November 27th, 2010

Nominet Plans to Let Police Control UK Internet

Nominet – the quasi-private entity which controls the .uk part of the internet - plans to allow the police to take down any website without recourse to the Courts. This is at the request of the Serious Organised Crime Agency.

Democratic open societies don’t let the police decide what is right and wrong. Guido long ago decided not to host his site in the UK, to put all the assets in different jurisdictions – the URL is in one jurisdiction, the hosting in a second jurisdiction, the publishing company in a third and the back-up site in a fourth jurisdiction. Guido himself is domiciled in a fifth jurisdiction. A lawyer’s cross jurisdictional nightmare which has so far successfully thwarted all-comers.

What the take down of FitWatch and the success of WikiLeaks demonstrate is that you can’t trust governments to permit freedom of speech when it embarrasses them. Guido advises all UK bloggers to host themselves outside these shores…

Via : Analysis and Synthesis


421 Comments

  1. 1
    Mr Wank says:

    I host myself all the time.

    • 9
      Bring back David Davis says:

      So much for all Cameron’s talk about freedom of information and rolling back the surveillance society. What a lying cun’t.

      • 29
        barefootcontessa says:

        This stuff is very frightening, and the government dares to talk about the peoples’ HAPPINESS?! Good on you Guido!

        for a small explanation of ‘happiness’, see http://www.tolpuddlemartyr.blogspot.com

        • 242
          Spartancus says:

          At least the ACPO Ltd. Blockheads are happy.

          Someone needs to remind them that they are supposed to be our serfs and do what WE tell them, not the other way around.

          • wayne trombone, Baron (all staff have work permits) says:

            I was at an APCO Pub of The Year last week

            I do love an APCO tested real ale. The pure water and hops are the key

            Really useful organisation.

          • Anonymous says:

            VERY IMPORTANT

            MAGNA CARTA IS THE FOUNDATION OF DEMOCRACY HERE IN BRITAIN WHENCE ALL LAW HAS BEEN DERIVED. IT IS THE CORE OF THE US CONSITUTION AS WELL.

            IT WAS THE USA’S 2ND PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS WHO STATED “THERE ARE 2 WAYS TO CONQUER AND ENSLAVE A NATION; ONE IS BY SWORD THE OTHER IS BY DEBT”

            THE SAME JOHN ADAMS LATER SIGNED INTO LAW THE ACT OF SEDITION MAKING IT A CRIMINAL OFFENCE TO CRITICISE THE US GOVERNMENT.

            THAT KIND OF THING SIMPLY CANNOT HAPPEN HERE, SO MOVE ALONG QUIETLY, NOTHING TO SEE HERE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

        • 308
          I Remember You Hoo says:

          Luckily for us, the fascist Stasi-Labour party will soon be out of office and we will be able to breath the sweet air of freedom once again…..oh wait….

        • 367
          barefootcontessa says:

          Final part (3) about horrible hangings in London 1818 of 3 unfortunate criminals, Cashman, Weller, and Driscoll. http://www.newsagentprovocateur.blogspot.com

      • 31
        Up sh1t creek says:

        Cameron just authorised £10bn for the black-ops modernisation of the UK’s core phone network – intercepts for all phone and internet traffic, under pretext of security of course.

        Cameron is NOT on your side, he’s just a quasi-Communist in a blue suite / tie, as is the rest of Blue Labour and Limp-Dems.

      • 230
        Blimey says:

        Ah, the party of individuality, personal freedom and small government strikes again. The only small government these characters are interested in is one that provides less services, for everything else it’s large and intrusive government. And no I am not some leftie, just a believer in genuinely smaller government, which we obviously aren’t going to get.

    • 24
      Up sh1t creek says:

      And the “freedom loving” Liberal Democrats want to ban all protests in Parliament Square.

    • 25
      Dave is worse than Gordon says:

      Democratic open societies don’t let the police decide what is right and wrong.

      Correct, so why is Dave’s government giving the police powers to throw a man out of his own home, without any evidence that he has done wrong?

      • 30
        Dave is a bullshitter says:

        And why does Dave want to get the bank details of everyone in Britain?

      • 88
        Care to explain? says:

        Why would the RAC hold these details on it’s data register

        Personal Details
        Family, Lifestyle and Social Circumstances
        Education and Training Details
        Employment Details
        Financial Details
        Goods or Services Provided
        Racial or Ethnic Origin
        Religious or Other Beliefs Of A Similar Nature
        Trade Union Membership
        Physical or Mental Health or Condition

        http://www.ico.gov.uk/ESDWebPages/DoSearch.asp?reg=4893795

        • 94
          Fed up with ranting politico says:

          The more they know about the more power they have over you, knowledge (data base) is power

          • Too True says:

            Too True, check out what the Labour party collects.
            Including:
            Purpose 8
            Crime Prevention and Prosecution of Offenders
            Purpose Description:

            Crime prevention and detection and the apprehension and prosecution of offenders.

            Data subjects are:

            Offenders and suspected offenders

            Data classes are:

            Personal Details

            SUBJECTS MAY BE IDENTIFIED PHYSICALLY BY APPEARANCE ON CCTV TAPE, STORED
            SECURELY FOR APPROX 30 DAYS

            Sources (S) and Disclosures (D)(1984 Act). Recipients (1998 Act):

            Data subjects themselves
            Police forces

            http://www.ico.gov.uk/ESDWebPages/DoSearch.asp?reg=4914639

          • Desperate Dan says:

            Luckily I always lie on every official or semi-official form – especially the ones that threaten enormous penalties for non-compliance. I’ve done it for so long that even I might have difficulty sorting out the wheat from the chaff nowadays.

        • 147
          Nick2 says:

          The RAC? Marketing, targeting advertising based on career/professional/religious affiliation, whether a customer/member is of a vulnerable group that gets priority response (one elderly relative is a member of the RAC, and as a ‘priority female’ the RAC salesman promised her a faster response than, for instance, able bodied men).

          Finally, if someone is stupid enough to tell the RAC that they have mental health conditions, they’ll have to wait by their broken down car until the nearest ex-soldier turned RAC employee is free to answer their call…

          • Desperate Dan says:

            Reminder not to do business with the RAC….simples! As their revenue decreases they’ll soon chnge their tune – and their data capture. Where do they get all that detail from anyway – if someone trying to sell me breakdown insurance started asking about my political or religious affiliation he’d be told to f*** off & I’d take my business elsewhere.

        • 243
          Dolly Barton says:

          “Why would the RAC hold these details on it’s data register”
          “Physical or Mental Health or Condition”

          I’m not sure you’re correct there, I’m blind and deaf, and I’ve been driving for 30yrs……

        • 391
          Every Little Helps says:

          Don’t use your prescription or buy your drugs on your Tesco store card

          Data subjects are:

          Customers and clients
          Suppliers
          Complainants, correspondents and enquirers
          Relatives, guardians and associates of the data subject
          Advisers, consultants and other professional experts
          Patients

          MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC

          Data classes are:

          Personal Details
          Family, Lifestyle and Social Circumstances
          Goods or Services Provided
          Racial or Ethnic Origin
          Physical or Mental Health or Condition

          DIETARY, OTHER SPECIAL HEALTH REQUIREMENTS, PRESCRIPTION AND MEDICATION RECORDS
          OF PATIENTS

          http://www.ico.gov.uk/ESDWebPages/DoSearch.asp?reg=4674634

        • 413
          annnnonyperson says:

          So they can sell more stuff to you. And so when they sell your details on, they can charge more for them.

