Exclusive: Dave’s Stylist Goes from CCHQ to the Civil Service
Before this May’s general election CCHQ’s Anna-Maren Ashford was the “Head of Brand Communications” and is credited with styling “Brand Dave”. The former advertising executive was brought in by Steve Hilton from Young & Rubicam to kick out the old Tory torch logo and bring in the huggable tree. The glossy 30 year-old made the right look right.
She successfully helped detoxify the Tories and turn them into the beautiful people…
Post-election she still answers to Hilton and is close to hand in the Cabinet Office should the smooth Brand Dave need further polishing – just nowadays it is at the taxpayers’ expense as a civil servant in Whitehall. Officially she works with the Behavioural Insights Strategy Team known universally across Whitehall as the “Nudge Unit”.
Dave controversially put his personal photographer, Andy Parsons, on the Civil Service payroll, the news that his image stylist has also become a civil servant will infuriate many who will question his priorities…
She can polish my brand any time.
I’d fuck it. Oh, oh, I see. She can smooth out my edges.
Where are the cross-hairs for for Phil Woolas, Guido?
£30,000 ?
£40,000 ?
£50,000 ?
I dont see the story here.
They need a communications department as do all businesses. The fact the Tories are spending a fraction of what Labour did is the real issue.
By employing the photographer he will probably be saving more money than the previous government did by hiring ad-hoc photographers.
Simples !
Must try harder Guido…. this is lame just like Millitwats performance
Compared to the hundreds of millions wasted by the last lot on communications, I’d say it’s a bargain.
Oink! Oink! for your piggy CCHQ masters
you shameless spineless lickspittle little shit
I wanted Mc Slug out of office and voted Tory to achieve this aim. I have to say that Wavy Dave’s performance over the last six monts is far worse than McSlug’s first six months. Cameron (and Clegg) promised to clean up politics, clearly a lie. He is abusing his position and continuing the corrupt culture in parliament. They can’t use the coalition as an excuse not to follow through on the pledge. Tory HQ saff are found (without selection) civil service jobs instead of unemployment like everyone else. I thought he was getting rid of quango’s?
In relation to immigration over a 1,000 a day keep coming on student visas. Cable and Co want more to enter the UK under the business need guise (bo11ocks) and Wavy Dave is agreeing with them. Cameron (at the behest of the USA) also wants Turkey’s dross to come over as well. When are we going to see the number cut?
He is caving in to every EU request. He has now started the EU army in conjunction with France. He promised in his manifesto to get rid of the UK Human Rights Act, he could enact a bill to override the recent ECRH, after all what was the point of Hague recently making our sovereignty law? £9.2 billion contributed to the EU, in contrast we are going to have severe cuts here. The UK imports more from the EU than it exports, where is the return on the investment? Mandelson still collects his £8,600 a month from a job he left two years ago, is that good value? EU students not paying tutition fees in Scotland when UK students are expected to pay more when their parents have already paid taxes and NI to cover the cost. Economic mess is the Government’s fault not public’s, therefore the parties should stick to their manifesto pledges intead of using the excuse it cannot because of the coalition- just an excuse.
He has yet to actually do anything to the economy other than make aspirational promises. Going by his record to date we cannot rely on a word he says.
Time for all of us to consider the next tactical vote to get Cameron and Co. out of office- perhaps UKIP?
He did tell us he was the Heir to Blair – now many seem surprised that it is business as usual.
Vote UKIP – not for tactical reasons but because they are the offical de facto Conservative Party now.
Nothing will ever be as bad as Brown.
He already holds the .
He is the Oscar winning, Golden Globe and lifetime achievement award all time winner for fuckery.
His disastrous premiership will be remembered as the lowest low point in this entire millennium. And seeing as we are only ten years into a thousand year competition that should demonstrate just what a monstrous affliction he was and probably still is on this country.
Dave could hire Take That to sing to him in his solid gold bath while a flunkey punches a monkey for his entertainment ,and i could only express a mild disappointment. He’s not Brown, and for that alone I am eternally grateful”
He may not be Brown BQ (thank fuck) but he is a wasted opportunity and we can hardly afford one of those at the moment.
I agree with your sentiment, but I doubt if UKIP would be better. Most – mauby all – politicians are incapable of seeing their actions as viewed from outside of Westminster. Dave and his pals are giving ammo to Labour and the BBC.
Yep,
Cameron is rapidly proving to be a disappointment. He does not answer questions at PMQs and his attempt to deflect the question from Millibland with a “do what I say not what I do” inspired response – when a simple answer could have been given – shows that we are not all in it together.
Did the public ever find out where the Right Honourable fill woolass stuffed the tampons they bought him?
Tory totty is always hotter than those minging Labour cows…its in the genes
True. I notice the totty at rugger matches is far superior to the creatures that watch soccer or darts.
Quite right, dear boy.
Oh yeeeeeees i’d get my kit off for her to tell her all my secrets – yaaa and Tony’s tooo.
Yup, I’d give her one.
I’ll join you in a spit roast!
