November 13th, 2010

Saturday Seven Up

7upThe story of the week on the blog was the hunt for the extinguisher tosser, Guido offered a bounty as a reward, so many readers offered to chip in such that we had pledges for well over the original £1000. We will keep our counsel and see what results. Many thanks for the pledges.

The blog’s reporting of the NUS riot this week has been comprehensive, we were there, we were unspun – when the BBC claimed CCHQ had been evacuated this blog reported correctly from sources inside that it had not been. When the NUS spun that a small minority of outsiders were responsible we highlighted the involvement of NUS officials and elected national officers, exposing NUS president Aaron Porter’s hypocrisy in calling for a “demo-lition” on a route passing in front of CCHQ and his warning days before the march that “we will use every weapon in our armoury” telling students they needed to be not just on “the streets of London” but “inside the rooms where the deals will be made”. The rioters took him at his word…

Guido’s favourite story of the week however was this piece of business news. The blog had 242,789 visits and 400,884 pageviews by 86,544 visitors. The top 7 stories last week in order of popularity were:

You’re either in front of Guido, or you are behind…


246 Comments

  1. 1
    • 95
      Anonymous says:

      Breaking:

      WEALTHY businessman’s son was arrested yesterday after brandishing a fire extinguisher on the Tory Party HQ roof.
      Cambridge graduate Jack Potter, 23, was last night in custody on suspicion of violent disorder.

      His dad is thought to be a pal of Conservative former minister John Redwood.

      Potter was pictured in The Sun grinning with the extinguisher atop the Millbank building during Wednesday’s violent student demo.

      http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3225664/Rich-kid-rioter-is-arrested.html#ixzz159SoVUMB

    • 101
      PC Bent Fawkes and grass Old Arsehole says:

      just a quick update:

      I’ve been relentless in my pursuit of criminal scum – er, ‘cept meself, obviously. In fact, me and Old Arsehole have been none stop fingering – sometimes fisting – arseholes everywhere and banging them up, 24/7. Must go, arseholes needing fngering never ends.

      Keep ‘em peeled!

      • 162
        prolapsed arseholes mum says:

        Oh do watch your blood pressure dear, you know what the doctor said about that and, you know, your other problem.

      • 203
        uncle's arthur says:

        Pc Bent …you need help son..
        see a clairvoyant…
        ask her to teach you the art..
        when she handcuffs your wrists to you ankles and advances towards
        you with a very substantial strap-on and you say…
        you’re going to fuck me aren’t you ?
        she’ll tell you ..’you’re learning’

    • 103
      smoggie says:

      Is there a echo in here ??????

    • 126
      Yo yeo says:

      This Bridge Firm (Mabey) that Mrs John Redwood works at not only builds those quick to put up bridges (Cumbria floods) It also makes Windmill towers. Is there a link to Tim Yeo?

    • 173
      Up sh1t creek says:

      Note to morons in government (that includes waster David Cameron), LOWERING taxes and increasing savings increases tax revenue, because those that are squeezed feel less inclined to (legally) hide their money which government usually p1sses up a wall on the feckless.

      This is why the incompetent G20 hate China and other Tiger economies, their lower taxes and their considerably better GDP figures.

      The G20 can play around with their stupid “Intellectual Property” fees and the very secretive ACTA treaty, while the Tiger economies are creaming your economies, growth rates the G20 can dream about, and the G20 bleed themselves dry with quantitative easing and other Commie nonsense.

      The West did this to themselves, the Tiger economies laughing at their stupidity.

  2. 2
    Andy Coulsons CCHQ Bank Account says:

    Mant thanks for the pledges. Your weekly fee is in the post Mr Fawkes.

    • 5
      Archer Karcher says:

      Mant?

      You illiterate fuckwit.

      • 10
        Archole Karchole says:

        Leave it to an Anal Twat to have a hissy fit over a typo.

        Why not go fuck yourself you pathetic little weasel.

        • 15
          Can't remember my moniker says:

          Dribble, dribble, dribble.

          • Belgian moniker twonk admits he is a nonce says:

            Can’t remember my moniker says:
            July 7, 2010 at 11:21 pm

            There is only one kid who ever lived that I would loved to have got my hands, on in their early life

          • Can't remember my moniker says:

            more dribble

          • Can't remember he's a Belgian nonce says:

            you wrote it nonce

          • Being Gaygue is a human right says:

            The Foreign Secretary William Hague has asked Professor Sir Nigel Rodley, chair of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, to become a member of the new Advisory Group on Human Rights.

