Reportedly George Osborne has had voice coaching from Valerie Savage, a Harley Street speech and language consultant. It is noticeable that his voice is now more measured and manly giving some added all-important gravitas to his performances. The US Embassy reported the problem in October 2008 as follows:
Guido can picture the scene as the Osborne aide reports the focus group results back to his boss. The shrieking “Whaddya mean I’m squeeeky?”
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Andrew Pierce on Ed Balls…
“Porky Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls sweet-talked guests at a fund-raising dinner by saying if he wasn’t a politician, he would be a chef. That’s not surprising, since he was accused of cooking the Treasury books when he was Gordon Brown’s boot boy.”
Bloody foreigners, coming over here taking all our twitter followers
Floreat Etona!
I’m Squeaker.
Don’t you you would have a squeeky voice if you had the harmonica of “Gideon” and didn’t want people to know it.
I’m Squawker *** preen preen nibble ***
More important than that, why is Mervyn King talking to the Americans about the coalition, and why does he think he is economically literate?
King is a New Labour yes-man, who authorised the mass selling of the UK taxpayers gold reserves to save two banks who got their short selling bets drastically wrong, and rather than collapse those two feckless banks, the taxpayer took a massive hit.
Merv and Brown announced the sale of 300 tonnes of gold, further depressing the price.
Merv’s economic policy has been print money, and keep interest rates VERY low, in order to steal from savers and pension funds, all to stop the feckless borrowers from suffering any effects of the recession. So good money is being wasted in keeping bad money in the monetary system.
Mervyn King, you are a b@st@rd.
TOTALLY right
Why does Osborne wear heavy make-up? He looks like a cheap prostitute or a transvestite in a red light area.
We love that sort of thing, so fuck off.
So you are a right wing pervert?
Maybe he wanted to see what Andy Burnham sees in womens make-up.
Looked at his pohto on the internet, he doesn’t look like a lady boy. He looks more masculine than Dave.
Dosn’t Cammers use some sort of make up as well with his shining face
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security seized the domain names of roughly 70 websites for copyright infringement. There were no warrants, no court orders, and no court hearings before a judge. The DHS simply used their authority to grab websites on the basis they are perceived threats to copyright infringement.
So, if WikiLeaks is really exposing dangerous classified diplomatic cables that are a threat to the United States, why didn’t DHS claim that these cables are cyber-terrorism or copyrighted data and seize the WikiLeaks domain? Assange was dropping hints of a major leak to come. If WikiLeaks was a real whistleblower, DHS could shut them down by grabbing their domain name just as easily as it shut down the copyright violators.
So far the leaked cables themselves have been a self-contradictory mixture of nonsense, from low-level people out of the loop, some accurate stuff, some appallingly bad and blatantly wrong stuff and some blatantly edited and wholly invented stuff designed to be turned into propaganda.
There is no way to know at face value which cables are genuine, against which are genuine but have been edited, against which are totally false. There is no way to know on face value which cables are by high-level people with influence and which are from low-level wannabe’s outside the loop making shit up. There is no way to know on face value which one’s are useful insights into the real power-play, and which ones are just bullshit opinions of a know-nothing junior.
Yet the mainstream media is all over these leaks, in a very selective way, trying their very best to give them as much credence and credibility as possible.
Compare and contrast that to a genuine leak of information which came to be known as the ‘climate-gate email leaks’.
Parts of the mainstream media would not touch it with a barge-pole, because “this information was obtained illegally, through theft”
FUCKING WHAT?
A) nobody has EVER proven these emails to be stolen, rather than accidentally left on a public access server.
B) the theft of confidential data has not stopped the same media from covering Wikileaks and acting as an advertising agency for wikileaks. Wikileaks have had hundreds of millions of pounds worth of Free advertising from the mainstream media, of the Kind that Guido would MURDER for, for order-order.com.
Yet these same media outlets rubbished climate-gate as dishonest, fake, stolen, not to be trusted….etc… All of the things that these latest Wikileaks cables are proving to be.
Do not be taken in by an obvious and blatant propaganda psy-op.
These Wikileaks leaks are a whole barrel-full of shit
Mervyn King confided to the US Ambassador to London, Louis Susman, in February that he had “great concern” about the then leader of the Opposition and shadow chancellor.
Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne, now Prime Minister and Chancellor respectively, lacked experience and tended to view issues merely in terms of their electoral impact, he said.
squeak
How very dare you?
Thatth not very niyth to Mister Ed!
takes one to know one
George Osbourne = Rothschilds bitch
Why can’t you people on benefits spell his name properly?
Surprising they can read and/or write, let alone spell.
A bit unfair as I think rather a few people are on benefits who would like to work, they just had the misfortune to have Gordon “Beyond Crash” Brown as prudent chancellor.
We all knew it ????
Billy thinks this place is a drop in centre for the unemployed.
sure is old cock, considering posts are being constantly coming to this blog, tory boys are too busy to write posts THEY ARE WORKING aren’t they, they would not have time to post.Cammers would not approve of people using office time, employer’s computer time, and posting WHEN THEY SHOULD BE WORKING.