Here’s a couple of grand for a pack of fags, love.
Which is why Dave couldn’t even win a majority against a useless cun’t like Brown. Staying in power only because Nick Clegg is keeping you there is ‘success’ apparently.
She “is credited with styling “Brand Dave”.”
Right, so it’s her fault, is it?
Let’s burn her!
Think you’ll find that “we are all in this together” has an exclusion cause for team Dave.
But why is he allowing this to happen? Suely he must now that it looks and smells rotten.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. He is Blair in a blue tie.
But wasn’t Blair a blue tie wearer too?
Wonky Tree Tory = Blue Labour.
Simples.
Oh FFS, grow up and try to think.
Bliar was not a tory, just as Cameron is not a tory. They were and are “Third Way” ( code for modern fascist ) globalist puppets. The New Labour project was designed specifically for this purpose and when they crashed and burned, team two, Camerons “Red Tories” were moved in to replace them, with the same slogans and lies as the last lot.
Archer Karcher has it. Clegg and Miliband are of the same ilk
You guys know why Hitler Killed himself? He got his gas bill.
What’s wrong with being a black duew? You have to stand at the back of the gas chamber.
Tory Totty is so much better than those grim Labor mingers
You can’t polish a turd
Ah, but you can add glitter.
I’ll give her a mouthfull.
Glasgow Celtic FC has once again shown its true colours.
The club has banned the sale of poppies on their premises.
Apparently the poppy is offensive to the clubs Irish Republican fan base.
Pass this message on so the whole country is aware of the disgraceful behaviour of this football club.
LEST WE FORGET.
You’ve already told us this in the last thread. Quoi de neuf?
It’s worth repeating for people who didn’t see it.
All the poppy sellers on the streets this year seem to be young lads – I’m sure in the past it was mostly elderly men. Are they worried about attacks by muzzee extremists who are offended by this act of rememberance?
I hadn’t realised poppies were big seller inside football stadiums. It’s hardly surprising that their largely Irish supporters are no fans of the British Army. It has to be remembered up until relatively recently Irish catholics in Glasgow were treated as second class citizens.
Are you suggesting they are not second class citizens?
Pity Cetlic don’t play in the Irish football league then, seeing as they’re so hostile to this country.
It’s this country that is hostile to them.
If you shit on my face I won’t be your friend. (Unless I’m a Lib Dem of course)
In that case the famine is over so why don’t you go home ?
Wierd.
Plenty of places in England have 10-30% (guesswork) irish populations and they pretty much forgot about the differences many decades ago.
@109
Оh, dо fuсk оff.
Еvеn соmраrеd tо оthеr ѕоссеr ‘fаnѕ’ thеy аrе а bunсh оf vіlе, сhіррy, hаtе-fіllеd, hооlіgаn ѕсum.
Тhеy аrе juѕt аѕ bаd аѕ аny оthеr іgnоrаnt еthnісѕ whо’vе dесіdеd tо
А) ѕtаrt hаtіng thе соuntry thаt wеlсоmеd thеm whеn thеіr раrеntѕ, grаnd-раrеntѕ еtс. wеrе wіndоw-ѕhорріng fоr ѕоmеwhеrе tо brіng thеm uр
bесаuѕе
В) thеy’vе hеаrd аbоut ѕоmеthіng thаt hарреnеd bеfоrе thеy wеrе bоrn tо реорlе thеy’vе nеvеr mеt іn а рlасе thеy’vе nеvеr vіѕіtеd
Dо yоu knоw hоw mаny Іrіѕhmеn аrе асtuаlly ІN thе Вrіtіѕh Аrmy, by thе wаy?
I just hope they also ban the sale of Swastikas at Ibrox too…
It’s been alleged Cameron was wrong when he claimed that there’s nothing he can do about prisoners right to vote. Oops!
Look at Dimbleby, what a cun’t!
Which one’s Dimbleby? Pod and peas?
Well, he was in the Bullingdon Club, what do you expect?
I live abroad so it’s a long time since I’ve seen any of QT, certainly a year, more likely two. What strikes me is, what role does Dimbleby have? At one point he ripostes to a panellist ‘I am the Chair, I am not on the panel’, but then he ends (this excerpt) by making up a question and putting it to David Davies. You could see his relish at trying to pin one on Cameron from across the English Channel!
So Dave was lying?
Dave listen, over the last month Ive lost all respect for you.
Dave = Obama
Dave’s a Muslim?
Glasgow Celtic FC has once again shown its true colours. The club has banned the sale of poppies on their premises. Apparently the poppy is offensive to the clubs Irish fan base. Pass this message on so the whole country is aware of the disgraceful behaviour of this football club. LEST WE FORGET.
As an Irish man who’s great grandfather fought in the war, I can safetly the Irish people are not and never will be against poppies, look at the region where this is happening though and you will find the true culprit.
The immature Scots.
When will we…sob…be…sob…a nation once again…hysterical wail.