            The key advisory group will be chaired by Mr Hague and includes leading international experts on human rights.

          • Can't remember my moniker says:

            yet more dribble

          • Arrested Rich Kid Student's father is a pal of Conservative former minister John Redwood. says:

            BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!

          • Can't remember my moniker says:

            Does not matter who the hell he is, he should face justice if he endangered lives. Tory, Lab, Lib, Christian, Muslim, Atheist, White, Black, Brown, Yellow, in work or out of work, whatever, it is all irrelevant. The only serious issue is: did he endanger life, cause criminal damage or both.

          • Guido's poster child says:

            There is no suggestion Potter threw it.

          • smoggie says:

            You can see Tat keeps full details of everything. He surely is the Guildford Dribbler!

          • Can't remember my moniker says:

            @Guido’s poster child.

            If.

            Such a little word but with so much meaning. Look it up and take notice where it is used.

          • He didn't throw it dumbass says:

            No if’s or buts stupid. So you’re wrong yet again moniker.
            You moronic twat.

          • Can't remember my moniker says:

            No. You do not understand the Queen’s English.

          • There is NO suggestion Potter threw it. says:

            You might be a Queen but you’re still a Belgian nonce.

          • Can't remember my moniker says:

            Do you look as stupid as that which you write, as well?

          • Can't remember he's a Belgian nonce says:

            Don’t try and groom me you disgusting nonce. Go ask how people look on your usual Belgian ‘chatrooms’.

          • pot kettle says:

            “as that which you write, as well”

            Easy to tell you don’t live here with that clumsy waffle.

          • smoggie says:

            live here? Who but a dribbling obsessive nutjob would want to live in Guildfor?

          • smoggie = tat says:

            you’ve answered your own question tat

          • Andy Coulson says:

            I’ve got away with it tat, no one can touch me now, mwahahahahahaha!!!

          • smoggie = tat says:

            tat thinks he’s Andy Coulson now. What a loon.

          • ROFL! says:

            TaT can’t hold down a job.

          • Can't remember my moniker says:

            I hear that the only people who live in Guildford are criminals, the clinically insane and footballers.

            What position do you play?

          • Confused says:

            please enlighten me what the bizarre ‘belgian poster conflict is ?..is he touched or has crossed swords with you in the past ? regards S of F

          • Deep Who says:

            Would you slags find somewhere else to have this bitching session

          • Can't remember my moniker says:

            Hi Confused! The problem is with those adolescents here (who know that I am ex-pat) and who could not string a logical argument together if their lives depended upon it. To get over this they resort to ad hominem attacks where everyone who lives abroad must be Belgian because 1. It is the only country they learned of at school and/or 2. they read about a Belgian p4edophile in the Mirror or 3. they are p4edophiles themselves and wish to hose off their guilt. Pathetic really.

          • Can't remember he's a Belgain nonce says:

            Can’t remember my moniker left out the part that he is a Fuckwitted Gary Glitter who wrote this on this blog..

            Can’t remember my moniker says:
            July 7, 2010 at 11:21 pm

            There is only one kid who ever lived that I would loved to have got my hands, on in their early life

        • 39
          Archer Karcher says:

          Loon as wll as illiterate, why am I not surprised?

      • 11
        student says:

        Yeah well fuck off and give me your money

    • 61
      Anjem Choudhary's big MAC says:

      The NUS have a lot to learn when it comes to drumming up publicity. Choudhary achieved with less than 50 proterstors what took the NUS 50,000 protestors.

      Muslims Against Crusades …
      http://muslimsagainstcrusades.com/

  3. 3
    Jim says:

    Mark Hoban:

    • 4
      Anonymous says:

      Hoban took his shadow portfolio into Government when he was appointed Financial Secretary in George Osborne’s Treasury team. His responsibilities include financial services policy including banking and financial services reform and regulation, financial stability, city competitiveness, wholesale and retail markets in the UK, Europe and internationally and the Financial Services Authority (FSA), Responsibility for UK Financial Investments (UKFI) and personal savings and pensions policy. He supports the Chancellor on EU and wider international finance issues.

