September 28th, 2010

The New Generation

Red Ed has just finished his speech, it was a pep-talk for a “new generation”.

To Guido it still sounded like left-lurching, deficit raising, money wasting, demotivating, buzz wording, fool talking, high taxing, fast spending, ever wasting, vote losing, Labour.

UPDATE : It was apparently 8,000 words long, took over an hour and the weird staring into the distance blank pause at the beginning was Ed waiting for the autocue to start.


429 Comments

  1. 1

    Wha? Has he finished it then?

    • 5
      Fair Comment says:

      And you’re not biased in the slightest Guido.

      • 28
        Mitch says:

        “We were radical in 1997.”

        Err, don’t remember it that way.

        “We always challenge the established thinking” v “We became the new establishment.”

        Make your mind up, sunshine.

        • 33
          Wavy Davy says:

          “let sunshine win the day!”

          “an age of austerity”

          Make your mind up, sunshine.

          • Dick the Prick says:

            You just can’t fucking re-write history like that. I graduated in 1996 and agency workers getting screwed was an issue back then so for this fuck to bring it up now was a dog whistle to the unions but fucking vapour on paper.

          • ED Milliband is CHICKEN LICKEN says:

            “the sky is going to fall in… climate change is coming we only have 20 days to save the world. Oh My God. ”

            Copyright Ed Milliband (akak CHICKEN LICKEN) 2009 Climate Change Summit

          • Truth and Lies says:

            a Lie

            “the sky is going to fall in… climate change is coming we only have 20 days to save the world. Oh My God. ”

            Miliband-E he never said it son. others feel free to put those words in quotes in google and see if it’s cited anywhere but here

            the Truth

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

            and here’s the link to prove it http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5407714.stm

            the funny thing is Miliband-E supports climate change just like David Cameron, but lying about what he says doesn’t help you it hurts you

        • 127
          are we there yet? says:

          Neo Labour were not radical – they were extremist.

          Mass immigration to destroy the Tory vote, signing away powers to ex-communist bloc oligarchs in the EU, illegal wars costing the lives of 2 million innocents – fuck me & they have the nerve to call other national socialist parties in Britain extremisats.

          Look at what they did – only those with a vested interest in voting Labour would do so – otherwise you would just be a toadying war criminal supporting extremist like them.

          • laying a Cable says:

            the british public were a vested interest for three elections in a row?
            nah! you’re trying too hard. the tories just had shit leaders and the economy wasn’t falling to pieces back then
            Blair’s still a warcriminal though

          • Mr Ned says:

            When 40% of the public are either on benefits or in a publicly funded job, then they are part of the “client labour state” and do have a vested interest in voting labour.

          • scrumpy bob says:

            Let’s not forget that Blair won a 60+ majority in 2005 with a little over 35% of the vote. With the boundary changes coming next year that ain’t going to happen for Ed. The coalition will survive for a full term, because if it falls mid term Cleggy is dogmeat. By the time the next election arrives Dave will be in a position to reward the middle classes, Labour’s client state will be considerably downsized and Ed can let his big brother have five years in opposition.

          • Unsteady Eddie. says:

            So let me get this right- he’s rejected New Labour, Old Labour and ideas of the Coalition? Exactly what the fuck does he stand for then?

            And on the claim that he was against the Iraq invasion- I don’t remember ever hearing him articulate that view in the House of Commons.And I certainly don’t remember seeing him on any of the anti-war demos I attended.

          • I'm all right Jack says:

            When more than 50% of the economy goes to the public sector, you know you the country’s been screwed.

      • 49

        Read of the unbearable angst the Millibands have suffered over the leadership contest:

            Bedtime Stories With the Millibands

      • 113
        annnnnoyperson says:

        5, what the Hell do you think this is? The BBC?? Not biased?

        The idea of the BBC being unbiased is ironic, isn’t it? ;o)

        • 218
          Here's Irony for you ;o) says:

          “I support the BBC. This government supports the BBC” – Jeremy Hunt Culture Secretary

      • 150
        Crikey says:

        I know you need to be insensitive to be in politics but this huhne was a member of a government that has just visited financial ruination on the country and they speechify as if it was nothing to do with them and that the coalition are the forces of darkness for trying to clean their mess up?

        • 196
          Anonymous says:

          Cameron worked for Lamont when he fucked the economy.

          • Anonymous says:

            He never wrote the manifesto in 1997 though did he ?

          • Brown's retarded "light touch regulation" says:

            the banks started imploding in 2007
            and that wasn’t in the manifesto either

          • Rip Van Winkle says:

            Major fucked the economy, dick brain. Lamont was sitting in the chair when it went ‘bang’! It’s like saying Osborne fucked the economy…but, then you’re so stupid, you probably think it.

            Oh, and if I remember, the whole of the Labour and Liberal parties were calling for years and years for the UK to join the ERM – ‘it would sort out inlfation’.

          • smong E says:

            So a Chanceller just sits on his arse and wanks all day like you ?
            Who’s planning the cut’s and tax rises according to you? Cameron ???

            Fuck off you retarded fuckwit.

            If that was the case then Brown had fuck all to do with the economy for all those years and and it was Blair’s doing.

            Do you practice being this stupid ?

      • 214
        Anonymous says:

        nor you ?

        • 420
          Anonymous says:

          Labour trolls rewriting history again. The main problem with Lamont’s “Black Wednesday” was Britain’s membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism, which was the forerunner of the Euro. The rules of the ERM prevented Lamont from taking any preventative action other than having the Bank of England buy Sterling to shore up the markets. The economy on started to improve when we were kicked out of the ERM which then gave the Treasury room for manouvre.

          “Black Wednesday” cost the country £3bn which is a drop in the ocean compared to the trillions of debt Brown’s stewardship has lumbered us all with!

          By the way, Brown was an ardent supporter of the ERM and was lobbying for membership well before John Major persuaded a reluctant Margaret Thatcher to sign up to join, so had he been chancellor at the time instead of Lamont the economy would still have gone tits up- maybe more so.

    • 9

      good attack on Israel over Gaza and yes B£iar was wrong on Iraq

      • 26
        London Jew says:

        See what you wanna see, when push comes to shove I know where his loyalties lie and I think you do too.

      • 29
        jgm2 says:

        Won’t be long before Mossad will be hitting back with lurid details about his embarrassing life at university then. They like to remind our politicians who is in charge. Particularly the Labour ones.

        Mind you his personal life is embarrasing enough. Unmarried and without his name on the kids birth certificate. Maybe he has the same issues or lack of issues as his big brother.

        • 74
          William Hague says:

          It’s shocking

        • 82
          Batty Hattie Harmanescu says:

          Unmarried and without his name on the kids birth certificate?

          Maybe somone has had it in for him.

          • jgm2 says:

            Yep. Probably didn’t want to embarrass the poor kids by putting a batch number down as ‘Father’.

            Still, you’d have thought he’d have claimed ‘em anyway. Although of course this way he avoids paying any maintenance if he and the ‘missus’ split up.

            Always thinking one step ahead that Ned. Just like when he stuck the knife in his own brother.

          • Boris says:

            Cripes! What a beastly rotter.

          • kommandant says:

            has his kid got the tattoo

          • French Exile from New Labour says:

            I nearly choked when I heard him talk about his 16 month old son, 16 months and still no name on the birth cert. some Father, some family values.

        • 205
          Red Ed - The Union Manchurian candidate says:

          Some of his female staffers are fairly attractive. Long stressful nights working together on the campaign…late drinks to wind down. My educated guess is Red Ed has been putting it about a bit and it will come out soon.

          The public has a right to know.

      • 30
        Korkie says:

        Ahhh… so that’s what upset Guido.

      • 62
        Adolphe Miliband Six Feet Under says:

        We say one thing about the motherland and do another raghead.

      • 129
        are we there yet? says:

        Kerrrrrrrbbbbbbooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmm.

      • 176
        AC1 says:

        Attacking the only Democracy in the middle East.

        What a good way to start.

        Sorry P4edo prophet follower but I-slam is incompatible with civilisation.

    • 10
      White Van Man says:

      Yeah, chasing every vote he could right to the end

    • 36
      ddd says:

      Does Red Ed drink Pepsi Cola? I’m a Coco-Cola man myself–one less thing I have in common with the filthy communist.