Oi, fook off you fookin’ Taig! Fook the Pope! (Ad Nauseam)
What a complete idiot statement to make
Nothing to do with Scots
Interstingly the Chairman of Celtic FC is a certain John Reid, former Labour MP and ass hole
Is she going to Annabell’s after This week ?
Happy 5th Guido
I knew I’d been sitting at my computer for a long time but I never reliased been angry for that length of time. well for me 3 months after Guido started.
Over on Portaloo’s programme former prize winning troughing pig and Aston Villain Jackie Boots Smith calls for McMental to move on…
Will this be bigged up by Al Beeb or will they just lead with Browne being called a racist by some clown in the QT audience – something to do with French onion sellers with berets and blue and white striped t shirts,
Yeah … by the very person who hung on by her fingernails until the very last moment to fund her lifestyle that she thought she deserved.
She was promoted way above her talents and now she turns on the excuse-for-a-former-PM that was blind to her failings.
A charlatan like him doesn’t need any advice from a charlatan like her.
They deserve each other but we don’t deserve “public servants” like them or ought not to have to fund them for the way they laid waste to our country.
Why do we (the BBC) pay for this fat cretin to spew her ignorance on TV ?
Smith is a Blairite. The vendetta continues. At present the Brownites remain in charge but the Blairites will soon be fighting back if Red Ed fails to perform.
This Week:
Nice that Wogan is bragging about handing back his winter fuel allowance but was the only celeb that took a fee – year after year after year – from presenting for Children in Need.
When outed he defended himself by declaring he never ASKED for a fee and then handed back his undeclared fee for that year (but said nothing for about the £000,000 he took in preceding years.
The hypocrite make me sick.
He wears a rug too…..narcissistic tit…..that will be cast iron dave soon wearing a rug with his state paid photographer covering his balding pate.
Monsieur Cameron est un charlatan poudre
zorro
This post was about Wogan. WTF has it got to do with Cameron?
This post was about Wogan. WTF has it got to do with Cameron?
(I see “Wogan” is a moderated word pmsl)
I am bewildered by the choices the PM is making. What kind of ejit scores so many own goals in so short a time? Frankly I think I am past giving regard to anyone in politics with the exception of David Davis, who speaks from the heart and this is why he’s a back bencher.
Keep close to your friends but closer to your enemies
Cameron’s fwagile ego and wimpish character, show. That’s why he surrounds himself, like Brown, with nodding dog’s and useless prats like May, arch europhiles like Clarke and faux sceptics like Hague. He has no balls.
Perhaps so, but he delivered victory (of sorts) from socialist ruin.
One step at a time .. he either delivers radical reform in his own way or he smooths the past for a Conservative leader who can.
I for one detest the way he has skipped out delivering UK from the hated EU.
We’ve come a long way in such a short term, however. Let’s deliver economc recovery this term and see where it takes us once galvanised.
Given her wide girth, shouldn’t Fatty Smith set a good example in these cost cutting times and lose a bit of her flab? It won’t change her from being vile rotten Labour scum but at least she won’t resemble a beached whale.
sucker
Phwoar! Wish I’d had a lass like that around when I was Deputy PM. I’d have told her to take some dictation if you get me drift! I always got my way with the ladies if you get me drift!
I’ve just farted in your direction ”
If you get my drift”
‘ … the news that his image stylist has also become a civil servant will infuriate many who will question his priorities …’
Don’t think so. Most are aware of what his priorities are, and have moved beyond fury to apathetic despair.
Indeed (not that I gave him any support) all must remember however how he has given jobs on the public payroll for his own personal engrandisement and never let the people forget it !
Stupid, Stupid, Stupid man – he is handing Eddy bad publicity on a plate ! But then I guess Cameron would rather have a Labour government back in than a REAL caonservative party ! Makes you wonder whether his aim is to finish off the Tory party for good ! Like a good marxist would want !
Fortunately – there is a good conservative party just waiting in the wings !
hahaha. i still recall with moist eyes the chat i had with a tory spin doctor before the election, when she insisted that the tory policy was to only have half the number of spads that labour had. i think she thought that spads were bad labour things, and only beastly people like gordon brown would have anything to do with them.
now, almost six months into this government and they have virtually the same number, and what is more, they’re stuffing the civil service with people like this pretty little waste of space. and they can’t blame it on the liberals, because they had a policy of not having spads at all, and paying them from party funds (one which they seem to have dropped, along with lots of others).
Cameron has 18 SpAds.
What a lot of aides.
Happy Birthday Guido
‘Old it, flash, bang, wallop, what a picture
What a picture, what a photograph
Poor old soul, blimey, what a joke
Hat blown off in a cloud of smoke
Clap ‘ands, stamp yer feet
Bangin’ on the big bass drum
What a picture, what a picture
Um-tiddly-um-pum-um-pum-pum
Stick it in William Hague’s Spad’s Bum
Shut the fuck up you dickhead and get to fucking bed!
Posting OAP sing along shit like that at two in the morning you sad bastard, get a life!
The question is anonymous what where you doing up at this time as well?
Pot…………kettle…….