      He was also chairman of the Associate Parliamentary Group on Business, Finance and Accountancy, now succeeded by Ian Wright MP

  4. 6
    JJJ says:

    While the newspapers and Sky and ITN are reporting on the aftermath of the NUS riot and still giving it priority, the BBC are almost completely ignoring it as if it never happened.

    On the rare occasions it is mentioned on the BBC, there is a deliberate attempt to downplay what went on.

    • 154
      BBC director says:

      If the twat turns out to be a Tory then we’ll be on to it like flies to shite.

    • 221
      simon r says:

      Coulson, Ashcroft, Global Warming, Children In Need, Strictly…

      Move along now, nothing to see here.

    • 228
      Tell it like it really is says:

      Last night Newsnight had Michael Crick trawling the ex Woolas constituency trying to find people to say how awful it was that Woolas had been binned, he dailed, cut to the studio where the beeb tried to get a brief to say it was all wrong and terrible, sounds like Woolas is calling on the Labour publicity arm (beeb) to work to reinstate him.

      That was bad enough but this morning the Toady prog was running yet another sniggering piece bigging up the student scum as “yes, worse than the Thatcher years” and giving unchallenged airtime to some female scrote saying “We brought down Thatcher we’ll bring this lot down as well.” Beeb presenter gleefully egging her on

      Treason charges for the BBC please = now.

  5. 7
    Ayesha Hazarika says:

    Is Guido Fawkes’ favourite pop group “Supergrass” ?

    • 12
      lol says:

      Guido doesn’t need to grass on the student rioters.
      Their leftie comrades are doing it themselves, including the student who grassed up his mate Extinguisher Man to The Sun for £500.

      • 13
        lolol says:

        Fawkes loves squealing to the pigs.

      • 47
        Archer Karcher says:

        The comrades would sell their own mothers for cash. I bet the “socialist warriors” are shitting themselves while waiting for the plods six o’clock knock. Oh dear, Sebastian, Amanda, Tarquin and Co, are about to find out what being a shithead really means.

      • 66
        Sgt Major and Lofty says:

        Why do you whisper, green grass
        Why tell the tress what ain’t so
        Whispering grass
        The trees don’t have to know, no-no

        Why tell them all your secrets
        Who kissed there long ago
        Whispering grass
        The trees don’t need to know

        Don’t you tell it to the breeze
        For she will tell the birds and bees
        And everyone will know
        Because you told the blabbering trees
        Yes, you told them once before
        It’s no secret anymore-ore

        Why tell them all the old things
        They’re buried under the snow
        Whispering grass, don’t tell the trees
        ‘Cause the trees don’t need to know-ow

        Spoken:
        Now, don’t you tell it to the breeze
        ‘Cause she’ll run ‘n’ tell it to the birds and bees
        And everyone will know
        Because you done told the blabberin’ trees
        Yes you did, ya told ‘em once before
        So that’s why it ain’t no secret anymore, mm-mm-mm

        Why tell them all the old things
        They’re buried under the snow
        Whispering grass, don’t tell the trees
        ‘Cause the trees – don’t need – to… know-ow…

  6. 8
    HMRevenue & Excise Officer says:

    “We will keep our counsel” and the cash ?

  7. 9
    ex-beeb says:

    It’s becoming increasingly obvious now that the BBC are deliberately targeting Nick Clegg in an attempt to undermine the coalition government.

    BBC newsreaders and presenters have been told to attack Clegg at every opportunity.

    Sheila Fogerty on Radio 5 even made a sneering reference to Clegg when she was asking Nick Robinson about the G20, even though Clegg wasn’t even attending the summit.

    • 14
      But Calamity Clegg finally got something right says:

    • 17
      Not many agree with Nick these days says:

      Whether or not THAT is true the fact is that Clegg and LibDems deserve all the “shit-storm” coming their way over the student fees pledge.Their problem was of course they NEVER in a million years expected to have to actually honour it as they never thought for one moment they would EVER be in government and such pledges show just how unready they actually were. However the last thing Labour want at the moment is the Coalition to fall apart and the possibility of Cameron calling an election as they,Labour,may just win and be saddled with the problems they created.The market also of course would go into free fall making the required budget cuts even worse so Ed is keeping schtum and hoping that he doesn’t have to put any policies before the electorate before 2015 at the earliest

      • 21
        Revealed: Lib Dems planned before election to abandon tuition fees pledge says:

        Exclusive: Documents show Nick Clegg’s public claim was at odds with secret decision made by party in March

        http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/nov/12/lib-dems-tuition-fees-clegg

        • 38
          Al says:

          A very busy Labour troll is on here targeting Nick Clegg, just as he has been instructed to do.