    • 119
      filipinomonkey says:

      Yep, and according to Eddie Izzard (who apparently is well qualified to pass judgement) he is ‘magic’.

      Like, Paul Daniels, but without the charm and personality…

    • 239
      scouse twat says:

      looking for this Guido?

  2. 2
    Afghanistan Banana Stand says:

    He has neil. The fools and deluded are still applauding him…

    • 12
      Balls Deep says:

      That was utter fucking bollocks. Just total wank.

      I love how they want an end to name calling and want serious politics. As if it wasn’t them who had fucked the pooch so regularly.

      No more ‘toff’ accusations then I guess.

    • 13
      it was a pep-talk for a “new generation”. says:

      • 32
        jgm2 says:

        Was that the speech that had Br*wn so frightened that he called off the election? An election he (Br*wn) would have won at a canter and doomed us to an additional two years of his idiocy?

        Wasn’t a total failure then was it?

        • 43
          Same old same old says:

          Nope. That was Cameron’s first big speech which is why they are so similar.

          • jgm2 says:

            Thanks for clearing that up.

            Can’t see Cameron being frightened by Ned’s speech though.

          • same old same old says:

            I can since he sounds just like Cameron did when he became Leader.
            He didn’t sound remotely like Arthur Scargill despite the hysteria.
            Maybe Cameron is complacent but after that general election where he thought he wasn’t going to be PM for a few hours, I somehow doubt it.

  3. 3
    bandersnatch says:

    So… It didn’t matter that I was ‘called away’ just as he came onto the stage.

  4. 4
    Dazza says:

    So true. If I was him… I would take a newspaper and stick it down the back of my trousers.

    He’ll be getting a spanking soon enough…

    • 60
      Dick the Prick says:

      It’s what the Labour supporters want, though. People don’t vote sensibly. It’s tabloid, heat magazine, celebrity lifestyle – fuck reality, live vicariously of other people’s toil.

      He doesn’t have to pander to sense. This mudda fucker’s dangerous.

      • 97
        Technomist says:

        That is one of the more intelligent comments I have seen on here recently

        • 253
          Dick the Prick says:

          Copied it off TaT!!

          Nah, seriously, fuck reality – it’s a mindset. I accidently got up close and personal with some seriously connected people. Steph Booth sat down next to me for 2 hours and I warned her, I bloody warned her and she didn’t give a toss. The Labour lad was off sick that day. She got parachutted in to a decent constituency and she never for once understood that dirty tactics are standard procedure but etiquette is crucial.

          People aren’t Westminster, they care about respect and dignity. Local Cllrs are 9 out of 10 good people and to wander in and treat them like pawns in some bullshit game may be expedient but disgusting.

          I think Ed’s not going for economic credibility, he doesn’t have to. There’s a possibility that the Unions want to be unleashed, let the Tories & Libs take the heat on the risk that there’ll be a recovery and their voters won’t give a shit all the way. Not only that, but people who couldn’t give a shit either way may be adopted by shiny shiny trinkets.

          We’ve laid down over Europe – I think the days for hoping that the population will rise up when bullshit exists are a distant mammary.

      • 182
        AC1 says:

        > live vicariously off other people’s toil.

        Labour via economically destructive taxes on Work.
        Or
        Conservatives via economically destructive lack of taxes on rent-seeking?

        • 215
          Dick the Prick says:

          Dunno what you mean by rent seeking buddy. i know you’re in favour of a land tax and stuff but to tell you the truth I know bugger all about it. Quit my job a couple of months ago working for local Tories as they did my head in with all their plotting and stuff. Am quite a way out of the loop as regards theoretical stuff – just getting my mental health back, really by err…smoking and drinking lots.

          • AC1 says:

            Enjoy the smoking and Drinking! Hope you don’t waste the rest of your time :) .

            I intended no offence, I’m an LVT zealot! Just spreading the good words of Adam Smith (PBUH).

          • Maximus says:

            Rent-seeking is like having people pay you for owning a taxi, rather than for operating a taxi service with it. It is the pox of the age.

  5. 6
    English John says:

    left-lurching, deficit raising, money wasting, demotivating, buzz wording, fool talking, high taxing, fast spending, ever wasting, vote losing, Labour.
    YUP!

    • 45
      My Other Cars Not A Prius Either says:

      100% correct,you could draw an analogy to the 3rd generation mobile phone license organised by his fuckwit colleagues.bidders spent way over the odds for licences that were unlikely ever to return a profit and hence a true corporate/socialist market monopolising regulation, blocking out small telco start-ups.smaller telco operators would be more likely to employ uk staff than foreign “graduates”

      • 67
        Mitch says:

        Gold hits new high $1,300 ounce

        • 105
          Technomist says:

          But what is a dollar worth?

        • 145
          Dick the Prick says:

          Quelle surfuckingprise. America’s in the shit.

          • AC1 says:

            Irish eyes aint smiling either.

            Obviously the politically connected have now exited their positions thanks to taxpayers “generosity”.

          • Mr Ned says:

            Well that is because Obama has continued along the economic path agreed between himself and Gordon Brown at the G20 Summit in London to keep on spending.

            It did not work.

            Now the IMF have changed their tune too and admitted that the current coalition plans are the right way forward. Mind you it is hardly rocket science to understand that it is better to spend less than you take in income.

            Moving towards that is the right thing to do.

          • Grumpy Old Man says:

            And to think that that truth was spelt out by a Fabian, one Mr Charles Dickens. Mind you, the Fabians were real intellectuals at the turn of the 20th Century.

        • 268
          G McBust Broon says:

          I am hoping I can secure employment lecturing at Harvard on economics. Do wonder why they won’t return my calls though. I already have my first lecture written – my great success in selling gold and buying euros.

          • Rip Van Winkle says:

            I thought you told us before the election you were committing the rest of your life to Charitable Work? Oh, of course, silly me, you meant the Tony Blair Foundation..or is it the Gordon Brown Foundation now?

    • 126
      Anonymous says:

      So we have our own Obama.

  6. 8

    Nothing special about that at all – shite actually. Every time he spoke it was if something was crawling around under the skin on his face, like an alien or a really big Deer Bot fly larvae.

  7. 11
    sockpuppet #4 says:

    hmmm. so in conclusion the other Dave will still have his work cut out.

    • 22
      Anonymous says:

      seems like a nice boy.could be dangerous

      • 89
        Anonymous says:

        in what sense, exactly?

        • 138
          Dick the Prick says:

          Not a fake. Cammeron does come across as media savvy and aware of presentation. No where near as bad as Clegg but still sometimes quite slick.

          At the Lib Dems conference last week, Vince Cable looked uncomfortable in his own skin which gave a sense of nervousness, of bullshit modifier on max setting. Young Ed came across as boring as all hell but normal.

          Not talking politics but the lad seemed nothing special, just a standard lad. Like a leader who emerged. I dunno – just that candour.

          I am biased, I don’t believe in this new fangled thing with having teenagers running parties and i’m 35. I like old gits, frankly. But Mildred ain’t a push over. Not interesting, just an observation.

  8. 14
    Cock Heads says:

    A pop at Cock head and clegg – excellent
    A pop at Israel – excellent

    The Good society not the big one – an excellent repost to cock heads non army of volunteers who have yet, and will never come forward.

    • 197
      Lady Virginia Droit de Seigneur says:

      This would be the good society the hoons in Labour have given us over the last 13 years would it not.

      Ed is a lying deluded shit just like his former idol and patron Gordon

    • 337
      John Doh says:

      repost FFS ~ the word is RIPOSTE

      Try and find the best book in your local library ~ you won;t find it under DICKTIONARY

      • 354
        Sir Cum Spect says:

        …and I think you’ll find the apostrophe to the right of the semi-colon.

        • 412
          far king pedants says:

          pedant

          noun

          A person who puts unnecessary stress on minor or trivial points of learning, displaying a scholarship lacking in judgment or sense of proportion

  9. 15
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    it was shit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  10. 16
    Cock Heads says:

    When can we expect , The Curse known as Cameron, to give all things related to India another ringing endorsement

    • 229
      Dick the Prick says:

      Commonwealth games seems to have a dodgy business plan if it’s meant to emulate the Olympics. The Olympics business plan has another whole bag of spanners knocking about somewhere therein but that’s another thing.