And I always this ambition to be Chancellor.
What to do about snotty nasal tones of sillyband.
Bugger the elocution lessons; it’s tooth removal, implants and months of speech therapy for that particular tosser.
ps. They’re all wankers.
My dear that is a racial slur based on millibad’s Yidish/Russain back ground
Hang on !!!!!! Who paid for his vioce coaching ???????
No doubt the taxpayer has paid, he wouldn’t, CCO would not, poor old tax payer having to pay so that Ossie can be taken more seriously
Essential viewing for Chancellors of the Exchequer;
Credit Dan Hannan.
Don’t Goldman Sachs and Rothschilds have ‘their people’ inside every government, influencing fiscal policy to their advantage?
Of course we do its called insider trading, but is only considered illegal if we are caught…..if we are caught we will get the law changed … simple
Any spare Euros ?
Yeah, I got a few when I sold a huge chunk of the Nation’s Gold reserves.
Euros……er……..Didn’t Sue recommend that I buy euros ?
Yeah, on her husbands sound financial advice. They did very well out of it.
Someone had to get Goldman Sachs out of the shithole they had dug for themselves over shorting gold. Enter benefactors and now millionaires, Bliar and McBust.
GS were short gold so UK sold gold to help them out errr…. what? Couldn’t GS have just bought gold in the open mkt?
Conspiracy theories are for nutters.
Carry on
Conspiracy or fuck up, we’re still short of 7 billion that could have been given to the micks.
Thatch had similar coaching and ended up sounding as though she had more balls than all of her male cabinet. Er, actually, she did…
I was going to mention that. Its really no surprise.
I doubt we will ever see her kind of leadership ever again
I was going to say the same thing.
I’m pretty sure all our politicians have coaching in this respect. In a month or so, expect Ed to be able to say, “the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain” without sounding like he’s still got his brother’s testicles in his mouth.
Coffee -> Monitor!!!
That really did make me laugh out loud!
Thanks Tessa
makes you wish that people like kenneth williams had ended up in politics…I’d have liked to have seen a voice coach try to get to grips with him…oo err
Screw Cameron and Osborne.
I had some voice coaching for singing, as a result of which I can impersonate Paul Robeson; and as an expected by-product, talk like the Dalai Lama — not all the time, obviously, I reserve it for dealing with homicidal eco-loons.
End squeaky voice misery with a couple of packets of full strength Marlboros a day washed down with plenty of Bells.
More fun and a lot less expensive than girly voice coaching!
Players Navy cut and Brains dark
That’s great if you want to sound like Vera Duckworth,but a good throat punching can often produce a low grating sound not unlike that of Rod Stewart.
I’m taking lessons from Vick
Vick who thought that was a cold remedy
That’s great – now can you do something about the only “man” born who’s face looks like a panto dame without needing make up?
Sorry it’s a bit rushed, but how about this?
http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/8317/georgez0.jpg
Ooh, vada the thews on that omi duckie. Lets hope ‘is lallies are just as butch.
Can someone give Labour’s squeaky toy Angela Eagle voice coaching?
She doesn’t like deep throat…
Hello Pluto! Where’s Minnie?
PS: I liked the story about Sarkozy having to chase a rabbit around his office.
Its a change from chasing women around his office
Osborne may lack the necessary Gravitas, but Gordon lacks the necessary Dignitas.
Gideon’s next budget:
The result of my Budgets…
Th coalition is screwed over tuition fees, Cable’s job is unsustainable, Portugal and Spain are failing and you are airing this shit?
I suspect a heavy dose of displacement activity.
Poor show, the mind boggles.
ps. Do you really hate students deep down? It might go some way to explain your barely concealed visceral conviction on the matters at hand.
Its not so much hating students, it is more about preparing them for the real world.
In the real world, grown ups invest in their own future for their own benefit & that of their family.
Look at the drop out rate for students – I would venture the opinion that the appalling drop out rate would shrink considerably if students knew they were spending their own money rather than anonymous taxpayers.
This is not Cuba. Thank god.
Fxxxxxx A* to that.
Does anyone know what percentage of those arrested are actually students, even by today’s generous interpretation of the word “student”? I suspect a
lot are just unemployable yobbos.
Incidentally, I really don’t mind if people go about waving their “degrees” in media studies or golf course management- that’s up to them; but I do worry if standards have been dumbed down for the doctor who is treating me or the engineer whose bridge I am crossing.
Some things demand the highest standards, but a lot of degrees are just time-fillers.
Nothing to worry about, nothing to worry about, there is nothing we can do, take 2 paracetamols 4 times a day
I agree entirely, but there again you can bump Guido’s post and talk about anything you like especially if its if its crass tittle tattle, you can normally get an argument on serious matters too.
The thing is Guido sets the agenda because its his Blog, if you are not happy start your own…bye
What taxfodder said !
Piss off you bore. An all too predictable as well as a pathetic riposte.
Is criticism not allowed in your utopian circles? How very North Korea of you.