          BTW where’s your leader Ed these days. Has he made any comment yet on the Woolas scandal or the NUS riot?

          Has Red Ed turned into Yellow Ed, the new Macavity?

          • Archer Karcher says:

            Ed “man of steel” Militwat, is rather like his “socialist warriors” hiding and shitting himself with fear. PMQ’s should be fun.

          • “socialist warrior” says:

            WEALTHY businessman’s son was arrested yesterday after brandishing a fire extinguisher on the Tory Party HQ roof.

            Cambridge graduate Jack Potter, 23, was last night in custody on suspicion of violent disorder.

            His dad is thought to be a pal of Conservative former minister John Redwood.

          • Susie says:

            Hiding behind his/hers/someone’s 8-day old baby. How very bwave.

            Just like those lecturers who congratulated the ‘magnificent’ protest will be distancing themselves if extinguisher-thrower man is identified as one of their own students. They never thought their many years of lefty indoctrination tutorials would come back to bit them on the arse. Now they have.

            I’d be surprised if Anglia Ruskin is still open for business in a year, I certainly wouldn’t send my kid there.

          • Rich Kid Rioter says:

            I blame that lefty Redwood. Clearly a bad influence.

      • 60
        THE PISS-FULL RELIGION says:

        I said it at the time
        that the Glib-Dumbs could have offered free petrol and free trips to the moon and they still would not have been elected
        Just think back to the horror on Vince cables face when they gave him a position and he realised he would now have to start working for a living after sitting on his arse for 20 years doing fuck all !

        • 83

          Vince Babel.
          Remember his mansion tax proposals?
          There should be a firework called the “Vinnie Richbasher”
          It goes straight up with a lot of noise, brief flash, and then tumbles to earth without any fanfare at all. Lands on a roof somewhere and is never seen again.

          Bringing in a mansion tax when his constituency has some of the highest house prices in the country.

          Free lesson Vince. Your Liberal constituents have a social conscience but would prefer someone else to pay for it.

    • 31
      Lil Olmey says:

      Cassandrina (I think) reported earlier this week that an MEP(?)’s wife was being taken to court for not having a TV licence. (It was her husband who had previously challenged Crapita (presumably) to prosecute but the cowardly bastards went for his wife instead.)
      The defence was well-prepared with plenty of evidence that Al Jabeeba were in clear breach of their charter as regards political bias.
      News of the case would have been swept aside by the hoo-hah at Millibank Towers.
      Can anyone tell us what happened in court that day ?

  8. 24
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Mind that Ego Guido .

  9. 26
    david1 says:

    WEALTHY businessman’s son was arrested yesterday after brandishing a fire extinguisher on the Tory Party HQ roof.
    Cambridge graduate Jack Potter, 23, was last night in custody on suspicion of violent disorder.

    His dad is thought to be a pal of Conservative former minister John Redwood.

    Potter was pictured in The Sun grinning with the extinguisher atop the Millbank building during Wednesday’s violent student demo.

    Several rioters were seen toting extinguishers – one of which was hurled off the roof, smashing into the ground and just missing police officers. There is no suggestion Potter threw it.

    A police source said last night: “We are still looking for other people in connection with dropping the fire extinguisher off the tower.” Another said: “Had it hit anyone there is no doubt it would have killed them.”

    Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3225664/Rich-kid-rioter-is-arrested.html#ixzz159SoVUMB

    Of course I blame the parents and the friends of the parents.

  10. 29
    George Osborne initiates talks with three tax havens, hoping to net £10bn over 5 years says:

    The UK is entering into talks with three tax havens, as part of moves officials hope could help raise £10bn over the next five years.

    The Treasury is seeking to claw back billions of pounds in undeclared funds from British citizens.

    Discussions are already taking place with Switzerland about imposing a tax on new deposits and Lichtenstein has agreed to help British officials.

    The three tax havens involved in the talks have not been identified

    • 44
      JK says:

      If it’s the Cayman Islands and/or Bermuda then the Blairs and quite a few other Labour Party spivs will be shitting themselves today.