    • 343
      Cock Heads says:

      Nope – still delusional

  11. 17
    Irene says:

    All this new generation thing will be difficult to pull off against the youngest PM in a long time. PolitcsHome

    Where is the new generation – we have the same old lot from last time.

    • 39
      Mitch says:

      Prescott looked like he’d had one bhaji too many.

      Straw smug and oily; normal Straw, really.

      Kinnochio bloated on Euro gravy.

      Harriet looking more like a turkey gobbler every day.

    • 397
      Decadent and Proud says:

      People try and put us down
      Talking ’bout my generation
      Now fuck off will yer?

  12. 18
    Labour has made a lousy choice says:

    Wants a new form of politics…but then referred to the HM Government of 1979 to 1997 as ” That Lot” and gets the biggest applause of his , probably the most sleep inducing load of platitudes speech that someone of this older generation, has ever heard!

  13. 19
    smoggie says:

    He apologised for letting the bankers ruin the country. Wasn’t their fault then?

    • 25
      Engineer says:

      No. It started in America. Apparently….

    • 48
      jgm2 says:

      No. Not the Labour politician’s fault at all. Nothing they could have done. Being in government at the time and all. In fact being in government for a full decade before it happened.r=

      Nothing they could have done. All somebody else’s fault.

      • 62
        Mitch says:

        yeah, poor financial regulation, apparently.

        Pity nobody like Brown or Balls ever thought about it, or mentioned it. Yeah, right.

        • 78
          jgm2 says:

          No, I’m sorry, you’ll have to run that by me again. I know, because the BBC and the Labour Party and the MSM and even the T*ries, have been telling me for the past three years that the whole recession was entirely the fault of the b*nk*rs. But now you’re telling me that Ed Miliband reckons it might have been down to non-existent regulation by Labour?

          I’m shocked.

          • smoggie says:

            It was the bankers who ran up the unprecedented level of debt. Somehow those fiendish financial wizards caused the government to fill the public sector with non-workers and spend more on benefitz than defence.

          • Cameron liked it at the time says:

            It was the bankers who forced Cameron to pledge to match Labour’s spending.

          • jgm2 says:

            That’s more like it smoggie. Thank God I’m hearing the mainstream story again. I just can’t cope with the idea that this recession was anything other than 100% the fault of the b*nkers.

            After all that’s all I’ve heard for the past three years. If it turns out to be the Labour government’s fault I’ll feel like I simply can’t trust the Labour party, the BBC, the MSM or (weirdly enough) the T*ries.

          • Brown AND the Banksters, get it fucking right says:

            If I get robbed by a pair of cun’ts I’m not going to let one of them off the hook because I want to pretend they are incapable of theft.

          • AC1 says:

            You got robbed by the same ‘guy’ twice.
            The second time to pay off his “connections” who’d lose money if ‘Mr Bank’ went away.

          • Brown's retarded "light touch regulation" says:

            Nope! because the Bankers aren’t innocent victims but willing accomplices who made a fortune in Bonuses from the robbery.

            Like I said I’m not going to let one of them off the hook because I want to pretend one of them is incapable of theft. Brown AND the Bankers.

          • Allan@Aberdeen says:

            The bankers are destroying the economies of the west (possibly not Germany’s) at this moment and have been doing so for decades if not centuries.

            http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21221

            <>

    • 66
      Vince Cable says:

      I just called them cun’ts.

  14. 20
    Hague says:

    Still better than the pink parade we have in the government. At least you don’t have to watch your back.

  15. 21
    Engineer says:

    What was all that about a nude generation?

  16. 24
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Mossad will be on the phone ……………

  17. 26
    'I accept I am ridiculous, self regarding, shrieking, barely literate cunt gobshyte', Sallly Bercow says:

    To say you are for something and understand the need for it (the deficit), and then list reasons why you are against it is a gift for the Tory filth.

    Thanks Ed, the real Ed with Balls would have said we have to borrow more! It’s the only was to save our economee you fuckers!!!

  18. 31
    Ed Milibland and Nothing New Party says:

    Other than idealism this guy has nothing new to offer on the centre ground politics. Hmmm. Maybe he should not abandon the left so hastily.

    • 42
      Engineer says:

      He offers change. There again, they all offer change.

      • 59
        jgm2 says:

        I don’t want ‘change’. I want fucking stability.

      • 120
        Twunk Watch says:

        Change back to Gordo Policies from CamCleggover I bet!!

      • 211
        Mornington Crescent says:

        I didn’t watch/listen to the speech – waste of a life. I mean, just seeing that photo of him at the lectern surrounded by kids who wouldn’t know what a pubic hair is says it all.

        But if I hear another fucking politician use the word change – any of them – I’ll fucking scream. Pure, meaningless bollocks. If they can’t think of anything original to say, get out of politics and leave me to lead my own life.

        • 252
          New Generation = Star Treck= Somehow Rather Fitting says:

          Your so square daddy oh move over its time for the New Generation !

  19. 38
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    I bet CCHQ are drinking Champers

  20. 46
    Adolphe Miliband Six Feet Under says:

    OH VEY!

  21. 47
    Popeye says:

    Take heed! This is the TUC’s version of democracy!
    The fact that the British voters have had a democratic election and the majority voted against Socialist policies, the brothers have decided in a secret cabal, that they will do all they can to destroy real Democracy.

  22. 50
    letcher says:

    So we could finish up with an idiot with a deformed face leading labour
    Fucking GREAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  23. 52
    Ed Milibland speech was sponsored by Dull As Ditchwater says:

    Dull. Idealism. Nothing new. Yawn.

  24. 56
    Just asking says:

    Is Guido a blogtrotter?

  25. 57
    Anonymous says:

    Did I hear him having a go at 90 days and other stuff that he voted for? Twat.

  26. 58
    My Other Cars Not A Prius Either says:

    Radio 5 left is leading the news with the messiahs sermon

  27. 64
    Doc Trough says:

    Shouldn’t somebody take the Grape Kool-Aid round now?

    • 118
      stilyagi_air_corps says:

      “Get Dwyer out of here before something happens to him … (pause) … Dwyer.”

      Burp.

  28. 69
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Bet the unions are crying in there beers

  29. 71
    Ed Milibland speech was sponsored by Dull As Ditchwater says:

    Yup! Nothing to worry about.

  30. 73
    Stupid Ed Flanders says:

    Diddley

  31. 75
    Geordie Scoot says:


    Now I remember where I’ve seen Ed before – he had a part as the Slender Loris on Shooting Stars once.

  32. 77
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    ” “Thanks to the 1,100 co-conspirators took part in Guido’s #RedEd speech live-chat. How was it for you @leftfootforward?”

  33. 84
    Twit Tw*t Twot says:

    The brethren and AlJaBeeb seem to be creaming their knickers over the boys speech.

  34. 85
    Mike and Bernie Winters are shit says:

    Has anyone else noticed Red Ed Miliband’s uncanny resemblance to Bernie Winters?

  35. 86
    QWERTY says:

    The BBC are still spinning the lie that the one eyed mong wasn’t responsible for the melt down of the banks.

    No? So who allowed the Bradford and Bingley to carry out reckless lending? Who allowed northern Rock to give out 125% mortgages? Who allowed self certified mortgages? Who allowed mortgages that were 6 or 7 times a persons salary? The FSA that was set-up by the one eyed mong.

    Go back before 1997 and you couldn’t get a mortgage without a good deposit and you could borrow around 3 times your salary max.

    What changed in 1997 BBC?

    • 103
      Anonymous says:

      Bankers got greedy?

      Americans lost their senses?

      Ah, right – the one eyed lunatic became chancellor.

    • 107
      TJ says:

      The BBCs pro-Labour bias is more blatant then ever.

      The Tories won’t be getting this wide-eyed, 24 hour adoration at their conference next week. Could you imagine Michael “Creepy” Crick describing a Tory speech as “superb” as he did on Newsnight last night about David Miliband’s speech?

    • 124
      smoggie says:

      It wasn’t the British borrowers who failed – it was the lenders, as they couldn’t deliver the promised mortgages since their American source of capital dried up overnight. Nobody bailed out the borrowers.

