are making the mistake of crediting the Labour Party with the power of rational thought. The final year in the bunker with madman Brown has driven them all mad and they have collectively all disappeared down the rabbit hole .

      Its an alice and wonderland world in which they inhabit.

      The Gods have in fact driven them into this madness and now they seek to destroy them. Every decision they make will be the wrong one, Electing Ed as leader is the latest example. Politically they have crossed the event horizon and there is no way back.

      Enjoy : )

  2. 2
    Coolio! says:

    First

  3. 3
    usual suspects creeping out of the woodwork says:

    Oh God no!

  4. 4
    Another Engineer says:

    No.

  5. 5
    Alan Jones says:

    Well posted. I thoroughly agree with your comment and impressions! (alanindyfed)

    • 56
      Dromey Pride says:

      Remember your Welsh and owe your life and soul to the benevolence of the Labour party. You should therefore show a little loyalty gratitude and respect. So get off your idle Welsh backside and give Ed Miliband some support.

      • 112
        TheGrammarPolice says:

        You must have had a day off school when they did “your” and “you’re”.

        • 118
          Unsworth says:

          Another tragic victim of State Education – but the sentiments are about right. Shall we say 6/10?

          • It's My Fault Broon says:

            A**, because this generation of teachers and students is the best ever thanks to 13 years of New Labour investment in schools and young people in order that Britain regains its competitiveness in the global economy.
            If I coughed, I could produce another yard of that.

          • filipinomonkey says:

            Which is why business leaders are complaining about the immigration cap and not being able to import the skills they need.

            Sod that for a game of soldiers, I know it can’t be true as the last 13 years of improving education must have led to vastly skilled people coming out of our universities by the hundreds of thousands. Why I would expect our international competitiors rushing to poach the best and brightest from these very shores as we speak.

            I know this is true because Tony said it was…

      • 149
        Maximus says:

        adj Welch. Like Scotch w/o skirts.

    • 159
      Spotter says:

      This being the same alanindyfed who described our Welsh troops in Afghanistan and Iraq as mere “MERCENARIES”, as they fight for the British Forces.

      I suggest that he change his name to ‘thatc*ntindyfed’.

      • 195
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        There’s the germ of an idea there. Replace the Welsh Troops with Ghurkas. We end up with troops who love their new country instead of loads of tone-deaf men in white dresses who drink warm, flat beer and would sell their wives if it would ensure victory at Twickenham.

  6. 6

    <i….with his rant last year …

    The froth of Khan.

  7. 8
    Gordon Brown says:

    Hullo.

    I’m your new Prime Minister.

    Goodbye.

  8. 10
    fuck off says:

    Can’t he strap a bomb to himself like his mates do and do the decent thing, in a field?

  9. 11
    sockpuppet #4 says:

    “a more independent foreign policy” from the US ?

    if we had that we might not have been invited to join in in iraq

  10. 12
    QWERTY says:

    The Liebour party are totally fucked, fucked fucked.

    I love it when a plan comes together

    • 64
      Ils sont tous foutus says:

      A masterly analysis of the situation, if I might be allowed to express an opinion.

    • 181
      bloops says:

      According to Mr Ashton’s “polling” organisation, Labout now have a one point lead. I bet they only asked people at the Conference for their views.

  11. 14
    You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh says:

    This Leadership result is getting better and better by the hour. Khan AND Balls in the Shadow Cabinet alongside Abbott(?)and brother David walking away(?).The Blairites fomenting trouble with negative briefings and we’ve still not heard from the ex First Lord High Secretary yet…. to further stir this poisonous brew.

    AND all this before the Tory PR machine turns its full fire on “Mister Ed” alongside Labour’s “unfriends” in the media.

    Xmas HAS come early this year

  12. 16
    Must get a pseudonym one day says:

    If Sadiq Kahn is ever in charge of the Home Office, the lunatics really are running the asylum.

    What does his crooked (in)mate Ali D say about it ?

