Coalition Civil Service Con Continues
The culture of political special advisors was developed under Maggie, and boomed under Labour. Dave promised to cut the numbers of partisan aide-de-camps paid for by the taxpayer. The LibDems went even further and pledged in their manifesto to take SpAd’s off the public payroll and make parties pay for them out their own funds. However despite these “cast iron” promises the coalition have found a loophole – simply make former party staffers Civil Servants. Guido has been looking at this dishonest tactic for a couple of days now and the list of staffers who have been suddenly “neutralised” is absurd:
While Dave and Nick might promise smaller government and a new politics, they are using backdoor methods to get their yes-men into Whitehall and Downing Street.
Fuck sake , what happened to Change , Hoons !
That’s my boy.
He is even corrupt than Blair. I don’t think UK had a PM like Dave, he is the lowest of the low.
We will fight against university tuition fees, well, only for EU students in Scotland;
We will stand up for UK in Europe, EU Foreign and Secuirty Dept created, the budget increase, investigative powers given to the EU and the new EU army is what he has given away in the first six months;
We will reduce immigration to ten of thousands, possibly but not in this life time;
We will clean up politics, one day when he is not in office;
Lobbying is the next scandal, so he promoted one to the cabinet;
Wiggins will be out and Laws can come back, yeah right;
All friends and family are protected from cuts and unemployment, Cameron and Clegg will find a place for them in the Civil Service;
Devolve all responsiblity for public services to the local level so we are not held to account for the sh1te public services;
MPs allowed to send their children to selected schools (normally faith schools) irrespective of where they live.
All material for his book when he leaves office so he can go on a world tour, earn pots of money and put it in an offshore account (sounds just like lying Blair to me).
I like the Tea Party idea and to vote for UKIP to get them out of office next time around.
YAY! Get the tea parties started!
I am sorry but TIM SNOWBALL ?
That is a made up name
for sure
although at College we did have a mathmo called Ivonder Dikshitt
Rishi Saha, annoying so and so
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1327314/David-Camerons-Team-Vanity-Mr-Pimp-My-Party-Rishi-Saha.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Go Bomb a plane or something !
Fifty grand a year on the public payroll for running Web Cameron and the number 10 website? Kin L there’s any number of internt geeks who would do that part time for some beer money. FFS Dave could have gone down the job center and got someone off the dole.
Cameron’s team vanity obviously does not understand the meaning of austerity or “we are all in this together”
I think the phrases were for public consumption not him and the other MPs.
Never mind that, got any naked pics of Isabel Spearman, she look dirty
When CMD said “We’re all in it together” he means himself and his friends being “in it” to make as much money as possible while the rest of us go to hell in a handbasket.
CMD is an EU stooge along with his special friend in the yellow tie.
Well, Cameron did say he was going to create jobs.
Isn’t Cameron’s father in law raking in millions off the back of the global warming scam? Does not Clegg’s wife work for another bunch of scammers, set to make millions more off the back of poor and very poor people in this country? They imagine they are the new nobility and that the hapless peasants will not revolt again. They are wrong.
Instead of employing a professional snapper why didn’t Dave just buy a point and shoot digital camera?
Oh he thought he did he bought a point and shoot camera man.
Lets just hope the Glib-Dumbs spit out their collective dummy and force a general election soon
i would love to see “Call me Dave” Out on his arse within a year
he is just as bad (If not worse than) Brown
He Genuinely has no idea about the real world
If CMD is worse than Brown then we really are in DEEEEEEEEP SHIT.
Get a grip. Brown was seriously dangerous
for Britain. Dave is merely disappointing.
Worse than Brown?
In your deluded fantasy world, where money grows on trees and laws apply to everyone but the labour party maybe!
Whilst I am disappointed in much of Cameron’s leadership and the coalition’s decisions, they are still far far far better than the labour dipshits that they replaced.
Remember the gold.
What I mean is, remember Brown, …..the gold,…….. and cry.
golden brown?
And they’ve guaranteed themselves jobs for the next 5 years as well.
Can we have a re-run? Previous applicants need not apply!
Is he a Muslim LM?
Are Tim Snowball and Zena Elmarouki identical twins? Just wondering.
Vote UKIP the UK Tea party.
We, in the Chimps Tea party, would welcome your votes.
Shut the F@ck up Fawkes. I’m in charge now.
It’s so unfair, everyone got their political aide a job on the public payroll except for me. I hate you Guido Fawkes.
You were trying to get fucked at tax payers expense.
We timed our strike well.
Ministers sidestep ‘vanity jobs’ ban
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23895930-ministers-sidestep-vanity-jobs-ban.do
Who’s worried about the odd dozen or so [They ARE odd - Ed] this is how politics have worked for ages.
What is more important is how many hundreds and thousands of worthless public sector jobs are axed.
A few hundred in Israel control a 9bn pound military budget, it takes nearly 30,000 UK Public Sectors to handle a budget only around 11% higher at 10bn.
If Labour had got in, they would have given jobs for there people, and not sacked any of the public sector workers.
And look at the number of private sector jobs which have been created already by businesses heartened by the fact that the Tories are in. And think how many more will be created when the corporation and NHS taxes are lowered.
For God’s sake man, get things in perspective.
Ampers.
there people
their
As I said before, not a scrap different than Nu Labour and just as corrupt!
Have you applied for your mandatory ID card yet?
Or got your kid’s details correct on the contact-point database?
Or if you are considering selling your home, have you got your HIP sorted yet?