      There was a time when building societies only made loans from their own depositors capital.

      But in any case, how exactly did this little glitch run up 155 billion of debt?

      • 137
        Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction says:

        Credit default swaps and collaterallised loan obligations.
        Look them and AIG up.

        • 247
          EC1 PhD says:

          Agreed. If AIG and the monolines had understood that the supposedly ultra-low risk super-senior debt could explode in their fat faces, the banks (and the rest of us) wouldn’t be in the shit they are as they wouldn’t have been able time and time again to slice and dice the sub-prime debts which earned them their huge bonuses. Excellent explanation of the whole financial meltdown in Tett, Gillian (2009) “Fools Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Financial Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe”, Abacus: London.

      • 142
        QWERTY says:

        Ask Barry Obama. He was a ‘community organiser’ for ACORN that literally bullied banks into lending money to ethnics who couldn’t afford the loans. Oh and the Democrats who used Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to push loans to the poor as well.

        Our ‘deficit’ isn’t because of the bank bail out, it’s because the one eyed mong found that after years of raising taxes, robbing pensions and flogging off gold, he’d run out of money. So he borrowed and when the borrowing stopped he and Darling got the John Bull printing set out and printed tenners out the back of Downing Sttreet.

        • 154
          Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! says:

          Wall Street Bonuses Hit Record $39 Billion for 2007

          Wall Street Bonuses Hit Record $39 Billion for 2007 (Update3) By Christine Harper Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) — Wall Street’s five biggest firms are paying a record $39 billion in bonuses for 2007, a year when three of the companies suffered the worst quarterly losses in their history and shareholders lost more than $80 billion. Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch & Co., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Bear Stearns Cos. together awarded $65.6 billion in compensation and benefits last year to their 186,000 employees. That means year-end bonuses, at 60 percent of the total, exceeded the $36 billion distributed in 2006 when the industry reported all-time high profits. The New York-based firms, which shed 25 percent of their equity value during 2007, have said they’re eliminating at least 6,200 jobs amid mounting losses from the collapse of the subprime mortgage market. The payouts come as the U.S. economy slows, with unemployment rising, retail sales declining and new home foreclosures surging to a record. “To many people, it will be shocking and questionable,” said Jeanne Branthover, managing director of Boyden Global Executive Search in New York.
          The industry’s bonuses are larger than the gross domestic products of Sri Lanka, Lebanon or Bulgaria, and the average bonus of $219,198 is more than four times higher than the median U.S. household income in 2006, according to data compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau.—-

        • 164
          Wall Street is up to their neck in fraud says:

        • 315
          White City home of the BBC says:

          QWERTY #142 Excellent post my man, what you have just said should be taught to our children in schools up and down the country because that is Exactly what has happended.

      • 156
        JD says:

        The borrowers are getting bailed out right now with ludicrously low interest rates. It’s the savers that are getting screwed to rescue the profligate, as the Bank of England now admits:
        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/savings/8028884/Savers-told-to-stop-moaning-and-start-spending.html

        • 199
          Engineer says:

          The Bank of England can fuck right off with this one. I’ll spend my meagre savings when I choose to, not when they think I ought to.

          • NotaSheep says:

            If you don’t spend it soon inflation will ensure that its value keeps on decreasing. That’s the power of inflation and why indebted governments like inflation.

      • 162
        jgm2 says:

        155bn of deficit old boy. Total cost to the taxpayer to ‘bail out the b*nks that caused the recession’ is reckoned to be of the order of 6bn quid. A lot of money to be sure but peanuts compared to any deficit Br*wn ran for the past decade.

        The problem ain’t the b*nks. The problem ain’t the b*nks cutting back on lending. We had a property bust in the early 90′s but got through it without a full blown economic clusterfuck. The problem is the huge amount of borrowing both by government and individual. Money that we’ve already spent. Money that we can’t spend now to smooth out the housing bust.

        The problem as Liam Byrne, in a rare moment of honesty said, is ‘The money’s all gone’.

        • 227
          I believe the Labour Chancellor, like fuck I do says:

          reckoned by the former Labour Chancellor Darling who is incapable of talking shit about the economy or hiding hundreds of Billions in off balance sheet accounting

          while others reckon it’s closer to £1.5 Trillion once the money printing, insurance, backing toxic securities FTSE crash and all the other factors are counted

    • 191
      sockpuppet #4 says:

      All rather party political of you.
      I wouldn’t be confident that regulation under a conservative government would have been magically perfect.

      I’d suggest that regulation of banks should allow them to lend in any way they see fit – but the government stops them doing things that are dangerous to the wider economy.

      If the government makes decisions about precisely who can borrow what, that sounds rather like too much government control. Sounds a bit like france actually, where money to finance company investment is so skewed by government interferences and the market for borrowing money so constrained that investers actually expect to be sucked off.

  36. 88
    Unions says:

    Ed is a fcukn JUDAS!

  37. 90
    QWERTY says:

    Fucking hell Polly Toynbee on the BBC yet again. Fuck off you ugly fat dyke.

  38. 94
    The 70s says:

    Nice intro, Guido. (Wasted on your youthful audience, I fear.)

  39. 100
    Twit Tw*t Twot says:

    So AlJaBeeb and Polly Perkins from Tuscany are talking about a new,new,new Liebour party,the seem to have forgotten the last 13 years and all the taxes they have wasted..

    • 301
      The moving hand,having writ,moved on says:

      They know that the average voter has the memory span of a gnat …

  40. 104
    wee logician says:

    I think it was a clearer speech than one by Cameron would be, and for that reason easier to detect the rank bull shit, such as when he claimed that pubs and local post offices were a concern. The idea that he’d overturn smoking bans or uphold rural services is fantasy. There were a few embarrassing jokes at the beginning, some better ones at the end. The stuff about him and David M as children rang false. When he talked about many aspirations he came up against the brick wall of the fact that NuLab were his project too and he and it helped cause the problems he now claims to abhor. He had nothing meaningful to say about immigration; the bull shit was rank indeed when he turned it into an issue of union interest. He said nothing about scroungers from abroad coming in and sucking up benefits- that’s what Mrs Duffy was on about; come to think of it he didn’t name-check her either. His analysis of why they lost- what was it again? I think it was that they became distant, like a ruling class. He got that over with with indecent haste so that it was scarcely memorable or credible. On substantive issues, his endorsement of the “living wage” seemed to be a hostage to fortune.

    In summary, not all that good, though he did say it fluently. Neither especially political nor substantial on policy. Not as charming as he needed to be, given the big gaps in content and honesty.

  41. 110
    Adios nulab. says:

    As ppc’s are preaching to the converted, you got to laugh that those delegates who have attended ppc’s for the last 14 years and applauded with delight at every utterance have effectively been told they got it all wrong.

    • 120
      jgm2 says:

      Weird alright.

      Because I’ve been telling Labour apologists for years they’re wrong and they just get upset.

      But now their leader tells ‘em they were wrong for the past 13 years and they cheer him to the echo.

      It’s almost as if the thoughtless imbeciles will agree with any fuckwitted thing their leader says. Even if it’s diametrically opposed to what he said last week. Have they all smoked too much sk*nk or something? Is their short-term memory completely shot?

      • 130
        smoggie says:

        There was more dissent in North Korea this week as they appointed the “Young General”.

      • 135
        are we there yet? says:

        We are at war with Eurasia…….

      • 143
        no time for partisan poodles be they red yellow or blue says:

        I tell them all they’re wrong and they all react in the exact same manner
        it’s very amusing

      • 144
        Engineer says:

        Amazing the strength of tribal bonds. “I vote Labour ‘cos me Dad voted Labour, and his Dad voted Labour, and every generation of our family back to the Norman Invasion.”

        Which basically means that they don’t, or can’t, think for themselves.

        • 163
          Dick Tator says:

          Is that the Norman invasion that failed to bring in any Wisdom?

        • 201
          Groucho says:

          Sad, but true. Here in County Durham I know quite a few people like this. Casting your vote at election time involves no thought, weighing up of issues, whatever. You just put your cross in the Labour box and thats the way it is.

          Our MP, Kevan Jones, was criticised by these same voters when it emerged what a vile, backstabbing shithouse he was regarding the Gurkhas, Joanna Lumley, General Dannat’s expenses, etc. Then, they voted him back in. Because his dad was a miner, apparently.