TWAT
Now now girls, we’ll have less of all that now move along please…
Answer the damn question Dave – Enquiring minds want to know !
i.e. US – The geral public want to know why you are employing your own favorites on the public teet – without advertising the job publicly (or not that I have much sympathy for them – to all those about to be ‘cut’ !)
Does he realy think that it is OK to give a taxpayer punded job to his own favorites for his own publicity ! What a sorry excuse for a public SERVANT he is !
By New year he’ll be as popular as NICE in a cancer ward !
Guido, what about Gove, Rachel and the £500,000? Are you going to mention that?
Another useless sponging opportunist. Where do these useless idiots come from.
If you book them, they will come.
Being half a world away from your shores I do feel a bit like the little kid tremulously pointing out the Emperor has no clothes…
But doesn’t it ever occur to you Poms that Cameron is not only sticking it up you, but thoroughly enjoying himself in the process?
But unlike us mongrels in the antipodes and despite having an occasional whinge on Guido’s blog, you obviously continue to want please the squire by obsequiously tugging your forelocks to him and saluting the modern day equivalent of Lamberger Gessler’s hat: the EU
Come along now, it’s been 405 years today since the original Guido had a go at rectifying things. Insipid bunch as you are, don’t you think it’s way beyond time for another go?
Now come on, you did let Labour back in under a welsh bitch just recently.
You didn’t put your name as English/Scottish/Irish or even Welsh Cousin so she’s a British bitch.
Guido, have you got anything planned for your big day? Make it funny please. I could do with a laugh.
A re-run of your previous exploits would suffice. Successful this time though?
Isn’t he going to a barbecue tonight?
Make it so.
I know I’ve only done 22 years service in the military, but is there not a point where you will shut the fuck up you tiresome asshole?
Who you talking to bro?
Probably himself, the shell shock and post traumatic warzone stress has finally got to him.
Happy Guido Fawkes Day!
Enjoy freedom and don’t let the crooks get away with it!
“She successfully helped detoxify the Tories and turn them into the beautiful people…”
What is this woffle, Fawkes? Whenever you see that weasel phrase “helps to…” in an ad, you know for sure that what they’re peddling is snake oil.
Compared with Gordon, the Black Death was beautiful people. Dave’s little helpers, whoever they were, couldn’t sell king prawns to our cat.
Anyone listening to the 1812 overture?
it started in kirkcaldy!
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot.
I know of no reason,
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot!
Updated!
Remember Remember the 1st of December,
Lisbon, Treason and Plot.
I see of no reason
Why Brown’s EU Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Stop blaming us!
happy bonfire day one and all, fingers crossed that guido 2.0 strikes soon.
No Radio 4 news and no Radio 5 Live lefties to start the day. Bliss.
Just goes to show that the NUJ are self-centred and overpaid. They don’t need the work. Let this lot go. There’s a shed load of new posts that could reduce the unemployed list.
I cannot understand why the radio 3 morning programme presenter has gone on strike. Its stretching the definition of journalist to claim that someone who plays cd’s and gabbles (very irritatingly) about arts news in the papers is a bona fide scribbler. Still I suppose Sara Mohr Pietsch ( for it is she) is an NUT member and I personally would wish she ,and one or two others (Katie Derham anyone), would go on strike …. permanently.
Ditto Thicky Campbell
He’s progessed from reading out the names of records to letting people listen in to his phone calls with window lickers.
Don’t come back.
Surprisingly Robert Peston hasn’t downed tools, according to the DT.
Peston’s Common Purpose, so he will man his post enabling the daily flow of propaganda.
Or NUJ even..
NUR
National Union of Reading things out
Listeners were told: “We are sorry but as you have not heard in the news, because of industrial action called by the National Union of Journalists, we are unable to bring you inform you of the strike.”
Aren’t the all ‘stars’ self employed to help their tax status? So what has the BBC pension got to do with them.
To all the BBC Journo’s reading this blog because they aren’t at work: stay at home, the BBC output is much better without your left wing bias
The BBC Breakfast news still managed to have a lefty climate change item and an article predicting that the nasty tory’s cuts will cause 5 million houses to be underwater due to cuts in flood defences, without once referring to how flood defences have stopped annual flooding in some areas, but ensured far worse flooding if there is very heavy or prolonged rain. Nor did they refer to the increase in the amount of homes built on flood plains.
The BBC must be the only organization that makes money when their staff are on strike. Their income stays the same but they save on salaries and nobody is inconvenienced. Can they not stay on strike forever?
I just dont see the point of these one day strikes – they are minor inconvenience but we all get by – no employer need back down from these sort of threats and clearly the strikers haen’t got the balls to go on indefinite strike which might force some reaction. BBC Journalists going on strike is not even an inconvenience as there are hiundreds of other news channels available
And what sort of money do these people get from the public purse ? One BBC newsreader, not a very prominent one, but recognisable, moved into, nearby, a couple of years ago, an already large house in a advantageous site, and promptly commenced on months and months of expensive enlargements and renovations (causing not a little inconvenience to other locals). All the while keeping two or three cars on the road ( including, inevitably, the 4 by 4). And all paid for from the occasional news presentation and whatever behind the scenes work these ‘journalists’ do. The BBC simply cascades with money; and as for that personification of pomposity John Simpson…..