        • 416
          alexsandr says:

          RAC (Actually AVIVA) also credit check you when you get an insurance quote, even from proce comparison sites

    • 103
      Which host is best says:

      Guido,
      Recommendations for hosting please????

    • 156
      Bag Pussy says:

      “Guido advises all UK bloggers to host themselves outside these shores…”

      Quite. No one in their right mind should use a UK webhosting company. They are too expensive and charge VAT. Go .com through a US or Canadian company.

    • 162
      Anonymous says:

      What about the real criminal? Noting the government bring seems to affect them.

    • 229
      Crikey says:

      This is no surprise whatsoever. For years now the freedom of the internet has been eroded little by little. Usually a worthy sounding pretext is used. “We don’t want to do this but……….” They aim is to produce something like an online version of radio 4

    • 271
      Wd not Balls says:

      here here Guido – that is a feckin disgrace!!

    • 389
      unablogger says:

      Since when have we been a true democracy in the UK, even elected governments rigged voting to suit themselves, vote beyond the three main parties, vote UKIP, a change is as good as a rest.

  2. 2
    Fake Blood says:

    Fucking hell, I only posted that this would happen half an hour ago; thought it might take a year or two, not half a bastard hour. Hang them all.

    • 14
      Wikileaks says:

      Too late Cameron.

      • 23
        Road_Hog says:

        So, if I understand this right, then nobody bothers with a ‘.uk’ address anymore, everyone just switches to ‘.com’ or similar, and the market for ‘.uk’ addresses just bombs?

        • 141
          Mr Ned says:

          No. Most .co.uk addresses are to host business sites or normal, non-controversial personal sites. Most site owners would not give a shit about this.

          I am NOT saying that they should not give a shit, but most will not.

  3. 3
    Harry Plotter says:

    Oooh goody, I haven’t been this excited since SkyNet tried to take over the world in Terminator 3.

  4. 4
    Someone says:

    Under their new scheme, anyone can make a proposal. I could join up and propose that .uk be renamed, and it’d get listed just like SOCA’s has.

    IMO the real news here is that the police think it’s a good idea for a free country.

    It’s not even a proposal yet, just a plan to make a group to discuss what a proposal should say.

    Maybe one day a journalist might manage to publish a tech story that’s accurate.

    And FYI there’s already a blacklist that all ISP’s use. It’s supposedly child porn only, but wikipedia got listed once and the list is secret, so who knows?

  5. 5
    AC1 says:

    Doesn’t crime have to be proved before it becomes a crime?

    No use asking Dave to stop this.

  6. 6
    Engineer says:

    Hard to understand this. A thought that a basic principle of English Law (not that I’m any expert) is that the Police enforce the law; it is a matter for the Courts to decide what is or is not acceptable to say or publish. Surely the Police should seek the authority of the Courts before blocking or shutting websites?

    What say you, legal eagles? Can you clarify for those of us with less detailed knowledhe of the Law?

    • 8
      Fake Blood says:

      The police will doubtless “call for more powers” and get them to avoid having to go to court.

    • 10
      AC1 says:

      I don’t mind ISPs shutting down sites at:
      their own (within contract) discretion (e.g. site hacked, hardware error affecting others)
      request of the police informing them of probable breach of contract.
      temporary demand of the Judge
      Order of the courts.

    • 33
      streamfisher says:

      As Guido outlined above it would all be rather pathetic and pointless anyway and shows once again that these people have no idea whatsoever of how the net works, nobody told them yet that WWW stands for World Wide Web?.

      • 37
        NWO says:

        So you’re saying that eventually a world wide control system can’t be put in place then?

        • 61
          streamfisher says:

          Yes, its the many headed Hydra, chop off one and a dozen will take its place that fact still hasn’t sunk in with these people.

          • wot he said says:

            “Take a look at the Digital Economy Act 2010. The whole section sets up a regulation-making power, which would allow court orders to block access to sites that were involved in copyright infringement. Section 17(4)(c) extends this to sites that would facilitate access to copyright-infringing sites. So a proxy server that would allow you to get round a ban on access to a copyright-infringing site could be blocked. As a side-effect, you could be blocked from using a proxy server to keep your browsing anonymous, or to access sites that had been blocked for other reasons. They’re nearly there. Just a few more bits of the legislative jigsaw, each looking perfectly innocent on its own, and the Great Firewall of the UK will be in place.”

          • Nick2 says:

            @wot he said

            The Digital Economy Act 2010 allows HG to expropriate Nominet from the ISPs who currently own it, fill it with placemen, charge ISPs to run the potentially politicised organisation & eventually privatise it.

            Anyone want to take a (reasonable) bet that this doesn’t eventually happen?

            http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/24/crossheading/powers-in-relation-to-internet-domain-registries

          • Hugh ffishingly-Whittlingstool says:

            +several.

      • 56
        Maximus says:

        I stands for Wild Wooly Web. But FFS don’t say d**knet.

    • 44
      Fed up with ranting politico says:

      I find it very strange that those who make the most noise about demcracy and freedom, are the ones who have no interest in democracy or freedom, they want to control those who they supposedly are beneath them, think about it eg Democratic Depublic of Germany, Peoples Republic of China, the days old old when only a gent of certain rank was able to carry a sword, They say that they believe in free speech provided it does no go against their own ideas and beliefs.

    • 342
      Poor Bill says:

      See 287 above

  7. 12
    Lying Liars and the Lies they tell says:

    Politicians can’t be trusted with their own expenses let alone keeping a free society.

  8. 13
    Billy Bowdens Best Bits says:

    Is Nominеt a bit like SkyNеt in Tеrminator 3?

    • 16
      AC1 says:

      Terminators with corduroy trousers, sandals, beer bellies and beards?

    • 20
      Zero Wing says:

      All your base are belong to us.

    • 34
      don't give them any ideas says:

      “More than 10 years after ‘Terminator 2′, John Connor now exists only as a drifter – living ‘off the grid’, so no more Terminators from the future can hunt him down. Unfortunately, SkyNet does send another one back – and this one is called the T-X, even more powerful & advanced than the dreaded T-1000. However, another CSM-101 Terminator is also sent back to protect John against the T-X. Now, Skynet is patiently assuming control of civilian computer systems, under the guise of a computer virus.”

  9. 15
    Not a personal army but in this case all bets are off says:

    Time to go to war.

    • 54
      Fed up with ranting politico says:

      If everyone stops using the net the wonks will come to heel and listen to someone besides themselves, trouble is could you do without it?

      • 171
        HAVE YOU THOUGHT THIS THROUGH ? says:

        Seems as we are now a service nation and that most industry use them
        in fact everything is now run by them

        are you advocating a general strike

        i dont think most companies would be best pleased if everybody turned up for work and did sod all !

        • 272
          AC1 says:

          It would be better if everyone demanded the change to a contractor and then withheld taxes on income (EE + Er NI, VAT, Income taxes).

    • 174
      Fake Blood says:

      Too right

  10. 17
    streamfisher says:

    U.S. warns Britain over new WikiLeaks revelations that will ‘expose corruption between allies’- from Daily Mail. Says it all really, surprising how little coverage of the impending revelations, given that it could be the biggest bombshell since Hiroshima, there is in the dead tree press and other media, warned off?.

    • 21
      Anon says:

      Scumbag old media are bought and paid for lickspittles and they dare call themselves ‘investigative journalists’

      The truth is only worth a few silver coins to them.

      Then they cry and despair about the rise of the blogosphere and e-media and wonder why people flock to it instead.

