October 13th, 2010

Local LibDems Back “Handycock”

Portsmouth City Council has been left reeling at the arrest and questioning of Mike Hancock for indecent assault. Inter-party email exchanges through the night have left the LibDems spinning “move along people, nothing to see here”. The grandly named Gerald Vernon-Jackson, the LibDem Council Leader said in the early hours:

“When I knock on doors in Portsmouth I find someone on almost every street who tells me how Mike Hancock has help make their lives better. Mike is by far the best MP this city has had for many years. I continue to think that Mike should continue to be allowed to continue his work for local people.”

Perhaps not the wisest choice of words. It was his attempts “to make their lives better” that got Hancock into this mess in the first place.

UPDATE: Surprisingly LibDemVoice fail to omit the key detail that Hancock was arrested and bailed. Compare and contrast the two statements. Firstly from Hancock:

“I can confirm that I was questioned on Tuesday 12 October by officers of the Hampshire Police in relation to allegations made against me by one individual. I attended the police station voluntarily, cooperated fully and answered all questions that were asked. ”

And the law:

“Hampshire Constabulary spokesman Ian Sainsbury said in a statement: ‘A man has been arrested on suspicion of indecent assault following a complaint from a woman in Portsmouth.”

The Guardian, PA and the Telegraph also buy Hancock’s voluntary questioning spin hook, line and sinker. They may not have kicked the veteran Member’s door down but he was certainly nicked.


110 Comments

  1. 1
    GEORGIE PEORGIE says:

    We’re all “working for local people” together.

    • 5
      MI7 says:

      jail time please for this MP

      • 65
        Wavy Davy says:

        Call me Dave was shit today at PMQ’s.He always fails to perform when it counts.

        • 78
          Anonymous says:

          Give him chance old cock, he has not answered many PMQ Cleggy has done most PMQ

          • hershaw D.D. says:

            very true that!

            well spotted

            cameron’s public relations people should have had the sense to prespin that for today instead of their usual complacent bluster

      • 66
        Red Eddy's speach writer. says:

        And what if Mr Handycock is innocent and this allegation is proven to be unfounded!

    • 6
      Red Ed Militant™ says:

      We’re all being optimistic together

    • 8
      Hamish Macbeth says:

      We’re all “serving the local community”

      Hancock is “servicing the local community”

      • 72
        equity abhors a Maxim says:

        “Fail to omit?” Surely the opposite of what is meant. Please fix, then delete this post.

    • 14
      Parasitic Pair says:

      Why is he allowed to be both a councilor and an MP and employ his wife who is also a councilor as his MP assistant? Oh and by the way they don’t even live in Portsmouth where they are MP and councilors

      These filthy rich parasites are feeding off the public nipple

      • 34
        Lord Red Mike the Nonce of Fratton says:

        How dare you. I have recently taken my wife Jacqui off the MP’s payroll, which she has been on for many years, as an occasional case worker on £20K per annum. The reason I did this was not because she was exposed on that untruthful website http://www.po12bg, as doing no work for me, and being unable to even spell, but because the country is facing austerity and I wanted to do my bit. The fact that I am one of the largest donors to the Lib Dems has nothing to with planning corruption in Portsmouth or drug dealing property developers here. My contribution to planning here in Portsmouth is irreplaceable, that’s why I am doing both jobs. I and my wife are not Troughers. Innit?

        http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/audit_trail_of_political_donatio#outgoing-87808

      • 38
        Lady Virginia Droit de Seigneur says:

        In fact they are filthy rich as a consequence of feeding at the public nipple.

    • 35
      AC1 says:

      > The Guardian, PA and the Telegraph also buy Hancock’s voluntary questioning spin hook,….

      So do AlJaBeebya, but perhaps they ,as normal, just recycled what the grauniad wrote.

      • 55
        sticky says:

        They’re all nonces like Handycock ,and all nonces stick together.

      • 61
        sockpuppet #4 says:

        bollocks, you can’t use google right can you?

        • 67
          AC1 says:

          Who needs google for that I went to the news.bbc.co.uk site. I’ve been online (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29)since before HTTP and thus google was invented, so I know what I’m doing thanks.