Have you made the council tax assessors welcome when they come to re-assess your council tax banding?
Or have you a relative with cancer who can not get the drugs they need because NICE won’t allow the doctor to proscribe them?
No? Because the coalition is no different from labour are they?
Whilst the coalition is nowhere near as good as I would like it to be, it has done a lot of good things and is a far better government than labour!
None could be as corrupt as newlabour – they took it to a whole ne level.
NEW NEW NEW
From Dave with love for illegal immigrants
“More than 30,000 extra asylum seekers have been granted permission to stay in the UK since February, the head of the UK Border Agency has revealed.
Lin Homer told MPs each case was considered on it merits and it was not “just an approach where we have said everybody can stay”.
She also confirmed that the agency was “struggling” to deport families of illegal immigrants.
The coalition has vowed to end the detention of migrant children.
Ms Homer was being grilled by the Commons home affairs committee.”
mmmmmmmm grilled sounds good to me
…and a Pakistani cricketer is already signing into this country, with his wife, and his children, and his…..
So they are liars?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
At least with UKIP we know that the tens of thousands of traitors & lacky’s of the political class currently swilling down our cash in the EU would be gone for good.
Not that bothered about this. It’s not good but worse things happen at sea.
True enough, but it hands a PR victory to the Coalition’s main opposition, the BBC. They could bang on about this for months, along with Coulson and Ashcroft. The Conservatives don’t need to save the money, they could pay these and Cameron’s photographer from party funds and thus maintain the political high ground.
It’s often silly little things like this that become political hot potatos with the Great Britis Public. Raise VAT? Yeah, whatever. Raise retirement age? Well, don’t really like it, but see the logic? Cuts to public spending? Not keen, but see the need. Appoint a government paid photographer? The profligate, self-regarding troughing bastards!
Tory lies good
Labour lies bad.
Or if you’re the BBC, t’other way about.
Really? Nothing holds a candle to no more boom and bust. Not even the 45 minute claim.
From Dave with love for illegal immigrants
“More than 30,000 extra asylum seekers have been granted permission to stay in the UK since February, the head of the UK Border Agency has revealed.
Lin Homer told MPs each case was considered on it merits and it was not “just an approach where we have said everybody can stay”.
She also confirmed that the agency was “struggling” to deport families of illegal immigrants.
The coalition has vowed to end the detention of migrant children.
Ms Homer was being grilled by the Commons home affairs committee.”
It has been handled badly – seems to be a running theme; good ideas spoilt by poor media handling. I think the coalition is trying to rush through so much stuff it is almost inevitable, but they could have been more careful.
I don’t know what all the other Spads do, but what is the problem with having an official Govt photographer. Cheaper than hiring freelance
Agreed – personally, I coudn’t give a monkey’s, or about the nine mentioned in Guido’s post. The important point for me is that the current administration have about half the number of ex-party Spads as the last one, so that’s better for democracy and better for the taxpayer.
However, the news management angle seems to have been missed. It would have been better for Cameron to say that he’s having his photographer, but payed out of party funds (unless there is some security angle that means said photographer must be under Civil Service control). That would have been a PR success. Now, it’s a PR blot.
But there must be a snapper of some sort already employed by the civil service, There was no shortage of cabinet meeting snaps, official reception snaps, number 10 party snaps and so on before Dave got the job so what is he or she doing now?
Also the armed services have their own photographer branches why not just use one of them. 15k a year for a private who woud most likely jump at the chance) is a darn site cheaper than Dave’s political snapper on 35K.
You wouldn’t get a freelance for £15k a year – that wouldn’t cover the business costs, never mind the bloke’s wages.
You are right about Civil Service and Forces photographers, though. Good point.
Engineer…. That depends how much time he spends doing the job.
How many hours a week(/year) do you rekon they’d spend doing it?
I had the impression (perhaps erroneously) that Cameron’s photographer was a full-time post. Say 2000 hours per year?
It depends what they’re doing. One perhaps hopes that dave doesn’t need his photo taking every day of the year.
Slapper did you say ?? Let’s have a look in.
We was all feed the message that ” We cant go like this ” , But in this department they are the same as labour , Dont they have there own ideas ? Why do they need to reward their chums ? This is at OUR expense .
All we have now are EU muppets living off the gravy train onto book tours and speeches .
BRITON CAN NOT GO ON LIKE THIS
No, I can’t. I’m off to the boozer.
” “We’re trying to gauge demand/support for a sponsored waterboarding of @torybear for a military charity – would be put on YouTube”
Put me down for a score
Sorry Guido , I aint on Twitter . But this looks like fun
Vince Cable took someone too.
The mind boggles!!!
Did all you Tory voters really believe DC when he said it would be different. Like the snooping bill for Internet comms everyone condemned that Labour had to withdraw. Coalition are going to introduce it. Same old..same old
Most people voted to get Brown out. Couldn’t give a fuck what Dave promised.
X2.
Me an’awll
Good point Guido. I’m all in favour of the coalition but giving party staffers Civil Service jobs (so that the taxpayer has to pay for their salaries, benfits, expenses and pensions) is morally unacceptable given what both Cam and Clog said before the election.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Daily Mail ran an in depth article on this issue soon.
Fawkes, don’t want to come over like a CCHQ luvvie, but 7 doesn’t sound like a whole lot ! What happened to the last lot, did some actually get terminated, or were they just absorbed into the civil service by their new bestest friends ?
Once you start apologising for corruption, its all just a matter of time.