I’m pretty certain about a year ago a female newsreader, who nobody has ever heard of, on the BBC News Channel was challenged on a air to reveal her salary – I can’t remember why – but she revealed it to be £92000.
Yes she was owned by Lord Faulkes. Only a dipshit from BBC could make Lord Faulkes look witty and smart.
CMD and his pals are as bad, if not worse than the last shower of shit. Non jobs for their pals and dopey bits of fluff like the bint in the lead story.
Someone mentioned ‘hopeless dispair’
Sums it up for me.
OT, but I fully support the NUJ industrial action at the BBC and hope they stand by their principles and stay out on strike for the next five years.
Because of their stand, I really enjoyed Radio 4 this morning… nice talk about Lord Kitchener, followed by students from the recent past discussing how they clubbed together to buy rat poison… wonderful programmes replacing those regular news-twats who continually snigger amongst themselves at the end of every item they read out.
The rat story was a gem, and unlike the usual Socialism Today stuff, totally believable.
The strike will simply highlight to the great unwashed that in the age of the intertube BBC ‘news’ and ‘journalism’ has become entirely dispensible.
And the Today programme this week has broadcast Naughtie from America, enjoying himself hugely ( funny how these BBC lefties love to go to the US) and Humphries on an even longer jolly to China. Both paid for by the taxpayer, and both jobs could have been conducted from the studio.
Not one whit difference than NU Labour.
Lets have another general election, I can’t put up with this liberal government much longer.
Anyone noticing the difference on the BBC this morning as the breakfast staff are on strike.
Still crap as ever.
Infact i’m getting more factual information from YO GABBA GABBA on channel 4 than the BBC news at the moment.
Just turned on and thought oh another new face,hadn’t realised they had gone on strike,oh dear what are we supposed to do for our news.
the sun still came up, the cricket’s on the telly and rabbits are in the garden – all is well – no need for the bbc at all – the world continues – so fuck off to all and sundry at the bbc – go get real jobs the scummy lot of ya
…. and what’s Lucy doing on ITV??
The only worthwhile reason for watching ITV at 0600/0700 most days. I turn on the PC when she’s finished.
So what’s new? He always was image – no bottom. £1/2 billion to Brussels, no referendum, more power to the ******* EU, our navy run by the French. I am surprised he is not advertising K Y Jelly.
We have received a number of complaints from our public telling of how disappointed they are that the news is not on. People have even said how they miss Nicky Campbell on Radio5 for his insightful contributions and general bon amie.
Well let us tell you viwers and listeners that today we will be making cardboard cut-out using old toilet rolls and papier mache to build our very own news studio. We at the bbc will not let our country down in its hour of need.
Please keep your comments pouring in and we will let you have the edited versions later …..
Bon Homie!!!!
Good Will not Good Friends(?)
Cast Iron Dave ~ Wot an arse-fucka
BBC Breakfast News much, much better this morning, due to their ‘journalists’ strike today.
No puny puns from Bill Turdbull, no mindless biased banter from lightweight Sian Williams. Long may the strike continue !!!
Why watch the BBC news at all? Aljazeera and Russia Today are much better.
“Coz it’s bollocks”
Odd character with no friends to vouch for him offers to help the government end boom and bust, but it turns out to be a hoax.
Strange. I seem to recall the Tories scraped to victory despite, rather than because of, the efforts of all these self-important advisers.
If people like Hilton and this inane “image stylist” are as wonderful as they make out then the Tories should’ve won by a mile.
So the change we wanted is not the change cast iron Dave wanted,we wanted a change in the way the country is run and he wants change in his grooming,somewhere I get the impression the ruling classes are pissing all over us as they quaff their publicy paid for champagne,cast iron should realise he is only in by the skin of his teeth and not because the country loves him.
Correct the tories scraped to victory !
Not because they became “beautiful people ”
and everybody voted for them
but because most people were pissed off with Brown
I think the tory stylists did a reasonable job.
I mean … the labour ones were even more ridiculously useless. grumpy and wierd is a better image than smiling and wierder.
An alternative conclusion:
Daves lot are absolutely and completely useless. Their wonderful image stylists meant they didn’t lose by a mile.
Pssst …… Sky News is very good.
sky is every bit as bad
S .
“Behavioural Insights Strategy Team”
Wankers.
Department of Subtle propaganda and manipulation and compliance.
Wankers.
Daves Sty- List = More piggies at the public truogh
Seems the yanks have the same problem
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Is this right the BBC are on strike this morning ?
Long long may it continue
lets hope it’s permenant !
Does this mean that we get a rebate on our licence fee?