  13. 17
    QWERTY says:

    The Liebour party want a more independent foreign policy from the USA. So is this what Red Ed and Khan the c u n t mean?

    http://israelipalestinian.procon.org/files/IsPal%20Images/suicide_bomber.jpg

  14. 18

    You mean he’d be in control of our border agency??

    Hmmmm!

    • 136
      Guest but never leaving says:

      Give him DEFRA to shadow so he can enforce compulsory halal slaughter – if it’s what the 3% want it then the rest have to accept a majority decision.

      • 154
        Fuck Islam says:

        FYI All exported New Zealand meat is now halal.

        Apparently we prefer our meat having it’s throat slit whilst fully conscious. Some abattoirs stun but many do not.

        I am no definitely no vegan and love a bacon buttie as much as the next man. I like to think the animal I am eating parts of were despatched as quickly and painlessly as possible however.

        Halal methods are rather like Islam, firmly rooted in the Stone Age.

        • 176
          Larry the Lamb says:

          It must be cheaper to produce than properly slaughtered meat.

          I usually shop at my local butchers but occasionally buy supermarket meat. I’m horrified to think I may have inadvertently bought halal without knowing. How can it possibly be allowed with all the animal welfare, food safety and food labelling legislation that we have in this country?

          Wonder what Jamie Oliver thinks about his paymasters Sainsburys selling ritually slaughtered meat?

  15. 20

    Another great decision from labour. They might think Sad-dick Khan is loyal, but that all depends on how far back he can chug another labour cock.

  16. 21
    Martin Day says:

    We’re all in this together, eh?

  17. 23
    Labour losers says:

    Yeah, he is rubbish. Fur Balls or his daft lad of a wife for SC. Perfect.

  18. 25
    Anonymous says:

    “slimy and arrogant”

    Nailed.

  19. 27
    Anus Homo says:

    The Labour Party, home to weirdo sibling pairings, husband and wife pairings, born to rule elites, and hordes of lobotomised Union drones.

    Politics reverts to the idealogical battleground of the 70′s…layabout Trot Union scum and those who work hard and play by the rules.

    I wonder if Cameron can get his head out of the clouds to engage in this final and immense battle for England.
    The bone idle Celts can fuck off of course, I couldn’t give a shit what happens to those parasites.

    • 47
      ItsAlreadyTooLate says:

      Your time is coming infidel, first the Anglos, then the Celts.

    • 69
      Ethnic cleanser says:

      The land belongs to us Celts. You lot are immigrants and can Fuck Right Off.

      • 99
        Sir Minge of Campbells says:

        Well said Sir,
        I knew some immigrants once, their rippling muscles and large testicles were most impressive

    • 96
      Anonymous says:

      Its not the celts who are the problem you stupid prick its the North London largely English marxist elite.

      • 104
        Sir Minge of Campbells says:

        Well said Sir,
        I knew some Marxists once, their rippling muscles and frankly rather large testicles were most impressive

      • 123
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        Take a look at the large number of marxist jocks representing Labour in English constituencies. As Oscar Wilde might put it, it’s the indescribables led by the irredeemables.

    • 190
      ed says:

      Anus, have you forgotten about all those bone idle anglo saxons who infest every ‘estate’ in Angeland, the St George’s flag flying, inked up knuckle draggers with their open legged bitches, bastard broods and faux Caribbean hip hop inspired slang “sayin’s man” wicked like, their chavvy fashions and piled up cases of ‘wife beater’ taking up most of the shopping trolley as they wheel it back from Asda to their own little tax payer funded Camelot’s. Most ‘Celts’ would rather the likes of the mongrel race depart back to lower Saxony or the bogs of Holland from whence they came. The battle for Angeland has long been lost, the zombie Tories, half dead blue sheep, who infest vast swathes of ‘middle Angeland’, the shires and urban fiefdoms have shown they would vote for a dried up dog turd as long as it has a Tory rosette on it whilst the deluded hypocritical guacamole socialists and their union drones and overlords will do as they are told, commanded by their dirty commie masters so, stalemate and decay is all that is left for this sorry little island, long live the Celtic peoples! (although in reality there are no Celtic peoples in these islands, Celtic is merely a linguistic term used to describe a hamito-semitic language and it’s doubtful that any of the so called Celtic tribes would ever have used that term.) I blame the Greeks!