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            Right, so you didnt use google, you didn’t find the story, or you just can’t read.

            Earlier you quoted an article from before the arrest story broke, but you were already quoting a story that was from yesterday.

            Now the BBC was lagging behind guido by over 3 hours, but still, you missed that story.

            http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-11530547
            It mentions the arrest and states “last updated at 9:29″

            That clearly shows you were talking bollocks. Twice.

          • AC1 says:

            I used the link I found on the front page.

            Try again.

            Why would I use google to look at the BBC site? Do you know you can browse to actual sites without finding them in google first? You sound like a bit of a interweb newb.

          • concrete pump says:

            FIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!!

          • sockpuppet #4 says:

            I googled it because i wondered when the news broke. BBC popped up in that list.

            By about lunchtime the main story for england was that bloke, and it says arrested. you could have followed links and saw it rather than rehash your prejudice without checking facts.

            “Why would I use google to look at the BBC site?” well, one wouldn’t. I actually use google to get a broader picture of what all news outlets are saying. you might actually google BBC so you can judge whether your assertion is correct. but you wouldnt.

            That explains how and why. And got me to correct results quicker than you.

            And is your aspergers diagnosed?

  2. 2
    concrete pump says:

    “When I knock on doors in Portsmouth I find someone on almost every street who tells me how Mike Hancock has sexually assaulted someone they know, usually a spaz. Mike is by far the most disgusting pervert this city has had for many years. I continue to think that Mike should be castrated with a pair of blunt scissors and have his shrivelled testicles fed to Simon Hughes.”

  3. 3
    blackbyle says:

    So a bit to “HANDY” with his c.ck ? Heigh-Ho

  4. 4
    Jabba the Cat says:

    Obviously a cock-up all round then?

  5. 7
    Up Pompei says:

    Worrrying the tie up between Hancock & certain officers of Hampshires finest.

    I would not be so quick to leap to his defence Gerald.

    • 52
      Nonce the Ponce says:

      What does Handycock have on Gerald Vernon Jackson? Apart from the fact that neither of them has ever had a proper job. Troughers trying to maintain the troughing status quo.

    • 94
      oldpompeygit says:

      More worrying the links with Hampshire’s Freemasons.
      “They’re all in it together”.

  6. 9
    filipinomonkey says:

    Don’t they have barbers in Portsmouth?

  7. 10
    Ann Widdecombe says:

    I’d like to talk about the sweat rash under my tits caused by my paps crashing together on Strictly Come Dancing

  8. 15
    Cardinal del Monte says:

    When resort is made to the “people on doorsteps” defence (people on doorsteps aren’t talking about this), you know that the game is up.

    • 20
      Doorstep Woman says:

      “Yes, my MP (aaaahh!) is making (down a bit and to the left!) my life much (ohhhh!!) better!

  9. 18
    The Court of Public Opinion says:

    This tard-seducer is just the latest in a long line of proof the libdems are the worst party for sexual wierdos. Only this year we had hypocritical “family man” Huhne leaving his wife for a wierdo lesbian. And of course, this is the party of M*ark “excrement” O*aten.

    • 23
      Ben 'buggering' Bradshaw MP: ex BBC cunt, and right on massive arse-bandit of socialisms says:

      OOhh dya think they’d have a poof like me too love?

      • 69
        Tell it like it really is says:

        When I see that Bradshaw I’m irresistably reminded on Brian the snail from Magic Roundabout – !

  10. 19
    Sir William Waad says:

    How many people really tell others that their local MP has “made their life better”? It doesn’t seem an everyday topic of conversation.

    “Pompey got creamed on Saturday.”
    “Yes, but I can’t feel too bad because my MP, Mike Hancock (LibDem), has made my life better.”