          So depressing.

        • 228
          Teacher says:

          I have tried. As soon as you mention politics the lights go out

  42. 116
    Phantom says:

    F*ck me, that that wasn’t the most soaking wet load of motherhood and applie pie pish ever to dribble from a Labour politicians mouth since Peter Jukes tried to define Britishness for Captain Defective.

    Contradictory, steeped in the fetid miasma of loser Obama-onics.

    New Generation? This isn’t sodding Star Trek despite the Labour leader doing a great impersonation of a jobbing extra dressed as an alien lost on the production set.

    His MPs didn’t want him, his members didn’t want him.

    He is one massive hostage to the AV vote now. Vote AV, get me the losing candidate as PM. Against AV, why? After all, you got the job on back of it.

    As for what his kid might think of the country in 20 years time, perhaps he might be relieved his Dad couldn’t be bothered to claim paternity because that wretched speech was culmination of his blessed Mum and Dad’s communist leanings.

    A mealy-mouthed, wishy-washy semantic car crash of contradictions, non-sequitors and tick-all-the-boxes list of ‘Mr. Joe Ordinary’ leading the Labour Party.

    The public will not give a flying feck for Labour until Mr. Potato Head says sorry for the litany of almightly screw-ups done in the name of New Labour.

    • 148
      interchangeable says:

      “new generation” was a good enough soundbite for Dave when he used it five times in less then 30 seconds in his first big speech

      • 244
        Nothing is really new in politics says:

        Ed might even reprise Dave’s line at his first PMQs….”You were the future once……….”

      • 357
        Mr Ned says:

        That was when it was real.

        Most of the labour shadow cabinet are the same fuckers that fucked everything up for the last 13 years.

  43. 128
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Well that was a hour off my life that i will never get back .

  44. 132
    Red Eds no 1 Hater. says:

    Jesus wept what a useless twat !!! if Mr Ed is the best Liebore have got thank fuck!!! they will be out of power for fucking years, he realy is a total Hunt but then a Hunt is useful, have you seen that bloke he knocked up no wonder he will not marry him, that is a bloke i”m convinced. It is going to be bloody funny come election time seeing that turnip trying to trump DC and the glowing Samantha, but i think he will be a busted flush way before that. Not long now and George will be sticking the boot into the feckless underclass and chavs Liebore created, cannot bloody wait to hear the wailing and moaning from the socialist shits.AFTER TODAY A NAILED ON VICTORY IN FIVE YEARS.

    • 233
      Bob the Builder says:

      Yes

      All government handouts to Safe Labour seats should be axed 100%

      And to Jockland

      That would save about £100 billion right there

    • 236
      Neverunderestimate the cupidity of the electorate says:

      Let’s hope you’re right but bearing in mind Cameron was up against the worst PM in living memory with the interpersonal skills of “The Hulk” and still didn’t manage an overall majority nothing would surprise me…even Ed becoming PM in 2015

      • 359
        Mr Ned says:

        No but he still got more votes and a bigger share of the vote than Blair did in 2005 and Brown did even worse than John Major in 1997.

        It is the fucked up, gerrymandered corrupt pro labour bias in the seat boundaries that stopped Cameron winning an overall majority, NOT lack of votes.

  45. 133
    are we there yet? says:

    Millionaire marxists. Its New, New Labour.

  46. 141
    Lizzie says:

    We have just witnessed a New Generation of Old Labour, long may they be in oppostion, they owe it to the country they ruined called Britain.

  47. 147
    Truthteller says:

    Had to change channel after 2 minutes, my skin began to crawl.

  48. 148
    QWERTY says:

    So Red Ed wrote the Liebour party manifesto and yet the BBC think he’s not fucking useless.

    The BBC are quick to link David Cameron to Norman Lamont, yet somehow the BBC forget that Red Ed wrote a failed manifesto.

    • 172
      BBC excuse-maker-in-chief says:

      Ah, no. Ed realises that his ideas from the manifesto have been rejected by the voters. So he’s changed his ideas.

      It’s called sticking to your principles.

      • 178
        Dick Tator says:

        “If you don’t like these principles, I have others!”

        Beginning to sound just like ‘our Tone’.

  49. 151
    letcher says:

    More cheese Gromit lad

  50. 153
    Spank Sinatra says:

    What a truly appalling performance – wonderful!

  51. 159
    No wonder the thick fuckers have had their homes stolen says:

    Fuck me there is no hope for you rag heads if you have bought into that Israel bashing bullshit that Mossad had special ed placate you with.

    You are being played like puppets on a string.

    • 165
      jgm2 says:

      Got to keep the swing voters of Bradford on-side. They won’t be comfortable voting for a big-nose.

    • 169
      Israeli Digger Driver says:

      Mazeltov my friends we get to start work on building lots of new flats today.

    • 251
      prezzas a slobbergob says:

      little prat is prayerless if he thinks this modern generation crap will wash away the woes of the last 13 years as if ‘it was them gov not us’..vacuous with old lines nothing inspirational and shows how desperate the party must be if thats the future.

  52. 166
    Gordon Brown says:

    I don’t like Pepsi OR Coke. I much prefer fizzy orange.

  53. 167
    Cameron then Boris to 2030 says:

    We’re alright! We’re alright! We’re alright!

  54. 174
    Where's Mr Fap? says:

    Where’s that intelligent fellow who loves to post Mini-me videos and calls anyone who hates Labour a whining pussy?

  55. 181
    ratatatat says:

    Where’s that fellow who believes in UFO’s, thinks 9/11 was an inside job and liked David Icke?

  56. 184
  57. 186
    SILK STOCKING SALESMAN says:

    Is’nt it just that E.Millibandido minor is just a twerp? Remember chums in the dorm rounding on a similar character when he took the debating prize the year after his older and frankly more popular brother failed to get his point across. Mind you, major went on to great things internationally.

  58. 188
    Disco Biscuit says:

    He looks like a flid.

  59. 192
    That Speech In Full says:

  60. 195
    Where's Mr Fap? says:

    Funny. I loathe Labour, Gordon Brown, David Icke and dirty muzees. Ergo, a fail for Mr Fap. Now he’ll throw some Nokias out of his pram again.

  61. 200
    Fees Office Clerk says:

    New Generation my fucking arse….I see the same lopsided face that backed Blair and Brown for the last 13 sodding years

  62. 203
    Bernard Ingham says:

    I just returned from holiday to find Harry Potter is the new Labour leader. I’ll be laughing for the next five years.

  63. 204
    I Slam Islam says:

    Farook him

  64. 207
    Rainbow Red Ed says:

    Red and yellow and green and blue I love you!

  65. 208
    White Van Man says:

  66. 209
    Bone Head says:

    what does nationalise a train set mean?

  67. 217
    Grad says:

    That Ed Miliband, he geeked for me in Uni.

  68. 219
    The Generation Game....Here's your host...Ed Miliband!! says:

    Why don’t you all just fade away?
    Talkin’ bout my generation.
    And don’t try to dig what we all say.
    Talkin’ bout my generation.
    I’m not trying to cause a big sensation.
    Talkin’ bout my generation.
    I’m just talkin’ bout my generation.
    Talkin’ bout my generation.

  69. 220
    Emily Maitless, Impartial BBC says:

    I am interviewing a full cross-section of Ed Milliband’s Labour supporters, without fear or favour. Its so exciting being completely impartial. Oops I’ve just seen Ed, I need to change my knicks.

  70. 223
    Is David not of his generation? says:

    Why not ‘My Generation’ – and then we could all play the 1965 Who LP…

    • 281
      White City home of the BBC says:

      I seem to recall recent episodes of Eastenders which featured a totaly wired Phil Mitchell doing crack with some bitch whilst playing My Generation on his stereo. Do you think there is a link in here or a moral for our generation somewhere in all this ?

  71. 226
    Sky News says:

    He’s just getting support from Caroline ‘babe’ Flint and Hazel ‘ginger’ Blears.

    Blears just said its “slightly different” in a boom than in a recession. With insight like this surely Blears ought to be shadow chancellor?

