October 1st, 2010

Ed Tries to Lose the Red, Again

Red Ed has called up the BBC strikers and asked them not to black out coverage of the Conservative Party conference next week. Before you start thinking this socialist isn’t so evil he ha intervened not because of any objection the strike action but in the ‘interests of impartiality’.

He’s going to need a better spinner than that.

UPDATE: Punters are giving the strike an 80% chance of going ahead.


103 Comments

  1. 1

    Never mind, JLS are releasing a single for poor kiddies. They’ll be poor a fucking lot longer now.

    • 39
      Blue Dave says:

      Cool. Not only are the BBC showing political bias Red Ed is now involved.

      Super.

      • 46
        Heavens to murgatroyde says:

        My god do you think this boy maybe sincere?

        • 78
          Andrew Efiong says:

          Guido, Ed listens to the unions but they certainly don’t listen to him.

          • Disaffected says:

            BBC are bias towards Liebour so they might listen to the Marxist hoon. After being the policy adviser to Brown to climb the greasy pole corrupt poll he now wants to distance himself from the past- what does that say about him- two-faced twat. It strikes me he is distancing himself from his own policy decisions that got the country and Liebour into the shit.

          • The Communist Coalition says:

            Clearly the strikers are waiting to hear Comrade Cable telling them to smash the system and overthrow Capitalism.

      • 74
        Anonymous says:

        I hope they do go ahead. It will help to illustrate just how dispensible they are. As for impartiality well that notion went out of the window years ago.

      • 76
        Anonymous says:

        I hope they do go ahead. It will help to reinforce just how dispensible they are. As for any notion of impartiality that went out of the window years ago.

    • 65
      red faced says:

      Red Ed’s first mistake as leader was to tell everyone that he does not like being called Red Ed

  2. 2

    He’s on a loser: the BBC forgot the meaning of “impartiality” back in the Eighties.

    • 6
      Lord's a leaping says:

      he looks like one of vaz’s cousins in this picture…as big a c’unt aswell

      • 11
        Anonymous says:

        I don’t think Ed looks like it uty Osborne’s brothers wife and Conservative Chairperson do look like Vaz’s cousins.

    • 8
      Tony E says:

      This has got to be smokescreen: he desperately wants to look like he’s against the strike and a centrist moderate, but all the while he is desperate for Cameron to be denied airtime because he’s a much better communicator than Ed is.

      He knows he has no influence over the NUJ.

      • 18
        rick says:

        He fears it would bring an end to the TV tax. He needn’t worry, though, CMD loves the Beeb as much as he does.

        • 93
          H.M.S Whimbrel says:

          So? I loved me old dog but when it got old and tired and I could no longer trust it to behave in public or be left to its own devices without making a mess of itself I still shot it in the head !

    • 19
      Susie says:

      Too little, too late.

  3. 3
    Lady Virginia Droit de Seigneur says:

    Let them strike – it will give Cameron the excuse he needs to do something about the BBc’s left wing bias – something that is well overdue.

    • 13
      Tony E says:

      Cameron canot attack the BBC openly, because the BBC are the mouthpiece for the pro EU movement of which he is deeply scared. (No I don’t think Cameron is personally pro EU).

      The pro EU lobby, and the EU itself, has huge finance and influence. Look how they presured the Irish into a yes vote. These EU apparatchiks clearly see the BBC as a useful tool for promoting the project and Cameron is nervous to take on so many vested interests in one go.

    • 17
      Spent Copper says:

      you’d like to think so LV, but Cameron seems so feeble that I doubt he’ll do anything about it.

    • 35
      Backwoodsman says:

      more to the point, it might just give enough slumbering party members the necessary wake up call , to provide the consensus that the bbc can’t be left to carry on as the broadcasting wing of labour, subsidised by the licence fee payer. (Obviously no one here.)

  4. 4

    What ever happened to that nutter who used to pretend to be Peter Hitchens? He was a right laugh – we exchanged emails a couple of time, I liked the cut of his jib. That’s back in the day when this blog was funny…

  5. 5
    Anonymous says:

    They’re still going to strike.

  6. 7
    Anonymous says:

    Polls, CON 35%(-2), LAB 37%(nc), LDEM 18%(nc). After the cuts starts to bite LDEM will be over 60%.

  7. 9
    Steve Miliband says:

    If Coch Ed (Welsh) tells them to call off the strike then it shows he has influence with the Unions. If he doesn’t then he is beholden to the Unions.

    He can’t win – that’s what happens when they call the shots

    Notice this story has made the BBC News already

    • 73
      Dai Bando says:

      Ed Goch, more like.