  11. 21
    Corrupt Portsmouth City Councillor says:

    I can make your life better if you push your left index finger into my anus, and use your other hand to masturbate me, I have a lot of clout in this area my dear

    • 25
      Ben 'buggering' Bradshaw MP: ex BBC cunt, and right on massive arse-bandit of socialisms says:

      I wish to visit Portsmouth, it sounds like a lot of fun

    • 28
      Jacqui Smith MP says:

      CUT!….that’s a wrap. Richard will love this one, I’d better pick up some Kleenex on the way home.

      • 37
        I pray on attractive retards says:

        I have a lot of clout in the ousing department my dear.
        If you would care to masturbate me and then, ahem permit me to ejaculate over your enormous bosoms, i think I can guarantee you social ousing approval within the our

        • 43
          My Other Cars Not A Prius Either says:

          If you move me to the ground floor ya can tek me up the ………….

  12. 22
    David Cameron says:

    If I’ve said it once,I’ve said it a hundred times

    “We’re all in this together”

    Must dash off to PMQ’s to take a battering from Ed Miliband. Oh how I will enjoy that

  13. 24
    Andrew Marr says:

    Where’s the article about me?

  14. 26
    sockpuppet #4 says:

    In the crappy world of party politics the local libdems have to support him in some way until its clear he’s history. Its vague enough support to do the trick.

    Presumably this statement was made before he was arrested? When was it actually known that he was arrested?

  15. 27
    Disco Biscuit says:

    So the allegation is that he has molested a mental patient?

    That’s pretty awful.

    • 32
      Gordon Brown says:

      I have’nt registered a complaint yet.

    • 46
      Mick Shagga says:

      Who was that bigot woman?

    • 59
      sockpuppet #4 says:

      Not quite what you might imagine as a mental patient – “Borderline personality disorder” – I always think of Keith Moon. They might be getting treatment for a variety of things like depression, alcoholism etc.

      My word – wiki says: “Despite no formal diagnosis ever being known, it has been speculated that Princess Diana[115], Jim Morrison and Marilyn Monroe suffered from borderline personality disorder”

  16. 29
    Cauliflower Nose says:

    Riddle of TV star paying out for love child who isn’t his: Married man got injunction to keep affair quiet – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1319989/Riddle-TV-star-paying-love-child-isnt-Married-man-got-injunction-affair-quiet.html

    This couldn’t be about our old friend, Mr Marr could it? You know the one who hates those “socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed” non-journalists…. sorry, bloggers.

    “a journalist and household name” – check

    “in 2008 the man was granted a draconian injunction after convincing a High Court judge that the public should not be allowed to learn of his infidelity” – check

    “his mistress – a successful writer” – check

    • 50
      Eczema Cream says:

      Filthy fecker.

    • 56
      AC1 says:

      First words of that article are
      A MARRied.

      hehe. Not even trying to hide it.

    • 92
      Anonymous says:

      C’mon Guido . If it’s Marr, we have to have some fun at him forking out for 6 years for a kid that isn’t his. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy! Bloggers revenge on the jug eared barsteward. And then we can find out who the real father is – any suggestions?

      • 100
        D.S. Gusted, Tunbridge Wells says:

        Candidates from clues offered:

        Marr
        Toenails
        Paxo?

        I’d say the first candidate most likely, given previous rumours.

      • 102
        Must get a pseudonym one day says:

        Rumoured to be a Labour Cabinet minister – that rules out Mandelson, Bradshaw, Brown and a few others, so take your pick of the few remaining straighties.

  17. 30
    Anonymous says:

    “fail to include” or “manage to omit” ??

  18. 31
    goboldlyforth says:

    oooh, Gerald looks a bit -you know, nudge nudge.

  19. 33
    I pray on attractive retards says:

    Its fucking Tory/Labour/Lib Dem/Les Cummings lies you piece of dog shit

    Wait til Turton hears about this you retard

    I like retards

    • 42
      Chief Constable of Hapshire Constabulary says:

      Careful Mike, don’t lose it. We are doing our best for you. Boaz!

  20. 36
    Fu Kem Hole says:

    He is reported to have cooperated with the Police and ‘answered all questions’

    Most of these sleazebag MPs trot this line out.

    I wonder if saying ‘No Comment’ constitutes ‘answering all questions’

    They should be probed further on how they answered.