    • 67
      THE PISS-FULL RELIGION says:

      i bet they are nowhere near where Ashcroft has his stash !

      • 68
        THE PISS-FULL RELIGION says:

        It’ll be Isle of man ,Gurnsey and Jersey !
        Anyone else would tell him to fuck off !

    • 78
      Mornington Crescent says:

      Of course, Little Georgie could always initiate talks with Luxembourg and his chums at Vodafone to net £6bn over 5 minutes.

      All in it together, my arse.

      • 118
        jgm2 says:

        I think the 6bn quid liability is a myth. HMRC are apparently more than happy to get their hands on the 1.2bn Vodafone agreed to pay.

        But just to put that 6bn quid, even if real, into context. It is a single week of deficit spending after 13 years of tooth-rotting Brownian imbecility. You’d have to find another fifty companies in the UK that each owed 6bn quid every year just to balance the Maximum Imbecile’s budget. And that’s on top of all the VAT and tax we already pay.

        What a fucking lunatic eh?

        What an economy-wrecking fucking lunatic.

    • 112
      jgm2 says:

      10bn quid over 5 years. Great. 2bn a year.

      That only leaves another 168bn a year to scratch around for now and we’ll have balanced the budget. Not paid off the Maximum Imbeciles’ trillion pounds of additional debt mind you. Just stopped adding to it.

      • 233
        13eastie says:

        Lаbоur hаtеѕ thе рrіvаtе ѕесtоr.

        Тhіѕ іѕ bесаuѕе еntеrрrіѕе hаѕ, оvеr mіllеnnіа, bееn thе оnly dереndаblе еnаblеr fоr ѕосіаl mоbіlіty аnd еѕсаре frоm dереndеnсе оn hаndоutѕ. Lаbоur іѕ vіоlеntly орроѕеd tо ѕосіаl mоbіlіty.

        Вuѕіnеѕѕеѕ аrе оnly gооd fоr рunіtіvе tаxаtіоn. Аny рrоfіt thе gоvеrnmеnt dоеѕn’t tаkе іѕ еvіl. Nо mаttеr thаt mоѕt оf іt іѕ dіѕtrіbutеd tо реnѕіоnеrѕ. Lаbоur hаtеѕ реnѕіоnеrѕ tоо. Ѕеrvеѕ thеm rіght fоr wоrkіng hаrd аnd tryіng tо еѕсаре frоm thе bеnеvоlеnt ѕtаtе.

  11. 42
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    Guido , A point of order !

    It seems in the excitment of the little trouble at cchq this week and your pictures of T*ry advisor you seemed to forget to name the winner of last weeks caption contest .

    I hope this was a simple oversite by you and normal service will resume .

    • 65
      Anonymous says:

      Point of ordure, you ain’t won it Billy and anyway if you ever did Guido has never ever despatched a prize.

      • 104
        jgm2 says:

        Not true. I got a book on ‘Crap MPs’. George Galloway got a mention. Unsurprisingly.

        • 130
          Yardarm says:

          A book on Crap MPs ? That must have more volumes than the Encyclopedia Brittanica. The postage alone must have nearly b*nkr*pted Guido.

  12. 43
    Gaygue Pride says:

    So who WERE the two Tory ministers who had gay flings with Christopher Hitchens at Oxford?

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255852/So-WERE-Tory-ministers-gay-flings-Christopher-Hitchens-Oxford.html#ixzz159XzqgRw

  13. 62
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    I see the free acsess to the internet has been rolled out to the Aslyum .

  14. 71
    Rich Kid CCHQ Rioter says:

    Dad Miles, 49, was not at the family’s £700,000 thatched cottage in Berkshire. He is a former director of bridge building giant Mabey and Johnson – where Mr Redwood’s partner Susan Precious works.

    • 164
      breakingnews says:

      Wow, the tosser’s Father used to work at the same company as someone else’s partner-whatever next.

    • 230
      Deep Who says:

      It’s hardly fucking news that spoilt rich kid wankers are all lefty while students – at least those dripping wet twats have a chance (slim) of growing up and changing their views. It’s the wankers like Campbell, Toynbee, Blair, Millitwat etc that piss me off – champagne socialists who ought to be tied down in a field and run over by a Combine Harvester – spead their guts far and wide.