Not all of them. Switched on Radio 4 just before eight o’clock, and heard the weather forecast (normal, treat with some scepticism), a news summary (brief and consequently informative) with a sports review (England making a reasonable start in Australia – quite satisfying) and then an excellent 15-minute programme about the landscape and wildlife around the Wash – wonderful. All in all, an excellent start to the morning, and one which the BBC would do well to make permanent.
You should have switched on an hour earlier… Lord Kitchener recruiting for the Great War followed by students on £10 a week grants trying to kill a rat with frying pans. Far more interesting and entertaining than that Welsh windbag (almost said twat) Humphries. But I fear all will be undone if the Beeb bring in that idiot ex-MP Limpdick Oprick who bores even the snoozing listeners.
Correction, I should have said two hours earlier… at six o’clock.
Followed by a load of codsswallop from a “striker” saying that the BBC journalists were paid quite poorly and all felt they could do better in the private sector. After choking on my coffee I shouted “Well **** me, go and do it” .- that’s the censored version
I blame David Cameron.
“She successfully helped detoxify the Tories and turn them into the beautiful people…”
Christ on a bike…!
“Ken Clarke on Gok’s TV show”
not catchy enough
Christ on a bike indeed. The trouble is, the dim fuckers probably believe their own self congratulatory bullshit.
Worked for me. Posh suit and a poncy hairstyle. Got rid of my brother and they all my Labour chums fell for it. Out brothers out!
Bliar employed Campbell in a civil service role when we all knew he was the de facto minister of propaganda for New Labour.
Is there no mechanism whereby the public can prevent or even lodge a formal complaint about what is politically biassed misuse of taxpayers money?
No.
A fella in 1605 had a very good idea of how to lodge a formal complaint.
Shame he got grassed on.
Congratulations Guido. Think of all the parliamenarians and their hangers-on whom you have outlasted.
OK Guido, how about telling us how much each of these special advisors are paid, the complete package mind, that includes “allowances”, expenses and pension pot. Then add all of the salaries up and give us a grand total of all of these political appointments.
If we are all in this together then I will ask Dave to make the same cuts to his staff as I am to mine.
Should be fun!
Surely, no-one could question Cameron’s priorities?!
They are (ranked in no definitive order : -
David Cameron
David Cameron
David Cameron
These are my top 3 priorities but not in that order.
Juicy, the man of the people Dave is getting grand at the taxpayer’s expense.
It took Blair 6 years to reach this level of self regarding fuckwittery, but Mr Smooth is clearly loving his time at the trough.
No matter how rabidly right wing/pro Tory a person is, Dave’s behaviour clearly indicates his total arrogance which has lurked just under the smooth, smarmy surface.
Dave has clearly styled himself on Louis XVI of France…cant wait til he spouts ‘were all in this together’ again.
Over the last year I’ve come to the conclusion that its not so much arrogance as just slightly useless. Particularly over things like “dave’s windmill” (must admit I’d quite like one myself but less than 10 minute’s research made me conclude it was a bad idea). Oh. and using the music of Keane.
Slightly useless? More completely useless from where I am standing.
Are you standing near one of those “Dave’s big shiny face” posters?
You mean the ones with the mealy mouth?
Who’d have thought it, Tory tribalists taken in by smarmy spiv, cast iron Dave.
6 years? you are Joking! Blair started sacking the formerly strictly impartial civil servants as soon as he got into number 10 and employed an army of spinners on the public payroll.
It was Blair that started it all.
I am disappointed, although not surprised, that Dave is carrying on that tradition.
Political parties try to appeal to people who don’t really support them. This means they don’t strongly appeal to people who really do support them. The strategists calculate that those people are going to vote for them anyway. Thus, most genuine lefties voted for Blair with their teeth clenched and most genuine conservatives think of Cameron as at-least-not-Labour. You get two competing brands of fizzy weak beer when you might prefer either Guinness or water.
I’m not convinced this works. A party with a strong identity and a clear programme might be more successful – the Democrats in 2008, for instance, or the Tea Party today.
Looks like Government are going to have to bend over for the Muzzies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11694028
We want equality……and special privileges and exemptions.
Oh, Jesus H Christ on crutches.
Bloody Muslimes!!!!
If the muzzies can have interest free loans I demand an interest-free mortgage.
Equality for whitey please.
Looks like Ministers are going to have to bend over for the Prime Minister
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/8111114/Cabinet-ministers-who-fail-to-meet-spending-targets-face-public-explanation-to-Cameron.html?source=newswidget
I preferred the old torch logo myself. It is at least symbolic of something helping to show the way. A tree is well… a tree.
Looks like a small tree which is otherwise known as a shrub.
A wonky tree to be sure.
It is leaning to the right, but with it’s centre of gravity towards the left of centre.
Is it just me or does this hard faced slag look Chinese?
She obviously isnt as most Chinese have real jobs
\AIaf prime minister for a day I say ” give us a 69 love” whilst pulling a face like a wanking japanese sniper
That nice Mr Woolas has his day of judgement today. Good Luck!
Same old Tories.
Pain & taxes are for the little people.
“We are all in this together”.
Yeah, right, what-ever.
Same as New Liebour.