  21. 39
    MI7 says:

    X-Factor Fans!

    If your missing Gamu don’t worry…

    From next Wednesday you’ll be able to sponsor her for £3 a month

  22. 44
    The 12th Iman, stuck down a Well, just south of Tehran says:

    URGENT PLEASE HELP!!

    I’ve been stuck down this stinking well for eight centuries. I have appealled to Im in a dinnerjacket for help but all he does id drop minutes of cabinet meetings down to me. Could you please ask those nice people in Chile to come over and see if they can get me out!!!

  23. 45
    Agent 99 says:

    Mein Got in Himel !!

    The crosshairs are back!!

    Someone is in deep dodo

  24. 47
    Tardkiller says:

    anyone got the website address of the chap who has been hounded by Handycocks mates in the Hants constabulary and had his computer impounded and has been getting abusive hate mail

  25. 48
    Mr Plum, in the study, with a corkscrew says:

    This handycock man comes across as a nasty piece of work. Lib dem beardy weirdy.

  26. 51
    Tardkiller says:

    never mind

    got it

    http://www.po12bg.com/index.html

    more handycock stuff here

    http://jacparty.org/id12.html

  27. 53
    Nonce the Ponce says:

    ” I intend to carry on normally with my work as a Portsmouth Member of Parliament and Councillor, both in Hampshire and Westminster, and to represent fully all my constituents as I have always done.” says Handycock on his website.

    SUPER SNOUT IN THE TROUGH CONTINUED

    He should be on the sexual offenders list, as a danger to his constituents.

    • 60
      Professor Henry Brubaker, Institute for Studies says:

      ‘He should be on the sexual offenders list, as a danger to his constituents.’

      I imagine theres a little matter of a court case first or shall we have trial by interweb?

      ..Actually, trial by interweb, not a bad Idea..

      ‘Gordon Brown, you have been found guilty by a court of vindictive right wing internet bloggers of being a one-eyed hoon, traitor and fiscal fuckwit. **dons black hanky** You shall be taken from here to a place of imprisonment and from their to a place of execution when you shall be hung from the left teste until you are dead. My Allah have mercy on your soul’

  28. 54
    Professor Henry Brubaker, Institute for Studies says:

    Seems the telegraph have finally caught up with events.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/8061032/Mike-Hancock-Lib-Dem-MP-arrested-on-suspicion-of-indecent-assault.html

  29. 57
    Gerald Vernon Jackson says:

    From: Gerald Vernon-Jackson [mailto:geraldvj@gmail.com]
    Sent: 28 September 2010 08:38
    To: ‘brigusser’
    Cc: ‘Stubbs, Luke’; ‘Terry Hall’; ‘Mike Hancock CBE MP’
    Subject: RE: Cllr Mike Hancock M.P.

    Dear Mr Hartley,

    The view I take is that people are innocent until proved guilty. My understanding is that Mike Hancock has had no contact from the Police on this issue. He has also had messages of support from the family of the woman concerned saying that she has a record of turning on people who try to help her.

    My Conservative colleagues on the city council took the view that one of their members who was charged by the Police with corruption should not be suspended.

    My thanks for contacting me on this issue. I expect Mike Hancock to continue to work hard for local people.

    Best wishes

    Gerald Vernon-Jackson

    Leader, Portsmouth City Council

    From: Gerald Vernon-Jackson [mailto:geraldvj@gmail.com]
    Sent: 30 September 2010 20:19
    To: ‘Arun Nautique’
    Subject: RE: Mike Hancock M.P.

    • 85
      Noncewatcher says:

      Another LibDem Nonce.

      • 107
        Gerald Vernon Von Ponceland Jackson, Leader Portsmouth City Council says:

        STATEMENT Now that Mike has been arrested and bailed pending further police inquiries, I will still not suspend him. Even if he is charged and convicted, I will still not suspend him. My reasons are clear and unequivocal, Mike has told us that if he goes down, he will take us all down with him.