  15. 73
    david1 says:

    Now that the culprit has been exposed, I’m surprised that Guido hasn’t put up a new thread. What university did Guido put his money on him being a member of? I do hope he didn’t stake the mortgage, could be a little risky.

    • 77
      mystic mong says:

      He’ll do that long before he gives the windowlickers their money back and reports on Coulson and his run in with the Law.

    • 81
      lol says:

      Somebody might tell you what happened, but it won’t be Guido.

    • 90

      Lot of students about this morning.
      Uni bar closed early last night? or are you just getting in?

      Anyway, calm down, have a bowl of cheerios, then a good rest, and we’ll see you all after countdown.

  16. 80
    Michael Read says:

    You’ve disappeared up your arse.

    There was one mad fucker, the one with the extinguisher.

    The rest was high jinx. Get a grip, for fuck’s sake. You’re destroying your credibility.

    We’ve got one Iain Dale. He’s queer, which he never fails to remind everyone at any opportunity, and he’s got a radio show, which he also never fails to remind everyone at any opportunity.

    We don’t need another sanctimonious twerp.l

    • 165
      Engineer says:

      Anybody who saw the television coverage would disagree. To their credit, many on the march wanted nothing to do with the violence, but what happened went well beyond high jinks, and no amount of spin will cover that up.

      The effect of the violence was to lose any PR gains that students might have won with public opinion. Many ordinary taxpayers didn’t get the opportunity to go to University, but they are forced to pay up front the fees and maintenance allowances that students will repay slowly over many years. They will not be impressed by a bunch of immature idiots behaving like spoiled brats.

      If the NUS allows any other demo to get out of hand like that, they will comprehensively lose any goodwill the public might have felt to students.

    • 204

      Universities are brimming with diverse personalities, from the modest wall-flowers to the dangerously militant terrorist and the many thousands of inbetweeners who can be cohersed or groomed into acts of complete absurdity.

      As Guido and Tory Bear have highlighted this week, the responsibility lies with the NUS, lecturers, stewards and socialist MPs who encouraged and complimented the foolhardy, willing and easily lead into going over-the-top.

      Labour MPs and prominent socialists could have had blood on their hands on Wednesday, the fact they have not, was down to luck and not their intellect.

      As things stand, the trolls can come on this blog and taunt the regular commenters here, not because they are right and just in their condoning of the studend riot, but because of 6″ either way concerning the fire extingusher.

      You socialists may not be so lucky next time!

  17. 86
    angelnstar says:

    Don’t keep your counsel, we want the dirty details! Is there any truth in the rumour that David Cameron is intending to hand Nick Clegg over to appease the rioters, and Nick will be stripped, bound and lightly shaved?

    Probably not, because it was me that made up the rumour and it is only a joke.

  18. 88
    So why didn't Redwood take Guido's advice and squeal? says:

    He could have made himself a quick £1000.

  19. 89
    Eurabia says:

    Lest ye forget.

    The poppy burning bastards received no mention on the msm. Who has offerd a reward for the insult to our honourable dead?

    It was nice to see inspector knacker making sure they were ok

    I bet their Grandfathers would be really really proud of them.

    • 91
      Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

      Sorry i disagree , As with burning of the Koran , If it is there property on there private land they can do with it what they like .

      ” i dispise what you say but defend to the death the right to say it “

      • 110
        Can't remember my moniker says:

        BUT:

        Since they were not on their private land but near the Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington, then how may your opinion differ? And

        Suppose they are on benefits, paid for by us, then what free speech should they deserve then? Plus

        If they are prepared to be that blatant, what might they also have done that they have not broadcast to the world … yet?

        • 121
          Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

          No ifs or buts .

          Point one taken

          As soon as we censor any speech then speech is no longer free , The state should not dictate what is acceptalbe . And the end of the day they want to turn our country into a shria law country , let them make an idiot of thelmselves , Let them offend but dont not let them dictate our laws and change our freedoms .

          • Can't remember my moniker says:

            I fully agree that every restriction on free speech is a danger. But freedom carries an equivalent responsibility. It is illegal correctly, in my view, to falsely cry “fire” in a crowded theatre. That is the standard example of justified restriction upon freedom of speech. The problem is that it gets murkier when the situation is less clear cut.

            The issue is that many of these people from other cultural backgrounds attempt to pocket our freedoms, for which our forebears have often paid with their blood, without even acknowledging that they have responsibilities as well.