  72. 232
    White Van Man says:

    ON Sky News:

    Looks like Hazel Blears has seen a plastic surgeon and spotting a new hair do too, she still looks like a fucking monged out poisoned dwarf like.

    • 258
      Ed Ball's cat says:

      My boss might have to consider the ginger dwarf as his assistant after this incisive analysis

      “Its a bit different being in a boom to being in a recession” (or suchlike)

    • 272
      Anonymous says:

      Perhaps she has had plastic Surgery and an identity change as she is in hiding from the Inland Revenue since her cheque bounced !

  73. 234
    Taxfodder says:

    Not content with ruining the economy and failing in just about every way, but to make a pigs ear of electing a leader (not that the other bro was much of a catch), I am utterly astounded why anybody with more than one functioning brain cell would vote for another Labour government any time soon.

    At least my fellow countrymen got one thing right, they did not vote for the current un-elected coalition either so perhaps there is hope yet.

    • 238
      AC1 says:

      They didn’t just ruin the economy!

      Just think of all the dysgenic and social damage from the failure rewards and success punishments they rolled out.

  74. 237
    Labour's new generation says:

    Presumably he means their imported pets?

  75. 242
    Mrs Carole Belkin says:

    I shall vote for Ed. He’s going to put my wages up, and tax bankers more. David Cameron hasn’t promised to do either of those things.

  76. 243
    Can't remember my moniker says:

    Surely Edwand’s words, “… the fiscal credibility we earned before 1997 was hard won …”, can be translated into the Queen’s English as ‘Brown became a cυnt from the very moment that he became chancellor’?

    • 267
      Anonymous says:

      Brown was always a C unt.

      • 290
        Can't remember my moniker says:

        Natch, but this is the first recorded instance of their top bod admitting it.

        • 379
          Unsteady Eddie. says:

          Funny how Ed didn’t feel strongly enough about Browns failings to resign as his right hand man for all those years.
          Mind you what would you expect from a man who persuaded his own brother not to stand against Brown for the leadership and then threw his own hat into the ring at exactly the right moment….
          The man is a snake.

  77. 245
    Red Ed says:

    We’re all being optimistic together

  78. 254
    Justine Thornton says:

    I’d like to talk about absent fathers

  79. 256
    I love artificially flavoured carbonated sugar water! says:

    Yvonne Ridley says drinking coke or pepsi is like drinking the blood of dead muzees. Really? In that case, dead muzees taste damn good!

  80. 261
    TV Presenter says:

    Does this speech make it more likely that David Miliband will go? What do you think Polly?

  81. 262
    I dreamed a Dream ( words and music by Eddie Izzard ) says:

    My credit card company called me today to advise me that I had ran up unprecedented debts well over my spending limit on all of my Cards.

    They asked me what I was going to do about it and demanded I set up a standing order with an agreed minimum payment every month or they would be taking me to court.
    I told them that lessons had been learned and that it was time to move on.
    I reminded them that I represented a New Generation and it was time for change.
    I also told them stories about my brave parents and what they did in the war.

    They seemed impressed and told me just to forget about the amount I owed .

    A new day has dawned has it not.

  82. 264
    AnotherAnon. says:

    Ed reminds of an another marxist.

    • 274
      gringo says:

      is he an arab?

    • 283
      CastIron Cameron says:

      All modern progressive people support the UAF, BBC and EU. Stop being closet racist, loonies and fruitcakes. Why can’t you just be like me and inherit millions of pounds and then buy expensive houses miles from the inner city multi-cultural paradises we have created? Let sunshine win the day.

    • 285

      “Ask anyone from Ireland what they think of the Union Jack….”

      Who gives a fuck what they think!

      What a wanker!

    • 307
      • 413
        William Hague MP says:

        “Today I want to talk about why I believe we, as foreign policy practitioners, need to up our game in building a credible and effective response to climate change. Climate change is perhaps the twenty-first century’s biggest foreign policy challenge along with such challenges as preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. A world which is failing to respond to climate change is one in which the values embodied in the UN will not be met. It is a world in which competition and conflict will win over collaboration.”

        speech at the Council of Foreign Relations, 27/09/10

    • 391
      You are scum says:

      What a disgusting piece of filth.

  83. 270
    Cock Heads says:

    Well Well Well, Ed has got you all in a lather – hasnt he.

    • 296

      How d’you figure that? Ed’s a little prick who’s getting the mockery he deserves. Your the one getting in a ‘lather’ posting here.

      You’re the worst troll this threads had. LOL!

    • 298
      Mendelsohn says:

      He’s got me in a lather

    • 302
      Red Ed The Hypocrite says:

      No. We’re laughing at him, Labour troll. Same way we laughed at the autistic sociopath you had before him. And now you’ve got a leader who lost to his brother in the MP and party members votes but came first in the union block votes. You’ve handed us a gift on a plate. Thank you. Enjoy opposition – you’ll be in it for a good while yet.

    • 328
      White Van Man says:

      Not really the guys a fuckin greasy skinned mong geek with no personally at all.
      He has a very broad church to keep together with the unions bum fuckin him when ever they want to wile he’s trying to pander to the public for votes. Which in essence means Liebour’s out of office for a decade, but I have to admit I did fathered his bastard child.

  84. 277
    Steve Miliband says:

    BBC wetting their pants over it – at one point Piennar referred to ‘us’ rather than Labour voters. Blatant.

    • 324
      Emily Mateless says:

      Oooh I think I’m having a major orgasmic experience along with my other impartial Labour (oops sorry BBC!) colleagues.

    • 335
      rocknrolla says:

      Hope that makes it to youtube.

      Always worth collecting the evidence but now seems bit pointless given they’re striking to try to shut down coverage of Tory conference – probably the dumbest thing they’ve ever done, doubt it will help them in the long run.

  85. 278
    Red Ed The Hypocrite says:

    There’s nothing like a Labour c-unt for utter barefaced hypocrisy. Miliband voted for Iraq and defended it to the hilt for 7 years straight. And now he says it was wrong.

    And christ on a bicycle, his girlfriend is a fucking moose.

  86. 279
    Saved Dave says:

    Well we know Big Ed’s happy to trash family values and his Marxist upbringing has certainly taught him the value of history, one of his favourite words, but as his experience does not encompass rural life he forgot to mention New Labour’s greatest triumph of social engineering and the destruction of communities, the Fox Hunting ban. Surely that would have got him the biggest applause amongst a gathering of overfed party townies, most of whom, like him, have never had a proper job in their lives and bear little resemblance to “workers”, another word he sprinkles like confetti, and likes to imbue with mystical value, as he has met so few, unless you include Harriet Harman.

  87. 286
    Red Ed The Hypocrite says:

    Is it just me or did anyone else feel like slapping the poncey student types clapping furiously during Ed’s speech?

  88. 287
    Tachybaptus says:

    A certain resemblance to Escaping criticism. Luckily he won’t.

  89. 288
    Gordon Brown says:

    Ed, why did you say I was wrong on boom and bust? I DID end boom and bust. You’ve betrayed me, Ed. You’ve let me down.

    • 317
      Gordon Brown says:

      On the other hand as we are moving on together, I understand you need a new chancellor – I’ll send you my CV.

  90. 294
    BBC News says:

    Reports are coming in that Gordon Brown has been seen running dementedly down a corridor at the Labour conference, screaming “Why don’t you love me?! Don’t love Ed! Love me!”

  91. 300
    Wiliam Hague says:

    seems like a nice boy

  92. 303
    Steve Miliband says:

    Life is the name of the game, And I wanna play the game with you. Life can be terribly tame, If you don’t play the game with two. Yeah life is a go as you please, And I need some place to go with you. Life can be oh such a tease

    Nice to see you, to see you nice!

  93. 310
    Twunk Watch says:

    The Tories should be spelling out your co-conspirators blog contributions to the long-suffering public daily about ReEd, his mate Gordo and his Liebour Party…..

    “Our ‘deficit’ isn’t because of the bank bail out, it’s because the one eyed mong found that after years of raising taxes, robbing pensions and flogging off gold, he’d run out of money. So he borrowed and when the borrowing stopped he and Darling got the John Bull printing set out and printed tenners out the back of Downing Street.”