    • 206
      Hugh ffishingly-Whittlingstool says:

      Comparing things to a nuclear device is doubleplus uncool.

  11. 19
    Anon says:

    Aren’t we all moving to IVP6 soon anyway?

    Will they have the remit for both IVP4 & IVP6 or will that be a juciy loophole to exploit.

  12. 27
    Guido knows my ISP says:

    am already there but aren´t all “foreign-sites” automatically monitored by the government and can be banned to be accessed from the UK?

    Something like the Aussies do

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Australia#The_Internet

    • 48
      First Amendment says:

      Take a look at the Digital Economy Act 2010. The whole section sets up a regulation-making power, which would allow court orders to block access to sites that were involved in copyright infringement. Section 17(4)(c) extends this to sites that would facilitate access to copyright-infringing sites. So a proxy server that would allow you to get round a ban on access to a copyright-infringing site could be blocked. As a side-effect, you could be blocked from using a proxy server to keep your browsing anonymous, or to access sites that had been blocked for other reasons. They’re nearly there. Just a few more bits of the legislative jigsaw, each looking perfectly innocent on its own, and the Great Firewall of the UK will be in place.

    • 131

      They could, but not so far.

  13. 28
    Anon says:

    It will be a jailable offence to be an internet troll in the future, infact say anything risque on the internet and you’ll probably be committing a thought crime or another and will be punished.

    You might laugh now but wait and see.

    • 70
      Fed up with ranting politico says:

      It’s always the small fry that are caught, the big fish get away as always because they either control the politicos or they are considerably brighter than the politicos and their servants, civil or otherwise. Looks like 1984 maybe coming to past, all be it 30 years late, it came close in 1984 though.

    • 315
      Owen Lee Arsekin says:

      ‘anything risque’ ? No more porn ? I thought that’s what kept the internet going.

  14. 32
    hat4uk says:

    Guido, surely as a libertarian (assuming you still are) the complete falsification of all data relating to banning smoking in public places should be a more pressing concern than about where to register a blog.

    http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2010/11/26/passive-smoking-why-we-cant-trust-this-new-world-health-organisation-study/

    • 45
      streamfisher says:

      Load of bollocks (the reports conclusions), how can you possibly attribute any deaths to passive smoking when everybody living in an urban society is subjected daily to nasty emissions from millions of cars and lorries spewing out toxic chemicals and gases from the combustion of hydrocarbons, after all they routinely publish air quality figures now for major cities, I’m sure that’s not down to Joe Blogs having a cig outside a Pub, Nutty PC agenda again.

      • 85
        Fed up with ranting politico says:

        I am not so sure about that, I was a smoker upto about 10 years ago, I stared to get violent headaches after smoking 4or 5 cigs later that day I cut down then gave up smoking, the headaches ceased. The rub is that my father was a 60 a day man (when cigs were cigs and not something that smells of burning cartridge paper) and my mother smoked about 20 a day, when I was a child I had very violent headaches, I did not get as many when my parents cut downas I got older.

      • 90
        Maximus says:

        About WHO

        WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system.

        Please, whenever abbreviating that malevolent rent-seeking nomeklatura, write it as UNO. It is not a real unity, as is the US of A, and we should remember that. Needless to say, neither you or I have the remotest influence on what goes on there. Ask the Haitians, currently enjoying a fatal epidemic of cholera, courtesy of its beneficence.

      • 189
        ST says:

        Although I’m pretty sceptical of the conclusion you can measure despite the fact we all breath in loads of crap etc.

        You simply looks for results above the baseline, i.e. we all breath in crap but some people breath in crap plus tobacco smoke. If there is a higher than average death by lung crap incidence in those who are exposed to tobacco smoke then you can test the hypothesis, provided the sample size is big enough.

        The trick is to make sure the stats are done properly something which I’ve found medics and social “scientists” usually aren’t any good at.

  15. 35
    Democratic open societies don’t let the police decide what is right and wrong. says:

    Then you shouldn’t have been so quick to act as their paid informer over a student twat then should you ?

    • 66
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      There is a difference between aiding the executive in bringing a student twat carrying out a criminal act before the Courts and the Police dispensing retribution without due process of law. When you mature, the difference will be obvious to you. Until then you will continue to splatter grafitti all over the blogosphere like a wilful child .

      • 281
        Senile Old Fart says:

        The only difference is degree. You turn blogginh informer over a twat protestor then you look pretty fucking pathetic protesting when plod comes along and shits all over your blogging freedoms. You’ll realise this if you ever snap out of your senility long enough to stop screaming for more soft pudding you whiny old fart.

    • 140
      The Watcher says:

      totally different – the student twat committed an act of criminal negligence with intent – the law already exists to arrest, try and if found guilty, punish the tosser. However the WWW is the greatest threat to the New World Order because no one believes ANYTHING politicians say now – or the MSM or the press. The internet is the only place you can find real news (sure you have to sort out the rubbish and disinfo) – but without it no one would have known 911 was dodgy – Kelly was murdered, there were no WMD in Iraq, and so they have to try and shut it down. But they can’t because there will always be a host in a friendly country – I am sure Iran and China would let Guido blog himself to death, or Jeff Rense or any other majors P R O V I D I N G the locals could not access the information. Why do you think Alex Jones calls it INFO WARS for goodness sake!?

  16. 38
    Last straw says:

    Did someone say police state? I’ve supported Cameron till now but that’s the last straw. Best we can hope for is the coalition falls apart within a year and he’s replaced as leader.

    • 42
      nell says:

      buzz militwit perhaps , with his ‘I’m a socialist and I want to give the unions a stronger role’ ??!!

      • 51
        Cast Iron Cun't says:

        David Davis. Who isn’t a wimp over Europe and took a stand for civil liberties.

        • 78
          QED says:

          But is nevertheless, a loser.

          • Like Dave says:

            Davis didn’t with the leadership election and Dave didn’t win the general election and has to rely on Clegg keeping him PM.

          • Who wants to be a socialist millionaire says:

            For £1 million, the member for Haltemprice and Howden is….?

        • 163
          Nick2 says:

          David Davis was rejected by the blulabour Tories. IMO the number of true Conservatives (with large & small c) in the Tory party dwindles every year. David Davis, unfortunately, appears to stand an ever-decreasing chance of being elected Tory leader.

          Maybe it’s as well. Since all 3 components of LibLabCon are IMO overwhelmingly centre (or further) left, may the electorate desert them for parties that actually intend to reduce the state/state spending etc, rather than clinging to parties with historic names. Not to mention the EUlephant in the parlour…

    • 169
      Down With Brown! says:

      Only supported and voted for Cameron because I thought he believed in a free society and agreed that sunlight was the way to cure this country of corruption. The coalition is becoming Bliar mark 2.

  17. 40
    nell says:

    I wonder if wikileaks is going to throw any light on jackstraw’s roll in getting almegrahi sent home on compassionate leave.

    By the by. Is almegrahi still with us?

  18. 41
    Anonymous says:

    Well said Guido. The internet is the new democracy and there are few political systems that can ‘cover up’ any more, as a result. Consequently the politicians don’t like it, especially when exposure might affect their re-election in a democracy, or exposes criminality in dictatorships. You have been wise to use multi juridictions to stop them closing you down, which they would love to do. Keep up the good work. I know a number of politically critical websites that have been closed down, presumably because their hosts were thretened by politicians that were being criticised.

  19. 46
    nell says:

    Multi-jurisdictions.

    Thank the lord that wikileaks has done the same.