      Adjective after noun and soft-mutated in this kind of construction.

      It’s an education, this blog, isn’t it?

  8. 12

    Did anyone catch shirrallens bagman (Hever) and his pithy comment on RedEd and the gang of numpties seeking to join the shadow cabinet ?

    “I don’t think there is any leadership material in the whole lot of them”

  9. 14
    I'll be watching something else says:

    So what if they strike, what about the other not so left biased tv channels, the radio, the net, the papers etc. Let them strike and have to explain the reasons for the strike

  10. 15

    He may not need a better spinner. BBC are reporting ‘Impartial Ed’s’ words right now.
    Yesterday on This Week Tony Robinson said it was a relief to hear a Labour leader’s speech given totally without spin.

    Is he really that easily fooled?

    “Oi,’Balldrick’! Want to buy 50p for a pound? I’ve got a sackful you gullible pratt.”

  11. 21
    retype this Fawkes and do one hundred lines says:

    so evil he ha intervened not because of any objection the strike action but in the ‘interests of impartiality’

  12. 22

    Will any of these bbc c*nts have the balls to stand outside television centre waving placards? I hope so.
    Also, does anyone know the nearest grocers to television centre?

    • 36

      There’s an M&S in the luvvies own personal shopping centre at White City.
      Or there’s plenty of yams, breadfruit and Pawpaw in Shepherd’s bush market.

      • 92

        I often find that the best kind of 5-fruit-n-veg-a-day to chuck at socialists are:
        – turnips
        – coconuts
        – gourd fruit
        – unpeeled pineapples
        – potatoes with 6 inch nails sticking out (the extra iron is good for the blood)
        (sorry, blood letting)

  13. 23
    Potkettle says:

    “[he]intervened not because of any objection the strike action but in the ‘interests of impartiality’”

    WAKE UP GUIDO

    its neither of those reasons.

    He wants TASS broadcasting so that they have the opportunity to spin the reporting red. Something they clearly cant do if they dont report at all

  14. 24
  15. 25
    Kishmein Tochas says:

    Better he calls his mate Bob Crowe and asks him to cancel Monday’s Tube strike. That’ll get him the support of southern voters and help his mate Ken’s re-election in 2012

  16. 26
    Strictly Come Sponging says:

    Impartiality?

  17. 31
    Can't remember my moniker says:

    Jump, lemmings, jump.

  18. 33
    jay mason says:

    If the twats strike then we may get at least some unbiased coverage then after the MilliE love fest I have just had to put up with!

  19. 37
  20. 40
    Strictly Come Sponging says:

    I hope all the strikers die of cancer.

    • 41
      You'll have to do better says:

      No no think of the cost of the cancer drugs.

      • 100
        Unsworth says:

        But if they die – and quickly – think of the savings to the NHS, the pensions, the wage bills etc etc. Bonus all round.

  21. 42
    HappyUK says:

    Red Ed doesn’t want them to go on bloody strike because he wants to keep the BBC intact. It’s f*** all to do with impartiality, as if the BBC ever was. If or when they do on strike, they realise just how truly underwhelming the public’s support for them is… Read the blogs – the reality is nobody gives the remotest flying f***.

    So my message to the union bruvvers is: Just Do It!

    • 55
      BillyBob - Ooman Rights Legislation, just a load of bollocks!! says:

      Agreed……… let us see if they have the balls to do it!!

      Hopefully retribution will be fast and lasting…………. the BBC no more……….. now there is a money saving thought !!

  22. 43
  23. 44
    Strictly Come Sponging says:

    Hope they just fuck off and die.

  24. 45
  25. 47
    In my opinion says:

    Ed, Hazel and the rest of the foul, evil bunch of Labour c-untbots should be tied to two trucks which then drive off at top speed in opposite directions.

  26. 49
    In my opinion says:

    Ed, Hazel and the rest of the foul bunch of Labour ogres should be tied to two trucks which then drive off in opposite directions.

  27. 50
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    Strikes are illegal in Communist China. Perhaps some of you would be happier there.

  28. 51

    A che ora è la concorrenza didascalia?

  29. 52
    They're all smug, sneering, Celt cunts at the BBC, 'cept Kuenssberg whom I wish to bum intensely says:

    I love the way Schlomo was desperate to get into a slimy grope with Sir Alex of Fergusons.

    Ferguson is such a deeply committed Socialistical Scothist he works for a gang of parasitic yank trash who’ve buggered and beggared Manure.