          • Engineer says:

            Perhaps rather than recourse to law, public attitude is the best way to show poppy-burners the error of their ways. The rest of us should wear our poppies with pride, and quietly attend remembrance parades. Just by ignoring the louts and going about our normal lives we show them our disapproval.

          • TATS MUM says:

            you try slagging off the Koran !
            see how free your speech is then !

          • Tell it like it really is says:

            Just wondered if you have the morning after shakes B Bowden? Two aspirins and a drink of water before bed do wonders.

          • Albi Here says:

            I think they are braindead idiots,we had this discussion on this blog last year,they haven’t realised that burning the representation of the poppy they are disgracing their own grandfathers and great grandfathers they need to be taken to any Merchant Navy or Royal Navy memorial or even Army memorial and have a look at the names that are proudly displayed and they may find the name of a relative who served in World War I or World War II,they weren’t called World Wars for nothing.

      • 116
        Eurabia says:

        Then why did knacker arrest three geordie lads for doing exactly that at the back of a pub, then posting it on you tube?

        How come when we express our anger we are prosecuted, yet when
        poppy burners threaten and denigrate those who have died to give them the opportunity to live and ponce off us, it is unacceptable?

        You have been thoroughly brainwashed mate

        War is peace
        Ignorance is strength
        Taliban not muslim

    • 132
      BILLY THE FISH says:

      Ha Ha Ha !
      I never thought i’d see a Muslim burning a poppy
      After all it’s their main source of income ha ha ha !

  20. 92
    Polly Toy Bee says:

    This government has a final solution for students.

  21. 107
    I'm off to the pub SUCKERS! says:

    so many readers offered to chip in such that we had pledges for well over the original £1000. We will keep our counsel and see what results. Many thanks for the pledges.

  22. 123
    Can't remember my moniker says:

    Aung San Suu Kyi free today.

    About time. A very courageous woman.

    I further suggest that, even at the age of 65, she still qualifies as totty.

    • 127
      BILLY THE FISH says:

      Atleast her boyfriend wont have to swim half a mile
      everytime he wants his legover !

    • 136
      McDoom has cursed the poor woman says:

      It was all going well until Sarah gave Gordon his Nokia back last weekend and taught him how to tweet. The first thing he did was Tweet a demand for her release.

      • 199
        Gordon's 'Handler' says:

        Gordon is being made ready as I type to make a public pronouncement about his success in getting Aung San Suu Kyi released.

        He wishes to parade his courage in Tweeting about Aung San Suu Kyi only last weekend, and to bask in the reflected glory and worldwide rejoicing that is expected following her release.

    • 188
      Hang some sushi says:

      Bruddy rubbery

  23. 124
    GUIDO DID YOU COUNT POSTAL VOTES FOR LABOUR ? says:

    The top seven stories in order of popularity actualy were

    1 party chairman still in the building posts 651
    2 23yr old student arrested posts 630
    3 students smashing up cchq posts 624
    4 £1000 reward offered for fire extinguisher thug posts528
    5@6 confirmed nUs involved in riot/ your not fooling us (same story) posts 230
    7 totty watch you spoilt us us ambassodor posts 398

    but what about
    Nus leaders wanted demolition posts 425
    keeping a sense of proportion on twitter posts 304
    bercow gives woolas a stay of execution posts 290
    £1000 reward offered for imformation posts 281
    and others !

    MUST TRY HARDER !

    • 148
      BEAN COUNTER says:

      What about
      Nus leader slammed in the house 398 posts ?

    • 178
      brickwall says:

      You haven’t quite got the hang of this, have you? People read posts (which defines poularity), whilst you and your other friend post inane comments. How many times does this have to be explained?

      • 186
        lolol says:

        Only TaT thinks the post count is meaningful though ‘inane’ is frankly hilarious after the EPIC MANHUNT for the student who didn’t do it but is a friend of John Redwood.

  24. 128
    KA-CHING! says:

    All those stories about the hunt for Guido’s poster child. Yet now the Sun found him he doesn’t seem to care. Funny that.

  25. 129
    The Mad Mullah says:

    Thousands of political bloggers who have booked to fly to Millbank this weekend are expected to find themselves with nowhere to stay and others will not even get the airline tickets they have paid for, thanks to increasing levels of fraud surrounding the Political blogosphere.