  20. 31
    jgm2 says:

    He does, however, have a fair point about removing the UK from Uncle Sam’s arse.

  21. 32
    13eastie says:

    After the four months it’s taken for UNITE to rig the leadership contest, we can now await the unveiling of Miliband’s shadow cabinet…

    …after some more elections, of course.

    Red Ed and Dick Ed have got it sewn up, surely?

  22. 33
    Engineer says:

    Things could get worse. Dianne Abbot shadowing Health, Liam Byrne as shadow chancellor, Ed Balls as shadow foreign secretary, and so on.

    There again, some things are just too laughable to contemplate. Imagine Jack Straw as Minister for Justice, or “Veggie” Benn as Agriculture Minister, for example.

    Oh, hang on….

    • 38
      jgm2 says:

      Byrne as shadow chancellor would be the easiest job imaginable. After all, what’s the point of dreaming up more fucking idiot ways to squander money if ‘there’s no money left’.

      • 70
        Animal says:

        Shadowing the Chancellor is going to be a poisoned chalice. All the obvious names will be taunted with their disastrous record, of being ‘deficit deniers’, and of their party’s inability to keep a good hold of public expenditure. I would have thought most of the old big guns would want to stay out the frame for a couple of years and then try to get in the hot seat 12 months before the next GE to give them a running chance of re-election. Not that it will happen anyway as there’s lots more sewage to come out of the pipe where the previous administration is cncerned.

  23. 35
    Sunday Morning says:

    Wouldn’t it be great if MPs behaved a little more like football fans and made a police siren noise every time he got up to speak in the Commons.

  24. 37
    The wrath of the fiddlin cunt Khan says:

    I will make Britain a fiddling tolerant envorinment, fiddlin’s a way of life back in the old Huntry

  25. 40
    Bring back Frank Dobson says:

    After reading more Taleb, it make you realise more and more what a swollen cock Gordon Brown is.

    • 162
      Lady Virginia Droit de Seigneur says:

      I’ve always associated Gordon more with female genitalia but maybe that’s just me

  26. 41
    what a choice says:

    “slimy and arrogant” ….I thought that was the Conservative candidate in Tooting. Seems like the voters there had a pretty difficult choice…

  27. 42
    Comrades....I give you the United Kingdom's next Prime Minister and Cabinet says:

    This is hilarious !!!!

  28. 43
    Tony Hayward - I'm still the boss! says:

    I find him to be oleaginous

  29. 44
    John Cipher says:

    Let’s hope he share’s the same fate as Khan in Star Trek2 – the Wrath of Khan and gets blown up after pushing the self destruct button.

  30. 49
    I want it in black and white says:

    Khan this be true?

  31. 52
    Anonymous says:

    Wait and see.

  32. 54
    Sir William Waad says:

    Jack ‘Man of’ Straw, Charlie the Safety Elephant, Dirty Dave Blunkett, Jacqui ‘Porno’ Smith – Sadiq Khan would be following in the footsteps of some true giants of modern politics.

    • 67
      streamfisher says:

      The definition of Politics and Politicians has got to be updated in the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and Rogets Thesaurus; link to sleaze, corruption, moral bankruptcy, common assault and thievery.

    • 161
      Lady Virginia Droit de Seigneur says:

      They were all Home Secretaries – his backlist as Shadow Home Secretary over the last 13 years includes luminaries such as Ann Widdecombe, Norman Fowler, Oliver Letwin and Chris Grayling

  33. 57
    Anonymous says:

    Would this mean that he would have a chauffeur ?
    If so, at least the roads will be a bit safer.