  20. 52
    Beyond New Labour says:

    Ed Miliband says Labour needs to represent voters’ dreams

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/ed-miliband/8164637/Ed-Miliband-says-Labour-needs-to-represent-voters-dreams.html

    I’m all for that Ed, now would you like to know what Dreamed Last night?

    • 55
      Howard Flight says:

      I dreamed of breeding with the Oiks!! then I woke up and said sorry

    • 57
      barefootcontessa says:

      And does he want us to be happy too?!
      http://www.tolpuddlemartyr.com

      • 67
        Beyond New Labour and Euro Dave says:

        I’m going to give Farage a chance at the next election. Dave has turned out to be a big let down and Red Ed is pure wonk.

        • 256
          banana vote says:

          Yes it has to be Farage, Dave seems to forget that many voted for him as it was the most expeditious way of getting rid of Brown. At the next election Brown won’t be there to help him

      • 73
        nell says:

        No he wants to be all things to all men because he believes that then they will all vote for him.

        He understands that when a politician starts to make choices and form policies some people will like you, some people will hate you.

        That’s why he keeps saying he has a blank canvas!!

        • 115
          AC1 says:

          Or to put it another way, he’s not leadership material.

          Leadership may not get you liked, but it will get you respect.

        • 198
          Anonymous says:

          He’s not the Prime Minister, he can’t give us a referendum.
          Sorry Nell comment fell through a time warp.

      • 80
        call me Dave 'the heir to blair' Cameron says:

    • 72
      Care to explain says:

      How can you represent a dream Ed? And does this mean that you not represent anyone who does not vote?

    • 89
      streamfisher says:

      Not exactly Martin Luther King is it, his last utterance about going on journeys sounded like Pilgrims Progress for dummies, I hear your fellow Labour MPs are in a ‘slough of despond’ over the leadership of the Labour Party.

    • 291
      Mike Hunt says:

      I dreamed that Gordon gave me back my pension that he stole so that in 15 years I can retire, like people who work for the state.

  21. 58
    TATS MUMSpecial friend says:

    i hate to brag but !

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/sisudave/299730948/

  22. 59
    barefootcontessa says:

    That should be a small relief.

  23. 64
    AnotherAnon. says:

    Welcome the Sharia Compliant UK.

    Don’t say ANYTHING in or out of ear shot of the police.

    http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Anti-Allah-outburst-earns-EDL-supporter-163-200-fine/article-2945233-detail/article.html

    Thought crimes really are the new reality.

    • 79
      AnotherAnon. says:

      Meanwhile.

      • 107
        The State Funded Broadcaster Bastard Сunts says:

        This isn’t news because we say so.

      • 113
        Anonymous says:

        Fox is constantly denigrated on this site by some wankers, but at least they report the fucking news.

        • 149
          Spartancus says:

          Ignorant Idiot. Fox is a mouthpiece of “God’s chosen race”, which controls large chunk of the western meedja, including Fatboy Dweebo.

          • Spunktacus says:

            You’re the fucking idiot. Why didn’t we see this footage on the BBC? We need a Fox alternative in this country NOW!

      • 118
        BBC News says:

        Move along please nothing to see here.

    • 98
      Tessa Tickles says:

      Within 25 years, Leicester will be an autonomous region with Sharia law. You won’t get a job unless you’re one of the “brothers or sisters”.

      Our MPs will tell us how great and progressive this is.

    • 146
      The Watcher says:

      I wonder if they will fine the “performers” on TV every time they blaspheme Jesus Christ’s name? Or the announcers on Radio 1, or Jonathan Woss and his debauched friends? Saturday Night Live, hmmm I didn’t think so. Imagine The Vicar of Dibley becoming The Mullah of Manchester……… No can’t quite see that. Cultures which are unable to laugh at themselves are usually short term. Hitler didn’t do too well did he? What a poisonous shithole Britain is.

    • 187
      HAVE YOU THOUGHT THIS THROUGH ? says:

      What sort of a fucking country have we become
      the muslims can threaten to behead our troops on posters
      for the whole world to see and hey nothing happens
      but some guy shouts a throw away comment and it’s a good little earner for our bankrupt system
      and no doubt a smug grin for some top crime solving copper
      and the worst bit
      some guy beats his wife and will get no punishment
      because he spent all his handouts on drugs and booze and he does not know any better
      then she gets compensation from a guy who shouts a comment in the street
      what a fucking shithole we have become !

  24. 69
    Ed Miliband says:

    “Harrumph…”

  25. 71
    Up sh1t creek says:

    Don’t forget, the corrupt Tories will also use the new corrupt ACTA treaty the Americans thought up to protect various cartels, all under pretext of copyright.

    http://www.itworld.com/legal/128754/eu-parliament-approves-once-secret-acta-copyright-treaty

  26. 82
    DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC(not police) PROSECUTIONS says:

    He fought the law and the law lost ha ha ha !

    http://www.break.com/index/he-fought-the-law-and-the-law-lost.html

    • 384
      Desperate Dan says:

      Fat bastards couldn’r run. Also, they didn’t seem to know why they were arresting him so perhaps they were just as happy to see him run off.

  27. 83
    Cynic says:

    Great. In this age of austerity we can go on holiday to China while staying at home.

  28. 87
    Hazel Blears says:

    Lick my flange.

  29. 100
    nell says:

    So buzzmilitwit has told his less than 200 supporters in gillingham that he is going to reconnect with the british people and give them their hopes and aspirations.

    That’ll be lower taxes then, fewer welfare benefits, everyone either in a job or on community service, single mum’s living in barrack style accommodation, lower immigration, weaker unions, mp’s working a proper 40 hour a week for 48 weeks of the year for a working salary of £40k and no expenses…………..

    Of course it won’t. Poor old buzzmilitwit has absolutely no intention of changing anything for the better.

    He just wants to keep troughing his shadow leader’s salary and perks whilst he keep whittering on about his blank sheet of paper!!!

    • 110
      Engineer says:

      RedEd wants to be best mates with the ‘squeezed middle’. Given that he was an arch-Browite part of the last government that squeezed the middle pretty much ’till the pips squeaked (higher taxes, higher NI, pension fund raids, blah, blah) He’s got a brazen cheek. The ‘squeezed middle’ doesn’t seem to be very impressed.

      • 126
        nell says:

        Yes Eng but Red Ed’s squeezed middle isn’t you or I or anyone who is working or who has worked and now has a pension.

        According to Red Ed the ‘squeezed middle’ is those people whose income is just below or just above £26k. For the most part that’s welfare benefit folk.

        He’s so like gordon !!

        • 193
          ST says:

          Goes to show what you know nell. That’s my parents your talking about, both earned below 26k a year, lived in a 3-bedroom semi in the north and neither of them have claimed benefits in their life.

          £26k is the middle, that’s what most people earn. Anyone who doesn’t live in a middle class, London centric bubble knows this and know that there is little or no help for people at the income group. Too poor for private schools and too rich for state aid. That said, they don’t want help, just to be listened to and not milked for tax.

          • ST says:

            Actually I’ll correct that my dear old Dad who has worked since he was 16 was made redundant and he’s not entitled to the dole as he’s saved and my Mum has taken on extra shifts.

            This despite years of national insurance contributions. As he said himself, what precisely has he been insuring against?

          • nell says:

            ST most of us are in that bracket if we are working class

            But edmilitwit’s £26k bracket is all about the welfare benefit folks whose housing benefit starts at £26k. These are the people that he thinks are going to vote for him , not you or I or any other working class folk, he’s not interested in people who work!!!