Fuck over the low-earning taxpayers to pay for the lazy, feckless gobshites.
US State Department flashes red-level warning on hitherto little known terror cell operating out of Derby Shire, England, led by a Charles Rolls and a Henry Royce, and assessed as carrying an ACTUAL threat to air passenger safety – not that Alky Ada’s crotch-bomber shite, and all other CIA/mos sad/MI6 false flag terror shit.
“this security alert was brought to you by General Electric and Pratt & Whitney”
Qantas never crash
There were no Labour politicians involved
“She successfully helped detoxify the Tories and turn them into the beautiful people…”
No she didn’t.
The tories were up against a hated labour party, with the most universally unpopular incumbent PM in memory and they *still* couldn’t get a majority.
And she’s considered to have done a good job?
Even image consultants could not quite overcome postal voting fraud.
Standard practise for civil servants these days !
Foist praise onto a failure ! Give them a pay rise to make them feel good ! After next failure – promote them to make way for the next incompetant !
Thing is – we the taxpayer are now paying for someone who is a failure to be employed to do nothing for the country ! Just like the other 90% !
No wonder the Public sector is held in such contempt by the public !
The bad news: poor people in the UK will be hit hardest as cuts are being made elsewhere in the budget.
We shouldn’t forget that it’s the banks that caused this crisis – and it’s the banks that should help to get us out of it. For every cut the government announces, and instead of international aid being cut – we need to ask, could a tax on the banks have paid for that?
Enjoying your day off work at the BBC?
“it’s the banks that caused this crisis.”
Yes, that’s right! It was the big nasty evil bankers. They forced me to borrow trillions of pounds! They made me hire 700,000 civil servants to do non-jobs! And all the pensions, and offices etc that went with them!
It was the evil bankers! Not me! I tried to stop them, but they were bigger than me. Big boys made me do it! Wahh waaaa!
Correction.
“it’s the Scottish banks that caused this crisis.”
Once again I have left the people of England to bail out my Scottish mates. We’ve never had it so good up here. Next May Labour will be back in power in Holyrood with Iain Gray, the United Kingdom’s most inspirational leader, the new First Minister leading Scotland to the promised land. And the good news is my children won’t need to pay to go to university as it’s free here, not only do you pay £9000 a year down south but you pay another £9000 a year so my kids can go for free. Isn’t it marvelous how you let me rig the system to my advantage.
We know it’s you Gordon stop hiding behind anonymous. I’m so spineless I’ll send up another few billion to make sure your children get the free education they deserve. I’ll pop in a photograph too.
PS. Do you know anything about the rocking horse I found in the loft?
I would never allow my personal political views into the public domain.
You’re Nicky Campbell and I claim £5
I’ve taken the day off to read my Spectator.
Don’t you mean Tribune?
Absolutely not.
‘If you don’t know me by now.’
You sayin’ he’s no lefty?
What f*ckin planet are you on,where do you think a tax on banks is going to come from,the banks,gerrofff, it will come out of your pocket and my pocket in higher charges,the banks should have been left to wither or recover themselves without public money going to them,it would have hurt for a short time,but not like we are going to hurt.
had the banks been left to whither the depositors would have lost too…not something the brownites could contemplate realistically Alibi
From your pictures, it seems that Anna-Maren and Cam use the same miracle anti-wrinkle lotion.
That’s what I call joined-up government!
She’s fit. Dave can put as many young fit looking birds on the payroll as he likes. Al I hate the lesbian hags who buy the Guardian
A young Arab asks his father, “What is this weird hat that we are wearing?”
“It’s a chechia because in the desert it protects our heads from the sun!”
“And what is this type of clothing that we are wearing?”
“It’s a djbellah because in the desert it is very hot and it protects your body!”
“And what are these ugly shoes that we have on our feet?”
“These are babouches which keep us from burning our feet when in the desert!”
“Tell me, papa…”
“Yes, my son?”
“… Why are we still wearing all this shit now we live in Wolverhampton?”
The same reason westerners don’t dress like me in Dubai. Culture son, culture.
Bill Maher’s going to be next on the Muslim hate list after he said he is extremely worried that the most popular name in England is Mohammed. Good to see someone on the left taking a stand.
Until the left (and the right) acknowledge how we got into the position of Mohammed becoming the most popular name in Britain, nothing will change.
No because in the west we invented sunglasses, air conditioning and fucking toilets where you don’t have to stand and use your hand to wipe your arse. It’s called progress son, progress.
she is cute though
“House of Lords have to pay interest on stolen expenses at same rate as students”
Oh no, I was dreaming again, we are all in this together, except that you are in it more than us.
Disgraceful of Cameron : (
Ashford ? Now a little bit of spinning and we have Ashcroft !
Pretty plump.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1326844/DIY-jihadists-Roshonara-Choudhry-supporters-living-benefits.html
Plus points , she is cute
minus points , Dont look like she is value for money , And Dave has got fatter and thinning on top .Oh and we are paying for it .
Billy your taste in the finer things must be as good as your taste in women,crap,she sends out danger signals,not come and get me signals.