This government has just lost my vote.
OT
Woolasgate is a measure of Wed Eds’ lack of leadership.
I know he’s just given the world another Labour voter, but last week it took ages before Harman condemed Woolas and now the PLP are saying under party rules she had no right to do so.
So why did the politburo take so long to come to the wrong conclusion?
We used tp be able to come to the wrong conclusions much more quickly when we were in Government; but being in Opposition means we don’t have the Civil Service to help us come to the wrong conclusions any more.
The Civil Service did more than just support us, they often came up with some great ideas about how to get it wrong themselves.
Happy days
Ok , While i agree wollarse is a Hunt , He has the right to fair trail process , And unless misstaken he can still take this further and indecated he may do , Until the process is compleate then he can carry on , However it is clear that someof his comrades think what was on the leaflet is fine and that shows bad and out of touch judgement .
Now you are just taking the piss.
Their rules are so convoluted they probably don’t understand them themselves. Doesn’t look like good leadership on Ed’s part to zoom off and leave Hattie with the hot potato.
If Woolarse gets his judicial review and wins, it just tells the public that politicians think it’s OK to smear and tell lies about each other for electoral gain, and the courts back them. That won’t improve public confidence in politicians one iota.
He’s not going to win, so he should just go.
Unfortunately Labour politicians don’t just go; they fear losing the teat of the state.
Probably find that if he can drag it out for another 6 months or a year it will up his pension entitlement/retirement bonus by some degree or other.
If they are taking the job of another civil servant I don’t see where any extra expense comes in here?? Someone would have held that post on the same salary.
Everyone promotes, or finds a job for their preferred workmates and assistants if they can.
I fail to see the story here??
I can. A flagrant breach of the ban on human cloning (Tim and Zena).
You seem suprised that MP’s are fucking liars !
To a man these Scum sucking parasites are lowlife shite with no morals
they still insist they are above the law
that they should not be prosecuted by law courts
and that judges should not be allowed to make rulings on politicians because “they dont understand” Shoot the fucking lot of them and lets start again
even our military would do a better job !
Great idea – I need my old job back now that this lot are going to make it tougher to live on benefits
we could become a double act again !
just like the old days
Albert my dear old friend! You are sadly missed.
I’m still available for those special occasions.
What’s new here, this has always gone on even before new labour, its what they do in their new positions that matters to me and if UKIP were in they’d do exactly the same.
Jobs for the boys, yes!
Anything new, no!
Given the way the Civil Service was politicised under Blair and Campbell, you can’t blame the Tories for wanting to inject a bit of counter-balancing influence. Admittedly it does not look too good, against the background message of big reductions in public payroll.
Serious lack of ambition showing so far. The Lin Homers and Suzi Leathers are still around doing lots of good work for the layber parteh.
China plans to build 80 new airports over next ten years !
they will build a new power station every week !
and theres Dave getting off on a farty windmill that will just about power a fuckin hair dryer !
and battering us with tax’s to pay for chinese global warming
what a twat !
Sorry, the hair-drier’s already in use blowing the windmill.
glowball warmin is road of clap
Indeed 20 years ago China had No Motorways
Now they have the second biggest network in the world
16 of the worlds 20 most poluting cities are in China
China to build one million cars per year
75% of Chinese rivers are so poluted they can’t even be used for irrigation
As their economy is expected to grow for the next 50 years we will soon be buying our oxygen off them
Hey but never mind Dave will make sure that he keeps raising your tax’s to pay for the chinese take over of the world !
David Laws said to me, “I really fancy a shag tonight, can I use your mobile?”
I said, “No, use your hand”.
Listen mate a shag doesn’t involve using your hand
go ask your mum and do try to get out more !
Keep up the good work Paul. Also, how many of these vanity staffers go on expensive overseas trips etc at our expense. We need to know all the ££££s they cost us, mainly to make sure no photos of Cameron’s bald spot ever see the light of day.
Perhaps thay should have gone to the BBC, to make it 99.95% unbalanced
So after 13 years off getting fucked up the arse by Labour , We are now going to fucked with a cactus up the arse by the T*ries ?
What is the fucking point ?
Cactus . Did you get the point , yet ??
I’m not complaining, I am happy to accept those from any party or any plant genre. I’m just not fussy, as long as it goes up, and often.
I know you like it up and often.
BAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSTTTTTTTTTAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDSSSSSSS
As long as Dave is sacking all the labour fanatics and don’t employ any Campbells or Whelans etc. Good.
Anything that will speed up the demise of labour the better.
Bollox to that. It’s just one corrupt regime replacing another.
Yep, like they say: doesn’t matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.
Wished they’d hurry. Can’t wait to be parachuted into Oldham!
Without a fucking parachute hopefully
Just seen Gerald Kaufman on the telly. He looks as if he’s died and nobody told him. What an ugly git! Also, any more news on the Labour rebellion regarding Fill Woolyarse? By the way, Meg Munn, another Labour lovely, is doggo!
While I’m in Beeb bashing mood, listened to WATO earlier. Trade mission to China took up most of he programme, of which thirty seconds were about the signing of an aero-engine deal, and the rest banging on about ‘ooman rights, and will Cameron make a public statement while he’s there.
Look, Beeboids. Britain is skint. China is cash rich. We want to sell them things so that it helps us financially, mainly because we bloody well need to. Visiting a potentially large foreign buyer and publicly humiliating them is not a good way to get them to buy stuff off you. Quietly behind the scenes is the way to raise ‘ooman rights issues with China. Can you bunch of overpaid short-sighted hoons please get that into your thick skulls?