Put the kettle on while you’re here luv.
Oddly North Korea is another shining example of socialism in action. Something you support.
This has been said before and Guido always responds “This is a gossip blog. What did you come here for? Accept a refund and fuck off”.
You should be WORKING NOT POSTING HERE
And we should admit we got it wrong on Iraq. And wrong on tuition fees. And wrong on immigration. And wrong on ID cards. Actually, forget everything we did for 13 years. But we’re now ready to govern again.
Dis you call, madam?
Did you call, madam?
Guido , dont forget PMQS , Dave is turning up for a change
squeak! squeak!
Osbourne has always sounded like the weak cousin of Piers Fletcher Dervish to me.
I can imagine Alan B’Stard giving him a reaming with a Black & Decker.
Absolutely typical that The Guardian (who have ALL the leaked diplomatic documents) should decide to publish first those that embarrass the Conservatives even though these documents date to before the general election.
It won’t be that long before we get the full story about the Obama administration’s view of Gordon Brown – and these will almost certainly be much more entertaining.
Have we clawed back the Public Sector job advertising from the Guardian yet?
If not, why not?
Let them survive without the taxpayers teat.
I wouldn’t even use the guardian to wipe my stenching arse crack on after a curry blow-out. Typical leftie tactics – they go huge on any tory bad news, but then let the anti-labour/brown comments drip feed out in a few months time when everyone is bored shitless.
Lefty news management is always the same, select the narrative, distort the truth, ignore the facts. Gramiscian Fabianism in action.
Keith Vaz talking shit on Daily Politics.
No change there then.
Comradesth! I soundth very manly!
didnt labour make your pips sqeak
Truth is most of the unelected coalition are a hodge podge of dubious lightweights on very borrowed time.
I fully expect we shall be back and forth at the polls over the next few years till the establishment gets it through its thick head the game is up!
Fact is along with most of the population I don’t agree with Labour half the time, Conservatives the other half, and none of them entirely.
They wholly fail to specifically represent anybody except vested interest and of course themselves!
We just hope this lot of lightweights don’t have “Dunning Kruger” unlike the last lot who had malignant narcissism.
To the Coalition a plea.
ADMINISTRATE THE COUNTRY, DON’T TRY AND RULE THE PEOPLE.
Meanwhile in Cancun, those who want us to have nothing, have a little R and R, courtesy of the taxpayers they all leech off of.
Get me some more of those funny jumbo tortilla pies, will ya luv ?
The problem for the Tories – & indeed all of us, is the damage that David Cameron is doing to the core Conservative vote.
On the EU, the bailouts, immigration, underlying fiscal policy – there is no difference between Blue Labour & Red Labour.
I am going with UKIP next time – I am utterly disgusted at the third way socialist policies of the Coalition.
How many Tory voters like me have to swing to UKIP before the right is split & Labour get a foothold in Coalition with the Limp Dems next time?
Cameron had better stop pissing off the non-metropolitan Conservatives – just a reminder Team Dave:
SMALL STATE
LOW TAXES
MINIMAL LEGISLATIVE INTERFERENCE IN OUR LIVES
A VOTE IN OR OUT OF THE EU
Remember? Conservative values.
Mrs Righty Wing I like your policies. Alas voting UKIP keeps them on the margin. If libertarians like thee and me had good leadership in Parliament and worked with our local tory parties to select like-minded candidates I think we would be more likely to get what we want passed as law. This approach is working for the Tea Party. I think the public are increasingly disenchanted with statism -classical liberalism is on the up, so keep faith with the tories and work to bring them round.
Do we have the time to wait for good solid Conservative common sense values?
Team Dave must be aware of the bedrock that is turning to sand beneath them – christ on a bike they could not even win an outright majority against the most unpopular PM & the most corrupt political party in our history – surely they must realise that carrying on with the same third way insanity as Neo Labour will destroy them too?
Agree about the Tea Party – we need that down to earth right wing movement here. Now.
Agreed, but in the last election it was absolutely vital to remove Brown before he had built up a client base of dependency that would ensure perpetual Lefty government.
We knew Cameron would be a sort of green/pink conservative, but at least Brown and NuLab have been cleared out and discredited. It’s a start. You can now openly criticise the benefit frauds or reckless immigration, whereas in the darkest days of NuLab they were only to be whispered about in case the thought police overheard.
I left the conservative party 18 months ago. I have since moved from dissapointment in the conservative part to hatred of the party. Comments like yours are the reason for my change in attitude.
Osborne is a prime example of a child being brought up with Orville instead of a teddy bear.
fuck you
orville was awesome.
Osborne is a big girl’s blouse.
I am not surprised at the Americans using that as a put down for Osborne. Real men have to be square jawed and manly in America! This was brought home to me when I saw a forty feet high statue of Christ in an American church which had been made in the image of Charlton Heston.
That approach puts a hell of a lot of ugly but talented people out of the game.
This can’t have come from the US Embassy: no one who is educated (in America) would write “the public feel” it’s “the public feels”.