          • gump watch says:

            nell is still too stupid to realise the biggest part of the welfare bill is pensions
            maybe she’ll not take hers in protest against benefit culture?
            like fuck she will

        • 387
          Desperate Dan says:

          £26K – there’s millions of pensioners in Britain who would kill to get that sort of income. Too old for a job, too ‘rich’ for benefits, too poor to live!

          • Desperate Dan says:

            PS gump watch, pensions are not ‘welfare’, pensions were paid for in advance through NI contributions over a working life.

  30. 104
    Taxfodder says:

    I have great faith, why?

    As always its just a wet dream to inhibit the WWW by the time they work out how to do it without inflicting unacceptable damage to themselves the game will have moved on, ever reactive and therefore with out the initiative busy making useless laws to target the morning mist.

    The UK government and its diminishing minions has a long history of bungling even the most simplest legislation, throw in a bit of technology and it all goes horribly wrong at great expense and embarrassment.

    As always if they can’t do it in the states they won’t be doing it here anytime soon…

    Rest easy!!!

  31. 106
    Nick2 says:

    The group will discuss whether proposals should be put forward to change Nominet’s Terms and Conditions to give a contractual basis to suspend domains where Nominet has reasonable grounds to believe they are being used to commit a crime (e.g. a request from an identified UK Law Enforcement Agency)

    Anyone who thinks that this won’t be used to support a political platform is deluded. Remember Hatesmen’s crusade against Punternet? That failed when Arnold Schwarzenegger ignored her prattling. A future Harman can simply tell Nominet to take down the site if it’s hosted in the UK, or possibly even add the site’s IP address to the IWF’s blocklist if it’s based offshore.

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6855090.ece

    • 120
      AC1 says:

      Amusingly trivial to get around IP blocks.

      • 168
        Nick2 says:

        Agreed – a minority will probably always be able TO, and a largeR proportion of the public could get samizdat DVDs etc. But by denying open access to information stored offshore, HMG & its successors can keep the lid on all of us more effectively.

        • 182
          AC1 says:

          Well if it’s bundled in with say FireFox it will spread.

          People love to know, what other people don’t want them to know. Just look at the gossip mags that women perve over.

    • 365
      Anonymous says:

      First sensible comment on this diatribe.

      .uk should be for those who want to know that they are dealing with a bona fide Uk company or individual – not an overseas look-alike or predator. That is what it is there for.

      All who are given a .uk site should therefore be expected to give evidence that they are who they say they are and pay a modest premium for the privileged of being about as trustworthy as some-one carrying a UK passport. Personally I’d rather trust .exp (run by Experian) – who I would also trust to look after my data (and even my anonymity) rather more than most ISPs – lets along government departments.

      Those who wish to conceal the far that they are dogs, or in the case of Guido’s readers doggers and dog-watchers, should be able to use .anon and .xxx via a network of floating server farms in Norwergian Fjords, Swiss Lakes and Tropical lagoons). And the rest of us should be free to block all traffic to of from that site, or prioritise it – according to our own proclivities.

      Meanwhile I am all in favour of SOCA helping to police .uk

  32. 114
    Ed 'Doomwatcher' Milibland says:

    To oblivion…and beyond !

  33. 115
    Here and Now! says:

    Stupid ‘Ed wants to claim the Big Society for his own party. Typical Labour cannot come up with any good ideas of their own. Labour have left us with a Rotting Poor Society and they should crawl back under the stone where they came from.

  34. 122
    nell says:

    buzzmilitwit ‘labour has to change’

    Then he says ‘I’m a committed socialist – I want strong union involvement in forming labour policy – I support the students (violent) dremonstrations’

    Well he has sure changed from bliar’s days – he’s regressed right into kinnochio’s heartland.

  35. 123
    the beast of the west bank of regents park canal says:

    Harriet Hardon didnt even manage to come up with a password more complicated than her name
    M16

  36. 124
  37. 129
    annnnonyperson says:

    Oh… fuck.

    Those poor buggers who use Blogger will find that Blogger takes sites down at a nod and a wink. Just launch a fake DMCA claim and BANG! And the website is gone!

  38. 134
    I think therefore I am not says:

    big brother is watching you

  39. 136
    White Van Man says:

    Have a read of this pdf document from the MPI (Migration Policy Institute) its only 85 pages long, found it very interesting seeing as getting any up to date reliable figures seems to be very difficult for UK. Not to mention the 2011 census being kicked in to the long grass so we can’t see the results of New Labours immigration legacy, well the legal ones anyway!

    http://tinyurl.com/yexoa2y

    Have a play with this interactive world migration map as well.

    http://tinyurl.com/c7yuzn

    Looks like its a US focused site but contains UK/EU and international data sets.

  40. 137
    White Van Man says:

    Modded again!

  41. 143
    SaltPetre says:

    I assume the big eared suits at GCHQ already monitor all internet traffic in the UK. Wouldn’t it be easier for them to tip off the yanks of any dodgy terrorists who could just spirit them away in a CIA Learjet?

  42. 145
    The right of reply says:

    The blogger Guido Fawkes last night reproduced the advisory notice sent out by the secretary of the committee to all media, having earlier claimed it was an “attempt at a news blackout.”

    WikiLeaks themselves tweeted “UK Government has issued a “D-notice” warning to all UK news editors, asking to be briefed on upcoming WikiLeaks stories.” Both these claims are not true and reflect a serious misunderstanding of the DA-Notice system.

    http://blogs.news.sky.com/editorsblog/Post:ab563867-3752-4c62-b87c-ed39791d11e3

  43. 154
    Pete says:

    Fair enough that its monitored by police and security services for criminal activity but to allow the lunatics to take over the asylum completely is incomprehensible!

  44. 155
    T.B£iar - the People's Messiah says:

    Beasted and beaten. http://bit.ly/htDnRe

  45. 165
    Doc Trough says:

    Ed Military kissed Mrs Dromey. Careful lad, you can get Harpes from that sort o’ ting.

  46. 178
    Dave's lav seat warmer says:

    Dave and the Bumeroons have now licenced the police to become Brazilian Death Squads (shoot lawyer posing no danger in chelsea, shoot mentally ill yob in open country posing no further threat, shoot man attempting suicide _that was a waste of a dozen rounds plod….and on and on). The revenue joining forces with Customs and Excises now have the power to break into your home without a warrant to search and remove papers/assets.

    Democracy is DEAD!

    • 186
      points don't mean prizes says:

      Er…..who was in power when Menezes and Moat were shot?

      • 190
        nell says:

        Well said!

        • 334
          Paying Attention Yet? says:

          Trivial statistics,

          Number of people who have died in Police custody since 1992, 1238.

          Number of people shot dead by the Police since 1992, 38.

          Number of Police charged with any offence related to these deaths, 0.

  47. 183
    JamesII says:

    Nick the so called Liberal seems to be getting more anti-democratic by the day. He is not getting his own way so he wants to change the rules. It can’t be allowed to happen.

  48. 185
    Anonymous says:

    Guido does not understand the quirks of google.

    Hosting a .uk site outside of the uk is not the smartest idea if you want to be found in the search engine rankings

    Guidos advice could cause much more havoc than police censorship
    (agree with the principle though)

  49. 188
    Owen Lee Arsekin says:

    Why does this government have an agency that participates in serious organised crime ?

  50. 191
    tiscali says:

    It’s worse than you think.

    The Department of Homeland Security has begun closing down sites like torrent.com, accoriding to Drudge.