Agreed ‘Engineer’, and just LOOK what ooman rights has done for our once great Country. Still at least Bliar made sure his missus, old slot-gob, raked it in.
they just want to make a copy of the engines. Give them the plans for the trent 900.
This’ll be interesting – if the Chinese get to build the trent ‘on license’ you can guarantee that they will soon be shutting down the Derby production line ! This before China developes its own competing engine the Trunt – which will probably happen soon anyway if they have bought any of the engines !
I know China would be a good market to sell into – I just cannot see it happening in any large way ! Its a well known fact the Chinese production costs are incredibly low ! SO they will produce it themselves ! It’s also well known that patents and copyrights are honoured only by nodding at the right time. So what they cannot develop they will ‘borrow’ and mass produce.
By sucking up to the Chinese – the west is making a huge mistake. What is more they will have absolutley no infuence over the Chinese government in any way shape or form over human rights or anything else.
I must admit to watching the situation with avid interest ! Not so long and the Chinese ability to knacker any Western economy will be with us (if it is not already) – they may hold off while it suits them – but the USA is already dropping its brown runny gloop at the prospect !
Along with their ability to buy up the worlds resources and make the rest of the world pay top dollar for everything – there could be trouble ahead !
Keeps me wondering whether it will be the Red Star or the Green Flag which will be flying over Buck Palace in 20 years ! Chances are the Blue and Gold of the EU will be long since gone by then (so at least one thing to be of good cheer over) !
And this one (only small, but a start). Doncaster-based.
Clyde Process Solutions plc
(“CPS” or the “Group”)
New contract win as part of UK trade delegation to China
Clyde Process Solutions plc (AIM: CPSP), a global provider of pneumatic
conveying and air filtration solutions for process industries, is pleased to
announce that, in the presence of the UK trade delegation led by the Prime
Minister, David Cameron, it will be entering into a contract worth
approximately £2 million to supply the coal injection technology for three
coal-to-methanol plants in Henan Province in China.
Every little helps.
Some people might be surprised how much we do sell to the Chinese. They don’t much like the price, but they’ll swallow it because they do like the quality. They buy a lot from Germany as well.
The Chinese don’t really like our prices, but they do like the quality. We actually sell more to them than most people realise.
Just bought a replacement optical mouse, 4 quid FFS and reasonable quality.
It’s frightening how effective the Chinks are at manufacturing these days.
It’s easier for them: small fingers.
Well said Eng. I had the misfortune to watch the Beeb’s 1 O’clock News (no growing grass to watch so made do with this). Once again they continued the frantic theme of ‘oomann rights that was so prevalent in this morning’s edition of Toady. Are they really so thick to think that the Chinks will open their cheque book while we slag them off on ‘ooman rights? This is a bloody trade visit for pity’s sake, not a fireside heart-to-heart chat. And even if it wasn’t, I do get tired of hearing politicians et al lecturing the rest of the world on how to behave.
Dont worry Lenovo version of Trent 900 coming very soon. Much better and cheaper then one built by Rolls Royce. Guaranteed not to blow up in flight like the overpriced mechanical crap sold to Quantas.
The members of BBC might like to show their dissatisfaction by boycotting all Chinese goods. Let them try.
“Since 1994, China’s economy has grown at an annual rate of almost 10%, which has had a huge impact on reducing poverty. However, almost 500 million people still live below the international poverty line, and they remain vulnerable, especially if they become ill. Poverty is increasingly concentrated among ethnic minorities, the elderly and people with disabilities.” (DFID website.)
We gave them £40.2m in 08/09.
They spent £20bn on the Olympics: you have to conclude that they didn’t need our money – but they’re not silly, they took it.
Why did G Brown et al give them money that they did not need?
Why is it our job to help their elderly, disabled and ethnic minorities?
Most of all, will Dave cut this aid off?
I have a shit load of ‘Special Advisors’ : accountants, solicitors, marriage guidance wallahs, psychiatrists, colonic irrigators, some Portuguese bloke that tends to my lobelia…..
Costs me a fucking fortune.
Is now on twitter
Ms Harman must consider her position and resign from the Labour Party
This is what you get when the unions foist their candidate on the Parliamentray Labour Party. Woolas is just a “Causus Belli” and this will be the first of many trials of strength between the leadership and the backbenchers who didn’t vote for them.
@engineer. But seriously is China interested in the UK? They have bigger fish to try fry, like drilling for oil in third world countries and keeping the US in their pocket by buying up their debt. I am curious to know wtf have we got to sell them?
Machine tools, construction plant, specialist engineering design services, steelmaking equipment such as rolling mills – you’d be surprised. They like the quality they get with British equipment. They also send a lot of students over here, too, and have done for many years. I studied for my degree in the early ’80s, and about 10% of the students were of far-eastern origin.
They buy a lot off the Germans, as well.
And they will be buying a lot more from Fritz if we continue with the Beeb’s outpourings of sanctimonious garbage.
A lot of Volvo and CAT plant is now made in China.
Air Products used to manufacture gas separation and storage equipment near Wrexham in North Wales, and had a full export book. To cut labour costs, they moved the lot to China last year. The Chinese-made kit sent to Saudi recently was comdemned on arrival. The factory in Wrexham has just been demoished, so they can’t bring work back again.
The director responsible for the move has been fired.
The Chinks are not yet all-conquering; they haven’t got high quality sorted out yet.