        • 108
          Gerald Vernon Von Ponceland Jackson, Leader Portsmouth Corrupt Council says:

          FURTHER STATEMENT

          I would like to add, Mike and I have a lot in common. We are both super Troughers, neither of us has ever had a proper job. We are both Perverts (although of different sexual orientation). We are both Liberal democrats (goes without saying). We both like to cop a feel on the doorstep from our constituents. Neither of us are or ever have been members of the Freemasons. Boaz! My impeccable credentials are below.

          http://www.po12bg.com/id2.html

  30. 62
    roger the lodger says:

    Hancock has always been a crook. Many years ago when he ran the local Mencap branch he used to turn up for 5 minutes to justify his then very generous salary of £10,000 per year. Then off to the local council to collect his pay and expenses following which he went off to the County Council in Winchester to collect his salary & expenses there. That must have taken up the whole morning because then he was off to the Commons (at our expense) to claim more expenses and salary. Talk about champagne socialists – he must be the most crooked of the lot. Let’s hope he loses his seat and gets banged up for a long stretch.

    • 77
      concrete pump says:

      “When he used to run the local Mencap branch”. Fucking hell! I hope he didn’t have any contact with the people Mencap are helping.

      • 84
        Lord Red Mike the Nonce of Fratton says:

        I also have the honour to be and have been a Governor of local girls schools, where I take a great interest in their development and personal welfare. The suggestions above that I am a:

        SUPER SNOUT IN THE TROUGH

        is disingenuous, when you consider all the effort me and my business colleagues, here in Portsmouth put into reaching the correct planning decisions (for us).

        Anyway what is wrong with being an MP, County Councillor, and City Councillor at the same time and my wife being a City Councillor as well as an occasional case worker for me as an MP on £20K per year, when she can’t even spell (for that matter nor can I, so its OK then). My daughter also did a great job as a City Councillor, until she realised that it was beyond her capabilities.

        Any suggestions that I am a TROUGHER, will be met with swift retribution from the boys down here. I did have a job once when I was a militant communist union
        convener for a local engineering company, when I was 21 years old.

        Since then I and my family have dedicated our lives to the public service; as Gerald says, you will hear it on the doorstep. Innit?

  31. 70
    Gordon Brown says:

    The careworker promised me that one day I can drive the minibus.

  32. 74
    Gordon Brown says:

    I shall be scibbling a note of condolense to the families of all those poor chilly miners who have sadly died in the line of mining

  33. 80
    Red☭Ed says:

    You see, your beloved DC can’t harm me, even when I’m at my weakest in PMQ’s my super comrade powers are like a shield of steel! Or is that an iron curtain… Anyway, where’s my Rubik’s cube gone?

  34. 83
  35. 95
    Sarf of the River says:

    This is more like it Guido!

    Get the fuckers; of every hue, saturation and colour.

    More please!

  36. 96
    Sofi Wayworth says:

    Has anyone got Handycock’s mobile number?
    He might need a nice upper class girl to help get him back up after this awful period. All those awful scummer slappers must have got him down.

  37. 103
    General Melchard says:

    Sleep well Hancock hold your mikey bear tight. For tommrow more of that good old fashion brown stuff is flowing your way. Thank you to all of you who have commented on the “Hancock Saga” much much more to come on this one that will even blow off GVJ pants Oh I mean Hancock’s yes man Gerald Vermin Jackson AKA Asbo Boy I knock on doors two night’s a week be careful guys dont open the door after dark !!!!!!!!!!!! Sleep Tight Hanky.

  38. 105

    More bad news for failing MP Mike Hancock.

    He’s been referred to the Standards Board today after a tory councillor in the city complained that he may have broken the city council’s code of conduct over allegations of indecent assault.

  39. 106
  40. 109
    Noncewatcher says:

    Grim faced bent planning officers have been seen going into Handycock’s constituency office at 1A Albert Rd, all week, as have some local Drug Dealers/ Money laudering/ Property developers, having parked their Bentleys in surrounding streets. All of this has been photographed for future police inquiries. Panic, it would seem, is now order of the day. Not because of this I hope:

    http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/audit_trail_of_political_donatio#outgoing-88498



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