    This wikileaks stuff is going to be testing.

    • 383
      fuck them all says:

      At least we are getting to know their true colours a bit more.

      Flush the c u n t s in to the open I say.

  51. 194
    Howard Flight says:

    You know it makes sense

  52. 195
    Edward Miliband says:

    Stopth making fun of me! I am a proudth socialisth!

    • 200
      nell says:

      Unfortunately for you socialism is in decline across europe.

      You need to reinvent yourself as something else!!

      • 335
        Paying Attention Yet? says:

        Socialism may well be in decline, however faux conservatives with socialist leanings, are in the ascedency.

  53. 196
    nell says:

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6AP1CW20101127

    Aw Bless! buzzmilitwit wants to move his party on ‘beyond new labour’ but he’s not above nicking bliar’s best empty lines.

    ‘The people’s party’! just like bliar’s ‘the people’s princess’

    Great alliteration ed!!

  54. 207
    Gordon Brown says:

    I have a moral compass.

    • 208
      nell says:

      I hear it’s for sale on ebay with no takers.

      • 212
        We voted for something, but it wasn't this says:

        Looks like he’ll have to scrape by on his salary for not appearing in Parliament, second home allowances and bungs for speaking to assembled herds of other freeloaders.
        Still, someone in Westminster is bound to kick up a stink, will they not?

  55. 211
    13eastie says:

    Whіlе wе’rе оn thе ѕubjесt оf wеb-hоѕtіng…

    The worst fucking web-site design you’ve ever seen.

    Guess what? It’s Red Ed’s new “Fresh Ideas” site.

    Worth a laugh…

    • 223
      13eastie says:

      And guess what else?

      It’s got no ideas on it at all…

      • 225
        nell says:

        edmilitwit says labour has a blank sheet and they want your fresh ideas on how to get back into power because he’s finding being in opposition is cr++.

        There’s not as much money y’know being in opposition as there is when you’re in government, especially when you’re labour .

        Labour has far less morals about troughing taxpayers money than the other parties do.

        • 228
          Tony Blair says:

          Blank sheet of paper from a child’s coluring book more like.

          He seems a nice enough boy but I doubt he could lead a Boy scout troop let alone a political party and like Gordon, PM material he certainly ain’t.

      • 226
        Red Ed copies cast iron Dave's big society says:

    • 238
      ST says:

      Fantastic. I for one will be trying to convince him that he needs to swing left and start talking about socialism.

      • 338
        Paying Attention Yet? says:

        Start by praising Stalin and end with a glowing account of Erich Honecker’s ‘misunderstood’ East Germany perhaps?

    • 297
      Tessa Tickles says:

      It’s very retro. The first websites looked like that, when Gopher fell out of fashion.

  56. 215
    Anonymous says:

    Think there is more to this than meets the eye

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-20023922.html%20http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504145_162-20023922.html%20http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20023922-501465.html?tag=stack

    They let Al Megrahi go because the payment of witnesses to give testimony under Scottish law is regarded as naughty and you are not allowed to do it, and because those jokers from Americaland had done so it was likely he would win his appeal.

  57. 221
    barefootcontessa says:

    Happiness! …… happiness! Ken Dodd knows all about it, why don’t you go and ask him you stupid tory spin doctor.

  58. 222
    David Davies 4 Tory Leader says:

    So why is Red Ed trying to steal Dave’s big society off him? If it was left to me I would hand it over to Red Ed like a shot.

  59. 227
    Fabians, Marx and Hitler are of the same creed says:

    Admitting to be a Fabian should be regarded as being worse than a member of the beee-nnnn-ppppp.

  60. 232
    the old Dufflebag says:

    Subject to a court’s approval criminal sites should be shut down but at the behest of the police alone absolutely not desirable or acceptable. Despite the thoughts otherwise we do not live in a police state.

  61. 233
    Sarah Tweet says:
  62. 235
    Ad Lib says:

    Winston the Nominet employee examined the four slips of paper which he had unrolled.

    With a faint feeling of satisfaction Winston the Nominet employee laid the fourth message aside. It was an intricate and responsible job and had better be dealt with last.

    WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

    http://adlib-dibdib.blogspot.com/2010/11/nineteen-eighty-four-corrections.html

  63. 244
    A Pensioner says:

    Contrary to Guido’s assertions, it would be easy to controll all internet traffic. It probably already is. Just needs a big enough computer sitting in the middle. Look what the chinks did a couple of weeks ago as a test. In fact, much harder to control snail mail.

  64. 247
    Gordon Brown says:

    This wouldn’t have happened if I was still Prime Minister. I protected our civil liberties and freedoms.

    • 250
      Gordon and the wasted years. says:

      Gordon Brown blew it and I really can not understand why.

      His abolishion of the excellent 10% tax rate was just crazy and it was his own creation FFS.

      He could have easily scrapped the totalitarian, expensive, pointless ID card project but he didn’t.

      He could have admitted that he was wrong to sell our gold at the worse possible price and gain a certain respect but he did not.

      He could have refused to sign the Lisbon Treaty and history would have proven him right not to do so.

      And the list could go on. I do actually feel pity for him.

  65. 260
    Nazi pigs suck nig cocks says:

    The police are illiterate fucktards. And besides, they are too busy raping children and selling drugs to be bothered with the internet.

  66. 261
    Stormin' Norman says:

    To be fair, Nominet have said that they are only discussing these proposals at present.

    That said, given the ass lickin’ tendencies of big business these days (and let’s face it, Nominet IS a big business), we can expect to see these proposals given the nod through.

    I have a question for ACPO though:

    When you have 24/7 intelligence on the thoughts, movements and whereabouts of the 70 million inhabitants of the UK, what next?

    • 273
      Mr Tin Foil Hatter says:

      What next?
      They’ll put chips in your brain via a free flu jab because there has been an “epidemic” (completely engineered of course) and with this chip in your head they can control you like a NWO robot.

      You see David Icke and I were right all along!

  67. 265
    White Van Man says:

    How long will that video last on this blog I wonder?

    • 274
      Booty Full says:

      Long enough for nell to smear him with the old Anne and Frank, throw a cowpat, some of it’s bound to stick, posting.

    • 304
      albacore says:

      Stabsgefreiter Fawkes won’t half cop it for letting that through.
      He’s away, advising Hauptmann Dave on aircraft carrier tactics, with practical demonstrations, at a secretly-located EU duck pond.
      (Black tie, green wellies; goose-stepping optional).
      Normal service will resume as soon as possible.

  68. 269
    Met Office: "Global warming has slowed down" says:

    The Met Office has some seriously embarrassing news to deliver: Global warming is slowing down.

    Now I’m not sure whether to fire up my 4×4 for more snow or get my sun lotion out and give my body a good greasing down.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/8159991/Global-warming-has-slowed-because-of-pollution.html

    • 278
      The Ape Man Commeth says:

      Not according to the Ministry of Truth it hasn’t, this year was the warmest and it’s all due to the sea.

      And scrawny john humphries wouldn’t lie, so there.

    • 325
      Y Khan Thaytelther-Trooth says:

      Funny, I thought ‘global warming’ was supposed to be CAUSED by pollution.
      So what these clowns are saying is that we should pollute more. Hmmm.

  69. 276
    innit says:

    What a lot of Bollox.

    Nominet do not make the laws, in the same way that the police don’t.

    If a building was used for criminal activity, the police would raid it and stop the activity.

    It’s no different for the web.