    Every able-bodied political blogger is expected to undertake the pilgrimage to Millbank – the holiest meeting place in the political blogging religion – at least once in their lifetime and many save for years to be able to afford it.

  26. 131
    Social Services? says:

    The yob who trashed Millbank and stole a Copper’s cap:

    Dad: Melvyn Evans, 54 – a university professor – said: “He was exercising his right to protest. He hasn’t hurt anyone.”

    Mother: Sharon, 47 – a government researcher of Leytonstone, East London – added: “It was a situation that got out of hand.”

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3225673/Parents-Tory-HQ-demo-yob-son-is-OK.html

    • 139
      is that a tit on your head occifer? says:

      Hang him.

    • 158
      ??????????? says:

      That’s alright then ? I expect the professor however would be the first to phone the police if his offices or house was being trashed by a crowd of yobs and would forget about them exercising their right to protest and demand the police turn up immediately to stop them and arrest the perpetrators ?

  27. 140
    George Osborne says:

    As promised, new private jobs boost. Plenty of building and cleaning work required at millbank house.

  28. 153
    • 161
      Cast Iron Cameron says:

      “The European Parliament has launched a controversial new power grab, demanding the right to make tax raids on Britain.”

      The coalition agreement stated that “no further powers should be transferred to Brussels without a referendum”

      So he must have a referendum.

  29. 160
    Aaron Porter says:

    Hang the Tory thug!

    He could have killed someone.

  30. 181
    John Redwood says:

    Your comment is awaiting moderation.

  31. 197
    Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever ! says:

    shockin pink tie Jeff Sterling !

  32. 202
    GBC says:

    New BBC ‘comedy’ series, The Indian Doctor, starts this Monday at 2.15pm.

    Pure Frankfurt School propaganda aimed at stay-at-home chavs.

    • 212
      Anonymous says:

      They are never off message are they the dopey fuckwits? Let’s hope it’s as popular as the asian family who had to be fastracked out of Eastenders due to rampant apathy.

  33. 206
    Jed says:

    Why is the National Union of Students still being given £millions of taxpayers money every year?

  34. 224
    WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE says:

    Wanted for Incitement to riot and being a little lefty twat

    http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xbFrx50EjMc/TNui8i9TGFI/AAAAAAAAEIE/Cn7kngAnRJQ/s640/porter.jpg

    Sorry for nicking your picture Tory Bear !

  35. 234
    John says:

    Guido you stupid cock! The people in the building were hiding from the protesters and *pretending* to have evacuated the building. You and your crowing put lives at risk. Fool!

  36. 239

    I would just like to say that I am not one to protest in favour of political prisoners. The likes of Gerry Adams, Nelson Mandella or even Ghandi for that matter. They represent nothing for me but bombing , maiming or inciting trouble in the name of power seeking.

    Aung San Suu Kyi is quite different. She is just about the perfect political operator. Peaceful, confident, inspirational, highly educated and quite the most enigmatic leader any nation could wish to have.

    For the first time in my life, I am pleased to see a political prisoner freed.

  37. 242
    Wm T Sherman says:

    So many trolls trying to claim that it matters who the extinguisher guy is related to. He has — what? Shamed his lineage or some such shit? What a quaint concept.

    Revolutionary/Direct Action types _typically_ come from wealthy families. They like revolution in theory because they have never really had to struggle for anything in fact. People who like to smash things have not experienced what it’s like to build things.

    The father of our own little Billy Ayers the 1960s riot instigator and bomb planter was chairman of the Consolidated Edison electric power utility.

    The Tianenmen Square protest organizers were the children of high Chinese Communist Party officials. They had advance warning that the Army was coming to crush the demonstration and fled the country. Their followers were left holding the bag- and facing the tanks.

    Revolutionaries, both actual and wannabe, usually do not come from peasant families.

    These CCHQ rioters do not stand alone. There is a whole leftist infrastructure that primed them and delivered them to the event. That is the family they have implicated — because that is their family by choice, not by blood.

    Such an outpouring of trolldom. You know what they say Fawkes – if you’re taking flak, it means you’re over the target.

  38. 246
    Mal Tucker says:

    Stop telling everyone which of your ‘stories’ were so successful, you self-aggrandising (or is it aggrandizing) Hunt.



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