  34. 60
    Sadiq is a Cunt says:

    I don’t say this about many people but Sadiq Khunt is a truly repulsive excuse for a human being who is so utterly bereft of any redeeming qualities, I wouldn’t piss on the sack of shit if he was on fire. Let’s hope the investigation puts the evil cock in the dock.

    • 72
      Non cunnus sed fossa says:

      Stop beating about the bush. Say what you mean, dammit.

    • 75
      will says:

      Sadiq is my MP, his supporters managed to unseat the popular MP Tom Cox and only got the nomination because he was a labour councillor in the borough and a muslim.

      Since then his majority has gone down each election, and he has needed to send EID cards to constiutients in breach of his allowances and was forced to pay the money back. My partner has been in the same ward for over 30 years and has not had so much as a hello from him. Next election he may struggle to hold onto his seat if the tories pour resources into unseating him if he has a high profile job.

      He is a slimy pole climber and will jump on any bandwagon, wwitness his friendship with ali dazei.

      There is also the curious case of him visiting a friend in MK jail (alleged terrorist) and despite not being a constitiuient assising him as a friend. This conversation was bugged illegally but was quietly dropped. I wonder what the transcripts of the conversation actually say as they were never released !!!!.

      • 116
        submit or die says:

        He and those like him are a security risk, just wait until the security services a riddled with RoPers.

    • 106
      Department of complaints says:

      Can I suggest you put your complaint in writing.

      • 133
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        That’s a good idea. It can be put in the file marked “Sleeping Dogs” and ignored because of the Tories’ drastic cuts in the CS which will result in a 15%increase in cash terms over the next 5 years. but nevertheless result in untold millions of redundancies and the end of the CS as we know it.

    • 110
      A.R. Sonist says:

      I would if I could piss petrol.

    • 175
      Get real and tell it like it really is says:

      I would if I could wee petrol

  35. 61
    David says:

    Just when you thought Labour had a chance for survival – having booted out the Scottish mafia – they’ve voted in Islington’s answer to Iggle Piggle and now he’s going to pay his dues by handing sweeties to a whole variety of loonies! Hoorah! Khan for Home Sec, Balls for Chancellor, Cooper for Deputy PM. Oh yes, they’re all so loathsome you just couldn’t ask for more! Makes Michael Foot’s 1980 cabinet look like an assemblage of Ghandi, Nelson Mandela and Albert Einstein!

  36. 66
    Lady Virginia Droit de Seigneur says:

    You have got to be shitting me – how can Miliband appoint a Shadow Home Secetary under investigation for fraud. Not even he can be that stupid.

    Khan is an oleaginous shit in the vein of Vaz.

    The plus side is that it will help render Labour unelectable

  37. 78
    streamfisher says:

    If he had anything about him he would have flown over to Delhi with a mop and bucket.

  38. 80
    Sadiq is a Cunt says:

    This twat got kicked out. Sadsick should be next.

  39. 81
    Anonymous says:

    Nothing would surprise me; labour’s been actively committing political suicide with every choice they’ve made since just before they allowed Brown to become their unelected leader.
    Everything they’ve done since then seems to have been done deliberately to try and lose as many votes as they could.
    I think they’ve simply got a death-wish as a party; maybe it’s because they secretly feel guilty for fucking up the economy so completely.

  40. 83

    To really capitalise on the family feuding, Milibandicide style, should start a fake activists twitter campaign to make the shadow chancellor Yvette Cooper and the
    minister for Woman’s business – Jack Dromey.

  41. 90
    Ali Dizaei says:

    Leave Sadiq alone. He was only one to phone me after I had bucket of shit thrown on me. Sadiq promised I can stand for safe seat when I leave prison. I hope so. I need a safe seat, my botty hurts from getting bummed in my cell all day.

  42. 91
    scouse twat says:

    praise the Lord.

  43. 92
    Steve Miliband says:

    Ian Lamont’s secret lovechild uncovered

  44. 97
    Man-any-manong {i.e. it sounds a bit rude, but in a feeble, non-threatening way} says:

    so you think you’re a Pirate now do you falkes. Well you can fuck Right off this flat earth for starters, you silly Little Boy. Pick up that Broom and make yourself Useful, you Lazy Idiot!