    If some paedo-lefty-nonce is breaking the law online, then they should be stopped.

    • 339
      Paying Attention Yet? says:

      The police have to obtain a court warrent to break into any building and if they are wrong, have to pay damages. This is not the case in these proposals, they just can say shut it down without any reference to any court. Are you in a care in the community scheme?

    • 385
      you fecking idiot! says:

      Wait until the filth plant some shit on your computer, which they easily can, and then bang on your door at 5am.

      Until then carry on reading the Daily Mail, the Sun etc.

      • 421
        innit says:

        “The filth” eh?

        “plant” eh?

        Sounds like you’re the sort of criminal scum-bag this is aimed at.

  70. 277
    David Cameron says:

    After my stunning landslide victory over the collossus that was Gordon Brown, I feel sure that the country will compare me against Ed Milliband, and draw their own conclusions as to the Mother of all Parliaments.

  71. 279
    • 303
      Tapestry says:

      It shows how much they’re hurting from the web. This is most encouraging. They are terrified that people are realising things like 911 and 7/7 were inside jobs, and it’s the net that’s delivering the message.

      Another possibility is that the Daily Express makes a daily blog address list for eurosceptic bloggers, so we can change our addresses every day if we have to, simply updating the Express List as we switch. This would be online and printed edition.

      The MSM is starting to run the stories previously only run by blogs. The internet will never be stopped. If anything the more they try to close it down, the faster it will spread its influence.

      http://the-tap.blogspot.com/2010/11/fox-news-opens-its-mind-about-911-being.html

      They should have closed it down in 2004 but they never imagined the internet could grow as much as it has, taking away all their power which was only based on hiding the truth from everybody. Now the truth is never far behind, they don’t know what to do with themselves. They can run. But they can’t hide.

      • 306
        Tap-Tap-Tapestry says:

        I agree, it’s terrifying. And to think only I (and my imaginary friend) have realised that Noah’s flood and Adam and Eve’s forbidden fuit were inside jobs

        • 346
          Tapestry says:

          Eve’s might have been. If they close Guido, the frustrated political wanker market will have nowhere to go. I’m not into writing politico-porn to relieve the frustration of others. See Richard Desmond of The Daily Express, who manages to combine serious political commentary with satisfying the pulling off brigade in his other titles.

        • 403
          Actually now you mention it says:

          Believing in Adam and Eve and Noahs ark and flood only benefit one type of people.

          Notice how people still go on with their lives without religion…..

          • Tapestry says:

            You don’t die if you pray. Religion is a cultural phenomenon. Culture varies from place to place, and so does religion. You might have noticed.

  72. 288
    Ed's under the bed says:

    My mind is a blank sheet.

  73. 290
    loony lefty libcons says:

    Sir John Major: Let’s keep the Coalition after the next election

    “The coalition between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats should continue after the next election and could lead to a permanent merger, according to Sir John Major. The former Conservative prime minister said the Coalition could represent a “realignment” of politics and the two parties should “prolong” their co-operation beyond this parliament.”

    • 293
      Up sh1t creek says:

      Thanks John, but no thanks.

      I’ve had quite enough of Labour, Blue Labour, and Yellow Labour. Three parties who’s sole aim is to surrender everything to the EUSSR.

      • 294
        Tessa Tickles says:

        +1

        I also think half the problem with the Tories is they’ve got the LimpDims yapping at their ankles all day, every day.

        The other half of the problem is Cameron.

    • 326
      Major Curry says:

      Says wet John, the man who took us into the ERM and then forsaw calamity, doom and gloom if we had to leave it. Then as PM he had to eat humble pie and take us out of it. The economy duly prospered. Yet still he remained wedded to the idea of a united europe. Dim as a Toc H lamp. Maggie realised she’s made a huge mistake in endorsing him.

      • 340
        Paying Attention Yet? says:

        The very same JM who recieves one million pounds a year for life, as reward for Maastricht?

  74. 292
    Up sh1t creek says:

    Let the Wikileaks leaks commence.

  75. 298
    MAD FRANKIE HADDOCK son of COD says:

    Ladies and gentlemen meet Salad Fingers
    rather reminds me of several politicians
    like Peter Mandelson !

  76. 299

    Tall Story 3

    The unwanted and now unloved socialist toys are about to be consigned to the attic of history or thrown into the garbage.
    But new leader “Buzz Lightweight” thinks he has a brilliant plan to make the electorate love them again. If only he knew what it was….

    Featuring all the old favourites

    Toady – Tony Blair
    Buzz Lightweight – Ed Miliband
    Mr fried potato face – John Prescott
    Skanky Dog – Caroline Flint
    Jessie – David Miliband
    Barbie – Harriet Harman
    Ken – Peter Mandelson

    *note ‘Stinky Pete,’ the grumpy prospector, voiced by Gordon Brown in Tall Story 2, will not feature in Tall Story 3.

    • 301
      Dave's shit and you know he is says:

      So who’s trying to censor the internet with the police? call me Dave

  77. 302
    In exile says:

    Handing over control of the internet to the police is the equivalent of lobotomising the UK. Morbid Huhnes.

    • 311
      Dave the heir to Blair says:

      You know that database of all emails and mobile phone calls made in the UK that the last government was setting up and Dave said he would dismantle?

      Guess what under (so called) pressure from the security services Dave has caved in and the State will now increase its surveillance of its citizens

  78. 309
    Leaked Leaks are Leaked says:

    I see the US have now leaked the most embarrassing of the Wikileaks to try and kill their impact.

  79. 312
    Remo Williams says:

    Guido, if the Euro collapses. Where do we put our money to make a profit?

  80. 319
    Well said Widders says:

    BRILLIANT BRILLIANT BRILLIANT

    Anne Widdecombe on Marr saying that she could weep. We have a Conservative government and the papers are full of stories of the state micro managing all of our lives.

    • 321
      Ratsniffer says:

      No we don’t have a conservative government. We have a coalition of left wing tories and wet, left wing lib dims.

      • 344
        Paying Attention Yet? says:

        It’s almost as if Zanu never left office. The wrecking incompetent nutters have gone, but the same mindset of the state knows best, lingers on like a rotten smell.

    • 394
      Conservative Government ? You're 'avin' a laff ain't ya ? says:

      Problem is that we haven’t got a “Conservative Government”. “Dave” isn’t and never has been a Tory.If you haven’t realised that by now……..The Tory Party died in 2005 when “Dave” beat David Davis in the leadership contest.

      It’s about time the right of the party started to show some balls and started voting against the LibDem policies foisted on us and for which nobody in the party voted for

  81. 330
    Hoo Dunnit says:

    Here’s a funny thing – there seems to be talk of ‘explosive US diplomatic documents’ in connection with Lockerbie :
    http://newsblogged.com/wikileaks-latest-news-real-time-updates

  82. 333
    Ed's Blank Sheet of Paper says:

    Q. How do we eradicate poverty ?

    A. Tax those wicked people who have any savings.

    • 354
      South of the M4 says:

      How do we eradicate poverty? One doesn’t. You simply make poverty the norm – and then re-define poverty. This would have been the logical conclusion of NuLabours policies under GB, and presumably now under GB version 2.0.

  83. 337
    Howard Flight says:

    I rasied millions of pounds for the Conservative Party so my Lordship is safe.

    Not like these Labour rotters who bought their Lordships with filthy cash.

    I think they must breed with oiks.

  84. 347
    heid says:

    Off-topic but thought some of you might like to read this in today Sunday Herald re the charming Jim Devine who has failed to hand over a single penny of a £35,000 compensation deal he was ordered to pay by a judge.