Chinese or the Welsh – I don’t know which I prefer?
There’s only one way to find out……..
Apart from cheese on toast what else to the welsh eat ?
This isn’t news.
Anyone with an ounce of sense knew that Cameron was just a continuation of New Labour.
I’m hoping the Tories lose each and every election up to and including the GE in 2015. They need to learn the hard way that what this country wants/needs is a proper Conservative government.
I detest Labour, but I can’t vote for Cameron and I never will. And I bet I’m not the only one.
Feel better for that? I’m afraid they don’t give a shit and won’t give a shit. The sad fact is a ‘proper Conservative’ party would not have won in 2010 and would not get back in 2015 due to the infantalised, dependent society we have now. If only it were otherwise.
The fake conservative party didn’t win in 2010 though, did they?
The most universally unpopular incumbent PM in memory and they still couldn’t get a majority.
Remember, if the UKIP voters had voted Tory, the Conservatives would have won an outright majority. Still think a right-wing Tory party couldn’t have won outright?
I maintain politicians need to get away from the idea we want more of the Blair types. It will be unpleasant, but the Tories need a hard lesson. Cameron is not the answer.
Off subject I know but an interesting case against the wife of MEP Gerard Batten is being made by the bbc.
“Tuesday, 9th November 2010
Tomorrow I shall be in Stratford Magistrates Court where barrister Paul Diamond will be defending my wife against a charge of watching television without a TV licence on a specific date, writes UKIP MEP Gerard Batten.
In August 2009 I wrote to the Television Licensing Authority and Mark Thompson of the BBC explaining that I had decided not to renew the TV licence for my home because of the institutionalised political bias of the BBC.
After a lifetime of watching news and current affairs programmes I am sick to death of the poltitical bias of the BBC and their reporting of the 2009 European elections was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
However there is an enormous dossier of evidence compiled that substantiates that bias and can be used as evidence.
This was all carefully explained to the BBC and TVLA in a number of letters from August 2009 onwards. I invited them to prosecute me if they wished to do so.
Instead of prosecuting me they have instead chosen to prosecute my wife. This is a cowardly tactic, reminiscent of the KGB, to pressurise me through my innocent wife.
My contention is that the BBC has consistently over a long period of time been in breach of its Charter and Regulations to provide unbiased reporting. I argue that a contract exists between the BBC and viewer and that BBC has broken its part of the contract. For my part of the contract I no longer watch the BBC and therefore my obligation to pay is removed.
The case is scheduled to be heard tomorrow (November 10) at 10.30am, at Stratford Magistrates Court”
I believe that most of us reading this blog are as fed up with BBC bias as anyone and should give this case support.
What about it Guido?????
Please keep us informed, this looks VERY interesting!
He has no defence.
The offence is watching TV without a licence.
BBC could show nothing but Kinnock’s speeches all day and he’d still have to pay.
unless..
Judge will say ‘Mr Batten, do you have a licence?..why not..I see.. Well, I don’t know what case you have .. turn back time the high street? No I haven’t seen that ..The fellow who looks like a badly shaved dog and says ‘you’re fried’ No I don’t watch that but Mr Batten.. erm ..no I don’t know what the One Show is..It costs how much? For a vapid Pebble Mill teatime resurrection of a show? I had no idea.
Stephen Fry and the oil spill. Is he ever off the BBC? Man About the House..Oh yes I remember that..good entertaining..Oh I see..Mad about the house. Some sort of reality fix it up show is it..No I’ve never seen that.
Right That’s enough. I’ve considered my verdict and I find the BBC to be in contempt of the viewers. there’s nothing there that couldn’t be done by commercial channels. I find for the defendant and fine the BBC £3.6 billion to be paid to each household with a telly.
Whilst it’s not a good idea to politicise the civil service, the tories have to do something to rebalance things; virtually every civil servant, at all levels, that was employed when labour was in power was a labour supporter.
How can you rebalance that pro-labour bias without injecting some of your own supporters into the mix?
Maybe, after things have been rebalanced a bit, the tories would then try to insert neutral people into the civil service roles.
But there’s not much point injecting a “neutral” person when 99% of the rest of the people there are active labour supporters, because the voice of the “neutral” person would simply get lost in the midst of all the pro-labour voices.
Task 1: Rebalance things
Task 2: (over the long-term) – Employ neutral people.
They’ve barely started on task 1, and it’s going to take ages given the cronyism that blair/brown created.
My only critisism is that cameron should be doing the same thing with the BBC as he’s doing with the civil service; try to balance things up a bit, then try to enforce a more neutral set of people.
Employing a neutral person in the civil service at the moment would be like throwing a grain of sand into a lake in a bid to try and raise the level of the water; it’s just pointless.
Let’s be honest, part 2 will never happen. I agree he needed to even it up and don’t think this is a big deal – Guido pissing at the wrong target. But it’s naive to think part 2 will happen.
I don’t exist.
Further to trying to inject some balance to counter complete labour domination of the civil service a start should be made in countering the odious left wing make up of the teaching profession.
How I agree with this!
They are uniformly of the left, resistant to anything that challenges their TU-dominated notion of the workplace. Full of their ‘rights’ and averse to anything that smacks of responsibility.
What other industry could have survived for more than a few months – let alone decades – with 30 per cent of its output below standard?
Education is rather like Soviet industry, which used to turn out millions of size 7 left shoes and thus fulfilled its quotas and collected its bonuses. Nobody was remotely interested in the poor blighters who looked to its output for something they could actually wear.