  45. 102
    Sadiq says:

    Do you want cucumber or onion raita?

  46. 105
    Voice of Treason says:

    Mister Ed plus Khan plus Ball will guarantee Labour out of power for at least 20 years. Rejoice. Oh how David ‘Loser’ Milipede must be regreting not standing against Brown. However, his smarmy, arrogant, bum-fluff face is enough to make anybody vomit so perhaps it was for the best.

    • 125
      Albi Here says:

      You look towards Liebour and think Oh f*ck what a mess, then you look to the Nu Conned us and think Oh f*ck what a mess, you look towards the libsh*tes and think oh fuck what a mess,you look towards the telly and think oh fuck what a mess,how the hell did we let this all happen, were we all too pi%%ed to bother.

  47. 108
    Anonymous says:

    On the plus side, at least Sadiq isn’t a Proddy.

  48. 113
    BBC Boy says:

    Why would the BBC choose now to show a Panorama programme entitled ‘Lord Ashcroft’s Millions’? And why would unionised BBC workers consider a Panorama report to be news? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11415870

    When it comes to big party backers getting their way there’s only one show in town. And it’s got nothing to do with Ashcroft or the Tory party.

    Call me cynical, but I wonder if the Panorama report was scheduled to appear at this time with a view to Ed maybe — hopefully — getting elected leader. How better to protect Labour from the charge by Tories that the party is run by the unions, than to remind everyone about one of their major donors?

  49. 134
    Bum Rap says:

    Land of soap and glory holes

  50. 143
    Postal Vote says:

    What do Khan and Balls have in common?

    They both would not have been re-elected without the postal voting shenanigans.

    • 145
      Lady Virginia Droit de Seigneur says:

      It would have helped if Khan’s Tory opponent hadn’t also been smarmy git

  51. 152
    Anonymous says:

    FLORENCE says:
    THAT SNIVELING WEE BASTARD REMINDS ME OF ZEBEDEE.

  52. 165
    tragic says:

    This scoundrel should not be let anywhere near a position that is responsible.

    Pentonville is the best place for him

  53. 166
    daveyone1 says:

    I am sure Guido will keep watch, by the way what happened to Jack straw?

    • 177
      hanging onto daddys coat-tails says:

      Don’t know about Jack Straw but his son Will Straw was interviewed on the BBC earlier today.
      Not quite sure what his area of expertise was supposed to be….

  54. 167
    Quango says:

    He isn’t qualified! I know nothing about the bloke, but how is that a valid criticisim? Jesus Guido, how many hundreds politician have you met and how many are “qualified” for their brief?

  55. 171
    Watching for corruption says:

    Does Khan play cricket for Pakistan?

  56. 179
    (I've been renamed) DA-Notice says:

    What a Khunt, I mean Hoon.

  57. 187
    I hate New Labour says:

    Who cares?

    Really, Labour aren’t going to get back in power for a very long time. Milibrown is just too easy a target for the Tories to pick off.

  58. 191
    ed says:

    Just had a thought, given Khan’s slimy reputation and corrupt nature, if he were home secretary, expect to see Ali Dizaei released from jail, compensated handsomely and made Met commissioner, Tariq Ghaffur installed as Mayor of London and Friday made a day of worship for all citizens of the caliphate of Gt. Britain. Oh and no doubt Khan would continue his troughing ways as he would be untouchable just like Jackboot’s Jaqui was, wonder if she’s watching daytime TV or…..

  59. 197
    Bluepaul says:

    Old Sunny Hundal has predicted that Khan could replace Red Ed at some point in the future (2015?).

    http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/10417#comment-221207

    I so hope he is right. Having a Muslim who is clearly anti British and sympathises more with terrorists in Pakistan than white British people living in some sink estate as leader will mean that not even the benefit junkies will vote Labour. This will put them in the same percentage of the vote territory as the Greens



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