    “…The tribunal heard how Devine got his friend Fiona Fox to put in a hoax telephone call to his ex-office manager.Kinley said of the incident: “The message is still on my phone. A woman said she was a freelance reporter for the Sunday Telegraph, and she was doing a big piece on MPs’ expenses, in particular on Jim Devine’s secretary.” Kinley realised the phone call was bogus when she stumbled across an email from Fox to Devine, which stated: “Your secretary called me back and then put the phone down – hope you’ve put her out of her misery – remind me never to work for you!!”.The former officer manager claimed that Devine engineered the bizarre call as a way of driving down her wages…..”

    http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/disgraced-mp-faces-bailiffs-over-tribunal-debt-1.1071247

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    Soldier of the lowest rank. says:

    So the Wikileaks came from a 23 year old private in the US army. It’s not Wikileaks that should be condemned it is US security, or rather lack of US security.

    You just could not make this up.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333723/WikiLeaks-files-reveal-American-criticism-Nelson-Mandela.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

  86. 349
    Just sayin says:

    In Todays Sunday Express Comments:-

    28.11.10, 9:50am

    Britain should now claim the Lisbon Teaty to be invalid, on the basis that Brown was not mentally competent enough to understand what he was signing.

    Ingenieur.

    • Posted by: Ingenieur •

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    MAD FRANKIE HADDOCK son of COD says:

    God this guy is creepy

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    PFI. Gordon's legacy to the nation says:

    Gordon’s PFI meant that a hospital Staff room telly aerial cost £963

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1333789/JESSE-NORMAN-The-TV-aerial-cost-NHS-965—taxpayer-save-500million-Gordon-Browns-grotesque-PFI-contracts.html

    Though why they didn’t have the sense to rig up a wire coat hanger at the back of the TV is a bit strange, but that’s highly educated and paid Consultants for you.

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    PixieKing says:

    Guido, you silly boy you just need to be reconstituted under a Royal Charter!

    You can then operate outside of the controls of the press complaints commission and OFCOM.

    Free from regulation by the people you can form a Guido Trust, answerable only to the Privy Council under a “Guido Charter”…

    As Nick Clegg was appointed Lord President of the Council on 13th May 2010, I suppose he will have overall control over you and so will have no need for such heavy handed Internet legislation.

    (See how fair our State & Licence payer funded “free and independent” press already is…At least in Burma it is honestly oppressive.)

    How does this work with the Coalitions aims of reducing regulations and legislation? What two will this remove LOL

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    Up sh1t creek says:

    Talk about the nanny state, Ann Widdecombe has a go at the Tories for being nanny-state lefties, instead of being Conservatives.

    • 382
      LibLabCon go to hell says:

      She’s not wrong.

      Dave and his chums can go fuck themselves. To think we were presented with a choice at the election. They’re all as bad as each other, UKIP not withstanding.

      They all go in to politics to boss other people around.

      Screw that. I’m now a fully paid up member of the awkward squad.

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        Yeah but as we keep saying to the electorate "WE didn't WIN the election"(Mix&Match excuse) says:

        Trouble is there is no leader for the right wing of the Tory Party to coalesce around. It’s no good the right whingeing on about the Coalition policies they need to actually start doing something to stop “Dave” and Clegg from forcing through their leftist policies

    • 392
      Well said that Woman says:

      She also mentioned that she decided to do strictly when she found out that Dave would not select her for a peerage.

      Dave, she is more of a Tory then you ever will be and she would have served her country well in the HOL without fiddling her expenses. Mr Cameron you are a Huhne of the highest order.

      PS she is quite right, you are interfering more than the last lot.

    • 401
      Mr Plum says:

      We do have a conservative government but the eu are in power, the tories are only obeying orders.
      I think annes the one being dishonest because knows that.
      I think Eds right with his blank sheet of paper approach the days of our governments dreaming up policies are long gone.

  93. 378
    David Cameron says:

    Bought some vaseline for Samantha’s dry lips, i think she may have appreciated it more if i said for the ones on her face

  94. 380
    Just askin says:

    What time is it in Wikiland

  95. 386

    What an interesting blog!

  96. 388
    Tim Yeo's SpAd says:

    Conservative MP Rebecca Harris, the dumb bimbo who wants to us to abandon GMT and adopt European time used to be Tim Yeo’s SpAd, Nuff said.

    I remember when they tried it last time, all the hooha, the freebie reflectors for our school satchels, bikes and clothes, going to school in the cold and dark. And she wants to go one step further and put the clocks 2 hours forward in the summer which is bound to stop boozed up chavs realising it is time to go home and get some sleep.

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    Gordon Brown says:

    I’ll be back…to collect my rocking horse.

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    Unwed Ed says:

    Now I have wee-organised the Labour Party, and dumped all the polithies I wrote for the elecshun, all our new polithies will be wuvved by evvybody. New Labour is dead. Forget their claimth of economic competence – they lied. We, New Old New New Labour are the only economic competence wuns. Forget their effical foreign policy – they lied. We, New Old New New Labour are the only effical foreign policy wuns. (Etc etc).

    I weally do feel that the world wevolution we have long che-wished is about to happen. The students have my full support. Narthsty tuition fees. In fact I have almost marched with them, but I have been too busy doing my own little bit to deestwoy the Establishment.

    The poor opwessed people of the world evvywhere are wising up and wich people will be smashed and there will be endless happiness, money, schools, hospitals, elf’n safety protection and foreign neighbours for all.

    Nobody will have to wuwwy about annyfing. The people’s wepwesentatives will do evvything for evvybody! Wot a wuvelly thought. The twhyumph of Thoshalism and Markthism and our ‘no expenthes spared’ Utopia at last. And if ennybody doesn’t like it they will be wee-educated, becoth they are ill. And I will be bothss.

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    Daffy_Duck says:

    It’s when the international marshals start working in conjunction with one another that the Internet will no longer be safe place to exchange truthful opinions………

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    Thread Usher says:

    New thread people.

  101. 408
    Heath Robinson says:

    Wife and I just recevied a letter from the Electoral Roll office thanking me for applying for a postal vote.

    Except we didn’t.

    Is there an election in the offing and a Labour candidate short of votes in my constituency?

    I expect this sort of shit in Bradford, but in rural Devon?

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    Exiled in Wales says:

    You don’t have to look very far for the stuff – it’s front page of the New York Times.

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    Ruth Kelly's plaything says:

    Just tried to read some of these docs on Wlkileaks. Got through to the site OK but click-throughs to the archive all failed.

    Hm.

    Funny, that.

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    FlipC says:

    I’m only surprised this isn’t to be enshrined in law just like the Proceeds of Crime Act; no need to convict you of a crime to declare your goods forfeit, no need to convict you of a crime to declare your domain name forfeit.

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    Simian says:

    I disagree.
    The powers requested are specifically to be used with .uk registered websites in connection with any activity that would constitute an offence under UK criminal law. This is a power that already pertains to sites with .org and .biz suffixes. This has nothing to do with gaggng legitimate extreme views, whether political, religious or whatever, so long as they do not break the law. And if a site were to be suspended inappropriately, the law would provide redress. And we are only talking about suspension, pending investigation.
    Most of us want the web to be a safe place, rather than a sort of latter day Wild West. If the police discover a credit card fraud they do not let the fraudsters carry on comnitting fraud pending their court case. Why should the internet be any different?
    Aren’t we indulging in unwarranted persecution complex here?



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