I shall be make a speech to the house on my reinstatement as Labour party leader later this afternoon. I shall also be explaining the resignation of Ms Harman and weather Ed Miliband has finally found his new born baby under all that black hair.
Thank you.
‘weather’? Fucking illiterate as well as rancid Jocko lunatic
Anymore of those rude and disrespectful comments I shall have my secretary of state withdraw your housing benefit you ungrateful little twerp.
Aides-de-camp, Guido, not aide-de-camps. Gah.
You were all warned that Cock head fag boy cambo was a blagger – and choose not to listen…ho hum
Of the available options in May, which is worse? Cameron the blagger (who does seem to be trying to control public spending, grow the economy, encourage trade with the rest of the world etc etc), or Brown the ‘saviour of the world’ who didn’t even admit we have a deficit?
“There may have to be one or two small cuts!”
“There! I said it! Happy now?”
ooohhh please. Join the queue of apologists Engineer. U-turned on nearly every policy since May; Scrapping the UK military, arrangements with the French, injunctions at the 7/7 inquiry, cutting advisors, cronisim getting worse, tax hikes, NHS cuts, etc etc etc…
Keep on aplogising Engineer, coz in the long term Cambo and his crew will eventually come knocking on your door…believe me.
….oh and not forgetting petrol prices, up 15% since May. Wasnt the price of petrol one of all you right wing nutters biggest gripes….”"”Carry on Apologising”"”
Come on, that wasn’t what he was saying. What I read was, in summary: ‘of the two options, which is the less unpalatable?’
If the answer’s Dave, I happen to agree. Doesn’t stop me preferring David Davis, though.
Yes yes, all very good but what about Tamara Mellons?
Take your Kleenex and return to the last thread.
I’ve finished my kleenex, and started using anything to hand.
TW@T ALERT…… Douglas Alexander [McMental's bestest friend], is on Parliament channel. If you want to smash your t.v. in, tune in now!
ANOTHER TW@T ALERT……………………….. Skinner is TRYING to string a sentence together and failing miserably!
Ere Fawkes, why are you holding back on the Harman / Woolas thing? Are you waiting for a source to tell you who called Harman a disgrace and told her to consider her position?
Or do you already know?
I wondered why Guido was so silent about this ‘Concrete’.
Michael Connarty “consider her position”.
Admission into the civil service is indeed eagerly sought after, but it is for the unambitious, and the indolent or incapable, that it is chiefly desired.
Unambitious people, in my experience are very often
kind, generous and considerate.
The opposite can be very strange and unbalanced.
Gordon Brown was intensely ambitious.
You called?
So, has Dave taken his vanity snapper to china?
I’ll sort it all out when they back down and I’m an MP again
Like hell you will and you won’t be back in. I’ll be by your side to make sure you toe the line.
** Lead up to election **
“We ( Tories ) want a full open transparent inquiry into the events of 7/7”
** After election **
“We ( Tories ) will as a new coalition government instigate a 7/7 inquiry”… ( lots of self righteous nodding )
** Today **
The government is to appeal against a ruling at the 7 July inquests ordering MI5 evidence to be heard in open court.
Yawn Yawn Yawn…U-turn number 36…and counting
Since the fellow who usually does this appears to be absent, I’ll say it for him:
We’re all conning together.
Might as well get the other one out of the way too:
The con started in America.
@engineer etc,thanks, I am now curious to know the market value of engineering, construction etc? How much it would it bring to our economy? Ta.
This site’s quite interesting
http://www.ukadvancedengineering.com/marketing/manufacturing/
So how much did that government website cost ?
“The UK Space sector has come together to create an Innovation and Growth Strategy that sets out an ambitious 20 year strategy to capture 10% (£40 billion) of the global market by 2030, blah, blah, blah…”
20 year plans. Tractor stats.
Well, if this is true, then it looks like a good investment:
With UK exports to China rising by 44 per cent in the first eight months of this year, British firms say that the world’s second biggest economy has provided their firms with great growth opportunities. In many cases, sales to China now make a substantial contribution to their overall turnover. Thousands of UK firms are already operating in China, many with help from UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) which has a network spread throughout the country. UKTI has pinpointed opportunities in many areas including advanced engineering, construction, ports and railways amongst others.
“UKTI has pinpointed opportunities”
PR speak. You work for them ?
Is the government about to begin its new ‘era of putting government work through the network’ by removing the giro’s and giving them to the newsagents? Certainly seems that way.
Government took pensions , benefits payments and TV licence, Car tax and bank accounts away from PO. That meant a massive subsidy suddenly was required just to keep 2/3 open {after Labour closed 1/3}
Then Blair insisted on deregulating the mails to comply with future EU directive that allowed other EU nations post services to take all the UK profitable work for themselves, leaving Royal Mail with stuff that actually costs them more to deliver than they can charge {re the insane postcom regulator}. The rest of Europe, seeing these disasters decided not to deregulate its mail after all.
Yet seems the coalition re about to repeat the farce of removing work with one hand to save money in ‘x’ department, and having to increase subsidy with other hand or the whole thing folds up.
Joined up government still seems all talk and no action if my sources are correct.
‘Joined-up government’ is just a soundbite uttered to make the person saying it sound as if they know what they are talking about.
Government is meant to be confusing. If people truly understood the mechanics of government we would soon realise we don’t actually need most of these self-important suits.
If I don’t like the look of some bloke I just punch him in the fucking face. Job done. It’s the Labour way.