    “155bn of deficit old boy. Total cost to the taxpayer to ‘bail out the b*nks that caused the recession’ is reckoned to be of the order of 6bn quid. A lot of money to be sure but peanuts compared to any deficit Br*wn ran for the past decade.

    The problem ain’t the b*nks. The problem ain’t the b*nks cutting back on lending. We had a property bust in the early 90′s but got through it without a full blown economic clusterfuck. The problem is the huge amount of borrowing both by government and individual. Money that we’ve already spent. Money that we can’t spend now to smooth out the housing bust.

    The problem as Liam Byrne, in a rare moment of honesty said, is ‘The money’s all gone’.”

  94. 311
    QWERTY says:

    notice how the BBC ignored the fact that the union leader said “rubbish” when Red Ed said he wouldn’t support strikes, yet Sky highlighted it.

    Also, the BBC ignored the fact that on Iraq none of the Labour mafia including his brother applauded. Why didn’t the BBC think that was worth mentioning?

    The Liebour party is badly split now with Red Ed but the BBC are trying to cover it up.

    Expect the BBC to run an Andy Coulson lie or a Lord Ashcroft story today.

  95. 313
    spongebob says:

    Missed the speech. Can someone let me know what he said his plan is for the major challenge of the day, the deficit? Thanks (serious question BTW)

  96. 316
    Red Ed The Hypocrite is Bad (bad as in shit, not bad as in good) says:

  97. 318
    Straw says:

    T*ories are glass half empty.

    • 334
      A none Tory voter says:

      At least they’re realists, you cant pay the bills with illusions and delusions, stick you head back in the sand you deficit denier you!

  98. 321
    Tron says:

    Every single person at the Labour Conference has been interviewed by Sky/BBC and they all thought the speech was GREAT, FANTASTIC, 10 OUT OF 10.
    WHAT THE FUCK did they expect them to say ! What a waste of time.

    I thought it was DULL.

  99. 322
    Cock Heads says:

    Cuts about to be made
    VAT soon to go up
    Defence about to be slashed
    Crime to start rising again
    Inflation to start creeping up
    Councils ( Tory councils ) about to wage war on their staff

    Keep on harping on about Ed being Red.

    • 363
      Ed Potato Head says:

      Most people are intelligent enough to know who was to blame.

      The rest vote Labour anyway.

  100. 326
    Britannia says:

    Red Ed is wiping away with a Kleenex the stains on British history left by Blair, Brown, Mandleson (heavy stains in his case) and all the flipping Labour chancers like Jaqui Smith and husband (extremely heavy stains), Hazel Blears, McNulty etc etc.

  101. 327
    Are you ready for Hague Pride ? says:

    It’s coming next week

  102. 329
    caesars wife says:

    Milli vanilla , dub coalition re hash , not quite as Fraser Nelson predicted but in a few moments it whiffed of chronic amnesia , con coughlins view is striking in that as leader hes showing some rather creaky foreign policy views , but the speech started from home , by the fireside , loving home , a few jaabs at older bro “in his anger he nationalised my train set” , then a whole load of cockwaffle of vanilla filling, , those great labour men women and , bang on about equalities, touch gay pride marker , love Kinnock need more women , making that outreach to lib dems . bring back to analysis of Labours failiure and then it started , and backdrop people all started to beam and gush in salivation of soft but hard but soft ed , yes ed is spokesperson with purpose(not leader) for the new generation , the new wonk devout whose imagination is limitless and words as equally as undefinable and indistingusihable , more where there is less , pubs where they are closed , shops so you dont feel like your living in a slum , indeed he nicked quite a few conservative election themes and made them new ed . It was both cover , crowd pleaser and attempt to make disaster dissapear in a magic ringin trance, next level attempt to top the bullcrap from previous leaders .

    CW is amused at his foil and the new ideal hedgemoney , nothing on social problems , erroneous figure on employment (highest employment figure ever ??) however no grit , nerveless ? . lets see who shows up for cabinet jobs and if they realise dysfunctionality before they are appointed , trying to position labour out of reach may mean trouble for them , and could well metaphorically dissapear up the offerfice from whence it came in time .
    Its a position for parliament for opposition to try and neutralise conservatives voter appeal , lets see who passes the coke test for cabinet .

  103. 336

    “…and I can tell you, Conference, I went to school with Oona King. She’s cool.”

  104. 340
    Steve Billy Bow Concrete QWERTAT Van Bannana Stand Gordon Brown Red Ed says:

    have I told you about UFO’s and 9.11 ?

  105. 352
    When it comes to politicians says:

    Whatever they say believe the opposite and you wont go too far wrong!

  106. 353
    Sunday Morning says:

    “To the small businesses, pushed to the wall by greedy banks,……….
    let us say the Tories have forgotten you, but we will not – your
    anxieties are our anxieties.”

    Tony Blair in his first conference speech as Leader of ther Labour Party

    It’s just another dose of words which don’t mean a thing.

  107. 355
    Gooey Blob says:

    So he claims he wants to take Labour in a new direction?

    If New Labour – the third way – is dead, that means he either wants to revert to old Labour, or now has a fourth way. What does that involve? How many new ways are there for Labour? Do they have a map? Have they even considered stopping to ask for directions?

  108. 360
    QWERTY says:

    Wow David Milliband was totally fucked off with Red Ed and Hattie Hatemenperson when she applauded Red Ed for slagging off the Iraq war. Loser Milliband had a go at her asking “why are you clapping, you voted for it”.

    The Liebour party are split to fuck, yet the fucking twats at the BBC like Toenails, Laura deformed jaw etc are too busy sniffing Red Ed’s shit stained rectum to notice.

  109. 361
    QWERTY says:

    Wow David Milliband was totally fucked off with Red Ed and Hattie Hatemenperson when she applauded Red Ed for slagging off the Iraq war. Loser Milliband had a go at her asking “why are you clapping, you voted for it”.

    The Liebour party are split to fuck, yet the fucking twats at the BBC like Toenails, Laura deformed jaw etc are too busy sniffing Red Ed’s shit stained rectum to notice.

    Tom Bradby reported it, why didn’t fucking toenails? Also, Bradby said he can’t imagine Red Ed walking into number 10. Neither can we Tom, but Toenails will still have wet dreams. He misses his nightly text messages from Alistair Campbell telling him what to say on the news.

    • 384
      Woodward & Bernstein says:

      Tom Bradbury is a decent journalist who hasn’t forgotten his duty to inform and educate ITN viewers in an unbiased way.
      I’m finding BBC news coverage on the TV and radio deeply insulting and it saddens me to think that a news organsation with an international reputation has become so partisan and tarnished.

      • 389
        QWERTY says:

        What do you expect when the BBC uses twats like toenails, Laura Huntperson, John Pinhead and James Liardale?

        All these c u n t s had to do for 13 years was simply read out on the TV and radio what Alistair Campbell texted to them.

      • 403
        Simples says:

        “international reputation” built on one dimensional world views offered in patronising and insulting tones to the worldwide viewer without challenge or insight

        • 408
          Woodward and Bernstein says:

          ITN News at Ten did a great report on the MilliD muttering.
          Balanced and informative- as it should be.
          And Julie Etchinghams subsequent interview with Tessa Jowell was a joy.
          I just wish ITN had a 24 hour news channel.

  110. 365
    Mitch says:

    Red Ed looks retarded!! if you saw him standing in the street you would wonder were his carer was.
    if thats the best they can do then BAWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA out of power for ever.

  111. 367
    Johan says:

    Guido wrote:

    “To Guido it still sounded like left-lurching, deficit raising, money wasting, demotivating, buzz wording, fool talking, high taxing, fast spending, ever wasting, vote losing, Labour.”

    I agree, except about the vote losing.

    • 371
      Johan says:

      Oops, premature commenting!

      Depending on the economy, the Conservative vote could be in trouble come election time. The current coalition might have enough votes to stand firm, but Ed seems set to make a pitch for the LDs. If the LDs accept Labour’s ovetures, the creation of a Lib Lab coalition could prove very hard to undo.

      That to me seems an all too possible nightmare scenario.

      On a slightly connected note, Ed seems great at telling people what they want to hear – he stitched his brother up a treat and he is doing the same to either the voting public or the unions – just remains to be seen whose side he’s really on!