    Please BBC/NUJ, black the Tories out and then anyone who did doubt it will truly know you filth are the Labour Parteh’s mouthpiece

  30. 53
    Anonymous says:

    The Government is courting the regime of the indicted war criminal Omar al-Bashir by declaring that relations with Sudan have entered a “new epoch”. The announcement came as Britain welcomed a trade delegation from the country which has near pariah status, for the first time since warrants for President Bashir’s arrest were issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, over atrocities in Darfur.

    Khartoum’s high-level delegation met British government officials and business leaders on Wednesday to encourage investment in a country still targeted by US sanctions. It was the clearest example yet of how problematic William Hague’s new foreign policy, in which commercial interests are to trump ethical concerns, will be for the Coalition to implement. The change has already seen complaints that UK diplomatic missions have been reduced to commercial agencies to drum up business.

    • 63
      Obama says:

      Hague won’t like a 99 year sentence in maximum security here.

    • 77
      Senator Bloodn' Gore says:

      Thank God the UK’s come to its senses at last. Welcome back all the terrorists, tell ‘em that they can preach terrorism and extremism, blow-up what they like where they like so long as it’s not here – as used to be the case until 1997 – this will free up £2bn a year in MOD expenditure, prevent even more 19 year olds from getting killed or their legs/arms blown off and will generally mean that we’re open for business again. Well done William.

  31. 54
    Gordon Brown says:

    Mummy, I want my fizzy orange NOW! I’m angry they’ve got a new leader. Ed will never be as great as me! Fizzy me now!

  32. 57
    Evil has a name and it is The Labour Parteh says:

    Is there an industrial sized blender large enough to fill with former Labour ministers?

  33. 58
    DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

    OK, slightly OT, but I’m a bit confused about Red Ed and his attitude to the Iraq war.

    He said in his speech it was a bad thing.

    But when parliament was voting about whether to have an inquiry into the war, he voted against it.

    Now, why would he do that if he was so against the war?

    Am I missing some subtle point here? Or is he just an unprincipled two-faced hypocrite?

    • 84
      Anonymous says:

      Correction of 58 @ 1:35 pm. Final sentence as follows:-
      Delete Or.
      Transpose is & he.

  34. 61
    Doc Trough says:

    SSSSSSSSHHHHH you lot! I’m trying to watch Red Peter.

  35. 62
    johnny says says:

    Who is Red Miliband to tell BBC workers what to do? If he wasn’t a socialist Red wouldn’t dream of interfering in the first place.

  36. 68
    Janus Red in the face Ed says:

    Two faced!

  37. 69
    dutchy in scotland says:

    People in England are indeed fortunate with only having the biased BBC to put up with. We poor souls in Scotland have both the BBC and the dreadful ‘Herald’ newspaper (originally called the Glasgow Herald in a more enlightened era) to put up with and a more down market load of ‘Labour drivel’ you will not come across, probably even worse than The Guardian. Notice how minor provincial cities lose their city identity when it suits them !!! Between them they still produce a load of biased crap propped up only by the ‘state advertising revenue’.

  38. 70
    Red Ed Militant ™ says:

    We’re all being optimistic together

  39. 75
    The Watcher says:

    I just watched this. It is the most horrible video I have ever seen. Both Red Ed and Huhne support this crap and Hague too now!!!

    http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/10/enemys-true-face.html

  40. 85
    BBC Scriptwriter says:

    Ed: Please, please, please, please don’t strike, you are making me look bad to the reasonable people I want to con into voting for me.

    NUJ: F**k off.

    Ed: Oh, ok, shall I f**k now quietly or f**k off in indignation and give you guys something write about when you get back to work.

    NUJ: Just f**k off, traitor.

    Ed: Oh ok, thanks, love your work by the way….

  41. 89
    genghiz the khan says:

    Miliband won’t know what impartiality meant even if it hit him in the face.

    Bear in mind he had no qualms about allowing the unions to put his face on the envelopes with ballot papers, just to tell the guilible how to vote.

    Perhaps next time Labour hold a leadership election they will just have the one candidate.

  42. 94
    Barry Sheridan says:

    If the BBC employees go on strike sack them, all of them. Who needs what they dish out anyway.

  43. 98
    Jimmy says:

    “Punters are giving the strike an 80% chance of going ahead.”

    As usual I’m giving Guido a 0% chance of being right.

    • 99

      Difficult for lefties to understand how dynamic markets work. When new information becomes available prices change. That is the “free” bit in free markets. It is not command and control tractor production Jimmy.

  44. 103
    Mr I Groan says:

    Mr Ed had a pained and tortured looked on his face after he realised that he had ‘guffed his pants’ after eating the plate of pies offered to him by one, Johnno of Pieland………



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