Some of us like danger .
I find it strange,it was Brown who stole the money out of the private pensions pot and helped the companies to help themselves to any “spare” profits and nothing was said about it by the lefties and BBC journo’s who had a pension pot,now their moneyin the pension pot has dropped or is non existent they go on strike,so I would like to say to them welcome to the club of cleared out by Brown pensions pots, serves you right and I hope it hurts you hard ,you had a chance to write about it and complain but being lefty tribal and those rose coloured spectacles on,must have got in your way,I hope you enjoy your suffering as you deserve it.
I don’t know what you are talking about. My pension pot is doing just fine.
Gordy that has always been your problem,self self self all the way down the line.
The BBC strike seems to be going quite well.
With most of their “journalists” on strike, there’s no real problems.
Actually it’s a lot better than it normally is, because the remaining journalists are, mostly, simply telling people the news rather than ganging together and trying to spin things in a pro-labour way. They don’t have the man-power/time during the strike to skew the news as much as normal, so they’re pretty much just reporting things as-is, which they’re supposed to be doing anyway.
With, say, 95% of of their journalists on strike, the output is much better than normal.
So, that obviously makes me (and I’m sure quite a few others) think….
“If they can do a better job than normal with 95% of their staff on strike, purely because they’re forced into making-do with less staff and don’t have a choice, then it probably means that across the entire BBC you could actually reduce their budget by 90% and end up with a better output than you do at the moment.”
So, go on, Dave; grow some balls, and give them £350million a year instead of £3.5billion, and reduce our license fee to a tenner.
Are they on strike ? We hadn’t noticed. Seems a much superior service than normal to us.
Perhaps this illustrates to the Corporation where the necessary savings can be made….sack all those on strike as superfluous
I watched BBC news this morning for about an hour, and it was far better than normal. They actually told you what was going on; no real labour slant.
I guess when all the lefty-union journalists don’t turn up to work, you have to use people who just want to tell people the news, and then go home. It’s infinitely better than normal.
When their charter comes up for renewal, the government simply need to say to them:
“you see what the news was like when all your card-carrying union journalists didn’t turn up to work and you just told people the news? that’s what your reporting should be like. Now make-do with a 90% budget cut.”
I am now a cricket fan as i like a well runny 2 .
A non-PC Irishman’s view of air travel and muslims:
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/ian-odoherty/ian-odoherty-the-hell-of-modern-air-travel-is-worth-it-for-the-heaven-of-hawaii-2408511.html
Hang on a minute. If this bint was any good then Dave would have won the election. Let’s face it he was winning outright in the polls against the worst UK PM ever, then he suddenly broke his cast iron guarantees, spouted green shite and made a tit of himself at the election debates. This woman helped Dave snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and she is put on the public payroll?
And the less said about her old oak tree scribble the better. Just like the song the Conservative oak tree now has a yellow liberal ribbon tied around it.
Q: Why is Harriet Harman like a land mine?
Because you’d be mad to poke either of them.
Why is the BBC News Channel still on? Some fuckin’ strike this.
Its only the Journalists that are striking not the technicians so nobody will notice, may get some balanced news for a couple of days.
*** Ode to Dave ****
You walked into the Conservative party
Like you were walking into number 10
Your floppy quiff strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was blue and white
You had one eye in the mirror
As you watched yourself gavotte
And all the boys dreamed that they’d be your photographer
They’d be your stylist, and
You’re so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain
I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you?
Normally these sort of posts are crap, but this one is quite good, almost satirical, what on earth is it doing here!
http://www.infowars.com/did-somebody-just-try-to-buy-the-british-government/
Lord James still seems to believe in Santa Claus, you have to bear in mind that being a deluded old fart that likes the sound of his own voice is nothing unusual in the ranks Peerdom.
Does dave have a posing pouch?
Behavioural Insights Strategy Team-what’s that for then?Surely not needed if our elected leaders are merely doing the will of the people.Such honest and upright men can have no need of manipulative methods.
this is another non-story… governments of all hues have appointments like this…call it PR or whatever its all part of the modern political scene. Cutting two thirds of the communications budget is a reasonable starting point.
brown was transformed from a scruffy twat to a less scruffy twat by staff doing very much the same job as this woman. Nobody believes sarah brown did it and gordon couldn’t tie his own laces let alone sort his teeth hair suits etc…this is what the x factor tv politics means these days. …move on
Daves only response is to argue he is squandering/mis-using less public funds than Labor did.
Not very “polished” and not nearly good enough.
Cast Iron daffy camoron’s priorities need to be chopped. Like the last bastard, only worse. He actually thinks he is prime monster. If he is, it is by default and lacking much permanancy. (Accent on the nancy)
Speaking of which, where’s that little willy vague hiding?
This obsession with preening proves Dave really meant it when he claimed to be the Heir to Blair.
Gawd elp us all.
She got her work cut out polishing the Cameron turd.
Isn’t about time, Guido put stop to the ‘jobsformemates’ attitude found in all political parties.