      • 387
        Liar Liar Pants on Fire. says:

        He’s on his side!
        He’s proved he has absolutely no conviction- either politically or personally.
        Totally shafted his brother
        Jettisoned the manifesto which he wrote only months ago,
        Claims to have been against the war but never gave any indication of his opposition while Labour were in power,
        Claims to realise the mistakes Labour made with the economy while he was Browns right hand man for years.
        Happily took the Unions money and support during the leadership election and then urges restraint in strike action.
        I wouldn’t trust him if he told me the time of day.

    • 378
      Sadly True says:

      Sadly, rather true! Labour know fuck all about running a country responsibly but they do know about spinning the right image at the right time and using their close allies at the BBC to pump their propaganda into every home in the country.

      Brown got found out because the bullshit about being Mr Fantastic in the Treasury, fell about his ears when he was PM and his general unsuitability for the post became obvious. Even The BBC couldn’t polish that turd.
      But Milliband can’t be blamed for anything whilst in opposition, even if people blame the previous government, The spinners and the BBC will re-write history for them and claim this bunch of wankers had nothing to do with it and all the problems are the fault of the evil Tories etc.

      Labour were most popular before they got elected in ’97. They are the natural Party of opposition, that is where they are best, because they can’t do any damage!

  112. 369
  113. 372
    Muuurty's Ghuuurst. says:

    Ed’s speech tomorrow: None of the last 13 years has anything to do with me.

    Vote for more of the same, choose me. Someone else did it.

  114. 374
    Tapestry says:

    Ed’s The New Headmaster.

    He’s all of the new head teacher handing out corrections to class.

    http://the-tap.blogspot.com/2010/09/eds-new-hm.html

  115. 377
    gildedtumbril says:

    Red ed is a deadhead, and an arsehole to boot. The sooner he is not booted, the better. Let him mince along with his pathetic drivel and wind up in the Michael Fart hall of fame.

  116. 380
    bird with small brain says:

    Apparently the centre ground is further to the left than it used to be, so he can reasonably claim to be a politician of the centre. Tweedledum rhetoric Ed. The centre is in fact exactly where it always has been, namely midway between the facist right and the authoritarian left. We know what a normal distribution is and we’re not fooled by such semantic sleights of hand.

  117. 383
    Osborne says:

    Hey, hey you get out of our way,
    because today is the day
    we’re going to blow you away!

    Hey, hey (clap), go, fight, win (clap).
    Hey, hey (clap), ’til the end (clap).
    Hey, hey (clap), go, fight, win ’til the very end

    Up and down, conservatives don’t mess around,
    because we’re the best from the east to the west.
    And when conservatives are up, you’re down.
    Go, Lions (your mascot)!

    Clap, clap — clap, clap
    Come on Dave’s fans in the stands
    clap your hands
    clap, clap, clap — clap, clap.

    This is how conservatives are behaving.

  118. 386
    angelnstar says:

    http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/the-three-big-fat-fibs-in-ed-milis-speech/

    The three big fat fibs in Ed Mili’s speech. It sounded good for about 5 secs., and then really fell apart at the seams……

  119. 388
    QWERTY says:

    Well fuck me. Two hours after Tom Bradby on ITV picked up on David Milliband attacking Hattie, the fucking useless twats at the BBC have finally had to also report the row.

    Well done BBC, 3.5 billion a year for 25,000 stoned useless wankers.

    • 401
      bodo says:

      Qwerty – Yup, as is so often the case, if you want to find out what’s really happening you have to look elsewhere, cos the BBC simply can’t be relied on any more.

  120. 392
    Wicken John says:

    Did Red Ed shag Hattie to obtain her support? Some people would do anything to gain power

  121. 393
    Golda Meir, Binyamin Netanyahu, Simon Peres, Moshe Dayan, Rabbi Lionel Blue and Cassandra King says:

    Leave him alone. He’s one of ours. Be afraid Palestinains, be very afraid.

  122. 396
    LibLabCon says:

    **** BREAKING NEWS ****

    Slavery returns to the UK this evening as the rich and famous feel the pinch in money strapped Britain. Yes. poor people who already shoulder the responsibility for clearing Britain’s large debts are now expected to work for nothing without a pension for the rest of their lives. Lily Allen was quoted as saying “that’s good, innit”

  123. 398
    c.eng says:

    He does look remarkably like Wallace, of ‘Wallace and Grommit’ though.

    Guess big bro’ used to be his Grommit, but he’s now going to shit on him from a great height for being such a perfect Judas, especially as Goofy Grommit’s only big idea seems to have been to stuff his own minder.

    But the good news is, ‘The Entertainment’ is back. After the lean months without the Great Mong, we now have the Great Goofy to keep us amused.

    • 400
      c.eng says:

      Of course, I got that wrong, it should have been ‘Goofy Wallace’ but it didn’t have the same alliterative attraction as Goofy Grommit. Apologies Grommit.

    • 405
      Wallace says:

      I’m not amused by your comments lad. I know you might mean well but there’s no bloody way I will be compared to any leader of the labour party. Now, where’s the cheese …..

  124. 406
    Christy says:

    After managing to listen to all of his hipocritical meandering speech,it makes one wonder just what makes this liebour lot tick.
    The bit I liked most was his cry baby effort of I’m being called names by all those bad people out there,which culminated in RED-ED,well Mr Millihipocrit,there is an old saying which goes IF YOU CAN’T STAND THE HEAT GET OUT OF THE FECKIN KITCHEN.
    Finally seeing this lot in action it should convince people what a bunch of underhanded double dealing load of rubbish have been misgoverning this country for the past 13 yrs,traitors to England the lot of them.

  125. 409
    HenryV says:

    If David Miliband doesn’t go for the shadow cabinet where will he go? Surely he won’t be happy on the back benches as Rain Man slobbers his way through PMQs?

    • 427
      Cassandrina says:

      Into the foreign service of the EC under the patronage of Baroness Ashton?
      You remember her – the ugly person put there by Brown and allowing the French to take the better financial post.

  126. 410
    Weybridgeman says:

    Well what a pickle. A man who can’t even be arsed to be respectable and marry his concubine……and suddenly he is Mr. Labour Respectible…no……….. scrub that… next Labour goat in the T Rex cage…..
    The speech was one thing only – I ain’t T Blair Esq. but I am his pupil.
    At least the uglier one didn’t win….
    welcome to 20 – 30 years in the widerness…..

  127. 411
    ally says:

    EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWW
    EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWW

    WHO’S A GOOD TORY DONKEY THEN, HMM ?

  128. 416
    LAB 40%, CON 39%, LDEM 12%. says:

    welcome to 20 – 30 years in the widerness…..

  129. 417
    City of Vice says:

    I’m surprised anyone pays any attention to anything Miliband or any other of those discredited Labour wankers have to say about anything.

    Where’s Dave by the way? Has he gone awol from No 10?

  130. 418
    Ruddy sauce says:

    He is a knobEd. I would bet so low on emotional intelligence, he doesn’t get that stitching david up must surely damage their friendship. Either that or it’s payback time (you were always father’s favourite you smug bastard)

  131. 426
    Cassandrina says:

    The Toady Programme were in a real tiz and disarray this morning after stating:
    - Ed was against the war and Labour should not have gone to war in Iraq.
    - Labour got it wrong over immigration.
    - Labour got it wrong over the economy.
    - Only Harriat Harperson clapped his Iraq statement, and was then rebuked by David Millipede as to the fact she voted for it. (bbc lipreaders inc.)
    Ed then had at least 10 Toady minutes without any real questioning or interruption to validate the fact that the bbc still wish to support him, in spite of their chosen leader his brother, deciding today to not go into the shadow cabinet.
    Later they allowed John Monkton free rein on his ridiculous economic statements while at the same time interupting the true economist Irwin Selzer, and allowing him only half the time of Monkton, mainly because he was talking sense.
    Yesterday they interviewed 3 people in Worcester and let each of them hear part of Ed Millipede’s speech. The bbc got a real roasting from each of the 3 persons and I suspect a case could be made that this action has crossed the line in displaying open and public Labour bias.
    Was forced to send a message to the Toady Programme on their stupidity in such persistant left wing bias.

  132. 429
    Lord Tom of Leamington says:

    Hopeless, pointless guff from Ultrabland.



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