Let’s be honest, lads. Whilst Cameron is infinitely better than that sociopathic mong Brown, he’s shown his true colours as a superficial former advertising exec. Best we can hope for is the coalition to collapse within a year, a change of leader and a general election. Unfortunately, the hope that the coalition would see the demise of Labour has instead seen the demise of the Lib-Dem’s whose voting base have switched to Red Ed’s band of lunatics. This means an increase in Labour’s vote at the next election is certain but an outright majority for the Tories is still up for grabs as long as it’s under a different leader. People always mention David Davis as a successor but I’m gonna suggest someone else. Theresa May. Why not? I think she’s more than up to the job. Having a female leader worked before I seem to recall.
“Theresa May. Why not”.
She’s a clueless twat.
Theresa may indeed; but then again she may not. decisions decisions…
Not really. How about Obama? He’ll be looking for work in two years time.
Womens’ brains are smaller – that is an undisputed fact – but they can process more than one stream of information at any given time.
Think washing machine/shopping list, painting nails/chatting on telephone or having sex/ reading a book and you get the idea.
I would hypothesise that Theresa May, but probably won’t.
Theresa May is fucking useless and a completely wet, PC-indoctrinated muppet. The Tory vote would collapse if they were ever desperate enough to elect her as leader.
I would bet she can easily spot yoghurt
in a crowded fridge.
Nuclear button– full fat yoghurt.
No problem, there’s your future leader
Multitasking myth.
Men are just sensible at keeping their mouths shut when such shite coffee-break-magazine-feminism is being spouted.
Multitasking myth
No myth. They can screw up many things at once.
The reason I always blame others when things go wrong, like the time I kicked a bin at that woman they found for me and “bawled abuse” at her, is because it IS always other people’s fault. I have never made any mistakes. When there’s blame to be lain, I always lay it at the foot of the people who are responsible.
Come on now, Mr. Brown – enough trolling for today. It’s time to evacuate your bowels and then you can play with your fuzzy felt.
Get Farmy Farm out for Gordon!
”I take full responsibility for what happened, and that’s why the person responsible has gone.”
How about Dan the Man?
Ooooo !!!
Dan is sooo posh , ain’t he ??
An bald .
Sadly , he had his 5 minutes of fame but failed to seal it by runnin up to the Scottish Twat an punchin him on the nose .
Plus , the high-speed Eurostar gravy train sounds more luxurious than the 0650 from Sevenoaks , an that .
E x .
Would be interesting.
Civil war is threatening to break out in the Labour Party with the unions and Gordon Brown supporting Woolas against Harman and Jack Dromey forced to speak out in support of his beleaguered wife. But where is the leader, Ed Miliband in all this? He’s on a very convenient 2 weeks paternity leave. LOL
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328106/Harriet-Harman-facing-MP-mutiny-Phil-Woolas-treatment.html
OT I know, but is Woolarse an MP or is he not? And if he is, how can the Squeaker overturn a high court decision?
Because his wife sat on his face until he agreed.
She actually SHAT on his face.
Don’t think the Sqeaker can, but the HoC is the highest court in the land…not counting the one in Belgium, of course.
Ed Miliband goes into hiding as the Labour party starts tearing itself apart over Woolas
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328106/Harriet-Harman-facing-MP-mutiny-Phil-Woolas-treatment.html
Great! Politics was beginning to get a bit dull.
Sorry it’s time for Sam’s 5pm feed
“Mr Brown has said he does not believe I am a dishonest man” – (re Woolass) – well – that’s just par for the course for Gordo, “The Great Denier”.
If anyone needs me, I shall be down in the haystack with little Bo Peep.
Phil Woolarse
I’m a battlin’ for the good of the Labour party. And myself. So I’ve come up with a new campaign which I hope my fellow labour MPs will endorse.
“Lib Dems are all yellow fags. There is more chance of finding a straight banana in Dave Miliband’s lunchbox, than finding a demmer who isn’t taking delivery through the back. Horrible isn’t it? And some Liberals are also paediatrics. Yes mate. You read that right. Paediatrics! The dirty f*ckers. Some of them are even podiatrists. You don’t know what that is..but if I told you that Gary Glitter liked a good podiatrists then you’ll get the right idea.
I urge you all to go to my opponent {address and map and directions printed overleaf} and burn the c#nt’s house down.
Richard ‘prick’ Littlejohn says you couldn’t make it up.
Well I just have .. so shows how much the Tories know.
Phil Woolarse.
Lying to get elected.
Its quicker than stuffing envelopes with postal votes.
Hiya , Philly Arse , babes x .
So , darlin ;
If I woz to give birth to a gay , pigeon-toed , Gary Glitter-lovin , human bean you is sayin there’s a outside chance it might be a Liberal ??
EUGGHH !! No , ta .
BTW – I quite like Littlecock , honey . He’s fulla spunk .
E x .
I don’t give a fuck what High Court judges say. The only verdict which counts is that of Labour MPs and we say Phil is innocent.
I’ve changed my mind. I think my good friend Phil is innocent, too.
It’s nothing to do with me. I’m on paternity leave.
You got nappy rash again Ed
I thought you sounded hung over and looked a little off-colour, sir.
Don’t worry – we erased the tapes.
Note to self: Do we still have ‘tapes’?
” Phil Woolas supported by Cherie Blair and Gordon Brown”
Fucking hell. Better put him on suicide watch.
We all support our friend Phil Woolas up here. He’s done nothing wrong and has been stitched up.
That snotty-nosed southern bitch Harman can fuck herself and so can that two-faced c’unt of a husband of hers.
Phil is the postal voters friend. May pees be upon him.
Death to Dairy Milk and Mars bars.
Help !! I don’t know what to do !
Two little boys had two little toys
Each had a wooden horse
Gayly they played each summer’s day
Warriors both of course
One little chap then had a mishap
Broke off his horse’s head
Wept for his toy then cried with joy
As his young playmate said:
Did you think I would leave you crying
When there’s room on my horse for two
Climb up here Ed and don’t be crying
I can go just as fast with two
When we grow up we’ll both be soldiers
And our horses will not be toys
And I wonder if we’ll remember
When we were two little boys
Long years had passed, election came so fast
Bravely they marched away
Cannon roared loud, and in the mad crowd
Wounded and dying lay
Up goes a shout, a horse dashes out
Out from the ranks so red
Gallops away to where Ed lay
Then came a voice he knew:
Did you think I would leave you dying
When there’s room on my horse for two
Climb up here Ed, we’ll soon be flying
I can go just as fast with two
Did you say Ed I’m all a-tremble
Perhaps it’s the battle’s noise
But I think it’s that I remember
When we were two little boys
Do you think I would leave you dying
There’s room on my horse for two
Climb up here Ed, we’ll soon by flying
Back to the ranks so red
Can you feel Ed I’m all a tremble
Perhaps it’s the battle’s noise
But I think it’s that I remember
When we were two little boys
Remember, Ed?
With apologies to Rofl
Nothing will affect his pension pot (£500.000), and his MP’s going away cash, and his commons security pass, and all the other parting cash presents he’ll receive. No wonder he’s still got that stupid grin on his face. Bring back Joanna ( busy in New York) she’s the only one who knows how to handle him. He’s a creep, and that’s being super kind to him.
Brown has lied to a select committee
“I have decided obviously to concentrate on my constituency work and on some of the work that I’ve been doing internationally. “
No you haven’t Gordon, you’ve been writing a book on firm’s time. And as you are now a common backbench opposition MP what international work have you been tasked to do by your constituents?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jameskirkup/100063042/gordon-brown-says-his-failure-to-speak-in-the-commons-is-no-big-deal/
Are British Airways a criminally incompetent organisation run by the Ant Hill mob, or just another cash cow ripe for anally raping? Hot on the heels of record fines imposed by Uncle Sam, now the EU decide to part them from another £90.
http://www.torontosun.com/money/2010/11/08/16030296.html
So quite what would happen if all these high powered airlines told the commission to fuck off? Can’t ground all of them can they?
@stun. Thank you x
Where have these jobs been advertised, surely under the equal opportunities act they have to be advertised.
Its a bloody disgrace, there I was willing to give up one of Giros and housing benefits and you don’t even give me the chance to do so.
I think this part of your system is rotten, I would go home now if I did not have my 299 other identities to rely on, oh and I flushed me passport down the aircraft toilet.
Looking at Woolas’s campaign literature I can’t see anything wrong with it. As the immigration minister he was being targeted by muslim extremists who were trying to whip up a hatred campaign against him in the muslim quarters of his constituency. IMHO he had every right to fight back.
Link to the literature
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/gallery/2010/nov/05/phil-woolas-campaign-literature#/?picture=368405600&index=0
Muslim extremists ??? We never allowed extremists into the Country under New Liebour.
These were the muslims that Woolas deliberately encouraged into the country as immigration minister and then encouraged to flood into his constituency in Oldham to boost the Labour vote. He then fell out with some of them and tried to con what remains of the white working-class to vote for him on a fraudulent ‘anti-muslim’ ticket.
The man’s a slimeball, a hypocrite, and a traitor to Britain.
I was just celebrating the rich multicultural diversity, as instructed by Tony Bliar.
Don’t mention former Home Office ministers Barbara Roche, Jack Straw, and Margaret Hodge, who deliberately engineered the mass imigrant invasion of Britain soon after Labour got in in 1997.
Oldham has been flooded by muzzbots for many years previous to Wollyarse, take my word for it!
As immigration minister Woolas let many of these nutters in, so poetic justice. The biter bit and all that.
Why is it wrong of me to call romany people pikeys and gyppos but it’s not wrong for them to steal and smell?
There’s nowt wrong with it. You carry on calling the thieving c’unts whatever you like and fuck all the Guardian-reading PC leftie pricks who try to tell you otherwise.
Ghttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-frantic-last-days-in-power-of-labours-immigration-minister-2022127.html
Good link shows just what an absolute sh*t Woolass is…..
Is it true that Conservative Party were prepared to pay for the official photographer, but were informed that if photos were to be shown on the website this would not be in order? I notice this seems to have been ignored by the Media.
It is a dull quibble.
PMs don’t need ‘official’ photgraphers, whether paid by their parties or by the taxpayer. This isn’t Stalin’s Russia.
And also…………….leaked copy of Woolass begging letter on Liberal Conspiracy.org saying Falconer thinks he’ll win. Unbelievable.
The dirty, filthy, disgusting bastards. Words fail me.
We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
Change it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fall that’s all
But the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
‘Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
No, no!
I’ll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
There’s nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
No, no!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Oh the soldiers may be fighting
In the trenches and the battleships at sea.
But there isn’t any war
When the clock strikes four as
Everything stops for tea.
[Olde Englishe Folke Songe]
Promises are like pie crusts made to be broken.